Sarah Josepha Hale was a renowned 19th-century writer and editor who pushed for girls’ education reform and the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.

William Lloyd Garrison was an American journalistic crusader who helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.

James C. Maxwell was a 19th century pioneer in chemistry and physics who articulated the idea of electromagnetism.

Joseph Hooker was a Union general in the American Civil War who successfully reorganized the Army of the Potomac in 1863.

Peggy Eaton is best known for her marriage to the prominent politician John Henry Eaton in 1829 and the subsequent upset in President Andrew Jackson's cabinet.

St. Bernadette of Lourdes was best known as a saint who received visions from the Virgin Mary in a cave near Lourdes. Pope Pius XI canonized her as a saint in 1933.