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.

• Writer, Poet, Editor
  (1788–1879)

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

• Publisher, Journalist, Activist
  (1805–1879)

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

• Scientist, Scholar, Physicist
  (1831–1879)

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

• General
  (1814–1879)

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.

• (1799–1879)

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.

• Saint
  (1844–1879)