Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

male, 46 years old (United States)
President of the United States, assassinated, Civil War, GettysburgAddress, abolition of slavery, Republican
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the...
Edward Everett

Edward Everett

male, deceased (1865)
Whig Party vice presidential nominee, Governor of Massachusetts, United States Constitutional Union Party, Constitutional Union, Ambassador of the United States, President of Harvard University…GettysburgAddress
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 - January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House...
Garry Wills

Garry Wills

male, 75 years old
John Leonard, GettysburgAddress, Former Jesuit, Campion High School, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Critics Circle Award
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the "New York Review of Books". In...
Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

male, deceased (1860)
GettysburgAddress, Harvard Divinity School alumni, transcendentalist, slavery, abolitionist, emerson
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister...
William Saunders

William Saunders

male, deceased (1900)
Botanist, Scottish, landscape architect, united states department of agriculture, botany, Botanists active in North America…GettysburgAddress, cemetery at Gettysburg
William Saunders was a botanist and landscape architect. Born in Saint Andrews, Scotland, he served as the first Master (President) of the National...
William Tyler Page

William Tyler Page

male, deceased (1942)
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C., declaration of independence, American, GettysburgAddress, politician
William Tyler Page, was best known for his authorship of the American's Creed. He was born in Frederick, Maryland, a descendant of Carter Braxton,...
George Johnson

George Johnson

male, deceased (2006)
Fresno, Sunmaid, Baltimore and Ohio Railway station, American military, death by pneumonia, caucasian race…GettysburgAddress
George Henry Johnson (May 1, 1894 - August 30, 2006) was, at the time of his death, California's oldest man at 112 years of age and one of the few...

William R. Rathvon

male, deceased (1939)
scientist, Franklin & Marshall College alumni, Religious history of the United States, Religious leader, Christian Science follower, Christian…GettysburgAddress
William Roedel Rathvon, CSB, (December 31 1854– March 2 1939), sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V. Rathvon, is the only known ey...
Oscar B. Cintas

Oscar B. Cintas

male, deceased (1957)
Oscar Benjamin Cintas, sugar, white house, ambassador, Cuban, diplomat…GettysburgAddress
Oscar Benjamin Cintas was a prominent sugar and railroad magnate who served as Cuba’s ambassador to the United States from 1932 until 1934. He wa...

Richard Heffner

male
New York University, Columbia University, Richard Salant, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Classification and Rating Administration, A Documentary History of the United States…GettysburgAddress
Richard Heffner (b. August 5, 1925) is the creator and host of The Open Mind (talk show), a public affairs television show first broadcast in 1956....