- Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 - December 24, 1873) was a wealthy entrepreneur and philanthropist of nineteenth century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, such as the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins, whose nickname was "Johnsie", was the second of eleven children in his Quaker family, … - Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as well as a famous music critic. An intellectual as well as an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism. Introspective and often whimsical, his early music was an attempt to break with the tradition of classical forms and structure which he thought too restrictive. - William Smith
William Smith was an eighteenth and nineteenth century congressman from Virginia. Born in Chesterfield, Virginia, Smith completed preparatory studies and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1782. He was elected a Democratic-Republican, Crawford Republican and Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives in 1820, serving from 1821 to 1827. - Elizabeth
Elizabeth Wilson (b. ca. 1762-d. 3 Jan 1786) became a figure in the folklore of southeastern Pennsylvania in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Elizabeth was hanged for the murder of her children, although many believed her to be innocent of those charges. A pardon was granted by the state and entrusted to her brother, William, but he was unable to deliver it in time to stop the execution. There was tremendous popular interest in her story, … - John Hill
John Hill (June 10, 1821 - July 24, 1884) was a nineteenth century politician, clerk, bookkeeper, merchant and justice of the peace from New Jersey. Born in Catskill, New York, Hill attended private schools as a child. He was employed as a bank clerk and learned bookkeeping in Catskill. He moved to Boonton, New Jersey in 1845 and was employed as a bookkeeper and paymaster. He later engaged in mercantile pursuits, was postmaster of Boonton from 1849 to 1853, … - Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, … - William Ellery Channing
Dr. William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. Dr. Channing's religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists, … - Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (April 29, 1763 - July 3, 1845) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Born in Orange Court House, Virginia, Taylor completed preparatory studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar 1783, commencing practice in Orange Court House. He held several local offices before serving in the Virginia State Senate from 1804 to 1815 also serving as president pro tempore. - Big Bear
Big Bear or Mistahimaskwa (c.1825 - 17 January 1888) was born in the Canadian Northwest, and became Chief of the Plains Cree First Nation during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is most notable for his resistance against the Canadian government. During that time, the Canadian government began negotiating a series of numbered treaties for the return of land to the native peoples. - William Taylor
William Taylor (April 5, 1788 - January 17, 1846) was a nineteenth century congressman and lawyer from Virginia. Born in Alexandria, Virginia (then part of the District of Columbia), Taylor completed preparatory studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Staunton, Virginia. He later moved to Lexington, Virginia where he continued his law practice and became the commonwealth attorney for the county court of Rockbridge County, Virginia, … - John Lynch
John Lynch (February 18, 1825 - July 21, 1892) was a nineteenth century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine. Born in Portland, Maine, Lynch attended public schools as a child and graduated from Portland High School in 1842. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, was manager of the "Portland Daily Press" in 1862 and was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864. - John Phillips
John Phillips was a British engineer and surveyor in the first half of the nineteenth century. His work and reports led to the building of London's sewage system. - Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks "The Luncheon on the Grass" and "Olympia" engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art. - Jack Black
Jack Black was rat-catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Black cut a striking figure in his self-made "uniform" of scarlet topcoat, waistcoat, and breeches, with a huge leather belt inset with cast-iron rats. Black was, among other things, an accomplished dog breeder. He is quoted in Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor", Vol. - John Sherman
John Sherman nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" (May 10, 1823 - October 22, 1900) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act. His older brother Charles Taylor Sherman was a US Judge in Ohio, … - Charles Fox
Sir Charles Fox (1810-1874) was a civil engineer in Derby, England, in the nineteenth century. His work focused on railways, railway stations and bridges. - John Fox
John Fox (June 30, 1835 - January 17, 1914) was a nineteenth century politician, mechanic and merchant from New York. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Fox immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1840, settling in New York City, New York. He attended public schools as a child, engaged in mechanical pursuits and was employed as a master block maker in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1857. - John Robertson
John Robertson (April 13, 1787 - July 5, 1873) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the brother of Thomas B. Robertson and Wyndham Robertson. Born at "Bellefield" near Petersburg, Virginia, Robertson completed preparatory studies and graduated from the College of William and Mary. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Richmond, Virginia. - William Pitt The Younger
William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 - 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He served as Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death. He is known as "William Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt the Elder, who also served as Prime Minister of Great Britain. The younger Pitt's prime ministerial tenure, which came during the reign of George III, … - Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. He lived in Italy for a year and a half from 1629 to 1631 with the purpose of traveling and studying works of art. In 1649 he traveled to Italy again. - Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler (born February 7, 1950 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. - Richard Parker
Richard Parker (December 22, 1810 - November 10, 1893) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Virginia. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Parker completed preparatory studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Berryville, Virginia. He held several local offices before being elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1848, serving from 1849 to 1851. - William Holmes
William ("Billy") Holmes (2 April 1779 - 26 January 1851) was a British Tory politician of the early nineteenth century, and an MP for 28 years. Holmes serving as party manager, and Chief Whip in the House of Commons from about 1802 until his seat (for the rotten borough of Haslemere) was abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832. He had also previously represented several other constituencies; after the Reform Act he was out of the Commons for five years, … - Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.The Getty-Le Gray Le Gray was originally trained as a painter, studing under Paul Delaroche, but crossed over to the new medium of photography in the early years of its development. - John Curtis
John Curtis (1791-1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator. He was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles. At the age of 16 he became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and, with insect collecting becoming a growing craze, he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found. - John Dawson
John Dawson (1762 - March 31, 1814) was an eighteenth century and nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Born in Virginia, Dawson graduated from Harvard University in 1782, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1786 to 1789, a member of the Continental Congress in 1788 and a delegate to the Virginia Convention in 1788 that ratified the United States Constitution. - Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas (October 20, 1780 - March 4, 1858) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer, merchant and storekeeper from Virginia. He was the brother of William Lucas. Born near Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), Lucus attended common schools as a child and went on to graduate from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1809. In the War of 1812, he served as a first lieutenant and acting captain. Afterwards, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, … - American Horse
American Horse (ca. 1820?-1876) was a minor headman of the Miniconjou Lakota during the Plains Indian wars of the last half of the nineteenth century. More commonly known as Iron Plume, he was probably present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Slim Buttes. Following the native victory over General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Bighorn in June 1876, the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne moved eastward where by early fall, … - Richard Russell
Richard Russell (1687 - 1759) was an eighteenth century British doctor who encouraged his patients to use what was later called the "water cure", that is, medical therapy by the submersion in, and drinking of, seawater. He began his medical practice in Lewes in 1725. He published his treatise "Glandular Diseases, or a Dissertation on the Use of Sea Water in the Affections of the Glands" in 1750 when he was practicing medicine in Lewes. - Robert Hamilton
Robert Hamilton (December 9, 1809 - March 14, 1878) was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and bank president from New Jersey. Born in Hamburg, New Jersey, Hamilton attended common schools as a child. He moved Newton, New Jersey in 1831, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1836, commencing practice in Newton. He was prosecutor of pleas for Sussex County, New Jersey from 1848 to 1858, 1868 and 1869, was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1860, … - Jim Bowie
James Bowie (probably April 10, 1796 - March 6, 1836), aka Jim Bowie, was a nineteenth century pioneer and soldier who took a prominent part in the Texas Revolution and was killed at the Battle of the Alamo. He was born in Kentucky and spent most of his life in Louisiana before moving to Texas and joining the revolution. Bowie is also known for the style of knife he carried, which came to be known as the "Bowie knife". - John Love
John Love (17?? - August 17, 1822) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Growing up, Love pursued in an academic course, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1801, commencing practice in Alexandria, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1805 to 1807 and from their was elected a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1806, serving from 1807 to 1811. - Christopher Thomas
Christopher Yancy Thomas (March 24, 1818 - February 11, 1879) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Thomas attended the common schools as a child and went on to graduate from a private academy in 1838. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844, commencing practice in Martinsville, Virginia. - Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. - John Pendleton
John Strother Pendleton nicknamed "The Lone Star" (March 1, 1802 - November 19, 1868) was a nineteenth century congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer from Virginia. Born near Culpeper, Virginia, Pendleton pursued in preparatory studies as a child. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1824, commencing practice in Culpeper County, Virginia. He married Lucy Ann Williams, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Bruce Williams, … - James Knowles
Sir James Knowles (1831 - February 13, 1908) was an English architect and editor. He was born in London, the son of architect James Thomas Knowles and himself trained in architecture at University College and in Italy. However, his preferences led him simultaneously into a literary career. In 1860 he published "The Story of King Arthur". In 1866 he was introduced to Alfred Lord Tennyson, and later agreed to design his new house, … - R. D. Blackmore
Richard Doddridge Blackmore (June 7, 1825 - January 20, 1900), referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of his generation. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world. He won literary merit and acclaim for his vivid descriptions and personification of the countryside, … - John Stratton
John Stratton (August 19, 1769 - May 10, 1804) was an eighteenth and nineteenth century congressman and lawyer from Virginia. Born at "Old Castle" near Eastville, Virginia, Stratton attended the common schools as a child. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1789 to 1792 and was later elected a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives in 1800, serving from 1801 to 1803. - Thomas Evans
Thomas Evans (c. 1755 - 1815) was an eighteenth and nineteenth century congressman and lawyer from Virginia. Born in Accomac County, Virginia, Evans attended public schools as a child and went on to attend the College of William and Mary. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1780, 1781 and from 1794 to 1796. Evans was later elected a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives in 1796, … - Toyokuni
Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese: 歌川豐國), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his "gō" (art-name after he died) was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his Kabuki actor prints. He was one of the heads of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, …
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