- George Washington
George Washington , August 15,1871 - August 26,1905, was the founder of the town of Centralia, Washington. He born in 1871, in Virginia. He was African-American, and he was rasied by a white couple named Mr. and Mrs. James C. Chochran. When George was young, the Chochrans moved west, first to Ohio, then to Missouri. George became a great rifleman. He taught himself how to read. George was given full rights as a citizen, after Mr. and Mrs. - Brigham Young
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. In 1847, Young became the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is one of many churches that claim to be a continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830. He was also the first governor of the Utah Territory. - Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 - January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the American state of Iowa, near Le Claire. He was one of the most colorful figures of the Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes. Buffalo Bill is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. - Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. Despite resistance from American Indians, for whom Kentucky was a traditional hunting ground, … - John Smith
John Smith, known as "Uncle John", was an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the younger brother of Joseph Smith, Sr., uncle of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith, father of George A. Smith, grandfather of John Henry Smith, and great-grandfather of George Albert Smith. He served as an assistant counselor to the First Presidency (September 3, 1837-June 27, 1844), and as Patriarch to the Church (January 1, 1849 – May 23, 1854). - John Butler
John Butler (1728-1796) was a Loyalist who led an irregular unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier in the American Revolutionary War. He worked in the British Indian Department under Sir William Johnson, and led Seneca and Cayuga forces in the Saratoga Campaign. He later raised and commanded a regiment of rangers. John Butler is considered a villain in the United States, but is considered a hero in Canada. - John Taylor
John Taylor (November 1, 1808 - July 25, 1887) was the third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. Taylor was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, the son of James and Agnes Taylor. He had formal schooling up to age fourteen, and then he served an initial apprenticeship to a cooper and later received training as a woodturner and cabinetmaker. He was christened in the Church of England, … - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author. She wrote a series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer family. Her best-known book is "Little House on the Prairie." - Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (sometimes erroneously pronounced [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡɒf] in British English and [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡoʊ] in US English; the correct Dutch pronunciation is) (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers. - John Young
John Young was an American surveyor and pioneer. He is best known as the founder of Youngstown, Ohio, a village that eventually became one of the nation's largest steel producers. Young, a native of Whitestown, New York, first surveyed the area in 1796 and settled there soon after. On February 9, 1797, he purchased the entire township of 15,560 acres (63 km²) from the Western Reserve Land Company for $16,085. - James Zabiela
James Zabiela (born August 7, 1979) is a DJ from Southampton in the United Kingdom. His signature style is a fusion of Breakbeat and House music. He is known for his turntable skills, extensive use of loops and effects, and the use of the Pioneer CDJ1000s, EFX1000 as well as more recently using Ableton Live. James gained fame in 2000 by winning Muzik Magazine's Bedroom Bedlam competition, Best Bedroom Bedlam DJ 2001, and has since been signed to Sasha's Excession agency. - James King
James King (1800 - 1857) was a Scottish-Australian who was important in the establishment of the wine industry in Australia. King was probably born about the end of the eighteenth century, left Scotland in 1826 as a free settler possessed of capital, and arrived in Sydney early in 1827. He went into business as a merchant, and in 1828 received a grant of 2000 acres of land at Irrawang in the northern part of the colony, which became his chief interest. - Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg) what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. - John Parker
John Parker (1758 - 1836) Elder John Parker was an American settler and Predestinarian Baptist minister who immigrated to Texas before the Texas Revolution, and was killed during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, along with several members of his family, and others of the "Parker clan". John Parker was born on September 6, 1758 in Baltimore County, Maryland. His family moved to Virginia while John was young, and in 1777, at age nineteen, … - Dan Jones
Dan Jones (often referred to as Captain Dan Jones) was an influential Welsh missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jones is well known for having heard the "final prophecy" of Joseph Smith, Jr., namely, that Jones would fulfill a mission to Wales before he died. - Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff (March 1, 1807 - September 2, 1898) was the fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), from 1889 until his death in 1898. His large collection of well documented diaries provide an important record of LDS history. Woodruff was one of nine children born to Aphek Woodruff, a miller working in Farmington, Connecticut. Wilford's mother Beulah died of "spotted fever" June 11th 1808 at the age of 26, … - David Hill
David Hill, was a pioneer and settler of what became Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He served in the Provisional Government of Oregon in both the executive and legislative branches, at later as a legislator in the Oregon Territorial Legislature. - Orson Pratt
Orson Pratt (September 19, 1811 - October 3, 1881) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. He was born in Hartford, New York, USA, the son of Jared and Charity Dickenson Pratt. Orson Pratt died of complications from diabetes on October 3, 1881, the last surviving member of the Original Council of the Twelve. - Joseph Fielding
Joseph Fielding was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement. He served as the second president of the British Mission (1838–1840), coordinating the activities of missionaries in sections of the British Isles and parts of Europe. He was the brother of Mary Fielding, the second wife of Hyrum Smith, and an uncle of Joseph F. Smith, the sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. - Heber C. Kimball
Heber Chase Kimball (June 14, 1801 - June 22, 1868) (commonly known as Heber C. Kimball) was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Mormon church, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847-1868. - John Ball
John Ball (November 12, 1794-February 5, 1884) was born at Tenny Hill, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He had a common school education and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1820. He studied law two years at Lansingburg, New York and then went to Darien, Georgia where he taught school five years, then returned to New York and was admitted to the bar in 1824. As a member of Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's first expedition, in 1832 he traveled to the Oregon Country. - 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". - Ken Kutaragi
(born August 8, 1950) is the former Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI), the video game division of Sony Corporation until his retirement. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", as well as its other PlayStation products, the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3. Kutaragi was closely watched by financial analysts who trace profiles of the losses and profits of the Sony Corporation. - James Logan
James A. Logan (March 11, 1791 - December 6, 1859) was an early settler of western Arkansas. He also served in Arkansas' first state legistlature. He is buried in the Logan family cemetery, near Sugar Grove, Arkansas. Logan County is named for him. - Joseph F. Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith, Sr. (November 13, 1838 - November 19, 1918), usually known as Joseph F. Smith to distinguish him from his son of the same name, was the sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the last President of the Church to have personally known the founder of the Mormon faith, the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., who was also his uncle. - John Sutter
Johann Augustus Sutter (February 23 1803 - June 18 1880) was a Californian of Swiss descent famous for his association with the California Gold Rush (in that gold was discovered by James W. Marshall in Sutter's Mill) and for establishing Sutter's Fort in an area that would later become the capital of the U.S. state of California, Sacramento. Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter ironically died almost poor, … - David Morgan
David Morgan was a famous frontiersman in what is now the state of West Virginia. He was the third child of Morgan Morgan, traditionally stated to be the first white settler in West Virginia. David was a friend of George Washington and Patrick Henry. He participated in many battles of the Revolutionary War and helped defend Fort Duquesne. A younger brother Zackquill (Zackwell) Morgan founded Morgantown which is the town where West Virginia University is located. - John Montgomery
Col. John Montgomery was an early American colonel, settler, and explorer. He is credited with founding the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, and has the county of Montgomery County, Tennessee named for him. He was born into a Scottish family which immigrated to Virginia in the 17th century. In 1771, Montgomery first entered the area of the Cumberland River. Much was learned in the expedition, but Indians forced the explorers back to Virginia. - Parley P. Pratt
Parley Parker Pratt (12 April 1807-13 May 1857) (commonly known as Parley P. Pratt) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of The Quorum of Twelve Apostles from 1835 until his murder in 1857. He served in the Quorum with his younger brother, Orson Pratt. He was a productive missionary, poet, religious writer and longtime editor of the religious publication "The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star". - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory who spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Moscow. - Steve Chen
Steve Chen (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China. Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP multiprocessor supercomputer. Chen left Cray Research in 1987. - Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons or Michael Troutman Simmons (1814-1867) was a 19th century American pioneer and one of the first white men to settle in the Puget Sound. Simmons was one of ten children, born in Kentucky in 1814. As a boy, he moved with his mother to Pike County, Illinois. When Michael was twenty-one years old, he moved to Iowa and married a fifteen year-old girl named Elizabeth Kindred. - Lorenzo Snow
Lorenzo Snow was the fifth President (1898-1901) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the last president of the 19th century. Lorenzo Snow was the fifth child and first son of Oliver and Rosetta (Pettibone) Snow, residents of Mantua, Ohio, who had left New England to settle on a new and fertile farm in the Ohio valley. Despite the labor required on the farm, the Snow family valued learning and saw that each child had educational opportunities. - Francis Asbury
Francis Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Born at Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire, England of Methodist parents, Asbury became a local preacher at 18 and was ordained at 22. In 1771 he volunteered to travel to America. When the American War of Independence broke out in 1776 he was the only Methodist minister to remain in America. - Willard Richards
Willard Richards (June 24, 1804-March 11, 1854) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served as Second Counselor in the First Presidency to President Brigham Young in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1854. Willard Richards was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts to Joseph and Rhoda Howe Richards on June 24, 1804. - James McBride
James McBride (1788 - 1859) was a prominent pioneer statesman in Butler County, Ohio. He was Hamilton's first Mayor, and a prominent State Representative associated with the canals, archaelogist who supplied a considerable number of sketches of earthworks for early texts on the Mississippi Valley, Ohio's leading pioneer author and antiquarian, Miami University Secretary and President of the Board of Trustees, Butler County's fifth Sheriff, a surveyor, … - Orson Hyde
Orson Hyde (January 8, 1805 - November 28, 1878) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was born in Oxford, Connecticut. He was raised in nearby Derby, Connecticut, under the care of Nathan Wheeler. In 1819, when he was just 14 years of age, he walked from Connecticut to Kirtland, Ohio to care for a piece of property Wheeler had purchased. While employed as a retail clerk in Kirtland, … - John D. Lee
John Doyle Lee (September 12, 1812 - March 23, 1877) was a prominent early Latter-day Saint (LDS or Mormon) who was executed for his role in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. - William Clayton
William Clayton (1814 - 1879) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and acted as a clerk and scribe to the Mormon religious leader Joseph Smith, Jr. Clayton, originally born in England, is recognized as an American pioneer journalist, scribe, inventor, lyricist and musician. Clayton was born in Penwortham, England, the son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. He was the eldest of fourteen children. He married Ruth Moon on October 9, 1836. - Charles Goodnight
Charles Goodnight born on (March 5, 1836 - December 12, 1929) was a cattle rancher in the American West. He was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, the fourth child of Charles and Charlotte (Collier) Goodnight. He moved to Texas in 1846 with his mother and stepfather, Hiram Daugherty. In 1856, he became a cowboy and served with the local militia, fighting against Comanche raiders. A year later, in 1857, Goodnight joined the Texas Rangers.
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