|
Who |
When |
Why |
|
John Adams |
1735-1826 |
Second President of United States |
|
John Quincy Adams
|
1767-1848 |
Sixth President of United States |
|
Horatio Alger
|
1832-1899 |
Writer of rags-to-riches books
for boys. |
|
Louisa May Alcott |
1832-1888 |
Author of Little Women and
other books |
|
Susan B. Anthony
|
1820-1906 |
Organizer of women's suffrage
movement. |
|
P. T. Barnum |
1810-1891 |
Owner of Barnum & Bailey Circus,
founder of Tufts University |
|
Bela Bartok |
1881-1945 |
Hungarian composer |
|
Clara Barton
|
1821-1912 |
Founder of the American Red Cross |
|
Alexander
Graham Bell |
1847-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone,
founder of Bell Telephone Company |
|
Ray Bradbury
|
|
Science fiction writer |
|
Luther Burbank
|
1849-1926 |
American botanist of the early
20th century |
|
Robert Burns |
1759-1796 |
Scottish poet and song writer |
|
e.e. cummings
|
1894-1962 |
20th century American poet |
|
Charles Darwin
|
1809-1882 |
Scientist and evolutionist,
author of Origin of Species |
|
Charles Dickens |
1809-1882 |
English novelist
|
|
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
1803-1882 |
Unitarian minister, essayist,
philosopher |
|
Benjamin Franklin |
1706-1790 |
Scientist, writer, statesman |
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
1804-1864 |
American novelist, author of The Scarlet Letter |
|
Julia Ward Howe
|
1819-1910 |
Composer of Battle Hymn of the
Republic |
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
1743-1826 |
Third President of United States
and author of the Declaration of Independence |
|
Arthur Lissmer |
1847-1922 |
Canadian artist, member of the
Group of Seven |
|
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
1807-1882 |
American writer, author of The
Song of Hiawatha |
|
Thomas Masaryk
|
1850-1937 |
First president of Czechoslovakia
in 1920, proponent of democracy and social justice
|
|
Herman Melville
|
1791-1872 |
Writer, author of Moby Dick |
|
Samuel Morse |
1791-1872 |
Inventor of the telegraph and
Morse code |
|
Florence Nightingale
|
1820-1910 |
British nurse and hospital
reformer |
|
Linus Pauling |
1901-1994 |
Chemist, won Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1954 and the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 |
|
Beatrix
Potter |
1866-1943 |
Author of Peter Rabbit and
other children's stories |
|
Joseph Priestly
|
1733-1804 |
Discoverer of oxygen, Unitarian
minister |
|
Paul Revere |
1735-1818 |
Silversmith and colonial patriot
or revolutionary depending on your point of view |
|
Carl Sandburg |
1878-1967 |
American poet, won Pulitzer Prize
for biography of Abraham Lincoln |
|
Albert Schweitzer
|
1875-1965 |
Theologian and physician |
|
Adlai Stevenson
|
1900-1965 |
Governor of Illinois, candidate
for President and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. |
|
William Howard Taft |
1857-1930 |
27th President of United States
and tenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
|
Dr. Emily Stowe
|
1831-1903 |
Canada's first female doctor, and
founder of first woman suffrage society in Canada
|
|
Henry David Thoreau |
1817-1862 |
Essayist and naturalist, author of Walden Pond |
|
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
|
Writer, author of
Slaughterhouse-Five |
|
Frank Lloyd Wright |
1869-1959 |
Architect |
|
Whitney Young |
1921-1971 |
Head of the Urban League |
