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Edgar Allan PoeOn the 27th of May 1827, a young man named Edgar A. Perry enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name. He was actually eighteen years old and…
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville was born on the 1st of August 1819, in New York City. He entered the world as the third child of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort.
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on the 27th of October 1858, at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan. His youth was defined by debilitating asthma attacks that…
Ulysses S. GrantHiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father Jesse Root Grant worked as a leather merchant and held strong Whig…
Joseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley was born in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on the 24th of March 1733. He grew up as the oldest of six children to Mary Swift and Jonas Priestley…
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hathorne, as his name was originally spelled, arrived in the world on the 4th of July 1804, within the historic streets of Salem, Massachusetts.
Frederick DouglassFrederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland.
Stephen CraneStephen Crane entered the world on the 1st of November 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the fourteenth and final child born to Jonathan Townley Crane and…
Jefferson DavisJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June 1808 at a family homestead in Davisburg, Kentucky. He was the youngest of ten children born to Jane and Samuel…
Upton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. entered the world on the 20th of September 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked as a liquor salesman while his mother…
Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley was born on the 3rd of February 1811 in Amherst, New Hampshire. He could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life.
Henry Steel OlcottHenry Steel Olcott was born on the 2nd of August 1832 in Orange, New Jersey. He grew up as the oldest of six children on his father's farm.
Nathaniel P. BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, on the 30th of January 1816. His father worked in the textile mill of the Boston Manufacturing…
Francis Amasa WalkerFrancis Amasa Walker entered the world on the 2nd of July 1840, in a prominent family home in Boston. His father was Amasa Walker, an economist and…
Stand WatieStand Watie was born on the 12th of December 1806 at Oothcaloga in the Cherokee Nation. His father Uwatie held African-American slaves as laborers and became…