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19th-century American male writers

Edgar Allan Poe14 minEdgar Allan Poe was found semiconscious on the streets of Baltimore on the 3rd of October, 1849, wearing clothes that were not his own. He could not explain himself. Four days later, at five in the morning on a Sunday, he was dead. He was…
Herman Melville12 minHerman Melville died on the morning of the 28th of September 1891, and the death notice in The New York Times misspelled his great novel as "Mobie Dick." That small error would later be read as proof he had been forgotten. By 1876, every…
Theodore Roosevelt14 minTheodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest on the 14th of October 1912, while on his way to give a campaign speech in Milwaukee. The bullet passed through his eyeglass case and a 50-page folded copy of his speech before lodging in his chest…
Ulysses S. Grant13 minUlysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on the 27th of April 1822, in Ohio, and by the time he died on the 23rd of July 1885, he had commanded the largest army in American history, won the Civil War, and served two terms as…
Joseph Priestley16 minJoseph Priestley was born on the 24th of March 1733 in Birstall, near Batley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, into a family of English Dissenters who refused to conform to the Church of England. By the time he died on the 6th of February…
Nathaniel Hawthorne14 minNathaniel Hawthorne was born on the 4th of July, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, a town that had marked his family with a particular darkness long before he drew breath. Two of his ancestors had sat in judgment at the Salem witch trials,…
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow11 minHenry Wadsworth Longfellow published his first poem at age 13 in the Portland Gazette on the 17th of November, 1820. It was a patriotic four-stanza piece called "The Battle of Lovell's Pond", and almost nobody noticed. What followed across…
Frederick Douglass13 minFrederick Douglass had no birth certificate, no record of his own age, and no settled name. He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. He never knew…
Jefferson Davis14 minJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June, 1808, in a village his father had established in Kentucky, and he died in a borrowed New Orleans home on the 6th of December, 1889, at the age of 81, holding his wife Varina's hand. In the…
Upton Sinclair12 minUpton Sinclair once wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He penned that line to explain why California newspaper editors refused to take his ideas seriously.…
Horace Greeley9 minHorace Greeley could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life. He was born on the 3rd of February 1811, on a small farm about five miles from Amherst, New Hampshire, to poor farmers Zaccheus and Mary Greeley. From that…
Henry Steel Olcott9 minHenry Steel Olcott was born on the 2nd of August 1832 in Orange, New Jersey, the oldest of six children in a Presbyterian household. He would go on to become a military officer, a journalist, a lawyer, a Freemason, and the co-founder of…
Nathaniel P. Banks15 minNathaniel Prentice Banks spent his boyhood pulling empty bobbins from textile machines in the mills of Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts. That unglamorous childhood job earned him the nickname Bobbin Boy Banks, a label he carried for the…
Stand Watie13 minStand Watie held a distinction no other Confederate officer could claim. He was the only Native American to serve as a general in the Confederate Army. Between 1862 and 1866, he also served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee…
Andrew Hull Foote6 minAndrew Hull Foote wrote a letter to his three youngest children on the 31st of August, 1861, as the Civil War was just beginning to take shape. He told them he was going to war and might be killed. He closed with the words: "God grant that…