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Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was found semiconscious on the streets of Baltimore on the 3rd of October, 1849, wearing clothes that were not his own.
Herman MelvilleHerman 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."…
Theodore RooseveltTheodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest on the 14th of October 1912, while on his way to give a campaign speech in Milwaukee.
Ulysses S. GrantUlysses 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…
Joseph PriestleyJoseph 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…
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel 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…
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry 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…
Frederick DouglassFrederick 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…
Jefferson DavisJefferson 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…
Upton SinclairUpton 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…
Horace GreeleyHorace 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…
Henry Steel OlcottHenry Steel Olcott was born on the 2nd of August 1832 in Orange, New Jersey, the oldest of six children in a Presbyterian household.
Nathaniel P. BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks spent his boyhood pulling empty bobbins from textile machines in the mills of Waltham and Lowell, Massachusetts.
Stand WatieStand 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.
Andrew Hull FooteAndrew 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.