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American Presbyterians
- Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the 30th of November 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He grew up as the sixth of seven children to Jane Lampton and John…
- James StewartJames Maitland Stewart was born on the 20th of May 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the eldest child and only son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and…
- Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison was born on the 20th of August 1833, on a farm by the Ohio River in North Bend, Ohio. He was the second of ten children born to John Scott…
- Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March 1767 in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists who had emigrated from…
- Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, on the 14th of October 1890. His family moved to Abilene, Kansas, the following year and lived there for…
- Woodrow WilsonIn 1856, a child named Woodrow Wilson stood near the front gate of his family's parsonage in Augusta, Georgia. He was three years old when he heard a…
- Buzz AldrinEdwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. was born on the 20th of January 1930 at Mountainside Hospital in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His parents were Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr.
- James BuchananJames Buchanan Jr. entered the world on the 23rd of April 1791 inside a log cabin called Stony Batter near Cove Gap in the Allegheny Mountains of southern…
- John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles entered the world on the 25th of February 1888 in Washington D.C. He was born into a family that dominated American foreign policy for…
- David LettermanDavid Michael Letterman was born on the 12th of April 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father worked as a florist and his mother served as a church…
- Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur was born on the 26th of January 1880 at Little Rock Barracks in Arkansas. His father Arthur MacArthur Jr. served as a U.S.
- George B. McClellanGeorge Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia on the 3rd of December 1826. His father George was a surgeon who founded Jefferson Medical College.
- John C. BreckinridgeJohn Cabell Breckinridge entered the world on the 16th of January 1821 at Thorn Hill. This estate sat near Lexington in Kentucky.