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Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees
- 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…
- 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…
- Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was born into poverty on the 12th of February 1809, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
- 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…
- Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson entered the world on the 13th of April 1743, at Shadwell Plantation in Virginia. His father Peter Jefferson was a planter and surveyor who…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Susan B. AnthonySusan Anthony was born on the 15th of February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father Daniel Anthony and mother Lucy Read raised seven children within a…
- Thomas EdisonIn 1862, a fifteen-year-old Thomas Edison stood on the tracks near Port Huron, Michigan. He watched a runaway train approach three children who could not…
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on the 27th of February 1807 in Portland, Maine. He grew up in a house that now stands as a historic site called the…
- 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.
- Robert E. LeeRobert Edward Lee was born at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia on the 19th of January 1807. His father Henry Lee III suffered…
- William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman entered the world on the 8th of February 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio. His father Charles Robert Sherman was a lawyer and justice on the…
- Eli WhitneyEli Whitney Jr. arrived in the world on the 8th of December 1765, within a quiet town called Westborough, Massachusetts. His father Eli Whitney Sr.
- Robert FultonRobert Fulton was born on a farm in Little Britain, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of November 1765. His father, Robert Fulton, married Mary Smith, daughter of…
- David FarragutJames Glasgow Farragut arrived at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee on the 5th of July 1801. His father was a Spanish merchant captain named…