| Name | d.o.b. | Claim to Fame | Author |
| John Smith | 1750 | Jamestown founder | Frank Barton
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| Myles Standish | 1584 | Plymouth Colony | Augusta Stevenson
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| Squanto | 1585 | Pawtuxet Indian, helped Pilgrims | Augusta Stevenson
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| Virginia Dare | 1587 | first born in America | Augusta Stevenson
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| Pocahontas | 1595 | Indian, Jamestown | Flora Warren Seymour
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| John Alden | 1599 | signed Mayflower Compact | Olive W. Burt
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| Peter Stuyvesant | 1602 | New York | Mabel Cleland Widdemer
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| Anne Bradstreet | 1612 | poet | Montrew Dunham
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| William Bradford | 1624 | Plymouth Colony | Bradford Smith
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| William Penn | 1644 | Pennsylvania Colony | Miriam E. Mason
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| James Oglethorpe | 1696 | Georgia Colony | Aileen Wells Parks
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| John Peter Zenger | 1697 | printer | Laura Long
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| Ben Franklin | 1706 | diplomat, inventor, printer | Augusta Stevenson
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| Israel Putnam | 1718 | French and Indian War | Augusta Stevenson
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| Pontiac | 1720 | Indian | Howard Henry Peckham
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| Crispus Attucks | 1723 | slave, martyr in Rev. War | Dharathula Millender
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| Martha Washington | 1731 | wife of George | Jean Brown Wagoner
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| Chief Joseph | 1732 | Nez Perce Chief | Olive W. Burt
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| Francis Marion | 1732 | patriot | William O. Steele
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| George Washington | 1732 | first president | Augusta Stevenson
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| Daniel Boone | 1734 | trailblazer | Augusta Stevenson
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| Paul Revere | 1735 | Rev. War patriot | Augusta Stevenson
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| Dan Morgan | 1736 | French and Indian war | Bernice Bryant
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| Patrick Henry | 1736 | patriot | Thomas Frank Barton
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| Ethan Allen | 1737 | Vermont | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| Thomas Paine | 1737 | writer/patriot | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| John Hancock | 1737 | signer of Declaration | Cathrine Seward Cleven
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| Benjamin West | 1738 | painter | Dorothea J. Snow
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| Nathanael Greene | 1742 | Rev. War | Howard Peckham
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| John Fitch | 1743 | steamboat | Augusta Stevenson
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| Tom Jefferson | 1743 | 3rd president | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Abigail Adams | 1744 | wife of 2nd president | Jean Brown Wagoner
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| Anthony Wayne | 1745 | Rev. War | Augusta Stevenson
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| John Sevier | 1745 | Tennessee governor? | William O. Steele
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| John Paul Jones | 1747 | Rev. War | Dorothea J. Snow
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| John Marshall | 1750 | patriot | Helen Albee Monsell
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| George Rogers Clark | 1752 | Rev. War, brother of William | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| Betsy Ross | 1752 | flag | Ann Weil
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| Phillis Wheatley | 1753 | black poet | Kathryn Borland & H. Speicher
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| Molly Pitcher | 1754 | Civil War | Augusta Stevenson
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| Nathan Hale | 1755 | patriot | Augusta Stevenson
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| Simon Kenton | 1755 | frontiersman | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| James Monroe | 1758 | president | Mabel Cleland Widdemer
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| Noah Webster | 1758 | dictionary | Helen Boyd Higgins
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| Alec Hamilton | 1760 | Scty of treas., influenced Constitution | Helen Boyd Higgins
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| John Jacob Astor | 1763 | financier | Dorothy S. Anderson
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| Robert Fulton | 1765 | steamboat | Marguerite Henry
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| Eli Whitney | 1766 | inventor | Dorothea J. Snow
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| Andy Jackson | 1767 | 7th President | Augusta Stevenson
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| Black Hawk | 1767 | Sauk Indian chief | Catherine Seward Cleven
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| John Quincy Adams | 1767 | 2nd president | Anne Weil
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| Rachel Jackson | 1767 | wife of Andrew Jackson | Christine Noble Govan
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| Dolly Madison | 1768 | wife of James Madison, when White House burned | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Tecumseh | 1768 | Shawnee Chief, with War of 1812 | Augusta Stevenson
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| Will Clark | 1770 | explorer | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| William H. Harrison | 1773 | 9th President | Howard Peckham
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| Meriwether Lewis | 1774 | explorer | Charlotta M. Bebenroth
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| Sequoyah | 1776 | Cherokee alphabet | Dorothea J. Snow
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| Henry Clay | 1777 | statesman | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Francis Scott Key | 1779 | lawyer, wrote nat'l anthem | Augusta Stevenson
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| Stephen Decatur | 1779 | naval hero | Bradford Smith
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| Zeb Pike | 1779 | explorer | Augusta Stevenson
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| Dan Webster | 1782 | statesman and orator | Bradford Smith
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| Washington Irving | 1783 | writer | Mabel Cleland Widdemer
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| Nancy Hanks | 1784 | mother of Abe Lincoln | Augusta Stevenson
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| Zach Taylor | 1784 | 12th President | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| John Audubon | 1785 | nature artist | Miriam E. Mason
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| Davy Crockett | 1786 | mountain man | Aileen Wells Parks
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| James F. Cooper | 1789 | author | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| Sacagawea | 1789 | helped Lewis and Clark | Flora Warren Setmour
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| Samuel Morse | 1791 | Morse code | Dorothea J. Snow
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| Lucretia Mott | 1793 | feminist reformer | Buel Burnett
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| Sam Houston | 1793 | Texas Independence | Augusta Stevenson
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| Matthew C. Perry | 1794 | naval commander | Alexander Scharbach
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| Jim Bowie | 1796 | knife, west | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| Jed Smith | 1799 | mountain man | Olive W. Burt
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| William H. McGuffey | 1800 | wrote readers | Barbara Williams
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| Brigham Young | 1801 | Mormon | Polly Carver Jordan & Frisbee
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| David Farragut | 1801 | Navy admiral | Laura Long
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| Dorothea Dix | 1802 | nurse, social reformer | Grace Hathaway Melin
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| Jim Bridger | 1804 | frontiersman | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| John Deere | 1804 | perfected farm machinery | Margaret Bare
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| Osceola | 1804 | Seminole war chief | Electa Clark
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| H. W. Longfellow | 1807 | poet | Grace Hathaway Melin
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| Robert E. Lee | 1807 | Confederate General | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Jeff Davis | 1808 | Confederate president | Lena Young deGrummond
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| Narcissa Whitman | 1808 | Oregon Trail | Ann Spence Warner
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| Abe Lincoln | 1809 | 16th president | Augusta Stevenson
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| Cyrus McCormick | 1809 | reaper | Lavinia Dobler
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| Kit Carson | 1809 | mountain man | Augusta Stevenson
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| Raphael Semmes | 1809 | Confederate Navy | Dorothea J. Snow
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| P.T. Barnum | 1810 | circus | Augusta Stevenson
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811 | writer | Mabel Cleland Widdemer
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| John Wanamaker | 1818 | merchant | Olive W. Burt
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| Maria Mitchell | 1818 | astronomer | Grace Hathaway Melin
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| William Fargo | 1818 | banking industry/gold rush | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| Abner Doubleday | 1819 | baseball | Montrew Dunham
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| Allan Pinkerton | 1819 | detective | Kathryn Borland & H. Speicher
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| Elias Howe | 1819 | sewing machine | Jean Corcoran
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| Julia Ward Howe | 1819 | author | Jean Brown Wagoner
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| Mary Todd Lincoln | 1819 | married Abe | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| Harriet Tubman | 1820 | slave | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| Susan Anthony | 1820 | women's suffrage | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Bedford Forrest | 1821 | Confederate Cavalry General | Aileen Wells Parks
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| Clara Barton | 1821 | Am. Red Cross | Augusta Stevenson
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| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1821 | woman doctor | Joanne Landers Henry
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| U.S. Grant | 1822 | Union general | Augusta Stevenson
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| Jessie Fremont | 1824 | journalist? | Jean Brown Wagoner
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| Stonewall Jackson | 1824 | Confederate general | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Stephen Foster | 1826 | songwriter | Helen Boyd Higgins
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| Lew Wallace | 1827 | wrote Ben Hur | Martha E. Schaaf
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| Lee DeForest | 1829 | wireless radio | Lavinia Dobler
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| George Pullman | 1831 | inventor | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Mary Mapes Dodge | 1831 | wrote Hans Brinker | Miriam E. Mason
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| Sitting Bull | 1831 | Siouz leader | Augusta Stevenson
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| J. Sterling Morton | 1832 | Arbor Day | Clyde B. Moore
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| Louisa Alcott | 1832 | author | Jean Brown Wagoner
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| Jeb Stuart | 1833 | Confederate cavalryman | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| Andrew Carnegie | 1835 | wealthy | Joanne Landers Henry
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| Mark Twain | 1835 | author | Miriam E. Mason
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| Bret Harte | 1836 | author | Janet Branham
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| George Dewey | 1837 | naval officer/Civil War/War with Spain | Laura Long
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| John Burroughs | 1837 | naturalist-writer | Lucy Post Frisbee
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| James J. Hill | 1838 | railroad magnate | Mildred Houghton Comfort
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| John Muir | 1838 | nat'l park system | Montrew Dunham
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| Liliuokalani | 1838 | queen of Hawaii | Shirlee Petkin Newman
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| Frances Willard | 1839 | temperance | Miriam E. Mason
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| George Custer | 1839 | Indian fighter | Augusta Stevenson
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | 1841 | Supreme Court justice | Montrew Dunham
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| Robert Todd Lincoln | 1843 | son of Abe Lincoln | LaVere Anderson
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| Buffalo Bill (Cody) | 1846 | Wild West | Augusta Stevenson
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| George Westinghouse | 1846 | inventor | Montrew Dunham
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| Lotta Crabtree | 1846 | gold rush | Marian T. Place
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| Alexander Bell | 1847 | telephone | Mabel Cleland Widdemer
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| Tom Edison | 1847 | inventor | Sue Guthridge
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| Joseph Pulitzer | 1847 | journalist | Hortense Myers and R.Burnett
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| Joel Chandler Harris | 1848 | writer | Ethel H. Weddle
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| DeWitt Clinton | 1849 | Erie canal | Mabel Cleland Widdemer
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| James Whitcomb Riley | 1849 | writer | Minnie Belle Mitchell
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| Luther Burbank | 1849 | horticulturalist | Olive W. Burt
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| Dan Beard | 1850 | Boy Scouts | Miriam E. Mason
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| Eugene Field | 1850 | writer | Kathryn Borland & H. Speicher
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| Walter Reed | 1851 | physician, researcher, soldier | Helen Boyd Higgins
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| The Ringling Brothers | 1852 | circus | Olive W. Burt
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| George Eastman | 1854 | camera inventor | Joanne Landers Henry
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| John Philip Sousa | 1854 | band leader/marches | Ann Weil
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| Frederick Douglass | 1855 | black | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Booker T. Washington | 1856 | slave, educator | Augusta Stevenson
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| Kate Douglas Wiggin | 1856 | wrote Rebecca of S. Farm | Miriam E. Mason
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| Robert Peary | 1856 | discovered North Pole | Electa Clark
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| Woodrow Wilson | 1856 | 28th President | Helen Albee Monsell
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| Teddy Roosevelt | 1858 | 26th President | Edd Winfield Parks
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| F.W. Woolworth | 1859 | skyscraper pioneer | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Katharine Lee Bates | 1859 | wrote America the Beautiful | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Annie Oakley | 1860 | sharpshooter | Ellen Wilson
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| Jane Addams | 1860 | social worker | Jean Brown Wagoner
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| Frederick Remington | 1861 | western artist | Clyde B. Moore
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| Will and C. Mayo | 1861 | doctors | Marie Hammontree
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| Edward Bok | 1863 | editor and author | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Henry Ford | 1863 | assembly line | Catherine Ruddiman
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| George Carver | 1864 | slave, scientist | Augusta Stevenson
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| Wilbur and O. Wright | 1867 | airplane/1871-1948--Orville | Augusta Stevenson
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| Harvey S. Firestone | 1868 | founder of tire company | Adrian Paradis
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| Oliver Hazard Perry | 1868 | naval officer | Laura Long
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| Juliette Low | 1869 | founder of Girl Scouts | Helen Boyd Higgins
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| Bernard Baruch | 1870 | wealthy | Joanne Landers Henry
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| Walter Chrysler | 1871 | car company | Ethel H. Weddle
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| A.P. Giannini | 1874 | banker | Marie Hammontree
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| Harry Houdini | 1874 | magician | Kathryn Kilby Borland
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| Herbert Hoover | 1874 | 31st President | Mildren Houghton Comfort
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| John D. Rockefeller | 1874 | philanthropist | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Robert Frost | 1874 | poet | Keep Ellen Wilson
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| J. C. Penney | 1875 | entrepeneur | Wilma J. Hudson
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| Mary M. Bethune | 1875 | black missionary | Olive W. Burt
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| Carl Sandburg | 1878 | poet | Grace Hathaway Melin
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| George M. Cohan | 1878 | actor | Gertrude Hecker Winders
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| Albert Einstein | 1879 | scientist | Marie Hammontree
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| Ethel Barrymore | 1879 | actress | Shirlee P. Newman
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| Vilhjalmur Stefansson | 1879 | arctic explorer | Hortense Myers and R. Burnett
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| Will Rogers | 1879 | humorist, cowboy | Guernsey Van Riper Jr.
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| Douglas MacArthur | 1880 | Korean War & WWII | Laura M. Long
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| Helen Keller | 1880 | deaf, blind | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| John L. Lewis | 1880 | coal miner, labor leader | George Gershon Korson
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| Cecil B. DeMille | 1881 | film director | Hortense Myers and R. Burnett
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| Franklin Roosevelt | 1882 | 32nd President | Ann Weil
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| Robert Goddard | 1882 | father of modern rocketry | Clyde B. Moore
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | 1884 | wife of Franklin | Ann Weil
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| Harry S Truman | 1884 | 33rd President | Wilma J. Hudson
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| Jean Felix Piccard | 1884 | balloonist | Lena Young de Grummond
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| Glenn L. Martin | 1886 | inventor, Martin Aviation | R. W. Harley
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| Alvin C. York | 1887 | Corporal in WWII, Christian | Ethel H. Weddle
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| Jim Thorpe | 1888 | Indian athlete | Guernsey Van Riper Jr.
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| Knute Rockne | 1888 | Notre Dame football coach | Guernsey Van Riper Jr.
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| Richard Byrd | 1889 | Antarctic explorer | Guernsey Van Riper Jr.
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890 | 34th president | Wilma J. Hudson
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| Eddie Rickenbacher | 1890 | aviator | Cathrine Cleven
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| David Sarnoff | 1891 | radio pioneer | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Gail Borden | 1891 | condensed milk | Adrian Paradis
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| Pearl S. Buck | 1892 | writer about China | Elisabeth P. Myers
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| Babe Ruth | 1895 | baseball | Guernsey Van Riper Jr.
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| Carl Ben Eielson | 1897 | aviator | Hortense Myers and R. Burnett
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| Amelia Earhart | 1898 | aviator | Jane Moore Howe
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| George Gershwin | 1898 | composer | Bernice Bryant
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| Duke Ellington | 1899 | musician | Martha Schaaf
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| Adlai Stevenson | 1900 | statesman | Martha E. Ward
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| Ernie Pyle | 1900 | journalist | Ellen Wilson
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| Louis Armstrong | 1901 | jazz musician | Dharathula Millender
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| Walt Disney | 1901 | Mickey Mouse | Marie Hammontree
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| Langston Hughes | 1902 | black author | Montrew Dunham
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| Clyde Beatty | 1903 | singer,dancer, animal trainer | Katharine E. Wilkie
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| Lou Gehrig | 1903 | baseball | Guernsey Van Riper Jr.
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| M. Bourke-White | 1904 | artist | Montrew Dunham
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| Edward R. Murrow | 1908 | reporter | Hortense Myers and R.Burnett
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| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908 | president | Frank Barton
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| Thurgood Marshall | 1908 | judge | Montrew Dunham
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| Mahalia Jackson | 1911 | black singer | Montrew Dunham
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| Ronald Reagan | 1911 | 40th president | Montrew Dunham
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| Babe Didrickson | 1913 | female athlete | Lena Young deGrummond
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| Vince Lombardi | 1913 | football coach | Hortense Myers
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| Joe DiMaggio | 1914 | baseball | Herb Dunn
|
| John F. Kennedy | 1917 | 35th president | Lucy Post Frisbee
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| Jackie Robinson | 1919 | black baseball player | Herb Dunn
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| Virgil Grissom | 1926 | astronaut | Carl L. Chappell
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929 | black--civil rights | Dharathula H. Millender
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| Neil Armstrong | 1930 | astronaut | Montrew Dunham
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| Roberto Clemente | 1934 | baseball | Montrew Dunham |
