Stephen Foster
PA composer of black folk music
Dorothea Dix
Campaigned for mentally ill
James Russell Lowell
Poet, editor, diplomat
Neal Dow
Father of Prohibition = tried to get law passed in Maine
Washington Irving
Author: tales of sleepy hollow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lecturer, poet, physician
Lucretia Mott
Was not seated at the antis lambert convention in London 1840
James fenimore cooper
American writer; last of the Mohicans
William Gilmore Simms
Poet historian from South
Horace Mann
Wanted better curricula for schools and more funding
Peter Cartwright
Methodist revivalist in Midwest
Noah Webster
Dictionary
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Refused to use “obey” in marriage rights
William Cullen Bryant
Poet; thanatopsis
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer
Susan B. Anthony
Major suffragist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writer; The Scarlet Letter
Robert Owen
Founded New Harmony
Henry David Thoreau
Major Transcendentalist; on the duty of civil disobedience
Herman Melville
Writer; Moby Dick
Charles G. finney
Important methodist
William H. McGuffey
Made readers; emphasized morality, idealism…
Joseph Smith
Founded Mormons
Emma Willard
Founded Troy female seminary in NY
Louis Agassiz
Scientist in 1800s; botanist; carried snakes
Walt Whitman
Poet; best selling book of poetry
John J Audubon
Studied birds and painted
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Writer of books
William H. Prescott
American historian
Gilbert Stuart
Painter from RI
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet abolitionist
Francis Parkman
Historian
Brigham Young
took over Mormons after Smith, moved them to Utah
Phineas T. Barnum
Circuses and entertainer
Horace Greeley
Newspaper abolitionist, founded liberal repub party