Phoebe and Alice Cary
Sisters, independent poets, and trendsetters for Sunday’s literary salons.
Horace Greeley
Political activist; founder and editor of The New York Tribune, the most significant newspaper in the country at the time.
Bayard Taylor
Foremost travel writer, who brought attention to the gold rush and the opening of Japan; translator and diplomat.
Julia Dean
Stage actress, most famous for touring the South and Far West.
P.T. Barnum
America’s foremost showman, businessman, and politician.
Charles Stratton
Theatrical performer known as “General Tom Thumb.”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Eloquent writer, civil rights activist, suffragist, and leading figure of Women’s rights movement.
Fanny Fern
Highest paid columnist, whose sharp wit helped form public opinion.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Quaker poet and founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Jane Cunningham Croly
Journalist, known as Jennie/Jenny June, driving force behind the American women’s club movement.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist, and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a factor in beginning the Civil War.
Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Fine artist, best known for painting the Emancipation Proclamation.
Mary Louise Booth
Writer, tailor, translator, and the first editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazar (later to be Bazaar).
Charles Anderson Dana
Journalist, author, and, during the Civil War, was liaison between the War Department and General Grant.
Susan B. Anthony
Noted lecturer, civil rights activist, and spokesperson for Women’s suffrage.
Mary Mapes Dodge
Editor and recognized leader of children’s literature.
The Clergy
Henry Ward Beecher
The most famous and colorful preacher of his time, drawing crowds of 2,500 weekly.
Charles F. Deems, D.D., L.L.D.
Popular non-denominational clergyman, educator, and author. Complied a hymnal with Phoebe Cary.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin, D.D.
Universalist minister, poet, and orator who preached to a congregation of 2,000 every Sunday. Close friend of P.T. Barnum.
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes
Roman Catholic figure who built Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Known as ‘Dagger John,” he led Irish immigrants into mainstream.
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