Important and Rare Autograph/Signature Album Compiled by Lafayette F. Cornwell (1863-1945) of Grand Junction and Pueblo Colorado. Presented to his niece Mabel Bentley Barteau, with inscription on Leaf 3 "To my niece Mabel Bentley Barteau I herewith present this Autograph Album Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Your Uncle LF Cornwell Grand Junction Colo Dec 20th 1933". Measures 7-1/2"L x 5"W. Biographical research on the people in the album compiled using the internet and Wikipedia. PLEASE VISIT OUR TREMONT AUCTIONS WEBSITE TO CLICK ON THE BUTTON TO VIEW THE FULL TRANSCRIPT, AND IMAGES OF EACH AND EVERY PAGE OF THIS ALBUM IN HIGH RESOLUTION.

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William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), orator and politician Ruth Baird Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, best remembered as Ruth Bryan Owen, (1885 - 1954) daughter of William Jennings Bryan, politician and first woman appointed as a United States Ambassador Washington Woodford? Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919) The 26th President of the United States William Howard Taft (1857-1930) The 27th President of the United States, 10th Chief Justice of the United States Alton B. Parker (1852-1926), American Judge, Lost the 1904 Presidential Election to Theodore Roosevelt John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910), Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Va. Promoted the lost cause of the Confederacy. U.S. Senator, Major in the Confederate army Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885), The 18th President of the United States Julia D. Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady of the United States Possibly David Mofat (1839 -1911), American Financier & Industrialist of Denver, Colorado Gifford Pinchot (1865-1949) 28th Governor of PA, American forester and politician Alonzo B. Cornell (1832-1904), a N.Y. politician, the 27th Governor of New York from 1880-1882Possibly Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798-1870) Participated in Seminole Wars, Mexican American War and Civil War Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919) The 26th President of the United States James D. Reid, Superintendent of Magnetic Telegraph Company, "Father of the Telegraph" . Poem in autograph album relating to the laying of the Atlantic Cable Union General Fitz John Porter (1822-1901), second battle of Bull Run John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), American composer and conductor known for American military and patriotic marches Believed to be Scottish born Matthew Arbuckle, a coronet player Richmond Pearson Hobson (1870-1915), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, U.S. Representative from Alabama, Veteran of Spanish American War Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1911) Hero of the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish American War Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) The 19th President of the United States William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Secretary of State, lawyer, statesman William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) Civil War General known for his policy of scorched earth Junn J. Bannesh? Curtis Dwight Wilbur (1867-1954) Chief Justice for California Peter Cooper (1791-1883) Industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, candidate for President of the U.S., designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb. Founder of Cooper Union, NYC. Reference: Ideas for a Science of Good Government: In addresses, Letters and Articles, by Peter Cooper, page 260, dated 1883George Ticknor Curtis (1812-1894) author, writer, historian, member Mass. House of Representatives, and lawyer Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (1836-1881) Union Army officer in the Civil War, achieving rank of brevet major general. U.S. Minister to Chile, failed political candidate for U.S. House of Representatives Charles Francis "Silent Charlie" Murphy (1858-1924), AKA "Boss Murphy" was an American political figure, Head of New York City's Tammany Hall (1901-1924)?Horatio Potter (1802-1887) Sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York Augustus Schell (1812-1884) New York politician and lawyer, Chair of the Democratic National Committee 1871-1876Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963) popular Italian coloratura soprano singer Emma Abbot (1850-1891) American operatic soprano Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905) AKA "Joe Jefferson" actor, one of the most famous of the 19th C. American comedians Berna Eli "Barney" Oldfield (1878-1946) American pioneer automobile racer Leonard Wood (1860-1927) Chief of Staff US. Army, Governor General Philippines, Commander of the Rough Riders, candidate for the 1920 Presidential nomination John W Carter Raffaele "Ralph" De Palma (1882-1956) Italian American race car driver, won 1915 Indianapolis 500, won about 2,000 races Nathaniel Prentice Banks (1816-1894) American politician, Union General Civil War Horatio Alger Jr. (1832-1889) Prolific American Writer Likely Lillian Gallup Haskell the second wife of Charles Nathaniel Haskell who was an American lawyer, oilman, and politician who was the first governor of Oklahoma Senator of Oklahoma Theodore Arlington Bell (1872 - 1922) was a Democratic politician from California, member U.S. House of Representatives from California Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886) 25th Governor of New York, Democratic Candidate for President in the disputed election of 1876John Martin (1833-1913) U.S. Senator from Kansas 1893-1895 John Thompson Hoffman (1828-1888) 23rd Governor of New York Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925) The 28th Vice President of the United States Thomas M. Patterson (1839-1916) U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (1863-1941) U.S. Senator, lawyer and statesman, leader of the Progressive Movement Joseph W. Folk (1864-1949) AKA "Holy Joe" , 31st Governor of Missouri Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937) Italian inventor, electrical engineer, developed Marconi's Law, pioneer in long distance radio transmission Possibly Allen L. James (1849 - 1925) American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846 - 1917) American Scout, bison hunter, showman, fur trapper, gold prospector, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American inventor and businessman who developed the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Possibly Chief Lone Bear, part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Chief Whirlwind Horse, part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Possibly part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Johnny Baker, possibly part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Vicente Oropeso — First World Champion Trick Roper, (Trick and Fancy Roping), possibly part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Elisha Gray (1835-1901) Franklin Knight Lane (1864-1921) U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1913-1920Raymond Robbins (1873-1954) economist and writer Possibly Frank Orren Lowden (1861 - 1943) a Republican Party politician who served as the 25th Governor of Illinois and as a United States Representative from Illinois. He was also a candidate for the Republican presidential nominations in 1920 and 1928.Howard E. Crosby (1826-1891) Minister, teacher, President of New York University Joseph Roswell Hawley (1826-1905) 42nd Governor of Connecticut, Republican & Free soil party, Civil War General, U.S. Senator Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822-1909) Presbyterian Minister, religious writer, supporter of Temperance Movement, avid abolitionist, author of four thousand articles? R.P. Storrs Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865 - 1923) German-born American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. George C. Stebbins (1846-1945) Evangelist, gospel song writer Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) Nominee for The President of the United States 1880, AKA "Hancock the Superb" noted for his leadership at Gettysburg, Union General American Civil War George Frederick Pentecost (1842-1920) prominent American evangelist Eunice White Beecher (1812-1897) author Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936) clergyman, newspaper writer, pioneer Christian Radio Broadcaster of the 1920's-30's. Opponent of anti-Semitism and racial intolerance Possibly William Milo Stone (1827 - 1893) the sixth Governor of Iowa (1864 - 68) Augustus Thomas (1857-1934) American playwright, director, writer Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) Protestant preacher, influential leader in 20th c. American liberal Christianity and central figure in the "Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930sHenry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Congregationalist, clergyman, social reformer and speaker, abolitionist Thomas DeWitt Talmage (1832-1902) preacher, clergyman, reformer in New York city crusades against vice and crime David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) an American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and the founding president of Stanford University James Hervey Hyslop, Ph.D., LL.D, (1854 – 1920) professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University, a psychologist, and a psychical researcher. From 1906 until his death he was the secretary-treasurer of the American Society for Psychical Research Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) Dr. A. Wallace was an honorary member of the British Society for Psychical Research Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, Civil War veteran, politician, orator, noted as "The Great Agnostic" Simon Cameron (1799-1889) Secretary of War for President Abraham Lincoln, AKA "The Great Winnebago Chief" and "Czar of Pennsylvania" Charles Gates Dawes (1865-1951) The Vice President of the United States (1925-1929) Charles Spaulding Thomas (1849-1934) U.S. Senator from Colorado, Confederate Army, 11th Governor of Colorado Albert E. Humphreys of Denver, Colorado, AKA "The Wildcatter Deluxe" "King of the Wildcatters" known for his discovery of oil in Wyoming, Oklahoma and Texas. The Grant-Humphreys Mansion, Denver, Colorado managed by the Colorado Historical Society Frances Jane Van Alstyne (nee' Crosby) (1820-1915) American mission worker, lyricist and composer. Most prolific hymnist in history, writing more than 8,000 hymns and gospel songs Philip Phillips (1807-1884) lawyer, southern politician, a member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative from Alabama. Subsequently, he was a prominent lawyer in Washington, D.C., much involved in the political events surrounding the American Civil War. Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958) American philosopher, author, teacher John B. Gough (1817-1886) Temperance Orator with over 9,600 lectures in US, Canada and Great Britain Andrew Alexander Bonar (1810-1892) Minister of the Free Church of Scotland John Fielding Smith Sr. (1838-1918) Sixth President of the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), nephew of Joseph Smith founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement Henry Augustus Buchtel (1847-1924) 17th Governor of Colorado, minister, educator, public official Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) Pentecostal Evangelist media celebrity Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1889) American Evangelist and publisher connected to the Holiness Movement. He founded Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School, Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers Ira David Sankey (1840-1908) American gospel singer and composer, associated with Dwight L. Moody Jason "Jay" Gould (1836-1892) Leading railroad developer and speculator Kingdon Gould, Sr. (1887-1945) Financier and champion polo player Possibly W.S. Hammond, (1850-1920) African American clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church Hellen Miller Gould Shepard (1868-1938) American Philanthropist, daughter of Jay Gould David Dudley Field II (1805 – 1894) lawyer, law reformer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 7th district Cyrus West Field (1819-1842) American businessman and financier, who along with other entrepreneurs helped to create the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean 1858Henry Martyn Field (1822-1907) American author and clergyman William Shephard Benson (1855-1932) Admiral in the U.S. Navy Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903) American inventor best known for Gatling Gun Thurlow Weed (1787-1882) New York newspaper publisher and Whig and Republican politician Henry Moore Teller (1830-1914) U.S. Senator from Colorado, U.S. Secretary of the Interior? Annie Louise Cary, 1842-1921 American Singer, opera star? James Hamilton Peabody (1852-1917) 13th and 15th Governor of Colorado? Col. John A. Hambleton (1898-1929) fighter pilot in WWI, Baltimore banker, aviation pioneer and co-founder of Pan American Airways Giuseppe Del Puente (1841-1900) Italian opera star ?Wild West Show with Buffalo Bill? Wild West Show with Buffalo Bill????????William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (1895 – 1983), nicknamed "Kid Blackie" and "The Manassa Mauler", American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. A cultural icon of the 1920s Anna de Belocca (née de Bellokh) (4 January 1854 – unknown ), was a Russian-born operatic contralto(1845-1904) Italian baritone(1822-1903) Italian violinist, composer and conductor?(1842-1916) American singer, Sumter South Carolina? Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) The 19th President of the United States Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1831 – 1889) The First Lady of the United States and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes Possibly Richard Wigginton Thompson was an Indiana lawyer, politician and author who served in Hayes cabinet as Secretary of ?William Crowninshield Endicott (1826-1900) Secretary of War under President Grover Cleveland Possibly Henry U. Mudge, Rock Island RR President from December 1909 - April 20, 1915.Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) Secretary of War under four administrations, leading figure in the foreign policy of the U.S., Possibly either Benjamin Franklin Bush (1858-1937) Botanist and ornithologist OR Benjamin Franklin Bush (1860 - 1927) an American railroad executive Possibly a prizefighter Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903 ) Poet, American critic George Mortimer Pullman (1831-1897) Engineer and Industrialist Blanche Bates (1873-1941) American actress Blanche Bates' husband George Creel Mary Frances Scott Siddons (1844-1895) actor born in India, member of great acting family established by Roger Kemble Fanny Lily Gypsey Davenport (1850 - 1898) Anglo-American stage actress ?Dion Boucicault (1822-1890) Irish Actor and playwright Kate Claxton (1848 - 1924) American actress, emotional actress Thomas Jefferson Conant (1802-1891) American biblical scholar Alexander Herrmann (1844-1896) French magician "Herman the Great" Herbert Alonzo Howe (1858-1926) American astronomer and educator L. Howell Lewis Eamon de Valera (1882 - 1975) Prominent politician and statesman in 20th c. Ireland: served several terms as head of government and head of state. Also led the introduction of the Constitution of Ireland, and was a commander in the 1916 Easter Rising George William Curtis (1824-1892) American writer, public speaker, author Edward L. Youmans (1821-1887) American scientific writer, editor and lecturer and founder of Popular Science Magazine Elis Stromgren (1870 - 1947) Swedish/Danish Astronomer Edwin Brandt Frost (1866 - 1935) American astronomer Richard A. Proctor (1837-1888) English astronomer, produced one of the earliest maps of Mars, Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) American essayist, novelist and friend of Mark Twain Ben Barr Lindsey (1869-1943) American judge and social reformer William Burns (1861-1932) America's Sherlock Holmes Charles G. Dawes(1865 - 1951) The 30th Vice President of the United States John T. McCutcheon (1870-1949) Pulitzer Prize winning American political cartoonist, The "Dean of American Cartoons" Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) American children's writer and editor, author of Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates, Associate Editor of Hearth and Home, Poem entitled "Greetings" by M.M. Dodge Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) American historian and novelist Arthur Wilber Steele (1862-1925) cartoonist with the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News Douglas Fairbanks (Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman) (1883 - 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Married to Mary Pickford in 1920, "The King of Hollywood" Mary Pickford (Gladys Louise Smith) (1892 -1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a prolific Canadian-American film actress and producer, a co-founder of both the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio (along with Douglas Fairbanks) and, later, the United Artists film studio (with Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who present the yearly "Oscar" award ceremony Sir Sam White Baker (1821-1893) British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer, abolitionist P.G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893) General of the Confederate States Army, AKA:"Little Frenchman", "Little Napoleon", "Little Creole", "Hero of Fort Sumter" James Michael Christopher Fitzmaurice (1898-1965) Irish aviation pioneer, member of the Crew of Bremen which made the first successful trans-Atlantic aircraft flight from east to west on April 12 -13, 1928Captain Clarence Alvin Duke Schiller (1900-1943) Pilot with RAF Ferry Command, called Canada's Best Pilot. In 1928 he gained fame by flying to Greenly Island, Labrador to successfully rescue the crew of Junkers W33 "Bremen" which was forced down in bad weather after making the first east to west transatlantic flight. Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976) American pioneer of aviation, 2nd man to pilot a fixed wing-aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont (1837-1916) Union army, Civil War, Medal of Honor recipient, Battle of Selma, engagement on the Harpeth River in Tennessee Daniel Edgar Sickles (1819-1914) "Devil Dan" Sickles, Major General Union Army, years of service 1861-69, Battle of Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Peninsula Campaign L Bradford Prince (1840-1922) Governor of New Mexico Territory Thomas Edwin Mix (1888-1940) American film editor western movies 1909-1935, Hollywood's first western star Will B. Johnstone (1881-1944) cartoonist illustrator – writer Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) U.S. Postal inspector, politician, dedicated to Victorian morality. Phrases Comstockery and Comstockism were coined by his supporters Jane Miller Wilson Fitch Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) lawyer, writer, and U.S. ambassador to Italy? Possibly Edmond Allenby (1861-1936) 1st Viscount Allenby Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet, essayist, and journalist, transcendentalist, author of Leaves of Grass J. Hyatt Smith (1824-1886) U.S. Representative from New York; during the Civil War he served in Virginia with the United States Christian Commission in 1862, and was chaplain of the Forty-seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York, in 1869James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893) American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the U.S. Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892) and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1876 and 1880 before being nominated in 1884. In the general election, he was narrowly defeated by Democrat Grover Cleveland. Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882) the wife of The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865Chester Alan Arthur (1829 - 1886) The 21st President of the United States (1881–85); he succeeded James A. Garfield upon Garfield's assassination Lucretia R. Garfield (1832 - 1918) was The First Lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States James Rudolph Garfield (1865 - 1950) American politician, lawyer and son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He was Secretary of the Interior during Theodore Roosevelt's administration Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841 - 1915) prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate where he served from 1881 to 1911John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874 - 1960) American financier and philanthropist who was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family. He was the only son among the five children of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers. Married to Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich, daughter of Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich Judson Harmon (1846 - 1927) politician, U.S. Attorney General for Grover Cleveland, 45th Governor or Ohio Queen Kapiʻolani (1834 - 1899) was married to King Kalākaua in 1863 and reigned as Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Her full name was Kapiʻ olani Napelakapuokakaʻe. King Kalākaua of the Kingdom of Hawaii arrived in New York on September 23, 1881 as part of a world tour. New York and the nation was in mourning over death of President Garfield a few days earlier. William Nevins Armstrong (1835 - 1905), aka Nevins Armstrong and aka W. N. Armstrong, was the Attorney General of Hawaii during the reign of King David Kalākaua. He is most widely known outside of Hawaii for the book Around the World with a King, his insider account of King Kalākaua's world tour in 1881, and was waiting for King Kalakau on the dock as he arrived in New York on Sept. 23, 1881James W. Gerard (1867-1951) elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1907, where he served as a justice until 1911. Under President Woodrow Wilson, he served as the American Ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917 Democratic (Tammany Hall) candidate for U.S. Senator from New York Mary Gordon (1882-1963) Scottish actress, landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s Sherlock Holmes series Luciene Muratore (1876-1954) French actor Rosa Raisa (1893 - 1963) Polish-born and Italian-trained Russian-Jewish dramatic operatic soprano, married baritone Giacomo Rimini in 1920 Giacomo Rimini (1887 - 1952) Italian-born, naturalized-American operatic baritone George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828 – 1892) traveled to Canada and America in 1881. Duke of Sutherland is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Arthur Foley Ingram (1858-1939) Bishop of London Sir William Howard Russell (1820-1907) Irish reporter, among the first modern war correspondents Julia Claussens (1879-1941) Swedish mezzo-sopranoJ. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) Indian mystic, speaker & writer, Indian philosopher Annie Besant (1847-1933) British Socialist, writer and orator, supporter of Irish and Indian self rule Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) American novelist & poet Possibly the Marquis de Rochambeau, the adopted son of the last heir of the Count de Rochambeau, in attendance in New York and the U.S. as part of a delegation to commemorate the centennial of the Siege of Yorktown Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton 1st Baronet (1848-1931) Scotsman merchant, self-made man and yachtsman, engaged in extensive advertising for his chain of grocery stores and his brand of Lipton teas Thomas Collier Platt (1833-1910) Two-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873 - 1877) and a three-term U.S. Senator from New York in the years 1881 and 1897–1909William Worth Belknap (1829-1890) Civil War General, Secretary of War under Ulysses S. Grant Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888) Politician from New York was a politician from New York both as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate Virginia Lee Corbin (1910-1942) American silent film actress, child actress Francis Xavier Waldron (1905 - 1961), best known by the pseudonym Eugene Dennis and Tim Ryan, was an American communist politician and union organizer, best remembered as the long-time leader of the Communist Party USA and as named party in Dennis v. United States, a famous McCarthy Era Supreme Court case "Doc" Bird Finch ( ?) Denver & Kansas cartoonist, born Frank Jay Finch in Corunna, DeKalb County, Indiana, in 1879Willard Parker (?) Medical Doctor, College of Physicians and Surgeons New York City J.I. Hayes Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) Italian coloratura Soprano famous internationally Alma Gluck (1884-1938) Romanian born American soprano Helen Louise Leonard (1860/61-1922) known as Lillian Russell, one of the most famous American actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her beauty, style, voice and stage presence Adelina Patti (1843-1919) Italian French 19th C. Opera Singer Lillian Nordica (1857-1914) American opera singer Ernesto Nicolini (1834-1898) French operatic tenor John Drew Jr. (1853 - 1927) American stage actor noted for his roles in Shakespearean comedy, society drama, and light comedies. Eldest son of Irish actor John Drew. He was the uncle of John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore and also great-great uncle to Drew Barrymore Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; 1879 - 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. She was a preeminent stage actress regarded as "The First Lady of the American Theatre" whose career spanned six decades Walter Myron Smith (1874-1911) American stage actor and playwright, stage name Wright Lorimer, author of religious play: The Shepherd King (1904) Edwin Thomas Booth (1833-1893) 19th c. American Actor who performed Shakespearean plays, and is remembered as one of the greatest performers of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Brother of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Yanschick? David Warfield (1866-1951) American stage actor Nathaniel Carl Goodwin (1857-1919) American actor and vaudevillian born in Boston? General Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) U.S. Army officer and Union General in the American Civil War Robert Bruce Mantell (1854-1928) Shakespearean stage actor, actor in silent films Edward Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) American poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist Kaumeranz? George Bartlett Prescott (1830-1894) Scientist, telephones, electricity. head engineer/co-inventor with Thomas A. Edison Joseph Eggleston Johnson (1807-1891) Confederate General, Brigadier General (USA) Mexican American War, Seminole wars, Vicksburg, Bentonville, Atlanta Campaign, Battle of Seven Pines Ellen M. Stone, an American missionary, who was kidnapped on September 3, 1901 and held for ransom by a gang of revolutionaries in the Ottoman Balkans by members of a Macedonian revolutionary organization seeking independence from the Ottomans. Captive for 6 six months President Teddy Roosevelt attempted to free her, followed in newspapers in the U.S... In February 1902 Miss Stone was released" Kedar Nath Das Gupta (1878-1942) An early force in the Hindu renaissance, he was directly linked to Indian leaders such as Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) (1854 - 1900) Irish poet, playwright? Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) Author, wildlife artist, founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America William DeWolf Hopper (1858-1935) American actor, singer, comedian, theatrical producer, A star of the musical theater, he became best known for performing the popular baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" Joseph Hofmann (1876-1957) Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor John Gibbs Gilbert (1810 - 1889) American stage actor whose real name was Gibbs. From 1862 until the close of Wallack's Theatre, New York, he was connected with that house Alfred Howe Terry (1827-1890) a Union general in the American Civil War and the military commander of the Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869 and again from 1872 to 1886. In 1865, Terry led Union troops to victory at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher in North Carolina. Campaigns: First Battle of Bull Run, Charleston (siege), Grimball's Landing, Fort Wagner, Proctors Creek, Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps William Windsor, author S.L. Joshi (?) Exchange professor from Bombay, India at the University of Nebraska Herman Melville (1819-1891) American novelist, author of Moby Dick, poet of the American Renaissance Ray Palmer (1808 - 1887) American pastor and author of a number of hymns, the best known of which was "My faith looks up to Thee "William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (1862-1935) Baseball player and influential American evangelist Charles Reign Scoville, evangelist John Wilson Danenhower (1849-1887) United States Navy officer and explorer, was aboard the U.S.S. Jeannette Arctic Expedition John Pierce St. John (1837-1916) Eighth Governor of Kansas and candidate for The President of the United States in 1884Charlotte Paulhan, wife of French aviator Louis Paulhan Louis Paulhan (Isadore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan) (1883-1963) Pioneering French aviator known for winning the first Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester in 1910Lincoln J. Beachey (1887-1915) pioneer American aviator and barnstormer, he became famous and wealthy from flying exhibitions, aerial stunts, helping invent aerobatics, and setting aviation records, known as The Man Who Owns the Sky" and sometimes known as "Master Birdman", also known as the world's greatest aviator. His tour following and fans equaled approximately 30 million people, died after crash into San Francisco Bay F.P. Holliday Emma Cecilia Thursby (1845-1931) American singer popular in Europe and the U.S.?Either Alva Adams (1850 - 1922) American politician and Governor of Colorado, or his son Alva Blanchard Adams (1875 – 1941) a Democratic politician who represented Colorado in the United States Senate Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States Weston Birch "Bert" Hall (1885 - 1948) military aviator and writer, one of America's first combat aviators, flying with the famed Lafayette Escadrille in France before the U.S. entered World War I.? Francis Xavier Bushman (1883 - 1966) American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a very large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.Sir Henry M. Stanley (1841 - 1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa, and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone Sherwood Eddy (1871-1963) American Protestant missionary, administrator, educator, prolific author and traveler Mary E.T. Chapin??General Evangeline Cory Booth, (1865 - 1950) British theologist and the 4th General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post of General. Charles Caldwell McCabe (1836-1906) was credited with popularizing Julia Ward Howe and the Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910) American poet and author, composed "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Helena Modjeska (1840 - 1909) renowned actress, whose actual Polish surname was Modrzejewska, who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles Richard Franklin Pettigrew (1848 - 1926) American lawyer, surveyor, and land developer. He represented the Dakota Territory in the U.S. Congress and, after the Dakotas were admitted as States, he was the first U.S. Senator from South Dakota. Charles B. Hanford (?) actor, performer John Edward McCullough (1832 - 1885) Irish born American actor Possibly Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861 - 1936) German Bohemian, later American, operatic contralto. She was noted for the size, beauty, tonal richness, flexibility and wide range of her voice Beverly Bayne (1894 - 1982) American actress, silent films Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865-1932) Leading actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Edward Stiles Stokes (1841-1901) owner of a New York oil refinery who in 1872 shot and killed his business partner and love rival James Fisk. Stokes was tried three times and found guilty of manslaughter in the third degree, serving four years in prison. Later he became the proprietor of the fashionable Hoffman House Hotel. George Kennan (1845 - May 10, 1924) American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire. He was a cousin twice removed of the American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan Edith Fay Sir Henry "Harry" Lauder (1870-1950) Scottish singer, comedian and vaudevillian Possibly Charles Edgar Ray (1891 - 1943) American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young, wholesome hicks in silent comedy films. Tommaso Salvini (1829 – 1915) Italian actor William Taylor Adams (1822 - 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author of children's books and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives? Alice Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967)was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice."[2] She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers Dean Cornwell (1892 – 1960) American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters promoting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators". Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) novelist, poet, author of Little Women and Little Men Charles Nathaniel Haskell (1860-1933) lawyer, oilman, politician, First Governor of Oklahoma Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian (1859 - 1943) was an American rationalist and secularist of Armenian descent Possibly Anna Henriette Mebus Martin (1843–1925) a German-born Texas rancher and business woman. She chartered the Commercial Bank of Mason in 1901, and served as its president for twenty-four years.Joseph CookLucy Stone (1818 - 1893) prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845 – 1912) son of English novelist Charles Dickens He made lecture tours in Australia, Europe and the United States on his father's life and work. Air Commodore Philip Fletcher Fullard (1897 - 1984) English First World War flying ace, one of the most successful fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps, with a reputation as a superb combat leader. With 40 confirmed victories, he was the top scoring UK ace flying Nieuports, and overall the 6th highest scoring British pilot, and the 2nd highest to survive the war Possibly John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, PC (1820 - 1894) an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor General for England and Wales, Attorney General for England and Wales, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England. Possibly Esme William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith (1863 - 1939) was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to the United States between 1924 and 1930Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English poet Joseph Fels (1853–1914) was an American soap manufacturer, millionaire, and philanthropist. In 1894 he developed the Fels-Naptha soap brand, historically used as a home remedy in the treatment of contact dermatitis caused by exposure to poison ivy, poison oak, etc. Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons (1863 – 1917) British professional boxer who made boxing history as the sport's first three weight division world champion Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876-1944) American author, humorist, editor & columnist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 – 1910) American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) William McKendree Carleton (October 21, 1845 - December 18, 1912) was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life Walter Nellman Ellen Beach Yaw (1869 - 1947) was an American coloratura soprano, best known for her concert singing career and extraordinary vocal range Ellen Levey Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853 – 1937) English actor and theatre manager, considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905), A.K.A. J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society Captain James Buchanan Eads (1820-1887) world renowned American civil engineer & inventor with over 50 patents John Joseph Glennon (1862 - 1946) was born in Ireland, was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of St. Louis from 1903 until his death in 1946. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 Paul Perigord (1882-1959?) Lieutenant of the French army Jim Woodheart Chas. Y. Ward Charles Jean Marie Loyson (1827 - 1912), better known by his religious name Père Hyacinthe, was a famous French preacher and theologian Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) Scottish poet, novelist, dramatist Moncure Daniel Conway (1832 - 1907) was an American abolitionist and at various times a Methodist, Unitarian and Freethought minister. The radical writer descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France, where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine, as well as his own autobiography, and led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel Helen Keller (Helen Adams Keller) (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Keller proved to the world that deaf people could all learn to communicate and that they could survive in the hearing world Grover Cleveland (1837 – June 24, 1908) American politician and lawyer who was The 22nd and 24th President of the United States Thomas A. Hendricks (1819 -1885) American politician and lawyer, The 16th Governor of Indiana, The 21st Vice President of the United States of America Frederick Albert Cook (1865 - 1940) American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, a year before April 6, 1909, the date claimed by the American explorer Robert Peary. It was ruled in December 1909 that he had not proven that he reached the pole P.G. McGee Donald Baxter MacMillan (November 10, 1874 - September 7, 1970) American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career. He pioneered the use of radios, airplanes, and electricity in the Arctic, brought back films and thousands of photographs of Arctic scenes, and put together a dictionary of the Inuktitut language Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (1888 – 1957) American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration; Recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the U.S., and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organized successful expeditions to Antarctica. Best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes and other modern technical resources to these polar explorations Ruth Elder (1902-1977) aviation pioneer and actress. She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation" Adolphus Washington Greely (1844 - 1935) American Polar explorer, a United States Army officer in the Civil War and a recipient of the Medal of Honor Stuart Dover Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962) Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville (1841 – 1912) Engineer, Arctic explorer and author ?John (Jack) Harding, possibly Jack Harding (1898 - 1963) an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. William Hemsley Emory (1811 - 1887) prominent American surveyor and civil engineer in the 19th century. Emory was a United States Army officer and surveyor of Texas Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916) American journalist, government official, banker, U.S. Postmaster General in 1881Russell Cornell Leffingwell (1878 - 1960) American banker who led the Council on Foreign Relations from 1944 until 1953. He was also a trustee of Carnegie Corporation from 1923 to 1959. His banking career, which focused on international lending, started when he joined JPMorgan in 1923, and he retired as chairman of the company in 1950Possibly Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 - 1938) Russian opera singer who had a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form Amelia Mary Earhart (b. 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) Aviation pioneer and author. First female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean on June 17-19, 1928. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892-1981) American writer and broadcaster Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872 - 1928) Norwegian explorer of Polar Regions. The leader of the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12, which was the first to reach the South Pole. In 1926, he was the first expedition leader for the air expedition to the North Pole, making him the first person, without dispute, to reach both poles. He is also known as having the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06) in the Arctic J.W. Cable Major General Frank Dwight Baldwin (1842-1923) two time Medal of Honor recipient, first for actions in the Civil War for service as Captain, Company D, 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry at Peach Tree Creek, Georgia, on July 20, 1864, and the second one for service as First Lieutenant, 5th United States Infantry, at McClellan's Creek, Texas, on November 8, 1874 in the Indian Wars. Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 - 1964) The 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression, American engineer, businessman, and politician Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 - January 7, 1944) Wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and served as First Lady from 1929 to 1933. John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (1860 - 1948) General in the United States Army. His most famous post was when he served as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917-18Philip Henry Sheridan (1831 – 1888) a career United States Army officer and a Union General in the American Civil War Richard March Hoe (1812-1886) American inventor, rotary printing press, Hoe web perfecting press Possibly Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (1881-1931) Russian prima ballerina George Eastman (1854 - 1932) American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893) Lawyer, politician, Major General Union Army, Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Attorney General Charles Arnett Towne (1858 - 1928) American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota as a Republican in the 54th congress, and from New York as a Democrat in the 59th congress. He also served in the United States Senate in the 56th congress Leo Tolstoy (Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) (1828-1910) Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877)Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton 1st Baronet (1848-1931) Scotsman merchant, self-made man and yachtsman, engaged in extensive advertising for his chain of grocery stores and his brand of Lipton teas Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) author, Uncle Tom's Cabin, social activist??????Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) French diplomat developer of Suez CanalPrince and Princess Takamatu of Japan Delphin M. Delmas (1844-1928) Defense attorney, member of the movement to save the redwoods Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) American Labor Union Leader Clarence Seward Darrow (1857 - 1938) American Lawyer and leading member of the ACLU, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform Frederick Rene' Coudert Sr (1832-1903) was an American lawyer with Coudert Brothers Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (1862-1948) 11th Chief Justice of the U.S., 36th Governor of New York in 1916 and 44th Secretary of State General Superintendent of Rio Grande Railway, Wester/Denver & Rio Grande Railway Superintendent Denver & Rio Grande Railway Denver & Rio Grande Railway Denver & Rio Grande Railway Denver & Rio Grande Railway Patrick Joseph Hayes (1867 – 1938) American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1919 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1924Maria Jeritza (1887 - 1982) was a Czech soprano singer long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912- 1935) and the Metropolitan Opera (1921- 1932 and 1951). Her rapid rise to fame, beauty and personality earned her the nickname "The Moravian Thunderbolt“ Possibly James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846 - 1926) Member U.S. House of Representatives from New York for several terms Arthur Brisbane (1864 - 1936) was one of the best known American newspaper editors of the 20th c, as well as a successful real estate investor. He was also a speech writer, orator, and public relations professional who coached many famous business people of his time in the field of public relations, particularly Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and John D. Rockefeller Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947) American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He became so well-known and respected that The New York Times printed his Christmas greeting to the nation every year Helene Anna Held (1872-1918) Polish born French and later Broadway stage performer, whose common law husband was Florenz Ziegfeld Clara Kimball Young (1890 - 1960) American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries