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Alexander De Soto
Spanish-American physician, philanthropist, and businessman
John Brown
American abolitionist
Benjamin Franklin Butler
American major general, politician, lawyer, and businessman from Massachusetts
Mark Hanna
American businessman and politician
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist
John D. Rockefeller
American business magnate and philanthropist
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman
Andrew Carnegie
American businessman and philanthropist
Alexander Graham Bell
Scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist, former slave and statesman
Franklin B. Gowen
President of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Jay Gould
American railroad magnate and financier
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist
Horace Greeley
American politician
J. P. Morgan
American financier, banker, and art collector
Henry Morrison Flagler
American entrepreneur
William P. Halliday
American steamboat captain, banker, printer, hotel owner, vast land owner and businessman
Antonio Meucci
An Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi
John J. Albright
American businessman and philanthropist
Leander J. McCormick
American businessman and philanthropist
Sam Loyd
American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician
Winslow Homer
American painter
Charles Grafton Page
American scientist
John Roach (shipbuilder)
American businessman
John Ernst Worrell Keely
American inventor
Benjamin Altman
Art collector and founder B. Altman & Co.
Ambrose Burnside
Soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, United States
Quanah Parker
Native American Indian leader
William Jackson Palmer
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad president
Allan Pinkerton
American Civil War spy
Amos Starr Cooke
Educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii
Juan Serrallés Colón
Puerto Rican industrialist
Warren Fales Draper (publisher)
Massachusetts publisher and philanthropist
Henry Lee Higginson
Union United States Army officer
Hamilton Disston
American industrialist and real-estate developer
James J. Hill
United States railroad promoter and financier
Joseph Wharton
American industrialist
Gregory Anthony Perdicaris
Consul of the United States to Athens
Henry Huttleston Rogers
American businessman