Silas Jones Vail

American playwright

American radical journalist

American writer

American politician, humorist and writer

Welsh-American Independent minister

American author

American writer and poet

American writer and literary critic

American poet, essayist and journalist

German-American educationalist

American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Military officer, novelist

Sorbian pastor, leader of the colony of Serbin, Texas

American social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist, former slave and statesman

Union Army officer

U.S. Senator, novelist

Novelist, poet, editor

Poet, essayist, physician

American lawyer and diarist

American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur'