People I
innovator who came up with the idea of spinning steel stands into barbed wire
Joseph Farwell Glidden
well-known evangelist of the 19th century who was often called the "Moody of the South"; Presbyterian evangelist who held evangelistic meetings around the world
Sam Jones, J. Wilbur Chapman
leader of the Apache; surrendered to the Americans in 188
Geronimo
first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War; became the only president to be married in the White House; twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States; only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms
Grover Cleveland-
author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Lewis Wallace
former sheriff of Dodge Citywhomet his two deputy brothers at Tombstone, Arizona, where they killed several outlaw gunmen in a shootout that became known as the Gunfight at O.K. Corral
Wyatt Earp
founder of sixty-seven rescue missions in the United States
Mel Trotter--
employee of the Department Agriculture who founded a national organization kno as the Grange
Oliver Hudson Kelley
Benjamin Harrison twenty-third president of the United States
Benjamin Harrison
author of In His Steps
Charles Monroe Sheldon--
noted train robber who was killed by one of his own men
Jesse James
home missionary who took the Gospel to Alaska
Sheldon Jackson--
organizer of the first successful national labor union, the American Federation of Lab
Samuel Gompers
-twenty-fifth president of the United States; passed the Gold Standard Act
William McKinley
transcendentalist author and poet known for his poems about nature as well as poems about the energy and hopes of the American worker
Walt Whitman-
colonel who led 263 cavalry troops in an attempt to caputure a war party of over 2,000 Sioux warriors who killed the colonel and all his men during the Battle of Little Bighorn
George Armstrong Custer
founder of a settlement house in Chicago known as Hull House
Jane Addams
twentieth president of the United States; assassinated after only four months in office
James Garfield-
candidate who ran against William McKinley in the election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan
poet from New England who wrote short, untitled poems full of passion, wit, and humor
Emily Dickinson-
Sioux chief who led a war party of over 2,000 Sioux warriors that killed Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men at the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux medicine man who heavily influenced Chief Crazy Horse to lead a war party against Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull
author of Little Women
Louisa May Alcott--
vice president who became president after James Garfield's assassination; twenty-first president of the United States; passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chester Arthur--
best-known evangelist in the second half of the 19th century
Dwight L. Moody-
nicknamed the Hoosier Poet and "the poet of the common people" because he wrote
James Whitcomb Riley
conductor and composer known as the March King who led the most popular marching band at the turn oof the 20th century
John Philip Sousa
pen name of Samuel Clemens; most famous author of the Gilded Age who wrote many interesting and humorous stories such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Composers who produced many new hymns and gospel songs in the the late 1800s
Phillip P. Bliss
song leader who traveled with Dwight L.Moody in revivals across America, Canada, Great Britain, and Northern Ireland; composer who produced many new hymns and gospel songs in the late 1800s
Ira D. Sankey
nicknamed the hoosier Poet and the poet of the common peopler because he wrote folksy poems in the Hoosier dialect of rural Indiana
James Whitcomb Riley