The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers

General Editor John R. Shook

The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers (DEAP) will be published by Continuum in 2011.
DEAP joins a growing series of impressive biographical dictionaries, including the
Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers.

Early American Philosophers were contributors to philosophical thought who lived in the territories of present-day U.S. and Canada from 1600 to 1860. DEAP will include approximately 400 figures, including hundreds of professional educators responsible for teaching philosophy, along with many theologians, social scientists and reformers, political theorists, lawyers, physicians, and scientists.

Interested in the history of American philosophy? Consult American Professors of Philosophy and Theology and A Timeline of American Thought.

 

Contributors: The list of figures still available for authors is here:
 http://www.americanphilosophy.net/deap/figures.htm.

 

Individuals proposed for inclusion in DEAP

Last Name

First Name

Dates

Career

Reference Works (abbreviations explained)

Adams

John

1735-1826

2nd US President

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Adams

Samuel

1722-1803

Massachusetts Revolutionary.

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Adams

Jasper

1793-1841

President (1824-26, 1828-36) and Horry Prof. Moral and Political Philosophy (1828-36) at College of Charleston, S.C., then President of Geneva College (1826-28), Chaplain and Prof. Ethics, Geography, and History at West Point (1838-40).

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Adams

Hannah

1755-1832

Historian and theologian, authored early books on comparative religion.

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Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe

1807-1873

Prof. Zoology and Natural History at Harvard (1847-73).

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Alcott

Amos Bronson

1799-1888

Schoolmaster in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts (1820s-1860s), Independent  scholar in Concord (1860s-1888).

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Alden

Joseph

1807-1885

Prof. Latin, then Rhetoric and Political Economy at Williams College (1835-52), Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (1852-57), President of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania (1857-62)

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Alexander

Archibald

1772-1851

Prof. Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1812-50).

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Alison

Francis

1705-1779

Founded Academy of Philadelphia in 1743 and taught most classes incl. philosophy until 1752, Prof. Greek and Latin at Academy of Philadelphia (1752-55), Vice Provost and Prof. Higher Classics and Metaphysics at College of Philadelphia (1755-1779)

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Allen

Ethan

1738-1789

Vermont Revolutionary and freethinker.

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Ames

Fisher

1758-1808

Revolutionary, politician in Massachusetts.

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Andrews

Israel Ward

1815-1888

Prof. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Marietta College in Ohio (1839-55), Prof. Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy at Marietta (1855-85).

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Andrews

John

1746-1813

Anglican Minister, Vice Provost and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1789-1810), Provost and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1810-13).

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Andrews

Lorin

1819-1861

President and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1853-61).

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Andrews

Stephen Pearl

1812-1886

Lawyer, philosopher, and freethinker in New York.

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Anthony

Susan Brownell

1820-1906

Leader of Women's Rights Movement in New York.

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Bachman

John

1790-1874

Lutheran Minister in South Carolina and prominent naturalist. Pro-slavery yet defended full humanity of Africans.

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Backus

Isaac

1724-1806

Baptist Minister in Massachusetts, defender of religious and political liberties.

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Bacon

Joel Smith

1802-1869

Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Hamilton College in New York (1833-37), President and Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Columbian College (now George Washington University) (1843-54).

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Ballou

Hosea

1771-1852

Prominent Unitarian and Universalist in Massachusetts.

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Bancroft

George

1800-1891

Historian and diplomat, wrote first American study of German literature and philosophy in 1827-28.

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Barlow

Joel

1754-1812

Diplomat, Member of the Hartford Wits, wrote on religion, government.

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Bartlett

Samuel Colcord

1817-1898

Congregational Minister, Prof. Intellectual Philosophy and Rhetoric at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1846-52), Prof. Biblical Literature at Chicago Theological Seminary (1858-77), President of Dartmouth (1877-92).

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Bartlett

Elisha

1804-1855

Physician in Massachusetts, Kentucky, New York City.

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Bartol

Cyrus Augustus

1813-1900

Unitarian Minister in Boston (1837-89)

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Bascom

Henry Bidleman

1796-1850

President of Transylvania College in Kentucky (1842-49).

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Batchelder

John Putnam

1784-1868

Physician in New England

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Baxter

George Addison

1771-1841

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Washington College in Virginia (1799-1829).

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Baylies

Nicholas

1772-1847

Lawyer, Justice of Supreme Court of Vermont (1831-34).

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Beasley

Frederick

1777-1845

Episcopal Minister, Provost and Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1813-28).

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Beaven

James

1801-1875

Prof. Divinity and Philosophy at King’s College in Toronto (1843-1851), Prof. Philosophy at Toronto (1851-71).

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Beck

Theodric Romeyn

1791-1855

Prof. Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Fairfield NY (1815-40), Albany Medical College in NY (1840-54).

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Beecher

Lyman

1775-1863

Presbyterian Minister, Prof. Theology at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati (1832-50).

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Beecher

Catharine Esther

1800-1878

Liberal Congregational Minister in New York City (1847-87).

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Beecher

Edward

1803-1895

Congregational Minister, President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Illinois College (1830-44)

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Bellamy

Joseph

1719-1790

Congregational Minister and Edwardsian theologian in Connecticut (1738-90)

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Beman

Nathan Sidney Smith

1785-1871

Presbyterian Minister, President and Prof. Philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1845-65).

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Bishop

Robert Hamilton

1777-1855

Prof. Philosophy at Transylvania College in Kentucky (1804-24), President of Miami University in Ohio (1824-41) and also Prof. History and Philosophy of Social Relations at Miami (1833-44), Prof. Social Phil. at Farmer's College near Cincinnati (1845-55).

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Blackwell

Antoinette Louisa Brown

1825-1921

Unitarian Minister and feminist in New York and New Jersey.

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Blanchard

Jonathan

1811-1892

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Knox College in Illinois (1846-58), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois (1860-82).

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Bland

Richard

1710-1776

Revolutionary in Virginia.

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Bledsoe

Albert Taylor

1809-1877

Methodist Minister, Prof. Mathematics and Astronomy at Mississippi (1848-54), Prof. Mathematics at Virginia (1854-61).

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Boucher

Jonathan

1738-1804

Anglican Minister, loyalist, political theorist in Virginia.

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Bouvart

Martin

1637-1705

Catholic Priest, Prof. Theology, Philosophy, and Rhetoric at the Collège des Jésuites in Quebec (1676-98), also Rector there (1698-1704).

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Bowden

John

1751-1817

Episcopal Minister, Prof. Moral Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric, and Belles-letters at Columbia College in NYC (1803-17).

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Bowen

Francis

1811-1890

Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1835-39, 1853-89).

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Boyd

James Robert

1804-1890

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Pastor at Hamilton College in New York (?-?). Wrote "Eclectic moral philosophy" (1846).

Dictionary of American Authors, Fifth edition

Brackenridge

Hugh Henry

1748-1816

Writer and political theorist, Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1799-1816).

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Bradstreet

Anne

1612-1672

Poet, religious/philosophical thinker in Massachusetts.

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Branagan

Thomas

1774-1843

Abolitionist in Philadelphia.

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Brantly

William Theophilus

1787-1845

President and Horry Prof. of Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy at College of Charleston, S.C. (1838-44).

Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans

Brattle

William

1662-1717

Tutor at Harvard (1680-96), Fellow of Harvard (1696-1700).

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Brigham

Amariah

1798-1849

Physician and early psychiatrist.

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Brisbane

Albert

1809-1890

Advocate of Fourierism.

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Bronson

Sherlock Anson

1807-1890

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1845-50).

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Brown

John

1763-1842

Prof. Logic and Moral Philosophy at Univ. South Carolina (1809-11), President and Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Georgia (1811-16).

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Brownson

Orestes Augustus

1803-1876

Independent theologian, philosopher, and author.

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Bryant

William Cullen

1794-1878

Poet, social critic, abolitionist.

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Buchanan

Joseph

1785-1829

Educator, journalist in Kentucky.

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Buchanan

Joseph Rodes

1814-1899

American scientist, Faculty Dean and Professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute, in Covington, Kentucky.

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Burton

Asa

1752-1836

Congregational Minister and theologian in Vermont.

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Bush

George

1796-1859

Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at New York University (1831-47).

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Bushnell

Horace

1802-1876

Congregational Minister in Connecticut (1833-76).

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Caldwell

Joseph

1773-1835

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. North Carolina (1816-35).

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Calhoun

John Caldwell

1782-1850

Vice President of US (1825-32), US Senator from South Carolina (1832-43, 1845-50).

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Camm

John

1718-1778

Prof. Divinity at College of William and Mary (1749-1757, 1763-1771), monarchist loyalist.

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Campbell

Alexander

1788-1866

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Bethany College in (West) Virginia (1841-66).

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Cannon

James Spencer

1776-1852

Prof. Pastoral Theology and Ecclesiastical History at Rutgers (1826-52), also responsible for Metaphysics.

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Cardell

William Samuel

1780-1828

Langauges teacher in New York. Wrote "Essay on language, as connected with the faculties of the mind, and as applied to things in nature and art" (1825).

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature

Cardozo

Jacob Newton

1786-1873

Political economist.

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Carey

Henry Charles

1793-1879

Economist and social scientist

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Carey

Mathew

1760-1839

Economist.

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Carleton

Henry

1785-1863

Jurist in Louisiana.

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Carnahan

James

1775-1859

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Princeton (1823-1854).

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Carter

George W.

 

Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Mississippi (1857-60).

Balz

Carter

Landon

1710-1778

Politician in Virginia, Revolutionary

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Cary

Mary Ann Camberton Shadd

1823-1893

African America/Canadian abolitionist; wrote for Frederick Douglass's New National Era and The Advocate.

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Chace

George Ide

1808-1885

Prof. Chemistry, Physiology, and Geology at Brown (1836-1871), also Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy (1867-71).

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Chadbourne

Paul Ansel

1823-1883

President of Univ. Wisconsin (1867-70), President of Williams College (1872-1881).

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Champlin

James Tift

1811-1882

President of Colby College in Maine (1857-73).

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Channing

William Ellery

1780-1842

Unitarian Minister in Boston (1805-42), abolitionist.

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Channing

William Henry

1810-1884

Unitarian Minister in Boston, Washington D.C.

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Chapin

Stephen

1778-1845

President and Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Columbian College (now George Washington University) (1828-41).

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Chase

Philander

1775-1852

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1825-31).

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Chase

Salmon Portland

1808-1873

Abolitionist lawyer and politician in Ohio, Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1864-73).

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Chauncy

Charles

1777-1849

Congregational Minister and theologian in Boston.

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Chauncy

Charles

1705-1787

Congregationalist Minister and theologian in Massachusetts.

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Cheever

George Barrell

1807-1890

Congregational minister and abolitionist in Boston and New York.

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Cheney

Ednah Dow Littlehale

1824-1904

Teacher, writer, and social activist in Massachusetts.

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Child

Lydia Maria Francis

1802-1880

Abolitionist and writer in Massachusetts.

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Chipman

Nathaniel

1752-1843

Lawyer and judge in Vermont, Prof. Law at Middlebury College in Vermont (1816-43).

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Church

Alonzo

1793-1862

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Georgia (1829-59).

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Clap

Thomas

1703-1767

Congregational Minister, President of Yale (1745-66).

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Clarke

James Freeman

1810-1888

Lecturer in Theology, Ethics at Harvard Divinity School.

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Colden

Cadwallader

1688-1776

Scientist, philosopher in New York.

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Collens

Thomas Wharton

1812-1897

Jurist in New Orleans.

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Colwell

Stephen

1800-1871

Political Economist in New Jersey and Philadelphia

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Conover

Samuel Forman

1766?-1824

Physician in New Jersey.

 

Cooper

Myles

1737-1785

President of King's College (later Columbia) in New York City (1763-75), taught theology and philosophy.

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Cooper

Thomas

1759-1839

Scientist, President of Univ. South Carolina (1821-34), political economist.

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Cooper

James Fenimore

1789-1851

Writer and political theorist.

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Coxe

Tench

1755-1824

Government official, economist, historian.

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Crawford

John

1746-1813

Physician in Maryland.

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Crawford

Charles

1752-1815

Abolitionist in Philadelphia.

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Crocker

Hannah Mather

1752-1829

Feminist in Boston, wrote “Observations on the Real Rights of Women” (1818).

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Cummings

Joseph

1817-1890

Methodist Minister, President of Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1857-75), taught philosophy. Professor of Mental Philosophy and Political Economy at Wesleyan (1875-77).

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Dagg

John Leadley

1794-1884

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Mercer University in Georgia (1845-56).

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Dall

Caroline Wells Healey

1822-1912

Social scientist, feminist in Boston and Washington DC

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Dana

Charles Anderson

1819-1897

Transcendentalist, poet, abolitionist, editor of New York Sun (1868-97).

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Dana

Alexander Hamilton

1807-1887

Lawyer in New York. Wrote "Ethical and physiological inquiries" (1862)

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Dana

James

1735-1812

Congregational Minister in Connecticut.

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David

John Baptist Mary

1761-1841

Prof. Philosophy at Georgetown College (1804-06).

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Davies

Samuel

1723-1761

Presbyterian Minister and theologian in Virginia, President of Princeton (1759-61).

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Davis

Andrew Jackson

1826-1910

Spiritualist in New York

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Dawson

William

1704-1752

Prof. Moral Philosophy at College of William and Mary (1729-52), also President there (1743-52).

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Day

Henry Noble

1808-1890

Prof. Theology at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1840-52), President of Ohio Female College (1858-64).

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Day

Jeremiah

1773-1867

President of Yale (1817-47).

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De Quen

Jean

1603-1659

Prof. at Collège des Jésuites in Quebec (1635-37?).

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Dean

Amos

1803-1868

Prof. Medical Jurisprudence at Albany (NY) Medical College (1838-58).

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Deems

Charles Force

1820-1893

Prof. Rhetoric and Logic at Univ. North Carolina (1842-47), President of Greensboro Female College (1850-54).

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DeLancey

William Heathcote

1797-1865

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1828-34).

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Delaney

Martin Robinson

1812-1885

Abolitionist and Black nationalist in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

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Demers

Jérôme

1774-1853

Prof. Philosophy at Grand Séminaire de Québec (1800-1842).

Dict Canad Bio

Dew

Thomas Roderick

1802-1846

Prof. Political Law at College of William and Mary (1827-36), President of College of William and Mary (1836-46).

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Dewey

Orville

1794-1882

Unitarian Minister and theologian in Massachusetts and New York.

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Dickinson

Jonathan

1688-1747

Congregational Minister in New Jersey, First President of Princeton (1747).

Amer Nat Bio, WWWHV.

Dickinson

John

1732-1808

Lawyer and politician in Pennsylvania, Revolutionary and member of Continental Congress.

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Dickson

John Augustus

1795-1847

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Languages at College of Charleston, S.C. (1824-28).

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Dickson

Samuel Henry

1798-1872

Prof. Medicine at Medical College of South Carolina (1833-47, 1850-58), Prof. Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia (1858-72).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Dod

Albert Baldwin

1805-1845

Prof. Mathematics at Princeton (1831-45).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Dods

John Bovee

1795-1872

Investigator and lecturer on mesmerism.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Douglass

David Bates

1790-1849

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1840-44).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Douglass

Frederick

1818-1895

Author, editor, and lecturer in Massachusetts and New York (1841-1895), U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-81), U.S. Minister to Haiti (1889-91).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Downer

Silas

1729-1785

Politician and Revolutionary in Rhode Island.

Amer Nat Bio

Draper

John William

1811-1882

Evolutionist, historian, Prof. Chemistry and Physiology at University of the City of New York (1838-1850), President of UCNY Medical School (1850-1881).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Duparc

Jean-Baptiste

1676-1742

Prof. Theology and Philosophy at Collège des Jésuites in Quebec (1707-15).

Dict Canad Bio

Durfee

Job

1790-1847

Chief Justice of the Rhode Island State Supreme Court (1835-47).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Dwight

Timothy

1752-1817

President and Prof. Theology at Yale (1795-1817).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Edger

Henry

1820-1888

Advocate of Comte's positivism.

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement

Edwards

Jonathan, Jr.

1745-1801

Congregational Minister and theologian in Connecticut.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Edwards

Jonathan

1703-1758

Congregational Minister and theologian in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Eliot

John

1604-1690

Congregational Minister and theologian in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ellis

Charles Mayo

1818-1878

Boston lawyer and abolitionist.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism

Ely

Ezra Stiles

1786-1861

Minister in New York, Philadelphia, and Missouri.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Emerson

Ralph Waldo

1803-1882

Independent scholar in Concord, Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Emmons

Nathaniel

1745-1840

Congregationalist Minister and theologian.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Esson

Henry

1793-1853

Prof. Philosophy at Knox College in Toronto (1844-53).

Dict Canad Bio

Evans

Warren Felt

1817-1889

New Thought philosopher.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Everett

Edward

1794-1865

Prof. Greek at Harvard (1815-20), President of Harvard (1846-49).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Everett

Alexander Hill

1790-1847

Diplomat, political theorist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ewing

John

1732-1802

Provost (1779-1802), Prof. Moral Philosophy (1758-1762), and Prof. Natural Philosophy (1762-78) at Univ. Pennsylvania.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Fergusson

Elizabeth Graeme

1737-1801

Philosophical poet; hosted a woman’s salon in her home in Philadelphia.

American Writers before 1800. A biographical and critical dictionary.

Ferland

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine

1805-1865

Prof. Literature, History, and Philosophy at Collège de Nicolet in Quebec (1841-50), Prof. at Université Laval (1854-64).

Dict Canad Bio

Ferris

Isaac

1798-1873

Prof. Moral Science and Christian Evidence at University of New York (1852-70).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Finley

William Peronneau

1803-1876

President and Horry Prof. Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy at College of Charleston, S.C. (1845-57).

 

Finney

Charles Grandison

1792-1875

Prof. Theology at Oberlin College in Ohio (1835-72), also President of Oberlin (1851-66).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Fisher

William Logan

1781-1862

Quaker Hicksite in Philadelphia, political radical and socialist.

 

Fiske

Nathan Welby

1798-1847

Prof. Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Amherst College (1836-47).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Fitzhugh

George

1806-1881

Lawyer in Virginia; pro-slavery and states' rights advocate.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Flynt

Henry

1675-1760

Tutor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard, also taught most other subjects (1699-1760).

Amer Nat Bio

Follen

Charles Theodore Christian

1796-1840

Prof. German Literature at Harvard (1830-34).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Forten

Sarah Louise

1814-1883

African American abolitionist and feminist; wrote for The Liberator.

Notable Black American Women

Foster

Abby Kelley

1811-1887

Abolitionist and feminist in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Fowler

Orson Squire

1809-1887

Phrenologist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Francis

Convers

1795-1863

Unitarian Minister and transcendentalist in Massachusetts (1819-42); Professor of Pulpit Eloquence at Harvard (1842-63).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, WWWHV

Franklin

Benjamin

1706-1790

Publisher, scientist, and revolutionary.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Freneau

Philip Morin

1752-1832

Revolutionary poet and freethinker.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Frisbie

Levi

1783-1822

Prof. Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard (1817-22).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Fuller

Margaret

1810-1850

Educator, feminist, and transcendentalist philosopher in Massachusetts and New York.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio

Furman

Richard

1755-1825

Baptist Minister and theologian in South Carolina; pro-slavery advocate.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Furman

James Clement

1809-1891

Prof. Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Logic at Furman University in South Carolina (1852-91), also President there (1852-79).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Gale

George Washington

1789-1861

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Belles-lettres at Knox College in Illinois (1843-57).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Garland

Landon Cabell

1810-1895

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Alabama (1855-65), President of Vanderbilt Univ. (1875-93).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Garrison

William Lloyd

1805-1879

Editor and abolitionist in Boston (1820s-1865).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Gaskell

John

1804-1856

Wrote "Sense and sound, as they reciprocally form any sign of mind" (1854) and "New Elements From Old Subjects: Presented as the Basis for a Science of Mind" (1874).

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement

Gay

Ebenezer

1696-1787

Congregational Minister and theologian in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

George

James

1800-1870

Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Queen's College in Canada (1853-62).

Dict Canad Bio

Gerhart

Emanuel Vogel

1817-1904

President and Prof. Theology at Heidelberg College and Theological Seminary in Ohio (1851-54), President of Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania (1854-66), President and Prof. Theology at Theological Seminary in Mercersburg (1868-1904).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Germain

Joseph-Louis

1633-1722

Catholic Priest, Prof. Theology and Philosophy at the Collège des Jésuites in Quebec (1687-1710).

Dict Canad Bio

Gibbons

William

1781-1845

Physician in Philadelphia.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Gibbs

Josiah Willard

1790-1861

Prof. Sacred Literature at Yale Divinity School (1826-61).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Gilmer

Francis Walker

1790-1826

Lawyer and economist in Virginia, wrote “A Vindication of the Laws Limiting the Rate of Interest on Loans” Lawyer and economist in Virginia, wrote “A Vindication of the Laws Limiting the Rate of Interest on Loans” (1820).

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Goddard

William Giles

1794-1846

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Brown (1825-34), Prof. Rhetoric, Evidences of Christianity, and Constitutional Law at Brown (1834-42).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Godwin

Parke

1816-1904

Journalist, economist, political theorist, and socialist in New York

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Goodwin

Daniel Raynes

1811-1890

Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Trinity College in Connecticut (1850s).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Graham

Christopher Columbus

1784-1885

Physician, scientist, and writer in Kentucky.

A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950

Greeley

Horace

1811-1872

Abolitionist and editor in New York City.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Green

Beriah

1795-1874

Congregational Minister and abolitionist in New York.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Greene

William Batchelder

1819-1878

Unitarian Minister, banking reformer, individualist anarchist

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Greenwood

Isaac

1702-1745

Prof. Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy at Harvard (1728-38).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Grimes

James Stanley

1807-1903

Lawyer and physician in Boston, New York, and Illinois.

Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Grimké

Sarah Moore

1792-1873

Abolitionist; feminist; one of the first women to give public lectures in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Grimké

Angelina Emily

1805-1879

Abolitionist and feminist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Gros

John Daniel

1737-1812

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Columbia (1789-95).

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Haddock

Charles Brickett

1796-1861

Prof. Rhetoric and Oratory at Dartmouth (1819-38), Prof. Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy at Dartmouth (1838-50).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Hale

Benjamin

1797-1863

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Geneva College (later Hobart College) in New York (1836-58).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Hale

Sarah Josepha Buell

1788-1879

Editor of the first and most successful woman's magazine in the 19th century, Godey's Lady's Book. Hale was a counter-feminist who supported women’s education and employment, but opposed suffrage.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hamilton

Alexander

1757-1804

Revolutionary and federalist political theorist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hammon

Jupiter

1711-1790?

African American poet, theologian, and abolitionist in New York and Connecticut.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, WWWHV

Hammond

James Henry

1807-1864

U.S. Senator, Governor of South Carolina (1842-44). Pro-slavery and states' rights advocate.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins

1825-1911

Poet, novelist, and lecturer in Pennsylvania.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio

Haven

Joseph

1816-1874

Prof. Philosophy at Amherst College (1850-58), Prof. Systematic Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary (1858-70).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Hawthorne

Nathaniel

1804-1864

Poet, writer in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Haynes

Lemuel

1753-1833

African American Congregational Minister and theologian in Vermont.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Hazard

Rowland Gibson

1801-1888

Industrialist and politician in Rhode Island until 1866, thereafter independent author, Trustee of Brown (1869-77).

Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hecker

Isaac Thomas

1819-1888

Catholic Priest and leader of the Paulists in New York City.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hedge

Frederic Henry

1805-1890

Minister in New England, Prof. German at Harvard (1872-1884).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hedge

Levi

1766-1844

Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1810-32).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Helper

Hinton Rowan

1829-1909

Journalist in North Carolina; abolitionist and racist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Henry

Caleb Sprague

1804-1884

Minister (1829-37), Prof. History, Belles-lettres, and Philosophy at University of the City of New York (1838-52).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Henry

Robert

1792-1856

Prof. Logic and Moral Philosophy at South Carolina College (now Univ. S.C.) (1818-35), Prof. Metaphysics, Logic, and Belles-lettres at South Carolina College (1839-45), also President there (1842-45).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hickok

Laurens Perseus

1798-1888

Prof. Theology at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1836-44), Auburn Theological Seminary in New York (1844-52), Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Union College (1852-68).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Hicks

Elias

1748-1830

Quaker Minister, theologian, and abolitionist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hildreth

Richard

1807-1865

Lawyer and editor in Boston and New York.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hildreth

Ezekiel

1784-1856

Teacher in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Hitchcock

Ethan Allen

1798-1870

General in US Army.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hitchcock

Edward

1793-1864

President of Amherst College in Massachusetts (1845-54), Prof. Theology and Geology at Amherst (1854-64).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hodge

Charles

1797-1878

Prof. Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1822-77).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hodge

Hugh Lenox

1796-1873

Prof. Obstetrics at University of Pennsylvania (1835-63).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hoge

Moses

1752-1820

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1807-20).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hoisington

Henry Richard

1801-1858

Congregational Minister in Massachusetts, missionary to India and Ceylon.

Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Holley

Horace

1781-1827

President and Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Transylvania University in Kentucky (1818-27).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Holmes

John

1799-1852

Prof. Philosophy at Séminaire de Nicolet in Quebec (1819-20, 1821-23), Petit Séminaire de Québec (1827-30).

Dict Canad Bio

Holmes

George Frederick

1820-1897

President and Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Mississippi (1848-49), Prof. History, Literature, Political Economy at Univ. Virginia (1857-97).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Holmes

Oliver Wendell

1809-1894

Prof. Anatomy and Physiology at Harvard Medical School (1847-82).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hooker

Thomas

1586-1647

Puritan minister, theologian, and political theorist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hopkins

Stephen

1701-1785

Governor of Rhode Island (most years between 1755 and 1768), Revolutionary, Chancellor of Rhode Island College (now Brown Univ.) (1764-85)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hopkins

Mark

1802-1887

Prof. Rhetoric and Philosophy at Williams College (1830-36). President and Prof. Philosophy of Williams College (1836-72).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hopkins

Samuel

1721-1803

Congregational Minister and theologian in Rhode Island (1770-1803).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Horton

George Moses

1797?-1883

African American abolitionist in North Carolina.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Hosack

David

1769-1835

Prof. Botany and Material Medical at Columbia College in NYC (1795-1811), Prof. Theory and Practice of Physic at College of Physicians and Surgeons in NYC (1811-26).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Houdet

Antoine-Jacques

1763-1826

Catholic Priest, Prof. Philosophy, Science, Mathematics and other subjects at Collège Saint-Raphael (later Collège de Montréal) in Quebec.

Dict Canad Bio

Howell

David

1747-1824

Prof. Jurisprudence at Brown (1790-1824).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hughes

Henry

1829-1861

Lawyer and politician in Mississippi, pro-slavery advocate. With G. Fitzhugh, first to publish book having "Sociology" in the title.

Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967

Hurd

John Codman

1816-1892

Lawyer in New York, author of treatises on slavery and constitutional law.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Hurlbut

Elisha Powell

1807-1889

Lawyer in New York City, advocate for women's rights, Judge of the Supreme Court for the district and the city of New York (1847-51).

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement

Ingersoll

Charles Jared

1782-1862

Politician, historian, and political theorist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Jackson

Samuel

1787-1872

Prof. Medicine at University of Pennsylvania (1835-63).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

James

Henry, Sr.

1811-1882

Religious author in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Jay

John

1745-1829

Revolutionary, Justice of US Supreme Court, Governor of New York.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Jefferson

Thomas

1743-1826

3rd President of U.S.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Johns

John

1796-1876

Episcopal Minister, later bishop; President and Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at College of William and Mary (1849-54).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Johnson

Alexander Bryan

1786-1867

Banker in upstate New York, independent writer.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Johnson

Samuel

1696-1772

President of King's College in New York (now Columbia) (1754-63).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Jones

Joseph Huntington

1797-1868

Presbyterian Minister in Philadelphia.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Kaufmann

Peter

1800-1869

Christian perfectionist, socialist, and Hegelian in Ohio.

Amer Nat Bio

Kent

James

1763-1847

Prof. Law at Columbia (1793-98, 1823-26), Chief Justice of NY Supreme Court (1804-14).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Kinmont

Alexander

1799-1838

Scotch scholar and thinker, who came to Cincinnati in 1827 and operated an academy.

Ohio Authors and Their Books. Biography included with his 1839 book.

Knowlton

Charles

1800-1850

Physician in Massachusetts, first American advocate of contraception and early materialist.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

LaBorde

Maximillian

1804-1873

Prof. Logic and Belles-lettres at South Carolina College (now Univ. South Carolina) (1842-45), Prof. Metaphysics at South Carolina (1845-65).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Lacey

William Brittainham

1781-1866

Minister in New York and Pennsylvania.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Lacy

Drury

1802-1884

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy, Sacred Literature, and Evidences of Christianity at Davidson College in North Carolina (1855-61).

Balz, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Ladd

William

1778-1841

Pacifist, founded American Peace Society in 1828.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Lathrop

John Hiram

1799-1866

Prof. Law, Civil Polity and Political Economy at Hamilton College in upstate New York (1835-41), President of Univ. Missouri (1841-49, 1865-66), Prof. Mental, Moral, and Political Philosophy at Missouri (1863-65).

Smith, WWWHV.

Law

Thomas

1756-1834

Independent writer in Washington, D.C.

Dictionary of National Biography: The Concise Dictionary

Leach

William Turnbull

1805-1886

Prof. Literature (1846-83) and Philosophy (1853-72) at McGill University in Montreal.

Dict Canad Bio

Lesieur-Désaulniers

Isaac-Stanislas

1811-1868

Prof. Philosophy at Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec (1831-33, 1837-49, 1860-68).

Dict Canad Bio

Leverett

John

1662-1724

Fellow and Tutor at Harvard (1685-1700), President of Harvard (1707-24).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Lieber

Francis

1798-1872

Prof. History and Political Economy at South Carolina College (1835-56), Prof. History and Political Science at Columbia (1857-72).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Lincoln

Abraham

1809-1865

16th President of U.S.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

List

Friedrich

1789-1846

Political economist.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Logan

George

1753-1821

US Senator (1801-07), diplomat, political economist in Pennsylvania.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Longstreet

Augustus Baldwin

1790-1870

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Emory College (1839-48), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Mississippi (1849-56), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at South Carolina College (1856-61).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Lord

Eleazer

1788-1871

Railroad executive in New York, economist, and philosopher.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Lord

Nathan

1792-1870

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth (1828-63).

Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ludlow

John

1793-1857

Provost (1834-1852) and Prof. Moral Philosophy (1834-54) at Univ. Pennsylvania.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Lyall

William

1811-1890

Prof. Philosophy at Free Church College in Nova Scotia (1850-60), Dalhousie University  in Nova Scotia (1863-90).

Dict Canad Bio

Mackall

Louis

1801-1876

Physician, author of several works on psychological and scientific topics.

Dictionary of American Medical Biography

Madison

James

1751-1836

4th President of U.S.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Madison

James

1749-1812

Episcopal Minister, later 1st bishop in Virginia, President of College of William and Mary (1777-1812), also Prof. Moral Philosophy there.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Magaw

Samuel

1735?-1812

Vice Provost and Professor of Moral Philosophy at College of Philadelphia (1782-89).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Mahan

Asa

1799-1889

President and Prof. of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Oberlin College in Ohio (1835-50), Cleveland University (1850-55), Adrian College in Michigan (1860-71).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Manly

Basil

1798-1868

President and Prof. Moral and Mental Philosophy at Univ. Alabama (1837-55).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Mann

Horace

1796-1859

Lawyer, politician, educator in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Marsh

James

1794-1842

President of Univ. Vermont (1826-33), Prof. Philosophy at Vermont (1833-42).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Marsh

George Perkins

1801-1882

Lawyer and naturalist in Vermont and later US Minister to Italy (1861-82)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Marshall

John

1755-1835

Justice of US Supreme Court (1801-35)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Martin

Benjamin Nicholas

1816-1883

Prof. Psychology, Ethics, Logic, Rhetoric, History, and English Literature at New York University (1853-1883). Prof. Psychology, Ethics, Logic, Rhetoric, History, and English Literature at New York University (1853-1883)

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Mather

Increase

1639-1723

Congregational Minister and theologian in Boston, President of Harvard (1686-1701).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Mather

Cotton

1663-1728

Congregational Minister and theologian in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Maxcy

Jonathan

1768-1820

President of Rhode Island College (now Brown) (1792-1802), President of Union College in upstate New York (1802-1804), President of South Carolina College (1805-20).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Mayhew

Jonathan

1720-1766

Congregational Minister and theologian in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

McCartney

Washington

1812-1856

Prof. Philosophy at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (1837-46, 1849-52).

Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

McCorkle

Samuel Eusebius

1746-1811

Prof. Moral and Political Philosophy and History at Univ. North Carolina (1795-1801)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

McCulloch

Thomas

1776-1843

Principal of Pictou Academy in Nova Scotia (1818-38), President of Dalhousie College in Nova Scotia (1838-43), also Prof. Logic, Rhetoric, and Moral Philosophy.

Dict Canad Bio

McGuffey

William Holmes

1800-1873

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Virginia (1845-73).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

McIlvaine

Charles Pettit

1799-1873

Prof. Evidences of Revealed Religion at University of the City of New York (now New York University) (1831-1832), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1832-40).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

McIntosh

Maria Jane

1803-1878

Novelist, critic of women's rights movement; wrote Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward (1850).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

McKnight

John

1754-1823

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Logic at Columbia (1795-1799). Professor of moral philosophy and logic (1795-1799)

 

McVickar

John

1787-1868

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Columbia (1817-57), Prof. Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion at Columbia (1857-64).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Meigs

Charles Delucena

1792-1869

Prof. Obstetrics and Diseases of Women at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (1841-61).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Meigs

Josiah

1757-1822

President and Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Georgia (1800-10), President of Columbian College (now George Washington Univ.) (1819-22).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Mercer

Margaret

1791-1846

Educator and abolitionist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Merrick

Frederick

1810-1894

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan Univ. (1851-73), also President of Ohio Wesleyan (1860-73).

Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Messer

Asa

1769-1836

President of Brown (1802-26), also taught philosophy during presidency.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Middleton

Nathaniel Russell

1810-1890

President and Horry Prof. Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy at College of Charleston, S.C. (1857-83).

Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Miles

James Warley

1818-1875

Prof. History of Intellectual Philosophy and Greek Literature at College of Charleston, S.C. (1850-54, 1866-71).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Miller

Samuel

1769-1850

Presbyterian Minister, Prof. Ecclesiastical History and Church Government at Princeton (1813-49).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Minto

Walter

1753-1796

Prof. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Princeton (1787-96).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Mitchell

Archelaus H.

1807-1903

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Emory College (1840-1843).

Balz

Montgomery

B. R.

1782-1823

Prof. Logic and Moral Philosophy at South Carolina College (now Univ. South Carolina) (1811-18)

Balz

Moore

Benjamin

1748-1816

Episcopal Bishop; Prof. Rhetoric and Logic at Columbia (1784-86), President of Columbia (1801-11).

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Moore

James

1764-1814

Prof. Logic, Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, and Belles-lettres at Transylvania University in Kentucky (1799-1804).

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Morgan

Lewis Henry

1818-1881

Known as "Father of American Anthropology"

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Morton

Charles

1627?-1698

Lecturer on experimental science and psychology at Harvard (1687-1698).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Mott

Lucretia Coffin

1793-1880

Reformer for suffrage, temperance, abolition.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Murdock

James

1776-1856

Prof. Theology at Andover Theological Seminary (1819-28).

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Murray

Judith Sargeant Stevens

1751-1820

Poet and essayist, feminist and social reformer in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, WWWHV

Nairne

Charles Murray

1808-1882

Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Literature at Columbia (1857-81), Prof. Ethics of Jurisprudence (1860-68), Prof. History and Political Economy (1865-1876).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Neal

John

1793-1876

Editor, novelist, social thinker in Maine.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Nevin

John Williamson

1803-1886

Prof. Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania (1830-40), Mercersburg Seminary (1840-53), Prof. History and Aesthetics at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania (1861-66), President of Franklin and Marshall (1866-76).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Newman

Samuel Phillips

1797-1842

Prof. Civil Polity and Political Economy at Bowdoin College in Maine (1824-39).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Niles

Nathaniel

1741-1821

Politician, judge, and Revolutionary in Vermont.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Nisbet

Charles

1736-1804

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania (1785-1804).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Norton

Andrews

1786-1853

Professor of Sacred Literature at Harvard Divinity School (1819-29).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Nott

Henry Junius

1797-1837

Prof. Elements of Criticism, Logic, and Philosophy of Language at South Carolina College (1824-34), Prof. Logic and Belles-lettres at South Carolina College (1834-37).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Nott

Eliphalet

1773-1866

President of Union College in New York (1804-1866), also taught Moral Philosophy.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Nott

Josiah Clark

1804-1873

Physician and anthropologist in Alabama; pro-slavery advocate and seccessionist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Noyes

John Humphrey

1811-1886

Established Oneida (New York) Community in 1848.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Odelin

Jacques

1789-1841

Catholic Priest and theologian in Quebec.

Dict Canad Bio

Olin

Stephen

1797-1851

Prof. Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy (1826-28) and Prof. Moral Philosophy and Belles-lettres (1831-33) at Univ. Georgia, President and Prof. Mental/Moral Science, Belles-lettres, Political Philosophy at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia (1834-37), President of Wesleyan Univ. in Connecticut (1842-51).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Oliver

Daniel

1787-1842

Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth (1820-1837), also Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy (1825-1828), Professor of Intellectual Philosophy (1828-1837).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Otis

James

1725-1783

Lawyer, revolutionary in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Owen

Robert Dale

1801-1877

Social reformer and freethinker.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Paine

Thomas

1737-1809

Revolutionary and rationalist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Paine

Martyn

1794-1877

Prof. Medicine at University of the City of New York (later New York University) (1841-77).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Palmer

Elihu

1764-1806

Deist in Philadelphia and New York City.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, WWWHV

Park

Calvin

1774-1847

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics at Brown (1811-25).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Park

Roswell

1807-1869

Prof. Chemistry and Natural Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1836-42), President of Racine College in Wisconsin (1852-59).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Park

Edwards Amasa

1808-1900

Prof. Theology at Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (1836-81).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Parker

Theodore

1810-1860

Transcendentalist in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Parkhurst

John Luke

1789-1850

Minister in New Hampshire, abolitionist. Wrote "Elements of moral philosophy" (1832).

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature

Parrish

Joseph

1779-1840

Physician in Philadelphia.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Parsons

Theophilus

1797-1882

Prof. Law at Harvard (1848-69).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Payne

Daniel Alexander

1811-1893

African Methodist Episcopal Minister and President of Wilberforce College in Ohio (1863-76).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Peabody

Elizabeth Palmer

1804-1894

Independent philosopher and educator in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Pearl

Cyril

1805-1865

Congregational Minister and teacher in Maine. Wrote "Youth's book on the mind: embracing the outlines of the intellect, the sensibilities, and the will" (1842).

A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950

Peirce

Benjamin

1809-1880

Prof. Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy at Harvard (1883-80).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Penn

William

1644-1718

Founder and Governor of Pennsylvania (1682-1718).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Perkins

John

1698-1781

Physician in Massachusetts, political theorist. Wrote "Theory of Agency; or, an Essay on the Nature, Source and Extent of Moral Freedom" (1771).

 

Phelps

Almira Hart Lincoln

1793-1884

Science educator, feminist in New England. 2nd woman elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science (1859).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Phillips

Willard

1784-1873

Political economist.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Phillips

Wendell

1811-1884

Abolitionist and social philosopher in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Pierce

George Foster

1811-1884

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Emory College (1848-1854)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Pond

Enoch

1791-1882

Prof. Theology at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine (1856-82).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Porter

Noah

1811-1892

Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1847-92), President of Yale (1871-86).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Potter

Alonzo

1800-1865

Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy at Union College in upstate New York (1831-38), Vice President of Union College (1838-45).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Preston

William

1720?-?

Prof. Moral Philosophy at College of William and Mary (1752-58).

Balz

Priestley

Joseph

1733-1804

Scientist, Unitarian in Pennsylvania.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Quimby

Phineas Parkhurst

1802-1866

A founder of the New Thought movement.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Rae

John

1796-1872

Physician, educator in Canada and California.

Dict Amer Bio, Dict Canad Bio, WWWHV

Raguet

Condy

1784-1842

Lawyer and editor, early political economist in Philadelphia.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ramsay

David

1749-1815

Physician, historian, and revolutionary in South Carolina.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, WWWHV

Rauch

Frederick Augustus

1806-1841

Philosopher and theologian in Pennsylvania.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Raue

Charles Gottlieb (Godlove)

1820-1896

Physician and psychologist in Philadelphia

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Rawle

Francis

1662-1726

Judge and politician in Pennsylvania.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ray

Isaac

1807-1881

Psychiatrist in Maine.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Raymond

Joseph-Sabin

1810-1887

Catholic Priest, Prof. Philosophy (1832-36) and Theology (1852-62) at Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec, also Superior there (1847–53, 1859–83).

Dict Canad Bio

Raymond

Daniel

1786-1849

Lawyer in Baltimore (1814-40).

Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Read

Daniel

1805-1878

Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Univ. Wisconsin (1856-67), President and Prof. Mental, Moral, and Political Philosophy at Univ. Missouri (1867-76).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Reed

Sampson

1800-1880

Businessman and editor in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, WWWHV

Reese

Thomas

1742-1796

Presbyterian Minister in South Carolina, wrote “An Essay on the Influence of Religion in Civil Society” (1788).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio

Reeve

Tapping

1744-1823

Lawyer, political and legal theorist in Connecticut, Head of his Litchfield Law School (1784-98), Judge of Connecticut Superior Court (1798-1814).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Remond

Sarah Parker

1826-1894

African American abolitionist and feminist in Boston, New York, and England.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio

Rey

Anthony

1807-1847

Prof. Philosophy at Georgetown (1840-45).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Richards

James

1767-1843

Prof. Theology at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York (1823-43).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Ricord

Elizabeth Stryker

1788-1865

Principal of the Geneva Female Seminary in Geneva, New York (1829-40). Wrote "Elements of the Philosophy of Mind, Applied to the Developement of Thought and Feeling" (1840).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Ripley

George

1802-1880

Unitarian Minister in Boston, Editor in New York City.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Rivers

Richard Henderson

1814-1894

Methodist Minister, President of several small colleges in Alabama and Louisiana (1843-69).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Rose

Ernestine

1810-1892

Feminist, freethinker, and political theorist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ross

James

1811-1886

Prof. Philosophy at Presbyterian theological seminary at West River in Nova Scotia (1848-58), President of Dalhousie College in Nova Scotia (1863-85).

Dict Canad Bio

Ruffner

Henry

1790-1861

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Washington College in Virginia (1836-48).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Rush

James

1786-1869

Physician, psychologist in Philadelphia.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Rush

Benjamin

1746-1813

Revolutionary, Physician, Prof. Chemistry at College of Philadelphia (1769-91), Professor of Medical Theory and Clinical Practice at Univ. Pennsylvania (1791-1813)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ryerson

Egerton

1803-1882

Prominent educator and administrator in Ontario, Canada

Dict Canad Bio

Sasnett

William Jacob

1820-1865

Prof. Moral and Mental Philosophy at Emory College (1855-60).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz

Sawyer

Leicester Ambrose

1807-1898

Congregational Minister in Connecticut (1832-43), President of Central College in Ohio (1843-54).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Schaff

Philip

1819-1893

Prof. Theology at German Reformed Seminary in Pennsylvania (1844-63), Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1870-93).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Seabury

Samuel

1729-1796

Episcopal Bishop and loyalist in New York and Connecticut.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sears

Barnas

1802-1880

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Brown (1855-67).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sedgwick

Catherine Maria

1789-1867

Novelist, counter-feminist and domestic sphere proponent in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Shannon

James

1799-1859

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Bacon College in Kentucky (1840-50), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Missouri (1850-56).

Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith

Shedd

William Greenough Thayer

1820-1894

Prof. English Literature at Univ. Vermont (1845-52), Prof. Church History at Auburn Presbyterian Seminary in New York (1854-62), Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1863-93).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sigourney

Lydia Howard Huntley

1791-1865

Author and lecturer, social reformer, counter-feminist and domestic sphere proponent; sympathized w/South during Civil War.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Skidmore

Thomas E.

1790-1832

Craftsman and labor leader, political egalitarian in New York City. Wrote "The Rights of Man to Property" (1829).

Biographical Dictionary of American Labor

Smith

Elias

1769-1846

Minister, theologian, political theorist in New England.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, WWWHV

Smith

Elizabeth Oakes Prince

1806-1893

Essayist, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer in New York.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Smith

John Augustine

1782-1865

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at College of William and Mary (1814-25), Prof. Anatomy, Surgery, and Physiology at College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (1825-31), President of College of Physicians and Surgeons (1831-43).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Smith

William

1727-1803

Provost (1754-79, 1789-91) and Prof. Ethics (1754-91) at College of Philadelphia.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Smith

Samuel Stanhope

1751-1819

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Princeton (1779-95), President of Princeton (1795-1812).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Smith

Osborne L.

1819-1878

Prof. Philosophy at Emory College (1850-1854), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Wesleyan College (1854-59), President and Prof. Moral and Mental Science at Emory College (1871-75).

Balz, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Smith

William Andrew

1802-1870

President and Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia (1846-66).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Smith

Henry Boynton

1815-1877

Prof. Philosophy at Amherst College in Massachusetts (1847-50), Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1850-74).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Smyth

Thomas

1808-1873

Presbyterian Minister and theologian in South Carolina. Defended the full humanity of Africans.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sparks

Jared

1789-1866

Prof. History at Harvard (1839-49), President of Harvard (1849-53).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Squier

Miles Powell

1792-1866

Prof. Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin (1849-63).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Stanton

Elizabeth Cady

1815-1902

Feminist and suffrage leader in New York State.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Staughton

William

1770-1829

President and Prof. Philosophy at Columbian College (now George Washington University) (1822-29)

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Stearns

John

1770-1848

Physician in New York.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Stephens

Alexander Hamilton

1812-1883

Politician and constitutional scholar in Georgia, Vice President of Confederacy (1861-65).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Stewart

Maria W.

1803-1879

African American abolitionist and feminist in Boston and Washington, DC.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Lit Bio

Stiles

Ezra

1727-1795

President of Yale (1778-1795), taught most subjects.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Stockton

Annis Boudinet

1736-1801

Political and philosophical poet in New Jersey; hosted a woman's salon there; friend and correspondent of Rev War-era leaders

Amer Nat Bio

Stone

Lucy

1818-1893

Feminist and abolitionist writer in Massachusetts and New Jersey.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Storer

David Humphreys

1804-1891

Prof. Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence (1854-68) and Dean (1855-64) of Harvard Medical School.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Story

Joseph

1779-1845

Justice of US Supreme Court (1812-45), Prof. Law at Harvard (1829-45).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Stuart

Moses

1780-1852

Prof. Theology at Andover Theological Seminary (1810-48).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sturtevant

Julian Monson

1805-1886

President and Prof. Mental Science and Science of Government at Illinois College (1845-76).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sumner

Charles

1811-1874

US Senator, political theorist, abolitionist in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Sunderland

LeRoy

1802-1885

Independent theologian and philosopher, prominent atheist.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Swain

David Lowry

1801-1868

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics, Political Economy, and Law at Univ. North Carolina (1835-68).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, Smith, WWWHV

Sweetser

William

1797-1875

Prof. Medicine at University of Vermont (1825-32), Bowdoin College (1845-61).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Tappan

Henry Philip

1805-1881

Prof. Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Belles-lettres at University of the City of New York (later New York University) (1832-38), President and Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Michigan (1852-63).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Taschereau

Elzear-Alexandre

1820-1898

Prof. Theology at Petit Séminaire in Quebec (1837-42), Prof. Theology and Philosophy at Grand Séminaire in Quebec (1842-54), Archbishop and Cardinal of Quebec (1871-98).

Dict Canad Bio

Taylor

John

1753-1824

Politician, political theorist in Virginia.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Taylor

Nathaniel William

1786-1858

Prof. Theology at Yale (1822-58).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ten Brook

Andrew

1814-1899

Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Univ. Michigan (1844-51).

 

Thoreau

Henry David

1817-1862

Writer, philosopher in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Thornton

William

1759-1828

Architect, political theorist, abolitionist in Washington, D.C.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Thornwell

James Henley

1812-1862

Prof. Metaphysics at South Carolina College (now Univ. South Carolina) (1837-40), Prof. Theology at South Carolina College (1841-51).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ticknor

Caleb

1805-1840

Physician in New York.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Torrey

Joseph

1797-1867

Prof. Greek and Latin at Vermont (1827-42), Prof. Philosophy at Vermont (1842-67), President of Vermont (1862-67).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Totten

Silas

1804-1873

Prof. Moral Philosophy and English at College of William and Mary (1848-59).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Balz, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Trescot

William Henry

1822-1898

Historian, political theorist in South Carolina.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

True

Charles Kittridge

1809-1878

Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1849-60).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Truth

Sojourner

1797?-1883

Abolitionist and feminist.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio

Tucker

Henry Holcombe

1819-1889

Prof. Metaphysics and Belles-lettres at Mercer Univ. in Georgia (1856-62), President of Mercer University (1866-71), President of Univ. Georgia (1874-78).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Tucker

George

1775-1861

Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Virginia (1825-45).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Tucker

St. George

1752-1827

Prof. Law at College of William and Mary in Virginia (1790-1803).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Tucker

Nathaniel Beverley

1784-1851

Prof. Law at College of William and Mary in Virginia (1834-51).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio

Turnbull

Robert James

1775-1833

Lawyer in South Carolina.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Turnbull

Robert

1809-1877

Baptist Minister and theologian in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Turner

Jonathan Baldwin

1805-1899

Prof. Rhetoric and Belles-lettres at Illinois College (1834-47).

Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Tuthill

Louisa Caroline Huggins

1799-1879

Author on women’s education and architecture, editor of Ruskin’s writings in Connecticut.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Upham

Thomas Cogswell

1799-1872

Prof. Philosophy at Bowdoin College in Maine (1824-68).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Vanderburgh

Federal

1788-1868

Physician in Connecticut, a founder of homeopathy.

 

Verplanck

Gulian Crommelin

1786-1870

Politician in New York, Vice Chancellor of University of the State of New York (1858-70).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Vethake

Henry

1792-1866

Provost and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy Univ. Pennsylvania (1853-59).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Waddel

Moses

1770-1840

President and Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Georgia (1819-1829).

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Walker

Amasa

1799-1875

Lecturer on Political Economy at Oberlin College in Ohio (1842-49), Examiner in Political Economy at Harvard (1853-60).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Walker

David

1796?-1830

African American abolitionist in Boston.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Walker

James

1794-1874

Prof. Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard (1839-53), President of Harvard (1853-60).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ware

Nathaniel A.

1780?-1853

Politician and political economist. Wrote “Notes on Political Economy” (1844).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ware

Henry, Jr.

1794-1843

Prof. Pastoral Theology and Pulpit Eloquence at Harvard Divinity School (1830-1842), also taught moral philosophy (1837-42).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ware

William

1797-1852

Unitarian Minister, theologian and author in New York and Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Ware

Henry

1764-1845

Prof. Theology at Harvard (1805-45).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Warren

Mercy Otis

1728-1814

Poet and historian, wrote “Observations on the New Constitution” (1788).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Warren

Josiah

1798-1874

Inventor, social and political philosopher, anarchist in Ohio, Illinois, and New York.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wasson

David Atwood

1823-1887

Independent Minister in Massachusetts, minor transcendentalist.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio. See Stearns, "Sketches from Concord and Appledore"

Wayland

Francis

1796-1865

President of Brown (1827-55).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Webster

Pelatiah

1726-1795

Minister, political theorist, and economist in Pennsylvania.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Weiss

John

1818-1879

Unitarian Minister, abolitionist.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Weld

Theodore Dwight

1803-1895

Abolitionist in New York and Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

West

Samuel

1730-1807

Congregational Minister and theologian in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

West

Stephen

1735?-1819

Congregational Minister, Vice President of Williams College in Massachusetts (1793-1812). Wrote "Essay on Moral Agency: Remarks on Edwards's 'Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will'" (1772).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio

Wheat

John Thomas

1801-1888

Prof. Rhetoric and Logic at Univ. North Carolina (1850-60).

Balz, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Whedon

Daniel Denison

1808-1885

Prof. Ancient Languages and Literature at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1833-43), Prof. Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy of History at Michigan (1845-51), Editor of Methodist Quarterly Review in New York (1856-84).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Whipper

William

1804-1876

African American abolitionist in Pennsylvania.

Amer Nat Bio

White

Charles

1795-1861

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Wabash College in Indiana (1841-61).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Smith

White

Henry

1800-1850

Prof. Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1828-50).

Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Whitman

Walt

1819-1892

Poet and writer in New York and New Jersey.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wight

Orlando Williams

1824-1888

Unitarian Minister and physician in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Willard

Emma Hart

1787-1870

Feminist and educational theorist in New York.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Willard

Samuel

1640-1707

Congregational Minister and theologian in Boston, Fellow and Vice-President of Harvard (1700-1707).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Willard

Samuel

1775-1859

Unitarian Minister in Massachusetts.

Amer Nat Bio, Dict Amer Bio, WWWHV

Williams

Elisha

1694-1755

Congregational Minister in Connecticut, President of Yale (1726-39).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Williams

Roger

1603?-1683

Minister in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Williamson

Samuel

1795-1882

President and Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric at Davidson College in North Carolina (1841-54).

Balz

Willich

August

1810-1878

Army officer and communist leader in Germany (1831-50) and Ohio (1854-65), Independent scholar in Ohio (1865-78).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wilson

James

1742-1798

Revolutionary, Prof. Law at Univ. Pennsylvania (1790-98).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Winchell

Alexander

1824-1891

Prof. Geology, Zoology, and Botany at Univ. Michigan (1855-73), Prof. Geology and Paleontology at Michigan (1879-1891).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wingate

Washington Manly

1828-1879

President and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Rhetoric of Wake Forest College in North Carolina (1853-79).

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Winslow

Hubbard

1799-1864

Minister in New England.

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Winthrop

John

1588-1649

Governor of Massachusetts (1629-34, 1637-40, 1642-44, 1646-49).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wise

John

1652-1725

Puritan minister, theologian, and political theorist.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Witherspoon

John

1723-1794

President of College of New Jersey (Princeton) (1768-94).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Woods

Alva

1794-1887

President of Transylvania University in Kentucky (1828-31), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Alabama (1831-37).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Woods

Leonard

1774-1854

Prof. Theology at Andover Theological Seminary (1808-46).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Woods

Leonard

1807-1878

President of Bowdoin College in Maine (1839-66).

Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Woolman

John

1720-1772

Quaker leader, abolitionist in New Jersey.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Religious Bio, Dict Lit Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Woolsey

Theodore Dwight

1801-1889

Prof. Greek at Yale (1831-46), President of Yale (1846-71).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wright

Frances

1795-1852

Feminist, abolitionist, anti-religious freethinker in New York City and Tennessee.

Amer Nat Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit Bio, WWWHV

Wylie

Andrew

1789-1851

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Washington College in Pennsylvania (1816-28), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Indiana Univ. (1828-51).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Wyman

Rufus

1778-1842

Physician and Superintendent of McLean Asylum at Harvard (1818-1837). Wrote "A discourse on mental philosophy as connected with mental disease, delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1830" (1830)

 

Wythe

George

1726?-1806

Prof. Law at College of William and Mary in Virginia (1770-90).

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Cambridge Dict Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV

Zubly

John Joachim

1724-1781

Presbyterian Minister in Georgia, defender of religious and political liberties.

Amer Nat Bio, Appleton's Cycl Amer Bio, Dict Amer Bio, Dict Lit bio, Nat Cycl Amer Bio, WWWHV