Key Figures in the Civil War and Industrial Era

The Civil War and Industrialization: List of People

Leaders like Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union, while Generals Grant and Lee fought the Civil War. Afterwards, industrial titans Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller reshaped the American economy, driving rapid nation building, technological innovation, and vast industrial expansion.

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Year	List of People
1738	Birth of Moses Brown (Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States)
1767	Birth of John Quincy Adams (Location: Quincy, Massachusetts, United States (formerly Braintree))
1768	Birth of Samuel Slater (Location: Belper, Derbyshire, England)
1769	Birth of Nicholas Brown Jr. (Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States)
1775	Birth of Francis Cabot Lowell (Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States)
1786	Birth of Amos Lawrence (Location: Groton, Massachusetts, United States)
1796	Birth of Horace Mann (Location: Franklin, Massachusetts, United States)
1797	Birth of Sojourner Truth (Location: Ulster County, New York, United States (near present-day Esopus / Swartekill region))
1798	Birth of John Amory Lowell (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1800	Birth of John Brown (Location: Torrington, Connecticut, United States)
1802	Birth of Lydia Maria Child (Location: Medford, Massachusetts, United States)
1803	Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States) Birth of Prudence Crandall (Location: Hopkinton, Rhode Island, United States (near Carpenter’s Mills))
1805	Birth of William Lloyd Garrison (Location: Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States)
1806	Birth of Elizabeth Buffum Chace (Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States (or around Smithfield))
1807	Birth of Robert E. Lee (Location: Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia) Birth of Joseph Egleston Johnston (Location: Farmville area, Virginia, United States)
1808	Birth of Jefferson Finis Davis (Location: Fairview, an area located in present-day Todd County, Kentucky)
1809	Birth of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Location: Near Loretto, Essex County, Virginia)
1811	Birth of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (Location: Litchfield, Connecticut, United States) Birth of Judah Philip Benjamin (Location: Christiansted, Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands) Birth of Wendell Phillips (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1812	Birth of Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Location: Crawfordville, Georgia)
1815	Birth of Henry Brown (Location: Louisa County, Virginia, United States (Present-day Louisa, Virginia area)) Birth of Moses Roper (Location: Caswell County, North Carolina, United States (Present-day Semora area)) Birth of Francis Richard Lubbock (Location: Beaufort, South Carolina, United States)
1816	Birth of Luke Pryor Blackburn (Location: Woodford County, Kentucky (near present-day Versailles), United States) Birth of Jubal Anderson Early (Location: Rocky Mount, Virginia, United States)
1817	Birth of Braxton Bragg (Location: Warrenton, North Carolina, United States) Birth of Henry David Thoreau (Location: Concord, Massachusetts, United States) Death of Francis Cabot Lowell
1818	Birth of Wade Hampton III (Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States) Birth of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (Location: Chalmette area (St. Bernard Parish), Louisiana, United States) Birth of John Henninger Reagan (Location: Sevierville, Tennessee, United States)
1819	Birth of Eli Thayer (Location: Near Milford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States (current Middlesex surrounding area, Massachusetts))
1821	Birth of James Longstreet (Location: Edgefield area, South Carolina, United States) Birth of John Cabell Breckinridge (Location: Near Lexington, Kentucky (Thorn Hill), United States) Birth of Joseph Emerson Brown (Location: Pickens County, South Carolina (near present-day Pickens), United States) Birth of Nathan Bedford Forrest (Location: Chapel Hill, Tennessee, United States) Birth of William Still (Location: Shamong Township, New Jersey, United States (Present-day Burlington County, New Jersey area))
1823	Birth of James Lawson Kemper (Location: Madison County, Virginia (near present-day Madison, Mountain Prospect), United States) Birth of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
1824	Birth of Thomas Jonathan Jackson (Location: Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States) Birth of Alfred Holt Colquitt (Location: Monroe, Georgia, United States)
1825	Birth of Abiel Abbot Lowell (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1826	Birth of Ellen Smith Craft (Location: Clinton, Georgia, United States (Present-day Jones County, Georgia area))
1830	Birth of Zebulon Baird Vance (Location: Near Weaverville, North Carolina (Reems Creek Valley, Buncombe County at the time), United States)
1831	Birth of John Bell Hood (Location: Owingsville, Kentucky, United States)
1832	Birth of John Brown Gordon (Location: Thomaston area, Georgia. However, historical records specify the birth place only as as far as Upson County) Birth of George Washington Custis Lee (Location: Hampton, Virginia)
1835	Death of Samuel Slater Birth of Fitzhugh Lee (Location: Near Alexandria (Clermont, Fairfax County, Virginia))
1836	Death of Moses Brown
1837	Birth of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (Location: Arlington, Virginia)
1841	Death of Nicholas Brown Jr.
1843	Birth of Robert Edward Lee Jr. (Location: Arlington, Virginia)
1848	Death of John Quincy Adams
1852	Death of Amos Lawrence
1859	Death of Horace Mann Death of John Brown
1862	Death of Henry David Thoreau
1863	Death of Thomas Jonathan Jackson
1870	Death of Robert E. Lee
1875	Death of John Cabell Breckinridge
1876	Death of Braxton Bragg
1877	Death of Nathan Bedford Forrest
1879	Death of William Lloyd Garrison Death of John Bell Hood
1880	Death of Lydia Maria Child
1881	Death of John Amory Lowell
1882	Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1883	Death of Alexander Hamilton Stephens Death of Sojourner Truth
1884	Death of Wendell Phillips Death of Judah Philip Benjamin
1887	Death of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter Death of Luke Pryor Blackburn
1889	Death of Jefferson Finis Davis
1890	Death of Prudence Crandall
1891	Death of Ellen Smith Craft Death of Joseph Egleston Johnston Death of Moses Roper Death of William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
1893	Death of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
1894	Death of Jubal Anderson Early Death of Alfred Holt Colquitt Death of Zebulon Baird Vance Death of Joseph Emerson Brown
1895	Death of James Lawson Kemper
1896	Death of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
1897	Death of Henry Brown
1899	Death of Eli Thayer Death of Elizabeth Buffum Chace
1902	Death of Wade Hampton III Death of William Still
1904	Death of James Longstreet Death of John Brown Gordon
1905	Death of John Henninger Reagan Death of Fitzhugh Lee Death of Francis Richard Lubbock
1908	Death of Abiel Abbot Lowell
1911	Death of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1913	Death of George Washington Custis Lee
1914	Death of Robert Edward Lee Jr.

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