New England Leaders in Civil War and Industrial Era

List of People: New England

New England figures shaped America during the Civil War and industrial rise. Abolitionist Charles Sumner fought for equality, while industrial pioneers like Francis Cabot Lowell spurred manufacturing. Intellectuals like Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired moral and economic reform across the nation.

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Year	New England
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))
1811	Birth of Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (Location: Litchfield, Connecticut, United States) Birth of Wendell Phillips (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
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))
1817	Birth of Henry David Thoreau (Location: Concord, Massachusetts, United States) Death of Francis Cabot Lowell
1819	Birth of Eli Thayer (Location: Near Milford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States (current Middlesex surrounding area, Massachusetts))
1821	Birth of William Still (Location: Shamong Township, New Jersey, United States (Present-day Burlington County, New Jersey area))
1823	Birth of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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))
1835	Death of Samuel Slater
1836	Death of Moses Brown
1841	Death of Nicholas Brown Jr.
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
1879	Death of William Lloyd Garrison
1880	Death of Lydia Maria Child
1881	Death of John Amory Lowell
1882	Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1883	Death of Sojourner Truth
1884	Death of Wendell Phillips
1890	Death of Prudence Crandall
1891	Death of Ellen Smith Craft Death of Moses Roper
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 William Still
1908	Death of Abiel Abbot Lowell
1911	Death of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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