People

Welcome to the people area of YesterdayTimes.com! In this section we have a links to historical people from a variety of areas. Many of the people are referenced through articles and blog posts throughout the site.

Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor

was a French photographic inventor. He started experimenting in 1847 with negatives made with albumen on glass.

Ahyonwaeghs, John Brant

Was a Mohawk chief and was born in 1794 in Ontario, Canada.

Alexander Hamilton

Amisquam

Was a warrior and chief of the Ho-Chunk nation.

*Please note the dates of life are an estimation.

Anna Mary Howitt

An English writer, painter, and feminist.

Caleb Nichols Bement

Writer

Catharine Weed Barnes

Born January 10, 1851 in Albany, New York. Catharine Weed Barnes was an editor for the American Amateur Photographer, an advocate for women photographers, and a photographer.

Charles Spurgeon

British Particular Baptist preacher.

Charles Willson Peale

Artist

Daniel Shays

was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer.

Eli Whitney

An American inventor famous for inventing the cotton gin.

Elias Howe

An American inventor who is credited with perfecting the sewing machine.

Eugène Sue

French writer and novelist. Famous for creating the concept of the serial novel.

Father Jacques Marquette

Father Jacques Marquette was a Jesuit Missionary from France. He was born in 1637 and founded the first European settlement in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, orator, writer, statesman, and a leader in social reformation. Mr. Douglass was born in 1818 and died in 1895.

Gabriel Franchère

Was born in 1786 and died in 1863. Mr. Franchere was a French Canadian explorer of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

Gertrude Kasebier

Was an American photographer who promoted photography as a career for women. She was trained as an artist, then chose photography as her artistic medium.

Hayne Huhjihini

Eagle of Delight, the wife of Shaumonekusse.

Henry David Thoreau

was an American naturalist, poet, author, philosopher, abolitionist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

James Fenimore Cooper

A prolific American writer.

John C Fremont

John Fremont was an American explorer, soldier, and politician. He was born in Savannah Georgia in 1813 and died in New York at the age of 77 (1890).

Ka-Ta-Wa-Be-Da, Ojibwe

Katawabeda was the son of Biauswah II. He inherited his father’s chieftainship of the Sandy Lake Band and became the first “general ruler” the Minnesota Ojibways ever had.

Keokuk

Keokuk was a leader of the Sauk Nation.

Kicking Bird

Kicking Bird was a chief of the Kiowa nation in the 1870's.

Koo-wi-s-gu-wi, John Ross

Was a leader of the Cherokee nation from 1828–1866.