1. Dorothea Dix- (1802-1887) A tireless reformer, she worked mightily to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. At the outbreak of the Civil War she was appointed superintendent of women nurses for the Union forces.

2. Joseph Smith- (1830) He constituted the book of Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) was launched. He established a religious oligarchy.

3. Brigham Young- (1850s) Stern and austere he proved to be an aggressive leader, an eloquent preacher, and a gifted administrator. Determined to escape persecution, Young in 1846-1847 led his oppressed and despoiled Latter-Day Saints over vast rolling plains to Utah as they sang "Come, Come, Ye Saints."

4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton- (1848) A mother of seven who had insisted on leaving "obey" out of her marriage ceremony, shocked fellow feminists

12. Ralph Waldo Emerson- (1837) American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Embraced by many leading thinkers (including Ralph Waldo Emerson), the Unitarian movement appealed mostly to intellectuals whose rationalism and optimism contrasted sharply with the hellfire doctrines of Calvinism, especially predestination and human depravity.

14. Edgar Allen Poe- (1809-1849) spent most of his youth in Virginia as an eccentric genius. Poe was a gifted lyric poet, as "The Raven" attests. If he did not invent the modern detective model, he atleast set new high standards in tales like "The Gold Bug."

8. Charles G Finney- (1830-1831) was the greatest of the revival preachers. Finney abandoned that bar to become an evangelist after a deeply moving conversion. He led massive revivals in Rochester and New York City in 1830 and 1831. He preached a version

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