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

by going so far as to advocate suffrage for women.

11. James Fenimore Cooper- (1789-1851) was the first American novelist to gain world fame and to make New World themes respectable.

5. Susan B. Anthony- (1840) A militant lecturer for women's rights, fearlessly exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets. She became such a conspicuous advocate of female rights that progressive women everywhere were called "Suzy Bs."

7. Elizabeth Blackwell- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, a pioneer in a previously forbidden profession for women, was the first female graduate of medical college.

6. Lucretia Mott- (1840) A sprightly Quaker whose ire had been aroused when she and her fellow female delegates to the London antislavery convention of 1840 were not recognized.

14. Edgar Allen Poe- (1809-1849) spent most of his youth in Virginia as an eccentric genius. Poe was a gifted lyric poet, as

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