Part 17 (2/2)
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON Born at Richford, New York, July 8, 1839; partner of Clark & Rockefeller, 1858; built Standard Oil Works, Cleveland, Ohio, 1865; organized Standard Oil Company, 1870; Standard Oil Trust, 1882
CARNEGIE, ANDREW Born at Dunfermline, Fifeshi+re, Scotland, Noveer boy, 1851; introduced Besseie Steel Coed into United States Steel Corporation, 1901, when he retired from business
BEECHER, LYMAN Born at New Haven, Connecticut, October 12, 1775; pastor of various Congregational churches, 1799-1832; president Lane Theological Seminary, 1832-51; died at Brooklyn, New York, January 10, 1863
BEECHER, HENRY WARD Born at Litchfield, Connecticut, June 24, 1813; graduated at Aational Church, Brooklyn, 1847-87; founder of the _Independent_ and the _Christian Union_; died at Brooklyn, March 8, 1887
CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY Born at Newport, Rhode Island, April 7, 1780; graduated at Harvard, 1798; pastor of Federal Street Church, Boston, 1803-42; died at Bennington, Vermont, October 2, 1842
JUDSON, ADONIRAM Born at Malden, Massachusetts, August 9, 1788; graduated at Brown, 1807; started as missionary to Burmah, 1812, and remained in far East until his death, April 12, 1850
MOTT, LUCRETIA Born at Nantucket, Massachusetts, January 3, 1793; entered ministry of Friends, 1818; assisted at formation of Ae convention, 1848; died near Philadelphia, November 11, 1880
DIX, DOROTHEA LYNDE Born at Worcester, Massachusetts, 1805; devoted her whole life to work for paupers, convicts, and insane persons; superintendent of hospital nurses during Civil War; died at Trenton, New Jersey, July 19, 1887
CHILD, LYDIA MARIA Born at Medford, Massachusetts, February 11, 1802; editor _National Anti-Slavery Standard_, 1840-43; published a number of novels; died at Wayland, Massachusetts, October 20, 1880
GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD Born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, Decean publication of the _Liberator_, 1831; president American Anti-Slavery Society, 1843-65; died at New York City, May 24, 1879
PARKER, THEODORE Born at Lexington, Massachusetts, August 24, 1810; studied at Cayman at Roxbury, 1837; head of an independent society at Music Hall, Boston, 1846; died at Florence, Italy, May 10, 1860
PHILLIPS, WENDELL Born at Boston, November 29, 1811; educated at Harvard; ad orator of the Abolitionists, 1837-61; president of the Anti-Slavery Society, 1865-70; Prohibitionist candidate for governor of Massachusetts, 1870; died at Boston, February 2, 1884
ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL Born at South Adaitator in cause of woe association and was its president for many years; died March 13, 1906
STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY Born at Johnstown, New York, Noveraduated at Willard Seminary, 1832; e convention, 1848; associated with Susan B Anthony; died at New York City, October 26, 1902
BROWN, JOHN Born at Torrington, Connecticut, May 9, 1800; rerated to Kansas, 1855; won battle of Osawatoinia, October 16, 1859; captured, October 18; tried by Coed at Charlestown, Virginia, December 2, 1859
BARTON, CLARA Born at Oxford, Massachusetts, 1821; superintended relief work on battle-fields during Civil War; laid out grounds of national ceh Franco-Prussian war, 1870; distributed relief in Strasburg, Belfort, Montpelier, Paris, 1871; secured adoption of Treaty of Geneva, 1882; president American Red Cross Society, 1881-1904
BERGH, HENRY Born at New York City, 1823; secretary of legation at St
Petersburg, 1862-64; organized American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1866; founded Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1874; died at New York City, March 12, 1888
BROOKS, PHILLIPS Born at Boston, Deceraduated froinia, 1859; rector of Trinity Church, Boston, 1870-93; elected Bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 1891; died at Boston, January 23, 1893
MOODY, DWIGHT LYMAN Born at Northfield, Massachusetts, February 5, 1837; started s in Great Britain, 1873-75; and devoted the remainder of his life to this work; died at Northfield, December 22, 1899
CHAPTER IX
MEN OF AFFAIRS