Very incomplete list! | |  James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857) — also known asJames G. Birney — of Danville,BoyleCounty, Ky.; Huntsville,MadisonCounty, Ala.; Cincinnati,HamiltonCounty, Ohio; New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.; Lower Saginaw, Saginaw County (now Bay City,BayCounty), Mich.Born in Danville,BoyleCounty, Ky.,February4, 1792.Lawyer;studied law in the office ofAlexanderJ. Dallas in Philadelphia; member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1816-18; member ofAlabamastate house of representatives, 1819-20; solicitor general ofAlabama, 1823-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama,1828;mayorof Huntsville, Ala., 1829; abolitionist; Liberty candidate forPresidentof the United States, 1840, 1844; candidate forGovernor ofMichigan, 1843, 1845.Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons;American Anti-Slavery Society.While traveling in 1845, thehorse hewas riding bucked; hefell andwas injured; his condition worsened over time, leading to tremors andparalysis, and he died as a result, in Perth Amboy,MiddlesexCounty, N.J.,November25, 1857 (age65 years, 294days).Interment atWilliamsburghCemetery, Groveland, N.Y. | | Augustine Clarke (c.1780-1841) — of Wheelock,CaledoniaCounty, Vt.; Montpelier,WashingtonCounty, Vt.Born in Richmond,BerkshireCounty, Mass., about 1780.Lawyer;banker;member ofVermontstate house of representatives, 1824, 1828, 1830, 1832;Presidential Elector for Vermont,1832(voted forWilliamWirt andAmosEllmaker);Vermontstate treasurer, 1833-37.Member,American Anti-Slavery Society. Died in Montpelier,WashingtonCounty, Vt.,June 17,1841 (ageabout 61years).Interment atElm Street Cemetery, Montpelier, Vt.  | Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass(1818-1895) —also known asFrederick Douglass — of Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.;Washington,D.C.Born inslaveryin Maryland,1818.Republican. Republican Presidential Elector for New York,1872;speaker, Republican National Convention, 1888 ;U.S. Charge d'Affaires toSanto Domingo, 1889-91; U.S. Minister toHaiti, 1889-91.Africanancestry. Member,American Anti-Slavery Society.Lecturer and advocate of the abolition of slavery, starting in 1841. Publisher ofThe North Star, an abolitionist paper. In 1848,he attended the meeting in Seneca Falls, N.Y., which started thewomen's rights movement.Died, of aheartattack, inWashington,D.C.,February20, 1895 (ageabout 76years).Interment atMt.Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y.; statue erected 1899 atHighlandPark, Rochester, N.Y. | | Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) — Born inslaveryin New Market,FrederickCounty, Md.,December23, 1815.Minister;U.S. Minister toLiberia, 1881-82, died in office 1882.Presbyterian.Africanancestry. Member,American Anti-Slavery Society.On February 12, 1865, was thefirstBlack person to make a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives.Died inLiberia,February13, 1882 (age66 years, 52days).Interment atPalm Grove Cemetery, Monrovia, Liberia.  | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) — Born in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,November29, 1811.Lawyer;abolitionist;orator;candidate forGovernor ofMassachusetts, 1870 (Labor Reform), 1877 (Greenback).Englishancestry. Member,American Anti-Slavery Society.Died, fromheartdisease, in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,February2, 1884 (age72 years, 65days).Interment atMiltonCemetery, Milton, Mass.; statue erected 1915 atBoston Public Garden, Boston, Mass.  | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) — also known asElizabeth Smith Cady — of Seneca Falls,SenecaCounty, N.Y.; Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Johnstown,FultonCounty, N.Y.,November12, 1815.Candidate forU.S.Representative from New York, 1868.Female.Member,American Anti-Slavery Society. Inducted,NationalWomen's Hall of Fame, 1973.Died, ofheartfailure, in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,October26, 1902 (age86 years, 348days).Interment atWoodlawnCemetery, Bronx, N.Y.| |  Relatives:Daughter ofDanielCady and Margaret (Livingston) Cady; married,May 1,1840, toHenryBrewster Stanton; granddaughter ofJamesLivingston; second great-granddaughter ofRobertLivingston the Younger andDirckTen Broeck; third great-granddaughter ofPieterSchuyler (1657-1724); third great-grandniece ofRobertLivingston the Elder andJohannesSchuyler (1668-1747); fourth great-granddaughter ofDirckWesselse Ten Broeck; first cousin ofGerritSmith; first cousin twice removed ofJeremiahVan Rensselaer andRobertVan Rensselaer; first cousin thrice removed ofPhilipP. Schuyler; first cousin four times removed ofJohnLivingston,RobertLivingston (1688-1775),GilbertLivingston,JohannesSchuyler (1697-1746) andCornelisCuyler; first cousin five times removed ofDavidDavidse Schuyler andMyndertDavidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed ofRobertR. Livingston (1746-1813),EdwardLivingston (1764-1836),StephenVan Rensselaer,PeterRobert Livingston (1766-1847),PhilipSchuyler Van Rensselaer,JacobRutsen Van Rensselaer,PhilipJeremiah Schuyler,MaturinLivingston,RensselaerWesterlo andEdwardPhilip Livingston; second cousin twice removed ofPieterSchuyler (1746-1792) andPeterSamuel Schuyler; second cousin thrice removed ofStephanusBayard,RobertLivingston (1708-1790),PeterVan Brugh Livingston,RobertGilbert Livingston,HenryGilbert Livingston,PhilipLivingston,RobertR. Livingston (1718-1775),PierreVan Cortlandt,WilliamLivingston,PhilipJohn Schuyler,MatthewClarkson (1733-1800) andStephenJohn Schuyler; third cousin ofPhilipSchuyler,JamesAlexander Hamilton,PeterRobert Livingston (1789-1859),EdwardLivingston (1796-1840) andHenryBell Van Rensselaer; third cousin once removed ofHenryWalter Livingston,PeterGansevoort,JohnJacob Astor III,KiliaenVan Rensselaer andCortlandtSchuyler Van Rensselaer; third cousin twice removed ofNicholasBayard,PeterRobert Livingston (1737-1794),WalterLivingston,PhilipPeter Livingston,PhilipVan Cortlandt,HenryBrockholst Livingston,MatthewClarkson (1758-1825),PierreVan Cortlandt Jr.,JamesParker,WilliamWaldorf Astor,RobertRay Hamilton,PeterGoelet Gerry,OgdenLivingston Mills andRobertReginald Livingston; third cousin thrice removed ofWilliamAstor Chanler,LewisStuyvesant Chanler,HelenRoosevelt Robinson andJohnEliot Thayer Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofJeremiahMason,PeterAugustus Jay,WilliamAlexander Duer,JohnDuer,WilliamJay,CharlesLudlow Livingston,HamiltonFish,GeorgeWashington Schuyler,JohnCortlandt Parker andPhilipN. Schuyler. | | | | Political families:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York;Parker-Schuylerfamily of Perth Amboy, New Jersey (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | See alsoWikipediaarticle —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —NationalWomen's Hall of Fame | | | | Books about Elizabeth Cady Stanton:Lori D. Ginzberg,ElizabethCady Stanton: An American Life | | | | Image source: American Monthly Reviewof Reviews, December 1902 |
| | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) — of Amesbury,EssexCounty, Mass.Born in Haverhill,EssexCounty, Mass.,December17, 1807.Poet;newspapereditor; member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1835; Liberty candidate forU.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1842.Quaker. Member,American Anti-Slavery Society.Elected to theHallof Fame for Great Americans in 1905.Died in Hampton Falls,RockinghamCounty, N.H.,September7, 1892 (age84 years, 265days).Interment atUnionCemetery, Amesbury, Mass.| | Relatives: Sonof John Whittier and Abigail (Hussey) Whittier; third cousin twiceremoved ofRobertFoss Fernald; fourth cousin once removed ofNicholasGilman,JohnWentworth Jr.,DanielDavis,AlbertGallatin Dole,WilliamHenry Barnum,GeorgeWinthrop Maston Pitman andJosephPitman. | | | | Political families:Wentworth-Gilmanfamily of New Hampshire;Gilmanfamily of Exeter, New Hampshire;Appletonfamily of New Hampshire (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | | | Cross-reference:AbrahamDavenport | | | | ThecityofWhittier,California, isnamed forhim. — WhittierCollege,inWhittier,California, isnamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS John G. Whittier (built 1942 atPortland,Oregon; scrapped 1962) wasnamed forhim. | | | | Politician named for him:JohnGreenleaf Whittier Lewis | | | | See alsoWikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial |
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