1800s Mid Term 2024 Spring

Raised funds for NY Botanical Garden & co-founder of American Bryological & Lichenological Society.

 Appointed first organist, choirmaster & professor of music at Harvard College.

American composer & pianist known as the "King of Ragtime"

Junior partner in mercantile business of American George Peabody in London took over banking business & changed its name

Animal bacteriology researcher investigated TX cattle fever, animal cholera, salmonella, foot & mouth & treatments

Theorized relationship between Sun, Moon & Earth & effects of gravitational pull in celestial mechanics?

The first woman in the US to pass the Iowa Bar Exam

Ty Cobb called him "maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond" and a great shortstop

The 19th Amendment was also called

Bluefin killifish, Lucania Jordan, Southern eagle ray, Myliobatis Garman, Goode croaker, Paralonchurus (goodei)...

On train platform to DC, in Jersey City, NJ, from Harvard, train jolted forward; Robert Lincoln fell into gap & saved by

Advocate for states' rights & 10th President of the US

Invented mining arc lamp, used electricity to discover potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium & boron.

The inventor of the QWERTY Typewriter keyboard still used in computers today

Greatest US Oil Tycoon

The YMCA doctor, minister, who invented the game of basketball

“the first scheme for playing baseball" credited this man from Cooperstown, originally settled by James Fenimore Cooper

All of the following politicians & presidents attended the College of Wm & Mary

Who purchased Florida from Spain after establishing the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1819

If he had been killed by the fire he endured as an infant, he would never have become a successful lawyer & politician.

First black woman lawyer in US, graduated from Howard University 1872 and admitted to DC Bar Association

Nurse, doctor, US Civil War surgeon who received the Medal of Honor

Introduced locomotives built in US from Charleston to Augusta, Georgia at West Point Foundry

A member of the Boston Six great orchestral composers of the 1800s

Famous West Point graduate that played baseball with the boys in their spare time

First USDA Chairman for Animal Division

The greatest pitcher of all time, right from the start

Graduated Columbia, engineer DE & Hudson Canal Co. Studied railroad tech George Stephenson & operated Stourbridge Lion

Responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act

The father of skyscrapers

 The mad scientist who envisioned wirelessly long distance transmissions through the air in the 1800s

The Queen of Moss published over 340 scientific papers and 15 species & 1 moss genus (Bryobrittonia) named after her.

The wealthiest man in the US in 1800s

 Mechanical consulting engineer fixed industrial efficiency written in book The Principles of Scientific Management 

Beyond the telephone, this inventor created the metal detector

Hit .300-or-better for 15 straight seasons

Holds MLB records most wins, hits, innings pitched, games started & finished, batters faced, 3 no-hitters, perfect game

Who was Instrumental in colonizing 300 families under a land grant during the Texas Revolution & Independence?

Established the orbit of a new comet discovered by this person in October 1847

The detective who protected President Lincoln from assassination on trip to D.C.

The real Inventor of Baseball

The first & best electric car of the US 1880s was created by who?

Who studied the evolution of plants & animals over 5 year journey?

Marine Biologist ran Natural History of Smithsonian prepared government exhibition at World’s Columbian Expo of 1893

The man who shot the first shot at Ft. Sumter, S.C. and began the US Civil War

Founding father of the NY Knickerbockers Base Ball Club and wrote the rules of modern baseball.

Man, who studied and authored the story of the Raven

PA Academy of Fine Arts gold medal recipient by National Institute of Arts & Letters honored by Eleanor Roosevelt

Dominated Wall Street & consolidated US Steel, General Electric in the 1880s

Who was the US plant breeder who created over 800 new varieties of fruit, vegetables and grasses?