Famous People Born in 1847

• Bell, Alexander Graham (March 3)

  The inventor of the telephone

• Edison, Thomas (February 11)

  The man who invented the light bulb

• James, Jesse (outlaw) (September 5)

  Famous desperado of the old American west

• McKinley, Ida Saxton (June 8)

  First Lady of the United States, 1897-1901

• Pulitzer, Joseph (April 10)

  Newspaperman who started the Pulitzer Prize

• Stoker, Bram (November 8)

  The author who wrote Dracula

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