Brown, John
The anti-slavery militant who raided Harpers Ferry in 1859
Famous People Who Died in 1859
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De Quincey, Thomas
Author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater -
Irving, Washington
Author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" -
Mann, Horace
The "Father of American Education"