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James Madison
1751-1836 |
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Fourth President, held office during the War of 1812. |
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Dolley Payne Todd Madison
1768-1849
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Fourth First Lady, saved the portrait of George Washington from burning in the White House during the War of 1812. |
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Alexander Hamilton
1755-1804 |
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Patriot and soldier, First Secretary of the Treasury |
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John Marshall
1778-1835
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Influencial Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1800-1835 |
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William Bartram
1739-1822 |
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Naturalist, first botanical explorer of the south east. Established a garden of the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. |
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Charles Wilson Peale
1741-1827 |
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Soldier, naturalist and painter. Created one of the first art and natural history museums in American |
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Dr. Benjamin Rush
1746-1813 |
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Philadelphia physician, teacher, signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
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Charles Lesueur
1778-1846
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Ichthyologist, artist and naturalist, joined the Harmonists at New Harmony, IN |
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Thomas Say
1787–1843 |
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American naturalist, Entomologist, joined the Harmonists at New Harmony, IN. |
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Mary Randolph
1762-1828 |
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Author of The Virginia House-Wife, one of the most influential housekeeping and recipe books of the nineteenth century. |
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Frances Wright
1795-1852 |
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Born in Scottland, traveled to US, writer, one of the leaders of the free-thought movement. Fought for equal rights for women.
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William Clark
1770-1838 |
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Sldier, explorer, younger brother of Gen. George Rogers Clark, co-leader of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery, Governor of the Missouri Territory. |
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Meriwether Lewis
1774-1809 |
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Soldier, private secretary of Thomas Jefferson, co-leader of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery. |
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Chief of the Little Osages |
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The Little Osages are from the Ozark highlands south of the Missouri River. The portrait is after a profile drawing done by Charles St. Memin in Washington, DC c.1804
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An Osage Warrior |
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Sculpted from a drawing by St. Memin |
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Albert Gallatin
1761-1849 |
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Swiss born, Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson, founder of the American Ethnological Society. |
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David Crockett
1786-1836 |
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19th-century frontiersman, soldier and politician. He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo. |
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Andrew Jackson
1767-1845 |
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Seventh President, soldier, vetoed the charter of the Second Bank of the US, pushed Native Americans west of the Mississippi. |
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Henry Clay
1777-1852 |
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Statesman, known as "The Great Compromiser" , Senator and Congressman from Kentucky. |
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Pierre Menard
1766-1844 |
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French Canadian fur trapper and entrepreneur, built a fine home in the French Colonial style. In 1813 he became Illinois' first Lieutenant Governor. |
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