Authors, artists, scientists from this unit

Authors
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Benjamin Franklin
Knickerbocker Group
Washington Irving
William Makepeace Thackeray
James Fenimore Cooper
William Cullen Bryant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
James Russell Lowell
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
William Gilmore Simms
Herman Melville
George Bancroft
William H. Prescott
Francis Parkman

Artists
Edward Everett
Gilbert Sruart
Charles Willson Peale
John Trumbull
Hudson River School

Scientists/inventors
Nathaniel Bowditch
Matthew Maury
Benjamin Silliman
Louis Agassiz
Asa Gray
John J. Audubon