Beatrice Fox Auerbach
Benedict Arnold
Charles Goodyear
Eli Whitney
Ella Grasso
Frederick Law Olmsted
Gideon Welles
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Barnard
Horace Bushnell
Israel Putnam
John Brown
John Winthrop Jr.
Jonathan Edwards
Julian Alden Weir
Mark Twain
Nathan Hale
P.T. Barnum
Prudence Crandall
Roger Sherman
Samson Occom
Samuel Colt
Silas Deane
Theodate Pope Riddle
Timothy Dwight
P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum (1810-1891) Best known as an entertainer and promoter, Connecticut native Phineas Taylor Barnum …[more]
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