Jan 05 On this day in history birth of cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
Jan 06 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator, died in 1874 was born on this day in history.
Jan 09 On this day in history birth of gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
Feb 03 Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") was born in the year 1811.
Feb 06 Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898) was born in the year 1811.
Feb 08 On this day in history birth of edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
Feb 15 On this day in history birth of domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
Feb 23 In the year 1811 birth of george Washington Hewitt, composer