Spencer Baird
1823 – 1887
American

Naturalist. His catalogs of North American mammals and birds reflected an empirical mind as well as a love of and curiosity about animals and nature.

Contemporaries
1801–1877Brigham Young
1856–1924Woodrow Wilson
1856–1923Kate Wiggin
1827–1915Ellen White
1878–1958John Watson
1856–1915Booker T. Washington
1877–1936William Walling
1852–1916Charles Russell
1879–1935Will Rogers
1885–1954Ruth Rohde
1874–1960John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1839–1937John D. Rockefeller
1880–1973Jeannette Rankin
1872–1960Emily Post
1839–1914Charles Peirce
1885–1945George Patton
1871–1955Maud Park
1846–1911Carry Nation
1793–1880Lucretia Mott
1837–1913J. P. Morgan
1781–1849William Miller
1880–1956H. L. Mencken
1855–1942Clinton Merriam
1885–1957Louis Mayer
1755–1835John Marshall
1880–1959George Marshall
1880–1964Douglas MacArthur
1887–1948Aldo Leopold
1807–1870Robert E. Lee
1859–1932Florence Kelley
1880–1968Helen Keller
1848–1908Joel Harris
1805–1879Angelina Grimke
1792–1873Sarah Grimke
1869–1940Emma Goldman
1839–1897Henry George
1805–1879William Garrison
1886–1953Douglas Southall Freeman
1837–1899Dwight Moody
1886–1961Ty Cobb
1864–1943George Washington Carver
1860–1925William Jennings Bryan
1771–1852Hosea Ballou
1876–1965George Baker
1832–1899Horatio Alger
1838–1918Henry Adams