Famous People of Massachusetts- MA Genealogy Trails

Presidents and other Important Americans
John Adams -president	Born 1736 Braintree, MA
John Quincy Adams- president	Born 1767 Braintree, MA
George H. W. Bush -president	Born 1924 in Milton, MA
Michael Stanley Dukakis- Former Mass. Governor	Born 1933 in Brookline, MA
John F. Kennedy-president	Born 1917 Brookline, MA
Samuel Adams-patriot	Born 1722 Boston, MA
Susan B. Anthony -woman suffragist	Born 1820 Adams, MA
Paul Revere-silversmith and Revolutionary War figure	Born 1735 Boston, MA
Benjamin Franklin-statesman and scientist	Born 1706 Boston, MA
John Hancock- statesman	Born 1737 Braintree, MA
David Souter- jurist	Born 1939 Melrose, MA
Lucy Stone woman -suffragist	Born 1818, West Brookfield , MA
Oliver Wendell Holmes- jurist	Born 1841 Boston, MA
Authors, Poets, Artists
Louisa May Alcott - writer	1832–1888 Spent Early years in MA
Horatio Alger -novelist	Born 1832 Revere, MA
John Cheever- novelist	Born 1912 Quincy, MA
William Cullen Bryant -poet and editor	Born 1794 Cummington, MA
E.E. Cummings - poet	1894 cambridge
Emily Dickinson- poet	Born 1830 Amherst, MA
Ralph Waldo Emerson -philosopher, orator and poet	1803 Boston
Nathaniel Hawthorne -novelist	Born 1804 Salem, MA
Amy Lowell- poet	Born 1874 Brookline, MA
James Russell Lowell -poet	Born 1819 Cambridge, MA
Robert Lowell-poet	Born 1917 Boston, MA
Herman Melville -writer	1819-1891 1850 moved to Pittsfield, MA
Edgar Allan Poe- writer	Born 1809 Boston, MA
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) -author and illustrator	Born 1904 Springfield, MA
Henry David Thoreau -author	Born 1817 Concord, MA
John Greenleaf Whittier -poet	Born 1817 near Haverhill, MA
Artists and Performers
Leonard Bernstein -conductor	Born 1918 Lawrence, MA
John Singleton Copley- painter	Born 1738 Boston, MA
Bette Davis -actress	Born 1908 Lowell MA
Jacques d'Amboise- ballet dancer	Born1934 Dedham, MA
Cecil B. DeMille -film director	Born 1881 Ashfield, MA
Geraldine Farrar -soprano, actress	Born1882 Melrose, MA
Winslow Homer -painter	Born 1836 Boston, MA
Samuel F. B. Morse- painter and inventor	Born 1791 Charlestown, MA
Norman Rockwell- artist	1894-1978 Lived last 25 years in Stockbridge, MA
Barbara Walters- TV commentator	Born 1929 Boston, MA
James McNeill Whistler -painter	Born 1834 Lowell, MA
Other Important Americans
Bronson Alcott- educator and social reformer	Born 1799 Wolcott, MA
Clara Barton- American Red Cross founder	Born 1821 North Oxford, MA
Luther Burbank- horticulturalist	Born 1847 Lancaster, MA
Buckminster Fuller- architect and educator	Born 1895 Milton, MA
Robert Goddard -father of modern rocketry	Born 1882 Worcester, MA
Elias Howe- inventor	Born 1819 Spencer, MA
Horace Mann- educator	Born 1796 Franklin, MA
Eli Whitney- inventor	Born 1765 Westboro, MA

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