Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
1,082 American intellectuals in birth year order, organized by their Generation according to Howe and Strauss
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| Torrey | Joseph | 1797-1867 | Prof. Greek and Latin at Vermont (1827-42), Prof. Philosophy at Vermont (1842-67), President of Vermont (1862-67). |
| Hodge | Charles | 1797-1878 | Prof. Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1822-77). |
| Truth | Sojourner | 1797-1883 | Abolitionist and feminist. |
| Hickok | Laurens Perseus | 1798-1888 | Prof. Theology at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1836-44), Auburn Theological Seminary in New York (1844-52), Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Union College (1852-68). |
| Upham | Thomas Cogswell | 1799-1872 | Prof. Philosophy at Bowdoin College in Maine (1824-68). |
| Alcott | Amos Bronson | 1799-1888 | Schoolmaster in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts (1820s-1860s), Independent scholar in Concord (1860s-1888). |
| Mahan | Asa | 1799-1889 | President and Prof. Philosophy at Oberlin College in Ohio (1835-50), Cleveland University (1850-55), Adrian College in Michigan (1860-71). |
| Lieber | Francis | 1800-1872 | Prof. History and Political Economy at South Carolina College (1835-56), Prof. History and Political Science at Columbia (1857-72). |
| Beecher | Catharine Esther | 1800-1878 | Liberal Congregational Minister in New York City (1847-87). |
| Beaven | James | 1801-1875 | Prof. Divinity and Philosophy at King’s College in Toronto (1843-1851), Prof. Philosophy at Toronto (1851-71). |
| Woolsey | Theodore Dwight | 1801-1889 | Prof. Greek at Yale (1831-46), President of Yale (1846-71). |
| Bushnell | Horace | 1802-1876 | Congregational Minister in Connecticut (1833-76). |
| Child | Lydia Maria Francis | 1802-1880 | Abolitionist and writer in Massachusetts. |
| Hopkins | Mark | 1802-1887 | Prof. Rhetoric and Philosophy at Williams College (1830-36). President and Prof. Philosophy of Williams College (1836-72). |
| Brownson | Orestes Augustus | 1803-1876 | Independent theologian, philosopher, and author. |
| Emerson | Ralph Waldo | 1803-1882 | Independent scholar in Concord, Massachusetts. |
| Calvert | George Henry | 1803-1889 | Independent scholar in Newport, Rhode Island (1843-89). |
| Whipper | William | 1804-1876 | African American abolitionist in Pennsylvania. |
| Henry | Caleb Sprague | 1804-1884 | Minister (1829-37), Prof. History, Belles-lettres, and Philosophy at University of the City of New York (1837-52). |
| Peabody | Elizabeth Palmer | 1804-1894 | Independent philosopher and educator in Massachusetts. |
| Garrison | William Lloyd | 1805-1879 | Editor and abolitionist in Boston (1820s-1865). |
| Whedon | Daniel Day | 1805-1885 | Prof. Ancient Languages and Literature at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1833-43), Prof. Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy of History at Michigan (1845-51), Editor of Methodist Quarterly Review in New York (1856-84). |
| Leach | William Turnbull | 1805-1886 | Prof. Literature (1846-83) and Philosophy (1853-72) at McGill University in Montreal. |
| Walker | James Barr | 1805-1887 | Presbyterian minister in Ohio and Michigan, Prof. Theology at Wheaton College in Illinois (1870-84). |
| Hedge | Frederic Henry | 1805-1890 | Minister in New England, Prof. German at Harvard (1872-1884). |
| Agassiz | Jean Louis Rodolphe | 1807-1873 | Prof. Zoology and Natural History at Harvard (1847-73). |
| Day | Henry Noble | 1808-1890 | Prof. Theology at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1840-52), President of Ohio Female College (1858-64). |
| Park | Edwards Amasa | 1808-1900 | Prof. Theology at Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (1836-81). |
| Tyler | Samuel | 1809-1877 | Lawyer in Maryland (1831-67), Prof. Law at Columbian College (1867-77). |
| Bledsoe | Albert Taylor | 1809-1877 | Methodist Minister, Prof. Mathematics and Astronomy at Mississippi (1848-54), Prof. Mathematics at Virginia (1854-61). |
| Einhorn | David | 1809-1879 | Reform Judaism Rabbi in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. |
| Peirce | Benjamin | 1809-1880 | Prof. Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy at Harvard (1883-80). |
| Holmes | Oliver Wendell | 1809-1894 | Prof. Anatomy and Physiology at Harvard Medical School (1847-82). |
| Willich | August | 1810-1878 | Army officer and communist leader in Germany (1831-50) and Ohio (1854-65), Independent scholar in Ohio (1865-78). |
| James | Henry, Sr. | 1811-1882 | Religious author in Boston, Mass. |
| Phillips | Wendell | 1811-1884 | Abolitionist and social philosopher in Boston. |
| Bowen | Francis | 1811-1890 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1853-89). |
| Lyall | William | 1811-1890 | Prof. Philosophy at Free Church College in Nova Scotia (1850-60), Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (1863-90). |
| Porter | Noah | 1811-1892 | Prof. Philosophy at Yale (1847-92). |
| Payne | Daniel Alexander | 1811-1893 | African Methodist Episcopal Minister and President of Wilberforce College in Ohio (1863-76). |
| Peabody | Andrew Preston | 1811-1893 | Editor of The North American Review (1853-63), Prof. Christian Morals at Harvard (1860-81). |
| McCosh | James | 1811-1894 | Prof. Philosophy at Queen’s College in Belfast (1856-68), President and Prof. of Philosophy at Princeton (1868-88). |
| Delaney | Martin Robinson | 1812-1885 | Abolitionist and Black nationalist in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. |
| Atwater | Lyman Hotchkiss | 1813-1883 | Prof. Philosophy at Princeton (1854-83). |
| Beecher | Henry Ward | 1813-1887 | Schoolmaster and writer in Connecticut, Ohio, Wisconsin, and New York. |
| Miley | John | 1813-1895 | Prof. Theology at Drew Theological Seminary (1873-95). |
| Harris | Samuel | 1814-1899 | Prof. Theology at Bangor Seminary in Maine (1855-67), President of Bowdoin College in Maine (1867-71), Prof. Theology at Yale (1871-95). |
| Smith | Henry Boynton | 1815-1877 | Prof. Philosophy at Amherst College in Massachusetts (1847-50), Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1850-74). |
| Stanton | Elizabeth Cady | 1815-1902 | Feminist and suffrage leader in New York State. |
| Haven | Joseph | 1816-1874 | Prof. Philosophy at Amherst College (1850-58), Prof. Systematic Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary (1858-70). |
| Wilson | William Dexter | 1816-1900 | Episcopal Minister, Prof. Philosophy at Hobart College in New York (1850-68), Cornell (1868-86). |
| McCabe | Lorenzo Dow | 1817-1897 | Prof. Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University (1845-71). |
| Fairchild | James Harris | 1817-1902 | Prof. Languages at Oberlin (1842-47), Prof. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (1847-58), Prof. Systematic Theology and Moral Philosophy (1858-66), President of Oberlin (1866-89), Prof. Theology (1889-1902). |
| Young | George Paxton | 1818-1889 | Prof. Philosophy and Religion at Knox College in Toronto (1853-64, 1864-71), Toronto University (1871-89). |
| Stone | Lucy | 1818-1893 | Feminist and abolitionist writer in Massachusetts and New Jersey. |
| Douglass | Frederick | 1818-1895 | Author, editor, and lecturer in Massachusetts and New York (1841-1895), U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-81), U.S. Minister to Haiti (1889-91). |
| Hecker | Isaac Thomas | 1819-1888 | Catholic Priest and leader of the Paulists in New York City. |
| Whitman | Walt | 1819-1892 | Poet and writer in New York and New Jersey. |
| Schaff | Philip | 1819-1893 | Prof. Theology at German Reformed Seminary in Pennsylvania (1844-63), Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1870-93). |
| Crummell | Alexander | 1819-1898 | Episcopal Minister in New York, Liberia, and Washington, D.C. |
| Wise | Isaac Mayer | 1819-1900 | Jewish Rabbi in New York (1846-54) and Ohio (1854-75), President of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (1875-1900). |
| Howe | Julia Ward | 1819-1910 | Poet, writer, and social activist in Boston. |
| Kedney | John Steinfort | 1819-1911 | Minister at several churches (1847-71), Prof. Theology at Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, Minnesota (1871-1908). |
| Anthony | Susan Brownell | 1820-1906 | Leader of Women's Rights Movement in New York. |
| Dabney | Robert Lewis | 1820-1898 | Prof. Theology at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (1853-83), Prof. Philosophy at Texas (1883-1894). |
| Taschereau | Elzear-Alexandre | 1820-1898 | Prof. Theology at Petit Séminaire in Quebec (1837-42), Prof. Theology and Philosophy at Grand Séminaire in Quebec (1842-54), Archbishop and Cardinal of Quebec (1871-98). |
| Cabot | James Elliot | 1821-1903 | Independent scholar and editor in Boston. |
| Eddy | Mary Baker | 1821-1910 | Founder of Christian Science church in Boston. |
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Gilded Generation 1822-1842 |
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| Frothingham | Octavius Brooks | 1822-1895 | Unitarian Minister and abolitionist in New England. |
| Stallo | Johann Bernhard | 1823-1900 | Judge and independent scholar in Cincinnati (1852-85). |
| Higginson | Thomas Wentworth Storrow | 1823-1911 | Unitarian minister and liberal theologian in Boston. |
| Seelye | Julius Hawley | 1824-1895 | Prof. Philosophy (1858-90) and President (1877-90) at Amherst College in Massachusetts. |
| Cheney | Ednah Dow Littlehale | 1824-1904 | Teacher, writer, and social activist in Massachusetts. |
| Shields | Charles Woodruff | 1825-1904 | Prof. Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion at Princeton (1865-1903). |
| Harper | Frances Ellen Watkins | 1825-1911 | Poet, novelist, and lecturer in Pennsylvania. |
| Blackwell | Antoinette Louisa Brown | 1825-1921 | Unitarian Minister and feminist in New York and New Jersey. |
| Bascom | John | 1827-1911 | Prof. Rhetoric and Oratory at Williams College in Massachusetts (1852-54, 1855-74), President and Prof. Philosophy at Wisconsin (1874-87), Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Williams College (1888-1903). |
| Dietzgen | Peter Joseph | 1828-1888 | Socialist author in Germany and Chicago. |
| Brokmeyer | Henry Conrad | 1828-1906 | Independent scholar and politician in Missouri (1850s-1906). |
| Potter | William James | 1829-1893 | Minister in Massachusetts (1859-92). |
| Everett | Charles Carroll | 1829-1900 | Prof. Languages at Bowdoin (1853-57). Minister in Maine (1859-69). Prof. Theology at Harvard (1869-1900). |
| Wright | Chauncey | 1830-1875 | Mathematician for the Cambridge Observatory in Massachusetts (1852-72). |
| Green | Nicholas St. John | 1830-1875 | Instructor in Mental Philosophy at Harvard (1866-70), Instructor in Law at Harvard (1870-73), Prof. Law at Boston University (1873-75). |
| Pokagon | Simon | 1830-1899 | Potawatomi Indian leader and author in Michigan. |
| Davis | Noah Knowles | 1830-1910 | President of Bethel College (1868-73), Prof. Philosophy at Virginia (1873-93). |
| Munger | Theodore Thornton | 1830-1910 | Congregational Minister and theologian in New England. |
| Lockwood | Belva Ann Bennett McNall | 1830-1917 | Feminist lawyer and activist in Washington, D.C. |
| Blatavasky | Helena Petrovna | 1831-1891 | Co-founder of Theosophical movement in Europe, India, and United States. |
| Bradwell | Myra Colby | 1831-1894 | Newspaper publisher and lawyer in Chicago. |
| Pâquet | Benjamin | 1832-1900 | Prof. Theology at Université Laval in Québec (1866-93). |
| Conway | Moncure Daniel | 1832-1907 | Unitarian minister and abolitionist in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, and London. |
| Blood | Benjamin Paul | 1832-1919 | Independent writer in upstate New York. |
| Mulford | Elisha | 1833-1885 | Episcopal priest in Connecticut (1861), New Jersey (1861–64), Pennsylvania (1877–81). Lecturer on Apologetics at Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1881-85). |
| Ingersoll | Robert Green | 1833-1899 | Popular lecturer, politician, and freethinker in Illinois and New York. |
| Turner | Henry McNeal | 1834-1915 | African Methodist Episcopal Bishop and theologian in the South. |
| Howison | George Holmes | 1834-1916 | Prof. Philosophy at UC Berkeley (1884-1916). |
| Hamilton | Edward John | 1834-1918 | Prof. Philosophy at Hanover College (1868-79), Princeton (1882-83), Hamilton College (1883-91), Washington State (1895-1900). |
| Harris | William Torrey | 1835-1909 | School teacher and administrator in St. Louis (1858-79), Independent scholar in Concord, Massachusetts (1879-89), U.S. Commissioner of Education (1889-1906). |
| Twain | Mark (Samual Clemens) | 1835-1910 | Novelist and satirist in Missouri, Louisiana, California, New York City, and Connecticut. |
| Montgomery | Edmund Duncan | 1835-1911 | Independent biologist and philosopher in Texas (1873-1911). |
| Johnson | Francis Howe | 1835-1920 | Minister in Massachusetts, independent scholar. |
| Abbott | Lyman | 1835-1922 | Minister, author, and editor in New York City. |
| Abbot | Francis Ellingwood | 1836-1903 | Independent philosopher in Massachusetts. |
| Brackett | Anna Callendar | 1836-1911 | Teacher in St. Louis and New York. |
| Murray | John Clark | 1836-1917 | Prof. Philosophy at Queen’s University (1862-72), McGill (1872-1903). |
| DuBose | William Porcher | 1836-1918 | Episcopal Minister and Prof. Philosophy and Theology at The University of the South in Tennessee (1871-1908). |
| Gladden | Solomon Washington | 1836-1918 | Congregational Minister and author in Massachusetts (1875-82) and Ohio (1882-1918). |
| Kroeger | Adolph Ernst | 1837-1882 | Independent scholar in St. Louis. |
| Torrey | Henry Augustus Pierson | 1837-1902 | Prof. Philosophy at Vermont (1868-1902). |
| Howells | William Dean | 1837-1920 | Author and editor in Cambridge, Mass. (1866-78) and New York City (1891-1920). |
| Adams | Henry Brooks | 1838-1918 | Prof. Medieval History at Harvard (1871-77), Independent scholar and author in Washington, D.C. |
| Mitchell | Ellen | 1838-1920 | Teacher and philosopher in St. Louis and Concord, Massachusetts (1865-90), Prof. Philosophy at University of Denver (1890-92), independent scholar in New York. |
| Wright | George Frederick | 1838-1921 | Congregational Minister in New England, Prof. New Testament languages and literature at Oberlin Theological Seminary in Ohio (1881-92), Prof. Harmony of Science and Revelation at Oberlin Theological Seminary (1892-1907). |
| Woodhull | Victoria Claflin | 1838-1927 | Feminist author and social critic in New York City and London. |
| George | Henry | 1839-1897 | Social reformer and political theorist in New York City. |
| Sunderland | Eliza Jane Read | 1839-1910 | Feminist philosopher in Michigan |
| Peirce | Charles Sanders | 1839-1914 | Geodesist for U.S. Coast Survey (1863-91), Prof. Logic at Johns Hopkins (1879-84), Occasional Lecturer at Harvard. |
| Gray | John Chipman | 1839-1915 | Prof. Law at Harvard (1969-1913). |
| Tucker | William Jewett | 1839-1926 | Congregational Minister, Prof. Theology at Andover Theological Seminary (1880-93), President of Dartmouth College (1893-1909). |
| Raymond | George Lansing | 1839-1929 | Prof. Rhetoric and Oratory at Williams (1874-80), Prof. Oratory and Aesthetic Criticism at Princeton (1880-1905), Prof. Esthetics at George Washington University (1905-12). |
| Morris | George Sylvester | 1840-1889 | Prof. Modern Languages and Literature at Michigan (1870-80), Prof. Philosophy at Johns Hopkins (1880-85), Prof. Philosophy at Michigan (1881-89). |
| Cope | Edward Drinker | 1840-1897 | Curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences (1865-73), Paleontologist for the United States Geological Survey (1870s-1880s), Prof. Geology, Paleontology, and Zoology at Pennsylvania (1889-97). |
| Davidson | Thomas | 1840-1900 | Independent scholar in St. Louis (1867-75), Boston (1875-88) and New York (1888-1900). |
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1840-1904 | Chief of the Nez Perce (1871-1904). |
| Sumner | William Graham | 1840-1910 | Prof. Political and Social Science at Yale (1872-1909). |
| Clarke | William Newton | 1841-1912 | Baptist Minister, Prof. Christian Theology at Colgate Seminary in New York (1890-1912). |
| Briggs | Charles Augustus | 1841-1913 | Prof. Languages and Theology at Union Theological Seminary (1874-90), Prof. Theology at Union (1890-1913). |
| Ward | Lester Frank | 1841-1913 | Geologist and Paleontologist in U.S. Geological Survey (1882-1906), Prof. Sociology at Brown (1906-13). |
| Savage | Minot Judson | 1841-1918 | Unitarian Minister and theologian in Boston (1874-96) and New York City (1896-1906). |
| Snider | Denton Jaques | 1841-1925 | School teacher and independent scholar in St. Louis and Chicago. |
| Holmes | Oliver Wendell, Jr. | 1841-1935 | Justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882-1902), Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1902-32). |
| Fiske | John | 1842-1901 | Lecturer in Philosophy at Harvard (1869-71), Prof. American History at Washington University in St. Louis (1881-1890s). |
| James | William | 1842-1910 | Prof. Psychology and Philosophy at Harvard (1875-1907). |
| Ladd | George Trumbull | 1842-1921 | Congregational Minister in Ohio and Wisconsin (1869-79), Prof. Philosophy at Bowdoin College (1879-81), Yale (1881-1905). |
| Palmer | George Herbert | 1842-1933 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1872-1913). |
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Progressive Generation 1843-1859 |
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| Blow | Susan Elizabeth | 1843-1916 | Schoolteacher and writer in St. Louis and New York. |
| Bryant | William McKendree | 1843-1919 | Schoolteacher and independent scholar in St. Louis (1873-1912). |
| Bixby | James Thompson | 1843-1921 | Unitarian Minister, Prof. Religious Philosophy at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania (1878-81), Minister in New York City (1887-1903). |
| Smyth | Newman | 1843-1925 | Minister in Connecticut (1870-1907). |
| Kohler | Kaufmann | 1843-1926 | Rabbi and theologian in Chicago (1871-79) and New York City (1879-1903), President of Hebrew Union College in Ohio (1903-21). |
| Andrews | Elisha Benjamin | 1844-1917 | Prof Political Economy and History at Brown (1883-88), President of Brown (1889-98), Chancellor of University of Nebraska (1900-08). |
| Harris | George | 1844-1922 | Minister in Maine and R.I. (1869-83), Prof. Theology at Andover (1883-94), Preacher at Dartmouth (1894-99) and at Harvard (1897-99), President of Amherst College (1899-1912). |
| Hall | Granville Stanley | 1844-1924 | Prof. Psychology at Johns Hopkins (1882-88), President of Clark University (1888-1922). |
| Burgess | John William | 1844-1931 | Prof. History, Political Science, and International Law at Columbia (1876-1912). |
| Gronlund | Laurence | 1846-1899 | Journalist and socialist author in Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York. |
| Bowne | Borden Parker | 1847-1910 | Prof. Philosophy at Boston University (1877-1910). |
| Ormond | Alexander Thomas | 1847-1915 | Prof. Philosophy at Minnesota (1880-83), Princeton (1883-1913), President of Grove City College in Pennsylvania (1913-15). |
| Stearns | Lewis French | 1847-1915 | Prof. History and Belles-lettres at Albion College in Michigan (1876-79), Prof. Systematic Theology at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine (1880-92). |
| Schechter | Soloman | 1847-1915 | Prof. Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature at Cambridge (1890-1902), President of Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City (1902-15). |
| Strong | Josiah | 1847-1916 | Congregational Minister and social reformer in the Midwest and New York City. |
| Sterrett | James MacBride | 1847-1923 | Prof. Philosophy at Seabury Divinity School in Minnesota (1882-92), Columbian University (now George Washington University) (1892-1909). |
| Ladd-Franklin | Christine | 1847-1930 | Lecturer in Psychology and Logic at Johns Hopkins (1905-09), Columbia (1914-27). |
| Peabody | Francis Greenwood | 1847-1936 | Prof. Theology at Harvard (1881-86), Prof. Christian Morals at Harvard (1886-1912). |
| Clark | John Bates | 1847-1938 | Prof. Economics at Carlton College in Minnesota (1877-81), Smith College in Massachusetts (1881-95), Columbia University (1895-1923). |
| Watson | John | 1847-1939 | Prof. Philosophy at Queen’s University (1872-1924). |
| Beattie | Francis Robert | 1848-1906 | Prof. Apologetics and Systematic Theology at Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky (1893-1906). |
| Lazarus | Emma | 1849-1887 | Jewish poet, writer, and social activist in New York City. |
| Foltz | Clara Shortridge | 1849-1934 | Lawyer and social activist in California. |
| Bellamy | Edward | 1850-1898 | Socialist author in Massachusetts. |
| Garman | Charles Edward | 1850-1907 | Prof. Philosophy at Amherst College (1881-1907). |
| Curtis | Olin | 1850-1918 | Methodist Minister, Professor Systematic Theology at Boston University Theological School (1889-96), Drew Theological Seminary (1896-1914). |
| Ritchie | Eliza | 1850-1933 | Prof. Philosophy at Vassar College (1889-90), Wellesley College (1890-99), Lecturer in humanities at Dalhousie University (1900-27). |
| Zahm | John Augustus | 1851-1921 | Catholic Priest, Prof. Chemistry and Physics at Notre Dame (1875-92), U.S. Provincial of the Congregation of the Holy Cross in Notre Dame, Indiana (1898-1906). |
| Warfield | Benjamin Breckinridge | 1851-1921 | Prof. New Testament at Western Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania (1878-86), Prof. Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1886-1921). |
| Jordan | David Starr | 1851-1931 | Prof. Biology at Butler University in Indiana (1875-79), Prof. Natural History at Indiana (1879-85), President of Indiana (1885-91), President of Stanford (1891-1913), Chancellor of Stanford (1913-16). |
| Adler | Felix | 1851-1933 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1902-33). |
| Carus | Paul | 1852-1919 | Independent philosopher and editor in La Salle, Illinois (1887-1919). |
| Patten | Simon Nelson | 1852-1922 | Prof. Economics at Pennsylvania (1888-1918). |
| Marshall | Henry Rutgers | 1852-1927 | Architect, and lecturer on philosophy and psychology in New York City. |
| Kies | Marietta | 1853-1899 | Prof. Philosophy at Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts (1881-82, 1885-91), Colorado College (1882-85), Mills College in California (1891-92), Butler University in Indiana (1896-99). |
| Marquand | Allan | 1853-1924 | Lecturer in Logic at Princeton (1881-83), Professor of Art at Princeton (1883-1921). |
| Woodbey | George | 1854-1915 | Baptist Minister and socialist writer in Kansas, Missouri, and California. |
| Hyslop | James Hervey | 1854-1920 | Prof. Philosophy and Psychology at Columbia (1889-1902), Independent scholar in New York City (1902-20). |
| Small | Albion Woodbury | 1854-1926 | Prof. Sociology at Chicago (1892-1924). |
| Schurman | Jacob Gould | 1854-1942 | Prof. Philosophy at Acadia University (1880-82), Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (1882-85), Cornell (1885-1892), President of Cornell (1892-1920). |
| Ely | Richard Theodore | 1854-1943 | Prof. Political Economy at Johns Hopkins (1881-92), Prof. Economics at Wisconsin (1892-25), Northwestern (1925-33). |
| Royce | Josiah | 1855-1916 | Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1882-1916). |
| Alexander | Archibald | 1855-1917 | Prof. Philosophy at Columbia (1877-89). |
| Debs | Eugene | 1855-1926 | Labor leader and social theorist in Indiana and Illinois. |
| Gardiner | Harry Norman | 1855-1927 | Prof. Philosophy at Smith College in Massachusetts (1884-1924). |
| Williams | Fannie Barrier | 1855-1944 | Unitarian educator and social activist in New England and Chicago. |
| Washington | Booker Taliaferro | 1856-1915 | African American Leader and President of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (1881-1915). |
| Spencer | Anna Garlin | 1856-1931 | Associate leader of New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City (1903-1913), Prof. Sociology and Ethics at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania (1913-18), Chicago (1918-19), Lecturer of Social Sciences at Columbia (1920-31). |
| Mead | Lucia Ames | 1856-1936 | Feminist and pacifist writer in Massachusetts. |
| Gulliver | Julia Henrietta | 1856-1940 | Prof. Philosophy at Rockford Seminary in Illinois (1890-1919), and also Rockford's President (1902-19). |
| Brandeis | Louis Dembitz | 1856-1941 | Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1916-39). |
| Foster | George Burman | 1857-1918 | Prof. Philosophy at McMaster (1892-95), Prof. Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Chicago (1895-1918). |
| Veblen | Thorstein | 1857-1929 | Prof. Economics at Chicago (1892-1906), Stanford (1906-09), University of Missouri (1911-17), New School for Social Research (1919-26). |
| Carr | Herbert Wildon | 1857-1931 | Prof. Philosophy at University of London (1918-31), University of Southern California (1925-31). |
| Patrick | George Thomas White | 1857-1949 | Prof. Philosophy at Iowa (1887-1928). |
| Hyde | William De Witt | 1858-1917 | Prof. Philosophy and President of Bowdoin College in Maine (1886-1917). |
| Gayley | Charles Mills | 1858-1932 | Prof. English at UC Berkeley (1889-23). |
| King | Henry Churchill | 1858-1934 | Prof. Philosophy and Theology at Oberlin College in Ohio (1891-97), Prof. Theology at Oberlin (1897-25), President of Oberlin College (1902-27). |
| Eastman | Charles Alexander | 1858-1939 | Sioux administrator, author, and activist in South Dakota, Washington D.C., New Hampshire, and Canada. |
| Williams | Henry Horace | 1858-1940 | Prof. Philosophy at North Carolina (1891-1935). |
| Boas | Franz | 1858-1942 | Prof. Anthropology at Columbia (1899-1942). |
| Slosson | May Genevieve Preston | 1858-1943 | Prof. Greek and English at Hasting College in Nebraska (1882-91), Chaplain of Wyoming State Penitentiary (1898-1903), Director of the Young Women’s Christian Association in New York City (1903-20). |
| Cooper | Anna Julia Haywood | 1858-1964 | Teacher and writer in Washington, D.C. (1887-1906, 1910-37). |
| Fullerton | George Stuart | 1859-1925 | Prof. Philosophy at Pennsylvania (1883-1904), Columbia (1904-1917). |
| Ten Broeke | James | 1859-1937 | Prof. Philosophy at McMaster University (1895-1932). |
| Pâquet | Louis-Adolphe | 1859-1942 | Prof. Theology at Université Laval in Québec (1883-1942). |
| Dewey | John | 1859-1952 | Prof. Philosophy at Michigan (1884-88, 89-94), Chicago (1894-1904), Columbia (1905-29). |
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Missionary Generation 1860-1882 |
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| Mullins | Edgar Young | 1860-1928 | Baptist Minister and theologian, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky (1899-1928). |
| Gilman | Charlotte Perkins | 1860-1935 | Feminist author in California, New York, and Connecticut. |
| Armstrong | Andrew Campbell | 1860-1935 | Prof. Philosophy at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-1930). |
| Addams | Jane | 1860-1935 | Social activist, feminist, and pacifist in Chicago. |
| Everett | Walter Goodnow | 1860-1937 | Prof. Philosophy at Brown (1894-1930). |
| Cattell | James McKeen | 1860-1944 | Prof. Psychology at Pennsylvania (1889-91), Columbia (1891-1917). |
| Hume | James Gibson | 1860-1949 | Prof. Philosophy at Toronto (1891-1926). |
| Rauschenbusch | Walter | 1861-1918 | Minister in New York City (1886-97), Prof. Theology at Rochester Theological Seminary (1897-18). |
| Creighton | James Edwin | 1861-1924 | Prof. Philosophy at Cornell (1889-1924). |
| Wenley | Robert Mark | 1861-1929 | Prof. Philosophy at Queen Margaret College in Scotland (1888-95), Michigan (1896-29). |
| Hibben | John Grier | 1861-1933 | Prof. Philosophy at Princeton (1891-1912), President of Princeton (1912-32). |
| Baldwin | James Mark | 1861-1934 | Prof. Psychology at Toronto (1889-93), Princeton (1893-1903), Prof. Philosophy and Psychology at Johns Hopkins (1903-09). |
| Pace | Edward Aloysius | 1861-1938 | Prof. Psychology at Catholic University of America (1891-94), Prof. Philosophy at Catholic University of America (1894-1935). |
| Whitehead | Alfred North | 1861-1947 | Fellow and Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge (1884-1910), Prof. Applied Mathematics at University of London (1914-24), Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1924-37). |
| Scudder | Vida Dutton | 1861-1954 | Prof. English at Wellesley College in Massachusetts (1887-1928). |
| Ransom | Reverdy Cassius | 1861-1959 | African Methodist Episcopal Ministe |