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Famous New Yorkers

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READY NOW! Famous New Yorkers XXII:

Listed in alphabetical order, the following individuals are going to be profiled in the 2023-2024 series: Professional boxer, Carmen Basilio; Impeached United States Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant, William Belknap; Actor, artist, author, craftsman, Seneca Faithkeeper and decorated World War I veteran, Jesse Cornplanter; American journalist, writer, and filmmaker, Nora Ephron; American nutritionist and the inventor of breakfast cereal, James Caleb Jackson; Founder of the Gray Panthers, Margaret "Maggie" Kuhn; Mayor of New York City 1934-1946, Fiorello La Guardia; (not pictured) Revolutionary War Soldier, a founder and trustee of the first Black school in Albany, Benjamin Lattimore Sr.; One of the founders of the Wilderness Society, Robert Marshall; Talk show host, Regis Philbin; Actor and American rapper; Tupac Shakur; Toy and doll collector, philanthropist and benefactor for the Strong Museum of Play, Margaret Woodbury Strong; and Political boss of Tammany Hall, the base of NY Democratic Party's power during the 19th Century, William "Boss" Tweed  

To access the Famous New Yorkers XXII Teachers' Guide and Student Graphic Organizers click here.

Contact Mary Miller at mmiller@nynpa.com to gain access the audio podcasts of each of the above profiles.

The posted samples below will give you some idea what this content has to offer. Please contact Mary Miller at NYNPA if any of these series are of interest to you. Copyright fees may apply..

John Clum Feature (downloadable PDF file)

John Clum Audio Pod Cast (MP3 file)

Famous New Yorkers XIII Graphic Organizers (downloadable PDF file)

 

Famous New Yorkers I: Alice Austen, Lucille Ball, Francis Bellamy, Danny Biasone, George Eastman, Wilson Greatbatch, Grandma Moses, Robert Moses, Kate Mullany, Hal Roach, Carl Sagan, William Seward and Sojourner Truth.

Famous New Yorkers II: Antoinette Brown Blackwell, John Brown, Willis Carrier, Frederic Church, Julia Etta Crane, Grace Murray Hopper, Robert H. Jackson, Henry Johnson, Eli Parker, Jedidiah Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary B. Talbert and Walt Whitman.

Famous New Yorkers III: Amelia Jenks Bloomer, DeWitt Clinton, Glenn H. Curtiss, Jane Delano, William J. Donovan, Belva Ann Lockwood, Solomon Northup, Tito Puente, George Pullman, Frederic Remington, Philip John Schuyler, Mary Edwards Walker, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Famous New Yorkers IV: Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Bourke-White, James Cagney, Cab Calloway, Cornplanter, Chauncey Depew, Gertrude Ederle, Washington Irving, Rev. Jermaine Wesley Loguen, Joan Whitney Payson, Margaret Evans Price, Rod Serling and Frank Winfield Woolworth.

Famous New Yorkers V: Louise Blanchard Bethune, Maria Callas, Theodore Case, Shirley Chisholm, Ezra Cornell, William Fargo, Marietta Holley, John W. Jones, Rosalie Jones, Alfred E. Smith, Seneca Ray Stoddard, Nicholas Stoner and Martin Van Buren.

Famous New Yorkers VI: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, Rodney Dangerfield, Ella Fitzgerald, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, Walter Hagen, Anna Caroline Maxwell, Jack Shea, Susan McKinney Steward, Edith Wharton, E.B. White, Helen Munson Williams, and John Peter Zenger.

Famous New Yorkers VII: Fanny Brice, Melville Dewey, Frederick Douglass, Elmer Ellsworth, Sarah Loguen Fraser, Katharine Graham, Leroy Grumman, Alex Haley, Alexander Hamilton, Johnny Hart, Robert R. Livingston, Bruce McKinley Shanks, and Philip Van Cortlandt.

Famous New Yorkers VIII: Thomas Elkins, Ray Evans, Frank Gannett, Lou Gehrig, Julia Ward Howe, Bob Keeshan, Beth Levine, Abraham Maslow, Roger Tory Peterson, John D. Rockefeller, Tim Russert, Mitchell Sabattis, and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

Famous New Yorkers IX: George Francis Abbott, Anne Bancroft, Mathew Brady, Lucille Clifton, Agnes de Mille, William West Durant, Jackie Gleason, John Jay, Isaac Merritt Singer, Elbridge G. Spaulding, Kateri Tekakwitha, Jimmy Van Heusen and Fats Waller.

Famous New Yorkers X: Roscoe Conkling, Millard Fillmore, Kate Gleason, Jupiter Hammon, Lena Horne, Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, Michael "King" Kelly, Madeleine L'Engle, The Statue of Liberty, Julius Sterling Morton, Elmer A. Sperry, William Steig and Harriet Tubman.

Famous New Yorkers XI: James Baldwin, George Crum, Ernie Davis, Bob Denver, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sybil Ludington, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Milton Rogovin, J. D. Salinger, Blanche Stuart Scott, Edward Livingston Trudeau, William Van Alen and Almanzo James Wilder.

Famous New Yorkers XII: Harold Arlen, Edwin Binney, John Burroughs,Geraldine Ferraro, The Three Stooges - Morris, Samuel and Jerome Horwitz, Clarence "Fats" Jenkins, Mary Edmonia Lewis, Isabel Sanford, Gerrit Smith, Annie Edson Taylor, Edward B. Vreeland, William Almon Wheeler, and Walter Winchell.

Famous New Yorkers XIII: Eugenie Besserer, Bessie Buchanan, John Clum, Gertrude Belle Elion, Annette Funicello, Seth Green, Edward Henry Harriman,George “Gabby” Hayes, Othniel Charles Marsh, Andrew Rooney, James McCune Smith,Gore Vidal, and Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner.

Famous New Yorkers XIV: Ira Frederick Aldridge, Francis Church, Sara Jane Clark, Marie Maynard Daly, Ann B. Davis, John McGraw, Ogden Nash, John Edward Noble, Arthur C. Parker, Joan Rivers, Jonas Salk, Dorothy Thompson and Louis Zamparini.

Famous New Yorkers XV: Joseph Barbera, Lina Beecher, Jane Bolin, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, Richie Havens, Herman Hollerith, Edward Hopper, Robert Lansing, Vince Lombardi, Albert Myer, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Julia Gardiner Tyler and Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Famous New Yorkers XVI: Jehudi Ashmun, Walter Rollin Brooks, Sammy Davis Jr, Marian de Forest, Abner Doubleday, John "Bud" Fowler, Jerome "Brud" Holland, Jonathan Larson, Emma Lazarus, Ross Gilmore Marvin, Nancy Davis Reagan, Clarence Stein and Benjamin Franklin Tracy.

Famous New Yorkers XVII: Dick Clark, Susan Elizabeth Frazier, Orville Gibson, Bret Harte, John B. Jervis, David McConnell, Mary Tyler Moore, Stephen Myers, Phil Rizzuto, Emily Warren Roebling, Dorothy Schiff, Pete Seeger and Francis Striker.

Famous New Yorkers XVIII: Thayendanegea/Joseph Brant, Harry Chapin, Rhoda Fox Graves, Gregory Hines, George Hormel, Charles Evan Hughes, Albro Lyons, Sr., Barbara Rose Johns Powell, Elihu Root, Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, Ralph Waite, Wendy Wasserstein and John Willys

Famous New Yorkers XIX: Barbara Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rita Hayworth, Joseph Henry, Maud Humphrey, Luther Sage “Yellowstone” Kelly, Seymour H. Knox III, Maurice Bernard Sendak, Thomas Truxtun, Linus Yale Jr., Luther Vandross, James Varick, Margaret M. "Wiggie" Wigiser

Famous New Yorkers XX: Katharine Burr Blodgett, Eric Carle, Minna Anthony Common, Kirk Douglas, General Nicholas Herkimer, Corky Lee, Stan Lee, James Campbell Matthews, Dom Messick, Mitch Miller, Mollie Dobbs Sneden, Isador Starr and Cicely Tyson

Famous New Yorkers XXI: L. Frank Baum, Wilson Bickford, Thérèse Bonney, Anthony Michael Bourdain, Johnny Evers, Ray Tehanetorens Fadden, Amanda Foster, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Morrison, Christopher Reeve, Stephen Sondheim and Winifred Stanley

Click here for a complete alphabetical list of Famous New Yorker profiles.

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