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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835, grew up in Hannibal. He was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Throughout his career, Twain served as a writer, lecturer, reporter, editor, printer, and prospector. Twain took his pen name from an alert cry used on his steamboat - "by the mark, twain".- Music Department
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Composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems -the first of that genre to be written by a Frenchman- and for his opera 'Samson et Dalila'. Notable for his pioneering efforts on behalf of French music, he was also a gifted pianist and organist, and a writer of criticism, poetry, essays, and plays. Of his concerti and symphonies, in which he adapted the virtuosity of Franz Liszt's style to French traditions of harmony and form, his 'Third Symphony' is most often performed.- Leopold II (French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch: Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 - 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through will and effort, the absentee owner and autocratic ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
Born in Brussels as the second but eldest surviving son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for exactly 44 years until his death, the longest reign of a Belgian monarch to date. He died without surviving legitimate sons. The current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor, Albert I. - William Rufus Shafter was born on 16 October 1835 in Galesburg, Michigan, USA. He was married to Harriet Grimes. He died on 12 November 1906.
- Andrew Carnegie is a Scottish-American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million (conservatively $66 billion in 2024 dollars, based on percentage of GDP) to charities, foundations, and universities - almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848 at age 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next several years.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, and the Peace Palace and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others. - Giosuè Carducci was born on 27 July 1835 in Valdicastello di Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy. Giosuè was a writer, known for Teatro Satanico: Inno A Satana Virginia (2015). Giosuè was married to Elvira Menicucci. Giosuè died on 16 February 1907 in Bologna, Italy.
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Henryk Wieniawski was born on 10 July 1835 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was a composer, known for Prometheus (2012), The Help (2011) and Sightseers (2012). He was married to Isabella Hampton. He died on 31 March 1880 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia].- Emile Gaboriau has been described both as the father of the detective novel and the Edgar Allan Poe of France. His fictional detective, Monsieur Lecoq, is thought to have been based on the "Mémoires" (1828-29) of Eugène-François Vidocq, a reformed petty criminal who helped establish the Police de Sûreté in Paris. Lecoq is considered a precursor of Sherlock Holmes. Gaboriau wrote 21 novels altogether.
- Phillips Brooks was born on 13 December 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Phillips died on 23 January 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- H.J. Byron was born on 8 January 1835 in Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Uncle Dick's Darling (1920) and Our Boys (1915). He died on 11 April 1884 in Clapham Park, London, England, UK.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born on 4 October 1835 in London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Lady Audley's Secret (1915), East Lynne (1916) and Lady Audley's Secret (1920). She was married to John Maxwell. She died on 4 February 1915 in Richmond, England, UK.
- Martha Roosevelt was born on 8 July 1835 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She was married to Theodore Roosevelt Sr.. She died on 14 February 1884 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Pope Pius X was born on 2 June 1835 in Riese, Treviso, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Riese Pio X, Veneto, Italy]. He died on 20 August 1914 in Vatican City.
- Matt Snyder was born on 22 March 1835. He was an actor, known for The Garden of Allah (1916), Salomy Jane (1914) and Money (1915). He died on 17 January 1917 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Manuel Fernández Caballero was born on 14 March 1835 in Murcia, Spain. He was a composer and writer, known for El último cuplé (1957), Los aparecidos (1927) and De Madrid al cielo (1952). He died on 26 February 1906 in Madrid, Spain.- Vitezslav Halek was born on 5 April 1835 in Dolínek, Melnik, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Muzikantská Liduska (1940). He was married to Dorota Horackova. He died on 8 October 1874 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].
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Louis Gallet was born on 14 February 1835 in Valence, Drôme, France. Louis was a writer, known for Staryy novyy god (1981), Musical TV Theater (1970) and Le Cid (2011). Louis died on 16 October 1898 in Paris, France.- Maria Ulyanova was born on 22 February 1835 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was married to Ilya Ulyanov. She died on 25 July 1916 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Thomas Brigham Bishop was born on 29 June 1835 in Kennebec County, Maine, USA. Thomas Brigham was married to Sarah Ann Sherris. Thomas Brigham died on 15 May 1905 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Robert McWade Sr. was born on 25 January 1835 in Long Sault Rapids, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for As You Like It (1912), Rip Van Winkle (1912) and Papa Puts One Over (1913). He was married to Laura J. Childress. He died on 5 March 1913 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Susan Coolidge was born on 29 January 1835 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was a writer, known for Katy (1976), How Does It End? (1952) and Katy (1962). She died on 9 April 1905 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
- Anton Bergman was born on 29 June 1835 in Lier, Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Dat Ernest met Bertha vrijdt... (1974). He died on 21 January 1874 in Lier, Flanders, Belgium.
- Augusta J. Evans-Wilson was born on 8 May 1835 in Columbus, Georgia, USA. Augusta J. was a writer, known for Infelice (1915) and St. Elmo (1923). Augusta J. died on 9 May 1909 in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
- Josef Svátek was born on 24 February 1835 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria [now Czech Republic]. Josef was a writer, known for Prazský kat (1927). Josef died on 9 December 1897 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson grew up in Alabama, from whence her family had moved from Georgia due to her father's economic woes. Wilson was one of the last major authors of the domestic novel, a genre focusing on the personal growth of a female character, usually including a major plot. An erudite woman, Wilson adhered to the genre's basic outlines, but veered from it by incorporating explicit religious, philosophical, and political themes into most of her novels.
According to family lore, Wilson secretly wrote a novel at age 15, which she presented to her father as a Christmas present in 1850. She made her debut as a professional author at age 20 when this novel, the first of nine, was published as _Inez_ in 1855. However, Wilson later adopted a tolerant stance toward all Christian denominations. She also corresponded with a Jewish woman, This story of love, betrayal, and redemption set during the Texan war for independence in the 1830s, marked by heavy helpings of anti-Catholicism in its portrayal of a sinister, stereotypical Jesuit priest, sold poorly. However, Wilson's next work, Beulah (1859), the story of an orphaned young woman's disaffection from religion and then conversion back to Christianity, was a bestseller, especially among young women. In Beulah, Wilson also laid out her vision of women as the guardians of Christian morality, as the title heroine devotes herself to the conversion of her newly wed husband, a long-standing atheist.
By the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, Wilson had achieved, for a lady, an unusual status, respected for her erudition and political commitment by a great number of prominent Southern men, including Confederate General P.G.T. Beuregard, with whom she corresponded. Unlike the classic Southern lady, Wilson placed her ideological principles above her personal life, breaking off her engagement to a Northern journalist because of his pro-Union views.
Wilson leaped into the arena of literary agitprop with her third novel,Macaria, or Altars of Sacrifice (1863), which was dedicated to the Confederate soldiers and overtly championed the cause of Southern independence. Macaria was not only a bestseller in the Confederacy, but it was so effective as propaganda among Union soldiers that it was banned in the North. The novel inverted a central premise of the domestic novel - the heroine's marriage to her true love - by having the central character forgo marrying the man whom she loved in favor of celibate dedication to the new Southern nation, which, unlike the despotic North, was truly devoted to republican liberty. However, it was after the Civil War that Evans achieved her greatest success with St. Elmo (1866), a more conventional domestic novel once again concerning a moody, Heathcliff-like man who improves his character and accepts Christianity (in this case, even becoming a monster) because of the love of a virtuous woman. St. Elmo was a runaway bestseller and became a fixture of popular culture.
After her marriage to 60-year-old widower Lorenzo Madison Wilson in 1868, Wilson's literary output slowed, and none of her later novels achieved the popularity of St. Elmo. Her first two novels after her marriage were Vashti (1869) and Infelice (1875), which were both strikingly apolitical and concerned women living under assumed identities who had been wronged by and were now estranged from their husbands. She followed up these efforts with At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887) and A Speckled Bird (1902). In her final years, she wrote a brief work that she originally intended to be a short story, but a publisher wanted another book from her, so the story was published as a short novel, Devota (1907). This was her last publication before her death at age 74 on May 9, 1909. Wilson's novels remained popular until ca. 1950. William Perry Fidler wrote a biography of the author, which was published in 1951. However, due to her didactic approach to writing, her classical actions, and her reactionary views on race, women's roles, the Confederacy, and Reconstruction, her popularity plummeted after the mid-20th century. Wilson quickly lapsed into obscurity.
However, recently, scholarly interest in Wilson has grown. In 1992, Louisiana State University Press published editions of Beulah and Macaria, with prefaces by, respectively, noted Southern/women's historians Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Drew Gilpin Faust. Wilson is also mentioned in a number of 1990s historical and literary-critical scholarly works. Anne Sophie Riepma published a biography/literary analysis, Fire and Fiction, in 2000. In 2002, Rebecca Grant Sexton compiled and edited Wilson's letters in A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. - Eduardo Pondal was born on 8 February 1835 in Ponteceso, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. He died on 8 March 1917 in Ponteceso, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
- Fitzhugh Lee was born on 19 November 1835 in Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. He died on 28 April 1905 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Anderson Hatfield was born on 25 September 1835 in Blackberry Creek, Pike County, Kentucky, USA. He was married to Mary 'Polly' Runyon. He died on 6 March 1920 in Blackberry Creek, Pike County, Kentucky, USA.
- Heinrich Wilken was born on 27 January 1835. Heinrich was a writer, known for Kyritz - Pyritz (1931). Heinrich died on 21 May 1886 in Berlin, Germany.