(1829-1900) Editor, novelist. Charles Dudley Warner graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1845 and enrolled at Hamilton College in 1848. After practicing law in Chicago, he edited the “Hartford Courant.” He also edited the “American Men of Letters” series, for which he wrote a life of Washington Irving, and also the “Library of the Worlds Best … Continued
(1871-1945) Novelist, writer. “An American Tragedy” (1925). Dreiser came to New York City in 1895. Dreiser lived at 160 Bleecker Street, 165 W. 10th Street, 16 St. Luke’s Place, 118 W. 11th Street, 116 W. 11th Street, and at Patchin Place, all in Greenwich Village, New York, New York; he also lived on W. 15th … Continued
(1820-1906) Reformer, editor, publisher. Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. She received her education in rural Monroe County, New York where she began teaching in 1846. She helped launch the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York in 1852, which brought her into the women’s suffrage movement. In 1868, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, … Continued
Playwright. Born in Rochester. After graduating from Yale in 1919, Barry worked with George Pierce Baker at the famous 47 Dramatic Workshop at Harvard until 1922. In the next 20 years, Barrys plays were produced on the New York stage. Among the more successful plays are “Holiday” (1929), “Hotel Universe” (1930), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” (1931), … Continued
(1818-1895) Abolitionist, orator, writer. Frederick Douglass founded his newspaper, the “North Star,” in Rochester, New York, after moving there in 1847. The newspaper ran for seventeen years. One of the Douglass homes was at 247 Alexander Street. It was burned down in 1872, after which he moved to Washington, DC. Douglass died in 1895 and … Continued
(1825-1907) Novelist. Mary Jane Holmes was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and died in Brockport, New York. She moved to Brockport, New York, in about 1854.
(1736-1836) Seneca chief, orator, treaty-composer. Was born along the Genesee River. Born along the Genesee River to a Seneca Mother and a white father (O’Bail or Abeel). A Chief who initially fought against the British, he fought alongside the British during the American Revolution. After the war he composed many treaties and was a powerful … Continued
(1912-1999) Novelist, writer. Garson Kanin was born in Rochester, New York, in 1912 and died in New York City in 1999. He was the brother of Michael Kanin.
(1735?-1815) Seneca chief, prophet, leader, storyteller, orator. “The Code of Handsome Lake/ The Gaiwiio.” Handsome Lake was born near the Genesee river in Livingston county. He was an Iroquois chief, half-brother of Cornplanter, who fought in the Revolutionary War and who went on to express a religious and social vision known as “The Code of … Continued
(1850-1928) Writer. Henry Francis Keenan was born in Rochester, New York.