Notable People from New York

Peter A. Porter

American politician (1853-1925)

Robert Emmet Odlum

Swimming instructor; first person to dive off Brooklyn Bridge (1851-1885)

Robert Temple Emmet

United States Army Colonel, Medal of Honor awardee (1854-1936)

Samuel Isham

American artist (1855–1914)

Henry Roberts

American politician (1853–1929); Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907

Frederick B. Fancher

American politician (1852–1944)

George B. Shaw

American politician and lumberman (1854–1894)

Theron Akin

U.S. Representative (1855–1933)

Annie I. Crawford

American painter (1856-1942)

Herman Hartwich

American painter (1853-1926)

John R. Coryell

American crime writer (1851-1924)

Thomas Commerford

American actor (1855-1920)

Francis Kelsey

American classical philologist and archaeologist (1858–1927)

Benjamin Rutherford Fitz

American artist (1855–1891)

George Cary

American architect

Katherine Eleanor Conway

American journalist, editor, poet

Emma Augusta Sharkey

American writer, journalist, dime novelist, and story-teller (1858-1902)

David Francis Barry

American photographer (1854–1934)

Anne Huntington Allen

American painter (1858-1946)

Antoinette Sterling

American singer (1850-1904)

Arthur Stilwell

American railroad executive (1859-1928)

Benjamin Ives Gilman

Secretary of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Erastus C. Knight

American mayor (1857–1923)

Eugene A. Philbin

American judge (1857-1920)

Joseph Henry Conroy

Catholic bishop (1858-1939)

Katrina Trask

American writer (1853-1922)

John R. Clancy

American politician (1859-1932)

Tudor Jenks

American journalist (1857–1922)

Francis J. Heney

American lawyer (1859–1937); U.S. District Attorney and prosecutor of the Oregon Land Fraud trials and the San Francisco graft trials

Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop

American Delsartean lecturer and instructor (1858-1916)

Dore Davidson

American stage actor

Cora Belle Brewster

American physician, surgeon, medical writer, editor (1859-1937)

Flora A. Brewster

American physician, surgeon (1852-1919)

Ernest Robinson Ackerman

American politician (1863-1931)

Grace Livingston Hill

American writer, novelist, and short story writer (1865–1947)

Alfred Holland Smith

United States railway official (1863-1924)

Andrew Freedman

American baseball player

Ice Box Chamberlain

American baseball player (1867–1929)

Isabelle Urquhart

American actress and singer (1865-1907)

Edmund H. Driggs

American politician (1865–1946)

George Washington Lindsay

American politician (1865-1938)

John Kissel

American politician (1864-1938)

Allan Benny

American politician (1867-1942)

Edwin S. Underhill

American politician

Elisabeth Luther Cary

American writer and art critic

Rowland B. Mahany

American politician (1864–1937)

S. Wallace Dempsey

American politician

Augustus G. Paine, Jr.

businessman (1866-1947)

Thomas F. Magner

American politician (1860-1945)

Paul Kosok

American historian and anthropologist