Redwood Library and Athenaeum
presents
Notable Personages in Rhode Island's History
A Finding Aid and Guide
to the Famous,
the Infamous,
the Celebrated,
and the Celebrities
of Newport, Rhode Island.
by Brian Stinson
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X Y Z
Appendices
Alexander Agassiz
Maximilian Agassiz
Washington Allston
John Banister
August Belmont
Eleanor Robson Belmont
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
John Howard Benson
Bishop George Berkeley
William Ellery Channing
Benjamin Church, Jr.
William Claggett
John Clarke
Henry Collins
Michele Felice Cornè
George T. Downing
Doris Duke
William Ellery
Maud Howe Elliot
John Goddard
Peter Harrison
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Julia Ward Howe
Richard Morris Hunt
William R. Hunter
Henry James
Martha and Maxim Karolik
Charles Bird King
Clarence King
John La Farge
Ida Lewis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Aaron Lopez
Clement Clarke Moore
Levi P. Morton
Marsden Perry
Matthew Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry
Jane Pickens
Raphael Pumpelly
Abraham Redwood
Jacob Rodrigues Rivera
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau
Ezra Stiles
Gilbert Stuart
Charles-Louis d’Arsac Chevalier de Ternay
Isaac and Judah Touro
William Vernon
Benjamin Waterhouse
Edith Wharton
Marcus Wheatland, Sr.
Appendices
Newport Notables' Houses and Buildings
Newport in Fiction
Newporters on the Titanic
Researcher/Author:
Brian Stinson
Project Editors:
Lynda Bronaugh
Jennifer K. Caswell
Christian Albrecht-Gollub
Brian Stinson
Web Version Design:
Myles Byrne
funded by
the
Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities
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