18th-century American businesspeople

vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived (1756–1836)

American silversmith and Patriot in the American Revolution (1735–1818)

American general and Secretary of War (1750–1806)

American businessman and author (1747–1806)

American businessman

American inventor

American army officer

American planter and agriculturalist (1722–1799)

American politician (1760-1823)

African-American abolitionist, pioneer of civil rights

German-American industrialist (1834-1914)

American financier

American colonial newspaper printer and publisher (1696-1763)

tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War

American papermaking businessman, 1644–1708

thumb|right | Painting of a Comanchero or Comanche Indian by George Catlin, in 1835 The Comancheros were a group of 18th- and 19th-century traders based in northern and central New Mexico. They made their living by trading with the nomadic Great Plains Indian tribes in northeastern New Mexico, West Texas, and other parts of the southern plains of North America.

American businessman

American editor and publisher, founder of The Old Farmer's Almanac

oral historian and centenarian, born a slave in Philadelphia

American composer (1758-1842)