19th-century American businesspeople

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

American business magnate (1863–1947)

American industrialist and philanthropist (1839–1937)

American showman and politician (1810–1891)

African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)

American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)

American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer (1854–1932)

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)

American statistician and inventor（1860-1929）

American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)

American inventor and businessman (1846–1914)

American inventor (1800-1860)

German-Jewish-born American businessman (1829-1902)

American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)

American businessman; inventor of the Singer sewing machine (1811-1875)

American author (1850–1904)

American modernist composer (1874–1954)

American businessman (1870-1965)

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

First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923

American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel (1864–1912)

Founder of Otis Elevator Co.

American electrical engineer

American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)

American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist (1795–1873)

American journalist (1851–1902)

American judge (1844-1926)

American businessman (1865–1912)

American blacksmith and manufacturer (1804–1886)

American film producer (1875–1941)

American businessperson (1828–1905)

German-American engineer

American businessman (1869–1918)

American businessman (1819–1892)

American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine (1828–1914)

American financier (1834–1916)

early founder of Chicago

American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist (1795–1869)

American photographer and lamp manufacturer (1809–1893)

Confederate States Army general (1824-1893)

American politician (1798-1859)

American politician and businessman (1791-1883)

retailing magnate victim of the Titanic sinking (1845–1912)

American businessman and Massachusetts politician (1858–1929)

American distiller and founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. (1850–1911)

writer, historian, real estate investor (1858–1912)

American politician (1810–1886)

American banker and art collector (1837-1905)

American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States (1819-1880)

American tailor (1831–1908)

American meat packer (1766-1854)

Lincoln assassination conspirator

American politician (1820-1891)

German-American businessman and chemist (1824–1906)

American banker (1821-1904)

American businessman and philanthropist (1821–1885)

American firearm designer (1793–1861)

American politician (1748-1828)

American businessman (1852-1919)

American abolitionist (1823–1893)