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The list American city founders includes Horace Tabor, Joseph Smith, Allen Allensworth, Brigham Young and William Penn. The list consists of 451 members and 2 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Joseph Smith
    Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844)
    Joseph Smith
    Overview: Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon ...
    Date of birth: 23 December 1805
    Date of death: 27 June 1844
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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    Seership in Mormonism 4T
    Burials at the Smith Family Cemetery 10T
    Male murder victims 1,472T
  • 2.

    Horace Tabor
    American politician
    Horace Tabor
    Overview: Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (November 26, 1830 – April 10, 1899), also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville, was an American prospector, businessman, and Republican politician. His life is the ...
    Date of birth: 26 November 1830
    Date of death: 10 April 1899
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    People from Leadville, Colorado 36T
    American postmasters 503T
    People from Park County, Colorado 12T
  • 3.

    William Penn
    Colonial American writer and religious thinker (1644–1718)
    William Penn
    Overview: William Penn (24 October [O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania ...
    Date of birth: 14 October 1644
    Date of death: 30 July 1718
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist,Scientist
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    English dissidents 1T
    British slave owners 184T
    Quakers from Pennsylvania 22T
  • 4.

    Allen Allensworth
    American chaplain, colonel, city founder, and theologian
    Allen Allensworth
    Overview: Allen Allensworth (7 April 1842 – 14 September 1914), born into slavery in Kentucky, escaped during the American Civil War and became a Union soldier; later he became a Baptist minister and educator, and ...
    Date of birth: 7 April 1842
    Date of death: 14 September 1914
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
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    19th-century American slaves 304T
    People from Georgetown, Ohio 23T
    Baptists from Kentucky 102T
  • 5.

    Isaac Newton Van Nuys
    American farmer
    Isaac Newton Van Nuys
    Overview: Isaac Newton Van Nuys (November 20, 1836 – February 12, 1912) was an American businessman, farmer and rancher who owned the entire southern portion of the San Fernando Valley—an area 15 miles long ...
    Date of birth: 20 November 1836
    Date of death: 12 February 1912
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    People in 19th-century California 21T
    19th century in Los Angeles, California 114T
    California pioneers 73T
  • 6.

    Bernard de la Harpe
    French explorer
    Bernard de la Harpe
    Overview: Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (4 February 1683 in Saint-Malo – 26 September 1765) was a French explorer who is credited with using the name "Little Rock" in 1722 for a stone outcropping on the bank ...
    Date of birth: 1683
    Date of death: 26 September 1765
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    French explorers of North America 50T
    Explorers of the United States 131T
    Pre-statehood history of Oklahoma 131T
  • 7.

    Ben Klassen
    American religious leader and politician
    Ben Klassen
    Overview: Bernhardt (or Ben) Klassen (February 20, 1918 – August 6, 1993) was an American politician and white supremacist religious leader. He founded the Church of the Creator with the publication of his ...
    Date of birth: 20 February 1918
    Date of death: 6 August 1993
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Critic
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    1993 suicides 35T
    Fascist politicians 34T
    Germ theory denialists 22T
  • 8.

    Brigham Young
    American religious leader (1801–1877)
    Brigham Young
    Overview: Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader, politician, and settler. He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) ...
    Date of birth: 1 June 1801
    Date of death: 29 August 1877
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
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    Latter Day Saints from Vermont 18T
    Latter Day Saints from Ohio 91T
    Latter Day Saints from Illinois 196T
  • 9.

    Chester H. Pond
    American inventor
    Chester H. Pond
    Overview: Chester H. Pond (March 26, 1844 – June 11, 1912) was an American inventor. He invented the first electrical self-winding clock, which could be electrically synchronized with a master clock—and helped ...
    Date of birth: 26 March 1844
    Date of death: 11 June 1912
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Inventor
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    People from Moorhead, Mississippi 6T
    People from Medina, Ohio 31T
    Oberlin College people 12T
  • 10.

    William Stephen Hamilton
    American politician
    William Stephen Hamilton
    Overview: William Stephen Hamilton (August 4, 1797 – October 9, 1850), a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, was an American politician and miner who lived much of his life in the U.S. state ...
    Date of birth: 4 August 1797
    Date of death: 9 October 1850
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
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    Hamilton family 23T
    Politicians from Albany, New York 164T
    Military personnel from Illinois 625T
  • 11.

    Charles Sreeve Peterson
    American politician and bishop
    Charles Sreeve Peterson
    Overview: Charles Sreeve Peterson (July 28, 1818 – September 26, 1889) was an early Mormon leader who was the first settler of Utah's Morgan Valley, a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature, and one of the first ...
    Date of birth: 28 July 1818
    Date of death: 26 September 1889
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
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    People from Morgan, Utah 6T
    Latter Day Saints from New Jersey 26T
    Latter Day Saints from Illinois 192T
  • 12.

    Arthur Stilwell
    Railroad executive
    Arthur Stilwell
    Overview: Arthur Edward Stilwell (October 21, 1859 – September 26, 1928) was the founder of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, predecessor to the Kansas City Southern Railway. He served as KCPG's ...
    Date of birth: 21 October 1859
    Date of death: 26 September 1928
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
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    Businesspeople from Rochester, New York 72T
    American psychics 61T
    Kansas City Southern Railway 23T
  • 13.

    Isaac Roop
    American politician
    Isaac Roop
    Overview: Isaac Newton Roop (March 13, 1822 – February 14, 1869) was a United States politician, pioneer, and a lifelong member of the Whig party. In 1859, he was the first elected (provisional) governor of the ...
    Date of birth: 13 March 1822
    Date of death: 14 February 1869
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Occupation: Politician
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    Nevada Whigs 1T
    People from Susanville, California 19T
    Members of the Nevada Territorial Legislature 4T
  • 14.

    A. P. (Ace) Borger
    American mayor
    Overview: Asa Phillip (Ace) Borger (April 12, 1888 – August 31, 1934), the founder of Borger, Texas, was born to Phillip Borger and the former Minnie Ann West on a family farm near Carthage, Missouri. His father ...
    Date of birth: 12 April 1888
    Date of death: 31 August 1934
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
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    20th-century American businesspeople 6,643T
    Businesspeople from Missouri 91T
    Mayors of places in Texas 96T
  • 15.
    René Auguste Chouteau
    Overview: René-Auguste Chouteau, Jr. (September 7, 1749 or September 26, 1750 in New Orleans, French Louisiana – February 24, 1829 in St. Louis, Missouri), also known as Auguste Chouteau, was the founder of St ...
    Date of birth: 7 September 1749
    Date of death: 24 February 1829
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Politician
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    American slave owners 730T
    Politicians from New Orleans, Louisiana 276T
    Burials at Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis) 49T
  • 16.

    John Bozeman
    American western figure
    John Bozeman
    Overview: John Merin Bozeman (January 1837 – April 20, 1867) was a pioneer and frontiersman in the American West who helped establish the Bozeman Trail through Wyoming Territory into the gold fields of southwestern ...
    Date of birth: 1 January 1835
    Date of death: 20 April 1867
    Age: 32 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Male murder victims 881T
    Explorers of Montana 15T
    Murdered explorers 48T
  • 17.

    Jack Swilling
    American pioneer
    Jack Swilling
    Overview: John W. "Jack" Swilling (April 1, 1830 – August 12, 1878) was an early pioneer in the Arizona Territory. He is commonly credited as one of the original founders of the city of Phoenix, Arizona. ...
    Date of birth: 1 April 1830
    Date of death: 12 August 1878
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
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    Military personnel from Phoenix, Arizona 13T
    Arizona pioneers 122T
    Businesspeople from Phoenix, Arizona 49T
  • 18.

    José Antonio Navarro
    American politician
    José Antonio Navarro
    Overview: José Antonio Navarro (February 27, 1795 – January 13, 1871) was a Texas statesman, revolutionary, rancher, and merchant. The son of Ángel Navarro and Josefa María Ruiz y Peña, he was born into a ...
    Date of birth: 27 February 1795
    Date of death: 13 January 1871
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American,American
    Occupation: Politician
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    Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence 24T
    People of Spanish Texas 55T
    People from Seguin, Texas 40T
  • 19.

    John Alexander Dowie
    Scottish-Australian minister (1847–1907)
    John Alexander Dowie
    Overview: John Alexander Dowie (25 May 1847 – 9 March 1907) was a Scottish evangelist and faith healer who ministered in Australia and the United States. He founded the city of Zion, Illinois, and the Christian ...
    Date of birth: 25 May 1847
    Date of death: 9 March 1907
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
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    American faith healers 31T
    City founders 313T
    People from Zion, Illinois 14T
  • 20.

    William Levitt
    American real estate developer and suburbia pioneer
    William Levitt
    Overview: William Jaird Levitt (February 11, 1907 – January 28, 1994) was an American real-estate developer. As president of Levitt & Sons, he is widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. He was ...
    Date of birth: 11 February 1907
    Date of death: 28 January 1994
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
     0    0
    Businesspeople from Brooklyn 47T
    Boys High School (Brooklyn) alumni 80T
    Levitt family 2T
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