Yale family

The list Yale family includes Brian Yale, George Bissell (industrialist), Moses Yale Beach, Lorenzo Da Ponte and Elihu Yale. The list consists of 129 members.

1.

John Deere (inventor)

American businessman

Overview: John Deere (February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers ...

Date of birth: 7 February 1804

Date of death: 17 May 1886

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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19th-century American inventors 564T

American chief executives of manufacturing companies 248T

People from Rutland (town), Vermont 29T
2.

Laura Spelman Rockefeller

American philanthropist, schoolteacher

Overview: Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman Rockefeller (September 9, 1839 – March 12, 1915) was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, school teacher, and prominent member of the Rockefeller family. Her husband ...

Date of birth: 9 September 1839

Date of death: 12 March 1915

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Female

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19th-century American women educators 199T

19th-century women educators 236T

Schoolteachers from Ohio 32T
3.

Brian Yale

American bass guitarist

Overview: Brian Joseph Yale (born November 14, 1968) is the bass guitarist for the band Matchbox Twenty and has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.

Date of birth: 14 November 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: American

Occupation: Bassist

Gender: Male

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American male bass guitarists 1,025T

Guitarists from Florida 146T

20th-century American guitarists 3,517T
4.

George Bissell (industrialist)

American businessman

Overview: George Henry Bissell (November 8, 1821 – November 19, 1884) was an entrepreneur and industrialist who is often considered the father of the American oil industry.

Date of birth: 8 November 1821

Date of death: 19 November 1884

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

Gender: Male

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19th-century businessmen 467T

American energy industry businesspeople 101T

Founders of the petroleum industry 37T
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Moses Yale Beach

American businessman

Overview: Moses Yale Beach (January 7, 1800 – July 18, 1868) was an American inventor and publisher who started the Associated Press, and is credited with originating print syndication.

Date of birth: 7 January 1800

Date of death: 18 July 1868

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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19th-century American inventors 564T

American male journalists 4,321T

19th-century American journalists 678T
6.

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Venetian opera librettist and poet

Overview: Lorenzo Da Ponte (born Emanuele Conegliano 10 March 1749 – 17 August 1838) was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest. He wrote the libretti for 28 operas by ...

Date of birth: 10 March 1749

Date of death: 17 August 1838

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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18th-century Italian Jews 7T

18th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests 55T

18th-century male musicians 989T
7.

Elihu Yale

British colonial administrator and namesake of Yale College

Overview: Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator and philanthropist. Although born in Boston, Massachusetts, he only lived in America as a child, spending the rest ...

Date of birth: 5 April 1649

Date of death: 8 July 1721

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Philanthropist

Gender: Male

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Merchants from London 53T

Businesspeople from Boston, Massachusetts 297T

Presidents of Madras 15T
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Abbott Handerson Thayer

American artist

Overview: Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence ...

Date of birth: 12 August 1849

Date of death: 29 May 1921

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall School alumni 10T

19th-century male artists 2,737T

American male painters 3,659T
9.

Charles H. Yale

American actor and producer

Overview: Charles H. Yale (1856-1920) was an American theatre producer and performer. Early in his career he worked for the Boylston Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1897 he formed a partnership in New York with ...

Date of birth: 1856

Date of death: 1920

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Manager

Gender: Male

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19th-century American male actors 196T

American male stage actors 3,262T

19th-century American actors 92T
10.

Dwight Deere Wiman

American dramatist

Overview: Dwight Deere Wiman (August 8, 1895 – January 20, 1951) was an American silent movie actor, playwright and theatrical director. He is best known as a Broadway producer.

Date of birth: 8 August 1895

Date of death: 20 January 1951

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Manager

Gender: Male

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Broadway theatre directors 38T

Broadway theatre producers 45T

20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 1,348T
11.

Henry James Anderson

American scientist and educator (1799–1875)

Overview: Henry James Anderson (February 6, 1799 – October 19, 1875) was an American scientist and educator.

Date of birth: 6 February 1799

Date of death: 19 October 1875

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T

Scientists from New York City 419T

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni 329T
12.

Frederick Converse Beach

editor

Overview: Frederick Converse Beach (March 27, 1848 – June 18, 1918), son of Alfred Ely Beach, was editor of the magazine Scientific American and of the new Encyclopedia Americana in the early 1900s, and an inventor ...

Date of birth: 27 March 1848

Date of death: 18 June 1918

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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19th-century American inventors 564T

Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni 87T

Journalists from New York City 826T
13.

Kim Yale

American comics writer

Overview: Kim Yale (November 22, 1953 – March 7, 1997) was an American writer and editor of comic books for several publishers including DC Comics, Eclipse Comics, First Comics, Marvel Comics, and WaRP Graphics ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1953

Date of death: 7 March 1997

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women writers 5,363T

Writers from Evanston, Illinois 69T

Female comics writers 457T
14.

Warren Giles

American baseball executive

Overview: Warren Crandall Giles (May 28, 1896 – February 7, 1979) was an American professional baseball executive. Giles spent 33 years in high-level posts in Major League Baseball as club president and general ...

Date of birth: 28 May 1896

Date of death: 7 February 1979

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

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National League presidents 15T

National League Championship Series 57T

Cincinnati Reds executives 40T
15.

Alfred Ely Beach

American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer (1826–1896)

Overview: Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is most known for his design of New York City's earliest ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1826

Date of death: 1 January 1896

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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19th-century American inventors 564T

Businesspeople from Springfield, Massachusetts 27T

American male journalists 4,321T
16.

Linus Yale, Jr.

American mechanical engineer

Overview: Linus Yale Jr. (April 4, 1821 – December 25, 1868) was an American mechanical engineer, manufacturer, and co-founder of the Yale Lock Manufacturing Company. He is best known for his inventions of locks ...

Date of birth: 4 April 1821

Date of death: 25 December 1868

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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19th-century American inventors 564T

People from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 12T

People from Newport, New York 6T
17.

Charles William Eliot

President of Harvard

Overview: Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1834

Date of death: 22 August 1926

Age: 92 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Rockefeller Foundation people 32T

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 48T

Harvard College alumni 2,012T
18.

Ad Yale

American baseball player

Overview: William M. "Ad" Yale (April 17, 1870, in Bristol, Connecticut – April 27, 1948, in Bridgeport, Connecticut) was a professional baseball player. He appeared in four games in Major League Baseball for the ...

Date of birth: 17 April 1870

Date of death: 27 April 1948

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

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Northampton Meadowlarks players 5T

Bristol Braves players 3T

New Britain Perfectos players 15T
19.

Yale Gracey

Overview: Yale Wilbur Gracey (September 3, 1910 – September 5, 1983) was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts, including classics such as The Three Caballeros and Fantasia ...

Date of birth: 1910

Date of death: 5 September 1983

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Walt Disney Animation Studios people 404T

Murdered American writers 32T

People murdered in Los Angeles, California 39T
20.

James Lawrence

American judge and politician

Overview: James Lawrence (January 15, 1851 – July 4, 1914) was a Democratic politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General 1884–1886.

Date of birth: 15 January 1851

Date of death: 4 July 1914

Age: 63 (age at death)

Occupation: Attorney

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19th-century American judges 2,664T

19th-century American lawyers 4,831T

Politicians from Cleveland, Ohio 204T