Birth Locations – Page 143 – The Exasperated Historian

82) Anne Hutchinson

82) Anne Hutchinson

Puritan Rule Breaker and Considered by Many to be One of America’s Earliest Feminists

Born: July 1591, Alford, England (Present-day Alford, United Kingdom)

Died: August 1643, The Colony of New Netherlands (Today New York State, United States of America)

Anne got in trouble for preaching (big no no if you were a woman) to both men and women (also big no no) about how true salvation could be achieved in your life (biggest no no).

Anne would have more than a dozen children in sixteen years.

Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony after wanting more religious freedom than was available in England.

She had no formal education but read practically everything she could get her hands on. Anne was a trained midwife and had the trust of local women which allowed for them to gather in her home to discuss John Cotton’s teachings (which counted as her ministering to the women—also known as preaching).

She soon was attracting men to the meetings as well as they criticized the Puritan belief in that Good Works could provide salvation.

In 1637 she was tried for heresy. Anne’s husband supported her preaching but the Reverend Cotton with whom she’d been loyal to and preached about turned against her—calling her meetings, “promiscuous and filthy coming together of men and women,” Wow Dude!

Her fate was sealed after Anne made the mistake of telling the men trying her that she had received word from God himself that she had a divine right to preach.

She was excommunicated in March of 1683 and went to live in Rhode Island and then New Netherlands (today New York).

Everyone in her family save one daughter were killed in a Native American Massacre, (her husband had died the year previously).

Anne is honored today by having a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution named in her honor in Bronxville, New York.

Badges Earned:

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Located In My Personal Library:

Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath

America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins

American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante

The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes, and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson

Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History Edited By Bonnie G Smith

"The Incomparable Anne Hutchinson" by Lena Anthony (Article in American Spirit Magazine, March/April 2022 Edition)

Sources:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/anne-hutchinson

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Hutchinson

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/anne-hutchinson

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7177401/anne-hutchinson

81) Daryl Davis

81) Daryl Davis

“How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?”

Born: 26 March 1958, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Daryl is also an actor.

He has converted over 200 members of the Ku Klux Klan away from their hateful faith by simply having a conversation with them.

In the interview I sourced from NPR, Daryl says, “How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?” something everyone can learn from today!

He released a documentary in 2015 called Accidental Courtesy, I'll link the trailer here in this article.

Sources:

https://www.daryldavis.com/

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes

https://allthatsinteresting.com/daryl-davis-kkk

https://accidentalcourtesy.com/

81) Jane Goodall

“If one wants to reach people; If one wants to change attitudes, you have to reach the heart. You can reach the heart by telling stories, not by arguing with people’s intellects.”

81) Jane Goodall

Chimpanzee Advocate

Born: 3 April 1934, London, United Kingdom

Died: 1 October 2025, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jane was an anthropologist and primatologist.

Her life changed forever when she was twenty-six and visited what is now Tanzania for the first time.

In 1960, she discovered that chimpanzees use tools much the way primitive humans used to, a complete breakthrough in the study of monkeys of any kind.

Jane was the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute. Jane also helped guide a group of younger people to found Roots & Shoots which works in 100 countries to inspire and educate about the importance of conservation.

Jane spent her later years as a UN Messenger of Peace.

In 1965 she was awarded a PhD in ethology and she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. In January 2025, President Biden awarded Jane the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Jane was working until the very end, passing away from natural causes (she was ninety-one after all!) while on a speaking tour around the United States. She was reportedly still traveling around 300 days a year, and was even supposed to be holding an event to help children in California begin planting thousands of new trees across the state.

Badges Earned:

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Located In My Personal Library:

Jane Goodall by Laura Hamilton Waxman

In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo

Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes, and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History Edited By Bonnie G Smith

Sources:

https://www.janegoodall.org/

https://www.janegoodall.org/our-story/about-jane/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Goodall

https://apnews.com/article/jane-goodall-obit-78698397851bc7634717206f7eba07b2

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/287565202/jane-morris-goodall

80) Anne Sullivan

80) Anne Sullivan

T-E-A-C-H-E-R

Born: 14 April 1866, Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, United States of America

Died: 20 October 1936, Forest Hills, New York, United States of America

The woman who is responsible for bringing Helen Keller out of her shell and able to communicate to the world.

Anne was one of five siblings but two died in infancy. The rest of the family grew up in extreme poverty and when Anne was eight her mother died and Anne—already suffering from trachoma—and her brother were sent to the Tewksbury Almshouse (by this time their father had abandoned them, and Anne’s sister disappeared from history). Her brother died soon after leaving her alone.

In 1880, Anne was able to escape the Almshouse after presenting her case to some visitors who agreed to send her to the Perkins School for the Blind. She struggled at the outset from having never been to school or being taught proper social etiquette but after some hard times she managed to rise through the ranks of the school to become a star pupil. She was the valedictorian in her class of 1886.

The next year Anne was hired by the Keller family to assist Helen (Anne had previously worked with another deaf and blind student named Laura Bridgman). Within a matter of months Anne had transformed the uncooperative child into a young woman who could read Braille, understand 600 words spelled into her hand, and most of her multiplication tables.

Anne married in 1905 however her devotion to Helen and her needs would cause the couple to separate (but never file for divorce).

By the 1920’s Anne’s eye pain was so severe she had her right eye completely removed and eventually went totally blind.

Hers and Helen’s story was later turned into the movie/play The Miracle Worker. I’ve linked a portion of the movie here in this article.

Badges Earned:

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Located In My Personal Library:

Helen Keller by Leslie Garrett

The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History by Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, and Matt LaMothe

Sources:

https://www.perkins.org/history/people/anne-sullivan

https://www.biography.com/activist/anne-sullivan

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/659/anne-sullivan

80) Harrison Ruffin Tyler

Harrison (Left) with older brother Lyon (Right)

80) Harrison Ruffin Tyler

Was a Surviving Grandson of 10^th US President John Tyler Until His Death in 2025

Born: 9 November 1928, Charles City County, Virginia, United States of America

Died: 25 May 2025, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

The 10^th United States President had fifteen children between his two wives and died a solid sixty years before his youngest grandchildren (including Lyon Jr and Harrison) were born.

Harrison reportedly still owned the Sherwood Forest Plantation, the historic home belonging to the Tyler Family, as well as restoring Fort Pocahontas which dated from the War Between the States. His father was seventy-five years old when he was born and died when Harrison was only six.

Harrison was a chemical engineer who spent his later years as a historic preservationist. He helped co-found a company called ChemTreat, which worked in water treatment fields. The company later sold and made Harrison a very wealthy man, allowing him to purchase historic properties and provide endowments for scholarships at the College of William and Mary. He also donated the family library, which had amassed a staggering 22,000 books! The college has named the entire history department in his honor.

Harrison's wife died in 2019. He is survived by three children and eight grandchildren. Harrison was a member of multiple historical societies, including the Sons of the American Revolution.

Badges Earned:

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Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-tyler-still-has-two-living-grandkids

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-two-of-president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive/

https://notthebee.com/article/the-last-living-grandson-of-john-tyler-americas-10th-president-has-passed-away

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5415207/president-tyler-grandson-harrison-ruffin-tyler

https://www.blileys.com/obituaries/Harrison-Ruffin-Tyler?obId=42698470

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/harrison-ruffin-tyler-dead.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrison-ruffin-tyler-grandson-president-john-tyler-dies

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-surviving-grandson-of-president-john-tyler-who-took-office-in-1841-dies-at-96-180986724

https://www.wm.edu/as/history/about

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/283327708/harrison-ruffin-tyler

79) Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr

79) Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr.

Before His Death He Was one of the Last Surviving Grandsons of 10^th US President John Tyler

Born: 3 January 1925, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Died: 26 September 2020, Franklin, Tennessee, United States of America

The 10^th United States President had fifteen children between his two wives and died a solid sixty years before his youngest grandchildren (including Lyon Jr and Harrison) were born.

According to his younger brother Harrison, Lyon was last known to be living in Tennessee. His father was around seventy-one years old when he was born.

Since Lyon's death in 2020, more information about his life has been released.

Lyon was married for forty-three years before his wide preceded him in death.

Lyon served as a Naval officer in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. After the war's end he served in the Naval Intelligence Reserve until he retired in 1949.

Lyon later earned a law degree, worked as a lawyer in Virginia, clerked for a federal judge, and was elected attorney for the Virginia county of Charles City.

Lyon also earned a doctorate in history from Duke University after becoming the assistant director of the Virginia Civil War Centennial Commission in 1960.

He went on to teach at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and even helped redesign the institute's museum.

Lyon was very active in the Episcopal Church.

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Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-tyler-still-has-two-living-grandkids

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-two-of-president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive/

https://obits.tennessean.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?n=lyon-gardiner-tyler&pid=196894016

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/632788/john-tyler-grandson-has-died?a_aid=45307

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216262115/lyon-gardiner-tyler

79) Jane Stanford

Co-founder of Stanford University Alongside Her Husband.

Born: 25 August 1828, Albany, New York, United States of America

Died: 28 February 1905, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

They created the university to honor their only son who died at the age of fifteen from typhoid fever.

Jane ran the University from 1893 to 1905.

She also served as the first lady of California for a time after her husband was elected governor.

Jane gave birth to their only son when she was thirty-nine. Their son’s dream had been to open a museum of all the historical objects he collected and so when the university opened Jane ensured that dream came true.

In the final years of her life she came into conflict with the University’s president.

Jane was murdered while on vacation in Hawaii. A few weeks before her death she saved herself from strychnine poisoning after forcing herself to throw up the water laced with poison—however a few weeks later the killer laced her bicarbonate of soda with strychnine and she did not taste it in time; dying later that evening.

The university President held a press conference and stated she died of heart failure—something that was believed at the time and until very recently was her official cause of death in most history books.

Her killer was never caught or charged.

Badges Earned:

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Sources:

http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2015/03/jane-stanford.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8158227/jane-elizabeth-stanford

78) Corporal Frank Buckles

Frank in uniform from World War I and later in life

78) Corporal Frank Buckles

Last Surviving American Veteran of World War I

Born: 1 February 1901, Bethany, Missouri, United States of America

Died: 27 February 2011, Charles Town, West Virginia, United States of America

US Army Ambulance and Motorcycle driver near the European Front Lines (but never actually seeing combat).

Frank enlisted at the age of sixteen in 1917 (he lied to the first recruiter [US Marine Corps] and said he was eighteen—that recruiter said you had to be twenty-one. Frank went to the next recruiter [US Navy] who said he couldn’t enlist because he had flat feet [he didn’t], finally the US Army enlisted him). After the fighting officially ended, Frank worked as an escort for German prisoners—helping shuttle 650 back to Germany. He was honorably discharged in 1920.

When World War II struck, Frank was working for a shipping company in the Philippines. He was taken captive by the Japanese and held for three years, finally being released in 1945. He reportedly said he stopped looking at scales after his weight dropped to below 100 pounds. Because of his confinement, he developed beriberi, which is caused by malnutrition, and the disease had lasting effects on him.

After World War II, Frank became a farmer in West Virginia, and was very active in Veterans Affairs. He also married and became a father.

He was the recipient of the World War I Victory medal, the Occupation of Germany Medal, and the French Legion of Honor.

Frank was buried in Arlington National Cemetery after a special dispensation was granted to him (non-combat duty veterans are not normally granted permission to be buried there).

Badges Earned:

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Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-last-doughboy-of-world-war-i-11880886/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27677330/frank-woodruff-buckles

78) Sacagawea

Painting depicting Sacagawea with both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

78) Sacagawea

Lemhi Shoshone Guide and the Only Woman Present on the Corps of Discovery—Better Known Today as the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Born: c.1788, Present-day Lemhi County, Idaho, United States of America

Died: December of 1812 (Most Likely), Fort Manuel, South Dakota, United States of America

Sacagawea was the daughter of her people’s chief and was captured and sold into slavery at around the age of twelve by a rival tribe, the Hidatsa.

Sacagawea was soon made the wife of her new master (he had one other Native American wife as well).

Sacagawea and her husband were hired by the Corps as interpreters for the journey. Sacagawea knew Shoshone and Mandan—which her husband spoke, and he also knew French, from the French another man would translate to English for Lewis and Clark and then back down the line again.

Sacagawea gave birth to her first child—a son—before the Corps left her new home. Sacagawea would carry the child affectionately nicknamed Pomp throughout the journey to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Sacagawea is remembered for saving the Corps’s hide many times, including when their boat capsized, and she was able to save most of their papers and supplies. As they traveled through her first homeland she was reunited with her brother—the new Chief of her people, Cameahwait—but she continued with the group and had to leave her birth family behind.

In November of 1805, Sacagawea became the first woman to vote in a “federal” election—by casting her vote on where their winter camp would be set up (Since the Corps was sponsored by the government, she is arguably the first American woman to vote on American soil, period).

After Sacagawea died soon after giving birth to her daughter Lizette, William Clark took custody of her children. Lizette disappears from history soon after she was born but Pomp would grow up to be a scout and guide.

Notes:

While most historians believe Sacagawea died soon after her daughter’s birth, Shoshone oral histories disagree. They state Sacagawea returned to her people and lived to a ripe old age before passing away as a respected woman. There is no documentation to back up that account, but because of the conflicting stories Sacagawea has two burial sites that can be visited today.

Badges Earned:

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Rejected Princess

Located in My Personal Library:

The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes, and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson

Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines by Patricia Monaghan PhD

The Historical Atlas of Native Americans: 150 Maps That Chronicle the Fascinating and Tragic Story of North America's Indigenous Peoples by Dr. Ian Barnes

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols by Rebecca Kay Juger

Native American Women: Three Who Changed History by Gloria Linkey

The Old West by Stephen G Hyslop

Revolutionary Women From Colonists to Suffragettes by Peter Pauper Press Inc

Tough Mothers by Jason Porath

Uppity Women Speak Their Minds by Vicki León

Who Was Sacagawea? by Judith Bloom Bradin

Women in American Indian Society by Rayna Green

Sources:

https://www.biography.com/explorer/sacagawea

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sacagawea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2321/sacajawea

A Fun Update...(June 2021):

In late June of 2021, my mother and I took a road trip around some of the closer states to where we live. Along that journey, we were able to stop at the Sacajawea Cemetery in Fort Washakie, Wyoming; one of the two gravesites of Sacajawea (for more information on that, read the blog post here on my website I wrote about it, here). While we were there, I snapped this photo of the grave marker.

77) Captain Eugene Cernan

77) Captain Eugene Cernan

The Last Man to walk on the Moon (as of 1972)

Born: 14 March 1934, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Died: 16 January 2017, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Electrical engineer, astronaut, and naval engineer. He went to space three times, two of which took him to the moon. Eugene was also the second man to walk in space.

He was one of fourteen men selected for the astronaut training program by NASA in October of 1963. Gene would pilot Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 and commanded Apollo 17. While en route to the moon during the Apollo 17 mission, Eugene and his crew took the now iconic “Blue Marble” photograph of the Earth.

Eugene retired from both the US Navy and NASA in 1976, after twenty years with the US Navy and thirteen with NASA. He would later work as a television commentator on the early space shuttle missions.

Badges Earned:
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Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan

http://egger1.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175405252/eugene-andrew-cernan