19th century Amenia Bayard Taylor Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens) Dickinson David Ross Locke E.H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin Elihu Burritt Frederick Douglass George William Curtis Horace Greeley Intellectual life John B. (John Bartholomew) Gough Josh Billings Lectures and lecturing Lyceums Mark Twain New York (State) Orators P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum Ralph Waldo Emerson United States Wendell Phillips