List: People from Concord, Massachusetts

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•  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer and philosopher who left a legacy of forward-thinking social ideas.

  

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•  Louisa May Alcott

  Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based on her childhood experiences with her three sisters.

  

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•  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804, in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne", adding a "w" to dissociate from relatives including John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials.

  

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•  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.

  

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•  Henry David Thoreau

  Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817– May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

  

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•  Abigail May Alcott Nieriker

  (Abigail) May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy (an anagram of May) in her sister's semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868). She was named after her mother, Abigail May, and first called Abba, then Abby, and finally May, which she asked to be called in November 1863 when in her twenties.

  

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•  Liz Cho

  Liz Cho (born December 19, 1970) is an American weekday anchor, alongside Bill Ritter, on Eyewitness News at WABC-TV in New York City. Cho co-anchors the weeknight 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts of Eyewitness News. She started on July 6, 2003, replacing Diana Williams, who asked for a lighter workload. Cho joined ABC News in 1999 as a Chicago-based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network's affiliate news service.

  

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•  Hal Gill

  Harold Priestley "Hal" Gill III (born April 6, 1975) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman and an alternate captain of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).

  

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•  Abby May

  Abigail Alcott (née May) (October 8, 1800 – November 25, 1877) was the wife of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of four daughters, including Civil War novelist Louisa May Alcott. An activist for several causes, May was one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts.

  

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•  Vic Heyliger

  Victor Heyliger was a National Hockey League center and the head coach of the University of Michigan ice hockey team. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he attended the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts and as an All-American at Michigan set a school record of 116 goals. He played for the Chicago Black Hawks in 1938 and 1944, bookending his tenure as coach at the University of Illinois from 1939–43, posting a record of 59–29–4.

  

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•  Simon Brown (Massachusetts)

  Simon Brown was an American politician who served as Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1855 to 1856. He was then an at-large delegate to the 1856 Republican Convention in Philadelphia where he supported the nomination of John C. Fremont.

  

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•  William Craig (author)

  William Craig (1929 - 1997) was an American author and historian. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, USA, he was educated at Columbia University. His first book, The Fall of Japan, was a documentary account of the last weeks of the Second World War in the Pacific. His first novel, The Tashkent Crisis, a thriller about espionage and international politics, was published in 1971.

  

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•  Peter Bulkley

  Peter Bulkley or Bulkeley (January 31, 1583 – March 9, 1659) was an influential early Puritan preacher who left England for greater religious freedom in the American colony of Massachusetts. He was a founder of Concord, and was named by descendant Ralph Waldo Emerson in his poem about Concord, Hamatreya.

  

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•  Elizabeth Sewall Alcott

  Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (June 24, 1835 – March 14, 1858) is best known as the model for Beth March in Little Women penned by her famous sister Louisa May Alcott. She was the third daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. Louisa wrote in Little Women: "Elizabeth - or Beth as everyone called her - was a rosy, smooth-haired, bright-eyed girl, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression, which was seldom disturbed.

  

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•  Francis Edwin Elwell

  Francis Edwin Elwell (also cited as Frank Edwin Elwell) (1858-1922) was an American sculptor. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Elwell was orphaned at age four and, according to various sources, was adopted by author Louisa May Alcott or grew up under the care of his grandfather, a Mr. Farrar. Elwell received his first instruction in art from May Alcott’s sister, Abigail May Alcott, who also taught noted sculptor Daniel Chester French.

  

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•  James Murdoch Austin

  James Murdoch Austin (1915 – 2000) was notable for his pioneering modeling of the meteorology of air pollution, especially that of smokestack particulates. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of the pioneer of chaos theory and early practitioner of numerical weather prediction, Edward Norton Lorenz.

  

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•  Harrison Gray Dyar

  Harrison Gray Dyar (1805–1875) was an American chemist and inventor.

  

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•  Henry Hosmer

  Henry Hosmer (April 7, 1837–January 1, 1892) was a nineteenth-century American chess master. He is known to have played in only two significant chess tournaments: the Second and Third American Chess Congresses in 1871 and 1874.

  

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