An American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street, as the head of J.P. Morgan and Co.

A Caribbean-born American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

An American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States. Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse is named after him

An American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

An American showman, businessman, and politician, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

President Grover Cleveland disappeared for four days In the summer of 1893, to have secret surgery on a yacht.

Mark Twain’s 70th birthday party in 1905 was hosted at Delmonico’s in New York.

A French high-wire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized high-wire walks between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

An American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper.

An American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father of the United States, who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

Chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange from 1995 to 2003. Grasso was given a deferred compensation pay package worth almost $140 million.

The original Delmonico's opened in 1827 in a rented pastry shop and appeared in a list of restaurants in 1830. It had a reputation as one of the nation's top fine dining establishments and is credited with being one of the first American restaurants to allow patrons to order from a menu à la carte, as opposed to table d'hôte. It is also said to be the first to employ a separate wine list.

Selling Liberty Bonds in New York City. On the afternoon of April 8, 1918,

A Scottish sea captain who was commissioned as a privateer and had experience as a pirate.

An American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State. Tweed was convicted for stealing from New York City taxpayers from political corruption.

An American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first United States Postmaster General.

An American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer, known for his design of New York City's earliest subway predecessor, the Beach Pneumatic Transit. He also patented a typewriter for the blind.