#1Augustus Pearl Martin
1835–1902Union United States Army officer
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Augustus Pearl Martin, the union United States Army officer, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The list has one more: the American academic Charles Huntington Whitman. Across the town line, Monson lists 4, Mary Louise Graffam first. Over 38 years of births, the list goes from Augustus Pearl Martin (1835) to Charles Huntington Whitman (1873).

#1Union United States Army officer
American academic
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