1899: Pioneering panoramic map artist Albert Ruger died in Akron, Ohio. Born in Prussia in 1829, Ruger emigrated to the U.S. where he initially worked as a stonemason. While serving with the Ohio Volunteers during the American Civil War he began drafting views of Union campsites for publication. These views show the camps from overhead, as if the observer were perched on a nearby mountaintop, or floating by in a balloon. (Source: Library of Congress)

1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, spokesperson for the rights of women, was born in Johnstown, New York. Stanton formulated the philosophical basis of the woman suffrage movement, blazing a trail many feared to follow. (Source: Library of Congress)