Herbert Baxter Adams, 51, historian, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, 30 July 1901.

Susan B. Anthony, 86, a leader in the women's suffrage movement; also fought to secure women's rights in education, 13 March 1906.

Henry Barnard, 89, one of the most distinguished educators of the nineteenth century; a nationwide leader in the common-school movement, university president, and first U.S. Commissioner of Education, 21 July 1900.

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett, 74, educator and diplomat; former principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia; renowned for being the nation's first African American diplomat, 1908.

Francis L. Cardozo, 66, clergyman, educator, and politician; former school principal; professor of Latin at Howard University; served as both secretary of state and state treasurer in South Carolina's Reconstruction government, 22 July 1903.

Jonas G. Clark, 85, who founded and endowed Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, 23 May 1900.

William Hooper Councill, 59, educator; first head of Alabama's State Normal and Industrial School, later renamed the Alabama State...