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Person	Date	Why They're Important
(1600-1650)
Roger Conant	1626	Settled Naumkeag (which is now Salem); built first house (now on Essex St.) [more]
John Winthrop, Jr.	1638	Set up first salt house for fish flaking which opened up the fishing industry in Beverly for trading around the world; US Senator [more]
(1651-1700)
Major General Robert Sedgwick	1668	Named Beverly after Beverley, England; worked with John Winthrop, Jr. in establishing an ironworks in Lynn, MA [more]
John Hale	1690	First Minister of the First Parish Church in Beverly in 1697; involved in Witch Trials [more]
Rebecca Hale	1692	Accused of witchcraft; opposed charges; helped end Witch Trials [more]
(1751-1800)
John Glover	1775	A Marblehead native who owned "the Hannah" (the first US Naval ship) [more]
Nathan Dane	1787	Founded Dane Harvard Law School; founded temperance society; helped write the Northwest Ordinance [more]
George Cabot	1788	Helped organize the ratification of the Constitution; US Senator [more]
Israel Thorndike	1789	Helped found the first cotton mill in America (which was in Beverly) along with the Cabot brothers, Moses Brown, and Joshua Fisher [more]
(1801-1850)
Robert Rantoul, Sr.	1825	Founded the idea of total abstinence, lectured about slavery and intemperance [more]
Lucy Larcom	1840	Lowell mill girl; editor of "The Lowell Offering"; Model for the change in women's rights [more]
Robert Rantoul Jr.	1845	US Senator; Abolitionist; associate of Horace Mann (Improving Public Education) [more]
(1851-1900)
Oliver Wendell Holmes	1860	Poet; journalist; essayist; novelist; physician [more]
John Baker	1895	First mayor of Beverly; Greatly involved in community [more]
(1901-1950)
Jan Ernst Matzeliger	1903	Invented the first machinery for the United Shoe [more]
Sydney Winslow	1903	Founded the United Shoe Machinery Corp. based on the innovations of Matzeliger [more]
Major Augustus Peabody Gardner	1904	Massachusetts Senator; Mayor of Beverly; US House of Representatives [more]
(1951-2000)
Joseph Vittorri	1955	Received Congressional Medal of Honor during the Korean War [more]
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	1960	US Senator; US Ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, and West Germany during the Vietnam War; Ran against Nixon, LBJ, and JFK in election of 1960 [more]
John Updike	1982	Writes famous novel and poetry; Resides in Beverly [more]