Charles Darwin (1869)
Is there a scientist with a bigger impact on our culture? Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who has greatly influenced science as we know it. Britannica said that “[his] scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies…. and by the time of his death evolutionary imagery had spread through all of science, literature, and politics.” The Victoria and Albert Museum said this of the photo: “The naturalist Charles Darwin and his family rented a cottage on the Isle of Wight from the Camerons in the summer of 1868. By 27 July, Colnaghi’s was advertising, ‘We are glad to observe her gallery of great men enriched by a very fine portrait of Charles Darwin.’ Due to the sitter’s celebrity, Cameron later had this portrait reprinted as a more stable carbon print.”
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Daniel F. Bakeman, The Last Surviving Soldier Of The Revolutionary War (1868)
It is said that Daniel F. Bakeman was one of the last fourteen Revolutionary War survivors, as well as the last veteran to collect a pension. He supposedly served under Colonel Willett and Captain Van Arnum in the last four years of the conflict. One account said, “His presence was always sought on all important political occasions. Always on “Independence Day,” as he called it, he arose very early and shouldering his old musket, would make the rounds of the neighborhood firing a salute, exclaiming, ‘Hurrah!’”
Daniel F. Bakeman, The Last Surviving Soldier Of The Revolutionary War (1868)
