WMarian "Clover" Hooper Adams was an American socialite, active society hostess, arbiter of Washington, DC, and an accomplished amateur photographer.
WFrank Bosworth Brandegee was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut.
WMajor General Merritt Austin Edson, Sr., known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received were the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, and two Legions of Merit. He is best known by Marines for the defense of Lunga Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II.
WJohn Arthur Elston was a U.S. Representative from California.
WJoseph Wilson Ervin was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina.
WHinton Rowan Helper was an American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s. In 1857, he published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the belief he was acting as an agent of the North attempting to split Southerners along class lines led to Southern denunciations of 'Helperism'.
WAlfred Bult Mullett was a British-American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect, head of the agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings. His work followed trends in Victorian style, evolving from the Greek Revival to Second Empire to Richardsonian Romanesque.