The Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. This generation included the California Gold Rush Forty-niners who made circa-1850 San Francisco the most monogenerational city ever seen in the United States and the most anarchic, with no families or laws, just vigilante justice enforced by hangings. It includes most of the veterans of the American Civil War on both sides. It lent its name to the Gilded Age. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Western World. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Awakening Generation is the name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1701 to 1723. ... The First Great Awakening was a religious movement among American colonial Protestants in the 1730s to 1740s. ... 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Grant, General Jefferson Davis, President Robert E. Lee, General Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action... In American history the Gilded Age refers to the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1901, which saw unprecedented economic, territorial, industrial, and population expansion. ...

This generation lived a hardscrabble childhood around parents distracted by the Second Great Awakening's spiritual upheavals. They came of age amid rising national tempers, torrential immigration, commercialism, Know Nothing politics, and declining college enrollments. As young adults, many pursued fortunes in frontier boom towns or as fledgling "robber barons". Their Lincoln Shouters and Johnny Rebs rode eagerly into a Civil War that left them decimated, Confederates especially. Having learned to detest moral zealotry, their midlife Presidents and industrialists put their stock in Darwinian economics, Boss Tweed politics, Victorian prudery, and Carnegie's Law of Competition. As elders, they landed on the "industrial scrap heap" of an urbanizing economy that was harsh to most old people. The Second Great Awakening or the Great Revival was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment. ... Johnny Rebel or Johnny Reb was the slang term for any Confederate soldier, or the Confederate army as a whole, during the American Civil War. ... This article is about Darwinism as a philosophical concept; see evolution for the page on biological evolution; modern evolutionary synthesis for neo-Darwinism; and also evolution (disambiguation). ... 1869 Tobacco label featuring Boss Tweed. ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Ascension to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian Era of Great Britain marked the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ...

Altogether, there were about 17 million Americans born between 1822 and 1842. 28 percent were immigrants and 10 percent were slaves at some point in their lives.

The Gilded Generation's typical grandparents were of the Republican Generation. Their parents were of the Compromise Generation and Transcendental Generation. Their children were of the Progressive Generation and Missionary Generation and their typical grandchildren were of the Lost Generation. The Republican Generation is the name given to that generation of Americans born from 1742 to 1766 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Compromise Generation is that name given to the generation of Americans born from 1767 to 1791 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Transcendental Generation is the name given by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1792 to 1821. ... The Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. ... The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. ... Lost Generation is traditionally attributed to Gertrude Stein[1] and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises,. and his memoir A Moveable Feast. ...

This generation is fully ancestral; the last member of the Gilded Generation, the American Betsy Baker, died on October 24, 1955. Betsy Russell Baker (August 20, 1842- October 24, 1955) of the United States was listed in the first Guinness Book of Records as possibly the worlds oldest person (though this was not confirmed by researchers until 2002). ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Members

Sample members of the Gilded Generation with birth and death dates include:

• 1823 Boss Tweed (1878)
• 1823 Dan Rice (1901)
• 1824 Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1863)
• 1826 Matilda Joslyn Gage (1898)
• 1826 Stephen Foster (1864)
• 1829 Roscoe Conkling (1888)
• 1829 Levi Strauss (1902)
• 1830 James G. Blaine (1893)
• 1830 Emily Dickinson (1886)
• 1830 Mother Jones (1930) (immigrant)
• c.1831 Sitting Bull (1890)
• 1832 Louisa May Alcott (1888)
• 1832 Horatio Alger (1899)
• 1834 John Wesley Powell (1902)
• 1835 Andrew Carnegie (1919) (immigrant)
• 1835 Mark Twain (1910)
• 1837 J. Pierpont Morgan (1913)
• 1837 Wild Bill Hickok (1876)
• 1838 John Wilkes Booth (1865)
• 1838 John Muir (1914)
• 1838 John Wanamaker (1922)
• 1839 Charles Peirce (1914)
• 1839 John D. Rockefeller (1937)
• 1839 George Armstrong Custer (1876)
• 1839 Josiah Willard Gibbs (1903)
• 1840 Thomas Nast (1902) (immigrant)
• 1841 Henry Morton Stanley (1904) African explorer ("Dr. Livingston, I presume?")
• 1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1935)
• 1842 William James (1910)

The Gilded Generation had six U.S. Presidents: 1869 Tobacco label featuring Boss Tweed. ... Dan Rice (1823-1901), was an American clown, inducted in 1991 into the Clown Hall of Fame. ... For the 1960s country music artist, see Stonewall Jackson (musician); for the submarine, see USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634). ... Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826-1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was born with a hatred of oppression. Though born in Cicero, New York, Gage maintained residence in Fayetteville, New York for the majority of her life. ... Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 - January 13, 1864) was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of his era. ... Roscoe Conkling (October 30, 1829–April 18, 1888) was a United States politician from New York. ... Alternative meaning: Claude L vi-Strauss, the French anthropologist. ... James G. Blaine James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator from Maine and a two-time United States Secretary of State. ... A young Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1846-1847, for many years the only known photograph of her. ... Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones (May 1, 1830 – November 30, 1930), better known as Mother Jones, was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and Wobbly. ... Portrait of Sitting Bull taken in 1885 by D. F. Barry Sitting Bull (Sioux: Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotank, first named Hunkesni, Slow), (c. ... Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. ... Horatio Alger, Jr. ... First camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyoming, 1871 John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. ... Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913), American financier and banker, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a son of Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890), who was a partner of George Peabody and the founder of the house of J. S. Morgan & Co. ... James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a legendary figure in the American Wild West. ... John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor infamous for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. ... John Muir (1838-1914) John Muir appears on the California quarter John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was one of the earliest modern preservationists. ... John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922) was a United States businessman, considered the father of the department store and the father of modern advertising. ... Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced purse), (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American polymath, physicist, and philosopher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. ... George Armstrong Custer George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. ... Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 New Haven – April 28, 1903 New Haven) was one of the very first American theoretical physicists and chemists. ... Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered to be the father of American political cartooning. ... Sir Henry Morton Stanley (also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) in Congo), born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a 19th-century Welsh-born American journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ... For other people named William James see William James (disambiguation) William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. ...

• 1822 Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877 (1885)
• 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881 (1893)
• 1830 Chester A. Arthur, 1881-1885 (1886)
• 1831 James A. Garfield, 1881 (1881)
• 1833 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 (1901)
• 1837 Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889; 1893-1897 (1908)

The Gilded Generation held a plurality in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1893, a plurality in the U.S. Senate from 1873 to 1903, and a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1890 to 1910. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American general and politician who was elected as the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877). ... Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). ... Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States. ... James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. ... Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. ... Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...

Cultural endowments

• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• the political cartoons of Thomas Nast
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells
• "The Checkered Game of Life", Milton Bradley
• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", Bret Harte
• The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie
• Luck and Pluck, Horatio Alger
• The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman
• The Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• the Home Insurance Building skyscraper, Le Baron Jenney
• Symphony #9, "From the New World", Antonín Dvořák (commissioned by an American and composed in the United States)

Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. ... Huckleberry Finn and Jim Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as the first Great American Novel. ... The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. ... William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author. ... The Game of Life is a board game originally created in 1861 by Milton Bradley as The Checkered Game of Life. ... Milton Bradley (1836 - 1911) was a game pioneer, credited by many with launching the game industry in North America. ... The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte revolves around 4 immoral characters. ... Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836–May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. ... The Gospel of Wealth was an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. ... 1925 depiction of Parkman by N.C. Wyeth, for an edition of The Oregon Trail. ... Francis Parkman Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. ... The term Gilded Age refers to the political and economic nature situation of the United States from approximately 1876-1900. ... Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900), American essayist and novelist, was born of Puritan ancestry, in Plainfield, Massachusetts. ... The Symphony No. ... Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk-music of his native Bohemia in symphonic and chamber music. ...

Foreign peers

• Francis Galton (1822-1911)
• Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
• Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
• Charles Hermite (1822-1901)
• Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
• Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)
• Johann Strauss (1825-1899)
• Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)
• Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
• Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910)
• August Kekulé (1829-1896)
• Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
• Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
• Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
• Maximilian (1832-1867)
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
• Alfred Nobel (1833-1896)
• Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
• Dmitri Mendeleyev (1834-1907)
• Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
• Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
• Pope Pius X (1835-1914)
• Theodor Nöldeke (1836-1930)
• Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900)
• Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
• Émile Zola (1840-1902)
• Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
• Claude Monet (1840-1926)
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
• Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
• James Dewar (1842-1923)