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Born April 26, 1822 • Hartford • Connecticut • (Birthday in 5 days)
Died August 28, 1903 (aged 81) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Role In World’s Columbian Exposition

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Daniel H. Burnham.
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Andrew Jackson Downing
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Daniel Edgar Sickles
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Walter Burley Griffin
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Leland Stanford
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Horace William Shaler Cleveland
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William Kent
William Kent
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Park at Petworth House, West Sussex, Eng., landscaped by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, c. 1751–57
Lancelot Brown
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Repton, portrait by an unknown artist
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Jacques Wirtz
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