Thomas F. Bayard was a prominent lawyer instrumental in keeping Delaware in the Union during the Civil War. He was also Secretary of State under President Grover Cleveland. Birthplace: Wilmington.
Raised in Dover, John Dickinson was active in the Revolution. He helped draft the Articles of Confederation and established a college that bears his name in Pennsylvania. Birthplace: Talbot County, Maryland.
After moving from France, E.I. du Pont and his father started to manufacture gunpowder near Wilmington in the 1880s. The Du Pont company still exists today and is involved in chemical production and use. Birthplace: France.
Noted illustrator of children's stories and periodicals, Howard Pyle also taught artists such as Maxfield Parrish and Jessie Wilcox Smith. Birthplace: Wilmington.
