Prominent Members
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr., railroader
- Jane Addams, reformer
- Edward Atkinson, activist
- Ambrose Bierce, journalist, writer
- George S. Boutwell, politician
- Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
- Mark Twain, author
- Grover Cleveland, former President
- John Dewey, philosopher
- Finley Peter Dunne, humorist
- Edwin Lawrence Godkin, co-founder and editor of The Nation (1865–1899), editor
- Samuel Gompers, labor leader, founder and president of the American Federation of Labor (1886–1924)
- William Dean Howells, editor
- Henry James, author
- William James, psychologist and philosopher
- David Starr Jordan, university president
- Josephine Shaw Lowell,reformer
- Edgar Lee Masters, poet
- William Vaughn Moody, poet
- Carl Schurz, politician
- Moorfield Storey, lawyer;
- William Graham Sumner, economist
- Oswald Garrison Villard, editor
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