Phineas Gage
1823–1860
19th century American railway worker who survived a large brain trauma
railroad construction foreman
Born in Grafton County
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Phineas Gage:
- Karl Marx (1818–1883)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
- Mark Twain (1835–1910)