February 14, 1818 – African-American abolitionist, lecturer, and editor, Frederick Douglass, who was also an escaped slave, is born in Talbot County, Maryland.
February 15, 1809 - Inventor and industrialist Cyrus McCormick is born in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He invents a horse-drawn mechanical reaper contributing to development and cultivation of vast areas of the American Great Plains. His reaper forms the basis of International Harvester Corporation.
February 15, 1820 – Pioneering women’s rights advocate Susan B. Anthony is born in Adams, Massachusetts.
February 18, 1892 – American politician Wendell Willkie is born in Elwood, Indiana. He was the Republican nominee for President in 1940 waging an unsuccessful campaign in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s bid for an unprecedented third term as President.