- a dealer in cloth; a retail merchant or clerk who sells piece goods.
- a retail merchant or clerk who sells clothing and dry goods.
- U.S. astronomer.
- U.S. chemist, physiologist, historian, and writer; born in England.
- U.S. diseuse and writer of character sketches.
- a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials
- Henry. 1837–82, US astronomer, who contributed to stellar classification and spectroscopy
- his father, John William. 1811–82, US chemist and historian, born in England, made the first photograph of the moon
