November 26, 1827: Ellen Gould White, American Christian spiritual author and pioneer, is born. Along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she helped form what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church (see Issue 61: A History of the Second Coming)

November 26, 1862: President Abraham Lincoln meets Harriet Beecher Stowe, the abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and daughter of prominent minister Lyman Beecher. "So," Lincoln ...