Laura M. Thurston

Laura M. Thurston was an American poet and educator. A prolific writer, most of her works were originally published in the Louisville Journal, and in William D. Gallagher's Hesperian. Among Indiana's early poets, she was a contemporary of Amanda Ruter Dufour, while among Kentucky poets, she was a friend of Amelia B. Coppuck Welby. ^{Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator (d. 1842)}

20 December 1812

Born on the same birth day (20 December): Anthony da Silva • Beverly Pepper • Don Sunderlage • Fabian Schär • George Coupland • Joe Cornish • Martín Demichelis • Mehmet Akif Ersoy • Sidney Hook

Born in the same month (December 1812): Henri-Alexandre Wallon • John Sandfield Macdonald • Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal • Robert Spear Hudson • Samuel Smiles • Stuart Donaldson • Vilhelm Petersen (painter)