The document profiles three notable historical figures: Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865; William Poole, a member and leader of rival New York gangs in the 1850s known as "Bill the Butcher"; and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a pioneering advocate for women's rights and leading figure in the women's suffrage movement who authored the Declaration of Sentiments demanding equal rights and treatment under the law.