He was born February 24, 1817 in Hamden, Connecticut. His middle name is Morris. At the age of four he became an orphan. 1836 he was nineteen and joined Whitman-Spaulding missionary party. He then told them he wanted to be his own man.…
William Avery Bishop, recognized as Canadian hero Billy Bishop, was born February 8, 1894, in Owen Sound, Ontario. His parents, William A. Bishop, and Margret Bishop had built a substantial living for their children, with William a lawyer and graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Ontario. Bishop earned the position of a vigorous fighter, defending himself against those who were intractable. He preferred solitary activities, which coerced his expertise in swimming, horseback riding, and shooting. As involved as Bishop was with his extra curricular activities, he was ineffective with his studies, and would abandon any subject or tactic he found inconsequential or elaborate.…
Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell. His maternal ancestry traces back to passengers on the Mayflower; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later. Bryant and his family moved to a new home when he was two years old. The William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home, is now a museum.…
Ohs Hughes was a women who lived during the time period before the American Revolution. During this time period, there were many on going issues between the colonists and the Motherland, which was England. Many issues, such as the Stamp act, were in this time period when Hughes wrote a letter about violence caused by Presbyterians. Presbyterians were people who were devoted to the Christian church but were also upset with the acts England had recently passed upon the colonies in the New World. In a letter to a the Lords, Hughes details the current situation in her province stating “The Presbyterians, who are very Numerous in America, and are avowedly, at the head of these Riots” (Hughes, 1766, 1).…
From youth to young adulthood, William Whipple was raised among the environment of ships and the sea. His father William Whipple Sr. was a sea going man. Around the age of fourteen, with only a elementary…
William Still was born the 18th child of Levin and Charity Still. William Still lived a very interesting life. William Still had many jobs, abolitionist, writer, historian, civil rights activist and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. He was chairman of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. William Still wrote of his experiences as an Underground Railroad conductor and the refugee slaves he met along the way.…
William family had been living long before he was even born and was the oldest in America itself because william and his family could trace their ancestors all the way back to “William The Conqueror Of England.” Soon William and his father went and join the army as soldier in 1771 and fought under the British government in the Battle of Alamance. After fighting under the British government, William and his family thought it was time for them to change sides and go and change to the American Government. When the revolutionary war between the United States and England broke out, both william and his father took the jobs as paymasters for the Continental Army. His family was really into being leaders in the business industry and William and his father Jacob, and his two brothers really enjoy being successful shipping and mercantile enterpriser.…
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world” (“Robin Williams Quotes”). This quote was said by Robin Williams because he firmly believed that people can change anything they put their minds to, no matter how hard. Robin Williams was born July 21st, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. Robin Williams is the father of three, a comedian and an actor. He stared and guess appeared in many movies and tv shows.…
U.S. History William Howard Taft was overweight, but he made a great president. To be exact he was our 27th President of the United States, and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father Alphonso Taft was Republican, who also served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. His mother was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Louisa Torrey.…
What does it say about you that when you arrive at a family reunion, people tell you that you are “full of bull” and you actually are? It says that you came from the Bull Family in New York State. The family’s founders William Bull and Sarah Wells created a family that spans ten generations today. Their descendants helped to shape the American Dream. Like many of William and Sarah’s descendants today, they each have to face the struggle of achieving greatness here in America.…
Buffalo Bill had a hard life as a kid and after his father abandoned the farm and went to stage driving , he had to help support the family, then after his mother and father passed, he had a family of his own that he could support, because he was a successful rifleman and a buffalo hunter. Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)was born on February 26,1846 to his parents named Isaac Leacock Cody and Mary Ann Leacock Cody. He lived with them until Bill's father abandoned the farm they were at, and then after they left. Bill, his mother, and his father left to Salt Creek Valley in the vicinity of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where bill's father died. “Buffalo Bill had some education to help with acquiring the art of writing his name and simple…
Who- Texas Ranger extraordinary and Mexican War officer also son of Harmon Hayes and Elizabeth Hayes. What- He led Texas Rangers on a campaign against the Comache. Imagrated to The Republic of Texas in 1836 at the age of 19. Jack rode with Flacco an Apache Chief who led the charge into every battle with him.…
William Buckley Who was he? William Buckley, born in 1780, Macclesfield, England to a small farmer, was an English convict who had been transported to Australia. He successfully escaped and was believed to be dead whilst living amongst an Aboriginal community for many years.…
William Randolph Hearst created a media empire after his father, George Hearst gave him the San Francisco Examiner. After that, he battled the Ney York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer by purchasing the New York Journal and earning awareness for his “yellow journalism.” He went into politics during the century’s turn, and won himself two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives but was unsuccessful in his attempt to become President of the United States and New York City’s mayor. These things took place in William Randolph Hearst history, and he probably would not have had a big impact on the history of journalism without doing the things he’s done. William Randolph Hearst was born on 29th, 1863 to George a United States Senator as well as…
In “William Harvey: A Life in Circulation”, Thomas Wright asserts that people in the medical field in 1639 disfavour revolutionary ideas when the fundamental principles of medicine are laid and highly valued, and displays William Harvey’s conflict with the hostile critique of his peers and struggles for approval of his controversial theory that opposes all traditional medical practices known in the year 1639. Wright introduces the story in the theatre at the University of Altdorf in Nuremberg, Germany, where physician William Harvey explicitly demonstrates his theory of blood circulation in living organisms that the blood travels through the body in a circular motion. Wright gives a brief description of Harvey, describing him as an energetic…