So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.

In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.

The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.

He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.

Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

* John Brown ( physician ) ( 1810 – 1882 ), Scottish physician and essayist

* March 29 – John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist ( born 1837 )

Within the walls of Verulam, which he took for the name of his Barony, the essayist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon built a refined small house that was thoroughly described by the 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

* John Freeman, Georgian poet and essayist.

* John Woolman ( 1720 – 1772 ), noted Quaker essayist and early anti-slavery advocate.

It is named after the essayist and social critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ) and specialises in providing educational opportunities for adults with few or no qualifications.

* John Shelton Reed, sociologist and essayist, author or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South.

Hazlitt became an influential Unitarian minister, and was the father of the essayist William Hazlitt and the portrait painter John Hazlitt.

The year involved the deaths of at least several highly prominent writers, including among them the following: The late poet Oscar Wilde ( a " celebrity " poet in late-19th century western European society ), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( critical and acclaimed philologist of Weimar Classicism and one of the most famous German thinkers ), the English poet Ernest Dowson ( marking the death of one of the last notable poets of the Decadent movement ), John Ruskin ( one of the most important historical art critics and an influential essayist ), Francišak Bahuševič ( a literary pioneer of New Belarusian literature ), Stephen Crane, R. D. Blackmore and José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, often considered the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.

William John Conybeare ( 1 August 1815 – 1857 ) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.

This includes the novelist John Cowper Powys ( 1872 – 1963 ) and novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys ( 1884 – 1939 ).

Llewelyn Powys ( 13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939 ) was a British novelist and essayist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.

They include essayist Susan Sontag, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, political writer Irving Howe, historian John Morton Blum, and the Paris nightclub owner Bricktop.

* John Shelton Reed ( born 1942 ), sociologist and essayist

Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG ( 10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895 ) was an English essayist and historian.

John Lent is an academic, essayist, poet, short story writer and musician.

* John Robert Seeley, English essayist and historian.

* John Crowe Ransom, poet, professor, essayist

* John Donald Wade, biographer and essayist

John Donald Wade ( September 28, 1892-October 9, 1963 ) was an American biographer, author, essayist, and teacher.

Photo by Robie Macauley. John Crowe Ransom ( April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee – July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio ) was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.

John Orley Allen Tate ( November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979 ) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

John Maxwell " J. M ." Coetzee ( ; born 9 February 1940 ) is a novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English Protestant poet and essayist, called in the Aeropagitica for " the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties " ( applied however, only to the conflicting Protestant sects, and not to atheists, Jews, Moslems or even Catholics ).

* Lynn, John Albert, Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610 – 1715, Cambridge University Press, 1997

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

Early attempts to reach this autonomy from the surface were made in the 18th century by the Englishman John Lethbridge, who invented and successfully built his own underwater diving machine in 1715.

* November 22 – John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress ( b. 1715 )

In about 1715 an excise officer named John Warburton found an altar there, which he removed.

John was Seigneur of Sark from 1715 to 1720 when he sold the fief.

* John Leland's Itinerary ( 1710 – 1712 ) and the same author's Collectanea ( 1715 )

In his 1715 essay Linear Perspective, Taylor set forth the true principles of the art in an original and more general form than any of his predecessors ; but the work suffered from the brevity and obscurity which affected most of his writings, and needed the elucidation bestowed on it in the treatises of John Joshua Kirby ( 1754 ) and Daniel Fournier ( 1761 ).

Correspondence from John Moore, the collector for the port of Philadelphia and himself a Mason, indicate that Masonic Lodges were meeting in Philadelphia in 1715.

This condemnation parallels that issued to the chief ministers of the Tory government that had made peace with France, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 ; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, who, after his political fall, received vague threats of capital punishment and fled to France in 1715, where he remained until 1723.

* February 23 – John Alcock, composer ( b. 1715 )

In 1715, the then owner of the house married a John Russell, a grandson of Oliver Cromwell.

Born the son of John Stevens ( 1715 – 1792 ), a prominent New Jersey politician who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and Elizabeth Alexander, daughter of New York lawyer and statesman James Alexander.

John Stevens ( c. 1715 – May 10, 1792 ) was a prominent politician from New Jersey who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1783.

The son of John Stevens and his wife Ann Campbell, he was born either in 1715 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey or on October 21, 1716 in New York City when his mother was visiting there.

An example of the Lowthers ' interest in technology could be seen at Stone Pitt when one of the world's earliest steam engines, Engine No. 5 built by Thomas Newcomen and John Calley in 1715 was installed, to help in drainage and haulage.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1724 ), Domenico Scarlatti ( 1715 ), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno ( 1991 ), Pawel Lukaszewski ( 1994 ), Frank Ferko ( 1999 ), Salvador Brotons ( 2000 ), Bruno Coulais ( 2005 ), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

The Book of Deer has been in the ownership of the Cambridge University Library since 1715, when the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely was presented to the University of Cambridge by King George I.

The manuscript came to Cambridge University Library in 1715 when the collection of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, was purchased by King George I and presented to the University.

The only individual to have suffered such a fate was John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar who lost both the knighthood and the earldom after participating in the Jacobite rising of 1715.

* 1715 / 16 John Newton William Shepherd

** Lady Frances Powlett ( d. 1715 ), married John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt ( d. 1710 ) in 1708.

< onlyinclude > John Hanson ( 1715 – 1783 ) was President of the American Continental Congress.