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* John Lothrop Brown ( 1815 – 1887 ), farmer, merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
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In 1870, he was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and confirmed by the Senate, as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom to succeed John Lothrop Motley, but declined the mission.
In his turn Groen was very influential on the way John Lothrop Motley depicted the old Dutch Republic for an American audience.
* John Lothrop Motley, " History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort ".
John Lothrop Motley ( Dorchester, near Boston, Massachusetts, April 15, 1814 and died May 29, 1877 ).
See the Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley, edited by George William Curtis ( New York, 1889 ); Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir ( Boston, 1878 ); and John Lothrop Motley and his Family: Further Letters and Records ( 1910 ), edited by his daughter, Mrs Susan St John Mildmay.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir, 1879, reprinted by Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York, ( 1972 ), ISBN 0-8369-6775-5, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-38358.
John and Brown
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.
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 and 1815
Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland ( where John Allan was born ) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.
In July 1815 he married his former sister-in-law Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, and widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton.
In July 1815 he married Harriet, daughter of John Douglas, and widow of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton, his first wife's sister-in-law.
* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War
* 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society ( b. 1815 )
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, ( 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891 ), was the first Prime Minister of Canada.
They had two sons: Victor Gifford ( 1809 – 1860 ) and John Woodhouse Audubon ( 1812 – 1862 ); and two daughters who died while young: Lucy at two years ( 1815 – 1817 ) and Rose at nine months ( 1819 – 1820 ).
* January 31 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator and founder of the Salesian Society ( b. 1815 )
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