At the same time as Chappe, the Swedish inventor Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz experimented with the optical telegraph in Sweden.

* Cyrus Simpson, the brother of Abraham Simpson in The Simpsons

Abraham was succeeded by two of his sons, Isaac and Ishmael, while Moses was succeeded by his brother Aaron and Jesus by two prophets whom the Qur ' an mentions in the chapter called " Ya Sin ".

In the Hebrew Bible, he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau.

In contrast to Abraham — who illuminates the world with knowledge of God and earns the respect of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan — and Isaac — who continues his father's teachings and also lives in relative harmony with his neighbors — Jacob experiences many personal struggles both in the land and out of it-including the hatred of his brother, Esau ; the deception of his father-in-law, Laban ; the rape of his daughter, Dinah ; the death of his favorite wife, Rachel ; and the sale of his son, Joseph.

He was the elder brother of Abraham Flexner and of the Zionist leader Bernard Flexner

Burton returned to Hollywood to star in Prince of Players, another historical Cinemascope film, this time concerning Edwin Booth, famous American actor and brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth.

In 1990, her debut album Ven Conmigo was released, written by her brother and main songwriter Abraham Quintanilla III.

Islamic tradition does link Harran to Aran, the brother of Abraham.

Abraham's younger brother, Malouf Abraham, Sr., was a wealthy oil and natural gas developer and philanthropist who served as mayor of Canadian in the 1950s and in the Texas House of Representatives from 1967-1971.

Henry Fry and Rebecca Baker having concluded to be married, started, in company with Catharine Miller, Mary and Abraham Baker ( two sisters and the brother of the intended bride ,) and William Patterson, for Ste.

The expedition against the Sioux was originally scheduled to leave Fort Abraham Lincoln on April 6, 1876, but on March 15, Custer was summoned to Washington to testify at Congressional hearings regarding the scandal involving U. S. Secretary of War William W. Belknap and President Grant's brother Orville.

His brother, James Lardner, was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and was killed in action in Spain in 1938.

The Talmud identifies Sarai with Iscah, daughter of Abraham's deceased brother Haran ( Genesis 11: 29 ), so that Sarah turns out to be the niece of Abraham and the sister of Lot and Milcah.

" When brought before Pharaoh, Sarai said that Abraham was her brother, and the king thereupon took her into his palace and bestowed upon the latter many presents and marks of distinction.

When brought before Pharaoh, Sarah said that Abraham was her brother, and the king thereupon bestowed upon the latter many presents and marks of distinction.

De Koven's brother Henry later came to France offering a 10, 000 franc reward from his father Abraham for information about the young woman.

It was published as A Letter on the Subject of the Catholics to my brother Abraham who lives in the Country, by Peter Plymley.

Jacob Telner, Derick Isacks op den Graeff and his brother Abraham Isacks op den Graeff, Reynier Tyson, and Tennis Coender were burgesses, besides six committeemen.

Caroline Webster Schermerhorn was born into New York City's Dutch aristocracy, descendants of the city's original settlers ; her father, Abraham Schermerhorn, his brother and the extended Schermerhorn family were engaged in shipping.

However, he is usually remembered today as the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

He was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.

In the 1590s, Alshich ordained Hayyim Vital, and between the years 1594 and 1599, Jacob Berab II ordained seven more scholars: Moses Galante, Elazar Azikri, Moses Berab ( Jacob's brother ), Abraham Gabriel, Yom Tov Tzahalon, Hiyya Rofe and Jacob Abulafia.

* Jacob Meserole ( brother of Abraham ) and his family farmed the entire south end of Greenpoint and built a house between present day Manhattan Avenue and Lorimer Street near Norman Avenue ;

Modern Kohanim claim descent from a biblical person, Aaron, brother of Moses, in the direct lineage from Levi, the patriarch of the Tribe of Levi, great grandson of Abraham, according to the tradition codified in the Tanakh ( שמות / Sh ' mot / Exodus 6 ).

A photovoltaic system was installed on the roofs of Abraham and Griffiths Buildings in 2011.

The meeting installed its first president, Abraham Baldwin, a native of Connecticut and graduate of Yale University.

To establish " a street presence ," the society has installed life-size bronze sculptures outside the building — Abraham Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street-national figures with connections to New York.

Prior to the February strike, the Nazis had installed a Jewish Council: a board of Jews, headed by Professor David Cohen and Abraham Asscher, who served as an instrument for organising the identification and deportation of Jews more efficiently, while the Jews on the council were told and convinced they were helping the Jews.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

Abraham Lincoln, William Howard Taft and Barack Obama were accused of being atheists during election campaigns, while others to hold the office used faith as a defining aspect of their campaigns and tenure.

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Rutherford Hayes were Whigs before switching to the Republican Party, from which they were elected to office.

** President Abraham Lincoln takes office, succeeding James Buchanan.

* November 6 – U. S. presidential election: Abraham Lincoln beats John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell and is elected as the 16th President of the United States, the first Republican to hold that office.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln, having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to work at the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could pioneer to make way for more women in government service.

He began his architectural career at age 17 by joining the Abraham M. Radcliffe office in St. Paul.

The campus in Jerusalem, in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program, a formal arrangement between Yeshiva University and 42 men's and women's yeshivot in Israel that enables students to incorporate study in Israel into their college years.

Tremont has also been host to Abraham Lincoln during one of his travels as a lawyer before his advancement into higher office.

A post office was established on July 22, 1878 with Abraham West as the first postmaster.

Immediately upon taking office, Abraham suppressed the practice of simony which had become a significant problem during the last several patriarchates.

Abraham Fischer became the first ( and only ) prime minister of the colony ( in office 27 November 1907 – 31 May 1910 ).

After leaving office, Abraham opened The Abraham Group, a Washington DC based international strategic consulting firm.

Succeeded by Abraham Beame as Mayor, John Lindsay left the office of Mayor of New York on December 31, 1973.

He grieved the loss of Reformed distinctives within this State Church, which no longer required office bearers to agree to the Reformed standards which had once been foundational .< ref > Dan Knight, Dr. Abraham Kuyper, < http :// reformed. net / bios / abraham-kuyper. htm > ( Accessed Feb. 6, 2008 ).</ ref >

when the Georgia legislature elected him to replace George Jones, an appointee who had held the office for a few months after the death of Abraham Baldwin.

In the days before Abraham Lincoln took office, parties in the seceding states disagreed over the proper course of action concerning the forts within their domains.

Popular examples of upward social mobility from America include Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton, who were born into working-class families yet achieved high political office in adult life.

* Abraham Shadd is elected to the town council in Raleigh, Ontario and becomes the first Black elected to public office.

* Dobbs County: Thomas Gray, seat declared vacant May 15, 1779 ; Abraham Shepherd elected to replace Gray, took office October 20, 1779

Morrill was elected Maine's U. S. Senator in 1861 when a vacancy was opened in the U. S. Senate, after Sen. Hannibal Hamlin assumed the office of Vice President under President Abraham Lincoln.

During his final years as a professor emeritus, and prior to his last illness, Nibley maintained a small office in the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU, where he worked on his magnum opus titled One Eternal Round, which focuses on the hypocephalus (" Facsimile 2 ") in the Book of Abraham.