Stoker's Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is a direct parallel to Le Fanu's vampire expert Baron Vordenburg: both characters used to investigate and catalyse actions in opposition to the vampire, and symbolically represent knowledge of the unknown and stability of mind in the onslaught of chaos and death.

Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.

Discouraged, Deodati eventually gave up and his replacement would be Abraham Momber Van de Velde.

His father Abraham Van Buren ( 1737 – 1817 ) was a farmer, the owner of six slaves, and a tavern-keeper in Kinderhook.

Abraham Van Buren supported the American Revolution and later the Jeffersonian Republicans.

He collaborated with a number of prominent artists including Rubens, Hendrick van Balen ( 1575 – 1632 ), Adriaen Stalbemt ( 1580 – 1682 ), Lucas Van Uden ( 1596 – 1672 ), David Teniers the Younger and his father-in-law Abraham Janssens.

According to John Van Seters in Abraham in History and Tradition, the existence of Amraphel is unconfirmed by any sources outside the Bible.

Stoker's vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing was a strong influence on subsequent vampire literature.

When Hutter revives her, she sends him to fetch Professor Bulwer ( Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing ).

Whitehouse Station takes its name from Whitehouse and Abraham Van Horn's 18th Century Tavern.

The first lease given by Livingston in Copake was for about in 1687 to Matthews Abraham Van Deusen.

At Christmas 2006, he played the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing in a BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.

* Van Seters, John, Abraham in History and Tradition, 1975.

The government had many psychiatrists and doctors examine Vincent including Thomas Gutheil from Harvard University, Donald Klein from Columbia University, William Reid from University of Texas, Wilford Van Gorp from Cornell University, Stanley Portnow from New York University, and Abraham Halpern from New York Medical College.

* Abraham Van Vechten, New York State Attorney General was born in Catskill.

Some episodes feature Duckula's nemesis Doctor Von Goosewing ( based on Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, the nemesis of Dracula ), a vampire hunter who blindly refuses to believe the current incarnation of Duckula is harmless.

Von Goosewing is a mad scientist and vampire hunter, who is a spoof of Abraham Van Helsing.

The etches are attributed to Abraham van Diepenbeeck a pupil of Van Dyck.

Due to the dominance of the then Democratic Party of Van Buren, Polk, and Buchanan the American School was not embraced as the economic philosophy of the United States until the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, who with a series of laws during the American Civil War was able to fully implement what Hamilton, Clay, List, and Carey theorized, wrote about, and advocated.

* In Los Sabios en Salamanca ( The Sages in Salamanca ), a Spanish short novel by Alberto López Aroca, included in the book " Los Espectros Conjurados " ( ISBN 978-84-607-9866-8 ), Challenger and his friend Lord John Roxton meet professor Abraham Van Helsing ( from Bram Stoker's Dracula ) in Salamanca, and attend a meeting of the Sociedad Hermética Española ( a Spanish esoteric society ).

She was married to the President's son, Abraham Van Buren.

She married Abraham Van Buren on November 27, 1838, in Wedgefield, and the following New Year's Day, she assumed the duties of hostess at the White House.

The island is named for descendants of early Staten Island settler Arendt Jansen Prall Van Naarden ( c1647-1725 ), Dutch, Praal ; probably his grandson Abraham Prall ( 1706 – 1775 ) a local farmer.

Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

Christopher Plummer portrayed Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Dracula 2000 ( he had previously appeared as a rather ineffective vampire hunter, Professor Paris Catalano, in Vampire in Venice ).

* The comic book series The Tomb of Dracula featured Rachel van Helsing, granddaughter of Abraham, as a major member of the principal hunters.

* Dracula 3000 features Captain Abraham Van Helsing ( played by Casper Van Dien ), a descendent of the original Van Helsing and the captain of a spacefaring salvage ship.

* 2004 direct to video film The Adventures of Young Van Helsing depicts Abraham Van Helsing's great grand son Michael saving the world from Simon Magus.

* The 2009 film Stan Helsing is a satire comedic film revolving around the descendant of Abraham Van Helsing.

Music of the Vampire, a book writer named Vincent Van Helsing is the great great grandson of Abraham Van Helsing.

* In Tales of the Slayer story " House of the Vampire ", part of an unofficial series of short stories based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Peter Van Helsing ( cousin to Abraham ) is a Watcher ( an advisor and trainer of vampire slayers.

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The first program was sponsored by Abraham & Strauss, Hempstead, New York, under the direction of Special Events director Jennings Dennis.

It was in 1814 that Abraham Wharf and his sister sat by a meager fire in their house on Dogtown Common, a desolate place even then.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

By the time his son Abraham was born, Thomas owned two farms, several town lots, livestock, and horses.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

On January 14, 1863, the Alcotts received a telegram that Louisa was sick ; Bronson immediately went to bring her home, briefly meeting Abraham Lincoln while there.

Abraham was the first to propose the correct structure of penicillin.

His highly influenced style which incorporated Italianate lighting from Jan Both, broken brush technique and atonality from Jan van Goyen, and his ever-developing style from his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp was studied acutely by his most prominent follower, Abraham van Calraet.

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972 ) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family.

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.

Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

Famous in his own time for his perceived ugliness, Abraham Lincoln was described by a contemporary: " to say that he is ugly is nothing ; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression.

In a society where genealogy was considered extremely important because of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants, the author may have felt compelled to establish his Hebrew lineage.

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.