The first speaker was Amos C. Barstow who had been unanimously chosen president of the meeting.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

Amos also made it a point that before his calling he was a simple husbandman and that he was not a " professional " prophet of the prophetic guild.

There are some differing opinions as to the location of the Tekoa Amos was presumably from.

It is believed by most that Amos was a southern farmer, called by God to deliver his prophetic message in the North.

However, some believe that Amos was actually from a Tekoa in the North, near Galilee.

They believe that it is more probable that Amos was from the North because it has conditions more suitable for the cultivation of sycamore figs than the Tekoa of the South.

However, Amos came to tell the people that " the Day of the LORD " was coming soon and that it meant divine judgment and justice for their own iniquity.

In the book The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers, sports journalist Rob Neyer wrote that the speed with which pitchers like Cy Young, Amos Rusie, and Jouett Meekin threw was the impetus that caused the move.

The obligation imposed upon the Israelites was emphasized by the prophet Amos ():

This path was taken by some Transcendentalist educators, such as Amos Bronson Alcott.

In 1858 ( when she was 39 ) Amos Barton, the first of the Scenes of Clerical Life, was published in Blackwood's Magazine and, along with the other Scenes, was well received.

He was the son of Amoz ( not to be confused with Prophet Amos ), who was the brother of King Amaziah of Juda.

He was victorious over the Syrians ( 13: 4 ; 14: 26, 27 ), conquered Damascus ( 14: 28 ), and extended Israel to its former limits, from " the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain " ( 14: 25 ; Amos 6: 14 ).

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

An Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) was formed in Gambia under the auspices of ECOWAS in October 1990 and Dr. Amos Sawyer became President.

She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abigail May Alcott and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest ; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest.

Tori Amos ( born Myra Ellen Amos ; August 22, 1963 ) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer.

Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina, the daughter of Mary Ellen and the Reverend Edison Amos.

His father, Amos Mefford Hanks ( born in Glenn County, California, on March 9, 1924 – died in Alameda, California, on January 31, 1992 ), was an itinerant cook.

Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a US diplomat, and Isabella Niven Wilder.

* Amos Oz ( born 1939 ), an Israeli author

Amos Kollek ( born 1947 ) is an Israeli film director, writer and actor.

Amos Kollek was born in Jerusalem.

Terry Scott Taylor ( born May 24, 1950 ) is an American songwriter, record producer, writer and founding member of the bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies ( credited as Camarillo Eddy ).

* Amos Bronson Alcott ( 1799 – 1888 ), father of Louisa May Alcott, born in Wolcott, teacher, writer, and founder of the utopian community " Fruitlands "

Greg Flesch ( born 1960 ) is a guitarist and musician, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies ( credited as Gene Pool ).

Tim Chandler ( born February 3, 1960 ) is a bass guitar player, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies ( credited as Berger Roy Al ) and The Choir.

* John Amos ( born 1939 ), actor.

* John Amos ( born 1939 ), actor.

* Newton is the birthplace of singer-songwriter Tori Amos ( born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 ).

According to the town's history, Linesville was settled by Amos Line, who was born in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

According to former governor Hugh Gregg, the United States Republican Party was born in Exeter on October 12, 1853 at the Squamscott Hotel, but nothing came of the secret meeting of Amos Tuck with other abolitionists that day, and the party was not organized in the state until 1856.

Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC ( born 13 March 1954 ) is the eighth and current UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Allard was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, the son of Sibyl Jean ( née Stewart ) and Amos Wilson Allard.

Danny Thomas ( born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz ; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991 ) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor and producer, whose career spanned five decades.

On 17 February 2005, the British government nominated Amos to head the United Nations Development Programme.

On 4 July 2009 it was advised that Baroness Amos had been appointed British High Commissioner to Australia in succession to High Commissioner Helen Liddell.

The film starred Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley ( also famed from her role as Patsy in the British TV comedy " Absolutely Fabulous ") as her friend and mentor Mary Smiling, Rufus Sewell as Seth, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Eileen Atkins as Judith, Stephen Fry as Mybug, Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle, and Angela Thorne as Mrs Hawk-Monitor.

* Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos-Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, British High Commissioner to Australia and the first black woman to serve in the Cabinet

* November 5, 2010: In the second episode of The Stephen K. Amos Show, British comedian Stephen K. Amos portrayed an eccentric television interviewer whose guest Natalie Allen ( a real-life baker ) explained at length how she was inspired to create whoopie pies at her North London bakery Sweet Things.

Alan Thomas Amos ( born 10 November 1952 ) is a British Labour politician, and former Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Hexham in Northumberland between 1987 and 1992.

Robert Royston Amos (" Robin ") Coombs, ( 9 January 1921 – 25 January 2006 ), was a British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test ( 1945 ) used for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion.

British stand-up comedian Stephen K. Amos regularly performs a skit on Coon Cheese as part of his live show, due to the word " Coon " also being an ethnic slur used for black people.

Most of the interned were poor or unemployed single men, although 81 women and 156 children ( mainly Germans in Vernon and Ukrainians at Spirit Lake ) had no choice but to accompany their menfolk to two of the camps, in Spirit Lake, near Amos, Quebec, and Vernon, British Columbia.