His formal education ended before he reached 14, when he began studying Law at the office of Francis Sylvester, a prominent Federalist attorney in Kinderhook.

Other prominent transcendentalists included Louisa May Alcott, Charles Timothy Brooks, Orestes Brownson, William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Walt Whitman, John Sullivan Dwight, Convers Francis, William Henry Furness, Frederic Henry Hedge, Sylvester Judd, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Ripley, Thomas Treadwell Stone, Emily Dickinson, and Jones Very.

Echoing the supposed power of the stone, an Irish bard of the early 19th century, Francis Sylvester Mahony, added a number of ( humorous ) lines to Richard Milliken's " The Groves of Blarney " ( right ).

* Sylvester of Assisi ( died 1240 ), companion of Saint Francis of Assisi

The phrase " Adrian's mole " is found in the poem " The Bells of Shandon " by Francis Sylvester Mahony (" Father Prout "), and refers to the Roman emperor Hadrian's tomb ( Castel Sant ' Angelo ).

Other members of the club included Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Convers Francis, Sylvester Judd, and Jones Very.

* Francis Sylvester Mahony, 19th-century humorist known by the pen name " Father Prout "

A notorious incident in which Sheehan ’ s colleague satiric poet and journalist Francis Sylvester Mahony, Father Prout ( 1804 – 1866 ) fell out with Celbridge parish priest James Callinan took place at Sheehan ’ s home in Celbridge in 1830.

*" Mahony, Francis Sylvester " (" Father Prout ") British Authors of the Nineteenth Century.

* Mahony, Pat & Zmroczek, Christine ; Class Matters: ' Working-Class ' Women's Perspectives on Social Class ( Taylor & Francis, 1997 )

A clear understanding of Marion Mahony ’ s contribution to the architecture of the Oak Park Studio comes from Wright ’ s son, John Lloyd Wright, who says that William Drummond, Francis Barry Byrne, Walter Burley Griffin, Albert Chase McArthur, Marion Mahony, Isabel Roberts and George Willis were the draftsmen — the five men and two women who each made valuable contributions to Prairie style architecture for which Wright became famous.

It was founded by Hugh Fraser and William Maginn in 1830 and loosely directed by Maginn ( and later Francis Mahony ) under the name Oliver Yorke until about 1840.

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* March 31 – British expedition to Tibet – Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.

* January 31 – John Francis Regis, French saint ( d. 1640 )

* July 31 – Robert Francis, American actor ( b. 1930 )

* July 31 – The first engagement between the English and Spanish fleets, off Plymouth, results in a victory for the English under command of Lord Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake.

* May 31 – Leisler's Rebellion: Calvinist Jacob Leisler deposes lieutenant governor Francis Nicholson and assumes control of the Province of New York.

* March 31 – Henry II succeeds his father Francis I as King of France.

* March 31 – King Francis I of France ( b. 1494 )

Two poets, Irishman Francis Ledwidge, 25, of 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, in 29th Division, and Hedd Wyn, a Welsh-language poet serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Pilckem Ridge, were both killed in action on 31 July.

Francis Stephen remained at the imperial court until 1729, when he ascended the throne of Lorraine, but was not formally promised Maria Theresa's hand until 31 January 1736, during the War of the Polish Succession.

Francis I () ( 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547 ) was King of France from 1515 until his death.

The series premiered on December 31 with Arlene Francis and Skitch Henderson.

* The Caine Mutiny was only the second film of Robert Francis, who was being groomed for stardom – but on 31 July 1955, he was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed shortly after take off from Burbank airport.

King Francis I died there, on 31 March 1547, probably in the imposing medieval tower that bears his name.

George Francis Abbott ( June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995 ) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades.

The village was incorporated on August 31, 1899, and was originally named Saint Francis but changed when the post office was established in 1897 because that name was already in use.

, members of the Township Committee are Mayor Gary C. Brugger ( D, term ends December 31, 2012 ), Francis X.

On January 31, 1736 Francis had agreed to marry Maria Theresa.

On February 11, 1899, Francis filed an application for copyright of his painting “ Dog Looking At and Listening to a Phonograph .” Thinking the Edison-Bell Company located in New Jersey, USA, might find it useful, he presented it to James E. Hough, who promptly said, “ Dogs don ’ t listen to phonographs .” On May 31, 1899, Barraud went to the Maiden Lane offices of The Gramophone Company with the intention of borrowing a brass horn to replace the original black horn on the painting.

Rocky Marciano ( born Rocco Francis Marchegiano ; September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969 ) was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from September 23, 1952, to April 27, 1956.

Francis Asbury ( ăz ' bərē ,-bĕ -), ( August 20, 1745 – March 31, 1816 ) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now The United Methodist Church in the United States.

), married at South Stoneham, Hampshire, in 1909 to Elinor Francis Mary Bellett ( 31 January 1881-16 September 1975 ), and had three sons and one daughter:

*** Francis Bellett Cockburn ( Brentford, London, 31 July 1910-?

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE ( 31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset ) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta ( 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 ) was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre ( now part of Spain ) and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.

In Malacca in December, 1547, Francis Xavier met a Japanese man named Anjirō.

The Novena of Grace is a popular devotion to Francis Xavier, typically prayed on the nine days before 3 December.

The feast of Saint Francis Xavier is celebrated on 8 December, although it is celebrated sometimes on 3 December.

This year besides the Masses, a programme called deepen your faith was conducted daily from 24 November to 1 December, after the 6 PM Novena Mass of St. Francis Xavier.

Francis Albert " Frank " Sinatra,, ( December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998 ) was an American singer and film actor.

Baron Francis van Aarssens or Baron François van Aerssen ( 27 September 1572-27 December 1641 ), from 1611 on lord of Sommelsdijk, was a diplomat and statesman of the United Provinces.

The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 14, 1914.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

He approved the Rule of St. Dominic in his Bull Religiosam vitam, dated 22 December 1216, and that of St. Francis in his Bull Solet annuere, dated 29 November 1223.

The United States finally accepted the Court's jurisdiction on 28 December 1935, but the treaty was never ratified, something which Francis Boyle attributes to a strong isolationist element in the US Senate, arguing that the ineffectiveness shown by US non-participation in the Court and other international institutions can be linked to the start of the Second World War.

* December 17 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1883 )

* December 21 – Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor

* December 6 – The first cremation in the United States takes place in a crematory built by Francis Julius LeMoyne.

* December 21 – Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.

** December 20 Charles Joseph Volcher was born at Saint Francis Hospital in Lynwood California.

* December 27 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier ( b. 1881 )

* December 30 – John Francis Regis, French saint ( b. 1597 )

* December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter ( b. 1716 )

* December 28 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint ( born 1567 )

* December 30 – Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( b. 1713 )

* December – Francis Tresham, English conspirator ( b. 1567 )