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.

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.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

* Abraham Curry, founding father of Carson City and early politician

It is the stage of Abraham our father whom the Holy One, blessed be God, called " My friend " ( Isaiah 41: 8 — ohavi

* 1725 – Abraham Clark, American founding father ( d. 1794 )

He wrote for a Jewish audience: like " Q " and " M ", he stresses the continuing relevance of the Jewish law ; unlike Mark he never bothers to explain Jewish customs ; and unlike Luke, who traces Jesus's ancestry back to Adam, father of the human race, he traces it only to Abraham, father of the Jews.

Through Hagar, Abraham becomes the father of Ishmael.

Declaration signer Meir David Loewenstein later claimed, " It ignored our sole right to Eretz Israel, which is based on the covenant of the Lord with Abraham, our father, and repeated promises in the Tanach.

Isaac (;, Yiçḥaq, " he will laugh ";, ;, ; ; or ) as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah, and was the father of Jacob and Esau.

At some point in Isaac's youth, his father Abraham brought him to mount Moriah.

Isaac embraces his father Abraham after the Binding of Isaac, early 1900s Bible illustration

Isaac, along with Ishmael, is highly important for Muslims for continuing to preach the message of monotheism after his father Abraham.

Abraham is hailed as the first Hebrew and the father of the Jewish people.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

Pediatrics as a specialized field of medicine developed in the mid-19th century ; Abraham Jacobi ( 1830 – 1919 ) is known as the father of pediatrics because of his many contributions to the field.

“ The father, one-time collector of internal revenue in New York by appointment of Abraham Lincoln, was the founder of a well known publishing house ”, known previously as the Putnam Publishing house, but now known as G. P. Putnam's Sons.

* 1677 BC — Death of Terah, father of Abraham, according to the Hebrew Calendar

He enrolled in Brandeis University, where he studied under professors such as noted psychologist Abraham Maslow, often considered the father of humanistic psychology.

They include very complete biographies of Jafudà Cresques and his father Cresques Abraham.

Abraham Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks in 1806 in Washington County, Kentucky.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life:

Johnson supported Martin Van Buren and early on expressed an interest in the public lands, eventually being considered a father of the Homestead Act of 1862.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

Njörðr is father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Van sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.

In chapter 6, a list of kennings is provided for Njörðr: " God of chariots ," " Descendant of Vanir ," " a Van ," father of Freyr and Freyja, and " the giving god.

* Dr. John McLoughlin: the father of Oregon by Frederick Van Voorhies Holman

Van Meegeren's father did not share his son ’ s love of art, and instead, encouraged Han to study architecture.

His father Wim Verhoeven became head teacher on the Van Heutszschool in The Hague and Paul Verhoeven attended this school.

Van Schooten's father was a professor of mathematics at Leiden, having Christiaan Huygens, Johann van Waveren Hudde, and René de Sluze as students.

Van der Smissen always seemed a likely candidate for Weygand's father because of the striking resemblance between the two men.

Meanwhile, Dorothy has her own admirers to contend with: older cast member John Van Horn ( George Gaynes ) and Julie's widowed father Les ( Charles Durning ).

No historical record indicates any features of Blue Jacket other than Native American Indian characteristics while all of Van Swearingen's brothers, sisters, cousins, mother, father, aunts and uncles were blonde haired and blue-eyed.

He chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working for the Internal Revenue Service and contrasting that with the portrayal of a writer's life on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Van Horn's work is inspired by the American comics artists Dave Stevens and Floyd Gottfredson, but also by his father.

Noel and William Van Horn have a similar style, but while Noel uses characters from the Mickey Mouse universe, his father is specialized on the Scrooge McDuck universe.

In his absence his father Benjamin Carter traded a horse and a cow for a large tract of land in what was then Wayne County, about eight miles southeast of where the town of Van Buren would eventually be established.

Attracted by the gentle care of patients, Vincent Van Gogh ’ s father considered sending his famous son to Geel in 1879.

Van Meteren's son, Emanuel, stated in an affidavit dated 28 May 1609 that his father was " a furtherer of reformed religion, and he that caused the first Bible at his costes to be Englisshed by Mr Myles Coverdal in Andwarp, the w ’ h his father, with Mr Edward Whytchurch, printed both in Paris and London.

In the fall of 1975, Garrett, at fourteen, appeared in the role of Endy Karras in a 12-week CBS drama series Three for the Road, with Alex Rocco as his father, Peter Karras, and Vincent Van Patten as his older brother, John Karras.

He admits to reporter Joe Feinson ( Luis Van Rooten ) that his hatred for his father and " his criminal mind " ( who drove his wife to a lunatic asylum ) is what fuels his crusade against evil-doers.

Jazz guitarist George Van Eps assessed the legacy of Eddie Lang: " It's very fair to call Eddie Lang the father of jazz guitar ".

Mary's father Tom Arnold was appointed inspector of schools in Van Diemen's Land ( now Tasmania ) and commenced his role on 15 January 1850.

Van Sant was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States ( US ), the son of Betty ( née Seay ) and Gus Green Van Sant, Sr ; Gus Van Sant's father was a clothing manufacturer and traveling salesman who rapidly worked his way into middle class prosperity.