Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Arthur Phillip was born in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a Frankfurt-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach.

He was a descendant of Meshullam ben Jacob of Lunel, one of whose five sons was Joseph, the grandfather of Abba Mari, who, like his son Moses, the father of Abba Mari, was highly respected for both his rabbinical learning and his general erudition.

On a Sabbath in September, 1304, the letter was to be read before the congregation, when Jacob Machir Don Profiat Tibbon, the renowned astronomical and mathematical writer, entered his protest against such unlawful interference by the Barcelona rabbis, and a schism ensued.

These controversies, though forced on him, provoked resentment, and it is even related that his physician, Jacob the Schismatic ( Minaah ), was slowly poisoning him, but R. Ammi and R. Assi discovered the crime in time ( Av.

Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, his father, was a portraitist.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

Adding to the confusion that is, Aelbert ’ s stylistic development and the problem of attribution is of course the fact that Jacob ’ s style was not stagnant either.

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.

The element was isolated independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Jerome Balard, in 1825 – 1826.

Bromine was discovered independently by two chemists, Carl Jacob Löwig and Antoine Balard, in 1825 and 1826, respectively.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

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.

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

Jacob Burckhardt, in his cultural classic The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, observed that hierarchy, exclusionary and inherited caste structure was pervasive in Italy, from the nobili caste to the merchants to the peasants.

Barks was the descendant of Jacob Barks who came to Missouri from North Carolina around 1800.

Of his two daughters, the eldest, Louise Charlotte, married Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, and the younger, Hedwig Sophie, married William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

Once again Rebekah intervenes to save her youngest son Jacob from being murdered by her eldest son, Esau.

In Genesis 30: 14, Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah finds mandrake in a field.

As eldest living son, at age 11, Jacob quickly assumed adult responsibilities ( shared with Wilhelm ) for the next two years, adhering to the advice of their grandfather who continually exhorted them to be industrious.

In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

Some critics, however, view this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

Jacob and his eldest son William were hung by Jayhawkers in the mountains near Heavener because they were Union sympathizers.

He is the eldest of six children, his siblings being actor Joseph Fiennes ( Shakespeare in Love, Luther, FlashForward ); Martha Fiennes, a director ( in her film Onegin, he played the title role ); Magnus Fiennes, a composer ; Sophie Fiennes, a filmmaker ; and Jacob Fiennes, a conservationist.

Donner's older brother Jacob also joined the party, along with his wife, two teenage stepsons, and five children, the eldest of whom was nine.

He was the eldest child of Jacob Blount ( 1726 – 1789 ) and Mary Gray Blount.

In 1879 his eldest son, John Jacob Astor III, presented three lots adjoining the library building, and erected on them a third structure similar to the others, and added a story to the central building.

The eldest of three children, Forsythe was born as Jacob Lincoln Freund in Penns Grove, New Jersey, to Blanche Materson ( née Blohm ) and Samuel Jeremiah Freund, a stockbroker.

They have four sons and two daughters, and the heir apparent is now their eldest son, Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone, born 7 April 1999.

In the Book of Mormon, Laman () and Lemuel () are the two eldest sons of Lehi and the older brothers of Sam, Nephi, Jacob, and Joseph.

His eldest sister was Frances May Baer ( 1905 – 1991 ), his younger sister was Bernice Jeanette Baer ( 1911 – 1987 ), his younger brother was boxer-turned-actor Jacob Henry Baer, better known as Buddy Baer ( 1915 – 1986 ), and his adopted brother was August " Augie " Baer.

the titles are held by the third Baron's eldest son, Jacob, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1990.

According to the Book of Genesis, Reuben or Re ' uven (, ) was the first and eldest son of Jacob with Leah.

Warren is the eldest child of Jacob Ralph Warren and Mavis Mary Brown Christian.

Jacob Wallenberg, eldest son of Marcus Wallenberg ( senior ), became the bank's CEO after Joseph Nachmanson died in 1927, joined by younger brother Marcus Wallenberg ( junior ) as the bank's deputy CEO.

Born in New York City, New York, he was the eldest child of Yiddish theater stars Jacob and Sara Adler, and the brother of the more famous Luther and Stella.

Judah, the eldest of the brothers and therefore their leader, merely dismisses this but Jacob is uncertain.

Vida Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria, the eldest child of Jacob Goldstein and Isabella ( née Hawkins ).