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John Brown ( 1728 – 1776 ).
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So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.
On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.
Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.
During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.
On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.
`` E. B. '' compared John Brown to Moses in that they were both acting to deliver millions from oppression.
In contrast to `` E. B. '', most Rhode Islanders hardly thought of John Brown as being another Moses.
The Woonsocket Patriot admitted that John Brown might deserve punishment or imprisonment `` but he should no more be hung than Henry A. Wise or James Buchanan ''.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.
On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.
The only public demonstration in honor of John Brown was held at Pratt's Hall in Providence, on the day of his execution.
He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.
Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.
Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,
John and 1728
* 1728 – John Stark, American general ( d. 1822 )
The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.
Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".
* 1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon ( d. 1793 )
Between 1725 and 1728 John and his brother James, also a skilled joiner, made at least three precision pendulum-clocks, again with oak and lignum vitae movements and longcase.
The only exceptions were ballad operas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably the Savoy Operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, all of which types of musical entertainments frequently spoofed operatic conventions.
* June 18 – John Wood, the Younger, English architect ( b. 1728 )
John Woodward ( d. 1728 ) experimented with various types of water ranging from clean to muddy and found muddy water the best, and so he concluded earthy matter was the essential element.
The inventory listing of 1476 shows that the tapestry was being hung annually in Bayeux Cathedral for the week of the Feast of St. John the Baptist and this was still the case in 1728 although by that time the purpose was merely to air the hanging which was otherwise stored in a chest.
As a couple they were commemorated as Polly and Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera which he wrote in 1728.
New Holland was settled in 1728 by John Michael and John Phillip Ranc ( Ranck ).
John Stark ( August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822 ) was a general who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
* Sir John Clerk of Eldin ( 1728 – 1812 ) prolific artist, author of An Essay on Naval Tactics ; great-uncle of James Clerk Maxwell
Among his efforts in oil between 1728 and 1732 were The Fountaine Family ( c. 1730 ), The Assembly at Wanstead House, The House of Commons examining Bambridge, and several pictures of the chief actors in John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera.
Historian Ed Kirby tells us that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill ( later Ore Hill ) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley.
Colonel John Rodgers ( 1728 – 1791 ), who operated the ferry and tavern in Perryville, raised the 5th Company of the Maryland Militia.
First granted in 1728, the town was known as " Lovewell's Town ", in honor of Captain John Lovewell, who built the stockade at Ossipee.
* John Freind ( 1675 – 1728 ), physician and chemist
John Kaspar Stover, ( I ), his son John Caspar Stover, ( II ) and his daughter Elisabetha Carherina Stover left England the 15th of June 1728, aboard the ship JAMES GOODWILL and arrived on the 11th of September 1728.
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* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist
* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor
* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.
Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )
* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader
* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )
* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist
* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )
* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist
* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer
* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )
* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )
* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.
* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer
* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )
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