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,

* 1632 – John Locke, English philosopher and physician ( d. 1704 )

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

Lucy Jr. married John Hardcastle in Derby in 1792 and their daughter, Mary, married Francis Boott, the physician.

* 1721 – John McKinly, American physician ( d. 1796 )

E. W. Gilbert's version ( 1958 ) of John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow's 1855 map of the Soho cholera outbreak showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854 While the basic elements of topography and theme existed previously in cartography, the John Snow map was unique, using cartographic methods not only to depict but also to analyze clusters of geographically dependent phenomena.

In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle John Minthorn, a frontier physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before.

* 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician.

* 1836 – John Cheyne ( physician ), British physician, surgeon and author ( b. 1777 )

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

John James Rickard Macleod FRS ( 6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Scottish physician and physiologist.

* John Brown ( doctor ) ( 1735 – 1788 ), Scottish physician who taught that disease was caused by either excessive or inadequate stimulation

* John Brown ( doctor ) ( 1735 – 1788 ), Scottish physician who developed his own medical “ system ”

* John Brown ( physician ) ( 1810 – 1882 ), Scottish physician and essayist

John Abercrombie FRSE FRCSE FRCPE ( 12 October 1780, Aberdeen – 14 November 1844, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.

* John C. Walker, Indiana physician and officer during the American Civil War

* John M. Walker ( 1909 – 1990 ), American physician and investment banker

John Radcliffe ( 1652 – 1714 ) was an English physician.

The royal physician John Bradmore had such a tool made, which consisted of a pair of smooth tongs.

* 1858 – John L. Leal, American physician and water treatment expert who pioneered the use of chlorine disinfection ( d. 1914 )

* 1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1876 )

* 1712 – John Fothergill, English physician ( d. 1780 )

* John Brown ( essayist ) ( 1715 – 1766 ), English clergyman

* March 29 – John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist ( born 1837 )

Within the walls of Verulam, which he took for the name of his Barony, the essayist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon built a refined small house that was thoroughly described by the 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

* John Freeman, Georgian poet and essayist.

* John Woolman ( 1720 – 1772 ), noted Quaker essayist and early anti-slavery advocate.

It is named after the essayist and social critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ) and specialises in providing educational opportunities for adults with few or no qualifications.

* John Shelton Reed, sociologist and essayist, author or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South.

Hazlitt became an influential Unitarian minister, and was the father of the essayist William Hazlitt and the portrait painter John Hazlitt.

The year involved the deaths of at least several highly prominent writers, including among them the following: The late poet Oscar Wilde ( a " celebrity " poet in late-19th century western European society ), the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( critical and acclaimed philologist of Weimar Classicism and one of the most famous German thinkers ), the English poet Ernest Dowson ( marking the death of one of the last notable poets of the Decadent movement ), John Ruskin ( one of the most important historical art critics and an influential essayist ), Francišak Bahuševič ( a literary pioneer of New Belarusian literature ), Stephen Crane, R. D. Blackmore and José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, often considered the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.

William John Conybeare ( 1 August 1815 – 1857 ) was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.

This includes the novelist John Cowper Powys ( 1872 – 1963 ) and novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys ( 1884 – 1939 ).

Llewelyn Powys ( 13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939 ) was a British novelist and essayist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.

They include essayist Susan Sontag, psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, political writer Irving Howe, historian John Morton Blum, and the Paris nightclub owner Bricktop.

* John Shelton Reed ( born 1942 ), sociologist and essayist

Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG ( 10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895 ) was an English essayist and historian.

John Lent is an academic, essayist, poet, short story writer and musician.

* John Robert Seeley, English essayist and historian.

* John Crowe Ransom, poet, professor, essayist

* John Donald Wade, biographer and essayist

John Donald Wade ( September 28, 1892-October 9, 1963 ) was an American biographer, author, essayist, and teacher.

Photo by Robie Macauley. John Crowe Ransom ( April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee – July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio ) was an American poet, essayist, magazine editor, and professor.

John Orley Allen Tate ( November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979 ) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.

John Maxwell " J. M ." Coetzee ( ; born 9 February 1940 ) is a novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English Protestant poet and essayist, called in the Aeropagitica for " the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties " ( applied however, only to the conflicting Protestant sects, and not to atheists, Jews, Moslems or even Catholics ).