Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

When Giffen decided to charge him interest on the loan from John Palfrey, Gorham readily assented, vowing that in a matter of dollars and cents, his brothers would never have any cause to complain of him.

Survivors include two brothers, C. E. Killingsworth, Atlanta, and John Killingsworth, Warren, Ohio ; ;

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.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

Benjamin had two younger brothers, John and Richard, who both went on to become distinguished artists.

The charter had more than sixty signatories, including the brothers John, Nicholas and Moses of the Brown family, who would later inspire the College's modern name following a gift bestowed by Nicholas Brown, Jr.

Malcolm Willits was the first person to learn Barks's name and address, but two brothers named John and Bill Spicer became the first fans to contact Barks after independently discovering the same information.

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

John succeeded his father as elector in 1486, while the Franconian possessions of the Hohenzollern dynasty passed to his younger brothers Frederick I and Siegmund.

John Edward Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 17 June 1985 ) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting ( 21 November 1913 – 5 November 2001 ), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642.

Following the failed rebellion of his elder brothers between 1173 and 1174, however, John became Henry's favourite child.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

John was probably, like his brothers, assigned a magister whilst he was at Fontevrault, a teacher charged with his early education and with managing the servants of his immediate household ; John was later taught by Ranulph Glanville, a leading English administrator.

From James being thus placed first, the conclusion is drawn that John was the younger of the two brothers.

Louis arrived in Cyprus in 1248, where he gathered an army of his own men, including his brothers Robert of Artois, Charles of Anjou, and Alphonse of Poitiers, and those of Cyprus and Jerusalem, led by the Ibelin family John of Jaffa, Guy of Ibelin, and Balian of Beirut.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

Many other broadcasters filled in, including several who would serve long stints for other NHL teams, including Howie Rose, Mike Emrick and John Kelly, as well as brothers Al and Steve.

Ethan accidentally shoots wagonmaster Chris Hale, played by John McIntire, while the brothers are in the mountains looking at possible route options.

Gainey and Tom Savini as Big John and Ellis Brittle, two of the slave owners who separate Django and Broomhilda, Anthony LaPaglia and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Australian brothers, Jano and an unnamed character, respectively, who encounter Django while escorting slaves to a fight.

Henry the Young King abandoned his father and left for the French court seeking the protection of Louis VII ; he was soon followed by his younger brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, while the 5-year-old John remained with Henry II.

Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier.

He spent time in England ( John of England knighted him at Clerkenwell Priory in 1213 ) before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year.

John Young and Charles Duke spent 71 hours — just under three days — on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extra-vehicular activities, or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes.

Following his election as pope, John spent a year in Bologna and then joined forces with Louis II of Anjou to march against Ladislaus.

Bruno spent much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot John Canaparius may have written a life of Saint Adalbert.

* The song " Centerfield " by John Fogerty includes the line " Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin ' it from the bench.

* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ( 1995 ) – the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize.

A governor of the school had spent about 20 years in prison for recusancy, and its headmaster, John Pulleyn, came from a family of noted Yorkshire recusants, the Pulleyns of Blubberhouses.

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

Virtuoso jazz guitarist John McLaughlin spent several years in Madurai learning Carnatic music and incorporated it into many of his acts including Shakti which featured prominent Indian musicians.

John spent much of the next decade attempting to regain these lands, raising huge revenues, reforming his armed forces and rebuilding continental alliances.

John spent some time as a member of the household of his eldest living brother Henry the Young King, where he probably received instruction in hunting and military skills.

John had spent the conflict travelling alongside his father, and was given widespread possessions across the Angevin empire as part of the Montlouis settlement ; from then onwards, most observers regarded John as Henry II's favourite child, although he was the furthest removed in terms of the royal succession.

John spent much of 1205 securing England against a potential French invasion.

John of Gaunt spent lavishly in the late 14th century, turning the medieval castle into a palace fortress designed in the latest perpendicular style.

John spent £ 1, 115 on Kenilworth Castle between 1210 and 1216, building the outer bailey wall in stone and improving the other defences, including creating Mortimer's and Lunn's Towers.

When not campaigning abroad, John spent much of his time at Kenilworth and Leicester, and used Kenilworth even more after 1395 when his health began to decline.

Director John Cassavetes told him after he completed Boxcar Bertha: " You ’ ve just spent a year of your life making a piece of shit.

During the half year he spent in Florence, he worked on two small statues, a child St. John the Baptist and a sleeping Cupid.

Party leader John Burns, who contested the 2000 Dublin South Central by-election, spent only £ 163 on his campaign.

Dr. John Ward's 1662 diary entry stating that Shakespeare wrote two plays a year " and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1, 000 a year " as a critical piece of evidence, since Queen Elizabeth I gave Oxford an annuity of exactly £ 1, 000 beginning in 1586 that was continued until his death.

As John Ray has observed, " the day may come when the stone has spent longer in the British Museum than it ever did in Rosetta.