Joseph Carey Merrick was born 5 August 1862 at 50 Lee Street in Leicester to Joseph Rockley Merrick and his wife Mary Jane ( née Potterton ).

As a young woman she worked as a domestic servant in Leicester before marrying Joseph Rockley Merrick, then a brougham driver, in 1861.

Joseph Rockley Merrick moved with his two children to live with Mrs. Emma Wood Antill, a widow with children of her own.

Originally titled The Girls Upstairs, the musical was originally to be produced by David Merrick and Leland Hayward in late 1967, but the plans ultimately fell through, and Stuart Ostrow became the producer, with Joseph Hardy to direct.

* August 5 – Joseph Carey Merrick, English oddity ( d. 1890 )

Just about every notable figure of the period is connected with the events in some way, from " Elephant Man " Joseph Merrick to Oscar Wilde, from the Native American writer Black Elk to William Morris, the artist Walter Sickert to Aleister Crowley, who makes a brief appearance as a young boy in short trousers, sucking on a candy cane, and lecturing the police about magic.

Joseph Merrick, the so-called " Elephant Man ", was one of the patients whom she met.

Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was once considered to have been affected with neurofibromatosis type I.

Looking like Joseph Merrick, he ran out of the store and encountered a circus that made him a part of its freak show.

* Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Bt ( doctor, treated King Edward VII and Joseph Merrick, " The Elephant Man ")

The generic use of XML for remote procedure call ( RPC ) was patented by Phillip Merrick, Stewart Allen, and Joseph Lapp in April 2006, claiming benefit to a provisional application filed in March 1998.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

A few of them were: Jedediah Knight, Joseph Nielson, Pleasant Minchey, Frank Foote, Charley and Ammon Foote, George Merrick, Oscar Beebe, Orson Davis, Heber C. K. Petty, Sr., Joseph Evans, Rasmus Johnson, Carl Magnus Olsen, Peter Nielson, Peter Hansen, Heber Broderick, Peter Christensen, George A. Whitlock, Peter Victor Bunderson, Rasmus Albrechtson, Christian A. Larsen, Lafe Allred, Hyrum Strong, Peter Jensen, Isaac Kimball, William George Petty, Niels Jensen, Wiley Payne Allred, Andrew C. Anderson, Stephen Williams and David Pratt.

Joseph Carey Merrick ( 5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890 ), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man.

The following year, Joseph Carey Merrick was born, apparently healthy, and had no outward symptoms of any disorder for the first few years of his life.

A pamphlet entitled " The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick ", produced c. 1884 to accompany his exhibition, states that he started to display symptoms at approximately five years of age, with " thick lumpy skin ... like that of an elephant, and almost the same colour ".

The Merrick family explained his symptoms as the result of Mary's being knocked over and frightened by a fairground elephant while she was pregnant with Joseph.

A pamphlet titled " The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick " was created, outlining Merrick's life to date.

Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark, painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1900

The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.

File: Joseph Hauber Das Urteil d Paris ( 1 ). jpg | Joseph Hauber, c. 1819

Joseph Priestley, c. 1783

* July 21 – Joseph Spencer, American Continental Congressman for Maryland ( c. 1750 )

* November 11 – Joseph " Blueskin " Blake, English highwayman ( executed ) ( b. c. 1700 )

* Pfohl, Ferdinand: 5 poems (" Moon-rondels, fantastic scenes from ' Pierrot Lunaire '") for voice and piano ( 1891 ); Marschalk, Max: 5 poems for voice and piano ( 1901 ); Vrieslander, Otto: 50 poems for voice and piano ( 46 in 1905, 4 more in 1911 ); Graener, Paul: 3 poems for voice and piano ( c. 1908 ); Marx, Joseph: 4 poems for voice and piano ( 1909 ; 1 of 4, " Valse de Chopin ", reset for voice, piano, and string quartet in 1917 ); Schoenberg, Arnold: 21 poems for speaking voice, piano, flute ( also piccolo ), clarinet ( also bass clarinet ), violin ( also viola ), and violoncello ( 1912 ); Kowalski, Max: 12 poems for voice and piano ( 1913 ); Prohaska, Carl: 6 poems for voice and piano ( 1920 ); Lothar, Mark: 1 poem for voice and piano ( 1921 ).

Joseph Billings ( c. 1758-1806 ) was an English navigator and explorer who spent the most significant part of his life in Russian service.

* Joseph Dwight, 18th c. Judge

Interior of John Leavitt's Tavern, Joseph Warren Leavitt, Chichester, c. 1825, American Folk Art Museum

Joseph Stalin c. 1936

Mr Micawber by Joseph Clayton Clarke | ' Kyd ' c. 1890

The Gospel of Matthew ( c 80-85 ) begins with a genealogy leading from Abraham to Joseph, but then calls Joseph " the husband of Mary, of whom ( Mary ) was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

* Joseph H. Jackson ( c. 1905 – 1990 ), American Baptist pastor and civil rights campaigner

Chief Joseph and family, c. 1880.

The Artful Dodger by Joseph Clayton Clarke | ' Kyd ' c. 1890

Joseph Priestley ( c. 1763 ): " Mrs. Barbauld has told me that it was the perusal of some verses of mine that first induced her to write any thing in verse.

However, according to Joseph Needham, who wrote in 1954 on Sima Qian accounts of the kings of the Shang Dynasty ( c. 1600 – c.

Joseph Grimaldi | Grimaldi as Clown, c. 1810

In particular, St. Theodore the Studite ( c. 758 – c. 826 ) combined a number of influences from the Byzantine court ritual with monastic practices common in Asia Minor, and added thereto a number of hymns composed by himself and his brother Joseph ( see Typicon for further details ).

`` Put the rifle down, Joseph '', the girl said.

`` I said go home, Joseph.

His name's Joseph Sanchez.

This hysteria reached its height under the leadership of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The writer took a class of college students to the state hospital for the mentally ill in St. Joseph, Missouri.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

He chose a medieval legend of incest, Gregorius Vom Stein, and freely borrowed and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, language, peoples and times in a master myth in which the old forms continually renew themselves, as in his previous treatment of Joseph.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

From Philadelphia came Cyrus Adler and Joseph Jastrow.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

They went to the pawnshop of Joseph Miller of 1162 Sixth Avenue.

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.

They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.

Listed as present at the Descent were Mary, Mary's sister, Mary Magdalene, John, Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus.

Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.

`` Joseph Maria Ballestre meet Francis Xavier Bowman.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

Joseph R. Brown grew up in the bustle and enterprise of New England between 1810 and 1830.

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

It must have been with some pleasure and relief that on September 12, 1848, Joseph Brown made the momentous entry in his job book, in his characteristically cryptic style, `` Lucian Sharpe came to work for me this day as an apprentice ''.

Joseph Horne, Pittsburgh.