Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin was a tallow chandler, a soap-maker and a candle-maker.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

By then the work on the " Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology " ( 1902 ) had been announced and a period of intense philosophical correspondence ensued with the contributors to the project: William James, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, George Edward Moore, Bernard Bosanquet, James McKeen Cattell, Edward B. Titchener, Hugo Münsterberg, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Adolf Meyer, George Stout, Franklin Henry Giddings, Edward Bagnall Poulton and others.

In 1801, Franklin college, UGA's initial college, opened to students with Josiah Meigs succeeding Baldwin as president to oversee the inaugural class of students.

The famous Lunar Society included Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley and Josiah Wedgwood with Benjamin Franklin corresponding from America.

Captain Franklin Buchanan & Captain Josiah Tattnall

* ' The Insects ' in J. Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana ; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late NorthernLand Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R. N ; Josiah Fletcher, Norwich, Vol.

Franklin's father was Josiah Franklin, originally from Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, and his mother was Abiah, who was born in Nantucket and was Josiah's second wife.

Captain Franklin Buchanan & Captain Josiah Tattnall

Franklin died in 1945, and his son Josiah took over leadership ; Josiah himself died soon after.

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

King Josiah also had the Ark put in the Temple ( 2 Chron.

Josiah wanted Ben to attend school with the clergy, but only had enough money to send him to school for two years.

Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

In the late 19th century, Josiah Willard Gibbs had formulated a theory to predict whether a chemical reaction is spontaneous based on the free energy

Three months later, Josiah Child and his deputy had an audience with James II, and as per the ensuing discussions, a Charter was issued by the king on December 30, 1687 which established the Corporation of Madras.

The sons of Montgolfier obtained an English patent for an improved version in 1816, and this was acquired, together with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer who had just moved to London.

Commemorating the landing of the First Fleet in Botany Bay, the Sydney Cove medallion was made by Josiah Wedgwood after he was given a sample of clay from Sydney Cove by Sir Joseph Banks, who had received the sample from Governor Arthur Phillip.

Josiah Russell calculates that all of Syria had about 2. 3 million people at the time of the crusades, with perhaps eleven thousand villages ; most of these, of course, were outside of crusader rule even at the greatest extent of all four crusader states.

He had two brothers, Nathaniel and Josiah.

The 3rd Duke lent the vase to Josiah Wedgwood, who had already had it described to him as " the finest production of Art that has been brought to England and seems to be the very apex of perfection to which you are endeavoring " by the sculptor John Flaxman.

In the last two decades of the 18th century polygenism, the belief that different races had evolved separately in each continent and shared no common ancestor, was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White, in Germany by ethnographers Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster, and in France by Julien-Joseph Virey, and prominently in the US by Samuel Morton, Josiah Nott and Louis Agassiz.

His given name, which he shared with his father and several other members of his extended family, derived from his ancestor Josiah Willard, who had been Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the 18th century.

His daughter Renée had a supporting role in The West Wing, as one of President Josiah Bartlet's ( Sheen ) secretaries.

Zech 3. 8 and 6. 12 refer to a man called “ The Branch .” In Zech 6, the Lord tells Zechariah to gather silver and gold from the returned exiles ( who had come back to Judah from Babylonia ), and to go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah ( members of the Davidic lineage ).

The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35: 20 states that when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against the Babylonians at Carchemish on the Euphrates River and that King Josiah was fatally wounded by an Egyptian archer.

On his return march, he found that the Judeans had selected Jehoahaz to succeed his father Josiah, whom Necho deposed and replaced with Jehoiakim.

Stowe was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom's Cabin by The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself the 1849 slave narrative of Josiah Henson, a former enslaved black man who had lived and worked on a tobacco plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley.

About a year after King Josiah of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather.

The Lord called Jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about 626 BC, about one year after Josiah king of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather.

Josiah Hasbrouck ( DR ), from October 17, 1803

This image, Hartnellwilliam. jpg ( copied from http :// www. shillpages. com / dw / hartnw13. jpg ), is being linked here ; though the picture is copyright © to the BBC, I ( Josiah Rowe 17: 57, 10 August 2007 ( UTC )) feel it is covered by the U. S. fair use law because:

Josiah is believed to be Jeconiah's grandfather rather than father, and having the listing of Jeconiah as two separate people would correct the seeming error in Matthew 1: 17.

* Quincy, Josiah, A Municipal History of the Town and City of Boston During Two Centuries from September 17, 1630 to September 17, 1830, Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1852.

Gibbs was the fourth of the five children, and the only son, of Josiah Willard Gibbs and his wife Mary Anna, née Van Cleve.

Their children were John Vinton Dahlgren, who married Elizabeth Wharton Drexel ; Eric Bernard Dahlgren, Sr., who married Lucy Wharton Drexel ; and Ulrica Dahlgren, who married Josiah Pierce, and was the grandmother of Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, wife of David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven.

* Will Holland and Josiah Holland, members of rock & roll band The Lonely Hearts, lived here as children.

He was one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford.

In 1884, when Zitkala-Ša was eight, missionaries came to the Yankton Reservation and brought several of the Native American children, including Zitkala-Ša, to the White's Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana, a manual training school founded by Quaker Josiah White for the education of " poor children, white, colored, and Indian ".

Green and two of his children, three year old Josiah and two year old Bethany, were on board the plane, along with visiting missionaries John and Dede Smalley and their six children.

At Harvard, Mead studied with Josiah Royce, a major influence upon his thought, and William James, whose children he tutored.

She was born at the family estate of Maer Hall, Maer, Staffordshire, the youngest of seven children of Josiah Wedgwood II and his wife Elizabeth " Bessie ".

On 18 April 1796 he married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of the pottery manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, at St Marylebone, Middlesex ( now part of London ), and they had six children:

* Marvin Winans ( sibling # 4 twin ); married Vickie ; children: Marvin Jr ; Mario ( stepson ) Josiah Winans

Josiah Wedgwood married Sarah Wedgwood ( 1734 – 1815 ), and they had seven children, including:

He married Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of Josiah Wedgwood ( see above ), and they had the following children.

Meigs was born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1740, the son of Return and Elizabeth Hamlin Meigs, whose thirteen children also included Josiah Meigs.

Yoba has three children, — a son Josiah and a daughter Dena with Mann, and another daughter Pria from a previous relationship.

Josiah was born in London, the third of seven children ; his youngest brother L. Dudley Stamp became an internationally renowned geographer.

Born at Toulminville, Alabama, Gorgas was the first of six children of Josiah Gorgas and Amelia Gayle Gorgas.

Tyree is married to Leilah, and they have four children: two sons — Teyon and Josiah, and twin daughters — Sophia and Hannah.

In 1867 Josiah Spiers spoke to 15 children in a drawing room in Islington, London, and began the work of sharing the Christian message with children in a way that related to their real needs.

** Josiah Stirling Hamilton ( b. 1975 ), married Justine Miller and lives in Santa Barbara, California-has two children.

He currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife Anita Siddiki and their three children Aaron, Matthew and Josiah.

Prominent anti-gin campaigners included Henry Fielding ( whose 1751 ' Enquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers ' blamed gin consumption for both increased crime and increased ill health among children ), Josiah Tucker, Daniel Defoe ( who had originally campaigned for the liberalisation of distilling, but later complained that drunken mothers were threatening to produce a ' fine spindle-shanked generation ' of children ), and – briefly – William Hogarth.