Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

* Reared by foster parents in a far country.

Two of the most notable studies funded by the Pioneer Fund are the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart and the Texas Adoption Project, which studied the similarities and differences of identical twins and other children adopted into non-biological families.

Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.

An unrepentant Yancey was pardoned after only a few months, but while incarcerated Yancey wrote for his newspaper, " Reared with the spirit of a man in my bosom — and taught to preserve inviolate my honor — my character, and my person, I have acted as such a spirit dictated.

Reared in Homer and a graduate of Homer High School and Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport, McClanahan had a distinguised military record.

Reared underground in burrows, the cubs will stay close to the den until they are about four months old.

As compiled in 1997, the recipient of the largest amount of funding ($ 2. 3 million USD ) was Thomas J. Bouchard's landmark twin study, the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart ( MISTRA ), better known as the Minnesota Twins Project.

Reared in Tacoma, Washington, Gilmore attended Washington State University in 1931, where he was a member of the Chi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity and a member of the Alpha Omicron Chapter of Theta Chi fraternity.

Reared in the Episcopal church, she subsequently became a prominent member and preacher in the Society of Friends, and was married to Robert Mott, of New York, in 1797.

Reared in Staten Island, New York, she is known for her portrayals of rural landscapes and life in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Reared in Kimball, South Dakota, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of Southern medicine.

: Reared against the arch of heaven, looks she proudly down.

Reared as a traditional Methodist, he was not allowed to listen to the radio or go to the movie theater on Sundays.

This work became the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart ( MISTRA ), better known as the Minnesota Twins Project.

Reared in Ohio, Maharidge was a staff writer for The Plain Dealer and the Sacramento Bee.

The second son of Constantine I and Fausta, he ascended to the throne with his brothers Constantine II and Constans upon their father's death.

Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France ( reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d ' Albret, sister of John III of Navarre ), in the course of the Italian Wars.

Allen was forced to end his studies upon his father's death.

He became duke of Inner Austria as Frederick V upon his father's death in 1424.

George inherited Ferry Farm upon his father's death and eventually acquired Mount Vernon after Lawrence's death.

After receiving a substantial inheritance upon his father's death in 1863, Cantor shifted his studies to the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstrass and Ernst Kummer.

Geirröth returned to his father's kingdom where he became king upon his father's death, while Agnarr dwelt in company with a giantess in a cave.

Alfonso XIII was born after his father's death and was proclaimed king upon his birth.

Henry became Duke of Saxony upon his father's death in 912.

He became Elector of Brandenburg upon his father's death in January 1499, and soon afterwards married Elizabeth of Denmark, daughter of King John of Denmark.

Upon marriage, the woman takes her husband's last name, and her father's first name becomes her middle name ( e. g. " Hazel William " marries " Timothy Joseph Valov " and upon marriage her name becomes " Hazel William Valov ").

Stephen was called upon to face a famine caused by a drought and by locusts, and as the papal treasury was empty he had to fall back on his father's wealth to relieve the poor, to redeem captives, and to repair churches.

According to Edmund Gosse, his father's career was destroyed by his " strange act of wilfulness " in publishing Omphalos ; Edmund claimed his father had " closed the doors upon himself forever.

Among his children by Anastasia, the elder ( Ivan ) was murdered by the tsar in a quarrel ; the younger Feodor, a pious and lethargic prince, inherited the throne upon his father's death.

The eldest, Nicholas, became Tsar upon his father's sudden death ( due to kidney disease ) at age 49.

He succeeded to the throne upon his father's death in 1627.

Younger son of Severus, Geta was made co-emperor with his older brother Caracalla upon his father's death.

* Charles Edison ( 1890 – 1969 ), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey.

After the possibility of transferring his habilitation to the University of Vienna came to nothing, Adorno considered relocating to Britain upon his father's suggestion.

During Tipu's childhood, his father rose to take power in Mysore, and Tipu took over rule of the kingdom upon his father's death in 1782.

Arafat had a deteriorating relationship with his father ; when he died in 1952, Arafat did not attend the funeral, nor did he visit his father's grave upon his return to Gaza.

Although Wenceslaus upon his father's death retained Bohemia, his younger half-brother Sigismund inherited Brandenburg, while John received the newly-established Duchy of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia.

Maximilian's wife had inherited the vast Burgundian domains in France and the Low Countries upon her father's death in the Battle of Nancy on 5 January 1477.

Elected King of the Romans 16 February 1486 in Frankfurt-am-Main at his father's initiative and crowned on 9 April 1486 in Aachen, Maximilian also stood at the head of the Holy Roman Empire upon his father's death in 1493.

His father, James Madison, Sr. ( 1723 – 1801 ), was a tobacco planter who grew up on a plantation, then called Mount Pleasant, in Orange County, Virginia, which he had inherited upon reaching adulthood.

With all others in the British Empire, Antiguan slaves were emancipated in 1834, but remained economically dependent upon the plantation owners.

Claymont was so-named in 1856 upon the efforts of the wife of Reverend Clemson, pastor of the Episcopal church, after they had relocated from their family plantation, Claymont Court, in Charles Town, West Virginia.

The first store in Evergreen was owned by Alonson Pierce, upon whose plantation the town was laid out prior to the Civil War.

The population of the plantation declined steadily due to the conditions placed upon the Wampanoag.

Convicts would be transported by merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies.

The cargo door opens and the group is dumped in Colombia and taken captive by a Colombian drug cartel after stumbling upon a cocaine plantation.

The Jesuits had conflicts with Duarte da Costa, because he supported the plantation owners, who tried to force slavery upon the Indians.

The fourth was called the Mountain ; it is there that the first cultivated plantation was established upon the island.

He was a Representative from New Mexico ; born on Greenwood plantation, near Bayou Sara, Louisiana., April 3, 1861 ; attended the public schools ; moved to the Territory of New Mexico in 1879 and worked on a cattle ranch until 1881 ; acted as post trader at Fort Stanton ; engaged in the mercantile and stock business until 1886 ; deputy treasurer of Lincoln County in 1886 and 1887 ; elected county clerk in 1888, county assessor in 1890, and sheriff in 1892 ; member of the Territorial senate in 1894 and 1896, serving as president the latter year ; lieutenant of the First Volunteer Cavalry, known as “ Roosevelt ’ s Rough Riders ,” in the Spanish-American War ; sheriff of Otero County in 1899 ; resigned to join the Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry ; lieutenant, provost marshal, and provost judge, with service in the Philippine Islands from December 16, 1899, to March 20, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Camarines, Philippine Islands, in 1901 ; chief of police of the city of Manila, 1901 ; Governor of the Province of Isabela 1903-1905 ; Governor of the Province of Samar from 1905 to 1907, when he resigned ; Governor of the Territory of New Mexico 1907-1911 ; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress and served from January 8, 1912, to March 3, 1913 ; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912 ; engaged in the hotel business in Socorro, N. Mex.

Byrd was, for a time, receiver general of Virginia and owned the large plantation ( and large debts ) his father left him upon his death.

The sugar unit and sugar cane plantation were the second largest business segment upon its grain and feed which were topping the sales.

In February 1786, prominent Virginian Robert Carter III of the Nomony Hall plantation in Virginia, wrote to President Manning regarding his two sons George and John Tasker Carter who were to be enrolled at the college and board with Manning that: “ they to be Sent from Boston immediately upon their Arrival there to your College in Providence.

There is a long shot in the beginning of the movie, when Miriam gets out of the taxi upon her arrival at the Hollis plantation, that actually shows the back of Joan Crawford's head and not de Havilland's.

During the spring of 1862, Union forces came upon Taylor's Fashion plantation and plundered it.

A later owner of Chatham, Hannah Coulter, who acquired the plantation in the 1850s, tried to free her slaves through her will upon her death.

Although Sir Thomas Gates was later hailed by Sir Edwin Sandys as the " principle forwarder " of the London Virginia Company, Captain John Smith wrote in his General Historie that, when in 1605-06 the Jamestown expedition was making no progress, Wingfield got it moving: " Captain Bartholomew Gosnold second cousin, one of the first movers of this plantation, having many years solicited many of his friends, but found small assistance ; Gosnold at last prevailed with some gentlemen, Capt John Smith, Mr. Edward-Maria Wingfield, Mr. Reverend Robert Hunt, and diverse others, who depended a year upon his projects, but nothing could be effected, till by their great charge and industry, it came to be apprehended by certain of the Nobility, Gentry and Merchants, so that His Majesty by his letters patents, gave permission for establishing Councils, to direct here ; and to govern, and to execute there.

Since the natives of that place, who will be concerned in our plantation, are utterly strangers to Christianity, whose idolatry, ignorance, or mistake gives us no right to expel or use them ill ; and those who remove from other parts to plant there will unavoidably be of different opinions concerning matters of religion, the liberty whereof they will expect to have allowed them, and it will not be reasonable for us, on this account, to keep them out ; that civil peace may be maintained amidst diversity of opinions, and our agreement and compact with all men may be duly and faithfully observed ; the violation whereof, upon what presence soever, cannot be without great offence to Almighty God, and great scandal to the true religion which we profess ; and also that Jews, heathens, and other dissenters from the purity of Christian religion may not be scared and kept at a distance from it, but, by having an opportunity of acquainting themselves with the truth and reasonableness of its doctrines, and the peaceableness and inoffensiveness of its professors, may, by good usage and persuasion, and all those convincing methods of gentleness and meekness, suitable to the rules and design of the gospel, be won over to embrace and unfeignedly receive the truth ; therefore, any seven or more persons agreeing in any religion, shall constitute a church or profession, to which they shall give some name, to distinguish it from others.