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Who was John Quincy Adams By:Yale Kim John Quincy Adams was born on July 11,1767. His nickname is Old Man Eloquent. Abigail Smith Adams was his mother and John Adams was his father. John Quincy Adams had four siblings Abigail, Susan, Charles, and Thomas.

Maci Metheny Mrs. Cygan 23 September 2015 History Sybil Ludington Sybil Ludington was born April 5th, 1761, in Connecticut, along with her twelve brothers and sisters, of which she was the eldest. Her father, Henry Ludington was a farmer and a military officer, and her mother, Abigail, stayed home with their children. Henry and Abigail were first cousins, and six years apart in age.

(New World Encyclopedia). Dix was the oldest of three children. Her father taught her to read and write and she taught her siblings. When Dix was fifteen years old she started a school which she ran for three years. Dix also started writing books.

Kate Chopin was born named Catherine O’Flaherty in St.Louis on February 8, 1850. Chopin was brought up in a home dominated by women. Her father, a successful Irish businessman died when she was five years old. Her mother was Eliza Faris came from a old French family that lived closely to St.Louis. Chopin spent her childhood in a attic constantly reading new books as well as being told stories about her great-great-grandmother who was a very successful person.

Her family cook Martha Washington, created a type of sign language to communicate with Helen. By the time Helen was seven they had already made 60 different ways to communicate with each other. In 1886 Alexander Graham Bell was working with deaf children and agreed to meet with Helen and her family. Bell wanted her to go to Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. At the institute Helen met with Anne Sullivan, a former graduate who soon became her teacher.

Samuel Adams Did you know that Samuel Adams started the Sons Of Liberty? Samuel Adams was born in Boston, MA on September 27, 1772 and died on October 22, 1803 in the same city. In this paper you will learn about Samuel Adams childhood, how he impacted the world and other interesting facts.

The Birthmark- Reader’s Response Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the infamous town where a very significant historical event occured. Hawthorne was the great-great-grandson of John Hathorne, one of the three judges over the Salem witch trials nearly a century ago. After the death of his father in 1808, Hawthorne’s uncle Robert Manning, prominent pomologist of that time, took Hawthorne into his care in Raymond, Maine. As a young man Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce. After obtaining his degree in 1825, Hawthorne moved back to Salem for twelve years and wrote many novels, sketches, and short stories that are still very popular today, including

Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska. He now lives in North Carolina (Nicholas Sparks Biography). He was the middle child in his family. His mom, Jill Sparks was a stay at home mom while his father, Patrick Sparks was a college professor. His family moved around a lot when Nicholas was younger.

The book, which cated to the popular religious author Joseph Holt Ingram who wrote a book in Holly Springs, Mississippi. This was where Mrs. Cohen was living with her married daughter in 1806 Jane Picken. She married the local rabbi’s son Abraham. She wrote her inspirational book in Holly Springs. When Mrs. Cohen’s first born in 1814, her Christian friends interpret this as divine judging for the si of converting, and and she agrees that her husband should succeed his father as Rabbi.

In the King Edward IV Grammar School, students were taught ethics, logic, and rhetoric, and studied the works of famous authors, such as Horace, Ovid, and more (DISCovering Authors, 2003). When he was thirteen, he dropped out of school to help his father (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 12/12/98). At eighteen years old, he married a woman named Anne Hathaway, a daughter of a local farmer. When they got married, she was already pregnant. Anne and William had three children: Susanna, who was born on May 26, 1583, and Hamnet and Judith, twins that were born on February 2, 1585 (Barry Gaines, November 2014).

Harriet Beecher Stowe is most famously regarded as being the author of anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. However, before publishing this famous novel, she started off writing short stories and newspaper articles that were not nearly of the same caliber as Uncle Tom’s Cabin. When she was still just known as Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, she was inspired to become a writer by the vibrant literary culture in her hometown of Litchfield, Connecticut (Joan D. Hedrick "Stowe 's Life and Uncle Tom 's Cabin" par. 3). At the age of 21, Harriet Beecher and her large family relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, due to her father’s new role as president of Lane Theological Seminary, a training school for Presbyterian ministers (“Lyman Beecher”). Four years

At 16 John got a scholarship to Harvard. He studied law but his father wanted him to go into ministry. He graduated from Harvard

We moved back to the United States in 1820, where I continued to learn and write poems. I was sent to the University of Virginia, where I excelled, but my foster father refused to pay my gambling debts. When I arrived home from the University I found out that Frances had died, using John 's sadness to my advantage I got him to pay for me enlisting into West Point. I realized that i no longer

The XYZ Affair occurred throughout 1797 and 1798 during the earlier times of John Adams as president. Essentially the situation was that the French saw that the United State’s refusal to assist in taking the Spanish Louisiana as disrespectful, and became even more upset after the United States signed the Jay’s Treaty with Britain. France saw this as an interference of the French trade and began to seize all the American ships they came across. French government outright declined the American minister, Charles C. Pinckney, forcing him to flee to the Netherlands. Obviously angry, John Adams decided it was best to just try to talk to France, as so not ruin the relationship they maintained.

Sam Adams was born September 27, 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1740 and will later be know as one of the founding fathers. He took out a loan from his father and gave half to a friend that never repaid him and he spent the other half. Then his father names him a partner in the family business and Adams make a weekly article which fails and in 1756 he was a tax collector but he failed to collect the taxes. He served as a legislator for Massachusetts from 1765-1774.