Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: John Brown (industrialist)


Related Topics

In the News (Mon 4 Jun 12)

  
  John Nicholas Brown Center - Brown University
In 1814, wealthy investor and industrialist Nicholas Brown Jr.
John Nicholas's interests included architecture and historic preservation, art, history, sailing, and philanthropy.
John Nicholas Brown died in 1979, and Anne in 1985.
www.brown.edu /Research/JNBC/about.html   (432 words)

  
  John Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Brown (essayist) (1715–1766), a Scottish clergyman and essayist
John Brown (architect), a British architect in the 19th century.
John M. Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, investigating the spectroscopic theory of free radicals
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown   (804 words)

  
 Summit County Historical Society - Educational Outreach
John Brown and his family, during the 1840's, were connected to the Perkins family through a partnership they had formed.
John Brown was a sheepherder and Simon Perkins raised sheep.
After the partnership dissolved John Brown, the abolitionist, headed to Kansas and then to Harpers Ferry, VA. During his raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal in 1859, John Brown was wounded and captured.
www.summithistory.org /pages/educational.html   (1052 words)

  
 Slashdoc - John Brown- A Hero Or Villain?
John Brown is one abolitionist who stands out amongst the rest and has been noted as one of the most important men in the process of abolishing slavery.
John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut in 1800 and grew up in Hudson, Ohio with a family of sixteen children (2, 1).
Brown’s father was a captain in the Revolutionary War and endowed Brown a hatred for slavery (3, 93).
www.slashdoc.com /documents/33979   (2483 words)

  
 Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State
John Brown built this house in 1786, and it today remains one of the city's most significant buildings, architecturally and historically.
The house was built for John Brown, one of the four Brown brothers, and remained in the Brown, Ives, and Gammel families.
Brown built the library because they were in need of a larger space; their last library had been built in the 1870s.It was named after John Hay; a highly regarded Brown alumnus, scholar, President Lincoln's secretary, and Secretary of State under both President McKinley and President Theodore Roosevelt.
www.sec.state.ri.us /library/riinfo/rhode-island-landmarks   (3362 words)

  
 John Brown
John Brown (professor), teacher of astronomy in Scotland.
Dr. John M. Brown, Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, investigating the spectroscopic theory of free radicals
John Brown (Kentucky) (1757–1837), member of Continental Congress from Virginia; United States representative and senator from Kentucky
www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/John_Brown   (654 words)

  
 John Brown University - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Brown University - Search Results - MSN Encarta
John Brown University, private, coeducational institution in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, 90 km (56 mi) north of Fort Smith.
Search for books about your topic, "John Brown University"
encarta.msn.com /John_Brown_University.html   (146 words)

  
 Gerrit Smith: McKivigan and Leveille
Brown later claimed that he had planned to capture weapons at the arsenal to establish a base in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the southern states from which slaves could be assisted to escape to freedom.
Brown was quickly brought to trial for treason and sentenced to death on 2 November.
John Perdue Gray, M.D., the medical superintendent of the asylum, was one of the most prominent psychiatrists of the day, and he personally oversaw the treatment of Gerrit Smith, a private patient.
libwww.syr.edu /digital/exhibits/g/GerritSmith/dream.htm   (7667 words)

  
 A Southern View of History:  The War for Southern Independence -Part 3
Brown then withdrew his men into the gate house, which he proceeded to loophole and fortify, taking with him ten of the most prominent of his Virginia and Maryland captives, which he termed "hostages," to insure the safety of his band.
On the day of Brown's execution, bells were tolled and minute guns fired in many places in the North, and church services and public meetings were held for the purpose of glorifying his deeds and sanctifying the cause he represented, recognizing in him a martyr to the teachings of the abolitionists.
John Brown approached Smith in 1850 to purchase a 200+ acre farm in the area of Lake Placid so that he could farm the land, survey his neighbors’ property, and help the freedmen, who were largely tradesmen, coach driver, barbers, learn how to run a farm.
www.scv674.org /SH-3.htm   (11700 words)

  
 US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : John Brown (industrialist)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sir John Brown (6 December 1816 27 December 1896), British industrialist, was born in Sheffield.
In 1860, after seeing the French ship La Gloire armoured with hammered plate, he went on to produce armour using a rolling process, eventually producing armour plate to protect three-quarters of the British navy.
In 1856 Brown started the Atlas Works in Sheffield, which soon produced, beside armour plates and railway buffers, ordnance forgings, steel rails, railway carriage axles and tires.
encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=John_Brown_(industrialist)   (276 words)

  
 Green Mountain Civil War Round Table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John C. Calhoun opposed Compromise of 1850 on the basis of a peace made upon the basis of eventual removal of Slavery.
Brown had planned to give these weapons from the arsenal to slaves in the area.
During his trial Brown was found guilty of murder and treason and sentenced to death.
www.beerbritain.com /StepstoCivilWar.htm   (2306 words)

  
 Brookline in the Civil War
John Pierce, who served as minister of the First Church for more than fifty years, did not join the abolitionists, but his wife was one of the Grimke sisters' audience, and a sympathizer with the cause.
Edward Atkinson, in consequence of the importance which they attached to the situation in Kansas, aided John Brown to obtain the arms which he insisted were necessary to meet aggression by pro-slavery men there.
When Brown's career culminated in the ill-considered raid at Harper's Ferry and his subsequent execution, conservative New Englanders were alienated from the abolitionist cause, which during the years between I85¢ and 1859 had been progressing most encouragingly.
www.garrenshay.com /ur/history.htm   (3073 words)

  
 Floral lord kept Goering talks secret - smh.com.au
With the private blessing of Hitler and the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, a meeting between Goering and his advisers and the group of seven British businessmen was arranged in a farmhouse on the German Baltic island of Sylt.
In 1953 the second baron died, leaving McLaren the title, heavy shareholdings (1.5 million in China Clays alone) and the chairmanships of John Brown and English China Clays, the deputy chairmanships of Westland and later of Sun-Alliance and National Westminster, plus many subsidiaries of each.
In 1986 the John Brown Group was sold to Trafalgar House and, at 73, Aberconway resigned as chairman.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/12/1044927661990.html   (1145 words)

  
 Catherine Barnes Historical Autographs > History autograph, letters, documents, manuscripts, signatures, signed ...
A letter to an anti-slavery Ohio Congressman that demonstrates Brown’s early interest in aiding the abolitionist cause.
The founder of the AFL writes the future founder of the CIO, endorsing his decision to call off a strike.
John P. White, Pocantico Hills, NY, 18 July 1925.
www.barnesautographs.com /pages/history.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Suchen im Web, Bilder, Videos, Blog, Lexikon und mehr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Brown (Australian magnate) (1850-1930), a mining magnate in New South Wales, Australia; known as the -Coal Baron-
John Brown (essayist) (1715-1766), a Scottish clergyman and essayist
John Robert Brown (judge) (1909-1993), a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, noted for his key decisions in favor of civil rights
www.coder-world.de /cgi-bin/metaseek/lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=John_Brown   (852 words)

  
 09 May History: This Date   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His brother John, famous for painting a 370-meter panorama of the Mississippi, was born on 15 November 1815.
At Harpers Ferry, Brown's well-trained unit was initially successful, capturing key points in the town, but Brown's plans began to deteriorate after his raiders stopped a Baltimore-bound train, and then allowed it to pass through.
John Brown of Kansas was a militant abolitionist who attempted to use force to free the slaves in the South.
www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4may/h4may09.html   (7746 words)

  
 'The Significance of Being Frank' by Tom Foran Clark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Judge Russell's normally pleasant wife bristled when she met Captain Brown who, grinnning from ear to ear, pulled out a long, sharp knife and assorted revolvers, announcing he would hate to have to soil her carpets, but she should know, come what may, he would not be taken alive.
More important to Brown, Smith seemed to be his same old radical self, telling Brown he was convinced recent events, the Dred Scott Decision in particular, had radicalized all antislavery men, and put the whole nation on its guard.
Brown's plan now needed to be postponed a year, due to Forbes' assorted rantings and disclosures.
www.bungalowshop.com /sanborn/chapter9.html   (3072 words)

  
 Free State's Complete Beer List
John Brown Ale Named for John Brown, the fiery abolitionist from the U.S. Civil War era.
Brown is a well known (though often overly romanticized) figure in Kansas history.
Smokey Hill Ale This deep brown, smoky ale is brewed with pilsner, Munich, roasted and caramel malts as well as a healthy dose of beechwood-smoked malt from Germany.
www.freestatebrewing.com /FSBAllBeers.html   (8332 words)

  
 Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
Despite his failure to get accepted into the police academy, John is determined to become the best security guard he can in the hope that someday he'll become a police officer.
John leaps into action (and into his Chevette), taking up the chase to find the culprit who set this evil deed into action.
John wakes up to discover that, in order to save his life, Brenda has made him into the first-ever bionic police officer.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue119/screen.html   (1979 words)

  
 Discover Ohio-Kids Homework Helper
Brown's Home is located at Copley and Diagonal roads in West Akron.
The flag of Ohio was designed by John Eisenmann of Cleveland in the 1880s and is the only pennant-shaped state flag.
The large blue triangle represents Ohio's hills and valleys, and the stripes stand for roadways and waterways, There are 13 stars, one for each of the original colonies, clustered around a circle which stands for the Northwest Territory.
www.discoverohio.com /kids/homework.asp   (2647 words)

  
 Gerrit Smith: McKivigan and Leveille - New York History Net
Smith's contributions to Brown, however, should not be regarded as evidence that Smith had resolved all doubts about the propriety of violent antislavery tactics.
Brown and Forbes soon fell to quarreling over money and over the best tactics to be used in the contemplated invasion of the South.
I believe that Brown's visit to his house last spring was immediately connected with the insurrection, and that it is the knowledge that at any moment, either by the discovery of papers or the confession of accomplices, his connection with the affair may become exposed, that keeps Mr.
www.nyhistory.com /gerritsmith/dream.htm   (7687 words)

  
 Brown Envelope
Moses Brown School - Moses Brown School is a Quaker private school located in Providence, Rhode Island and was founded in 1784 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island as the New England Yearly Meeting School during the New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
Bismarck brown Y - Bismarck brown Y, or Bismarck brown, Manchester brown, Phenylene brown, Basic Brown 1, or C.I. Barry Brown - Barry Brown (born April 19, 1951; died June 27, 1978), also known as Donald Barry Brown, was an American actor, and brother of the late actress Marilyn Brown and the writer James Brown.
The males very closely resemble brown recluses, having similar coloration and body structure, though they have slender bodies and are uniformly brown, unlike the brown recluse.
www.worldctl.com /brownenvelope.html   (1130 words)

  
 Wofford College Southern Seen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
We were also surprised that his new book, John Brown: The Legend Revisited (University of Virginia Press, 2002), deceptively thin at 195 pages, is a remarkably comprehensive compendium of several hundred steps that went into making Brown into an American legend.
Artists and poets lionized Brown in a fictional scene of his kissing a fl child as he left his cell to go to the gallows.
Several important studies of Brown came from scholars: Stephen B. Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood; Jules Abels, Man on Fire; and Richard O. Boyer, The Legend of John Brown.
www.wofford.edu /southernSeen/content.aspx?id=13170   (402 words)

  
 Inspector Gadget - Cincinnati.Com
The car is as loaded with gadgets as the inspector himself (Matthew Broderick), former security guard John Brown, who is blown to bits defending the lovely research scientist Brenda Bradford (Joely Fisher).
She is so grateful she uses John as the test subject for her invention, an implanted chip that allows a human brain to operate a range of mechanical devices.
John’s rebuilt body is fitted with everything from a cigarette lighter in his thumb to retractable limbs that can turn him into a giant.
www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/inspectorgadget.html   (323 words)

  
 Green Rage | Matt Rasmussen | Orion Magazine Jan-Feb 2007
Eugene's brand of anarchy is "green anarchy." Unlike old-style industrialist anarchists, green anarchists are primarily concerned with the effects of civilization on the global environment.
John Zerzan is in his sixties, a graduate of Stanford and San Francisco State University and one of the foremost anticivilization thinkers in the world.
So appalled was Brown by the institution of slavery that he tried to spark a revolution.
www.orionmagazine.org /pages/om/07-1om/Rasmussen.html   (4929 words)

  
 St. John's Jesuit High School
Antislavery sympathizers from Kansas carried out reprisal attacks, the most notorious of which was John Brown's 1856 attack on the settlement at Pottawatomie Creek.
John Brown/Harper's Ferry- In 1859, the militant abolitionist John Brown seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Pottawatomie Massacre - John Brown let a party of six in Kansas that killed 5 pro-slavery men.
www.sjjtitans.org /web/main/academics/pugh/review4.shtml   (5950 words)

  
 John Brown
John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859), famous abolitionist who led an infamous raid on Harper's Ferry John Brown (boxer), an American boxer who has tried, unsuccessfully, several times to become a world champion John Brown (basketball), NBA player.
John Brown (Australian magnate) (1850–1930), a mining magnate in New South Wales, Australia; known as the “Coal Baron” John Brown (Australian politician), the Member for Parramatta in the Australian House of Representatives from 1977 to 1990
John Brown (shipbuilding company), the British company that was part-owner of Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval John Brown Publishing, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times “John Brown's Body”, Union marching song of the American Civil War “John Brown”, a Bob Dylan song
architect-guides.com /a/141406/John+Brown.html   (436 words)

  
 History: May 9
Called Old Brown of Osawatomie John Brown was from Torrington, Connecticut.
While living in Pennsylvania in 1834, Brown initiated a project among sympathetic abolitionists to educate young fls.
Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury meet for the first time in Ghana.
members.tripod.com /~historiation/daysmay/may09.html   (2200 words)

  
 Henry John Kaiser — Infoplease.com
Heretic hunting beyond the seas: John Brett and his encounter with the Marian exiles.
The presidency and the promotion of domestic crisis: John Kennedy's management of the 1962 steel crisis.
John Brown, James Redpath, and the idea of revolution.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0771955.html   (282 words)

  
 Minnesota Antique Religious Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
morecomputerconsultants.com Moses Brown School - Moses Brown School is a Quaker private school located in Providence, Rhode Island and was founded in 1784 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island as the New England Yearly Meeting School during the New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
It is named after Moses Brown, uncle of Nicholas Brown (for whom Brown University is named) and brother of industrialist, John Brown.
C.I. Barry Brown - Barry Brown (born April 19, 1951; died June 27, 1978), also known as Donald Barry Brown, was an American actor, and brother of the late actress Marilyn Brown and the writer James Brown.
www.hist-ivrit.org /50/23.html   (1419 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.