Book Summary Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807 in Virginia. Lee had two heroes that he looked up to. One was George Washington and the other was his father, Henry Lee, who fought in the America revolution. Henry Lee was also Governor of Virginia from 1791 to 1794. When Robert was eleven his father died and his mother became ill. Robert had to take care of his sick mother and still attend school.
George Washington was born in Feb. 22, 1732. He died on Dec. 14 1799. Born in Wakefield, Virginia. Swager, Christine. "Revolutionary War Timeline."
James attended Yale at the age of thirteen, but was expelled in his third year (1805) for committing several pranks. He worked on sailing ships, merchant vessels and then in the U.S. Navy. After seeing some of the world, he returned home in 1811 to marry Susan De Lancey, a woman from New York's social elite. The De Lancey's were Loyalists during the Revolution, and lost a lot of property with
His father was Martin Cortes de Monroy and mother Dona Catalina Pizarro Alta Marino. The family was of minor nobility but with little means. Cortes was described as a sickly child. By the age of fourteen he was sent to study at the University of Salamanca. After two years of schooling for Cortes, before he returned to Medellin to the annoyance of his parents who had hoped to see him equipped for a profitable legal career.
He changed the game of baseball by focusing on strength and power, his record setting career, and his over the top personality. George Herman (Babe) Ruth Jr., also known as Sultan of Swat and Bambino, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 6, 1895 but for a number of years he believed he was born on February 7, 1894. Ruth’s parents where George H. Ruth and Kate Schamberger Ruth. His mother died when he was thirteen
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 in Richmond, Virginia. His mother, a plantation heiress died of a stroke when Tyler was seven. After, the death of his mother he was raised by his father John Tyler Sr. John Tyler Sr. was a judge and taught young John a strict way of viewing the constitution. John Tyler studied at William and Mary College and while there he was under the influence of Bishop James Madison. BJM was the president of William and Mary College.
By the age of sixteen he had obtained a basic education in mathematics, surveying, reading, and the usual subjects of his time. In 1749 Washington was appointed to his first public office as a county surveyor. The death of his stepbrother then came in 1752, and Washington took on part of his estate and duties as a district adjutant, which made him Major Washington at the age of 20. In 1753, George Washington finally started a military career in the Army. George Washington's early military career was not quite successful.
Someone who I think has influenced not only America, but the whole world in a positive way is a man named George Eastman. He was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville New York, as the younger of two sisters. One of which was severely handicapped. After the death of his father at age 7, his family grew poor. At the age of 14, he was forced to drop out of school, and began working at an insurance company to support his family.
Homer W. Harrell Jr. AMH 2020 Professor Giacobbe Research Paper Life and Times of Richard M. Nixon Born in Yorba Linda, California on January 9, 1913, was a young man who unknowingly would become the thirty seventh president of the United States (Gale Biography). He was born on a lemon farm. His religion came from his mother’s side of the family which was Quakers (Gale Biography). His father was Methodist but ended up taking his wife’s religion. Nixon had a rough life.
ames Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, (March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar), where his mother had returned to her parents' home to give birth. He grew up as the oldest of twelve children. [5] Nelly and James Sr. had seven more boys and four girls. Three of James Jr's brothers died as infants, including one who was stillborn. In the summer of 1775, his sister Elizabeth (age 7) and his brother Reuben (age 3) died in a dysentery epidemic that swept through Orange County because of contaminated water.