He studied with a tutor by the name of Reverend James Maury. He was a Scottish Clergyman who taught him Latin, Greek, and French. Jefferson married Martha Wayles, his wife. She was a wealthy Virginia Planter and statesman. In 1781, Jefferson retired to Monticello, Virginia.
After his mother’s death, Hamilton was then moved to New Jersey where his relatives lived. Alexander Hamilton is an American writer that my classmates and others would be interested in learning about. First, Hamilton was a solider. In 1776 Hamilton was a student at Columbia College, but when war broke out Hamilton did not hesitate to be a part of it. At the age of just nineteen Hamilton became captain of an artillery company that saw battles in New York, Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, and White Plains.
Frederick Douglass, the most successful runaway slave that ever was. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born directly into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland to his mother, Harriet Bailey and his father, who is said to be Anthony Aaron . His birth year is thought to be around 1818 however the exact date is unknown. He later chose to celebrate his birthday on February 14th. He began his early stages of life living with his maternal grandmother, Betty Bailey, but a relatively young age, he was forced to live on a plantation with plantation owners, one of which was thought to be his father.
MattieMattie The Promise Land Review The Author Nicholas Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans . He was born several months after the “Brown versus Board of Education” decision. Lemann gives a quick snap shot of his upbringing in a two and a half YouTube video. In it he tells how he comes from a small nuclear family but had a large extended family He shares that his family has deep roots in New Orleans since 1836. His grandfather started a law firm in which his father and uncle worked.
Great Barrington, a predominately-white town where Du Bois’ mothers family was part of the very small free black population having long owned land in the state. The Dubois family descended from Dutch and African ancestors, including a West African-born man named Tom Burghardt. According to W.E.B. Du Boise’s: The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century, Tom served as a private for Captain John Spoor's company in 1780, during the Revolutionary War, a service which won him his freedom.
After John Kay has traveled the country with his brother William they both got married to Bury women. Then a woman that John Kay married too was named Anne Holte in 1725. And had their first child named Lettice Kay in 1726 and then two years later had another child named Robert kay in 1728. John had twelve children over his life time but two have died in childhood. In 1730 John Kay had made a machine that twisted string to make rope.
Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921. He is older then 3 brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, before he returned to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was a professor of agriculture at Alabama A&M University. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the stuff of racism he had overcome.
Gretchen Barnhill Freshman Composition My Grandfather had Gumption My grandfather, R. G. Russ Jr. was a very quiet man, and when he spoke everyone listened as if it were the man upstairs talking. Growing up in the twenties and thirties an eighth grade education was the extent of what most people received. His father told him at fifteen that he had gone to school long enough and it was time to stay home and farm with him. My grandfather had a different plan. He decided to leave home at fifteen and make it on his own.
George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. Bush, his three brothers, and a sister grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. His father, Prescott Bush, was a wealthy investment banker. Bush's mother, Dorothy, came from the wealthy family of a leading Missouri industrialist. After graduating from the private Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, Bush enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
The first child of Augustine Washington (1694–1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708–1789), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia. According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732. [7][Note 1][Note 2] Washington's ancestors were from Sulgrave, England; his great-grandfather, John Washington, had emigrated to Virginia in 1657. [8] George's father Augustine was a slave-owning tobacco planter who later tried his hand in iron-mining ventures. [9] In George's youth, the Washingtons were moderately prosperous members of the Virginia gentry, of "middling rank" rather than one of the leading planter families.