Harald came from a lower-middle-class mercantile family. His own father kept a general store in a small town near Oslo. He had three daughters and two sons, both of whom emmigrated and flourished. Harald had lost his left forearm in a boyhood accident, but didn´t allow the disability to prevent him from making a similarly successful career. By 1905, at the age of forty, he had built a comfortable home for his first wife, Marie, and their two-year-old daughter, Ellen, in Llandaff.
Though it was not humble for long, his parents had differences early in his life, which resulted in his father leaving to buy a pack of cigarettes one night and never returning, it was a home where single mother Nellie rose two young boys, David and Stephen, who didn’t turn out ‘all that bad’ after all. During his early childhood, Nellie had gotten into the habit of moving her family of three between Massachusetts and Maine. Finally, after settling in Durham, Maine, Stevie’s inkling for writing surfaced. It was 1959 and “The Twilight Zone” ruled the airwaves and Barbie was just making her dramatic
Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York, June 30, 1966. His father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abondoned his family when Tyson was only 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for him along with Rodney, his older brother, and Denise, his younger sister. The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old. Six years later, Tyson’s mother died. Tyson has been quoted saying; “I never say my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something.
His mother worked as domestic worker and his father was a barber, but his father left his family when DuBois was at a very young age. DuBois mother continue to raise him Great Barrington, Massachusetts with” 4,000 residents and 50 of them were African American residents leaving him with little knowledge about the African American culture.” Where he attended school with whites and had encouragement from his teachers to graduate high school. DuBois mother “passed away when he was 16 and left him penniless “while was still in high school. He got a job at the local mill and continues to complete high school. “He was the first African American to graduate from high school” because of the encouragement from his teachers (W.E.
He attended Harvard College where he studied biology, boxed, and developed an interest in naval affairs. His first wife was Alice who died two days after giving birth in February 1884 and his mother died on the same day in the same house. He was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th Street. He has an older sister named Anna and a younger brother named Elliott and a younger sister named Corinne. He was mostly home schooled by tutors and his parents.
John lived in a farm-like environment with many small ranches with his two sisters, Esther and Elizabeth (cited 6). As John began to grow up, he was trying to survive with his poor financial situation. John went to Standford University but he never graduated. A few years later he left and moved to New York to become a free lance in writing in 1925
President Harding Born on a farm in November 2, 1865 Harding was the eldest of eight children of George Tryon Harding and Phoebe Dickerson Harding; his ancestry combined English, Scottish, and Dutch stock. His father later left farming to become a physician. Following a mediocre education at local schools in Ohio and three years at Ohio Central College, Harding tried his hand at several vocations until in 1884 he bought a struggling weekly newspaper in Marion, Ohio, to which he devoted himself. Seven years thereafter, he married Florence Kling De Wolfe (Florence Harding), and she proved instrumental in transforming the Marion Star into a financially successful daily paper. Soon Harding, a man of little discernible intellect or imagination,
McPherson, Abraham Lincoln D- David Herbert Donald, Lincoln S- Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Speeches Born February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. His parents came from Virginia. Kentucky was a slave state originally part of Virginia. Grows up in a rugged frontier environment—log cabins, rail splitting, wrestling Had little formal education—a few months in one-room schoolhouses. Mostly self-educated with encouragement from his step-mother.
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. He had two parents and their names were Nancy and Thomas Lincoln. Lincoln is from Hodgenville, Kentucky where he was brought up on a farm. On this farm of 230 acres (only thirty of which were tillable) Abraham lived for five years, helped his parents with chores, and learned his ABCs by attending school for a few weeks with his older sister Sarah (Lincecum). There was a period of slavery in the time that Abraham was being brought up in.
I went to a very conservative strict school In Kenya. When I was three my father left to America to pursue a better life for his family. I grew up without a father in my life physically, because he was always miles away but my father kept in touch, calling us every day. For seven long years my father worked hard from cleaning toilets, to mopping floors,