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.
He ended up with the foster parent named John Allen (poetry,1.) She went to the University of Virginia were through his courses he got expelled due to non payment from his foster parent. Even though he got very good grades. He is unlike many poets who had a very good college education. He ended up going into the United States Army(bio,1.)
But unfortunely he was not a healthy kid during his childhood. When he was 21 years old in 1816, James had gotten accepted to the University of North Carolina as a sophomore. He was planning to make up for lost time back when he was too distracted about his gallstones to work as hard as he could as a child. By the time of 1818, he had graduated college at the age of 23 years old with honors and he had decided to enter the exciting world of politics. Soon after his graduation, he left for Nashville to study law with the Nashville lawyer, Felix Grundy.
In 1842, the Scotts moved with the Emerson’s to St. Louis. After about a year, Dr. Emerson had died and his wife hired out the entire Scott family. In 1846 Dred Scott and his wife filed a law suit against Mrs. Emerson for their freedom. For almost nine years Dread Scott had lived in free territories, but made no attempt to end his servitude. It is not known for sure why he chose this particular time for the suit, although historians have considered three possibilities: He may have been dissatisfied with being hired out; Mrs. Emerson might have been planning on selling him; or he might have been offered to buy his own freedom and been refused.
Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky, on April 24, 1905. He was the oldest of three children; others being Mary, the middle child, and Thomas, the youngest. His parents were Robert Franklin Warren, a proprietor and banker, and Anna Ruth Penn Warren, a schoolteacher. In the fall of 1911 he entered the Guthrie School from which he graduated at age 15. He did not then enter college as his mother felt he was too young and went instead, in September, 1920, to Clarksville High School, Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee, graduating after the full school year.
So he had been sent home to help his family. In 1852 he went off to Ashville law school. However it was not easy getting there. His family did not have much money so he had written a letter to governor swain for a loan. Governor Swain loaned him three hundred
Unsatisfied with Spain, Diego moved to Paris to complete his remaining two years of studying. During this time, he met and married his first wife, Angelina Belloff, a Russian émigré artist. During the next ten years, Diego and Angelina live together and pursue their art careers. In 1917, they have a child – but he eventually dies in 1918 from the influenza epidemic. Only a year later, Diego would go on to have his second son, Marika, with his mistress Marvena.
His father David was an American actor, and his mother Elizabeth was an English-born American actress. He had a brother Henry and a sister Rosalie. Edgar’s mother died when he was just two years old. Henry went to live with his grandparents, Rosalie was taken in by another family, and Edgar was adopted by Mr. and Mrs.Allan. Edgar grew up in good surroundings and went to good schools for John Allan was a successful merchant.
Franklin would begin to work for independence. After his son’s appointing, Benjamin began to tour the middle and northern colonies in 1763 and was elected the speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly in May of 1764. However, in 1764, Franklin lost his seat due to a very bitter election in October of that year so Franklin had decided that he was going to move back to London in December of that same year. Because going to London resulted in going over-seas, Deborah, Benjamin’s wife, had refused to go with him and when he returned to Philadelphia in 1775, Franklin had quickly learned that he was a widower. After she had died, he quickly became a big
In 1661 he went to Cambridge University, where he became a very well educated student. When he went to school he studied mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy. In October 1665, a plague epidemic forced the university to close and Newton returned to Woolsthrope. After, Newton’s experience with education he began to think about gravity. However in 1687, with the support of his friend, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton published his greatest work, the ‘Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.’ Also