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John George Brown (November 11, 1831 – February 8, 1913) was a British citizen and an American painter who specialized in genre scenes. Biography.
John George Brown was born and educated in Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland. [1] Brown was commissioned as a British Army officer in 1857 "without purchase" [2] (a reference to the practice then common of purchasing officers' commissions), joining the 8th Regiment as an ensign. [2]
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Brown detached a party under John Cook, Jr., to capture Colonel Lewis Washington, great-grandnephew of George Washington, at his nearby Beall-Air estate, free his slaves, and seize two relics of George Washington: a sword Lewis Washington said had been presented to George Washington by Frederick the Great, and two pistols given by Marquis de ...
Alexander Boteler's essay, "Recollections of the John Brown raid, by a Virginian Who Witnessed the Fight" (1883), [25] is followed immediately by the "Comment by a radical abolitionist", of Brown's biographer, Franklin Sanborn. [26] Boteler was interviewed by George A. Townsend ("Gath"), in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 May 1883, p. 1.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
John Browne (composer) (1453–c. 1500), English composer John Brown (actor) (1904–1957), English radio and film actor Johnny Mack Brown (1904–1974), American film actor and college football player
John George Brown (May 8, 1900 – November 11, 1958) was an Ontario politician. He was elected to the Ontario legislature as the Ontario Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Waterloo North in the 1948 provincial election. [1] [2] Brown ran for his party's leadership in the 1950 Liberal leadership convention. He placed third in a ...