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James Wilson was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire on March 15, 1763, the son of James Wilson and Elanor (Hopkins) Wilson. [1] Wilson was raised and educated in Londonderry, farmed with his father, and trained as a blacksmith. [1] He moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1796, became interested in cartography, and taught himself map making. [1]
Wilson further expanded his land holdings by cofounding the Canna Company with Mark Bird, Robert Lettis Hooper, and William Bingham in order to sell land along the Susquehanna River in New York. Additionally, Wilson individually bought huge quantities of land in Pennsylvania in 1784 and 56,000 acres (23,000 ha) of land in Virginia during the 1780s.
The List of Books. New York, NY: Harmony Books. pp. 160. ISBN 978-0517540176. OCLC 6649494. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written; Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
After the publication of Casino Royale, Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story; [1] in total, between 1953 and 1966, two years after his death, twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published, with the last two books—The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living ...
James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University .
James Wilson Williams (born 1982) is an American writer and academic. He was the winner of the inaugural Nine Dots Prize , in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His first book, Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy , was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press . [ 3 ]
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002. Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg. New York: Crown Journeys, 2003. ISBN 9780609610237; This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (essays). New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780195313666; Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: The Penguin Press, 2008.
John Jeremiah Sullivan, who has lived in Wilmington since the mid-2000s, comes in at No. 81 with "Pulphead," his 2005 collection of essays and journalism, on the New York Times' "100 Best Books of ...