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Genie was the last, and also second surviving, of four children born to parents living in Arcadia, California.Her father worked in a factory as a flight mechanic during World War II and continued in aviation afterward, and her mother, who was around 20 years younger and from an Oklahoma farming family, had come to Southern California as a teenager with family friends who were fleeing the Dust ...
John Wiley & Sons, a publishing company; John A. Wiley (1843–1909), Pennsylvania businessman, National Guard and Civil War soldier; John Cooper Wiley (1893–1967), US foreign service officer and ambassador; John D. Wiley (born 1942), former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison; John F. Wiley (1920–2013), American football ...
Coronation procession of King James II and Queen Mary, 1685. Charles II died on 6 February 1685 from apoplexy, after supposedly converting to Catholicism on his deathbed. [72] Having no legitimate children, he was succeeded by his brother James, who reigned in England and Ireland as James II and in Scotland as James VII.
The Hoboken, New Jersey, headquarters. The company was established in 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan.The company was the publisher of 19th century American literary figures like James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles.
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom—2022 marks 70 years since her ascension to the throne. Next in line on the royal family tree is Prince Charles, her son ...
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James Read: Blacksmith and Soldier 1622–03–13 John Robinson: Gentleman Jehu 1607–12–26 Killed by natives [20] William Rods: Labourer Roods, W. 1607–08–27 not listed [as alive] after June 1607 Thomas Sands: Gentleman Sandys, T. Brother of Edwin Sandys (1561–1629) George Saunders: Grandson of [[Laurence Saunders (1510-1555 [21 ...
Josiah insisted that each of his sons must learn a trade. He had great dreams of Benjamin becoming a minister, [ 2 ] but Josiah could only afford to send his son to school for two years. As his young Benjamin loved to read, Josiah apprenticed him to his brother James, who was a printer.