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Smith, educated at Oundle School, entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1636, took his B.A. in 1640 and his M.A. in 1644, at which time he was chosen fellow of Queens' College. [2] His health seems to have been precarious from the first.
Smith in 1921 Chief John Smith Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. It is thought that Smith was born between 1822 and 1826. [citation needed] Some sources place his birth as early as 1787, which would have made him 137 years old when he died of pneumonia on February 6, 1922. [1]
John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author.Following his return to England from a life as a soldier of fortune and as a slave, [1] he played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century.
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The teachings of Joseph Smith include many religious doctrines as well as political ideas and theories, many of which he said were revealed to him by God. Joseph Smith is the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and is recognized by multiple Latter Day Saint churches as the founder.
On February 18, 1855, at twenty-two years old, the younger John Smith succeeded his great-uncle, "Uncle John" Smith as fifth Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church, following the latter's death. [2]: 123 In this capacity, Smith acted as voice in the setting apart of his younger half-brother, Joseph F. Smith as president of the church. [2]
After retiring from Congress, Smith resumed farming, probably using enslaved labor. Although the 1787 tax census lists several men of the same common name, only one of whom owed (2) slaves, this John Smith is probably the man who owned 26 slaves in Frederick County in 1810 [5] and not the other two men of the same name and county who owned no ...
John Alexander Smith (21 April 1863 – 19 December 1939) was a British idealist philosopher, who was the Jowett Lecturer of philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford from 1896 to 1910, and Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, carrying a Fellowship at Magdalen College in the same university, from 1910 to 1935.