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In the 2006 book Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson detailed his discovering documentation of a 19-year-old African-American man alternately referred to as John Henry, John W. Henry, or John William Henry in previously unexplored prison records of the Virginia Penitentiary. At ...
Ian Turnbull Ker (30 August 1942 – 5 November 2022) [2] [3] was an English Catholic priest, a former Anglican and a scholar and author. [4] He was generally regarded as the world's authority on John Henry Newman, on whom he published more than 20 books.
Van Dyke chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, The Book of Common Worship of 1906. In 1908–09 Dr. van Dyke was a lecturer at the University of Paris . Henry van Dyke offering prayer at the 1913 Easter Sunrise Services in Riverside, California , atop Mount Rubidoux
John Henry Nicholson was born into a distinguished family of literary and scientific note, at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England on 12 June 1838. [1] He was the eldest son of Anne Elizabeth Waring and John Nicholson (1809–1886). His mother Anne was the daughter of Captain Henry Waring, R.N. of Lyme Regis, Dorset.
John Henry Noyes Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born writer and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the '50s.
John Henry Comstock (February 24, 1849 – March 20, 1931) was an eminent researcher in entomology and arachnology and a leading educator. His work provided the basis for classification of butterflies, moths, and scale insects.
John challenges the drill to a contest of speed to lay the rest of the tracks, and if he wins, the workers will still get the land. He inevitably wins but the effort kills him, and he dies with his hammer in his hand, like he told his wife he would. The story was narrated by his wife to their child after John's death.
The story of his death made him a legend. Over a century later, freelance journalist J. Sutter is sent to West Virginia to cover the launch of a new postage stamp at the first John Henry Days festival.