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Harriet Lane. Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903) acted as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor president James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861. She has been described as the first of the modern first ladies, being a notably charming and diplomatic hostess, whose dress ...
Harriet McBryde Johnson was born in eastern North Carolina, July 8, 1957, in Laurinburg, one of five children by David and Ada Johnson. Her parents were college teachers. [2] She was a feisty child: A quote from her sister said that "Harriet tried to get an abusive teacher fired; the start of her hell raising." [2]
Bruce Johnston. Bruce Arthur Johnston (born Benjamin Baldwin; June 27, 1942) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter who is a member of the Beach Boys. He also collaborated on many records with Terry Melcher (his bandmate in Bruce & Terry, the Rip Chords, and California Music) and composed the 1975 Barry Manilow hit, "I Write the Songs ...
Johnston was born on January 21, 1849, in Salineville, Ohio, United States, but lived in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania most of the first six years of her life, while her father pastored a church there. [1] [2] [3] At the age of six she moved with her family to Peoria, Illinois where her father was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Peoria. [4]
There is The post History buff Ken Johnston ‘Walking for Freedom’ in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman appeared first on TheGrio. Ken Johnston describes himself as a “walking artist,” a term ...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl at Wikisource. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.
The school was founded in 1909, with $300,000 ($7.2 million in 2015 dollars) in funding bequeathed by Harriet Lane Johnston, niece of President James Buchanan. [3] Initially, it was a school for boy choristers to the Washington National Cathedral, a program that the school continues today.
The Key House where Harriet Beecher Stowe stayed is on Main Street in Washington and now contains a museum named the Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery to Freedom Museum. In 1803, Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, probably its most famous native. His father, Dr. John Johnston, was a physician and a native of Salisbury, Conn while his ...