Henry Petner

Henry Peters Gray

Henry Peters Gray was an American portrait and genre painter.

Henry Peterson (author)

Henry Peterson was an American editor, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was also an abolitionist. For twenty years, Peterson edited The Saturday Evening Post. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanread more...ia, to son of George and Jane (Evans) Peterson. His eldest brother was the publisher Robert Evans Peterson, and his cousin was the publisher Charles J. Peterson. He was a clerk in a hardware store at fourteen, and in 1839 a member of the firm of Deacon & Peterson, who became publishers of the Saturday Evening Post, with Peterson as sole editor. He was married to Sarah Webb, who edited The Lady's Friend magazine for ten years, and their son, Arthur Peterson, became assistant editor of the Post. His works include The Twin Brothers (1843); Universal Suffrage (1867); The Modern Job (1869); Pemberton, or One Hundred Years Ago (1873); Faire-Mount (1874); Confessions of a Minister (1874); Caesar, a Dramatic Study (1879); Poems (1863), and the drama Helen, or One hundred Years Ago, produced in 1876. He died in Philadelphia in 1891.read less...

Henry Peters House

Henry Peters House is a historic home located at Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built about 1910, and is a two-story, Colonial Revival-style frame dwelling. It has a hip roofed main block witread more...h projecting end gables. It features a hip roofed wraparound porch.read less...

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.

Henry Petersen

Henry Petersen was a Danish athlete. He competed in the pole vault at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1920, placing fourth in 1924. Petersen won the national pole vault title in 1read more...920-21, 1923 and 1925–27 and improved the national record eight times from 3.69 m in 1919 to 4.03 m in 1925. He also held three national titles in the 4×100 m sprint relay and five in team gymnastics events. He retired from sport shortly before the 1928 Olympics due to tuberculosis. He was an engineer by profession.read less...

Henry Pettersson

Henry Pettersson was a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagenread more....read less...