John Erow

John J Erow, age 80s, Vernon Rockville, CT View Details

Locations: Vernon Rockville CT, Vernon CT Possible Relatives: Ann E Brow, Cynthia J Brow, Elizabeth L Brow

John Brown's raiders

On Sunday night, October 16, 1859, the abolitionist John Brown led a motley band of 22 in a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Most were much younger than him. His intention was tread more...o seize the arms there, as many as could be taken, and use them to arm the white supporters and those few enslaved who could handle a firearm; for the others he ordered pikes. In the Appalachian mountains there would be an anti-slavery polity, encouraging the enslaved to flee their owners, as far south as Georgia. Brown expected that a large number of the enslaved would join the revolt, but only a handful did.read less...

John Brown University

John Brown University (JBU) is a private, interdenominational, Christian university in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Founded in 1919, JBU enrolls 2,613 students from 41 states and 50 countries in its tradread more...itional undergraduate, graduate, online, and concurrent education programs.read less...

John Brown & Company

John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repuread more...lse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Elizabeth 2.read less...

John Brown (wide receiver)

John Brown, nicknamed "Smokey" or "Smoke," is an American football wide receiver for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Pittsburg State and was read more...drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played for the Baltimore Ravens in 2018 and Buffalo Bills from 2019 to 2020.read less...

John Crowley (author)

John Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction. He has also written essays. Crowley studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film wread more...riter.read less...

John Brown of Haddington

John Brown of Haddington, was a Scottish minister and author. He was born at Carpow, in Perthshire. He was almost entirely self-educated, having acquired a knowledge of ancient languages while employeread more...d as a shepherd. By his own intense application to study, before he was twenty years of age, he had obtained an intimate knowledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, with the last of which he was critically conversant. He was also acquainted with the French, Italian, German, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and Ethiopic. His early career was varied, and he was in succession a travelling merchant, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master. He was, from 1750 till his death, minister of the Burgher branch of the Secession Church in Haddington. From 1786 he was professor of divinity for his denomination, and was mainly responsible for the training of its ministry. He gained a just reputation for learning and piety. The best of his many works are his Self-Interpreting Bible and Dictionary of the Bible, works that were long very popular. The former was translated into Welsh. He also wrote an Explication of the Westminster Confession, and a number of biographical and historical sketches.read less...