John Crowe Ransom &

The Kenyon Review

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In 1938 the president of Kenyon College, Gordon Keith Chalmers, brought one of the nation's most distinguished poets and critics, John Crowe Ransom, to the Gambier Hill. Chalmers brought Ransom to Kenyon College to create ...

John Fagan

John Fagan

Soldier in the Texas

War for Independence

at Goliad, 1835-1836

Marker can be reached from Hagy Drive 0.1 miles east of Charlotte Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James Johnston

Georgia's First Newspaper Publisher & Printer

Here repose the remains of James Johnston (1738-1808) - - editor of Georgia's first newspaper.

A native of Scotland, Johnston settled at Savannah in 1761. "Recommended as a person regularly bred and well skilled in ...

Colonel John Haslet

A Patriot of considerable distinction, Colonel John Haslet was the Commander of Delaware's first Continental Regiment. A native of County Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America in 1757. Haslet was a graduate of the University of Glasgow, and and ordained ...

John Bricker

In memory of

John Bricker

a private in Captain Mosley Baker’s

company, who was killed just

across the river from this site

April 7th 1836 by a shot from a

Mexican cannon, and was buried

where he fell. He was born in

Cumberland County, Penn.

January 30th 1791

This tablet ...

John Ericsson Statue

Battery Park

This 1903 statue by Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845-1912) depicts the esteemed Swedish-American engineer and inventor John Ericsson (1803-1889), who helped to revolutionize military-maritime technology with his ironclad warship, the Monitor.

Ericsson was born in Langbanshyttan, Sweden to a mining proprietor ...

John White Geary

Captain 2d Pennsylvania Infantry December 21 1846. Lieut. Colonel January 7 1847. Colonel November 3 1847. Honorably mustered out July 21 1848.

Colonel 28th Pennsylvania Infantry June 28 1861. Discharged for promotion May 11 1862

Brig. General U.S. Volunteers April 25 1862. ...

Major John Berrien (1759-1815)

In 1775 John Berrien of New Jersey came to the province of Georgia, where one of his mother's kin had previously settled. His father, John Berrien (1711-1772), was a judge of the supreme court of New Jersey and a trustee ...

The Johnson Manufacturing Company

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The Johnson Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1902 by brothers James B., J. Will, Isaac T., and Charles F. Johnson, all of Quaker heritage. The company manufactured tin and galvanized iron ware for railroad lines across the United States. ...

John Anderson Ward Farmstead / John Quincy Adams Ward & Edgar Me

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John Anderson Ward Farmstead

John Anderson Ward had this Federal style house constructed from 1823-1825 on land inherited from his father, Urbana's founder Colonel William Ward. The Colonel's will stipulated that a local mason use 26,500 bricks to ...