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This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenan...
If you are interested in reading a true story of a boy born to Presbyterian Missionaries, living and working in Barranquilla, Colombia, South America, then you may want to know just how this KID survived! How his mother made sure he did not get dysentery, how she made sure he and his sister were always worm free. How he learned to speak several languages, mainly English, Spanish, and Italian. Well, read this book! Or if you are the recruiter for the Southern Baptist Convention with Missions around the world and it is hard to recruit new missionaries because of the hardships imposed on the wives and children of missionaries. Or the same is true if you are considering a job that requires enorm...
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A register report is one of the clearest and most comprehensive ways to record a family tree - and is certainly far easier to handle than acres of family charts! This is a clearly presented register report with a full alphabetical index for the Wheelwright family. A companion volume to 'The Wheelwright Family Story', it follows their history from Lincolnshire, England to The Americas and back to England, Africa, Australasia and beyond. Spanning 400 years, 13 generations and over 2,000 individuals it is an essential resource for anyone researching the history of New England's founding families.