Author: Allen Jay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Allen Jay was born in 1831 in Miami County Ohio. He married Martha Ann Sleeper in 1854. The family lived in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and other localities in connection with his work as a teacher and minister of the Society of Friends.
Autobiography of Allen Jay
Author: Allen Jay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Allen Jay was born in 1831 in Miami County Ohio. He married Martha Ann Sleeper in 1854. The family lived in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and other localities in connection with his work as a teacher and minister of the Society of Friends.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Allen Jay was born in 1831 in Miami County Ohio. He married Martha Ann Sleeper in 1854. The family lived in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and other localities in connection with his work as a teacher and minister of the Society of Friends.
Autobiography of Allen Jay
Author: Allen Jay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Allen Jay was born in 1831 in Miami County Ohio. He married Martha Ann Sleeper in 1854. The family lived in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and other localities in connection with his work as a teacher and minister of the Society of Friends.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Allen Jay was born in 1831 in Miami County Ohio. He married Martha Ann Sleeper in 1854. The family lived in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and other localities in connection with his work as a teacher and minister of the Society of Friends.
Autobiography of Allen Jay, Born 1831, Died, 1910
Author: Allen Jay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jay, Allen, 1831-1910
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jay, Allen, 1831-1910
Languages : en
Pages :
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Autobiography of Allen Jay
Author: Allen Jay
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330071090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Excerpt from Autobiography of Allen Jay: Born 1831, Died 1910 Having now entered my seventy-ninth year, and looking back, I am prepared to say, The hand of my God has been good upon me. My friends and the Church have been pleased to call me to fill some active positions during the past fifty years in the Church of which I was born a member. Having seen many changes and having labored in various positions in the Church in connection with others who were trying to build up the Redeemers kingdom in the earth, it has seemed to many of my friends that I ought to leave an account of the part I have taken in the work, of the changes that the Church has passed through during these years, and perhaps a little sketch of some of those whom I have met during this time. Therefore, with the hope that it may be of interest to some who are younger and desirous to do the Masters will, I have consented with much reluctance to undertake this service in my declining years. My greatest reason for hesitation is the fact that I have taken an active part in the work in which I have been engaged, and therefore I fear that the pronoun I may appear too prominent in what I may have to say. I hope to avoid that as much as possible and to be able in all I have to say to give the glory to my Heavenly Father, who called me from following the plow to enter His vineyard, and later, in a more public way, to build up His kingdom. The matter in this volume has been written at odd moments, amid many other claims upon my time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330071090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Excerpt from Autobiography of Allen Jay: Born 1831, Died 1910 Having now entered my seventy-ninth year, and looking back, I am prepared to say, The hand of my God has been good upon me. My friends and the Church have been pleased to call me to fill some active positions during the past fifty years in the Church of which I was born a member. Having seen many changes and having labored in various positions in the Church in connection with others who were trying to build up the Redeemers kingdom in the earth, it has seemed to many of my friends that I ought to leave an account of the part I have taken in the work, of the changes that the Church has passed through during these years, and perhaps a little sketch of some of those whom I have met during this time. Therefore, with the hope that it may be of interest to some who are younger and desirous to do the Masters will, I have consented with much reluctance to undertake this service in my declining years. My greatest reason for hesitation is the fact that I have taken an active part in the work in which I have been engaged, and therefore I fear that the pronoun I may appear too prominent in what I may have to say. I hope to avoid that as much as possible and to be able in all I have to say to give the glory to my Heavenly Father, who called me from following the plow to enter His vineyard, and later, in a more public way, to build up His kingdom. The matter in this volume has been written at odd moments, amid many other claims upon my time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
AUTOBIOG OF ALLEN JAY
Author: Allen Jay
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781359986733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781359986733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Transformation of American Quakerism
Author: Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780253360045
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." -- Quaker History ..". will stand as one of the most important works in the field." -- American Historical Review
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780253360045
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Hamm has simply produced the best book on Quaker history in recent years." -- Quaker History ..". will stand as one of the most important works in the field." -- American Historical Review
Ethan Allen: His Life and Times
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393082288
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever.
Zero to Hero
Author: Allen J. Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998968926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The author recounts his life experiences, from growing up on Chicago's South Side and living through several years of intense bullying, to his Army service in Vietnam and his acts that earned the Medal of Honor, to his life after military service and grappling with PTSD.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998968926
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The author recounts his life experiences, from growing up on Chicago's South Side and living through several years of intense bullying, to his Army service in Vietnam and his acts that earned the Medal of Honor, to his life after military service and grappling with PTSD.
As I See it
Author: J. Paul Getty
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367009
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In his candid and witty autobiography, famed tycoon J. Paul Getty invites readers to glimpse the twentieth century from the vantage point of a man who lived, as he puts it, "through the most exciting and exhilarating - and most turbulent and terrible - eight decades of human history." Whether describing how he amassed his staggering fortune, recounting conversations with intriguing personalities of the day, or frankly discussing his marriages and liaisons, J. Paul Getty sets the record straight - once and for all. He even speaks honestly about his notorious stinginess and the bizarre problems faced by the impossibly wealthy.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367009
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In his candid and witty autobiography, famed tycoon J. Paul Getty invites readers to glimpse the twentieth century from the vantage point of a man who lived, as he puts it, "through the most exciting and exhilarating - and most turbulent and terrible - eight decades of human history." Whether describing how he amassed his staggering fortune, recounting conversations with intriguing personalities of the day, or frankly discussing his marriages and liaisons, J. Paul Getty sets the record straight - once and for all. He even speaks honestly about his notorious stinginess and the bizarre problems faced by the impossibly wealthy.
Alan J Lerner, The Street Where I Live
Author: Alan J. Lerner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340228388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340228388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description