Abel Bryant Research Paper

In 1812 Houston moved back to Maryville and opened a one room school house to repay some debts he owed. Later that year, when war broke out with Britain, Houston enlisted in the army as a private at the age of twenty. Within four months he was promoted to ensign of the infantry. He was a member of Andrew Jackson’s army. He fought in the battle of Horseshoe Bend on the

On February 6, 1895, Kate Schamberger Ruth gave birth to her first child. George Herman Ruth, Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first of eight children born to Kate and George Herman Ruth. Ruth's father worked as a bartender and ultimately opened his own tavern. Many believe that George was an orphan all his life, but for the first seven years of his life he was with his parents, but he survived without guidance on the dirty, crowded streets of the Baltimore riverfront.

Because he was bored with army routines, Meade resigned in 1836 after serving in both Massachusetts and Florida. He then pursued a career in engineering working on railroads for the U.S. War Department. In 1840, he married Margaretta Sergeant and they ended up having seven children. In 1842, Meade re-enlisted in the Army and served as a junior officer in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. Next, in the 1850’s he spent his time in the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers building lighthouses and breakwaters on the Atlantic coast.

He was a private (the lowest fighting rank in the military), but was promoted to a corporal. For some reason he decided to decline the higher position. The new position he was given had better pay, and more benefits from the army. He would be respected more by everyone else, but he declined. Most troops would have loved to take that position but he decided not to. Still to this day it is unknown why he declined. Almost all of his regiment was untrained, including him. Their regiment was in many battles but never any important battles. He was not injured badly in battle and he made it back home to his

When Tom was 14 years old in 1874, he ran away from home and headed west. About a year later at age 15 he joined the army scouts. Tom was involved in campaigns for more than a decade. Thomas played a big part in the surrender of Geronimo. After that, Tom was discharged as a scout.

Lee’s first war experience was in 1846 against Mexico. By the end of the war, he was a colonel. After that,

Active Combative roles: fought in the Army (focus on 54th Massachusetts Infantry) and in the Navy (Robert Smalls)

William Cullen Bryant was born November 3, 1794 in Cummington, MA. He died on June 12, 1878 in New York. He was a poet and editor. His style and character of writing, might give a clue to his ancestry and environment. They often reflect the best and noblest in the New England early impression. The first Bryant of whom there is any account in the annals of the New World, Stephen, came over from England, and was at Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1632, of which town he was chosen constable in 1663. Stephen’s widowed mother, Ann married an attorney named John Doane and along with Ann and her three sons, Thomas, Stephen, and John came to America on “The Handmaid”. Thomas Bryant was bound out to Samuel Eddy and Stephen Bryant to a man named

Ohio Valley. He became an officer in the regular army in 1792, and in 1794 fought in the

Crockett fought in the War of 1812. He started out as a militia scout and eventually became fourth

Sterling Allen Brown was born on May 1, 1901 in Washington, DC. He is the sixth child of Adelaide Allen and her husband Sterling Nelson Brown. He graduated as the valedictorian from Dunbar High School in 1918. Growing up, he followed the footsteps of his father which led him to attending Williams College on a scholarship where he studied French and English literature and graduated cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa award in 1922. Also, he won the graves prize for an essay on Moliere and Shakespeare. As he continued on his academic journey he attended Harvard University where he received his master’s degree in English. As a professor, Brown taught at Virginia Seminary in Lynchburg, Lincoln University in Missouri and Fisk University in Nashville.

After years of devoted prayer, Phil realized  the religious lifestyle was not for him. During high school he desperately searched for for school activities that would take him away from his 24/7 at home religious lifestyle. He acted in plays, joined the choir , became the school sports announcer for the school radio program. He played sports such as football,baseball, and track  but most of all his savior was basketball. Basketball saved Phil from having to go to church services every weekend due to long basketball trips. He played only at the junior varsity level until his junior year where he grew four inches  to a large height of 6’5. He then began to really improve as a player. His coach loved his height and his long arms making have

Niels Abel was born in Norway, in a neighborhood parish, to Georg Abel, who was a pastor with a degree in theology and philosophy, and Anne Marie Simonsen, a daughter to a wealthy merchant. Abel was homeschooled by his father and was giving hand written books to study from.

As a second lieutenant he was eventually stationed in Bouzincourt, a village located in France. He was highly unaccustomed to the battlefield; he did not expect the dangers that he would face every which way he turned. He suffered from trench fever and was shipped home to recover at one point, though he never fully recovered until the war ended in 1918 (D. Rogers, I. Rogers, 21).

Upon his entry he was placed as assistant cook, a far from glorious position. However he managed to rise through the ranks. He became a Corporal in 1948 and was stationed in Burma, Somalia, and Kenya. This was during the British situation in Kenya that was referred to as the Mau Mau revolt. The Mau Mau gunmen were a secret society of rebels which aimed to over