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Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop was the first of 19 people convicted and hanged in the witch trials that convulsed Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692. A controversial tavern owner with an edgy personal style, Bishop…Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson's father was the seventh in an unbroken line of ministers dating back to Puritan days, and after attending Harvard Emerson himself became a Unitarian minister. After the death of…Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of the great American authors of the 19th century, Nathaniel Hawthorne grew up in New England and published his first novel, Fanshawe, in 1828. Though he went on to help lay the foundations of…Biographies: Notable Protestant Religious Leaders
Notable Protestant Religious Leaders Billy Graham See also Notable African-American Religious Leaders People in the NewsRecent Obituaries Related Links Christianity…Jack Williamson 2006 Deaths
Jack WilliamsonAge: 98 writer of countless science fiction novels and short stories whose career spanned almost 80 years. His best-known novel was The Humanoids, a Puritan dystopia written in…Chauncey Judd: A Quilting Party
Puritan Training The Abduction A Quilting Party Year after year passed, and still the war dragged on. The battles of Trenton and Princeton had revived the drooping hopes of the…Mary Rowlandson
Name at birth: Mary WhiteMary Rowlandson was an English colonist in Massachusetts when she was captured by warring natives and held for eleven weeks in 1676, an experience she recounted in her book,…Winthrop, John, 1588–1649, governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony
(Encyclopedia) Winthrop, John, 1588–1649, governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, b. Edwardstone, near Groton, Suffolk, England. Of a landowning family, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge,…Le Gage PRATT, Congress, NJ (1852-1911)
PRATT Le Gage , a Representative from New Jersey; born in Sterling, Worcester County, Mass., December 14, 1852; educated in the common schools; in 1869 entered upon a commercial career in Boston…MLB American League Stadium Changes
American League 1902—Milwaukee Brewers move to St. Louis and become Browns; 1903—Baltimore Orioles move to New York and become Highlanders; 1913—NY Highlanders renamed Yankees; 1954—St. Louis…Trending
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