His parents were Rebecca and George Latimer and they were slaves before he was born he escaped from Virginia. After like few years they were captured in Boston and send to the judge. They were protected by 2 loyar and they are Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Then in Chelsea,Massachusetts September,4 1848 Lewis Latimer was born. Lewis Latimer in age 16 he lied to some soldiers that he is big enough to be in the United States Navy during the Civil War. After that lied he sawed he was talented at mechanical drawing and drafting by observing the draftsman in the firm. After that he went to a company called the Electricity Lightning Company. You won’t believe it Lewis Latimer worked with Thomas Edison and that is what he got inspired to make the carbon filament. He was the first African American to discover lightning. In conclusion Lewis Latimer is an inventor, draftsman, engineer, author, poet, musician, and, at the same time, a devoted family man and…
The group that accompanied Lewis and Clark, “…ranged from 30 to 45 soldiers and frontiersmen, including one black, and it eventually included one woman”. The black individual was one of Lewis’ slaves and the woman was a Native American translator. Each member of this team had a different job and worked well as a unit. According to Steve Gregory in his article entitled “Follow the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark”, “They befriended nearly all native tribes they encountered, recorded for science roughly 300 previously uncatalogued species of plants and animals and, in the process, laid the foundation for the eventual western expansion of their nation”. These adventures worked their way through a large portion of the United States, mostly, in a…
James Bridger was born on July 17, 1881. Throughout his life, people called him "Old Gabe." His real name was James Bridger. During his life he, was a hunter, trapper, fighter, and a guide. He was a partner in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Jim Bridger also became the first man to see the Great Salt Lake. In 1843, the fur trade as declined. Jim also did a similar service like the Union Pacific Railroad. Over his life, Jim Bridger has three Indian wives. Jim Bridger's health failed him. He died at age 76. On 1859-1860 he visited an area called Colter's Hell. Jim was opposed to the Mormon settlements in the Utah area. Jim dies near Kansas City. There are some mountains named after him. After Jims death the window for the improvement went…
John Colter and Tom Murphy both had the experience of a life time. John Colter discovered one of the most famous places to visit. Yellowstone National Park. With streaming Geysers, bubbling mud pits and beautiful hot springs. Tom had visited years later.…
George Rogers Clark was born to John and Ann Rogers Clark on a virginia settlement.Clark was born and raised in virginia,he is also kin to the famous Lewis Clark from the Meriwether and Clark expedition. George Clark is significant to hoosier history because he is known for reclaiming hoosier land from the british and indians in that area .He and other numerous amounts of soldiers braved through British-held Fort Sackville at Vincennes during February 1779 and helped claim Vincennes Indiana .Clark’s cleverness, and courage can be seen as remarkable to many hoosiers,and he definitely deserves his title as a significant hoosier.…
Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774 in Ivy, Virginia. He was a soldier, and he helped quell the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Also during his time as a soldier, he was reassigned to the Chosen Rifle Company. It was led by William Clark himself. Because of this, Lewis and Clark were able to meet and develop a strong friendship. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson became president. Both Jefferson and Lewis knew each other for awhile. Jefferson knew that Lewis should be his private secretary. The deal was offered and accepted. In 1803, Jefferson sent Lewis and a group of men called the Corps of Discovery to explore the west. This is now known as Lewis and Clark’s Expedition. Jefferson wanted them to explore what was beyond the newly purchased…
John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed “Black Jack” was born in Laclede, Missouri on September 13, 1860. Pershing, oldest of eight children, was born to John F. Pershing and Anne Elizabeth Thompson. His father was a prosperous business man, working as a merchant during the Civil War, but during the panic of 1873, his father was forced to jake a job as a traveling salesman while john worked on the family farm…
We just got back from 2 year 4 month trip from Louisiana Territory. It began in St. Louis. We traveled to the Pacific Ocean and back to St. Louis. Louis needed to find a map and a water route across Northern America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean .…
1. Lewis was shot by one of his own men. Pierre Cruzatte, who could not see well, shot Lewis through the buttocks on August 11, 1806, mistaking him for an elk.…
John Trudell - artist, poet and champion of indigenous issues - was born February 15, 1946. (Trudell the Movie, 2004) He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Trudell was born to a Mexican-Indian mother and a Sante Sioux father. Trudell was raised on the Sante Sioux Indian Reservation. He was the father of three children and husband to wife, Tina Trudell. (Ernano) Trudell was once the Chairman of the American Indian Movement (AIM), now an active member. He also served as the spokesperson for the Indian of All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island from 1969 to 1971. Trudell is a Vietnam veteran.bnhhhgghjjhghghghgh Native Americans across Indian Country refer to Trudell as a legend.…
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 on a small farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. His parents are John Adams, our second president, and Abigail Adams. John had two younger brothers and one older sister. In 1787, at 20 years old, John graduated from Harvard College. He became a lawyer and practiced law in Boston in 1790. John got married in 1797 to Louisa Johnson. John and Louisa had three sons, George, John, and Charles, and he had one daughter, Louisa Catherine.…
John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on March 18th, 1782 and he supported his family whenever his father was ill when he was still a child. In 1807, John became a lawyer and was soon elected to congress in 1810 where he was openly a “war hawk” or someone who wanted to go to war with Great Britain for independence, and in 1812 he got his wish when the war of 1812 began. During the war, he raised troops so that he could support congress which made him a nationalist and he fought for a stronger national government. Calhoun resided in Clemson, North Carolina in his home which is called Fort Hill which is his death place and only about fifty miles away from his birthplace. He held many different offices and the fell in the order…
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He was born in 1809 and spent his childhood in Missouri. He left home in 1826 for New Mexico. Carson spent three years there on fur-trapping expeditions he sometimes traveled as far west as California. In 1840 William Bent employed him as a hunter. Kit Carson was basically a gun for hire and wherever he was needed he went. He became very interested in the Indian cultured and even went as far as traveling and even living with the Indian people. Kit Carson was married twice both to Indian women. One was from the Arapahoe tribe and the other was from the Cheyenne tribe. In 1842 he was hired as a guide and joined the Bear-Flag rebellion right on the brink of the Mexican-American War that started in…
Born on December 24th, 1809 in Kentucky, Kit Carson was born with a love for the West flowing freely through his veins. His father moved his family west to Missouri when he was 2 years old. (Sanford & Green) Carson loved the outdoors and was an avid fisherman and hunter at an early age. Carson’s father died when he was nine years old from an accident that occurred while trying to clear land in Missouri. (“New Perspectives on the West”) When Carson was a teenager he went to work in a saddle shop. At the saddle shop he was put under the care of the shop owner. Carson didn’t like the work and would eventually run away beginning his own westward voyage. (Wheeler)…