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Bowne
Bowne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Bowne (1945–1989), American playwright and author * Andrew Bowne (c. 1638–c. 1708), American colonial politician *Borden Parker Bowne (1847–1910), theologian associated with American Methodism * John Bowne (1627–1695), English colonist in North America * Norwood Bowne (1813–1890), New York newspaper editor and politician * Obadiah Bowne (1822–1874), American politician from New York * Peter Bowne (1575–c. 1624), English physician * Samuel S. Bowne (1800–1865), American politician from New York * Walter Bowne (1770–1846), 59th Mayor of New York City See also * Bown (surname) * Bownes Bownes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fabien Bownes (born 1972), American football player * Hugh H. Bownes (1920–2003), American federal judge * Mary Bownes (born 1948), British molecular and developmental biologist * ... * Bowen (surname) * Bowens (surname) {{surname, Bowne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borden Parker Bowne
Borden Parker Bowne (January 14, 1847 – April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, Methodist minister and theologian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life Bowne was born on January 14, 1847, near Leonardville in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University, where he taught for more than thirty years. He later served as the first dean of the graduate school. Bowne was an acute critic of mechanistic determinism, positivism, and naturalism. He categorized his views as Kantianized Berkeleyanism, transcendental empiricism, and, finally, personalism, emphasizing freedom and the importance of the self, a philosophical branch of liberal theology: of this branch Bowne is the dominant figure; this personalism is sometimes called ''Boston personalism'', in contrast with the California personalism of George Holmes Howison. Bowne's '' magnum opus'', ''Metaphysics'', was published in 1882. Bowne w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowne
John Bowne (1627–1695), the progenitor of the Bowne family in America, was a Quaker and an English immigrant residing in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. He is historically significant for his struggle for religious liberty. Background Born in Matlock, Derbyshire, on 9 March 1627, Bowne emigrated with his father and sister to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1648. Bowne became a merchant and married well, his first wife Hannah Feake (ca.1637–1678), whom he married in 1656, being a great-niece of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts. Bowne and his bride, along with his in-laws William Hallet and Elizabeth Fones, soon became adherents of the new doctrine of Quakerism, which was then being actively repressed in most of the English colonies of New England. Accordingly, by 1661, they had relocated to Flushing, Long Island, where a small group of English-speaking Quakers were attempting to practice their faith in defiance of the Dutch governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Bowne
Captain Andrew Bowne (c. 1638 - c. 1708) was an American colonial politician and jurist, who served in various capacities in both New York and New Jersey. Biography A son of William and Ann Bowne, Andrew Bowne was born circa 1638 in Salem, Massachusetts, where he was baptized on August 12, 1638. About 1645 or 1646, the Bowne family moved to Gravesend, an English settlement in New Netherland. He became a mariner by profession, and by 1680 was a resident of New York City, where he became a merchant. In 1686 he became a resident of Middletown Township, New Jersey, where he purchased 1,000 acres from Samuel Winder on June 17. Winder was a son in law of Thomas Rudyard, to whom the land had been originally granted. This land is now Cliffwood and Cliffwood Beach in Aberdeen Township; it was here that Bowne lived until his death. Political career New York On October 10, 1683, after having served there as a juror the month before, Andrew Bowne was appointed by Governor Thomas Dongan as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Bowne
Walter Bowne (26 September 1770 – 31 August 1846) was the 59th Mayor of New York City from 1829 to 1833. Walter Bowne was born in Flushing, Long Island, Province of New York, New York, the son of James Bowne and his wife Caroline Rodman. He was a descendant of John Bowne who, with other fellow Quakers was part of the Flushing Remonstrance, one of the earliest establishments of the freedom of religion in North America and one of the predecessor documents on which the First Amendment to the United States Constitution was based. He was a New York State senator from the Southern District from 1816 to 1822, and from the New York's 1st congressional district, 1st District 1823 to 1824. He was a member of the Council of Appointment at Albany, New York, Albany from 1817 to 1820. He was Mayor of New York City from 1829 to 1833. Faced with reports of cholera in neighboring towns in 1832, he implemented a strict quarantine policy, regulating travel to and from New York City, and restric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obadiah Bowne
Obadiah Bowne (May 19, 1822 – April 27, 1874) was an American politician and a United States representative from New York. Biography Born in Staten Island, New York, Bowne attended private schools, and was a student at Princeton College from 1838 to 1840. Bowne's collateral ancestor was John Bowne, pioneer of North American religious liberty. Career Bowne held several local offices. Elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress Bowne served as a United States Representative for the second district of New York from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852 and was quarantine commissioner from 1857 to 1859. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1864. Death Bowne died in Richmond Village, Staten Island, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bownes
Bownes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fabien Bownes (born 1972), American football player * Hugh H. Bownes (1920–2003), American federal judge * Mary Bownes (born 1948), British molecular and developmental biologist * Shaun Bownes Shaun Bownes (born 24 October 1970, in Johannesburg) is a South African hurdler. His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Heusden. This was the African record until 2012 when it was beaten by Lehann ... (born 1970), South African athlete See also * Bowne (surname) * Bown (surname) * Bowen (surname) * Bowens (surname) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Bowne
Alan Bowne (1945–1989) was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the New Dramatists. He wrote a number of plays including ''Beirut'', ''Forty-Deuce'', ''Sharon and Billy'', and ''The Beany and Cecil Show'', many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc. He also wrote one novel ''Wally Wonderstruck''. He died of complications related to AIDS at the age of 44. Perhaps his most famous and enduring work, "Beirut" is a one-act play that tells the allegorical story of a heterosexual couple dealing with a mysterious disease that ravages dystopian New York. This fictional disease presumably represented the real HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Bowne's play ''Beirut'' was adapted to the 1993 TV movie ''Daybreak'' starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Moira Kelly. References External linksReview of a 2008 production of ''Beirut'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwood Bowne
Norwood Bowne (May 2, 1813 in New York City – January 7, 1890 in Delhi (town), New York, Delhi, Delaware County, New York) was an American newspaper editor and politician from New York. Life In early youth he learned the printer (publisher), printer's trade. In 1830, he removed to Delhi, New York, to study law with Charles Hathaway, who had married Bowne's sister Maria Augusta in 1828, but worked for the ''Delaware Republican'' instead. This paper was not successful, and Bowne returned to New York City, where he published the ''Protestant Vindicator''. In 1834, the printing and publishing house was destroyed by fire. In 1839, he returned to Delhi, New York, and from January 1839 until his death, he published the ''Delaware Express''. He was postmaster of Delhi, New York, from 1849 to 1852. In New York state election, 1854, 1854, he was elected an New York State Prison Inspector, inspector of state prisons, being in office from 1855 to 1857. In 1876, he ran for presidential elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bowne
Peter Bowne (1575–1624?) was an English physician. Bone was a native of Bedfordshire and became at the age of fifteen a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, zhxjckcin April 1590. He was afterwards elected a fellow of that society. After taking degrees in arts he applied himself to medicine, and proceeded B.M. Bachelor of Music (BM or BMus) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree, and the majority of work consists of prescr ... and D.M. at Oxford on 11 January 4444. He was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians on 24 January 1616–17, and fellow on 21 April 1690. On 3 March 1623-4 Richard Spicer was admitted a fellow in his place. According to Wood, Bone practised medicine in London, "and was much in esteem for it in the latter end of King James I and beginning of Charles I." It is probable, nevertheless, that 1865 was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowen (surname)
Bowen is a Celtic surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities, the Welsh ''ab Owain'' meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') and the Irish ''Ó Buadhacháin'' meaning "descendant of Bohan" (Bohan meaning 'victorious'). The Bowen lineage can be traced back to Llwyngwair in the 11th century, near Nevern in Pembrokeshire. The Bowen surname was adopted in 1424. There are seven Bowen crests and the Bowen/Owen family group share a tartan. The Bowen/Bowens surnames are more commonly found in southern Wales, while the Owen/Owens surnames are more commonly found in northern Wales. This is a list of notable people born with the last name Bowen and people who married into the Bowen family. * Adam Bowen, American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Juul * Sir Albert Bowen, 1st Baronet (1858–1924), British-Argentinian businessman * Albert E. Bowen (1875–1953), American member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Alex Bowen (skier) (born 1991), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bown (surname)
Bown is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andy Bown (born 1946), English musician * Archie Bown (1882–1958), English football (soccer) striker * Arthur Bown (1851–1916), English architect * Chuck Bown (born 1954), NASCAR champion * Heather Bown (born 1978), American volleyball player * Henry Edwin Bown (1845–1881), English architect * Jane Bown (born 1925), British photographer * Jim Bown (born 1960), NASCAR driver * John Young Bown (1821–1890), Canadian physician * Paul Bown (born 1957), British actor * Ralph Bown (1891–1971), noted American radio pioneer * Stuart Bown Stuart Bown (born 24 August 1978) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the Adelaide Crows and for Norwood in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Bown was recruited b ... (born 1978), Australian rules footballer See also * Bowne (surname) * Bowen (surname) * Bowens (surname) {{surname, Bown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel S
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of '' Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His geneal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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