John Harriman (Star Trek)
John Harriman may refer to: * John Harriman (botanist) (1760–1831), English botanist * John Harriman (Star Trek), a fictional Star Trek captain * John Emery Harriman, inventor of an aerocar in 1906 See also * John Harriman House John Harriman House is a historic home located at East Bank, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built about 1826, and is a two-story rectangular brick dwelling with a projecting ell. It features a five-bay front porch with deep cornice suppo ...

John Harriman (botanist)
John Harriman (1760–1831) was an English cleric and botanist. Life Harriman was born at Maryport, Cumberland, into a family of German background named Hermann. became a medical student at 17; but after two years returned to classical studies, and then took holy orders. He became curate of Bassenthwaite in 1787. He moved on to Barnard Castle, Egglestone, and Gainford in County Durham, Long Horseley in Northumberland, Heighington and Croxdale, and lastly to the perpetual curacy of Satley, Durham. Harriman concentrated on the botany of Teesdale. He published nothing, but maintained a correspondence with other botanists. He was knowledgeable about lichens and discovered species. He furnished plants for James Edward Smith's ''English Botany'' such as ''Bartsia alpina'', which he had gathered in Teesdale. He was the first botanist to find ''Gentiana verna'' in England, and other rare plants in Westmorland and Cumberland. He sent a significant collection of lichens from Egglesto ...
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John Harriman (Star Trek)
John Harriman may refer to: * John Harriman (botanist) (1760–1831), English botanist * John Harriman (Star Trek), a fictional Star Trek captain * John Emery Harriman, inventor of an aerocar in 1906 See also * John Harriman House John Harriman House is a historic home located at East Bank, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built about 1826, and is a two-story rectangular brick dwelling with a projecting ell. It features a five-bay front porch with deep cornice suppo ...

John Emery Harriman
John Emery Harriman, Jr. (June 3, 1869 — May 18, 1916) was an American civil engineer and inventor. Biography Harriman was born in 1869 in Somerville, Massachusetts, to John Emery Harriman, Sr., a Civil War veteran of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment, and Sarah Jane Wheeler Harriman. His paternal family went back eight generations to 1622, when the Harrimans left Rowley, Yorkshire, England. He created the Harriman Aeromobile Company and designed a flying machine in 1902. He also designed an aerocar in 1906, which was patented in 1910, but was never manufactured. He also invented a rotary steam engine. He married Julia C. Horther, ex-wife of artist Hiram Peabody Flagg, on April 22, 1897. He died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and part of the Greater Boston, Boston metropolitan area. Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Boston, Brighton ...
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