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John Moses Browning (January 23, 1855 [1] – November 26, 1926) was an American firearm designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. [2]
John Brown's grave, 1896. Note the figure atop the stone: speakers at the funeral spoke from there. John Brown arrived in upstate New York as part of a project funded by Gerrit Smith to assist Blacks in becoming property owners and thus voters, under New York State law at the time. To this end he gave away hundreds of 40-acre tracts of ...
John Walker Browning (June 10, 1842 in New York City – 1904) was an American journalist, ... John W. Browning at Find a Grave; New York State Assembly; Preceded by.
He fathered 22 children and had two stepdaughters; prominent among them was the gun designer John Moses Browning, who became one of the most important figures in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms; and Matthew Sandefur Browning (1859 – 1923), co-founder of Browning Brothers.
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
William J. Browning (1850–1920), represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1911–1920. [7] Albert E. Burling (1891–1960), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1947 to 1960.
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Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum is a cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Midtown Manhattan.It was founded in 1902, and is non-sectarian.