May 21, 2018 · John Heyl Vincent was born on Feb. 23, 1832, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., moved with his family to Pennsylvania in 1837, and was educated at home and in various academies in the Lewisburg area. After sundry work experiences, Vincent was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1849, and in 1851 he became a circuit rider in New Jersey ...

May 29, 2018 · Chautauqua's cofounder, John Heyl Vincent, began his career as a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher on the Methodist circuit in the 1850s. By the early 1870s Vincent came to feel that the spiritual awakenings experienced at the "holiness" revivals were …

George Edgar Vincent, 1864–1941, American educator, organizer, and sociologist, b. Rockford, Ill., grad. Yale, 1885, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1896; son of Bishop John Heyl Vincent. He was associated with his father in the Chautauqua movement and was president (1907–15) of the Chautauqua Institution. Always a popular lecturer, he became noted ...

Jun 8, 2018 · *Jervis, John, 1st earl of St Vincent* (1735–1823). Promoted earl following his triumph over the Spanish fleet in February 1797, Jervis, son of a crooked Staffordshire lawyer, had an inauspicious start in life.

May 17, 2018 · And the origins of the Chautauqua Movement idea can be traced to a Sunday school teachers' summer institute organized by the Methodist bishop John Heyl Vincent in 1873. In the twentieth century, Sunday schools were primarily church institutions, recruiting the next generations of members.

In 1878, for example, after successfully starting the Chautauqua movement, John Heyl Vincent created a set of readers and guides for study groups in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC). These guides were available by mail …

A Separate Peace was adapted as a film directed by Larry Peerce, starring John Heyl and Parker Stevenson, Paramount Pictures, 1972, available from Paramount Home Video, Home Vision Cinema. Although generally faithful to the novel, the film …

He studied flute with Georges Laurent at the New England Cons, of Music in Boston (1922-26), and composition there with Converse and Chadwick (1926-27), then took courses at the George Peabody Coll. in Nashville, Term. Source for information on Vincent, John: Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians dictionary.

Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh ★★★ 1987Van Gogh's work and creativity is examined in a documentary manner through his life and his letters. Thoughtful and intriguing production. Narrated by John Hurt as van Gogh. 99m/C VHS, DVD . AUD: Paul Cox; W: Paul Cox; M: Norman Kaye; V: John Hurt.

Atanasoff, John Vincent ( b . 4 October 1903 in Hamilton, New York ; d . 15 June 1995 in Monrovia, Maryland), inventor of the first automatic digital computer whose breakthrough concepts were critical to the subsequent development of the …