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- ...raised by an aunt and William to be fostered or [[adopted]] by his father's prosperous friend, Thomas Ewing, who named him after Chief Tecumseh. ...then superintendent of the seminary and military academy which eventually became [[Louisiana]] State University.3 KB (369 words) - 04:33, 5 March 2018
- ...the Porrajmos), homosexuals, and other groups they believed were dangerous or inferior to the white "Aryan" people, as they called themselves. ...n parents managed to send their children to hide with sympathetic families or in convents and monasteries inside Nazi-occupied countries before they them5 KB (642 words) - 03:45, 5 March 2018
- ...ht up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in [[Maine]]. His uncle died when he was seven. Spencer never went beyond primary school, but he was awarded an honorary D.S. from the University of [[Massachusetts]] and the Fellowship of the America2 KB (325 words) - 23:59, 3 March 2018
- ...school for destitute young children. He was apprenticed at 14 to a joiner or architect but after three years of the seven to which he was bonded he ran ...on making a very large fortune. Returning to England, still in his 20s, he became even wealthier through building docks at Rotherhithe and Plymouth. In 17651 KB (208 words) - 17:29, 28 May 2014
- ...killed in World War II U-boat attack on a shipping convoy, and his mother died six months later.) Who's Who, 19971 KB (136 words) - 20:29, 28 May 2014
- Tiepolo was born in Venice to a merchant and his wife. His father died the year after he was born, and his mother entrusted him to a painter, Greg Gerten, Carol L. and Compton's [[Encyclopedia]] Online. "Bio: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)." Avai2 KB (283 words) - 06:23, 28 February 2018
- ...intention that their father would join them when possible. But his father died less than a year later, before he could rejoin the family. The widow and he In 1904 their mother died of diabetes, leaving the boys in poverty and estranged from the rest of the3 KB (423 words) - 01:52, 1 March 2018
- ...raised by relatives, first a grandmother, who died, then an aunt, who also died, and finally another aunt. ...admire the Cossack way of life. He returned to St. Petersburg in 1856 and became more and more interested in the welfare of his serfs and progressive educat3 KB (372 words) - 18:50, 3 March 2018
- ...mily moved to New Orleans but soon afterwards they all except young George died of yellow fever. He was then raised by his grandmother. He became a merchant in Boston and also in [[Australia]] and England.2 KB (222 words) - 06:09, 28 February 2018
- ..., Baron and Baroness von Trapp and their 10 children, are one of the world's most famous families, and the subject of one of the most successful stage m ...l with his work as an engineer. She continued to visit her father until he died when she was nine.4 KB (630 words) - 04:18, 5 March 2018
- ...h died in 1796 of typhus and the baby Joseph was [[adopted]] by his mother's sister, Margarethe Romler. He grew up in Heubach-Lautern, went to school th He initially intended to teach school, and became rector (principal) of the gymnasium (academic high school) at Ehingen. He w2 KB (287 words) - 04:06, 3 March 2018
- ...ally he was looked after by his brothers, then by his brother Harry's wife's family. Who's Who, 19982 KB (264 words) - 04:05, 24 February 2018
- Welch's mother died when he was five and he was raised by his aunt. ...d member; he produced albums for Richard in the 70s, wrote some of Richard's best-known songs and "discovered" Olivia Newton-John. He stayed with the ba2 KB (238 words) - 03:01, 26 February 2018
- ...s were killed by the Nazis and at 16 she emigrated to Palestine, where she became a resistance fighter in the Haganah. Later she went to Paris to study psych Who's Who in America, 19962 KB (275 words) - 04:57, 4 March 2018
- Whitman's father died when he was eight and his mother sent him and his four brothers and sisters He became a medical doctor and missionary to the Cayuse and Nez Perce people of [[Was2 KB (317 words) - 19:15, 3 March 2018
- ...bers; he and his father remained together for another year, but his father died just before the end of the war, in January 1945. Wiesel also spent time in Who's Who in America, 19962 KB (334 words) - 06:30, 27 February 2018
- [[Category: Single Adopters or Fosterers]] [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (155 words) - 18:11, 28 May 2014
- ...t his father died when he was two and his mother when he was eight, and he became the ward of his uncle Jasper. He studied law and soon became a popular lawyer in the circle of Thomas Jefferson, on whose recommendation2 KB (321 words) - 04:34, 5 March 2018
- ...d been well off (their father was an attorney), debts owed by their father's main client were not paid, leaving the orphans much less well provided for. ...in 1795 she inherited enough money for them to live together until William died.2 KB (303 words) - 17:23, 20 May 2014
- ...d been well off (their father was an attorney), debts owed by their father's main client were not paid, leaving the orphans much less well provided for. ...in 1795 she inherited enough money for them to live together until William died.2 KB (304 words) - 17:34, 14 May 2014
- ...forcibly converted to Catholicism and raised by nuns in a Polish convent (or by a Polish nobleman, according to other sources). ([[Edgardo Mortara]] is ...and at one time over half the Jews of Europe were his followers, so Sarah's power as his wife would have been considerable, although, as a woman, she w3 KB (490 words) - 20:44, 2 June 2014
- ...were [[adopted]] by their uncle, John Bubenheim Bayard, when their father died. [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]2 KB (223 words) - 01:58, 1 March 2018
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- ...adopted]] by a local surgeon, Mr. White, and became part of his family. He became thoroughly acculturated and never attempted to rejoin Aboriginal society. ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]1 KB (185 words) - 20:01, 3 March 2018
- Sancho was born on a slave ship bound for [[Colombia]]. His mother died soon after arriving and his father killed himself soon afterwards rather th ...imself to read and write, entered the service of the Dukes of Montague and became a trusted servant and favorite "pet" of English high society. He also sat f2 KB (320 words) - 01:41, 1 March 2018
- As a young man he returned to his people and became a major chief and warlord of the Ngati Haua. He helped Christian missionari ...ngs and campaigned for an end to the frequent inter-tribal hostilities. He died in 1838, a few weeks after the death of his principal wife, Rangi Te Wiwini2 KB (316 words) - 04:08, 5 March 2018
- ...rs to be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fostered or [[adopted]] several white captive children. ...ership: that no individual or even tribe could alienate land to the whites or own land individually.3 KB (466 words) - 04:09, 5 March 2018
- ...evived before his funeral. He described visions he had while "dead," which became the basis of a new religion among the Shawnee people. Among other things th ...defeat, because he attacked General Harrison's troops against [[Tecumseh]]'s advice while [[Tecumseh]] was away on a recruiting mission.3 KB (440 words) - 04:10, 5 March 2018
- ...h died in 1796 of typhus and the baby Joseph was [[adopted]] by his mother's sister, Margarethe Romler. He grew up in Heubach-Lautern, went to school th He initially intended to teach school, and became rector (principal) of the gymnasium (academic high school) at Ehingen. He w2 KB (287 words) - 04:05, 3 March 2018
- [[Category: Single Adopters or Fosterers]] [[Category: Customary or Traditional Adoption, Informal and Extra-Legal Care]]2 KB (216 words) - 19:42, 16 June 2014
- ...dfather's surname) was born Ohiyesa, the last of five children. His mother died soon after he was born. In 1862, after the [[Minnesota]] Sioux uprising he ...es with his Native American patients. He moved to Ontario with his son and died after a tipi he was living in caught fire.3 KB (481 words) - 13:51, 18 June 2021
- ...in Nagpur. His father was a Hindu priest. When he was 13 both his parents died the same day in one of the epidemics of bubonic plague that periodically sw ...dren were left to raise themselves in even greater poverty, and the eldest became a violent wastrel, leaving Keshav and the next-older brother to take respon2 KB (357 words) - 04:12, 3 March 2018
- ...ay from home in 1888 to attend school (his father was opposed to white men's education), where he stayed until 1895. He became a secular and spiritual leader of the Winnebago, Dakota and Ojibwa peoples,2 KB (251 words) - 03:41, 24 February 2018
- ...timore, where he signed on as a cabin boy. His captain taught him until he died in 1882. ...and in 1888 and learned fluent Inuit. On a later expedition he saved Perry's life again, and in 1909 Henson was the first non-Inuit to reach the north p2 KB (370 words) - 19:22, 3 March 2018
- ...to Captain Burns, but when he died in 1874 Mike was given to Captain Hall S. Bishop. ...e also worked for a while on a farm in [[New York]]. In the early 1900s he became a rancher and woodcutter near Ft. McDowell, where he raised a family who st2 KB (381 words) - 17:49, 28 February 2018
- ...]] her. This did not happen, but at 13 she went to be nanny to her brother's children. ...er race gave her entrance into Black culture denied white scholars and she became an expert on Voodoo (Tell My Horse, 1938).3 KB (459 words) - 04:37, 5 March 2018
- ...ackson.jpg/640px-Stonewall_Jackson.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken in 1863.'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.} ...and little Thomas was sent to live with relatives. His mother in any case died in 1831, leaving Thomas an orphan at the age of six, to be raised by a pate2 KB (315 words) - 04:13, 5 March 2018
- Jacobs' entire [[Immediate Family|immediate family]] died while he was a young child and he grew up poor and alone. ...th the church, leading to poverty and alcoholism. Two of his children also became missionaries.1 KB (166 words) - 16:27, 17 June 2014
- ...assimilationist Maori in the department proved unfounded, however, and he became an ally of the more independent-minded Kingitanga movement. ...and]] Maori Council and on a number of other committees, and was Maori men's tennis champion from 1924 to 1928.2 KB (331 words) - 20:27, 3 March 2018
- ...nciscan seminary, but turned to the law, and graduated in 1834. In 1831 he became a city council member in Oaxaca, 1841 a judge, then a federal deputy, then ...hen Maximilian was deposed in 1867 Juárez was again elected president and died in office.3 KB (473 words) - 04:14, 24 February 2018
- Kul Kul Stu Hah's father was killed in the Battle of Big Hole ([[Montana]]) in 1877 and his m [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]1 KB (194 words) - 16:19, 17 June 2014
- ...prominent Black abolitionist and civil rights activist in the country. He became the first known African-American ever elected to a public office, when he w [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]2 KB (322 words) - 06:12, 1 March 2018
- Much is unknown or disputed about Lewis' early and late life. Sources give her year of birth a ...ine or 12) and then raised by her mother's sisters with the Ojibwa people (or "[[adopted]] by abolitionist parents"), until her brother, a successful gol4 KB (553 words) - 05:06, 27 February 2018
- When Lonewolf's father, Black Turtle, died, he was [[adopted]] by his uncle, Chief [[Lone Wolf II]], also an adoptee. ...[[Washington]], DC, in treaty negotiations with the government. In 1923 he became one of the first Kiowas to be licensed as a preacher for the Methodist chur1 KB (152 words) - 19:26, 16 June 2014
- Mason's father, a white trader, died in 1828 and she was raised by two different missionary families, rather tha She was the main translator of the Bible into Cree. She died of pleurisy shortly after finishing the project.1 KB (132 words) - 16:47, 17 June 2014
- ...son Minik. With no immunity to European diseases, four of the people soon died, and one returned to Greenland, leaving only little Minik. ...make a complete transition, and went back to [[New York]] in 1916. He soon died in the 1918 flu pandemic. He is buried in [[New Hampshire]], but the bodies3 KB (399 words) - 19:49, 3 March 2018
- ..., she was recaptured by the whites, and died in 1864. Parker's father also died about that time, leaving him a teenage orphan. [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]2 KB (275 words) - 00:45, 4 March 2018
- Walker was born Sarah Breedlove and orphaned in 1874 when both her parents died of yellow fever. She was then raised for several years by her older brother ...who was president of her grandmother's company from 1931 (when her mother died) to her own death in 1945.3 KB (379 words) - 19:09, 3 March 2018