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- ...y and he was brought up by a [[guardian]], Proxenus, who sent him to Plato's academy in Athens about 367. He spent 20 years there and eventually founded ThinkQuest Competition Team 18775. "Aristotle's Life." Available at: generationterrorists.com/bio/aristotle.html2 KB (302 words) - 04:04, 24 February 2018
- [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]2 KB (233 words) - 16:06, 19 May 2014
- ...ee years old (his father had disappeared before he was born and his mother died in 1811) and he was fostered (never formally [[adopted]]) by a merchant nam [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]3 KB (369 words) - 05:02, 27 February 2018
- Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. His mother died in 1918 or 1919 during the flu pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be ad Who's Who in America, 19962 KB (287 words) - 22:15, 3 February 2014
- Young, Jeffrey S. The Journey Is the Reward. (Glenview: Scott Foresman Trade, 1988) [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]2 KB (281 words) - 03:55, 5 March 2018
- Monaghan's father died when he was four, and he and his younger brother were put into care by thei ...g pizza parlor in 1960 for $975, which became the foundation of his Domino's Pizza franchise empire.2 KB (227 words) - 13:27, 12 October 2022
- Who's Who in America, 1996 Family Friends or Acquaintances/1 KB (167 words) - 22:51, 11 February 2014
- ...e school when he was 10, and succeeded to the earldom when his grandfather died in 1801. ...he Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846. From 1813 to 1855 he was more or less continuously in politics, in Parliament, and first as a diplomat (for3 KB (387 words) - 06:09, 28 February 2018
- ...Melbourne. She started singing professionally when she was 18 and quickly became well known as a Gilbert and Sullivan, classical opera and concert singer. B [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (200 words) - 18:27, 21 May 2014
- ...naval captain and slave trader and his Creole servant-mistress. His mother died soon after his birth and his father took him home to [[France]], where he w ...ess (he went bankrupt twice and was imprisoned for debt in 1819), and only became famous as a nature artist and naturalist later, after going to Britain and3 KB (385 words) - 06:09, 1 March 2018
- ...th and last child of Johann Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach. His mother died in 1694 and his father in 1695. The nine-year-old [[orphan]] and his brothe ...mposers in history. Just before his 14th birthday, Johann left his brother's family to make his own way in the world, first as a paid chorister in Lüne3 KB (395 words) - 05:53, 1 March 2018
- ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. Her mother died of cancer in 1991. She was then fostered by her coach, Stanislav Koretek, b2 KB (310 words) - 20:12, 3 March 2018
- ...Public Library in 1875 and rose to be chief librarian by 1885. In 1908 he became the first head of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. He wrot Who's Who in Wales, edited by Arthur Mee. (Cardiff: Western Mail, 1921)1 KB (186 words) - 17:51, 28 May 2014
- ...her father was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1936-40. Her mother died shortly after she was born, and she was sent to be raised by her grandparen [[Category: Addiction or Abuse (drugs, Alcohol or Gambling)]]2 KB (324 words) - 04:07, 5 March 2018
- ...8 (at his own farm near Kingsessing, near Philadelphia), now named Bartram's Garden. His fifth son, William, was also a noted naturalist. Bartram was a [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (177 words) - 17:53, 28 May 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 (224 words) - 01:57, 1 March 2018
- ...e was two and her father when she was 12. She then lived with an aunt, who died six months later, and then with an uncle. Her first film was Munkbrogreven "Ingrid Bergman's Biography." [Includes portrait]. Available at: diva.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tito2 KB (238 words) - 01:48, 1 March 2018
- ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After3 KB (471 words) - 17:10, 17 June 2014
- ...judge named John Green. With him on the same train was Andrew Burke, who became his good friend and was later governor of [[North Dakota]]. ...established a school for Native Alaskan children. He left the ministry and became active in the logging industry. He was appointed territorial governor in 183 KB (457 words) - 06:05, 1 March 2018
- Bradford was born into a well-off family in Yorkshire, but his father died in 1591. His mother remarried in 1593 and William was then raised by his gr [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]2 KB (288 words) - 17:33, 14 May 2014
- [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1,014 B (123 words) - 04:25, 26 February 2018
- ...s that he could heal other people, but it was not really recognized by him or others until he was in his late 20s, when he attended a spiritualist church [[Category: Multiple or Unspecified]]1 KB (183 words) - 16:13, 27 May 2014
- ...when he was actively homosexual, but was also married and had a family. He died of AIDS. Who's Who in America, 19962 KB (266 words) - 06:34, 28 February 2018
- ...d]] by an uncle in [[Pennsylvania]]. He graduated from college in 1794 and became a teacher, and was licensed by the Presbyterian church to preach in 1799. H [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (141 words) - 19:24, 3 March 2018
- ...irth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which sent him on an Orphan Train to Noblesville, Indiana, whe ...boy. After marriage, Burke and his wife settled in North Dakota, where he became successively a bookkeeper, bank cashier, county treasurer of Cass County, a2 KB (238 words) - 03:56, 24 February 2018
- ...flat in Islington, London. Her childhood was happy in spite of her father's alcoholism. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]1 KB (196 words) - 18:43, 28 May 2014
- ...adult, he was described as the richest man in the world) - and his mother died in 1859. He was sent to Harrow, where he won prizes for English and Latin v ...rt to Catholicism, and was the model for the central character in Disraeli's novel Lothair.2 KB (274 words) - 17:56, 28 May 2014
- ...portrait.jpg/479px-Robert_Byrd_official_portrait.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''U.S. Senator Robert Byrd of [[West Virginia]], 2005'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.o Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. His mother died in 1918 or 1919 during the flu pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be [[2 KB (350 words) - 04:44, 4 March 2018
- ...ent coming of the Messiah, and moved to Cairo, then Tripolitania, where he became personal physician to Osman Pasha, the bey of Tripoli. When Rabbi Nathan of ...this important and interesting episode in Jewish history we owe to Cardozo's published books and surviving letters.3 KB (438 words) - 20:15, 14 May 2014
- Cerullo was born the fifth child of a Jewish family but his mother died when he was very young and his father placed him in an Orthodox orphanage. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]2 KB (246 words) - 19:52, 3 March 2018
- ...facts seem to be that her father was a wastrel and a vagabond, her mother died in 1895, and Gabrielle and a sister were then abandoned in an [[orphanage]] "Michael Moffa's Tribute to the Legendary House of Chanel: Coco Chanel Biography." [Includes2 KB (362 words) - 06:01, 28 February 2018
- ...to help save time in her expanding business empire, and she got her pilot's license in 1932 (it took her only two days to go solo and 20 to get her lic ...ld more speed and altitude records than any other person in the world, man or woman.3 KB (475 words) - 01:54, 1 March 2018
- The story he told of himself was that he became bar mitzvah at 13, studied for the rabbinate and was ordained. ...n their Jewish identity and religious practices. He was soon converted and became an evangelist himself, preaching to other Jews. He studied at a Christian s3 KB (473 words) - 19:00, 3 March 2018
- Commager was orphaned as a child and raised by his mother's father in Toledo and Chicago. He became a famous college professor, teaching at New York University, Columbia Unive925 B (125 words) - 06:56, 28 February 2018
- [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: War or Persecution]]1 KB (188 words) - 06:19, 1 March 2018
- Cornwell was born Patricia Daniels to a married couple. When she was five or seven (sources differ) her father abandoned the family for another woman. H [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]2 KB (354 words) - 20:23, 3 March 2018
- ...rktown (1781), George and Martha adopted his six children (that is, Martha's grandchildren), including young George [[Washington]] Parke and Nelly Custi ...ok of recipes and formulae which in many way parallels the work of Britain's Mrs. Beeton.3 KB (362 words) - 06:18, 28 February 2018
- ...dia/commons/6/6f/Portrait_de_Dante.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Dante Alighieri's portrait by Sandro Botticelli'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]2 KB (242 words) - 04:24, 26 February 2018
- Davies' father died when he was a child and when his mother remarried he was [[adopted]] by his ...Adoption/Fostering when Parent Began New Relationship, Conflict With Step-parent]]1 KB (170 words) - 17:33, 14 May 2014
- ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After3 KB (471 words) - 18:18, 28 May 2014
- Dean was born to a married couple but when his mother died of cancer in 1940 his father sent him to [[Indiana]] to live with his grand ...t a cause, the angry youth of the post-war period, the first teenagers. He died in an automobile accident.2 KB (234 words) - 02:04, 1 March 2018
- [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (172 words) - 16:02, 19 May 2014
- ...lrichs, who was shunned by her family for marrying beneath her. His mother died only six days after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the cust ...ent back to live with his remarried father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and made h2 KB (220 words) - 17:09, 2 June 2014
- ...His mother died of childbirth fever days after he was born, and his father died in 1547, leaving Edward King of England at the age of 9. His [[guardian]] and Lord Protector was his mother's brother, Edward Seymour, who initially controlled the country, but he was o2 KB (302 words) - 06:24, 27 February 2018
- ...War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. ...ell. David Glasgow Farragut: Courageous Navy Commander. (Chicago: Children's Press, 1991) (People of Distinction Biographies)2 KB (284 words) - 04:27, 26 February 2018
- ...er of prophecy. When his training was complete he went up to the High King's palace and was made leader of the Fianna. ...ser Barbarossa and King [[Arthur]]. He is credited with building the Giant's Causeway between [[Ireland]] and Scotland.2 KB (333 words) - 06:56, 27 February 2018
- ...t of Latter-day Saints]] (Mormons) five months after her birth. Her mother died in 1855 and her father was then sent away on church work, so until she was ...he [[Utah]] Women's Press Club, and a local Republican Party official. She died aged 104.2 KB (318 words) - 04:57, 4 March 2018
- ...739 and his father in 1740), raised in Swansea and educated in Bristol. He became a Baptist minister in England and wrote a number of poems and hymns, many o [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]835 B (109 words) - 18:44, 15 May 2014
- Frelinghuysen, whose father died when he was three, was the birth nephew and adoptive son of Theodore Frelin [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]1 KB (185 words) - 07:15, 27 February 2018
- In early adulthood he became an ardent abolitionist and spent the decades fighting slavery, dedicating h [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]3 KB (442 words) - 04:31, 5 March 2018
- Gaskell's mother died before she was one month old, and she was raised partly by an aunt, but her [[Category: Other or Unknown Reasons for Serial Placement]]1 KB (147 words) - 06:34, 27 February 2018
- ...; but his influence on English literature, particularly through the Beggar's Opera, has been considerable. Bear, Richard. "The Beggar's Opera: John Gay: Transcribed, with an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography1 KB (190 words) - 06:04, 1 March 2018
- ...ee sons born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Minsk. Their father died in 1918 in the flu pandemic. When their mother remarried her new husband in ...d the idea, and The Producers, 1968, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, became an instant and permanent cult comedy classic and won Brooks an Oscar; the B4 KB (583 words) - 04:17, 5 March 2018
- ...ee sons born in Philadelphia to Jewish immigrants from Minsk. Their father died in 1918 in the flu pandemic. When their mother remarried her new husband in ...d the idea, and The Producers, 1968, starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, became an instant and permanent cult comedy classic and won Brooks an Oscar; the B4 KB (585 words) - 03:47, 5 March 2018
- ...muel_Goldwyn_001.jpg/392px-Samuel_Goldwyn_001.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''1914 or earlier'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ess. As a movie mogul he worked hard for a number of charities. In 1947 he became the only Hollywood producer to publicly condemn the witch-hunts US House of1 KB (207 words) - 16:43, 14 May 2014
- ...rmers near Johannesburg, and had two born-to children. His adoptive father died when he was eight. His relationship with his mother was never very satisfac [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]2 KB (222 words) - 05:00, 27 February 2018
- Another source says that his mother died when he was five. His alcoholic father sent him and his three siblings to l [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]2 KB (218 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2014
- ...s mother moved to London to remarry. He probably never saw his father, who died/was murdered before 1907. ...erican culture and in 1906, aged 17/18 he emigrated to [[Canada]] where he became a fur trapper. He married five times, not always bothering to divorce his c4 KB (576 words) - 06:28, 28 February 2018
- Hoover's father died when he was six and his mother when he was nine. He and his brother and sis ...sion on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. In 1921 he became secretary of commerce under Harding and held the same post under Coolidge.2 KB (347 words) - 07:00, 28 February 2018
- ...born in [[Germany]] to a married couple. When he was one or two his mother died of cancer and his father, unable to cope alone, left him in an [[orphanage] [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]2 KB (232 words) - 18:19, 28 May 2014
- ...d also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler family, who became his parents until 1823. ...ay Saints]] (Mormons) in 1831. From 1832 he held offices in the church. He became an apostle at the age of 30. In 1838 he was excommunicated, but was reinsta3 KB (416 words) - 20:18, 3 March 2018
- He became archbishop of Seville in about 600, succeeding his brother. He was famous f [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]2 KB (304 words) - 01:49, 1 March 2018
- ...and Anna Ivanovna's nephew. She died the following day, and the baby Ivan became Czar of all the Russians. [[Russia]] was effectively ruled by his mother, ...ren were born, but Ivan was separated from his parents in 1744. His mother died in 1746.3 KB (379 words) - 01:50, 1 March 2018
- ...ackson.jpg/413px-Stonewall_Jackson.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''General Jackson's "Chancellorsville" Portrait, taken at a Spotsylvania County farm on April 2 ...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 a2 KB (336 words) - 17:22, 14 May 2014
- Jenkins' birth parents both died when he was young in Liverpool (father in 1887 and mother in 1888) and he w [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (153 words) - 20:27, 2 June 2014
- ...a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother also died when he was a boy. He contracted tuberculosis as a child and as a teenager ...rk. He also became a communist and later went to live in the USSR where he became an associate and translator of Lenin.2 KB (253 words) - 19:49, 19 March 2018
- ...she began to have visions. In 1206 she was professed as a nun. In 1230 she became superior of the convent but there was considerable opposition, and she was [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]1,019 B (141 words) - 18:27, 28 May 2014
- ...randmother, when he was not at boarding school. Very soon after his father died his mother remarried, but it was a disaster and she and the children ran aw ...o become one of the greatest poets of the English language, even though he died very young.2 KB (258 words) - 06:11, 1 March 2018
- ...d by her parents, although she returned in a year or two, while his father died in the war. ...dained as a Lutheran pastor, and trained at the seminary in Tübingen, but became sidetracked by mathematics and astronomy (he also had disagreements with so3 KB (517 words) - 05:54, 1 March 2018
- ...when he was four. His father, a policeman who had been a member of Hitler's SS, was a violent man who abused the boy so badly that he was taken to an [ ...ed and he was himself was seriously wounded. He escaped to [[Algeria]] but became disillusioned in 1977 and left the movement, providing anti-terrorist infor2 KB (243 words) - 06:33, 28 February 2018
- ...uppertsdorf [[orphanage]], and spent the rest of his childhood in children's homes. ...as caught and sent to prison for a short time, and when he was released he became a media celebrity and opened a gallery of forgeries in Stuttgart and anothe2 KB (327 words) - 04:15, 3 March 2018
- ...en. His father deserted the family while he was still young and his mother died in 1890, leaving his sister to raise the family. Young Frank was placed in [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (175 words) - 07:07, 27 February 2018
- ...e, and his father was an alcoholic. At seven he went to live with an uncle's family, and stayed with them until he was sixteen. ...ophet Joseph Smith's home. Smith's martyrdom in 1844 only strengthened Lee's commitment. He took another five wives following the 1843 promulgation of t4 KB (602 words) - 06:03, 1 March 2018
- ...leaving her in Britain with a relative who ran a girls' school. Her father died soon afterwards and she did not see her mother again until she was 15. Her story, at great variance with the Thai version, became famous in the book Anna and the King of Siam and the musical The King and I2 KB (304 words) - 16:15, 15 May 2014
- ...rktown (1781), George and Martha adopted his six children (that is, Martha's grandchildren), including young George [[Washington]] Parke and Nelly Custi ...ok of recipes and formulae which in many way parallels the work of Britain's Mrs. Beeton.3 KB (393 words) - 06:27, 27 February 2018
- Lloyd's parents died when he was nine and he was then raised by relatives. [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (149 words) - 20:54, 20 May 2014
- ...of his childhood was spent in a succession of foster homes and/or children's homes (sources differ) and he was very unhappy. He ran away several times, [[Category: Parent(s) Left Home, Leaving Child Behind]]2 KB (288 words) - 06:38, 28 February 2018
- His 60-plus books include Of Human Bondage, Razor's Edge, The Narrow Corner, Catalina, The Magician, The Casuarina Tree and The ...Lorin. Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham. ([[New York]]: St. Martin's Press, 1992)1 KB (186 words) - 17:16, 17 June 2014
- ...rotestantism, although she returned to the Catholic church just before she died a few years later. ...testants, but McAuley converted both of them to Catholicism. When Callahan died in 1822 shortly after his wife, she was left his entire fortune.2 KB (308 words) - 16:03, 19 May 2014
- Gelderman, Carol W. Mary McCarthy: A Life. ([[New York]]: St. Martin's Press, 1989) [[Category: Multiple or Unspecified]]2 KB (269 words) - 20:45, 28 May 2014
- McCarthy's mother died when he was 10 and his father when he was 14. Relatives then sent him to bo ...ed in the NZ Army, where he was appointed a military judge, and in 1956 he became a civilian judge, presiding at the trial of the last man to be executed in1 KB (200 words) - 17:04, 17 June 2014
- McKenzie's mother committed suicide and his alcoholic father was unable to care for hi [[Category: Parental Illness (Mental or Physical), Addiction]]2 KB (246 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2018
- ...432px-Steve_McQueen_1959.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''McQueen in ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'', 1959'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ful for its help in turning him around. (He frequently visited it after he became famous, and left it $200,000 in his will.) He joined his mother in [[New Yo3 KB (405 words) - 03:56, 5 March 2018
- ...iously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). ...sas found the entire incident corroborated in Typee oral history. Melville's other novels include Omoo, and Moby-Dick, often considered the finest novel2 KB (310 words) - 20:20, 13 May 2014
- Memminger was born in [[Germany]]. His father died soon after his birth and his mother and grandparents emigrated to the USA s ...] state legislature, 1836-52 and 1854-60. In 1854 he reorganized the state's educational [[system]]. During the Civil War he served as a delegate to the2 KB (316 words) - 03:57, 26 February 2018
- ...d side-kick of Syr Wynff ap Concorde the Boss. He was raised in a children's home in Llan Ffestiniog, North Wales, from the age of six until 17. He and [[Category: Parental Illness (Mental or Physical), Addiction]]1 KB (210 words) - 20:59, 28 May 2014
- Monaghan's father died when he was four, and he and his younger brother were put into care by thei ...g pizza parlor in 1960 for $975, which became the foundation of his Domino's Pizza franchise empire.2 KB (260 words) - 04:14, 5 March 2018
- ...s, but Bill lived first with his father's brother and then with his mother's brother, Pendleton Vanderver, who was also a considerable influence on his ...d a team of dancers and also played music on local radio stations. In 1934 or 35 they were sponsored by a laxative manufacturer to go on tour, but Birch3 KB (436 words) - 04:32, 5 March 2018
- Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island and her mother died when she was two. Her father left her to be raised by very strict grandpare ...join her father and step-mother, but it broke down, due to the step-mother's cruelty. Her early years and love of PEI shaped her literary life: her most2 KB (312 words) - 19:06, 3 March 2018
- He became an entertainment and media tycoon. He and his wife founded the Miss World p Who's Who, 1997951 B (131 words) - 06:38, 27 February 2018
- ...as born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen on the island of Lolland. His father died in 1899 and his mother in 1903. He was then adopted by the Munk family. [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]2 KB (220 words) - 04:10, 3 March 2018
- ...other that he was raised by his father and a housekeeper until his father's death, when he went to the [[orphanage]]. He was fostered in 1860 and adopt ...er company, from which he made a large fortune. In 1876 he married Bennett's daughter, Mary. Principal beneficiaries of his philanthropy were The Citade2 KB (276 words) - 03:55, 24 February 2018
- ...na and orphaned as a child. His father was murdered in 1867 and his mother died the next year, and the sadness and unhappiness of his childhood colored his [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (179 words) - 20:38, 21 May 2014
- ...no interest in the now destitute child, and she was fostered by her father's cousin, Lady Betty Fownes, although she spent most of her time at boarding ...and gossip (they dressed in men's clothing) were soon overcome, and Butler's independent income enabled them to be local benefactors of the poor and to3 KB (391 words) - 05:09, 4 March 2018
- Pryse's mother died when he was four and his father when he was 11. He and his four brothers an [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (196 words) - 20:24, 2 June 2014
- She became an actress herself, appearing (as Katherine DeMille) in 27 films from 1931 [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]1 KB (154 words) - 18:42, 28 May 2014
- ...bridge, near Edinburgh, the son of a well-to-do lawyer and businessman. He became an orphan when he was six, and was then raised by his much older brother. A [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (173 words) - 16:37, 22 May 2014
- ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After3 KB (475 words) - 19:53, 13 May 2014
- Rousseau's mother died a few days after he was born (in [[Switzerland]]) and he was then raised by .... He ran away from his apprenticeship to an engraver after three years and became secretary and companion to a wealthy and sympathetic woman.3 KB (388 words) - 05:29, 1 March 2018
- ...en she was seven her father committed suicide, after losing all the family's money to a confidence man, and Julia and her older sister discovered his bo [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]1 KB (167 words) - 04:07, 3 March 2018
- ...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