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John Wesley Hyatt
John Wesley Hyatt 1837-1920, American inventor, b. Starkey, N.Y. He is known especially for his development of celluloid ; with his brothers, he began its manufacture in 1872. He also invented the Hyatt filter, a means of chemically purifying water while it is in motion; a widely used type of roller bearing; a sugarcane mill superior to any previously used; a sewing machine for making machine belting; and a substitute for ivory in the manufacture of billiard balls and other articles.
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Wesley Person gets help from `daddy Chuck'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 12/31/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...home. "I was slacking off," Wesley said. "He knew that I had...Flash forward 13 years, and Wesley was coming off his third consecutive...Cavaliers. The team's new coach, John Lucas, was looking for ways...t done solely to motivate Wesley, but Lucas doesn't deny it...
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Rethinking Wesley's Theology for Contemporary Methodism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 2/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...help Methodists today? Doesn't John Wesley's location in his own time and...resources of historical theology. The "Wesley for today" project goes back at least as far as Colin Williams's John Wesley's Theology Today: A Study of...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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WESLEY FEELING AT HOME
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 11/7/1993; ; 695 words
; JOHN BRENNAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-07-1993 WESLEY FEELING AT HOME By JOHN BRENNAN, Staff Writer Date: 11-07...Editions -- Sunday Biographical: DAVID WESLEY SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- New Net David...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Wesley's influence still strong
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 6/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and not a few paradoxes -- John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stands...prolific works. But don't mistake John Wesley for a mere historical curiosity...Kenneth J. Collins, author of "John Wesley: A Theological Journey" (Abingdon...
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Susanna Annesley Wesley (1669-1742): A Biography of Strength and Love (The Mother of John and Charles Wesley).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Rogal. Susanna Annesley Wesley (1669-1742):A Biography...Strength and Love (The Mother of John and Charles Wesley). Bristol, Ind.; Wyndham...directly from manuscript sources, John Newton's Susanna Wesley and the Puritan Tradition in...
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John Wesley and the Netherlands
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; John Wesley and the Netherlands. By Johannes van...144pp. $24.65 (cloth). Why would John Wesley, a self-declared Anglican "Arminian...the heartland of Calvinist orthodoxy? John Wesley and the Netherlands explores this question...
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Charles Wesley, A Biography/Charles Wesley: Life, Literature and Legacy
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...many places, discussions of John Wesley, George Whitefield, general...a history of all three men [John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield] and early...similar fate, with a discussion of John Wesley's 1774 call for slave liberation...
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Charles Wesley and the Church of England: A Commemorative Essay
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...characteristics that distinguished Charles Wesley from many of the other Methodists...England. In this respect, John Newton rightly remarked of the younger Wesley: "Charles, then, was much more the stiff high Churchman than John. In this regard, as in others...
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Charles Wesley's Hymns: "Prints" and Practices of Love Divine
Magazine article from: The Hymn; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...American scholars of Charles Wesley's hymnody: S T Kimbrough...the Wesleyan Tradition") and John R. Tyson ("Charles Wesley: An Overview"). One British...struggle among Methodists over John Wesley's doctrine of "free grace...
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Registration of `Wesley' Wheat.
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Stations of South Dakota and Wyoming. Wesley was released for its superior breadmaking...north central Great Plains. The name Wesley recognizes the many contributions...and wheat improvement made by Dr. John Wesley Schmidt during his career as University...
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Wesley Family
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...FAMILY. The Wesley family included John Wesley (1703 – 1791) and his...through the evangelical ministry of John Wesley and Charles Wesley. See also Church...Maser, Frederick E. The Story of John Wesley's Sisters; or, Seven Sisters...
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John Wesley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Wesley The English evangelical clergyman, preacher, and writer John Wesley (1703-1791) was the founder of Methodism...of the spiritual needs of the masses. John Wesley's great achievement was to recognize...
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John Wesley Trial: 1737
Book article from: Great American Trials
John Wesley Trial: 1737 Defendant: John Wesley Plaintiff's Claim: Defamation of Character Defense Lawyer...religious beliefs the early colonies were. Also, the fact that John Wesley fled from and never returned to America may well have influenced...
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Charles Wesley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...preacher Charles Wesley (1707-1788) joined his brother John in starting Methodism...Frank Baker, Charles Wesley as Revealed by His Letters (1948). John E. Rattenbury, The Eucharistic Hymns of John and Charles Wesley (1948), analyzes...
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Wesley, Carter Walker
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...discriminatory white primary. Wesley, a member of the National Association...Negro Publishers Association. Wesley was born in 1892 in Houston...in Muskogee, Oklahoma, with John Atkins, but the pair moved...firm of Nabrit, Atkins, and Wesley. Wesley usually concentrated...
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