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John A. Bolding (fugitive slave)

John A. Bolding (approximately 1824 – April 30, 1876) was an African American tailor and former slave who became an influential figure in Poughkeepsie, New York. His story is a remarkable example of community support and the fight against the injustices of slavery during a critical period in American history.
==Early Life==
John A. Bolding was born into the horrors of slavery in approximately 1824 in South Carolina, as slaves were not allowed to know the exact day or month they were born. With the aid of the Underground Railroad, he arrived in Poughkeepsie, New York, around 1840, where he began working as a tailor at 4 Liberty Street alongside fellow African American tailor Francis J. Moore. His skills and work ethic earned him a reputation in the town, and locals patronized his shop for their tailoring needs.
==Marriage and Abduction==
In 1851, Bolding married a woman named Henrietta and intended to start a family. Tragically, a fellow South Carolinian woman recognized him and sent word to his owner, Robert C. Anderson, resulting in his arrest. U.S. Marshall James Tallmadge, a local man, forcibly seized Bolding and transported him to New York City for trial.
New York City Commissioner Nelson ruled that Bolding was indeed a slave, and he was returned to Anderson's custody.
==Community Response==
As outlined in a journal kept by John S. Grubb; 178 individual citizens and families of Poughkeepsie, outraged by Bolding's arrest, raised funds to secure his release. A committee was formed, and the locals raised over $1,000, with additional funds coming from Albany and New York City. Within a week, Anderson's demands were met, and John Bolding returned to Poughkeepsie as a free man.
==Later Life and Memorial==
According to notes taken from Grubb's notebook, John Bolding remarried a woman named Nellie at some point. Bolding continued to work as a tailor until his death on April 30, 1876, at the age of 52. Mrs. Nellie Bolding lived at 129 Pine Street until at least 1883, when she was last mentioned as having moved to 8 North Bridge Street. 
Although Mr. Bolding selected his own place of burial for over 122 years, his resting place remained unmemorialized, a common practice at the time, quite possibly because members of certain secret societies, such as the Ku Klux Klan, would remove what are historically beautiful and lasting reminders of black lives. 
However, in a testament to his lasting legacy, the citizens of Poughkeepsie memorialized his life and odyssey with a bronze memorial, unveiled on May 16, 1998, at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.
==Legacy==
John A. Bolding's life is a poignant reminder of the struggles faced by African Americans during the era of slavery and the profound impact that community support can have in the fight against injustice. His story is a point of active research and continues to resonate as a symbol of resilience, perseverance, and the triumph of humanity over adversity.
Category:People from South Carolina
Category:American people
Category:Tailors	
Category:Former slaves
Category:1876 deaths
John Albert Bolivar

John Albert Bolivar (Born July 21, 1945) is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist with a career spanning more than 40 years.
Bolivar was born July 21, 1945, in Houston, Texas. He is the second of eight children to Clarence Bolivar, Jr. and Elnora (nee. Chevalier) Bolivar. Many of his siblings also entered the music industry, including saxophonist Michael Bolivar. Bolivar began playing woodwinds as a child, influenced by other Houston musicians including Hubert Laws, who also grew up in Houston. Today, Bolivar plays more than 15 instruments in total. After graduating from Evan Worthing High School, he studied music in the Air Force band and attended San Jose State University and Los Angeles City College. Bolivar was also an airmain first class in the United States airforce.
Today, Bolivar resides in Palm Desert, Calif., and frequently performs at Wally's Desert Turtle, Pete Carlson's Jazz for Jazz Lovers Series and Woody's Palm House. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Palm Springs Walk of Stars.
==Recordings==
His first solo album was released in 1988 titled Bolivar on Optimism Records. He teamed up with jazz pianist Billy Mitchell for several albums including Billy Mitchell/John Bolivar – Live – All Night Long (1994) on USA Records, HiStory of the Blues Vol. 1–3 with Joseph Bonner (2014), and Joy To Our World with Joseph Bonner (1997) on Akashic Records.
Bolivar has also been a featured performer on several albums led and produced by Billy Mitchell including Blue City Jam (1984), Night Theme (1987), Cheryl (1987) and Faces (1989).
Category:1945 births
Category:People from Houston, Texas	
Category:American jazz saxophonists
Category:Flautists
John Alexander (filmmaker)

John Alexander is an Emmy winning filmmaker from the United States. He directed PBS documentary "Little Satchmo," on Louis Armstrong's secret daughter, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary (Southeast, 2023). Prior to Little Satchmo, Alexander directed multi-award winning feature documentary This Is Love about soul singer Rudy Love, which was executive produced by Mick Fleetwood. His directorial feature debut was 2017 cult thriller Bender, featuring Oscar-nominee Bruce Davison. Alexander is the founder and co-owner of Crook & Nanny Productionshttp://www.crooknnanny.com/ with JC Guest.
Category:Emmy Award winners
Category:Filmmakers
Category:American people
John Alexander (filmmaker) (2)

John Alexander is an Emmy-winning filmmaker from the United States. He directed Little Satchmo., distributed by PBS, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary (Southeast, 2023). Prior to Little Satchmo, Alexander directed feature documentary This Is Love about soul singer Rudy Love, which was executive produced by Mick Fleetwood. His directorial feature debut was 2017 cult thriller Bender, featuring Oscar-nominee Bruce Davison. Alexander is the founder and co-owner of Crook & Nanny Productionshttp://www.crooknnanny.com/ with JC Guest
Category:Emmy Award winners
Category:American people
Category:Documentary film awards
John Allen (internet personality)

John Allen, known professionally as MrBallen, is a YouTube and Tiktok Internet celebrity, former United States Navy SEALs, and Purple Heart recipient. He is best-known for narrating paranormal and true crime stories on his TikTok and YouTube channels. Allen graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and English.
In 2010, Allen enlisted in the United States Navy and was medically retired in 2017. Inspired by his own difficulties transitioning into civilian life, in 2017 Allen co-founded Elite Meet, an organization that helps military veterans find civilian employment, with Jordan Selleck, CEO and founder of 51 Labs. Allen served as CEO of Elite Meet from 2017 to 2020.
Allen started Operators Association, an organization that consults with individuals on how to successfully gain entrance into the United States special operations forces such as Navy SEALs, United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets), and Army Rangers, co-founding it with Zack Hughes, who is CEO. Allen lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three kids.
Category:American YouTubers
Category:American TikTokers
John Angami

John Angami (14 September 1916 - 15 September 1985) commonly known as Po John was an Indian contractor. He served as the first President of the "Southern Angami Council" in 1944 and was a prominent figure in Naga Polity and the Southern Angami Region. He was the founder of the John Higher Secondary School at Viswema, the third oldest school in Nagaland. 
==Early Life==
John Angami was born on 14 September 1916 to an Angami Naga family from Viswema Village in the Southern Angami Region. He grew up in Thevoma Khel of Khonoma Village with his aunt Mrs. Shreno and worked as a contractor in the NH-39 and was posted at Zubza. Subsequently he moved back to Viswema where he settled down permanently. 
==Career==
===John Higher Secondary School===
On 5 March 1945, John founded the John Higher Secondary School in Viswema Village. The John Angami Award for meritorious students is awarded to toppers of the NBSE HSLC from the school annually.
===Naga Freedom Struggle===
He was a member of the Naga delegation to Delhi to meet Mahatma Gandhi on 19 July 1947, just a few days prior to India's Independence. It was a eleven-member delegation comprising of T. Sakhrie, A.Z. Phizo, Khriesaneisa, Kughato, Kezehol Pusa, John Angami, Lhousituo and others. Gandhiji appreciated and acknowledged John for wearing a hand woven Angami Shawl following his campaign of Swadeshi. 
He served as Acting President of the NNC for a short term in between the Presidency of Visar Viswento Angami and A.Z. Phizo.
==Personal Life==
He was married to Nosachole John and together they had 6 sons and 2 daughters. He was a very close family associate of Vizol Angami who also briefly served as a teacher in John's school. He was also a close associate of Charles Pawsey along with whom he set up Hydro Project for electricity generation at Kehoru, Jakhama and Kigwema.
Category:1916 births
Category:Indian people
Category:1985 deaths
John Antonucci (2)

John Antonucci (born February 4, 1954) is a third-generation wholesale food and beverage distributor from Youngstown, Ohio. He is most known for his brief tenure as principal owner and managing partner of the Colorado Rockies, a Major League Baseball expansion team.
In 1984, Antonucci became CEO of what is now Superior Beverage Group (formerly Superior Wholesale Grocery Company). He is currently chairman emeritus of the beer and wine distribution company. Superior Beverage was started by his grandfather (Marion) and father (Jack) and remains a private family-owned wholesale business.
Antonucci, his business partner and friend Mickey Monus founded the World Basketball League (WBL).
Antonucci and his father Jack, and Monus and his father Nathan, were original investors and inaugural majority owners of the Colorado Rockies MLB expansion team before scandal forced them to sell their stake in the franchise.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1991/02/21/recovered-from-rocky-start-denver-climbs-back-into-race/74f10eb4-e069-49de-8edf-e03634c612f2/ Denver Post sports writer Woody Paige referred to Monus and Antonucci as a "couple of drugstore cowboys" in regard to their prospective ownership of the Rockies.
Several years after relinquishing the team, Antonucci and Monus were featured in the PBS Frontline documentary "How to Steal 500 Million Dollars".https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/how-to-steal-500-million/
John was born to Jack and Eleanor Antonucci. He and his wife Marsha live in Bentleyville, Ohio in a home formerly owned by Stouffer hotel group executive William Hulett. John and Marsha have three daughters (Jessica, Stacey and Lauren).
Category:1954 births
Category:Food retailers
Category:beverage distributor retailers
Category:People from Youngstown, Ohio
John Arabin

John L. Arabin (28th December 1794 – March 1863) was a listed Magistrate and justice of the peace for County Dublin and served as Lord Mayor of Dublin City Council from 1845 to 1846.
==Life==
John was a member of the Liberal Party. He was elected to Dublin City Council in October 1842, was elected lord mayor in 1844 and took office in 1845. In September 1845 he chaired a meeting of the Dublin Anti-Slavery Society at which Frederick Douglass spoke while on tour in Ireland. 
==Death==
He died at the age of 63 from an asthma attack in 1863, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
Category:Irish people
Category:1794 births
Category:1863 deaths
John Atwill

Sir Milton John Napier Atwill was an Australian barrister, who was president of the Liberal Party of Australia between 1975 and 1982.
==Early life, education and military service==
Atwill was born in 1926, the son of Milton Spencer Atwill and Isobel Caroline Cavaye. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Sydney, Geelong Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force between 1944 and 1945.
==Professional and political career==
Atwill practiced as a barrister between 1953 and 1973, being called to bar in New South Wales and a member of Gray's Inn.
He was treasurer of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|NSW Division of the Liberal Party between 1989 and 1969, president 1970 to 1975 and federal president 1975 to 1982.
Category:1926 births
Category:Australian barristers
John B. Hymer

John Bard Hymer (1875-1953) was an actor and playwright in the U.S. He collaborated with Samuel Shipman on plays including East is West (1918), which was twice adapted to film, Crime, and Scarlet Pages, also adapted to film.
In 1906 he had a part in The Clansman] play. He and his stock company performed "Tom Walker in Dixie" in Sacramento in 1920.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200419.2.54&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
Colony House in the Lakewood Theatre Colony in Maine was built for him.
His son Warren Hymer became a film actor.
==Theater==
*East Is West (1918)
*Tom Walker in Dixie (1919)
*Aloma of the South Seas (1925) with LeRoy Clemens
*Alias the Deacon (1925)
*Crime (1927)
*Fast Life (1928)
*Scarlet Pages (1929)
*Happy Landing (1932)
*A Lady Detained (1935)
==Filmography==
*East Is West (1922 film)
*Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
*Alias the Deacon (1927)
*Fast Life (1929)
*East Is West (1930)
*Scarlet Pages] (1930)
*Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
== External links ==
* John B. Hymer on IMDb
==References==
Category:Actors
Category:American actors
Category:American male actors
Category:Dramatists and playwrights
Category:American dramatists and playwrights
Category:American writers
Category:Writers
Category:1875 births
Category:1953 deaths
John Bakewell Jr.

John Bakewell Jr. (1872–1963) was an American architect, based in San Francisco. With Arthur Brown Jr., he formed the architectural firm of Bakewell and Brown, which designed many San Francisco Bay Area landmarks. Following the dissolution of Bakewell and Brown in 1927, Bakewell formed the new partnership of Bakewell & Weihe with longtime employee Ernest Weihe.
==Notable Work==
* California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1926-1928
* San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA, 1912-1915
* Berkeley City Hall, now the Maudelle Shirek Building, Berkeley, CA, 1908-1909
* Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company, Offices, 1910		
* San Francisco Housing Authority, Potrero Terrace Housing Development, San Francisco, CA, 1941-1942
* San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, War Memorial Veterans' Building, San Francisco, CA, 1922-1932
* John D. Sloat Monument, Monterey, CA, 1907
* At Stanford University:
** John Henry Meyer House, Menlo Park, CA, 1920. Now used as the Stanford Provost's residence.
** Stanford University student housing, 1922-1923
** Stanford Eating Clubs, 1923
** Encina Gymnasium, 1915
** Cecil H. Green Library, 1919
** Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, Hoover Tower, 1940-1941
** Stanford Memorial Auditorium, 1937
** Stanford Stadium, 1921
** "Old Union" student union, 1915
** Stanford University student housing, 1922-1923
* Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco), CA, 1926
* 50 United Nations Plaza Federal Office Building (San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, 1936
* W.C. Van Antwerp House ("Danvers House"), Burlingame, CA
==References==
==External Links==
* John Bakewell Jr. at the Pacific Coast Architecture Database
* John Bakewell Jr. at archINFORM.
Category:American architects
Category:Beaux Arts architects
Category:Mediterranean Revival architecture
Category:1872 births
Category:1963 deaths
Category:American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
Category:Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
John Bankett

John C. N. Bankett was a newspaper editor, columnist and politician in Indiana. He edited the Indianapolis World.
In 1924 he was the first African American to be nominated by the Democrst Party for a sest in the Indiana General Assembly. The Indianapolis Recorder published his photo in 1937. In 1938 he wrote an article titled "The European Situation". In 1958 he was a congressional candidate.
Category:Newspaper editors
Category:Columnists
Category:Indiana politicians
John Bellissimo

John Bellissimo (July 8,1951-July 1,1999) was a noted entertainment photographer whose work combined photojournalism with a sense of creative craftsmanship. His photographs have appeared in countless magazines, newspapers, books, and albums as well as on televisions worldwide. A native of Brooklyn and a long-time music fanatic, Bellissimo first started shooting photos in 1968 while still in high school, turning professional a year later when he sold his first photographs of The Who at the Village Theater to Changes Magazine, one of the major breeding grounds of rock’n’ roll photographers.
 
By 1970, at the age of 18, Bellissimo had dropped-out in his Freshman year at the Fashion Institute of Technology to begin his photography career full-time, traveling with bands such as E.L.P., Humble Pie, Ten Years After, and many more. Bellissimo joined the staff of Changes as photo editor, and during that time, he became a fixture of the legendary Fillmore East and Ungano’s on West 72nd Street. He also covered major events of the era such as Woodstock, The Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter Tour as a tour photographer for opening act B.B. King and the Concert for Bangladesh. At 21-years-old, he toured domestically and abroad with acts such as Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Humble Pie, Peter Frampton, J. Geils Band, Traffic, King Crimson, and T. Rex, taking photos throughout.
 
In the years following, his work has been published in publications including Time, Newsweek, People, New York Magazine, Esquire and many more. His photos have also appeared in scores of music publications, major metropolitan daily newspapers and a host of publications throughout Europe, South America and Japan. He shot album covers for the likes of Elvin Bishop, Chaka Khan, Triumph and more. Bellissimo also served as a tour photographer for David Bowie, Yes, Bad Company, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Mott the Hoople, Ten Years After, Cyndi Lauper and others.
 
Along with his iconic portraits and concert shots, Bellissimo’s photos of lighting designs taken during the disco boom of the late 1970s have been added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. His work can also be seen in a permanent display at the Museum of Rock Art in Los Angeles. Bellissimo’s photographs have been exhibited and sold by the Zoma/Radius Gallery in Manhattan and have been included in books such as Rock Stars by Timothy White. Bellissimo has also worked with MTV as a major photographic contributor to the channel’s music news. Along with fellow photographer Ebet Roberts, Bellissimo was also the New York representative for the American Music Photographer society (AMPS).
 
John Bellissimo lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, collecting Pez candy dispensers during his frequent travels until his passing on July 1, 1999. Following his unexpected passing just days before his 48th birthday, John’s catalogue of work was locked away in storage, being unearthed now for the first time in over 24-years.
Category:Photographers
Category:1951 births
Category:1999 deaths
John Bisognano

John Bisognano is the President of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) and its affiliates, the National Redistricting Foundation and the National Redistricting Action Fund, which were founded by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Before serving as the organization's president, Bisognano was the Executive Director. He joined the committee in 2017.
==Career==
Bisognano began his career in politics as
an organizer on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
In 2011, Bisognano worked at the Democratic National Committee as a Regional Political Director. He then served as a Political Director and Communications Advisor for Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
In 2013, Bisognano served as the Executive Director of the Association of State Democratic Chairs at the Democratic National Committee.
In 2015, Bisognano served as the White House Associate Director of Public Engagement. In this role, he helped to organize national coalitions around issues such as raising the minimum wage.
In 2016, Bisognano served as the Director of the New Hampshire Democratic Party's 2016 coordinated campaign.
Bisognano also serves on the board of the National Immigration Law Center's Immigrant Justice Fund, and is a Truman National Security Fellow.
Before politics, Bisognano worked in baseball as the Visiting Clubhouse Manager for the Pawtucket Red Sox.
==Personal life==
Bisognano is a Massachusetts native. He holds a B.A. and MBA from Providence College.
Category:Democratic Party presidents of the United States
Category:American people
Category:Providence College alumni
John Bogdasarian

John Bogdasarian is a well-known American entrepreneur, real estate developer, and donor. He founded the real estate private equity firm Promanashttp://Promanas.com, which has acquired and developed over $1 billion in commercial real estate. He started his career as a residential sales agent shortly after graduating from the University of Arizona. He became a top producing agent in the United States and began buying investment properties in his early twenties. He is most known from his book, "Do the Work Once, Get Paid Forever."
John resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, Lindsay, and their four children.
==Education==
John attended the Loomis Chaffee School as well as the University of Arizona.
==Media==
John has been featured in Forbes, Total Prestige Magazine, Ann Arbor Observer, and various news agencies in the cities he develops in. 
Category:American people
Category:University of Arizona alumni
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Real estate and property developers
John Bown

John Bown (1 July 1934, Dorset, UK – 5 November 2017) was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. He was best known for playing Commander Neil Stafford in the final season of the TV series Doomwatch.
==Biography== 
Trained at LAMDA and after went into repertory in Salisbury and Birmingham. In the 1960s, he directed and wrote the screenplay for the short film North West Confidential and the feature film Monique. After Bown was planning his next project titled Hey, You!, but could not find the backing for it. He resumed acting.. From 1976 to 1979 he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
==Filmography==
===Actor===
* Tunes of Glory (1960) as One of the Other Officers
* Out of the Fog (1962) as Herb Bailey
* Master Spy (1963) as John Baxter
* Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) as Antodus
* Quatermass and the Pit (1967) as TV Interviewer (uncredited)
* The Devil Rides Out (1968) as Receptionist (uncredited)
* Vampire Circus (1972) as Schilt
* Fear in the Night (1972) as 1st Policeman
* Dark Corners (2006) as Old Man
===Director and screenwriter===
* North West Confidential (1969)
* Monique (1970)
Category:1934 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:British film actors
Category:British television actors
Category:British stage actors
Category:People from Dorset