1810s Births - Kaspar Hauser, William Leidesdorff, Samuel Parkes, Sarah A. Bowman, John Perry Robinson, Little Crow, Polly Berry (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Kaspar Hauser, William Leidesdorff, Samuel Parkes, Sarah A. Bowman, John Perry Robinson, Little Crow, Polly Berry, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Terence MacManus, William McCary, Andrew Blackbird, Joseph Cinque, Ali II of Yejju, Marco Arati, Harry Hall, Emily D. West, Emil Todt, Smohalla, Josephine Clifton, Caroline Chapman, Frank the Poet, Severin Roesen, Eugene Rousseau, Cornelius V. Clickener, Jean-Francois-Albert du Pouget, James Covey, John Thomas Walshman Aspinall, Horace P. Biddle, John George Bowes, William Morritt, Harriet Farley, William B. Lewis, Konishi Hirosada, Konstantin Konstantinov, Richard Williams Morgan, Thomas Edmund Campbell, William Harris, Hezekiah C. Seymour, Thomas Harrison Hair, Frederick Bulley, Henry C. Taylor, William Hooper, Henry MacManus, Hugh Jones, Benjamin F. Harwood, Ensley A. Carpenter, Henry Ibbotson, John Joseph Dearin, Thomas Horace Fuller, Edwin Larwill, John Tallis, Fereydoon Mirza, James Howe Carse. Excerpt: Kaspar Hauser (30 April 1812 (?) - 17 December 1833) was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. Hauser's claims, and his subsequent death by stabbing, sparked much debate and controversy. Theories propounded at the time linked him with the princely House of Baden. These have long since been rejected by professional historians. On 26 May 1828, a teenage boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. He carried a letter with him addressed to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment, Captain von Wessenig. Its heading read: Von der Baierischen Granz / dass Orte ist unbenant / 1828 ("From the Bavarian border / The place is unnamed / 1828"). The anonymous author said that the boy had been given into his custody, as an infant, on 7 October 1812, and that he had instructed him in reading, writing and the Christian re..