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John F. Smith is an American soap opera writer and producer. Smith, formerly a member of Writers Guild of America West, left and maintained financial core status during the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Smith is best known for his stints as head writer of The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless.
- John F. Smith Jr.
John Francis " Jack " Smith Jr. (born April 6, 1938) is an...
- John Smith
John Smith (Cavalier, born 1608) (1608–1657), English...
- John F. Smith Jr.
- Early Life
- In Jamestown
- New England
- Death and Burial
- Legacy
- In Popular Culture
- Publications
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- References
- Further Reading
Smith's exact birth date is unclear. He was baptized on 6 January 1580 at Willoughby, near Alford, Lincolnshire, where his parents rented a farm from Lord Willoughby. He claimed descent from the ancient Smith family of Cuerdley, Lancashire, and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, from 1592 to 1595. Smith was initially set on a pat...
In 1606, Smith became involved with the Virginia Company of London's plan to colonize Virginia for profit, and King James had already granted a charter. The expedition set sail on Discovery, Susan Constant, and Godspeedon 20 December 1606. His page was a 12-year-old boy named Samuel Collier. During the voyage, Smith was charged with mutiny, and Cap...
In 1614, Smith returned to America in a voyage to the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts Bay. He named the region "New England". The commercial purpose was to take whales for fins and oil and to seek out mines of gold or copper, but both of these proved impractical so the voyage turned to collecting fish and furs to defray the expense.Most of the cr...
John Smith died on 21 June 1631 in London. He was buried in 1633 in the south aisle of Saint Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, Holborn Viaduct, London. The church is the largest parish church in the City of London, dating from 1137. Captain Smith is commemorated in the south wall of the church by a stained glass window.
New Hampshire
The Captain John Smith Monument currently lies in disrepair off the coast of New Hampshire on Star Island, part of the Isles of Shoals. The original monument was built in 1864 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Smith's visit to what he named Smith's Isles. It was a series of square granite slabs atop one another, with a small granite pillar at the top (see adjacent image). The pillar featured three carved faces, representing the severed heads of three Turks that Smith lopped off in comba...
Credibility as an author
Many critics judge Smith's character and credibility as an author based solely on his description of Pocahontas saving his life from the hand of Powhatan. Most of the scepticism results from the differences between his narratives. His earliest text is A True Relation of Virginia, submitted for publication in 1608, the year after his experiences in Jamestown. The second was The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, which was published in 1624. The publication of let...
Promoter of North American colonization
One of Smith's main incentives in writing about his New World experiences and observances was to promote English colonization. Lemay claims that many promotional writers sugar-coated their depictions of America in order to heighten its appeal, but he argues that Smith was not one to exaggerate the facts. He argues that Smith was very straightforward with his readers about both the dangers and the possibilities of colonization. Instead of proclaiming that there was an abundance of gold in the...
John Smith was honoured on two of the three stamps of the Jamestown Exposition Issue held 26 April – 1 December 1907 at Norfolk, Virginiato commemorate the founding of the Jamestown settlement. The 1-cent John Smith, inspired by the Simon de Passe engraving of the explorer was used for the 1-cent postcard rate. The 2-cent Jamestown landing stamp pa...
John Smith published eight volumes during his life. The following lists the first edition of each volume and the pages on which it is reprinted in Arber 1910: 1. A true relation of such occurrences and accidents of noate as hath hapned in Virginia since the first planting of that collony, which is now resident in the south part thereof, till the la...
General and cited sources
1. Arber, Edward, ed. (1910). Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. Edinburgh: John Grant. Hosted online by the Internet Archive: Volume I and Volume II. 1.1. Seccombe, Thomas (1910). "Bibliography". In Arber, Edward (ed.). Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. Edinburgh: John Grant. pp. I:xxvii–xxx. 2. Lemay, J. A. Leo (1991). The American Dream of Captain John Smith. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1321-6. 3. Purchas, Samuel, ed. (1625). Hakluytus posthu...
Barbour, Philip L. (1964). The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith Boston: Houghton Mifflin [ISBN missing]Barbour, Philip L. (1969). The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606–1609, 2 vols., Publications of the Hakluyt Society, ser. 2, 136–137. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressGleach, Frederic W. (1997). Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803221666.Hoobler, Dorothy; Hoobler, Thomas (2005). Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0471485841.May 22, 2022 · John Francis Jack Smith Jr. (born April 6, 1938) is an American businessman and executive who formerly served as COO in 1992, CEO from 1992 to 2000 and then chairman of the board of directors of General Motors from 1996 to 2000.
Nov 12, 2009 · English soldier and explorer Captain John Smith was born in Lincolnshire and had an adventurous life as a soldier, pirate, enslaved person, colonist and author—though many historians question the...
Joseph F. Smith was the sixth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Joseph was 5 years old when his father, Hyrum Smith, was martyred and 13 when his mother, Mary Fielding Smith, died.
