The importance of a single life: one of the most fascinating stories from US history that you’ve probably never heard of. Washed overboard from the Mayflower during a raging storm, John Howland almost died. He should have died. His rescue was not only daring but surprising, for he was a nobody at the time, merely an indentured servant. We don’t know why some of the crew, who didn’t even like the Pilgrims and often taunted and cursed them, chose in this instance to risk their lives to save him. We can be grateful they did. Had John Howland sunk to the bottom of the ocean, he would have taken with him all his future descendants, including Emerson, Longfellow, Humphrey Bogart, Dr. Spock, three US presidents (FDR, George H.W.Bush, George W. Bush), plus so many more. Maybe even you.
Table of Content
Table of Contents
PART ONE: THE MAN 9
Chapter 1 Man Overboard!11
Chapter 2 Before the Voyage15
Chapter 3 Waiting20
Chapter 4 The Rescue23
Chapter 5 Providence26
Chapter 6 The Separatists29
Chapter 7 Enter the Grim Reaper31
Chapter 8 The Teflon Saint36
Chapter 9 John Howland Takes a Wife40
PART TWO – THE MANY 45
Chapter 1 Humphrey Bogart (1899 – 1957)47
Chapter 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)50
Chapter 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)54
Chapter 4 Joseph Smith (1805 – 1844)65
Chapter 5 Esther Allen Howland (1828 – 1904)69
Chapter 6 Jane Austin (1831 – 1894)73
Chapter 7 Phillips Brooks (1835 – 1893)78
Chapter 8 Florence Earle Nicholson Coates (1850 – 1927)
Alice Nicholson Coates Trask (1873 – 1955)83
Chapter 9 Maude Adams (1880 – 1953)86
Chapter 10 Edith Carow Roosevelt (1861 – 1948)
and Her Children89
Chapter 11 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)99
Chapter 12 Ruth Wales du Pont (1889 – 1967)116
Chapter 13 Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903 – 1998)121
Chapter 14 Eville Gorham (1925 – 2020)126
Chapter 15 George H. W. Bush (1924 – 2018)129
Chapter 16 George W. Bush (1946 – present)133
Epilogue 136
A Compendium of Quotes 141
About the author
Cynthia is a freelance writer who divides her time between Grand Rapids and Ludington, Michigan, where she is also a volunteer lighthouse keeper. She is also the author of Skip-Gen Travel and Why, If You’re a Grandparent, You Should Be Doing It (Amazon Kindle) and St. Isidora, The Monastery Sponge (Kh. Cindy Anne Hogg, Exaltation Press) as well as the author of the blog skipgentravelguru.com.
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