James Bowman was an American itinerant artist and portrait painter. He was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. Sometime between 1813 and 1815, James Bowman went to Chillicothe, Ohio, to learn to be a carpenter. There he met the itinerant painter Mr. J. T. Turner who taught him the rudiments of portrait painting. He gained considerable success when he started out professionally, painting in Pittsburgh and other communities in the early 1820s. He traveled to Philadelphia to learn from the masters there, but as a beginning artist could not make a living in that more cosmopolitan and competitive environment and became an itinerant portrait painter instead.
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James J. Purman was an American soldier who fought with the Union Army in the American Civil War. Purman received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for actions taken on July 2, 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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{"fact":"The earliest ancestor of the modern cat lived about 30 million years ago. Scientists called it the\u00a0Proailurus, which means \u201cfirst cat\u201d in Greek. The group of animals that pet cats belong to emerged around 12 million years ago.","length":226}
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{"fact":"A cat\u2019s eyesight is both better and worse than humans. It is better because cats can see in much dimmer light and they have a wider peripheral view. It\u2019s worse because they don\u2019t see color as well as humans do. Scientists believe grass appears red to cats.","length":256}
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{"fact":"The lightest cat on record is a blue point Himalayan called Tinker Toy, who weighed 1 pound, 6 ounces (616 g). Tinker Toy was 2.75 inches (7 cm) tall and 7.5 inches (19 cm) long.","length":178}
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