John Wesley's Death
Born (Birthday) June 28, 1703
Death Date September 23, 1902
Age of Death 68 years
Cause of Death Cerebral Hemorrhage
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Biography - A Short Wiki
Explorer of the western U.S. who became the first person to study the Colorado rivers.
He married Emma Dean in 1862. The couple had one child.
Quotes
"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
"The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
"You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
"Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs – in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.
"The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.