Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
An Emerson-Benson Saga
Author: Four American Ancestries
Author: Publisher: Peter Haring Judd
ISBN: 1427637660
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
On Their Own
Author: Joyce HoffmannPublisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 030681059X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Staring back into another time -- Called to the colors -- Going against the grain -- Challenging the conventional wisdom -- Foreign journalists report the war -- The war on television -- A force of nature -- A place in history.
The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother
Author: Ned Harold BensonPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467024422
Category : Benson family
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June 1865. He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of 1873, and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in 1899, John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March 1906. This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.
Ancestors of William Goodell Frost and Eleanor (Marsh) Frost
Author: Richard D. SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berea (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A Swigart-Meyers Saga
Author: Ancestors of William J. and Francis S. Hutchins
Author: Richard D. SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berea (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Ancestors of Anne (Smith) Weatherford
Author: Richard D. SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berea (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The American Genealogist
Author: Ancestors of Rev. John Almanza Rowley Rogers, of His Wife, Elizabeth Lewis (Embree) Rogers, of His Brother-in-law, Rev. James Scott Davis, and of His Uncle, Rev. Almon Bradley Pratt
Author: Richard D. SearsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berea (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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