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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900
Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900
Author: Who's who in New York City and State
Author: John William LeonardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Containing authentic biographies of New Yorkers who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement including sketches of every army and navy officer born in or appointed from New York and now serving, of all the congressmen from the state, all state senators and judges, and all ambassadors, ministers and consuls appointed from New York.
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
Author: Maura Jane FarrellyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149623927X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Famous Families of New York
Author: Margherita Arlina HammPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Urban Establishment
Author: Frederic Cople JaherPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252009327
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Biography by Americans, 1658-1936
Author: Edward H. O'NeillPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804940
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This volume is the most comprehensive bibliography of purely biographical material written by Americans. It covers every possible field of life but, by design, excludes autobiographies, diaries, and journals.
Patrick Henry Jones
Author: Mark H. DunkelmanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807159670
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark H. Dunkelman resurrects Jones's story and restores him to his rightful standing as an exceptional military officer and influential politician of nineteenth-century America. Patrick Henry Jones (1830-1900), a poor Irish immigrant, began his career in journalism before gaining admittance to the New York bar. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Jones volunteered for service in the Union Army. He rose steadily through the ranks of the 37th New York, became general of the 154th New York, and eventually attained the rank of brigadier general. Jones was one of only twelve native Irishmen ever to attain that rank in the federal forces. When the war ended, Jones's reputation as a military hero gave him an entry into politics under the mentorship of editor Horace Greeley and politician Reuben E. Fenton. He served in both elective and appointed offices in the state of New York, navigating the corruptions, scandals, and political upheavals of the Golden Age. Ultimately, his entanglement with one of the most sensational crimes of his era-a high-profile grave-robbing from the cemetery of St. Mark's Church-tainted his name and ruined his once-respectable career. In the first full-length biographical account of this important figure, Patrick Henry Jones tells the quintessentially American story of an immigrant who overcame both his humble origins and the rampant xenophobia of mid-nineteenth-century America to achieve a level of prominence equaled by few of his peers.
The Man Who Tried to Burn New York
Author: Nat BrandtPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583483462
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864. A group of rebel officers, escapees from Union prison camps who had fled to neutral Canada for safety, reach the city by train and, in disguise, take rooms in various hotels in downtown New York. They fail but only because, unknowingly, they use a chemical mixture that requires oxygen. Smoke from the incipient fires they set is quickly discovered and the fires put out. In the dramatic search for the conspirators that follows, only one of them is caught, Robert Cobb Kennedy, a captain from Louisiana. He is tried, convicted and hanged... the last rebel executed by the North before the end of the war. The Man Who Tried to Burn New York won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 1987.