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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Hawkeye Heritage
Author: The Searcher
Author: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa
Author: Brothers in Arms
Author: Christopher McManusPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796010081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Explore the lives of two orphaned brothers caught up in the maelstrom of the American Civil War. Thomas and Otho McManus both rose through the ranks and fought in numerous battles and skirmishes. One survived; the other was killed leading a battle charge seven days before the truce at Appomattox. The survivor married his brother’s widow. This study also traces their roots, explores the lives of their siblings and cousins, and follows five generations of their descendants. Otho McManus wrote more than one hundred wartime letters. Excerpts from those letters provide profound insights into family ties and battle experiences. The story of the brothers’ forebears is a window into American families in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The brothers’ parents, aunts, and uncles joined a great westward migration to the new states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Interesting sidelights include the last slave in Pennsylvania and an inheritance interrupted by the battle of Gettysburg. This study draws on forty years of the author’s personal research and more than a century of cumulative research by others. Family Bibles, letters, wills, censuses, obituaries, grave inscriptions, military records, and county histories are some of the sources consulted. Topics include such diverse areas as migration patterns, military experiences, occupations, patterns of child-bearing, and the historical setting of each generation.
Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties Iowa
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Category : Decatur County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Long Blue Line
Author: N. Dale TalkingtonPublisher: N. Dale Talkington
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Welsh in Iowa
Author: Cherilyn A WalleyPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 178316591X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Jasper, Marshall, and Grundy Counties, Iowa, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the Counties, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States
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Category : Grundy County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa
Author: Iowa. Supreme CourtPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description