Author: J. Smith FutheyPublisher:
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Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: J. Smith FutheyPublisher:
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Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Author: John Newton BoucherPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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History of Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Author: Henry Wilson StoreyPublisher:
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Category : Cambria County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Descendants of Bartholomew Jacoby
Author: Helen Eaton Jacoby EvardPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Terrell Genealogy
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Record of the Terrell family of Virginia and North Carolina.
Pennsylvania Genealogies
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina
Author: Joseph Kelly TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Bible, Axe, and Plow
Author: Ben F. Van HornPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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A History of Appalachia
Author: Richard B. DrakePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813137934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.
The Calvin Families
Author: Claude Wesley CalvinPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
"As the American Calvins are not descended from a single immigrant ancestor, but from several different early immigrants, the descendants of each immigrant ancestor are considered in the following genealogy as a separate Calvin family line."--P. 153. Includes family lines of John Calvin (Colvin) (1654?-1729) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Luther Calvin (b.1705?) and Stephen Calvin of Hunterdon County, New Jersey and John Calvin (Colvin) (d. 1766?) of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Also includes some detached Calvin family lines. Descendants lived in New York, Vermont, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho, California and elsewhere.