Author: Claude Edward Norcross Publisher: ISBN: Category : Missouri Languages : en Pages : 628
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John Norcross came to America from England in 1638. He purchased land in Cambridge, Massachusetts and lived there until 1642 when he returned to England. His son William was born in England. He, his wife Elizabeth and their four children sailed for America. The ship they were on was over-crowded and small pox broke out. William died enroute to America or soon after arriving in Philadelphia in 1699. Elizabeth lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her children and in 1701 she married Stephen Sands. The family at different times lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. By the early 1800's they could be found in Henry County, Missouri, where many descendants still reside. Calvin Norcross and Gladys Rogers both grew up in Huntingdale, Henry County, Missouri. After their marriage they moved to a farm near Norris, which was only about five miles away. For the next twenty years, their activities centered around the farm and the town of Norris. With the advent of good roads and modern cars, both of these towns have virtually disappeared. Includes families of Rogers, Walker, Tarter, Swift, Keltner, Lancaster, Beers, Catron, Pinnell and Jones.
Author: Henry Clay Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813156734 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 984
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The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the formation of national policy, and few influenced so profoundly the growth of American political institutions. The year 1837 found Henry Clay hard at work in a successful effort to organize and strengthen the new Whig party. In his attempt to provide for it an ideological core, he emphasized restoration of the Bank of the United States, distribution of the treasury surplus to the states, continued adherence to his Compromise Tariff Act of 1833, and federal funding of internal improvements. The achievement of these goals, Clay reasoned, would mitigate the severe impact of the Depression of 1837 and sweep the Whigs into the White House in 1840. Soon after the election of 1836, Clay began running again for the presidency. By 1838 it was clear to him that he would have to come to grips politically with the long-muted slavery question. This he did in February 1839 in a Senate speech that was so proslavery, anti-abolitionist, and racially extremist that it cost him the Whig presidential nomination at the Harrisburg convention in December 1839. William Henry Harrison was nominated in his stead and won handily. But one month after his inauguration Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler, a states' rights Democrat turned Whig, was elevated to the presidency. Senator Clay emerged from his disappointment at Harrisburg as the acknowledged leader of the Whig party and further unified it in a wide-ranging assault on the Tyler administration's refusal to support Whig principles. By the end of 1843 Tyler had been broken, the Whig party was Clay's to lead, and the Kentuckian was again in the presidential lists. Confident that 1844 would surely be his year, Clay unfortunately failed to see the formation and growth of the black cloud that was Texas annexation. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com ISBN: 9780806317960 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 816
Book Description
This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
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