Author: John Hugh CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland. March 17, 1771-March 17, 1892
Author: John Hugh CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
Author: John GrenhamPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants From Ireland
Author: John H. CampbellPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333519094
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Excerpt from History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants From Ireland: March 17, 1771 March 17, 1892 To give an idea of some of the work performed, it will suffice to mention the fact that in order to cover the period from 1790 to 1814, for which period the minute books of the Society are missing, every newspaper published in Philadelphia during that period was collated. Issue by issue, and whatever pertained to the Hibernian Society care. Fully copied. Besides all these sources of information, the descendants, relatives; or acquaintances of deceased members have been either interviewed or corresponded with wherever it was possible, and a large mass of facts accumulated. The correspondence alone in this department amounted to several thousand letters and cards. As to living mem bers, blanks were sent to them, requesting data for sketches, and, with but few exceptions, these blanks were returned filled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Scotch-Irish in America
Author: Scotch-Irish Society in AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scots-Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Massacre at Duffy’s Cut: Tragedy & Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Author: William E. Watson and J. Francis WatsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467139084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers arrived in the port of Philadelphia in June 1832 to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They all perished within six weeks. Contractor Philip Duffy hired them to work a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. For more than 180 years, the railroad maintained that cholera was to blame and kept the historical record under lock and key. In a harrowing modern-day excavation of their mass grave, a group of academics and volunteers found evidence some of the laborers were murdered. Authors and research leaders Dr. William E. Watson and Dr. J. Francis Watson reveal the tragedy, mystery and discovery of what really happened at Duffy's Cut.
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: The justices on circuit, 1795-1800
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Volume 3 treats the justices on circuit, and include among other things, a circuit court calendar for each of the three circuits from 1790 to 1800 and a collection of grand jury charges.
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: Cases, 1798-1800
Author: Maeva Marcus (red.)Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231139762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Quakers and Their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808
Author: Maurice JacksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131727279X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America. The case studies that make up the collection mainly focus on the greater Philadelphia area, a hotbed of the abolitionist movement and the location of the first American abolition society founded in 1775. Despite the importance of Quakers to the abolitionist movement, their significance has been largely overlooked in the existing historiography. These studies will be of interest to scholars of slavery and abolition, religious history, Atlantic studies and American social and political history.
The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231126465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael Janeway grew up inside this world. His father, Eliot Janeway, business editor of Time and a star writer for Fortune and Life magazines, was part of this circle, strategizing and practicing politics as well as reporting on these men. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of events and previously unavailable private letters and other documents, Janeway crafts a riveting account of the exercise of power during the New Deal and its aftermath. He shows how these men were at the nexus of reform impulses at the electoral level with reform thinking in the social sciences and the law and explains how this potent fusion helped build the contemporary American state. Since that time efforts to reinvent government by "brains trust" have largely failed in the U.S. In the last quarter of the twentieth century American politics ceased to function as a blend of broad coalition building and reform agenda setting, rooted in a consensus of belief in the efficacy of modern government. Can a progressive coalition of ideas and power come together again? The Fall of the House of Roosevelt makes such a prospect both alluring and daunting.
Massacre at Duffy's Cut
Author: William E. WatsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439665621
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The shocking murder of railroad laborers in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania—and the centuries-long coverup that followed—is revealed in this true crime history. In June 1832, railroad contractor Philip Duffy hired fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. They were sent to a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. Six weeks later, all of them were dead. For more than 180 years, the railroad maintained that cholera was to blame and kept the historical record under lock and key. In a harrowing modern-day excavation of their mass grave, a group of academics and volunteers found evidence some of the laborers were murdered. Authors and research leaders Dr. William E. Watson and Dr. J. Francis Watson reveal the tragedy, mystery, and discovery of what really happened at Duffy's Cut.