Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The Story of the Bronx from the Purchase Made by the Dutch from the Indians in 1639 to the Present Day
Author: Stephen JenkinsPublisher:
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Men of Mark
Author: William J. SimmonsPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
TO PRESUME to multiply books in this day of excellent writers and learned book-makers is a rash thing perhaps for a novice. It may even be a presumption that shall be met by the production itself being driven from the market by the keen, searching criticism of not only the reviewers, but less noted objectors. And yet there are books that meet a ready sale because they seem like "Ishmaelites"--against everybody and everybody against them. Whether this work shall ever accomplish the design of the author may not at all be determined by its sale. While I hope to secure some pecuniary gain that I may accompany it with a companion illustrating what our women have done, yet by no means do I send it forth with the sordid idea of gain. I would rather it would do some good than make a single dollar, and I echo the wish of "Abou Ben Adhem," in that sweet poem of that name, written by Leigh Hunt. The angel was writing at the table, in his vision. The names of those who love the Lord.Abou wanted to know if his was there--and the angel said "No." Said Abou, I pray thee, then, write me as one that loves his fellow-men. That is what I ask to be recorded of me. The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great awakening light. And showed the names whom love of God had blessed. And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. I desire that the book shall be a help to students, male and female, in the way of information concerning our great names. I have noticed in my long experience as a teacher, that many of my students were wofully ignorant of the work of our great colored men--even ignorant of their names. If they knew their names, it was some indefinable something they had done--just what, they could not tell. If in a slight degree I shall here furnish the data for that class of rising men and women, I shall feel much pleased. Herein will be found many who had severe trials in making their way through schools of different grades. It is a suitable book, it is hoped, to be put into the hands of intelligent, aspiring young people everywhere, that they might see the means and manners of men's elevation, and by this be led to undertake the task of going through high schools and colleges. If the persons herein mentioned could rise to the exalted stations which they have and do now hold, what is there to prevent any young man or woman from achieving greatness? Many, yea, nearly all these came from the loins of slave fathers, and were the babes of women in bondage, and themselves felt the leaden hand of slavery on their own bodies; but whether slaves or not, they suffered with their brethren because of color. That "sum of human villainies" did not crush out the life and manhood of the race. I wish the book to show to the world--to our oppressors and even our friends--that the Negro race is still alive, and must possess more intellectual vigor than any other section of the human family, or else how could they be crushed as slaves in all these years since 1620, and yet to-day stand side by side with the best blood in America, in white institutions, grappling with abstruse problems in Euclid and difficult classics, and master them? Was ever such a thing seen in another people? Whence these lawyers, doctors, authors, editors, divines, lecturers, linguists, scientists, college presidents and such, in one quarter of a century?
Danforth Genealogy
Author: John Joseph MayPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354411960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts
Author: Martin LoveringPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Corwin Genealogy (Curwin, Curwen, Corwine) in the United States
Author: Edward Tanjore CorwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895
Author: Edward Warren DayPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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History of Morris County, New Jersey
Author: Edmund Drake HalseyPublisher:
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Category : Morris County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Genealogy of the Morris family : descendants of Thomas Morris of Connecticut
Author: Lucy Ann Morris CarhartPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
History of Delaware
Author: J. Thomas ScharfPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5870942411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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