Author: George Thomas LittlePublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
Author: George Thomas LittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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A Genealogical History of the Kelley Family
Author: A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of John Pease
Author: David Pease, Austin S. PeasePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893
Author: Long Island Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley
Author: Cuyler ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
A Family History Comprising the Surnames of Gade--Gadie--Gaudie--Gawdie--Gawdy--Gowdy--Goudy--Goudey--Gowdey--Gauden--Gaudern--and the Variant Forms, from A. D. 800 to A. D. 1919
Author: Mahlon Myron GowdyIdentified with Texas
Author: Elizabeth WhitlowPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574418777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Identified with Texas is the first published biography of Texas Governor Elisha Marshall Pease (1812-1883), presented by historian Elizabeth Whitlow as a dual biography of Pease and his wife, Lucadia Niles Pease (1813-1905). Born in Connecticut in 1812, E. M. Pease came to Texas in 1835, where he became, in his own words, “identified with Texas.” Pease volunteered to fight in the first battle of the Revolution at Gonzales, and he served with the Texan Army at the Siege of Bexar. Afterward, his career in public service began as a clerk at the Convention of 1836, and the first draft of the Republic’s Constitution is in his handwriting. Pease served in the first three state legislatures after Texas joined the Union in 1845, was elected governor in 1853 and re-elected in 1855, and returned to the governorship as an interim appointee from 1867 to 1869 during Reconstruction. His achievements in all these positions were substantial. Pease was also a highly successful and respected lawyer and a large landholder with properties in Travis and many other Texas counties. He owned slaves, but he did not take a strong proslavery position, and when secession came in 1861, he continued to support the Union. He and his family remained in Austin during the Civil War, and when it ended, he did his best to heal wounds and restore Texas to the United States in a second appointment as governor. Lucadia Niles Pease married Marshall Pease in 1850 and came to Texas as a newlywed. She was known as the Governor’s “Lady.” Moreover, her early, independent travel and her stated position as a “woman’s rights woman” in the 1850s, as well as her support for sending a daughter away to college in the 1870s to earn a degree, all serve as markers of her intelligence and the strength of her convictions. To tell their story, Whitlow mined thousands of letters and papers saved by the Pease family and housed in the Austin History Center of the Austin Public Library, as well as in the Governor’s Papers at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. E. M. Pease observed near the end of his life that he had been “one of the people of Texas since the colonial days of Stephen F. Austin.” He and Lucadia left an extraordinary historical record that documents the development of Texas.
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont
Author: Hiram CarletonPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806347945
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1990
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Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
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Category : Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts: Family genealogies, 1641-1800
Author: Charles Edward BanksPublisher:
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Category : Dukes County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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