Author: Albert Alonzo PomeroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1105
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History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family
Author: Albert Alonzo PomeroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1105
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Iron Will
Author: Terry S. ReynoldsPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336434
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The history of Cleveland-Cliffs, a company that played a key role in iron mining development in the Lake Superior region. In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-–2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland-Cliffs played a major role in the opening and development of the Lake Superior mining district and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Through Cleveland-Cliffs' history, Reynolds and Dawson examine major transitions in the history of the American iron and steel industry from the perspective of an important raw materials supplier. Reynolds and Dawson trace Cleveland-Cliffs' beginnings around 1850, its growth under Samuel L. Mather and his son William G. Mather, its emergence as an important player in the growing national iron ore market, and its tribulations during the Great Depression. The authors explore the company's fortunes after World War II, when Cleveland-Cliffs developed technologies to tap into vast reserves of low-grade Michigan iron ore and turned to joint ventures and strategic partnerships to raise the capital needed to implement them. The authors also explain how the company became the largest independent producer of iron ore in the United States by purchasing the mining interests of its bankrupt partners during the implosion of the American steel industry in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Reynolds and Dawson detail Cleveland-Cliffs' evolving efforts to deal with labor, from its early mostly immigrant workforce to its ambitious program of welfare capitalism in the early twentieth century to its struggles with organized labor after World War II. Iron Will is a thorough, well-organized history based on extensive archival research and interviews with company personnel. This story will appeal to scholars interested in industrial or mining history, business historians, and those interested in Great Lakes and Michigan history.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
A History of the City of Cleveland
Author: James Harrison KennedyPublisher:
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Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Author: Anne Boyd RiouxPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!" —Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of the nineteenth century. Yet today the best-known (and most-misunderstood) facts of her life are her relationship with James and her probable suicide in Venice. This first full-length biography of Woolson provides a fuller picture that reaffirms her literary stature. Uncovering new sources, Anne Boyd Rioux evokes Woolson’s dramatic life. She was a grand-niece of James Fenimore Cooper and was born in New Hampshire, but her family’s ill fortunes drove them west to Cleveland. Raised to be a conventional woman, Woolson was nonetheless thrust by her father’s death into the role of breadwinner, and yet, as a writer, she reached for critical as much as monetary reward. Known for her powerfully realistic and empathetic portraits of post Civil–War American life, Woolson created compelling and subtle portrayals of the rural Midwest, Reconstruction-era South, and the formerly Spanish Florida, to which she traveled with her invalid mother. After her mother’s death, Woolson, with help from her sister, moved to Europe where expenses were lower, living mostly in England and Italy and spending several months in Egypt. While abroad, she wrote finely crafted foreign-set stories that presage Edith Wharton’s work of the next generation. In this rich biography, Rioux reveals an exceptionally gifted and committed artist who pursued and received serious recognition despite the difficulties faced by female authors of her day. Throughout, Rioux goes deep into Woolson’s character, her fight against depression, her sources for writing, and her intimate friendships, including with Henry James, painting an engrossing portrait of a woman and writer who deserves to be more widely known today.
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography
Author: David Dirck Van TasselPublisher:
ISBN: 9780253330550
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
"Clevelanders are rediscovering the richness of their history, and the encyclopedia project has played a vital role in this process." --Northwest Ohio Quarterly "These two volumes clearly establish a standard for encyclopedias devoted to city history and biography." --Choice "Both volumes are interesting to read and are useful reference tools." --American Reference Books Annual The first edition of this remarkable encyclopedia was published in 1987 to enthusiastic reviews. Out of print for several years, the Encyclopedia is now being reissued in an expanded, two-volume format to commemorate the bicentennial of Cleveland's founding. Volume One, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, contains more than 2000 entries, 150 photographs, maps and charts. Volume Two, the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, with over 1600 entries, is the first major biographical guide to Cleveland published since the 1920s.
The Burnham Family; Or, Genealogical Records of the Descendants of the Four Emigrants of the Name, who Were Among the Early Settlers in America
Author: Roderick Henry BURNHAMPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family
Author: Albert Alonzo PomeroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A History of Cleveland, Ohio: Biographical
Author: Samuel Peter OrthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleveland (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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