Author: Charles Elihu SlocumPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America
Author: Charles Elihu SlocumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The Slocums, Slocumbs of the South
Author: Bob SmythPublisher:
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Anthony Slocombe (1590 - 1688-89) was born in Taunton, Somersetshire, England. He married Elizabeth Mary Harvey who was born in Somerset- shire, England. She was the daughter of John & Mary Harvey. Anthony is first noted in America in 1637 as one of the 1st settlers of Taunton, Massachusetts. In the late 1660s, Anthony Slocombe migrated with some of his family to old Albemarle County in North Carolina. He settled on a plantation about four miles north of the present-day town of Edenton, North Carolina. Anthony died in old Albemarle County.
History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America
Author: Charles Elihu SlocumPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Mrs. Russell Sage
Author: Ruth CrockerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253112052
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood. When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women and the responsibilities of wealth, for moral reform and material betterment, she took the money and put it to her own uses. Spending replaced volunteer work; suffrage bazaars and fundraising fÃates gave way to large donations to favorite causes. As a widow, Olivia Sage moved in public with authority. She used her wealth to fund a wide spectrum of progressive reforms that had a lasting impact on American life, including her most significant philanthropy, the Russell Sage Foundation.
The Hard Way Around
Author: Geoffrey WolffPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953633
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
Author: Christiana Holmes TillsonPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Memory Wars
Author: A. Lynn SmithPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496235312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
Memory Wars explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical understandings today. Sullivan’s expedition was ordered by General George Washington at a tenuous moment of the Revolutionary War. It was a massive enterprise involving thousands of men who marched across northeastern Pennsylvania into what is now New York state, to eliminate any present or future threat from the British-allied Iroquois Confederacy. Sullivan and his men carried out a scorched-earth campaign, obliterating more than forty Iroquois villages, including homes, fields, and crops. For Indigenous residents it was a catastrophic invasion. For many others the expedition yielded untold bounty: American victory over the British along with land and fortunes beyond measure for settlers who soon moved onto the razed village sites. The Sullivan Expedition has long been fixed on the landscape of Pennsylvania and New York by a cast of characters, including amateur historians, newly formed historical societies, and local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Asking how it is that people continue to “celebrate Sullivan” in the present day, Memory Wars underscores the symbolic value of the past as well as the dilemmas posed to contemporary Americans by the national commemorative landscape.
An Early History of the Wyoming Valley
Author: Kathleen A. EarlePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439674779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
When Connecticut Yankees began to settle the Wyoming Valley in the 1760s, both the local Pennsylvanians and the powerful native Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) strenuously objected. The Connecticut Colony and William Penn had been granted the same land by King Charles II of England, resulting in the instigation of the Yankee-Pennamite Wars. In 1788, during ongoing conflict, a band of young Yankee ruffians abducted Pennsylvania official Timothy Pickering, holding him hostage for nineteen days. Some kidnappers were prosecuted, and several fled to New York's Finger Lakes as the political incident motivated state leaders to resolve the fighting. Bloody skirmishes, the American Revolution and the Sullivan campaign to destroy the Iroquois all formed the backdrop to the territorial dispute. Author Kathleen A. Earle covers the early history of colonial life, war and frontier justice in the Wyoming Valley.
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