Author: Douglas Gene VoeglerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
A Genealogical Study of the History of the Ancestors of Douglas Voegler
Author: Douglas Gene VoeglerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Tercentenary History of Maryland
Author: Matthew Page AndrewsPublisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Researching the Germans from Russia
Author: North Dakota Institute for Regional StudiesPublisher: Fargo, N.D. : [The Institute]
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Meinholz Family History and Genealogy, 1709-1982
Author: Margaret Gunnison MeyerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Buffalo County Biographical History
Author: Buffalo County Historical Society (Buffalo County, Wis.)Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563118424
Category : Buffalo County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Primitive Man
Author: Anthropological Quarterly
Author: Biographical and Genealogical History of the City of Newark and Essex County, New Jersey ...
Author: Morgenthau
Author: Andrew MeierPublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812981049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1105
Book Description
A “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • A New Yorker Book of the Year “Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and a welcome reminder that even the most noxious evils can be vanquished when capable and committed citizens do their best.”—David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freedom from Fear After coming to America from Germany in 1866, the Morgenthaus made history in international diplomacy, in domestic politics, and in America’s criminal justice system. With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biographer Andrew Meier vividly chronicles how the Morgenthaus amassed a fortune in Manhattan real estate, advised presidents, advanced the New Deal, exposed the Armenian genocide, rescued victims of the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and, from a foundation of private wealth, built a dynasty of public service. In the words of former mayor Ed Koch, they were “the closest we’ve got to royalty in New York City.” Lazarus Morgenthau arrived in America dreaming of rebuilding the fortune he had lost in his homeland. He ultimately died destitute, but the family would rise again with the ascendance of Henry, who became a wealthy and powerful real estate baron. From there, the Morgenthaus went on to influence the most consequential presidency of the twentieth century, as Henry’s son Henry Jr. became FDR’s longest-serving aide, his Treasury secretary during the war, and his confidant of thirty years. Finally, there was Robert Morgenthau, a decorated World War II hero who would become the longest-tenured district attorney in the history of New York City. Known as the “DA for life,” he oversaw the most consequential and controversial prosecutions in New York of the last fifty years, from the war on the Mafia to the infamous Central Park Jogger case. The saga of the Morgenthaus has lain half hidden in the shadows for too long. At heart a family history, Morgenthau is also an American epic, as sprawling and surprising as the country itself.
The Gosney Family in America
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Languages : en
Pages : 886
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William Gosney, son of Henry Gosney, was born in about 1705, probably in Virginia. He married Mary in about 1726 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.