Author: Ken Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Henry Wilson appears to have emigrated from England in 1639. He settled in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1640. Henry married Mary Metcalf and they became the parents of five children. One of the children was Michael Wilson (1644-1731) who lived in Wrentham, Massachusetts and married Mary Hamant. They were the parents of six children. The numerous descendants of Henry and Mary Wilson live throughout the United States.
Descendants of Henry Wilson of Dedham, Massachusetts
Author: Ken Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Henry Wilson appears to have emigrated from England in 1639. He settled in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1640. Henry married Mary Metcalf and they became the parents of five children. One of the children was Michael Wilson (1644-1731) who lived in Wrentham, Massachusetts and married Mary Hamant. They were the parents of six children. The numerous descendants of Henry and Mary Wilson live throughout the United States.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Henry Wilson appears to have emigrated from England in 1639. He settled in Dedham, Massachusetts in 1640. Henry married Mary Metcalf and they became the parents of five children. One of the children was Michael Wilson (1644-1731) who lived in Wrentham, Massachusetts and married Mary Hamant. They were the parents of six children. The numerous descendants of Henry and Mary Wilson live throughout the United States.
Family Records of Some of the Descendents [sic] of Thomas Besbedge (Bisbee) of Scituate, Mass., in 1634
Fearless
Author: Neil Thomas Proto
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438479638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball. In 1977, a thirty-nine-year-old Italian American professor of Renaissance literature, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was chosen as the next president of Yale University, a radical act that was immediately perceived as a threat to the university’s embedded, eugenics-driven, Anglo-Saxon mentality. Eugenics, as practiced in America, and especially at Yale, locked into place those who were deemed “unfit” due to beliefs about their ethnicity, class, and racial character, beliefs that had endured for decades and to which Giamatti’s selection, as an Italian American and therefore, to some, one of the “unfit,” was an open rebuke. In Fearless, Neil Thomas Proto explores the origins of Giamatti’s ethical convictions, including his insistence on fairness, his respect for the duty of responsible citizenship, and his advocacy for people on the margins. Proto argues that these convictions, which would inform Giamatti’s time at Yale as well as his brief tenure as commissioner of Major League Baseball, can be understood only in the context of Giamatti’s family and the deeply entwined and conflicted histories of Yale and New Haven itself—a history that Giamatti, who had been both a student and a professor at Yale and who had Italian American relatives in New Haven, knew very well. Historian Sean Wilentz wrote that “Bart Giamatti was a phenomenon who lived the lives of several men even though his own ended tragically early.” Giamatti confirmed his underlying imperative through to the end of his life: “Rest,” he wrote, “will come by never resting.” Fearless is a story about persistence against forces ugly, embedded, and more pernicious than simply racial and ethnic discrimination, and about the principled embrace of civic duty passed on generationally and used fully as the ethical sword and shield necessary to challenge them. “In Fearless, Neil Proto tells the extraordinary life story and career of A. Bartlett Giamatti as he became a distinguished professor of Renaissance literature, a pathbreaking president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball. Proto writes with the candor, directness, thoroughness, and passionate pursuit of truth that also characterized Giamatti. His compelling biography is a shining achievement.” — Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America “Neil Proto’s narrative is riveting, thorough, and essential to understanding how unfettered White Anglo Saxon discrimination against Southern and Eastern European immigrants and African Americans—recognized then as ‘eugenics’ and today as ‘White Supremacy’—was taught, supported, and legitimized. Proto especially captures the prejudice and methods intended to repress the aspirations of hard working Southern Italian immigrants—Bart Giamatti’s family among them. Government often led the way. Neighborhoods destroyed. Families displaced. Sterilization justified. Valentine Giamatti learned and taught the civic duty of fairness toward others to his son, Bart, as did the parents, including my own and Neil Proto’s, among the immigrant and migrant families who came to New Haven. That battle for fairness endures today. Proto’s work is like none other I’ve read.” — Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D–New Haven) “Through the story of the Giamatti family and the focus on A. Bartlett Giamatti, Proto is able to write a microhistory of a significant part of twentieth-century America. The way he interlocks immigration, race, education, urban history, local politics, academic politics, intellectual history, and biography is splendid. It is a magisterial lesson in civic education and the duty of citizenship. The book is a pleasure to read; one does not want to put it down. The research is impeccable and voluminous.” — Samuele F. S. Pardini, author of In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438479638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball. In 1977, a thirty-nine-year-old Italian American professor of Renaissance literature, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was chosen as the next president of Yale University, a radical act that was immediately perceived as a threat to the university’s embedded, eugenics-driven, Anglo-Saxon mentality. Eugenics, as practiced in America, and especially at Yale, locked into place those who were deemed “unfit” due to beliefs about their ethnicity, class, and racial character, beliefs that had endured for decades and to which Giamatti’s selection, as an Italian American and therefore, to some, one of the “unfit,” was an open rebuke. In Fearless, Neil Thomas Proto explores the origins of Giamatti’s ethical convictions, including his insistence on fairness, his respect for the duty of responsible citizenship, and his advocacy for people on the margins. Proto argues that these convictions, which would inform Giamatti’s time at Yale as well as his brief tenure as commissioner of Major League Baseball, can be understood only in the context of Giamatti’s family and the deeply entwined and conflicted histories of Yale and New Haven itself—a history that Giamatti, who had been both a student and a professor at Yale and who had Italian American relatives in New Haven, knew very well. Historian Sean Wilentz wrote that “Bart Giamatti was a phenomenon who lived the lives of several men even though his own ended tragically early.” Giamatti confirmed his underlying imperative through to the end of his life: “Rest,” he wrote, “will come by never resting.” Fearless is a story about persistence against forces ugly, embedded, and more pernicious than simply racial and ethnic discrimination, and about the principled embrace of civic duty passed on generationally and used fully as the ethical sword and shield necessary to challenge them. “In Fearless, Neil Proto tells the extraordinary life story and career of A. Bartlett Giamatti as he became a distinguished professor of Renaissance literature, a pathbreaking president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball. Proto writes with the candor, directness, thoroughness, and passionate pursuit of truth that also characterized Giamatti. His compelling biography is a shining achievement.” — Nick Kotz, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and author of Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America “Neil Proto’s narrative is riveting, thorough, and essential to understanding how unfettered White Anglo Saxon discrimination against Southern and Eastern European immigrants and African Americans—recognized then as ‘eugenics’ and today as ‘White Supremacy’—was taught, supported, and legitimized. Proto especially captures the prejudice and methods intended to repress the aspirations of hard working Southern Italian immigrants—Bart Giamatti’s family among them. Government often led the way. Neighborhoods destroyed. Families displaced. Sterilization justified. Valentine Giamatti learned and taught the civic duty of fairness toward others to his son, Bart, as did the parents, including my own and Neil Proto’s, among the immigrant and migrant families who came to New Haven. That battle for fairness endures today. Proto’s work is like none other I’ve read.” — Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D–New Haven) “Through the story of the Giamatti family and the focus on A. Bartlett Giamatti, Proto is able to write a microhistory of a significant part of twentieth-century America. The way he interlocks immigration, race, education, urban history, local politics, academic politics, intellectual history, and biography is splendid. It is a magisterial lesson in civic education and the duty of citizenship. The book is a pleasure to read; one does not want to put it down. The research is impeccable and voluminous.” — Samuele F. S. Pardini, author of In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts
Author: Eben W. Graves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Henry Sewall, son of Henry Sewall and Margaret Gresbrook, was baptized 8 April 1576 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He died in Rowley, Massachusetts in 1655/6. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, New York and Maine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Henry Sewall, son of Henry Sewall and Margaret Gresbrook, was baptized 8 April 1576 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He died in Rowley, Massachusetts in 1655/6. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, New York and Maine.
Nexus
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.
Carpenter Chronicles
Old Brooklyn Heights
Author: Clay Lancaster
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238722
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238722
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
John Purdy, His Ancestors and Descendents [sic]
Author: Clayton C. Purdy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
MEMORIAL OF THE MORSES
Author: ABNER. MORSE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033119488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033119488
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description