Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
The American Census Handbook
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Land Registration in Illinois
Author: Theodore Sheldon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
A Spy for the Union
Author: Corey Recko
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786474904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton's agency, Webster excelled. His cases included tracking a world famous forger, investigating grave robberies in a Chicago cemetery, and seeking to uncover a plot to destroy the Rock Island Bridge. It was also as a Pinkerton detective that Webster made his greatest contribution to his country when he was part of a small group of operatives that uncovered a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Webster went on to serve the United States as a spy in the Civil War. He traveled to the Confederate Capital multiple times and made many connections high up in the Confederate military and government. For a time he was the Union's top spy, but his career came to an abrupt end when, in 1862, he was betrayed by fellow spies and became the first spy executed in the Civil War.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786474904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton's agency, Webster excelled. His cases included tracking a world famous forger, investigating grave robberies in a Chicago cemetery, and seeking to uncover a plot to destroy the Rock Island Bridge. It was also as a Pinkerton detective that Webster made his greatest contribution to his country when he was part of a small group of operatives that uncovered a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Webster went on to serve the United States as a spy in the Civil War. He traveled to the Confederate Capital multiple times and made many connections high up in the Confederate military and government. For a time he was the Union's top spy, but his career came to an abrupt end when, in 1862, he was betrayed by fellow spies and became the first spy executed in the Civil War.
Family History and Genealogy of James McEvers, 1755-1829, Abraham Knapp, Jr., 1759-1809, Their Children and Grand Children
Author: Harry B. Zabriskie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Vice President's Black Wife
Author: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469675242
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate. This meant that Chinn, although enslaved herself, oversaw Blue Spring's slave labor force and had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely to have been consensual since she was never manumitted. What makes Chinn's life exceptional is the power that Johnson invested in her, the opportunities the couple's relationship afforded her and her daughters, and their community's tacit acceptance of the family—up to a point. When the family left their farm, they faced steep limits: pews at the rear of the church, burial in separate graveyards, exclusion from town dances, and more. Johnson's relationship with Chinn ruined his political career and Myers compellingly demonstrates that it wasn't interracial sex that led to his downfall but his refusal to keep it—and Julia Chinn—behind closed doors.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469675242
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate. This meant that Chinn, although enslaved herself, oversaw Blue Spring's slave labor force and had substantial control over economic, social, financial, and personal affairs within the couple's world. Chinn's relationship with Johnson was unlikely to have been consensual since she was never manumitted. What makes Chinn's life exceptional is the power that Johnson invested in her, the opportunities the couple's relationship afforded her and her daughters, and their community's tacit acceptance of the family—up to a point. When the family left their farm, they faced steep limits: pews at the rear of the church, burial in separate graveyards, exclusion from town dances, and more. Johnson's relationship with Chinn ruined his political career and Myers compellingly demonstrates that it wasn't interracial sex that led to his downfall but his refusal to keep it—and Julia Chinn—behind closed doors.
Ancestry of a Coal Miner's Daughter
Author: John Richard Rennert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Joseph Woodson Lynch was born 29 April 1906 in Midway, Kansas. His parents were Joseph Walker Lynch (1886-1945) and Clara Violet Scobey (1887-1968). He married Agnes Belle Golledge (1907-1973), daughter of James Golledge (1882-1939) and Agnes Belle Miller (1885-1941), 1 June 1924 in Florence, Colorado. They had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and California.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Joseph Woodson Lynch was born 29 April 1906 in Midway, Kansas. His parents were Joseph Walker Lynch (1886-1945) and Clara Violet Scobey (1887-1968). He married Agnes Belle Golledge (1907-1973), daughter of James Golledge (1882-1939) and Agnes Belle Miller (1885-1941), 1 June 1924 in Florence, Colorado. They had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and California.
Leaves of a Stunted Shrub
Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1935538047
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1935538047
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Scott Genealogical Quarterly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Wilsons of Scott County Illinois
Author: Larry Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365924963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This family genealogy history traces the Wilson male line from Daniel Wilson b abt 1748 in Virginia to Nathaniel who migrated to KY about 1800 to James Wilson who came to Scott County in 1840. It then chronicles the Scott County Wilsons thru 2016. It includes a description of their life in the various venues especially the author's, who grew up in Alsey from 1947 to 1970. It is accurately researched.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365924963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This family genealogy history traces the Wilson male line from Daniel Wilson b abt 1748 in Virginia to Nathaniel who migrated to KY about 1800 to James Wilson who came to Scott County in 1840. It then chronicles the Scott County Wilsons thru 2016. It includes a description of their life in the various venues especially the author's, who grew up in Alsey from 1947 to 1970. It is accurately researched.