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.
Pulaski County, Illinois, 1987
Author: Pulaski County History Book Committee (Pulaski County, Ill.)
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021214
Category : Pulaski County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0938021214
Category : Pulaski County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Free Frank
Author: Juliet E.K. Walker
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tennessee, Frank was left in charge of the Kentucky farm. During the War of 1812, he set up his own saltpeter works, an enterprise he maintained until he left Kentucky. In 1817 he purchased his wife's freedom for $800; two years later he bought his own liberty for the same price. Now free, he expanded his activities, purchasing land and dealing in livestock. With his wife and four of his children, Free Frank left Kentucky in 1830 to settle on a new frontier. In Pike County, Illinois, he purchased a farm and later, in 1836, platted and successfully promoted the town of New Philadelphia. The desire for freedom was an obvious spur to his commercial efforts. Through his lifetime of work he purchased the liberty of sixteen members of his family at a cost of nearly $14,000. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional man, through working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of African Americans.
History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Counties, Illinois
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexander County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexander County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Arkansas Made, Volume 1
Author: Swannee Bennett
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226131X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226131X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.
Polish Pioneers in Illinois 1818-1850
Author: James D. Lodesky
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146282188X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This book attempts to discover the names of the first Polish settlers in Illinois, when they came to Illinois and their stories when possible. Some left complete stories about themselves while others only a very small amount. The time period starts in 1818, the year Illinois became a state and ends in 1850. I found much more information between 1818 and 1850 then I thought I would so I cut the book off at 1850. The Polish settlers are divided into five different categories. 1. Polish Political Exiles from Russia. 2. Polish emigrants from mainly German occupied Poland. 3. Polish Jews. 4. People of Polish descent, those persons with a Polish ancestor. 5. Emigrants from an undetermined county whose last names look Polish.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146282188X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This book attempts to discover the names of the first Polish settlers in Illinois, when they came to Illinois and their stories when possible. Some left complete stories about themselves while others only a very small amount. The time period starts in 1818, the year Illinois became a state and ends in 1850. I found much more information between 1818 and 1850 then I thought I would so I cut the book off at 1850. The Polish settlers are divided into five different categories. 1. Polish Political Exiles from Russia. 2. Polish emigrants from mainly German occupied Poland. 3. Polish Jews. 4. People of Polish descent, those persons with a Polish ancestor. 5. Emigrants from an undetermined county whose last names look Polish.
Ninth Census of the United States. Statistics of Population
Author: United States. Census Office 9th Census, 1870
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Searcher
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Russell Co, KY - Hist & Families
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112353
Category : Russell County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112353
Category : Russell County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Woman and African Society
Author: Man Singh Das
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9788185880549
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is a valuable source book indicating the influence of history, cultural conflict and the dynamics of equal modernization and industrialization on the condition of women in african societies.
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9788185880549
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is a valuable source book indicating the influence of history, cultural conflict and the dynamics of equal modernization and industrialization on the condition of women in african societies.