Author: ANDREW DICKSON WHITE
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Author: Andrew Dickson White
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732653757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Reproduction of the original: Autobiography by Andrew Dickson White

Author: Andrew Dickson White
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Pages : 652

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Pages : 816

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Author: Gamaliel Bradford
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Pages : 442

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Author: Andrew Dickson White
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613106394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1548

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At the close of the Revolution which separated the colonies from the mother country, the legislature of New York set apart nearly two million acres of land, in the heart of the State, as bounty to be divided among her soldiers who had taken part in the war; and this ``Military Tract,'' having been duly divided into townships, an ill- inspired official, in lack of names for so many divisions, sprinkled over the whole region the contents of his classical dictionary. Thus it was that there fell to a beautiful valley upon the headwaters of the Susquehanna the name of ``Homer.'' Fortunately the surveyor-general left to the mountains, lakes, and rivers the names the Indians had given them, and so there was still some poetical element remaining in the midst of that unfortunate nomenclature. The counties, too, as a rule, took Indian names, so that the town of Homer, with its neighbors, Tully, Pompey, Fabius, Lysander, and the rest, were embedded in the county of Onondaga, in the neighborhood of lakes Otisco and Skaneateles, and of the rivers Tioughnioga and Susquehanna. Hither came, toward the close of the eighteenth century, a body of sturdy New Englanders, and, among them, my grandfathers and grandmothers. Those on my father's side: Asa White and Clara Keep, from Munson, Massa- chusetts; those on my mother's side, Andrew Dickson, from Middlefield, Massachusetts, and Ruth Hall from Guilford, Connecticut. They were all of ``good stock.'' When I was ten years old I saw my great-grandfather at Middlefield, eighty-two years of age, sturdy and vigorous; he had mowed a broad field the day before, and he walked four miles to church the day after. He had done his duty manfully during the war, had been a member of the ``Great and General Court'' of Massachusetts, and had held various other offices, which showed that he enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citizens. As to the other side of the house, there was a tradition that we came from Peregrine White of the Mayflower; but I have never had time to find whether my doubts on the subject were well founded or not. Enough for me to know that my yeomen ancestors did their duty in war and peace, were honest, straightforward, God-fearing men and women, who owned their own lands, and never knew what it was to cringe before any human being.

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Category : Child development
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Pages : 546

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Vols. 5-15 include "Bibliography of child study," by Louis N. Wilson.

Author: Cornell University. Library
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Pages : 314

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Annotated author catalogue with subject entries under person and place. Comp. by George Lincoln Burr, W.H. Hudson and A.V. Babine.

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Pages : 886

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Category : English periodicals
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Pages : 818

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