Author: Ruth Ann Montgomery
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Category : Evansville (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: Milton J. Bates
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206044
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The Bark River valley in southeastern Wisconsin is a microcosm of the state's - indeed, of the Great Lakes region's - natural and human history. "The Bark River Chronicles" reports one couple's journey by canoe from the river's headwaters to its confluence with the Rock River and several miles farther downstream to Lake Koshkonong. Along the way, it tells the stories of Ice Age glaciation, the effigy mound builders, the Black Hawk War, early settlement and the development of waterpower sites, and recent efforts to remove old dams and mitigate the damage done by water pollution and invasive species. Along with these big stories, the book recounts dozens of little stories associated with sites along the river. The winter ice harvest, grain milling technology, a key supreme court decision regarding toxic waste disposal, a small-town circus, a scheme to link the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River by canal, the murder of a Chicago mobster, controversies over race and social class in Waukesha County's lake country, community efforts to clean up the river and restore a marsh, visits to places associated with the work of important Wisconsin writers - these and many other stories belong to the Bark River chronicles. For the two voyageurs who paddle the length of the Bark, it is a journey of rediscovery and exploration. As they glide through marshes, woods, farmland, and cities, they acquire not only historical and environmental knowledge but also a renewed sense of the place in which they live. Maps and historical photographs help the reader share their experience.

Author: Thomas J. McCrory
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599283
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Lists posts, badges and officers of Wisconsin Civil War veterans organizations.

Author: Raymond Anderson
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Category : Monroe County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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The earliest known ancestor Garrett Francisco (b. 1792) who was born in New York state. He married Mary Lasdel and they were the parents of Benjamin Francisco (1823-1903). Benjamin married Lucia Lasdel in 1845 and they were the parents of eleven children. They eventually moved west to Wisconsin and then to Nebraska. Descendants inter- married with the Anderson and Plank families and live throughout the United States.

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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author: Ruth Ann Montgomery
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738560090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The Evansville area was settled in 1839 and the village platted in 1855 on the hopes that the railroad would come through. It was named for Evansvilleas first physician, Dr. John M. Evans. When the railroad arrived in 1863, Evansvilleas prosperity was assured. There were many opportunities for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad offered passenger and freight service to major markets in Chicago and the West. Local farmers found national and international markets for their prizewinning livestock and produce. The Evansville Seminary and a strong public school system provided educational opportunities. Literary societies, churches, and veterans groups provided social activities. Talented 19th- and 20th-century architects and craftsmen were responsible for the fine collection of architectural styles in Evansville.

Author: Peter Clark Allen
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Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: Philip McFarland
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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A richly textured account of the writer’s three sojourns in New England “illuminates Hawthorne’s art and the intellectual ferment originating in that small, bucolic town” (Publishers Weekly). On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother’s home in Salem. In 1853, Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Eager to resume writing fiction at the scene of his earlier happiness, he assembled a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, who was running for president. When Pierce won the election, Hawthorne was appointed the lucrative post of consul in Liverpool. Coming home from Europe in 1860, Hawthorne settled down in Concord once more. He tried to take up writing one last time, but deteriorating health found him withdrawing into private life. In Hawthorne in Concord, acclaimed historian Philip McFarland paints a revealing portrait of this well-loved American author during three distinct periods of his life, spent in the bucolic village of Concord, Massachusetts. “I don’t know when I have read a book as satisfying as Hawthorne in Concord.” —David Herbert Donald

Author: G. D. Watson
Publisher: Kingsley Press
ISBN: 1937428915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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G. D. Watson (1845-1924) was one of the most influential and best-loved preachers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century holiness movement, and his influence lives on today through his numerous writings. He was a humble man with amazing intellectual prowess and an exceptional grasp of spiritual truth. As a successful pastor in his early thirties he was led into a deep consecration of his whole being to God which completely transformed his life and ministry. After some years in the pastorate, Watson felt the call to evangelism. He traveled widely in the United States and eventually held meetings in England, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Korea.Dr. Levin P. Causey said of Dr. Watson: “He stands apart, unique, a rare genius. He was no copyist. His chariot wheels were not loaded with and stirred up by other drivers. His thinking was Watsonian, of the George type. His rhetoric was according to the rules of Watson. He was largely self-trained, and it would have been difficult to train him otherwise. He was original to an unusual degree; not that he ignored entirely the thoughts and works of others. This may no man do. He read voraciously and absorbed what he read, but he had the power of transforming and resetting that which he gathered from others, until it stood forth clothed in new dress and bearing the image of originality. In the life of George Watson were mingled rare natural endowments and hard work. He excelled both as a speaker and a writer. Great preachers who heard him and read his writings were impressed that a star of great magnitude had risen among them. Dr. Robert N. Baer, of the Baltimore Conference, said of him, when he had been preaching only some half dozen years, that no other man could say things as Watson said them.”All readers of Watson’s books will be forever grateful to his wife of fifty-five years for pulling aside the curtain on a life lived so completely for God and souls.

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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