A Woman S Story Of Pioneer Illinois

Author : Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809319802

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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson Pdf

Christiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and real estate business and began to raise a family. A half century later, in 1870, Christiana Tillson wrote about her early days in Illinois in a memoir published by R. R. Donnelley in 1919. The Tillsons lived quite ordinary lives in extraordinary times, notes Kay J. Carr, introducing this edition. They moved west and prospered in the land business at a time when America was being transformed from a rural, agricultural country into an urban, industrial nation. Their views and sensibilities, Carr says, might seem strange to us, but they were entirely normal to people in the early nineteenth century. Thus Tillson's memoir provides fascinating but believable snapshots of ordinary nineteenth-century American life.

Author : CHRISTIANA HOLMES. TILLSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033392634

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WOMAN'S STORY OF PIONEER ILLINOIS by CHRISTIANA HOLMES. TILLSON Pdf

Author : Christiana Holmes 1798-1872 Tillson,Milo Milton 1880-1959 Quaife
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362951382

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WOMANS STORY OF PIONEER ILLINO by Christiana Holmes 1798-1872 Tillson,Milo Milton 1880-1959 Quaife Pdf

Author : Christiana Holmes 1796-1872 Tillson,Milo Milton 1880-1959 Quaife
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
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Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371056404

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WOMANS STORY OF PIONEER ILLINO by Christiana Holmes 1796-1872 Tillson,Milo Milton 1880-1959 Quaife Pdf

Author : Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 42 pages
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Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230306315

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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... of pioneer 91lUnote Amherst, Mass., June 28, 1870. My Dear Daughter: HENEVER you have expressed a wish that I would write out some of my early western experiences, I have felt an inclination to comply with your request, but ill health and other hindrances have prevented. As writing is not my forte, I do not feel that I can produce anything which will at present interest you much; but my own appreciation of every record left me by my good mother and my dear husband makes me feel that I may leave you something which will interest you in after life, more than at the present time. Although you have spent the greater part of your life at the West, the accumulation of comforts, and the luxuries and improvements forty or fifty years have brought, and which are there so liberally enjoyed, forbid the realization of frontier life to those who have not by stern experience passed through such an ordeal; and though we have many pleasant recollections, I think, as a whole, the retrospect is preferable to the reality. Few would like to again pass through the bitterness for the sake of enjoying the remembrance of the few sweets. Your father's date of western life was three and a half years earlier than mine. He went to Illinois in the spring of 1819, and I did not go until the autumn of 1822. He, of course, had a sterner experience of backwoods life than I had; he also had a stronger development of hope, and a most indomitable energy that carried him through all the disagreeables that came in his way. It is rare to find one so amiable in every relation in his intercourse with the world, both socially and in business transactions, who yet could be so determined and persevering in whatever he undertook to do. His boyhood and early manhood were spent with...

Author : Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440086397

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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois (Classic Reprint) by Christiana Holmes Tillson Pdf

Excerpt from A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois N The Lakeside Classics for 1918 were pre sented several pictures, by contemporary observers, of society and conditions in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Milo Milton 1880-1959 Quaife,Christiana Holmes Mrs Tillson, 1798-1
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371747652

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WOMANS STORY OF PIONEER ILLINO by Milo Milton 1880-1959 Quaife,Christiana Holmes Mrs Tillson, 1798-1 Pdf

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Author : Christiana H. Tillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:219864505

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Woman's story of pioneer Illinois by Christiana H. Tillson Pdf

Author : Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809319810

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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson Pdf

Christiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and real estate business and began to raise a family. A half century later, in 1870, Christiana Tillson wrote about her early days in Illinois in a memoir published by R. R. Donnelley in 1919. The Tillsons lived quite ordinary lives in extraordinary times, notes Kay J. Carr, introducing this edition. They moved west and prospered in the land business at a time when America was being transformed from a rural, agricultural country into an urban, industrial nation. Their views and sensibilities, Carr says, might seem strange to us, but they were entirely normal to people in the early nineteenth century. Thus Tillson's memoir provides fascinating but believable snapshots of ordinary nineteenth-century American life.

Author : Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519059906

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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson Pdf

So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier.Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the east were common of many later western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "west" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future.But the Tillson's did and Christiana left us a valuable account of their trials.

Author : Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0806315822

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The Hidden Half of the Family by Christina K. Schaefer Pdf

Offers information on finding female ancestors in each state, highlighting those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own real estate in her own name, devise a will, and enter into contracts. In addition, entries contain information on marriage and divorce law, immigration, citizenship, passports, suffrage, and slave manumission. Material is included on African American, Native American, and Asian American women, as well as patterns of European immigration. Period covered is from the 1600s to the outbreak of WWII. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,Wendy Hamand Venet
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211336

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Midwestern Women by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy,Wendy Hamand Venet Pdf

Examining four centuries of Midwestern women's history, contributors discuss ways these women's lives both resemble and differ from those of women of other regions. Midwestern female experience is shown to be distinctive in terms of degrees of migration, which resulted in the Midwest becoming a cultural crossroads.

Author : Lois Carrier
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0252068084

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Illinois by Lois Carrier Pdf

With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role in linking East Coast industrial cities, the agricultural heartland, and the Gulf Coast. Writing in a fast-paced, down-to-earth style, Lois Carrier introduces a host of innovations and innovators associated with Illinois: Jane Addams and Louis Armstrong, Frank Lloyd Wright and Walt Disney, Cracker Jack and the Ferris wheel. From the Cahokia Mounds to Chicago, Illinois: Crossroads of a Continent provides a panoramic history for students and general readers.

Author : Robert Mazrim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226514239

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The Sangamo Frontier by Robert Mazrim Pdf

When Abraham Lincoln moved to Illinois’ Sangamo Country in 1831, he found a pioneer community transforming from a cluster of log houses along an ancient trail to a community of new towns and state roads. But two of the towns vanished in a matter of years, and many of the activities and lifestyles that shaped them were almost entirely forgotten. In The Sangamo Frontier, archaeologist Robert Mazrim unearths the buried history of this early American community, breathing new life into a region that still rests in Lincoln’s shadow. Named after a shallow river that cuts through the prairies of central Illinois, the Sangamo Country—an area that now encompasses the capital city of Springfield and present-day Sangamon County—was first colonized after the War of 1812. For the past fifteen years, Mazrim has conducted dozens of excavations there, digging up pieces of pioneer life, from hand-forged iron and locally made crockery to pewter spoons and Staffordshire teacups. And here, in beautifully illustrated stories of each dig, he shows how each of these small artifacts can teach us something about the lifestyles of people who lived on the frontier nearly two hundred years ago. Allowing us to see past the changed modern landscape and the clichés of pioneer history, Mazrim deftly uses his findings to portray the homes, farms, taverns, and pottery shops where Lincoln’s neighbors once lived and worked. Drawing readers into the thrill of discovery, The Sangamo Frontier inaugurates a new kind of archaeological history that both enhances and challenges our written history. It imbues today’s landscape with an authentic ghostliness that will reawaken the curiosity of anyone interested in the forgotten people and places that helped shape our nation.

Author : David Blanke
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 9780821413470

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Sowing the American Dream by David Blanke Pdf

From 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was urban, industrial, and economically interdependent. Midwestern commercial farmers found themselves at the heart of these changes. Their actions and reactions led to the formation of a distinctive and particularly democratic consumer ethos, which is still being played out today. By focusing on the consumer behavior of midwestern farmers, Sowing the American Dream provides illustrative examples of how Americans came to terms with the economic and ideological changes that swirled around them. From the formation of the Grange to the advent of mail-order catalogs, the buying patterns of rural midwesterners set the stage for the coming century. Carefully documenting the rise and fall of the powerful purchasing cooperatives, David Blanke explains the shifting trends in collective consumerism, which ultimately resulted in a significant change in the way that midwestern consumers pursued their own regional identity, community, and independence.