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Author : William Herzog Collins,Cicero F. Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Adams County (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:499055775
Author : W. H. Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499055775
Author : WILLIAM HERTZOG. COLLINS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527636577
Author : John Tillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004707462
Author : Christiana Holmes Tillson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809319802
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 : Beth Lane
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781462076307
In 1912, a prosperous Illinois farm family Charles; his wife, Mathilda; their fifteen-year-old daughter, Blanche; and boarding schoolteacher Emma Kaempen were brutally murdered, the crime concealed by arson, and the family's surviving son, handsome Ray Pfanschmidt, arrested. He was convicted by the press long before trial. In Lies Told Under Oath, author Beth Lane retells the story of the murders, the trial, the verdict, and the aftermath. Using information culled from actual trial transcripts and newspaper accounts, Lane presents the day-to-day testimony as Ray's battle for his life surged through three courtrooms the drama complicated by brilliant attorneys, allegations of perjury, charges of rigged evidence, jailhouse informants, legal loopholes, conflict over the large estate being inherited by the alleged murderer, and appeals to the state supreme court. The remaining family became divided over Ray's guilt while his fiancée staunchly stood by him. Lies Told Under Oath provides a fascinating, historical account of the times and the people when science was in its infancy, telephones meant shared party lines, bloody evidence was contested (or contrived), and automobiles competed with bloodhounds and buggies. It captures the essence of an emotional crime that rocked this small Illinois community.
Author : John 1825-1892 Tillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362718440
Author : Roger D. Hunt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476626352
The sixth in a series documenting Union army colonels, this biographical dictionary lists regimental commanders from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A brief sketch of each is included--many published here for the first time--giving a synopsis of Civil War service and biographical details, along with photos where available.
Author : Reg Ankrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786498079
When newly elected Illinois State Representative Abraham Lincoln first saw 5'4" Stephen A. Douglas, he sized him up as "the least man I ever saw." With the introduction of Douglas's first bill in 1834, Lincoln soon thought differently. The General Assembly not only passed the bill, it appointed the 21-year-old Douglas State's Attorney of Illinois' largest judicial district, replacing John J. Hardin, one of Lincoln's most powerful political allies. It was the first of many Douglas-Lincoln contests in the decade ahead. Struggles over banking, internal improvements, party organizations, the seat of government and slavery--even romantic rivalry--put them on opposing sides long before the 1860 presidential election. These battles were Douglas's political apprenticeship and he would use what he learned to obstruct Lincoln--his friend and nemesis--while becoming the most powerful Democrat in the nation.
Author : Erica L. Ball,Tatiana Seijas,Terri L. Snyder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108493406
A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Quincy (Ill.)
ISBN : WISC:89073026213
Author : Kevin Schmiesing
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646800919
Awarded third place in pilgrimages/Catholic travel by the Catholic Media Association. Historian Kevin Schmiesing takes you to more than two-dozen sites and events that symbolize and embody America’s rich and sometimes tumultuous Catholic past, including the Santa Fe Trail, Gettysburg, and the Bourbon Trail. You’ll also meet both famous and infamous Catholics—including Augustus Tolton, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and Frances Cabrini—who impacted our nation’s history. The idea for A Catholic Pilgrimage through American History came from Schmiesing’s mother, he says. She turned every childhood vacation into a pilgrimage, purposely inserting religious sites into the family’s journey to places such as Niagara Falls, Washington, DC, or Myrtle Beach. Catholics have been part of the American experiment since the beginning—in founding the colonies and expanding the west, building education and health care systems, abolishing slavery, fighting on the front lines, and advancing science, technology, and space exploration. Each of the twenty-seven sites on Schmiesing’s virtual itinerary—including, the Washington Monument, Wounded Knee Creek, the University of Notre Dame, and Mission San Diego de Alcalá—transports you to a significant time in US history and connects the dots to our Catholic heritage. You will meet notable Catholics such as John F. Kennedy, Black Elk, and Katharine Drexel, and learn more about their contributions to history. You will explore the various and sometimes conflicting roles Catholics have played in key periods and events through the stories of shrines, memorials, and other historic places including: the Catholic Plymouth Rock—St. Mary’s City, Maryland; the Bourbon Trail—Church of St. Thomas, Bardstown, Kentucky; the Pope’s Stone—the Washington Monument in the District of Columbia; a Catholic mission and a Native American tragedy: Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota; and the home of the first Black priest—the churches of Quincy, Illinois.
Author : Margaret Walsh
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813182216
The history of the meat packing industry of the Midwest offers an excellent illustration of the growth and development of the economy of that major industrial region. In the course of one generation, meat packing matured from a small-scale, part-time activity to a specialized manufacturing operation. Margaret Walsh's pioneering study traces the course of that development, shedding light on an unexamined aspect of America's economic history. As the Midwest emerged from the frontier period during the 1840s and 1850s, the growing urban demand for meat products led to the development of a seasonal industry conducted by general merchants during the winter months. In this early stage the activity was widely dispersed but centered mainly along rivers, which provided ready transportation to markets. The growth of the railroads in the 1850s, coupled with the westward expansion of population, created sharp changes in the shape and structure of the industry. The distinct advantages of good rail connections led to the concentration of the industry primarily in Chicago, but also in St. Louis and Milwaukee. The closing of the Mississippi River during the Civil War insured the final dominance of rail transport and spelled the relative decline of such formerly important packing points as Cincinnati and Louisville. By the 1870s large and efficient centralized stockyards were being developed in the major centers, and improved technology, particularly ice-packing, favored those who had the capital resources to invest in expansion and modernization. By 1880, the use of the refrigerated car made way for the chilled beef trade, and the foundations of the giant meat packing industry of today had been firmly established. Margaret Walsh has located an impressive array of primary materials to document the rise of this important early industry, the predecessor and in many ways the precursor of the great industrial complex that still dominates today's midwestern economy.
Author : Henry Asbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Quincy (Ill.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024259293
Author : John Tillson,Quincy Ill Quincy Historical Society,William H Collins
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1294981404
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