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Book A Dowling Family of the South

Download or read book A Dowling Family of the South written by R. A. Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Baxter Dowling married Elizabeth Wells, daughter of his father s neighbor, Eben Josiah Wells. Dowling was the son of a Dale County, Alabama, pioneer, John Dowling, who came from Darlington District, South Carolina. Noel Baxter Dowling saw the new Midland Railroad as an opportunity. He sold his 100 acre farm in Ozark and moved his family to Pinckard near the junction of the roads coming from Campbellton, Florida, and Columbia, Alabama. He d dabbled in the mercantile business in Ozark. Noel Baxter Dowling erected one of the two "hotels" needed to handle the drummers who came there to work the surrounding countryside ... It was in this period that Haywood Hart, a son of N.B. entered business. The old fifteen by twenty foot store in which this boy started his fortune still stood on the Dowling farm west of Pinckard. "H.H." as he was known became the first millionaire to descend from ancestor Robert Dowling ... Yet one of his first endeavors had been the job of "butch" boy on his hometown's railroad, selling onion plants, seed, newspapers, etc. Eventually, Hayward Hart came into the possession of the Houston Hotel in Dothan, Alabama.

Book A Dowling Family of the South

    Book Details:
  • Author : R a 1922- Dowling
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014688682
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book A Dowling Family of the South written by R a 1922- Dowling and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book A Dowling Family of the South

Download or read book A Dowling Family of the South written by R. A. Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Slave in the White House

Download or read book A Slave in the White House written by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the Madison White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a first White House memoirist and father of two Union Army soldiers.

Book From Jamestown to Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty Smith Meischen
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-09-22
  • ISBN : 1453576398
  • Pages : 680 pages

Download or read book From Jamestown to Texas written by Betty Smith Meischen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rugged character and indomitable spirit of the early pioneers of Stephen F. Austins Texas colony had their roots in a turbulent, distant past. From the early 1600s, their courageous ancestors had pushed westward, leaving the European shores to carve out a new nation from the wilderness. They fled religious and political oppression in search of a better life in which freedom was of supreme importance. Many came with tales of their former struggles in Londonderry, Ireland during the great siege, of terrible massacres and clan rivalries in the times of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. They vividly remembered the tribulations of Martin Luther and the deadly religious split with the Catholic Church. More recently, memories of their parents participation in the American Revolution, of dramatic, true life scenes such as depicted in the movie The Patriot filled their minds, their fathers having ridden along side of the wily Swamp Fox, Francis Marion. These pioneers associated themselves with men like Travis, Crockett, Houston and Andrew Jackson. Many of these early trailblazers were Scots-Irish and German immigrants. They were on a westward trek to grasp a special prize, to seal Americas Manifest Destiny. And that prize they sought was Texas. From Jamestown to Texas is the story of these intrepid pioneers and their ancestors who cleared and farmed the land, who fought the Indians, battled the elements, and carved out this wonderful country that we have today.

Book How to Be a Husband

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Dowling
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 0147517745
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book How to Be a Husband written by Tim Dowling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While this book is indeed titled How to Be a Husband, please do not mistake it for a self-help book. Tim Dowling—columnist for The Guardian, husband, father of three, a person who once got into a shark tank for money—does not purport to have any pearls of wisdom about wedded life. What he does have is more than twenty years of marriage experience, and plenty of hilarious advice for what not to do in almost every conjugal situation. With the sharp wit that has made his Guardian columns a weekly must-read, Dowling explores what it means to be a good husband in the twenty-first century. The bar has been raised dramatically in the last hundred years: back in the day, every time you went out for cigarettes, it was simply expected that you came back. Now, every time you’re sent out for espresso pods and tampons, it is expected that you come back with the right sort. And being a father doesn’t seem to command much innate respect these days, either. When his first child was born, Dowling imagined himself eliciting a natural awe as the distant, authoritative figurehead; he did not anticipate his children hijacking his Twitter account to post heartfelt admissions of loserdom like, “Hi, I suck at everything I try in life.” Still, two decades of wedded bliss is nothing to sneeze at, particularly from a couple who agreed to get married with the resigned determination of two people plotting to bury a body in the woods. How to Be a Husband is a wickedly funny guide to surviving the era of “The End of Men” (hint: it involves DIY), and an unexpectedly poignant memoir about love, marriage, and staying together until death doth you part.

Book Frog   s Rainy Day Story and Other Fables

Download or read book Frog s Rainy Day Story and Other Fables written by Michael James Dowling and published by Carpenter's Son Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW EXPANDED EDITION! Mom’s Choice GOLD Award Winner! Designated by WORLD Magazine as one of the top six Christian-themed picture books published in the 21st century. Nine imaginative, entertaining, and colorfully illustrated fables teach children sound values and practical life lessons. An ideal way for parents, grandparents, and Christian educators to instruct the next generation in a biblical worldview. Enriched by more than 60 whimsical illustrations, this award-winning, 80-page hardcover book by husband-and-wife team Michael and Sarah Dowling is a keepsake the whole family will enjoy reading again and again. Its timely tales of timeless truths will help readers young and old live according to Scriptural principles in our increasingly confusing world. A glossary will help younger children learn more difficult words. Discussion questions for each fable make the book an ideal learning resource for family devotions, home school studies, church and Christian school classes, and small group discussions. Two “Burrowing Deeper” study guides—one for children and one for adults & teens—are available as free downloads from the book’s website, https://FrogsRainyDayStory.com.

Book African American Genealogical Research

Download or read book African American Genealogical Research written by Paul R. Begley and published by South Carolina Department of Archives & History. This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Last Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph McInerny
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2003-07-17
  • ISBN : 1429977787
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Last Things written by Ralph McInerny and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Dowling is used to unsolicited knocks on the rectory door, having done more than his share of counseling and assisting in delicate situations during his long career. So when Eleanor Wygant comes to visit Father Dowling he receives her graciously, though she is a stranger. As it turns out, members of her family are longtime parishioners of St. Hillary's, and it soon becomes clear that with family trouble brewing, Eleanor doesn't know where else to turn. When she enlists Father Dowling's help in persuading her niece Jessica to scrap the tell-all family novel she is writing and concentrate on more earthly pursuits, the venerable priest has little idea how enmeshed he is about to become in the family's edgy interrelations. For in recent years, the family has had its share of melodrama, including a philandering patriarch, a son who left the priesthood to take up with an ex-nun, and an underachieving academic, and it's up to Dowling to piece together their shared history in the hopes of putting their demons-and a vicious, previously unknown murder-to rest. In the hands of Ralph McInerny, one of mystery fiction's most beloved authors, Last Things is as delightful as his legions of fans have come to expect from the charming Father Dowling series.

Book A Cardinal Offense

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph McInerny
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780786204021
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book A Cardinal Offense written by Ralph McInerny and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Father Dowling mystery.

Book Lay Down My Sword and Shield

Download or read book Lay Down My Sword and Shield written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage James Lee Burke: The first novel introducing the memorable Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, coming of age against the backdrop of the civil rights era in a sultry border town. In hot and sultry Texas, Hack, an attorney and Korean War POW, is being pushed by his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends in the oil business to run for political office. But Hack would prefer to drink, look after his beloved horses, and represent the occasional long-shot pro bono case at his law firm. When Hack attempts to overturn a conviction for an old army buddy, he finds himself embroiled in the seamy underbelly of the Texas patronage system—and in the earliest beginnings of the United Farm Workers movement, led by a beautiful woman who speaks to his heart in a way no one else has. As Hack begins to bring justice to the underserved, he finds both a new love and a new purpose. With his skillful blend of engaging plotlines, compelling characters, and graceful prose, James Lee Burke demonstrates the shimmering clarity of vision that has made him beloved by suspense fans all over the globe.

Book The Original Black Elite

Download or read book The Original Black Elite written by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era—embodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and black history pioneer Daniel Murray. In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore, was in the vanguard of Washington, D.C.’s black upper class. Appointed Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress—at a time when government appointments were the most prestigious positions available for blacks—Murray became wealthy through his business as a construction contractor and married a college-educated socialite. The Murrays’ social circles included some of the first African-American U.S. Senators and Congressmen, and their children went to the best colleges—Harvard and Cornell. Though Murray and other black elite of his time were primed to assimilate into the cultural fabric as Americans first and people of color second, their prospects were crushed by Jim Crow segregation and the capitulation to white supremacist groups by the government, which turned a blind eye to their unlawful—often murderous—acts. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor traces the rise, fall, and disillusionment of upper-class African Americans, revealing that they were a representation not of hypothetical achievement but what could be realized by African Americans through education and equal opportunities. As she makes clear, these well-educated and wealthy elite were living proof that African Americans did not lack ability to fully participate in the social contract as white supremacists claimed, making their subsequent fall when Reconstruction was prematurely abandoned all the more tragic. Illuminating and powerful, her magnificent work brings to life a dark chapter of American history that too many Americans have yet to recognize.

Book Good Night Engines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denise Dowling Mortensen
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2003-10-20
  • ISBN : 0547563035
  • Pages : 43 pages

Download or read book Good Night Engines written by Denise Dowling Mortensen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-10-20 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative, inviting bedtime book, lyrical verse tells of various vehicles winding down for the night and "rolling off to bed." On alternate spreads, luminous paintings depict a little boy playing with toy engines in his bedroom as well as life-sized engines in the outside world. The soothing text and large, up-close pictures of trucks, planes, and fire engines, among others, will make this a favorite bedtime story of all toddlers and preschoolers who are fascinated with things that go.

Book The Retina

    Book Details:
  • Author : John E. Dowling
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780674766808
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Retina written by John E. Dowling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jack Vance Treasury

Download or read book The Jack Vance Treasury written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.

Book Pretend You Don t Know Me

Download or read book Pretend You Don t Know Me written by Finuala Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems.