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Book The Family Legacy of Henry Clay

Download or read book The Family Legacy of Henry Clay written by Lindsey Apple and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country’s solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple’s study delves into the family’s struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple’s extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay’s life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky’s most distinguished families.

Book Psychic Roots

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  • Author : Henry Z. Jones
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780806313887
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Psychic Roots written by Henry Z. Jones and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the influence of coincidence and serendipity on genealogical research, the chance combination of events over which the researcher has no control but which nevertheless guides him to a fortuitous discovery.

Book Henry Genealogy

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  • Author : William Henry Eldridge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Henry Genealogy written by William Henry Eldridge and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Record of the Rust Family

Download or read book Record of the Rust Family written by Albert Dexter Rust and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Rust (d.ca. 1684/1685) emigrated from Hingham, Norfolk County, England to Hingham, Massachusetts in about 1634/1635, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1645. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Includes some history of the Rust family in England and Germany to 1312, as well as other Rust individuals who immigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany and to Virginia and elsewhere in the south from England.

Book The Gove Book

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  • Author : William Henry Gove
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-06-16
  • ISBN : 9781462285471
  • Pages : 768 pages

Download or read book The Gove Book written by William Henry Gove and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-16 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original 1922 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Gove, William Henry. The Gove Book; History And Genealogy of The American Family of Gove, And Notes of European Goves. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Gove, William Henry. The Gove Book; History And Genealogy of The American Family of Gove, And Notes of European Goves, . Salem, Mass., S. Perley, 1922. Subject: Gowen Family

Book The Propp Family History

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  • Author : Henry W. Propp
  • Publisher : Arima Publishing
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9781845496531
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Propp Family History written by Henry W. Propp and published by Arima Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old, distinguished Propp family originated in the eighteenth century in Shkudvil and Tauroggen, in Lithuania. The Propp Family History traces the family from the earliest known member, Shimon ben Tzvi (Hirsh), also known as Shimel Girshevich Probnovich. He was born in about 1765 and died in about 1837. The family is now widely dispersed throughout Europe, the USA, and Israel. The book has two sections. The first contains some historical information on the family and in particular the origin of the name 'Propp', and also various stories written by Propp family members. These include first hand accounts of the family's sufferings during the Holocaust, in which many lost their lives, as well as the happier experiences of life in America, including the network of the Cousins Clubs the family established. The second section is an extensive descendants database, detailing the known family from Shimon, through his eight children, and down to the present day. Many photographs of places and people, collected from family members, make for a vivid recollection of some of that family story.

Book Henry Rains  1767 1838

Download or read book Henry Rains 1767 1838 written by David S. Rains and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections

Download or read book Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sayward Family

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  • Author : Charles Augustus Sayward
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Sayward Family written by Charles Augustus Sayward and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Sayward came to Massachusetts from England in 1637. He lived in Hampton and Portsmouth, New Hampshire and in York, Maine where he died in 1679. Includes Barrell and other related families.

Book A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers  and a Complete Genealogical Family Register  with Biographies of Their Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time

Download or read book A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers and a Complete Genealogical Family Register with Biographies of Their Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time written by Abraham James Fretz and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy of the descendants of Henry Funck born in Europe. He immigrated to America in 1719 and settled at Indian Creek, Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where he died in 1760. He married Anne Meyer.

Book Tudor

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  • Author : Leanda de Lisle
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2013-08-29
  • ISBN : 1448190061
  • Pages : 565 pages

Download or read book Tudor written by Leanda de Lisle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Tudor tells a family story like no other. The Tudors are a national obsession, undoubtedly British history's most notorious family. But beyond the well-worn headlines is a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family's obscure Welsh origins; it passes by the courage of the pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty; and the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their past - those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to forget. With this background, Leanda de Lisle enables us to see the Tudors in their own terms and presents new perspectives and revelations on key figures and events, from the princes in the Tower to the Tudor Queens. 'A lively history of the ambitious Tudor family... It casts plenty of light on the strong women in the dynasty' The Times **A Telegraph, History Today and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year**

Book Pearl s Secret

Download or read book Pearl s Secret written by Neil Henry and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery. In it, Neil Henry—a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post—sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's past. His search for the white branch of his family becomes a deeply personal odyssey, one in which Henry deploys all of his journalistic skills to uncover the paper trail that leads to blood relations who have lived for more than a century on the opposite side of the color line. At the same time Henry gives a powerful and vivid account of his black family's rise to success over the twentieth century. Throughout the course of this gripping story the author reflects on the part that racism and racial ignorance have played in his daily life—from his boyhood in largely white Seattle to his current role as a parent and educator in California. The contemporary debate over the significance of Thomas Jefferson's longtime romantic relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings, and recent DNA evidence that points to his role as the father of black descendants, have revealed the importance and volatility of the issue of dual-race legacies in American society. As Henry uncovers the dramatic history of his great-great-grandfather—a white English immigrant who fought as a Confederate officer in the Civil War, found success during Reconstruction as a Louisiana plantation owner, and enjoyed a long love affair with Henry's great-great-grandmother, a freed black slave—he grapples with an unsettling ambivalence about what he is trying to do. His straightforward, honest voice conveys both the pain and the exhilaration that his revelations bring him about himself, his family, and our society. In the book's stunning climax, the author finally meets his white kin, hears their own remarkable story of survival in America, and discovers a great deal about both the sting of racial prejudice as it is woven into the fabric of the nation, and his own proud identity as a teacher, father, and black American.

Book Eva and Henry

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  • Author : Irene M. Paine
  • Publisher : Author House
  • Release : 2010-09-14
  • ISBN : 145204645X
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Eva and Henry written by Irene M. Paine and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its 1886, and the Cape Cod South Wellfleet is stirring back to life after a long, cold winter. Strong-willed Eva Paine has always admired her dashing neighbor, Captain Henry Smith, and as fruit trees blossom, she abandons thoughts of a university education and arranges her own marriage. Evas wedding day is bittersweetshe bids her dear parents and brother good-bye and moves down the lane to Henrys family homestead. There she eagerly enters the realm of marital relations by night, and by day she practices the art of housekeeping under the watchful eyes of her new mother-in-law Eva accepts the joys and disappointments of her marriage with a unique combination of faith, good humor and forgiveness. She is soon in charge of all household affairs while Henry is out to sea, but is then expected to slip back into submission upon his every return. Motherhood seems elusive, even though Eva strongly desires to bear a child. Motivated by the alternating forces of passion and loneliness, Eva pushes towards the modern machine age as Henry insists upon continuing in a dangerous traditional profession. Their fiery relationship swings like a wind-blown weathervane between bliss and crushing pain Eva and Henry, A Cape Cod Marriage, transports the reader back in time to the Cape Cod of the late nineteenth centurya period of great social and economic upheaval. The novel will draw you firmly into the challenging lives of real people, and their story will remain with you long after youve finished reading. Be sure to visit www.EvaandHenry.com for photographs and more information about the time period, location, and the characters.

Book A History of Henry County  Virginia

Download or read book A History of Henry County Virginia written by Judith Parks America Hill and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry I

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith A. Green
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-03-02
  • ISBN : 0521591317
  • Pages : 13 pages

Download or read book Henry I written by Judith A. Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive biography of Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror and an elusive figure for historians, offers a rich and compelling account of his tumultuous life and reign. Judith Green argues that although Henry's primary concern was defence of his inheritance this did not preclude expansion where circumstances were propitious, notably into Welsh territory. His skilful dealings with the Scots permitted consolidation of Norman rule in the northern counties of England, while in Normandy every sinew was strained to defend frontiers through political alliances and stone castles. Green argues that although Henry's own outlook was essentially traditional, the legacy of this fascinating and ruthless personality included some fundamentally important developments in governance. She also sheds light on Henry's court, suggesting that it made an important contribution to the flowering of court culture throughout twelfth-century Europe.

Book History of Patrick and Henry Counties  Virginia

Download or read book History of Patrick and Henry Counties Virginia written by Virginia G. Pedigo and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1977 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an illuminating account of the history of Patrick and Henry counties, which occupies the first third of the book, the authors turn their attention to genealogy, providing authoritative histories of no fewer than 110 families. The genealogies generally begin with the first settler in either Patrick or Henry County and proceed to enumerate descendants in several generations, providing incidental detail according to the materials available. In addition to the remarkable collection of genealogies, the book also contains transcriptions of important genealogical source materials, such as the Patrick and Henry land grants and patents registered in the old Land Office in Richmond.

Book Henry   Leo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Zagarenski
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-10-04
  • ISBN : 1328661873
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Henry Leo written by Pamela Zagarenski and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo isn’t just a stuffed toy, he is Henry’s best friend and brother. He is as real as a tree, a cloud, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the wind. But when the two are accidentally separated, no one in Henry’s family believes Leo is real enough to find his way home. With beautiful mixed-media paintings, the Caldecott Honor–winning artist Pamela Zagarenski explores the transcendent nature of friendship and love.