Download or read book History of Freeman and the First Homestead written by Russell A. Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Freeman Homestead written by Nebraska State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Freeman Family written by Mrs. Juliette Freeman Lafferty and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Freeman Family: Including Six Generations The first history of the Freeman family, written in the year 1894, was read before the assemblage at the Freeman family reunion, which took place at Fountain Park, Champaign Co., Ohio, on the first day of September, 1894. That was the first regular re union held by the Freeman family, and they have also been held annually to the present time. The history had been written partly for that occasion, and partly as a souvenir to be presented to one of our cousins, who was so very young when his father died, that he knew. But little about his ancestors, and he had occasionally asked me about them, as I was older than he; therefore, I wrote a little history, so he could read it for himself. Since that time a number of the family relatives have expressed a desire to obtain the history and thereby become more definitely acquainted with the existence of their 'people. Consequently, the author, later, undertook the work of revising and enlarging the first history. Then the, idea presented itself to us, that it might be expedient to pre pare the history for publication, if at any time it should be deemed worth while to make of it a printed book, thus giving all an oppor tunity of gaining some knowledgeconcerning their ancestors, and the names, and whereabouts of the relatives as they have descended in line through the difierent generations, also the number of descend ants in the last five generations. The first three generations of the six, have all passed away, so faras our branch of the Freeman family is concerned. Besides myself, the're is no other one of the fourth generation who had the opportunity to learn much of the history of our ancestors, even had they. Taken an interest therein, for I was born in'my grandparents' house, and my parents always lived in part of their home until I Was about seventeen years old; with the exception of two and a_h_alf years, when I was a small girl.. My grandmother always took delight in giving me the family history on her own side, and grandfather's also, as far as she knew, and I was fond of hearing about relatives whom I harl never seen or known of, and I remember a great deal that she told me, besides what I knew myself; but I.have forgotten many items that would have been of interest in our history. 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.
Download or read book Black Walden written by Elise Lemire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution and the settlement of the little cabin with the bean rows, however, Walden Woods was home to several generations of freed slaves and their children. Living on the fringes of society, they attempted to pursue lives of freedom, promised by the rhetoric of the Revolution, and yet withheld by the practice of racism. Thoreau was all but alone in his attempt "to conjure up the former occupants of these woods." Other than the chapter he devoted to them in Walden, the history of slavery in Concord has been all but forgotten. In Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, Elise Lemire brings to life the former slaves of Walden Woods and the men and women who held them in bondage during the eighteenth century. After charting the rise of Concord slaveholder John Cuming, Black Walden follows the struggles of Cuming's slave, Brister, as he attempts to build a life for himself after thirty-five years of enslavement. Brister Freeman, as he came to call himself, and other of the town's slaves were able to leverage the political tensions that fueled the American Revolution and force their owners into relinquishing them. Once emancipated, however, the former slaves were permitted to squat on only the most remote and infertile places. Walden Woods was one of them. Here, Freeman and his neighbors farmed, spun linen, made baskets, told fortunes, and otherwise tried to survive in spite of poverty and harassment. With a new preface that reflects on community developments since the hardcover's publication, Black Walden reminds us that this was a black space before it was an internationally known green space and preserves the legacy of the people who strove against all odds to overcome slavery and segregation.
Download or read book Behemoth A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World written by Joshua B. Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national imagination.…More than an economic history, or a chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change. He whisks readers from the early textile mills that powered the Industrial Revolution to the factory towns of New England to today’s behemoths making sneakers, toys, and cellphones in China and Vietnam. Behemoth offers a piercing perspective on how factories have shaped our societies and the challenges we face now.
Download or read book Daniel and Agnes Freeman Homesteaders written by Beverly S. Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Freeman (1826-1908) of Abingdon, Illinois married Agnes Suiter (1843-1931) of Le Claire, Iowa on February 8, 1865. They settled in Beatrice, Nebraska where Daniel had claimed the first homestead under the Homestead Act of 1862. In 1936 the Freeman homestead was designated a National Monument. Descendants and relatives lived in Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois.
Download or read book Homesteading the Plains written by Richard Edwards and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment. Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation's four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plainsdemonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public's perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed. Homesteading the Plainsprovides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy. "--
Download or read book History and Stories of Nebraska written by Addison Erwin Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dan Freeman written by Dan Jaffe and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Freeman was born in 1826 in Preble County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Wilbur in 1853 and they had three children. He married Agnes Suiter in 1865. They had eight children. They settled in Nebraska. He was the first man to file for land under the Homestead Act of 1862. He died in 1908.
Download or read book The Homestead Act of 1862 written by Jason Porterfield and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-08-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary source documents discuss the creation of the Homestead Act that allowed pioneers headed West a piece of land to settle on and build a new life.
Download or read book The Citizen s Share written by Joseph R. Blasi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of workers owning the businesses where they work is not new. In America’s early years, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison believed that the best economic plan for the Republic was for citizens to have some ownership stake in the land, which was the main form of productive capital. This book traces the development of that share idea in American history and brings its message to today's economy, where business capital has replaced land as the source of wealth creation.div /DIVdivBased on a ten-year study of profit sharing and employee ownership at small and large corporations, this important and insightful work makes the case that the Founders’ original vision of sharing ownership and profits offers a viable path toward restoring the middle class. Blasi, Freeman, and Kruse show that an ownership stake in a corporation inspires and increases worker loyalty, productivity, and innovation. Their book offers history-, economics-, and evidence-based policy ideas at their best./DIV
Download or read book History of Nebraska written by James C. Olson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska, and revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for three generations. This third edition, which has been thoroughly revised and rewritten while preserving the spirit and intelligence of the original, affirms and extends that record. Incorporating the results of thirty years of scholarship and research, the third edition of History of Nebraska gives fuller attention to such topics as the Native American experience in Nebraska and the accomplishments and circumstances of the state’s women and minorities. It also provides a historical analysis of the state’s dramatic changes in the past thirty years.
Download or read book The Record written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nebraska's dead: names of men from our state who gave their lives in the World War" in v. 2, no. 1, p. 4-8.
Download or read book History and Stories of Nebraska written by Addison Erwin Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butcher s Crossing written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.
