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Book The Genealogical Department

Download or read book The Genealogical Department written by Katie-Prince Ward Esker and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writings on American History

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flagler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward N. Akin
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2020-04-15
  • ISBN : 0813065690
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Flagler written by Edward N. Akin and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From reviews of the first edition: "A succinct and informed account of [Flagler's] leadership in transforming Florida's economy."--American Historical Review "An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil's extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida's Atlantic Coast."--The Historian Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs. Flagler drove himself as hard as he drove a bargain, obsessed with the desire to create a monument to himself that he called "my domain." His legacy was no less than modern Florida. In 1885, at the age of fifty-five, he turned his attention away from Standard Oil and began construction of the Ponce de León luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the city where he had honeymooned with his second wife. Realizing he could never fill its rooms unless better transportation with the North was available, he embarked on the second railroad venture of his lifetime, creation of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler's resort empire eventually included The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Royal Palm in Miami; his Atlantic coast railroad extended all the way to Key West, an engineering achievement that was called the "eighth wonder of the world." By the beginning of the twentieth century, Flagler dominated not just the resort and railroad industries in Florida but steamship and agricultural operations, too. Florida politicians gave his projects preferential treatment, even changing the state's divorce law so he could marry for a third time. Woven into this biography are details about Flagler's family, personality, three marriages, alienation from his only son, and devotion to the Presbyterian church--copy that fueled society gossip columns from New York to Palm Beach for decades. Edward N. Akin, author of Mississippi: An Illustrated History and other works on southern history, taught at Mississippi College in Clinton. His biography of Henry Flagler won the 1985 Phi Alpha Theta manuscript prize.

Book Gateway to the West

Download or read book Gateway to the West written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quinquennial Record of the Alumni Association of Hillsdale College

Download or read book Quinquennial Record of the Alumni Association of Hillsdale College written by Hillsdale College. Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Genesee County  Michigan

Download or read book History of Genesee County Michigan written by Franklin Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Paschen and Redd Families of Cass County  Indiana

Download or read book The Paschen and Redd Families of Cass County Indiana written by Alfred Paschen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everett Herman George Paschen was born in 1904. His parents were Heinrich Friedrick Wilhelm Paschen (1876-1963) and Bertha Doll or Dolge (1882-1965). He married Agnes Annetta Redd (1905-1971), daughter of Joseph Alfred Redd (1868-1920) and Lydia Alice Livingston (1883-1946) in 1930 in Cass County, Indiana. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany and Indiana.

Book The History of Marshall County  Iowa

Download or read book The History of Marshall County Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Firelands pioneer

Download or read book The Firelands pioneer written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Descendants of Rev  Leonard Metcalf of Tatterford Parish  Norfolk  England

Download or read book Some Descendants of Rev Leonard Metcalf of Tatterford Parish Norfolk England written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Metcalf was born in 1540/1 in Apperside, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England. He married Amy in about 1579 and they had at least eight children. Their son, Michael, was born in 1590 in Tatterford, Norfolk. He married Sarah Ellwyn, daughter of Thomas Elwyn and Elizabeth Benslye, 13 October 1616 in Hingham, Norfolk. They had eleven children. They emigrated in 1637 and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York.

Book The Descendants and Ancestors of Edmund Maxwell Cackler

Download or read book The Descendants and Ancestors of Edmund Maxwell Cackler written by Edylene Maxine Cackler McGill and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Cackler (1756-1830) served in the Revolutionary War, married Julia Ann Zediker in 1780, and moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Descendants lived in Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, California and elsewhere. Includes noble ancestry in England and Europe.

Book History of St  Clair County  Michigan

Download or read book History of St Clair County Michigan written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: