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Book History of Morrow County Ohio

Download or read book History of Morrow County Ohio written by Abraham J. Baughman and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Morrow County and Ohio

Download or read book History of Morrow County and Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative Citizens Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States and Biographies of the Governors of Ohio

Download or read book A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties Ohio Containing Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Representative Citizens Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States and Biographies of the Governors of Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Portrait and Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties Ohio

Download or read book A Portrait and Biographical Record of Mercer and Van Wert Counties Ohio written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fundamental Institution

Download or read book The Fundamental Institution written by Megan Birk and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection between agriculture, provisions for the disadvantaged, and the daily realities of life at poor farms. Conceived as an inexpensive way to provide care for the indigent, poor farms in fact attracted wards that ranged from abused wives and the elderly to orphans, the disabled, and disaster victims. Most people arrived unable rather than unwilling to work, some because of physical problems, others due to a lack of skills or because a changing labor market had left them behind. Birk blends the personal stories of participants with institutional histories to reveal a loose-knit system that provided a measure of care to everyone without an overarching philosophy of reform or rehabilitation. In-depth and innovative, The Fundamental Institution offers an overdue portrait of rural social welfare in the United States.

Book Calamity

    Calamity

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  • Author : Joann Green Byrd
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 0295805412
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Calamity written by Joann Green Byrd and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills south of town. When the fierce downpour reached Heppner, people gathered their children and hurried inside. Most everyone closed their doors and windows against the racket. The thunder and pounding hail masked the sound of something they likely could not have imagined: a roaring, two-story wall of water raging toward town. Within an hour, one of every five people in the prosperous town of 1,300 would lose their lives as the floodwaters pulled apart and carried away nearly everything in their path. The center of town was devastated. Enormous drifts of debris, tangled around bodies, snaked down the valley. The telegraph was down, the railroads were out, and the mayor was in Portland. Stunned survivors bent immediately to the dreadful tasks of searching for loved ones and carrying bodies to a makeshift morgue in the bank. By the next afternoon, thousands of individuals and communities had rushed to the town's aid, an outpouring of generosity that enabled the self-reliant citizens of Heppner to undertake the town's recovery. In Calamity, Joann Green Byrd, a native of eastern Oregon, carefully documents this poignant story, illustrating that even the smallest acts have consequences - good or bad. She draws on a wealth of primary sources, including a moving collection of photographs, to paint a rare picture of how a small town in the West coped with disaster at the turn of the twentieth century.

Book Portrait and Biographical Record of Southeastern Kansas

Download or read book Portrait and Biographical Record of Southeastern Kansas written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventory of the County Archives of Ohio

Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Ohio written by Historical Records Survey (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: