Download or read book Records of a Family of Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stevensons written by Jean H. Baker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of four generations of the Stevenson family in America, from the first Scotch-Irish immigrants to the life and career of the noted liberal politician Adlai Stevenson.
Download or read book The Black Book of Vice President Adlai E Sevenson 1836 1914 Governor Adlai E Stevenson 1900 1965 Senator Adlai E Stevenson 1930 written by Adlai Ewing Stevenson and published by Adlai E Stevenson III. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a political archive that spans five generations and more than 150 years, this collection of narratives, observations, wit, and wisdom, enlivens and informs on the family of former senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. This volume covers Adlai I, who served as vice president for Grover Cleveland; Adlai II, who served in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and as governor of Illinois; Adlai III, who was an Illinois State Representative, state treasurer, senator, and two-time candidate for Illinois governor, and other family members in between. Whether it is Abraham Lincoln’s presidential campaign material—a Stevenson family member was a friend, contemporary, and promoter—after the famous seven debates or the forewarnings of the Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1979, much of the history of the United States is presented here from personalized views of those who experienced and influenced it.
Download or read book The Stevenson Family History written by Joseph Grant Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Stevenson (1787-1832) married Elizabeth Stevens and immigrated (after a stay at Gibraltar) in 1828 from England to Brooklyn, New York, moving later to Albany, New York and then to land near Detroit, Michigan. A son, Edward Stevenson (1820-1897), became a Mormon convert (together with his mother) in 1833, and lived in Missouri and Illinois before moving to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847. Descendants lived in Utah, Idaho, California and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Lighthouse Stevensons written by Bella Bathurst and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.
Download or read book Life in Black and White written by Brenda E. Stevenson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County and its vicinity encapsulated the full sweep of southern life. Here the region's most illustrious families--the Lees, Masons, Carters, Monroes, and Peytons--helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that became characteristic of the entire region while mingling with yeoman farmers of German, Scotch-Irish, and Irish descent, and free black families who lived alongside abolitionist Quakers and thousands of slaves. Stevenson brilliantly recounts their stories as she builds the complex picture of their intertwined lives, revealing how their combined histories guaranteed Loudon's role in important state, regional, and national events and controversies. Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, for example, were hidden at a local plantation during the War of 1812. James Monroe wrote his famous "Doctrine" at his Loudon estate. The area also was the birthplace of celebrated fugitive slave Daniel Dangerfield, the home of John Janney, chairman of the Virginia secession convention, a center for Underground Railroad activities, and the location of John Brown's infamous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. In exploring the central role of the family, Brenda Stevenson offers a wealth of insight: we look into the lives of upper class women, who bore the oppressive weight of marriage and motherhood as practiced in the South and the equally burdensome roles of their husbands whose honor was tied to their ability to support and lead regardless of their personal preference; the yeoman farm family's struggle for respectability; and the marginal economic existence of free blacks and its undermining influence on their family life. Most important, Stevenson breaks new ground in her depiction of slave family life. Following the lead of historian Herbert Gutman, most scholars have accepted the idea that, like white, slaves embraced the nuclear family, both as a living reality and an ideal. Stevenson destroys this notion, showing that the harsh realities of slavery, even for those who belonged to such attentive masters as George Washington, allowed little possibility of a nuclear family. Far more important were extended kin networks and female headed households. Meticulously researched, insightful, and moving, Life in Black and White offers our most detailed portrait yet of the reality of southern life. It forever changes our understanding of family and race relations during the reign of the peculiar institution in the American South.
Download or read book Stevenson Family History written by Margaretta Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Samuel Stevenson who was born ca. 1675 in Scotland. He left Scotland and migrated to Ireland ca. 1701. By the year 1703 Samuel immigrated to America and settled in Snow Hill (now Worcester) Somerset Co., Maryland. He was the father of three known children. Descendants lived primarily in Maryland, Kentucky and Indiana.
Download or read book Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire written by William Frederick Whitcher and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelton Wininger and Pace Families written by Alvin Harold Casey and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendants of John Shelton born in late 1700's. He married Catherine Messer in 1805 in Hawkins County, Tennessee.
Download or read book Genealogical and Family History of Western New York written by William Richard Cutter and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brother Sister written by Diane Keaton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When they were kids in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1950s, Diane Keaton and her younger brother, Randy, were best friends and companions. But as they grew up, Randy became troubled, then reclusive. Before he was thirty, he was divorced, an alcoholic, a man who couldn’t hold on to full-time work—his life a world away from his sister’s, and from the rest of their family. Now Diane delves into the nuances of their shared, and separate, pasts to confront the difficult question of why and how Randy ended up living his life on “the other side of normal.” In beautiful and fearless prose intertwined with journal entries, letters, and poetry—much of it Randy’s own—and supplemented by personal photographs and artwork, this insightful, heartfelt memoir contemplates the inner workings of a family, the ties of love and responsibility that hold it together, and the special bond between siblings—even those who are pulled far apart.
Download or read book These Jordans Were Here written by Octavia Jordan Perry and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jordan served with the Hillsborough, North Carolina Militia, during the Revolutionary War. He married Prudence Harguis (Hargis), daughter of Samuel and Ester Whiteside Hargis, at Hillsborough, North Carolina, in 1783. They had at least three sons. He died ca. 1816. His grandson, Samuel Hargis Jordan (1824-1891) married Martha Ann Nichols in 1845. They had five children who reached adulthood. Descendants listed lived in North Carolina and elsewhere.
Download or read book A History and Genealogical Record of the Stevenson Family from 1748 to 1926 written by Samuel Harris Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genealogy Of The Cushing Family An Account Of The Ancestors And Descendants Of Matthew Cushing Who Came To America In 1638 written by James S. Cushing and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Download or read book Ohio Source Records from the Ohio Genealogical Quarterly written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1986 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ohio Source Records is composed of articles from the scarce periodical The Ohio Genealogical Quarterly. This book consolidates and indexes the contents of the periodical, which consisted chiefly of cemetery records, tax lists, newspaper abstracts, and vital records, the combined articles bearing reference to about 45,000 persons.
Download or read book A history and genealogical record of the Stevenson Family from 1748 to 1929 written by Rev. Samuel Harris Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
