History of Clinton County (Missouri), 1977

History of Clinton County (Missouri), 1977
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Total Pages : 483
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:4444681
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis History of Clinton County (Missouri), 1977 by : Clinton County Bicentennial Committee

National Union Catalog

National Union Catalog
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Total Pages : 1032
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112024896638
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Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis National Union Catalog by :

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

A Second Home

A Second Home
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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9780826265661
ISBN-13 : 0826265669
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis A Second Home by : Sue Thomas

The one-room schoolhouse may be a thing of the past, but it is the foundation on which modern education rests. Sue Thomas now traces the progress of early education in Missouri, demonstrating how important early schools were in taming the frontier. A Second Home offers an in-depth and entertaining look at education in the days when pioneers had to postpone schooling for their children until they could provide shelter for their families and clear their fields for crops, while well-to-do families employed tutors or sent their children back east. Thomas tells of the earliest known English school at the Ramsay settlement near Cape Girardeau, then of the opening of a handful of schools around the time of the Louisiana Purchase—such as Benjamin Johnson’s school on Sandy Creek, Christopher Schewe’s school for boys when St. Louis was still a village, and the Ste. Genevieve Academy, where poor and Indian children were taught free of charge. She describes how, as communities grew, additional private schools opened—including “dame schools,” denominational schools, and subscription schools—until public education came into its own in the 1850s. Drawing on oral histories collected throughout the state, as well as private diaries and archival research, the book is full of firsthand accounts of what education once was like—including descriptions of the furnishings, teaching methods, and school-day activities in one-room log schools. It also includes the experiences of former slaves and free blacks following the Civil War when they were newly entitled to public education, with discussions of the contributions of John Berry Meachum, James Milton Turner, and other African American leaders. With its remembrances of simpler times, A Second Home tells of community gatherings in country schools and events such as taffy pulls and spelling bees, and offers tales of stern teachers, student pranks, and schoolyard games. Accompanying illustrations illuminate family and school life in the colonial, territorial, early statehood, and post-Civil War periods. For readers who recall older family members’ accounts or who are simply fascinated by the past, this is a book that will conjure images of a bygone time while opening a new window on Missouri history.

Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: P-Z

Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: P-Z
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Total Pages : 506
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000050682552
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Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: P-Z by : Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division

Library of Congress Catalogs

Library of Congress Catalogs
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Total Pages : 1020
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015082933170
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Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Library of Congress Catalogs by : Library of Congress

Genealogical & Local History Books in Print

Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
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Total Pages : 580
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015002192392
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Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

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Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print

Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane

Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane
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Publisher : WestBow Press
Total Pages : 797
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ISBN-10 : 9781490807751
ISBN-13 : 1490807756
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane by : Amanda Cook Gilbert

This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives, it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie, his first wife, and Ruhamah Doane, who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr., James, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah Ruhamah, Alexander, John, Margaret Nancy, Mary, Catherine, Jean, Peter Patrick, and Ann E. Cromartie. These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America, including personal anecdotes, photographs, copies of family bibles, wills, and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.

Inside the Confederate Nation

Inside the Confederate Nation
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9780807147979
ISBN-13 : 0807147974
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Inside the Confederate Nation by : Lesley J. Gordon

In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life -- nationalism and identity, family and gender, battlefront and home front, race, and postwar legacies and memories. Many of the volume's twenty essays focus on individuals, households, communities, and particular regions of the South, highlighting the sheer variety of circumstances southerners faced over the course of the war. Other chapters explore the public and private dilemmas faced by diplomats, policy makers, journalists, and soldiers within the new nation. All of the essays attempt to explain the place of southerners within the Confederacy, how they came to see themselves and others differently because of secession, and the disparities between their expectations and reality.