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The Last Gasp
Traces the history of the gas chamber, beginning with its first construction in Nevada in 1924 as a humane method of execution, and describes the political, corporate, and military uses for the technology through the twentieth century.
Some Descendants of François Demers Dit Chedville (1773-1861) and Charlotte Davignon Dit Beauregard (1781-1832)
Andre Dumay/Dumetz/DeMers (1628-1711), son of Jean Dumay and Barbe Mauger of St. Jacques, Dieppe, Rouen, France, immigrated to Quebec where he married Marie Chefville/Chedville in Montreal in 1654. One descendant, Francois DeMers (1773-1861), was born in Chambly, Quebec. He married Marie Charlotte Davignon dit Beauregard in 1797 in St. Antoine de Longueuil, Quebec. Descendants lived in Canada, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, California, Nebraska, and elsewhere.
The Clamorgans
The Damning, Absurd, and Revelatory History of Race in America Told through the History of a Single Family Historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans to chronicle how one family navigated race in America from the 1780s through the 1950s. What she discovers overturns decades of received academic wisdom. Far from an impermeable wall fixed by whites, race opened up a moral gray zone that enterprising blacks manipulated to whatever advantage they could obtain. The Clamorgan clan traces to the family patriarch Jacques Clamorgan, a French adventurer of questionable ethics who bought up, or at least claimed to have bought up, huge tracts of la...
