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Everything Worthy of Observation
Finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category In the pre-dawn of August 2, 1826, Alexander Stewart Scott stepped aboard the steamboat Chambly in Quebec City, Canada. He was beginning a journey that not only took him across New York State but also ultimately changed his view of America and her people. A keen observer, the twenty-one-year-old meticulously recorded his travel experiences, observations about the people he encountered, impressions of things he saw, and reactions to events he witnessed. This firsthand account immerses the reader in the world of early-nineteenth-century life in both New York and Lower Canada. Whether enduring the choking dust ...
A Church at War
One hundred and forty-one people from MacKay Presbyterian Church, in Ottawa, served in the First World War. This is an astonishing record, but one that was by no means uncommon in Canada. Why did these men, their families, and their church enlist in this great war for “justice, truth, and righteousness, and for the Glory of God”? What was the impact of war on the surviving soldiers as they and their families adjusted to a changed world, to permanent injuries and to painful memories? This study of the experience of one church at war weaves together the stories of soldiers on the battlefields of Europe with those of the families who waited and prayed, enduring privation, fear, loneliness, ...
Three River Valleys Called Home
Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The Eamer family’s story begins in 1755 as they leave the Rhine Valley for a better life in America. Once there, they move to the Mohawk River Valley in New York, where they build a home and raise 10 children. Despite the effects of the French Indian War, the Eamers flourish and happily find their lives intertwined with their neighbours and fellow immigrants for almost two decades. However, no family’s story occurs in isolation, and eventually th...
Chair City of the World
From the Introduction - This is the story of more than a century in the life of the Timpany, McConnell, Riley, and LaRoche families against the background of the rise and fall of the chairmaking industry in Gardner, Massachusetts. It is a family and social history of people moving from one country to another, showing who we were and who we became. It is a local history as well, providing a rich picture of Gardner’s everyday life and special moments in time. Gardner, Massachusetts, is located in Worcester County, not far from the New Hampshire border. In 1785, just before the town of Gardner was incorporated, there were sixty families living within what would become its boundaries. Constanc...
MALDEN SOLDIERS SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
A genealogical snapshot of over one hundred veterans of the Spanish-American War from Company L Fifth Regiment, MA Volunteer Infantry, 1898 out of Malden, MA, USA. Surnames: BACON, BAKENHUS, BARNES, BELL, BERG, BLADES, BLOOMER, BOOTH, BRACKETT, BRIGGS, BROMAN, BUCKLEY, BURNHAM, CARPENTER, CARRAGHER, CARTER, CAVILLE, COFREN, CRANE, CUTTING, DALTON, DAMMERS, DANIELS, DYER, FALL, FELDERMANN, FROST, FUNK, GERTZ, GILMORE, GROSSER, HANNA, HARDENBROOK, HAVERSTOCK, HENDERSON, HEWITT, HIRTLE, HOLLIS, HOLMES, HOUDE, KELLEY, KENNEDY, KEOUGH, LABELLE, LACASS, LAWLER, LOONEY, LORING, LUTES, LUTZ, LYONS, MACY, MAHER, MAHONEY, MANN, MCALLISTER, MCGINNISS, MCKEE, MCLAUGHLIN, MILLER, MITCHELL, MIXTER, MURPHY, NICHOLS, PARKER, PEDLAR, PERCY, PERKINS, QUINN, RAND, REIDY, RICHARDS, RILEY, RIPLEY, ROBY, ROCKWOOD, SALLENGER, SHORT, SILVA, SMALLE, SMITH, SPOFFORD, STEELE, STRACHAN, SWEETSTER, TAYLOR, THOMPSON, TOLMAN, TUCKER, TWISS, ULM, VOS BURGH, WHITE, WILLIAMS, WILSON, WOODBERRY, WOODS
Connections: The Mahoneys And The Hodgkins
This genealogical work traces the descendants of Philip Mahoney to the author and the descendants of William Hodgkins that link to the Mahoney line. Initially this was the ancestry of Clyde Edward Mahoney and Alice Mabel (Hodgkins) Mahoney. This Mahoney line entered Maine from Quebec Province Canada. The Hodgkins line is descendant from the William Hodgkins of the Plymouth Plantation colony. A number of other genealogical connections are outlined as they contribute or descend from Clyde and Alice.
Companions of Champlain
The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
The Heroic Age of Diving
Winner of the 2016 Dr. Art Bachrach Literary Award presented by the Historical Diving Society Silver Medalist, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation Category Beginning in 1837, some of the most brilliant engineers of America's Industrial Revolution turned their attention to undersea technology. Inventors developed practical hard-helmet diving suits, as well as new designs of submarines, diving bells, floating cranes, and undersea explosives. These innovations were used to clear shipping lanes, harvest pearls, mine gold, and wage war. All of these underwater technologies were brought together by entrepreneurs, treasure-hunters, and daring divers in the 1850s ...
