George C Jenks

Report of the Select Committee [on] the Memorial of the Democratic Members of the Legislature of Rhode Island

• Author(s): Edmund Burke

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1841
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar

• Author(s): Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Encampment (Mass. and R.I.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1864
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Congressional Record Index

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1879
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• Publisher: Unknown

Includes history of bills and resolutions.

Yearbook

• Author(s): Association of the Bar of the City of New York

• Categories: Bar associations

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1889
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Johnstown Flood

• Author(s): David McCullough

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007-05-31
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• Publisher: Simon and Schuster

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came ...