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Descendants of John Pretty, Hosier of Poole, Dorset
Sarah’s husband Robert HARRILD [1.4] died young leaving her a wealthy widow whose will that names dozens of relatives is a genealogist’s delight. William Taylor PRETTY [1.5] was a postman in London. Anne’s husband Josiah Wesley WALKER [1.7] was a doctor at Bedlam Mental Hospital in London who suffered a breakdown, sailed to New South Wales where, there being no hospitals, he treated patients at his home in Camden with his daughter Clarissa as dispenser. Martha’s husband Thomas BLANCHARD [1.8] took over her father’s hosiery business but later emigrated with his family to South Australia. Edward James PRETTY [1.9] was H. M. Customs Agent in Belfast, Ireland. Mary Jane’s husband William Henry WILLIAMS [1.11] was a Staff Commander in the Royal Navy.
Waverly and the Waverly Community House
When the Henry Belin Jr. Waverly Community House and Park was dedicated in 1920, Margaretta E. Belin intended both to honor her husband and benefit residents of Abington Township. The community house was envisioned by its progressive donor as the educational, cultural, and social heart of rural Waverly. By 1930, when Margaretta and Henrys six children added land and two wings to the original building in honor of their mother, chautauquas, concerts, clubs, sports teams, and Scout troops were filling the annual calendar of events. On site, a post office provided mail delivery, a canteen supplied merchandise from ammonia to pencils, and residents of Dalton, Factoryville, Clarks Summit, and Clarks Green pumped gasoline. No activity, however, was more celebrated both locally and regionally than the annual fair that united Waverly in purpose, labor, and pleasure at summers end. Since its inception, the Waverly Community House has set and achieved ambitious goals to enrich community life, a mission that successive generations have strived to follow.
Jane Jacobs's First City
A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton Jane Jacobs’s First City vividly reveals how this influential thinker and writer’s classic works germinated in the once vibrant, mid-size city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Jane spent her initial eighteen years. In the 1920s and 1930s, Scranton was a place of enormous diversity and opportunity. Small businesses of all kinds abounded and flourished, quality public education was available to and supported by all, and even recent immigrants could save enough to buy a house. Opposing political parties joined forces to tackle problems, and citizens worked toget...
The Women of Scranton
The Women of Scranton: 18801935 portrays the famous ladies, daring women, and heroines of everyday life in a booming coal town. Coal may have been king, but the intrepid women of Americas progressive era saw to it that Scranton became not merely an economic hub, but a city beautiful. No area of political, cultural, educational, or religious life in Scranton was untouched by their driving commitment to progress. Through historic photographs, readers will meet Scrantons first generation of college-educated women; political activists and suffragettes; the first women lawyers and physicians; womens clubs dedicated to philanthropy, education, health, and civic betterment; women merchants and entrepreneurs; teachers and womens religious orders; and the immigrant women who dreamt of a better tomorrow
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