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Diaries of Girls and Women captures and preserves the diverse lives of forty-seven girls and women who lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin between 1837 and 1999—young schoolgirls, adolescents coming of age, newlywed wives, mothers grieving the loss of children, teachers, nurses, elderly women, Luxembourger immigrant nuns, and women traveling abroad. A compelling work of living history, it brings together both diaries from historical society archives and diaries still in possession of the diarists or their descendents. Editor Suzanne L. Bunkers has selected these excerpts from more than 450 diaries she examined. Some diaries were kept only briefly, others through an entire lifetime; som...
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Josiah Ferguson (ca. 1725-1803), was born in Belfast, County Down, Ireland. He died in Fayette County, Kentucky. His son, William (1754-1839), a Revolutionary War soldier, married Catherine Lemaster in 1783. William and his brothers, Joseph and Robert, came to Pennsylvania in 1771 and then moved to North Carolina and Kentucky. William died in Morgan County, Kentucky. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere.
Bailey's volume fills the gap that existed for an archaeology of the Balkans and will be required reading for anyone studying the Neolithic, Copper and early Bronze Ages of Eastern Europe.
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