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Letters from Bruce County documents an English familys 1835 immigration to Ontario where they became pioneers in the unsettled bush. The parents of this family just happen to be the authors great great grandparents, Joseph and Susannah Bacon. The letters were written from Bruce County, Ontario in 1881 and 1882 by Joseph some years after Susannahs death to his son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Elizabeth Couch Bacon, then in Resort Township, Emmet County, Michigan. Henry and Elizabeth are the authors great grandparents. Joseph and Susannah never left Ontario but seven of their eleven children did. Letters is in three parts. Part I has copies of the original letters with printed as written and...
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
"Sapphire" takes the reader on a journey through time from a bird's eye view. This is a story based on true events of a family's emigration from North Dakota to New York to Joplin, MO and Tulsa, OK, ending in the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho [Burke, ID]. The novel is full of roller-coaster events and emotion, suspending the reader for a part II story and the history of Wallace, Idaho. "Sapphire" is a novel style inspired by renowned African-American novelist, Toni Morrison and her novels "Love" and "Home." Sapphire herself, struggles with truth, temptation, and toil leaving the reader on a quest to find the narrator's voice. "Sapphire" is a journey within a journey. The setting is late Nineteenth Century to modern day. This is the first of a two-part collection, true and historical events mashed with fiction. "Sapphire" is a must read for the Twenty-first Century.
Includes history of bills and resolutions.