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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008I just finished reading Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick. It was excellent: a very readable account of the years from the founding of Plymouth to the end of King Philip’s War (1676). There are lots of interesting parts to the book. I found myself wanting to learn more [...]
Clarion County, Pennsylvania Research
Monday, August 25th, 2008After having a wonderful day with the Marsches yesterday, I left their house this morning and headed for Clarion, Pennsylvania. My Lee ancestors: father Addison, and children including my great-grandfather Ira Lee moved from Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, sometime after 1876 (record of a deed in Huntingdon) and before 1880 (census in Clarion County). I [...]
George Washington
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Archeologists have long tried to find George Washington’s boyhood home at Ferry Farm. They believe they have finally been successful.
NARA Records
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yay, yay, yay! I just checked on the status of my order for the military records for one ancestor and the pension file for another, and they have been found, photocopied and are awaiting shipment. On my last order, they were “awaiting shipment” even after I got them, so I have hopes that [...]
NARA Records
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Yay, yay, yay! I just checked on the status of my order for the military records for one ancestor and the pension file for another, and they have been found, photocopied and are awaiting shipment. On my last order, they were “awaiting shipment” even after I got them, so I have hopes that [...]
April 8, 1874; Clarksville Star; Clarksville, Iowa
Friday, January 25th, 2008Why are there so Many Bald-Headed Men?
Why so many bald-headed men, and so few bald women? Why is it that they shine like billiard balls? Why this spectacle of bald-headed barbers rubbing the dry tops of bald-headed men, recommending invigorators warranted to produce bushy locks in less than a fortnight, while bald-headed [...]
The Pre-New-Telephone
Thursday, January 24th, 2008From the Clarksville Star, Clarksville, Iowa; April 25, 1878:
A good deal of whispering took place on the sidewalk Thursday afternoon. I twas through a telephone on exhibition by Mrs. Mulinex. The instrument was stretched from the postoffice to the STAR office. You stuck your mouth into a starch-box at one end, and someone at [...]
January 1, 1874; Clarksville Star, Clarksville, Iowa
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Just in case some of you need ideas for your New Year’s preparations:
Coffee Socials
Coffee socials in Pleasant Valley are quite numerous with the German people. They are generally commenced about the middle of the afternoon and kept up until the coffee is all drank, which depends on the number of kegs on hand and the [...]
“Human Beings are Not Amphibious”
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007This is an article I found on microfilm of the newspaper, The Clarksville Star, published in Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa. This comes from the April 5, 1872 edition.
Regular bathing, so far as the people of this country are concerned, is certainly a habit of quite modern adoption. The fathers and mothers, and [...]
Family History and Memorial Day
Thursday, December 6th, 2007This really would be a better post for Memorial Day, but since that’s a long while away, I’m going to go ahead and post it. The following excerpt comes from a book called Years Ago by Rudolf Priepke. Mr. Priepke was an unofficial town historian of Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa, an area in which [...]
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