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This book is a color premium paper high-quality visual narrative in honor of my grandfather, Bunyan Jacobs, Sr. His influence regarding Lighthouse Life Insurance Company and Lighthouse Investment Company and Securities, Inc. is reflected. Some people are divinely born to be change agents. I believe my grandfather was one of those people. He was a focused man that was willing to be taught and to teach. He was respected and loved. His desire to succeed and a keen interest in the business profession were with him even as a young boy. Ultimately, the LIGHTHOUSE formation was on his mind and so it was established. With his business mindset, he was a magnet with others to make it happen. Impor ...

History of Eastern Arizona College from 1888 to 2018.

Ebenezer and Phebe Goodell Doty and their descendants are the focus of this effort. Ebenezer was the son of Amaziah and Bethiah Hamlin Doty, who were the first to begin the family's westward migration from Massachusetts to Vermont where Ebenezer was born in 1789. Next, north and west into New York and Ohio. Ebenezer's service in the War of l812 entitled him to bounty land in Illinois. In 1852 Ebenezer and several of his children began the first of two trips by wagon train from Knox County, Illinois to San Jose, California, where Ebenezer died January 1st, 1860. Three of Ebenezer's sons later moved south to Santa Barbara County, California

1983 - 2013 30th Anniversary Edition of George Allen Wadsworth - Pilley to Panaca by Helen LaRae Free Kerr, M ED features nearly 200 pages of amazing new information about the family: Details of George's kidnapping of his own son, Little James Wadsworth, 1856-1858, including the actual deposition made during the Utah War More ancestors to add to your pedigree charts Some ancestors to delete from your pedigree charts Research reports and documents for future researchers, so this work does not have to be duplicated Additions to chapters in the original 1983 book which is included in its entirety as well.

A year of letters written by James Stafford Thorpe to his wife Jessie Redhead during his service mainly on Ship Island, during the U.S. Civil War (Compiled & transcribed by Laura Thorpe Hall).

Curtis Abbott, an educated young man from East Bethel, Vermont signed up early in the Civil War to be a sharpshooter. He witnessed and lived through some of the most important battles of the Civil War. In hundreds of letters sent home to Vermont from 1861 to 1865, Abbott details camp life, battles, and marches through the Mid- Atlantic towns where he was stationed. This cache of letters is made even more powerful through Curtis Abbott's additional writings. Later in life, he documented the history of his company (Company H). He corresponded with other veterans from his regiment, completing a comprehensive history from the soldier's point of view. After the War, he settled near Boston, s ...

Agnes Thompson Clawson was my paternal grandmother. She saved the postcards in this collection, and my brother Arthur Clawson scanned and archived them. He also arranged them chronologically in digital documents and transcribed the handwritten messages on each card. The postcards have interest to the Clawson and Thompson families, but they may be of interest to individuals interested in them as expressions of the dominant American culture of that era.

Coalinga, California, began in 1889 as a supply center for a coal mine and became a boom town when oil was discovered nearby in 1896. Seemingly overnight the oil district attracted wildcatters who explored and proved the field making it by 1910 the largest producing oil field in California. As the supply center for this district Coalinga's population soared from a couple of hundred in 1900 to over 6,000 in 1910 making it the second largest city in Fresno County. | One consequence of this explosive growth was the desire of some residents to separate those who worked in the oil fields from their hard-earned money, so Coalinga attracted liquor dealers, gamblers, and fallen women. Those who ...