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Missouri's Confederate
Claiborne Fox Jackson (1806-1862) remains one of Missouri's most controversial historical figures. Elected Missouri's governor in 1860 after serving as a state legislator and Democratic party chief, Jackson was the force behind a movement for the neutral state's secession before a federal sortie exiled him from office. Although Jackson's administration was replaced by a temporary government that maintained allegiance to the Union, he led a rump assembly that drafted an ordinance of secession in October 1861 and spearheaded its acceptance by the Confederate Congress. Despite the fact that the majority of the state's populace refused to recognize the act, the Confederacy named Missouri its twe...
The Kings of Casino Park
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the “lynch law center of Louisiana.” race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class—a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of black and white fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the players who would become the only World Series team Louisiana would ever generate, and the first from the American ...
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Herzog History and Related Families, 1649-1999
Johann Heinrich Christoph Herzog was born 1 December 1815 in Schonbrunn, Reuss, Germany. His parents were Johann Georg Herzog and Elizabeth Krauss. He married Christina Wolf in 1839. They and their four sons immigrated to America in 1849 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Descendants and relatives lived in Milwaukee, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and elsewhere.
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Encyclopedia of American Family Names
The definitive guide to the 5,000 most common surnames in the United States. With origins, variations, rankings, prominent bearers and published genealogies.
