Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher

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Author: Gilbert Haven

Publisher:

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9781437003604

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher, Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, by G. Haven and T. Russell

Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher, Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor, by G. Haven and T. Russell PDF

Author: Thomas Russell

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019676158

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This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and work of the Rev. Edward T. Taylor, a highly respected preacher in 19th-century America. Including anecdotes and stories from his life, as well as details of his work among seamen and other marginalized groups, this book offers a compelling portrait of a remarkable man. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Murder in a Mill Town

Murder in a Mill Town PDF

Author: Bruce Dorsey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0197633110

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A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath. In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century." After her death--after she became the country's most notorious "factory girl"--Cornell's choices about work, survival, and personal freedom became enmeshed in stories that Americans told themselves about their new world of industry and women's labor and the power of religion in the early republic. Writers penned seduction tales, true-crime narratives, detective stories, political screeds, songs, poems, and melodramatic plays about the lurid scandal. As trial witnesses, ordinary people gave testimony that revealed rapidly changing times. As the controversy of Cornell's murder spread beyond the courtroom, the public eagerly devoured narratives of moral deviance, abortion, suicide, mobs, "fake news," and conspiracy politics. Long after the jury's verdict, the nation refused to let the scandal go. A meticulously reconstructed historical whodunit, Murder in a Mill Town exposes the troublesome workings of criminal justice in the young democracy and the rise of a sensational popular culture.

Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor

Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor PDF

Author:

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Published: 2015-07-26

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9781331988045

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Excerpt from Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor: For Over Forty Years Pastor of the Seaman's Bethel, Boston Father Taylor died April the 5th, 1871. This note, the first in the book, but the last written, is being penned Doc. 15, 1871, eight months and ten days from that event. To collect, arrange, unite, and pass through the press, in so short a time, a collection of his sayings and doings, without help from a scrap of his own writing, or of any matter written to him, would be a work of no small labor, if no other duties had pressed their attention. But to inject this work into a crowded profession has necessitated unusual industry. Its many marks of haste, therefore, will, I trust, be pardoned under these circumstances. To increase this burden, my friend Judge Russell, who had kindly offered to help me in the undertaking, was taken violently ill a few weeks after the death of Father Taylor, and left for Europe the middle of May, and again for Fayal the middle of October, so that his contributions were not as largo as had been anticipated and desired. They were, however, of much value, and have been embodied in the text of several chapters. To Mrs. Dora Brigham, the eldest daughter of Father Taylor, especial thanks are due for her constant and liberal aid both in contributions and in suggestions. Considerable portions of the chapters on her mother are from her pen. I also acknowledge with great pleasure the generous co-operation of many other of bis friends and admirers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.