History and Families, McCracken County, Kentucky, 1824-1989
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0938021362
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0938021362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Oldham County Historical Society (Oldham County, Ky.)
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 156311321X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Burden
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2020-10-21
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0807174467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor for the company’s American itinerary. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff’s diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled the country by river and rail. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theaters in the river towns, including New Orleans, where he spends evenings both at the French Opera and at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focuses his attention on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on events he encounters, including the 1856 Mardi Gras and the unveiling of the statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans's Jackson Square. Reiff is clearly captivated by the river towns and their residents, including the enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for, apart from the typical dangers of a river trip, the winter of 1855–1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had difficulties with river ice. Historians have used Reiff’s journal as source material, but until now the entire text, which is archived in Louisiana State University’s Special Collections in Hill Memorial Library, has only been available in its original state. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and other readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, highbrow entertainment, and the people and places of the South.
Author: Thomas Marshall Green
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historic Families of Kentucky is a basic history of the state, with considerable emphasis on the accomplishments of the pioneer families, including their public service in the nation's struggle for independence and existence. The objective of the book is to trace from their origin in this country a number of Kentucky families of Scotch-Irish extraction whose ancestors immigrated to America in the early 18th century and became pioneers of the Valley of Virginia. Descendants of these families of the Valley were among the early pioneers of Kentucky.
Author: Turner Publishing
Publisher: Turner
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780938021261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prepared by the Edmonson County Historical Society.
Author: Scott County Genealogical Society (Scott County, Ky.)
Publisher: Turner
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781563112812
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Publisher: Turner
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780938021407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Simpson County Historical Society has had county-wide cooperation in this publication, and many dedicated individuals have contributed to its success.
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1563117894
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1991-06-15
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1563110687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christian County had published a county history in 1841 by Perin and again another by Charles Meachem in 1930. Both of these histories had a limited biography section in them. Under the leadership of president Lon Bostick, the Genealogical Society of Christian County and the many devoted people of the county at large, gave untiringly of their time and knowledge to compile and have published a third history of Christian County in 1986 which is primarily a family history with much social history. The people responded well with material and the book was getting so large that we had to stop receiving family histories. This left many without the opportunity to get their families recorded. Late in 1990, Lon had a job started and was not complete therefore the Odd Fellows of Green River Lodge #54 of Hopkinsville and Jewel Rebekah Lodge #14 (the auxiliary of the Odd Fellows) met and voted to compile and have published a continuation of Volume I of the Family Histories to be titled Edition I of Family Histories of Christian County.