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The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother
John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fire...
A Genealogy of the Ancestors and the Descendants of Conklin Mann Sr. & Maude Thomson Mann
Conklin Mann (1884-1966), son of Jeremiah Slocum Mann and Dorcas Ella Riggs, was born in Milton, Saratoga, New York, and died in Warwick, Rhode Island. He married 1906 in Syracuse, N.Y., Maude Artemesia Thomson (1886-1966), the daughter of Charles Ithai Thomson and Anna Blanche Reed. She was born in Holland Patent, Oneida, N.Y. They had six children born in New Jersey and Jamestown, N.Y. Several early ancestors emigrated from England in the 1600s and settled in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and elsewhere. The Mann/Man ancestor, Richard Man, was born in England. His son, Richard Man (1652-aft. 1735), was born in Scituate, Massachusetts. He was married to Elizabeth Sutton born 1662 in Scituate, Mass.
Courage Above All Things
For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—most notably as an officer in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. At the onset of the Civil War, when he assumed command of the Department of the East, Wool had been a brigadier general for twenty years and, at age seventy-seven, was the oldest general on either side of the conflict. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool, who aside from his unparalleled military service, figured prominently in many critical moments in nineteenth-century U.S. history. At the time of his death in 2016, Harwood Hinton, a scholar wit...
Hokum!
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hokum! is the first book to take a comprehensive view of short-subject slapstick comedy in the early sound era. Challenging the received wisdom that sound destroyed the slapstick tradition, author Rob King explores the slapstick short’s Depression-era development against a backdrop of changes in film industry practice, comedic tastes, and moviegoing culture. Each chapter is grounded in case studies of comedians and comic teams, including the Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Robert Benchley. The book also examines how the past legacy of silent-era slapstick was subsequently reimagined as part of a nostalgic mythology of Hollywood’s youth.
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