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The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), Jefferson, LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, and including ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison “The Signer”, Benjamin Harrison, Jimmy Carter, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, William Taft, and John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln
The Goodlove Family History Website:
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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
• • Books written about our unique DNA include:
• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.
“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.
Birthdays on January 9…
Brian R. Allender (5th cousin 1x removed.)
Robert L. Godlove
Opal I. SHAW GODLOVE
John Walenta (great grandfather of the husband of the aunt)
January 9th, 475: - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.[1]
January 9, 1180: Philip Augustus (the new king of France) arrested large numbers of Jews while his father, Louis VII, who tried to protect the Jews (though not always successfully) was still alive. All the Jews found in synagogue on the Sabbath were arrested. Philip agreed to free them for 15,000 silver marks.[2]
January 9th, 1296: - Earl Floris V signs accord with French king[3]
January 9th, 1317: - Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France[4]
January 9, 1349: On an island in the Rhine River, seven hundred Jews of Basel Switzerland were burned alive in houses especially constructed for that purpose. Their children were spared from the burning but were forcibly baptized instead. The first Swiss persecution of the Jews took place in Bern, where the Jewish community was accused of having murdered a Christian boy named Rudolf (Ruff). They were expelled from Bern but then allowed to return shortly after.[5]
,(January 9, 1536): Henry VIII (7th cousin 15x removed) and Anne Boleyn (wife of the 7th cousin 15x removed) wore yellow, the symbol of joy and celebration in England, from head to toe, and celebrated Catherine's death with festivities.[95] In Spain, the home country of Catherine of Aragon, yellow was the colour of mourning, in addition to black.[96] For this reason, the wearing of yellow by Henry and Anne may have been a symbol of mourning. With Mary's mother dead, Anne, for her part, attempted to make peace with her.[97]
The Queen, pregnant again, was aware of the dangers if she failed to give birth to a son. With Catherine dead, Henry would be free to marry without any taint of illegality. At this time Henry began paying court to Jane Seymour. He gave her a locket with a miniature portrait of himself inside and Jane, in the presence of Anne, began opening and shutting it. Anne responded by ripping off the locket with such force her fingers bled.[98] Mary rebuffed Anne's overtures, perhaps because of rumours circulating that Catherine had been poisoned by Anne and/or Henry. These began after the discovery during her embalming that her heart was blackened. Modern medical experts are in agreement that this was not the result of poisoning, but of cancer of the heart, something which was not understood at the time.[90][6]
January 9, 1554: Birthdate of Pope Gregory XV. Gregory strongly supported the censorship of Hebrew books by the Catholic Church. During his papacy, the Roman Inquisition appointed three different men to serve as “expurgators of Hebrew books.[7]
January 9th, 1558: - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland[8]
January 9, 1569: Statement by Queen Mary (9th cousin 13x removed), presented by her Commissioners AT the Conferences. [9]
The 9th January, 1568-69.
As to the abdication of my crown, concerning which you have written to me, I beg that you will trouble me no more on that point ; for I am resolved and determined to die sooner than do so ; and the last word which I shall utter in this life shall be that of a Scottish Queen, for the following and other more cogent reasons moving me thereto.
In the first place, the Commissioners on both sides being assembled in this country about the differences between me and some of my subjects, every one's eye is bent upon the result of this convention to pronounce judgment according to it, whether it be in favour of or adverse to the parties ; and if it should happen that after having come into this kingdom to seek assistance, and having complained of being unjustly
expelled from my kingdom, I should concede to my enemies all that they choose to exact from me, what would the public say, but that I have been my own judge and have condemned myself? Whence it will follow that all the reports which have been raised against me will be held to be true and well founded, and that I shall be held in special abhorrence by all the people of this island.
And although it shall be demonstrated to the nobility, who support some of my subjects more than they do me, that I have been desirous to make such abdication in favour of my son, who is not old enough to be able to govern, — so far from that making them think me innocent of what is laid to my charge, they will interpret it quite to the contrary, and
say that it is from fear of being publicly arraigned, and from a conviction of my own guilt and of having a bad case, that I prefer to pay rather than to plead, and thereby save myself from condemnation.
Alas, if I had abdicated, and if, through the suggestion of my enemies or otherwise, the Queen of England wished me to submit to whatever laws or the jurisdiction of such judges as seemed good to her, she would have a pretext for so doing, as I should be no more than a private Individual, and thus I should be by my own act thrown into a great and eminent danger while seeking to shun a lesser. Moreover, if it should
happen (which God forbid !) that, during my residence in this kingdom, the Queen of England, my good sister, should die without, issue, those who contended for the crown would be enabled, seeing the small account in which I should be held, to seize my person, and under the pretence aforesaid, do that which perhaps my said good sister would not have
thought of.
Also, if it should happen that my son were to die before being of age to govern and succeed, my crown would fall into other hands, and neither myself, nor others born of me, could regain it. And besides that I should find myself so miserably destitute, I should be in perpetual fear of my life, for whosoever should be seated on my throne would never rest until he was assured by my death, and that of as many of those as, after me, he should feel to have more right to it than himself, so many similar things having come to pass, that their examples suppl}^ me with sufficient reasons for expecting no less to happen to myself. By means of such abdication, I should lose all assistance and favour at home and abroad, for I make no doubt that the ancient alliance of France would not be ratified with him who should reign ; and I, being a private person, and perhaps in the power of those who would not wish readily to provoke it, there would be risk of my receiving injury long before they would seem to be affected by
it. And as for my subjects who have an affection for me, if they saw that I deserted them, they would seek protection elsewhere, and I could never hope to regain them. If they allege that it is for their particular interest, let it be so, and so much the more I am sure that they would not part from me ; and if I leave them, some other will take them, — I mean, will give them assistance and support, and we must not expect that there will be peace in my kingdom, but on the contrary
two factions, who perchance may be fostered by some in this country for some particular objects ; and although things may be done on both sides in name of my son, it will always happen that they will come to different ends, and that he will never have entire obedience, from which will follow the division, and perhaps the complete ruin of my kingdom.
These dangers are evident, wherefore I am determined that I shall not lightly throw away what God has given to me, and that I am resolved rather to die a queen, than a private woman.
Endorsed in the handwriting of Cecil: — " 1568, 9 Janua: die Domini. — French wrytyng delyvered by y^ Scott. Q. Ambassad." [10]
January 9, 1570 - Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod[11]
January 9, 1570: The Inquisition was established in Peru.[12]
January 9, 1751: Christopher Gist’s first journal
According to Christopher Gist‘s January 9, 1751 journal entry while at ―Muskingum a Town of the Wyendotts‖: …this Day came into Town two Traders from among the Pickwaylinees (these are a Tribe of the Twigtwees) and brought News that another English Trader was taken prisoner by the French…[13]
January 9, 1776: The treaty first concluded was that with the Duke of Brunswick. It is dated January 9, 1776. The Duke yields to his Britannic Majesty a corps of three thousand nine hundred and sixty-four infantry men, and three hundred and thirty-six unmounted dragoons. This corps is to be completely equipped at the expense of the Duke, except as to horses for the light cavalry. They are to march from Brunswick in two divisions in February and March, and the King is to take measures to prevent desertion while they pass through his electoral dominions of Hanover on their way to the sea. The King is to pay and feed them on the same scale as his own soldiers, and the Duke engages "to let his corps enjoy all the emoluments of pay that his Britannic Majesty allows them," that is to say, not to pay them on a lower scale and pocket the difference. The British government, however, did not trust him. From the time of the arrival of the troops in America their pay was sent direct to them there, and did not pass through his Most Serene Ducal Highness's hands. This precaution was adopted with all the German auxiliaries but those of Hesse-Cassel, whose landgrave succeeded in getting the handling of the money. The Brunswick soldiers were to be cared for in the British hospitals, and the wounded not in condition to serve were to be transported to Europe at the expense of the King, and landed in a port on the Elbe or the Weser. The Duke agreed to furnish the recruits that should be annually necessary for the corps, to discipline and to equip them, but if it should happen that any of the regiments, battalions, or companies of the corps should suffer a loss altogether extraordinary, either in a battle, a siege, or by an uncommon contagious malady, or by the loss of any transport vessel in the voyage to America, his Britannic Majesty was to make good the loss of the officer or soldier, and to bear the expense of the necessary recruits to reestablish the corps that should have suffered this extraordinary loss.
The Duke was to nominate the officers, and fill vacancies among them. He engaged that they should be expert persons. He reserved to himself the administration of justice. He stipulated that his troops should not be required to render any extraordinary services, or such as were beyond their proportion to the rest of the army.
The King of England agreed to pay to his Most Serene Highness, under the title of levy-money, for every soldier the amount Of 30 crowns banco, equal to £7 4s. 4 1/2d. He was to grant, moreover, an annual subsidy amounting to £11,517 17s. 1 1/2d. from the day of the signature of the treaty so long as the troops should enjoy his pay, and double that amount (viz., £23,035 14s. 3d.) for two years after the return of the troops into his Most Serene Highness's dominions. In consideration of the haste with which the troops were equipped his Majesty granted two months' pay previous to their march, and undertook all expenses from the time of their leaving their quarters.
One more provision of this treaty deserves special notice, as it has excited the well-warranted indignation of all who have execrated these bargains for the sale of human blood. It runs: "According to custom, three wounded men shall be reckoned as one killed; a man killed shall be paid for at the rate of levy-money." This clause, which does not appear in the subsequent treaty with Hesse-Cassel, stands in the Brunswick treaty in the same article with, and immediately before, the provision for making good any extraordinary loss from battle, pestilence, or shipwreck. It may be taken to mean that the King of England undertook to bear the expense of a recruit to fill the place of a Brunswick soldier actually killed in battle, but that the Duke must replace at his own cost one who deserted from the ranks or died of sickness, unless in case of an "uncommon contagious malady." Yet if this be the interpretation, what is the meaning of the " three wounded men." Kapp, moreover, rejects this explanation, and asserts that new recruits were paid for by levy-money in addition to the 30 crowns received for the killed and wounded, and that this blood money was pocketed by the prince and not by the family of the soldier, nor by himself, if wounded (Sybel's "Historische Zeitschrift," II, 6 - 42, 1879, p. 327.) At any rate, the fact remains that the Duke of Brunswick contracted to receive a sum amounting to about $35 for every one of his soldiers who should be killed in battle, and $11. 66 for every one who should be maimed. It is probably now impossible to discover how much England actually paid out on this account. The payments were not entered under their proper heading in the bills sent to Parliament from the War Office. Kapp suggests that the cabinet did not care to meet the criticism which this item in the accounts would have raised.[14]
The American armies were recruited by the help
of liberal promises. Twenty dollars and one hun-
dred acres of land were guaranteed every private and
non-commissioned officer. Recruits could be got
only by bounties and pay. The Germans were used
to being sent outside their own country to serve
under foreign flags, but the money paid for their ser-
vices went to their sovereigns. Those sent to Amer-
ica brought home much useful knowledge of actual
war, and the Hessians and Brunswickers, who had
fought in America, were among the best soldiers in
the German army during the wars of the French
Revolution. Their operations in America were
closely followed at home; newspapers and journals
were filled with their letters.
A Hessian officer who had served as adjutant
with Don op and Knyphausen, wrote afterwards :
" No one found fault with our going into the Brit-
ish service for pay," and none of the officers
or men complained. There were many volunteers,
especially in Hesse, among them v. Ochs, later Gen-
eral, and in the letters home, from soldiers and offi-
cers, there was no complaint, but all showed a thoroughly German spirit of discipline wherever they were ordered.
When England found its need of allies, it natur-
ally turned to its old comrades of the Seven Years'
War. Hesse Cassel and Brunswick were first
approached. George the III. wrote to their princes
the wives were both Bnglish princesses and
offered not only a subsidy for their troops, but
treaties of alliance and protection, for it was easily
to be anticipated that France would side with the
rebels and threaten Germany. The troops from
Hanover were sent, five battalions, to Gibraltar,
relieving Bnglish soldiers sent to America. Hesse
Hanau and Waldeck joined the other German allies.
Toward the end of 1775, Col. William Faucit, of
the Guards, came to Germany to make the Treaties
for the allied forces. On January 9, 1776, that with
Brunswick was signed, on the i5th that with the
Hessian government, and on the 5th of February
that with Hanau ; that with Waldeck had been made
in London on April 25, 1775. Hesse Cassel agreed
to supply fifteen Regiments, each of five Companies,
four Grenadier Battalions, two Yager Companies,
and some artillery, in all 12,500 men. Brunswick
promised a corps of 4,000 men, four Infantry, one
Dragoon, Regiments, one Grenadier, and one Light
Infantry Battalion. Hesse Hanau promised one In-
fantry Regiment and some artillery, in all 900 men ;
Waldeck, one Regiment 750 strong.
The three treaties were printed at Frankfort and Leipsic in 1776, and in the Parliamentary Transactions, Nos. 17 and 18. For each man England
agreed to pay thirty marks hand money, one-third
one month after the execution of the Treaties, the
balance within two months. For every man killed,
wounded or captured, or made unserviceable by
wounds or sickness, a like sum was to be paid, and
like provision was made for those lost in sieges or
by infectious disease or on shipboard, but for desert-
ers no compensation was to be made.
To meet the heavy expenses of so quickly equip-
ping so large a force, England paid in advance for
two months, besides all the transportation from the
first day's march. The Brunswick Treaty provides
that the subsidy should begin to run from the date
of its execution at the rate of 64,500 German thalers,
as long as the soldiers received pay, and when that
ended, it was to be doubled, and this 129,000 thalers
should be paid for two years after the return home of
the troops. They were to take an oath of service to
the King of England, thus putting them under
double allegiance to their own sovereign and to that
of Great Britain. Their own princes were to supply
equipments and keep up the standard by new re-
cruits, and were to maintain their legal control over
their subjects. Food and clothing were to be sup-
plied just as to the British army. The forage money
paid to the officers was a handsome addition to their
regular pay. Gen. v. Riedesel, who was of an eco-
nomical turn of mind, was said to have saved 15,000
thalers from this source on his return to Brunswick.
This was the tenth treaty of the kind that Hesse
had made since the seventeenth century. The King
of England pledged himself, in case of great loss in
any regiment, to equalize its strength as best he could
with the others. With Brunswick and Hesse Cassel
he specially agreed to employ their soldiers only in
the North American Continent, and not in the un-
wholesome West Indies. It is not easy to ascertain
the exact amounts paid by England to Germany
under these treaties, for the details were kept secret,
although the public approval by Parliament annually
shows that the following were about the amounts
thus voted, viz. :
Hesse Cassel, eight years, . . . ^2,959,800.
Brunswick, . . . 750,000.
Hesse Hanau, " ... 343,130.
Waldeck, . . . 140,000.
Ansbach-Bayreuth, seven years, . 282,400.
Anhalt-Zerbst, s~ ! x years, . . . 109,120.
I
As these subsidies were to continue for two years
after the close of the war, that would be ^1,150,000.
The bounty for 20,000 men at ^6, would be ^120,000.
The Artillery received an additional ^28,000, and the
annual subsistence cost ^70,000. Altogether, with
additional allowances, ^850,000 annually must have
been paid to the German princes for their soldiers,
out of which, of course, they paid the expense of
equipping, keeping their arms, etc.
The Treaty with Hesse Cassel was even better for
that prince than that with Brunswick or Hanau, and
Cassel received yearly ^50,000 more than it ever got
before for the same number of its soldiers.
Baron v. Schlieffen made a special visit to London
on behalf of Cassel he was an old soldier, had served
in the Seven Years' War in command of Hessian
troops, and was Adjutant of the Duke of Brunswick,
and was as good in using his pen as with his sword ;
his Memoirs have been highly commended by later
historians. When he went to London, the only man
in the English Ministry he knew was Lord George
Germain, who, as Lord Sackville, had been discredited
by his conduct in the Seven Years' War. Schlieffen,
however, gained such a foothold with the Secretary
of State, Lord Suffolk, that he was able to recover for
Cassel ^40,000, an old claim for hospital moneys
spent in the Seven Years' War.
An offer of an additional sum, as compensation
to Cassel for Schlieffen's services in rescuing the
great magazine at Osnabruch, and thus helping to
win the victory at Minden, was refused, but he
secured for himself the honor of maintaining his
independence and personal honesty, and for his
native country a welcome increase of the growing
reserve in its well-stocked treasury.
The later debates in the British Parliament often
turned on the avarice of the German princes in
thus securing the payment of old claims, in addi-
tion to the liberal amounts paid for the subsidies
given by treaty ; but it must be borne in mind that
England was in the position of asking for help, and
the Germans were not offering it, so that of course
the latter were justified in making the best terms
they could. [15]
January 9, 1777: Col Valentine Crawford (6th great grand uncle)
BIOGRAPHY: Valentine died at age 52, Intestate (without a will). He fell through the ice while returning home, in Washington Co., PA. Colonel William Crawford took the body to Bullskin Creek, Shepherdstown, WVA, and buried it beside his mother, Honora Crawford Stephenson, born Honora Grimes. His body was interred Jan. 9, 1777 in West Virginia, Bullskin Church Cemetary, WV. He married three times. His first wife was Catherine ??, then Sarah Morgan ( or Ann Connell), then Rachel ??. Valentine Crawford Jr., and his brother William Crawford, enlisted in the British Army in 1754 at Winchester , VA. Both took oath to the King of England. Valentine was commissioned Colonel in the Virginia Militia in December of 1776 and served as Wagon Master General. Valentine acted as a secretary or an assistant to George Washington. He is reported to have been elected to the Virginia House of Burgess and voted in that body in 1758. Valentine was a private in the Augusta Co.,VA militia in 1775, stationed at Fort Finecastle. On October 1, 1776, he was stationed at Fort Henry (now Wheeling, WV). He was a Colonel in the Virginia State Militia Troops from 1776 to 1777. He was a resident of Tyrone Township, Fayette Co.,PA in 1772-1775. Valentine Crawford Jr. applied for 100 acres of land in Frederick Co.,VA in 1748, about the time of his marriage and purchased (paid for) the land on 6-21-1754.
(Evelyn Pope)[16]
January 9th, 1780: we were at latitude 29° 58’ north, off St. Augustine. Toward evening a severe storm arose, mingled with sleet and hail, which lasted until the morning of January 10th, [17]whereupon a complete calm ensued with such warm air that one could remain outside in his shirt. We thanked God that we could move our legs again and take fresh air on the deck. A ship sailing alongside ours gave us the doleful news that all the horses had been thrown overboard, and that many ships were dismasted and shipwrecked. [18]
January 9, 1804
John Crawford’s (5th great granduncle) records in the Ohio State Auditor’s office are as follows: Warrant No. 21, John Crawford (heir), 3666 acres. January 9, 1804, No. 2679, 955 1/3 acres to Thomas Armat. Vol. 3, page 140.[19]
January 9, 1817: William Vance,(2nd cousin 7x removed) born 1776 (or November 30, 1775 in Washington Co PA), died April 8, 1856. William inherited Joseph's homestead at Cross Creek, was a captain in the war of 1812, a member of the PA legislature in 1815-1816. His first wife was Rachel, daughter of William Patterson. She was born June 3, 1778 in Washington Co PA and died January 9, 1817. She died in Washington Co PA. William and Rachel were married December 24, 1799. William and Rachel had nine children.[20]
January 9, 1861: Mississippi secedes from the union.[21]
Sat. January 9, 1864:
Went to marion put up sale notice got home at 4 o’clock[22]
William Harrison Goodlove (2nd great grandfather)
January 9, 1864: Winans, William B. (Brother in law of the 2nd great grandfather) Age 25. Residence Cedar Rapids, nativity Ohio. Enlisted December 6, 1863. Mustered January 9, 1864. Mustered out July 17, 1865, Savannah, Ga.[23]
January 9, 1873: Emperor Napoleon III of France passed away.[24]
January 9, 1873: At the request of the Grant Administration, Abraham de Sola delivered opening prayer at the House of Representatives. [For some strange reason we remember Grant’s unfortunate Order #10 while overlooking items like this.][25]
January 9, 1881: Herman Gottlieb, January 9, 1881 in Hamburg. Resided Hamburg. Deportation: from Hamburg. November 8, 1941, Minsk. Missing. Killed at Tuchinka? [26]
January 9, 1890
(Pleasant Valley) Miss Nettie Goodlove (Great grandaunt) is spending her vacation at home her aunt Miss Cora Goodlove, who is spending the holidays at her home.
January 9, 1911:
Kenneth Bowes-Lyon
April 26, 1867
January 9, 1911
Not married
No issue
(8th cousin 3x removed)[27]
January 9, 1913: Birthdate of Richard M. Nixon.[28]
January 9, 1926: The Fascists confiscated property of the Craft in Italy, January 9.[29]
January 9, 1929: A thousand years of neglect had resulted in a valley full of silted and blocked-up waterways creating a marshy and swampy landscape as the sWikpring of Harod—and half a dozen other springs that empty into it—filled the land with water faster than the natural outlets—now blocked—could drain it.
That was the scene that greeted the first modern settlers of the valley of Jezreel. And it was obvious that their first task, if they hoped to farm this land, was to drain the swamps. Thus it happened that at the end of December 1928 a work crew from kibbutz Beth Alpha (founded 6 years earlier) was digging yet another drainage canal when someone’s shovel started picking up pieces of mosaic.
Work on the channel stopped at once. They called the Hebrew University (then all of 3 years old!) and within a fortnight Eliezer Lippa Sukenik1 and Nahman Avigad had begun to excavate the site. Work began on January 9, 1929, and continued for 7 weeks, until February 26, despite heavy rains (610 mm instead of the usual 400 mm) that flooded the valley that year.
The mosaic they uncovered was almost complete, its astonishing preservation caused by a layer of plaster, thrown down from the ceiling by the earthquake that destroyed the building, that covered and protected the floor from the damage of falling stones. When it was completely exposed, the mosaic measured 28 meters long and 14 meters wide. It had an inscription at the doorway leading to three panels in the central apse: a rectangular panel, a square panel with a circle in the middle, and then another rectangle at the far end.
The middle square, the first to be uncovered, was the most spectacular. Figures of four women were at the four corners, with inscriptions (in Hebrew) identifying each as a season of the year. Inside the square was a wheel, 3.12 meters in diameter, with a smaller circle (1.2 m) in its center. The wheel was divided into 12 panels, each with a figure and a name identifying it as a sign of the zodiac. And in the center, a man was pictured driving a quadriga (four-horse chariot) through the moon and stars. Rays of the sun were coming out of his head; it was clear that he was Helios, god of the sun.
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In the square panel of the Beth Alpha mosaic was a zodiac wheel with all 12 symbols and names of the zodiac, surrounded by four female figures at the corners, identifying the seasons of the year. Credit: Art Resource, NY[30]
January 9, 1942: : One thousand Jews are deported from the Theresienstadt camp/ghetto to Riga, Latvia. [31]
January 9, 1942: Nimitz gave Halsey his orders. Halsey, Enterprise, and Task Force 8 would escort the Yorktown group to Samoa. The sisterships would then raid Japanese bases in the Gilberts and Marshalls. Lexington CV-2, under Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, would strike Wake Island, while Saratoga CV-3 would watch over Hawaii.
Enterprise provisioned all day and into the night[32]
Uncle Howard Snell was on board the U.S.S. Morrison
January 9, 1944: U.S.S. Morrison at San Diego where, on January 9th, she commenced training exercises. [33]
January 9, 1955: mJohn Simon GUTLEBEN was born on December 17, 1875 in Colmar,Upper Rhine,Alsace and died on January 9, 1955 in , Alameda,CA at age 79.
John married Charlotte J. FROHLIGER on July 11, 1916 in ,,CA. Charlotte was born in 1897 in ,,OH and died on January 3, 1943 in ,Alameda,CA at age 46.
John next married Lucy MULKEY in September 1948 in ,,CA. Lucy was born on August 27, 1876 in ,Butler,KS and died on August 29, 1974 in Forest Grove,Lane,OR at age 98. [34]
January 9, 1960
The Protestant Episcopal Church approves some forms of birth control.[35]
Early 60s: John Birch Society HQ
In the 1950s and early ’60s, fear of communism and of nuclear war with the Soviet Union spread across America like a political flu.
The John Birch Society designated Dallas a regional headquarters and opened a bookstore here. The society preached that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower — among many others — were willing dupes of the Communist Party.
Robert Welch, the retired candy manufacturer who founded the John Birch Society, was convinced that communists controlled American labor unions, the leaders of the civil rights movement — and John F. Kennedy.
Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of a new book, Dallas 1963, said extremists in Dallas didn’t just criticize Kennedy; they painted him as a traitor.
“There was something in Dallas that seemed to be summoning people to a raw, hard-edged resistance to JFK,” said Minutaglio, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a former staff writer at The Dallas Morning News. “We believe it was a distinct minority, but pretty powerful at the top.”
And none wielded more power than H.L. Hunt. The oil titan was reputed to be the richest man in America. He wasn’t shy about spending his money to advance his political beliefs. [36]
January 9, 1777: Elyse: This is definitely one of the stranger investigations. I mean it really is a mouth. It looks hand carved. It’s very light. The wood is probably pine, which would have been used during that
time period. It has great patina. It’s been painted and the patina is still very shiny. And it doesn’t
look very weathered to me. It actually looks like it’s in pretty good shape. There is a label on the
back. Now, I don’t really like to look at labels for authenticity. Anybody could put a label on any
object, and I say that all the time. But it is a good reference point. And this says, “Part of Fig”,
which I’m assuming is figure. “Frigate Constitution, cut off in Boston Harbor” I guess that says
1830. Okay the newspaper article is January 9th, 1977. So it’s much, much later. It’s an article
about figureheads, and how these carved wooden sculptures adorned ships from the 16th to 20th
centuries. The account says that in the 1830’s, U.S.S. Constitution was being restored in the
Boston Navy Yard. Originally, the plan had been to restore a figurehead of Hercules – the same
figurehead Constitution had carried from her launching. Ahhh… listen to this. “Then in 1834 the
politically minded people of Boston demanded a likeness of General Andrew Jackson.” (2nd cousin 8x removed) Ok, so I
know that Andrew Jackson was definitely on Constitution. But I don’t know if this was a part of it. I
think the best place for me to start is the scene of the crime. U.S.S. Constitution earned her
nickname “Old Ironsides” during the war of 1812, because British cannonballs seemed to bounce
off her oak hull, as if she were made of iron. In anticipation of the celebration of the war’s
bicentennial, she is undergoing a major overhaul, but still welcomes visitors…firing her cannons
every evening. Well, there certainly isn’t a figurehead on the ship now, there’s just a scroll there.
I’m meeting Margherita Desy, official historian for U.S.S. Constitution. She has been a keeper of
Constitution’s history for more than a decade.
Margherita Desy: Welcome aboard, Elyse, U.S.S. Constitution.
Elyse: Wow, she’s beautiful.
Margherita Desy: Thank you very much.
Elyse: Unbelievable. So, I have this piece and the people that own it believe that it might be part
of a figurehead of Andrew Jackson that adorned this ship. Do you know of that story?
Margherita Desy: Yes I do. Yes the ship did carry a figurehead of Andrew Jackson. It was placed
aboard the ship in 1834 as part of a major restoration of Constitution. Part of the restoration
involved putting a new figurehead on the bow of the ship. Andrew Jackson was President at the
time that the ship entered dry dock in 1833. And he was actually a very popular President.
Commodore Jesse Duncan Elliott is the person who oversees the restoration of Constitution. And
he thought it would be probably a politically correct thing to do to put a figurehead of Jackson on
the bow of the ship.
Elyse: However, President Jackson’s populist politics were seen as favoring western interests.
This earned him enemies, especially in the maritime cities of the northeast, such as Boston.
Regardless, Elliott pressed ahead with his plan.
Margherita Desy: So he hired Laban Beecher who was a ship carver here in Boston to carve
really quite a large figure. The Andrew Jackson figure is about 10 to 12 feet tall because
Constitution is a big ship.
Elyse: Wow. And what happens? Margherita says that the best way for me to find out more is to
talk to curator Sarah Watkins just across the navy yard in the archives of the U.S.S. Constitution
museum. Sarah confirms that Commodore Elliot’s choice of President Jackson for their beloved
Old Ironsides was met with near unanimous hostility from the people of Boston, who took to the
streets in protest.
Sarah Watkins: Well, first, I have a reproduction of a handbill from a period book. It’s a handbill
that was distributed on the streets and the title is “Freemen Awake or the Constitution will Sink.”
“It is in fact that the old glory President has issued special orders for a colossal figure of this royal
self in roman costume to be placed as a figure head on Old Ironsides.” And it ends with a call to
action. “For god’s sake, save the ship from foul disgrace.” It was seen as a desecration on an
almost sacred ship.
Elyse: Huh, and why is that?
Sarah Watkins: Well, number one, Andrew Jackson is the President of the United States who
closes the bank, the Second Bank of the United States.
Elyse: Sarah explains that, in the winter of 1833, Jackson had removed federal deposits from the
Second Bank of the United States. Jackson viewed that private institution as an unconstitutional
concentration of financial power. But removing funds from the bank shut down the flow of credit to
businesses, angering Boston merchants. On July 2nd 1834, one Cape Cod sailor, named Samuel
Dewey, decided to take action.
Elyse: So what happened that night?
Sarah Watkins: Well it was a dark and stormy night and our daredevil, Samuel Dewey, steathfully
rows across Boston harbor and reaches Constitution undetected. He shimmies up nearly 25 feet
in the air with his saw and attempts to behead this figurehead, but reaches an obstruction, an
actual rod that’s attaching the figure to the ship. And so instead of cutting at the neck, he actually
had to cut right below the nose. And succeeded in severing it there.
Elyse: So that means that the mouth was still attached to the ship.
Sarah Watkins: Exactly.
Elyse: So what happens to Constitution?
Sarah Watkins: Well, Constitution’s beheaded figure is draped in canvas, and the ship sails to
New York to have a New York carver replace the damage.
Elyse: And what does Dewey do with the head?
Sarah Watkins: Well, Dewey soaking wet and elated rows back to shore and hides his prize in his
mother’s shed. And eventually he actually tries to take the head to Washington, D.C., and return it
to Andrew Jackson himself. Jackson, unfortunately, is ill, and not able to receive him, so instead
with navy property, he actually returns it to the Secretary of the Navy, Dickerson.
Elyse: So he becomes this hero.
Sarah Watkins: Dewey was known for this for the rest of his life.
Elyse: Sarah says that after the attack, the mostly decapitated President, Constitution – and
possibly our mouth – sailed out of Boston for safer waters in New York harbor. Here’s a picture of
the severed head. The book calls it the Beecher cranium, after the Boston sculptor who made it.
It’s tiny, it’s in black and white. So unfortunately I can’t tell if the patinas are the same.
Stylistically, they look pretty similar. But, unfortunately, it says here “the Beecher cranium, present
whereabouts unknown.” It seems the head Dewey had severed went missing long after he
returned it to the navy. And what happened to the damaged remains of the figurehead when Old
Ironsides got to New York? I’m enlisting the help of New York art historian and author Ralph
Sessions. He’s an expert on ship carvings from the 19th century, and has written on this
figurehead specifically. Do you think that this piece could have been part of the figurehead?
Ralph Sessions: If this actually were the original mouth, it would be historically very important, but
I’m skeptical.
Elyse: Official navy correspondence from the period indicates that the repairs preserved the
existing mouth.
Ralph Sessions: We have some letters. And actually I have a copy of one in the navy department
that essentially says that “no more is wanted than that so much of the figurehead as has been
removed should be restored.”
Elyse: So this could not be part of the original figurehead, because according to the
documentation they just replaced the cranium.
Ralph Sessions: Yes, that would mean that. However, in thinking about it since you contacted
me, it’s also true that from a carving point of view, it would be easier for a ship carver to cut off
the rest of the head at the neck and carve the entire piece. In which case this would have been
cut off in New York and then the new head would be affixed.
Elyse: Did the New York team create an entire new head for the President? If so, what happened
to the damaged mouth? Where do you think I should take it from here?
Ralph Sessions: Well there certainly is a way you could investigate it further.
Elyse: What’s that?
Ralph Sessions: Because the figurehead is now at the Museum of the City of New York. It’s on
exhibition, in fact. The original piece with the replaced head.
Elyse: Ralph is being a little coy, but he says that, while I’m there, I should ask the museum about
another object they have in storage that could help me solve the case. I’m meeting Dr. Sarah
Henry, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Museum of the City of New York. She’s arranged
for me to take a close look at Andrew in the gallery. So this is him.
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Dr. Sarah Henry: Yeah, here is Andrew Jackson.
Elyse: He’s huge.
Dr. Henry: Yes, in all his glory. This is the original body the Beecher body, and, the replacement
head.
Elyse: So I have this piece and if you don’t mind, I wanted to make a comparison to see if our
mouth could have been attached to that head.
Dr. Henry: Okay.
Elyse: It’s clear that our mouth never belonged to this head. And Ralph’s speculation appears on
target – the New York repair team gave the President an entirely new head. Sarah doesn’t know
what happened to Jackson’s mouth, but she has a surprise. Incredibly, the head that Dewey cut –
and which had long been missing from the navy property lockers – has been found.
Dr. Henry: It’s actually downstairs in our brand new collections storage center. So if you’d like to
take a look we could go down.
Elyse: I’d love to see it. Sarah says that, after Dewey handed it off, Jackson’s head – the socalled
‘Beecher cranium’ – remained in the family of the Secretary of the Navy for generations. At
one point, they emigrated to France, and its whereabouts were then unknown for more than fifty
years.
Dr. Henry: It was tracked down by a curator from the Museum of the City of New York in the
1990’s.
Elyse: Well how did she do that?
Dr. Henry: Well she went and looked up, she knew the married name of the family member it had
gotten down to and she went and looked up everybody with that last name in Paris and called
everybody.
Elyse: She’s like a History Detective.
Dr. Henry: Well she was, she was a History Detective.
Dr. Henry: So, there it is.
Elyse: All right, this is the moment of truth. Let’s check it out.
Dr. Henry: Okay.
Elyse: This mystery has been around for a long time, but it was a hard one to crack. It wasn’t until
I went to the Museum of the City of New York, where I was able to find some answers, and I think
you might want to take a look at some of this footage.
Elyse: Well the first thing I notice is that the patina is the same. And it’s to scale. I mean the
mouth and the chin aren’t bigger or smaller. It’s definitely to scale as it should be. So that’s a
good sign. Now let’s see if it matches.
Dr. Henry: Let’s see if it fits that together, okay?
Elyse: You got it?
Dr. Henry: Come, on, Andy.
Elyse: Okay, here we go.
Dr. Henry: Let’s see. Look at that!
Elyse: Yep, it’s a match! So after 150 years, they’re finally together.
Dr. Henry: Together again.
Elyse: Oh, P. J.’s going to be thrilled.
P. J. Whelan: Oh my gosh. Absolutely amazing. I’m speechless. I really can’t believe that it’s
actually real.
Elyse: So your dad’s trade really was for a treasure. What are you going to do with it?
P. J. Whelan: It’s always been in the back of my mind that he could be reunited with Andrew. That
to me is the fitting end to the story, is that Andrew gets his mouth back and history gets back an
important piece of the puzzle.
Elyse: Samuel Dewey – the Bostonian who decapitated the figurehead – slipped from public view
after that fateful night in 1834. Despite becoming a gem seeker, and discovering both the largest
known American diamond and ruby at the time, he died poor, at the age of 93, in a tenement
house. U.S.S. Constitution never fired her cannons in battle again. Upon returning to the U.S. in
1855 from her final voyage around the world, Old Ironsides was readied for her new role as a
stationary school ship for the naval academy. Today, the oldest commissioned warship still afloat
continues to serve as an historic ship, welcoming aboard half a million visitors each year.[37]
January 9, 1978: The Shah gave a public statement in support of President Sadat’s Middle East peace initiatives. He declared Egypt is doing “precisely what we believe is right.”[38]
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[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1296
[4] http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1317
[5] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[6] Wikipedia
[7] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[8] http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1558
[9] [^Original. — State Paper Office^ London^ Mary Queen of Scots, vol. iii.]
[10] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[11] beginshttp://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1570
[12] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[13] In Search of the Turkey Foot Road, page 32.
[14] http://www.americanrevolution.org/hessians/hess2.html
[15] http://www.archive.org/stream/germanalliedtroo00eelkuoft/germanalliedtroo00eelkuoft_djvu.txt
[16] http://www.dave-francis.com/genealogy/obanionfamily/pafn15.htm
[17] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.
[18] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.
[19] From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969. pg. 186.
[20] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett p. 1820.14
[21] State Capital Memorial, Austin, Texas, February 11, 2012
[22] William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary
[23] http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logn/mil508.htm
[24] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[25] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[26][1] Gedenkbuch, Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945. 2., wesentlich erweiterte Auflage, Band II G-K, Bearbeitet und herausgegben vom Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, 2006, pg. 1033-1035,.
[2] Gedenkbuch (Germany)* does not include many victims from area of former East Germany). Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
[27] Wikipedia
[28] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[29] http://www.mastermason.com/bridgeportlodge181/MASHST11.HTM
[30] 1 E.L. Sukenik, The Ancient Synagogue of Beth-Alpha, (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1932)
2 The incense shovel was a universally recognized Jewish symbol in the Byzantine era. It disappeared from the Jewish iconographic lexicon because the Jews stopped using incense when the Christians started.
3 The Aramaic inscription at the front door was damaged. It says that the mosaic was made “during the … year of the reign of the emperor Justinus”. The exact year is missing. The reference is probably to the emperor Justin I (adopted uncle and immediate predecessor of Justinian the Great) who ruled from 518-527 C.E. and whose coins were found on the site. It is of course possible that the building was older than the mosaic floor.
4 The earliest possible “candidate” was a major quake that hit the country on July 9, 551. It was the earthquake that finally destroyed Petra. More likely was an earthquake of lesser magnitude but located closer to the site which did great damage to the Jordan Valley in 659/660.
5 We have not entered into a discussion of the artistic merits of this work of art. It is the writer’s opinion that this work, with its naive and primitive style, has a child-like immediacy and freshness that makes it one of the masterpieces of world art.
6 Thus the new JPS Tanakh. The King James translation puts a colon after the word “earth”, while the New American Bible (Catholic) and the Revised Standard Version (Protestant) translations both use a semi-colon instead of period at this point.
7 From a Geniza manuscript of JT Avoda Zarah
8 In the Pseudo-Jonathan Targum to Lev. 26:1
9 From a Geniza fragment of Midrash Deut. Rabba) These quotations are cited by Michael Klein, “Palestinian Targum and Synagogue Mosaics,” Jerusalem, Immanuel 11 (1980)
10 The matter is discussed in BT Shabbat, 156a
11 At Beth Alpha the signs and the seasons both progress counter-clockwise, although they are misaligned. The Hammat Tiberias zodiac shows both signs and seasons also rotating counter-clockwise, and in correct alignment with each other. At Na’aran the seasons run counter-clockwise, as above, but the signs go clockwise!
12 That position was argued by Prof. Avi-Yonah, among many others, and by the excavator of Hammat Tiberias. See Moshe Dothan, Hammath Tiberias, (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1983). Hammat Tiberias is the only mosaic we know where the signs and seasons are correctly aligned, which may have influenced the excavator’s judgment as to its purpose
13 The cataloging of all of these finds and the interpretation of what they might mean constitute the magnum opus of Erwin Goodenough (1893-1965), Professor of Religion at Yale and one of the greatest scholars of religion America ever produced. Goodenough’s 13 volume study, E.R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, (New York: Pantheon, 1958), form the core text for the study of this subject, Everyone who has subsequently dealt with the subject is in his debt. The book has been re-issued in a 1-volume paperback, abridged and edited by Jacob Neusner (Princeton: Bollingen Series, 1988)
[31] http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Chronology_1942.html
[32] http://www.cv6.org/1942/marshalls/marshalls_2.htm
[33] http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ussmorrison/
[34] Descendents of Elias Gotleben, Email from Alice, May 2010.
[35] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[36] http://www.dallasnews.com/news/jfk50/reflect/20131012-extremists-in-dallas-created-volatile-atmosphere-before-jfks-1963-visit.ece
[37] http://www-tc.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/static/media/transcripts/2011-05-22/804_jacksonsmouth.pdf
[38] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 500.
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