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Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove
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, John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, and 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,
Rachel Fitch
Mary C. Geyer Dennis
Anna M. LeFevre KING (grandaunt of the wife of the 1st cousin 3x removed)
LaFaye Morrison Anderson (2nd cousin 2x removed)
LaVonne Morrison Ford (2nd cousin 2x removed)
Herbert A. Sherman (2nd cousin 1x removed(
Gloria G. Whitney Neel (2nd cousin 2x removed)
February 21, 362: Athanasius returns to Alexandria so he can lead the fight against various Christian heretics such as the Arians. His negative views about the Jews were really part of his fight against Christian heritics. His “anti-Jewish rhetoric served to stigmatize Christians who resisted” the efforts of Athanasius “to reform the Alexandrian (local) practices of Lent and Easter along more international (catholic) lines.” For more on this view of his works and writings one should read “Jewish Flesh and Christian Spirit in Athanasius of Alexandria” by David Burke, Journal of Early Christian Studies - Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 2001, pp. 453-481[1]
February 21, 1743: George Frederic Handel's oratorio, "Samson" premiered in London. The musical was based on the figure depicted in the Book of Judges and is another example of how Jewish culture enriched the culture of the Western World.[2]
February 21, 1744: Armstrong. John (Jack) Armstrong. A fur trader killed February 21, 1744 by Mushemeelin, a Delaware Indian. Mushemeelin ran up a debt with Armstrong. When Mushemeelin was delinquent in payment, Armstrong “collected” the debt in the fall of 1743 by taking a horse and gun belonging to the borrower. In early 1744, Mushemeelin demanded his horse back—Armstrong refused. Later Mushemeelin’s wife asked for the horse. Her request was rejected. In February 1744, Mushemeelin followed Armstrong and caught-up to him at a narrows on the Juniata River. Armstrong had two servants with him (James Smith and Woodward Arnold). Mushemeelin had two hunting friends with him (John and Jemmey). When finding Armstrong’s servants, Mushemeelin killed them and then hunted down Armstrong and killed him as well. Armstrong was shot in the back and a hatchet penetrated the back of his head. Mushemeelin, who lived in Shamokin on the Susquehanna River, was captured and after long pre-trial arguments was tried and convicted.
The murder investigation involved Sassoonan, Shickellamy, Conrad Weiser, Andre Montour, Thomas McKee, and—even Governor George Thomas of PA. Mushemeelin was hanged November 14, 1744. John and Jemmey were found innocent. The killing site on the Juniata River is known today as “Jack’s Narrows” (near Mt. Union in Huntingdon County).[3]
February 21, 1766: Hugh Crawford, who had been one of Croghan’s associates in the Indian trade before 1755, conducted Pontiac safely to Oswego where the treaty of friendship was renewed and presents given.[4]
February 21, 1775: The first term of this Virginia court was held at Fort Dunmore on February 21, 1775, when George Croghan, John Campbell, John Connolly, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, George
Vallandigham and William Goe appeared, took the qualifying oaths,
and occupied their seats as justices. George Croghan, settled about
where Lawrenceville now is, at first a Virginia adherent, had become
quite a Pennsylvanian during Dunmore' s war, but he was now made
the presiding justice of Dunmore' s court, and this brought him back
once more among the Virginia partisans. From this date there were
not only two different sets of magistrates, with their subordinate offi
cers, assessors, and commissioners, over the same people in the
Monongahela valley, but within a few miles of each other there were
established two different courts, one at Pittsburgh, the other at Hanna's Town, regularly or irregularly administering justice under the laws of two different governments. [5]
February 21, 1775: The new justices embraced in the commission of the peace for the District of West Augusta, as held at the first day's session of that court on February 21, 1775, were, in the order in which their names were given, as follows: George Croghan, the deputy Indian agent at Pittsburgh; John Campbell, of Pittsburgh, or near thereto, owning a mill-seat at the mouth of Campbell's Run (so known to this day) just below the railroad station at Carnegie; John Connolly of Pittsburgh, the principal representative of Lord Dunmore in this country; Edward Ward, who had surrendered to the French and Indians the Virginia fort building at the Forks of the Ohio on April 17, 1754; Thomas Smallman, of Pittsburgh; Dorsey Pentecost, lately removed from the Forks of the Youghiogheny to the East Brainch of Chartiers Creek; John Gibson, of Pittsburgh, brother of George Gibson who was afterward the father of Chief Justice Gibson of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Captain William Crawford, (6th great grandfather) afterwards burned at the stake by the Indians at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1782; John Stephenson, one oi the half-brothers of Crawford; John McColloch, of now West Liberty, Ohio County, Virginia, the father of Major Sam. McColloch, who made the famous leap on horseback from the Wheeling hill; John Canon who laid out the town of Canonsburg; George Vallandigham, of the Noblestown neighborhood, the grandfather of the notorious Clement L. Vallanidgham of Ohio; Silas Hedge and David Shepherd, both of what is now Elm Grove in Ohio County, Virginia, near Wheeling; and William Goe, from what is now Fayette County, north of Brownsville, an ancestor of the Bateman Goe family of Pittsburgh.[6]
The records of all these Virginia Courts, beginning with those of the County Court for the District of West Augusta, held at first in Fort Pitt, built by General Stanwix in 1759, nearly on the site of old Fort Duquesne at the Point in the City of Pittsburgh, baptized by Dr. Connolly Fort Dunmore, have lately been published
in the Annals of the Carnegie Museum, with explanatory introductions. These records are! full of authentic history relating to our early pioneers, and from the records of the old court first established at Fort Dunmore, a very few notes shall here be made. Its first day's business was transacted on February 21, 1775,
two months before the preliminary Revolutionary skirmishes at Lexington and Concord. On that date, viewers were appointed to view a proposed road from the road from Thomas Gist's (Mt. Braddock, beyond Uniontown) to Fort Dunmore, thence to Paul Froman's (on the East Branch of Chartiers Creek), by way of
James Devore's Ferry (now Monongahela City). The same day, William Elliott, a Pennsylvania adherent, living at or near Pittsburgh, having been arrested "for disturbing the minds of his Majesties Good people of this County, by demanding in an arbitrary and Illegal Manner of sundry Persons what Personal Estate they are possessed of, that the same may be tax'd according to the Laws of Pennsylvania," on hearing it was ordered that he be committed to jail, until he enter into bail in 100 pounds for his good behavior for one month. This is but one of many like entries of proceedings in this court against officers exercising powers under the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania.[7]
February 21, 1775: The first sessions of the County Court, held by these last
named Justices or some of them, was held at Fort Dunmore, on
February 21, 1775; and from this date there were, west of the
Alleghanies, not only two different sets of magistrates, with their
subordinate officers, constables, assessors, and organized companies
of militia, over the same people in the Monongahela valley, but
within a few miles of each other had been established two different
courts regularly (or irregularly) administering justice under the
laws of two different governments.
These conditions, with these Virginia Courts exercising judicial
powers in the same territory with the courts of Pennsylvania, con-
tinued until August 28, 1780, after which no Virginia court was ever
held within the limits of Pennsylvania, the general assembly of
Pennsylvania having ratified on September 23, 1780, the Baltimore
agreement as to where the boundary lines between the two states
should be run, as they were finally run and marked on the grouna
in 1784 and 1786.
As the Virginia adherents were no doubt largely in the
majority, the Westmoreland County Court seems to have done
much the smaller amount of business than did the Virginia courts,
during the concurrent existence of both; indeed, there was a period
of two years, from April Term 1776 to April Term 1778, during
which there were no sessions at all of the Court of Common Pleas
for Westmoreland County, while the Virginia courts were in
session regularly. Hereafter our attention will be confined to the
Virginia courts, and chiefly to the Court for the District of West
Augusta.
The new justices embraced in the commission of the peace
for the District of West Augusta, as held at the first day's session
of that court on February 21, 1775, were, in the order in which
their names were given, as follows: George Croghan, the deputy
Indian agent at Pittsburgh; John Campbell, of Pittsburgh, or near
thereto, owning a mill-seat at the mouth of Campbell's Run (so
Imown to this day) just below the railroad station at Carnegie;
John Connolly of Pittsburgh, the principal representative of Lord
Dunmore in this country; Edward Ward, who had surrendered to
the French and Indians the Virginia fort building at the Forks of
the Ohio on April 17, 1754; Thomas Smallman, of Pittsburgh;
Dorsey Pentecost, lately removed from the Forks of the Youghio-
gheny to the East Branch of Chartiers Creek; John Gibson, of
Pittsburgh, bi other of George Gibson who was afterward the father
of Chief Justice Gibson of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania;
Captain William Crawford, afterwards burned at the stake by the
Indians at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1782; John Stephenson, one of the
half-brothers of Crawford; John McCoUoch, of now West Liberty,
Ohio County, Virginia, the father of Major Sam. McColloch, who made
the famous leap on horseback from the Wheeling hill; John Canon
who laid out the town of Canonsburg; George Vallandigham, of the
Noblestown neighborhood, the grandfather of the notorious Clement
L. Vallandigham of Ohio; Silas Hedge and David Shepherd, both
of what is now Elm Grove in Ohio County, Virginia, near Wheeling;
and William Goe, from what is now Fayette County, north of
Brownsville, an ancestor of the Bateman Goe family of Pittsburgh. [8]
February 21, 1777: On this day in 1777, George Weedon is promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army.
Weedon was an innkeeper in Fredericksburg, Virginia, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, but had previously served as a lieutenant under George Washington in western Virginia during the French and Indian War. As the revolution began, Weedon was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Third Virginia Regiment under Hugh Mercer in 1775. On August 13, 1776, he acceded to Mercer's command as colonel of the 3rd Virginia Regiment. In the fall and winter of 1776, Weedon marched with his troops of the Virginia Regiment alongside General George Washington and the Continental Army in campaigns against the British in New York and New Jersey, including the Battles of Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown. He also commanded Pennsylvania and Virginia regiments in Nathanael Greene's division at Valley Forge.
Weedon resigned the post he was given on this day in history one year later when, at Valley Forge, Congress promoted a rival Virginian and French and Indian War veteran, William Woodford, to a position outranking him. Although he never returned to full duty in the Virginia regiment, Weedon continued his service to his country by leading a brigade of Virginia militia during the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781. Woodford was captured during the siege of Charleston and died in captivity in 1780. Weedon lived to see the new nation established; he died in 1793.
Weedon's orderly book--his record of orders and battle plans--from Valley Forge remains in the holdings of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.[9]
February 21, 1780
It is the gracious order of His Serene Highness that no person belonging to the lower staff or commissaries is to be married in the future without the knowledge and consent of his Excellence Lieutenant General von Knyphausen, whose approval or refusal, after an investigation, is to be final. [10]
1780 Colonel William Crawford visits Congress, in person, to urge more effectual and energetic defense of the frontier. [11]
A map of the land abt. Red Stone and Fort Pitt, given to me by Cap. Crawfd. [12] George Washington.
February 21, 1781
Winch, Charles, Framingham, Private, Col. Benjamin Tupper's[13] (10th) regt.; service from Feb. 21, 1781, 22 mos. 7 days.[14]
February 21, 1787: Congress calls for a Constitutional Convention, to take place in Philadelphia.[15] On February 21, 1787, the Articles Congress called a convention of state delegates at Philadelphia to propose a plan of government. Unlike earlier attempts, the convention was not meant for new laws or piecemeal alterations, but for the “sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation”. The convention was not limited to commerce; rather, it was intended to “render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union." The proposal might take effect when approved by Congress and the states.[10]
February 21, 1805:
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The Treaty of St. Louis of 1804 was treaty signed by William Henry Harrison for the United States and representatives of the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes led by Quashquame, signed on November 3, 1804 and proclaimed on February 21, 1805. Despite the name, the treaty was conducted at Portage des Sioux, Missouri, located immediately north of St. Louis, Missouri. In exchange for an annual payment of $1,000 in goods to be delivered to the tribe in St. Louis ($600 for the Sacs and $400 for the Fox), the tribes gave up a swath of land stretching from northeast Missouri through almost all of Illinois north of the Illinois River as well as a large section of southern Wisconsin. This treaty was deeply resented by the Sauk, especially Black Hawk, who felt that Quashquame was not authorized to sign treaties. This treaty led to many Sauk siding with the British during the War of 1812.
The specific terms for the boundary were:
The general boundary line between the lands of the United States and of the said Indian tribes shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point on the Missouri river opposite to the mouth of the Gasconade river; thence in a direct course so as to strike the river Jeffreon at the distance of thirty miles from its mouth, and down the said Jeffreon to the Mississippi, thence up the Mississippi to the mouth of the Ouisconsing river and up the same to a point which shall be thirty-six miles in a direct line from the mouth of the said river, thence by a direct line to the point where the Fox river (a branch of the Illinois) leaves the small lake called Sakaegan, thence down the Fox river to the Illinois river, and down the same to the Mississippi. And the said tribes, for and in consideration of the friendship and protection of the United States which is now extended to them, of the goods (to the value of two thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents) which are now delivered, and of the annuity hereinafter stipulated to be paid, do hereby cede and relinquish forever to the United States, all the lands included within the above-described boundary.[1]
Included in this cessation were the historic villages along the Rock River (Illinois), particularly Saukenuk. William Henry Harrison, the representative for the United States, was governor of the Indiana territory and of the District of Louisiana, superintendent of Indian Affairs for the said territory and district. The party of Sauk who signed the treaty, led by Quashquame, were not expecting to negotiate land and did not include important tribal leaders who would ordinarily have been in such negotiations. Black Hawk never recognized the treaty as valid and this led him to side with the British against settlers in the area during the War of 1812. The treaty was upheld again in the Treaties of Portage des Sioux in 1815 at the end of the war. Black Hawk eventually led the Black Hawk War to fight its terms.
In his autobiography, Black Hawk recalled:
Quashquame, Pashepaho, Ouchequaka and Hashequarhiqua were sent by the Sacs to St. Louis to try and free a prisoner who had killed an American. The Sac tradition was to see if the Americans would release their friend. They were willing to pay for the person killed, thus covering the blood and satisfying the relations of the murdered man.
Upon return Quashquame and party came up and gave us the following account of their mission:
On our arrival at St. Louis we met our American father and explained to him our business, urging the release of our friend. The American chief told us he wanted land. We agreed to give him some on the west side of the Mississippi, likewise more on the Illinois side opposite Jeffreon. When the business was all arranged we expected to have our friend released to come home with us. About the time we were ready to start our brother was let out of the prison. He started and ran a short distance when he was SHOT DEAD!
This was all they could remember of what had been said and done. It subsequently appeared that they had been drunk the greater part of the time while at St. Louis.
This was all myself and nation knew of the treaty of 1804. It has since been explained to me. I found by that treaty, that all of the country east of the Mississippi, and south of Jeffreon was ceded to the United States for one thousand dollars a year. I will leave it to the people of the United States to say whether our nation was properly represented in this treaty? Or whether we received a fair compensation for the extent of country ceded by these four individuals?[2][17]
1805
“I shall need…the Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessities and comforts of life,” Jefferson would declare in 1805 in his second inaugural address.[18]
1805: The men were accepted into the militia in Bavaria. [19]
1805
In 1803 or 1804 Congress passed a law donating 3 percent of all money received from sale of lands for use on roads. This donation was called per cent fund. One Capt. Moore, and his brother Thomas, in 1805 took a contract to open a road from Franklinton to Springfield. When they got within a few miles of Springfield with the road, they made a frolic of the job, and invited all the people around to come and help them, so they might go into Springfield in one day. The people turned out and put the road through in one day and that night they had a big supper and ball at Foos’, which was a grand affair. There was great rejoicing that the road was done.[20]
Thomas Moore Drove the first hogs East from this region. He bought his drove from the people on credit. He bought some from one lady named Nancy Reed, promising to bring her a silk dress pattern from Baltimore as payment for her hogs. He drove his hogs to Baltimore, but as his expenses on the trip were more than the original cost of the hogs, he lost money, and could not pay in full for the hogs when he got home. But he brought Nancy her silk dress, and she had the honor of wearing the first silk in this part of the country, and athe same time, the satisfaction of getting payment in full for hogs, a thing which nobody else could say. But Moore paid all a proportional part, and promised the remainder as soon as he could get it. It was several years before he made payment of these debts, but he did it after he got back from serving with Hull in his campaigns. He had saved enough out of his wages to cancel his hog debts. Moore lived and died on the farm where he first settled.[21]
1805: His grandfather, (Milton R. Hunter) Jonathan Hunter, was a native of England, who emigrated to Philadelphia, where he learned the tailoring business, afterward moving to Virginia, where he remained until 1805, when he removed with his family to Pleasant Township, Clark Co., Ohio, and entered Sec. 22, in the western part of the township, where he resided until his death. [22]
Jonathan Hunter, Milton’s father, was born in Loudoun County, VA in 1776, came to Ohio and served in the War of 1812. Jonathan was a close neighbor to Conrad and Caty and developed a large farm with a huge brick home of which we observed and took photos[23]
1805 – At the suggestion of Louisiana Territory Gov. James Wilkinson, the Cherokee living in southeast Missouri on the Mississippi River move to the Arkansas River in what becomes Arkansas Territory.[24]
1805: History of the Sinking Spring Farm (Lincolns Birthplace). 1805 - David Vance bought 300 acres from Mather, who held a lien on the land. Vance then sold the farm to Isaac Bush.[25]
February 21, 1825
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Deposition signed by Theophilus McKinnon (4th greatgranduncle) and William H. McKinnon, Justice of the Peace, (3rd greatgranduncle), February 21, 1825. (theophilus McKinnon claimed to be the first to use the term Honest Abe.
1825: In 1825, When he was 18 years old[27], Abraham borrowed a book titled Life of Washington by Parson Mason Weems from a neighbor named Josiah Crawford.[28]. However, the book got soaked with rain. Unfortunately Abe left the book inside the cabin near where there was a chink in the logs and an all-night rain had soaked the book. He worked off its worth for his neighbor from whom he had borrowed it (Josiah Crawford). This was the very first book Abraham ever personally owned.[29] Theophilus McKinnon claimed to be the first person to use the term Honest Abe. Theophilus McKinnon was the grandson of Sarah Crawford. Theophilus McKinnon was born in Harrison County, Kentucky. Abe Lincoln was born in Kentucky too. He was the first president to be born outside the original thirteen colonies.
February 21, 1828 – Elias Boudinot began publication of the Cherokee Phoenix at New Echota.[30]
February 21, 1861: JULY ANN CRAWFORD, b. August 26, 1830, Adams County, Ohio; d. February 21, 1861, Adams County, Ohio. [31]
February 21, 1848: Karl Marx published the "Communist Manifesto. " Marx was not Jewish but his father was. This fact has not stopped a myriad of anti-Semites including Adolph Hitler from equating Judaism with Communism.[32]
Sun. February 21[33], 1864
Had preaching twice saw many old acquaintance – weather warmer
William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary 24th Iowa Infantry[34]
February 21, 1864: Confederate troops under General Nathan Bedford Forrest waylaid Smith at West Point, Mississippi, and dealt the Federals a resounding defeat. Smith returned to Memphis, and Sherman turned back towards Vicksburg.
Ultimately, Sherman failed to clear Mississippi of Rebels, and the Confederates repaired the rail lines within a month. Sherman did learn how to live off the land, however, and took notes on how to strike a blow against the civilian population of the South. He used that knowledge with devastating results in Georgia later that year. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sherman-enters-meridian-mississippi.[35]
February 21, 1865: After spending four weeks in Libby Prison in Richmond, VA, Gilbert Prey (from Job Kirby's 104th New York Volunteer Infantry, Possibly Job was here as well) was sent to Salisbury, North Carolina for two weeks and then on to Danville, VA, until he was exchanged nearly six months later on February 21, 1865.[36]
February 21, 1865: Confederate troops commanded by General Braxton Bragg evacuate Wilmington, North Carolina.[37]
February 21, 1865: As northern control of western Virginia strengthened during the war, southern military support was often in the form of irregulars, troops never officially mustered into the Confederate Army. West Virginia's first governor, Arthur Boreman, considered these irregulars the most serious threat to the new state. Jesse McNeill's Rangers, organized in Hardy County, was the most famous of these irregulars to operate in West Virginia. During 1863 and 1864, they wreaked havoc on the B&O Railroad in the Eastern Panhandle, seizing numerous Union supplies. On February 21, 1865, Captain McNeill and sixty-five hand-picked rangers left the Moorefield area and rode into Cumberland, Maryland. They kidnaped Union Generals George Crook and Benjamin Kelley from their hotel rooms, returned to the Moorefield area, and then sent the captured generals by coach under armed guard to Confederate General Jubal Early in Staunton, Virginia. At the end of the war, McNeill and his rangers surrendered to Union troops under the command of General (and future President) Rutherford B. Hayes.[38]
Mill Island
Sign located at 257 Mill Island Road, Moorefield WV 23836
This mansion was built about 1840 for Felix Seymour and his wife. During the war the home was used as a Confederate hospital (especially for sick and wounded McNeill’s Rangers). The prosperous 1,500-acre farm suffered the loss of crops and livestock to both sides during the war.[39]
February 21, 1868: Emily Hughes Cavender (b. February 21, 1868).[40]
February 21, 1885: The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington D.C.[41] The Washington Monument, built in honor of America's revolutionary hero and first president, is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
The 555-foot-high marble obelisk was first proposed in 1783, and Pierre L'Enfant left room for it in his designs for the new U.S. capital. After George Washington's death in 1799, plans for a memorial for the "father of the country" were discussed, but none were adopted until 1832--the centennial of Washington's birth. Architect Robert Mills' hollow Egyptian obelisk design was accepted for the monument, and on July 4, 1848, the cornerstone was laid. Work on the project was interrupted by political quarreling in the 1850s, and construction ceased entirely during the American Civil War. Finally, in 1876, Congress, inspired by the American centennial, passed legislation appropriating $200,000 for completion of the monument.
In February 1885, the Washington Monument was formally dedicated, and three years later it was opened to the public, who were permitted to climb to the top of the monument by stairs or elevator. The monument was the tallest structure in the world when completed and remains today, by District of Columbia law, the tallest building in the nation's capital.[42]
The Washington Monument’s architect, Robert Mills, a freemason, based his design on an ancient Egyptian symbol of power, the obelisk. It is 555 feet. [43] On February 21, 1885: The Washington Monument is dedicated in Washington D.C.[44]
The Washington Monument was dedicated on a chilly February 21, 1885, one day before George Washington's birthday (which fell on a Sunday that year). After the completion of the iron staircase in the monument's interior, the Washington Monument was first accessible to the public in 1886, closed much of 1887 until it could be better protected from vandals, and reopened in 1888 with a public elevator. Visitors making the ascent could view commemorative stones inset in the walls from various individuals, civic groups, cities, states, and countries from around the world, the tokens of appreciation of Washington's admirers and, in many cases, the donors that contributed to the construction of the Monument in its privately-financed phase. Today there are 193 of these commemorative stones.
Upkeep
The original steam-driven elevator, with a trip time of 10-12 minutes to the top of the monument, was replaced with an electric elevator in 1901. The National Park Service was given jurisdiction over the Washington Monument in 1933, and the first restoration of the structure began as a Depression Era public works project in 1934. Another round of restoration occurred in 1964, and again in 1998-2001. The elevator used today was installed in this most recent round of work.
After the Earthquake
At 1:51 p.m. on August 22, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Visitors inside the Washington Monument's observation deck were thrown about by the force of the shaking; falling mortar and pieces of stone caused minor injuries, though all the people inside exited safely. Damage occurred throughout the metropolitan Washington area, but the Washington Monument was among the significantly damaged structures. Assessments of the building revealed cracks, spalls, and displacements of stones and joints throughout the building. The Washington Monument has been closed to the public since the earthquake. Work to repair the damage and reopen the monument to the public is ongoing. Although visitors cannot go inside the building for the moment, all can still stand outside the shining obelisk and look up in wonder and amazement admiring the greatness of both the monument and the man whose memory it represents.
At the dedication of the Washington Monument in 1885, a speech by then-elderly Robert Winthrop, who had attended the opening ceremony in 1848, was read by Rep. John D. Long of Massachusetts. He said of the Washington Monument, "The storms of winter must blow and beat upon it ... the lightnings of Heaven may scar and blacken it. An earthquake may shake its foundations ... but the character which it commemorates and illustrates is secure." [45]
February 21, 1907
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Goodlove returned home from Texas last week.[46]
February 21, 1921: On February 21, 1921, Judge E. B. Stiles of the Delaware County District Court ruled against the defendants, holding that the Buck Creek district was illegally constituted and that the board of directors possessed no authority under the law. To make matters worse, the judge ordered the defendants to pay the costs of the court proceedings. The second battle of Buck Creek was over and the opponents of consolidation, comprising mostly Catholics, had won. Another battle was just beginning. Within a matter of days, Warren H. Winch, the president of the Union School Township board of directors, called a meeting of the board. Winch was the person who only a few days earlier had been the president of the board of directors of the Buck Creek consolidated School District. By now the board was fully polarized into pro and anti-school consolidation factions. It last little time in passing a resolution formally delimiting the boundaries of the Union No. subdistrict and directed the president to file a new plat of the Union School Township with the county auditor[47].
The Third Battle of Buck Creek:
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”
The formation of a consolidated school district in the Buck Creek area had been something of a crusade for the Buck Creek Methodists for almost a year. After the cross-burning incident at the Buck Creek Fair, Catholic opposition to consolidation took a similar form. From that time onward, Catholic families, like their Methodist neighbors, increasingly thought of the controversy in Catholic versus Protestant terms. If Catholic families wished to preserve their country schools, they had little choice but to mobilize as Catholics, not simply as members of particular rural neighborhoods. The Buck Creekers were already mobilized as Methodists, but with apparent victory on the consolidation issue seemingly snatched away by the district court, anti-Catholic feelings among them intensified dramatically. Within a matter of a few weeks, the Ku Klux Klan had signed up almost every man in the Buck Creek Church with ten dollars in his pocket. As Buck Creekers flocked to the Klan, cross burnings became more commonplace. Among Catholics, suspicions ran high. Lifetime friendships dissolved as Catholics suspected their Protestant neighbors of belonging to the Klan. Even lifelong friends and neighbors Warren Winch and “Jimmy” Kehoe no longer spoke to each other. The third battle of Buck Creek was on and it was as shrill as it was misguided.[48]
The specific rifle shipped against
the order has been received by Klein's from Crescent on February 21,1963. It bears the
manufacturer's serial number C2766. On that date, Klein's placed an internal control number
VC836 on this rifle. According to Klein's shipping order form, one Italian carbine 6.5 X-4 x scope,
control number VC836, serial number C2766, is shipped parcel post to "A. Hidell, P.O. Box 2915,
Dallas, Texas," on this date. Information received from the Italian Armed Forces Intelligence
Service has established that this particular rifle was the only rifle of its type bearing serial number
C2766. WC
< NOTE:
The fact that Oswald chooses to acquire his weapons by mail order has never made much
sense. Its only value is to the official version of events, in that the mail order purchase
creates an absolute chain of documentary evidence to link Oswald to the weapons
supposedly responsible for the murders of JFK and Officer J.D. Tippit. The same make of
the rifle and revolver could have been easily purchased by Oswald at stores only a few
blocks from where he worked in Dallas. Weapons from these stores would have been
much simpler to acquire -- and there would have been NO RECORD of his purchase and
ownership. However, for some unknown reason, Oswald orders his weapons in a fashion
that absolutely ties the guns to him, despite his use of the easily transparent alias of
“Hidell.” AATF
Klein's Sporting Goods store in Chicago, from which Oswald allegedly purchases
the Mannlicher-Carcano carbine, and Seaport Traders in Los Angeles, which
sends the Smith & Wesson .38 revolver tied to the Tippit murder, are both under
investigation in early 1963 by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms and by a U.S. Senate subcommittee chaired by Sen. Thomas Dodd.
Gerry Patrick Hemming and Loran Hall visit Dallas, Texas. [49]
February 21, 1978: The death toll of the rioting in Tabriz rose to nine; an opposition religious party claimed more than 100 rioters were killed by police.[50]
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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] http://www.thelittlelist.net/abetoawl.htm#abenaki
[4] Johnson to Croghan, Feb 21, 1766, in the library of the Hist. Soc. Of Oneida Co., N.Y.
George Croghan and the Westward Movement 1741-1782 by Albert T. Volwiler 1926 pg. 102-103.
[5] http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924017918735/cu31924017918735_djvu.txt
[6] http://www.mdlpp.org/pdf/library/1905AccountofVirginiaBoundaryContraversy.pdf
[7] http://www.mdlpp.org/pdf/library/1905AccountofVirginiaBoundaryContraversy.pdf
[8] Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
[9] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-weedon-is-promoted-to-brigadier-general
[10] Enemy Views, by Bruce E. Burgoyne (The Order Book of the Von Mirbach Regiment.
[11] The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995
[12] Washington
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[ca. 1780]
NOTES
Scale ca. 1:600,000.
Title from verso.
Manuscript, pen-and-ink.
Relief shown pictorially.
The title, land tract boundaries with owners' initials, and some place names have been identified as annotations by George Washington made ca. 1780. The author and date of the manuscript map is not known; reference sources indicate between 1758 and 1771.
Shows Ohio River watershed in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
REFERENCE
Phillips. Maps of America p. 713
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1332
MEDIUM
map on sheet 60 x 42 cm.
CALL NUMBER
G3820 1780 .W3 Vault
CONTROL NUMBER
74692581
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA
DIGITAL ID
g3820 ct000360 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3820.ct000360
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?gmd:2:./temp/~ammem_K1e8::
[13] Colonel Benjamin Tupper was commanding officer of the 10th Massachusetts from January 1, 1781 until January 1, 1783. (Wikipedia.org)
[14] Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 Vols. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1998. Original data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. I-XVII. Boston, MA, USA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896.
[15] On This Day in America, by John Wagman.
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stlouistreatymap1804.png
[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_St._Louis
[18] Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People, by Jon Entine, page 145.
[19] Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 4, page 345.
[20] History of Clark County Ohio, page 383-384.
[21] History of Clark County Ohio, page 394.
[22] HCCO
[23](Ref#16). Gerol “Gary” Goodlove Conrad and Caty, 2003
[24] Timetable of Cherokee Removal
[25] http://www.nps.gov/abli/planyourvisit/sinkingspringfarm.htm
[26] Footnote.com sent by Donald Weber, 5/25/2009
[27] http://www.siec.k12.in.us/cannelton/abe/school.htm
[28]http://www.siec.k12.in.us/cannelton/abe/school.htm
[29] http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln92.html
[30] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[31] Crawford Coat of Arms
[32] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[33] Lieutenant Commander Francis M. Ramsay off the mouth of the Red River reported that the water in the river was too low for three Confederate gunboats at Shreveport to get over the falls. This boded ill for the success of the Federals Red River expedition soon to be undertaken. (Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 Compiled by Naval History Divison Navy Department, Washington: 1971.)
[34] Annotated by Jeff Goodlove
[35]
[36] (Stories from the Prisoners of War by Kathy Dhalle page 65.)
[37] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[38] http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/wv/Hardy/harhistory.html
[39] http://www.visithardy.com/civil-war/wv-civil-war-history/
[40] Proposed Descendants of William Smith
[41] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[42] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/washington-monument-dedicated
[43] Secrets of the Founding Fathers.
[44] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[45] http://www.nps.gov/wamo/historyculture/index.htm
[46] Winton Goodlove papers.
[47] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 200-201.
[48] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 201.
[49] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[50] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 500.
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