This Day in Goodlove History, February 26

• This Day in Goodlove History, February 26

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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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

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• 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.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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A point of clarification. If anybody wants to get to the Torah site, they do not have to go thru Temple Judah. They can use http://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com and that will take them right to it.



The Goodlove Reunion 2011 will be held Sunday, June 12 at Horseshoe Falls Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park, Central City, Iowa. This is the same lodge we used for the previous reunions. Contact Linda at pedersen37@mchsi.com



Birthdays on this date, James K. Staples, Mark T. Porch, Dixie L. Kruse, David J. Goodlove, Priscilla Crawford.



Weddings on this date; Jennie E. Maxwell and Oliver A. Godlove.



February 26, 11 BCE: According to some sources, the day on which Herod dedicates the renovated Holy Temple in Jerusalem. According to Heinrich Graetz, the building project began in 20 BCE, the 18th year of Herod’s reign. A year and half later, (18 BCE) the inner part of the Temple was finished. It took another eight years to build the outer walls, courts and galleries. The dedicatory celebration took place on “the very anniversary of the day when twenty years previously, Herod, with blood stained hands, had made himself master of Jerusalem.” Herod reportedly built this modernized version of the Second Temple because he loved to build things and because he was trying to show his Roman masters that he was the beloved ruler of his people. Regardless, in one sense, Herod sealed the doom of the Temple and the Jewish people because he placed it under the protection of Rome. What Rome protected Rome could destroy.[1]

10 BCE

Excavations in Jerusalem attest to many opulent homes with private reservoirs and mosaic floors. Though heavily taxed, farmers thrive on the relative peace during Herod’s rule.[2]

10 BCE

The Boethos family from Egypt gains prominence in the Jerusalem priesthood, loater rivaling the priestly dynasty of Hanan. The Temple priesthood is rife with nepotism and other political abuse.[3]

10 BCE

Herod formally opens his port of Caesarea, which includes a pagan temple.[4]

10 BCE

Owing perhaps to their popularity and early support, the Pharisees gain influence under Herod. Herod respects Jewish law by prohibiting foreigners from the Temple but antqagonizes many by installing a Roman eagle there and selecting his own high priests.[5]

9 BCE

Herod executes a punitive raid against the Nabateans.[6]

7 to 4 B.C.

Jesus Christ is Greek for “Joshua the messiah,” and the word “messiah” comes from the Hebrew word mashiah, meaning “one who is anointed,” that is, a messiah… Jesus was born between 7 and 4 B.C. either in Bethlehem or Nazareth. During the reign of Herod the Great in Judea, and was crucified either in 30 or in 33 A.D.[7] The Gospels according to Luke and Matthew trace his acnestry to the royal house of David, each through different and conflicting genealogies; the other two Gospels make no such mention.[8]

4 B.C. to 39 A.D.

Galilee was spared the outrage of being humiliated by the presence of imperial Rome. Throughout the life of Jesus, it was administered, together with Perea, by a Herodian tetrarch, Antipas, and after him by a king, Agrippa I.[9]

7 B.C.

Lukes purpose in writing. The events recorded at the beginning of the New Testament occurred more thanb four hundred years after Malach prophesied. Around 7 B.C., an angel appeared to Zechariah and told him that he and his wife would have a son. Mary, who was probably no older than sixteen at this time, was also told by an angel that she would give birth to Jesus, the sone of the Most High God. Luke 1:1-56.[10]

7 B.C.

Herod had nine wives and several dozen children. Jealouisies, domestic quarrels, and fits of murder characterized his reign., In 7 B.C. he had his two older sons strangled and three hundred of their supporters murdered because he feared plots against him. The sons were royal heirs to the throne, children of his beloved Mariamne. Sometime later he had Mariamne executed on charges of committing adultery with his sister’s husband. [11]

6 BCE

Judas the Galilean leads a rebellion provoked by the effort of the Syrian legate, Quirinius, to take a Jewish census. Successful Roman suppression of this revolt does not disquiet the spirit of Jewish rebellion.[12]

6 B.C. John the Baptist was born around 6 B.C., a few months before his cousin Jesus. Luke 1:57-80.[13]

6 B.C.

Jesus was born around 6 B.C. in Bethlehem, a village about five miles southwest of Jerusalem. Matthew 1:18-25.[14]

5 B.C.

The magi, royal astrologers, brought gifts to Jesus when he was still a small child (5 B.C.). Matthew 2:1-23.[15]

4 BCE: At the age of 70, Herod fell ill and moved to his winter palace at Jerich. There, Josephus tells us, he was consumed with “uncontrolled anger.” His condition soon deteriorated further. He developed ulcers and swollen feet. His breathing became labored. Modern physicians have suggested that Herod suffered from age related failure of the heart and kidneys, with terminal edema of the lungs. None of the attempted treatments was effective.[16]

Herod was hated by many of his subjects, especially by Jews, and he knew it. Shortly before his death, Josephus tells us, he ordered a group of prominent Jewish leaders imprisoned in Jericho’s hippodrome and gave instructions to have them killed upon his death to ensure that the mourning at his funeral would be genuine. Fortunately, this order was disobeyed, and the men were released. [17]

4 BCE

Alleging disloyalty of his son Antipater, Herod has him killed. He names another son, Archelaus, his successor.[18]

March 4 B.C.

When Herod died in March of 4 B.C. Jesus was a six month old infant living in Galilee. [19] Herod’s son Archelaus organized an elaborate funeral for his father, who no doubt even designed the program, including a royal procession conveying the body to Herodium, where it was interreed as Herod had wished.[20] Herod is interred at Herodium, outside Jerusalem. Herodium lies in the barren Judean hills, 8 miles south of Jerusalem and 3.5 miles east of Bethlehen. A rebellion erupts, put down temporarily by Archelaus. Archelaus travels to Rome for confirmation as ruler. Varus, governor of Syria, attempts to keep the peace, which is broken by revolts in Judea and Galilee. [21] At Herod’s death a former slave of the king, Simon, pretends to kingship in the Transjordan, anticipating the revolt of Simon bar Giora, another leader of the lower classes.[22] With the aid of the Nabatean king, Aretas IV, Varus suppresses rebellion and crucifies 2,000.[23]

4 BCE

Emperor Augustus in Rome hears and settles the dispute over Herod’s succession, dismissing a request from some Judeans to reject Herod’s family. The region is divided among Herod’s three sons: Judea, Samaria, and Idumea to Archelaus; Galilee to Herod Antipas;; and the Lebanon districts to Philip.[24] Herod Philip II (4 B.C. -34 A.D.), one of the sons of Herod the Great and Ruler of the eastern Galilee and the Golan during the time of Jesus’ Galilean ministry, was the first Jewish ruler to have his portrait emblazoned upon a coin. Coins with portraits of Herodian kings are extremely rare because of the Jewish religious prohibition o graven. Only a handful of Philips coins have survived and even these are well worn with largely indistinct busts.[25]

1 CE: The Greek story of Joseph and Asenath resolves the apparent problem that in Genesis the patriarch Joseph marries the daughter of an Egyptian priest. Here Asanath resolves the apparent problem that in Genesis the patriarch Joseph marries the daughter of an Egyptian priest. Here Asanath embraces the reputedly compassionate, patient God of Joseph before her marriage. The story, in which Asanath’s exemplary conversion brings her immortality, may serve as a tract for proselytes.[26]

First Century A.D.

The name of Crawford was created in Scotland sometime during the first century, A.D., when the Roman Conquest was in full swing. The place is known to be along the River Clyde, but more research is needed to pinpoint the exact spot. Since the River Clyde drains several shires, while winding its way northward to meet the Firth of Clyde, it is almost reasonable to choose one of these shires (or counties), preferably Lanarkshire. Here we find the site on which a very ferocious battle was fought, between the Picks (Scots) and the Romans. During one of the conflicts, a tribe known as the Crow Tribe, engaged in the heaviest warfare, helping to bring a decisive victory in favor of the Scots.

The Romans, during their occupation of the British Islands, built two walls in defense of the Scottish area. One reaching from the Solvay Firth to the River Tyne. The second wall ‘Wall of Pius’ created a barrier between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Here we find our River Clyde and Lanarkshire between the two walls. One has difficulty in realizing the bloodshed caused by the warfare at this time. The Crow Tribe is most likely to have been the thickest of the fight and had no choice in the matter, due to their location in Lanark.

The Crow Tribe rallied and fought under a Crow totem for such they are named. In consideration of the Crow, this noted tribe produced family names as :Crowfoot, Crawfoot, Crawford, Crowford, Crafford, Crauford, ets… The ‘ford’ the climax of the name, represents the ford or crossing at the River Clyde, where some of their bloodiest battles were maneuvered. The Crow Tribe is likely to have been most trampled down, if it had not been for their gallantry and spirit. Thus, the production of brave soldiers by the name of Crawford. Centuries have passed and the Crawford name still ranks among those of outstanding military events of world history.

The Romans left very little in Scotland by which to be remembered. Except for the ruins of the two walls before mentioned and the name of Caledonia; and to this day the Scottish people are often referred to as Caledonians.

The Caledonians suffered plundering, raids and wars at the hands of other nations, from every direction and from exploitations originating on the mainland of Europe. The Gauls, Britons, Celts, Angles, Saxons and Norsemen, all of whom have made an impression on the Scots, until the former Scottish people compared to the Caledonians of today, might never be recognized. It may be stated that the Gayuls have accomplished more in Scotland than any other race. Gaulic influence has endured for generations on the Scottish soil.[27]

February 26, 364: Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor. He was the last Emperor to rule the Empire alone. A month later, he would appoint his brother Valens Emperor in the East, while he would rule over the Western portion of the Empire. Valentinian belonged to a minority sect called the Arians. In an attempt to keep peace in the Empire, in 371 he issued a proclamation allowing Christians and Arians to practice their religious belief without incurring any “political disadvantage. This toleration was extended to the Jews.”[28]

364-378 A.D. The task of finding water for Constantinople came to a new Roman ruler named Valens 328-378 who ruled from 364-378. He carried out an audacious plan to create an aqueduct that was the largest in the world. It would transport spring water a staggering four hundred miles. It was longer than all other Roman earlier aqueducts combined. Byzantine Mason’s adorned their bridges with religious carvings. Unlike the Romans, the Byzantines selected Christian, not Pagan, symbols. [29]

February 26, 1147: The Crusaders massacred the Jews of Wurtzburg; so much for all of those tales of knights and chivalry.[30]

February 26, 1418: Emperor Sigsmund “issued commands to all the German princes and magistrates, cities and subjects, to allow” the Jews the full enjoyment of the privileges and immunities given them by the Pope who had denounced attacks on the persons and property of the Jews and the practice of forced conversion.[31]

February 26, 1569: Pius V issued Hebraeorum gens, a papal bull, that accused the Jews of a variety of evil deeds including the practice of magic.[32]

February 26, 1569 Jews expelled from All Papal Territory except Rome and Ancona.[33] Pope Pius V ordered the eviction of all Jews from the Papal States (excluding Rome and Verona) who refuse to convert. Most of the approximately 1000 Jewish families decided to emigrate.[34]

February 26, 1773

It must be remembered that of February 26, 1773, Westmoreland county had been erected, covering all the territory of southwestern Pennsylvania, and the seat of justice was placed at Hanna’s town, about four miles from the present Greensburg. The establishment of government and courts of justice over this territory necessitated increased taxation upon the lands of the pioneers; and, as the greater number of them had come over the mountains from Maryland and Virginia, by way of Braddock’s road, it was not a matter of great difficulty to equal the number of patriotic Pennsylvanians by the number of Virginian partisans from our own settlers. It may be noted that Captain William Crawford, he who was burned at the stake by the Indians at Sandusky in July, 1782, was a Pennsylvanian, being one of the justices of peace, and justices of Bedford, when first organized in 1771; but afterwards espoused the cause of Virginia in the boundary controversy, and in 1775, when presiding judge of the Westmoreland county court, his judicial office was taken from him, as he had then accepted the appointment of justice under Lord Dunmore.[35]



Then followed a series of arrests and counter-arrests, long continued, resulting in riots and broils of intense passion. Everyone who, under color of an office held under the laws of Pennsylvania, attempted any official act, was likely to be arrested and jailed by persons claiming to hold office under the government of Virginia. Likwise were Virginia officials liable to arrest and imprisonment by Pennsylvania partisans.[36]



February 26, 1774; George Washington’s Journal: At home all day. Capt Crawford and Mr. Gist went away after breakfast.[37]



February 26, 1775

"On Sunday, 26 Feb'y, 1775, my father came home from church rather sooner than usual, which attracted my notice, and said to my mother, 'the reg'lars are come and are marching as fast as they can towards the Northfields bridge'; and looking towards her with a very solemn face, remarked, 'I don't know what will be the consequence but something very serious, and I wish you to keep the children home.'" So recounted one of those children, William Gavett, of the old town of Salem in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. The British regulars marching briskly in the biting cold were a detachment of the 64th Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Leslie, boarded on a transport at Castle William in Boston Harbor that morning and now landed at Marblehead Neck. Leslie intended a march just up the road to Salem where he would swiftly seize cannon and other munitions stored there by the Salem militia and return just as swiftly to Boston, mission accomplished. But, as another Salem resident recalled, Leslie and his men "little knew the jealous watchfulness of the Americans. By the time their feet touched the land . . . the alarm was immediately given by a dozen men running to the door of the new meetinghouse and beating the alarm signal agreed upon, and crying out, 'to arms! to arms!'"

At least in part this urgent call to arms of the Salem militia was provoked by the jealous watchfulness of other Americans in Salem. These were Tories, men and women who were by their lights loyal and reasonable subjects of King George, the third of that name to rule Great Britain. Some of these, spies according to their Whig neighbors, had in fact revealed the precise location of the hidden cannon to Major General Thomas Gage in Boston, now both commander-in-chief of His Majesty's forces in all of North America and military governor of the increasingly ungovernable colony of Massachusetts. It had been very nearly a year since the last royal governor, Thomas Hutchinson, had advised the king that the "course of the law [in Massachusetts] is now wholly stopped. All legislative as well as executive power is gone." Gage in his turn, though generally sympathetic to Americans, had made up his mind last summer that "civil government is near its end." Furthermore, he concluded, "conciliation, moderation, reasoning, is over; nothing can be done but by forcible means." Still, General Gage was hardly eager to use force to subdue this province now in all-but-open rebellion. For one thing the commander of all British forces in North America had at the time barely 3,000 troops at his command to do the subduing with if it came to that. He was determined, as he wrote his superiors in far-off London, to "avoid any bloody crisis as long as possible, until his Majesty will in the meantime judge best what is to be done."

Of course neither the best judgment of the king and his ministry nor the sincere resolve of General Gage to keep peace in the imperial household was of any particular use to Lieutenant Colonel Leslie and the men of the 64th just now, for they were marching directly into a confrontation that had all the makings of a bloody crisis. Coming up the road to Salem, drums beating and fifes playing the mocking "Yankee Doodle," the regulars met at the Northfield Bridge the good people of Salem, tumbling out of the Sabbath calm into the cold. Many were armed, most were angry, and all appeared resolved that the Redcoats would not cross this bridge and march into town this day. To that end, the northern leaf of the drawbridge had been hoisted, leaving Leslie on the far bank as angry as his antagonists on the Salem side. Shouting across the span, Leslie declared he would fire on the townspeople if they did not lower the bridge straightaway. As Billy Gavett (who did not stay home with mother) remembered it, Captain John Felt of the Salem militia shouted back that if the Redcoats dared open fire, they would "all be dead men." Felt said later that he meant to seize Leslie and leap into the river with him, willing to "be drowned [himself] to be the death of one Englishman." Safe for the moment from Captain Felt's murderous grasp but still unable to march his men across, Leslie thought he might use two barges on the western bank to row across. But when he sent a squad down to seize them, some townsmen were already aboard and at work scuttling their own boats with hatchets. In the scuffle between soldiers and Salemites, one Joseph Whicher was pricked by a soldier's bayonet. Blood, that most volatile fluid, had been spilled. Not much, it was true, but enough to raise the temper of the jeering and threatening crowd another notch. "Soldiers, red-jackets, lobster-coats, cowards," one man called out lustily, "damnation to your government!" It was not a propitious moment for the cause of peace. The roads leading down to Salem were filling up with armed militiamen on the march from as far away as Danvers.

Leslie himself, hotter than ever while his men shivered in the cold, was not deterred from his purpose: "I will get over this bridge before I return to Boston," he announced, "if I stay here till next autumn. . . . By God, I will not be defeated." What he would do when and if he got to the other side was hard to say, though, because David Boyce, a Quaker who lived nearby, was even then hauling the disputed cannon away up the Danvers road to the northwest. Another man of peace was immediately at hand, however, the Reverend Mr. Barnard, whose Congregational services were halted by the first alarm. "I pray, Sir," Barnard ventured to Leslie, that "there will be no collision between the people and the troops." In this moment of calm, Leslie, thus far frustrated in his threats of military force, thought he might try the force of argument. "It is the King's Highway that passes over that bridge," he insisted to Captain Felt, "and I will not be prevented from crossing it." An old Salem man on the scene, James Barr, spoke up and posed the counter-argument: "It is not the King's Highway," Barr and his fellow townsfolk held: "it is a road built by the owners of the lots on the other side, and no king, country, or town has anything to with it," and, he added, "I think it will be the best way for you to conclude that the King has nothing to do with it."

Leslie was of course the king's soldier, not his barrister. In the name of the king and for the sake of his own and his regiment's honor, he might well have forced the bridge in a bloody showdown then and there. Leslie had his orders and the people of Salem their firm resolve to resist his execution of them. The palpably real possibility of a shooting war was hanging in the winter air. But it had not quite come to that. Colonel Leslie and Captain Felt put their heads together at last and came to an awkward compromise: the Americans would lower the bridge, Leslie and the men of the 64th would march across the distance of fifty rods, and return at once the way they came "without troubling or disturbing anything." Having approached so close to tragedy, the confrontation was resolved in a kind of comic opera, which John Trumbull celebrated in a playful squib:



Through Salem straight, without delay,

The bold battalion took its way;

Marched o'er a bridge, in open sight

Of several Yankees armed for fight;

Then, without loss of time or men,

Veered round for Boston back again,

And found so well their projects thrive

That every soul got home alive.



But if the cause of peace had prospered here at the Northfield Bridge on this February day in 1775, it was not at all clear how much longer it would hold sway. In the seats of power in London statesmen and soldiers had been considering for some time the "forcible means" by which the king's dominion might be restored in New England. On the American side of the Atlantic there was no question that the colonials were training for a test of arms. The number of militiamen on the march to Salem within the hour was just one evidence of their purposeful preparation. But whether the Americans had the will to resist the king's force with force was a question. Still, perhaps it would have been instructive for King George to hear what Colonel Leslie heard as he wheeled his column around in Salem and headed back toward Marblehead. From a window of a nearby house Sarah Tarrant, a nurse, called out to the passing Redcoats: "Tell your master he has sent you on a fool's errand and broken the peace of our Sabbath. What, do you think we were born in the woods to be frightened by owls?" When a soldier raised a musket in her direction, she cried: "Fire if you have the courage, but I doubt it." It was a strange ending to a puzzling day. Salem's pacifist Friend, David Boyce, had brought his team out to haul implements of war away to a place of safety. Sarah Tarrant, a healer, had shouted hot, belligerent words at some of the western world's toughest professional soldiers. Two men of war, Colonel Leslie and Captain Felt, had reasoned together somehow and preserved an uneasy, face-saving peace. As British troops marched away from the bridge where war did not begin, their band was playing "The World Turned Upside Down."

This incident at the bridge, though minor, was not trivial. Was this country lane properly the king's highway after all, or did it rightfully belong to the people of Salem who built it and held its deed? The confrontation brought into focus and contention fundamental questions that abler minds than Colonel Leslie's or old Mr. Barr's had been pondering and arguing with increasing rancor for more than a decade. What were the legitimate rights of the king's subjects in America under the ancient British constitution? And what was the proper relation between the just powers of the popularly elected colonial assemblies and the political authority of Parliament? These were ultimately questions of life, liberty, and property, and as winter turned toward spring in 1775, they were no closer to mutually acceptable answers than when they first arose back in '64 and '65 in the debates about Parliament's right to tax the colonies. What was clear was that ideas about governance on both sides of the Atlantic were hardening into fixed resolves. The English Parliament asserted its absolute right to govern the colonies in all cases whatsoever, and the colonials in America insisted on their incontrovertible right as Englishmen not to be governed without their consent. With these fixed resolves came much saber rattling from the contending parties, and more than mere rattling it seemed to many thoughtful observers. In the aftermath of the dissolution of Massachusetts' General Assembly and in light of General Gage's increasingly aggressive military posture, Hannah Winthrop wrote in tears to Mercy Warren: "The dissolution of all Government gives a dreadful Prospect, the fortifying Boston Neck, the Huge Cannon now mounted there, the busy preparation, the agility of the Troops, give a Horrid prospect of an intended Battle. Kind Heaven avert the Storm!" Her husband, John, was not at all sure whether a Kind Heaven or the God of Battles would reign just now in the affairs of men. In a letter to John Adams (an active Whig politician who was doing his part and more to sow the storm), Winthrop thought the time was not far off when he "must beat [his] plowshares into Swords, and pruning Hooks into Spears."[38]



Fri. February 26[39], 1864 (William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary)

Felt weak was ordered to algeirs[40]

Started at 4 pm on Ratdale steam boat.

Got across the lake all night at boat landing

Slept under a shed over the lake



February 26, 1917: In a crucial step toward U.S. entry into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson learns of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the event of a war between the U.S. and Germany.

On February 24, 1917, British authorities gave Walter Hines Page, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, a copy of the Zimmermann Telegram, a coded message from Zimmermann to Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to Mexico. In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in late January, Zimmermann instructed his ambassador, in the event of a German war with the United States, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter the conflict as a German ally. Germany also promised to restore to Mexico the lost territories of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

The State Department promptly sent a copy of the Zimmermann Telegram to President Wilson, who was shocked by the note's content and the next day proposed to Congress that the U.S. should start arming its ships against possible German attacks. Wilson also authorized the State Department to publish the telegram; it appeared on the front pages of American newspapers on March 1. Many Americans were horrified and declared the note a forgery; two days later, however, Zimmermann himself announced that it was genuine.

The Zimmermann Telegram helped turn the U.S. public, already angered by repeated German attacks on U.S. ships, firmly against Germany. On April 2, President Wilson, who had initially sought a peaceful resolution to World War I, urged immediate U.S. entrance into the war. Four days later, Congress formally declared war against Germany.[41]

February 26, 1924: The trial against Hitler began in Munich. Hitler was on trial for his part in attempted coup that began in a Munich Beer Hall. The coup failed. Hitler was found guilty and sent to jail. While in jail, he wrote Mien Kampf. He was treated like a celebrity while in jail and came out stronger politically than when he went in.[42]



1924

The National Origins Quota of 1924 and Immigration Act of 1924 largely halted immigration to the U.S. from Eastern Europe and Russia; many later saw these governmental policies as having anti-Semitic undertones, as a great many of these immigrants coming from Russia and Eastern Europe were Jews.[43]



1924: There had been five to six million Klan members in 1924. The peak activity of the Ku Klux Klan in Iowa was in 1924, when many towns and cities experienced cross-burnings, Klan parades and political activism. The Klan influenced many elections across the country, including an Iowa race for the United States Senate. The Klan helped the campaigns of many school board members, succeeding in electing representatives of their point of view, but in 1926 many of them were voted out.

There were many other ways that the Klan upset people. One was to stride silently in uniform into a church, and deposit money at the altar. One black congregation in Centerville, a coal-mining town in southeastern Iowa, received $100 this way. Many of the church’s members thought that the Klan was their friend after that. [44]



In 1924 the order enjoyed even greater success, electing governors in Colorado and Maine, winning almost complete control of the state of Indiana, and joining with its sympathizers to elect governors in Ohio and Louisiana and a United States Senator in Oklahoma. Equally important, the Klan for the first time threw its weight into national politics.[45]



February 26, 1925: As a sign of the growing power of the Nazi Party, The Völkischer Beobachter the party’s official newspaper begins publishing again.[46]



1925: From 1925, when it graduated its first class, until it was closed in 1959, 345 students graduated from the Buck Creek high school, an average of just under ten per year. [47] My mother, Mary Winch Goodlove, a graduate of Buck Creek High School told me today (February 25, 2011) that Buck Creek School was being torn down.



1925

“The Jewish people, despite all apparent intellectual qualities, is without any true culture, and especially without any culture of its own,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf (My Struggle), his Nazi manifesto published in 1925. “For what shame culture the Jew today possesses is the property of other peoples, and for the most part it is ruined in his hands.”[48]

On February 26, 1935, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signs a secret decree authorizing the founding of the Reich Luftwaffe as a third German military service to join the Reich army and navy. In the same decree, Hitler appointed Hermann Goering, a German air hero from World War I and high-ranking Nazi, as commander in chief of the new German air force.

The Versailles Treaty that ended World War I prohibited military aviation in Germany, but a German civilian airline--Lufthansa--was founded in 1926 and provided flight training for the men who would later become Luftwaffe pilots. After coming to power in 1933, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler began to secretly develop a state-of-the-art military air force and appointed Goering as German air minister. (During World War I, Goering commanded the celebrated air squadron in which the great German ace Manfred von Richthofen--"The Red Baron"--served.) In February 1935, Hitler formally organized the Luftwaffe as a major step in his program of German rearmament.

The Luftwaffe was to be uncamouflaged step-by-step so as not to alarm foreign governments, and the size and composition of Luftwaffe units were to remain secret as before. However, in March 1935, Britain announced it was strengthening its Royal Air Force (RAF), and Hitler, not to be outdone, revealed his Luftwaffe, which was rapidly growing into a formidable air force.

As German rearmament moved forward at an alarming rate, Britain and France protested but failed to keep up with German war production. The German air fleet grew dramatically, and the new German fighter--the Me-109--was far more sophisticated than its counterparts in Britain, France, or Russia. The Me-109 was bloodied during the Spanish Civil War; Luftwaffe pilots received combat training as they tried out new aerial attack formations on Spanish towns such as Guernica, which suffered more than 1,000 killed during a brutal bombing by the Luftwaffe in April 1937.

The Luftwaffe was configured to serve as a crucial part of the German blitzkrieg, or "lightning war"--the deadly military strategy developed by General Heinz Guderian. As German panzer divisions burst deep into enemy territory, lethal Luftwaffe dive-bombers would decimate the enemy's supply and communication lines and cause panic. By the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the Luftwaffe had an operational force of 1,000 fighters and 1,050 bombers.

First Poland and then Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France fell to the blitzkrieg. After the surrender of France, Germany turned the Luftwaffe against Britain, hoping to destroy the RAF in preparation for a proposed German landing. However, in the epic air battle known as the Battle of Britain, the outnumbered RAF fliers successfully resisted the Luftwaffe, relying on radar technology, their new, highly maneuverable Spitfire aircraft, bravery, and luck. For every British plane shot down, two German warplanes were destroyed. In the face of British resistance, Hitler changed strategy in the Battle of Britain, abandoning his invasion plans and attempting to bomb London into submission. However, in this campaign, the Luftwaffe was hampered by its lack of strategic, long-range bombers, and in early 1941 the Battle of Britain ended in failure.

Britain had handed the Luftwaffe its first defeat. Later that year, Hitler ordered an invasion of the USSR, which after initial triumphs turned into an unqualified disaster. As Hitler stubbornly fought to overcome Russia's bitter resistance, the depleted Luftwaffe steadily lost air superiority over Europe in the face of increasing British and American air attacks. By the time of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Luftwaffe air fleet was a skeleton of its former self.[49]

1935: Nuremberg Laws introduced. Jewish rights rescinded. The Reich Citizenship Law strips them of citizenship. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor:

Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden.

Sexual relations outside marriage between Jews and nationals of German or kindred blood are forbidden.

Jews will no be permitted to employ female citizens of German or kindred blood as domestic servants.

Jews are forbidden to display the Reich and national flag or the national colors. On the other hand they are permitted to display the Jewish colors.[50]





February 26, 1943:‘First Deportation- The screening for the first deportation, on February 26, was more rapid than careful. Everyone, as his name was called, was earmarked for deportation right away, even the sick and infirm. The only nationalities exempted were Hungarians and Turks. For the first time [from Gurs] Belgians, Dutch, Luxenburgers, and Greeks were included. The first convoy consisted of 975 men. [51]



On board Convoy 50 was Leizer Gotlieb born November 6, 1891 from Russie, (Russia), and Charles Gottlieb, born May 13, 1898 from Fulda, Germany. [52]



• February 26, 1943: The first transport of Gypsies reaches Auschwitz. They are placed in a special section of the camp called the Gypsy Camp.[53]





February 26, 2010,



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Great News! I was contacted by the DNA match whose common ancestor and ours is 99% chance of being within 8 to 12 generations. I have some information to share and some I cannot due to a request of anonymity. This places our relationship with a common male ancestor to within 200 (65% chance) to 300 years (90.21% chance). Some important facts are that his earliest known ancestor is from Budapest, Hungary around 1850. This family then moved to Vienna, Austria. The family is of Jewish ancestry but finding out they were Cohen came to a “mild surprise.” The name is not the same as ours but is a relatively common German name and not usually Jewish although it sometimes is and there are Rabbi’s that go by that name today in Germany. This persons DNA is also associated with the Godlove and Webber lines, so this is an important discovery to say the least.



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[2] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 54.

[3] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 54.

[4] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 54.

[5] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 54.

[6] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[7] Astronomical evidence points to 33 A.D. rather than 30 A.D. All four Gospels agree the crucifixion of Jesus took place on a Friday, during the Feast of Passover, celebrated by the Jews on the fifteenth of Nisan, commencing on the evening when the full moon occurs. In 30 A.D. Passover was held on a Thursday, whereas in 33 A.D. it was held on a Friday, as the full moon occurred on those days.

[8] Jews, God and History by Max I. Dimont, 1962 pg. 137.

[9] Jesus the Jew, A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels, by Geza Vermes, page 45.

[10] The One Year Chronology Bible, NIV, page 1295.

[11] The Hidden History of Jesus…The Jesus Dynasty, by James Tabor, page 101.

[12] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[13] The One Year Chronology Bible, NIV, page 1297.

[14] The One Year Chronology Bible, NIV, page 1298.

[15] The One Year Chronology Bible, NIV, page 1302.

[16] Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2011, Vol 37, No 1. Page 38.

[17] Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2011, Vol 37, No 1. Page 39.

[18] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[19] The Hidden History of Jesus…The Jesus Dynasty, by James Tabor, page 102.

[20] Biblical Archaeology Review, January/February 2011, Vol 37, No 1. Page 39.

[21] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[22] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[23] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[24] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 55.

[25] Biblical Archaelology Review, March/April, 2010 Volo 36, No2.

[26] The Timetables of Jewish History, A Chronology of the most important People and Events in Jewish History, by Judah Gribetz, page 56.

[27] From River Clyde to Tymotchtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, pg. 1-2.

[28] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[29] Engineering an Empire, The Byzantines, HISTI, 2006.

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[33] http://christianparty.net/jewsexpelled.htm

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[35] (From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, pages 125-127-128.

[36] Crumrine, (From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, pages 128.)

[37] Washington writings. From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford, by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969, page 121).

[38] Born in Battle: A History of the American Revolution CD ROM

[39] February 26-27. Left Madisonville, Louisiana for Algiers, Louisiana, arriving February 27. (Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Part II Record of Events Volume 20 Serial no. 32. Broadfoot Publishing Company Wilmington, NC 1995.)

[40] After the regiment made one trip to Algiers and back [26 Feb 1864], it was sent to Berwick bay to join Major General Banks for his second attempt to clear the Red River.

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[41] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-wilson-learns-of-zimmermann-telegram

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[43]www.wikipedia.org

[44] http://www.iptv.org/iowapathways/mypath.cfm?ounid=ob_000303

[45] The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest by Charles C,. Alexander, 1966, page 159-160.

[46] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[47] Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 282.

[48] “Abraham’s Children” Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People by Jon Entine, pg 299.

[49] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-organizes-luftwaffe

[50] www.wikipedia.org

[51] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 392-394.

[52] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 399.

[53] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1775