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This Day in Goodlove History, October 28, 2014
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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.
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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
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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
Birthdays on October 28...
Cynthia L.B. Bergan (2nd cousin)
Ruth Campbell Stewart (wife of the 4th cousin 1x removed)
Oscar S. Goodlove (great uncle)
Anna T. HARRISON (7th cousin 6x removed)
Henry III (9th cousin 28x removed)
Eula D. LeClere Atchison (1st cousin 1x removed)
Michael K. Wagner (5th cousin)
October 28, 1562: Murray marches from Aberdeen to his encampment, and, after a brave resistance^ makes him and his two sons prisoners.
Huntly soon died from the effects of his wounds his son John Gordon was executed; and Murray obtained the greater part of the possessions of this illustrious and powerful family. [1]
It was then that the Earl of Morton, brother uterine of Murray, was made Chancellor of Scotland. [2]
October 28, 1566: Darnley visited Mary at Jedburgh ( October 28, 1566) Darnley did not come to see her until October 28th of the month, and yet he returned on the following day. [3]
He withdrew to Stirling and refused to attend the baptism. [4] [5]
October 28, 1571: The Earl of Marr died at Stirling. He was taken suddenly ill in returning from Dalkeith, where he had been on a visit to the Earl of Morton. It was alleged that he had been poisoned. From that moment, all Killigrew's negotiations relating to Mary were abandoned. f [6]
October 28, 1581: James VI confirms, by letters patent, the title of Earl of Arran, and the possession of all the estates of the family of Hamilton, to James Stuart. [7]
October 28, 1770: (GW) Meeting with Kiashuta[8] & other Indian Hunters we proceeded only 10 Miles to day, & Incampd below the Mouth of a Ck. on the west the name of wch. I know not.
In his second diary GW describes the meeting: “In the Person of Kiashuta I found an old acquaintance. He being one of the Indians that went with me to the French in 1753. He expressd a satisfaction in seeing me and treated us with great kindness, giving us a Quarter of very fine Buffalo[9]. He insisted upon our spending that Night with him, and in order to retard us as little as possible movd his camp down the River about 3 Miles just below the Mouth of a Creek the name of which I could not learn (it not being large). At this place we all Incampd. After much Councelling the overnight they all came to my fire the next Morning, with great formality; when Kiashuta rehearsing what had passd between me & the Sachems at Co. Croghan’s, thankd me for saying that Peace & friendship was the wish of the People of Virginia (with them) & for recommending itto the Traders to deal with them upon a fair & equitable footing; and then again expressd their desire of having a Trade opend with Virginia, & that the Governor thereof might not only be made acquainted therewith, but of their friendly disposition towards the white People. This I promised to do.”
October 28th, 1770: (GW)—Left our encampment about seven o’clock. Two miles below a small run comes in, Of the east side, through a piece of land that has a very good appearance, the bottom beginning above our encamnpment, and continuing in appearance wide for four miles down, where we found Kivashuta and his hunting party encamnped. Where we were under the necessity of paying our compliments, as this person was one of the Six Nation Chiefs, and the head of those upon this river.
In the person of Kiyashuta I found an old acquaintance, he being one of the Indians that went with me to the French, in 1753. he expressed a satisfaction at seeing me, and treated me with great kindness, giving us a quarter of very fine buffalo. He insisted upon our spending that night with him, and, in order to retard us as little as possible, moved his camp down the river just below the mouth of a creek, the name of which I could not learn. At this place we encamped. After much counselling over night, they all carrie to nny fire the nest morning with great formality; when Kiyashuta, rehearsing what had passed between me and the Sachems at Col. Croghan’s, thanked me for saying that peace and friendship with them was the wish of the people of Virginia, and for recommending it to the traders to deal with them upon a fair and equitable footing; and then again expressed their desire of having a trade opened with Virginia, and that the Governor thereof might not only be made acquainted therewith, but with their friendly disposition towards the white people. ‘This I promised to do.
October 28, 1774 Parole Peace
The Guards as usual. This day numbers of the Troops crossd the River the Rear is expected tomorrow. A list of the Kiled and wounded in the Action of the 10th those markd with a Cross died of their wounds some time after the engagement
Botetourt Line
Capt Murray
*Robt McClennachan
*Jas. Ward
*Buford
Lieut. Bracken
•Goldman
•Ensgn Condif
•Seventeen Private
Wounded
Col. Fleming
Lieut Robinson
Thirty five privat
Augusta line
Col. C. Lewis
Col. T. Fields
Capt. Saml Wildon
Lieut. Hugh Allen
Eighteen Private
Wounded
Capt. Jn Dickinson
Skidmore
Lieut. Scard
Vance
Fifty one private
[10]
October 28, 1776: Battle of White Plains.[11] The Continental Army led by General George Washington suffers heavy losses at the Battle of White Plains, New York.[12]
October 28, 1777: The Court met according to adjournment.
President : John Campbell, Richard Yeates, Andrew Swer-
ingen, Samuel Newell, Gentlemen Justices.
Ordered, that the Inhabitants of this County have leave to
Inoculate for the Small Pox, at their own houses or such other
convenient Places as they may think proper.
Zelphia McClean
v
Thomas Palmer This day came the Plaintiff, and John
Palmer personally appeared in Court and undertook for the De-
fendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Suit he shall Satisfy
the Condemnation of the Court or render his body to prison in
execution for the Same or that he the said John Palmer will do
it for him. Whereupon the said Deft prays and hath leave to
imparl untill next Court and then to plead.
On the Petition of Sarah Sample setting forth that Ann Mc-
Clean hath detained a Servant Girl, Ann Brook, to the great
Damage of the said Petitioner. Ordered that a Subpona do
issue to summon the said Ann to the next Court.
Alexander Bowlin
v In Case
William Poston Upon the testimony of Isaac Leet and the
Debt being under fifty dollars and the said Defendant being in
the Continental Service, Ordered that this Suit be dismissed
at Plff's Cost.
(42) Benjn Kerkendal and Isaac Cox Gent Present. John Camp-
bell, Gent, absent.
The Commonwealth Recognizance on Assault on Mary Mc _
v Callister.
David Duncan
On hearing the Evidence, Ordered that the said David Dun-
can be bound over to answer the said Complaint of Elizabeth
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McCallister in behalf of the Commonwealth exhibited against
him, whereupon the said David with Zadock Wright his Se-
curity came into Court and acknowledged to be indebted to
Patrick Henry Esq Gov &c for the use of the State to be levied
&c the sum of ^25 each conditioned for the personal appear-
ance of the said David at the next Grand Jury Court to be
held for this County &c
Joshua Wright, John Campbell Gent. Present.
On the Recognizance of James Fleming and John Gibson
(packhorse man) the parties not appearing being Solemny
called Ordered the same to be put in Suit.
Isaac Leet, Deputy Sheriff, in behalf of the high Sheriff of
the County, entered his protest against the Goal of this County,
he conceiving the same not sufficient to confine Prisoners.
Ordered that the Sheriff pay Colo Isaac Cox the sum of
Thirty pounds to be applied towards the pay for building the
Court house and Goal, and Andrew Heth pay five pounds now
retained in his hands for Samuel Ewalts, fine for keeping a dis-
orderly house to the said Sheriff.
Ordered that Ann Brook a Servant to Sarah Sample be and
(43) remain with her mother Ann McClain untill next Court.
Ordered that the Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning
at 8 O'Clock.
John Campbell. [13]
October 28th, 1777: The Storm Still Continues or rather increases by the abundance of rain and an Excessive high tide all the low Country was Laid under water, our people was all Drownded out of the fort. no intelligence from the Enemy this Day[14].[15]
October 28, 1778: [Brigade Orders]
Octr 28th 1778 Col° Stephenson U Col° Evans Lt Col°
Morrow18[16] Lt Col° Harrison 19[17] is to form two Companys of Light
Enfantry A Greable to Gen1 Orders which officers is to be good
woodsmen And Sutable for Such fotigue the men ought to be Good
Riffle men And have good Riffels the officers Commanding Batalions
to make a Return of the Artificers at work at Fort McIntosh
No More men to Go a hunting to Morrow the whole Brigade to
hold themselves in readiness to march at an hours warning
and to Vive &Vale
[To be continued][18]
Autumn, 1778
We were shown a very old copy of a book entitled “Crawford’s Expedition Against Sandusky in 1782” written by C. W. Butterfield (Ref#39.3) David Barth claims this is the most comprehensive historical account of the expedition. One of the significant pieces of information to me was the facts on William Harrison (page 347) whose body was recognized by Sloner who escaped and later wrote of his experiences. According to Butterfield, “ William Harrison was a lawyer by profession, high minded and well educated. His manners were grave and sedate; his conduct, prudent, his good sense and public spirit duly appreciated by all who knew him. He had been a Sheriff of Yohogania County, Virginia, and one of its members in the House of Delegates. He was also familiar with the duties of a soldier. He had been a Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of a military regiment under McIntosh, in the expedition of the latter into the indian country west of the Ohio, at the building of Forts McIntosh and Laurens, in the autumn of 1778.” [19]
...a son of Lawrence Harrison who was one of the first settlers in the Younghiogheny Valley, Va. He (William) was a Virginian by birth and a man of much note. He was a lawyer by profession, high minded and well educated. He had been sheriff of Yohogania Co., and one of its members in the House of Delagates. He was also a soldier, had been a Maj. and Lt. Col. of a militia regiment under McIntosh at the building of Forts McIntosh and Laurens,
1778."[20]
October 28, 1779: Winch, Charles, Framingham.Private, Capt. Amasa Cranston's co., Col. Samuel Denny's regt.; enlisted October 28, 1779; discharged November 23, 1779; service, 1 mo. 6 days, at Claverack, including travel (200 miles) home; regiment raised for 3 months;[21]
October 28, 1780
The 28th. Since the New Englanders maintained more than one ~hundred armed vessels to plunder the coast of Long Island, and often landed strong detachments to roam through the countryside, the Jager Corps was ordered to march there at once. Toward evening the Corps crossed the East River at Maston’s Wharf and arrived on the 29th in the vicinity of Westbury. It had to occupy the following cordon along the Sound: Lieutenant Colonel Wurmb ordered me to cover the left flank. I held Cow Bay, Cow Neck, Searingtown, and Hempstead Harbor.6° The Wurmb, Donop, Hinrichs, and Prueschenck companies occupied the area from Westbury up to Mosquito Cove. The lieutenant colonel was quartered in Westbury, which was the center, and the two Anspachjäger companies, under Captain Waldenfels, were billeted at Jericho. At Oyster Bay were the Queen’s Rangers, under Colonel Simcoe, who covered the right flank.61 At Norwich, behind me, lay the mounted jãgers for support. The line of the entire cordon was well over two good German miles, which was occupied by about one thousand men.
The places mentioned are mostly single houses, of which perhaps ten to twelve lie together at one spot. The entire Corps was in cantonment and usually ten, twelve, to sixteen men were placed together. The main roads to the bays and landing places were occupied by pickets of each company, for which straw huts were erected for the winter, and large watch fires had to be maintained for the men’s warmth. In front of the lieutenant colonel’s quarters at the center a redoubt was built on a height, in which there was a guard and the two amusettes. In the meantime, everyone was glad that he was under a roof, although every officer could rest only with his saber in his hand.
From this time on the army occupied its winter quarters, and it seemed as if all courage was gone with Major André’s death.
ON LONG ISLAND
The 17th Regiment of Dragoons, behind the jãgers at Hempstead.
The English grenadiers at Newtown.
The light infantry in the huts at Bedford.
The 37th Regiment and Diemar’s hussars at Denys’s Ferry.
The 28th Regiment at Brooklyn.
Loyal Americans on the Fly.
3d Battalion of DeLancey’s. 1
New England Volunteers. Lloyd s Neck
The Grenadier Battalions Linsing and Lengerke at Jamaica.
Those of Loewenstein and Graff at Flushing.
PAULUS HOOK IN JERSEY
The 54th Regiment.
NEW YORK
The 22d, 42d, Landgraf, Erb Prinz, Prinz Carl regiments and the Anspach Brigade.
YORK ISLAND
The 57th Regiment at the East River, the Hessian Leib Regiment at the North River, Mirbach’s at McGowan’s Pass, the 76th and 80th regiments at Laurel Hill and the pass at Kings Bridge.
STATEN ISLAND
The 43d Regiment at the flagstaff, Hessian Regiment Bünau near Watering Place, two battalions of Skinner’s in Richmond.[22]
In the latter part of 1780, Capt. Uriah Springer (a resident of that part of Westmoreland County which is now Fayette) was on duty with his company, engaged in the collection of supplies in the Monongahela Valley, at and in the vicinity of Fort Burd,[23] and while on this service experienced great trouble from the opposition and enmity of the people there, ans is shown by the following letter, written to him by the commandant at Fort Pitt.
“Capt. Uriah Springer,
“I have this moment received your favor of yesterday, and am sorry to find the people about Redstone have intentions to raise in arms against you. I believe with you that there are amongst them many disaffected, and conceive that their past and present conduct will justify your defending yourself by every means in your power. It may yet be doubtful whether these fellows will attempt anything against you, but these fellows will attempt anything against you, but if you find they are determined you will avoid, as much as your safety will admit, in coming to action until you give me a further account, and you may depend upon your receiving succor of infantry and artillery. I have signed your order for ammunition, and have the honor to be, etc.”
Daniel Broadhead[24]
October 28, 1811: when fresh supplies arrived via the Wabash River from Vincennes. With the army resupplied, Harrison resumed his advance to Prophetstown.[12][13]
October 28, 1812: Tarhe to Return Meigs
Fort Meiggs
Octob. 28th. 1812 (October 28, 1812)
Sir & Brother
I am about to Inform you of an Unfortunate Circumstance that hapned yesterday near Fort Manary A Sineca Chief came from Capt Lewises town on a Visit and Returning Was wounded by one of your men in the arm and [illeg.] he Returned this Morning and Made his Complaint I called the different Chief together and after Counciling I cannot lay any blame to Your. We have healed the wound as it ware in the nation and no animosities shall subsist on account of it your Orders was communicated in due time by Brother McCord setting a bound which we Obeyed knowing it to be for our good altho We have collected and healed the National Wound the Cheifs have requisted that the nation of the white people Would consider that the accident cannot be now avoided the Unfortunate Cheif is randred incapable of hunting for his family and self -- and if some restution could be consistently made it would be verry Pleasing to the nation altho that is Left with your self as he belongs to Capt Lewis camp I am to Start tomorrow Morning with tile different nations who through me tender their Cincear thanks to Governor Meiggs & Genl Tupper
Your Friend--
Tarhe
Witness
Saml. McCord[25]
October 28, 1818: Sixteen months before his death, his son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth President of the United States (1825–1829), the only son of a former President to hold the office until George W. Bush in 2001.
His daughter Abigail ("Nabby") was married to Congressman William Stephens Smith. She died of cancer in 1813. His son Charles died as an alcoholic in 1800. Abigail, his wife, died of typhoid on October 28, 1818. His son Thomas and his family lived with Adams and Louisa Smith (Abigail's niece by her brother William) to the end of Adams's life.
Death Tombs of Presidents John Adams (distance) and John Quincy Adams (foreground) and their wives, in a family crypt beneath the United First Parish Church.[26]
October 28, 1845: District of Columbia, Washington County, ss:
At an Orphans Court held in and for said county, on this twenty eighth day of October 1845 (October 28, 1845). On motion of Henry Northop, it was proven on open court to the satisfaction of the Court by the deposition of Captain Bedinger and a certificate from the Register of the Law Office at Richmond, Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution and was killed at the surrender of Fort Washington on the 16th day of Nov. 1776. (November 16, 1776) And it was further proven by the letter of Battle Harrison from Columbus, Ohio, and by the deposition of Crawford and Ann Springer that William Harrison who was killed in Crawford’s defeat was the eldest brother of Lt. Battle Harrison and that John Harrison now living is the eldest son of the said William Harrison, all of which is ordered to be certified.
Nathl. Pope Causin.
District of Columbia, Washington County, to wit:
I certify that the aforegoing is a true copy from the Original filed and recorded in the Office of the Register of Wills, for Washington County, agoresaid.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 29th day of October in the year 1845. (October 29, 1845) Ed. N. Roach, Register.[27]
October 28, 1852
Sunday, October 02, 2005 (10)[28]
October 28, 1852: Conrad Goodlove and Cordelia Pyle were married in Clark County, Ohio, October 28, 1852. They had one son, Morris Goodlove. She is buried in Oak Shade Cemetery beside Conrad.
The Goodlove family spent their first year in Iowa in the West Union area. In the year 1854, the family came to Linn County and settled at Wildcat Grove (sometimes referred to only as "Wildcat") at the north edge of Marion Township, just south of the Maine township boundary, where Conrad had purchased a rather large tract of land. He became a prosperous farmer in the area.
Birth:
1793
Death:
June 14, 1861
Marion
Linn County
Iowa, USA
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Conrad Goodlove was born in 1793 and died June 14, 1861, at his home in the Wilcat Grove area of rural north Marion Township, Linn County, Iowa. He is buried in the Pioneer section of Oak Shade Cemetery, Marion, Iowa.
Conrad married Catherine McKinnon, June 10, 1818, in Clark County, Ohio. She was born in 1795, daughter of Judge Daniel McKinnon. Her mother's maiden name was Harrison. Catherine died September 5, 1849 and is buried in Old Moorefield Cemetery, Clark County, Ohio.
She was the mother of Conrad's first six children. They were all born in Clark County, Ohio and are: Matilda L.; John W.; Nancy Jane; Mary Ann; Joseph V.; and William Harrison.
Conrad and Catherine were early settlers of Ohio. At the time of the War of 1812, Conrad enlisted and served as a sergeant in the Calvary under Captain Sam McCord.
Conrad's second wife was Cordelia Pyle. She was born in 1811 and died October 21, 1872. They were married in Clark County, Ohio, October 28, 1852. They had one son, Morris Goodlove. She is buried in Oak Shade Cemetery beside Conrad.
The Goodlove family spent their first year in Iowa in the West Union area. In the year 1854, the family came to Linn County and settled at Wildcat Grove (sometimes referred to only as "Wildcat") at the north edge of Marion Township, just south of the Maine township boundary, where Conrad had purchased a rather large tract of land. He became a prosperous farmer in the area.
Family links:
Spouses:
Catherine McKinnon Goodlove (____ - 1849)
Cordelia Pyle Goodlove (1811 - 1872)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Oak Shade Cemetery
Marion
Linn County
Iowa, USA
Created by: AK Gray
Record added: Jun 04, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 91358579
Conrad Goodlove
Added by: AK Gray
Conrad Goodlove
Cemetery Photo
Added by: Hiesela
[29]
October 28, 1852
Three years after the death of Caty the marriage of Conrad and Cordelia Pyle took place on October 28, 1852, before Mr. Granville Moody, a minister of a Methodist Episcopal Church. (Ref #17)
Note that it was “Filed and Recorded October 20, 1853” a year later.
1853
In the newspaper article it says “In company with his father (Conrad) and his stepmother (Cordelia) he came to West Union, Fayette County, Iowa, at the age of sixteen. Only a year were they at that point when they removed to Wildcat Grove near Marion, in 1853.”
This date, 1853, may not be accurate as indicated by a notarized signature of Conrad in Ohio on March 26, 1855.[30]
1853: The speed record is set for the 15,000 mile voyage from Boston, around the Cape Horn to San Francisco at 76 days and 6 hours.[31]
October 28, 1862: The entire command disembarked at Helena October 28th, and encamped about one mile south of town on the river bank. The army which had come through from Batesville with Gen. Curtis was then there. They had constructed winter quarters, upon which business the “forty dollar men,” as they termed us, immediately embarked. The regiment was assigned to the brigade commanded by Gen. McGinnis, then Colonel of the 11th Indiana. The regiment was now about 950 strong, including officers and men. The health of the men was good when they first arrived,but their late exposure on the steamer, and the effect of the water from the river and the malaria arising from a cypress swamp about a mile in the rear of the camp, soon swelled the sick list to
more than a hundred. Whether these evils could have been avoided at that time or not it is
useless to inquire. The operations then pending against Vicksburg, via Holly Springs, doubtless rendered the concentration of all the available forces within reach necessary. Helena was probably the best objective point, for any forces not connected with those under the immediate command of Major General Grant. [32]
October 28, 1862: The entire command disembarked at Helena October 28th, and encamped about one mile south of town on the river bank. The army which had come through from Batesville with Gen. Curtis was then there. They had constructed winter quarters, upon which business the “forty dollar men,” as they termed us, immediately embarked. The regiment was assigned to the brigade commanded by Gen. McGinnis, then Colonel of the 11th Indiana. The regiment was now about 950 strong, including officers and men. The health of the men was good when they first arrived,but their late exposure on the steamer, and the effect of the water from the river and the malaria arising from a cypress swamp about a mile in the rear of the camp, soon swelled the sick list to
more than a hundred. Whether these evils could have been avoided at that time or not it is
useless to inquire. The operations then pending against Vicksburg, via Holly Springs, doubtless rendered the concentration of all the available forces within reach necessary. Helena was probably the best objective point, for any forces not connected with those under the immediate command of Major General Grant. [33]
Fri. October 28, 1864
got to martinsburg[34] at sunset quite a large
place got a good supper cold & windy
wrote F Hunter a letter
(William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary)[35]
Martinsburg, Virginia[36]
VIEWS IN AND AROUND MARTINSBURG, VIRGINIA.—SKETCHED By A. R. WAUD.--[
1: October 28, 1871: Oscar Sherman Goodlove was born October 28, 1871 and married Margie Jenkins. [37]
October 28, 1882: Generation:Thomas Dillow son of Daniel, son of Daniel and son of Lord Michael; b 1809 in Boone County Kentucky and d October 28, 1882 in Lowell Iowa married to Elizabeth SMITH 1814-1880. Issue of Thomas Dillow and Elizabeth are Mary ?-?, Theophalis Addison 1834-1897, Thomas Jefferson 1825-1904, Robert Jackson Sr, 1837-1920, Josephine 1838-1918, Daniel S. 1840-1918, James Monroe 1844-1925, Isabella 1846-1937, Ann Eliza 1849-1918, John Quincy 1850-1931, Lillian Sarah 1852-?, William A. 1855-?, Baby Girl 1856, Stephen Samuel 1859-1905 and Turtullus 1859-?. The genealogy will continue through Robert Jackson McKinnon to the exclusion of all other offspring except some history concerning Theophalis. [38]
October 28, 1893
The Assassination of Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, 1893
Posted
The New York Times report of Carter Harrison’s assassination.
Carter Harrison Grave marker
CHICAGO, OCT. 28– Carter Henry Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, was shot at his residence, 231 Ashland Boulevard, at 8:07 o’clock tonight, and died at 8:47 o’clock.
His murderer was a disappointed office seeker named Eugene Patrick Prendergast, who obtain admittance to the mayor’s home in the guise of a visitor.
The assassin gave himself up at the Des Plaines Street police station half an hour later, and was taken in charge by the police and spirited away to some unknown place to prevent any possible attempt by a mob to lynch him.
Mayor Harrison had been at the fair during the day to attend the celebration of American Cities. He returned to his residence at 5 p.m. very weary, the exercises at the fairgrounds having taxed his energies to their utmost. Dinner was served at six o’clock, and after the repast the mayor retired to the back parlor and lay down on a couch, with the remark that he would take a rest, but that he was to be awakened if any person called or any message was received for him. He fell into a peaceful sleep.
Soon after 8 p.m. the doorbell rang, and the maid servant answered it. She found at the door a small sized, weazen-faced, smooth shaven man, who asked if the mayor was at home. And replied to the maid interrogatory, he gave his name as Prendergast. As the name was a familiar one to the maid, she admitted the man to the hallway and close the door. She then went to the rear parlor where the mayor was sleeping and awoke him. She did not at once into the hall where Prendergast was waiting, and the maid had returned to the servants quarters in the basement of the house before the tragedy occurred.
The house is an old-fashioned double brick, with a hall through the center, on either side of which various rooms opened. From the direction taken by the maid servant when she announced him, Prendergast, who was waiting in the hall, knew in which of the rooms the mayor was. He apparently grew impatient at the delay, and before the mayor appeared he had started toward the rear of the hall, intending, in all probability, to enter the room, but just as he was approaching the door the mayor appeared through the doorway.
Carter Harrison Grave marker
Prendergast then deliberately placed a large sized revolver close to the mayor’s body and fired. The shot struck the mayor in the abdomen, and he reeled and fell backward, catching at the side of the doorway as he fell. As he was following the assassin fired a second time, the bullet striking the mayor just above the year. The murderer surveyed his work for an instant, and then fired a third time at the prostrate body of his victim. The shot this time struck Mr. Harrison in the left-hand.
The three shots were all fired as quickly as possible with the heavy 38 caliber revolver which Prendergast had in his hand, and before the other people in the house could get to the mayor’s assistance his murderer turned and fled through the hall out the door, down the long walk between the lawns to the gate, and out onto Ashland Avenue.
As he ran down the walk to the street, the gardener who had been aroused by the shooting, ran around the side of the house and tried to overtake him. Prendergast saw his danger from this source, and turned and fired a shot over his shoulder at the pursuer. It went wide of its mark, but it was effective in keeping the gardener at a distance. The murderer was able to make his escape into the darkness.
He ran away at this time in order to avoid being killed by those who were attracted by the shooting, for half an hour later he gave himself up at the Des Plaines Street police station.
Sergeant Frank McDonald was just receiving over the telephone the news of the mayor’s death, when he was interrupted by the exclamation, “I am the man who did the shooting!” Sergeant McDonald started at the appearance of the man, but he quickly asked him to step inside the railing. The man did so. He was traveling with excitement, but to all appearances, except for the agitation, was perfectly sane. He repeated the remark that he had made on entering the station, to those who quickly gathered about him, “I killed Mayor Harrison.” He said: “I worked hard for him during his campaign for the Mayoralty, and he promised to make me corporation counsel. He was elected, but he failed to keep his promise, and I have shot him because he didn’t do as he said he would.”
Prendergast still carried in his hand the revolver with which he shot the mayor. It was taken from him by Sergeant McDonald. He appeared to be about 25 years old, about 5’7″ in height, and of slight build.
The police officers at the station were afraid that as soon as the cause of the mayor’s death became generally known a mob would collect to avenge him. Prendergast was therefore not placed in a cell at the Des Plaines Street Station, but in charge of four policemen was taken in a carriage to another part of the city and locked up to await the judicial inquiry into his rash act.
There were no eyewitnesses of the brutal, cold-blooded murder. In the house at the time were Preston Harrison, the mayor’s youngest son; Sophie Harrison, his daughter; the butler, and three maidservants. Preston Harrison and his sister were in the upper part of the house. The servants were all below stairs, the maid who answered the bell being the only person of those in the house at the time who caught sight of the murderer. Preston Harrison was the first to reach the side of his father.
On his way down the stairs Preston Harrison rang the police call twice. The shots made him aware that some desperate deed had been consummated, but he did not know as he called the police that he was summoning them to look for the murderer of his own father. He was overcome by horror and grief, but he immediately went upstairs, where he met his sister Sophie, who was preparing to descend, and gently forced her back to her room, where, with as much care as was possible, he told her of the awful fate of her father.
W.J. Chalmers, a neighbor, entered the house and met Preston Harrison just as a young man advanced to the doorway in which the prostrate form of the mayor lay. Life is rapidly ebbing away. Blood was flowing freely from the three wounds in the mayor’s body, and the carpet beneath him was saturated with it. The two men picked Mr. Harrison up and carried him to the couch from which he had arisen to meet his murderer.
Mr. Harrison said: “I am shot, Preston, and cannot live. Where is Annie?”
Mr. Harrison hastily left his father’s side and rushed out upon the street in pursuit of the assassin. In the meantime Mr. and Mrs. WJ Chalmers, who live across the street, had started for the Harrison residence, as they had heard the shooting. They saw a young man running up Ashland Avenue and met us on Preston in pursuit. Young Mr. Harrison stopped long enough to inform his neighbors of the terrible affair and then started in pursuit of the murderer. Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers hastily into the house, Mr. Chalmers at once make in a pillow of his overcoat which he placed under Mr. Harrison’s head.
“I have been shot and cannot live,” said the mayor, as he gasped for breath.
“You will not die,” said Mr. Chalmers. “You have only been shot in the abdomen.”
“No, I have been shot in the heart and I know I cannot live,” was the reply.
Those were the last words of Mayor Harrison.
Neighbors gathered about the doorway in great numbers. Only a few of these were admitted to the house. Those within were anxiously awaiting the appearance of one other woman, who in a short time was to have become the bride of the man who was at that moment in the throes of death.
Ms. Howard has been here for several days. She was to have been married to Mayor Harrison November 7 at Biloxi Mississippi, her home. When in this city she had always visited at the mayor’s house, and the two became very much attached to each other. The attachment ripened into love, and early this summer the engagement was announced. Extensive arrangements were underway for a splendid wedding. A special train was to have borne the party to Biloxi, and fetes were prepared there for their entertainment. Ms. Howard came here this time to finish the preparation of her trousseau. He was to have returned to Biloxi early next week. As usual, she visited at the mayor’s house, which is presided over by Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Jr. Miss Howard left the house after dinner and company with Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Jr. they returned together, but Miss Howard was the first to enter the house. She did so between the files of sympathetic neighbors who had gathered about the house.
The unusual crowd and the serious faces of the people in a prepared the two women for some dreadful catastrophe. But up to the time they enter the doorway they had no hint of the real trouble. It would’ve taken a very callous person to have breathed the story of the crime into their years at such time. It was left for the members of the family to break the news. Ms. Howard and Mrs. Harrison were met by Preston Harrison at the door, and guided upstairs out of the reach of those who had gathered in the house. There they were informed of what had taken place.
There was the greatest excitement all over the city when the news of the murderer was bruited about. It raged most hotly in the throng which filled the grounds about the mayor’s house. This nearly resulted in the lynching of an innocent man, R. Earle Smith, a young man living at 359 Ashland Avenue, was passed in the mayor’s house just as Pendergast passed in. He noticed Prendergast and wondered if the man were a politician or somebody who is helping the mayor in his preparation for the approaching wedding. Just after Mr. Smith had passed the House, he heard two shots and he felt at once that the man whom he had seen and to the mayor’s residence was responsible. He quickly made up his mind to lie in wait for him and catch him if he came out.
With the end in view, Smith entered a clump of lilac bushes which adorn the grounds in front of the house on each side of the path leading up to the door. When Prendergast appeared at the door, after killing Mayor Harrison, and ran down the path, Smith sprang from the bushes and attempted to grapple him.
Pendergast eluded his grasp and, jumping over the fence, ran down Ashland Avenue towards Adams Street. Smith ran after him and followed him as the murderer turned down Adams Street. Smith says that just as he turned the corner of Adams Street two more shots were fired in the house, and he turned back, and it seemed impossible for him to catch Prendergast, to see what new trouble was brewing in the ill-fated mansion. As he turned into the grounds in his return, the Butler pointed a revolver at him and commanded him to surrender.
Smith tried to explain who he was, but the Butler cried out: “there is the murderer!” Those who ran up to cup the cry, and in an instant Smith was surrounded by an angry mob, which, in addition to handling him roughly, threatened him with lynching.
The police patrol wagon which came up in response to Preston Harrison’s call brought several policemen, one of whom arrested Mr. Smith in spite of his vehenement statement that he was only trying to catch the murderer. The policeman finally led Mr. Smith to the house, where he was readily identified as a neighbor, and his release, of course, followed.
When Prendergast was removed from the display and Street police station he was conveyed in a carriage to the central police station in City Hall. Here he was taken in charge by Inspector Shea, who will once proceeded to catechize him as to the incidents leading up to the crime.
Prendergast said that he made up his mind to kill the mayor yesterday. He went out on Milwaukee Avenue and purchased a secondhand revolver at a pawn shop for five dollars. The revolver was a five shooter. At eight o’clock, as nearly as he could remember, he went to the mayor’s house and rang the bell.
“How many shots did you fire?”
“I fired three shots. That was enough. There was another in the gun.”
“What is your full name?”
“Patrick Eugene Prendergast. My mother is a good, innocent woman. She lives over at 609 Jane Street, west of Seymour. We used to live at 357 Ohio Street.”
“Did you ever go to school?”
“Yes, I’m a good Catholic. I studied at St. Patrick’s school. I know a good many big men. Now there is Archbishop—-, I forgot his name.”
“What happened there?” Asked the inspector.
“I told the girl who came to the door that I wanted to see the mayor. He asked me for my name and I gave it to her, and told her that I had particular business with the mayor.”
“What happened then?
“Why the girl went in and told Mr. Harrison that I wanted to see him.”
“And then?”
“I shot him. I didn’t say a word to the mayor, nor he to me. I shot him and I was justified in doing it.”
“But what did you have against the mayor?”
“I made up my mind to shoot him, and I had some difficulty in doing it. The mayor failed to fulfill his promise to me to elevate the tracks.”
“What happened when the mayor came to the door?”
“I don’t remember exactly. I came out and ran away. Men chased me. I jumped on a streetcar and rode down to Des Plaines Street Station. I walked into the sergeant’s desk and said, ‘I have killed the mayor.’”
“Who are your relatives?”
“I’ve got one brother John. He’s a clerk in the post office. My mother and I used to live at 357 Ohio St.”
“Where do you work?”
“I work as a distributor for the Morning Inter Ocean and Evening Post. I am employed by the city circulators of these papers.”
“How old are you?”
“Why, I am 25. I think I was justified in shooting the mayor. If I get a fair trial before a fair jury I’ll be acquitted.”
“Have you ever studied law?”
“No, I have never studied are practiced. I just put that pistol in my pocket and went over and shot the mayor.”
At frequent intervals the prisoner squirmed uneasily in his chair and refused for a moment to proceed. He is a smooth faced, hollow cheeked, weak looking young man, the most prominent feature of his face being a protruding under lip. His whole appearance indicated a depraved and vicious mind. His nose is sharp and crooked, and his hair, cut short, sparsely covers his misshapen head.
The mayor took a prominent part in the endeavor to provide employment for the unemployed during the exceedingly dull season of last summer. He did everything in his power to advance the work of municipal improvements in order that the laborers out of work might be provided with employment cleaning the streets, constructing sewers, and laying gas and water mains. At the meeting of the Committee of Two Hundred, which was appointed by him to take charge of the entire matter of furnishing food and employment for the unemployed, he was found to be alive to the interests of the poor people of the city, fertile in suggestion, and solicitous of the work of relief and of furnishing employment might be begun without delay. Many of the suggestions which were adopted by the committee with such success were made by him.
The social duties of the mayor in connection with the World’s Fair during the entire summer have been many and exacting, but through it all he carried himself with the dignity and frankness of spirit and action which won him the respect of Chicago’s guests from abroad and the approval of her citizens. One of the first of these was the reception of an entertainment for some days of the Duke of Veragua and his suite. At public functions as well as in the privacy of his own beautiful home on Ashland Blvd., Mayor Harrison did his share to make the visit of the descendant of Columbus at the World’s Fair a pleasant one.
On another notable occasion the mayor also did the honors as the head of a great city in a way which left no cause for complaint. This was on the occasion of the reception and entertainment of the Spanish Intifata. Mayor Harrison’s gallantry was given full expression in all the public and private functions at which he appeared as a representative of the city which was entertaining the Princess. In connection with the reception of prominent people and special days at the world’s fair, Mayor Harrison was called upon to make some 40 speeches, and was always in the best of humor, and the speeches were uniformly well received, though they often were criticized.[39]
October 28, 1893: Carter Harrison III (1825-1893)
Fayette Co., KY; Chicago, IL
Surnames Mentioned: HARRISON OWSLEY RANDOLPH RUSSELL
Repository ID # 8334 - extensive ancestry available in our online database.
PhotoCarter Harrison III, the 24th Mayor of Chicago was born in Fayette County Kentucky February 15, 1825 and could trace his ancestry back to Pocahontas through his grandmother Anne Cabell who was GGGG grandniece of Pocahontas.
He was the son of Carter Henry Harrison II and Caroline Russell. Caroline was the daughter of Col. William Russell. His father died soon after his birth in May of 1825. Carter received a classical education, graduating from Yale in 1845 and a law degree from Transylvania in 1855.
At first he tried his hand at farming, but when he moved to Chicago in 1855, Carter became a very lucrative landowner and a very prosperous real estate operator.
He built a very large house on was known as Reuben Street. Later when Hey Rube became a popular term of ridicule and the residents of the street were called Rubes, the residents had the streets name changed to Ashland Avenue. The houses were spacious and the grounds the size of country side farms.
Carter had a very bush beard and was described as follows: "The squire of the avenue was Mayor Carter H. Harrison who kept his big black bay mare named Kate in a stable near his house and liked to ride up and down the street in the manner of a plantation owner looking over his acreage". He described himself "unable to study out a problem or scheme sitting at his desk but did his best thinking at full gallop upon his flying steed"..
Among his closest friends were several former Kentuckians HH. Honre, Potter Palmer, John E. Owsley and F, H. Winston who were also all in real estate. His friends shared his optimism and considered him "whole-souled and honorable". And even though his political emenies condemned him it was also said he had a host of friends who had little in common with him socially but who "had the utmost confidence in him and who would divide with him their last crust bread". To quote from his journals he wrote "There were my good neighbors and true friends from all over the city . One by one they walked accrossed the polished plate and bent upon me a kindly look. Friends of every nationality, Teuton and Hibernian, Frenchman and Norseman, Bohemian and Dane, Italian and Swede, Christain and Jew, rich and poor, Ah! How I wish I could bid yon pale moon bear to them my own picture, looking as I feel, brimful of good will and running over with kindly fellowship. To one and all I drink in a cup as full as yon sea, a cup brimming over with affection."
Carter's second wife who he married April 12, 1855 was his cousin Sophonisba Grayson Preston, the daughter of William Preston and Hebe Carter Grayson and 7th great granddaughter of Pocahontas. She was born October 27, 1833 and died in September 1876. She bore him ten children six which died in infancy (see below).
From Carter Harrison's IV (his son) autobiography, The Stormy Years, we are given the following glimpses into life at the Harrison home. He speaks of dinner his father and John Owsley hosted given in the parlor of Carter's home which the boys were not even allowed to festivities of although they could hear the lusty singing of Good Old Yale, Drink Her Down!, Excelsior and other classics. "It was a small but joyous gathering of the Chicago Yale Club given to song, horseplay and wassail; there was a huge punchbowl into which my father had poured pitcher after pitcher of Bourbon whisky drawn from the barrell in his cellar".
Carter Harrison III first became mayor of Chicago April 1, 1879 when he defeated Abner M. Wright (Republican) & Ernst Schmidt (Socialist Labor). His second term was begun April 5, 1881 by Defeating John M. Clark (Republican), Timothy O'Meara (Independent) & George Schilling (Socialist Labor) . On April 3, 1883 he defeated Eugene Cary (Republican) and began his third term. His fourth term followed April 7, 1885 when he defeated Sidney Smith (Republican) & William Bush (Prohibition).
In 1887 after being defeated he left on a tour of the world. When he returned he once again pursued politics and April 7, 1893 he was again elected mayor, Defeated Samuel W. Allerton (Republican), Dewitt C. Cregier (Un. Citizen) & Henry Ehrenpreis (socialist Labor). But this term was cut short. On October 23, 1893 during the Chicago World's Fair he was assassinated at his home.
First Generation:
•Willie born 1856 died in infancy
•Caroline Dudley born March 28, 1857
•Carter Henry born April 23, 1860 died December 25, 1953
•Hebe Grayson born 1862 died in infancy
•Child unnamed born 1864 died in infancy
•Randolf born 1866 died in infancy
•Harry Grayson born 1868 died in infancy
•William Preston born April 12, 1869
•Gracie born 1871 died in infancy
•Edith born December 17, 1873
Carter Harrison Sr terms as Mayor of Chicago:
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Carter Henry Harrison, Sr.
24th Mayor of Chicago
Party: Democrat
Elected:
1st term: April 1, 1879 Defeated Abner M. Wright (Republican) & Ernst Schmidt (Socialist Labor)
2nd term: April 5, 1881 Defeated John M. Clark (Republican), Timothy O'Meara (Independent) & George Schilling (Socialist Labor)
3rd term: April 3,1883 Defeated Eugene Cary (Republican)
4th term: April 7, 1885 Defeated Sidney Smith (Republican) & William Bush (Prohibition)
5th term: April 17, 1893 Defeated Samuel W. Allerton (Republican), Dewitt C. Cregier (Un. Citizen) & Henry Ehrenpreis (socialist Labor)
Inauguration:
•1st term: April 28, 1879
•2nd term: May 9, 1881
•3rd term: May 14, 1883
•4th term: June 8, 1885
•5th term: April 17, 1893
Terms of office:
•1st term: 1879-1881
•2nd term: 1881-1883
•3rd term: 1883-1885
•4th term: 1885-1887
•5th term: 1893
Birth: February 15, 1825
Death: October 28, 1893. Shot & Killed.
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Source:
The Stormy Years (autobiography of Carter Harrison Jr.), and the Biography of Carter Harrison I, and assorted notes of Edna B Owsley (his granddaughter).
Submitted by Milancie Adams. Visit her website Keeping the Chain Unbroken: Owsley and Hill Family History Website for additional info on this family. Note - be sure to go to her home page and follow some of the other Harrison links in her family as well.
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Carter Henry Harrison
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Birth:
February 15, 1825
Death:
October 28, 1893
* 24th Chicago Mayor. Served as Mayor of Chicago from 1879 to 1887 and in 1893. He brought Chicago to international notoriety by hosting the Columbian Exposition, the World's Fair of 1893, and being assassinated by a disgruntled office seeker the day before the fair ended. The Chicago City Council established the Carter H. Harrison and Lambert Tree awards on November 9, 1885 upon receipt of a $700 donation from Mayor Carter Henry Harrison and Judge Lambert Tree, specifically to honor annually the gallant and meritorious service of one member from each of the Police and Fire Departments. These medals are civilian awards given annually to an individual member of the Police and Fire Departments who demonstrate outstanding bravery in the line of duty. Currently, the medal presentations are rotated from year to year, so neither award is perceived as better than the other. The awards are given out during Fire Prevention Week in October each year for the preceding twelve months. In 1999, the Fire Department designee received the Lambert Tree Award, thus in October, 2000, the department recipient will receive the Carter H. Harrison Award. The Lambert Tree and Carter H. Harrison Awards have been presented annually (with the exception of the years 1890 to 1896) since March 4, 1887. (bio by K. Kruse)
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Parents:
Carter Henry Harrison (1796 - 1825)
Caroline E Russell Harrison (1797 - 1875)
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October 28, 1893: He then took a break from politics, including an eighteen month trip around the world, before being once again elected mayor in 1893. Six months after taking office, however, on the final day of the World Columbian Exposition, Harrison's father was assassinated in his home by Patrick Prendergast on October 28, 1893.
In 1894, Harrison's family sold the Chicago Times, and Harrison focused his energies on his real estate investments until he followed in his father's footsteps and successfully ran for mayor in 1897. Harrison served as mayor from 1897 until 1905, and again from 1911 to 1915. During his first term as mayor Harrison was best known for his bitter, but ultimately victorious, fight against Charles T. Yerkes, the traction railroad baron, who sought a fifty year streetcar concession from the city that Harrison felt was unfair. The traction interests had significant aldermanic support, allegedly obtained through bribery and improper means, and were prepared for Harrison's veto of the proposed ordinance, which they expected to be able to overcome. Harrison, however, went further and took the fight directly to the people, urging them to challenge their aldermen on the issue. Although this move angered some in the Chicago Democratic Party who felt that Harrison had overstepped his bounds, it made Harrison popular with the people, who re-elected him to a second two-year term in 1899.
The Yerkes battle cemented Harrison's reputation as a man of integrity and one who was not afraid to ruffle a few feathers in order to do what he thought was right. Harrison was re-elected again in 1901 and 1903, but declined to run in 1905, when he was succeeded as mayor by Edward F. Dunne, another Democrat. In 1907, the mayoral term was extended from two years to four and Dunne lost his re-election bid to Republican F. A. Busse. Harrison then re-entered the political scene for the 1911 election, in which he defeated Dunne in the Democratic primary, and Republican Charles E. Merriam, a professor at the University of Chicago, in the general election. During what would prove to be his final term as mayor, Harrison was persuaded that the best way to handle prostitution and gambling was to try to eliminate these practices altogether, instead of treating them as necessary evils and attempting to segregate such vices to particular sections of the city where they could be contained and informally regulated by the police, as Chicago had done for many years. This change in tactics led Harrison to a direct confrontation with long-time allies John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin and Michael ("Hinky-Dink") Kenna, the aldermen of Chicago's notorious First Ward, which served as the city's main red-light district. Harrison eventually succeeded in shutting down most of Chicago's houses of prostitution and gambling dens, including the infamous Everleigh Club, but these achievements came at a cost. Without Coughlin and Kenna's political support (which, ironically, had been critical years earlier when he stood up against Charles Yerkes), Harrison lost the Democratic nomination to Robert M. Sweitzer in 1915 and moved to the sidelines of Chicago politics, although he remained active in the Democratic Party at the national level throughout the remainder of his life.
When America entered World War I, Harrison desperately wanted to participate, but was too old to serve in the military. He lobbied heavily for an appointment to a meaningful position that would allow him to, if not see action, at least be able to "hear the big guns." Eventually, Harrison was made a Captain in the American Red Cross and stationed in Toul, France, a few miles behind the front lines, where he worked to help make life more comfortable for the American troops stationed and recovering at the several field hospitals located there.
Following the war, Harrison spent most of the 1920s traveling. He took multiple trips around the world, along with shorter excursions to Europe and Africa. By the early 1930s, however, reversals in the stock market had diminished his personal fortune and Harrison decided to return to work, even though he was now over seventy years old. Relying on his political connections, Harrison was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Northern District of Illinois by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. It was thought that this would be a relatively short-term position, but Harrison ended up holding the post until the end of 1944, when he finally retired from public service for good at the age of 84.
Harrison was a both an outdoorsman and a scholarly patron of the arts. He loved hunting and fishing, and throughout his life went on numerous expeditions into the wilderness in search of big game or the perfect trout stream, including hunting and fishing trips to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, India, Indochina, and Africa. In 1940, when he was eighty years old, Harrison and his long-time friend Oscar Mayer (the Chicago meat-packer), each bagged a 150 pound buck on their annual hunting trip to northern Michigan. Harrison also had somewhat of a reputation as a trencherman, and favored a "Kentucky Nightcap" of bourbon before retiring for the day. At the same time, however, Harrison was an avid art collector and regular at the Chicago symphony and opera. Before his death, he donated his substantial art collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, including works by Paul Gauguin, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec. In recognition of his support, the Art Institute ultimately named Harrison a Benefactor and Governing Life-Member of the museum. According to his daughter, Harrison's "light-reading" usually consisted of poetry or the ancient Greek classics, and he read a chapter of the Bible each night throughout his life in fulfillment of a boyhood promise to his mother. [42]
October 28, 1922: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that “Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence.”[43]
The Spirit of 1775 Marker Photo, Click for full size
By Bill Coughlin, April 12, 2011
1. The Spirit of 1775 Marker
October 28, 1932: Inscription.
Less than half mile eastward is the famous spring around which, from their rendezvous on lands of Morgan and Bedinger, July 17th, 1775 Captain Hugh Stephenson’s Company of Virginia Riflemen, 98 volunteers started on their bee-line march to Boston Town, 600 miles away, reporting to General Washington on August 11th. They all pledged to meet at this spring fifty years hence, if alive.
Officers
Captain Hugh Stephenson
Lieutenants
First William Henshaw
Second George Scott
Third Thomas Hite
Fourth Abraham Shepherd
Ensign William Pyle
Sergeants
First Samuel Finley
Second William Kelly
Third Josiah Flagg
Fourth Henry Bendinger
Corporals
First John Crawford
Second David Miller
Third Henry Barrett
Fourth George Michael Bedinger
Surgeon Garrett Tunison
Meeting at the spring in 1825, only two of the five survivors were able to keep their pledge:
Maj. Henry Bendinger of Berkeley County
and
Maj. George Michael Bedinger of Kentucky.
Erected 1932 by National Society Daughters of the American Revolution – Pack Horse Ford Chapter
Bee-Line March Marker Photo, Click for full size
By Bill Coughlin, April 12, 2011
2. Bee-Line March Marker
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Marker series. This marker is included in the Daughters of the American Revolution marker series.
Location. 39° 25.577′ N, 77° 48.913′ W. Marker is in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in Jefferson County. Marker is on S Duke Street / Kearneysville Pike (West Virginia Route 480), on the left when traveling south. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Shepherdstown WV 25443, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Elmwood Cemetery (approx. 0.2 miles away); Confederate Soldiers in Elmwood Cemetery / Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas (approx. 0.2 miles away); Fountain Rock (approx. half a mile away); Free School (approx. 0.6 miles away); Civil War Hospital Site (approx. 0.6 miles away); Shepherd State Teachers College (approx. 0.6 miles away); Shepherdstown (approx. 0.6 miles away); 1862 Antietam Campaign (approx. 0.6 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Shepherdstown.
Also see . . . Pack Horse Ford Chapter. Pack Horse Ford has an important place in the history of the Virginias, since its situation determined the site of Shepherdstown and opened the way to the settlement of the Shenandoah Valley. By this route, the famous company of patriots, organized at Morgan's Spring, made their "Bee Line March to Boston;" and had the honor of being the first company of soldiers from south of the Potomac to be greeted by General Washington. The Pack Horse Ford Chapter, NSDAR, erected a monument and tablet to these brave soldiers at the south end of Shepherdstown on October 28, 1932. (Submitted on August 2, 2012, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)
The Spirit of 1775 Marker Photo, Click for full size
By Bill Coughlin, April 12, 2011
3. The Spirit of 1775 Marker
Marker on S Duke Street Photo, Click for full size
By Bill Coughlin, April 12, 2011
4. Marker on S Duke Street
Credits. This page originally submitted on April 15, 2011, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 399 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 15, 2011, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.
October 28, 1938: Germany expels “some 18,000” Jews with Polish citizenship to the Polish border. Poles refuse to admit them; Germans refuse to allow them back into Germany. Seventeen thousand are stranded in the frontier town of Zbaszyn, Poland. (Including possibly the following Gottliebs who were deported on this date.)[44]
October 28, 1938: Dorian Gottlieb, born March 17, 1931, resided Nordhausen. Deportation: October 28, 1938, from Bentschen Abgeshoben. Date of Death: Unknown[45]
October 28, 1938: Wolf Gottlieb, born January 10, 1902 in Perehinsko. Resided Nordhausen. Deportation: October 28, 1938, Polen[46]
October 28, 1938: Dora Gottlieb, nee Seinfeld, Born April 29,1905 in Perehinsko. Resided Nordausen. Deportation: October 28, 1938, nach Bentchen. Abgeschoben. Todesdaten: Unknown[47]
October 28, 1938: Sulamith Gottlieb, January 17, 1936, resided Nordhausen. Deportation: October 28, 1938, nach Bentschen. Abgeschoben. Todesdaten: Unknown[48]
October 28, 1940: Mussolini’s Italian army cross Albania and invades Greece. The Greek army included 12,000 Greek Jews which fought fiercely and stopped the Italian advance. Between 510 and 615 Greek Jewish soldiers from Salonica were killed.[49]
October 28, 1940: German occupiers in Belgium pass anti-Semitic legislation.[50]
October 28, 1940 : Italy invades Greece.[51]
October 28, 1941: 27,000 Jews assembeld in Democracy Square in Kovno, Lithuania, must pass before an SS officer named Rauca, who signals life or death for each. 9,200 of the Jews, 4,300 of them children, are sent to their deaths at pits outside Kovno at the nearby Ninth Fort. 17,412 Jews remain in the Kovno ghetto.[52]
October 28, 1941: Eichmann noted “in view of the approaching final solution of the European Jewry problem, one has to prevent the immigration of Jews into the unoccupied area of France.”[53]
October 28, 1941:
F4F-3 Wildcat inside USS Enterprise
F4F-3 Wildcat inside USS Enterprise's hangar deck, October 28, 1941; note spare TBD and SBD aircraft hanging overhead
F4F-3 Wildcat undergoing maintenance in USS Enterprise
F4F-3 Wildcat undergoing maintenance in USS Enterprise's hangar deck, October 28, 1941; note spare propellers hanging overhead
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October 28, 1944: Zikmund Gottlieb born March 1, 1874. October 28, 1944 Osvetim. OSVOBOZENI SE DOZILI.[55]
October 28, 1944: Klara Gottliebova, October 10, 1881. Ev- October 28, 1944 Osvetim. OSVOBOZENI SE DOZILI.[56]
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October 28, 1962
[58]
October 28, 1962: Soviet Premier Khrushchev agrees to withdraw all missile bases from Cuba. [59] Thirteen days after the crisis began, the Soviets announced that they would remove the missiles from Cuba, with the US agreeing to remove missiles from US bases in Turkey and “pledging not to invade Cuba,” which Kennedy and future presidents would honour. At the announcement of the end to the crisis, General LeMay roared at Kennedy, “It’s the greatest defeat in our history,” and that, “We should invade today!” A defense analyst at the Pentagon, Daniel Ellsberg, who was consulting with Air Force generals and colonels on nuclear strategy at the end of the crisis, remarked that after the settlement was reached, “there was virtually a coup atmosphere in Pentagon circles,” explaining, “not that I had the fear there was about to be a coup – I just thought it was a mood of hatred and rage. The atmosphere was poisonous, poisonous.”[45]
What’s more, the CIA was further enraged at Kennedy, as “for those militants who were part of the massive juggernaut organized to destroy the Castro regime, the peaceful resolution of the missile crisis was a betrayal worse than the Bay of Pigs.”[46][60]
After weeks of tense confrontation that brings the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust, Russian Premier Khrushchev announces that the U.S.S.R. has decided to dismantle Soviet missiles in Cuba. JFK responds by congratulating Khrushchev for “an important contribution to peace.” An agreement is reached which includes JFK’s promise to halt Operation Mongoose raids against Cuba. The confrontation appears to be a cathartic experience for JFK. “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet,” he say in a later speech. “We all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures and we are all mortal.” General Curtis LeMay bellows: “We lost! We ought to just go in there today and knock ‘em off!” RFK is reportedly outraged when he discovers that, during the heat of the missile crisis, CIA (and ex-FBI) agent William Harvey has sent teams of more than sixty agents into Cuba to support any conventional U.S. military operations. RFK demands to know on whose authority
Harvey has acted, at the moment when the smallest provocation might unleash a nuclear war. Harvey’s response is “we planned it because the military wanted it done.” The Pentagon claims not to have known about Harvey’s operation. The “rogue” mentality of elements of the intelligence community alarms JFK and his advisers.
LHO makes his weekly trek to Fort Worth to visit Marina and June at the house of Elena Hall. He announces on this occasion that the time is coming to end the separation between he
and Marina.
Also today, a U-2 spy plane, flying toward the North Pole to spot Soviet nuclear tests veers deep into Soviet airspace over the Chukot Peninsula before finally turning back. Brought the news, JFK laughs sardonically: “There is always some son-of-a-bitch who doesn’t get the word.”
Khrushchev complains and JFK apologizes. [61]
October 28, 1980: Carter-Reagan debate.[62]
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[1] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[2] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[3] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[4] Biographical sources: The Calendar of State Papers Domestic (England): Reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I (vols. XXIII-XLIII); The Calendar of State Papers (Scotland) (vols. I & II); The Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs (vol. VIII); "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, & the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant" (Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, rep. 2000), 11: 82.
[5] http://www.archontology.org/nations/uk/scotland/stuart1/darnley.php
[6] f It appears that, during the five months subsequent to the affair
of St. Bartholomew, Mary was deprived of all external communi-
cation ; for we know of no letters from her during that period,
and, in those which follow, we do not perceive that at that time
she had the least suspicion of the imminent danger which she had
just escaped,
[7] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[8] GW met Guyasuta during his journey to the French commandant in 1753. Afterjoining the French in 1755, Guyasuta had actively engaged in hostilities against the British during the French and Indian War and was a leader in Pontiac’s rebellion. Changing his allegiance after the war, he again supported the English and aided the firm of Baynton, Wharton, & Morgan in opening up the Illinois trade. He continued to support the British during the Revolution and participated in the attack against Hannastown, Pa., in 1782. After the Revolution he settled in the area of Pittsburgh and died there about 1800.
[9] A member of the Bovidae family was once common in western PA. The buffalo in this region was the woodland buffalo—as opposed to the prairie buffalo common in the Great Plains area of North America. The woodland buffalo had a darker hide and lacked the heavy neck of the prairie variety. The prairie animal developed heavy neck muscles in order the push snow to the side during winter grazing. The woodland variety did not have this need. The prairie variety lived as far east as Indiana, or so. The woodland variety became extinct around 1800 when it was hunted for sometimes no more than its hide and maybe the heart and tongue for eating. Several paths were worn by these creatures and sites named for them.
Pierre de Bonnecamp, when accompanying Céloron in 1749, wrote in his diary that they first saw “Illinois cattle” (bison) when traveling near the mouth of the Great Kanawha River.
Much has been made of the complete use of the buffalo by Indians. Descriptions abound of using the hide for clothing, blankets, and tepee-making—as well as eating the flesh and use of bones for utensils, sinew for twine, and so forth. When the hunt was difficult, the hunter took advantage of every useable part of the animal. The buffalo is sometimes portrayed as the Indian’s “supermarket.” As much as this is factual, we are reminded that when the Indian came to possess horses and rifles, they became indiscriminate killers of the buffalo sometimes saving only the tongue to eat and the hide to trade and leaving the carcass to rot in the field.
http://www.thelittlelist.net/boatobye.htm
[10] Fleming’s Orderly Book, Documentary History of Dunmore’s War, 1774 by Thwaites and Kellogg. P 355.
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kemp%27s_Landing
[12] ON This Day in America by John Wagman.
[13] http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924017918735/cu31924017918735_djvu.txt
[14] http://jerseyman-historynowandthen.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
[15] T The Battle for Fort Mercer: The American Defenders Text below extracted from the Diary of Colonel Israel Angell, Commanding Officer, 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Army. Battle for Fort Mercer: The American Defenders
[16] 18 Colonel Morrow of Berkeley County is one of the "Evidences" listed by Mclntosh
for the proposed Court of Inquiry requested by him. Kellogg seems to feel
that this is Charles Morrow (see Index to Frontier Advance). Itwould seem,
however, that it must have been his brother John Morrow; since Gwathmey,
Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 567, shows him as Colonel
of the 2nd Battalion of Berkeley County Militia, 1778-1780. He shows,
Ibid., 566, Charles Morrow, Captain of Berkeley Militia in 1780; which
would indicate that he did not rank above a captain in 1778.
John was later a member of Congress, and both were, with a party of
six, the only passengers aboard James Rumsey's steam boat which he demonstrated
on the Potomac at Shepherdstown, in 1787. Charles Morrow was the
pilot of the boat on that occasion, and General Horatio Gates among the
excited spectators. Ella M. Turner, James Rumsey, Pioneer in Steam Navigation,
Scottdale, Pa. (1930), 18-21; M.P. Andrews, Virginia, the OldDominion,
New York (1937), 373-374.
[17] 19 Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Harrison was born in 1741, in (then) Augusta,
(now) Rockingham County, Virginia. There were several of the same name,
Benjamin being a common one in the wholeHarrison family connection. This
one was the son of Captain Daniel and first cousin to Thomas, founder of
Harrisonburg, near which he spent his entire life. The family homestead
stands yet at Dayton, Virginia. He was a captain in General Andrew Lewis's
heroic army at the battle of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of the Kanawha,
in 1774. As colonel of the Rockingham militia, he turned out for Mclntosh's
campaign and passed that terrible winter at Fort Laurens, when men boiled
old steer hides, left to dry by the Indians, to make broth, and nearly died
from cold and hunger.
During the invasion of Virginia by Cornwallis, in 1781, Colonel Harrison
commanded his regiment under General Anthony Wayne. For many years
after the war he commanded the militia of his country and was a member
of the Virginia Legislature, favored the adoption of the Federal Constitution,
and was a leading citizen. Colonel Harrison was one of those on Mclntosh's
list of witnesses in his favor for the proposed court of inquiry. He died in
1819. Kellogg, Frontier Advance, 330; J. H. Harrison, Settlers by the Long
Gray Trail, Dayton, Va. (1935). 295-297 (Transcribed from the Draper
MSS 8ZZ68) Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
[18] [18]
[19] (Ref#39.3) pages 347-348 of Butterfield’s book.
[20] !LDS AF, March, 1994 AFN: P3BW-V5 !Ben Franklin on Fido
8/15/94 !DAR app. Natl. #137409 of Mary G. Pearce: "
[21] 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.
[22] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pg.250-251
[23] Fort Burd (Brownsville) was used as a depot of supplies for some years during the Revolutionary war, and was guarded, while so used, by detachments of militia detailed for the purpose.
[24] History of Fayette County, Edited by Franklin Ellis Vol. 1 L. H. Everts & Co. 1882.
[25]
[26] ht Courtesy of the Ohio Historical Society
http://www.blogof1812.com/2012/10/tarhe-to-return-meigs.html tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams
http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/aa/azmisc02.php#prez
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/adams_j.htm
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/declaration/bio1.htm
[27] Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett Page 452.23
[28] Conrad and Caty; Gary Goodlove, 2003
[29] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Goodlove&GSiman=1&GRid=91358579&
[30] Conrad and Caty by Gary Goodlove
[31] Underwater Universe, H2, 6/1/2009.
[32] http://www.mobile96.com/cw1/Vicksburg/TFA/24Iowa-1.html
[33] http://www.mobile96.com/cw1/Vicksburg/TFA/24Iowa-1.html
[34] Martinsburg changed hands than 50 times during the war leaving this once thriving community a wasteland, unable to feed its inhabitants, much less export anything. (Road Trip to History, RuRal, 9/2008.)
[35] Annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodove
[36] http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1864/december/martinsburg-virginia.htm
[37] Linda Pedersen Papers
[38] http://www.familytreecircles.com/my-mckinnon-genealogy-48398.html
[39] http://newsburglar.com/2008/10/22/the-assassination-of-carter-h-harrison-mayor-of-chicago-1893/
[40] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harrisonrep/harrbios/carterharr3IL.htm
[41] http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8704
[42] http://mms.newberry.org/html/harrison.html
[43]This Day in Jewish History
[44] This Day in Jewish History
[45] [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,.
[46] [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,.
[47] [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,.
[48] [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,.
[49] This Day in Jewish History.
[50] This Day in Jewish History
[51] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1764.
[52] This Day in Jewish History, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
[53] This Day in Jewish History.
[54] http://www.theussenterprise.com/battles.html
[55] Terezinska Pametni Kniha, Zidovske Obeti Nacistickych Deportaci Z Cech A Moravy 1941-1945 Dil Druhy
Terezinska Pametni Kniha, Zidovske Obeti Nacistickych Deportaci Z Cech A Moravy 1941-1945 Dil Druhy
[57] http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=41708
[58] LBJ Presidential Library, Austin TX February 12, 2012
[59] LBJ Presidential Library, Austin TX February 12, 2012
[60] http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-national-security-state-and-the-assassination-of-jfk/22071
[61] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[62] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 499.
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