The Comstocks of Cornell

The Comstocks of Cornell

Author: Anna Botsford Comstock

Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1501740547

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The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and her husband's, entomologist John Henry Comstock—both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. Karen Penders St. Clair's twenty-first century edition returns Mrs. Comstock's voice to her book by rekeying her entire manuscript as she wrote it, and preserving the memories of the personal and professional lives of the Comstocks that she had originally intended to share. The book includes a complete epilogue of the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, the book is an essential part of Cornell University history and an important piece of Cornell University Press history.


A Comstock Genealogy

A Comstock Genealogy

Author: Cyrus Ballou Comstock

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015532847

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


America's Victory

America's Victory

Author: David W. Shaw

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781574091878

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David W. Shaw is the author of The Sea Shall Embrace Them, Inland Passage, and Daring the Sea.


Mutiny on the Globe

Mutiny on the Globe

Author: Thomas Farel Heffernan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780393041637

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Later - too late - his brother William remembered that Samuel used to talk about establishlng his own island kingdom in the South Seas. Of course no one had taken him seriously."--BOOK JACKET.


American Mosaic

American Mosaic

Author: Richard Endress

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1039149073

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This book covers the history of multiple families whose only overarching connection is that they were all the ancestors of Robert Hilton Squires II, my brother-in-law. But these various genealogical strands intersected with many pivotal eras in English colonial and later American history. Thus in some strange way the history of this one contemporary person is a microcosm of the story of America.


The Dockstader Family: Generations one through six

The Dockstader Family: Generations one through six

Author: Doris Dockstader Rooney

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 876

ISBN-13:

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Georg Dachstätter (b.ca.1679) and his family immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany (via England) to Manor Livingston along the Hudson River in New York in 1709/1710, and moved to Stone Arabia, New York about 1737. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Dockstader) lived in New York, Illinois and elsewhere.


Peter Strickland

Peter Strickland

Author: Stephen H. Grant

Publisher: New Acdemia+ORM

Published: 2006-12-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1955835152

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The first biography of this nineteenth-century sea captain, adventurer, and State Department official: “A vivid picture of [a] unique career.” —The Day (New London, CT) This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who crossed the Atlantic one hundred times in command of a sailing vessel, traded with French and Portuguese colonies during the period 1864-1905, and served as the first American consul to French West Africa for over twenty years. We know about Peter Strickland’s long life because he wrote a daily journal from the age of nineteen until the year he died. He broke away from a long line of farmers to adopt a seafaring life at age fifteen, and his merchant marine career led him from the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa. He introduced American tobacco and wood products into French and Portuguese colonies, and on the return trips carried animal hides and peanuts in his 100-ton schooners. Eventually, the U.S. State Department asked him to become the first consul in French West Africa, with residence in Senegal. The captain accepted the terms: He would receive no salary, but he could keep the port fees he collected and continue to practice his import-export business. This book tells his life story, from his accomplishments and adventures to coping with the epidemics of the day and a tragic personal loss—in the process capturing a unique era in American diplomatic history. “Grant’s careful blending of historical hindsight with Strickland’s own words brings enormous value to our understanding of U.S. diplomacy.” —Foreign Service Journal