Quincy, Illinois
Quincy, Illinois

Author: Carl Landrum

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780738507835

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When John Wood built his first log cabin in 1822 at what is now Front and Delaware Streets, he began a settlement that would become Quincy, Illinois. To the east was a high bluff, and to the west, the Mississippi River. As the town grew, it moved eastward onto the bluff. In Qunicy's early days, the settlers depended on the Mississippi River for their livelihood. Today's residents still depend upon the Mississippi, but now more for transportation and for pleasure. It is difficult today to imagine what the area looked like in those early years. As with many American towns, Quincy has experienced change through the years, dramatic and subtle, both captured here in the unforgettable images of Then & Now: Quincy, Illinois.

History of Early, Small and Other U.S. Soybean Crushers
History of Early, Small and Other U.S. Soybean Crushers

Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

Publisher: Soyinfo Center

Published: 2020-09-27

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 1948436272

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 115 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Illinois (1851-1954)
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Illinois (1851-1954)

Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

Publisher: Soyinfo Center

Published: 2022-02-23

Total Pages: 1566

ISBN-13: 1948436728

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 368 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016):
History of Soybean Crushing: Soy Oil and Soybean Meal (980-2016):

Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

Publisher: Soyinfo Center

Published: 2016-10-30

Total Pages: 3666

ISBN-13: 1928914896

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 378 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

Women, Family, and Utopia
Women, Family, and Utopia

Author: Lawrence Foster

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780815625353

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An examination of women's roles, family relationships, and sexuality in three unorthodox 19th-century communal experiments, with analysis of the implications such systems may have for present-day Americans concerned with the sense of crisis in family life and sex roles.

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women

Author: Lyndee Henderson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006-11-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1461748402

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More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers. Unwittingly, these women forged a legacy that expanded well beyond Illinois' borders. From First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln's devotion to country to ballroom dancer Irene Castle's fight for animal rights, the women of Illinois acted with progressive vision. Meet the wife of the Mormon Prophet, Emma Hale Smith, who challenged ideology; Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, the model of usefulness;Myra Bradwell, considered America's first woman lawyer; and African American entrepreneur Annie Minerva Malone, who built a beauty empire. Born before the dawn of the twentieth century, the women herein paved the way for future generations. Author Lyndee Jobe Henderson presents absorbing biographies filled with rarely published details.

The Jewish Confederates
The Jewish Confederates

Author: Robert N. Rosen

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781570033636

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Reveals the breadth of Jewish participation in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. Rosen describes the Jewish communities in the South and explains their reasons for supporting the South. He relates the experiences of officers, enlisted men, politicians, rabbis and doctors.

James F. Jaquess
James F. Jaquess

Author: Patricia B. Burnette

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-04-08

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0786473584

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Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked to Jefferson Davis about terms of peace. Lincoln recognized his many abilities and invited Jaquess to serve as one of his personal agents. But after the Civil War ended, this biography reveals, Jaquess' life changed for the worse. He was tried in Kentucky for the death of a woman and failed as a carpetbagger in Arkansas and Mississippi. Then he convinced his family and friends in Indiana and numerous residents of New York to invest in Lawrence-Townley bonds and share in a fortune waiting in England. This venture ended in poverty for him and a sentence in a British prison. When he returned to America for his final years, Jaquess still held the respect of the men of the 73rd Infantry and the affection of the women who knew him as president of their college in Jacksonville. His misadventures having turned his black hair to white, he still possessed the charisma that had led to his national fame.