Strasser-Moxley
Strasser-Moxley

Author: William Carl Strasser

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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William Frederick Strasser (1875-1953) was born in Wiesenbach, Germany, son of Johann Leonhard Strasser and Maria Barbara Reinhard. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1891 and settled in Washington D.C. He married Imogene Moxley (1872-1953) in Alexandria, Virginia in 1896. Moxley ancestry is traced to William Moxley (ca. 1610-ca. 1668), born in England. He married Ann Bush in England ca. 1635. He probably died in Westmorland County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Washington D. C., Maryland and elsewhere.

The Potato
The Potato

Author: Larry Zuckerman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1999-10-25

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1466812435

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The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating.