Morning
Morning

Author: Walter D. Wetherell

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2002-01-22

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0375421378

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When Alec Brown, a middle-aged biographer, takes as his subject broadcasting pioneer Alec McGowan, host of television’s very first wake-up show, “Morning,” the project is marked by a sinister obsession. For intertwined with McGowan’s life and the birth of the box is Brown's own family history. His estranged father, Chet Standish, was not only McGowan's best friend and "Morning" cohost, he was also the man who shot and killed McGowan on the air. Now dying of cancer, Standish is being released from prison into his son's care. W. D. Wetherell weaves together the story of McGowan's rise to television notoriety–back when the medium, and indeed the nation, seemed ripe with promise–and Brown's tenuous steps to better understand the love triangle that drove his father to violence. Morning is at once a riveting glimpse of an era gone by, a moving portrait of a family in turmoil, and a penetrating reflection on the rise of mass media. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Brownell Genealogy
Brownell Genealogy

Author: J. Archer Brownell

Publisher: Fall River, N.S. : J. A. Brownell

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13:

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Thomas Brownell was born at Rawmarsh, England on June 5, 1608. He married Anna Bourne at St. Benet's Church, Paul's Wharf, London on March 20, 1637. They emigrated to the New England colonies in 1638.

Journey's End
Journey's End

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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John Jacob Ryan, son of Daniel Ryan and Marguerite Barclay, was born circa 1770 in Pensacola, Florida. He married Mary Anne Hargrave, daughter of Benjamin Hargrave and Rebecca Gualtney, in 1793. They had eleven children. He died in 1846. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Dictionary of French Family Names in North America
Dictionary of French Family Names in North America

Author: Marc Picard

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13: 1527559289

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This dictionary contains data not only on the origins of French surnames in Québec and Acadia, a great many of which eventually spread to many parts of North America, but also on those which arrived in the United States directly from various French-speaking European and Caribbean countries. In addition to providing the etymology of the original surnames, it also lists the multifarious variants that have developed over the last four centuries. A unique feature of this work in comparison to other onomastics dictionaries is the inclusion of genealogical information on most of the Francophone migrants to this continent, something which has been rendered possible not only by the excellent record-keeping in French Canada since the very beginnings of the colony, but also through the explosion of such data on the internet in the last couple of decades. In sum, this dictionary serves the dual purpose of providing information on the meanings of French family names on the North American continent, as well as on the migrants who brought them there.