The Journal of Ann McMath

The Journal of Ann McMath

Author: Ann McMath

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1438435363

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In 1851, fourteen-year-old orphan Ann McMath was sent to live with her uncle and his family in their parsonage in Horseheads, New York. Lonely and full of self doubt, anxious to establish female friendships in a new place, and questing for intellectual and moral perfection, she began keeping journal when she was seventeen and wrote in it regularly for the next five years, until she was married. A fascinating example of "biography from below," McMath's journal offers a rare glimpse of of life in the 1850s as it was lived by ordinary women, told in the authentic voice of a young woman coming of age in the Burned-Over District of Western New York. In addition to the journal itself, the book includes an introduction by editor C. Stewart Doty, as well as a geneaology, notes on the text, and a section entitled "People in the Life of Ann McMath," which gives brief biographies of everyone mentioned in the journal.


Nexus

Nexus

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

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The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.


De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men

De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men

Author: Craig Hanyan

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780773514348

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In 1824 the People's party, the first popular reform movement in the American republic, elected most of its candidates for the Senate and Assembly of New York, the new nation's most populous state. Craig Hanyan and Mary Hanyan examine the development of this influential movement and the role of De Witt Clinton, its chief beneficiary.