Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986
Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986

Author: Library of Congress

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 1368

ISBN-13:

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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.

Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs

Author: Mark Scroggins

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0786487119

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Robert Toombs of Georgia stands as one of the most fiery and influential politicians of the nineteenth century. Sarcastic, charming, egotistical, and gracious, he rose quickly from state office to congressman to senator in the decades before the Civil War. Though he sought sectional reconciliation throughout the 1840s and 1850s, he eventually became one of the South's most ardent secessionists. This thorough biography chronicles his days as a student and young lawyer in Georgia, his boisterous political career, his appointment as the Confederacy's first Secretary of State, his unsuccessful stint as a Confederate general, and his role as a proud, unreconstructed rebel after the war. An exploration of Toombs' career reveals the political forces and missteps that drove him--and people like him--to want to secede from the United States.

Joseph Henry Lumpkin
Joseph Henry Lumpkin

Author: Paul DeForest Hicks

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0820340995

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This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice. Paul Hicks portrays Lumpkin as both a civic-minded professional and an evangelical Presbyterian reformer. Exploring Lumpkin's important contributions to the institutional development of the Georgia Supreme Court, Hicks discusses Lumpkin's opinions in cases ranging in concern from family conflicts to slavery. He also shows how Lumpkin cleared a way through the thicket of antiquated laws that threatened to strangle the growth of corporate banking and business in Georgia. Treated in depth as well are the evolution of his views on slavery and secession and his involvement in social and economic reform, including temperance, education, African American colonization, and industrialization. Hicks also covers Lumpkin's undergraduate days at the University of Georgia and Princeton, his experiences as a state legislator and successful lawyer, and his family life. Among the family members portrayed are Lumpkin's older brother, Wilson, a two-term governor of Georgia; and Lumpkin's son-in-law, Thomas R. R. Cobb, cofounder with Lumpkin of the University of Georgia Law School. Joseph Henry Lumpkin played an important role in the public life of Georgia during the formative era of American law and the age of sectionalism. Here is a full and compelling portrait of Lumpkin as an individual of both intellect and passion, on and off the bench.

Our Wilkinson and Related Families
Our Wilkinson and Related Families

Author: Clarine Smith Tucker

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Descendants of John Wilkinson (ca. 1730-1806), a planter, who died in Wilkes Co., Georgia. He was probably born in Virginia. The earliest known records of him were deed records of Lunenburg (later Mecklenburg) County, Virginia in the late 1750s. He may have been a son of Francis and Mary Wilkinson born in Kent Co., Va. He had at least thirteen children. Includes the descendants of David Wilkerson/Wilkinson (b. bef. 1740, d. 1819), possibly a brother or at least a relative of John Wilkinson. He died in Granville Co., N.C. Family members and descendants live in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas and elsewhere.