DOCSLIB.ORG

Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800--1860

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800--1860 W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 2000 The honorable fraternity of moving merchants: Yankee peddlers in the Old South, 1800--1860 Joseph T. Rainer College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Rainer, Joseph T., "The honorable fraternity of moving merchants: Yankee peddlers in the Old South, 1800--1860" (2000). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539623976. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-pxmj-w810 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Photographs included in the original manuscript have been reproduced xerographically in this copy. Higher quality 6” x 9" black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations appearing in this copy for an additional charge. Contact UMI directly to order. Bell & Howell Information and Learning 300 North Zeeb Road. Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 USA 800-521-0600 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with with permission permission of the of copyright the copyright owner. owner.Further reproductionFurther reproduction prohibited without prohibited permission. without permission. THE HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF MOVING MERCHANTS YANKEE PEDDLERS IN THE OLD SOUTH, 1800-1860 A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of the American Studies Program The College of William and Mary In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Joseph T. Rainer 2000 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. UMI Number: 9982018 Copyright 2000 by Rainer, Joseph Thomas All rights reserved. UMI UMI Microform9982018 Copyright 2000 by Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17. United States Code. Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. APPROVAL SHEET This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy r Joseploseph T. Rainer Approved, April 2000 Frednk Susan V. Donaldson obert A. Gross Carol Sheriff ^ o u L K e i'J David Jaffa City University of New York Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. With love and affection I dedicate my dissertation to my parents, Angela Hunt Rainer and William Charles Rainer, MD. iii Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v LIST OF FIGURES vi ABSTRACT vii INTRODUCTION 2 CHAPTER 1 “SOME OF THEM APPEARED TO BE GETTING RICH”: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF YANKEE PEDDLERS 17 CHAPTER 2 A BUSINESS HISTORY OF THE YANKEE PEDDLING SYSTEM S7 CHAPTER 3 THE FACE-TO- FACE ECONOMY OF THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH: TRADE AND CONVIVIALITY BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK SOUTHERNERS 182 CHAPTER 4 A LOSS OF MASTERY: NORTHERN INCURSIONS INTO THE SOUTHERN HOUSEHOLD 244 CONCLUSION 325 BIBLIOGRAPHY 330 IV Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to express his thankfulness to Professor Fredrika J. Teute for her patient direction and thoughtful criticism of this project. The writer is also indebted to Professors Susan V. Donaldson, Robert A. Gross, Carol Sheriff, and David Jaffee for their careful reading and critique of the manuscript. Any faults in the text are the responsibility of the author, who declares that, for now, he likes “a speckled Ax best.” Several organizations provided assistance for the completion of this project: a dissertation fellowship and various research fellowships and assistantships from the College of William and Mary; a Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society; a Betty S. Christian Fellowship in Business and Economic History from the Virginia Historical Society; and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship from the Center for the Study of New England History, Massachusetts Historical Society. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. Peddler Licensing In Virginia, 1799-1850 4 2. Ages o f Peddlers in Georgia and Virginia 83 3. Monthly Licensing Patterns in Virginia, 1799-1850 83 4. “Eastern Emigrants" 84 5. Arrivals and Departures from Clark & Haskell’s Tin Depot, 1820-1821 85 6. "Encounter between a Comcracker and an Eelskin” 86 7. “A Bill o f Fall Goods” 158 8. A “list of some articles” sold by George W. Bartholomew 159 9. Trunk Peddler, circa 1840-1860 160 10. Clock Peddler Wagon, circa 1815-1835 161 11. Peddler Licensing in Virginia, 1799-1850 162 12. Map of Virginia Regions 163 13. License Totals by Region 164 14. Concentrations of Peddler Licensing, 1799-1850 164 15. Frequency of a Locality Issuing 5 or More Licenses in a Year, 1799-1850 165 16. Frequency of a Locality Reporting No Licenses in a Year, 1799-1850 165 17. Regional Population per Peddler 165 IS. Peddler Concentrations in Median Counties 165 19. Peddler Concentrations in Counties with a High Number of Licenses 166 20. Stores in 1840 by Region 166 21. Stores in 1840 by County 166 22. Total Population and Percent Growth in Virginia, 1800-1850 167 23. Slave Population and Percentage of Total Population, 1800-1850 167 24. Map of the Most Heavily Peddled Regions of Virginia 168 25. Clock and Dry Goods Peddler Licensing by Region. 1830-1850 169 26. Peddling Territories of the Woodruffs and Wamers 170 27. Peddler Licensing In Winchester, Virginia 171 28. Territory of the Winchester Tinware Depot. 1820-1823 172 29. Territory of Clark & Haskell's Baltimore Tinware Shop. 1820-1821 173 30. Tinware purchased by Chatfield Alcott from B. B. Tisdale 174 31. Articles Removed by William Judd from a Shipment of Tinware 175 32. Territory of the Wilcoxes’ Petersburg Tinware Shop, 1818-1823 176 33. Tin Peddler Licensing in Virginia. 1813-1850 177 34. Latham & Robinson, Clock Peddlers, 1830-1831 178 35. Orville Rice & Company, Clock Peddlers, 1833-1835 179 36. Gunn, Mattoon, Gilbert & Company, Clock Peddlers, 1836-1841 180 37. Clock note, from the Cocke Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society 181 38. "Buying a Horse” 324 vi Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ABSTRACT Yankee peddlers were ubiquitous in the countryside and in the imagination of the Old South. Social and economic forces pushed young men off the farms of rural New England and pulled them into an expanding, national market. The shortage of land for a burgeoning population spurred the exodus from the countryside, while the lure of profits from a vocation with low entry costs attracted many young men who preferred seeking the main chance in the commercial marketplace to a state of protracted dependency as a farm hand, a factory operative, or an outwork producer. Hired by firms to peddle clocks, tinware, and other “notions,” their experiences in the marketplace transmogrified these deracinated New England farm boys into sharp, itinerant traders. In the course of this transformation, these migrant workers from New England were indelibly marked by the culture in which they were raised, even as they moved away from familiar values to embrace an emerging market creed. The thousands o f young men from New England who peddled in the South between 1800 and 1860 provided rural southern households direct access to consumer goods. They joined native southern petty merchandisers - hucksters, cake bakers, watermen and groggery keepers - in an interracial, face-to-face economy whose actions threatened the fixed ranks and organic hierarchy of slave society. The Yankee peddler gradually became a more threatening figure to southern planters. Antebellum southern sensibilities towards northern society and market institutions evolved from Southerners’ real and fictionalized encounters
Load more

Recommended publications
  • What Are You Going to Do About It? Ethics and Corruption Issues in The
    What Are You Going to Do About It? Ethics and Corruption Issues in the New York State Constitution By Bennett Liebman Government Lawyer in Residence “What Are You Going to Do About It?” Ethics and Corruption Issues in the New York State Constitution By Bennett Liebman Government Lawyer in Residence Government Law Center Albany Law School Edited by Andrew Ayers and Michele Monforte April 2017 Cover image: “The Prevailing Candidate, or the Election carried by Bribery and the Devil,” attributed to William Hogarth, circa 1722. It depicts a candidate for office (with a devil hovering above him) slipping a purse into a voter’s pocket, while the voter’s wife, standing in the doorway, listens to a clergyman who assures her that bribery is no sin. Two boys point to the transaction, condemning it. Image courtesy of the N.Y. Public Library. Explanation of the image is drawn from the Yale Library; see http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.asp?imageId= lwlpr22449. CONTENTS I. Introduction ....................................................................... 3 II. Ethics Provisions in the State Constitution ........ 5 A. Extant Ethics Provisions in the Constitution .............. 5 B. Banking and Ethics ....................................................... 6 C. The Canal System and Ethics ..................................... 11 D. Bribery and Ethics....................................................... 15 E. Free Passes, Rebates, and Ethics ............................... 23 III. Restrictions on the Authority of the State Legislature
    [Show full text]
  • Hair Vigor, Apolis
    to follow the course of Peru and the South our representative was both greatly sur- WASHINGTON. IIOTEL AREIVALS. DAILY American Bepublics. If Cubans desire to prised and astonished; surprised over the SECOND EUROPE. EXPRESS - be annexed to the United States, the action so soon taken, and astonished over Saturday j- OT. EDITION. o'clock !.. by American ( Jovernmer.t is willing to pur- the contents of the following letter, writ- A SUIT FOR LIBEL. i.VLT IIOl sK. Extent of the the liertlraai island from Spain for a sum of on of commercial Corner Main and k irst streets. tire. chase the ten a broken half sheet 2. money hereafter to be agreed upon. note: JO Poarce.NO L S Morris, Tenu 3 Pauls, October w A , O'CLOCKP. decision the Spanish Govern- conversa- j ,y,lllo,,1,ie,' da W I' iVcker, Ahi 3J. It is estimated that the loss by the fi: Whatever "'Assure Mr. Fisk that in the Ohio River Interests Attended to. J;rud,welU ment ma- - arrive at, if it persists in prose- J h vl Kantoiowick, Ark among the shipping at Lordeaux wi.t tion with the Sun reporter, yesterday, l'orohs, N W Clark. Scotland jolii to THE LOUISVILLE EXPRESS. cuting the war it must be done on humane what he says my imputing be- Mrs A D .N.aeUie, do II W Ferguson, do r.vaiivuie. r2.ich millions of francs. regarding A ne A w, do troupe of principle?, for humanity demands it." littling or derogatory respect- ka, F II Hozer, Ke The artistes now performing at October 2.
    [Show full text]
  • Good Evening Yankees. This Is Your Japanese Sister and the Voice of Truth That Reaches out to You from the Peacefulness of J
    Military Terms, Abbreviations, Acronyms 1 Thorns of a Rose 1, 2, 4 Did You Know: Stories from Air America 2, 3 Meet the Military: Auschwitz Volunteer 2 The Ride of Your Life (part 2) 3 code for “Lima Sites” which WWII Recruitment Poster 3 were covert sites of the Laotian Civil War in which the US military This Day in Military History 4 conducted clandestine operations abbreviation used for the Rescue Combat Air Patrol, a fight- er force used to protect personnel On the evening of February 18, 1945, empty shelves as public clamors for more sailors and marines of Joint Expedi- on the ground and to conduct air merchandise; workers claim nightclub tionary Force (Task Force 51) are search and rescue operations curfew limits amusement spending. Does tuned in to the only radio program that sound like a people who want war? abbreviation for a series of that they are able to pick up easily so Who are supporting you as you carry on far out at sea. The music is American Soviet anti-aircraft guns used by your sacrificial attempts to carry on this and the most popular of that era. As useless war? Think it over Yankee broth- over 50 countries worldwide Connee Boswell finishes the last strains of “I Can’t Give You Anything ers - they do not want war and they are doing their best to let you know that they : This month’s terms came But Love,” another familiar voice are not behind you in this war. This is from the “Did You Know” article.
    [Show full text]
  • Better Than White Trash": Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Otterbein University Otterbein University Digital Commons @ Otterbein Sociology Faculty Scholarship Sociology 2012 "Better Than White Trash": Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas Miranda Cady Hallett Otterbein University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/socio_fac Part of the Anthropology Commons, and the Sociology Commons Repository Citation Hallett, Miranda Cady, ""Better Than White Trash": Work Ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in Rural Arkansas" (2012). Sociology Faculty Scholarship. 2. https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/socio_fac/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology at Digital Commons @ Otterbein. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Otterbein. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Original Article “Better than White trash”: Work ethic, Latinidad and Whiteness in rural Arkansas Miranda Cady Hallett Otterbein University, OH Abstract Diverse sites in the US South are being transformed by “new Latino immigration.” Rather than being a homogeneous process, experiences of migrant settlement are shaped by the racialized social worlds of particular historical social communities – and may in turn transform local racial formations (Winders, 2005). In one small town in rural Arkansas, Latina and Latino migrants perform boundary work (Lamont, 2000; Hartigan, 2010), constructing their identities as “good” workers and neighbors. Although migrants assert belonging and dignity by framing themselves as “better than White trash,” nonetheless this belonging is predicated on the reproduction of racial and class hierarchy as well as conformity to the structural demands of neoliberal capitalism.
    [Show full text]
  • VMI Men Who Wore Yankee Blue, 1861-1865 by Edward A
    VMI Men Who Wore Yankee Blue, 1861-1865 by Edward A. Miller, ]r. '50A The contributions of Virginia Military Institute alumni in Confed­ dent. His class standing after a year-and-a-half at the Institute was erate service during the Civil War are well known. Over 92 percent a respectable eighteenth of twenty-five. Sharp, however, resigned of the almost two thousand who wore the cadet uniform also wore from the corps in June 1841, but the Institute's records do not Confederate gray. What is not commonly remembered is that show the reason. He married in early November 1842, and he and thirteen alumni served in the Union army and navy-and two his wife, Sarah Elizabeth (Rebeck), left Jonesville for Missouri in others, loyal to the Union, died in Confederate hands. Why these the following year. They settled at Danville, Montgomery County, men did not follow the overwhelming majority of their cadet where Sharp read for the law and set up his practice. He was comrades and classmates who chose to support the Common­ possibly postmaster in Danville, where he was considered an wealth and the South is not difficult to explain. Several of them important citizen. An active mason, he was the Danville delegate lived in the remote counties west of the Alleghenies where to the grand lodge in St. Louis. In 1859-1860 he represented his citizens had long felt estranged from the rest of the state. Citizens area of the state in the Missouri Senate. Sharp's political, frater­ of the west sought to dismember Virginia and establish their own nal, and professional prominence as well as his VMI military mountain state.
    [Show full text]
  • Exposing Minstrelsy and Racial Representation Within American Tap Dance Performances of The
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Masks in Disguise: Exposing Minstrelsy and Racial Representation within American Tap Dance Performances of the Stage, Screen, and Sound Cartoon, 1900-1950 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Culture and Performance by Brynn Wein Shiovitz 2016 © Copyright by Brynn Wein Shiovitz 2016 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Masks in Disguise: Exposing Minstrelsy and Racial Representation within American Tap Dance Performances of the Stage, Screen, and Sound Cartoon, 1900-1950 by Brynn Wein Shiovitz Doctor of Philosophy in Culture and Performance University of California, Los Angeles, 2016 Professor Susan Leigh Foster, Chair Masks in Disguise: Exposing Minstrelsy and Racial Representation within American Tap Dance Performances of the Stage, Screen, and Sound Cartoon, 1900-1950, looks at the many forms of masking at play in three pivotal, yet untheorized, tap dance performances of the twentieth century in order to expose how minstrelsy operates through various forms of masking. The three performances that I examine are: George M. Cohan’s production of Little Johnny ii Jones (1904), Eleanor Powell’s “Tribute to Bill Robinson” in Honolulu (1939), and Terry- Toons’ cartoon, “The Dancing Shoes” (1949). These performances share an obvious move away from the use of blackface makeup within a minstrel context, and a move towards the masked enjoyment in “black culture” as it contributes to the development of a uniquely American form of entertainment. In bringing these three disparate performances into dialogue I illuminate the many ways in which American entertainment has been built upon an Africanist aesthetic at the same time it has generally disparaged the black body.
    [Show full text]
  • GTA STRINGS TOP40, POP ROCK, JAZZ , 50S-90S, MOVIES, GAME
    GTA STRINGS [email protected] www.gtastrings.ca 647-707-0348 TOP40, POP ROCK, JAZZ , 50s-90s, MOVIES, GAME & ANIME THEMES *new(2015-2019) A ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Mama Mia, Sos, Money money,Take a Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind, No One chance on me, The winner takes it all AC/DC – Thunderstruck, Back in Black Adele - *Hello (video), Rolling In The Deep, Bond Skyfall American Authors - *Best Day Of My Life(video) (video), Someone like you, *Make You Feel My Love (mp3) Andrea Bocelli - Con te partiro, Vivo per lei, Prayer *When we were Young, Set fire to the rain, Rumor Has It Arcade Fire - The Suburbs(video) Agustin Lara - Solamente una vez Aretha Franklin - I say a little prayer A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - *Say Something Ariana Grande - *Dangerous Women Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing, Dream On Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? Al Green - *Lets Stay Together Avicii - *Wake me up (video) , Hey Brother, Waiting for love B Barry White - Your my first Britney Spears - Toxic (video) Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) Bruno Mars - Just the way you are, *Talking to the Moon Bastille - Pompeii (video) Marry you (video),When I Was Your Man, *Uptown Funk, Bee Gees - How deep is your love Count on me, Grenade Ben E. King - *Stand By Me(video) Bryan Adams - Everything I Do(video), I'm Ready, Bette Midler - The Rose Heaven(video) Billie Joel - She's got a way Brian Crain – Butterfly Waltz Bill Withers - Lean On Me Bright Eyes - *First Day of My life Birdy - Wings Bruce Springstein - Secret Garden Beyonce – Love
    [Show full text]
  • AWARDS PLATINUM ALBUM March // 3/1/18 - 3/31/18
    RIAA GOLD & PLATINUM LOGIC // EVERYBODY AWARDS PLATINUM ALBUM March // 3/1/18 - 3/31/18 SZA // CTRL PLATINUM ALBUM In March, RIAA certified 199 Song Awards and 75 Album Awards. All RIAA Awards DEMI LOVATO // TELL ME YOU LOVE ME dating back to 1958, are available at GOLD ALBUM riaa.com/gold-platinum! Don’t miss the NEW riaa.com/goldandplatinum60 site celebrating 60 years of Gold & Platinum NF // PERCEPTION GOLD ALBUM Awards, and many #RIAATopCertified milestones for your favorite artists! JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE // MAN OF THE WOODS SONGS GOLD ALBUM www.riaa.com // // // GOLD & PLATINUM AWARDS MARCH // 3/1/18 - 3/31/18 MULTI PLATINUM SINGLE // 47 Cert Date// Title// Artist// Genre// Label// Plat Level// Rel. Date// R&B/ 3/15/2018 IT'S A VIBE 2 CHAINZ DEF JAM 3/14/2017 HIP HOP R&B/ 3/1/2018 CAROLINE AMINE REPUBLIC RECORDS 8/26/2016 HIP HOP SIDE TO SIDE 3/9/2018 ARIANA GRANDE POP REPUBLIC RECORDS 5/20/2016 (FEAT. NICKI MINAJ) 3/20/2018 HOW FAR I'LL GO AULI'I CRAVALHO SOUNDTRACK WALT DISNEY RECORDS 11/18/2016 MEANT TO BE (FEAT. 3/28/2018 BEBE REXHA POP WARNER BROS RECORDS 8/11/2017 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE) BRUNO MARS & 3/28/2018 FINESSE POP ATLANTIC RECORDS 11/18/2016 CARDI B HEY MAMA (FEAT. PARLOPHONE/ 3/19/2018 NICKI MINAJ, BEBE DAVID GUETTA POP 11/21/2014 ATLANTIC RECORDS REXHA, & AFROJACK) 3/1/2018 SORRY NOT SORRY DEMI LOVATO POP ISLAND RECORDS 7/11/2017 R&B/ YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/ 3/8/2018 FAKE LOVE DRAKE 10/24/2016 HIP HOP REPUBLIC RECORDS R&B/ YOUNG MONEY/CASH MONEY/ 3/8/2018 FAKE LOVE DRAKE 10/24/2016 HIP HOP REPUBLIC RECORDS R&B/ YOUNG MONEY/CASH
    [Show full text]
  • 1 a DIRTY YEAR Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York By
    A DIRTY YEAR Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York by Bill Greer EXTENDED ENDNOTES The endnotes in the published version of A Dirty Year are limited to quotations. For readers interested in detailed sourcing for facts, descriptions, and so forth, I have prepared this extended set of endnotes by chapter and page. These endnotes include the references for quotations found in the book, as well. For ease of reference, the Bibliography follows these endnotes. I have added a handful of entries. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE ENDNOTES CA—Commercial Advertiser NYEP—New York Evening Post NYH—New York Herald NYT—New York Times NYTrib—New York Tribune WCW—Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly NYS—New York Sun 1 Chapter 1 3 love triangle . Herald . Day’s Doings: NYT, Jan. 7, 1872; Aug. 31, 1872; July 3, 1872; July 12, 1872. 3 Fisk had spent: Fisk’s life is well chronicled in newspapers from 1867 to 1872 and in several contemporary books: R. W. McAlpine, The Life and Times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. (New York: New York Book Company, 1872); Willoughby Jones, The Life of James Fisk, Jr. (Philadelphia: Union, 1872); Marshall Stafford, The Life of James Fisk, Jr. (Philadelphia: National Publishing, 1874). A modern biography is W. A. Swanberg, Jim Fisk: The Career of an Improbable Rascal (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1959). 3 Josie Mansfield . brownstone: McAlpine, 502–505; Jones, 335–339. 3 Grand Opera House . staged theatricals: NYT, Nov. 3, 1870. 4 Fisk invited . worked on Mansfield: Jones, 342. McAlpine, 501–502. 4 “the grand entrée” and “the Woodhull and Claflin Wing”: NYT, Jan.
    [Show full text]
  • The Santa Clara, 2018-01-11
    Santa Clara University Scholar Commons The aS nta Clara SCU Publications 1-11-2018 The aS nta Clara, 2018-01-11 Santa Clara University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/tsc Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Business Commons, Education Commons, Engineering Commons, Law Commons, Life Sciences Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Santa Clara University, "The aS nta Clara, 2018-01-11" (2018). The Santa Clara. 57. https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/tsc/57 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the SCU Publications at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aS nta Clara by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Thursday, January 11, 2018 WHAT’S INSIDE 5 SCENE 6 OPINION 7 SPORTS Life lessons from Revealing book Q & A with Athena Nguyen infuriates Trump Herb Sendek Malley Center Gets Facelift A Sensitive “Star Wars” The latest installment in the legendary saga proves to be worth the hype Jane Mezzino associate reporter Another “Star Wars” that’s full of explosions, intergalactic flight and alien creatures. But in “The Last Jedi,” we also see the reality of war casualties, poignant revelations about how the past affects us and scenes that beg the question of the nature of good and evil. Drawing in over one billion dollars at the box office, Rian Johnson’s film raked in more than just the title of 2017’s highest grossing film.
    [Show full text]
  • History of Rocky Hill: 1650 - 2018 Robert Campbell Herron October 2017
    History of Rocky Hill: 1650 - 2018 Robert Campbell Herron October 2017 Bring Us Your History ........................................................................................................ 4 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................. 4 Origins: 250,000,000 BCE to 1730 CE .............................................................................. 4 Dinosaurs ........................................................................................................................ 4 Pre-European History...................................................................................................... 5 The Europeans Arrive ..................................................................................................... 5 The Settlement of the Town ............................................................................................ 6 Maritime Rocky Hill ........................................................................................................... 6 The Ferry ......................................................................................................................... 7 The River and Seafaring ................................................................................................. 7 Rocky Hill and Slavery ..................................................................................................... 10 Slaves in Rocky Hill ....................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Transatlantica, 1 | 2013 Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs and Local Notables: the Case of the California “Big
    Transatlantica Revue d’études américaines. American Studies Journal 1 | 2013 Revisiting the Gilded Age / Littérature et philosophie Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs and Local Notables: The Case of the California “Big Four,” 1861-1877 Evelyne Payen-Variéras Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6507 DOI: 10.4000/transatlantica.6507 ISSN: 1765-2766 Publisher AFEA Electronic reference Evelyne Payen-Variéras, “Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs and Local Notables: The Case of the California “Big Four,” 1861-1877”, Transatlantica [Online], 1 | 2013, Online since 16 February 2014, connection on 29 April 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/6507 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ transatlantica.6507 This text was automatically generated on 29 April 2021. Transatlantica – Revue d'études américaines est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification 4.0 International. Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs and Local Notables: The Case of the California “Big ... 1 Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs and Local Notables: The Case of the California “Big Four,” 1861-1877 Evelyne Payen-Variéras 1 In the 1871 novel that gave its name to the Gilded Age, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner ridiculed the small-town dreamers and speculators who lured Eastern politicians and patricians into supporting risky and self-serving promotional schemes. In historical reality, however, some Western « boosters» made it into the ranks of the national business elite. Thus the promoters of the Central Pacific Railroad, first a small, Sacramento-based railroad company, built the western branch of the first transcontinental railroad and became known as the California “Big Four”.
    [Show full text]