Louisa County

Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father Alphonso Taft was Republican, who also served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. His mother was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Louisa Torrey. He was brought up in the Unitarian church, and would remain a faithful Unitarian his entire life. When Taft was 18 he met his future wife Helen Herron at a sledding party in Cincinnati; she and Taft courted while he was away at college.…

A few of them were broken and the top halves were propped up against the foundation of the stones. As we wander through, we were able to find 62 various surnames ranging from Barnhill to Wright. The oldest grave I was able to find belong to Nancy Louisa Spivey Harrelson. She was born in July 1859 and died in 1879. She was married to my first cousin four times removed. Which means that my fourth great grandfather was his grandfather. The most recent grave belonged to Cleta Alma Duncan Worley.…

born on September 12, 1864 in the historical province of Blekinge, Sweden, immigrated to America in May, 1885.1 He met his future wife, Mathilda Christina Johnson, a co-worker, while employed at James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm in northern Ramsey County, Minnesota. Details regarding the nature of Anton’s duties on the farm remain unknown. However, his later reputation as a skilled hand with horses suggests a possible scenario that he honed these skills at North Oaks Farm handling and tending…

the Central District of California. Victoria graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and Business Law in 2006. She is a member of the Mexican American Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where she serves as on the executive committee for the Barristers…

Although the masters would not admit their paternity, the fair skinned children were and obvious clue for the inquiring public. Sometimes paternal manumission � where a master frees his children out of fatherly affections � would occur. "Louisa Picquet had even less choice. Interviewed after she was set free, she recalled: Mr. Williams told me what he bought me for soon as we started for New Orleans. He said if I behave myself he'd treat me well; but, if not, he'd whip me almost to death…

ethical living. His famous works include, Nature, Representative Men, The Conduct Of Life, and Society And Solitude. Bennett, Hugh Hammond - (1881-1960) Known as the “Father of Soil Conservation” Bennett studied soil samples throughout Louisa County, Virginia. The county had told him to investigate the reputation of declining crop yields. He became convinced that soil erosion was a problem not just for the individual farmer but also for rural economies. In the early 1920’s, Bennett wrote many…

his home country of Egypt and his values and beliefs that shape his life. Before conducting this interview, I did not really think about where the people who live and work around me were from. Ash and his family own three convenience stores in the county, as well as a restaurant. By talking with him and asking him several questions, I was able to learn about his life, his beliefs, and similarities and differences between America and Egypt. I was also able to connect some of his beliefs and…

depression reversed many of the gains. In 1881, the fledgling city stood at the threshold of a surge in population, industry, and wealth.14 The family’s oral history speculates that Charley followed the St. Croix River south from Duluth to Chisago County.15 This is highly unlikely, since it required an approximately forty mile detour into Wisconsin to reach the source of the river. Charley likely used the railroad, either as a passenger or as a physical guide to direct him to his…

Introduction Set in the English countryside in a county roughly thirty miles from London, the novel opens with the Bennet family in Longbourn and their five unmarried daughters, but the Novel centres on Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter of the five daughters of Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet is desperate to see them married as she was their mother. The family itself is not as rich as those they interact with because they have no son, five daughters. Mrs. Bennet, she is concerned with finding…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…