1890

Patricia Jordan, long-time Buck Hiller, passed away on October 10th. Born in Brooklyn to the late Estelle (Sanders) and I. Jerome Riker, and the sister of the late Stanley Riker, Pat was educated at the Berkeley Institute, The Packer Collegiate Institute, and Columbia University. A writer and the author of a humorous book “Under the Dryer,” she married the love of her life in June 1950 and began her family. Pat discovered Buck Hill in the 1960s when she was looking for a place close enough to their home in New York where the family could vacation. Pat was always thinking of her children whether it was teaching them to build models, doing puzzles or art projects, active with the PTA and school projects or as a den mother for the Cub and Boy Scouts. Starting with a two-week summer stay at the Inn, Pat and her late husband Stanley fell in love with Buck Hill and so began a love affair with the community that stretched over 50 years. The Jordans often returned to the Buck Hill Inn and soon started renting cottages in the community, first for a month, then three months and the golf season while also spending holidays and winter breaks at the Inn. Ultimately, over 40 years ago, they purchased their lovely cottage on Wintergreen Lane. Pat enjoyed being part of the ladies golf group and partaking in Art Association classes and in later years became an active member of the book group and a bridge player. She also was an avid reader, love to take cruises and marveled at…

Who were the Populists, what did they represent, why did the populist movement fail? These questions have been some of the greatest controversies of American History. Who exactly were the populists? In the early 1890s many farmers, laborers, and middle class activists came together to form their own independent political party which they called the People 's Party, or in other terms often referred to as the Populist Party. The party was a result of multiple social movements which occurred due…

practice of convict leasing. Following the emancipation of the slaves, there were very high incarceration rates among the freedmen, and soon the prisons were filling up. The states needed a way to make room in their prisons and they soon realized that they could lease out their prisoners to projects and constructions sites as a means of making a profit, providing cheap labor, and allowing for more imprisonments. This practice expanded rapidly over the following years, and soon became an integral…

history, but global history the United States became less defined by racial and ethnic boundaries during this time. The 1890s can easily be defined as a decade of labor and economic reform due to the fact that a vast majority of the prevalent issue of that time revolved around out nation’s financial practices and labor standards. After decades of unsafe working conditions and abuses at the hand of large corporations, American workers were finally beginning to stand together against their…

idea from text: Bicycles, during their boom in the 1890s, acted as a social equalizer by creating a commonality between riders; riders “traveled on the same roads, faced the same conditions, and even frequented the same locales” (Herlihy 274). response, reaction, or connection to idea: Though Herlihy mentions this idea in the context of the 1890s, I still see the equalizing nature of the bicycle today. Whenever I see another cyclist, whether it’s on the mountain bike trails or the road, I…

1. Imperialism in the 1890s reflected both continuities and changes from earlier American history, as America continued to expand but do change in the ways the expand, as well continued to have similar reason toward imperialism. To begin with, America continued to believe that i was their destiny to expand into areas and promote democracy and civilization. While previously in history this idea was called Manifest Destiny, the Americans now justified their imperialism with the idea of American…

The late-nineteenth century was distinguished by many remarkable changes as a result of industrialization. These remarkable changes are able to be mainly made in society and politics during the time. The Economy was also affected by industrialization. In the late-nineteenth the Industrial Revolutions were commencing and blooming into what we study them to be today. In the 1890’s there were a number of about 234,956 inventions that were invented. The revolutions in industry could have never…

During the spring of 1889, land rushes into Oklahoma signaled the passing of the southern frontier. The frontier had offered opportunities to all who sought independence and desired individualism; however, after its end, many found that they could no longer rely on the possibilities and reassurances provided by the West. In The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (2002), author H.W. Brands explains, “As a people, Americans had long cherished the idea that off in the West existed an unclaimed…

During the period 1890-1925, the effects on the role of American women had significantly changed their positions politically, economically, and socially. These political changes assert how women’s demanded equal rights, had an expansion of responsibilities and little political power, and the access to birth controls. The economic changes also involved women’s that were needed in the workplace, the right to vote, and growth of the women’s conditions. Not only this, but the social changes includes…

The industrial condition reforms and improvement of urban life during the 1890-1915 period were very successful progressive reforms. Both helped improve the life of many citizens during that period and today. The many laws, such as child labor acts and pure food and drugs acts, made the quality of living much better. The Jungle, a book written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, was a fiction book about poor conditions in the meatpacking industry. It helped spark up new laws for health regulations…