Gilmanton, New Hampshire

How H. H. Holmes Changed America and Its People Most events in America's past time have influenced some change in the way we feel, think, or react to everyday life. One thought in particular has now been etched into the minds of the old and young, which was inspired by one man's actions. Although long forgotten, H.H Holmes’s actions not only influenced the entertainment industry and brought forth changes in the law enforcement, but he also introduced a paranoia that was unknown before his time. H. H. Holmes was born as Herman Webster Mudgett in Gilmanton, New Hampshire on May 16, 1861. Early in his life he was fascinated with skeletons this soon led to an obsession with death. He graduated high school at the age of sixteen and then changed his name Henry Howard Holmes…

H. H. Holmes was one of of the first accounted serial killers in America during 1893. Holmes was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire in 1861 with the name Herman Webster Mudgett. Holmes was referred to “The Beast Of Chicago” also. He killed many of the cities inhabitants in his specially constructed house which was ominously referred to as the “Murder Castle.” Once people found out about what Holmes had done they had fear they never knew existed. People could never believe that a man could kill…

On March 13, 1933, Donald Gaskins was born in Florence County, South Carolina. At a young age, Gaskins was teased and given the nickname “Pee Wee” as a result of his small body frame. Violence followed him everywhere, starting from his home where his stepfather beat him to school. At school Gaskins would fight with the other kids daily. This would ultimately lead him to become the most terrified serial killer in South Carolina. Gaskins was 42 years old in 1975 and had been killing steadily for…

Holmes life started in 1861 when he was born in New Hampshire. He went to college at University of Michigan and graduated June 1884. A few years later he moved to Chicago and started working in a pharmacy. After the owner mysteriously disappeared he started building his “murder castle” and opened it in 1893. He killed at least 100 people in his horrible hotel. He tortured his victims, who were mostly female, before he killed them. In 1894 he was arrested. Later in 1896 he was hanged for all that…

When Mudgett, also known as Holmes, was little his parents were devout methodists who relied heavily on rod and prayer (page 39). His mother always wanted MUdgett to pray with her in her room. H wasn't really a religious type person, he mostly surrounded himself with poetry written by Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe, and he also invented things like a wind - power mechanism that scared birds away from the fields. This is an religous example, because even though Mudgett’s family was religious, he…

ethic was proven to be strong throughout his life until his death in 1968. Fellig’s name was Americanized to Arthur when he moved to New York from Ukraine. Before dropping out of school at fifteen, Fellig fell in love with English, at that time, moreover Fellig’s parents was adding three children to an already seven children coupled with being poor drove Fellig out of the family. Since he left the family, this resulted in him getting a number of part-time jobs such as bus boy, selling candy…

H. H. Holmes would turn out to be a terrifying serial killer but he didn’t start that way, in fact He didn’t even start out as H. H. Holmes his real name was Herman Webster Mudgett. Herman was born on May sixteenth eighteen sixty one in Gilmanton New Hampshire. He was born into a moderately wealthy family and raised in a strict religion family. “He was constantly bullied and abused by his classmates, causing him to spend his boyhood friendless, isolated, and alone.” (Coffey, 2014). Herman was…

The plaintiffs begin by mentioning the implications of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, a recently decided legal case in which the Town of Gilbert regulated the placement of outdoor signs, on the New Hampshire court case. The Supreme Court held that treating these signs differently was a content-based speech restriction, meaning that is was subject to strict scrutiny. The Court importantly stated that if a law is content based “on its face,” then the government’s justifications do not matter—the law…

Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…

In 1761, Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Although Phillis was brought as a slave, the Wheatleys took a great interest in Phillis’s education. Phillis learned to read and write English, and she became familiar with Latin, Greek, the Bible, and other classics at an early age. Wheatley had a hard time publishing her poems because of the bad economy. Phillis published her first poem in a new england newspaper in…