Episodes Around: 18781019

  1. Norwood High School and College Session 1877-1878 Brochure
    date September 20, 1877 to 1878map BEDFORD, Virginiatags Education, Race-Relations

    To usher in the start of classes on September 20th, 1877, Norwood High School and College issued their mission statement for the upcoming school year. The brochure spoke of the school as one of the finest training schools in the South (as well as the world) in producing fine, intelligent, young gentlemen ready to enter the world. The brochure reports that the school's emphasis on creating...

  2. Reverend J. B. Haskell versus Reverend J. I. Miller: The Court Battle of two Lutheran Reverends
    date March 24, 1878 to June 6, 1880map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Law, Women

    Reverend J. I. Miller did not follow the regulations of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America when he tried to baptize and confirm a group of adults on March 24. He was not authorized to perform the rites of baptism and confirmation without prior approval, which would have been given by Reverend J. B. Haskell. Tellingly Reverend Haskell, the prosecutor in the court...

  3. A Beautiful Marriage
    date June 16, 1878 to 1878map CUMBERLAND, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Women

    As a proud and happy mother, Mary Randolph Page Harrison watched her lovely daughter Lucia Harrison get married on June 16, 1878. The wedding was beautiful; everything she had dreamed of for her daughter. Lucia was marrying the distinguished Captain Cooke. Although he was a good deal older than Lucia, he was a kind, Christian gentleman. Mary was confident that this was a good match and was very...

  4. In Cahoots With the Foxes
    date October, 1878map TALBOT, Marylandtags African-Americans, Arts/Leisure, Race-Relations, War

    Fox-hunting was the most popular sport on the Eastern Shore, especially in the bountiful counties of Talbot, Somerset, and Queen Anne. To preserve and encourage this particularly Southern sport, Hanson Hiss and other Maryland gentlemen founded the Elkridge Fox-Hunting Club in October of 1878. George S. Brown assumed the Presidency, but only on the condition that no bag-fox be used in any hunt. The...

  5. Sanitary Reform in Wake of Epidemics
    date October 19, 1878map GALVESTON, Texastags Government, Health/Death, Law, Science/Technology, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    "It is now eleven years since the fever was epidemic in Galveston, and the citizens believe that with proper attention to sanitary precautions they need never suffer again." Referring to an epidemic of the yellow fever in 1867, an article in the Scientific American used Galveston, Texas, as an example for sanitation standards when quarantining the yellow fever in 1878. The article continued...