Early in his career, Tom Watson was influenced by many leaders of the Confederacy, and he was drawn to local politics. After attending the Convention of 1800, he was determined to run for legislature. He appealed to Georgians as a defender of the old way of life and he was first elected to the state legislation representing McDuffie County in 1882. <br />During the campaign, he discovered...
Chinese immigration was an important issue in San Francisco in the mid 19th century. The Burlingame Treaty of 1868 gave the Chinese full rights to immigrate to the United States. When an economic depression hit in the 1870's, an intense competition for jobs lead white residents to become extremely opposed to Chinese immigration. In the May 21st, 1876 issue of the Daily alta California newspaper,...
In April 1882, two young ladies from St. Clair, Tennessee traveled with three men to attend the Church Hill Institute in Church Hill, Tennessee. The two ladies were invited to spend the night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nugent, but declined the offer because the women did not want to inconvenience the family because the Nugents were already hosting many other guests. The women also wanted to travel...
Surrounded by the rushing waters of the Detroit River, Belle Isle is no stranger to the enjoyment people can find from water recreation. The original development of Belle Isle Park's rivers and boating areas is discussed in a report by Frederick Law Olmsted, then America's premiere landscape architect, in his proposal for Detroit in November of 1882. In his original plan for Belle Isle, Olmsted...
In 1882, Frederick Law Olmstead, a landscape architect and designer of fifteen previous parks, was invited to take a look at a newly purchased property in Detroit, MI. As the designer of the first municipal park in America, he is considered the father of landscape architecture. With his pioneering expertise cultivated through years of follow-up work, Olmstead wrote an explanation for future planning...
Jesse James, the wanted bandit and train robber, was killed in his home in St. Joseph,
Missouri the morning of April 3, 1882. James had been living in a small house on a hill in the
southeast part of town with his wife since November 1881. There were also two other men with
Jesse James and his wife at the time of his death, Robert and Charles Ford. Charles had been
with...
In the late 18th to early 19th century, women began to explore their intellectual talents outside of the education field. The Washington Post (1877-1954) published an article titled Women in Business, expressing the purpose of the exhibit mounted by the League of Business and Professional Women. The goal was to help others, specifically women, appreciate their...
On the night of December 24, 1882, near the town of Mooresburg in Hawkins County, Tennessee, African American Calvin Gray was accused of stealing hogs on Mrs. Joseph Gill's farm. He was later released for lack of evidence. On the following Saturday, December 30, an unknown group of people sought retribution for the alleged robbery and bombarded Gray's home, pounding violently on the door...
The Montgomery Advertiser mentions that on August 11, within twenty-four hours, there were thirteen deaths from yellow fever in Brownsville, Texas. As a result Fort Brown was under strict quarantine. At that time, there were about fifty cases of yellow fever at Brownsville and the health authorities believed that it might become epidemic. The State mentioned that on the day August 28, there were...
The threat of a trust formed between cigarette manufacturers in order to control the price of Bright Leaf tobacco grown in the North Carolina Piedmont greatly alarmed the members of the Farmer's Alliance living in the Bright Belt region of North Carolina where this tobacco was grown. In order to prevent just five individuals or corporations from dictating the price of a product whose production...