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Spectrum, Volume 15, Number 20, Sacred Heart University Mar 1998

Spectrum, Volume 15, Number 20, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Construction on new South Wing addition begins -- Pub proposal going in front of cabinet -- Men's rugby stuck in Ireland -- Debate society continues top excel -- Positive thinking guarantees success in life -- Students visit El Salvador -- Student exhibition opens in art gallery -- D-1 sports transition wins mixed votes -- Men's lacrosse lose third straight home game


The Shanachie Volume 10, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 1998

The Shanachie Volume 10, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.


Laugh And History Laughs With You, Davis Rich Lewis Jan 1998

Laugh And History Laughs With You, Davis Rich Lewis

History Faculty Publications

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Daniel Pratt Of Prattville: A Northern Industrialist And A Southern Town., Curt John Evans Jan 1998

Daniel Pratt Of Prattville: A Northern Industrialist And A Southern Town., Curt John Evans

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation explores the life of Daniel Pratt, one of the South's most important industrialists. Daniel Pratt was born in Temple, New Hampshire on July 20, 1799. In 1821, he migrated to Jones County, Georgia, where he worked as a carpenter-architect for ten years. He married Esther Ticknor of Connecticut in 1827 Samuel Griswold hired Pratt in 1831 to superintend his cotton gin factory in Jones County. Two years later, Pratt migrated to Autauga County in central Alabama, where he started his own gin shop. In 1839, Pratt founded Prattville, located fourteen miles from Alabama's capital, Montgomery. The next year, …


Cry Of The Famishing: Ireland, Connecticut And The Potato Famine, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 1998

Cry Of The Famishing: Ireland, Connecticut And The Potato Famine, Neil Hogan, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Monographs (CTIAHS)

Cry of the Famishing focuses on the relationship between the Famine in Ireland and the state of Connecticut. Includes why and where Irish emigrants settled in Connecticut, the jobs they held, conflicts that arose between the Yankees and the Irish newcomers, and individual stories of some of the Famine Irish in Connecticut. Illustrated with Famine drawings from newspapers and periodicals of the 1840s and 1850s.