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A New Englander On The Indian River Frontier: Caleb Lyndon Brayton And The View From Brayton's Bluff, Edward Caleb Coker
A New Englander On The Indian River Frontier: Caleb Lyndon Brayton And The View From Brayton's Bluff, Edward Caleb Coker
Florida Historical Quarterly
In July 1844, from atop a high bluff overlooking the Indian River in St. Lucie County, Caleb Lyndon Brayton commenced an affectionate correspondence to his wife which continued until his death from tuberculosis ten years later.1 Lyndon had come to Florida to improve his health and seek his fortune. His pregnant wife, Marian, and his young son, Thomas Lyndon, remained behind in Augusta, Georgia, waiting for him to become estabished on the Florida frontier. Brayton, a native of Rhode Island, began his career as a merchant in Fall River, Massachusetts. The onset of tuberculosis prompted a move to the warmer …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Charles III: Florida and the Gulf, edited by Patricia R. Wickman, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; Florida’s Air Force: Air National Guard 1946-1990, by Robert Hawk, reviewed by John P. Ingle, Jr.; A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast During the Sixteenth Century, by Paul E. Hoffman, reviewed by F. Lamar Pearson, Jr.; The Public Life of Aedanus Burke: Revolutionary Republican in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina, by John C. Meleney, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History, by Gunther Barth, reviewed by Richard A. Bartlett; Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the …
Missouri Volunteers At The Battle Of Okeechobee: Christmas Day 1837, John K. Mahon
Missouri Volunteers At The Battle Of Okeechobee: Christmas Day 1837, John K. Mahon
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Battle of Lake Okeechobee, which occurred on December 25, 1837, was the last large pitched battle of the Second Seminole War. Casualties among United States forces totaled 138, including twenty-six killed. Florida’s native hostiles lost only eleven to fourteen men.1 Nonetheless, army commander Zachary Taylor and his superiors hailed a great victory, and early reports of the “severe and bloody battle” claimed that “the Indians were driven in every direction.“2 The effect on the general’s military and eventual political career was substantial. As noted by a Taylor biographer, “His victory in the only large battle of the conflict went …
A Forgotten Sacrifice: Richard Gentry, Missouri Volunteers, And The Battle Of Okeechobee, Phillip Thomas Tucker
A Forgotten Sacrifice: Richard Gentry, Missouri Volunteers, And The Battle Of Okeechobee, Phillip Thomas Tucker
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Christmas Day 1837 battle at Lake Okeechobee was a crucial turning point of the Second Seminole War. Almost 30 percent of the American casualties in that engagement were volunteers from Missouri, forty men out of an effective volunteer force of 132. Among the dead was the volunteers’ commanding officer, Colonel Richard Gentry. While the battle’s American commander, Colonel Zachary Taylor, claimed a great victory, the clash was a disaster for the Missourians and, at that, was only the last in a series of difficult trials faced by the luckless regiment.
"Some Prefer The Seminoles": Violence And Disorder Among Soldiers And Settlers In The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842, James M. Denham
"Some Prefer The Seminoles": Violence And Disorder Among Soldiers And Settlers In The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842, James M. Denham
Florida Historical Quarterly
On November 26, 1835, Seminole Chief Charley Emaltha was murdered brutally as an act of retaliation. Against the wishes of many native leaders, he had agreed to emigrate west, as required by the earlier treaties of Paynes Landing and Fort Gibson. It soon became apparent that Osceola, a rival leader, and his band of followers were responsible. The news, when it spread, created panic throughout the frontier. At Alachua County’s seat at Newnansville, for example, Judge Robert Raymond Reid hurriedly dismissed the on-going session of the Superior Court of Alachua, Columbia, and Hillsborough counties so that everyone concerned could return …
Review Essay: A River Of Peace? The South Florida Frontier In The Nineteenth Century, Gary R. Mormino
Review Essay: A River Of Peace? The South Florida Frontier In The Nineteenth Century, Gary R. Mormino
Florida Historical Quarterly
Napoleon Bonaparte, a mover and shaper of national boundaries, once insisted that Italy was too long to be a country. Might not reasonable people arrive at the same conclusion about another peninsula, namely, that Florida is too long to be a state?
The Grizzly, March 3, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Alena Deantonellis, Marie Sykes, Madison Handwerger, Vaughn Dibattista
The Grizzly, March 3, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Alena Deantonellis, Marie Sykes, Madison Handwerger, Vaughn Dibattista
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Wismer Finally Steps Up Its Game • Meet Dr. Amoroso-O'Connor • Test Your Ursinus Knowledge • Opinions: Black History Month at Ursinus • Wrestling Closes a Standout Season • A Solo Senior
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
LOS SOBREVIVIENTES DE LA FLORIDA: THE SURVIVORS OF THE DE SOTO EXPEDITION, by Ignacio Avellaneda, reviewed by Marvin T. Smith; CHARLES H. JONES, JOURNALIST AND POLITICIAN OF THE GILDED AGE, by Thomas Graham, reviewed by James B. Crooks; FLORIDA PORTRAIT: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF FLORIDA, by Jerrell Shofner, reviewed by William M. Goza; THRILLS, CHILLS,& SPILLS - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF EARLY AVIATION ON THE WORLD'S MOST BIZARRE AIRPORT - THE BEACH AT DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA, by Dick and Yvonne Punnett, reviewed by John P. Ingle, Jr.; FLORIDA LIGHTHOUSES, by Kevin M. McCarthy, GREAT AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES, by F. Ross Holland, …
"The Fox Goes To France": Florida, Secret Codes, And The Election Of 1876, James C. Clark
"The Fox Goes To France": Florida, Secret Codes, And The Election Of 1876, James C. Clark
Florida Historical Quarterly
Samuel J. Tilden’s defeat in the 1876 presidential election has long been the subject for contention and discussion. While many of the causes have received attention, the role played by the secret telegrams between New York and Florida has been overlooked. Confusion over the codes utilized for the telegrams prevented Tilden’s operatives in Florida from purchasing the vote of a key state official. Had the attempt succeeded, the state’s four electoral votes might have been awarded to Tilden, and the prize of the presidency would have gone to him and the Democratic party.
Review Essay:--Alfred I. Du Pont: His Impact On Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner
Review Essay:--Alfred I. Du Pont: His Impact On Florida, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
Through the pages of this large and well-written book, Joseph Frazier Wall delivers all that the title promises and much more. Beginning with the origins of the du Pont family in the eighteenth century and ending with an epilogue about Ed Ball’s covetous management of the du Pont estate during the half century after Alfred’s death, Wall not only portrays the huge du Pont family through a half dozen generations, but also says a great deal about the growth of business, industry, technology, and finance in the context of the history of the United States from its revolutionary inception in …
West Florida's Creek Indian Crisis Of 1837, Brian R. Rucker
West Florida's Creek Indian Crisis Of 1837, Brian R. Rucker
Florida Historical Quarterly
Although Andrew Jackson’s forays into Spanish West Florida in 1814 and 1818 dispersed several hostile bands of Creek Indians, scattered parties remained in isolated forests and swamps. When Florida was transferred to the United States in 1821, settlers moving into the new territory soon were confronted with the presence of these natives. The majority were located in the central portion of the territory, but sizable bands lived in northwest Florida. The Treaty of Moultrie Creek, signed in 1823, provided for the settlement of approximately 800 friendly Creeks on reservation lands along the Apalachicola River. Smaller bands also lived along the …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
VENICE: JOURNEY FROM HORSE AND CHAISE, by Janet Snyder Matthews, reviewed by Leland M. Hawes, Jr.; THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FLORIDA, 1892-1975, by George R. Bentley, reviewed by Joseph D. Cushman; THE JOURNAL OF DON FRANCISCO SAAVEDRA DE SANGRONIS , 1780-1783, edited and introduced by Francisco Morales Padrón, reviewed by Jane Landers; THE MINORCANS OF FLORIDA: THEIR HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE, by Philip D. Rasico, reviewed by Jane Quinn; BIG SUGAR: SEASONS IN THE CANE FIELDS OF FLORIDA, by Alec Wilkinson, reviewed by Robert H. Zieger; PIONEER COLLEGE: THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF SAINT LEO COLLEGE, SAINT LEO ABBEY, AND HOLY …
William Pope Duval: An Extraordinary Folklorist, Frank L. Snyder
William Pope Duval: An Extraordinary Folklorist, Frank L. Snyder
Florida Historical Quarterly
William Pope Duval, who served four terms as territorial governor of Florida, was a natural storyteller.1 His tales were crafted and fabricated with so much skill that his listeners believed every word as the absolute truth. DuVal never hesitated to shade the truth or to embellish his stories so that they became fictionalized accounts bordering on the fringes of reality. He wove a web of drama as he spoke and completely captured the attention of his audience. The stations in life they, the members of his audience, occupied did not matter— raw frontiersmen, uneducated workingmen, intellectuals, literary geniuses, or sophisticated …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF FLORIDA, edited by Paul S. George, reviewed by Jacqueline K. Fretwell; BLACKS AND SOCIAL CHANGE: IMPACT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES, by James Button, reviewed by Steven F. Lawson; TWELVE ON THE RIVER ST. JOHNS, by Charles E. Bennett, reviewed by Thomas Graham; MARKLAND, by Jean Parker Waterbury, reviewed by Albert Manucy; THE SOUTHEASTERN CEREMONIAL COMPLEX: ARTIFACTS AND ANALYSIS, edited by Patricia Galloway, reviewed by John W. Griffin; THE MATERIAL BASIS OF THE POSTBELLUM TENANT PLANTATION: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT, by Charles Orser, Jr., reviewed by Theresa A. …
Care And Control Of The Feebleminded: Florida Farm Colony, 1920-1945, Steven Noll
Care And Control Of The Feebleminded: Florida Farm Colony, 1920-1945, Steven Noll
Florida Historical Quarterly
Hastings Hart, director of the Child Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation, reported in January 1918 that Florida’s “most acute and pressing social problem at the present time is the problem of the feeble-minded.” Hart, who prepared a social welfare plan for Florida at the request of Governor Sidney J. Catts, recommended that “Florida ought to make immediate institutional provision for at least 500 of this class [the feeble-minded], following the good examples which have been recently set by the states of Virginia and North Carolina.“1 A year later, on April 17, 1919, the state legislature followed this request …
The Read-Alston Duel And Politics In Territorial Florida, James M. Denham
The Read-Alston Duel And Politics In Territorial Florida, James M. Denham
Florida Historical Quarterly
The December 27, 1839, issue of the St. Augustine News reported that on December 12 a “duel as fought . . . on the Georgia line between Leigh Read and Augustus Alston of Tallahassee. Weapons, rifles; distance, fifteen paces; finale, Alston killed.“ As was typical editorial policy in the reporting of such affairs, no commentary was offered. But the editor might have added that Alston, a Whig, and Read, a Democrat, each led their political parties in a time when a man’s honor and bravery were proven by action as well as words. Neither could, nor wished, to evade the …
Cramer V. Kirk: The Florida Republican Schism Of 1970, Billy B. Hathorn
Cramer V. Kirk: The Florida Republican Schism Of 1970, Billy B. Hathorn
Florida Historical Quarterly
Having languished for nearly a century as a nominal political entity, Florida Republicans seemed poised by 1970 to establish parity, if not supplant, the Democrats as the Sunshine State’s majority party. The groundwork for such a metamorphosis had been laid when Eisenhower and Nixon won Florida in four of the five presidential elections between 1952 and 1968. William Cato “Bill” Cramer was elected in 1954 as the state’s first twentieth-century Republican Congressman, and Claude Roy Kirk, Jr., seized the governorship twelve years later amid the internecine bickering of Democratic factions. Moreover, Edward J. Gurney’s 1968 United States Senate victory was …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
URBAN VIGILANTES IN THE NEW SOUTH: TAMPA, 1882-1936, by Robert P. Ingalls., reviewed by William F. Holmes; THE FLORIDA SEMINOLES AND THE NEW DEAL, 1933-1942, by Harry A. Kersey, Jr., reviewed by Kenneth Philp; LIKE BEADS ON A STRING: A CULTURE HISTORY OF THE SEMINOLE INDIANS OF NORTHERN PENINSULAR FLORIDA, by Brent Richards Weisman, reviewed by Susan Greenbaum; KEY MARCO’S BURIED TREASURE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ADVENTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by Marion Spjut Gilliland, reviewed by Randolph J. Widmer; PROSLAVERY: A HISTORY OF THE DEFENSE OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA, 1701-1840, by Larry E. Tise, reviewed by Charles Reagan Wilson; EVANGELICALS AND …
"Whitewash" In Florida: The Lynching Of Jesse James Payne And Its Aftermath, Jack E. Davis
"Whitewash" In Florida: The Lynching Of Jesse James Payne And Its Aftermath, Jack E. Davis
Florida Historical Quarterly
On an October morning in 1945, the body of a black man was found lying on the side of a graded road in rural Madison County, Florida. Jesse James Payne, a struggling young sharecropper with a wife and child, had been unceremoniously lynched the night before. This was not an unusual occurrence in a state that by 1920 had the nation’s highest lynching rate relative to its population. But with Payne’s death coming at the close of World War II, when such crimes were all but nonexistent, Florida was again distinguished by being host to the only recorded lynching of …
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Eighty-seventh Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops, 1989
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
ST. PETERSBURG AND THE FLORIDA DREAM, 1888-1950, by Raymond Arsenault, reviewed by Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.; PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS: THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY MODERN BRITISH COLONIES AND THE FORMATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE, by Jack P. Greene, reviewed by Darrett B. Rutman; BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA: MERCHANT SEAMEN, PIRATES, AND THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MARITIME WORLD, 1700-1750, by Marcus Rediker, reviewed by Christopher Ward; WAR AND SOCIETY IN REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA: THE WIDER DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT, by Don Higginbotham, reviewed by David T. Morgan; THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, by Robert V. Remini, reviewed by Richard B. Latner; WITHIN …
Settlers, Bureaucrats, And Private Land Claims: The "Little Arredondo Grant", Edward F. Keuchel
Settlers, Bureaucrats, And Private Land Claims: The "Little Arredondo Grant", Edward F. Keuchel
Florida Historical Quarterly
In his study of United States land policy, historian Paul W. Gates wrote, “No problem caused Congress, officials of the General Land Office, and federal courts more difficulty or took up as much time as the private land claims, that is the grants of land made by predecessor governments in areas acquired from Great Britain, France, Spain, Mexico, and in the Oregon country by agreement with Great Britain.“ There were also problems in Florida since land had been granted by both the Spanish and British governments, and the “little Arredondo grant” of Columbia County demonstrates the complexities in the settlement …
St. Augustine's Fallout From The Yamasee War, John H. Hann
St. Augustine's Fallout From The Yamasee War, John H. Hann
Florida Historical Quarterly
Between 1702 and 1705, Englishmen from South Carolina and their Indian allies destroyed all the surviving missions in Spanish Florida from Apalachee to Amelia Island. A remnant Guale population drawn from at least fifteen settlements of coastal Georgia had taken refuge in the 1680s at three mission sites on Amelia Island. In 1702, James Moore, governor at Charles Town, captured and burned St. Augustine. Only the town’s castillo and the refugees it housed survived Moore’s assault. Renewed English and Indian attacks against the inland missions in 1704 and 1705 brought new waves of native refugees to St. Augustine. The greatest …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
INVASION OF PRIVACY: THE CROSS CREEK TRIAL OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS, by Patricia Nassif Acton, reviewed by William M. Goza; FULL STEAM AHEAD! THE STORY OF PETER DEMENS , FOUNDER OF ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, by Albert Parry, reviewed by Leland M. Hawes, Jr.; FLORIDA’S PAST: VOLUME 2, PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE STATE, by Gene M. Burnett, reviewed by Stuart B. McIver; THE LOG OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, translated by Robert H. Fuson; THE DIARIO OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS'S FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA, 1492-1493, abstracted by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, reviewed by William F. Keegan; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, …
Blacks And The Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835, George Klos
Blacks And The Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835, George Klos
Florida Historical Quarterly
The rise of Jacksonian democracy in the United States during the 1820s and 1830s led to a national program of Indian displacement for the benefit of white settlers and land speculators. Disputes between whites and Indians over the possession of black slaves was a very prominent feature of Indian removal from Florida. Unlike Indian removal in other parts of the United States, land was not the main issue; thousands of acres of public land could be had in Florida without dispossessing the Seminoles. Mediation of white-Seminole slave disputes failed, in part, because the federal Indian agents often owned and speculated …
Pensacola Progressive: John Moreno Coe And The Campaign Of 1948, Sarah Hart Brown
Pensacola Progressive: John Moreno Coe And The Campaign Of 1948, Sarah Hart Brown
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1951, John Moreno Coe, native of Pensacola, Florida, participated as an advocate for the defense in the celebrated case of Willie McGee, a black man tried and convicted three times by Mississippi juries for the rape of a Laurel, Mississippi, housewife. As with most of his clients, Coe passionately believed in McGee's innocence; further, he believed that McGee had been systematically denied due process by Mississippi courts. In his home town, almost no one except Coe’s family supported him in this crusade; his actions were perverse and strange in the eyes of most Pensacolians. Yet following McGee’s execution, Coe …
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the Directors Meeting Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Confederation, National Register of Historic Places, Southern Jewish Historical Society, Announcements and Activites
William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr.
William Alexander Blount: Defender Of The Old South And Advocate Of A New South, Thomas Muir, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
William Alexander Blount, as a child, had experienced the frustrations of poverty and disorder resulting from the Civil War. While steeped in many of the values and traditions of the Old South, Blount was one of the new generation of southern leaders who, after the end of Reconstruction in 1877, strove to modernize the South through industrialization and closer cooperation with northern capitalists. His keen intellect and sharp legal mind served him well as a corporate lawyer for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Florida. Blount’s legal career in Pensacola spanned the Bourbon period, roughly from 1877 to 1900, when …
"A Gang Of Pirates": The Confederate Lighthouse Raids In Southeast, Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.
"A Gang Of Pirates": The Confederate Lighthouse Raids In Southeast, Rodney E. Dillon, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In July of 1861, three months after Confederate gunners opened fire on Fort Sumter igniting the Civil War, a distinguished group of United States Army, Navy, and civilian officials met in Washington, DC. These men, Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, Commander Charles H. Davis, Major John G. Barnard, and Superintendent Alexander D. Bache of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, had been appointed by the Navy Department as a blockade board to study the geography and topography of the southern coastline, the state of Federal naval resources and manpower, and the strategic and tactical plans necessary to make President …