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The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the notable old family names of Georgia and Florida is that of Hallowes. The founder of the Florida branch of this family was Miller Hallowes, an ancestor of Miss Elise Dancy Davis of Tallahasee. On a visit to England in 1960, Miss Davis was able to consult the researches of Dr. Lorton A. Wilson of Derby who had devoted the years of his retirement to tracing his origins and those of his wife, who was a Hallowes descendant. Through the kind offices of Miss Moira Wilson, the late Dr. Wilson’s daughter, and the Irish Genealogical Society, with whom …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Road to Normalcy, The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920. By Wesley M. Bagby. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1962. 206 pp. $4.50.); The Emerging South. By Thomas D. Clark. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. xvi, 317 pp. Selected bibliography and index. $6.00.); Mr. Sam. By C. Dwight Dorough. (New York: Random House, 1962. xvii, 593 pp. $8.50.)
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The American Tory. By William H. Nelson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. vi, 194 pp. Index. $4.80.); Catholics and the American Revolution: A Study in Religious Climate. By Charles H. Metzger, S. J. (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1962. 306 pp. $5.00.); Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812. By Bradford Perkins. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. 457 pp. $7.95.); North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. By Leon F. Litwack. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. 318 pp. Bibliographical essay and index. $6.00.); Reflections of the Civil War …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Politics of Mis-Representation: Rural-Urban Conflict in the Florida Legislature. By William C. Havard and Loren P. Beth. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962. xiii, 293 pp. Index. $5.00.); Gonzalia, 1770-1880. By Leora M. Sutton. (Pensacola: Elite Mimeographing Service, 1961. 45 pp. Charts, illustrations, acknowledgements. $10.00.); The Murder Trial of Judge Peel. By Jim Bishop. (New York: Trident Press, 1962. Pp. xi, 210. $3.95.); Georgia Rivers. Edited by George Hatcher. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1962. x, 76 pp. Illustrations. $3.00.)
The Constitution Of 1868, Jerrell H. Shofner
The Constitution Of 1868, Jerrell H. Shofner
Florida Historical Quarterly
On March 2, 1867, Congress enacted a law declaring that no legal government existed in Florida. As a part of the Third Military District, Florida was placed under a commander whose authority was superior to the outlawed state government. The law provided that the state could resume normal relations with the Union when it had adopted the fourteenth amendment and formed a constitution in conformity with the Constitution of the United States. This instrument was to be drawn up by a convention of delegates elected by all eligible male citizens, ratified by the people, and approved by Congress. No persons …
Jacksonville During The Civil War, Samuel Proctor
Jacksonville During The Civil War, Samuel Proctor
Florida Historical Quarterly
The year 1860 was one of political unrest and agitation in Florida. Most Southerners argued with an unyielding passion that secession had become a matter of necessity and that independence was the only possible course of action for the South. A political meeting in Jacksonville on May 15, 1860, overwhelmingly resolved: “We are of the opinion that the right of the citizens of Florida are no longer safe in the Union and we think she should raise the banner of secession and invite her southern sisters to join her.” The Jacksonville Standard, on July 26, 1860, announced that if “in …
Tampa At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century, Jose Rivero Muniz
Tampa At The Close Of The Nineteenth Century, Jose Rivero Muniz
Florida Historical Quarterly
Before the advent of the tobacco industry, Tampa was a population center of slight importance in the State of Florida. Fishing, wood-cutting, and the cultivation of certain vegetables were the principal occupation of its few inhabitants. Located on sandy and relatively arid ground which was covered by few trees other than stunted pines and unexploitable palmetto palms, the extensive prairies of the region were marked principally by numerous marshes and a few sulphur springs. It was not an infrequent occurrence among the isolated thickets to stumble upon an apparently sleeping alligator or a scarcely less dangerous rattlesnake or water moccasin.
Textbook Writers And The Florida "Purchase" Myth, Harris G. Warren
Textbook Writers And The Florida "Purchase" Myth, Harris G. Warren
Florida Historical Quarterly
That teachers and writers of history must strive for accuracy is a proposition hardly open to debate. Our textbook writers labor under an especially heavy charge to keep us abreast of research which corrects misinterpretations and presents newly discovered facts. They must not call true those myths or fables which once masqueraded as sober fact. No history professor would be likely to adopt a text which presented the cherry tree myth as a true incident in Washington’s life. Yet many textbooks contain explanations which do not conform with the published results of careful research. A case in point is the …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 41, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
We continue here the reminiscences by the late Jane D. Brush of Michigan, widow of Alanson P. Brush, a pioneer of the automobile industry.
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Local historical societies
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of American Indian Policy in the Formative Years: The Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts, 1790-1834. By Francis Paul Prucha. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. viii, 303 pp. Essay on authorities, index. $6.75.); John Forsyth: Political Tactician. By Alvin Laroy Duckett. (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1962. 222 pp. Bibliography, index. $5.00.); Politics and the Crisis of 1860. Edited by Norman A. Graebner. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961. xii, 149 pp. Bibliography, index. $3.00.); Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. By Edmund Wilson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. xxxii, 816 pp. Index. …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Territorial Papers of the United States, Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter. Volume XXVI, The Territory of Florida, 1839-1845. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962. v, 1238 pp. Maps and index. $8.00.); The Triumph of Empire: Thunder-Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766. By Lawrence Henry Gipson. The British Empire before the American Revolution. Volume X. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. lxxv, 414 pp. Index and illustrations. $8.50.); The Causes of the War of 1812. By Reginald Horsman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. 345 pp. Bibliography, appendix, notes, index. $6.00.)
Wreckers And Wrecking On The Florida Reef, 1829-1832, E. A. Hammond
Wreckers And Wrecking On The Florida Reef, 1829-1832, E. A. Hammond
Florida Historical Quarterly
Dr. Benjamin B. Strobel, Charleston physician, left his South Carolina home in September, 1829, to seek professional opportunity in Key West, Florida. What motivated his departure is never totally disclosed in his writings, nor does he indicate his reasons for choosing the comparative primitiveness of the Florida Keys. He reveals only that he “was some time in doubt as to what course I should steer, when, having heard that there was something in my profession at Key West, I determined at once to go there.” Nevertheless, upon arriving at the island town of some five hundred inhabitants just staggering through …
La Floride: 1565, James W. Covington
La Floride: 1565, James W. Covington
Florida Historical Quarterly
The coming of the French Huguenots to Florida in 1564 and their establishment of an outpost known as Fort Caroline proved to be a remarkable event both for Spanish imperialism and the student of Indian customs and law. When the King of Spain learned that the French had invaded land which he considered to be his own and that renegade groups had raided nearby islands, he ordered Pedro Menendez de Aviles to organize a force and expel the invaders. Part of the contract signed by Menendez included the founding of two towns in Florida. Thus, when Menendez landed in Florida …
An Evaluation Of The Freedmen's Bureau In Florida, Joe M. Richardson
An Evaluation Of The Freedmen's Bureau In Florida, Joe M. Richardson
Florida Historical Quarterly
Like any controversial subject, the Freedmen’s Bureau is difficult to evaluate. Nearly any generalization applied to that federal agency requires qualification. It possessed some undesirable features, but it had many redeeming traits and much of its work is deserving of commendation. Furthermore, the organization of the Bureau was flexible enough to enable it to adapt to and meet local needs. Therefore, its value in any locale depended to a large extent on the character and competency of the Assistant Commissioner and local agents. The Bureau officials in Florida were, in general, a creditable group and their accomplishments are worthy of …
James Ormond, Merchant And Soldier, Alice Strickland
James Ormond, Merchant And Soldier, Alice Strickland
Florida Historical Quarterly
The first member of the Ormond family to come to Florida was a Scotchman, James Ormond I, who owned and commanded an armed brig, the Somerset, which sailed in the services of the famous trading firm of Panton and Leslie. In the 1700’s James Ormond sailed the Somerset in the pirate-infested waters of the West Indies and between Savannah and present day Apalachicola. Later in life Ormond gave up seafaring and settled down on a cotton plantation on the island of Exuma in the West Indies. The invitation from the Spanish government for settlers to come to Florida, and the …
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 41, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Contributors, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Contributors to this issue
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
The Editor's Corner, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
We continue in this issue the reminiscences of Florida begun in our January, 1962, number by the late Jane D. Brush of Michigan, widow of Alanson P. Brush, a pioneer of the automobile industry.
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
News And Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Removal of FHS headquarters, local historical societies
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Book Notes, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Short reviews and notes of books
The Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, May 3-5, 1962, Florida Historical Society
The Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, May 3-5, 1962, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
President Gilbert L. Lycan presided over the meeting of officers and directors which was held May 3, 1962, at the Roosevelt Hotel, Jacksonville. The meeting was attended by Dr. Lycan, Duncan L. Clinch, H. J. Doherty, Jesse Keene, Mary McRae, Margaret Chapman, Paul L. Maddock, Rembert W. Patrick, Thelma Peters, Ben F. Rogers, Lucius Ruder, Frank B. Sessa, M. L. Vance, and T. T. Wentworth, Jr.
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of James Monroe Smith Georgia Planter, Before Death and After. By E. Merton Coulter. (Athens: University of Georgia Press. xii, 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.00.); Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada. Edited by Richard W. Hale, Jr. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, for the American Historical Association, 1961. xxxvi, 241 pp. Bibliography and index. $5.00.)
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of The Colonial Records of South Carolina, Series I: Journal of the Commons House of Assembly, January 19, 1748-June 29, 1748. Edited by J. Harold Easterby. (Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department, 1961. 413 pp. Preface and index. $11.00.); Georgia’s Journeys: Being an Account of the Lives of Georgia’s Original Settlers and Many Other Early Settlers from the Founding of the Colony in 1732 until the Institution of Royal Government in 1754. By Sarah B. Gober Temple and Kenneth Coleman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1961. Pp. xviii, 348. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $6.00.); The Baratarians and the Battle of …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Reviews of Richard Keith Call: Southern Unionist. By Herbert J. Doherty, Jr. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961. vii, 195 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $5.50.); Nuevas fuentes para la historia de Puerto Rico. By Aurelio Tio. (San German: Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, 1961. 653 pp. Notes, maps, bibliography, charts, appendix, index.); The Pied Piper of Peru. By Henry Hanson. (Jacksonville: Florida Public Health Association, 1961. $2.00 cloth; $1.50 paper.); Glimpses of the Panhandle. By Harold W. Bell. (Chicago: Adams Press, 1961. 227 pp. Maps, bibliography. $3.50); The Secession Conventions of the South. By Ralph A. Wooster. (Princeton, N. J., …
Memoir Of A West Pointer In Florida: 1825, Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Memoir Of A West Pointer In Florida: 1825, Cecil D. Eby, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the early summer of 1825 the group of Seminoles relegated to the Big Swamp area of central Florida by the treaty of Moultrie Creek, signed two years before, were subjected to a drought so severe that nearly their whole crop was destroyed. Forced to subsist upon game, the Indians obtained permission from Major Gad Humphreys, their agent at the post that later became known as Fort King, to send hunting parties beyond the boundaries of their reservation to the north. While the incursion of Indian hunters into territories belonging legally to white settlers was absolutely necessary for the survival …
The Story Of Captain John C. Casey, Fred W. Wallace
The Story Of Captain John C. Casey, Fred W. Wallace
Florida Historical Quarterly
One link in the chain of off-shore islands extending from Anclote Key southward along Florida’s Gulf coast is Casey Key in Sarasota County. This little Key has more than its share of natural beauty and charm yet remains one of the least known islands. Although little is heard of Casey Key, except locally, for which the residents who value privacy are grateful, even more obscure is the origin of the name. One historian has written, “When and how Casey’s Pass was named no one knows. According to waterfront legend an Irishman named Casey settled there for a number of years …
Lincoln's Courier: John L. Worden's Mission To Fort Pickens, James P. Jones
Lincoln's Courier: John L. Worden's Mission To Fort Pickens, James P. Jones
Florida Historical Quarterly
The spring of 1861 was a time of decision-making for the newly installed Lincoln administration. First on the agenda was the reinforcement and supply of Ft. Sumter, but an equally grave problem involved Ft. Pickens in Pensacola harbor. For several months a truce arranged between two members of President Buchanan’s cabinet and Confederate military authorities had been in force. This truce was an agreement not to reinforce Pickens if the Confederates promised not to attack. By March, 1861, Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, and General Winfield Scott were growing concerned over the Pensacola situation. The Pickens garrison remained …