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The Historic Stetson University Campus In Deland, 1884-1934, Sidney Johnston Mar 2022

The Historic Stetson University Campus In Deland, 1884-1934, Sidney Johnston

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stetson University in DeLand, established in 1883, is the oldest continuously operating university in Florida associated with its original site. The campus, which occupies an area three blocks square, is significant as one of the state’s few education-related landscapes that contains buildings constructed in the late-nineteenth century.


A New Englander On The Indian River Frontier: Caleb Lyndon Brayton And The View From Brayton's Bluff, Edward Caleb Coker Mar 2022

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 …


The Last Shall Be First: Northern Methodists In Reconstruction Jacksonville, John T. Foster, Jr. Mar 2022

The Last Shall Be First: Northern Methodists In Reconstruction Jacksonville, John T. Foster, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

During Reconstruction, many northern men and women contributed to Florida’s social, political, and economic life. Their efforts— and those of the northern institutions and organizations that supported them— provided immediate assistance to the needy and resulted, as well, in the establishment of churches, schools, and other institutions that endured the test of time. Nonetheless, most Floridians have gained only a one-dimensional understanding of the contributions of Northerners during Reconstruction, usually through the highly critical eyes of historians such as William Watson Davis. Of them, Davis, a disciple of Columbia University’s Dunning School of Reconstruction historiography, wrote: “The failure of the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 70, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Proceedings of the Eighty-ninth Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and Florida Historical Confederation Workshops 1991


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Awards and Recognitions, Announcements and Activities


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

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 …


Review Essay:An "African Prince, Majestic In His Wrath": William S. Mcfeely's Biography Of Frederick Douglass, Willard B. Gatewood Mar 2022

Review Essay:An "African Prince, Majestic In His Wrath": William S. Mcfeely's Biography Of Frederick Douglass, Willard B. Gatewood

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the evening of August 16, 1841, a large crowd gathered in the port city of Nantucket, Massachusetts, to attend an important anti-slavery meeting. Those unable to find places on the floor of the spacious square building known as the Big Shop filled the lofts; some even sat on the rafters. Those stranded on the outside of the building observed the proceedings through its windows. Among the abolitionist luminaries in attendance were William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, and assorted members of the famous Coffin family. Also present was a runaway slave from Maryland’s Eastern Shore whom William C. …


Missouri Volunteers At The Battle Of Okeechobee: Christmas Day 1837, John K. Mahon Mar 2022

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 …


Gone But Not Forgotten: Wakulla County's Folk Graveyards, Sherrie Stokes Mar 2022

Gone But Not Forgotten: Wakulla County's Folk Graveyards, Sherrie Stokes

Florida Historical Quarterly

Cemeteries sometimes evoke a sense of dread among the living, but these last resting places of the dead often offer important clues to the social and economic backgrounds of those interred in them. Rural southern cemeteries generally are remote and only rarely are sought out by those who study gravestones and burial grounds. Nonetheless, many still are used for burials, and most possess material clues that illustrate gradual and abrupt changes in the traditional and folk funerary customs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Florida's Confederate Guerrillas: John W. Pearson And The Oklawaha Rangers, Zack C. Waters Mar 2022

Florida's Confederate Guerrillas: John W. Pearson And The Oklawaha Rangers, Zack C. Waters

Florida Historical Quarterly

Secession and the approach of hostilities in 1861 found Florida unprepared for civil war. The state’s militia had disintegrated at the end of the Third Seminole War in 1858, and the attempts of Governor Madison Starke Perry to remedy its disorganized condition proved ineffectual. Perry warned Floridians that the political situation called for military preparedness, but his pleas led to little improvement. An 1859 report indicated that the state possessed only one battery of light artillery and fewer than 1,000 muskets and rifles, including more than 250 antiquated flint and steel muskets.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 70, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


A Forgotten Sacrifice: Richard Gentry, Missouri Volunteers, And The Battle Of Okeechobee, Phillip Thomas Tucker Mar 2022

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.


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, Society Membershipships, Florida History Research in Progress, Prizes and Awards, Florida History Fair, Gulf Coast History and Humanities Conference, Announcements and Activities, Call for Papers


Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida History In Periodicals, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This selected bibliography includes scholarly articles in the field of Florida history, archaeology, geography, and anthropology published in state, regional, and national periodicals in 1990. Articles, notes, and documents that have appeared in the Florida Historical Quarterly are not included in this listing since they appear in the annual index of each volume. The present listing also includes articles appearing in journals not published on schedule and that were not in the list printed in the July 1990 issue of the Quarterly.


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

FLORIDA Cow HUNTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BONE MIZELL, by Jim Bob Tinsley, reviewed by Kyle S. VanLandingham; COLUMBIAN CONSEQUENCES, VOLUME 2: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS EAST, edited by David Hurst Thomas, reviewed by Paul E. Hoffman; INDIAN-RELIGIOUS RELATIONS IN COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA, edited by Susan E. Ramirez, reviewed by Rebecca Saunders; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1774-1789, VOLUME 16: SEPTEMBER 1, 1780-FEBRUARY 28, 1781, edited by Paul H. Smith, reviewed by Robert M. Calhoon; FRONTIERS IN CONFLICT: THE OLD SOUTHWEST, 1795-1830, by Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice, reviewed by Gilbert C. …


"Some Prefer The Seminoles": Violence And Disorder Among Soldiers And Settlers In The Second Seminole War, 1835-1842, James M. Denham Mar 2022

"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 Mar 2022

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?


Before The Seminoles: Football At Florida State College, 1902-1904, Ric A. Kabat Mar 2022

Before The Seminoles: Football At Florida State College, 1902-1904, Ric A. Kabat

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Coach W. W. Hughes looked out at his football team in the autumn of 1902, he was under no pressure to improve on the previous year’s season. Recently hired to teach Latin at Florida State College (FSC), Professor Hughes had played football at Vanderbilt University and, when he arrived in Tallahassee, had volunteered to coach FSC’s fledgling team. Practicing on the newly graded gridiron west of campus (a renovated cow pasture), the FSC Eleven prepared for their first game against a city team from nearby Bainbridge, Georgia. Hughes, pleased with the team’s progress, anticipated success.


Slavery And The Political Economy Of Gadsden County, Florida: 1823-1861, Larry E. Rivers Mar 2022

Slavery And The Political Economy Of Gadsden County, Florida: 1823-1861, Larry E. Rivers

Florida Historical Quarterly

On the eve of secession in January 1861, Gadsden County was one of Florida’s wealthiest political subdivisions. It and its four neighboring counties contained almost 42 percent of the state’s property when measured by value.1 Gadsden’s $6,714,880 in assets constituted somewhat more than 8 percent of the state’s total, even though the county contained less than 1 percent of Florida’s land and 6.7 percent of its population.2 The county’s per capita wealth of $1,684.19 nearly tripled the state average.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 70, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


A Daughter Of The Samurai, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto Mar 2022

A Daughter Of The Samurai, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

Zea E-Books Collection

Born in 1874 the youngest daughter of a samurai and former daimyo—a feudal prince under the Takugawa shogunate—Etsu Inagaki grew up surrounded by ghosts of an aristocratic military lineage. Having fought on the losing side in the wars that installed the Meiji emperor, the ­Inagaki family was reduced in power, status, and wealth but not in pride or ­devotion to its traditional roles and customs. Etsu’s upbringing and education were conservative and old-fashioned, guided by the Shinto and Buddhist beliefs her family held. The samurai virtues of honor, ­stoicism, and sacrifice applied to daughters and wives as well as sons …


Index To Volume Lxix, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Index To Volume Lxix, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


History News, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

History News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Annual Meeting, National Register of Historic Places, Fort Mose Exhibit, Florida Agricultural Museum, Announcements and Activities


Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Director's Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida Historical Society Minutes of the Board Meeting


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

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, …


Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Florida Library Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, public libraries, archives, and other institutions. Anyone interested in particular collections should correspond with the organization in question.


The East Big Cypress Case, 1948-1987: Environmental Politics, Law, And Florida Seminole Tribal Sovereignty, Harry A. Kersey, Jr. Mar 2022

The East Big Cypress Case, 1948-1987: Environmental Politics, Law, And Florida Seminole Tribal Sovereignty, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.

Florida Historical Quarterly

Congressional enactment of the Seminole Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1987 paved the way for resolution of a thirty-nine-year political and legal conflict between the Seminole Indians and the state of Florida over control of one of the most environmentally sensitive regions in the state.1 The area, known as the East Big Cypress Reservation, was a 28,000-acre tract lying in western Broward and Palm Beach counties, and it formed a rectangle measuring approximately six miles north to south and eight miles east to west. On the west, the tract abutted the federal Big Cypress Indian Reservation, which was acquired …


"The Fox Goes To France": Florida, Secret Codes, And The Election Of 1876, James C. Clark Mar 2022

"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.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Mar 2022

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 69, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents