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Altar And Hearth: The Coming Of Christianity, Michael V. Gannon May 2021

Altar And Hearth: The Coming Of Christianity, Michael V. Gannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Catholic Church in this Country does not begin her history after colonies were formed, and men had looked to their temporal well-being. Her priests were among the explorers of the coast, were the pioneers of the vast interior; with Catholic settlers came the minister of God, and Mass was said to hallow the land and draw down the blessing of heaven before the first step was taken to rear a human habitation. The altar was older than the hearth.


The Exploration Of Florida And Sources On The Founding Of St. Augustine, Luis Rafael Arana May 2021

The Exploration Of Florida And Sources On The Founding Of St. Augustine, Luis Rafael Arana

Florida Historical Quarterly

Four hundred years ago, Europeans made the first permanent settlement within the present limits of the United States. These were Spaniards who under Pedro Menendez de Aviles established St. Augustine in 1565, upon land discovered fifty-two years earlier. In the interval between discovery and colonization, the coast of Florida had been gradually charted and portions of the interior explored. Though all attempts at planting the civilization of Spain in the new land failed until Menendez appeared on the scene, the discoveries of Juan Ponce de Leon, Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Panfilo de Narvaez, and Hernando de Soto gradually outlined the …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 44, Number 1-2. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xliv, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contents Of Volume Xliv, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 44


Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notice of the annual meeting, news from Florida's historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Davis, Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830, by Robert Middlekauff; Hamilton, Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850, by Harold M. Hyman; Simonhoff, Jewish Participants in the Civil War, by Sidney Lefkowitz; Bonner (ed.), The Journal of a Milledgeville Girl, 1861-1876, by Kenneth Coleman; Logan, The Negro in North Carolina, 1876-1894, by Jerrell H. Shofner; Blair, A Southern Prophecy: The Prosperity of the South Dependent Upon the Elevation of the Negro, by Dewey W. Grantham, Jr.; Chalmers, The Social and Political Ideas of the Muckrakers, by David W. Noble


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Swain, Federal Conservation Policy: 1921-1933, by J. E. Dovell; Lerche, The Uncertain South: Its Changing Patterns of Politics in Foreign Policy, by William C. Havard; Seers (ed.), Cuba, the Economic and Social Revolution, by Frederick E. Kidder; Ludlum, Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870, by Marjory Stoneman Douglas; Bumgartner, Jose’ del Valle of Central America, by Robert A. Naylor; Bannon (ed.), Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands, by Burr Brundage


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Gannon, Rebel Bishop: The Life and Era of Augustin Verot, by Baynard Kendrick; Will, Cracker History of Oheechobee: “Custard Apple, Moonvine, Catfish and Moonshine,” by Baynard Kendrick; Rachlis and Marqusee, The Land Lords, by Benjamin F. Rogers; Jernigan, Florida: Past, Present, Future, by Martin La Godna; Barbour, The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith, by Aubrey C. Land; Hall, Leder, and Kammen (eds.), The Glorious Revolution in America: Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689, by Jack P. Greene; Peckham, The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762, by George C. Rogers, Jr.


The Editor's Corner--A Plan To Homestead Freedmen In Florida In 1866, F. Bruce Rosen May 2021

The Editor's Corner--A Plan To Homestead Freedmen In Florida In 1866, F. Bruce Rosen

Florida Historical Quarterly

At the conclusion of the Civil War, a number of plans were presented for the colonization of freedmen. Of particular interest to Floridians is one suggested to Maior General Oliver Otis Howard, commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, by the assistant commissioner of the Bureau for Florida, Brevet Colonel Thomas W. Osborn.


Observations On The Origin And Date Of A Seventeenth-Century Florida Map, Ron L. Seckinger May 2021

Observations On The Origin And Date Of A Seventeenth-Century Florida Map, Ron L. Seckinger

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Woodbury Lowery's The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States. Florida, 1562-1574 (1905 edition), there is a map with an inscription which reads, “Map of the coast of Florida, in which region is the Laguna Maymi and where the fort is to be made.” A cloverleaf drawn on the map indicates the site of a projected fort at the Bocas de Miguel Mora, an unidentified location on the southeastern coast of the peninsula. The map, as well as contemporary Spanish documents, indicates that the place called the Bocas was along the southeast coast of Florida, probably …


A South Carolina Lawyer Visits St. Augustine - 1837, John Hammond Moore May 2021

A South Carolina Lawyer Visits St. Augustine - 1837, John Hammond Moore

Florida Historical Quarterly

Just why Henry Summer, a young South Carolina lawyer, journeyed to Florida in the winter of 1837 is not clear. This account, entitled simply “Journal &c. for 1837,” indicates his purpose was to search court records in St. Augustine-perhaps for Judge John Belton O’Neall, a noted jurist with whom he was associated. Born in 1809 of distinguished German stock, Henry was one of six sons. One brother, William (1815-78), became a horticulturist of some note and gave the name Pomaria to the Newberry County community where he lived. Another, Adam (1818-66), was a well-known Columbia printer. As this narrative makes …


Curbing Of Voter Intimidation In Florida, 1871, Ralph L. Peek May 2021

Curbing Of Voter Intimidation In Florida, 1871, Ralph L. Peek

Florida Historical Quarterly

The national Republican administration by early 1870, was aware that large-scale intimidation of Negro voters throughout the South was effectively curbing Negro voting and hurting the party. Consequently, legislation was proposed to protect Negro rights by enforcing the fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution. On February 21, 1870, Representative John Bingham of Ohio introduced a bill that was supposed to protect voting rights wherever they were being denied. Administration spokesmen testified that intimidation and violence were keeping Negroes from the polls in several states, and that federal “force” legislation was needed to protect civil rights in states where politicians …


Social Legislation In Reconstruction Florida, Derrell Roberts May 2021

Social Legislation In Reconstruction Florida, Derrell Roberts

Florida Historical Quarterly

State legislatures for the most part, generally prefer to leave social and welfare problems to others, either private individuals or other government agencies. Even though their taxing powers, as well as their legislative possibilities, are not nearly so limited as their national counterparts, the ideal solution, they insist, is “private initiative.” On the contemporary scene, when many citizens believe that some social legislation is necessary, state legislative bodies seem to prefer leaving such important matters to the national Congress, even on a matching basis. In this regard, Florida’s reconstruction legislature was modern, it pursued a policy that is still in …


Pensacola Labor Problems And Political Radicalism, Wayne Flynt May 2021

Pensacola Labor Problems And Political Radicalism, Wayne Flynt

Florida Historical Quarterly

Historians have generally ignored labor organization in the South. Even the few pioneer studies dealing with southern labor have been confined to the more spectacular strikes in a handful of states. Florida’s unions, radicalism, and labor politics have been damned to the historical limbo surrounding so much of her twentieth-century history. The records reveal that Florida’s labor organizations, beginning with the Knights of Labor in the 1880’s, experienced the same cycles of growth, power, decline, and frustration as in the more highly industrialized northeast. Before examining a specific phase in the long and often sanguinary struggle to organize Florida’s workingmen, …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 43, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contributors to this issue


Directors' Meeting, December 5, 1964, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Directors' Meeting, December 5, 1964, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes from the directors' meeting, held at the University of South Florida


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Udall, The Quiet Crisis, by John D. Pennekamp; Thompson, Presbyterians in the South, Volume I: 1607-1 861, by Jack P. Dalton; Bradbury, Renaissance in the South: A Critical History of the Literature, 1920-1960, by Frederick W. Conner; Whitaker, Nationalism in Latin America, Past and Present, by Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr.


Historical News, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Historical News, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

News from Florida's historical societies


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Hollander, Slavery in America: Its Legal History, by Theodore B. Wilson; Robertson, The Stonewall Brigade, by Edwin C. Bearss; Brown, The Galvanized Yankees, by Ben H. Procter; Cox, Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866, by Phillip S. Paludan; Morgan, The Gilded Age: A Reappraisal, by Stanley P. Hirshson; Healy, The United States in Cuba, 1898-1902: Generals, Politicians, and the Search for Policy, by William Schellings; Silva, Rum, Religion, and Votes: 1928 Re-Examined, by John DeGrove


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Reese, Colonial Georgia: A Study in British Imperial Policy in the Eighteenth Century, by Hugh T. Lefler; Levy, Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side, by F. Bruce Rosen; Hopkins-Hargreaves, The Papers of Henry Clay, Volume III: Presidential Candidate, 1821-1824, by Edwin A. Miles; Seager, And Tyler Too: A Biography of John & Julia Tyler, by Alfred A. Cave; Howard, American Slavers and the Federal Law, 1837-1862, by James Z. Rabun


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society May 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Tanner, Zespedes in East Florida, 1784-1790, by John J. TePaske; King, The Fountain of Youth and Juan Ponce de Leon, by Charles W. Arnade; Fritz, Unknown Florida, by James W. Covington; Dovell, History of Banking in Florida: First Supplement, 1954-1963, by O. Z. Tyler, Jr.; Caruso, The Southern Frontier, by Robert L. Gold


The Editor's Corner--Recollections Of A Florida Schoolteacher, Alice Fry May 2021

The Editor's Corner--Recollections Of A Florida Schoolteacher, Alice Fry

Florida Historical Quarterly

My parents moved to Bradenton in the fall of 1908, and my sister and I came down in June of 1909. We were fresh out of college though not college graduates. Before coming to Florida, we had decided we would become school teachers.


The Editor's Corner--James Buckland: The Mystery Of An Early Florida Visitor, Eugene Alvarez May 2021

The Editor's Corner--James Buckland: The Mystery Of An Early Florida Visitor, Eugene Alvarez

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida, in 1836, was little more than a semi-tropical battlefield for United States troops and Seminole Indians. Having only been recently acquired from Spain, the major towns of the territory, by 1836, were St. Augustine, possessing approximately 4,000 inhabitants, and Pensacola with a population of approximately 2,000 persons. The St. Johns was the major river of the territory, and along its shores were located several tiny settlements, including the small river town of Jacksonville.


The Editor's Corner--Key West In The Summer Of 1864, Millicent Todd Bingham May 2021

The Editor's Corner--Key West In The Summer Of 1864, Millicent Todd Bingham

Florida Historical Quarterly

From 1918 until her death in 1932, my mother, Mabel Loomis Todd, was a prominent resident of Coconut Grove Florida. Her home, “Matsuba,” was a center of cultural life in the community. Recently I have been reading the letters of her mother’s brother, Colonel John Augustus Wilder, written to his family during the Civil War. Stationed at Key West in February 1864, he remained there until August 28, 1865, when he was appointed Judge Advocate General of the Department of Florida and left for Tallahassee, his post until December 9, 1865. He was mustered out of the United States Army …


Ponce De Leon Inlet, Alice Strickland May 2021

Ponce De Leon Inlet, Alice Strickland

Florida Historical Quarterly

In its day it has been called the “Killer Inlet” because of its treacherous bar that has ripped out the insides of ships and hurled men to the sandy, shifty bottom to strew their white bones like beads from a broken necklace. From early Spanish times it was named Mosquito Inlet; since 1926, it has been called Ponce de Leon Inlet.


Henry S. Sanford And Labor Problems In The Florida Orange Industry, Richard J. Amundson May 2021

Henry S. Sanford And Labor Problems In The Florida Orange Industry, Richard J. Amundson

Florida Historical Quarterly

Henry Shelton Sandord, direct descendant of Thomas Sanford who had come to Massachusetts in the 1630’s, made many contributions to the economic welfare of the United States and particularly to Florida, his “adopted state.” Sanford’s foresight and his sizable investments promoted the growth and prosperity of the orange culture in central Florida. His adoption of modern equipment and scientific methods of cultivation, including selective cross-breeding of citrus stocks and the use of irrigation, speeded the so-called “orange revolution” which occurred in the post-Civil War period. Progress and change, however, often are opposed, and so it was with Sanford’s efforts to …


Confederate Railroad Construction: The Live Oak To Lawton Connector, Jerrell H. Shofner May 2021

Confederate Railroad Construction: The Live Oak To Lawton Connector, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of the Confederacy’s most perplexing problems involved combining the disconnected southern railroads into a system of transportation between the various parts of the South. Lack of equipment and enemy action were major reasons for the failure to solve the problem. The Confederate government also pursued the disastrous policy of relying as much as possible on private initiative to supply its needs.


The Battle Of Olustee: Its Meaning For The British, Lawrence E. Breeze May 2021

The Battle Of Olustee: Its Meaning For The British, Lawrence E. Breeze

Florida Historical Quarterly

Early in February 1864, Major General Quincy A. Gillmore, commanding the Federal Department of the South with headquarters at Hilton Head, South Carolina, ordered Brigadier General Truman Seymour, commander of the District of Hilton Head, to prepare his forces for a seaborne expedition. Subsequent orders, issued after the embarkation of the troops, directed the expedition to the east coast of Florida. On February 7, Seymour’s forces reached the mouth of the St. Johns River. They ascended the river to Jacksonville and soon took possession of the town. Meeting only token resistance in the area, they began raiding operations outward from …