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The Notorious Swepson-Littlefield Fraud: Railroad Financing In Florida (1868-1871), Paul E. Fenlon Apr 2021

The Notorious Swepson-Littlefield Fraud: Railroad Financing In Florida (1868-1871), Paul E. Fenlon

Florida Historical Quarterly

A full account of the financial manipulations of George W. Swepson and Milton S. Littlefield in Florida during the hectic post-Civil War period would entail consideration of scores of events with which a great number of persons were concerned. It is possible, however, to indicate the essential elements involved in their activities through the examination of six major developments that occurred between 1868 and 1871.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 32, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting of the Society is called to be held in Tallahassee, at the invitation of the Tallahassee Historical Society, on March 25, 26 and 27, 1954. Also includes notes from the Director's Meeting, new members, new subscribers, and contributors


Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Local And Regional Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the Talllahassee Historical Society, Jacksonville Historical Society, Historical Association of Southern Florida, and the Pensacola Historical Society


Notes From The Annual Meeting Of The Southern Historical Association, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Notes From The Annual Meeting Of The Southern Historical Association, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, held for the first time in Florida, at Jacksonville on November 12, 13, 14, was attended by several hundred historians and others interested from all parts of the South. An account of the plans made for the event and the several Florida host groups and committees appeared in the last issue of this Quarterly - especially noted was the Florida session with papers by Florida historical writers.


Book Review: Politica Continental Americana De Espana En Cuba 1812-1830., Albert Manucy Apr 2021

Book Review: Politica Continental Americana De Espana En Cuba 1812-1830., Albert Manucy

Florida Historical Quarterly

A review of Jose L. Franco: Politica Continental Americana de Espana en Cuba 1812-1830. No. XV de las Publicaciones del Archivo Nacional de Cuba. La Habana 1949. (Pp. vi, 429, illustrated, bibliography. Not indexed.)


Territorial Papers Of The United States: Alabama 1817-1819, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Territorial Papers Of The United States: Alabama 1817-1819, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Volume xviii of this series, relating to Alabama, has been published. As the territorial status of Alabama lasted only from 1817 when it was created from a portion of the territory of Mississippi, to 1819 when it was admitted as a state, this one volume contains all of the Alabama documents to be published.


Letters Of A Florida Settler In 1877, W. A. Smith Apr 2021

Letters Of A Florida Settler In 1877, W. A. Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

W. A. Smith was born in Hadley, Mass., in 1826. During his early boyhood his family moved to Wisconsin where he grew up. After marrying and raising a family of two sons and a daughter, he removed to Cortland, N. Y. Reading of Florida’s attractions, he decided to settle there. En route to Florida, he made expenses by giving Bible lectures illustrated by magic lantern slides.


David Betton Macomb, Frontiersman, Andrew Forest Muir Apr 2021

David Betton Macomb, Frontiersman, Andrew Forest Muir

Florida Historical Quarterly

Well known in American history is the peripatetic hunter and trapper, farmer and stockholder who at the head of the westward movement pushed into new areas only to abandon them when joined by too close neighbors. These folk were the vanguard of American civilization. Conspicuous among them are Daniel Boone and David Crockett. Less well known are the equally peripatetic professional men - lawyers, teachers, ministers, and physicians - who were largely instrumental in transmitting to the frontier the typical institutions of American life. Like the early group they too abandoned an area when it became stable and settled to …


Salmon P. Chase And Civil War Politics In Florida, Ovid L. Futch Apr 2021

Salmon P. Chase And Civil War Politics In Florida, Ovid L. Futch

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase was seeking the 1864 Republican presidential nomination, he endeavored to build political fences wherever fortune beckoned. One such state was Florida.


Are There De Soto Relics In Florida?, John M. Goggin Apr 2021

Are There De Soto Relics In Florida?, John M. Goggin

Florida Historical Quarterly

The adventurous trip of Hernando de Soto from his debarkation on the Florida Gulf Coast in 1539, through thousands of miles of wilderness, to his death on the Mississippi River in 1542 has been the subject of many fictional and scholarly studies. Despite the careful attention given to his journey many questions arise in the minds of the students. One is the puzzling problem of why no material objects have ever been found which can be derived from the De Soto expedition. It is hard to believe a party of more than five hundred well-equipped men would leave or lose …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 32, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A report from the Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Assocation, new members


Southern Historical Association, Nineteenth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Southern Historical Association, Nineteenth Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Notes from the meeting of the Souther Historical Association


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of The Story of the Florida Railroads, 1834-1903. By George W. Pettengill, Jr.; Mandarin on the St. Johns. By Mary G. Graff; Sugar Country: The Cane Sugar Industry of the South, 1753-1950. By J. Carlyle Sitterson; The Caribbean: Peoples, Problems, and Prospects. Edited by A. Curtis Wilgus; Handbook of Latin American Studies: 1949. No. 15, Francisco Aguilera (Ed.); Indian River History


Spanish Interest In British Florida, And In The Progress Of The American Revolution, Mark F. Boyd Apr 2021

Spanish Interest In British Florida, And In The Progress Of The American Revolution, Mark F. Boyd

Florida Historical Quarterly

Despite the loss of Florida to Great Britain in 1763, colonial officials in Cuba, probably reflecting the attitude of the Spanish Court, maintained a lively interest in their erstwhile province and preserved a hope of its eventual recovery. When the mounting tension in the British colonies to the north progressed from civil disorder to the revolutionary struggle, Spanish interest in the conflict became intense as the cherished hope began to exhibit the possibility of attainment. The meagerness of the news which reached that Court through random channels was insufficient to reveal the trend of events or determine the moment for …


The Election Of 1876 In Florida, By Marcellus L. Stearns, Republican Candidate For Governor, Edward C. Williamson Apr 2021

The Election Of 1876 In Florida, By Marcellus L. Stearns, Republican Candidate For Governor, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The only carpetbagger boss of a Negro county machine to become governor of Florida, Union Army veteran Marcellus L. Stearns, sought reelection as the Republican candidate in 1876. Born at Lovell, Maine, on April 29, 1839, Stearns at the outbreak of the Civil War was a student at Waterville College, Maine. He left there in 1861 in answer to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers. Losing an arm in the hard fighting in the Shenandoah Valley at the Battle of Winchester, he transferred to the Freedmen’s Bureau, and first came to Florida in 1866, being stationed as an official of the …


The Florida, Atlantic And Gulf Central Railroad, Paul E. Fenlon Apr 2021

The Florida, Atlantic And Gulf Central Railroad, Paul E. Fenlon

Florida Historical Quarterly

Though the factors responsible for the failure of Florida to experience the rapid economic development which took place in the vast western areas of the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth century are numerous and diverse, lack of adequate railroad transportation, certainly until the 1880’s, stands out as one of the most important.


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 32, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents


Contributors, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contributors, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.


The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Minutes of the annual meeting, reports of the president and treasurer, membership report, and new officials


Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Regional And Local Historical Societies, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Includes the Jacksonville Historical Society, Historical Association of Southern Florida, Tallahassee Historical Society, Pensacola Historical Society, Hillsborough County Historical Commission


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Reviews of Archaeology of Eastern United States. Edited by James B. Griffin. The University of Chicago Press, 1952 (392 p. 205 full-page plates. $10).; The Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1952 (vi, 726 p. maps, bibliography, index, $3.50)


Pensacola In 1810, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Pensacola In 1810, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In his research for a doctoral dissertation on “The Federal Government’s Factory System, 1796-1822,” Rev. Aloysius Plaisance, O.S.B. read numerous newspaper files of that period and came upon several descriptions of Pensacola in that era which he has sent us for publication. All are interesting and will be published here in time. Little is known, first-hand, of the Pensacola of 1810, so this account from the St. Louis Louisiana Gazette of September 27, 1910 is of much interest.


Florida’S First Reconstruction Legislature: A Letter Of William H. Gleason, Edward C. Williamson Apr 2021

Florida’S First Reconstruction Legislature: A Letter Of William H. Gleason, Edward C. Williamson

Florida Historical Quarterly

First lieutenant governor of Florida, a new office created by the constitution of 1868, William H. Gleason was political leader of the Northern settlers in South Florida who were Republican. A real estate developer, Gleason came to Florida in 1866 from Wisconsin via Virginia. After residing in Miami where he made his home until the early 1880’s Gleason later moved to Eau Gallie in the Indian River country.


The South Florida Military Institute (Bartow), Samuel Proctor Apr 2021

The South Florida Military Institute (Bartow), Samuel Proctor

Florida Historical Quarterly

As was true of most of the institutions of higher learning taken over by the State at one time or another, the South Florida Military and Educational Institution had operated first as a private school. In 1894 Major General Evander McIver Law, a teacher of long and varied experience, and a Confederate veteran of distinguished service, founded a military school in Bartow, which eventually became one of the constituent parents of the University of Florida


The Marine Forces Of William Augustus Bowles And His State Of Muskogee, Lyle N. Mcalister Apr 2021

The Marine Forces Of William Augustus Bowles And His State Of Muskogee, Lyle N. Mcalister

Florida Historical Quarterly

Among the host of adventurers, dreamers, filibusters and trouble-makers who have added drama to the pages of Florida history, William Augustus Bowles yields to none. Among his enemies, and these were in the majority, he was referred to by epithets ranging from the relatively mild “that fellow Bowles” to the more emphatic “vagabond,” “desperado,” “Black Guard,” “Captain Liar,” and “desperate vile adventurer.” Among his friends and admirers he was known variously as “Beloved Warrior,” “Captain,” “General,” and “Director General.” In the pursuit of his designs Bowles dreamed great dreams, performed remarkable feats of derring-do, executed spectacular escapes, and by a …


Title Page, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 32, Number 1. Includes the Table of Contents


Contents Of Volume Xxxii, Florida Historical Society Apr 2021

Contents Of Volume Xxxii, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Contains a list of articles and authors for Vol. 32