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[Georgia] [Biography] Northen, William (edited by))Biblio.com

Men of Mark in Georgia. A Complete and Elaborate History of the State from its settlement to the present time chiefly told in biographies and auto-biographies of the most eminent men of each period of Georgia's progress and development. Volume III

[Georgia] [Political] [Yazoo Land Fraud] [US House of Representatives] U SBiblio.com

Report of the Committee To Whom was Referred The Bill From the Senate Entitled "An Act Providing for the Indemnification of Certain Public Claimants of Public Lands in the Mississippi Territory." March 15 1814 Read and Committed to a committee of the whole house on Thursday next

181433969Washington DC: A. and G. Way Printers 1814. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps. Approx. 8" x 5". 29 pages 1 page blank 1. On page 3 under Report reads "The committee to which was referred the bill from the Senate entitled "An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of Public lands in the Mississippi Territory." This report list several claims from those who purchased land from Georgia in 1794-95. This report relates to the settlements stemming from the Yazoo Land Fraud in Georgia during the latter part of the 18th century. After the Revolution Georgia had difficulty protecting its western boundaries from hostile enemies. In 1794 Georgia politicians passed a law transferring 35 million acres at very low prices to prospective companies to establish settlements. Georgia Federalist James Gunn arranged to have the distribution of money and Yazoo lands to legislators State officials newspaper editors and influential Georgians. The governor of Georgia James Matthews signed the bill into law in 1795. The Yazoo Land Act transferred 35 million acres in present day Alabama and Mississippi at a ridiculously low price of 500000 dollars to four companies. This land was then sold to speculators and companies willing to build settlements in the area. Georgia politicians were accused of bribery and dishonesty and James Jackson Senator from Georgia resigned his seat in Washington and returned to Georgia to fight against this flawed sale. In 1796 the Rescinding Act was passed by the Georgia legislature and signed into law by Georgia Governor Jared Irwin negating the land sale. With Jackson's allies in control of the Georgia Legislature all documents relating to the Yazoo Act were destroyed and officials that passed the the act were denied reelection. In 1802 all lands were given back to the United States. Those that had purchased land went to the highest Courts and in 1814 all settlements were paid by the U.S. Government. A. and G. Way, Printers unknown

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[Georgia]. [Judiciary]Biblio.com

The Atlanta Republican --- Extra.Saturday December 18 1880 caption title

18805904Atlanta: December 18 1880. About very good. Broadside newspaper extra 19 x 11.25 inches. Old folds and creases a bit wrinkled minor soiling minor fraying and light staining to top edge tiny hole at center crossfold. An extraordinarily rare broadside newspaper extra from the only Republican paper in the state of Georgia to survive the end of Reconstruction. The Atlanta Republican was issued weekly between 1874 and 1886 and was devoted to Republican Party causes during Reconstruction. The present extra issue is a ringing endorsement of Hon. Amos T. Akerman 1821-1880 the Republican nominee to a recent open circuit judgeship in the state. Akerman was a Dartmouth-educated jurist who moved south to practice law. He settled in Georgia in 1850 and true to his surroundings owned several slaves and served as a colonel in the Confederate Army. Following the war Akerman became an advocate for Reconstruction and freedmen's rights served as U.S. Attorney for Georgia and eventually worked as President Grant's attorney general crusading against the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan during the early 1870s. Though a Republican in Reconstruction Georgia Akerman remained a largely popular figure in the state. The present broadside documents a meeting by the Atlanta Bar in which they speak glowingly about the "ability learning and integrity" of Akerman praise his "unswerving fidelity to the Republican Party at the most stormy and trying periods of the struggles of the South" and note both his "manly services in the cause of the true national and human and sentiments and principles in the trying days of reconstruction" and "valuable services to the cause of Republicanism during the last fifteen years." The work also mentions Akerman's volunteer services during a supposed "negro insurrection" in Georgia in the mid-1870s in which Akerman's work "resulted in restoring peace and satisfying the impassioned and infuriated whites that there was no insurrection attempted or contemplated." The Bar calls for united support for Akerman and the broadside concludes with an article about a "Committee of Lawyers appointed to press the claims of Mr. Akerman for the Circuit Judgeship." Despite the strong support statewide Akerman was never able to accept the judgeship had it been offered to him; unfortunately he died three days after the issuance of the present newspaper extra. Still the broadside remains an interesting example of the waning though remaining Republican influence in very late-to-post-Reconstruction Georgia. The present newspaper extra is not in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society nor in OCLC but one is apparently located at the University of Georgia's broadside collection. December 18 unknown

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[Industry] [Georgia] [Iron Works, Cass County, Georgia] [Jacob D Stroup]Biblio.com

September 15th 1848 manuscript letter written from the Iron Works in Cass County Georgia addressed to Mr. Isaac H Parker Newborn Newton Co. Georgia

184835414Cass County Bartow County Georgia: n.p. 1848. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 10" x 8". 4 pages. 2 pages of content and one page with address. Paper is folded. A couple of light red partial wax seals on the address side. Letter transcribed as best as possible: Iron Works Cass County Georgia Sept 15 1848 Mr J. H. Parker Dear Sir Being absent from home when your letters arrived at the Post Office Is the cause of me not writing you sooner. The money for the machine came duly to hand I am sorry that I can not send you the castings for the machine Our Furnaces is not making good Iron And has not make any good Iron since your Order arrived from Mr Ford It requires good Iron for making the castings We will after stop our Furnances since week or two until we put in new hearth as soon as we get that done we send your castings right on I send your machine to Rail Road to day the the repeated agent said he would send it right on in a few days I hope that it reach you in due time The machine is New & it not cut so well at the start as it will when used a while I will be sirtain to send the casting as soon as their are made write to me soon as convient and to let know whether you have received the machine or not Very Respectfully Yours signed Jacob D Shoup N B The castings you spoke of for Buggs &c cant be furnished at a short notice if you will send the pattens for the same when we get our Furnance in good fix again Your J D S We will send them to Rail Road four four cents per pound that will be much better than buying them in Augusta at 18 cts per pound Ours will be as neat any you can get from Augusta J D H On the back side is the address Iron Works Ga Sept 18th Mr Isaac H Parker Newborn P O Newton Co Georgia END Georgia business man and industrialist Mark Anthony Cooper formed the Etowah Iron Works in present day Bartow County with Ironmakers Moses and Jacob Stroup in the 1840's. Etowah was located just north of Cartersville Georgia in former Cass County. The Iron Works were destroyed by the Union Army in 1864 and after the War the area remained in ruins. From from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography 6 volumes edited by William S. Powell: "Moses Stroup the eldest son of Jacob was born in Lincoln County N.C. With little formal schooling he was brought up in the iron business. Many contemporaries considered him to be one of the "most expert furnacemen" in the South and a "remarkable genius" in the iron business as well as a good money-maker but a "poor keeper." He accompanied his father to South Carolina about 1815 and when Jacob moved to Georgia in the late 1820s Moses stayed behind. But in 1843 he joined his father at Cass County Ga. and bought him out. Moses built a rolling mill and rolled some of the first railroad iron made in Georgia some of which was used on the state-owned Western and Atlantic. In 1847 he sold the Cass County works to Mark Anthony Cooper and Company and shortly moved to Alabama where he bought ore lands from the government and began the Round Mountain Furnace in 1849". From wikipedia: Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3 1832 and named Cass County after General Lewis Cass 1782–1866 Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan3 who was instrumental in the removal of Native Americans from the area. However the county was renamed on December 6 1861 in honor of Francis S. Bartow because of Cass's support of the Union4 even though Bartow never visited in the county living 200 miles 320 km away near Savannah all of his life. Cass had supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty the right of each state to determine its own laws independently of the Federal government the platform of conservative Southerners who removed his name. The first county seat was at Cassville but after the burning of the county courthouse and the Sherman Occupation the seat moved to Cartersville where it remains. n.p. unknown

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[James and Oliff Johnson] [Georgia] [Texas]Biblio.com

1855 manuscript letter from James and Oliff Johnson of Murray Co. Ga written to family in Texas discussing health domestic affairs farming religion etc.

185533764Murray County Georgia: n/a 1855. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 13" x 8". 2 pages. Light blue paper with several vertical and horizontal folds. No address envelope or postal mark associated with the letter. The writing is in the same hand. Several misspelled words. Signed bottom of page 2 "James Johnson and Oliff Johnson". The letter begins with the location "Murry Co. however the spelling should be "Murray" instead. The letter is dated September 17th 1855 and addressed to "Dear Sons and Daughters". The contents of the letter are transcribed below as they appear: "I take my 'Sete to right you a few lines to let you know that we are yet in the land of the living - I and your mother helth is febel we are both infirm but on foot. John famley are all well - James S. Brooks and Ruth is living here by us Ruths helth is vary bad indeed Scairsly abel at go about - we cant tell ennything much about your brothers - Francis is in Coosa ala Jesse is in "polden Co Ga James Turner is in walker Co near the tensee line practising medison we have not herd from none of them recently - you See by this it is my own hand - an it may be the last I may ever rite to you my dear Children - we received your letter on the 5th - of this instent jest one month from the time it was rote - which gives us grate satisfaction To hear from you all and to hear your wellfair - we have been looking for a letter for a long time - Sence we have been in Murry I have rote you two letters this is the third and we have received two from the Children - rite frequently - we have had good seasons this year last year we had a Sever drouth - but now we have good Crops both of corne and whete - I want now to Say Sumthing on the Subject of Religen I think it is in a tollenable prospers State our last Quertly meeting Commenst the 22nt of august it was protracted for twelve days and nights in sucsion - the power of God was made manafest in the Connicsion and Convirsion of menney and there was fifty two joind the Church. James S. Brooks and his Sons wesley and francis have all joind the Church - we think we enjoy Sumthing of the Comforts of Religen in our declining year - we are looking forward with a pleasing antisapation to our long and happy rest in heaven - my dear Children live faithful to God try to grow in grace and in the knoledge of our Lord and Savour Jesus Christ." end page 1. Noble we shall not forget your request in our Suplicasions at a throne of grace - we pray you may have all the graces and Christen fortitude you need - Or that you may be Sustained Strenthned and blest by the holy Spiret of our blesed Redemer may you discharge your duty in that office as a Leader in the Curch of God - Job my son I want you to help Noble in his class meting - pray and Sing with him and with them in the Class meting ad thereby you will enjoy much Religion youSelf live exemplry my Son before your Children rais them up in the nuncher and admonishing of the Lord - Louisa John and Elvira we want you all to be good Children the good book Sais be thou faithful unto death and I will give you the Crown of life - Mary and Gorge we did not hear that you got Religen an Joind the Church- but we hope to hear that in the next letter we git from texis - we want to see you all vary much and Often think we would be glad to be in texis with you all - write to us without fail as Soon as git this letter and write whither your ant polley Brown betsy Cozby is in texis or not - So no more - give our Respects to all inquiring friens - we still Remain your affectnate parance till Death Signed James Johnson Ollif Johnson. Murray County Georgia is located in the north Georgia mountains northwest of Calhoun and east of Dalton Georgia. There are records for the James and Olif corrected spelling Johnson found in Ancestry web site in the 1860 Murray County Georgia census. Their respective ages were 75 for James and 71 for Oliff. James Johnson was born in Virginia and Olif was born in North Carolina. Other census records for the Johnson family in Murray County are found in the 1860 and 1870 Murray County census. n/a unknown

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[Leo Frank] [Atlanta] [Georgia] AnonBiblio.com

The Frank Case Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery

191336796Atlanta: The Atlanta Publishing Company 1913. Soft cover. Poor. Wraps. Approx. 8" x 5". 144 pages. Complete. Wraps are in poor condition. Paper is extremely fragile with multiple chips tears and loss to the covers and spine. A poor earlier glue repair job has left the remains of the covers stained. Covers are mostly detached and at the time of this catalog description are barely attached by old tape repairs. First and last pages are near detached. Page edges for the first few pages are chipped and creased. Browned pages to the text This extremely scarce coverage of the Leo Frank Trial was published shortly after the trial was completed. Two years later a mob broke into the Milledgeville prison where Frank was an inmate and kidnapped Frank. The mob drove Frank to Marietta Georgia where he was hanged. From the author name not provided on page 2 - "This work ends with the conviction of Frank in the superior court of Fulton Atlanta county. Trial did not end the case for immediately after the young defendant was sentenced to pay the death penalty a motion for a new trial was made and it will be months probably years before he hangs if he ever does. From the day of conviction however the fight for Frank's life became a technical legal battle. The real story ends with the trial and every essential feature is given here." The last two pages of this narrative express the fears of Atlanta officials if a not guilty verdict and the potential of lynching before the jury reached its guilty verdict. An extremely scarce fragile and period narrative of one of the most violent Civil Rights abuses in Georgia history. No physical copies located in OCLC. No copies showing in auctions or the trade. Leo Frank was a superintendent at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta. He was charged with the murder of Mary Phagan a 13 year old employee of the National Pencil Factory. She was found murdered at the factory on April 26 1913. From the New Georgia Encyclopedia: "Based mainly on the testimony of the janitor who had been held in seclusion for six weeks before the trial on orders from Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey the jury convicted the defendant. Frank's attorneys were unable to break Conley's testimony on the stand. They also allowed evidence to be introduced suggesting that Frank had many dalliances with girls and perhaps boys in his employ. Atlantans hoped for a conviction. They surrounded the courthouse cheered the prosecutor as he entered and exited the building each day and celebrated wildly when the jurors after twenty-five days of trial found Frank guilty". Shortly after the trial concluded the appeals process began. From New Georgia Encyclopedia: "Within weeks of the trial's outcome in early September friends of Frank sought assistance from northern Jews including constitutional lawyer Louis Marshall of the American Jewish Committee. Marshall gave advice about what information to include in the appeal but Frank's Georgia attorneys ignored his counsel. Frank's lawyers filed three successive appeals to the Supreme Court of Georgia and two more to the U.S. Supreme Court all on such procedural issues as Frank's absence when the verdict was rendered and the excessive amount of public influence placed on the jury. Ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court still on procedural grounds denied Frank's appeals; however a minority of two Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Evans Hughes dissented. They noted that the trial was conducted in an atmosphere of public hostility: "Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury." Governor John Slaton of Georgia reviewed the testimony and went to the Pencil factory. After reviewing the case the Governor commuted Frank's sentence in 1915. This infuriated Georgians leading to Atlanta riots and the safety of Frank Slaton. Slaton left the state for 10 years after his term in office ended. In August of 1915 25 leading citizens of Marietta kidnapped Leo Frank and drove him to Marietta where he was hanged. The Atlanta Publishing Company unknown

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