The Charming and Eccentric Lives of Truxtun and Marie Beale, 1856 – 1956
Truxtun’s father, General Edward Fitzgerald Beale, was a hero of the old west. His career started out in the Navy, but he ended up as a general in the California Militia. The 1950s TV show, Death Valley Days, has two episodes that feature Beale. The first, Gold Rush in Reverse, is about him bringing news …
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Grover Cleveland’s name has popped up on these pages, so I thought I would share some interesting stories about him. From New York State, Cleveland was the first Democrat and first man who had not served in the military to get elected president since the Civil War. He was also the first president to serve …
Read the full post →“The sordid history of Grover Cleveland and the Baby Ruth candy bar.”
A purpose of this blog is to give me a space to write about topics that are not in my book (still in the works) but are related to it. There are many interesting stories about the families involved in late 19th-century American politics. I previously posted a copy of this photo from the Maine …
We aren’t experiencing anything new with the coronavirus pandemic. It’s happened before. Most don’t realize it or how much better off we still are from people who lived in the past. Take, for example, the Russian “Flu”, then commonly called La Grippe, which swept the world starting in 1889. Last year, Bloomberg Opinion write, Mark …
Read the full post →“The Russian “Flu” and the Blaine Family”