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The Lear-Storer-Decatur Family and their role in American History Courtesy of James D Julia, Inc. (Winter Antiques & Fine Art Auction, February 4 & 5, 2010). The Lear-Storer-Decatur family is one encompassing a number of important historical figures in the 19th, 18th and 17th centuries. Their roots begin with Sir William Pepperrell Baronet, born June 27, 1696 and died July 6, 1759. He was born in Kittery Point, Maine (where all of this material [...] Click here to continue reading. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane Elisha Kent Kane contracted rheumatic fever during his second year of university. This doubtless led him to the pursuit of medical studies (by age twenty-two, he had published a study of early pregnancy detection in the American Journal of Medical Sciences). Because of this training, he possessed a clear understanding of the clinical implications of the persistent endocarditis left by the disease. Without the benefit of antibiotics, it was the [...] Click here to continue reading. Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence is the most important document in American History, some would say in World History. Passed by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 sitting in Philadelphia it officially severed the ties of allegiance between the thirteen colonies and King George III and his realm of Great Britain, and setting forth the case for the colonies right to be independent. In the years since its approval, copies of [...] Click here to continue reading. Roycroft – New York Arts & Crafts Community After visiting William Morris’s Kelmscott community of artisans, charismatic businessman and writer Elbert Hubbard (1856 to 1915) embarked on his own version in East Aurora, New York. His Roycroft community, America’s only Arts & Crafts campus, began in 1895 as a high quality leather bookbindery and publishing house. The name came from two 17th century London printers. The community’s large and prominently displayed mark, the orb [...] Click here to continue reading. Trenton Falls, New York The geologic feature known as Trenton Falls is located in Oneida County, New York and was a major tourist destination in the nineteenth century. The falls comprise several drops of the West Canada Creek totaling 270 feet over a series of limestone ledges creating seven major falls, including: Upper High Falls, Lower High Falls, Village Falls, Cascade of the Alhambra, Sherman Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Mill Dam Falls. Beginning [...] Click here to continue reading. David Dixon Porter, Admiral USN (1813-1891) Born at Chester, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1813, the son of David and Evelina Anderson Porter. David Dixon Porter married Georgie Ann Patterson, March 10, 1839 and they had ten children, including Lieutenant Colonel Carlile Patterson Porter. He was commissioned Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1841, and commanded a landing party of 70 seamen and captured Fort Tabasco, Mexico, in 1847; he commanded the steamer Panama, 1849, and made a voyage [...] Click here to continue reading. Samuel Adams (American, 1722 to 1803) Born in 1722, Patriot Sam Adams gained fame as being the chief agitator of the Boston Tea Party. He served as a tax collector in Boston from 1756 to 1764 and from 1765 to 1774 was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. Adams organized resistance to the British Stamp Act in 1765 and founded the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772. He was a delegate to the First [...] Click here to continue reading. George Rogers Clark (1752-1818) George Rogers Clark was born near Charlottesville, Virginia, traveled west and settled in Kentucky in the early 1770s, despite the British prohibition of such western settlements. At the outbreak of the Revolution, these isolated outposts were subject to Indian attacks. Clark successfully lobbied the Virginia legislature to consider Kentucky a county of Virginia, which qualified it for governmental protection. Clark spent the duration of the Revolution running effective military campaigns [...] Click here to continue reading. Meerschaum Pipes A German term, meerschaum literally means “sea-foam,” alluding to the ancient belief that it was the compressed whitecaps of waves. In reality, meerschaum is a hydrated magnesium silicate, composed of the fossilized shells of tiny sea creatures that fell to the ocean floor millions of years ago. It is meerchaum’s rigid crystalline structure, the arrangement of the magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms, that makes sepiolite (the clay mineral that is identified [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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