#William McKinley Sperry

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Future U.S. Presidents Rutherford B Hayes and William McKinley fought with the 23rd Ohio Infantry.

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Captain Carlos Augustus Sperry of Company B, 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, standing, with two unidentified soldiers holding revolvers and sword] Date Created/Published: 1862 March 13. Medium: 1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.2 x 8.1 cm (case) + 1 manuscript. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32093 Soldier identification from Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums Handwritten note in case: "Taken at Raleigh, Virginia, by Corporal [Addison A.?] Udell, March 13th, 1862, Co. "B" 23rd Regt. O.V.I."

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Gill News 04.05.1923

Community news for #Gill, #WestVirginia in 1923. #LincolnCounty #history #genealogy #Appalachia

“Reporter,” a local correspondent from Gill in Lincoln County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Lincoln Republican printed on Thursday, April 5, 1923:

Prof. Lee Adkins, of near Palermo, has just closed a successful singing school here, and is going to teach another one in the near future.

There is a lot of sickness in this neighborhood.

The Sunday school has opened up at this…

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JUNE 27: Emma Goldman (1869-1940)

One of the most famous anarchists in history and the activist once dubbed “the most dangerous woman in America,” Emma Goldman, was born on this day in 1869.

Throughout her lifetime, Emma wrote over 30 books of anarchist political philosophy (x).

Emma was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Kaunas, Lithuania on June 27, 1869. Her parents had been poorly matched by their own parents and her childhood was surrounded by violence; a rebellious spirit from the start, Emma was frequently beat by her father and branded a “loose girl” by her teachers. The family eventually fled to Rochester, New York in 1885 in response to rising antisemitism at home. In America, Emma worked in a clothing factory and soon married a fellow factory worker named Jacob Kershner. When the marriage fell apart only months after the wedding, the Goldmans were mortified and kicked Emma out of the house. With only her sewing machine and five dollars to her name, Emma left her family in Rochester and headed to start a new life in New York City.  

The foundation of Emma’s politically identity was formed during her time as a factory worker in Rochester where she was witness to the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago and the growing anti-authoritarian scene. Now on her own in New York City, she became involved – politically and romantically – with noted anarchist Alexander Berkman. Together, they created the 1892 Homestead Strike and attempted to assassinate the manager of the Carnegie Steel Company, Henry Clay Frick. Although the plot was unsuccessful, it made national news and put Emma’s name on the map as one of the radicals to watch out for. For the next thirty years, Emma would dedicate her life to the anarchist cause of creating a freer social order and would be in and out of prison. She was a fiery public speaker, author, and a major public enemy of the United States government. For a time she was even believed to have conspired with Leon Czolgosz in the attempted assassination of President William McKinley, but was eventually cleared of all charges.

Nicknamed “Red Emma” in the press, her speeches and talks were known to draw hundreds of attendees (x). 

In addition to her countless acts of direct action, Emma also made history by being one of the first political activists to publicly criticize homophobia. The gay German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld considered her an ally and once wrote that Emma was “the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public." Many historians question whether or not Emma’s allyship was purely that – allyship –  or if she herself also had some skin in the game of gay liberation; she was known to have made connections with lesbian activists during her time in prison and it is also believed that she had a brief affair with a woman named Almeda Sperry. Although Emma and Almeda could only have spent a couple weeks together psychically, there are collections of love letters shared between the two, which can be read here!

Emma Goldman passed away on May 14, 1940 in Toronto, having been deported from America during the original Red Scare of 1919-1920. Her body was eventually allowed to be brought back into the United States, the country where she had spent so many years fighting for her political cause, and was buried in Forest Park, Illinois.

-LC

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The Clague House Museum - Westlake Historical Society 1371-A Clague Rd. Westlake, OH 44145 The Westlake Historical Society, a registered 501(c3) non profit organization located in Westlake, Ohio, was formed to preserve and promulgate the history, historical artifacts, and structures of Dover/Westlake by educational programs for children and adults, by the fostering of historical research, and by social and service projects. Westlake’s beginnings date back to October 10, 1810, when two families arrived to set up homesteads in Township 7, Range 15, of the recently platted Connecticut Western Reserve. Joseph and Lydia Cahoon and Asahel and Rebecca Porter set the example for many New Englanders who followed them. Two years after their arrival, the Township of Dover was established, with Lake Erie as its northern boundary. Other early settlers included Philo Taylor, and the Hurst, Clemens, Crocker and Sperry families. Many of today’s streets and buildings are named for these pioneers. These homesteaders cleared the township’s dense forests to plant crops and provide pasture for raising horses, cattle and sheep. Waterpower from area creeks ran sawmills and gristmills. The area that is now the intersection of Dover Center and Center Ridge Roads was the geographical and historical center of activity. Located in this area was the Dover Blast Furnace, which made pig iron from bog ore and operated for more than 10 years until it burned down in 1844. Agriculture in Dover Township evolved into the raising of grain, small fruit and grapes. The Nickel Plate Railroad was established in 1881, and toward the latter part of the 19th century, the township was the second largest shipping point for grapes in the United States. The Clague house, 1371 Clague Road, Westlake, was built in 1876. It is the third family home built on the former Clague farm since 1837. Robert Clague (1802-1865), the family patriarch, immigrated from the Isle of Man in 1829 and settled in what was then Dover. A few years later, he returned to the Isle of Man, where he married Margaret Cowell (1810-1884). The couple returned to Dover with their first child, Ruth, in the summer of 1837 and set up housekeeping in a log cabin. The family grew, adding eight more children, and Robert Clague built a larger frame house. The Clague family farm eventually included 66 acres of land on the west side of what is now Clague Road and 12 1/2 acres on the east side. Robert Clague cleared more than a mile of trees to build what is now Clague Road, and then went to the Cuyahoga County commissioners to have it accepted as a road. Ruth Clague (1837-1902) was a school teacher in Cleveland. The other Clague children were Victoria (1839-1930), who married Ezra Tuttle in 1873 and enjoyed writing poetry; John (1841-1864), who enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and died in Philadelphia of an illness he contracted during the Battle of the Wilderness; Thomas (1843-1924), who also enlisted in the Union Army and served during the Civil War, then returned to Dover where he worked on the farm and dabbled in real estate; Walter (1846-1934), who liked to farm, hunt and tinker with gadgets and built Clague Pond; Sophronia (1848-1934) taught at McKinley School in Lakewood, enjoyed painting and was known to be very thrifty and an excellent manager of money; William (1850-1902) was quiet and enjoyed working on the farm; Edward (1853-1866) died of typhoid fever at age 13; and Charles (1856-1927), who graduated from Oberlin College, studied law and went into real estate. He married Florence Hall in 1886 and was the only family member to live outside of Ohio. Sophrania Clague and her brother, Walter, were the last two Clague family members to live in the house. They died within months of each other in 1934.