tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16306080690455470222024-03-13T18:10:42.314-05:00Lens & Pen BlogCrystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-42472409226647299362017-04-26T08:00:00.000-05:002017-04-26T08:00:09.212-05:00Moving on up! <br />
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We’re moving our <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/lens-and-pen-blog/" target="_blank"><strong>Lens & Pen Press</strong> </a>blog from Blogger to Word Press and will consolidate the two current blogs into one for our books--the <b><em>Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks</em></b>, the <em>J<b>ames Fork of the White </b>(</em>coming 2017), <b><em>Damming the Osage</em></b>, <em><b>Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</b> </em>and <b>See the Ozarks</b>--and many other favorite topics of discussion like the Ozarks or water resources. <em> </em></div>
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The archive of L&P posts is still available at<i> </i><a data-mce-href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/" href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/">http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/</a> </div>
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The posts on our separate <strong><em>Damming the Osage</em></strong> website remain available at <a data-mce-href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/the-blog/" href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/the-blog/">http://www.dammingtheosage.com/the-blog/</a></div>
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<strong>COMING IN 2017: <em>JAMES FORK OF THE WHITE: Transformation of an Ozark River.</em></strong><br />
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Our earlier ‘river book,’<span style="color: #003300;"> <em><strong>DAMMING THE OSAGE</strong></em></span>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a><br />
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-38111995681018646862017-03-25T08:30:00.000-05:002017-03-25T08:30:42.520-05:00TABLE ROCK - BLUFF AND DAM<style>
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-76623986171700265592017-03-17T08:00:00.000-05:002017-03-17T08:00:13.408-05:00POWER TO ST. PATRICK AND THE SHAMROCK<style>
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The Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese encompasses the land where John Hogan established the settlement now remembered in the Irish Wilderness. See its full history in <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/mystery-of-the-irish-wilderness/" target="_blank">Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;">In honor of St. Patrick and my Irish ancestors</span></span>,</span></b> Lens <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">&</span></span> Pen Press is offering <b><i>Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</i></b> ($18.95 retail) for <b>$15, postage paid</b>, during the month of March! Order your copy at: <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/</a></span><br />
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-21411323768008707022017-03-16T08:00:00.000-05:002017-03-16T08:00:03.501-05:00"The Forgotten Irish" Event at the National Archives TonightTonight, the National Archives is hosting the release of <i>The Forgotten Irish: Irish Immigrant Experiences in America</i>, by Damien Shiels. Mr. Shiels has impressive credentials as an archaeologist and military history writer. <br />
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The title is intriguing. According to the editorial write ups, the 35 families whose stories are told within its pages were (East Coast) families of soldiers who died in the Civil War. I would expand the "forgotten" category to include the pre-Civil War settlers in Missouri's <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/mystery-of-the-irish-wilderness/" target="_blank">Irish Wilderness</a>!<br />
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The event will be live streamed on youtube. I for one will be watching.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;">In honor of St. Patrick and my Irish ancestors</span></span>,</span></b> Lens <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">&</span></span> Pen Press is offering <b><i>Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</i></b> ($18.95 retail) for <b>$15, postage paid</b>, during the month of March! Order your copy at: <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Sample pages from this new book can be seen at <a href="http://www.beautifulozarks.com/" target="_blank">www.beautifulozarks.com</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Our earlier 'river book,' <i><b>DAMMING THE OSAGE</b></i>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a> </span></div>
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-146592181894386192017-03-14T08:30:00.000-05:002017-03-14T08:30:06.291-05:00Is Handy, Missouri, our own "New Ireland"?<span id="goog_247221361"></span><span id="goog_247221362"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Noah Haney Founder of Handy Post office was
commissioned as Post-Master Sep. 9, 1913 – Resigned in favor of his daughter
Mrs. Catherine Probst Oct, 28 1932 – Mrs. Probst served as Acting P.M. until
Commissioned as Postmaster May 13 1935 – and continued as same until Post
Office was closed Nov. 30 – 54 – Mail was carried from Fremont, MO by truck –
in Carter Co. </span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In her master’s thesis, "Place Names Of Five Southern Border Counties Of Missouri,"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(University of Missouri, 1945) Cora Ann Pottenger recounts the story of how the Handy Post Office got its name:</span></span> <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Established in Noah Haney's
small country store. The story is told that because of poor penmanship in the
petition, the postal authorities mistook the suggested name Haney for Handy.
Some remarked that the name was appropriate for it would now be so
"handy"--convenient--to get the mail twice a week right at home,
instead of going the long distance to Pine. (A.C. Randel; J. Whitwell; Harry
Thaxton; Postal Guide 1915-) </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;">In honor of St. Patrick and my Irish ancestors</span></span>,</span></b> Lens <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">&</span></span> Pen Press is offering <b><i>Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</i></b> ($18.95 retail) for <b>$15, postage paid</b>, during the month of March! Order your copy at: <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Our earlier 'river book,' <i><b>DAMMING THE OSAGE</b></i>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a> </span></div>
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Young Father John Joseph Hogan was not the only Irish idealist hoping to establish communities for those he described as "people of small means." His exploratory forays into the Ozarks did result, however briefly, in the establishment and growth of a small settlement mostly in Oregon and Ripley counties. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a Cram's 1875 Missouri map is the enigmatic toponym, New Ireland. It appears to be located near the present day site of Handy, an area that had a heavy concentration of 1859 and 1860 land patents with Irish claimants. No historical society has any documentation or record of new Ireland as a Missouri place name.</span> </blockquote>
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Lynn Morrow, noted Ozarks historian, provided this opinion: "Cram's 1875 map has a number of these idiosyncratic place names ... that, like New Ireland, occur for a short time and then
disappear and are not repeated by subsequent cartographers, although I
(and no one else) have not systematically compared them. I don't know if
there is a source that explains where Cram got all of his information,
but it's certainly not all from surveys and post office records."<br />
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Chapter 20 of Tim Egan's recent best seller, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Irishman-Revolutionary-Became-American-ebook/dp/B011H55RD6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489257660&sr=1-1&keywords=the+immortal+irishman" target="_blank"><i>The Immortal Irishman,</i></a> is entitled "New Ireland." In it he notes the American consul in Dublin, William West, in the late days of the Civil War proposed rewarding Irish solders for the Union with 'some desirable portion of our territories and call it New Ireland, of which no doubt General Meagher would in due time be elected Governor."<br />
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Thomas F. Meagher ("The Immmortal Irishman" of the title)<i> </i>in his post-Civil War career sought to find that 'desirable portion of our territories' for the Irish in Montana Territory. Meagher was painfully aware of the abysmal tenement conditions in which East Coast Irish families mostly lived. Hogan's pre-Civil War concern was the plight of Missouri's Irish (servant girls and railroad workers could not - by the nature of their separate employment circumstances - meet, marry and raise good Irish Catholic families). <br />
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Google the phrase, New Ireland, and other locations show up. Some have an actual community associated with it.<br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">!!HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: small;">In honor of St. Patrick and my Irish ancestors</span></span>,</span></b> Lens <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">&</span></span> Pen Press is offering <b><i>Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</i></b> ($18.95 retail) for <b>$15, postage paid</b>, during the month of March! Order your copy at: <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">http://www.dammingtheosage.com/buy-the-book/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;"><b>COMING IN 2017: <i>JAMES FORK OF THE WHITE: Transformation of an Ozark River.</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Sample pages from this new book can be seen at <a href="http://www.beautifulozarks.com/" target="_blank">www.beautifulozarks.com</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Our earlier 'river book,' <i><b>DAMMING THE OSAGE</b></i>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a> </span></div>
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-68918547925817926762017-02-28T08:30:00.000-06:002017-02-28T08:30:06.777-06:00BRANSON LANDING - nearly 100 years ago! How things have changed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Before the construction of the run-of-the-river hydroelectric
Powersite Dam on the White River near Forsythe, float fishing was the primary sporting
attraction for the Shepherd of the Hills Country. Lake Taneycomo, which filled
in 1913, didn’t eliminate the celebrated Galena-to-Branson float, but it gave
Branson and Hollister an advantage over Galena. The small lake was more
compatible with larger, motorized watercraft than the shallow flowing James and
White rivers in their native state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
the mid-1920s the shoreline at Branson Landing was filled with larger motorized
tour boats and smaller cruisers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The times - and Branson- are a-changin'! This shows just how different life a hundred years ago was in Branson. Motorized tour boats accommodated auto-delivered tourist who
came to sightsee, not fish, float or commune with nature. Lake Taneycomo was
compatible with Arcadianism but it opened the door to mass tourism. Today Branson
Landing is a big modern shopping center, showing few traces of this earlier era.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Sample pages from this new book can be seen at <a href="http://www.beautifulozarks.com/" target="_blank">www.beautifulozarks.com</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Our earlier 'river book,' <i><b>DAMMING THE OSAGE</b></i>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a> </span></div>
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-61920123491914183172017-02-07T08:30:00.000-06:002017-02-20T14:51:30.162-06:00CHARLEY BARNES - JOHNBOAT BUILDER AND JAMES RIVER GUIDE<div class="MsoNormal">
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A lot has been written about the origin of the celebrated
flat-bottomed wooden boats used on the James and White rivers. Outdoor writer
Robert Page Lincoln wrote a long article on these boats, published in the March, 1948
issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fur-Fish-Game</i> magazine, for which he extensively interviewed Galena river
guide and boat builder Charley Barnes.<br />
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Robert Page Lincoln was a prominent writer on hunting and
fishing in the 1930s through the 1950s. Seen here dressed like a running buddy
of Ernest Hemingway, Lincoln observes Charley Barnes crafting a float boat.
Lincoln wrote Barnes didn’t care for the name ‘johnboat.’ <br />
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Charley Barnes guided Galena-to-Branson floats for forty
years and built more than three hundred of the craft used in these trips. In a
1956 interview with <i>Springfield News-Leader</i> reporter Don Payton, Barnes said
although he had “taken commercial floats on the Current River” and heard the
term johnboat applied there, “We have never used that name here.” Barnes got in
to the James River float business during its earliest commercialization, but
soon realized, “‘the boats available weren’t big enough to accommodate
occupants for much longer than a day.’ Barnes quickly came to the realization
that greater cargo space was needed for tents, food, equipment, and other gear.
The result was that Barnes, still working in Branson, fabricated a boat ‘about
20 feet long and a yard wide with a snub nose and flat bottom.’” The classic
“float boat” created by Barnes and other Galena builders was more stable than
“jack boats” as earlier long, narrow, flat-bottomed wooden boats were called.
Johnboats couldn’t be as easily poled upstream but return by railroad made
going upriver by boat unnecessary.<br />
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“This photo of Charley Barnes and his two brothers, Herbert and John, was taken
in 1909 about the time that the Barnes float trip business at Galena, Mo., was
at the height of its success. The bass shown in this photo are the same average
size as those taken now. Reading left to right are Herbert, John, and Charley
Barnes.” Caption from Robert Page Lincoln’s 1948 article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fur-Fish-Game</i> magazine.
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;"><b>COMING IN 2017: <i>JAMES FORK OF THE WHITE: Transformation of an Ozark River.</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Sample pages from this new book can be seen at <a href="http://www.beautifulozarks.com/" target="_blank">www.beautifulozarks.com</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Our earlier 'river book,' <i><b>DAMMING THE OSAGE</b></i>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a> </span></div>
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-65079413067386501252017-02-01T08:30:00.000-06:002017-02-01T08:30:04.438-06:00Quest to Develop an Ozark River Boat<style>
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family departing for an overnight outing. Boats could be rented from lodges,
and self-guided trips were common throughout the float trip era. Both paddles
and poles are evident. We wish this group, dressed for Sunday school, all the
best as they prepare to drift down the beautiful James in these odd overloaded,
probably unstable, pointed-bow skiffs, or punts, or whatever they were called.</span></div>
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genesis of the square-ended, flat-bottomed boats specifically adapted for
commercial floating on the James and White rivers is poorly documented. Many
theories have been advanced as to how they were developed, and how they came to
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;">Our earlier 'river book,' <i><b>DAMMING THE OSAGE</b></i>, can be seen at <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/" target="_blank">www.dammingtheosage.com</a> </span></div>
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-79578545108351375662017-01-18T08:30:00.000-06:002017-01-18T08:30:52.151-06:00Roaring River - the Back Story
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In early settlement times, the spring pouring from a grotto beneath an overhanging bluff created a stream that powered water mills, once a common feature of Ozarks spring fed streams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he last mill was converted into a hotel in 1905. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">CCC Company 1713 arrived in the area in June 1933 and remained until November 1939. During this period, the CCC enrollees developed the hatchery, built new cabins and other park buildings, developed hiking trails, and repaired the damages of a disastrous flood. The major achievement of WPA workers at Roaring River was the construction of an impressive three-story stone and timber Lodge. An important survival in the park is Camp Smokey, which contains four original CCC officers' barracks. </span></div>
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Camp Smokey-Company 1713 Historic District is significant because: <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">it is the only surviving Civilian Conservation Corps Officers' compound in the Missouri state park system; it is a good example of the military character of these installations, modified by rustic architectural details. </span></div>
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See more vintage photos and learn more details of The Back Story of Roaring River Park in <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/see-the-ozarks/" target="_blank">See the Ozarks.</a> <br />
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In <a href="http://www.dammingtheosage.com/"><i>Damming the Osage</i></a>, we began our chapter on Lake of the Ozarks with a discussion of a now-forgotten lawsuit by the family of Robert McClure Snyder against Union Electric over the destruction of the trout pool at Ha Ha Tonka. This was a huge case that filled the newspapers and went on for years and is now virtually forgotten.<br />
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Legendary Missouri politician and attorney for the Snyder family in this lawsuit was James A. Reed, a distinguished former U.S. Senator. In what <i>Time</i> magazine characterized in 1927 as a forest of competing “presidential timber”, he was Missouri’s “tough-fibred, silver-topped sycamore, U. S. Senator James A. Reed” Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736900,00.html#ixzz2QTHc0uU8">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,736900,00.html#ixzz2QTHc0uU8</a><br />
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Reed was one of the rare politicians who got on H. L. Mencken’s good side. When Reed retired from the Senate, Mencken saluted him: <a href="http://www.truthbasedlogic.com/ownman.htm" title="http://www.truthbasedlogic.com/ownman.htm ">http://www.truthbasedlogic.com/ownman.htm </a><br />
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His skill is founded upon a profound and penetrating intelligence, and informed by what amounts to a great aesthetic passion. There are subtleties in the art he practices, as in any other, and he is the master of all of them. The stone ax is not his weapon, but the rapier; and he knows how to make it go through stone and steel<b>.</b></div>
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The “Fighting Senator from Missouri” was also paramour (and later husband) to <a href="http://www.nellydon.com/" target="_blank">Nellie Don</a>, a Kansas City legend in her own right as founder of one of the largest dress manufacturing companies of the first half of the 20th century.<br />
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It is perhaps an understatement to say that our research led us to a cast of very interesting characters whose lives touched the Osage River.<br />
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A remarkable, in-depth and readable story of post Civil War
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Matthew J. Hernando’s new book, <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Faces Like Devils</i></b>, is an engrossing account of the Bald Knobbers, a
southwest Missouri vigilante movement that emerged as a result of post Civil
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Hernando places the Ozarks’ own vigilante groups in the
broader context of American history: “Although often treated as a matter of
local interest, the bloody history of the Bald Knobber organization informs a
broader narrative of vigilante justice that has been a part of American history
and culture from the beginning. It is a tradition literally older than the
country itself.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bald Knobbers are
ideological cousins to the “Regulator” movements of colonial era North and
South Carolina, San Francisco’s Committees of Vigilance during the California
Gold Rush, ‘”fence cutting wars” in the West, and of course the KKK among many
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This is not news for people in southwest Missouri. These
were murderous nightriders whose “improvised dispensing of justice” has been
written about and portrayed in locally produced plays and movies both fictional
and documentary. The phenomenon has been subject of feature writers’ columns
since their beginnings in the nineteenth century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were the heavies in Harold Bell Wright’s
1907 huge bestseller, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shepherd of the
Hills</i>. The Mabes, a talented country music family, pulled the words into one
to name their Branson hillbilly music show. These popular appropriations,
Hernando notes, may explain the relative sparseness of Bald Knobber
scholarship: “The popular image of the Bald Knobbers may also have tainted the
group with the stigma of sensationalism and provincialism, causing some
historians who might otherwise have written about the group to defer from doing
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Two full-length books - Lucille Morris’s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Baldknobbers</i>, Caxton Press, 1939 and Elmo Ingenthron’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bald Knobbers</i>, Pelican Publishing, 1988
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journalist’s expos<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">é</span> have added detail and color to this compelling story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bibliography of<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Faces like Devils</i> provides an extraordinarily comprehensive
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Hernando has absorbed all these. He has also delved deeply
into voluminous court records and newspaper articles from the time. He applied
microscopic examination of the condition of post Civil War turmoil that brought
about this war, which involved 700-900 people at one time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Night riding, hangings, floggings and gunfights
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Certainly this tumult was not good for business. Missouri’s Governor
pushed the court system to crack down on these vigilantes in the mid 1880s.
Four were sentenced to hang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One got
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other three were executed in a
horrifically inept public hanging on grounds of the Christian County courthouse
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For those that know the story – and many in our part of the
country do – this is an unprecedented compendium of personalities. Though one
name is popularly applied, there were two distinct groups – the Bald Knobbers
of Taney County and the Bald Knobbers of Christian and Douglas counties. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The distinctions, Hernando contends, are
important: “The two groups … used the same name, operated simultaneously, and
inhabited roughly the same compact geographical area. Yet they exhibited such
stark differences in their goals, tactics, and membership that it is sometimes
difficult to see how they were considered part of the same group.” This book expertly
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Faces Like Devils</i>
</b>tells a gripping story with blind tigers, prostitutes that followed the
railroad lines, and Yankees and Confederates fighting old battles. Hernando has
produced a fascinating book, an easy read with good balance between academic
research and readable prose.</div>
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(NOTE: This review is also posted on amazon.com: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZSDCV4P9UMSJ" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZSDCV4P9UMSJ</a>. Check there for more information and purchase details.)</div>
Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-49309291479903630522015-05-02T10:40:00.000-05:002015-05-02T10:51:28.791-05:00MOUNT IRISH WILDERNESS, Nevada, and new WILDERNESS IN COUNTY MAYO Some might ask if the "Irish Wilderness" is a geographic place - or an Irish state of mind? Our book <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/mystery-of-the-irish-wilderness/" target="_blank">Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</a> explored the history of a real place in the Missouri Ozarks, once populated by real Irish immigrants seeking a new life, a place now a component of the National Wilderness system.<br />
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Come to find there are other Irish Wildernesses, like <a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/news/2015/05/01/mount-irish-wilderness-in-nevadas-basin-and-range" target="_blank">Mount Irish Wilderness in Nevada's Basin and Range:</a> "a 28,274-acre parcel less than two hours’ drive north from Las Vegas,
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And in 2013, The Irish Department of Art, Heritage and Gaeltacht and Coillte signed a Memorandum of Understanding, creating the country's <a href="http://www.coillte.ie/aboutcoillte/news/article/view/irelands-first-wilderness-project-launched/" target="_blank">first wilderness area in the Nephin Beg Range</a> of North West Mayo. This is a project with a twist ... the plan is to "rewild" 4,400 hectares of land to provide "a dedicated wilderness of forest, mountain, bog, river and lakes in the Nephin Beg Range." Wild Nephin is a fascinating and ambitious project, it's "the first of its kind in Western Europe."<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD, photographed at Néifinn Fhiáin in North
Co. Mayo with from Left to Right Mr. Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Arts,
Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dennis Strong National Parks & wildlife
Services, and Bill Murphy, Head of Recreation Coillte to mark the
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Coillte and the
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht that designates 11,000 HA
along the Nephin Mountain Range as Ireland’s first wilderness area</span></span>.<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> March 14, 2013</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Images released by Ken Wright Photography)</span></span></i> Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-79530803252804671542015-03-20T09:03:00.001-05:002015-03-20T09:03:29.143-05:00OSCEOLA Book Signing<p style='padding-left: 30px;'>Many thanks to Larry Lewis of Osceola for arranging our presentation to the <a href='http://www.stclaircountyhistoricalsociety.org/'>St. Clair County Historical Society</a> last week. With Larry’s recommendation and the support of Angie Jones, Director of the St. Clair County Library, we were invited to discuss <strong><em>Damming the Osage</em></strong> with the members of the Historical Society. The town of Osceola and much of St. Clair County were deeply affected by the changes brought on by the construction of Truman Dam and Reservoir. Leland was a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the Environmental Defense Fund (1972) to stop or reduce the size and impact of the dam. It was a position that put him (then) at odds with many people in at least three, maybe four counties. Feelings were strong during the lawsuit. People took sides with strong opinions. We were curious to see what the reaction was to our description of events.</p><br/><p style='padding-left: 30px;'><a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/flatbed-scan191.jpg'><img height='435' width='322' alt='Osceola Book Signing' src='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/flatbed-scan191.jpg' class=' size-full wp-image-1310 aligncenter'/></a></p><br/><p>The gathering was cordial and the audience knowledgeable about the events and issues. Indeed, we learned a lot from them. Personal stories of life on the Osage River pre-dam, paddlefish season, the Civil War and its aftermath, outlaws and their final resting places, and meteors (that’s another post!) were lively, informative and added an intimate perspective on the costs and consequences of such huge and intrusive projects.</p><br/><p>We showed our <a href='https://youtu.be/g5BXJtX_8HY' title='book video'>book video</a> and one titled <a href='https://youtu.be/WXLf-tDEzZU' title='Osceola's Lament'>Osceola’s Lament</a> evoking the after-dam realization that reality doesn’t begin to meet the optimistic promises of the dam-builders and promoters. Sadly, many of the negative consequences predicted by that lawsuit seem to have come to pass. Today, many residents are unenthusiastic about the monstrous and shallow reservoir that destroyed so much of the history and natural resources of the area.</p><br/><p>Many thanks to Jim Arnett of Leawood, Kansas for taking the photographs. (click on any photo to enlarge and start slide show)</p><br/><br/> <style type='text/css'><br/> #gallery-1 <br/> margin: auto;<br/> <br/> #gallery-1 .gallery-item <br/> float: left;<br/> margin-top: 10px;<br/> text-align: center;<br/> width: 33%;<br/> <br/> #gallery-1 img <br/> border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;<br/> <br/> #gallery-1 .gallery-caption <br/> margin-left: 0;<br/> <br/> /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */<br/> </style><div class='gallery galleryid-0 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail' id='gallery-1'><dl class='gallery-item'><dt class='gallery-icon landscape'><br/> <a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/osceola-book-signing/img_6621/'><img data-large-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6621-1024x576.jpg' data-medium-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6621-300x169.jpg' data-image-description='' data-image-title='IMG_6621' data-image-meta='"aperture":"3.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot 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data-large-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6620-1024x576.jpg' data-medium-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6620-300x169.jpg' data-image-description='' data-image-title='IMG_6620' data-image-meta='"aperture":"3.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SX160 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1426142564","copyright":"","focal_length":"5","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1"' data-comments-opened='1' data-orig-size='1920,1080' data-orig-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6620.jpg' data-attachment-id='1307' alt='IMG_6620' class='attachment-thumbnail' src='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6620-300x169.jpg' height='169' width='300'/></a><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><dt class='gallery-icon landscape'><br/> <a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/osceola-book-signing/img_6618/'><img 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data-large-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6615-1024x576.jpg' data-medium-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6615-300x169.jpg' data-image-description='' data-image-title='IMG_6615' data-image-meta='"aperture":"4","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SX160 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1426140764","copyright":"","focal_length":"9.099","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"1"' data-comments-opened='1' data-orig-size='1920,1080' data-orig-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6615.jpg' data-attachment-id='1301' alt='IMG_6615' class='attachment-thumbnail' src='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6615-300x169.jpg' height='169' width='300'/></a><br/> </dt></dl><dl class='gallery-item'><dt class='gallery-icon landscape'><br/> <a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/osceola-book-signing/img_6611/'><img data-large-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6611-1024x576.jpg' data-medium-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6611-300x169.jpg' data-image-description='' data-image-title='IMG_6611' data-image-meta='"aperture":"3.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SX160 IS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1426140591","copyright":"","focal_length":"5","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1"' data-comments-opened='1' data-orig-size='1920,1080' data-orig-file='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6611.jpg' data-attachment-id='1302' alt='IMG_6611' class='attachment-thumbnail' src='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_6611-300x169.jpg' height='169' width='300'/></a><br/> </dt></dl><br style='clear: both;'/></div><br/><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/osceola-book-signing/'>OSCEOLA Book Signing</a>Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-71256684055919707712015-03-16T19:08:00.001-05:002015-03-16T19:08:51.751-05:00KANSAS CITY STAR - 53 years ago today - CORPS RECOMMENDS ADDING POWER GENERATION TO KAYSINGER BLUFF DAM<p>Twelve years after authorization of what was then called Kaysinger Dam, and a little more than two years before the actual groundbreaking commencement of construction, Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. W. K. Wilson, Jr. recommended to the Secretary of the Army the addition of power generators and a larger conservation pool to the already massive project. Senator Stuart Symington was also informed of the recommendation.The Star notes this will make the reservoir larger than Lake of the Ozarks.</p><br/><p>Not surprising – the cost was creeping up. Read all about it! <a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KCStar_03.16.62.pdf'>KCStar_03.16.62</a></p><br/> <br/><a href='http://www.dammingtheosage.com/kansas-city-star-53-years-ago-today-corps-recommends-adding-power-generation-to-kaysinger-bluff-dam/'>KANSAS CITY STAR - 53 years ago today - CORPS RECOMMENDS ADDING POWER GENERATION TO KAYSINGER BLUFF DAM</a>Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-49671808047526535432015-02-18T08:00:00.000-06:002015-02-18T08:00:08.472-06:00JOHN HOGAN’S THIRD RECON TRIP TO THE OZARKS – January to March 1858<style>
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Chapter 7 of Hogan’s memoir, <i>On the Mission in Missouri
1857-1868</i>, begins with the account of his third exploratory trip to the Ozarks.
A different priest friend accompanied him this time, Father William Walsh of
St. Peter’s parish in Jefferson City. As they rode the rails and by horseback,
their conversation undoubtedly ranged wide. Two young priests, both born in
1829, from County Limerick searched the American frontier for land suitable for
Irish immigrants fleeing their troubled homeland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those were not their only ties. Like Hogan, Walsh
studied at the seminary at Carondelet and was ordained (1854) by Archbishop
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This <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wintery exploratory
trip was longer than the first two. It appears that Hogan met Father Walsh in St. Louis in mid to late January. From there they headed south at the end of the month. Parish records from Chillicothe indicate
the Hogan was absent from January 7 to March 13. </div>
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(from <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/two-books-by-bishop-j-j-hogan/" target="_blank">On the Mission in Missouri, 1857-1868</a>) <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">FATHER WALSH THE EMIGRANT'S FRIEND</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style"; letter-spacing: .05pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">REV.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
William Walsh, the devoted zealous pas</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">tor of St. Peter's church,
Jefferson City,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .2pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ever a loving faithful friend of the emigrant,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .35pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> took
the greatest possible interest in every effort </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .2pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">made to lead the good
Catholic Irish people from the </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">railroad shanties and the back streets and cellars
of </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the cities,
to locate them on lands. <span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;">With this pur</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">pose in view, he offered to accompany me on my
next </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">journey into southern Missouri,
so that having know</span>ledge of the country and of the progress of the un<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">dertaking in which I was interested, he could aid
me,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> if in his power, to do so. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We set out from St. Louis </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">together in the last days
of January, 1858. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Trave</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ling on the Iron Mountain Railroad to its southern
terminus, then somewhere in Washington County,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> we thence proceeded on
horseback, following some</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">what, but diverging more southerly from, the route
taken by Reverend Father Fox and myself </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: -.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a short </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: -.3pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">time
previous. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: -.35pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">At Van Buren we found a Canadian </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: -.55pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">named
Ronge<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, </b>a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Catholic, whose three children I </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">baptized. Going eastward
from there we crossed the <span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">Black River at its
junction with Brushy </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">Creek.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> Reverend Father Walsh when crossing the river,
al</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">though </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">keeping his feet raised as high as possible </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">along the horse’s sides, still could not keep them
en</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;">tirely out of the water, which was
deep and very cold, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;">it being
freezing weather at the </span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">time. The
result was </span><span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;">bad for the dear Reverend
Father. </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">The only change </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">of clothing which we </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;">had was a pair of socks, which </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;">he put on instead of the wet ones. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">These </span><span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;">did
not </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">save him. </span><span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;">The cold wet boots and the wet frozen </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">clothing brought on a chill, which was soon
followed by coughing,</span><span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> and fever. </span><span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;">Next, the flushed face and </span><span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">the short, difficult breathing with other symptoms
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">of pneumonia, came on apace. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We diverged from </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">our intended course and made
by the shortest way for </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Greenville, the county seat of Wayne County, where </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">we hoped
to find some kind of hotel accommodation. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .3pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For some days the dear Reverend
Father lay</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;">in dan</span><span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;">ger
of death, in a poor uncomfortable tavern, and </span><span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">under the care of an unskilful physician. </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">Soon, </span><span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;">however, he began to
recover and by degrees grew </span><span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;">better so
as to be past all danger, for which merciful </span><span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">favor I was most grateful to Almighty God. During </span><span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;">his convalescence I made a journey to Jackson in </span><span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;">Cape Girardeau County, to employ an agent near the </span>Land
Office there, to transact business for the settlers. <span style="letter-spacing: .4pt;">Returned to Greenville, I was glad to find my dear </span><span style="letter-spacing: .55pt;">reverend friend in much better health and courage </span><span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">than when I had left him. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">We again set out tog</span><span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;">ether and rode by easy stages towards the Iron </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">Mountain and Potosi, thence homeward by rail to
St.</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> Louis; he going to Jefferson City
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Oregon County is noted in Hogan’s small account book. He continued as pastor at St. Peter's in
Jefferson City until January 1863, when he became pastor of St. Bridget’s
parish in St. Louis., where he served for 35 years. He died there in December
15, 1898.</div>
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him in the 1920 Reunion book of St. Bridget’s Parish notes he was a defender of
the poor and enemy of the dance halls. The article recounts a story of Father
Walsh scattering revelers at a “Kerry Patch’ dance hall one Saturday night. They
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Pasted in
one of Hogan’s little scrapbooks, in the archives of the Diocese of Kansas City
– St. Joseph, a yellowed newspaper clipping has Father Fox’s obituary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He died February 14, 1879. Unfortunately,
Hogan did not note the publication name.
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Shared
characteristics of the two Irish prelates come through in this accounting –
fiscal responsibility and near-abhorrence of debt; dedication; plain spoken
clarity of thought and word. Hogan and Fox were both frontier priests, ordained
by Archbishop Kenrick, dedicated to the promise of America for the poor, the
hopeful and the ambitious. They built churches, established schools and cleared
debt </div>
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A brief
biography was included in Father Fox’s obituary:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Obituary: The Rev. James Fox</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sketch of his life and
labors – His last sickness – the funeral arrangements – services tomorrow.</i></div>
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The death of another well-known Catholic priest, in the
person of Rev. James Fox of St. Patrick’s parish, which occurred yesterday,
will occasion emotions of no ordinary depth among many persons who enjoyed no
intimate acquaintance with the deceased, but had heard of his labors. The loss
of him will be especially felt in the parish to which he had devoted the last
years of his life, and for which he had done so much, and there will be
abundant manifestations of the profound sorrow, which his decease has caused
amongst his parishioners.</div>
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SKETCH OF HIS LIFE</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Father
Fox was born in the county of Wicklow, Ireland, in 1820, and his college days
were spent at the Carlow institution, which is one of the highest in that
country and to which no one who is not very proficient in his studies is
admitted. He had as a fellow student Bishop Ryan, and both made great progress
at the college. In 1849 he emigrated to the United States and on St. Peter and
Paul’s day—the 29<sup>th</sup> of June of that year—was ordained a priest by
the Most Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick in this city. After his ordination he
remained six month here in various capacities and was then transferred to
Potosi, Washington County to take charge of the church there. He remained there
one year and was next appointed successor of Father Cotter of Old Mines, in the
same county. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">At
that time the country was in the condition of all newly opened territory, and
the labors which devolved upon him were unusually arduous. His mission extended
through Washington and into Jefferson, Iron, St. Francois and Crawford
counties, he giving personal supervision to other churches than his own. He
lived, or had his residence, at Old Mines eighteen years. It has been said that
<a href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/2014/11/november-15-1857-father-hogans-second.html" target="_blank">he lived on horseback, </a>so large a portion of his time was he away from his
home. He built the <a href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/2014/10/john-hogans-first-parish-st-joachim.html" target="_blank">Old Mines, </a>Irondale, Potosi and DeSoto churches, and was
largely assisted in his work by Bishop Hogan of St. Joseph and Father Hays of
this city, who had charge of the churches established by him. While at Old
Mines, in 1868, he was appointed successor of Father Cavanaugh as pastor of
Assumption church, St. Louis. He was eighteen or nineteen months at the
Assumption and then in May, </span></div>
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Father Wheeler, at Munich. While at the Assumption his zeal had found fitting
employment in clearing off the debt of the church and in bringing the Sisters
of St. Joseph from Carondelet to a convent in the parish. He was especially
attached to children, and finding on his accession to the pastorate of St.
Patrick’s that there were 2,500 or 3,000 of them in the parish without the
opportunities for Catholic education, he at once actively interested himself in
procuring the needed facilities and the result was the erection of St. Patrick’s
school, which is considered the finest school in the city, public or private,
and the finest parochial school in the United States. The school and ground
cost upwards of $90,000. He looked upon it as his crowning effort, and sickness
alone prevented him from witnessing the school in operation. His last words
from the altar, the last time he officiated at the church, nearly six weeks
ago, were that the school would be open for the children on the morrow. The
morrow came, but it found him on a sick bed. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In
connection with his labors at St. Patrick’s parish, it may be stated that he
was successful in paying off a debt of $24,000, which there was on the church</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE DECEASED</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Father
Fox was not an orator, and in the pulpit he devoted less attention to doctrinal
points than to practical every day advice. He was a plain but forcible speaker
and what he said acquired additional force from the zeal with which he was
filled and which made itself manifest in all that he did. He was a very earnest
worker; years ago he was the embodiment of the pioneer spirit; disregarded
fatigue, and bore up under circumstances which would have overwhelmed many
stronger men. In St. Patrick's parish he gave his whole energies to his work,
and went from door to door urging his parishioners to a more faithful
performance of their duties. His charities were uncircumscribed.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">His
health had always been frail, and it was kept so by his forgetting himself in
his work. Some six weeks ago he was attacked with typhoid pleurisy, and his
system, as it were, collapsed. It is thought that there were some evidences of
consumption, which had been induced by exposure in all kinds of weather. The
best of medical advice was obtained for him, and two of the Alexian brothers
waited constantly upon him during the past month. He died with perfect
resignation shortly after six o'clock yesterday morning. His confessor was
Father Tschieter, S.J., of St. Joseph's church and the blessed sacrament was
administered by Father Hays.</span></div>
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John Hogan, priest and bishop, and Father James Fox remained
lifelong friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Father Fox continued
his support of Hogan’s Ozarks settlement, sending cash and donating property. Hogan kept close accounting of the costs of building the wilderness settlement in a small pocket notebook, which rests now in the archives of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. </div>
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Hogan noted contributions for the construction of a log church in his Ozarks settlement. Father Fox was most generous ($17.00)- especially when you consider that the actual cash cost for the log church in the wilderness came to $85.31 for material and labor. </div>
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In addition to his cash contribution, Fox donated land for the church site. </div>
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“Fox was issued a land patent on September 1, 1859 for 320
acres in Oregon County. The Irish pastor of Old Mines and Potosi donated it for
the colony’s use. On this site, a forty-foot square log chapel and priest’s
quarters were built by Father Hogan. On May 17, 1879, the property was sold for
back taxes. For a long time, the outline of the church’s stone foundation was a
visitable feature in “the priest’s field.” Through the years, the rocks have
been appropriated for other building uses or removed to facilitate plowing. It
is today a fescue pasture."</blockquote>
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<i>(</i><i><a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/mystery-of-the-irish-wilderness/" target="_blank">Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</a>, </i>page 48<i>)</i></div>
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--></style> After two full months' journey from County Limerick, John Joseph Hogan arrived in St. Louis the day after Christmas, 1848. The final leg of the trip, by the steamboat <i>Big Missouri</i> up the Mississippi River, was dangerous enough with the ice flows of winter. More concerning though were the several passengers and crew who died of cholera and were buried on shore where they died. </div>
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As he had in New Orleans after reaching the docks, Hogan stopped first at church to thank God for his safe arrival. Hogan had a specific purpose in coming to St. Louis and he knew this church:</div>
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Working on steadily through the ice, stopping occasionally
for repairs, maintaining doggedly the purpose to make port, we reached the
wharf at St. Louis about noon, December 26th, in eight days from New Orleans,
the distance by water being 1,278 miles. Average rate of sailing per day, 160
miles; average speed per hour, 6.1 miles; the same speed nearly that was maintained by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Berlin</i> crossing the ocean. Like a good,
God-fearing sailor, I went first of all to the nearest church, the Cathedral of
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Western World, on the banks of the Mississippi, a great diocese was growing up
that had immense missionary fields, over which the Church was spreading
rapidly. One of my sources of information, the “<i>American Catholic Almanac</i>,”
sent regularly every year to my father by his brother, my uncle and namesake in
America, gave full description of the diocese of St. Louis and had a
well-executed frontispiece engraving of the Cathedral of St. Louis and buildings
adjoining it, so that I had become greatly familiar with the place. </span></blockquote>
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time Hogan's companion on the trail was his mentor and dear friend, Father
James Fox, pastor of <a href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/2014/10/john-hogans-first-parish-st-joachim.html" target="_blank">St. Joachim's church in Old Mine</a>s. Hogan was apparently
excited by the settlement opportunities he had seen on his <a href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/2014/10/hogans-first-exploratory-trip-to.html" target="_blank">first swing </a>through
the eastern Ozarks. According to parish records, he
returned to Chillicothe October 15 and a month later (Nov. 15) he was headed
south once again to ride deeper into the much more affordable real estate of the
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a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, shared Hogan’s concern for the waves of
arriving poor immigrants who could not afford to establish themselves in this
new land, with land or homes or businesses. For three weeks they rode through southeast
Missouri.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That they both came from rural
backgrounds, with knowledge of agriculture and the kind of land needed to support a
farming operation was an invaluable asset in their evaluation of the terrain. </div>
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Chapter V of <b><a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/two-books-by-bishop-j-j-hogan/" target="_blank">On the Mission in Missouri, 1857-1868</a>:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">MY DEAR FRIEND FATHER FOX</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Arrived at Chillicothe, I corresponded without de</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">lay,
with my dear friend and worthy brother priest, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">Rev. James Fox, rector
of St. Joachim's church, Old </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Mines, Missouri, </span>who as I well knew, was deeply <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">concerned for the matter of land ownership </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">oc</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">cupancy
by Catholic emigrants. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">The incidents of </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">my late journey, which I
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> Before many days, and in </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">the latter part of November, we
set out together on </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">horseback from Old Mines. </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Traveling by way of <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Caledonia and Edgehill, we passed through Center</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">ville the county seat of Reynolds County. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Thence </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">entering
Shannon County, we descended Blair Creek, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">remarkable for its alternate limestone and </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">red por</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">phyry hills. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">Afterwards, we crossed the Current </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">River at the mouth of Jack's Fork, </span></span></span></div>
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to Emin</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">ence, thence to Birch Tree,
thence to Thomasville, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">thence to Pike
Creek, thence to Van Buren, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">thence </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">to Ten Mile Creek, thence to Black River, thence
by </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">way of Otter Creek, McKenzie Creek
and Big Creek, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">through Caledonia and
Potosi, homeward. </span>Rey<span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">nolds County we
found entirely unfit for settlement, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">not
one tenth of the land being tillable. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Shannon
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">and Oregon counties had much tillable
land, perhaps </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">one-third of the whole
area, but none of it of prime </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">quality
except the river alluvial bottoms. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Every</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">where through these two last named </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">counties, there </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">was good stock range and abundance of valuable pine </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">forest.</span></span></blockquote>
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Last year Colum Kenny, a professor of communications at
Dublin City University, contacted us after finding <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/mystery-of-the-irish-wilderness/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</i></a>, our account of John Hogan’s Ozarks
settlement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We very much appreciated his comment,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your Hogan edition and your book on the
Ozarks are the kind of thing that maintain one's faith in culture and
learning.”</span><br />
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Professor Kenny was
researching and writing a book about the O’Shaughnessy family who had been
parishioners of Father John Joseph Hogan in his north Missouri missionary
days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, we shared our images of
Bishop Hogan for illustrations in his book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><b>An</b>
<b>Irish-American Odyssey: The Remarkable Rise of the O’Shaughnessy Brothers.</b></i> </div>
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Kenny’s book is now out, published by the <a href="http://press.umsystem.edu/product/An-Irish-American-Odyssey,2163.aspx" target="_blank">University of Missouri Press</a>.<br />
This <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exhaustive account
of the lives and careers of these sons of Ireland is a fascinating read.
Naturally we were particularly intrigued by the intersection of the lives of John
Joseph Hogan and those of James O’Shaughnessy and his wife, Catherine
Mulholland, daughter of the railroad contractor, James Mulholland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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On his first exploratory trip to north Missouri, Hogan
recounts (<a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/two-books-by-bishop-j-j-hogan/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On the Mission in Missouri, 1857-1868</i>)</a>
his mediation efforts between the construction crews of Mulholland and another
contractor named Murphy in Chapter One.<br />
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Through Hogan’s frontier years, he was the O’Shaughnessy’s family
pastor, marrying, baptizing their children and counseling and praying with
them. James and Catherine lived their lives in north Missouri and St. Joseph.
Their sons were educated at Notre Dame and eventually made their professional
careers in Chicago.<br />
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Hogan’s descriptions of the people he met and ministered to
paint real life portraits. But until now, we had only Hogan’s accounts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was tantalizing to wonder what became of
those early settlers, when their and Hogan's paths diverged. It’s not often though that those paths came
back together like this – especially in the histories of ordinary people (who
are not presidents, kings or generals).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Tying the priest and family back together is Professor Kenny’s
grandfather – Kevin J. Kenny, founder of Ireland’s earliest full-service
advertising agency, who met James O’Shaughnessy several times in Dublin in the
1920s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> That meeting, the shared professional interests of Kenny and O'Shaughnessy, spurred Professor Kenny into the research leading to this intriguing volume.</span><br />
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<i>AN IRISH-AMERICAN ODYSSEY: The Remarkable Rise of the
O’Shaughnessy Brothers</i> is available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irish-American-Odyssey-Remarkable-OShaughnessy-Brothers/dp/082622024X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415673030&sr=1-1&keywords=colum+kenny" target="_blank">amazon.com</a></div>
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Below is the review I posted on amazon. </div>
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<b><i> AN </i><i>IRISH-AMERICAN ODYSSEY: The Remarkable Rise of the
O’Shaughnessy Brothers</i></b>, Colum Kenny. University of Missouri Press, 2014. </div>
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Dublin City University Professor of Communications Colum
Kenny has written an in-depth, remarkably detailed account of the immigration,
assimilation and prospering of a “potato famine” Irish family – the O’Shaughnessy’s
of Newhall, Kiltartan, County Galway.</div>
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James Shaughnessy and his brothers, Thomas and John, left the
famine and poverty that was mid nineteenth century Ireland to seek a better
life in the United States. From their east coast landing, they moved west,
eventually settling in north Missouri. There James married, raised a family and
eventually became a small businessman in St. Joseph, Missouri. James and
Catherine had five sons, two of whom gained national and even international
reputations in their chosen professions, and three daughters. </div>
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Author Kenny has interwoven the stories of the O’Shaughnessy
sons with a wealth of detail of contemporaneous history, politics, and the social
and cultural landscape in which this family struggled, achieved and made its
mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often he goes from the particular
event in the family experience to the larger context of the times – for
example, a description of the family’s farm and holdings in north Missouri is
followed by a discussion of the concentration of most Irish immigrants in
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Two of the brothers, Francis and John became respected
Chicago attorneys. James O’Shaughnessy started his career as a journalist – among
other assignments, writing dispatches from Cuba during the Spanish American War
for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chicago Chronicle</i> – then found
his calling in advertising. He became an influential leader in the advertising
business, founding and guiding the American Association of Advertising Agencies
(known as the 4As) from its inception. James and Francis played important roles
in the founding of Chicago’s Irish Fellowship Club, which figured prominently
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Thomas O’Shaughnessy was a stained glass artist, inspired by
the Book of Kells and Art Nouveau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
masterpiece work is still lauded today: The fifteen stained glass <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=o%27shaughnessy%27s+windows+in+St.+Patrick%27s&client=firefox-a&hs=L1W&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=d01YVO_ZGabIsATR6IKoCA&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1333&bih=755&dpr=0.9">windows
of Old St. Patrick’s</a> church in Chicago. An Internet search for images of
St. Patrick’s will bring up richly colored pictures of these elegant
fenestrations.</div>
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This is also the story of how advertising became an industry
of its own – not the motley assortment of ad hoc practitioners that were the
norm at the turn of the last century. This story of the first real generation
of Mad Men describes a world of advertising much different from the complex
multi-platformed juggernaut we are familiar with today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James O’Shaughnessy’s passionate belief in the
power of advertising to advance civilization reaches what the author describes
as “rhapsodic hyperbole,” prompting Kenny to wonder if he’d kissed the Blarney
Stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In 1924 Jim O’Shaughnessy toured Dublin with a delegation of
American ad men who were attending an international advertising conference in
England. They were hosted by the Publicity Club of Ireland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among those greeting the visitors was Kevin J.
Kenny, grandfather of the author, Professor Kenny, a meeting that in a sense prompted
this project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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In weaving the achievements of the O’Shaughnnessy Brothers
into the intricate fabric of the much larger forces of their times and places,
Colum Kenny has created a fascinating and informative book.</div>
Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-37501848150755623332014-11-08T08:00:00.000-06:002014-11-08T08:00:00.778-06:001848 - November 8 - JOHN HOGAN SAILS FROM LIVERPOOL FOR AMERICAHaving set St. Louis as his goal and destination, John Hogan booked passage from Liverpool to New Orleans in October of 1848. When he arrived in Liverpool from Ireland, he was unimpressed with the <i>Forfarshire</i> on which his passage was booked. She was, he said, "a wide, large, dirty, heavy-looking ship" and reports he heard said she was slow. <br />
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Sailing companies of the mid-nineteenth century had not learned - as have today's common carrier companies - the value of fees for service. Hogan's request to change his reservation was accommodated at no additional charge. "I had no difficulty in getting a transfer to the <i>Berlin</i>," a clipper ship "commanded by Captain Smith, a Boston Yankee. ... a good ship and a fast sailor."<br />
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From <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/two-books-by-bishop-j-j-hogan/" target="_blank">Fifty Years Ago: A Memoir</a> by John Hogan:<br />
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the ship; then, </span><span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;">with parting salutes,
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Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-73232757560220003732014-10-23T08:00:00.000-05:002014-10-23T08:00:06.746-05:00BLOODY BILL ANDERSON'S FINAL BATTLE REDUX - at Ray County Fairgrounds this weekend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bloody Bill Anderson,whose guerrillas killed more than 100 federal troops at the<b> <a href="http://lensandpen.blogspot.com/2014/09/150-years-ago-today-centralia-massacre.html" target="_blank">Centralia Massacre of 1864</a>,</b> will meet his fate once again October 24-26. This time though, the Civil War battle - known as the <a href="http://www.richmond-dailynews.com/2011/11/2014-event-will-recreate-bloody-bill%E2%80%99s-death-near-orrick/" target="_blank">Battle of Albany</a> - will be at the Ray County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Missouri. Reenactors are gathering. Among the scheduled events: <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Ray County Fairgrounds is at </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-reactid=".1.0.0">901 West Royle Street in Richmond, Mo. 64085</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">More information on this weekend's event is available on their Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/2014.ALBANY" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/2014.ALBANY </a></span>Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-2339510839922591602014-10-22T08:30:00.000-05:002014-10-22T08:30:01.195-05:00John James Caffrey - pioneer priest in OLD MINES, MISSOURI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the lovely hillside cemetery of St. Joachim's Church, Old Mines, one headstone stands out because of its size and the story carved in stone. It's the story of a young Irish priest who fell from his horse and drowned in the Meramec River while accomplishing his priestly duties. </div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">Erected by the Priests of the Archdiocese </span></div>
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St. Joachim's was also John Joseph Hogan's first assignment after his ordination in 1852. Pastor and mentor to the two young priests was Father James Fox, a native of County Wicklow Ireland. Far flung settlers and parishes required arduous travel, mostly by horseback, for the few frontier priests who tended the Lord's scattered sheep. St. Patrick's at Armagh was one such parish that Fr. Fox - and undoubtedly his assistants - served. This more detailed account of Father Caffrey's accident comes <a href="http://www.stjames-church.com/pioneers2.html" target="_blank">from the website of St. Patrick's</a> near present day Pacific, Missouri: <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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illustration of the extremely arduous and sometimes dangerous life led by the
missionary priests of the time occurred during Father Grace’s administration.
While the pastor was away, either soliciting funds or making a retreat, Father
John McCaffrey, a young pastor at Richwoods, Washington County, took care of
Armagh parishioners. He responded to a call for a priest to visit a sick
settler living north of the Meramec River. In attempting to cross the river at
a point known as “Withington Ford” his horse baulked (sic). Father McCaffrey was
evidently injured in falling from his horse, sank into the river and drowned. A
few days later his body was found and brought to Old Mines for burial. He was
described by a contemporary as a man of excellent qualities of head and heart, and
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<br />Crystal Paytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05938991005707593232noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1630608069045547022.post-86872740611331806942014-10-16T08:00:00.000-05:002014-10-16T08:00:07.338-05:00JOHN HOGAN'S FIRST PARISH - ST. JOACHIM CHURCH IN OLD MIINES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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John Hogan was ordained by Archbishop Peter Kenrick (1852), he received his
first assignment – assistant to Rev. James Fox, pastor of St. Joachim’s Church
in Old Mines. In Father Fox he found a mentor and lifelong friend. Young Father
Hogan worked with Father Fox for more than a year, learning the strategies of
a frontier priest – hours and days in the saddle, serving parishes across many
counties, ministering to scattered Catholics families who were settling the
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Since the mid-18th century, Jesuits and other priests had served the spiritual needs of the miners and settlers, mostly French, in the area of Potosi, Richwoods and Old Mines. Tradition says that there were several log churches in this location before the present church was built. It was dedicated in 1831. The church site itself was sold to Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick, another of Hogan's mentors, for a dollar in 1850. (Yes, the church was built before the Church owned the land. So went life on the frontier.)<br />
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Father Fox was the pastor of St. Joachim's from 1852 to 1868. During that time he enlarged the original church building. According to a history of the parish:<br />
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placed under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph by Rev.
A. S. Paris, priest of the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of St. Louis,
assisted by Rev. J. Caffrey (<i>more on Father James Caffrey in a future post</i>) and Rev. S. Grugan, in the presence of a large
concourse of people. It was then reconsecrated by Bishop Duggan on November
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St. Joachim's Church today. (page 27, <a href="http://beautifulozarks.com/mystery-of-the-irish-wilderness/" target="_blank"><i>Mystery of the Irish Wilderness</i></a>)<br />
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