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Carol Kammen

Carol Kammen: NY Municipal Historians Report Lessons

January 14, 2018 by Carol Kammen 4 Comments

There are some obvious truths that emerge from the survey of New York State county and borough historians, submitted by the State Historian to all county and borough historians in September 2017 to which approximately 30 individuals responded.

What follows is apparent from the surveys and is a composite of their responses but cannot be considered absolute for all those who answered the survey. There are variables that will be discussed below. [Read more…] about Carol Kammen: NY Municipal Historians Report Lessons

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Municipal Historians, Public History

Tompkins Co Legislature Recognizes Suffrage Centennial

January 10, 2017 by Carol Kammen Leave a Comment

tompkins county legislatureOn January 3, 2017, in recognition of the centennial of the passage of the suffrage act in New York in the year 1917, the Tompkins County Legislature passed a proclamation declaring 2017 the Year of the Woman in Tompkins County.

The proclamation recognizes the long struggle for a woman to be able to take her place in in the world outside her home. [Read more…] about Tompkins Co Legislature Recognizes Suffrage Centennial

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Gender History, Political History, Suffrage Centennial, Tompkins County

Event Commemorating Ithaca African American Families Set

July 2, 2012 by Carol Kammen 1 Comment

On the Fifth of July, there will be a ceremony in the Ithaca City Cemetery to remember and rededicate the grave sites of two African American families. The Tompkins County Civil War Commission and the Sons of Union Veterans collaborated to clean the grave of Daniel Jackson, who was called “Faithful.”

Jackson was slave in Maryland before fleeing to Ithaca, where he joined others he had known from the South. He was a reliable worker in E. S. Esty’s tannery and at the end of the Civil War he returned to his birthplace to bring his elderly mother North to live with him. The two died in 1889 five days apart: he was 75 and she was thought to be 103. A stone has been placed to mark her resting place and the plot has been landscaped. [Read more…] about Event Commemorating Ithaca African American Families Set

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, African American History, Carol Kammen, Cultural History, Genealogy, Ithaca, Political History, Slavery, Thompkins County

African American Men in White NY Civil War Units

January 4, 2012 by Carol Kammen 5 Comments

An obituary from 1865 led me to investigate the life of Ira T. Brum, who enlisted in the 185th New York Volunteers in June 1864. The regiment was full of young men from Onondaga and Cortland, and some few from elsewhere in the state. Company F contained mostly men from Cortland who enlisted together that spring.

The 185th participated in the siege of Petersburg and was part of the Appomattox Campaign, fighting at Quaker Road, Gravelly Run, Five Forks and at Appomattox Court House. There, on April 9th, 1865 members of the 185th saw the “white flag come out and was glad to see it.” First Lieutenant Hiram Clark of Marathon gathered his men and sang “Hail Columbia.” As the men settled against a fence, a shell came over and killed Clark, the “last man killed in the army of the Potomac.” [Read more…] about African American Men in White NY Civil War Units

Filed Under: History Tagged With: African American History, Carol Kammen, Civil War, Cortland County, Ithaca, Military History, Onondaga County, Thompkins County

Carol Kammen: Upstate Women in the Civil War

October 12, 2011 by Carol Kammen Leave a Comment

Though war was “no place for a woman,” many New York state women during the Civil War set off from their homes to nurse the sick and wounded.

One of the projects sponsored by the Tompkins County Civil War Commission is to honor women from the county who went to war. [Read more…] about Carol Kammen: Upstate Women in the Civil War

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Carol Kammen, Cayuga County, Civil War, Gender History, Medical History, Military History, Tompkins County

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