Volume 14 , Issue 5

Duchess of Weaselskin

According to the New York Tribune, dated Sunday, November 10, 1907, the big headline was reading, "Next Week Oklahoma Becomes the Forty-Sixth State In the Union." The front page also showed a couple of pictures of a typical Oklahoma village of eighteen years earlier of an Arapahoe Indian town; a typical town and street in Shawnee; and the product of a single farm (12 bushels of corn piled on the ground for want of cribs).

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On This Day In History (30 January)

On this day, 30 January 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi, who was the one person who held discordant elements together and kept some sort of unity in this turbulent land, was shot down at 5:15 P. M. as he was proceeding through the Biria House gardens to the pergola from which he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting message. The assassin was immediately seized. READ ARTICLE

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NW Okie's Corner

Are there any Dever-Gwin descendants out there that might have stories and photos of Samuel Gwin (1825-1871) and Eleanor Dever, born 18 January 1834? I have a photo identified as my father's great grandmother, Eleanor "Ellen" Dever Gwin, that was amongst my Warwick photo album. The photo image on the left is a photo of my great grandmother Signora Belle "Sigga B" Gwin Warwick.

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100 Years Ago Today 30 January 1912

The big headlines topping the page of The World, 30 January 1912, were: "Wilson Tried to Win Col. Harvey Back - Rich Admirer Slashes Youth in flat of Mrs. Dan Reid's mother."

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Tulsa Oklahoma's Holland Hall School of 1922

Can anyone out there help with the following message that was left as a comment in the OkieLegacy Ezine, Vol. 10, Iss. 8, dated 2008-02-24, Feature #3382?

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Holland Hall School of Tulsa, OK

Wikipedia states that the Holland Hall School of Tulsa, Oklahoma is affiliated with the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma and the Episcopal Church. It was founded in 1922, by James Alexander Veasey, lawyer formerly employed by the Dawes Commission. The school was named after the first headmistress, Winnifred Shureman of Dutch background.

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Our European Forefathers

We have been reading about the history of Highland County, Virginia this week and bring you some insights into the European forefathers that emigrated to America in the 17th century. The main reasons they emigrated were religious persecution and economic oppression

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17th Century European Emigration

England was foremost in breaking the power of feudalism and giving the masses of her people a will to assert themselves because she was a seafaring nation and laid nearer the American shore than was the case with continental Europe.

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The Peculiarities of European Stocks

The peculiarities of the European Stocks that settled in America were The English, the Lowland Scotch, the Saxon Irish, the Hollanders, the Germans, and the Swedes that were of the Germanic stock, which was cool-blooded and persistent. The Welsh, the Highland Scotch and the native Irish were of the Celtic stock, which was more turbulent than the other and more impatient of restraint. The Huguenots were of the Latin stock, which, like the native Irish, was of warm sensibilities.

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