HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;
FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.
BY
CHARLES A. GOODRICH.
REVISED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME
BY
WILLIAM H.
SEAVEY,
PRINCIPAL OF THE GIRLS' HIGH AND NORMAL
SCHOOL, BOSTON.
With Maps and other Illustrations
NEW YORK:
TAINTOR BRO'S, MERRILL & CO.
BOSTON: WILLIAM WARE & CO.
(Successors to BREWER & TILESTON.)
NOTES:
Written inside front cover with flourishes:
"Annie Stauffer Sept 1, 1890
Age 13, 1891"
Sketch of flower pot done in pencil and ink, and sketch of something similar to a trilobite.
Opposite title page - "Annie S" in gold metallic, broad strokes.
Entire book has been marked with "X" or "#" at beginning of some sections. Some sentences underlined.
Some portraits have moustaches, beards &/or spectables added. These have been eliminated where possible.
Words or phrases are occasionally written in the margins, seem to have no relation to the text.
Inside back cover, sketch of leaves & acorns (?) and what may have been an attempt to write a word as mirror image.
Original owner: Anna R. Stauffer was born c1878 in
Columbus, NE, the daughter of John & Elizabeth (Blaser)
Stauffer. Both her parents were born in Switzerland. Her Father
had immigrated in 1866, lived briefly in IL and WI, then settled
in Platte County where he opened a dry goods store. Her Mother
"Eliza" Blaser immigrated in 1867 with her parents (John Blaser
and Rosina Segasser) and siblings; they had stopped in Illinois,
prior to settling at Columbus, NE. Anna's siblings were John,
Bertha, Rosa and Martha Stauffer. An older sister had died in
infancy. By 1900, John Stauffer was deceased; his widow was living
in Columbus. Anna had married Otto Kohler, and they were living
with her Mother. Stauffers are gone by the 1920 census; Anna &
Otto Kohler were not in Platte County either. (Vague memory handed
down - they went to Oregon?)
Sources for family information: 1870, 1880, 1885, 1900 census records of Platte Co., NE; and The History of Platte County, NE by Margaret Curry, 1950. Assorted marriage & cemetery extracts done by Platte Valley Kinseekers & published by NSGS.
This book was among those my Father inherited from his Uncle Vic Schober. We are assuming it was a standard text book of the times, and used at a school in Columbus, NE. It is likely that the Stauffer family attended Gruetli Church, do not know if Anna attended public or Lutheran School. -- C. Miller
December 2006 - The book has been sent to Lynn Delaney, a descendent of John Stauffer.
[Handwritten notes in pencil on this page:
N.B.
Had no taxing power.
Lacked the essential power of government.
A compact between ___?
The U.S. had no all___?]
BREWER & TILESTON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts,
COPYRIGHT,
1880,
By TAINTOR BROTHERS, MERRILL & CO.
THE History of the United
States, by Charles A. Goodrich, has been too long and too
favorably known to the public to need any special introduction.
But the country has passed through the most momentous years of its
history since the last edition of that excellent and popular work
was prepared, and to continue it to the present time, and yet keep
the book within the proper limits of a text-book for schools, it
has been necessary to rearrange and rewrite the earlier chapters
to such an extent that the present revision differs as much from
former editions as several of the school histories in common use
differ from each other.
In this edition the text is presented in type of
two sizes. The matter in the larger type, by itself, forms a
connected history, and may be sufficient for schools in which but
a limited time can be devoted to the study; that in the smaller
type goes more into detail, and may be made a part of the lessons
for rigid preparation, or be merely read in connection with the
closer study of the larger type, or be omitted altogether, at the
option of the teacher.
At the end of each Period is given a general
view of the condition, not only of the original thirteen colonies,
or what was, at the time, the United States, but of what has since
been annexed.
At the close of each Period is a Chronological
Review, intended not merely for reference, but to be studied and
committed to memory. It is believed that this purpose is better
subserved by arranging the Reviews by Periods, than by bringing
them together at the end of the book. Still further to adapt them
to this end, only the leading events are given; the events are not
merely enumerated, but are distinctly, though briefly, stated;
and, in connected events, as in campaigns, pains have been taken
to unite in one sentence those which are closely
related.
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In connection with the
Chronological Reviews are lists of subjects from contemporary
history, and of names of eminent persons not elsewhere mentioned
in the History, selected from among those of whom no one would be
willing to confess himself ignorant. In some schools these lists
will probably not be used at all; in others there will be time and
opportunity to make them subjects for inquiry and investigation by
the pupil, or for conversational lectures by the teacher. Used in
this way, they may be made to add much to the interest of the
recitation, and (while they do not pretend to be exhaustive)
greatly to extend the pupil's knowledge of men and things outside
of his own country.
Each paragraph either has a subject-heading, or
contains one or more words in antique type, or in
italics, which, by suggesting its leading topics, will
facilitate the labor of the pupil in preparing the lesson, and
serve the teacher in recitation as a convenient substitute for
questions.
By means of foot-notes and cross-references, the
matter of the book can readily be rearranged, so as to make it
more strictly chronological, or more strictly topical, than at
present. Such changes of arrangement will be particularly useful
in reviews.
The Appendix contains, besides other matter for
reference or study, "Hints on the Method of Teaching History," by
A. P. STONE, the able and accomplished
Principal of the Portland High School. To this the attention of
teachers and pupils is particularly directed. The Appendix closes
with a Pronouncing Index of the more difficult proper names.
It is not less a pleasure than a duty here to
acknowledge the obligations due to LOOMIS
J. CAMPBELL, to whose careful scholarship
and conscientious research the book is largely indebted for the
accuracy which it is hoped will be found to characterize it.
W. H.
S.
BOSTON, March,
1867.
