In case you haven’t noticed, both William Francis and Annie have parents named William and Eliza! We don’t have the details about how William (1) Patrick met Eliza McCall or how Will (2) and Annie met, but the story about how William Gannaway Brownlow met and wooed Eliza O’Brien is well recorded and is a […]
Who Was Julia Brownlow?
The Letter St. Louis Mo. Jan. 8th 89 No. 2637 Pine Street My dear Mrs. Brownlow, You will no doubt be surprised at receiving this letter from me, the grand daughter of your deceased husband, Col. Parson Brownlow. I have been intending to write to you for a long time. I will not enter into […]
Dinner?
Who would I like to have dinner with if it could be anyone from history? It would be my great-great-grandfather William Gannaway Brownlow. Full of ‘fire and brimstone’ preaching and flinging strings of strong insults at anyone he didn’t like in his newspaper editorials, WGB was considered mild and generous by his family and friends. […]
Women’s Education in the 1800s
Although religious education was often part of the curriculum at female seminaries in the nineteenth century, their main purpose was to educate adolescent girls. Girls usually attended between the ages of 12 and 18. Many seminaries developed into women’s colleges in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the early 1800s the schools started using […]
