tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86556712574841754892024-03-12T21:10:49.513-07:00Born And Raised In The South...,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1659125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-27566220370320252672018-01-31T16:26:00.002-08:002018-01-31T16:26:48.494-08:00Eugene Magevney Memphis entrepreneur and Catholic leader Eugene Magevney was born in
1798 in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He studied for the priesthood but
changed his mind and became a school teacher. In 1828 he immigrated to
the United States and settled in Memphis in 1833. Magevney supported
himself by teaching in a small private school, where he accepted land as
payment from cash-strapped families.<br />
Within a few years, Magevney's land acquisitions had become large enough
to permit him to leave teaching and concentrate on real estate
development, where he made his fortune. Soon recognized as a community
leader, he served as an alderman and in 1848 led the fight to establish
public schools. Always ready to defend his fellow Irishmen, Magevney
wrote editorials in the local newspaper protesting the prejudice to
which they were subjected.<br />
A devout Catholic, Magevney helped to establish the city's first
Catholic church and parochial school. In 1839 the first mass was
celebrated in Magevney's house on Adams Avenue, where the first marriage
(his own) and the first baptism (his daughter Mary) were also
celebrated. Magevney was also one of those responsible for the founding
of St. Peter's Catholic Church, located next to his house. In 1941 the
Magevney heirs donated the house to the City of Memphis. It is now part
of the Memphis Museum System and open to the public.<br />
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Source: tennesseeenxyxlopedia.com Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-5411332333084982492018-01-31T16:23:00.000-08:002018-01-31T16:23:56.216-08:00The Memphis Parkway SystemThe <b>Memphis Parkway System</b>, locally known as the <b>Parkway System</b>, <b>The Parkways</b>, or simply by their individual names is a system of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkway" title="Parkway">parkways</a> that formed the original outer <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway" title="Beltway">beltway</a> around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>. They consist of South Parkway, East Parkway, and North Parkway. Designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kessler" title="George Kessler">George Kessler</a>, the Parkway System connects Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Park" title="Overton Park">Overton Park</a>. The system was put on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1989.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History;</span></span></h2>
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Kessler's plan for Overton Park. North Parkway is to the north (labeled
Summer Avenue) and East Parkway is to the east (labeled Trezevant
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In response to the yellow fever epidemic and in an attempt to
revitalize Memphis, the city's leaders decided to improve the city's
infrastructure, including improving sewer systems, creating public
utilities, and creating a system of parks connected by a system of
boulevards. Starting in 1897, several areas of land were annexed into
the city, along with the areas that now comprise the parks mentioned
above. These lands were purchased in 1901. In that same year, the city
selected George Kessler to lay out this new plan. Planning and
construction of the Lea's Woods tract of land (now known as Overton
Park) was started in 1902 and completed in the same year. The
development and construction of Wilderberger Farm (now known as Martin
Luther King Jr. Riverside Park) started in the same year, but finished a
year later in 1903.<br />
The development and construction of what is now known as the Parkway
System started in 1904. The project had been delayed due to a lawsuit
stating the government was using its power of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain" title="Eminent domain">eminent domain</a>
incorrectly, but the Tennessee Supreme Court found in favor of the
city. Instead of a winding system of meandering parkways, Kessler
decided to create a rectangular border around the city of Memphis using
some existing streets. South Parkway and East Parkway (originally
Trezevant Street) were constructed first. North Parkway was originally
known as Summer Avenue (the name still carried by the route as it
continues east from the intersection of North and East Parkways). North
Parkway was also known as Speedway. Kessler originally designed parts of
the Parkway System to be straight portions of tree-lined avenues where
car and carriage owners could race against each other. However, the city
of Memphis ended this practice in 1910 and imposed a speed limit on the
entire system. Today, the road's racing past can still be seen in the
name of the Speedway Terrace Historical District along North Parkway
near Watkins Street.<br />
The entire parkway system was completed in 1906. After its
completion, residential development along its route increased. Many
cities in Tennessee used Memphis' park and parkway system as a model for
their own urban planning. The Parkway System roughly marked the city's
boundaries for many years to come and is still an important corridor in
the city of Memphis.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Route_Description">Route Description;</span></span></h2>
Moving
in a counter-clockwise direction from the southwest corner, the Parkway
System starts at Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park. It crosses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_55" title="Interstate 55">Interstate 55</a>
next to the park and continues east. This portion, known as South
Parkway West, is a four-lane undivided road through an industrial area
with no boulevard median or landscaping. After crossing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_240_(Tennessee)" title="Interstate 240 (Tennessee)">Interstate 240</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69_in_Tennessee" title="Interstate 69 in Tennessee">Interstate 69</a>, the section known as South Parkway East becomes divided with a wooded boulevard median, like the majority of the parkways.<br />
South Parkway, after passing <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_78_(Tennessee)" title="U.S. Highway 78 (Tennessee)">U.S. Highway 78</a>
(Lamar Avenue), turns into East Parkway South. Temporarily, the route's
name reverts to South Parkway East, as it turns eastbound and
intersects with South Cooper St. and East McLemore Avenue. South Parkway
East becomes East Parkway South once again at its intersection with
Airways Boulevard and Spottswood Avenue. It also picks up the
designation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_277" title="Tennessee State Route 277">State Route 277</a>.
East Parkway South continues north until it crosses under Union Avenue
and (two blocks later) becomes East Parkway North. At this point, it
picks up <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_64_(Tennessee)" title="U.S. Highway 64 (Tennessee)">U.S. Highway 64</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_70_(Tennessee)" title="U.S. Highway 70 (Tennessee)">U.S. Highway 70</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_79_(Tennessee)" title="U.S. Highway 79 (Tennessee)">U.S. Highway 79</a>, and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_72_(Tennessee)" title="U.S. Highway 72 (Tennessee)">U.S. Highway 72</a>, in addition to keeping the SR 277 designation. When it passes Poplar Avenue, Hwy 72 goes to the east, but it picks up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_57" title="Tennessee State Route 57">State Route 57</a> designation. At this point, it passes to the east of Overton Park and intersects with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooper_Boulevard" title="Sam Cooper Boulevard">Sam Cooper Boulevard</a>.<br />
When East Parkway meets North Parkway, it loses all of the
above-mentioned U.S. highways to the east (Summer Avenue) and the state
highways to the north (Trezevant Street). However North Parkway picks up
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_1" title="Tennessee State Route 1">State Route 1</a> designation and is one of the only sections in the state to have this route signed. North Parkway continues west, crosses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_40" title="Interstate 40">Interstate 40</a>, and ends at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Highway_51_(Tennessee)" title="U.S. Highway 51 (Tennessee)">U.S. Highway 51</a>/<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_3" title="Tennessee State Route 3">State Route 3</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_14" title="Tennessee State Route 14">State Route 14</a> (Danny Thomas Boulevard). The road continues west as A.W. Willis Avenue, crossing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_River_(Tennessee)" title="Wolf River (Tennessee)">Wolf River Harbor</a>, and ending on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_Island,_Memphis" title="Mud Island, Memphis">Mud Island</a>.<br />
Except for the South Parkway West section, the entire system is
divided by a large median containing several trees, most of them very
large and mature, and sections of flowered landscaping. South Parkway
has two lanes in each direction and bike/parking lanes along portions of
it. East Parkways has three lanes in each direction (except for when
the routes pass under other roadways, in which case each direction
narrows to two lanes, and the four northbound lanes of East Parkway
between Poplar and Sam Cooper). North Parkway had 3 lanes in each
direction until the mid 2010s when bike/parking lanes were added between
Manassas and West Drive. The entire system has a forty-mile-per-hour
speed limit.<br />
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A section of the median of East Parkway was designated "Flowering Tree Trail" in 1956/57.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Landmarks">Landmarks:</span></span></h2>
Below is a list of landmarks within close proximity of the parkways.<br />
<b>South Parkway Section</b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Island" title="President's Island">President's Island</a> / McKellar Lake</li>
<li><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M.L.K._Riverside_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" title="M.L.K. Riverside Park (page does not exist)">M.L.K. Riverside Park</a></li>
</ul>
<b>East Parkway Section</b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper-Young,_Memphis" title="Cooper-Young, Memphis">Cooper-Young, Memphis</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Brothers_University" title="Christian Brothers University">Christian Brothers University</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Museum_of_Memphis" title="Children's Museum of Memphis">Children's Museum of Memphis</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-South_Coliseum" title="Mid-South Coliseum">Mid-South Coliseum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bowl_Memorial_Stadium" title="Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium">Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Theological_Seminary" title="Memphis Theological Seminary">Memphis Theological Seminary</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Brooks_Museum_of_Art" title="Memphis Brooks Museum of Art">Memphis Brooks Museum of Art</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Park" title="Overton Park">Overton Park</a></li>
</ul>
<b>North Parkway Section</b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Zoo" title="Memphis Zoo">Memphis Zoo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_College" title="Rhodes College">Rhodes College</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jude_Children%27s_Research_Hospital" title="St. Jude Children's Research Hospital">St. Jude Children's Research Hospital</a></li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Arena" title="Pyramid Arena">Pyramid Arena</a></li>
</ul>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-64683554142990785262017-11-20T15:45:00.003-08:002017-11-20T15:46:38.835-08:00Hill And Grosvenor Family Papers, 1860-1952The Hill and Grosvenor families of Memphis, Tenn.,
were joined by the marriage of
Olivia Polk Hill (1861-1934) and Charles Niles
Grosvenor (1850-1931) in 1885. Olivia
Polk Hill Grosvenor's father, Napoleon Hill
(1830-1909), made his fortune during the
California gold rush and upon his return to
Memphis, married Mary Martin Wood, daughter
of a large planter. Hill then established a series
of firms in Memphis, culminating
in the formation of Hill Fontaine and Co., a large
inland cotton house.<br />
<br />
In 1897, Charles
Niles Grosvenor and Olivia Hill Grosvenor moved to
El Paso, Tex., for his health.<br />
<br />
The three Grosveor children, Phoebe Olivia (d.
1963), Charles Niles, Jr. (1890-1930),
and Napoleon Hill, remained in Memphis. Apparently
in 1902, Olivia Hill Grosvenor
moved back to Memphis, followed by her husband in
1903. The Grosvenors spent much
of their later years in Pass Christian, Miss.
Primarily family correspondence, especially love letters between Olivia
Polk Hill
and Charles Niles Grosvenor, 1874-1885; Phoebe
Olivia Grosvenor and Marion G. Evans
and other suitors, 1908-1919; and Phoebe Airey
Evans and Jack Petree, 1940-1942. Also
included are letters, 1890- 1891, from Frank F.
Hill about life at the University
of the South, where he was in school; a letter,
1890, from Hamlin Garland; letters
reflecting on life in El Paso, Tex., 1897-1902; and
letters from students at Georgia
Tech and Washington and Lee University, circa
1908-1910. Other papers include financial
and legal materials of the Hill and Grosvenor
families; poems and other writings;
four diary volumes, 1892-1915, of Mary Martin Hill
(1835-1922) dealing with family
and personal news in Memphis and other locations;
items relating to social life in
Memphis, Tenn., 1895- 1940; material relating to
Army Air Force training during World
War II; and maps, 1897-1899, of mines in Chihuahua,
Mexico.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/">finding-aids.lib.unc.edu </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-26187458765020234682017-11-20T15:36:00.000-08:002017-11-20T15:42:26.843-08:00Longwood Plantation In Natchez, Mississippi<div class="authors_name" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 25px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 1.5px;">
a pictorial by Bill Pitts</div>
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<span class="color_elements" style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Longwood</span> was built by Haller Nutt in 1860 as a home for himself, his wife, and their eight children. This 19th Century Oriental Style villa was to have been one of the grandest houses in the Natchez, Mississippi area. Architect Samuel Sloan of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was hired to design the house in 1859, but work was left unfinished with the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. In April of that year, the news of the beginning of the war reached the Natchez area, and the Philadelphia artisans dropped their tools and returned north to join the Union forces.</div>
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Although he was a Union sympathizer, Nutt lost his fortune as a result of the war and died in 1864 of pneumonia — although some claim it was of a broken heart over the lost dream of his magnificent Longwood.</div>
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<i>Longwood has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark, a Mississippi Landmark, and an historic site on the <a href="http://www.civilwardiscoverytrail.org/" target="_blank">Civil War Discovery Trail</a>.</i></div>
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Photos by Bill Pitts, unless otherwise noted.</div>
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Presented to the Pilgrimage Garden Club of Natchez by the Kelly E. McAdams Foundation of Austin, Texas in 1970 (in order to read the plaques above, <a href="http://www.newsouthernview.com/pages/nsv_ie_longwood_plaques.html" target="_blank">click for a larger image</a>), Longwood is the largest octagonal house in the country and a fine example of the Oriental Revival style that was popular in the mid-19th century. Samuel Sloan "was a leading Philadelphia-based architect and writer of architecture books . . . . He specialized in Italianate villas and country houses, churches, and institutional buildings." [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sloan" target="_blank">See Wikipedia article on Sloan</a> and <a href="http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=A1287" target="_blank">this biography</a>] Of his many projects, Longwood is his most well-known.</div>
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In 1963, two of Haller's and Julia's grandchildren, Mrs. Robert Blanchard and Mrs. Leslie K. Pollard, along with Mrs. Singleton Gardner who was the widow of Jim Ward, another grandchild, sold Longwood to Kelly Edgar and Ina May Ogletree McAdams, "who have long held an abiding interest in the preservation of all early Americana, and more especially in the protection and saving for prosterity those structures of great historic and architectural importance to be found in our country." (from <i>The Legend of Longwood</i> by Margaret S. Hendrix, Natchez, Mississippi)</div>
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Derisively referred to in Natchez as "Nutt's Folly," Longwood can be seen (above, left) in this romanically inspired engraving that appeared at the beginning of the chapter titled "Oriental Villa" in Sloan's book, <i>Homestead Architecture</i>, and in a photograph taken by James Butters on April 14, 1936 for the Library of Congresses' Historic American Buildings Survey (above, right). Note the roof of the detached kitchen to the left of the house in the photograph and two of the four chimneys on the roof on either side of the domed cupola. In spite of the derisive comments of Haller Nutt's neighbors, the building is impressive and definitely one of a kind.</div>
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The completed house was to have had 32 rooms, 26 fireplaces, 115 doors, 96 columns, and a total of 30,000 square feet of living space, but only nine of the 32 rooms were finished.</div>
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Click <a href="http://www.newsouthernview.com/pages/nsv_ie_longwood_elevation.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see a cross-section of Longwood.</div>
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Furnishings for the house were purchased in countries across Europe and shipped across the Atlantic for eventual delivery up the Mississippi River by steamboat to Natchez.</div>
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The final leg of this journey would have been by wagon from Natchez Under the Hill to Longwood but the outbreak of the Civil War led to the shipments being seized in route by the Federal Blockade of the Southern ports. Reportedly, some of these shipments found their way to various museums.</div>
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The more than one million bricks used to build Longwood (as seen at left) were all made on the grounds of the estate.</div>
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In his book <i>Homestead Architecture,</i> Samuel Sloan estimated that the cost of a house such as Longwood "would not vary much from $55,000," the equivalent of $1,300,000 in 2006 according to the website<a href="http://www.measuringworth.com/" target="_blank">MeasuringWorth</a>.</div>
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These three reproductions of the structure's floor plans, on display at Longwood, clearly show the octagonal shape of the house and the intended use for the various rooms. <span class="style13">Click on each for a larger view of that plan.</span> Please use these plans as a guide for visualizing the location of the rooms shown here. Orders for furniture went to New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. Orders for marble statues, marble mantles, and tiles went to Italy.</div>
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Meant to be the gentlemen’s smoking room in the basement, this bedroom (above, left) includes a toilet disguised as a brown chair (seen to the right of the bed). Next to the intended smoking room was to be the billiard room (above, right), now the family’s music room.</div>
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This engraving from Sloan's book <i>Homestead Architecture</i> shows the style of furniture that had been meant for the Nutt's drawing room. As railroad shipments from the north were out of the question during the Civil War, the suite of furniture was sold instead to railroad magnate Asa Packer and can be found today in the parlor of his <a href="http://www.asapackermansion.com/index.html" target="_blank">mansion</a> in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.</div>
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The crate that protected the Stieff grand piano (above, left) on its sea voyage from the Stieff factory in Baltimore, Maryland still sits upstairs on the unfinished main floor (above, right) with the dust of a century and a half heavy upon it.</div>
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More dust covered items found in the unfinished area of the house (above) are these trunks and tubs, containers and barrels undoubtedly used by the builders of Longwood, and this empty shipping crate from Park Avenue in New York City that is clearly marked with the address of daughter Julia Nutt, who lived on — unmarried — at Longwood until her death in 1932.</div>
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One of the unfinished rooms on the main floor (above, left) showing the boarded-up windows that are seen from the outside. The original 24-foot tall wooden finial (lying on its side above, center) was replaced with a fiberglass replica, now atop the sixteen-sided cupola’s Byzantine-Moorish, onion-shaped dome (above, right). Note the modern, cube-shaped mold (seen at the extreme left of the center photo) that was used to form the parts of this new finial.</div>
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A system of mirrors had been designed to reflect sunlight to the many rooms of Longwood from the windows in the sixteen-sided tower atop the house. The view above of the interior of this high cupola, taken in a time-lapse from the unfinished second floor, shows the blurs of people passing over the camera that is sitting facing up on the floor. The chimney-like shape of the house was intended to funnel warm air up toward the top of the cupola, creating an updraft that escaped through windows high in the building, thus drawing fresh air into the lower floors.<br />
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<img alt="Plans for the 2nd Floor of Longwood Plantation" src="https://betweennapsontheporch.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Plans-for-the-2nd-Floor-of-Longwood-Plantation.jpg" /> </div>
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Haller Nutt and his family settled in the basement, thinking the war would be over in a few months and that work on the house could then resume (basement exterior shown at upper left with retaining wall). Nutt’s descendants went on to occupy the unfinished house for the next 100 years, before it was presented to the Pilgrimage Garden Club of Natchez in 1970. The stairs shown in the photo to the right lead from the basement hall up to the first floor.</div>
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Heat was to be supplied by the 26 fireplaces arranged throughout the living areas. This plate warmer (above, center) was placed in front of the fireplace in the dining room to keep food hot prior to serving. A modern electic heater stands in front of the fireplace in the right-hand photograph.</div>
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Furniture miniatures (above, center), left behind by salesmen as samples of their wares, became toys for the Nutt children, two of whom can be seen in this painting (above, left). The portrait of the unknown lady (above, right) was revealed when a landscape painting was sent out to be cleaned and the landscape washed away. She has not been identified as a family member.</div>
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Although life in the unfinished mansion during the years of the Civil War would have had its hardships, the family was able to maintain a comfortable existence with the furnishings that they had on hand (above, left). The Indian-style punkah, or “shoo fly” fan (above, center), made dining more comfortable, for young (above, right) and older family members alike.</div>
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The carriage house in back of the main house (above, left) shelters — you guessed it — Julia Nutt's carriage (above, right).</div>
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Fine architectural details grace the many balconies of Longwood (above).</div>
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Separated from Longwood by a small stand of oak trees (above, left) stands the servants' quarters, a three-story, 12-room building that was built before construction of Longwood began (above, center). It would serve as the family's home until the main house could be completed. It appears to be a two-story structure but is built on a slope so that the second floor is level with the drive (above, right).</div>
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Black & white photo by Patricia Heintzelman, Historic Sites Survey, National Park Service, 1975</div>
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Commemorated on this hand-colored postcard (above), Longwood stands today as an iconic symbol of the Old South.</div>
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Longwood is located at 140 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez, Mississippi.<br />
Longwood is open daily, except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.<br />
Hours of operation are subject to seasonal changes.<br />
For more information on Longwood’s location and hours of operation, call 601/442-5193.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-3282335333063375082017-11-20T15:33:00.001-08:002017-11-20T15:33:12.729-08:00Napoleon Hill <img alt=" Napoleon Hill" src="https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2014/43/8576482_1392336459.jpg" /> <br />
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The merchant prince of Memphis, Napoleon Hill was born in 1830, the
second of eleven children of Duncan and Olivia L. Bills Hill. Hill's
physician father died in 1844, leaving his widow an estate valued at
more than forty thousand dollars, including Longwood plantation in
Marshall County, Mississippi. At age sixteen Hill moved to Bolivar,
where he clerked in a dry goods store. Three years later, he joined the
California Gold Rush and reportedly accumulated several thousand dollars
before returning to Tennessee. By 1857 Hill was back in Memphis after a
brief stopover in Bolivar. He opened a wholesale grocery and cotton
commission house on the eve of the Civil War.<br />
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In postwar Memphis, Hill became one of the leading businessmen among the
cotton and merchant houses of the day. He also invested in banking and
real estate, as well as in New South industrial development. As Memphis
rose to prominence as the world's leading cotton spot market and one of
the nation's largest wholesale grocery distribution centers, Hill became
wealthy, powerful, and socially prominent. The city's cotton merchants
organized the Memphis Cotton Exchange in 1873; Hill headed it in the
early 1880s. Unlike in other southern cities, Memphis cotton men
(instead of the railroads) owned and operated the city's cotton compress
and storage facilities. In 1887 Hill succeeded founder Henry Montgomery
as head of the Merchants' Cotton Press and Storage Company with its
giant warehouses and daily compress output of six thousand bales. In
1885 Hill, Sam Tate, and Robert B. Snowden formed Citizens Railway
Company, a streetcar line serving the Fort<br />
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Pickering, Cole's Mill,
Scotland, Elmwood Cemetery, and Leath Orphan Asylum areas. The line was
soon absorbed by Memphis City Railroad Company. Hill's biggest
investment was in Hill, Fontaine and Company, a cotton and wholesale
grocery business. In addition to his other investments, Hill owned 1,250
shares of Pratt Coal and Coke Company, developers of the Birmingham,
Alabama, steel industry. He was also a strong investor in Union and
Planters Bank and served as a bank director.<br />
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<img height="310" src="http://www.historic-memphis.com/memphis-historic/homes/home-napoleon-hill_small.jpg" width="400" /> <br />
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Hill lived ostentatiously in a mansion he built at the present site of
the Sterick Building. He died in 1909 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.<br />
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<img alt="Picture of " src="https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2004/89/8576482_1080683720.jpg" /> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-43252834832669594392017-11-20T15:17:00.003-08:002017-11-20T15:17:58.313-08:00Today I Smiled Today I smiled, and all at once<br /> Things didn't look so bad.<br /> Today I shared with someone else,<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> A little bit of hope I had.</span><br />
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Today I worked with what I had,<br /> And longed for nothing more,<br /> And what had seemed like only weeds,<br /> Were flowers at my door.<br />
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Today I loved a little more,<br /> And complained a little less.<br /> And in the giving of myself,<br /> I forgot my weariness.<br />
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~ author unknown ~</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-76407430359887307822017-08-20T12:24:00.000-07:002017-08-20T12:24:41.380-07:00The Colored Tri State Fair<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">African Americans had attended and participated in the
Tri-State Fair well into the 1870's. Following the
collapse of Reconstruction and the 1896 "separate but equal"
legalized segregation, Memphis blacks and whites
occupied two separate societies. In 1911, prominent
African-Americans founded, organized, and ran their own fair
called the "Negro Tri-State Fair". It was held at the
Fairgrounds a few days after the white fair closed. This
was an important event in the black community for decades.
When the white fair changed its name to the Mid-South Fair in
1928, the black fair became simply the Tri-State Fair until it
was discontinued in 1959. The Mid-South Fair was
integrated in 1962.</span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">Source: historic-memphis.com </span><span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span></span></span></span></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-18402354718582196352017-08-20T12:18:00.000-07:002017-08-20T12:18:55.298-07:00The Shelby County Building At The Fairgrounds In Memphis TN<br />
<img id="lightboxImage" src="http://historic-memphis.com/memphis-historic/fairgrounds/buildings-2ndArmyHdqr.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-87686360898580179732017-08-20T12:12:00.002-07:002017-08-20T12:15:17.716-07:00Montgomery Park Race Track<b>Montgomery Park Race Track</b> was an American thoroughbred racetrack in Memphis, Tennessee.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History:</span></span></h2>
The
track was originally constructed in 1851 on plantation land southeast of
Memphis. In 1882, Colonel Henry A. Montgomery organized the New Memphis
Jockey Club, which purchased the race track and the surrounding land.
The facility was named Montgomery Park at this time.<br />
The track ran its last race meet in 1906 due to the outlawing of
gambling by the Tennessee legislature. Following the closure, the track
land and facilities were first leased and then purchased by the city of
Memphis and incorporated into the Mid-South Fairgrounds.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Physical_attributes">Physical Attributes:</span></span></h2>
The track consisted of a one mile dirt oval 65 feet wide at all points.<br />
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<a href="http://www.historic-memphis.com/biographies/montgomery-park/montgomery-park.html">Click Here</a> to check out this site that shares pictures and a story about the Park. <br />
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Source: wikipedia.com Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-1361442265240884652017-07-29T13:00:00.001-07:002017-07-29T13:00:20.754-07:00Reminiscing – Dad’s 1940 Ford<img alt="1940 Ford" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-864342" height="335" src="https://assets.hemmings.com/blog/wp-content/uploads//2017/06/1940-Ford-970x508.jpg" style="min-width: 100%;" width="640" /><br />
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<em>1940 Ford, excerpt from ad below. Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/ford/40f1.html">Lov2XLR8.no</a>.</em><br />
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<em><strong>[Editor’s note: This “Reminiscing” story, edited by Richard Lentinello, comes to us from </strong></em><strong>Hemmings Classic Car</strong><em><strong> reader Thomas Murphy.]</strong></em><br />
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One
memory that I will never forget is about my father’s 1940 Ford Opera
Coupe. It had the jump seats in the rear which, when not in use, folded
up parallel to the sides of the rear compartment. Back in 1950, those
jump seats were usually occupied by my brother and I; I was just five
years old at the time.<br />
My father was one of the original
hot-rodders. The Ford had a flathead truck V-8 block which was bored out
– apparently truck blocks allowed for thicker cylinder walls for
purposes of over boring. The engine was equipped with a 3/4 racing
camshaft, high compression Granatelli aluminum cylinder heads, a
four-barrrel carburetor, exhaust headers and dual exhausts and Lincoln
Zephyr gears for the second gear.<br />
That old Ford would wind out to
90 miles per hour in second gear before shifting to third was required
due to those Zephyr gears. There was not much on the street in 1950 that
would touch it. The Ford looked stock, being a black 1940 Deluxe Coupe.
Only two rusty exhaust pipes sticking out the rear belied it was not
stock.<br />
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One
day we were on a touring vacation in Canada in the Fall of 1950. We
were stopped on a gravel road which had an overhead stop light hanging
from a wire traversing the intersection on a four-lane road. What pulled
alongside us at the light was a brand-spanking new Powder Blue
Oldsmobile “Rocket 88” fastback coupe. The Olds still had the price and
equipment sticker on the rear-side window. When I looked over from my
jump seat out the side rear window of the Ford, the driver of the Olds
was smiling like a Cheshire cat and glancing at his buddy in the
passenger seat, while revving the Oldsmobile’s engine.<br />
When the
light changed, my father, who was never one to ignore a challenge for a
race, took off. From the light we were side by side with the Oldsmobile.
In First gear we were fender to fender, and the Olds owner was looking a
bit quizzical at our evenness. Bear in mind that the loser of this
gambit would be eating the winner’s dust from the gravel road. In Second
gear I remember the Ford winding out to 90 miles per hour, and it ended
up two car lengths ahead of the now vanishing Olds when the shift to
Third gear occurred.<br />
So much for the much-heralded Rocket 88 Oldsmobile. That ’40 Ford was fast!<br />
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Source: Richard Lentinello on Jul 12th, 2017 <br />
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The Falling Creek HBN Basin is in the southern part of the Piedmont physiographic province in central Georgia (Figure 8.<i>Map of the study area in the Falling Creek Basin and photograph of a typical tributary stream</i>). The basin drains 187 km² of rolling terrain that ranges in elevation from 113 to 244 m. The USGS gaging station is 8 km east of the town of Juliette, Ga., at latitude 33°05'59'' and longitude 83°43'25''. Falling Creek is a south-flowing tributary of the Ocmulgee River with a channel length of about 18 km upstream from the gage and an average stream gradient of 3.8 m/km. The main channel is perennial, and average daily discharge ranges from 0.31 m³/s in September to 4.2 m³/s in February. Average annual runoff was 30 cm from 1965 through 1995 (U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Data, Georgia), of which almost 60 percent occurs during the 20 to 30 storm events each year (Rose, 1996). Climate of the area is temperate with warm, humid summers and mild winters (Payne, 1976). Precipitation averages 122 cm annually and is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year except for the fall months that are slightly drier (Plummer, 1983). Average daily air temperatures range from 7.3°C in January to 26.6°C in July. Freezing occurs on slightly more than one-half the days between December and February, although snowfall is rare (Payne, 1976).</div>
<table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><caption align="bottom"><span style="color: green;"><b>Freeman Creek (12/90; A.Mast)</b></span></caption><tbody>
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The basin lies in the Southern Mixed Forest ecoregion (Bailey and others, 1994) and is covered by second-growth pine and mixed pine-hardwood forest types. Pine forests, which naturally reforested previously farmed or logged areas, are composed of loblolly pine with an understory of dogwood and redbud. Hardwood forest types are concentrated along the creek bottoms and in small, sheltered, upland valleys. The lowland hardwood species are predominantly sweetgum, water oak, and willow oak, and the upland hardwood stands are dominated by white oak, post oak, red oak, and hickory. Most soils in the basin are classified as Ultisols and are mapped in the Davidson series (Payne, 1976), which includes well- drained soils that have formed in residual material weathered from mafic crystalline rocks. A typical soil profile has a dark reddish-brown surface layer of loam (18 to 30 cm) that is underlain by dark-red clay subsoil that extends to a depth of almost 2 m. Soils are moderately to strongly acidic (pH 5.1 to 6.0) and have a low organic-matter content (Payne, 1976). Soil mineralogy is dominated by detrital plagioclase, potassium feldspar, pyroxene, biotite, hornblende, and quartz and pedogenic kaolinite with minor amounts of vermiculite (Rose, 1994). Soils are underlain by a layer of saprolite as much as 30 m thick that is the primary source of base flow to the stream (Rose, 1996).</div>
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Bedrock in the basin consists of interlayered felsic and mafic gneiss of Precambrian age. The felsic gneiss accounts for about one-third of the bedrock and consists of oligoclase, microcline, and quartz with accessory biotite, muscovite, garnet, sphene, magnetite, zircon, apatite, and epidote (Matthews, 1967). The primary minerals of the mafic gneiss include hornblende, andesine, and quartz with accessory epidote, magnetite, and apatite. The mafic gneiss weathers to an orange-red saprolite with a boxwork structure. Ultramafic rocks also are present in the basin including a large body of gabbro (12 km by 1.5 km) mapped along the northern basin divide roughly parallel to State Highway 83 (Vincent and others, 1990). The gabbro consists primarily of plagioclase, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene, and olivine.</div>
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The Falling Creek Basin drains parts of Jasper and Jones Counties in central Georgia. Sixty percent of the basin is in the boundaries of the Oconee National Forest and 40 percent is in the boundaries of the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge (PNWR). The PNWR is part of the National Wildlife Refuge System administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the refuge headquarters is located just inside the southern basin boundary. About one-half the land in the National Forest boundary is owned by private individuals or logging companies. Most areas of the basin are accessible by the 50 km of Forest Service and county roads that traverse the area. The PNWR is open year-round for general public use, although some roads in the refuge may be closed during hunting season or in bad weather.</div>
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Public land in the basin was purchased by the Federal Government in the mid-1930's after almost 100 years of cotton farming had left severely eroded lands and nutrient-depleted soils. The PNWR was established in 1939 to develop techniques for reclaiming depleted areas and to restore suitable habitat for native animals (Riley and Riley, 1979). Current (1997) land cover in the basin is more than 95 percent forest and the dominant land use is for timber harvest, wildlife habitat, and recreation. Management policies of the PNWR are designed primarily to provide habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Pine forests in the refuge are managed on an 80-year rotation in stands of 4 to 12 ha, and hardwood stands are left to develop naturally (Ronnie Shell, Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge, oral commun., 1994). The refuge also manipulates water levels in natural wetlands, beaver ponds, and manmade ponds to improve food sources for birds. Pine forests in the Oconee National Forest are harvested on a 60-year rotation in a checkerboard pattern by clearcutting 12-ha parcels or thinning slightly larger areas (John Moore, Forest Service, oral commun., 1994). Some logged areas are left to revegetate naturally, whereas others are reseeded. Logging on private land has increased significantly during the past decade with clearcutting being the primary method of removal (John Moore, oral commun., 1994). Logging on private land has increased significantly during the past decade with clearcutting being the primary method of removal (John Moore, oral commun., 1994).</div>
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<tr><td><img alt="Hillsboro Creek" border="0" height="286" src="https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1173/circ1173a/images/FallingCreek2.jpg" width="416" /></td></tr>
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Other manmade features in the basin include several gravel pits and feldspar mines that were operated until the early 1980's and have since been revegetated or turned into ponds. A feldspar-processing plant, located just outside the northeast basin boundary, has discharged industrial wastewater into a settling pond at the head of Falling Creek for more than 30 years. The ore processing involves the use of hydrofluoric and sulfuric acids that generate acidic wastewater (Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1985). The wastewater is treated with a caustic rinse to raise the pH then pumped into the settling pond. Discharge from the settling pond has been identified as a point source of both suspended sediment and chemical contamination to Falling Creek (Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1985). A sample collected from the outlet of the settling pond in 1985 had a pH of 7.1 and fluoride and sulfate concentrations of 13.8 mg/L (730<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Symbol;">m</span>eq/L) and 50 mg/L (1,040<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Symbol;">m</span>eq/L), respectively (Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 1985). The impact of the industrial wastewater on the chemistry of Falling Creek is the reason this station was removed from the HBN in 1994.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Historical"></a>Historical Water-Quality Data and Time-Series Trends</h2>
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The chemical data set analyzed for this report includes 187 water-quality samples that were collected from October 1967 through June 1994 when the site was removed from the HBN. Water-quality samples were collected as frequently as monthly from 1968 through 1982 and quarterly from 1983 through 1994. Although not documented, water-quality samples in the early part of the record probably were analyzed at one of the three USGS laboratories (Raleigh, N.C.; Ocala, Fla.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.) that provided analytical services in the Southeastern Region (Durum, 1978). After establishment of the Central Laboratory System, samples were analyzed at the Central Laboratory in Atlanta, Ga., from 1973 through 1985 and at the NWQL in Arvada, Colo., from 1986 through 1994. Daily discharge records for Falling Creek (station 02212600) are available beginning in July 1964. Continuous records of water temperature at the gage were published from August 1965 through September 1979.</div>
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Calculated ion balances for 175 samples with complete major ion analyses are shown in figure 9. Ion balances ranged from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: Symbol;">-</span>27 to +12 percent, and more than 85 percent of the samples had calculated values within the ±5 percent range, indicating that the analyses were of high quality. The mean charge balance of all samples was 0.2 percent, indicating that unmeasured constituents, such as organic anions, do not contribute significantly to the ion balance of stream water at this site.</div>
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Time-series plots of the major dissolved constituents were inspected for evidence of method-related effects (Figures 9a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>9b.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Temporal variation of discharge, field pH, major ion concentrations, and ion balance at Falling Creek, Georgia</i>). For example, several higher than average sulfate concentrations were reported during the late 1980's. This pattern coincides with the use of a turbidimetric titration for sulfate analyses at the NWQL between March 1986 and December 1989 (Fishman and others, 1994). In 1989, the NWQL determined that sulfate concentrations can be over-estimated by this technique and changed the method to ion chromatography in 1990 (Office of Water Quality Technical Memorandum No. 90.04, Turbidimetric Sulfate Method, issued December 21, 1989, at URL http://water.usgs.gov/admin/memo/). Sulfate and chloride both show a pattern of slightly smaller concentrations during the early 1970's. The fact that both silica and fluoride are missing for these same analyses may be an indication of a change in analytical laboratory during this period of record. The time-series plot of field pH shows an abrupt downward shift in pH around 1974 and many uncharacteristically low pH values during the next 6 years (fig. 9). Although not documented, these low values may have been caused by a change in the pH electrode used by field personnel. Some instrument-electrode systems are known to give erroneous readings when measuring pH in low-conductivity waters, and the electrode commonly is the critical component (Office of Water Quality Technical Memorandum No. 81.08, Electrodes for pH Measurement in Low-Conductivity Waters, issued February 10, 1981, at URL http://water.usgs.gov/admin/memo/).</div>
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Table 14 gives median concentrations and ranges of major constituents in stream water collected at the gage and VWM concentrations in wet-only deposition measured at the Georgia Station NADP station about 65 km west of the basin. Wet- precipitation chemistry at the NADP station is dilute and slightly acidic with a VWM pH of 4.6. During 17 years of record, the dominant cations in precipitation were hydrogen, which contributed 50 percent of the total cation charge, and ammonium and sodium, which contributed 19 and 15 percent, respectively. Sulfate was the dominant anion, accounting for 62 percent of the total anions, whereas nitrate and chloride accounted for 23 and 15 percent, respectively. These data indicate that solutes in precipitation in the basin are primarily a mixture of strong acids derived from anthropogenic emissions of sulfur and nitrogen compounds, which cause acid rain.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-18370827931215463152017-04-08T12:49:00.000-07:002017-04-08T12:49:24.047-07:00Proof That English Is Quite Bizarre<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #171717; text-align: right;">English
is the easiest language to learn, mostly because it doesn't make use of
male/female for everything, like other languages do. But even as an
'easy language', it doesn't mean it's easy to master, or that it doesn't
have some pretty weird features that have made their way into the
language with time. Enjoy these 3 examples of why English is a crazy
language!</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #171717; text-align: right;"><strong>1. Things that make no sense!</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Let's face it - English is a
crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in
England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while
sweetbreads (which aren't sweet) are meat. We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither a Guinea nor is it a
pig...</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>And why is it that writers
write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't
it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a
bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you
call it?</span><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>If teachers taught, why didn't
preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a
humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do
people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send
cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>How can a slim chance and a fat
chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You
have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house
can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it
out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>English was invented by people,
not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which,
of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out,
they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><strong>2. Words with double meanings</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>1. The bandage was wound around the wound.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>2. The farm was used to produce produce.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>4. We must polish the Polish furniture.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>10. I did not object to the object.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>13. They were too close to the door to close it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>18. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>19. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Source: ba-bamail.com </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-27690973807966366362017-02-11T13:45:00.000-08:002017-02-11T13:45:26.431-08:001955 Huffy Radiobike<a href="http://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/huffy-radio-bike-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[116296]"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-116297" height="354" src="http://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/huffy-radio-bike-1-630x354.jpg" width="630" /></a><br />
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Christmas
has come and gone, and some of us may not have gotten exactly what we
were wishing for. Many of us receive Christmas money from grandparents,
and other relatives, fueling our desires to get that one thing we really
wanted for Christmas, like this bicycle. This 1955 Huffy Radiobike is a
great survivor that is rare, and complete. The Radiobike was made for
1955 and 1956 making some very lucky kids the coolest kids on their
street, being able to have portable music built right into their
bicycle. Unfortunately, not long after the Radiobikes release, the
transistor radio came out making it very easy to take music with you
any, and everywhere. This rare two wheeled mercury vapor tube radio is
offered at $1,800. Find it <a class="old" href="http://barnfinds.com/old/" rel="nofollow">here on ebay</a> out of Ohio.<span id="more-116296"></span><br />
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Within
this tank lies a narrow mercury vapor tube radio. There is a volume
knob, as well as a tuning knob, and the key is a locking on/off switch
to prevent others from draining your batteries when you aren’t with your
bike. The white tube coming out of the bottom of the tank is the
antenna. Wearing the lovely “Flamboyant Red” color, the Huffy Radiobike
was also offered in “Flamboyant Green” and “Flamboyant Blue”. Although
the Radiobike was offered for 2 years, it is speculated that there were
only 8,500 bikes made. 8,500 doesn’t sound like too low of a number, but
the Radio built into the tank was not cut out for the outdoors, and
many fell subject to failure. Upon out living their usefulness as a
radio with wheels, the transistor radio would become a quick
replacement, and the “Muscle” bikes of the 1960s didn’t do the
Radiobikes any favors, making them appear old and outdated.<br />
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Fortunately,
this radio looks to be in fair health, needing to be cleaned and
tested. Also fortunately the on/off switch key is with this bike as
well. This 3 tube radio was designed, and manufactured by Yellow Springs
Instrument Company.<br />
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In
nice survivor condition, there are areas where some surface rust has
developed. The radio side of the tank has some minor surface rust, but
much of the paint, and graphic on the tank is present. There is also
some surface rust forming on the chain guard as well as the rear fender.
The battery pack compartment is very clean. Thankfully someone removed
the batteries preventing corrosion to the battery area. The 1955 only
headlight is nice with no rust, or paint issues. The handle bars and
fork crown are beautifully shiny, although the wheels have not aged as
well. There is some corrosion, and even minor rust forming on the rims.
These wheels are likely suitable to ride, but they are just a bit ugly
as far as condition goes. But we aren’t too picky, we would gladly
welcome this 2 wheeled find to our collection. How about you?<br />
<span><br />Source: barnfinds.com </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-46306560681039080542017-01-25T13:36:00.000-08:002017-01-25T13:36:12.741-08:00 Singing Helps this Alzheimer's Patient to Remember<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Ted McDermott has <strong><a href="http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=21285" target="_blank">Alzheimer's disease</a></strong>
and often struggles to remember who his family and friends are.
Therefore, in an attempt to make his life better, his son Mac started
looking for ways to improve his dad's memory. His father has a huge
passion for music, and even spent some of his younger years singing in
bars and clubs across the United Kingdom. Despite his severe memory
loss, Mac realized that his father still recognizes his favorite tunes
and even sings along to them when they come on. In fact, his knowledge
of songs is so vast, he is known as "The Songaminute Man." Furthermore,
when he is singing, he seems to remember who his friends and family are.</span></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Therefore, Mac started to sing
along with his dad and the pair have now begun to record their singing
sessions - they're working on raising money for Alzheimer's research
through crowdfunding, and from the proceeds of their album sales.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>This terrible disease affects so
many people around the world, and while Ted McDermott still struggles
with day-to-day life, Mac has found a sweet way to bring their family
together while also raising money for a great cause.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><strong>Check out a short clip of them performing together below:</strong></span></span><br />
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Source: ba-bamail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-18023599879462973462017-01-25T13:32:00.000-08:002017-01-25T13:32:01.903-08:00Elton John's Greatest HitsI<span style="font-size: small;">n his five-decade career, the
Rocket Man, best known as Sir Elton John, has sold more than 300 million
records, making him one of the most successful solo artists of all
time. His career began in 1969, and he has since played more than 3,500
concerts in over 80 countries. He has had more than 50 Top 40 hits,
including seven consecutive Number 1 US albums. One of his most loved
songs, Candle in the Wind (the 1997 edition), sold over 33 million
copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling single in the history of the
UK and US singles charts in the process.
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Picking a top 16 list from Elton
John's career is a tall order. Nevertheless, much like his many public
personas and musical identities, no matter what songs you prefer,
there's always something new to find and love in every one. So, while
these songs will take you back to your past, we hope that you enjoy this
week's Music Box!</span><br />
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<b>Sacrifice (1989)</b></div>
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<b>Your Song (1970)</b></div>
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is one of the quintessential capacities of the human condition. But, if
you were asked the question 'What does love mean?' how would you
respond? In a quest to discover children's perception of love, a
research group, led by Lecturer and Author Leo Buscaglia, asked a group
of children aged 4 through 8 to answer this question. Their goal
however, was to find the most caring kid. But along the way, they also
discovered that the kids' perception on love was truly profound and
deep. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span>When
my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her
toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even
when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.</span></strong><br />
<span>Rebecca, age 8</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span>When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><em><span>Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.</span></em></strong></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span><em>Chrissy, age 6</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span>Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.</span></strong><br />
<span>Danny, age 7</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span>Love is when you
kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want
to be together and you talk more. My mommy and daddy are like that. They
look gross when they kiss.</span></strong><br />
<span>Emily, age 8</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span>Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day.</span></strong><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span>Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford. </span></strong><br />
<span>Chris, age 7</span></em></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-57360392564031356052017-01-15T18:31:00.000-08:002017-01-15T18:31:17.573-08:00Christina Crawford<b>Christina Crawford</b> (born June 11, 1939) is an American writer and actress, best known as the author of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest" title="Mommie Dearest">Mommie Dearest</a></i>, an autobiographical account of alleged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse">child abuse</a> by her adoptive mother, actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a>. She is also known for small roles in various television and film projects, such as Joan Borman Kane in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Storm" title="The Secret Storm">The Secret Storm</a></i> and Monica George in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a> film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_in_the_Country" title="Wild in the Country">Wild in the Country</a></i>.<br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span></h2>
Crawford was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California, in 1939 to unmarried teen parents.<br />
According to Christina Crawford's personal interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King" title="Larry King">Larry King</a>, her father was married to another woman, and supposedly in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">Navy</a>, while her mother was unmarried. Christina Crawford was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption" title="Adoption">adopted</a> from a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_broker" title="Baby broker">baby broker</a> in the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>
because Joan Crawford was formerly denied an adoption by social
services for being an unfit candidate in California in 1940. Christina
Crawford maintains that Joan Crawford did not have a positive
relationship with her own mother or with her brother, which contributed
to social services' conclusion, as well as her multiple divorces.
Subsequent documentation showed that the adoption was handled by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann" title="Georgia Tann">Georgia Tann</a> through Tann's infamous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Children%27s_Home_Society" title="Tennessee Children's Home Society">Tennessee Children's Home Society</a>. Christina was one of five children adopted by Joan Crawford.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup>
Her siblings are Christopher, adopted in 1943, and twin girls,
Catherine (Cathy) and Cynthia (Cindy), adopted in 1947. Another boy,
also named Christopher, was adopted in 1942 but he was reclaimed by his
birth mother.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
Christina Crawford has stated that her childhood was affected by her adopted mother's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism" title="Alcoholism">alcoholism</a> and violent menstrual mood swings. At the age of ten she was sent to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadwick_School" title="Chadwick School">Chadwick School</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palos_Verdes,_California" title="Palos Verdes, California">Palos Verdes, California</a>,
where many other celebrity children were in attendance. However, her
mother removed her from Chadwick because of alleged "misbehavior" with
several of the male students. Joan Crawford then placed her in a
Catholic boarding school, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintridge_Sacred_Heart_Academy" title="Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy">Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy</a> in La Cañada (now the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ca%C3%B1ada_Flintridge,_California" title="La Cañada Flintridge, California">La Cañada Flintridge</a>),
California, and curtailed Christina's outside contact until her
graduation. After graduating from Flintridge, Crawford moved from
California to Pittsburgh to attend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Drama" title="Carnegie Mellon School of Drama">Carnegie Mellon School of Drama</a> and then to New York City where she studied at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Playhouse" title="Neighborhood Playhouse">Neighborhood Playhouse</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>. After seven years, she gained a bachelor of arts from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">UCLA</a>.<br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span></h2>
Christina met Harvey Medlinsky, a Broadway stage manager, while attending acting school. They were married briefly.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup> She met her second husband, film producer David Koontz, while she worked in public relations for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Oil" title="Getty Oil">Getty Oil</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Acting_career">Acting career</span></h2>
Crawford appeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_stock_theatre" title="Summer stock theatre">summer stock theatre</a>, including a production of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendor_in_the_Grass" title="Splendor in the Grass">Splendor in the Grass</a></i>. She also acted in a number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> productions, including <i>In Color on Sundays</i> (1958).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SLT_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-SLT-3">[3]</a></sup> She also appeared in <i>At Chrismastime</i> (1959) and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_of_the_Moon_%28play%29" title="Dark of the Moon (play)">Dark of the Moon</a></i> (1959) at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TMS_4-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-TMS-4">[4]</a></sup> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_Blue" title="The Moon Is Blue">The Moon Is Blue</a></i> (1960).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BJ_5-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-BJ-5">[5]</a></sup><br />
In 1960, Crawford accepted a role in the film <i>Force of Impulse</i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-KSLT_6-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-KSLT-6">[6]</a></sup> which was released in 1961. Also in 1961, Crawford appeared in a small role in <i>Wild in the Country</i>, a film starring Elvis Presley. That year, she made a guest appearance on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Miller_%28broadcaster%29" title="Dean Miller (broadcaster)">Dean Miller</a>'s NBC celebrity interview program <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_Hollywood" title="Here's Hollywood">Here's Hollywood</a></i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-IPT_7-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-IPT-7">[7]</a></sup> promoting the films. In 1962, she appeared in the play <i>The Complaisant Lover</i>. She played five character parts in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht" title="Ben Hecht">Ben Hecht</a>'s controversial play <i>Winkelberg</i>; that same year, she appeared on the CBS courtroom drama <i>The Verdict is Yours</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-APC_8-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-APC-8">[8]</a></sup> In October 1965 she appeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_in_the_Park" title="Barefoot in the Park">Barefoot in the Park</a></i>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Loy" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a>, a friend of her mother. She also had a role in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_%28film%29" title="Faces (film)">Faces</a></i>, a 1968 film directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cassavetes" title="John Cassavetes">John Cassavetes</a> and starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marley" title="John Marley">John Marley</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena_Rowlands" title="Gena Rowlands">Gena Rowlands</a>.<br />
Christina played "Joan Borman Kane" on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Storm" title="The Secret Storm">The Secret Storm</a></i>
in New York from 1968 until 1969. When she went on sick leave in
October 1968, Joan Crawford, then over 60 years old, asked for the role
of the 24-year-old character. She did this without mentioning it to her
daughter, and under the guise of "holding the role" for Christina, so
that the part wouldn't be recast during her absence, appearing in four
episodes. Viewers increased 40% during this replacement time, and
Christina, already feeling betrayed, also felt embarrassed due to her
mother's seemingly intoxicated performance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-joan_9-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-joan-9">[9]</a></sup>
Eventually let go from the series, Christina believed her mother's
interference had contributed to her departure. The producers, however,
claimed that the character and her storyline had simply run its course.<br />
Crawford would also appear on other TV programmes, including <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Center_%28TV_series%29" title="Medical Center (TV series)">Medical Center</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Welby,_M.D." title="Marcus Welby, M.D.">Marcus Welby, M.D.</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Lincoln" title="Matt Lincoln">Matt Lincoln</a></i>, <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironside_%28TV_series%29" title="Ironside (TV series)">Ironside</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Sense_%28TV_series%29" title="The Sixth Sense (TV series)">The Sixth Sense</a></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup><br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Career_after_mother.27s_death">Career after mother's death</span></h2>
After
Joan Crawford died in 1977, Christina and her brother Christopher
discovered that their mother had disinherited them from her $2 million <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_%28law%29" title="Estate (law)">estate</a>, her will citing "reasons which are well-known to them".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup>
In November 1977 Christina and her brother sued to invalidate their
mother's will, which she signed on October 18, 1976. Cathy LaLonde
(another Crawford daughter) and her husband, Jerome, the complaint
charged, "took deliberate advantage of decedent's seclusion and weakened
and distorted mental and physical condition to insinuate themselves"
into Miss Crawford's favor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> A court settlement was reached on July 13, 1979, awarding Christina and Christopher $55,000 from their mother's estate.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup><br />
In 1978, Crawford's book <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest" title="Mommie Dearest">Mommie Dearest</a></i>
was released. It accused her mother of being a cruel, violent,
neglectful, and manipulative narcissistic parent, as she adopted her
children for publicity instead of out of a desire to be a responsible,
humane mother. It also raised public discourse about child abuse, which
was just beginning to be widely acknowledged as a problem.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup> In 1981, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest_%28film%29" title="Mommie Dearest (film)">movie version</a> of the same title was released, starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faye_Dunaway" title="Faye Dunaway">Faye Dunaway</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Scarwid" title="Diana Scarwid">Diana Scarwid</a>
as Christina. The film, while critically panned, went on to gross more
than $39 million worldwide from a $5 million budget, and garnered five <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards" title="Golden Raspberry Awards">Golden Raspberry Awards</a>. The film is now regarded as an unintentional comedy and a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Classics" title="Cult Classics">cult classic</a>. Christina has published subsequent books, including <i>Survivor</i>.
For seven years she served as a member of Los Angeles' Inter-Agency
Council on Abuse and Neglect Associates, during which time she
campaigned for the reform of laws regarding child abuse and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_trafficking" title="Child trafficking">child trafficking</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup><br />
After a near-fatal <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrovascular_accident" title="Cerebrovascular accident">stroke</a> in 1981, Crawford spent five years in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_%28neuropsychology%29" title="Rehabilitation (neuropsychology)">rehabilitation</a> before moving to the Northwest.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup> She ran a bed and breakfast called "Seven Springs Farms" in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensed,_Idaho" title="Tensed, Idaho">Tensed, Idaho</a>, between 1994 and 1999.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people1994_1-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-people1994-1">[1]</a></sup> She formed Seven Springs Press in 1998 to publish the 20th-anniversary edition of <i>Mommie Dearest</i>
in paperback from the original manuscript. This included material
omitted from the first printing about the years following her graduation
from high school.<br />
In 1999 Crawford began working as a director of marketing at the
Coeur d'Alene Casino in Idaho. On November 22, 2009, she was appointed
county commissioner in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benewah_County,_Idaho" title="Benewah County, Idaho">Benewah County, Idaho</a>, by Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Otter" title="Butch Otter">Butch Otter</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> though she lost her bid for election in November 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> In 2011, Crawford founded the non-profit Benewah Human Rights Coalition and served as the organization's first president.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Crawford#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> In 2013, she made a documentary titled <i>Surviving Mommie Dearest</i>.<br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Books">Books</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mommie_Dearest" title="Mommie Dearest">Mommie Dearest</a></i> (1978) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0966336909">ISBN 0-9663369-0-9</a></li>
<li><i>Black Widow: A Novel</i> (1981) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0425056252">ISBN 0-425-05625-2</a></li>
<li><i>Survivor</i> (1988) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0515102997">ISBN 0-515-10299-7</a></li>
<li><i>No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence</i> (1994) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0882681842">ISBN 0-88268-184-2</a></li>
<li><i>Daughters Of The Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origin and Aftermath</i> (2003) <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0966336917">ISBN 0-9663369-1-7</a></li>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0186726/" rel="nofollow">Christina Crawford</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb" title="IMDb">Internet Movie Database</a></li>
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From 1924 through 1950, Beulah George “Georgia” Tann ran the
Tennessee Children’s Home Society, from a stately home on Poplar Avenue
in Memphis, TN. Tann used it as a front for an illegal foundling home
and adoption agency that placed over 5,000 newborn infants and children,
from toddlers up to age 16, to sell to what Ms. Tann called “high type”
families in 48 states. <span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><strong>She used
manipulation, deception, pressure tactics, threats, and brute force to
take children from mainly poor single mothers in a 5 state area to sell
to wealthy parents up until outrage, lawsuits, and complaints spurred a
state investigation into her tactics closed her down in 1950.</strong> </span> </span> <br />
Protected
by the infamous Edward Hull “Boss” Crump, she regularly altered and
destroyed the records of the children “processed” through her custody
and did not conduct checks on the adoption homes to which she sent
children. Hers was a complicated story: Ms. Tann craved the wealth and
power that her position and role afforded her – hopefully to eclipse her
locally famous father who was a judge in Mississippi and who had
prohibited her from entering the field of law. She delivered speeches
about adoption in Washington, New York, and other major cities and was
consulted by Eleanor Roosevelt regarding child welfare. So many children
died while in Tann’s care that at one point, the infant mortality rate
in Memphis, TN was highest in the country and many more deaths were
never reported.<br />
Notable celebrities such as Joan Crawford, June Allyson,
and her husband Dick Powell, Smiley Burnette, and Pearl Buck used her
services as well as the parents of New York governor Herbert Lehman and
professional wrestler Ric Flair. Tann’s death prior to prosecution in
1950 led to more stringent laws on adoption in Tennessee in 1951. Fewer
than 10% of these stolen children were ever reunited with parents or
siblings due to the complicity of local and state officials such as
Juvenile Court Judge Camille Kelley, who provided about 20% of the
children adopted out by Tann, and difficulty finding true and accurate
documentation for identification. Cindy Lou Presto was one of the
children adopted by her and was reunited with her mother after 32 years.
She was abducted by her while she was playing at a park when she was
just a toddler. Two of her former children, Lynne Heinz and Nancy
Turner, are looking for their birth families.<br />
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<b>Extra Notes:</b> This case first aired on the December 13, 1989 episode. It inspired the movies, <strong>“Missing Children: A Mother’s Story”</strong> and <strong>“Stolen Babies.”</strong> The book, <strong><i>The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption</i></strong>, by Barbara Bisantz Raymond, was published in the U.S., Australia, and the U.K.<br />
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<b>Results:</b><br />
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Solved. Soon after the broadcast, Lynn was reunited with
her father and two half-brothers. Nancy was also able to locate and
reunite with her sister, Evelyn Routh, whom she hadn’t seen in over
forty years.<br />
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<b>Links:</b><br />
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<strong>Source: adoptionland.org </strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-38979630474288155602017-01-15T18:09:00.001-08:002017-01-15T18:09:14.632-08:00The Movie: "StolenBabies"<span class="archive-link"></span><br />
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To
childless couples, Georgia Tann was a salvation. From 1924 to 1950,
Tann headed the Tennessee Children's Home Society, a highly respected
adoption agency. During her tenure, permanent homes were found for more
than 5,000 babies. Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford and Dick Powell and June
Allyson were just a few of the famous people who received their
children from the home. But Tann guarded a deep, dark secret: a vast
majority of these children were actually stolen from their natural
parents.<br />
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Lifetime's new movie, "Stolen Babies," premiering
Thursday, dramatizes this shocking true story. Lea Thompson stars in the
drama as a county welfare agent who works closely with the society,
only to discover the illegality in adoption procedures; Mary Tyler Moore
plays Tann.<br />
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Executive producer Kim Moses' interest in Tann was
sparked when she read an article about her in a newspaper. But when she
contacted the welfare department, the governor's office and the public
relations office of Tennessee, everyone disavowed knowledge of Tann. "I
felt that was curious, since it covered such a long period of time,"
Moses says. "I think it is really a mar on the state of Tennessee. It is
something they are not happy about, so they really don't want to make
it a part of that history."<br />
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So
Moses and her partners, Ian Sander and J. Moses, began doing
independent research. They found a social worker in Tennessee who had
taken over the home after Tann died of cancer in 1950, and was
responsible for writing the current laws to protect adopted children.<br />
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"She
was the first one to be suspicious of Georgia Tann because she was
putting together statistics (on adoptions)," Moses says. "There was a
high percentage of children in the adoption system in Tennessee from (a
certain) county who had mental problems. There were repetitive
adoptions. People would bring them back because of their behavior."<br />
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Though
there also were a number of Tennessee families awaiting children, there
were large numbers of out-of-state adoptions. In Tennessee, adoptions
were free, but Tann was able to charge any amount for out-of-state
adoptions.<br />
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"Why would they be adopting so many children from out
of state when in Tennessee they were still waiting for children?" Sander
says.<br />
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The stolen children came mainly from poor, uneducated families.<br />
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"Many
of the homes they were adopted to were financially very well off,"
Moses says, "even though they were not from good backgrounds. There was
this story where they was a little girl who was adopted out to a wealthy
family, and she ate garbage because they didn't feed her. But then
there were other children who did get to college."<br />
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Tann's rule
endured, Sander says, because of the Tennessee political machine. She
worked with Judge Camille Kelly to "legally" get the children away from
their natural parents.<br />
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"When there was a judge who went up against
them, he found himself absolutely exiled on the bench," Sander says.
"There was a flu epidemic and 40 children died because (Tann) wouldn't
give them penicillin because she thought it was too expensive. When a
doctor tried to uncover that, he found himself out of a job."<br />
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No
one was ever prosecuted for the illegal adoptions. Tann destroyed many
of the adoption records. She died before she was brought to trial; Kelly
resigned her post.<br />
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Mary Tyler Moore was drawn to the project
because she felt that Tann was a fascinating character. "I wanted to
play that character because I am sure she was a product of her time,"
says Moore, who is almost unrecognizable as the matronly Tann. "If you
have a choice between raising a child in a wealthy home with little
love, or a poor home with a lot of love, there is no question the
children would do better in the wealthy home. That was the conventional
wisdom."<br />
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Tann was the daughter of a doctor who was from the wrong
side of the tracks. "She was not accepted by Tennessee society, so she
used this position for power," Moore says. "She had leverage to work her
way into the place she wanted to be. With Camille Kelly, they would
look at somebody--a worker who was temporarily unable to support his
family. They would take the children under the guise of temporarily
protecting them, and then send them out for adoption. Because of the
disclosure laws at the time, once that family was back on its feet and
came looking for the children, they couldn't trace them. It was a
heinous thing."<br />
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Thompson,
who plays the idealistic social worker, says "Stolen Babies" is all
about class. "It was really about the poor versus the rich," Thompson
says. "'There was a heavy class system in the South--the poor white
trash and the rich people. I totally see both sides of the coin, because
I have really rich friends and they can't have babies and when a woman
wants a baby, man, it is like an intense physical desire."<br />
<br />
"Stolen
Babies," Moore says, is an important piece not just because it shows
how Tann persuaded herself that she was in the right but because it
reveals "how people can convince themselves that they are right in all
areas of life, when they are really doing terrible things. I am almost
saying, don't be so sure of yourself, no matter what you are doing. Look
very carefully at your motives and the outcome and be aware of other
people's opinions before you take action."<br />
<br />
"Stolen Babies" premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. and repeats Saturday at 6 p.m. on Lifetime.<br />
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<span class="pubdate"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1993/mar/21">March 21, 1993</a></span><span class="separator">|</span><span>SUSAN KING</span> | <span>TIMES STAFF WRITER</span></div>
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Within Elmwood’s extensive archives T-#504 is short for Turley
Lot Number 504. Of all the lots in Elmwood this is the only one that is
forever imprinted on my mind. The mention of T-#504 brings to mind
anger, disbelief, shock, curiosity, and especially sadness of the most
profound degree.<br />
<br />
The Lot Book says that this area is “Reserved for
the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. For those of you not familiar
with the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, this was the agency run by
Memphis’s infamous Georgia Tann, also known as the “Baby Thief”.<br />
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Visit
T-#504 and you will see nothing but a grassy patch of ground. No
markers. Yet within this plot are buried 19 children who died under the
supervision of Miss Tann.<br />
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The first burial was on September
17th, 1923 and this little girl’s name as registered in the Elmwood
records was Maud. The last burial, Robert, was on October 10, 1949,
less than a year before the agency was formally exposed for what it was
and shut down. Eight other children also have full names listed. It
is known, however, that Ms. Tann commonly changed the names of the
children so it will never be known if these are the actual birth names.
Ten of the children are only listed as Baby Estelle, Baby Billy, Baby
Herbert, and so on. <br />
<br />
Thousands of children went through this
agency and were often deceptively stolen from their legitimate parent/s
and sold at a profit through Tann’s nefarious ‘adoption system’.
Hundreds of children died while under her care from neglect, abuse, and
improper medical care. No one knows for sure what happened to their
bodies. One story, as told in Barbara Raymond’s book <em>The Baby Thief</em>,
has it that some of the bodies were disposed of through an agreement
Miss Tann had with a local mortuary to cremate the remains. It was said
that she liked cremation because ‘graves left a trail’. <br />
T-#504
is one small, sad, visible reminder of that ‘trail’. The children
buried there still wait for a marker to tell the world who they were and
what happened to them.<br />
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Source: elmwoodcemetery.org Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-141259935246359082017-01-15T17:46:00.000-08:002017-01-15T17:46:51.068-08:00The Hollywood Baby Snatcher:<div id="articleIconLinksContainer">
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The baby snatcher: Georgia Tann stole children from their real families and sold them for her own profit</div>
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As she watched her baby coughing in her cot in a corner of her tiny apartment, Alma Sipple felt increasingly desperate.<br />
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A single mother in Tennessee, she could not afford medical care for
ten-month-old Irma. Suddenly, a knock on the door heralded a turn in her
fate: there stood a woman with close-cropped grey hair, round wireless
glasses and a stern air.<br />
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She exuded authority as she
explained she was the director of a local orphanage and had come to
help. Alma rushed to show the lady her sickly child.<br />
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Examining
the baby, the woman offered to pass her off as her own at the local
hospital in order to obtain free treatment. She warned Alma not to
accompany her, explaining: 'If the nurses know you're the mother,
they'll charge you.'<br />
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Lifting the child from the cot, the woman turned on her heel and disappeared. Two days later, Alma was told her baby had died.<br />
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In fact, Irma had been flown to an adoptive home in Ohio. Alma would not see her daughter again for 45 years.<br />
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For far from being her saviour, the woman who had taken Irma was a baby thief.<br />
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For
30 years, Georgia Tann made millions selling children. A network of
scouts, corrupt judges and politicians helped her steal babies. She also
targeted youngsters on their way home from school, promising them ice
cream to tempt them away from their homes.<br />
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Legal papers would be signed saying they were abandoned - most would never see their families again. <br />
Now,
her story has been revealed in a new book. After painstakingly
contacting her surviving victims and a forensic search through the
archives, Barbara Bisantz Raymond calculates that Tann sold more than
5,000 children - and killed scores through neglect.<br />
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During the time she ran her 'business', the infant mortality rate in Memphis was the highest in the country.<br />
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Tann molested some of the girls in her care and placed children with paedophiles. <br />
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She charged fees to couples desperate to be parents</h2>
Some
victims were sold as underage farm hands or domestic skivvies. Others
were starved, beaten and raped. The lucky ones were sold to wealthy
parents, with Hollywood stars, including Lana Turner and Joan Crawford -
who adopted twins Cathy and Cynthia - lining up for babies.<br />
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Some of the children were featured in magazine articles. A number were placed with families in Britain.<br />
So, who was Georgia Tann and how did she come to ruin so many lives?<br />
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Born
in Hickory, Mississippi, in 1891, her father, George, was a high court
judge and her mother, Beulah, a Southern belle. Inside their lavish
house, all was not well.<br />
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Tann's
father was an arrogant, domineering womaniser. From an early age, it
became clear Georgia was a disappointment to her strait-laced parents.<br />
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Big-boned and broad-shouldered, she wore flannel shirts and trousers:
unacceptable clothing for a woman at the time. A car accident had left
her with a limp.<br />
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Social work was one of the few acceptable
careers for women of Tann's class, and despite having no empathy with
the vulnerable, she saw it as an escape route from her staid home.<br />
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She
developed her own theories on society. In eugenic language which would
be echoed to infamous effect in Nazi Germany, she described wealthy
people as 'of the higher type'.<br />
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She
considered the poverty stricken young women left in poverty by the
Depression as 'breeders', privately referring to them as 'cows'. She
argued that poor people were incapable of proper parenting. <br />
After getting a job at the Mississippi Children's Home-Finding Society, she began to translate her beliefs into action.<br />
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At the time, adoption was uncommon in the USA. Tann would change that.<br />
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At
first, she simply placed orphans for adoption. But soon, she realised
she could make money by charging hefty fees to couples desperate to
become parents. <br />
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By
1920, exploiting the lack of regulations on adoption and her father's
position as a judge, Tann began placing children she had kidnapped from
poor women.<br />
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One of the first mothers she
targeted was Rose Harvey. One spring morning in 1922, Tann drove her
Ford Model T to a cabin in Jasper County, Mississippi.<br />
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Asleep
inside was pregnant Rose, who was young, poor, widowed and suffering
from diabetes. Her two-year-old son, Onyx, was playing on the back
porch.<br />
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Tann lured the sturdy, black-haired, brown-eyed boy
into her car. Her father signed legal papers declaring Rose to be an
unfit mother and Onyx an abandoned child. He was placed with an adoptive
family. Rose engaged a lawyer, but was unable to regain custody.<br />
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In
1924, Tann started work at the Tennessee Children's Home Society, where
she turned part-time baby snatching into big business.<br />
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'I
can still hear her steps down the hallway. She had big feet and wore
black lace-up shoes,' says a former resident at the children's home.<br />
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'She always went upstairs to see the babies. There would be masses of them one day. They'd be gone the next.'<br />
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Tann acquired the protection of
Memphis's corrupt and all powerful mayor, Edward Hull Crump, and
eventually set up her own orphanage, at 1556 Poplar Avenue.<br />
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By
then, she had met her lesbian partner, Ann Atwood Hollinsworth, who
helped Tann ferry babies around the country - as far from their natural
parents as possible.<br />
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Tann adopted a daughter, June, in 1922.
June's daughter, Vicci, says: 'Mother said Georgia Tann was a cold fish;
she gave her material things, but nothing else. I don't know why she
bothered to adopt her.'<br />
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By the Thirties, Tann was charging
wealthy couples up to £100,000 in today's money for babies. So, how did
she arrange a steady flow of children she could sell?<br />
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In some
cases, single parents would drop off their children at nursery - when
they came back to collect them, they would be told they had been taken
away by welfare officers.<br />
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Tann offered accommodation to
children whose parents were in trouble and targeted the most beautiful
infants she could find, dressing them in lace outfits to meet
prospective clients.<br />
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Older children would be instructed to 'sit on that man's lap and call him daddy'.<br />
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Newborns were most in demand. Tann bribed maternity hospital nurses, who falsely told mothers their babies had died.<br />
<br />
Irene
Green remembers being told her baby was stillborn. 'But I heard him
cry!' she protested. She asked to see the body, but was told it had been
'disposed of'. In fact, Georgia's workers had snatched the child. <br />
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Tann would falsify birth certificates</h2>
Mary
Reed was a typical victim. In 1943, aged 18, she gave birth to a baby
boy. She was barely conscious when she was presented with a 'routine
paper' to sign by a woman dressed in white. <br />
By the time Mary came round and asked for her baby, the child was in New Jersey.<br />
<br />
She
hired a lawyer but never got her child back. Tann would alter the
children's records and falsify birth certificates to make them more
appealing to prospective adopters.<br />
<br />
Their mother would be
described as 'the daughter of a doctor' who had fallen pregnant
accidentally, while the father would be 'a medical student'.<br />
<br />
She knocked years off the children's age, so they appeared precocious - and to stop them being traced. <br />
Some
youngsters were accused of disappointing their adoptive families. Joy
Barner was told as a teenager by her father: 'I paid 500 dollars for you
- I could have gotten a good hunting dog for a lot less. You come from
the lowest scum on earth.'<br />
<br />
She later found out she had been stolen in 1925 from a loving family living on a houseboat.<br />
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Many of the children were abused. Jim Lambert and his three siblings were taken from their mother by Tann in 1932. <br />
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The Chicago couple he was placed with divorced and Jim's stepmother hung him up from a hook in the basement.<br />
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He
and his siblings eventually traced their birth mother, only to find she
had died. In her Bible, beside the names of her stolen family she had
written: 'The children of a brokenhearted mother. I have no one to love
me now.'<br />
<br />
He later said: 'I feel angry, frustrated, as if I was cheated out of a whole lot of life.'<br />
<br />
Billy Hale recalled being driven away from his mother, crying, in a limousine, with two women in black.<br />
<br />
His loving adoptive parents repeatedly reassured him no such event had occurred.<br />
<br />
Through
his childhood, he suffered from seemingly motiveless rages. It was only
many years later, when he researched his background, that he realised
his memory was correct.<br />
<br />
He tracked down his mother, Mollie,
only to be told by her brother she had died of cancer eight years
previously, calling out for her son at the end.<br />
<br />
He was told: 'She looked for you all her life, Bill.' <br />
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'She was a relentless, cold-blooded demon' </h2>
By
1935, Tann had placed children in every U.S. state. A social worker who
knew her says: 'She placed with no regard to whether children would be
happy in their adoptive homes. She wanted to get her hands on every
child she could.'<br />
<br />
Among the most disturbing cases are the
adoptions by single men of young teenagers - Bisantz Raymond suspects
they were paedophiles.<br />
<br />
Keen to make more money, Tann began
running 'Georgia's Christmas Baby Ads' in the local newspaper under the
headline: 'Want a real, live Christmas present?'<br />
<br />
A brilliant
publicist, she gave lectures on adoption, arguing that adopted children
'turn out better' than birth children, saying: 'Ours is a selective
process. We select the child and we select the home.' <br />
She was lauded in the national Press as 'the foremost leading light in adoption laws'.<br />
<br />
Eleanor Roosevelt sought her counsel regarding child welfare, and President Truman invited her to his inauguration.<br />
<br />
But by 1940, alerted by the rising infant mortality rate in the city, some people were on to Tann.<br />
<br />
'She
was a relentless, cold-blooded demon,' says a paediatrician who tried
to curb her. 'She got bigger and bigger the more power she had. She was
pompous and self-important, riding around in a Cadillac driven by a
uniformed chauffeur. She terrorised everyone.'<br />
<br />
By 1950,
officials began a long-overdue investigation into Tann's business. State
investigator Robert Taylor reported the horror of what had taken place
at Tann's orphanage, saying: 'Her babies died like flies.'<br />
<br />
Infants
were kept in appalling conditions in suffocating heat. Some were
sedated until they could be sold. Many were ill. Some were sexually
abused - Tann preyed on young girls and a male caretaker would take
little boys into the woods.<br />
<br />
A news reporter believed he saw a body being buried in the garden.<br />
<br />
In 1945, a bout of dysentery caused the deaths of between 40 and 50 children in less than four months. <br />
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The damage suffered at Tann's hands could never be undone</h2>
The
net was closing, but Tann would evade justice. Three days before her
death due to cancer, the governor of Tennessee revealed at a press
conference that Tann was not the 'angel of adoption' she claimed to be.<br />
<br />
He
did not mention the grieving parents or dead babies, but focused on the
illegal profits she had made while receiving state funding.<br />
<br />
Conveniently
for the corrupt politicians who had collaborated in her black market
baby trade, Tann was too sick to be questioned about her crimes. She
died in her four-poster bed at 4.20am on September 15, 1950.<br />
<br />
What
became of her victims? Many never saw their families again - after
Tann's crimes came to light, there was no attempt to return children to
their rightful homes.<br />
<br />
They were granted rights to their birth
certificates and adoption records only in 1995, after a long battle. A
small number were reunited with their birth mothers, but the damage they
had suffered at Tann's hands could never be undone.<br />
<br />
Forty-five
years after Tann had walked into her apartment, Alma Sipple finally
found Irma, but they were unable to form a lasting relationship.<br />
<br />
'Only
someone who has lost a child this way can know how horrible it is,'
says Alma. 'There's a hole in my heart that will never be filled.' <br />
<ul style="font-weight: bold;">
<li><span style="font-style: italic;">The Baby Thief by Barbara Bisantz Raymond (Metro, £18.99). To order a copy at £17.10 (P&P free), tel: 0845 155 0720</span></li>
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By
<a class="author" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Zoe+Brennan+for+the+Daily+Mail" rel="nofollow">Zoe Brennan for the Daily Mail</a>
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A collection of wisdom gathered from the courtroom of renowned Southern
judge, Camille Kelley. She was implicated in the infamous "Baby for
Sale" Scandal in Memphis during the 1940's with Georgia Tann, the
director of The Tennessee Children's Home of Memphis, Tennessee. Judge
Kelley, without due process of law, would place children with The
Tennessee Children's Home, and Georgia Tann, its director, would deliver
them to Los Angeles for placement with Movie Stars and wealthy Los
Angeles families far away from Memphis. In 1948, Anti-Crump Governor,
Gordon Browning appointed a young prominent lawyer, Bob Taylor, a
descendant of two Tennessee Governors, to investigate rampant rumors of
baby selling. Mr. Taylor staked out the Tennessee Children's Home, and
then followed a nurse with several infants to the Memphis Airport where
they both boarded a plane to Los Angeles. Mr. Taylor followed the nurse
to a hotel where he witnessed the baby transfer in the lobby of a hotel.
Shortly thereafter, Judge Kelley, no longer protected by political
boss, E.H. Crump, was allowed to retire, and Georgia Tann died before
she could be prosecuted. The foreword to this book was written by Mary
Pickford. Several books, television documentaries and exposes were done
on this scandal which ruined many innocent lives in the process.<br />
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<b><img alt="E.H. Crump cph.3b20183.jpg" data-file-height="371" data-file-width="374" height="396" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/E.H._Crump_cph.3b20183.jpg/220px-E.H._Crump_cph.3b20183.jpg" width="400" /> </b><br />
<b><b>Edward Hull "Boss" Crump in 1945</b> </b><br />
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Edward Hull "Boss" Crump (October 2, 1874 – October 16, 1954) was an American politician from Memphis, Tennessee. Representing the Democratic Party, he was the dominant force in the city's politics for most of the first half of the 20th century, during which the city had a commission form of government. He also dominated Tennessee state politics for most of the time from the 1920's to the 1940's. He was elected and served as mayor of Memphis from 1910 through 1915, and again briefly in 1940. But, he effectively appointed every mayor elected from 1915 to 1954.<br />
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<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span></h2>
A native of Holly Springs in northern Mississippi, where he was born in 1874, Crump at the age of 19 moved to Memphis, Tennessee on September 21, 1893, according to the <i>Holly Springs Reporter</i>.When he first arrived in Memphis, the ongoing Panic of 1893,
the worst recession in the United States history to that time, made it
hard for Crump to find work. Eventually, he obtained a clerical position
with Walter Goodman Cotton Company located on Front Street in downtown
Memphis. This was the start of a successful business career as a broker and trader.<br />
<br />
In early 1901, Crump began seriously courting a 23-year-old young
woman by the name of Bessie Byrd McLean. Bessie, or "Betty," McLean was a
prominent Memphis socialite and has been described as "one of the city's most beautiful and most sought after women."
She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean. Her father was
then serving as the vice president of the William R. Moore Dry Goods
Company. Crump and McLean were married on January 22, 1902 at the
Calvary Episcopal Church.<br />
<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Politics">Politics</span></h2>
Alongside
his rising business career, Crump began to make the political
connections that served him for the rest of his life. He was a delegate
to the Tennessee Democratic
State Convention in 1902 and 1904. In 1905, he was named to the
municipal Board of Public Works, and was elected to the powerful
position of Commissioner of Fire and Police in 1907, among three
commissioners who governed the city.<br />
<br />
Starting in the 1910's, Crump began to build a political machine
which came to have statewide influence. He was particularly adept in
his use of what were at the time two politically weak minority groups in
Tennessee: blacks and Republicans. Unlike most Southern
Democrats of his era, Crump was not opposed to blacks voting; Memphis
blacks were reliable Crump machine voters for the most part. The party
often paid the poll taxes required by state law since the late 1880's; otherwise this requirement resulted in disenfranchising many poor blacks. One of Crump's lieutenants in the black community was funeral director N. J. Ford, whose family (in the persons of several sons, including Harold Sr. and John Ford, daughter Ophelia, and grandson Harold, Jr.) became influential in Memphis, state and national politics, continuing to be so today. A symbiotic
relationship developed in which blacks aided Crump, and he aided them,
as was usual in politics. Crump also skillfully manipulated Republicans,
who were numerically very weak in the western two-thirds of the state
due to the disenfranchisement of blacks, but dominated politics in East Tennessee. Frequently, they found it necessary to align with Crump in order to accomplish any of their goals in the state government.<br />
Crump was influential for nearly half a century. He usually preferred
to work behind the scenes and served only three two-year terms as mayor
of Memphis (1910–1915) at the beginning of his career. He essentially
named the next several mayors. His rise to prominence disturbed many of
the state political leaders in Nashville.
The "Ouster Law", designed to remove officials who refused to enforce
state laws, was passed primarily with Crump and his lax enforcement of
state Prohibition in mind. He was county treasurer of Shelby County from 1917 to 1923. He was elected seven times as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.<br />
<br />
Crump became involved in earnest in state politics during the 1928 gubernatorial election when Henry Horton was seeking election in his own right. Horton had earlier been speaker of the state senate and succeeded to the position of governor when Austin Peay died in office. Crump supported Hill McAlister in the Democratic primary, while the Nashville machine of Luke Lea
supported Governor Horton. Horton won the primary despite the strong
vote for McAlister in populous Shelby County. When Horton ran for
reelection in 1930, Crump and Lea cut a deal, and Crump swung his
formidable political machine behind Horton. Horton defeated independent Democrat L. E. Gwinn in the primary and Republican C. Arthur Bruce in the general election.<br />
<br />
After years of working behind the scenes, Crump decided to run for U.S. Representative in 1930. He was easily elected to the Tenth District, which was then co-extensive with Shelby County (it became the Ninth in 1932). He served two terms: from March 4, 1931 to January 3, 1935. (The Twentieth Amendment was enacted in 1933, shifting the starting date of Congressional terms.) During this time, he was also a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
He remained hugely influential in Memphis as well. He was in constant
communication with his operatives there and visited during each
congressional recess.<br />
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In 1936, Crump was named to the Democratic National Committee, serving on that body until 1945. In 1939 he was elected a final time as mayor, although that term was officially served by Walter Chandler.
Chandler was U.S. Representative for the Ninth District, and Crump
thought that Chandler's time was better spent tending to congressional
matters in Washington than campaigning for mayor in Memphis. So, without
a platform, without a speech, and without opposition, Crump was elected
mayor of Memphis.<br />
<br />
Crump was sworn in at a few minutes past midnight on January 1, 1940,
in a snow storm on the platform of the railroad station, just before
leaving for New Orleans to see the Sugar Bowl. In high humor, he resigned immediately. Vice Mayor Joseph Boyle became Mayor till the next day, when the faithful City Commission met and elected Chandler. Watkins Overton's term had ended at midnight, and thus Memphis had four mayors in less than twenty-four hours.<br />
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Crump's statewide influence began to wane in the late 1940's. Edward J. Meeman, editor of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Press-Scimitar" title="Memphis Press-Scimitar">Memphis Press-Scimitar</a></i>, opposed Crump's initiatives and called for a city manager government and abolition of the poll tax to weaken the power of the machine. He also worked to unseat U. S. Senator Tom Stewart, whom Crump supported in the 1948 Democratic primary against his intra-party challenger, U.S. Representative Estes Kefauver.<sup> </sup>Gordon Browning, a one-time protégé whom Crump had helped elect governor
in 1936, was elected governor again in 1948, this time over Crump's
opposition. For the rest of his life, Crump's influence was largely
limited to Memphis. In 1952, his longtime associate, Senator Kenneth McKellar,
was defeated in the Democratic primary — in those days with a
practically powerless state Republican party, the real contest in
Tennessee — by Congressman Albert Gore, Sr.. A final triumph for Crump was the victory in 1952 of his chosen candidate, Frank G. Clement in the gubernatorial primary over Browning.<br />
<br />
Crump died less than two years later. He is interred at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmwood_Cemetery_%28Memphis,_Tennessee%29" title="Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)">Elmwood Cemetery</a> in Memphis.<br />
<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="The_Crump_machine">The Crump machine</span></h2>
From the 1910's to the 1950's, Memphis was a locus of machine politics under the direction of "Boss" Crump, a Democrat.
He obtained a state law in 1911 to establish a small commission to
manage the city. The city retained a form of commission government until
1967 but Crump was in full control at all times. He used all the
familiar techniques of the big city boss: ballot manipulation, patronage
for friends, and frustrating bureaucratic obstacles for the opposition.
Crump built a complex alliance with established power figures at the
local, state, and national levels. He ensured that dissidents had little
or no voice. At the center of his network was "Cotton Row": the
business elite that dominated the cotton industry. Second, he included
the modernizers: business-oriented progressives who were most concerned
with upgrading the city's waterfront, parks, highways, and skyscrapers,
as well as a moderately good school system. Working-class whites got
their share of jobs, but labor unions were of marginal influence. Roger
Biles argues that the political system was virtually unchanged from 1910
into the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to Crump's wire-pulling. Crump was the
leading Tennessee supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. In
return, the city received ample relief programs, which provided jobs for
the unemployed, as selected by machine lieutenants. The city also got
major federal building projects, which helped fund the business
community. Crump incorporated the black leadership in his outer circle, dispensing
patronage in return for the black vote. Memphis was one of the largest
southern cities in which blacks could vote, but segregation was as rigid
as anywhere.<br />
<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Legacy">Legacy</span></h2>
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Statue of E.H. Crump in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee.</div>
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<ul>
<li>Crump was a strong supporter of fire service and for many years the
Memphis Fire Department was considered one of the best in the country;
it still has a high reputation.</li>
<li>He believed that separate operations for each municipal utility were
inherently inefficient and combined them; in the early 21st century, Memphis Light, Gas and Water is one of the largest combined municipal utilities in the United States.</li>
<li>Crump thought that cities should not be too noisy; Memphis has
strong noise ordinances that are more aggressively enforced than those
of many other jurisdictions.</li>
<li>He was an early supporter of requiring automobile safety
inspections; all of Memphis-registered vehicles were inspected annually
(twice a year until the 1990s), until June 28, 2013, when all city
inspections ceased after a de-funding of the department by the Memphis
City Council.</li>
<li>The city's Crump Stadium and Crump Boulevard are named after him.</li>
<li>The lyrics to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memphis_Blues" title="The Memphis Blues">The Memphis Blues</a> by composer and bandleader W.C. Handy mention "Mr. Crump." The song was published in 1912, but may have originated during Crump's 1909 mayoral campaign.</li>
</ul>
Crump's association with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann" title="Georgia Tann">Georgia Tann</a> suggests a less flattering view of his legacy.
Tann enjoyed Crump's powerful protection in Memphis as she illegally
placed babies in adoptive homes; often these babies were stolen. Tann's
legacy—and by extension, Crump's—lives on today, in that 32 states (as
of January 2007) seal birth certificates for adoptees.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Boss E. H. Crump's Influence In Politics</b></span><br />
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<br />
Despite encountering stiff opposition to the candidates supported by
Shelby County Boss E. H. Crump and Tennessee’s senior United States
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, the two men were supporting Jim Nance
McCord for governor in 1944.<br />
<br />
McCord had been elected to a single term in Congress, but had held
one elective office or another in his native Marshall County for
decades. McCord ran for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination without
opposition and easily won the general election. Both McKellar and
Crump supported Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unprecedented bid for a fourth
term that same year.<br />
<br />
FDR summoned Crump to the White House as he began his fourth term for
a conference. The purpose of the conference was to encourage Crump to
convince Senator K. D. McKellar to retire in 1946. Roosevelt was
anticipating the post-war world and he thought it would be a better one
without McKellar in the Senate. McKellar was then reaching the apex of
his political career and wielded enormous influence in the United States
Senate. He had just been elected President Pro Tempore by his
colleagues and was the Acting Chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, as well as Chairman of the Senate’s Post Office Committee.
FDR likely did not wish to have to contend with the McKellar influence
in the Senate.<br />
<br />
Crump told President Roosevelt that McKellar intended to run again in
1946 and to which FDR replied that if he did, McKellar would be
beaten. Crump, understanding Tennessee politics far better than FDR,
retorted McKellar would not only run again, but would be reelected to a
sixth term. Crump was right; McKellar was reelected to another term in
the United States Senate and by that time FDR lay in his own grave.<br />
<br />
Crump decided in 1945 to give up his post as Tennessee’s committeeman
on the Democratic National Committee. Morristown businessman Herbert
S. “Hub” Walters, a McKellar stalwart, took Crump’s place on the
national committee.<br />
<br />
The opposition to the McKellar – Crump domination of Tennessee
politics made a stronger effort in the 1946 elections. Edward “Ned”
Carmack had quite nearly defeated junior United States Senator Tom
Stewart in 1942 and Stewart’s margin of victory had come from Shelby
County. Carmack was eager to hold public office and had announced as a
candidate for governor in 1944, but had dropped out well before the
primary. Chattanooga Congressman Estes Kefauver had seriously
considered running against McKellar, but after making a few inquiries
decided the old senator was still a formidable candidate. Kefauver
opted to run again for Congress, leaving Carmack to make the race
against Senator McKellar.<br />
<br />
Jim McCord was to be opposed by former governor Gordon Browning, who
remained in Europe following the allied victory in World War II as part
of the military government. Browning’s campaign would be run in
absentia, while Carmack carried most of the brunt of the actual
campaigning. McCord and McKellar ran as a ticket, along with Andrew
“Tip” Taylor for the Public Service Commission. As it turned out,
McKellar’s own campaign was run in absentia. Despite several
announcements McKellar was returning to Tennessee to personally
participate in the campaign, the senator remained in Washington, D. C.
Tennessee was brutally hot throughout the summer of 1946 and Senator
McKellar was plagued by various ailments and illnesses and his campaign
managers thought it best for him to remain at his post of duty in the
Senate.<br />
<br />
Tennesseans were once again treated to Crump purchasing full-page ads
in newspapers throughout the state promoting Senator McKellar and
Governor McCord. In his ads, the Memphis Boss ridiculed the opposition
to the McCord – McKellar ticket. Crump’s loathing of Gordon Browning
was as profound as ever. Crump’s comments about the former governor
were as pointed as they had been during Browning’s failed reelection bid
in 1938. Crump had claimed a particular art gallery in France held no
less than twenty-six pictures of Judas Iscariot and opined, “None look
alike, but they all resemble Gordon Browning.”<br />
<br />
Unlike 1942, the election was not close. Senator McKellar thrashed
Ned Carmack without having even returned once to Tennessee to campaign
for reelection personally. Governor McCord easily defeated Gordon
Browning. It was to be the last election which the McKellar – Crump
alliance won a smashing victory.<br />
<br />
Yet in Memphis Crump remained as strong as ever. Memphis had won
several nationally prestigious awards over the years and the municipal
stadium in Memphis was named for Crump. The machine’s candidates
occupied virtually every office in both the city and county governments.<br />
<br />
As the 1948 elections loomed, Crump, like many Southerners, was
growing increasingly alarmed by President Harry Truman’s commitment to
civil rights. Oddly one of Crump’s strongest objections to Truman was
the fact the Missourian had come from the Pendergast machine in Kansas
City. Crump and McKellar both were dissatisfied with Truman and the
Memphis Boss was soon indicating he would support the State’s Right
ticket of South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond and Mississippi
Governor Fielding Wright. McKellar refused to leave the Democratic
Party following the convention nominating Truman, but he told Crump he
held out little hope for Truman being elected.<br />
<br />
Crump’s dissatisfaction was hardly confined to Harry Truman; the
Memphis Boss was not enthused about Senator Tom Stewart, who was also up
for reelection in 1948. Crump had been mortally embarrassed wen
Stewart had been reelected in 1942 on the basis of the vote returns in
Shelby County. Crump was also constantly reminded by Will Gerber, a
prominent attorney and sometime Crump officeholder in Shelby County,
that Stewart very well might be anti-Semitic, though there was little in
Stewart’s record to reflect that allegation. In December of 1947 came
the announcement Crump would not support Senator Stewart for
renomination in the Democratic primary the following year. Many
expected Stewart to simply meekly retire to private life rather than run
again and Crump probably thought the same thing. Stewart stubbornly
insisted he would be a candidate with or without Crump’s support.
Congressman Estes Kefauver, seeing his opportunity with the split in the
machine, declared he, too, would be a candidate. It proved to be
Crump’s single biggest political miscalculation and mistake.<br />
<br />
Crump’s senatorial candidate was Judge John A. Mitchell of Cookeville
who was a cousin of former Congressman J. Ridley Mitchell, who had been
a Crump opponent. Crump had never even met John Mitchell, although he
related he heard fine things about the judge.<br />
<br />
Senator McKellar wrote Crump to say he had informed his junior
colleague that he could not help him win reelection and noted Stewart
had taken the news “coolly”. McKellar went on to confess that Senator
Stewart had “not had much to do with me since.” McKellar admitted he
was embarrassed by the situation and told the Memphis Boss he did not
believe Judge Mitchell could win.<br />
<br />
As the election approached, Crump grew increasingly uneasy and
Senator McKellar stressed the importance of defeating Congressman
Kefauver. There were indications Crump intended to drop his support of
Judge Mitchell and again back Senator Stewart. The Kefauver campaign
having heard the rumors, shrewdly predicted Crump would abandon John
Mitchell and throw his support to Tom Stewart. Crump reacted as they
hoped, denouncing the claim as a lie. He stuck with Mitchell to the
bitter end and Kefauver won the senatorial nomination. Crump’s blunder
was compounded by the defeat of Governor Jim McCord by Gordon Browning,
who was back in Tennessee and campaigning in person.<br />
McCord, believing education needed more support in Tennessee, had
convinced the legislature to institute a sales tax. Tennesseans, not
surprisingly, liked the free textbooks the tax provided, but did not
like the tax. Browning beat McCord soundly. The Crump candidates had
been overwhelmingly rejected at the polls and the Memphis Boss’s own
influence would sink further when Harry Truman was elected that fall.
Although Thurmond carried Shelby County, Truman carried Tennessee.<br />
<br />
The 1948 elections destroyed whatever national influence Ed Crump
still possessed; the long rule of the McKellar – Crump alliance in
Tennessee was shattered. Both Crump and McKellar were aging and when
the old senator announced in the summer of 1951 he would run for a
seventh term, the Memphis Boss discreetly tried to talk McKellar out of
running. McKellar was eighty-two years old, frequently ill, and out of
touch with many Tennesseans. Once McKellar’s mind was made up, Crump
determined to support his old ally again. Crump also threw the backing
of the Shelby County machine to young<br />
Frank Clement who was making a
strong bid to unseat the hated Governor Gordon Browning.<br />
McKellar lost to Congressman Albert Gore, Sr., while Clement beat
Browning. Crump was pleased with Browning’s defeat, but it was to be
his last statewide election success. The Memphis Boss was himself aging
and contented himself with local matters, his financial affairs, and
his family. Little escaped the Memphis Boss’s attention and he remained
approachable by nearly everyone and his directives to city and county
officials continued to flow from his office. Crump enjoyed watching the
squirrels cavort in his yard and remained the “Boss” until death
carried him away.<br />
<br />
E. H. Crump died on October 16, 1954. Among the many mourners at
Crump’s funeral was his long-time political partner and friend, former
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar. McKellar was “in pretty bad shape” at the
funeral, distraught by the close of a friendship and association that
spanned almost five decades.<br />
<br />
Crump’s influence in Memphis and Shelby County lasted several years
following his passing. There are still numerous reminders in Memphis of
Crump’s long rule and there is an imposing of statue of E. H. Crump in
Overton Park. The statue still surveys what was once completely Crump’s
domain.<br />
<br />
Written By: Ray Hill<br />
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Source: wikipedia.com and <span class=" fz-ms fw-xl fc-23rd wr-bw lh-17" id="yui_3_10_0_1_1484525050691_646">knoxfocus.com</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-71862952211206435832017-01-15T16:33:00.001-08:002017-01-15T16:33:06.506-08:00‘The Little Irish Judge’ Camille Kelley<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3544" style="width: 478px;"><br /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><img alt="Camille Kelley: ‘The Little Irish Judge’" class="aligncenter" src="http://knoxfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Judge-Camille-Kelley.jpg" title="Camille Kelley: ‘The Little Irish Judge’" />Camille Kelley, Judge of the Shelby County Juvenile Court, 1940</figcaption></figure>
One of the more fascinating, as well as disturbing, stories in
Tennessee history is that of Camille Kelley who became Judge of the
Memphis Juvenile Court. A widow, Camille Kelley was a star in the crown
of the Crump machine and when she assumed the bench, she was one of only
two female judges in the South and the first woman to be a judge of the
juvenile court. A plump, matronly woman with a pleasant smile and given
to wearing nice clothes and a flower pinned to her ample bosom, she was
also almost certainly corrupt.<br />
<br />
Camille Kelley, one of the most prominent members of the Crump
machine, would go from national recognition to a suspect in one of the
most despicable and lurid scandals in Tennessee history.<br />
Born the daughter of a physician and like many at the time, coy about
her actual age, Camille McGee attended medical school for a couple of
years before she chose to marry a successful attorney, Thomas Fitzgerald
Kelley. Her husband had died by the time she ascended the bench in
1920. Camille Kelley was not a lawyer, but she seemed like a good choice
to serve as Judge of the Juvenile Court, at least to Edward Hull Crump,
master of the Memphis political machine. Crump and his political ally,
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar, were strongly in favor of rights for women,
which meant the entire machine favored increased rights for women.
Crump and especially McKellar worked hard to give women the right to
vote in Tennessee.<br />
<br />
It was just after Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the
Constitution that Camille Kelley became Judge of the Shelby County
Family Court. It allowed the Crump machine to appear progressive and
compared to most political organizations, especially in the South, it
was. The Memphis Boss had cobbled together virtually every aspect of
Memphis’s social life to comprise his political machine. Business,
labor, public employees all played important roles in the machine, which
extended to the PTA and beyond. Several high ranking members of the
Crump machine were Jewish, notably Will Gerber and Abe Waldauer; Crump
even encouraged African-Americans to vote, a fact which frequently
outraged the machine’s opponents. As judge of the Family Court, Camille
Kelley was not only a demonstration the machine was progressive, but
believed in the ability of women to serve in office. Judge Kelley
herself commented that women really belonged in the home rather than
elective office, but she remained on the bench for thirty years and only
resigned when details of a sordid public scandal began to emerge.<br />
<br />
As one of the few women in America to serve as a judge, Camille
Kelley attracted national attention. Kelley delighted in sharing her
opinions about child rearing and just about everything else, which were
usually in the form of homilies. Never wearing a robe into her
courtroom, Judge Kelley explained, “Robes would scare the children to
death.” Kelley went on to explain the corsage pinned to her breast:
“They’re not so timid when they see that I am wearing a flower.”<br />
<br />
Eventually, Judge Kelley would publish three books chock full of her
opinions, witticisms, and advice. The first, “A Friend In Court,” was
published in 1942. Five years later, the judge penned “Delinquent
Angels,” followed by Kelleygrams in 1949.<br />
<br />
Kelley’s grandmotherly appearance, despite her love of fine clothes,
furs and flowers, made her seem anything but threatening. Despite her
lack of formal education, Judge Kelley was clever in her understanding
of public relations. Following her original appointment to the bench,
Camille Kelley was routinely elected by the people of Shelby County on
the Crump ticket. Unlike some of her ticket-mates, Kelley was so
popular, she rarely ever had opposition.<br />
<br />
Jennifer Ann Trost has written an interesting book, “Gateway to
Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare In A Southern
City,” which contains much information about Camille Kelley.<br />
Ms. Trost points out the Shelby County Family Court “cannot be
understood without examining the life and ideas of its chief judge,
Camille Kelley. So much of what the juvenile court was and subsequently
became was defined by her philosophy and personality.”<br />
<br />
As Ms. Trost points out, Camille Kelley was quite contradictory about
her own role, as well as that of other women in public life. Kelley
opined, “No woman should enter public life if it makes her less a woman,
for there is no height to which she may climb equal to real home making
or wifehood or motherhood.” Yet Judge Kelley acknowledged the need of
many families for two incomes and she staunchly defended the right of
women to work outside the home, but Kelley also excoriated many working
mothers for neglecting their responsibilities at home.<br />
<br />
“A mother in the home is of greater value to a child than money in the bank,” was Judge Kelley’s lofty opinion.<br />
<br />
Apparently Camille Kelley had fixed opinions about most everything
and never doubted her own wisdom. Kelley believed girls were more
difficult than boys and one Memphis newspaper told its readers, “Nor
does a boy have to be a ‘sissy boy’ to be a good boy – – – in fact Judge
Kelley doesn’t care for ‘sissy boys’. She likes boys who are manly,
boys who are ‘reg’ler fellers’.”<br />
<br />
Although some black youngsters complained of harsh treatment while in
the custody of the Shelby County Family Court, Ms. Trost notes Judge
Kelley did not attempt to mete out different or harsher punishments to
African-American children than she did to white youngsters. In fact,
Camille Kelley apparently sought to better conditions for
African-American children. Ms. Trost writes, “For her, the condition of
childhood necessitated protecting black children as well as white
children.”<br />
<br />
Judge Kelley believed “love is the modern way to educate children”
and frowned upon parents spanking children, declaring it to be not “the
scientific, advanced method” of discipline in the home. To say the
least, that was quite a progressive view at the time.<br />
<br />
Being one of the very few female judges in the country, Camille
Kelley drew considerable attention not only in Memphis, but nationally.
Judge Kelley was the recipient of several national awards and was
regularly invited to appear on radio and television programs. By the
time she resigned in 1950, Camille Kelley’s service on the bench was
fodder for a Hollywood production company which intended to produce both
a movie and a television series about her work.<br />
<br />
Although certainly a member of the Crump machine, the Memphis Boss
was content to let Kelley rule her own domain. Kelley herself boasted
her court was untouched by politics. Judge Kelley<br />
condescendingly stated
she did not participate in the sordid political arena, opining that
women should not “supplant the men in public jobs they have held for
hundreds of years. Women are capable, of course,” she added, “but we
can’t spare them. We need them to concentrate on child welfare and
education, work we are inherently better fitted to do than men.”<br />
<br />
When she was finally forced out of office, Judge Kelley told the
mayor, “No political interference has ever touched the inside of my
courtroom, so help me God.” That was not entirely true.<br />
<br />
As Jennifer Trost describes in her book, one of Judge Kelley’s
trusted aides was fired at the insistence of one of Memphis’s City
Commissioners. The public perception of Judge Camille Kelley was such
that local newspapers roared their collective fury at the offending City
Commissioner with blaring headlines demanding “Hands Off Judge Kelley’s
Court” and “Free the Juvenile Court of Interference.”<br />
The official fired from the court was Beulah Wood Fite who was the
chief probation officer for the Shelby County Family Court. The working
relationship between Judge Kelley and Ms. Fite was apparently quite
close, as after Kelley was widowed, Ms. Fite moved into the judge’s
home. Another employee from the juvenile court, one Altye Barbour, who
presided over the mental exams given the children, also moved into Judge
Kelley’s home.<br />
<br />
Fite was evidently well liked by many of the children whom she
encountered in the course of her professional life and was generally
referred to as “Mamma”. Unfortunately for Ms. Fite, she was less well
liked by some of the adults she worked with. Ms. Fite was not above
chastising anyone she believed to have made a mistake, which extended to
other officials. Described as having a “brusque” personality and
regularly scolding parents whom she felt had done less than a stellar
job with their children, Ms. Fite’s forceful personality caused her to
run afoul of the City Commissioner who demanded she be fired. A serious
flood in 1937 caused the Memphis Red Cross to request children in the
custody of the juvenile court to be moved to a location it considered
safer. Ms. Fite arbitrarily rejected the request, which caused the City
Commissioner to demand the Juvenile Court Advisory Board to dismiss her
immediately.<br />
<br />
Jennifer Trost writes that “Kelley was strangely silent about losing
one of the best-qualified members of her court.” Yet there is an
explanation for Judge Kelley’s silence. It is difficult to imagine any
member of the City Commission to have demanded Ms. Fite’s resignation
without the express consent of Mr. Crump. Memphis and Shelby County was
E. H. Crump’s domain and it is not hard to believe the Memphis Boss
would have been less than amused by a minor official haughtily rejecting
a request by the Red Cross. Had Crump sanctioned Ms. Fite’s dismissal,
Judge Kelley would have had nothing to say about it, realizing to cross
the Memphis Boss would imperil her own continued tenure at the court.
Camille Kelley was too experienced and too shrewd to think she could
countermand an order from Boss Crump.<br />
<br />
Written By: Ray Hill <br />
<br />
Source: knoxfocus.com Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655671257484175489.post-39775527039907288122017-01-15T16:13:00.001-08:002017-01-15T16:20:09.942-08:00Judge Camille Kelley<b><img border="0" height="400" src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2009/176/38731655_124605151119.jpg" width="300" /> </b><br />
<b>Camille Kelley. This portrait that hangs in the Shelby County Juvenile Court building in Memphis, TN. </b><br />
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<b>Camille McGee Kelley</b> (1879–January 28, 1955) was an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_court" title="Juvenile court">juvenile court</a> judge and author. She was investigated by the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> for using her judgeship to aid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Tann" title="Georgia Tann">Georgia Tann</a>'s ongoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_fraud" title="Adoption fraud">adoption fraud</a> operation conducted under the auspices of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Children%27s_Home_Society" title="Tennessee Children's Home Society">Tennessee Children's Home Society</a> and resigned shortly after this information became public. <br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2>
Camille Kelley was the juvenile court judge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County,_Tennessee" title="Shelby County, Tennessee">Shelby County</a>,
Tennessee from 1920 to 1950. Known as the "Little Irish Judge," she
never wore a judicial robe in court, opting instead for colorful
dresses, jewels and always a flower pinned to her shoulder. She was
quoted as saying, "Robes would scare the children to death. They're not
so timid when they appear before me and see that I am wearing a flower".<br />
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<img border="0" src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2011/228/38731655_131358931389.jpg" width="570" /> <br />
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Kelley's formula in dealing with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_delinquency" title="Juvenile delinquency">delinquents</a>
was simple: "We try the boy, not his offense. We seek to take away from
him nothing but his mistakes." She was often quoted as saying that
juvenile justice should be tempered with a sympathetic understanding of
human problems. Shortly after she retired, she said favorable results
were obtained in 85-90% of the 50,000 cases that she had handled.<br />
Kelley authored three books inspired by her experiences at juvenile court.<br />
<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Scandal">Scandal</span></h2>
<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmark_Productions" title="Hallmark Productions">Hallmark Productions</a> was producing a movie based on her book, <i>Delinquent Angels</i>,
but suspended production after her resignation from the bench in
November 1950, in a storm of controversy and charges after the results
of a special investigation ordered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Tennessee" title="Governor of Tennessee">Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Browning" title="Gordon Browning">Gordon Browning</a> were released.<br />
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<img border="0" src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2011/228/38731655_131359110214.jpg" width="570" /> <br />
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The investigation surrounded illegal adoptions-for-profit by Georgia
Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society. It charged that
approximately 20% of the illegal adoptions at the home were funneled
through Kelley's court, where she would remove parental rights and
provide Tann with documents to place the children as she deemed
appropriate. Kelley was never prosecuted for any crimes associated with
the home. She died at her son's home over four years after the scandal
first broke, from complications due to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a>.<br />
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<img border="0" src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2011/169/38731655_130852705853.jpg" width="570" /> <br />
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Publications"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Judge Kelley with a child in her court room. Notice the famous Tiffany Stained Glass Window behind her.</span></span> </span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Publications">Publications</span></h2>
<ul>
<li><i>A Friend in Court</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd,_Mead_and_Company" title="Dodd, Mead and Company">Dodd, Mead & Company</a>, 1942)</li>
<li><i>Delinquent Angels</i> (Brown-White-Lowell Press, 1947)</li>
<li><i>Kelleygrams</i> (Self-published, 1949)</li>
</ul>
<h2>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Sources">Sources</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>Report to Governor Gordon Browning on Shelby County Branch,
Tennessee Children's Home Society. 1951, [Nashville] : State of
Tennessee, Dept. of Public Welfare.</li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Obiturary </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Birth: </span></b><br />
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<tr><td valign="top"><br /></td><td align="left" valign="top">Oct. 13, 1879<br />Trenton<br />Gibson County<br />Tennessee, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Death</b></span>: </td><td align="left" valign="top">Jan. 28, 1955<br />Little Rock<br />Pulaski County<br />Arkansas, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><img height="13" src="http://www.findagrave.com/icons2/trans.gif" width="3" /><br />Author,
Juvenile Court Judge. She wrote three books regarding handling problem
children in the juvenile court system, <i>"Kellygrams"</i> , <i>"A Friend in
Court"</i> and <i>"Delinquent Angels"</i>. She was the Juvenile Court Judge in
Shelby County, Tennessee from 1920 to 1950. Known as the "Little Irish
Judge", she never wore a robe in court, opting for colorful dresses,
jewels and always a flower pinned to her shoulder. She was quoted as
saying <b>"Robes would scare the children to death. They're not so timid
when they appear before me and see that I am wearing a flower".</b><br />Her
formula in dealing with delinquents was simple: <b>"We try the boy, not his
offense. We seek to take away from him nothing but his mistakes"</b>. She
was often quoted as saying that juvenile justice should be tempered with
a sympathetic understanding of human problems. Shortly after she
retired, she said favorable results were obtained in 85 to 90 percent of
the 50,000 cases she had handled.<br /><br />Hallmark Productions was
producing a movie based on her book, <i>"Delinquent Angels"</i>, but suspended
production after her resignation from the bench in November, 1950, in a
storm of controversy and charges after the results of a special
investigation ordered by Governor Gordon Browning of the State of
Tennessee was released. The investigation surrounded illegal
adoptions-for-profit by Miss <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38235660">Georgia Tann</a>
and the Tennessee Children's Home Society. It charged that
approximately 20% of the illegal adoptions at the home were funneled
through Kelley's court, where she would remove parental rights and
provide Tann with documents to place the children as she deemed
appropriate. <br /><br />Judge Kelley was never prosecuted for any crimes
associated with the home. She died at her sons home, Little Rock
Arkansas attorney Heiskell Kelley, after complications due to a stroke.<br /><br /><br /><b>Family links</b>:<br /> <b>Parents</b>:<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110538580">John Preston McGee (1835 - 1890)</a><br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=132203551">Virginia Candace <i>Elder</i> McGee (1844 - 1889)</a><br /><br /> Spouse:<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38775436">Thomas Fitzgerald Kelley (1873 - 1928)</a><br /><br /><b> Children</b>:<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73093700">Heiskell B. Kelley (1904 - 1979)</a>*<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38775750">Thomas Fitzgerald "Gerald" Kelley (1906 - 1939)</a>*<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38775670">Evelyn Camille Kelley (1910 - 1922)</a>*<br /><br /> <b>Siblings</b>:<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=110537901">Howard Hawthorne McGee (1867 - 1895)</a>*<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74899906">Babbington McCauley McGee (1869 - 1926)</a>*<br /> <a class="NoUnderline12point" href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=75681452">Genevieve <i>McGee</i> McGehee (1871 - 1897)</a>*<br /> <span style="color: #666666;">Camille <i>McGee</i> Kelley (1879 - 1955)</span><br /><br /><span class="minus1">*<span class="fakeLink" title="">Calculated relationship</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" valign="top"><b>Burial:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=38731655&CRid=12057&">Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown</a>
<br />Memphis<br />Shelby County<br />Tennessee, USA<br />Plot: Section 11, Plot 138</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2"><br /><b>Created by</b>: <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=47136115">Neil Loftiss</a><br /><b>Record added</b>: Jun 25, 2009
<br /><b>Find A Grave Memorial</b># 38731655</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">External Links </span></b><br />
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