Books by: ALVIN F OICKLE

Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called... [more]
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The Pemberton Casualties: Being a compilation of the final payroll, the city clerk's vital records, cemetery records, and other information about 1,003 ... January 10, 1860, in Lawrence, Massachusetts

It's been a century and a half since the country was rocked with the news that a "monster mill" in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed while hundreds of employees were at work. The Pemberton Mill in 1860 was like others - huge, productive, but not safe for employees. The Pemberton Casualties tells the... [more]
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Jonathan Walker The Man with the Branded Hand

This historical biography follows an idealistic Cape Cod sailor on his daring attempt to sail seven fugitives from slavery to freedom in the British Bahamas in 1844. Caught by bounty hunters, the seven men are returned to Pensacola, Florida, for punishment and return to plantations.Walker is jailed a... [more]
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Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

Grandfather of eighteen records his wife's battle with cancer, her death, and his discovery that life is worth living, up to the last minute.... [more]

Woman's happy hobby brings belated fame, (From Greenfield Gazette and Courier, June 10, 1960): With this is: From the diary of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, by ... 34, no. 3 (March 1970), pgs. 90-92;108,111),

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