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....tomorrow, New York State Historian Devin Lander
"Thursday exchange of information "11 Minutes"
The Fort Plain Museum will host “Mixing History and Fiction: Writing the Controversial Story of the 1945 Bombing of Dresden,” a virtual presentation with Fort Plain Museum’s Board of Trustees Member and Military Historian James Kirby Martin scheduled for this evening at 7, via Zoom. Registration is required.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cW-F-r9XRZmmQU6Qy5vyEg
James Kirby Martin is on The Historians Schedule next month
Friday, February 11, 2022-Episode 409-James Kirby Martin is executive producer of the documentary Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed. The film is based on Martin’s 1997 book Benedict Arnold Revolutionary Hero. The documentary is streaming on several TV platforms, narrated by Martin Sheen and stars Peter O’Meara. Three men from the Mohawk Valley area created the documentary: Niskayuna native Chris Stearns, Saratoga Springs native Tom Mercer and Fort Johnson native Anthony Vertucci.
...in August 1884 Jackson delivered a rousing speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate James Blaine and his running mate John Logan at a celebration of emancipation held in Canajoharie.
Amsterdam barber was African American political leader
Thursday, January 27, 2022
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History
An Amsterdam barber, Robert A. Jackson, may have been active in the Underground Railroad and was an African American political leader in the late 1800s.
Montgomery County historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar said, “It is very possible that (Jackson) had Underground Railroad connections because he was not too far away from Chandler Bartlett’s shoe store that also reputedly sheltered freedom seekers. Jackson’s barber shop was in an upper floor over 69 East Main Street which would be approximately where the Riverfront Center now sits. He lived on Charles Street.”
In the late 1800s there were newspaper accounts describing Jackson’s role in what were then called Colored Conventions at the Montgomery County and state level
According to research compiled by historian Christopher Philippo, Jackson was one of five men appointed at a statewide convention of black Republicans to prepare an address to voters in 1872.
In 1879 Jackson was chosen for the committee on principles and rules at the Colored Men’s Montgomery County Convention in Fonda. He was named an at-large delegate to the group’s state convention in Elmira.
In August 1884 Jackson delivered a rousing speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate James Blaine and his running mate John Logan at a celebration of emancipation held in Canajoharie. Other events that day included a parade, music and a reading of the emancipation proclamation.
The Amsterdam Daily Democrat reported that Jackson’s speech was fluent and enthusiastic and was applauded throughout, “Mr. Jackson clearly and forcibly reviewed the history of his people since the war, showing the marked difference between the attitudes of the two great parties toward them.
“The Republicans, he said, had given them the treatment they deserved and had done all in their power to dignify their condition, whereas the policy of the Democrats toward them has resulted only in their detriment.”
Blaine and Logan narrowly lost the Presidential election that year to New York Governor Grover Cleveland and his running mate Thomas Hendricks. Cleveland was the first Democrat to be elected President since 1856. He carried New York by a margin of just over a thousand votes to clinch the election.
In October 1884 the Amsterdam Daily Democrat printed an interview with Jackson who had recently returned from a trip to Philadelphia for the national convention of what were then called the Colored Masons. Another newspaper reported that Jackson came originally from Troy and had joined the Masons there.
The Amsterdam paper’s interview took place at Jackson’s barber shop and he reportedly “talked rapidly away as he stropped his razor.”
Jackson said the convention was the largest ever because it celebrated the 100th anniversary of the creation in Boston of the first lodge of black Free Masons in America.
Jackson said, “(The convention) was marked by a grand parade in which 25 lodges were represented in a membership of 2,000 , comprising delegates from Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Ohio.”
In 1886 the Amsterdam paper reported “tonsorial artist Robert Jackson” was spending Sunday with friends in Minaville. Jackson died in February 1893 and was about sixty.
Farquhar said, “According to my records he was married to Hannah Herod and they had at least five children. One of their daughters, Agnes, died at the age of seven in 1882 due to meningitis. Agnes, Hannah and Robert are all buried in Green Hill Cemetery, possibly along with a couple of other daughters.”
Farquhar and Judith Wellman have written “Uncovering the Underground Railroad: Abolitionism and African American Life in Montgomery County, N.Y. 1820-1890.” It is available at Farquhar’s office at the Old Courthouse in Fonda.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Thursday, January 27, 2022
High pressure will push to the east today as a warm front lifts
northward, bringing a slight moderation in temperatures. A cold
front then approaches from the west tonight through Friday with
isolated to scattered snow showers, mainly for higher terrain
areas. A coastal storm will track off the East Coast late Friday
through Saturday with a chance for some light to moderate
snowfall and gusty winds, especially for areas south and east of
Albany. The track of this system remains uncertain.
Mohawk Valley News, Thursday, January 27, 2022
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By Bob Cudmore....tomorrow, New York State Historian Devin Lander
"Thursday exchange of information "11 Minutes"
The Fort Plain Museum will host “Mixing History and Fiction: Writing the Controversial Story of the 1945 Bombing of Dresden,” a virtual presentation with Fort Plain Museum’s Board of Trustees Member and Military Historian James Kirby Martin scheduled for this evening at 7, via Zoom. Registration is required.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cW-F-r9XRZmmQU6Qy5vyEg
James Kirby Martin is on The Historians Schedule next month
Friday, February 11, 2022-Episode 409-James Kirby Martin is executive producer of the documentary Benedict Arnold: Hero Betrayed. The film is based on Martin’s 1997 book Benedict Arnold Revolutionary Hero. The documentary is streaming on several TV platforms, narrated by Martin Sheen and stars Peter O’Meara. Three men from the Mohawk Valley area created the documentary: Niskayuna native Chris Stearns, Saratoga Springs native Tom Mercer and Fort Johnson native Anthony Vertucci.
...in August 1884 Jackson delivered a rousing speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate James Blaine and his running mate John Logan at a celebration of emancipation held in Canajoharie.
Amsterdam barber was African American political leader
Thursday, January 27, 2022
By Bob Cudmore, Focus on History
An Amsterdam barber, Robert A. Jackson, may have been active in the Underground Railroad and was an African American political leader in the late 1800s.
Montgomery County historian Kelly Yacobucci Farquhar said, “It is very possible that (Jackson) had Underground Railroad connections because he was not too far away from Chandler Bartlett’s shoe store that also reputedly sheltered freedom seekers. Jackson’s barber shop was in an upper floor over 69 East Main Street which would be approximately where the Riverfront Center now sits. He lived on Charles Street.”
In the late 1800s there were newspaper accounts describing Jackson’s role in what were then called Colored Conventions at the Montgomery County and state level
According to research compiled by historian Christopher Philippo, Jackson was one of five men appointed at a statewide convention of black Republicans to prepare an address to voters in 1872.
In 1879 Jackson was chosen for the committee on principles and rules at the Colored Men’s Montgomery County Convention in Fonda. He was named an at-large delegate to the group’s state convention in Elmira.
In August 1884 Jackson delivered a rousing speech in support of Republican Presidential candidate James Blaine and his running mate John Logan at a celebration of emancipation held in Canajoharie. Other events that day included a parade, music and a reading of the emancipation proclamation.
The Amsterdam Daily Democrat reported that Jackson’s speech was fluent and enthusiastic and was applauded throughout, “Mr. Jackson clearly and forcibly reviewed the history of his people since the war, showing the marked difference between the attitudes of the two great parties toward them.
“The Republicans, he said, had given them the treatment they deserved and had done all in their power to dignify their condition, whereas the policy of the Democrats toward them has resulted only in their detriment.”
Blaine and Logan narrowly lost the Presidential election that year to New York Governor Grover Cleveland and his running mate Thomas Hendricks. Cleveland was the first Democrat to be elected President since 1856. He carried New York by a margin of just over a thousand votes to clinch the election.
In October 1884 the Amsterdam Daily Democrat printed an interview with Jackson who had recently returned from a trip to Philadelphia for the national convention of what were then called the Colored Masons. Another newspaper reported that Jackson came originally from Troy and had joined the Masons there.
The Amsterdam paper’s interview took place at Jackson’s barber shop and he reportedly “talked rapidly away as he stropped his razor.”
Jackson said the convention was the largest ever because it celebrated the 100th anniversary of the creation in Boston of the first lodge of black Free Masons in America.
Jackson said, “(The convention) was marked by a grand parade in which 25 lodges were represented in a membership of 2,000 , comprising delegates from Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Mississippi, Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Ohio.”
In 1886 the Amsterdam paper reported “tonsorial artist Robert Jackson” was spending Sunday with friends in Minaville. Jackson died in February 1893 and was about sixty.
Farquhar said, “According to my records he was married to Hannah Herod and they had at least five children. One of their daughters, Agnes, died at the age of seven in 1882 due to meningitis. Agnes, Hannah and Robert are all buried in Green Hill Cemetery, possibly along with a couple of other daughters.”
Farquhar and Judith Wellman have written “Uncovering the Underground Railroad: Abolitionism and African American Life in Montgomery County, N.Y. 1820-1890.” It is available at Farquhar’s office at the Old Courthouse in Fonda.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Thursday, January 27, 2022
High pressure will push to the east today as a warm front lifts
northward, bringing a slight moderation in temperatures. A cold
front then approaches from the west tonight through Friday with
isolated to scattered snow showers, mainly for higher terrain
areas. A coastal storm will track off the East Coast late Friday
through Saturday with a chance for some light to moderate
snowfall and gusty winds, especially for areas south and east of
Albany. The track of this system remains uncertain.
Mohawk Valley News, Thursday, January 27, 2022
Daily Gazette
Indictment: First-degree murder charged in Duanesburg killings; Man accused of murdering wife, 5yo son
DUANESBURG – The Duanesburg man accused of murdering his wife and 5-year-old son and trying to kill his 2-year-old child…
Amsterdam-area native to perform with ‘Come From Away’ pit orchestra
For Saturday’s evening performance of “Come From Away” at Proctors, there’ll be a familiar face in the pit orchestra. Violinist…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Amsterdam parents: District must act to end school threats
AMSTERDAM — Parents are calling for swift action and better communication following a rash of...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Contest brings Fulton County arts community ‘into the spotlight’
by Andrew Waite
https://www.leaderherald.com/