In 1898, New York Governor Frank S. Black, lost the gubernatorial election to one young brash and bold war hero, Theodore Roosevelt. Black's tenure had been rife with conflict and scandal from his dubious state appointments to a scandal regarding the development of the Erie Canal and he lost support . Black slipped quietly back [...]
Family lore states that the patriarch of our Schimmer family was murdered by the precursor of the Gestapo. As the Gestapo wasn't formed until 1933, almost 100 years after Joseph Matteus Schimmer's death, I have a difficult time accepting that as fact. Following both the American Revolution and the French Revolution, Germany in the 1800s [...]
BRIANNA WRIGHT 