Live Oak Public Libraries collection of Thomas Gamble scrapbooks, 1930-1934.

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Live Oak Public Libraries collection of Thomas Gamble scrapbooks, 1930-1934.

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This collection consists of microfilm copies of 4 scrapbooks created by Thomas Gamble. Upon Gamble's death in 1945, he bequeathed the scrapbooks to the Savannah Public Library (now Live Oak Public Library). The scrapbooks included in this collection are: Extract from diary of John Martin Bolzius and Israel Christian Groneau (translated by C.A. Linn); The Crisp family in Georgia; The McAllisters in three states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and California; and Slave ship Wanderer. The scrapbooks are primarily comprised of clippings from the Savannah Morning News. These scrapbooks were microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Savannah Public Library in 1989.

1 microfilm roll

Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Crisp family.

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Wanderer (Schooner)

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Wanderer was the next to last documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States. Originally built in New York as a pleasure schooner, The Wanderer was purchased by Southern businessman Charles...

Gronau, Israel Christian, d. 1745.

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McAllister family.

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Gamble, Thomas, 1858-1945.

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Thomas Gamble (1868-1945) was a native of Virginia. He moved to Savannah, Georgia and became a reporter and the city editor of the Savannah Evening Press a position he held from 1889-1898. Gamble was a longtime Secretary to the Mayor of Savannah, and was himself Mayor of Savannah from 1933 to 1936 and again from 1939 until his death in 1945. Gamble was a founded member of the Savannah Public Library Board and was its Chair from 1928-1932. He was the author of several books, newspaper articles, a...

Boltzius, Johann Martin, 1703-1765

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Johann Martin Bolzius (1703-1765) was born on December 15, 1703 in the town of Forest in lower Lusatia, Germany. After studying in the Berlin preparatory school, Bolzius received a scholarship to study theology at Halle at the age of 24 years. In 1730, at the age of 27, Bolzius became the vice-inspector of the Latin School connected with the Francke Foundation. In 1733, Bolzius was invited to accompany a group of religious exiles from Salzburg to Georgia and to be their minister. The settlement ...

Chatham-Effingham-Liberty Regional Library

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