Blake McKelvey (1903–2000)
Auteur van The urbanization of America, 1860-1915
Werken van Blake McKelvey
Rochester: The Water-Power City 1812-1854 2 exemplaren
Rochester: the quest for quality, 1890-1925 1 exemplaar
A story of Rochester 1 exemplaar
Life in the Genesee Country 1 exemplaar
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- McKelvey, Blake
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- 1903-06-10
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- 2000-09-13
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- Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Rochester, New York, USA
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- Syracuse University (AB | 1925)
Clark University (MA | 1929)
Harvard University (PhD | 1933) - Beroepen
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- McKelvey, Jean T. (wife)
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For my own family history research, the history of Rochester’s Irish immigrants and the years 1850 – 1970 are most relevant as that was when my great-great-grandfather settled and lived in the region. By midcentury, the Irish remained “the largest nationality group, with 6786 residents in 1860” (pg. 3). Discussing the early recruitment of the Civil War, McKelvey writes, “The local militia companies which comprised the 54th state guard regiment, aspiring for recognition as artillery or cavalry units, held back, but leading officers among them soon recruited several volunteer companies for the infantry regiment desired at the time. Adolph Nolte, editor of a German weekly, recruited a company from among his countrymen, and Irish leaders formed similar plans” (pg. 64). Further, “Local recruiting continued almost without letup until the spring of 1862. The payment of bounties, ranging up to $100 late in 1861 and rising as high as $300 the next year, speeded enlistments. Various appeals to the Irish and Germans led to the formation of special national units which held local interest throughout their service. Two regiments recruited in the summer of 1862, the 108th and the 140th – the latter composed almost entirely of Rochester men – were destined to identify the city with practically every battle in the Virginia theater during the last three years of the war” (pg. 89). Amid the chaos of the war, Irish and Irish-descended citizens in Rochester continued their charitable work, raising “nearly five thousand dollars to relieve suffering in their homeland” (pg. 79). Returning to demographics, McKelvey writes, “A slight increase in the number of Rochester’s Irish-born residents during this period may have resulted from these troubles in the homeland, but the 6484 of 1890 represented an equally slight drop from the 1855 total. Their native-born children, however, doubled that figure and with third generation Irish-Americans, they comprised nearly a fourth of Rochester’s population by 1890” (pgs. 376-377).
The book will appeal to anyone researching Rochester’s history, though much of McKelvey’s work can be found in more recent volumes including the aforementioned Rochester on the Genesee and even his 1984 book promoting the city’s sesquicentennial, Rochester: A Brief History. That said, those who want to learn as much as possible about the Flower City are encouraged to track down a copy of this out-of-print work.… (meer)