LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1867
built 139 days ago
The 1867 portion if the Farmhouse is provided as a special suite. Your bedroom and bed/sitting room are upstairs. Your private bath, along with the parlor, gathering room, and old kitchen dining area are downstairs. It's a great place if you're interested in history, like to explore the outdoors, or enjoy some conversation in a house that reminds you of "Grandma's." Read on to see exactly what you get at the 1867 Farmhouse:
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The 1867 Reform Act was the second major attempt to reform Britain’s electoral process – the first being the 1832 Reform Act. The 1867 Reform Act is properly titled the Representation of the People Act 1867.
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The digitized collection Robert Toombs, Letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs, 1850-1867 consists of correspondence from Robert Toombs to his wife, Julia Ann DuBose Toombs in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia from 1850-1867. During 1850-1859 his letters come from Washington, D.C. while he served in the U.S. Senate. During the Civil War, he wrote from Virginia (1862) and Atlanta, Georgia (1864). Following the war, letters are written from Paris (1866-67) while he was in exile. The correspondence generally discusses current events; his land holdings in South Georgia, Alabama, and Texas; people; other soldiers; and his wish to be with his wife and family.
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The 1867 Reform Act enfranchised 1,500,000 men. All male urban householders and male lodgers paying £10 rent a year for unfurnished accommodation got the right to vote. The act all but doubled the electorate. 52 seats were redistributed from small towns (less than a population of 10,000 such as Chichester, Harwich and Windsor) to the growing industrial towns or counties. Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester saw their representation increase from 2 MP’s to 3 MP’s. The University of London was ... given a seat.
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On this day in 1867, the first iron was produced by the Oswego Iron Company. Plans for constructing a blast furnace and iron foundry at Oswego were formulated in 1865. The operation used locally mined ore and charcoal fuel.
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Margaret "Maggie" Tobin was born July 18, 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri. Many of the values she carried with her for life Margaret learned in Hannibal: social justice, education, and hard work. Her father, John Tobin, was an abolitionist and worked with John Brown before the Civil War. Family stories claim he even helped run a station on the Underground Railroad. Margaret's mother, Johanna Tobin, firmly believed in education for all, not just the rich, and insisted that each of her children attend Mrs. O'Leary's grammar school until the age of thirteen or so. Tuition cost $1 per month per child. This was a steep bill considering that John Tobin only made $1.75 to $2 per day working as a laborer at the Hannibal Gas Works and had six children to feed, educate and clothe.
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