City and Suburban News-New York Times (1857-1922) Jan 29, 1890; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times, p. 6
New York
The members of the Union Prisoners of War National Memorial Association that was incorporated on Monday evening met in Parlor F at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening and elected these officers and Trustees for the coming year: President - Alonzo J. Decker; Vice President - Judge George M. Van Hoesen; Secretary - Major J. L. Kilgore, Treasurer- Gen. Ira M. Hedges; Trustees- Gen. Alexander S. Webb, Gen. Horatio C. King, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, Gen. Ezra H. Ripple, Gen. Henry M. Cist-Cincinnati, Augustus C. Tate, Charles E. Hyatt, Major Floyd Clarkson, Gen. Alexander Slater, Gen. James Grant Wilson, Hibbard B. Masters, Major C. E. Barney, Gen. Wager Swayne, James D. Bell, and Frederick A. Rowe. The Advisory Board if fifty members will be appointed by the Trustees at their first meeting.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
Friday, May 27, 2016
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Benjamin Franklin and German printing in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Mid 1700's
The German printing connection with Charles Cist is that there were already German language printing papers from previous individuals in the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia areas during the 1700's. This post is to be an addition to the future finding in this historical area.
Benjamin Franklin attempted numerous times to establish several German language newspapers through partnerships. A goal of Franklin's was to educate the German speaking individuals that were a population descendants of the William Penn colony in the Pennsylvania area from the late 1600's.
In the 1740's printers were gaining in popularity. They went from a social status of viewed as manual labor to information brokers.
Franklin knew that in Pennsylvania the German population was large enough to influence certain political outcomes in the Assembly of Pennsylvania. Germans from Europe were coming to the British Colonies in large numbers. Eighteen ships transported Germans to Philadelphia in 1732 and 1733, and from 1737 to 1754 ship arrivals from Germany averaged eleven annually.
Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet, Plain Truth, in 1747 wrote about how the way towards peace is to prepare for war. At this time King George was at war with France and Spain. He had some success with uniting disparate ethnic, political, and religious groups.
Christopher Sauer was the first successful German language printer in the Colonies during this time. Mr. Sauer opposed Franklin's ideas because he thought that alliance to Franklin's militia could be transformed from a voluntary to a mandatory militia. This printing rivalry between Sauer and Franklin went on until Sauer's death in 1758.
This information was obtained from Mr. Trombley from the internet with a footnote: "To Rescue the Germans Out of Sauer's Hands": Benjamin Franklin's German Language Printing Partnerships
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. CXXI, No.4 (October 1997).
I chose to include this in my blog because the time frame when Charles Cist escaped from Siberia, Russian and made his way through Europe might lead me to find the transportation from which Cist arrived in Philadelphia. Did he set sail from Germany? Did he set sail from England? Did he have a sponsor? Was in Benjamin Franklin?
I am using my Interdisciplinary Studies skills to connect people, dates, and events to find conclusive historical material on the life movements of Charles Cist.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
Benjamin Franklin attempted numerous times to establish several German language newspapers through partnerships. A goal of Franklin's was to educate the German speaking individuals that were a population descendants of the William Penn colony in the Pennsylvania area from the late 1600's.
In the 1740's printers were gaining in popularity. They went from a social status of viewed as manual labor to information brokers.
Franklin knew that in Pennsylvania the German population was large enough to influence certain political outcomes in the Assembly of Pennsylvania. Germans from Europe were coming to the British Colonies in large numbers. Eighteen ships transported Germans to Philadelphia in 1732 and 1733, and from 1737 to 1754 ship arrivals from Germany averaged eleven annually.
Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet, Plain Truth, in 1747 wrote about how the way towards peace is to prepare for war. At this time King George was at war with France and Spain. He had some success with uniting disparate ethnic, political, and religious groups.
Christopher Sauer was the first successful German language printer in the Colonies during this time. Mr. Sauer opposed Franklin's ideas because he thought that alliance to Franklin's militia could be transformed from a voluntary to a mandatory militia. This printing rivalry between Sauer and Franklin went on until Sauer's death in 1758.
This information was obtained from Mr. Trombley from the internet with a footnote: "To Rescue the Germans Out of Sauer's Hands": Benjamin Franklin's German Language Printing Partnerships
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. CXXI, No.4 (October 1997).
I chose to include this in my blog because the time frame when Charles Cist escaped from Siberia, Russian and made his way through Europe might lead me to find the transportation from which Cist arrived in Philadelphia. Did he set sail from Germany? Did he set sail from England? Did he have a sponsor? Was in Benjamin Franklin?
I am using my Interdisciplinary Studies skills to connect people, dates, and events to find conclusive historical material on the life movements of Charles Cist.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
Thursday, April 7, 2016
St. Louis Cist Social Media Experiement
I have learned that Lewis J. Cist lived in St. Louis during the middle 1800's. I am doing research to find out if this love interest with a lady produced any children from this brief marriage.
I am placing informational ads on Craig's List and other social media outlets to learn if there are any offspring from the marriage of Lewis J. Cist.
If my readers know of any descendent of Cist living in St. Louis and is related to the Cist family, please extend an invitation to contact me.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
I am placing informational ads on Craig's List and other social media outlets to learn if there are any offspring from the marriage of Lewis J. Cist.
If my readers know of any descendent of Cist living in St. Louis and is related to the Cist family, please extend an invitation to contact me.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
Friday, February 5, 2016
Making a Quill Pen During Colonial Times.
Writing, reading, speaking out loud, and printing is all part of being a literary citizen. Charles Cist was a literary citizen. In the printing shop of Cist and Styner were numerous quill pens that their customers could use to have words and letters printed.
In February 2016 edition of Early American Life on pages 12-13 there is a very informative article, Skills- To Make a Pen, about the different skills it took to make quill pens. These different skills included knowing which side of the bird the feathers came from, which type of bird, and what part of the bird. These quill writing pens came from feathers from a bird not from a porcupine quill.
The word pen derives from Latin penne, which means feather. The flight feathers from a goose where the top choice in Colonial Times. Birds from colder climate were more desired. The quills were stronger and lasted longer from these types of birds.
When taking your pen knife you can increase or decrease the thickness of the ink line by shaping the quill. Additionally, you can prolong the life of the quill by the shaping of the quill with the pen knife. Modern methods include soaking the quill overnight in cold water to soften it. Next, strip the barbs from the shaft against the grain with a pen knife.
Quill feathers from the right shoulder of the bird were used for left handed writers. Quills from the left shoulder of the bird were used for right handed writers. Once a writer became comfortable with the pen, then it took about one year for the pen to season! Ms. Ramona Vogel-Hill said. "The quicker option for hardening a quill is a process called dutching, where you temper it in hot river sand or wood ash that's been sifted." (Ms. Ramona Vogel-Hill is a quill maker at Colonial Williamsburg).
It is interesting to note that quill pens were used to write both the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. The Industrial Revolution soon made steel pens affordable on a mass scale in Europe and America.
There is a great painting by Dutch master artist, Gerrit Dou, c. 1630-35, called Scholar Sharpening a Quill Pen. This is a realistic depiction of the use of a quill pen. Hollywood stylizes the quill pen with flamboyant feathers, but Gerrit Dou captures a clearer depiction of a writer with a quill pen.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
February 9, 2016
In February 2016 edition of Early American Life on pages 12-13 there is a very informative article, Skills- To Make a Pen, about the different skills it took to make quill pens. These different skills included knowing which side of the bird the feathers came from, which type of bird, and what part of the bird. These quill writing pens came from feathers from a bird not from a porcupine quill.
The word pen derives from Latin penne, which means feather. The flight feathers from a goose where the top choice in Colonial Times. Birds from colder climate were more desired. The quills were stronger and lasted longer from these types of birds.
When taking your pen knife you can increase or decrease the thickness of the ink line by shaping the quill. Additionally, you can prolong the life of the quill by the shaping of the quill with the pen knife. Modern methods include soaking the quill overnight in cold water to soften it. Next, strip the barbs from the shaft against the grain with a pen knife.
Quill feathers from the right shoulder of the bird were used for left handed writers. Quills from the left shoulder of the bird were used for right handed writers. Once a writer became comfortable with the pen, then it took about one year for the pen to season! Ms. Ramona Vogel-Hill said. "The quicker option for hardening a quill is a process called dutching, where you temper it in hot river sand or wood ash that's been sifted." (Ms. Ramona Vogel-Hill is a quill maker at Colonial Williamsburg).
It is interesting to note that quill pens were used to write both the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. The Industrial Revolution soon made steel pens affordable on a mass scale in Europe and America.
There is a great painting by Dutch master artist, Gerrit Dou, c. 1630-35, called Scholar Sharpening a Quill Pen. This is a realistic depiction of the use of a quill pen. Hollywood stylizes the quill pen with flamboyant feathers, but Gerrit Dou captures a clearer depiction of a writer with a quill pen.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
February 9, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Charles Cist as linguist translator from Europe to America
Charles Cist had a very good education from Halle University in Germany during the mid 1700's. He spoke Russian, German, and English, possibly French. When he made his escape through Europe and sailed to America he knowingly or unknowingly brought with him his own individual ideas and cultural influences that needed to be translated towards the ideals of a transformation from the British Colonies to The United States of America. He was just one individual. Multiply this by the many more influences of people coming to the New World at this time just before the American Revolutionary War. Think about Macro/ Micro economics and those two levels within a single concept. How do you translate culture from Old World to New World into a common language, English?
Charles Cist was in the cultural center of Philadelphia when town hall meetings were taking place. Town hall meetings were taking place in the thirteen colonies, too. It took time for the farmers and the educated clergy, statesmen, and others to translate literal words and phrases to understand shared ideas, listen to ideas and to understand ideas. After these meetings a unified presentation was presented to the Continental Congress for these ideas to be ratified. There were still verbal upheavals at these ratifying meetings, too.
The Use and Misuse of Language, edited by S. I. Hayakawa illustrates how different cultures from Old Europe were brought over to the New World. Mr. Hayakawa states that he is only qualified to discuss European influences. I will illustrate a section from pages 52-55.
Mr. Hayakawa gives credit on page 52 to Professor Karl Pribram who has pointed out the importance of language concepts in Pribram's book, Conflicting Patterns of Thought. Professor Pribram gives four patterns of reasoning, (1) Universalistic reasoning (2) Nominalistic, or hypothetical reasoning (3) Intuitional ,or organismic reasoning (4) Dialectic reasoning.
Universalistic reasoning is about the premise that the human mind can grasp the order of the universe. Reason is credited with the power to know the truth with aid of given general concepts and to establish absolutes in human relationships.
Nominalistic reasoning is illustrated on page 53 about how French tourists view the New York subway system. The New York subway system is designed to be efficient for moving large populations of workers in and out the the city to different suburbs when their work shift is over. The Paris Metro system is designed to move populations to and from different monuments within the city limits. These are two totally different uses of transportation systems and it can affect how a French tourist views his/ her visit as pleasant or frustrating when using the New York subway.
Intuitional, or organismic reasoning stresses intuition rather than systematic cogitation. Professor Pribram goes on to explain about biological organisms and its component cells move around by intuition.
Dialectic reasoning. I am being honest. I am going to have to re-read this part of the book to fully understand it first myself before I can write about it so it is clear to me and to readers. More to follow.
Can you put yourself in Cist's shoes when attempting to translate these four different thought patterns and then translate words and phrases so everyone understands and agrees. Cist was not the sole person doing the work, but because of his multiply language skills he was in demand in Philadelphia meetings during this process.
I can imagine Cist first, listening to foreign accents, agree or disagree without praise or censorship, until we understand what those views are stating, then reviewing what was said and reviewing what was said in multiply languages. I have not even touched on the implications of the non- verbal and what was not said connotations of such meetings in the 1770's. The process took time.
I am observing society today with the current immigration conflicts, and world events.
Andrew C . Allen
1841 West Main Street, #212
Troy, OH 45373
513.638.7140
Charles Cist was in the cultural center of Philadelphia when town hall meetings were taking place. Town hall meetings were taking place in the thirteen colonies, too. It took time for the farmers and the educated clergy, statesmen, and others to translate literal words and phrases to understand shared ideas, listen to ideas and to understand ideas. After these meetings a unified presentation was presented to the Continental Congress for these ideas to be ratified. There were still verbal upheavals at these ratifying meetings, too.
The Use and Misuse of Language, edited by S. I. Hayakawa illustrates how different cultures from Old Europe were brought over to the New World. Mr. Hayakawa states that he is only qualified to discuss European influences. I will illustrate a section from pages 52-55.
Mr. Hayakawa gives credit on page 52 to Professor Karl Pribram who has pointed out the importance of language concepts in Pribram's book, Conflicting Patterns of Thought. Professor Pribram gives four patterns of reasoning, (1) Universalistic reasoning (2) Nominalistic, or hypothetical reasoning (3) Intuitional ,or organismic reasoning (4) Dialectic reasoning.
Universalistic reasoning is about the premise that the human mind can grasp the order of the universe. Reason is credited with the power to know the truth with aid of given general concepts and to establish absolutes in human relationships.
Nominalistic reasoning is illustrated on page 53 about how French tourists view the New York subway system. The New York subway system is designed to be efficient for moving large populations of workers in and out the the city to different suburbs when their work shift is over. The Paris Metro system is designed to move populations to and from different monuments within the city limits. These are two totally different uses of transportation systems and it can affect how a French tourist views his/ her visit as pleasant or frustrating when using the New York subway.
Intuitional, or organismic reasoning stresses intuition rather than systematic cogitation. Professor Pribram goes on to explain about biological organisms and its component cells move around by intuition.
Dialectic reasoning. I am being honest. I am going to have to re-read this part of the book to fully understand it first myself before I can write about it so it is clear to me and to readers. More to follow.
Can you put yourself in Cist's shoes when attempting to translate these four different thought patterns and then translate words and phrases so everyone understands and agrees. Cist was not the sole person doing the work, but because of his multiply language skills he was in demand in Philadelphia meetings during this process.
I can imagine Cist first, listening to foreign accents, agree or disagree without praise or censorship, until we understand what those views are stating, then reviewing what was said and reviewing what was said in multiply languages. I have not even touched on the implications of the non- verbal and what was not said connotations of such meetings in the 1770's. The process took time.
I am observing society today with the current immigration conflicts, and world events.
Andrew C . Allen
1841 West Main Street, #212
Troy, OH 45373
513.638.7140
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Cist- Imprisonment, Shrimp, Slavery, Thailand
This blog entry is an attempt to make awareness of slavery, imprisonment, freedom, liberty, and costs associated with it.
Charles Cist lived in the 1700's. He was imprisonment and likely experienced slave labor while in Siberia, Russia. The idea of imprisonment slavery is not new. It happened in Biblical Egypt, it happened in the 1700's with Cist. The Underground Railroad during the American slavery movement is well documented. Slavery is happening in modern day society. The term Underground Railroad is a term used to express freedom and liberty and cost and hope and faith and love. Do organizations experience upgrading, transformation, and new management changes? Yes, it happens all the time, but the organization still remains. So when someone implies that the Underground Railroad is still alive it should not surprise you. Imprisonment and slavery can be about physical slavery, spiritual slavery, financial slavery, sex slavery, drug addiction, mental health imprisonment. My own personal imprisonment issues has been about battling depression. I was unbalance years ago. With visits with a doctor and therapist, and a case manager, I am now an asset to my family and not a liability. I have a more meaningful and inspired life. It has taken me a lifetime of learning more about the Holy Bible and that adds understanding on how to deal with my depression and being balanced, release freedom and liberty. In order to understand more about this, it is recommended to participate in a Bible study group. Explore your own individual imprisonment, slavery experience and hopefully gain more out of these blog entries.
The Guardian, www.theguardian.com, wrote articles about modern day slavery concerning the supply chain with global pawn (shrimp) industry in Thailand and its connections to US and European stores, such as, Walmart, Costco, Carrefour, and Tesco to name a few. In the article Charoen Pokphand Foods, (CP Foods), was named in a class action lawsuit filed by co-lead Derek Howard, Howard Law Firm, in Mill Valley, California. In the lawsuit it gives testimonies of workers who were forced to work 20 hour shifts, starting at 3:00 am., workers were killed in front of other workers to show fear and intimidation, some workers were at sea for years. The Thai Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Vijavat Isarabhakdi, says that his department has made progress in this area.
How does this effect me? How does this effect you? As an American living in the US, it is a blessing that our society has many comforts of modern day living. It makes me more aware of eliminating an attitude of ( I can eat shrimp whenever I want, I can have as much shrimp whenever I want, I expect shrimp to be cheap). Yes, I will eat shrimp again in the future. Am I more balanced about portion sizes and who is involved with the supply chain,yes. I make an attempt to read food labels. Where does this food come from? Be honest with yourself ;therefore, you can be honest with others. I do not need to tell society that there is spiritual warfare going on. It is all around us. It happens in Bible, it happens during Cist's period, it is happening today. If you fully understand that a person's behavior can have a negative/ positive effect elsewhere in the universe (both physically/ spiritually) and then multiply that by all of your decisions during the day, how you eat, what you eat, how you spend money, who you give money to, how you use your time ,who you spend time with, who do you look up to . Include all the other decisions that I have left out and it will probably make your head spin. It is OK to seek therapy.
In conclusion, I am using the life of Charles Cist, an American Revolutionary War printer, as an example and testimony on how a person can survive imprisonment, slavery and reinvent themselves and live a productive life. I look at the life of Charles Cist and his involvement to the causes of freedom and liberty as permission to so.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Making Connections Thomas Paine and Charles Cist.
I know that Thomas Paine and Charles Cist worked together in Philadelphia through the printing of Common Sense. I am reading Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, by Harvey J. Kaye. Mr. Kaye's novel describes Paine's early adulthood while living in London, England and the Sussex coast. On pages 26-40 Kaye illustrates the chronicle movements of Paine arriving to America and how he arrived and when he arrived. Paine petitioned the Excise Commission in London for career opportunities and there he networked with the City's intellectuals and met the writer and scientist and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin. This is a connection because it shows the same time period that Cist made he escape through Europe to America. It also shows the networking by Benjamin Franklin and others traveling back and forth from America to England and France and elsewhere meeting, well- educated, young individuals to come to America.
Additionally, Paine was not the publisher of North Briton, but he did witness the publisher, John Wilkes, go through a public display of "Wilkes and Liberty" in the streets against the control of government and taxes. It illustrated an example of government menacing in rights of freeborn Englishmen. He took this experience with him to the British Colonies when he left England in the late summer of 1774.
Benjamin Franklin gave Paine an introduction letter to show Franklin's son-in-law, Richard Bache, an insurance underwriter in Philadelphia and to Franklin's son, William. William was Royal Governor of New Jersey. The introduction letter read:
The bearer, Mr. Thomas Paine, is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy young man...If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or assistant surveyor ( of all of which I think him very capable) so that he may procure a subsistence at least, til he can make acquaintance and obtain a knowledge of the country you will do well and much oblige your affectionate father.
Paine had networking opportunities and platforms to springboard his political ambitions.
Could this have happened to Charles Cist? Did Cist receive a letter of introduction from someone in America while in Europe? Was it Benjamin Franklin? Cist landed in Philadelphia during the same time period. He married Mary Weiss the daughter of Jacob Weiss who was under the command of George Washington. This shows a similar networking of the same social connections.
On page 29, Mr. Kaye mentions that the British Colonies had swelled to over three million people. The wave of immigrants from Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Germans, Dutch, French, Swedes, and enslaved Africans made America even more diverse. The" news" was out all over Europe "Come to America."
Charles Cist spoke many languages and with all of these new immigrants arriving in the British Colonies, he, too, was involved in a network to come to America. Cist could not have done all this traveling from Siberia, Russia to America on his own.
Andrew C. Allen
Paine arrived in Philadelphia a free man, but the ship travel was very difficult, many people died on the journey over. Paine quickly was offered a journalism/ editorship job at The Pennsylvania Magazine owned by Robert Aitken. Under Paine's editorship subscriptions rose from 600 to 1500 subscribers, but Paine was not happy working for Mr. Aitken and Mr. Witherspoon. He quit in summer of 1775.
Is there a connection between the break up of the printing partnership of Cist and Styner and Paine leaving the editorship of The Pennsylvania Magazine? Cist continued to print pamphlets. This has been added to the list of questions I have at home.
Andrew C. Allen
1841 West Main Street, #212
Troy, OH 45373
pewabic34 at gmail.com
12/10/2015
Additionally, Paine was not the publisher of North Briton, but he did witness the publisher, John Wilkes, go through a public display of "Wilkes and Liberty" in the streets against the control of government and taxes. It illustrated an example of government menacing in rights of freeborn Englishmen. He took this experience with him to the British Colonies when he left England in the late summer of 1774.
Benjamin Franklin gave Paine an introduction letter to show Franklin's son-in-law, Richard Bache, an insurance underwriter in Philadelphia and to Franklin's son, William. William was Royal Governor of New Jersey. The introduction letter read:
The bearer, Mr. Thomas Paine, is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy young man...If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or assistant surveyor ( of all of which I think him very capable) so that he may procure a subsistence at least, til he can make acquaintance and obtain a knowledge of the country you will do well and much oblige your affectionate father.
Paine had networking opportunities and platforms to springboard his political ambitions.
Could this have happened to Charles Cist? Did Cist receive a letter of introduction from someone in America while in Europe? Was it Benjamin Franklin? Cist landed in Philadelphia during the same time period. He married Mary Weiss the daughter of Jacob Weiss who was under the command of George Washington. This shows a similar networking of the same social connections.
On page 29, Mr. Kaye mentions that the British Colonies had swelled to over three million people. The wave of immigrants from Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Germans, Dutch, French, Swedes, and enslaved Africans made America even more diverse. The" news" was out all over Europe "Come to America."
Charles Cist spoke many languages and with all of these new immigrants arriving in the British Colonies, he, too, was involved in a network to come to America. Cist could not have done all this traveling from Siberia, Russia to America on his own.
Andrew C. Allen
Paine arrived in Philadelphia a free man, but the ship travel was very difficult, many people died on the journey over. Paine quickly was offered a journalism/ editorship job at The Pennsylvania Magazine owned by Robert Aitken. Under Paine's editorship subscriptions rose from 600 to 1500 subscribers, but Paine was not happy working for Mr. Aitken and Mr. Witherspoon. He quit in summer of 1775.
Is there a connection between the break up of the printing partnership of Cist and Styner and Paine leaving the editorship of The Pennsylvania Magazine? Cist continued to print pamphlets. This has been added to the list of questions I have at home.
Andrew C. Allen
1841 West Main Street, #212
Troy, OH 45373
pewabic34 at gmail.com
12/10/2015
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