TeeVeeJim
Humble Beginnings
Loads of Bailey Mine bituminous are easing down the middle of Main Street in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania past the childhood home of James Gillespie Blaine.
Blaine has a pretty American story; and not just because there's an interstate running through his front yard. He left his pioneer family in Western PA after college, moving to Maine and representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives during the Civil War and Reconstruction. He later served in the Senate, and as Secretary of State. His part in building the American empire domestically and into Latin America and the Pacific, all helped set him up for a run at the presidency in 1884. Accusations of corruption in the awarding of railroad charters as they raced to build across the West led to his narrow defeat by Grover Cleveland. I found it interesting that the industry that played a part in him losing the presidency now runs through his old front yard.
Humble Beginnings
Loads of Bailey Mine bituminous are easing down the middle of Main Street in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania past the childhood home of James Gillespie Blaine.
Blaine has a pretty American story; and not just because there's an interstate running through his front yard. He left his pioneer family in Western PA after college, moving to Maine and representing the state in the U.S. House of Representatives during the Civil War and Reconstruction. He later served in the Senate, and as Secretary of State. His part in building the American empire domestically and into Latin America and the Pacific, all helped set him up for a run at the presidency in 1884. Accusations of corruption in the awarding of railroad charters as they raced to build across the West led to his narrow defeat by Grover Cleveland. I found it interesting that the industry that played a part in him losing the presidency now runs through his old front yard.