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Descendants of the immigrant family, Johannes Flinner and his wife Anna, married ca 1740 in Germany, who immigrated with their older children to America ; younger children were born in Pennsylvania and/or Maryland.
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This long out-of-print genealogical reference has become much sought after by residents of Washington County, Virginia, and the numerous scattered descendants of that county's forefathers. The work identifies 333 Washington County cemeteries and cites the inscriptions of each tombstone. Seven detailed maps aid in locating the burial sites. This edition also includes a newly compiled comprehensive index of more than 2,400 surnames, many of which include multiple entries.
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells how California’s wetlands were nearly obliterated by vast irrigation and reclamation projects, but have been brought back from the brink of total destruction by the organized efforts of duck hunters, whistle-blowing scientists, and a broad coalition of conservationists. Garone examines the many demands that have been made on the Valley’s natural resources, especially by large-scale agriculture, and traces the unforeseen ecological consequences of our unrestrained manipulation of nature. He also investigates changing public and scientific attitudes that are now ushering in an era of unprecedented protection for wildlife and wetlands in California and the nation.
This book traces the history of threats to species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. The author shows how, over the course of more than a century, scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as dependent on the ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. The story begins with the tale of the state's extinct mascot, the California grizzly, and the conservation movements and laws that followed its disappearance. The second half of the book focuses on four high-profile endangered species: the California condor, the desert tortoise, the San Joaquin kit fox, and the Delta smelt. The author offers an account of how Americans developed a civil system in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The book concludes that the challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century will be to expand habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.
Gasper or Leonard Fleenor immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia about 1740, and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, later moving to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and then to Frederick County, Maryland. Jacob Fleenor I (b.ca. 1750), a son, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and moved from Maryland to Washington County, Virginia, and in 1791 to Sullivan County, Tennessee. Jacob William Fleenor (1855-1933), direct descendant of Jacob I in the fifth generation, was born in Kansas territory and left an orphan. He married Mary Susanna Hope in 1873 at near Elgin, Chataqua County, Kansas, and settled at LeCompton, Kansas. Descendants and relatives of the immigrant ancestor lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Oregon and elsewhere.