The Clay Family


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The Family Legacy of Henry Clay


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Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the House of Representatives and secretary of state, Clay left an indelible mark on American politics at a time when the country’s solidarity was threatened by inner turmoil, and scholars have thoroughly chronicled his political achievements. However, little attention has been paid to his extensive family legacy. In The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch, Lindsey Apple explores the personal history of this famed American and examines the impact of his legacy on future generations of Clays. Apple’s study delves into the family’s struggles with physical and emotional problems such as depression and alcoholism. The book also analyzes the role of financial stress as the family fought to reestablish its fortune in the years after the Civil War. Apple’s extensively researched volume illuminates a little-discussed aspect of Clay’s life and heritage, and highlights the achievements and contributions of one of Kentucky’s most distinguished families.




The Clay Family


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Lucius D. Clay


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Soldier, statesman, logistical genius: Lucius D. Clay was one of that generation of giants who dedicated their lives to the service of this country, acting with ironclad integrity and selflessness to win a global war and secure a lasting peace. A member of the Army's elite Corps of Engineers, he was tapped by FDR in 1940 to head up a crash program of airport construction and then, in 1942, Roosevelt named him to run wartime military procurement. For three years, Clay oversaw the requirements of an eight-million-man army, setting priorities, negotiating contracts, monitoring production schedules and R & D, coordinating military Lend-Lease, disposing of surplus property-all without a breath of scandal. It was an unprecedented job performed to Clay's rigorous high standards. As Eliot Janeway wrote: "No appointment was more strategic or more fortunate."




The Clay Family Volume 14


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... authorities. Virginia Magazine of History; Richmond Critic; Hotten's Immigrants; William and Mary Quarterly; Colonel William Russell and His Descendants; Governor Garrard and His Descendants; Cooke's Virginia; County Records of Chesterfield, Hanover, Henrico, Charles City, Lunenburg, Franklin, and Amelia; Old Tombstones; Family Bibles; Register of Land Offices of Virginia and Kentucky; The Cabells and Their Kin, etc. index to part first. Appearance of Henry Clay's Mother, 28 Baptists Proscribed in Virginia, 6 Bartlett, Thomas, 26 Birthplace of Henry Clay, ..." 8 Blackburn, Henry 26 Blackburn, Henrietta 26 Blackburn, Colonel William B., 26, 27 Clay, Betsy Hudson 6 Clay, George Hudson 6 Clay, Henry the First, 6 Clay, General Greene, 9 Clay, General Cassius M 10, 35, 51 Clay, Henry, ... iii, iv, v, 5; 6, 7, 9, 13, 19, 22, 32, 35, 51 Clay, Doctor Henry, 11 Clay, Colonel Henry, 9, 11 Clay, Honorable James B., 20 Clay, Reverend John 6, 7, 8, 13, 38, 55 Clay, Sir John, 9, 55, 58 Clay, John 6, 19, 21 Clay, Miss Lucretia Hart 52 Clay, Mrs. Mary Rogers v Clay, Reverend Porter 6, 10, 12, 20, 21 Clay, Sally, 6 Clays, The 10, 11, 12, 34, 36 Children of George Hudson 4 Children of John Hudson, 4 Children of Reverend John Clay 6 Clay Homestead Destroyed by Fire 8 Clay Homestead Bought by Henry Watkins 8 Clay Families in Kentucky, 9 Clay-Hudson Estate Settled by Suit 8 Clay-Watkins Mrs., Mother of Henry Clay, ... 21, 31, 33 Durrett, Reuben T., vi Decree of Court in Clay-Hudson Suit, 58 Destruction of Clay Property by Tarleton's Troopers, ... 15 Daughters of George Hudson, 7 Emancipation Advocated by the Clays, 5 First English Sermon West of the Mississippi, 21 Ford, Colonel Robert T., vi Flournoy, Doctor, 26 Farrar, Edward, to James B. Clay, -... 49, 50...




Battlegrounds of Memory


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In Battlegrounds of Memory Clay Lewis crosses seven generations of his family to illuminate a heritage of romantic hope and abject defeat, seeking freedom from the past by understanding it. His story is a cry from the heart, reaching into the depths of a family's collective soul and finding hope in the midst of despair. Heritage was a heavy burden on Lewis's parents, children of the South whose denial of their past bound them more tightly to it. Their battles with each other and their son followed old patterns of intergenerational conflict. The book opens with a harrowing scene in which the author as a teenager is urged by his mother to discipline his drunken father on Christmas Eve. In the forty years since he assaulted his father that night, Lewis has struggled to understand how his family was changed by the history they had experienced--the wilderness frontier, the Civil War, and the Great Depression. How they were changed ultimately became his legacy. In the Marines he found that his capacity for violence ran deep; in his unhappy marriages he found himself repeating old mistakes. Over the years he began to recognize that the terrible wounds on both sides of his family formed patterns of scapegoats and rebels, of betrayal and grief, and finally of yearning and hope. In this knowledge he found freedom. Battlegrounds of Memory is a work of deep courage--at times humorous and ironic, at other times melancholy and lyrical, it is told with an amazing sensitivity and passion. It is a strong testament to the force of love.