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Cummer: A History of one of the Greatest Logging Families in North AmericaCummer: A History of one of the Greatest Logging Families in North America By: Douglas K. Sanders Cummer: A History of one of the Greatest Logging Families in America begins in the Everglades of Florida where the last old growth cypress trees are harvested in 1959. Covering a period of nearly 250 years, readers will learn about: John Henry Cummer, the first white child born in the wilderness of Ontario that is now the City of Toronto, Canada. He

Cummer: A History of one of the Greatest Logging Families in North America

By: Douglas K. Sanders

Cummer: A History of one of the Greatest Logging Families in America begins in the Everglades of Florida where the last old growth cypress trees are harvested in 1959.

Covering a period of nearly 250 years, readers will learn about:

•    John Henry Cummer, the first white child born in the wilderness of Ontario that is now the City of Toronto, Canada. He became an insurrectionist during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 and was arrested and put in jail.

•    Jacob Cummer, who moved his family in 1860 and established one of the largest sawmills in Michigan at Cadillac. He saw his company cut 700 million feet of white pine forest from 1876 to 1892 - more than half of all the sawmill operations recorded in the state at that time.

•    Wellington Cummer, who spent most of his life fighting heart disease but still managed to move his family to Jacksonville, Florida, and setting up the state’s largest phosphate and turpentine operations. The Cummer family was a major investor of Barnett National Bank of North America.

From the 1790s to 2015 the history of the Cummer logging family includes selling thousands of acres of timber in Virginia and in Louisiana, and to concentrate logging in Florida as the largest landowner and employer. They were pioneers in the use of band saws, carriage feeds, narrow-gage railroads, and with the use of asphalt. Initially aggressive as they cut cypress and pine trees in five states, the Cummer family became environmentalists by donating hundreds of acres of conversation land along Florida's historic Suwannee River and creating the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge.

About the Author
Douglas K. Sanders is a history writer for The Laker Lutz News and is President of the Pasco County Historical Society. He also maintains a local blog that reaches 11,000 readers on the local history of Pasco County, Florida. His book is original historical research on the Cummer family logging operations in five states and Ontario, Canada. It is based on newspaper articles, photographs from historical societies, and congressional testimony. This book is also timely with the year 2022 being the 200th anniversary of the founding of Jacksonville, Florida—a city where the Cummer’s were leaders in business and philanthropy, and the 100th anniversary of the Cummer operations established in Lacoochee, Florida.

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I had to read this book for a political theory class, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Keysarr did a great job of researching and writing it. It was not as dry as some of the other, similar books I've read. I would definitely recommend this one, even if it's not for a class.
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Detailed exhaustively researched history of the right to vote in America. I learned more from this book than any other source.
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This is a book that will make you angry. If you are a conservative, this book should make you feel very guilty. It is important to begin with that this book is a detour from Keyssar's larger project, which was supposed to be a history of the American working class' electoral participation. After struggling with the work for several years he realized that he needed to publish a whole book explaining what the right to vote actually was in American history. The result is a history of the slow and uneven path to universal suffrage in American history. We learn about the existence of the vote before 1776, the improvement that occured with the revolution, and the larger improvement that occured with the Jeffersonian/Jacksonian period in which the large majority of white men were able to vote. At the same time we learn of efforts to counter the expanding suffrage, such as disfranchisement of free blacks all over the country before 1861, attacks on the voting rights of paupers, felons, migrants and aliens, as well as the disfranchisment in the early 1800s of the limited voting rights women had in the early 1800s. Keyssar then goes on to discuss the narrowing of the portals from the 1860s to the 1920s, periods ironically bounded by giving the vote to blacks in the 1870s and to women by the 1920s. But in between that period nearly all blacks and many whites were disenfranchised in the south, while literacy, residence, nationality and registration systems sought to limit the vote in the North (while "asiatics" were barred in the west). The book concludes with the successful passage of the Voting Rights Act and the twenty-sixth amendment, but also with low turnout, an extremely narrow political spectrum, and government structures which limit political participation and reinforce conservative values. Much of this will not be new to historians, though never before has there been such detail and the twenty appendixes provided at the back will be invaluable for future reference. Sometimes Keyssar gives a qualititative estimate of how many Americans could vote (he suggests that perhaps 60% of white Americans could vote before 1776, a figure much lower than the 80-90% posited by more Panglossian historians). And there are many interesting details, such as the New York plan where registration was supposed to take place on Yom Kippur, conventiently leaving out many Jews. But otherwise the full results have been reserved for his upcoming work. This weakens his criticisms of American exceptionalism, since without a clear understanding of how much the vote declined in the North, we cannot see how fully the ponderous elitism of Parkman and Godkin were like the undemocratic aspects of German or Italian or even British liberalism. I am also do not agree with his description of slaves as a "peasantry." This implies that the majority of white farmers who were not slaveholders were a) not peasants and b) were otherwise indistinguishable on a class basis from the slaveholders. Recent southern agrarian history makes this assumption quite questionable. It is true that Americans were unenthusiatic as Europeans about the rise of the proletariat and rural subaltern classes, but it is insufficient to say that mass suffrage only occured because such classes were a small proportion of the population. They were also a small proportion of the population in France in 1848 and 1851 when universal male suffrage was declared, which did not prevent a greater degree of struggle over the question in that country. Enfranchising the majority of any population would raise serious issues of class domination and control regardless of the class structure. Nevertheless this is still a useful study, and reading the petty, racist, misogynist, self-serving and self-satisfied arguments against the suffrage will be a depressing experience. To think that such injustices could be continued for two centuries thanks to the endless cant of "state's rights" long after the republican content of that slogan had drained away will infuriate you.
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In my forty years of studying the history of the U.S., I find this work to be the most authoritative and complete work yet encountered. Not only is the book a thorough guide through the evolution of our democracy, it is an entertaining read. The book is a 'must' read for those who seek a perspective on many of the current issues involving voting rights.
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