Results tagged “Jeremiah S. Black” from York Town Square

It's not clear about the date and which York newspaper this story ran in, but it provides an account of James Garfield's visit to York before his presidency. The full article is available at the York County Heritage Trust archives. (To see a list of other presidential visits, click here.) Background posts: Piece of John Wilkes Booth's body to be shown in Philly and Presidents visit York, alive and via funeral trains and A Civil War Black Republican: 'He robs birds' nests ... sucks hens' eggs'.

A large crowd observed the funeral train of assassinated president James A. Garfield pass through York on Sept. 23, 1881.

"Lest the gesture of standing in silence with bared heads should seem too meagre in its expression of bereavement such as this, billows of flowers had been strewn between the tracks and floral wreaths were brought to be tossed aboard the coaches," a newspaper reported.

Before his presidency, Garfield visited his friend, former James Buchanan cabinet member Jeremiah S. Black, in York... .

G.A. Mellander and Carl E. Hatch provided this compilation showing Lincoln's loss in York County 1864 presidential voting.


Jeremiah S. Black, former U.S. attorney general and secretary of state, stood before members of the Keystone Club in Philadelphia in 1864.

The respected York resident was on the Democratic stump in the heated election of 1864. Their candidate, George McClellan, was flailing in his bid against Abraham Lincoln's reelection. Much was at stake; indeed, the outcome of the Civil War. According to Jennifer L. Weber's enlightening new book, "Copperheads," the Dems were generally calling for the country to be reunited.

A Lincoln victory would keep the country prosecuting the war.

"As political pamphlets flooded the North, those from the Democrats resorted again to virulently racist argument," Weber wrote.

That was Black's tact in Philadelphia:...