Our Ancestors in History The Pilgrim, the Patriot, the Yankee and Other Family Heroes
Publisher: Beaver Pond Press
Published: December 2002
Place of publication: Edina, Minnesota
Number of pages: 69
First sentence: As most American children learn in grade school, the pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock in the year 1620 where they established the first permanent colony in New England.
Description: Biographies of six of our ancestors, who played a role at critical moment's in our history:  the the Colonization of America,  the Revolutionary War,  the Civil War, the Battle of Trafalgar, the German Immigration of the 1850's and World War II told in the hopes of creating an interest in history in the author's grandchilden
Notes: These are the stories of our ancestors.    One was among the very first settlers to come to this country . . .  just eleven years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.   Another fought in the Revolutionary War for our liberty and independence.  A third fought in the Civil War to preserve the Union.   

Other stories include those of a young English sailor, who sailed the seas on a mighty British man-of-war in the early 1800’s . . .  of our German ancestors who immigrated to America in the 1850’s in search of a new and better life . . .  and finally, of a soldier from Canada, who went to England at the outbreak of World War II to defend the country of his birth against a threatened German invasion. 
 
None of their names are found in the history books.  None were kings or generals and yet each played a role at a critical moment in history.  Theirs are stories that need to be told.  Theirs is a history that deserves to be remembered.

The author lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.  He developed an interest in his family’s history following his retirement from 3M.   These stories are the outgrowth of that interest.
Table of contents: title: The Pilgrim Richard Butler ( 1613-1684)
pagenum: 1; title: The Patriot , John Butler II (1740-1824)
pagenum: 7; title: The Yankee Soldier, Edwin Wilcox (1846-1915)
pagenum: 19; title: The Sailor of the King, Constantine Crawford (1803- 1860)
pagenum: 33; title: The Immigrants, FranzAckermann (1832- 1887)
pagenum: 45; title: The Canadian Soldier, Ralph Bellinger (1889-1954)
pagenum: 51