Time's River in Reverse

I found a box of photographs of distant relatives in my mother’s house and wondered who these people were from long ago and how they were related to me. This book tells their stories. There is a king of England; a pilgrim on the Mayflower; a woman who was shipwrecked, attacked and left for dead. She recovered, had 11 children and lived to be 110 years old. There was a man of God murdered in a peace conference with Indians. There were diplomats, professors, educators, ministers, missionaries, agricultural and mining engineers, university presidents, U. N. officials, artists, sculptors, writers, photographers and 2 Civil War Generals. A fascinating cast of smart, interesting, enterprising, people whose stories are told herein.