King Solomon, Town's Grave Digging Drunk Turned Hero, Wandering Worker: The American Hobo and America Strikes Back After Pearl Harbor

This is our American stories we tell stories about everything here on the show including your story. Seven hour American stories.com. Some of our favorites in this next story comes to us with the help of John Elfman high school history teacher and a regular contributor to our show Kentucky journalist Sam Terry tells the story of the man they called King Solomon in November 1854, the Rev. William and Pratt recorded in his diary. I preach the funeral today of old King Solomon 79 years old. He was born the same year with Henry Clay and had drunk whiskey enough to float of man-of-war.

He was once a person of considerable enterprise and business, but he had been given to drink a great many years and yet was inoffensive and great integrity. Quite a number of citizens attended his funeral and he had a good coffin worth $30 and some 17 carriages persists to the cemetery. The deceased was William King Solomon, a Virginia native who claimed to have been a boyhood acquaintance of Harry as he called Henry Clay jesting that his own work as a digger of sellers and cisterns was less elevated than the famous statesman. His loyalty to Clay was unprecedented. One of Clay's opponents for reelection offered strong drink to Solomon in exchange for his boat. Solomon took him up on the offer and then proceeded to vote for Clay.

When asked if he had voted as agreed.

Solomon replied you may have been foolish enough to try to bribe me but I'm not foolish enough to vote for you during Solomon's lowest time of life. His wife died and his son ran away, sending him into a liquor filled existence that reduced him to a vagabond flexing Tony ends, nicknamed King Solomon.

By 1833 Solomon's existence living on the streets and intoxicated, let a local judge to sell him as a servant for a period of nine months. Solomon's purchaser was the least likely of buyers and Charlotte was a free black woman who had apparently known Solomon in Virginia when he was a free white male and she was an enslaved black female her owners having given her freedom and bequeathed her some land. She supported herself by selling baked goods at Solomon's auction to Transylvania medical College students bid on Solomon viewing him as being near the end of his life, and a future cadaver for their studies and Charlotte was the winning bidder for Solomon. Her exact bid remains a mystery. Some sources say she paid $0.13 while others claim it was $13 and yet another maintains it was $0.50. Whatever the price, King Solomon, the white vagrant became the temporary property of aunt Charlotte the free woman of color setting in motion one of Kentucky's renowned tales of the past and Charlotte freed Solomon and true to his addiction.

He managed to acquire some liquor before wandering back to her home where he passed out when Solomon awakened he found the town of Lexington in distress with people dying of cholera, one of the most feared melodies of the early decades of the 19th century referred to as Asiatic cholera due to its origin in the far east. Cholera is contracted by ingesting the vibrio cholera microbial water that is contaminated with human feces.

Now, at this time. In 1833, the town branch ran through Lexington and heavy rains caused its banks to overflow. While privies overflowed into the ground, creating a deadly mixture that poured into sinkholes, only to emerge through springs, and other sources of drinking water. A single bucket of contaminated water from a well or public pump had the power to wipe out an entire household na�ve individuals unaware of the contamination soon became victims stricken with voluminous diarrhea after drinking even a small quantity of infected water. There was little help for the victims.

Lexington's only hospital at the time was the Eastern Kentucky lunatic Asylum. The town's positions were principally faculty members at Transylvania's medical College.

Three of the physicians died. Another was out of town and learning of the epidemic chose not to return and yet another rendered himself useless. After a fall while trying to care for the sick and the dying. The Lexington observer and reporter publish the names of more than 500 victims in a town with a population of 6000 hung over Solomon found that aunt Charlotte, like most Lexington residence was packing to evacuate the town historians have pondered how Solomon could have managed to avoid contracting cholera most strongly concluding that his body was so well fortified with alcohol. He was immune to the disease. Solomon however refused to leave and he began bearing the dead as the gravediggers had left, along with thousands of other residents. Victims of cholera were not afforded the luxury of funerals or even coffins with many bodies being wrapped in the bed linens on which they had died. Dozens of casualties were piled up near the old Episcopal burying ground on third Street discerning the need Solomon began digging graves to bury hundreds of bodies and in turn becoming the hero of Lexington King Solomon continue to live in Lexington until his death in 1854 he was buried in the Lexington Cemetery not far from the towering monument marking the grave of his boyhood friend Henry Clay in 19 eight a large monument declaring King Solomon, a hero was placed at his great and Kentucky Author James Ln., Allen included the tale of King Solomon of Kentucky. In his 1891 book flute and violin and other contact details the rest of aunt Charlotte story, however, remains unknown and a special thanks to Kentucky journalist Sam Terry, and thanks as always to John Elfman or the story of William King Solomon here on our American story. If you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past.

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She also happens to be on the board of the Homo Museum and you heard that right to the Homo Museum and she's here to share the stories of the history of the American hope is my get along my hobo name is Connecticut Shorty hobo names usually are given shield by someone, another hobo usually some people will pick their nickname they had when they were a cat or a nickname somebody gave Malan the way my hobo name Shorty came from an old time stinger hobo name steam train myelogram hobo is a hobo that wrote steam trains and he gave me my name in Logansport, Indiana in 1992 letter ballot testimony decided that she be my name so that's my name that I had a hobo name was twinkle toes that I was kind of a dancer you know so my sister cell phone name is not Maggie name because although we were both raised in Connecticut. She raised her family in Rochester not select which was fairly young man. My father is very thin so his hobo name is Lynn Tim express his name because he was a truck driver is driving the traffic on the red but expressly, that is his hobo name Connecticut to see her filing is again Bob Potts to the kids in a shoemaking store so she took the name Connecticut father slow-motion. Shorty was an old time stinger hobo. He had caught a couple of times, like online modes anymore pretty slow class that had a lot of injuries so the hobos causing slow-motion Shorty all high rock kid his name. He was a hard rock miner like my nose minerals and stops of the Hard Rock Cafe come from a variety of places, different names, the kind of fun. A lot of people mix up the American hobo I think American hobo because it's really only an American phenomenon, this hobo person that wrote trains highlighted people accept the hobo with the homeless local people that you know hang around bag and stuff so classically, the hobo worked in 100 and they were homeless by choice.

Some of them had homes they could go home if they wanted to let you know. A lot of them had families and homes are relatively taken in, but they want that they love to be out American wandering.

They didn't want to have a home so I gave him my claustrophobia something that outside classic example is my father now married my mother in the 1940s and hobo before he met my mother. So he tried very hard to settle down had three children.

There's three of us and not he did his best, but there was a lot of problems in the marriage because he is restless sometimes leave and disappear for three or four days and then eventually the marriage ended and he laughed so we were raised by her mother and he went back to hobo and he worked and wandered his whole life. He just wrote trains and wunderground American worked so it's those kinds of stories connected with hobos having it. I guess you can explain to a person that doesn't have it's called the winder.

Lastly, you just can't say that you can't settle down into a home in a normal kind of like what we call normal until hobo normal life was wandering around and not my job is to make enough money to keep going, just to see what's going on all over the country so that classic definition of a hobo as they wander and work and work to wander because they don't mind working and not take a variety of jobs, but they get restless after usually just a couple months And they just got it get on the road and see what's going on down the tracks. Basically, so they leave the job. Short-term jobs. They started much after the Civil War a lot of data that sends a class didn't want to go home and they couldn't go home. Depending on the personal circumstances and they had been a lot of wandering around, fighting a quest for five years or so, so they started following the rail while working for the railroad and just wandering and working but they do anything they paint wash dishes, and restaurants. They took all kinds of jobs just to pay for short-term, some of them worked in lumber camps like the high rock kid he'd work in mines elect a lot of the migrant farmworkers but they really help develop the country because the fibers needed to help. It wasn't modern generation where machines can do so much today. It was all manual labor and stuff so they were happy to have this big work: people show up seasonally.

Most likely pick apples and Oregon State. Hobos will go to next day to pick apples and cherries and stuff. So they went all over the place in a holdup in camps that will cause hobo jungles. This is where they gather each other in what they call hobos. Still, this.pot of water in all kinds of vegetables and stuff and if they had me paid so that end but it filled up a lot of people. That's the reason they cook that would fill up the whole camp people. They share stories they talk about whether jobs where some of them would play music now that we got three hobo, he carried a guitar but very few people carried that time. Most of them actually play the harmonica. The ones that played an instrument because they could just let that not pocket or a little bag of something you know that that's not trains you can't be carrying all this big stuff like tires and actually they never even carried walking sticks and trains. They were in the way when you're trying to jump on trains. Most of trains when they were moving they may pick up a walking stick and carried around town or something else for things that might try to hurt them so historically came down as this is what the hobos but they went really brighten trains with a locking some of that stuff becomes folkloric carried what we would call a bindle or a bag slung over their shoulder.

It was more practical. My treason sticks and stuff one time. This old-timer had a cane now so it was Dina's accent is walking stick hobos were originally meeting in the Chicago area wasn't really the city of Chicago.

It was a lot of the surrounding smaller towns prior to 1900 about 1899.

What had come to Brett that the hobos were unhappy meeting in the Chicago area police will hassle them in this and that and they wanted to go somewheres else so these business people in Brett Iowa was three or four main businesspeople, they decided, but why don't we invite the hobos to come to Britain. This'll give us national recognition as the city was a railroad town and is common spent money and this'll be a good thing for us so they got a hold of one of the hobos of these hobos that were meeting in the Chicago area. His name was Charles Dolly and the grand had was the spokesperson for the hobos so he came to Britain 1899 businesspeople and they stationed him to start spreading the word for the hobos to come in at the convention. There and probably the biggest reason that got him interested in having hobos come to life. They promised him that the hobos can have all the free genocides that they wanted type of free beer so this was a really big ticket item for these hobos so they all calm in 1900 was going to be the first mention housing grant and most of them came by train's request was kinds of things.

Back in those days and was notoriety all over the country papers a lot in California and I know I all over the country carried this first annual convention annual convention this hobo convention to be held in Brett and that was pretty successful so then after that, but started hobos.

They just started coming back every year. We still have an annual convention today. Hobo community people meant to Brett I would classify them as classic American hobos and a lot of heavy duty belt writer still command and recently have a meeting and in the old days they would talk about whether jobs were in what's going on around the town or something. We pretty much talk about our community. What we need to do in the jungle. Maybe make it better. If there's any issues in the town.

We try to resolve them. Things like that but we still actually have an annual hobo convention meeting in the city of Andrew listening to Connecticut surety know the story of the American hobo by the way, when she says Britt is talking about Britt. I hobo convention is held each year and hobos well they want to distinguish themselves from homeless people. This is their lifestyle. This is how they choose to live, work in one Connecticut surety said, and indeed her father worked 100 and I kept wondering, but she didn't resent them for.

Clearly she's chronicling the hobo life and when we come back more from Connecticut surety of the hobo Museum here on our American stories.

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Let's return to Connecticut surety hobo convention was run by those businesspeople that I mentioned in the early hobos. They had some sack races and games and things they did but now currently it's a wonderful event as more of a family event. It's the second full weekend in August every year that's been consistent for over 30 years that I've been going.

We have hobo jungle there hobo jungle is really not the all-time hobo jungle was where the hobos came to meet each other when they got off the rails and they gathered over by the railroad station in town and they be around the town in the daytime talk into the toys in stock but then at night they'd go to their own hobo jungle, the people really didn't go over bother them too much spouting with little afraid of them.

Of course, but today it's more of a family that people come into hobo jungle talk to the hobos. You'll have to sign autographs, take pictures of him. They bring their kids down to meet him changed over the years, but it still considered a hobo jungle because that's what we all where campfire is an many of us are sleeping so and that this is one of the reasons the hobos came to Brett for so many years and we still got a bit. We have a memorial service in the hobo Cemetery hobo Cemetery is a section of the local Evergreen Cemetery in Britain. They've given us area what we can bury hobos that have caught the westbound in our community. We have a memorial service will be honored not only the hobos that are buried in the cemetery but also the hobos that caught the westbound anywhere's in the world, really because some of them were actually World War II veterans. They never came home so and then we have a huge parade and the highlighted course is the election of the king and queen and king and queen are elected by the public. Clearly this question is a lot of hobos that whole hobo communities included in that they gather around this little gazebo. Now that they teach on to say why patient taking a clean as judges spread around the audience.

There is six judges and they listen to the class and they come into the head judge and tell him or her. Who they think that's the most class and that person is the person that is like a king and queen crowned with a blue logo read well in their crown's straw hat with Folgers coffee can attach to the top and started hobo Museum and used every year. Hobo Museum started in the late 1980s, hobo historian. His name was George Horton walked into the local Chamber of Commerce.

He had two boxes of hobo artifacts that he had been collecting and team put them on the desk that Chamber of Commerce lady name is Willie Klein at the time said you can have these yell I don't really have any place to keep this collection anymore, so that generated the idea well why don't we start hobo Museum in Britt. So back in 1974 steam there hobo name slow-motion Shorty caught the westbound and he had left several thousand dollars with a nonprofit that was called hobo foundation that was organized also by coincidence, 19 74 x 3 hobos. So the money was just In the bank account of the nonprofit for years so then the city people in the hobos work together. They found the chief theater downtown Britt that was empty and they use slow-motion Shorty's donation to purchase so opened as a hobo Museum talking 30 years ago now. Summers around there since then. Of course all kinds of facts have come in because what happened over the years, especially a lot of people in Britt had these hobo collections that they have hobo sign things in. Sometimes hobo would give them gifts and stuff as they get older and older and for various reasons, they donate their stuff to the hobo Museum. The hobos themselves donated stuff artifacts. Men from all over the country so it's going to be a world-class museum. Now, with thousands of hobo connected items. We have a nice collection of paintings is to really neat paintings and there hobo Joe had those commissioned hobo jungle scenes. What's unique about family had himself painted into the picture so needs jungle saying you can find hobo job which is kind of unique nice collection of various walking sticks. There is a quote that was invited by hobo name Texas madman it's made addendum and he sold the sayings and the various things on the patches with strange new imagining and Sony put together with string. I can't even imagine Carrie's impact is in his little pack and little by little heat make this an assembly and there is some photography class done by the hobos is a not collection in their fiscal gap hobo that he was a merchant Lane and he was expert not tire donated collection of knots. It's a pretty unique place is the only hobo artifacts Museum in America in the whole world for that matter, so it's one of the most unique museums anywhere's that you could find, because it's amassed quite a collection of items I've been on the Board of Directors for the museum since 1992 today. There's a lot of steam at hobos still light but most of them you know are in their 90s are over hundred years old. The genuine classic stinger hobo, which is the history that were trying to preserve and Britt. We had only one steamer hobo come to Britt this year. His name is Minnesota Jim.

He's 94 years old.

There's other hobos still alive from that generation, but they don't necessarily come to Britt so what we have today. Coming to Brett Minnesota Jim is mostly what I would call male writers. We have a lot younger generation coming in the writing trains from California to Minnesota and making their way to Britain stuff, but I would call them classic hobo anymore hobos that worked and wandered out pretty much gone. So today we have people that still like trains. Some of them been writing trains since the 70s. The heavy duty male writers still coming to the hobo convention and coming into the hobo jungle where we share a lot of stories in history. There's still a lot of us older people wandering around that are happy to talk about the hobos to anybody. There's a neat little restaurant. Britt, hobo house that has all kinds of hobo memorabilia on the walls and around the restaurant so people are interested in hobo history. The place to come is great. I can't do any better than that. You just never know who's going to be there who's going to show up like some people they come back year after year.

I've actually been to 31 consecutive hobo conventions myself and there's still a handful of us went for express and my sister had been there 31 years consecutively. Minneapolis dual has been there 41 consecutive years. This year she's 10 years ahead of us. So that's a really old timers there and the most fun is your friends. A lot of times you see people there that you haven't seen him once a year. They show up in.

Sometimes you meet a unique person and you'll spend a lot of time talking to over socializing with them and you'll never see him again.

So I think it's probably the interactions with the various people that is the reason I keep going back to Britt personally and was my father's buried their Connecticut slam mostly go for each other and our friends and on about dad. That's really the big reason the hobos call to honor our dead. When we have our hobo service out at the cemetery at the end of the service we all walk around and touch all the stones without walking sticks to show the people that got the westbound honor. So that's a tradition that we have probably started all 40 years ago. I just think that it is unique wonderful small town in Iowa that these hobo since 1900 and it's wet. When anybody's passing to a great job in the storytelling by medicine and a special thanks to Connecticut Shorty sharing her pension with the American hobo with all of us. We all learn something from that story is unique thing hobo it's an American thing. Moreover, but there's a convention where people convene to talk about hobos and we also learned that there are not many hobos left the hobo life is over, in large part, though the heavy duty, real writers while they still prevail over this country to slow up and on the train. By the way, the Emperor of the North movie with Ernest Borgnine and we Marvin is a classic story centered around hobo life in hobo jungles the story of the hobo Museum dear American stores. I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop for small business insurance. I need my State Farm agent make sure my business days piping hot and I think cool and confident. The small business owners to help you best. State Farm is in your corner and on like a good neighbor. There call your local State Farm agent for quote today doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious. There's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be done can be overwhelming for anyone. If you want to get those larger laundry loads done right and get back to your life. Try all three clear maggot packs all three clear mega packs are bigger packs two times the cleaning ingredients compared to a regular pack so that you can tackle any laundry load without the worry free, clear, mega packs are also 100% free of perfumes and dyes and their dental and skin which is great for any families sensitive skin needs my family. We definitely have sensitive skin. The next time the whole family gets home from long vacation or you get the kids back from summer camp or whatever the situation is.

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On December 7, 1941 far-reaching consequences shocked and angered United States officially entered the second world war on the homefront's people. Japanese descent living in the last session and in some cases internment abroad, U.S. Navy damage, not destroyed for chances to strike back now. As the US is looking for a chance to strike back.

One of the goals was Tokyo itself. The new commander in Pacific World War I veteran Adm. Chester Nimitz definitely knew that striking Tokyo was no mean feat's ships were pretty severely outnumbered in the Pacific, and in order to get bombers close enough to strike Tokyo to send an aircraft carrier and escort ships within just a couple hundred miles of the target and at the range, he risked both the planes and ships really have any to spare. So how can he risked well the answer came in this whole plan that became known as the Doolittle raid because it was led by Lieut. Cmdr. James Jimmy Doolittle now aircraft carriers. Regular complement of claims has a shorter range 25 bombers had a range of around 1200 or more miles, so the big idea was that could be trained to take off and be 25 through the carriers short runway those extra miles would make the whole scheme of an attack on Tokyo far less risky to the ships was that the B 25's were too heavy to land on the carriers afterwords so they had to figure out what to do with claims.

Now, Doolittle's plan was that they actually continue past Tokyo after dropping the bombs and land in China because while there is a lot of conflict going on in China. There were friendly forces there that the Chinese had groups that were allied with the Americans.

Even though Japan was occupying different areas. They hope they can find sheltering forces to hide them and then eventually they can just make their way back to the US Nimitz agreed to the plan so 16 B 25's crew men boarded the USS hornet and set out the plan did succeed in parts. Now the bombers achieved their surprise they were able to unload their payloads and to fly on afterwords.

Things didn't work out. White says they might've hoped one crew did not make China actually landed near Vladivostok and were detained there as authorities of the USSR may be overcome with the need to show hospitality to their new allies detained them for over a year until they got house eight of the Doolittle Raiders were captured by the Japanese imprisonment of those three were executed and one died as a POW. However, Doolittle himself, and the majority of the others did find shelter with the sympathetic timing says plans now. The Japanese authorities really downplayed the importance they called it the do-nothing raid instead of the Doolittle raid. How after Adm. Yamamoto is quoted as saying even though there wasn't much damage. It is a disgrace that the skies of the Imperial capital ship and defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down as the Japanese planner next strokes their attempt to spread their influence and control the Pacific would shortly bring them into direct clash with US forces in the coral sea.

But before I can really move on to the coral sea to go back a little bit.

The other American responses to Pearl Harbor, US Naval intelligence was scrambling. They were fairly shocked and embarrassed to see how badly things had gone at Pearl and typically galvanize the efforts of people like crypt analyst commander Joseph Rochefort and Adm. Nimitz's chief intelligence officer Capt. Edwin Layton and they really were struggling to break the Japanese naval code, and in late April descent where they discovered something. Maybe it was spurred by the successful Doolittle raid by whatever the case, Japan was preparing for a big push to expand their influence in the Pacific and it appeared they tried to take Port Moresby in New Guinea, which would give them dominance of the coral sea very close to Australia, so victory, there would get the Japanese real clear shot Australia, as well as potentially cutting Australia supply lines of the US which would really do a number on Allied efforts in the Pacific, Adm. Nimitz sent the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Lexington, along with several American and Australian cruisers to meet this threats and it turned out, the intelligence was correct. Adm. Yamamoto had sent his own forces to the coral sea, including not to bet three carriers, so the stage was set for a new naval battle. Aircraft carriers were brand-new on the scene, but they deftly change the face of naval warfare in the Pacific because both US and the Japanese could launch attacks each other while still completely out of sight. Now of course the trick is the planes would still need to be able to find the opposing vessels. This not sound hard in theory by poor weather conditions made it pretty difficult, especially for the Japanese, who had no radar. The opposing side spent the fifth and sixth of May, searching for each other on the morning of the sixth US planes spotted smaller aircraft. The shell hole and tanker one down to to go but the two remaining with the big carriers due to weather in May if US planes had difficulty locating the Japanese carriers and when they did one took refuge under low clouds and escape to three.

Bob was temporarily put out of commission, but meanwhile Japanese planes had located the Yorktown and Lexington. Yorktown was hit not Lexington unfortunately was so fortunate she was at multiple times. The crew worked seriously to repair the ship and put out fires and for a while it appeared they were succeeding, but 12 minutes after their ships log reported that all the fires below decks were put out a new entry was logs that heavy explosions without venting up through about elevators and in spite of all the cruise efforts in the end she had to be abandoned and scuttled and was essentially the end of the battle. The coral sea. Interestingly, both sides claimed victory. The Japanese lost their smart carrier and more aircraft than the Americans. However, the loss of the Lexington was a blow to US forces in the Pacific.

Yorktown survives but had to limp back to Pearl Harbor trailing an oil slick. Perhaps the best claim for American. Is the fact that the Japanese plans to invade Port Moresby reported for good. As it turned out, however, the Japanese Navy did have other plans in the works is new intelligence came in Adm. Nimitz urged the workers repairing Yorktown to hurry up because if his analysts were correct. She was going to be needed soon to defendant's midway a great job as always monthly on storytelling merely special thanks and clear. Knowing the story of the Doolittle raid. The battle coral sea. We told stories about were to all of our stories about history, because if we forget what we did well will forget by the way, for my money that was win for us, claimed victory.

The Japanese had plans with Carlson and we had plans of our own to stop and we did. Imagine what would've happened for two Australia been captured and taken over by the Japanese. Be still my heart that didn't happen. The story of the Doolittle raid's battle coral sea or history stories is always brought to us by the great folks will still college you on our American story