Town Talk: United Daughters of the Confederacy holds annual tea Jul 4, 2007
Haley Smith, age 10, daughter of Kyle and Michelle Smith, received the Judah P. Benjamin Award for her outstanding benevolent work in the community. Haley has raised money for victims of the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. (Pensacola News Journal)
Revisit Old South living at state park Feb 28, 2007
Members of the sponsoring group, Judah P. Benjamin Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, will staff both homes, dressed in styles of the period. A welcoming ceremony at 1 p.m. will include an invocation by the Rev. Tom Winter of Elwood Park Baptist Church, posting of the colors by members of the Palmetto High School JROTC and special guests. (Herald-Tribune)
Golfers can back 4-H programs for youth Jan 24, 2007
Lawrence Berry of Osprey will be guest speaker for the annual "Heroes Luncheon," sponsored by the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. The event will begin at noon Saturday at Bradenton Country Club, 4646 Ninth Ave. W.. (Herald-Tribune)
Daughters of Confederacy adorn historic homes Jan 17, 2007
The second-floor room where former Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin stayed during his flight from Federal troops in the spring of 1865 was enhanced with flowers, fruit, greenery and artifacts by members of Canaveral Light Chapter, Cocoa. At the Dudley Patten House, also on the park grounds, members of the local UDC chapter, Judah P. Benjamin, decorated the home's entire first floor. (Herald-Tribune)
Can young oak tree fill Grandfather's roots? Jan 3, 2007
Members of the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, recently gathered to dedicate a young live oak tree on the grounds of Gamble Plantation State Historic Park in Ellenton ... Chapter officers of Judah P. Benjamin Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, whose efforts saved both Gamble Mansion and the Dudley Patten House, dedicated the young tree. (Herald-Tribune)
Manatee Historical Village Park decked out for the season Dec 13, 2006
Members of the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, will have "Christmas With the Pattens," their annual holiday tea, at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Dudley Patten House on the grounds of Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, 3708 Patten Ave., Ellenton ... It now serves as headquarters for the Florida Division of the UDC and as a chapter house for Judah P. Benjamin Chapter 1545. (Herald-Tribune)
UDC members decorate mansion for the holidays Dec 6, 2006
At Patten House, the local Judah P. Benjamin Chapter will decorate and staff the home, built in 1894 for Dudley Patten and his bride ... It was the manor house for Major Robert Gamble's vast sugarcane plantation and was later used as a Confederate Commissary agency; a hideout for Confederate Cabinet member Judah P. Benjamin, who was fleeing from Union troops; a fertilizer warehouse; and finally, after rescue by members of the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter in the 1920s, a repository of Southern... (Herald-Tribune)
Former Palmetto mayor and his wife celebrate milestone Sep 20, 2006
The Rev. Herb Loomis of Bradenton will talk to the Judah P. Benjamin Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, at its first meeting of the fall season. The luncheon will begin at noon Saturday at Popi's Place IV, 3911 U.S. 301 N., Ellenton. (Herald-Tribune)
Due South, American style Jun 16, 2006
It's replete with talking-head academics, archival footage (D.W. Griffith's Hunt for Dishonest Abe, I Married an Abolitionist) and commercials for products like "Niggerhair" cigarettes and electronic slave retrieval bracelets that recalls how the South won the war once real-life Confederate Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin succeeded in convincing England and France to support the pro-slavery cause. In the coming decades, Abe Lincoln will die in obscurity in Montreal, Hitler will nearly find... (Toronto Star -- Arts)
S. Floridians push for a presidential proclamation of Jewish Heritage Month Jan 30, 2006
1861-65 Judah P. Benjamin from Louisi8ana serves as attorney general and secretary of state and war for the Confederacy. 1878 Temple Beth El, the oldest congrega8tion in the state, is founded in Pensacola. (Sun-Sentinel.com)
