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 PREFACE

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wholesome generation of the American

tainments, character and success, must exert a influence

upon

the

rising

people.

To

preserve and perpetuate the important historical

and family history cannot fail to prove invaluable and a source of pride and interest to the nation and to the world. Indeed, there is inherent in us a desire that our descendants should know something of us how we live, and where we spend our lives, for the poet truly facts of personal

—

says

—

"To

live in hearts

we

leave behind

Is not to die."

sive

In the preservation of such a record, all the progresof life and thought should have a national pride.

men

As heroes of the colonial and revolutionary wars, statesmen, persons noteworthy in the church, at the bar, in literature, art, science and the professions, and those who have contributed to the commercial and industrial growth of each has added luster to its name. this Great Republic In order to seek a competency and fame, these sturdy Americans, inbued with a spirit of self-reliance and indomitable will, have blazed the way through the wilderness, conquered forests, subdued the soil, and made desert In the commercial and industrial world places smile. their names have illumined the marts of trade from the workshops of the inventor have emanated prolific inventions now used throughout the civilized world; in literature can be found authors, poets and journalists whose brows are worthy to be crowned with the laurel wreath of

—



fame



as philanthropists, the gifts of

men have been munificent; and

and in the administration produced men of thought has

ship, in the halls of legislation,

of justice the United States

America's successful

in the arena of statesman-