Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Biographical Album of Prominent Pennsylvanians: First Series; Statesmen, Military Officers, Journalists, Educators and Prominent Persons Recently Deceased
It is but justice to those whose personal histories are recorded in these volumes, to state that no one of them solicited a place in the work, and they furnished data for their sketches and photographs for their portraits, only in response to a pressing invitation given after a careful consideration Of their merit; and it is also just to other prominent men, whose life-records will not be found in these volumes, to admit that many of them are equally worthy of the distinction; but this book is in no sense an encyclopaedia, and the subjects selected must be con sidered as representative Of many others now living or recently deceased.
To guard against the fault common to works of this class, of being too unwieldy for convenient reference, the contents have been sub divided into three parts or series: the first, as will be seen, embracing biographical sketches of men distinguished in political and military life, journalists, professors, and men recently deceased; the second, composed largely of representative professional men - lawyers, physi cians and artists; while the third is devoted principally to the active men of the present day, who are prominent in industrial enterprises, commerce, inventions and railroad management.
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