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Excerpt from Biographical Review, Vol. 28: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Essex County, Massachusetts
Eyond question this is a book-making age. Printed pages in covers - never B before did the world contain so many; and still they come, each with its prefatory apology, as if a book must always present itself fore-armed with a formal excuse for being. Nor will the work in hand prove an exception. Much time and thought have gone to its preparation. The present volume of the biographical review - the XXVIII. Of the Atlantic Series - may be considered fairly representative of the intelligent, indus trions, enterprising population, urban and rural, of Essex County, in the last decade Of the nineteenth century. Many of the names here set forth reveal descendants of the Original colonists of this early settled section Of the old Bay State; others, the Children and grandchildren of later comers; and yet others denote worthy Citi zens of foreign birth or parentage - loyal Americans all, useful to State and nation, and well reputed. Where desired, Space has been gladly given to the tracing of lines of ancestry and of collateral kinship, effort being faithfully made to avoid in this feature, as far as possible, both the initiation of error and the perpetuation of past mistakes - ever present pitfalls in the path of the genealogist, which we cannot hope to have utterly escaped. We have thus blended, to a degree unusual in biographical writings drawing their subjects from men of the times, personal and family history, and in so doing feel confident that we have imparted to our work an additional ele. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
