Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: With a Compendium of History; A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation
It is with the foregoing facts as a theme that the general plan and scope of this historv has been evolved. In the compilation of the state history the recognized authorities have been freelv consulted and public and private archives have been laid under contribution. Notwithstand ing the mass of details burdening the. Main course of events. The editors have exercised a most judicious care in the selection of facts and in preserving a proper historical balance. With the result that a concise. Straightforward. Vet comprehensive and authentic record of Pennsvl vania's historv from the time of its first settlements to the present has been set before the reader. With pregnant and succinct chapters on the present status of social. Political. Industrial and other phases of life.
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