Publisher's Synopsis
In April, 1882, the author waa visiting- his lather's youngest brother (since deceased), then living near Harpersville, Broome Count}-, N. Y. When at the barn, one morning, he happened to ask the name of his grandfather. This was given. He then asked the name of his great-grandfather. "I do not know; I never heard it," was the reply Jokingly he said, "Did he have a father?" "Why of course he did." To this the reply was: "I am going to know his name." How little he tlien knew what that conversation meant for him I What 3-ears of anxious solicitude, toil and extensive travel. At that time he did not know there were half-a-dozen families of Beardsleys in America outside his own family.
