Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Past and Present of Fountain and Warren Counties, Indiana
All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past excr tion and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privi lege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the pres ent conditions of the people of Fountain and Warren counties, Indiana, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness and vi1gin land, it has come to be a cente1 of prosperity and civilization, with mil lions of we ealth, systems of railways, grand educational institutions, splendid industries and immense agricultural and mineral productions. Can any think 111g person be insensible to' the fascination of the study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the founda tion upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of-the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving 'of perpetuation, and which unite the present to the past, is' the motive of the present publication. The work has been in the hands of'able writers, who have, after much patient study and research, pioduced here the most complete biographical memoirs of Fountain and \v an en counties ever offered to the public A specially valuable and interesting department is that devoted to the sketches of 1epresentative citizens of this county. Whose records dese1ve preservation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers desire to extend their thanks'to the gentlemen who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due. To thle'citizens of Fountain and Warren counties for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking and for their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information.
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