Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ely and Weare Families: Pioneers of Michigan and Iowa
These papers, detailing somewhat the history of the Ely and Weare families, were begun by the writer several years ago after conversations with Mrs. Lawson Daniels (harriette S. Weare, the now sole survivor of her family) with the object of jotting down certain incidents of early life in Allegan and Cedar Rapids which were fresh in her memory. The greater part of the reminiscences were set on paper at different times in Mexico from memoranda obtained from Mrs. Daniels, and from recol lections of the writer, which accounts for the personal features in them, as well as for any repetition there may be. As time passed the scope of the reminiscences broadened out, until there is a biographical notice of every member of the two families who came to Cedar Rapids, with a boy's recollection of the place and some of its people. As the object of these papers is to preserve a remembrance of our forebears for their descendants, and for their benefit particularly, the apparent personal tone they occa sionally take on the writer feels will be pardoned, and it will be considered that as a member of the family he is only actuated by impersonal motives for the objects expressed above.
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