William B. McCord
Published: 2018-10-05
Total Pages: 814
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Excerpt from History of Columbiana County, Ohio and Representative Citizens All topics and occurrences have been included that are essential to the use fulness of the history. Although the original purpose of the author was to limit the narrative to the close of 1904, he has deemed it proper to touch on many matters relating to the current year. The reviews of resolute and strenuous lives, which make up the biographical department of the volume, and whose authorship is for the most part independent of that of the history, are admirably adapted to foster local ties, to inculcate patriotism and to emphasize the rewards of industry, dominated by intelligentpurpose. They constitute a most appropriate medium of perpetuating personal: annals and will be of incalculable value to the descendants of those com memorated. They bring into bold relief careers of enterprise and thrift and make manifest valid claims to honorable distinction. If Biography is the only true History, it is obviously the duty of the men of the present time to pre serve in this enduring form the story of their lives in order that their posterity may dwell on the successful struggles thus recorded, and profit by their Mme. These sketches, replete with stirring incidents and intense experiences, will naturally prove to a large proportion of the readers of this back its most attractive feature. 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.