George Washington McGaffey
Published: 2016-06-26
Total Pages: 168
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Excerpt from The Genealogical History of the McGaffey Family: Including Also the Fellows, Ethridge and Sherman Families HE name mcgaffey origin ated in Scotland in the 14th century, and although Scotland is one of the smallest of the European Countries, possessing an area of only square miles, it has produced more famous men than any other country of its size on the globe. The names of wallace, bruce, Burns, Scott, Wyntoun, Dunbar, Douglass, Ramsay and a host of others will remain in history through all ages, and the members of the mcgaffey, mcclary, and mccrillis families now living can'point with pride to Scotland as their fatherland. Scotland occupies all the Island of Great Britain north of the Cheviot hills and the Tweed river, and ih eludes the Oakland, Shetland, Heb rides and all the Islands of the western coast. The country is rich in coal and iron, the mining district extending from the Solway firth as far north as Perth. Lead is also mined, and great quantities of granite are quarried in Aberdeen shire and the Isle of Mull. There were tons of coal mined in 1886. The fisheries of the east ern coast are also of great value, and employ people. There were 776 factories of textile goods in 1886 engaged in the manufacture of cotton, woolen, flax and jute. 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.
