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Excerpt from Annual Obituary Notices: Of Eminent Persons Who Have Died in the United States for 1858 It has been my great purpose to bring together the Obituaries of the distinguished men of the whole country; but I have also introduced our distinguished women, and the widows and Wives of our eminent and professional men. I have also gathered the names of many revolutionary soldiers, early settlers of towns, and aged people. In all these particulars my future volumes will be Open to change, according to the character and necessities of the collections of each year, and the demands of public taste and judgment. 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.