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Excerpt from Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York: With a Historical Sketch of the County HE publishers of this volume take pleasure in presenting it to their patrons in Chautauqua County, believing that, biographically, it is much the superior of anything ever offered to the people of Western New York, and the mechanical workmanship is so far beyond anything heretofore attempted in this county, that no comparison is possible. While we have paid especial attention to biography, the interesting Sketch of the History of Chautauqua County, written by the masterly mind of the Honorable Obed Edson, of Sinclair'ville, is the best compact account of the county's early history extant, and cannot fail to attract a deep interest. It was originally the intention to present the work in the old style, by grouping each town, village wand city by itself, and to introduce the reader to the History of the County before reaching the main contents of the book, but, after consideration, we decided to depart from the rut of custom, and to insert the biographical sketches at random in the book, and supplement it with the story which tells of early times, the whole to be preceded by a comprehensive index, by means of which the reader may turn to any desired place at will. 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.