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Excerpt from Biographical Review: This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Livingston and Wyoming Counties, New York Contemporary records may be said to be a debt due from every generation to the future. So much has the writing of annals and placing them in a permanent form been neglected hitherto that an additional burden has fallen on the present, which, besides doing its own work, must needs bravely endeavor to make up for things left undone of old. Hence this Biographical Review of Livingston and Wyoming Counties, which, thanks to the generous co-operation of an appreciative public, we are enabled to place before our readers, while finding its subjects mostly among the living, men and women faithfully intent on the business of to-day, mentions not a few of their ancestors, near and remote, - emigrants direct from the Old World, some who came from Pennsylvania, and more who journeyed hither from the rugged hills and wave-washed shores of New England. These pages call to mind the toils and endurance of the pioneers who sturdily hewed their way through the pathless woods, finding sweet pasture on the tufted hillsides and along the watercourses in the valleys for their flocks and herds, and, slowly upturning the sod to the sunshine, made the wilderness to smile with the early harvest. Here, too, are the chronicled names and deeds of stanch patriots who fought and bled for the "land of the noble free." Such progenitors may well claim from their descendants what a wise speaker has termed "a moral and philosophical respect, which elevates the character and improves the heart." It is the nature of personal memoirs like the present to increase in value as the years go by. Wherefore, the book should commend itself as of more than passing interest and fleeting worth, - a volume that will be prized by childrens children for one generation after another. "The great lesson of biography," it has been well said, "is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration." 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.