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Excerpt from The Western Reserve Society of the Sons of the American Revolution: Souvenir Commemorative of Lexington and Concord Day, 1775 1893, Cleveland, Ohio Oh the last day of 1883, the Society of the Sons of the Rev olution was organized at New York City. This society was largely instrumental in providing for the completion of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty in New York harbor, for the erection of the monument to Nathan Hale, Washington's martyr spy, for the suc cess of the centennial celebration of 1889, and of other patriotic enterprises. There are allied organizations in Philadelphia, Washington City, and a few other places. 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.