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Excerpt from History of Franconia Township The "History of Franconia Township" is presented to the public as a memorial of the one hundred and fifty-fifth year of its incorporated existence. Material facts have been diligently sought after and patent labor cheerfully bestowed upon the work. Events are chronicled in a narrative rather than in a controversial form, and truth gleaned in a hundred sources has been condensed in order to make it a valuable work for the future and present generations. It is submitted to a generous and intelligent people in the belief that it will meet their approval. The labor of the author was shared by many residents of the township, indeed Wm. W. Wile has our sincerest thanks for his cheerful information we received and gleaned from his own lips. The labor was also shared by R. R. Hangey, Wm. S. Hemsing, H. K. Godshall, H. K. Hackman, R. R, Hartzel, I. C. Barndt and others. We finally extend our sincerest thanks for their co-operation and cheerful information. This little work was never intended to be published in book form at the beginning, but were hastily written to meet each week's publication of the Weekly News, and, therefore we do not claim for them any measures of literary merit. The little book contains many mistakes due to the printer and author, but nevertheless it will fill its mission for what it had been prepared. The writing of a history is not as easy a matter as many may suppose. 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.