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Excerpt from Address of Hon. R. C. Parsons, Before the Pioneer Association, at North Solon, Ohio, August 30, 1876 I am here this morning because I feel under a great personal debt to the people of Solon. For nearly a quarter of a century they have been my warm and steadfast friends, and to them I owe a large and generous debt of gratitude, which time will serve rather to increase than diminish. And though no man can be more pain fully conscious than myself, of my utter inability to fill the place of the distinguished gentleman, our friend General garfield, who was expected here to-day, nor in the limited time allowed me for preparation can I do but scanty justice to myself, yet I felt bound, at any sacrifice of personal feeling, to come here in answer to your urgent call, and do the best in my power to entertain you for a few moments with some thoughts suggested by your gathering. I shall not attempt to retrace the history of your Soci ety, or take up your time in recalling the scenes in which so many of you have been actors, and with which all of you are familiar. All this has been done, and faithfully done, by those more familiar with the subject than myself, and who in former times have carefully pre served, and laid away for future use, the noble records of the pioneers of the Reserve. In this age of luxury, extravagance and wealth, with the iron-horse rushing by our dwellings, making neighbors of those separated by a continent; with the telegraph putting a girdle 'round the earth in forty seconds, ena bling men to converse with each other though widely sundered as the poles, the very word pioneer awakens a sensation in our bosoms like gazing upon the ruins of a bygone age. 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.