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Excerpt from Biographical Review of Hancock County, Illinois: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Many of the Prominent Citizens of to-Day and Also of the Past The present age is happily awake to the duty of writing its own records, setting down what is best worth remembering in the lives of the busy toilers of today, noting. Not in vain glory, but with an honest pride and a sense _of fitness, things worthy of emulation, that thus the good men do may live after them. The accounts here rendered are not buried talents, but of used ability and op portunity. The conquests recited are of mind over matter, of cheerful labor directed by thought, of honest. Earnest endeavor which subdues the earth in the divinely appointed way. The great lesson of biography, ' it is said, is to show what man 'can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record, acts like an inspiration, and no moreinteresting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public. 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.