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Excerpt from Thirty-Eighth Annual Reunion of the Old Settlers of Johnson County: August 24th, 1904 The address of Mr. Hepburn was extemporaneous and no notes were taken. It should have had a place in the literature of the society, but the best that can be done is to give a sketch of it taken from the Daily Republican as follows: Colonel W. P. Hepburn, of Clarinda, Iowa, a former resi dent of Johnson county, and for over twenty years one of the foremost members of the American congress, was the principal orator of the day. For more than an hour he delighted and entertained his auditors to whom he spoke as an old friend and former associate bf interesting reminiscences. One could not help gathering from his remarks that the early years and youth ful pranks of those who have since become great and powerful do not differ materially from the deeds and doings of those whose lives are passed in the humbler walks of life. He told of the hardships and privations of pioneer life which he, in common with the other early settlers of Johnson county, and Iowa had endured, and thus gave us a glimpse of the sterling qualities of which the pioneers of our state possessed. We point with pride to the character and the lives of our revolutionary patriots and justly so, the speaker said, but we must remember that the builders of our state encountered as many adversities and achiev ed as many triumphs as did the builders of the nation and their memory should be cherished as fondly and revered as long by us, their descendants. 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.