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THE LEADING CITIZENS OF MADISON COUNTY |
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CONTENTS |
PREFACE.
THE pleasant, absorbing task of many months
has drawn to a close; and we offer to our patrons to-day the BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
of
Madison County. We tender sincere thanks to all who have encouraged and otherwise aided us in our
undertaking. We have taken pains to make the best use of the material
kindly furnished us, carefully transcribing names and dates of long
lines of ancestry, when these have happily been preserved, and
preparing succinct, readable narratives. In some instances, owing to
the incompleteness of the data at our command, the pen of the writer has
necessarily been restricted to giving the sketch but in outline. The
subjects of these brief biographies have been selected from the world's
busy workers--tillers of the soil, mechanics, manufacturers, tradesmen,
journalists, members of the learned professions, civil engineers, and
so forth, representative men and women of the county, useful and honored
in their day and generation. In these pages are amply illustrated the
"private virtues of economy, prudence, and industry," esteemed
by Washington not less admirable in civil life than "the more
splendid qualities of valor, perseverance, and enterprise in public life." Here, too, are eminent
examples of patriotism, of enthusiasm for education and for social
improvement, and zeal for reform. A backward look has yielded traces of
the deerslayers and pathfinders of long ago, has brought to view the
toils and privations of the log-cabin builders, who were the
pioneers of civilization in the woodland wastes. In this connection the
eloquent words of Daniel Webster bring forcibly to mind the
desirability of preserving memorials of past generations, to the end
that the grace of gratitude and of reverence may not be lacking to the
present and the coming. BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY. March, 1894. |
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