Author: Dover Historical and Natural Hi Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780267279524

Excerpt from Dedication of the Sawin Memorial Building, Dover, Massachusetts: Tuesday, May 14th, 1907 You are to be congratulated upon the attainment Of a home for your organization. It was during the last years of his life that Mr. Benjamin N. Sawin made known to me (and I have learned since his death to some others) his desire to leave some of his property as a nucleus to erect a building for the Dover Historical Society, with which he had been identified since 1897. A man of retiring disposition and very close-mouthed it is only since his death that in thinking over our conversations in the light of his gift, that I have realized how much he meant inthe few words that he said, but he said always, at the close You will know all about it sometime and believing that at a future time he was intending to tell definitely what he was planning to do, I hesitated about asking questions that might seem to be prying into his affairs, confidently expecting that when he got ready he would unfold his ideas of his own accord, but death overtook him before it came. I was surprised when I learned that he and his wife had given all that they died possessed of (except a few small legacies) for a Memorial Building. There were conditions attached by which it has been made possible of fulfilment through the harmony in which his executors and the building committee, which he appointed, have worked together. Now as our duties are so far completed that the building can be taken possession of by the Society and it can be finished within the two years of the administration as called for by the will, it gives me great pleasure, Mr. President, to present to you, the President of the Dover Historical and Natural History Society, the Keys of the Sawin rllemorial Building. 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.