Author: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-12

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9781333918835

Excerpt from The Biographical Record of Rock Island County, Illinois: Illustrated The faces of some, and biographicja'le 'sketdljes df 'manyqill be missed in this volume. For this the publishers are not to blame. N01 hav'ng 5,1;proper Conception of the work, some refused to give the information necessary to cdm' 1 e aisketch, while others were indifferent. Occasionally some member of the family \xfou lfopp s'e glfe'iginterprise, and on account of such opposition the support of the interested and wfddldlb'e 'withheld. In a few instances men never could be found, though repeated calls were made at their residence or place of business. 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."