Author: W. W. Merritt

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Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781331380924

Excerpt from A History of the County of Montgomery: From the Earliest Days to 1906 The difficulty of reducing the great amount of material accumulated in the country records and newspaper files, together with the personal recollection of old settlers, to the limits of a single book, cannot be realized by any one till he undertakes a similar task. The author has been solicited by the curator of the State Historical Society, Hon. Charles Aldrich, and others, to make a permanent record of the history of the county. Notwithstanding he has witnessed every step in her progress since the spring of 1857, yet this does not necessarily qualify one for such a task. He, however, consented to undertake it, but with many misgivings, knowing full well that he could not reach his own ideal of what it should be, viz: that it should cover the entire period from the organization of the county up to the date of its publication; that it ought to be elaborate and complete and the past brought side by side with the present. The limits prescribed makes this impossible. The problem in assorting, arranging and philosophising upon the importance and significance of recorded and unrecorded events, consists of what to admit and what to exclude. At some future time the facts recorded herein may form the basis for the historian whose field is of wider scope, and who will add largely to the sum total of the State's, and even to the Nation's history. Montgomery County is the garden spot of the world and if her history is a promise and a prophecy of the future, great things are in store for her, and the preservation of her annals should be classed among things demanding more than a passing notice. 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.