The Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133026780X ISBN 13 : 9781330267806

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Autobiography of a Pennsylvanian

Public duties and other activities and responsibilities necessarily confined the writing Of the autobiography to brief periods in the summers of some four or five years. Late in the summer Of 1915 his right arm was broken and, while still carried in a sling, was again injured in a railroad train. He was never able to use the arm during the year of life that remained, but immediately after the injury, at the age Of seventy-two years, with the courage and resolution which always characterized him, he set out to write with his left hand. The concluding sentence of his account in Chapter XIII Of his visit to the battlefields Of Fredericks burg and Chancellorsville was the last portion of the auto biography written with the right hand. The remainder of Chapter XIII, the pages of comment and review in Chapter XIV, the sketches of Walt Whitman and Elihu Root in Chapter XV and the introductory paragraph of Chapter XVI were written with the left hand.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

To the Family of the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker It is now a matter of public knowledge that the late Governor Pennypacker wrote, for publication, an A utobiography. Of the existence of this work he had often spoken to his friends. A fear exists, on the part of the latter, that a desire to avoid controversy, or the possible injury to someones feelings may tempt his family to consider having the manuscript edited. His friends and associates whose signatures are appended, feel that they owe it to his family, to the institutions with which he was connected, and to his memory, to urge that this be not done. Unaltered, unexpurgated and unedited. Governor Pennypacker sA utobiography constitutes an invaluable historical document, of increasing public interest, perhaps his greatest contribution to the history of the state. And it is in the name of the citizens of Pennsylvania, living and to come, that we urge his family to print his Autobiography exactly as it was written. Marten G. Brumbaugh, Governor of Pennsylvania. Thomas L. Montgomery, State Librarian of Pennsylvania. Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania. Hampton L. Carson, Former Attorney General of Pennsylvania. John W. Jordan, Librarian, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Gregory B. Keen, Curator, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Henry R. Edmunds, President of Board of Education of Philadelphia. Simon Gratz, Vice President, Board of Education of Philadelphia.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133026780X
• ISBN 13: 9781330267806
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 584
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