Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin, Containing Sketches of the Lives and Career of the Members of the Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and ... Settlement in Wisconsin (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Tenney, Horace Addison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334678766 ISBN 13 : 9781334678769

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

This feature is a peculiarity of old settlers, creditable to them, in a general sense, and yet posterity has a right to a knowledge of the personal career of its benefactors. A record of the lives of its public men, in all important particulars, rightfully belongs to the state. The plan of this work has also been one of doubt and perplexity. It was evident from the first that no arbitrary rules could be followed. We did not desire to produce a mere reference book, or dictionary of names of members, with sketches gauged to a uniform length or standard; and yet it has not been possible, within reasonable limits, to bring into conspicuous view individual personality. As each name has passed in review, our recollections of personal characteristics and peculiarities have been vivid and impressive. The kindly faces, genial humors and incisive intellectual gifts of all, are with us a living memory, but space did not permit of word-painting. As a result, our work is of composite order. We have preferred to allow the sketches generally to stand as received, imperfect as some of them will be esteemed, and less full than was desirable. No material facts have in any case been omitted. An alphabetical order of arrangement has been adopted from necessity. It is probably an event with scarce a precedent, that the reporters of two constitutional conventions were, a generation later, entrusted with the work of sketching the lives and career of their old friends and associates. All were then young or in the prime of life. Grey hairs and the death roll are now all that remain to us. Pleasant and sad memories have mingled with our work, which has been an agreeable one, but not unmixed with anxiety as to a satisfactory ending We bespeak pardon in advance for such errors as may manifest themselves. We feel that we have done all we could with the imperfect information at command.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1334678766
• ISBN 13: 9781334678769
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 406