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This is a three volume set - the first Volume is history yo page 306 and then starts biographies. Volumes 2 & 3 are all
biographies. The side bar navagates you to the biography index and the revolutioners index which I seperated in to biographies
and also placed in the biography index, since they are really biographies even tho some are not very big. Below is the title
information:
Biographical
Memoirs
of
Greene
County, Ind.
With
Reminiscences of Pioneer Days
Illustrated
________
Indianapolis,
Indiana
1908
B.
F. Bowen & Co.
PREFACE
All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom
comes from past experience, and present commercia1
prosperity has come only from past exertion and suffering.
The deeds and motives of the men that have gone
before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of
later communities and states. The development of a new
country was at once a task and a privilege. It required
great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present
conditions of the residents of Greene county, Indiana,
with what they were one hundred years ago. From a
trackless wilderness it has come to be a center of prosperity
and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems
of intersecting railways, grand educational institutions,
marvelous industries and immense agricultural productions.
Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascination
of the study which discloses the incentives, hopes
aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so
strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared
the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate
the story of these people and to trace and record the social,
political and industrial progress of the community
from its first inception is the function of the local historian.
A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal
memoirs that are deserving of preservation, and which
.unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present
publication. The work has been in the hands of able
writers, who have, after much patient study and research,
produced here the most complete biographical memoirs of
Greene county, Indiana, ever offered to the public. A
specially valuable and interesting department is that one
devoted to sketches of representative citizens of this
county whose records deserve perpetuation because of
their worth, effort and accomplishment The publishers
desire to extend their thanks to these gentlemen, who have
so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due
to the citizens of Greene county, Indiana, for the uniform
kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking
and for their many services rendered in the gaining of
necessary information.
In placing the “Biographical Memoirs of Greene
County, Indiana,” before the Citizens, the publishers can
conscientiously claim that they have carried out the pl?n
as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch
in the work has been submitted to the party interested for
korrection, and therefore any error of fact, if there be
any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was
prepared. Confident that our efforts to please will fully
meet the approbation of the public, we are,
Respectfully,
THE PUBLISHERS.
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