History of Fayette County: Together With Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio; Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and All Othe - Hardcover

R. S. Dills

9780428734602: History of Fayette County: Together With Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio; Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and All Othe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 042873460X ISBN 13: 9780428734602

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from History of Fayette County: Together With Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio; Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and All Other Authentic Sources

It has been the aim of the author of this work to compress the records and oral traditions of those events into a reasonable compass, to narrate them in a connected and lucid order, and to furnish a memorial, instructive, interesting, and useful to co temporaries, and to future generations. To every class of readers a work of this na ture commends itself to those especially who have witnessed and participated in the rise, progress, and consummation of the incidents and scenes herein reviewed, will it be a souvenir of inestimable value.

In the prosecution of its compilation, he desires to acknowledge his obligations to Mrs. M. V. Ustick, the gifted secretary of the Crusade, for her excellent article on the same. Also, Mr. M. Herbert, for his exhaustive history of the Press and Banks of Fayette.

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