A Sesqui-Centennial History of Kentucky

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Excerpt from A Sesqui-Centennial History of Kentucky: A Narrative Historical Edition, Commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of Statehood, Preserving the Record of the Growth and Development of the Commonwealth, and Chronicling the Genealogical and Memorial Records of Its Prominent Families and PersonagesSpecifically, the writer had expressed the Intention of getting away from the purely political, of introducing the social - more of the actual living of the people more of the in¿uence of the economic upon the development, a rewriting of the period between 1865 and 1900 with new interpretations and the bringing of the state's vicissitudes and progress from 1900 to date, without bias and without reservations. How far short of original intentions and hopes the effort falls is perhaps more obvious to the author than to anyone else. There were many reasons for the palpable short-comings. The principal one, however, was lack of time. Not that the publisher, Mr. Chester A. Porta, was not excessively generous in the allowance of ample time - this estimable gentleman and friend was more than generous and liberal in every phase of the work. During the entire period, the writer was confronted with such a multiplicity of pressing duties that sufficient time for adequate research and writing commensurate to original hopes was not available. It was even necessary to request a few persons to aid in the research and writing. These are Mrs. Roy Bridwell, Professor Merrill R. Holtzman and Colonel Lucian Beckner, all of Louisville, and Dr. Lucien V. Rule, of Goshen, Kentucky. To these generous, altruistic, as well as able persons, the author owes the deepest debt of gratitude and expresses his heart-felt appreciation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.