Biographical Review, Vol. 29

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Excerpt from Biographical Review, Vol. 29: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, MaineHE present volume of the biographical review, the XXIX. Of our Atlantic Series, is the fifth devoted to the Pine Tree State. It covers a wide field, comprising the border counties of Aroostook and Washington, Hancock of the southern coast, central Pisca-taqpis, and far-reaching Somerset. With upward of four hundred and seventy names in the index, denoting that number of biographical sketches of prominent workers in various fields of useful activity, factors of progress and worthy of remembrance, this book may be considered, without undue assump tion on our part, we trust, .fairly representative of the industrial, the professional, and the public life. Of its locality in the cldsing years of the nineteenth century. Mindful of the growing interest in questions of descent and kinship, we have af forded Space, where desired, for the addition of genealogical to biographical lore, giving to personal details, in a number of cases, perhaps the majority, a. Setting in an epitome of family history. At the same time these pages bear witness that we have not forgotten that the special province oi biography is to show the worth and.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.