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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876
by William E. Hunt. -
Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876
Unless otherwise noted
PREFACE
| THE TASTES of the
preparer of this volume disposed him to undertake it; a
residence in Coshocton of twenty years, and peculiar
relations and associations of favorable sort, gave him, as
friends claimed, at least a certain fitness to do it; and
the Centennial year seemed to be the proper occasion.
Amid ill health and other hindrances wholly unanticipated
when the work was begun, the book has been written. If
it does not meet all expectations, it is hoped it will not
disappoint any reasonable ones. It could scarcely be
expected that a work of the sort should be entirely free
from errors, but great care has been taken to make it at
least correct as far as it goes. Of course, in the
line of personal history, regard must be had to the limits
and scope of the work. It only purports to be a
panorama—not a series of finished portraits, with every
shadow and light. Mere mention of every person and
thing not amiss in such a volume would indefinitely extend
it and add to cost. To those who have kindly assisted
in its preparation, I shall ever feel grateful; and I can
confidently say that if there had been on the part of some
others such help as those kind friends rendered, and as a
little public spirit, local fame, and denominational
interest might well prompt, the book would be a better one.
As it is, I respectfully submit it as at least an honest
endeavor to put in convenient and permanent form something
of the record of a locality of classic (American) interest,
and to trace the steps whereby we have reached our present
position as a county. |
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