History Of Paris Maine From Its Settlement To 1880 PDF Download

Excerpt from History of Paris, Maine: From Its Settlement to 1880, With a History of the Grants of 1736 and 1771; Together With Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix It is the business of the local historian to collect and preserve such incidents relating to towns as would be overlooked by the writers of general history. His work is to gather from State and county archives, recorded facts relating to the foundation of municipalities, but more especially to preserve from destruction the contents of fugitive papers, and to glean from the weakening memories of aged citizens, the facts and traditions which, by their death, would soon be forever lost. Desire to do this for the town of Paris, prompted the compilers to gather up the scattered material relating to its history, and put it in a form to be preserved. Had the task been undertaken a few years ago, before all the first settlers died, it would have. Been easier of accomplishment, but it is much easier now than it would be a quarter of a century hence. Mercenary motives had no pait in our undertaking, for no money is ever made in publishing a town history; it is generally a labor of love and quite frequently a thank less task. Of the compilers, one is a native born of Paris, and has ever lived in the town, and also his father before him, his grand parents being among the early settlers. The other, though born in a neighboring town, spent his boyhood days upon the banks of the Little Androscoggin river in Paris; his grand parents and great grand parents were early here, and his near kindred have always lived in town; so that while. One is a. Native, the other is no stranger to Paris and its people. We bring therefore to this work, something more than a mere desire for gain; we bring to our self imposed task. A love for this good old municipality, and an ardent desire to gather up and preserve all the fragments of her history, that little if anything may be lost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.