The History Of Jackson County Iowa Containing A History Of The County Its Cities Towns C Biographical Sketches Of Citizens PDF Download

Excerpt from The History of Jackson County, Iowa: Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &C.; Biographical Sketches of Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men We have endeavored to introduce the reader to the crudities' of backwoods government, to show him society'as it existed in a new and almost lawless region, to seat him by the hearthstone of pioneers, to trace the growth of the community through succeeding decades and to present a faithful picture of the county and its institutions as it has entered upon the last quarter of this event ful century. The book is not so much our own work as it is that of Jackson citizens. The latter produced the facts it has been our pleasure to record. We have endeavored to represent events as they have occurred. We have halted, perplexed, before con icting, though honest, statements, and have sometimes been able but partly to repair existing breaches in our path. Memory is falli ble. Dates are fickle. Names are obstinate. Recollection sometimes refuses from sheer weariness to go backward over the years of a generation. Under such circumstances, we cannot expect to have made no mistakes. Some errors will be due to our informants; some, to ourselves. A charitable public williv preface. 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."