Timothy Flint Pioneer Missionary Author Editor 1780 1840 PDF Download

Excerpt from Timothy Flint: Pioneer, Missionary, Author, Editor, 1780-1840, the Story of His Life Among the Pioneers and Frontiersmen in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley and in New England and the South A large amount of material and that for a period for this study, where I had almost nothing else, came from Mr. Flint's grandchildren, Mrs. Emeline Flint Seip of Alexandria, Louisiana, and James Timothy Flint of Nashville, Tennessee. Family letters, photographs, newspapers and traditions - everything which could in any way aid me - have been freely and gladly put at my disposal. With them I have shared the pain in thinking of the treasures that were destroyed by the Union army in Alexandria, which burned the library of James Timothy Flint Sr. This was a very large and rare collection of books that was hardly equaled by any private collection in the south. It contained also most of Timothy Flint's collection of books and some of the manuscripts which he left at the time of his death. A more recent and unavoidable accident, the Galveston flood of 1900, destroyed a number of the books and papers of Timothy Flint which were in the possession of his grandchildren. The only portrait of Mr. Flint, which is known to have been in existence, was destroyed at that time. I am under special obligations to the librarians of Hartford Theological Seminary, Yale University, and Harvard University for their aid in procuring books and manuscripts which could not have been obtained otherwise. 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.