A Directory Of Towns Villages And Hamlets Past And Present Of Jasper County Mo PDF Download

Excerpt from The History of Jasper County, Missouri: Including a Condensed History of the State, a Complete History of Carthage and Joplin, Other Towns and Townships The task of the historian has been performed conscientiously and well, free from partiality and prejudice, and with a view of recording such facts as will be most valuable. If it meets with the favor merited, a satisfaction more lasting than pecuniary re ward will be accorded those who carried forward the enterprise. To a great extent the history is what the people have been pleased to make it. If the people had furnished less information there would have been less in the book, and if the information had been of a different character, its pages would also have reflected that fact. The style of composition has aimed at purity and precision, rather than periods and highly wrought figures. In some cases the same fact may appear more than once, and if a difference in details is observed, it should be remembered as bear ing the authority of the one who furnished it. The mechanical work shows skill and finish, comparing favorably with the best in this and other states. The elegant colored sectional map, electrotype and lithograph views, the litho graph and photo-engraved portraits, together with the general arrangement and typography, have each received that artistic touch which renders the work highly satisfactory to the publish ers, and no doubt will meet the hearty approval of all patrons who are capable of judging. In the prospectus it was promised that the book should contain 800 pages, but it has been found impossible to comprise the material in less than pages; thus the volume has greatly exceeded the limits originally intended. The history of Carthage is complete in itself, comprising nine chapters, besides the biographical Sketches of all patrons who desired a representation within the work. It was written with great care and the proof-sheets were submitted to prominent and well informed citizens for cor rection. The history of J Oplin is also complete in itself and com prises nine chapters besides the introduction and the chapter on mining. 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.