The Story Of Dayton PDF Download

Excerpt from The Story of Dayton It will be well to emphasize in the beginning that this is not a history but a story of Dayton. A history contains many facts and dates; a story attempts to give an impression of times as they used to be. A history narrates occurrences in strict chronological sequence; a story paints pictures of life. A history records the names and services of notable citizens; the pages of this book are necessarily too few to hold half of them. The idea of The Greater Dayton Association has been, not to add a mass of facts to those in the voluminous histories already published, but to so present the material in hand as to give to present and future generations a clear idea of the tendencies and events of the century in which their forbears lived. Therefore, the audience kept constantly in the mental view of the writer, has been an audience of school children, whose minds, impatient of detail, are captured by picturesque narrative. One difficulty in the compilation of this book, which will be readily appreciated in Dayton at least, is the loss of invaluable historical material through the ravages of the flood. Old books, letters, daguerreotypes, and family relics which might have added to the historical atmosphere or been made the subject of illustration, have disappeared forever. Bound volumes of Dayton newspapers, of which there was in the Public Library a reasonably complete collection since 1808, have lost whole decades from the shelves. Those remaining are encrusted with mud and only available for purposes of research through the laborious efforts of the Library staff. 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.