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tainmcnts, character and success, must exert a wholesome influence upon the
nsmg
generation of the American
people.
To facts
preserve and perpetuate the important historical
of personal and family history cannot
fail to
prove
invaluable and a source of pride and interest to the nation
and
to the world.
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that our descendants should
we
live,
says
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is
and where we spend our "To
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inherent in us a desire
know something of
iicarts
wc
lives, for the
us
— how
poet truly
leave behind
Is not to die."
sive
In the preservation ot such a record, all the progreslife and thought should have a national pride
men of
As heroes of the colonial and revolutionary wars, states* men, persons noteworthy in the church, at the bar, in literature, art, science and the professions, and those who have contributed to the commercial and industrial growth of each has added luster to its name. this Great Republic In order to seek a competency and fame, these sturdy Americans, inbued with a spirit of self-reliance and indomitable will, have blazed the way through the wilderness, conquered forests, subdued the soil, and made desert In the commercial and industrial world places smile. their names have illumined the marts of trade; from the workshops of the inventor have emanated prolific inventions now used throughout the civilized world; in literature can be found authors, poets and journalists whose brows are worthy to be crowned with the laurel wreath of fame; as philanthropists, the gifts of America's successful men have been munificent; and in the arena of statesmanship, in the halls of legislation, and in the administration of justice the United States has produced men of thought
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