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PRINT QUALITY - DIAMOND BOOKS * PRINT: XLP (Extra Large Print) - 8" x 11" * FONT: XLF (Extra Large Font), Magnified * BOOK: Historical Print, Authentic * CONTENT: Historical, Original, Authentic * INTERIOR: Extremely Clean * EXTERIOR: Extremely Clean NOTE: This is the only "cleanest print edition" available in the entire world. It is made possible through DIAMOND BOOKS. * * * * * In submitting this volume to its patrons, its publishers are quite confident it will be apparent from its pages that every reasonable effort has been made by them to make it complete in its several departments. Notwithstanding this, however, they are conscious that to some of its readers it may appear that historic records have been omitted which should have been given, and that in other cases record has been made of matters without consideration of their unimportance. On behalf of its compilers, it is proper to say that its publishers have the fullest confidence that the most ample care has been taken to catch up all the threads of history and unite them in a common woof; that, if some are worthless, the mass is valuable; that if any have been lost or overlooked, the fault is not one of intention, the primary object having been to preserve even the minutest detail of the history of a county which ranks among the first in the State in its organization, in its development, in its intelligence, and in the patriotism and worth of its sons. Of many of the pioneer families of the county it may be said that they have now no known representatives within its borders. While the footsteps of their sons may be traced in almost all of the States, the record of themselves can scarce be found, even on graven monuments where their remains were interred. The friendly voice of neighborhood tradition— perhaps the imperishable record of services performed to the State—is all that remains; but these have been gathered up as completely as po