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Book Title: Past And Present Of O'Brien And Osceola Counties, Iowa

DEDICATION.

    This work is respectfully dedicated to
                  THE PIONEERS
long since departed. May the memory of those who laid down their burdens by the
wayside ever be fragrant as the breath of summer flowers, for their toils and
sacrifices have made O'Brien and Osceola Counties a garden of sunshine and
delights.



PREFACE

    All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom comes from past
experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exertion
and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been
instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The
development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required
great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present conditions of the
people of O'Brien and Osceola counties, Iowa, with what they were a half century
ago. From a trackless wilderness and virgin land, it has come to be a center of
prosperity and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems of railways, grand
educational institutions, splendid industries and immense agricultural
productions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascination of the
study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so
strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent
prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace
and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from
its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to
preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of perpetuation, and
which unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present publication.
A specially valuable and interesting department is that one devoted to the
sketches of representative citizens of these counties whose records deserve
preservation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers
desire to extend their thanks to the gentlemen who have so faithfully labored to
this end. Thanks are also due to the citizens of O'Brien and Osceola counties
for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking, and for
their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information.

    In placing the "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa,"
before the citizens, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have
carried out the plan as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch in
the work has been submitted to the party interested for correction, and
therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for
whom the sketch was prepared. Confident that our effort to please will fully
meet the approbation of the public, we are,
                                Respectfully,
                                       THE PUBLISHERS.



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PAST AND PRESENT OF
O'Brien and Osceola Counties, Iowa
BY
HON. J. L. E. PECK and HON. O. H. MONTZHEIMER
For O'Brien County

AND
HON. WILLIAM J. MILLER
For Osceola County

VOL. I

ILLUSTRATED
1914 
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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