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Book Title: History Of Dearborn County Indiana

                             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 Dearborn county, Indiana, with what they were one hundred years 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 and
mineral 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 the county 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 Dearborn county 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 "History of Dearborn County, Indiana," 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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