History of Daviess County Kentucky: Together With Sketches of Its Cities Villages and Townships Educational Religious Civil Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons Biographies of Representative Citizens and an Outline H

Excerpt from History of Daviess County Kentucky: Together With Sketches of Its Cities Villages and Townships Educational Religious Civil Military and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons Biographies of Representative Citizens and an Outline History of Kentucky<br><br>After months Of unremitting labor the History of Daviess County is ready for our patrons. None can better understand than those who have assisted us the difficulties to be met in the preparation of a work of this kind. Public documents have been examined newspaper files have been reviewed Old settlers and prominent men have been visited for the purpose of making the record as complete as possible and gaining information of interest and value to the subscribers. The incompleteness ot'' the public records and the con?icting statements have tended to perplex the compilers but we trust in the main the work will prove satisfactory. Members of a family often differ as to the spelling of names contradict each other''s statements as to the dates of birth settlement in the county and nativity; we therefore have tried to give preference to the majority. While errors must necessarily occur under such circumstances we feel that we have fulfilled our premises and have given as correct a record historically and biographically as it is possible to obtain. Whatever may be the verdict Of those who do not realize the extent of our work and therefore make no allowance for the many ways in which errors may occur we feel sure that all thoughtful and just persons will appreciate our efforts will recognize the great public benefit that has been accomplished and will value the book as a memorial in the years to come of the lives and adventures of the early pioneers of the lives of men prominent in political and business circles and of individuals less prominent but none the less necessary to the county''s history that would otherwise have passed into oblivion.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.