History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

1883·60.5 MB·English

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PUBLISHERS' PBEFAOE.
IN i-iariiii:; tliis Ilistoi'j ofArmstronf^' County before their patrons, the publishers feel that the
- u-ork will standthetost of candid criticism in everyrespect. They have spared neither endeavor
it'ir oxjifP.-i' wliidi o.nikl add to its value, and to make it a volume which would reflect credit upon
itrt auffior and theuisolves has been their aim, and therefore they rest assured that those citizens who
hnwr watched with friendly interest the progress of the work since the time it was undertaken by
?iir. Smitli will not be disappointed with the jn-oduct of that long period of careful labor. Tliat so
^volurnitu>us u work, containing, as it does, in its eight hundred broad pages, at least six thousand
'dates and tiity thousand names, should be absolutely free from trivial eriw, tiiinking jieople will not
.['LttT ; but the —publishers believe that such has been the care—bestowed upon it by competent,
i:X|)crteucod men writers, engravers, jn-inters and proof-readers that even inconsequential errors
l;;sv.'been reduced to the mininumi, and that ij^seiit/'n/' misstatements of statement have been entirely
d. TIio rjclie.s of hwiuric loi'<!, j;athored from a thous^iiul (lilU'r<uit sdurces by its aullmr, luivo
'uiii returned to the patrons of the work in what has seemed the most apiirojH'iato anil acceptable
i'"vm ; and it has been the study of the publishers, by aid of all that is most excellent in the art of
typoijraphy and in the bookbinder's >kill, to send the history to the people ofArmstrong County
'uilied a^ its worth doser\i.'S.
The pviViis»herH wisli to return ino.-.t sincere thanks, on their own behalf and those in their
inpipy, to all wSjo have aided them in tlie prejjiiration of this volume. To mention the names of
M wliojie amrtt'ous and cordial co-o{K'iiitioii has been extended to them, and fully appreciated,
.oulil I* s!it}K>ssib!e, for their number is luitn.li-eds. However, we cannot refrain from presenting
.e nuniOB of a i'ew whose positions have enabled tliem to be of esjiecial service. To this class
.'loiiar Hon. James B. Neale, Grier C. Orr, James Mosgrove, Joseph Butiington, D. A. Ealston
hd f^oi. Sirwell, of Jvittanning; John Turner, Capt. James P. Murphy, Walter P. MuqJiy, Eobt.
Morris, Capt. A. S. Warner and John Ralston, of Freeport; Col. S. M. Jackson, John B. Cliambers
and W. J\[(^;r^a^, M. D., of Apollo; John Schwalen, E. P. Hunter, MaJ. -l()sei)h E. Beale and
11. Jl. WO'ay, of Leechburg; Thomas H. Marshall, William Afarshall, T. M. Elder, of AYayne
!..<viis1iip; .Idlni W. Marshall, Rev. D. [v. Duffand Smith IS'^eal, of Cowanshannock Geoi'ge Putney
;
I.! Mon. A. 1). Glenn, of Mahoning township. To this brief list should be added the mend)ers of
I'ue jn'c^^s and eoiu)ty oiKcials..
The exhaustive chapter on "Armstrong in the War of the Rebellion," and the sn|ij)lementary
-I-'' owes much of its fullness and accuracy to the Grand Army Post of Freejiort, Capt. A. S.
, ], Ct.'l. Wm. Sirwell and Col. Archibald Blakely, of Pittsburgh.
WATERMAN, WxiTiaNS & CO.
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