A History Of Ritchie County West Virginia Prepared And Read By Gen T M Harris At A Centennial Celebration July 4 1876

Author : Minnie Kendall Lowther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331081449
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book History of Ritchie County written by Minnie Kendall Lowther and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, and With Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times The idea of writing a history of Ritchie county had its origin in a suggestion made by Lewis Harvey Adams while editor of the "Ritchie Standard," about the year 1904 when he requested us to write some historical articles (of towns and other points of interest in the county) for his paper. We had long been an invalid (from an injury to the spine sustained by a fall from a horse) and was at that time local correspondent for his paper. However, we agreed to comply with this request in case that the desired data could be obtained, and shortly after set about the task, and when once at work, we became so much interested, that the research resulted in a brief history of the county which ran as a serial in the Ritchie Standard from June 7, 1906, to January 3, 1907; and by the time this serial was at an end, quite a number of the readers of the paper were requesting its issue in "book form." But being conscious of its many inaccuracies and imperfections we resolved to set out anew, and to make a more complete and authentic history before submitting it to the public in book form. So the whole ground has been gone over again, and much new territory has been explored. Letters of inquiry with out-lines of suggestive questions have been sent to every known pioneer family; the telephones and the newspapers have been pressed into service, and various other devices have been resorted to in the gathering and the verifying of this data; and we now submit to the people of this county as authentic, and as complete a history as can be hoped for at this late day when the lips of so many of the makers of this history are now sealed in death. And while we realize that many imperfections are still in evidence in this work, we trust that the reader will not lose sight of the disadvantages that have confronted us, and the fact that we are a novice in the "book business" - this being our first venture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.