Genealogy Of The Robertson Small And Related Families

Author : Archibald Robertson Small
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ISBN 13 : 9781332293834
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Genealogy of the Robertson, Small and Related Families written by Archibald Robertson Small and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Genealogy of the Robertson, Small and Related Families: Hamilton, Livingston, McNaughton, Mc@donald, Mc@dougall, Beveridge, Lourie, Stewart In respectfully submitting this work to the consideration of the family, I do not feel that any apology is necessary. The circumstances attending my connection with Dr. Small's great work are known to the subscribers whose interest in these not inconsiderable labors has made possible this publication. I owe much - more, indeed, than words can repay - to the many kindly messages of encouragement which have proved a constant stimulus to me during the time this work has been in my hands, as no doubt previous expressions of a similar character had stimulated Dr. Small to a continuation of the arduous task he had undertaken, and to which he gave the best part of the later years of his life. To those who may not be acquainted with these circumstances, however, a word of explanation is due. I did not have the honor of a personal acquaintance with Dr. Small, though I had known him very pleasantly through a sometime and most delightful correspondence on matters relating to his great work. What there was in this correspondence that prompted him to leave to me the honorable task of giving fruition to his labors, I do not know. Whatever it was, I shall always cherish most dearly this mark of his confidence. No one could have been more astonished than was I when, following his sudden and - we can not help feeling - untimely death, I received his precious manuscript with formal notice that it was his last will that I should take up the work where he had been compelled to lay it down, and give publication to these pages. That this was no sudden determination on his part, makes all the more binding upon me the obligation his kindly will imposed. In a letter to Miss Jennie M.Patten, of Yuma, Colorado, whose valuable assistance in the work of compiling these memoirs Dr. Small has gratefully acknowledged in his preface, our biographer wrote, March 3, 1905, more than two years before his death: "I hope during the summer to have this work all written up in form, and if it is not published right away, and I should die, anyone else who might take enough interest in it could have it published as well as myself. Of course, I would like to complete the work myself before I die, but I do believe there is enough interest manifested already in some quarters to insure its publication even though I should be taken away now. 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.