Genealogy Of The Wisdom Family 1675 To 1910

Author : George W. Wisdom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332293667
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (936 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Genealogy of the Wisdom Family written by George W. Wisdom and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Genealogy of the Wisdom Family: 1675 to 1910 The compilation of this work was begun March 9, 1890. The prosecution of it has been repeatedly interrupted by other occupations and by occasional derangement of health. It was only within the last eight years that I have been able to apply myself to it steadily. In renewing my task, I find it necessary to make the following statement: The history of a new country is that of the men who founded it. For more than a hundred years the history of the West has been in the making. At that time the "West" meant Kentucky, and as "Westward the star of empire takes its way," that term has been used to describe each section from the Alleghanies to the peaceful Pacific. As each of these sections of the country was settled by intrepid pioneers - first Tennessee and Kentucky, then Missouri, and finally the great Oregon country, on the shores of the sunset seas - the Wisdom family was at the forefront, bearing its share of the burdens and sharing its part of the dangers. It has been a labor of love that the compiler of this sketch has been engaged in. It was undertaken primarily that his sons might have in compact form a brief, though accurate, account of their ancestors. The work is not intended as a history of the family or of any of its members, but it is only a genealogical sketch, and only the barest outlines have been attempted to be given. In presenting this sketch to the members of the Wisdom family, the writer will say that in all his researches he has found the Wisdoms to be men who are a credit to the pioneer history of a great republic. 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.