The Bellows Genealogy

Author : Henry W. Bellows
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ISBN 13 : 9781332515868
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Historical Sketch of Col. Benjamin Bellows written by Henry W. Bellows and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Col. Benjamin Bellows: Founder of Walpole: An Address, on Occasion of the Gathering of His Descendants to the Consecration of His Monument, at Walpole, N. H., Oct, 11, 1854; With an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Family Meeting His personal integrity, blameless life, and respected character were the beginning of whatever honest pride of name, social respectability, and local influence our family have enjoyed. We gratefully hail him our founder; the original fountain of whatever worldly prosperity, public influence, or personal pride our race has known. The founders of communities and of families have always enjoyed honor and commemoration among men. They necessarily possess superior and uncommon qualities. Striking out of the beaten track, they summon the heroic powers of our nature to their support, and draw upon the original resources of genius. They have energy to stamp their hand and their mind upon their times, and inscribe an ineffaceable writing upon some part of the edifice of society. Generations must elapse before we can distinguish the substantial from the merely showy men of the past. Those whose plans were prudent, whose native force was genuine and peculiar, whose blood was strong and pure, survive in the race they leave, in the communities they found, in the honor and esteem they receive. The ostentatious, the popular, and the brilliant have a great name in their day, and throw a brief lustre about their immediate descendants, but are speedily forgotten, while their names and places are filled by others; the solid, the useful, the substantial men rise into true honor, as their descendants prove the virtue of the blood and the value and permanency of the influences and possessions inherited from them. This fresh and modest monument, which his numerous descendants have erected to their Founder, is more honorable to him to-day, than a column of a hundred feet would have been, raised at the time of his decease. That might have been the offering of fondness, the tribute paid to dazzling services in the field or the council-room, the reflection of party feeling, or temporary prejudice. We should probably have found it, to-day, in ruins - neglected and uncared for, or in ridiculous contrast with the actual reputation of him in whose honor it was built. 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.