The History Of Faribault County Minnesota

Author : J. A. Kiester
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330176566
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The History of Faribault County, Minnesota written by J. A. Kiester and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Faribault County, Minnesota: From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Year 1879 This book is not a narrative of the lives and deeds of those whom the world usually calls its heroes of great achievements, its Genuses, Statesmen, Warriors, Scholars and Princes of wealth. It is rather the unpretentious story of plain people, in the humble walks of life, who have come to this fair portion of God's earth, from almost every land under the sun, to found homos for themselves and their children, and here fill the measure of their lives, and who, facing and conquering the hardships of frontier life, have in the course of years, taken up the lands, opened productive farms, instituted civil government, erected numerous churches and school houses and factories, established newspapers, built railroads and telegraphs and thriving towns, and organized all useful associations, converting the wilderness into a rich and populous county, in which are found all the blessings of an enlightened, Christian civilization. And such deeds too are worthy of historic record. There are as many and as noble deeds of self-sacrifice, of unrequited toil, of enduring fortitude, of triumph over difficulties, in short, of real heroism, in humble life, everywhere, which never reached the historian, or found a place on his pages, as any that have over been recorded, "since Hesiod wrote, or Homer sang." The work was not written as a pecuniary speculation, but was undertaken many years ago, at the request of many of the early settlers of the county, and for the laudable purpose of preserving a correct account of the people, the times and events of the first settlement of the County. It was proper, too, that the record should be written by one of the old settlers. They have made and so shall one of their number write the history. The work was not done in haste, but the leisure hours of many years have been employed in collecting, arranging and digesting the materials, watching and noting the progress of events and in writing the record. The book embraces that portion of the history of the County - the first twenty-five years - which in the lapse of time was most liable to be lost or forgotten, yet which, in the course of years, becomes the most interesting. It may seem premature to even write, but more especially to publish a history of so new a county as this, yet it is true that the first quarter of a century in the history of the County, now passed, seems in a great measure, to constitute a period, or epoch, complete in itself, covering as it does, tho first settlement of the different parts of the County, and the origin of almost all its civil, religious, educational and industrial institutions. 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.