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Excerpt from Fun and Pathos of One LifeThe existence of man from birth to death is a series of encounters. To preserve in type some of the incidents that have come into the life of one person, Fun and Pathos of One Life has been written. If they should create a single smile or awaken one kind thought in the lives of men the author will have been well paid for the hours spent on the little volume. The contents are not wholly original, but quite...

Excerpt from The Centennial of Susquehanna CountyCaptain Benajah Strong, a cousin of Ozias, when he came to the valley of the Susquehanna was forty-seven years old he was six feet, two inches in height, had been a captain in the Revolution, and although entitled to, he refused, a pension, saw Danbury, Conn., burned and was married to Jane Cochrane, of Woodbury, Conn., who accompanied him first to Greene County, New York, and then to the valley...

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Excerpt from Fun and Pathos of One Life Jack Stanley belonged to that type of men who come into the world, pass through it - and make an exit - without creating commotion, but who get all that belong to them of fun and pathos, and human life is after all simply fun and pathos. He was born of poor and honest parents, not "poor but honest, " as the thoughtless are prone to say, thus reflecting upon the poor as if it were unusual to be poor and...

Excerpt from The Centennial of Susquehanna County The splendid mountains, the silent ¿owing river, the site of the first log hut, the broad reach of valley, the dust of our fathers were still here to animate us, but the sturdy pioneers were gone and scarcely a vestige remained of their early habitations. Yet the voices of our hallowed dead spoke to us in no uncertain measures, and the lofty influence of their noble lives, we felt, lived with ...

Excerpt from Galusha A. Grow: Father of the Homestead Law The definition of history as the biography of great men holds good in the land movement of the United States as elsewhere. Galusha A. Grow, Speaker of the House of Representatives in Lincoln's time, true statesman, patriot in so large a sense that to-day we are reaping a harvest which he helped to sow and largely cultivated, did human, historical work which should make him proportionat...

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