Excerpt from Arthur George Olmsted: Son of a Pennsylvania Pioneer, Boy Orator of Ulysses, For the Freedom of the Slave, Defense of the Union, Development of the Northern Tier, Citizen, Jurist, Statesman

The generation in which a man of distinction has lived becomes familiar with the significant incidents of his career. But if he has survived to a great age and gradually retired from public view, while the visible results of his genius, his public spirit, his philanthropy, remain as the mementos of his mature years, the story of his earlier life becomes dim, and the perfect whole can only be restored by retracing the steps of his upward pathway. It is due to the community in which he lived, to the people and the state which he served, that some account of the notable incidents of his ancestry and the circumstances of his youth should be preserved, and some connected record made of the leading events which marked the contemporary history of the community of which he was a part, and which gave impression to his character in its formative period and to the development of his ripening faculties.

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