Excerpt from The Town Register: Fryeburg, Lovell, Sweden, Stow and ChathamWe would not close this chapter without mentioning the many honorable and distinguished men and women who have gone out from these homes, many of them from humble homes, who have brought honor to their native towns. Every town can show a goodly list of these men, heroes of the battlefield or bench, men who have advanced entirely by their own merit and energy to positions of responsibility and honor in the state or nation, or in private life. These are the men who have inherited the fortitude and energy of their fathers and mothers, who could so long and nobly withstand the rigors and hardships of the New England frontier, until their scattered settlements should become an important part of a prosperous community.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.