Excerpt from Under the Northern LightsWhen John Churchill was born, his father, Alexander Churchill, held a prominent position and standing among the merchants of New York. Mr. Churchill was sufficiently affluent to own a modest, attractive home in one of the side streets of the better up-town residential section, and to live in the style becoming a gentleman of means and culture, a member of the best clubs and a substantial citizen of the metropolis.The progenitors of this branch of the Churchill family had sailed to America in the early years of the seventeenth century and had represented the stalwart worth, refinement, bravery arid nobility of manhood and womanhood, which make for aristocracy in the new world. They fought in the Colonial wars, and they labored with hands, heads and hearts in the struggle for independence.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.