Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Album of Genealogy and Biography, Cook County, Illinois: With Portraits
To the present generation, however, we are in debted for the introduction of the admirable sys tem of local biography. By this system every man, though he has not achieved what the world calls greatness, has the means to perpetuate his life, his history, through the coming ages, for the benefit of his posterity.
The scythe of Time cuts down all; nothing of the physical man is left. The monument which his children or friends may erect to his memory in the cemetery will crumble into dust and pass away; but his life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, which otherwise would be for gotten, is perpetuated by a record of this kind.
To preserve the lineaments of our companions we engrave their portraits; for the same reason we collect the attainable facts of their history. Nor do we think it necessary, as we speak only truth of them, to wait until they are dead, or un til those who knew them are gone; and we need be ashamed only of publishing the history of those whose lives are unworthy of public record.
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