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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches and Records of the Ezra Olin Family
These sketches of living and departed friends, which of necessity must be brief, I have tried in my feeble way to write faithfully and impartially yet feel in many instances that my work is nearly a failure, as there was so little material to work from, my requests for such not being fully complied with, and in some cases not at all, which accounts for many omissions.
It has required much time and labor to arrange and correct the family records. When first received there were many errors among them. My earnest endeavor has been to correct each and every known error, yet, with all this pre caution, mistakes may appear.
That I have been more than five years in preparing this work, I think, speaks for the thorough manner of its prepara tion, and while permitting nothing to interfere with its final completion, doubt and discouragement many times stood ready to work defeat. It was then that the kindly advice or encouragement of Some dear friend would dispel the dark clouds, and the work went cheerfully on again.
In justice to those who have rendered more than usual aid in supplying material for the pages following, I return thanks to Ezra Olin, Jr., Paris Olin, Almira Bolton, and Mary Jane Sheldon. The success of the work is greatly due to their kindly efforts. Now, kind friends, in your criticism of the Sketches and Records of the Olin Family please exercise charity; consider that your historian has labored to preserve your name and record for those generations who shall ?ourish when we sleep in dust. He may have failed to give them in their true light and character, but would it not have been made better had you furnished a more complete sketch or synop sis of your life?
With love and gratitude to my many friends who have con ferred upon me this great honor, and with a parting wish that in that grand Reunion above we may all assemble without an absent one, there to hear the Great Historian call our names, and read that record from the Book of Life - Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
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