Albany and Its Place in the History of the United States (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Berthold Fernow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330695771 ISBN 13: 9781330695777

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Albany and Its Place in the History of the United States The Albany Express of Friday, April 30, 1886, said: "The Bi-centennial committee has selected Governor Hill as the orator, Mr. William H. McElroy, of the New York Tribune, as the poet, and Mr. Berthold Fernow, the custodian of the colonial records of the State, as the historian, of the Bi-centennial celebration of the founding of the charter of the city of Albany. These selections are all admirable. It is eminently proper that the Governor of the State should be invited to deliver the oration on an occasion that has to do so intimately with the history of this noble Commonwealth. While not a finished orator, Governor Hill is a strong and practical talker, and he will deliver an address full of interest and valuable as a study of American municipal history. "Mr. McElroy has been regarded from the first as the only person to be invited to prepare the poem for this occasion. He is a native of Albany, and he loves the good old city as dearly as though he had never left it. He is a born poet as well as a born humorist; and his contribution to our Bicentennial literature will be as full of poetry as it is full of wit, and as full of both as Albany is full of years. "Mr. Fernow is an expert in the colonial history of this city and this State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330695771
• ISBN 13: 9781330695777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102