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Excerpt from Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns: Being a History and Guide to Places of Scenic Beauty and Historical Note Found in the Towns of Dane County and Surroundings, Including the Organization of the Towns, and Early Intercourse of the Settlers With the Indians, Their Camps, Trails, Mounds, Etc In presenting to our readers the History of Madison, Pane County and Surrounding Towns, we do it with some degree of gratification; - not because we have the presumption to conceive that we have issued a complete work, or that, it is free from errors; but simply because we have had so many kind helps rendered us in bringing tire work up to its present condition, and without flattering ourselves that we have composed some grand strain, or even been in full harmony with all our parts, we have, at least, struck the key-note from which we have built up good, if not square work. To show that our work was needed, it is only necessary for us to call the reader's attention to the many chapters so freely contributed by many of our citizens, who, making no pretensions to any great literary acumen, have related the facts and incidents of their towns in terms sometimes unfinished, but never lacking power and simplicity to express what they knew, thus commending to our admiration the free and unvarnished manner with which the story of pioneer life, trials and sufferings is related, and the evident delight taken in looking back on those difficulties, to enact them over again. We think our work has been instrumental in saving from oblivion much that would have passed unheeded in the annals of the early settlement and development of our county. Our citizens, in their early pioneer life, forgetting that they were makers of history, saved comparatively little of the past dates or records. History by towns has not, we believe, been published in this state before, and we feel certain that no surer way could be devised for reaching facts than the plan we have adopted, as there me
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Excerpt from Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns: Being a History and Guide to Places of Scenic Beauty and Historical Note Found in the Towns of Dane County and Surroundings, Including the Organization of the Towns, and Early Intercourse of the Settlers With the Indians, Their Camps, Trails, Mounds, Etc
We have been much gratified at the cordiality with which our citizens have entered into the enterprise, and take this Opportunity of offering them our grateful acknowledgments, and especially to the writers of the different chapters, for their kind and unselfish interest in collecting the many facts and pleasing incidents there in related. Such men are, as a rule, the bone and sinew of a com munity, and never weary in well doing. We are also indebted to the following gentlemen, who have made it a matter of interest and labor to 2said us 111 oui undertalfl'ng: Hon. Simeon Mills, Win.
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We have been much gratified at the cordiality with which our citizens have entered into the enterprise, and take this Opportunity of offering them our grateful acknowledgments, and especially to the writers of the different chapters, for their kind and unselfish interest in collecting the many facts and pleasing incidents there in related. Such men are, as a rule, the bone and sinew of a com munity, and never weary in well doing. We are also indebted to the following gentlemen, who have made it a matter of interest and labor to 2said us 111 oui undertalfl'ng: Hon. Simeon Mills, Win.
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