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SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, 1892. Signed by the author in dipped ink on the front pastedown, July, 1893. Hardcover. Bound in dark red publisher's cloth with debossed ornamentation and lettering in black. Spine is plain red. All edges red stain. Illustrated with engravings and ornate initials in black and white throughout. Short, quick-read chapters include: "Schools and Education", "Farm Work", "The Home", "Domestic Manufactures", "Sugar Making", "Women's Work", "Dress", "Transportation", "Fruits, Nuts", "Farm Stock", "Sports and Amusements", "Weddings", "Religious Meetings", "The Village Store", "The Village Doctor", "Village and Country Taverns", "The Money", "Post Office", "Litigation and Courts", "Financial and Social Condition", "Now and Then", "The Farmer and His Occupation", "Boys and Girls on the Farm; How to Keep Them There". 106 pp. A fascinating look at farm life during the late 19th century.in which one could accurately rename the title "Farm Life in Central Ohio One Hundred Thirty Years Ago". Receipt from previous owner dated 1992 laid in. EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "[.] Human life has been compared to a theatre. During the play 'we take higher or lower seats, but when it is over, we mingle in common stream and go home.' Like the teeter of our juvenile days, as one goes 'up' another goes 'down'. Such has been and always will be human life. Variety is said to be the spice of life. These changes, these ups and downs, meet us in all the departments of life's work. There is, however, less variety and change, less sudden breaking up, less teetering, in farm life than any other occupation. The farmer population is more stable and conservative in conduct and habits than those engaged in conduct and habits than those engaged in most other pursuits of life. Changes and improvements, therefore, have come to them slowly and gradually. Indeed, as the years roll by, we scarcely realize how great the progress has been in agricultural life, even within our recollection. To enable the reader to make the contrast, and to realize this progress, by presenting a picture of farm life as it appeared sixty years ago, upon the average farm in Central Ohio, is the object of this little volume, with its illustrations." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Martin Welker (1819 ? 1902) was a United States Representative from Ohio for three terms from 1865 to 1871 and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio from 1873 to 1889. Welker was born on April 25, 1819, in Knox County, Ohio. His father was an immigrant from the German Confederation and an early European pioneer in Ohio. Welker left the family farm at the age of 14 to take a job as a clerk in a store in Millersburg, Ohio. He attended the common schools and read law in 1840. He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Millersburg from 1840 to 1846. He was clerk of the Holmes County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas from 1846 to 1851. In 1848, Welker was the Whig nominee for the 31st United States Congress, but lost in the largely Democratic district. In 1850, he again was offered the nomination, but declined it. He resumed private practice in Millersburg from 1851 to 1852. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 33rd United States Congress in 1852. He was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas for the Sixth Judicial District from 1852 to 1857. He resumed private practice in Wooster, Ohio in 1857. He was elected the fourth lieutenant governor of Ohio and president of the Ohio Senate in the Fifty-third General Assembly, serving from 1857 to 1858, elected on the ticket with Governor of Ohio Salmon P. Chase. He was a Colonel in the United States Army from 1861 to 1865, during the American Civil War. (Wikipedia)CONDITION: In very good condition, cover shows wear, particularly at the edges and bumped corners. Spine is cocked. Weak inner hinge, yet boards are firmly attached and binding is sound. Leaves have mildly and evenly ton.
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