Fayette County, Her History and Her People (Classic Reprint)

It is customary for a writer to have in the preface of his book a sliort address to the reader either to reconiraend his work, or tell of its aitrits, its history and the difficulties encountered in preparing it. The writer of this book has chosen for his theme the description and liistory of the%rai1 dold county of Fayette. If works of fiction find the approval of an enlightened public, the writer hopes that his book, wherein he has shown, on the hand of public records, the development of a struggling community to a prosperous county, one of the proudest and foremost in tlie state, the home county of the reader, where the scenes of his childhood lie, where he has grown to manhood and of which he is a political factor, will appeal to his love of home and be a source of interest to him. History is nobler than fiction, a grand fact greater than a noble thought. The book contains a world of grand facts. If they have not been always treated with the dignity of critical exposition and embellished by philosophic thoughts, there is nothing to hinder the reader to improve these shortcomings and to recall, on hand of these furnished facts, a more vivid picture of the scenes and the life of the past. Some friends of the writer have asked him to place his biography in this book. I his he does not feel inclined to do on account of his short residence in the county. But to a history of the preparation of this book the reader is entitled, the more so as it refiects the greatest credit on the people of Fayette County and is also in many other respects quite interesting. The intelligence of the writer had secured him the position as traveling agent of that great German weekly, La Grange Deutsche Zeitung, in which position he became afilicted with rheumatic fever and landed in the Fayette County Hospital.
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