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Identifier: americana_q19131amer (find matches)
Title: Americana
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Historical Company National Americana Society American Historical Society
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Publisher: New York : National Americana Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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conversation following the preparation of the autographbiography, written under so great difficulties, he said: I amhappy. I am content. My hearing is dead. My sight is poorbut my conscience is clear and my stomach is strong. Speakinc^of his birthdays he said: And thats not the worst of it Illlose another in 2100. In speaking of his uniformly good healthhe said: I attribute my good health and old age to the fact thatI never touched liquor or tobacco and that Ive always drunk lotsof strong coffee. I have studied the stars all my life, but feelthat I know so little. Maybe in the next life-for I believe Godrules all these worlds and great reaches of space and time andpeoples—we will know more, if we have lived right here. Mr. Newman closed the record of his interview with the vener-able astronomer with the comment: Those were the two thingsI took away with me after an afternoon with Dr. Swift: His im-plicit faith in God and a future life, and his happiness in the lifehe is now living.
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Historic New England Towns Revisited, orBack on my Native Heath BY AJ^DREW M. SHERMAN, Author of In the Lowlands of Louisiana in 1863; Historic Morristozvn, NewJersey: The Story of Its First Century; Life of Captain Jeremiah OBrien,Machias, Me.; Phil Carver: A Romance of the War of 1812, Etc. CHAPTER I Bridgewater, Mass. A people ivliich take no pride in the noble achievements ofremote ancestors will never achieve anything ivorthy to be re-membered with pride by remote descendants. IT WAS in the month of July, 1911, that the author receiveda letter from his elder brother, George W., a resident ofLynbrook, N. Y., informing him that he purposed soonmaking a trip to the eastern part of tlie Old Bay State withthe view to procuring additional data concerning our first pa-ternal American ancestor, William Sherman, and extending tome a hearty invitation to accompany him. The invitation was duly accepted and a day was mutuallyagreed upon for our meeting in New York to undertake the trip.We me

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