History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City), Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City), Vol. 1 I feel as if I were treading on forbidden ground, entering a field which should ever be closed to all but one individual. William Nelson devoted nearly all of his life to historical research, and he subordinated to this all which most men would have considered the imperative duties of life. Unmindful of social duty or financial loss, he was ever ready to abandon, no matter what he might have undertaken outside of the realm of history, for the pursuit of what to him was the most important call. He published scores of pamphlets and wrote thousands of pages for magazines, but the great work of his life, which he had ever in mind, was his History of Paterson. Begun immediately after the Civil War, he busied himself with accumulating material, and it is doubtful if a day ever passed which did not contribute its meed of research or literary toil. No man´s span of life is long enough to have completed the task undertaken by William Nelson in the manner in which he desired to see it completed. "If you work in the field of literature, work as though you were to live long into eternity," was the advice once given by a writer of history, and it was this advice that was followed by William Nelson. He began printing his history forty years ago, in days when the issuing of ponderous tomes, set in type smaller than is used in the present day newspaper and with footnotes frequently running many pages ahead of the text, had almost passed into desuetude, but William Nelson recognized as the best way to print history the way in which it had been done for centuries. The result was that at his death he had completed only a small fraction of what he intended to leave to posterity, and this printed after the fashion which entitled it only to a place in the library of the antiquarian. It was found necessary to have a literary executor, and this task was entrusted to me. On the printed pages before me I found his exhaustive treatise on the aboriginal inhabitants of the territory now covered by the City of Paterson, his monograph on the early settlers, and an almost completed account of military doings in Revolutionary days. In addition to this, I obtained possession of numerous pamphlets and other publications in which I found contributions from the pen of William Nelson, and from this material - a mosaic intended for more pretentious structure - I have put together the volumes now before the reader. Wherever lacuna occurred, I supplied the deficiencies from the best available sources, notably, as far as the history of Paterson´s early industries are concerned, from the minute book of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, a book, though its first pages tell of the ambition and exertions of Alexander Hamilton and his advice as it fell from his lips, in which are still recorded the present-day doings of the organization to which Paterson´s founding is to be attributed. 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.
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