Newburgh; Her Institutions, Industries and Leading Citizens
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Nutt, John J.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Newburgh; Her Institutions, Industries and Leading Citizens: Historical, Descriptive and Biographical In this book an earnest and candid effort has been made, first, to review the salient points in the history of our city; second, to record her remarkable advancement in the decade just past; and, finally and especially, to picture and describe truthfully and adequately the Newburgh of the present time - her appearance, her institutions, her industries, and citizens - so as to give, not only a fair representation of her to our contemporaries, but also to leave to those who will ere long fill our places a souvenir of the time and the place in which we live. As was said in our prospectus, it is one of the objects of this work to attract to Newburgh increased population and wealth. Immigration is the touchstone of the growth and prosperity of a city. Hence we see the attention given it by cities and States in the West; and it is everywhere observable that the localities which have shown the greatest enterprise in this direction have almost without exception surpassed other places of equal or even greater natural advantages. That Newburgh possesses adaptability for manufactures unexcelled by any other city in the eastern States, and that she has many great advantages for commerce and as a place of residence, is conceded by all who have fairly weighed her claims with those of other cities. But the fact that she has these qualifications is not alone sufficient. They must be made known abroad, so that those in less-favored places may be led to transfer their interest and business to our city. We believe that the wide circulation of a book such as this is the best method which can be chosen to disseminate a knowledge of Newburgh. A work devoted to the advancement of a city, if possessed of any merit at all, cannot fail to prove of great benefit to the place. We know of no city in the land for which a work of this character has been completed on a plan so large and elaborate. The co-operation which we have received from our fellow townsmen exceeded our expectations, and on our part we have more than fulfilled every promise made-in the prospectus. We have spared nothing to make the book what it ought to be - what it is. Great care has been taken in its preparation to confine all statements within conservative bounds. It is quite impossible to bring a book like this down to date. Some changes have occurred since the sheets were put to press. The publishers desire to express their thanks to the public-spirited citizens who co-operated with them in this work. Without their help the enterprise could not have been carried out. The historical information has been gleaned by the compiler from many sources. Every volume known to contain anything in relation to Newburgh has been examined, and the files of newspapers from the earliest times have been consulted. Acknowledgments are made particularly to the writings of Ruttenber, and also to those of Eager, Boynton, and Headley. And to all those who have aided the compiler to information, or in any other friendly way have helped us, we desire to make grateful recognition. 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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