Cleveland´s Administration, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Cleveland´s Administration, Vol. 2: With Portraits of the Presidential Candidates The National Cyclopedia of American Biography has been undertaken to provide a biographical record of the United States worthy to rank with the great National Biographies of Europe. It embrace the biographical sketches of ail persons prominently connected with the history of the nation. Not only do rulers, statesmen, soldiers, persons note worthy in the church, at the bar, in literature, art, science, and the professions find place, but also those who have contributed to the industrial and commercial progress and growth of the country. The aim of the work is to exemplify and perpetuate, in the broadest sense, American civilization through its chief personalities. Such a work of historical biography has never before been attempted - Previous works have either excluded the living, or limited them to u well-known few in the centres of activity. But this Cyclopædia is unique. It has been prepared upon new lines which insure its being the biographical authority of the century. It is intended to make this Cyclopædia National, representing the entire Republic, and reflecting the spirit, genius and life of each section. It is acknowledged that the great forces which to-day contribute most largely to the growth of the country are the men who have developed its industrial and commercial resources, and it is believed that, while literary workers should be accorded ample representation, those who contribute so much to the material and physical welfare of the country deserve and command fuller recognition than has before been accorded them in works of this character. Achievements in engineering, electricity, or architecture; improvements in locomotives, looms or ploughs, contribute its much to the advancement of civilization as an epic poem or an Oxford tract; and the factors in these achievements are to be sought out. and given to the world through the pages of this Cyclopædia. In the United States there is neither n Nobility, nor an Aristocracy, nor is there a Landed Gentry, as these classes are understood in Europe. But there are, in the United States, numerous Families which have ancient lineage and records, and other families, founded in the soil, so to speak. destined to become the ancestry of the future. There is every reason why the genealogy and history of these families should be recorded and perpetuated. No native of any other land has reason to lie prouder of his country than an American whose family name represents either direct descent from the early colonists or Revolutionary ancestors, or marked prosperity and success through intelligent, arduous, and faithful labor for the benefit of his country and the advancement of his race. One of the objects of the National Cyclopædia is to fulfill for the United States this purpose, and supply an invaluable and useful means for establishing identity, relationship, birth, death, official position, and other important data which are necessary to the making up of such family history. In the gathering of material for this work there has been inaugurated a system of local contributions from every section of the country, by which are secured the facts in reference to those persons who have heretofore been omitted from biographical notice. Our American annals are full of characters worthy of the emulation of posterity; but their story will perish, bearing no fruit. if it be not gathered up. and preserved by some such method of extended research as has been adopted by the Publishers of this work. The rapidity of the Nation´s growth makes it impossible for each section to be acquainted with the other, and up to this time it is only the meat conspicuous personages in any part of the country who arc known beyond their locality.
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