Tributes to Henry Wallace
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Excerpt from Tributes to Henry Wallace: An Incomplete Collection of Tributes to His Life and Work Which Appeared in the Press and Which Came in Personal Letters, Following His Death, Feb, 22, 1916 In the pages of this book have been brought together such tributes to the life of Henry Wallace as could readily be compiled in the three or four months following his death, which occurred February 22, 1916. He was not a great statesman; indeed, he never held public office. He had not served his country conspicuously on the battlefield in a time of national crisis. He was not an eminent scientist, nor an inventor. He had not amassed great wealth. He was simply a private citizen who had lived so worthily that his death brought forth a flood of testimony to his life and works such as has seldom been paid, even to the most eminent of public men. His death came as a personal bereavement to thousands who had never met him face to face. He is mourned by great and small, by rich and poor, by young and old. The tributes which will be found in these pages are but a small portion of the total, but are typical of all. This book is not in any sense a biography, but a collection of tributes. Those who wish to know the life experiences of Henry Wallace will find them most charmingly told in "Uncle Henry´s Own Story," a series of intimate letters addressed to his great-grandchildren and now published in book form. It seems fitting, however, to print here a very brief summary of the more important events of his life. Henry Wallace was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, near the small town of West Newton, March 19, 1836. He was the son of John Wallace, a Scotch-Irishman, who was born in Ulster, in 1805, and whose ancestors had migrated to the north of Ireland from Ayrshire, Scotland, about 1680. His mother was Martha Ross, whose parents came from the same section of Ulster. The first eighteen years of his life were spent on the Pennsylvania farm, and in his letters to his great-grandchildren he tells in a most entertaining way of the rural life of that day and of the manners and customs of the people. 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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