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This book has been scanned from the original book and an optical character recognition (OCR) program was used to make it a printed document. For that reason there are still many formatting and spelling errors due to the OCR program misidentifying objects. This book is still being corrected. This book is the second section of a book called "The Histories of Knox and Daviess Counties 1886".
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Daviess
County
INDIANA.
1886
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT ; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.; TOGETHER WITH AN EXTENDED
HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL DAYS OF VINCENNES, AND
ITS PROGRESS DOWN TO THE FORMATION OF
THE STATE GOVERNMENT.
PREPARED BY WESTON A. GOODSPEED.
CHICAGO:
JOHN MORRIS COMPANY PRINTERS
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PREFACE.
Our history of Knox and Daviess Counties, after months of persist‑
ent, conscientious labor, is now completed. Every important Held of research has been minutely scanned by those engaged in its Preparation, and no subject of universal public value has been omitted. save where protracted. effort failed to secure trustworthy results. The impossibility of ingrafting upon the pages of this volume the vast fund. of the counties' historic information, and the proper omission of many valueless details, have compelled. the publishers to select such matters as are deemed of the greatest importance. Fully aware of our inability to furnish a perfect history from meager public documents, inaccurate private correspondence, and numberless conflicting traditions, we make no pretension of having prepared a work devoid of blemish. Through the courtesy and the generous assistance met with everywhere, we have been enabled. to rescue from oblivion the greater portion of important events that have transpired in past years. We feel assured. that all thoughtful people in the counties, at present and in the future, will recognize and appreciate the importance of the undertaking and the great public benefit that has been accomplished.
It will be observed that a dry statement of fact has been avoided, and that the rich romance of border incident has been woven with statistical details, thus forming an attractive and graphic narrative, and lending beauty to the mechanical execution of the volume and additional value to it as a work of perusal. We claim superior excellence in our systematic manner of collecting material by workers in .specialties; in the division of the subject matter into distinct and appropriate chapters; in the subdivision of the individual chapters into topics under subheads, and in the ample and comprehensive index. We also, with pride, call the attention of the public to the superb mechanical execution of the volume. While we acknowledge the existence of unavoidable errors, we have prepared. a work fully up to the standard of our promises, and as accurate and comprehensive as could be .expected under the circumstances.
May, 1886. THE PUBLISHERS
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This information is the research of many people across the United States and may contain errors. It is presented as the best information to date. Like all of those whose work I have incorporated herein, my research is a work in progress and subject to change without notice. A special thanks to Marlene Ricci of CA, Dwayne Meyer of CA, Jacqueline Bean of TX, Debbie Dick of IN, Milus Miller of IL, Carol Hendricks Miller of IN, Clarence Miller of IN, and Harold Glen Miller of IN. There are numerous others too; many of which are unknown, but their findings and stories are still much appreciated. Much of this would not have been possible with out their information. Also this website includes historical facts gathered from Washington County History, Indiana History, Rowan County and Salisbury North Carolina Historical sources and other US Historical sources.
James A. Miller- Great -Great -Great -Great Grandson of Adam Miller and Hannah Sheets.
©2007 The Millers of Washington County
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