A retrospect of forty years, 1825-1865 . TO THE GRANDCHILDREN FOR WHOM, AT HER REQUEST, THEIR GRANDFATHER IN THE CLOSING YEARS OF HIS LIFE, AND WITH FAILINGEYESIGHT, DICTATED THESE REMINISCENCES THEIR GRANDMOTHER MARY RUSSELL BUTLER PRESENTS THIS VOLUME WITH THE HOPE THAT THE HIGH IDEALS, THE PURITY OF LIFE, AND THE DEVOTION TO DUTY WHICH CHARACTERIZED HIM WILL EVER BE AN INSPIRATION TO THEM PREFACE In recalling any important undertaking in ones life,or in that of another, there is always some especially asso-ciated place which stands out with peculiar distinctness. Such recollections, as far
A retrospect of forty years, 1825-1865 . TO THE GRANDCHILDREN FOR WHOM, AT HER REQUEST, THEIR GRANDFATHER IN THE CLOSING YEARS OF HIS LIFE, AND WITH FAILINGEYESIGHT, DICTATED THESE REMINISCENCES THEIR GRANDMOTHER MARY RUSSELL BUTLER PRESENTS THIS VOLUME WITH THE HOPE THAT THE HIGH IDEALS, THE PURITY OF LIFE, AND THE DEVOTION TO DUTY WHICH CHARACTERIZED HIM WILL EVER BE AN INSPIRATION TO THEM PREFACE In recalling any important undertaking in ones life,or in that of another, there is always some especially asso-ciated place which stands out with peculiar distinctness. Such recollections, as far as this volume is concerned,cluster about the corner of a certain old leather-coveredsofa in that room of our home which has always beenknown as The Study. There my father, in the earlydays of Round Oak, pondered legal problems or amusedthe baby on his knee (sometimes doing both simultane-ously), and there we can remember him, after his returnfrom the city, at the end of a laborious day, still findingtime and energy to tell his little c
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