. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. ,\.Willsie, Hervev H., , T. T., , Jonathan, , .\lliert A., ;t(>.Wood, Walter S., ., David. Rcdick C (>, William. , George James 5,?, John, , J. Thomas, William. W. H, ^?arnell. James . , Fhillip. David. •.2f\.Young. Joseph 4.^2. f^p^ W^jM 1 T of tlie deiJtlis of liis mature wisdom Carlvle wrote,i^
. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. ,\.Willsie, Hervev H., , T. T., , Jonathan, , .\lliert A., ;t(>.Wood, Walter S., ., David. Rcdick C (>, William. , George James 5,?, John, , J. Thomas, William. W. H, ^?arnell. James . , Fhillip. David. •.2f\.Young. Joseph 4.^2. f^p^ W^jM 1 T of tlie deiJtlis of liis mature wisdom Carlvle wrote,i^ . . ,. i^ History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ^: Believing- this to be the fact, there is nn necessity of ad- % \ancing any further reason for the compilation of such a work as this, if relialile history is to be the ultimate The section of Missouri cmnprised within the limits of this volume hassustained within its cnnfines men who have been prominent in the history ofthe State, and even the natiDU. fur half a century. The annals teem with therecords of strong and ni)ble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, the true grand-eur of nations is in tlmse (|ualities which constitute the greatness uf the indixid-ual. The final causes which shape the fortunes of indixiduals and the destiniesof States are often the same. The\- are usually remote and obscure, and theirinfluence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That nationis the greatest which proiluces the greatest and most manly men and faithfbiographicalhist00chic
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