Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Chicago Historical Society: To the Governor of Illinois It was deemed fortunate for the Society, that it possessed, as its first President, (who but recently resigned his place, ) a gentleman, (mr. Wil liam H. Brown, ) an early citizen of this State, well known and esteemed, and conversant with the men and the events most conspicuous in our State history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a ...
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Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Chicago Historical Society: To the Governor of Illinois It was deemed fortunate for the Society, that it possessed, as its first President, (who but recently resigned his place, ) a gentleman, (mr. Wil liam H. Brown, ) an early citizen of this State, well known and esteemed, and conversant with the men and the events most conspicuous in our State history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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