This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...the direction iu which that faculty was most noticeably exercised was in biography and genealogy. In this particular he had perhaps no superior in America. A boy coming to college need bring no letter to Governor Swain by way of introduction. Not only in his own State was it so, but also from the most distant southern ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...the direction iu which that faculty was most noticeably exercised was in biography and genealogy. In this particular he had perhaps no superior in America. A boy coming to college need bring no letter to Governor Swain by way of introduction. Not only in his own State was it so, but also from the most distant southern and southwestern States it was the same. If the boy would tell his father's and grandfather's names, straightway he was known, and all his kindred with him. Knowing all the principal families of the Southern Atlantic States, he took note of their migrations Westward, and when their sons returned East for education he would generally tell them more of their family history than they knew before. Amazed at his display of this geneological history, the writer once said to him: "Governor, don't you know when every man in North Carolina of any prominence cut his eye-teeth?" "Oh, no," said he, "but I remember very well when you, sir, had the measles." I will venture to assert that there was not a family in the Atlantic States, from Main to Florida, which had been in any way prominent in politics, literature or theology, that he did not know more or less of its history and members. As an evidence of that fact I will relate this incident: In May, 1865, the writer received a pressing invitation, borne by three hundred of Kilpatrick's cavalry, to visit "Washington city as the guest of ths nation. The invitation was accepted, and on taking steamboat at New Berne I found on boad a delegation, headed by Governor Swain, going on to see President Johnson on political business. In the cabin of the steamer a number of passengers were seated, Governor Swain and myself being on opposite sides, and facing each other. A Federal of...
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