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American Farming And Stock Raising V1 - With Useful Facts For The Household (1892) (Paperback)
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American Farming And Stock Raising V1 - With Useful Facts For The Household (1892) (Paperback)
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MARSHALL P. WILDER. vii a representative
from the town of Dorchester. In 1849 he was elected a member of the
Council of Governor Briggs, and the following year a member of the
Senate and its president. In January, 1868, Colonel Wilder was
solicited to take the presidency of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society, and was unanimously elected to the position,
which he has since held with distinguished ability, delivering the
annual addresses. Through his personal influence more than fifty
thousand dollars have been raised to procure a new building for the
use of the society, and to establish a fund for the support of a
librarian. By his energy and untiring devotion to the interests ot
the society, he has infused new life and vigor into its efforts for
the public good, and given it a reputation and an influence which
it never had before. It is safe to say that no one else could have
raised it to its present prosperous condition, or given it its
extended influence and character in the community. The Hon. Paul A.
Chadbourne, late president of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, in a recent memoir of Colonel Wilder says that: "The
interest which Colonel Wilder has always manifested in the progress
of education, as well as the value and felicitious style of his
numerous writings, would lead one to infer at once that his varied
knowledge and culture are the results of college education. But he
is only another illustrious example of the men who, with only small
indebtedness to schools, have proved to the world that real men can
make themselves known as such without the aid of college, as we
have abundantly learned that the college can never make a man of
one who has not in him the elements of noble manhood before he
enters its halls." His writings...
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