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FOREWORD

IN COMPILING and printing this book, the publisher desires to give as near as possible an idea of the founding of our little city by the Hollanders in 1847. We have endeavored to make it something that will be of interest to every person who has been and is now living in this community. We believe that it will be so appreciated that at the end of the next twenty-five years there will be some person who will carry on the history so carefully that it will be as perfect as can be. It has cost considerable money and time to compile the early history of this book as it has been necessary to get in touch with former residents who reside in the extreme East and West. There are some illustrations which were impossible to get on account of the lack of photographers at that time, but we believe that we have succeeded in making the early history of this community quite complete as to scenes and portraits of people of those times.

THE PUBLISHER

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