Excerpt from Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania: Comprising a Historical Sketch of the County
The geology given is mainly taken from the Chester county volume of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and presents the leading theories and views of Professors Lesley, Rogers, Frazer and Hall; while the military roster of the county. Is one of which she may be justly proud, for her sons have served with honor andl distinction in all the wars of the Republic, from the early days of the mighty revolutionary struggle for independence to the closing hours of the late great civil war.
Census statistics have been specially introduced to supply a feature that is wanting in so many county histories, and the series of Historical and Biographical Cyclopedias published by this Company, of which this volume is one, are the only works of the kind in the world that have ever gathered and given condensed and classified statistics of population, manufactures and agriculture. These statistics forcibly tell their own story, without need of illustration or explanation.
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