Excerpt from Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania: A Collection of Historical and Biographical Sketches But apart from the history of the world, apart from the discovery and history of our own country, Danville has a history all its own a history of deep and absorbing interest, not only to the descendants of the old pioneers, but to all who have found a home within its borders. Let it be understood, however, that I make no pretension to a consecutive historv of Danville in these pages; and as every author in his work presents some characteristic of himself, so let it be in this. Never having been trained to methodical action or the minutiae of business tactics, a mental metamorphosis will not be ex pected. Ihave no ambition to tread the beaten path by tracing and connecting every link in order more exact than the real occur rence. As Comstock says in his unique Tongue of Time, We have heard a thousand times that the sun arose in glory and sat in gold. Now let us hear something else. There are a thousand books, with chapter, verse, section, and paragraph, stately and uni form as the cogs of a wheel. Now let us have something else. But neither the local historian nor the oldest inhabitant can gather many reliable facts from the dim and misty past. As they grope amid the deepening shadows, they may find here and there an isolated fact; but the opening pages of Danville are shrouded beneath a dusty veil that can never be lifted. Its general outline may be traced or imagined by those who are personally interested in certain geneal ogies, or who have been schooled in the wild experience of frontier life, but the life record of those who first surveyed this scene is bur ied forever in the tomb of the past. What hopes and fears, what daring projects or great resolves, once animated the village fathers and mothers, we shall never know. They are gone to the realms where the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The main object in these pages is to note the history of Danville and mark its progress during the last quarter of a century, or during the twenty - five years it has been under my own personal observation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.