Excerpt from History of Perry County, in Pennsylvania: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time In the summer of 1865, the first data for these pages was gathered. Since that time the work has been pursued with whatever of vigor time and circumstances would permit. Here a fact, and there an incident were jotted, until all the available sources of information were sought out, the old men and women wherever possible were visited, and their narratives heard and noted, all the old and most of the recent files of county newspapers were ransacked. Letters were written to many persons, not all of which were answered, and the facts of much of the descriptive part of the history first obtained or former versions of them verified from their replies. 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.