Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Edward Young Parsons Saturday, July 8, 1876. Mr. KN ott. I rise to perform the most melancholy duty that has ever devolved upon me in the course of my public life: to ah nounce to this House the sudden and unexpected death of my col league, Hon. Edward Y. Parsons. I move the adoption of the resolutions which I send to the Clerk. The Clerk reads as follows: Resolved, That a committee of seven members be appointed by the Speaker of the House to take order for superintending the funeral of Hon. Edward Y. Par sons, late a member of this body from the State of Kentucky. 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.