Excerpt from Records and Papers of the New London County Historical Society, Vol. 3: Part 1 On December 31, 1899, Hon. Charles Augustus Williams, then President Of the New London County Historical Society, died. In response to the urging of members Of the organization, Mr. Ernest E. Rogers finally accepted the Presidency, and succeeded to the duties Of the position. The Society has had various other enterprises in hand, but from that time the project to secure the statue Of Winthrop was made foremost, and given its strongest efforts. 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.