Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia: February 19th, 1914 Three years ago, when I was elected Second vice-president of this Society, it gave me no serious concern, as I never for a moment attered myself with the thought that I would some day be called upon to preside - otherwise, I would have side stepped then and there. 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."