Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Doylestown Democrat, 1816-1916: With Biographical Sketches of the Editors; In Commemoration of the First Century of the Existence of the Doylestown Democrat The history of the Doylestown Democrat is a history of Bucks County during the last one hundred years. It It so woven into the affairs of this county as to be a part of it. It had its beginning four years after Doylestown became the County Seat and week after week since that time in a great diary it has chronicled the activities and accomplishments of her people and of the world at large. The memory of man fades with age, but the truth of what occurred and when it occurred is here chaliced Immutably in the archives of time. Into the storehouse of its columns the historian of the future will delve to learn the secret of the forces which have made the last century the worlds epochal period of science, agriculture and, invention, and from these reconstruct the whole fabric of History itself. A century ago this nation was In its swaddling clothes. Now it is the Giant of the West, beyond cavil the greatest nation of the world, not only of our time but of all time. A century ago there was not a canal, a railroad, a turnpike in this county. Our hillsides were covered with virgin forests, our waters flowed unbridled to the sea. 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.