Excerpt from The Backwoods Boy Who Became a Minister, or the Family and Personal History of Henry Adolph Not a fiction, or a fictitious story founded in fact. What is here re lated is ream/y, except in so far as memory may have proved slightly treacherous in reporting early scenes. And here memory was the principal dependence, refreshed by conversa tion with some of the actors in the scene. -names of persons and places are, in most instances, imaginary. The brief sketch of the family and personal history of Henry Adolph. 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.