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History of Door County, Wisconsin
by Charles I. Martin - 1881

                             PREFACE.

        In May, 1877, we bought the EXPOSITOR printing establishment,
     and a helping hand was extended to us by the old acquaintances we
     had known ere we entered our 'teens. It was the desire of those good
     old fatherly gentlemen that we write up a history of Door county, and
     publish it in the EXPOSITOR. To refuse to comply with their wishes
     would have been unbecoming - even to an editor; hence we nodded -
     consented. Time rolled by until one fair summer morning, 1880,
     when we set ourselves to work to make good the promise we made
     three years previous. For five or six weeks we made it our business to
     do nothing else than roam from town to town, farm to farm, house to
     house - chatting with every one we met, and personally interviewing
     every old settler we came across. At the beginning it was not our
     intention to publish the history in any other form than through the
     columns of the EXPOSITOR, but the continued demand for "the sketch
     in book form," changed our first intention. We feel that the work is
     not so complete as it might be, for a portion of it was got out in the
     midst of a political campaign, and the entire publication of it was
     made in weekly installments in the EXPOSITOR before being printed in
     this form.  The reader should take into consideration the circum-
     stances, and remember that in a work of this kind the author turns
     his attention only to the labor of blending facts into ideas, while
     the scrutinizer has the easy work of turning ideas into criticisms.
     We give facts and figures the preference of flowery sayings, and trust
     and believe that the work will be found to be correct in its narration
     of events pertaining to the county, and hope that it may be read with
     interest by those into whose hands it may come.
         Respectfully,
                   THE AUTHOR.

       STURGEON BAY, April, 1881.

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