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Excerpt from Families of the Wyoming Valley, Vol. 1 of 2: Biographical, Genealogical and Historical, Sketches of the Bench and Bar of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Dietrick, Daniel S. Bennet, and Harrison Wright. For valu able assistance rendered in connection with our labors we are gratefully indebted to Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, Sheldon Reynolds, Oscar j. Harvey, Hon. Steuben Jenkins, Irving A. Stearns, and especially to C. Ben johnson. With this brief statement of the certainly modest design of the work and those matters incident to its compilation in which it has been thought the reader might feel an interest; with the advance caution to critics that it offers no pretensions to literary excellence, and with the hope that the imperfections, from which we cannot reasonably expect it has wholly escaped, will be generously overlooked, and that it may servea useful local if not general purpose, we commend it to that great literary ocean, where, if it founders, it will at least leave us the consoling reection that it abides in its distress in the company of many wrecks of craft far more ambitiously freighted and far more ceremoniously launched. With the second volume we propose to have a com plete and perfect index to the entire work, which will embrace every name mentioned in the book, besides a complete historical index to the same. 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 suc