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Excerpt from Chronicle of the Yerkes Family: With Notes on the Leech and Rutter Families
The reader of the chronicle will find that the Yerkes family, as a whole, has been strongly attached to rural life. During the Eighteenth Century but two of the name abandoned the country for the city, and one of these eventually retired to his rural seat, and there passed his declining years. It is also worthy of note that the business activities of the family have been chie?y exerted in the line of agriculture, which has justly been placed at the head of the sciences, and which, as Washington wrote, is the most health ful, most useful, and most noble employment of man. For more than one hundred and twenty-five years, the men of the family, with few exceptions, engaged in farming, and each was the owner of the plantation he cultivated, which was usually one of large dimensions.
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The reader of the chronicle will find that the Yerkes family, as a whole, has been strongly attached to rural life. During the Eighteenth Century but two of the name abandoned the country for the city, and one of these eventually retired to his rural seat, and there passed his declining years. It is also worthy of note that the business activities of the family have been chie?y exerted in the line of agriculture, which has justly been placed at the head of the sciences, and which, as Washington wrote, is the most health ful, most useful, and most noble employment of man. For more than one hundred and twenty-five years, the men of the family, with few exceptions, engaged in farming, and each was the owner of the plantation he cultivated, which was usually one of large dimensions.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Josiah Granville Leach
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266442363
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
Page Count - 375
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Contributors
Author
Josiah Granville Leach
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333835422
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
Page Count - 377
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