Address Delivered Before the Allegheny County Bar Association, December 1, 1888

Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Allegheny County Bar Association, December 1, 1888: Sketches of Prominent Lawyers of the Allegheny County Bar of the Last Century and Earlier Years of This Of the millions who crowded the earth a century ago, who are now known? Their very names are lost. N oth ing remains, yet the same sun shone on them as brightly, they chased happiness as eagerly, and followed the phantoms of fancy as fondly as we do; and, as we, they thought not of the żeeting foot-falls of time and of the coming hours, when all would be forgotten and not even a rack of memory be left behind. Such is the work I am called to perform, in raking among the ashes of the dead past. 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.