By Pete Sheridan

"In any age it is a duty which every country owes itself, to preserve the records of the past and to honor the men and women whose lives and deeds made possible its present, and today when the whole civilized world is throbbing to
social and political impulses of the greatest significance for the future, we ought especially to call to mind such lives and deeds and catch, if we can, inspiration for acting well the part that falls to each of us."
~ Foreward: The Court Houses of a Century, Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute, 1901
social and political impulses of the greatest significance for the future, we ought especially to call to mind such lives and deeds and catch, if we can, inspiration for acting well the part that falls to each of us."
~ Foreward: The Court Houses of a Century, Elgin Historical and Scientific Institute, 1901