PREFACE

In the capacity of author and compiler of a history of Seneca county, I undertook the preparation of the work in the hope that my efforts, coupled with the generous co-operation of the citizens, might be productive of a history of dignified proportions, comprehensive, impartial and useful. How far my efforts have been successful, the public must judge.

Mansfield, Ohio,

July 1, 1911.

A. J. BAUGHMAN.

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NEW YORK PALIC BRARY

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To the American Soldiers, especially to those

with whom I "touched elbows," in the War of the Rebellion, this work is respectfully inscribed by the author.

A. J. BAUGHMAN.

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