Excerpt from Reconstruction: Illustrated and Explained With Biographies and Portraits of 250 Distinguished National Men, Together With Business References<br><br>We have taken an unusual degree of pains to have these biographies full and correct in dates and facts, so that this book may be relied upon for biographical information and for reference.<br><br>We have submitted them to the men now living, and they have pronounced them substantially correct in dates and facts.<br><br>Upon the Opposite page, we have given a few of the most prominent names who have individually indorsed, by letter, their biographies.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.