Download or read book Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Ernest B. Fisher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Grand Rapids and Kent County, Michigan, Vol. 2 of 2: Historical Account of Their Progress From First Settlement to the Present Time After more than a year of continuous and painstaking effort on the part of a considerable corps of workers, the publishers of these vol umes on Kent County and Grand Rapids, present them to those for whom they were prepared in the belief that they will be found more than was promised. In their preparation accuracy has been kept more in mind than ornate diction. It was not intended to go into all the stories and traditions which hang about the dawn of white settlement in the Grand River Valley, but it was rather the plan to supplement former publications so that a searcher in the archives might find their story consistently connected down to the present year. In collaboration with Mr. Ernest B. Fisher, who has acted as our guide and mentor in all this work, we feel that a worthy and reliable result has been achieved. His long residence in Grand Rapids and his activities in many public affairs have qualified him for editor in all things relating to the last half century in this thriving metropolis of Western Michigan. 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.