Excerpt from A Monograph of the Anderson, Clark, Marshall and McArthur Connection Crests and escutcheons are only important as cattle brands to show to what herd one belongs. When men covered their faces with pot metal visors, it was necessary to have some device to distinguish them. Where families have no hereditary titles or landed estates held from generation to generation, their genealogical records are apt to become obscured; but we have in this country the compensating advantage that any man can become, as Napoleon said, the Rudolph of Hapsburg of his family. 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.