Excerpt from Early Years on the Western Reserve: With Extracts From Letters of Ephraim Brown and Family, 1805-1845 Near the close of the year 1914, some months after the death, at the imposing age of eighty-eight, Of Anne, the youngest and last surviving child Of Ephraim Brown, I received, from her late home at Bloomfield, Ohio, a firmly closed package, with an explanatory message, that it contained, among other letters, the family correspondence of George, Anne's brother, which, it was said, was sent to me in accord ance with her own written and spoken words to such effect. 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.