Excerpt from Recollections of a Nonagenarian of Life in New England, the Middle West, and New York, Including a Mission to Great Britain in Behalf, of the Southern Freedmen: Together, With Scenes in California Whereas, It has been reported to this Club that our venerable brother, Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D. D., has yielded to the request of many friends to issue an auto biography; therefore, Resolved, 1, That this Monday Club of Congregational Ministers and Laymen adds its request to those already made, and rejoices that the good work done by our brother in various departments of service to Christ will have the accurate and vivid picturing which only the worker's own hand can give. 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.