Excerpt from History of Wolfeborough (New Hampshire)
In preparation of this volume, one thing, above all others, has been kept in mind - accuracy. The work is a history in fact as well as in name.
The author, during his long life, was privileged to come face to face with most of his living sources of information. All other matters considered are based upon authenticated records and documents. Although Mr. Parker was not permitted to see the completion of his life work, his ideas in this particular have been strictly adhered to by those who succeeded him. The story of a historic town, as told in succeeding pages, is a true story and, we confidently assert, an unusually interesting one.
The town first took action in the matter in 1898, when Messrs. Edwin H. Lord, Albert B. Rust, and Frederick W. Prindle were appointed a committee to confer with the author. As a result of their interested and painstaking labors, this volume, published under an appropriation of the town, is now offered to the public.
The book is not particularly rich in genealogies. Much valuable material of this sort remains unused among the authors papers. Not because it lacked value, not because it was uninteresting, but for the sole reason that the scope of the work forbade its incorporation therein.
This history of Wolfeborough, then, written by one who for more than three-fourths of a century lived in and wrought for the town, is respectfully presented to those who, by right of birth or adoption, proudly call themselves her sons and daughters.
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