Excerpt from Quarter-Centennial History of Lawrence, Massachusetts: With Portraits and Biographical Sketches

In the preparation of this work, the author has sought to picture a fleeting phase of our city"s life. And let it be remembered that every point of time, each year, each month, each passing moment, marks some era begun, some event completed.

In the history of our city we this year pass the mile stone which marks the quarter of a century. The motto is; ""Go forward,"" but in doing so it is always well, at important turning points, to take a retrospective view, for there is much to be gained for the future through the experiences of the past.

A history is a record of deeds completed, but this book is not wholly that; it is something more. It is a record book of the present. The student of the next century will conceive the active men of to-day, in connection with our city"s history, as contemporaneous with those who were indeed the pioneers of our vast manufacturing enterprises. A record of to-day is but the record of our birth; and it is fitting, it is well, before those who were first upon the scene shall have passed away, to put in tangible form for preservation, as near as possible their personal appearance, the battles they fought, and the victories they won in the van of progress and material growth.

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