Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

PREFACE.
sary will be observed with patriotic enthusiasm. If the his-
torian of that occasion will supply these features and carry
the narrative down the extra fifty years, he will have material
enough to make a second volume, which, with the corrections
that may be needed in this, will furnish our people with a
liistory more elaborate than that of any city or town in the
Commonwealth.
There is, indeed, much in these pages of a genealogical and
biographical nature, and many old landmarks are identified
but this material is' only used as incidental to the story. It is
the history of the people that is here told. A list of the
men who have aided the writer during the past two years
would be too long to give here. But special acknowledgment
should be made to Dr. Thomas R. Pynchon, of Hartford, for
his many services in collecting facts. Maj. Edward Ingersoll,
James E. Russell, Robert O. Morris, Judge William S. Shurt-
leff, James Wells, Dr. William Rice, James Kirkham, Dr. F. E.
Oliver, of Boston, and scores of others have given their services
in recalling the past and furnishing records ; and Judge Henry
Morris, before his illness, gave the use of his historical library
and manuscripts at all times. The names of the soldiers of
the civil war and the lists of dead, wounded, and missing were
furnished b}^ James L. Bowen. The index was prepared by
Dr. William Rice.
The publication committee appointed by the committee of
fifty were : Edward
H. Lathrop, chairman ; Judge William S.
Shurtleff, Lewis J. Powers, James D. Gill, and Milton Bradley.
This committee placed the whole matter of publishing the
history into the hands of C. A. Nichols, of this city, who, it
will be seen, has spared neither time nor monej^ in this
service.
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