Excerpt from Fayette County, Her History and Her People The author had labored all these months without money, but now he had come to that stage in his work where he must have money to procure engravings, binding and a hundred and one things which required money. It was now a question whether the work of all these long months should be thrown away or whether this book should yet reach the hands of the public. The author again turned to Jake Wolters and laid the matter before him. With him it was only a question: How much do you reed, Lotto? Then he talked to John B. Hollo way, the big-hearted and patriotic cashier of the First National bank, and the cashier and Jake fixed it Up. Thus the writer found his Maecenas in Jake Wolters. To him he is indebted for financial aid as well as for his encouragement and influence. For the writer must confess that there were times when he felt discouraged and felt inclined to throw up the undertaking, But words of good cheer always roused him up to move forward. 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.