Excerpt from History of Quincy and Its Men of Mark: Or Facts and Figures Exhibiting Its Advantages and Resources, Manufactures, and Commerce

After devoting a large share of time and labor to this work, the author offers it to the public not as a complete history of Quincy, but as the best that he was enabled under the circumstances to compile. The effort to furnish a detailed review of the commerce and manufactures of a city of Quincy's size, is necessarily attended with greater difficulty and labor than would such an undertaking in the great cities of the Union, where Boards of Trade flourish, and where statistics of the manufactures and sales of every depart ment are annually prepared and preserved for reference. Yet, notwithstanding, the want of such facilities for obtaining inform ation has been seriously felt, and added materially to our labors, We have still, through the assistance of our leading business men, obtained accurate statistics of the transactions in most of the im portant departments, and submit them to the citizens of Quincy and to our readers generally, as an evidence of the prosperity which has been wrought by the energy, enterprise and deter mination of our business men.

For much, and in fact most of the information here submitted, we are of course indebted to the old residents of Quincy, who have grown with it, and whose industry, ability, and public spirit car ried it safely through all the vicissitudes, from a frontier settle ment to a prosperous and wealthy city.

The biographies here given to the public will be recognized by many as truthful sketches of leading and influential citizens, who by their sagacity and perseverance carved out their own fortunes, and will enable those not familiar with the progress of Quincy to form an idea of the men to whom she is indebted for her present position as a commercial and manufacturing center.

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