The Autobiography of Elihu H. Shepard, Formerly Professor of Languages in St. Louis College (Classic Reprint)

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The exhibition of an autobiography to a reader naturally suggests the object of the author in writing and publishing it, and an explanation is generally gratifying, if satisfactory. The author of this commenced it at the earnest request of his daughter, several years since, in a blank book that she had provided for that purpose, that she might preserve an accurate genealogy of her ancestry as far as possible, and the chief incidents connected with their history, particularly that of her father and mother. That history was written out with his own hand, without the intention of publishing it in his lifetime, to 1866. Many interesting events have subsequently transpired, and he has traveled and observed much, which, together with the expressed wish of a very large number of his former pupils and friends to possess a history of the incidents of his eventful life, seem to furnish a reasonable excuse for him to essay their gratification.

In accomplishing this in his own peculiar style, he has taken the original copy, written for his daughter, and added thereto such notes as he has preserved of his travels and observations since.

The indulgent reader therefore, it is hoped, will pardon any apparent egotism, as most of the manuscript was prepared for the eye of his daughter only, and has been used without alterations.

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