Description: Men and Times of The Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, Including Journals of Travels in Europe and America, From 1777 to 1842, with His Correspondence with Public Men and Reminiscences and Incidents of the Revolution, Edited by his son Winslow C. Watson, Dana and Company, New York, 1856, 460pp, cloth, 6 x 9.5", 8vo Poor condition/as is. Wear and staining to front and rear boards. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Spine is completely lacking but a portion has been saved and included for restoration purposes. Bookplate for George de Beneville Keim on front pastedown. Marginalia on endpapers. Top portion of front endpaper has been torn off. Bookplate for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania on rear pastedown. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask any questions prior to purchase. Elkanah Watson (January 22, 1758 - December 5, 1842) was an American agriculturist, writer, banker, and businessman. He worked in Albany, New York for several years, founding the State Bank of Albany. After retiring in 1807 to a farm in Massachusetts, he raised Merino sheep and founded the agricultural fair, first organizing one at Pittsfield. Based on journals which he had kept since his 20s, Watson started writing his autobiography in 1821. It was completed, edited, and published as Men and the Times of the Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson (1856) by one of his sons, historian Winslow Cossoul Watson. FORN-MSB-0324-TUB0014-JC335
Price: 75 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Author: Elkanah Watson
Publisher: Dana and Company
Topic: Diaries & Correspondence
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Original/Facsimile: Original
