William Phillips Tilden

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William Phillips Tilden is written by William Phillips Tilden and published by Forgotten Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1330753399 (ISBN 10) and 9781330753392 (ISBN 13).

Excerpt from William Phillips Tilden: Autobiography and Personal Tributes Having passed my seventy-seventh birth anniversary, I have thought it might be well, while enjoying a fair degree of memory and strength, to jot down some of the incidents of my long and somewhat varied life. I do this particularly for my children and grandchildren and hoped for great-great-grandchildren, thinking it possible that many years hence, when I shall be to them only a memory or a tradition, they may like on some stromy day, when they have nothing else to do, to look it over, and possibly talk about it to their children and children's children. First, let me say a word of the old town in which I was born, and tell you something of our ancestors as far back as we can trace them. Scituate is one of the old towns of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It borders on Massachusetts Bay, has a coast line of seven or eight miles, and is about halfway from Boston to Plymouth. Its aboriginal name was "Satuit," the name of a brook that empties into the harbor. It means "cold brook." That is the way the town is spelled in the earliest records. Shortly after it was written "Seteat," then "Cittewat." But about 1640 the orthography was settled as "Scituate." 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.