PREFACE.

their kind assistance in the collation of data for this history.
Especially are we thankful for the aid given us by those who
have subscribed for the work, ahid trast that the pleasure they
will have as the years go by. in recalling incidents that are
related in its pages, will more than compensate for their untiring
efforts to make it a perfect history of Daviess County.
  For Chapter II., entitled "Bill Smothers," so replete with
reminiscences of early settlement, we are indebted mostly
to the story published by Colonel Thos. S. McCreery, in the
MAonitor several years ago.
                       INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO.
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