Excerpt from Memorial of Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, M. D., LL. D: Born October 6, 1815, Died December 23, 1887 Mr. Lyster and his family, Dr. Patterson and his New England wife and her young sister, with a few others, formed a pleasant and congenial lit tle group of friends, such as one would perhaps hardly have expected to find in this little village of what was then the far west. 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.