Excerpt from Personal Recollections, 1813 1893, of Rev. Charles E. Brown: With Sketches of His Wife and Children and Extracts From an Autobiography of Rev. Phillip Perry Brown, 1790 1862, With Sketches of His Children and the Family Record 1767 1907 Pioneer life on the Western Frontier. The log cabin home near Maquoketa. Rafting on the Maquoketa river, and a cross country trip to Iowa City. 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.