Excerpt from The Story of John Frederic Oberlin Some minor biographies gleaned from this work were published in Germany, France, and England at about the same period, rather in the style of memoirs than in balanced biographies. None, I think, was given in what seems to me the necessary historical setting. These also have gone the way of this kind of literature for more than half a century. 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.