The Gove Book History And Genealogy Of The American Family Of Gove And Notes Of European Goves

Hardcover reprint of the original 1922 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Gove, William Henry. The Gove Book; History And Genealogy of The American Family of Gove, And Notes of European Goves. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Gove, William Henry. The Gove Book; History And Genealogy of The American Family of Gove, And Notes of European Goves, . Salem, Mass., S. Perley, 1922. Subject: Gowen Family

Excerpt from The Gove Book: History and Genealogy of the American Family of Gove, and Notes of European Goves Interest in the preparation of the Gove genealogy was aroused to a very limited extent nearly a hundred years ago; but Humphrey Nichols Gove (No. 468) was the first person known to have begun such a compilation. Others later became interested in collecting material of the branches with which they were intimately connected. The first attempt to make a complete genealogy of the family was begun by Ira Gove (No. 533) of Weare, N. H., about the beginning of the Civil War. His arranged manuscript was finally prepared in book form, which numbered some two hundred and fifty pages of foolscap size and shape. Sometime before his death, which occurred in 1891, when he was eighty-six years of age, he placed it, together with his correspondence and notes, in the possession of Hon. William Henry Gove (No. 1967) of Salem, Mass. The latter continued the researches of Ira Gove, and increased the extent of the work until in 1901 he had tripled the collated material by his personal labor and paid assistance, by examination of records and correspondence, in Europe and America. He caused to be examined the vital records of many towns in New England and thousands of directories of cities and towns in various sections of the United States for names, addresses and occupations of Goves, and visited many of the families in remote sections. Subsequently, he began a systematic arrangement of all the material that had been gathered, and had it nearly completed at the time of his decease, in the spring of 1920. Mrs. Gove, his widow, has caused the work to be completed, and by her generosity this volume now appears in the form in which Mr. Gove would have issued it if he had lived a little longer. It has cost Mr. and Mrs. Gove many thousands of dollars, only a small part of which will be refunded through sales. The successful prosecution of a great work which Mr. Gove sought so many years to attain will be Mrs. Gove's reward. 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.

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