John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences

John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal ReminiscencesThe reminiscences of his life and work were dictated to...
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Author: Fort, John Porter,1841-1917
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John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences

John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences

€6,25

John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences

€6,25
Author: Fort, John Porter,1841-1917
Format: eBook
Language: English

John Porter Fort: A Memorial, and Personal Reminiscences

The reminiscences of his life and work were dictated to me by my father during the summer of 1916. He touched only upon the main events. There are countless unmentioned things that would add to this story of a wonderfully full life, but I leave it just as he told it to me as we sat together on the porch, or in the library by the open wood fire. To these I have added a few tributes and some clippings from Georgia newspapers. He was a man of visiona dreamerbut with the energy and the faith and the resourcefulness to push ahead, explore his vision, and make his dreams come true; and in the doing of which he made of himself a notable public benefactor. South Georgia was once afflicted with a malarial condition which seriously impaired the many advantages of that part of the state. The development of the country had been held back through generation after generation, despite its fertility and adaptability to agriculture, simply because of malarial conditions. With no guide save his reason and determination, he managed somehow to bore a hole into the earth more than five hundred feet deep; and was rewarded by a stream of pure, life-giving water. That was Georgia's first artesian well; and, as he says in a remarkable letter to Alfred C. Newell, written in October, 1907, and reproduced in the magazine section of this issue of The Constitution: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 48703
Author: Fort, John Porter
Release Date: Apr 14, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Fort, Martha Fannin, 1885-

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