Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin edited with notes and introduction

by Joseph Schafer, superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by Jeremiah Curtin

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First edition

Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1940. First edition, 8vo, pp. ix, 3 , 925, 1 ; frontispiece portrait, 2 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Issued as no. 2 in the publisher's Wisconsin Biography series. Born to an Irish Catholic family, Jeremiah Curtin 1835-1906 , a linguist, translator, and folklorist, spent his early years on a farm in Greenfield, Wisconsin, and the first portion of this memoir, compiled by his

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