the Annals of a Humble Race

The ability to write a good family history belongs to only a favoured few; it is not given to every man to select with keen and true judgment the fittest facts, and then construct with them a terse yet interesting record, not of a nation, or province, or even of a parish, but of a single family.

I cannot lay claim to this gift, but I am not convinced that I am at any special disadvantage in having to write the annals of a humble race.

Arthur W. Cornelius Hallen, "An Account of the Family of Hallen or Holland" (Edinburgh: Neill and Company, 1885)

IN THE MATTER OF THE ADMISSION OF Mary Ellen Clark, George Henry Clark, Nellie Rosella Clark, Louis Edward Clark, James Morrow Clark and Freddie Eugene Clark TO THE STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL.

WHEREFORE the said Judge of Probate certifies that the said children are entitled to admission to the State Public School at Owatonna.

It is therefore ordered that said children be taken to the State Public School at Owatonna, and admitted therein.

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