ANCESTORS OF DORR EUGENE FELT AND AGNES (MCNULTY) FELT COMPILED FOR DÓRR EUGENE FELT BY ALFRED L. HOLMAN Member New England Historic Genealogical Society CHICAGO 1921. PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR DORR E. FELT Dorr E. Felt Cs 66 'Every one who plays the ancestral game is sure to draw a prize. You can't tell what it will be, but you can't help being interested, for what you draw is you yourself. Its blood courses through your veins. It is that thing which looks out through your eyes. Try to speak in your own voice. You can't do it. Some progenitor of yours sounds in every inflection. Do you pride yourself on a certain air with which you carry your cane? That isn't yours; it belongs to a ragged Colonial sentry who paced back and forth through the long hours of darkness and chill, bearing on his numbed shoulders a battered muzzle-loader. Yonder ancestor with the kindly eye prompted you to contribute to the peregrinating plate last Sunday, but that other one (he of the speculative orb) limited the amount. Still another, he with the sanctimonious visage and nasal twang, instanced for your self-approval the story of the widow's mite. You begin to regard yourself as the doubtful resultant of a thousand ancestral forces contributing to make up that thing which is you." -CHANCELLOR L. JENKS. vii |