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Foreword
Lou Hough (Orville Louis Hough) and I (George Langford Jr.) have worked
together since 1974, researching the details of B.F. Massey's several
careers and his personal life history.
We have combed the Public records; we have found a few publications of
his political life, but our most productive sources have been
contemporary records:-
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A
large
collection of personal letters written by B.F. Massey to Dr.
John F. Snyder. |
2
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Benjamin
Ulpian's
Recollections of the burned Autobiography of B.F. Massey. |
3
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Benjamin
U.
Massey's own autobiographical recollections of his association with
his father during the Civil War. |
4
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Nina
Massey
Hough's recollections of her father and his life history. |
With all this valuable information to help us, Lou and I feel that we
know our great-grandfather almost as well as if we had been his
contemporaries. We have rejoiced with him, suffered with him, and
we have unabashedly become very fond of him. So, as I author his
Biography, I take great pains to avoid getting overly sentimental about
Benjamin Franklin Massey.
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