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Download or read book Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Vol. 2 written by John Kay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Vol. 2: Part II Throughout the long period of his ministry in this city, few men enjoyed a greater degree of popularity, or were more highly and generally esteemed, than the Rev. Gentleman whose Portrait is prefixed. He was born at Cathcart Mill, a few miles west of Glasgow, on the 6th January His ancestors were millers, and had occupied the mill for several generations. His father, James Hall, a man of education and intelligence greatly superior to his rank, was one of the original seceders from the Church of Scotland, and feued the site of the first Secession Church in Glasgow; and his mother, Isabella Bulloch, whose paternal property lay in the vicinity of Kirkintulloch, presented the Seceders of that place with the ground on which their church is erected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.