# Plymouth memories of an octogenarian

Author: Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70420

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Plymouth+memories+of+an+octogenarian+Davis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In writing these memories I have in mind both the old and the young. With the old I may perhaps clear away some of the cobwebs which obscure their backward glance and reopen to their vision vistas of the past. With the young I may perhaps show how their fathers and grandfathers lived, and how through the results of their careers, the comforts and luxuries of the present generation have been evolved from the simple habits and ways of living of those who have gone before. An important lesson may be learned by the young, that, in this process of evolution, the achievements of today are only the culmination of the continuous labors of earlier generations; that all we are, and all we know, cam...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/50/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/42/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/49/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/43/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/44/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/46/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/41/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/48/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/47/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/45/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/21/index.md)
- [chapter I subjoin the following list of such as my own memory, and](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plymouth-memories-of-an-octogenarian-70420/chapters/22/index.md)