Speech #840077552

I am not going to say much about myself. but I am going to mention the fact that my mother was born in the State of Vermont. my father in the State of Ohio. My fathers ancestors came from Massachusetts. they were there before the Revolutionary War. and took part in that war. They took part in that great western movement which followed the war. and their pathway led them from Massachusetts to New York. to Ohio. to Indiana. to Illinois. and to Iowa. and their tombstones are like milestones along the highway of our national development. as the mighty tide of immigration rolled westward toward the setting sun. and our Nation swept on to empire and to greatness. My parents came into Iowa and settled on the broad prairies of Bremer County. They settled there in 1867. where I was born.