Excerpt from The Tribe of Joseph: Being a Descriptive Narrative of the Life of Joseph Watkins and His Descendants When I started to write this history I never dreamed of it being put in book form until I was more than half through writing, when my son, Wilbert, told me my manuscript was to be put in book form, through the courtesy of the J. R. Watkins Medical Company. I was hardly prepared for such a compliment, and I cannot describe my feelings. My son was the prime mover in this part of the program. I regret that I have had so much to say about myself. To look over my narrative it looks more like the biography of Samuel H. Watkins than the Annals of the Tribe of Joseph. If there is anything I hate it is an egotist, so it follows I will have to despise myself. I have unintentionally omitted to mention the names of many persons that are worthy of notice and failed to record many events that I should have recorded, and I may err in some statements I have made, and if so they are mistakes of the head and not of the heart. 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.