Excerpt from The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America It is said that "an ungrateful generation neglects the memory of its fathers," but Moses, the inspired law-giver, cherished the memory of his fathers and made a record of them and of his people for the benefit of future generations Let us do likewise. The people of the United States of America, with their enterprising and impetuous spirit, ever in quest of new discoveries and greater acquisitions, have somewhat neglected the things of the past, but a new era is now being inaugurated of National expansion and worldwide improvements, and it behooves us as a Christian and a progressive people to treasure up the valuable things of the past and make provision for the future. Among the leading nations of Europe genealogies have long been recorded and kept while in this country they have been neglected, but during these latter days of invention and discovery and progress, birth records are being made in the States and family genealogies are being multiplied, and, since the Rosenkrantz family is a titled and a distinguished one in Northwestern Europe, and is at least honorable in this country, why should not the names and doings of the American branch be recorded? In offering to the public this genealogy of the Rosenkrans family in this country, the compiler does not claim to have found and recorded the names of all the descendants of Harmon Hendrick Rosenkrans, our first American ancestor, yet he hopes in this volume to contribute materially to the reader's knowledge of the family both in Europe and America from the beginning of the family, 1227, A. D., to this closing year of the nineteenth century and probably near the closing one of the present dispensation. 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.