W.A. Preston
New Ipswich Historical Society
W.A. Preston, resident of Center Village.
Mrs. W.A. Preston in front, John and W.A. Preston in back room.
William Jurian Kaula diary
Returning soon, transcriptionist is on the mend.
On this day - November 11, 1908
James Roger diary entry
11th (Wednesday)
Drizzly misty day, wind E to NE. Some smart showers. David on roads down town all day. Some of the teams laid off tonight. Got pc and letter from Hamish today. His hours are to be 1pm to 11 pm. His lodgings are 45 Matoon St. Mr. Scripture has been very kind in recommending him highly and in every way trying to his best for him. Diphtheria cases in Greenville, Temple 1. W.R.C. have supper and dance down town Temple. Put fertilizer on Kimball and Miller lots.
Veterans Day
On November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued a message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day, in which he expressed what he felt the day meant to Americans:
A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and more just set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half.
With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought.
Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men.
To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations
I knew the Prestons of Bank Village. I also attended town meetings with John Preston as moderator. Mrs. Preston of Bank Village was a friend of my mother and moved in with us for a yr (maybe less) , after her husband died and then nursing home. I'm assuming all these Prestons (at least on the male side) were descendants of the original John Preston of 1762.