Not many rich or mighty among us but a sturdy, reliable, self-respecting, God fearing group of people who have helped make America great. The family has a splendid background and a clean record. The results will be more highly appraised after this generation has passed off the stage of action. We thank all the friends who have spent time and money to help us. We cut off the thread of the story conscious of its incompleteness. This kind of a task can never be finished. Correspondence, travel and research has used up all the intervening vacations. To it has been given every spare moment of a busy pastor. The task has covered seven years and has been constantly in mind. The task of collecting and arranging the data concerning the descendents of Robert and Mary Bane Giffen, who settled in 1787 at Wheeling, Virginia, has fallen to the undersigned. Va., group, that each should publish its own history. Consequently it has later been decided by the Washington county, Pennsylvania, group, and the Wheeling, W. After examination of available records, piecing together traditions, and a trip to Scotland by the third member of this committee, it became evident that relationship between the groups could not be established by documentary evidence. At a general reunion of the Giffens at Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1920 it was resolved to publish a history of the family, and the following committee was named to perform the task.
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