But the recital of its close associations with the village makes it clear that the pill factory was more than a mere employer; for ninety years it provided a spirit that animated Morristown, Pioneered in the introduction of utilities and certain social services, linked the village directly with the great outside world of drug stores and hypochondriacs, and distinguished it sharply from other, languishing St. Lawrence County villages.
"History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills"
Robert B. Shaw
Crimes had Pioneered and made smooth the way for the march of the virtues, and from that time order and justice and a sacred regard for personal property were to become the rules for the new democracy.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
It took almost a century and a half to open that way, but every league of it was Pioneered by the French, and if not for the French forever, is the credit the less theirs?
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley