Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.], Part 68

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 826

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Maj. W. P. Campbell, the well-known clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court, has been a resident of Arkansas for thirty-one years, and was born in Muhlenberg County, Ky., on August 23, 1838. He was a son of Alexander and Sarah W. (Kinche- loe) Campbell, natives of Ireland and the State of Kentucky, respectively. The father. though born in the Emerald Isle, was of Scotch descent, and a farmer by occupation. He left his native country and came to America about the year 180S, settling in Kentucky, where he resided the remainder of his days, dying in 1846 at the age of forty six years. The mother continned in Kentucky after war, that active part might be taken in the strug- , his death until 1875, when she came to Arkansas

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to take up her abode with her sons, and died in that State at the age of seventy-six years. W. P. Campbell was reared on a farm in Kentucky until his fifteenth year, receiving a fair English educa- tion at the public schools of his native place, after which he was employed as clerk in a business house at Nebo, Ky. One year later he went with his brother-in-law, J. M. Percival, to Arkansas, locating at Powhatan, and was there engaged in the drug business. He remained at Powhatan one year and a half, when, becoming settled at Augusta, Woodruff County, he embarked in the same business and continued until September, 1860, when he commenced the study of law with James H. Patterson. The following year he en- listed in what was known as the First Arkansas Mounted Riflemen, with the rank of third lieuten- ant, and was afterward promoted successively to the intervening ranks until commissioned major of his regiment at Murfreesboro. On December 31, 1862, he was wounded in the left leg by a minie ball, which fractured the bone and caused amputa- tion, and three days later he was captured and held prisoner of war for about four months. After being released he returned home and remained until the following fall, when he rejoined his com- mand and was made commissary, remaining in service until February, 1865. Reaching home he farmed for a year, and in 1866 was elected clerk of Woodruff County, serving as such until July, 1868, when, as he remarks, " I was reconstructed out of office." Maj. Campbell gave his attention to mercantile life until 1874. when he was re-elect- ed clerk of the county, discharging his official du- ties until 1882, but declining a renomination. In the summer of 1882 he received the nomination of the Democratic State convention as commissioner of State lands, and was elected that fall, serving until March, 1884, when he resigned and once more entered into business. In 1886 he was ap- pointed clerk of the supreme court by that body. In secret societies Maj. Campbell is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor and Knights of Pythias fraternities, and in religious belief he is an Old School Presbyterian and belongs to the First Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, in which

he is also an elder. He was married in October. 1863, to Miss Virginia C. Davies, of South Caro- lina, and their union has given them four daugh- ters and five sons. Mrs. Campbell and her five oldest children are also members of the same church.

William Armour Cantrell, M. D. In every community, the career of some one man may be traced by a thoughtful observer as an influence for good or evil in that especial community. ele- vating the standard of morals and manners or degrading it, and so acknowledged as the bless- ing or bane of his fellow citizens. The subject of this sketch is justly accorded a conspicuous and honored place among those whose course of action has gone to promote the welfare and moral excel- lence of Little Rock, the city of his adoption and the field of his manhood's achievements. Forty years of citizenship have tested the worth of prin- ciples of integrity, habits of regularity, moderation, foresight, the beauty of dignity, virtue and court- esy, and no clearer proof is needed than that given in the result to show that the peculiar character- isties of the individual go far to promote the pros- perity of the multitude. In life as in nature, all streams may be traced to their source. If that be pure, no turbid tributaries can permanently pollute the parent stream. Dr. William A. Cantrell is one of a host of grandchildren of Stephen Cantrell, Sr., who seems to be the earliest progenitor of the fam- ily on record in this country. He was born in 1758. near Abingdon, Va., where he was brought up. with one brother and two sisters older than himself. His father died during his boyhood. On approaching manhood he wandered into North Carolina, where he was employed in the service of the continental commissioners of the State. For his zeal and perseverance in the performance of these services. he received a grant of 640 acres of land in Tennessee, as shown by the records of Davidson County. April. 1788. He went to Ten- nessee either with, or shortly preceding the as- tounding expedition of Col. John Donelson, a brave and wealthy old Virginian surveyor, the destined father-in-law of Gen. Andrew Jackson. This com- pany of emigrants. with their dauntless leader, to

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avoid crossing the wilderness between Jonesboro and Nashville, then infested with 20.000 Indians. the most warlike and intelligent of their race, at- tempted and accomplished the journey "down the river Holstein to the Tennessee, down the Tennes- see to the Ohio, up the Ohio to the Cumberland to a new home." During the years of 1795 and 1796. Stephen Cantrell commanded as captain a com- pany of sixty three men, in the famous Nickajack expedition against the Indians. He was known to have said, in those days of early adventure, that he "prized a lump of salt or bread as large as his fist, more than he would have prized a lump of solid gold of equal size." About 1782 he married Mary Blakemore, daughter of Capt. John Blakemore, who, with his family, accompanied the Donelson expedition to Nashville. Stephen Cantrell, Sr., and William Montgomery were the first representa- tives from Sumner County to the first legislature of Tennessee, which convened at Knoxville, March 28, 1796. He died at his place in Sumner County, February 5, 1827, aged sixty eight years and some months. His wife. Mary Blakemore, born March 8, 1765, died August 2, 1849, aged eighty-four years. The family numbered eleven children, viz. : Stephen, Sarah, Otey. Alfred. John, William, Zebulon P., Mary, Darby H., James M. and George Clinton Cantrell, nine sons and two dangh- ters, besides an adopted son, John Cantrell, who became a wealthy salt manufacturer and merchant on the Kanawha River, W. Va., and an influential man and member of congress. Stephen Cantrell, Jr., the eldest son (father of our biographical sub- ject), was born in Sumner County, Tenn., at his father's place, March 10, 1783, and was brought up there. receiving an education as ample as the country afforded. When a young man he entered the store of George Michael Deaderick, with the view of qualifying himself for mercantile pursuits. In the course of time he became interested with Mr. Deaderick as junior partner, and so continued until the death of the latter, in 1816. Perhaps this partnership opened the way for another life- long one, with the lovely niece of his business asso- ciate, for this notice appeared in The Impartial Re- view, of Nashville of date, January 17, 1807:

Married, on Thursday evening last, Mr. Stephen Cantrell to the agreeable and justly admired Miss Juliet Wendell, both of this place.

Some years later Mr. Cantrell engaged in merchandise with Mr. Hinchey Petway, of Frank- lin, Tenn. They had stores in Nashville and Franklin, and interests in cotton planting near Florence, Ala. During this period he served as commissary and quartermaster in the Creek War, pension agent of the Government, mayor of the city of Nashville, magistrate of the county and president of the Bank of Nashville, successor of his former partner, George Michael Deaderick. About 1825 he withdrew from business pursuits entirely, and retired to his farm five miles west of Nashville. This place subsequently became the property of Mark R. Cockrill, the celebrated sheep raiser and wool grower. Some years later, he was induced again to embark in the cotton commission and steamboat trade of Nashville and New Orleans. From heavy ventures in cotton a disastrous failure ensued, involving the labor of a life-time. The death of his wife, in 1839, was the climax of these misfortunes, and in 1843 he retired to a small cot- ton farm near Pine Bluff, in Jefferson County, Ark .. separated from his friends and the companionship of his children, except that of the youngest sur- viving, Dr. William A. Cantrell, who went to live near him, and attended him at the time of his death. in 1854. Mr. Cantrell's wife was the direct descendant of David Diedrich, of Wurtemburg, Germany, who may have been the identical hero whose old saddle bags supplied the charming Knickerbocker "History of New York, " edited by Washington Irving, and who was the progenitor of the Deaderick and Cantrell family, here under consideration. The Kingdom of Wurtemburg. Germany, of which Stuttgart is the capital, suffered much in consequence of the " Thirty Years' War" and Roman Catholic intolerance, being almost en- tirely Lutheran. The emigration from that place to our shores needs no further explanation than that offered in our motto, " Peace and Liberty."

David Diedrich was born in Wurtemberg, and emigrated to the United States before the Revolu- tionary War (in which he served as a soldier), not

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later than 1750. He settled first in Pennsylvania, but afterward removed to Winchester, Va., which had been settled by Pennsylvania Germans in 1732. He was a member of the Lutheran Church as early as 1764, as shown by a copy of the paper deposited in the corner stone of the church there at that date. After his emigration to this country he married a lady of American birth, but German ancestry, whose name was Boher. The two con- versed exclusively in German. The children of this marriage (who accepted the anglicised name of Deaderick) were David Deaderick, Jr., George Michael, Thomas, John, Susanna and Elizabeth. The wife survived, and afterward married Dr. May, an Englishman, by which union there were three children: Samuel, Frank and Rosanna May. The eldest son, David Deaderick, Jr., who married

Margaret Anderson, sister of Joseph Anderson,

United States senator from Tennessee, and ap- pointed by President Monroe first comptroller of the United States treasury, settled at Jonesboro, Tenn., January 1, 1795, and the other three broth- ers established themselves at Nashville. The youngest of David Deaderick's children is James W. Deaderick, who has filled the office of chief justice of Tennessee since 1870. George Michael Deaderick, the next brother (mentioned before as senior partner of Stephen Cantrell, Jr.), was a prominent and influential man in the early days of Nashville, from 1785 to the period of his death. He was a large property holder in the town, and on

Brown's Creek, two miles south of it, and was ex- tensively engaged in merchandise. The ground of

Deaderick Street, leading from the public square southwest to Cherry Street, was donated by him to the city of Nashville, and hence received its name. His habit and style of living was liberal, his intercourse with others courteous and kind, his principles upright and humane. His style of dress was that of the Continental period, top boots, short pantaloons, silver knee-buckles, swallow-tailed coat, slightly powdered hair, arranged with a

queue. When the moss and lichens were removed from his tombstone, which may yet be seen at his old residence at " Westwood," the only legible inscription on it was his name, "George Michael

Deaderick, president of the Bank of Nashville." In view of limited space, all mention of the other two brothers, Thomas and John, and Elizabeth, the younger daughter, may be omitted, and the history of Susanna Deaderick, the elder daughter, contin- ued, who became the wife of David Wendel, Sr., and mother-in-law of Stephen Cantrell, Jr. Whether David Wendel, Sr., came with the Dead- ericks to Tennessee or not, is a matter of conject- ure. There is a tradition that two brothers Wen- del emigrated from Germany to the United States and afterward separated, one going north and the other south. A descendant of this latter, David Wendel, married Susanna Deaderick. They had nine children, viz : David Wendel, Jr. (married Sarah Nelson), William (never married), Rebecca (married Judge Foster), Rachel (married J. P. Wiggin), Rosanna (married Judge Howell Tatum), Polly (married Judge Bennett Searcy), Elizabeth (married Col. Robert Searcy), Juliet Ann Deader- ick (married Stephen Cantrell, Jr.), Matilda (mar- ried Alfred M. Carter). Juliet Ann Deaderick Wendell, whose marriage with Stephen Cantrell, Jr., January, 1807, has been noticed before, was born in Winchester, Va., April 8, 1787. At the time of her marriage, the Searcys, Fosters, Tatums and Wiggins were prominent and influential citi- zens of Nashville and its vicinity. They were high minded and progressive people, kind and hospita- ble almost to a fault. Mrs. Cantrell was richly endowed with personal attractions, and proved an ornament to the circle. Tall and graceful in move- ment, with a sweet benevolence of countenance, clear blue eyes and soft voice, she attracted every - one, and her piety, charity and compassion for suf- fering in any form riveted the friendship of all who knew her intimately. She was for many years a devout communicant with the Presbyterian Church. She died, deeply lamented by her de- voted family, July 3, 1839. A miniature picture, taken in girlhood and caused to be copied by her granddaughters (Mrs. Decatur Axtell, of Rich- mond, Va., and Mrs. Benjamin S. Church, of New York City) for the different members of the family, is in possession of Dr. Cantrell, a relic of almost a century. The children of Stephen Cantrell, Jr.,

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and Juliet Ann Deaderick Wendel were: George Michael Deaderick (married to Clara Walker), Mary Ann (married to Dr. T. J. J. Howard), Em- meline Susanna (married to Alex. A. Casseday), Elizabeth Searcy (married to Abram Van Wyck), Matilda Carter (married to William F. Mason), Elvira Searcy (married to Edwin Ferguson), David Wendel (born 1832, died 1835), William Armour (married to Ellen M. Harrell), Margaret Armstrong (born 1829, died 1834). William Armour Cantrell, M. D., the eighth member of the group, was born January 22, 1826, at his father's farm near Nash- ville. At a later date the family removed to the city, where he attended the primary schools nntil he was thirteen years of age. He was then sent to Princeton, N. J., and placed at Edgehill Sem- inary, where he made good record as a student. While there he met with the great bereavement of his life, the death of his mother. Preceding this came the financial wreck of his father. He was recalled and became a student at the Nashville University, but soon began the study of medicine with his cousin, Dr. James Wendel, of Murfrees- boro, Tenn. In 1845 he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Louisville, Ky., where his kinsman. Dr. Lunsford P. Yandell. Sr., professor of chemistry and pharmacy, was one of his preceptors. Drs. Gross, Short, Cobb, Drake, Miller and Caldwell occupied chairs at the same time, and S. S. Nicholas was president of the de- partment. Dr. Cantrell graduated at this univer- sity March 6, 1847. The year following he spent at New York, where he received the appointment of assistant physician in Bellevue Hospital. He was then appointed to relieve Dr. Winterbottom as physician of the Nursery Hospital at Blackwell's Island, and remained there during the summer of 1848. The following year he went to New Orleans. La., where, feeling qualified, he proposed to enter upon his life work. The solitary condition of his father, however, impelled him to abandon this pur- pose. After one winter of medical experience at New Orleans, where he treated yellow fever in epi- demic form, he established himself at Pine Bluff, Ark., in the vicinity of which his father resided, and later, at Little Rock. Here, in 1849, he met

his future wife, Miss Ellen M. Harrell, who had lately arrived with her family from Nashville, Tenn., fleeing from cholera, then decimating the city of Nashville. On February 13, 1852, Dr. Cantrell and Miss Harrell were married in Lit- tle Rock, by the Rev. A. R. Winfield. During what proved to be the last year of his father's life, Dr. Cantrell took his family to live on an adjoining plantation, and was with him at the time of his death, in September. 1854. Afterward he resumed his practice in Little Rock, where he rap- idly built up a solid reputation as a practitioner. In 1857 he purchased three lots on the southwest corner of Scott and Fourth Streets. where he built an ornamental frame cottage. This he sold after- ward to Ex-Gov. Miller, then auditor of State, and purchased lots on the northeast corner of Scott and Seventh Streets, where he built a commodions two-story brick building, in which he has resided with his family since IS60. He also invested in real estate near the city, which, in the course of years, has become very valuable property. During this long interval he has filled successively and honorably the positions of city physician, county physician. president of State board of medical ex- aminers, president of College of Physicians and Surgeons, delegate to the public health association, besides attending to a heavy practice among the most intelligent, refined and wealthy families in the community. He is the only surviving member of the first medical society of Little Rock, which he helped to organize, the managing board being R. A. Watkins, M. D., president; W. A. Cantrell, M. D., secretary; A. W. Webb, M. D., Craven Peyton, M. D., George Sizer, M. D., Corydon McAlmont. M. D. In 1861 he was appointed sur- geon of First Mounted Regiment of Arkansas, in the Confederate army. After Lee's surrender, he was solicited to take charge of the United States Post Hospital, at Little Rock garrison. He ac- cepted and held this position of acting assistant surgeon during the command of Brevet-Maj-Gen. Arnold, captain Light Battery G, Fifth Artillery, and that of Col. C. H. Smith, Twenty-eighth In- fantry, a period of five years. His record as phy- sician at this hospital added much to the reputa-

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tion for sagacity and skill already earned. Very lately he has had charge of the sick at the school for the blind in this city. Dr. Cantrell is sixty- three years of age, enjoying, good health, is in comfortable circumstances, and blessed with a wife and seven children, the youngest of whom, a son, has just completed his nineteenth year. His home, built in the old Southern style, with wide hall, ve- randas front and rear. spacious rooms and windows is seated in the center of four lots, shaded with elms, maples, fruit trees and evergreens of his own planting. It looks like a veritable home, with fine specimen fowls enjoying the lawn, the rearing of which, together with gardening, affords the pro- prietor a chosen relaxation from the arduous duties of his profession. It has been the scene of merry- makings without number for children and youth, and one of the centers of art culture to the literati, so well represented by his accomplished wife and children. The making of this home is a fair expo- nent of the energy and domestic virtues of the builder, whose only inheritance was sound health, sound discipline and sound principles. Dr. Cant- rell became a confirmed member of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1855, and served as a mem- ber of the vestry of Christ Church. Episcopal, Little Rock, during the incumbency of Rt. - Rev. Henry C. Lay, bishop of Arkansas and rector of Christ Church, Rev. J. T. Wheat and Rev. P. G. Robert, and is now junior warden of the same, Rev. Wallace Carnahan, rector. While the social amenity of his disposition and grace of manner have caused him to be sought by the most polished circles, the earnest simplicity and sympathy of his nature have endeared him to the most humble in rank. Like a full river, bravely bearing its own burdens to the sea, yet dispensing life and refresh- ment on every side, his course has shown a long succession of private and public services, proving that the prominent desire of his soul has been to be useful. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Will- iam A. Cantrell, all born in Little Rock, and to each of whom has been given a classical education, are: Lillian (who finished her course of study at St. Mary's Hall, Episcopal, Burlington, N. J., married to Joseph Lovell Bay, of St. Louis, Mo.),

Ellen May (graduate of Franklin College, Holly Springs, Miss., married to Decatur Axtell, C. E., of Elyria, Ohio), Daisy (first graduate of Arkansas Female College, married to Lucius Junius Polk, of Columbia, Tenn.), Wendell (born October 28, 1860, died October 1, 1861), Isadore (graduate of Arkansas Female College, married to Philo Hiram Goodwyn, of New Orleans. La.), Bessie (graduate of Arkansas Female College, unmarried), Deader- iek Harrell (student at Washington and Lee Uni- versity, Virginia, licensed as an attorney and coun- selor at law, June 24, 1889), William Armour, Jr. (now student at University of the South, Sewanee. Tenn.) They have had eleven grandchildren. Mrs. Ellen Catherine Harrell, the widow of Rev. Samuel Harrell, late of Halifax Court House, Va., whose history would grace the annals of woman- hood anywhere, deserves honorable mention here. Four children were born during the brief period of her wedded life, viz .: John Mortimer, Ellen Maria (who died when about three years old), Mary Eliza and Ellen Maria second (who was named for the deceased baby sister). After the death of her husband, who ended his career as preacher and teacher before he reached the merid- ian of life, Mrs. Harrell nobly determined to exert all her powers to supply his loss, and her affections thereafter seemed to flow in one undeviating chan- nel, that of motherhood. She resolved to quit the scenes made desolate by this calamity and seek a home in Tennessee. Crossing the mighty barriers that intervened, in company with a party of friends, she arrived in safety at the place of her destina- tion in 1839. When the young widow. with her little family of three children, reached Nashville, from the home of Jacob Donelson. in Rutherford County, where they had been entertained for some months, she had one friend, as she thought, with whom she deposited $1,000 at interest, bravely re- solving to maintain her children by her own genius and industry. She rented a large brick house that had lately been a church, and opened a school. The venture proved successful, otherwise the family might have lapsed into oblivion, for the "friend," a respectable citizen and head of a family, be- trayed her trust, and the $1,000 was lost, irrevo-

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cably. She rallied from the shock, and for four this place. Thus was extinguished in forest se- clusion, amid the fumes of prejudice, war and barbarism, a light that had burned with steady brilliancy for a quarter of a century, diffusing warmth, light and color to all who came within its range. She was buried, at her own request, by the Rev. E. Steele Peek, Federal, Episcopal chap- lain of Maj. - Gen. Steele's division. In this choice she disclosed the ruling passion of her heart, sympathy for the oppressed, for this clergyman had recommended himself to her by his holy ministra- tions and dying support to the young "rebel," Owen, who was condemned and executed as a spy at this place, to the undying regret of all. This holy, gentle man, offered daily prayers at her dying bedside also, and preached a funeral sermon over her remains. When the news came, a few years later, of his death on the Pacific shore, her bereaved children, with profound emotion, echoed the words selected by him on the occasion of their mother's burial, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!" By way of sup- plement to the foregoing biographies, a clipping from the Little Rock Republican, of date January 7. 1888, is appended, where, in a series of "Personal Sketches," written by the Hon. W. Jasper Black- burn, editor. this sketch is given: years labored unceasingly, and at length entered upon her reward. There may be some still living in Nashville, who remember a scene at the market- place on the public square; when the then hand- some brick residence near the northwest corner of Vine and Union Streets, built with a concert hall in the rear, by William Nash, professor of music, was cried at auction to the highest bidder. On the outskirts of the throng of men assembled there for real-estate exchange, was seen the small and trim figure of the widow, attended by her son, a handsome boy of ten, and two little daughters. A veil, half removed, disclosed a magnetic face; a broad, square brow, shaded with brown waves of hair, clear, fair complexion and intense blue eyes, then almost black with restrained emotion, as they were bent on the auctioneer. The bidding went on, rose and languished. A slight flutter of a white handkerchief and the sale was accom- plished. The little group retired and entered into the new partnership of a solid home. There was now no obstacle in her path that might not be over- come. Faithful in her church duties as communi- cant, teacher in Sunday-school and almoner for the poor, she found strength and inspiration to ac- complish the object of her life. The children each completed the usual classical course of study, with Mrs. William Cantrell is a lady of scholarly attain- ments, and from early life has evinced an ambition for literary work. At the age of sixteen, she wrote a series of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, then the most popular literary journal in the United States. music and art combined. The son graduated at the University of Nashville, and was one of the class orators at commencement. The daughters took diplomas from the Nashville female academy. Since her marriage to Dr. Cantrell she has made vari- ous valuable contributions to magazines and newspapers, usually over a nom de plume; but, realizing that all her time and talents were justly due her growing family, she laid aside her pen, and for over twenty years had done little writing, though often tempted to by her natural pro- A series of papers entitled " Romance of History," - and a story called " Vesta " are among her most success- ful productions. clivities. The elder daughter, Mary, also took a post gradu- ate course at Patapsco Institute, Maryland, where the learnedly famous Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps presided. During the fearful scourge of cholera in 1848 and 1849 Mrs. Harrell leased her property, and, with her family, took refuge in Little Rock, Ark. She opened a school and finally concluded to remain. She disposed of her property in Nash- Rev. Wallace Carnahan, the rector of Christ Church at Little Rock, Ark., and an eminent and much respected citizen, is a native of the Old Dominion, where his birth occurred April 18, 1843. His father dying when he was eight years old, his mother removed with him to Newport, ville afterward, and invested in cotton lands on the Arkansas River and slaves. She died in Little Rock, at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. W. A. Cantrell, to whom she went for medical atten- tion, under permit of Maj .- Gen. Fred. W. Steele, then in command of the United States troops at | Ky., and there he received his literary education.

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Biographical and historical memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring counties, Arkansas, comprising a condensed history of the statebiographies of distinguished citizens...[etc.], Part 68

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company) Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Goodspeed, firm, publishers, Chicago. (1886-1891. Goodspeed publishing Company)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Chicago, St. Louis [etc.] The Goodspeed publishing co.
Number of Pages: 826