History of New London county, Connecticut : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 109

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1317

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The church lost one of its most prominent members in the death of the senior warden, Daniel W. Deni- son, Esq. He was one of the first organizers of the church, and it was largely due to his untiring labors that the church attained prosperity. He was always at his post, and took a deep interest in parish-work.

Mr. Pardee resigned his rectorship May 22, 1881, having received a call to Trinity Church, Seymour, Conn. The church was supplied until July by the Rev. Peter Shepard, of Saybrook, Conn., when the church extended a call to the Rev. Wm. F. Bielby, of St. Philip's Church, Putnam, Conn., who is the

present rector. The condition of the parish is at present very encouraging, and indicates a gratifying increase in interest and numbers.

The present number of communicants is one hun- dred and eight.

The officers of this parish for 1881 are Roswell Brown, senior warden; W. W. Kellogg, junior war- den ; F. T. Mercer, L. M. Fairbanks, M. B. Oviatt, F. H. Brewer, E. R. Williams, John Lee, D. C. Brown, Amos Watrous, and W. W. Kellogg, Jr., vestrymen ; F. S. Bidwell, parish clerk.

The Groton Bank Baptist Church1 is situated in the town of Groton, on the river Thames, opposite the city of New London, and was constituted Marclı 16, 1843, composed of fifty-one members, fourteen male and thirty-seven female. It has erected two houses of worship, one in 1843-44, the other in 1871-72. The first cost about $1600, the latter, $15,000, with an audience-room with over three hundred sittings, a lecture-room with two hundred, a conference-room with one hundred and fifty, and a ladies' parlor.

This church has been served by six pastors, viz. : Rutherford Russell, two years; Isaac Chesebro, four years; George Matthews, two years; Edgar A. Hewitt, one year ; Eli Dewhurst, two years ; and N. T. Allen, the present incumbent, nineteen years, and a number of years they have been supplied.

There have been added to the church, four hundred and twenty persons, the large majority by baptism. Present number, two hundred and twenty.

A Sunday-school was commenced in 1843, and has been maintained till now. Present number, two hun- dred and twenty.

The Morgan Chapel1 was built about five years since, by Capt. Ebenezer Morgan, of Groton. It is located about one mile from the Baptist church, at the terminus of the Providence and Stonington Rail- road. It is an out-station, used principally for Sun- day-school work. Occasionally religious service is held there. It cost about $1600, and will seat two hundred persons. It is owned by Capt. Ebenezer Morgan.

CHAPTER XLIII.

GROTON-(Continued).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.2

Ledyard, the Traveler .- One of the most noted men of Groton was John Ledyard, commonly called " The Traveler." He was a younger brother of Col. William Ledyard, the celebrated hero-martyr of Gro- ton Heights, born in 1751. He was naturally a rover. For a short time he resided among the Six Nations.

1 By Rev. N. T. Allen.

2 By W. II. Potter.

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We also hear of him exploring the Connecticut alone in a canoe. He made a sea-voyage with his intimate friend, Elisha Hinman. He then went to England, enlisted as a marine, sailed with the celebrated navi- gator, Capt. Cook, on his second voyage around the world, of which he published an account. He next started from London eastward on foot to make the tour of the world; visited St. Petersburg, and went thence through the most unfrequented parts of Finland. He proceeded through European Russia, and as far as Yakutsk, where the Governor arrested him, and sent him, like a modern tramp, back to the borders, and bid him go and never return to Russian soil, under pain of death. He was next employed by an association for the exploration of the African con- tinent by ascending the Nile with an exploring-party. The adventurous traveler was now in his element, and about to achieve that fame for which his previous exploits had fitted him. But at Grand Cairo he was attacked by a fatal disease, and died A.D. 1788, aged thirty-seven. He was indeed a singular genius, with germs of greatness, and was a poet as well as a fine prose writer.

Bishop Seabury.1 Hon. Silas Deane.2

Hon. Waitstill Avery .- Waitstill Avery was born in Groton (Ledyard) in 1741. His father, Humphrey Avery, Esq., was an honored citizen of his native town, having represented Groton in the General As- sembly of Connecticut nine times, commencing with 1732. He found means to send his son Waitstill, who was a promising youth, to Nassau Hall, Princeton College, where he graduated with honor in the class of 1767, and having subsequently studied law, we find him in 1769 seeking a Southern home, attracted doubtless by the influence of his classmates in college, many of whom came from the sunny South. He set- tled at Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N. C. Having the true Avery grit, he soon rose to eminence at the bar, and found time withal to assert his fearless patriot- ism, doing much to awaken enthusiasm in the cause of independence. He was a signer and moving spirit, if not the author, of the celebrated Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, adopted at Charlotte, N. C., May 20, 1775, one year, one month, and four- teen days before the more celebrated, but not more pronounced, Declaration of Independence, July . 4, 1776, from which we date our birth as a nation. The instructions to the North Carolina delegates in the Continental Congress, accompanying the engrossed copy of the Mecklenburg declaration, were in Avery's handwriting. This was the first concerted utterance, not for redress merely, but for absolute national inde- pendence of Great Britain. It had a powerful influ- ence in strengthening the cause of freedom when the fear of consequences and a traitor's doom had kept

members of Congress discreet in their deliberations, and prepared tlie delegates from all the colonies for a united declaration a year later. Mr. Avery was the first attorney-general of the State of his adoption, and was Mecklenburg's representative in the Legislature for many years. He was also a commissioner to ne- gotiate with the Indians, a difficult and delicate trust, which he discharged with satisfaction to the State. He died in 1821, aged eighty years, full of honors, leaving an unsullied name to his posterity. A North Carolinian writes, " From his patriotism and activity he was the object of the malevolence of the British, who took particular pains to burn his law-office in Charlotte as the army of Lord Cornwallis passed through the Carolinas."

His antecedents from his youth did not allow him to approve of the code of honor as it prevailed South, but his rivalry at the bar as he rode the circuit of the courts sometimes led him into serious differences. On one of these occasions a rival lawyer took excep- tion at the severe personalities of Mr. Avery, as it was alleged, and a challenge followed. Mr. Avery felt obliged to accept it or to be brought into disgrace, at which his high spirit revolted. He accepted the challenge, chose his weapons, and with his second and his surgeon went into the field. At the word his rival fired and missed Mr. Avery, who fired his pistol towards the zenith. The seconds now interfered, they shook hands and were friends. That rival lawyer was afterwards the hero of the battle of New Orleans and President of the United States. The challenge itself is still preserved by Avery's posterity in the original handwriting of the giver. Mr. Avery never had occasion to fight another duel.

Marshal James Mitchell .- James Mitchell, Esq., was born A.D. 1777, and resided at Groton Bank, where his son, Col. William F. Mitchell, now lives. He was a leading townsman in Groton, more than once a representative to the Assembly, and member of the State Senate. President Adams appointed him United States marshal for the State of Connecticut, and he was reappointed by Gen. Jackson, retaining his position until his death in 1831, aged fifty-four years.

Hon. Noyes Barber.3

Hons. Elisha Haley and Stephen Haley .- The Haleys were not among the pioneers, but towards the close of the last century began to make themselves known in the management of town affairs. Elisha Haley was admitted to be a freeman in 1799; was tithingman in 1801 ; was surveyor in 1805 ; was select- man in 1811, and many times afterwards ; representa- tive in the Assembly in 1816, and several times re- elected; member of the State Senate in 1830, and four years a member of Congress. His brother, Hon. Stephen Haley, was well remembered as town-collec- tor, deputy sheriff, selectman, representative, and as

1 For life of Bishop Seabury, see history of St. James' Church, New London.

2 See Supplement.

3 See page 472.

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the first judge of probate after the district of Groton was constituted.

Hon. Albert Gallatin Stark .- Albert G. Stark, of Mystic River, was another genius who should be men- tioned among the remarkable young men of Groton. He was born in 1824, and received only a common- school education. He was a self-made mathematician, a ready speaker and debater, and no mean poet. He was clerk and then judge of probate, and one of the earliest Free-Soil candidates for Congress, receiving a large and flattering support in his own town, where his admiring townsmen saw the germ of statesman- ship which he was never destined to achieve, as he died in 1853, in the midst of his promising career, while holding the office of probate judge, at the early age of twenty-nine years.

Hon. Belton Allyn Copp .- Mr. Copp was born near Gale's Ferry, Groton, in 1796. He was by pro- fession a lawyer, and took a prominent part in politics. The first part of his life was spent in Georgia, but he removed to his native town in 1832, where he settled down as a farmer, and yet practiced his profession. He was a member of the Legislature several times, beginning with 1838. In 1847 that body appointed him chief judge of the County Court. He died in 1858, aged sixty-two years.

Hon. Daniel Burrows .- Rev. Daniel Burrows died at Mystic River, in this town, in January, 1858, aged ninety-two years. He was the son of Rev. Silas Burrows, and brother of Rev. Roswell Burrows. (See history of the Second Baptist Church, Groton.) He was born at Fort Hill, Groton, in 1766. He was a first-class business man, and a Methodist Episcopal preacher of some distinction for sixty years. He made Middletown, Conn., his home, of which port he was inspector of customs for twenty-four years. He served in Congress during the last term of Monroe's administration. Congress was not perfect then, for he wrote while in Congress to his brother, Rev. Ros- well Burrows, as follows: "I am sorry to say that every day's experience confirms me in the belief that there is a great want of integrity in men acting in high stations. I consider it very unfortunate for the country that a majority of Congress should be made up of second-rate lawyers, who can spout by the hour to no purpose, but just to be heard. I don't think I was ever before in so wicked a place as Washington. I have declined visits or dinings and tea-parties, be- yond what can be made immediately subservient to the business for which I am sent, which with me shall be paramount."

Hon. Albert Latham .- Another of Groton's repre- sentative men was Mr. Albert Latham. He was the son of the artillery captain, William Latham, who had the command of Fort Griswold during the great fight in 1781, and his heart ever beat warmly towards the Revolutionary defenders of his country. He was born in Groton in 1766, and was admitted to be a free- man in 1809. In 1812 he began to fill offices of trust,

and he thus enjoyed almost all the offices within the gift of the town. He was selectman, beginning with 1827, eleven times, serving five times in the Assem- bly from 1829, and once in the Senate. He died in 1868, aged eighty-one years.

Capt. Adam Larrabee .- Another of the notable characters that arose in Groton (since Ledyard) is the name of Adam Larrabee. He was born near Allyn's Point, March 14, 1787. He entered West Point Military Academy Jan. 18, 1808, and graduated March 1, 1811, and he received a commission of that date as second lieutenant of light artillery. He was on the Niagara frontier in 1812, and in Gen. Wilkin- son's campaign on the St. Lawrence in 1813 and 1814. He was made captain of light artillery Feb. 24, 1814, and was a participant in the battle of French Mills, on La Cole River. At this engagement he received a severe wound by an ounce musket-ball through the lungs, and was reported killed; and from the nature of the wound it was not supposed possible that he could live. He was courageous, and was taken to Saratoga, where he was carefully nursed in the family of Chancellor Walworth, and recovered.

Having resigned his commission, he returned to his native town, represented Groton in the Legislature, and was one of the Harrison electors in 1840. In 1828 he was one of the Board of Visitors at West Point. He removed to Windham in 1853, where he died, Oct. 25, 1869, aged eighty-two, full of years and honors.

Hons. Asa and Nathan G. Fish .- Asa Fish was born and reared in Groton. He is first remembered as an excellent teacher of youth. He married in Stonington, and settled at Mystic Bridge, in that town, to which his subsequent career as a member of both houses of the Legislature and judge of probate for many years, which was certainly an honorable one, belongs. Capt. Nathan G. Fish, a brother of Asa, and son of Deacon Sands Fish, was born and educated near the banks of the Mystic, where the first settler of the name purchased. He was for many years a shipmaster and owner. He was several times elected to the Lower House of the Assembly, and three times represented the Seventh Senatorial Dis- trict. He also served first as clerk and then as judge of Probate Court.

Capt. Fish was noted as a member of the General Assembly in 1857, which altered the charter of the Mystic link of the Shore-Line Railroad, requiring the track to be laid where it now is, near the village, and took an important part in the discussion of a question in which the interests of his constituents were so vitally concerned. Capt. Fish was for many years deacon in the Union Baptist Church, Mystic River, and president of the National Bank and of the Groton Savings-Bank. He died in 1870, much la- mented, aged sixty-six.

Col. Hiram Appelman .- Col. Appelman was born on the banks of the Mystic in 1825. When quite a

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young man he studied law and removed West. He was a member of the Kansas Senate when the Topeka Constitution was adopted. Coming East about the time of the breaking out of the civil war, he recruited Company G of the Eighth Regiment, and was wounded at the head of his regiment, Sept. 17, 1862, having been promoted successively major and lieutenant- colonel. He was obliged to return home and resign on account of his shattered limb, but after long ill- ness he partially recovered, and resumed the practice of the law in his native village; was elected State senator, and then Secretary of State, to which office he was re-elected, and finally`died in office in 1873, aged forty-eight years. Mr. D. Webster Edgcomb, his chief clerk, from the same town, was appointed by the General Assembly to fill out his unexpired term.

Hons. Roswell and Lorenzo Burrows .- These somewhat noted men were born at Fort Hill, Groton, and there received their early training. They were sons of Rev. Roswell Burrows. Having arrived at manhood, about the year 1825 they removed to Albion, N. Y., where the elder Roswell became emi- nent as a banker, and he has recently died. His brother Lorenzo yet lives at the age of seventy-six, having been a member of Congress for two terms, comptroller of the State of New York, and is now one of the oldest of the regents of the university, having enjoyed and honored that distinction for more than a quarter of a century.

Col. Amos Clift .- Amos Clift was born at Mystic River, Aug. 7, 1805, and died Aug. 18, 1878, aged seventy-three. He was a leading builder for many years. He was also colonel of the Eighth Regiment; many times selectman, three times a member of the Assembly, and for eighteen or nineteen years judge of the Probate Court for the district of Groton. His public and private record are alike unsullied.

Elisha Morgan, Esq .- Elisha Morgan enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-townsmen to a marked degree for many years. He held all the offices in the town ; was selectman for many terms, represented the town in the Assembly five times, ending with 1862. But it is as town clerk he is best known, in which capacity he served the town acceptably for more than twenty years. He wrote a bold, plain hand to the last, and died in office in 1877, aged seventy-seven years.

Col. Daniel C. Rodman .- Daniel C. Rodman was born in Dover, N. H., Oct. 16, 1826. Before the war he was in the employ of the Colt's Firearms Com- pany of Hartford, in the capacity of agent in the mining districts of Arizona. Returning to Hartford at the outbreak of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a pri- vate in the First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, being mustered in on the 19th day of April, 1861. Before the expiration of his three months' term of service he was promoted to be first lieutenant, which rank he held when the regiment was mustered out. Immediately upon his return from the field he re-

cruited a company for the Seventh Regiment Connec- ticut Volunteers, of which he was chosen captain, and mustered in Sept. 5, 1861. He was successively pro- moted to be major and lieutenant-colonel of the Sev- enth, holding the latter rank when the regiment was mustered out, after more than three years of arduous and honorable service. Among the engagements in which he participated were Port Royal, Fort Pulaski (where he was in command of the battery nearest the enemy's works), James Island, Morris Island, Fort Wagner, Chester Station, and Drury's Bluff. He was twice wounded at the memorable battle of Fort Wag- ner. The more serious wound of the two was inflicted by the fragment of a shell, which, striking the scab- bard of his sword, forced it against his ribs, several of which were broken, and sowed the seeds of the disease which at last terminated fatally. . Soon after the close of the war he was appointed United States pension-agent for the District of Connecticut, hold- ing the office and discharging its responsible duties with ability and integrity until it was abolished under the general order consolidating the pension districts. Brave, clear-headed, and thoroughly sin- cere, in his death Connecticut loses one of the most distinguished soldiers of the late war. Having mar- ried a Groton lady, he took up his residence here a few years ago, and died at his home in Groton, Oct. 10, 1881, aged fifty-five years. It is said of him by his biographer, " A braver man and a more noble soul never lived."

Zerah C. Whipple .- Zerah was born in Quaker- town, Ledyard, Sept. 1, 1849. His parents were Jon- athan and Content Whipple, and his grandfather was Jonathan Whipple, the originator in America of the idea and practice of teaching deaf mutes to talk and to read the lips of people when they are talking.

Zerah was a precocious youth, honest, conscien- tious, inquiring, and he took the lead as a scholar among his classmates. . A partial sunstroke while at work in the field, when about fifteen years of age, somewhat retarded his literary progress and impaired his physical strength. He was early an eloquent temperance and peace advocate, but of a sturdy inde- pendence, and refused to pay his military tax, for which he suffered imprisonment in the county jail. But Zerah Whipple's name will be chiefly remem- bered and honored as a teacher of the system-which his grandfather founded-of instructing deaf mutes to talk.

He commenced teaching this system when he was nineteen years old, and the next year, 1869, he opened a school at Quakertown on the Whipple plan. But he was a genins, and commenced the formation of a mute's alphabet, which he patented, by means of which the before mute pupil was aided in his attempts at articulation. He and his father removed their Whipple Home School to the heights north of Mys- tic River, where they purchased a fine. three-story building for its use.

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Meantime he went before the Legislature and asked for a State appropriation to aid every pupil of his school from this State. He finally obtained the same annual appropriation for each pupil as the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb received ; and being thus recognized by the State, he had laid the foundation of a prosperous school, when he was stricken down by disease, and died in September, 1879, aged thirty years. The school continues in the hands of his widow and his father.

Mr. Whipple was at the time of his death secretary of the Connecticut Branch of the Universal Peace Society, having its seat in London. The annual ses- sions of this branch are held in the grove near Mystic River, and they are numerously attended.

Physicians .- There have been a few prominent physicians in Groton whose biography belongs to the public. The first that we name was Dr. Dudley Woodbridge. He was a son of the first minister in Groton of the standing order, and not only a good physician of liberal endowments and education, but he was known in the administration of town affairs, having been a selectman and nine times a member of the Assembly.

Dr. AMOS PRENTICE .- This physician lived during the times that tried men's patriotism. He was the resident physician that attended upon the wounded and dying that offered up their lives at the massacre on Groton Heights in 1781. He was there during the night that followed, and, like a ministering angel, went to the scattered and maimed invalids over the town, and it was owing to his skill and patience that so many of the severely wounded recovered.

Dr. Prentice was more than once elected selectman, and was enabled to add official weight, as an officer, to his benevolence as a physician in supplying the wants of families bereaved or impoverished by the horrors of war. He also had the honor of representing Gro- ton in the General Assembly at the close of the war. We would like to say more of this good Samaritan. \ DR. JOHN O. MINER .- Dr. John Owen Miner was descended in a direct line from Henry Miner, of county Somerset, England, who was knighted by Ed- ward III. He studied medicine under Dr. Amos Prentice, of Groton Bank. Dr. Prentice will ever be held in grateful remembrance for his services to the wounded at Fort Griswold, and in this attendance his student, Dr. Miner, was with him. Dr. Miner had in his boyhood and youth struggled heroically with ad- versity and labored diligently to help his mother, who was the daughter of Rev. John Owen, from whom young Miner took his name. After completing his medical studies he practiced medicine for a time in Stonington, and then in North Groton, or Ledyard, but finally settled down at Centre Groton, where for half a century he had a large practice, being the only physician in the town after the death of Dr. Prentice. His wife was a daughter of Col. Ebenezer Avery, who perished in the fort in the great massacre. After he

retired from his profession he lived with his daughter, Mrs. Adelia Randall, at Mystic River, where he died in 1851, aged ninety years. All of his eight children -seven daughters and one son-were present at his funeral.

DR. BENJAMIN F. STODDARD .- Dr. Stoddard was a native of Groton, and studied medicine under Dr. John O. Miner, whose daughter Julia he married. He practiced medicine first in a neighboring town, but afterwards settled at Mystic River, in Groton, en- joying there an extensive practice. He was surgeon in the Eighth Regiment during the war of 1812. He died in February, 1848, aged fifty-six, much lamented.

DR. JOSEPH DURFEY .- Dr. Joseph Durfey resided at Groton Bank, and was for many years, during the recollection of the present generation, a popular physician. He was also well known in public affairs, and held a variety of offices of trust and honor, and among them he held the office of judge of probate for two terms. He died March 27, 1864, aged sixty- eight years.

CHAPTER XLIV. GROTON -- (Continued).

STATISTICAL.

THE names of selectmen have been given, in order, to the close of the Revolution ; we now give a full list of representatives in a condensed form, not repeating names. It will be remembered that they were elected twice a year, in April and October, until the adoption of the constitution in 1818. We omit titles in these, and give the years in which they served in abbreviated form.

James Morgan, 1706, '07, '09, '13, '13, '14, '14, '15, '16, '24, '26, '30, '53; Andrew Lester, 1706; Nehemiah Smith, 1706, '07, '18, '21, '21, '22, '22, "23, '23 ; Samuel Fish, 1706, '07, '08, '12 ; James Avery, 1707, '08, '08, '10, '10, '11, '12. '15, '16, '17, '18, '24, '24, '25, '26, '27, '27, '28, 28, '29, '30, '31, '31, '34, '35, '36 ; John Morgan, Sr., 1708, '10, '10, '11, '31; William Latham, 1709 ; Samuel Avery, 1709, '16, '18, '19; John Mor- gan, Jr., 1711, '21 ; Moses Fish, 1712, '31, '47, '52, '54, '56, '57, '58, '62, '65, '65, '66, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70 (probably father and son of the same name); Jonathan Starr, 1712, '13, '13, '14, '14, '26, '28; Samuel Les- ter, 1714; William Morgan, 1715, '16; Nicholas Stent (or Treat), 1715, '17, "29; James Packer, 1717, '32, '32. '33, '33, '34; Joshua Bill, 1717, '20, '21, '22, '22, '23, '23, '24, 128, 29; John Seabury, 1718; Dan- iel Tracy, 1719; Ebenezer Avery, 1720, "20, '26, '36, '41, '46, '50, '52, '54, '63, '64, '68 ; John Burrows, 1720; Christopher Avery, 1724, 125, '34, '36, '38, '38, '39, '40, '41, '42, 42, '43, '43, '44, '44, '45' '45, '46, '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '55, '56, '57, 57, '58, '58, '59, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, '64; Daniel Eldredge, 1727, '29, '34 ; James Eldredge, 1730; Ben Adam Gallup, 1730, '53, '64, '65, '66, '67, '67, '68, '69, '70, '70, '71, '76, '77 ; Humphrey Avery, 1732, '32, '33, '33, '34, '35, '38,' '40, '41; Luke Perkins, 1735, '47, '50, '51, '56, '58, '60, '60, '61 ; Dudley Woodbridge, 1735, '36, '39, '39, '40, '40, '57, '61, '62; John Chester, 1736 ; William Willianis, 1741, '49, '50, '56, '63, '64, '65, '68, '69, '78 ; John Ledyard, 1742, '43, '43, '44, '44, '45, '45, '46, '47, '48, '49; Robert Allyn, 1748, '89, '90; Ebenezer Avery, Jr., 1748, '98, '98; Nathan Smith, 1749, '53, '55; Silas Deane, 1752; Robert Gere (2), 1754, '60, '70, '94, '94, '97; Jabez Smith, 1759, '59, '63, 1800; William Wood- bridge, 1761, '63 ; Simon Avery, 1769, '92, '94, '94; Joseph Gallup, 1771 ; Nathan Gallup, 1771, '75, '75, '77, '79, '82, '84, '84, '87, '89, '91, '93, '93 ; Nathan Fish, 1771, '72, '72; Ebenezer Ledyard, 1772, '79, '80, '82, '83, '83, '84, ,86, '87; '88, '89, '96 ; Col. Wm. Ledyard, 1773, '76

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History of New London county, Connecticut : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 109

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1317

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1317