Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 58

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne.
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: The author,
Number of Pages: 553

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Cornelius Kortright, and his brother Peter, baptized March 11, 1711, who married a Scher- merhorn. The John Cannon who was the first of the name in Norwalk and hence, elsewhere in this work called John1st, was a grandson of John and Mary or Maria (LeGrand) Cannon. This grandfather, son of Andrew and Anna Cannon, the Cannon American ancestors, made his will April 16, 1751, which document remained unprobated until May 13, 1763. The will of Andrew Cannon, the progenitor, was made "12 March, 1711." "Commodore" John Can-

which extended on the east as far as the river. The family was interested in navigation, and was inti- mately connected with the old Long Island Sound Bridgeport and Norwalk route, a fact which moves to brief personal retrospection in that direction. The route referred to (page 307) was one of the early steam routes of America. The New Haven line was older (1815) but Norwalk and Bridgeport were not many years in arrears. Daniel Drew, Cornelius Van- derbilt and the Bridgeport Cannon alluded to were interested in the Norwalk steamboat route in opposi- tion to the Pecks' early command of the line (see pages 307 and 308). Drew, Hoffman, Vanderbilt and Isaac Newton were associated in the manage- ment of the North River steamboats, one of which was occasionally put in commission on the Sound. It was made the duty of Drew and Vanderbilt to statedly sail over the course and examine into the condition of vessels, wharfs, docks, offices, etc. Daniel Drew, who started humbly and who persevered until he controlled "Bull's Head" and was one of the steam magnates of the new era, was shrewd and a reader of men. He had two men on the Norwalk route, the older of whom, Alanson P. St. John, he knew well, and the younger of whom he came, on this wise, to be well acquainted with. Vanderbilt and he were sitting in the "Fire " or " Boiler room" during that portion of a Norwalk trip in which the Captain and his steward, a young man from the Ely Neck road, were engaged in collecting passage fares. The Steward, with the bank notes held between his fingers, while his palm was filled with silver, opened the fire room door and called out, "Your fares, gen- tlemen." "Don't yon know who we are?" replied one of the two. "I don't know anyone," answered the official, " and Captain Brooks is the only one who can pass you on this line." The party hastened to the presence of the commander, who at once exclaim- ed, " Why, these are Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Drew. Time passed, and the Steward aspiring to a higher position, determined to call at Mr. Drew's Fourteenth Street residence and ask for an interview. The bell was answered by Mr. Drew, to whom the young man made known his business. The latter was told to be at a certain spot at 9 A. M. the next day. The meeting place was aboard one of the company's boats which was undergoing repairs. "Can you have the Utica ready to leave for Albany to-morrow night ?" asked Mr. Drew, addressing one of the com-

pany's men standing by, "I can." "Then take command of the same and make the trip; and you, Wilcox, see to the repairs on this boat and put it in shape for sailing." Drew and Vanderbilt are dead but the steward lives, hard on to ninety, to tell with eagerness of the matter and wonder whether his adherence to passage orders on the old Norwalk boat may not have had something to do with his promotion.

Alanson P. St. John, just mentioned (see page 142), commenced his conspicuous steamboat official career on the Vanderbilt boat Citizen. The duties of clerk, freight master and steward, even in those primi- tive days, were of account. On the morning of the steamer's sailing from New York some hundreds pounds of breakfast beef was ordered aboard by the steward, and a like quantity for dinner. As in the early days seven o'clock A. M. was the hour of de- parture from the city, and one p. M. from Norwalk, the "up ' passengers breakfasted and the "down" company dined on the boat. Anon Mr. St. John was advanced to the captaincy and assigned command of of the Hudson River Rochester, in which position he distinguished himself and grew in great favor. One of his North River stewards was Abraham Banks of Sawpits, and eventually of Norwalk. Mr. Banks' Rochester tables were taste models. Delmonico's and Martenelli's may be rare and remarkably elegant refreshment resorts of to-day, but the older Hudson steam lines supper table, spread with snow white damask, centered with boquet-interspersed rows of silvered candelbra holding brightly burning tapers and dextrously set in gold monogramed china and crystal glassware, was a life remembered vision. The Captain at the table's head, with the western statesmen and the northern Saratogians on either hand constituted a sort of social zodiac. Dinner was the principal repast on the day, but supper on the night boats. The steamer's steward was also often commission-intrusted. There were three Bridgeport citizens, one of them a noted divine, who always ex- pected the steward of the Nimrod to make hat pur- chases for them at the large 118 Broadway estab- lishment of Charles St. John of Norwalk (see note 2, page 143), and to pay ten dollars each, the standard price of the silk article. After his Rochester connec- tion Captain St. John was put in charge of the Alba- ny night boats and achieved fame. He lived in the days of the Powells, Pecks, Tuppers, Farnhams,

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non came to Norwalk and married and settled as per note, page 13. He was a wide awake citizen evidently, and largely interested in Norwalk's commercial development. His home was on the East Avenue of 1899 and immediately south of Gruman's Hill. This acreage was partially or altogether the gift of his wife's uncle, Samuel Cluckstone. He was one of the A. D. 1774 committee of twenty appointed by the town to take action in relation to the measure inaugurated in the Continental Congress at its sitting in Philadelphia September 5, 1774, and he was also one of a committee of three delegated by the town to receive relief donations for the Boston poor a few months prior to the battle of Bunker Hill. He was a sufferer by the burning of Norwalk, and the smoke of his consuming domicile would seem almost to have enveloped Tryon as the latter sat, only a few rods away, overlooking the sorry scene. The "Commodore" does not appear to have rebuilt after the conflagration, but to have resided at or near "The Bridge." The Cannon-Perry descent is as thus exhibited : CANNON. PERRY.

Gen. I. Andrew and Anna Cannon. Gen. I. Richard Perry.

" II. John and Maria (LeGrand) Cannon.

II. Nathaniel and Hester (Lyon) Perry.

.. III. John and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon. III. Joseph and Mary (Cluckstone) Perry. Gen. IV. Esther Perry.

Gen. IV. John Cannon.

John Cannon and Esther Perry were married December 1, 1750, by Rev. Noah Hobart, "V. D. M.," and had

John, born July 7, 1752 ; Samuel, born July 28, 1754 ;

James, born June 19, 1757 ;

Sarah, born March 21, 1759 ;

LeGrand, born October 26, 1762, unmarried ;

Lewis, born November 3, 1766, unmarried;

William A., born February 23, 1767, married Betsey Seymour, no issue; Esther Mary, born February 17, 1772.

John2nd of Norwalk, son of John and Esther (Perry) Cannon, married, July, 1777, Sarah, daughter of Col. Stephen and Ann (Fitch) St. John (pages 299 and 328), and had:

John, born May 16, 1778 ;

Sarah, born October 22, 1780, Mrs. Stephen Buckingham St. John, page 296; George. born May 7, 1784;

Harriett, born October 31, 1786, Mrs. Frederick St. John;

Antoinette, born April 20, 1789, Mrs. Thaddeus Betts (pages 230, 231, 232) ;

Abrahams and others of like North River renown, but the Norwalk officer was undistanced by any. He closed his life as a manager of the People's Line.

"Commodore" John Cannon, the first of the Cannon name in Norwalk, was engaged in the West India trade and a busy citizen. His son John was medicine-acquainted to some extent, and married into

a family of influence, while LeGrand, a younger son than Dr. John, was a child of promise, who after education in Paris died before maturity. John Can- non, the grandson of that name of the "Commodore," died, it is presumed, from the effects of a collision on Long Island Sound between a small vessel that he was sailing and one of the Sound steamboats,

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Charles Oglivie, born October 13, 1791 ;

Esther Mary, born December 7, 1793, Mrs. Townsend ;

James LeGrand, born October 12, 1796.

Samuel, son of John Cannon1st of Norwalk, married, December 26, 1781, Sarah, daughter of John and Rebecca (Bartlett) Belden, (page 385) and had :

Henrietta, born June 24, 1784, Mrs. Hugh Knox ;

LeGrand, born March 20, 1787;

Esther Mary, born October 3, 1793, Mrs. Moses Craft.1

James, son of John Cannon14 of Norwalk, married, June 3, 1779, Rebecca Gould of Long Island, and had :

Sarah, born March 9, 1780, Mrs. Jonathan Fitch ;

Esther, born April 27, 1783, Mrs. William St. John2nd ,2

Amelia, born February 6, 1788, Mrs. Garritt Harson Newkirk ;3

Mary,4 born February 6, 1792, Mrs. George Lockwood;

James, born September 20, 1796, probably died young.

1Esther Mary Cannon (Mrs. Moses Craft) led in life and spirit the Norwalk young ladies of her period. She was society esteemed during her married life in Troy, and her evening twilight years were soft and beautiful. In her age she indulged in sweet mem- ories of Norwalk and delighted to visit and learn about the old home. She was the mother of Mrs. Hannibal Green and Mrs. G. Parish Ogden of Troy, and of Mrs. John B. Murray of New York city (pages 272 and 275).

2 For the family of William St. John2nd see page 332. The daughters were Mrs. Hoyt, Mrs. Sherry, Mrs. Skiddy and Mrs. Van Zandt.

Mrs. Munson Hoyt was universally known, was of sweet disposition, and much prized in society. Her husband was of genial nature and one of the business men of Norwalk. She was an intimate friend of Mrs. Gov. Clark Bissell and had no chil- dren.

Mrs. Charles Sherry, a lady of true refinement of spirit and speech, made her home a lovely spot for children and a welcome hearth to relatives and friends. Mr. Sherry was a gentleman of leisure and enjoyed intercourse with his townsmen. The children of Charles and Susan V. Sherry were Emily (Mrs. Dr. Samuel Lynes), Charles, and Susan (Mrs. Charles St. John).

Mrs. Francis Skiddy, a true Norwalk St. John woman, never, amid the gaities of Metropolitan life, forgot her native place and its interests. She graced her beautiful Fifth Avenue home and was generous outside it.

Julia, the remaining sister, Mrs. J. A. Van Zandt, was marriage associated with the old Van Zandt family of the Metropolis. The children of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Van Zandt were Peter and Sarah. Peter married Mary F. Raymond and Sarah an Allen.

3 Amelia Cannon (Mrs. Garritt Harsin Newkirk) was the mother of Mary Cannon Newkirk, or as she was universally Norwalk known, "Mrs. Jonathan Camp"4th, who died December 4, 1896 .. Mrs. Camp was a woman of extraordinary force. She was a true help-meet to her husband and one who brought up her children wisely. Her home was a comfort abode and the visitor was struck with the good sense of what was there seen and heard. Its hostess enjoyed music and was possessed of artistic taste (canvas- painting until past eighty), and yet was of decid- edly practical convictions.

4Mrs. George Lockwood had several children who died young and James, Sarah and Mary who reached maturity. James married twice in the west and there resided. Mary also married in the west. Sarah married Ralph, son of Ralph and Esther An- toinette (Gregory) Lockwood. Mrs. Esther Antoi- nette Gregory Lockwood was a daughter of Captain Moses and Esther (Hoyt) Gregory.

Mrs. Moses Gregory was a daughter of Asa Hoyt, Sr., whose fine home grounds, stretched from the lot upon which stands the now unused Second Congregational Church of South Norwalk, quite around the corner of the Washington Street of to- day. Such a family comfort spot was this site that one of the daughters, a sister of Mrs. Moses Gregory, albeit married into one of the prominent and most pleasantly situated households of Troy, yearned for and finally returned to the ancient "Old Well" hearthstone. The Hoyts were Church of England people, and yet if the South Norwalk Congregation- al records are preserved evidence of their friendly feeling towards that body may easily be obtained. They parted with a slice of their homestead for said church purposes.

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LeGrand, son of Samuel and Sarah (Belden) Cannon, married (see page 272) Esther, daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Burlock) Bouton, and had :

LeGrand B., (Colonel);

Henrietta, Mrs. George H. Cramer ;

Mary, Mrs. George Bird ; Amelia, Mrs. Rev. John B. Tibbits.

John, son of John-" and Sarah Cannon of Norwalk, married (page 189) Fanny, daughter of Joseph and Isabel Lockwood, and had :

Jeannette, Mrs. David Nessler first, Mrs. John A. Bioren second ;

Harriett, unmarried ;

John, married ;

Rebecca, Mrs. John F Morse of Vermont;

James LeGrand.

George, son of John2nd and Sarah Cannon of Norwalk, married Betsey, daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth (Adams) Hanford of Chestnut Hill, and had :

Mary Esther, born August 10, 1809, Mrs. Hiram Jones;

Harriett, born July 11, 1811, Mrs. Rev. Charles J. Todd (page 157);

George, born March 18. 1817. removed west.

Charles, born December 15, 1824.

LeGrand B., (Col.) son of LeGrand and Esther (Bouton) Cannon, married (see page 279) Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Burlock) DeForest. Colonel LeGrand B. Cannon is promptly re-called as a bright Norwalk school youth who was hither sent by his Troy parents to receive an education (see pages 171 and 273). For many years he has been a prominent Metropolitan, a conspicuous figure in the political and commercial world, and widely known socially. His son Henry, a leader in society, and a genius, was of high taste and signal parts. He died in comparative youth, but left very clever art executions.

Henrietta, sister of Colonel LeGrand B. Cannon, married into a Saratoga, (N. Y.) county family of note, and resides in Third Street, Troy. Her children are Miss Henrietta and LeGrand Cannon Cramer (page 314). Mary Cannon (Mrs. George Bird) has long been a figure in city circles, and her sister, Mrs. Rev. J. B. Tibbits, is of fragrant memory.

James LeGrand, son of John&rd and Fanny (Lockwood) Cannon of Norwalk, married Caroline F., daughter of Charles and Mary (Chase) Coombs of Maine, and had :

John F., unmarried ;

Fanny B., unmarried ;

LeGrand B., married Lena, daughter of Frederick Morehouse :

Carrie G., unmarried.

Charles, son of George and Betsey (Hanford) Cannon, married Catharine Heuston of New York, and had :

John, born November 23, 1853, died unmarried :

Esther A .. Mrs. Samuel St. John Miller.

The children of Samuel St. John and Esther A. Miller were Mary Catharine, born August 15, 1880; David Henry, born April 5, 1884.

The mother of Samuel St. John Miller was of the Carroll family.

HENRY LE GRAND CANNON Som |52- 412.

This artist, great-grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Belden) Cannon (page: +11) of Norwalk, was a descendant, maternally from Hugh and Matilda Lambert, whose son, Sir William, married a granddaughter of William the Conqueror. It is possible that his talent was, at least in some degree, an inheritance, but whether so or no such was his surprising conception-cleverness and execution-excellence that the memory of the young and opulent genius is rightly entitled to the honors of fame,

HARRIET STARR CANNON.

Great-grand niece of "Commodore" John Cannon of Norwalk (page 413). She was the foundress of St. Mary's Hospital on "The Rocks," Norwalk (page 63 and note, page 71.

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HARRIET STARR CANNON.

"Commodore" John Cannon of Norwalk had a younger brother, LeGrand, born April 19, 1733, and baptized at ten years of age, who eventually made Stratford his home. At a little past twenty years of age on July 17, 1753, LeGrand Cannon of Stratford was married. He had eight children. His sixth child, Lewis LeGrand, born November 20, 1764, married on February 20, 1791, into the old Coe family of Stratford. Lewis LeGrand and Jerusha Cannon had six children, the oldest of whom was William, born September 15, 1793. William Cannon married October 17, 1820, Sally Hinman, and had, May 7, 1823, Harriet Starr, who became the Mother Superior of the Protestant Episcopal Sisterhood of St. Mary. "Mother Harriet," whose life was mercy-consecrate, died at the head of the organization referred to and was a woman of great executive ability. Coming young from the South, she early devoted her days to deeds of love and filled the passing hours with beneficent ministries. She planted St. Mary's Hospital for Children at the "Norwalk Rocks," and was happy in visiting her great-grand uncle's Norwalk home. She herself took the first patient to St. Luke's Hospital, New York, beginning her labors under the direction of the beloved Muhlenberg.

A "FAR WEST" CANNON DESCENDANT.

LeGrand, brother of "Commodore" John Cannon of Norwalk. married July 17, 1753, and he and his wife Charity became citizens of Stratford, Conn. They had four sons and four daughters. Their third son, James, who was born July 19, 1767, married in 1787 Mary Burritt, and was blessed with a large family. George, their fifth boy, born January 3, 1799, married in June, 1825, Marguerette, daughter of Dr. J. White of AAlbany, N. Y. From Albany George and Marguerette Cannon removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where five sons and one daughter were born to them. Charles Wesley, their third son, born July 1, 1833, married, March, 1868. Catharine B. Martine, and had one daughter and one son. The daughter, Bernice Martinique, born November 16, 1869, died a young lady not quite nineteen years of age. Her brother, William Legrand, was born September 24, 1872.

Charles W (Hon.) and Catharine B. Cannon are the well known opulent Cannons of Helena, Montana. They belong to the Stratford rather than the Norwalk Cannon line, but have taken an active interest in this town's branch of the family. Their visit hither some some few years since, of inquiry and of investigation is well recalled and particularly their study of the Cannon painting in the John Cannon home on Norwalk green. Charles W. Cannon has preserved the inscriptions upon the lids (Tiffany copied) of the Cannon silver tankard which is said to have been used at the anniversary in France, of the wedding, of the New York Cannon foreparents. The inscriptions run thus :

LARGE LID -- MARRIAGE.

Legitimo thala mi, qui dextras, foedere jungunt. Hos Deus, omnimoda, prosperi eate be at.

Those who join their hands in lawful wedlock-may God bless them with all pros- perity.

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SMALL LID-ANNIVERSARY.

Prole tho rum, victu men, som vela mine corpus, Atque ope rit drachma Grandine, tecta dompus.

With children the bed, with food the table, with clothing the body ; and with a hail of honey he covers the roof of the house.

Vir qui timet Jehovam, ecce sic benedicetur.

Behold so well he blessed the man who fears God.

Prece et Labore.

By prayer and labor.

COAT OF ARMS MOTTO.

Firmior quo paratior.

The better prepared, so much the stronger.

WILLIAM ASPINWALL CANNON.

William Aspinwall, youngest son of John1-t and Esther (Perry) Cannon, married on the first day of the winter of 1798 Betsey,1 born 1780, daughter of Johnth and Rebecca

1 Betsey Seymour was a daughter of John+th and Rebecca Seymour, and granddaughter of John3rd and Ruth Belden Seymour, which John Seymour3rd was a son of John2nd and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour, which John2nd was a son of ThomasIst and Hannah (Mar- vin) Seymour, and grandson of Richard Seymour1st, the Norwalk Seymour settler. Mrs. William A. Can- non (Betsey Seymour) married, second, Gershom Bradley, and had one daughter. Ruth, the sister of Betsey Seymour and ten years her junior, married Augustus Sammis of Lloyd's Neck, Queen's County, Long Island. After the marriage of Mr. Sammis himself and Norwalk bride returned to Long Island, where was born to them February 27, 1787, the now remembered venerable John Seymour Sammis, through whose veins ran, beside the Seymour blood, that of four other principal Norwalk founders, viz: Belden, Gregory, Keeler and Marvin. John S. and Nancy W. Sammis were married January 25, 1809. and were the parents of Nancy, born June 20, 1814 (Mrs. William Gale, first, and second, Mrs. Dan- iel F. Benedict, a most worthy woman, recently de- ceased), and Elizabeth, born December 6, 1817, and William Cannon, born November 26, 1818, and Augustus, born July 21, 1821, and Elizabeth Cannon, born February 6, 1824, and Alexander, born Decem- her 27. 1827 (died in infancy), and Helen E., born May 27, 1827 (one of Norwalk's bright and lovely school girls, who married Daniel Sanford of Redding).

William C. Sammis, son of John S., married, May 4, 1842. Sarah Ann, daughter of Captain Daniel K. Nash (page 109), and had John S., Theodore A., Francis, Helen Eva, Mary. William E., Augustus.

Augustus (M. D.), son of John S. Sammis, mar-

ried Mary A., daughter of Daniel Star Bartram (page 327) of Norwalk, and had: William A., born Decem- ber 20, 1849, and Elizabeth S. and Mary L., twins, born July 15, 1852. Dr. Augustus Sammis and his wife, Mary A., were two excellent children of this town. They were school mates in carly life, both of them studious and both favorites. Their intimacy began in youth and grew as years increased. The Doctor's recitations in the classics to his tutor were exceptionally thorough, and his grasp of the ancient tongues was remarkable. He studied medicine with the elder Dr. John A. McLean.

John S., son of William Cannon Sammis, married Christine, daughter of J. J. Cape, and had Helen E., Frederick C., Theodore, Louise C., Emma C., John S.

Theodore A., son of William C. Sammis, married Lena Doolittle, and had William D., Evelyn V. W., Theodore A.

Francis, son of William C. Sammis, married Frances A. Allen, and had William E. (died young), Louise B., born July 18, 1881, Edna, born February 4, 1889.

William E., son of William C. Sammis, married in New York (no children), and his brother Augustus is unmarried

William A., son of Dr. Augustus and Mary A. Sammis, married Emma F. Gamesby and had Clara E., born November 28, 1880, Helen E., born May 10, 1882.

The children of Daniel and Helen E. (Sammis) Sanford were Helen E. (Mrs. H. S. Barnes), Julia I., and Daniel Sammis. The latter, Daniel Sammis San- ford, has early distinguished himself as an educator.

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(Keeler) Seymour (page 157). The groom was thirty-one and the bride eighteen years old when the Rev. Dr. William Smith united them. They had no children. The Seymours early established themselves in that portion of the township which is now the city of South Nor- walk, where they have long remained and are to this day broadly known. The Cannons were "up town "' people, and as William A. was the first and the only one of his family to bridally link himself to this important portion of the plantation, passing reference to a section or two of olden "Old Well" may not be an altogether far-fetched Cannon comment conclusion.

Cleared land was a desideratum to the Norwalk pioneers, who found this to some extent in what they denominated the "planting field " (Benedict's farm), but a broad tract lay across the harbor (Old Well) which they soon appropriated, designating it as the "great meadow on the other side of the river." The stream was no barrier to the genius of such men as Thomas Fitch and Surveyors Richard Olmstead and Richard Webb. They soon constructed a ferry from "Fort Point" landing, on the west side, a little above the present coal wharf of J. H. Ferris. From thence diverged two paths, the northerly one not far from the present layout of Marshall Street, and the southerly path along the Washington Street of the present time. The first led over Flax Hill and the second to the "great meadow" (site of Railroad Place, West Washington Street, South Main Street, and the large level which now constitutes the site-centre of the city of South Norwalk) and the "lower meadow" (between Meadow Street and Kaiser Island of 1899). The earliest use of the "Ferry" (probably a raft constructed of logs pinned together which was "poled " across the stream ) was for the transportation of live stock. By degrees " the other side of the river," afterward "Old Well," became populated. Samuel, son of Matthew Campfield (see page 287) was an early builder. He established himself at "Campfield's Hill," in the vicinity of to-day's "Whistleville" dis- trict. Across this neighborhood was cut the road to "Ely's Neck." This path, subsequently road, really commenced at the present corner of West Avenue and West Street, where is now erected the new commodious Second Congregational Church of South Norwalk. The first house as, going west one turned the corner, was the ancient home, depicted on the following page, of James, afterwards Isaac Hoyt. This house sheltered the carly members of that branch of the Hoyt family (see page 129). It finally became the property of Isaac Hoyt, father of Mrs. Charles R. Sherman, through the family of Munson Hoyt of Bridgeport. (Said Munson, see page 357, had a large home establishment on the present Water Street in Bridgeport.) Here the young Mary Hoyt, Mrs. Sherman, was brought up, and from hence she went to be educated at the New York Sketchley sisters school (page 135). The embroidery at that institution, of the page 417 displayed Norwalk-retained piece, was by a young visiting friend of Miss Mary Hoyt, a daughter of the Lord of "Phillipse Manor" on the Hudson.

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Norwalk, history from 1896, Part 58

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne. Publication date: 1896 Publisher: The author, Number of Pages: 553

Author: Selleck, Charles Melbourne.
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: The author,
Number of Pages: 553