The History of Clinton County, Iowa: Containing a History of the County, Its., Part 60

Author: Western Historical Co , Western Historical Company
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 807

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In January, 1864, the bridge over the main channel, between Little R Island and Iowa, was begun, and though, owing to the great depth of wa rocky bottom and swirling current, great engineering difficulties had to be mounted, the labor was so vigorously pushed that on January 6, 1865, the pe of Clinton not only congratulated each other on the nearing close of the civil but also on the fact that they enjoyed all-rail communication with the cour east of the Mississippi. This bridge is 850 feet long, and consists of t

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spans of the " Howe Truss," besides the draw. Two of the spans are each 175 feet and one is 200 feet long. The draw is 300 feet over all, and is built of iron, on the plan known as Bollman's Patent. , The Iowa abutment and one of the piers are founded on rock. A second pier is built upon piles, and a third and the draw-pier rest upon crib work, raised on a bed of hard sand. These cribs are sunk in water frequently over forty feet deep. The long crib is 400 feet long and 44 feet wide, not far from the dimensions of some recent iron- clads, to which the mailed bows increase the resemblance. The small one is of similar shape and is 100 by 44 feet on the bottom. All the masonry is of the most substantial character. The draw turns upon anti-friction rollers, and, when open, leaves two clear openings, each 123 feet wide. In the two cribs are 2,000,000 feet of timber, 50,000 cubic feet of dimension stone and 600,000 cubic feet of rubble stone from the quarries at Clinton. Ten miles of oak-tree rails were also used. The iron draw weighs 325 tons, and, when swung, is supported by iron rods running over the top of the center tower.

The best evidence of the proper location and construction of the bridge is afforded by the fact that during the period since the completion of the structure, hut few accidents have occurred, and these were due to the recklessness or carelessness of the steamboat captains and pilots, between whom and the bridge- men exists an undying feud.

The completion of the bridge was hotly opposed by the steamboat and rafting interest ; but though the contest was carried on with great acrimony, it never assumed an illegal shape. No efforts were made to injure the structure, like the desperate attempts of infuriated raftsmen to burn the old Rock Island bridge with petroleum. An injunction, forbidding the closing of the river at Clinton by a draw, was cleverly evaded by erecting the iron draw upon the long pier, and by an enormous force of workmen hurrying it to completion, so that it was swung into its place on the day that that injunction expired, to the great discomfiture of the St. Louis river-men and their keen attorney, Judge Grant, of Davenport, and the corresponding elation of not only the railroad men of Clinton, but of the citizens generally, who then for the first time felt that their crossing was irrevocably secured.

But few accidents have happened in the way of collisions of boats with the draw-piers. Several barges have been sunk, one of them loaded with grain, being completely stove in, and resulting in a heavy lawsuit. The side-wheeler, Minnesota, also splintered her starboard paddle-box and wheel against the bridge. The Mitchell, on one occasion, stuck fast in the draw, with a barge on each side of the channel, and remained a long time perfectly immovable. But as pilots became familiar with the cross-current at the head of the chute; and with the various stages of water, the bridge has proven to be no such obstruction to navigation as its opponents prophesied. Rafts, when there is a fair stage of water, are usually pushed through the west channel. But with a high east wind it takes all a pilot's skill to expeditiously pass the bridge even stern foremost, as most of the larger boats are obliged to do.

Capt. Estabrook, after the Union ceased running, became and remained Bridge Superintendent till his death, in January, 1878. As was appropriate with a citizen so identified with the growth of the town's interests, and socially so popular, his funeral was a public one, held Sunday afternoon, in the Opera House, attended by the North-Western officials, and Masonic and railroad dele- gations from points along the line. Fully 3,000 people assisted in the obsequies. He was succeeded by the present Superintendent of Bridges and Buildings, W. D. Walden.

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In 1874, the wooden McCallum trusses, on the eastern bridge, ha become shaky, they were replaced by Pratt & Post iron trusses. In the w of 1877-78, the pile-way approach was also rebuilt. The renovations and re on the bridge since it was first erected, aggregate fully $75,000.

For a long time after the building of the bridge, people were not perm to walk across it, unless provided with a pass. It was a most salutary ure in preventing the free ingress into the city of dangerous characters, their easy escape after committing crime, into the jurisdiction of an State. It also prevented passing to and fro, except by water, of the hab of disreputable dens that had grown up on the Illinois side, unfettered legal supervision on either side, so that nothing prevented the most disgra orgies, besides their affording lurking-places for the most desperate crimi But as the saw-mills of Clinton required more and more hands, quite a nu made themselves homes in the settlement of East Clinton, on the opposite of the river. Of course this indirectly led to a modification of the order, the permitting of persons to pass over the narrow foot-path, and, after the C & Q. extension, in 1874, reached the other side, foot travel to and fror trains, and those of the Western Union, have made the hundreds of people have trod the slippery ties since the foot-boards were removed, wish earn for the long-deferred wagon and foot bridge.

On the evening of March 22, 1877, an occurrence transpired on the of the bridge. that has developed into one of the most mysterious cases in annals of criminal jurisprudence, resembling somewhat, possibly, the Gosh insurance case, narrated by Charles Reade, in "Put Yourself in his Pla B. Dickerson, a wealthy farmer from near Traer, Iowa, and his wife, ar at the eastern end of the bridge by the C., B. & Q. He escorted her. ov Clinton and returned for his trunk. He was met coming back with the t on his shoulder, by the bridge watchman at the island end of the draw-8 Since then, Dickerson has absolutely vanished. After his wife be alarmed at his absence, search discovered his trunk broken open and appare rifled, with papers scattered about, standing on the draw-pier. There wa blood or other sign of violence or a struggle visible. His wife affirmed he had $1,200 in his possession, and appeared frantic with apprehension he had been murdered and thrown into the river. The mystery created excitement than if a homicide had been plainly committed. No "floater" ever found at all corresponding to that of the missing man. In no pre instance, since the settlement of the county, had a dead body escaped b found sooner or later, at some point below. The theory that D.'s corpse weighted before being flung into the swift, deep pool below the bridge, l the river bottom being fruitlessly explored by a diver. The relatives of missing man were evidently firmly convinced that he had then and there his death by foul play. Nothing in his pleasant domestic surroundings or perament encouraged the belief that he had imitated Hawthorn's morbid and deserted his family under such cruel circumstances. No attempt has been made to collect a heavy insurance policy on his life, and the case thu bids fair to remain an impenetrable mystery.

On the night of August 2, 1879, one of the bridge watchmen, while t ening a screw on the eastern draw-pier, was thrown off his balance by wrench slipping and fell headlong into the river. Fortunately, being a swimmer, notwithstanding his clothing, he kept afloat in the raging eddies current till rescued in a state of utter exhaustion, off W. J. Young's 1 mill, just in time to prevent being swept into the broad channel below.

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CITY GOVERNMENT.

On January. 26, 1857, just a year after the incorporation of the C., I. & N. Railroad Company, the General Assembly conferred a city charter upon Clinton. The charter was unanimously adopted March 7, 1857, ninety-seven votes being cast.

An amended charter was adopted at the charter election, April 5, 1859, by which the city was divided into four wards, viz. :

First Ward-All that portion north of the center of Fifth avenue and east of the center of Second street. Second Ward-All that portion lying between the center of Fifth and Eighth avenues. Third Ward-All that portion lying south of the center of Eighth avenue. Fourth Ward-All that portion lying north of the center of Fifth avenue and west of the center of Second street.

Subsequently, the city was redistricted by avenues, so that the First Ward is that portion north of the middle of Fourth avenue ; the Second, that portion between the middle of Fourth and Seventh avenues; the Third, between the middle of Seventh and Tenth avenues, and the Fourth, south of Tenth avenue.

The city, in 1867, discarded its special charter and organized under the general law providing for cities of the second class, with a population not exceeding 15,000 inhabitants.

The first Council-room was in a wooden building, which Capt. Crozer owned and used for a Justice's office, situated on the corner of First street and Third avenue. Afterward, the City Fathers met in the Iowa Central, the basement directly underneath being fitted with fastenings for a lock-up. Thence the Council chamber was transferred to rooms up-stairs, on the east side of Second street, in the block opposite the present City Hall, where were passed many of the ordinances that tended to make the city prosperous and orderly.

An engine-house and Council chamber in one building were constructed in 1867-68, on Second street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues. The cost of the building, which was brick and of the most substantial style, and sur- mounted with a fire-alarm triangle of steel, was about $7,000. In 1876-77, by an arrangement with the county, a massive jail addition was built on the rear, and provided with impregnable wall's and cells, both for keeping desperate criminals in durance, or possible lynchers on the outside. Not only are the walls thick. and the bolts and bars massive, but inside are cages of boiler iron, riveted together more secure than the similar ones in which Louis XI, King of France, used to immure prisoners of state, within the Bastile. The cost of this improvement was about $4.000. Previously, prisoners had been kept in an insecure little wooden "calaboose" in the same block, whence escapes were disgustingly frequent. On one occasion, twenty-seven prisoners escaped in a body.

The course of municipal politics in Clinton has been singularly free from the too frequent evils of partisanship and extravagance. The public welfare has been generally sought by both parties, and many of the best men in the city have freely given their time and effort to the duties of city officers from no other motive than public spirit. The city has always been firmly controlled by the intelligent and responsible classes. The following is the roster of city officers since the first charter election in April, 1857. The pioneer officers were : Mayor, Samuel Crozer ; Treasurer. Henry B. Horton ; Recorder, R. H. Nolton ; Assessor, John Graham ; Marshal, John M. Start; Wharf-Master, J. M. Ordway. The total vote affords some indication of the progress of the city

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in population, though the light ballot in some elections is due somewhat to reason that there was either no opposition, or to a dearth of interest.

1858, April 6 .- Mayor, John C. Bucher ; Recorder, John M. McKin Treasurer, Henry B. Horton ; Assessor, Francis Lee; Marshal, John Start ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Bennett. Aldermen-First Ward, John W. Sm Second Ward, Franklin N. Holway ; Third Ward, William N. Magden. " vote-244.

1859, April 5 .- Mayor, H. B. Horton ; Recorder, R. H. Francis ; T urer, F. P. Wilcox ; Marshal, J. M. Ordway ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Ben Aldermen-J. T. Vandeventer, T. J. Flournoy, T. S. Briscoe, G. H. A worth. Total vote-241.

1860, March 5 .- Mayor, T. J. Flournoy ; Recorder, R. H. Fra Treasurer, F. P. Wilcox ; Marshal, W. H. Ankeny; Wharf-Master, J. P. nett. Aldermen-J. G. Irwin, F. N. Holway, Robert Hufman, Larkin Up and, to fill vacancy, Ed. Vosburg.

1861, March 4 .- Mayor, J. C. Bucher ; Recorder, R. H. Francis; T urer, G. F .. Lovejoy ; Marshal, S. C. Peverly ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Ben Aldermen-G. W. Johnson, W. J. Young, Thomas Shafto, E. Vosburg 7 vote-282.

1862, March 3 .- Mayor, T. S. Briscoe; Recorder, R. H. Francis; T urer, F. P. Wilcox ; Marshal, R. S. Seaman ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Ben Aldermen-George Tuthill, Robert Leslie, Sr., Finley Barr, Francis Total vote-257.

1863, March 2 .- Mayor, W. H. Ankeny; Recorder, John Cooke; Treas C. M. Young; Marshal, J. Sherburne; Wharf-Master, J. P. Bennett. Alder -A. P. Hosford, W. J. Young, D. A. Parsons, S. T. Toll. Whole vote-

1864, March 7 .- Mayor, W. J. Young ; Recorder. John Cooke; Treasu J. G. Irwin ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Bennett. Aldermen-George Tuthill, R Francis, William Koons, R. Price. Total vote-147. For Marshal, election was a tie between R. S. Seaman and Parker Dexter.

1865, March 6 .- Mayor, A. P. Hosford ; Recorder, John Cooke; T urer, F. P. Wilcox ; Marshal, R. S. Seaman ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Benn Assessor, F. P. Wilcox. Aldermen-F. R. Hollingsworth, E. Conant, O'Donnell, F. G. Clausin. Total vote-176.

1866, March 5 .- Mayor, W. H. Ankeny ; Recorder, John Cooke; T urer, F. P. Wilcox ; Marshal, R. S. Seaman ; Wharf-Master, J. P. Benn Assessor, F. P. Wilcox. Aldermen-J. D. Crosby, S. W. Smith (to vacancy), Thomas Shafto, William Koons, R. Price, S. Guiton (to fill vacan Total vote-559.

1867, March 4 .- Mayor, J. C. Young; Recorder, John Cooke; Treasu J. H. Churcher ; Marshal, John Hogendobler; Wharf-Master, J. P. Benn Assessor, F. P. Wilcox ; Street Commissioner, John Sheppard. Alderme First Ward, Jerome Schofield, Richard Price; Second Ward, John Vor E. Conant; Third Ward, William O'Donnell, H. S. Hyatt; Fourth W John Coleman, L. B. Wadleigh. Total vote-707.

1868, March 2 .- Mayor, L. B. Wadleigh; Recorder, John Cooke ; Tr urer, J. H. Churcher; Marshal, John Hogendobler ; Wharf-Master, Cha Heupil ; Assessor, J. T. Harvey ; Street Commissioner, John Shepp Aldermen-Jerome Schofield, S. J. Bishop, Isaac Baldwin, D. S. Batchel Total vote-859.

1869, March 1 .- Mayor, J. W. Gottlob; Treasurer, J. H. Church Marshal, R. S. Seaman ; Solicitor, W. I. Hayes ; Assessor, J. T. Harv

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Street Commissioner, E. P. Eaton. Aldermen-Joseph Adler, Samuel Crozer B. S. DeForest, William Lake. Total vote-864.

1870, March 7 .- Mayor, C. S. Taylor; Treasurer, J. H. Churcher; Mar- shal, Peter McLow; Street Commissioner, J. D. Williams; Assessor, F. H. Woodworth ; Wharf-Master, L. L. Abbott. Aldermen-Prentice Holmes, S. J. Bishop, R. H. Benson, James McCarty. Total vote-956.

1871, March 6 .- Mayor, C. S. Taylor ; Treasurer, C. E. Bentley ; Mar- shal, Peter McLow ; Street Commissioner, F. H. Holway ; Assessor, John E. Voneiff. Aldermen-Richard Price, Samuel Crozer, William O'Donnell, William Lake. Total vote-962.

1872, March 5 .- Mayor, C. S. Taylor ; Treasurer, C. E. Bentley ; Assessor, Martin W. Smith. Aldermen-Prentice Holmes, L. W. Buck, W. M. Shields, Robert Hufman. Total vote-963.

1873, March 3 .- Mayor, C. H. Toll; Treasurer, C. E. Bentley ; Assessor, W. W. McClure; Solicitor, J. H. Flint. Aldermen-R. Price, Artemus Lamb, William O'Donnell, Dennis Magden, H. R. Whitehouse (to fill vacancy). Total vote -- 920.

1873 .- I. Munroe elected to fill vacancy. Total vote-60.

1874, March 2 .- Mayor, C. H. Toll ; Treasurer, C. E. Bentley ; Assessor, W. P. Cubbage. Aldermen-Milo Smith, Ivers Munroe, H. H. Howard, Martin Hassett. Total vote-882.

1875, March 1 .- Mayor, J. J. Flournoy ; Treasurer, A. G. Smith ; Assessor, George Haywood. Aldermen-Richard Price, Amos G. Ewing, William . O'Donnell, Dennis Magden ; Solicitor, Walter I. Hayes. Total- 1,286.

1876, March 6-Mayor, J. T. Pierson ; Treasurer, Thomas Adams ; Assessor, John T. Harvey ; Solicitor, J. H. Walliker. Aldermen-James Leaden, Ivers Monroe, H. H. Howard, Martin White. Total-1,307.

1877, March 5-Mayor, J. J. Flournoy ; Treasurer, Thomas Adams ; Assessor, J. T. Harvey ; Solicitor, C. W. Chase. Aldermen-E. R. Lucas, J. E. Carpenter, P. S. Bannister, G. W. Holmes. Total-1,416.

1878, March 4-Mayor, Larkin Upton ; Treasurer, J. T. Pierson ; Assessor, J. T. Harvey. Aldermen-Joseph Adler, George G. Bauder, H. H. Howard, Martin White. Total-1,421.

October 8, 1878-to fill vacancy, 211 votes. Hugh Leslie elected Alderman.

1879, March 3-Mayor, Larkin Upton ; Treasurer, Thomas Adams; Assessor, J. T. Harvey ; Solicitor, A. R. McCoy. Aldermen-John Sheppard, Thomas G. Haller, E. R. Mullett, A. G. Ewing, Edward Croake. Total- 1,405.

EDUCATIONAL-PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

From Clinton's very inception, unusual attention has been paid to the proper development and maintenance of a system of public schools. A policy, both liberal and provident, has always been followed, ever since the winter of 1855-56, when such pioneer Clintonians as the Pearces, Wallikers, Jurneys, Perrins and others, determined to have a school nearer than at Lyons. Accordingly, a dispensation was procured from the District Directors of Lyons Township, and the public-school system of Clinton inaugurated in an old log hut, that stood near the present location of W. J. Young's upper mill. There, Isaac Baldwin, during that winter, faithfully taught about thirty scholars, now dead, or scattered far and wide, and many of them sending their own children to school. Furniture, books and heating appliances were all equally primitive, the room being warmed by a cook-stove. The greatest annoyance was the

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amount of tobacco juice left on the floor, after religious services were held in the antique "skule" house during evenings.

The following is the complete roll of the school taught by Mr. Baldwin, and the present location where known, of those still living who attended. Those marked with an asterisk are deceased. James Arnold, Clinton ; Fanny Barrett, Chicago; Caroline Coggswell, Lyons; * George A. Coggswell, John Crowley, Clinton County ; Charles Crozer, American Express Company; James Crozer. Clinton ; Frank Crozer, Colorado; Emma Crozer, Clinton ; Eugene and Myrtin Davis, *Daniel Jurney, Frank M. Jurney, *John K., *Mary E. and *Millard F. Jurney ; H. M. Parish, Adam C. Perry, Clinton; Eunice A. B. Pearce, *Sarah A. M. Pearce, *Laurence L. Pearce, Edgar and Rachel Perrin, *Noble Perrin, Elizabeth Perrin (Scott), Mary Perrin (Miller), Milton Shoecraft, *Melvina Starr (Perrin), *Edwin S. Stockwell, Charles Wal- liker, Princeton, Ill. ; Jacob Walliker, Clinton; Mary Walliker (Krom). Samuel Perrin did not come as a scholar, but frequently dropped in, to smile at one of the older girls-since then his wife-and now deceased.

In July, 1856, was organized Clinton School District No. 1, and on July 25, 1856, was held the first school election, when the Board was elected with J. C. Bucher as President, H. McCormick as Secretary and D. H. Pearce as Treas- urer. The first Board meeting was held August 16, at Isaac Baldwin's office. In September following, 173 pupils were entitled to the benefits of the public school. During the next winter, the school occupied a frame building now standing on Fifth avenue, east of Third street. Mr. Baldwin was succeeded by Miss Lorena Clark, and after her came Mr. E. R. Morgan and Miss Jennie Lewis. One day, the two had so bitter a quarrel that they both appealed to and sent for the Directors, but, naturally enough, became reconciled, and, event- ually, were married. The above-mentioned and other rented frame buildings sufficed the schools until 1860. One of the early schoolhouses was an old frame, afterward changed to a "gothic " shape and located in the rear of Pippings' Six h Avenue Market. That building was also used as a station on a trunk-line of the " Underground Railway," and in its basement or attic many a cowering fugitive was safely sheltered, waiting for the human blood hounds in pursuit to lose the trail and give up the search, before venturing.on the road to Canada and freedom. As a double relic, this building merits preservation.

September 1, 1858, the district embraced Sections 6, 7 and 8, in Town 81, Range 7, and Section 12, in Township 81. Range 6. In the winter of 1859-60, the schools were taught by Grove P. Jenks and Mary Fuller. Mr. E. P. Dole, who died several years ago in Bloomington, Ill., was the Secretary of the Board in 1858, and made an inventory of the property then belonging to the District which is interesting as a contrast to the present : One table, thirty-two sound and seven damaged chairs, nine benches, two desks with broken locks, one black- board, one ditto, very small, two stoves and pipes, two pails and cups, two small bells.

In the spring of 1858, a $6,000 tax was voted to erect a school building ; for some reason it was deemed illegal, was again voted September 6, and finally rescinded October 5. At the annual school meeting in March, 1860, the treas- ury was empty, but a tax, payable the following January, was anticipated, and the Board, Messrs. W. F. Coan, F. P. Wilcox, C. H. Toll and J. C. Bucher, by an ingenious scrip issue, advanced the amount, about $4,000. Thus was built on the east side of De Witt Park the first and then ample schoolhouse, after plans by Robert Leslie, who, for $3 per day (good wages at that time), superintended its construction. In September, 1860, 445 pupils, between the

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ages of five and twenty-one years, were registered in the District. In Novem- ber, the school opened with a corps of good teachers, viz., William Sanderson, who succeeded Jenks, as Principal, and afterward became a resident of Prince- ton, and a member of the Legislature, and Misses Jennie N. Clark and Sarah Rogers, assistants. Sanderson left in 1861, and Julia A. Titus took his place, followed, in 1862, by H. Grant, of Galena, succeeded by Simon Shoe- craft.

The number of pupils steadily increased, till, in 1863, the school meeting instructed the Directors to build such a schoolhouse as they deemed necessary. Accordingly was built, by an issue of $5,000 of ten-year bonds, the present brick schoolhouse west of De Witt Park, which was, in 1865, enlarged to a seating capacity for 450 pupils.

In the fall of 1864, C. H. Leadbetter became Principal, and, in the spring of 1866, was succeeded by George W. Frost, who for four years had charge of the schools.

In 1866, a small building in the rear of the Episcopal Church was pur- chased and used to accommodate the swarming children, for whom Turner Hall was also fitted as a temporary schoolroom in 1869, while the magnificent South Clinton building was erecting. But even that, costing $15,000 and seating over four hundred pupils, did not adequately relieve the pressure in the central part of the town, so that in June, 1870, a special tax of $10,000 resulted, by January 1, 1871, in opening the immense three-story building west of Clinton Park, with a seating capacity for 475 scholars.

W. B. Howe, of Sterling, was Superintendent from 1870 for a year, and from the same year till his removal West in 1877, C. E. Bentley was the effi- cient Secretary of the Board.

In 1871, Prof. Henry Sabin became Superintendent, after Mr. Frost served a brief term in the spring and summer, and the new regime of the Clinton schools began. Prof. Sabin made the first real attempt to grade the city schools according to the method adopted in nearly all large cities, where proper systems are maintained, and his rare organizing ability, aided by exceptionally able assistants, all ladies, has resulted in making the public schools the pride of every Clinton citizen, and unsurpassed in thoroughness and morale by any in the land. The course of study from the primary to the graduating class requires, usually, twelve years, four of which are spent in the High School, graduates from which are admitted into the State University at Iowa City with- out examination. It is possible for a very bright child to pass from his A B C's to the valedictory on Commencement Day in from six to eight years. In the five years since the graded classes have begun finishing their prescribed course, there have been sixty High School graduates, and the classes are, of course, yearly more numerous. Since the Opera House has been completed, the Com- mencement exercises have been held on its ample stage, and the public interest and satisfaction in the city schools is attested by the thousands that, on those occasions, pack the auditorium. The sight must be a cheerful and suggestive one to both the pioneer teachers and patrons, who, twenty-three years ago, assisted at the humble beginning in the log hut on the levee.

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The History of Clinton County, Iowa: Containing a History of the County, Its., Part 60

Author: Western Historical Co , Western Historical Company Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co. Number of Pages: 807

Author: Western Historical Co , Western Historical Company
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : Western Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 807