History of Bureau County, Illinois, Part 99

Author: Bradsby, Henry C., [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Chicago, World publishing company
Number of Pages: 776

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was a descendant of the Huguenots, and was a woolen manufacturer hy occupation. After graduating at West Point he was for some years instructor in military tactics. In 1821 he came to St. Louis, Mo., with a regiment of United States troops, of which he was Major; with these he ascended the Missis- sippi River in flat-boats, and occupied Fort Snelling near St. Paul, which had just been completed. He finally returned East, where he followed his vocation. The life of Dr. Thompson has been a busy one. and in the summer of 1882 he made an extensive tour to Europe, enjoying a long needed rest, and visiting Scotland, England, Switzerland, and Naples, in Italy, returning the same year to his home and to his many friends in Bureau County. Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have one adopted daughter-Ella Thompson.

CHARLES THOMPSON, Lamoille, who is the subject of the following biography, is a native of Worcester County, Mass., where he was born March 12, 1813. His parents, Robert and Lizzie Thompson, were both natives of Massachusetts, where they died. They were the parents of eight children; of these four boys, viz. : Dwight, John, Orren and Charles Thompson, came to this county. Our subject came West to Bureau County in 1841. In 1845 he went to Clarion Township, where he farmed successfully for about thirty years, and in 1876 he removed to Lamoille, where he now resides. Mr. Thompson was married in this county in 1848 to Sarah Rice, who was born in 1823 in Maine. She was a daughter of Ephraim and Eliza (Foss) Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Congregational Church, and are the parents of one child, Mrs. Frances M. Frizzell. Po- litically Mr. Thompson is a Republican. He has no enemies, and his life as a citizen is above reproach.

J. H. THOMPSON, M. D., Walnut, was born in Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y., October 8, 1834. His father, John H. Thompson, was also a native of Steuben County, N. Y., and died in Lettsville, Iowa. He married Olive C. Curtis, who was born in Pennsylvania, but reared in New York. She died in Bu- reau County, Ill. Our subject spent his early life on a farm, attending school in the win- ter, and was able to obtain a good common

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school education. In 1857 he began the study of medicine in Lettsville, Iowa, where he had gone in 1856. He attended one course of medical lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1858 and 1859, and in February, 1860, graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio. He then lo- cated for the practice of his profession at Lettsville, Iowa. In February, 1864, he entered the service, during the late war, as Acting Assistant Surgeon, being located at Vicksburg, Goodrich Landing, La., and at Memphis, Tenn. After serving about one year he gave up his position on account of ill-health and returned home. He continued in the practice of medicine in Lettsville, Iowa, until 1875, being also engaged in the drug business, and was Postmaster from 1860 until he resigned in 1875. In February of that year Dr. Thompson graduated from the Rush Medical College of Chicago, and in the fall of 1875 came to Bureau County. He located in Walnut, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, and has met with excellent success. He was married June 11, 1862, to Emma J. Kim- ball, in Muscatine, Iowa. She is a native of Michigan, born April 27, 1839, a daughter of Alvin Kimball, who died at Muscatine, Iowa, in 1865. Her mother, who was a Stevens, was of an early family at Oberlin, Ohio, and died during Mrs. Thompson's youth. Dr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of three children, viz. : Alvin H., born July 13, 1864; Florence, November 18, 1866, and Edmund L., July 15, 1878. The winter of 1883 and 1884 the Doctor spent in Arizona and Cali- fornia. He is interested in the Mineral Mountain Mining Company, whose head- quarters are at Tucson, Arizona. Politically he is identified with the Republican party. He is a member of the Walnut Lodge, No. 722, A. F. & A. M., but was made a Mason at Lettsville. He is also a member of the Wal- nut Camp of Modern Woodmen. He is a inember of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Walnut.

JOSEPH V. THOMPSON, deceased, was born October 31, 1814, in London, England. When but twelve years of age his father died, and he was bound out to learn the shoe- maker's trade, which he learned, and by the

time he was twenty years old had a shop of his own and several journeymen under him. Before he was twenty-one years of age he was married to Mary E. Kent, who was born in 1810. Abont a year after marriage they removed to the United States, and for two years was engaged in farining in Genesee County, N. Y. He then came to Bureau County, III., and was here engaged in farm- ing till 1848, when he was elected Sheriff of the county. After serving his term as Sheriff he removed to a farm west of Princeton, where he remained till elected County Clerk in 1853, after which timo he resided in Princeton, and after retiring from office lie engaged in no active business, except to look after his interests in the county, and to frequently settle up estates, etc. He was one of the Directors of what was known as the Illinois Grand Trunk Railroad, and helped secure the right of way, and then the road-bed was sold to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and is now the Clinton branch. Not only in this enterprise did Mr. Thompson take an active part, but in all others which were calculated to improve the condition of the people or county, and to the poor, industrious man, he was truly a friend. In politics he was Democratic, and strongly partisan, till after the defeat of Douglas in 1860. He then took bnt little part in po- litical matters. His was a disposition which ran to the extremes. He was either all life and buoyancy, or else very despondent when matters went wrong. While at Tiskilwa, May 13, 1871, he died from a stroke of apo- plexy, and at the time of the stroke was tell- ing a story. His first wife died September 15, 1847, and February 11, 1849, he was married to Miss Axia M. Moseley, a daughter of Roland Moseley. By the first marriage he had two sons, viz. : Lewis K., of Walnut Township, and George P., a resident of Den- ver, Col., and engaged in the railroad busi- ness. By the second marriage there are three children, viz .: Mary S., an elocution teacher in New York City; Lucy, wife of O. G. Love- joy, of Princeton, and Joseph A., an attorney in New York City.

LEWIS K. THOMPSON, Walnut, eldest son of Joseph V. Thompson, was born Sep. tember 16, 1844. He was reared in this

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county, and educated in the schools of Princeton and Notre Dame University of Indiana. After leaving school in 1864 he kept books for Fisher & Co., of Princeton, for one year. May, 1865, he went to Deca- tur Junction, Ala., where he was with Lient. Harris on the Freedman's Bureau for about two years, and was then on a cotton planta- tion for one year. January 5, 1868, he re- turned to Bureau County, and has since been engaged in farming and the stock business, and now owns a well-improved farm of 160 acres in Walnut Township. June 3, 1867, he was married in Athens, Ala., to Miss Re- becca E. Boshart, a daughter of Rudolph and Cynthia (Gibson) Boshart. He was of Ger- man descent. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of the following children: George R., Lewis K., Herbert S., Mary K. and Joseph V., and Inez (deceased). In politics Mr. Thompson is a stanch Democrat. He is serving his third term as Supervisor of Wal- nut Township.

JAMES THOMSON, Princeton, was born in Portsea, near Portsmouth, Engand, July 15, 1809. His father, Benjamin Thomson, was born April 10, 1772, in Gloucestershire, England, and was married May 5, 1805, to Miss Elizabeth Moore, born January 10, 1786. In 1818 they came to the United States, and the following year settled in Wooster, Ohio, where he was engaged in the drug business until his death, which occurred November 26, 1834. In 1844 his widow re- moved to Bureau County, Ill., and settled on a farm near Princeton, where she died Octo- ber 11, 1857. She was the mother of thir- teen children, nine of whom lived to reach maturity, and five still survive, viz. : James, a resident of Princeton, Ill. ; Benjamin A., farmer and stock dealer in Iowa; Mrs. Matilda McGugin, who resides near Ironton, Lawrence Co., Ohio., where her husband is a member of the firm of Campbell, McGugin & Co., owners of "Olive" and "Buckhorn" fur- naces for the manufacture of iron; Mrs. Selina Richmond, whose husband is a farmer in Bureau County, Ill., and Henry Thom son, a farmer near Topeka, Kan. The sec- ond son, Edward Thomson, D. D., LL. D., was born in Portsea, England, October 10, 1810. In early manhood his profession was that of

a physician. He graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in 1829. In 1832 he became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a worker in the church in various capacities until his death in Wheeling, W. Va., March 22, 1870. He was Principal of the Meth- odist Seminary, at Norwalk, Ohio, from 1837 to 1844; editor of the Ladies' Repository at Cincinnati from 1844 till 1846, and was first President of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, where he remained from 1846 to 1860. The following four years he was editor of the Christian Advocate, of New York, and in 1864 was elected Bishop. His first wife was a daughter of Gov. Bartley, of Olio. Alfred Thomson (deceased), an- other son, was born in Wooster, Ohio, No- vember 14, 1824. At the early age of twenty - one years he was editor of a paper in Pom- eroy, Ohio, and from that place entered the Ohio State Legislature. He was engaged in I the book and newspaper business till 1868. In 1860 he removed to Central City, Col., and edited the Mining Argus (now the Reg- ister and Call). After the death of his wife he sold out that establishment. In 1868 he went into the Government printing office and continued there until his death in De- cember, 1883, at which time he had been advanced to the leading position of preparing copy for the Supreme Court work. He was married in Pomeroy, Ohio, May 1, 1855, to Louisa Ann Earhart, who died July 11, 1862, at Central City, Col., in the thirty- fifth year of her age. She left a little boy, Alfred Thomson, Jr., who is now a young man employed in the Government printing office at Washington. James Thomson, the subject of this sketch, was in the land office at Tiffin and Bucyrus, Ohio, from 1829 to 1834, but returned home at the time of his father's death. He was elected County Recorder of Wayne County, and filled that office for eight years. He was then book . keeper in the Bank of Wooster, Ohio, after which he went to New York City and was a book-keeper in a broker's office in Wall Street. In IS44 he came to Illinois, but soon returned to Wooster, Ohio, where he remained until 1848. He then came again to Princeton, Ill., and located permanently,

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engaging in the mercantile business with Dr. Converse. In 1861 Mr. Thomson sold out and retired from active life. February 3, 1853, he was united in marriage to Miss Mandana McConihe. (See sketch of McConihe family.) Mr. and Mrs. Thomson have two daughters-Eliza and Mary. Politically Mr. Thomson is a stanch supporter of the Demo- cratic party.

ANDREW THULEAN, Princeton, was born April 3. 1815, in Sweden. His father was Tofve Thulean, a native of Sweden, where he was a blacksmith by occupation. His mother's name was Chasta (Nelson) Thulean. She was the mother of three boys and two girls, viz .: Bell, Peter, Nelson, Andrew and Anna. Mr. Thulean was mar- ried June 24, 1850, in Sweden, to Miss Belle Nelson, who was born April 18, 1829, in Sweden. She is the mother of four children now living, viz .: Alfred F., who was born September 3, 1861, married Amanda Lin- gren; Victor C. January 28, 1864; Henry, January 1, 1867, and Ellen C., November 30, 1869. Mr. Thulean came to Bureau County in July, 1854, and followed the carpenter's trade in Princeton till 1867, when he bought a farm of eighty acres in Princetown Town- ship. He is a Republican, and with his wife is a member of the Swedish Lutheran Mission Church.

JAMES P. TIBBETTS, Neponset. This gentleman was born in Belgrade, Kennebec Co., Me. He is a son of Nathaniel and Hulda (Page) Tibbetts, who were natives of Maine; the latter was of French extrac- tion. They both died in Maine, and were the parents of seven children. Of these four are yet living, viz .: Mrs. Sally Page; James P., our subject; Mrs. Irene Weeks; and Gustavus Tibbetts. Our subject was ed- ucated in the East, and in the fall of 1844 he came West and settled in Weatherfield, Henry Co., Ill. In the spring of 1846 he removed to Section 19, Neponset Township, Bureau County, where he at present resides. He has made farming his principal oceupa- tion in life and been very successful, at pres- ent owning 370 aeres of choice land in this and Heury Counties. Mr. Tibbetts has been married twice. He was married the first time in Lowell, Mass., to Julia A. Sayles, a

native of New Hampshire. She was the mother of three children, viz .: Nathaniel, who married Mary Willie; Gustavus, de- ceased; and John Tibbetts, who is married to Franc Eldridge. Mrs. Julia A. Tibbetts died in November, 1866, in Bureau County. She was a model wife, and true woman, whose memory will be a bright spot in the minds of those who knew her. Mr. Tibbetts was married a second time May 23, 1876, to Jane Hamilton, a native of Stark County, Ill. She is a daughter of John and Cassandra (Byard) Hamilton, both natives of Maryland. Our subject is one of the early settlers in Nepon- set Township, where he has been a valuable citizen, and filled the office of Assessor for ten years, with tact and ability. Politically he is a Republican.

CHARLES TOMLINSON, Mineral, was born Nov. 28, 1836, in Michigan City, Ind. His father, John Tomlinson, was a native of Pennsylvania. He was a carpenter and join- er by occupation, and died January 31, 1880, in La Porte. Ind. John Tomlinson married Anna Croupp, a native of Pennsylvania, where she died when our subject was only a year and a half old. Charles Tomlinson, the subject of this biography, received a common school education in Indiana. About 1857 he came to Illinois. where he had previously bought a farm, which he subsequently sold, and after roaming a short time, visiting Mis- souri and Indiana, he permanently located in Mineral Township, Bureau County, where he is considered one of the leading farmers, owniug 249 acres of land. He was married July 1, 1864, in Henry County, to Miss Maria A. Van Winkle, a native of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Clara M. and Myrtia L. Tomlinson. Politically Mr. Tomlinson is identified with the Republican party.

ROBERT TONKINSON, Bureau, was born in Wolverhampton, England, April 16, 1824. His parents, John and Sarah (Nichols) Tonkinson, both lived and died in Stafford- shire, England. They had a family of eight children. four of whom are living; one daugh - ter, Mary A., is in England. and another is supposed to be in Australia, and one son, William, lives at Woodgreen, England, and has been engaged on the London & North- western Railroad for fifty years. Robert

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Tonkinson, our subject, went to work on the same road at the age of twelve years, and continued in that business in various posi- tions until 1849. He then left England Sep- tember 14, and came to America, arriving in Princeton October 28. He then began farm- ing, and has continued in that business ever since. He first rented land until he had ac- cumulated enough to buy a farm in Manlins Township, and afterward his present farm of 160 acres in Sections 35 and 36, Bureau Township. In spite of reverses he has been quite successful in his business of farming and speculating in stock and land. He was married in Princeton, Ill., to Mary L. Kins- man, December 16, 1856. She was born in Williamstown, Vt., March 22, 1823, and came to Bureau County in 1847. Her father, James H. Kinsman, was born in Springfield, N. H., March 11, 1786. He was a descend- ant of Robert Kinsman, who came to Massa- chusetts from Southampton, England, in 1631, and from whom are descended all the Kinsman families of the United States. James H. Kinsman was married to Sarah Robinson in 1812. She was born in Putney, Vt., January 14, 1784, and died June 28, 1866, in Manlius Township, Bureau Co., Ill. Her husband died in Princeton, February, 1853. Of their family, six are living, viz. : Emily W., widow of Egbert Colton, of Prince- ton; Denison, of Iowa; Aaron B., of Nebras- ka; Mrs. Tonkinson; Newell, of Nebraska; Lucius, of Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Tonk- inson have four children, viz. : Henry M., born September, 27, 1858, lives at Kearney Junction, Buffalo Co., Neb. ; Clara, born Sep- tember 7, 1860, wife of Fred Eichmier, of Bureau County; Ellen M., born July 9, 1863; Frank, born September 28, 1865. When Mr. Tonkinson first came to this country he was an Abolitionist, and since the organiza- tion of the Republican party has been identi- fied with that party. He enlisted in the ser. vice during the Civil war, but was rejected by the examining surgeon. He is a member of Bureau Lodge, No. 112, A. F. & A. M., of Princeton. He has visited his native land twice since first leaving it, once in 1857, and again in 1881.

MATTHEW TRIMBLE, Princeton, was born October 8, 1802, in North Carolina. His

father, James Trimble, was a native of Ire- land, and his mother, Rhoda (Good) Trimble, of North Carolina. They were the parents of twelve children, viz .: John, James, Mat- thew, Nancy, Peter, Jehu, Silas, Enoch, Rho- da, Jane, Sarah and Uriah, all of whom lived to reach maturity. Of these Matthew, Peter, Silas and Jane came to Bureau County. Mat- thew Trimble came here in October, 1843, and settled two and one-half miles southeast of Princeton, where he lived twenty-five years, and then removed to Princeton, where he has since resided. He was married in Clinton County, Ohio, to Lydia Thatcher, who died here December 9, 1853, aged forty- seven years. She was the mother of eleven children, of whom the following reached ma- turity: Cairo D., of Ottawa; William C., of Princeton; U. J., of this county; Matthew M., of Des Moines, Iowa; Albert M., of Lin coln, Neb .; Harvey M., present County Judge; Mrs. Emily E. Davis, of Poweshiek County, Iowa; Marshall U., States Attor- ney; Mrs. Lydia M. Small, of Dexter, Iowa. Mr. Trimble was married a second time to Mrs. Phoebe Dakin (nee McMannis), a sister of Judge George McMannis. She is the mother of the following children by her first husband: George M., James, Mrs. Martha Cochran; Philip B., a physician in Princeton; Mrs. Maggie Trimble, wife of Judge H. M. Trimble, and Mrs. Elizabeth H. Gillam. Po litically Mr. Trimble is a supporter of the Republican party.

U. J. TRIMBLE, Bureau, was born in Ohio, March 28, 1832. He is the son of Matthew Trimble, of Princeton, and came to Bureau County with his parents in 1843. He received his education in the schools of this county, and also at Eureka College, Eu reka, Woodford Co., Ill., where he attended the years of 1856 and 1857. While at school in 1856 he had help employed, and began the improvement of his present farm. January, 1858, he was married in this county to Miss Jane Cook, a daughter of Deacon Caleb Cook, one of the early settlers of Bureau County. After marriage Mr. Trimble came to his farm, where he has since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Trimble are the parents of six children, viz .: C. Howard, a stenographer and law student of Memphis, Tenn .; Norman L., Cashier of

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First National Bank of Walnut, in which his father is a stock holder and director; Le- lia A., Lucy M., Nellie T. and Wilbur C. Mr. Trimble has ever taken an active part in the enterprises calculated to benefit the peo- ple and county, and in partnership with A. Rogy was one of the early importers of Percheron Norman horses, and was also a successful breeder of thorough bred horses for some years. In politics Mr. Trimble has ever been an active Republican, and has rep- resented his township on the County Board for eleven or twelve terms. He is President of the Bureau County and Wyanet Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company.

WILSON TRIPLETT, Wyanet. Aquilla Triplett, father of the above-named gentle- man, was born in Culpepper County, Va., August 6, 1807. At the age of nine years he removed with his parents to Belmont County, Ohio, and afterward lived nine miles below Zanesville. He was married August 20, 1829, to Elizabeth Wilson, who was born November 25. 1807, in Chester County, Penn., and moved with her parents to Ohio when about twelve years old. October 17, 1834, the Triplett family came to Bureau County. In the caravan were twenty-two persons, consisting of Stephen and Polly (Beaumont) Triplett, parents of Aquilla Triplett, and their entire family. with the exception of one nephew, who came in later years. They settled at Centre Grove on the farm where Aquilla Triplett afterward lived. He was one of the earliest settlers in the county, and in the earlier years of his resi- dence here was acquainted with every man in the county. He and his wife were among the seven members who organized the Centre Grove Baptist Church. Mr. Triplett died September 17, 1878, while on a visit to Brooklyn, Iowa. His widow is still living in Wyanet Township. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are living, viz. : Luther, resides near Brooklyn, Iowa; Thomas M., of Marshall County, Iowa; Lemuel, died in California, leaving a wife and three children; Levi, of Malcom, Iowa; Julius C., of Cass County, Iowa; Zilpha, wife of Lewis Sisler, of Cass County, Iowa; Wilson, of this county; Aquilla, of Friend, Saline Co., Neb. Mrs. Triplett has forty-

one grandchildren living and seven great- grandchildren. Wilson Triplett was born October 14, 1849, at his present home, and has lived on the old homestead most of his life, being engaged in farming and stock- raising. He was married September 17, 1874, to Miss Mary Sellers, a native of this county. They have three children-Maud Ethel, Edith Clair and Bertha Merle. In politics Mr. Triplett is an independent Democrat. He is a member of the A. F & A. M. of Wy- anet and Chapter of Princeton.

HENRY TRUCKENBROD, Clarion, was born March 17, 1831, in Baickheim, Bavaria, Germany. His parents, Henry and Margare- tha (Baner) Truckenbrod, died in Germany, They were the parents of the following chil- dren: George, Adam and Henry Trucken- brod, who all died in Germany; Mrs. Mar- garetha Wendel died here; Thomas Truck- enbrod. who is yet living in Bavaria, and Henry and Johann Truckenbrod, who reside in this county. Henry Truckenbrod came to America in the spring of 1849. He landed in New York, and went by boat to Albany up the Hudson River; from there on the Erie Canal to Erie, N. Y., where he took a boat for Chicago. From the latter place he went by canal to Pern. Ill., where he met Jacob Koeper, with whom he rode ont to J. Koeper, Sr., the old German settler of Clarion Town- ship, Bureau County. Mr. Truckenbrod worked three years for Rev. John Hetzler, after which he rented till 1854, when he bought eighty acres of laud at $3.50 per acre. He was a successful farmer, and bought one farm after another till at present he has 840 acres. He made the first addition to his homestead about 1860, when he bought 120 acres at $20 per acre. In 1868 he paid $45 per acre for land. In 1872 and 1880 he paid $60, and in 1882 paid $80 per acre, this showing about the gradual increase of the price of land in his neighborhood. Mr. Truckenbrod was married here March 10, 1854, to Catharina Buehlhorn, who was born October 8, 1831 in Kueps, Bavaria. She was a great helper to Mr. Truckenbrod, and a hard worker. She died December 27, 1869. She was the mother of the following chil- dren: Johann, Friedrich, Eduard, Margare- tha, Heinrich, Jacob, Friedrich A. and Se-

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bastian H. Truckenbrod. Of the above Friedrich married Maggie Heimann; they have two children, viz .: Margaret Lydia and an infant daughter. Eduard Truckenbrod married Lizzie Geuther, who is the mother of Henry Paul Truckenbrod.

JOHN TRUCKENBROD, Clarion, was born December 17, 1834, in Baickheim, Ba- varia. This honest, hardworking tiller of the soil is another son of Henry and Margaretha (Bauer) Truckenbrod. (See preceding sketch. ) Mr. Truckenbrod came to this county in June, 1854. At first he worked on a farm, and then rented several years. In 1856 he bought ninety acres of Doctor Eames, who had entered it. He improved it gradually and then sold it. In 1860 he bought 200 acres of land, where he now resides, of Arson Childs, now a resident of Waterloo, Iowa. Mr. Trucken- brod has been a successful farmer, and at present owns 370 acres of land in this coun- ty, 218 in Lee, and 160 in LaSalle Co., III. He came to America a poor man, $2.50 being his earthly possession; but he was rich in perseverance and industry, which characterize his race. He was married here December 19, 1858, to Lizzie Fauber, who was born No- vember 24, 1841, in Saxony Coburg, Ger- many. She is a daughter of Nicholaus and Margaret (Marr) Fauber, and is the mother of the following children: Henry H., John N., Rosina, Carolina, Jacob F., Margaretha

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History of Bureau County, Illinois, Part 99

Author: Bradsby, Henry C., [from old catalog] ed Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Chicago, World publishing company Number of Pages: 776

Author: Bradsby, Henry C., [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Chicago, World publishing company
Number of Pages: 776