Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 120

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008

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(VII) Edward Barnard, only son and child of Cephas and Esther Holbrook (Starr) Strong, was born in the old family homestead in North street, Northampton, September 1, 1841, and has spent his more than threescore and five years in the vicinity where his ances- tor, Elder John Strong, settled more than two and a half centuries ago. He was educated there in the public schools of the town and subsequent city and in business occupation is a farmer; a good, thrifty and progressive hus- bandman, who has added to the paternal acres through his own enterprise and now is pos- sessed of a fair property in lands. In connec- tion with his farming pursuits for the last more than thirty-three years Mr. Strong has been superintendent of the Bridge street cemetery in Northampton. He enlisted, October 4, 1862, in Company C, Fifty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged August 14, 1863; was wounded in the siege at Port Hudson, Louisiana, was shot in the hip. He is a member of Nonotuck Lodge, No. 61, I. O. O. F. Also a member of Post, No. 86, G. A. R. He married Caroline Marsden Cliffe, born April 7, 1839, died March 9, 1906, daugh- ter of Matthew and Jane ( Marsden) Cliffe, of Northampton. Mr. and Mrs. Strong have two children: 1. Maud E. 2. Lottie B., mar- ried William M. Bennett.

Anthony Emery, immigrant an-

EMERY cestor of this branch of the family in America, was born in Romsey, Hants, England, son of John and Agnes Emery. He married, in England, Fran- ces - and with his brother John, their wives, and probably one or two children each, sailed from Southampton, April 3, 1635, in the ship, "James," of London, William Cooper, master. They landed at Boston, June 3. 1635. The following August, Anthony was probably in Ipswich and settled soon afterwards in New- bury, where he lived until about 1640. He removed about that time to Dover, New Hamp-

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shire, and October 22, 1640, signed the Dover Combination. His house was at Dover Neck, about a mile from the present railroad station at Dover Point. He kept an ordinary or inn, which was destroyed by fire. He was select- man in 1643-48. On November 15, 1648, he bought of John White, a house, field, and great barren marsh on Sturgeon creek in Piscataqua, afterwards Kittery, now Eliot, Maine, and two other marshes. In 1649 he was a grand juror in Dover and removed to Kittery, where he lived eleven years. He was a juryman several times ; selectman in 1652-59, and constable. He was one of the forty-one inhabitants of Kittery who acknowledged themselves subject to the government of Massachusetts Bay in 1652. He received four different grants of land from the town. In 1660 he was fined and disfran- chised for entertaining Quakers, whereupon he sold his property and removed to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, September 29, 1660, where he was received as a free inhabitant. He was juryman on several occasions, chosen constable June 4, 1666, and deputy to the general court, April 25, 1672. Children : I. James, born about 1630, mentioned below. 2. Son. 3. Rebecca.

(II) James, son of Anthony Emery, was born in England about 1630, and came to America with his parents. He married (first) Elizabeth who died after 1687. He married (second) December 28, 1695, Eliza- beth (Newcomb) Pidge, widow and second wife of John Pidge, of Dedham. He bought the house and lands of his father at Kittery, Maine, and resided there for some years. He had numerous grants of land; was selectman many years ; deputy to the general court in 1693-95, and grand juror and constable in 1670. When he married the Widow Pidge he removed to Dedham and settled on the estate of her late husband, presenting the divi- sion of the estate June 10, 1709. He removed to Berwick, Maine, and was living there in 1713, but died soon after. It is related of him that when he went to Boston his carriage was a chair placed in an ox cart drawn by a yoke of steers. This mode of conveyance was necessary as there was not in Kittery a car- riage large or strong enough to carry him safely. He weighed over three hundred and fifty pounds. Children: I. James, born about 1658. 2. Zachariah, about 1660. 3. Noah, about 1663. 4. Daniel, September 13, 1667, mentioned below. 5. Job, 1670. 6. Elizabetlı. 7. Sarah.

(III) Daniel, son of James Emery, was

born September 13, 1667, died October 15, 1732. He resided in Kittery and Berwick, and was a noted surveyor. He was surveyor of Kittery from 1706 to 1713; selectman sev- eral years. In 1718 he was one of the commis- sioners to mark the line between Kittery and Berwick. He was moderator in 1707 and 1718. He was elected deacon of the Berwick church in May, 1703, and elder November 21, 1720. His will was dated April 5, 1732, and proved November following. He married, March 17, 1695, Margaret Gowen, alias Smith, born No- vember 15, 1678, died November 21, 1751. Children, born in Berwick: 1. Daniel, June 25, 1697. 2. Noah, December 1I, 1699. 3. Simon, January 6, 1702, mentioned below. Zachariah, March 12, 1704-05. 5. Margaret, March 3, 1707, married Stephen Tobey; died 1795. 6. Caleb, October 17, 1710. 7. Ann, March 19, 1712-13. 8. Joshua, June 30, 1715. 9. Tirzah, September 19, 1717. 10. Huldah, August 4, 1720.

(IV) Simon, son of Daniel Emery, was born in Berwick, Maine, January 6, 1702, died No- vember 10, 1760. He resided in Kittery and on March 20, 1751, signed the Kittery memo- rial. He was on the alarm list in 1757, and was a juror in 1744-50. He was surveyor of high- ways in 1745-46-48. He married, October 21, 1725, Martha Lord, who died April 29, 1760, daughter of Nathan Lord, Jr. His will was dated November 8, and proved November 22, 1760. Children, born in Kittery: I. Martha, August 6, 1726. 2. Simon, November 26, 1727. 3. Margaret, July 1, 1729. 4. Stephen, March 21, 1730, mentioned below. 5. Samuel, 1732. 6. John, May 15, 1734. 7. Mary, Febru- ary 15, 1737-38, married Japhet Emery. 8. Meribah, March 20, 1740. 9. Sarah, Septem- ber 3, 1742. 10. Charles, August 16, 1745.

(V) Stephen, son of Simon Emery, was born at Kittery, Maine, March 21, 1730. He was an elder of the Freewill Baptist church at Kittery. He married, March 6, 1753, Sarah Hodgden. Children: I. Stephen, born De- cember 1753, mentioned below. 2. Joshua, 1755. 3. Jacob, 1757. 4. Simon, February 17, 1760. 5. Abigail, 1761. 6. Prudence, baptized May 22, 1763. 7. George, born 1765. 8. Dominicus, 1767, married, 1798, Hannah Goodwin ; died at sca. 9. Mary, 1768-69, died unmarried. 10. William, 1770, physician at New Orleans. II. Ichabod, 1784.

(VI) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (I) Emery, was born in December, 1753, died at Gorham, Maine, 1830. He joined the Shakers at Alfred, Maine, but left them. Later lie

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returned, but soon left again. He married (first) September 8, 1775, Sarah Emery, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Shackley) Emery. He married ( second) March 6, 1783, Mary (Libby) Sharples, born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1759, widow of John Sharples. Children of first wife, born at Kit- tery : I. Hosea, December 17, 1776, mentioned below. 2. Daniel, baptized March 9, 1786. 3. Sarah, baptized March 9, 1786. Children of second wife: 4. Oliver, born at Shapleigh, removed to Ellisburg, Jefferson county, New York. 5. Mary, Alfred, August 28, 1785, died October 16, 1834. 6. Sophia, August 28, 1785 (twin). 7. Hiram, 1790, died December 19, 1812. 8. Robert, May 10, 1791, died February 5, 1826. 9. Catherine, died at Saco, Maine, 1878. 10. Calvin, born at Biddeford, Decem- ber 3, 1806.

(VII) Hosea, son of Stephen (2) Emery, was born at Kittery, Maine, December 17, 1776, died at Monroe, Maine, December 26, 1836. He married, December 6, 1798, Hannah Bartlett, who died at Milford, Maine, June 2, 1859. Children: I. Temple H., born at Kit- tery, February 3, 1800, died at Bradley, June 21, 1839. 2. Roswell, May 12, 1803, at Ber- wick, died at Monroe, 1860. 3. Emeline, Mon- roe, December 26, 1805, died December 26, 1824. 4. Lydia, July 6, 1810, died February 10, 1826. 5. Sarah, March 31, 1813, married, April 1I, 1831, Daniel Billings ; died at Boston, 1868. 6. Hosea B., August 1, 1815, died at Bangor, April 20, 1868. 7. Hiram, November 20, 1817, mentioned below. 8. Hannah B., April 30, 1820, married, March I, 1840, Nathan Hinckley, and died in Bradley, October 9, 1843.

(VIII) Hiram, son of Hosea Emery, was born in Monroe, Maine, November 20, 1817, died in Boston, December 27, 1891. He re- ceived a public school education. Early in life he began to work at lumbering. He was in the employ of his brother, a lumberman at Bradley and after his brother died he succeeded to the business. He removed to Bangor and embarked in the lumber trade and in 1850 came to Boston where he established a lumber yard at South Cove, near Dover street. His busi- ness flourished and he became known through- out New England as one of the leading lumber dealers of this section. For a number of years he was engaged in the manufacturing business. He retired from active business a few years before his death and enjoyed a well-earned period of rest and leisure. He was prominent in financial and political circles. He was one

of the incorporators and founders of the South Boston Savings Bank, a trustee from the first and for many years a member of the invest- ment committee. His judgment in making in- vestments and appraising real estate was of great value to that bank and other institutions. He was a Republican in politics, and in 1874- 75 was a member of the board of aldermen of Boston. In the two years following he repre- sented his district in the general court, where we did good service for his district and the commonwealth. He was an active and promi- nent Free Mason, a member of the lodge, council, commandery, and Massachusetts Con- sistory, having taken the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite. In religion he was a Congrega- tionalist. He married, at Orono, Maine, Feb- ruary 22, 1844, Harriet G. Godfrey, born at Orono, June 21, 1822, daughter of Ard and Katherine (Gaubert) Godfrey. On her father's side she is a descendant of Thomas Rogers who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower." Her mother was the daughter of Nicholas Gaubert, a French nobleman, who came from Marseilles, France, to New Orleans, Louisiana, when a young man, removed thence to Maine where he spent most of his active life where he died at the age of sixty from the effects of a fall from his horse, leaving a large estate in his native land. Mrs. Emery was educated in the public schools and a seminary at Gorham, Maine, and has always been an earnest student and taken a keen interest in the affairs of the country and of the community in which she lives. She has been active in charitable and benevolent work for many years, and was one of the twelve original founders of the Home for Aged Couples of Boston, in 1887. She has from the first devoted time and money to the support of this useful institution, and has been vice-president of the board for many years. The home is situated near Franklin Park in Boston and is well adapted to its great and growing needs. The president of the insti- tution, Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott Carleton, with whom Mrs. Emery has been associated in the work, is well known, loved and revered throughout the state for the noble work she has done and especially for her excellent man- agement of this home. After Mrs. Emery had reached the age of sixty she took up the study of art and painting and developed much talent. Her home is adorned with many specimens of her skill, and at the age of eighty she con- tinues to enjoy her studies and painting as much as ever. She is a member of the Mount Vernon Congregational Church of which her

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husband was a member. She has no children of her own, but was the foster mother of one daughter, Florence Emery, born November 5. 1861, died February 3, 1908, wife of Dr. Frederick P. Batchelder, a prominent physician of Boston.

(For first two generations see preceding sketch).

(III) Job, son of James Emery,

EMERY was born in 1670 and resided in Berwick, Maine. He married, April 6, 1696, Charity Nason.

(IV) Joseph, son of Job Emery, was born in Berwick, Maine, February 24, 1702, died July 1, 1793. He married, October 10, 1726, Mehitable Stacey, who died in 1786.

(V) William, son of Joseph Emery, was born February 6, 1747, died January 30, 1816. He resided in South Berwick, Maine. He mar- ried, January 16, 1772, Philimelia Webber, who died January 9, 1822.

(VI) Hiram, son of William Emery, was born in South Berwick, June 19, 1786, and died January II, 1863. He settled in Trenton, Maine, in 1804, and removed in 1807 to Sulli- van, Maine, where he resided the remainder of his life. He married, November 15, 1815, Rachel S. Simpson, born April 22, 1793, died September 2, 1844.

(VII) Daniel Sullivan, son of Hiram Emery, was born in Sullivan, Maine, Decem- ber 29, 1833, died October 2, 1908, in Newton, Massachusetts, at his home on Waverly ave- nue. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He came to Boston, Sep- tember 13, 1850. In January, 1857, he formed a partnership with his brother, John S. Emery, under the firm name of John S. Emery & Com- pany, ship owners, ship brokers and marine underwriters, and the firm enjoyed a very ex- tensive business for nearly forty-five years. From 1901, when the business was incorpor- ated, to the time of his death, he was president of the John S. Emery Company ( incorpor- ated). For more than fifty years he was identi- fied with the shipping interests, and during this period was owner in whole or in part of more than two hundred vessels. His firm and com- pany owned a large fleet of sailing vessels that traded in all parts of the world. The concern was known in every important port in the world. Probably no man ever had a more thorough knowledge of this business than Mr. Emery, and few had a longer or wider experi- ence in this line of business. The house was extremely careful, and had the good fortune

seldom to have a vessel injured or abandoned at sea. Mr. Emery was very active and influ- ential in securing legislation in the interests of the port of Boston and for the improvement of the harbor. He was not only a great ship owner, but an honored and useful citizen, illus- trating in his career those qualities of courage, energy, foresight and sagacity, such as have made New England conspicuous for nearly three centuries in the ocean trade of the world. He was a director of the New England Marine Insurance Company ; of the Boston Insurance Company ; director and former president of the East Boston Dry Dock Company ; member and former director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce ; and a director of the Commercial National Bank of Boston for twelve years. He was a member of the Bostonion Society, the Boston Marine Society, the New England Ship Owners' Association, the Pine Tree State Club, the Katahdin, Hunnewell and Unitarian clubs of Newton, Massachusetts, where he lived, and was one of the managers of the American Bureau of Shipping of New York. He was a Free Mason, and a member of the Channing Unitarian Church, of Newton. In politics he was a Republican. Among the many tributes to his memory are the following reso- lutions of the Boston Insurance Company, dated October 13, 1908; "Whereas : Daniel S. Emery, an esteemed associate, has after a long and honorable life, been removed by death from us, and desiring to express our respect for his memory as a dear friend, an honest man, and an able merchant, be it

"Resolved: that the directors of the Boston Insurance Company recognize a great loss to the company in the death of Daniel S. Emery, a member of the board for twelve years. He was always prompt in attendance at the meet- ings and displayed an active interest in promot- ing the welfare of the company since its organ- ization. Known and highly respected by busi- ness men of Boston, as the head of large and successful shipping interests, he was regarded as an authority on marine matters, on which Itis counsel was often sought and always cheer- fully given. During his long career in busi- ness, he won and retained the esteem of his associates and the respect of the business com- munity. While his thoughtful consideration and genial intercourse will be missed at our meetings, his many excellent qualities as an honorable merchant and a genial friend will long be lovingly remembered and cherished by 115.

"Resolved ; that these resolutions be spread

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on the records of the company and a copy of the same be sent to the family.

"Thomas H. Lord, Secretary."

Mr. Emery married, December 25, 1860, Lydia S. Hill, born at Sullivan, Maine, Octo- ber 15, 1835, daughter of Captain Nahum Hill. Children: I. Fred H., born December 23, 1863, died July 12, 1871. 2. John S., June I, 1866, died January 25, 1868. 3. Daniel R., May 16, 1869, died January 16, 1870. 4. Georgia H., February 25, 1871. 5. Ralph C., January 23, 1876, treasurer of the John S. Emery Company, incorporated.

HARLOW The introduction to this sketch is taken from the account of the Harlow family in the "Genea-

logical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County," published by the Lewis Publishing Company, and written for it by Major William T. Harlow. of Worcester.

"In a book on Derivation of Family Names," Rev. William Arthur, it is said that the name Harlow is derived from the town of Harlow in England. The modern town of Harlow is situate on the east bank of the river Stort, county Essex, twenty-three miles north of London, on the high road to Newcastle, and is a station of the Great Eastern railway. Territorially the town is only a small fraction of and nominally is the last surviving relic of a much larger tract of land, once called the Half Hundred of Harlow, or Dimidium de Herloua. and by the latter name many times mentioned in the Domesday Book. It extend- ed twelve miles from north to south, and six miles in width, along the east side of the river Stort, and contained seventy-two square miles. As to the identity of the Dimidium of Domes- day with the half hundred, and of the names of Herloua and Harlow, my authority is Morant's "History of the County of Essex"- an elaborate work in two ponderous volumes, wherein the learned author traces everything in the county back to Saxon origins. The Half Hundred of Harlow contained eleven parishes, of which one was called the parish of Harlow, which parish included six manors (landed estates) of which one was called Har- lowbury. The term hundred originally used by the ancient Saxons to mean one hundred men, with their families, under a quasi- military form of organization, to occupy a large tract of land, in time became the name of the tract itself, and later came to signify an intermediate territorial division, now obsolete, between town and county. "Mr.

Arthur classifies Harlow with names of local origin, i. e., names derived from places, and leaves his derivation of the name from the town of Harlow to rest on unsupported asser- tion. This is not the place to discuss at length the learned opinions of accepted authorities, but I beg to suggest what in the absence of proof to the contrary it seems to me the more probable supposition that Harlow was origin- ally the name of a man of whom the town is a namesake."

(I) William Harlow, immigrant ancestor, appears on a list of residents of Lynn, Massa- chusetts, dated 1629-30. In 1637 ten men of Lynn (originally called Saugus) had leave granted thein to take up and settle land in Sandwich, and some of the ten, with forty-six others, of whom William Harlow was one, removed to Sandwich and settled there. The same year one Thomas Hampton, of Sand- wich, (not one of the new-comers from Lynn ), died without family or kindred, leaving a will in which William Harlow was both an attest- ant and legatee, colony law allowing such attesting. In 1639 he was proposed for admis- sion as a freeman and took the preliminary oath of fidelity. In 1640 he had assigned to him at a town meeting of Sandwich four acres of land. Later he removed to Plymouth. He was a cooper by trade. He built several houses in Plymouth, of which one built in 1667 on a lot granted him by the town and described as a "little knoll or parcel lying near his own dwelling house on the westerly side of the road to sett a new house upon," still stands where it was built on the road to Sandwich, (now named Sandwich street), about a quar- ter of a mile from Plymouth postoffice. Another house built by him in 1660, referred to in the above description, called the Doten House, stood on the easterly side of the same road, a few rods further south, till 1808, when it was taken down. The house that is still standing was framed out of the old timbers of the Pilgrim Fort, on Burial Hill, in Plym- outh. As Sergeant of the south company, Captain William Harlow had charge of the old fort for many years, and after King Philip's war (1675-76) he bought it of the town and used the old timbers in the construc- tion of his new house. In 1882 when some repairs were made on the house, a ponderous. iron hinge of the fort gate, attached to a tìm -. ber, was discovered, and may now be seen with other Pilgrim relics in Pilgrim Hall. Sergeant Harlow did military duty in the Indian wars under Major William Bradford.

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He was admitted a freeman, 1654, and served on the jury many years; also assessor many years ; deputy to the general court two years ; selectman fifteen years, and chairman of the board at the time of his death. He was also active in chuch affairs. The inventory of his personal estate was two hundred and thirty- four pounds sixteen shillings and eleven pence. It was ordered by the court that the four sons have his lands, the eldest a double portion, saving the widow her third and the remainder to be divided among the seven daughters. He died August 26, 1691, aged sixty-seven years. He married, at Plymouth, December 30, 1649, Rebecca Bartlett, who died 1657, daughter of Robert and Mary ( Warren) Bartlett, and granddaughter of Richard Warren, who came

over on the "Mayflower." He married (second) July 15, 1658, Mary Faunce, who died October 4, 1664. He married (third) January 15, 1665, Mary Shelley, who sur- vived him. Children of first wife: I. William, born and died 1650. 2. Samuel, January 27, 1652, married twice. 3. Rebecca, June 12, 1655. 4. William, June 2, 1657, mentioned below. Children of second wife: 5. Mary, May 9, 1659. 6. Repentance, November 22, 1660. 7. John, October 19, 1662. 8. Nathan- iel, September 30, 1664. Children of third wife: 9. Hannah, October 28, 1665. IO. Bathsheba, April 21, 1667. 11. Joanna, March 24, 1669. 12. Mehitable, October 4, 1672. 13. Judith, August 2, 1676.

(II) William (2), son of William ( I) Harlow, was born June 2, 1657, in Plymouth. He married Lydia, daughter of Thomas and granddaughter of Robert Cushman, a wool- carder of Canterbury, England, who went with the Pilgrims to Leyden, Holland, married there, June 3, 1617, Mary Chingleton, widow of Thomas, of Sandwich, England. Robert Cushman was associated with Elder Brewster as agent of the Leyden Church in negotiation for its removal : came in the ship "Fortune" to Plymouth in 1621 ; preached often at Plym- outh; returned to England and died there in 1626. Children of William and Lydia Harlow, born at Plymouth: I. Elizabeth, 1683, mar- ried Thomas Doty. 2. Thomas, 1686, mar- ried - Churchill. 3. Robert, mentioned below. 4. Isaac. 5. Lydia, married Barnabas Churchill. 6. Mary. 7. Rebecca, married Jabez Holmes. 8. Wlliam.

(III) Robert, son of William (2) Harlow, was named for his maternal great-grandfather, the eminent Robert Cushman. He lived at Plymouth and married there Susanna Cole,

daughter of John Cole, of Plympton. He mar- ried ( second) Remembrance Wethered. Chil- dren of first wife, born at Plymouth: I. Ebenezer, 1719, married Maria Morey. (An Ebenezer was in Maine in 1790). 2. Benja- min, 1723. 3. Isaac, 1725, mentioned below. 4. Robert, 1728. 5. Reuben, 1730. 6. James, 1732. 7. Susannah, 1736. 8. Mary, 1739, married James Hovey. 9. Elizabeth, 1743. Io. Submit, 1745. Children of second wife: II. Susanna, 1750, married William King. 12. Lydia, 1752.

(IV) Isaac, son of Robert Harlow, was born at Plymouth in 1725. He married Jerusha Finney. Children, born at Plymouth: Isaac, Betsey, Jerusha, William, mentioned below, Rebecca, Deborah, married Caleb Raymond, Lemuel.

(V) William (3), son of Isaac Harlow, was born in or near Plymouth about 1755, died at Buckfield, Maine, 1800. He moved to Buck- field, Maine, about 1790. He married, in 1780, Susanna Harlow, daughter of Thomas Har- low ; she died at Sangerville, Maine, in 1831. Children, the elder of whom and perhaps nearly all of them born at Plymouth : I. Nathaniel, April 20, 1781, married Polly Thayer and lived in Paris, Maine. 2. William, 1782, killed by a falling tree. 3. Ivory, April 22, 1784, lived at Brewer, Maine. 4. Jerusha, June 22, 1786, married Fuller Dyke; resided at Canton. 5. Ephraim, November 21, 1788, married Laodicea Bessey and lived at Buck- field. 6. Susanna, March 19, 1791, lives at Canton. 7. William, March 17, 1793, married Sarah Billings and lived at Bridgeton. 8. Isaac, April 10, 1796, mentioned below. 9. Elizabeth, April 2, 1797, married Lemuel Gray, of Paris. 10. Drusilla, March 31, 1800.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 120

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 1008

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1008