Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 137

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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(V) Cyrus (2), son of Cyrus (I) Miller, was born at Williamsburg, June 5, 1797, died April 5, 1885. He attended the district school two miles from his home a few months each year, working on the farm during the summer, and later he inherited part of his father's homestead bordering on the village of Hayden- ville. He was a heavy loser in the great Mill river flood of 1874, and he and his family had a narrow escape from death. He was a skill- ful mechanic and did much coopering during the winter months, before machinery came into use in the manufacture of kegs and barrels. He invented the modern hames, which has became an indispensable part of the draft harness. He was a Whig in politics, later a Republican. In religion he was a Methodist, and member of the church at Williamsburg, later at Haydenville. He was upright, earnest, and conscientious. He married (first) June 25, 1835, Harriet E. (Kingman) Hannum, born at Goshen, Massachusetts, February 26, 1809, died at Williamsburg, November 15, 1835, widow of Silas Hannum Jr. He mar- ried (second) Philena (Ford) Bates, born at Cummington, Massachusetts, February 16, 1807, died there May 25, 1884, daughter of Seth and Parthena (Kingman) Ford. Chil- dren of second wife: I. Edwin Ford, born May 3. 1837, mentioned below. 2. Arthur Tappan, December 25, 1839, was associated with his brother in conducting the homestead ; married, Sunderland, March 10, 1880, Sarah E. Hamlin, of Gloversville, New York, born September 1, 1848, died on the same day as her husband, September 13. 1890, at Williams- burg. 3. Lewis Cyrus, March 20, 1844, at Williamsburg, resided at South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts; member of the Methodist church ; married, at South Hadley Falls, No- vember 26, 1860, Jane Adeline Sanford, daugh- ter of George C. and Mary ( Andrews) San- ford ; has four sons.

(VI) Edwin Ford, son of Cyrus (2) Miller, was born at Haydenville, a village in the town

of Williamsburg, May 3, 1837, on the Miller homestead. Though his schooling was limited to that of the district schools, he was always fond of reading and inclined to be studious. He is especially well versed in the history of his native town and county, has a wonderful fund of general information and is a gifted conversationalist. He possesses a large and well selected library. Early in life he began to take an interest in the growing of fruit, especially of apples. The orchard, for which his farm has been famous for more than two generations, was started by his grandfather from seed brought from Wallingford, Connec- ticut, but the fruit was of native stock and much of it unmarketable. The son traveled far and near to learn what was then known of apple growing and finally, at the suggestion of Professor Norton, began to graft the trees with new or better varieties of apples. The orchard was enlarged, and the business of apple raising became profitable. Edwin Ford Miller and his son have kept pace with the progress of science applied to apple culture, and year by year has proved the value of the new methods and scientific treatment of apple trees. Mr. Miller is still in active life and takes rank among the most prominent and successful farmers of the county. His farm includes three hundred acres, a portion of which is a part of the original Miller home- stead. In his youth he learned the trade of blacksmith and made horseshoes during the winter season for a number of years, when all the enterprising farmers of New England fol- lowed a trade in addition to their farmwork. He has always taken an interest in public affairs, though independent in politics, and has been selectman several years. He is also a trustee of several public trust funds and has been for many years a trustee of the Hayden School Fund. He and his wife are faithful and consistent members of the Congregational church of Haydenville, of which he has been a teacher in the Sunday school most of the time for the past fifty years. He married, at Spring- field, Massachusetts, June 13, 1861, Ellen Mercy Woodburn, born at Windham, Vermont, Au- gust 28, 1840, daughter of Samuel D. and Laura (Fay) Woodburn. (See Fay and Woodburn families herewith). Mr. and Mrs. Miller are devoted to each other and he attri- butes much of his success to her good judg- ment and co-operation. Their only child is Edwin Cyrus, mentioned below.

(VII) Edwin Cyrus, son of Edwin Ford Miller, was born at Haydenville, May 10, 1867.

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He attended the public schools of his native village and the Wesleyan Academy of Wilbra- ham, where he was graduated in the class of 1882. Later he studied horticulture and pomo- logy under Professor John Craig, of Cornell University, one of the foremost authorities on these subjects. From 1889 to 1896 he was a clerk in the First National Bank of North- ampton. Since 1896 he has been associated with his father on the homestead, "Hillside Farm," and lives in the house built by his grandfather. Besides the famous orchard, the farm has a model dairy. His practical and theoretical knowledge of fruit raising has been put into useful practice, not only on the home- stead which has become a model for the orchards of New England apple growers, but as a consulting orchardist and institute lecturer. The farm produces an average yield of three thousand barrels of apples, and has some three thousand trees, old and young. Mr. Miller believes that ample proof has been given that apples require plenty of air and sunshine and that high ground is best adapted for growing apples in New England. Much of the Miller orchard is quite hilly, as the name implies. He is a regular contributor to the various agricultural and horticultural publications, including The Homestead, The New England Farmer, The American Cultivator, The Green's Fruit Grower, The Fruit Grower of St. Joseph, Missouri, The Fruit Trade Journal, Better Fruit of Hood River and to the Spring- field Sunday Republican. He is president of the Hampshire-Franklin Fruit Growers Asso- ciation, and member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the American Pomological Association. For his lectures Mr. Miller has large photographs of orchards illus- trating the points he is to make and when a lantern is available he uses the stereopticon. He lectures on all the phases of orchard man- agement from setting out the trees to market- ing the crop. His pictures are said to be the finest of the kind in the country. Of his lec- tures in the Maine Farmers' institutes the New York Tribune Farmer says: "He not only dwelt upon the essentials of the business from the selection and preparation of the soil to the time the finished product is placed upon the tables of the consumers in a manner that left every point clear in the minds of his hearers, but by his earnestness, sincerity and enthusiasm, as well as the fact that he has shown by his acts that he has faith in the business, he imparted a desire to strive for the high ideals he has set for himself to every

person in his audiences. Maine farmers have long ago tired of listening to the man who works from theories alone and who builds fancy pictures about an imaginary business into which he never had courage to put his capital or the faith to put his future, and when a man like Mr. Miller comes among them he is sure of their attention. Everyone who heard him will, from that time on, be better equipped for the work he may be doing, and will have a lifelong interest in the work being done at Hillside Orchards on the hills of Massachu- setts." Of the orchards of Hillside Farm, the Horthampton Herald said recently: "These apple orchards are reputed to be among the very finest in New England, if not the best --- considering the care it is given in every detail of first-class fruit production, picking and packing and the alertness, celerity and per- sistency with which the owners perceive, adopt and carry out the most approved horticultural methods." Mr. Miller married, at Northamp- ton, June 17, 1891, Edith Dunbar Childs, born at Northampton, December 5, 1867, daughter of Henry and Esther ( Kinsley) Childs. Chil- dren: I. Charlotte, born at Northampton, October 27, 1895. 2. Gladys, born at Hayden- ville, May 5, 1902.

Woodburn is an ancient WOODBURN English surname derived from a place-name. The family is found also in Scotland. Upon a gravestone in Finnick, Scotland, lying on the dust of John Furgushall and George Wood- burn, who were shot to death by Nisbet and his party during the persecution of the Scotch Presbyterians by the English authorities in 1685. is inscribed :

"When bloody prelates, once this nation's pest, Contrived that curs'd self-contradicting test; These men for Christ did suffer martyrdom, And here their blood lies waiting till he come."

From Scotland a branch of the family took refuge in the province of Ulster, Ireland, whence the American immigrant came with the Scotch-Irish to Londonderry, New Hampshire. (I) John Woodburn was born in Scotland or Ireland about 1700, and came to London- derry a few years after the settlement ( 1719), accompanied by his brother, David Woodburn, his wife and two daughters. He resided first on a farm east of the old graveyard on the hill at what is now Derry, New Hampshire, lately owned by Robert Craig, removing afterward to a farm in the High Range in Londonderry,

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and lived in a log house formerly used as a garrison house. He died there in 1780 at an advanced age. He married (first) Mary Boyd in Ireland. Her relatives settled at London- derry also. He married (second) at London- derry Mary Taggart of another Scotch-Irish family. Children of first wife: I. Nancy, married James Anderson. 2. Margaret, mar- ried Edward Aiken and settled in Windham, New Hampshire. 3. Sarah, married John Wallace and settled in Bedford, New Hamp- shire. 4. Mary, married General George Reid, one of the leading figures of the revolutionary war ; they lived at Londonderry ; she is said to have had a strong and vigorous intellect, retentive memory, a happy and cheerful dispo- sition with a strong and salutary influence upon her husband and family. Children of second wife: 5. David, inherited the home- stead and lived at Londonderry, leaving it to his son John; married Margaret Clark; Horace Greeley was their grandson and to his grand- mother he ascribed perhaps the greatest influ- ence over his early life. 6. John, mentioned below. 7. Betsey, married William Aiken and settled in Deering, New Hampshire. 8. Han- nah, married Robert Dickey and had eleven children. 9. Daughter, married - Thomp- son and removed to Grafton, Vermont. 10. Daughter, married Thompson and lived in Grafton. II. Daughter, died unmarried.

(II) John (2), son of John ( I) Woodburn, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, about 1740. He removed with other settlers from Londonderry, New Hampshire, to Lon- donderry, Windham county, Vermont. Accord- ing to the federal census of 1790 he had three sons under sixteen and five females in his family at that time. He married Martha Clark, of Londonderry, New Hampshire. Two of his sisters and their families located at Graf- ton, Vermont, an adjoining town. He had three sons and five daughters. Among them were : John, mentioned below.

(III) Deacon John (3), son of John (2) Woodburn, was born about 1775. He lived at Londonderry, and Grafton, Vermont. He was deacon of the church at Windham. He married Mercy Davis. Among their children was Samuel D., mentioned below.

(IV) Samuel D., son of Deacon John (3) Woodburn, was born about 1800 at Windham. He married Laura Fay, born June 10, 1810, died December 24, 1893, daughter of Reuben Fay. He was educated in the public schools and was a school teacher and farmer. He lived at West Springfield, Massachusetts, after

removing from Windham. He died 1876. Children: 1. Carrie, married Franklin Gibbs. 2. Joanna, married Byron Loomis. 3. Melinda, married D. P. Williams. 4. Ellen M., married Edwin F. Miller. (See Miller Family here- with ). 5. Leona, died at the age of three years.

FAY The surname Fay is of French origin and the family was probably not long in England before the immigrant came to New England. Foy is probably identi- cal in origin. The name signifies fairy, and would imply that the progenitor, upon whom the name was first fixed, had a rather mystical reputation.

(I) John Fay, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1648 in England. He embarked May 30, 1656, at Gravesend, England, on the ship, "Speedwell," Robert Locke, master, and arrived at Boston, June 27 following. With him were other young men related to various settlers at Sudbury, Massachusetts .. Thomas Barnes was twenty ; Shadrach Hapgood, four- teen ; Thomas Goodnow, twenty; Nathaniel Goodnow, sixteen: John Fay, eight. Rev. Abner Morse concluded that he came to join his father, David Fay, then of Sudbury, and that Peter Bent was a relative. He removed to Marlborough, which was settled by Sud- bury men, was living there when admitted a freeman in 1669, and had a wife and one child. His name first appears in the town records of Marlborough in 1671 as petitioner for a grant of land. In 1675 Fay was one of the pro- prietors of Worcester and had a lot assigned in the eastern squadron lying next to the county road to Boston. He was one of those who in 1678. after King Philip's war, attempt- ed to scttle the town. During the war he with others retired to Watertown for security against Indian attack. While there, his first wife died and he married again. He married (first) Mary Brigham, daughter of Thomas Brigham and his wife Mercy Hurd. The Fay and Brigham families have been closely related by marriage ever since then. Fay married ( second) Susanna ( Shattuck) Morse, widow of Joseph Morse, daughter of William Shat- tuck, the pioneer. While in Watertown Fay was made a trustee of the estate of Reynold Bush, of Cambridge, who was about to marry Susanna Lowell, of Beverly, Wiltshire, Eng- land. After the war Fay settled in Marl- borough again, in what is now Southborougli. Children of first wife: 1. John Jr., born No- vember 30, 1669. 2. David, October 15, 1671.

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died young. 3. Samuel, October 11, 1673. 4. Mary, February 10, 1675. Children of second wife: 5. David, born April 23, 1679. 6. Gershom, October 19, 1681, mentioned below. 7. Ruth, July 15, 1684, married, June 28, 1706, Increase Ward Jr. 8. Deliverance, October 7, 1686, died 17II : married, February 20, 1706, Benjamin Shattuck.

(II) Gershom, son of John Fay, was born October 19, 1681, and died November 24, 1720. He was one of the first settlers in that part of Marlborough which in 1717 was set off as Westborough, and in 1727 was set off again as Northborough. He served as constable in 1714, 1718 and 1720, and was surveyor in 1720. He was one of the committee to build the meeting house in 1721. He built the first saw mill in Northborough, about sixty rods east of the Unitarian church. On August 18, 1707, his wife, two children, and Mary Goodnow, were in the meadow picking herbs, when they saw twenty or more Indians approaching. The women fled to the near-by garrison house, and Mrs. Fay and her children succeeded in reach- ing it. Miss Goodnow, being lame, was over- taken by the savages and murdered. After reaching the garrison house, Mrs. Fay found but one man to guard it, the others being at work in the fields. The Indians attacked the fort, but the two defenders managed to keep them off until assistance arrived, Mrs. Fay loading the muskets and handing them to her companion. A large elm tree, growing in the cellar, marks the site of Gershom Fay's house. He married, about 1702, Mary Brigham, born May 6, 1678, daughter of John and Sarah Brigham, and granddaughter of Thomas Brig- ham, the immigrant. Children: I. Gershom, born September 17, 1703, mentioned below. 2. Mary, July 10, 1705, married George Smith. 3. Susanna, November 18, 1707. 4. Sarah, October 2, 1710, married Timothy Billings. 5. Silas, August 12, 1713. 6. Timothy, June 26, 1716, died 1802; married, April 30, 1738, Lydia Tomblin, of Temple. 7. Paul, August, 1721.

(III) Gershom (2), son of Gershom (I) Fay, was born in Marlborough, September 17, 1703, died April 7, 1784. He was surveyor in 1762 and lived on the homestead. He mar- ried, about 1728, Hannah Oakes, born Decem- ber 27, 1707, died March 3, 1806, nearly one hundred years old, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Holloway) Oakes. Children, born in Westborough: I. Gershom, March 30, 1729. 2. Thaddeus, May 12, 1731. 3. Dinah, No- vember, 1733, died 1810, married

Stockwell. 4. Adam, March 31, 1736. 5. Joseph, September 27, 1738, mentioned below. 6. David, March 12, 1741, married, September, 1779, Patience Harvey. 7. Hannah, Septem- ber 1, 1743. 8. Millicent, June 29, 1746.

(IV) Ensign Joseph, son of Gershom (2) Fay, was born September 27, 1738, at West- borough, and died in Albany Hospital, Novem- ber 2, 1777. He settled first in Bolton, where the first four children were born, then in Med- ford, Massachusetts, and removed to Walpole, New Hampshire. He was in the revolution, a sergeant in Captain Jason Wait's company, Colonel Bedel's regiment of New Hampshire troops, in February, 1776. From November 8, 1776, until his death he was ensign in Cap- tain John Gregg's company of the third New Hampshire regiment. In the second battle of Stillwater, or Bemis Heights, he was wounded in the thigh, and was taken to the hospital at Albany, New York, where the leg was ampu- tated. He was thought to be recovering, but one night a ligature slipped off, and he bled to death. He married, in Shrewsbury, in 1761, Lucy Warren, born 1742, died at Walpole, New Hampshire, December 10, 1834, sister of Major Warren, and said to have been a rela- tive of General Joseph Warren. Children : I. Joseph, born December 28, 1762. 2. Levi, December 8, 1764. 3. Lucy, March 9, 1767. 4. Holland, March 13, 1769. 5. Mary, 1771, died unmarried 1797. 6. Achsah, November 22, 1773. 7. Reuben, April 3, 1776, mentioned below. (In Bond's History of Watertown is a record of two children of Joseph Fay by a previous wife : Abigail, born January 23, 1757, and Sarah, baptized May 16, 1762).

(V) Reuben, son of Joseph Fay, was born April 3, 1776, in Walpole, New Hampshire, and died at Grafton, Vermont, February 27, 1865. He removed from Walpole to Wind- ham, Vermont, and thence to Grafton, Ver- mont. He married, at Walpole, 1796, Hepsibah Kidder, born in Tewksbury, August 25, 1773, died at Windham, August 16, 1854, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Kittredge) Kidder. Children, the two first born at Walpole, the remainder at Windham: I. Warren, April 3, 1797. 2. Mary, March 26, 1799, married, De- cember 2, 1819, Thomas Kinnie Palmer. 3. Allen, June 20, 1801. 4. Fanny, June 27, 1803. 5. Harriet, April 16, 1805. 6. Reuben, Novem- ber 27, 1808, died October, 1812. 7. Laura, June 10, 1810, mentioned below. 8. Maria, February 12, 1812. 9. Reuben Mason, June 25, 1814, died November 16, 1845; married, August 25, 1842, Abigail Mack.

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(VI) Laura, daughter of Reuben Fay, was born in Windham, Vermont, June 10, 1810, died December 24, 1893. She married, Novem- ber 19, 1831, Samuel Davis Woodburn, son of Deacon John and Mercy (Davis) Wood- burn. Children: I. Harvey Mason, born July 27, 1833, married, March 9, 1856, Betsey Abby Comstock. 2. Caroline Hepsibah, July 4, 1836, married, March 10, 1855, Franklin Simeon Gibbs. 3. Ellen Mercy, August 28, 1840, mar- ried Edwin Ford Miller, son of Cyrus and Philena (Ford) Miller. (See Miller family herewith). 4. Laura Joanna, November 10, 1842, married, May 10, 1859, Byron Loomis. 5. Harriet Melinda, July 2, 1843, married, June 24, 1863, David Pratt Williams. 6. Leona Maria, August 22, 1847, died October 14, 1848.

FROST George Frost lived at Winter Harbor, Maine, and was appraiser of the estate of Richard Will- iams in 1635. He served on the grand

jury in 1640. Goody Frost, his wife, was assigned a pew in the church at Winter Harbor, Saco, next to the pew of Goody Wakefield, September 22, 1666. He is the father of the following children : I. Rebecca, married Simon Booth ; removed to New Hampshire, and died in 1668. 2. John, married Rose 3. William, mentioned below.

(II) William, son of George Frost, wit- nessed a deed in Winter Harbor in 1667 and bought land in Saco of William Phillips in 1673. It may have been he who had a grant of land on Crooked Lane in Kittery in 1658. The Indian war drove him to Salem, Massa- chusetts, where he was living from 1675 to 1679. William Frost, cordwainer, of Salem, bought land in Wells, Maine, in 1679, and had various grants and mill privileges in Wells until 1690. His estate was administered in 1690 by Israel Harden, and William Frost Jr. was his bondsman. Roger Hill wrote to his wife May 7, 1690. "The Indians have killed Goodman Frost and James Littlefield and car- ried away Nathaniel Frost, and burnt several houses here in Wells." William Frost mar- ried Mary Wakefield, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Littlefield) Wakefield, and grand- daughter of Edmund and Annis Littlefield. Children: I. William, married ( first) Rachel ; (second) April 5, 1796, Elizabeth Searle ; died September 23, 1721. 2. Nathaniel, captured by the Indians in 1690. 3. Elizabeth, married, November 8, 1698, Daniel Dill.4 Mary, born at Salem, July 31, 1677. 5. Abi-

gail, married, January 14, 1702-03, Samuel Upton. 6. James, mentioned below.

(III) James, son of William Frost, mar- ried, May 15, 1707-08, Margaret Goodwin, daughter of William and Deliverance (Taylor) Goodwin. He was a planter and mill owner in South Berwick, Maine. On April 10, 1724, he mortgaged to Alexander Frost twenty-five acres of land along the river and town road in Berwick. James Frost and Roger Plaisted sold, June 12, 1723, to Sylvanus Wentworth and his wife, sixty acres of land, a house and barn, which they had bought of William Childs, of Berwick. James Frost owned a fourth part of a saw mill at Quamphegan in Berwick, which he and Benjamin Libby, Richard and Samuel Lord, had bought of Samuel Plaisted, October 14, 1724. He and his wife were mem- bers of the Congregational church. His will was dated in 1744, proved July 4, 1748. Chil- dren : I. James, born November 5, 1708, mar- ried Sarah Nason. 2. William, March IO, 1709-10, died March 14 same year. 3. William, February 15, 1710-II, mentioned below. 4. Nathaniel, August 14, 1713. 5. John, baptized October 22, 1716, went to Nova Scotia. 6. Stephen, baptized April 12, 1719, married Lucy 7. Mary, baptized October 8, 1721, died young. 8. Mary, baptized September 29, 1723, married Major Charles Gerrish. 9. Jere- miah, baptized December 24, 1725, married Miriam Harding, went to Nova Scotia. IO Jane, baptized May 10, 1728, married, March IO, 1747, Caleb Emery. II. Margaret, baptized July 13, 1730, married, June 18, 1752, William Haskell.

(IV) William (2). son of James Frost, was born in South Berwick, Maine, February 15, IZIO-II. He married Love Butler, and with her owned the covenant at the church on Blackberry Hill in Berwick. Children: I. William, baptized May 30, 1733, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, baptized September 29, 1734. 3. Moses, baptized March 27, 1737. 4. James, baptized May 6, 1739. 5. Love, bap- tized April 5. 1741. 6. Thomas, born July 17, 1744. 7. Elliott, baptized May 3, 1747. 8. Ichabod, baptized July 14, 1751. 9. Abraham, baptized October 7, 1753. 10. Isaac. II. Phineas.

(V) William (3), son of William (2) Frost, was baptized at Berwick, Maine, May 30, 1733. He lived at Berwick. Among his children were: 1. William, born February 23, 1760; mentioned below. 2. John, father of Solo- mon, who lived above Springvale, Maine. 3. James, of Sanford, Maine.

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(VI) Major General William (4), son of William (3) Frost, was born in Berwick, Feb- ruary 23, 1760, died December 23, 1821. He removed from Berwick to Sanford, Maine, about 1785, and built a house at Springvale where he had charge of the mill. He pros- pered in business and at one time owned more land than any other man in the town. He was part owner of several lumber mills. He was active and influential in town affairs; treas- urer of the town ten years; member of the school committee; often moderator of town meetings and from 1808 to 1821 was justice of the peace. He was in the state militia for a period of thirty years. He was appointed by Governor Hancock of Massachusetts, May 6, 1790, quartermaster of the Fourth Regi- ment, First Brigade, Sixth Division; commis- sioned major, May 5, 1794 ; lieutenant colonel, 1799; colonel of the Third Regiment, July I, 1816 ; major general, July 8, 1817, of the Sixth Division. His last commission came from Governor Brooks and was held until he died. He was buried with military honors at Spring- vale. His house stands on Main street, Spring- vale. He was a man of large stature and imposing appearance, greatly respected and honored. He married Betsey Goodwin, born February 3, 1760, died 1828, daughter of Gen- eral Ichabod Goodwin, of Berwick. Children, born at Springvale: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Mary, married John Powers. 3. Elizabeth, married Dr. Hall, of Alfred. 4. Lieutenant Ichabod, born July 2, 1798, died August 8, 1866; married Theodate Hall, born February 6, 1798, died May 23, 1871.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 137

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