Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 14

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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Bartlett, who bore him two children : I. Luther, mentioned below. 2. Daniel. He married (second) June, 1797, Mary Weldon, born May, 1765. Children : 1. Mary, born June 17, 1798. 2. Ruth. 3. Emma. 4. Reba. 5. Harriet. 6. Calvin, born January 27, 1810. 7. Achsah, died aged six years.

(VII) Luther (2), son of Luther ( 1) White, was born March 21, 1779, died November 15, 1846. He was bound out to Levi Taylor, as aforementioned, and upon attaining his major- ity settled at Granby, Massachusetts. He mar- ried, January 21, 1801, Abigail Preston, born May 21, 1781, died April 27, 1838. Children : I. Andrew, mentioned below. 2. Sophia, born May 24, 1804, died March 22, 1839; married, May 18, 1834, Amory Doolittle, who died March 29, 1872; children: i. Sophia, married an Englishman, died and was buried in Eng- land; ii. Spencer, married Anna Folwell. 3. Moses, born March 27, 1806, died February 16, 1892; married, October 26, 1830, Betsey Doane, born December 13, 1805, died April 10, 1894 ; children : i. Joseph Enoch, born August 21, 1832, married, May 9, 1860, Sarah Beach, born November 21, 1824, died August 19, 1873, married (second) July 30, 1879, Jane Beardsley, died March 17, 1898; ii. Sarah Jane, born August 28, 1834, married, July 14, 1853, Levi J. Cooper ; iii. Andrew, born Janu- ary 20, 1837, died February 15, 1903, married,

October 24, 1860, Mary Amanda Black, born November 24, 1836, died September 30, 1906; iv. Abigail, born December 27, 1839, married, May 27, 1858, Joseph O. Terry, born June 6, 1837; v. Emilie Maria, born June 25, 1843, married, November 13, 1861, William Terry, born July 6, 1831 ; vi. Homer Preston, born July 29, 1847, died April 8, 1853. 4. Homer, born August 7, 1808, died October 3, 1855; married, October 7, 1846, Emily Packard, died February 10, 1872, aged fifty-five years. 5. Maryett, born October 7, 1810, died December 15, 1888; married, December 7, 1835, Samuel Smith, born December 22, 1808, died August 5, 1890; children: i. Eliza Thayer, born De- cember 29, 1836, died October 19, 1897, mar- ried, August 7, 1862, William B. Clark, died October 27, 1864; ii. Robert Morrison, born September 10, 1838, married, May 22, 1866, Lucy C. Bangs, born September 17, 1837, died April 22, 1873, married (second) June 10, 1875, Mary J. Wright, born February 6, 1850; iii. Lucretia Maria, born May 19, 1841, died August 26, 1842; iv. Marietta, born June I, 1843, married, October 12, 1882, Charles S. Boynton, born August 28, 1841 ; v. Henry Neal, born May 21, 1845, died December 27, 1848; vi. Samuel Finley, born July 17, 1847, married, June 27, 1877, Alice S. Kimball, born Febru- ary 27, 1853, died February 5, 1890; vii. Abbie White, born November 2, 1849, died January IO, 1888, married, January 22, 1879, John H. Chandler, born September 28, 1843 ; viii. Henry Martyn, born May 31, 1852, died October 24, 1853; ix. Emma Clarinda, born September 3, 1854, married, July 20, 1893, John H. Chand- ler, born September 28, 1843. 6. Abigail, born November 28, 1812, died October 19, 1836; married, September 19, 1833, William Minchin, born March 25, 1812, died April 9, 1881 ; chil- dren : i. Infant, born May 13, 1834, died June 16, 1834; ii. William H., born April 15, 1836, died December 4, 1907; married, October 4, 1859, Amanda Becket, born July 19, 1840. 7. Sarah Maria, born December 7, 1814, died June 20, 1886; married, February 2, 1832, Larned Phillips Fiske, born August 31, 1808, died October 12, 1895; children: i. Homer White, born March 21, 1833, died October 18, 1847; ii. Amory Doolittle, born November 16, 1835, died August 5, 1837 ; iii. Hartwell, born September 25, 1837, died September 7, 1859; iv. Ellen Maria, born July 4, 1840, married, April 18, 1861, Algernon S. Bartlett, born April 28, 1840, died January 2, 1865, married (second) April 4, 1866, William A. Fiske, born November 2, 1839; v. Hobart Elliott,

Luther White

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born December 29, 1848, died July 8, 1903, married, March 30, 1871, Mary J. Church, born December 13, 1845; vi. Homer Preston, born June 13, 1852, married, May 12, 1875, Glen- dora Louisa Roberts, born August 23, 1853; vii. Arthur Wilmot, born April 15, 1855, mar- ried, August 27, 1884, Abbie Warren Taylor, born May 2, 1854. 8. Aaron Spencer, born March 7, 1817, died January 14, 1892; mar- ried, January 8, 1840, Lucille F. Dickinson, born October 16, 1817, died July 5, 1844 ; mar- ried (second) September 10, 1845, Sophronia Dickinson, born April 20, 1823, died May 23, 1890; children: i. Mosely Dickinson, born July 10, 1846, died February II, 1884; mar- ried, October 26, 1882, Mary Sophia Stead- man, born December 3, 1850 ; ii. Edward Spen- cer, born March 12, 1848, died January 12, 1895, married, August 13, 1874, Alice Estella Smith, born October, 1847, died February II, 1883: married (second) October 28, 1885, Sarah Adelaide Moody, born July 19, 1848, died February 13, 1890. 9. Margaret, born February 3. 1820; married, February 19, 1840, Addison Ferry, born September 10, 1814, died February 23, 1853 ; children : i. Lyman Stuart, born April 3, 1843, died November 18, 1869; ii. Jennette, born July 8, 1845; iii. Adelaide, born September 8, 1849, died April 9, 1851 ; iv. Charles Addison, born January 8, 1852, married, October 17, 1877, Rosella Elmira Briggs, born June 5, 1857.

(VIII) Andrew, son of Luther (2) White, was born in Granby, Massachusetts, August I, 1802, died October 15, 1882, at Chicopee. He settled at Granby and married there, Septem- ber 9, 1835, Philena Stebbins, born April 21, 1806, died June 2, 1877, at Granby, daughter of John and Jerusha (Clark) Stebbins, grand- daughter of Asaph and Lucy ( Bardwell) Steb- bins, great-granddaughter of John and Sarah (Warriner) Stebbins, great-great-granddaugh- ter of Joseph and Sarah (Dorchester ) Stebbins, great-great-great-granddaughter of Thomas and Hannah (Wright) Stebbins, great-great- great-great-granddaughter of the pioneer set- tler, Rowland and Sarah Stebbins.

(IX) Luther White, only child of Andrew and Philena (Stebbins) White, was born in Granby, Massachusetts, September 2, 1841. He was educated there in the public schools and in the Chicopee high school, graduating from the latter in the class of 1859; at Willis- ton Seminary, Easthampton, where he was a student two years; at Brown University, from which he received the degree of Ph. B. in 1864. He read law in the office of Wells &

Soule, of Springfield, and of Charles Robinson, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar of Middlesex county in 1868. He began to prac- tice as clerk in the office of Charles Robinson, in Boston. After a year he opened an office in Springfield and continued to practice alone to the present time. For about six months he remained in Springfield. Since 1870 he has had his office in Chicopee and has had good success in the practice of his profession. He is engaged in a general practice embracing a large variety of subjects. He is judge of the district court at Chicopee and city solicitor. He is a trustee of the Chicopee Savings Bank and sec- retary of the corporation. He was also director of the Chicopee First National Bank before it was liquidated. He was also treasurer of the Ames Manufacturing Company and vice-presi- dent of the Overman Wheel Company for sev- eral years, while those companies were in active business. He is an attendant of the Third Con- gregational Church of Chicopee. In politics he is a Republican. He married, October 12, 1871, at Chicopee, Mary J. Hadley, born Au- gust 29, 1846, at Worcester, daughter of Moses C. and Adeline (Wells) Hadley, of South Hadley, Massachusetts. Moses C. Hadley was a grandson of Abraham Hadley, of New York City. Luther and Mary J. (Hadley) White have one child, Mabel Adeline, born January 4, 1874, at Chicopee.

WHITE

The White families, of Water- town, Roxbury, Brookline and Newton appear to be closely re-

lated in early colonial days. Andrew White, of Watertown, doubtless a cousin of Andrew White, mentioned below, is described else- where in this work. John White, merchant, settled in Watertown before 1636; removed to Boston and later to Roxbury. His descend- ants for several generations are given in the New England Genealogical Register (p. 421, vol. LII.). The names are very like those of the lineage in this sketch, Benjamin, John, Joseph and Samuel being the favorites. Ed- ward White, born in England, settled in Rox- bury ; had sons Samuel, Zechariah, Eliezer, Peter, Henry and perhaps others.

(I) Andrew White was born as early as 1660, and may have been an immigrant. There is every reason to believe that he was a brother of some of the immigrants mentioned above. He married Elizabeth - Children, born at Boston: I. Andrew, born March 12, 1687. 2. Benjamin, mentioned below. 3. Samuel.

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born in Boston or Roxbury, 1690-1700. An- drew and Benjamin White lived for a time at Newton. Andrew had: Samuel, born Au- gust 12, 1717; Philip, born November 20, 1718; Mary, born February 27, 1720; John, born March 18, 1725, all at Newton. He was living in Newton in 1739 when he joined his brother, Benjamin White, of Dudley, in a conditional deed of land at Dudley to John Chamberlin, Edward Tooker and Samuel White, all of Roxbury. This deed was for one hun- dred and twenty-five acres of land formerly of Governor Dudley's grant and was to guarantee payment of a bond. The land was bounded by Richard Kidder's place. (See Worcester Deeds, vol 12, p. 242). Benjamin White went to Dudley after 1725 and before 1732. He bought land at Dudley, July 17, 1732, seventy- five acres, of Richard Kidder; and a smaller lot of John and Abigail Lillie on the same day. Andrew White, Jr., settled at Dudley, had a large family of children, held various town offices. Benjamin White died intestate at Dudley early in 1745. The inventory of his estate was dated May 21, 1745. He was field driver in Dudley in 1734, and fence viewer from 1735 to 1739, and held other minor town offices. Child of first wife Mary: Benjamin, born at Newton, November 14, 1727. Chil- dren of wife Abigail, born at Dudley : I. Mary, born July 21, 1733; died August 19, 1737. 2. John, born October 23, 1735. 3. William, born March 15, 1736-37; mentioned below. 5. Mary, born March 10, 1739.

(III) Captain William, son of Benjamin White, was born at Dudley, March 15, 1736- 37. He is said to have lived at Charlton during his youth. He was one of the earliest settlers of Goshen, Hampshire county, Massachusetts. He purchased of Gad Lyman, May 17, 1762, the westerly half of lots 6 and 13, First Divi- sion. He bought of Ezra May for twenty pounds, December 29, 1762, lot 20, First Divi- sion, in Chesterfield, of the propriety called Narragansett, No. 4, about one hundred acres in extent. White built his house near the east side of lot 20, near where the present house stands, built in 1829 or later. Lot 20 is bound- ed by lot 13. He held a commission as captain. He died November 7, 1821. He married, April 7, 1763. Marcy Dresser, born September 18, 1742, died January 1, 1823, daughter of Rich- ard and Dorothy ( Marcy) Dresser. Children, born at Goshen: I. Marcy, born October 3, 1764; married Alpheus Narramore. 2. Will- iam, a physician, born January 1, 1767; died April 8, 1792. 3. Mary, born November II,

1768 ; married, May 20, 1794, Thomas Adams and lived at Hinsdale. 4. Prudence, born July 16, 1771 ; married, May 20, 1794, John Adams, and lived at Hinsdale. 5. Eunice, born No- vember 8, 1773; died January 8, 1788. 6. John, born February 13, 1776; died August 12, 1777. 7. Abigail, born April 2, 1778; died January 13, 1788. 8. Hannah, born August 20, 1780; married Timothy Lyman. 9. John, born December 29, 1782; died January 13, 1788. 10. Ezra, born December 27, 1784; died January 29, 1788. 11. Joseph (twin), born August 17, 1787 ; mentioned below. 12. Benja- min (twin), born August 17, 1787; married (first) Sophia Butler, of Williamsburgh ; (sec- ond) Mrs. Aurelia Bardwell, widow of Samuel Narramore ; she died August 1I, 1869; was town clerk for many years, principal justice of the peace, representative to the general court ; delegate to the constitutional conven- tion ; special county commissioner ; held many other positions of trust and had a large influ- ence in the county ; died January 25, 1873, aged eighty-five years.

(IV) Joseph, son of Captain William White, was born in Goshen, August 17, 1787. He attended the district school, and worked on his father's farm in his native town during his youth. He remained in Goshen until 1827 and kept the hotel at the centre of the town. At the same time he and his twin brother Benja- min carried on the homestead in company, both living in the same house in one family. In the spring of 1828 he removed to Hinsdale, Massachusetts, having purchased one of the best farms in that town. Sound judgment and economy, in which his wife had her full share, made him a prosperous farmer. He had the taste of a scholar, reading extensively and was especially well versed in the Scriptures. In early life he made a public profession of relig- ion and united with the Congregational church, in which he continued through life an earnest, consistent and honored member. He was prominent in town affairs as well as the church. He was interested in educational matters and educated his own children carefully. He died on his birthday, August 17, 1860, aged seventy- three years, leaving a widow and seven chil- dren. He married, October 31, 1820, Sophia Huntington, daughter of Simon Huntington, born August 24, 1796 ( see Huntington family ). She died at Worcester at the home of her daughter, July 11, 1888. Children: I. Sarah Huntington, born in Goshen, November 30, 1821 ; married, March 28, 1848, Charles T. Huntington ; lived in West Brookfield. 2.

Joseph Hostingfor White

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Joseph Huntington, born January 28, 1824; mentioned below. 3. Sophia Marcy, born in Goshen, March 6, 1826; educated at Williston Seminary, Easthampton; married, December 29, 1851, Stephen J. Wilcox; lived in Boston and Worcester. 4. James, born at Hinsdale, July 9, 1828; graduated at Williams College in 1851 ; taught mathematics at Williston Semi- nary two years; studied theology at Andover, but had to relinquish his studies on account of his eyesight, and became a member of the firm of White, Browne & Company ; representative to the general court in 1875 ; state senator two years, 1878-79; trustee of Williams College ; president of the Alumni Association of Bos- ton; deacon of the Central Congregational church; president of the City Missionary Society ; president of the Congregational Club, of Boston ; married, January 22, 1856, Harriet Cornelia Kittridge, of Hinsdale. 5. Simon Huntington, born at Hinsdale, May 22, 1831 ; bought his father's farm in Hinsdale and was a prominent citizen of that town; selectman ; president of the Highland Agricultural Society at Middlefield and of the Berkshire Agricul- tural Society; representative to the general court ; married, November II, 1857, Sarah A. Starkey, of Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 6. Jonathan Huntington, born in Hinsdale, July 25, 1836; educated at Hinsdale Academy and Williston Seminary ; clerk and afterwards partner of S. J. Wilcox, his brother-in-law, and later partner in the firm of R. H. White & Company, residing for many years in Paris, as foreign buyer of the house; married, June 28, 1871, Abby C. Herman, of Boston. 7. Ralph Huntington, mentioned below.

(V) Joseph Huntington, son of Joseph White, was born in Goshen, January 28, 1824. In his boyhood on the farm he displayed un- usual ambition and enterprise. He had the usual common school education. At the age of twenty-two he left home and began his mercantile career in Boston as a clerk; a year later he opened a dry goods store in Man- chester, New Hampshire, in partnership with his cousins, William and Benjamin F. White. At the end of two years he sold out to his partners and engaged in the same line of busi- ness in a store on Hanover street, Boston. He organized the dry goods importing and jobbing firm of White, Browne, Davis & Company and from the outset enjoyed a large and profitable trade, especially in the line of dress goods for women. After 1864 the business was exclus- sively importing with places of business in New York City as well as Boston and the firm

name became White, Browne & Company. The old firm was dissolved July 1, 1874, and after that Mr. White was the head of White, Pay- son & Company, selling agents of the Man- chester Mills, located at Manchester, New Hampshire. He was chiefly instrumental in reorganizing the Manchester Mills corpora- tion, after the financial crash of 1873, and was one of the large stockholders and directors. He became a conspicuous figure in the business world and acquired a large fortune. With a natural aptitude for business, he made the best possible use of his opportunities. He was upright, industrious, enterprising and saga- cious, shrewd in judging the public taste and in supplying the demand. He retired from active business in 1895, and has been living quietly at his handsome country place at 535 Boylston street, Brookline, since that time. During his business life, Mr. White traveled abroad extensively to buy goods for his firm, making no less than forty-four trips to Europe. He is a director of the Boston & Maine Rail- road Company, and has been a director of the Eliot National Bank of Boston since 1865; he was its president for many years. He is a trustee of the Huntington estate and of the Browne estate. He is a member of the Cen- tral Congregational church, of Boston. He attended the church first when it was located in Winter street, in what is now the heart of the retail shopping district of Boston. He took a leading part in raising the funds and building the new edifice, contributing liberally, and serving on the building committee. The church is now at the corner of Newbury and Berkeley streets, Boston. Mr. White is re- markably well and active for a man of his years and attends to his business affairs reg- ularly. By his counsel and aid he has been of great service to his younger brothers who have made shining marks in the commercial world. The record of Mr. White and his brothers in fact is unequalled in the success of the family as a whole. Such a group of wealthy, influ- ential and capable men in one family, all self- made, in the American meaning of the term, is probably not to be found in the history of American business in any other family.

He married (first ) January 13, 1853, Mary E. Stanyan, of Chichester, New Hampshire. She died December 19, 1853, and he married (second) November 13, 1855, Ellen Tewks- bury Danforth, of Manchester, New Hamp- shire. Children of Joseph Huntington White : I. Charles Huntington, born November 16, 1853; died March 15, 1884. 2. Joseph Foster,

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born June 17, 1863; married Elvira Georgia Atwood, of South Haven, Michigan, June 7, 1904 ; children : i. Georgia Foster, born March 7, 1906; ii. Eleanor Danforth, born May 13, 1907. 3. Helen Huntington, born June 28, 1868; married George Jacob Putnam, of Bos- ton, October 15, 1891; children: i. Helen, born February 14, 1893; ii. George Endicott, born September 9, 1894; iii. Ruth, born Octo- ber 9, 1901. 4. Harriet Foster, born June 28, 1868; married Arthur Crittenden Smith, of Omaha, Nebraska, November 2, 1892; chil- dren: i. Harriet Huntington, born December I, 1894; ii. Joseph Huntington White, born August 6, 1896; iii. Helen Danforth, born Oc- tober 27, 1900; iv. Grace White, born January 3, 1902; v. Arthur Crittenden, Jr., born De- cember II, 1903; vi. Esther, born February 8, 1906. 5. Grace Sabra, born July 19, 1870; married John Langdon Batchelder, Jr., of Jamaica Plain ( Boston), April 18, 1894; chil- dren : i. Sabra Foster, born January 18, 1895 ; ii. Rosamond, born March 3, 1897; iii. John Langdon, 3rd, born November 22, 1907.

(V) Ralph Huntington, son of Joseph White, was born in Hinsdale, January II, 1841. At the age of twelve years he began trading on his own account in his native town of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, by first peddling maple sugar and apples on the passenger trains on the Boston & Albany railroad, between Pittsfield and Chester. The old homestead, which is still in existence, was about one and one-half. miles from the Hinsdale station, and he used to walk the distance carrying what he had to sell in a basket on his arm. During the fall and winter he engaged in trapping fur-bearing animals, preparing and selling the skins by shipping them to Boston. In addi- tion to trapping animals he also dealt in furs, driving through the various country towns in the county and purchasing furs from other trappers, which he shipped to Boston, and one of the principal firms to whom he shipped the furs was Timothy Dodd, an old exporter of furs on Milk street. With money thus made he started a small store in his father's house, which was situated near the road. He sold his merchandise to the neighbors either for cash or for barter in farm products, and to people passing the house, as well as to trackmen who worked on the Boston & Albany railroad, be- tween Washington and Hinsdale. When young White began business it was in the days of wholesale peddlers who drove through the country supplying the country stores with vari- ous articles of merchandise. Their wagons

were large and imposing, sometimes drawn by teams of four and six horses. Mr. White conceived the idea of trading from seeing these wagons pass his home, and in his younger days his great ambition was to become one of these peddlers with a handsome cart. Mr. White's parents were much opposed to his trading under such conditions and frowned upon all his efforts in that direction. At the same time, the spirit was born in him and it could not be downed, and as he was afraid to have these travelling peddlers stop at the house, he could see them coming half a mile away from where the house was situated and he would walk down the road and hail then some distance from the house where he could talk to them without being observed by his parents. On one of these occasions, he met a wholesale glove peddler who sold the coun- try stores in different towns ; but as this class of merchandise run into more money than he was used to handling he told the man that he could not pay for them, but if he would trust him until he came around again, he would buy some of his buckskin gloves. The man looked up, and asked Mr. White if he lived in that house pointing to his home, and when he told him he did, the man said "All right, I will trust you for what gloves you want and when I come around again you can pay me." He bought a stock of buckskin gloves and sold them out in a few days to the farmers and to the workmen on the railroad and settled up with the travelling merchant on his next trip through the country. A few years ago, an old gentleman came to Mr. White's office and said he had a stock of gloves that he wished to close out, that he was going out of business entirely and would like to close out his entire stock. In talking with the old gentleman he found he was the same man who had trusted him for a few gloves over forty years previous at his old home in Hinsdale. At the age of eighteen years Mr. White went to Boston and became clerk in the retail dry goods store of his brother-in-law, S. J. Wilcox. Upon arriv- ing at maturity he purchased a half interest in a retail dry goods store in Hanover street and began business on his own account under the firm name of Tower & White, but in less than a year sold out and became a partner of Mr. Wilcox, under the firm name of Wilcox, White & Company, Winter street. He formed a partnership, March 1, 1865, with his brother, Jonathan H. White, under the name of R. H. White & Company, a firm that has a national reputation at the present time (1909). In

Ralph Huntington Which

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January, 1877, the firm moved to the present location on Washington street, and their estab- lishment is one of the largest in the country, also one of the best and most prosperous. Mr. White resides on Commonwealth avenue, Bos- ton.

He married, December 24, 1863, Ellen M. Tucker, of Andover, Massachusetts, who died at Gibralter, November 7, 1897. He married (second) October 5, 1899, Lena Elizabeth Hebbard. Children of first marriage : I. Anna Catherine, born October 27, 1864; died Janu- ary 7, 1895. 2. Emilie Hall, born April 27, 1866; married Arthur Hewes Sargent, June 5, 1888. Their children : i. Edith Adelaide, born May 15, 1889; ii. Arthur Hewes, Jr., born August 1, 1890; iii. Joanna, born September 26, 1892, died January 18, 1896; iv. Emilie, born November 29, 1896; v. Margaret, born December 21, 1899. 3. Edith Eliza, born Au- gust II, 1871 ; married Thomas Crane Wales, October 4, 1896. Their children: i. Ralph Huntington, born August 16, 1897; ii. Thomas Crane, born November 9, 1898; iii. Mary, born January 16, 1902. 4. Ralph Herbert, born October 17, 1873; married Edith Marion Apted, August 28, 1903. Their children : i. Edith Louise, born June 12, 1905; ii. Ralph Huntington, born December 9, 1906.

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume II, Part 14

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