Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 41

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850

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Mr. Bradford has numerous club and society affiliations. He is ex-president of the Win- throp Club, of Springfield, of the Union Relief Association, and of the Nayasset Club, of which he was the first president. He is also ex-manager and director of the Hampden Musical Association, director of the Connecti- cut Valley Historical Association, and was chairman of the Finance Committee of the First Baptist Society.

On April 28, 1868, Mr. Bradford married Mary Slater, of Providence, daughter of Ho- ratio Nelson and Sarah (Tiffany) Slater, and a grand-daughter of Samuel Slater, the pioneer cotton manufacturer of America. They have had four children, namely: Horatio Nelson Slater, born February 8, 1869; Edward Stan- dish, Jr., born February 10, 1870; Sarah Tiffany, born December 1, 1872, who died in infancy; and Dorcas Lockwood Bradford, born May 19, 1874. Horatio Nelson Slater Brad- ford is now at the head of the Boston house of Samuel Slater & Sons, manufacturers, of Web- ster, Mass. He married Rose, daughter of Henry Kingsley Baker, of Springfield, and they have one son - Horatio Nelson Slater Bradford, Jr., born September 19, 1901. Ed- ward Standish Bradford, Jr., is treasurer and manager of the Springfield Machine Screw Company. He married May 16, 1891, Sidney, daughter of James Henry and Elizabeth (Slater) Howe, of Webster, Mass., and their children are: Elizabeth Howe, born May 3, 1892; Mary Slater, born January 29, 1894; Edward Standish Bradford, third, born Decem- ber 27, 1895; James Henry Howe, born Au- gust 9, 1897; and William Bradford, born March 30, 1899.

HARLES WILLIAM ELIOT, LL. D. In the foremost rank among Ameri- can educational leaders of to-day stands Charles William Eliot, presi- dent of Harvard University, a native Bosto- nian, a Harvard alumnus, and the matured product of seven generations of New England growth and culture. Born March 20, 1834, son of the Hon. Samuel Atkins and Mary (Lyman) Eliot, he is a descendant on the pa-

ternal side of Andrew Elliot, who came from East Coker, Somersetshire, England, in the early part of the reign of Charles II., or about the year 1669, and settled at Beverly in the Bay Colony; while through his mother he traces his ancestry back to Richard Lyman, one of the original settlers of Hartford, Conn. From Andrew' Elliot, the line of descent is through Andrew,2 Andrew, 3 Samuel, 4 and Samuel, 5 Jr., to Samuel Atkins6 Eliot, Presi- dent Eliot's father.

Andrew Elliot joined the church at Beverly in 1670, and in 1690, when he was sixty-three years of age, he was elected Town Clerk of Beverly. He served also as Representative to the General Court. Andrew Eliot, second, his son by his first wife, Grace Woodier, who d. in England, m. in 1680 Mercy Shattuck. Andrew 3 Eliot, third, b. of this union, settled in Boston. A shoemaker by trade, he became a merchant in Cornhill, where he lost much of his property by the fire of 1711. One of his sons was Andrew Eliot, D. D., third minister of the New North Church in Boston, 1742-48 (a charge that he declined to leave in 1773 to accept the presidency of Harvard College), and ancestor of the late Rev. Dr. William G. Eliot, of St. Louis, father of the Rev. Chris- topher R. Eliot, of Boston. Another son was Samuel, 4 a book-binder and publisher in Bos- ton, who m. Elizabeth Marshall, and was the father of Samuel, 5 Jr., the next in the line now being considered.

Samuels Eliot, Jr., b. in Boston in 1739, acquired wealth by engaging in mercantile business in this city. In 1814 he founded anonymously the Greek chair at Harvard Col- lege, named after his death in 1820 the Eliot Professorship of Greek Literature. By his first wife, Elizabeth Barrel, he had three chil- dren; and by his second wife, Catherine At- kins, he had three sons - Charles, William Havard, and Samuel Atkins, and four daugh- ters, namely : Mary H., who m. Edmund Dwight; Elizabeth, who m. Benjamin Guild; Catherine, who m. Professor Andrews Norton of the Harvard Divinity School; and Anna, who m. George Ticknor, LL. D.

The Hon. Samuel Atkins' Eliot, b. in Bos- ton in 1798 (Harvard College, 1817), d, in

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Cambridge in January, 1862. He was Mayor of Boston in 1837-39, treasurer of Harvard College 1842-53, member of Congress 1850- 51. For some years he was president of the Academy of Music; also of the Prison Disci- pline Society. He was author of a History of Harvard College, and editor of a volume of sermons by the Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood. He m. Mary Lyman, and had six children, namely: Mary L., who m. Charles Eliot Guild; Frances, who d. in childhood; Eliza- beth, who m. Stephen H. Bullard; Charles William, now- president Eliot; Catherine Atkins, who m. Professor F. H. Storer of Harvard University ; and Frances A., who m. the Rev. Henry W. Foote. Mrs. Mary L. Eliot d. in 1874. She was b. in 1802, daugh- ter of Theodore and Lydia (Williams) Lyman, and was a sister of Theodore Lyman, Jr., of philanthropic fame. Her father was an enter- prising and prosperous merchant of Boston, having large shipping interests. His first wife was Sarah Emerson, who was a cousin to Ralph Waldo Emerson's father. Theodore Lyman was b. in 1755 at York, Me. He d. in 1839, at his country-seat, Waltham, Mass. His father, the Rev. Isaac Lyman, was a native of Northampton, Mass,, a graduate of Yale College, and for sixty years (1749-1809) was pastor of a church at York, Me. His parents were Captain Moses and Mindwell (Sheldon) Lyman. He m. Ruth Plummer, of Gloucester, Mass. Captain Moses was the son of Moses, Sr., who was the son of Lieu- tenant John, and grandson of Richard Lyman, the founder of the family in New England. Richard Lyman, of the parish of Ongar, county Essex, England, whose wife was Sarah, daughter of Roger Osborne, came over with John Eliot in the "Lion" in 1631, lived for a time at Roxbury, went to Connecticut in the "great removal," and was one of the original proprietors of Hartford, where he d. in 1641.

Charles William Eliot prepared for college at the Boston Latin School, which he entered in 1844, Epes Sargent Dixwell being head master. In this he followed the footsteps of his father, who entered the Latin School in 1809, and of his grandfather, whose attendance began in 1747. He was graduated at Harvard

in 1853, among his classmates being Adams S. Hill, now Boylston professor of rhetoric, and the late Justin Winsor, librarian and his- torian. He received the Master of Arts degree in course, the honorary Doctor of Laws from Williams and Princeton in 1869, and from Yale in 1870. Having shown marked profi- ciency as a pupil of Professor Benjamin Peirce, and of Professor J. P. Cooke, with whom he continued his studies in chemistry as an under- graduate, he served as a tutor in mathematics 1854-58, in 1857 delivering a course of lect- ures in chemistry to the Medical School, and as assistant professor of Mathematics 1858-61, and of Chemistry 1858-63. Going to Europe in 1863, he spent two years familiarizing him- self with the methods and results of the latest scientific research, and getting an insight into the workings of the educational systems of England, France, and Germany. In 1865 he became professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. This position he held for four years, with the exception of about fourteen months, during which he engaged in further study abroad. In 1869, in the thirty- sixth year of his age, he was elected, not without opposition, to succeed Dr. Thomas Hill as president of Harvard, the oldest American University. With an enterprising corporation, scrupulously faithful to all trusts, and a constitutional executive, who is at the same time a sagacious, inspiring leader, its course has been triumphantly onward.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, as we learn from his "Life and Letters," expressed himself very freely in writing to Motley about the young president in April, 1870, saying: "He shows an extraordinary knowledge of all that relates to every department of the University, and presides with an aplomb, a quiet, imper- turbable, serious good humor that it is impos- sible not to admire. We are, some of us, disposed to think him a little too much in a hurry with some of his innovations."

Annual reports of the president, the dean, the treasurer, the periodic reports of class sec- retaries, and, in recent years, the pages of the Graduates'. Magazine, first issued in 1892, tell the story of Harvard from the date of the

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inaugural address of President Eliot, October 19, 1869. "In 1890 [we quote from an ar- ticle by Mr. Lane, assistant librarian 1887-93, and librarian since 1897] the Quinquennial Catalogue first dropped its Latin dress and appeared in English; in 1896 Latin was dis- continued as the official language of Com- mencement, except that it still survives in the Commencement programme, which con- tinues to mystify the graduating youth and impress the audience with an awesome sense of learning. The honorary degrees are also con- ferred in English; and here, too, one appre- ciates the advantage it is to have the president's apt and epigrammatic characterizations of the candidates intelligible to the whole audience."

Two collections of essays and addresses by President Eliot have been published in book form. The first of these, entitled "Five American Contributions to Civilization," dis- cusses that subject and others, among them, "Why We Honor the Puritans," "A Happy Life," and "Heroes of the Civil War." The second groups, under the head of "Educational Reform," his inaugural address, a paper on "Liberty in Education," an address on the "Function of Education in a Democratic Society," and a number more on similar topics. A few gathered sentences indicate the character of his thought and his style of expression :

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. They are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. "

"The standard of education should not be set at the now attained or the now attainable. It is the privilege of public education to press toward a mark remote."

"Nobody has any right to find life uninter- esting, or unrewarding, who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong which he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil which he can hope to overcome."

"There is a lifelong and solid satisfaction in any productive labor, manual or mental, which is not pushed beyond the limit of strength. . .. The Oriental hot climate fig- ment that labor is a curse is contradicted by the experience of all progressive nations."

It was President Eliot's pen that furnished the inscription for the Soldiers' Monument on Boston Common, the impressive prose lines on the Shaw Memorial, and the dignified words, original or selected, on the Water Gate at the World's Fair, Chicago, happily perpetuated in the first-mentioned volume of his published works.

President Eliot was married October 27, 1858, to Ellen Derby, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Ephraim and Mary J. (Derby) Peabody, and a sister of Professor Francis G. Peabody, D. D. She was born in Dayton, Ohio, June 22, 1836. Dr. Ephraim Peabody was the minister of King's Chapel, Boston, from 1846 till his death in November, 1856, "a man trusted, beloved, and honored as few men are." He was a son of Ephraim and Rhoda (Abbot) Peabody, of Wilton, N. H., and a lineal de- scendant of Francis Peabody, who came to New England in 1635, and in 1657 settled at Tops- field, Mass. Mrs. Ellen D. Eliot died in 1869, leaving two sons - Charles and Samuel Atkins. On October 30, 1877, Mr. Eliot married Grace Mellen Hopkinson, daughter of Thomas and Corinna Aldrich (Prentiss) Hop- kinson, of Cambridge.

Charles Eliot, President Eliot's eldest son, who was graduated at Harvard in 1882, died at Brookline, Mass., March 25, 1897. His pro- fession was that of landscape architecture, which he pursued with an artist's love of nature. He was a member of the firm of Olm- sted, Olmsted & Eliot, the architect of the Metropolitan Park System of Boston, and the author of a monograph on "Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations of Boston," a report presented to the Park Com- mission in February, 1897, and of many other papers on the landscape art.

The Rev. Samuel Atkins Eliot, D. D., younger son and only surviving child of Presi- dent Eliot, a graduate of Harvard, class of 1884, has held pastorates of Unitarian churches in Seattle, Denver, and Brooklyn. In 1897 he was elected secretary of the American Uni- tarian Association, and in May, 1900, he was elected president. His last year as secretary was one of signal achievements, a great im- pulse, largely through his endeavors, being

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given to the cause of liberal Christianity. He is married, and has five children.

ENRY SOUTHWORTH SHAW, widely known in business circles as the treasurer of the Pemberton Com- pany, of the Stevens Linen Works, and of the Nevins Company, is a native resi- dent of Boston. Born March 30, 1833, son of Southworth and Abby Atwood (Shurtleff) Shaw, he is a representative of the eighth generation of the family founded by John Shaw, who joined the Plymouth Colony before 1627; and through his mother is a descendant of William Shurtleff, immigrant, who removed from Plymouth to Marshfield about 1660.

The Pilgrim strain in Mr. Shaw's blood is very noticeable, being derived through inter- marriage from twenty-four of the historic pas- sengers in the forefather ships. Eleven of these came in the "Mayflower" in 1620, namely : Isaac Allerton, his wife Mary Norris, and daughter Mary; Stephen Hopkins, wife Elizabeth, and daughter Damaris; Richard Warren, Francis Cooke, and James Chilton, with his wife Susanna and daughter Mary. These four in the "Fortune," 1621: Robert Cushman and his son Thomas, Robert Hicks, and John Winslow. Nine in the "Ann " and "Little James," 1623 : Robert Bartlett, Thomas Clark, Mrs. Margaret Hicks, Phebe Hicks, Mrs. Alice Carpenter Southworth, Mrs. Elizabeth Warren, and Mary Warren (wife and daughter of Richard Warren), Mrs. Hester Cooke, and Jacob Cooke (wife and son of Francis Cooke).

The Shaw ancestral line is: John1; Jona- than,2 b. in England; Jonathan, 3 b. in 1663; Samuel, 4 b. at Plympton in January, 1706-7; Ichabod, 5 b. at Plympton, 1734; Southworth, 6 b. at Plymouth, 1775; Southworth,7 b. at Plymouth, October 13, 1801, father of Henry Southworth8. Jonathan2 Shaw, who was Deacon of the church at Plymouth, m. in 1657 Phebe M., daughter of George and Phebe (Hicks) Watson. Lieutenant Jonathan3 m. in 1687 Mehitable Pratt.

Samuel4 m. in April, 1731, Desire, daugh- ter of Ichabod Southworth, of Middleboro, and

his wife Esther, and grand-daughter of Nathan- iel and Desire (Gray) Southworth. Nathaniel Southworth was b. at Plymouth in 1648, son of Constant' and Elizabeth (Collier) South- worth. Constant Southworth was son of Ed- ward and Alice (Carpenter) Southworth. After his father's death, his mother left England, sailing for Plymouth in the "Ann " in 1623, and became the second wife of Gover- nor Bradford. Constant came over later, when still a youth, and was received into the Gover- nor's household. He afterward was treasurer of the colony for many years. He m. a daugh- ter of William Collier, of Duxbury. Desire Gray, wife of Nathaniel Southworth, was a daughter of Edward and Mary (Winslow) Gray, and grand-daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow. John Winslow, who was a brother of Governor Edward Winslow, came over in the "Fortune" in 1621. He m. in 1624 Mary Chilton, who came in the. "Mayflower " with her parents, James and Susannah Chilton. She was the spirited maiden to whom, as the story is told, was gallantly conceded the honor of being the first to land on Plymouth Rock.

Ichabods Shaw m. at Plymouth, April 21, 1757, Priscilla, daughter of John and Experi- ence (Pierce) Atwood. John Atwood, her father, was a son of Nathaniel and Mary (Morey) Atwood; and on the maternal side grandson of Jonathan and Mary (Bartlett) Morey, Mary Bartlett being a daughter of Robert' and Mary (Warren) Bartlett, and grand-daughter of Richard' Warren of the "Mayflower." Southworth6 Shaw, Sr., d. at Plymouth, January 18, 1847. He m. at Plym- outh in 1798 Maria Churchill, daughter of Stephen5 and Lucy (Burbank) Churchill, and a descendant of John' Churchill, who came to Plymouth in 1643.

Southworth7 Shaw, Jr., came to Boston in boyhood. When a young man he was a part- ner successively in the dry-goods firms of Jere- miah Fitch & Co. and Russell, Shaw & Free- man, the store of the latter firm being on Cen- tral Street. For some years he was manager of the Munn Illinois Land Company, formed by Massachusetts and New York men. He was treasurer of the Cape Cod branch railroad when it was built; also was a director, and for

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a time president of the Boston & Maine Rail- road Company. He served as a member of the State Legislature. His death occurred in Boston, January 29, 1875.

He m. in Boston, July 2, 1826, Abby At- wood Shurtleff, who was b. in Boston, May 26, 1804, and d. in Boston, September 7, 1886. She was a daughter of Benjamin3 and Sally (Shaw) Shurtleff. Her paternal grandparents were Benjamin2 and Abigail (Atwood) Shurt- leff, natives of Plympton, Mass., m. in 1773. Benjamin Shurtleff, second, who was b. in 1748, and d. at Carver, Mass., in 1821, sur- vived by his wife Abigail, who d. in 1826, was a son of Benjamin,1 b. at Plymouth, 1710, d. at Plympton in 1788. Benjamin1 Shurtleff m. in 1745 Susannah Cushman, who was b. at Plympton in 1715, and d. there in 1756. She was. a daughter of Josiah4 and Susannah (Shurtleff) Cushman and grand-daughter of Elkanah3 and Martha (Cooke) Cushman. El- kanah3 was a son of Thomas,2 and grandson of Robert' Cushman, of London, one of the prin- cipal promoters of the Plymouth Colony, who came over in the "Fortune," as noted above, and returned in her to England. Thomas2 Cushman, who was left by his father in the care of Governor Bradford, became later in life Elder of the Plymouth Church. He m. Mary Allerton. She was b. in 1616 in Holland, where her parents, Isaac Allerton and Mary Norris, were m. in 1611. Martha Cooke, wife of Elkanah Cushman, was a daughter of Jacob2 and Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, and grand-daughter on her father's side of Francis' Cooke, and on her mother's of Stephen Hop- kins and his wife Elizabeth.

Southworth and Abby Atwood (Shurtleff) Shaw had nine children, namely : Benjamin Shurtleff Shaw, b. September 12, 1827, d. May 2, 1893, a well-known physician of Bos- ton; George Shattuck, b. March 21, 1829, d. November 3, 1896; Ann Maria, b. December 27, 1830, now the widow of Watson Freeman, of Brookline; Henry Southworth Shaw, the subject of sketch; Abby, b. September 18, 1837, now widow of Thomas Parker Proctor, a Boston lawyer; Edward Sargeant, who d. in infancy ; Franklin Allerton, b. June 15, 1839, d. August 4, 1897; Sarah, b, November 25,

1843, now widow of Samuel Craft Davis, Jr. ; Adela, b. December 29, 1845, d. February 1.5, 1901, unmarried.

Dr. Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, brother of Mrs. Abby Atwood Shaw, was a noted gene- alogist, the editor of "The Records of the Colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay," published by the Commonwealth; also was well known as the writer of "A Topographical History of Boston." He was Mayor of Boston for several years.

Henry Southworth Shaw, having been edu- cated in Boston public schools (grammar, Latin, and high), began his connection with business life as a boy in the office of Samuel Lawrence, of the commission firm Lawrence, Stone & Co., who was treasurer of the Bay State and Middlesex Woollen Mills, respect- ively, in Lawrence and Lowell. Toward the close of the seven years he spent in this employment, he served as assistant to the treasurer, being entrusted with much of the purchasing of materials and the disbursing of money.

In 1860, when, shortly after the collapse of the Pemberton Mill at Lawrence, a disaster that cost many lives, the corporation conduct- ing the mill was reorganized, Mr. Shaw was elected treasurer, which office he still fills, having occupied it uninterruptedly for over forty years. He is also treasurer, and has been continuously ever since his first election thereto in 1868, of the Stevens Linen Works, Dudley, Mass. Likewise treasurer of the Nevins Company, a corporation formed to con- tinue the business of Nevins & Co. after the death of David Nevins, the latter firm having been engaged in selling the products of the Pemberton, Stevens and Methuen Mills. He is president of the Methuen Cotton Mill; pres- ident of the Saco & Pettee Machine Shops, of Newton, Mass., a very prosperous enterprise ; president of the Rhode Island Malleable Iron Works at Hills Grove; president of the Silver Lake Company in Newtonville, manufacturing braided cord; has been for twenty years a director of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and is a member of its executive committee; a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank; was a director of the Massachusetts

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Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; a director of the Firemen's Insurance Company up to the time when the company went out of business; and for six years was a trustee of Mount Auburn Cemetery. He is a trustee of a num- ber of large estates, and has been for many years a director of the Home for Aged Men.

Mr. Shaw is a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Society of Co- lonial Wars; the Unitarian Club; the Ex- change Club; of the Society of the "May- flower " Descendants, being one of the board of assistants; a life member of the Bostonian Society and of the Young Men's Christian Union. In politics independent, he is a mem- ber of the Citizens Association, of Boston.

Mr. Shaw married June 3, 1880, in Boston, Louisa Towne, born in Fitchburg, April II, 1857, daughter of George Edwin and Margaret Alicia (Fitzpatrick) Towne. Mr. Towne served for some time in the Legislature. He was treasurer of the Continental Mills of Lew- iston, Me., when he died. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have three children : Henry Southworth Shaw, Jr., born November 29, 1884, now pre- paring for Harvard at the Volkmann School in Boston; Margaret, born December 16, 1886; and Eleanor, born January 7, 1889.

ICHARD LAWRENCE BOWSER, a merchant of Stoneham, was born at Sackville, N. B., February 4, 1840, son of Robert and Jane (Kirk) Bow-

ser. He is a great-grandson of Thomas Bow- ser, b. in Yorkshire, England, about 1750, who was one of the first settlers of Sackville, N. B. Thomas's son, Richard Shephard Bow- ser, grandfather of Richard Lawrence, was b. in Sackville. He m. Sarah Atkinson. They had nine children - Robert, John Wesley, Jo- seph Benson, Richard Shephard, Jr., Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Susan, and Sarah. Robert, the eldest, was b. at Sackville, N.B., Octo- ber 16, 1811, and d. in 1888. He was a farmer and a prominent member of several agricultural associations, as well as an active participant in town and church affairs, His

wife Jane was a daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Kirk. Her mother was a daughter of Richard Lawrence, one of the first settlers of St. John, N. B.

Robert and Jane (Kirk) Bowser had twelve children - Sarah Allen, Richard Lawrence, Susan Elizabeth, Frances Jane, Robert, Elea- nor, Alexander Thomas, Charles Allison, Henry Eugene, Henrietta Eliza, William Fletcher, and Mary Annie. Sarah Allen, b. September 18, 1838, is single, and resides in Winchester, Mass. Susan Elizabeth, b. July 9, 1841, who m. Charles Trueman, is now a widow, and resides in New Brunswick. Fran- ces Jane, b. February 16, 1843, is single, and resides in Winchester. Robert, b. June 8, 1844, who was a partner in the firm of Cope- land, Bowser & Co., m. Mary Frances Badger. He d. in 1886, leaving two children - Lula and Herman Copeland. Eleanor, b. March 2, 1846, d. young. Alexander Thomas, b. Feb- ruary 2, 1848, was educated at Sackville Acad- emy, the Boston Latin School, and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1877. He then pursued a theological course at the Har- vard Divinity School, graduating in 1880. Ordained to the ministry, he is now pastor of the First Unitarian Church at Wilmington, Del. He m. Adalaide Reed, and has two chil- dren - William Henry and Robert. Charles Allison, b. December 2, 1849, is now a mer- chant at Wakefield, Mass. He m. Emma Henfield, and has two sons: Charles Bertrand Burwash, who graduated at Harvard in 1895; and Eden Kirk, also a graduate of Harvard, class of 1896, and of the Harvard Law School, class of 1899 (Bachelor of Laws). Henry Eu- gene, b. November 9, 1852, is a merchant and agriculturist. He m. January 15, 1890, Eliza Dickey. Henrietta Eliza, b. November 9, 1852, m. George McCord, whom she survives. A resident of Sackville, N. B., she has four chil- dren : Robert, now in Montreal; George R., a student at the Harvard Law School; Edward P., who resides in Winchester, Mass. ; and Georgiana, also a resident of Winchester. William Fletcher, b. September 22, 1854, d. January, 1889. Mary Annie, b. September 22, 1854, is single, and resides in Winchester. Richard Lawrence Bowser, eldest son and

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Genealogy and history of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 41

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company Number of Pages: 850

Author: Hurd, Charles Edwin, 1833-1910
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston, New England historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 850