History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 133

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed. n 85042884-1
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1538

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Dr. Braman was a strong man. Some have placed him at the head of eminent divines reared in Essex County. He was greatly assisted by his wife, oue of the wisest and best of women, who relieved him of family cares; so that he could devote his time to par- ish duties, and in these she was ever a thoughtful assistant. The son, grandson and great-grandson of ministers, all of whom were exemplars in their gen- eration in the discharge of the pastoral office, he like- wise, by his earnest and faithful preaching, made a deep impression upon his hearers, many being led to a saving knowledge of the truth and a devoted Christian life, of whom shining examples yet re- main.

The present pastor of the church, Dr. Braman's successor, Rev. Charles B. Rice, was installed Sep- tember 2, 1863, and is approaching the twenty-fifth anniversary of his settlement. Mr. Rice is a native of Conway, Mass. His father, Colonel Austin Rice, who died July 15, 1880, at eighty-six years of age, was for fifty years one of the leading men of western Massa- chusetts in religious and educational movements, but a few years before his death was sent to the Legisla- tre, was one of the founders of Mt. Holyoke Semi- nary and a trustee of that institution at the time of his death. Rev. Mr. Rice has always taken an active interest in town affairs, has served on the school com- mittee almost continuously since 1865, has represented his fellow-citizens in both houses of the Legislature, and has served on the State Board of Education. A permanent monument to the memory of Mr. Rice is the published "History of the First Parish in Dau- vers," which is an amplification of the address deliv- ered by him at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the parish. This book has been chiefly followed in the preparation of this short sketch of one of the oldest, most historic, and in all respects most interesting churches to be found in this country. Many interesting details have been altogether omit- ted for the reason that they are there easily accessible. Doctor Braman was living at the time of the anniver- sary. Something more must here be said of him, and from a sermon delivered by Mr. Rice, April 28, 1882, these extracts are taken :

"His strength was in the pulpit. Preaching stood foremost with him, and it was preaching fit to stand in that place of forwardness. His mind was logical, and thus he went clear of ull mist and vagueness,

and his thoughts ran steadily toward some point he meant to reach. But he was not dull und dry in reasoning. Along with his logical move- ment there went a certain enlivening measure of imaginative and al- most poetical fancy. Then he had a clear, shrewd sense concerning common life and common things, so that bis style was terse und direct and struck sharply on actual practice. And then, biding behind this shrewd practical sense, or in it, was a line of humor, ready to come into play where it might, and not coming into sight where it ought not. And then he had a gift of sarcasm at hand for use when it might be called for. By all these meuns he held attention to what he said, and his hearers were interested and entertained, and sometimes in & man- Der fascinated, even while they might be severely smitten upou.

"He was forcible, direct, clear and pungeut. He laid hold on the intellect and sensibilities of bis heurers both together. To an unusual degree bis sermons rao close to life. I think this was their most dis- tinguished characteristic. They wers apt to concern, in some manner, those that heard them ; and thus they entered into their thoughts aud clung upon their memory. They were not uniform io strength, a thing not to be expected ; but they were apt, all of them, to bs in some part thoughtful, und of a quality to move une to soms thoughtfulness for himself.

"He preached upon all Christian doctrines, and with frequency upon some. The doctrine of justification by faith was dear to him. He was skilled in depicting the lives of men, and he called often into use the grent Scriptural biographies. The dead of those former ages rose up bere, with bones and flesh and breath, and lived again under his band. He dealt in this way with the good and the bad, with Moses and David and Pilate and Judas, and he may seem sometimes to have had a cer- taio grimness of satisfaction in the work be wright thas make with the bad.

"Dr. Braman drew great attention upon what ars termed 'occa- sional sermons,' discourses preached upou the occurrence of the Fourth of July on a Sabbath day, or in connection with the death of promi- nent men, as General Harrison or Daniel Webster, or upon the annual days of Fasting or Thanksgiving. On these days this house was filled. People came sometimes in barges from the neighboring towns, and strangers were here often from a greater distance.

"His sermons were always written. He never spoks in the pulpit withont notes. Upon one occasion, as he went to preach at South Danvers, now Peabody, bis manuscript was forgotten, and he was greatly disturbed when he made the discovery, and unwilling to attempt to preach ; but when the time, in the midst of the service, was come, and while yet he scarcely knew opon what he should speak, he went down to the platform before the pulpit, that he might not seem to preach, and there he did preach and in a manner which seemed to those that heard him to surpass his usoal powera. Hs preached also, though he did not call it preaching, in the prayer-meetings he held in the chapel. It is remembered thus that at the chapel prayer-meeting, held on the evs- ning of the day of Daniel Webster's burial, he spoke for a full hour, dwelling upon the burial scenes of great men, and making emphatic as he drew to a close, the insignificance of all earthly honors to oue who had just entered into the presence of the holy angels and the Saviour and Judge of mea.

" He spoke usually with little of gesture aud nothing of oratorical art. His ordinary manner could not be called gracefol. Hs had a well- known habit of rolling a strip of paper upon the fingers of his right hand, and after a certain established order of procedure, and he might be troubled if this resource failed. But when he was once under way in the pulpit upon a theme that stirred him, and was kindled with his topic, his ungraceful manner was either forgotten or it was changed, he ges- ticulated often with force and freedom, and the spirit of an orator was upon him.

"Dr. Braman was faithful and utterly fearless in rebukiug wherever it seemed to bim rebakes wers needfal. He was a conservative man. He was not changeable. He was not like the Apostle Peter. He was apt to stand for the cool side of things. But he stood for the cool side of things sometimes, it must be admitted, in a hot way, that would not havs been anbefitting even to Peter.

" He was & stroog opponent of slavery. They have misjudged him who from auything that occurred in his later years have thought of him differently. But in this matter his natural conservatism, and his legal habit of mind, had much force in shaping the course he took. As events moved rapidly forward, he himself advanced less rapidly, and in his dislike of all that seemed revolutionary in its origin or nature, hs was led, we may thiok, too far in distrust or opposition toward those ¡ great popular movements which were designed under the shining

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providence of God, to bring the gigantle ovil he himself deplored- though by ways that did not please him-fearfully and gloriously to an utter end.

" Dr. Braman was a member of tho School Committee uf the town for twenty-five years, and Chairman of the Board for a considerable portion of that period.

" He was also a member from this town of the Convention held in 1853 for revising tho Constitution of the Stato, and he bore an active aud influential part in its proceedings.

" lle went little into general society, and had not a liking for social assemblies."

Mr. Rice reached the twentieth anniversary of his settlement, September 2, 1883. Even then his pas- torate was longer than any other in the Essex South Conference. In the twenty years, one hundred and ninety-one had been added to the membership; the number of members was then two hundred and seven ; largest number in the history of the church, two hun- dred and twenty-three, in 1877. In 1882 the ratio of church membership to the population of the parish, was larger than ever before. Nearly oue-quarter part of all who had ever been members were then still living. Mr. Rice had married one hundred and twenty-six couples, one hundred being of the parish, had attended three hundred and fifty funerals, preached five hundred and thirty-four written sermons and three hundred and ninety-eight unwritten, of which he says with characteristic humor "all ought to have been better, and some ought not to have been at all." Mr. Rice observed the anniversary by a discourse from the pulpit from which the foregoing statistics have been taken, and the following evening the event was made the occasion of a gathering of his own parishioners, friends from other parts of the town, ministers from neighboring churches, and others, for congratulations and social enjoyment. Augustus Mudge presided, and after remarks review- ing the period, he presented Mr. Rice an envelope containing a very substantial token of the esteem of his people. Among the letters read during the even- ing was this :

"OAK KNOLL, Danvers, 9tb mo., 3d, 1883. " IION. AUGUSTUS MUDGE :

" Dear Friend :- I very much regret that I am not able to be with you at the gathering this evening. I am, it is true, better acquainted with the gentleman whom you so deservedly bonor on this occasion, as a kind friend and neighbor, as a public-spirited citizen, than as a minister ; but the fact that be has held bis pulpit for twenty years is proof that he has done good service in it. During this long period I have never heard that his parish have been troubled by the bodily presence of that evil and disreputable Personage with whom his predecessor, Parson Parris, fought such a losing battle. As a consequence of this be has hnd no occasion to spend his time in searching for witches among the elderly Indies of bis congregation ; and the sound theology of his people under his ministrations has made heresy-hunting so unnecessary that the soli- tary Quaker who bas sojourned within the parish limits still remains unchanged !

" Pleasantry apart, I beg leave to add my congratulations to yours, and to express my best wishes for my friend Rics and his family.

" Thins truly, " JOHN G. WHITTIER. "

The Sabbath-school was organized in 1818, in Dr. Wadsworth's pastorate. The names of an even hun- dred of the first scholars are given by Mr. Rice, fifty- six females, forty-four males. The largest number at

any time connected with the school was in 1867, four hundred and four, with an average attendance of nearly three hundred. The school had its origin at a meeting held at Dr. Wadsworth's house, July 30th of the year mentioned. Those present were the first teachers,-Samuel Preston, Edwin Joselyn, Edith Swinerton, Betsey Pope, Eliza Preston, and Betsey, Hannah, Harriet, Nancy, Eliza and Clarissa Putnam. The latter, Mrs. Preston, now living, has been men- tioned in another connection. The idea of having a Sabbath-school seems first to have been entertained by Miss Betsey F. Putnam, who had seen the working of such a school in Beverly, started some years prev- iously. The fiftieth anniversary of the Sabbath-school was observed August 9, 1868. Mrs. Emma Putnam Kettelle, who died the year before, had been a teacher from the first year. The first superintendent was Samuel Preston. His successors have been Porter Kettelle, Nathan Tapley, Samuel B. Willis, John Peabody, Ebenezer Putnam, George W. Endicott, Ahira Putnam, Wm. R. Putnam, Moses W. Putnam, Augustus Mudge, Edward Hutchinson, George W. French, Samuel A. Tucker, William Siner.

A number of the above served several different times. The longest consecutive term was that of Mr. Mudge, from 1848 to 1868. There were in 1886, con- nected with the school three hundred and four mem- bers, with an average attendance of one hundred and sixty-seven.

A LIST OF DEACONS.

1690-1719. Nathaniel Ingersoll.

1S02-18. Joseph Putnam.

1690-1730. Edward Putnam. 1807-19. James Putoam.

1709-18. Benjamin Putnam. 1818-31. Jonathan Walcott.

1718-33. Eleazer Putnam. 1820-31. Eben. Putnam.

1731-54. Nathaniel Putnom, son of Benjamin.

1832-61. John Thomas.

1832-44. Frederick Howe.

1733-40. Joseph Whipple.

1741-62. Cornelius Tarbell.

1756-57. Arcbelaus Putnam, son of Nathaniel.

1757-62. Samuel Putnam, Jr.

1762-95. Asa Patnam.

1762-85. Edmund Putnam.

1785-1804. Gideon Putoam.

1886. Edward A. H. Grover.

STANDING COMMITTEES (partial list).

1672.

1773.

Lieut. Thomas Putnam.

Tarrant Putonm.

Thomas Fuller, Sr.

Jolin Swinerton.

Joseph Porter.

Cornelius Tarbell.

Thomas Flint.

Abel Nicbols.

Joshua Rea.

John Preston.

1700.

1800.

Lieut. Jonathan Putnam.

Jonathan Porter, Jr.

Benjamin Hutchinson.

Levi Preston. Elijab Flint.

Jobu Tarbell.

Benjamin Putnam.

1820.

Moses N. Putnam.

Samnel Flint.

Joseph Fuller.

John Preston.

Jesse Putnum.

Nathaniel Putnam.

Samuel Preston.

Josepb Patnam.

Nathan Tapley.

1886. Alfred ITutchinson, son of Elijah.

1796-1802. Daniel Putnam.

1845-48. Ebenezer Putnam, son

of Eben.

1848-61. Samuel Preston.

1861-85. Elijah IIutebinson.

1861-74. William R. Putnam.

Thomas Fuller, Jr. 1725.

Jesse Putnam. Amos Pope. 1840.

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DANVERS.

1860.

Sammel Preston. Augustus Mudge. Sylvanus B. Swan.

1870. Win. R. Putnam. W. B. Woodman. Augustus Mudge.

1874.

Augustus Mudge.

J. Peter Gardner.

CLERKS (partial list).

First clerk, nuknowu.

- to 1699. Thos. Putnam.

1750. John Preston. 1760. Asa Putnam.

1700. Jonathan Putuam

1770. Arcbelaus Dale.

1702. Dauiel Rea.

1781. Samuel Page.

1703. John Putnam.

1790. Ebenezer Brown.

1705. Benj. Putnam.

1806. Hezekiah Flint. Israel Andrews.

1707. Daniel Rea.

1820. Amos Pope.

1708. Edward Putnamı.

1832. Daniel F. Putnam.

1709. Samuel Andrew.

1836. Wm. R. Putuam.

1710. Israel Porter.

1837. Franklin P. Putnam.

1720. Joseph Porter.

1838-65. Rufus Tapley.

1731. Joseph Putnam.

1866-87. Augustus Mudge.

1740. Samuel Holten.

BAPTIST .- On the authority of a letter written in 1817 by Israel Hutchinson, clerk, the Baptist Society was formed November 12, 1781. The first recorded meeting was November 26, 1781. Captain Gideon Foster was chosen Moderator; Dr. Nathaniel Gott, clerk; and Jere. Hutchinson, Israel Porter and Nathaniel Pope, a committee to supply preaching. On the 10th of December, Nathaniel Pope, Samnel Fairfield and Captain Foster were chosen to procure a spot of land to set a meeting-house upon ; later they were directed to "go on the spot or spots and see which is most comodose for the society and what it can be purchased for." . Ebenezer Moulton and Benjamin Jacobs were added to the committee and the dimensions of the building fixed, "sixty feet in length and forty-five in wedth." January 9, 1782, it was voted " to Build the Meeting-House on Hooper's Plane, so called." In April this vote was reconsid- ered, and at a meeting held in Mr. Aaron Cheever's house it was voted to " chuse a committe to purchis the Land for the Meting-House." Captain Foster was retained on the new committee, and Aaron Chee- ver and Ebenezer Dale were the others. They were directed "to pnrchis a Land to Sett the meting- House on, and agree for a fraim and Git the under- pinning." Charles Hall, Brickmaker, conveyed to this committee the land on which the building was erected, twenty-nine poles, by deed dated September 20, 1783, the consideration being twenty-six pounds.

Early in November, 1783, "Voted to Except of Mr. Henry putnams plan for the pews. Voted, that the pews be Sold at Vandue. Voted to choose a Committee to attend the Vandue and make sale of the pews, and to Notify to attend the Sale in ways and manner the Committee shall think proper. Voted that this committee consist of Seven persons." Colonel Israel Hutchinson, Nathaniel Webb, Jona. Sawyer, Nath. Pope, Ebenezer Moulton, Joseph Os- borne and Samuel Fairfield were this committee.

A meeting was called just before the following Christmas at the house of the Rev. Benjamin Boltch, to consider the method of settling the outstanding accounts for work on the new meeting-house; the matter was entrusted to Colonel Hutchinson, Nathan- iel Webb and John Felt. Jonathan Sawyer was here appointed the first treasurer of the society ; he was already " clark," Dr. Gott having early resigned.

The record of the sale of pews is in this form :

" Mr. Aaron Cheever, Vaudne master, Vandne open Jonathan Sawyer Clerk.

"Jona. Sawyer, bid of No. 8 at 82 dollars.

" And sold to Colonel Israel Hutchinson.

"James Richardson, Bid of No. 35 at 81 dollars.

"Joseph Smith, Bid of No. 32 at 77 dollars."

And so on. Other bidders were James Richardson, Henry Putnam, Captain Samuel Page, Nathaniel Webb, Samuel Fairfield, Captain Jeremiah Putnam, Captain Gideon Foster, Nathan Upton, Ebenezer Dale, Samuel Fowler, Charles Hall, Aaron Cheever, Simon Pinder, Richard Skidmore, Nathaniel Put- nam, John Felt, John Gammell, Nathaniel Smith, John Chapman, Benjamin Kent.

The first pastor really settled over the new society was Rev. Benjamin Foster, and the society was re- markably fortunate at having such a man at hand. He knew his people and they knew him, for he had grown up among them. His father was Gideon Fos- ter, a native of Boxford; his mother, Lydia Gold- thwait, of Danvers. He was born in the house which formerly stood on Lowell and Foster Streets, South Danvers, June 12, 1750. His brother Gideon, about a year and a half older, the hero of Lexington, was one of the founders of the church. Benjamin at- tended the town schools, and when about twenty years old entered Yale College, from which he gradu- ated in 1774. In college he became a decided con- vert to the belief that immersion is the only valid mode of administering the ordinance of baptism. After graduating he joined the First Baptist Church in Boston, under Rev. Dr. Stillman, who directed his theological studies. He was ordained pastor of a Baptist Church in Leicester, Mass., October 23, 1776. He evidently had preached somewhat at New Mills as a supply during the latter part of 1783.

January 27, 1784, the society met "at the house where they commonly met on the Sabbath days " to see if they would agree with the Rev. Benjamin Fos- ter to preach any longer. They voted to request him to fill the pulpit for the next Sabbath, adjonrned over, and then sent Joseph Osborne, Nathaniel Upton and Thomas Stevens " to waight upon him " with a result thus reported,-"the Rev'd. Mr. Foster will Stay with the Society six months unless something extraordi- nary prevents." When the six months were out, De- cember 8, 1784, it voted to agree with Rev. Mr. Fos- ter to preach till May next, and he, cautious as before, agreed " if sickness don't prevent."

Mr. Foster remained here two years and then ac-

S. B. Swan. S. Walter Nourse.

ISSO. Augustus Mudge. Alfred Hutchinson.

Saumiel W. Nourse.

1887. Augustus Mudge. Alfred Hutchinson.

1706. Jonathan Putnam.

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cepted a call to Newport. Another two years and he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of New York. In 1792 the College of Rhode Island (Brown Univer- sity ) conferred upon him the degree of "D.D.," pro- bably because of the talent and learning displayed in his work, " A Dissertation on the Seventy Weeks of Daniel, the particular and exact fulfillment of which Prophecy is considered and proved."

Dr. Foster was a fighter with arguments, and he stood manfully by the guns of Pedo-baptism. He had a controversy with Rev. John Cleveland, of Ipswich, on the baptism question, and his pamphlet, "Primi- tive Baptism Defended," published September 3, 1784, was widely noticed and a second edition called for and published in 1788. The introduction to this pamphlet, which is really a letter to Mr. Cleveland, contains a passage revealing the character of the man, which it would be well for every minister in the land to adopt :

"May God grant that my pen be directed by truth, and governed by candor and moderation, while I attempt to correct the mistakes of one whom I trust I shall ever have reason to respect ! And the more we imbibe of the happy temper of our divine Master, the greatercaution we shall nse to suppress language which is bitter and censorions towards Christians who differ from us in those points of religion which are of lesser importance."

In the year 1798, in his forty-ninth year, he died in New York, the death of a hero. Not in that glory of military renown, clothed with which his brother Gideon lived to a very old age, but in a scourge of yel- low fever. When panie was everywhere and people fled from the city, he remained at his post and fearlessly visiting the sick and dying, he took his life in his hands and lost it. True heroism ! When the general roll is called how these instances of unselfish devo- tion, untrumpeted from the house-tops, will far out- shine and outnumber the brave deeds of war.

Dr. Foster was buried in the Baptist Cemetery, N. Y., and on the marble over his grave are these words written by an eminent Presbyterian clergyman of that city :

" He excelled as a preacher ; as a Christian he shone conspicuously ; in his piety he was fervent ; the church was comforted by his life, and now laments his death."

At a meeting, early in 1786, Nathaniel Putnam, Benjamin Kent and Simon Pindar were chosen to provide preaching for that year. A similar committee the next year were Jonathan Sawyer, Aaron Cheever, Nathaniel Webb; 1788, Nathaniel Upton, Nathaniel Webb, Israel Hutchinson; 1789, Messrs. Upton, Hutchinson and Ebenezer Dale; 1790, Israel Porter, Eleazer Wallis, Colonel Hutchinson; 1791, the same; 1792, the latter two and Newall Wilson. But little other business was transacted in these years. A vote, of 1789, that the committee provide preaching once a month and as much oftener as they can, is significant. In 1792 the clerk, Israel Hutchinson, Jr., was directed to draft three subscription papers for the committee to see "how much money they can

gitt sined for the support of the gauspill the present year."

In the fall of 1792, we have a hint of a law-suit in which the Society was involved with the Second Parish in Beverly. Richard Waitt had been repre- senting the society and Joseph Batchelder, Israel Porter and the clerk were chosen to help him fight. March 26, 1793, the society met to see what measures they would take "respecting the Rev. Thomas Green preaching for the present year." Ebenezer Wallis, Israel Porter, Josiah Swett, I. Hutchinson, Jr., and Nathaniel Upton considered the matter, and their re- port was accepted "Respecting giving the Revd. Thos. Green all the monies that may be Subscribed on the subscription papers, and that he shall Have all the Light Contributions and all other advantages witch may arise by sd society."

"A COPPEY OF THE SUBSCRIPTION PAPER.

£ 8. d.

£ s. d.

Nathl. Webb. 2

Jobn Bushby .. 0 12 0

Ierael porter. 2

Jona. Felton ..... 0

Israel Hutchinson, Jr ...... 2 8

0 Newall Wilson. I

Timothy Fuller .. I

Barnabas Conaut 0 12 0

John Creasey ye 2 0

12 0

Peter Woodbury I

Natbl. Upton.

Nathl. Prinse .. 1

Amos Sawyer. 1

Jona. Prince .. 0

Wm. Johnson. 0

W'm. Trask ye 2. 0

Simon Dodge 1

0 Israel Hutchinson, Esq ... 2 10

Asa Woodbury 3 0

Moses Endicott. 0

12 0

E. Wallis

Edw. Dodge. I

Charles Dennis .. 0

18 0

Israel Putnam. 0 2

Wul. Trask

Richard Waitt 0 12

John Makentiar. .1

0 Josiah Batchelder 1

Jona. Wilson. 0

Joshua Osborne .. 0 12

Samuel Dutch

Gideon Batchelder. ,0

Josiah Rayment. 0

Joseph Pettengill 0

Lemual Childs.

Rich. Skidmore. 0

Joshına Prinse ..

0 Joseph Hilhort ... .0

Wml. Hilbort. 0

Jerem. W. Putman .. 0

0 Eph'm Smith. 6

Ebenez'r Browne. I

Aaron Chever .I

Nicholas Browne. 1 10

Saml. Fairfield 0

0 Sam' Cheever. 0 12 0

James Burch 0

Elias Endicott .. 0

Widow Fowler 0

Edmond Putnam .. 0

Simon Pinder. I

16 = John Hutchinson. 0

Richard Elliott 0 10

0 Nath' Batchelder. 0

Jolın Endicott. 1

Elisha Fuller. 1

4 0

Abigail Broadstreet 0

Gideon Foster. 1

Dennison Wallis. 2

£69 19 2

Benj. Jacobs

4 0

Samuel McKentiar .. 0

Richard Skidmore, Jr ...... 0 Wm. Hilbort, Jr. .0

Daniel Usher.

Jona. Robbins. 0

0 Bartholomew Smith. ,0 12

Jos. Swett.

0 Jona. Waitt 0

0 Auth. Buxton ( 18 0

Thos. Putnam 1

John Welch

Nath1. Puiman 1

Seth Richardson .0

A proprictors' meeting was held in April, 1793, to further consider the settlement of accounts and dis- posal of unsold pews. The committee were directed to hang the pew doors and make the end doors to the house; James Richardson was given a certain time in which "to cap his lot of pews." The next year a subscription paper was again passed around, "to see how much they can get sined for Rev. Thomas Green ;" and he was also given the light contribu- tion. It may have been from excessive lightness

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History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 133

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed. n 85042884-1 Publication date: 1888 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1538

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed. n 85042884-1
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1538