History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 106

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1576

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Baid River, composing a large and respectable Schoul District, erected a lerge aud commodious stone school-house on the westerly line of said River ; that if the Town is divided by said River, our School District will be so small that we eliall receive but very little advantage of school- jag. That our business is almost wholly connected with the first-meo- tioued petitioners, having very little intercourse with the Towa of Dud- ley, most of us, that we are almiost wholly connected, and attend reli- gious meetings at the houses of public worship, east of said River, we therefore humbly beg that your Honorable Body will take this, our petition, under your consideration, aod act thereoo as you, in your wisdom, sball see fit and proper.

Signed by

JEPUTHAH BACON, JOHN BROWN, NATHANIEL LYON, CHESTER CLEMANS, GEORGE B. SLATER, JOSEPH SCHOLFIELD, PALASKI BACON, JEPHTHAH BACON, JUN., WILLIAM WAKEFIELD.

On the 17th of September, 1831, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Oxford was held, and Ira Barton, Stephen Davis and Richard Stover were appointed a committee to confer with the committee appointed by the General Court, and a remonstrance against the petition of George B. Slater, presented by Mr. Barton, was adopted.

At the same date, a meeting of the inhabitants of Dudley was held, and a committee, consisting of George A. Tufts. Morris Larned, John Eddy, William Hancock and Joseph H. Perry, was chosen to oppose the petition for a new town. On the 14th of Novem- ber, in the same year, another meeting was held in Dudley, and a remonstrance prepared by the com- mittee chosen in September was adopted.

Another remonstrance was presented by Joseph Kingsbury, who represented himself to be a resident in the territory proposed to be incorporated, and asked that he, together with his estate, might remain in the town of Oxford.

The committee appointed by the General Court at the session of 1831 made a report dated September 30, 1831, which, on the 17th of January, 1832, was referred to the Committee on Towns of the General Court of that year. The committee stated that the territory within the towns of Oxford and Dudley and Oxford South Gore contained 39,943 acres, of which Oxford contained 18,250, Dudley 17,200, and the Gore 4,493. The territory included in the petition would take 1,350 acres from Oxford, 3,280 from Dud- ley, and the whole of the Gore, thus constituting a town of 9,123 acres, and leaving to Oxford 16,900 acres, and to Dudley 13,920 acres.

As regards population, they stated that Oxford contained 1900 inhabitants, Dudley 2155, and the Gore 134, making a total of 4189. The town peti- tioned for would take 312 inhabitants from Oxford, 722 from Dudley, and all the inhabitants of the Gore, making a total of 1168, leaving in Oxford 1588, and in Dudley 1433. They also stated that in 1731 a portion of the Gore had been annexed to Oxford, and in 1807 another portion, and that the school in the Gore was supported by voluntary contribu-

tion. The taxable property in Oxford in 1830 was $693,333, of which $90,200 belonged to the proposed town, and was owned-by Samuel Slater, 854,450 ; George and John Slater, 812,316. The valuation of real and personal estate in the Gore for the same year was $28,034. In the part of Dudley proposed to be included in the new town there were twenty- four freeholders, with real estate valued at $41,624.40; the Slaters owned real estate in it valued at $63,374, and the personal estate in that portion, including that owned by the Slaters, was valued at $53,886. The committee also stated that the inhabitants of the South Gore in 1831 petitioned for certain highway and school privileges analogous to those of incorpo- rated towns, and that fourteen of the remonstrants were now petitioners for the new town. The com- mittee stated in conclusion, "that, all things consid- ered, the towns of Oxford and Dudley and Oxford South Gore are well calculated to constitute three convenient towns, and that the prayer of the peti- tioners ought, in the deliberate opinion of the com- mittee, to be granted."

The Committee on Towns, in accordance with the recommendations of the foregoing report, reported the bill, the text of which has been already quoted, and the bill was duly passed, as before stated, March 6, 1832.

It is only necessary to refer in this sketch to that part of the town of Webster which was popularly known for many years as Oxford South Gore. The remaining portions of the town, prior to the incorpo- ration of the town of Webster, will be appropriately treated in the histories of the towns of Oxford and Dudley. This Gore was simply a tract of land which had been included in grants to individuals, but in the formation of towns had never been included within their boundaries. In 1831, when surveyed under a resolve of the Legislature, it contained, as already stated, four thousand five hundred and ninety acres, was irregular in shape, and was bounded by lines running in seven different courses, and by the irregular margin of a part of Chauhunnagunganug Pond, which separated it from Douglas, Dudley and Oxford. It is largely covered by either woods or water, and possesses a soil which did not, in the crea- tion of early towns, make it a desirable possession. On the 8th of December, 1731, a small portion of the Gore was annexed to the town of Oxford, in reference to which the following extract from the records of the General Court may not be without interest :

WEDNESDAY, December 8, 1731.

A petition of Isaac Laroed, in behalf of the town of Oxford, show- iog that Josiah Kingsberry aod Theodore Kingsberry live upon a farm . adjacent to the said towo of Oxford, and nearer to tho meeting-house there thao to any other meeting house, and are very desirous to be annexed to tbe said towo, Therefore prayiog that tbe said farm be- tweeo the south end of Oxford village aod Chaubuunagunganug pood so ruooing westward till it comprehends all the said farm and the land of the said Isaac Laroed lying east of the Road passing from Oxford to Woodstock, be annexed to the said town of Oxford, the said petition

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being signed by the said Josiah and Theodore Kingsherry as approved by then.

In the House of Representatives read and ordered that the petitioners with their lands within mentioned, he and hereby are to all iutente and purposes whatsoever annexed to the town of Oxford.

In Council read and concurred. Consented to J. BELCHER.

On the 6th of February, 1807, another portion of the South Gore was annexed to Oxford, as described in the following act :

An act to annex a part of a tract of land commonly called The Ox- ford South Gore, with the inhabitants and estates thereon to the town of Oxford.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Lemuel Cudworth, Craft Davis, Ezekiel Davis, David Fitts, Ahijah Harris, Joseph Kingsberry, Ephraim Kingsberry, Samuel Kingsberry, Jere- miah Kingsberry, Jr., John Larned, John Larned the 3d, living on or being owners of a tract of land lying between the towns of Dudley, Donglas and Oxford, commonly called The Oxford South Gore, together with James Wallis, of Dudley, and all others, the inhabitants living on or owning lands in that part of said Gore hereby set off with their fami- les and estates, although not particularly named in this act and without the line of the town of Oxford, as the same is described by the following bounds, he, and hereby are, annexed to and made a part of the said town of Oxford, viz .: Beginning at the line at the southeast corner he- tween Dudley and Oxford, and running north thirty-four degrees west three hundred and twelve rods ; thence east eight degrees north two hun- dred and ten rods; thence north eight degrees and twenty minutes west two hundred and thirty-two rods; thence east eighteen degrees north three hundred and eighty-eight rods; thence somth two degrees and forty minutes west one hundred and thirteen rods; thence west two degrees and forty-five minutes north eighty-five rods; thence sonth twenty-one degrees and forty-five minutes west four hundred and thirty rods; thence south eight degrees and twenty minutes east eighty-nine rods to the cor- ner first mentioned.

At the time of the incorporation of the town of Webster there were within its territorial limits a Bap- tist and a Methodist Episcopal Society. The Baptist Society had its origin at an early period in that part of Dudley which was included in the town of Web- ster, probably as early as 1744, though it was not formally organized as a religious body until October 26, 1814. It was then called the Baptist Church of Dudley, and consisted at the time of its organization of twenty-seven males and twenty-eight females. The organization was formed in the district school- house by an ecclesiastical council consisting of Rev. P. Crosby, of Thompson, Conn .; Rev. William Bent- ley, of Worcester ; Rev. James Boomer, of Charlton ; Rev. Z. L. Leonard, of Sturbridge ; Rev. James Grow, of Pomfiet, Conn. ; Rev. Luther Goddard and Messrs. Jeremy F. Tolman and John Walker. Rev. Mr. Bentley was chosen moderator, and Rev. Mr. Leonard scribe, and the sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Grow. The members of the society as then organized were Smith Arnold, John Baker, Stephen Bartlett, Jr., Stephen Bracket, Thomas Brown, Esek Brown, Nathan Cody, Nathaniel Crosby, David Freeman, Michael Hill, Liberty Ide, William Leonard, John Larned, Eliakim Robinson, John Stockwell, John Stone, Gardner Stone, Jubal Wakefield, Aaron Wakefield, Joel Wakefield, Simeon Wakefield, Luther Whitman, William W. Webster, Nathan Wood, Luther Wood, Lucy Arnold, Lucina Bartlett, Catherine Bartlett, Fanny Bracket, Phebe Brown, Jerusha Bracket,

Sally M. Crosby, Dolly Freeman, Taman Freeman, Araminda Freeman, Rosella Greenwood, Mary B. Hill, Abigail Humphrey, Lavina Ide, Abigail Lar- ned, Sibyl Moore, Anna Robinson, Ruth Stone, Sarah Wakefield, Betsey Wakefield, Mehitable Wakefield, Mary Whitmore, Lucinda Wood, Charlotte Wood, Eunice Wood, Adamira Wood and Betsey Wright.

On the 8th of November, 1814, Mr. Stephen Bart- lett and Mr. Nathaniel Crosby were chosen deacons, and on the 15th of June, 1815, Mr. Esek Brown, who had been a deacon of the Sutton Church, was invited to become pastor. The ordination was conducted in a tent, and Rev. Samuel Waters and Rev. Zenas L. Leonard were chosen moderator and scribe of the council. Rev. Mr. Leonard, then of Sturbridge, preached the sermon ; Rev. James Grow, of Pomfret, made the ordaining prayer ; Rev. Samnel Waters, of Sutton, the charge; Rev. William Bentley, of Wor- cester, gave the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. Isaac Dwinell, of Auburn, made the concluding prayer. In September, 1818, Mr. Brown removed to the Baptist Church in Lebanon, Conn., and until the spring of 1826 the society was without a pastor. At that time Rev. John B. Ballard was settled and served until the spring of 1828. Mr. Ballard was born in Dudley, October 25, 1795, and was a graduate of the Hamilton Theological Institute in 1820, Before his settlement in Webster he was settled in Masonville, where he was ordained November 13, 1823. After leaving Webster he was settled in Bloomfield, Conn., and for thirteen years he was the agent of the Ameri- can Sabbath-School Union. He died in the city of New York, Jannary 29, 1856, while in the service of the Tract Society. In the year of his settlement the first meeting-house was erected and dedicated on the 26th of December of that year, on which occasion Elder Jonathan Going, of Worcester, preached the sermon.

In 1828 Rev. Joshua Eveleth was ordained and served one year, when he was succeeded by Rev. Hubbard Loomis, who also served one year. Mr. Loomis had been for twenty-four years a settled Con- gregational minister in Wellington, Conn., and in 1832, after leaving Web-ter, he founded the Theo- logical Seminary in Alton, Illinois. Rev. Thomas Barnett, a native of Belchertown, succeeded Mr. Loomis in 1830, and served two years and five months. During his pastorate Webster was incorporated, and the church became by name the Baptist Church in Webster. In December, 1832, Rev. Abiel Fisher was ordained and served one year and six months. Mr. Fisher was born in Putney, Vermont, June 19, 1787, and graduated at the Burlington University in 1812. He studied theology with Rev. Nathaniel Kendrick, of Middlebury, Vermont, and was licensed to preach June 18, 1813. In January, 1816, he was ordained pastor in Bellingham, where he served twelve years. In September, 1828, he went to West Boylston, where he preached three years, and then to Sturbridge.

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After leaving Webster he was settled in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Swansea and Sutton, and died at West Boylston, March 26, 1862.

In April, 1834, Rev. James Grow was settled and remained one year. Mr. Grow died in Thompson, Conn., March 17, 1859, at the age of ninety years. Rev. Loomis G. Leonard, a graduate of the Newton Theological Institute, succeeded in September, 1836, and served six years and seven months. He was dis- missed, at his own request, March 3, 1843, and re- moved to Thompson, Conn., and afterwards to New London, and to Zanesville, Marietta and Lebanon, Ohio. Rev. John F. Burbank was settled in April, 1843, and served three years and five months. He graduated at the Newton Theological Institute in 1840, and died in Worcester November 22, 1853, at the age of forty-two years. Rev. Lyman Jewett, also a graduate of the Newton Theological Institute, suc- ceeded Mr. Burbank, in March, 1848, and Rev. Jo- seph Thayer, of South Sutton, followed, in April, 1849. Mr. Thayer afterwards was settled as a Free- Will Baptist minister in Mendon, and finally removed to Minnesota. Rev. Frederick Charlton, of Plain- field, was settled in April, 1850, and served three years. After leaving Webster he removed to Wil- mington, Del., and finally was settled in Sacramento, Cal. In April, 1853, Rev. George W. Dorrence, who had been a chaplain in the navy, was settled, and preached two years, followed in March, 1856, by Rev. J. L. A. Fish, who served seven years and three months. Mr. Fish was a graduate of the Newton Theological Institute. He resigned in June, 1863, and removed to East Tisbury. In April, 1863, Rev. Charles W. Reding was settled, and preached six years, followed by Thomas T. Tilman, in August, 1869, who still remains. During the pastorate of Mr. Reding the present stone meeting-house was built at a cost of $31,067. During his pastorate also the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the society occurred on the 30th of October, 1864, on which oc- casion he delivered a commemorative address.

The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in September, 1823. Samuel Henderson and John McCausland came from Ireland and settled within the territory afterwards included in the town of Webster. They established class meetings, and in the same year founded a society together with Samuel J. Booth, William Archer, Parsons Tourtellot, Olney Esten, Ebenezer Plummer, William Harbenson, Wil- liam Hurd, Hezekiah Davis, Calvin Aldrich, Charles - Wait, Henry Davis, John Dixon, William Andrews, Daniel Dwight, Oliver Adams, Jr., and Jeremiah Upham.

Rev. Elias Marble was settled as the first min- ister. His successors were as follows :

1825. Rev. John W. Hardy.

1826. Rev. John W. Chase.

1827. Rev. Heman Perry.

1828. Rev. George Southerland.

1829. Rev. Isaac Bonny.

1830. Rev. John Lovejoy.

1831. Rev. O. Robbins.

1832. Rev. Peter Sabin.

1833. Rev. Isaac Jennison.

1834. Rev. Ira M. Bidwell.

1835. Rev. Jonathan Cady.

1836-37. Rev. Isaac Stoddard. 1838-39. Rev. Joseph A. Merrill. 1840. Rev. Isaac Sanbourn. 1841-42. Rev. Abra'm D. Merrill. 1843-44. Rev. Leonard B. Griffin. 1845-46. Rev. Mark Staple. 1847-48. Rev. C. S. McRedding. 1849-50. Rev. Joseph W. Lewis. 1851-52. Rev. D. E. Chapin. 1853-54. Rev. Union Ward.

1855-56. Rev. Sammel Tupper. 1857-58. Rev. J. S. Haniford. 1859. Rev. Abraham S. Dobbs.

1860-61. Rev. Pliny Wood. 1862. Rev. Joseph C. Cormack. 1863-64. Rev. Cyrus L. Eastman. 1865. Rev. James W. Murray. 1866-67. Rev. Edward S. Rest. 1868-70. Rev. A. O. Hamilton. 1871-72. Rev. Le Roy S. Brewster. 1873-74. Rev. Wm. J. Pomfret. 1875-76. Rev. Daniel Richards. 1877-79. Rev. S. B. Sweetser. 1880-83. Rev. Samuel Jackson.

1883-85. Rev. Charles F. Rice. 1885-88. Rev. W. E. Knox. 1888. Rev. T. B. Smith.

The first meeting-house of this society was erected in 1828 and dedicated June 29thi of that year. Its cost was $1,467.40. A second and larger meeting- house was built in 1833 and dedicated January 14, 1834. Its cost was $4.626. A third meeting-house, larger and more commodious as the growing necessi- ties of the society demanded, was built at a cost of $22,000, including land, organ and fixtures, in 1866, and dedicated September 12, 1867.

The above two societies-the Baptist and the Methodist Episcopal-were the only religious socie- ties existing in Webster at the date of its incor- poration, March 6, 1832. The first religious society organized after its incorporation was the First Con- gregational Church and Society, which was formed June 13, 1838, with a membership of forty-one per- sons, most of whom had previously been attendants on public worship in the Baptist Church. At the first meeting of this society Jonathan Day was chosen moderator, and James J. Robinson, clerk, and George B. Slater, Dexter W. Jones and Ly- man Johnson, assessors and standing committee. Its first services were held in the old meeting-house of the Methodist Episcopal Society, where they con- tinued to be held until the present meeting-house was built in 1842. The new house of worship soon proved too small for the needs of the society and was enlarged in 1849.

The first minister of the society was Rev. Sidney Holman, who was installed October 31, 1838, and served until May 4, 1840; Rev. Hubbard A. Reed served from May 6, 1841, to November 5, 1844; Rev. Lorenzo Cary from August 14, 1845, to June 29, 1852; Rev. S. C. Kendall from March 29, 1854, to March 30, 1857, and from November 8, 1860, to July 22, 1868; Rev. David M. Bean from December 10, 1868, to May 25, 1871; Rev. J. S. Batchelder from December 6, 1871, to September 7, 1874; Rev. H. M. Rogers from December 9, 1874, to September 28, 1876 ; Rev. B. F. Parsons from 1876 to 1881; Rev. John G. Leavitt from 1881 to his death, in October, 1886; Rev. W. W. Sleeper from 1887 to his resignation, in August, 1888. The society is at present, in Octo- ber, 1888, without a pastor.

The Catholic Church and Society was organized in 1844, and placed under the charge of the pastor of St. John's Church at Worcester. The foundations of the St. Louis Church edifice were laid in 1853, while

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the society was under the ministrations of Rev. Mr. Gibson, and cost eight thousand dollars. It was built of brick, but soon proving too small, was enlarged in 1865 at a cost of twenty thousand dollars, and soon after a parish-house was built at a cost of seven thou- sand five hundred dollars. Mr. Gibson was suc- ceeded by Rev. Napoleon Magnault, and in 1858 Rev. James Quan became pastor and still remains. The large number of Catholic French belonging to the church, who could with difficulty speak and under- stand the English language, soon rendered the forma- tion of a new society desirable, and in 1870 the French-speaking portion of the St. Louis Church or- ganized the Parish of the Sacred Heart in the old Methodist Episcopal meeting-house, which they bought and enlarged, with Rev. J. Cosson as their pastor. Mr. Cosson left in 1871, and was succeeded by Rev. A. A. Landry, of North Adams, who remained until his death, in 1885. He was succeeded by Rev. H. H. Landry in 1885, who was followed in 1887 by Rev. Joseph A. Legris, the present pastor.

The Webster Universalist Society was organized April 22, 1861, and on the 1st of May, 1864, Rev. George J. Sanger was ordained as its pastor. On the 2d of June, 1866, the society was incorporated under the General Laws. In that year and the next, their meeting-house was built at a cost of about twenty thousand dollars, and dedicated August 21, 1867. Mr. Sanger was followed iu 1869 by Rev. J. W. Keyes, and in 1874 Rev. J. W. Moore was settled and served until 1877. In September, 1878, Rev. J. F. Simmons became pastor, during whose pastorate Mrs. Julia Clemens Murdock, a devoted friend of the society, died on the 27th of April, 1879, and gave to it by her will a bequest of several thousand dollars in value. Rev. Edgar W. Preble is the present pastor, and suc- ceeded Rev. Mr. Simmons in January, 1887.

There is also a Polish Catholic Society, whose church was dedicated on the 1st of April, 1888, of which Rev. Franz S. Chalupka is the pastor.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of Webster held its first service in the town-hall at East Webster, July 18, 1869, with Rev. William H. Brooks, D.D., rector of Grace Church, at Oxford, as the officiating clergy- man. On the 3d of January, 1870, a parish was formed uuder the name of the Church of the Recon- ciliation. On the 23d of January, 1870, the church held services in Webster Hall, and on January 30th in Good Templars' Hall, where it continued to hold services until April 10th of that year, when it occu- pied the Congregational Chapel, which it continued to occupy until its church edifice was erected. · On July 18, 1870, the corner-stone of its church was laid on land presented by Mr. William S. Slater, and on the 3d of January, 1871, it was dedicated by cere- monies conducted by Right Rev. Manton Eastburn. At the laying of the corner-stone, Dr. Brooks offici- ated, on which occasion Rev. Thomas L. Randolph, of St. John's Church, of Wilkinsville, made the prayer,

Rev. William N. Ackley, rector of Trinity Church, at Newtown, Conn., delivered the address, and Rev. James W. Clark, of St. Philip's Church, at Putnam, Conn., made the concluding prayer.

Rev. Doctor Brooks, the rector of Grace Church, at Oxford. held one service in Webster, after the formation of the society, until October 1, 1869, and after that date until April 1, 1870, he devoted his whole time to the interests of the society at its urgent request. On the 19th of March, 1870, he was called to the rectorship, and accepted the call at the termi- nation of his temporary service on the 1st of April, serving as rector until his resignation, April 2, 1872. He was a graduate of the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia, July 15, 1852, and was ordained deacon by Right Rev. William Meade, D.D., in Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, the next day. On the 13th of January, 1855, he was ordained priest by Right Rev. Alfred Lee, D.D., in St. Thomas' Church, Newark, Delaware. Before bis pastorates in Oxford and Webster he was for a time rector of Christ Church, in Plymouth, and is now rector of St. Andrew's Church at Hanover, Mass.

Rev. Roger S. Howard succeeded Dr. Brooks, and resigned in January, 1879. He was followed in 1880 by Rev. Langdon C. Stewardson, who served until 1884, when Rev. A. U. Stanley officiated until 1887, who was succeeded by Rev. J. Eldred Brown, the present pastor.

The Reformed Methodist Church of Webster was organized in 1872, under the direction of Rev. Harvey Wakefield. In 1872 its meeting-house was built at a cost of two thousand five hundred dollars, and dedi- cated January 1, 1873. Ou the occasion of its dedi- cation the dedicatory prayer was made by Rev. Mr. Wakefield, and the sermon was delivered by Rev. William H. Kirk. Mr. Wakefield still has charge of the pulpit of this society.

The Second Advent Society was established in 1883. Rev. J. E. Cross served as its pastor from 1884 to 1886. Rev. D. Matherson from 1886 to 1887, and its present pastor is Rev. George D. Smith.

The public schools within the territory of Webster were far from being in a satisfactory condition at the time of its incorporation. At a town-meeting held April 23, 1832, a committee consisting of the Board of Selectmen, with Dexter Rawson and Turner Cud- worth added, was appointed to divide the town into school districts. At a meeting held on the 28th of May, the committee reported the formation of five districts, as follows :

No. 1. All that part of the town formerly a part of Oxford, and east of French River, including the Oxford South Gore, which lies north of the farm of John Rawson, and a line extending easterly to the Douglas line.

No. 2. All the remainder of the Gore bounded east by Douglas, south by District No. 1, west by what was Dudley east line, and south by the Connecticut line.

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No. 3. That part of Dudley bounded east by what was the Gore west line, north by the road leading from Unionville to the four corners near the house of Rev. Thomas Bassett, west hy the road leading south- erly from said four corners to the Thompson road, and by said Thompson road, including the farm ou the west side thereof and adjoining the same, and south by the Connecticut line.

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History of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 106

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1576

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1576