History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 165

Author: L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Number of Pages: 896

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Hiram Smith, who died in 1863, a bachelor, was the only remaining descendant of Joab Smith, one of the Chester pioneers. His sister, Isabell Toogood, who died in 1869, aged eighty-four, was the widow of William Toogood, another early settler. William Toogood left one daughter by his first wife. She is now wife of Nathan Samuels, of Buffalo, N. Y. Some of the direct descendants of other early settlers still resided in Chester, but the majority have either removed to the West or passed out of existence.

NOTEWORTHY INCIDENTS.

It is related that a party of prisoners taken by the Ameri- eans at Burgoyne's surrender halted at what is now Chester Centre, en route to Boston, and were confined in the Congre- gational Church for the night. Among the inhabitants who assembled for a curious glance at them was pretty Fannie Ilol- land, from the north end, and it appears that her charms so smote one of the prisoners, David Cross, a Scotchman, that upon his arrival in Worcester he managed to escape from im- prisonment by means of a forged pass, made his way back to Chester, sought out Fannie, became her suitor, and eventually won her for his bride. This couple subsequently removed to Washington, Mass., where they lived happily and respected to a good old age.

Concerning the family of Smiths, who were among the earliest settlers, and famed far and wide for their physical prowess, tradition records that one of them " came over from

Northampton to commence a settlement here with a five-pail iron kettle and other utensils on his person, making his way on foot by means of marked trees." Another of them, it is said, was so strong that " by grasping the whiffle-tree in his hands, he could hold a horse of ordinary strength." Another of them, reaching Hartford, "astonished the people by taking a barrel of cider from the wagon and carrying into a cellar without assistance."

In 1766 two saw-mills and a grist-mill were erected, and, in . 1767, Jonathan Clapp erected a corn-mill, but where these mills were located cannot be ascertained. The first birth of which there is a record was that of James, a son of John S. Clark, April 21, 1762 ; and the first marriage that of Stephen Lyman, of Murrayfield to Anna Blair, of Western, Aug. 25, 1770.

The first church-bell that ever rang out over the hills of Chester was placed in the belfry of the First Congregational Church in 1800. It was the gift of Mr. John Gordon, and did service for thirty years.

In July, 1774, the inhabitants of Chester resolved in town- meeting that " we will not purchase, buy, or consume any goods or wares that shall be imported from Great Britain after the last of August next until the meeting of the General Congress at Philadelphia." Chester was intensely patriotic during the war of the Revolution, and furnished men and money, to her own impoverishment. In 1774 it was voted " to enlist men to send to Boston to take the places of some already there," and in June, 1776, the people resolved that "it is the will of the town that the Continental Congress declare inde- pendence from Great Britain to a man in full meeting." About the same time the inhabitants voted to sign "an agreement or oath that the General Court put out to see who are the friends of liberty and their country, and who aro not."

Timothy Fay, who served two years and nine months in the Revolution, returned to Chester from the service in 1799, and shortly thereafter was drowned while crossing the river at Chester Factories. The gun he carried during the Revo- lution-a flint-lock musket, made in Scotland-is still in the possession of his son, Erastus Fay, now residing at the village of Chester, aged eighty-seven.

Chester was opposed to the war of 1812, and sent Asahel Wright as a delegate to the anti-war convention at North- ampton. None of the soldiers sent by the town into that war are known to be living.

The oldest house in town is doubtless the one now occupied by Dr. T. K. De Wolf as a residence at Chester Centre. This house was built by Rev. Mr. Bascom as early as 1769, and occupied by him until his death, in 1814. The first repre- sentative to the General Court was Enoch Shepard, who was chosen in 1775, and his pay for his own time and the time of his horses was made to him in work and grain.

Isaac Mixer was probably the first tavern-keeper, and to his inn the early town-records make frequent allusion, for the reason that town-meetings were held there. Stephen Lyman, who set up a grist-mill before 1800, must have kept tavern, too, as early as 1769, inasmuch as at the ordination of Mr. Bascom, in that year, he was called upon to furnish the rum and wine needed.

In 1775 it was voted that if it was thought best to con- fess judgment for debts, the town ought to have a justice of the peace, and Enoch Shepard was accordingly nominated for the position. In 1780 a girl called Becky Tyler, living in Chester, murdered her child to conceal her own shame, and for the crime she was, not long afterward, hung at Northamp- ton. In 1790 another girl, betrayed by some early settler, committed suicide, and, according to an old English law, her body was buried on the public highway, in the old village of Chester, at the nearest cross-roads, and there, it is likely, her remains lie at this day.

Asahel Wright, who flourished in Chester shortly after

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1800, was the earliest lawyer. Enoch Shepard was probably the first physician. IIe practiced as early as 1775, and per- haps earlier. He also kept tavern, it is said, in 1790. Anson Boies, who married two of Rev. Mr. Bascom's daughters in succession, was a physician in Chester about 1800.

The first storekeeper of whom there appears to be any present knowledge was a MIr. Kendall. In 1802 and 1803, Chester was sorely afflicted with sickness among the people, and in the first-named year sixty-two deaths occurred.

The oldest person living in the town is Oliver Watson, aged ninety-six, and a native of Blandford. Erastus Fay, aged eighty-seven, has lived in Chester about eighty years.

The great flood of December, 1878, laid a heavy hand upon Chester, and caused damages to the extent of $6000.

The road of the Eighth Turnpike Association of Massachu- setts passed through Chester in 1800, and there was also, about that time, a turnpike connecting the towns of Russell, Bland- ford, and Chester.

ORGANIZATION.

On the 31st of October, 1765, the town was incorporated under the name of Murrayfield, in honor of John Murray, one of the town proprietors, who acquired it by purchase from Williams.

It may be noted here that this Murray, having been a Tory through the war of the Revolution, was at its close compelled by the prejudices of the people to leave this section, whence he returned to England. The lands he left here were, of course, confiscated by the government.

A historical authority claims that the town was called Mur- rayfield in honor of William Murray (Lord Mansfield), but the statement is not susceptible of easy confirmation.

In 1775 the inhabitants voted to have the name of the town changed to Mount Asaph, and appointed a committee to pre- sent a petition to the General Court to that effect. As no mention is made in the records of the result of the committee's efforts, no reason can be given for the failure of the scheme. Why the name of Mount Asaph was chosen is not known; but the reason then for a change of name was doubtless that which prevailed when, in 1783, the inhabitants made another effort for the change,-because, it is said, of the odium which had attached itself to the name of John Murray. The reason given in the petition for desiring a change of name was that the similarity of the name of the town to that of Merrifield, in the county of Hampshire, frequently led to confusion in many ways. Three names were presented to the Legislature, -viz., Fairmount, Fairfield, and Chester,-and the latter was chosen, in compliment, probably, to Chester, England.

In 1783 a small tract in the northern seetion was transferred to what is now Middlefield, and, in 1853, Chester village was set off to what is now the town of Huntington, the new name given to the old town of Norwich. A list of those who served Murrayfield and Chester as seleetmen and town-clerks from 1766 to 1879, save the period between 1811 and 1849 (the town records covering the interim being lost), is herewith pre- sented :

SELECTMEN.

1766-67 .- Timothy Smith, John Smith, Malcolm Ilenry. 1768 .- C'aleb Forbes, Win. Miller, Timothy Smith. 1769 .- Ebenezer Meacham, James Hamilton, Abner Smith. 1770 .- John Kirtland, Timothy Smith, David Scutt. 1771 .- Timothy Smith, Samuel Matthews, Ed. Wright. 1772 .- Malcolm Henry, David Shepard, John Kirtland. 1773 .- Malcom Henry, John Kirtland, David Shepard, Abner Smith. 1774-75 .- Jesse Johnson, James Hamilton, David Shepard. 1776 .- David Shepard, James Hamilton, Timothy Lyman. 1777 .- Enoch Shepard, James Hamilton, Timothy Lyman. 1778 .- Timothy Lyman, James Hamilton, John Blair. 1779 .- Jesse Johnson, Timothy Lyman, John Blair. 1780 .- Timothy Smith, John Blair, Jesse Johnson, 1781 .- John Kels ), Samuel Jones, Samuel Bell. 1 82 .- John Blair, Win. Camp! ell, Jabez Tracy.

1783 .- Timothy Lyman, John Blair, Wm. Campbell. 1784 .- Timothy Lyman, John N. Parmenter, Wm. Stone.

1785,-Wm. Campbell, Timothy Lyman, Gershom Rust.

1786 .- Elijah Black man, Timothy Lyman, Noadiah Seaward.

1787-88,-James Hamilton, Nathan Wright, Wm. Sizer.

1789 .- Timothy Lyman, James Hamilton, John Eller.

1790-91 .- David Shepard, Timothy Lyman, J. N. Parmenter.

1792 .- Timothy Lyman, Ephraim Miller, J. N. Parmenter. 1793 .- J. N. Parmenter, Timothy Lyman, Elenzer Wales. 1794 .- Timothy byman, Abraham Day, J. N. Parmenter.

1795 .- David Shepard, Timothy Lyman, Abraham Day.

1796 .- John N. Parmenter, Timothy Lyman, Jason Wright.

1797 .- David Shepard, Ozias French, Ephraim Miller.

1798,-Judah Willey, Elisha Wilcox, David Shepard, Zadock Ingell, William Toogood.

1799 .- Samuel Bell, Jason Wright, Judah Willey.

1800-4 .- Asa Slayton, Wma. Elder, Simon C. Holland.

1805 .- Wm. Eller, Sylvester Emmons.

1806,-Asa Slayton, Jacob Day, Sanmel Bell.

1807 .- Samuel Bell, Seth Phelps, Silas Freeman.

1808 .- Samuel Bell, Sylvester Ennnons, Silas Freeman, Jr., Silas Kingsley, Daniel Smith.

1809 .- Sylvester Enimions, J. N. Parmenter, Wm. Wade.

1810 .- Sylvester Emmons, J. N. Parmenter, Wm. Taylor.

1811 .- Sylvester Emmons, Wm. Taylor, Horace Smith. * * * * * * *

1840-50 .- Daniel Fry, David Cannon, David Smith, Jonas Parmenter, Ely Wilcox.

1851-55 .- Abner Sampson, John Bemis, Ely Howe, Samnel Stebbins, David Smith, Alvan Rude, Henry Dewey. Adam Hamilton.

1856,-Albert E. Wright, B. B. Eastman, Silas P. Searl.

1857 .- David Smith, O. W. Gibbs, Joshua Bemis.

1858 .- David Smith, Charles W. Knox, Joshua Bemis.

1859,-David Smith, Charles W. Knox, John Carrington.

1860 .- David Smith, Joshna Bemis, Samuel Stebbjus.

1861-62 .- Charles W. Knox, Jos. C. Kelso, E. D. Ormsby.

1×63 .- E. D. Ormsby, Charles W. Knox, A. S. Foute. 1864 .- Charles W. Knox, A. S. Foote, Joseph Kel-o.

1865 .- Charles W. Knox, George C. Williams, B. B. Eastman.

1866-67 .- Charles W. Knox, Charles M. Bell, George Taylor.

1868 .- Charles W. Knox, Charles M. Bell, Amos S. Cone.

1869 .- Charles M. Bell, Amos S. Cone, Ely Wilcox.

1870 .- Charles W. Knox, David Smith, Joshna Bemis.

1871 .- H. D. Wilcox, David Smith, Amos S. Cone.

1872 .- Charles W. Knox, Charles M. Bell, Amos S. Cone.

1873 .- James King, E. F. Pease, Atnos S. Cone.

1874 .- Charles W. Knox, Charles MI. Bell, Amos S. Cone.

1875-76 .- Charles W. Knox, Alphens Willeutt, Amos S. Cone.

1877-78 .- Charles MI. Bell, Alpheus Willentt, J. H. Fisk.

TOWN CLERKS.

John Smith, 1766-69; Stephen Lyman, 1769; John Kirtland, 1770; David Shepard, 1771-74; Samuel Matthews, 1774-77; David Shepard, 1777-98; Gideon Matthews, Jr., 1798-1806; Sylvester Emmons, 1806; Martin Phelps, 1807-9; Anson Boies, 1>09-11; . . . JI. D. Filley, A. C. Root, 1849; Otis Taylor, 1850-53; I. B. Elder, 1853; C. 11. Babcock, 1834; J. B. Elder, 1855; Charles W. Knox, 1856; F. D. Richards, 1857; Otis Taylor, 1858; C. H. Babcock, 1859-61; C. C. Campbell, 1861-63; Timothy Keefe, 1863-72; George N. Cone, 1872-79.

REPRESENTATIVES AT THE GENERAL COURT.

Chester has been represented at the General Court from 1775 to 1858-when the town became a part of the Eleventh Repre- sentative District-by the following :

Enoch Shepard, Deacon Johnson, Timothy Lyman, Reuben Hatton, Elijah Blackman, Martin Phelps, Sylvester Emmons, Lewis Collins, Wm. Henry, Forbes Kyle,* William Shepard, Joshua Stevens, Thomas S. Wade, Nathaniel Elder, Hector Campbell, William Campbell, A. C. Rout, Samuel Henry, Daniel Fry Elizur D. Couk, Otis Taylor, Samuel Stebbins.

The names of the representatives who served from 1811 to 1849 are omitted for the reason that the town records between those dates have been lost.

VILLAGES.

The villages in the town are five in number, and, named in the order of their importance, are Chester (originally Chester Factories), Chester Centre (originally Chester), North Chester, Littleville, and Dayville.

CHESTER VILLAOE

is a station on the Boston and Albany Railroad, and is located, moreover, upon what is known as the western branch of Aga-

* Hon. Forbes Kyle was a member of the Senate, and the only one, according to Mr. Quigley, who was honoret with that position from Chester.

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wam River, whence manufactories derive fine water-power. The population of this village is perhaps 400, and in its pleas- antly-shaded streets and neat-looking dwellings there is much to admire. Here are the town-hall, a graded school, a hotel, post- office, three stores, two emery-factories, a mica and porcelain factory, a tannery, two bedstead-factories, and two churches.

CHESTER CENTRE,

in the mountainous districts, is the scene of the earliest settle- ments in the town, and until 1870 was known as Chester, and was also to that period the seat of town government. The growing importance of Chester Factories led to efforts looking to the removal of the town records to that place, and in the year named the transfer was accomplished, the name of the latter village changed to Chester, and that of old Chester to Chester Centre. The centre suffered a decline in business interests, and has now but a collection of a dozen houses, a church, and a post-office.

LITTLEVILLE and NORTH CHESTER are peopled by agri- culturists, and are small but thrifty settlements. At the former there is a Union meeting-house, and at the latter a Second Ad- ventist Church.

DAYVILLE has two shoe-peg factories and a store, and is a flourishing little village. Littleville has a lodge of Good Templars, which was organized in 1872; and at Chester, an Odd-Fellows' lodge, organized in 1873, has a membership of 65.

" In olden times the centre was an important place. The turnpike from Springfield to Pittsfield passed through it, and was constantly thronged with teams. Dr. Buies was in full practice as a physician, and Asahel Wright ex- pounded the mysteries of the law to those who required his services. . . . Syl- vester Emmons, more familiarly known as 'Squire Emmons, kept a large country store, and dealt extensively in general merchandise. His store was the head- quarters of the Federal party, while the Democrats mostly congregatedl at the tavern of Isaac Whipple. Eliphalet Coleman, than whom few, if any, better men ever lived in Chester, was the village blacksmith,"*

CHURCHES.

In 1766 the town resolved to build a meeting-house 45 feet long and 40 feet wide, with 20-foot posts, but the edifice was not completed until 1770. During 1768 preaching was held during the winter at the residences of Jonathan Hart Webber, Reuben Walworth, John Lacors, and Israel Rose.

A Congregational Church was organized in December, 1765, and, at the same time, Rev. Aaron Bascom, a Harvard grad- uate, was ordained as the first pastor. The church building was erected in what is now Chester Centre, near the site of tbe present Congregational Church in that village. In 1794 the old church was torn down to give place to a more con- venient and commodious structure, and this latter made way in turn, in 1840, for the building now used at the centre.

Previous to Rev. Mr. Bascom's time, one Simon Miller preached for the town, and for his bill for preaching the town voted £3 12s. in December, 1768.

In 1769 the town voted that the preaching thereafter should be held exclusively at the meeting-house, religious services having been-in 1768-held at four different places. While Rev. Mr. Bascom was preaching on probation, a vote was taken, in 1769, " to see if the town will discover how they approve Mr. Bascom's performances while he has been in town." In that year there was some discussion about " seating the meeting-house, and putting in two windows and glazing them." Shortly thereafter the meeting-house must have been seated, for a record about that time noted that "those who have no pews shall sit in any pews they find empty."

About 1812 polities ran high in Chester, as between the Democrats and Federalists, and, entering even into the church, began to show dissensions. Pastor Bascom, who, it appears, was also a warm politician, and the leader of the Federal party, was opposed by Dr. Martin Phelps, who led the Demo-

cratic hosts, und so warm was the controversy between the contending parties that Bascom and Phelps became involved in a personal difficulty, and thereupon Phelps and his follow- ers, withdrawing from Mr. Bascom's church, organized a Baptist Church.

After serving the church as its pastor for forty-five succes- sive years, Mr. Bascom died, May 18, 1814, in the sixth-eighth year of his age. Ile was a prominent personage in the early history of the town, and tradition says he was the object at the hands of the people of a reverential respect akin to awe, to which his knee-breeches and three-cornered hat largely con- tributed. Mr. Bascom's successors have been Revs. Samuel M. Emerson, Rufus Pomeroy, Saul Clark, Alanson Alvord, S. W. Edson, Francis Warriner, David Breed, Hugh Gibson, Ilenry A. Diekinson, and Loring B. Marsh, the latter being the present pastor. The church congregation, which twenty years ago numbered hundreds, includes now about sixty members.

THE METHODISTS OF CHESTER

numbered upward .of 100 in 1800, and in that year classes were organized by Ebenezer Washburn and Billy Ilibbard, who, in 1800 and 1801, provided the preaching, which was held at the house of Capt. Alexander, two miles south of Chester Factories. For some reason the classes began to deeline after 1802; for several years previous to 1819 there was no preach- ing and the cause languished, but there was a revival in 1819, and occasional preaching was furnished by preachers attached to the Granville circuit, up to 1842. In 1843 the church was transferred to the Troy Conference, having been organized early in that year, and, in conjunction with certain Baptists, built a Union meeting-house at Chester Factories the same year, when Rev. A. A. Farrar was settled as the pastor. The church increased in membership after this, and in 1847 the Methodists built the house of worship now used by them at the village of Chester, the church having meanwhile been re- turned to the New England Conference. Among the early pastors after Mr. Farrar were Revs. Kinsman Atkinson, S. Mattison, A. C. Hand, 1. B. Bigelow, A. S. Flagg, I. Marcy, Jarvis Wilson, and others. In 1854 the church building was damaged by a powder explosion, said to have been instigated by anti-temperance people as a retaliation upon the church members for their labors in the temperance cause. The build- ing was promptly repaired and restored within six months. The present pastor is Rev. A. R. Nichols, and the membership about 80.

As already noted, the withdrawal of Dr. Martin Phelps from the First Congregational Church in 1812 resulted in the or- ganization that year at Chester of a Baptist Church. Elder John Grant was the first minister, and he was succeeded by Elder Abbott. Rev. Silas Kingsley, who followed Elder Ab- bott, preached for the church upward of twenty-five years. About 1845 the church began to deeline, and a few years later ended its existence, having been in 1845 transferred to North Chester. There was a Methodist Church at Chester village (now a portion of Huntington) in 1836, but it was not very prosperous in its early days.

THE SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

was organized in November, 1844, at what is now the village of Chester, and in that year built a church edifice. Among the early pastors were Revs. Hubbard Beebe, P. K. Clark, Dillon Williams, and John C. Strong. Rev. C. H. Hamlin is the present pastor, and the church membership 75.

Besides the churches above noted, there is a Second Advent Church at North Chester (completed in 1878) and a Union meeting-house at Littleville.

SCHOOLS.

The attention of the people of the town seems to have been first publicly directed to educational matters in 1769, when, upon the question being presented at a town-meeting, it was

* Quigley.

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HAMPDEN EMERY COMPANY, CHESTER, HAMEDEN CO., MASS.

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Photo, by Moffitt.

THADDEUS K. DE WOLF, M. D., was born, May 18, 1801, in Otis, Berkshire Co., Mass,, and was the fourth son, in a family of eight children, of Capt. James and Naomi ( Ames) De Wolf. His parents were both natives of Becket, Berk- shire Co., Mass. Matthew, his grandfather, was one of the first settlers in the town of Washington, Mass., having emi- grated from Bolton, Conn., to that locality. His father being in limited circumstances, young Thaddeus' early education was only attained at the common district school. In his youth he was sent to live with his unele, Thaddeus Kingsley, of Platts- burg, N. Y., and attended the academy in that town, re- ceiving the benefits of a full course of studies. Hle com- menced the study of medicine, in 1821, with Dr. Baruch Beck with, of Plattsburg, with whom he remained about two years, and subsequently studied under Dr. Balch, of Sandis- field, Mass. Hle graduated, in 1825, from the Castleton Medi- cal College, at Castleton, Vt., and commenced the practice of medicine in the same year in the village of Hitchcockville, Litchfield Co., Conn., where he remained until Feb. 1, 1832. Ile then removed to his present home at Chester Centre, among the hills of Massachusetts. Being in the prime of manhood, and enjoying the best of health, he pursued the upward and onward path which, with energy and perseverance, always leads to success. Hlis practice was not confined to the town, but extended over the nine adjoining ones, necessitating a large amount of night work; and, as he says, during this period of his busy life he was almost a stranger to his family, stopping at home only for a stray meal while journeying from one patient to another.

Dr. De Wolf has during his lifetime educated eleven students in medicine, some of whom have made their mark in the profession. Hle was married, June 28, 1829, to Cor- nelia, daughter of Lieut. Benham, a prominent citizen of Hartland, Conn. By this union he became the father of four children, one of whom died in infancy. His eldest son, Oscar C., was born in Chester, Aug. 8, 1835, and his father educated him for the medical profession. Ile was the last student that studied under Dr. De Wolf, and his subsequent career has proved he was not the least. Ile graduated from the Berk- shire Medical College, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, and spent two years in the hos-

pitals of France. Upon his return to this country he accepted a chair in the Berkshire Medical College, and has filled positions in colleges in other parts of the United States. Dur- ing the civil war he was brigade-surgeon. He has for the last three years been health commissioner for the city of Chicago. Homer B., born in Chester, April 15, 1837; was educated at the college of Oberlin, Ohio. He turned his at- tention to the study of law, commenced practice in Cleve- land, Ohio, has bren district attorney, and is at present one of Cleveland's leading lawyers and most influential citizens. Sarah, born in Chester, March 31, 1840; received her edu- cation at the Holyoke Female Seminary, and resides at present at Westfield, Mass., being the wife of Dr. II. Gam- well. Dr. De Wolf lost his first wife Ang. 7, 1847, and was afterward married, Sept. 28, 1848, to Mary, daughter of Martin Phelps, of Chester, by whom he has had two chil- dren,-Henry C., born May 23, 1850, died Oct. 21, 1872; De Witt C., born Fcb. 10, 1864. He has always been inter- ested in the politics of his State, and is intimately acquainted with the different political leaders of both parties. During the days of Daniel Webster he was a strong supporter of the Whig party, but since its disbandment has been a member of the Democratic party, and also an active worker in their ranks. Ile is well known throughout this section of the State, and is a prominent publie speaker. He has held various positions of trust and honor. Was a member of the State Legislature of Massachusetts in 1868, a justice of the peace for about forty-five years, twenty of which he was justice of the Quorum, and postmaster for thirty years. In religion he is a Unitarian.

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History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 165

Author: L.H. Everts & Co Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts Number of Pages: 896

Author: L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Number of Pages: 896