History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 44

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

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A METHODIST CLASS

is said to have been formed in Bernardston as early as 1799, although existing records do not mention a society previous to 1811, when there was a class numbering 13, of whom 8 resided in Bernardston and 5 in Gill, the teacher being Peter Jacobs, of Bernardston. A church was, however, not organ- fixed until 1852, in which year also the present house of wor- ship in Bernardston village was built. Among the early pas- tors were Revs. Bromley, Ward, J. S. Day, John Beckwith, Horace Smith, and Randall Mitchell. The present pastor is Rev. Ichabod Marcy. The church owns a neat parsonage, erected in 1873, at a cost of $1500.

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THE UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY OF BERNARDSTON

was organized in 1820, and in 1823 the present church edifice in Bernardston village was erceted. A church organization was not effected until 1872. The pastors have been Revs. Jacob Wood, John Brooks, Orin Perkins, H. B. Butler, Edwin White, John B. Thompson, Edward T. Danforth, Lu- cius Holmes, and E. W. Coffin, the latter being the pastor in 1879.

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

was revived in 1824 by the organization of the Second Con- gregational Church, but no church building was erected until 1833, previous to which time the church worshiped in the Baptist meeting-house. The first settled pastor was Rev. Vin- cent Gould. Among his successors were Revs. Bancroft Fow- ler, Frederic Janes, Chas. Kendall, W. Brigham, II. Green- ough Park, T. J. Clark, D. II. Rogan, A. B. Foster, T. A. Merrill, and L. M. Pierce. Mr. Pierce, the present pastor (1879), entered upon his charge in November, 1873. The church building now occupied-enlarged and improved in 1844-was built in 1838 by Mr. Job Goodale, and presented to the society. The parsonage belonging to the church was the gift of the heirs of Mr. Goodale. The church has a fine organ, bought in 1870 for $900.

Joseph P. Ilale, a native of Bernardston, now residing in New York, donated to the religious societies of Bernardston $1000, the interest of which is to be expended for an annual picnic of all the Sunday-schools of the town.

SCHOOLS.

There was some discussion in the winter of 1769 about pro- viding a schoolmaster " to teach the youth of the town," but nothing more was done in the matter until December, 1770, when £6 were appropriated for the use of a school, and the selectmen were instructed to provide a schoolmaster, and to appoint a time and place for keeping said school. In Decem- ber, 1772, it was

Voted " to raise une shilling and six pence for each scholar in town for school- ing, which is £7 10s., and that boys from six to sixteen years of age, and girls from six to twelve years of age, shall be reckoned as scholars, and that the scholars at ye south end of ye town, up as far as Maj. Burk and Daniel Loomis on ye river, and on ye east side of ye town up as far as Amasa Shellon's, shall go to Mr. Remembrance Sheldon's house to school; and that all the scholars on ye hill from Mr. Wright's, north, shall go to Sergt. John Severance's house to school; and that all ye scholars from Benjamin Green's, north, and so out to Sim- eon Edwards', shall go to Samuel Connable's house to school ; and that those people in ye west part of ye town may have a school where they can agree, and if the money that has been raised and is now raised for schooling is not expended for that purpose in the term of one year from this time, the scholars shall not be entitled to said money."

December, 1773, it was

Voted that " all the schoolers south of ensign Shelden and Daniel Loomis shall go to one school, and all the schoolers north of Win. Wright's shall go to one school on the hill; and all the schoolers north of Benjamin Green shall go to one school on the river; and all the schoolers on Beaver meadow and on Frizzel's hill shall go to one school; also, that all schoolers joining on Colrain be allowed their proportion of the school money."

Nothing appears to have been done by the town about school affairs between 1773 and 1784; but in the latter year it was ordered that the town shoukl be divided into four school dis- triets, and that each district should build a school-house at its own cost. In 1786 an appropriation of £20 for schools was the first made for that purpose since 1772.

Bernardston now enjoys educational advantages far superior to those ordinarily possessed by towns of its size, and, while the cost of these advantages is now but nominal, as will be seen farther along, provision has already been made whereby that cost will, one day in the future, be reduced to almost nothing.

There is, firstly, a school fund of $716, created by the sale of school lands as far back as the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the income of this fund must forever be devoted to the support of schools. Secondly, the common schools re- ceive the income of $5000, bequeathed by Edward E. Powers,

a citizen of Columbus, Ga., but a native of Bernardston. Thirdly, the town has a fine classical school at Bernardston village, called the Powers Institute, which is free to the in- habitants of Bernardston, and to its support Mr. Powers, above named, bequeathed the income forever'of $5000; and, fourthly, Mr. Job Goodale, a resident of Bernardston, gave the town, in 1836, $200, conditioned that the fund be allowed to accumulate until it should reach the sum of $20,000, after which the income of the $20,000 is to be devoted to the support of schools, the town poor, and the town library.

As the town raises now but $550 for schools, it will be seen that by the time the Goodale fund becomes available, the cost to the town for the support of its schools will be trifling.

The Powers Institute receives, in addition to home students, many pupils from other towns, and enjoy's high distinction as an institution of learning. The school building was erected by the town in 1856, at a cost, including furniture, of $6700. The lot upon which it stands was donated by Col. A. Ferry, and its valuable scientific apparatus was the gift of Mr. John Sanderson. A large boarding-house, conneeted with the in- stitute and situated opposite thereto, was bequeathed to the town by Hon. Henry W. Cushman, and in his honor is called Cushman Ilall.

Bernardston had in 1833 a school of some note called the Goodale Academy, which was endowed in 1833 by Job Goud- ale, conditioned that the pastor of the Congregational Church should be the preceptor, and should have the benefit of tuition fees. The school continued to prosper from 1833 to 1856, when the Powers Institute entered upon its career.

Bernardston has, besides the Powers Institute, six common schools, with an average daily attendance of 141 pupils. The institute had, in the winter term of 1878 and 1879, 90 pupils, of whom 47 were from Bernardston and 43 from other towns.

The town has also a free public library, containing upward of 3500 volumes. It was founded in 1862, upon a donation by Hon. Henry W. Cushman of $1000 for the purchase of books; another one of $500, by the same donor, for the eree- tion of a library building ; and a third one, by which he agreed, if he lived so long, to give $100 a year for ten years, for the support of the library. Dying in 1868, Mr. Cushman left for the library a fund of $2500, the annual income of which was to go toward the purchase of books. The library building, a neat brick edifice in Bernardston village, is owned in part by the town and in part by John Sanderson, Esq., who added to the structure a second story, known as Sander- son Hall.

EMINENT MEN.

Among the noted men to whom Bernardston has given birth, none hold so firm a place in the grateful remembrance of the town as Hon. Henry W. Cushman. His father was Hon. Polycarpus L. Cushman, a native of Bernardston, a man of considerable local distinction, and for many years landlord of the tavern still standing in Bernardston village. This tavern was first kept by a Mr. Cooley, of Worcester, previous to the year 1800, and after him by Stephen Webster, who was in turn succeeded by P. L. Cushman. The tavern passed into the hands of Henry W. Cushman, who for many years conducted it prosperously, and who, by that and other business enterprises, acquired a handsome competence, of which, as will be hereafter seen, he bequeathed a large share to his native town. Mr. Cushman frequently represented Bernardston in the State Legislature; was State Senator in 1844, lieutenant-governor of the State in 1851 and 1852, and fulfilled, during his life, many important public trusts at home. Upon his death, in 1863, it was found that he had bequeathed to the town of Bernardston $2500 for the support of the Cushman Library, in addition to $2500 donated for the same purpose in 1862; the structure known as Cushman Hall; a large plat of ground in Bernardston village, known

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as Cushman Park, and $1000 for the benefit of Bernardston Cemetery. He left, also, to the Unitarian Church a fund of $6000, a parsonage (his own former residence), and $500 for a Sunday-school fund.

Hle provided further, in his will, that upon the decease of his widow, $10,000 of the bequest made to her should be given to the town of Bernardston, should the town change its name to that of Cushman. In the event of Bernardston's declining to accept the conditions of the bequest, then any town in the United States of over 1000 inhabitants, first ful- filling the conditions, shall be entitled to the fund.

Another of Bernardston's benefactors was Mr. Edward Powers, who, in 1855, left $20,000 to the town as a perma- nent fund for the support of schools and for the foundation of the present l'owers Institute.

Edward E. Powers, a citizen of Columbus, Ga., but a native of Bernardston, bequeathed to the latter town, in 1836, a fund of $200, which is to remain on investment until it reaches $20,000, and thereafter the income is to be devoted to the support of schools, the town poor, and a public library. He bequeathed also to the town five acres of land to found a school of useful sciences, a farm for the support of the town poor, and gave also to the Congregational Church a meeting- house and the land upon which it was erected.

The oldest man known in Bernardston's history was Israel Bagg, who died there, in 1878, at the age of one hundred and one years. Reuben Park died the same year, aged ninety- eight years. The oldest living persons now in the town are Daniel Pratt and the widow of Seorim Cushman, each aged ninety-two years.

BURIAL-PLACES.

Of the two public burying-grounds in the town, one is in Bernardston village and the other about a mile north of the village. The former was laid out in -, and is the only one in general use. It is a beautifully-shaded spot on an eminence between the Baptist and Unitarian Churches, and contains numerous handsome monuments. The latter is the "old burying-ground," and since the laying out of the new ceme- tery has been little used, principally because of its out-of-the- way location, although it was convenient enough previous to the removal of the First Church from the Huckle Hill region to Bernardston village. Among the names to be found on the oldest headstones in this burying-ground are the following :

Seth Wright, 1763; Reuben Slate, 1775; Thaddens Parmenter, 1775; Nehe- minh Wright, 1777; Samuel Wright, 1777 ; Sybil Parmenter, 1775; Salman Par- menter, 1775 ; Sarah Chapin, 1781 ; Samuel Hale, 1783; Joel Slate, 1781 ; Joanna Pinks, 1785; Miriam Wright, 1785; Sophia Allen, 1782; Huldah Parmenter, 1785; Zebulon Allen, 1786; Esther Webster, 1782; John N. Parmenter, 1785; Maj. John Burk, 1754 ; Joseph Allen, 1786; Sarah Fox, 1783; Mehitable Sheldon, 1787; Elizabeth Webster, 1787; Luther Edwards, 1792; Hannah Allen, 1790; Roger Fox, 1795; Renben Kreny, 1797 ; Seba Allen, 1798 ; Polycarpus Cushman, 1797; Chas. O. Frizzell, 21st Mass.

Jas. W. Hale,* 21st Mass. Lucinx C. Hale,* 2Ist Mass.

J. C. Fairman, 33d Mass. J. II. Weeks, 33d Mass, Enos 11. Bart, 33d Mass. A. F. Thompson, 33d Mass. David Newell, 33d Mass.

I. L. Thomas, 52d M:ss.

E. C. Newton, 521 Mass.

11. W. Hale, 524 Mass.

John Manning, 27th Mass. Geo. W. Wells, 10th Mass. Chas. C. Harris,$ 10th Mass.

L. M. Weatherhead, 52d Mass. J.s. M. Thompson,* 52d Mass. F. C. Slate, 52d Mass. Geo. W. Thornily, 52d Mass.

C. R. Gould, 52d Mass.

Q. W. Benjamin, 52d Mass. 1 .. B. Grout, 52d Mass. Rev. A. N. Field, 6th Mass. Hector Murphy, - Conn.

A. W. Kingsley, 521 Mass.

F. D. Hale, 21st Muss. J. J. Aldrich, 37th Mass. C. O. Haley, 4th Vt. John laley, 4th Vt.

K. S. Hulbert, 52d Mass. R. F. Newcomb, 52dl Mass. Dwight Park, 52d Mass, Il. P. Lyons, 52d Mass. Wm. F. Oaks, 52d Mass.

Wm. Vanall, 3d Cav. Fred. Hale,* 4th Car. .

II. G. Horton, 3sd Mass,

D. II. Wheeler, 521 Mass.

A N. Johnson, 31st Mass.

L. P'. Chase, 52d Muss.

Anson Booter, 57th Mass.

J. S. Slate, 52d Mass.

F. R. Park, 52d Mass.

Aligall Squires, 1798 ; Sophronia l'armenter, 1798; Sarah Conch, 1799; Charity Keeny, 1799 ; Capt. Moses Scott, 1799,

There are also three very old and well-worn headstones, in- scribed respectively, as can best be deciphered, D., E. S., and J. E. S. In 1863, llon. llenry W. Cushman bequeathed to the Bernardstown Cemetery Corporation $1000, the income of which is devoted to the repair and improvement of the ceme- tery in Bernardston village.

INDUSTRIES.

Bernardston is a prosperous agricultural town, and contains many rich farms, both on the lowlands in the Fall River val- ley and on the elevated region which skirts the western border. The soil, which is chiefly loam and gravelly, produces abun- dantly, corn being the principal product, although tobacco (which is now but little cultivated) took the lead some years ago. Butter and cheese are manufactured to some extent, and fat cattle are conspicuous among the products of the Bernardston agriculturists. The great ox " Constitution," which was killed in New York City in April, 1862, and sold for the benefit of the families of New York volunteers in the war of the Rebellion, was raised by Mr. John Sanderson, of Bernardston. It weighed 3800 pounds, and was said to have been the largest animal of its kind raised in this country.

There is in Bernardston village an important shoe-manu- factory, which was established in 1873 by Mr. N. S. Cutler, who still controls it. In that year he employed fourteen people, and manufactured about 10,000 pairs of shoes; in 1878 his force was thirty-eight people, and the product 32,000 pairs of shoes. This product is the present year (1879) to be in- creased to about 60,000 pairs. Mr. Cutler manufactures noth- ing but ladies' shoes, which find their principal market in the West.

E. S. Hulbert is engaged-in the south part of the town, near the Greenfield line-in the manufacture of steel hoes, eorn-knives, and rakes, in the production of which he employs fifteen men. Mr. Hulbert started in this business at his pres- ent location in 1853, and since that year has continued it un- interruptedly. The annual product of his manufactory will aggregate $25,000.

The value of the town's manufactures in 1875 was $103, 700, and in the same year the value of agricultural and domestie products was $114,465. The total assessed valuation in 1878 was $378,184, of which $298,872 was on real estate. The State, county, and town tax was $4850.53, or a rate of .0128, while the town was (in 1879) entirely clear of debt.

MILITARY.

BERNARDSTON'S WAR RECORD.

Bernardston furnished soldiers for the government in the war of the Rebellion as follows :

Edward Lachore,* 21st Mass. Geoffrey Vaile, 21st Mass. Geo. E. Hale,* 21st Mass. Deunis Bartis, 21st Mass. W. A. Thompson, 27th Mass. Win. II. Scott, 10th Mass. Henry Baldwin, 31st Mass. D. R. Scott, 10th Mass.

Chas. A. Boyle,* 15th Conn. B. R. Morrison, 10th Mass. L. B. Streeter, 10th Mass. M. F. Slate,* 10th Mass. Mason Drury, 33d Mass. Geo. Thompson, 10th Mass.

HI. J. Hale,$ 9th Mass.

7 .. A. Butterfield, 9th Mass.

W. S Whitcomb, 52JJ Mass. Wm. Woodrongh,$ 56th Mass. Geo. W. Woodrongh,* 56th Mass,

C. J. Intchins, 33d Mass. T. L. sheldon, 33d 3hIss. D. L. Fairman, 33J Miss.

Wm. H. Walbridge, 14th Bat. Geo. W. Haskins, 4th Cav.

* Died in the service.

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Henry T. Sheldon,* 2d HI. Art. Chas. T. Scott, 2d II. Art. Chas. Huber, -. Josiah P. Day, 10th Mass. Henry O. Stierter, 23d Mass. Joseph Slate, 23d Mass. A. T. McClure, 25d Mass.

John W. Temple, 23d Mass.

Geo. A. Willey,# 2dl HI. Art. Joel N. Nash, 2d II. Art.

AsQ L. Haskins, 4th Cav.

Win. Palmer, 2d HI. Art.

Jus. Quinn, 2d II. Art.

R. C. Briggs, 27th Mass.

Mich. Sullivan, 27th Mass. Dwight A. Reed, 27th Mass. John Albett, 27th Mass. Geo. Hughes, Ist 11. Art. Geo. Norwood, 57th Mass. Bart. Sullivan, 37th Mass. HI. A. Wolf, 37th Mass.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

HON. EBENEZER S. HULBERT

was born in Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., May 27, 1820. HIis maternal grandfather was Jonathan Sheldon, son of Eb- enezer, who was a son of Lieut. Ebenezer, the great Indian- fighter. The latter was a son of the John Sheldon whose family was captured by the Indians at Deerfield, and was de- scended from Isaac Sheldon, one of three brothers who came to this country about the year 1626.

William Hulbert, one of his paternal ancestors, emigrated to this country and landed in Boston in 1626. He was a na- tive of Wales, and a blacksmith by trade. It is somewhat re- markable that in every generation of his descendants up to the present time, one or more members of each family have followed that trade.

Ambrose Hulbert, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Bennington, Vt. He served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died in the service in 1780. He was a blacksmith, and above the average in mechani- cal ability. He made the swords for the officers of his regi- ment, and their silver shoe-buckles with the owners' names engraved upon them. Indeed, he fashioned almost any metal article then in use. His son, whose name was also Ambrose, was born in Bennington, on the 26th of February, 1781. lle learned his father's trade, and when eighteen years of age re- moved to Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his life, and died there at the age of eighty-eight years. llis wife was Elizabeth Sheldon, of Bernardston, Mass. They were married in September, 1814, and had a family of five children,-two sons and three daughters,-viz. : Ebenezer S. ; Louisa N., born Feb. 17, 1823, wife of Edward Colban, of Plainfield, N. Y .; Charles, born March 30, 1826, now residing in Rushford, Minn. ; Mary M., born Oct. 15, 1831, wife of O. B. Green, of Gill, Mass. ; and Abbie L., born April 2, 1835, now residing in Bernardston.

The subject of this notice had the advantages of a good common-school education, and during his minority worked with his father in the latter's foundry and blacksmith-shop. When twenty-two years old he went to Chicago, Ill., and was there employed as clerk in a dry-goods store, in which position he, however, remained but one year, and then, re- turning to Burlington, worked with his father until August, 1846. Ile then moved to Waterville, N. Y., where his ser- viees were engaged by E. and J. Wilber & Co. in the manu- facture of hoes. In this employment he remained three years, after which he entered into partnership with S. A. Willard, in Clayville, Oneida Co., with whom he was associated three years in the same business. In December of 1852 he removed to Bernardston, Franklin Co., Mass., where he established a manufactory of hoes, under the firm-name of E. S. Ilulbert & Co. Thus the firm remained until 1864, when Mr. Ilul- bert assumed the entire control of the business, which he has continued to the present time (1879). In the mean time he has greatly increased the business, and in connection with hoes now manufactures briek- and plastering-trowels and corn-cutters, turning out two thousand dozen hoes and one thousand dozen corn-cutters and trowels per annum.

Mr. Hulbert is a thorough business-man, and has been identified with most of the leading interests of Bernardston sinee he has been a resident of the town. He is a trustee of

Powers Institute, and also of the Cushman Library. In 1854 he was elected to the Legislature, in which he served one term. lle has also held the office of justice of the peace twelve years, and has served eight terms as member of the board of selectmen.

Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he at once espoused tbe cause of the Union, and in 1862 was commissioned lieu- tenant in Co. A of the 52d Regiment of Massachusetts Vol- unteer Infantry. The duties of that office he most honorably and faithfully discharged, taking part in the siege of Port Hudson and in the campaigns of 1862-63 in Louisiana.

Mr. Hulbert was married, in December, 1863, to Laura Burr, daughter of Chauncey P. Burr, of Mercer, Maine. They have one child, Julia B., born on the 6th of July, 1867.

COL. ARETAS FERRY

was born in Granby, Mass., on the 19th of June, 1800. The family of which he is a member is deseended on the paternal side from Charles Ferry, Sr., who was a native of Holland, and came to this country about the year 1660. He stopped for a short time in Wethersfield, Conn., but soon removed to Hartford, and subsequently settled in Springfield, Mass., where he spent the remainder of his life. Noah Ferry, grandfather of Aretas Ferry, was born in Springfield in 1712. He removed to Granby, and died in that place on the 4th of November, 1798, at the age of eighty-six. He married Ex- perience Allis in 1736. She was born on the 11th of March, 1711, and her death ocenrred exactly four years previous to that of her husband, in the same month, and on the same day of the month. Noah Ferry, Jr., father of the subject of this memoir, was born in Granby, Mass., on the 18th of October, 1748. He was a man of great benevolence of character, and actively concerned in promoting the social interests of the community in which he lived. He died on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1819. His wife was Hannah Montagne, daughter of James Montague, of Granby. They were married on the 9th of December, 1776, and had a family of nine sons and one daughter, viz. : Abner, born Nov. 1, 1777 ; Simon, born Aug. 16, 1779; Amos, born July 3, 1781; Alpheus, born Nov. 30, 1783; Heman, born Aug. 4, 1786; Zenas, born Sept. 9, 1789; Medad, born Nov. 22, 1791; Hannah M., born March 18, 1794; William Montague, born Sept. 8, 1796; and Aretas, subject of this notice, and the only one now living. William Montague (the eighth son) removed to Michigan, and Senator Ferry of that State (who was also Vice-President during John- son's administration) is his son. Aretas Ferry received his education in the common schools of his native town, which he attended during the winter months of each year until fif- teen years of age. The schools of Granby were perhaps as good as any of the country schools of that day, but they were certainly of a very inferior order, and it was only to the few who were gifted with great perseverance, and possessed of that thirst for knowledge which overcomes all difficulties, that they were of any benefit, and to these they were but the stepping- stones to something higher.

When sixteen years of age, he was employed to work on the farm by the month. lle remained two years, when his health failed and he was obliged to discontinue hard labor for

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two years. In his twentieth year he entered the employ of Capt. Luther Henry, as clerk in a store. At the expiration of fourteen months he established a partnership with his em- ployer in the same business, in Granby, and remained with him in that capacity four years, when the partnership was dissolved, and he removed to Montague, Mass., where he re- mained for twelve years, engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1837 he located in Bernardston, where he entered the same business, and also for fifteen years manufactured scythe-snathes. In 1867 he retired therefrom, and has since devoted his atten- tion to agriculture, with which he has also combined public service and an active assistance in promoting the best interests of the town.

Hle donated the ground upon which Powers Institute is built, and has been a trustee of that institution for many years, and also of the Cushman Library. In 1868 he repre- sented his district in the Legislature, and was renominated for a second term, but declined to serve longer in that capacity. Ile has been agent of the town a number of years, and has held the office of justice of the peace forty years. It may be added that during that time there has never been an appeal from any of his decisions. He was a member of the State militia (3d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 4th Division), first in the capacity of paymaster, after as adjutant, then lieutenant- colonel, and then colonel, subsequently declining the promo- tion to the office of brigadier-general. Mr. Ferry is public- spirited, warm-hearted, and courteous and agrecable in his social and business intercourse. lle is seldom if ever called upon in vain to aid any worthy charity, and for these and other excellent qualities is highly esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He was married in 1821 to Mary J. Ward. She is a daughter of Wm. Ward, of Shutes- bury, a lawyer by profession, and a nephew of the famous Gen. Artemas Ward. They have two children,-Susan Sanderson, born Jan. 13, 1822, and Ward A., born Aug. 21, 1829. The son resides with his father in Bernardston. The daughter (by whom this biography and the accompanying portrait are contributed) was first married to Judge Henry Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., and is now the wife of Rev. Dr. George H. Clark, also of Hartford.

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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 44

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