History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Vol. II, Part 67

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

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After Mr. ITill's dismissal in 1778, the Congregational Church enjoyed no regular preaching, and it continued to decline steadily in membership until 1806, when there was but one member left. In February of that year it was reorganized, but had no settled pastor until 1816, when Rev. John Taylor, of New Salem, was installed, and he continued to preach until 1822. From that period till 1848, when Rev. Ezra Newton was settled, the preaching was supplied by Revs. Silas Shores, Martyn Cushman, and Lot B. Sullivan. Mr. Newton was succeed in 1850 by Rev. James Tisdale. The last settled pas- tor was Rev. Wm. Barrett, but for several years the church has had to depend upon periodical supply, which is the case at present. In 1836 the Congregationalists disposed of to the Baptists their interest in the Union meeting-house, and in that year erected the one now occupied by them at Shutesbury Centre.

THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHUTESBURY

was organized in 1787, after having existed from 1778 to that time as a branch of the New Salem Church. Previous to the latter date there were in the town persons calling themselves Anti-Pedobaptists, for as early as 1771 the town refused by a

vote to remit the minister's rate to the Anti-l'edobaptists. The church took the name of Anti-Pedobaptist at its organ- ization, and had then, it is said, but five male members. Elder Ewen, a Scotchman (and according to tradition one of Brad- doek's aids at Fort Duquesne), was the first minister, but there was no settled minister until 1785, when Rev. Joseph Smallidge was ordained. He continued to serve the church as its pastor until his death, in 1829. Since that time the church has been supplied by Revs. Austin, Munroe, Grant Green, Branch, Coombs, Jones, Pease, Holdsworthy, and Goodenow. The present house of worship was built by the four societies of the town in 1826, and since 1836 has been owned by the Baptists.

A UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY

was organized in 1829, and still holds occasional meetings in the town-house, no church building having ever been erected by them.

A METHODIST CHURCH

was organized at Lock's village in 1849, and in 1851 a meet- ing-house was erected by Methodists from Leverett, Wendell, and Shutesbury.

SCHOOLS.

The first entry on the records touching the matter of public education was made in 1762, when it was voted to " do some- thing in order to the having a school in the town for the ben- efit of the children." No action was, however, taken upon this resolution, and it was not until 1765 that another effort was made on education's behalf, when £6 were raised for schooling. In 1767 the town, by a vote, refused to raise any money for the support of schools that year, but in 1768 it was agreed to raise £4 for a school. In 1771, £6 were raised, but a resolution to build a school-house was voted down. In 1774 the interests of education began to improve, for in that year £10 were raised for their advancement.

During this year school was kept in the meeting-honse and at John Wilde's house. In 1777 education lagged again, for the town declined then to raise funds for its support, and pur- sued a similar course in 1779 and 1780, but in 1781 there was a reawakening, and £12 were raised and divided between the North End and the centre. The allowance for schools fell in 1782 to £9, and in that year, too, the school lands were sold, although shortly thereafter educational interests brightened again through a gratuity of $1040, received by the town from the clerk of the Court of General Sessions.

In 1784 the town declined to raise funds for the support of schools, and in 1788 created five school districts, the first being east of Swift River, the second east of the meeting-house, the third west of the meeting-house, the fourth east of the second, and the fifth west of the third and fourth. The number of districts was increased in 1791 to six.

The number of school districts in the town in. 1878 was seven, the amount of money set apart for school support in 1877 was $1122, and the average daily attendance 95 scholars. Among the graduates at American colleges from Shutesbury may be noted Samuel Leonard, Sanford Leach, Elijah Fish, James Spear, and Diah Ball. The latter went out to China as a missionary, and died there some years ago. There is at Shutes- bury Centre a small town library, founded by Mr. John Brown, of Boston (a former resident of Shutesbury), who, in 1832, presented the town with 100 books.

BURIAL-PLACES.

The only public burial-ground in the town is at Shutesbury Centre. The burying-ground originally laid out by the early settlers, in the rear of where the school-house at the centre now stands, was abandoned many years ago, when many of the remains lying therein were removed to the present burial- place, a short distance west, although in the old ground still stand a few ancient gravestones. Among the oldest inserip- tions to be seen in the cemetery now used are the following :

HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.

Abel Cole, 1781; Jacob Coney, 1777 ; Samnel Cady, 1799; Joseph Wilder, 1793; Ephraim Wheeler, 1798; Joshua Jones, 1796; Lucy Pierce, 1799; Buth Dilling- ham, 1796; Lydia Hamilton, 1796; Seth Fish, 1797; Joseph Allen, 1804; Robert Cole, 1806; Sarah Smallidge, 1800; Elizabeth Richardson, 1801; Dr. John Carter, 1808; Seth Leonard, 1803; Obadiah Bates, 1:03; Abiah Reed, 1809; Benjamin Reed, 1807; Ephraim Pratt, 1804, aged one hundred and sixteen.

Upon the gravestone of Ephraim Pratt it is recorded that

" Ile was born in Sudbury in 1687, swung a scythe for one hundred and one consecutive years, and at the age of one hundeed and ten mounted a horse with ease."

It is said, moreover, that he was cheerful and temperate, and lived to know himself the progenitor of 1500 descendants. The stones which marked the earliest graves have disappeared, and thus the list of early inscriptions deals with those of but comparatively recent date.

INDUSTRIES.

Apart from the manufacture of lumber by several saw-mills, and the braiding of palm-leaf hats by the female members of many families, the industries of Shutesbury are, and always have been, purely agricultural. In 1875 the value of manu- factures was $10,057, and that of agricultural and domestic products $54,942, the number of farms being 140. The town is somewhat noted for a lavish yield of whortleberries, and many inhabitants devote their energies in the season to the picking of this fruit and carrying it to market. The total valuation of the town in 1878 was $174,538, of which $157,- 058 was on real estate. The total tax thereon-State, county, and town-was $3449.72, or at the rate of nearly two cents on the dollar. Railway ties and charcoal used to be furnished in considerable quantities some years ago, but the yield of those products has latterly much diminished.

MILITARY. SHUTESBURY REBELLION RECORD.

The following list of soldiers who served during the Rebel- lion (1861-05) is taken from the adjutant-general's report :

Wm. F. Reed, enl. Oct. 11, 1862, 52d Regt., Co. K ; disch. Aug. 14, 1863.

Joseph F. Spear, enl. Dec. 26, 1861, Ist Cav., Co. E; re-enl. Dec. 28. 1863; disch. June 26, 1865.

William Deblois, enl. Jan. 24, 1865.

Joseph Douglas, enl. May 14, 1864, Co. HI, 19th Inf. ; disch. July 15, 1865. Lewis R. Haskell, enl. Ang. 5, 1861, Co. HI, 21st Inf .; disch. Ang. 16, 1863. Charles Phelps, enl. Aug. 5, 1861, Co. H, 21st Inf. ; disch. Jan, 1, '64, to re-enlist. John Sanborn, enl. Jan. 21, 1865, Co. A, 26th Inf. ; disch. Ang. 26, 1865.

John W. Brizzee, en1. Jan. 2, 1864, Co. B, 27th Inf .; died Ang. 15, 1864, Auder- sonville, Ga.

Martin O. Makley, enl. Dec. 8, 1863, Co. B, 27th Inf. ; disch. June 26, 1865. Alonzo J. Thomas, enl. Nov. 18, 1862, Co. B, 27th Inf .; disch. Sept. 27, 1864. Setlı W. Pratt, enl. Sept. 5, 1864, Co. C, 27th Inf .; disch. June 26, 1865. Frank H. Leonard, enl. Dec. 15, 1863, Co. D, 27th Inf. ; disch. June 26, 1865. Jeremiah Stockwell, enl. Ang. 25, 1862, Co. D, 27th lof .; disch. Sept. 27, 1×64. Charles Pratt, enl. Ang. 20, 1862, Co. G, 27th Inf .; re-enl. March 2, 1864 ; died Jan. 2, 1865, at Annapolis, Md

James E. Green, enl. Sept. 5, 1864, Co. F, 34th Inf .; disch. June 16, 1865.

Charles Il. Stowell, enl. Nov. 16. 1863, Co. F, 34th Inf. ; trans. June 14, 1865, to 24th Inf.

Franklin D. Waterman, enl. Sept. 3, 1863, Co. F, 34th Iof. ; disch. May 18, 1865, by order of War Department.

Ilorton Waterman, enl. Feb. 4, 1864, Co. F, 34th Inf .; trans. June 14, 1865, to 24th Inf.

David N. Gilmore, enl. Dec. 26, 1863, Co. K, 34th Inf .; killed May 15, 1864, at New Market, Va.

Lyman Matthews, enl. Sept. 2, 1862, Co. A, 37th Inf. ; died June 14, 1864, at Fort Powhattan, Va.

Reuben E. Bartlett, en]. Aug 30, 1862, Co. F, 37th Iuf .; disch. June 21, 1865. Joel Crandall, enl. Ang. 30, 1862, Co. F, 37th Inf. ; disch. June 21, 1865.

Albert A. Pratt, enl. Feb. 16, 1864, Co. F, 37tb Inf. ; died Sept. 5, 1864, at Read- ville, Mass.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

SAMUEL F. DUDLEY,

son of Aaron and Sophia Dudley, was born in Leverett, Franklin Co., Mass., on the 21st of October, 1812. His father was born in Framingham, Mass., and died in Leverett in 1874. He married Sophia, daughter of Samuel Frail, of Hopkinton, Mass., by whom he had nine children,-Martha (deceased) ;

Aaron, lives in Leverett ; Samuel F. ; Isaac (deceased) ; Luther, resides in Leverett; Hannah, lives on the old homestead in Leverett ; Maria, wife of Newall Hunt, of Montague; Wil- liam E., resides in Montague ; and Ransom and Nathan, both deceased.

Samuel F. Dudley's educational advantages were very meagre. He-attended school but two months during the year, and that in the winter season. He had also to walk a distance of two and one-half miles to the school-house, but never- theless attended in that manner until he was seventeen years & old. He then began to work for farmers by the month, and continued in that employment until he reached his majority, when he commenced business upon his own account. He pur- chased a small farm in Leverett, and also engaged to some ex- tent in lumbering. In early days he ran his lumber down the Connecticut River in rafts. He subsequently sold his farm and purchased one in Shutesbury adjoining Leverett, where he has since resided, engaged in the same business. He has been moderately successful financially, and in public relations has been largely identified with the best interests of the town and county. In 1844 he served in the Legislature, and was re-elected in 1852. He was a member of the board of select- men nine years in succession, and has also served in that capacity at various other times. IIc has been special county commissioner one term, and has held other offices of trust. Mr. Dudley also held a commission as colonel in the State volunteer militia for three years, and that of lieutenant-col- onel seven years, prior to which he held at different times the positions of captain, sergeant, and corporal. He is Republi- can in politics, and takes an active interest in the political movements of the day, and also in educational subjects.

Mr. Dudley married, on the 8th of March, 1838, Jemima, daughter of Richard Prouty, of Shutesbury. To them have been born eight children. They are George S., born Jan. 30, 1839 ; Richard A., horn March 23, 1841 ; Sophia J., born June 8, 1843 ; Angie M., born Aug. 26, 1845; Murial O., born June 10, 1848, and died July 9, 1849; Rosella V., born July 8, 1850; Alfred P., born July 18, 1853 ; and Arthur B., born on the 18th of December, 1855. All are married excepting one son and one daughter.

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GILL.

GEOGRAPHICAL,

THE town of Gill lies a short distance northeast of the centre of Franklin County, in the great bend of the Connecticut River, by which, and Fall River, it is surrounded on three r sides. Its superficial area is 8396 acres. On the north its boundaries are Bernardston and Northfield, on the south the Connecticut River, separating it from Montague and Er- ving, on the east the Connecticut, separating it from North- field, and on the west Greenfield, from which it is separated by Fall River.

No railway touches the town, but railway communication is easy of access at Bernardston, Turner's Falls, and North- field Farms, neither station being more than four miles from . Gill Centre.

NATURAL FEATURES.

The surface of the town is beautifully diversified with hill and plain, without being marked by any very lofty eminence. Pisgah, Grass Hill, Stacy's Mountain, Barnard's Hill, and Darby Ilill are the most conspicuous elevations. Among the numerous small interior water-courses may be mentioned Otter, Beaver, Ashuela, and Unadilla Brooks, which perform useful service as mill-streams.

In respect to discoveries in geology, Gill has been a fruitful field, and thence have been taken, by Dr. James Deane, Prof. Hitchcock, Mr. Marsh, Dr. L. Field, and others, some of the finest fossil specimens to be found in the geological cabinets of the country. Nature has done much for Gill in making it a place where upon every hand delightful views unfold them- selves before the eye. On the south and east the sinuous and silvery Connecticut, with its broad reach of sweeping valley, presents to the beholder a picture of rare beauty, while in other directions there is bountiful evidence that nature has been lavish in her brightest manifestations. Fall River, which flows along the entire western border of the town, dis- charges into the Connecticut at Turner's Falls, where the noble old river rushes in mad abandon over jagged rocks, and hurls its waters with resistless strength into the abyss below.

THE TURNER'S FALLS FIGHT.

In May, 1676, about a year after the opening of "King Philip's war," intelligence was conveyed to Hadley that the Indians were located in force at Deerfield, where they had for some days been engaged in planting, and that on both sides of the Connecticut River at the falls (now Turner's Falls) they were in considerable numbers engaged in fishing, for which that point was and had been famous. Although King Philip was in Eastern Massachusetts, the Indians at the falls feared no attack from the whites, since they were aware that the English forces on the Connecticut had been materially weakened, and that they were scarcely prepared to make any aggressive movements. Nevertheless, Capt. William Tur- ner (a citizen of Boston, who, earlier captain of a company of Massachusetts troops, was at this time in command of the English troops at Hadley ) determined to move on the savages in the absence of Philip, and, having assembled a force of 180 men at Ilatfield, with Capt. Samuel Ilolyoke, of Springfield, as his second in command, set out, on the evening of the 17th of May, for the falls. Journeying all that night, Capt. Tur- ner and his command reached the banks of Fall River at day- break, and, dismounting, moved on rapidly to the falls.

Their arrival was signalized by a concentrated attack upon the unsuspecting and sleeping Indians, who, aroused from their slumbers by the roar of the English musketry, fled in confusion to the river and plunged in, some taking to their eanoes, others swimming, while many sought safety under the overhanging rocks upon the river's bank. Very few, how- ever, managed to escape. Of those who were not slain at the first assault upon the encampment, it is supposed that 140 were either killed while trying to cross the river or carried over the falls to destruction. When the brief struggle was. over, a hundred Indians lay dead upon the ground, and, ac- cording to historical authority, fully 300 savages were de- stroyed on that occasion by the rolling flood and the guns of the English. The loss of the whites was but one man, so com- plete and thorough was the surprise, and so powerless were the Indians to attempt anything like a resistance.

Unhappily, the glorious victory was destined to be followed by a disastrous defeat. Capt. Turner, knowing full well that formidable bodies of Indians were in the neighborhood, and were likely to attack him, tarried after the fight but long enough to destroy the Indian camp, and then gave the order for the return march. By this time, however, the Indians on the east bank of the river, and others from below the scene of the fight, were gathering to attack the English, and it was not without some difficulty that the whites reached the place where they had left their horses, for they were twice attacked while en route, although in each case they successfully repulsed their assailants. Shortly after mounting and taking up the return journey for Hatfield, Capt. Turner, who had earlier in the day manifested signs of physical indisposition, grew so ill that it was with difficulty he was enabled to keep his seat on his horse. At this juncture, the command having reached Smead's Island, opposite where Montagne City now stands, a sudden attack in large force was made by Indians, and, a re- port circulating that the attack was led in person by Philip, at the head of a thousand savages, the whites became panic- stricken, and, separating into small bodies, fled in the wildest disorder.

The passage from Smead's Island to Green River was little short of slaughter. The savages, pursuing, shot down the fly- ing foe or took them into captivity, and when at last Green River was reached, the English ranks had been reduced to less than 150 men. Here Capt. Turner received his death wound, and fell in Greenfield Meadow, near the mouth of Green River, where his body was subsequently found by the English and tenderly cared for.

Upon the fall of Capt. Turner, Capt. Holyoke, assuming command, rallied the scattered remnants of the band, and, although constantly beset by savage attacks, conducted the retreat with skillful tact and bravery, and eventually reached Hatfield, with 38 men missing from his command.

Capt. Turner's name was perpetuated and honored by being afterward bestowed upon the falls heside the roar of whose waters he had effected a great Indian slaughter ; and sixty years afterward, in 1736, the General Court remembered the services of the soldiers who were engaged in the fight by granting to their descendants, to the number of 97, the tract of land first called Falltown, now Bernardston.

The village of Riverside, in Gill, is supposed to occupy the spot where the fight took place, and in that village a grove

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Photo. by Popkins.

L. P. Mum

LORENZO P. MUNN was born in the town of Gill, Franklin Co., Mass., Sept. 2, 1815, the second child, and only son, of Seth and Gratia Munn. The family descended in direct line from, 1st, Benjamin Munn, a soldier in the Pequot war, in 1637 ; lived in Hartford, Conu., in 1639; removed to Springfield, Mass., in 1649; was fined there, in 1653, 58. "for taking tobacco on his hay-cock ;" in 1665, being theo very aged and weak, he was exensed from military service; died in November, 1675.

2d. John Muon, boro in 1652; settled in Westfield. He lost horse, saddle, and bridle in the Falls fight; aid was asked of the General Court in 1683. The statement was made that " he is under a wasting sickness by reason of a surfeit got at the Falls fight, and will decline into an incurable consumption ;" died in 1684.

3dl. Benjamin Munn, born in 1683; settled in Deerfield; removed late in life to Northfield, where he died, Feb. 5, 1774. He married Thankful, daughter of Godfrey Nims, by whom he had cleven children.

4th. John Munn, born in 1712; soldier at Fort Dummer, 1730 to 1736; removed from Deerfield to that portion of Northfield which has since been set off to Gill, io 1740. Hle married Mary, daughter of William Ifolton, by whom he had children as follows : John, Mary, Noah, Oliver, Elisha, Abigail, and Seth. Of these, John, Elisha, and Noah raised large families, and lived in Gill.

5th. Seth Munn, the youngest of the above, was born in 1754 ; Rev- olutionary soldier in 1779 ; married, Dec. 18, 1782, Salina, danghter of Ebenezer Janes, by whom he had children as follows : Otis, Sylvia, Seth, Sophia, Orra, Rhoda, Obadiab, and Luther.

Otis married Melinda Janes, and settled in the West. Sylvia mar- ried Sammel Chapin, of Gill. Sophia died in childhood. Orra, wife of Oralana IForsely, moved from Gill to Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. Rhoda, wife of Ilenry Baseom, of Gill. Obadiah married Orilla Adgate, and settled in East Rockport, Ohio. Luther married Lucinda Mayo ; was a successful stonemason.

6th. Seth Munn, born August, 1789; married Gratia Wright, daughter of Oliver Wright, of Northfield, an exemplary Christian woman, Dec. 4. 1811. Their children, in the order of birth, were Sarah Sophia, Lorenzo P., Lucretia P., Hepzibah S., Gratia M., and Abigail A. Sarah Sophia and Ilepzibah S. are deceased. The three sisters living are married, and have families. Gratia Munn, the mother, died March 20, 1838, aged fifty-three years. Mr. Munn was married a second and third time. IFis second wife was Melitta Gris- wold; bis third, Elvira Phillips, both of whom were active Christian women, well beloved by all who knew them.

John Munn, the great-grandfather, settled on lands in the town of

Gill (then Northfield) in 1740, which have been owned and occupied by the Munn family ever since.

Seth Munn, the father of Lorenzo P., secured the laying ont of the " Munn Ferry" road on condition of establishing a ferry at that point on the Connectiont River. He was ferryman for forty years. llc died June 6, 1876, aged eighty-six years. The grandfather and the grandmother, also the father and the mother, are buried in the burial- ground situated on the road one mile north of Gill Centre.

Lorenzo P. Munn has always lived on the old Mnan homestead, in the town of Gill. During his minority he assisted in carrying on the farm and running the ferry. Ile received his education in the district school of the neighborhood, and in a select school taught by Josiah W. Canning, at Gill Centre. Ile was first married, Oct. 31, 1838, to Ruth Severance, daughter of Orin and Chloe Severance, of the town of Gill. Mrs. Munn was born April, 1816. By her he had children as follows : Sarah Sophia, born Dec. 3, 1840 ; wife of John Delvy, a farmer and mechanie, living in Gill. They have four ebildren, viz., Nellie, Joha, Eliza, and Isabel. Charles S., born May 26, 1844; married Sarah Ripley ; have three children,-Grace J., Frank L., and Mary S; he owns and occupies a portion of the homestead farm. Chandler S., born July 31, 1846; married Ellen A. Moore; have two children,-Louis Chandler and Lucy Sophia ; lives at the homestead, and, with his father, carries on the farm. Sarah R., born March 24, 1853 ; living in Florence, Hampshire Co.

The old residence, built by the grandfather, was torn down in 1824, and a new one built by Seth Muon, which Lorenzo B., tho son, has since improved, and which is now occupied by Chaudler S. Mr. Munn's first wife died Sept. 12, 1870. He was married, Dec. 10, 1872, to Sarah C., daughter of Luther M. and Orpha Claflin. Her father was a native of Petersham, Mass .; her mother, of Sandgate, Vt. Mrs. Munn was born in Canada, June 10, 1825. When three years of age the family moved to Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y .; from theacc to Canton, in the same county, where both her father and mother died. Mr. Munn built his present residence, near the homestead, in 1876.

In polities he was a Whig, but has been identified with the Re- publican party since its organization. Though often solicited he has uniformly declined to accept publie positions, preferring to devote his whole attention to his chosen pursuit of farming. For about seventeen years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Gill Centre, and has been one of its principal supporters. A kind husband, an indulgent father, an obliging neighbor, he well deserves the'esteem in which he is held by the entire neighborhood in which he lives.

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HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.

used by pienie parties is said to mark the precise locality of Capt. Turner's first attack upon the Indian camp.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

The greater portion of the tract now occupied by Gill was at one time included within the limits of Deerfield, and later was a part of the town of Greenfield, from which it was set off in 1793.

It is supposed that the farms now occupied by G. Stacy near the river on the east, and by H. II. Howland near the river in the south, were occupied by settlers previous to the Turner's Falls fight in 1676, and the settlements thereon were undoubt- edly the earliest made in what is now the town of Gill. These settlers were named respectively Howland and Stacy, but their term of abode after first settling was abruptly shortened by Indian depredations, and they returned to Deerfield. At a later date they reoccupied their farms in this town. The farms next settled were those now oceupied by Mrs. Obed Sever- ance, east of Barnard's IIill, and the old Bascom homestead, near Fall River on the northwest, upon which Mrs. E. L. Bascom now resides.

The great-great-grandfather of Obed Severance took up a farm on Grass Hill, where, not long afterward, he was killed by Indians. About this time one Brooks and his wife came up from the southern part of Deerfield and settled near the river, on the southeast. Brooks was employed by some Deer- field people as a herdsman, and built a hut on the site now oc- enpied hy Charles Hayward's barn, on his river-farm, in the southeast. Brooks killed an Indian whom he discovered lurking near Stacy's Mountain, and then, affrighted at the probable consequences of the act, he fled with his wife to Deerfield. His escape was made none too soon, for the In- dians in the vicinity, upon learning of the death of Brooks' victim, descended upon the river settlements in that region, drove off the settlers, burned their huts, and destroyed their crops.

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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 67

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