History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts with genealogies and notes on persons and estates, Part 12

Author: Daniels, George Fisher, 1820-1897
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Oxford : Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town
Number of Pages: 916

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their Meeting house as now fenced so long as they shall maintain and keep a Meeting house, according to the lease I and Samuel Campbell have heretofore given them." Worc. Rec., CXV., 610.

UNIVERSALIST MEETING-HOUSE.

1793-1804

John Mayo were authorized to procure a bell, and on 2 July they were empowered to build a cupola in order to hang it.1

On 5 Jan., 1793, Samuel Davis, Jonathan Davis and John Mayo were instructed to let out " by the great " the finishing of the interior and to superintend the same, which on 29th was let by auction to Simeon Hathaway of Sutton at £237. Previous to this the pews had been " dignified and appraised " by a committee consisting of Ebenezer Davis, Jeremiah Learned and Jonathan Davis, and in the disposition of them the highest proprietor was given the first choice and so " in rotation to the lowest," This committee were authorized to give deeds and were to hold the pews in their hands until sold as security for the cost of finishing the house.

The following subscription appears :

Capt. Jeremiah Learned, £34; Jonathan Davis, £27; Abijah Harris, £18; Samuel Davis, £11; Daniel Fisk, £10; Abijah Davis, £11; Elijah Davis, £8; Jeremiah Davis, £8; John Mayo, £11. 4; Learned Davis, £7. 14; Ebenezer Davis, Charlton, £19; John Pratt, £5. 5; Marvin Moore, £10. 4; Collins Moore, £4. 8; Jeremiah Kingsbury, Jr., £5. 18; Joseph Davis, £2. 10; Jacob Kingsbury, £3; Joseph Healy, £3. 15; Josiah Kingsbury, £2.

Pew-holders. The pew-owners were as follows :

Joseph Healy, Josiah Kingsbury, Jacob Kingsbury, Gideon Sibley, Jeremiah Davis, Elihu and Jeremiah Moffitt, Abijah Harris, John Mayo, Jonathan Rich, Judah Waters, Jeremiah Kingsbury, Jr., Jeremiah Learned, Abijah Davis, Ebenezer Rich, Elijah Davis, Henry Phelps, David Putnam, Learned Davis, Stephen Bullen, John Sweet, Collins Moore, Samuel Davis, Amos Rich, Philip Brown, James H. Davis, Joseph and Ezekiel Davis, Abiel Atwood, Jonathan Davis, Peter Jennison, Andrew Sigourney, John Pratt, Joseph Putnam, Arthur Daggett, Asa Davis, Daniel Fisk, James Butler, Levi Davis, Joshua Stockwell, James and Benjamin Davis, Samuel Kingsbury, Jacob Gleason, Elijah Kingsbury, Thomas Davis, John Putnam, Eliphalet Holman, Samuel Robinson, Reuben Rich, Parley Sibley, Stephen Marsh, Jr., Ebenezer Lamson, Ebenezer Gould, Reuben and Simeon Waters, Israel Trow, David Fitts, Samuel Campbell, Jr., Henry Wolcott, Nehemiah and Timothy Davis.

On 24 April, 1793, it was voted to employ some suitable person " to keep the key of the meeting-house and to ring the bell one hour before any stated meeting and at meeting time, and to toll at any funeral if desired by the relatives of the deceased."

House completed. Oct. 4, 1793, is an account of expenditures from which it appears the outside of the house was then finished, the cupola built, and the bell in position. In the year 1794, the interior was completed. On 8 Dec., the report, which does not appear in the records, of a committee chosen to settle with the committee to finish the inside of the house, was accepted by the Society. In 1796, the bell having been broken, was recast. In the latter part of 1803, a movement began having in view the purchase of a pipe organ,. a rarity in country churches of that day. Payment was made by sub- scription March, 1804. One hundred and forty dollars were sub-

1 This bell weighed 713 pounds and cost at the foundry £71. 14s., and was paid for by a subscription.

HISTORY OF OXFORD.

1815-28

scribed by thirty-six persons, and the balance of the cost (being $122.92), was paid by Jonathan Davis. The instrument was set up early in 1804. Ebenezer, son of Jason Collier, then residing at Charlton, was the first organist, and Ira Barton and Richard Moore followed.

The plan of the interior was the same as that of the old house at the north common, and it contained 60 square box pews of panel work, with seats facing in different directions. Stoves were intro- duced about 1815. The front porch was about 12 feet square and projected from the main structure at the centre. At the top, sheltering the bell, was a circular cupola which was swept away by the great gale of Sept., 1815, and for about two years the bell stood exposed on the top of the tower. Between July and December, of 1817, the spire as it now appears was built by Rufus Moore, Jeremiah Moffit foreman, and on 21 Dec., the sum of $550 was raised on the pews to meet the expense.

House remodelled. The building stood unaltered until 1845, when a movement began for the remodelling and entire rebuilding of the interior, and on 11 Oct., a vote was passed to this effect, and Ben- jamin Barnes, Craft Davis, Luther Clemence, Samuel Mayo and John Fitts were chosen a committee to carry out the vote. A floor was thrown across the galleries and the main audience room finished in the upper part, and below were made a spacious store and shops. In order to effect these changes the pews were bought up by the Society at an appraisal of $375, which amount was raised partly by sub- scription and partly by the sale of pews after the changes were made. A repair subscription was drawn and according to its terms the profits of the basement story were to pass to the subscribers in pro- portion to their payments. Nineteen persons paid in the aggregate $1,225. The alterations were made in the winter of 1845-6, and on 21 Jan., 1846, it was voted to empower the building committee to rent the basement. This vote was later rescinded, indicating that there was doubt as to the Society's authority. On 21 Jan., 1846, the building committee was instructed to procure a bell.

In 1861, the lessees of the basement made alterations and fitted up two stores instead of one, and brought the entrances from the south to the east side, remodelling the whole front and adding a portico, in which condition it remains at the present day. On 2 April, 1868, is entered in the records an account of moneys spent in frescoing, car- peting and painting the interior of the church, then completed.

New Congregational house. The next house of worship built was that of the Congregationalists, on the common. On 21 April, 1828, at a meeting of the Society, a committee consisting of Jonathan Davis, Abijah Davis, Peter Butler, James Farwell, and Stearns Witt1 was chosen to consider the subject of building a new Meeting-house,

1 This name was a little later changed to DeWitt.

CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE.

1829-30

which reported on 12 May, to the effect that it was impracticable to purchase the South Meeting-house or to repair the old one, and that it was desirable to build a new one, and recommended that measures be taken to this end. This report was adopted, and Jonathan Davis, Stearns Witt and Stephen Davis were chosen " to draft a constitution by which the proprietors shall be governed in building a house, also to select a site for the same and report at an adjourned meeting."

This committee reported the form of a general subscription pay- able to a building committee-the pew-holders always to have con- trol of the house, each one having one vote ; pews to be appraised for enough to pay the expense of the house and a bell, and sold at auction, and if sold for more than enough to pay expense of building, the overplus to go to the Society, and if for a sum insufficient to pay the expense the Society to make good the deficit to the subscribers. The names of the subscribers do not appear. On 27 April, 1829, Jonathan Davis, Stearns Witt and Stephen Davis were chosen build- ing committee. The house was erected during the summer and autumn of 1829, at a cost of about $6,000. The sale of the pews amounted to $6,062. The dedication took place 3 November, 1829, Rev. Ebenezer Newhall preaching the sermon.

Plan. The pulpit was placed at the south end of the audience room and there were only two aisles, the entrance being on either side the pulpit facing the audience. The singers' seats were at the north end and narrow galleries ran on each side.

An act of incorporation of the pew-holders was procured, approved 12 March, 1830, by which Jonathan Davis, Stearns DeWitt, Stephen Davis, Delano Pierce, Josiah Russell and their associates, were em- powered to make by-laws, choose officers and raise money by assess- ment to keep the house in repair, etc. The first meeting of the cor- poration was on 14 April, 1830, at which a code of by-laws was adopted. This organization was continued until 1857. Jonathan Davis was chairman of a committee to confer with the officers of the Second Religious Society concerning the organ and stoves in the South Meeting-house. Later the organ was removed to the new Meeting-house, where it was used several years, Josiah Russell organist, and was set aside into a corner of the gallery where it was unused for a time and was taken down by Jeremiah D. Moore and removed to the house of his father, Maj. William Moore.

Pew-holders. The following is the list of purchasers of pews :

Alexander DeWitt, $166; Stearns DeWitt, $200; Delano Pierce, $199; Stephen Davis, $180; Peter Shumway, $150; Sumner Bastow, $140; Andrew Sigourney, $130; Seth Daniels and Sylvanus Harris, $115; Samuel Dowse, $90; Joseph Brown, $80; John Hurd, $65; Jonathan Davis, 8 pews, highest, $166; Peleg Foster. $50; Peter Butler, $146; Abijah Davis, $152; Jonathan Davis, Jr., $160; Ira Barton, $150; John Wetherell, $150; Samuel Smith, $140; Martin Sigourney, $130; Henry G. Learned, $115; Samuel Merriam, $90; Jotham Merriam, $80; Luke R. Stone, $65; Sylvia Pope, $55; Nathan Hall, $110; Abijah, Erastus and Loring Davis, $75; Abigail Plummer, $60;

HISTORY OF OXFORD.

1838-85

Richard Olney, $100; Prince and Rand, $100; Thomas Nichols, $100; Shum- way and Learned, $120; Jotham Eddy, $100; Nichols and Prince, $95; Wash- burn Lumbard, $95; Benjamin F. Town, $75; John Mellish, $65; Brown, Hurd and Moore, $65; David Nichols, $118; Josiah Russell, $75; Jonas Larned, $60; Stephen Prince, $100; Daniel Moulton, $100; John Larned, 3d, $100; Rufus Harris, $120; Stephen Davis, $100; Alfred Kingsbury, $95; Joab Maynard, $95; Justin Root and Israel Moore, $95; Charles P. Nichols, $77; Jason Collier, $65; Joel Eddy, $65; Stearns DeWitt and Samuel Dowse, $65.

Removal. The building was erected at the north side of the common fronting to the south, and formed with its setting of elms a beautiful terminus to the street. But as in 1838 the highway, on account of the railroad crossing, was laid out in a straight course northerly, and passed very near the church, and building lots con- sequently were opened north of it, its removal became desirable. In April, 1852, the town voted that its present site might be occupied, and 15 June, 1853, money having been subscribed to defray the ex- pense, the proprietors consented to the removal, and in July, that a basement story might be put under it for Church uses. In the fall of 1853 the change was effected, and a large lecture-room fitted up at a cost of nearly $1,600. In the spring of 1857 it was pro- posed to bring the pews into a common stock. Many were freely given up, and by a subscription of $1,335 those not given were bought, and all, with a single exception, were made the property of the Society. On 13 June, 1857, for the first time the pews were rented at auction.

House remodelled. On 18 April, 1860, it was voted to pro- ceed to make thorough repairs and to entirely renovate the building. Samuel C. Paine, George Hodges and Loren C. Parks were chosen a committee to supervise this work, which was done the following autumn and winter. Pews, galleries, floor and pulpit were made new, and pine and paint gave place to hard wood finish, at a cost of $3,760.70, which was paid by subscription. The Society assumed the debt of $300 which the Church owed on the basement, in considera- tion of which the Church made over to the Society its ownership in the same. At this time the lecture-room was remodelled and reseated. The church building was re-opened with dedicatory services on 13 March, 1861.

Organ. The present organ, built by James D. Moore of Worces- ter, was purchased for $1,400 of the builder in the summer of 1865.

In 1885 radical changes were made in the basement for better accommodations for social gatherings, the entrance changed to the front and the stone work relaid, involving a cost of $2,148.75, of which sum Mr. Allen L. Joslin paid about one-third.

Baptist Meeting-house. In 1836, a demand existing in the growing North Oxford villages for church privileges, a Baptist Society was formed and a movement began for a new Meeting-house. A

BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE.

1836-41

subscription for the purpose, provided that the said house should cost $3,000 and be divided into $50 shares, each to have a vote, the cost to be averaged on the pews. The subscribers were :

Asa Cutler, Joseph Stafford and Geo. Torrey, 8 shares; the same, 2 shares [being the building spot] ; David Hall; 6; David Holman, 2; Stephen Barton, Jr., 2; H. A. Pettibone, 2; David Stone, 4; Warren Bruce, 1; Richard San- ford, 1; J. Gardner, 1; James Boomer, 2; Amasa Eddy, 2; Ebenezer Newton, ¿; Amos P. Newton, 1; Samuel Warren, 1; Rev. John Paine, 2; Jonah G. Warren, 1; Waterman G. Warren, 1; Elbridge G. Warren, 1; William G. Davidson, 1; Ebenezer Cook and Benjamin Tolman, 1; Martin Boomer, 1; Damon and Bartlett, 2; Jennison Barton, 1; Ebenezer Brown, ¿; R. Appleton & Co., 3; William Copp, 1; Daniel Dow, }; Ansel Whitcomb, 1; Erastus Torrey, 2.

On 5 May, 1836, it was voted to build on the lot west of the brick store, the house to be completed by Dec. 1st, and chose Richard San- ford treasurer, Robert Fitts of Auburn, James Boomer of Charlton and Joseph Stafford, David Stone and David Hall building com- mittee. William Howe of Spencer was builder. The land was deeded by Cutler, Stafford and Torrey, 16 June, 1836, to this com- mittee, who, 15 May, 1837, conveyed it with the house to Jennison Barton and William Copp, deacons of the Church.

Dedication. The dedication was 10 May, 1837, the day the Church was recognized. The bell was bought with "choice money" from the pews. A spire 95 feet in height originally existed, but was swept away down to the belfry by a wind 1 April, 1859. The house measures 53 by 41 feet ; cost of building $3,200. For about eight years the basement story remained unfinished. On 9 Sept., 1844, it was voted to repair the house, and 29 Nov. to finish the basement story, which was done in 1845, and dedicated 5 Jan., 1846.

Pews bought up. In the spring of 1856 the Society voted to adopt the plan of renting the pews yearly to pay expenses, and pro- ceeded to buy them up for this purpose. A few weeks later it was voted to " take advantage of the acts of the Legislature on this sub- ject, passed in 1845 and 1854." The plan was carried out, and until 1884 the pews were rented annually. At the latter date the free seat system was adopted and is now continued, expenses being paid by voluntary subscription.

In 1878 changes were made in the interior, the singers' gallery dropped and the house much improved. In 1888 decorated windows were put in, and the walls frescoed.

The Methodist Chapel was erected in 1841 on Barton Street, a few rods southwesterly from the site of the present building. On 8 June Richard and Abigail Olney deeded to the Trustees of the Church, for $100, the lot for the same. It was a plain structure without a tower, 33 by 40 feet, with two aisles and four tiers of pews, the pulpit at the south end opposite the entrance and a singers' gallery at the north end over the vestibule. The cost was about $1,500.

HISTORY OF OXFORD.

1865-67

More room being required, in 1843 an addition of 18 feet at the rear was made at the expense of about $500, which was paid by Mr. Jonathan Sibley. This chapel was occupied about 25 years.

Meeting-house. Preparations for a new house began in the autumn of 1865. On 20 Nov., Wilson Olney deeded to Lament B. Corbin and William H. Thurston the lot on which it stands. In Jan., 1866, it was voted by the trustees to procure plans, and in February Mr. Corbin, Mr. Thurston and Daniel Rich were chosen a building committee and were instructed to build a church about "48 by 80 feet," and on 5 March it was voted to set it " on the corner lot oppo- site the parsonage." On 8 April, 1867, the pew-holders in the chapel relinquished their rights that the building might be sold, and the pro- ceeds went toward the expense of the new house. Later the chapel was bought by Craft Davis, who removed it and fitted it up for dwellings. The building of the new house went on during 1866, and early in 1867 the vestry was occupied. The edifice was completed in the spring of 1868, and dedicated on 8 April. A bell weighing about 2,500 pounds was put in the tower, and after a little more than a year was broken and replaced by the present one, weighing about 2,000 pounds.

A clock also, now in the tower, built by Stevens of Boston, was bought by subscription at a cost of $500.

Episcopal Church. The site was purchased 18 April, 1863, by William A. Wheelock, who in May, 1864, conveyed it to George Hodges, Joseph Burrough and Emory E. Harwood for the Protestant Episcopal Church. Foundations were placed during the following sum- mer, and the corner stone laid with ceremonies on 20 September. The building is of a dark stone, quarried on the hill half a mile easterly from the town hall, and was planned by A. H. Esty of Framingham. It was first occupied 8 Oct., 1865, and consecrated by Rt. Rev. Man- ton Eastburn, D.D., 16 Nov. following. The cost was not far from $20,000, a large part of which was paid by George Hodges. An organ, built by Johnson of Westfield at a cost of $1,800, was put into the church, Dec., 1866.

" The whole edifice, externally and internally, is harmonious and elegant, and highly creditable to the architect and the mechanics who have carried out the details. It is an architectural ornament such as few country villages possess." Worcester Spy, 17 Nov., 1865.

Catholic Church. On 12 Oct., 1853, Alonzo H. and Rufus R. Dana deeded to John B. Fitzpatrick 35 square rods near the common, about 20 rods north of the present edifice, where in 1857 a build- ing was put up. It was a part of the present house and less than half its size. On 2 May, 1866, a larger house being needed, the present lot was purchased, the original building moved thither in 1867, and the large transept was added in its present form, making the seating capacity about 500. On 12 March, 1867, John O'Shea,

PARSONAGES.

1868-73

the purchaser of the lot, deeded the same to Bishop John Joseph Williams of Boston. The house was dedicated by Bishop Williams, 11 Oct., 1868.

Parsonages. The first parsonage in the town was built by an incorporated association, the plan originating in 1815, during which year subscriptions for it were made. On 11 Dec., 1816, Nathan Hall, Elias Pratt, John Merriam, Stephen Prince, Sylvanus Town, Charles Town, Peter Butler, Ebenezer Merriam, Abijah Davis, Archi- bald Campbell, James Gleason, Samuel Coburn, Joseph Brown, Jr., Martha Kingsbury and David Nichols were incorporated under the name of "Oxford Ministerial Association." These were authorized to raise by subscription $4,000, to purchase land and build a house and other necessary buildings for the use of the Congregational minister in Oxford, under the direction of trustees ; to elect officers, form by-laws, etc. Peter Butler was treasurer, and on 18 March, 1817, Sylvanus Town deeded to him for $150 two acres of land near the north end of Main Street, being H. 190. On 12 Feb., 1830, Peter Butler quitclaimed- the same to the Association.1 In 1833 the shares were bought up by Washburn Lumbard and its use as a parsonage terminated.

Methodist Parsonage. Late in the year 1845, Sumner Putnam bought the lot on which the Methodist Parsonage stands, and in 1846 built the house which, on 27 Sept. of that year, he deeded to the Trustees of the Society. It has been since occupied as a ministerial residence.

Baptist Parsonage. On 6 Sept., 1867, John Rhodes and Theophilus W. Wilmarth deeded to Ebenezer Newton, Trustee of the Society at North Oxford, land for a parsonage. The house was built in 1868 and paid for by subscription.

Episcopal Parsonage. This house was built in 1834 by John Wetherell for a residence. In Feb., 1848, he sold to George Hodges, who remodelled and enlarged it, occupied it 13 years and removed to his factory village. In November, 1873, he conveyed it to his daughter, Mrs. Slater, who the succeeding April deeded it to the " Trustees of Donations to the Protestant Episcopal Church."

The Congregational Parsonage was built by subscription under the direction of Allen L. Joslin, Charles Fuller and George F. Daniels, building committee, in 1871, on a lot which had formerly been a part of the Stearns DeWitt estate. The cost was $4,570.98, including land. The Ladies' Society furnished necessary fixtures at a cost of $312.61.

1 A certificate, 1 Nov., 1830, by which Abijah

signed Peter Butler, Treas. and Alex'r DeWitt, Davis was made proprietor of share 11, was Clerk.

HISTORY OF OXFORD.

1733-56

CHAPTER V.

EDUCATIONAL.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS. SELECT SCHOOLS. PASTOR'S LIBRARY. SOCIAL LIBRARY. SOCIETY LIBRARY. LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY. FARMERS' LIBRARY. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. REFERENCE LIBRARY.

Schools. The first mention in the records of a school in Oxford is 1 Oct., 1733, 20 years after the settlement, when the town instructed the selectmen to hire a schoolmaster, from which we infer that the village then contained at least 50 families, the law of 1692 requiring every town of that number to " constantly provide a schoolmaster." We have no knowledge of the incumbent previous to 1740. At that date the selectmen hired Richard Rogers, previously of Worcester, at a salary of 60 pounds per annum.1 Mr. Rogers filled his office for about 20 years. In 1751 a house was built for him, 16 by 18 feet " beside convenient room for a chimney," at a cost of £13. 6s. 8d., which he occupied until his decease. Later it was used by tenants. Its location was probably near the north common nor far from H. 179.

In 1734 £24 was voted for a school to be kept in four places in the town. In Dec., 1735, it was voted to divide the town into four parts, " for the scool to be kept at, Six weeks in each part." In 1736 £23 was raised for school and sweeping the meeting-house.

School-houses. The plan of four places for the school was soon given up, and in 1738 one central house was proposed and a vote passed to build, 14 by 20 feet with a chimney at each end, which yote was rescinded. Up to this time the school had been kept in private houses. In 1740 several meetings were held to consider the subject. On 11 June, at a meeting called at 6 o'clock in the morning, it was voted that about 20 families on Prospect Hill might build a house and draw their proportion of money for a school ; that those living between "Prospect" and "ye brook that runs between Mr. Campbell's and Joseph Rocket's" [at the north end of the Plain] might do the same, and those south of said brook might also have the same privilege, all houses to be built by subscription. In May, 1750, it was again voted that the school be kept in four places in town, two at the north and two at the south. In 1756 another change was made, and "the two houses in the north part of the town were

1 This was a sum more than double that raised by the town for this purpose. It was not until many years later that the towns were required to sustain free public schools as they now exist. Such sums were voted as were thought proper to

levy on the town at large, the selectmen were required to furnish school privileges for all, and the expense above what was paid by towns was met by parents in proportion to the number of scholars.

SCHOOLS.

1759-85

brought into one." This caused dissatisfaction, and in 1759 a com- mittee was chosen to consider the matter and feport. The result is not recorded, but it was not permanent. In March, 1760, a larger committee was elected to devise a satisfactory system, which reported : one place in the north part of the town "at the foot of the hill between Leicester and Prospect roads," and for the south part "at the two school houses."1

In 1763 the people in the northeast part of the town, now Auburn, were granted liberty for the year to lay out their proportion of the money where they should agree. In 1766 the condition of affairs being unsatisfactory to the remoter inhabitants, Edward Davis, Esq., proposed the rescinding of all former votes and the adoption of the following plan: "that liberty be granted to such as agree thereto to set up a School-house in the south part of the town near to Jonathan Fuller's on their own cost ;2 and also that there may be another house in the north part of the town in the lane eastward from Jonas Pratt's [near Town's Pond] ; also that Prospect Hill and vicinity be allowed to build a house where they may agree and draw their part of the money, except some small part towards the extra- ordinary expense of hiring a grammar-school master, to prevent the town from being liable to a fine.3 Also that all other remote parts of the town may, if they choose, draw their money from year to year, with the exception aforesaid, provided they use it for schooling." This scheme was adopted, and the next year the house on the Plain near Jonathan Fuller's was built, and also one not far from Jonas Pratt's, east of Town's Pond. But dissatisfaction still existed, and in 1768 another large committee was called to examine and report, which recommended that a school should be kept in the house on the six-rod road east of Jonathan Fuller's, one in the house on Jonas Pratt's land, one on Prospect Hill, one northwest from Asa Conant's [now Taft's mill, North Oxford], and one near Abial Lamb's [present almshouse], "in case the inhabitants in the several divisions are at the charge of building houses." This plan seems to have been satisfactory, at least for several years. In Jan., 1775, Jeremiah Shumway, Joseph Hudson and others on the hill northeast were set off to have a school by themselves. In 1782 Edward Davis and others in the east part of the town were set off in like manner, and Ebenezer Humphrey, Joseph Hurd and others, their neighbors, were set to Mayo district, Fort Hill.

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History of the town of Oxford, Massachusetts with genealogies and notes on persons and estates, Part 12

Author: Daniels, George Fisher, 1820-1897 Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Oxford : Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town Number of Pages: 916

Author: Daniels, George Fisher, 1820-1897
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Oxford : Pub. by the author with the cooperation of the town
Number of Pages: 916