Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 31

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818

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(VI) John Calvin, second son of Leander : and Maria J. H. (Wingate) Stevens, was born in Boston, October 8, 1855, and was taken by his parents when two years old to Portland, where he has since spent his life, except a year and a half in Boston. He re- ceived his early education in the Portland schools, and graduated from the Portland high school in June, 1873. In the fall of the same year he entered the office of Francis H. Fas- sett, architect, in Portland, remaining in this connection until 1880, when he was admitted to partnership with his employer, the firm taking the name of Fassett & Stevens. A branch office was opened in Boston, of which Mr. Stevens took charge and there remained · eighteen months. While there he won, in com- petition with other architects, the award for a design of the Hotel Pemberton, afterward built at Windmill Point, Hull, in Boston har- bor. Returning to Portland in the latter part of 1881, he continued with Mr. Fassett until the spring of 1884, when he opened an inde- pendent office in the First National Bank building, where he remained until his removal to his present office in the Oxford building. In 1888 he took in a partner, A. W. Cobb, of Boston, but this relation was soon dissolved, and he continued alone until 1906, when his son, John Howard Stevens, was admitted as : an associate in the business. The firm of

Stevens & Cobb published a book, "Examples of American Domestic Architecture," which has received much commendation from the members of the architectural profession and the general public. Among prominent build- ings designed by Mr. Stevens, which are men- tioned here as conveying some estimate of the character and extent of his work, are: The exterior of the Brown block on Congress street, designed while in partnership with F. H. Fassett; the remodeling of the Union Mu- tual Life Insurance building for the Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company ; the Oxford build- ing on Middle street; the Eye and Ear In- firmary, New Surgery building, at the Maine General Hospital; the rebuilding of State Street Church; Maine Medical School build- ing ; Portland Athletic Club building; North- eastern Telephone building ; many of the finest residences in Portland and a large number of the best summer residences about Portland, such as those of James Hopkins Smith and Henry St. John Smith. A great deal of his work has been out of town, scattered through the state, including the fine residence of Judge Powers in Houlton ; the residence of Governor John F. Hill in Augusta; nearly all the re- cent buildings at the Soldiers' Home at To- gus; the fine residence of F. E. Boston in Gardiner ; the Academy building in Houlton; . the Academy and Dormitory at Hebron; the Maine State Sanatorium for Pulmonary Dis- eases, Hebron; many of the smaller Baptist churches throughout the state; the dining-room wing of the Poland Spring Hotel; the hotel at Belgrade; the Checkley House at Prout's Neck; many summer residences at Prout's Neck and Kennebunkport ; the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital at Bangor ; residences at Bar Harbor and Hancock Point; numerous pieces of work outside the state, including houses in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and New Castle, In- diana; a Baptist church in Colorado ; several fine residences in Boston; Library building at Rumford Falls; Library building at Houlton ; remodelling and fire-proofing of the south wing of the State House at Augusta. The firm is now building the Municipal building at Skowhegan, and are carrying on extensive remodelling at the Soldiers' Home at Hamp- ton, Virginia, involving the expenditure of more than five hundred thousand dollars, and has been selected associate architects with Carrere & Hastings, of New York, for the new City Hall at Portland. In the summer of 1892 Mr. Stevens, with F. A. Elwell, of the Portland Transcript, organized an architectu- ral sketching tour on bicycles through north-

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ern and central France, which was very suc- cessful. The party included twenty-three members, and traveled over a thousand miles awheel, visiting many picturesque towns lying off the route of the ordinary tourist.

Mr. Stevens is a fellow of the American In- stitute of Architects, and has served upon its board of directors ; is a member of the Boston Society of Architects; a member of the Ar- chitectural League of New York ; member of the Portland Art Society, of which he was president in 1895, and has served upon its executive committee since its organization ; member of the Maine Charitable Mechanics' Association, serving as president in 1890-91 ; member of the Portland Athletic Club, of which he was third vice-president in 1894-95 and president in 1900; was a member of the Portland Wheel Club, was president of the or- ganization in 1888-89. and was at that time chief consul of the Maine division of the League of American Wheelmen. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, and an honorary mem- ber of the Portland Yacht Club. He is a prominent Mason, being a member of An- cient Landmark Lodge, Mount Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Portland Council of Royal and Select Masters, Portland Com- mandery of Knights Templar, and Maine Con- sistory of the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. He is also a member of Maine Lodge of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and in 1890 was a member of Portland city council from ward seven.

John Calvin Stevens married, in Portland, December 25, 1877, Martha Louise Waldron, born in Buckfield, Maine, daughter of Howard D. and Caroline (Baker) Waldron. Chil- dren : John Howard, married, September I, 1903, Agnes McFadden, of Portland, Maine; Caroline Maria, Margaret Louise, Dorothy Wingate.

"The English family of Win- WINGATE gate is of great antiquity. It had existed for several gen- erations previous to the settlement of the fam- ily at Sharpenhoe, in the parish of Streatty, in County Bedford. The manor of the family, in the parish of Ellesborough, in Bucking- hamshire, in early days called Wyngate's, is now known by the name of Grove." Win- gate was used as a surname in South England and Scotland prior to 1200, but a writer states that the first known of the family was a cer- tain "Hemyng de Wingate," that is, Hemyng of Wyngate, who was lord of that manor

about the reign of King Henry II, 1154-1189. From him are descended eleven generations of Wingates, but no connection between the Eng- lish and the American Wingates can be traced. That the Wingates of America were like their British relations, worthy people, is known from the fact that the name Wingate occurs with frequency and dignity in the history of the early colonial enterprises in America. The latitude in the spelling of the name was as great in this case as in the average of instances in colonial times.

(I) John Wingate, immigrant, was born in England and came to New Hampshire with- out a family. All the members of the Win- gate family now in this country can be traced back to this one immigrant. John Wingate was a planter at Hilton's Point, now Dover, as early as 1658. Few facts are known of him, but enough to indicate a good standing among his fellow men for probity, energy and success in life. He was "received inhabe- tant of Dover 18, 4 mO. 1660," but this must refer to citizenship and not to settlement, as he had received land of the town II, II, 1659, when twenty acres were given him "at the head of Thomas Laytons twenty acker lott on the west side of the back River that joyneth to . Elder Nutter's 20 acker lott." It seems that on John Wingate's first coming to Dover he was in the service of Thomas Layton; so it would appear from a record in Dover's oldest town book, that states that there was con- veyed to him by the selectmen 23, 10, 1658, a lot of twenty acres on the west side of Back river, "at the head of the twenty acker loet given unto the afoersayed John Wingett by his . master, Thomas Layton, decesd." The rec- ords show that John had other lands also : whereas "John Wingett has tenn acres of land granted him by the inhabetants of Dover Necke" between little John's creek and Ralph Twambley's lot. It was laid out 3, 3. 1669. He soon made his homestead on Dover Neck, where a beautiful farm of nearly one hundred acres very near the city of Dover has always been in the possession of the Wingate family, having been handed down in uninterrupted descent to the sixth generation, almost two hundred and fifty years. John Wingate paid attention to his own affairs and prospered, and became one of the principal land-holders of Dover ; but he was sometimes in the public service, and was grand juror and selectman in the years 1674-86-87, being chairman the lat- ter year. He was in active military service in 1675, the year which King Phillip's war broke out. John Wingate died December 9,

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1687. His will, made in the spring of 1684, was proved before Judge Barefoot, March 23, 1688. He married (first) Mary Nutter, daughter of Hateville Nutter (See Nutter I). He married (second) about 1676, Sarah, widow of Thomas Canny, whose maiden name was Taylor; she was a daughter of Anthony Taylor, who died November 4, 1687, aged eighty years, and who came to Hampton prob- ably in the summer of 1640; Philippa, his wife, died September 20, 1683. John Wingate had five children by his last wife. The list in full is: Anne, John, Caleb, Moses, Mary, Joshua and Abigail.

(II) John (2), eldest son of John (1) and Mary (Nutter) Wingate, was born in Dover Neck, July 13, 1670, and died in 1715. He inherited the paternal homestead and lived upon it all his life. He was prominent in military affairs. When a little under fifty years of age he commanded a company in the expedition against Port Royal, but whether the first or second expedition is not certain. The records for the province for April 19, 17II, show that "Captain John Wingett was al- lowed 249 pounds 5 shillings 9 pence for the muster roll of the company under his com- mand upon an expedition to Port Royal," and for November 19, 1712, they show that he was allowed 13 pounds 9 shillings, 7 pence, for muster roll. His will, made December 28, 1714, was probated in 1715. He gave to his sons, Moses and Samuel, "All that hundred acres of land which I had of my grandfather Nutter, lying neare Mr. Reyner's farme." The son Edmund, thirty acres granted to him by the town "in Barbadoes Woods." To wife Ann, and eldest son John, the dwelling-house, farm, orchards, etc., and Marsh flats; "my part of a saw-mill at Tole End," to enable them to bring up my small children, also live stock, household goods, ready money, debts and so forth. 'To his daughters five pounds each. Of the wife of John we know only her Christian name, which was Ann. She mar- ried (second) December, 1725, Captain John Heard. The twelve children of John and Ann Wingate were: Mary, John, Ann, Sarah, Moses, Samuel, Edmond, Abagail, Elizabeth, Mehitable, Joanna, Simon, whose sketch fol- lows.

(III) Simon, twelfth and youngest child of John (2) and Ann Wingate, was born at Dover Neck, September 2, 1713. He moved to Biddeford, Maine, was admitted to the first church of that town October 17, 1742, and became a deacon. He married Lydia Hill, daughter of Ebenezer and Abiel (Snell) Hill.

She was admitted to the first church, Novem- ber 25, 1744. It is probable that she married a second time, September 29, 1774, Captain Daniel Stover. Simon and Lydia had twelve children : Anna, Elizabeth, Hannah, Snell, Simon, John,, Lydia, Edmund, - -, Lucy, Sarah and Susanna.

(IV) Snell, eldest son of Simon and Lydia (Hill) Wingate, was baptized February 3, 1744. He settled in that part of Buxton now Buxton Centre, and lived and died in a house which he probably built on lot 12, range D, of the third division. He was selectman eleven years. He married (first) December 1, 1768, Margaret Emery, of Biddeford, who died No- vember 29, 1783; (second) June, 1788, Me- hitable Crocker, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, widow of Elijah Crocker, a sea captain, and sister of Solicitor-General Daniel Davis. Snell Wingate had five children by his first wife and six by his second wife, as follows: Molly, Samuel, Daniel, Abigail, Simon, Robert Davis, Elijah Crocker, Snell, Ansel, Margaret Em- ery, John, next mentioned.

(V) John (3), youngest child of Snell and Mehitable (Crocker) Wingate, was born April 28, 1788, and died in 1859. He resided in Gorham. He was married (first) January 22, 1821, to Salome Small, of Buxton, who was born December 10, 1802; (second) September 22, 1829, Widow Sophia Frost, who was born September 5, 1799. He had by his first wife three children and by the second wife eight : Ansel D., Sarah P., Maria J. H., Rebecca I., Salome S., Henry F., James I. (died young), James I., Mary G., Ellen I. and John P.

(VI) Maria J. H., third child of John (3) and Salome (Small) Wingate, was born No- vember 7, 1825, and married, November 3, 1848, Leander Stevens (see Stevens V).

REYNOLDS

It is generally supposed that the names Runnels

and Reynolds have a com- mon origin; and many branches of the fam- ily with the former spelling have changed it to the latter under the impression that Run- nells is but a corruption of Reynolds. As- suming that the patronymics are identical, no less than forty-nine different orthographies have been found in written records. Some of the most noticeable are Runals, Renels, Ronals, . Runils, Renold, Runolds, Renls, Roynalds, Ronels, Reinolds. Add to these the variations that may come from doubling the middle let- ters n and 1, and it will be readily seen that a multiplicity of forms will result.

Rev. Moses T. Runnels, for some time pas-

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tor of the Congregational church at Sanborn- ton, New Hampshire, is inclined to favor an independent origin of the two principal forms, Runnels and Reynolds. He has devoted much time to genealogical research, and thinks that Runnels is of Scotch origin, and that Reynolds is English and Irish. Reynolds is generally admitted to have been derived from the old German Reginald, or, possibly, the old Nor- wegian Ronald, while Runnels is thought to have been taken literally from the Scotch term, runnel, meaning a small brook or rivu- let. The only coat-of-arms that has been found has for its principal features : "A plate charged with a rose, gules, barbed and seeded, between two fleurs d lys, or. Crest, a fox pas- sant, or, holding in its mouth a rose, as in the arms, slipped and leaved, vert. Motto: Mu- rus Aheneus Esto (Let him be a wall of brass). Underneath is the word Runnells, and on the back of the document is the state- ment : "The family of Runnells is originally from the town of Biddeford, in the County of Devon. These are five descents in Sir Will- iam Seager's visitation in 1619." Notwith- standing this bit of heraldric testimony, Rev. M. T. Runnels stoutly maintains the Scotch origin of the Runnels name; and perhaps the armorial bearings, if they prove anything, merely emphasize the inextricable confusion of the two families Runnels and Reynolds.

Scarcely any name is more numerously rep- resented among the early settlers of this coun- try. Savage's Genealogical Dictionary men- tions no less than twenty-two as being heads of families in New England prior to 1690, most of whom wrote themselves Reynolds, Renold or Renolds. These were Richard, "passenger 1634"; John, Watertown, 1634; Robert, Watertown, 1635; William, Duxbury, 1636; William, Providence, 1637; William, Salem, 1640; Henry, Salem, 1642; James, Plymouth, 1643; John, Isles of Shoals, 1647; Nathaniel, Boston, 1657; John, Norwich, Con- necticut, 1659; John, Weymouth, 1660; Thom- as, New London, 1664; John, Weathersfield, 1667; Jonathan, Stamford, 1667; Robert, Bos- ton, 1670; John, Josiah and Samuel, Wick- ford, 1674; John, Providence, 1676; Francis and Henry, Kingston, Rhode Island, 1686.

(I) Robert Reynolds, the first American ancestor of the following line, was born in England about the end of the sixteenth cen- tury, but the exact date and place are un- known. He died in Boston, April 27, 1659. He is known to have been located in that town as early as 1632, and he was mentioned as a "shoemaker and freeman, September 3,

1634." Soon after he moved to the neighbor- ing village of Watertown, and finally migrated with his brother John to Weathersfield, Con- necticut, being dismissed by the church, March 29, 1636, to form a church at Weathersfield. He soon returned to Boston, however, and there spent the remainder of his life. His wife's first name was Mary, and she died Jan- uary 18, 1663. There were five children, all born in England: Nathaniel, whose sketch follows; Ruth, married John Whitney; Tabi- tha, married Matthew Abdy; Sarah, married Mason; Mary, married Richard San- ger, or Sawyer.

(II) Nathaniel, only son of Robert and Mary Reynolds, was born in England, prob- ably about 1620, and died at Bristol, Rhode Island, July 10, 1708. When a child he came to this country with his people, and lived in Boston or its neighborhood until 1680, when he moved to Bristol, where he spent the last twenty-eight years of his life. He was a shoe- maker and became a freeman in 1665. In a record dated Chelmsford, February 25, 1676, he was called Captain Nathaniel Reynolds, probably for service in King Philip's war. He was recognized in the first town meeting at Bristol, "and became one of the principal men of that town." He was twice married and had eleven children in all, three by. the first and eight by the second wife. On November 30, 1657, Captain Nathaniel Reynolds was united in marriage by Governor John Endi- cott to Sarah, daughter of John Dwight, of Dedham. She died July 8, 1663, leaving three children : Sarah, born July 26, 1659, married John Fosdick; Mary, November 20, 1660, died January 28, 1663, aged two years and two months, and Nathaniel (2), whose sketch fol- lows. Before February 21, 1666, Captain Nathaniel Reynolds married his second wife, Priscilla Brackett, daughter of Peter Brackett, "a well-to-do tradesman of Boston." There were eight children by this marriage: John, August 4, 1668, died in his eighty-ninth year, without direct heirs; Peter, January 26, 1670; Philip, September 15, 1672, died previously to 1706; Joseph, January 9, 1677, lived to be eighty-two years of age; Hannah, January 15, 1682, married Samuel Rayall: Mary, 1684. married Nathaniel Woodbury ; Benjamin, May IO, 1686; Ruth, December 9, 1688, married Josiah Cary.

(III) Nathaniel (2), only son of Captain Nathaniel ( I) and his first wife, Sarah (Dwight) Reynolds, was born March 3, 1662- 63, probably in the neighborhood of Boston, and died October 29, 1719, probably at Bristol,

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Rhode Island. His wife's name is said to have been Ruth, and it is thought that there were seven children, of whom the names of two only are recorded: Nathaniel (3), whose sketch follows; John, born March 29, 1606.

(IV) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathaniel (2) and Ruth Reynolds, was born September II, 1689, probably at Bristol, Rhode Island, and died in Boston in 1740. He came from Bristol to Boston in 1735, and owned a store there. In 1712 Nathaniel (3) Reynolds married Mary Snell, and they had two sons ; Nathaniel, born 1716-17, and Thomas, mentioned below. After the early death of Nathaniel (3) Rey- nolds his widow moved to North Bridgewater, Massachusetts, taking her two sons with her. (V) Thomas, younger of the two sons of Nathaniel (3) and Mary (Snell) Reynolds, was born March 19, 1718, probably at Bristol, Rhode Island, and died in 1775, probably at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. On November 3, 1748, Thomas Reynolds married Elizabeth Turner, and raised up a family of eight chil- dren, probably at North Bridgewater: Amy, born October 29, 1749, died May 9, 1752; Jo- seph, whose sketch follows: Amy, February 25, 1753, married Silas Dunbar ; Elizabeth, June 22, 1755; Susanna, April 24, 1757, mar- ried Oliver Howard; Martha, March 23, 1759, married Parmenas Packard; Thomas, January 27, 1762, married Tabitha Thayer, 1785; Josiah, July 1, 1766, married a Phillips and moved to Vermont.

(VI) Joseph, elder son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Turner) Reynolds, was born June 22, 1751, at North Bridgewater, Massachu- setts, but the date of his death is unknown, though it probably occurred in Maine, where he moved in early life. On September 17, 1772, Joseph Reynolds married Jemima Per- kins, and they had eleven children: Ichabod, whose sketch follows; Joseph, Daniel, Simeon, Azel, Thomas, Olive, who married a Macom- ber; Amy, married a Howard; Vesta, married a Clapp; Susanna and Jemima.

(VII) Captain Ichabod, eldest son of Jo- seph and Jemima ( Perkins) Reynolds, was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, March 27, 1773, and died at Auburn, Maine, April 3, 1855. On January 21, 1796, he married at Bridgewater, Polly Brett, daughter of Isaac and Priscilla (Jackson) Brett, who was born at Bridgewater, March 1, 1777, and died at Auburn, Maine, May 19, 1866. She was seventh in descent from John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden, who are among the most famous of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims ( Alden VII). Captain Ichabod and Polly (Brett)

Reynolds moved to Minot, Maine, where they had eleven children: Otis, Ichabod (2), men- tioned below; Madison, Luke, Samuel L., Adoniram J., Polly, who married a Kinsley; Nancy, married a Bird; Betsy, married a Far- rington; Clara, married a Kinsley; Laura, married Franklin Reynolds.

(VIII) Ichabod (2), second son of Captain Ichabod (I) and Polly ( Brett) Reynolds, was born at Minot, Maine, August 7, 1804, and died at Bethel, Maine, June 26, 1867. On January 17, 1831, he married Laura Ann Woodman, daughter of Jacob Woodman, who was born at Minot, Maine, December 4, 1810, and died at Holyoke, Massachusetts, May 13, 1881. They had three children : Roscoe Clin- ton, whose sketch follows: Franklin O., of Michigan ; Julia E., married E. M. Bartlett, a minister, with charge at Brandon, Vermont.

(IX) Roscoe Clinton, son of Ichabod (2) and Laura A. (Woodman) Reynolds, was born at Windsor, Maine, February 24, 1838. He was educated in the public schools of Lewis- ton and at Lewiston Falls Academy. In 1854, Michigan ; Julia E., married E. M. Bartlett, a at the age of sixteen, he learned the machin- ist's trade, and in 1857 became master me- chanic at Bates Mills, Lewiston, where he re- mained for thirteen years. He went from there to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he filled a similar position in the Everett Mills for five years. Returning to Lewiston, he be- came agent of the Lewiston Machine Com- pany, which position he held for twenty-four years. In 1900 he retired from active busi- ness, to enjoy a well-earned leisure. Mr. Reynolds is a Democrat in politics, and has taken as active a part in city affairs as busi- ness interests would allow. In 1870-71-78 he was a member of the common council, and in 1883 he was president of that body. In 1885 he was elected alderman, and in 1871 was representative to the legislature; he was city marshal in 1871. In 1895 he was made a member of the board of water commissioners, again in 1901 and again in 1907. Mr. Reyn- olds attends the Universalist church, and be- longs to the Masons, the Mystic Shriners and to the Knights Templar. On January IO, 1860, Roscoe Clinton Reynolds married Cath- erine Gilmore, daughter of John Francis and Betsey (Cushman) Gilmore, who was born at Leeds, Maine, February 19, 1840. Mrs. Cath- erine (Gilmore) Reynolds is seventh in de- scent from Captain Miles Standish, of Dux- bury. (See Standish, VII.) They have one son, George F., mentioned below.

(X) George F., only child of Roscoe Clin-

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ton and Catherine (Gilmore) Reynolds, was born at Lewiston, March 28, 1865. On April 26, 1888, he married Martha L. Holland, of Lewiston. They have two children: Roscoe Clinton, born January 4, 1893, and Katherine G., March 29, 1901.

In Lancashire, England, STANDISH there stands a stately Stand- ish Hall inherited by a fam- ily which has been there since the Norman Conquest. If we may accept the history pre- served of their exploits, they were distin- guished mainly as soldiers. Under Richard II, a John Standish was knighted for hav- ing stabbed the fallen Wat Tyler after the mayor had struck him from his horse. "Stand- wich" is the spelling in Froissart, where the story is told, and he is said to have been one of the king's squires, being created knight ap- parently on that very day, and being sent as one of three to parley with the rioters at Smithfield, near London. Sir Ralph Standish fought at Agincourt under Henry V in the wars against France. Sixty-seven years later Alexander Standish was knighted for bravery in Scotland. Still later, Ralph Standish mar- ried the daughter of the Duke of Norfolk, and lost his estate for rebellion against the Crown in supporting the Pretender.

There were two branches of the Standish family, one living at Standish Hall, the other at Duxbury Hall. At the Reformation the two separated, the Standish Hall family re- maining Romanists, while the Duxbury branch became Protestants. It is believed that Myles Standish, the great Puritan cap- tain, belonged to the Protestant branch, since he named his home in America Duxbury. Yet in his will he says that he is a great-grandson of a younger brother from the house of Stand- ish, and he bequeaths the title to these vast estates to his eldest son. The rent-roll of these lands is half a million yearly, and to defeat the claim of his line, it is supposed that the page containing the parish record of his birth was fraudulently defaced.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume III, Part 31

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe Publication date: 1909 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 818

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 818