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ALBERT B. PAYSON, born at Brooks, Maine, married first Inez M. Forbes, September 20, 1902, who died February 9, 1918. Married sec- ond, Marie York Goodwin, June 1, 1919. Educated in the public schools of Brooks, Eastern State Normal School at Castine, Maine, Eastern Conference Seminary at Bucksport, Maine. Engaged in teach- ing for several years. Former principal of Brooks High School, first driver of Route No. 1 Rural Free Delivery, engaged in the buying of potatoes, apples and hay for several years, general merchandise store, having purchased the business formerly conducted by Young and Cox and later selling to Williams Bros., Deputy sheriff for several years and now engaged in real estate, insurance and hotel business, Repub- lican in Politics, Congregationalist, Member Masons, Grange, Knights. of Pythias.
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1795 Land surveyed by Jonothan Maynard and John Gleason.
1796 Governor Brooks as Inspector of Revenue for the territory, now of Brooks.
1797 Notices posted-"Settlers Wanted."
1798 Joseph Roberts, Jr. and others arrange for an agreement.
1799 Joseph Roberts, Jr. as settler.
1800 Jonathan Roberts, trader at Buckfield, moves to Brooks.
1801 Quits Claim Deed from Jonathan Roberts to Israel Thorndike.
1802 William Kimball, chairman for Robert Houston, surveying for General Knox, reported wounded by citizens of Brooks.
1803 Notices posted warning settlers that rental must be paid. Notic- es taken down by settlers.
1804 Benjamin Roberts, first white child born in Brooks. Many set- tlers come to Brooks.
1805 List of settlers as reported by Robert Huston living in Washing- ton Plantation, now Brooks.
1806 More settlers come.
1807 Proprietors arrange for new agreement with settlers.
1808 A very hard winter for the settlers of Washington Plantation, now Brooks.
1809 Dr. Jacob Roberts first doctor in Brooks. Mrs. Fogg brings first set of crockery to Brooks.
1810 October 14, Joseph Roberts, Jr. sold 100 acres to Israel Thorn- dike for $500. Joseph D'avis moved to Brooks from the Town of Standish.
1811 Phineas Ashman deeds lot of land to Benjamin Cilley.
1812 Daniel J. Hamilton and Gilman Roberts enter the service of the War of 1812.
1813 More settlers arrive.
1814 Daniel Webster visits Brooks.
1815 Inhabitants held meeting in regard to petition in the Massachu- setts Legislature to be incorporated as a town.
1816 Incorporation of the Town of Brooks; first board of Selectmen- Phineas Ashman, Luther Fogg, and Jonathan Roberts. Mar- garet Maria (Nesmith) Huxford appointed to assess the first tax assessed in the town of Brooks, and continued to render this service for many years.
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1817 Annie Almy, of Providence, R. I., member of the Friends' Church, visits Brooks.
1818 Freewill Baptists active in Brooks. Governor John Brooks vis- its town.
1819 Postoffice established at Brooks.
Mar. 21. We the selectmen of Brooks have this day examined the account of Wm. Huxford when Treas. of Brooks and found him indebted to the Town $17.80 for which we have received his note payable to the Treas. on demand in full.
Jos. Freeman, Abner Ham, Thos. R. Lane, Selectmen of Brooks.
Mar. 21. I have this day settled with the Selectmen of Brooks for the amount when I was Treas. of Brooks.
Wm. Huxford.
1820 Samuel Whitney, delegate to constitutional convention. Maine becomes a state of the Union. Phineas Ashman becomes Trial Justice for Hancock County.
1821 John P. Pilley moved here from Turner, Androscoggin County.
1822 Application for license to sell intoxicating liquors withdrawn.
1823 Annex part of Monroe to Brooks.
1824 Dr. James Cochrane located in Brooks.
1825 Rev. Henry White ordained Minister of the Brooks Congrega- tional Church.
1826 Friends' Church nearly completed.
1827 Rev. Cayneus Palfrey, D. D., came to Brooks.
1828 Joseph Freeman and Alfred Whiting, Coroners.
1829 Rev. Abel Gates Duncan, Congregational Minister came to Brooks and remained until 1834.
1830 Robert Lambert elected to the Legislature from Brooks.
1831 Dr. Noah Gilman appointed surgeon of the Brooks Militia, July 11.
1832 Thomas Sawyer, Jr. elected to the Legislature from Brooks.
1833 Francis M. Forbes born November 1, 1833.
1834 Two illiterate Mormons came to Brooks.
1835 Joseph Roberts, School teacher; Elder Wiswell, Dr. Ezra Man- ter and Mr. Wingate, members of school committee. Luther, son of Elder Wingate, town devil. Wellington Roberts finished the term of school. Mr. Wingate was not reelected.
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1836 Town records destroyed by fire. Loren Rose moved here from the town of Green. Union Church built; first pastor, Luther Wiswell. Fire destroyed Seth Brown's store, occupied by Mr. Potter.
1837 Leonard Rowe conveys a parcel of land to George Fogg, clerk of school district, November 6.
1838 Public watering tub located at Brooks Corner.
1839 James S. Huxford, and Lieutenant Andrew D. Bean enter the Aroostook War. February 20, 1839. Timothy Roberts sold to Gilman Roberts Pew No. 31 at Brooks Meeting House, price, $56.00. November 11, 1839, Nathan Roberts bought from Jus- tin Roberts, one pig, weight 90 pounds, at 5 cts. per pound, $4.50.
1840 A survey for a railroad by Mr. Butters of Lowell, Massachusetts. At this time a branch was to extend from Frankfort to Brooks.
1841 A part of the town of Brooks annexed to the town of Swanville, Maine.
1842 Company B. Lt. Infantry 3rd Regiment, 2d Brig. 3 Division, disbanded by order of Counsel, June 30, 1842.
1843 Phineas Ashman retired as Post Master, August 8.
1844 A part of the town of Brooks annexed to the town of Monroe, Maine.
1845 Not a gold watch owned in Brooks.
1846 Andrew D. Bean enters the Mexican War.
1847 Woodbury Davis admitted to the Waldo County Bar.
1848 Brooks pays a County tax of $145.36.
1849 Almond S. Fobes conveys a parcel of land to School District No. 4.
1850 Dr. Joseph Henry Barrows locates in Brooks.
1851 Louisa Knight, Caroline Richardson, Mary J. Wakefield, Emma Rand, Diana L. Clary conveys a lot of land to School District No. 2. Postoffice established at South Brooks.
1852 Perambulation of town line between Brooks and Monroe.
1853 Town voted to hold meetings half of the time at Brooks Village and half at Winslow Austin's house in South Brooks.
1854 Dr. John Milton Mussey locates in Brooks.
1855 Voted that the widow Manter have the privilege of working out her tax for 1855.
1856 Isaac S. Staples who made the first jumper sleigh so-called, lo- cated in Brooks. Dr. Charles D. Woods born in Brooks, Maine, September 11. Alfred J. Roberts, town agent for sale of spir- itous liquors.
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1857 March 2, voted that every man be put under oath when select- men are taking valuation of property.
1858 James O. Nesmith reelected town clerk. Served as town treas- urer 1856-1870.
1859 Voted to hold town meetings at Brooks Village, and September elections at South Brooks.
1860 Dr. James D. Watson locates in the town of Brooks.
1861 Captain Bean opens a Recruiting Station to enter soldiers for the Civil War. Voted to pay $20 bounty to all volunteers of the first quota mustered into the service of the U. S., and who had not received their money heretofore. Voted to hire money.
1862 Dr. James D. Watson entered the service of the Civil War, Dec- ember 22, as assistant surgeon.
1863 August 8, voted to pay each soldier or substitute the sum of $100. when mustered into the service of the U. S., and to pay each drafted soldier $8.33 per month, or his substitute, while in the service of the United States.
1864 William C. Webb killed in the Battle of the Wilderness, May 5.
1865 James S. Huxford appointed Postmaster.
1866 Loren Rose reelected Collector of taxes. Mr. Rose served at va- rious times as collector of taxes and twelve years as Constable.
1867 Dr. Joel T. Collier locates in the town of Brooks. Inhabitants of the town of Brooks vote to subscribe for stock in the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad to the amount of $20,000.00.
1868 Jonathan Lang died April 16.
1869 James O. Nesmith died November 24.
1870 Voted to employ counsel-the best in the State-to defend the suit of the Belfast-Moosehead Lake Railroad Company.
1871 March 25, at a Town Meeting, held at School District No. 2, there were no selectmen, constables or clerk present.
1872 Voted to print Report of Town Officers of Town of Brooks, and that same be printed in Brooks. January, 1872-disastrous fire in Brooks.
1873 Assessors books show 865 sheep in the town.
1874 Brooks Cheese Factory organized.
1875 Harvest Home Grange No. 52 instituted.
1876 Dr. George Albert Libby locates in the town of Brooks.
1877 Gilman Roberts who saw service in the War of 1812 died in Brooks, May 4.
1878 John H. Gordon opens a factory for the manufactury of clothing.
1879 Travellers' Home opened by Daniel Jones.
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1880 Brooks pays a County tax of $317.40.
1881 Roberts and Sons established in Brooks, April, 1881.
1882 James S. Huxford elected town clerk. Has served as town clerk for twenty-three years at different periods.
1883 Brooks pays a county tax of $349.75
1884 Loren Rose died in Brooks.
1885 Marshall Davis died.
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George G. Davis Post, G. A. R., organized August, 1886.
1887 Dr. A. E. Kilgore locates in the town of Brooks.
1888 Dr. Alfred W. Rich of Brooks, State Senator from Waldo County.
1889 Charles E. Lane appointed Postmaster.
1890 Charles Willard Jennys, D.D.S., located in Brooks.
1891 Brooks has a population of 669. Pole 221. Estates $257,091.
1892 Andrew D. Bean died.
1893 Albert E. Kilgore appointed Postmaster. New Railroad Station erected at Brooks.
1894 Michael Chase conveys a lot of land to inhabitants of School District No. 5.
1895 Frank R. York purchases Briggs House and renames it York's Hotel.
1896 Golden Crown Lodge No. 108 Knights of Pythias instituted, February 14.
1897 Woman's Relief Corp organized; also Andrew D. Bean No. 52 Ladies of Veterans.
1898 John H. Gordon reelected moderator of the annual town meet- ing. Has served as moderator 1893-1903-1905.
1899 Nancy Rose, A. H. Rose, J. C. Rose, Phebe E. Rose, Mary A. Pilley, A. E. Kilgore, Sarah A. Edwards, A. G. Rose, Harry Kilgore conveys a lot of land to Brooks Meeting House Corp. 1900 Michael Chase, Jr., died August 4.
1901 Brooks Meeting House Corporation conveys a lot of land to Brooks Union Parish.
1902 Free High School established.
1903 Herbert J. Hamlin appointed R. F. D. carrier, Route No. 2. Wendell S. Reynolds appointed R. F. D. carrier Route No. 3. Joseph Ernest Stimson appointed R. F. D. carrier Route No. 4.
1904 Happy Valley Chapter Order of the Eastern Star No. 109 insti- tuted March 23.
1905 Marcellus J. Dow, Harry W. Littlefield and Frank H. Quimby elected selectmen of Brooks.
1906. Brooks Board of Trade organized.
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1907 William C. Austin appointed R. F. D. carrier Route No. 1.
1908 Fire destroys Brooks Corner.
1909 Albert R. Pilley reelected town treasurer of Brooks. Years of service, 1906-1910.
1910 Stanley J. Roberts reelected Road Commissioner. He served at different periods ten years as Road Commissioner.
1911 A. E. Chase and Company established at Brooks in February.
1912 Frank H. Lane appointed Postmaster.
1913 Brooks High School approved as a class A. school.
1914 Mighty Hagg Circus visits Brooks.
1915 Brooks plans new High School building.
1916 Brooks observes its 100th Anniversary. Hon. Warren G. Hard- ing, when United States Senator, and during the campaign in behalf of Charles E. Hughes, Republican nominee for President of the United States, visited Brooks in August, 1916, and spoke from the store steps of the store of Albert B. Payson. He was the only man to visit Brooks who later was elected President of the United States.
1917 Brooks enters the World War, August 23. Brooks Corner again destroyed by fire.
1918 Citizens of Brooks respond generously to the Liberty Loan drives.
1919 Crockett's Theatre destroyed by fire.
1920 Emily S. Morse, mother of Willis E. Morse, died October 22.
1921 Mrs. Charles Forbes opens a private hospital at Brooks.
1922 Waldo Trust Company of Belfast establishes a branch bank at Brooks.
1923 Salary of the Postmaster increased to $1800.00.
1924 Albert B. Payson elected moderator at the annual town meet- ing of the town of Brooks. Years of service, 1913-1924.
1925 January 9. Brooks is again visited by fire. .
1926 Brooks pays a County tax of $1,228.52.
Branch bank of Waldo Trust Company closed March 4.
1927 1928 Incorporation of the First Congregational Church of Brooks.
1929 Otis W. Lane re-elected town clerk for his forty-fifth consecu- tive year. New concrete bridge over Marsh River leading from Brooks Corner to the Railroad Station completed June, 1929. The new concrete bridge formerly known as the Lang Bridge completed October. 1929. Also new Wiggin Bridge.
August 6-The last week has been one of disasters in this vicin- ity, but nothing so serious but what it might have been worse. Dr. Kilgore has been rushed fixing up folks who have been hurt
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and the selectmen have earned their money looking into matters. With the drought and several little fires started and a big one in the Jackson bog, timid people didn't know but what the flames would sweep down upon the town. Two sets of farm buildings were burned in different parts of the town.
Lloyd Bradford fell from a hay-mow and cracked several ribs and Irvin Works broke a shoulder in a fall while getting in hay. Adonis Eastman dislocated a shoulder while "fooling" with a playmate. Mrs. E. W. Miller fell down the stairs at the pant-shop and was bruised and shaken up, and a child from Bangor fell while at play, dislocating an elbow. A car parked in front of Pilley's drug store may have thought that business was a little slack at Fernald's garage and coasted across the street to the garage, bending its mud-guard and twisting a bump- er when it hit another car, which was not hurt much.
Outside of that the serenity of the town was undisturbed. March, inhabitants of the town of Brooks vote to accept the provisions of the will of the late Willis Everett Morse for the purpose of erecting a Morse Memorial building.
1931 April 17, first material, a carload of bricks, to be used in the construction of the Morse Memorial Building arrives at Brooks. April 18, Movietone machine operated at Crockett's Theatre for the first time.
April 20, the first shovelful of earth removed in the excavation of the cellar of the Morse Memorial Building.
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THE EDWARDS FAMILY
"In the Footsteps of Our Forefathers"
By LUCIA WELLS EDWARDS EAMES July 6, 1923
The day that had been chosen for our long-dreamed-of journey prom- ised to be a brilliant one-one of unclouded skies and rare sunshine, but at noon great thunderheads gathered ominously in the west, and we boarded the train at 1.19 P. M. in a pouring rain, with the roar of the thunder in our ears. All the way lightning flashed, thunder pealed, and the driving rain so blurred the windows as nearly to obliterate the land- scape. "You're going to get wet." said the conductor, rather anxiously as we alighted, bag and baggage, at the Brooks station.
"Never mind, so long as our ardor isn't dampened," was the reply, as we staunchly set forth to find accommodations for the night.
After all, was not the shower the most fitting accompaniment pos- sible to the thoughts and feelings that were surging within us? We were returning for the first time to the home of our fathers-the birth- place of our mother, and the past just thundered its messages into our consciousness till heart and brain were flooded with a tide of tender memories.
In the late afternoon the rain ceased, and though the country roads were wet and muddy we started for the farm, a mile from the village, up the long, long hill. Indeed we knew the way, every inch of it, and yes, the same wild flowers we had heard so much about, were blooming by the wayside, and the same birds were cheering the way with song!
A ten-minutes' walk brought us to the old village schoolhouse, which we instantly knew to be the one where grandfather's nine children learned to master the three R's. A humble little building, but one in which the seed of knowledge was surely sown that ripened into wis- dom in later years.
As the town has now a fine new building for high and graded schools, this old landmark has fallen into disuse as a seat of learning, and is filled with the hum of machinery instead of the whisperings of unruly youths. The door was locked-we could not enter-and perhaps it was as well, for the present use of the place seems to us a sort of des- ecration.
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A half mile further on we found the Quaker church which, in our mother's day, was the place of worship for a numerous band of devout Quakers, gathering here regularly from miles around for an all-day service. In those days music was considered irreverent by the Quak- ers, and consequently excluded from their service, and, as they had no preacher, it was only when some worshiper was "Moved by the Spirit" that the profound silence was broken. No excitement and no religious fervor even were deemed necessary, simply to obey the injunction, “Be still, and know that I am God," was all-sufficient, was truest reverence, and sincerest piety.
This little meeting house, too, made sacred by its associations, is abandoned and the long grasses grow and the daisies bloom undis- turbed before its narrow doorway. They tell me the Quakers in this vicinity are no more, and somehow I feel that with their passing, life has lost something of its simplicity and sweetness.
As one ascends the hill the landscape broadens and glimpses are ob- tained of the distant heights that (we have been told) are such an inspiration at the ancestral farm. We are impatient to arrive, and at last the long row of neat, white buildings stands out in bold relief against the gray sky. To identify it is not difficult, having had a clear mental picture of it for so many years, and when we really set foot upon ancestral soil, "thoughts that lie too deep for tears" surge thru the mind. But why should one have this strange sense of getting home? Home, when we have never seen the place before! Is it the blood of our forefathers welling up in our hearts and giving us this sense of home-coming?
The house is closed, but sitting on the threshold of what Grandfather Edwards called his "thousand dollar doorway" and looking out upon the long line of his beloved hills I recognized a kinship never felt before.
How wisely and how well he chose when he selected this favored spot on which to clear his farm and build his home! A lovelier landscape never met the eye, the hills are so beautifully moulded and rim the horizon round, the nearer ones being dotted with fertile farms backed by dark forests, and the distant heights blue and hazy and mystical.
It was nearing sunset and the skies had not cleared, but even as we set there admiring the sober beauty of the scene, suddenly the sun came out from beneath the clouds and shot a ray of glory across the hills. Rapidly the glory spread and soon the whole range of hills en- circling the horizon was bathed in the rosy light of the setting sun. We held our breath, it was so beautiful, so spiritual!
Then, "Verily, the smile of God is on our ancestral hills. Those of our kin who first looked up to them for strength, and loved them,
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Julia Wells Edwards, his wife
Woodbury Edwards
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would wish us to see them at their very best, and their desire is grant- ed." Whatever may come in after years, this sunset hour will always be remembered as one of broadened vision, and a link with higher worlds.
THE EDWARDS FAMILY
Grandfather and Uncle Woodbury Edwards both lived on a farm about a mile from the village on what is called Jackson Street. Unele Woodbury lived on the left and Grandfather on the right, almost on the summit of the long hill. Uncle Woodbury's final homestead is now merely a blackened ruin, but the stately; elms and flowering shrubs which adorn the place have grown lovelier with the years, and are a living witness to the memory of its former owners and founders of the home. Grandfather's place has been nicely kept up, and the present owners, Barker by name, have even introduced modern improvements. Grandfather Edwards was a man of loyal principles, good morals, and sincere piety. He was one of the leading Universalists of that section and his doors were always open to the preachers of that faith. Grand- mother was a Wells, sister to Henry Wells, founder of the Wells-Fargo Express, and to Rev. Shepard Wells, founder of Wells College, Aurora, New York. Grandfather was born in Manchester, Mass., and Grand- mother also was born in Massachusetts. They were married at Brooks, Maine, April 13, 1820. In the old Edwards Family Bible I find this clipping from an old paper-'In Brooks, January 19, 1864, Mrs. Julia Wells Edwards, aged 62; October 16, 1864, Daniel Edwards, age 71. Thus a father and mother in Israel have passed away.' They lived to a good old age, reared a large family in nobility and to usefulness, and discharged their duty faithfully to the community in which they lived and passed on to the higher life in peace and heavenly trust. May those who mourn their death have the full consolation of that faith which so abundantly administered to the support and comfort of the departed during their declining years and failing strength. Grand- father himself composed the inscription for his wife's headstone. It reads as follows :- "A tender wife, a mother dear, a much lamented friend lies here; Keep, Mother Earth, the sacred trust, the Spirit's gone to join the just. When mourning friends around her stand, in weeping silence clasp the hand; the prayers ascend to God above, that we all may meet with her in love."
The Edwards family were ever industrious and commendable citi- zens in the communities in which they resided. Julia Blanchard and Lucia Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards were especially active. Julia and Elizabeth established a millinery and fancy goods business in
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Searsport which finally passed into the hands of Lucia Edwards, and she carried on the business, eliminating the millinery, to the end of her days, or within a few months of her death. She was prominent in bus- iness, active, and is best remembered for her unusually beautiful char- acter and personality. A devoted Christian, a helper and supporter of every good cause, and of every soul in need to the extent of her abil- ity. She was thought all her life one of the best beloved and most highly respected citizens of Searsport.
Daniel Edwards was born in 1793, and died in August, 1864. April. 13, 1820 he married Julia Wells Edwards, born in 1802, and who died in January, 1864. They had eleven children :-
JULIA EDWARDS, born March 31, 1821. died October 16, 1904.
HARRIET EDWARDS, born March 31, 1823, died March 7, 1824.
WM. HENRY EDWARDS, born November 13, 1824, died July 18, 1826. .
HARRIET EDWARDS, born March 26. 1827, died November 25. 1848.
ALTHEA EDWARDS, born November 18, 1829, died February 12. 1865. ELIZABETH M. EDWARDS, born May 6, 1832. died November 6, 1916. W.M. HENRY EDWARDS, born January 23, 1835. died March 16, 1893. HARVEY EDWARDS, born September 10. 1838. died January 31, 1905.
JOSEPH WOODBURY EDWARDS, born October 4, 1840, died April 14, 1900. SHEPARD D. EDWARDS, born May 13, 1846.
Julia E. first married Dr. A. C. Styles of Jackson, next Ira Blanchard of Stock- ton, Maine. Had one daughter.
Harriet E. married Russell Prentiss, a St. Louis lawyer. Had one child who died at birth.
The Daniel Edwards Homestead
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Althea E. married Hiram Crooker of Stockton, Maine. Had four children, one son and three daughters.
Elizabeth E. married John A. Eames of Swansville. He had five children, one son and four daughters.
Wm. Henry E. married Abbie -. Had one daughter.
Harvey E. married Frances Woods of Searsport. Had nine children.
Joseph E. married Lizzie Field of Searsport. Had nine children. . Lucia E., unmarried.
Shepard E., unmarried.
THE HUXFORD-NESMITH MCCLURE AND McKEEN FAMILIES
Miss Gail Treat of Greenwich, Connecticut, who has so kindly contributed the genealogical .notes in regard to the Huxford. Nesmith, McClure and MeKeen fam- ilies is the second child of the Hon. Charles Henry Treat and Frances Emily (Huxford) Treat. the grand-daughter of Harry Eells Huxford and Margaret Maria (Nesmith) Huxford.
She is recognized as a most authentic compiler of historical data. In one of her histories, President Theodore Roosevelt, as a historian, wrote her voluntarily a tribute to her accuracy, with permission to use the same as a foreword to the next editions of her publication. Miss Gail Treat is the first person upon whom the Woman's Branch of the New Jersey Historical Society ever conferred the title of "Honorary", they having voted her to be Honorary Manager for Life, of their .. Woman's Branch of that New Jersey Historical Society at Newark, New Jersey, which has a library . of 40.000 volumes-and, many years ago, was said to have the eighth largest collection of similar books in the United States.
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