History of Genesee county, Michigan. With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 97

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Everts & Abbott, Philadelphia, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Abbott
Number of Pages: 683

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22 and 23, south half of 27, whole of 26, south half of 24, north half of 25, whole of 35, south half of 34, east half and northeast quarter of 34, all in township 9 north, of range 7 east, shall constitute district No. 3."

The district organizations continued as in the foregoing until the formation of Thetford as a separate township, in 1842. Since the latter event, and especially since the for- mation of Montrose, in 1846, many changes have been made in school-district boundaries.

The amount of primary-school money apportioned to the town of Vienna and the territory at present known as Mout- rose township, in 1843, was $15.17.

The first record made regarding the granting of certifi- cates to teachers shows that Miss Nancy MeLean and Miss Melissa Pattee received certificates as qualified teachers, May 6, 1843. Miss Elizabeth V. Stone was granted a certificate July 17th of the same year.

The $15.17 before mentioned was apportioned as follows : To district No. 1, 22 scholars, $8.14; No. 2, 19 scholars, $7.03.

Other early teachers were licensed as follows: HI. P. Ferris, Dec. 11, 1843; Clarinda Dean, May 4, 1844 ; Caro- line Johnson, July 31, 1814; Martin Miller, Feb. 14, 1845 ; Darius M. Robinson, November, 1845 ; Misses Mary Aun Skinner, Sophia Wetherill, Catherine Bodine, Julia Ann Barnes, May, 1845 ; Maria A. Herrick, Thomas E. Young, December, 1845 ; Sarah Johnson, Clarissa John- son, Ezra B. Sparks, William II. Harrison, IS46 ; Caroline A. Johnson, Margaret Robinson, William T. Van Tuyl, Mary L. Rone, 1847 ; Amelia N. Fitch, Melissa Pattee, 1848.

From a report of the board of seliool inspectors for the month of May, 1847 (the first report after the separation of the township of Pewonogowink), it is found that the amount of money apportioned, and the number of schools in each district entitled to school-money, were as follows :

Amount to be apportioned.

$44.16

To District No. 1,

34 scholars ....

$10.80

" Fractional District No. 1, 35

11.11}

" District No. 2,

...

8.89!

7.63

5.72

Scholars in township,

- 139.

$14.16

In comparison with the foregoing, the following statistics, taken from the report of the school inspectors for the year cuding Sept. 2, 1878, are appended : Whole districts, G; fractional districts, 5. Children of school age in the township, 847; attending school during the year, 511; number of school-houses in township, HI ; frame houses, 11 ; seating capacity of school-houses, 737; value of school- property, $5950; graded schools, 2; male teachers em- ployed during the year, G; female teachers, IG; months taught by males, 33; months taught by females, 623 ; paid male teachers, $1252; paid female teachers, $1188; total, $2440.

SECRET BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS. VIENNA LODGE, NO. 205, F. AND A. M.

The first meeting, under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge, was held in Masonic Hall, in the village of Pine Run, Oct. 23, 1866, and the following-named officers ap-

pointed : Russell Johnson, W. M. ; Joseph Van Buskirk, S. W .; Livius Tenny, J. W .; Joseph Lonsby, Treas. ; John I. Phillips, See. ; Harmon Van Buskirk, S. D. ; David R. Ilammontree, J. D. ; William M. Rogers, Tyler.

A charter was granted Jan. 9, 1867, when the before- mentioned board of officers were elected for the ensuing year.

The office of Worthy Master has since been filled as follows : 1868, Joseph Van Buskirk ; 1869, Russell John- son ; 1870, Russell Johnson ; 1871, Harmon Van Buskirk ; 1872, Russell Johnson ; 1873, John K. Frost ; 1874, John K. Frost; 1875, Harmon Van Buskirk; 1876, Roland Franklin ; 1877, Roland Franklin ; 1878, Russell John- son ; 1879, Russell Johnson.

The officers for 1879 are as follows : Russell Johnson, W. M .; Eliphalet Hartson, S. W .; David L. Halsted, J. W. ; David R. Ilammontree, Treas. ; Harmon Van Bus- kirk, Sec .; Shannon Seott, S. D. ; Homer L. Johnson, J. D .; George C. Eccleston, Tyler.

Present membership, 77. Regular communications are held at their hall in the village of Vienna, Pine Run P. O., Tuesday evenings, ou or before the full moon.

VIENNA LODGE, NO. 191, 1. 0. 0. F.

This Lodge was instituted June 26, 1872, at Clio, Mich- igan, by acting M. W. G. M., F. II. Rankin. The follow- ing list embraces the names of the Lodge D. D. G. M.'s, N. G.'s, and secretaries, and the time served by them, from date of organization to the present :

1872 .- F. II. Rankin, D. D. G. M .; Roger Rathbone, N. G. ; W. W. Blackney, See.

1873 .- Charles L Cole, N. G .; II. D. Cole, Sec. W. W. Blackney, N. G .; J. D. Aken, Sec .; G. M. Keys, D. D. G. M.

IS74 .- Charles L. Cole, D. D. G. M .; David Strouble, N. G .; II. D. Cole, See. II. D. Cole, N. G .; C. L. Camp- bell, Sec.

1875 .- F. H. Rankin, D. D. G. M .; E. B. Sparks, N. G .; J. A. Springer, See. C. L. Campbell, N. G .; II. D. Cole. See.

1876 .- C. L. Campbell, D. D. G. M .; J. A. Springer, N. G .; Charles Berridge, Sec. Duane Osborn, N. G .; J. C. Thompson, Sec.

1877 .- L. L. Fuller, D. D. G. M. ; William White- house, N. G .; A. T. Getchell, See. Shannon Scott, N. G .; II. Van Buskirk, Sec.

1878 .- Charles L. Cole, D. D. G. M .; E. O. Knapp, N. G .; Win. M. Patterson, See. S. B. Bartholomew, N. G .; L. L. Fuller, Sec.

1879 .- J. A. Springer, D. D. G. M .; C. H. Williams, N. G .; W. A. Bates, Sec.

Regular meetings are held in their hall, now situated in the village of Pine Run, Wednesday evenings of each week. Present membership, 4-4.

AMARANTII LODGE, NO. GG, DAUGHTERS OF REBECCA, was organized Sept. 9, 1875. The principal officers to the present time are as follows :

1875 .- 11. D. Cole, N. G .; Bethany M. Sparks, V. G. ; Jennie C. Cole, Sec.

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1876 .- E. B. Sparks, N. G .; Anjenett Scott, V. G .; Jennie C. Cole, See.

1877 .- J. A. Springer, N. G. ; Martha A. Bartholomew, V. G .; Anjenett Scott, Sec.

1878 .- Martha A. Bartholomew, N. G. ; Harriet Miller, V. G .; Anjenett Scott, Sec.

1879 .- Harriet Miller, N. G .; Sarah E. Fuller, V. G. ; Aujenett Scott, See. Present membership, 36.

CLIO LODGE, NO. 1382, K. OF Il.

This Lodge was instituted Jan. 27, 1879, with twenty charter members, by E. Newkirk, D. D. G. D.

The officers are D. L. HJalsted, Dietator ; HI. Herring, Viec-Dictator; Charles Berridge, Asst. Dictator; L. L. Fuller, Past Dictator; C. B. Mann, Treas. ; Archibald D. Metz, Reporter ; S. J. Oliver, F. Reporter ; Crocker Wil- liams, Guide; Edgar Webber, Sentinel; Charles L. Can- field, Guard.

Present membership, 23. Regular meetings are held in their lodge-room, Clio village, the second and fourth Mon- day evenings in each month.

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.

As in many other localities, the Methodist Episcopal churchmen were the first to inaugurate religious meetings here. Their circuit preachers visited the settlement of Pine Run as early as 1836, usually once in four weeks, and very frequently, when the roads were impassable for horseback riding, they made the journey from Flint, Pontiac, and Saginaw on foot. That some of them were eccentric in manner, exacting, and rigid in their adherence to fixed rules, is fully proven by the following incident : Mr. D. N. Montague relates that in 1839 he attended a meeting held at the house of Corydon Fay. Due notice had been given, and a cordial invitation was extended to all in the neighbor- hood to attend. But when the audience had assembled, there were but eight persons, all told. The preacher-a Methodist divine-then arose and announced it as his rule not to preach unless nine or more were present. As the ninth listener was not forthcoming, the little gathering dis- persed, disappointed, perhaps, in their failure to hear the preached Word elucidated.

During these early years people possessed of religious convictions assembled in their respective school-houses, and listened to the reading of sermons and portions of the Bible by one of their own number. Sabbath-schools were also held during that season of the year when pupils eould attend barefooted.

In 1837 and 1838 a class in Methodism was formed in Pine Run. Among the members were Isaiah Merriman, the leader, women of the MeLean families, Theodore P. Dean, his mother and sisters, the Taylors and Van Pat- tens. But this society has been disbanded for many years, and none exists in the township at present.

Rev. Donald B. Campbell, Congregationalist, became the first resident pastor in 1858.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.

The Congregational Church of Vienna, whose house of worship is situated in Pine Run, was organized in the early

part of the year 1845 by Rev. Orson Parker, an evan- gelist, and a resident of Burton township in this county. The original members were 22 in number, and George W. Huyck and George Sparks were chosen the first deacons. For a number of years the society had no preachers of its own denomination, although meetings were held nearly every Sabbath in the school-house, where circuit preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church spoke, or a sermon was read by some one of the menibers.

The first stated supply was Rev. E. T. Branch, who preached here part of the time during the years 1852 and 1853. Revs. A. B. Pratt and McDowell also were here before the completion of the church edifice in 1856. The church was dedicated June 18, 1856, the dedicatory ser- mon being preached by Rev. Herbert Read, of the Ameri- can Home Mission Society.

From May, 1858, until April, 1861, Rev. D. B. Camp- bell was the pastor. He was followed by Rev. Jonas Den- ton, who administered to the spiritual wants of the society for the period of two years. Edwin Booth, a lieentiate from Oberlin, Ohio, was here a few months in the winter of 1864-65. In May, 1865, Rev. W. F. Rose came, and remained until October, 1867. Those who succeeded him were Rev. E. W. Borden, who came in July, 1868, re- mained one year; Rev. W. I. Hunt, 1871; Rev. J. C. Thompson, June, 1874; Rev. M. Caldwell, 1875; Rev. Jared Warner, the last pastor of this society, preached one year, elosing his labors in September, 1877. On the 12th of November, 1877, the society voted to give each of its members letters of recommendation to unite with the Union Congregational Church of Vienna, and the old or- ganization was then disbanded.

There is no definite record preserved of those who were received into the church from its first organization until the year 1859. From the latter date until its disband- ment in 1877, 65 were admitted.

In August, 1967, the Clio Congregational Society was organized and duly incorporated. The first board of trus- tees was composed of James L. Curry, Joseph Van Bus- kirk, Austin Griffes, Hiram Benjamin, and William II. Dunn.

This society went forward and erected the present church edifice in Clio, and continued as an independent church until the consolidation of the Vienna and Clio Congrega- tional Churches as the Union Congregational Society in 1877.

The pastors of the independent Clio Church were Revs. E. W. Borden, for two years from April 1, 1868; Ward 1. Hunt, for two years from Nov. 1, 1871; William E. Cald- well, two years from Aug. 29, 1874; and J. Halliday, one ycar from Dec. 1, 1876.

Dec. 10, 1877, the Union Congregational Society of Vienua was formed by the consolidation of the Pine Run and Clio societies. The union organization began an exist- enee with 45 members,-16 males and 29 females, the males as follows: Seth N. Beden, Charles Montagne, Daniel N. Montague, II. Hurd, Ezra B. Sparks, A. F. Nichols, J. B. Garland, Sr., Charles L. Cole, Sawyer Hurd, James A. Sheldon, C. C. Rice, J. F. Loomis, Stephen Griswold, Sher- burne Green, Milton B. Stage, and C. B. Mann. The fol-

JAMES L. CURRY.

MRS. JAMES L. CURRY.

RESIDENCE OF JAMES L. CURRY, CLIO, MICH .

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lowing board of officers was then chosen : Daniel N. Mon- tagne, President ; Seth N. Beden, Secretary ; James A. Sheldon, Treasurer ; Sawyer Hurd, M. B. Stage, Sherburne Green, Ezra B. Sparks, A. F. Nichols, and Charles Mon- tague, Trustees.

Rev. John P. Sanderson became pastor of this society Dec. 30, 1877, and still continues in the discharge of his ministerial labor here. Services are held alternately at Clio and Pine Run. Flourishing Sunday-schools also exist at both places, their superintendents being Rev. J. P. Sander- son at Clio, and A. F. Nichols at Pine Run. Present men- bership of society, 60.

THIE CHRISTIAN CIIURCII OF VIENNA.

This church was organized about the year 1864 by the Rev. Alanson Wilcox. The first series of meetings were held in the church edifice of the Congregational society in Pine Run; afterwards in the Pine Run village school-house until 1867, when their own house of worship was erected in the same village at a cost of $2000. It has sittings for about 300 people.

Among the first members of this society were David Ilavens and wife, S. Gross and wife, William Canfield and wife, Philander Taylor and wife, John Taylor, Isaac An- drews and wife, Benjamin Drudge and wife, George C. Eccleston and wife, Philip Devoe and wife, David R. Ham- montree and wife, William Whitehouse, David Franklin and wife, Mr. Hewpsted and wife, Mr. Sherrick and wife, and others, enough to make 92 members in all. Revs. Smedmor, S. J. Smith, Efias Sias, Edwards, and Cornick have at various periods assumed the pastorate of this church. The pulpit is supplied at the present time by elders of the society. Present membership, 40. William Underhill, superintendent of Sunday-school.

A Protestant Methodist Church exists at Clio, and a Free Methodist Church at Farrandville, but no data have been obtained, although the same were respectfully requested from official members of both organizations.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

JAMES L. CURRY,

a resident of Clio, was born in Enfield, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Dec. 30, 1825. In 1847 he settled in Huron Co., Ohio, stopping in New Haven and Greenwich, engaged in selling merchandise, and from 1853 to 1856 he lived at Clyde and Kenton, engaged on the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad. From 1856 to 1860 he resided in Mason Co., Il., engaged in farming, and in grading two miles of the Illinois River Railroad. In the spring of 1860 he re- moved to Tontogany, Wood Co., Ohio, and engaged in the drug business, which he sold out to enter the army. In August, 1851, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in Company 11, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after the battle of Stone River was commissioned captain of Company A. Ile was with his regiment in all its campaigns in the Army of the Cumberland, until Angust, 1863, when he was

detailed for duty as provost-marshal at Cowan, Tenn. In December he joined his regiment, and commanded it at Chattanooga until March, 1864, when, on his return from recruiting service with his regiment, which had re-eulisted, he was stricken with disease, from which he never fully recovered. After a few months spent in hospital and on court-martial duty at Chattanooga, he rejoined his regiment, in front of Atlanta. In August, 1864, was mustered out at Lick Skillet, Ga.

In 1865 he went to Clio, Mich., whither he moved his family in the summer of 1866. During his residence at Clio he has been engaged in lumbering, as one of the firm of Campbell, Curry & Co. at Arbela as Curry & Brown, and at Midland as Curry & Merrick, at each of the places named owning mills. ITe was also one of the firm of Jennings, HIalsted & Co., merchants, at Clio, whom he succeeded in business. In 1874, having lost several thou- sand dollars by parties in Toledo, and a valuable mill at Midland by fire, he retired from lumbering and turned his attention to farming and the duties of a justice of the peace. In 1868 he was elected to the Legislature, and in 1872 to the State Senate, but in 1874 declined a renomina- tion, on account of business cares.

In 1850 he married Sarah HI., daughter of William Trembley, of Ripley, Huron Co., Ohio., and has one son, Frank M., born at New Haven, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1851, and one daughter, born at Toutogany, Wood Co., Ohio, Oct. 14, 1865.

He has traveled extensively in the States east of the Mississippi, and is very familiar with American history and biography. Liberal in his opinions, public-spirited, and en- ergetic, he has been one of Clio's leading and enterprising citizens. In politics he is a Republican, and has always strictly adhered to the principles and interests of his party. His business and official positions have given him a large acquaintance with public men. At the present time he is postmaster of Clio, and at the same time carries on a farm adjoining the village.

DAVID S. HALSTED

was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Coxsackie, Greene Co., N. Y., where he resided until he was twelve years old, when his father moved to Cortland Co., N. Y., where he purchased a small farm. There David grew to manhood, working on the farm and at the carpenter's trade summers, and attend- ing school winters. Ilis father's early death left him to care for himself and to assist the family, he being the eldest child. Still he obtained at the district schools and the Cortland and Homer Academies an education which . enabled him to teach school and to become one of the ener- getie, enterprising business men of Genesee County, where he settled in 1855. In the fall of 1854 he came to Pontiac, Mich., and taught school near there. The next spring he located in Pine Run, where he remained until 1867, when he commenced the mercantile business in Clio. Previous to this he taught school and worked at his trade, except two years, during which time he was in the lumber business. also a partner of George S. Warren in a saw-mill. The saw-

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mill proved to be anything but a success financially, and left Mr. Ilalsted to begin life anew. He again fell back on his trade and teaching, until, as above stated, he moved to Clio and engaged in the mercantile business, becoming a member of the firm of W. H. Jennings & Co. Since that time he has been in the mercantile business, the last eight years alone. In 1876 he bought at sheriff's sale what was known as the Mount Morris Saw and Patent Hoop Mill. This he has successfully managed, and is now doing an ex- tensive business in that line. As a business man Mr. Hal- sted is looked upon as one of the most enterprising and

MILTON B. STAGE.

MRS. MILTON B. STAGE.

MILTON B. STAGE,

the subject of this sketch, was born in the township of Stafford, Genesee Co., N. Y., May 4, 1825. Ilis grand- father, Peter Stage, was one of the earliest settlers in Staf- ford (then known as the Holland Purchase), having settled there in the year 1800. The farm he bought was new, not a stick having been eut. Milton's father, James Stage, was born in New Jersey, on the 3d day of August, 1791. He served in the war of 1812, aud was in the battles of Fort · Erie and Lundy's Lane; he was afterwards in the boat service, and carried supplies to the American forees at Fort Erie. In this service he endured hardships and privations, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He married Miss Mary Butler. Joel Butler, Mr. Stage's grandfather on his mother's side, was a sailor, and served through the war of the Revolution as a privateersman. The privateer in which he sailed was captured by a British man-of-war, and Mr. Butler, with the rest of the crew, was taken to England and confined in a prison-ship, where he, with others, suffered untold horrors. One of the mementos of Mr. Butler's seafaring life, a copy of the "Seaman's Daily Assistant," published in London in 1774, is now in the possession of Mr. Stage, and is a very interesting relic.

energetic in his town, and as a citizen and neighbor respected and esteemed by all.

On the 13th day of December, 1862, Mr. IIalsted was married to Miss Lydia J. Van Buskirk ; she was born in Smithfield, Genesee Co., N. Y., Oct. 31, 1846. There have been born to them three children, as follows : Jennie, born March 13, 1864; Albert K., born Feb. 13, 1867; and Ilarry, born Oet. 6, 1874, died Aug. 23, 1878. In polities Mr. Halsted is an ultra Republican, though he has never sought nor cared for office. Ilas held minor offices in his town, and was for seven years postmaster at Clio.

The early life of Milton B. Stage was passed in Genesee County, attending the district schools of his town, and sub- sequently the high-school at Leroy and the seminary at Lima, N. Y., which latter he attended three years, making the study of mathematics and engineering a specialty. After leaving school he worked on his father's farm three years, and afterwards was employed as civil engineer on different railroads. He worked two years on the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, as surveyor and engineer, under Maj. William II. Morrell, chief engineer, closing his service as assistant engineer in charge of a party, and to the entire satisfaction of Maj. Morrell, who testified his approbation of his services in a commendatory letter to Mr. Stage.

In 1854 he moved to the town of Vienna, in Genesee Co., Mich., and settled on three hundred and twenty acres of land, part of sections 27 and 34, bought from the government by his father in 1836. The land was entirely new, and for a mile Mr. Stage had to cut his own road. In 1854 his father gave him a deed of the land, which he still owns, and which is in a good state of cultivation, with fine buildings, ete. Mr. Stage has for many years been deputy surveyor, and in the fall of 1878 was elected county surveyor, notwith- standing Genesee County is a strong Republican county,

MRS . NAHUM N.WILSON ,

NAHUM N. WILSON

MRS. NAHUM N.WILSON (DECEASED)

RESIDENCE OF NAHUM N. WILSON , THETFORD, MICH.

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while he is, and has always been, a Democrat. At different times he has held minor offices in his township. Mr. Stage has for forty years been gathering Indian relies, and has now a very fine collection. Oet. 30, 1845, he was mar- ried to Miss R. Dorothy Ilarper, daughter of John and

Joan ( Vernon) Harper, who was born Dec. 20, 1825, in Appledore, Devonshire, England. There have been born to them four children, as follows: Mary Ella, born Dec. 28, 1849 ; Sarah L., born March 6, 1852; Rosabelle M., born July 6, 1857; and Frank E., born March 12, 1859.

THETFORD.

THIS township, although still somewhat new, especially in the northern part, contains some of the choicest farming lands in Genesee County; and the beautiful scenery, the well-tilled fiells, the majestic woods, and the fine dwell- ings and barns that denote the thrift and industry of its people, well repay the observant traveler for the trouble iu- cidental to a trip through the town.

Down to a period of time as late as the beginning of the year 1835 it had been a wilderness. The surveyors in the employ of the United States had passed through the track- less maze of its dense forests, recording their progress by, and leaving as tokens of their presence, the " blazes" on trees that marked the section-lines and corners. Some wandering, adventurous white hunter or trapper may have casually passed through in pursuit of his perilous ealling, but, aside from these persons, it is probable that, of human- kind, none save the moccasined foot of the Indian had trod the virgin soil or rustled the leaves with which the lofty trees had carpeted the earth beneath their spreading branches.

These Indians belonged to the Chippewa nation, and were only transient inhabitants here, they not having any village within the limits of this town. They came here to hunt and fish, though the latter sport was not as plentiful as the former on account of the lack of lakes and large streams. They had a well-defined trail, which started from the banks of the Flint River, in the present town of Rich- field, and ran in a direction a little west of north and in a nearly direct course to Tuscola, on the Cass River, and to Saginaw Bay, near the present site of Bay City. This trail entered Thetford not far from the southeast corner and fol- lowed the pine ridges passing through the present Richard Buell farm, and crossed the line into Tuscola County near the corner of sections 3 and 4. Along this trail the In- dians traveled for many years, sometimes in large parties and again singly or by twos and threes. They were gen- erally mounted on their hardy ponies, and in sandy places the hoofs of these sturdy little animals had worn away the soil to the depth of a foot or more. These Indians re- mained here many years after the settlement of the country by the whites began, and the most amicable feelings ex- isted between the two races at all times. They had a favorite camping-place near the residence of Richard Buell,

where two or three families, more or less as the case might be, would come and stay for a few days at a time while they hunted the deer and other game with which the forest teemed. They were on especially friendly terms with the Buell family, for whom they had conceived a great liking when they first settled here, and with whom they often en- gaged in trade. Another of their favorite camping-grounds was on the banks of Butternut Creek, in the southeast corner of the town, near the present village of Whitesburg.

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History of Genesee county, Michigan. With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 97

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Everts & Abbott, Philadelphia, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Abbott Number of Pages: 683

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Everts & Abbott, Philadelphia, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Abbott
Number of Pages: 683