History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, Part 136

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1200

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1852 .- Dexter Richards, John H. Higbee, Mark Gove.

1853 .- Jonathan Cutting, Ezra T. Sibley, Calvin N. Perkins.

1854 .- Jonathan Cutting, Calvin N. Perkins, Aus- tin L. Kibbey.

1855 .- John H. Higbee, Austin L. Kibbey, Charles Emerson.

1856 .- John H. Higbee, Charles Emerson, C. C. Shedd.

1857 .- William Emerson, C. C. Shedd, Albert S. Adams.

1858 .- William Emerson, Albert S. Adams, Henry A. Jenckes.

1859 .- Dexter Richards, Sylvanus G. Stowell, Sam- uel K. Wright.

1860 .- Francis Boardman, Abner Hall, Moses C. Ayer. .

1861 .- Francis Boardman, Moses C. Ayer, Lewis W. Randall.

1862 .- Francis Boardman, Lewis W. Randall, Or- ange Whitney.

1863 .- J. M. Wilmarth, Orange Whitney, Moses W. Emerson.

1864 .- Francis Boardman, Moses W. Emerson, Sim- eon Whittier.

1865 .- George W. Nourse, Simeon Whittier, Wil- liam Kelley.

1866 .- George W. Nourse, William Kelley, John B. Cooper.

1867 .- George W. Nourse, John B. Cooper, William H. Sprague.

1868 .- George W. Nourse, William H. Sprague, Frank W. Rawson.

1869 .- George W. Nourse, William Dunton, Orren C. Kibbey.

1870 .- George W. Nourse, Orren C. Kibbey, Wil- liam II. Perry.

1871 .- George W. Nourse, William H. Perry, L. F. Dodge.

1872 .- George W. Nourse, L. F. Dodge, Augustus Wylie.

1873 .- Daniel Nettleton, Augustus Wylie, William B. Kibbie.

1874 .- Daniel Nettleton, Lyman Rounseval, Benja- min Marshall.

1875 .- Francis Boardman, William Woodbury, George H. Towles.

1876 .- Francis Boardman, William Woodbury, George H. Towles.

1877 .- William Woodbury, George H. Towles, Charles A. Silsby.

1878 .- Freeman Cutting, Daniel G. Chadwick, Fred- erick S. Little.

1879 .- Freeman Cutting, Daniel G. Chadwick, Frederick S. Little.

1880 .- Daniel G. Chadwick, Alfred J. Gould, D. J. Mooney.

1881-Daniel G. Chadwick, Alfred J. Gould, George A. Ellis.

1882 .- John B. Cooper, George F. Whitney (2d), Edwin R. Miller.

1883 .- Daniel G. Chadwick, Alfred J. Gould, Wil- liam H. Perry.

1884 .- Daniel G. Chadwick, Alfred J. Gould, Wil- liam H. Perry.

1885 .- Daniel P. Quimby, George S. Stone, Charles Emerson.

STATE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

William H. H. Allen.

Benjamin F. Haven.

Edmund Burke.

A. V. Hitchcock.

L. W. Barton.

Richard S. Howe.

Ira McL. Barton.

Ralph Metcalf.

Shepard L. Bowers. Aaron Matson.

Lyman J. Brooks. William F. Newton.

George R. Brown.

George W. Nourse.

Francis Boardman. Dexter Richards.

Martin A. Barton.

Jacob Reddington.

Austin Corbin. John Towne.

Rufus P. Claggett. Albert S. Wait.

Samuel H. Edes. Edmund Wheeler.

Geo. E. Dame.

Nathan White.

Thomas W. Gilmore.

Paul J. Wheeler.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND QUORUM.

James Breck. Amos Little.

Henry E. Baldwin.

J. D. Nettleton.

William Cheney. Bela Nettleton.

Amasa Edes. N. O. Page.

James A. Gregg.

Edward Wyman.

James Hall. Edward A. Jenks.

Elisha M. Kempton.

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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

David Allen.

David Allen, Jr.

Cyrus Barton.

H. J. Barton.

Sawyer Belknap.

George S. Barton.

David B. Chapin.

H. G. Carleton.

J. C. Crocker.

D. D. Chapin.

E. L. Cutts. William Emerson.

Jonathan Emerson. Josiah Forsaith.

George H. Fairbanks. Calvin N. Fletcher. Zina Goldthwaite.

Caleb Heath.

Daniel P. Quimby,

James S. Riley.

Isaac A. Reed.

Joseph S. Hoyt.

Elbridge Bradford.

William E. Brooks. B. F. Carr.

E. C. Converse.

Frederick Claggett.

Frederick Chapin.

Austin Corbin, Jr.

George Dodge. W. S. Eastman. George C. Edes. B. B. French.

H. D. Foster. Jeremiah Fogg. Milton Glidden.

E. D. Hastings.

A. F. Howard.

Matthew Harvey.

David Harris.

George Herrick. Alvin Hatch.

Arthur H. Ingram. Oliver Jenckes.

Parmenas Whitcomb.

John Wilcox.

William Woodbury.

county offices since the formation of Sullivan County :

Clerks of the Court .- Benjamin B. French, Thomas W. Gilmore, W. H. H. Allen, William F. Newton, George E. Dame.

Solicitors .- Edmund Burke, Samuel H. Edes, Levi W. Barton.

Sheriff's .- David Allen, Frederick Claggett, Rufus P. Claggett, Milton S. Jackson.

Treasurers. - Jonathan M. Wilmarth, Paul J. Wheeler.

Commissioner .- Francis Boardman.

Registers of Deeds .- Cyrus Barton, Calvin Wilcox, N. B. Cutting, Henry E. Baldwin, Henry G. Carleton, Matthew Harvey, John Towne, L. W. Barton, Arthur H. Ingram, Elisha M. Kempton, William E. Brooks, Alonzo D. Howard.

Jailors .- David Harris, James L. Riley, Martin A. Barton, Milton S. Jackson, Rufus P. Claggett.

Judge of Probate .- W. H. H. Allen.

Registers of Probate .- Aaron Nettleton, Jr., Ralph Metcalf, Henry E. Baldwin, Henry G. Carleton, Ed- ward Wyman, Shepherd L. Bowers, George R. Brown.

The postmasters since the office was first es- tablished in 1810 are as follows :

Arnold Ellis. John B. Stowell.

Erastus Baldwin. Sawyer Belknap.

Lucy C. Baldwin. David W. Watkins.

Aaron Nettleton, Jr. Sarah M. Watkins.

Bela Nettleton. Sam Nims.

Seth Richards. George W. Nourse.

Calvin Wilcox. John J. Dudley (1885).

A post-office was established at North New- port in 1878, and Ezra T. Sibley appointed postmaster.

An office was also opened at Guild, in the eastern part of the town, in 1882, and George Heritage was appointed postmaster.

The main office is in the village.

The following citizens of Newport have held

John H. Higbee. Nathan E. Reed. Seth Richards. S. M. Richards. Josiah Stevens.

E. E. Stearns. Joseph Sawyer, Jr.

B. F. Sawyer. Ezra Stowell. Frank A. Sibley.

Jonathan Silsby. Allen Towne.

N. C. Todd. George H. Towle.

C. A. Thompson.

D. W. Watkins.

A. P. Wellcome. Siloam S. Wilcox. Augustus Wylie. Calvin Wilcox.

M. S. Jackson. William Kelley.

F. W. Lewis. Sol. H. Moody.

Silas Metcalf.

M. H. Moody. Nathan Mudgett. H. J. Marshall. W. H. McCrillis. Hubbard Newton.

A. Nettleton, Jr. A. F. Nettleton. Samuel F. Nims. William Nourse. Chase Noyes. John S. Parmelee. Granville Pollard. Abiel D. Pike. Calvin H. Pike.

Paul S. Adams.

Albert S. Adams.

E. P. Burke.

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CHAPTER VII.

NEWPORT-( Continued).

MISCELLANEOUS.

DURING the one hundred and twenty years since the first tree was felled in the settlement until the present, Newport, in common with the rest of the world, has had its periods of local excitement of various kinds, to which we may properly refer at this time.

There have been times when households have been darkened and the whole community thoroughly alarmed. Such was the case when, in the year 1783, a putrid-nervous fever, so-called, visited many families and was fear- fully destructive of human life. In the year 1812 a disease called the spotted fever is said to have carried nearly one hundred of the people to their graves. In the year 1825 the typhus fever raged to an alarming extent. There are said to have been some two hundred and fifty cases in the months from Angust to December of that year, twenty-six of which proved fatal, and the record of mortality for the year was fifty- five.

In the years 1833, 1840 and 1880 the small- pox made its appearance, causing a thorough scare on each occasion. Roads were fenced across, pest-houses were established and other sanitary measures adopted to prevent the ex- tending of the disease. Thus circumscribed and guarded, the mortality occasioned has been quite limited. There have been seasons when scarlet fever has widely prevailed and been very fatal among children ; but in later years educated and skillful physicians have done much to counteract the influence and spread of epidemie diseases, and allay excitements arising from their prevalence.

We may turn from the contemplation of periods of sickness and death to matters of a more pleasing character, and regard with satis- faction the superior education and abilities of Mrs. Benjamin Bragg, who is said to have es- timated the first taxes levied in the town ; or

angle for trout in the South Branch, and drop in at the camp of Captain Ezra Parmelee, near its brink, for a siesta on his couch, made from a half-section of a large hollow tree, ent at suit- able length and placed upon legs or supports, like a grand piano,-it was stuffed with pine- needles and dried leaves, and upholstered with quilts and blankets, and met all the conditions necessary to repose after a day of toil ; or start out with all the men of the neighborhood and dogs and guns in pursuit of a thievish old bear, that had many times depredated upon the pig- pens and sheep-cotes and garden patches of the settlers-in fact, that had become the béte noire of the community, and capture the villain in the top of a tree by the light of torches ; or make our way into the old Proprietors' House some time about the last of July, 1776, and listen to the reading of the Declaration of In- dependence, which had come in on foot or on horseback, certainly not by steam or electricity ; or investigate the larder of Mrs. Ebenezer Merritt, who kept her sixteen boarders in good humor and their stomachs full on the milk of a farrow cow, a bag of meal, and fish taken from the river ; or play the agreeable to Mrs. Ezra Parmelee, over her baked potatoes and a rib of pig-pork ; or feast on the mince-pies made of pumpkins and bears' meat, from the oven of Mrs. Matthew Buell ; or call upon the ambitions lady of ye olden time, who ent her bright pew- ter basin in two parts, and so disposed them on the dresser as to excite the envy of her less prosperous neighbors ; or stand near while Mrs. Christopher Newton (who, by the way, was a Giles), by her superior mathematical knowledge allotted to its thirsty proprietors their several shares, pro rata, in the first barrel of rum landed in Newport; or take an airing up and down Main Street with Captain Matthew Buel (1810) in his new gig-wagon, .the first intro- duced.

The first marriage ceremony in town is said to have taken place under the sighing boughs of a lofty pine-tree. It is matter of regret that

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names and dates are not to be had to give in- terest to this statement.

Another wedding is spoken of as having oc- curred at a very early period-1777-that of Jonathan Brown and Sarah Emery, at the house of Amos Hall, on the South road, near the Uni- ty line. All the people in town were invited. The turn-outs on the occasion consisted of two one-horse cutters and twenty-four ox-sleds. The prancing bovines were hawed and geed through the snow-drifts up to the front-door to deposit and receive the wedding guests. No " Ancient Mariner " with glittering eye detained a guest. Our progenitors had less trouble in get- ting wives than did those first Romans, who, finding their state of no value without women, fell upon the unfortunate Sabines, sword in hand, and acquired by force of arms what they had been unable to obtain in a less hostile man- ner, a process thoroughly at variance with what we know about real old-fashioned New England courting and marrying.

Among the names that have come down to this generation with more or less of interest is that of Coit. It has by common consent been indorsed upon one of the most prominent eleva- tions of land in our picturesque town, from whose granite brow the lover of fine views can survey the delightful valley of the Sugar, the village of Newport and villas and farms all about, hobnob with Kearsarge on the east, As- entney on the west, while Croydon and Sunapee, with their vast intermediate sweeps, furnish the northern and southern outlook.

The Coit family made its appearance in Newport near the close of the last century. The male head was an American citizen of Af- riean deseent, and, we might add, proelivities also. The wife was a white woman who had formed a connubial alliance with this sooty man and brother for reasons best known to herself. The Coit homestead was well elevated upon a slope of the mountain, and it comes to us with the traditions of that time that the trace-chains, erow-bars, iron wedges, axes and other imple-

ments of wood and farm work, by some mag- netic or other process, mysteriously found their way, in the hours of darkness, to the premises of the Coits.

It was a clear case on Coit. He was brought before a magistrate and senteneed to receive thirty-nine lashes on his bare back, there being no jail in which to incarcerate the thief. The majesty of the law was vindicated at the whip- ping-post, which stood not far from the south- east corner of Main and Maple Streets. At in- tervals during the progress of the whipping the woman came forward and tenderly bathed his lacerated back with rum from a saucer, and at its close soothed her own lacerated feelings by drinking the bloody potation from the saucer.

It was while Coit was thus expiating his of- fenses towards an exasperated community and a violated law that he gave utterance, among other doleful laments and expressions, to the bottom conclusion of his heart-" Dis worl is only a few minnits full of worry "-exhibiting the philosopher and the man in his hour of great trial.

The moral reflection, or conclusion, to which we arrive in view of the foregoing, is that this beautiful mountain, so-called, to which our people so much resort for pienie purposes and fine breezes, is destined to bear to future gener- ations the name of a thieving negro, while the respectable fathers of the town, the philoso- phers, teachers, preachers, chief captains and mighty men slumber around its base compara- tively unhonored and unsung. Such are the ap- parently unjust and unequal awards or sar- easms of Fame.

For more than fifty years there lived on the southeastern acelivity of Coit Mountain an hon- est farmer by the name of Nathan Currier. He came from Amesbury, Mass., to that rugged hillside farm in 1806 and was borne from thence to his grave in 1857. We refer to him as an old-time worthy citizen, and more particularly as the only man who has come to our knowledge in the annals of the town who theoretically and

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practically asserted himself as perfectly satisfied with his condition in life and the sufficiency of his worldly possessions.

As evidence of this statement, it is said that news once came to him of the death of a rela- tive in Massachusetts, by which a legacy of about one thousand dollars awaited his reception, whereupon he counseled with his son Oliver whether it was best to receive it or not. He pointed to the lands adjoining his farm on the north and said : "All rocks above!" He looked toward the valley of the Sugar on the south and said : " All sand down there!" and seeing no way of investing the money satisfac- torily-" Guessed he wouldn't take it-got enough ! Dummit !" We may explain that the strongest word used by him in qualifying an assertion was " Dummit," on account of which he was familiarly characterized " Old Dummit." He was also a man of few words and conjunctions and other connectives were almost entirely excluded from his vocabulary. In regard to punctuation he sometimes made very long pauses-commencing a sentence or a narrative one day and complet- ing it the next. One of his most cherished household gods was a spy-glass, which gener- ally occupied some wooden pegs over the kitchen door. With this he amused himself in viewing the surrounding scenery and in taking a kind of bird's-eye view of the movements of his neighbors. He was also able, from his ele- vated situation, to watch the rise and progress of thunder-showers, that sometimes suddenly arise in the haying season to interrupt the work of the hay-makers.

On one occasion he saw an approaching shower, and by dint of great activity, he and Oliver were able to get their hay in the barn before the rain came on. He then proceeded to investigate with his glass the condition of his neighbors and found they had received a profuse wetting. Hence the value of the glass.

His headquarters in the village were at the old Nettleton store, and when he felt that he had been particularly " smart " he would hitch

up the old horse and drive in to recount to a number of kindred spirits he was sure to find on that corner, as well as the other spirits that were present there, the history of his exploits, which ran thus : "Saw shower-scratch'd to -got our'n in-took it down (i.e., the glass), - shoved it up-stuck it out-look'd down on 'em-cocks all out-dummit-I la-a-f'd."

On another occasion he came out at sunrise one morning and saw in a field in front of his house some kind of a wild animal. He returned to the house for his gun and prepared to shoot the beast, but his courage failed. Putting away his gun he went down to consult with his neighbor Paul, who ridiculed the idea of its being a dangerous animal, and said it was only a raccoon.

The account given of the matter, as reported by one of the old habitués at the corner, ran as follows : "Got up fore sun-went on piece afore-see one-thought t'was a wild one-set -. tin up on his hind ones-holdin up his fore ones-and stickin out his picked one (i.e., his nose)-went in-got ready to fire-I up and dasn't-went down told Dan-Dan said, 'Poh -nothing but a rac,' dummit." Thus, in few and short words and long pauses, "Old Dummit " finished his eccentric career.

Captain George W. Brown, a native of New- port, the incidents of whose life have made him somewhat prominent, was born May 10, 1835, at the homestead of his parents, sometimes known as the " Benjamin Teal place," located on the road leading to Unity Springs in the south part of the town. The Browns after- ward removed to the village and occupied a part of the building then standing on the north- east corner of Main and Maple Streets, where Nathan Brown, the father of George W. died October 11, 1846, leaving his wife and several small children with somewhat limited resources, aside from their personal effects for support.

About this time George W., the subject of this sketch, then a lad of about eleven years of age, was employed by Shubael Hawes, a retired

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sea captain, then living on a farm on the Croy- don road about a mile north of Newport village. The discovery of gold in California had induced Captain Hawes to purchase andfit out at Boston, a trading or merchant vessel for San Francisco on the Pacific coast and George who had read " Jack Halyard " and other sea stories, and conversed freely with Captain Hawes, became thoroughly enlisted in this enterprise, and would have sailed away with the enterprising captain, but for the protests and objections of his affectionate mother. As time went on, however, his desire for the sea and a sailor's life in no wise abated. In the spring of 1850 he again met his old friend and sometime school-fellow, George E. Belknap, (now Com- modore) then a midshipman in the United States Navy, returned from his first cruise ; and while no influence was exerted on the part of Lieutenant Belknap to encourage him in this matter, he quietly determined to avail him- self of the first opportunity to go to sea.

After the departure of Captain Hawes, George found employment through the influ- ence of his friend, Frederick Claggett, Esq., then sheriff of the county, in a marble-yard at Springfield, Vt. A few months at picking and hammering on grave-stones and other marble work, fully satisfied his ambition in that direc- tion, and led to an arrangement with two other boys for a clandestine departure for Boston.

One of these boys was possessed of between three and four dollars, and was to furnish cap- ital on which to float the enterprise ; but when the time for their departure came the courage of both failed, and George found himself alone withont a single cent in his pocket. His only capital was indomitable pluck, and this was equal to the emergency. On a Sunday morning he drove the family to church, as usual, return- ing with the team, and in his anxiety to grasp the little bundle he had packed and deposited in the barn early in the morning, and take his departure, the last part of his Sunday morning service, the going for the family, was omitted.

With a feeling that there was a wide world before and around him, he put out on foot and alone for the Connecticut River bridge. For- tunately for him, the toll-gate was on the New Hampshire side, and he had passed quite over before he was hailed for the one-cent fare, which he was unable to pay. His legs, however, did good service in this financial crisis, and the good woman of the bridge, by whom he was pursued, soon gave up the chase and in nautical parlance " fell astern."

George begged and worked his way to Bos- ton, arriving in that city April 30, 1850. The next morning he began looking about for a vessel, and in attempting to pass over the bridge from Boston to Charlestown, another toll-gate obstructed his progress. There was no opportunity for a race this time, and while he stood chaffering with the. toll gatherer a sailor came up, and when asked for his penny fare, said he was going to a vessel at the "draw," wherenpon George took a hint and also wished to board a vessel at the " draw," and they were permitted to pass. At the draw George found a brig hauling through, and stepping up to the captain, asked if he wanted a boy on board. The sailor answered emphatically and with a big oath in the negative, but George was pre- pared for bluff treatment, and pushed his ap- plication still further by jumping on board without invitation or permission, and taking a hand with the tars as they went on. The vessel was the brig "Delhi," Captain Hodgson, and sailed from Boston to Matanzas, Cuba, on May 10th, George's fifteenth birthday. He was connected with her until she was stranded, in July, 1851. After this he visited his mother in Newport, returning again to his sea- faring life with the same captain, in the brigs " Borneo" and " Marshfield," filling every posi- tion from cabin-boy to mate, until 1855, when Captain Hodgson left him in command of the " Marshfield."

The first voyage of now Captain George W. Brown was to Surinam, where he was pros-

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trated by an attack of yellow fever, out of which his vigorous temperament, aided by good medical treatment, successfully brought him in good condition, with a future guaranty against further annoyance from " Yellow Jack."

Captain Brown remained in this employ, voyaging to West Indian and South American ports until the breaking out of the Civil War, in 1861, when he entered the navy as acting master, and was ordered as navigation officer to United States steamer "Keystone State," on a cruise in search of the privateer "Sumter." He was afterward on court-martial duty in Washington, D. C., where he became acquaint- ed with Commander (now Admiral) Porter, who was then fitting out the " Mortar Fleet," and was by his request ordered to the command of the "Dan Smith," one of the schooners of that fleet, which he held during the bombard- ment of the Forts JJackson and St. Philip, and the first year's attack on Vicksburg. He was afterward sent to Havana with dispatches to the government at Washington, giving an account of the capture of New Orleans, which reports were the first published at the North.

On the abandonment of the first year's attack on Vicksburg, Captain Brown's vessel, with eleven of the mortar schooners, was ordered north to assist in the capture of Richmond, but their services were not needed there on account of a "change of base," and six of the schooners under his command were ordered to Baltimore, and during the time of Lee's raid into Mary- land they were stationed off that city ready for action in case of need. In October, 1862, Cap- tain Brown was ordered to the Mississippi squadron with Admiral Porter, and sent to Cincinnati to assist in fitting up the first of the " Tinelad Fleet," and was ordered to the con- mand of the first one of that afterward numer- ous class of gun-boats, the "Forest Rose." He was with the fleet that took Sherman to Vieksburg, and participated in the attack on Haynes' Bluff, etc., and afterward led the fleet up the Arkansas River to Arkansas Post, and

took part in that engagement. On the return of the fleet to the Mississippi River he was sent up the White River to Des Are, and with a company of troops on one transport, took possession of that town. He was then ordered to Memphis with dispatches, and met for the first time General U. S. Grant, who was pre- paring to go to Vicksburg, and take the com- mand.

Captain Brown has in his possession the au- tograph order of General Grant directing his attendance as a convoy down the river, as fol- łows :

"HEADQUARTERS DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE.

" Memphis, Tenn., January 26, 1863.

" Captain Brown, Commanding G. B. 'Forest Rose :' "Captain : I shall be going down the river to join the fleet near Vicksburg and will be glad to have you convoy the steamer on which I go. I will be on the steamer ' Magnolia.'

" Officers just up from the fleet report having been fired into by artillery and musketry from the east bank of the river at Island No. 82.

" Respectfully, etc., "U. S. GRANT, " Major-General."

Captain Brown was with the fleet that first went to Yazoo City and destroyed the rebel navy-yard and vessels on the stocks.

The " Forest Rose" took part in nearly all the expeditions up the various tributaries of the Mississippi during the siege of Vicksburg. In January, 1863, Captain Brown was pro- moted to volunteer lieutenant. He was sent to cut the levee, and open the old Yazoo Pass, and his was the first vessel to enter Moon Lake, and the pass was explored with small boats from his vessel, and upon his report, in connec- tion with that of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, of General Grant's staff, the expedition was or- dered, and had it been properly commanded they would no doubt have succeeded in getting to the rear of Vicksburg and hastening its sur- render. When the vessels returned from this unfortunate expedition they made a sorry ap-

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History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire, Part 136

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis Number of Pages: 1200

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1200