History of the town of Haverhill, New Hampshire, Part 41

Author: Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Concord, N.H. : Rumford press]
Number of Pages: 838

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1 Bittinger, p. 203.

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feature and the flip iron and mug were inseparable concomitants of the bar room. Treating was the universal custom, and the mug filled with steaming flip was passed around amongst the crowd, and every body took a sip of the favorite beverage. When the news was all talked over, and the hours were speeding toward midnight and especially where the stage happened to be late, the crowd dispersed only to renew its gathering the following evening. Those stage villages where the mails lay over night were busy little centres, and manifested all the attributes of a small metropolis. The populations retired at night with a general knowledge of the doings and happenings of the outside world, and awaited with un- disturbed self-possession the coming of the next coach. And so life rolled on in those earlier days with a satisfaction and success which now to our swifter means of locomotion and faster ways of living seem tame and abortive. Information and knowledge were gained then more by hearing and talking than by reading, but the people were quite as intelligent in general matters as they are to-day, and the peculiar discipline of these times developed many a hard headed man of shrewd common sense and large experience. Those attentions of mind and interchange of informa- tion and opinion had a flavor of their own. What an educational force the old stage tavern was."

And then, too, those old time stage drivers. Famous among them was Dan Field of the Stanstead line with his bugle horn announcement of his coming into the village and the graceful curve he made with his team as he drove up in front of the tavern. There was Caleb Smart, Sanborn Jones, Eleazer Smith, "Jim" Langdon, "Wash" Simpson, whose last years were spent as station agent at East Haverhill railroad station; Seth Greenleaf, who laid down whip and rein to use the conductor's punch on the old Boston, Concord & Montreal; Walt Gould, who was the first driver of the two horse coach between Haverhill and Hanover before the day of the six horse team. There was "Bill" Fuller; the two Simmonds brothers, "Josh" and Jehiel; the Morses, father and son; the Henry brothers, "Tim" and Charles; "Web" Stearns, one of the youngest, and one of the last to go out of service which ended when the stages were permanently housed. These were some of the skilled and experienced drivers. An evidence of this popularity is found in the fact that they were not known as Mr. Simpson, Mr. Langdon, etc., but as "Wash" Simpson, "Jim" Langdon, "Rob" Morse, etc. They were a hardy set, exposed to perils and dangers, bearing large responsibilities, sometimes autocratic in manner and rough in speech, but they were as a class true and faithful men. Many of these drivers were part providers of the lines on which they drove, were men of ability and enterprise, who when stage lines were superseded by railroads won success in other lines of business.

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The Haverhill of today owes much to the impetus given its life in the old days of stages and stage taverns.

The different post offices were established in Haverhill as follows: Haverhill, Jan. 1, 1795; No. Haverhill, Aug. 7, 1826; East Haverhill, July 18, 1844; Haverhill Centre, Mar. 28, 1846; Woodsville, Feb. 4, 1853; Pike Station, Feb. 27, 1880.

The first postmaster at Haverhill was Joseph Bliss, proprietor of Bliss tavern, appointed Jan. 1, 1795. His successors with dates of their appoint- ment have been:

Moses Dow, Apr. 1, 1803

John Currier, June 25, 1861

John R. Reding, Mar. 13, 1830

Hiram S. Kellam, July 12, 1865

William Barstow, Jan. 29, 1841

Henry Merrill, Mar. 18, 1869

Timothy K. Blaisdel, June 3, 1841 Moses D. Carbee, Oct. 31, 1877

William Barstow, Aug. 20, 1842

Tyler Westgate, Apr. 12, 1881

John S. Bryant, Apr. 20, 1843

Joseph Poor, Sept. 2, 1885

Henry W. Reding, Jan. 4, 1845

George C. Cass, June 20, 1889

John L. Rix, May 15, 1849

William A. Gibson, Feb. 10, 1899

Henry W. Reding, Apr. 20, 1853

Maurice H. Randall, May 5, 1904

The postmasters with dates of appointment at North Haverhill have been:

Aaron Martin, Aug. 7, 1826

David Worthen, May 24, 1828

Willard Whitman, June 1, 1831

Morris E. Kimball, Mar. 28, 1873

Morris E. Kimball, Apr. 23, 1889 Charles F. Southard, Sept. 15, 1897

Willard Whitman, Feb. 6, 1844 James Glynn, May 8, 1849 Perley Ayres, Apr. 24, 1827

Abel E. Davis, June 20, 1864

Russell Hurd, Aug. 25, 1829

E. B. Hibbard, Sept. 6, 1843 Nathl. M. Swasey, June 7, 1845

Charles H. Wetherbee, July 18, 1893

Postmasters at East Haverhill have been appointed:

Nathaniel Kimball, July 18, 1844 Niles Doty, June 14, 1845 Chester Crouch, July 6, 1846

George W. Richardson, Dec. 9, 1880 Nathan Hanson, Oct. 22, 1885

Martin S. B. Cady, May 11, 1886

Hosea S. Baker, Feb. 6, 1852 Niles Doty, Apr. 20, 1853

George W. Richardson, May 29, 1889 Wilbur F. True, July 17, 1893

George W. Richardson, Dec. 10, 1897

William H. Langmaid, Nov. 20, 1906 Wilbur F. True May 4, 1909

Haverhill Center postmasters were appointed:

James Glazier, Mar. 28, 1846 Ansel A. Smith, Dec. 4, 1849 George H. Gleason, Feb. 2, 1853

James Glazier, Oct. 25, 1853

Russell Kimball, July 1, 1854

George W. Bisbee, Mar. 24, 1858 Sarah B. Bisbee, June 20, 1864 Saml. H. Crocker, Oct. 3, 1866

Office was discontinued Apr. 13, 1868

William R. Park, July 23, 1861 William A. Simpson, Jan. 24, 1870

Wilbur F. True, May 3, 1877

William I. Nelson, July 29, 1868 Enoch R. Weeks, Sept. 24, 1885

Nathl. M. Swasey, Apr. 20, 1853

Joseph B. Cotton, June 25, 1861

J. F. Morse, Mar. 24, 1865

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Postmasters in Woodsville have been:

Iva M. Clark, Feb. 4, 1853 E. M. Child, Nov. 28, 1853

Chas. B. Drake, Nov. 9, 1871

Chas. B. Drake, Apr. 28, 1873

John Hale, June 25, 1855

Jacob Burton, Sept. 13, 1880

Chas. M. Weeks, Apr. 5, 1860 Quincy A. Scott, Nov. 8, 1881

William B. Douglass, Apr. 15, 1863

Ezra B. Mann, Nov. 13, 1885

Henry W: Ramsey, Nov. 6, 1863

Solon S. Evans, July 3, 1889

C. M. Weeks, July 29, 1868

Fred P. Dearth, June 4, 1897

H. W. Ramsey, Aug. 26, 1868

James F. Leonard, Jan. 27, 1914

The post office at Pike was established at "Pike Station" Feb. 27, 1880 named changed to "Pike," June 17, 1903. The postmasters have been: A. F. Pike, Feb. 27, 1880 Rexford Pierce, Aug. 21, 1893 Chas. J. Ayer, Dec. 4, 1891 E. B. Pike, July 17, 1897

CHAPTER XVI

BANKS AND BANKING

Coos BANK INCORPORATED IN 1803-LARGE TERRITORY COVERED FOR TWENTY YEARS -GRAFTON BANK CHARTERED IN 1822-LASTED TILL 1845-PAYSON AND BRITTON -WOODSVILLE GUARANTY SAVINGS IN 1889-WOODSVILLE LOAN AND BANKING ASSOCIATION IN 1891-SUCCEEDED BY THE WOODSVILLE NATIONAL BANK.

THERE were no banks in New Hampshire until 1792 when the New Hampshire Bank at Portsmouth was incorporated. Indeed there were no banks in the colonies until near the close of the Revolutionary War in 1781 when the Bank of North America was established in Philadelphia. It was not till 1784 that New England had its first bank, the Massachu- setts, which was established in Boston. This first New Hampshire Bank was incorporated for a term of fifty years, with a capital of $100,000. Ten years later in June, 1802, the New Hampshire Union Bank of Ports- mouth was incorporated with a capital of $200,000 for a term of twenty years, and the next year 1803 no less than five bank charters were granted by the legislature, the Portsmouth, and the Rockingham at Portsmouth, each with a capital of $200,000; the Strafford at Dover, capital $150,000; Exeter at Exeter, capital $200,000, and the Coös at Haverhill.

The establishment of the Coös Bank was indicative of the enterprise not only of the men of Grafton County, which embraced within its borders what that same year became Coos County, but also of the growing wealth and importance of the Connecticut Valley. It indicated also the import- ance of Haverhill as a business centre. At the time of its incorporation there was no other bank within a hundred miles, and this condition of affairs continued for a quarter of a century. The Lebanon bank was not incorporated till 1828 and the Lancaster bank not until 1832. The bank at Wells River was incorporated this latter year. Vermont, indeed, chartered no banks until 1818, so that the Haverhill institution furnished for many years the banking facilities for the Connecticut Valley on both sides the river. It was not until 1821 that there was another bank in the Vermont and New Hampshire Valley, that at Brattleboro. The incor- porators named in the charter of the Coös Bank were John Montgomery, Moses P. Payson, Peter Carleton, Moor Russell, Daniel Smith, Nathaniel Burlow and Timothy Dix, Jr. The charter was for twenty years from January 1, 1803; the capital stock was to be not less than $25,000 nor more than $100,000, paid in specie and divided into one thousand shares; the bank was authorized to hold lands with tenements and hereditaments

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to the amount of $50,000 and no more at any one time. It could not have at any one time bills, notes, or obligations to a greater amount than twice the stock actually paid in; seven directors were to be chosen annually, and dividends might be declared semi-annually.

The bank organized and began business in 1804 with John Montgomery as president and John Osgood, cashier. Mr. Osgood held the position only temporarily, when he was succeeded by George Woodward, a well known lawyer, who occupied for a residence and also for banking, rooms of the fine mansion house at the south end of the common, afterwards the residence of Joseph Bell, later of David F. Merrill and now owned and occupied by Frederick W. Page. Mr. Woodward served almost from the opening of the bank for business, and may be properly regarded as its first cashier. Bank notes or bills were issued of the denominations of one, two, three, five, ten and twenty dollars. A reproduction of a note for one dollar herewith presented shows the somewhat primitive character of the bank notes of that day.

General Montgomery was the largest stockholder of the bank, hold- ing in 1805 one hundred shares which were assessed for taxation at $75 per share. Mr. Woodward held the position of cashier for less than ten years when he was succeeded for a brief period by Joseph Bell, who was in turn succeeded by John G. Wright, a son-in-law of Dr. Wellman of Pier- mont. The bank found itself in financial difficulties in 1818-20 and failed, entailing much disastrous litigation and loss to stockholders. The cashier, John S. Wright, was given power of attorney to dispose of the property of the bank July 20, 1818, and in 1820 the winding up of its affairs was placed in the hands of John Nelson, a well known attorney, who performed his trust with great credit to himself and the satisfaction of all concerned. General Montgomery retired from the presidency pre- vious to 1814 and was succeeded by Moses P. Payson of Bath, and about the same time, Peter Carleton, Moor Russell, Daniel Smith, Nathaniel Barlow and Timothy Dix, Jr., were succeeded in the directorate by David Webster, Dr. Edmund Carleton, Mills Olcott and Richard Gookin. One of the causes of the failure had been an over issue of notes in violation of the charter.

A charter was obtained for a new bank under the name of the president and stockholders of the Grafton Bank, and this new institution went into business January 1, 1822. Moses P. Payson, the only survivor of the directorate of the original Coös Bank, was its president and John L. Bunce, who had been brought from Hartford, Conn., for the purpose, was its first cashier. The directors aside from Mr. Payson were Mills Olcott, Abiathar G. Britton, Ephraim Kingsbury, Joseph Bell, Ezra Bartlett and Richard Gookin. A new building for the business of the bank, and resi- dence of the cashier, was erected nearly opposite on the west side of

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Main Street and which was known as "the bank house" until its destruc- tion by fire in 1909. Mr. Bunce resigned as cashier in 1839, and John A. Page was elected cashier in his place. The bank had become the subject of political criticism. It was charged that it was in control of a junta of aristocratic old time Federalists and Whigs, all known to be under the influence of Joseph Bell. The Democratic party had become divided on the question of granting charters to railroads, and in the spring of 1843, Isaac Hill led a party of bolters from the regular nominations, who placed candidates of their own in the field. John Page led these bolters in Haverhill, and was himself a candidate for Congress. They were not numerous enough in Haverhill to defeat the regular Democratic candi- dates but did poll 72 for John H. White as against 308 for Henry Hubbard, the regular candidate, and 161 for Anthony Colby, Whig.

In its issue of January 25, 1843, the Democratic Republican in an editorial criticism of both bank and Mr. Page said:

It appears to us singular that during the twenty years the Grafton Bank has been in existence, that Hon. John Page and a son of his are the only professed Democrats who have ever been elected officers of said bank. John A. Page was chosen cashier four or five years since at the particular desire of Joseph Bell, Esq., after another man had been elected to supply the vacancy caused by the resignation of John L. Bunce. About the time Mr. Bell elected J. A. Page to the cashiership, his father was very intimate with Bell, and that in political conversation with people here he professed anything but Demo- cratic principles. . On the second day of the present month John Page was elected director of the bank in place of Joseph Bell who has left the state. This election did not take place until it was known that Governor Page was favorably disposed to the disorganizing schemes of Isaac Hill and his other federal associates in this state-until it was known he was to be a candidate for office nominated by the federal conservative convention which was to assemble at Concord. We are told, also, by one of the stock- holders of the bank-a Federalist-that Mr. Bell used his influence in securing the elec- tion of Governor Page, saying: "He must be elected in my place. It is a well known fact that almost every stockholder in Grafton Bank is a Federalist of the stiff rump kind and that, sooner than have a true Democrat associated with them in the management of the affairs of the institution, they would see the whole concern blown into air. Yet John Page and his son are both officers in the bank, each of whom would take it unkindly when their pretentions to Democracy are called in question."

The last list of officers of the bank which appears in the list of banking institutions for the state in the New Hampshire Register is for the year 1844 and is as follows: President, Mills Olcott; cashier, John A. Page; directors, Mills Olcott, Abiathar G. Britton, Ezra Bartlett, William V. Hutchins, Abel K. Merrill, James Bell and John Page. A beginning in winding up the affairs of the bank was made in 1845, when William H. Cummings was appointed agent to sell real estate and no less than thirty-six conveyances are recorded as made by him in that year. The final act came in July, 1849, when James Bell, as agent of the bank, conveyed to John L. Rix and Charles R. Morrison, "All the property and rights of property whether real or personal or mixed, judgments, bonds,

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notes, chattels and land which now belong to or are vested in said cor- poration, with full power to sell or dispose of the same and apply the pro- ceeds in trust for the following purposes; firstly, to defray the reasonable expenses of defraying and disposing of said property; secondly, to pay all legal claims now existing against said corporation, and thirdly, to dis- tribute the residue among the stockholders."

In closing up the affairs of the trust, Morrison conveyed the bank house property to John L. Rix in October, 1850, who afterwards occupied it as a residence.

The late Arthur Livermore in his reminiscences of Haverhill Corner gives a pen picture of two of these officers which is graphic and interesting:

On Wednesdays, about noon, with great regularity, two forms came from opposite directions into the village and drove to Towles Inn. One was Mr. Payson who had left his home in Bath at ten o'clock, and halted at the halfway house1 at Horse Meadow for repose of himself and beast, and a mere taste of mine host's excellent rum. For such was the liquor he preferred. He was affable by nature, and the drop tasted made him yield the more to that fine instinct. Politics, money, agriculture, are among the themes on which a gentleman is free to converse, is indeed expected to converse, with any man whose relations with him are not merely servile; and by the time he is ready to proceed another drop is required.

Driving into the village he knows everybody, and the comprehensive sweep of his courteous bow embraces every thing visible within the boundaries of the common. He finds the rum at Mr. Towles good as he has often found it before. It is the day of the stated meeting of the directors of the Grafton Bank, and he is the president of that board. Indeed he is president of everything he belongs to, capable of a presiding officer. Moder- ator of the town meeting in Bath, as a matter of course, only a few votes are cast to satisfy the exigencies of the law requiring an election by ballot. He was always president of the Senate of New Hampshire during the many years that he sat in that chamber, and when all the world met at Windsor to vote the Connecticut River into the list of navigable streams and to take orders for the removal of obstructions, Mr. Payson was placed in the chair. It was his courtesy of manner, his tact and good common sense that were well known, and qualified him for such places. His mind was not largely informed, but it was safe and sound within its own sphere, and was plagued by no half-lights, no mislead- ing passions.

It should not seem strange if the successes he won by these valuable practical forces, brought on a little pompous vanity in the end. But neither the success nor the credit which he won impaired the amiable disposition, the even temper, the hospitable manners that made him with but one unhappy exception a most agreeable man. According to a fashion that was not in all cases fatal to the strong men of his day, he began by eleven o'clock and continued through the day, it is said, tasting New England rum in very small quantities and much diluted. He died at not much over fifty, happily before his habit could be called intemperance, but too late to restore its ravages upon his system.

Mr. Livermore continues:

A differently constituted man was Mr. Britton,2 who for a like purpose, drove into the village with equal punctuality from an opposite direction on the same days. He was

1 Morse's tavern

2 Abiathar G. Britton of Orford

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tall, well formed, and to the end of a life of seventy-seven years was an erect and firm man. He always appeared clean and well dressed in the conservative style of apparel, that no token should be wanting to denote his aversion to unseasoned innovation. At that time (1822) he wore his hair in a queue, but abandoned that fashion a few years before his death, for some cause unknown to me, other than the lack of an abundance of the necessary material, for such existed and retained its color to the last, and but spar- ingly interspersed with white. His manner was gay, his humor at once kind and cynical. There was nothing about him that should have repelled anybody. Yet he was never a candidate for popular suffrage, nor held any public office whatever, but that of justice of the peace. And the functions of that office were with him of the most formal manner only. He aimed at no demonstrations, and was eminently a man of the most impreg- nable secrecy. He was never charged with unfair practices, whether at the bar or in his private transactions. He accumulated an estate and transmitted it to his children in safe investments, the nature and amount of which impertinent inquiry has thus far failed to discover.

Both President Payson and Director Britton saw long service in the management of the Grafton Bank.

The "Grafton County Bank" was incorporated in 1846, with a capital of $100,000 but it never went into operation. A charter was also granted in 1879 for the Grafton County Savings Bank, but the charter was unused, the bank never organizing for business.

THE WOODSVILLE GUARANTY SAVINGS BANK. A charter for a sav- ings bank at Woodsville was granted by the legislature of 1889 to Ira Whitcher and his associates under the name of Woodsville Guarantee Savings Bank. The bank was duly organized in 1889 with the following officers: Trustees, Ira Whitcher, W. A. Stowell, Ezra B. Mann, Edward F. Mann, Isaac M. Smith, Charles W. King, Robert A. Horner, David Whitcher, George Leslie, Chester Abbott, Chester R. Gibson and Henry C. Carbee. The trustees organized as follows: President, Ezra B. Mann; vice-president, Isaac M. Smith; treasurer, Robert A. Horner; clerk, Chester Abbott. The guaranty fund of twenty-five thousand dollars was raised and made a special deposit and the bank was opened for busi- ness in rooms in the old railroad station.

Ezra B. Mann as president was succeeded by Dr. C. R. Gibson in Jan- uary, 1899, and on the death of the latter in 1914 he was succeeded by Geo. E. Cummings. Robert A. Horner was succeeded as treasurer by Charles C. Whitcher in March, 1895. Herbert W. Allen became treasurer in February, 1896, Jerry Abbott in 1901, and was succeeded by Horace B. Knight in May, 1914. William F. Whitcher became clerk in 1898, succeeding Chester Abbott, and was in turn succeeded by Dexter D. Dow in January, 1913. On the completion of the Opera Block in 1890, the bank was removed to rooms in that building, which it has since occu- pied. It has had a steady increase of business, and its deposits in 1916 were upwards of $525,000, and its guaranty fund had been increased to $57,000. It pays four per cent on deposits and is established on a sound

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and conservative basis with prospects of a prosperous future. An addi- tion has just been made to the banking rooms at a cost of about ten thou- sand dollars.

The Woodsville Loan and Banking Association was chartered in April, 1891, with a capital stock of $20,000. It went into business immediately, and continued in business with R. B. Horner and C. C. Whitcher as its cashiers until under the leadership of H. W. Allen, it was transformed into a national bank.

The Woodsville National Bank, which succeeded the Loan and Bank- ing Association, when the latter went into liquidation, was chartered October 9, 1897, and began business immediately under its charter. The capital stock was $50,000. The first board of directors were: Henry W. Keyes, George C. Carey, William H. Gilchrist, Dexter D. Dow, Samuel P. Carbee, Herbert W. Allen, Joseph M. Howe, Morris E. Kimball, W. H. Burbank. Henry W. Keyes was elected president, W. H. Gilchrist, vice-president and Herbert W. Allen, cashier. Mr. Allen was succeeded as cashier by Jerry Abbott March 1, 1908, and Hor- ace B. Knight became cashier May 1, 1914. The present board of direc- tors is H. W. Keyes, W. H. Gilchrist, D. D. Dow, J. M. Howe and Louis M. Kimball. The management of the bank has been conservative and it is doing a prosperous business on a sound basis.

CHAPTER XVII

LODGES, FRATERNITIES, SOCIETIES

FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS-CHARTER GRANTED IN JUNE 1799-MOVED TO ORFORD IN 1809-CHARTER FORFEITED IN 1844-RESTORED IN 1857-ODD FELLOWSHIP, CHARTER GRANTED IN 1848-SURRENDERED IN 1858-NEW LODGE AT WOODSVILLE IN 1874-GRAND CANTON ALBIN-OWNS LODGE BLOCK-MOUNTAIN VIEW LODGE 1902-Now OWNS A BLOCK-PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY-INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS-TWO LODGES K. OF P .- WOMAN'S READING CLUB-THREE CHAPTERS OF DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

NATURALLY the first of secret societies to be organized in Haverhill was a lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, a charter for which was granted by the Grand Lodge in June, 1799, and "Union Lodge No. 10," was duly organized and officers installed the same month. A petition for this charter, signed by Moody Bedel, John Montgomery, Joseph Bliss, William Cross, Artemas Nixon, John Haley, William Lambert and Amasa Scott of Haverhill, and Micah Barron, and William Wallace of Newbury, Vt., Arad Stebbins and Andrew B. Peters of Bradford, Vt., had been presented the previous January, and in the intervening months the petitioners had been at work as a lodge under a dispensation of the Grand Lodge. The installation of officers was public, and the cere- monies were held in the meeting house under the direction of Nathaniel Adams, of Portsmouth, Grand Master for the jurisdiction of New Hamp- shire. The Rev. Mr. Forsaith of Orford, who had officiated previously on a like occasion delivered an appropriate discourse. The chairs were filled by Micah Barron, worshipful master; John Montgomery, senior warden; Moody Bedel, junior warden; William Lambert, deacon. The jurisdiction of the lodge covered not only Haverhill, but the towns of Bath, Piermont and Orford, and Newbury and Bradford, Vt. The lodge had in its list of membership many of the leading men of the section. In 1809 it was moved to Orford where it was continued under the original name until about 1860, when its name was changed to Mount Cube Lodge.

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History of the town of Haverhill, New Hampshire, Part 41

Author: Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918 Publication date: 1919 Publisher: [Concord, N.H. : Rumford press] Number of Pages: 838

Author: Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Concord, N.H. : Rumford press]
Number of Pages: 838