Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 52

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590

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(II) Jonathan, son of William and Hannah Miller, was born about 1682, and died in Rah- way in 1727. He married Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (probably Alling) Ross, who was born in Elizabethtown, about 1687. Children: Jonathan, married Elizabeth Dick- inson ; David, born about 1718, died 1787, mar- ried Sarah - -; Joseph ; James, referred to below.

(III) James, son of Jonathan and Abigail (Ross) Miller, was born in Rahway, between 1715 and 1725.

(IV) Abner, son of James Miller, of Rah- way, was born about 1763, and died in 1882. He was a surveyor and farmer. He married Sarah Phillips. Children: Isaac, referred to below ; Aaron; Abigail; Maria; Sarah; Eliza- beth.

(V) Isaac, son of Abner and Sarah (Phil- lips ) Miller, was born in Rahway, in 1791, and died in 1869. He married Susan, daughter of William Miller, of Elizabeth. Children: Mary Ann, married William E. Broadwell; Sarah Phillips, married Dr. Frederick Thomas; Susan, married William Miller ; Elizabeth M., married John Noe; Rebecca Martin, referred to below ; Abner Halsey ; James Wesley ; Will- iam Henry Clay ; Isaac M.

(VI) Rebecca Martin, daughter of Isaac and Susan (Miller ) Miller, was born in 1825, and died in 1895. She married, in 1854, Samuel Davis, son of Jacob and Abigail (Dodd) Ward.

WARD (IV) Samuel Ward, son of Josiah Ward (q. v.), by his first wife Mary, daughter of Samuel Kitch- ell and Elizabeth Wakeman, of New Haven, is said by Mr. Samuel H. Conger to have died May 15, 1733, at the age of fifty-two, and to have been buried at Orange. This is evidently a mistake, because this would have brought Samuel's birth as early as 1681, and in his father's will, dated in 1713, he says that his son Samuel is under age, and two years later, when his father died, Samuel, on April 8, 1715, "a minor about fourteen," chooses Abraham

Kitchell for his guardian. It is very probable that Conger made a mistake in reading the gravestone record, and that the age should be thirty-two instead of fifty-two, which would bring Samuel's birth in 1701, since the only other Samuel living at that time, Samuel, son of Samuel, grandson of Josiah, and great- grandson of George Ward, of Branford, was not born until 1704 or 1705, and would have been designated in the guardianship papers had he been the one referred to as being "under" and not "about fourteen years." In his will Samuel Ward mentions his wife Jemima, and children Bethuel, Isaac and Daniel. It is also said that he had another daughter Phebe, born 1725, who died May 16, 1733, one day after her father did; but if so it is very singular that she is not mentioned in any way in his will. It has also been conjectured that the Jemima, wife of Samuel Ward, was Jemima Pierson ; if so, she must have been Jemima, daughter of Samuel Pierson and Mary, daughter of Ser- geant Harrison, and granddaughter of Thomas Pierson Sr. and Mary, sister to Sergeant Rich- ard Harrison. This Jemima was also sister of Judge Daniel Pierson, and aunt of Deacon Bethuel Pierson, which would account for the prevalence of those names among her children and descendants.

Children of Samuel and Jemima Ward: I. Bethuel, left a will, dated 1753, in which he names his children, Zenas, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Mary. Zenas, married Susanna, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Ogden) Ward; Rebecca, married Sophar, son of David Bald- win, and Elizabeth and Mary were born one in 1747, the other in 1749. It has also been con- jectured that this Bethuel had another son Bethuel, who was ancestor of the Bethuel Ward Sr. and Bethuel Ward Jr., referred to below, but there is no trace in the records of this Bethuel, son of Samuel, ever having been called Bethuel Sr., nor of his conjectured son and grandson ever having been referred to as Bethuel Jr. and Bethuel 3d. There are also other reasons given below, for believing that Bethuel Ward, son of Samuel, was the uncle and not the father of "Bethuel Ward Sr." 2. Isaac, referred to below. 3. Daniel, wrote his will in 1755, and in it mentions wife Mary, and children Amos, Samuel, Jemima and Hannah. As he also speaks of his "brother, Amos Harri- son," it is probable that his wife was Mary, daughter of Samuel Harrison and Jemima Williams, granddaughter of Samuel Harrison, son of Sergeant Richard Harrison, and Mary, daughter of Sergeant John Ward.

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(V) Isaac, son of Samuel and Jemima Ward, died November 15, 1754, aged thirty- six, and was buried in the old cemetery of the Mountain Society at Orange. This would bring his birth in the year 1718 possibly in De- cember, 1717. He has left hardly any record behind him, and as yet no positive facts have come to light concerning him except that about a year before his death, in 1753, he was living in Orange or Bloomfield, and subscribed £5 IO shillings towards the building fund of the second meetinghouse; and the additional fact that he died intestate, and that letters of ad- ministration were granted to "his widow Re- becca," December 20, 1754. The reasons for conjecturing that he, rather than his brother Bethuel, was father of Bethuel Ward Sr., of Bloomfield, is the fact that Bethuel Sr. names his eldest son Isaac, instead of Bethuel, names his second daughter Rebecca, and has no Je- mima among his eleven children, waits until he has six children before he names one after his own wife, and until he has nine before he calls one after himself. As it was much the more common practice to name children at this period after their grandparents, than after their par- ents, the weight of evidence seems to be in favor of the line Samuel, Isaac, Bethuel, rather than of the line Samuel, Bethuel, Bethuel, and it is accordingly so given here.

(VI) Bethuel, conjectured son of Isaac and Rebecca Ward, was born in Bloomfield, in 1752, and died in that place, March 29, 1830. He owned a good deal of land there, some of which he seems to have inherited and some of which he bought, and he also purchased or ob- tained land through the foreclosure of mort- gages in other counties, especially Bergen. June 22, 1807, he sold one of these tracts, which he had bought from Francos Van Winkle, to Will- iam Ennis, for $350. April 27, 1810, he sells a tract in Bergen county to James K. Mead, of Saddle river township, Bergen county; and April 25, 1827, he sells a part of his property in Orange township, Essex county, to Jotham Condit, for $272. Other pieces of property he disposed of to his sons at different times, among such being a tract of land which he had bought from Samuel L. Ward and wife, which he sells to his son, Joseph Smith Ward, for $5, May 31, 1809 ; and another tract of land in New Barbadoes, Bergen county, which he sells to his son, Dr. John Ward, for $41.85, April 26, 1827. Bethuel Ward Sr. served during the revolutionary war as private in Captain Pier- son's company, Second Regiment Essex County Troops. He wrote his will April 30, 1827, i-17

leaving legacies to children and grandchildren : First, to son Linus Dodd, the homestead, "to- gether with the distillery and its appurtenances, situate in Bloomfield aforesaid, bounded on the north by the Second river, on the east by the old road leading to Newark, on the west by the turnpike road and the lot on which James Gibb now lives, and on the south by a cross road running from the said old road to the turn- pike." To his daughter Lydia, wife of James Gibb, he gives "the house and lot of land on which she now lives to use and occupy the same during her natural life," and after her death to his surviving five sons and the chil- dren of his deceased son Isaac. To each of his surviving daughters, Lydia, Hannah and Fanny, he gives $100 each, and to his two granddaugh- ters, "Hannah, wife of Caleb S. Davis, and Lydia Dodd, he leaves $50 each. To these daughters and granddaughters he also leaves all his household furniture. The residue of his estate he gives to his five surviving sons and the children of his deceased son Isaac; and he appoints as his executors his sons Elea- zar Dodd Ward and Bethuel Ward Jr. Owing to various causes the executors had consider- able trouble settling the estate, and it was finally adjusted in the prerogative court five years after the testator's death.

Bethuel Ward Sr. married Hannah, daugh- ter of John Dodd, the assessor, and Jane, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Smith, and granddaughter of Joseph Smith, the emigrant from Scotland. John Dodd, the assessor, fre- quently called in the old records "John Dod 3d," to distinguish his from John Dod, the carpenter, son of Daniel, of Guilford, was son of John and Elizabeth (Lampson) Dod, grand- son of Daniel and Phebe (Brown) Dod, and great-grandson of Daniel and Mary Dod, the emigrants. February 23, 1776, Hannah Dodd, wife of Bethuel Ward Sr., entered into cove- nant with the Mountain Society at Orange, then under the pastorate of Rev. Jedidiah Chapman; and about six weeks later, April 7, 1776, had three of her children (Isaac, Jane and John) baptized by him. January 20, 1782, the same minister baptized her sixth child and namesake Hannah. Children of Bethuel Ward Sr. and Hannah Dodd :

I. Isaac Ward, born July 6, 1770; died be- fore April 30, 1827, when his father wrote his will; married Joanna, daughter of Isaac and Mary W. (Baldwin) Munn, granddaughter of Joseph and Sarah (Williams) Munn, and left several children.

2. Jane, born April 22, 1772; died March

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29, 1826, exactly one year and one day before her father wrote his will; married (first) Rev. Mr. Smith; (second), March 1, 1798, Isaac, youngest son of Isaac Dod and Jemima, daugh- ter of Matthew and Abigail ( Nutman) Will- iams, granddaughter of Matthew and Ruth Williams, and great-granddaughter of Mat- thew Williams, the emigrant from Wales to Wethersfield, Connecticut. Isaac Dod was son of Daniel and Sarah ( Alling) Dod, grandson of Daniel and Phebe (Brown) Dod, and great- grandson of Daniel and Mary Dod, the emi- grants. Isaac and Jane (Ward) Smith-Dodd had children: Hannah, died in infancy ; Han- nalı (2d), married Caleb C. Davis; Horace, died in infancy; Lydia, married Marquis D. Thomas; Moreau, died two months old. The second Hannah and Lydia are the two grand- children mentioned in the will of their grand- father, Bethuel Ward Sr.

3. Dr. John Ward, born September 26, 1774; died June 24, 1836; studied medicine under Dr. John Condit, of Orange, and after practicing in Bloomfield for some time removed to New- ark, where he lived the remainder of his life. By his first wife Charlotte, daughter of Dr. John Condit, and his first wife, Abigail Halsey, Dr. John Ward had children: Abigail, after- wards wife of William Garthwaite, of New- ark ; Charlotte, married a Gould ; and Caleb C., who also married. Dr. John Ward married (second) Martha Jackson, said to have been a daughter of Rev. Abel Jackson, first pastor of the Bloomfield Presbyterian Church.

4. Rebecca, born January 1, 1777 ; married Rev. Simeon R. Jones, of Elmira, New York, and died leaving no children.

5. Lydia, born August 10, 1779; died before January 19, 1835, when the following adver- tisement was inserted in the Sentinel of Free- dom and posted up at Mr. Darby's tavern, M. D. Thomas's store, Horace H. Ward's store, Linus D. Ward's store, and Bethuel Ward's store, "the five most public places in the town- ship of Bloomfield." The advertisement runs : "To be sold at publick vendue, March, 21, 1835, at 2 P. M., a house and lot in the village of Bloomfield, and adjoining the easterly side of the Newark and Pompton turnpike, late the residence of Mrs. Lydia Gibb, deceased." This was the property which Lydia (Ward) Gibb had been given the life interest in by her father's will five years previously, and was now sold for $361 to her nephew, Horace H. Ward, and the proceeds divided among the sons and children of the deceased sons of Bethuel Ward

Sr. Lydia Ward married James Gibb, of Bloomfield.

6. Hannah, born November 17, 1781; died in 1843. About July 24, 1800, when the license was granted by the Essex county clerk, she married Matthias Baldwin.

7. Joseph Smith Ward, referred to below.

8. Eleazer Dodd Ward, born in Orange, February 23, 1786; died in Bloomfield, Febru- ary 10, 1868. After attending two courses of medical lectures, one in Philadelphia, the other in New York, he went to Montclair, New Jer- sey, and later to Bloomfield. In 1816 he was one of the founders of the Essex County Med- ical Society, and after practicing continuously for fifty-eight years retired in 1865, relinquish- ing his practice to his youngest son, who is still carrying it on. August 10, 1807, Dr. Eleazar Dodd Ward married (first) Eliza- beth, daughter of Isaac and Mary (or Polly) (James) Dodd, granddaughter of Amos Dodd and Hannah, daughter of Isaac, and grand- daughter of Peter and Mary ( Harrison) Con- dit, and great-granddaughter of John Cunditt, the emigrant. Amos Dodd was son of Daniel and Sarah (Alling) Dod, grandson of Daniel and Phebe (Brown) Dod, and great-grandson of Daniel and Mary Dod, the emigrants. Eliza- beth (Dodd) Ward was born August 16, 1789, and died August 8, 1828, having borne her hus- band eight children: James, Emeline Eliza- beth Jenette, Charlotte, William Spencer, An- drew, Anna Maria and Henry Smith. Dr. Eleazar Dodd Ward married (second) Urania Wheeler, of Connecticut; children: Frances Jane, Lydia Cordelia and Edwin Morrison, M. D.

9. Bethuel Ward Jr., see sketch.

IO. Fanny Pierson, born April 11, 1789; died December 18, 1856; her husband was John W. Baldwin.

II. Linus Dodd Ward, born May 28, 1794; died about 1841; married (first) Mary Wharry; (second) Julia Baldwin.

(VII) Joseph Smith Ward, more commonly spoken of as "Smith" Ward, seventh child and third son of Bethuel and Hannah (Dodd) Ward, was born March 15, 1784, and died intestate, February 20, 1833. Like his brothers he kept a store in Bloomfield. This store and his dwelling house with the remainder of his real estate were sold at auction, September 16, 1839, and bought in by his eldest son and ad- ministrator, for $2,000. Letters of adminis- tration on his estate were granted March 9, 1833, to Isaac Moreau Ward, Horace H. Ward,

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and the widow, Lucy Ward. The cause of the four years' delay in selling the property and settling the estate was the minority of Joseph Smith Ward's youngest son. January 7, 1806, Joseph Smith Ward married Lucy, youngest child of Samuel Dodd, by his second wife, Sarah Baldwin. Samuel Dodd was youngest son of Samuel Dod and Mary, daughter of Samuel Pierson and Mary, daughter of Ser- geant Richard Harrison. Samuel Pierson was eldest son of Thomas Pierson Sr., the emi- grant, and brother to Rev. Abraham Pierson. Samuel Dod was youngest son of Samuel and Martha Dod, and grandson of Daniel and Mary Dod, the emigrants. Children of Joseph Smith and Lucy (Dodd) Ward: I. Isaac Moreau, referred to below. 2. Horace H. 3. Alexander Smith. 4. Elizabeth, died before 1839. 5. Emily T., married Rev. Elias J. Richards, D. D. 6. Julia, married Oliver P. Hanks. 7. Frances W., married William W. Backus. 8. John Augustine, who was a minor in 1833.

(VIII) Isaac Moreau, eldest child of Jo- seph Smith and Lucy (Dodd) Ward, was born in 1806, in Bloomfield, New Jersey. In 1825 he received his B. A. degree from Yale Uni- versity, and three years later his M. D. degree from Geneva Medical College, having pursued his preparatory studies in medicine under Dr. David Hosack. In 1831 he received his M. A. degree from Yale University. He established himself at once as a practitioner in Newark, where he became favorably known, in 1832 and on several occasions afterwards being chosen one of the delegates to the State Med- ical Society, where he took an active part in the proceedings. After a few years spent in general practice, Dr. Ward turned his attention to the methods of treatment adopted by the Homeopathic School of Physicians, and ulti- mately joined their ranks. In 1841 he removed to Albany, New York, where he assisted in the organization of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and on the formation of the New York State Homoeopathic Medical Soci- ety in 1849 he was elected its first president. Soon after this his health beginning to fail, he returned to Newark and in the suburbs of that city made his home. In 1853 he was called to the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women in the Homoeopathic College of Medicine in Philadelphia, and while officiating in this posi- tion was instrumental in the establishment of a medical college for women, of which for two years he acted as dean. Soon after this he retired from practice, and spent the remainder

of his life quietly at his home near Newark, or at his winter residence in Florida. He died February 24, 1895.

In his will, dated December 9, 1889, proved March 7, 1895, he leaves to his wife "the twenty-three acres making the southern half of the Orange Grove at Arlington, Florida, on the adjoining north half of which Orange Grove is located the cottage we have occupied as a winter home, which said Orange Grove adjoins the property known as the Arlington Bluff Association." He also gives her the twenty-two foot lot forming the "rear part of

lot number 66 in Howard street, Newark, which he had bought from Mrs. Ann Mul- guire, October 19, 1885. He makes his daugh- ter Mary Caroline the trustee of $5,000, to be "used by her in defraying the expenses of the Daily Prayer Union publications and other tracts, with such other publications for the promotion of the Christian life as in her judg- ment may seem best, either for the advance- ment of the Prayer Union or the upbuilding of the Christian life in the hearts of God's peo- ple." The residue of his estate he divides into six parts, five parts being distributed among his five surviving children, and the remaining sixth among his three grandchildren: Helen M. Breck, William B. Breck and William R. Ward Jr. His executors are his wife and three of his children.

In 1832 Dr. Isaac Moreau Ward married Mary Ogden, second child and eldest daughter of William and Abigail (Ogden) Rankin, and granddaughter of William Rankin, the emi- grant from Scotland to Nova Scotia and New York. (See Rankin family). Mary Ogden Rankin was born October 16, 1812, and died January 19, 1896. Her will, dated about a month after her husband's death, in March, 1895, and proved January 30, 1896, leaves "that part of my homestead property at Lyons Farms, which was conveyed to me by my father William Rankin, in trust to be occupied as a home" by her three unmarried children, either for life or so long as they remain unmar- ried. When these children (Joseph Beers, Mary Caroline and Emily Theresa ) have all either married or died, the property is to be divided like the residue of her estate which is bequeathed in six portions in the same way as her husband's had been. Her executors are the same as those of her husband's will, leav- ing out herself, namely, Mary Caroline, Emily Theresa and William Rankin Ward. Chil- dren of Dr. Isaac Moreau and Mary Ogden (Rankin) Ward: I. Joseph Beers Ward, born

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July 22, 1833. 2. Mary Caroline Ward, born June 5, 1835 ; now living at Newark, New Jer- sey. 3. Emily Theresa Ward, born April 22, 1837. 4. Matilda Whiting Ward, born June 3, 1838; married William P. Breck; children : Helen M. and William B. 5. Susan Duryee Ward, born July 22, 1840 ; died March 9, 1863. 6. William Rankin Ward, referred to below.

(IX) William Rankin, youngest child of Dr. Isaac Moreau and Mary Ogden (Rankin) Ward, was born in Albany, New York, No- vember 5, 1843, and died in Clinton township, Essex county, January 3, 1897. Mr. Ward was a noted horticulturist, and one of the most prominent men engaged in that business not only in but out of the state. His father before him had done a great deal in the same line of work, and as early as 1856, when the Concord grape was first introduced on the market, had put up on his property at Lyons Farms a prop- agating house for the raising and sale of vines. His son became very much interested in the work and made his life study the cultivation of fruits and berries. He was one of the horticulturists who conceived and organized the New Jersey State Horticultural Society in 1879, and from 1882 to 1884 he was the presi- dent of the society, while in 1890 and for three years afterwards he was its secretary. At the time of his death he was the secretary of the Board of Agriculture of the State of New Jersey, and also secretary of the board of visitors to the State Agricultural College and Experiment Station. At the World's Colum- bian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Mr. Will- iam Rankin Ward had charge of the horticul- tural exhibit of the state there, and his labors during the preparation and successful carrying through of this work laid the foundations of the disease which later on caused his death.

Mr. Ward was a Republican, and served several terms as one of the chosen freeholders of Clinton township, besides holding from time to time many other of the township offices. He was very often called upon to speak on horticultural subjects, and was in great de- mand for this purpose both in as well as out of the state. For many years he was a promi- nent member of the Presbyterian church at Lyons Farms, being for twenty-five years superintendent of its Sunday school, and for eleven years one of its elders. He was buried in Evergreen cemetery. In his will, dated Feb- ruary 19, 1896, proved January 18, 1897, he left to his wife his "homestead property on the northerly side of Prospect avenue, Clinton township, with the household furniture of

every kind and character." To his only sur- viving son he left a "farm of seven acres known as the Gamott farm on Prospect avenue, Clin- ton township," and also his "plot of salt meadow, about four acres in the same town- ship." To the treasurer of the First Presby- terian Church in Lyons Farms he left $500, the residue of the estate to be divided between his wife and surviving son, who were made the executors of the will.

March 18, 1868, William Rankin Ward mar- ried Mary Robinson, elder daughter of Henry Meeker and Martha Ann, daughter of Jediah Johnson and Abigail (Johnson) Baldwin, and granddaughter of Moses and Sarah Baldwin. Her father, Henry Meeker, was son of Oba- diah Meeker and Jerusha Cook, daughter of Abraham Harrison and Mary, daughter of Josiah and Phebe Crane, granddaughter of Jo- seph Crane and Abigail, daughter of Joseph Lyon, granddaughter of Henry Lyon and Mary, daughter of William Bateman, of Fair- field, Connecticut, and great-granddaughter of Richard Lyon, the emigrant to Fairfield, Con- necticut. Joseph Crane was son of Jasper Crane Jr. and Joanna, daughter of Captain Samuel and Joanna Swaine, and grandson of Jasper Crane Sr. and Alice his wife. Abra- ham Harrison was son of Timothy, grandson of Abraham, great-grandson of Benjamin and Mary, and great-great-grandson of Sergeant Richard Harrison. Obadiah Meeker was son of Obadiah and Comfort (Johnson) Meeker. Mary Robinson (Meeker) Ward was born August 28, 1837, at Waverly, New Jersey. Children of William Rankin and Mary Robin- son (Meeker) Ward: Henry Meeker Ward, born April 2, 1869, died July, 1869; Joseph Moreau Ward, born April 2, 1869, twin with his brother Henry Meeker, died also July, 1869; and William Rankin Ward Jr., referred to below.

(X) Dr. William Rankin Ward, only child surviving infancy of William Rankin and Mary (Meeker) Ward, was born in Clinton town- ship, Essex county, December 9, 1870, and is now a practicing physician in Newark. For his early education he was sent to the Eliza- beth Institute, which he attended during the years 1880 to 1884, then for the next four years, 1884-88, went to the Newark Academy, after which he attended the New York Homœo- pathic College and Hospital for the years 1891-92, and then for two years, 1892-93, the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. Since 1893 he has been a prac- ticing physician in Newark. Dr. Ward is a

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Republican, and during the years 1897 to 1902 was a member of the Clinton township board of education, and also a member of the Clinton township committee, for the last three of which years, 1899 to 1902, he was chairman of the latter body. He has seen no military service and he belongs to no secret societies. He is a member of the New Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society, of the Essex County Homœo- pathic Medical Society, and of the Chiron Medical Club of Newark. He is also a mem- ber of the Elizabeth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Newark.

June 16, 1903, William Rankin Ward Jr., M. D., married Jennie Warren Prentiss, younger of the two daughters of Chauncey and Emily (Hanks) Prentiss, of Cleveland, Ohio, where the marriage took place. Jennie Warren (Prentiss) Ward was born in Cleve- land, October 17, 1870. Children of William Rankin and Jennie Warren ( Prentiss) Ward : Caroline Prentiss Ward, born March 27, 1905; Elizabeth Baldwin Ward, September 4, 1906; and William Rankin Ward (3d), September 13, 1907.

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Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 52

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 590

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590