History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 57

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts
Number of Pages: 1224

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On Sabbath morning, April 8th, Mr. Henry Sey- mour was ordained and installed deacon by the pas- tor. Thus was completed the organization of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. An unusual degree of harmony and brotherly love pre- vailed in all the counsels and workings of the con- gregation.

The first communion was celebrated in Library Hall, on the 8th of April, 1866, on which occasion the deacons Baker and Seymour presented to the church the beautiful communion service now in use.

The weekly prayer and conference meeting was held at the house of the pastor from the organization of the church to the opening of the new house for religious worship. It grew from a very small com- pany to a large congregation, filling every foot of space that could be devoted to the purpose. Here commenced a revival of religion early in the spring of 1867. As the fruit of this work of grace more than forty persons were received into the communion of the church. The majority of these were from the Sabbath-school. The church has been visited since with two seasons of special interest, increasing its membership between sixty and seventy, and calling into more lively exercise the graces of God's people. None that attended those meetings will ever cease to feel that it was good to be there.

The board of trustees, consisting of Messrs. Alfred De Witt, president; William F. Day, vice-president ; Amos Clark, Jr., Jacob Davis, A. W. Kingsley, A. C. Kellogg, and George T. Mulford, secretary, were in- structed by the congregation to select and secure a suitable location for the church. The beautiful site on which the edifice now stands having been pur- chased, plans for building were procured and adopted at a meeting of the congregation held at the house of the pastor.

On the 13th of June, 1866, the corner-stone was laid with appropriate religious exercises. The open- ing prayer was offered by the Rev. John F. Pingry, the 100th Psalm was sung, introductory remarks were made by Alfred De Witt, Esq., and a sketch of the progress of the enterprise was read by the Rev. D. H. Pierson. The corner-stone was then laid by the pas- tor, with the use of the plumb-line, hammer, and trowel, accompanied by an address on the propriety and history of laying with ceremony the corner- stones of sacred and important huildings. The ex- ercises were closed by the chanting of the Lord's Prayer by the children of the Sabbath-school and the

The cost of the church buildings thus far, exclu- sive of the large tower and the pulpit furniture, which was kindly presented by Mrs. Amos Clark, Jr., has been about one hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars. At the time of the completion of the church edifice the pastor was absent in pursuit of health in a foreign land, and hence it was resolved to delay the formal dedication of it until his return. The house was opened for divine service on the last Sabbath of December, 1867. The Rev. John F. Pingry conducted the devotional exercises; the Rev. David Magie, of Penn Yan, N. Y., preached in the morning, from Eph. iii. 21, and the Rev. D. H. Pierson in the evening, from Zech. iv. 6.

The Sabbath-school and lecture-room were dedi- cated to the service of God Sept. 3, 1871, with an ad- dress by the pastor, from Luke vii. 5, the reading of Scripture by the school, an address by Mr. G. T. Mul- ford, Mr. T. A. Smith acting as superintendent.

The church was formally dedicated March 17. 1876. The pastor conducted the opening exercises, and offered the dedicatory prayer; Rev. Dr. S. I. Prime, editor of New York Observer, delivered an address on the connection between the past and present minis- ters of Elizabeth; Rev. Dr. Paxton, pastor First Presbyterian Church, New York, on the conditions of a prosperous church ; and Rev. Dr. Hall, pastor Fifth Avenue Church, New York, on Christian work. The benediction was pronounced by Dr. Calhoun, of Syria.

We append the following statistics, which will give some idea of the growth and financial expenditures of the church, and also furnish some data of general interest :

ADDITIONS TO THE COMMUNION OF THE CHURCH.

Original members .. 100

Received on profession of faith. 190

by certificate ... 253

443

Total number on the roll 543

Dismissed to other churches. 82

Died. - 112

Present number of communicants .. 431

EXPENSES OF THE CHURCH.

Lot and church edifice. $107,227

Organ ... 10,071

Lecture-roomn and furniture. 33,898

Special furniture, books, etc., for church aod lecture-room. ...... 2,500

$153,696

Juterest on funded and floating debt ..

17,075

Total cost of church and interest of money. $170,771

Current expenses in ten years. 79,238

Total of home expense .$250,009

These expenses were met-

Ist. By subscriptions for building and furnishing the church and .$120,724

lecture-room, and interests on loans. ....

2d. By subscriptions for funded and floating debt .. 38,172

3d. Pew-rente, amounting to .. 78,249

4th. Sabbath evening collections and card contributions. 7,964

5tl. From city, for land on Prince Street 2,400

6th. Gifts from different persons ... 2,500

Total $250,009

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BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS.

For foreign missions. $12,932

home ....

15,165

board of education. 6,508

church erection. 4,370

ministerial relief fund. 3,808

= Board of Publication .. 2.264

freedmen's committee. 2,534

bible and tract societies and miscellaneous. 18,677

Total .. $66,258

MONEY BAISED BY THE LADIES' SOCIETY.

Organ and lecture-room, not including subscriptions. $26,493

Boxes of clothing, etc., for missionaries, valued at. 4,532

Total

.$31,025

CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SABBATH-SCHOOL.

Contributions during ten years. .. $5,464

Boxes of clothing and Sabbath-school contributions are included in benevolent contributions.

DATES OF GENERAL INTEREST.

First religions meeting.

July 14, 1865

" trustees elected

6 26, “

Church organized.

Jan. 31, 1866

First elders elected

# 31, 1866

Rev. William C. Roberts called.

Feb. 5, 1866

First service as a church

March 4,

Sabbath-school organized.

Pastor installed.

Ladies' Society organized

28.

First communion

April 8, «

Church edifice opeued for services.

Dec. 29, 1867

Sabbath-school and lecture-room dedicated ..

Sept. 3, 1871

Madison Avenue Chapel opened. Oct. 4, 1873

Debt provided for ..

Jan. 31, 1876

Church formally dedicated.

March 17, "

Third Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth .- This church was organized by the Presbytery of Elizabeth Town on Nov. 17, 1851, and was originally composed of seventy-six members, who had been dismissed in equal proportions from the First and Second Churches for this purpose. Messrs. Edward Sanderson, Daniel Woodruff, John D. Norris, Benjamin Ogden, and John McCord were installed elders.

Public worship was commenced by the congrega- tion in Collet Hall on Sept. 14, 1851. The Rev. Robert Aikman, previously of Troy, N. Y., was em- ployed from September 21st, and having soon after received a call to be their pastor, was installed by the Presbytery of Newark (to which the church had been transferred), March 1, 1852. The ground, formerly be- longing to Dr. Isaac Morse, on the southwest corner of East Jersey and Bridge Streets (one hundred and forty- five by two hundred and forty-five feet), was purchased in June, 1852, for $300, and preparations made for the erection of a house of worship. The corner-stone was laid Sept. 21, 1852; the lecture-room, or chapel, was occupied May 8, 1853, and the house completed and dedicated March 28, 1855. It is of brick, sixty by one hundred and twenty feet. It fronts on Scott Place (late Bridge Street), and the audience-room, finished with galleries, will seat about nine hundred persons. The chapel, with a lecture-room to seat two hundred persons on the first floor, and a Sunday- school room and study on the second floor, is attached to the rear of the church, and fronts on Jersey Street. The property was freed from debt in 1865. The church numbers more than two hundred members.

Marshall Street Presbyterian Church .- This

church is situated in that part of the city formerly known as Elizabethport. A union religious service was commenced there in 1836 every Sabbath after- noon in an iron foundry. The Rev. Abraham Brown, a Congregational minister of Oxford, Conn., was em- ployed as a stated supply, and began to preach Oct. 6, 1838. A Congregational Church of twenty-nine members was organized Ang. 7, 1839. Messrs. Jona- than M. Ropes and Elias Marsh were chosen deacons, and Maj. Denman and Messrs. James C. Fairbank, Joseph P. Augur, Jeremiah Robinson, and Jonathan M. Ropes were chosen trustees. At the same time the corner-stone of the church on Marshall Street, between First and Second Streets, was laid. The house was completed the following year.

Mr. Brown died Oct. 15, 1840, aged forty-five. Rev. Jonathan Huntington and others were em- ployed as stated supplies the next eighteen months. The Rev. Oliver S. St. John was ordained the first pastor of the church June 15, 1842. The former deacons having been elected elders Feb. 9, 1846, the church was received, April 22, 1846, under the care of the Presbytery of Elizabeth Town. Mr. St. John was dismissed Oct. 20, 1846, and the present pastor, Rev. Edwin H. Reinhart, was installed Oct. 26, 1847. The church has now about one hundred and twenty members. Mr. Reinhart has had a long pastorate, having continued in the service of the church for a period of thirty-five years.

Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church .- A num- ber of the Westminster congregation, situated remote from their church in what is known as North Eliza- beth, thought it expedient to begin a chapel in that section of the city in 1873. A further inducement to take this step was the number of children in the neighborhood without any Sabbath-school privileges whatever. In order, therefore, to supply this desti- tution the Madison Avenue Chapel was opened with religious services Sept. 25, 1873. The Sabbath-school was organized with thirty scholars and a good corps of teachers, with many sympathetic friends present. The officers appointed by Westminster (under whose an- spices the school was organized) were Charles L. Doe, superintendent ; William H. Corbin, secretary ; Thomas A. Doe, librarian.

Preaching began under the patronage of Westmin- ster, Sept. 1, 1874, and continued as often as it was practicable until July, 1875, when the services of the Rev. W. S. C. Webster were secured. Mr. Webster was with the people about a year when, on Oct. 1, 1876, the services of the Rev. A. L. Clark were pro- cured.

On May 7, 1877, the congregation took a very im- portant step, but one which was considered to be the best thing for the real health and thorough independ- ence of the community. This was the organization, through the instrumentality of the Presbytery of Elizabeth, of the church on its own footing. Mr. Clark, a man of God, much beloved for his piety and

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devotion, was released from pastoral charge of the church in April, 1879.

On May 14, 1879, the congregation voted a call to the present incumbent, Rev. C. E. Cunningham. He began his ministrations among them the first Sabbath in September, and was regularly ordained and in- stalled as their pastor in November following.

This is the briefest possible outline of a church yet yonng but vigorous. The membership has increased to seventy, and the Sunday-school to one hundred and ten scholars and fourteen teachers.

German Presbyterian Church .- The congrega- tion was gathered by the present pastor, Rev. John Rudolph, who graduated at the theological seminary in Bloomfield, N. J., in June, 1875, and in September following preached his first sermon in Elizabeth in the Marshall Street Presbyterian Church. With the view of gathering a new congregation a hall was rented on the corner of Third and Fulton Streets Nov. 15, 1875. The movement proved a success from the outset, and the hall was occupied for re- Jigious services until September, 1878, when the new church was dedicated, an American clergyman, Rev. Dr. Roberts, preaching the sermon on the occasion in the German language. The church property is val- ued at about ten thousand dollars. A parsonage was built in 1881.

The church at first consisted of forty members; it now numbers one hundred and fifty. From thirty- six members at the beginning the Sunday-school has increased to two hundred and fifty. The elders of the church are Henry Pfaerer, F. Schomburg, and F. Hilderbrant.

Rev. Mr. Rudolph was born in Germany, where he pursued a regular college course. He studied theol- ogy at Bloomfield, N. J. He is the editor of The German Evangelist, the organ of the German Presby- terians, now published at Newark.

Methodist Episcopal Churches of Elizabeth .- Until the close of the Revolutionary war two churches only had been organized within the village of Eliza- beth Town. the First Presbyterian and St. John's Episcopal. Soon after the war the town was visited occasionally by traveling preachers of the Methodist Episcopal persuasion. Bishop Asbury, on passing through the town, preached by invitation, Sept. 6, 1785, in the unfinished Presbyterian Church. Either then or shortly after a society was gathered and taken under the care of the Conference. Of this society one of the earliest and most efficient mem- bers was the wife of Mr. Jonathan Morrell. This worthy couple originated in Newtown, L. I., but at an early day took np their abode in the city of New York, where they resided more than a quarter of a century. Mrs. Morrell was one of the small com- pany who were induced to hear Philip Embury, the carpenter, preach in his own house at New York in the year 1766, the earliest American Methodist preacher. She was converted, and had the honor of

being enrolled in the first Methodist class in America. In 1772 Mr. Morrell removed to this town, and with his wife united with the First Presbyterian Church, under the care of the Rev. Mr. Caldwell. At the or- ganization of the Methodist society Mrs. Morrell re- turned to the people of her first love, and became one of the principal supports of the society.

The first who ministered to this handful of people (for such they were for many years) were circuit preachers, appointed by the General Conference, generally two by two, in the order following :

The appointments by the General Conference to the Elizabeth Town Circuit were as follows :

1787. Robert Cloud, Thomas Mor- | 1800. Joseph Totten, Jesse Justice. rell.

1801 Joseph Totten, William

1788. John Mccluskey, Simon Pile.

1789. John Merrick, John Cooper.

1790. Jethro Johnson, Gamaliel Bailey.

1791. No record.

1792. John Clark, Joseph TotteD.

1793. John Ragan, Menzies Ray- лег.

1805. Peter Vannest, David Bar- Line.

1806. William McLenahao, David Bartine.

1807. James Moore, Jacob Hev- ener.

1808. James Moore, Thomas Strat- ton.

1809. William Smith, Thomas Stratton, John Sharpley.

1798. James Tolleson, Samuel

1810. William Mills, Jacob Hev- .

ener.

With the exception of the year 1821, when Joseph Lybrand received the appointment, no preachers were assigned to the Elizabeth Town Circuit from 181I to 1822. Mr. Morrell during this period preached regularly on the Sabbath, aided by the preachers on the Essex Circuit. In 1823, Samuel S. Kennard, and in 1824 Robert Lutton were stationed here. From 1825 to 1838 Thomas Morrell was classed among the " supernumerary preachers in connection with" this church, and from 1825 to 1853 the following preach- ers were stationed here .

1825. 'Thomae B. Sargent. 1840. Robert Lutton.

1826. Thomas B. Sargent. 1841. Robert Lutton.

1827. Joseph Holdich.

1842. Alexander Gilmore.

1828 Joseph Holdich.

1843. Joseph Ashbrook.

1829. Deniel Parrish. 1844 Joseph Ashbrook.

1845. James O. Rogers.

1830 Edmund S. Janes.

1846. James O. Rogers.

1831. Edmund S. Janes.

1832. William A. Wilmer.

1847. Richard B. Westbrook.

1833. Edwin L. Janes.

1848. Richard B. Westbrook.

1834. William H. Gilder.

1849. Thomas McCarroll.

1835. James Buckley. 1850. Thomas McCarroll.

1836. James Buckley.

1851. Lewis R. Dunn.

1837. George A. Raybold.

1852. Lewis R. Duun.

1838. Isaac N. Felch.

1853. Alexander II. Mead.

1839. Isaac N. Felch.

Mills.

1802. Joseph Totlen, William

Mills.

1803. Samuel Thomas, George Woolley, Joseph Stevens.

1804. Thomas Morrell, Benjamin Iliff, Samuel Budd.

1794. John Clark, Hezekiah C. Wouster.

1795. Shadrach Bostwick, Robert Hutchinson, William Storms.

1796. John Fountain, Albert Van Nostrand.

1797. John Clark, Timothy Mer- ritt, Jolin Seward.

Thomas, Thomas Morrell.

1799. Thomas Everard, David Bar- tine.

In 1852 a second church was commenced at Eliza- bethport, and located on Fulton Street, now known as the Fulton Street Methodist Episcopal Church. For the next five years the appointments were as fol- lows :

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1854 .- Alexander H. Mead, E. Towo; Isaac Trotter, E. Port.

1855 .- James Ayars, Jonathan B. Heward, =

1856 .- John Ogden Winner, “ = Albert 11. Brown, ..

1857 .- John Ogden Winner, “ = Horace S. Bishop,

1858 .- Richard Vanhorne, Jeremiah Cowins, . 44

In 1859 a new enterprise was started in Mechanic Street, known as St. Paul's Church, since which time the appointments for the three churches have been as follows, in the order of time,-Water Street, Fulton Street, and St. Paul's :

1859 .- Richard Vanhorne, George F. Dickinson, Jolin F. Dodd. 1860 - Dalles D. Lore, George F. Dickinson, Edward W. Adamıs.

186] .- Dallas D. Lore, John F. Hurst, Edward W. Adams.

1862 .- George H. Whitney, John F. Horst, Elbert Clement.

1863 .- John F. Horst, Charles S. Coit, James N. Fitzgerald. 1864 .- John F. Horst, Charles S. Coit, Zylvester N. Bebout.

1865 .- Richard B. Lock wood, Sylvester H. Opdyke, Alexander L. Price. | L. I., and a grandson of Thomas Morrell, who was at 1866 .- Richard B. Lockwood, Sylvester H. Opdyke, Alexander L. Brice. 1867 .- Benjamin Kelley, Jamies I. Roswell, Alexander L. Brice.

1868 .- Benjamin Kelley, James 1. Boswell, Sanford Van Benschotten.

Thus far the record has been furnished by Dr. Hat- field. We add the appointments which have been made since 1868, following the same order,-Water Street (since called Elizabeth Avenue), Fulton Street, and St. Paul's :

1869 .- Benjamin Kelley, James I. Boswell, Sanford Van Benschotten. 1870,-R. S. Aradt, J. Winsor, L. R. Dann.

1871 .- R. S. Arndt, J. Winsor, L. R. Dunn.

1872 .- R. S. Arndt, J. Winsor, J. N. Fitzgerald.

1873 .- R. Herconrt, C. C. Winans, J. N. Fitzgerald.

1874 .- R. Harcourt, C. C. Winans, J. N. Fitzgerald.

In 1875 the Park Methodist Episcopal Church was formed, and W. L. Hoagland appointed to the charge. After that the appointments were up to 1877 in the order named :

1875 .- R. B. Yard, Elizabeth Avenue ; J. W. Young, Fulton Street ; James Montgomery, St. Paul's; W. L. Hoagland, Park Church.

1876 .- J. W. Scran, Elizabeth Avenue; Nicholas Van Sant, Fulton Street ; James Montgomery, St. Pan)'s; W. L. Hoagland, Park Church.

In 1877 the Elizabeth Avenue and St. Paul's Churches were merged in St. James', and the new organization purchased the property and house of worship known as the Broad Street Baptist Church, on the corner of Broad and Williamson Streets. Since then the appointments have been as follows :

1877 .- James Montgomery, St. James'; Nicholas Van Sant, Fulton Street ; W. L. Hoagland, Park Church.

1878 .- Henry Spellmeyer, St. James'; Nicholas Van Sant, Fultoo Street: Charles E. Little, Park Church.

1879 .- Henry Spellmeyer, St. James'; Charles Lerew, Fulton Street; Charles E. Little, Park Church.

1880 .- Henry Spellmeyer, St. James'; Charles Larew, Fulton Street; Charles E. Little, Park Church.

1881 .-- A. H. Tuttle, St. James'; Charles Larew, Fulton Street ; T. H. Landon, Park Church.

We add the following statistics for 1881 :

St. James' Church : Membership, 350; Sunday- school scholars, 350; value of church property, $50,- 000.

Fulton Street Church : Membership, 325; Sunday- school scholars, 270; value of church property, $12,000.

Park Church : Membership, 160; Sunday-school scholars, 250; value of church property, $16,000.

There are two other Methodist Churches in the city, of recent origin, viz. : Mount Teman African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Mr. Williams, pastor, holding services in school-house No. 4, not now used for school purposes, but rented to the society ; and a German Methodist Church at the Port, Rev. Albert Gratz, pastor.

Among those to whose labors the society in its in- fancy was under greatest obligations was the

REV. THOMAS MORRELL .- He was the eldest child of Jonathan Morrell, and was born at New York, Nov. 22, 1747. His father was a native of Newtown,

Gravesend, L. I., in 1650, and at Newtown as early as 1655, where he died about 1704, leaving four sons,- Thomas, Samuel, Joseph, and Jonathan. One of these four was the father of Jonathan, and the grand- father of the Rev. Thomas Morrell. The father was a merchant, and from the time of their coming to this town, in 1772, the son had a partnership in the busi- ness. When tidings of the battle of Lexington reached the town a company of volunteers was immediately gathered, of which he being among the foremost was chosen captain. He was in command of one of the boats that captured the "Blue Mountain Valley" off Sandy Hook, Jan. 23, 1776. He took an active part in the measures that were adopted to protect the town and neighborhood during the following summer and autumn against the British and Hessians.

In June, 1776, he received a captain's commission, with orders to muster a company of seventy-eight men and report to Gen. Washington, then at New York. Two companies of militia were parading in front of the Presbyterian Church. Young Morrell gave them an earnest talk and then called for volun- teers. So effective was his eloquence that in five minutes his quota was filled, many of them being of the most respectable families in the town. They were equipped and ready at New York for service six days after the declaration of independence. They were attached to the New Jersey Brigade, under Gen. Heard, of Woodbridge, and in the fatal en- gagement at Flatbush, Aug. 27, 1776, were nearly cut to pieces. Capt. Morrell fell severely wounded, and barely escaped with his life. He was removed first to New York, and then to his father's house in this town, where he remained, unable to report for duty, until the advent of Cornwallis and his army of invasion, when he found a refuge at the house of Rev. Jonathan Elmer at New Providence. Soon after he was appointed a major in the Fourth Jersey Regiment, and served through the campaign of 1777, or until the attack on Germantown, Pa., Oct. 3, 1777, in which he took an active part. He also distinguished himself in the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777. His health had now become so much impaired that, with the reluctant assent of Washington, who highly es-

1 Mr. Yard died soon after his appointment, and W. R. Keifer was ap- pointed to fill the vacancy.

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teemed him, he withdrew from military service, and resumed his mercantile pursuits, in which he con- tinued thenceforward nearly ten years.

The change which then ensued is best told in his own words, as recorded in his journal :

"In the month of October, 1785, I was awakened by the preaching of the Rev. John Hagerty,1 and io March, 1786, received the witness of God's Spirit of my acceptance, In June, 1786, 1 began to preach as a local preacher in Elizabeth Town, and in several parts of the circuit. In March, 1787, I began to ride as a traveling preacher, and rode on Elizabeth Town Circuit [twenty months] with Robert Clund. At the Conference in New York, in October, 1788, I was ordained deacon [nearly forty-one years old], and appointed to the Trenton Circuit, with John Merrick and Jethro Johnson. At the June Conference in New York, 1789, was ordained ao elder, and appointed for that city, with Brother ('lond, who was with me twelve months, and Brother Merrick four months."

He continued at New York most of the time for nearly five years, residing at No. 32 John Street. During the first six months he built the Forsyth Street Church, the funds for which he raised himself. The church was dedicated Nov. 8, 1789. A great re- vival followed, resulting in four hundred conversions and two hundred accessions to the society within nine weeks from Jan. 1, 1790. At the Conference in 1790 he was appointed presiding elder for the district, in- cluding New York, Elizabeth Town, Long Island, New Rochelle, and Newburgh Circuits.

In the winter of 1791-92 he traveled with Bishop Asbury through the Southern States. He was sta- tioned several months at Charleston, and returned to New York in June, 1792. In March, 1794, he left the city and retired to Elizabeth Town, having found in the society at New York in 1789 about three hun- dred members, and left above eight hundred and fifty. The following winter he was stationed at Philadelphia, but in consequence of a severe illness was laid aside about four years. His excellent mother was taken from him July 30, 1796, in her sixty-eighth year. In 1799 he was stationed at Baltimore, Md., and remained two years. In May, 1801, though appointed to New York, he returned home and remained a year. In 1802, with his newly-married wife, he consented to be stationed at New York, but in February, 1804, he retired from the itinerant connection and became a permanent resident of this town. His venerable father closed a long and useful life Sept. 25, 1805, in his eightieth year, having been a consistent member of the church for forty years.

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History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Pioneers and Prominent Men, Part 57

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed. Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts Number of Pages: 1224

Author: W. Woodford Clayton, Ed.
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia: Everts
Number of Pages: 1224