History of Jefferson County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 96

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 862

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Henderson Village was long known as Salisbury's Mills, and this name is used frequently at present. It is located in the valley of Stony creek, principally on the north side of the stream, and about three and one-half miles from its mouth, and is surrounded by a good agricultural region.

STOCK.

Among the fine herds in this town is that of Simeon Mather, near Roberts' Corners. The cattle are of the Dur- ham or short-horn variety, and among them is the famous Bull "Lord Mervin, 4th," a magnificent animal. (See view.)

WASHINGTON LODGE, NO. 256, F. AND A. M.,

was organized at Henderson March 10, 1816, with Emory Osgood, M .; Noah Tubbs, S. W .; Daniel Leonard, J. W. In 1824 it contributed half the expense of building a Bap- tist church, the second story being fitted for a lodge-room. About 1832 it sold out to the society and was discontinued.

THE HENDERSON SOCIAL LIBRARY

was formed Feb. 9, 1819, of which Percival Bullard, Peter N. Cushman, Chester Norton, Rufus Hatch, Thomas Fobes, Allen Kilbey, and Elijah Williams were elected the first trustees.

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HENDERSON

was formed June 26, 1806, at the house of Merril Danley, by Emory Osgood, who officiated as pastor till Sept. 11, 1823. In October, 1818, the members being scattered, a new church was formed from this, the parent body being the same that now worships at Smithville, and the colony that of Henderson village.

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SMITHVILLE

was formed Sept. 29, 1823, with Henry Keith, Austin Robbins, and Ebenezer Sumner, trustees. This society, in

* The grist-mill was burned about 1870. It was then the property of G. W. Finney, who in 1871 erected a new grist-mill on the site of the old saw-mill, known as the " Eureka Mills," now owned by G. W. Finney and A. M. Leffingwell.

LEONARD SEATON, SR.

Leonard SectorA.

RESIDENCE of LEONARD SEATON, JR., HENDERSON, JEFFERSON CO., N.Y.

MRS. SARAH LEFFINGWELL.

R. LEFFI

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HEZEKIAH LEFFINGWELL. ( ACE 89 YEARS. )

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HARVEY SMITH .

MRS. HARVEY SMITH . ( DECEASED.)

MRS. HARVEY SMITH.

RES. OF HARVEY SMITH, HENDERSON , JEFFERSON CO., N. Y.

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concert with the Congregationalists, in 1832 erected a stone church at Smithville, 44 by 60 feet, at a cost of about $3000. The church contains an audience-room with 200 sittings, a session-room, and a gallery for the choir. It is heated by a Boyanton salamander furnace, and lighted by Frink's reflectors. The society contemplate adding a new steeple at an early date. The present board of trustees are : A. W. Robbins, chairman ; A. P. Hall, secretary ; H. Hill, J. A. Campbell, S. D. Lord, M.D., and Herrick Wilcs. In 1875 the Baptist society Icascd the interest of the Congre- gational society for the term of one hundred years. Pres- ent membership, 30. Average attendance of Sunday-school, 50 scholars. Hon. Chas. A. Benjamin, superintendent. The clergy employed since Mr. Osgood have been Elders Elisha Morgan, Jesse Elliott, Norman G. Chase, J. N. Webb, Danicl D. Reed, Elisha Sawyer, Henry Ward, Joshua Frecman, Amasa Heath, and others. Present pas- tor, P. K. Sheldon,-since Dec. 3, 1873.

The " First Baptist Society" of Henderson was formed June 5, 1824, with Samuel Cole, Shubacl Atliston, and Amasa Brown, trustees. In 1824 this society, assisted by the Masonic fraternity, erected a church, the latter using the second story as a lodge-room. They sold their interest about 1832. In 1853 this building, which stood a little south of Henderson village, was taken down, and a new one erected ncar the centre of the village. The same clergy have generally been employed here as at Smithville.

THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF HENDERSON.

This was formed January 1, 1820, with 66 members. The first pastor was Rev. Emory Osgood, who was followed by Elisha Morgan, Jesse Elliott, H. Chase, Russell Hervey, Alba Wedge, D. D. Read, John Wilder, Elisha Sawyer, Alba Cole, Joseph R. Johnson, John F. Bishop, and others. A church was erected in 1823 at a cost of $1800, and a second one about 1852-53, costing $2800.

THE PRESBYTERIANS,

about 1820, erected a small church in Henderson village that has been for many years taken down, and they have no place of worship at present in towu. A society was formed on the 28th of October, 1819, with Adonijah Wheaton, Ralph French, and Jesse Hopkins, trustecs.

THIE METHODISTS

first organized a society in this town July 29, 1830, with Beebee Smith, Cyrus Hall, Amos White, Joseph J. Hatch, and Calvin Bishop, trustees. The first society at the vil- lage of Henderson was formed April 9, 1844, with Harvey Crittenden, Amos White, and Sylvanus Ward, trustecs. The Methodists have two churches in town, one on Bishop street and one in the village, erected by the above socicties respectively. The present pastor is Rev. C. Manson. The society is in a flourishing condition, with a fair membership.

THE SMITHVILLE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

was formed Jan. 3, 1824, by Rev. Abel L. Crandall, of 32 members. March 13, 1824, the church resolved to unite with the St. Lawrence presbytery, on the accommodation plan. Rev. Messrs. J. Ingersoll, D. Spear, L. A. Sawyer,

J. Covert, A. Putnam, II. Doanc, George J. King, Charles Halsey, L. M. Shepard, George Turner, and Henry Budge have since been employed, mostly one-half of the time, the remainder being at North Adams. In 1829 the church joined the Black River Association, and has since so re- mained. Meetings were held in a school-house, built with the view of holding incetings, until the present church was built. The Congregational Society of Smithville was formed Sept. 16, 1823, having William Gilbert, Joseph T. French, and Daniel McNcil, trustees, who united with the Baptists in erecting a church, as above stated.

THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY OF HENDERSON

was formed January 13, 1823, with Jolın S. Porter, Ros- well Davis, and Amasa Hungerford, trustees. The Hen- derson Universalist Charitable Society had been formed Feb. 5, 1819, of thirteen members, but not legally perfected till four years. In 1839 a church 40 by 60 feet was crected in the village, at a cost of $3000, and dedicated in Decem- ber, 1839. On March 9, 1822, a church organization was effected by Rev. Pitt Morse, of nineteen members. The clergy since employed have been P. Morsc, C. G. Person, Seth Jones, P. Morse, L. Rice, Alfred Peck, and others. The present pastor is Rev. Mr. Rice.

SWEDENBORGIAN.

December 25, 1825, a society of the New Jerusalem was formed in Ellisburg, at Brewster's school-house, of 13 mem- bers, in that town and Henderson, but mostly in the latter. Rev. Holland Wecks, formerly a Congregational minister, of Abington, Mass., who came into Henderson to reside in 1821, and who soon began to hold meetings in school- houses, was the promulgator of these doctrines in town, and preached gratuitously for many years. The meetings of the new church were kept up regularly by him at the school-house in Henderson village till ncar his death, July 24, 1843, aged 75 years. The greatest number of mem- bers was betweeu thirty and forty. The first members were Holland Weeks, Joseph Dickey, Moses J. Morseman, Edward Leslie, Jeremiah Sias, Charles Stearns, Jr., John Burt Blanchard, Lucy Ann Blanchard, Alvin Wood, Lydia Wood, Ann H. Adams, Hannah M. Goodale, and Harriet A. Weeks.

BUSINESS.

In October, 1877, Henderson Village contained eight stores, three blacksmith-shops (two having wagon-shops in connection), two tailors, one harness-shop, two grist-mills, one saw- and shingle-mill (owned by John Chapman), three churches, a two-story frame school-house, two hotels ( New York House, by Capt. F. J. Ramsdell, and Exchange, by C. Weaver), four physicians, two lawyers (A. A. Davis and Alonzo Leffingwell), one dentist (E. J. Richards), two mil- linery establishments, one barber-shop, and two billiard- rooms. The place is rapidly improving, and during the summer of 1877 several new stores have been erected, be- sides other buildings.

In another portion of this volume will be found an ac- count of the famous balloon voyage of Prof. John Wise, Mr. La Mountain, and others, in July, 1859, from St. Louis, Mo., to Henderson, landing in town on the second of that

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month, on the farm of T. O. Whitney, in twenty-three hours from the time of starting.

We are under obligations, for information furnished, to Dr. Barney and others at Henderson Village, Capt. Warner and others at Henderson Harbor, and Samuel Nutting, Levi Crittenden, Joseph Fillmore, Silas Wilkinson, Philo Hungerford (of Rural Hill), Rev. P. K. Sheldon, and others in that town.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE FAMILY OF RUSSELL WALLACE.

John Wallace, father of Russell Wallace, was born in 1777, in Massachusetts. Anna Nevens, his wife, was born in New Hampshire. They were married in 1796, came to New York State in 1806, and settled in the woods, two miles back of Henderson village. Like all new settlers, they endured many privations. He was called out in the War of 1812. His wife was energetic and industrious ; she conquered difficultics and encouraged her husband when despondent, and was the mother of fourteen children, eleven of whom lived to be men and women.

Russell Wallace was the fifth child, born July 3, 1806. He lived with his father until he was twenty-one. He traveled some at this time (under pay), visited Washington city, spent a few weeks with his brother in Boston ; he also spent some time in Canada ; and finally returning home, went into business with his father, in which he continued up to the time of his marriage. He then bought the farmn on which his widow now resides. He was a man of intelli- genee and integrity, a good financier, a kind neighbor, hus- band and father. He outlived all his children but onc, and died regretted at the age of sixty-five, Aug. 22, 1871.

The parents of Mrs. R. Wallace-Thomas Bell, born in Scotland in 1781, Margaret Lcekie, his wife, born in 1783, in the same place-eame to America the same year. After a brief stay in New York city, they came on to Sacket's Har- bor, where a neighbor had preceded them. He took up land on the shore of Henderson bay, then an unbroken wilderness where the howl of the wolf disturbed their nightly slumber. The first winter was full of privations ; sad and lonely, they oft looked baek to the dear old home they had left behind. He was called out with his neigh- bors to defend the frontiers from the British and Indians. He lived many years on the farm he first took up, and died in 1861. His wife, a woman of intelligence and active business habits, dicd in 1867, regretted by her children. Their children were seven in number,-four girls and three boys. The two oldest, John L. and Susan J. Bell, were invited by their unele, Robert Leckie, of Washington city, to spend a few years with him and attend school. They went in 1829, and were present at the inauguration of General Jackson. John died in September of the same year, of bilious fever. Susan J. stayed with her uncle seven years, sharing with his daughter all the advantages

that wealth and position could give,-R. Leckie, her uncle, being a retired gentleman of fortune. She married, in 1834, Capt. J. L. Keelen, who died in 1836, from injuries received on being thrown from a horse. Her uncle died in 1834. Consequently, on the death of her husband, she returned to her old home; was married again in 1841, to R. Wallace, and went to reside on the farm on which she now lives. Their children were six in number, three boys and three girls.

The oldest, Helen E. Wallace, was a young lady of fine mind and of active business habits. She marricd, in 1862, R. F. Van Valkenburgh, and died in 1868, aged twenty-six years, leaving one child, Marian H.

The second daughter, Marian E., was good and beautiful in all her ways; kind and gentle in spirit, the fragrance of her life remains. She was born Nov. 26, 1844, married to H. M. Blount in 1862, and died in 1865, leaving a boy, Clarence W.

Russell Wallace, Jr., born April 24, 1846, died in 1864. He was intellectual, amiable and kind in disposition, and beloved by his family. Mila L. Wallace, born Feb. 26, 1850, and died in 1869; she had sterling qualities of mind and heart, beloved by those that knew her well, and to her father and mother a rare gift that fled too soon. Danford L. Wallace, born May 25, 1851, and dicd Sept. 27, 1852.

Sherman L. Wallace, born July 25, 1853, married June 2, 1872, and died Sept. 27, 1877. He was the only child that survived his father, whose placc he took on the farm, the business part of which he conducted with great ability for one so young. He was honest and truthful, well qualified to take an active part in the concerns of human life, a kind son, a good and faithful husband, for whose early death the widow and mother mourn.

The wife of Sherman L. Wallace, Ella M. Joiner, was born Dec. 17, 1855, is a lady of culture and refinement, well known in the community in which she lives for her amiable disposition and correct deportment.

The widow of R. Wallace survives husband and children, and enjoys good health; at the age of sixty-eight is keenly alive to the prosperity of her country, the community in which she lives, and her neighbors in particular ; although surrounded with many blessings, she will ever mourn for the loved ones gone before her.

ROSWELL DAVIS.

Among the early permanent settlers Roswell Davis might be numbered, having moved about the year 1811 from Lunenburg, Vt., with his family of wife and two children, and purchased a farm in Bishop street, in said town, which is now owned and occupied by his youngest son, W. P. Davis. He purchased by contract, and by perseverance and industry paid for his farm. About the year 1840 he became the owner of the Putnam farm, upon which the first town- meeting was held in town. During the War of 1812 he was frequently called out to defend our lines, and was at the battles of Sacket's Harbor and Sandy Creek, and as- sisted in carrying the great cable from Sandy Creek to Sacket's Harbor.

( P. F. GOIST, DEL.)

RESIDENCE OF L. B. SIMMONS, HENDERSON , JEFFERSON CO., N. Y.

MRS. SUSAN J. WALLACE.

RUSSELL WALLACE.

RESIDENCE OF THE LATE RUSSELL WALLACE, HENDERSON, JEFFERSON CO.,N.Y.

ELLA M. WALLACE.

SHERMAN WALLACE.

HELEN E. WALLACE.

MARIAN E. WALLACE.

MILA Z. WALLACE.

RUSSELL WALLACE.

ABEL BICKFORD.

MRS. ABEL BICKFORD.

RESIDENCE of ABEL BICKFORD, ROBERTS CORNERS, JEFFERSON CO., N. Y.

HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, NEW YORK.

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HERBERT BABBITT.

MRS. HERBERT BABBITT.

HON. GEORGE BABBITT.

There is a peculiar felicity in recording the life and char- acter of a man who has made the life contest successfully, and by his own exertions has surmounted the obstacles that lie in the path of all, and through these varied struggles has maintained an unblemished reputation. Among this class of men stands the subject of this sketch.

George Babbitt was born at Rodman, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Sept. 20, 1818. His father, Deodatus Babbitt, was born in Hadley, Mass., in 1790, and came at an early day to this county, where he died in 1828. His mother, Phoebe (Strong) Babbitt, was the daughter of Hon. Nathan Strong, one of the first settlers of the town of Rodinan, having moved from Old Durham, in the State of Connecticut. When in his tenth year young Babbitt's father died, and when fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to Jason Fairbanks, Esq.,. of Watertown, to learn the saddlery and harness trade, with whom he remained three and one-half years, and then removed to Utica, where he followed his trade for the ensuing four years. He then spent four months in Clinton, Oneida Co., and afterwards removed to Smithville, this county, where he has since resided, with the exception of two years on the plains and in California, two years in Sacket's IIarbor as deputy collector of customs, and three years in Watertown while discharging the duties of the office of sheriff. In 1863 he engaged in the mercantile business in Smithville, in which he continued for seven years, disposing of his business in 1869 and moving on to his farm, near the above-named village, where he now resides. He was post- master of Smithville twelve years; was elected a member of the legislature of the State of New York in 1857 ; was ap- pointed deputy collector of customs at Sacket's Harbor in 1861, and served two years, resigning that position in 1863 to engage in the mercantile business ; was elected sheriff of his native county in 1872, and served one term. In all of these important positions Mr. Babbitt gave general satis-

faction to his constituents and to the people at large. Faithful to every trust in him reposed, diligent in the dis- charge of his official duties, honest in his opinions, and fair and impartial in the administration of the affairs pertaining to his several offices, he necessarily won golden opinions as an honest legislator and an upright man.

As an evidence of his enterprise, we might mention that in the spring of 1854 he, in company with his brother-in- law and Dr. Hiram Salisbury, of Elmira, N. Y., went to Missouri and purchased a drove of sheep, which they drove across the plains to California, where they disposed of them at a fair profit. He returned to his home in this county in the fall of 1855. On the 9th of Aug., 1845, he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Augusta, daughter of Hon. Elihu M. McNeil. She was born in Henderson, July 14, 1824. Her father was one of the early settlers of Hender- son, having moved into the town with his father at the age of nine years, coming from Hatfield, Mass. He was a member of the legislature of the State of New York in 1842 and 1846; was also a member of the convention that revised the constitution of this State in the summer and fall of 1846.

Mr. Babbitt's general character is so well known, and, we may add, so highly appreciated by the people of Jeffer- son County, that anything of a laudatory nature we coukl adduce would be superfluous. Every one will agree with us, we feel assured, when we summarize himu as an intelligent citizen and an honest man.

HERBERT DEMONT BABBITT, only son of George and Harriet A. Babbitt, was born at Smithville, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Nov. 3, 1847. He received a common-school and aca- demie education, attending Union Academy and Hunger- ford Collegiate Institute. Ile spent several years as clerk in his father's store, and there learned those habits of industry and gained the business knowledge that have characterize.]

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his subsequent career. While engaged with his father in the peaceful occupation of mercantile business, the safety of the Union was imperilled, and he left his father's house and went to its defense, enlisting as a private soldier, joining the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth Regiment, commanded by Colonel Bradley Winslow, and served until the close of the

war. He took part in the assault on Petersburg, on the 2d of April, 1865, and participated in several engagements of lesser importance. On his return he resumed his elerk-

ship with his father. On the organization of the national guards of the State of New York, he was appointed aid-de- camp, with the rank of lieutenant, on the staff of Brigadier- Gencral Bradley Winslow, his old colonel in the army, and is still on General W.'s staff as inspector of rifle practice, with the rank of major. In 1873 he was appointed deputy sheriff by his father, and at the expiration of his father's term of office he received the appointment to the same office from the present sheriff, A. W. Peck, Esq. He has made an eminently faithful and efficient officer.

On the 30th of June, 1874, he was married to Miss Isabella Merriam, daughter of Samuel G. Merriam, Esq., of New Haven, Oswego Co. She was born May 23, 1851. This union has been blessed with one ehild. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. George Babbitt, and of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Babbitt, together with an illustration of the residence of the former, adorn our pages elsewhere in this work.

TRUMAN ORSON WHITNEY,

son of Erastus and Hannah Whitney, was born in Hender- son, Mareh 11, 1813. His father married, for his first wife, Hannah Jerome, by whom he had six children, namely, John, Truman Orson, Randal, Dorval, Safrona, and Maria. His second wife, Betsy Wood, had four chil- dren, -- Hannah, Elfrieda, Eveline, and Fanny. His father died in October, 1855, and his step-mother in 1874.

Martha Wood, daughter of James and Barbara Wood, was born in Ellisburg, August 6, 1815. Her father mar- ried Barbara Ireland, by whom he had eleven children, as follows : Epinetus, Timothy, Steven, Horaee, Mary, Dolly, Hepsey, Martha, Betsy, Julia, and Emma. Her mother died in 1856, and her father in 1864.

T. O. Whitney was married to Martha Wood, in Ellis- burg, March 12, 1840, and commenced housekeeping in Henderson April 10 of the same year, where they lived until his death, and where his widow still resides. Mr. Whitney held the office of assistant revenue assessor from 1863 to 1867, and was supervisor of the town in 1863. In the spring of 1872 he was wounded in the ankle by the accidental discharge of a gun, and his foot was amputated by Dr. Grafton, of Watertown. In a short time, by the aid of an artificial foot, his loss was hardly noticed. He died March 3, 1876, after a brief siekness of two weeks, aged sixty-three years. He was one of the pioneers of the county, having immigrated to the town nearly fifty years ago. He was a man of considerable ability, and faithfully fulfilled the various offices of trust to which he was eleeted. He was one of the heaviest farmers of the town, having in his possession at the time of his death about 450 acres of

land, all in one farm. In his death the people felt that they had lost one of their best citizens.

Speaking of his burial, a correspondent to the press says, " The funeral of T. O. Whitney was held at his late resi- dence on Sunday last ; scrinon by Rev. L. Rice, Univer- salist minister. A larger concourse of people I have seldom scen. People from all parts of the town and from several other towns were present. The house, though capacious, could not contain the throng."

Mr. Whitney was a Republican in politics ; and, although a member of no denomination, he was a regular attendant of the Universalist church. He was perfectly temperate in his habits, using neither liquor nor tobaeco in any form whatever.

Truman O. and Martha Whitney had four children, . namely, Elvira, born August 6, 1841 ; was married to Al- bert Benediet, of Waterville, Oneida county, N. Y., June 16, 1869; has two children,-Clarence, born Aug. 21, 1872 ; Ada, born Dec. 8, 1874. Myron J., born January 27, 1843; he enlisted in Co. K, N. Y. Vol. Inf., was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, and both battles of Fredericksburg; he was honorably discharged in 1863; he married Florence White January 28, 1872; they have two children,-Edward O., born December 27, 1872, and Myron Lee, born May 23, 1876. Byron, born October 23, 1849; died August 25, 1857. Jay, born January 12, 1856.

Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, together with an illustration of the old homestead, can be seen elsewhere in this work.

GEORGE W. COLLINS

was the only sou (of a family of seven children) of John Collins, one of the earliest pioneers of the town of Water- town, where the subject of this sketch was born July 11, 1822. He received a limited education at the district schools of his native town. At the age of twenty-one he commenced life for himself, having previously lived with and assisted his father on the homestead farm, which he after- wards worked himself. On the 15th of January, 1843, he was united in marriage with Fanny Stewart, daughter of William Stewart, Esq., an old and prominent citizen of Fulton county, this State. Five children were given them, of whom all survive but one which died in infaney. Their names are : Hclen J., Franklin M., George H., and De Witt C.

In 1865, Mr. Collins removed to the town of Henderson, and first rented the farm known as the A. C. Clark place, which he subsequently purchased. It contains 240 acres, and is kept in an admirable state of cultivation.

On May 22, 1877, he sustained the loss of his wife, who had been to him a true and faithful companion, sharing his early struggles, and assisting, by her thrift and fine domestic qualities, in his sueeess. This was a sore bereavement to him, and one which will evidently leave its impress on his life for a long time to come.

In personal character, Mr. C. is a gentleman of un- blemished reputation, and one who enjoys the respect and

G. G. WHITNEY.

MRS. G.G. WHITNEY.

RESIDENCE of G.G. WHITNEY, HENDERSON, JEFFERSON CO., N. Y.

MRS. MOSES BUNNEL.

MOSES BUNNEL.

RESIDENCE OF GEORGE BUNNEL, HENDERSON, JEFFERSON CO., N.Y. .

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esteem of his fellow-townsmen. In politics he is a Demo- erat of the good old Jeffersonian school. In religious be- lief he is liberal, never having affiliated with any particular denomination. (See illustration on another page.)

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History of Jefferson County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 96

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co. Number of Pages: 862

Author: Durant, Samuel W; Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.)
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co.
Number of Pages: 862