History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 65

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 1112

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ments are made useful and interesting by the careful and intelligent supervision of its accomplished editor, Dr. Up De Graff. It was established in November, 1863.

The Daily Evening Lepidotus was not printed in Elmira, -indeed, it was not printed anywhere. But it was an Elmira institution. It was issued in manuscript form, and was never read except by the cditors. The subscribers, if they might be so called, took it " on the fly," as they were ranged round in double rows on the floor of the cabin of the steamer " Pacific" on Lakes Erie, Huron, and Superior. It was one of the methods of diversion adopted by the annual excursion party fromn Elmira Female College in June, 1869. It lived a week, which was as long as the excursion lasted. But though its actual days were limited to six, its memory yet lingers, and its good things will not be forgotten. It is preserved among the archives of the college.

CHAPTER XLIII.

SOCIETIES, ETC.

The Agricultural Society-The New York State Fair Grounds- Chemung County Mutual Insurance Company-Chemung Valley Historical Society.

THE CHEMUNG COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

AN organization by the name of our caption was organ- ized in 1853. Its officers for 1853-54 were Charles Hu- lett, President, and A. I. Wynkoop, Secretary. The society held a successful fair Oct. 10 and 11, 1854, and for some years afterwards, but finally fell into a low state, and the society lapsed for some two or three years .*

It was reorganized Feb. 22, 1860. The first meeting was held Feb. 1, at which a committee was appointed on constitution and by-laws, consisting of Judge Hiram Gray, A. I. Wynkoop, Harvey Luce, B. S. Carpenter, and S. T. Arnot, who reported a constitution drawn according to the act of April 13, 1855, respecting the incorporation of agri- cultural societies. The constitution was adopted, and arti- cles of association were filed in the county clerk's office, appointing Harvey Luce, Alonzo I. Wynkoop, Bezabel S. Carpenter, Samuel C. Smith, Orson Fitch, and John S. Hoffman trustees for the first year. The same were signed by Hiram Gray, Gabriel Liverich, Charles Evans, John Benedict, Lafayette Smith, James Whitney, R. R. R. Du- mars, Darius G. Davis, Eli Wheeler, and John W. Miller.

The first officers elected were A. I. Wynkoop, of Che- mung, President ; J. T. Rathbun, of Elmira; J. O. Scud- der, of Southport; Youngs Little, of Baldwin ; S. Minicr, of Big Flats ; William Worden, of Veteran ; J. G. Widrig, of Horseheads ; Hiram Tuttle, of Erin ; Jacob Swartwood, of Van Etten ; William Savary, of Catlin, Vice-Presidents ; B. S. Carpenter, of Elmira, Secretary ; S. T. Arnot, of El- mira, Treasurer ; Trustees, Harvey Lucc, S. C. Smith, one year ; J. Liversay, A. Frost, two years; O. Fitch, J. S. Hoffman, three years.

A lapse in the records and in the doings of the society

# The loss of records precludes further details.

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occurs until 1867, when a good fair was held on Oct. 8 and 9. The receipts from all sources were $1300, and the expend- itures $1605.63. In 1868 another fair was held, the re- ceipts being $1513, and the disbursements $2610,

In 1870, '73, '74 fairs were held, but the secretary's books do not show the treasurer's report.

The presidents of the society have been as follows :

1860-68, A. I. Wynkoop; 1869-70, A. R. Frost; 1871, George W. Hoffman ; 1872-73, A. S. Diven ; 1874-75, James McCann; 1876, De Witt C. Curtis; 1877-78, H. C. Hoffman.

D. W. C. Curtis was the secretary for many years.

THE SUSQUEHANNA AND CHEMUNG VALLEY HORTICUL- TURAL SOCIETY,

extending from Hornellsville to Binghamton in its scope and jurisdiction, held its first fair in Elmira, June 28, 1854. It was a very creditable exhibition of flowers and fruits, and other fairs were held in the same village subsequently. In 1855 the display of flowers was a notable one.

THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR.

An act of the Legislature of 1871 enabled the county of Chemung to purchase grounds for holding the fairs of the State and County Agricultural Societies, and to improve the same, and to raise for that purpose by taxation a sum not exceeding $50,000, and to convey the lands and improve- nents to the State Agricultural Society, with such reserva- tions as the Board of Supervisors should deem proper. These provisions were to be inoperative until the same were approved by the people at an election to be held for that purpose. An election was ordered by the supervisors on May 15, 1872, tlie vote for such election being passed at a special meeting held April 29, 1872. The election was held accordingly, and resulted in 3034 votes for the pro- posed action, and 1340 against it, and the Board decided the proposition carried. On June 11, at a special meeting hield that day, the Board appointed the chairman, Edmund Miller, M. V. B. Bachman, C. H. Rowland, N. Owen, and George Maby a committee to receive proposals for the sale of land for fair purposes, and to confer with the New York State Agricultural Society as to the location of the sanie, and the terms on which the State Society would accept the same. On motion, the names of the members of the con- mittee, except that of the chairman, were stricken out of the appointment, and thereupon the chairman appointed Jud Smith, M. V. B. Bachman, C. H. Rowland, and C. W. Gardner his colleagues on the committee. Subse- quently the Board visited several sites offered for fair grounds. The majority of the committee reported the se- lection of 50 acres, at $400 per acre for a portion, and $412.50 for a portion, and submitted resolutions that the Board cause the chairman and clerk to sign the agreement with the State Society for the transfer of the lands to the society, and to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000, dated July 1, 1872, bearing seven per cent. interest, payable in ten annual payments, and apply the proceeds to the pur- chase of land, and transfer the same and the balance of the money to the State Society. Tlie conveyance of the land to be made conditional, the land to forfeit to the county in

case the society ceased to hold fairs in some part of the State, except when prevented by war, insurrection, or pes- tilence, and in case of the dissolution of the society the land also to revert to the county. The bonds were to be sold at par. The report was signed by Bachman, Rowland, and Gardiner. Miller and Smith reported against the purchase of the land and signing the agreement, charging the com- mittee had no power to go as far as they had, and that land in Southport was a favorable location. Mr. Smith offered a resolution to reverse the action of the committee, but it was not carried, and the original resolutions of the majority of the committee were concurred in, and their ac- tion affirmed by a vote of twelve for to six against.

Mr. Miller, as chairman, declared he would not sign the bonds for the purchase of the lands unless he was com- pelled so to do by mandamus, whereupon Mr. Miller was unseated as chairman by a vote of thirteen to five, and Thomas Cuddeback, of Big Flats, was elected chairman pro tem.

Mr. Miller and others applied for an injunction to stay the issuance of the bonds, but without effect, and bonds to the amount of $50,000 were issued. The report of the treasurer of that society stated that he had received the bonds of the county to the amount of $50,000; had paid $24,479.25 for the purchase of the premises near Elmira, had expended $29,520.75 in buildings and improvements, and in addition had expended $13,897.03 for improve- ments from the society's treasury.

The lands adjoin those of the Elmira Driving Park Asso- ciation on the north, and are very eligibly located. The State Society has held its fairs hereon regularly in course since 1872, and its next one will be held here the present autumn.

The investment of the county, as shown elsewhere, is, original amount of bonds, $50,000; interest paid to Feb. 1, 1878, $15,750 ; interest yet to be paid, $3500; total, $69,250. $30,000 have been paid on the bonds and $20,000 are yet outstanding, payable $5000 per annum.

THE CHEMUNG COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY was incorporated April 2, 1838, by an act of the Legisla- ture, John Arnot, Robert Covell, William Maxwell, Ste- phen Tuttle, William Jenkins, Simeon Benjamin, Samuel Partridge, Theodore North, and William Foster being the incorporators. It is now a thing of the past, and has been for many years.

THE CHEMUNG VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

was organized June 1, 1876, by the adoption of a constitu- tion and the election of officers. The object of the society, as declared by the constitution, is "to discover, procure, and preserve whatever may relate to the past and present his- tory of the Chemung Valley, and to collect and preserve all objects of prehistoric and historic value or interest."

The officers first elected, and who still hold the positions, were Judge Hiram Gray, President; Rev. Dr. N. W. Cowles and Judge Ariel S. Thurston, Vice-Presidents ; Major R. M. McDowell, Recording Secretary ; Dr. W. H. Gregg, Corresponding Secretary ; Thomas H. Perry, Treas- urer; Dr. I. F. Hart, Curator and Librarian ; Executive

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Committee, Col. H. M. Smith, Chairman, Rev. D. R. Ford, and Dr. W. H. Gregg; Finance Committee, Dr. I. F. Hart, E. A. Scott, J. D. Baldwin.

On June 8, 1876, the last meeting-so far as the records of the society show-was held.

THE COUNTY TEMPERANCE SOCIETY

was organized in 1847-48, and in 1849 held an annual meeting, at which Simeon L. Rood was chosen president. The organization was kept up for several years, and in 1854 the temperance people met in convention, and put a ticket into the field for the Assembly and county offices. A State ticket was also in the field on the question of pro- hibition, which received ninety-eight votes.

THE CITY AND TOWN OF ELMIRA.

CHAPTER XLIV.

THE CITY OF ELMIRA.

FROM the earliest annals the Valley of the Chemung seems to have been a thoroughfare for the red man, from the time they first occupied this portion of the country to the day the last form of an aborigine faded away from the western horizon. It was on this great through war-path, leading from Niagara Falls or Canada to the beautiful and matchless valley of Wyoming, and along the Susquehanna to the abodes of the powerful Delawares of the vast interior country bordering upon the present Southern States, the carly traditions disclose the conquering Iroquois ascending along the Ohio, who had come into possession of Western New York ; and as the all-conquering aboriginal hunter-race had extended their conquests, they were a terror to all weaker tribes. They had formed a compact with the Tuscaroras and the Six Nations, and attained the most advanced civi- lization known to red men.

The expedition of Sullivan found Indian lands which had been cultivated for years. The orchards showed ages of growth ; the soil exhibited a high degree of cultivation ; the variety of products illustrated that advanced agricul- tural knowledge which had been practiced in strangest con- trast with the habits of the warrior-race. These signs of civilization, so at war with reputed Indian thriftlessness, were unlooked for,-possibly they had become acquainted with the customs of the earliest white settlers of America. Their system of cultivation was rude, but superior to any known among the other Indian occupants of the country.

Of the Six Nations, the Senecas laid especial claim to the country of the Chemung Valley. From their council-house near Havana the renowned Canadesaga issued his edicts, which were as rigidly obeyed as those of the most powerful monarch of earth. After the union of the tribes, and at the time of Sullivan's expedition, the country between the Chemung River and Seneca Lake was occupied by rem- nants of the Senecas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras ; and Ca- nadesaga, by the natural disintegration of power which was

extending over these tribes, was shorn of much of his for- mer prestige and sway.

NEWTOWN TREATY.

A treaty was held with the Senecas at Newtown in June, 1790, before Timothy Pickering as commissioner on the part of the United States, at which the Senecas appeared in numbers of 1000 or more, their great orator, Red Jacket, and warrior, Cornplanter, heading the delegation. A treaty had been held in the December previous at Tioga (Athens) before Colonel Pickering, at which the celebrated Mohican chief, Hendrick Apaumet, a collegiate of Princeton, N. J., and a captain of a band of Stockbridge Indians, Red Jacket (Arroy-yo-ya-walathan), Farmer's Brother (Hona- yawus), and Fish Carrier (Oojangenta), a noted Cayuga warrior, were present. The council was called to settle land disputes, and also to soothe the agitation caused by the inurder of two Senecas at Pine Creek. The Indians came to the council greatly excited, and the wily orator, Red Jacket, still further inflamed them. It was about this time that this chief began to acquire his great distinction as an orator. He was opposed to all innovation on the customs of his people, and violently opposed the sale of their lands, and rejected with the loftiest disdain the prop- osition of the government for the Indians to turn their attention to agriculture. Red Jacket was opposed to all attempts at civilization, and so ably did he exert his power at this council that the proposition above referred to was rejected by every band except Cornplanter's.

At this council Red Jacket artfully introduced the pur- chase of Phelps and Gorham, made in 1788, bitterly de- nouncing those gentlemen and charging them with corrup- tion, and it required all the finesse and ability of Colonel Pickering, based on the most intimate knowledge of the Indian character, to avert serious consequences resulting from this council. As it was, however, the difficulties were arranged and bridged over for a time and a new council was called, to be held at Painted Post, June 17, 1791, but which, owing to the low stage of water in the Chemung, was held at Newtown, the goods being with great difficulty trans- ported to that point.

The Newtown treaty was long remembered by the pio- neers who were present on the memorable occasion. Colonel Pickering was again the United States commissioner, and Red Jacket and Cornplanter were again the prominent actors on the part of the Senecas, with whom the treaty was held. Again the eloquence of the forest-born Demosthenes, Red Jacket, pictured to his followers their former power, the treatment of the Senecas by the whites. and again he raised their turbulent passions to that pitch that nothing short of the great and persuasive influence of Pickering procured a satisfactory result of the council. Red Jacket was thenceforward an actor prominent and influential at all treaties with the New York Indians, and became the all- powerful leader of his nation.

At this treaty the Indians were encamped along the western part of Newtown, from the present site of the Rath- bun House, towards the upper portion of the city of El- mira. Among the early pioneers of the Chemung Valley who were present at this treaty were Colonel John Hendy,

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Mathias Hollenback, Elisha Lee, Eleazer Lindley, and Wil- liam Jenkins. The treaty was negotiated beneath a tree, which was afterwards known as the "Old Council Tree." It was situated near the junction of Newtown Creek with the Chemung. At this treaty the charges of fraud in the Phelps and Gorham purchase, made by Red Jacket and Cornplanter at Tioga, were examined and inquired into and refuted. Among the papers preserved in reference to the treaty was a copy of a release from the Six Nations to Phelps and Gorham, presented to Colonel Pickering, and a certificate signed by him, dated at Newtown Point, in the State of New York, July 26, 1791. It states that the day before, " the principal sachems of the Senecas now attend- ing the treaty held by me with the Six Nations at this place," assured him they were satisfied with the treaty at Buffalo Creek (1788), and that Red Jacket and Cornplanter understood as they did at that time, and that the statements by them at Tioga, in November, 1790, were unfounded and mischievously intended.

This council was the last great gathering of the Indians in the Valley of the Chemung, and after this time their visits became less and less frequent, until they ceased altogether, except as wanderers from the reservations.

INDIAN LEGEND.

According to tradition, "Red Jacket," the sagacious orator, sent couriers to the Five Nations, and in the fall of 1730 convened a council at " Pine Plains," a well-known place of assembly, near where the court-house now stands, at which one of the chiefs was tried for a crime and be- headed. His head was placed on a pole, which was planted where he died, and in derision the place was called Ka-na- we-o-la, or " head on a pole." The Indians, out of super- stition, avoided this place ever after. Subsequently, when the pale-face settled this locality, it was called by the In- dians She-ne-do-wa, meaning, " at the great plains."

The first name given to the settlement by the whites was New-town, or New-town-point, otherwise designated as " Pine Plains," which latter term was understood as em- bracing what is now Elmira, Big Flats, and Horseheads. The nucleus Newtown, since grown into such beauty and commercial importance, deservedly styled the " Queen City" of the Chemung Valley, was situated at the conflu- ence of Newtown Creek with the Chemung River, and was incorporated by this name in 1815.

WHITE MAN'S LEGEND.

In the early days, when new settlements had to be named, the white man, in imitation of his aboriginal forerunner, gave a name to his settlement that was associated either with tradition, or, as in this case, with his ideal of loveli- ness. According to Hou. Hiram Gray, Matthew Carpenter, then a member of the Legislature and a man of influence, having seen this beautiful valley, resolved that Newtown should be the principal city, and that it should bear the name of a lady friend for whom he entertained a high opinion, and accordingly, in 1828, the name was changed to Elmira.

Lebbeus Tubbs was probably the first* white man who

came to this section of the country. He settled on the south side of the river about 1786. There was " Leb." Tubbs and " Leb., Jr.," and a grandson and " Hamp Tubbs."

Colonel John Hendy, born in Wyoming, Pa., Sept. 3, 1757, was an only child. But little is known of his carly life. He came here in the spring of 1788 and purchased a tract of land of Indian agents, removing with his family to Newtown in the fall of the same year. Although he continued to cultivate the soil until near the close of his life, he was always awake to the public interests of his community and the State. He took a very active part in building the Chemung Canal. He threw the first shovel- full of dirt at the commencement of the work, which was just back of the depot. He was also active in raising several companies for the war in Canada in 1812. He had been appointed captain of a militia company by Governor George Clinton, Feb. 22, 1789, in the town of Chemung, then in Montgomery County, and commissioned second major of a regiment in Tioga County, the 22d of March, 1797, by Governor Jay, and lieutenant-colonel, in 1803, by Governor George Clinton. He was buried in the old ceme- tery, next to the First Baptist church, the Elmira Guards, commanded by Colonel Judson, doing the military honors. The time of the funeral was in March, and during snow and sleet, yet there was a large concourse in attendance. He was allowed to rest there until the time for dedicating Woodlawn Cemetery, which was Saturday, Oct. 9, 1858, when his remains were transferred to that place, in honor of the public-spirited pioneer, and a suitable monument has been erected to commemorate his worth. The funeral cere- monies were very imposing. The invocation was by Rev. R. J. Wilson, the reading of Scripture by Rev. Dr. Goodin, and the consecration by Rev. Dr. Cowles. The dedicatory ceremonies of Woodlawn will be recited in connection with the account of the cemetery.

In April, 1788, Colonel Hendy had planted the first field of corn ever planted by a white man in the valley. The summer was spent in surveying the country for a favorable location for a fixed settlement ; and several times he passed up and down the river between his lodge and Tioga Point, bringing up two canoe-loads of boards, which were used in the fall in putting up the first shanty in " Hendytown." After securing his corn-crop for the winter, he and Daniel Hill went back to Tioga Point, the residence of his family, and on the 25th of October, 1788, came back with them to Hendytown, where he had arranged his future home. His family consisted of one son, Samuel, two daughters, Rebecca and Sallie; after their settlement here, there were born to them Thomas, Anna, Jane, Hannah, Mary, and Betsey.

" Hendytown" was located on the present Joseph Hoffman place. Here a shanty was erected, as comfortable as pos- sible, with bark and boughs to make it secure against autumn's frost. It is said that the first night passed here was greatly disturbed by the presence of wolves, who made night hideous with their howling, the family being greatly terrified and fatigued. The odor of the fresh meat which they cooked for supper no doubt attracted these ferocious denizens. Mrs. Hendy and the children retired to their couches of hemlock-boughs, while Colonel Hendy and Dan Hill, with an old musket and a rousing fire built out of

* According to the statement of Hon. Hiram Gray.

DECINENCC AF P P PIMLIMAIS PIUJIRA

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LORENZO WEBBER was born in the town of Newbury, Orange Co., Vt., Sept. 12, 1817. He was the eldest son in a family of six sons and five daughters of Andrew Webber and Sophia (Wilkins) Webber,-the former a native of New Hampshire, born 1794, followed the occu- pation of lumbering during a large part of his life, and in the year 1828 removed to Orange, Schuyler Co., N. Y., where he died at the age of fifty-three years. The latter was a native of Windham, Vt., and died at the age of forty-six, in the year 1840.

Mr. Webber was eleven years of age at the time of his parents' removal from the State of Vermont and settlement in Schuyler County on a wilderness tract of land of about two hundred acres. From that age until he was twenty-one he spent his time assisting his father in clearing off the forest and preparing the land for cultivation, but did not neglect the winter opportunities at school and evenings for getting a fair education, by which means he was enabled to teach, and for five terms before and after becoming of age he was engaged as a teacher.

In the year 1840, Mr. Webber bought a farm and for two years was engaged upon it, and for the next twenty- four years was successful in various enterprises as a dry goods and lumber merchant, and also in the milling and tanning business.

In the spring of 1867, May 1, he came to Elmira, where he has since resided. In 1865 he was one of eight -the others being John Arnot, Constant Cook, Charles

Cook, Henry Cook, F. N. Drake, F. C. Divinny, and Henry Sherwood-to form a company called the " Bloss Coal Mining and Railroad Company."

This company bought several thousand acres of coal land in Pennsylvania, bought the Tioga Railroad, and ex- tended it to their mines at Arnot (named after one of the company), and engaged extensively in mining and shipping bituminous coal and lumber from Arnot, Pa., and anthra- cite coal from Pittston, Pa. At the end of six years Mr. Webber disposed of his interest in the company, and has since been engaged in the real estate business in Elmira, and in the banking business in Michigan.

In his early life he was a member of the Whig party, and since the formation of the Republican party has been an ardent supporter of its principles. He has not been active in political circles. While a resident of Schuyler County, Mr. Webber represented that Assembly district two terms in the State Legislature of New York, in the years 1864-65, and was, under the administration of Lincoln, until his removal to Elmira, postmaster of Monterey, Schuyler Co. His life has been one of activity. In the year 1840 he married Miss Jane A., daughter of Almer Welch and Bulah Kent, of Dorset, Vt. She was born Nov. 28, 1818. Their children are Sophia, wife of C. B. Pomeroy, of Troy, Pa .; John A., in the banking business in Portland, Mich., in partnership with his father ; and J. Adele, wife of Stephen C., youngest son of Judge Hiram Gray, of Elmira, N. Y.

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doors, successfully defended theinselves and the family against the wolves. This was the only time they were ever troubled by such visitors.

The first log cabin in this valley was built on the present farm of Joseph Hoffman, near the bank of the river. Rebecca, the eldest daughter, had been the first white child to plant her feet on the bank of the Chemung; jumping out of the boat as soon as it touched the shore, she ran up the bank to see where the house was, expecting to see one like that she had left at Tioga Point. At the time of this settlement Indians, chiefly Senecas, roamed over this country. They made Hendy's house a general stopping- place, and not unfrequently the floor was covered night after night with their sleeping forms. For the most part they were friendly with the new settlers. Colonel Hendy received the title of Shinawane, or " Great Warrior," among them, for his great height, being six feet and seven inches, straight and spare. He never was aware that he gained the hostility of more than one of the dusky war- riors, and his name was Yawbuck. He and his squaw came one evening to stay for the night. When Colonel Hendy came in from his work he saw that Yawbuck had lit his pipe, smoked, and then laid it away. Thinking there was something wrong, he told the Indian to get his pipe and light it, so they could smoke together the pipe of peace. He did so, giving it to Colonel Hendy, who, after a few puffs, returned it to the Indian to smoke the pipe of peace ; but he scraped the handle off before he placed it in his mouth. The same seene was repeated three times, which was interpreted, according to the Indian eustom, to indieate some ill-will on the part of the Indian. After the finishing of the hulling of corn, the squaw and papoose wrapped themselves up and laid down on the floor. Mrs. Hendy was directed to lie down with the children ; but the Indian, morose, still sat up. After sitting a while in silence by the fire, he suddenly sprang up and seized Colonel Hendy, who remonstrated with the savage, and succeeded in getting him to lie down. All was quiet for a while, when he made another attack on the colonel, who was still prepared for him, and this time dealt with him deservedly. His tall, athletie form overtopped the savage, and, setting him down several times, finally grasping his head by the ears, beat him almost to insensibility on the floor. He then told him to go and lie down on the floor, which order he sullenly complied with. He was not further disturbed that night, and when the family awaked in the morning, the Indian and squaw had disappeared.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 65

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1879 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign Number of Pages: 1112

Author: Peirce, H. B. (Henry B.) cn; Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Ensign
Number of Pages: 1112