History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 71

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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In 1855, Mr. Cornell, of Ithaca, and a Mr. Skiuner put up a wire extending from Addison to Newburg, and opened an office over S. Ayres' jewelry-store, corner of Water and Lake Streets. John Morse was the operator. About this time, also, the Northern Central Railroad put up a wire from Willianusport to Elmira, and Henry Morse had charge of their office on Fifth Street, where they now are. In 1856 the first office was removed from the Elmira Hotel to the Mechanics' Hall, on Lake Street, with M. S. Palmer as operator. During the first State fair, held in Ehnira, Morse and Palmer were running the wires, and in a few months the offices were consolidated, and James H. Tichenor, of Ithaca, appointed superintendent of Mr. Cornell's wire, and eame to Elmira, he and Palmer running both company lines, in the office over Ayres' store. In those days the people had not learned to use the telegraph only in extremely urgent cases, and receipts barely covered expenses. Iu six months Mr. Cornell leased their line to the New York and Erie Company, for their No. 2 through wire, and afterwards sold it to them. The Canandaigua and Elmira line would not pay, and so was abandoned. The New York and Erie having two

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wires, were enabled to do their own business and what eom- mercial business was offered until during the war of the Rebellion, when the telegraph business inereased to such an extent that the Western Union Company erected two wires over the Erie Railroad, from Buffalo to New York, and in 1865 opened an offiec in the Brainard House, M. S. Pal- mer, manager. Telegraphy inereased and wires multiplied. The Elmira Advertiser and Gazette joined the New York Associated Press, and all of their news was telegraphed to the Elmira papers. The Rathbun House-formerly Brain- ard House-was not sufficient for the growing business, and in 1873 the office was removed to the Stancliff Bloek, where it now is. Two opposition companies -- the United States and Atlantie and Paeifie-put up wires and opened offices in the city near about the same time, but were soon bought up by the Western Union Company. The Northern Cen- tral Railroad Company, the Utica and Elmira Railroad Company, and the Tioga Railroad Company wires are all run by the Western Union Company, and their wires all centre at the main office.

The number of eity messages sent and received daily is about two hundred, and half that number repeated from the branch lines ; and ten thousand words of Associated Press matter for the daily papers are received each day. The business of the office amounts to about $2000 per month.

Branch offices are opened every year at the State fair grounds and Elmira race-course.

In August, 1877, there was a loeal company formed, and put up the American Distriet Telegraph, forty boxes being put up in the circuit, distributed over the city in hotels, offiees, and private dwellings. It is giving satisfaction in ealling messengers, police, the fire department, or family physician. The company have just contracted with the city to put in twenty Gamewell fire-alarm boxes, and will soon have the city under general fire-alarm system. The main office is in connection with the Western Union Tele- graph Company. These faets were obtained from Mr. M. S. Palmer, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany and American Distriet Telegraph Company.

THE ELMIRA SURGICAL INSTITUTE.

This institution was founded in the fall of 1862, by Thad. S. Up De Graff, M.D., its present surgeon and pro- prietor. It was located in what was known as the River Buildings, opposite the Rathbun House. In November, 1873, a new building was erected on Hudson Street, the present location. The building has two large wards for men and one for women, with private apartments for those preferring them. James A. Hall, M.D., is resident phy- sieian, and Dr. Up De Graff operating surgeon and proprie- tor. Such an institution is a desideratum in any community, and this is deservedly well spoken of.

THE APOLLO CLUB

was organized Nov. 18, 1875, with officers as follows : R. N. Parmenter, President ; S. N. Reynolds, Vice-President; P. T. Davis, Secretary ; David Franees, Treasurer ; H. S. Hamer, Musieal Director. The present membership is 30. The present officers are Henry Lybolt, President; R. C.

Bailey, Vice-President; S. N. Reynolds, Secretary ; H. C. Frost, Treasurer. The elub is in a flourishing condition.

COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.

This institution was organized in 1858, by Nathaniel Caldwell, with F. W. Smith and Samuel Cowles as assist- ants, and was conducted by them with moderate suceess until 1864. In this school all branches pertaining to a commereial education were taught, and the founders de- served greater sueeess than realized; but this was essentially a pioneer effort, and, as in all such undertakings, those who initiate the effort generally spend their time and money in edueating the publie up to the necessity of patronizing the business, and it is left for their sueeessors, as in this ease, to establish the institution.

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In 1864, Mr. A. J. Warner came to Elmira, bought out Mr. Caldwell's school-fixtures and good-will from F. W. Smith and Samuch Cowles, late sueeessors to Mr. Caldwell in the eommereial eollege, made some important ehanges and additions, took Mr. Smith in as a partner, and opened in a hall opposite the Rathbun House, where they conducted the school for eleven years.

The college has met the wants of the community in edu- cating young men for the counting-room, and aiding men in business in opening and eondueting their books.

The rooms are now pleasantly situated in the upper part of the Arnot Building, northwest corner of Lake and Water Streets.

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ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

The academy was organized June 29, 1852. The fol- lowing were among the prominent members : Drs. P. Brooks, H. S. Chubbuck, G. W. Colby, N. R. Derby, E. L. Hart, George W. Holbrook, J. Purdy, T. H. Squire, J. K. Stan- field, Uriah Smith, William C. Wey. The officers are William Woodward, President ; Charles Brown, Secretary; Ira T. Hart, Treasurer. The Censors are T. H. Squire, William Woodward, H. S. Chubbuck.

Dr. T. H. Squire is the inventor of the vertebrated catheter, a valuable instrument.

GERMAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

This was organized soon after the celebration of the centennial birthday of John Frederick C. Schiller, the emi- nent historian and dramatist, who was born in 1759. The surplus derived from this festival was appropriated to the purchase of books, which should form the nucleus of a library. The sum thus derived was $65. The library, now containing several hundred volumes of valuable books, was destroyed by fire in 1860. With the amount received from insurance a new one was started, and is now located in the school-house on Madison Avenue. The library now con- tains about 1400 volumes in the German language and 200 volumes in the English language.

The present officers are Jacob Weyer, President; Joseph Surgenty, Librarian ; Louis Holzheimer, Secretary. The rooms are in the upper part of the building rented by the city for a German school, and are open on Saturdays.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The history of the fire department previous to 1828 is obscure; indeed, it is not probable that there was a regular or volunteer force, the extinguishment of fires at that period, half a century ago, devolving upon the hastily-assembled citizens, who, with pails and buekets, in guerrilla fashion, fought the flames, and frequently succeeded in overcoming them. This mode continued until 1830, when the first regular fire company was organized, consisting of thirty of the most prominent citizens, among the number being John .Arnot, Sr., Miles Covell, S. L. Gillett, David H. Tuthill, Isaac Roe, William Foster, William Viall, John Gregg, and B. Satterlee. Of these Mr. Gillett alone survives. The first fire-wardens, in 1830, were Miles Covell, John Arnot, Jr., and Abraham Rieker. In May, 1834, the first engine (a hand one) was purchased for $250. Hooks and ladders were purchased at the same time. This engine was known by the appropriate name of " Old Gooseneck," and was in active service many years, aud the hero of many contests with rival companies, as well as against a common enemy.

Previous to the great fire of 1840, which swept a large portion of Water Street on the south side, no suction or hose was used with the engine, cach householder being re- quired to keep one or more fire-buckets, and at fires two lines of men would be formed; one rank would pass the filled buckets to the engine and the other hand them back.

In 1840 a hook-and-ladder company was formed, with Thomas Pattinson as foreman. The membership embraced Silas Haight, William C. Rhodes, Samuel Riker, Thomas Collingwood, N. W. Gardner, T. F. Minier, and other lead-

ing citizens. The company disbanded in 1846. In 1844 Fire Company No. 2 was organized, with George Pattinson as foreman. Among its members were G. A. Gridley, Ed- ward Palmer, William T. Post, William M. Gregg, William Halliday, and Samuel B. Strang.

In 1847 two new fire-engines, two new hose-earts, and 800 feet of hose were purchased. Mr. O. N. Smith, a vet- eran fireman, in his admirable history of the department says, speaking of the new apparatus, " The engine for No. 1 arrived November, 1847, and was formally presented to the company by the president, William P. Yates. In the evening a grand supper was prepared for the company and their invited guests, the trustees of the village, the elergy, and the editors of the village newspapers. Speeches were made and toasts were drank, and the party separated well pleased with the festivities."

No. 2's machine did not arrive till the next February. In 1848 a new company, known as " Red Rover," No. 3, was organized, and among the members were such influential citizens as Frank Hall, John Arnot, Jr., David H. Tuthill, Tracey Beadle, S. Ayres, and Riggs Watrous. Hon. John I. Nieks, afterwards president of the board of trustees of the village for several terms, was the first foreman. The company took the old " gooseneck" machine. In the year 1854 a company, famous as the " Young America," was organized, with George Sherman foreman. Its members embraced many of the most popular young men in the city. A sad event in the history of this organization was the fall- ing dead of its noble foreman, Willie Rutter, while running to a fire. His death east a gloom over the entire commu- nity. Many of the members of this company were distin- guished for gallantry on the field of fire and on the field of battle, where many of them died for their country.

In 1854, No. 1 was reorganized, with N. W. Gardiner as foreman. In the same year Eureka Engine Company, No. 5, was organized and stationed across the river, near the south end of Lake Street bridge. Among its members were George II. Cotton, F. B. Plimpton, G. A. Gridley, and E. H. Palmer. In 1856, Rescue Hook-and-Ladder Company, No. 6, was organized. In 1858, Eureka Com- pany was disbauded, also Red Rover, No. 3, owing to dis- satisfaction over the election of officers. There was a gen- eral break-up afterwards, No. 2 disbanding in August of the same year, and Torrent, No. 1, in January, 1859. In May, 1858, " Citizen Engine Company, No. 5," was reor- ganized, and July 17, 1859, Nos. 1 and 2 reorganized. Young America, No. 4, disbanded in May, 1860, and Oet. 8, 1860, No. 2 again disbanded, but was reorganized in November of that year by Burr Hendrick and thirty other young men. In 1863, owing to the refusal of the tax- payers to replace the rotten hose with a new and efficient supply, all the companies but No. 5 disbanded. The citi- zens, becoming alarmed at their unprotected condition, finally voted the needed supplies, and Nos. 1 and 3 reorganized. On the 29th of January, 1864, $4000 was voted to pur- chase a steam fire-engine, and a third-class piston-engine was purchased of the Amoskeag Company; it arrived in June, 1864, and was assigned to Engine Company No. 1. July 18, 1864, Neptune Engine Company, No. 2, was or- ganized ; and in 1865 a second-class rotary steam-engine

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was purchased and assigned to No. 2. In 1865, Red Ro- ver, No. 3, and Citizen, No. 5, disbanded, and the Hook- and-Ladder Company was organized as Protection, No. 1. In 1866 a hose company was organized by a number of young men, known as Independent Hose Company, No. 3, and continued in existence until the old volunteer force gave way to the paid system. In 1868, what was known as Ours Hose Company, No. 4, was organized, and served for five years with distinguished credit. On May 11, 1868, the volunteer department was reorganized, and con- sisted of hose companies having a membership of not more than forty-five men, and a hook-and-ladder company to consist of not more than sixty-five men, the steamers to be drawn by horses. July 29, 1870, a new company, Goodell Hose Company, No. 5, was accepted by the Board of Trus- tees, and entered into active service, taking charge of the steamer formerly used by No. 1, which had succeeded to a new Amoskeag machine. In October of the same year, Eldridge Hose Company, No. 6, was organized, and soon afterwards took a new La France steamer, and continued in the service until the volunteer department was broken up. This important event occurred May 4, 1878, when the Common Council of the city, by formal resolution and notices, declared the old volunteer companies disbanded.

The breaking up of the department was signalized by a grand farewell parade, many of the oldest firemen in the city who had served as volunteers taking part.

The paid department, as at present constituted, consists of two hose companies and one hook-and-ladder company. The total number of men employed is 27. There are four steamers and the hose-cart, and hook-and-ladder trucks, drawn by horses. The chief engineer is Miles Trout, with Charles S. Goulden assistant.

The companies are officered as follows: No. 1, F. H. Pelham, Foreman ; No. 2, James H. Callahan, Foreman ; Hook-and-Ladder Company, Charles A. Landy, Foreman.

The Board of Trustees of the Elmira Fire Department still continues in existence by virtue of the charter granted in 1859, and is officered as follows : Charles Hazard, Presi- dent ; J. W. Merwin, Vice-President ; Henry Simpson, Secretary ; M. S. Decker, Treasurer.

The following persons have rendered service as chief engineers in the old volunteer department : 1839, Silas Wright ; 1840, Solomon L. Gillett; 1841-45, Levi J. Cooley ; 1845-46, Timothy Satterlee ; 1847-49, William R. Judson ; 1849, William H. Harrison, and from 1849 to 1853, Silas IIaight; 1853, John I. Nicks; 1854, George Pattinson ; 1855, John Cass; 1856-57, D. D. Kniffin ; 1858-59, Robert S. Wines ; 1859, H. M. Stocum ; 1861- 63, Washington Marsh ; 1864, Burr Hendrick ; 1864, Patrick Ronan ; 1865, Robert A. Hall ; 1866-68, Ambrose Wise ; 1869-70, Wright P. Sherman ; 1870, M. S. Decker ; 1871-72, Ambrose Wise ; 1873-74, George M. Robinson ; 1874, Joseph A. Campbell ; 1875, Robert H. Walker; 1876, Charles A. Landy ; 1877, Joseph A. Campbell ; 1878, Miles Trout.

THE ELMIRA TEMPERANCE UNION

was organized April, 1877. President, Rev. Elijah Horr, Jr. ; First Vice-President, John B. Briggs ; Second Vice-

President, Edward Haynes; Treasurer, S. Carr ; Secretary, Horace Paine ; Organist, Miss N. A. Barnes ; Executive Committee, Rev. W. E. Knox, D.D., J. Q. Ingham, Charles Rosylea, Nathan Baker, P. A. La France, J. H. Hardy, and John Barry.

TEMPLE OF HONOR AND TEMPERANCE.

R. R. R. Dumars, Grand Templar, President.

Queen City Temple, No. 12, T. of H. and T., meets 121 and 122 Lake Street, every Thursday evening. M. T. Chubbuck, W. C. T .; T. E. Langley, W. R .; A. P. George, W. D. R.

SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

Vulcan Division meets in Knights of Pythias Hall, on Saturday evening. L. P. Turney, W. P .; G. W. Ford, R. Scribe; J. S. Ware, Deputy G. W. P .; William M. Ware, District Deputy G. W. P.

TEMPLE OF WISDOM.

Resident Grand Chapter .- Officers: A. G. George, Grand King; T. E. Langley, Grand Recorder ; J. B. Briggs, Grand Warden ; O. Haskins, Grand Master ; M. T. Chubbuck, Grand V. P. ; L. M. Andrews, Grand Treas. ; C. Ganning, Grand Guard.

PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA.

This patriotic order, with the motto, " God, our country, and our order," was first organized in the city of Phila- delphia, Pa., in 1847. Prior to the Rebellion it was very imperfect, and its progress slow. When the war broke out, a general enlistment of its members compelled its entire suspension. In 1866 the order was reorganized and placed upon a more substantial basis, and its membership now seek to locate a camp in every town in the United States.

The order has for its objects the inculcation of pure American principles, the opposition to foreign interference with State interests in the United States of America, the cultivation of brotherly love, the preservation of the Con- stitution of the United States, and the propagation of free education.

WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 2,

Elmira, N. Y., was instituted April 15, 1878, and the in- stallation by W. C. Leidy, District President of Chemung County ; John C. King, President ; Charles W. Teed, Re- cording Secretary.

THE ANCIENT ORDER OF WORKMEN.

This is a benevolent organization for mutual protection and security against the ravages of disease and death. It is a modern institution, the name to the contrary notwith- standing. Like some other orders, it has a guarantee of a certain amount to the heirs of the deceased member. This organization pays $2000 to the heirs of those entitled.

ELMIRA LODGE, NO. 150,

was organized April 20, 1878, with the following officers : J. L. Cornell, Past Master Workman ; E. S. Hubbell, Mas- ter Workman ; A. B. Dickinson, General Foreman ; John Hathorn, Overseer ; James C. Boak, Guide ; L. A. Turner,

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Recorder ; Charles S. Davison, Financier ; Uri Bartholo- mew, Receiver ; E. S. Hubbell, R. B. Jinks, and U. Bartho- lomew, Trustees. The installation was by Deputy Grand Master Workman F. H. Loomis.

BRANCH NO. 1, NEW YORK P. C. S., OF ELMIRA,

organized July 14, 1878. Its object is the preservation of the Irish language. After each business meeting the members form a class for the study of the Irish language. The officers are J. M. Walsh, President ; P. J. Mullins, Vice-President ; W. F. Collins, Secretary; Patrick Gor- man, Treasurer.

ELMIRA SAENGERBUND.

Organized November, 1856. Charter members : Ernst Shidlen, President ; Joseph Surgenty, Treasurer; Ernst Schlotter, Secretary; Theodore Staetler, Assistant Secre- tary ; Charles Mosgau, Leader; Andrew Haas, Charles Ulrich, George Goersing, John Brand, Frederick Amberg, John Kichbush, John Fuchs.

ST. PATRICK'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY.

Organized April 27, 1873. First officers : Patrick Mc- Loughlin, President; Thomas McMerry, Vice-President ; Michael Gurnet, Financial Secretary ; F. J. Conlin, Re- cording Secretary ; P. M. Sullivan, Treasurer; James Kelley, Marshal ; T. Clancey, Assistant Marshal.

Feb. 18, 1877, the society dedicated a new hall, at 658 Magee Street,-a wooden structure, well built and well fur- nished. The present officers are James Clancey, Presi- dent ; P. M. Sullivan, Vice-President ; P. R. Sullivan, Financial Secretary ; W. J. Collins, Recording Secretary ; John Sullivan, Treasurer ; John Coleman, Marshal; Daniel Sheehan, Assistant Marshal.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

This association was established in 1858, with the fol- lowing offieers and members : Managers, H. M. Partridge, President ; S. B. Fairman, Vice-President ; A. R. Wright, Corresponding Secretary ; S. R. Van Campen, Recording Secretary ; S. Ayres, Treasurer ; F. Collingwood, D. Thomp- son Dunn, I. F. Hart, and J. R. Ward.

The object of the association is the development of Christian character, the promotion of evangelical religion, the cultivation of Christian sympathy, and the improve- ment of the mental and spiritual condition of young men.

The association sustains a morning prayer-meeting, a special weckly meeting for young men, and a special Sun- day-evening meeting for refornied men ; also sustains three mission Sunday-schools; has erected a beautiful building in the Second Ward, in which services are held Sunday evenings. The chapel and lot cost $2500, and are paid for.

There are normal elasses and teachers' classes ; Palestine classes, for higher Biblieal study.

Young men, members of the association, devote several hours each day to the reception of young men for moral and intellectual conversation, at their rooms (in the Opera Bloek).

Employment will be obtained as opportunities offer, for strangers as well as others out of employ.

Library : The association has a library of nearly 6000

volumes, many new and standard works. There is also a library of reference. The library is open two hours each day for the benefit of members and strangers and the occa- sional visitor.

The reading-rooms are supplied with the leading secular and religious journals, of all parties and shades of opinion, as well as the leading periodieals and magazines.

Lectures : Besides the winter course, which is sustained by the best lecturers in the land, there are frequent home entertainments and musical concerts, which afford pleasant means of extending acquaintance.

Sermons are delivered quarterly on the third Sabbath of January, April, and July. On these occasions the pastors of the various churches co-operate with the association in a united congregation.

Charity : Assistance is given to those connected with our Sunday-schools who are not able to help themselves ; instruction, also, to those under the care of the association in making clothing; and contributions of clothing, fuel, and food when needed.

The present officers are A. P. George, President ; J. Q. Ingham, Vice-President ; Dr. T. A. Wales, Correspond- ing Secretary ; T. E. Langley, Recording Secretary ; D. N. Nichols, Treasurer ; S. P. Farwell, Chairman of Church Committee.

BELLEFONT LODGE, NO. 355, I. O. G. T.

Instituted June 18, 1876. Albert Jones, W. C. T .; Elizabeth Washington, W. V. T .; Maria Washington, F. S .; William Stover, Treas. ; William Cornell, Jr., R. S.

A. J. O. K. S. B.

Aaron Lodge, No. 29 .- The Ancient Jewish Order " Kesher Shall Barsell," or " Iron Covenant," was organ- ized January 18, 1871. The motto of the order is "Truth, Love, and Justice." Its aim, to visit the sick, bury the dead, educate the orphan, and eare for the widow. There is a feature which allows the widow of a deceased member in good standing $1000. Aaron Lodge was instituted in 1871, with the following officers : Barney Eilich, President ; Morris Grant, Vice-President ; Solomon Unger, Sec. ; Sol- omon Littlefield, Treas.

The lodge has lost but one member by death, and is in a flourishing condition. The present officers are Solomon Littlefield, President ; W. Bush, Viee-President ; J. Wilten- berg, Sec .; A. Sebersky, Treas.

CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT AND TOTAL AB- STINENCE SOCIETY.

Organized Aug. 25, 1872. Chartered Feb. 4, 1874. Charter members, M. Burmingham, J. J. Stapleton, J. Sullivan, P. MeCarty, T. F. Lynch, M. T. Madden, J. P. Neagle. Present officers, W. Howard, President ; M. T. Neagle, Vice-President ; A. O. Dea, Treasurer; O. T. Mo- lony, Recording Secretary, 350 Railroad Avenue; J. E. Neugent, Financial Secretary ; J. Carroll, Marshal; M. McCarty, Assistant Marshal.

WATER-WORKS.

Organized April, 1869. Alexander S. Diven, President ; G. M. Diven, Vice-President ; Alexander Diven, Treasurer ;

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John M. Diven, Seeretary ; John H. Leavit, Superin- tendent. Capital, $50,000.

PIANO MANUFACTORY.

This is one of the most attractive industries in the State. No connoisseur in musie needs to be told of the Greener piano, and it will only be necessary to state for the interest of the general reader that the genius-Jacob Greener- who presides over these soul inspiring instruments was born in the ancient eity of Worms, Germany, in 1825. At the age of fifteen he began to learn his trade with his father and Fred. Mathuseheek. He came to this country in 1848; worked four years at John B. Dunham's factory, New York, and there made his first piano embodying his new ideas of two sounding-boards and overstrung bass, with key- board in the eentre. Having satisfied himself with the value of these improvements, he eame to Elmira in 1855. Jacob Grecner is not a manufacturer seeking to enrich himself, but rather for the ardent wish he has of eonfer- ring on the world a perfeet instrument. At the instigation of friends he has sought and obtained a number of patents for his improvements, but other manufacturers infringe on these patents at will, having full confidence that Mr. Greener will not molest them.

WATER-CURE.

This institution was opened on the present site June 1, 1852. The grounds (28 aeres) were then farming land. During the first year the main building, with two small wings, was ereeted. These wings soon gave way for the present buildings. The additional buildings have been added from time to time, until now there are ample aeeom- modations for 100 patients. The buildings are frame, and of the simplest architecture.

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History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler counties, New York, Part 71

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