History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II, Part 111

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1286

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MILITARY HISTORY .- During the Revolutionary period the town was known as Hanover. This sce- tion was overrun by marauding bands of " Cowboys " and "Skinners." Back and forth over this section swept these bands of plunderers, robbing, burning and killing indiscriminately. The cattle of the set- tlers were driven into the British camp and the goods were divided among the captors. Some names have been preserved, as of persons actually engaged in ser- vice during this period. Ebenezer Brown was an ensign. Of the private soldiers little or nothing is known definitely. During the war, at different times, many who had been driven from their homes in the lower part of the county, fled to this section and became settlers of the town. In this way William Horton and wife came from White Plains on horse- baek, bringing with them all they had saved from the ruins of their property, inclosed in a sack and placed across the horse's back. They settled at the point afterward known as Teed's Corners. Mr. Horton was the first town clerk of Somers. It was also in this vicinity that Enoch Crosby and Luther Kinnicutt both began their careers as the the secret agents of the American army. Within the borders of the town the wives of these men are interred. Cooper, in his "Spy," has made memorable the acts of these active agents of the patriots, as also the valley of the Croton, which was the scene of many of their exploits. Enoch Crosby's descendants resided for many years near Croton Falls. Luther Kinnicutt was the compeer of Crosby in his dangerous work, and although it is not known that they worked together, the character of the novelist was evidently drawn from both these men. Kinnientt frequented the town after the close of the war and is remembered by some of our old residents as a tall, straight, spare man, of dark complexion, keen gray eyes, solemn visage, sharp-witted and eccentric.

Many anecdotes are related of Kinnieutt. He used to frequent the British camp as a peddler of small notions, and it has been hinted that his information, in some cases, as well as his wares, was for sale. At one time, as he was passing a church on Sunday, he looked in and saw the congregation assembled, but the

minister had not yet arrived. He coolly walked up the aisle to the high pulpit and took his seat. After a time the preacher appeared, and Kinnieutt rose from his seat and descended the steps, remarking, "I found the sheep without a shepherd and kept them till you came," and strode out of the building. At another tinie he was arrested for cutting down a gate on the Southeast and Croton turnpike, near Croton Falls. When called to answer the indictment he refused counsel, saying he wanted nothing to do with law or lawyers. He then denied the charge and evidence was taken in the case. The witnesses swore positively that Kinnicutt was seen to cut down the gate. It was a grave offense in those days. After the evidence was all in for the prosecution, Kinnicutt arose, saying, " You have sworn I cut down the gate ; now I didn't do any such thing, I only sawed down the post the gate hung on!" and coolly walked out of court amid the unrepressed laughter of court and audience. He was at one time in his career confronted by Monroe Edwards, one of the most noted criminal lawyers of the State. Edwards, previous to this, had some family difficulties, which, however, were not generally known, but through him one member of his family had suf- ferred imprisonment. Kinnicutt was a witness and under the cross-examination of Edwards. Pausing a moment, the noted lawyer asked, " What makes your face so black?" Kinnicutt looked him squarely in the eve, replying : " My face is not as black as your char- acter, for you put your sister in State Prison !" It was a thunderbolt and resulted in the complete confusion of the lawyer.

On the estate of the late William J. Horton, in the western portion of the town, may still be seen the re- mains of a road, skirting the hillside, which was constructed by Washington's troops on their memora- ble march to Newburgh. It was made for the trans- portation of artillery, and crosses in a northeast direction. Walter Carpenter, who was a boy during the Revolution, was an eye witness of a skirmish be- tween two parties of the different armies. The red- eoats were occupying a house near the present York- town line, when the Americans came up to the house and quietly surrounded it. A musket was then dis- charged, when the British rushed out and were cap- tured. On another occasion and in the same vicinity the boy Carpenter saw a British horseman galloping rapidly through the fields, as if pursued. He dropped his pistol and Carpenter secured it and shot the man. Upon examination it was found the buttons on his coat were gold pieces covered over with gilt lace. It was no unusual thing for refugee patriots moving northward from the lower part of the county, in the winters of 1777 and 1778, to hollow out the runners of their wood-shod sleds and conceal in the aperture their specie, if they chanced to possess anything of the kind. One gentleman relates that his grand- father, who owned a farm near the present site of MIt. Zion Church, used to tell of driving his cattle to an

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inclosure in a swamp on the rear of the estate and there keeping them in order to save them from the dreaded "Cowboys" who infested this region. At last eame the end, and peace permitted the veterans to return to their neglected and in many eases devas- tated homes. In 1812 again the alarm of war was sounded and Somers was represented in that conflict, although the seene of hostilities was further removed than in the war of independence. Wilhelmus Ger- ritsen, whose patrimonial estate lay near Croton Dam, and who afterward married Letty, sister of Samuel Teed, was a eaptain and served during the war. The names also of James Ganong and Nathan Brown appear from this town. The grandson of the latter gentleman, Stephen Brown, served throughout the War of Secession. It appears that these gentlemen were commissioned officers.

Of the private soldiers who were engaged in this war no record ean be found, although members of the families of Brown, Travis, Horton, Mead and Green were among the soldiery at this period. In the Mexican War the town was ably represented by Cap- tain Hachaliah Brown, whose monument is men- tioned elsewhere, and who participated in the battles of the eampaign ending with the eapture of the eapi- tal. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, the people of the town were aroused to a degree of en- thusiasm rarely witnessed even during the exciting times of those days, and Somers was early at the front both with commissions and in the ranks. The young men who enlisted from the town were the flower of its manhood. They were the representatives of its leading families, and in their toilsome marehes and battle-marked campaigns they were nobly sus- tained by their townsmen at home who remained to furnish the "sinews of war." Money was freely voted by the town and substantial aid was constantly given by the people of Somers to the boys in the field dur- ing the whole period of the War of the Rebellion, while now and then an aged father and mother would hastily travel to one of the many hospitals, in time, perhaps, to tenderly close the eyes of a brave young son. One of the first regiments in which were repre- sentatives of the town was the Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers (Second Scott Life Guard). Again the name of Brown appears, Gerard C. Brown having been a member of this regiment, together with Isaac Teed, George Kniffen and William Brown. At the ex- piration of the two years' term of service of the regi- ment George Kniffen took a commission in a New Jersey cavalry regiment and served until the elose of the war. He was a native of Somers, as was also his brother, William E. Kniffen, who enlisted in the Fourth Artillery in 1861. He was killed in battle at Ream's Station, Va., August 23, 1864, and is buried in Mt. Zion grave-yard. Early in 1862, and under the call for volunteers, Edward Jones, the son of Jabez Jones, residing near Somers village, responded and began soliciting names in this vicinity to form a com-

pany. His efforts were successful and the young men of Somers, North Salem, Lewisboro' and Bedford en- rolled their names in the One Hundred and Thirty- fifth New York Volunteers, afterwards and during the war the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery. Edward Jones was elected captain of his company, which was D, and received his commission September 10, 1862. He was afterward promoted to major, and died from wounds received at Cedar Creek, Va. His body was brought home and is interred in Ivandell Cemetery. A neat monmnent marks his grave, upon which is in- scribed, on the facc,-

Edward Jones, major, 6th N. Y. Heavy ¡Art'y Vol.

On a shield is "Cedar Creek." Below the shield are two crossed eannons and the flag is draped over the top of the monument with a sword and belt de- pending from under its folds. On the side is,-

Edward Jones, wounded at Cedar Creek Oct. 19. Died at Winchester, Va., Oct. 30th, 1864, aged 25 years, 3 mo. & 14 days.

Early in the war the ladies of the town organized a Soldier's Aid Society, which was continued through- out the entire conflict and proved of invaluable serviee to the objeets of its solieitude. It was under the management of the leading ladies of Somers, and by means of private contributions, fairs, entertain- ments, etc., large sums of money were realized and valuable aid given to the Union eanse. In the Union Burying Ground, near the northeast corner of the church and a few steps from the village street, stands, surrounded by a neat iron railing, a plain shaft of granite, some fifteen feet high, resting on a double base, which is placed on a neat mound. On the face is the inscription in plain Roman letters,-

In memoriam of the brave men from this vicinity who fell in the great Rebellion. Erected by the Ladies' Soldier's Aid Society of Somers! 1865.

On the reverse,-

59th N. Y. V. George Powers.

101st N. Y. V. Stephen Bowles.

1st N. Y.,C. William Tryon.

29th Conn. V. William Graham, Cold. James Butler, Cold.

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6th N. Y. H. A. Maj. Edward Jones. Sergt. James B. Fanning. Corp. Thomas .1. Austin. George Carrington. James Moriarty. Andrew Quick. Ezra Miller. James Qnick. Cornelius Van Scoy.

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4th N. Y. II. A. Capt. James Mckeel. Sergt. Theodore Quick. Sergt. William E. Kniffen. William Donnell. Chauncey W. Totten.

John Jones. Freeman Light. Charles Clark. Norman B. Purdy. Alvin Gregory. Ch". Vredenburgh.

Thus were the names of the fallen placed on record and their memories preserved by the ladies of the town. Every burial-place in the town contains the . head-stones of some of our soldiers and every Me- morial Day witnesses the strewing of flowers on their graves. Almost every family carries on its records the names of one or more who became a sacrifiee to the fierce war of secession. Among the natives and residents of the town who participated in this strug- gle may be mentioned, besides those already re- corded, Stephen Brown, Lieut. Samuel S. Austin, Charles Fisher, Abel Smith, John J. Austin, P. Rob- ertson, Elias Austin, William Brown, Sr., John T. Brown, James Bowles, George Brown, Benjamin Day- ton, James Satterlee, Thomas Bennett, Ezra Griffen, Herman Camp. During the draft several of our townsmen drew prizes, and at once, if it was impossi- ble for them to go personally, furnished substitutes. Some of the young men, in the early days of the war, enlisted from other States, and therefore no authentic record can be found of such enlistment in this town.

At a town-meeting held on the 25th of May, 1864, it was unanimously voted,-

"That the Sum of $300 be paid as a Bounty or to procure a Volunteer in his stead to every person who shall be drafted into the military service of the I'nited States from the Town of Somers, who shall have heen ex- amined and held to service, and who shall have paid the sum of $25 to the Committee hereinafter appointed previous to the time of such draft. Each person who has already paid the sum shall be deemed to have com- plied with this Resolution.

"Supervisor, W.M. E. TEEn (ex officio), ".JAMIES PARENT, " MUNSON E. FROST, "JESSE G. CARPENTER, ". W3. TURK, "Committee."

A year previous to this, on the 9th of January, 1863, at a special town-meeting "it was voted, with but one dissenting vote, to request the Legislature to pass an act legalizing an assessment apportioned on the town

of Somers to raise the sum of four thousand dollars paid by the supervisor of the town as a bonnty to volunteers." This money had already been paid ont of personal funds to the men who had volunteered from the town. The tax was collected at onee, and although under the act of 1864 many of our towns- men were drafted, and the three hundred dollars was paid by the committee above mentioned, this town was among the first to be reported as "out of debt." The war indebtedness was paid fully and promptly and taxes assumed their normal proportions. The town has no military organization at present. The surviving veterans of the war are generally members of the Grand Army organization, but there is not a Post in the town.

The following is a list of soldiers who were mus- tered into service and were residents of Somers, with date of muster, as taken from an official record pre- pared by the town clerk, on file at White Plains :

George W. Kniffin, orderly sergeant, Thirty-eighth Regiment, Company B, June 5, 1861.

William E. Kniffin, corporal, Fourth lleavy Artillery, Company A, Sep- tember 28, 1861.

Stephen Brown, Jr., sergeant, First Cavalry, Company D., Angust 1, 1861.

Edward Jones, major, Sixth Artillery, Company D, August 27, 1862. Samnel S. Austin, lieutenant, Sixth Artillery, Company D, September 2, 1862

Jolin .lames Austin, orderly sergeant, Sixth Artillery, Company D. Sep- tember 2, 1862.

Thomas J. Austin, private, Sixth Artillery, Company D, September 2, 1862.

Abel Smith, private, Sixth Artillery, Company D, September 2, 1562. Peter J. Weavar, private, Sixth Artillery, Company MI, December 4, 1862.

Thomas M. Bennett, orderly sergeant, Sixth Artillery, Company .1, De- cember 4, 1862.

Jacob Tilford, Jr., private, Sixth Artillery, Company D, September 2, 1862.

Peter Robinson, private, One Hundred and Seventy-second Infantry, Company MI. December 4, 1862.

Ilenry W. Totten, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, December 13, 1861.

John Jones, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, -, 1864.

Williau DoneH, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, December 5, 1861.

John C. Halstead, sergeant, Sixth Artillery, Company A, September 2, 1862.

William II. llalstead, private, Sixth Artillery, Company A, September 2. 1802.

Stephen Bowls, private, Tenth Infantry, Company A. September, 1861. James L. Bowls, private; One Hundred and First Infantry, Company A, September, 1861.

Charles Clark, private, Fourth Artillery, Company F, August 26, 1862

.lolın G. L. Thorn, private, Fourth Artillery, Company L, December 30, 1863.

Thomas Donell, corporal, Fifty-seventh Infantry, Company A, August 29, 1861.

llorace Marshall, private, Sixth Artillery, Company A, September 2, 1862.

Henry V. Totten, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, August 13, 1862.

Warren Totten, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, Angust 13. 1>62. Sutton Reynolds, private, Twelfth Militia Gnard, Company E, May 31, 1862.

Asbury Snitlin, private, Second Cavalry, Company MI, September 1, 1662. Sylvester Sniflin, private, Thinl M. G., September 2, 1862.

George Goodwhi, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, December 28, 1×63.

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Elbert S. Hywood, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, October 5, 1861.

Charles Gray, private, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Septem- ber 2, 1862.

Charles McDonald, private, Thirty-eighth Infantry, Company G, June 1, 1861.

Daniel D. Miller, private, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Com- pany I, September 2, 1862.

Isaac N. Teed, sergeant, Fourth Artillery, Company A, October 14, 1861.

Lewis G. Cree, private, Fourth Artillery, Company L, September 1, 1861. Freeman Light, private, Sixth Artillery, Company A, February 1, 1864. Charles II. Vredenburgh, private, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infan- try, Company D, September 2, 1862.

Lewis Dixon, corporal, Fourth Artillery, Company A, November 25, 1861.

James B. Fanning, sergeant, Sixth Artillery, Company MI, September 12, 1862.

John H. Caragan, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, December 6, 1862.

George B. Caragan, private, Sixth Artillery, Company J, November 10, 1862.

Charles Fisher, second lieutenant, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infan- try, Company D, September 2, 1862.

Daniel Barrett, private, Fourth Artillery, Company L, January 6, 1864. William H. Barrett, private, Fourth Artillery, Company L, January 25, 1864.

Josepb II. Turk, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, November 25, 1861.

Samuel Harris, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, December 26, 1863.

James Moriarty, private, Sixth Artillery, Company A, September 2, 1862.

William Corminck, private, Sixth Artillery, Company D, August 25, 1862.

Alpheus D. Freer, private, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Com- pany D, September 2, 1862.

David Daniels, private, Fourth Artillery, Company A, August 20, 1862. Thomas J. O'Connor, navy, August 24, 1862.

Warren Spencer, private, Fourth Artillery, Company D, September 2, 1862.

John Johnson, private, Stauton Legion, September 2, 1862.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, corporal, First New York Lincoln Cavalry, March, 1864.

James Butler, killed in First Bull Run battle.

Turner E. Weeks, private, Seventeenth Infantry, Company F, May 21, 1861.

William J. Brown, private, Fourth Artillery, August 27, 1862.

Philip Dexter, private, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Infantry, Company G, August, 1862.

Nathan Austin, private, Sixth Infantry, Company K, January, 1865. Wright Hawkins, private, Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, Com- pany G, October, 1863.

In addition to the above, there were enlisted twenty- three substitutes and twenty-five others were enlisted from other places for the town.

EARLY SETTLERS AND NOTABLE MEN .- Somers has long been considered exceptionally healthful. Its air is pure and wholesome; its water is clear and eold and limpid; its hills are kissed by the life-giv- ing breezes that earry the promise of health into val- leys and over its plains. One of the earliest settlers of the town, John Hempstead, died, as heretofore stated, at the age of one hundred and seven years. Three of his great-grandchildren are living, all of them over seventy years of age, and all born in the town. The Browns, Baileys, Wrights, Teeds, Frosts, Greens, Meads and Todds, all old families, exhibit liv- ing examples of a longevity which seems to be peeu- liar to the town. Hachaliah Brown was perhaps one of the earliest residents of the present town. He oe-

eupied a residence and land in the northeastern quar- ter and near the present Croton Falls. The house on the place is still standing, a long, low-rambling farm house with sloping roof and verandah along the front, which faces to the south. It is situated on a little rise of ground on the west side of the road leading to Lake Mahopac, and is surrounded by a grove of for- est trecs. The view from the house is southward, over rieh meadows lying in the Croton Valley. In 1760 this land was conveyed to Hachaliah Brown, of Rye, who, in turn, conveyed it to Haehaliah Brown, Jr., who took possession. He married Abby Halstead and died May 22, 1813. He is buried in the Union - burying-ground. His daughter Ann, married James Bailey. Another daughter, Auer, married a member of the Crane family. His sons were Nathan, Stephen and Lewis. The second son of Hachaliah, Sr., was Christopher, whose residence is still standing on the highway leading from Somers to Croton Falls. It is a roomy, one-and-a-half-story building, fronting the south, and bearing all the evidenees of early con- struetion,-the plain close shutters, low roof, small windows, ete. The place is now occupied by Isaae, son of Christopher. The Hachaliah Brown plaee has passed out of the family. Haehaliah Brown was prominent among the early leaders of the town, being the first supervisor cleeted in 1788. The present Stephen Brown is the son of Lewis, and grandson of Nathan. His residenee is pleasantly situated on the Peekskill road, near the village of Somers, and is a large roomy farm house, having been somewhat re- modeled a few years since, and now presenting a semi- Gothic appearance with its sharp gables. The first Christopher left Isaac, Aaron, Frederick and Phebe. His homestead is a low, comfortable residenee, one- and-a-half-stories high, with sloping roof, situated on the Croton Falls road, and is oeeupied by his great- grandson Isaac. Benjamin, a brother of Christopher, resided in Putnam County. His daughter Amy mar- ried William J. Horton, of Western Somers, and sur- vives him, living on the Horton homestead, near Am- awalk. This farm was originally owned by Levi Parent, who finally relinquished it to the Van Cort- landts, who in turn conveyed it to Jesse Horton, and it has since remained in the Horton family. Of Christopher Brown's family, was Jonathan, whose son Charles was a resident of the town, and for inany years postmaster in the village. His widow and daughter Amy still reside here.

Win. Bailey resides in a handsome square, two-story and French-roofed mansion, fronting the green in Somers village. He is about sixty-eight years of age, and although not born in the town, he has resided here since early childhood and has been prominently identified with the interests of the township. The Baileys are one of the oldest and best known families in this region. Wm. Bailey is and has been for years president of the Farmers' and Drovers' National Bank of this place and is the principal stockholder therein.

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He also owns a large landed property here and a num- ber of dwellings, a store building and large hotel in the village. Levi Bailey was living in 1795. He had eleven children. James, of Somers, and De Voe, of Putnam County, were the two in whom we are more particularly interested. James married Ann Brown, daughter of Hachaliah, and had eight children. He owned and occupied a large farm lying one mile south of the village, now owned by Wm. H. Wright. The residence, although much changed, still represents the comfortable old farm-house, built in the prevailing fashion; large rooms, low ceilings, very much on the plan of the old English farm-houses. It stands on the north side of the highway leading to Gol- den's Bridge, in a curve of the road. The ample yard and lawn are eov- ered with shade-trees of noble growth. Hacha- lialı, the second son of James, was a man of enterprise, a large prop- erty owner, and the originator of the menag- erie business in this country. In fact, it may be stated that Som- erstown was the birth- place of this branch of the "show " business, which has sinee as- sumed snch vast propor- tions, and Hachaliah Bailey was its " father." About the year 1815 lie imported the first ele- phant into this country. This was the celebrated " ()ld Bet," and for a long time she consti- tuted the sole "show." At the present time may THE ELEPHANT MONUMENT. be seen, on the triangu- lar space of greensward in the village, and immediately in front of the Ele- phant Hotel, a single shaft of dressed granite some fifteen feet in height, resting on a double base, to which it is securely fastened by bolts and cement. It is some sixteen inches square at the bottom, tapering to about twelve inches at the top, where it supports a scroll-work of wrought-iron about three feet high, upon which stands a wooden image of an elephant. This image is some three feet high by four in length and is a perfect fac-simile of an elephant. It was erected about 1827, and the miniature "Bet" was gilded. At present, however, it presents a more na- tural appearance, being covered with a coat of monse- colored paint. The image is composed of solid blocks

of wood carved into proper shape. It was erected by Hachaliah Bailey in commemoration of the first cle- phant and as an appropriate sign for his large briek hotel. He died in 1845, at the age of seventy years, having been fatally kicked by a vicious horse. His monument, a tall, plain, granite shaft, stands in the rear of the Presbyterian Church and is inscribed :

" Hachalialı Bailey, Diea Sept 2 1845

Aged 70 years.

Enterprise Perseverance Integrity "

De Voe Bailey married Elizabeth Smith, and left eleven children, the sixth son, Horace, removing from Putnam County to Somers. He married Sally Hull, of Connecticut, and had William, James, Elizabeth and Sarah. He married, for a second wife, Fanny Crane, of Vermont, and had Clarinda, now the wife of Thaddeus Crane. In 1818, Horace Bailey purchased the Joseph Owen property, on Somerstown Plain, and opened a store and hotel. Previous to this, in 1815, he had a store at the "corners," afterwards Teed's Corners. While still owning the farm in Putnam County he kept his store in operation at Somers and started a mail-coach line to New York from Somers- town. He bought the Elephant Hotel and farm be- longing to it in 1837. Hachaliah had previously sold the property, which now became the property of Horace. William Bailey was an infant when his father removed to this place and has ever since been a resident of the town. At an early age he developed a taste for the prevailing pursuit of verv many of our townsmen at that time-dealing in horses and cattle. He went into in the business and has traveled exten- sively over not only his own but other States and Ter- ritories, engaged in this and other husiness, and there- by becoming the possessor of a large and varied fund of valuable information. His keenness of perception and remarkably retentive memory have served to make him, in many respects, an exceptional man. He has been closely associated in various capacities with some of the leading men of the times, and his acquaintance is large and valuable; a man of strict integrity in business, he has become possessed of a handsome fortune through his own business efforts. He has identified himself with every beneficial enterprise of the town of Somers. His father was the first presi- dent of the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank of Somers, and he is its present presiding officer. His residence is one of the most prominent dwellings in the town. His sister Elizabeth married Alfred B. Mead, of North Salem, an old and prominent farmer and stoek dealer there. The other sister, Sarah, married Alonzo B. Thacker, the present cashier of the Farmers' and Drovers' Bank, himself a native of the town and son of Solomon Thacker, who for many years was one of the principal business men of Somers Plains. The brother James is dead. Mr. Bailey has four children,

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History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. II, Part 111

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898, Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co. Number of Pages: 1286

Author: Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas), 1843-1898,
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.E. Preston & Co.
Number of Pages: 1286