Landmarks of Oswego County, New York, Part 77

Author: Churchill, John Charles, 1821-1905; Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925; Child, W. Stanley
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1410

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Among others who doubtless became settlers prior to 1810 or 1812 were Joseph Myers, who located on lot 94, but soon afterward returned to the East; and Merritt and Justin Hall, brothers, on lot 103, who came from Connecticut with one horse and a yoke of oxen, selling pewter buttons on the way to defray traveling expenses. Their farm passed successively to Simon Phillips, Edmund Robinson, Isaac Park - hurst and the latter's heirs. George Potter came as early as 1810 and lived in a log cabin on lot 88. He was accidentally shot at a general training soon afterward. John Hall, who was born in Connecticut, be- came a resident of the town in 1810. Jason Hall was born here in 1844.

Alanson Himes, born in Rhode Island in 1798, came to Scriba with

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his parents in 1814, and settled four miles east of Oswego. He planted elm and maple trees around the west park in that city under a contract in 1833. He died in 1892 ; his widow resides with a son in Oswego.

Daniel Hall 2d, son of John, was born in Petersburg, N. Y., May 22, 1789, and died here January 4, 1874. He came with his father to Scriba in 1815 and located on the farm subsequently occupied by Galen Hall. He was a carpenter by trade, was elected assessor in 1823, and supervisor in 1841, 1848 and 1849, and was actively identified with the Baptist church and with the Whig and later the Republican party.

Edmund M. Sweet was born near North Scriba in September, 1818, and died at the old homestead September 18, 1894. He was the father of Frank Sweet and the brother of Mrs. Ruth Coon.

Among the settlers of the decade of 1810-1820 may be named Daniel Du Bois, a cooper and farmer ; and I. R. Parkhurst, a farmer and side judge of Oswego county. Russell Turner was born here in 18II, Benjamin C. in 1814, and Joel S. in 1817; all are still living, respected residents of the town. M. B. Turner, the present super- visor, is a son of Benjamin C. The population in 1820 numbered 741.

Charles Paddock came to Scriba in 1825 and moved thence to Mexico. He was born in Connecticut in 1797 and died January 26, 1889.

Philo Burnham was one of the sturdy pioneers. He was born in Greene county, N. Y., September 16, 1793, volunteered in the war of 1812, married twice and had six children, came to Scriba in 1827, and died February 7, 1878. He was sixty years a member of the Presby- terian and Congregational churches and a generous supporter of the American Bible and Home Missionary Societies. His son, Charles H., born in 1840, served in the IIoth Regiment in the Civil War and resides in Scriba.

In 1820 the town contained 741 inhabitants. Between that year and 1830 the following became settlers or were born in the town : George M. Bacon, born in Oswego in 1821, a carpenter and farmer ; Peter D. Barker, a general merchant ; Henry Bundy, born here in 1821; C. E. Downes, born in the county ; Samuel M. Du Bois, born here in 1821 ; William Eaton, a farmer ; M. A. Fish, born in Oswego in 1820, for many years a teacher ; Alexander Guile, a farmer ; Collins G. Jones,

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born in Oswego in 1824; Alanson Moe, a farmer and cooper ; William T. Otis, a farmer ; William W. Potter, a farmer ; J. J. Peck, a native of Massachusetts; and William A. Wright, a farmer ; and many others.

Robert Simpson, son of Robert and Mary (Spencer) Simpson, was born in Dutchess county July 31, 1805; came to Scriba in 1831, and is still living in the town, about two and one-half miles from Oswego. His early life was spent in a woolen factory and in teaching school. He learned and followed surveying, and has held several public offices. He was supervisor fifteen years, justice of the peace thirty-eight years, justice of sessions three years, and occupied other positions of trust. He was first a Whig and later a Republican, and has been three times married. Mr. Simpson is emphatically one of the prominent men of Scriba. His long residence in this part of Oswego county, his faithful- ness manifested in the discharge of every public and private trust, and his many pleasing personal characteristics have endeared him to a wide circle of friends and fellow citizens.

Another settler of 1831 was Thomas Askew, a brewer, who was born in England in 1802. He purchased the then newly erected brewery on the Burt farm, but soon afterward engaged in farming. He was super- visor several years and in 1852 was the Democratic candidate for member of assembly. He died January 12, 1875. Robert G. Askew settled in Scriba in 1833.

Rev. George Blossom, born in Lenox, Mass., in 1800, came to Onon- daga county with his parents in 1806. His earlier life was spent in farming and merchandising. In 1837 he settled in Palermo, whence he subsequently removed to Scriba, where he died. In 1840 he entered the ministry of the Congregational church, preaching his first sermon in Cummings's mill in New Haven. He became a lieutenant- colonel in the old State militia, which he joined in 1825, and held several public offices, notably those of supervisor, justice of the peace, assessor, in- spector of common schools, etc. Prominent among his seven children were Mrs. John Place, William E. Blossom, Mrs. Galen Hall, and George D. Blossom.

Among the more prominent settlers of this decade-1830-1840- were :

Hiram Briggs, A. H. Burch, William L. Cornwell, C. D. Churchill, John W. Dean,

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Henry H. Jones, Erastus G. and Stephen Jones, R. Knight, Sylvester Lockwood, E. J. Lawton, L. B. and Jeremiah Legg, Asahel Newcomb, Z. Peterson, Thomas Robinson, Schuyler Rhodes (at one time assistant U. S. assessor of internal revenue), James Sears, S. W. and E. P. Spencer, I. P. Young, and Jerome, William, and J. P. Waugh, natives of Oswego.

Hiram L. Hart settled in Scriba about 1840, with his parents, when he was ten years old. He has been supervisor six years. Among the arrivals between 1840 and 1850 were :

Harvey D. Du Bois, Edward Foster, John Fletcher, J. Monroe Hubbard, Francis and J. V. Hirt (natives of Germany), John Mullen, Rev. W. F. Purrington (an M. E. clergy- man), B. Rice, John A. Sheldon, O. Stowell, Dr. A. C. Taylor, A. E. Wilson (a Free Baptist minister), and others.

Prominent among other settlers of the town may be mentioned the names of Henry Potter on lot 90, Eliphalet Parkhurst on lot 108, Samuel Frazier on lot 105, Daniel and Holden Corp on lot 17, Chap- man Morgan on lot 43, William Woolson on lot 94, Aaron Parkhurst near Scriba Corners, Harvey and Abel Butler on lot 31, James Farley on lot 44, Daniel Burt (son of William, the pioneer) on lot 96, Reuben Seeley on lot 95, John Davis (a native of Bordeaux, France, a pen- sioner of the war of 1812, and a captain on the lakes fifty-one years), William Gleason (a Vermonter by birth), J. N. Peck (a farmer, lumber dealer, and magistrate), W. M. Sweetland (a retired sea captain), Charles Sweet (also a retired sea captain), Jason Stroup, W. M. Whitlock, H. A. Woodworth, Alfred Sabins, Joshua Miner, John Shapley, Joseph F. Sweet, Amasa Newton, Philo Fowler, J. Meacham, Amos Allport (sheriff, five years supervisor, and now living in town), William Cong- don (long a justice of the peace), Amos Kingsbury, Jacob Whitmarsh, Charles Lamb, and others more fully noticed hereafter.

The growth of the town is best told by the following statistics repre- senting the population at the periods named :

In 1830, 2,037 ; 1835, 4,180; 1840, 4,051 ; 1845, 5,495;1 1850, 2,738 ; 1855, 2,958 ; 1860, 3,282; 1865, 3,215 ; 1870, 3,065 ; 1875, 3,117 ; 1880, 2,971; 1890, 2,480.

The first cemetery opened in town, as previously stated, was the old Burt burying ground, in 1807, the first burial in it being that of a son of Hiram Warner. Among the other early interments here were those

1 These and the foregoing figures include the inhabitants in what is now Oswego city east of the river.

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of Phoebe Pickett, Mrs. Joseph Sweet, George Potter, Fannie Sheldon, and members of the Whitney and Lathrop families. As early as 1820 this plat was superseded for mortuary purposes by the Worden Ceme- tery.

The first school house was built near Scriba Corners in 1807, the first teacher being a Mr. Edgecomb, who lived in the building with his wife and two children. It was a story and a half log structure and answered the purpose until the spring of 1809, when a new and larger house was erected on the four corners north of Scriba Corners. For several years this was the only school building in town. Among the earlier teachers were James Taggart, Levi Reed, Francis and John Dean, Hezekiah Lathrop, William Rasmussen, and a Mr. Loomis. Among the surviving pupils are Benjamin C. Turner, William Stone, Rufus Parkhurst, Russell and Joel S. Turner, and Polly Burt. In 1860 the town had sixteen school districts in which 1,293 children were taught. There are now eighteen school districts with a school house in each, schools in which were attended during the years 1892-93 by 487 chil- dren and taught by eighteen teachers.

Value of school buildings and sites, $9,850; assessed valuation of the districts, $850,087 ; public money received from the State, $2, 161.33; raised by local tax, $2,065.68. The school districts are locally desig- nated as follows: No. I, Card ; 2, Stone school house ; 3, Lansing ; 4, Mattison ; 5, Stone ; 6, South Scriba ; 7, Jones; 8, Rhodes; 9, King- dom ; 10, Scriba Center ; 11, Greenman ; 12, Copeland ; 13, Halleck ; 14, North Scriba ; 15, Carr; 16, Whitford; 17, Mullen; 18, Lycom- ing.

During the war of the Rebellion the town of Scriba contributed more than 250 of her citizens to the Union army and navy. No part of the county responded more promptly, and no body of volunteers served with greater fidelity. Among those who received deserved and honorable promotion were :

George W. Burt, H. W. Miner, William Horton, Charles and Amos Taylor, James A. Darrow, Simon Cyrl, John Duel, F. Coon, George Hall, Benjamin P. Coe, A. Sparks, George M. Stowell, Edward Babcock, M. A. Flowers, James D. Hamilton, William Churchill, John H. Simpson, L. O. S. Madison, James W. Parkhurst, Byron B. Parkhurst, Frank Waugh, Henry Hubbard, Joel A. Baker, John H. Downs, Thomas W. Smith, and L. Merick.

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Supervisors' statistics of 1894: Assessed valuation of real estate, $806,410; equal- ized, $958,275; personal property, $39,900; railroads, 7.96 miles, $91,160; town tax, $6,245.47 ; county tax, $5,589.78; ratio of tax on $100, $1.64; dog tax, $122. The town has three election districts in which 584 votes were cast in November, 1894.

Scriba, locally known as Scriba Corners or Scriba Center, is situated on the old plank road about four miles east of Oswego, near the center of the town. Much of its earlier history has already been given. The place began with Major Hiel Stone's log tavern. The first store was opened in 1819 by Orrin Stone and Aaron Parkhurst, and for twenty- five years or more this was the only mercantile establishment in town outside of Oswego village. It was a small frame building, the first in the vicinity, and stood near the Stone tavern. Later Mr. Parkhurst erected a brick building on the site of the present evaporator, and was succeeded by James Adams. It was subsequently converted into a grange store and finally taken down. In 1841 Hiel and Francis S. Stone, grandsons of Major Stone, started a store in a building on what is now the James Church estate. They continued business there until about 1846, when the present store of Hiel Stone & Co. was established. William Woolson was an early shoemaker and Amos Grafton a pioneer blacksmith here. The place also has two evaporators, owned by B. C. Turner, and conducted respectively by A. B. Simpson and J. H. Wor- den. Mr. Turner also has a steam cider mill. The post-office was established January 27, 1813, with Major Hiel Stone as postmaster. This was the first post-office in town and has always been known as Scriba. It was on the old Oswego and Utica mail route, and the first and for many years the only mail carrier was Joseph Worden. The earlier postmasters were :

Orrin Stone, appointed March 19, 1819; T. S. Morgan, August 25, 1819; James Church, March 18, 1825; Aaron Parkhurst, October 10, 1828; James Church, April 6, 1832; Benjamin C. Turner, July 20, 1849; Hiel Stone 2d, April 6, 1853; Francis S. Stone, March 12, 1861 ; William E. Blossom, September 20, 1866; B. C. Turner, March 2, 1871. Since then C. A. Stone and Hiel Stone 2d, present incumbent, have held the office. The place bas about 200 inhabitants.

North Scriba is a rural hamlet, or four corners, about three-fourths of a mile south of the R., W. & O. Railroad and Lycoming post office. A little west is a Free Baptist church. The merchant and postmaster is I. P. Young, who was born in Oswego and settled here in 1834.

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Lycoming post-office (Scriba Station), is a little hamlet on the R., W. & O. Railroad about six miles east of Oswego. It owes its exist- ence wholly to the railroad and is the only station in town. The first postmaster was John E. Coe, who was succeeded in 1885 by Edwin J. Lawton. Mr. Coe was reappointed April 20, 1889, and served until October 23, of that year, when he was accidentally killed. November 12, 1889, his widow, Frances J. Coe, was appointed and still holds the office. Mr. Coe was born in Oswego in 1837 and was a merchant at North Scriba from 1865 to 1872. In the latter year he started a store in Lycoming and continued business until his death, when he was suc- ceeded by his widow. W. B. Legg is the other general merchant here and carries on a large trade.

South Scriba, located in the southeast part of the town, has a post- office, store, etc. The postmaster is D. A. Hammond. The place formerly contained a saw mill, and a number of years ago Julian Benoit established a general supply store.

Lansing is a postal hamlet situated about two and one-half miles southwest of Scriba Corners. The postmaster is H. E. Middleton, who succeeded Elisha L. Manwaring.

Churches .- Religious services in Scriba began during the first decade of the present century with occasional meetings at private houses. Asahel Bush, as already stated, was the pioneer preacher in the town and conducted services for many years. Rev. Samuel Baldwin was also an early minister of the gospel. The first religious organization was effected January 7, 1828, when the " Free Communion Baptist church of North Scriba " was formed, the constituent members, seven in number, being Daniel Knapp, Samuel Frazier, John Sweet, Stephen Krumb, William Coon, and Daniel and Lucy Gorsline. This society was dissolved December 13, 1831, and the present First Free Baptist church of North Scriba was legally organized. In 1848 their first house of worship, a plain wooden structure 32 by 44 feet, was erected on the site of the present building, a short distance west of North Scriba post- office. The last named edifice was built in 1875 and was dedi- cated on December I of that year by Rev. G. H. Ball, D. D. It is a handsome structure of gothic architecture capable of seating 250 persons. Near it is a frame parsonage. The entire property is valued

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at about $5,000. The society has nearly 100 members and the Sunday school consists of about forty scholars. The oldest surviving member of this church is Dea. Simeon Coe. Among the pastors have been :

Revs. William Nutting, J. Wilson, A. Griffeth, M. Stanley, L. Hanson, J. Noye, J. J. Allen, C. Prescott, J. Wilson again, A. E. Wilson, William C. Beyer, J. F. Smith, and Edward L. Graves since April, 1893.

The Methodist Episcopal church of Scriba Corners owes its forma- tion to William Kilburn. Rev. Burris Holmes commenced a series of revivals in 1841 which resulted in the organization by him of the pres- ent society, of which he became the first pastor. It consisted originally of seven members: William and Margaret Kilburn, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Sewell, Mr. and Mrs. Knight, and Mrs. James Adams. The early meetings were held in the school house. The church society was legally organized January 31, 1853, with Stephen Fitch, P. H. Worden, Mar- cus C. Fish, Francis S. Stone, and Z. W. Hopson as trustees, and dur- ing that year their present edifice was erected. It is a wood structure with basement and gallery, and in connection the society owns a frame parsonage, the entire property being valued at about $3,000. May 31, 1854, this society became a separate charge ; prior to that it belonged to a circuit. The church was built under the pastorate of Rev. M. M. Rice. His successors have been :

Revs. Isaac Turner, L. L. Adkins, M. D. L. B. Wells, William Jones, C. Phillips, Addison Wheeler, J. H. Buck, H. M. Danforth, S. B. Crozier, O. H. Holton, H. W. Howland, J. G. George, W. F. Purrington, Daniel Marvin, Charles E. Beebee, J. E. En- sign, I. J. Nourse, C. H. Walton, T. O. Beebe, and G. M. Ward since February, 1891.

The Methodist Episcopal church of Lansing forms a part of the Scriba charge, and was organized as a class many years ago. No so- ciety was formed and no pastor was installed until 1873, when Samuel Du Bois, Oliver Hall, Daniel Bronson, Galen Hall, David Whitaker, Zachariah Allport, Hugh Downs, Mrs. Ann King, and others effected a legal organization. The church edifice was built during that year and dedicated December 10 by Bishop Jesse Peck, under the pastorate of Rev. E. A. Tuttle. The property is valued at about $2,000. The two societies, under one pastor, have a combined membership of 125. The present Sunday school of Scriba was organized in 1871 with Dr. A. C. Taylor as superintendent. It now has an average attendance of

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seventy pupils, a library of about 100 volumes, and is under the charge Mrs. Dwight Stone. The Sunday school at Lansing has fifty scholars with Nathaniel Beadle as superintendent.

The Methodist Protestant Church of North Scriba (Lycoming) was organized by Rev. Mr. Fowler in 1843. It was a part of the Richland circuit and meetings were held in the school house on the town line. After a prosperous existence it was allowed to run down and finally became almost extinct. September 9, 1875, the society, which had been legally formed a short time previously, was made a separate charge under the pastoral charge of Rev. C. M. Boughton. The church edifice, a neat frame structure, was built in 1874 and dedicated January 20, 1875, by Rev. J. J. Smith. The present pastor is Rev. J. R. Hatch, who was installed in October, 1894, succeeding Rev. E. Galloway. Frank Sweet is superintendent of the Sunday school.

The First Baptist Church of Scriba Corners, constituted in 1883, held its earlier services in the village hall. It was organized by Rev. Mr. Grafty, at the time a pastor in Oswego, who became the first pastor of this socicty. His successors were Revs. Wetherbee, Fries, and W. P. Omans who remained seven years. During the pastorate of the latter the present church and parsonage buildings were erected. The edifice, a brick structure, cost $3,600 and was dedicated December 6, 1887. Rev. Mr. Omans left in March, 1894, and in October following the pres- ent pastor, Rev. Herbert A. Dunbar, assumed charge. The society has about seventy-five members, and a Sunday school of sixty scholars with A. Whittemore as superintendent. Their entire property is valued at $5,000, The deacons are Harvey Burt, Daniel Powers and Fred Waugh; trustees, George Stone, Delbert Stone and Daniel Powers; clerk, Charles Yule ; treasurer, A. Whittemore.

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CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE TOWN OF VOLNEY AND VILLAGE OF FULTON

The original town of Volney, which was set off from Mexico on the 2 Ist of March, 1806, comprised the present towns of Scriba, Palermo, Volney and Schroeppel. It included the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 24th townships of Scriba's patent, and was called Fredericksburgh (the original name of township 17), from George Scriba's son, Frederick Will- iam. April 5, 1811, survey township 18, lying north of the base line of Scriba's patent, and the north part of No. 17, adjoining that township on the south, were erected into the present town of Scriba. At the same time the name of the remaining territory was changed from Fredericksburgh to Volney.1 On the 4th of April, 1832, Palermo and Schroeppel were taken off, leaving this town with its present area of 29,472 acres. It comprises 170 lots, situated in three survey townships, as follows : Eighty-three lots in township 15, originally called Mentz,2 surveyed by Elijah Blake and Ebenezer Wright in 1796, and being the north part of the town; forty-one lots in No. 16, known originally as Georgia, lying in the south part of Volney, and surveyed by Moses Wright the same year ; and forty-six lots in No. 17 (or Fredericksburgh), the larg- est township of the original six, surveyed by Benjamin Winch and Miles Doolittle, also in 1796, and comprising the west third of the town. Elijah Blake, one of the surveyors, afterward settled in Will- iamstown, in this county, and was considered the best surveyor among the twenty-two employed by Benjamin Wright in laying out Scriba's great patent.

' It was so named in honor of Comte Constantin Francois Chassebœuf De Volney, the cele- brated French philosopher, author, traveler, and academician, who visited this locality very early in the present century, probably in 1808. He came from Montreal, and in a storm during the voyage "lost many of his papers and came near losing his life." He proceeded up the river to Oswego Falls and was entertained by Noah A. Whitney, who was so charmed with his noble guest that he proposed calling the town Volney, a suggestion unanimously approved and subse- quently adopted.

2 Properly Mainz, the capital of the province of Rhine-Hesse, one of the strongest fortresses in Germany.

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The town also includes John Taylor's location of 200 acres; Fred- erick Clute's location of 440 acres; Gerret Newkerk's location of 200 acres ; Coonradt Steen's location of 200 acres ; Gerret H. Van Wage- nen's location of 1,440 acres, sold by him to William Harper and hence commonly known as Harper's location; and Charles Newkerk's loca- tion of 1, 100 acres. These "locations" were lands lying along the river which had been sold by the State before the contract with the Roosevelts in 1791, and which were not included in the lands patented to Scriba in 1794, as will be seen by a reference to that patent herein- before set forth. Of the land included in " Harper's location" the State reserved fifty acres at the falls, now included within the corporate limits of Fulton ; this was long known as the Oswego Falls State Reservation.

Volney is an irregular, interior town lying immediately east or north- east of the Oswego River and southwest from the center of the county. It is bounded on the north by Scriba and New Haven, on the east by Palermo and Schroeppel, on the south by the Oswego River, which divides it from Granby and Oswego, and on the west by the same stream and Scriba. The surface is undulating with generally high steep banks along the river, and with ridges from 100 to 200 feet above that stream and 50 to 100 feet above the valleys. Bordering the Oswego River the red sandstone formation crops out, and in former years was extensively quarried for building purposes. The soil is a rich sandy and gravelly loam, well adapted to grazing and to all kinds of farming.

Dense forests of pine, basswood or American linden, oak, chestnut, ash, beech and sugar maple originally covered the entire territory, and gave employment to numerous saw mills and kindred establishments. The pine was abundant and very large and fine, and early settlers found the business of furnishing spars and masts of this timber for ocean-going ships so profitable that it flourished as a regular pursuit from 1812 until about 1825. This wilderness was long the home of various game-the black bear, the fox, deer, the moose, panther, wolf, beaver, martin, mink and otter, nearly all of which long since disappeared. The more ferocious, especially the wolf and panther, were so troublesome to the pioneers that large bounties were offered for their destruction.

The principal stream of the town is the Oswego River, which forms

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the western or southwestern boundary for about ten miles in length, and which furnishes for manufacturing purposes an almost unparalleled water-power. About equidistant above and below the center of Fulton village are what were early called the " Upper " and the "Lower Land- ing," being respectively the head and foot of the rapids and about one mile apart. This intervening stretch of water, flowing over an uneven, rocky bottom, was the "portage of Oswego Falls " and caused the two places to spring into existence, as subsequently noted. Around this all goods and merchandise, and sometime boats and bateaux were carried. Canoes and similar craft were frequently piloted through it, a feat usu- ally performed by Indians and immortalized by J. Fenimore Cooper in his "Leatherstocking Tales." The great water power afforded at this point and a little farther down at Seneca Hill, opposite Minetto, early gave rise to various manufacturing interests, which are noticed in their proper order. This development began with the present century, and has continued to the present time, being the second in importance in Oswego county. It has had an important influence upon the settle- ment of Volney and particularly of Fulton village, and from the earli- est pioneer period attracted the attention of capitalists and business men,

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Landmarks of Oswego County, New York, Part 77

Author: Churchill, John Charles, 1821-1905; Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925; Child, W. Stanley Publication date: 1895 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason Number of Pages: 1410

Author: Churchill, John Charles, 1821-1905; Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925; Child, W. Stanley
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason
Number of Pages: 1410