Landmarks of Rensselaer county, New York, pt 2 - 3, Part 78

Author: Anderson, George Baker
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1424

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Tunnard, Robert Il., was born in England in 1839, and is a son of John and Ann Tunnard, who came from England and settled in Waterford, N. Y., in May, 1854. llis father died in September of the same year, and his mother in 1880. Mr. Tun- nard received a district school education and started in as an apprentice to learn the machinist trade with J. M. King & Co., of Waterford, N. Y. Later he came to Troy, N. Y., and learned the pipe fitting trade with Louis Southwick, with whom he remained nine years, and in 1871 entered the services of the Rensselaer Iron Works (which is now the Troy Steel Co.), and has been in their employ continuously since.

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IIc has charge of the pipe fitting for that concern. He was elected school commis- sioner in 1883 and re-elected in 1886 to the same office; appointed November 17, 1892, to fill vacancy. and afterwards appointed for a term of three years. He has always been a Republican and was a leader in the Ninth ward for years. He has held all of the offices in I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W., and has been a trustee of the Troy Co-operative Society since its organization, and was president of same for two years. In 1866 he married Martha Rock of Pownal, Vt., and his children are William H., Hattie A. and Bessie M.

Smith, Arthur T., was born in Troy in 1855 His father, George D. Smith, was born in England and came to Troy, where he was engaged in the meat business for many years. He held the office of supervisor for six years, and died in 1891. Arthur T. Smith, after graduating from the Troy Business College, entered the market of his father and since his death in 1891 has carried on the business alone. He was elected alderman from the Third ward in 1887, and has since held that office. Ile is chairman of the Republican Central Committee, and has been county committeman six years. He is a director in the National Bank of Troy, and belongs to all the Ma- sonic bodies of Troy. In 1877 he married Hattie A. Kendrick of Troy, by whom he had one daughter.

Fiske, Edwin Jay, M. D., was born in Rome, N. Y., December 26, 1848. Ilis father, Squire Gilbert Fiske, born in Connecticut, was a descendant of Symond Fiske (lord of the manor of Stadhaugh, Suffolk county, England), and removed with his father to Rome, N. Y., in early life, and in 1850 went to Oswego, N. Y., where he engaged in general teaming, and Jater marine commission business, which he con- tinned until time of his death in 1880. The doctor's mother was Christiana M. Borst, born in Johnstown, N. Y., of German parents, her father being John Borst, a very well known business man in Mohawk Valley. The doctor began school life in Oswego, leaving the High School in 1866, and soon after was a student two years at Falley Seminary, Oswego county. The doctor was a clerk in the Oswego post-office in 1861 and part of 1865, and at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. On February 22, 1868, he came to Albany and began the study of medicine; he at once entered the office of the late Dr. Alden March, founder of the Albany Medical Col- lege, and remained with him until the time of his death in 1869. May 10, 1870, he came to Troy as medical assistant at the Marshall Infirmary, where he remained four years, attending during the time in 1871 his last year of lectures at the Albany Medical College, graduating in the class of 1871, and on the anniversary of his birth- day, May 10, 1874, the doctor was appointed by William Kemp, then mayor, and without application or knowledge of such an office, city physician, which office he accepted, and removed soon after from the Infirmary to his first office No. 72 Second street. Four years later he resigned this office to accept a position on the Medical Brief. He was after made editor of this publication, which position be held until in 1880, his health failed. Ile soon recovered and returned to Troy, where he has since enjoyed a very large practice. The doctor was one of the original members of the Citizens Corps, and a member of the Rensselaer County Medieal Society, the Medical Society of Troy and Vicinity, and honorary member of the Albany County Medical Society. He was married, in September, 1891, to Miss Harriet A. Newton, of Al- bany, N. Y.

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Bell, John, was born in Bath-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., November 21, 1843. He was the son of Adam and Margaret Bell, natives of Berwickshire, Scotland, who came to Bath-on-the-Hudson about 1838. His father died July 29, 1882; his widow is now living, ninety-three years old. They had a family of six children of whom four were born in Scotland: Mrs. James Cown of Bath; Adam of Washington, spent thirty years in Wisconsin; Thomas, deceased; Elizabeth, John, the subject of the sketch ; and Sarah, who had taught school in Bath for twenty-five years. The father of Mr. Bell was a gardener and was in the employ of the Van Rensselaers for a number of years. He was also in the employ of the Forbeg family; he bought the place which John Bell now owns, on Walton, Ferry and First streets, of the Forbes estate and built his residence. John Bell was reared and educated in Bath ; he spent two years at the carpenter trade, then engaged with Marshall & Travers in the manufacture of pianos; he then set up a business for himself in Bath which he finally abandoned, and was employed in the stove pattern works of Fuller & Warren; he also spent one year with H. Clay Bascomb of Troy in the pattern works. lle was school treasurer for about eleven years. He has been a member of the Royal Arcanum, Fort Orange Council, Albany. Mrs. Bell's brother was John Brodie, who came to Bath-on-the Hudson and settled in Baltimore. He had a brother, Alexander, who was here in Bath about 1836; he went to Baltimore. Another brother, Thomas, spent most of his life in Ohio. He was active in church matters as were the other brothers. Mr. Bell was married in 1877 to Sarah 12. Cornelius, sister of John Cornelius, by whom he has had five children: Sarah (a graduate of the Albany Normal School), Jean Elizabeth, Walter, John, and Ella L., deceased. Mrs. Bell died in March, 189-4. She was principal of No. 22 School in Albany.

Ludden, William J., was born in Ireland in 1849 and came with his parents to America in 1861. lle received a full university course in St. John's College in New York and graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1870. In the fall of that year he entered the Albany Law School and finished with a class of ninety-one students. Immediately after his admission to the bar he commenced the practice of his profession in Rome, N. Y., as partner with the late Milton D. Barnett, at that time district attorney of Oneida county. After remaining with him a short time he removed to Binghamton where he opened an office for the practice of his profession associating himself with Edmund O'Connor, the late State senator from that district. While in Binghamton lie heldt the office of corporation counsel in that city for two successive terms. In 1881 he moved to Troy where he opened an office in the Times building which he has ever since occupied. Ile was elected justice of the City Court of the city of Troy in 1889 and held that office until January 1, 1896. He married in 1877 a daughter of James Prendergast, a merchant of Binghamton, N. Y., and they have a family of five sons and two daughters. Among his immediate relatives are the Rev. Dean A. P. Ludden of Little Falls and the Rev. James M. Ludden of Albany, his brothers, and the Rt. Rev. P. A. Ludden, D. D., bishop of Syracuse, his first cousin. Among the many important cases he has had in his practice are the Dennin will ease and the People vs. James Horace Jones whom hedefended for homicide. While Mr. Ludden was in Binghamton he was president of the Irish Land League and has always taken a deep interest in Irish National affairs. He enjoys a large and lucrative practice and is considered among the first lawyers in Rensselaer county. He has always

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been a Democrat in politics and has always taken an active part in every presidential election in furthering Democratic principles. His voice has been heard in almost every town of any importance in this State and the northern part of Pennsylvania previous to every presidential election since he has become a voter in the interests of the Democratic cause. While a party man in the strict sense of the word in local matters he has been ever ready to help a friend and espouse the cause of good local government irrespective of party affiliation.

Solomon, Clarence B., established in 1890 a first-class steam laundry on Church street, Hoosick Falls, a business which under his able personal management has grown to very satisfactory proportions. Mr. Solomon lived at Williamstown, Mass., where he was born, until 1887, and was then at Fort Edward two years, meantime fitting himself for business hfe by a course at Albany Business College. He recently married Miss Bertha May Welch of Hoosick Falls. He is a Republican, a member of the Hoosac Club, and in short one of the energetic and popular young men who will help make the future of their town.

Parsons, William H., foreman of the repair shops at the Walter A. Wood Mower and Reaper Works, is an expert machinist and mechanical engineer. He has made that class of work a life study, and for twenty-five years in the town of Hoosick. lle was born in New York city in [840 and lived there until 1871, when he came to Walloomsac to superintend the construction of the cotton factory, now occupied by Stevens & Thompson as a paper mill, and continued in the employ of that company for fifteen years, coming to Hoosick Falls in 1887. His elder son, William HI. Par- sons jr., is also a foreman in the iron works, and where he learned his trade, rising from the rank and file by personal ability. Mr. Parsons's wife, to whom he was married in New York in 1863, died soon after coming to Hoosick Falls, leaving three children. Mr. Parsons is a member of the Masonic brotherhood, of the Hoosick Club, has served as town assessor, and has for six years been chief of the Fire De- partment, proving a most competent and popular official.

Ross, Ogden E., was born in Troy, February 3, 1856. He is the son of Ehas and Mary E. (White) Ross. His father was a Scotchman, the American branch of the family settling in Elizabeth, N. J., in 1616 He died in Troy. January 2, ISH. His mother died m 1889. Ogden was educated at the Troy Academy and the Rense- later Polytechnic Justitute and entered the city comptroller's office June 2, 1875, as a clerk. lu August, 1866, he was made chief clerk and secretary to the contracting board, which position he has held since. In September, 1888, he was admitted to practice as counselor at law, having studied with Ion. R. A. Parmenter. He en- listed as a private in the Sixth Separate Company, Troy Citizens Corps, and a month later did duty at the labor riots in West Albany. He is a member of the East Side Club and the Laureate Boat Club. He is a trustee of the Second Street Presbyterian church and for five years was secretary and treasurer. November 14, 1888, he mar- ried Jeanme M. Nely, of New York city, by whom he has two sons,

MeNutt, Col. J. G., was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., April 4, 1833. His progen- itors in this country came from the North of Ireland not far from 1550. Colonel MeNutt attended the common schools, and the knowledge there secured was sup- plemented by an academic course. When eighteen years of age he became engaged as

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an agent for fire insurance, which engagement continued for several years, during which period he found time to pursue the study of law at Warrensburgh, N. Y., with the Hon. D. B. Stockholm. In 1858 he was appointed the general agent for his in- surance company for the State of lowa. On his way to lowa he stopped at Troy, N. Y., to visit a brother, who was a teacher in that city, and while there his brother died; Colonel MeNutt assumed his deceased brother's place in the school and com- pleted the term. His short service as teacher gave such satisfaction to the School Board that he was asked to remain as principal of the school. He settled on Green Island as principal of School No. 1, where he was engaged at the breaking out of the Civil war, He resigned his principalship and recruited a company of men, of which he was elected captain, and which formed a part of the 2d Regiment, N. Y. Vols. lle served in the Department of the Gulf, and was promoted to major and was recommended for colonel and for governor of Florida with the rank of brigadier- general. At the close of the war he re-entered the insurance business, which he followed for twenty-two years, when he took up the prosecution of claims against the government, and has been successful therein. Colonel MeNutt has established more than a local reputation as a lecturer upon hterary and scientific subjects and in every way merits the high esteem in which he is held.

Doring. Charles, was born in Germany, October 29, 1826. He received his musical education in Germany and when a young man came to America and enhsted as cor- netist in the United States Army Band stationed at the Watervliet (N. Y.) Arsenal. The Mexican war was then being fought and the band was sent to the front and spent four years in Mexico. When they returned the old regimental band was reor- ganized, with E. P. Jones leader, and Mr. Doring solo cornetist. In 1857 Mr. Dor- ing was chosen leader and has maintained the position with great credit to himself and the band ever since, nearly forty years. In 1850 the name was changed to the Troy Cornet Band, and they became known every where as one of the best in the country, and when the Civil war broke out they were sent to the front, October 17, .1861, and for ten months led the old 2d Regt. N. Y. Vols. during the Peminsular campaign, An order from headquarters which disbanded all but brigade bands, sent the musicians back to Troy, where they were discharged in June, 1862. De- comber IS 1869, the band was incorporated as Troy Military and Orchestra Band. consisting of twenty-two members and with W. T. Crary as president. In 1891 the name of the band was changed to Doring's Military and Orchestral Band, and although the name was not changed until this late date, the organization was known for a long time previous as Doring's Band of Troy, so completely was the personal- ity of the leader felt. The band has had remarkable success, but one that is de- served in every sense. E. S. Thornton is now president, Edward Martin vice-presi- dent, and George F. Doring has been acting leader since 1894. The band, consist- ing at present of eighteen members, has achieved an almost national reputation and has made a number of noted trips. It accompanied the Albany Burgesses Corps to both of Grant's inaugurations, and in 1881, to Cleveland, St. Louis and other west- ern cities.

Beiermeister, John M., superintendent of the International Shirt and Collar Co., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., received a publie and high school education in Troy, N. Y., and has been in the collar business since with the concerns of Beiermeister &

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Spicer, the United Shirt & Collar Co., and when the International Shirt & Collar Co. was formed he was made superintendent of that industry. He married Carrie Lutz of Elizabeth, N. J., daughter of the Rev. John Lutz, a Methodist clergyman of Elizabeth, N. J. He has one son, John, and a daughter, Edna.

Beiermeister, Charles F., vice-president of the International Shirt & Collar Co., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1862, and was educated in the public and high schools of Troy, N. Y. Ile entered the factory of Beiermeister & Spicer and was superin- tendent of same until the formation of the United Shirt & Collar Co., when he be- came manager of the Anchor factory where he remained until the International Shirt & Collar Co. was formed, of which he was elected vice-president and also acts as general manager. He belongs to the Pafraets Dael and Laureate Boat Clubs. Ile married, in 1886, Carrie Vaughn of Troy, N. Y., by whom he has two children: Vaughn and Ellen.

Parks, Charles Wellman, son of Granville and Elizabeth Augusta Parks, was born at Woburn, Middlesex county, Mass., March 22, 1863. In 1879 he was graduated from the Woburn High School and entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1884. At the end of the second year at the R. P. I. he spent one year engaged in engineering work in the West, a part of the time as as- sistant on the United States survey of the Missouri River in the neighborhood of Omaha, Neb., and the rest of the time as assistant on the survey of the Arkansas Narrow Guage Railroad between Van Buren, Arkansas, and Joplin, Mo. Returning to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in September, 1882, he remained there until April, 1884, when he left to take charge of surveys for the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railroad between Baxter Springs and Larned, Kan. After completing the survey of this road he was employed by the Burlington and Missouri Railroad in Nebraska to make surveys in Colorado for a line across the mountain range to join Bowlder Park and Middle Park. In 1885 Mr. Parks became assistant to the director of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1886 was made professor pro tem. in physics in that institution, which position he held until 1892. During the early years of this period he acted as electrical engineer for the Electric Manufacturing Com- pany of Troy. In 1888 he was appointed United States superintendent of the Liberal Arts Group at the Paris Exposition of 1899 The Educational Exhibit was collected and mstalled by him. He served as a member of the International Jury of Awards and was assigned to duty in one of the classes of Education. At the close of this exposition he received the decoration of Officier de l'Instruction Publique. Dur- ing the years 1892-93 he had charge of the preparation and exhibition of the display made by the United States Bureau of Education at the Columbian Exposition. The principal features of this exhibit was a model public library of 5,000 volumes. This exhibit, which was prepared with the co-operation of the American Library Asso- ciation formed, the nucleus of the Carnegie Library at Allegany, Pa., and several of the smaller towns in the country have since that time received presents of public libraries which are duplicates of this collection. Since the close of the Columbian Exposition Mr. Parks has visited expositions held in Antwerp, Lyons, and Milan, and the' Forestry Schools of France, Germany, and Switzerland, and has prepared reports for the United States Bureau of Education upon the educational features of these exhibitions and schools. In 1896 he received an appointment to the examin-

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ing division of the United States Patent Office in Washington. Mr. Parks is a mem- ber of the Troy Scientific Association and the Rensselaer Society of Engineers of Troy, N. Y .; of the Anthropological Society and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C., and of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Mr. Parks's wife, to whom he was married April 15, 18ST, is Martha Bessac Parks nie Frear, daughter of the late Will- iam and Deborah A. Frear.

INDEX.

PART I.

Abbott, Dr., 171 Frank, 547 1. W., 190 Joel, 419 Leonard J., 389 Peter P., 412 1 Abele, G., Rev., 833 Abercrombie, James, Gen., B6 Ackart, Matie, Miss, 146 Adams, George D., Rev., 894 James, 388 Nathaniel, 241, 310 Parker, Rev., 188 Adancourt, Clinton L., 203 Adincourt, Francis, 88 Adsit, John B., 514 Agricultural Society, Rensselaer County, 137, 250 Aken, James, 515 Nelson P., 515 Akin, John Il., 516 Mary E., 259 William, 106 Akhurst, Jantes, 152 Albany county, division of, 6;

Albertsen, Hendrick. 103 Albertson, John P., 212, 838, 39! Albridge, Conrad 515 Alden, Alonzo, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121, 125, 131, 300, 301 Charles L., 814, 355 Harry M., 131, 301 John, 550 & Son, J. J., 320 Algonquins, the, 10, 12 Allen, Albert, 4.19 Amos, Dr., 851, 561, 565 Arthur Il., Rev., 821 Caleb, 388 Charles S., Dr , 407 Etban, 11

Allen, Daniel, 494 Fred P., 355 George, 247 Isaac A., 192 James, 550 James W., 192 John, 180 Joseph C., 119 Joseph H., 121, 123, 525 Allendorph, Lewis W., 514 Almshouse, the first, 133

Alps, 551

American Laundry Journal, the, Troy, 351 Amidon, John, 558 Anderson, Daniel G., Rev., 329 jr., Elbert, 2.14 George B., 850 Kerr C. Rev., 820 Andrew M. Church company, the, BIS Andrews, E. W .. Rev., 323 Norman D., 191 Andros, Frank A., 182, 188 Anson, Dr., 169 William, Rev., 553 Anthony, Charles 11., 189 Jesse B., 188, 189, 193, 196, 198, 199

Anti-rent troubles, 91 91

Appleman, William, Rev., ISS Armitage, John W., 95 97 Armory, the, 216 Armstrong, Asher, Dr., 422. 130 Jesse B., 448 J. P., 130 Lebbeus, Rev., 477 P. A., Dr., 170 Arnold, Anson, 256 David, 516 IC. D., 310 1saae, 301 Oliver A., 189, 4 15

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Arnold, S. V., 398 Arts, John, 96, 100

Ashley, Edwin E., 340 Stephen, 225, 226 Ashton, Lurie, Dr., 170, 215

Askins, llemy A., 411 Johan W., 415 Assemblymen, list of, 143-146 Atwood, Anson, 312 Noel, 397 Anfsesser, F. M., 314

Auringer, O. C., Rev., 328

Austin, Charles M., 188 James M., 190 Averill, Franklin, 513 lloratio, 134 James K., 512, 514, 511 Park, 517

Ayers, Daniel 11., 196

Babcock, Edward W., Rev., 829 George, 196, 198 Le Grand, 191 Reuben. 90 Samuel, 197 U. P., 506 Varmum, 5-19

Bachman, John, Rev., 527

Backus, C. F., 310

Bacon, Jesse, 185 John, 148

Baert, Andreas, 511

Bailey, Amaziah, 514

Baker, Alderman, Elder, 556, 559 Benjamin, 423 Clark, 423

D. Bryan, 442 Ezekiel. Dr., 192, 440, 491 Lorenzo, 446

Remember, 11 William. 209 Balch, E. A., 125 Baldwin, George C., Rev. Dr., 182, 269, 295, 330 Balentine, Ebenezer, Dr., 190

Ball, Albert, Dr., 513 Bros., 309 Chandler, 425

David, 191, 197, 424 Dr., 168 George 11., 353 James 11., Dr., 516, 548, 551 John C., 809 1. Burke, 428 Marcus, 189, 196 seminary, Hoosick Falls, 425

Bancker, Flores, 296, 522, 523

Bank, Central National, of Troy, 339

Bank, Farmers', Lansingburgh, 236 location of, settled by lot, 237 Manufacturers' National, of Troy, 338 Market, Troy, 212 Merchants' and Mechanics', Troy, 256 Mutual National, of Troy, 338 National State, of Troy, 338 of Castleton, National, 460

of Hoosick Falls, First National, 180

of Lansingburgh, 388 of Lansingburgh, People's, 393

of Troy, 241

of Troy, National, 339, 570 Rensselaer County, Lansingburgh. 390 Troy City National, 337

Troy Savings, 252, 337 Union National, of Troy, 338 United National, of Troy, 339

Banker, Ezra, 450

Baptist churches of Troy, 330, 331

Barber, John, 377 Luther 11., Dr., 557, 559

Barhuydt, Wouter, 458

Barker, Calvin, 388

C. J., 190, 197 Stephen W., 355, 447 William, 808

Barkman, Dr., 171

Barnes, Frank Coe, Prof., 345

Gilbert, 123 Joseph, Rev., 487, 499

Barnet, Benjamin, 132 Gates, 314 Jonas M., 314 William, 314 Barnett, J. N., Rev., 527

Barnbart, John, 566

Barnum, Theodore F., 811

Barr, J. P., 191

Barringer, George E., 461 George and Philip, 535 11. V., 189 Jacob, 533 Barron, Henry D., 484

Barrows, Delia, Miss, 446

Barsett, Ebenezer I., Dr., 168

Bartlett, Phihp G., 310

Barton, Richard C., 203 William, 279 Bascom, Henry Clay, 295

Bassett, Ebenezer, Dr., 546 Ebenezer D., Dr., 550

Bateman, Rensselaer, 519 Reuben, 544, 545 Battershall, Joseph F., 281

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Battershall, Ludlow A . 319

Battleof Bennington, account of by Lieut. Glick, 59-61

advance of Lient. - Col. Breyman, 53 anxiety of the colonists preced- ing the, 51 arrival of Gen. Stark's brigade at Bennington, 54 Baum's advance to Cambridge, 55

Baum's expedition to Benning- ton, 49

Baum's report of the engagement at Van Schaick's Mills, 55 Burgoyne'sinstructions to Baum, 50

Burgoyne's proclamations, 51 capture of Ethan Allen and de- feat of Seth Warner, 53 distraction of the people upon Burgoyne's approach, 52 effects of the victory at the, 62 events preceding the, 47

force of Gen. Stark at the, 56 Gen. Stark's assumption of com- mand and its effects, 54

Gen. Stark's plan of battle at the, 57 Gen. Stark's report of, 58 impropriety in the appellation of, 46

increase of terror caused by mur- der of Jane MeCrea, 52 orders of the Council, 54 positionsof the contending troops at, 62

preparations for defense, 53 recognition by Congress of Gen. Stark's services at, 63 Schuyler's counter proclamation and its effects, 51 Schuyler's stand at Haver isl- and, 48 second engagement at the, 61 superseding of Gen. Schuyler by Gen. Gates, 48 trophies of the, 61 Baucus, John A., 193, 445 J. Bryan, 446 Baum, Frederick, Col., 49, 61, 62 Bayard, Stephen N., 406

Beach, Miles, 278, 279 Witham A., sketch of the life and services of, 157; 352 Beale, E. Newton, 193 Beals, John, 559 Niles, 566

Beam, Adam, 224

Beattie, David, 296, 340 Beandry, Louis N., Rev., 535

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Landmarks of Rensselaer county, New York, pt 2 - 3, Part 78

Author: Anderson, George Baker Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co. Number of Pages: 1424

Author: Anderson, George Baker
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1424