Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1949], Part 16

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Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Petrie,

Johnstown, N. Y.

Installment 54

971X. Catharina Ritter (1792- 1842) daughter of Anna Maria Petri 230 and Henry Ritter.

Married Daniel L. Davis )1788- 1862). (Manheim Old Yellow Cem. Rec.) Publ. Aug. 2, 1933.

Children 1: 1970X. Jost (Joseph) Henry Davis, died Feb. 10, 1836, aged 86 years. Married Katherine Rheim- ensnyder. Note: Supposed to have been a Rheimensnyder.) She died May 10, 1839, at age of 81 years. Children 2. (Nothing further in notes).

(This is the line of Mrs. Saf- ford.)

980X. Henry Eysaman, born August, 21, 1803. He was a son of Anna Eva Petri (231) and Stephen Eisemann. Married Mar- garet Bellinger (763), daughter of Christopher Bellinger and Mag- dalena (Lany) Bellinger. She was born August 21, 1803; married Dec. 9, 1823. Children 5:

Recorded under:

No. 1685B241 Delia Maria Ey- saman and John William Bellinger No. 1631B213.

No. 1686B242 Madlene Cathar- ina Eysaman and .. Rasbach.

No. 1687B243 Many Margaret Eysamman. No. 1688B244 William Henry Eysaman

No. 1689B245 Philo Peter Eysa- man and Mary Rankin.

981X. Jacob Eysaman, born June 15, 1796, died Jan. 13, 1879. Pensioner in War of 1812. Son of Amna Eva Petri 231 and Stephen Dysaman. Married Maria Bellin- ger 940B78. She was born Sept. 11, 1795 (Ros. Rec.) Daughter of Catharine Petrie and John I (or J.) Bellinger. They moved to St. Lawrence county in 1824. They were married July 21, 1816. She

diet Nov. 5, 1879. Children 4: 1980XB292 Mary Catharine Ey- saman, born Feb. 4, 1819 in Her- kimer Co .. dlied Jan. 20. 1882.

June 21, 1849, born April 26, 1828, died May 16, 1905. Children 3:

1983B295. Delia Ann Eysaman, bern Sept. 21, 1831, died Nov. 27, 1831

These passages are from the ac- 982X. Johan Jost (Joseph) Ey- roman born Oct 25, 1787. He was count of the meeting of General Herkimer. leader and organizer of a. son of Anna Dva Petri 231 and the Tryon County Militia, which | Stephen Eisemann. Married Anna later fought in the terrible battle Casler (Germ. Flats I-124).

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Genealogy and History

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HALL

Abraham Hail born June, 1792, died Dec. 1862, wife Sarah Du- Bois Hall born Jan. 1797, died 1874. Both buried at Elbridge, came from Queens county. Would fikce names of Sarah DuBois' par- ents and where they came from. Aaron Hall, born Oct. 1759 died March 1836, parents, dates of birth and death and any informa- tion as to service in Revolution. Also his wife Emm Knowles, born Feb. 1770, died Jan. 1840, her parents, dates of birth and death of same. These all came from Quemens, Queens Co.

RIALE

Reuben Hale who came from New Hartford, Oneida county, dates of birth, death, undoubtedly from Sir Matthew Hale family, but lack proof.

SMITH

Polly Smith, his wife,

daughter of James Smith who came from Brimfield, Mass. to Clinton, N. Y. .

Will be glad of any information of above persong. Would like any information on persons , or their service in Revolution.

Mrs. Mary Hale Hall Horle, Memphis, RD 1, N. Y.

REESE, REES, SPOOR, HARDIK, VAN HOESEN, CARTERET, MAUER,

VAN DEUZEN, HELMER

Would greatly appreciate the slightest clues as to how the fol- Lowing pensons are connected: John Reese born March 9, 1735, died Jan. 28, 1813; married June ?, 1761, Mary Spoor born Oct .. 30, 1743, died Dec. 30, 1793. Mark or Markus, Marcus Rees md. bf. 1750 Magdalene (Lany) Helmer. Adam Reese, son of Mark, named his first son, born 1781 John. George Rees married in 1785 and had a són Horace (1786-1830). Descend- ants of the above persons were present at a Reese reunion at Sherburne, N. Y. about 40 years ago. Were John ,George and Mark brothers ?

- From records of what is now Athens, Green county, N. Y .: Jon. athan Rees and Sarah Hardik, Both of Claverack, married April 25, 1716 .... Hannes Van (Von?) Hoesen, son of Jan Hannesse, and Sara Reez, dau. of Lenerd, md. April 8, 1736 .... Hendr. Reese, son of Jonath,, and Jannet Car- teret, dau. of Thos., both of Claverack, md. Nov. 21, 1739. Hendryk Benj. Reese and Elje Carteret, md. Nov. 13, 1741 Andries Rees, son of Ephriam at at Tayhinak, and Susanna Mauer, md. March '14, 1749.

Claverack Ref. Dutch Decs .: Benjamin and Geertrug Rees, sponsons of a Decker child Feb. 1727. William and Elizabeth Reese 2. Nathaniel Warren and Eliza- sponsors of a Weyd (Weed,

1. Richard Warren, Mayflower passenger, married Elizabeth Ja- nette Marsh. (see my article on Marsh Enterprise and News, March 10, 1949). Their children: beth Warren. Nathaniel 2 Warren White?) child Feb. 1727. Maria, married Sarah Walker. 1. Phil- «tau. of Benjamin and Geertrug Rees, bapt. Feb. or March 1727. Geertrug, dau. of Hendrick Van Deuzezn and Neltje ,Eleanor, Helen ?) Rees, baptized January 1747-48.

COSTEN, COSSELMAN,

CASTLEMAN, KASSELMAN, WALDRON

RtAnhen Matan anmatime Man

LINCOLN COINCIDENCES

It's some 84 years ago on Good Friday night, April 14, 1865 that John Wilkes Booth fatally wound- ed Abraham Lincoln, the Presi- dent of the United States. He was attending Ford's theatre witness- ing a play. He died the next morn- ing at 7:22 in a house opposite the theatre. Of the 25 persons in the room when the President pass- ed away, was Mrs. Lincoln and his son, Robert Todd Lincoln.

Sixteen years later (1881) on

July 2nd President Garfield was leaving Washington to make a tour of New England. In the crowd at the Union depot was one Charles Jules Guiteau, who fired twice at the President. Garfield passed away later at Elberon, N. J. Among those who saw Garfield shot was Robert Todd Lincoln.

Twenty-three years passed. On September 6, 1901 William Mc- Kinley, then President, was visit- ing the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y. During the cele- bration an anarchist named Czol- gosz, who was in the moving crowd, with a handkerchief cover- ing a gun, fired two fatal shots at the President who died at the Milburn house. One of the wit- nesses of this national tragedy was Robert Todd Lincoln.

In all American history no such coincidence ever before occurred. During the life of the Republic three Presidents were assassinat- ed and Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at all three attacks.

It's no wonder that on the death | of Mckinley, Robert Lincoln con- ceived the idea that he was a jinx to any man who occupied the

White House. He was later re- | peatedly invited to many gather- ings in Washington but he stud- lously avoided accepting any of them. Robert Lincoln died in 1926 but he never saw again a Presi- dent of the United States -- for the sake of the President.

.Another coincidence may be

added to the above three. Robert Lincoln was a Harvard student years before any of the above tragedies occurred. He was in the Jersey City depot waiting to be assigned to a berth. Suddenly the car against which he was leaning was bumped by another About to fall under the train a stranger grabbed him and pulled him on the train. But the coincidence lies in the fact that the man who rescued him was Edwin Booth, whose brother later, slew the Emancipator ,the father of Rob- ert Todd Lincoln.

-Contributed by W. N. P. Dailey

SOME MAYFLOWER CONNECTIONS

lippe De la Noye (Delano) mar- ried Hester Dewsbury. They had 2. Jonathan and Thomas Delano. Nathaniel 2 Warren had 3. Mercy Warren who married Jonathan 2 Delano. From them followed: 3. Thomas. Delano married Jean Peckham; Ephraim Delano mar- ried Elizabeth Cushman; 4. War- ren Delano married Deborah Church: 5. Warren Dalann mar. |mancantian And i.

WAS JOHN HUSS AN ANCES- TOR OF THE HOUSE FAMILY?

John Wycliff, an English Re- former was born in the year 1320 and died in the year 1384. By birth a Yorkshire man. He studied and taught theology at Oxford University. He made many at- tacks on orthodox church doc- trine.

He preached that the scriptures were the supreme authority and that the good offices of the church as practiced by the Catholic church was unnecessary. He was a chief forerunner of the Refor- mation on the continent and thru his influence the martyr John Huss ,the Bohemian reformed be- gan his campaign against the use and sale of indulgences by the bishops and priests of the church to raise money for their .use, and through the influence of the teachings and writings of John Huss, Martin Luther started his campaign which led to the great Reformation.

John Hus or Huss (pronounced in Germany Hoose) and in Eng- land and America House was born in the year 1369 and died in 1415. He was born in Husinie, from which his name is derived and was a Bohemian Religious Reformer. In 1402 was rector of Pragua University and the same year was appointed to preach in Bethleham Chaple in the Czech language, was leading opponent of the University of the Condemnation of the writ- ings of Wycliff. In spite of his ob- jections public discussions of the Wycliff doctrine were forbidden. In 1410 a Papal Bull forbidding preaching in the chapels was is- sued, was also the borning of: the Wycliff Basks.

Huss preached in defiance of the Bull and was excommunicated in 1411.

His attack on the Bulls of John XXIII against Ladislaus of Na- ples brought on his aggravated excommunication in 1412. Huss refused to retract his statements and was in exile for two years, during which time he wrote. most of his important works. At the invitation of Emperor Sigismund, Huss presented himself in 1414 at the Council of Constance, was imprisoned, tried as heretic and was burned at the stake, causing a political and religious revolution in Bohemia. Soon after the mar- tyndom of John Huss in 1415 a pact was signed by 450 Bohem- ians and Moravian noblemen pledging to continue his work. This caused more dissentions and animosities and the burning at the stake of Jerome of Prague in 1416, followed by bitter religious war in 1419.

The more conservative Hussites became Ultraquists or Calixtinas. The more radical were called Tab- orites whose chief strength was among the peasantry. The mili- tary strength of the Hussites was broken by the defeat of Frederick the "Winter King" in 1620. The influence of Huss is still patent with many Bohemia Protestants.

The Moravian church which was founded by his followers, follow- ing his martyrdom was one of the first Protestant churches and by some writers and historians John Huss is said to have been the in- spiration of artin Luther in his great work of the Reformation. The Hussites as a political body of influence would after the defeat of John the "Winter King"" and the thirty years war. In the latter pant of the 17th century we find the Protestants in the Palatinate being persecuted by the French ing persecuated by the French Catholic invasion and in the year 1708-1710 they, the Palatines in- cluding our ancestor John Huss migrated to America to escape ;

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Towing persons are connected: John Reese born March 9, 1735,

died Jan. 28, 1813; married June ?,

1761, Mary Spoor born Oct. 30, 1743, died Dec. 30, 1793. Mark or Markus, Marcus Rees md. bf. 1750 Magdalene (Lany) Helmer. Adam Reese, son of Mark, named his first son, born 1781 John. George Rees married in 1785 and had a són Horace (1786-1830). Descend- ants of the above persons were present at a Reese reunion at

Sherburne, N. Y. ,about 40 years ago. Were John ,George and Mark brothers ?

1 From records of what is now Athens, Green county, N. Y .: Jon. athan Rees and Sarah Hardik, both of Claverack, married April 25, 1716 .... Hannes Van (Von?) Hoesen, son of Jan Hannesse, and Sara Reez. dau. of Lenerd, md. April 8, 1736 .... Hendr. Reese, son of Jonath., and Jannet Car- teret, dau. of Thos., both of

Claverack, md. Nov. 21, 1739.

Hendryk Benj. Reese and Elje Carteret, md. Nov. 13, 1741

Andries Rees, son of Ephriam at at Tayhinak, and Susanna Mauer, md. March '14, 1749.

Claverack Ref. Dutch Decs .: Benjamin and Geertrug Rees, sponsons of a Decker child Feb. 1727. William and Elizabeth Reese 2. Nathaniel Warren and Eliza-

sponsors of a Weyd (Weed, White ?) child Feb. 1727. Maria, dau. of Benjamin and Geertrug Rees, bapt. Feb. or March 1727. Geertrug, dau. of Hendriok Van Deuzezn and Neltje ,Eleanor, Helen ?) Rees, baptized January 1747-48.

COSTEN, COSSELMAN,

CASTLEMAN, KASSELMAN, WALDRON

Stephen Costen, sometimes Cos- selman born 1755 in New Hanov- er county, N. C. Was res. after Rev. of Onslow County, N. Y. Still living 1844. Costens named In the will, 1816 of Leah Riddick YReddach, Raddoch ?, Gates Co., N. C .; widow in 1790. How were the Costens connected with the

Waldrons (descs. of Resolved or Daniel Waldron of New Amster- dam) of New Hanover and Ong- low counties, N. C., and what was Their connection with Leah Rid- dick ? , Was she a Wadiron or a Costen? Were. the Costens of the Palatine family of Castelman?

Mrs Albert Santos, 3558 Gray street,

Dakiand 1, Calif

BUCK, HOWARD

Want parentage, and further ancestry of Cyrus Buck who was born June 29, 1775 at Chester- field, Mass .He married Silence Howand In March, 1797. She was born May 12, 1778 at Worthing- ton, Mass. Want her parentage and further ancestry. Their children were: . Alvan, Warren, Susan, Melzar, Orville, William, Franklin; Cemantha, Waterman, Howard, Louisa, Relief, Celina tind' Alfred.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was

6th cousin to Elijah Hanchett

Brownell. My paternal grand-

mother was a Hanchett. Want

connection with this Elljah Han- chett Brownell. Was his mother of Hanchett desc. ?

DYGERT, SHULTS, SNELL

John Stickney Dygert, son of Petrus Dygert and ... above, had/ 7 children, according to W. P. Webster: 1. Ed; 2. Aurelia, married D. C. Shults (below); 3. Anna married Charles Snell; 4. Ham; 5. Eugene; 6. Will; 7. Hen- ry W. B. Further Information asked on all, including full names, dates, locations, marriages and descendants. Is the list of children complete ?

DYGERT, SHULTS Aurelia Dygert, dau. of John Stickney Dygert and .... above,

mons who was 1st cousin to Na- | married when ? where ? D. C. thaniel Church and 2nd cousin to Shults (hls full name and data

Ephraim Delano. Ref. E. B.

Brownell, B. E. E. 1418 Walnut street ,Philadelphia, Penn. Harry A. Odell.

P. O. Box 899,

Church Street Annex 8, New York City.

anu was in exue for two years, during which time he wrote, most of his important works. At the invitation of Emperor Sigismund, Huss presented himself In 1414 at the Council of Constance, was and

imprisoned, tried as heretic was burned at the stake, causing a political and religious revolution in Bohemla. Soon after the mar- tyrdom of John Huss in 1415 a

added to the above three. Robert pact was signed by 450 Bohem- ians and Moravian noblemen Lincoln was a Harvard student years before any of the above pledging to continue ' his work. This caused more dissentions and animosities and the burning at the stake of Jerome of Prague In 1416, followed by bitter religious war In 1419. tragedies occurred. He was In the Jersey City depot waiting to be assigned to a berth. Suddenly the car against which he was leaning was bumped by another About to fall under the train a stranger grabbed him and pulled him on the train. But the colncidence lies in the fact that the man who resoued him was Edwin Booth, whose brother Jater, slew the Emancipator ,the father of Rob- ert Todd Lincoln.

- Contributed by W. N. P. Dalley

SOME MAYFLOWER

CONNECTIONS

1. Richard Warren, Mayflower passenger, married Elizabeth Ja- nette Marsh. (see my article on Marsh Enterprise and News, March 10, 1949). Their children:

The Moravian church which was founded by his followers, follow- ing his martyrdom was one of the first Protestant churches and by some writers and historians John Huss is said to have been the in- spiration of artin Luther in his great work of the Reformation. The Hussites as a political body of influence would after the defeat of John the "Winter King"" and the thirty years war. In the latter part of the 17th century we find the Protestants in the Palatinate being persecuted by the French ing persecuated by the French

Catholic Invasion and in the year 1708-1710 they, the Palatines In- cluding our ancestor John Huss migrated to America to escape persecution and in search of re- Liglous liberty,, played a proml- nent part in the war for inde- pendence. They settled, a great part In the Mohawk Valley and became of much Influence in the ravian church still stands by the principles on which it was found- ed and is of much influence in many sections of the country. I will olose as I started with the suestlon, was John Huss the mar- tyr in the ancestral line of the House family ?

Roosevelt; 7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2. Thomas Delano 2 .. Mary Al-

den, daughter 1. John Alden and, forming of our Republic .The Mo- Priscilla Mullins. (Speak for your- self John.") 2. Elizabeth Alden, sister of Mary marrled William Pabodie. From them followed: 3. Mercy , Pabodie, married ' John Simmons 4. William Simmons, married Abigail Church; 5. John Simmons married Comfort Shaw; Melvin R. Shaver, 6. Rachel Simmons married Israel Brownell; 7. Frederick Brownell, Ransomville, N. Y. married Ann Dawley; 8. Elijah Hanchett Brownell married Sarah Ann Warren; 9. Elijah Ellsworth DYGERT, COUNTRYMAN, NESTELL Brownell thus we have: Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie was the sister- in-law of Jonathan 2 Delano; by marriage Thomas Delano was 1st cousin to Mercy Pabodie; Ephraim Delano was 2nd cousin (by popu- lar usage )to William Simmons; Warren Delano' was 3rd cousin to John Simmons; Warren 5 Delano was 4th cousin to Rachel Sim- mons; Sarah Delano was 5th cou- gin to Frederick Brownell and

Petrus Dygert, son of Nicholas Dygert (Tyghart) and Maria (5 Abeel) Ressner or Roysner, was born August 26, 1783, Dutch Ref. church of German Flats record. According to W. P. Webster's notes, Petrus married ... and had 5 children: 1 dau. who mar- rled .... Countryman; 2. James; 3. John Stickney (below); 4. Pe- ter, Jr .; 5. Dau. who married Adam Nestell. Is this a complete list of children ?

Further information, Including missing names, dates, locations, marriages and descendants asked .of all.

BROWN, MEAD

John C. Brown was born June 24, 1781 at Stephentown, Albany county, N. Y. He married Sept.

2. Elizabeth Warren married 1. John Church ;; 3. Joseph Church 2, 1804 Zada Mead who was born , married Mary Tucker; 4. Joseph

Feb. 5, 1788 (where?) She had bortthens: Hezekiah, Ezra, Anson, George and Enos, Sisters: Cynthia, Phoebe Sarah and Asinath. Want Their parentage and further an- cestry.

PHILLIPS, MCCOMBS

Want parentage and further an- cestry of Lewis Phillips who was born March 1, 1785 (where ?) He married Elizabeth McCombs Feb. 18, 1812 (where?) She was born June 11, 1795 (where ?) Want her further ancestry. Their children were: Mary, John, Sophia, An- drew, Saliy, Catherine, Caroline, Charles, Hiram and Thomas. Mrs. Carlisle; Grower, Park avenue, Boonville, N. Y.

wanted). W. P. Webster gives 2 children: 1. William D .; 2. ... Were there others? As much in- formation as possible asked. Marie Lyle,

Lyle Heights, Paso Robles, Calif.

to any man who occupied the

White House. He was later re- peatedly Invited to many gather- ings in Washington but he stud- iously avoided accepting any of them. Robert Lincoln dled In 1926 but he never saw again a Presl- dent of the United States-for the sake of the President.

Another coincidence may be

The more conservative Hussites became Ultraquists or Calixtinas. The more radical were called Tab- orites whose chief strength was among the peasantry. The mlli- tary strength of the Hussites was broken by the defeat of Frederick the "Winter' King" In 1620. The Influence of Huss is still patent with many Bohemia Protestants.

beth Warren. Nathaniel 2 Warren married Sarah Walker. 1. Phil- lippe De ia Noye (Delano) mar- ried Hester Dewsbury. They had 2. Jonathan and Thomas Delano. Nathanlel 2 Warren had 3. Mercy Warren who married Jonathan 2 Delano. From them followed: 3. Thomas, Delano married Jean Peckham; Ephraim Delano mar- rled Elizabeth Cushman; 4. War- ren Delano married Deborah Church; 5. Warren Delano mar- ried Catherine R. Lyman; 6. Sarah Delano married James

Church married Grace Shaw, he was brother to 4. Abigail Church (whatever became of 2 Church ?) Joseph Church and his wife Grace Shaw's desc. were: 5. Nathaniel Church married Innocent Head; 6. Caleb Church married Mercy Pope; 7. Joseph Church married Deborah Perry; 8. Deborah Church married Warren Delano (5 above). 4. Abigail Church, sister of Joseph (above) married William Sim-

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SPENCER, SHELLMAN, JOSLYN, VARS

Data wanted on the Spencer, Shellman, Joslyn or Vars fami- lies. Mrs. H. E. Ackart,

20 Watkins avenue, Oneonta, N. Y.

The Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad

By Paul B .Mattice

The story of our railroads one of the romances of American history. The above captioned road was no exception. Neither was this road one of those paper rail- roads that never laid a tie or rail so prevalent in our state a hun- dred or more years ago. By 1830 every New York village

dreaming of a railroad to the next town and on to the coast, just as they had demanded turn- pikes and stage coach routes at the turn of the century.

The Atlantic shipping ports of Boston, Portland, New York. Philadelphia ,Baltimore and Nor- olk were then in the midst of a bitter struggle to get cargoes for overseas ships. And Catskill must have been doing a little dreaming for Spafford's Gazetteer in 1815 predicted that Catskill would be- oome the second or third sized city on the Hudson river in popula- tion, wealth and commercial im- portance. And not without treason for her citizens owned a hundred sailing sloops, a slaughter house where 300 beeves a day were butchered and grist and flour milis to which on a day of good sleighing in 1801, 4,000 bushels of wheat had been delivered by ox and horse drawn vehicles. · Of course this was long before Wal- ter Lipe was to dream of &

Beech-Nut Packing Company for Canajoharie or Sharon Springs of a 500 guest room Pavilion Hotel for those testing the healing wa- ters.

The Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad received its incorpora- tion papers on April 19, 1830 af- ter a long and hard fight in the state legislature. Many legislators thought that the proposed rail- road, a short cut from the Hud- son River to the Mohawk Valley, would seriously affect the rev- enues of the recently constructed Erie Canal. It was over this short out route, the Loonenburgh Turn- pike, that thousands of New Eng- landers and newly arrived Euro- pean immigrants had moved west- ward to the Genesee and Ohio country and thousands of beef cattle were driven eastward for the New York City markets. Al- bany business interests became alarmed and opposed the railroad as it would turn business away from that city. This was a year before the historic DeWitt Clin- ton engine and train made its initial run of 17 miles from Al- bany to Schenectady. Albanians secretly bought up large block's of the stock thus insuring an early demise of the Catskili and Cana- johanie Railroad.

The survey for the Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad followed the route of the Loonenburgh Turn- plke from Athens, near Catskill, through Leeds, Cairo, Durham, Jak Hill, Cooksburgh, Preston Hollow, Livingstonville,

Frank- ington and on down to Middle- burgh, now route number 145 of the New York highway system. The proponents of the railroad planned to connect by a steam ferry at Hudson with Boston via the Western Railroad, now the Boston and Albany, and with the Hudson and Berkshire and Housa- tonic Railroads just completed out of Bridgepont, Conn. They also on the Canajoharie end planned to connect that town with the Erie at some point along the southern Har aminting

to over a million dollans so that more than two million dollars was spent on this railway project. No one Imows now just how much was spent.

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Mohawk Valley genealogy and history : [a compilation of clippings, 1949], Part 16

Author: Publication date: 1942 Publisher: [1942-1949] Number of Pages: 190

Author:
Publication date: 1942
Publisher: [1942-1949]
Number of Pages: 190