The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the county of Kings and the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1683 to 1884 Volume I, Part 61

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed. cn; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893; Proctor, L. B. (Lucien Brock), 1830-1900. 1n
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1114

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About this time a regular ferry was established from Yellow Hook (near what is now called Bay Ridge), across the Narrows to Staten Island. In 1753 the ferry was kept by John Lanc.

In 1749 the seines of Justice Cortelyou, at the Nar- rows, caught 9,000 shad.

On November 26, 1759, a large bear, in attempting to swim across the bay to New Utrecht from Red Hook, was shot by Sebring of Brooklyn.

Slaves .- In the year 1755 there were sixty-seven (67) slaves in New Utrecht, which were owned by the following persons, who were then the wealthicst people of the town: Petrus Van Pelt; Jacques Cortelyou, Jr .; Denyse Denyse; Saartje Barkeloo; Caspar Cropsey; Gerrit Kouwenhoven; William Van Nuyse; William Van Nuyse, Jr .; Rutgert Van Brunt, Jr .; Andries Emmans; Joris Lot; Evert Suydam; Jacobus Van Nuys; Hendrick Johnsen; Haert Van Voerhees; Thomas Van Dyck; John Laan; Gerret Van Duyn; John Johnson; Rutgert Van Brunt; Roelof Van Brunt; Wilhelmus Van Brunt; Thomas Pollock; Neeltje Pietersen ; Rebecca Emmans ; Captain Petrus Van Pelt.

New Utrecht's Share in the Revolutionary War .- In the year 1776, at the outbreak of the War of the Revolution, New Utrecht was early occupied by

the British troops, who remained in possession, from the Battle of Long Island to the evacuation of New York, -a period of seven years. The troops were quartered on the inhabitants all this time; and those who joined the American ranks from New Utrecht, were forced to make night-journeys across the Bay or the Narrows, in fishing-boats, to Staten Island and New Jersey. The traditions of personal conflicts and quarrels between the villagers and the troops; and of attacks by boats at night are numerous and amusing. But, through every- thing, the British kept a firm hand on the granaries, cattle and crops of the village. The bluff at Fort Hamilton, called Denyse's Ferry Landing, was occupied during the time of the Revolution by the houses of Denyse Denyse, Abram Bennett and Simon Cortelyou. Here, in Au- gust, 1776, a party of Americans established a battery of two or three twelve-pounders ; and, without wait- ing for an attack, opened fire on the frigate Asia,

DENYSE'S FERRY, FORT HAMILTON, L. I .*

which headed the fleet of Lord Howe, as it arrived to subdue the rebellion. The guns of the fleet rapidly re- turned the compliment, and one twenty-four pound shot lodged in the wall of Mr. Bennett's house, and three in the house of Denyse, the kitchen narrowly escaping destruction. On August 22d, 1776, 16,000 British and Hessian troops effected a landing in face of the fire of the little battery. Thus, the first resistance made to the British arms in the Middle States of America, was on the soil of New Utrecht, near where the present Fort Hamilton stands.

After the Close of the Revolutionary Struggle the town began a new era of prosperity and

* Copied from engraving in Lossing's Field-Book of the Revolution, ii, 598. The view is from the road on the high shore, a little below Fort Hamilton, looking southeast; the house in the centre belonged to Simon Cortelyou, a tory, during the Revolution. Gravesend Bay is seen beyond the house and the distant land is Coney Island B

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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

growth. As the new laws and the new spirit be- came prevalent, the Dutch language began to lose its prominence, until it remained only as a historic treasure reverently guarded in every home, and used constantly as a means of secrecy, or as a bond of intimacy, under the sway of the more opulent English tongue.

Record of the War of the Civil Rebellion .- In the time of the Civil War the town furnished many soldiers to aid in subduing the rebellion of the South- ern States. Encampments of volunteers preparing for the campaign were frequently had on, and near, the Bluffs at Fort Hamilton, in addition to the regular troops who marched from that place to the war. Fort Lafayette, (formerly called Fort Diamond), situated on the reef in the Narrows, nearly opposite Fort Hamil- ton, became famous in the Civil War, as the prison of many a Northern man who actively sympathized with the South.

Statistics of Population, Valuations, etc .- Gradually, in the course of later years, other villages have grown within the limits of the town. In these, greater changes have taken place in recent times, than in the original village of New Utrecht, which has firmly resisted great modern innovations, and has pre- served to a, large degree the same general outline for some generations. The four other villages that have thus sprung up within the limits of the present town are, Bath, Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, and part of Unionville.

The growth of the town in population for many years past is shown by the following table :

1647, 20 settlers ; 1673, 41 males took the oath of al- legiance to the Dutch Government ; 1698, 211 and 48 slaves ; 1738, 282; 1810, 907; 1820, 1,009; 1840, 1,283 ; 1845, 1,863 ; 1850, 2,129 ; 1855, 2,730 ; 1860, 2,781; 1865, 3,394; 1870, 3,296; 1875, 3,843; 1880, 4,742.

The valuation of the town from £2,852. 10s. in 1675, grew to $304,954 in 1823, and $1,108,350 in 1870. In 1870 the town produced a value of $214,500.

Of improved land the town has now nearly 1,800 acres; and the products of its crops, although they have gradually changed in kind, from the grain, tobacco and cattle raising of earlier days, to the market-gardening that furnishes the best vegetables for the New York market of to-day, are still of far more valuc than any of the other towns of Kings County.

The number of citizens in the town who voted for President or Governor within the last three years is as follows : In 1880, Republican, 993, Democratic, 1,324; in 1881, Republican, 178, Democratic, 402 ; in 1882, Republican, 202, Democratic, 595.

Supervisors, 1713-1797 .- The following is the list of the Supervisors of the town since the year 1713 : In 1714, Joost Van Brunt ; from 1715 to 1720, Andreas Emans ; in 1721, Peter Cortclyou ; from 1722 to 1744, twenty-two successive years, Joost Van Brunt ; from 1744 to 1757, thirteen successive years, Rutgert Van

Brunt ; from 1758 to 1766, Albert Van Brunt ; in 1767, Roelof Van Brunt ; from 1768 to 1777, Albert Van Brunt.

From this year, down to the year 1782, owing to the occupation of the town by the British troops, it seems that a Supervisor was not elected.

From 1782 to 1785, Isaac Cortelyou ; from 1786 to 1788, Jacques Barkeloo ; from 1789 to 1794, Isaac Cor- telyou ; in 1795, '96, and '97, Adrian Hegeman.

Constables .- The first constable after the English conquest, on the records, was Hendrick Matyssen Smack, in 1669.

Overseers .- The first oversecr, of which any account is preserved, was Luykes Mayerse, in 1672.

Town Clerks, Etc .- The office of town clerk was instituted by Governor Andross on the 3d of May, 1679. The first person recorded to have held the office was Joost de Baene, in 1686.

Justice of the Peace .- The first was Jacques Cortelyou in 1675. The first assessors on the records are Myndert Korten and Jan Hansen (Van Nostrand) in 1687. The first member of the State assembly from the town was Myndert Korten, in 1698. The first judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county was Cornelis Van Brunt, of New Utrecht, in 1716 ; and Peter Cortelyou assistant judge in 1702. The first commissioners of highways on the records are Aert Van Pelt and Andries Emmans, in 1721. In 1775, among the deputies sent from Kings County to the Provincial Congress of New York to resist the British oppression, was Denyse De- nyse, of New Utrecht.

Ecclesiastical History .- In the early days of the settlement the people worshipped with the congre- gation of the Reformed Dutch Churches in Flatbush, Flatlands and Brooklyn. Previous to 1677, during the pastorate of the Rev. Johannes T. Polhemus, religious services were held in a school-house, or in a private building.

First Church -In the year 1677, the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New Utrecht was organ- ized, the dedicatory services being conducted by the Rev. Casparus Van Zuren. The names of the first elders were : Jan Guysbertz and Myndert Korten ; the first deacons were Arian Willemsen (Bennett) and Jan Hansen (Van Nostrand). More than 26 families formed the congregation, and 27 persons were communicants at the beginning of the church organization. The follow- ing is the list of the original members : Jan Hansen (Van Nostrand) and wife ; Myndert Korten and wife ; Daniel Vorveclen and wife ; Jan Gysbertz; Willemtje; Neeltje ; Adrian Willemsen Bennett and wife ; Jan Pietersen Van Deventer and wife ; Nyntie Van Dyck ; Gysbert Tysz Van Pelt and wife ; Adriaantje ; Joost Du Wien and wife ; Pieter Vcritie ; Jean du Pre ; Nicholas du Pre ; Lourens Jansen and wife ; the mother of Joost du Wien ; Annetje Bocquet ; Magdalena Van Pelt.

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The first church cdifice was crected in the year 1700. It was built of stone, octagonal in shape, with side walls of boulders, and a steep shingly roof surmounted with a belfry over the center ; upon the belfry was an iron cross, surmounted by a large cock or rooster.

The bell, which was hung in the belfry then, is proba- bly the same one which still summons the worshippers of to-day to their devotions.

Of pyramidal shape in the interior, with wooden ceil- ing and wainscoting; with chairs instead of the more uncomfortable pews of recent times; and with a high pulpit shaped like a tumbler and capped by a sounding- board, with a gilt dove with the olive-branch on the top, this ancient building must indeed have been a quaintly picturesque place in which to worship God.

During the revolutionary war the church edifice was used as a hospital and also as a riding-school by the British officers; as though in contempt, not only for rebels, but also for those who could worship God in any other than the English fashion.

The site of this building was in the old graveyard at the westerly end of the village. After standing for one hundred and twenty-eight years, it was torn down in the year 1828; and, in the year 1829, the present church edifice was erected.

Pastors of the Church .- The list of pastors of the church is as follows :

1667-'85, the Rev. Casparus Van Zuren ; 1685-'95, the Rev. Rudolphus Varick; 1686-1702, the Rev. Wil- helmus Lupardus ; 1705-'43, the Rev. Bernardus Frce- man ; 1714-'41, the Rev. Johannes Arondens ; 1746- '84, the Rev. Ulpianus Van Sinderin ; 1755-'56, the Rev. Anthonius Curtenius ; 1757-'84, the Rev. Johan- nes C. Rubel ; 1784-1824, the Rev. Martinus Schoon- maker ; 1787-1818, the Rev. Petrus Lowe. In the year 1792 Dominie Lowe conducted the services in the English language for the first time. 1809-'34, the Rev. John Beattie, D.D .; 1834-'66, the Rev. Robert Ormis- ton Currie, D.D .; 1867-'80, the Rev. David S. Sutphen; 1880, the Rev. Alfred Brush, the present pastor.

Sabbath Schools .- In 1825 John Carpenter, M.D., organized the first Sabbath-School in the village of Fort Hamilton, and was the founder of the Sabbath-schools of New Utrecht.

On October 18, 1877, the church celebrated its two hundredth anniversary with appropriate exercises and exhibition of ancient relics. The Rev. D. S. Sutphen and the late Hon. Teunis G. Bergen delivered the addresses of the day, and read the Ten Command- ments in Dutch.

The consistory of the church at that time were : Adrian Bergen, John L. Van Pelt, J. Remsen Bennett, Peter Kowenhoven, elders ; Peter A. Hegeman, Teunis Schenck, William H. Wright, Harmon W. Cropsey, deacons.

The M. E. Church of New Utrecht .- The next church organized in the town of New Utrecht was the

Methodist Church. The people of that religious de- nomination held religious services in Bay Ridge, with the aid of members of Methodist churches in Brooklyn, for some time before any church cdifice was erected. The first church building was erected by the Methodists in 1831, on Conover's Lane, not far from the extension of the line of Fifth avenue, upon land donated for the purpose by Mr. John Ben- ham. This building in June, 1848, was destroyed by fire caused by boys. Its value was about $1,500. The second church building was erected about the same ycar of the destruction of the former one, on what is now called Stewart avenue, between Ovington avenue and Bennett's lane. Its value was about $1,200; on land given, rent free, by Mr. Simon Denyse. A third Methodist church was built in Bay Ridge, in the year 1875, on the corner of Ovington and Fourthi avenues, on land formerly belonging to the Ovington estate and bought of Mr. Parsons. The name of the present church is "Grace M. E. Church;" and the size of the building is 32 feet by 50 feet long, exclusive of recess behind the pulpit. The value of the church and land is about $8,500. A handsome parsonage stands on a lot on Ovington avenue, adjoining the church, and is valued, with the lot, at $6,000.

The present trustees of the church are Jacob J. Moore, Henry Duryea, and Adrian B. Denyse. The present membership is 40; the number of scholars in the Sunday-school is about 40, and the present superin- tendent is Adrian B. Denyse. The present efficient and eloquent pastor of the church is the Rev. H. C. Glover.

The following is the list of PASTORS of this church and that of Unionville :

1843-'44, Rev. Lorenzo D. Nickerson ; 1845, Rev. Saulsbury ; 1846-'47, Rev. Edward O. Bates; 1848-'49, Rev. James D. Bouton ; 1850, Rev. James McBride; 1851-'52, Rev. Benjamin Redford; 1853-'54, Rev. Edward H. Fanning ; 1855-'56, Rev. John F. Booth ; 1857-'58, Rev. Richard Walse; 1860-'6', Rev. Ezra Miner ; 1862-'63, Rev. Robert R. Roberts ; 1864 -'65, Rev. Henry C. Glover ; 1866-'67, Rev. William H. Russell; 1868-'69, Rev. L. D. Nickerson; 1870-'72, Rev. Nicholas Orchard ; 1873-'75, Rev. Samuel A. Seaman ; 1876-'78, Rev. Alex. McAlister ; 1879-'81 Rev. H. C. Glover.

The Methodist Church at Unionville, part of whose congregation are within the town of New Utrecht, was built in the year 1844, with the title " Fisherman's Church." It was dedicated by the Rev. Henry Chace, for many years the eloquent pastor of the Mariner's church, in Roosevelt street, New York city. The present membership of the church is 40; scholars in Sunday-School, 75. The list of pastors is the same as that of the Methodist church at Bay Ridge. The present trustees are: Stephen Mans, Garrett Wyckoff, Oscar D. Way, Cornelius Cosine and Edmund Morris.

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St. John's Episcopal Church .- In the year 1834, a little Episcopal Church was organized at Fort Hamil- ton and called St. John's Episcopal Church. It was founded by the garrison at Fort Hamilton and some Episcopal families of the neighborhood. The heirs of the Denyse farm, the Rev. Hugh Smith, the Rev. Jas. P. Clark, Dr. John Carpenter, and Miss Smith, gave the land. The Rev. Jas. Dixon Carder was the first rector in 1834; he was succeeded by the Rev. Sylvanus Nash in 1845, after whom came the Rev. Michael Scho- field, in 1847; the Rev. Joseph Ransom in 1861; the Rev. W. H. D. L. Grannis in 1867; and the Rev. Henry E. Hovey in 1869. The church was then without a regular rector for five years, until the Rev. R. B. Snow- den was appointed in 1874, and is the rector at the present time.

This is the Garrison Church, and is also attended by many Episcopal families of the neighborhood. In this little brown wooden building many distin- guished officers of the army have worshipped; such as the late General Robert E. Lee, who, then a Captain, was a vestryman in 1842. Gen. Stonewall Jackson was baptized there, after the Mexican War; and Admiral Clitz, then a Captain in the Navy, was a vestryman in 1860.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of Bay Ridge, dedicated as Christ Church, was started by the late Mr. J. A. Perry, of Bay Ridge, in the year 1852. Associated with him in the movement were Messrs. Theodore Sedgwick, W. C. Langley, Daniel Richards Charles Prince and Henry C. Murphy. The church edifice was completed and the first service held in it on Trinity Sunday, May 22nd, 1853, according to the forms of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the sermon being preached by the Rev. Henry B. Bartow. The first Church Wardens were Messrs. Joseph A. Perry and John B. Kitching ; Vestrymen, Messrs. W. C. Langley, Theodore Sedgwick, Daniel C. Winslow, Benj. C. Townsend, Joseph Dunderdale, Daniel Rich- ards, James Weir and George Fletcher. The church building was originally built with the understanding that, if the Rev. Dr. Stone would not accept the rector- ship, it should be dedicated to the forms of worship of any Christian church which a majority of the sub- scribers should determine. After the first service, a consultation was held among the members of the con- gregation, and it was decided that the edifice should be used as a Protestant Episcopal Church, and that the Rev. Mr. Bartow should be called to be the rector. He accepted the call and remained in charge from Sept. 8, 1853 to June 28, 1854, when he resigned. The list of RECTORS of the church is as follows :

The Rev. Theodore Irving, L.L.D., to February 9th, 1857 ; the Rev. John P. Hubbard from April 16th, 1857, to June 20th, 1853 ; the Rev. Uriah B. Tracy from December 20th, 1859, to November 12th, 1864. The Rev. John A. Aspinwall entered upon his duties as

rector on the first Sunday of December, 1864, and has now been for more than eighteen years in charge of the parish.

The names of the Wardens elected on Easter, 1881, were Messrs. J. A. Perry, (since deceased), Wm. II. Thomas ; Vestrymen, Messrs. B. C. Townsend, Jas. Weir, Edward Kent, George Self, S. W. Thomas, W. A. Perry, S. M. B. Hopkins, F. W. Perry.

The old church building was doubled in size in 1869 ; and, in 1877 a large building was erected by the side of the church for a Sunday-school. The Rectory was destroyed by fire July 5th, 1873, but was rebuilt the same year, and the land purchased on which the old building stood. The cost of the church building all complete was $20,630 ; the cost of Rectory and land was $16,000 ; the cost of Sunday-school building, $7,000. The number of the congregation is 320, of whom 145 are communicants. In the Sunday-school are 200 children. The names of the recent superin- tendents are Mr. J. A. Perry, Rev. U. T. Tracy, Mr. George Self, Mr. H. G. Hadden, Rev. J. A. Aspinwall, Mr. F. W. Perry.

On August 26th, 1881, the parish met with the great- est loss it ever sustained, by the death of Mr. JOSEPH A. PERRY, one of the founders of the church, who in the words of his pastor was "a Christian of the highest type, a man of the most exalted and lively character, and from the first even to the very last a devoted friend and supporter of the church and parish." For years Mr. Perry was the Comptroller of Greenwood Cemetery, and his charming residence on Bay Ridge Avenue was an ornament to the town of New Utrecht.

The Colored Church in Unionville, attended by many of the colored residents of the town, and called The African Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, erected its cdifice in 1869.

The Roman Catholic Church, in the village of Fort Hamilton, has a large congregation and a substan- tial church edifice.

In addition to the church buildings already mentioned, several for the use of Sunday-schools have been erected and exercises are held at Fort Hamilton and Edgewood in Conover's Lane, under the auspices of the Reformed Church. The building used by the Sunday-school at Edgewood is a tasteful structure and an ornament to the vicinity.

Educational .- The schools of the town were orig- inally under the auspices of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church ; and, until the War of the Revo- lution, instruction was given in the Dutch lan- guage as well as in English. The Dutch always car- ried the schoolmaster with them, and he frequently in the olden time filled the office of clerk and bell-ringer to the congregation, read the commandments, led the singing, and dug the graves. At the present time the public schools of the town belong to the commissioner's district of the county towns of Kings county, of which

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C. Warren Hamilton, Esq., is commissioner. The pub- lic schools of the town at the present time are the fol- lowing : Public School No. 1, William H. Hoag, Prin- cipal ; Public School No. 2, E. V. Cooke, Principal ; Public School No. 3, A. Rockfellow, Principal ; Public School No. 4, James T. Simpson, Principal.

In the past few years numerous improvements have been made in the school-houses. A new and commo- dious structure has been erected for School No. 4 ; and District No. 2 is to have a model building at a cost of $10,000.

The Old Village Graveyard .- The old grave- yard of the village, near where the first church edifice stood, still preserves the old lines and shows the grassy mounds over the graves of the early dead of pioneer times, as well as over the remains of those who died but a short time ago. The graceful monument erected to the memory of Drs. Du Bois and Crane commemorates deeds of noble sacrifice. In the year 1856, some ship- ping in the Quarantine, then opposite Staten Island, communicated the fatal seeds of yellow fever to the in- habitants of Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton. Family after family was broken up or sadly ruined by the ter- rible scourge. In the endeavor to stay the ravages of the disease and help the afflicted, these two physicians bravely did their utmost until they, too, fell victims to the pest and were interred in the ancient church-yard. Since then, the quarantine hospitals have been estab- lished lower down in the Bay, near Sandy Hook ; and nothing has occurred to detract from the sa- lubrity of the air of New Utrecht throughout its whole area.

Modern Public Buildings .- Within recent years, a new building has been erected by the Young Men's Christian Association in the village. More recently a new Town-Hall has been built on 86th Street, near where it crosses the old highway, from the shore of The Narrows to the village. This new structure, with its pretentious form, its double towers visible from the wa- ters of the Bay, its spacious meeting-room and court- room, and its numerous cells for prisoners in the base- ment, is a monument of modern political power, and an evidence that the old conservative feeling of the people has been imbued at times with another spirit. Near the Fort, on the Shore Road, rise the walls and turrets of the Kings County Inebriate Asylum, an imposing proof of the humane sentiment in modern government.

Hotels, Roads and Drives .- No portion of the country, within easy reach of the metropolis, has a situation more favorable as a retreat in summer from the enervating heats and offensive odors of the city, than the stretch of shore along this town, from Bay Ridge to Gravesend. For many years, the Hamilton House at Fort Hamilton, under the management of the late Hawley D. Clapp, was a well-known resort and much frequented by summer visitors, until its destruc- tion by fire a few years ago.

. The Bath Hotel, near the beach at Bath, has long been well and favorably known as a first-class house ; and, surrounded by groves and summer cottages, has formed one of the breathing-places of New York. Within a few years the name of the hotel has been changed to that of The Avon Beach Hotel, for what reason history knoweth not.

Church's Hotel, near the Fort, Pope's Hotel, at Bay Ridge, Bennett's, near the Bay Ridge wharf, Cropsey's, in New Utrecht village, are among the old land-marks of the town ; and Keegan's and Slater's are well known to amateur fishermen.

Before the Revolution the highway of travel from New York was through Brooklyn to Fort Hamilton, and across the Narrows to Staten Island. Thereafter, arose the old Highway from the village of New Utrecht, by the Floss-pond, to the Narrows. The Shore Road, from Bay Ridge, along the bluffs, over- looking the Bay, to Fort Hamilton, is one of the most picturesque roads in the vicinity of New York. It winds with the graceful lines of the shore, past old homesteads and modern residences, along vine-covered fences and cedar woods, at a height varying from twenty to seventy feet above the water. It may, with truth, be said, that the views from this drive are unsur- passed by those seen from any other avenue in the world. The tall spars of the ships of every clime, from the great East Indiaman to the trim coasting- schooner, the huge fabrics of excursion and river steamboats, the colossal hulls of ocean steamers, the . stern sides of men-of-war, and the bright sails of pleasure-yachts and river-craft of every kind, as they move to and fro in the Bay and through the Narrows, form a picture of ever changing interest against the dark back-ground of the hills of New Jersey and of Staten Island, with the sombre ramparts of Fort Wads- worth.

On this road stand the old homes of the late Jacques Van Brunt, the late John I. Bennett, the late Remsen Bennett, the old Barkeloo family, the Ross estate, the late Chandler White, and the late Hon. Teunis G. Bergen, whose portrait and biography will be found in the following pages.

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The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the county of Kings and the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1683 to 1884 Volume I, Part 61

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed. cn; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893; Proctor, L. B. (Lucien Brock), 1830-1900. 1n Publication date: 1884 Publisher: New York : W. W. Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1114

Author: Stiles, Henry Reed, 1832-1909, ed. cn; Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893; Proctor, L. B. (Lucien Brock), 1830-1900. 1n
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: New York : W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1114