A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 76

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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He is a Republican in his political views, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church but not a member of any fraternity.

George Milton Marshall

was born at Sciotoville, Ohio, June 2, 1850. His father was Elias Marshall. His mother was Ann Eliza Beloat, daughter of Walter Beloat. He received a common school education and attended the Lebanon Normal School in 1872, and the Ohio University. at Athens, Ohio, from 1873 to 1875. He left there at the end of the Junior term and began the study of medicine with Doctors Jones and Kline in Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended the lectures at the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876 and 1877. He practised on Duck Run, Scioto County, Ohio, in 1877 and 1878. In 1879 and 1880, he attended Medical College at Columbus, Ohio.

In 1880 and 1882, he practised at Sciotoville, Ohio, and from 1882 to 1881, at Tolesboro, Kentucky. In the fall of 1884, he went to Bellevue Hospital Medical College and was there one year. He received the ad cundem degree there. In the fall of 1885, he went to Stephensport. Kentucky, and remained there until July, 1890. He then accepted the position of House Surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York, and remained there until June, 1892, when his health broke down. In October, 1892, he began practising in Portsmouth, Ohio, as a special- ist for the eye, ear, nose and throat, and remained there until June, 1895, when he went to Columbus, Ohio, and was there for five years. In January, 1900, he went to Ashland, Kentucky, and has been there ever since. He was a specialist until January 1, 1902, when he began general practice. He is a member of the New York Academy of Med- icine. He was married December 24, 1899, to Miss Adrian Bowers, daughter of C. C. Bowers of Ironton, Ohio. He is a member of the Baptist church and has always been a Republican.

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Doctor Marshall has always been an untiring student and an in- defatigable worker. The word "can't" is not to be found in his lexi- con. Starting as a boy from a small country town, he overcame every obstacle in his way, some that to a less courageous and hopeful tem- perament would have been well nigh insurmountable. By hard work, sheer merit and dint of constant application, he slowly worked his way up to the position of House Surgeon for the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital of New York City. While there he made such men as Doctor D. B. St. John Roosa and Doctor Webster his life long friends. His work in his specialty, the eye, was always well and thoroughly done. Many there are who thank the Doctor for the priceless privilege of having their sight restored, passing from darkness into light. He is always generous to a fault and nothing he has is too good for his friends. But at the same time, he resents an injury or a slight and is slow to forget an insult. His veneration for his parents amounted almost to worship. He is an extensive reader outside of his medical studies and the books that please him most are by the best and deepest thinkers, Carlyle being an especial favorite.

Arthur Titus

was born March 7. 1826, at Harrison Furnace, Scioto County, Ohio. His parents were Samuel and Clarisa ( Coryell) Titus. He received his education in the country schools and in the city schools of Ports -- mouth. From the age of 16 he paid his own way and the expenses of his education.

He pursued the study of medicine with Dr. J. B. Ray, Sr., at Harrisonville, and during the years 1849 and 1850 attended lectures at the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. He began the practice of medicine at Powellsville in 1850, and after practicing some years, attended lectures in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, where he took his degree February 7, 1861.

On the IIth day of October, 1849, Dr. Titus was married to Harriet S. Chabot, to whom was born two sons : Frank H. Titus, M. D., who is now a surgeon with the U. S. Volunteers in the Philippines and Samuel O. Titus ; and one daughter, Hattie Titus, who died in in- fancy. His first wife died in October 1880, and in January, 1883. he married Mrs. Martha Mathews, widow of Rev. Sanford B. Mathews, who survives him.

In the spring of 1863 Dr. Titus removed to Cheshire, Ohio, where he enlisted in June of that year in Co. A. 16th Regiment Ohio National Guards. In March, 1864, he was appointed Assistant Sur- geon in the First Regiment of West Virginia Cavalry, was later pro- moted to Surgeon of the Third West Virginia Cavalry, and during the latter months of the war, served as acting Brigade Surgeon of the Third Brigade, Third Division of Cavalry, Custer's famous "Red Neck Tie" Brigade.

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Returning home at the close of the war, he removed to Wheel- ersburg, Ohio, where he practiced medicine and surgery until 1872, when he sold his practice to Dr. James L. Taylor and removed to Sturgeon, Mo., where he remained until 1881. While in Missouri he served two years on the U. S. Pension Examining Board. He removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1881, where he remained in the ac- tive practice of his profession until his death. He served on the U. S. Pension Examining Board for Scioto County from 1885 to 1893. He was surgeon for the C. & O. and B. & O. Railroads, and Physician of the Scioto County Children's Home for many years, and Surgeon for the United Commercial Travelers from its organization to the time of his death.

Dr. Titus united with the Free Will Baptist church in his youth, and remained a member of that church until he came to Portsmouth, where, there being no church of that denomination, he joined the Bige- low M. E. church and was a faithful member until his death.

He was a prominent member of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine, a charter member of the Scioto County Medical Society, and a member of the Knights Templar.

As a Physician and Surgeon Dr. Titus was eminent in his pro- fession, and most highly esteemed by his professional brethren.

He was a public spirited citizen, enjoying to the fullest the confi- dence and respect of his fellow citizens.

He died March 8th, 1902, at the age of 76 years and one day, and was buried in the village cemetery at Wheelersburg, Ohio.

Lorenzo Dow Allard.

The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Joseph Allard, was born in or near Sheffield, England and was married to Mary Gardner. Their son, Thomas Allard, the father of our subject, was born near Sheffield, January 27. 1829, and was brought to the United States by his parents in 1833. He was married to Harriet A. Brown, daughter of Royal and Rachel ( Beauchamp) Brown, January II, 1852. Royal Brown was a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church of Flat, Ohio, to which place his father, David Brown, had come from New York in 1815. Thomas Brown enlisted in Co. H, 176th O. V. I., September 2, 1864, and was mustered out with the Company. June 14, 1865. Doctor Allard was the second of a family of six children and was born February 19, 1855. near Flat in Pike County, Ohio. He was raised on a farm and attended the country school till he reached the age of 15. when he began to teach, which profession he followed till his twentieth year. He then entered on the study of medicine under C. M. Finch, M. D. of Portsmouth, Ohio. He matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in 1876, and was graduated March 1. 1879. He located immediately in Flat and continued to practise there until May 13. 1896, when he removed

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to Portsmouth, where he has practised ever since. He has a very pleasing and comfortable residence at 716 Gay street. In 1890, he took a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic. He has been a member of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine, since May, 1894. He was one of the charter members of the Pike County (Ohio) Medical Association. In May, 1894, he became a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and since 1895, he has been a mem- ber of the American Medical Association. He was united in marriage July 20, 1880, with Miranda Buckley, daughter of Isaac and Anna ( Reed) Buckley of Jackson, Ohio. Isaac Buckley was a son of Wil- liam Buckley who came to Jackson County from Maryland and was of English descent. Mrs. Allard's mother was a daughter of James Reed of Oak Hill, Ohio. They have only one child, Leonora, now a school girl in the fifth grade. Doctor Allard has always been a Re- publican and was formerly a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, but is now a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth.

Both as a professional man and a citizen, the Doctor fills the mea- sure of a true man. His naturally cheery and hopeful disposition carries into the sick room an elixir that cannot be found in drugs. Patient and painstaking he gives to his patients the most careful and skilled attention. Full of faith in his chosen calling, he avails him- self of all the aids to advancement in the way of books, journals and all the societies,-local, state and national. He had a varied and long ex- perience in country practise where he was thrown wholly on his own resources in many difficult cases. This training has well fitted him to meet and cope successfully with the most severe and difficult cases. In the practise of his profession, he is intensely practical, and in his diagnoses, never rests until the cause of the disease is discovered. He is one of the most orderly of men. In the language of a friend of his, and a very close observer. "Dr. Allard is the best organized man I ever saw. His horse and buggy, instruments, all physical appliances, books and papers, are exactly where they should be, ready for instant use." In his mental characteristics he is the same. He is an extensive and careful reader, a close student of the literature of his profession, and such is his system, that information gained is always ready for imme- diate use, and the greater the emergency, the more available are his resources. The Doctor is a most genial and companionable man, one of those sunny, magnetic dispositions whose very presence is bet- ter than stimulants.

David Barnes Cotton

iwas born at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, April 5, 1834. He was the youngest son of the late Dr. John Cotton, who graduated in the scientific and medical departments of Harvard College in 1814, and in 1815. moved to Marietta, Ohio, where he practiced his pro- fession until his death. He was a lineal descendant of the celebrated

DR. DAVID BARNES COTTON.

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Rev. John Cotton, the first minister of Boston, Massachusetts, who came from Boston, England, in 1833. The distinguished Cotton Mather was his grandson. Our subject has two brothers who are physicians, and his two sisters are wives of physicians. He was ed- ucated at Marietta College, where he graduated in the Class of 1853. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1853 to 1856. In May, 1856, he commenced the practice of medicine in Lyons, Clinton County, Iowa, where he remained one year. On May II, 1857, he settled in Portsmouth, where he has ever since resided. At first he was associated in business with the late Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead. He was one of the society young men of Portsmouth from 1857 to 1861. On November 21, 1861, he mar- ried Miss Mary C. Slocomb, of Marietta, Ohio. Soon after his mar- riage he removed to the northwest corner of Third and Court streets, where he has resided ever since. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine continuously from that time until the present, and he has been most successful. No one stood higher as a physician than he, and he stood at the head of his profession in Portsmouth, until sick- ness compelled his retirement. He has enjoyed much distinction in his profession. He is a member of the American Academy of Med- icine, the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine, and is an honorary member of the California State Medical Society. He was a delegate to the American Medical Association which met in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1859, also to the meeting in San Francisco, California. In all his life Dr. Cotton has lived out the habits and manner of thought of his Puritan ancestors. He is of the highest integrity in business. in his church and in his profession. Unlike his distinguished father, he never had any taste for politics and kept out of it. He has had six children, one son and five daughters. He lost his oldest daughter, Nellie, at the age of thirteen months, and his son John, at the age of eighteen months. His surviving children are: Miss Grace Gaylord, Dr. Mary Hannah, of New York; Mrs. Kate Bullard Sparks, wife of Prof. Edwin Sparks, Ph. D., of Chicago; Ethel Hamilton, wife of William H. Schwartz. Dr. Cotton has stood at the head of his profession in Portsmouth for many years. At all times and in all places he is a gentleman of the most refined manners. If he ever had any fault professionally, it was because he had too much sympa- thy for his patients.

Frank Mott Edwards.

One of the bright young physicians of Portsmouth, was born October 23, 1863. at South Point in Lawrence County, Ohio, the son of Elisha T. Edwards and Mary Hastings, his wife. He has a brother and sister residing in Portsmouth and a brother at Athens, Ohio. His grandfather, Leonard Edwards was a native of North Carolina and emigrated from there to Lawrence County. The fam-

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ily located in North Carolina from Wales before the Revolution and our subject's great-great-grandfather, William Edwards, was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary War from Virginia. His father served in the Civil War in the 10th Kentucky Infantry and as First Lieuten- ant of Co. A. 173 O. V. I.

Our subject attended the Indiana State Normal School at Val- paraiso, Ind. in 1888 and 1889. He took a Commercial and Scien- tific course there. In 1892 he took up the study of Medicine and took a three years course at Miami Medical College, graduating in 1895. He practiced medicine in Ironton for five months following his grad- uation. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in July 18, 1895, and has been in general practice ever since. He was married to Miss Alberta M. Ainsworth of Ironton, Ohio, on June 30, 1897. He was appoint- ed Coroner in 1899, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Davidson. He was elected to that office in 1900 and is now a candidate for re-elec- tion.

William Clyde Ellis

was born in Bentonville, in Adams County, Ohio, January 10, 1875. His father was John Ellis, and his mother Keziah Duncan, daughter of Abraham Duncan. Our subject was the oldest of nine children. He belongs to the well known Ellis family of Adams and Brown Counties. He attended school at Bentonville, and Manchester and West Union till he was twenty years of age. He began the study of medicine with Dr. O. T. Sproull, of Bentonville, and attended the Medical College of Ohio from 1895 to 1899. He graduated May 2, 1899. He located, at once, at Sardinia in Brown County and while there was the local Surgeon for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. On July 7, 1902, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and associated himself in the practice of medicine with Dr. E. M. Foster, at Ninth and Offnere streets. On March 10, 1900, he was married to Bernice Martin, daughter of Edward Martin, of Ripley, Ohio. They have one child, Helen. He is a Democrat in politics, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Modern Woodman.

James William Fitch

was born at Ashland, Kentucky, October 12, 1865. His father was George Fitch, a farmer and his mother's maiden name was Mary Martin, a daughter of John Peebles Martin. Young Fitch attended school at Greenup, Kentucky, till he was twenty-two years of age. He then taught school in Kentucky, for a period of five years and in the meantime studied medicine with Dr. H. H. Warnock, of Green- upsburg. He attended the School of Medicine at Louisville, Ken- tucky, and graduated in 1893. He located at Wurtland, Kentucky, four miles above Greenupsburg. In 1894, he removed to Russell, Kentucky, and remained there until October 3, 1901, when he located at 16 West Ninth street in Portsmouth, Ohio. He was married

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October 18, 1893, to Ellen D. McCarty, of Lucasville, Ohio, daughter of Samuel McCarty. He has two children, Clyde Marion and Ruth. He is a member of the Bigelow Methodist Church, a Republican, a Knight of Pythias. and a Knight of the Golden Eagle. He was a member of the Pension Examining Board of Greenup, Kentucky. from 1897 until his location in Portsmouth. He is a member of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine and Examiner of the Mutal Life Insurance Company of New York.

Dr. Fitch is a man of exceptionally good habits and an exem- plary. He is at all times careful, accurate and painstaking in his work. As a member of the Pension Examining Board. his highest aim has been to do justice to the soldier and to the Government. Professionally Dr. Fitch is above reproach.

Ezekiel Marion Foster

was born at Manchester, Adams County, Ohio, December 7, 1868, the son of Ezekiel and Martha A. (Copple) Foster. His grand- father, Samuel Foster, was a soldier in the War of 1812, His grand- father, Henry Copple, was a soldier under General Scott, in the Mex- ican War. His boyhood and youth were spent on a farm in Adams County. He attended the district school and received a common school education. He commenced teaching school in 1886 and con- tinued two years. He attended the North Liberty Normal in the summer of 1886, and the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887. In 1888. he read medicine with Doctor J. W. Guth- rie of Manchester, Ohio. He attended the Kentucky School of Med- icine during the summer of 1890, and the Louisville Medical College during the winter, and in the summer of 1891, the Kentucky School of Medicine again, and the Louisville Medical College the next win- ter. In the Kentucky School of Medicine, he took the regent's medal or second honor for the first year class. The second year in the Kentucky School of Medicine, he took the gold medal for best examination in Anatomy. In the Louisville Medical College, he took special prizes for the best examination in surgery, and grad- uated March 3, 1892, taking first honors in a class of one hundred. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1892, at Manchester, Ohio. He remained there three years and came to Portsmouth, Ohio, May 28, 1895, and has practised medicine there ever since. He is a Re- publican and a member of the Sixth Street M. E. Church. He was married to Clara Grimes, daughter of Charles and Mary ( Perry) Grimes of Manchester, Ohio, October 4, 1892. His wife is a de- scendant of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The Perrys were of Irish descent, but came from London to this country and located at Maysville, Kentucky. Our subject has one childi. Jennie, age nine. The Doctor is one of the most active and energetic members of his profession. He has high ideas as a physician and a citizen and he

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lives up to them. In his profession he is a great student and his devotion and application to his chosen work is remarkable. This has brought him deserved success and obtained for him the confidence of the community.

Margaret Fulton

is one of the practising physicians of Portsmouth of the Regular School. She studied medicine at the Laura Memorial College at Cincinnati for four years, and graduated in April, 1900. She was a resident physician at the Presbyterian Hospital in Cincinnati for twelve months. After her graduation she located in Portsmouth, in July, 1901, for the practice of medicine, and has her office at the family residence, No. 192, East Second sctreet. Miss Fulton has, in the short period she has practised her profession, shown great proficiency in her work and a natural aptitude for it.

Lorin Hall,

the youngest son of William Hall and Margaret (Kinney ) Hall, was born August 23, 1854, at Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended the public schools of Portsmouth till he was fifteen; then his father died and his brother Wyllys became his guardian and they removed to Piqua, Ohio. He attended the public schools there until he was nineteen, and then entered Kenyon College from which he graduated in four years with degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then attended the Med- ical School of the University of Michigan for two years. He took his degree of Doctor of Medicine later at Bellevue Hospital Med- ical College of New York City, in 1880, being twenty-six years of age. He then spent six months abroad visiting the medical centers in the various cities of the continent. When he returned, he was ap- pointed Assistant to the Professor of Diseases of Women and Chil- dren in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan. This position he held for three years. He then went to Salt Lake City, Utah, to engage in the practice of his profession. During the nine years of residence there, he with an associate had charge of St. Mark's Hospital. When the Gentiles got hold of Salt Lake City, he was appointed by the City Council to the Commissionership of the Board of Health, which existed only in name. He wrote an ordin- ance comprising a working scheme for such a department which was passed by the city, and held this position for three years or until a change of politics in the city's administration. He returned to Ports- mouth, in 1896, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine ever since. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian. He has also a degree ad cundem of Master of Arts from Kenyon College.

He was united in marriage to Mary H. Daniels, daughter of Thomas L. Daniels, of Piqua, Ohio, September 21, 1886. They have two children : Margaret Kate, born August 28, 1887; and Thomas L. D. Hall. Both were born at Salt Lake City, Utah. Doctor Hall

S. S. HALDERMAN, M. D.

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stands as high in his profession, as any one in it. He has been re- markably successful in his practice.

Stephen Simpson Halderman

was born in Ross County, Ohio, on January 31, 1852. His father, Rev. John J. Halderman, was a native of Beaver County, Pennsyl- vania. His grandfather, Daniel Halderman, was a native of Ger- many. His mother, Isabelle Kinnison, was a native of Greenbrier County, Va. Her father was an Englishman by birth.

Our subject was educated in the common schools. He began the study of medicine in November, 1872, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1, 1875.

He was married to Anna Katherine Gorath, August 26, 1873, and located in Sciotoville, Feburary 18, 1876. He practiced medi- cine there 14 years. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the south- east corner of Ninth and Gay streets on January 1, 1890, and has practiced medicine since that date. He is a member of the Hemp- stead Memorial Academy of Medicine, The American Medical As- sociation, The Ohio State Medical Society and The National Asso- ciation of Railway Surgeons. He was appointed a member of the United States Board of Pension Examining Surgeons in July, 1885, and served until July, 1889. He was again appointed on that Board in 1893, and served until 1897. He was surgeon for the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railway Company from 1890 to 1902. He was appointed Surgeon on the Norfolk & Western Railway in April, 1895, which position he now holds. He was one of the charter incorporators of the Central Savings Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio.

In politics, he is a Democrat, but in 1896, he supported the Gold- Democratic ticket, and is a believer in sound money. He is a com- municant of All Saints Church and has been a Vestryman for the past ten years. His children are: Ruhama, the wife of Eugene G. Ander- son : Henri G., a Doctor of Medicine and a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, in 1901 : Laura and Katherine, daughters at home. He is a Knight Templar Mason.

"By dint of hard and honest work, continued an incessant ap- plication and the improvement of every and all opportunities, Dr. Halderman has placed himself in the fore front of his calling. He is a hard, earnest worker in his home, state and national Medical So- cieties. His idea is that what is good for the individual is good for the whole profession, and that one can accomplish more for himself and for the people by working together in harmony with his brothers. While he is in the broadest sense, a general practitioner, he likes best and succeeds well in that part called surgery, for which his tastes, inclinations and mechanical ability fit him. He is an ardent worker in his church, and aids in every way in his power the advancement and betterment of his city and its people intellectually, physically and

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morally. In politics, he is active and aggressive. In his stay in Portsmouth, he has taken front rank in his profession, and as a citi- zen and business man, he is second to none."

Joel Dudley Hendrickson

was born in 1865, at Tolesboro, Lewis County, Kentucky. His father was Daniel Hendrickson and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Rummans. . She was a descendant of Daniel Boone. His great-grandfather, O. K. Hendrickson, was a Hollander and was a First Lieutenant in the Continental Army, Revolutionary war. Daniel Hendrickson, his father, was First Lieutenant in the 45tl Kentucky Infantry and was promoted to Captain. He lost his life in the Civil war and is supposed to have been drowned in Red River, Louisiana. Our subject's boyhood and youth were passed at Toles- boro, Kentucky. At the age of twelve, he commenced working in a grocery store for F. M. Carr. He studied at home and saved his money. At the age of fourteen, he took a course at Lebanon which prepared him to teach school. He taught in winter and went to school at Lebanon in summer until he graduated in the scientific course. He then commenced studying medicine under Doctor W. H. Campbell of Vanceburg, Kentucky. He graduated at the Ken- tucky school of Medicine at Louisville, in June, 1894. He was mar- ried in Jefferson, Indiana, February 12, 1893, to Mattie Clark Bane. They have three children : Lizzie Leoto, Henry Fulton, and Cather- ine Gertrude. He came to Ohio in September, 1895, and commenc- ed practice at Friendship, where he continued until the spring of 1899. He then removed to Portsmouth and practised for two years, in partnership with Doctor S. B. McKerrihan. He graduated from the Illinois School of Electro-Therapeutics, August, 1901. He now conducts the Portsmouth Electrical Sanitarium on the corner of Mar- ket and Front streets. He has always been a strong Republican; in his religious belief he is a Protestant. Doctor Hendrickson is bright, witty and vivacious. He is among the first in his profes- sion. Socially he is a general favorite. He is a genuine "Ken- tucky gentleman."

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 76

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612