The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 120

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254

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SAMUEL TAYLOR, farmer, P. O. Plain City, a prominent farmer of Darby Township, Madison County, was born near Plain City August 23, 1817. He is the youngest son of Richard and Polly Taylor. His early life was passed in his native place, and his education obtained in the common schools of the day. He aided his father in clearing the homestead, and has occu- pied it since his death. He has made additions to the original farm till he has 394 acres of finely improved and highly cultivated land, most of which is located in Jerome Township. He also owns a farm in Darby Township, Union County, and the old John Kent homestead in Jerome Township. The home farm is adorned with a large and commodious brick residence, erected at a cost of $2,000. For the last fifteen years, Mr. Taylor has made a leading pursuit in breed- ing and rearing Norman and Clydesdale horses, and has, perhaps, been one of the most success- fut men in Madison County. He purchased the celebrated Belgium horse in 1872, at a cost of $3,000, and retained him in his possession till he was killed in 1876. This animal he exhibited at the county and State fairs, and won for him the first and highest premiums. Mr. Taylor is a man of enterprise, and is always active in the affairs and best interests of the county. In 1839, he was married to Miss Eunice, daughter of Calvin and Eunice Allen, by whom he had three children ; two of these are living-Mary, wife of Eli Shover, and Sarah E., wife of David Brown. Mrs. Taylor died, and November 27, 1844, he again married, this time to Rosanna Kent, who bore him four children-Samuel E., married Cynthia Fox; Rachel E. and Mahala, E. are at home ; Dilla is deceased. Mrs. Taylor is a daughter of Daniel and Dilla (Shover) Kent. She was born on the old Kent homestead, May 5, 1821.

LEVI TAYLOR, farmer, P. O. Plain City, youngest child of Daniel and Mary (Brown) Tay- lor, was born in Jerome Township November 26, 1810. The former was born near Harper's Ferry, Md., in March, 1774, and the latter in Ireland in 1781. They were married in Virginia, and in 1802 removed to Union County, Ohio, and settled in Jerome Township, where Mr. Taylor bought a farm of 152 acres, besides 32 acres on the opposite side of Big Darby. He was one of the organizers of the county, and was a juror when the court convened at Franklinton. He died February 29, 1852; his wife preceded him but twenty-two days. He was for over half a cen- tury an active member of the Baptist Church. Our subject was reared to manhood on a farm, and was educated, as most pioneer boys are, in the common schools. February 18, 1831, he was married to Miss Margaret Low, a daughter of John Low. She died March 17, 1864, leaving three children-Mary (deceased), married Chauncey Barlow, and had one child, Lonson ; and Daniel and John. Mr. Taylor was married the second time to Mrs. Matilda Lard, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically. Mr. Taylor is Democratic. He owns a farm of 150 acres, located near Plain City.

ISAAC H. WARNER, farmer, P. O. Plain City, son of Elijah and Lois (Burdick) Warner, was born in Madison County, Ohio, July 12, 1842. His father was born in York State, Novem- ber 14, 1810, and came to Madison County with his parents, Samuel and Chloe Warner, in 1814. In 1845, he came to Jerome Township and bought a farm of 166 acres of land, on which he died November 13, 1875. He married Lois A. Burdick, who was born in Madison County June 10, 1820, and had ten children; the following are living: Charles Q., Isaac H., Joshua C., Emma, Nettie, Hezekiah HI., Blanch P., Ada C. and Albert E. Mr. Warner was reared to man- hood on a farm. May, 1864, he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regi- ment Ohio National Gnards, and served till discharged in the following September. He re- mained a member of the Home Guards till the close of the war. August 23, 1866, he was mar- ried to Mrs. Martha Marsh, widow of William Marsh and daughter of Frederick and Barbara Felber. Mrs. Warner, a native of Fairfield County, was born November 15, 1840. She is the mother of one child by her former husband, William F., born July 14, 1862. Mr. Warner owns a farm of ninety-eight acres, and is engaged in farming and raising fine cattle and hogs. He and family are members of the United Brethren Church. Politically, he votes Prohibition.

WILLIAM D. WAGNER, farmer, P. O. New California, a native of Licking County, Ohio, was born March 4, 1831 His father, a native of Washington County, Penn., was born April 3, 1787, and his grandfather, John Wagner, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. His mother, Nancy A. Cross, was born in Maryland April 1, 1788. They were married in March, 1812, and in 1815 removed to Licking County, Ohio, where Mr. Wagner died July 31, 1854. He served one year in Capt. Derender's company in the war of 1812. His widow departed this life July 11, 1869. They were the parents of eight children, of whom William is the youngest. In 1851, he came to Union County and remained one year, then returned and remained with his father till his death. He then came to Jerome Township and purchased a farm. He was mar- ried April 6, 1854, to Almira Bishop, daughter of Findley Bishop, a native of Union County, where she was born July 4, 1835. Their six children are as follows : John L .; Sarah A., wife of George Gordon ; Nancy J .; William D., Jr .; James S. and Minnie. Mr. Wagner owns a farm of eighty-one acres, and in addition to farming he makes a leading pursuit of rearing Clydesdale horses. He also keeps thoroughbred Poland-China hogs.

JESSE WELDON (deceased) was born in Toronto, Canada, January 5, 1830. His parents, Isaac and Nursus (Valley) Weldon, were natives of Pennsylvania and Canada, respectively. His father died when he was eleven years old, and he lived with his mother till 1845, when he went to New York, and in 1848 to Fairfield County, Ohio; thence to Logan, Hocking County, where

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he resided till December, 1857, and came to Union County. May 11, 1856, he married Martha a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Wooley, by whom he had nine children ; of them eight are living-Frances ; Nursus B., wife of Eugene Smith ; Isaac; Martha J .; Emma V .; Frederick E .; Solomon J. and Samuel W. Sarah E., wife of Thomas Davis, is deceased. Mr. Weldon was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died July 18, 1880, aged fifty years. He started in life a poor man, but by energy and industry he made for himself a reasonable com- petence. He left to his family seventy-six acres of well-cultivated land.

WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS, farmer, P. O. New California, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 26, 1842. He is a son of Ebenezer and Mary Williams, who were natives of Wales, and emigrated to the United States with their parents when young, and settled in Co- lumbus, where they were married. They subsequently removed to Delaware County, where Mrs. Williams died in 1849. Mr. Williams is still a resident of that county. William, the sub- ject of this sketch, was reared to manhood on a farm. August 3, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, Ninety-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served in the armies of the Mississippi and Gulf, and was engaged in the following battles : Yazoo Swamp, Arkansas Post, siege of Vicksburg, Bayou- and Spanish Fort siege ; thence they marched to Forts Blakely and Whisler, near Mobile, where he was discharged at the close of the war. From July 7, 1864, to April 1, 1865, he was on Provost Marshal's duty. At the close of the rebellion he returned home and resumed farming. June 10, 1879, he was married to Miss Phoebe Curry, daughter of Capt. James A. and Phobe Curry, by whom he has one child-Phoebe May, born April 18, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Williams reside on the original Curry homestead with Mrs. Curry, the widow of Capt. James A. Curry, who has attained the eighty-fourth year of her age. The homestead contains 211 acres, which is cultivated by Mr. Williams.

CHAPTER V.

MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP.

THIS was one of three original townships into which Union County was first subdivided. On the second subdivision of the county, in 1821, the bound- aries of Mill Creek were fixed as follows, as shown by the record of commission- ers' proceedings: "At a meeting of the Commissioners of Union County on the 12th day of March, 1821, they agreed to divide the County of Union into five townships, and the fifth township was to embrace all east of Paris Township to the east boundary line of said county, and to be known by the name of Mill Creek." On March 29, 1829, the township was surveyed by order of the Commissioners of Union County by Levi Phelps, Surveyor, Union County, Ohio. March 5, 1839, " Ordered by the Commissioners that the boundary lines of Mill Creek Township and Dover Township be altered, so as to detach from Mill Creek Township and attach to Dover Township, Survey No. 3007, in the name of John Graham." "The first election for County and State officers held in the township, was on the 10th day of October, 1820, William Badley, John Jolly and Launcelot Maze acting as Judges; William Richey and Clement Badley, Clerks. There were twenty-four votes cast at this election, as follows: Ethan Allen Brown received twenty, W. H. Harris one, and Jeremiah Morrow three, for Governor; Nicholas Hathaway fourteen, and Lewis Foster ten, for Representatives; Gustavus Swan one, and Joseph Foos twenty-two, for Senator; Joseph Vance twenty-three for Congress; James Ewing twenty, and James Biggs two, for Sheriff; Samuel Robinson eight, David Conner seven, Henry Sager six, and Joseph Williams one, for Coroner."

In the spring of 1820, the first election was held for township officers ; as the early records of the township were all destroyed by fire a few years ago, we can obtain no account of the election, or give any of the officials except the commis- sioned officers, obtained from the records at Marysville.

This township is situated in the southeast part of the county, and takes its name from Mill Creek, which flows through the north part of the township, of which we shall speak further hereafter; it is bounded on the north by Dover Town- ship and the county of Delaware, on the east by Delaware County, on the south

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by Jerome Township, and on the west by Darby, Paris and Dover Townships. The lands of this township were surveyed at an early day; and, according to the records at the County Surveyor's office at Marysville, the work of surveying was all completed in less than eleven years. Below we give the various surveys of the township as found upon the records, and one noticeable feature is that more than seven thousand acres, embraced in eight different surveys, were surveyed by Nathainel Massie in one day, apparently a very extensive task for so short a time.

MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP SURVEYS.

Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for Robert Dundridge, 1,000 acres, Survey No. 1,307' Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, October 20, 1801, for John White, 11102 acres, Survey No. 1,394, Joseph Kerr, D. S. Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for Sydnor Cosby, 400 acres, Survey No. 1,573, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for John Phillips, Assee, 1070 acres, Survey No. 2,989, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Sur- veyed, June 3, 1797, for William Croghaix, Assee, 1100 acres, Survey No. 2,992, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for the representative or repre- sentatives of Isaac Jeffries, deceased, 800 acres, Survey No. 2,995, Nathaniel Mas- sie, D. S. Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for the representative or representatives of Isaac Jeffries, deceased, 7263 acres, Survey No. 2,996, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for the representative or representatives of Isaac Jeffries, deceased, 1140 acres, Survey No. 2,997, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, June 2, 1797, for Samuel Seldon, 1086 acres, Survey No. 2,998, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, June 3, 1797, for Peter Talbot, heir to William Worsham, deceased, 1000 acres, Survey No. 3,006, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, August 22, 1798, for James Lenkins, Assee, 1200 acres, Survey No. 3,349, Nathaniel Massie, D. S. Surveyed, October 20, 1801, for John White, 1000 acres, Survey No. 3,956, Joseph Kerr, D. S. Surveyed, December 20, 1807, for John Cole, 1600 acres, Survey No. 5,477, James Galloway, Jr., D. S. Surveyed, January 2, 1808, for Thomas M. Bayly, Assee, 690 acres, Survey No. 5609, James Galloway, Jr., D. S. Surveyed, January 4, 1808, for Thomas M. Bayly, Assee, 700 acres, Survey No. 5,610, James Galloway, Jr., D. S. Surveyed, for John Baird, 295 acres, Survey No. 5724, of which fifty acres are in Mill Creek Township and the balance in Jerome Township.

STREAMS, SURFACE, SOIL, ETC.

The principal stream of this township is Mill Creek, which, as stated above, gave the name to the township. It enters from Dover, passing through Survey No. 3,956, and for more than a mile forms the boundary line between said townships, coursing in an easterly direction, and keeping said course till it reaches Survey No. 1,307, when it takes a very crooked course in a general northeast direction, passing diagonally through said survey ; thence, in the same direction, passes through Survey No. 2,995, and enters Delaware County. This stream in an early day furnished the settlers with water-power privileges. Along its banks were built many of the early mills of the county, and the lands adjacent to it were chosen by the first settlers as sites for their homes. It receives but a few small runs that course from south to north in this township. In the central eastern portion of the township is Spring Run, rising on the farm of John Piersol and coursing in a northerly direction into Delaware County; it is, however, of no sig- nificance, only as a water supply for stock, and an outlet by which to drain the lands adjacent. And the same is true of the other small creeks and runs. The surface along Mill Creek is somewhat rolling and in some places hilly, but else- where over the township the surface is generally level, and lies beautifully for all agricultural purposes. Few, if any of the townships in the county, taken as a whole, present a more beautiful surface for farming purposes. The soil is deep, rich and productive. Along the creek bottoms and flat portions, it is a black loam, while the balance is a strong clay soil, most of it underlaid with a disinte-

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grated limestone and gravel, the latter forming an abundance of good material for making roads. The timber of this section, originally, was much like that of the adjoining townships. Along creek bottoms were walnut, hickory, elm, syca- more and some oak as the prevailing varieties ; elsewhere, hickory, elm, oak and sugar-tree prevailed, the latter forming a great source of profit as well as con- venience from the sugar and molasses manufactured. The hickory and sugar- tree also furnished the people with the best quality of wood for fuel. The princi- pal productions of the soil are wheat, corn, oats and potatoes. Considerable at- tention is given to stock raising by the farmers, as one of their best and surest sources of profit; and owing to the great improvements in stock, especially in sheep and hogs, it is becoming much more profitable, as well as interesting as a business to the thrifty farmers.

EARLY SETTLERS.

It is conceded that the first white man to make a settlement in Mill Creek Township was Ephraim Burroughs, a native of New Jersey, who with his family emigrated to Kentucky, leaving his native State September 15, 1795. In 1804, he removed to Clark County, Ohio, and at the close of the war of 1812 or about 1814-15, removed to this county, and settled near Mill Creek, a little east of the village of Watkins. Here he purchased 100 acres of Mr. Towler, and resided on it about four years, when he sold out and removed to Dearborn County, Ind., where he died, aged sixty-five years; his wife survived him about two years. Their children were as follows: Newton, who married and settled in Dearborn County, Ind., where he resided till his death; Jonathan, who is men- tioned among the pioneers of Dover Township; Nancy, married Stephen Norton, is deceased ; Polly, married George Durham and died in Indiana ; James, married a Miss Liggett and also died in Indiana ; Jesse, married Polly Wilson, of Indiana, but removed to Illinois, where he died; Ephraim, settled in Illinois ; William, died in the army ; Athannan, married in Indiana, and still resides in that State; Elkanah, now resides in Indianapolis, and two daughters, deceased.

William Conklin we give as the second settler, although there were three or four families who came here the same year, and probably about the same time. Mr. Conklin was a native of the State of Delaware; married Rebecca Coleman, a native of Maryland, and at quite an early day emigrated to Ohio, residing for a time in Greene County. In the spring of 1816, he removed to this county and settled on the same tract of land with Mr. Burroughs, where he resided till a short time prior to the war of the rebellion. He removed West and died in Indiana. He was the father of the following children : John, married Emily Funk, and removed to Indiana; Elizabeth and Jemima, married early settlers and are mentioned in connection with them; Joel, married Polly Anderson; Hannah, married Jacob Warner, is deceased; Joseph, married Eliza J. Gamble; Martha, married Charles White, is deceased; Malachi, married Eve Ilitson, of Indiana, he died in the war of the rebellion; and Anna, married Anderson Thompson and re- sides in Hardin County. Mr. Anderson is said to have paid for his farm in hickory nuts, which grew in abundance upon his land, and which he gathered and hauled over the mud roads to Springfield and Dayton and there sold them, and paid for his land with money made in that novel way.

Daniel Bell was probably a native of New Jersey, but became an early set- tler in Greene County, Ohio, and about 1816 of this township, near Mr. Conklin. He was a blacksmith by trade, which business he followed in connection with farming. Subsequently he removed to Indiana and settled on White River, but finally returned to Union County and died near Watkins. His children were Polly, Jesse, Mercy, Sally, John, Aaron and Charlotte ; the latter now resides in Indiana ; John lives in Holmes County, Ohio, and Sally in Iowa; all the others are deceased.

John Price, who married Polly Bell in Greene County, settled on Mill Creek at the same time with Daniel Bell, and remained a resident here till his

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death, June 29, 1834, aged forty-six years. Their children were Susan, Hannah, Daniel, Joseph and John, who all moved to the West. .

John T. Thompson, with his aged father, James Thompson, emigrated from Virginia to Ohio and settled in Union County, about 1816, locating on Mill Creek, on Survey No. 5,477, known as the Towler Survey ; and there the father, James Thompson, died, December 14, 1843, aged eighty-seven years. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, and was probably one of the first four families who set- tled in this township. John T. married Mary Nelson in Virginia, and after set- tling here remained a resident till his death. For further particulars of this prom- inent pioneer family, the reader is referred to the biographical sketch of James Thompson, of Dover, in another part of this work.

Alvin Randall, a native of New Hampshire, emigrated to the State of New York about 1809, and there married Elizabeth Rogers ; thence, in 1812, emigrated to Ohio, locating at Worthington. In 1813 settled in Madison, Ind., where he was a voter in 1816, when Indiana was admitted as a State. In 1817, he became a resident of Darby Township, this county, and in 1819 settled in Mill Creek Town- ship, on Survey No. 5,477. In 1839, he removed to Adams County, Ind., and while residing there buried his wife and two of his children. Subsequently, he removed to Noble County, Ind., where he remained till his death. Mr. Randall was a man of firm principles and character, of unwavering honesty, and possessed a good intellect. While a resident of Adams County, Ind., he served as Probate Judge, also as Sheriff of the county. He died at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He was the father of the following children : Charles, who died at seven- teen years of age ; Dorcas, died young ; Emeline, married a Mr. Skinner, who died, and she subsequently married Mr. Pancake, who is also dead ; she is now a widow and resides in Noble County, Ind .; Hannah, married William Shepman, both deceased ; Joshua R., married and resides in Delaware County, Ohio, where he is proprietor of a paper mill ; Alvin, married and resides in Noble County, Ind .; William, married and resides in same county ; Phebe married Mr. Bell and resides in same county ; and John and Pyrena, who died young in Adams Coun- ty, Ind.

Hezekiah Burdick, a native of one of the New England States, emigrated with his family to Ohio, and settled on land now owned by Mary C. Shields, on Survey No. 2,995, and resided there many years ; but subsequently removed to Marion County, Ohio, where he died. His children were Hannah, who married Ralph Graham ; Betsey, married William Taylor and now resides near Plain City ; John was killed by a falling tree while a young man ; Phebe married and settled on the Darby Plains in Madison County ; William, died young, unmarried ; Lois, married a Mr. Warner ; and Milton.

James Bell, Esq., a native of New Jersey, born 1778, married Sarah Warner, of Pennsylvania, in 1799. In 1804, emigrated to Ohio and settled in Warren County, near Lebanon. In 1818, removed to this county and settled on the same survey with Mr. Burroughs, and after the organization of the county in 1824, was elected a Justice of the Peace. He had erected a large and commodious log cabin, and for several years the elections were held at his house. He died November 23, 1848, aged sixty-six years ; his wife died October 31, 1869, aged ninety years. Of their children, Elizabeth, married William Graham and died in this county ; Judith, married Robert Graham, is deceased ; Jesse and Jacob moved to Indiana ; and Phineas, married Catherine Graham, is deceased.

Thomas Springer settled here about 1818-19, but remained only a few years and moved West.

Asa Robinson, a native of Massachusetts, while young, removed with his fa- ther's family to the State of New York, and in 1809 is said to have moved to Ohio, and very early settled in Delaware County. He was engaged in the milling busi- ness at Hinton's mill soon after its erection. After running that mill about three years, he purchased a tract of land upon which he located, which is now owned by

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Richard Pounds, on Survey No. 2,992, and made his residence here till his death, May 12, 1865, aged eighty-four years. He married Mrs. Ann Catharine Myers, nee Turney, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., by whom he had the follow- ing children : Bartlett G., who became a practicing physician, never married, and died at Woodstock in Champaign County, Ohio ; Joseph T., married Eliza Mann, of Pennsylvania, is now a minister in the Christian Church and resides at Crest- line, Ohio ; Henry died on a journey to California, in 1849 ; Asa died in infancy ; Daniel, unmarried ; Adam, married Elizabeth Kirkland and is proprietor of the Park House at Green Bend; Samuel, died in California in 1850, aged twenty years ; Harriet, married William McCawley, is deceased ; Mary, married John S. Smart and now resides in Marysville ; and Margaret, married Martin Savage and resides in Dover.

About 1818-22, the following became settlers of Mill Creek Township : Joseph Harrison and sons, Aaron, Moses and Benjamin, all locating on Survey No. 2,998 : Valentine T. Shover, John Sherman, Thomas Daniel, Silas Osborn, Nathaniel Toothacre and John Gray, all settled on Survey No. 5,477 ; John, William, Asa and Randolph Death-four brothers, colored men-settled near the Harrisons, but it is believed most of them soon moved away.

Zebadiah Farnum, a native of Rhode Island, married Jane McNinch, a native of Connecticut, and emigrated to the State of New York at an early day ; thence, about 1823, he removed with his family to Ohio and settled in Union County, near where the village of Watkins now stands, where he cleared his land and made him a home, residing upon it until his death, October 13, 1854, aged eighty-five. Of their children, Polly married Asahel Rose, who emigrated to this county prior to Mr. Farnum ; she died here ; Samuel married Hannah Randall in New York and came to this county in 1820, residing here about twenty years; they removed to Shelby County, Ohio, where he died ; Priscilla, married Seymour Wilkins in New York, and finally settled in this county, where he died ; she still survives and resides in Watkins, in her eighty-first year ; Henry, married Fanny Hamlin, of Franklin County, Ohio, and subsequently settled in Mill Creek and died here ; Betsey died in infancy ; Sallie died in childhood ; Sophronia married Adam Richy, who died September 25, 1871, aged sixty-four years; she survives him and now resides at Dover; Isaac died young; Chester married Sarah Longbrake and subse- quently settled in Illinois; his health failing, he started with his family to return to Ohio, but died on the way before getting out of the State of Illinois; his fam- ily continued their homeward journey, and his widow now resides in Dover Town- ship; Jane married Elijah Newhouse and settled near Millville, Delaware Co., Ohio, where he died; she still survives, and resides on the home place; Susan married Jacob Longbrake, now deceased; she survives and resides on the home place; Caroline married William Cory, who died, and she married Samuel Sherwood; he died at Marysville, and she still survives and resides at Marysville; and Emily, who married Warret Owen, a native of Champaign County, Ohio, but who settled at Watkins in the fall of 1845, where they have since resided. He has served as Justice of the Peace more than twenty years, and is one of the reliable citizens of the township has filled the office of Postmaster at Watkins for twenty years.

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The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 120

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1254

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254