Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 107

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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Thomas J. Diehl;

Susan D. Diehl.

MARY ELEANOR DIEHL, second daughter of Capt. Thomas J. and Margaretta M. (Wetherill) Diehl, is a member of the Colonial Dames of America, and of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was for four years its regent ; organ- ized Philadelphia Chapters Doughters of the American Revolution in 1892. She is also a member of the Acorn Club. She married at her father's house, 2007 Walnut street, Philadelphia, December 1, 1880, Edward Iüngerich Smith, of Philadelphia, born in that city October 3, 1855, son of Charles and Catharine ( Jüngerich ) Smith, of Philadelphia. They had issue :

Sydney Wetherill Smith, b. Ang. 26, 1883; d. inf .;

Edward Iungerich Smith, Jr., b. Dec. 12, 1887.

ANNA MARGARETTA DIEHL, born November 1, 1807, died June 25, 1883, daugh- ter of Thomas and Helena (Jacoby) Diehl, married, November 23. 1833, George Henderson, of Philadelphia. His parents, Robert and Rebecca Jane ( Bailey) Henderson, of New York City, were the first of this family in America, coming from England. They were members of the Church of England, and while in London, attended the Church of St. George, the Martyr, on Lamb's Conduit street. Both died comparatively young (though each of their children lived to about eighty) and are buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, New York. Robert Hen- derson's family Bible is in possession of his great-grandson, William Henry Hen- derson, Jr.

George and Margaretta (Diehl) Henderson lived a few years after their mar- riage with her father, Thomas Diehl, at his home on the southeast corner of Tenth and Filbert streets, Philadelphia. In 1844 Mr. Henderson purchased the resi- dence 1221 Arch street. where he continued to reside to the time of his death, December 17, 1887.

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Issue of George and Anna Margaretta (Diehl) Henderson:

Edwin Henderson, b. Sept. 14, 1834; d. April 19, 1895; m. Eliza Yarrow Bodine. She survives her husband and is now living (1907) at The Newport, southeast corner of Sixteenth and Spruce sts. They had but one child: John Warner Henderson, b., Phila., 1860. Entered Univ. of Pa., college department, class of '80, as a freshman, 1876. Awarded freshman mathematical prize of second rank, equally with Joseph Stokes; also awarded junior English prize. Received degree of B. S., 1880. Member of Franklin Institute of state of Pa. Married Martha Ethel, dan. of Rev. J. A. M. Chapman, D. D., pastor of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Broad and Arch sts, Phila. No issue. He d. in March, 1906;

Thomas Diehl Henderson, b. May 19, 1836; d. 1862; m. Emily, sister of Gilbert Riter, who lived at 1223 Arch st. She survives him and now lives (1907) at Continental Hotel, Phila. They had but one child, George Riter Henderson, at one time general superintendent of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, now an expert consulting engineer, residing at 20 W. Thirty-fourth st., New York City;

George Henderson, Jr., b. Dec. 19, 1837; d. 1904; lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. A few years before his death he became a lay reader in Protestant Episcopal Church. He m. Jo- sephine Sill, of St. Louis, Mo. She survives him and now lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. They had two children :

Southmayd Henderson, m. Kate Shaffner, of 1212 Arch st .; had one child; they now live 406 Putnam ave., Brooklyn, N. Y .;

Margaretta Diehl Henderson, m. Clifford S. Thomas, and now lives at 148 W. Thomas st., Bellefont, Pa.

WILLIAM HENRY HENDERSON; of whom presently.

WILLIAM HENRY HENDERSON, born September 13, 1839, died April 13, 1905, at his residence, 1331 North Broad street, Philadelphia. He married, May 15, 1861, Adelaide Catherine, daughter of Daniel Philler and Mary (Harris) Bussier, of Philadelphia. She was a niece of Mrs. Anna Harris Wilstach, who died some years ago, leaving the fine picture gallery of her late husband, William P. Wil- stach, to Fairmount Park, with $1,000,000 to care for and add to it. This is now housed in Memorial Hall in the West Park, and the part of the hall it occupies is known as the Wilstach Gallery.

Adelaide Catharine (Bussier ) Henderson was a great-granddaughter of Dr. Bartholomew Bussier, of Rev. Rees Harris, and of Rev. Samuel Jones. Dr. Bartholomew Bussier had been physician to the French Court, but being a Hugue- not, left France and came to America. He married Ann Judith Raybold (died November 20, 1817) of a family since quite prominent in the state of Delaware. Her father, Jacob Raybold, was also a native of France, and had married there at Longdedier. Daniel, son of Dr. Bartholomew and Ann Judith. (Raybold) Bus- sier, born March 2, 1771, died June 29, 1823, married Catherine, born January 30, 1773, died June 26, 1861, daughter of Andrew Philler (born May 18, 1743. died November 21, 1829), by his wife (married April 3, 1770) Margaret Way (born July 27, 1743, died February 1, 1800). Daniel and Catherine had a son, Daniel Philler Bussier (born April 29, 1804, died September 24, 1880), who mar- ried (first), September 10, 1832, Mary Harris, born July 23, 1804, died August 30, 1859; the latter were parents of Adelaide Catherine Bussier, wife of William Henry Henderson.

Rev. Rees Harris, born 1738, died 1788, who lived and died in Wales, and whose father died in Wales 1750, married Mary (born 1743, died February 1, 1822), daughter of Rev. Daniel Williams (died 1746), by his wife, Mary, daughter of Daniel and Ann Phillips. Daniel Phillips is believed to have been a younger son of the family of Phillips of Picton Castle, county Pembroke, Wales, perhaps a nephew of Sir John Phillips, first baronet of that line. Rev. Rees and Mary

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( Williams ) Harris had a son, Rev. Theophilus Harris (born August 19, 1769, in Wales; died November 18, 1841, in Philadelphia ; buried at Lower Dublin Bap- tist Church), who came from Wales to Philadelphia, where he married Sarah (Jones), born July 23, 1774, died January 6, 1856, widow of Robert Henderson (no relation to the principal subjects of this sketch), and daughter of Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D. (see below), Rev. Theophilus and Sarah were parents of Mary Harris, wife of Daniel Philler Bussier and mother of Adelaide Catherine Bussier.

Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D., born at Cefyn-y-gelli, Bettws Parish, Glamorgan- shire, South Wales, January 14, 1735, died in Philadelphia, February 7, 1814, was son of Rev. Thomas Jones (born 1701, at Newton-nottage, Glamorganshire, died March 22, 1788), by his wife, Martha Morris (born 1706, died June 9, 1799), both of whom are buried at the Great Valley Baptist Church, Chester county, Pennsylvania. The father, Rev. Thomas Jones, came to Pennsylvania, 1737, was reordained in 1740 (having been already ordained in Wales), and was first pas- tor of and founder of Baptist Church at Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania, which was constituted chiefly by emigrants from Wales, August 19, 1738. In the minutes of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, held at Philadelphia, October, 1788, appears the following record: "By a letter from the Church at the Great Valley, we were informed that the Divine Providence has removed, in the year past, that ancient and beloved servant of Christ. Thomas Jones, as we trust, to the Church Triumphant."

Samuel Jones, son of Rev. Thomas, was brought to Pennsylvania by his parents when he was two years old. His father was a man of wealth, and able to give him the best advantages for education which the country could furnish. Accord- ingly, Samuel entered the College of Philadelphia (now University of Pennsyl- vania), where he received degree of A. B., May 18, 1762. He took his A. M. de- gree three years later, and in 1788 the University conferred on him degree of D. D. Immediately after graduation he devoted himself to the work of the min- istry, and January 2, 1763, was ordained at College Hall, at the instance of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, of which he was a member, and became pastor of the churches of Southampton and Pennepack. In 1770 he resigned the care of the Southampton Church, and devoted himself entirely to that of Penne- Dack, also called Lower Dublin Baptist Church, from the township in which it was situated. Of this latter church he was pastor upwards of fifty-one years. During a great part of this period he conducted a private theological seminary. As a teacher, as well as a pastor, he was much distinguished, and was remarkably considerate and judicious in his treatment of young men preparing for the minis- try of the Gospel ; and not a few who have been useful, and some who have been eminent, in the ministry were educated under his care.

In the autumn of 1763, Mr. Jones repaired, by request, to Newport, Rhode Island, and new-modelled a rough draft of a charter of incorporation for a pro- posed college there, which, soon after, was granted by the legislature, and the college founded as the College of Rhode Island, with Rev. Samuel Jones as one of the incorporators. Its first location was at Warren, Rhode Island, 1764, but in 1780 it was moved to Providence; in 1804 the name was changed to Brown University. Rev. Samuel Jones declined the presidency of this institution when offered to him on the death of its first president. James Manning, 1791. In 1769

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the College of Rhode Island conferred on him the degree of A. M. gratiae causa, and in 1786, the degree of S. T. D.

During the Revolution, Rev. Samuel Jones was Chaplain of Second Regiment of Foot, Lient. Col. Isaac Hughes commanding, Philadelphia County Battalion of the "Flying Camp," 1776.

During the whole period of his connection with the Philadelphia Baptist Asso- ciation, Dr. Jones was one of its most useful members. He was ten times its moderator between 1797 and 1814, and eleven times selected to deliver the annual sermon at the Association's opening session. One of these was the centennial anniversary sermon in 1807, which was published under the title of "A Century Sermon," the same year. He was at one time appointed to frame a system of discipline, which was published as "A Treatise on Church Discipline," 1797; at another, to compile a book of hymns; and again to draw up a map representing the various associations. He sometimes wrote the circular letter to the churches, and in the deliberations of the association he would often bring light out of the thickest darkness, and order out of the wildest confusion. His services were almost always put in requisition at the constitution of churches and the ordination of ministers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Besides the two publications men- tioned above, Dr. Jones published a sermon entitled, "The Doctrine of the Cove- nant," preached at Pennepack, 1783, and also some minor discourses.

Rev. Samuel Jones married, November 10, 1764, Sylvia Spicer (died July 23, 1802. aged sixty-six years), of Cape May county, New Jersey. They had five children, four of whom dicd young, three dying in August, 1778, two of these, Thomas, aged thirteen, and Samuel, aged ten, being buried together ; the only one reaching maturity was Sarah, who married (first) Robert Henderson, (second) Rev. Theophilus Harris, above. A sermon on the life and character of Rev. Dr. Jones was preached in Philadelphia by Rev. Dr. Staughton, May, 1814, three months after his death.

Sylvia Spicer came of one of the oldest and most distinguished families of Cape May county. Thomas Spicer, a New England Puritan, had a son, Samuel Spicer (born before 1640, died 1692), of Gravesend, Long Island, who married Esther Tilton (died 1703), and had a son, Jacob Spicer (born on Long Island, January 20, 1668), who removed to Cape May county, New Jersey, about 1691, among the earliest settlers there. He was one of the most prominent men in the county and a large landowner in it. He appears to have been connected with the militia, as he was called Col. Jacob Spicer. He was a member of the New Jersey Assembly, 1700-23, inclusive. He died in Cape May county, April 17, 1741, and was buried on what was afterwards the Vincent Miller homestead, in Cold Springs ; the following inscription was on his tombstone :

"In memory of Colonel Jacob Spicer Died April 17, 1741, aged 73 years. Death, thou hast conquered me. I, by thy darts am slain; But Christ shall conquer thee. And I shall rise again."

He married, March 6, 1715, Sarah -- , (supposed widow of Ezekiel Eld- redge, Sheriff of Cape May county, 1697, and member of Assembly, 1708-09).

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born 1677, and died July 25, 1742 ; her tombstone is the oldest in the Cold Spring Church Cemetery. They had a son :

JACOB SPICER (2), born May, 1716, died September 17, 1765. He was the wealthiest man in Cape May county, and an extensive landowner there. A mem- ber of Assembly from 1744 until his death, except one year, and was on many important committees of the same during his incumbency. On Saturday, Febru- ary 2, 1750, Robert Laurence, of Monmouth county, William Cooks, of Burling- ton county, William Hancock, of Salem county, Jacob Spicer, of Cape May coun- ty, Hendrick Fisher, of Somerset county, John Wetherill, of Middlesex county, and Aaron Leaming, of Cape May county, gentlemen, were appointed a committee of the Legislature to inspect the laws, records and other fundamental constitutions relating to the first settlement of New Jersey. The eventual result of this action was the publication by Jacob Spicer (2), and his colleague from Cape May county, Aaron Leaming (2), of their now well-known grants, concessions and original constitutions of the Province of New Jersey, which was printed in Philadelphia by William Bradford, 1758. It has been reprinted in Philadelphia, 1881.

About 1755, Jacob Spicer was made sole commissioner for West Jersey to sup- ply the forces under Col. Peter Schuyler. In 1758 he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle Indian claims and attended the conference at Easton, Pa., beginning October 8, of that year.

Jacob Spicer (2), married (first) Judith, (born 1714, died September 7, 1747). daughter of Humphrey Hughes, Sheriff of Cape May county, 1711, and member of Assembly, 1723-33; of a family quite prominent in the social life of the county and whose members held many local offices. He married (second), 1751, De- borah Hand, widow of Christopher Leaming. Jacob Leaming (2), left four chil- dren : Sarah, Sylvia, Judith and Jacob (3) ; Sylvia Spicer, born January 23, 1736, by his first wife (as probably all Jacob Spicer's (2) children were), was wife of Rev. Samuel Jones.

William Henry and Adelaide Catherine (Bussier ) Henderson had issue:

Mary Henderson, b. 1862; d. inf .;

William Henry Henderson, Jr., b. Oct. 3, 1866; member of Pennsylvania Society, Sons of Revolution, to which he was admitted May 11, 1891, as descendant of Capt. Nicholas Diehl and of Chaplain Samuel Jones. He is president of Mutual Law and Claim Co., and lives with his mother at 1331 N. Broad st., Phila .;

GEORGE HENDERSON, b. June 20, 1868; of whom presently;

Louise Henderson, b. Feb. 1, 1870; m. Rev. Walter B. Shumway, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Swampscott, Mass., where they live. He was son of Lowell Shum- way, by his first wife, Lowell Shumway's second wife was Anna Harris Bussier, sister of Lonise Henderson's mother. Rev. W. B. and Louise Henderson Shumway have two daus., Catherine and Margaret;

Gertrude Wilstach Henderson, b. Ang. 3, 1878; m. William Montgomery Horner, who d. 1901. He was for a time a student in college department and then in law department, Univ. of Pa., from the latter of which he was graduated about 1900, with degree of LL. B. He was son of Samuel Horner, Jr., proprietor of large carpet and lace mills in northeastern section of Phila., which he sold out nearly twenty years ago to the Bromleys, a family extensively engaged in these industries in the same section. He introduced Nottingham lace into America. He lives at 1324 N. Broad st., Phila. Since becoming a widow, Mrs. Gertrude W. Henderson Horner, with her two children, Roland Henderson and Albert Wilstach, has gone to live with her mother, 1331 N. Broad st., Phila., where she now resides (1907).

GEORGE HENDERSON, born June 20, 1868, son of William Henry and Adelaide Catherine ( Bussier ) Henderson, entered the class of '89, college department,

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University of Pennsylvania, as a freshman, 1885. He was founder and editor-in- chief of the college magazine, "The Red and Blue." He received degree of Ph. B., June, 1889, and afterwards entered the class of '96, law department, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania ; was graduated with degree of LL. B., June, 1896, and ad- mitted to Philadelphia Bar the same month. He was an organizer of the Ameri- can Society for the extension of University Teaching, and was sent to England by the society in the summer of 1890, to study the movement there; he was the society's first general secretary, 1890-92. He was also secretary of the Lecture Association, University of Pennsylvania, 1890-92, and director of the University Extensive Division of the University of Chicago, 1892-94. He was an organizer of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and its secretary, 1890-92. From 1899 to date ( 1907), he has been a member of the executive committee of the Public Edu- cation Association, and took an active part in preparing and getting through the act for the reorganization of the public school system of Philadelphia, which was passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature, 1905. He is also a member of the Amer- ican Economic Association. From 1899 to date (1907) he has been a director of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. George Henderson is a life member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and February 18, 1907, was admitted a member of Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Union League and Penn Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Germantown and Phila- delphia Cricket Clubs.

George Henderson married, October 14, 1891, Mary Bertha, daughter of James Latta and Mary Irwin (Hodgson) Stewart. In 1894 they were living at 1910 South Rittenhouse square, 1906, at 6622 Green street, Germantown, Philadelphia, and since May, 1907, have had a country residence at Paoli, Chester county, Penn- sylvania. Her father, James Latta Stewart (he sometimes spelled it Stuart), was son of Thomas Stewart, who came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, from Ireland, and was Captain in Pennsylvania troops, War of 1812. The latter's wife, Tabitha Wallace, was great-granddaughter of Jolin Wallace and Elizabeth, his wife, John Parke and Elizabeth, his wife, and Thomas Hope and Mary (Heslip), his wife, all early settlers of Chester county, where they founded well-known families, the Wallaces and Parkes coming from Ireland. James Latta Stewart married Mary Irwin Hodgson (born April 23, 1845) May 8, 1866; she married (second) Dr. Erwin Agnew, a relative of the eminent surgeon, D. Hayes Agnew, M. D., of Philadelphia, whose wife, Margaret Irwin, was her mother's sister, Mary Erwin being daughter of Alexander Hodgson (born 1814, died September 21, 1898), and Mary Irwin (born April 28, 1817, died March 17, 1882), his wife. Her father, Alexander Hodgson, was descendant from Robert Hodgson (1), born 1626, died May 10, 1696, who came to America, 1657, and first lived in New York, where he was persecuted for his Quakerism, and soon moved to Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, where he was admitted a Freeman, 1673. On April 4, 1676, the General Assembly appointed him one of the commissioners to procure and order the managing of boats for the defense of the colony, and on the same day was named as one of sixteen "of the most judicious inhabitants." whose company and council were decided by the Assembly at its next sitting. On April II, same year, he was appointed a commissioner to take charge of "the several watches and wards of this Island." He was a deputy from Portsmouth to General Assembly that met at Newport, May 4. 1686. His will was dated April 22, 1696, and proved

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May 19, 1696; an abstract of it is given in Austin's "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island." Robert Hodgson (1) married, August 3, 1665, Rachel Shotten (died after 1696), only child of Samson and Alice Shotten, of Portsmouth and Warwick, Rhode Island. On October 1, 1638, "Sampson Shotton" was one of those admitted to be inhabitants of the island called Aquidneck, and who after- wards organized the town of Portsmouth. In 1642 he became a founder of the new town of Warwick, and thereafter resided there. At Portsmouth, August I, 1667, "Upon motion of Robert Hodgson, husband of Rachel, only child of Sam- son Shotten, of Portsmouth, some years since deceased, in regard to lands of Shotten, the Town Council examined and made diligent search and found Shotten had not made any will, but died intestate, and find Rachel sole heir to deceased, and administration was given Robert Hodgson and his wife, Rachel therefor."

Robert and Rachel (Shotten) Hodgson had issuc:

Mary Hodgson, b. Aug. 6, 1666; m. Cook;

Alice Hodgson, b. April, 1668; d. Aug. 28, 1711; m. (first), May 18, 1699, Phineas Pem- berton, "the Father of Bucks County," Pa., being his second wife, and having no issue by him. She was then of Burlington, West Jersey. She m. (second), 1704, Thomas Bradford (also his second wife), by whom she had issue;

Robert Hodgson (2), m., 1697, Sarah, b. Dec. 29, 1680, dau. of Matthew and Sarah (Clayton) Borden, of Portsmouth, R. I., and granddaughter of Richard Borden, of Portsmouth, Assistant, 1653-54, and General Treasurer, 1654-55, of colony of R. I .; founder of Borden family of New England and N. J. Richard Borden bought land in latter province from the Indians, about 1667, and some of his descendants founded Bordentown there, and intermarried with Hopkinson and Kirkbride families, whose history appears in these volumes. Robert Hodgson (1) probably went to Burlington co., N. J., with his sisters, about the same time as his wife's nephew, Joseph Borden, progenitor of the Bordentown family. Robert Hodgson moved to Chester co., Pa. Abel Hodgson, son of Phineas, and grandson of Robert, m. Margaret, dau. of James and Jean Friar, of Chester co., and had a son, another Robert (d. Jan. 3, 1846), who m., Jan., 1793, Sarah, dau. of Amos and Sarah (Sharpe) Alexander, of a family quite prominent in Cecil co., Md., and Mecklenburg co., N. C. This Robert and Sarah (Alexander) Hodgson were parents of Alexander Hodgson, above.

Mary Irwin, wife of Alexander Hodgson, and grandmother of Mary Bertha Stewart (Mrs. George Henderson), was daughter of Samuel Irwin (born Octo- ber 3, 1799, died May 17, 1842), by his wife, Mary Moore (born October 1, 1781, died August 20, 1851) ; Samuel Irwin being son of Isaac Irwin, of Chester coun- ty, by his wife, Margaret Creighton. Mary, wife of Samuel Irwin, was daughter of Andrew Moore, of Chester county, by his wife, Ruth, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Whitson) Birdsall, of Hunterdon county, New Jersey. The Moore family was one of high standing in Chester county, and its genealogy has been published. James Moore, father of Andrew, married Ann, daughter of Jeremiah and Rebecca (Jackson) Starr, descended from Capt. Starr, of the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War in England ( 1642-1660), and from Isaac Jackson from Ballytore, Ireland, both early settlers in Chester county, Pennsylvania. George and Mary (Stuart) Henderson had issue:

Dorothy E. Henderson, b. Sept. 16, 1892;

George Henderson, Jr., b. Jan. 28, 1894; now a student at Protestant Episcopal Academy in Phila., and an active investigator of family history, from whose notes much of the above information on families, allied with the Hendersons, has been taken; Mary Henderson, b. Aug. 6, 1806.

HANNA FAMILY.

JOHN HANNA, who is buried in county Down, near the city of Belfast, Ireland, was by his wife, Grace, the father of Jolin Hanna, who came to Philadelphia soon after the close of the American Revolution. He was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, and doubtless of the same stock as the Ulster Scots of the same name who came to Pennsylvania at different periods prior to the Revolution and whose descend- ants are now found in different parts of the United States.

JOIN HANNA, son of John and Grace, was born in county Down, Ireland, and emigrated from there to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before arriving at the age of twenty-one years. He resided for a number of years in the Old Dock Ward, but on his marriage located in the district of Southwark, and was a member of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, on Fourth street, below Lombard, now at Forty- seventh street and Kingsessing avenne. He was a private in the company of Capt. Peter A. Browne, First Pennsylvania Regiment, Col. Clement C. Biddle, in the service of the United States, in the War of 1812-14, under Brig. Gen. Thomas Cadwalader, of the "Volunteers on the Delaware."

About the year 1805, John Hanna married Elizabeth Patterson, also a native of county Down, Ireland, who had come to Philadelphia when a small girl, with her parents, and lived at Seventh and Chestnut streets, but both died of yellow fever during the epidemic of 1793, while Elizabeth was yet a child.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 107

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978