Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 40

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

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Elizabeth Sellers, b. Jan. 4, 1750, d. March 23, 1774; m. June 9, 1768, Nathan Garrett, of Darby, b. May 18, 1745, d. April 9, 1827, son of Nathan and Ann (Knowles) Garrett, of Darbv, grandson of Samuel and Jane (Pennell) Garrett, of Darby, and great-grandson of William and Ann (Kirk) Garrett, who came from Harby, Leices- tershire, 1684, and settled in Darby; Elizabeth (Sellers) Garrett left issue: Ann, Sarah and Samuel; her husband, Nathan Garrett, m. (second) July 6, 1780, Hannah Rhoads, (third) June 26, 1799, Elizabeth (Davis) Dunn;

Nathan Sellers, b. at Sellers Hall, Nov. 15, 1751, d. at "Milbank," his country residence in Upper Darby; he received a common school education, and in his boyhood was ap- prenticed to Henry Hale Graham, Esq., of Chester, "Scrivener," to learn convey- ancing, and was intended ultimately for the profession of the law, but during his leisure he devoted his attention to the industries established by his father, and eventu- allv abandoned his intention of studying law and devoted his attention exclusively to mechanical pursuits and surveying; in 1775 he was active in the formation of the local militia companies and was disowned by the Friends; he became Ensign of a company in Col. Jonathan Paschall's regiment of Associators, but was called from active mili- tary service to undertake the manufacture of paper moulds for the government by a special resolution of Continental Congress, Aug., 1776; in this work he was assisted by his brother, Samuel, until the latter's death, Dec. 10, 1776; the supplies for the manufacture of these moulds having been previously imported he was forced to devise the appliances for their manufacture as well as the moulds themselves; he continued to be employed in this work until the close of the war, and established a reputation in that line of work that was the foundation of his future success and fortune; in

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1777 he was appointed by the Council of Safety to make a survey of the river Dela- ware for use in erection of fortifications and obstructions for the defense of Phila., and was one of those commissioned to sign the paper currency emitted by Congress to carry on the war; he was also suggested for the appointment to the position of Prothonotary and Clerk of the Courts of Phila., but continued to devote his attention to the manufacture of paper moulds; after the close of the war, he formed a partner- ship with his brother, David, under the firm name of Nathan & David Sellers, in the manufacture of paper-making machinery, much of which was of their own invention, and later added the manufacture of carding machinery; he served on many important commissions under the state and city, in the installment of important improvements for transportation, etc., and was for several terms a member of Common Council of the city, being nominated and elected by both political parties; he resided up to 1817 in the city, and then removed to "Milbank," where he died; m. at Phila., May 4, 1779, Elizabeth, b. in Phila., Oct. 2, 1756, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Johnson) Coleman, and granddaughter of Dr. Joseph and Mary (Thomas) Coleman, and great-granddaughter of Thomas Coleman, of Scituate, Mass., where her ancestors had settled; issue :

Coleman Sellers, b. at Darby, Nov. 27, 1781, became early associated with the business of the firm of Nathan & David Sellers, and was the inventor of a number of their improved manufacturing devices; on the dissolution of the firm he formed the new firm of Coleman Sellers & Sons, and in 1828 erected a manufacturing plant on Cobbs' creek, and they later undertook the manufacture of railroad locomotives of new and improved design; he d. at his residence, No. 10 North Sixth street, Phila., May 7, 1834; he was one of the commissioners for the erection of the Eastern Penitentiary in 1821. Three of his sons were promi- nent engineers and manufacturers, and established rolling mills, iron works, etc., in Ohio, and elsewhere in the west, and took an active part in the building of the great transcontinental lines of railway;

Samuel Sellers, b. Dec. 30, 1753, d. Dec. 10, 1776; was associated with his elder brother, Nathan, in the manufacture of paper moulds for the government at the time of his decease ;

David Sellers, b. April 1, 1757, d. in Phila., Dec. 2, 1813; was the junior partner in the firm of Nathan & David Sellers, of which his sons, Samuel and James, later became members; m. Dec. 23, 1779, Rachel Coleman, sister to his brother Nathan's wife, and had ten children;

Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1759, d. April 3, 1766;

JOHN SELLERS, b. Dec. I, 1762, d. at his country residence "Hoodland," in Upper Darby; m. Mary Coleman; of whom presently;

James, b. Sept. 21, 1765, d. Nov. 12, 1770;

George Sellers, b. Feb. 12, 1768, at Sellers Hall, which he inherited and spent his whole life there; d. April 3, 1853; he was a man of poetic tastes and the author of a number of poetical pieces; m. Sept. 8, 1808, Ann Evans, dau. of Joshua and Abigail (Evans) Ash, of Phila., d. Nov. 4, 1856;

Joshua, b. March 13, 1770, d. March 14, 1770;

Ann, b. Dec. 31, 1774, d. Oct. 24, 1775.

JOHN SELLERS, sixth child and fourth son of John and Ann (Gibson) Sellers, was born at the old homestead of "Sellers Hall," Upper Darby, December 1, 1762. He learned the trade of a tanner at a tannery then owned by his father on the West Chester road, near the old homestead, at a place known as "Wayside," and at the age of seventeen years began to tan skins on his own account. After following the business for some years at "Wayside," he removed to Philadelphia and erected a tannery on Dock street, where he carried on business until 1795, when he formed a partnership with Joseph Keen, a currier, under the firm name of Keen & Sellers, and they carried on the tanning business on Chestnut street, below Fourth, opposite Carpenter's Hall, until 1808, when Mr. Sellers retired from the firm and removed to a farm he had purchased near the old homestead in Upper Darby, to which he removed, later known as "Hoodland." He thereafter chiefly devoted himself to the care and improvement of his farm, which he later extended by purchase ; though he operated to some extent the adjoining tannery at "Wayside," where he had learned his trade, and which with that portion of the homestead on which his father had erected the grist and merchant mills, he inherited from his father's

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estate, manufacturing card leathers for the firm of Nathan & David Sellers, com- posed of his two elder brothers. In 1821 he began the erection of a handsome resi- dence on his farm which he called "Hoodland," and removed into it with his family in 1824.

John Sellers married at Philadelphia, April 27, 1786, Mary, born in Philadelphia, September 9, 1761, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Johnson) Coleman, and a sister to the wives of his two eldest brothers, Nathan and David. She was a descendant of one of the early Quaker families of New England, who suffered persecution from the intolerant Puritans, her ancestors having settled in Massachusetts in 1638. Her grandfather, Dr. Joseph Coleman, of Prince George's county, Maryland, who married Mary Thomas, was a son of Thomas Coleman, of Scituate, Massachusetts.

Issue of John and Mary (Coleman) Sellers:

Charles, b. Aug. 14, 1787, d. Oct. 10, 1787; John, b. Oct. 7, 1788, d. Oct. 19, 1788; JOHN, b. Sept. 29, 1789, d. July 20, 1878; m. Elizabeth Poole; of whom presently; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 26, 1791 ; m. at Darby Meeting, May 3, 1810, Abraham L. Pennock; Ann, b. Sept. 27, 1793, d. June 11, 1815, unm.

JOHN SELLERS, only surviving son of John and Mary (Coleman) Sellers, was born in Philadelphia. September 29, 1789. His mother died when he was about five years of age, and he was reared at the home of his grandparents, John and Ann (Gibson) Sellers, Upper Darby, and received his education in the common schools of that neighborhood. He learned the milling trade under Thomas Steel, who then operated the mill owned by his grandfather and later by his father, and in 1814 assisted in building the new mills, known as the Millbourne Mills, and now for many years operated by the Millbourne Mills Company, whose well-known brands of flour have been a staple in the Philadelphia and other markets for nearly a century, the foundation for the extensive business conducted by these mills being laid by John Sellers, on the site of the present mills. He resided from the time of his marriage until 1858 in the old Millbourne house adjoining the mills, and in that year removed to a residence he had erected on higher ground to the west of the mill, where he died July 20, 1878. He was a much respected member of Darby Meeting of Friends and a regular attendant of their Meetings during his whole life. He was an earnest though conservative Abolitionist during slavery days, and on the organization of the Free Soil party, took an active interest in its campaigns, being a delegate to the National convention of that party at Buffalo, 1848. He was an earnest advocate of popular education and was one of those who founded and assisted in maintaining the Union School, on the Marshall road in Upper Darby, and was a director of the Upper Darby School District, and treasurer of the board, from the establishment of the Common Schools there until he retired by reason of his old age. He was also treasurer of the West Chester Turnpike Company, and held a number of other positions of trust.

John Sellers married at Friends' Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware, April 10, 1817, Elizabeth, born April 28, 1792, died at the Millbourne place, Upper Darby, January 3. 1859, daughter of William and Sarah (Sharpless) Poole, and a de- scendant of two old families of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Poole, great-grandfather of Elizabeth (Poole) Sellers, was a son of William Poole, of Parish of Bromfield, county Cumberland, England, by his wife,

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Jeanette Twentyman, and was born in Cumberland, 1704. He came to Pennsyl- vania when a young man and settled in Bucks county where he married Rebecca, born September 9, 1702, daughter of Abel Janney, born in Mobberly, Cheshire, England, December 29, 1671, by his wife, Elizabeth, born at Dorehouse, Yorkshire, October 17, 1673, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who came to New Jersey, 1679, and were the first settlers on the site of Trenton, New Jersey. Thomas Janney, father of Abel, baptized at Stiall, Cheshire, England, January II, 1634, became a minister among Friends, and married, November 24, 1660, Mar- gery Heath, of Horton, Yorkshire, came to Pennsylvania, in ship, "Endeavor," arriving in Delaware river, September 20, 1683, with their four sons: Jacob, Thomas, Abel and Joseph, and settled in Bucks county. He was a member of Provincial Council, 1683-86; many years a Justice of Bucks County Courts, and a member of Assembly. He died while on a religious visit to the place of his nativ- ity, at the house of his sister, Mary Burgess (where he was born), February 12, 1696-7. Abel Janney was a Justice of Bucks county, 1708-10, and a member of Provincial Assembly, 1710-21. Joseph Poole died at Newtown, Bucks county. 1766. His widow, Rebecca, survived him many years and died at the residence of her son, William, at Wilmington, Delaware. They had eight children of whom William, eldest, born January 26, 1728-9, settled in Wilmington, Delaware. He married ( first) June 27, 1754, Martha Boberts, and (second) December 3, 1761, Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby, widow of Oliver Canby, of Wilmington, and daughter of William and Mary (Tatnall) Shipley, of Wilmington, an account of whom and their respective ancestry is given elsewhere in this publication.

William Poole, Jr., son of William Poole, of Wilmington, by his second wife, Elizabeth (Shipley) Canby, born at Wilmington, August 4, 1764, was apprenticed as boy to a silversmith, but on his marriage engaged in the milling business on the Brandywine, near Wilmington, where he resided until his death, May 25, 1829. He married, at Middletown Meeting, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 5, 1791. Sarah, born September 25, 1769, died at Wilmington, September 13, 1823, daughter of Benjamin Sharpless, born January 26, 1709, died March 16, 1785 ; by his second wife, Martha, born February 8, 1724, died October 20, 1812, daughter of Benjamin Mendenhall, a minister among Friends in Chester county, born May 5, 1691, died while on a religious visit to North Carolina, July 13, 1743, by his wife, Lydia Rob- erts, a native of Wales. He was a son of Benjamin Mendenhall, who came from Wiltshire, England, and married, in 1689, Ann Pennell, of Chester county. Ben- jamin Sharpless was a son of Joseph Sharpless, born in Hatherton, Cheshire, Eng- land, September 28, 1678, died in Chester county, 1757, by his wife, Lydia, daugh- ter of Ralph and Mary Lewis, who came from Glamorganshire, Wales, with John Bevan, 1683, and settled in the Welsh Tract of Haverford and Merion townships. John Sharpless, father of Joseph, and the ancestor of the prominent Chester county family of the name, was a son of Geoffrey Sharpless, of Wybunbury, Ches- ter county, England, who had married Margaret Ashley, June 27, 1611. John Sharpless, born at Wybunbury, baptized October 15, 1624, became early convinced of Friends' principles. He married, June 27, 1662, Jane Moore, at Hatherton, Cheshire, and emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family, landing at Chester, Oc- tober 14, 1682, died in 1685, his widow surviving until 1721.

William and Sarah (Sharpless) Poole had ten children, of whom Elizabeth, wife of John Sellers, was the eldest.

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Issue of John and Elizabeth (Poole) Sellers:

Mary, b. June 2, 1818, d. Dec. 15, 1894; m. Edward Bancroft, son of John and Elizabeth Bancroft, who came from England 1824; Edward and Mary (Sellers) Bancroft re- sided in Providence, R. I., where he was a member of the firm of Fairbanks, Bancroft & Co., machinists, until 1849, and then removed to Phila. and entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, William Sellers, d. there 1855; they have three children, viz. : John Sellers Bancroft, a machinist with William Sellers & Co .; m. (first) Eliza- beth H. Richardson, (second) Anne E. Richardson;

Anna P. Bancroft, m. Elwood W. Coggswell, merchant of New York City;

Elizabeth Bancroft, wife of Stephen Parrish, of Phila.

Sarah Poole Sellers, b. Feb. 18, 1820, d. inf .;

William Poole Sellers, b. April 13, 1822, d. inf .;

John Sellers, b. Sept. 5, 1823, d. inf .;

William Sellers, b. Sept. 19, 1824, served an apprenticeship as a machinist in the works of his uncle, J. Morton Poole, at Wilmington, and in 1745 took charge of the machine shops of Fairbanks, Bancroft & Co., at Providence, R. I .; returned to Phila. two years later and began manufacturing on his own account; formed a partnership with his former employer and brother-in-law, Edward Bancroft, under firm name of Bancroft & Sellers, in 1848, and at death of Mr. Bancroft, in 1855, established firm of William Sellers & Co., at Sixteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue; among the leading ma- chine and tool manufacturers in this country; he was president of Franklin Institute since 1864; was one of the original members of the Union League; trustee of the Univ. of Pa. since 1866; several years a director in Phila. & Reading R. R. Co .; Phila., Wilmington & Baltimore R. R. Co .; member of National Academy of Sciences, at Washington, D. C .; president of Edge Moor Iron Co., who established an extensive plant near Wilmington, 1868; and president of Midvale Steel Co., 1873-87, and one of its largest stockholders; member of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Mechanical and Civil Engineers of Great Britain, and Société d'Encouragement pour L' Industrie National, of Paris;

JOHN SELLERS, JR., b. July 27, 1826; of whom presently;

George H. Sellers, b. Aug. 21, 1828, d. in Wilmington, Del., June 7, 1897; m. Annie Wilson;

Sarah Ann Sellers, b. Aug. 21, 1828 (twin to George H.) ; m. June 4, 1856, Clement B. Smyth, a prominent iron manufacturer of Wilmington, Del .; vice-president and treas- urer for many years of Diamond State Iron Co .;

Martha Sellers, b. Oct. 2, 1830, d. Dec. 11, 1899, unm .;

Frances Sellers, b. Sept. 23, 1833; m. April 26. 1855, Eli Garrett, of Wilmington, treas- urer of Edge Moor Iron Co. at his death, May 25, 1886;

Nathan Sellers, b. July 18, 1836; m. June 30, 1863, Mary H. Keen, and had three chil- dren, all of whom d. minors.

JOHN SELLERS, JR., second surviving son of John and Elizabeth ( Poole) Sellers, was born at Millbourne, Upper Darby, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1826. He received a good practical education, and early in life assisted his father in the management of the Millbourne Mills, erected by his great-grandfather in 1757, and retained an interest therein until 1848. In that year he went to Cincin- nati, Ohio, travelling by stage coach and river steamboat, and entered the employ of a prominent mill operator there, and later accepted a clerkship in the Lafayette Bank, of Cincinnati. After travelling through some of the then unsettled portions of the country farther west, he returned to Philadelphia in 1849, and established an iron foundry there, which he successfully conducted until 1853, when he became a member of the firm of Bancroft & Sellers, founded by his brother, William Sellers, and his brother-in-law, Edward Bancroft, and aided in building up an extensive business in the manufacture of tools, and continued a member of the firm of Will- iams Sellers & Company, organized in 1855, and when that company was incor- porated in 1886 he became its vice-president and treasurer, both of which positions he still fills. In 1885 the Millbourne Mills Company was incorporated, to operate the mills at Millbourne, established by his great-grandfather in 1757, and since

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operated successively by his grandfather, father and himself, and he was made president of the corporation, a position he filled until his resignation in 1902. Mr. Sellers was with his brother, William, one of the incorporators of the Edge Moor Iron Company, in 1869, and from that time until his resignation, October 2, 1901, filled the position of vice-president of the corporation, in which he still holds a large pecuniary interest. He is also a director and large holder of stock in the Mid- vale Steel Company of Philadelphia.

Mr. Sellers was one of the original members of the Union League of Philadel- phia and assisted in the preparation of a history of that organization recently pub- lished. He is also a member of the Franklin Institute.

John Sellers, Jr., was one of founders of "The Nation," a periodical published in New York City since 1865, and contributed to its columns.

He married at Philadelphia, October 6, 1853, Ann Caroline, daughter of Joseph Swift Keen, a prominent lumber merchant of Philadelphia, by his wife, Ann Longstreth, and a descendant of Joran Kyn, who accompanied Governor John Printz from Sweden to the Delaware in 1643, and settled at Upland, now Chester. Her mother, Ann Longstreth, was a descendant of Bartholomew Longstreth, of Londstreth Dale, Yorkshire, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1698, and settled in Bucks county. Some account of this family will be found in this publication under the title of the Longstreth family.

Issue of John and Ann Caroline (Kecn) Sellers:

Lucy Sellers, b. July 12, 1854; m. Oct. 16, 1879, George Taylor Barnes, of Phila., b. June 29, 1846, d. Jan. 30, 1900; they had issue :

John Sellers Barnes, b. May 30, 1881 ;

Caroline Sellers Barnes, b. Dec. 28, 1883;

Natalie Sellers Barnes, b. May 23, 1889.

Howard Sellers, b. March 22, 1857; m. Oct. 18, 1888, Sarah Mendenhall Worrell, of Wilmington, Del., b. June 27, 1865;

Elizabeth Poole Sellers, b. Nov. 4, 1858; m. June 15, 1887, Granville Worrell, of Wilming- ton, Del., b. Sept. 21, 1836; they have issue:

Howard Sellers Worrell, b. March 26, 1888;

Granville Worrell, Jr., b. June 17, 1896.

Mildred Sellers, b. Dec. 4, 1859; m. Feb. 11, 1885, William Ellery Almy, of Washington, D. C., b. Nov. 9, 1856, d. Aug. 1, 1901; they have issue :

Marion Sellers Almy, b. Aug. 14, 1888;

Helen Almy, b. Aug. 2, 1890;

Ann Caroline Almy, b. Feb. 18, 1894;

William Ellery Almy, b. Nov. 18, 1901.

Marion Sellers, b. July 27, 1869, d. Nov. 8, 1877.

GRUBB FAMILY.

The various members of the Grubb family in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and elsewhere in this country are mainly, if not entirely, descendants from early English settlers.

The family is a very old one in England, and the name, spelled in the early rec- ords either Grubbe or Grubb, appears in the ancient records of Kent, Cornwall, Hertfordshire, and other English counties, as early as 1300, and in some instances still earlier. The English stock generally is of Danish derivation. The Royal Archives at Copenhagen show that the Grubbes have been, since 1127, one of the oldest, and, at times, most distinguished noble families of Denmark, and connected with many families of high rank in Germany and Austria.

The following are the earliest settlers of the name of Grubb in the United States :

Thomas Grubbe, who settled in 1623, and John Grubbe, 1626, in Jamestown Colony, Virginia. They appear to have come from Hertfordshire, England, and their descendants now reside in Virginia, Kentucky, and other states of the Union. These seem to have gradually changed the final e, to s, as they now spell the name Grubbs. Among them is Judge Charles S. Grubbs, of Louisville, Kentucky.

Thomas Grubb, of Piscataway, Middlesex county, New Jersey, who left a will dated 1711, in which he mentions his wife, two daughters, and one son, Thomas Grubb. A Robert Grubb, living in the township and county of Burlington, New Jersey, 1795, may have been his descendant, as appears by a deed executed by him and Sarah, his wife, at that date. Descendants of Thomas Grubb may, there- fore, be still living in New Jersey or elsewhere.

Henry Grubb, of Chester county, whose will was proved in Philadelphia, 1726 (Will Book E, p. 20), shows that he left a wife, Catharine, and children whose names are not given, but does not disclose whether he left any male descendants. Some of the name who claim to be descended from him assert that he was of Swiss or German origin, his name being a modification of the name, "Grobb," "Grube" or "Greup," and a number of the name, evidently of German extraction, are found a generation later in Berks and adjoining counties.

Henry Grubb, another early settler of the Grubb name, came from Cornwall, England, prior to 1679, and landed at Salem, New Jersey, where he was a witness to the marriage of William Clark and Honor Huling, January 1, 1679-80. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and February 24, 1682-3, took a certificate from Salem Meeting to Burlington Meeting and married there, May 24, 1683, Mary, daughter of William and Mary Perkins, who had come in the ship, "Kent," and settled at Burlington. He produced at Burlington Meeting the certificate he had brought from Friends in Cornwall, England, signed, among others, by his mother, Wilmot Grubb, Joanne Grubb and Anthony Grubb. As recorded in a book of certificates received at Burlington Meeting, it bears no date, though it appears among those dated 1676-7. Henry Grubb purchased land in West Jersey and resided in the town of Burlington ; was named in deeds as a "victualler," and later as an "Innholder." He left no male descendants of the Grubb name. The

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records of the Burlington Meeting give the births of three children of Henry and Mary (Perkins) Grubb: David, born 12mo. 4, 1685-6, died 3mo. 4, 1687; Mary, born IImo. 6, 1688-9; Elizabeth, born 6mo. 12, 1691. The will of Henry Grubb, of Burlington, dated February 11, 1695-6, was proven January 24, 1705-6; it de- vises his estate to his "mother Wilmot Grubb, living at Stoke Climsland, county of Cornwall, England," to his wife, Mary, and his two daughters, Mary and Eliza- beth. His wife is named as sole executrix, but if she should remarry, his brother- in-law, Thomas Rapier (who had married Mary's sister, Abigail Perkins), and John Hollingshead are to act as guardians and trustees of his daughters.

Besse's "Suffering: of the Quakers," states that Henry Grubb, of Stoke Clims- land, Cornwall, was committed to and imprisoned in Trematon Castle, Cornwall. He was doubtless the father of Henry Grubb, of Burlington, New Jersey, as the parish record of Stoke Climsland contains the baptismal record of "David, son of Henry Grubb and Wilmuth his wife, born 22, January 1658," and also a certificate of the burial of "Wilmuth Grubb, Quaker, 4th Feby. 1696," about the date of Henry Grubb's will, and before news of her death could have reached him in New Jersey.

It has been assumed by some writers that Henry Grubb, of Burlington, was a brother to John Grubb, of New Castle county, now Delaware (hereafter mention- ed), since both came from Cornwall, and at about the same time settled on nearly opposite sides of the river Delaware; because Henry was a family name in the Delaware family, and because one of John's grandsons named a daughter, "Wel- meet," which resembled the name of Henry's mother, Wilmot or Wilmuth. On the other hand the descendants of John, of Delaware, held, among other reasons, that since the name of John does not appear on the baptismal record of the chil- dren of Henry and Wilmuth at Stoke Climsland, he could not have been a brother, though since the name of Henry himself, shown by his will to have been a son, does not appear on record there, this argument alone is not conclusive. However, John Grubb was never a Quaker, though his sons, with the exception of Emanuel, became such, and the name Henry being such a common one everywhere, and the name Wellmeet, like Speedwell, Hopewell, Charity, Prudence, etc., being common- ly used Christian names in those days, there is little basis for the conjecture of relationship on such grounds.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 40

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