Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 88

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

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His nephew, Joseph Ball, having purchased the Batsto Iron Works, at Batsto, Burlington county, New Jersey, on the northern bank of Mullica, or Little Egg Harbor river, including a large tract of land, and developed the bog-iron furnace there, the second iron furnace established in the Province of New Jersey : William Richards entered his employ. 1768, returning to Chester county 1774, but became resident manager of the works at Batsto, January. 1781. The Batsto furnace and other industries established there, made it a place of importance, prior to the Revolution, and during that struggle, iron cannon, shot and shell were cast there, for the use of the Continental troops. A detachment of the British fleet was at one time sent to destroy it. Col. William Richards was a man of wonderful energy and enterprise, and soon became part, and eventually sole, owner of this valuable property. He erected mills, factories and forges there ; owning, besides the extensive industrial plants, about 65,000 acres of timber and farm land. He retired from the active management of the business in 1809, was succeeded by his son. Jesse Richards, and moved to Mount Holly, where he died August 31, 1823.

Col. William Richards, as he was known in New Jersey, married (first ), 1764, Mary Patrick, born June 24. 1745, daughter of his first preceptor, manager of Coventry furnace and forge, in Chester county. She died November 24, 1794, and he married (second). 1796, Margaret, daughter of Isaac Wood, of Burlington county. New Jersey. She died December 21, 1850, at the age of eighty-three years, and is buried, beside him, in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Protestant Epis- copal Church, at Mount Holly.

Issue of William and Mary (Patrick ) Richards:

Abigail Richards, b. June 1, 1765; d. May 14, 1794; unm .;

John Richards, b. June 1. 1767; d. Nov. 30, 1793;

Samuel Richards, b. at Valley Forge, Nov. 30, 1769; m. (first), 1797, Mary M. Smith, who d. 1820, (second) Anna M. Witherspoon; had eleven children; he was a promi- nent and successful ironmaster in N. J., owning the Atsion, Martha, Weymouth, and Speedwell iron works, comprising 185,000 acres of land, and numerous industrial plants:

Elizabeth Richards, b. Aug. 26, 1771; m., April 4. 1799. Rev. Thomas Haskins, who by a former marriage with Martha Potts, was father of Sarah Ennals Haskins, who be- came wife of Jesse Richards, ironmaster of Batsto, brother of Elizabeth; Mary Rich- ards Haskins, eldest dau. of Rev. Thomas, by his second wife, m. John DuPuy, of Phila., and Martha, another dan., m. Hon. John Wurts, of Phila .;

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Rebecca Richards, b. Aug. 7, 1773; m. John Sevier, of Tenn .:

William Richards, b. July 1, 1775; d. Dec. 21, 1796;

Joseph Richards, b. Oct. 5, 1777; d. March 26, 1797;

THOMAS RICHARDS, b. Feb. 10, 1780; d. Oct. 17, 1860; m. Anna Bartram; of whom pres- ently;

Jesse Richards, b. Dec. 2, 1782; d. June 17, 1854; succeeded his father as proprietor of Batsto, 1809, and conducted the varied industries there until his death; m., Sept. 20, 1810, Sarah Ennals, dau. of Rev. Thomas Haskins (his brother-in-law), by a former marriage, with Martha, dau. of Thomas and Ann ( Nutt) Potts, of the famous family of ironmasters of Pa .; Jesse Richards was a member of New Jersey Assembly, 1837-39; Charles Richards, b. Aug. 9, 1785; d. May 11, 1788;

Anna Maria Richards, b. Feb. 8, 1789; d. May 2, 1816; m., 1810, John White, of Del.

Issue of William and Margaret (Wood) Richards :

BENJAMIN WOOD RICHARDS, b. Nov. 12, 1797; d. July 12, 1851 ; m. Sarah Ann Lippincott; of whom presently;

Charles Henry Richards, b. April 9, 1799; d. April, 1800;

George Washington Richards, b. May 6, 1801 ; d. June, 1802;

Augustus Henry Richards, b. May 5, 1803; d. 1839; m. Rebecca, dau. of Hon. John Mc- Lean, of Ohio;

William Richards, b. Jan. 16, 1805; d. April 19, 1864; m., 1831, Christiana Maria Lehman; George Washington Richards, b. May 3, 1807; d. April 22, 1874; merchant and manu- facturer in Phila., and prominently identified with railroad and insurance affairs there; president of the Camden & Atlantic R. R. Co., 1855-57, and many years a director of the Philadelphia & Reading R. R. Co .; m. Mary Lee Guen, and had eight children;

Joseph Ball Richards, b. Nov. 9, 1811; d. Jan. 30, 1812;

Mary Wood Richards, b. March 6, 1815; d. Sept. 19, 1860.

THOMAS RICHARDS, third son of William Richards, of Batsto, by his first wife, Mary Patrick, born February 10, 1780, was for some years a merchant in Phila- delphia, and was owner of a large glass manufacturing plant and iron foundries, at Jackson, Camden county, New Jersey. He married, October 17, 1810, Anna, daughter of Dr. Moses Bartram, and granddaughter of John Bartram, the cele- brated botanist of West Philadelphia, where "Bartram's Garden," now a city park, containing many rare specimens of trees and plants, has been a place of interest for over a century.

Issue of Thomas and Anna (Bartram ) Richards:

William Bartram Richards, d. about 1874;

Elizabeth Bartram Richards, d. 1865;

SAMUEL RICHARDS, b. Aug. 15, 1818; d. Feb. 21, 1895; m. Elizabeth M. Ellison; of whom presently;

Anna Bartram Richards, m. Benjamin J. Crew;

Rebecca Bartram Richards, m. Rev. Thomas E. Souper:

Thomas Richards, Jr., m. Deborah M. Kimber ;

Rebecca Say Richards, m., 1860, Walter Newbold, and had issue . Anna Bartram Newbold, m. J. Remson Bishop;

Elizabeth Richards Newbold, m. Samuel Mickle Fox.

SAMUEL RICHARDS, second son of Thomas and Anna ( Bartram) Richards, was born in Philadelphia, August 15, 1818, and died there, February 21, 1895. He was many years proprietor of the Jackson Glass Works, at Jackson, Camden county, New Jersey, and until 1872, an active merchant in Philadelphia. He was prime mover in the construction of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, from Cam- den to the sea, and was one of its board of directors, 1852-95, and a member of its executive committee. On May 17, 1852, he met the board of directors, and, May 24. authorized the engineers to begin the preliminary survey for the road,

B.M.Richards Jany. 1.1824

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which was completed by June, of the same year. He was an active promoter of the Camden and Atlantic Land Company, chartered March 10, 1853, and was its president at the time of his death. It was he that suggested the name, and was largely instrumental in the laying out and improvement of Atlantic City, the termi- nus of the railroad of which he was acting president for many years. In 1874, he constructed another railroad to Atlantic City, the Philadelphia and Atlantic Rail- road, now in control of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company. In 1888, as president of the Camden and Atlantic Land Company, he undertook the extension of Atlantic City by the addition of Ventnor, called after the famous watering place on the Isle of Wight, and, 1890, erected there the most southern hotel of the famous watering place. He was inventor of the Richards' snow plow, used on many railroads.

Samuel Richards was the last survivor of the original board of directors of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company. He married Elizabeth M., daughter of John B. Ellison, head of the well-known mercantile firm of John B. Ellison & Sons, Philadelphia.

Issue of Samuel and Elizabeth M. ( Ellison) Richards:

Mary Richards, d. inf .;

Thomas J. Richards, b. April 24, 1853; many years connected with Provident Life & Trust Company of Phila .; m. at Newport, R. I., Ang. 17, 1881, Lydua E. Shipley Wiinn; they had issue :

Elliott Bartram Richards, b. March 26, 1883 ;

Annabelle Elliott Richards, b. Oct. 9, 1884;

Elizabeth Ellison Richards, b. Oct. 30, 1887;

Winifred Richards, b. Jan. 14, 1892.

Samuel Bartram Richards, b. July 2, 1855; was associated with his father in construc- tion of Philadelphia & Atlantic City R. R., and, 1878, was elected secretary and treas- urer of the Camden & Atlantic Land Company, and is president of the Ventnor Light & Water Company; was elected, 1906, Mayor of Ventnor City, N. J. He m., June 9, 1881, Mary Dorrance, dau. of Franklin Evans, and a member of Society of Mayflower Descendants, through descent from Gov. William Bradford; they had issue :

Meta Ellison Richards, b. March 23, 1882; m., Jan. 31, 1905, Edmund Cooper Hoyt, of Tenn., and they had issue :

Samuel Bartram Richards Hoyt, b. Dec. 10, 1905. Natalie Richards, b. Sept. 14, 1890.

BENJAMIN WOOD RICHARDS, eldest son of Col. William Richards, of Batsto, New Jersey, by his second wife, Margaret Wood, was born at Batsto, November 12, 1797. He graduated at Princeton, 1815, and began his studies for the Presby- terian ministry, but delicate health compelled him to abandon them. After an ex- tended tour through the south and southwest, he regained his normal health, and returning to Philadelphia, engaged in the mercantile business, 1819. He was elected to Common Council, 1827, and to General Assembly of Pennsylvania in -; taking an active part in promoting legislature in the interest of popular edu- cation, he secured the first appropriation for the public schools of Philadelphia. He became a member of the first Board of Control of Public Schools of the city, and did much for their advancement. In April, 1829, he was elected Mayor of Philadelphia, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. George M. Dallas, who had re- signed, and was three times re-elected. He was appointed Canal Commissioner, under the act of 1829, and was appointed, by President Jackson, a director of United States Bank, and superintendent of United States Mint, of Philadelphia, resigning the latter position on his election to the mayoralty. At the expiration of

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his term as Mayor, he was made one of the trustees of Girard College. He was also a trustee of University of Pennsylvania. In 1836, he originated and founded The Girard Life Insurance, Annuity and Trust Company and was its president until his death. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society. While traveling in Europe, 1833, his attention was called to the English system of estab- lishing and conducting rural cemeteries, on his return began the agitation of the question of establishing one in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. and in 1835, was one of the organizers of Laurel Hill Cemetery, with which he was connected at the time of his death.

Benevolent and great of heart, he took a lively interest in charitable institutions ; he was one of the founders of the Asylum for the Blind, one of the managers of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and a large contributor to other benevolent enter- prises.

In person Mr. Richards was of tall and imposing figure, and was considered the handsomest man in Philadelphia. He died July 12, 1851, in the prime of his use- fulness, at the early age of fifty-three years, and was buried in Laurel Hill Ceme- tery.

Benjamin W. Richards married, 1821, Sarah Ann, daughter of Joshua Lippin- cott, of Philadelphia ; she died March 19, 1862.

Issue of Benjamin W. and Sarah Ann ( Lippincott) Richards:

Sarah Richards : Selina Richards: Louisa Richards: Augustus Richards:

BENJAMIN W. RICHARDS, JR., of whom presently ;

Howard Richards:

Charles Richards.

BENJAMIN WOOD RICHARDS, JR., son of Benjamin W. and Sarah Ann ( Lippin- cott) Richards, born in Philadelphia, August 9. 1831, received his preliminary education in that city. entered the sophomore class at University of Pennsylvania, 1846, and received his degree, 1849. Shortly after his graduation, he entered his father's counting house, and at the latter's death, succeeded to the business, and continued it until the breaking out of the Civil War. On April 12, 1862, he was appointed, by President Lincoln, Aide-de-Camp, on the staff of Maj. Gen. James B. Rickett, with the rank of Captain, and he served with the Army of the Potomac during the war. He received. for gallant and meritorious services, the brevet of Major of United States Volunteers, 1864, and of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of United States Volunteers, 1865, resigning from the service, March 10, 1865. Re- turning to Philadelphia at the close of his military career. he has since resided in that city.

Mr. Richards succeeded to his father's interest and official position in the Laurel Hill Cemetery Company, of which he has since been secretary and treasurer, and has filled the position of general superintendent since 1870. He is a director of the Girard Trust Company, of which his father was a founder. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and has been a member of the University and Art clubs since their organization. He has been an extensive traveler in this country and abroad, and has always been very fond of outdoor sports, especially of hunting. He is unmarried.

RICHARDS FAMILY.

JOSEPH RICHARDS, of Newgate, parish of Witney, Oxfordshire, England, pur- chased from William Penn, Lord Proprietary of Pennsylvania, 500 acres of land in that province. He removed to Pennsylvania at an early date, and was a juror at the first court held for Chester county, February 14, 1682-83. Hazard (Annals, p. 604) intimates that he was one of the nine persons elected to the first Assembly. but as none of the four known members are in the list there given, the latter were probably only the signers to the certificate of elections. Joseph Richards' land was taken up in Aston township, and is shown on Benjamin H. Smith's map of early grants and patents.

He was foreman of the grand jury, which, 8mo. 4. 1689-90, presented a bill of complaint, respecting public affairs, demanding that an account should be given of public moneys, and that a fee bill should be hung up in the courthouse.

Joseph Richards, romo. 5, 1688, conveyed to his son, Joseph, 300 acres of his original tract in Aston township. There being two of the same name, father and son, it is difficult to identify them in some cases, but the following deeds, un- doubtedly, refer to the father.

By deed, dated September 8, 1693, David Lloyd granted, inter alia, to "Joseph Richards of the Town and County of Chester, Physician," a piece of meadow, or cripple, containing three acres, next to James Lownes's meadow, Urin Keen's meadow, etc. Joseph Richards, January 16, 1702-03, granted the same to John Bristow, who conveyed it to Jasper Yeates, December 20, 1705. David Lloyd, by deed, dated Imo. 1, 1696-97, conveyed to Jasper Yeates, a lot in Chester, which, on June 12, 1699, Yeates conveyed to Joseph Richards, for sixteen pounds.

At a Quarterly Meeting of Friends, held at Chester, 6mo. 4, 1684, it was "con- cluded & agreed between Joseph Richards & Charles Ashcom about ye admeasur- ing of Land yt ye said Joseph shall pay Charles for ye same, without any further disturbance. The same is ended betwixt them the money is paid in p'sence of ye Meeting."

At a Monthly Meeting held at Chester, romo. 6, 1686, "the difference betweene Joseph Richards & Willm. Woodmansey offered to ye Meeting in order to a com- posure of ye same, Willm Woodmansey did acknowledge he spoke foolishly in comparing him to a London pick pocket & ye like & that he was grieved & sorry for ye same, wch Joseph Richards did accept desiring & intending hereby yt there be an end of strife from ye beginning to this day." At the same Meeting, 4mo. 6, 1692, it was "ordered by this Monthly Meeting that the executors of Tho : Brassey deliver Joseph Richards his bill and that he pay the executors the rent according to their demand, or els to appear the next months meeting, and show cause to the contrary, and that John Hodgkins and Robert Barber give him to understand hereof and that John Hodgkins deliver the aboesaid bill, upon the receiving a re- ceipt of £4 5s. in part of £7 5s. given by John Bristow."

Joseph Richards was one of the earliest physicians practising in Chester county. but where he obtained his medical knowledge is unknown. He died in 1710-11, in Chichester township. His will was dated 7mo. 6. 1705, and proved February 16.

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1710-1I. He left his son, Joseph, five shillings, and said Joseph's two eldest chil- dren, Susanna and Joseph, five shillings each; his son Nathaniel's three children, William, Nathaniel and Elizabeth, five pounds each ; and made bequests to his son- in-law, Humphrey Scarlett; daughter, Anne Scarlett, and daughter, Susanna Lownes, and her four children, Joseph, James, Hannah and Susanna. The name of Joseph Richard's wife was Jane; she being mentioned at a court, held in the 4mo., 1689, as the mother of Anne Weaver.

Issue of Joseph and Jane Richards:

JOSEPH RICHARDS, JR., of whom later ;

Nathaniel Richards, lived in Aston twp .; d. 1700; m., about 1689, Mary, dau. of Richard Mason; issue :

William Richards, d. young ;

Elizabeth Richards, m., about 1716, Roger Kirk;

Nathaniel Richards, of New Garden twp., Chester co .; d. 1730; m. Margaret Wiley, who m. (second) Thomas Rowland, (third) Evan Powell ;

Mary Richards, d. young.

Anne Richards, m. (first), 1686, Anthony Weaver; they declared their intentions of marriage before Chester Monthly Meeting, 4mo. 7, and 5mo. 5, 1686. Anthony "owned himself to be none of us," but was permitted to marry amongst Friends; he probably d. 1687, and Anne m. (second), before 1692, Humphrey Scarlett, who purchased the land of his predecessor, in Aston twp., and resided there for a time;

Susanna Richards, m., 1692, James Lownes, and had at least four children: Joseph Lownes, James Lownes, Hannah Lownes, Susanna Lownes.

JOSEPH RICHARDS, JR., was born in England, and came to Pennsylvania some time after his father, but from the same place, Newgate, parish of Whitney, county Oxon. He obtained a lease for 999 years, from February 25, 1685, from Ann Cesill and Thomas Cesill, widow and son of William Cesill (Cecil?), late of Longcomb, county Oxon, for one moiety of 250 acres of land in Pennsylvania, purchased from William Penn. On 4mo. 9, 1691, this 125 acres, having by that time been laid out in Aston township, adjoining Carter's and Richard Mason's lands, Joseph Richards sold it to Joseph Carter, of Aston.

Joseph Richards, "the younger," of the town of Aston, gave a bond, romo. 4, 1688, to Richard Crosby, of Middletown, in the sum of £400, to indemnify by deed or deeds, for land in Aston, "soe that it save harmless the abovesaid Richard Crosby of and from all bonds, that the aforesaid Joseph Richards and Richard Crosby have Given unto Joseph Richards, ye Elder, bearing even date with these presents." As mentioned above, Joseph Richards, Sr., of Aston, on Iomo. 5, 1688, conveyed to his son, Joseph Richards, Jr., of same town, 300 acres ; this adjoined lands of William Weaver, John Beal, Thomas Mercer, Edward Walter, John Kinsman, and other lands of Joseph Richards, Sr. No doubt the bonds men- tioned in previous deed were to secure the payment for this land. On February 24, 1712-13, John Wade and wife, and Thomas Bright and wife, Elizabeth, made a deed to Joseph Richards, of Chester township, for three lots in Chester. This recites that Philip Eilbeck and his wife, Lydia, June 18, 1702, conveyed to John Wade, the Essex House and plantation in Chester, formerly of his uncle, Robert Wade. John Wade, having laid out a part in lots, sold, but not conveyed, one lot to Thomas Bright, and two more to Joseph Richards, who built a messuage there- on. Wade and Bright now convey to Richards the three lots on north side of Bridge street, from the easterly side of Essex street, or King street, southward 176 feet.

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Joseph Richards had apparently removed from Aston to Chester township, about 1712, and afterwards seems to have lived in the town of Chester. By the assessment lists, it appears that he returned to his Aston property in 1721, and continued to reside there until his death. Unlike his father, he does not seem to have been a member of the Society of Friends. His will is dated January 28, 1732-33, and proven January 5, 1735-36, in which he gave to his daughter, Sus- anna Barber, five pounds; to son, Edward Richards, one shilling; to daughter, Dinah Linville, one shilling; to daughter, Elizabeth Johnson, five pounds; to daughter, Ruth Worrell, five pounds ; and to son, Joseph, all the land, appointing him executor.

Joseph Richards probably married in England, before coming to Pennsylvania ; his wife's name is unknown; she died before he made his will.

Issue of Joseph Richards:

Susanna Richards, m. James Barber, of Chester, and had a dan., Mary, m. John Young; Joseph Richards, eldest son, inherited his father's lands, and lived in Aston twp .; d. 1756; m. Lydia, dau. of James and Demaris Chick, of Phila., who d. in 1766;

EDWARD RICHARDS, of whom presently;

Dinah Richards, m., Feb. 9, 1713-14, Thomas Linville;

Elizabeth Richards, m. (first) Francis Johnson, (second) Francis Simonson ; Ruth Richards, m. John Worrell, of Ridley twp.

EDWARD RICHARDS, second son of Joseph Richards, Jr., bought from his elder brother, Joseph, some of the land their father had left to the latter; a survey of 100 acres, part of this was made for him March 2, 1721-22, and a draft of it shows fifty acres, adjoining, also bought by Edward from Joseph; so he must have bought from his brother just one-half of their father's 300 acres.

He also appears to have bought from Thomas Linville, a tract of seventy-one acres in Chichester, yet from the neglect to record the deed it is difficult to obtain full particulars of his land transactions.

He lived on his property in Aston township. His will is dated January 12, 1764, proven April 22, 1765. He desired to be buried at St. Paul's Church, Ches- ter, by the side of his deceased wife, Elizabeth. To his present wife, Margaret, he devised a horse, two cows, six sheep, two hogs, with pasture, etc., for same with his son Jacob's creatures ; also a home during widowhood and various articles of furniture, etc., and a mulatto girl, Maria, during her natural life. His little plantation, adjoining Daniel Brown, is directed to be sold, and the money divided between his seven daughters, Sarah, Rachel, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Susanna, Catha- rine and Martha. His plantation at the Hook is also to be sold, unless his son, Jacob, will pay one hundred and ten pounds for it, the proceeds also to be divided among the daughters. To the church wardens of St. Paul's Church, Chester, he devises three pounds, towards the purchase of a pall for the use of the church ; to son, Jacob, "the whole of the plantation which I lived on and occupied in my life- time ;" to daughter, Sarah, his gold ring ; executors, John Fairlamb, Esq., and the testator's son, Jacob.

Edward Richards married (first) Elizabeth , (second), September 26, 1751, at Swedes' Church, Wilmington, Margaret Hogan ; his children, all by his first wife, were:

JACOB RICHARDS, of whom presently :

Sarah Richards ;

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Rachel Richards; Rebecca Richards; Elizabeth Richards: Susanna Richards; Catharine Richards ; Martha Richards.

JACOB RICHARDS, only son of Edward and Elizabeth Richards, inherited his father's plantation in Aston township, Chester (now Delaware) county, and lived thereon all his life. By deed of April 13, 1772, he purchased from William Grubb, of Brandywine Hundred, New Castle county, 142 acres in Chichester township, Chester county, it being part of the Withers tract, shown on Smith's map. He also purchased, from different members of the Coburn family, land in Lower Chichester township, which they had inherited from Robert Langham.

By his will, dated January 8, 1789, codicil dated January 15, proved February 26, 1789, he bequeathed to his wife, Susanna, £50, furniture, two horses and four cows, ten sheep, and the use of the plantation, until his son, Jacob, should be twenty-one years old: to son, Edward, messuage lands, etc., in Chichester, for- merly of the Coburn's, he paying the testator's estate £450; to son, Jacob, the homestead, 250 acres, bounded by lands of Samuel Evans, James Barnard, Joseph Talbot, Joseph Askew, Mordecai Cloud and James Twaddel, according to a speci- fied line of division from the remainder ; to his five daughters, Anne Price, Eliza- beth Grantham, Susanna, Christiana and Sarah Richards, the residue of the real estate ; wife and son, Edward, to be executors. The codicil provides for the wife's maintenance after Jacob came into possession of the homestead; she renounced the executorship, and letters were granted to Edward.

Jacob Richards married, January 6, 1757, at Holy Trinity (Old Swedes') Church, Wilmington, Susanna, who died August 10, 1794, daughter of Thomas and Ann Wills, of Middletown township, Chester (now Delaware) county. Per- haps this was not his first marriage, as we find in the records of Swedes' Church. aforesaid, that a Jacob Richards and Rachel Ruth were married May 9, 1754. The children of Jacob Richards (supposed to all be by Susanna Wills, if indeed the other marriage was his) were:

ANNE RICHARDS : EDWARD RICHARDS : ELIZABETH RICHARDS; SUSANNA RICHARDS ; CHRISTIANA RICHARDS: JACOB RICHARDS; SARAH RICHARDS.

ANNE RICHARDS, eldest daughter of Jacob Richards, married (first) Samuel Price, (second), March 24, 1814, Joseph Marshall, Esq. By her first husband, Samuel Price, she was mother of Maj. Samuel A. Price, of Chester, a prominent politician, who was elected High Sheriff of Delaware county, 1834. He died at his residence, in Chester, March 22, 1868, in his sixty-fourth year. An obituary in the Republican said of him, in part :

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 88

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