History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 116

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 900

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A turnpike from Shickshinny to places back of the mountain is chartered and partly constructed.

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES.

A Sunday-school was maintained by employes of the furnace company from 1846 until 1856. When the popu- lation, which had been quite numerous although neces- sarily transient, was scattered, schools, Sunday-schools and churches or associations for worship were nearly all discontinued.

John McCauly, the superintendent of the furnace, was also a local preacher of the M. E. church. Thomas Care, a class leader, and other zealous and efficient members of that church soon organized societies, and meetings for religious services were regularly attended during their stay at Shickshinny.

Samuel F. Headley, one of the proprietors, was a strict prohibitionist, and a very popular temperance lecturer; he kept watch on every grogshop started, and drunken- ness and dissipation were discountenanced and kept un- der tight reins.

After the exit of the furnace population and the ad- vent of the present proprietors, Rosaline Gordon, wife of

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CHURCHES AND LODGES AT SHICKSHINNY.

Lot Search, started a union Sunday-school in the school- house. This opened the way for preaching, by different denominations, in the school-house.

The first church was built by the Methodist Protestants and Presbyterians, in 1860, at a cost of $800,- shared equally by those two denominations. The trustees were Peter Masters, A. C. Nicely, Henry Baer, George W. Search and Lot Search. It was used by all denom- inations for several years, and is now by the Methodist Protestants.

The Methodist Episcopal congregation built a brick church in 1870, costing $11,000, which is large and com- modious, with a basement, containing rooms for Sunday- school and class meetings, also a very good library, cost- ing $500.

The pastors of this M. E. church have been E. H. Yo- cum, George W. Miller, John A. Gere, Joseph King, Aaron Kester, John Morehead and George Warren. The present membership is 180; Sunday-school pupils, 200.

The trustees were John M. Stackhouse, Cyrus Stack- house, M. W. Millard, George Rustay, Thomas Senior, John Thomas, W. F. Kline, N. B. Crary, James Post and Daniel Baer.

The Presbyterians built a very neat church of wood, with a basement of stone, costing $4,700. In 1874 the basement was finished and dedicated, and it was used for all needed purposes until March 7th, 1878, when the audience room, nicely finished and furnished, was dedi- cated.

The church in its earlier stages was ministered to by James Ferguson, William J. Day and others, who lived at a distance and could only give a small part of their time and service. From May, 1871, Rev. W. B. Darrach was pastor until 1878, when the present pastor, Arthur John- son, was installed November 6th.

The membership numbers about 100, and the Sunday- school 130. The elders are G. W. Search, Charles A. Boone, Miner Brown and Dr. M. B. Hughes. Trustees -John R. Bertels, Thomas Montgomery, Lot Search, C. A. Boone, Dr. M. B. Hughes and G. W. Search. A good library is kept up for the benefit of its members.

The Evangelical or German Methodists have quite a numerous society and Sunday-school, with a stationed minister and regular services, held in a room rented for the purpose, but have not yet built a church.

In 1876 Rev. W. M. Croman, then serving Berwick mis- sion, made an appointment in Shickshinny, and at the close of the year 1877 the communicants numbered So. In 1878 Rev. Mr. Hernberger succeeded him, and at the conference session of 1879 Shickshinny, with 75 mem- bers, was added to Luzerne circuit, Rev. J. M. Price pastor.

The Methodist Protestant church has 45 members and 75 in the Sunday-school. Rev. J. Farrah is the pastor.

During the ten years of the occupation of the place by the furnace company good schools were kept in differ- ent places, no house for the purpose being built until 1858, when Union township built the brown school-house now used for the primary school, on Main street. A few

years later a house containing two large school-rooms was built on Church street, in which are taught the higher and intermediate grades, under the care of carefully selected teachers. The present principal is Professor Ned Ross.

The moral status of Shickshinny is above the average of towns of its size; the borough having been favored in all the institutions of society with the influence of many excellent women residing there, including Mrs. Rachael Garrison, Mrs. Rosaline and Elizabeth Search, Mrs. Anna Beadle, Mrs. Lucinda Sleppy, Mrs. J. F. and Elizabeth Nicely, Miss Emily V. Gordon, Miss Elizabeth Gordon and others.

PHYSICIANS.

The first resident physician, L. C. White, practiced sev- eral years from 1846. Since 1847 his brother-in-law, Charles Parker, has resided in the borough. Others, as Drs. D. Crary, J. B. Culver and E. A. Santee, were here short periods. Since 1862 William D. Hamilton, M. D., formerly of Baltimore, has been in practice here. Since 1869 M. B. Hughes, M. D., has practiced here. Soon afterward Jacob Briggs, M. D., opened an office. He also keeps a drug store, assisted by Dr. Harding, a brother-in-law.

SUNDRY ORGANIZATIONS.

The Shickshinny Cornet Band was organized Novem- ber, 1865, with William J. J. Sleppy as leader. In 1868 it reorganized, with Chester B. Clark as leader. In Sep- tember, 1878, J. W. Shoemaker was chosen leader. The members meet for practice Monday, Wednesday and Fri- day evenings. T. Wetherill and D. Brooks are the teachers.

Shickshinny Lodge, No. 1So, I. O. of O. F. was organ- ized April 22nd, 1846. The first officers were: Samuel F. Headly, N. G .; Hiram Wilson, V. G .; James S. Camp- bell, secretary; E. A. Leclere, A. S .; Jacob Sorber, treas- urer. The officers for 1879 were: H. C. Kinger, N. G .; R. M. Tubbs, V. G .; F. A. Seabert, secretary; Daniel Shoemaker, A. S .; James Post, treasurer. The lodge meets each Saturday evening. A Josephine Rebecca de- gree lodge was organized June 29th, 1869, with the fol- lowing officers: F. A. Seabert, N. G .; Carrie B. Post, V. G .; B. D. Koons, secretary; Lucinda Sleppy, A. S .; Sallie Briggs, treasurer. The meetings were held in Odd Fel- lows' Hall, on Thursday evenings. The lodge is not in working order.

Sylvania Lodge, No. 354, A. Y. M. was instituted June 29th, 1865, with the following officers: Jedediah Irish, W. M .; John F. Nicely, S. W .; A. B. Weil, J. W .; G. W. Search, secretary; A. C. Nicely, treasurer. The officers for 1879 were: Joseph Wandel, W. M .; M. B. Crary, S. W .; Joseph M. Turner, J. W .; C. A. Boone, secretary; G. W. Search, treasurer; and Monday evening, on or be- fore full moon, is the time of meeting.

Quindara Lodge, No. 483, I. O. of G. T. was organized December 29th, 1867. The first officers were: Dr. James L. Killgore, W. C. T .; Fannie Millard, W. V. T .; John Thomas, W. C .; Elizabeth E. Gordon, W. S .; W. D. Gar-

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rison, W. F. S .; C. A. Boone, treasurer; Emily V. Gordon, W. M .; R. B. Nicely, G .; Winfield Scott, S. The officers for 1879 were: Rev. George Warren, W. C. T .; Hattie Arnold, W. V. T .; J. R. Bidleman, W. C .; R. M. Tubbs, WV. S .; J. M. Stackhouse, W. T .; J. W. Miller, W. F. S .; May Winans, W. M .; Lottie Sunderland, W. G .; Charles WV. Laycock, S.

Shickshinny Council, No. 115, O. U. A. M. was insti- tuted May 17th, 1869. The first officers were: A. H. McWayne, C .; J. W. Romich, V. C .; G. W. Briggs, R. S .; J. M. Snyder, A. S .; N. B. Allegar, F. S .; Aaron Briggs, E .; J. H. Rhone, O .; J. L. Winner, treasurer. The pres- ent officers are: George W. Youells, C .; N. C. Laning, V. C .; John S. Prince, R. S .; W. W. Smith, A. S .; A. M. Everhart, F. S .; V. E. Chapin, E .; S. A. Welsh, O .; P. Weiss, treasurer. The council meets weekly at Mechan- ics' Hall, East Union street.

Knapp Lodge, No. 209, K. of P. was organized De- cember roth, 1869. The first officers were: B. D. Koons P. C .; A. McDowell, C. C .; E. W. Stiles, V. C .; John F. Caslon, K. R. S .; H. M. Briggs, M. E .; M. J. Sdyder, M. F .; C. A. Boone, M. A .; J. H. Rhone, I. G .; G. C. McWayne, O. G. The officers for 1879 were: B. D. Koons, P. C .; John F. Caslon, C. C .; Edward S. Hart- man, V. C .; J. S. Sunderland, P .; W. Miller, M. E .; Luther T. Hartman, M. G .; M. B. Hughes, K. R. S .; Hiram Dietrick, M. A .; C. W. Dietrick, 1. G .; P. M. Koons, O. G. The lodge meets weekly at Mechanics' Hall, Monday evenings.

CIVIL WAR TIMES.

During the efforts to suppress the Rebellion Shick- shinny was a general rallying point and recruiting station. At the first call for volunteers, Henry M. Gordon, Charles B. Post,* John Minich, Emanuel Dietrich and J. C. Turner responded, and joined the first company raised in the county in April, 1861. Afterward their noble ex- ample was followed by James Post, W. A. Tubbs,* Thomas Davenport, Frank A. Seabert, James McNeal,* William J .: McNeal, Martin McNeal, I. & W. Scott,* George Wildoner, Conrad Jumper, H. S. Clark, W. F. Kline, Levi Arnold, William Weatherwax,* Moses Springer, J. L. Winner, Joshua McAffee, Elijah Dietrick,* Hiram Dietrick, William Wright,* George Youells, Andrew H. McWayne,* N. B. Fitzgerald, Isaac B. Titus, Bowman Garrison, -- Garrison.

* Died in the service.

WRIGHT TOWNSHIP.

HIS township was formed from Hanover, April 12th, 1851, and named after Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, of Wilkes-Barre. The population was 603 in 1870, and 881 in 1880.

The first white inhabitant was James Wright, from the Wyoming valley. He had to chop out a road before his ox team to his place,

on the Big Wapwallopen creek, about a mile southwest of Penobscot station. He built a log cabin and at various times three saw-mills, which have gone to decay. The next settler was Harvey Holcomb, from Connecticut. He located a short distance down the creek from Wright's. . Samuel B. Stivers and William Vandermark soon afterward located in the northwest part of the town- ship, a little south of Triangle pond. They were natives of this county, and their families still live where they first located. John Hoffman, about the same time as the two last named, located near Stivers's place. Elias Carey, from the Wyoming valley, in 1833 bought the Holcomb improvements. He had a large family of children. Cor- nelius Garrison was the next settler. He built a saw- mill on the Big Wapwallopen creek, in the southwest part of the township, on the site of the only one now in this township. He also raised the first crop of grain and set out the first orchard.

The first road was the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton turnpike, running diagonally across the township from Solomon's Gap to where N. Hildebrand now lives; the surveyor was Harry Colt, of Wilkes-Barre.

The first school-house was built of logs, in 1840, and stood near S. B. Stivers's, in the northwest part of the township. The first teacher was Charles Fine. The surviving pupils are Eleazer, George and Andrew Carey, Hiram Arnold and Benjamin and Elizabeth Vandermark. The first store was kept by Stephen Lee, near S. B. Sti- vers's. James Wright kept the first tavern, where he first located. Another was kept by a Mr. Willis, where R. Conedy now lives. Almost every one kept liquors to stimulate the weary traveler.

The first graveyard was located in the southwest part of the township, where E. Lines now lives.

The pioneer blacksmith, Stephen Lee, worked in con- nection with his store, near Samuel B. Stivers's place. The next blacksmith was George Garrison, whose shop was where the Big Wapwallopen crosses the west town- ship line.

The pioneer postmaster was William G. Albert. His office was where J. Shafer now lives, on the west side of the township. The mails came at first once a week, on horseback. Afterward Horton & Gilchrist, of Wilkes- Barre, started a stage line between Wilkes- Barre and Hazleton, and then the mails were received three times a week.

At the first town-meeting Eleazer Carey was elected assessor. He held the office for eight years. Mr. Carey is now superintendent of the roundhouse of the Central railroad at Penobscot. Morris Bush was the supervisor and collector for 1879.

Justices of the peace for this township have been elected as follows: George Carey, 1852; Stephen Lee, 1858; Willard Ruger, 1868; Peter Miller, 1870; John B. Glover, 1874.

BUSINESS CENTERS OF TO-DAY.

Summit Station is a hamlet of about 40 inhabitants. There are a hotel and a school-house at this place.

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VILLAGES IN WRIGHT TOWNSHIP-MOUNTAIN TOP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Penobscot contains about 200 inhabitants. Here is the depot for engines employed in assisting freight trains over the mountain and for hauling trains of coal mined at Solomon's Gap. Here are repair shops and round house for the accommodation of 16 engines. Dr. J. M. Crede is the resident physician, paid by an assessment on the employes of the road living at this place.

At Solomon's Gap (post-office Mountain Top) are the engine house and turn-table of the Lehigh Valley road, and station for its extra engines for mountain work. There is also a coal breaker in the Gap. There are two stores; and a post-office, with William Schoonover as postmaster.

At South Fair View there are twelve dwellings and a hotel.

The number of persons in Wright liable to pay a tax in 1879 was 64. G. D. Harris, of this township, is one of the present county commissioners.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MOUNTAIN TOP.

In May, 1876, a committee consisting of John B. Gloman, John M. Chase and others was sent by the peo- ple of Solomon's Gap, Fairview and Penobscot to Rev. William J. Day, of Ashley, to invite him to come up to Mountain Top and organize a Presbyterian Sunday- school. A day was fixed and the Sunday-school or- ganized, with John B. Gloman superintendent; D. F.

Deitrick, assistant superintendent and H. Deitrick, sec- retary. Rev. W. J. Day preached there in the school- house of that district every two weeks after the close of the Sabbath-school exercises. In June, 1879, collections were made for the purpose of building a church. In August 1879, the Lehigh Navigation and Coal Company donated the church a fine lot 100 by 190 feet, on the Penobscot road, for the site of a church.

The church edifice, which is the only one in the town- ship, was built largely through the efforts of Mr. Day. He offered to raise $1,500 if $500 should be raised by others interested, and the necessary funds were collected by him and Miss Nellie Chesney. In September ground was broken for the new church. The ladies raised $126 for the bell. The total cost of the building was $3, 160. It was dedicated in the evening of February 20th, 1880. Rev. F. B. Hodge, of Wilkes-Barre, preached the ser- mon, and $782 was then subscribed to complete payment for the edifice. A special train on the Lehigh and Sus- quehanna railroad carried many persons to the meeting free from Wilkes-Barre and intermediate points.

The building committee consisted of G. B. Stewart, Jacob Brong, William T. Small and John M. Chase.

The elders of the church are John M. Chase and Dan- iel Deitrick. There are some 25 members. Mountain Top being the great outlet of the Wyoming valley coal carrying companies, it will be an important location for a church for long years to come.

LACKAWANNA COUNTY.

CHAPTER I.

NAME-FIRST INHABITANTS-COUNTY ORGANIZATION- OFFICIALS.

HE American Indians rarely, if ever, gave ar- bitrary names to persons or places. A local- ity was designated by a word expressive of some peculiarity in or about it, of some his- torical event connected with it, or of something directly or remotely pertaining to it. The name Lackawannock, or Lackawanna, is derived from the Delaware language, and it has come to its present forni through many corruptions. The original meaning of the word is the place where two streams of water meet, and it was applied to the locality at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Lackawanna rivers. From this the river took its name, as did also the valley through which it runs and ultimately the county which includes it.

When the Lackawanna valley was settled by the whites there were two Indian settlements or villages within its limits. One of these was Asserughny, at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Lackawanna rivers, under Campbell's Ledge. The other was about ten miles up the Lackawanna, near the mouth of the Nay Aug (now Roaring brook). It was called Capoose, after a chief of that name, who came from New Jersey about the year 1700 and who was noted for his peaceful character. Trails ran from this village to Wyoming, to Cochecton and to Oquago, now Windsor, Broome county, N. Y. The Indians inhabiting these villages were Monseys. They left the valley after the massacre of Wyoming. In addition to these, traces were found of five other Indian villages that had long previously been inhabited and abandoned, all located on the west bank of the stream.,

Of the settlement of this county mention is made in the histories of the different townships and other munici- palities. The settlers obtained the titles to their lands by warrants from the State.

In April, 1878,the Assembly passed an act to provide for

the formation of new counties. The result of an election on the 13th of the following August in the present terri- tory of Lackawanna county was a vote of 9,615 in favor of the new county and 1,986 against it. The fol- lowing officers were at once appointed: A. I. Ackerly, sheriff; F. L. Hitchcock, prothonotary; Joshua B. Thom- as, clerk of the courts; A. Miner Renshaw, recorder; J. L. Lee, register; W. N. Monies, treasurer; P. M. Walsh, surveyor; Leopold Schumpff, coroner; F. W. Gunster, district attorney; H. L. Garge, J. C. Kiersted and Dennis Tierney, county commissioners; Thomas Phillips, E. J. Lynett and Duncan Wright, auditors. A. B. Stevens was afterward appointed sheriff, and Horace F. J. Barrett county commissioner, in place of Messrs. Ackerly and Kiersted, who were ineligible because of being repre- sentatives. Robert Reeves and William J. Lewis were appointed auditors in place of Messrs. Phillips and Wright, who declined to act.

An ample area of the ground, near the center of the city of Scranton, was donated as a site for the county buildings and a public park, by the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company and the representatives of the Sus- quehanna and Wyoming Railroad and Coal Company. Courts were at first held in the Washington Hall building, on the corner of Lackawanna and Penn avenues, and the county offices kept in the Second National Bank build- ing, directly opposite, on Lackawanna avenue. The tem- porary jail is a three-story brick storehouse, securely fitted up for the purpose, in the rear of Lackawanna avenue, between Washington and Adams avenues.

The present county officers are: John Handley, pre- sident judge; Alfred Hand, additional law judge; Jason H. Welles, court clerk; H. H. Coston, court stenographer; E. W. Simrell, district attorney; A. B. Stevens, sheriff; Henry Summers, prothonotary; Ezra H. Ripple, treasu- rer; W. G. Daniels, clerk of the courts; Thomas R. La- throp, recorder; George Farber, register of wills; W. J. Daniels, coroner; H. F. Barret, R. C. Drum, Dennis Tier- ney, commissioners; G. L. Newton, mercantile appraiser; Richard Evans, surveyor; W. L. Halstead, P. J. Philbin, jury commissioners; A. C. Sisson, W. W. Williams, Fran- cis Johnson, auditors.

In the civil war of 1861-65 the people of this county

PROPOSED LACKAWANNA COUNTY COURT HOUSE, SCRANTON, PA.

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HISTORICAL SKETCHES, LUZERNE CO., PA.

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ST MARY'S CHURCH AND PAROCHIAL RESIDENCE, PLEASANT VALLEY, LUZERNE CO., PA.

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RAILROADS IN LACKAWANNA COUNTY.

which was then a part of Luzerne, sustained their full share of the burden which fell on that county; and the history of Luzerne in the war of the Rebellion necessa- rily embraces the history of this county, which cannot be separated from it.

CHAPTER II.

THE DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL COMPANY-RAIL- ROADS OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY.

HE history of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company is so entirely identified with that of the coal trade that it is given in connection with the latter, on page 79. During the war of the Rebellion the company was very pros- perous, and in 1864 its capital stock was increased to ten millions of dollars. During the decade from 1860 to 1870 the policy of extending the railroad communications of the company and the purchase or lease of other lines was vigorously pursued, while at the same time additional coal lands and collieries were ac- quired. The company was thus enabled to enter into successful competition with other companies in various markets in the interior, as well as at tide water, where most of its trade had been. The same policy had been pursued since 1870, and among the important lines thus acquired are the Albany and Susquehanna and the Rens- selaer and Saratoga road and its branches.

In 1849 the Lackawanna and Lanesboro railroad was chartered. This was in fact a revival of the lapsed charter of the Lackawannock and Susquehanna railroad. It passed into the hands of the New York and Erie Rail- way Company in 1851, and soon afterward the Jefferson branch of the New York and Erie was built. ' About six miles of this road pass through the townships of Carbon- dale and Fell in this county. It is operated by the Dela- ware and Hudson Canal Company.

DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN RAILROAD.

Plans for an avenue of transportation and travel through the Lackawanna valley were conceived during the time of its early settlement. In 1817 a company was organized for improving the navigation of the Lacka- wanna river, but the project was never carried into effect.

In 1826 a plan was formed and a charter obtained by Henry W. Drinker for a transportation route along the Lackawanna river by canal and railroad, the planes of the latter to be operated by water power and horses to be used between the planes. Nothing was done toward the accomplishment of this project beyond the appoint- ment of commissioners and preliminary survey of a route, with which the southern division of the Delaware, Lack- awanna and Western Railroad is mainly coincident.

Another road was projected from the mouth of Legget's creek, in Providence, to Great Bend, on the Susque- hanna river. It was called the Lackawannock and Sus. quehanna Railroad, and was popularly known as the Mere- dith road. The Leggett's Gap Railroad was chartered about the same time, and a company was organized in 1832 for the construction of this road and much was done on paper, but nothing more.

In 1838 a perpetual charter was obtained for a road from Pittston to the New York State line, and it was hoped that the New York and Erie Company would adopt the route of this and the Susquehanna and Dela- ware Canal and Railroad Company's surveyed route; but this hope was not realized, and during ten years there seemed scarcely more prospect of the construction of these roads than at the beginning.

In March, 1849, the charter of the Leggett's Gap road, which had not been permitted to lapse, was purchased, and a new charter granted during the same month. The company was organized in January, 1850, and the con- struction of the road prosecuted with such vigor that it was open for use in the autumn of 1851. In April of that year, by an act of Assembly, the corporate title of the company was changed to "The Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company." This became the northern division of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- road. In April, 1849, a charter was granted to the Del- aware and Cobb's Gap Railroad, which was to extend be- tween Scranton and the Delaware river, via Cobb's . and the Delaware Gap. This company was also organized in 1850, and it subsequently became the southern division. In March, 1853, the two companies were by an act of Assembly consolidated as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, and the construction of the southern division was prosecuted with energy. The northern division, from Scranton to Great Bend, has a length of fifty miles, and the southern, between Scranton and the Delaware sixty-one. These constitute the orig- inal main line of the road.

Of the immense shops of this company an account is given elsewhere. The policy of the company, like that of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, has been to acquire extensive coal territory and establish and con- duct collieries. It has also by purchase and lease ac- quired the control of many other railroads, and it is thus enabled to compete successfully with other companies in all parts of the country.

PENNSYLVANIA COAL COMPANY'S RAILROAD.

The Pennsylvania Coal Company was chartered by an act of the Legislature in 1838, and was organized by the commissioners appointed in the act in the spring of 1839. It was proposed to form a connection by railroad between the Susquehanna near Pittston and the Delaware and Hudson Canal, at some point on the Wallenpaupack creek, in Wayne county, and thus make an outlet in either direction for the coal mined by the company.

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History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 116

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York Publication date: 1880 Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co. Number of Pages: 900

Author: Munsell, W.W., & Co., New York
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, W.W. Munsell & co.
Number of Pages: 900