History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa.; with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers, Part 131

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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Soldiers' Memorial Association .- For some years there

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has existed in Scranton an association, chiefly of veteran soldiers, the object of which is the decoration of the graves of soldiers who died in service during the Rebel- lion, and of veterans who have since died and been buried in the various cemeteries of Scranton and Dunmore, numbering 150.

LACKAWANNA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

The Lackawanna County Medical Society was organ- ized December 4th, 1878, with officers and membership as follows: B. H. Throop, Pres .; Charles Burr and G. B. Boyd, V. Ps .; E. A. Heermans, Sec .; L. Wehlau, C. H. Fisher and H. I. Jones, censors; S. B. Reed, 1. F. Ever- hart, J. W. Gibbs, L. H. Gibbs, P. J. Higgins, Horace Ladd, B. C. Hopkins, B. F. Evans, W. E. Allen, Thomas Stewart, Charles Frischkorn, J. W. Robathan, William H. Heath, J. W. Houser, H. C. Wheeler, S. D. Davis, R. A. Squire, J. Burnett, William F. Pier, G. S. Throop, A. J. Connell.

The society meets at the arbitration room in the court- house in Scranton, at 2 o'clock P. M., on the second Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September and November.

Essays form an interesting feature of the meetings, and interesting surgical classes, so abundant in the mining region, are frequently brought before the society for mu- tual study.

MUSICAL.

The Scranton Philharmonic Society .- This society was organized in October, 1875, with the following board of managers: President, James Ruthven; vice-presidents, John D. Fuller, L. B. Powell and William H. Freeman; secretary, E. J. Dimmick; treasurer, George A. Jessup; librarian, William T. Hackett; directors, Isaac F. Fuller, A. W. Dickson and N. A. Hurlbert; musical conductor, Charles B. Derman; pianist, Miss Stella Seymour. The board of management for the season of 1879-80 is: George A. Jessup, president; William H. Freeman and J. H. Bessell, vice-presidents; William T. Hackett, secretary; C. F. Whittemore, treasurer; E. E. Wells, librarian; John J. Coleman, assistant librarian; John Silkman and E. J. Smith, directors; Charles B. Derman, musical director; Miss Stella Seymour, pianist. The society numbers about 65 active and 150 sustaining members. Glees, operas and oratorios are rehearsed and three concerts are given each season in the Academy of Music.

Bauer's Band, well known throughout northeastern Pennsylvania, was organized June 30th, 1877, by the fol- lowing musicians: R. J. Bauer, S. R. Price, Frank Wash- burn, R. H. Brader, A. M., E. B. and H. D. Morse, Harry and H. R. Williams, Henry Cook and John Thomas. During the first two months S. R. Price was leader, Mr. Bauer, who had previously devoted almost his entire time to the violin, not being a proficient cornet player, but at the expiration of that time Mr. Price re- signed in his favor. The membership in January, 1880, was twenty-six. A large proportion of the members have been pupils of Mr. Bauer. In September, 1879, this

band furnished the music for the grand musical festival held in the Main Centennial building, at Philadelphia, by the united choirs from Luzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill and Carbon counties, Pa., aggregating 1,200 voices.

Handel and Hayden Oratorio Society (Hyde Park) .- This society was reorganized February 13th, 1880, with the following management: President, W. H. Freeman; vice-president, B. G. Beddoe; corresponding secretary, John Morris; recording secretary, Daniel Elsinger; treas- urer, E. G. Griffith; pianist, Silas Rosser ; directors, Isaac B. Morgan and John Frear; librarian, W. S. Evans.

MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.

The Scranton Poultry and Pet Stock Association was or- ganized in January, 1877. The officers were: D. N. Green, president; George S. Horn, secretary; John H. Phelps, treasurer. The present (1880) officers are: R. M. Lindsay, president; George S. Hern, secretary; Rob- ert McMillan, treasurer. The object of this association is the promotion of pure- bred stock. Three exhibitions have been held.

The Printers' Union of Scranton meets in Odd Fellows' Hall the second Saturday of each month. It has been in existence about eleven years and has about 30 mem- bers. It is a non-beneficial body. Officers are chosen semi-annually. The president is M. Watson.

Lackawanna Game and Fish Association .- January 18th, 1879, at an informal meeting of a number of gentlemen of Scranton favorable to the protection of game and the propagation of fish, a committee was appointed to draw up a preamble, constitution and by-laws, and to report at the office of Dr. J. F. Everhart June 25th, at which time the constitution and by-laws were adopted, and the following officers elected: Dr. J. F. Everhart, president; Henry Beyer and R. M. Lindsay, vice-presidents; Jason H. Wells, secretary; Charles R. Smith, treasurer; Dr. C. A. Stevens, Dr. C. H. Fisher, Milo J. Wilson, Cornelius Smith and G. H. Birdsal, board of managers.

CHURCH HISTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN.

First Presbyterian Church of Scranton .- The earliest regular preaching in the Lackawanna valley was by Rev. Cyrus Gildersleeve, of Wilkes-Barre, as early as 1827, and the few Presbyterians in the lower half of the valley were connected with the church of Wilkes-Barre. Once in four or six weeks Mr. Gildersleeve traversed the valley, and preached on week days in school-houses, barns, pri- vate dwellings and the open air, at Lackawanna, at Hyde Park and at Providence. For more than ten years following Mr. Gildersleeve's ministry there were not more than six families residing east of the river, in what is now the main part of Scranton. From 1834 Rev. John Dor- rance, D. D., of Wilkes-Barre, and Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, of Wyoming, occupied the Lackawanna mission field. In 1835 and 1836 Rev. Thomas Owen, a Welsh Presbyterian, traversed the valley on foot, preaching at all the stations. Next an Irishman named Turbitt labored

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about six months. From 1842 to 1844 Revs. Owen Brown and Charles Evans successively occupied the same feld, and Rev. G. Parke from June, 1844, until after the organization of the First Presbyterian church of Scran- ton. There was no preaching in the Scranton settlement till 1839. In 1842 the union church was completed by the people of the settlement and vicinity; it passed into the hands of the Methodists. A committee of the Pres- bytery of Susquehanna, consisting of Messrs. Dorrance, Hunt and Brown, met in the school-house, near the site of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company's blast fur- nace, Friday, February 26th, 1842, and organized a Pres- byterian church, with John M. Atherton and Benjamin Couch as elders, and Hiran E. Dailey as deacon. It was called the Lackawanna church, and embraced a mem- bership living all along from Providence to Pittston, in- cluding both places. In June, 1844, Rev. Mr. Parke as- sumed the pastoral charge. A church edifice was erected at Lackawanna, and dedicated in 1848. Scranton was then merely a preaching station. Christians of all de- nominations worshiped together in the union church and sustained a common Sunday-school. The growing vil- lages of Pittston and Lackawanna both claimed the Lack- awanna church, while the congregation covered an ex- tensive field; but Scranton had begun to be recognized as the chief point. After much discussion it was decided to organize a separate church there.

A petition signed by eighteen communicants of differ- ent Presbyterian, Congregational and Moravian churches, besides a number of citizens not communicants, was sent to the Presbytery of Luzerne, asking for a church organ- ization under the care of that Presbytery. In answer to this petition the Presbytery appointed a committee con- sisting of Revs. John Dorrance, D. D., and N. G. Parke with power to organize a church. This committee met October 14th, 1848, at Odd Fellows' Hall in Scranton, and organized the First Presbyterian Church of Scranton, with the following members: Selden T. and George W. Scranton and their wives, Nathaniel B. James and Mrs. Rebecca A. Hutchison, Mrs. Mary, Mrs. Sarah and Miss Mary A. Coursen, Misses Catharine and Temperance Miller, Mrs. Maria Fellows, Peter Clark, Charles Fuller, Richard Hollenback and Simon Ward. William H. Platt, Mrs. Emily Platt and Mrs. Catharine S. S. Platt were among the most earnest and efficient in securing the or- ganization of the church, but were not formally recog- nized at its organization because their certificates of admission failed to reach them until a few days after- ward. Rev. N. G. Parke served the church six months after its organization as stated supply. Rev. J. D. Mitch- ell was pastor from December 16th, 1849, to October, 1853. His stated salary was $600. Rev. John F. Baker was pastor from May, 1854, to January 14th, 1855, at $600 per year. Rev. Milo J. Hickok, D. D., of the Presby- tery of New York, was installed August 5th, 1855. His salary was $800. He was disabled by paralysis while in the pulpit October 15th, 1867, and the church was sup- plied by Revs. W. C. Cattell and W. W. Atterbury until he resigned, in 1868. His salary had been increased to

$2,500 a year and the use of the parsonage. A portion of the last year of his active pastorate was spent in trav- elling in Europe and his expenses were paid by the con- gregation, and his support was continued by the church until his death, July 19th, 1873. The present ( 1880) pastor, Rev. S. C. Logan, D. D., of the Presbytery of Lake, was elected August 25th, 1868, while secretary of the assembly committee on freedmen. Without being released from the duties of that office, he began supplying the church December 5th, 1868. He accepted the call June Ist, 1869, and was installed September 3d following, on a sal- ary of $2,500 (since increased to $3,000) and the occu- pancy of the parsonage.

Charles Fuller and N. B. Hutchison were ordained elders of the church at its organization. Mr. Fuller has been clerk of sessions ever since. Mr. Hutchison was dis- missed, June 16th, 1860, to the First Presbyterian Church of Providence, and has since died. James Harrington was an elder from July 20th, 1853, to February 24th, 1865; Samuel Sherrard from May 31st, 1857, to June 29th, 1867. Charles F. Mattes was ordained and in- stalled May 31st, 1857; George Fuller November 25th, 1860. January 30th, 1871, the latter resigned. E. A. Lawrence was an elder from November 25th, 1860, to December 13th, 1863; R. M. Arnold from November 25th, 1860, to October 28th, 1867. Alfred Hand was ordained and installed April 17th, 1867. Robert Blake held the office of elder from April 17th, 1867, to July 27th, 1871; Edward Judson from April 17th, 1867, to June 23d, 1871. U. M. Stowers was installed April 17th, 1867; C. H. Doud, William H. Platt and Alexander W. Dickson, February 19th, 1871. The latter was chosen assistant clerk of sessions October 30th, 1871. The present ruling elders are Charles Fuller, Charles F. Mat- tes, Alfred Hand, C. H. Doud, William Platt and Alex- ander W. Dickson.

In 1846 $640 was secured at home toward the first church building, and it was increased abroad to $3,395. Of the amount obtained abroad $50 came from Wilkes-Barre and the balance from New York city and the friends of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company in Connecticut. The amount was increased to about $7,000 before the edifice was completed. In 1841 the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company took the subscrip- tion made and assumed the burden of building the church, for which they proposed to give the lots. The ground had to be cleared of timber. The late Joel Ams- den was the architect. The frame of the spire was raised September 30th, 1851. The bell was hung Novem- ber 26th and rung for the first time the next day ( Thanksgiving ). The building was completed at a cost of about $13,000, and was dedicated September 19th, 1852. The company now proposed that if the con- gregation would secure $5,000 of the indebtedness by mortgage and insurance, the lots and balance should at once be given to the church, allowing ten years to meet the obligation. This generous offer was accepted and ten years later, under the management of Thomas Dick- son and J. J. Albright, the whole indebtedness ($6,300)

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was paid, with a recorded recognition of the generosity of the company, which had subscribed $1,000. The house was at once occupied by the church. April 16th. 1860, the work of enlarging it was completed at a cost of $1,000, making the audience room So feet square. In 1866 a lecture room was added at a cost of $3,200. In 1879 the interior of the church was repaired and re- painted. The parsonage was erected in 1855, at a cost of $3,200. In 1869 it was enlarged and improved at an outlay of $2,700. The cost of building the church and parsonage, exclusive of minor repairs, has been $26,200. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the church was celebrated November 16th, 1873, at which time an endowment fund of $10,000 was established for the benefit of the poor of the congregration. The present church membership is 450.

The first Sunday-school in Scranton was a union school, organized May ist, 1841. August 17th, 1846, a second school was organized, in the membership of which Presbyterians largely predominated. September 12th, 1852, a Sunday-school was organized by members of the first Presbyterian church, with which it was connected. Joseph H. Scranton was superintendent; J. C. Platt, sec- retary; W. W. Manness, librarian; H. L. Marvine, treas- urer. It has been kept up since that date and is now one of the largest in the city. Mission Sunday-schools have been organized as follows: At the Continental mine in the summer of 1851; the Pine Brook school, in the spring of 1853; the Briggs shaft school, in the following summer; the Hickory street school, in June, 1867; the Cedar street school, in April, 1872; and others, including the Zion Sabbath-school (colored), which have been kept in various localities longer or shorter periods.

The First Presbyterian church of Dunmore was organ- ized February 18th, 1854, at the house of Daniel Swartz, with the following named members: Jacob Swartz, Wil- liam B. and Susan A. Letchworth, Mrs. Susanna Rey- nolds, Mrs. Sarah O. More, Mrs. "Jane Ann Coolbaugh, Cornelia E. Smith, Elizabeth and Janet Clave, Mary and Isabel Youngs. The first meeting was held in the village school-house, Rev. Burr Baldwin, a member of the Pres- bytery of Montrose, acting as moderator. The first pas- tor was Rev. J. R. Townsend, who labored as stated sup- ply for twelve years. Then Rev. R. S. Foster was pastor seven years. The present pastor begun his labors No- vember 9th, 1873, and was installed by the Presbytery of Lackawanna May 8th, 1874. The church, a wooden structure, was erected in 1853, at a cost of $2,500. The first Sunday-school superintendent was William B. Letchworth.

Washburn Street Presbyterian Church (Hyde Park) .- This church was organized August 18th, 1854, at the residence of Dr. J. C. Plante, with the following named constituent members: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Plante, Mrs. William Pier, Mrs. Corydon H. Wells, Mrs. William Jane, Mrs. Henry Hufford and Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus B. Ful- ler. A resolution was adopted that a delegate should attend the next stated meeting of Montrose Presbytery, to ask that this church should be taken under its care.

The church manual of Montrose Presbytery was adopted. The minutes of the meeting are signed by Burr Baldwin, general missionary of Montrose Presbytery. Of the eight persons whose names appear in the first record only Mrs. Pier and Mrs. C. H. Wells remain with the church. The church was incorporated in 1855, one year after its organization, under the name of the " First Presbyterian Church and Congregation of the Borough of Hyde Park." In 1872 the name was changed to the " Wash- burn street Presbyterian Church of Scranton." Of the charter members only A. P. Finch and J. D. Peck survive.

Messrs. Plante and Snidicor were elected elders in 1857. In 1879 Messrs. Wells, Oram, Frink and Bagley constituted the session.

In 1855 Rev. J. R. Townsend began his labors as stated supply, succeeding Rev. Burr Baldwin, having charge also of the church at Dunmore, and remaining five years. He died in September, 1875, at Meridian, N. Y. November 18th, 1860, Rev. A. L. Clark began his labors as stated supply, and he was installed pastor of the church June 11th, 1861, and preached his farewell sermon April 24th, 1870. From February 7th, 1871, Rev. W. B. Culliss was pastor till October 26th, 1873. December 14th following the present pastor, Rev. D. K. Freeman, was called. He was installed by a committee of the Presbytery May 13th, 1874. During Mr. Free- man's pastorate to the present time (1880) 150 have been added to the membership, and 32 lost by removal and death. The membership is 197.

The church was erected in August, 1863, at a cost of $6,000, and enlarged to its present attractive dimensions in 1871-72, at a cost of over $12,000.

The Sabbath-school was organized in 1855, with 19 scholars. There are now about 300. The superintend- ent is Mr. T. F. Wells. The Briggs shaft Sunday-school, also under charge of this church, has a membership of nearly 250.

The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of this church took place August 18th, 1879, afternoon and evening. The audiences at both services were large and attentive. A number of the ministers of Lackawanna Presbytery were present, among them Revs. N. G. Parke, of Pittston; H. H. Welles, of Kingston; A. L. Clark, a former pastor of the church; Dr. Logan, of Scranton, and Mr. Brydie, of Pleasant Valley.

The German Presbyterian Church, on Hickory street, Scranton, was organized in Odd Fellows' Hall, January 28th, 1856, with 60 constituent members, and was re- ceived under the care of the Presbytery of Luzerne June 25th, 1856. The successive pastors and their terms of service have been as follows: Revs. Herman Veith, Jan- uary, 1856, to March, 1858; Thomas Gradman, March, . 1858, to February 5th, 1859; Charles David Rosenthal, March Ist, 1859, to October 2nd, 1864; William C. Wun- derlich, November 20th, 1864, to the present time (De- cember, 1879). In 1856 the church lots on Hickory street, between Cedar street and Pittston avenue, were

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purchased of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company. The corner stone of a new church was laid September 5th, 1857, and the church, a wooden structure valued with the site at $3,500, was consecrated November 6th, 1859. The membership is nearly 275. The Sunday- school, with 400 pupils, is in a flourishing condition. On Pittston avenue is the cemetery of this church, valued at $6,000.

Petersburg German .- This church, taking its name from that of a portion of the city where it is located, on Centre street, was organized in a school house in Janu- ary, 1858. George N. and Peter Engel, Conrad Otto, John M. Thauer, John Fries, Jacob Saar, Charles Schmidt, Fred Teufel, John Baumann, Henry Wenzel, Henry Schulz, Joseph Faber, William Vetzel and Franz Ziegler were the constituent members.

The Pennsylvania Coal Company donated a lot and the corner stone of the church was laid September 19th, 1868. The building was completed at a cost of $2,500, and consecrated July 25th, 1869. The congregation had been received under the care of the Presbytery of Lu- zerne June 23d. The membership of the church in 1879 was 55. The first superintendent of the Sunday-school ( now flourishing with 75 pupils ) was Conrad Otto. Rev. Thomas Gradman was pastor (the first) from March until February, 1859; Rev. Charles David Rosen- thal from March, 1859, until October, 1864. Rev. Wil- liam C. Wunderlich has been pastor since November 20th, 1864.

Second (Scranton) .- The house of worship of the First Presbyterian Church, from which the Second sprang, for several years prior to the division was over-crowded. A new organization was effected June 27th, 1874, with Messrs. J. P. W. Riley, C. W. Kirkpatrick and F. L. Hitch- cock as elders, and Thomas Dickson, E. B. Sturges, H. M. Boies, Charles H. Welles, J. O. Kiersted and J. A. Price as trustees. The membership numbered 88, of whom So had been identified with the parent church. Lots were soon after purchased, and the frame chapel since occupied erected for use until a more pretentious church edifice can be provided.

From a date late in 1874 Rev. J. W. Partridge was pastor until July, 1876, and from the latter part of 1876 Rev. William Cullis was stated supply until June Ist, 1877. From the following September Rev. William H. Belden was pastor until August, 1879. In March, 1880, Rev. T. R. Beeber, of Danville, l'a., was called to suc- ceed him.

The membership numbers about 160. It is organized in all the ordinary departments of church activity, and has a Sabbath-school numbering about 175 members, officered as follows: Superintendent, F. L. Hitchcock; assistant superintendent. J. H. Torrey; second assistant superintendent, E. G. Coursen; secretary, O. B. Wright; treasurer, George H. Ulmer; superintendent of primary department, S. P. McDivitt.

The church officers are as follows: Members of the session, James A. Linen, Charles H. Welles, F. I. Hitch- cock, C. W. Kirkpatrick and Frederick Fuller; members

of the board of trustees, Col. H. M. Boies, president; William H. Fuller, vice-president; S. P. McDivitt, secre- tary and treasurer; George Fisher, J. A. Price and Thom- as Dickson.

The Green Ridge Avenue Church (Scranton . was organ- ized by the Presbytery of Lackawanna June 24th, 1875, with 39 members, 28 of whom came from the Providence Presbyterian church and 6 from the First Presbyterian Church of Scranton. Roswell E. Marvin, Joseph Crane and George E. Stone were chosen elders. The building committee the original trustees) were F. S. Pauli, S. P. Hull, J. L. Fordham, HI. F. Atherton, E. S. Jackson and Israel Crane. The church edifice was completed before the organization of the church and was first occupied on that occasion. It is a stone structure, octagonal in form, and will seat 250 persons. It stands on the rear of the lot, at the corner of Green Ridge avenue and Eighth street, and is intended to be the chapel of a larger building when the increase of the membership of the church will war- rant its erection. The architect was J. C. Cady, of New York. The cost of the building, with the land on which it stands, was about $to,ooo. The church was never a mission and has been from the first self-sustaining. It has steadily grown from the date of its organization. The membership is now (1880) about roo.

October 19th, 1875, Rev. W. B. Waller, then assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Norristown, Pa., was called to the pastorate, and entered upon his duties January Ist, 1876, his installation taking place the second of the following May. The Sunday-school was organized June 27th, 1875, and Dr. J. L. Ford was chosen superintendent. The school then numbered less than 100. The membership is now 150.

METHODIST.

First Methodist Episcopal (Providence) .- This society was organized in 1829 with nine members, as follows: William Silkman and wife, Artemas Miller and wife, Daniel Bowman, wife and daughter, Dency A. Corson and Hannah M. Von Storch. It was part of the exten_ sive Pittston circuit. Its place of meeting was a school- house, since converted into a dwelling and for some time past owned and occupied by Ziba Knapp, Esq. Promi- nent among the preachers during the connection with Pittston circuit, and prior to the erection of its first church edifice, were Dr. George Peck, H. Agard, Samuel Griffin, M. Pearce, Benjamin Ellis, Charles Giddings, Abel Barker, William Reddy, A. Bronson and others. The first church building was erected on the site of the present one in 1852. It was built of brick, at a cost of $4,000, and dedicated in 1853, Henry Brownscombe being pastor both years. Succeeding clergymen have served the church as follows: Charles Perkins, 1854; J. F. Wil- bur, 1855, 1856; George M. Peck, 1857, 1858, 1865, 1866; J. F. Munger, 1859; A. Schoonmaker, 1860, 1861; Henry Brownscombe, 1862, 1863; George H. Blakeslee, 1864; Dr. George Peck, 1867, 1868; S. W. Weiss, 1869, 1870; W. J. Judd, 1871-73; William Bixby, 1874, 1875; Leonard Cole, 1876, 1877; Robert W. Van Schoick, 1878-So. In

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1867 the church edifice was enlarged by the addition of two class-rooms at a cost of about $1,ooo. In 1873 it was rededicated, by Bishop Ames, having been re- modeled and enlarged to its present capacity at an ex- pense of $8,000. The valuation of the church property, which includes a furnished parsonage, is $15,000. The church numbers 400 members, divided into four classes.

The Sunday-school was organized in the spring of 1854, with a membership of 64 scholars and ni officers and teachers. Ebenezer Leach, Esq., was the first super- intendent, serving two years. S. W. Wyckoff succeeded him one year. Since 1856 George W. Miller has been superintendent. The school now numbers 400 members, with 34 officers and teachers. A valuable library, hand- somely incased, numbering 406 volumes, was presented to the school in 1878 by Ambrose Mulley. There is also a reserve supply of 200 volumes. The Sunday- school has separate rooms for the Bible classes and the primary department.

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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 131

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