History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Part 206

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1534

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Nice, Jonas Harley, Henry A. Price and Jacob Booz, with a membership at present reaching nearly two hundred. Baptisms are performed in the neighboring stream, usually in the meadow of Abraham H. Cassel.

the surface as to render it impracticable for the pur- pose. To accommodate this need, the Harley and Stouffer burial-grounds, near by, have been enlarged. to four times their former size for the use of the con- gregation. The former is located just over the Fran- conia line, and was commenced by Rudolph Harley in 1745; one tombstone has the date of 1758. On this lot a frame meeting-house, thirty by forty-two feet, was

Members of this denomination were among the early settlers in the neighborhood, Indians being still in the vicinity and residing by the stream, from which circumstance it received the name. Jacob Price, a minister in Germany, settled here in 1721, and with several others is stated to have organized a society for holding worship at private houses in 1723. At what time the first meeting-house was erected here is not exactly known, but it was, no doubt, before the close of the last century. It was a frame structure, of about thirty feet square, to which, in 1830, was made an addition of twenty feet and the whole placed in good repair. But the congregation increasing, and again becoming too small, it was resolved in 1851 to tear the whole down, when the present meeting-house was erected in its place. For this purpose the ground was given gratis by Abraham Harley and John Price. The deed therefor was executed May I, 1806, and was conveyed in trust to Rudolph Harley, Samuel Harley, Ulrich Stouffer, Abraham Kämpfer, George Reiff, George Price and Henry Price, in behalf of the mem- bers. The aforesaid surnames are still those of the leading families, except that of Kämpfer, which has no less than seventeen ministers to the church, Henry A. Price being now of the sixth generation. In 1870 the Dunkards, or German Baptists, as they are some- times called, had nine houses of worship in the county.

The Story of Reiff's Early Church .- It is supposed that one of the earliest organized Reformed con- gregations possessing a house of worship in charge of a regularly ordained minister in Pennsylvania was located in Lower Salford, about two miles south of Harleysville, and nearly three-fourths of a mile west of the Skippack Creek. In this immediate vicinity resided Jacob Reiff, who made a purchase, in 1727, of several tracts of land, supposed to be in all three hundred and eighty-six acres, upon which he made extensive improvements ; among the rest, a grist- mill, in 1743, thirty by sixty feet in dimensions, near the mouth of the Little Branch and Towamencin line. His parents and several brothers also settled in the vicinity on extensive purchases that they had made somewhat earlier.

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The Rev. George Michael Weiss, a Reformed minister, who had graduated at Heidelberg, and a native of Stebbach, on the Neckar, arrived in Philadelphia in the ship " William and Sarah," Sep- tember 21, 1727, accompanied by a considerable number of his countrymen. He is represented as speaking the Latin fluently, and in the spring of 1730 advertised in the American Weekly Mercury to teach logie, natural philosophy and metaphysics. Report has it that he came immediately after his arrival into Salford with some of his followers, and bere he at once organized a congregation, with the assistance of those that had preceded him in the neighborhood, who that fall erected a log church, the first belonging exclusively to this denomination in Pennsylvania. The Rev. John Henry Goetschy attended here during 1731. Mr. Weiss reported in that year that the Reformed members numbered fifteen thousand in America, which appears a high estimate. The trustees of the church are stated to have been Jacob Deemer, Michael Hillyas, Peter Hillyas, Jost Schmidt, Henrich Weller, Jacob Siegel and William Rohrich.

In 1729, or the following year, Mr. Weiss, in con- pany with Jacob Reiff, who had now become an elder, proceeded to Holland to make collections in behalf of the denomination and for the purchase of Bibles and other religious works. The Rev. Michael Schlatter, on his arrival in America, was instructed by the Synods of North and South Ilolland to visit Mr. Reiff and Mr. Weiss for an account of the moneys they had collected and had disbursed for the benefit of the Pennsylvania churches. After considerable trouble and delay, in October, 1746, the matter was settled by arbitration, though it appears from the correspondence on the subject not very satisfactorily, by Mr. Reiff refunding one hundred and thirty-five pounds after deducting his expenses. The result was that the matter made considerable talk, so much so that Mr. Schlatter came ont in a brief advertisement in Mr. Saur's Germantown paper to calm the public mind by exonerating Mr. Reiff's conduct, without any allusion, bowever, to Mr. Weiss' participation, which did not mend matters, and may have led to his abandonment of the Skippack congregation from that date. Unfortunately, in this connection, the church had been built on a portion of Mr. Reiff's land, and he is charged with having refused to give a title or deed to the members for the ground ; hence they be- came so disgusted as to be unwilling even to keep it in repair, and thus it went to decay.

But the most unfortunate affair in connection with it was the fate of the graveyard, in which, no doubt, interments were made as early as the erection of the church, and which was actually used for this purpose nntil about the year 1800. Some have estimated that within that period from one hundred to one hundred and sixty may have been buricd here. Besides the com- mon stones, there were here between thirty and forty white marble tombstones with inscriptions. Among

those remembered were stones to the memory of Gabriel Schuler and wife, Catharine, besides others of the name and several of the Stong family. The prop- erty, by purchase, came in possession of Jesse Anderson, who built the house here about 1841 or 1842. He was a mason, with a family of boys, who are charged with having commenced taking up the tombstones while he was following his trade. It was eventually sold by John W. Stouffer, the sheriff, De- cember 10, 1859, to John George Nuss as containing seventeen acres of land. He was a native of Germany, and moved on the place and now commenced removing the remainder of the stones, until they all disappeared, when the ground was put under cultivation. It is said that several neighbors remonstrated with him on the subject, to which he replied that he had bought all, and would cultivate ali. The tradition of the neighborhood is that the tombstones were put in wash-gullies and covered over, likely to be revealed some day. Mr. Nuss and Anna Maria, his wife, sold the place, April 6, 1864, to Elizabeth Berndt, as is mentioned in the deed, for eighteen acres ; thus it will be seen that through the demolition of the graveyard the place had not been reduced in area.

We shall now return to the old church, that, through neglect, was hastening to decay. The Old Goshen- hoppen Church, five miles distant, was erected jointly by the Lutherans and Reformed in 1744, but was not fully finished until 1748. It was suffi- ciently near to somewhat affect the membership. Hence it was the policy of the congregation to locate at some advantageous spot more remote from the former, and thus it came that they finally fixed, in 1760, upon the present site of Wentz's Church, in Worcester township, but little over two miles distant, on the old Skippack road. The deed of conveyance for the ground is dated January 2, 1762, from John Lefevre and Christina, his wife, and Jacob Wentz, and Eliza- beth, his wife, to Philip Wentz, Peter Wentz, Jacob Weber, Philip Spare, Henry Conrad and Jacob Reiff, Jr., in trust for the congregation. The church was commenced in 1762, but was not fully completed un- til 1771.

The Rev. George Michael Weiss received the charge of the New Goshenhoppen and Swamp con- gregations in 1746, and continued there until his death, in 1761. He was buried in the New Goshen- hoppen Churchyard, where a neat marble stone has been erected to his memory. Jacob Reiff died Feb- ruary 16, 1782, aged eighty-three years, and was bur- ied in the graveyard of the old Skippack Mennonite meeting-house, a greater distance from his residence than to Wentz's Church. There is reason to believe that through the investigations of his financial affairs with the church, and the scandal it led to, he severed his connections therewith as a member, and no evidence has yet been produced to the contrary. Jacob Reiff, Jr., mentioned in 1762 as one of the trustees of Wentz's Church, was his son.

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In connection with the Reiff Church, as it has been commonly called, considerable error has been dis- seminated-Mr. Weiss having been made its pastor several years before he had actually arrived in Amer- ica. The church has been represented as having been torn down at dates many years apart, and its materials applied to various contradictory uses, with- out any plausibility as to the facts. The fate of this church and its graveyard certainly teaches a humilia- ting lesson on human avarice ; for through this cause the site of either can now scarcely be pointed out, though the traditions concerning them will long linger with no credit to the parties that bave hastened the result.

ASSESSMENT OF LOWER SALFORD, 1776.

Jacob Reiff, Jr., assessor, and William Gergas, collector.

Rudolph llarley, 260 acres, 4 horses and 8 cows ; Jacob Grubb, 130 a, 3 h., 5c. ; Harman Acke, 45a., 2h., 2c. ; Gabriel Kline, 150 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 5 c. ; John Alderfer, I h., 5 c .; Jacob Alderfer, 1 h., 3 c. ; Isaac Kratz, 2 h., 2 c. ; Valentine Kratz, 150 a., 2 h., 4 c. ; William Gergus 150 a., 3 h., 5 c. ; Abraham Clements, 250 a., 4 h., 7 c. ; Christian Ber- gey, 150 a., 5 h., 7 c. ; Christian Halteman, 130 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; Isaac Markley, 125 a., 3 h., 5 c. ; Ilenry llefflefinger, 180 a., 2 h., 2 c. ; Jacob Hefflefinger, 1 h., 2 c. ; Godsbalk Godshalk, 150 a., 3 h. 5 c. ; Andrew Zeigler, 320 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Dilman Zeigler, 220 a., 4 h., 6 c. ; Henry Led erach, 132 a., 2 h., 6 c. ; Jacob Clements, 150 a., 2 h., 6 c. ; Christopher Dickensheit, 100 a., 1 h., 2 c. ; Frederick Dickensheit, 32 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; Nicholas Schwenk, smith, 150 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Daniel Price, 345 a., 4 h., 8 c . ; John Johnson, Jr., 2 h., 5 c. ; Nicholas Johnson, deceased, estate 150 acres ; Gabriel Sclmler, Jr., 190 a., 3 h., 5 c. ; Rudolph Ilarley, Jr., 3 h., 6 c. ; Andrew Zeigler, Jr., 3 h., 6 c. ; John Smith, miller, 1 h., 3 c. ; George Schwenk ; Frederick Alderfer, miller, 490 a., 3 h., 3 c., and a grist-mill ; Peter Freed, 290 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 7 c. ; John Freed, 100 a., 1 h., I c. ; Garret Stouffer, 193 a., 2 h., 6 c. ; Jacob Shoemaker, 141 a., 2 h., 1 c., a cripple ; Jacob Shoemaker, Jr., 2 c. ; Henry Cassel, 100 a., 2 h., 3 c. ; Jacob Reiff ; George Reiff, 200 a., 1 servant, 4 h., 6 c. ; Jacob Reiff, Jr., 275 a., 2 negroes, 5 h., 9 c., 30 acres in Towamencin, 8 children ; Philip Stong, 178 a., 3 h., 6 c., 11 children ; Mathias Stonffer, 80 a., I h., 4 c. ; Joseph Evans, 2 c. ; " Christian Moyer, 232 a., 5 h., 7 c. ; Christian Stonffer, 38 a., 1 c. ; Barnhart Getz, 120 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Jacob Bozart, 120 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; Valentine Haake, 1 c. ; Samnel Delp, 140 a., 3 h., 4 c. ; Christopher Hoffman, 83 a., 2 h., 4 c. ; William Yokum, 50 a., 1h., 1 c. ; Christopher Krieble, 125 a., 3 h., 5 c .; Andrew Krieble, 106 a., 2 h., 6 c. ; George Krieble, 125 a., 2 h., 5 c. ; George Heydrick, 100 a., 3 h., 3 c. ; Michael Zeigler, 3 h., 4 c. ; Garret Clements, 135 a., 3 h., 6 c. ; Abraham Alderfer, I h., 2 c. ; Paul Knaper, 50 a., 1 h., 3 c. ; John Conrad, I c. ; Henry Hopple, 2 c. ; Henry Reary, Christian Dull, John Schneider. Single Men .- Yillns Kassel, Henry Wierman, Ahraham Ger- gas, Abraham Rergy, William Gergas, Gerhart Clements, John Price, Jacob Harley, Frederick Lichtner, Abraham Kreible, Abraham Grubb and Joseph Alderfer.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

SAMUEL B. BINDER.

In the northern part of Montgomery County there is no one who is at this time doing as much to ad- vance the prosperity and business interests of the people as Samuel B. Binder, the subject of this sketch. Born and reared in Harleysville, in said county, he is in every sense one of the county's most enterprising young business man. He is never con- tent unless he sees men and women busy in his employ, and without him Harleysville would be dull indeed. His father, John W. Binder, was born in

Würtemberg, Germany, April 18, 1819. Arrived at a suitable age, he was placed at the hatter's trade, in which he became an efficient workman. He also learned the tailor's trade. His trade in all its details mastered, he commenced the manufacture of hats and traveled over a great deal of Europe in selling his goods. For his first wife he married Miss Magdelena Meier, who bore him one son, Frederick M. B. Binder. She died in Würtemberg. His second wife was Miss Christina Bond, who was also born in Würtemberg. To them have been born ten children, four only reaching man's and woman's estate, viz .: Jacob B., Jolın B. (now deceased), Samuel B., and Sallie B. Jacob B. married Lizzie Frederick, who has born him three children. He is a carriage-builder and carries on business in Harleysville. Sallie B. married Jacob Moyer, a carriage-painter, now in the employ of his brother-in-law, Jacob B. Binder. In 1846, John W. and his family emigrated to America and settled down at the corner of Sixth and Brown Streets, in Phila- delphia. He had but little of this world's goods, but he possessed what was of more account, viz. : honesty, energy and industrious habits, He found employ- ment with Solomon Gans, one of the oldest ready- made clothing merchants in the city; also with the Schloss Brothers. He moved with his family to Towamencin township, in Montgomery County, where he rented a small farm and in a small way commeneed truck-farming. He had but small means, and his start was with one cow, one horse and other things in like proportions. His marketing was done under grave difficulties, as he could neither under- stand nor talk English. He learned the name and price of what he had to sell by standing around the market and hearing what others said. He would bring a basket, and in it take back to his home unmade garments, part of which he would make, the rest put out among his neighbors, and' in this humble way was started a business which has grown in magnitude until it gives employment to hundreds of people and requires the use of many thousands of dollars annu- ally. His start was made in the days of State banks, and to avoid getting bad money he marked each bill so that he knew of whom it was obtained. He kept increasing his business and gave out the goods all through the northern part of Montgomery and part of Bucks Counties.

During the war he had large contracts for making soldiers' elothing, and he also dealt largely in sew- ing-machines, which he sold by the car-load. His first purchase of real estate was a brick house and small piece of land near Harleysville, where he car- ried on the manufacture of clothing. He next bought a farm, on which he built a dwelling-house and a large store, and then carried on farming as well as manufacturing. Mr. Binder's first book-keeper and manager was Albert Bromer, now an extensive manu- facturer of clothing at Swenksville, Pa. Soon after the war he bought of Mr. Freed a farm of

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nearly one hundred acres, on which he built the large establishment in Harleysville, in which he carried on, in a still more extended way, his business. He soon after took in as partner Frederick Beck and John G. Egolf, the firm becoming known as Binder, Beck & Egolf. After this he moved to Philadelphia, but still continued in the firm. After a time he dissolved part- nership with Messrs. Beck and Egolf, and carried on the business with the assistance of Wm. Olaboch, of Sum- neytown. Becoming weary of work, he turned the busi- ness over to his son, F. M. B. Binder, who carried it

city in wagons. But his work becoming too great and too much extended for teaming to be practicable, he ships to different points on the line of the railroad, from whenee they are taken by his teams and distrib- nted among the hundreds of people who find em- ployment through his energy and splendid business tact. The unmade garments are taken from the wholesale clothiers in the city by Mr. Binder, and made up under his instructions by the country people, who from far and near are glad of this means of mak- ing an honest dollar. He also has sub-agents, who

Saml. B.Binder

on for several years, then failed, after which for a year or more the establishment in Harleysville rc- mained idle. In 1873, Mr. Binder, having returned to Harleysville, commenced business on a small scale, but soon became disgusted with it and sold out to his youngest son, Samuel B. Binder, who was born in Harleysville on the 18th day of April, A.D. 1853. Thus Samuel B., in the twentieth year of his age, in the midst of the hard times caused by the panic of 1873, commeneed in a small way the manufacture of ready-made clothing and dealing In sewing-machines. In the start the goods were hauled to and from the

have work done in Coopersburg, East Greenville and other places. Mr. Binder has an office at Philadelphia, where he manages and directs his increasing and now large business. He will, in the spring of 1885, move his family to North Wales, which will make his connection with his city office easier to keep up and still be in the midst of his work. In politics Mr. Binder is, as are his father and brothers, an ardent Republican, and while he is not and has never been an aspirant for office, he still takes an active interest in and is an efficient worker of his party. He was married, September 14, 1878,

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to Miss Carrie Hartzell, daughter of Josiah and Barbara (Benner) Hartzell. She was born in Telford, Bucks Co., l'a., on the 7th day of October, 1860. They have two children,-Ella H. and an infant son.

CHAPTER LXII.

MARLBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

THE township of Marlborough is bounded on the northeast by Bucks County, south and east by Upper Salford, southwest by Frederick and the borough of Green Lane and northwest by Upper Hanover. Its greatest length is five miles, and greatest width three miles, with an area of one hundred and fifty square miles, or eight thousand five hundred acres, having been reduced, in 1875, about one hundred and fifty- four acres by the incorporation of Green Lane. The surface is rolling and the soil red shale. A rocky eleva- tion commences near Sumneytown, between the East Swamp and Ridge Valley Creeks, and extends north- eastwards into Bucks County. The Perkiomen flows along its southwest boundary, and East Swamp Creek through its eastern portion. The latter stream empties into Ridge Valley Creek at Sumneytown, and has been celebrated for its powder and oil-mills, which, in 1849, were twelve in number, one-half being powder-mills.

The township is drained by the Perkiomen, East Swamp, Ridge Valley and Macoby Creeks.

Its name is supposed to have been in honor of the Duke of Marlborough, whose military exploits gave him a wide celebrity about the year 1706, and who died 1722. The formation of the township appears to have taken place about 1745. The earliest settlement known within its limits was that of Thomas May- berry, who purchased a tract of land, in 1730, contain- ing twelve hundred and forty acres, on which he sub- sequently erected a forge near where the present borough of Green Lane is situated. This forge was in operation for some years prior to 1747.

In the year 1785, Andrew Reed was appointed assessor, with Henry Snyder and Mathias Scheifly as assistants, to levy a tax under the following directions :

" MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Angust 15, 1785.

"The quota requiredl of Marlborough township is Ninety-five pounds, Fourteen shillings and fivepenre, which quota is to be raised by an equal assessment on the estates, real and personal, and on single Freemen, according to an act of General Assembly, passed in Philadelphia, the 16th day of March, 1885, for furnishing the quota of this State towards paying the annual interest on the i bt of the United States, and for funding and paying the interest on the public debts of this State for said year."

Taxables .- Nicholas Koons, 100 acres ; Joseph Himmelright, 2 horses and 2 cows; Jacob Stahl, 180 acres ; Andrew Werner, 20 acres; Jacob Young, 40 acres; Thomas Mayberry, 400 acres, 55 acres of rock land, 14 horses, 6 cows (this was doubtless the old forge property and the first purchaser above referred to) ; Andrew Reed, 150 acres, 414 acres of rock land, 10 horses and 7 cows, 1 tan-yard, 1 saw-mill ; Henry

Kneip, 100 acres and dwelling; Ludwig Harsh, 102 acres ; Sebastian Gates, 115 acres, 1 grist-mill, 1 oil- mill. 1 servant ; Antony Sell, 125 acres ; Jacob Long, 196 acres; Adam Bosert, 150 acres ; Matthias Walters, 170 acres ; Andrew Young, 150 acres; John Shelly, 182 aeres ; John Bachman, 70 acres ; George McReiter; 70 acres; Adam Mangole, 87 acres; John Swiseforte, 50 acres ; John Barnet, 81 acres; Balser Reed, 105 acres ; Philip Koons, 113 acres ; Adam Henry, 132} acres ; George Rote, 281 acres ; Nicholas Miller, 214 acres, 126 acres of rock land; Daniel Kryder, 62 acres, 1 small hammer, 1 hemp-mill; Jacob Dost, 110 acres ; Christian Schair, 100 acres ; Matthias Scheifeley, 131 acres, 100 acres of rock land, 3 horses, 5 cows, 1 negro girl, 1 servant; Nicholas Eidemiller, 28 acres and dwelling; John Schuler, 150 acres; Conrad Zimmer- man, 231 acres; Martin Kawler, 105 acres.

The following single men were assessed : Charles Zolly, Samuel Cooper, Gabriel Schuler, Abraham Zimmerman, Peter Zimmerman, Abraham Kaufman, George Yost, Martin Wedkneicht, Martin Stroin, Henry Ewald, Peter Zeller, Frederick Heist, John Bishop, Peter Long, John Kryder, Jacob Shaffer, Joseph Nice. These seventeen single men were assessed to pay in the aggregate £11 138. 6d. There were 123 taxables returned by the assessors for 1785; for 1828, 197 ; for 1858, 329; and for 1884, 336. The population in 1800 was 645; in 1830, 952; in 1850, 1174; in 1870, 1,303; 1880, 1,212. Value of taxable property, 1884, was $391,820.

The Sumneytown and Spring House Turnpike Company was incorporated 1845, and opened their road for publie travel in 1848, through this township. The Perkiomen turnpike passes through the south- western portion from Perkiomenville to Green Lane. The Green Lane and Goshenhoppen, and the Sumney- town and Gerysville turnpikes also pass through a por- tion of the township. The early forges, powder-mills and oil-mills erected on the Perkiomen and tribu- taries, and the great amount of hauling necessary in conducting them, induced the people to construct hard roads, and the several turnpike companies were encouraged to locate and build their highways through Marlborough by liberal subscriptions of stock among the business men within its limits.

There are three villages in the township,-Sumney- town, Hoppenville and Marlboroughville. The largest is Sumneytown, long known as the largest vil- lage in the northwestern part of the county, situated on the north side of East Swamp Creek, a mile and a a half above its junction with the Perkiomen, and about half a mile southeast of the borough of Green Lane. This is an early settlement, and Nicholas Scull, in 1758, mentions Dorn's inn as located here at the forks of the road. The place received its name from Isaac Sumney,1 who, in August, 1763, purchased

1 "Sumneytown was named after Isaac Somney, who, on August 24, 1763, purchased one hundred and thirty acres of land in Marlborough township, which included part of the present site of the village. Mr.

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one hundred and thirty acres of land, and shortly after kept for some time a tavern, and probably suc- ceeded Dorn in the business. The building he occu- pied is supposed to bestill standing, and forms a part of the present hotel. It is said that he also erected several other buildings. The earliest mention we have found of "Sumneytown," is on Howell's large map of 1792, on which it is thus called. An act was passed January 19, 1802, that the townships of Upper Han- over, Marlborough, Upper Salford and Franconia, constituting the Eighth District, shall hold their gen- eral elections at the house of John Scheid, at this place. We cannot say at what exact time the post-office was established here, but it was previous to 1827. Gordon, in his "Gazetteer of 1832," mentions that it contains one tavern, two stores and twelve dwellings ; and Day, in his "Historical Collections of Pennsylvania," speaks of it as being fifteen miles north of Norristown, with from thirty to forty houses. If the latter statement is correct, it must have grown very little, for in 1870 it is stated to have coutained thirty-five houses, one grist-mill, one segar-factory and several stores and mechanic shops. In April, 1827, Samuel Royer published here Der Advocat, the first German weekly paper in the county; this was suc- ceeded, Angust 6, 1828, by the Bauern Freund, which was successfully continued till July, 1858, when the proprietor, Enos Benner, sold out, and it was removed to Pennsburg.

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History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Part 206

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901 Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1534

Author: Bean, Theodore Weber, 1833-1891, [from old catalog] ed; Buck, William J. (William Joseph), 1825-1901
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1534