History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 8

Author: Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925. 1n; Rann, William S
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1170

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Corn-Huskings .- These were very common in the first half century of our existence as a State and were resorted to for two purposes : first, to get the work done; and, second, for a neighborhood visit, and " a good time." It appears elsewhere in this work that corn grew and yielded heavily on our lands during this period of our history. The farmers then all raised an abundance of this crop. After it was cut up, put into "stooks " and stood a few days in the field, it was drawn to the barn and husked. It was a sort of common law, or rather a common custom, that every farmer should have a " husking." When his " stooks" were sufficiently dried (cured) in the field, he would go about among his neighbors and invite all, old and young, to attend a husking at his place on an evening named. During the day preceding the appointed evening, he, with his help and team, would be engaged in hauling the corn to his barn, barn-yard or some other place on his premises, setting it up and arranging it for the husking in the evening. At the same time his " women folks " would be making the pumpkin pies, indispensable at corn-huskings, and putting the house in order for the evening entertainment. Those corn-huskings came down to a period within the recollection of the writer. Speaking in the first per- son, I can distinctly recollect five or six of them which I attended, and if I de- scribe those, or a part of them, it may answer for a description of the whole ; they were all of the same general character in this county. Not long after 1820 my father, who lived in Middletown and was a farmer, had a husking. I was not old enough to give much attention to it, but well remember that my mother kept the old brick oven hot for two or three days and turned out, among other eatables, a large number of pumpkin pies. The evening came ; a crowd of men and boys collected at the barn and began husking, their work lighted only by a tin lantern in which was a tallow candle. As I was but a child my father soon drove me to the house, which seemed filled with females of all ages and all talking at the same time, each one without regard to what the others were saying. I was put to bed at once and told to " go to sleep." I went to sleep, but when the men and boys came in from the barn I was awakened, and, de- spite of parental orders, got out of my bed in time to see the pumpkin pies dis- appear down the throats of a jolly company. This repast taken, it was pro- posed by some of the company to " run 'round the chimney."

This was a very common play by the young people in our early history, and quite often followed corn-huskings the same evening. The construction

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of the dwelling-house, which followed the temporary log cabins, has been de- scribed elsewhere - a house of one story, a huge chimney in the middle, sur- rounded by a kitchen, two "square rooms " off the kitchen and an entry way between the latter rooms, and with the doors all open formed a passage way for the boys and girls to chase each other round the chimney in this play. " Running 'round chimney " had been for thirty years a very frequent occur- rence with the young at the time, and was a very common pastime with them for ten years or more after. I was present on several of those occasions after the one at my father's. The play began something in this wise : A young man would say, " I have an action against Susan, or Harriet," or whoever she might be. The girl thus accused, under the code of the play, was required to choose some one to judge between them, and the sentence of the judge would be that the accuser run after the accused around the chimney until he caught her. The two would then start, the girl a few steps in advance, and after a few rounds he would catch her and kiss her. This would settle that action. This couple would retire and another would be introduced in the same way. I do not re- member all of the technicalities that governed this play, but I do remember that often a female ran after a male, and I remember that the pursued, whether male or female, was always caught and kissed after a few rounds.

This play was coarse and rude in its nature, but the society of that time ap- proved, adopted and practiced it for thirty or forty years and until the old houses with the big chimneys in the middle were superseded by those of mod- ern style, and society substituted more refined amusements for the young.

In connection with the corn-huskings, other amusements often followed. I was present at one husking where a dance was held in the house after the corn was husked at the barn. The services of a noted fiddler of those days, Jerud Ives, of Tinmouth, had been secured. Mr. Ives was present with " the fiddle and the bow," and organized for a dance as soon as the pumpkin pies had been disposed of. The dances in those days have been known as " kitchen digs." " What the white men call cotillon " had not then come into use in this county. Mr. Ives was full of music and had advanced as far as his contemporaries in the science as a conductor of dances. He was a large muscular man and drew the bow with uncommon vigor; he indicated the emphatic parts of his music by a stamp of the foot and a motion of his head ; indeed, his countenance and his every motion indicated great enthusiasm and spirit, which seemed to give him perfect control of the parties on the floor. Jig dances required more of muscular power and endurance than the modern dance, but there has been nothing like the former to stimulate physical action. The dancers would hop, and jump, and skip, exerting every nerve to the utmost, being sure to always strike the floor in the right time.

The social amusements of a former generation were not as numerous as they are now, but they were of a positive character, what there were, and

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they drew more upon the physical powers than do the modern amusements. Ball-playing, pitching quoits, apple-parings and quiltings were very common, and it is to the credit of our fathers and mothers that their amusements were in the main productive in effecting the performance of necessary labor, and let it here be remembered that the kind and character of those amusements were simply the offspring of society as it then was.

Let it not be inferred here that plays, sports and amusements made up the lives of our ancestors. There was much of domestic life, much in their social relations and habits that we can but admire, and from which we may, if we will, find potent causes of our remarkable progress in the last half century. Emerson well said : " If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world, with the spirit of the age, he must not first go to the state-house or the court-room ; the subtle spirit of life must be sought in facts nearer." Cus- toms, habits, anecdotes, facts, all which go to show the social status of the common people, unmistakably indicate their true character as a whole, and to form a just estimate of their history these must be consulted.

Our early history, more than that of any other period, emphasizes " Home, Sweet Home." There their affections were then centered. As a rule they made home happy, and they made it so by promptly and faithfully attending to their work, in-doors and out, and keeping up a social, friendly intercourse in the family. An old friend of mine, whose father and mother were early emigrants from Canterbury, Connecticut, once said to me that his mother would keep that old wheel of hers whirling all day and tell Canterbury stories from morning till night. And often, more often than now, subjects of conver- sation took a serious and practical turn in the families and with visitors when present. A larger proportion of the inhabitants were then professors of relig- ion and members of churches than now. The Sabbath-day was more strictly kept, and the Sunday services attended largely in excess of the present time in proportion to population. An afternoon visit was almost a weekly occur- rence, at which all the ladies of a given neighborhood would assemble and " take tea " with one of their neighbors. The next week, or as soon as con- venient, they would assemble at some other neighbor's, and thus keep up that friendly, neighborhood intercourse which so marked our people in the long time ago. Husbands sometimes accompanied their wives, and clergymen, deacons and their wives were in the habit of visiting the several families in their congregations, and at those visits the subject of religion would be a lead- ing topic of conversation. There was very little of class or caste in the society of those early years. The mode of dress was simple and plain, and for the most part homespun. There was very little of formality; it was not considered an intrusion to call on a neighbor without an invitation. If a half dozen, more or less, should call on a neighbor for a visit, it was not then a " surprise party "- there was no surprise about it ; it was an every-day occurrence, and was ex-

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pected. The good lady of the house could cheerfully receive company in her washing-dress. My grandmother, who lived in Brandon during her married life, once said to me that she once called on a lady of her acquaintance and found her making soap - that she sat about helping at once. "We got out a barrel of soap," she said, "and I never had a better visit in my life."

In our early history Rutland county had abler men in the professions ; bio- graphical sketches of many of them will appear elsewhere, and allusions to some of them will be made here only to bring out their social characteristics. Na- thaniel Chipman was hardly less distinguished as a conversationalist and wit than as a jurist. General Jonas Clark, for half a century a leading member of the Rutland county bar, had no superior, if an equal, in his time for genuine social qualities and ready wit. In his practice at the bar, he often had to meet sallies from opposing counsel, but seldom failed in a response which left him the better man in the encounter. Moses Strong, Robert Temple, Gordon Newell and Edgar L. Ormsbee were also noted examples of the early Rutland county bar, for their wit and repartee, and their social faculties.

Among the clergymen who possessed social qualifications of a high order we can call to mind Lemuel Haynes, Henry Bigelow and Stephen Martindale. Some are now living who remember those noted clergymen of Rutland county in a former day and generation. They were men of great power in the pulpit, strictly orthodox, intensely devoted to their calling, but woe to the man who crossed swords with them in sallies of wit or in repartee.

If space could be allowed many anecdotes might be given of those early professional men, lawyers and clergymen, which might be entertaining if not instructive. It is the opinion of the writer that the real wit and humor of those times were superior to that of the present; but it was the offspring of that age - of the society which then existed. This opinion of the writer might be sound and at the same time concede progress in civilization. No such poetry as Milton, Pope, Dryden or Goldsmith wrote an hundred years ago and more, has been written in this age, nor could it be. The works of the poets named were the products of that age; they could have been produced in no other. Yet, what a change, what a wonderful advance has been since made in civilization.

It has already appeared in this chapter as the opinion of the writer that society is capable of improvement - that it has improved and advanced as material interests have advanced. Judge Chapman, in his work alluded to in the opening of this chapter, lays down the fundamental principle that the pro- pensity to Society is not limited to the number of its objects, but " is adapted to the occasions, the powers and faculties of men, and admits of general exten- sion by improvement." We cannot go back to the " good old times," as the old folks understand it ; that is impossible. To illustrate this : We can never again have an " old-fashioned thanksgiving." We can make chicken pies,

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roast turkeys, and call the family together from far and near. But this would now be mechanical - it would be mere imitation. The social element which gave character to the thanksgiving of olden time is not with us now, and no art or device can make it. It is possible to get up a military drill and parade on the first Tuesday of June ; but the " June trainings" of yore will never be witnessed again. We may celebrate our nation's birthday for all time to come, and I hope we shall, but " the spirit of '76," as exhibited during the first half century of our existence as a nation, will never be thus exhibited again.

As we progress changes occur - social changes as well as others, and the social element must adapt itself "to the occasion." It must adapt itself to the much wider and extended range which modern life has given it. But it " admits of improvement." Society is a vital element in nations and states, and he who neglects the study of it can have but a partial knowledge of our his- tory, and but an imperfect idea of what holds our republic together.

CHAPTER IX.

RUTLAND COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.1

Patriotism of Vermont - Honorable Services of the Troops - Action at the First Call for Volun- teers -Company C ( Rutland Light Guards) of the First Regiment - Its Re-enlistment in the Twelfth Regiment - Career of the Regiment - The Fifth and Eleventh Regiments, Vermont Brigade - Career of the Brigade - The 'Seventh Regiment - The Tenth Regiment and its Career - The Ninth Regi- ment - First Regiment Vermont Sharpshooters - Career of Company F, First Vermont Cavalry - Nine-Months Volunteers - The Twelfth and Fourteenth Regiments - Second Battery Light Artillery - Roster of Officers from Rutland County.

N TO State in the Union came out of the great struggle for the preservation of our national government with greater glory and a more honorable rec- ord than Vermont. With almost unexampled promptitude and unselfish prod- igality she sent her best blood to baptize the southern fields and languish in deadly prisons, and lavished her treasure in support of the noble cause, and to- day no one can do the memory of her heroes, dead and living, too much honor. The sharp anguish of sudden loss of father, husband or brother may have be-

1 In the very limited space allotted us in this work for this subject, we can attempt little more than the gathering into condensed and convenient form of the military statistics of Rutland county, as pre- served in the remarkably complete records preserved in the reports of the adjutant and inspector-gen- eral of the State. The subject merits, perhaps more than any other, the fullest and ablest treatment by the historian, with such facilities at his command that the work may reach the masses of the peo- ple ; and it is a pleasure to know that there is now in course of preparation by G G. Benedict, esq., of Burlington, a work on the subject which will, without doubt, bear the most critical examination and justify the anticipations of all who feel an interest in it.

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come softened by the kindly hand of time; but the vacant places around thou- sands of hearthstones are still there and must for many more years awaken mournful memories in innumerable hearts and bring the occasional tear to many an eye.

Rutland county, being the largest in respect of population in the State, felt the awful ravages of the war with greater severity than any other. No sooner did the first traitorous gun send its fateful shot upon Fort Sumter than her cit- izens aroused themselves to action for that energetic support of the govern- ment which never flagged until the last shot was fired against the old flag. Of the 34,238 patriotic men who went to the front from this State, her quota was. promptly and freely contributed, almost without a semblance of compulsion through conscription, and the most liberal measures were successively adopted for the payment of bounties and the aid of soldiers in the field and their fam- ilies at home.

When the first call of the president was issued for 75,000 men to serve three- months, immediate steps were taken in Rutland county towards the organiza- tion of a regiment ; and so energetically was the work prosecuted that a regi- ment was recruited, organized and mustered into the service on the 2d day of May, 1861 - less than a month after the first gun of the Rebellion was fired. In this regiment one company (K) was recruited entirely in Rutland county,. and another (G) contained sixty volunteers from here. The commissioned officers of the latter company were Joseph Bush, captain ; William Cronan, first lieutenant, and Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, second lieutenant, all of Brandon. Com- pany K retained its old name of " Rutland Light Guard," and was officered as. follows : William Y. W. Ripley, captain ; George T. Roberts, first lieutenant ; Levi G. Kingsley, second lieutenant ; William G. Edgerton, John A. Sheldon, Walter C. Landon and Truman B. Lamson, sergeants; Stephen G. Staley, William B. Thrall, Edgar M. Rounds and Edward Coppins, corporals. The field and staff officers of the First Regiment were as follows : J. Wolcott Phelps, Brattleboro, colonel ; Peter T. Washburn, Woodstock, lieutenant-colonel ; Harry N. Worthen, Bradford, major; Hiram Stevens, Enosburgh, adjutant ; Edmund A. Morse, Rutland, quartermaster ; E. K. Sanborn, Rutland, surgeon ; Willard A. Child, Pittsford, assistant surgeon ; Levi H. Stone, Northfield, chaplain ; Charles G. Chandler, St. Albans, sergeant-major (captain of Com- pany C from May 24); Thomas R. Clark, Chester, drum-major ; Martin Mc- Manus, Rutland, quartermaster-sergeant ; J. C. Stearns, Bradford, sergeant- major (from May 24) ; Ransom Clark, Rutland, hospital steward.

Company K of this regiment, to which allusion fhas been made, was made up almost entirely of the old Rutland Light Guard, of the State uniformed militia, which was organized November 13, 1858, and long bore the reputation of being one of the finest and best disciplined companies of the militia. The late General H. H. Baxter was the first captain, and in 1861, at the time of its.

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enlistment in the volunteer service, the company was in command of Captain Wm. Y. W. Ripley. At a meeting held February 9, 1861, all of the company who were present but one expressed themselves ready to volunteer in aid of the government ; nine who were absent were vouched for for the same pur- pose, and thirteen others were absent. Fifty-two responded as ready for en- listment. This being the first company that enlisted in the town of Rutland we will give their names here, although they will appear elsewhere in this chap- ter in the general lists : H. J. Bradford, A. C. Blaisdell, C. Barrett, S. T. Buel, G. E. Croft, C. Claghorn, S. M. Clark, R. Clark, W. H. Davis, G. E. Davis, C. P. Dudley, W. J. Dorrance, J. Donnelly, G. J. Everson, J. Everson, jr., F. Fenn, J. C. Gaines, W. R. Gilmore, G. H. Griggs, N. J. Green, F. Gee, G. M. Gleason, D. M. Gleason, Z. Geru, M. Goslin, I. S. Hall, F. T. Huntoon, C. F. Huntoon, E. B. Hicks, J. N. Howard, C. K. Hills, G. P. Hills, L. D. Kenney, S. H. Kelley, M. Lyman, G. A. Lee, M. W. Leach, R. Moulthrop, J. G. Moore, W. T. Nichols, P. R. Newman, G. W. Newcomb, A. Parker, H. D. Rouse, R. Rounds, J. W. Ross, E. Reynolds, J. E. Post, J. F. E. Smith, A. D. Smith, A. Spencer, A. W. Spaun, T. Southard, H. G. Sheldon, W. B. Thompson, G. F. Thayer, W. H. Thayer, D. B. Thrall, R. R. Thrall, S. Turrell, G. W. Warren, H. Webb, A. W. White, E. Whitney, M. V. B. Bronson.

On the 13th of May the regiment arrived at Fortress Monroe from New York, at which city they arrived on the 10th. On the 23d of May the regi- ment encamped at Hampton and on the 25th received orders to embark the following morning on the gunboat Monticello for the James River Landing was made the same day at Newport News and the regiment began work on fortifications at that point, continuing two weeks. On the Ioth of June oc- curred the battle of Big Bethel, in which five companies of the regiment, in- cluding the Light Guards, were engaged. This was the first of the many oc- casions when Vermont troops were under fire. The losses in killed and wounded in the First Regiment were forty-five. The regiment remained at Newport News until the expiration of its term, when it returned home and was mustered out at Brattleboro on the 15th of August, 1861.

In this immediate connection it will be proper to finish what needs to be said of the Rutland Light Guard. Under the call of the president for nine- months volunteers in 1862, the Twelfth Regiment was recruited in this State. Down to this period the organization of the Light Guard had been kept alive, an election of officers on August 11, 1862, resulting as follows: L. G. Kings- ley, captain ; W. C. Landon, first lieutenant ; S. G. Staley, second lieutenant, and subsequently large numbers of members were elected to fill the ranks of the company in the vacancies caused by repeated enlistments. On the 19th of August the company voted to offer its services again to the State, and they were accepted. Meanwhile the deaths of Captain Edward Reynolds, of the Sixth Vermont Regiment, who fell at Lee's Mills on the 17th of April, and of

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Colonel George T. Roberts, of the Seventh Vermont, who died of wounds re- ceived at Baton Rouge, were appropriately noticed by the company, of which they had been officers during the term of service of the First Regiment.

The Light Guards were assigned to the Twelfth Regiment and arrived in Brattleboro and went into camp on the 26th of September; it was given its old letter (K). After arriving at Brattleboro Captain Kingsley was elected major of the regiment; Lientenant W. C. Landon was promoted to captain ; Second lieutenant S. G. Staley was promoted to first, and Sergeant E. M. Rounds to second lieutenant. (Other promotions of Rutland county men are noticed a little further on). The composition of the company when the regi- ment left for the front was as follows: sergeants, M. W. Leach, Ed. Coppins, W. H. Davis and Milo Lyman ; corporals, Martin Goslin, R. R. Thrall, Theo. Southard, George E. Davis, Charles Claghorn, George H. Griggs, D. M. Gleason and Ruel Rounds; drummer, Charles Mason ; fifer, W. M. Smith. The records show that the enlistments in Company K were seventy- three in Rutland, six in Clarendon, three each in Ira, Mendon and Pittsford and one in Wallingford. The names of the rank and file when the company left for the South were as follows: J. Hardy, H. Barney, C. Barrett, C. P. Bateman, N. T. Birdsall, A. B. Bissell, J. M. Bixby, N. Bonrasso, J. D. Brad- ley, A. B. Burnett, W. H. Button, F. F. Cady, W. Campbell, H. L. Capron, H. W. Cheney, D. Chittenden, E. Clark, M. C. Clark, S. H. Clifford, T. Clifford, W. Connors, J. Constantine, J. H. Davis, J. H. Dyer, A. W. Edson, M. C. Ed- son, W. W. Felt, A. W. Field, R. A. Field, J. Fridett, J. S. Frink, A. Fuller, J. Fuller, F. Gee, W. H. Gleason, . D. L. Gould, H. L. Gould, C. H. Granger, W. E. Harkness, C. A. Hathorn, D. B. Haynes, L. H. Hemenway, E. C. Jack- son, W. C. Jackson, W. H. Jackson, M. Kennedy, H. H. Lee, P. Loesel, E. Lyston, J. D. Lyston, J. P. Mailhoit, L. A. McClure, J. A. Mead, J. G. Moore, T. A. E. Moore, W. A. Mussey, E. S. Nelson, W. Oney, A. Parker, J. H. Patch, L. L. Persons, J. Phalen, C. Plumer, C. J. Powers, G. H. Ray, T. E. Reynolds, C. H. Ripley, W. Rock, A. D. Ross, W. B. Shaw, M. Sherry, S. Sherry, M. Slatterly, C. R. Spaulding, A. W. Spaun, E. M. Tower, H. C. Tower, M. C. Wardwell, C. Waterhouse, G. A. Wilkins, J. Wilson, P. Winter.

It will be seen that a large majority of these men were members of Com- pany K of the First Regiment. The other enlistments in this regiment from Rutland county comprised forty-one in Company G, of whom three were from Chittenden, one from Hubbardton, twenty-five from Pittsford, one from Rut- land and eleven from Sudbury.

The recruits for the regiment from Rutland county were distributed among the various towns about as follows: Brandon, Co. G, 41 ; Chittenden, Co. G, 6; Clarendon, Co. K, 7; Hubbardton, Co. G, I; Ira, Co. K, 3 ; Mendon, Co. K, 5 ; Middletown, Company K, 2; Pawlet, Co. K, I; Pittsford, Co. G, 25; Co. K, 3; Rutland, Co. K, 77; Co. I, 1; Co. G, I; Sudbury, Co. G. II ; Wallingford, Co. K, I.

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The following brief record of the career of the Twelfth Regiment is con- densed from a historical article printed in the Burlington Review of Septem- ber 13th, 1879 : -

"October 7, 1862, left for Washington and arrived on the 9th. On the 29th the Second Vermont Brigade, then comprising the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Regiments,1 all nine months men, broke camp at East Capitol Hill and crossing the Potomac encamped on the Lee farm beyond Arlington Heights. November 9 they changed camp, locat- ing near Fort Lyon, two miles from Alexandria, and went into winter quart- ers, General Stoughton taking command of the brigade. December 12 they left their comfortable shanties and marched to Fairfax Court-House. From the 17th to and including the 20th the Twelfth Regiment did picket duty at Centerville. December 21 General Stoughton encamped the brigade in a pine grove near Fairfax Court-House. On the night of December 28, 1862, the Twelfth Regiment was under arms all night, and the next morning a body of rebel cavalry attempted unsuccessfully to break through the line. January 21, 1863, the Twelfth and Thirteenth marched to Wolf Run Shoals, arriving the next day. The first snow storm, which was a severe one, occurred January 28. February 15 Captain W. C. Landon resigned ; First Lieutenant Staley was appointed captain ; Second Lieutenant Rounds was made first lieutenant, and Orderly Sergeant Leach second lieutenant. On March 9 the commander of the brigade was captured. Sunday, May 3, the regiment took the cars at Union Mills and rode to Catlett's Station, where Companies K and G were left ; the remainder of the regiment went to Bealton. There was a cavalry fight at Warrenton Junction near Catlett's Station. May 26 all engaged in entrenching, Hooker in command, and June 15 the army was in motion ; on the 17th the last train passed of Hooker's army and the regiment moved back to Wolf Run Shoals and encamped near Mrs. Wilcoxen's. On the 25th broke and began a march, no one knowing where the brigade is bound. That night encamped beyond Centerville. This was the commencement of the march into Maryland and Pennsylvania, after Lee, who had evaded Hooker. It rained all day. June 26 rain also continued and so did the march, march, march of the brigade. Encamped at Hamden Station for the night. On Sat- urday, the 27th, crossed the Potomac River, leaving camp at 5 A. M., and camped at Pottsville for the night Sunday the brigade was still engaged in its tramp, tramp, tramp, stopping near Adamstown. Monday marching all day in the rain ; men dropping by the wayside, footsore and weary. Passed through Frederick, Md., at noon and camped two miles north for rest. Tues- day, June 30, up early but found the heavens still weeping, and all day the brigade tramped on in a drenching rain through muddy roads, many of the men leaving blood in their tracks. At night encamped near Evansburgh, Md.

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History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 8

Author: Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925. 1n; Rann, William S Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co. Number of Pages: 1170

Author: Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925. 1n; Rann, William S
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1170