Men of Vermont : an illustrated biographical history of Vermonters and sons of Vermont, Part 124

Author: Ullery, Jacob G., comp; Davenport, Charles H; Huse, Hiram Augustus, 1843-1902; Fuller, Levi Knight, 1841-1896
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Brattleboro, Vt. : Transcript Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 842

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Professor White has given special attention to comparative philology, and in addition to a knowledge of the classic tongues, has made acquaintance with the Sanscrit, He- brew and Anglo-Saxon, as well as most of the cultivated languages of modern Europe. Besides sermons and lectures Professor White has written very little for the press. The most that has been published in a more permanent form consists of articles in the interests of denominational literature. Among them may be cited : " Greek Synonyms of the New Testament" (Universalist Quarterly, April, 1882), and " Love the Basis of Educa- tion," one of a series of addresses published in a volume entitled, " The Columbian Con- gress of the Universalist Church."

Mr. White was ordained to the ministry of the Universalist church in 1875. In 1889 there was conferred upon him by Tufts Col- lege the degree of D. D. This is the outline of a busy, earnest life, reflecting at all times honor and credit, and affording an example for emulation.

Mr. White was married, May 11, 1858, at South Woodstock, to Frances M., the daugh- ter of Orsamus and Eluthera (Sumner) White, of Huntington. She died April 29, 1864, leaving one daughter, who died Jan. I, 1882. Mr. White was again married, in 1871, to Inez Ling, daughter of Lorenzo Ling, of Pulaski, N. Y. They have two children : Willard Justin (a graduate of Lombard University of the class of 1891), and Frances Cora.

WHITE, WELCOME, of Baltimore, Md., was born in Wardsboro, Dec. 22, 1826, the son of Daniel and Mary ( Durant) White.

Mr. White spent the years of his minority on the farm of his father, and in acquiring such an education as the district schools afforded. Being of a mechanical turn of

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mind he became a carpenter and followed this vocation for five years, and then, in 1852, removed to Baltimore where he engaged in the baking business. This business was successfully continued for six years, when Mr. White returned to his native place where he resided for four years. Returning to Baltimore in 1862 he once more embarked in business at his old stand, where he re- mained until 1865. The growth of the business then necessitated a change which resulted in removal to the large and commo- dions establishment he still ocenpies. Con- tinued additions and improvements have rendered it a most convenient and well equipped plant. A Baltimore paper sums up his business career there as follows : "Thirty-four years of unbroken prosperity marks the history of the well-known and popular baking establishment of Welcome White."

A Republican in belief, he has never sought office or devoted much time to poli- tics. He has, however, been twice a candi- date for a seat in the city council.

Mr. White married, at Baltimore, Oct. 20, 1857, Marietta F., daughter of Davis and Lucinda (Davis) Read of Wardsboro. Their children were : Clara M., Flora E., Jennie I., Wilbur H. (deceased), Minnie M., Wallace D., and Lelia M.

A Universalist by faith, Mr. White was for several years an active worker in the Third Church, being a trustee and its treasurer.

WHITNEY, HENRY DOUGLAS, of Bridgeport, Conn., son of Henry and Almira J. ( Bowker) Whitney, was born in Wilming- ton, Sept. 13, 1866.

His education was obtained in the com- mon schools, at Glenwood Seminary, West Brattleboro, and at the St. Johnsbury Acad- emy, graduating from the latter institution in 1886. His preparation was for Harvard College, but the course was abandoned in order that he might earlier engage himself in the study of his profession. He taught school for three years successfully, being principal of the high school at Wells River, and later principal of the grammar school at East Dennis, Mass.

Mr. Whitney began the study of law in 1888 in the office of Bates & May of St. Johnsbury and went to Chattanooga, Tenn., in the fall of 1889, there entering the office of Russell & Daniels, a leading law firm of that city. The following year he was admitted to the bar, and has since pursued an active and successful career. Mr. Whitney's liter- ary abilities and tastes have found expres- sion in a legal work, "Whitney's Land Laws of Tennesee." This work has received the highest endorsement of both bench and bar

and has become a standard on the subject of Tennessee land laws.

In the fall of 1893 Mr. Whitney accepted the position of general agent for Connecti- cut for placing the investments of the Cum- berland Building Loan Association of Chat- tanooga, making Bridgeport his home.

HENRY DOUGLAS WHITNEY.

In politics Mr. Whitney is an independent Democrat, and in religion a free thinker.

He was married in Wilmington, June 6, 1890, to Kate J., daughter of Judge George C. and Rebecca Todd Harrison of West Cornwall, Conn. To her large helpfulness and encouragement he owes much of his success. One son, Burke Emerson, born Feb. 1, 1894, has come to their home.

WHITNEY, SAMUEL BRENTON, of Bos- ton, Mass., son of Samuel and Amelia ( Hyde) Whitney, was born in Woodstock, June 4, 1842.

His early education was obtained in the public schools. He afterwards attended the Vermont Episcopal Institute, studied music- first with local teachers, afterwards with Carl Wels and later still with John K. Paine, tak- ing lessons on the organ, pianoforte, com- position and instrumentation.

Mr. Whitney has been organist and director of music of Christ Church, Montpelier ; St. Peter's, Albany, N. Y., and St. Paul's Church, Burlington ; is at present and has been for the past twenty-two years, organist of the Church of the Advent, Boston, the choir of which church has become quite celebrated under

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his direction. He has frequently been en- gaged as conductor of choir festival asso- ciations in Massachusetts and Vermont ; is first vice-president and one of the organ ex- aminers of the American College of Musi- cians ; has written church music quite exten- sively, also piano and miscellaneous music. He has been conductor of many choral societies in and around Boston, and has the reputation of being very successful in train- ing and developing boys' voices. In this position he has heen identified with liturgi- cal music, vested choirs, and a reverent per- formance of church music.

SAMUEL BRENTON WHITNEY,

The late Dr. J. H. Wilcox once said in this connection, after hearing Mr. Whitney play a very small organ : "It takes a much more gifted organist to play a small organ than it does to play a large one, where every resource is at hand." Another musical au- thority in Boston has said : "Mr. Whitney, by his wonderful mastery of the preludes, fugues and toccatas of Bach, most of which are so impressed upon his remarkable memory that he rarely uses notes ; by his style so brilliant and pleasing, and his improvisations so solid and rich, has won much credit in and beyond professional circles." Mr. Whitney was for a time teacher of the organ in the New England Conservatory of Music. He also established in this institution for the first time, a church music class, in which not only were the vocal pupils taught how to properly interpret sacred music, but the or-

gan pupils as well were instructed as to the management of the organ in church.

Among Mr. Whitney's compositions are a trio for piano and string, many solos and arrangements for both piano and organ, as well as several church services, Te Deums and miscellaneous anthems and songs, both sacred and secular. Some of Mr. Whitney's organ compositions have been reprinted in England, by London publishers.

WILLARD, GEORGE, was born at Bol- ton, March 20, 1824 ; received a liberal edu- cation and was a professor for two years in Kalamazoo College ; was editor and pub- lisher of the Battle Creek Journal; was a member of the Michigan State Board of Education from 1857 to 1863 ; was elected regent of the University of Michigan in 1863, and re-elected for eight years in 1865 ; was elected to the state Legislature in 1866 and the following year a member of the state constitutional convention, serving in both bodies as chairman of the committee on education ; was a delegate at large from Michigan to the national Republican con- vention in 1872 ; was elected a representa- tive from Michigan for the Forty-third Con- gress as a Republican ; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress.

WINSLOW, HORACE SPENCER, of Newton, Iowa, son of Elhanan S. and Elmina ( Kingsley) Winslow, was born July 18, 1837, at Pittsford.

Judge Winslow received such advantages as were offered at the common schools and seminaries in Rutland county, and began his legal education at the Poughkeepsie Law School, and graduated July, 1856, from the Polan (Ohio) Law School.

Immediately upon graduation, he went to Newton, Iowa, where he opened a law office, Sept, 1, 1856, having just passed his nine- teenth birthday. Since that time, for thirty- seven years, he has enjoyed a successful and lucrative practice, owning, probably, the lar- gest private law library in the state. During the exciting years of the civil war, he was district attorney of the sixth judicial dis- trict of Iowa, then comprised of the counties of Jasper, Poweshiek, Marion, Washington, Mahaska, and Jefferson, having been elected to that office in the fall of 1862. In 1868 he received further distinction by election as judge of the second circuit of the sixth judi- cial district of Iowa, which was then com- posed of the counties of Jasper, Marion, and Mahaska. At the end of one year's service he resigned and resumed his practice. In 1874 he was elected judge of the sixth dis- trict and remained in the service four years.

Judge Winslow became a Mason, and a member of Newton Lodge, No. 59, A. F. &

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A. M., in 1858; later he became a Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, and has re- ceived the Scottish Rite degrees. In 1876 he was elected M. E. Grand Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Jowa, and was elected grand commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Jowa in 1880.

HORACE SPENCER WINSLOW.

Judge Winslow was married, Nov. 7, 1858, to Sarah E. Dunklee of Pittsford. They have two children : Kate E., and Jessie L.

He is a member of the First Congrega- tional Church, one of its trustees, and at present writing superintendent of its Sunday school.

WOOD, THOMAS WATERMAN, of New York, son of John and Mary (Waterman) Wood, was born Nov. 12, 1823, at Mont- pelier.

His early education was obtained in the schools of Washington county, while his art training was acquired in the great cities of Boston, London, Paris, Florence and Rome.

Mr. Wood's fame as an artist and a por- trait painter has been exercised in many of the principal cities of America, notably in Quebec and Toronto in 1855 ; in Washing- ton in 1856; in Baltimore in 1857 and 1858 ; and in Nashville and Louisville sev- eral years, up to 1865 ; two years, from 1858 to 1860, being spent in study abroad.

In 1866 he located in New York City, and in 1869 was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, and academi-

cian in 1871. From 1879 to 1890 he was vice-president of the academy, and is now president of that institution. From 1878 to 1887 he was president of the American Water Color Society.

Mr. Wood is a member of many of New York's social institutions ; among them the Aldine Club, of which he is an ex-president ; the Salamagundi and Country Clubs; he is also an honorary member of the Apollo Club, of Montpelier.

He was married in Burlington, Sept. 24, 1850, to Minerva Robinson, of Waterbury, daughter of Rev. Sylvanus Robinson, of Northfield. Mrs. Wood died in New York, May 15, 1859.

WOODRUFF, CHARLES ALBERT, of United States Army, son of Erastus (de- scendant in seventh degree, from Matthew Woodruff, one of the original proprietors of the town of Farmington, Conn., where he settled in 1640), was born in Burke, April 26, 1845.

CHARLES ALBERT WOODRUFF.

He was educated in the district schools of Burke, the academies at Lyndon and St. Johnsbury and graduated at Bryant & Strat- ton's Business College, Burlington, and at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. He first enlisted, June 5, 1862, in Co. A, 10th Vt. Vols., and became corporal June 3, 1863, and was promoted second lieutenant 117th U. S. C. T., but was not mustered on account of wounds received

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while serving in the 3d and 6th corps of the Army of the Potomac ; was slightly wounded three times at Cold Harbor, Va., June I, 1864 ; he was captured and escaped same night. He was severely wounded June 3, 1864, and never rejoined his company, but was discharged for disability caused by wounds, August 18, 1865.

Passed a competitive examination and entered U. S. Academy, West Point, July 1, 1867 ; graduated number eleven, June 12, 1871 ; promoted same date 2d Lieut. 7th U. S. Inft. ; served on frontier duty in Montana ; in command of mounted detachment from May, 1872, to August, 1873 ; in command of reconnoissance to Washington Territory August to October, 1873; acting assistant adjutant-general District of Montana, and acting regimental adjutant July, August, and September, 1874 ; in command of company, Judith Basin, Mont., June to October, 1875 ; adjutant of battalion in Indian campaigns of 1876 and 1877; with General Gibbon's command that rescued survivors of Custer's command ; severely wounded three times at Big Hale, Mont., August 9, 1877 ; on sick leave ; promoted first lieutenant August 9, 1877 ; appointed captain and commissary of subsistence March 28, 1878; in office of commissary general to August, 1878 ; depot commissary, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to October, 1879, and acting chief commissary, and acting assistant adjutant-general Depart- ment of Missouri summer 1879 ; chief com- missary District New Mexico, Santa Fe, N. M., to November, 1884, and acting assistant adjutant-general and acting engineer officer at different times ; chief commissary depart- ment of Columbia and depot and purchasing commissary Vancouver Barracks, Wash., to August, 1889, and acting assistant adjutant- general, acting judge advocate of department, acting ordnance officer, and acting signal officer for several months ; in the field with General Gibbon, suppressing riots against Chinese ; purchasing and depot commissary, San Francisco, Cal., to March, 1894; pro- moted major and commissary of subsistence Dec. 27, 1892 ; assistant to commissary gen- eral, Washington, D. C., since March, 1894.

Major Woodruff, as the foregoing record shows, is a valiant soldier, is no less an orator and accomplished gentleman. His orations, delivered upon Memorial days and other occasions, have drawn the highest encomiums from the press. By unanimous resolution of George H. Thomas Post, No. 2, Dept. of California, G. A. R., ten thousand copies of Captain Woodruff's address, on "American Patriotism," were ordered printed for general distribution, "as an incentive to patriotism, and as inculcating a spirit of reverence for our country's flag, and respect for our country's laws." Commander of the

Commandery of the State of California, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

WOODWARD, TYLER, of Portland, Oregon, son of Erastus and Sarah (Gilson) Woodward, was born Jan. 19, 1835, at Hart- land.

He attended school at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden N. H., and at Chelsea and Newbury. Mr. Woodward's family is of Puritan origin and his grandfather, Gideon Woodward, served in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Woodward was born and raised on a farm and when twenty-one years of age taught school at Hartland Three Corners, near his home. He remained on the farm until the spring of 1860, when he sold out

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his stock and set sail for California, from New York, with his youngest sister and together they went to Marysville, Cal., to the home of their brother, keeping the Western Hotel at that place. For a few months Mr. Woodward remained with his brother, acting as clerk in the hotel, when the latter removed to San Francisco, and Mr. Woodward was employed in the ice business, superintending the harvest in the mountains near the town of Laporte, where snows often fell to the depth of twenty feet. Thus Mr. Woodward began one of the most interesting, exciting and fairly successful careers in the far west and northwestern country, trading. His ad- ventures and hairbreadth escapes from

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whites during a long residence in the moun- tains would fill a book. Success attended his efforts everywhere and after nearly ten years of this life be sold out his mercantile business near Missoula, Mont., and went to Portland, Ore., in 1869, and engaged in the real estate business, where he already had considerable interests. He purchased an in . terest in the firm of Parrish & Atkinson, the firm becoming Parrish, Atkinson & Wood- ward. In this firm he remained three years.

In 1872 he married Mary, the daughter of Sherry Ross, a pioneer who crossed the plains and settled in Oregon in 1845. He has now one daughter fifteen years of age.

In the spring of 1873 Mr. Woodward went to Walla Walla, and became interested with Dr. D. S. Baker, in a railroad from that point to Wallaula, which afterwards became a por- tion of the Union Pacific system. Again re- turning to Portland he speculated in real estate and became interested in the passen- ger transfer business, operating a large number of carriages, the firm name being Woodward & Magoon. Later, in connection with others, he organized a company and constructed and operated the street railways known as the Third Street line. Mr. Woodward was presi- dent of the company and its manager for several years. About 1890 he with his asso- ciates organized the City & Suburban Railway Co., of which he is a director and vice-presi- dent and purchased the East and West side lines which were converted into electric lines and constitute a system of fifty miles of elec- tric and steam roads.

In the spring of 1891, upon the organiza- tion of the United States National Bank, Mr. Woodward became a director thereof and was elected vice-president with an active position, to which he is now devoting his attention. During his residence in Portland, Mr. Wood- ward has served as county commissioner and two terms in the city council of which he was elected president.

WRIGHT, CYRUS SMITH, of San Fran- cisco, Cal., son of John and Irene (Smith) Wright, was born in Norwich, Oct. 3, 1836.

He was educated in the scientific depart- ment of Dartmouth College, graduating in 1857 as a surveyor and civil engineer. In the fall of 1859 he went to Boliver county, Miss., as assistant engineer on the Mississippi levees. In 1862 he was forced to join the 28th Miss. Cavalry. He was injured in 1864 and driven to the U. S. gunboat for medical treatment, and was taken to Memphis, Tenn., and then sent North.

In 1865 he went to California, and finding no other employment engaged with his old friend and classmate, Henry M. Gray, in the undertaking business, which he has fol-

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lowed ever since, becoming a partner in the firm in 1876, and sole proprietor in 1886, and still conducts the business under the old firm name of N. Gray & Co.

Mr. Wright belongs to the Republican party ; is a past grand of Cosmopolitan Lodge, No. 194, 1. O. O. F .; a life member of California Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M .; a member of California Chapter, No. 5; Golden Gate Commandery, No. 16; Knights Templar, Mystic Shrine ( Islam Temple), Pacific Coast Association Native Sons of Vermont, First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Y. M. C. 1., and the California Bible Society. He holds the office of trustee in the last four organizations, and is highly esteemed by all. In business he is energetic, prompt, and reliable.

Mr. Wright was married, in San Francisco, on Thanksgiving Day, 1874, to Emma A., (laughter of Nathaniel and Emeline A. Gray. They have two children : Helen Edith, and Harold Lincoln.

WRIGHT, RILEY E., of Baltimore, Md., son of Erastus and Mary A. ( Fairbrother) Wright, was born July 24, 1839, in Westmin- ster.

RILEY E. WRIGHT.

Mr. Wright was educated in the common schools and academy of Derby, and at Glover and Coventry. He fitted for college at Pow- ers' Institute, Bernardston, Mass., where he was both student and French instructor,

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having perfected himself in that language by residence and study at St. Hyacinth and St. Rosalie, Canada, in 1859. He was admitted to Dartmouth College, expecting to pursue a course there, but afterwards decided to go to Middlebury College, where he remained until the fall of 1862, and during his sophomore year he felt it to be his duty to enlist in the army, and left college for that purpose. During the years he was attending the acade- my and college, at the age of seventeen and after, he taught school in winter.

Upon his return home from the army he entered upon the study of the law in the of- fice of the late Judge Benjamin H. Steele, at Derby Line, and was admitted to Orleans county bar Dec. 31, 1864. He soon re- moved to Baltimore, and entered upon the practice of law, which he has continued to the present day with success. He is con- nected with several corporations as counsel, and defended Gen. E. B. Tyler in the investi- gation of charges against him while post- master at Baltimore, during President Hayes' administration, which lasted many weeks and attracted general attention throughout the country. The President personally re- viewed the testimony, and General Tyler was completely exonerated.

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In politics he is a Republican, and takes a lively interest in the political questions of the day, occasionally going on the stump. He was in 1893 the candidate of his party for judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city.

He left college in 1862 and returning to his home at Coventry, in a week's time he recruited a company of volunteers known as Co. H, 15th Vt. Vols., of which he was unan- imously elected a captain and served until mustered out June 16, 1863. After the St. Albans raid, under order from the Governor of Vermont, he enlisted and commanded a company of militia to protect the banks and other property from apprehended danger.

Mr. Wright is a Mason. He is also Past Commander Custer Post, G. A. R., and was at one time judge advocate general of the department. For many years he has been a member of the board of managers of the Society for Protection of Children ; likewise the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

He was married at Newport, Sept. 11, 1866, to Mary E., daughter of Isaac and Abi- gail (Stevens) Collier. Their only child died in infancy.

YOUNG, JOHN, was born in Chelsea in 1802 ; when quite a boy he removed with his father to New York state and received a common school education at Conesus ; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1829 ; was in the state Legislature in 1831,

1844 and 1845 ; was a representative in Congress, from New York, from 1841 to 1843; Governor of the state from 1847 to 1849, and assistant treasurer of the United States in New York City, at the time of his death, which occurred April 23, 1852.

INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES.

PART I.

THE FATHERS.

PAGE

Allen, Ethan.

20 Chandler, Thomas

Payne, Elisha ..

Allen, Ehenezer

Dewey, Rev. Jedediah. .

Phelps, Charles ..

Allen, Ira.

43 Enos, Gen. Roger.

Robinson, Samuel

Allen, Heman. .

53 Fay, Dr. Jonas

Robinson, Gov. Moses. 55

A Group of Tories,.

69 Fay, Col. Joseph

Robinson, Jonathan. 57

Breakenridge, James

50 Fassett, Capt. John.

Robinson, John S.

Baker, Remember

51 Fletcher, Gen. Samuel.

Rowley, Thomas .

Bowker, Joseph ..

Herrick, Col. Samuel

Safford, Geu. Samuel .. 66

Bayley, Gen. Jacob.

Haswell, Anthony.

Spaulding, Lieut. Leonard ..

Chittenden, Thomas

39 Hazeltine, John ..

Townshend, Micah .

Cochran, Robert

52 .Jones, Dr. Renben

67 Warner, Seth ..

Clark, Nathan

61 Knowlton, Luke

Walbridge, Ebenezer

Carpenter, Benjamin

63 Marsh, Joseph.

THE GOVERNORS.

Brigham, Paul.

71 | Fairbanks, Horace ..

101 |Royce, Stephen 91

Butler, Ezra ...

80 Galusha, Jonas

Slade, William.

Chittenden, Martin

76 Hall, Hiland . .

93 Smith, John Gregory . 96

Crafts, Samuel C ..

81 Jennison, Silas H.

Smith, Israel . 73

Converse, Julius

100 Mattocks, John

85 Skinner, Richard 77

Coolidge, Carlos .

88 Palmer, William A

Tichenor, Isaac .. 72

Dillingham, Paul

96 Paine, Charles

85 Van Ness, Cornelius P ..

Eaton, Horace

87 Page, John B.

Williams, Charles Kilhorn SS

Fairhanks, Erastus

Peck, Asahel

100

Washburn, Peter T ... 99

Fletcher, Ryland

SENATORS IN CONGRESS.

Bradley, Stephen R.

104 Fisk, James. .

111 | Poland, Luke P .. 124

Brainerd, Lawrence ..

120 Foot, Solomon ..

118

Seymour, Horatio .. 113

Chipman, Nathaniel ..

108

Paine, Elijah. 107 Swift, Benjamin. 115

Chase, Dudley

111 ; Prentiss, Samuel. 114

Upham, William. 117

Collamer, Jacob. 121 Phelps, Samuel S 116

REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.

Allen, Heman 144 Hubbard, Jonathan H. 135

Olin, Gidcon .. 134

Allen, Heman, of Milton ..

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Men of Vermont : an illustrated biographical history of Vermonters and sons of Vermont, Part 124

Author: Ullery, Jacob G., comp; Davenport, Charles H; Huse, Hiram Augustus, 1843-1902; Fuller, Levi Knight, 1841-1896 Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Brattleboro, Vt. : Transcript Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 842

Author: Ullery, Jacob G., comp; Davenport, Charles H; Huse, Hiram Augustus, 1843-1902; Fuller, Levi Knight, 1841-1896
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Brattleboro, Vt. : Transcript Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 842