Vermilion Ohio, A Good Place to Live
SHOPTALK: HAPPY NEW YEAR! On my home desk this week is a nice pic taken the day after Christmas: Our cat, Jebediah Bubblehead, in deep sleep after a tough day of watching everyone opening gifts. He’s looking forward to 2018.
On the shop desk this week is a pic of the outside of our cottage taken about the same time as the one of Jeb asleep on the couch. I wanted to catch a pic of the first real snow at the Olympic Club before anyone or anything tracked through it.
There is hope for the New Year in these pix.
At 8:06 a.m. on Thursday it’s 1˚ (actually temp. reading). I finally broke out the long-johns. I may never take them off.
Not too long ago I was happy that I didn’t live in the south, given all the weather problems there. But now?
Baby, it’s cold outside!
Historically,
HARBORVIEW: On August 3, 1905 the following article appeared one of the inside pages of The Vermilion News: “165 guests registered at the Lakeside Inn between July 19 and Aug. 2. Among those there at present are Dr. Weed and family and Com. Wakefield and family of Cleveland, and Captains J. Beeman and Geo Eroe of the same city. A party of twelve Pittsburgers are expected Saturday.” There was nothing particularly unusual about the piece at the time. Commodore F.W. Wakefield had become a regular visitor to the town and the hotel during the past year. But 108 years after the fact? – That’s a different story.
The Lakeside Inn is currently known as the Gilchrist House on Huron Street behind (west) of the building most recently known as the Great Lakes Historical Society’s Marine Museum. At the time the above article appeared in the local paper a lady – Miss Cora Thompson – owned a home on the property. It had been her family for a long time. She was born in 1868, and her father, a Vermilion ship’s carpenter named Miles Thompson (VPJ 10/13/2011) had very likely had hand in its construction. The view of the lake it provided was spectacular.
Just a week after the article sited above appeared in the paper the following little blips appeared: “F.W. Wakefield of Cleveland was in town today.” And further on in the same edition: “It is reported that Miss Cora Thompson has sold her place to Commodore Wakefield, of the Lakewood Yacht Club, for a summer home.”
Again, there was nothing particularly unusual about anyone buying a home in Vermilion to be used as a summer residence. There were already several of those about town in 1905 – most notably that of Captain Young’s house on the southwest corner of Decatur and Ohio streets. Vermilion was, after all, a pleasant little village for a family to spend their summers. Linwood Park gave strong testimony to that. Adding Commodore Wakefield’s family to the list was a most welcome development.
Aside of his apparent love for sailing it’s hard to say if many Vermilion residents knew precisely what Wakefield did for a living. And contrary to what some might have thought, he knew what hard work was about. When he was just 15 years old he had worked along side his father, William, in a Cleveland Wire Mill to help support his mother and his two younger sisters and brother. Perhaps it was this that eventually led him to establishing his own manufacturing business. By 1900 he had established a brass lighting manufacturing company in Cleveland; and by 1907 he had sold that business and opened the F.W. Wakefield Brass Works in Vermilion. And for a better part of the 20th century his company – in one form or another – was a major economic contributor to the community of Vermilion.
But to return to 1905, and the August 31st edition of The News: Amongst the “Locals” that told everyone in town where Mr. and Mrs. “Local Persons” went on Sunday last and with whom was the following report: “A 50-foot flagpole is being placed near the lakefront on Com. Wakefield’s place. Messrs Giddings and Quigley are doing the work.”
The summer home was razed around 1908-09 and a grand all concrete permanent home – one the family would come to call “Harborview” – was erected in its stead. And as the accompanying snapshot taken in 1918 plainly shows the aforementioned flagpole remained for at least a few years after. More than a century has now passed into the yesteryear. Today “Harborview”, once the dream home of a prosperous English immigrant and his family, sits largely unoccupied; waiting for new dreams to be dreamt on it, and better (or worse) days to come.
PUT THIS IN YOUR BOX OF MEMORIES: This past week a committee decided that all things considered Harborview, the old F.W. Wakefield home should be razed. [NOTE: A committee should consist of no more than three persons, two of whom are absent.]You will note that I am not a fan of the decision. Although to be fair they were given a choice: Pay five million bucks to restore the place or build a new functional building for a great deal less. I don’t believe anyone can question their decision given this set of facts. And though I question the renovation cost I’m obviously not an architect. Ergo, they must know something I do not.
Anyway, forget all that. It’s a done deal. Harborview is history – or soon will be. So, put this pic and note about the home in your box of memories for Auld Lang Syne.
DR. JAS. QUIGLEY: An obituary printed on the front page of the Sandusky Daily Register in the December 18th edition of 1874 called him as “a man of peculiar character”. Whether that was intended as a compliment or not remains to be seen. The article went on to describe him as “stern and inflexible in his belief of the right, and blunt and outspoken in his sentiments of all subjects.” It also goes on to say that his ”bluntness was by some called rough.”
To persons familiar with the British comedy-drama television series “Doc Martin” Dr. Quigley’s character as described by the Register obit may seem somewhat familiar. But however amusing the fictional doctor’s eccentricities may be for his fans one must seriously doubt that many of Dr. Quigley’s patients were equally amused by his personality quirks.
Be that as it was the report of his demise that appeared in the same newspaper two days earlier was somewhat more objective: “Dr. Quigley, one of the pioneers of this county [Erie] and a highly respected citizen, died at his residence in Vermilion on last Friday, of organic disease of the heart.”
Whether Dr. James Quigley was a “highly respected citizen” or a “stern and inflexible” curmudgeon / “tosser” may be hard to determine from all that was said of him. To be fair it is likely he was some of both. But in the end it doesn’t really matter. Like it or not – like him or not – one thing is perfectly clear he was beyond the shadow of any doubt an asset to Vermilion’s pioneer community.
Born in Warren, Trumbull County Ohio September 25, 1806 his family eventually migrated to Black River (i.e. Lorain), and later to North Amherst (i.e. Amherst) in Lorain County. James studied medicine under the tutelage of an early Amherst physician named Luman Tenny coming to Vermillion in 1838.
He married a local girl named Deborah Johnson on May 3, 1841. Mrs. Quigley had come of age on the family farm at the little settlement we currently know as Volunteer Bay a few miles west of Vermilion. The couple had six children, four dying in infancy. Two sons, Joseph and Reber survived and grew up in Vermilion. Deborah died prematurely on December 13, 1853 at the age of 38 years. In 1854 he married a gal named Jane Phillips and the couple had a daughter they christened with the unusual name of Nebraska.
On Friday December 11, 1874 Dr. Quigley succumbed to what was described in blunt detail as extremely severe heart, lung and liver problems. Methinks the doctor would have especially appreciated the forthright narrative of that which killed him in the piece that appeared in his front-page obituary. It’s almost as if the doctor had authored the newspaper accounting of those specific problems himself: “Heart, hypertrophied and dilated to nearly twice its normal size…” etc.
Anyway, when the dust settled – the newspaper read and tossed in the trash – a funeral service was conducted in his Vermilion home and he was removed to Amherst where he was laid to rest at the “old family burying place.” Peculiar character or not, Dr. James Quigley played a vital role in the history of our town. However, it may very well be that if he’d not been so peculiar nobody would’ve ever remembered him at all.
YESTERYEAR'S NEWS: The following clips are dictated transcriptions from past issues of The Vermilion News. I think you will find them both interesting and fun...
Bernard S. Smiley of Shinrock has brought suit for divorce from his wife, Florence, charging her with neglect of their home and child. He also seeks for the custody of the child. Mrs. Smiley lives at Stoutsburg, Pa.
The divorce suit of E. A. Burrell against Emma Burrell was on trial this week. The plaintiff is 69 and an inmate of the Soldiers Home. His wife is past 60 and lives in Oberlin. Burrell charges gross neglect. Mrs. Burrell denies this and thinks he wants to marry again and deprive her of the $15 a month pension.
[NOTE: The Mrs. must be joking.]
Mrs. Regina Howe, widow of motorman Howe who met death in a wreck at Undergrade has brought suit against the Lake Shore Electric for $10,000 damages in Erie County court. The case will probably be an interesting one as the company will contend that Howe was either asleep or dead at his post while Mrs. Howe will try to prove that the mechanism of the car was out of order and uncontrollable making it impossible to slacken the speed of the car in taking the sharp curve.
At the conclusion of an interesting hearing in the Court of Common Pleas Thursday, Judge Reed gave the custody of Ruth and Herbert, children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hahn, to Mrs. L. L. Cummins, of South Amherst, the mother of Mrs. Hahn. Hahn sought the decree. He instituted habeas corpus proceedings recently in the courts of Erie County.
Albert Wittmer, one of our genial R. F. D. men met with an accident this morning causing him to return to town. In attempting to drive up to a small box mailbox his wagon was broken and put out of commission. This is a hint that if the farmer desires good and propt mail service he should clear away the snow from the mailboxes so the carrier can reach them without trouble.
This picture gives an idea of what the three fish boats passed through on the homeward trip from Erie, and was taken a few hours after the boat arrived. Capt. Fred Driscoll brought the tug in. The other tugs were partially relieved the ice while still on the lake and were brought in by Capts Parsons and Gallbraith.
William and Carl Deist, age 17 and 8 respectively, sons of County auditor John Deist, owe their lives to the heroic work of Capt. Otto Biemiller of the tug Silver Spray, who rescued them from drowning in the Jackson Street slip Friday morning.
The two boys were skating in the slip. When Carl broke through William went to his assistance and the ice under him also gave way. His little brother seized him and clung fast while William battled to save him. The cries of the boys were heard by Capt. Biemiller who was in on the Silver Spray and he ran out on the ice to assist them. The ice under him a cracked but he managed to reach a solid cake and lying down on his stomach he reached out and grasp Carl, hauling him up on the solid ice. William was then free and could swim and the captain helped him out on the ice.
The rescue was a hazardous one for if Capt. Biemiller had walked across this ice, instead of running, he too would have gone into the water.
– Sandusky Register
The warehouse of the Lorain Brewing company was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. The building was located near the N.P. track and was a two-story structure. It was used to store barroom fixtures, and more than a dozen complete sets were destroyed beside 500 cases of fancy export beer. There had been no fire in the building for a long while and it is believed that an incendiary is responsible for the blaze.
The district school No. 1 of Black River Township will be reopened 1st of January after being closed for about eight years, with Mrs. Miss Ethel Dute as teacher.
The funeral of Mrs. Carol Gerlach was held on Sunday at the St. Peter's Church, Rev. Lindenmeyer officiating.
Harmon Minch of the U.S. Navy is home on a furlough.
Mr. M. Malley is reported seriously ill at his home.
Frank White met with a slight accident at the Perry-Fay works at Elyria Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Towne received a baby daughter into their home as a Christmas present on the evening of the 24th.
The westbound track of the L. S. & M. S. Ry. was blocked for three hours Saturday afternoon between here and Brownhelm owing to a broken truck on a freight.
A big sleigh ride load of young people enjoyed a ride to the home of A. Fell at Henrietta Tuesday evening. A fine lunch was served and a good time reported by all.
George Schumacher of S. Amherst was found in a snowdrift near the home of R. H. Leonard early Tuesday morning nearly frozen to death. He was taken to the home of his brother and cared for. He had been out sleighing the evening before and was walking home.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. William Holl a daughter Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wikel spent Christmas at Berlin, guest of the former's parents.
The Sweet Sixteen Club held their annual Yuletide entertainment at the home of Mrs. Breckenridge Tuesday evening.
Clayton Dale, age 21, only son of Andrew Dale of this place was killed in a wreck on the W. & L. E. Near Mansfield, last Wednesday night. He was a switchman on the road. Beside the father one sister, Mrs. Howard McMillan survives.
The new bridge at Mill Hollow is now completed. It was in use for the first time Saturday and was indeed welcome a welcome Xmas present.
Mr. Patrick, the boss of the bridge gang was taken suddenly ill with peritonitis at the home of Lewis and Charles Bacon. He is reported better now.
We are having fine sleighing in our neighborhood now.
J. A. Bernard, 72, a retired grocer of Oberlin was adjudged insane and committed to the asylum at Massillon Tuesday.
Ugene [sic] Wetherlow has been confined to his house with rheumatism for a while.
Miss Effie Slocum spent Christmas in some dusty.
Simon Steffen was born at Biel, Canton Berne, Switzerland, on September 8, 1862. At the age of 16 he united with the Reformed church there. When he was 20 years of age he left his home country and came to America and to Ohio. Here he lived in Henrietta for three years, after which he came to Axtel.
On April 6, 1886, he was united in marriage with Sarah Gegenheimer. But one child, Anna, was born to them. Two years ago he came to Vermilion where he lived until his death. On the morning of December 24, 1909, he passed quietly away at the age of 47 years 3 mo. and 18 da. He leaves to mourn their loss of a wife and a daughter, and also a brother and three sisters still in Switzerland.
Funeral services were held from the home on South St., Monday at 10 o'clock, Rev. A. C. Pretzer officiating. M. W. A. Of which he was a member attended in a body and held services at the cemetery.
Happy New Year to all.
Most everyone who owns a cutter or a bob is making good use of it and enjoying the fine sleighing.
Wm. Fey was busy Sunday with his new bob. Everybody have a ride.
Wm. Miller is busy drawing wood from G Shuster.
G. D. Zimmerman operator at the Diamond Cheese Co.'s factory made a flying trip to Florence.
Roy Bristow who is engaged in the poultry business is paying as high as 16c a pound. Give him a call.
Good sleighing through West Vermilion.
A. R. Rumsey is filling his icehouse with a good 6-inch ice.
Henry Ackerman is quite sick. He is under the care of Dr. Woesner of Huron.
Too much praise cannot be given Miss Nuhn for the way she entertained the people in school District No. 3. It was certainly fine.
A week ago last Sunday night a Agosta Dema, a Sandusky Italian was shot down on the street near his home with no clue to the perpetrator. Last Monday an Italian Frank Adignani, was arrested and after several hours "sweating" by the chief of police Wellington, admitted he committed the deed, and said he was hired by the wife of the murdered man. Mrs. Dema and her lover, Jim Primer. All are in jail.
A reconciliation was affected between Ruby Dimon and her husband James B. Dimon Monday morning and Monday afternoon it was officially announced that the divorce court case which had been filed by Mrs. Dimon had been "settled out of court."
Mrs. Dimon filed her petition some time ago and in it she claimed among other things, that her husband had struck because she remonstrated with him for beating a cow.
The directors of the Erie County banking company have declared the usual semi annual dividend of 3 1/2%, payable January 1, 1910.
The Bridge at Mill Hollow is now passable, but the finishing touches will not be put on until spring.
Mr. Carter the fur buyer is buying and selling about $200 of fur each week so far.
Captains Wm D. Ames and J. H. Driscoll came to Vermilion Tuesday, from Cleveland. Capt. Ames return home but Capt. Driscoll expects to remain here for a few days.
Mr. F. E. Carter of Furnace Corners bought Jake Parker's fur. Mr. Parker had the largest catch of anyone in this section.
The fishermen and Iceman have smiling faces this weather. The Iceman H. H. Patton, will however, unless conditions change, be obliged to cut a channel and secure his ice at a disadvantage as it is not suitable at the icehouse having been badly broken up. This condition also exist that Kishman Fish Co.'s plant. The Driscoll Company has filled its icehouse and will store some 200 or 300 tons in a temporary house. The Leidheiser Bros. Fish co. is also secured an ample supply.
Frank McConnelly, manager of the Lake Erie fish company at Erie was home for a few days and ate Christmas dinner together with the rest of the family at Dr. Pelton's.
A party of Vermilionites took advantage of the fine sleighing last evening and spent the time till we small hours with Mr. and Mrs. John Hull of North Road. A fine lunch was partaken of and a general good time is reported.
Mr. and Mrs. George Fischer have for their guests this week Mrs. George Bunn and daughter and Miss Katherine Liverman of Adrian Mich. and Mrs. C.E. Losey of Chicago, Ill. Mr. Henry N. Fischer and daughter Hazel of Webville, Ky. were their guests also the first of the week.
Lloyd Curtis, victim of overwork in Pittsburgh fog and smoke will spend the month of January at his home taking a much-needed rest.
Mrs. Adaline Akers is quite sick at the home of her sister, Mrs. Kenyon, where she came to spend the holidays, she is accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Edna Seigel.
The following is taken from Thursday's Cleveland Press:
AL Rumsey, shipping master of the Late Carriers Association and once an athlete of wide reputation, has performed a feat of dieting and weight reduction, that doctors say, is remarkable.
Rumsey is 63, yet within the last three months he has reduced his weight from 246 stripped to 197, and will continue the process of reduction until he reaches 185.
Not only has Rumsey taken off 49 pounds but he has reduced his waist measurement 12 inches and he wears a 15 1/2 collar instead of an 18.
Rumsey entered upon a course of training, not to get into condition to perform feats of skill and strength, but to recover his health. Doctors told him it was a fight for his life.
Rumsey has recovered his health, but the most wonderful thing about his condition is that he has regained much of his muscular strength and is engaged daily in feats that would stagger a man of half his age.
Businessmen with rounded tummies have been so astounded that they have been pleading with him for a course of training. Among them is Frank Rockefeller, whom Rumsey has promised to take in hand.
"About 5 AM September 16, I was awakened by an attack of heart trouble," said Rumsey. "I thought I was a goner, members of the household summoned the physician and he pulled me through after several hours hard work. He said I must did lie still for 30 to 60 days."
“The next day, though as sick as I've ever been in my life, I went to New York to consult a heart specialist, who told me I was suffering from enlargement of the heart, and I must either get ready for a funeral or cut off about 45 pounds of fat.”
“I laughed and told him I’d take off the fat, but he shook his head seriously and told me what a job it was for a man of my years. I asked him if he thought I had the nerve, and he answered that he didn't.”
“I came home and began to diet in the same way I did years ago when training for athletic contests. Here was my daily program: rise at 5 AM and take a tablespoonful of Rochelle salts; 7 AM, breakfast, 3 tablespoons of malted milk in hot water; 9 AM, 1 tablespoon of full of castor oil; noon, 3 tablespoons of malted milk in hot water; 6 PM, chicken broth and small pieces of chicken. Drink one pint of hot water at bedtime, half a pint in the middle of the night in a half a pint early in the morning.”
“A few weeks ago I changed the 6 PM meal and now eat a couple of pieces of roast and a small piece of beef steak or chicken and drink a cup of tea.”
“Not another thing have I taken since September 20, I have been I heavy smoker for years and I chopped my cigars to one Havana day, with an occasional all tobacco cigar about as large as a cigarette.”
“I measured the distance around the elevators in the Western Reserve and I walked four miles there on the days I was not on my farm and Vermilion. When in the country I walk eight or twelve miles a day. Of late I have been walking to Wade Park and back every morning.”
“I had also engaged a number of exercises at home. One of the best is lying on the back and raising one leg until it is perpendicular dropping it to within two or 3 inches of the floor and holding it at that point, and raising the other leg and dropping it almost to the floor and repeating until tired. Another is known as the get dip. Lying flat on the floor stomach down and raising the body on the on the arms. I also did ‘shadow fighting’ and skipped the rope.
“I began my exercises mildly at first. I began to feel better within two or three days. Within a couple of weeks I could feel my muscles growing harder. I began to have a desire to walk and box and run, just like a kid.
“Surplus energy began to pile up and I increased my exercise, Wednesday I walked to Wade Park in the morning, skipped the rope 685 times without a miss in the afternoon, boxed 20 minutes with a husky young fellow of 180 pounds’ and a quarter of an hour's exercise raising the legs and doing the dip."
“Were you hungry on none that light diet?"
“Was I hungry?" Rumsey repeated. One night I dreamed I was in England, which I once toured and some fellows brought a 20-pound roast beef. It was on a spindle and they rolled it around and asked me where I'd like to have a piece cut off."
“I told them and they handed me a knife and told me to cut. The knife proved to be wood – and, I woke up. “Which will it be – roast beef or life?” I asked myself. “But when you hear the gong ring” – and Rumsey put his hand to his heart – “you forget about the roast beef. So I rolled over and went to sleep.”
“But I don't feel it now, I can sit down to a table loaded with food and not be tempted."
Rumsey had all his clothes made over made over excepting an overcoat that was made last summer. He has left it unchanged to show how he has shrunk. He can wrap it around his body almost twice.
Hmmmmmm....
COOL: This is just stuff for your history notebook.
…Late in February, 1862, the command reached Nashville, Tenn., where it remained some weeks, and then proceeded to Savannah, reaching that place on April 5, much worn and fatigued by marching over heavy roads, and wading through streams and marshes.
The regiment next participated in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, losing over thirty in killed and wounded, and afterward skirmished with the enemy on the march toward Corinth, which latter place the Twenty-fourth was one of the first regiments to occupy. In October the regiment was assigned to the Fourth Division of the Twenty-first Army Corps. At Perryville, on the 8th, it was present on the field but not actively engaged.
In December General Rosecrans moved toward Nashville. The Twenty-fourth was in an exceedingly unfortunate condition. Company A was on detached duty, and the balance of the command numbered less than three hundred and fifty serviceable men, sickness, discharges for disability, transfers, losses, and desertions having reduced the regiment to that number. However, with that strength the Twenty-fourth went into the battle of Stone River, Tenn., on the last day of the year 1862. It was given an important position in this battle, and held firmly, doing excellent service, but losing heavily, there being nearly ninety lost in killed and wounded, or about one-fourth its entire strength. Next came Woodbury, on the 24th of January, with but slight loss.
No further important battle was participated in by the regiment until the Chickamauga engagement in which it also lost a number of officers and men. After this was over Colonel Higgins and Major McClure were "permitted" to resign from the service. At Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863, at Mission Ridge, November 25, and at Taylor's Ridge, Ga., November 27, the regiment was engaged, after which it was assigned to the Second Division of the Fourth Corps. The final battle in which it participated was at Buzzard Roost, or Rocky Face Ridge, on February 25-27, 1864, and in April following was sent to Chattanooga to await orders "for muster out. In June it proceeded to Columbus, and was, excepting Company D, mustered out by companies, at different dates, from June 17 to 24, by reason of expiration of term of service. Company C was mustered out on June 22, by J. M. Eyster, captain Eighteenth United States Army.
Jacob Ammen, colonel, promoted to brigadier-general United States Volunteers, July 16, 1862.
Frederick C. Jones, colonel; promoted to colonel May 14, 1862; killed December 31, 1862, at battle of Stone River, Tennessee.
David J. Higgins, colonel; promoted from captain company C January 1, 1863; resigned October 23, 1863.
THE OLD VERMILION LIGHT: Became the East Charity Shoal Light located near the St. Lawrence River entrance in northeastern Lake Ontario. It is located in New York State near the Canada-U.S. border.
It served as the Vermilion Light from 1877 to 1929 when it was observed to be leaning and unsafe at the end of the western breakwall after an ice storm. It was then dismantled and moved.
It may interest some to know that the light was constructed from a recast obsolescent cannon after the Battle of Fort Sumter during the American Civil War and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Although privately owned it continues to function as a navigational aid.
One day a man went to an auction. While there, he bid on a parrot. He really wanted this bird, so he got caught up in the bidding. He kept on bidding, but kept getting outbid, so he bid higher and higher and higher.
Finally, after he bid way more than he intended, he won the bid - the parrot was his at last!
As he was paying for the parrot, he said to the auctioneer, "I sure hope this parrot can talk. I would hate to have paid this much for it, only to find out that he can't talk!"
"Don't worry," said the auctioneer, "He can talk. Who do you think kept bidding against you?"
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends DENNIS LAMONT and ALBERT DOANE. It'd make a nice gift.
Another great book with Vermilion Roots is, "Grandma's Favorites: A Compilation of Recipes from MARGARET SANDERS BUELL by Amy O'Neal, ELIZABETH THOMPSON and MEG WALTER (May 2, 2012). This book very literally will provide one with the flavor of old Vermilion. And ye can also find it at Amazon.com. Take a look.
MARY WAKEFIELD BUXTON'S LATEST BOOK "The Private War of William Styron" is available in paper back for $15.00 with tax and can be purchased locally at Buxton and Buxton Law Office in Urbanna, ordered from any book store, Amazon.com or Brandylane Publishing Company. A signed, hard back edition may be purchased from Mrs. Buxton directly for $30.00 by writing her at Box 488, Urbanna, VA 23175 and including $6.00 for tax, postage and packaging.
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