1795-1895. One hundred years of American commerce ... a history of American commerce by one hundred Americans, with a chronological table of the important events of American commerce and invention within the past one hundred yeras
ed. by Chauncey M. Depew ... Issued in commemoration of the completion of the first century of American commercial progress as inaugurated by the treaty ... negotiated by Chief Justice Jay and approved by President Washington in 1795.
"Clyde was hatched late in the spring the year Ada was eight years old. Ada loved him from the first moment she saw him and watched with increasing fondness as Clyde grew into a fine mallard drake. They became constant companioins in all the many summer joys of Pennsylvania Dutch farm life." [book jacket]
