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GENEALOGICAL 


MEMORIAL  HISTORY 


STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY 


A    RECORD    OF   THE   ACHIEVEMENTS    OF    HER    PEOPLE  IN    FHE 

MAKING  OF  A  COMMONWEALTH  AND  THE 

FOUNDING  OF  A  NATION 


COMPILED  UNDER  THE  EDITORIAL  SUPERVISION  OF 

FRANCIS  BAZLEY  LEE 
VOLUME  III 


ILLUSTRATED 


NEW  YORK 
LEWIS  HISTORICAL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

1910 


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Copyright  1910 

BY 

Liiwis  Historical  PuBLisiiiNt;  Company. 


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STATE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


Among  the  numerous  families  of 
SMITH     Smiths  which  have  been  identified 
with  New  Jersey  and  Salem  coun- 
ties none   has  a  more  honorable  record  than 
that  branch  of  the  family  which  is  at  present 
under  consideration, 

( I )  John,  son  of  William  Smith,  the  founder 
of  the  family  in  America,  was  born  in  county 
Kent,  England,  in  1645.  He  was  one  of  the  ex- 
ecutors of  John  Fenwick,  and  in  1685  he  and  his 
wife  came  to  America  on  board  the  ship  "Ariel," 
Kdmund  Daily,  master.  They  landed  at  New 
L'astle,  June,  1695.  The  following  August, 
Smith  same  to  Salem  and  purchased  one  thous- 
and acres  of  land  in  Upper  Mannington  from 
Samuel  and  Anna  Hedge,  and  here  he  made 
his  permanent  home.  From  that  time  to  this 
the  place  has  been  known  as  Smithfield.  It  is 
said  that  he  was  a  relative  as  well  as  a  friend 
and  an  executor  of  John  Fenwick,  and  the 
testimony  of  his  contemporaries  is  that  he  was 
possessed  of  more  than  ordinary  interest  and 
business  capacity.  In  1673  John  Smith  mar- 
ried Susanna,  daughter  of  Edward  Alarcy,  and 
they  had  two  children  born  in  England  who 
died  the  first  year  after  they  arrived  in  this 
country.  Their  children  born  in  America  were: 
I.  Susanna  born  eighth  month  8,  1689.  2.  Jo- 
seph, referred  to  below.  3.  John,  Jr.,  born 
1693.  4.  Samuel,  1696.  5.  Elizabeth,  born 
third  month  3,  1703,  married  Judge  John,  son 
of  Samuel  Bacon,  of  Cohansey. 

(II)  Joseph,  second  child  and  eldest  son  of 
John  and  Susanna  (Marcy)  Smith,  was  born 
in  1691,  and  by  his  wife  had  one  son  Thomas, 
referred  to  below. 

(III)  Thomas,  only  son  of  Joseph  Smith, 
of  Smithfield.  married,  in  1740,  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Elisha  and  Abigail  (Davis)  Bassett. 
She  was  born  in  1719  and  was  the  eldest  child 
in  a  family  of  thirteen.  Children  of  Thomas 
and  Sarah  (Bassett)  Smith  were :  i.  Williairi, 
referred  to  below.  2.  David,  born  seventh 
month  17,  1744,  married  Alary,  daughter  of 
James  Jr.  and  Mary  (Oakford)  Chamblcss,  of 
Alloway's  Creek.  3.  Thomas,  born  first  month 
25,  1747,  married  Hannah  Shillis. 

(IV)  WilHam,  eldest  child  of  Thomas  and 
Sarah     (Bassett)     Smith,    was    born    eighth 


month  31,  1741.  He  was  a  captain  during  the 
revolutionary  war  and  served  with  great  dis- 
tinction in  the  American  army.  Many  anec- 
dotes have  been  preserved  which  prove  his 
bravery  and  presence  of  mind,  and  the  devo- 
tion which  he  inspired  in  his  men.  The  fol- 
lowing is  taken  from  pages  418-19,  Historical 
Collections  of  New  Jersey,  by  John  W.  Bar- 
ber: "During  these  petty  manoeuvres  of  the 
enemy,  the  spirit  of  our  soldiers  was  excited 
to  such  a  degree,  as  that  there  appeared  to  be 
an  almost  unanimous  disposition  in  the  militia 
to  go  over  the  bridge  and  chastise  them.  The 
most  wary  of  the  officers  opposed  the  move- 
ment proposed,  because  the  orders  of  the  com- 
manding officer  had  been  peremptory  that  they 
were  to  stand  their  ground  and  defend  the 
bridge  to  the  last  extremity,  should  the  enemy 
attempt  to  force  a  passage  in  his  absence. 
During  this  parley  among  thein,  a  little 
Frenchman  by  the  name  of  Decoe,  a  lieutenant, 
who  was  full  of  fight,  represented  to  Captain 
William  Smith,  then  the  senior  officer  present, 
how  easy  it  would  be  for  them  to  go  over  and 
'drub  those  insolent  rascals.'  Captain  Smith 
being  equally  animated,  forthwith  mounted  his 
horse,  and  called  upon  his  men  to  follow.  They 
immediately  obeyed  and  marched  on,  or  rather 
huddled  promiscously  along  the  road,  with 
scarcely  any  military  order.  The  decoying 
enemy,  seeing  the  confused  manner  in  which 
the  militia  were  approaching  them,  feigned  a 
retreat.  Captain  Smith,  being  in  advance  of 
his  men.  was  calling  upon  them  to  hasten  on, 
saying,  'We  will  have  them  before  they  get  to 
Millhollow,' — a  ravine  over  which  the  then 
road  leading  to  Salem  passed,  and  about  two 
miles  from  Quinton's  bridge.  During  this 
higgledy-piggledy  marching,  if  I  may  so  call  it, 
no  one  thought,  while  passing,  to  examine 
either  the  barn,  dwelling-house,  or  swamp  in 
the  rear  of  it.  When  the  militia  had  advanced 
some  yards  beyond  the  house,  the  enemy  rose 
up,  and  poured  forth  upon  our  people  a  most 
destructive  fire,  from  the  swamp,  house,  barn, 
and  fences,  under  which  many  of  them  were 
secreted.  The  militia  were  thrown  into  con- 
fusion. It  was  at  this  moment  that  Captain 
Smith  displayed  great  bravery  and  presence  of 


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111111(1  in  alliiiipting  to  rally  his  men.  but  they 
were  s(i  ci>iiii)lctely  surprised  that  he  could 
IK  it  fciriii  tlu-iu  into  line.  The  light-horse 
I'n.iii  the  \vn(id>  iiiiw  came  dashing  among 
llieiu  :  hut  their  horses,  being  untrained,  soon 
frightened  at  the  clash  of  arms  and  report  of 
guns,  and  could  not  be  brought  within  striking 
distance  of  tlu'  sabre,  except  in  a  few  instan- 
ces. (  )ur  i)eople  retreated  fighting  in  small 
.s(|uads.  and  although  at  first  sur])ri.sed,  and 
attacked  in  flank  and  rear,  they  made  good 
their  retreat  across  the  bridge,  but  with  the  loss 
of  between  thirty  and  forty  of  their  comrades, 
t/olonel  I  land,  of  the  Cumberland  militia, 
being  infdrmed  b\'  C'cilonel  Holmes  that  the 
eiieniN  were  in  Salem.  i)Ut  his  regiment  in  mo- 
tion, and  was  hastening  to  join  Holmes  at  Ouin- 
lon's  bridge,  and  by  an  unforseen  I'rovidencc, 
as  designed,  he  arrived  there  at  the  very  moment 
when  the  enemy  was  dealing  death  and  de- 
struction among  our  people.  Immediately  on 
his  arrival,  he  ])laced  his  men  in  the  trenches 
which  our  soldiers  had  but  a  little  while  be- 
fore left,  and  ojiened  upon  the  pursuing  enemy 
sucli  a  continued  and  well-directed  fire,  as 
soon  put  a  ^top  to  their  career,  and  saved  our 
peoiiK-  from  being  cut  to  jiieces.  Hand  had 
with  him  two  jiiecev  of  artillery,  which,  wlien 
they  opened,  soon  obliged  the  enemy  to  face 
about.  Captain  .Smith  had  some  of  his  hair 
shot  away  from  the  back  part  of  his  head,  a 
bullet  grazed  his  loins,  and  his  horse  received 
two  bullets  in  him,  yet  he  carried  his  rider 
safe  over  the  bridge,  and  then  fell  dead  under 
him." 

Cai)tain  .Smiib  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
James  Chambless,  Jr.,  sister  of  his  brother 
David's  wife.  Their  children  were :  I.  Mary, 
married  lolin  b'llet.  2.  Charles.  3.  Washing- 
ton. 4.  James,  married  Hannah  .\llen.  3. 
I'leulah.  married  Jose]ili  H.  Wilson,  of  IMiila- 
delphia.  h.  Clement.  7.  Attila.  Charles  and 
.\ttila  never  married. 

(  \' )  Washington,  son  of  Captain  William 
and  .Sarah  (  Chambless)  Smith,  had  one  son, 
Peter,  referred  to  below.  .After  her  first  hus- 
band's death  Mrs.  Smith  married  (second) 
Joseph   !■"..   I'lrown. 

(  \  1  I  i'eter.  only  son  of  Wasiiington  -Smith, 
was  bnin  in  Salem  county.  Xew  Jersey,  in 
1805.  lie  married  Elizabeth  .\nn  h'llet,  ana 
by  her  had  six  sons:  James  \\'ashington,  Jesse 
Patrick.  Samuel  Patrick.  E])liraini  Carll. 
Thomas  JetTerson,   Peter   Elmer. 

I  \'n  I  Thomas  Jefi'ersoii.  son  of  Peter 
.'^iiiitb.  was  born  in  Salem  county.  New  Jersey. 
.\pril   2\.    1841.  and  is  now  living  in   Bridge- 


t(in.  .\ew  Jersey.  Flntering  Williams  College 
he  graduated  in  1862,  and  finished  his  medical 
studies  in  the  L'niversit\-  of  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  graduated  in  the  class  of  1866.  He 
then  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, and  after  siJending  one  year  in  Camden, 
Xew  Jersey,  settled  permanently  in  ISridgeton, 
where  he  has  led  an  active,  useful  honorable 
and  successful  life.  During  this  time  he  has 
stood  at  the  head  of  his  profession  in  the 
county  and  state,  and  in  more  than  one  direc- 
tion has  been  the  promoter  and  author  of  some 
(jf  the  greatest  of  the  medical  alleviations 
which  the  state  enjoys.  For  many  years  he 
was  the  president  of  the  Cumberland  County 
Medical  .Society,  and  for  ten  years  was  the 
representative  from  that  society  to  the  State 
Medical  Society.  For  eight  years  also  he  was 
chairman  of  the  standard  committee  of  the 
State  Society,  and  edited  its  annual  volumes 
of  transactions.  At  the  meeting  of  that  body 
in  June,  1894,  in  recognition  of  his  ability  he 
was  elected  second  vice-president,  and  after 
serving  for  three  years  in  this  capacity  the  so- 
ciety bestowed  upon  him  the  greatest  gift  in 
its  possession,  the  office  of  president.  Dr. 
Smith  is  also  a  member  of  the  American  Acad- 
emy of  Medicine,  an  organization  composed 
exclusively  of  college  graduates,  and  of  the 
-American  Medical  Association.  In  1893  ^''^ 
was  a  delegate  to  the  Pan-American  Medical 
Congress  held  in  Washington.  From  time  to 
time  he  has  contributed  papers  to  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  various  medical  societies  to  which 
he  belongs,  which  have  been  of  exceptional 
work  and  value.  .After  the  bill  had  been  in- 
troduced and  passed  by  the  New  Jersey  leg- 
islature, in  1894,  establishing  a  home  for  epi- 
leptics, and  the  bill  had  been  voted  by  the  gov- 
ernor. Dr.  Smith,  as  soon  as  he  became  the 
president  of  the  Jersey  State  Medical  Society, 
began  an  active  campaign  to  bring  about  the 
establishment  of  such  a  home,  and  his  first 
address  as  president  before  the  society  on  the 
problem  of  dependency  is  one  of  the  most 
powerful  pleas  and  arguments  ujion  the  sub- 
ject that  has  ever  appeared,  and  its  publication 
and  distribution  was  the  main  cause  for  the 
bringing  about  of  the  establishment  which  he 
desired,  in  1898.  This  finally  took  form  in 
the  New  Jersey  State  \'illage  for  E])ileptics  at 
Skillman.  Xew  Jerse\-.  where  from  three  to 
four  hundred  epileptic  patients  find  a  home 
and  care.  I'"rom  its  incepti(jn  Dr.  Smith  was 
one  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  insti- 
tution and  for  ten  years  was  its  treasurer. 
The  last  ])osition.  however,  owing  to  the  pres- 


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surt  111  uvcrwork,  he  was  ubligcd  to  rt-sigti 
Me  has  also  for  many  years  been  the  president 
of  the  mecHcal  staf?  of  the  Bridgeton  Hospital. 
He  has  been  the  medical  director  of  the  Cum- 
berland County  Hospital.  Dr.  Smith  has  been 
active  and  prominent  in  various  societies  and 
organizations,  among  which  should  be  men- 
tioned the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
the  Grand  .\rmy  of  the  Republic,  of  which  he 
is  an  associate  member,  the  Alasonic  order,  in- 
cluding the  Knights  Templar,  He  is  tlu  prc'-i- 
dent  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  South  Jer- 
se\-  Institute,  and  is  a  member  of  the  board  ot 
directors  of  the  Xew  |erse\-  Training  School 
for  Feeble  Minded  Children.  He  is  a  deacon 
in  the  Raptist  church. 

Thomas  Jefferson  Smith.  M.  I).,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  E.  V.  Glover,  of  Camden. 
Xew  Jersey,  March  28,  1871. 


.According  to  the  records  of  East- 
ll.WD  hampton.  Eong  Island,  the  Hand 
family  came  originally  from  Stan- 
>te(le.  county  Kent,  England,  and  according  to 
ludge  Alfred  Hand,  of  Scranton,  I'enns_\l- 
vania,  their  arms  are  :  .Vrgent.  a  chevron  azure 
between  three  hands  gules.  Crest :  On  a 
wreath  argent  and  a  gules  a  buck  trippant  or. 
(I)  John  Hand,  first  of  the  name  in  this 
country,  appears  on  a  whaling  list  in  South- 
ampton in  1644.  .\t  the  time  of  the  settlement 
of  Eastham])ton,  Eong  Island,  in  i'^48,  he  was._ 
one  of  the  com].)any  from  Southampton  who 
founded  the  new  settlement.  He  was  born  in 
1 61 1  and  died  in  1660,  leaving  seven  children, 
by  his  wife  Alice,  daughter  of  William  .Stan- 
borough,  of  Canons  Ashbie,  England,  sister  to 
Josiah  Stanborougli.  of  Eynn  and  Southamp- 
ton :  I.  John.  2,  Stephen,  died  1693;  had  eight 
children,  one  of  whom.  Joseph,  was  in  West 
|erse\'  in  1 703.  3.  Joseph.  4.  Benjamin,  re- 
moved with  his  family  to  Cape  May  county, 
whence  his  descendants  spread  into  lUirling- 
ton  and  Hunterdon  counties,  Xew  Jersey.  5. 
Thomas,  referred  to  below.  6.  Margaret  or 
Mary.     7.  Shamgar. 

(  II  )  Thomas,  son  of  John  and  .Mice  I  .Stan- 
borough)  Hand,  of  Easthanipton.  Eong  Island, 
removed  from  Long  Island  to  Cape  May  coun- 
ty. Xew  Jersey,  and  died  there  in  1714,  leaving 
a  will  written  October  21.  1709,  and  proved 
Xovember  3,  1714,  in  which  he  mentioned  his 
wife,  three  (laughters  and  four  sons,  two  of 
whom,  however,  he  does  not  name,  and  dis- 
poses of  personal  and  real  property  including 
slaves.  The  witnesses  are  his  brother.  Sham- 
gar  Hand.  John  Townsend  and  Samuel  Mat- 


thews. The  inventory  of  his  personal  estate 
made  ( )ctober  9,  1714,  b)'  John  I'aige  and  John 
Parsons,  amounted  to  £302,  14  shillings.  i'>y 
his  wife  Katharine,  he  had;  i.  John.  2. 
Recompense.  3-4.  Two  sons,  mentioned  but 
not  named  in  his  will,  5.  Deborah.  6.  Alice 
or  Elsie.  7.  I'rudence,  married  a  Crowell.  8. 
Thomas,  referred  to  below. 

(  HI  )  Thomas  (  2  ),  son  of  Thomas  (  i  )  and 
Katharine  Hand,  was  of  age  in  1699,  died 
about  May,  1732.  In  his  will  he  mentioned 
the  following  nine  children:  1.  Thomas  (3). 
2.  lacol).  died  1772:  married  E.xperience 
Crowell.  3.  Eidia.  4.  Lucy.  3.  .^aron.  died 
intestate,  between  1763  and  1768.  0.  Levi,  died 
intestate,  between  1734  and  1738.  7.  Jeremiah, 
of  Maurice  river,  .Salem  count}'.  8.  Mary. 
I).  Jerusha. 

{I\-\  I  Lp  to  tlie  present  lime  no  docu- 
ment has  come  to  light  which  will  enable  us 
to  say  with  certainty  exactly  who  the  descend- 
ants of  the  two  brothers  .\aron  and  Levi  Hand, 
the  sons  of  Thomas  (  2  )  were.  As  the  descend- 
ants of  all  of  Thomas'  other  children  are  ac- 
counted, it  is  absolutely  certain  that  Levi  Hand, 
referred  to  below\  is  the  grandson  of  one  of 
these  two  men  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  a 
search  of  private  papers  and  documents  will 
bring  to  light  not  only  the  proof  neces.sary  to 
establish  the  exact  relationship  of  Levi  to 
.Varon,  and  Levi,  sons  of  Thomas,  but  also  to 
trace  out  the  children  of  both  these  men. 

(  \'I  )  Levi,  grandson  of  either  .Aaron  or 
Levi,  sons  of  Thomas  (2)  Hand,  lived  in 
.Miildle  lownshi]).  Cape  May  county,  Xew  Jer- 
sey, and  wrote  his  will  October  31.  1818.  It 
was  proved  October  26,  1820.  In  it  he  men- 
tions the  following  children :  A  daughter 
Zeviah  (Sophia)  Alatthew :  a  son  Levi,  to 
whose  son  Levi  he  leaves  his  big  Bible :  sons 
Aaron  and  Thomas,  and  grandson  Samuel 
Matthew,  w'ho  is  his  executor.  The  witnesses 
to  this  will  are  Xaomi  Hand.  Jonathan  Hand 
and  Jonathan  Hand.  Jr. 

(  \TI  )  Aaron,  son  of  Levi  Hand,  of  Middle 
township,  names  in  his  will,  which  is  dated 
May  2/,  1845,  and  proved  June  14,  1852,  his 
wife,  Rebecca  Mulford.  his  son.  Aaron  Dennis, 
who  is  to  be  guardian  of  his  son  Thomas,  and 
his  son.  Ephraim  IMulford:  his  daughters. 
.Mary  Hoffman  and  Rebecca  Ann  Wiley.  Re- 
becca's husband  was  James  Wiley  ;  Mary's  was 
George  Hoffman;  Ephraim  Midford  married 
Regina  Cummings.  of  Fishing  Creek,  .\arou 
Dennis,  referred  to  below. 

(  \  111  )  Aaron  Dennis,  son  t>f  Aaron  and 
Rebecca  (  Mulford  )  Hand,  was  born  in  Middle 


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township.  Cape  .May  cininty.  June  29.  1819. 
died  there  Eebtuary  13,  1900.  He  was  a  farmer. 
In  1845  he  married"  Anna  Maria,  daughter 
of  [onathan  and  Azuba  Corneha  (Whitaker) 
i'\)wler.  born  April  19,  1821.  Their  children 
were:  1.  Rebecca  Mulford.  (bed  at  age  of 
eighteen:  married  .\lbion  Hall,  and  had  one 
son.  Swain  Albioii,  died  at  two  months.  2. 
Isaac  Wiley,  a  farmer  of  llurleigh,  Xew  Jer- 
sey ;  married  Clara  \irginia.  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Barbara  (Young)  Shivers,  and 
has  one  child.  Jones  l!ean,  who  married  Eliza 
Xeal.  and  have  one  son.  Aaron  Mulford.  born 
September  24.  1909.  3.  .Anna  .Maria,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Seth  Whidlin.  died  in  infancy.  5. 
.Aaron  Wihnon,  a  ISapti.st  clergyman  living  at 
.Salem.  Xew  Jersey:  married  Matilda  Butler 
Williams,  of  I'aterson,  Xew  Jersey,  and  had 
four  children  ;  .\lexander  Rogers,  died  in  in- 
fancy :  .Mary  Eouise  :  Donald  Dunstan  ;  Ken- 
neth Cromwell.  ().  Mary  Hoffman,  died  at  the 
age  of  seven  years.  7.  Harry  Cobb,  a  druggist 
at  Trenton :  unmarried. 

(IX)  Anna  Maria,  third  child  and  second 
daughter  of  .Aaron  Dennis  and  .\nna  Maria 
(Fowler)  Hand,  was  born  in  Middle  tow-nship. 
near  Cape  May  City,  New  Jersey.  She  was 
sent  to  public  and  private  school  at  Cape  May 
Court  House,  after  which  for  two  years  she 
attended  the  Xew  Jersey  State  Xormal  School 
at  Trenton,  and  then  entered  the  W'omens' 
Medical  College  of  Philadelphia,  taking  the 
full  four  years"  course  and  graduating  with  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  She  then  took 
a  ]iost-graduate  course  at  the  I'olyclinic,  after 
which  she  became  the  resident  physician  in 
full  charge  of  the  Philadelphia  Maternity  Hos- 
pital, at  Eleventh  and  Cherry  streets,  Philadel- 
phia. In  1892  .she  went  to  Cape  May  City 
where  she  entered  upon  the  general  practice  of 
her  profession  and  there  she  has  remained  ever 
since,  gaining  the  affection  and  esteem  of  the 
cfMiinnuiity.  Dr.  Hand  is  the  vice-president 
of  the  Ca])e  May  County  Medical  Society,  and 
is  the  chairman  of  the  local  committee  of  enter- 
tainment which  welcomed  and  entertained  the 
Xew  Jersey  Medical  Society  at  its  meeting  at 
Cape  May  City  in  June,  1909.  .She  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Cape  May  City  P>aptist  church 
and  has  charge  of  the  primary  department  in 
the  Sunday  school. 

Dr.  Eland's  maternal  grandfather,  Josiah 
Whitaker,  was  one  of  the  largest  land  owners 
of  his  day  in  Cumberland  county.  He  w'as  a 
revolutionary  soldier,  having  served  his  coun- 
try during  the  war  of  the  revolution  and  was 
one  of  the  soldiers  under  \Vashington  during 


the  memorable  winter  at  \  alley  Forge.  He 
was  a  pensioned  soldier  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death. 


.Among  the  representative  men 
FULLER  of  New  Jersey  of  the  pres- 
ent day  who  owe  their  origin  to 
those  who  settled  in  other  colonies,  there  is  no 
more  worthy  representative  than  the  Hon. 
Royal  Paran  Tuller,  judge  of  Cumberland 
count)',  Xew  Jersey,  whose  ancestry  belongs  to 
those  hardy  pioneers  who  left  New  England 
and  Xew  York  in  order  to  make  the  wilderness 
of  the  ( )hio  X'alley  blossom  as  a  rose. 

I  1  I  luiiery  Rounds  Tuller,  father  of  Royal 
I'aran  'Fuller,  was  born  at  Genesee,  New  York, 
(jctober  i,  1824.  \\'hile  a  young  man  he  went 
from  Genesee  to  Buft'alo,  from  there  to  Cleve- 
land. Ohio,  and  later  on  removed  to  Fairfield. 
( )hio.  -After  stopping  for  some  time  in  New- 
ark, Ohio,  he  finally  settled  in  Vineland,  New 
Jersey,  in  i8()6.  where  he  remained  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  until  his  death 
in  189 1.  .Shortly  after  removing  to  Ohio  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine  under  Professor 
Beckwith.  of  Cleveland,  and  became  one  of 
the  first  homeopathic  physicians  in  the  United 
States.  His  brothers  and  sisters  also  left  the 
paternal  home  in  Genesee  and  removed  else- 
where. Some  of  the  descendants  of  the  origi- 
nal stock  are  still  living  near  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut. Dr.  Tuller  married  Jane,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Lemuel  Powers,  of  Plymouth,  Ohio, 
whose  mother  was  one  of  the  Bacons  of  New 
England.  Her  Aunt  .Abigail  was  the  wife  of 
Millard  Fillmore,  the  thirteenth  president  of 
the  United  States.  Children:  i.  Malcolm 
Bacon,  born  September  8,  1852,  deceased; 
graduate  of  the  Hahnemann  Homoeopathic 
Medical  College  of  Philadelphia ;  survived  by 
two  children.  Slary  Bacon  and  Agnes.  2.  Hor- 
ace Lamb,  September  16,  1854,  died  in  1894; 
married  .Annie  Jones,  of  Norfolk,  A'irginia. 
3.  Willis  Norman,  Alarch  15,  1857;  an  attor- 
ney at  law ;  married  .Adah  Wilder,  of  Cincin- 
nati. 4.  Royal  Paran,  referred  to  below.  5. 
John  Jay,  December  26,  1861 ;  physician  in 
Philadelphia  :  graduate  of  Hahnemann  Homoeo- 
pathic Medical  College  of  Philadelphia;  has 
taken  post-graduate  courses  at  Paris,  Berlin 
and  Vienna  ;  unmarried.  6.  Daisy  Elinor,  May 
II,  1866;  residing  in  Philadelphia;  married 
Herman  E.  Bonschur,  of  Philadelphia,  who 
has  one  child,  Margaret  Powers. 

(11)  Royal  Paran,  son  of  Emery  Rounds, 
M.  D..  and  Jane  (Powers)  Tuller,  was  born 
at  Xewark,  Ohio,  February   12,   1859,  and  is 


STATE    OF    NEW     |I:RSKV 


853 


now  living  at  \  ineland,  \e\v  Jersey.  For  lii^ 
early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Newark.  Ohio,  and  \'ineland,  New 
lersey,  where  he  came  with  his  father  when 
seven  years  of  age.  This  training  he  supple 
mented  by  private  courses  of  study,  after  which 
he  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
Edwin  M.  Turner.  Esc|nire,  of  Vineland,  and 
tinallv  received  his  certificate  of  proficiency  in 
legal  study  from  the  Hon.  Thomas  W.  Walker, 
of  \'ineland.  In  June,  1881,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney,  but  did  not 
immediately  enter  upon  the  ]>ractice  of  his  pro- 
fession, being  for  a  time  engaged  in  other  pur- 
suits. In  November,  1892,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  counsellor,  since 
which  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  In  politics  Judge  TuUer  is 
a  Republican,  and  he  has  been  active  and  in- 
fluential in  party  affairs,  both  local  and  state. 
For  some  time  he  was  the  tax  collector  for 
both  the  township  and  the  borough  of  \'ine- 
land.  and  he  has  also  been  the  solicitor  for  the 
city  and  the  borough  of  N'ineland.  In  1907 
(Governor  E.  C.  .Stokes  a])pointed  him  judge 
of  Cumberland  county,  and  February  16,  1909, 
he  was  reappointed  to  the  same  position  by 
Governor  Fort.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  Bar  Association  and  of  the  Cumberland 
County  Bar  Association.  He  is  a  firm  Ijeliever 
in  the  benefits  accruing  from  membership  in 
tile  fraternal  orders  and  organizations,  and  he 
is  influential  and  occupies  a  high  ]josition  in 
their  councils.  He  is  a  jiast  worshipful  master 
of  ^'ineland  Lodge,  No.  fx).  Free  and  .\ccepted 
Ma.sons,  of  \'ineland ;  a  member  of  Eureka 
Chapter,  No.  18.  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Vine- 
land-;  a  Knight  Temjilar,  and  a  member  of  the 
( )rder  of  Jimior  Alechanics.  Judge  Tuller  is 
a  member  of  the  .New  Jerusalem  church.  No- 
vember 21.  190^.  he  married  Anna,  daughter 
of  John  Wesley' Smith,  of  Millvillc.  New  Jer- 
sev. 


The  Mays  are  an  old  and  .substantial 
M.V^      New  Jersey  family,  and  for  perhaps 

more  than  a  century  have  been  quite 
numerous  in  Morris  county.  The  earliest 
representative  of  the  particular  family  here 
treated  of  whom  there  appears  to  be  any  reli- 
able account  was  born  in  .Morris  couiitw  but 
there  apjjears  to  be  no  present  means  by  which 
to  determine  just  how  many  generations  of 
his  ancestors  may  have  lived  there  before  his 
time. 

(I|    Isaac     May.    with     whom    our    present 
narrative    nnist   begin.    \\as    born    in    llani.i\cr 


township.  Morris  countw  New  lersev.  previ- 
ous to  the  revolutionary  war.  but  tlie  exact 
perioil  of  his  life  is  not  known,  nor  the  name 
i>f  his  wife,  nor  the  date  of  their  marriage. 
Their  children  were  I'^dward.  Liicv  and  Charles 
II. 

(11)  Charles  11..  son  of  Isaac  May.  was 
born  m  I  lano\er.  New  lersev.  in  17i)(i.  died  in 
raterson  in  185(1.  '  l"-'  ^rst  came  to  I'aterson 
about  1820;  he  then  spent  a  number  of  years 
ill  ( ieorgia  and  again  returned  to  Paterson  and 
s])ent  the  remainder  of  his  days  there.  He  was 
a  harness  maker  by  ]5rincipal  occupation.  He 
is  remembered  as  having  been  a  well  informed 
man  on  all  subjects  of  local  and  general  im- 
portance, having  been  given  a  good  education 
in  the  ci.iinmon  schools  of  his  native  town.  In 
1854  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature  and  ap- 
pears to  have  exercised  consitlerable  influence 
in  political  affairs.  I  le  married  twice  and  had 
children  by  both  <.if  his  wives.  The  name  of 
his  second  wife,  wlumi  he  married  in  New 
^'ork  City  in  1840.  was  Mrs.  Maria  ( Kier- 
steacl  I    \  an    llouteii.    born    b'airfield,    Morris 

county,   in    l8o()  died    1872,   widow   of  

\  an  llouten  and  daughter  of  Henry  W.  Kier- 
stead.  of  h'airfield.  She  was  a  direct  lineal 
descendant  of  .\nneke  Jans,  progenitor  of  one 
of  the  notable  families  of  New  York  City  and 
who  at  one  time  owned  a  considerable  part  of 
the  vast  possessions  of  the  corporation  of 
Trinitx'  Church  and  its  parish.  The  life  and 
historv  of  .\nneke  Jans  is  made  the  subject 
of  s])ecial  mention  elsewhere  in  these  annals, 
hence  needs  no  re])etition  in  this  ]ilace.  By  her 
first  Inisljand  Mrs.  \'an  llouten  had  two  sons, 
W  illiani  \'an  Houten  and  Peter  S.  \^an  Hou- 
len.  I'lV  his  first  marriage  Charles  H.  May  hail 
six  children:  Lucetta.  Jane.  Maria,  Elizabeth, 
lulward  and  I'annie  ;  and  by  his  second  mar- 
riage he  had  one  son,  Charles  H.,  Jr. 

(Ill  )  Charles  II.  ( 2 )  son  of  Charles  H.  (  1  ) 
and  .M.iria  (  Kierstead-\'an  Houten)  May,  was 
lioni  III  I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  .Viiril  8,  1841, 
,111(1  tiT  many  years  previous  to  his  retirement 
from  active  pursuits  was  jjrominently  identified 
with  the  industrial  life  of  that  city.  He  was 
educated  in  jirivate  schools  and  Trenton  .Acad- 
emy, and  after  his  school  days  were  ended  be- 
gan his  business  career  as  bookkeeper  for  Todd 
iS:  Rafferty,  general  machinists  of  Paterson, 
and  remained  with  that  firm  about  three  years ; 
then  was  employed  in  the  same  capacity  by 
the  Watson  Alachine  Company  for  the  next 
four  years.  In  1864  he  became  senior  partnei 
of  the  firm  of  May,  Rea  &  Company,  and 
thereafter   was   actix'ch'   en<raged   in   industrial 


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STATF.    (  >l-     Xl'.W     IICRSEY, 


l)iirMiit>  until  about  1883,  ^^  I't'ii  he  was  made' 
treasurer  ami  i,'eneral  manager  of  the  Enter- 
])rise  Manufacturing  Company.  This  position 
lie  held  for  a  few  years  and  then  retired  from 
all  business  connections,  although  since  that 
time  he  has  given  efficient  service  in  various 
official  capacities,  member  of  the  board  of  edu- 
cation for  two  years  and  deputy  receiver  of 
taxes  fri)!n  1888  to  igo2.  In  political  prefer- 
ence he  is  a  firm  republican  and  always  has 
shown  a  commendable  interest  in  public  affairs. 
1  le  also  for  many  years  has  been  a  ])rominent 
figure  in  .Masonic  circles  and  is  a  member  and 
past  master  of  Lvanhoe  I-odge.  No.  88.  I'^ree 
and  .Accepted  Masons:  member  of  .\delphic 
Chapter,  No.  33,  Royal  .Arch  Masons  ;  member 
of  Melita  Commandery,  X'o.  13.  Knights  Tem- 
jilar,  all  of  Paterson,  and  member  of  Mecca 
Temple,  .\ncient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  Mystic 
Shrine,  of  New  York  City.  lie  is  a  member 
of  I'aterson  Lodge,  No.  60,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  ami  a  member  and 
f(jr  fifteen  years  one  of  the  board  of  governors 
of  the  Mamilton  Club,  of  Paterson.  Air.  Alay 
is  a  stockholder  in  the  Paterson  .Savings  Insti- 
tiitiiiu  .111(1  the  h'ir^t  National  Pank  of  Pater- 
son. 

l)eceiiii)er  30,  \H()2.  he  married,  at  i'aterson, 
Sarah  Louise  .Allen,  born  Paterson,  December 
rc).  1842,  daughter  of  Ste]ihen  and  Catherine 
(.Alien)  .\iien,  whose  cliiidren  were:  Alpheus 
.S.,  Stephen  \\..  Sarah  Louise  and  i^nma  Allen. 
.Mr.  and  .Mrs.  May  have  liad  two  children. 
Cora  Louise,  l)orn  .April  2.  18(14,  and  Rditli. 
May  31,  1882.  died  1883. 


During  the  last  quarter  of  the 
\\'iL.S()\  eighteenth  and  the  first  cpiarter 
iif  the  nineteentli  centurv  tiiere 
liad  l)een  little  immigration  to  tliis  country, 
owing  to  various  causes,  iiut  principallv  due  to 
tlie  elYects  of  the  revolution  and  the  war  of 
1812.  ;ind  the  fact  tliat  iuirope  was  also  fully 
occupied  \vitii  its  own  affairs.  With  tlie  close 
of  the  \'a])oleonic  wars,  however,  there  came 
upon  the  llritish  isles  a  series  of  famines  and 
industrial  distresses  which,  cou])led  with  visions 
of  unexampled  prosperity  and  unjirecedented 
freedom,  drew  an  ever  increasing  mmiber  of 
the  l)est  yeomen  and  other  workmen  to  .Amer- 
ica. .\moiig  tiiis  number  was  the  founder  of 
tile  Wiisdu  f;imily  at  present  under  coiisidera- 
lidii. 

{  I  )  Tiiomas  Wilson,  the  founder  of  the 
family,  was  an  Irish  farmer,  and  came  over  to 
tliis  country  with  his  bride  about  1835.  He  set- 
tled in   (lloiicestcr  cnuiitv.   New    lerscv,  wliere 


lie  not  onl\  liecame  a  prosperous  ye<jnian,  but 
also  carried  on  a  lunil)ering  business  on  c|uite  a 
large  scale,  until  liis  death,  wiiich  occurred 
.March  25,  i8(/). 

His  wife,  I'lllen  j.  I^awrence,  who  was  born 
and  married  in  Ireland,  was  a  descendant  of 
one  of  the  old  F'rench  Huguenot  refugees  who 
had  Hed  to  l^lngiand  and  Ireland  in  order  to 
escape  the  persecutions  which  succeeded  the 
revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes.  Under 
tlie  protection  of  the  British  flag  the  family 
liad  not  only  prospered  but  also  risen  to  promi- 
nence, and  one  of  her  great-uncles  was  the 
celebrated  John  Laird-AIair,  the  first  Lord 
Lawrence,  and  a  governor-general  of  India, 
being  the  sixth  son  of  Lieutenant-colonel  Alex- 
ander Lawrence.  Another  great-uncle  was  Sir 
I  leorge  St.  Patrick  Lawrence,  who  command- 
ed the  iMiglisli  forces  at  Rajputana.  during  the 
Se|)oy  mutiny  in  1858.  Still  another  great- 
inicle  was  .Sir  iienry  Montgomery  Lawrence, 
\irtual  governor  of  Oudh  anil  chief-cominis- 
sioiier  of  Lucknow  wiien  the  mutiny  broke  out. 
wlio  lost  his  life  during  the  famous  siege  of 
tliat  place. 

Tile  children  of  Tiiomas  and  Ellen  J.  (Lawr- 
ence )  Wilson,  were:  i.  Robert  J.,  is  now 
carrying  on  a  lumber  business  at  Franklinville. 
( lioucester  county,  New  Jersey.  2.  Mary, 
married  Rev.  (leorge  S.  Campbell.  3.  Matilda 
I'..  (Mattie),  married  Rev.  Wilson  Asdale,  of 
i'ittsburgh.  I'ennsylvania.  4.  Charles,  referred 
to  below.  5.  Ellen  J.,  married  Franklin  B.. 
■^oii  of  Isaiah  and  Lydia  (  Aliller)  Haines,  of 
.Medford,  New  Jersey.  6.  Rachel,  died  un- 
married. 7.  Tiiomas  K,,  died  at  the  age  of  six 
years.  8.  Margaret,  died  when  two  years  old. 
I).  X'ictoria  C.  married  Henry  P>.  Shields.  10. 
Thomas  C,  a  farmer,  now  living  at  Franklin- 
ville, Gloucester  county.  11.  James  M.,  at 
present  a  member  of  the  police  force  of  New 
^■ork  City. 

I  11  I  Charles,  fourth  child  and  second  son 
of  'Idiomas  and  Ellen  J.  (Lawrence)  Wilson, 
was  born  near  Forest  Grove,  Gloucester 
county.  New  Jersey,  January  13,  1854.  He 
was  born  in  a  log  cabin,  which  at  that  time 
was  tlie  only  habitation  on  what  is  now  the 
site  of  the  city  of  \ineland.  He  jiassed  his 
boyliood  days  on  his  father's  farm,  and  when 
lie  was  only  about  twenty  years  old.  in  1874, 
Ik'  began  to  manage  a  farm  on  his  own  ac- 
count, on  the  ground  in  Woolwich  township, 
(iioucester  comity,  which  he  sold  in  1900 — 
a  one  hundred  and  seventy-si.x  acre  farm  near 
RusselTs  Mills.  In  1905  lie  served  as  sheriff 
of   Crioucester   county.      In    18(77   he    was   one 


STATE    OF    NEW      lERSEV 


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of  the  freeholders  of  the  town  of  Swedes- 
bore:  antl  for  several  years  he  served  the 
same  town  as  overseer  of  roads  and  highways, 
and  it  is  the  common  opinion  that  the  ex- 
ceptionally good  roads  of  that  vicinity  are 
largely  due  to  his  careful  and  painstaking- 
efforts  and  supervision.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Ancient  Order  United  \Vorknien. 

Charles  Wilson  married  Anna  A.,  daughter 
of  Ephraim  Dunham,  who  was  born  at  Mon- 
roeville.  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1858. 
Their  four  children  were  :  I.  Thomas  Lawrence, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Mabel  C,  married  Ed- 
ward I'.lack.  and  has  live  children :  Harry, 
Lester.  .Mabel  C,  Charles  and  Edith.  3.  C. 
Iloward,  married  Irene  Rogers.     4.  Ethel  R. 

(Ill)  Thomas  Lawrence,  eldest  child  of 
Charles  and  Anna  A.  (Dunham)  Wilson,  was 
born  at  .Swede.sboro,  Gloucester  county.  New 
jersey,  July  I,  1876,  and  is  now  living  at 
\\'(XKibur)-,  in  the  same  county.  F"or  his  early 
education  lie  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  county,  and  afterwards  went  to 
l'hiladelj)hia  and  entered  the  Pierce  Business 
College  there.  He  then  procured  a  position 
as  telegrai)h  operator  in  the  employ  of  the 
I'ennsyivania  railroad,  being  stationed  at 
.""^tone  Harbor,  Cape  May  county.  New  Jersey, 
lie  remained  until  1900,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred bv  the  railroad  company  to  a  nuich 
better  position  as  operator  at  Paulsboro. 
( iloucester  county,  where  he  remained  until 
1904.  In  this  last  mentioned  year  he  left  the 
employ  of  the  railroad  and  for  a  time  assisted 
in  the  post  office  at  -Swedesboro,  and  in  the 
following  year.  1905.  when  his  father  was 
electerl  sheriff  of  Gloucester  county,  he  was 
sworn  in  as  under  sheriff.  In  1908  he  became 
candidate  for  sheriff"  of  the  same  county,  on 
the  Republican  ticket,  and  when  the  votes 
were  counted  it  was  found  that  he  had  been 
elected  by  the  largest  majority  that  had  ever 
been  given  to  a  candidate  running  for  that 
office, and  that  moreover  his  ]jo])ularity  was  such 
that  he  had  run  ahead  of  his  ticket  by  two  bun 
(Ired  votes.  It  should  also  be  noted  that  he  is 
the  second  youngest  sheriff'  that  has  ever  Ijeen 
elected  in  New  Jersey,  he  being  only  thirty- 
two  years  old  when  chosen.  Mr.  Wilson  is  a 
member  of  many  organizations,  among  which 
should  be  mentioned  Swedesboro  Lodge.  No. 
157.  I'Vee  and  .Accepted  Masons,  in  which  he 
is  a  past  master;  the  Knights  of  Pythias:  and 
the  Junior  Order  .American  Mechanics.  He 
is  also  New  Jersey  state  president  of  the  Pa- 
triotic Order  of  the  Sons  of  .America.  In  re- 
ligion    he    is    an    independent.      He     married, 


December  <).  1909.  Elizabeth  l'..  daughter  of 
.\lonzo  V.  Rambo,  of  Thorofare.  New 
fersev. 


The    founder    of    the    .Salem 

RL'.MSEV  branch  of  the  Rumsey  family 
in  .America  was  Charles  Rum- 
>e\'  who  emigrated  from  Wales  in  1605.  ar- 
riving at  Charleston,  .South  Carolina,  whence 
he  went  to  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  locat- 
ing finally  at  the  head  of  Bohemia  river  in 
Cecil  county.  Maryland.  He  married  Cather- 
ine   ,  born  September  26.  1675.  Chil- 
dren: William,  see  forward:  Prudence,  Mar- 
garet. Elizabeth.  Charles.  Edward.  Mary. 
( irace  and  John.  To  his  sons  William  and 
Charles  he  left  three  hundred  acres  of  land, 
the  home  plantation,  and  to  Edward  he  left 
one  himdred  acres.  Charles  Rumsey  died 
.November  28.  1717.  and  his  wife  died  .August 
2K  1710. 

(11)  William,  eklest  sou  and  chikl  of 
I'liarles  and  Catherine  Rumsey,  was  born 
.A])ril  2[,  1(598.  He  became  a  surveyor  of 
note,  and  assisted  in  locating  the  state  line 
between  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania  in  1739 
and  performed  other  important  surveying 
service.  He  also  acted  as  collector  of  cus- 
toms, and  became  one  of  the  most  extensive 
land-owners  of  Cecil  county,  Maryland,  leav- 
ing about  thirty-five  thousand  acres  of  land 
to  his  heirs.  The  old  Rumsey  mansion  was  a 
magnificent  specimen  of  colonial  architecture, 
pictures(|uely  situated  on  an  eminence  com- 
manding a  wide  expanse  of  beautiful  country. 
I  le  married  Sabina  Blandenburgh.  Children  : 
William.  Benjamin.  Charles,  see  forward: 
John,  Judith  and  Sal)ina.  William  Rumsey 
(lied  in   1742. 

(  111  )  Colonel  Charles  (2).  son  of  William 
.•uid  .Sabina  (Blandenburgh)  Rumsey,  was 
born  in  173C>,  died  1780.  He  served  in  the 
war  of  the  revolution.  He  was  a  ntember  of 
the  Maryland  council  in  1775.  the  Maryland 
council  of  safety  in  177'').  and  the  colonel  of 
the  Elk  Battalion.  Cecil  county  militia,  the 
same  year.  He  married  Abigail  Jane,  born  in 
1746,  died  in  February,  1827,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Richard  and  Emma  (Oxen)  Caner,  the 
former  of  whom  received  his  degree  of  AI.  A. 
at  Oxford,  was  a  minister  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  residing  in  Cecil  county,  Maryland, 
and  a  soldier  in  the  .American  revolution. 
Children :  Henry  Caner,  Benjamin,  see  for- 
ward:  Thomas  Ellison,  Charkitte  J..  Harriet. 
Ann  and  Mary. 

(  1\')    Benjamin,  son  of  Colonel  Charles  and 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY 


Abigail  Jane  (Canerj  Rumsey,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 26,  "1772,  died  April  i,  1803.  He  married 
-Mary,  daughter  of  George  Clark,  of  Delaware, 
and  granddaughter  of  John  Clark,  who  came 
from  England.  Children:  i.  Charles,  married 
Ffannah  Mulford.  2.  Anna  Jane,  married 
Bacon  Ware.  3.  (leorge  Clark,  see  forward. 
4.  Eliza  !:>.,  died  in  1805. 

(V)  Creorge  Clark,  son  of  Benjamm  and 
.Mary  (Clark)  Rumsey,  was  born  in  Middle- 
town.  Delaware,  November  24,  1798.  He  re- 
moved to  Salem,  New  Jersey,  where  for  many 
years  he  was  engaged  in  general  merchandis- 
ing, continuing  until  about  1841.  In  1835  he 
was  elected  a  director  of  the  Salem  Banking 
Company,  serving  in  that  capacity  until  his 
death,  and  in  1842  was  appointed  to  the  po- 
sition of  cashier,  rendering  efficient  service  to 
the  institution  in  both  capacities.  He  was 
also  interested  in  various  other  business  enter- 
prises, and  was  the  owner  of  several  tracts  of 
land.  He  was  a  \\  hig  and  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics, and  a  member  and  elder  of  the  First  Pres- 
bvterian  Church  of  Salem.  He  married  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  .\ntrim  Conarroe,  a  de- 
scendant of  the  .Antrim  and  Conarroe  families, 
the  former  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  promi- 
nent families  of  New  Jersey  and  the  latter  of 
Delaware.  Their  only  child  was  Henry  Mar- 
tyn,  see  forward,  (k'orge  C.  Rumsey  died 
December  2S.  18;  i.  and  his  wife  April  9. 
1883. 

(  VJ  )  Henry  Martyn.  son  of  ( .eorge  Clark 
and  Margaret  (Conarroe)  I-iumsey.  was  born 
in  Salem.  New  Jersey,  .-\ugust  24.  1838,  and  is 
now  living  in  the  place  of  his  birth.  He  at- 
tended private  schools  at  .Salem,  Princeton. 
N'ewton,  New  Jersey,  and  Philadelphia.  Penn- 
sylvania. .\s  soon  as  his  education  was  com- 
pleted he  began  the  cultivation  of  the  farm, 
continuing  until  18(17.  meeting  v^'ith  creditable 
success.  Four  years  prior  to  this  time  he  wa^ 
elected  to  the  office  of  director  in  the  Salem 
Banking  Company.  He  was  one  of  the  in- 
corporators of  the  Salem  National  Bank, 
which  succeeded  the  .Salem  State  Bank.,  and  in 
1 87 1  was  elected  assistant  cashier,  receiving 
the  ai)pointment  of  cashier  in  September, 
1881.  a  position  which  he  has  retained  ever 
■^ince.  a  period  of  more  than  a  (juarter  of  a 
century.  Tn  1889  the  bank  erected  the  ini- 
])osing  and  commodious  quarters  in  which  thev 
now  conduct  business.  Mr.  Rumsey  is  con- 
nected with  several  financial  and  business  in- 
stitutions and  interests  in  Salem,  and  is  re- 
garded as  oue  of  the  most  conservative  and 
staple  financiers  of   Salem.      He  is  connected 


with  the  Salem  Gas  Light  Company  and  the 
Salem  County  Alutual  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
])any.  much  of  the  prosperity  of  which  is  due 
to  his  ability  and  oversight.  He  takes  a  deep 
and  practical  interest  in  all  movements  calcu- 
lated to  advance  the  public  prosperity  of  his 
native  city.  He  is  a  member  and  elder  in  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Salem,  and  a  charter' 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  branch  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Revolution. 

Henrv  M.  Ruinsey  married,  November  24, 
1859,  Maria  Elliott,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary  (.Vcton)  Bassett,  the  former  of  whom 
was  a  prominent  farmer  of  Mannington  town- 
shi])  and  a  director  in  the  Salem  National 
Bank,  and  the  latter  a  daughter  of  Saimiel  and 
Sarah  .Acton.  She  was  the  youngest  of  five 
children,  namely:  Clement;  Sarah  Ann,  mar- 
ried P.arclay,  son  of  Andrew  Griscom ;  Rachel, 
married  Collins,  son  of  Samuel  Allen  ;  Richard, 
married  .Anne,  daughter  of  Jonathan  B.  Grier ; 
.Maria  F-llliott,  referred  to  above.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rumsey:  i.  Margaret  Conarroe, 
born  A]n\]  I.  1861;  married  Thomas  Tatnall, 
of  Wilmington,  Delaware  ;  children  :  Marjorie 
Conarroe,  Henry  Rumsey  and  Thomas  Jr. 
2.  (ieorge  Benjamin,  born  June  7,  1865:  one 
of  the  directors  and  a  bookkeeper  in  the  Salem 
National  P>ank,  of  which  his  father  is  the 
cashier  ;  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of 
education  and  has  served  as  city  treasurer ; 
one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  church  ; 
married,  December  18,  1906,  Constance  Du 
.Mine,  daughter  of  C.  M.  and  Maria  H. 
(  Smith  I  P-akin.  of  Salem,  New  Jet  sey  ;  chil- 
dren ;  Constance  Conarroe.  born  December  1, 
np7.  and  l^leanor  Margaret,  born  January  11. 
H)(X).  3.  .Mary  .Acton,  born  September  2. 
1873:  married  Richard  \\'yatt  Wistar,  of 
Salem,   New    jersev. 


In  1075  John  F'enwick, 
.\  It  I  K  )LS(  ).\  with  his  children,  associ- 
ates and  servants,  arrived 
oiV  Ca|)e  May  on  board  the  little  ship  "Grif- 
hn,"  Ca])tain  (iriffith,  master,  and  the  ship  and 
passengers  prt)cee(led  along  the  eastern  shore 
of  Delaware  bay  and  river  for  fifty  miles  and 
passed  the  Old  Swedes  fort  located  at  Els- 
l)in-g.  near  the  south  of  the  Assamhocking 
river,  which  had  been  built  by  the  Swedes 
abiiut  1640.  At  this  place  a  party  of  English 
settlers  from  New  Haven.  Connecticut  colony, 
undertook  a  settlement  soon  after  the  fort 
was  erected,  but  became  discouraged  and  re- 
turned to  New  Haven  in  1642.  leaving  the 
place  in   the  possession  of  the   .Swedes.     The 


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857 


"Griffin"  came  to  anchor  there,  September  23, 
1675  (O.  S.),  and  the  next  day  proceeded  up 
the  river  along  the  eastern  shore  to  the  wide 
mouth  of  the  Salem  river,  followed  this  river 
for  about  three  miles  until  it  became  quite 
narrow,  when  they  landed  and,  considering  the 
place  a  favorable  one  for  the  location  of  a 
town,  called  the  sjiot  Salem.  The  passengers 
and  their  household  goods  were  carried  to  the 
shore  and  the  first  permanent  settlement  by 
the  English  immigrants  was  made  on  the  east- 
ern shore  of  the  Delaware  river.  John  Fen- 
wick  was  the  owner  of  one-tenth  of  the  entire 
area  of  West  Jersey,  and  from  the  time  he 
made  his  home  at  Salem,  in  September,  1675, 
his  fortunes  and  those  of  William  Penn  were 
closely  allied  and  \\'i!liam  Tenn.  the  pro]irictor 
ni  I'enusylvania,  purchased  large  tracts  of  land 
in    h'enwick's  colony. 

( I )  .Samuel  Nicholson,  a  native  of  Orston, 
Northampton.shire.  England,  was  one  of  the 
associates  of  John  Fenwick  on  the  "Griffin." 
and  he  had  with  him  his  wife  Ann,  and  five 
children,  all  born  in  Northamptonshire,  the 
youngest  being  at  the  time  only  three  years  of 
age.  He  and  his  family  were  notable  among 
tile  passengers  as  being  the  owners  of  two 
thousand  acres  to  be  located  wherever  the  set- 
tlement should  be  made,  such  a  possession  giv- 
ing them  jirominence  as  leaders,  and  they  were 
as  well,  members  of  the  .Societv  of  Friends. 
Samuel  Nicholson  had  been  brc night  up  as  a 
husbandman  and.  upon  arri\al  at  their  final 
location  on  the  Delaware  river,  he  proceeded 
to  survey  outside  the  town  limits  of  Salem, 
;ind  sotith  of  it,  his  tract  of  two  thousand  acres, 
nbtaining  full  title  and  possession  in  the  tenth 
nidnth.  T675.  He  also  purchased  a  town  lot 
of  ^i^teen  acres  nn  Wharf  street  in  New 
Sali.-m.  where  he  built  a  house  of  hewn  logs, 
and  in  this  house  the  first  religious  organiza- 
tion in  Fenwick  colon}'  was  made  in  1676,  and 
the  meetings  of  the  Society  of  Friends  were 
held  in  the  houses  periodically  up  to  iTiSt.  when 
the  need  of  a  meeting  house  became  ajiparent 
and  to  meet  this  need,  .Samuel  and  Ann  Nichol- 
son deeded  the  estate  of  sixteen  acres  to  "Salem 
.Monthly  Meeting  forever  for  a  Meeting 
House  and  burial  ground,"  and  the  Societv 
enlarged  the  building,  taking  out  the  partitions 
and  making  a  firm  clay  Hoor,  and  the  first 
yearly  meeting  was  held  in  the  house  as  trans- 
fiirmed.  the  date  of  the  meeting  lieing  2nd 
month  15th,  1684.  In  this  way  the  fir.st  home 
in  New  Jersey  of  Samuel  Nicholson  became 
the    first    meeting   hi:iuse    of    the     S<K-ietv    of 


h'riends  in  the  state.  L'pon  surrendering  his 
home,  Samuel  Nicholson  selected  a  site  on  his 
two  thousand  acre  tract  for  a  new  home,  the 
place  becoming  known  as  Elsinborough,  and  he 
was  made  the  first  justice  of  the  peace  in  the 
Fenwick  colony.  He  devised  that  his  landed 
estate  of  Elsinborough  be  divided  between  his 
eldest  son  Samuel  Jr.,  and  his  youngest  son 
.\bel.  He  died  at  his  new  home,  Elsinbor- 
ough, about  Tdgo.  and  his  widow,  .\nn,  died 
in  i(')93.  In  her  will  .Ann  Nicholson  devised 
her  estate  to  the  three  grandchildren,  Rachel, 
Mary  and  Elizabeth  .\bbott,  and  to  her  sons, 
Samuel,  Jose])h  and  Abel  Nicholson.  Chil- 
dren of  Samuel  and  Ann  Nicholson:  i.  Para- 
bol,  born  2n(l  month  20th  day,  1659;  married 
at  New  Salem,  9th  month,  25th  day,  1677, 
.\braham  Strand.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  3rd 
month,  20th  day.  1664,  married,  1684,  John 
,\bbott,  and  had  children :  Rachel,  Mary  and 
Elizabeth.  3.  Samuel,  born  3rd  month,  6th 
day,  1666;  married  but  had  no  children.  Im- 
mediately after  the  death  of  his  wife  he  made 
a  will  devising  his  large  estate,  consisting  of 
one-half  of  his  deceased  father's  landed  estate, 
to  his  brother  Joseph,  and  shortly  afterward 
ilied,  1750.  4.  Joseph,  see  forward.  3.  .Abel, 
born  5th  month,  2nd  day,  1672:  married,  ]irob- 
ably  in  1694,  Mary,  daughter  of  William  and 
Joanna  Tyler. 

(IT)  Joseph,  second  son  an<l  fcmrth  child 
(if  Samuel  and  .Ann  Nicholson,  was  born  2nd 
month,  30th  day,  1669,  died  in  1702.  .After 
his  marriage  he  lived  in  the  homestead  on  the 
north  bank  of  the  Aloimiouth  river,  where 
.Mlowaystown  now  stands.  Of  this  property 
he  sold  one-half  to  George  .Abbott,  who  came 
from  New  England  about  1696,  and  the  other 
half  to  .Samuel  Stebbins  and  John  Forth. 
George  Abbott  built  a  dwelling  house  upon  the 
place  in  1706,  and  an  addition  to  the  same  in 
1725,  and  the  house  was  in  contimied  use  as  a 
dwelling  and  in  excellent  repair  in  1909.  Jo- 
se])h  Nicholson  after  selling  this  homestead  re- 
moveil  to  then  ( iloucester  county,  now  Cam- 
den, New  Jerse\-,  where  he  died  intestate.  He 
married.  January  3.  1695,  Hannah  Wood. 
Children  :  ( leorge  and  .Samuel. 

(  HI )  .Sanmel  (  2  ),  son  of  Joseph  ami  I  lan- 
nah  (Wood)  .Nicholson,  was  born  in  i(x)H. 
died  in  1750.  lie  married  (first)  1722.  .Sarah 
ISurrougli;  (second)  1744.  Rebecca  Saint; 
(third)  1749,  Jane  .Albertson.  Had  a  number 
of  children,  among  them  being  a  son  .Abel. 

(  I\' )  .Abel,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and  Sarah 
(I'.urroutrh)     Nich(jlsi>n,     was    born     between 


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STATK    Ol'     .\]•:\^■   JERSEY. 


1735  ;iiiil  '74".  <li^'<l  ill  17''!  11^'  married  Re- 
becca .Aaroiison,  and  his  son  was  horn  after 
his  death. 

( \' )  Abel  (_'),  son  of  Abel  (1)  and  Re- 
becca ( .\aron.son )  Nicholson,  was  born  in 
(lloiicester  connty.  New  Jersey,  1761.  died 
December  I),  iSjij.  He  married  (first)  Alary, 
danghter    of     Isaac     Ellis;     (second)     Sarah, 

daughter  of   ■ —   Redman,   and   widow   <if 

Stephen  Alnnson  Day;  had  six  children. 

(  \'I )  Isaac,  son  of  Abel  (2)  Nicholson,  was 
horn  February  18,  1790,  died  .\ugust  20,  1870. 
He  married.  Marcli  24,  1S14,  I'riscilla  Wills 
and  had  six  children. 

(\'ll)  Isaac  ^^'ills.  son  of  Isaac  and  I'ris- 
cilla (Wills)  .Vicholson,  was  born  in  Camden 
county.  Xew  Jersey,  January  26,  1829.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and  served  in  the  legislature  of 
Xew  Jerse)'  as  a  member  of  the  general  as- 
sembly for  three  terms,  and  as  a  director  of 
freeholders  for  Camden  county.  He  w-as  also 
a  charter  member  of  the  state  Grange  and 
served  as  a  master  in  that  body.  He  married 
FJizabeth  Mi" ire.  born  in  Delaware  townshi]). 
Camden  county.  Xew  Jersey,  1833.  daughter 
of  Joseph  Kay  and  Keturah  (Haines)  Lippin- 
cott.  Children:  Joseph  Lippincott,  see  for- 
ward; Keturah,  twin  of  Josejih  Lippincott. 
died  in  infancy;  Herbert  M..  born  in  1857; 
\'irginia,  1859,  unmarried;  Jessie,  born  in 
\R()i.  umnarried. 

(\'III)  Joseph  Lipijincott.  eldest  child  of 
Isaac  Wills  and  Elizabeth  Aloorc  (Lippincott) 
Xicholson,  was  born  in  Delaware  townshi]), 
Camden  county.  New  Jersey,  July  8,  1855.  ^^^' 
was  a  pupil  in  the  iniblic  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  studied  under  private  tuition,  com- 
pleting his  school  training  with  four  years  at 
Westtowu  I'riends  Hoarding  School,  l^pon 
leaving  the  latter  institution  he  entered  the 
office  of  I'.  C.  Garrett,  a  cotton  and  woolen 
manufacturer  in  Philadeljjhia,  where  he  re- 
ceived a  good  business  training.  His  next  oc- 
cu|)ation  was  on  his  father's  farm,  as  assist- 
ant in  the  latter's  extensive  milk  business.  De- 
ciding to  take  up  the  study  of  medicine,  he  be- 
came a  student  in  the  medical  department  of 
the  Cnivcrsity  of  Pennsylvania  in  1877,  being 
graduated  in  1890  with  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine.  lie  supplemented  this  cour.se 
with  nine  nu)nths'  practice  as  resident  physi- 
cian in  the  Cooper  Hospital  at  Camden,  Xew 
Jersey,  and  fifteen  months  at  the  Philadelphia 
Hosi)ital,  Philadelphia.  In  1892  he  located  at 
Camden  as  a  physician  and  surgeon,  and  at 
the  ])resent  time  (1909)  is  engaged  in  the  ac- 
tive duties  of  his  profession,  with  a  large  and 


rennnierative  practice.  He  assumed  the  duties 
and  responsibilities  of  visiting  surgeon  on  the 
medical  stafif  of  Cooper  Hospital  in  1895,  and 
still  holds  that  position.  His  professional  af- 
filiations include  membership  in  the  American 
Medical  Association  ;  New  Jersey  State  Medi- 
cal Society ;  Camden  County  Medical  Society ; 
and  Camden  City  Medical  Society.  He  is 
always  a  welcome  visitor  at  the  meetings  of 
these  organizations,  and  has  read  interesting 
and  valuable  pajjers  at  various  times.  His  po- 
litical choice  is  the  Republican  party,  and  his 
religious  home  is  at  the  Friends  Meeting.  He 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Camden  P)oard  of 
Trade  and  of  Haddon  Grange. 

Dr.  Xicholson  married,  June  22,  1893,  Eliz- 
abeth Davis,  daughter  of  John  P^lkinton  and 
Mary  (Davis)  Thompson,  of  Salem,  New  Jer- 
sey. Children:  Elizabeth  M.,  died  young; 
J(ise])h  Lip])incott  (  2  ),  born  February  19,  1898; 
Jesse  Thompson,  April  28,  1903. 

The  language  of  the  Welsh 
HARRIS  comes  into  the  Cymric  group  of 
the  Celtic,  and  Wales  has  al- 
ways formed  the  most  important  member  of 
the  group.  There  is  no  doubt  of  the  antiquity 
of  the  Cymric  tongues.  Pezron,  the  Rritisli 
investigator,  gravely  affirms  that  the  Welsh 
and  Arnioric  (which  he  considered  the  same) 
had  been  the  language  of  the  Titans,  that  is. 
the  language  of  Saturn,  Jupiter,  and  the  other 
powerful  gods  of  heathen  antiquity.  The 
Rev.  Joseph  Harris,  editor  of  the  Scren 
(ioiiicr,  remarked  in  1814  that  "it  is  supposed 
by  some,  and  no  one  can  di.spute  it,  that  Welsh 
was  the  language  spoken  by  Adam  and  Eve  in 
Paradise !"'  Preposterous  as  the  views  of 
patriotic  Welshmen  may  be  on  the  subject,  it 
is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  Welsh  is  one  of 
the  oldest  languages  in  Europe  and  that  it 
possesses  a  literature  reaching  back  to  re- 
moter times  than  that  of  any  modern  tongue, 
excepting  possibly  Irish,  and  unlike  Irish  or 
.Scotch  Gaelic;  it  is  not  dying  out.  It  has  a 
genuine  literary  as  well  as  oral  existence,  al- 
though the  changes  it  has  undergone  are  nu- 
merous and  great  since  heard  by  Csesar  and 
Agricola.  and  it  is  the  only  living  link  that 
unites  the  distant  past  with  our  times.  No 
wonder  so  many  men  of  letters,  authors,  poets, 
novelists,  educators  and  professional  men  have 
pride  in  pointing  to  their  \\'elsh  origin.  They 
have  taken  in  learning  with  their  mother's 
milk  for  countless  generations,  and  heredity 
has  truly  a  just  claim  as  helping  to  make 
Welshmen   educators  and  educationists.     The 


STATE   OF    NEW     IICKSI'IY, 


859 


Rev.  (oseph  Harris,  aforementioned,  has  only 
a  spiritual  and  racial  relationship  to  John  How- 
ard Harris,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  concerning  whom 
see  forward,  and  his  distinguished  sons  and 
daughters. 

(  I )  Reese  Harris,  a  man  of  learning  hoth 
in  literature  and  mathematics,  came  from  his 
native  town  of  Alesthyr,  Tydval,  Wales,  to 
America,  in  1836,  and  located  in  Indiana 
ci'unty,  Pennsylvania,  in  what  is  known  as  the 
I'.utSngton  \'alley,  and  there  was  a  farmer  and 
civil  engineer.  He  married  Isahel,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Coleman,  a  lineal  descendant  from 
Captain  James  Coleman,  a  soldier  in  the 
French  and  Indian  war.  The  hardy  pioneer 
life  of  the  period  was  ijroductive  of  a  family 
of  stalwart  and  self-reliant  children,  accus- 
tomed to  the  hardships  and  apparent  disadvan- 
tages of  farm  life  on  the  frontier. 

(II)  John  Howard,  son  of  Reese  and  Isa- 
bel (Coleman)  Harris,  was  born  on  his  fath- 
er's farm  in  Indiana  county.  Pennsylvania, 
Ai)ril  24.  1847.  He  was  brought  up  on  the 
fanu.  attending  the  district  school  during  the 
winter  months,  and  was  a  pupil  in  the  academy 
at  Mechanicsburg,  Pennsylvania,  for  two 
years  when,  on  reaching  his  sixteenth  year,  he 
felt  impelled  to  offer  his  services  to  his  coun- 
try as  a  soldier.  The  impression  made  upon 
the  mustering  ofificer  by  his  well-developed 
body  was  an  excellent  one,  and  he  was  ac- 
cepted in  spite  of  his  extreme  youth.  On  en- 
listing he  was  assigned  to  the  Second  P>attalion. 
L'nited  States  Volunteers,  then  serving  in 
Western  \'irginia,  and  was  transferred  to 
Company  H,  Two  Hundred  and  Sixth  Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers,  serving  in  Grant's  cam- 
paign against  Richmond,  was  made  sergeant 
of  the  company  in  August,  1864,  and  took  part 
in  all  the  battles  in  which  his  regiment  en- 
gaged up  to  the  surrender  of  Lee  and  the  oc- 
cupation of  Richmond  by  the  Federal  army. 
On  being  mustered  out  with  his  regiment  in 
i8ri3  he  entered  the  L'niversity  of  Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania,  which  later  became  Bucknell 
Cniversity,  and  was  graduated  in  18(39  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  .^rts.  In  1870  he 
foxmded  the  Keystone  Academy,  at  Factory- 
ville.  Pennsylvania,  was  made  pastor  of  the 
Factoryville  Baptist  church  in  1880.  carried  on 
the  executive  duties  of  both  academy  and 
church  for  nine  consecutive  years,  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Bucknell 
l'niversity  in  1888,  and  resigned  his  pastorate 
in  1889  in  order  to  accept  an  invitation  from 
the  trustees  of  Bucknell  L^niversity,  Lewis- 
burg, Pennsylvania,  to  become  the  president  of 


the  institution.  This  honorable  promotion  was 
largely  due  to  the  good  work  he  had  done  dur- 
ing the  twenty  years  he  had  been  engaged  in 
preparing  at  the  Keystone  Academy  pupils  for 
matriculation  at  Bucknell.  In  1909  he  had 
rounded  out  twenty  years  as  president,  at 
which  time  he  had  a  stafT  of  fifty  instructors, 
seven  hundred  and  seventy-five  students,  and  a 
library  of  thirty  thousand  volumes,  with  a  pro- 
ductive fund  of  seven  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars. His  success  as  an  educator  and  his  peda- 
gogical knowledge  gained  for  him  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  from  Lafayette 
O'lllcge  in  18S4,  and  that  of  Doctor  of  Laws 
frnm  Dickiusnn  Ccillege  and  Colgate  University 
in  1891. 

Mr.  Harris  married  (first)  .Mary  Elizabt-tli 
.Mace,  born  in  Factoryville,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1853,  died  in  1880.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Criah  \'.  and  Ruth  ( Bailey )  Mace,  grand- 
daughter of  P.enjamin  F.  Bailey,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Benjamin  and  Catharine 
(  Stark  I  Bailey,  the  latter  a  descendant  of  Gen- 
eral .Stark,  of  revolutionary  fame.  Children : 
I.  .Marv  B..  born  .\ugust  19,  1874:  was  edu- 
cated at  Bucknell  University,  from  which  she 
received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  .-Vrts,  and 
that  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  for  work  in  the 
Sanscrit  language,  from  the  l'niversity  of 
Chicago.  2.  Herbert  Frederic,  see  forward. 
3.  Howard  Mace,  born  in  1878.  died  in  1884. 
Mr.  Harris  married  (second)  July  20.  1881, 
Lucy  liailey.  Children :  4.  Reese  Harvey, 
iiorn  July  3.  1883;  received  the  degree  of 
I'.aclielor  of  -\rts  from  Bucknell  University  in 
i<P3.  and  that  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  from  Har- 
vard University  in  1908:  he  is  an  attorney  and 
counsellor  at  law  in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania. 
5.  George  Bailey,  was  graduated  from  Buck- 
nell l'niversity  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
.\rts  in  1904,  and  received  that  of  Doctor  of 
Dental  Surgery  from  the  l'niversity  of  Michi- 
gan in  1908:  he  is  practicing  his  profession  in 
Detroit,  Michigan.  f\  Spenser  Tillinghast,  re- 
ceived the  degrees  of  Bachelor  of  .Arts  and 
Civil  Engineer  from  Bucknell  l^niversity  in 
1907,  and  has  been  civil  engineer  for  the  Car- 
ter Oil  Company,  at  Sisters ville.  West  Vir- 
ginia, for  the  past  year.  7.  Coleman  John,  an 
undergraduate  at  Bucknell  University,  of  the 
class  of  1912.  8.  James  Pardon,  an  under- 
graduate of  Bucknell  University,  also  of  the 
class  of  19 1 2.  9.  Walter  William,  student  at 
I'ucknell  .Academy,  to.  Stanley  Newton,  also 
a  student  at  Bucknell  Academy. 

I  111)  Herbert  Frederic,  eldest  son  and  sec- 
ond child  of  John  Howard  and  Marv  Elizabeth 


86o 


S'l-ATE    Ol-     NEW  JERSEY. 


<  Mace )  Harris,  was  born  in  Eactoryville. 
Pennsylvania.  Jnne  30.  1876.  He  was  a  pupil 
in  the  public  schools  of  I*'actoryville,  prepared 
for  college  at  Ilucknell  Academy,  and  was 
graduated  from  I'.ucknell  University  with  the 
degree  of  Uaclielor  of  Arts  in  1896.  and  that 
of  Alaster  of  Arts  in  1897 :  in  1899  he  received 
the  degree  of  P>achelor  of  Eaws  from  Colum- 
bia University,  now  (ieorge  Washington  Uni- 
versity. He  then  read  law  in  the  office  of  At- 
torney (leneral  Henry  C.  McCormick,  at  Will- 
iamsport.  Pennsylvania,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Pennsylvania  bar  in  1899.  He  began  the 
active  i)ractice  of  his  |)rofcssion  in  Harrisburg. 
Pennsylvania,  removing  to  Caniden.  New  Jer- 
sey, in  1004.  was  admitted  to  jjractice  as  an 
attorney  in  June.  1004.  and  established  law 
offices  at  Xo.  428  Market  street.  In  June, 
1907,  he  was  made  a  counsellor  at  law  for  New- 
Jersey.  His  law  partner  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  is  Curtis  T.  liaker,  Esq.,  a  graduate  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with  the  de- 
gree of  IJachelor  of  l.aws.  and  the  stvle  of  tlie 
firm  is  ISaker  &  Harris. 

Cjxin  the  declaration  of  war  w  itli  .^])ain. 
.\pril  21,  1898,  Mr.  Harris  enlisted  in  the 
Twelfth  Pennsylvania  X'olunteer  Re.giment, 
and  served  up  to  the  signing  of  the  peace 
])rotocol.  .-Xugust  12,  l8cjS,  when  he  was 
lionorably  discharged.  Mr.  Harris  is  an  ac- 
tive member  of  the  Republican  party,  and  of 
the  P>a[)tist  church  of  Camden.  In  189S  he 
affiliated  with  Ivy  Lodge.  Xo.  397.  P'ree  and 
.\cce])ted  Masons,  of  \\'illiamsport,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  was  ra])idly  advanced  in  the  work 
iif  the  lodge.      Mr.  i  larris  is  unmarried. 


.\^  far  back  as  the  Harding 
1L\1\1)IX(1  family  has  lieen  traced  on 
Xew  Jersey  soil  it  has  always 
been  found  in  Salem  county,  and  at  the  pres- 
ent time  it  is  impossible  to  say  from  whence 
tlie  ancestors  of  the  branch  now  under  con- 
sideration have  come,  although  the  probabili- 
ties arc  that  it  belong--  lo  the  Xew  England 
family. 

(])  'riioiua-  Harding,  I'oiuuicr  of  the  Xew 
Jersey  branch,  was  born  July  2(1,  1772.  He 
married  Lydia  Richman.  i)orn  in  Salem 
county.  New  Jersey,  I'-ebruary  8,  1776.  Chil- 
dren: Catharine,  born  July  28.  1797:  Benja- 
min, see  forward:  John.  June  8.  1800:  .Ann. 
September  20.  1801  :  Rachel,  December  13, 
1803;  Elizabeth,  June  21,  1805:  Thomas,  De- 
cember 6,  1808;  Henry.  I-Vbruary  18.  1811: 
Eli.  October  i,  1820. 

(]])    Benjamin,  second  child  and  eldest  son 


of  Thcimas  and  Lydia  (Richman)  Harding, 
was  born  at  Whig  Lane,  Salem  county,  New 
Jersey,  December  21,  1798,  died  April  4,  1880. 
He  married,  January  23,  1823,  Mary  Marshall 
Eisler.  born  near  Clayton,  then  Fislerville, 
Ciloucester  county,  New  Jersey,  September  11, 
1800,  died  November  9,  1862.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Leonard  and  Mary  (Marshall) 
Eisler.  the  former,  who  was  born  in  Swedes- 
boro.  died  in  .\pril.  1846,  the  latter,  who  was 
the  first  wife,  died  about  1812.  Children  of 
P.enjamin  and  Mary  Marshall  (Eisler)  Hard- 
ing: .Annie  F..  born  .April  11,  1824.  died  July 
24.  1881  :  Leonard  F..  January  23,  1827,  died 
on  Thanksgiving  da_\'.  T878:  Lydia  M..  Decem- 
ber 14.  1828:  John,  died  in  infancy:  Hannah 
H..  October  7,  1830,  died  in  1894;  Thomas  W.. 
July.  1836,  diecl  January.  1845:  Benjamin 
Eranklin.  see  forward. 

(HI  )  Benjamin  Franklin,  youngest  child  of 
Benjamin  and  Mary  Marshall  (Fisler)  Har<l- 
ing.  was  born  at  Glassboro.  New  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1838,  and  is  now-  living  at  Bridgeton, 
Xew  Jersey.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Clayton,  New  Jersey,  and  at  the  age 
of  fifteen  years  entered  the  West  Jersey  Acad- 
emy at  Bridgeton  w-here  he  took  a  complete 
course.  Lie  returned  to  the  family  homestead 
in  1857.  remaining  on  the  farm  until  May  7, 
1873,  when  he  located  in  Bridgeton,  New-  Jer- 
sey, and  accepted  the  position  of  superintend- 
ent and  treasurer  of  the  Bridgeton  Gas  Light 
Company,  an  office  he  has  filled  up  to  the 
f)resent  time  I  1909).  He  is  a  director  and  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Cumberland  .Mutual  Eire  Insurance  Company, 
and  a  directtir  and  president  of  the  Bridgeton 
Hos[)ital.  In  |)olitics  Mr.  Harding  is  a  Republi- 
can with  mdependent  proclivities.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Bridgeton  city  council,  1886- 
<)i.  during  the  last  year  serving  as  president  of 
that  body;  in  early  life  took  an  active  part 
in  educational  matters,  serving  as  superin- 
tendent of  schools  for  his  township.  1863-66. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Second  F'resbyterian 
Church  of  I'ridgeton.  one  of  the  elders,  has 
represented  his  church  at  the  synod,  and  was 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school  connected 
with  his  church  for  thirty-three  years.  Mr. 
Harding  married.  May  14,  1867,  Harriet  Lore, 
who  died  .April  27.  1898.  daughter  of  Rev. 
.Samuel  Law-rence,  of  Lewistown.  P'ennsylva- 
nia,  who  w-as  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1793. 
Children:  I,  Samuel  Lawrence,  see  forward. 
2.  Mary  Marshall,  born  July  3.  1878:  married. 
September  17.  igo8.  Rev.  William  W.  John- 
eton.  a  Presljvterian  clergv man.  now  connected 


STATE   OF   NEW     |1:RS1:N 


8(>r 


with  mission  work  in  Tsinanfu,  China.  3. 
Benjamin  MiUon,  February  2,  1884;  a  student 
in  his  fourth  year  at  the  Jefferson  Medical 
College.   Philadelphia. 

(IV)  Samuel  Fawrence.  eldest  chikl  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  and  Harriet  Lore  (Law- 
rence) Harding,  was  born  August  29.  1875. 
He  is  now  connected  with  the  Western  Electric 
Company  of  Chicago,  residing  in  that  city. 
He  married,  Xovember  18.  i<)03,  Marie  An- 
trim, of  Philadelphia,  a  descendant  of  one  of 
the  most  prominent  families  of  New  Jersey. 
Children :  Robert  Lawrence,  born  January  3, 
T906:  Marian  Louise,  August  21,  1909. 


The  ancestor  of  the   Darnell 
DARNELL     family  came  over  to  the  New 

World  with  that  large  body 
of  stalwart  English  yeoman  who  had  em- 
braced the  tenets  of  George  Fox,  and  who  had 
watched  the  birth  and  growth  of  the  (Juakei 
colonies  along  the  banks  of  the  Delaware  with 
fascinated  and  longing  eyes,  dreaming  of  that 
peace  and  prosperity  which  so  many,  and 
among  them  the  f<;)unders  of  the  Darnell  fam- 
ily and  his  descendants,  lived  to  realize  and 
enjoy. 

(I)  Of  John  Darnell,  emigrant  and  ances- 
tor of  the  family,  little  is  known  except  the 
fact  of  his  emigration  and  the  date  of  his  mar- 
riage. Coming  to  this  country  some  time  after 
1700,  he  settled  in  Evesham  township,  Burl- 
ington county,  New  Jersey,  where  his  descend- 
ants have  borne  and  perpetuated  his  name  in 
the  honor  and  esteem  of  their  fellowmen  for 
the  last  seven  generations.  Here  also  it  was 
that  he  found  his  wife  in  1722.  She  was  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  John  Borton  Jr.,  by  his  first 
wife,  and  granddaughter  of  John  and  Ann 
Borton,  of  Hillsdown,  on  the  Northampton 
river,  Burlington  county,  and  formerly  of  the 
parish  of  Aynhoe,  county  Northampton,  Eng- 
land, from  which  place  they  had  come  over  to 
this  country,  bringing  with  them  a  certificate 
dated  the  5th  of  Third  month,  1679,  from  the 
Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  at  Burton,  in  Ox- 
fordshire, which  stated  that  "they  have  walked 
(these  many  years)  honestly  among  us  living 
in  the  fear  of  God  and  in  obedience  to  the 
blessed  truth  revealed  in  this  our  day  and  have 
been  of  a  good  savour  to  ffriends  and  to  their 
neighbors  in  y^  village  where  they  dwell." 

John  and  Hannah  (Borton)  Darnell  had  five 
children:  i.  Edward,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Lewis,  born  1736;  married,  1759,  (irace 
Thomas,  and  their  son  Isaiah  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of   Edmund   Bartlett,    Sr.,   and   had 


two  children.  Aar(.>n  and  Sarah.  3.  William, 
1739.  4.  Hannah,  1742.  5.  Jemima,  ( )ctoljer 
6,  1744.  died  January  13,  1818;  married  Relm- 
boam,  son  of  Robert  Braddock  and  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mercy  (Clement) 
Bates,  and  granddaughter  of  Robert  Braddock 
and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Timothy  Hancock, 
the  emigrant,  and  also  of  James  Clement,  the 
emigrant,  who  was  the  son  of  Gregory  Clem- 
ent, the  regicide.  Of  their  ten  children. 
Rachel,  the  seventh,  married  Joshua  Dudley, 
and  their  chikl  Rachel,  by  her  marriage  with 
Edmund  Darnell,  referred  to  below,  became 
the  great-grandmother  of  William  Sharp  Dar- 
nell, also  referred  to  below. 

(  II  )  Edward,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Han- 
nah (Borton)  Darnell,  was  born  in  Evesham 
township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  the 
14th  of  First  Month,  1730,  died  in  the  same 
place  between  1789  and  1791.  In  1754  he 
married  in  the  Evesham  Monthly  Aleeting. 
Jane  Driver,  who  bore  him  two  children:  i. 
Samuel.     2.  Edmund,  referred  to  below. 

(Ill)  Edmund,  son  of  Edward  and  Jane 
(Driver)  Darnell,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
ship, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1768. 
In  1790  he  married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Joshua 
and  Rachel  (Braddock)  Dudley,  who  through 
her  mother's  mother,  Jemima  (Darnell)  Brad- 
dock, was  a  great-granddaughter  of  John  Dar- 
nell, the  emigrant,  referred  to  above.  Chil- 
dren of  Edmund  and  Rachel  (Dudley)  Dar- 
nell: I.  Rachel,  married  Benjamin  Satter- 
thwaite.  2.  Joshua,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Edward,  died  unmarried.  4.  Ann,  died  un- 
married. 5.  Hanna,  died  unmarried.  6.  Isaac, 
referred  to  below.  7.  Job,  married  Agnes, 
daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Lukens) 
Mullen.  Children:  i.  Charles,  married,  1852, 
Lydia.  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Deborah 
(Engle)  Haines,  and  had  Joseph,  who  mar- 
ried Miss  Morse,  and  another  child,  unmar- 
ried, ii.  Sarah,  married  Mark,  son  of  George 
and  Esther  (Haines)  Buzby,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren, Georgianna  and  Walter,  the  former  un- 
married ;  iii.  Edmund,  married  Hetty,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Jessup ;  iv.  Agnes,  died  unmar- 
ried ;  v.  Henry,  married  .\nna  Prickitt  and  has 
one  son,  Albert  H.  8.  David,  married  Mary 
C,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Cowper- 
thwaite)  Evans.  Children:  i.  Howard,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  F.  Haines ;  ii.  John,  married 
Edith  Middleton.  iii.  Rebecca,  married  James 
Bell ;  iv.  Jane,  married  Robert  Engle  ;  v.  Mary 
Anna,  unmarried ;  vi.  Ezra,  unmarried ;  vii. 
David,  unmarried;  9. -12.  Four  children  who 
died  young  or  in  infancy. 


STATE    ()!•     NEW   JERSEY. 


(IV)  Joshua,  sun  of  Edmutul  and  Rachel 
I  Dudley  i  Darnell,  married  Eliza  Lippincoit. 
Children:  i.  Aaron,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Enoch,  married  Martha  S.,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Susanna  (  P>allinger)  Haines,  and 

liad  Joshua,  who  married  .Martha  ,  and 

Anna  H.,  married  William  Henderson.  3. 
Rachel,  married  Levi  Jones.  4.  Caleb,  married 
a  Miss  1  laines. 

(  \" )  .\aron,  .son  of  Joshua  and  Eliza  (  Lip- 
pincott)  Darnell,  married  Mary  Warrington. 
Children:  1.  Elizabeth,  married  Benejah 
Haines.  2.  Rachel,  married  William  Evans. 
3.  Warrington,  married  three  times,  and  by  his 
second  wife  had  one  child.  4.  Hannah,  mar- 
ried Barcley  .\llen.  5.  Sarah,  married  Elwood 
Johnson.  6.  Mary,  married  Reading  Mar- 
jorum.     7.  .Ann.  married  a  Mr.  Sharp. 

(  I\" )  Isaac,  son  of  Edmund  and  Rachel 
(  Dudley  )  Darnell,  was  born  in  Evesham  town- 
shi]).  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey.  Febru- 
ary 5.  i-yfj.  died  in  that  place  in  1855.  Like 
his  ancestors  he  was  a  gentleman  farmer  and 
lived  on  the  same  acres  which  had  supported 
them,  and  which  he  had  received  from  them 
by  direct  inheritance.  He  married  Sarah, 
(laughter  of  .Solomon  and  Lydia  (Burrough) 
.Saunders.  Her  father  was  a  son  of  John 
Saunders,  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Free- 
dom Lippincott  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John,  son  of  Dr.  Daniel  Wills.  Freedom  Lip- 
pincott was  the  son  of  Freedom  and  Alarv 
f Curtis)  Lippincott.  Her  mother  was  the 
(laughter  of  Samuel  and  .Sarah  (Lamb)  Bur- 
rough,  granddaughter  of  Samuel  and  Ann 
(Gray)  Burrough,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Samuel  Burrough.  the  emigrant,  and  Hannah, 
daughter  of  John  Roberts,  the  emigrant. 

Children  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Saunders) 
Darnell:  i.  Edward,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Lydia,  married  .\ndrew,  son  of  William  and 
Jemima  (P.raddock)  Sharp.  His  mother  was 
the  daughter  of  Darnell  and  Sarah  (  Rogers  1 
Mraddock.  and  granddaughter  of  Rchoboam 
and  Jemima  (Darnell)  Braddock.  Children: 
i.  Richard,  married  Rebecca  Lamb:  ii.  Isaac: 
iii.  Walter,  married  a  Miss  Kain  :  iv.  Laura, 
married  Joseph  Randall.  3.  Hannah,  died  un- 
married. 4.  Samuel.  3.  .Ann,  died  aged  three 
years,     h.  Deborah,  died  in  in  fane  v. 

(\')  Edward,  son  of  Lsaac  and  Sarali 
( Saunders )  Darnell,  was  born  in  Evesham 
township.  Burlington  count  v.  New  lersev,  in 
.Vovember.  1835.  He  was 'a  farmer,  and  an 
( )rthiKlo.\  Friend  of  the  Evesham  Meeting, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  highly  resi>ected  and 
in  a  quiet  way  influential  men  of  the  comnnm- 


ity  in  which  his  life  was  spent.  He  married 
.\bigail  .Ann,  daughter  of  William  and  Jemima 
(  Braddock)  Sharp,  referred  to  above  (see 
.Sharp,  V).  Children :  i.  William  Sharp,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Henry  Sharp,  deceased ; 
married  Ida  Stratton.  3.  Lewis  Sharp,  born 
1863;  married  Elizabeth  Mary  Stratton.  4. 
Sarah  Hilliard,  married  Lewis  B.  Hillman.  5. 
.\nna  Jemima,  married  William  J.  Moss.  6. 
Edward  Eugene,  married  Alberta  B.  Wooden. 
7.  1-lorence,  married  Charles  D.  Haven.  8. 
.Mary  Collins,  living  and  unmarried.  9.  Lydia 
Shar]),  married  M.  Weber  Watkinson. 

(\1)  William  Sharp,  eldest  child  of  Ed- 
ward and  .\bigail  .\nn  (Sharp)  Darnell,  was 
born  in  Evesham  township,  Burlington  county, 
.\ugust  5,  i860,  and  is  now  living  at  No.  421 
I'enn  street.  Camden,  New  Jersey,  with  his  law 
otilices  at  No.  322  Market  street,  Camden,  New 
Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  public  schools  at  Penn  Grove,  Evesham 
township,  and  to  the  private  academy  of  Mil- 
ton H.  .\llen.  at  Medford.  Burlington  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  from  which  latter  institution  he 
graduated  in  1876.  .After  his  graduation  he 
became  a  teacher  in  the  Cookman  Institute  at 
Jacksonville.  Florida,  and  after  holding  this 
position  for  a  short  while  he  gave  it  up  in  order 
tt)  become  the  bookkeeper  for  the  firm  of 
Taylor  Brothers  in  Camden,  New  Jersey. 
Here  he  remained  four  years,  and  then  turn- 
ing his  attention  to  the  study  of  law  ])ursued 
his  reading  in  the  law  office  of  Leaming  & 
lilack  in  Camden,  and  was  finally  admitted  to 
the  .New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney  in  1887. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Camden, 
and  having  made  a  siiccialty  of  corporation  law 
has  become  widely  known  as  one  of  the  lead- 
•  ing  legal  lights  in  that  section  of  the  state.  He 
is  also  a  master  in  chancery.  Mr.  Darnell  is 
a  Reiniblican  but  he  has  always  declined  to 
hold  office.  He  attends  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  of  St.    Paul  in  Camden. 

Mr.  Darnell  stands  at  the  head  of  the  pub- 
lic-spirited and  influential  men  of  the  city  in 
which  he  lives  and  he  has  been  called  to  many 
I>ositions  of  responsibility  and  trust  which  he 
lias  always  filled  not  only  to  his  own  honor 
and  credit,  but  also  to  the  full  satisfaction  of 
all  concerned.  He  is  the  counsel  for  the  Inde- 
jiendent  Order  of  Foresters  of  New  Jersey, 
and  also  the  counsel  for  the  Shepherds  of 
Beth.  He  is  a  member  of  the  P>oard  of  Trade 
of  Camden  and  of  the  Camden  Bar  .Associa- 
tion, and  in  addition  to  these  he  is  the  treasurer 
of  the  Camden  ("ountv.   Xew    Tersev.   Societv 


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fur  the  rri-vcntion  uf  Cruelty  to  Children. 
Among  the  many  financial  institutions  with 
which  .Mr.  Darnell  is  connected  and  in  the 
management  of  which  he  plays  an  influential 
part,  should  be  mentioned  the  Pennsylvania 
Automobile  Supply  Company,  the  John  Baiz- 
lev  Iron  Works,  the  Peerless  Pottery  Com- 
])any,  the  Pennsylvania  Graphite  Company,  the 
American  Chemical  and  Xovelty  Company,  the 
W.  H.  Dobbins  Company,  the  American  Gas 
and  Power  Company  and  a  large  number  of 
other  New  Jersey  corporations. 

.\bout  1S84  Mr.  Darnell  married  Ella 
Louisa,  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza 
(I'lronksi  Siatcher.  of  Philadeljihia.  iler 
mother  was  born  in  I^ondon.  England.  January 
13.  1831.  Children:  I.  Mabel  W'olcott,  born 
Camden.  New  Jersey.  1885:  unmarried  and 
living  with  her  parents.  2.  Hattie  Ann  Eliza. 
1891.  3.  Kate  Siatcher.  1897.  4.  Ella  Eoui^a. 
-September.  1902. 


William  Sharp  and  1  honia^ 
S1!.\RI'  Sharp,  brothers,  the  children  of 
Francis  Sharp,  of  Oak  l.ane.  in 
the  parish  of  St.  Anne.  Limehouse,  county 
Middlesex,  England,  and  grandsons  of  Thomas 
Cooper  of  16  George  street,  in- the  parish  and 
c<nmty  above  mentioned,  according  to  the 
record  jjreserved  in  the  old  family  Bible  of 
William's  son,  John,  "came  over  Sea  on  the 
Ship  Samuel  *  *  *  and  landed  in  New 
Jersey  about  the  4th  or  5th  Day  of  September 
1682."  According  to  the  family  tradition  the 
three  children,  John.  W  illiam  and  Hugh,  who 
acc(Mii])anied  the  brothers  William  and 
Thomas,  were  all  of  them  children  of  William. 
( I )  John,  son  of  William  Sharp,  who  ac- 
comjianied  his  father  to  this  country  in  1682, 
married.  Jime  17,  1688,  in  Burlington  Monthly 
Meeting.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Paine, 
of  I'.urlington.  Children:  I.  William,  referred 
lo  below.  2.  Elizalieth.  born  May  4,  1692.  3. 
John.  December  8.  i'ii)3.  died  October  23, 
iJ2<):  married  (first)  Jane  l^'itchardall  and 
I  second )  .\nn  Haines.  4.  Thomas.  .August 
2^.  iCyjS:  married  Elizabeth  Smith.  5.  Han- 
nah, December  i.  1700;  married  Thomas 
.\dams.  ().  Samuel,  September  5.  1702:  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  fiaines,  7.  Sarah.  June  30. 
1705.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Sharp,  died 
.Vovember  28,  1705. 

(H)  William  (2).  son  of  John  and  Eliza- 
beth (Paine)  Sharp,  married  (first)  Mary, 
daughter  of  Francis  and  Afary  ( i^.orton  )  .Aus- 
tin.    This  was  in  1716.  and  after  her  death  he 


married  Hannah .   who  survived   hint. 

Children,  the  last  seven  by  the  second  wife: 
I.  Rebecca,  born  1719,  died  August  17,  1781  : 
married  Solomon  Haines.  2.  Hannah,  March 
27,  172 1  :  married  Jonathan  Haines.  3.  Hugh, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Esther.  .\])ril  2('i.  1727; 
married  Job  Haines.  5.  William.  I'ebruary 
19,  1730:  married  Mary  Haines,  d.  Sarah, 
.\ugust  15,  1733;  married  I'.arzillai  Prickitt. 
7.  .Samuel,  May  3,  1737.  8.  Jane.  .September 
19.  1739;  married  Robert  Engle.  9.  A  child 
born  April  14,  1741.  10.  Isaac,  Xovember  9, 
1744,  died  young,  11.  Josiah,  June  i.  1748. 
12.  Elizabeth,  August  30,  1731. 

(  IH)  Hugh,  son  of  William  (2)  and  Mary 
( -Austin  )  Sharp,  was  born  January  15,  1724. 
He  married  (first)  Sabilla  ,  and  (sec- 
ond )  Ann,  daugliter  of  Mark  and  Ann  (Han- 
cock)  Stratton.     Children,  three  by  first  wife: 

1.  Sabilla.  born  .April  23.  1733.  2.  Hannah. 
.May  24,  1737.  3.  Thomas,  August  I,  1739. 
4.  Job.  October  21,  1761  :  married  (first)  Ann 

.    and    (second)    Esther,   daughter    of 

Thomas  Brooks,  widow  of  Thomas  Sharp.  3. 
William,  referred  to  below. 

{ l\' )  William  (3),  son  of  Hugh  and  Ann 
(Stratton)  Sharp,  was  born  March  10,  1770. 
lie  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
anil  Elizabeth  (Zane)  Rakestraw.  Her  grand- 
parents were  Thomas  Jr.  and  Mary  (Wilkin- 
son )  Rakestraw  and  her  great-grandparents 
were  Thomas  Rakestraw  and  Thomas  Wilkin- 
son. Children  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Rakestraw)  Sharp:  i.  Eli,  married  Kathar- 
ine Sinnickson.  2.  PTanklin,  married  Eliza 
Braddock,  sister  to  his  brother  William's  wife. 
3.  William,  referred  to  below.  4.  Isaac,  mar- 
ried Hannah  Engle.  3.  Charles,  married 
(first)  a  Miss  Logue ;  (second)  Esther 
Leatherberry :  (third)  a  Miss  Somerall.  6. 
Maria,  married  Benjamin  Wilkins.  7.  Eliza- 
beth, married  Japheth  Bowker.  8.  Amanda, 
married  a  Mr.  Morford.  9.  Susan,  married 
Wesley  Evans. 

(  \' )  William  (4),  son  of  William  (3)  antl 
I'dizabeth  (Rakestraw)  Sharp,  married  Je- 
mima, daughter  of  Darnell  and  Sarah  ( Rog- 
ers )  Braddock.  Her  grandparents  were  W^ill- 
iam  and  Martha  (Esturgans)  Rogers  and 
Rehoboam  and  Jemima  (  Darnell )  Braddock. 
(."hildren  of  William  and  Jemima  (Braddock) 
.Shar[) :  i.  Ferdinand,  married  Lydia  daughter 
of  Edward  B.  and  .Abigail  (Haines)  Thomas. 

2.  Hugh,  married  (first)  Jane  .Ann,  daughter 
(d  Isaac  and  Hannah  ((iarwood)  Sharp,  and 
(second)    Rebecca,   danghtei    of   William  and 


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Charlotte  (Beck)  Venicoinbe,  and  the  widow 
of  Dr.  Benjamin  Fisler.  3.  Benjamin,  mar- 
ried AdeHne  (Garwood)  Hilhard.  4.  Jemima, 
married  Edwin  Crispin,  as  his  first  wife.  5. 
Abigail  Ann,  married  Edward,  son  of  Isaac 
and  .Sarah  (Saunders)  Darnell  (see  Darnell, 
\').  6.  Jervis,  married  Sarah  A.  R,  Githens. 
7.  Andrew,  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Sarah  (Saunders)  Darnell.  8.  Lewis  L., 
M.  D.,  married  Rebecca  (Bailey)  Sharp, 
widow  of  Edward  .Sharp,  deceased.  9.  Henry, 
married  Annie,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Jane 
(Prickitt)  Wilkins.  10.  Edward  (deceased); 
married  Rebecca  Bailey. 


The  Gaskills  are  an  old  Bur- 
GASKIEI.  lington  county  family  and  the 
name  is  frec|uently  mentioned 
in  connection  with  the  early  history  of  Spring- 
field township.  r)ne  historical  account  speaks 
of  Job  Gaskill  as  one  of  the  earliest  settlers 
there  and  says  that  he  came  from  England  at 
a  very  early  period  and  was  one  of  the  pioneer 
farmer.s  of  the  vicinity.  He  had  a  son,  Thomas, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Hilman,  and  their  son 
was  the  late  Hon.  Job  Hilman  Gaskill,  of 
Pemberton.  New  Jersey.  It  is  said  too  that 
Jobstown,  in  Springfield  township,  was  named 
for  Job  Gaskill,  although  by  some  writers  that 
distinction  seems  to  be  claimed  for  Job  Lippin- 
cott.  So  early  as  1777-78  Josiah  Gaskill  was 
constable  of  Springfield  township,  and  in  1781 
a  Job  Gaskill  was  member  of  the  township 
committee.  William  Gaskill  was  township 
clerk  in  1802  and  1808,  and  in  1815  Abel  Gas- 
kill w-as  the  pioneer  merchant  at  Jacksonville, 
while  Daniel  Gaskill  kept  the  first  tavern  there, 
was  the  first  postmaster  of  the  hamlet  and  also 
an  early  shoemaker  in  the  township. 

(I)  Joseph  Gaskill,  doubtless  in  some  man- 
ner related  to  the  Job  Gaskill  mentioned  in  the 
jjreceding  paragraph,  and  perhaps  his  son,  is 
said  to  have  been  born  in  Burlington  township, 
probably  before  1780,  but  little  else  appears 
to  be  known  of  him.  His  wife's  name  was 
Sally,  and  their  children  were  Furman,  Joseph, 
George,  Richard,  Caleb  S.,  Asa,  Mary,  who 
married  Daniel  Lippincott,  and  Sarah,  who 
married  Robert  Deacon.  Joseph  Gaskill  was 
a  farmer  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
and  spent  his  declining  years  in  Mt.  Holly. 

(II)  Caleb  S.,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sally  Gas- 
kill, was  born  in  Burlington  county,  in  1813, 
and  died  in  September,  1886.  He  was  a  well 
educated  man  for  his  time  and  also  a  very  suc- 
cessful farmer,  raising  and  dealing  extensively 


in  sheep,  and  it  is  said  that  his  lambs  and 
sheep  were  always  considered  the  best  sent 
to  the  markets.  He  also  raised  many  swine 
and  beef  cattle  and  was  in  all  respects  one 
of  the  most  enterprising  farmers  of  his  time 
in  southern  New  Jersey.  He  served  in  various 
official  capacities,  was  a  Whig  and  later  a  Re- 
publican, and  a  devout  F"riend.  In  1842  Mr. 
Gaskill  married  Esther  A.  Johnson,  who  was 
l)(irn  in  Mt.  Holly.  June  15,  1820,  and  is  now^ 
living  in  Mt.  Holly.  They  had  ten  children: 
John  C,  C.  Frank,  Joseph  H.  (now  dead), 
.Xewton  (now  dead  ),  Richard  S.,(died  young). 
Laura  \'.,  Hettie  A.  (lives  with  her  mother  in 
Mt.  Holly),  Robert  Stockton,  Mary  J.  (mar- 
ried FIdward  E.  Logan,  a  farmer)  and  Sally 
(who  also  lives  with  her  mother). 

(HI)  Robert  Stockton,  son  of  Caleb  S.  and 
Esther  A.  (Johnson)  Gaskill,  was  born  near 
Buildtown,  New  Jersey,  June  18,  1856,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  Lumberton  public 
school,  William  J.  Kelley's  tuition  school. 
Charles  Aaron's  academy  and  Mark  R.  Sovy 
institute,  all  at  Mt.  Holly,  and  Bryant  &  Strat- 
ton's  Business  College,  at  Philadelphia.  After 
leaving  school  he  worked  for  a  time  on  his 
father's  farm,  then  went  to  Alt.  Holly  and 
took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  and 
under  the  instruction  of  James  N.  Stratton, 
Esq.,  with  whom  he  was  associated  until  the 
time  of  Mr.  Stratton's  death.  Mr.  Gaskill 
was  admitted  as  an  attorney  in  February. 
1882,  and  as  counsellor  at  law  in  F'ebru- 
ary,  1885.  During  the  earlier  years  of 
his  professional  career  he  practiced  some- 
what extensively  in  the  criminal  courts 
and  gained  a  wide  reputation  as  a  successful 
criminal  lawyer.  This  special  branch  of  pro- 
fessional work,  however,  he  afterward  aban- 
doned in  favor  of  a  general  office  practice.  In 
addition  to  his  law  practice,  which  always  has 
been  large,  Mr.  Gaskill  for  many  years  has 
been  somewhat  prominently  identified  with 
local  interests  and  institutions,  having  served  as 
township  solicitor,  special  county  solicitor,  vice- 
president  of  the  board  of  education,  and  for  fif- 
teen year  as  president  of  the  Northampton  fire 
department.  He  is  past  master  of  Mt.  Holly 
Lodge,  No.  14,  F.  and  A.  M.,  deputy  grand 
master  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  is  an 
Elk,  a  Republican  in  politics  and  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends. 

On  November  9,  1904,  Mr.  Gaskill  married 
Beulah,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Hope 
(Zelly)  Deacon,  of  Northampton  township, 
Burlington  county. 


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The     Perry     family,   which     has 

I'l-LRR'S'  long  had  an  honored  existence 
in  Essex  county,  has  to-day  no 
more  able  representative  than  Edward  Smith 
I'erry.  whose  ancestry  so  far  as  it  is  ascer- 
tainable is  o'iven  below.  His  grandfather,  the 
earliest  member  of  his  line  of  whom  we  have 
definite  information,  may  have  been  a  son  of 
Deacon  John  Perry,  of  Orange,  who  died  Oc- 
tober I,  1821,  aged  seventy-five  years;  he  may 
have  been  a  grandson  of  Arthur  Perry,  born 
1716,  died  January  i,  1777,  who  with  his  wife 
Jane  is  buried  in  the  old  public  cemetery  at 
Orange.  He  may  also  have  been  the  grand- 
son of  r)eniamin  and  Sarah  Perry,  whose  nine 
year  old  daughter  died  March  16,  1735. 

(I)  George  Perry  was  born  in  Bloomfield, 
Essex  cpunty.  New  Jersey,  January  27,  1796, 
and  died  November  11.,  1848.  His  wife,  Jane 
Ochiltree,  was  born  October  7,  1800,  and  died 
November  12,  1879.  They  are  both  buried  in 
the  [jloomfield  cemetery.  Children :  Smith ; 
Caroline,  married  Thomas  Taylor,  of  Bloom- 
field  :  William,  married  the  widow  Nancy 
Trembly:  George  Washington,  referred  to 
below. 

(H)  George  Washington,  son  of  George 
and  Jane  (Ochiltree)  Perry,  was  born  in 
Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  May  10,  1834,  and 
died  November  i,  1889.  He  bought  and  sold 
live  stock.  He  married,  July  3,  1859,  Sarah 
.\nn,  daughter  of  Edward  G.  and  Catherine 
(Wilcox)  Smith,  and  granddaughter  of  Caleb 
and  Sarah  (Garthwaite)  .Smith.  Her  father 
was  married  twice,  his  second  wife  being  Mar- 
garet Rofif.  Children,  last  two  by  second  wife : 
Sarah  A.  Smith,  referred  to  above ;  Ameha ; 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Levi  Van  Buskirk ;  Alma, 
wife  of  James  Dickerson :  and  Matilda,  mar- 
ried (first)  Freeman  Condit ;  (second)  a  Mr. 
Rogers.  Children  of  George  Washington  and 
-Sarah  Ann  (Smith)  Perry:  i.  Kate,  born  Au- 
gust 6,  i860,  died  September  30,  1863.  2.  Ed- 
ward Smith,  referred  to  below.  3.  Addison 
Griffin,  referred  to  below.  4.  Kate  L.,  born 
in  Bloomfield,  November  11,  1867;  married  in 
New  York,  January  30,  1898,  Dante  J.  Bis- 
perone,  for  whose  ancestry  see  appended  Bis- 
perone  sketch.  5.  Duncan  Kennedy,  referred 
to  below.  6.  Amelia,  married  Alfred  Clark,  of 
Paterson,  New  Jersey  ;  three  children.  7.  Har- 
riet, died  aged  sixteen.  8.  Wilson  George,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(HI)  Edward  Smith,  son  of  George  Wash- 
ington and  Sarah  Ann  (Smith)  Perry,  was 
born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  October  5,  1862. 
For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the 


CJrange  public  schools,  and  learning  the  trade 
of  a  hatter,  he  became  in  1880  superintendent 
of  the  Brennan  &  Carr  factory,  where  he  re- 
mained for  twenty-five  years,  and  resigned  in 
order  to  accept  his  present  position  of  registrar 
of  Essex  county,  to  which  he  was  elected  in 
1905.  Previous  to  this  he  had  served  for 
twelve  years  and  eight  months  as  one  of  the 
members  of  the  common  council  of  ( )range. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Reintblican.  He  is  a  member 
of  Lodge  No.  135.  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  of  Orange,  and  of  Lodge  No. 
12,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of 
Orange.  His  clubs  are  the  Republican  Indian 
League,  the  L'nion  League  Club,  of  Orange, 
and  the  McKinley  and  Roosevelt  Club.  Of 
the  last  two  he  is  president.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  CVange. 
On  October  10,  1885,  Mr.  Perry  married  Ella 
Bertha,  daughter  of  George  Washington  and 
Mary  (Schaefifer)  \'incent,  for  whose  ancestry 
see  X'incent  sketch  appended.  Children:  i. 
George  Washington,  born  July  16,  1886.  2. 
Ella  Bertha,  January  5,  1888.  3.  Edward  B., 
October  19,  1899.  4.  Floyd  C.  CJctober  6, 
1891.  5.  Charles  W.,  March  20,  1894.  6. 
Jrving  G.,  .\ugust  8,  1895. 

(Ill)  Addison  Griffin,  son  of  George  Wash- 
ington and  Sarah  Ann  (Smith)  Perry,  was 
born  at  Bergen  Hill,  Bergen  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, April  23,  1865,  and  is  now  living  in  Orange, 
New  Jersey.  After  receiving  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  he  obtained  a  position 
in  a  produce  dealer's,  which  he  gave  up  in 
(Trder  to  engage  in  the  milk  business.  This  in 
turn  he  relinquished  one  year  later,  and  spent 
two  years  in  the  employ  of  a  railroad,  and 
finally  in  1897  'i^  started  the  sale  and  exchange 
stable  which  he  has  continued  to  conduct  up  to 
the  present  time.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  in  religious  conviction  a  Presby- 
terian. In  June,  1888,  he  married,  in  East 
Orange,  (first)  Josephine  Ryan,  and  (second) 
about  1897,  Annie  Ryan,  a  cousin  of  his  first 
wife.  The  father  of  his  first  wife  was  Michael 
Ryan,  and  of  his  second,  I^Iichaers  brother 
Philip.  Children  of  Addison  Grififen  Perry:  i. 
Lillian  Veronica,  born  February  10,  1890.  2. 
Arthur  A.,  August  27,  1891.  3.  Florence,  June 
4,  1894.  4.  Irene.  5.  Walter,  June  11,  1898. 
6.  Mary  Francis,  December  7,  1899.  7.  Frank 
H.,  March  7,  1905.    8.  Ruth,  December  9, 1906. 

(Ill)  Duncan  Kennedy,  son  of  George 
Washington  and  Sarah  Ann  (Smith)  Perry, 
was  born  in  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  Jaiuiary 
17,  1 87 1,  and  is  now  living  in  Orange.  For 
his   early   education    he   attended   the   public 


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schools  of  Orange,  after  which  he  learnt  the 
trade  of  hatter ;  but  after  working  for  eight 
years  at  this  he  went  into  a  box  factory  and 
later  into  the  Orange  water  department.  In 
1908  he  gave  up  this  last  employment  in  order 
to  enter  the  town  fire  department.  He  is  a 
Republican  and  a  I'resbyterian.  June  22,  1896, 
Mr.  Perry  married,  in  Xew  York  City,  .Mary, 
daughter  of  Michael  and  Maria  (Brown)  Ryan, 
and  widow  of  William  Burke,  who  by  her  first 
husband  had  three  children  :  Josephine  Mary 
IJurke,  born  December  25,  1888;  William  F.. 
March  18,  1890;  Lawrence,  May  26,  1892.  Her 
lather  was  born  in  1838.  and  died  Alay  II, 
1905:  her  mother  was  born  in  1835.  and  died 
October  26.  1884.  Children  of  Duncan  Ken- 
nedy and  Mary  (Ryan-Burke)  I'erry:  Edna 
Loretta,  born  July  29,  1902,  and  Helen  .Marie, 
November  16,  1906. 

(HI)  Wilson  George,  son  of  George  Wash- 
ington and  Sarah  .\nn  (Smith)  Perry,  was 
born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  January  27,  1879, 
and  is  now  living  at  70  Mitchell  street.  West 
Orange.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
public  .school,  and  then  learned  the  trade  of 
hatter,  at  which  he  has  continued  ever  since, 
being  employed  in  the  blocking  department  of 
one  of  the  large  C)range  factories.  He  is  a 
Republican.  July  1,  1900,  Mr.  Perry  married, 
in  Orange,  Caroline,  daughter  of  Louis  and 
-Mexandrienne  (Browdin)  Amirault.  Children: 
I.  Irene  .\dele,  born  February  7,  1901.  2. 
Robert  Wilson,  December  5,  1903.  3.  Lor- 
raine Estelle,  March  26,  1905.  4.  Eleanor 
Corinne,  December  2j ,  1907.  5.  Wilson  (leorge, 
October  7,  1908. 

(The    Pt-peroiie   Line). 

Dante  J.  Peperone  is  the  only  child  of  John 
and  .\nne  Marie  Pejierone.  His  parents  were 
natives  of  Turin.  Italy,  his  father  being  born 
there  December  18,  1842,  and  dying  in  .Amer- 
ica, November  8.  1907.  Coming  to  this  coun- 
try in  1 886  with  his  son,  who  was  born  in 
Turin,  .\pril  12,  1872,  the  father  obtained  em- 
ployment in  one  of  the  large  Orange  hat  fac- 
tories, and  Dante  J.,  who  had  received  his  early 
education  in  the  Italian  parish  schools,  com- 
pleted it  in  the  Orange  public  school.  He  was 
nine  years  old  when  he  was  brought  to  this 
country,  and  after  leaving  school  he  learned 
the  trade  of  carpenter,  and  by  his  energy  and 
ability  has  risen  to  the  position  of  foreman 
for  several  of  the  large  contractors.  It  should 
be  mentioned  as  an  evidence  of  his  ability  that 
he  built  his  own  home.  He  is  a  Republican  and 
a  Presbyterian.     He  is  secretary  of  Lafayette 


Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  a 
member  of  the  Encampment  and  of  the 
Brotherhood  Insurance  Company,  January  30, 
1898,  .Mr.  Peperone  marrieil,  in  .\ew  York 
City,  Kate  Loretta,  daughter  of  George  Wash- 
ington and  Sarah  Ann  (Smith)  Perry,  who 
was  born  in  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  Novem- 
ber II.  1867.  Children:  i.  Cecile  Anna,  born 
December  16.  1898.  2.  Elmira  Sarah,  Septem- 
ber 30,  190V  3.  .Marie  Adelaide.  .August  14, 
1908. 

(The  Vincent  Line). 

Thomas  \  incent,  born  in  England,  married 
.Martha  Reynolds,  and  had  thirteen  children, 
among  whom  was  George  Washington,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(II)  George  Washington,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Martha  (Reynolds)  Vincent,  was  born  in 
West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Jidy  23,  1842,  and 
died  there  May  5,  1905.  After  being  educated 
in  the  Orange  public  schools  he  became  for  a 
while  a  clerk  in  a  store,  and  then  set  up  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  as  a  produce  dealer.  He  was 
a  Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church  ;  the  secret  societies  of  which 
he  was  a  member  were  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
He  married,  August  27,  1859,  Mary,  daughter 
of  John  Christopher  and  Wilhelmina  (Zimmer- 
mann)  SchaelTer,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  (iermany.  She  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  January  12,  1842,  and  is  the  oldest  child 
of  her  parents.  Children:  i.  Ella  Bertha, 
born  March  22,  1866;  married,  October  10, 
1885,  Edward  Smith,  son  of  George  Washing- 
ton and  Sarah  Ann  (Smith)  Perry.  2.  Amelia, 
wife  of  George  Jorgensen.  3.  Caroline.  4. 
George  Washington,  married  Grace  Condit, 
and  has  two  children — Hazel  and  Wesley.  5. 
Thomas,  married  Annie  Jacobus,  and  has  three 
children — Wilbur,  Martha  and  Myrtle.  6. 
.Arthur,  married  Elizabeth  Macauley,  and  has 
line  child,  .Arthur. 


The  Condit  family  of  New  Jer- 
CONDIT     sey   which   has   played   such   an 

important  and  prominent  part 
in  the  history  of  Esse.x  county  from  its  earliest 
period  down  to  the  present  day,  is  of  Norman 
descent,  and  the  name  has  had  honorable  men- 
tion more  than  once  in  English  history. 
.Among  the  most  prominent  of  the  English 
members  of  the  family  was  John  Conduit 
Knight,  who  married,  in  England,  Catherine 
Barton,  widow,  niece  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton, 
with   whom    the   couple    resided    during    Sir 


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Isaac's  life,  and  from  whom  they  inherited  iiis 
estate.  Sir  John  Conduit  succeeded  Sir  Isaac 
alsi)  as  master  and  warden  of  the  mint,  and 
(lied  January  20.  1/39,  aged  eighty  years.  His 
wife  dietl  May  27,  1737.  aged  forty-nine. 
Their  monument  is  in  Westminster  .Abbey. 
They  had  one  chihl,  a  daugiiter.  who  married 
a  Air.  W'allap,  eldest  son  of  Lord  Lynington. 
Die  Kensington  estate  descended  to  the  Earl 
iif  Portsmouth. 

(I)  Jdim  L'unditt,  first  known  nieniber  nf 
the  family  in  this  country  came  to  .\nierica 
ill  i()7S.  with  his  son  Peter,  and  settled  at  New- 
ark. New  Jerse}'.  He  bought  land  there  in 
1(189  and  1691.  He  died  in  1713.  By  his  first 
wife  he  had  a  son  Peter  (referred  to  below), 
and  by  his  second  wife,  Deborah,  he  had  an- 
other son,  John,  who  died  a  minor.  There  is 
reason  to  believe  that  his  second  wife  was  a 
widow  when  he  married  her,  and  that  she  had 
a  ihuigliter,  Marv,  who  married  Captain  [ojin 
.Morris. 

(II)  Peter,  only  child  n{  Juhn  Cumlitt  tn 
reach  maturity  and  marry,  came  over  to  .\mer- 
ica  with  his  father.  He  died  in  1714,  leaving 
a  widow  and  seven  children.  P'runi  the  fre- 
i|uent  mention  in  the  Newark  record  of  the 
"two  widows  Cunditts,"  it  seeins  probable 
that  Peter's  widow  lived  with  her  mother-in- 
law  at  least  for  some  tiine  after  her  liu.s- 
band's  death.  Peter  Condit  married,  in  i'i()5, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  Harrison,  of  New- 
ark. Samuel  was  son  of  Sergeant  Richard  Har- 
rison, and  grandson  of  Richard  Harrison  of 
Cheshire,  England,  and  Brandford.  Connecti- 
cut. Children  of  Peter  and  Mary  (  flarrison  ) 
Condit:  i.  Samuel,  referred  tn  below. 
2.  Peter,  born  1698  or  1699:  died  July  11, 
17C18:  married  I'hebe  Dodd.  3.  John,  born 
aliout  1701  :  died  about  1783;  married  Joanna, 
<laughter  of  Mathew  \V'illiams,  of  Newark. 
4.  Nathaniel,  born  about  1703:  died  June  23. 
1746:  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Swain 
and  .Susan  (.\ckerman)  Ogden  of  Orange.  5. 
.Mary,  liorn  1705  or  1706.  6.  Philip,  born 
April,  1709:  died  December  23,  1801  ;  married 
.Mary  Day.  7.  Isaac,  born  171 1  or  1712,  liv- 
ing in  I7')4,  and  married,  but  wife's  name  un- 
known. 

(HI)  Samuel  Condit,  eldest  ciiild  uf  Peter 
and  Mary  Harrison  Condit,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey.  December  6,  ifk/i,  and  died 
Jidy  18,  1777.  .Alxnit  1720  he  purchaseil  laml 
lying  between  the  (  )range  Mountains,  after- 
wards called  Pleasant  Valley.  Subtracting 
from  this  land  five  ])lantations  of  fifty  acres 
each,  he  built  on  each  plantation  a  house  which 


lie  diiiiated  to  each  of  his  five  sons,  giving  at 
the  same  time  a  family  Bible  apiece.  He  re- 
served for  himself  a  homestead  plot  of  seventy 
acres.  Three  of  these  farms  have  ever  since 
remained  in  the  family  line  of  descent,  and  it 
is  a  remarkable  fact  that  his  descendants  have 
a  continuous  representation  in  an  official  ca- 
pacity in  the  churches  of  Orange  for  more  than 
one  hundred  and  fifty  years.  He  is  buried 
in  the  Orange  burying  ground,  having 'survived 
his  first  wife  more  than  twenty  years,  and  his 
.second  wife  exactly  five  months.  Their 
graves  are  near  their  husband,  while  in  close 
proximity  is  the  resting  place  of  their  third 
son,  Samuel  Junior. 

In  1722  Sanuiel  Condit  married  Mary  Dodd. 
born  November  8,  1698,  died  May  25,  1755. 
She  was  the  mother  of  all  his  children.  The 
second  wife,  whom  he  married  in  1756,  was 
Mary  (Nutman)  Williams,  ^he  widow  of 
.Amos,  born  1700;  died  February  18,  1777. 
Children  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Dodd  Condit: 
I.  Daniel,  referred  to  below.  2.  Jotham,  Ixirn 
January  29,  1727:  died  July  9.  1752;  married 
Rebecca  Pierson.  3.  Samuel,  January  13, 
1729,  to  November  18,  1776;  married  (first) 
Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  Snu'th,  of  Orange : 
(second)  Martha  (Carter)  Wilcox,  widow  of 
Stephen  Wilcox,  of  Elizabethtown,  who  after 
his  death  married  (third)  Deacon  Paul  Day, 
nf  P.ottle  or  Long  Tlill,  Morris  county,  New- 
Jersey.  4.  Martha.  October  17,  1731,  to  Jan- 
uary fi.  1831;  married  (first)  Gers'hom  Will- 
iams, (  second  )  Jedediah  Freeman.  5.  David, 
March  17.  1734.  to  .April  24,  1777,  married 
Joanna  Williams.  Enlisted  in  Second  Regi- 
ment New  Jersey  Militia  during  the  revolu- 
tion ;  promoted  to  major  1776,  and  for  gal- 
lantry brevetted  lieutenant-colonel.  6.  Jona- 
than, October  18,  1736,  to  August  29,  1823; 
married  his  cousin  Jemima,  daughter  of  John 
Condit.  Was  captain  of  militia.  Second  New 
Jersey    Regiment,   during  the   revolution. 

(IV)  Daniel,  eldest  child  of  Samuel  and 
Mary  (Dodd)  Condit,  was  born  in  Orange, 
December  27,  1723,  and  died  November  11. 
1785.  He  was  a  farmer  and  occupied  the 
land  given  to  him  by  his  father.  He  was  also 
a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary  army,  having 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  first  Batallion,  sec- 
ond establishment  of  the  New  Jersey  militia. 
He  married  Ruth,  born  December  29,  1723, 
diefl  November  23.  1807,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Jemima  (Williams)  Harrison,  grand- 
daughter of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Ward) 
Harrison,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Ser- 
geant    Richard     Harrison.     Daniel     was     a 


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ck'acon  in  ihc  I 'rcsliytfrian  cluiieii.  and 
an  exfni]>lary  Christian  man.  Cliildrcn 
vi  Daniel  and  Ruth  (Harrison)  Con(Ht :  i. 
Adonijah,  born  1749;  died  September  13 
1770.     2.    Eunice,   married    Nathaniel   Ogden. 

3.  Jemima,   married   Alajor   Aaron   Harrison. 

4.  Alary,  born  January  18,  1756:  married  her 
cousin  I'hili]),  son  of  Philip  Condit.  of  Morris- 
town.  5.  Joel,  married  Sarah  Wheeler.  0. 
Amos,  born  January  2,  1759;  died  March  12. 
1802;  married  Dorcas  Harrison.  7.  Samuel, 
referred  to  below.  8.  Ira,  I-'ebruary  21.  I7()4. 
to  June  I.  1811  ;  a  graduate  of  Princeton  Col- 
lege and  a  trustee  thereof;  vice-jiresident  and 
])rofessor  of  moral  philosophy  in  (hieen's 
(now  Rutgers)  College;  became  a  nunister 
in  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church.  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  Henry  I'erine,  of  l-~reeholil. 
New  Jersey. 

(\')  Samuel,  sexenth  child  and  fourth  soi; 
of  Daniel  and  Ruth  (Harrison)  Condit,  was 
born  August  16,  1761,  and  died  August  31. 
1822.  After  his  marriage  he  removed  to  thr 
eastern  side  of  the  Orange  Mountain  and  re- 
sided at  what  was  long  known  as  ""I'ory 
Corner."  I  le  was  a  farmer,  a  devout  Chris- 
tian man,  a  kind  parent,  a  sincere  friend,  and 
a  private  in  the  revolutionary  war.  In  1785 
he  married  Hannah,  born  October  20,  17(14. 
died  J.inuary  31,  1855,  daughter  of  Ichabod 
and  .Sarah  (Williams)  Harrison,  grand- 
daughter of  Nathaniel,  and  great-granddaugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Harrison  and  Dorcas,  daughter 
of  Sergeant  John  Ward.  Their  children  were : 
t.  Jemima,  born  October  7,  1786;  died  Decem- 
ber 16,  1788.  2.  Sarah,  July  30,  1788,  to  Au- 
gust 24,  1 841  ;  married  Ichabod  Losey.  3. 
Jemima.  April  29,  1791.  to  March  28,  1882; 
married  Samuel  Morris  Dodd,  whom  she  sur- 
vived fifty-one  years.  4.  Eunice,  July  2, 
1793.  to  .November  22,  1882;  married  John 
Munn.  5.  Harriet,  November  22,  1795,  to 
January  4,  1880:  married  (first)  Viner  Van 
Zandt  Jones,  (second)  Deacon  Henry  Pierson. 
6.  Samuel,  March  22,  1798.  to  October  22, 
1864;  married  Phebe  Peck.  7.  Mary,  Novem- 
ber 3,  1802,  to  December  30,  1881 ;  married 
Stephen  Dodd.  8.  Abigail,  March  29,  1804, 
to  .\pril  26,  1880;  married  Thomas  D.  Kil- 
burn.  9.  Clara.  F'ebruary  28,  1806,  to  March 
23,  1842;  became  first  wife  of  Thomas  W. 
Munn.  10.  Ira  II.,  referred  to  below.  11. 
Ichabod,  born  December  6,  1810;  died  181 1. 

(\T)  Ira  H.,  next  to  the  youngest  child  of 
Samuel  and  Hannah  (Harrison)  Condit,  was 
born  May  16.  1808.  and  died  January  7.  1906. 
He  was  a  farmer,  and  the  first  part  of  his  life 


lived  at  (  )range,  but  s])ent  the  latter  years  in 
Eivingston  township,  Esse.x  county.  Eor  sev- 
eral years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
chosen  freeholders.  He  married  Phebe  Far- 
rand  Mulford,  born  September  8.  1808,  daugh- 
ter of  Timothy  and  Susan  (Kitchell )  Mulford, 
and  granddaughter  of  Aaron  and  Phebe  (Ear- 
rand  )  Kitchell ;  for  some  years  after  the  war 
(if  the  revolution,  .Aaron  Kitchell  was  a  mem- 
Ijcr  of  the  .New  Jersey  legislature,  from  1791 
to  1 801  he  was  in  congress  as  a  representa- 
tive from  that  state;  and  from  1805  to  1809 
he  was  L'nited  States  senator ;  also  grand- 
daughter of  Timothy  and  Esther  (Osborn) 
Mulford.  Their  children  are;  i.  Samuel,  born 
July  9,  1832,  now  living  in  Oakwood  avenue, 
(  )range ;  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Harrison. 
2.  Clara.  January  27,  1834,  married  Zenas 
Williams.  3.  Hannah,  born  October  9,  1839; 
married  Orlando  Williams.  4.  Elias  Alulford. 
referred  to  below.  5.  Susan,  born  July  2, 
1843.  '*•  I^^Tah.  born  December  18,  1848; 
married  Amos  W.  Harrison.  7.  and  8.  Mary 
and  Harriet,  twins,  born  October  31,  1850.  9. 
Ira,  born  February  s,  1835:  died  March  24. 
1859. 

(\T1)  Elias  Mulford,  fourth  child  and 
second  son  of  Ira  H.  and  Phebe  Farraud 
(  Mulford)  Condit,  was  born  in  Orange  town- 
ship, Essex  county,  New  Jersey,  May  21,  1841. 
For  his  early  education  he  attended  the  Orange 
jniblic  schools,  after  leaving  which  he  com- 
])leted  his  education  in  private  schools.  Some 
time  later  he  went  into  business  for  himself 
as  a  surveyor  and  civil  engineer,  and  in  gen- 
eral business  but  of  late  years  has  been  en- 
gaged only  in  a  real  estate  business.  In  poli- 
tics Mr.  Condit  is  a  Republican,  devoted  to 
the  interest  and  Welfare  of  his  party.  From 
1885  to  1889  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
chosen  freeholders,  and  for  a  considerable  time 
director  thereof.  In  1886  and  1887  he  was 
for  two  terms  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
house  of  assembly.  In  1890  he  was  a  candi- 
date for  congress,  but  with  his  party  sustained 
defeat  in  the  great  tariff  debate  of  that  year. 
He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  national 
convention  in   1892  at  Minneapolis. 

November  29,  1870,  he  married,  in  West 
Orange,  Sarah  Louise,  born  July  4.  1842, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Susan  (Losey) 
Beach.  Children  :  i.  Charles  Beach,  born  June 
7.  1872;  married  Mary  Maude  Kynor,  born 
November  16,  1874,  eldest  daughter  of  George 
W.  and  Annie  (Ciibbons)  Kynor;  and  has  one 
child,  Warren  Kynor,  born  September  10, 
1907.     He  is  a  graduate  of  Princetott  Univer- 


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sity.  1895,  ami  Princeton  Theological  Semin- 
ary, 1898.  He  was  for  nine  years  pastor  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Liberty  Corner, 
N'ew  Jersey,  and  is  now  pastor  of  the  Trinity 
Reformed  Church,  Newark,  New  Jersey.  J. 
l^hebe  Augusta,  January  27.  1874.  3.  Clara 
Louise,  March  28,  i87r).  4.  W'ilberforce,  born 
Xovember  rfi,  1878;  married  Emma  Louise 
Smith.  Iwrn  May  2,  1882:  children:  Dorothy. 
born  September  14,  i()02:  Ruth  Louise,  Feb- 
ruary 4.  1004:  W'ilberforce  Mulford,  Febru- 
ary 4,  190(1.  5.  .\lbert  Kitchell,  born  F"ebru- 
ary  12,  1880;  graduated  from  Princeton  Vu\- 
versity,  1902,  and  New  York  Law  School. 
1904.  He  is  now  an  attorney  in  Passaic,  New 
Jersey.  6.  Llattie  May,  born  January  30, 
1882.  7.  Elias  Mulford  fr.,  born  September 
29,  1883. 


The     Merz     family,     which     was 
MERZ     worthily    rejiresented    by    the    late 

Henry  Merz.  for  several  years  a 
|)rominent  and  influential  resident  of  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  is  a  late  ac(|uisition  to  the  state 
of  New  Jersey. 

(I  )  Joliannes  Merz  was  born  in  the  vicinity 
nf  the  city  of  Darmstadt,  in  the  <lukedoni  of 
1  lesse,  Germany.  He  was  a  highly  educated  and 
cultured  man,  and  served  for  over  fifty  years 
in  the  capacity  of  schoolmaster  in  the  town  of 
Hensheim,  winning  and  retaining  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  all  under  his  control,  as  well  as 
of  his  fellow  citizens.  The  government  con- 
ferred upon  liim  a  medal  for  faithful  services 
upon  his  fiftieth  anniversary  as  a  schoolmaster. 
The  greater  portinn  nf  lii>  life  was  spent  in 
the  town  of  Pcnsheim.  in  the  affairs  nf  which 
he  took  a  deep  interest,  and  there  he  married 
Katharine  W'erle,  who  bnre  him  nine  chilrlren  : 
I.  .August,  died  in  infancv.  2.  Henry,  whose 
sketch  follows.  3.  Karl,  came  to  America  and 
became  prominent  as  a  musical  com])oser,  and 
who  was  successively  profes.sor  of  music  ;it 
Oxford  University  and  at  W'oostei'  [Univer- 
sity, Ohio.  4.  Eniile,  who  came  to  America 
and  died  at  San  hVanciscn.  California.  5. 
Katharine,  vnhuileered  in  the  capacity  of  nurse 
in  a  military  lios])ital  during  the  Franco-Prus- 
sian war,  1870:  she  was  awarded  two  medals 
of  honor,  one  by  Emperor  William  I  and  the 
second  by  the  Grand  Duke  Ludwig  HI  in  rec- 
ognition of  her  faithfulness  and  fidelity  to 
duty:  she  came  to  .America  and  now  (I90<;)) 
resides  with  her  sister-in-law  on  Littleton  ave- 
nue, Newark,  New  Jersey.  6.  Louis,  came  to 
America,  liut  returned  to  the  fatherland.  7. 
Marie,  became  a   Sister  of  Mercv  in  the  his- 


toric city  of  Alanheim,  (iermany;  she  died  in 
[87(j.  8.  Hans,  at  present  resides  in  the  city 
uf  I'icrlin.  9.  (ieorge,  died  in  early  life.  Mr. 
ami  Mrs.  Merz  were  consistent  Christians, 
and  members  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church, 
of  which  Air.  Alerz  was  for  many  years  the 
official  organist. 

I  II)  Henry,  son  of  Johannes  and  Kathar- 
ine I  W'erle )  Alerz,  was  born  in  the  town  of 
liensheim,  Alay  29,  1833,  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersev,  Alay  13,  1905.  His  early  mental  train- 
ing was  under  the  tuition  of  his  father :  later 
lie  entered  the  Gymnasium,  a  classical  school, 
and  pursued  his  studies  with  a  view  of  enter- 
ing the  ministry.  This  aim  was  abandoned, 
however,  and  he  decided  to  emigrate  to  the 
new  world,  and  accordingly  set  sail  in  1853, 
landing  at  New  York  City.  Shortly  after- 
ward he  removed  to  Philadelphia,  Pennsylva- 
nia, and  there  secured  a  position  in  a  music 
store,  being  well  <|ualified  for  the  work  by  his 
natural  talent  as  well  as  by  the  musical  edu- 
cation that  had  been  part  of  his  early  train- 
ing. -After  a  few  years,  becoming  desirous  of 
improving  his  condition  and  circumstances,  hi' 
took  up  his  residence  in  New  York  City  and 
engaged  in  business  on  liis  own  account,  open- 
ing and  conducting  a  ])hotogra]ihic  studio.  He 
conducted  this  enter])rise  until  about  1899, 
when  he  became  interested  with  his  brother-in- 
law,  Frederick  Heller,  in  the  manufacture  of 
I'ltramarine  Blue,  an  article  which  was  then 
for  the  first  time  successfully  manufactured 
in  tlie  Cnited  .States  by  the  firm  of  Heller  & 
Merz.  In  addition  to  the  article  above  named 
the\'  manufactured  a  large  variety  of  aniline 
(he  stuffs,  and  their  plant  in  Newark  is  the 
largi  st  of  its  kind  in  this  country,  furnishing 
em|)lovinent  to  many  skilled  operatives  and 
laborers.  As  both  memliers  of  the  firm  were 
thorough  business  men.  straightforward  in  all 
their  transactions,  the  enterprise  proved  a  com- 
plete success  and  was  highly  remunerative. 
Although  of  a  (luiet  and  reserved  disposition, 
Mr.  Merz  took  an  active  interest  in  the  af- 
fairs of  the  community  wherein  he  resided, 
and  while  a  resident  of  New  ^^)rk  City  served 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  education  and  also 
as  one  of  its  trustees,  and  was  connected  in  an 
official  capacity  with  the  German  Hospital  of 
.\ew  A'ork  City.  In  1889  he  removed  to  his 
beautiful  residence  at  No.  143  Littleton  ave- 
nue, Newark,  where  his  death  occurred.  I  le  was 
a  member  of  the  l-Yee  and  .\ccepted  Masons, 
and  an  active  member  of  the  Turn  A'erein,  the 
l.iederkranz  and  other  social  German  organi- 
zations of  X't-w  \ijrk  City  and  Newark.      Mr. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


Mcrz  inlieritcd  to  a  remarkable  degree  the 
characteristics  of  his  father.  He  loved  music 
and  books,  and  was  thoroughly  conversant 
with  his  favorite  authors  along  both  lines.  He 
enjoyed  the  acquaintance  of  a  wide  circle  of 
friends,  both  in  New  York  and  Newark,  who 
esteemed  and  appreciated  him  for  his  many 
excellent  traits  of  character,  and  in  his  home 
life  he  also  displayed  the  c|ualities  which  en- 
dear, proving  always  a  faithful,  loving  iius- 
band  and  indulgent  father. 

Henry  Merz  was  married  in  Philadelphia, 
I'ennsylvania,  December  20,  1856,  to  .\ugusta 
Heller,  born  in  Bensheim,  in  the  dukedom  of 
Hesse,  Germany,  May  18,  1837,  daughter  of 
Christian  George  and  Elizabeth  (Boll)  Heller. 
Children:  1.  Carl,  born  September  20,  1857; 
married  Marie  Roth;  no  children.  2.  Freda, 
January  28,  1859:  married  Dr.  Henry  KroU- 
])feilifer ;  children:  i.  I'reda,  born  Alay  21, 
1883;  ii.  Harry.  November  5.  1884;  iii.  Elsie, 
p-ebruary  16,  1889;  iv.  Carl,  April  25,  1894. 
3.  Emilie,  .\pril  8,  1861  ;  married  George  Pro- 
chazka;  children:  i.  Ottillie,  born  October  11, 
1887;  ii.  Cieorge,  Deceml)er  14,  1889;  iii.  Al- 
bert, December  i6,  1896.  4.  Harry,  Decem- 
ber 2j,  1863;  married  Elizabeth  Bernhardt: 
one  child,  Elsie,  born  December  8,  1892.  5. 
Johanna,  b'ebruary  19,  1865,  died  August  22. 
i86f).  ().  Ottilie,  December  14,  1867.  7.  En- 
gine, .\prii  II,  1869.  8.  .\ugust,  November 
7,  1873:  married,  .\pril  2').  1899,  Florence  \'ic- 
toria  Doyle ;  children :  i.  and  ii.  \'iola  and 
Ottilie  (twins),  born  June  13.  ii)00:  iii.  Henry. 
.\ugust  22,  1906,  died  March  19,  1909.  9- 
Elsie.  July  l},.  1883. 

'liie  narrative  here  written 
J A\'i•.\\■.\^■  has  relation  to  one  of  the 
prominent  families  of  America, 
whose  ancestor  obtained  his  first  knowledge  of 
the  new  world  while  on  service  as  a  British 
naval  officer  stationed  at  New  York  ami  who 
afterward  became  a  permanent  resident  of  that 
city. 

(1)  William  Janewav.  Ixiru  in  Ltmdon. 
England,  an  otfieer  cm  l)oard  Mis  Britannic 
Majesty's  ship  "Richmond."  was  stationed  at 
New  York  in  1996.  While  there  he  married 
and  purchased  an  estate  (May  10.  if'x)8).  of 
William  Merritt,  mayor  of  New  N'ork,  the 
lands  thus  acquired  being  situated  in  what  now 
is  the  si.xth  ward  of  the  cilw  Early  in  \(^f) 
he  returned  to  England  with  liis  ship,  and  hav- 
ing settled  his  business  affairs  there  he  came 
back  to  New  York,  being  entrusted  by  his 
sovereign  with  tlie  cliarter  of  Trinitv  Church. 


and  by  the  crown  was  appointed  vestryman  of 
the  church.  He  was  one  of  the  committee 
charged  with  the  duty  of  erecting  the  first 
church  edifice  on  the  present  site ;  and  both  he 
and  his  wife  lie  buried  in  Trinity  churchyard. 
She  was  Mrs.  .Agnes  (DeKay)  De  ]\leier, 
daughter  of  Jacobus  and  Hildegard  (Theunis) 
De  Kay,  and  jjy  lier  William  Janeway  had  an 
only  son. 

(II)  Jacob,  son  of  William  and  Agnes  (De 
Kay-De  Meier)  Janeway,  was  born  in  New 
York  City  in  1707,  baptized  by  Rev.  Dr.  W. 
X'esey,  and  died  in  Somerset  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, Alarch  11,  1746.  He  married  in  New 
^'ork,  Jinie  29,  1738,  Sarah  Hoagland,  born 
.November  13,  1709,  died  in  Somerset  county, 
lanuary  4,  1760,  and  both  she  and  her  husband 
are  sup])osed  to  be  buried  in  the  Piscataway 
churchyard  in  that  county.  After  their  mar- 
riage Jacob  Janeway  and  his  wife  removed  to 
.Somerset  county  and  settled  at  Aliddlebrook, 
between  Hound  lirook  and  Somerville,  and 
there  be  nwned  mills  and  a  store.  They  had 
four  children,  all  oi  whom  were  baptized  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Skinner  in  the  Piscataway  Episcopal 
church,  and  all  of  them  died  young,  except  the 
youngest. 

(III)  ( ieorge,  .son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah 
(  Hoagland)  Janeway  and  the  only  one  of  their 
children  who  grew  to  maturity,  was  born  in 
Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  October  9,  1741 
(or  1742?)  and  ac(|uired  his  early  education 
there.  Being  an  attendant  from  boyhood  of 
the  Reformed  .church  (then  the  only  church 
in  Somerville),  he  became  a  communicant  of 
that  denomination,  and  so  it  happened  that 
tlie  Jane  ways  ceased  to  be  Episcopalians. 
When  he  attained  his  majority  he  went  to  New 
\'ork  to  recover  the  estate  belonging  to  his 
grandfather,  William  Janeway,  and  after  a 
series  of  prolonged  litigations  he  succeeded  in 
regaining  the  property.  He  continued  to  live 
in  New  York  until  after  the  British  troops 
took  possession  of  the  city,  when,  having  taken 
an  active  part  with  the  .American  colonists  in 
llie  revolutionary  struggle,  as  captain  of  a  com- 
pan\-  in  the  Second  regiment  of  New  York 
militia,  he  was  compelled  with  his  family  to 
leave.  He  returned,  however,  with  General 
Washington  after  the  evacuation  of  the  city 
bv  the  P>ritish  army,  and  continued  to  live  there 
until  hi^  death.  i3uring  his  enforced  absence 
from  New  York,  Captain  Janeway  resided  in 
New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey.  His  house  in 
the  city  during  the  interval  was  occupied  by 
the  liritisb.  and  when  they  evacuated  they 
painted  a  large  letter  "R"  on  the  front  door. 


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871 


to  iiulicate  that  it  had  been  the  dweUing  of  a 
rebel  American.  During  the  time  he  hved  in 
Xew  llrunswick,  George  Janewa^v's  family  oc- 
cnpied  the  old  mansion  called  liuccleugh,  now 
owned  bv  the  heirs  of  the  late  Colonel  Warren 
Scott.  Ca])tain  Janeway  |)ossessed  large 
means,  was  a  gentleman  of  character  and  high, 
social  jMisition.  and  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  church.  On  .\pril  2^.  1823,  he  was 
appointed  by  the  legislature  of  the  state  of 
Xew  York  one  of  the  commissioners  to  la\ 
(jut  the  Delaware  and  Hudson  Canal.  Me  died 
in  Xew  ^'ork,  September  2,  1826.  He  mar- 
ried, December  13,  1767,  Efifie  Ten  Eyck,  and 
bv  her  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 
Their  first  son  died  in  infancy.  Their  second 
son.  W'illiam.  born  December  13.  1772,  was 
drowned  in  Xew  York  harbor  in  1814.  Their 
third  son.  Jacob  Jones,  was  born  Xovember 
20.  1774.  and  is  noticed  in  succeeding  ])ara- 
graphs.  Tiieir  only  daughter,  Sarah  .\nn.  wa^ 
born  March  17.  177Q.  and  married  (ieueral 
Teter  \'an  Zandt. 

(T\' )  Rev.  Jacob  Jones  Janeway,  D.  D., 
youngest  son  of  George  and  Efifie  (Ten  Eyck) 
Janeway.  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York. 
Xovember  20,  (774,  died  in  Xew  Brunswick. 
.Xew  Jersey,  June  2/.  1838,  full  of  years,  hav- 
ing attained  and  enjoyed  a  prominence  in  the 
ecclesiastical  and  educational  world  such  as 
fell  to  the  lot  of  but  few  men  of  his  time. 
I  lis  life,  his  character  and  his  good  works 
have  left  their  impress  on  all  later  generations 
of  his  descendants,  just  in  the  same  manner  as 
his  teachings  and  example  left  their  impress 
on  scores  of  young  men  who  sat  under  his  in- 
struction while  he  occupied  the  professor's 
chair.  He  graduated  from  Columbia  College, 
studied  for  the  ministry  under  Rev.  Dr.  John 
H.  Livingston,  became  assistant  pastor  of  the 
Second  f'resbyterian  Church  of  Philadeliihia 
under  Rev.  Dr.  Ashbel  Green,  succeeded  as 
sole  pastor  when  Dr.  Green  was  made  jiresi- 
dent  of  Princeton  College,  and  afterward  was 
connected  with  that  church  for  nearly  thirty 
years.  He  was  then  appointed  to  a  profess- 
orshi])  in  the  ^V^estern  Theological  Seminary 
at  .Allegheny  City,  Pennsylvania,  but  resigned 
and  returned  to  Philadelphia,  w'hence  he  wa.~ 
called  to  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  Xew 
llrunswick,  where  he  was  settled  pastor  for 
one  year,  resigning  to  become  pastor  of  the 
.Market  Street  Reformed  Church  in  New  York 
City.  In  1833  he  was  elected  vice-president 
of  Rutgers  College  and  removed  to  Xew 
llrunswick.  That  office  he  resigned  in  1839, 
returned  to  the   Presbvterian  churcji.  anil  be- 


came trustee  of  Princeton  College  and  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  directors  of  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary. 

( )n  April  17,  1804.  Dr.  Janeway  married  Mar- 
tha ( Iray  Leiper,  born  in  Philadelphia,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1783,  daughter  of  Colonel  Thomas  Lei- 
])er,  who  was  born  at  Strathaven,  Scotland,  De- 
cember 1 3, 1 745.  son  of  Thomas  Lei])cr.  Coloneh 
Lei(ier  was  educated  at  ("dasgow  and  graduated 
at  F.dinburgh,  his  father  intending  him  for  the 
ministry.  However,  on  the  death  of  his 
father  the  eldest  son  Robert  inherited  the  pa- 
ternal estate,  and  Thomas  at  the  age  of  eight- 
een came  over  to  .America  to  join  his  brother 
.Andrew,  a  |)hysician  settled  in  Maryland. 
\\'hile  there  he  received  an  offer  to  enter  the 
Philadelphia  mercantile  house  of  his  cousin, 
(iavin  Hamilton,  which  he  accepted,  and  after 
being  associated  with  him  for  several  years 
he  went  into  business  for  himself  and  pros- 
]iered.  fie  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
I  ieorge  Gray,  of  W'hitby  Hall,  on  the  Schuyl- 
kill, owner  of  Gray's  Ferry.  During  the  revolu- 
tion (ieorge  Gray  was  president  of  the  pro- 
vincial assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  author  of 
the  famous  "Treason  Resolutions,"  chairman 
of  the  committee  of  safety,  and  president  of 
the  board  of  war  of  Pennsylvania.  .At  the 
beginning  of  the  revolutionary  war  Colonel 
Leiper,  with  other  gentlemen,  organized  the 
First  City  Troop  of  Philadelphia,  maintaining 
it  at  their  own  expense.  lie  was  orderly  ser- 
geant and  afterward  first  lieutenant  of  the 
troop,  which  participated  in  the  principal 
battles  under  Washington  and  often  served  as 
bodyguard  to  that  distinguished  commander. 
He  stood  beside  General  Mercer  when  that 
officer  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Princeton. 
When  the  army  at  X'alley  Forge  was  in  a  desti- 
tute condition  and  General  Washington  ap- 
pealed to  Robert  .M<jrris  to  raise  funds  to  sup- 
ph'  the  needs  of  his  men.  Colonel  Thomas 
l.eiijer  contributed  five  thousand  ])Ounds  for 
that  jjnrpose.  There  is  in  the  p<issession  of  the 
family  a  j^ersonal  letter  from  ( ieneral  Wash- 
ington to  Colonel  Leiper  thanking  him  for  his 
services  during  the  war.  I  le  also  gave  other 
large  sums  of  money  to  the  .American 
cause  during  the  war  and  as  treasurer  of 
the  First  City  Troop  he  carried  the  French 
subsidies  to  the  army  at  ^'orktown.  Colonel 
Leiper  purchased  a  large  estate  in  Delaware 
coimty,  Pennsylvania,  four  miles  west  of  Ches- 
ter, and  there  built  a  large  summer  home, 
called  Strathaven  Hill,  .Avondale.  He  also 
erected  several  large  mills  there,  while  on  the 
estate   there    were    immense   (|uarries,    and    in 


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STATE    {)!•     XF.W    I  ERSE  V. 


order  to  carry  the  stone  from  the  <|uarries 
to  the  Delaware  river  he  built  in  1810  the 
first  railroad  in  this  country.  He  helped  to 
originate  the  Franklin  Institute,  Philadelphia, 
was  president  of  the  council  during  three 
terms,  nominated  Thomas  JefTerson  for  presi- 
dent, and  died  in  Avondale  in  1825. 

Rev.  Dr.  Jacob  Jones  and  Martha  Gray 
(  Leiper)  Janeway  had  eight  children:  i.  Rev. 
Dr.  Thomas  Leiper  Janeway, born  February  27, 
1805,  married  Abbie  H.  Howell.  Their  son. 
Dr.  John  H.  Janeway,  entered  the  Union  army 
at  the  beginning  of  the  late  civil  war  and  con- 
tinued in  the  service  until  the  end  of  the  con- 
test :  then  entered  the  regular  army  and 
served  until  a  few  years  ago,  when  he  was  re- 
tired for  age,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  Rev. 
P).  H.  Janeway,  brother  of  Dr.  John  H.  Jane- 
way, served  during  the  war  as  chaplain  of  one 
of  the  New  Jersey  regiments.  2.  George  Ja- 
cob Janeway,  born  October  14,  1806,  married 
Julia  A.  Matilda  Smith.  Their  eldest  son. 
Colonel  Jacob  J.  Janeway,  entered  the  Four- 
teenth Xew  Jersey  Infantry,  served  through- 
out the  war  and  was  mustered  out  with  the 
rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  also  being  brevetted 
colonel:  he  is  now  a  prominent  manufacturer, 
residing  in  New  Brunswick.  Another  son, 
Dr.  Edward  G.  Janeway,  is  a  well-known 
physician  in  New  York  City.  3.  William 
Yates  Janeway,  born  July  6,  1809,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 4.  Elizabeth  Leiper  Janeway,  born  No- 
vember 24,  181 1,  married  John  \'an  Nest.  5. 
Rev.  John  Livingston  Janeway,  D.  D.,  born 
April  21.  1815,  married  Maria  W.  Wetherell : 
served  as  chaplain  of  the  Thirtieth  New 'Jer- 
sey Infantry  for  a  long  time  during  the  war. 
until  com]ielled  to  resign  on  account  of  ill 
health.  C>.  William  Richard  Janeway,  horn 
December  29,  1817,  married  Julia  Hartshorn. 
Their  eldest  son,  Colonel  Hugh  II.  Janeway. 
entered  the  l'"irst  New  Jersey  Cavalry  as  lieu- 
tenant at  the  beginning  of  the  war.  The  regi 
inent  was  known  as  the  "fighting  regiment." 
having  taken  jiart  in  ninety-five  battles  and 
skirmishes  during  the  war.  He  was  the  first 
Cnion  officer  wounded  near  Washington,  and 
was  wounded  fifteen  times  during  the  war; 
became  colonel  of  his  regiment  long  before  the 
war  ended,  and  was  killed  at  the  head  of  his 
regiment  while  leading  it  in  its  last  battle,  at 
i'etersville,  Pennsylvania,  a  few  days  before 
Lee's  surrender  at  .\])pomattox  :  was  then  in 
his  twenty-fourth  year.  7.  Martha  (]ray 
Janeway.  bcirn  March  23,  182 1,  died  unmar- 
ried. 8.  Henry  Latimer  Janeway,  born  .\u- 
gust  Q,   1824,  sfi-   forward. 


(  \  )  Henry  Latimer,  youngest  son  and  child 
of  kev.  Dr.  Jacob  Jones  and  Martha  Gray 
(Leiper)  Janeway,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  August  9,  1824,  and  is  the  only 
son  of  his  parents'  children  now  living.  His 
early  eflucation  was  received  at  Nash  and 
Mann's  School,  New  York  City,  Benjamin 
Mortimer's  School,  New  Brunswick,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  Rutgers  College  Grammar  School. 
He  entered  Rutgers  College  in  1840,  and  was 
graduated  in  July,  1844;  M.  A.  in  course. 
1847.  He  studied  medicine  for  some  time, 
but  did  not  enter  the  profession;  instead,  in 
184^1.  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  wall 
paper  in  New  Brunswick,  and  is  still  in  that 
business,  which  is  carried  on  under  the  style 
of  Janeway  &  Company,  lncor])orated.  For 
many  years  he  has  taken  a  commendable  in- 
terest in  i)olitical  afifairs.  although  never  for 
personal  advancement,  being  originally  a 
Whig,  later  a  Democrat,  and  now  a  Republi- 
can. For  many  years,  too,  he  was  prominently 
identified  with  Free  Masonry  and  Odd  Fellow- 
ship, and  held  the  highest  offices  in  the  bodies 
of  which  he  was  a  member  in  both  orders.  At 
one  time  he  was  a  member  of  the  Union  Club 
of  Xew  lirunswick.  In  1854  Mr.  Janeway 
was  elected  a  trustee  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  New  Brunswick,  for  many  years 
was  i^resident  of  the  board,  and  is  still  serving 
in  that  capacity.  In  18^^12  he  became  a  trustee 
of  Rutgers  College,  and  at  the  present  time 
he  is  senicjr  member  of  the  board.  For 
twenty-two  \ears  he  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  of  New  Brunswick,  and 
for  seven  years  president  of  the  board.  He 
served  forty  years  as  a  director  of  the  New 
I'.ninsuick  (las  Light  Company,  was  charter 
numlier  of  tile  board  of  directors  by  whom 
was  built  the  New  Brunswick  City  Water 
Works  anil  for  more  than  forty-five  years  was 
a  director  of  the  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Coni- 
p.iny  of  New  Brunswick.  In  1876  he  was  ap- 
pi  iuted  by  Governor  Bedle  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  centeiniial  commission,  h'or 
many  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
I'll  ard  of  Trade  of  New  Brunswick  and  of  the 
Washington  .Association  of  Morristown,  a 
fellow  of  the  .American  Geographical  Society. 
Xew  N'ork.  a  councillor  of  the  Institute  of 
Civics,  member  <jf  the  Xew  Jersey  Historical 
.Siciety.  and  member  of  the  .Sons  of  the  .Ameri- 
can Revolution. 

At  Geneva.  Xew  York.  October  18.  1848. 
Henry  Latimer  Janeway  married  Catherine 
Aheel.  horn  in  Belleville.  Xew  Jersey.  F"ebru- 
ary  13.  iXjc),  daughter  of  Rev.  ( lustavus  .Abeel. 


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D.  D.,  a  minister  uf  the  Dutch  Reformed 
church,  who  married  Mary  J.,  daughter  of 
Abraham  \'an  Xest,  of  New  York  City.  Dr. 
Abeel's  grandfather  was  Colonel  James  Abeel. 
who  served  as  (|uartermaster general  under  (len- 
erai  Washington.  Children  of  Henry  Latimer 
and  Catherine  ( .\beel  I  Janeway:  i.  (iustavus 
.\beel  Janeway,  died  young.  2.  Katherine 
\'an  Xest  Janeway  (deceased),  married  W'il- 
loughby  Weston  (decea>ed).  and  had  a  son. 
Henry  Janeway  Weston  (deceased).  3. 
Henry  Latimer  Janeway  (tleceased),  married 
Mary  Wetmore :  four  children — Mary  Alison 
Janeway,  Katherine  Abeel  Janeway,  Helen 
Rodney  Janeway,  and  Henry  Latimer  Jane- 
way. Three  children  (with  their  mother)  re- 
side with  their  ( irandfather  Janeway  in  New 
Brunswick.  4.  Mary  .^beel  Janeway,  died 
j-oung.  5.  Helen  Hamilton  Janeway,  resides 
with  her  father  in  New  Brunswick.  6.  Har- 
mon Crosby  Janeway,  died  in  infancy. 

The  family  here  described  are 
MARCCS  of  the  Jewish  faith,  with  mind 
and  intelligence  always  recept- 
ive to  the  best  truths  of  all  beliefs,  and  with 
ambition  to  e.xcel  in  learning  and  achievement. 
The  first  rect)rd  of  them  is  in  X'ienna,  .\us- 
tria.  and  the  members  of  the  family  wiio  have 
made  the  L'nited  States  their  abiding  place 
have  becnme  jiublic-spirited  and  valuable  citi- 
zens. 

(I)  i'.ernard  Marcus  was  burn  in  X'ienna. 
.\ustria,  and  subsequently  removed  to  I'aris. 
France.  He  was  a  banker,  and  married  FJer- 
tha,  daughter  of  .\braham  Wisner.  uf  Paris. 
They  had  a  son  Herman  David. 

(II)  Herman  David,  son  of  IJcrnard  and 
liertha  (Wisner)  Marcus,  was  born  May  26, 
1867,  in  Paris,  France.  He  came  to  .America, 
a  poor  boy,  landing  in  New  York  in  November, 
1883,  and  made  his  way  to  Philadeli)hia,  where 
for  a  time  he  made  his  living  at  first  peddling 
He  afterwards  obtained  a  position  as  a  boy  in 
a  brewery,  and  eventually  i)ursued  a  course 
at  the  l'hiladel])hia  Dental  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  February,  1888,  with  degree 
D.  D.  S.,  but  his  ambition  was  not  satisfied, 
and  the  same  year  he  entered  the  Medico- 
Chirurgical  College,  of  the  same  citv,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  189 1  with  degree  M.  D. 
He  spent  a  year  as  resident  physician  or  in- 
terne at  the  College  Hospital,  the  next  year  in 
the  .same  capacity  at  the  Philadelphia  Hos- 
pital, and  was  then  for  a  time  attached  to  the 
I'hiladelphia  Mnnicijial  Hospital.  From  i8<)3 
until    1000  Dr.  Marcus  was  lecturer  of  thera- 


peutics and  general  urinary  diseases,  and  then 
was  for  a  time  a  lecturer  on  anatomy  and 
physical  diagnosis  at  Philadelphia  Dental  Col- 
lege. From  1894  ""t'l  1898  he  served  in  the 
P'olyclinic  College  and  Hospital  as  special  as- 
sistant to  the  chair  of  diseases  of  the  chest. 
In  h'ebruary.  iipi.  Dr.  Marcus  removed  to  .At- 
lantic City,  which  has  since  been  his  home,  and 
where  he  immediately  entered  upon  the  general 
practicv  of  medicine,  winning  well  deserved 
success.  1  lis  advance  in  life,  from  a  penniless 
boy  to  the  jiosition  <.)f  a  prominent  physician 
in  one  of  the  finest  cities  of  the  land,  well  illus- 
trates the  possibilities  ojien  to  perseverance 
and  pluck,  in  the  land  of  wide  opportunities. 
Dr.  .Marcus  is  a  member  of  the  .American 
Medical  .Association,  New  Jersey  State  Medi- 
cal Association,  Atlantic  County  Medical  .As- 
sociation, also  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protect- 
ive ( )rder  of  P^lks,  of  .Atlantic  City.  He  is  an 
independent  Republican  in  politics,  and  in  re- 
ligion a  liberal  Jew.  He  is  a  man  of  high  at- 
tainments, and  has  from  time  to  time  con- 
tributed to  the  various  medical  magazines  and 
journals,  on  a  variety  of  subjects. 

Dr.  Marcus  married  (first )  in  1892,  Jean, 
liaughter  of  Julius  Blumenthal,  of  Altoona, 
i'eimsylvania,  who  died  in  1900,  leaving  two 
children.  Bernard,  born  1893,  and  Jean,  born 
1900.  He  married  (second)  A'etta,  daughter 
of  Aloses  Kaufman,  of  Charlottesville,  \'ir- 
ginia,  born  in  {'"ebruary,  1872.  and  they  became 
parents  of  one  child,  Madeline  Katherine,  born 
September.   1904. 

[■'.lizabeth  Drinker  quaintly  re- 
SMITH  marks  in  the  charming  diary 
which  she  wrote  over  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years  ago  that  three  Mr.  Smiths 
had  called  on  her  in  the  course  of  one  morn- 
ing, and  that  not  one  of  the  three  were  in  any 
way  related  to  the  other,  and  concludes  her 
account  of  the  visit  with  the  remark:  "I  think 
there  are  nv_n\-  Smiths  in  .Vortli  .America  than 
there  are  all  other  people  put  together." 
Whether  the  ancestor  lA  the  branch  of  the 
family  at  present  tmder  consideration  was  oiu' 
of  Elizabeth  Drinker's  callers  or  not  it  is  im- 
|)ossible  to  say.  but  at  any  rate  Dr.  Walter 
llorstmanu  .Smith  and  his  ancestors  have 
played  unite  an  im])ortant  part  in  the  history 
of  Philadeliihia  and  f^ennsylvania. 

(  I  )  John  Smith,  the  first  ancestor  of  whom 
we  lia\e  information,  was  born  in  Scotland. 
When  a  young  man  he  entered  the  Cnited 
.States  navy  and  was  one  of  twelve  men  picked 
out   to   set   fire   to   the   (jld    frigate   "Philadel 


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STALE    UF    NEW    lERSEY. 


l)hia"  at  the  battle  of  Tripoli.  He  married 
Rebecca  Lauterback  and  among  their  children 
was  John   L.,   see   forward. 

(II)  John  L.,  son  of  John  and  Rebecca 
(Lauterback)  Smith,  was  for  many  years  a 
builder  and  manufacturer  of  locomotives  at 
Philadelphia,  and  was  a  master  mechanic  of 
exceptional  ability.  He  built  and  ran  the  first 
locomotive  which  run  from  Philadelphia  to 
Germantown,  and  run  the  first  engine  up  the 
inclined  plane.  He  married  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  Johnson,  a  flour  merchant  of 
Philadelphia,  who  served  in  the  battles  of  Ger- 
mantown and  Brandywine  in  the  revolution- 
ary war.  Among  their  children  was  Joseph, 
E.  C,  see  forward. 

( III )  Joseph  E.  C.,  son  of  John  L.  and  Re- 
becca (Johnson)  Smith,  was  born  in  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  1843.  For  many  years  he 
was  the  cashier  for  William  H.  Horstmann  & 
Company  of  Philadelphia.  In  1870  he  mar- 
ried in  Philadelphia  Margaret  Emma,  born  in 
1849,  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Susan  L.  (Venai ) 
Kilpatrick,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  son  of 
.\ndre\\    Kilpatrick,  and  the  latter  a  daughter 

of    and    Katherine     (Stahl)     \'enai ; 

Katherine  (Stahl)  \"enai  was  a  daughter  of 
John  Stahl,  of  Lancaster,  I'emisylvania,  who 
aided  the  revolutionary  war  financially.  Chil- 
dren of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith:  i.  Howard 
(jrove,  born  1872,  died  in  1903.  2.  Roland 
Hand,  born  1873,  died  December  2},.  1902.  3. 
J.  Ellis,  horn  November  9,  1879,  twin  with 
Walter  Horstmann.  4.  \\''alter  Horstmann, 
see  forward. 

(I\')  Walter  Horstmann,  youngest  cliild  of 
Joseph  Ellis  Coffey  and  Margaret  Emma  ( Kil- 
j)atrick')  Smith,  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  November  9,  1879.  For  his 
early  education  he  attended  the  Friends"  school 
in  Philadel])hia.  He  then  entered  the  medical 
department  of  the  I'niversity  of  Pennsylvania, 
1898,  and  graduated  in  1902  with  the  degree 
of  M.  D.  I'or  two  years  he  served  as  an  as- 
sistant in  the  Philadelphia  Hospital,  after 
which  he  engaged  in  the  genera!  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Philadelphia.  During  his  serv- 
ice in  the  Philadelphia  Hospital  Dr.  Smith 
opened  an  office  at  Haddonfield,  New  Jersey, 
which  is  now  the  scene  of  his  labors.  He  is  .i 
member  of  the  .■\merican  Medical  Association. 
New  Jersey  Medical  Society,  Camden  County 
Medical  Society,  and  Alumni  .\ssociation  of 
the  I'niversity  of  Pennsylvania.  He  is  an  en 
thusiastic  student  of  his  profession,  and  he  hai 
reported  and  written  for  the  various  medical 
magazines  and  jiapers.      He  is  a  member  of  the 


I.'.cdical  Club  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  a  Republi- 
can in  politics. 

Dr.  Smith  married.  May  18,  1904,  Violet 
Ringgold  Thompson,  of  Annapolis,  Maryland, 
a  direct  <lescendant  of  William  Smith,  of 
Maryland,  known  as  "Gold  Heels,"  and  who 
aided  the  revolutionary  war  financially.  They 
have  one  child,  \\  alter  Horstmann  Jr.,  born  in 
1907. 


There  have  been  since  the  early 

AilBOTT  days  of  the  colonization  of 
South  Jersey  three  distinct 
families  by  the  name  of  Abbott  in  that  section 
of  the  stale.  One  of  these  is  the  family  of 
George  Abbott,  of  Salem ;  another  the  de- 
scendants of  John  Abbott,  of  Chesterfield,  and 
the  third,  which  is  at  present  under  considera- 
tion, the  posterity  of  James  Abbott,  of  Long 
Island.  So  far  as  is  known  there  is  no  rela- 
tionship between  any  of  these  families,  nor  so 
far  as  is  known  there  is  no  relationship  be- 
tween any  of  these  families,  nor  so  far  as  the 
records  that  have  come  to  light  show  have  they 
intermarried  with  each  other. 

(  I )  James  Abbott,  founder  of  the  family  at 
])resent  under  consideration,  was  born  in 
county  Somerset,  England.  He  emigrated  to 
Long  Island  somewhere  near  the  close  of  the 
seventeenth  century,  antl  died  there  leaving 
seven  children — two  daughters  and  five  sons : 
I.  James,  referred  to  below.  2.  Isaac.  3. 
Benjamin,  went  to  Pennsylvania.  4.  Daniel, 
moved  to  New  England.  5.  William,  settled 
in  South  Jersey. 

(II)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  Abbott. 
i)f  Lung  Island,  settled  in  Salem  county.  New 
Jersey,  about  the  same  time  that  his  brother 
Isaac  removed  from  Long  Island  to  the  head 
of  the  Raritan  river,  in  Hunterdon  county, 
.New  Jersey.  He  died  between  1763  and  1768. 
and  among  his  children  was  a  son  John,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(  HI  )  John,  son  of  James  (2)  Abbott,  was 
horn  in  Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  April  8, 
1758.  died  April  3,  1834.  He  married  (first) 
Elizabeth  Harden,  who  died  February  18. 
1787.  *ITe  married  (second)  Rebecca  Chattin. 
l)orn  September  29,  1764.  died  March  17, 
1813.  Children,  all  except  the  first  by  second 
marriage:  I.  Thomas,  born  March  10.  1786, 
died  May.  1795.  2.  Elizabeth,  September  8, 
1790,  died  .^pril  23,  1850:  married  Clark  W'eb- 
ster.  3.  Mary,  October  21,  1792,  died  Febru- 
arv  23.  1874:  married  William  Murphy.  4. 
.Sarah,  July  i(>,  171)3.  died  about  1887:  married 


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a  llanby.  5.  Martha,  April  25,  1798;  married 
a  llanby;  died  about  1892.  Sarah  and  Mar- 
tha married  brothers  and  lived  near  each  other 
in  southern  Indiana.  6.  Isaac,  November  i, 
1800,  died  July  i.  1835.  7.  John  Chattin,  re- 
ferred to  below.  8.  David.  February  7,  1807, 
<lied  April,  1854. 

I  1\"  )  Mon.  John  Chattin  .\bbott,  son  of  John 
.ind  Rebecca  (Chattin)  Abbott,  was  bom  in 
S;ileni  count\'.  New  Jersey,  March  2,  1803. 
Ahimt  1S30  he  removed  from  Salem  county  to 
Mays  Landing,  Atlantic  county,  where  lie  was 
f(  ir  a  time  employed  as  a  clerk  at  the  Weymouth 
Works.  Subsequently  he  became  general 
manager  for  Dr.  Schoenburger,  of  Pittsburg, 
I'ennsylvania,  where  he  had  charge  of  his  fur- 
naces in  the  .\llegheny  mountains,  near  Ho\- 
lidaysijurg.  He  was  a  civil  engineer  and  a 
merchant:  he  served  for  fifteen  years  as  one 
of  the  lay  judges  of  Atlantic  county,  and  was 
for  several  terms  a  member  of  the  board  of 
freeholders.  He  died  October  2,  1891.  Mr. 
.\bbott  married,  October  31,  1834,  Ann  (ioil- 
frey,  daughter  of  William  and  Rejoice  (Steel- 
man  )  Treen ;  she  was  born  in  1810.  Chil- 
dren: I.  William  Treen,  born  September  29, 
1836;  now  a  Methodist  clergyman,  residing  at 
.■\sbury  Park,  New  Jersey,  and  during  the  civil 
war  chaplain  of  the  Twenty-third  Volunteer 
Regiment  New  Jersey  Infantry.  He  married 
Rebecca  (jilbert,  of  Burlington,  and  has  Cath- 
arine, Stella,  and  William  (lodfrey  .Abbott,  of 
I  )cean  City.  2.  John  Godfrey,  born  Novem- 
ber 20,  1838:  enlisted  during  the  civil  war  as 
private,  i)romoted  corporal  and  first  lieutenant, 
nuich  of  his  time  acting  captain  of  the  Forty- 
eighth  Regiment  of  the  New-  Jersey  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  Company  G,  killed  in  action  at 
hOrt  W'agner  in  1863;  unmarried.  3.  Joseph 
Edward  Potts,  referred  to  below.  4.  Clark 
Webster,  born  .November  12,  1842;  married 
.Arabella  Wilson,  and  has  John,  Henry,  .-Mbert, 
I'lorence,  .Sarah.  Emma,  Wilmer,  Melvin  and 
(lark  Webster  Jr.  5.  pjenjamin  Treen,  born 
.August  (>.  1845:  a  physician  living  at  (  )cean 
City:  married  (first)  Harriet  Blue:  (second) 
Fiuma  (iodfrey.  who  died  a  year  later  ;  (third) 
Delia  Corson;  children  by  first  marriage, 
Anna,  married  Stejihen  Little,  of  Camden; 
I'-lizabeth  :  Dolly,  married  George  Parsons.  6. 
Kebecca  .\.,  born  December  12,  1847:  died  un- 
married. 7.  Charles  Tuller,  born  December 
J~.  1849.  (lied  in  1902:  lived  at  Mays  Landing: 
married  Caroline  (ilover,  and  has  Howard  W., 
Bessie  (dover,  Mary,  married  Richard  W. 
Towell.  and  has  Richard  W.,  Jr.,  Charles  Tul- 
ler, Margaret,  Edward  and  Adella.     8.  Mar- 


garet Treen,  born  1852;  married  Robert  T. 
Kenny,  of  Wahoo,  Nebraska. 

(  \' )  Joseph  Edward  Potts  Abbott,  third 
child  and  son  of  John  Chattin  and  Ann  God- 
frey (Treen)  Abbott,  was  born  at  Mays  Land- 
ing Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey,  August  20. 
1840.  For  his  early  education  he  attended  the 
[Hiblic  school,  after  which  for  about  three  years 
lie  taught  school,  and  then  began  the  study  of 
the  law  in  the  office  of  the  Hon.  George  S. 
Woodhull,  of  Camden,  wdio  in  1866  became 
one  of  the  justices  of  the  supreme  court.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  at- 
torney in  November,  1865,  and  as  counsellor 
in  June,  1870.  From  1866  to  1872  he  was  the 
only  attorney  practicing  in  Atlantic  county, 
and  hi>  law  practice  covered  a  very  wide  range, 
especially  in  real  estate  and  corporation  cases. 
-March  7,  1898.  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of 
Governor  (iriggs,  he  accepted  the  appointment 
of  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  of  Atlantic  county. 
In  1903  he  accepted  a  rea])])ointnient  of  the 
same  position  from  Governor  Murphy,  and 
filled  the  office  until  1908.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  Bar  Association,  and  of  the 
.\tlantic  County  Bar  Association,  and  he  is 
known  to-day  not  only  as  one  of  the  oldest 
living  practitioners  in  the  state,  but  also  as  the 
father  of  the  Atlantic  county  bar. 

Ill  ]xilitics  Mr.  .Abbott  is  a  Republican,  and 
he  has  been  one  of  the  most  active  members 
of  his  party  in  his  state  and  county.  What 
was  known  as  the  two  term  rule  for  members 
of  the  congress  in  New  Jersey  was  broken  by 
the  election  of  James  Buchanan  to  a  third 
term  largely  through  his  efforts,  and  to  his 
efforts  was  due  the  method  of  representa- 
tion in  the  Atlantic  county  delegation  which 
])revents  the  undue  preponderance  of  a  place 
like  -Atlantic  City  is  settling  legislative  matters 
relating  to  the  country  districts  of  the  county. 
Mr.  .Abbott  has  long  been  a  great  student  of 
and  is  one  of  the  authorities  on  numismatics 
and  minerals,  and  he  has  been  for  over  thirty 
\ears  gathering  a  collection.  He  has  made  a 
s])eciarty  of  American  silver  coins,  and  his 
collection  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  in 
the  country.  His  mineral  collection  of  nearly 
I  Hie  thousand  species  has  among  it  some  of  the 
rarest  specimens  which  were  e.xhibited  at  the 
Centennial  Exhibition  at  Philadelphia,  1876. 

Mr.  -Abbott  married,  -\ovember  8,  1862, 
Adeline  H.,  born  March  2~.  1836,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Mary  (libson.  of  Doylestown, 
Pennsylvania.  Children,  both  of  whom  died 
in  infancy:  Joseph  Edwin  and  Wilbur  Mere- 
dith.    They  have  an  adopted  daughter,  Nellie 


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STATE    Ol-     NEW    JERSEY. 


M..  horn  October  28,  1885.  a  graduate  of  the 
inil)lic  school  of  Mays  Landing,  and  devoted  to 


( Ircat  difficulty  is  found  in  trac- 

IIARKIS  ing  individual  members  of  this 
numerous  family  owing  to  the 
number  of  immigrants  who  came  to  New  Eng- 
land in  the  first  period  of  settlement  and  to  the 
similarity  of  christian  names  abounding,  such 
as  John,  Thomas.  William,  etc.  In  1643  Will- 
iam Harris  ojjened  in  Ijiswich,  Massachusetts 
r>ay  Colony,  and  took  up  land.  The  same  year 
lohn  Harris  also  located  there  and  was 
allotted  two  or  more  lots  and  the  same  year 
Thomas  appears  and  is  also  allotted  two  lots. 
These  men  may  have  been  brothers  or  cousins, 
as  thev  were  of  the  same  relative  ages.  Will- 
iam. John  and  Thomas  each  took  a  wife  and 
])ossiblv  one  or  more  children.  With  a  sec- 
ond installment  of  settlers  another  brother  or 
cousin  appears  in  the  person  of  David  Harris, 
who  arrived  in  1643  and  who  is  the  progenitor 
in  whom  we  are  interesteti  in  this  .sketch. 

(I)  David  Harris,  a  wheelwright  by  trade 
and  Mary  Weld,  his  wife,  was  allotted  two 
lots  of  land  in  Ijjswich,  which  they  sold  in 
1653  and  removed  to  Middletown,  Connecticut 
colony.  William  and  Edde  or  Edith  Harris 
had  removed  from  Ipswich  to  Middletown,  the 
same  or  possibly  the  previous  year,  having 
sold  their  allotted  two  acres  of  land  in  Ips- 
wich. David  and  William  Harris  thus  becom- 
ing ])ro])rietors  and  freemen  of  Middletown 
in  1632.  David  and  Mary  (Weld)  Harris  had 
one  child.  Mary,  born  in  l])swich,  April  2, 
1651.  and  other  children  born  in  Middletown, 
including  Thomas,  see   forward. 

(in  Ihomas.  son  of  David  and  Mary 
(  Weld  )  1  larris,  was  born  in  Middletown,  Con- 
necticut Colony,  probably  in  1653,  and  he  lo- 
catetl  in  I'airtield  where  he  brought  up  a  family 
which  included  a  first  child  Thomas,  see  for- 
ward. 

(HI)  Thomas  (21.  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
(I)  Harris,  of  Middletown.  was  born  about 
1685  in  Eairfield,  and  he  became  a  member  of 
a  comjiany  of  New  England  colonists  who  left 
••"airfield  in  Connecticut  Colony  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century  and  settled  in  Cumberland 
county.  Xew  Jersey,  where  they  purchased 
land,  founded  a  town  which  they  called  I'air- 
field  and  parcelled  the  tract  among  the  adven- 
turers, according  to  the  size  of  their  respect- 
ive families  as  was  the  custom  in  Xew  Eng- 
land. His  will  was  probated  at  Trenton.  Xew 
Jersey.    January    24.    1750.    which    places    the 


year  of  his  death  1749.  He  named  his  eldest 
son  Thomas,  see  forward,  as  was  the  custom 
of  the  family. 

(1\')  Thomas  (3).  son  of  Thomas  (2). 
was  born  in  Eairfield,  Cumberland  county, 
.\'ew  Jersey,  Xovember,  1710.  He  served  as 
surgeon  in  revolutionary  war  with  Xew  Jer- 
sey troo])s  and  became  known  as  Captain 
Thomas.  In  1750  he  was  sent  to  England  in 
behalf  of  the  people  of  Eairfield,  Xew  Jersey, 
to  try  and  secure  a  perfect  title  to  the  land  in 
the  southern  jiortion  of  the  township,  taken  up 
by  the  Xew  England  settlers,  but  in  this  effort 
he  was  not  successful.  Among  the  valuable 
mementos  he  brought  back  with  him  from 
England  was  a  large  folio  volume  of  the  works 
of  Rev.  John  Flavel,  the  eminent  non-con- 
formist preacher,  which  is  now  owned  by  his 
great-great-grandson  and  namesake.  Thomas 
W.  Harris.  Captain  Thomas  Harris  died  in 
Eairfield.   Xew  Jersey,  A))ril  27,   1783. 

( \' )  E])hraim,  son  of  Cajitain  Tliomas  (3) 
I  larris,  was  born  in  T~airfield,  Cumberland 
county.  Xew  Jersey,  in  1731.  He  received  a 
good  education,  was  |)rominent  in  public  af- 
fairs, was  appointed  by  the  governor  a  justice 
of  the  peace  of  Cumberland  county,  September 
17,  1772,  a  justice  of  the  court  of  pleas,  I-'eb- 
ruary  28,  1774,  a  representative  in  the  council 
of  the  state  that  met  at  Trenton,  Xew  Jer- 
sey. October  21,  1778,  and  served  at  one  time 
as  s])eaker  pro  tempore  of  the  house  of  assem- 
bly. He  was  in  the  state  legislature  when  the 
state  constitution  was  framed  and  was  consid- 
ered one  of  the  leaders  in  the  adoption  of  thai 
measure.  He  was  a  strong  Presbyterian  in 
religious  faith  and  became  a  ruling  elder  of  the 
"Old  Stone  Church  (  Presbyterian)  of  Fair- 
field. Dr.  Whitaker,  historian  of  that  church, 
says  of  him  that  he  was  "the  most  intelligent 
man  in  the  session."  He  married  twice  and  by 
his  first  wife  had  children.  Thomas  and  Pier- 
son,  see  forward. 

(XT)  Thomas  {4).  eldest  son  of  Hon. 
E])liraim  Harris,  was  born  in  Eairfield,  Cum- 
berland county,  Xew  Jersey,  about  1794.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  imikeeper,  and  an  un.suc- 
cessful  candidate  for  sheriff  of  Cumberland 
county,  defeated  by  a  few  votes  only.  He 
had  a  son,  Theophilus  Elmer  Harris,  born 
Tamiarv  58,  1796,  who  was  sheriff  of  Cumber- 
land county,  1848-51.  township  assessor  for 
several  years,  a  prominent  anti-slavery  advo- 
cate and  an  early  member  of  the  Rei)ublican 
party.  He  married.  February  12,  1817,  Eydia, 
daughter  of  L'rben  Dixon,  of  Fairfield,  and 
thev  had  ten  children  and  he  married  a  second 


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wife  !)y  will  nil  lie  liad  two  children.  One  uf 
his  sDiis  hy  his  first  wife  was  Thomas  Urbeii 
llarris.  a  jironiiiient  merchant  of  Bridgeton, 
and  originator  of  the  l:!ridgeton  Saving  F.und 
and  lluiUiing  Association  founded  in  June, 
1865,  and  its  secretary:  treasurer  of  the  West 
lersey  Transportation  Company  and  president 
of  the  Bridgeton  National  Bank  from  1884. 
He  married  (first)  Mary  C.  Holmes,  August 
30.  1853,  and  (second)  Isabella  Robinson, 
.\|)ril  15,  i8(/i.  His  children  all  died  in  early 
cliildhood. 

(  \"]  )  I'iorson.  son  of  Hon.  Epiiraim  and 
brother  of  'J'homas  llarris  was  born  in  Fair- 
field. Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey,  about 
1824.  He  married  and  removed  to  Borden- 
town,  Burlington  county,  where  his  son  Pier- 
son,  see  forward,  was  born. 

(VII)  Pierson  (2),  eldest  son  of  Pierson 
(i)  Harris,  was  born  in  Bordentown,  Burling- 
ton county,  New  Jersey;  about  1825.  He  was 
a  carriage  mainifacturer.  He  married  as  his 
first  wife  Emma  Holmes,  and  as  his  second 
wife  Mary  Beebe.  He  removed  to  Tuckahoe 
before  1854.  Children :  Lewis  D.,  Emma  J., 
Edward  P.,  Hannah,  Gilbert  Tyce,  see  for- 
ward. Hannah  resides  at  Clifton,  Delaware 
county,  Pennsylvania. 

(\'III)  Gilbert  Tyce,  son  of  Pierson  (2) 
and  Emma  (Holmes)  Harris,  was  born  in 
Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey,  1854.  He  married  in 
1870  Sarah,  daughter  of  Parker  T.  and  Sarah 
Townsend.  She  was  born  in  1856,  and  they 
removed  to  Atlantic  City,  Atlantic  county, 
New  Jersey,  after  their  four  children  were 
born,  as  follows:  i.  Howard  Godfrey,  born 
October  16,  1 87 1,  see  forward.  2.  Parker 
Townsend,  I'hiladelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Febru- 
ary 5,  1873:  married  Augusta,  daughter  of 
Ephraim  and  .Vugusta  Sooy  and  they  had  two 
children :  Ephraim  and  i\ugusta  Harris.  3. 
Hannah  Naomi,  born  Pittsville,  Maryland,  De- 
cember, 1879:  married  Charles  O.  Barker  and 
had  three  children :  Howard,  Gilbert  and  Ruth 
Barker.  4.  Edward  Gunby,  born  Atlantic 
City,  May,  1883. 

(IX)  Howard  Godfrey,  eldest  child  of  Gil- 
bert Tyce  and  Sarah  (Townsend)  Harris,  was 
born  in  Tuckahoe,  New  Jersey,  October  16, 
1 87 1.  He  attended  public  school  in  Atlantic 
City,  to  which  place  his  parents  had  removed 
and  he  prepared  for  college,  entering  Rutgers 
College,  New  Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  in  1890, 
and  graduating  B.  S.,  1894.  He  took  up  the 
profession  of  civil  engineer  in  Atlantic  City 
and  also  carried  on  an  extensive  business  in 
buying  and  selling  real  estate,  in  which  he  was 


eminently  successful.  He  laid  out  streets, 
]iarks  and  road  systems  for  .\tlantic  City, 
which  greatly  increased  the  value  of  real  es- 
tate in  that  winter  capital  so  liberally  patron- 
ized by  the  wealthy  classes.  His  business  as 
a  real  estate  dealer  is  conducted  in  partner- 
ship with  George  A.  Elvins,  with  offices  in  the 
Bartlett  building,  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  elected  ])resident  of  the  Ventnor  city 
council,  in  which  place  he  took  up  his  residence 
after  his  marriage.  His  religious  and  political 
affiliation  is  with  no  particular  church  or  party, 
but  he  su]ii)orts  both  good  government  and 
good  works  in  the  line  of  bettering  humanity. 
He  married.  May  9,  1897,  ^'1^  Moore,  born 
June  12,  1873,  daughter  of  Evan  J.  and  Emity 
(Read)  Risley.  Children:  i.  Helen  Lucile, 
born  May  9,  1899.  2.  Howard  (Godfrey  (2), 
January    12,   1904. 


There  are  numerous  tra- 
Ll.VDSLEY  ditions  concerning  John  and 
Francis  Lindsley,  according 
to  most  (jf  which,  it  is  said  that  the  two  broth- 
ers came  from  a  place  not  far  from  and  to  the 
southwest  of  London.  One  story  is  that  the 
place  was  the  town  of  Lindsley  or  Lindlcy, 
which  would  indicate,  if  the  story  were  true  at 
all,  that  the  place  was  the  country  seat  of  the 
head  of  the  family.  In  an  old  family  Bible 
in  Morristown,  which  formerly  belonged  to 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Lindsley)  Shaw,  is  found  this 
item  among  others:  "Francis  Lindsley  came  to 
this  country  in  the  ship  with  Robert  Kitchel  in 
1639."  This  vessel  is  said  to  have  been  the 
first  to  anchor  in  New '  Plaven  bay.  John 
Lindsley  signed  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  New 
Haven  in  1641,  but  it  seems  probable  that  the 
first  authentic  record  of  Francis  is  in  connec- 
tion with  his  law  suit  brought  by  Stephen  Med- 
calfe.  in  1645,  when  he  and  his  brother  were 
living  in  Branford,  Connecticut.  Francis  was 
sued  by  Medcalfe,  who  won  suit.  Some  gen- 
ealogists say  that  John  and  Francis  came  to 
America  with  their  father,  John  Sr.,  who  is 
said  to  have  died  at  Guilford,  in  1650,  but  as 
yet  no  proof  of  the  statement  has  come  to  life. 
There  is  also  a  tradition  that  Francis  was  in 
Cromwell's  army,  and  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Wallby,  which,  however,  was  fought  in 
1685,  when  both  brothers  were  recorded  as 
being  in  Brandford,  and  if  they  came  to 
America  in  1639  or  40,  they  could  not  have 
been  in  the  Cromwellian  army,  because  the 
first  battle  of  the  Great  Rebellion,  Edgehill. 
was  fought  in  1642. 

(I)   Francis  Lindsley,  founder  of  the  fam- 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEV. 


ily  in  New  Jersey,  came  to  that  colony  from 
iJranfurd  but  with  the  Milford  company  in 
1667,  and  died  there  between  the  years  1704 
and  1710.  His  name  appears  among  the  forty 
adcHtional  settlers  who  signed  the  Fundamental 
agreement,  June  24,  1667.  His  home  lot  was 
number  44,  and  he  obtained  patents  for  several 
tracts  of  land,  part  of  which  was  in  the  right 
of  Ebenezer  Canfield.  He  was  a  large  land- 
holder, but  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  a 
prominent  part  in  the  town  affairs.  In  the 
first  tax  list  of  Newark  he  was  assessed  for 
£210.  His  house  lot  of  six  acres  is  on  the 
south  side  of  J^Iarket  street,  at  the  corner  of 
High,  where  the  courthouse  now  stands.  In 
the  distribution  of  lands  by  lots,  he  drew  sev- 
eral tracts  in  different  parts  of  the  township, 
and  in  1696  or  1697  obtained  the  patent  from 
the  proprietors  of  East  Jersey,  confirming 
these  lands  to  him.  The  patent  covered  two 
hundred  and  eighty-seven  acres  of  land  in 
small  tracts,  and  the  patent  is  still  preserved  in 
the  rooms  of  New  Jersey  Historical  Society 
in  Newark.  In  1686  he  was  one  of  the  com- 
mittee chosen  to  lay  out  highways  during  the 
ensuing  year.  Francis  Lindsley  married, 
June  24.  1O55,  "it  ISranford,  Susanna  Culpep- 
])er.  His  children,  born  in  Branford  and 
Newark,  were:  i.  Deborah,  born  1656.  2. 
Ruth,  1658.  3.  Ebenezer,  referred  to  below. 
4.  John,  1667.  5.  Uenjamin.  6.  Joseph.  7. 
Jonathan.  He  divided  his  estate  while  he  was 
living  between  his  five  sons  and  left  no  will. 

(Hj  Ebenezer,  eldest  son  of  Francis  and 
Susannah  (Culpepper)  Lindsley,  was  born  in 
Branford,  1665,  died  in  1743,  and  was  buried 
in  the  old  graveyard  at  Orange,  his  daughter 
Hannah  being  buried  by  his  side.  The  deed 
of  gift  for  his  share  of  his  father's  land  is 
now  among  the  Lindsley  papers  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society  in 
Newark.  He  was  two  years  old  when  hi> 
father  came  to  New  Jersey,  and  in  a  deed  from 
Josiah  ( )gden.  to  him,  he  is  styled  wheel- 
wright, it  is  not  known  whom  he  married. 
His  children,  however,  were:  i.  Hannah,  born 
1693,  married  Elisha  Stansborough.  2.  Ebe- 
nezer, ify/).  3.  Josiah.  4.  Flihu.  5.  Benja- 
min, referred  to  below. 

(ill)  Benjamin,  youngest  siMi  of  Ebenezer 
Lindsley  was  born  in  Newark,  1715,  died  in 
1785.  He  was  buried  beside  his  father  in  the 
Old  MouiUain  Society  graveyard  at  Orange.  In 
1753  he  subscribed  £6  to  the  Second  Meeting 
House  at  Orange.  He  married  (first)  Mary, 
born  .May  11,  1724,  died  August  15,  1755, 
youngest   child   of  John   Morris,  of   Newark, 


who  died  in  1729.  She  was  the  granddaughter 
of  Captain  John  Morris,  born  in  New  Haven, 
i66<'),  died  1749,  by  his  wife,  Sarah;  great- 
granddaughter  of  John  Morris  and  his  second 
wife,  Elizabeth  (Harrisonj  Lampson,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  Harrison  and  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Morris,  who  signed 
the  Plantation  Covenant  in  New  Haven,  1639. 
Children  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Morris) 
Lindsley  were:  i.  Sarah.  2.  Elizabeth,  born 
1749.  3.  John,  referred  to  below.  Benjamin 
Lindsley  married  (second)  Dorcas  Harrison, 
wlici  survived  him  many  years,  and  died  with- 
nut  issue. 

(  1\'  )  Jiihn,  only  son  and  youngest  child  of 
Lenjanun  and  Mary  (Alorris)  Lindsley,  was 
born  ni  that  ]>art  of  Newark  which  is  now 
known  as  South  Orange,  1752,  died  in  1819, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Old  Orange  graveyard. 
He  was  an  important  and  influential  citizen, 
and  for  his  time  quite. wealthy.  From  1788  to 
1813  he  was  justice  of  the  peace,  and  for 
many  years,  beginning  in  1808,  was  a  judge  of 
the  inferior  court  of  common  pleas.  He  was  in 
the  battle  of  Monmouth  Court  House,  but  being 
an  only  son,  and  having  besides  a  family  of  his 
own  and  various  other  responsibilities,  he  found 
a  substitute  to  take  his  place  for  the  remainder 
of  the  war.  This  substitute  was  killed  in  a 
later  engagement,  and  Judge  Lindsley  contrib- 
uted to  the  support  of  that  substitute's  mother 
as  long  as  she  lived.  In  1784  he  was  one  of 
the  subscribers  to  the  "Parish  Sloop."  At  the 
usual  Fourth  of  July  celebration,  held  in  1814, 
he  and  Major  Abraham  W'inans  were  the  bear- 
ers of  the  National  Standard,  an  honor  always 
conferred  on  two  of  the  leading  men  of  the 
town.  He  was  an  elder  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Orange,  and  a  man  of  affairs, 
of  undoubted  integrity  and  good  judgment  and 
his  advice  and  counsel  were  of  weight  in  every 
department  of  life. 

Judge  John  Lindsley  married  Phebe,  born 
175(1,  died  1839,  daughter  of  Israel  and  Mary 
(  Curry  )  Baldwin  ;  granddaughter  of  Joseph 
and  Rebecca  Baldwin  ;  great-granddaughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Sargeant)  Baldwin, 
of  the  Milford- Newark  settlers;  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Joseph  Baldwin,  of  Mil- 
ford, Connecticut.  Children  of  Judge  John 
and  Phebe  (Baldwin)  Lindsley  were:  i.  Lydia. 
2.  Sarah,  became  the  first  wife  of  Stephen  D. 
Day.  3.  Mary,  became  the  second  wife  of 
Stephen  D.  Day.  4.  Matilda.  5.  John  Mor- 
ris, referred  to  below.  6.  Benjamin.  7. 
Phebe.  8.  Eliza.  His  home  was  where  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  C)rphan  Asylum  now  stands  in 


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Soutli  Orange,  the  land  having  been  inhcnteil 
from  Ebenezer  Lindsley. 

(\  )  John  Alorris,  elder  son  of  Judge  John 
and  I'hebe  (Baldwin)  Lindsley,  was  born  in 
South  Orange,  New  Jersey,  April  25,  1784, 
died  in  Orange,  October  19,  1863.  He  was  a 
leading  man  in  the  community,  and  was  one 
of  the  first  to  start  a  country  store  in  that 
place.  Me  was  associated  witli  his  brother-in- 
law.  .Stephen  D.  Day,  until  1806,  when  the  firm 
was  dissolved  and  the  business  continued  by 
.\Ir.  Lindsley  in  the  store  built  for  the  firm,  on 
the  easterh  corner  of  Cone  street,  the  site  now 
occupied  by  the  Orange  Savings  Bank.  For 
many  years  he  did  a  thriving  business,  and 
was  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  and  most 
enterprising  merchants  in  Essex  countv. 
When  his  .^ons,  Xelson  and  George,  became  of 
age.  they  were  taken  into  partnership  and  the 
business  continued  as  John  M.  Lindsley  & 
S'>ns.  until  his  death.  In  1850  Nelson  and 
( ieorge  Lindsley  established  the  coal  business, 
which  they  ran  so  successfully,  and  they  were 
the  first  to  introduce  that  article  m  the 
(_)ranges.  This  business  gradually  increased 
to  such  an  extent  that  they  finally  gave  up 
their  dealings  in  general  merchandise,  limiting 
their  trade  to  coal  and  hardware.  While  tak- 
ing no  prominent  part  in  politics,  John  Morris 
Lindsley  encouraged  improvements  in  every 
direction  antl  had  the  greatest  faith  in  the  fu- 
ture development  of  his  native  town.  He  wit- 
nessed its  growth  from  a  simple  farming  dis- 
trict to  a  flourishing  township,  which  gradually 
developed  into  a  prosperous  city. 

John  Morris  Lindsley  married  Charlotte, 
<laughter  of  Daniel,  granddaughter  of  Daniel, 
born  1720.  died  1794,  great-granddaughter  of 
the  Rev.  Daniel,  1691  to  1747,  antl  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  Daniel  Taylor,  of  Saybrook, 
Connecticut.  Her  great-grandfather,  the  Rev- 
erend Daniel  Taylor,  was  the  first  pastor  oi 
the  Mountain  Society  in  Orange.  Charlotte 
(Taylor)  Lindsley  was  born  September  23. 
1787,  died  August  25,  1857.  Children  of  John 
Morris  and  Charlotte  (Taylor)  Lindsley  were: 
I.  Nelson,  referred  to  below.  2.  Romana  A., 
born  January  13,  181 1,  died  March  31.  1889: 
married  (  first)  Philip  Kingsley,  the  first  law- 
yer of  Orange,  and  (second  I  Locke  Catlin. 
3.  John  Philip,  born  October  3.  1813,  died  June 
I').  1884.  4.  Ann  Eliza,  born  August  12,  1816, 
<lied  March  6,  1893;  married  Edward  Truman 
llillyer.  5.  James  Girard,  born  .March  1<), 
1819.    6.  George,  see  sketcli. 

(Vli  Nelson,  eldest  child  of  John  Morris 
and    Charlotte    (Taylor)    Lindsley,   was  born 


.\ugust  2^,.  i8o8,  died  Sunday,  July  i,  1888. 
For  his  early  education  he  attended  the  public 
schools  and  the  Orange  .Academy,  and  after 
leaving  the  latter  enteretl  his  father's  store  as 
clerk,  and  later  with  his  brother  (ieorge  suc- 
ceeded to  the  business.  In  1862  the  new  brick 
building  was  erected  on  the  opposite  corner, 
and  for  twenty  years  the  firm  was  the  most 
jirominent  of  any  in  the  county,  outside  of 
Newark.  In  1883,  owing  to  increasing  weak- 
ness. Nelson  Lindsley  withdrew  from  the  firm 
and  left  the  business  to  be  conducted  by  his 
brother.  Mr.  Lindsley  had  no  desire  for  poli- 
tics or  social  life,  but  he  was  a  staunch  Re- 
])ublican  and  he  was  always  a  leader  in  every 
movement  which  tended  to  improve  the  town 
or  to  l)enefit  his  neighbors.  He  was  especially 
active  in  the  movement  made  in  1857  to  secure 
lietter  facilities  on  the  Morris  and  Essex  road. 
1  le  was  one  of  the  committee  which  waited 
upon  the  managers  of  the  railroad  to  protest 
in  the  name  of  C)range  against  an  increase 
of  fares  to  New  York  and  Newark,  of  fifty 
and  twenty-five  per  cent.,  and  he  continued 
to  agitate  the  matter  until  the  committee's 
object  was  accomplished.  He  was  also  prom- 
inent in  securing  the  incorporation  of  Orange 
as  a  town.  This  movement  started  in  1859, 
and  he  called  to  order  the  first  public  meeting 
held  to  consider  that  (|uestion  in  Willow  Hall. 
on  November  17,  of  that  year.  In  the  follow- 
ing year  he  was  elected  to  represent  the  third 
ward,  when  the  first  town  committee  was  or- 
ganized, and  he  served  for  one  term  of  three 
years.  For  many  years  he  was  the  president 
of  the  Rosedale  Cemetery  Association,  and 
spent  much  of  his  time  in  bringing  the  ceme- 
tery to  that  state  of  development  for  which  it 
has  since  become  noted.  Cnder  the  old 
militia  system  he  took  an  active  interest  in 
military  affairs,  and  was  the  adjutant  of  the 
h'iftieth  Regiment,  Essex  Brigade.  There 
have  been  few  men  who  occupied  a  more  im- 
|)ortant  position  or  exercised  a  greater  influ- 
ence in  the  community. 

Nelson  Lindsley  married  Ann,  ilaughter  of 
Caleb,  granddaughter  of  Captain  George, 
great-granddaughter  of  Caleb,  great-great- 
granddaughter  of  George  Jr.,  and  great-great- 
great-granddaughter  of  George  Sr..  and  great- 
great-great-great-granddaughter  of  Richard 
llarrison.  of  Newark.  Their  children  were  • 
I .  Ciiarlotte.  2.  Edward.  3.  Anna,  married 
(first)  I'arrand  Dodd,  and  (second)  Orrin  S. 
Wood.  4.  foiin  Nicol,  referred  to  below.  5. 
Lucy.     6.  Walter. 

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son  of  Nelson  and  Ann  ( Harrison  j  Lindsley, 
was  born  on  the  corner  of  Center  and  Reuck 
streets.  Orange,  November  23,  1846,  and  is 
now  living  in  Orange,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
sent  to  the  public  schools  for  his  early  educa- 
tion and  completed  his  studies  at  Dr.  Hay's 
school,  the  Orange  Academy,  and  at  a  private 
school  at  Fergusonville,  Delaware  county,  New 
Vork.  After  leaving  school,  wishing  to  ob- 
tain a  more  thorough  knowledge  of  general 
business  affairs  than  he  could  acquire  in 
Orange,  he  went  to  New  York  City,  and  for 
six  years  worked  in  the  employ  of  the  Russell 
&  Erwin  Manufacturing  Company  of  that 
city.  In  1885  when  his  father  on  account  of 
failing  health,  retired  from  the  coal  and  hard- 
ware business,  John  Nicol  Lindsley  returned 
to  Orange  and  took  his  place  in  the  firm  under 
his  uncle,  George  Lindsley.  On  the  death  of 
the  latter,  Charles  Alfred,  his  cousin,  suc- 
ceeded his  father,  George  Lindsley,  and  the 
two  were  for  a  time  associated  in  the  business. 
In  1889  a  division  was  made,  Charles  Alfred 
taking  the  coal  business,  and  John  Nicol  the 
hardware.  This  he  enlarged  and  made  many 
changes  in,  adding  a  greater  variety  of  goods 
and  conducting  a  more  extensive  trade  than 
was  carried  on  by  either  his  father  or  his 
grandfather.  He  is  a  man  of  great  force, 
energy  and  determination  of  character.  Al- 
though taking  no  active  part  in  politics,  Mr. 
Lindsley  is  an  ardent  Republican  and  true  to 
the  principles  represented  by  his  party,  and  is 
president  of  the  board  of  police  commissioners 
of  Orange.  He  is  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
r)range  National  Bank ;  one  of  the  managers 
of  the  Orange  Savings  Bank,  and  he  has  suc- 
ceeded to  his  father's  position  as  one  of  the 
managers  of  the  Rosedale  Cemetery  Associa- 
tion. He  is  also  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  I'irst  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Orange.  His  clubs  are  the  Essex  County 
Country  Club  and  the  Hardware  Club  of  New 
York. 

John  Nicol  Lindsley  married,  November  24, 
1875,  Ella,  daughter  of  Napoleon  and  Mary 
f  Leonard)  Stetson,  granddaughter  of  Stephen 
and  Susan  (Batterson)  Stetson.  Children  of 
John  Nicol  and  Ella  (Stetson)  Lindsley  are: 
Mary,  .Anna,  Isabel. 


(For  ancestry  .«ee  preceding  sketch). 

(\'I)  George  Lindsley,  young- 
LINDSLE^'     est  child  of  John  Morris  and 

Charlotte  (Taylor)  Lindsley. 
was  born  at  his  father's  homestead,  on  the 
corner  of  Main  and  Cone  streets,  August  23, 


1821.  died  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  February 
24,  1886.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  Orange  Academy,  and  began  his 
business  career  as  clerk  in  his  father's  store. 
Later  on  he  was  taken  into  partnership  with 
his  father  and  elder  brother,  Nelson,  and  when 
his  father  retired  from  business  he  and  his 
i)rother  continued  the  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  John  M.  Lindsley  &  Son.  At  this 
time  they  gave  up  dealing  in  dry  goods,  but 
continued  the  grocery,  hardware  and  coal  busi- 
ness, which  they  were  already  conducting.  For 
several  years  the  business  was  conducted  on 
the  old  plan,  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Main 
and  Cone  streets,  but  about  i860  John  Morris 
Lindsley,  the  senior  member,  made  a  division 
of  his  property  and  the  west  corner  came  into 
the  possession  of  the  two  brothers.  Nelson  and 
(jeorge,  and  they  erected  their  brick  building 
on  the  site  of  the  old  homestead  and  conducted 
business  under  the  firm  name  of  N.  &  G. 
Lindsley  until  the  failing  health  of  the  elder 
brother.  Nelson,  necessitated  his  retirement, 
and  George  assumed  control  and  associated 
with  himself  John  Nicol  Lindsley,  son  of  his 
tmcle,  Nelson  Lindsley.  George  Lindsley  was 
a  public-spirited  man,  took  a  keen  interest  in 
the  development  of  Orange,  and  to  his  enter- 
prise and  energy  are  due  many  of  the  im- 
provements that  have  given  Orange  a  fore- 
most rank  as  a  suburban  city.  He  was  one 
of  the  original  incorporators  of  the  Orange 
Savings  Bank.  He  was  a  shrewd  business 
man,  and  made  a  number  of  profitable  invest- 
ments in  real  estate.  He  was  an  ardent  Re- 
publican and  an  earnest  worker  for  his  party, 
his  influence  being  largely  felt  at  the  polls. 
For  some  time  he  represented  his  ward  in  the 
common  council  and  in  the  board  of  chosen 
freeholders. 

Cieorge  Lindsley  married  Henrietta  Ma- 
tilda, sister  to  General  Alfred  Munn,  and 
daughter  of  William  and  JMatilda  (Fartouite) 
Munn.  of  Orange,  granddaughter  of  Aaron 
Mmm,  great-granddaughter  of  Benjamin 
Munn,  and  great-great-granddaughter  of  John 
Munn.  Her  father  was  the  cashier  of  the 
Orange  Bank,  now  the  Orange  National  Bank. 
Children:  I.  Frank,  died  at  the  age  of  six 
months.  2.  Stuart,  see  forward.  3.  Emma 
Louisa,  deceased.  4.  Laura  Matilda.  5. 
Katharine  Alunn,  died  in  infancy.  6.  Charles 
Alfred,  referred  to  below.  7.  Clara  Augusta, 
born  1862,  died  1886. 

(\TI)  Stuart,  second  son  of  George  and 
Henrietta  Matilda  (Munn)  Lindsley,  was  born 
in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  February   18,   1849. 


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Ik-  acquired  his  (.-(iucatioii  in  the  pubhc  schools, 
the  well-known  private  sclmol  conducted  by 
the  Misses  Robinson,  Newark  Acadeniy,  and 
School  of  Mines  of  Columbia  College,  frotn 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1870.  The  year 
following  his  graduation  he  was  engaged  in 
the  private  laboratory  of  Professor  Charles  A. 
Chandler  as  an  analytical  chemist.  He  then 
took  up  civil  engineering,  and  for  six  years 
served  in  the  capacity  of  engineer  for  the 
Dundee  Water  Power  and  Laud  Company, 
having  charge  of  the  works  of  the  company 
at  Passaic,  New  Jersey.  During  a  portion  of 
this  time  he  was  also  city  engineer  of  Pas- 
saic, and  engaged  as  well  in  private  work  in 
the  line  of  his  profession.  He  had  never, 
however,  quite  dropped  his  studies  in  metal- 
lurg}\  and  in  1873,  there  being  a  general  busi- 
ness depression  in  the  east,  he  accepted  an 
ofifer  to  go  as  chemist  to  the  L'nion  Consoli- 
dated Mining  Company  of  Tennessee,  an  ex- 
tensive copper  smelting  company  located  at 
Ducktown,  Tennessee.  In  1879  he  went  to 
Leadville,  Colorado,  and  became  an  assayer 
for  the  Gage  Hagaman  Smelting  Company,  the 
proprietor  of  one  of  the  early  silver-lead 
smelting  works  of  that  place.  Subsequently  he 
accepted  a  similar  position  with  the  Chrysolite 
Silver  Mining  Company.  I-'rom  this  place  he 
removed  to  Clifton,  Arizona,  to  accept  an  ap- 
jiointment  of  superintendent  and  metallurgist 
of  the  Detroit  copper  Company.  Later  he 
filled  the  same  position  with  the  Royal  George 
Smelting  Company  at  Canyon  City,  Colorado, 
and  he  also  performed  other  work  in  the  west 
as   a    mining   expert. 

Returning  to  the  east  in  1887  he  soon  after- 
wards engaged  in  business  in  Orange,  New- 
Jersey,  where  he  formed  a  copartnership  with 
Robert  Wright  under  the  firm  name  of  Wright 
&  Lindsley.  They  established  an  extensive 
quarry  and  stone  crushing  plant  on  the  line  of 
the  Erie  railroad,  near  the  Great  Notch,  and 
engaged  in  the  business  of  Telford  and  Mc- 
.\dam  road  construction  in  the  several  com- 
munities in  northern  New  Jersey  reached  by 
the  above  railroad.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  he  joined  his  brother,  Charles  Alfred, 
who  had  already  succeeded  to  the  coal  busi- 
ness, and  formed  a  new  partnership  under  the 
firm  name  of  S.  &.  C.  A.  Lindsley.  This  was 
after  his  cousin,  John  Nicol  Lindsley,  had  sep- 
arated from  his  brother,  Charles  Alfred,  and 
taken  as  his  share  of  the  old  business  the  hard- 
ware trade.  The  property  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  Main  and  Cone  streets  was  left  to 
Stuart  and   Charles  Alfred-  by  their   father's 


will ;  they  enlarged  the  building  and  added 
some  seventy-five  feet  on  the  west  side  of  the 
corner.  Stuart  Lindsley  organized  the  Essex 
County  Electric  Compan.y,  of  which  he  was  the 
manager ;  this  company  supplied  Orange  and 
West  Orange  with  electric  lights,  and  was  later 
merged  with  others  into  the  present  system  of 
the  Public  Service  Corporation.  In  1899  he 
joined  with  George  D.  and  Joseph  M.  Mer- 
rill, brothers  of  his  wife,  and  formed  a  cor- 
poration known  as  The  Merrill  Bros.  Com- 
pany for  the  nianufacture  of  sterling  silver 
novelties,  acting  as  treasurer  of  the  company 
from  its  formation  to  the  present  time  (1909). 
•A  facttjry  was  established  in  the  city  of  New^- 
ark  and  the  company  has  developed  a  flourish- 
ing business,  growing  steadily  in  volume  and 
importance  from  year  to  year. 

Stuart  Lindsley  is  one  of  the  few  descend- 
ants of  the  old  founders  of  the  C)ranges  who 
have  continued  the  work  begun  by  their  an- 
cestors, to  whose  energy,  enterprise  and  busi- 
ness sagacity  the  city  of  Orange  owes  its  great 
prosperity.  His  long  experience  in  tlie  west 
developed  the  characteristics  inherited  from 
his  ancestors  and  awakened  within  him  the 
spirit  of  self-reliance  and  coi-ifidence,  to  which 
he  owes  his  success  in  his  various  enterprises. 

Stuart  Lindsley  married  Katharine  Eliza- 
beth, born  in  1849,  daughter  of  John  Leonard 
and  Lucy  ( Balch )  Merrill,  and  descendant  of 
Nathaniel  Merrill,  the  founder  of  Newbury- 
port,  AJassachusetts,  in  1635.  Children:  i. 
George  Leonard,  born  1882 ;  married  Louise 
Van  Court  Clarke.  2.  Lucy  Merrill,  1884,  3. 
.Mice,  1887.  4.  Horace  Nelson,  1889.  5. 
Girard,  1891. 

(  VH)  Charles  Alfred,  the  sixth  child  and 
third  son  of  George  and  Henrietta  Matilda 
( Munn )  Lindsley,  was  born  on  Day  street. 
Orange,  April  30,  1859.  Studious,  earnest 
and  thoughtful  as  a  child,  as  a  man  he  de- 
veloped the  same  characteristics.  He  began 
his  studies  in  the  public  schools  and  after 
graduating  from  the  Orange  high  school,  in 
1877.  \^'^s  prepared  for  college  by  his  private 
tutor,  and  entering  Princeton  University  re- 
ceived his  B.  A.  degree  in  1882.  Soon  after 
this  he  entered  his  father's  employ  as  a  clerk, 
and  after  the  latter's  death  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  his  cousin,  John  Nicol  Lindsley,  and 
continued  for  a  time  in  the  coal  and  hardware 
business  established  by  his  father.  In  1885 
the  division,  whereby  John  Nicol  Lindsley  took 
the  hardware  business  as  his  share,  having 
been  made,  Charles  Alfred  formed  another 
partnership  with  his  brother  Stuart  under  the 


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name  of  S.  &  C.  A.  Lindsley,  and  he  con- 
tinued to  develop  this  branch  of  the  business 
and  also  to  become  connected  with  other  enter- 
]5rises.  With  his  brother  he  became  interested 
in  the  l'~ssex  County  Electric  Company,  of 
which  he  was  the  secretary.  He  also  assisted 
in  organizing  and  since  that  event,  in  1893,  has 
been  a  director  in  the  Second  National  Bank 
of  Orange.  In  politics  Mr.  Lindsley  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  for  three  years,  from  1896  to 
1899,  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  school 
commissioners  of  Orange,  arid  in  1907  and 
1908  a  nienihcr  of  the  city  council  of  East 
()rangc.  Mr.  Lindsley  in  religious  matters 
adheres  to  the  church  of  his  ancestors,  but  he 
is  in  sympathy  with  the  more  advanced  and 
liberal  ideas  of  modern  Presbyterians.  He 
has  been  for  many  years  an  elder  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Orange  of  which  he  is 
a  trustee  and  the  treasurer.  He  is  an  earnest 
supporter  of  the  work  of  the  church,  has  been  a 
teacher  in  the  Sunday  school,  and  is  clerk  of 
the  session. 

Charles  Alfred  Lindsley  married,  January 
16,  1894,  Emily,  daughter  of  Frank  Decker. 
of  Rochester,  New  York,  a  descendant  of  one 
of  the  earliest  of  the  old  Dutch  settlers  of  New 
Netherland.  She  was  born  in  Rochester,  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1866.  Her  sisters  are:  Frances, 
married  ( leorge  Sabie,  and  has  one  daughter, 
Kathryn,  and  Lulu,  married  Harry  Phillips, 
and  has  one  daughter,  Marian.  Children  of 
Charles  Alfred  and  Emily  (Decker)  Lindsley 
are:  i.  Eldredge  Decker,  born  January  2,  1893. 
2.  lileanor.  September  6,  1897.  3.  Laurence 
.Alfred,  |ulv  2.  1000. 


lames  Ivightmire,  the  hrst 
RIGHTMIRE  member  of  the  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, conies  of  an  old  and  honored 
family  of  New  Jersey,  and  according  to  tradi- 
tion his  grandfather  was  in  1713  sheriff  of 
Middlesex  or  Somerset  county.  He  may  have 
been  a  brother  of  the  Jacob  Richtmyer,  of 
Middlesex  county,  who  married  Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth  \^an  Voorhees 
and  granddaughter  of  Jan  Janse  Van  Voor- 
hees and  Neeltje  Nevius.  James  Rightmire 
was  born  in  1770,  and  died  March  7,  1829,  his 
will  being  proved  the  following  year.  For 
many  years  he  was  school  teacher  at  Deans, 
Middlesex  county.  New  Jersey.  He  married 
Sarah,  born  Xovcniber  25.  1779,  and  died  1843, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Mary  Van  Pelt.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Jacob  \'an  Pelt,  referred  to  below. 
2.   Aaron,  died   1872.     3.   George,  died   1872. 


4.  Wanchie,  married  a  Mr.  Ayres.  5.  Cath- 
arine, married  a  Mr.  Wilson.  6.  Maria,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Schenck.  7.  Sarah,  married  Voor- 
hees .Suydam. 

(II)  Jacob  \  an  I^elt,  son  of  James  and 
Sarah  (Van  Pelt)  Rightmire,  was  born  at 
Deans,  New  Jersey,  March  5,  1800,  and  died 
there  September  8,  1880.  He  was  baptized 
March  25,  1800,  in  the  Franklin  Park  Dutch 
Reformed  Church.  He  was  owner  of  a  boat 
that  ran  between  Albany  and  New  York  in 
1824;  after  having  an  accident  which  disabled 
his  right  arm,  he  discontinued  that  business, 
after  which  he  conducted  a  general  store  at 
Deans  over  forty  years.  He  married  Isabella, 
daughter  of  John  and  Isabella  (Izesbister) 
Franks,  who  was  born  February  18,  1803,  and 
died  December  11,  1864.  Children:  I.  Maria, 
born  June  21,  1826;  died  February  18,  1909; 
married  William  \'an  Derveer.  2.  James,  born 
.August  30,  1827;  married  Mary  Tompson.  3. 
TlKjnias  F..  born  March  5,  1829;  died  May  14, 
ii)n8:  married  Elizabeth  Post.  4.  Margaret, 
born  November  21,  1830;  living  1909;  married 
Peter  (iarritson.  5.  Jacob,  born  March  26, 
1833;  died  December  30,  1899;  married  Ada- 
line  Stults.  6.  Sarah  Ann,  born  March  i, 
1835  ;  died  February  25,  1905  ;  married  Samuel 
Franklin.  7.  John  T.,  born  April  24,  1836: 
living  1909:  married  (first)  Jane  Ann  Hough- 
ton ;  ( second )  Mary  Louisa  Helwright.  8. 
Aaron,  born  January  9,  1839:  died  November 
30,  1865:  unmarried.  9.  Isaac,  born  August 
24.  1840;  died  March  25,  1873;  unmarried. 
10.  X'oorhees  Suydam,  referred  to  below.  11. 
William  IL,  born  May  19,  1845;  died  Janu- 
ary (■>.  1904;  married  Lydia  Vanskiver.  12. 
Abraham  H.,  born  November  13,  1848;  died 
.\'<ivember  20,  1873;  married  Sophia  M.  Nye. 

(HI)  Voorhees  Suydam,  son  of  Jacob  Van 
Pelt  and  Isabella  (Franks  )  Rightmire.  was  born 
at  Deans,  New  Jersey,  June  25,  1843,  ^nd  for 
many  years  conducted  a  general  country  store 
in  Deans,  where  he  is  now  (1909)  living  retired. 
1  le  married  Mary  Louisa,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Dean  and  Mary  Scott  (Dey)  Britton  (see  Brit- 
ton).  Children:  I.  Estel  Dean,  referred  to 
below.  Willena  Vanderveer,  born  April  14, 
1872;  living  in  Deans,  New  Jersey.  3.  Frank- 
lin, born  January  19,  1874:  a  dentist,  in  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey.  4.  Voorhees  Alvin,  referred 
to  below.     5.  Alary  Britton,  January  14,  1878. 

(IV)  Estel  Dean,  son  of  Voorhees  Suydam 
and  Mary  Louisa  (Britton)  Rightmire,  was 
born  in  Deans,  New  Jersey,  April  14,  1870,  and 
is  now  living  at  .Atlantic  City.  He  received 
his  early   education   at   the  public   schools   of 


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Deans,  Middlesex  couiUy,  New  Jersey,  and 
then  entered  the  preparatory  school  for  Rut- 
gers College,  at  New  Brunswick,  and  after 
fniishing  his  course  there  he  studied  privately 
along  scientific  lines.  He  started  in  to  work 
with  Josiah  Tice,  city  engineer  of  New  Bruns- 
wick, February,  1888,  and  remained  with  him 
tor  five  years,  when  he  became  connected  with 
the  Johnson  Railroad  .Signal  Company,  of 
Rahway,  New  Jersey,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  eighteen  months.'  In  1894  he  opened  an 
office  as  civil  engineer  at  Mount  Holly,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  and  in  the  fall  of 
1895  started  another  office  in  .^.tlantic  City.  In 
1903  he  was  ajipointed  county  engineer  for 
Atlantic  county,  and  in  April,  1903.  he  was 
chosen  as  city  engineer  of  X'entnor  City,  .At- 
lantic county.  New  Jersey.  In  1904  he  received 
the  appointment  of  city  engineer  for  .A-bsecon, 
and  in  1907  he  was  chosen  as  city  engineer  of 
Somers  I'oint ;  these  three  last  mentioned  posi- 
tions he  still  holds.  In  1908  he  was  appointed 
borough  engineer  of  Linwood.  New  Jersey, 
and  in  January,  190;,  the  city  council  of  .At- 
lantic City  gave  him  the  appointment  of  cit\ 
engineer  of  that  municipality,  and  lastly,  in 
May,  1909,  he  received  the  appointment  of 
special  engineer  of  Margate  City,  New  Jersey. 
From  1903  to  1909  he  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  education  for  Ventnor  City,  being 
chosen  as  secretary  of  the  board ;  but  this  posi- 
tion he  was  obliged  to  resign  owing  to  the 
jiressure  of  his  other  responsibilities  and  duties. 
In  January,  190",  in  order  to  fill  a  vacancy,  he 
was  appointed  tax  collector  of  \'entnor  City. 
This  record  shows  a  most  unprecedented  list 
of  positions  held  by  so  young  a  man  in  his  pro- 
fession, and  this  simi)le  enumeration  speaks 
more  than  any  words  can  do  as  to  Mr.  Right- 
niire's  cajjacities  and  energies.  He  is  a  mein- 
ber  of  the  .American  Society  of  Civil  Engi- 
neers, the  Order  of  Junior  American  Me- 
chanics, Masonic  Lodge,  and  of  the  Ventnor 
.Motor  F'oat  Club.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  in  religious  conviction  a  Presby- 
terian. January  I,  1903,  Mr.  Rightmire  mar- 
ried Hattie  Fstelle,  daughter  of  Robert  W. 
Reid,  of  New  York,  who  was  born  .August  31. 
1878,  and  whose  parents  now  live  at  Long 
IJranch,  New  Jersey. 

(TV)  Voorhees  Alvin.  son  of  Voorhees 
Suydam  and  Mary  Louisa  (Britton)  Right- 
mire, was  born  at  Deans,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 23,  1875,  and  is  now  living  at  105 
Halsey  street,  Newark,  New  Jersey.  For  his 
early  education  he  attended  the  public  schools 
at  Deans,  and  after  graduating  from  the  New 


lirunswick  high  school,  in  1894,  he  entered  the 
I'enn  College  of  Dental  Surgery,  from  which 
he  received  his  diploma  in  1905.  He  then  open- 
ed an  office  for  himself  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  since  that  time  lias  been  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  dentistry  at  the  address  above, 
winning  for  himself  by  his  pleasing  personality 
and  high  ability,  a  large  clientele.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Dental  .Asso- 
ciation, an<l  in  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 

(The    Bi-itton    I^ine). 

Nathaniel  Britton  was  of  English  origin, 
and  emigrated  to  this  country  previous  to  1660, 
when  he  bought  twenty-five  morgens  of  land 
in  I'^latlands,  Kings  county.  New  York.  It  is 
possible  that  he  may  have  been  the  son  of  the 
William  Britton  who  was  living  on  Long 
Island  in  1662,  or  he  may  have  been  the  son 
of  Daniel  Britton  of  .New  Amsterdam.  In 
1664  he  obtained  a  patent  for  a  tract  of  one 
hundred  and  forty-four  acres  on  the  southeast 
side  of  Staten  Island,  where  he  finally  settled 
and  set  up  a  tap-house.  April  27,  1671,  he  and 
.\Ir.  Still  well  were  chosen  to  lay  out  the  lots 
upon  the  lulls,  and  he  died  prior  to  April  10. 
1708.  when  letters  of  administration  on  his 
estate  were  granted.  He  married  Anna,  daugh- 
ter of  .Nicholas  Stillwell,  of  (iravesend.  Long 
Island,  who  w'as  born  in  1643.  Children  :  Will- 
iam, Nathaniel,  Sarah,  Rachel,  Joseph,  Re- 
becca, Benjamin,  Richard,  John,  .Abigail,  Dan- 
iel (referred  to  below),  Nicholas. 

(Ill  Captain  Daniel,  son  of  Nathaniel  and 
.\mia  (Stillwell)  Britton,  was  born  on  Staten 
Island,  about  1675,  and  died  in  Woodbridge, 
.New  Jersey,  April,  1733.  August  15,  1708, 
he  and  his  wife  joined  the  I'resbyterian  church 
in  Woodbridge;  March  13,  171C),  he  and  Sam- 
uel L^ennes,  Jr..  were  appointed  on  the  com- 
mittee to  build  a  courthouse  ;  the  following  year 
he  was  made  town  treasurer,  and  in  1827  he  was 
on  the  committee  appointed  to  investigate  the 

Somman's  claim.  He  married  Elizabeth , 

who  was  born  about  1684,  survived  her  hus- 
band, and  after  his  death  married  John  Murr- 
ney.  and  died  in  /April,  17(30.  Children:  Mary, 
Daniel  (referred  to  below).  Deliverance,  Will- 
iam,  Elizabeth,  Benjamin. 

(Ill)  Daniel  (2),  son  of  Daniel  (i)  and 
!'"lizabcth  I'ritton,  was  lx)rn  at  Woodbridge. 
about  1705,  and  died  there  in  1735  or  173ft. 
He  married  .Apphia  .  Children:  Nich- 
olas, referred  to  below;  Elizabeth. 

(  l\')  Nicholas,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  and  .Ap- 
|)hia  Britton,  died  in  ^7^^,.  He  lived  in  New 
Brunswick,    Middlesex    county,    .New    Jersey, 


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and  in  his  will  mentions  children :  Joseph, 
Isaac.  Nicholas.  .X'athaniel  (  referred  to  below). 
Mary.  Martha. 

(V)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Nicholas  Liritton, 
was  born  Jnne  20,  1768,  and  died  April  3, 
1837.  He  married  Ruth,  daughter  of  Aaron 
and  Gertrude  (\'liet)  Dean. 

(M)  Dean,  only  child  of  Nathaniel  and 
Ruth  (Dean)  Britton,  was  born  October  3 
1795.  and  died  June.  1870.  He  married  Mary 
Scott,  daughter  of  John  Wetherell  and  Cath- 
erine (Rue)  Dey.  "Children:  Ruth,  .\aron. 
|ohn,  Nathaniel,  Catherine  L..  Mary  Eouise. 
referred  to  below. 

(MI)  Mary  Louise,  daughter  of  Colonel 
Dean  and  Mary  Scott  (Dey)  Britton,  was  born 
February  17,  1847,  and  married  \'oorhees  Suy- 
dam,  son  of  Jacob  \an  Felt  and  Isabella 
(  Franks)  Rightmire. 


loseph  .\ugustine  Brady,  jiresi- 
1!R.\I)^■  dent  of  the  Board  Walk  National 
Bank,  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey, 
is  of  Irish  de.scent.  His  father.  Thomas  Brady, 
son  of  Patrick  Brady,  was  born  in  county  Caven. 
Ireland,  in  1827.  He  came  to  America  in  1850. 
and  settled  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  in 
1854.  This  was  almost  the  very  beginning  of 
things  at  that  now  popular  resort.  Mr.  Brady 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder  and  followed  his 
trade  after  coming  to  Atlantic  City.  He  erect- 
ed many  of  the  earlier  public  and  private  build- 
ings of  the  city  and  became  possessed  of  a 
goodly  competence.  He  established  the  well 
known  "' Brady's  Baths"  along  the  Board  Walk, 
a  business  that  proved  very  profitable.  They 
are  still  popular  with  the  bathers.  Thomas 
lirady  married  Marie  Dellahay.  born  in  Ireland, 
daughter  of  Sylvester  and  Alargaret  Dellahay. 
The  children  of  Thomas  and  Marie  Brady  are  : 
I.  Thomas  B.,  born  December  26,  1859;  mar- 
ried Emma  Daly,  and  has  a  son,  Thomas  Brady, 
Jr.,  a  carpenter  and  builder  of  Atlantic  City.  2. 
Robert,  September  11,  1861;  unmarried.  3. 
Joseph  A.,  see  forward.  4.  Ellen,  married 
William  Shea,  of  Wilmington,  Delaware.  5. 
Marie,  married  Charles  Manning,  a  surveyor 
of  Pittsburgh.  Pennsylvania,  and  has  Charles 
Helen,  Alarie  and  Ellen  Manning. 

Joseph  Augustine,  third  son  of  Thomas  and 
Marie  Brady,  was  born  at  Atlantic  City,  New- 
Jersey,  March  28,  1865.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  his  native  city.  On 
leaving  school  he  at  once  began  the  active  and 
busy  life  that  has  never  ceased,  and  has  brought 
him  well  deserved  and  abundant  success.    Dur- 


ing the  winters  he  worked  w'ith  his  father  on 
the  construction  of  buildings  and  such  other 
work  as  was  available.  In  the  summer  the  ever 
])opular  bathing  business  claimed  their  closest 
attention.  "Brady's  Baths"  are  still  one  of  the 
Board  Walk's  popular  resorts.  In  1907  the 
Bciard  Walk  National  Bank  was  organized. 
Mr.  Brady  was  one  of  the  charter  members 
and  a  member  of  the  first  board  of  directors. 
This  is  one  of  Atlantic  City's  popular  and 
pro.sperous  financial  institutions,  with  a  capital 
of  S200.000  and  has  already  accumulated  a 
surplus  of  fifty  thousand.  In  1908  Mr.  Brady 
was  elected  president  of  the  bank,  the  position 
he  now  occupies,  and  he  is  interested  in  other 
lines  of  the  city's  activity.  He  is  a  communi- 
cant of  the  Catholic  church. 

He  married.  1888,  Margaret  Watson,  born 
.March  10,  1867,  daughter  of  Frank  and  Lydia 
Watson,  and  a  descendant  of  an  old  Philadel- 
phia family.  Children:  Ethel,  born  March 24. 
1889:  Margaret.  Tulv  4.  1890;  Svbilla.  April 
8.  1893-       "  " 

I  For  preceding  generations  see  John  McCarter  1). 

(IV)  Robert  Harris,  eldest 
-McC.ARTi^R  son  of  the  late  Thomas  Nes- 
bitt  and  Alary  Louise  (Hag- 
gerty)  AlcCarter,  was  born  at  Newton,  Sussex 
county.  New  Jersey,  April  28,  1859.  He  was 
graduated  from  Princeton  University  in  1879, 
and  from  the  Law  School  of  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, in  the  city  of  New  York,  in  1882.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  jersey  in  June, 
1882.  and  has  continuously  thereafter  practiced 
his  profession  in  that  state,  enjoying  a  general 
practice,  which  he  conducts  in  association  with 
Conover  English.  Esquire,  under  the  firm  name 
of  AlcCarter  &  English.  On  Alay  15,  1903. 
he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Alurphy  attor- 
ney general  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey,  and 
was  subsequently  reappointed  to  the  same  posi- 
tion by  Governor  Fort.  He  resigned  from  that 
office  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1908  on  account 
of  the  demands  of  his  personal  practice.  In 
June,  1904.  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  Princeton  University.  He  is  a 
man  of  the  highest  integrity,  greatly  respected 
in  the  community,  has  attained  a  high  standing 
in  the  profession  and  enjoys  a  merited  reputa- 
tion as  an  able  and  reliable  attorney. 

Air.  AlcCarter  married,  October  12,  1886, 
Alary  Bouvier  Peterson,  born  Alarch  25,  i860, 
daughter  of  R.  Evans  and  Ellen  (Deacon) 
Peterson,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  name- 
ly :  George  W.  Childs  and  Eleanor  J.  Mc- 
Carter. 


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(For  pret-edins  generations  see  John  McCarter  1). 

(IV)  Uzal  Haggcrtv,  sec- 
McCARTER  ond  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Thomas  Kesbitt  and  Alary 
Ft)uise  (Haggerty)  McCarter.  was  born  at 
Xewton.  New  Jersey,  July  5.  1861.  He  at- 
tended the  Newark  Academy,  Dr.  Pingry's 
school  at  Elizabeth,  and  graduated  at  Prince- 
ton University,  class  of  1882.  He  entered  the 
office  of  Kidder,  Peabody  &  Company,  No.  i 
N'assau  street.  New  York  City,  July  i,  1882, 
remaining  for  a  period  of  five  years,  and  then 
accepted  a  position  with  the  Lombard  Invest- 
ment Com])any,  of  New  York,  remaining  for 
one  and  a  half  years.  On  March  18,  1889,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Fidelity  Trust  Com- 
pany, of  Newark,  in  the  capacity  of  executive 
manager,  later  became  secretary  and  treasurer, 
then  trust  officer,  and  in  1904  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  company.  These  successive  elec- 
tions testify  to  the  executive  ability  displayed 
by  Mr.  McCarter  in  the  management  of  affairs, 
and  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  the 
members  of  the  com])any.  In  addition  to  the 
presidency  of  the  above  named  company,  he  is 
serving  as  director  and  chairman  of  the  finance 
committee  of  the  Prudential  Life  Insurance 
Company  ;  director  and  one  of  the  vice-presi- 
dents of  the  L'nion  National  Bank,  of  Newark  ; 
director  of  the  L'nion  Trust  Company,  of  Eliz- 
abeth :  director  of  the  Essex  Countv  Trust 
Company,  of  East  Orange;  director  of  the 
New  Brunswick  Trust  Company,  of  New 
Brunswick ;  director  in  the  Public  Service  Cor- 
l)oration  of  New  Jersey  and  its  subsidiary 
companies.  He  is  a  member  of  the  North  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Church,  of  Newark.  He 
is  a  Re])ublican  in  politics,  and  was  an  elector- 
at-large  to  the  national  Republican  convention 
in  1904  that  nominated  Theodore  Roosevelt 
for  the  Presidency  of  the  L'nited  States.  Mr. 
.McCarter  is  a  member  of  the  L'niversity  Club. 
of  New  York  City;  Princeton  Club,  of  New 
^  ork  City;  New  York  Yacht  Club;  Esse.\ 
(  lub,  of  Newark ;  Essex  County  Country  Club, 
of  West  ( )range.  and  the  Kumson  Countr\ 
<  lub. 

.Mr.  McCarter  married.  January  .^o,  1889, 
jane  .Meeker  Lewis,  of  Newark.  <lauglUei 
of  William  ( i.  and  Eliza  ( (jarthwaite  )  Lewis, 
the  former  of  whom  was  a  leading  clothing 
manufacturer  of  Newark  during  the  period 
of  the  civil  war.  lately  retired  from  activt- 
l)ursuits.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCarter  have  one 
child.  Isabella  Lewis,  born  |;iiniar\  11. 
|8(M. 


(  For  preceding-  generations  see  Thoni.asTrenohard  1). 

(N)  Thomas  \\  hittaker, 
TRENCH. \RI)  only  child  of  Hon.  William 
Barrett  and  Anna  Mariah 
( Golden  )  Trenchard,  was  born  at  Centreton, 
Salem  county,  New  Jersey.  December  13,  1863, 
and  is  now  living  at  Bridgeton.  For  his  early 
education  he  went  to  the  public  schools  of 
Bridgeton  and  the  South  Jersey  Institute,  grad- 
uating from  the  latter  in  1882.  He  then  enter- 
ed the  office  of  Potter  &  Nixon,  at  Bridgeton, 
where  he  took  up  the  study  of  law,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in 
1886,  and  as  counsellor  in  1893.  From  the 
time  of  his  atlmission  to  the  bar  he  was  actively 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Bridgeton.  In  i88g  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  general  assembly  of  New 
jersey.  From  1892  to  1899  he  served  as  the 
city  solicitor  for  Bridgeton,  and  for  many  years 
was  the  attorney  for  the  Iiridgeton  board  of 
health.  In  1899  he  was  appointed  county  judge 
of  Cumberland  county  by  (lovernor  Voorhees, 
and  in  1904  was  reappointed  by  Governor  Mur- 
phy. In  1896  he  was  elected  by  New  Jersey  as 
one  of  the  presidential  electors  of  the  McKinley 
and  Hobart  ticket.  June  8,  1906,  Governor 
Stokes  t)f  New  Jersey  appointed  him  as  justice 
of  the  New  jersey  supreme  court  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  judge  Dixon. 
r)n  January  15,  1907,  he  was  reappointed  for  a 
full  term.  His  term  expires  in  1914  and  his 
circuit  comprises  the  counties  of  Atlantic,  Cape 
May,  Cumberland  and  Saletn.  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Cumberland  County  Bar 
Association,  and  served  as  its  first  president. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  Revolution. 

The  Hon.  Thomas  Whittaker  Trenchard 
married,  in  1891,  Harriet,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
j.  K.  Manning,  D.  D.,  and  Ik-ulah  (Young) 
Manning,  of  Trenton.  Her  father  is  a  l>a])tist 
clergyman  and  her  mother  came  from  Hiuiter- 
(Ion  coiuitv.  New  Jersey. 


Stephen  Smith,  superintendent  of 
.S.MITH     the  Masonic  Home  and  Orphan- 
age at  Burlington.  New  Jersey,  is 
a  descenilant  of  one  of  the  old  colonial  families 
of  Orange  county.  New  York,  where  his  an- 
cestors lived  for  generations. 

(I)  Henry  Smith,  who  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, emigrated  to  this  country  in  1743.  and 
settled  in  Goshen,  Orange  county.  New  York, 
where  he  bought  a  large  tract  of  land  and  built 
a  home  for  himself  and  his  family,  on  which 
he   lived   until   he   died,   and    which   has   come 


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STATE    OF    NE\\"    lERSEY. 


(kiwii  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants  until 
to-day.  Children :  Stephen,  Caleb,  referred 
to  below  ;  Abigail.  Phoebe,  Joanna,  Elizabeth. 
Hannah. 

(II)  Caleb,  second  son  of  Henry  Smith,  of 
England  and  Goshen,  New  York,  inherited  the 
homestead  from  his  father  at  the  latter's  death, 
and  by  purchasing  adjoining  lands  added  con- 
siderable to  the  plantation.  His  children  were: 
Henry  C,  Stephen,  referred  to  below ;  Caleb. 
John,  Joshua,  Abigail. 

(III)  Stephen,  second  son  of  Caleb  Smith, 
of  Goshen,  New  York,  inherited  the  homestead 
iin  which  he  lived  and  died.  Children:  Eliz- 
;ibeth,  .\bigail,  Benjamin  C.  Stephen,  Joseph 
Reeves,  referred  to  below ;  John  A. 

(IV)  Joseph  Reeves,  son  of  Stephen  Smith, 
of  Goshen.  New  York,  spent  his  jouth  on  the 
old  homestead  farm  which  his  father  had  in- 
herited, and  obtained  his  education  in  the  coun- 
ty schools.  He  then  left  the  old  homestead 
and  learned  the  trade  of  blacksmithing,  but 
afterwards  gave  this  up  in  order  to  become  a 
farmer.  I'ntil  1848  he  rented  different  farms, 
but  in  the  latter  year  removed  to  Port  Jervis, 
Sew  York,  where  he  carried  on  a  general  ex- 
press, trucking  and  teaming  business  until  a 
few  years  before  his  death,  w'hen  he  retired. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
and  in  politics  was  a  Whig,  later  a  Republican. 
He  married  Emmeline,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Decker,  of  Deckerstown.  New  Jersey.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .\  child,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Charlotte, 
deceased.  3.  Elizabeth,  living  in  Centralia. 
Illinois.  4.  Benjamin  Franklin,  deceased.  5. 
Eavina,  deceased.  6.  Matilda,  living  in  Otis- 
ville.  New  York.  7.  Charles  Reeves,  living  in 
Middletown.  New  York.  8.  Stephen,  referred 
to  below.  9.  Annette,  or  Antonette.  deceased. 
10.  James  Egbert,  deceased.  11.  Jane  A.,  de- 
ceased. 12.  Horace  Stewart,  deceased.  13. 
Josephine,  deceased.     14.  .-\lva,  deceased. 

(V)  Stephen  (2).  eighth  child  and  third  son 
of  Joseph  Reeves  and  Emmeline  (Decker) 
-Smith,  was  born  near  Deckerstown,  New  Jer- 
sey, November  15,  1840.  He  was  educated  in 
the  country  schools  and  at  Port  Jervis,  New 
\  ork.  and  began  life  as  a  wage-earner  in  a 
|)rinting  office,  while  he  was  still  cjuite  young. 
At  the  age  of  fifteen  years  he  became  a  train 
boy  on  the  Erie  railroad,  remaining  with  that 
corporation  for  ten  years,  and  passing  through 
all  of  the  grades  of  promotion  up  to  train 
dispatcher.  He  was  successively,  fireman, 
yard-master,  assistant  conductor,  conductor 
and  train  dispatcher.  In  1865  he  crossed  the 
great  American  desert  with  ox  teams,  going  as 


far  as  Nevada,  but  he  did  not  long  remain  in 
the  far  west,  and  soon  returned  as  far  east  as 
Illinois,  where  he  found  employment  with  the 
Terre  Haute  Railroad  Company.  In  1870  he 
returned  to  the  employ  of  the  Erie  railroad  as 
conductor  and  later  became  superintendent  of 
the  New  York  and  Greenwood  Lake  branch. 
He  then  accepted  a  position  as  conductor  with 
the  New  ^'ork,  New  Haven  and  Hartford 
railroad,  and  being  promoted  later  to  the  posi- 
tion of  agent  remained  with  the  last  mentioned 
coni])any  until  1898,  when  he  resigned  in  order 
to  liecome  superintendent  of  the  newly  com- 
l)leted  Masonic  Home  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
.Mr.  Smith  was  the  first  and  is  the  present 
■-uperintendent  of  the  Home,  and  during  his 
incumbency  it  has  been  enlarged  and  an  orphan- 
age built  in  addition  in  1903.  In  rgligious 
belief  Mr.  Smith  is  a  Presbyterian,  and  in 
politics  a  Republican.  His  fraternal  relations 
are  in  the  ]\Iasonic  Order.  He  is  a  Scottish 
Rite  Mason  of  the  thirty-third  degree,  belong- 
ing to  the  Jersey  City  Consistory,  Northern 
Jurisdiction  of  the  United  States.  He  is  a 
.Master  ^lason  of  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  32, 
I'rec  and  .\cce];)ted  Masons,  of  New  Jersey; 
a  Royal  .\rch  Mason  of  Boudinot  Chapter, 
No.  3,  and  a  Knight  Templar  of  Helena  Com- 
mandery.  No.  3,  all  of  Burlington,  New  Jer- 
■^ey.  In  1869  Air.  Smith  married  Fannie  M.. 
daughter  of  John  ].  Paris,  of  Bath,  New  York. 


Borton  was  a  common  name  in 
r.(  )1\T(  )N  England.  Ireland  and  Scotland. 
in  early  times,  and  sometimes 
s])elled  I'.arton.  Several  I'artons  from  Mon- 
mouth. Hunterdon  and  Sussex  counties  fought 
in  the  revolution.  The  family  here  described. 
h()wever,  were  not  in  favor  of  warfare,  as  they 
were  followers  of  George  Fox,  and  the  name 
of  Borton  occurs  often  in  the  records  of  the 
h'riends'  monthly  meetings. 

(1)  John  Borton,  with  his  wife  .Ann,  who 
lived  at  Hillsdown,  along  the  Northampton 
rive!-,  in  liurlington  county,  New  Jersey,  for- 
merly from  Parish  Aynhoe.  Northampton- 
shire, England,  brought  with  them  to  the 
monthly  meeting  a  certificate  from  the  monthly 
meeting  of  P.urton,  in  Oxfordshire,  dated  the 
third  month,  fifth  day,  old  style,  1679,  the 
same  signed  by  a  number  of  persons  attesting 
to  their  character  and  standing.  The  certifi- 
cate stated  that  the  signers  "have  known  ye  sd 
John  and  .\nn  Borton  these  many  years,  and 
that  they  have  walked  honestly  among  us,  living 
in  the  fear  of  God,  and  in  obedience  to  the 
blessed  truth  re\ealed  in  this  our  dav,  and  have 


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been  of  a  good  savour  to  friends  and  to  their 
neighbors  in  ye  village  where  they  dwell." 
John  Uorton  died  at  Hillsdown  in  1687,  his 
will  was  dated  fifth  month,  and  proved  in  the 
eleventh  month  of  the  same  year,  and  in  the 
docimient  he  names  his  sons  John  and  Will- 
iam, and  six  daughters,  but  does  not  name  the 
latter.  His  children  were :  William,  Ann, 
l''lizabeth,  Esther,  Mary,  John  and  two  other 
(laughters. 

(II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Ann 
15{)rton,  was  probably  born  in  Burlington  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  and  was  three  times  married, 
the  name  of  his  first  wife  being  unknown  ;  he 
married  ( sec(3nd )  Ann  Darnell,  and  (third) 
Mary  Hillbourn.  By  his  first  wife  he  had 
f(uir  children:  John,  William.  ( )badiah  and 
Hannah. 

(III)  (  fbadiah.  son  of  John  (2)  Borton, 
married  (  first )  Susannah,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Silence  (  Bunting)  Butcher,  by  whom  he 
had  four  children,  namely :  Silence,  Mary, 
Solomon  and  Samuel.  He  married  (second) 
.Mary  Driver,  by  whom  he  had  children  as 
fnllows:  Jane,  Joseph.  T'liebe,  Jnhn,  Benjamin 
and  Job. 

(IV)  John  (3),  .son  of  Obadiah  and  Mary 
I.  Driver  )  Borton,  was  born  September  16,  1755. 
lie  married,  in  1776,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Hannah  Haines.  Children:  ]\Iary, 

born  March  ii,  1777  ;  John,  see  forward  ;  Han- 
nah. December  12,  1779:  Rebecca,  December 
25.  1781  :  Edward,  July  25,  1783;  Esther,  Janu- 
ary 31,  1785:  .Abraham.  C)ctober  11,  1786; 
David.  February  28,  1788;  Aljigail,  September 
10,  1789;  Asa,  April  10,  1791  ;  Jacob,  October 
20,  1792:  Thomas,  .April  21,  1794;  Elizabeth, 
January  25,  1798. 

(\')  John  (4).  son  of  John  (3)  and  Han- 
nah (Haines)  Borton.  was  born  August  31. 
[778.  He  married  Jemima,  daughter  of  Reho- 
bnam  and  Jemima  (Darnell)  Braddock.  ChiB 
dreii :  Barzillia.  died  single;  John;  Jemima, 
marriul  (first)  Jacob  Ballinger,  and  (second) 
David  Walton;  Esther,  married  William 
(.jlover  ;  Pemberton.  married  .Anna  \\  right : 
C'aroline,  married  David  Davis. 

(  \'I  )  John  (5),  eldest  son  of  John  (  4  )  and 
Jemima  (Braddock)  Borton,  was  Ixirn  in 
[•".versham  township,  Burlington  county.  .\'ew 
Jersey,  December  12.  1805;  died  in  1866.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  storekeeper.  He  married 
(first)  Keturah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Han- 
nah (Maxwell)  Haines:  (second)  Martha 
Woolman :  (third)  Sarah  (Buzby)  Warner, 
a  widow.     Children  :     Joseph  Haines,  see  for- 


ward ;  (ieorge  Buzby,  born  Ma\  7.  1830.  lives 
at  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 

(\"II)  Joseph  Haines,  son  of  John  (5)  and 
Keturah  (Haines)  Borton,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 27,,  1827,  at  Eversham  township,  Burling- 
ton county.  New  Jersey.  He  ceceived  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools,  su])plement  by  in- 
struction at  the  Friends'  West  Town  Boarding 
School.  He  then  spent  some  time  in  his  father's 
store  and  later  learned  the  trade  of  brick- 
mason,  but  his  health  failing  he  purchased  a 
farm  in  his  native  township  and  lived  on  it 
for  some  time.  In  1867  Mr.  Borton  disposed 
of  his  farm  and  removed  to  .\tlantic  City, 
where  he  purchased  prt)perty  of  William  Den- 
nis, of  Burlington,  and  upon  it  built  the  cele- 
brated 'Hotel  Dennis,"  which  he  conducted 
with  great  success  until  1900  and  then  sold  it 
to  Walter  J.  Buzby.  Mr.  Borton  was  for  a 
number  of  years  a  member  of  the  city  council 
of  Atlantic  City,  for  several  years  a  freeholder 
of  Atlantic  count}-,  antl  while  holding  the  latter 
ofifice  used  his  eiiforts  and  influence  in  favor  of 
the  building  of  an  insane  asylum  for  Atlantic 
county ;  m  connection  with  John  Erwing  and 
others  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  instituting 
and  building  the  institution  which  now  is  a 
matter  of  pride  to  all  residents  of  the  county. 
Previous  to  this  time  the  insane  patients  had 
been  boarded  out  by  the  county.  Mr.  Borton 
is  first  vice-president  of  the  Atlantic  City  Na- 
tional Bank,  one  of  .Atlantic  City's  most  solid 
financial  institutions.  He  is  a  public-spirited 
and  useful  citizen,  taking  great  interest  and 
pride  in  the  development  and  progress  of  the 
city  of  his  residence.  In  political  opinions  he 
is  independent,  and  is  a  devout  Friend  in  relig- 
ion. He  is  affiliated  with  tlie  .\ncient  Free  and 
.Accepted  Alasons,  being  a  member  of  Trinity 
Lodge,  No.  79.  of  .Atlantic  City,  also  of  Trin- 
ity Chapter.  No.  38,  Royal  .Arch  Masons. 

.Mr.  I'lorton  married,  February  15,  1855, 
lleurietta.  daughter  of  David  and  Deborah 
llaines.  born  February  2/.  1832:  died  April 
17.  1907;  they  became  parents  of  one  chUd, 
Josephine  Haines,  born  February  20,  1858. 
who  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  Alarvel,  No- 
vember 14,  1895.  They  have  no  children.  Jo- 
>e])h  .Marvel  came  to  .\tlantic  City  from  Dela- 
ware, and  is  nc>w  a  hotel-keeper  at  Lake 
( leorge.  New  ^'ork. 


This    is    an    old    English    name 

ANtiF.LL     which  was  early  established  in 

.America  iu  the  colony  of  Provi- 

lencc  plantations,  lunv  a  part  of  the  state  of 


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Rhode  Islaiul.  It  has  taken  an  active  [)art  in 
the  development  of  that  state  and  of  New  York 
and  New  Jersey. 

(I)  Thomas  Angell  was  born  about  1618,  in 
England ;  died  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  in 
September,  1694.  Tradition  states  that  he  was 
a  son  of  Henry  Angell,  born  at  Liverpool,  and 
went  to  London  when  twelve  years  old.  In 
1631  Thomas  Angell  joined  Roger  Williams 
and  others  and  sailed  on  the  ship  "Lion,"  Cap- 
tain .\.  Pierce,  master,  and  came  to  America 
as  an  apprentice  of  Williams,  being  then  thir- 
teen years  of  age.  He  was  at  Salem  from 
1631  to  1636,  and  in  the  spring  of  the  latter 
year  went  with  Williams'  company  to  Provi- 
dence, where  he  continued  to  reside.  He  was  a 
resident  of  Providence  and  in  1638  was  one 
i>f  the  thirteen  signers  of  the  original  form  of 
government  there.  He  received  a  deed  of  a 
six-acre  houselot,  now  occupied  by  the  First 
liaptist  Church,  the  high  school  and  Angell 
street  in  Providence.  In  1652  he  was  one  of 
a  committee  of  six  to  make  laws  for  the  colony 
and  was  re-elected  in  1653.  He  was  a  constable, 
designated  as  a  farmer  in  1655,  and  was  many 
years  a  sergeant  of  the  local  militia  company. 
His  will  was  made  May  3,  1685,  proved  Sep- 
tember 18,  1694.  He  probably  died  in  the 
last  named  year.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  naine 
was  Alice  Ashton,  died  December  24,  1694; 
she  was  a  daughter  of  James  and  Alice  Ashton, 
of  Herts,  England.  In  his  will  he  gave  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres  of  land  to  his  son  John 
and  a  house  and  lands  to  another  son  James, 
and  to  each  of  iiis  five  daughters  four  hundred 
shillings  in  money.  Besides  this  he  left  a  large 
per.sonal  property.  His  widow  made  her  will 
October  2,  1694,  and  this  was  proved  in  Janu- 
ary, 1695.  It  names  daughters  Alice.  Margerw 
Mary  and  .\m])hillis. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Thomas  and  Alice  (Ash- 
ton) Angell,  was  born  in  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  where  he  died  July  27,  1720.  He  was 
made  a  freeman  of  the  province,  October  16, 
1670,  and  engaged  in  the  cultivation  of  Daniel 
Jenckes  farm,  which  is  now  the  asylum  farm 
of  North  Providence,  then  included  in  the 
original  town  of  I^rovidence.  He  was  a  large 
man,  noted  for  his  strength.  He  married,  in 
1669,  Ruth,  daughter  of  John  Field,  of  Field's 
Point.  Children:  Thomas,  born  March  25, 
1672:  Mercy.  iC>75  ;  J<ihn.  .Ma\'  2,  iTiSo:  Hojie. 
1682:  James,  1684. 

(Ill  )  Hope,  son  of  John  and  Ruth  (  Field) 
Angell.  was  born  1682:  died  February  11,  1759, 
in  Providence.  Rhode  Island,  where  he  resided, 
fie  wris  made  a  freeman  of  the  colnnv.  Mav  (). 


1712,  and  often  served  on  committees  and  in 
official  stations.  He  married.  May  22,  1712, 
1  -ydia,  born  .\.pril  30,  1688,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Lydia  (Barnes)  Olney.  Children:  Abiah  ; 
Oliver.  March  3,  1717;  Lydia,  1718;  Elisha ; 
Thnmas;  James,  1731  ;  Mary. 

(I\')  Oliver,  son  of  Hope  and  Lydia 
(Olney)  Angell,  was  born  March  3,  1717,  in 
I'rovidence,  Rhode  Island,  and  died  there  April 
I.  1799,  o.  s.  He  owned  and  tilled  what  is  now 
the  asylum  farm,  which  he  made  productive, 
though  it  was  rough  and  stony  in  character. 
He  had  a  shop  and  many  tools  and  his  sons 
were  trained  in  their  use.  He  married,  June 
13,  1739,  Naomi,  born  October  28,  1719;  died 
December  3,  1799,  daughter  of  Israel  and  Eliz- 
abeth Smith.  She  was  a  teacher  in  early  life 
and  her  sons  received  a  superior  education  for 
the  time,  through  her  aid.  She  is  described  as 
a  small  person  with  black  eyes  and  a  strong 
and  forceful  character.  Children :  Israel, 
born  .August  24.  1740:  Hope,  March  28,  1742; 
Ruth,  1746;  Jason,  October  7,  1748;  Naomi, 
December  27,  1755:  Elisha,  February  22,  1757. 

(  \' )  Israel,  eldest  child  of  Oliver  and  Naomi 
(  Smith  )  .Angell,  was  born  x\ugust  24,  1740,  in 
North  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  died 
May  4,  1832,  in  Johnston,  Rhode  Island,  where 
he  was  a  conspicuous  and  active  citizen.  In 
1775  he  was  commissioned  major  of  colonial 
troops,  and  the  following  year  was  made  lieu- 
tenant colonel.  In  1777  he  was  in  command  of 
the  second  battalion  of  Washington's  army  in 
New  Jersey.  He  was  a  brave  and  successful 
I'fficer.  and  in  1780  defended  a  bridge  in  New 
jersey  with  one  hundred  and  seventy  men,  at 
-Springfield,  near  Elizabeth,  against  a  force  of 
fifteen  hundred  l!ritish.  He  held  the  position 
fiT  flirty  minutes,  covering  the  retreat  of 
triii)])s.  and  lost  forty  men,  or  nearly  one- 
fourth  of  his  command,  l-'or  this  action  he 
was  highly  com]jlimented  by  Washington  and 
he  received  two  gold  medals  for  his  services, 
one  from  General  Lafayette  and  the  other  from 
( ienera!  Washington.  One  of  his  descendants, 
.Malcom  Henry  Angell,  still  preserves  the 
Lafayette  medal.  .After  the  revolution  he  set- 
tled on  a  farm  in  Johnston.  Rhode  Island,  and 
in  his  old  age  received  a  pension  from  the  gov- 
ernment. The  muster  roll  of  his  command  is 
jironounced  to  be  the  finest  specimen  of  pen- 
manship now  in  the  national  pension  depart- 
ment. He  was  buried  in  a  private  cemetery  on 
his  farm  at  Johnston.  Rhode  Island.  He  mar- 
ried ( first )  his  second  cousin.  Martha,  daugh- 
ter of  .Stephen  .\ngell,  of  Johnston,  Ixjrn  Sep- 
tcmhiT  t3,   1747;  died  March   16.  1793.     Chil- 


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iliL-n  :  .Mary.  \)otu  June  17.  1766:  Elizabeth. 
April  27.  17O8;  Sarah.  October  17,  1769;  Asa, 
August  24.  1771;  Abner.  February  21,  1773; 
Israel,  Se])tember  12,  1773:  Martha.  August 
-,v  ^77') '•  -^ao'iii'  September  i.  1781  ;  Ruth, 
May  10.  1785:  Stephen.  July  4.  1787:  Oliver. 
December  1.  1790.  lie  married  (second)  Sus- 
anna Wight:  children:  Luther,  May  11.  1794: 
a  son,  February,  1797.  died  in  infancy;  Sus- 
anna. January  23.  1798:  Mehitable.  January  _v. 
1800:  Henry,  May  22.  1802;  Isaac.  January 
26,  1809.  He  married  (third)  Sarah  Angell. 
born  April  10,  1770,  who  died  August  10,  1830 
Colonel  Angell  died  in  his  ninety-second  year. 
He  was  planning  a  fourth  marriage  when  death 
overtook  him.  His  three  eldest  sons  settled 
in  Xew  Berlin,  New  York. 

(\T)  Asa,  eldest  son  of  Colonel  Israel  and 
Martha  (Angell)  Angell,  was  born  August  24, 
1 77 1,  in  Johnston,  Rhode  Island,  and  removed 
to  New  tierlin,  Chenango  county.  New  York, 
about  1794.  He  was  a  farmer  and  was  also 
a  cooper  by  trade,  being  the  first  of  that  trade 
to  settle  in  the  I'nidilla  X'alley.  He  was  a 
IJaptist  in  religion  and  an  Old  Line  Whig.  He 
married,  about  1793.  Cynthia  Hills,  of  Oxford, 
Massachusetts,  who  had  been  his  school  teacher 
before  he  removed  to  New  Herlin.  Children  : 
Dexter,  burn  February  15.  1794:  Betsy,  Sep- 
tember II),  1796;  Sally.  September  i.  I7(»: 
Adeline.  May  20.  1801  :  Lewis.  October  22. 
1803:  Henry  Hayes,  mentioned  below. 

(  \'1I )  Henry  Hayes,  youngest  child  of  Asa 
and  Cynthia  (Hills)  Angell.  was  born  Decem- 
ber 16.  1807,  in  New  Berlin.  New  York;  died 
there  June  15.  1869.  He  was  a  farmer,  in  relig- 
ion a  P)aptist  and  a  Republican  in  politics.  He 
married.  A])ril  7,  1830.  Mary  Ambrosia  Jef- 
fords, born  June  11.  180Q;  died  Feljruary  16. 
1879.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Alpheus  Jef- 
fords, who  was  born  February  5.  1774.  in  Ox- 
ford. Massachusetts,  a  son  of  John  and  Mary 
Jeffords.  Alpheus  Jeffords  married.  February 
3,  1808,  Betsy  Foote.  and  had  children:  Mary 
AiJibrtjsia.  .Alpheus  McDonough.  Laura  La- 
vonia.  Children  of  Henry  H.  Angell  and  wife : 
Horatio  Pratt,  born  April  8.  1831  :  Malcom 
Henry,  mentioned  below:  Ruth.  July  21.  1833: 
Mary  .Ambrosia,  September  6.  1837 :  James 
.Matteson.  November  26,  1840;  Fanny,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1842:  Sarah  Elizabeth.  June  23,  1843; 
Harriet,  July  30.  1848:  Asa  Hobart,  Jamiary 
II.  1833. 

(ATII)  Malcom  Henry,  second  son  of  Henry 
Hayes  and  Mary  .A.  (Jeffords)  .Angell,  was 
born  January  26.  1833.  in  New  Berlin,  New 
N'ork,    and    graduated    from    the    academv    of 


ihat  tiiun  at  the  age  uf  >i.\teen  \ear>.  He  was 
subsecjuently  a  student  in  the  private  school  of 
D.  G.  Barber,  and  began  his  business  life  as  a 
clerk  in  a  grocery  store.  He  subsequently  ac- 
cepted a  position  as  bookkeeper  for  the  Lacka- 
wanna and  Bloomsburgh  Railroad  Company, 
which  position  he  tilled  for  three  years.  He 
then  took  a  similar  jxisition  with  the  Columbia 
Rolling  Mills,  of  Columbia.  Lancaster  county. 
Pennsylvania,  and  at  the  same  time  had  charge 
cif  the  books  and  constructi(.in  of  the  Reading 
and  Columbia  railroad.  Vvr  some  years  he 
was  engaged  in  the  ])ig  iron  business  at  Pitts- 
burg, having  sold  the  Fort  Pitt  Iron  Company 
of  that  city  a  portion  of  the  metal  used  in  con- 
struction of  cannon  for  use  in  the  civil  war. 
For  two  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  old  busi- 
ness, and  in  1867  was  secretary  of  an  associa- 
tioTi  formed  by  twenty  railroad  men,  known  as 
the  International  Railway  Construction  and 
Transportation  Company.  This  organization 
was  formed  for  the  ])urpi}se  of  building  the 
railwa\-  from  Bangor.  .Maine,  to  -St.  Jolm, 
.\ew  I'.runswick,  under  the  name  of  the  luiro- 
jiean  and  North  .American  Railroad  Company. 
Mr.  .Angell  was  made  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  organization,  and  on  the  completion  of 
the  railroad  in  1869  was  appointed  sujierin- 
teiident  of  the  road  and  continued  in  this  posi- 
tinu  until  1877,  and  for  a  period  following  that 
date  occupied  advisory  positions  with  various 
railroad  companies.  In  1879  he  went  to  Ne- 
vada in  the  interests  of  a  syndicate  that  had 
been  formed  for  the  construction  of  the  Ne- 
vada Central  railway  from  Battle  Mountain 
to  .Austin  City.  This  was  completed  in  1880 
and  he  returned  east  and  for  a  few  inonths 
resided  in  New  York  City.  In  August  1880. 
he  removed  to  Nova  Scotia.  In  the  spring  of 
1881,  on  the  death  of  the  superintendent  of 
the  Nova  Scotia  Coal  Comiiany.  which  had 
Dccurred  before  Mr.  .Angell  went  to  Nova 
Scotia,  he  was  given  full  charge  of  its  affairs 
and  remained  seven  years  in  Pictou  county,  in 
that  ])rovince.  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 
In  1888  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Brooklyn, 
.New  "N'ork.  and  thence  removed  to  Etna,  now 
Emerson,  New  Jersey,  in  1892.  He  is  now  re- 
tired from  active  business  pursuits.  He  is  an 
earnest  Rejniblican  in  politics,  and  for  fifteen 
years  has  served  as  justice  of  the  ]uace  for 
Bergen  county.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
.Masonic  Order,  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution, 
and  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Reformed  church,  of  Emerson, 
with  which  his  family  is  also  connected.  He 
married.   .March  9.    1838.  at   Wyoming.   Penn- 


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sylvania,  Maria  Elizabeth  Jenkins,  born  De- 
cember 28,  1832,  in  that  town,  eldest  child  of 
James  and  Elizabeth  (Breese)  Jenkins.  James 
Jenkins  was  a  merchant  and  the  founder  of 
Wyoming.  Pennsylvania.  Children  of  Mal- 
com  Angell  and  wife:  Henry  Asa,  born  April 
18,  1863;  died  Angiist  i,  1864.  Harry  Israel, 
February  14,  187 1  ;  graduated  from  high  school 
(if  I'>ro()klvn,  New  York. 


Members  of  this   family  have 

CONKLIN  been  patriotic  and  valuable 
citizens  of  New  England  as 
well  as  New  York  and  New  Jersey  from  the 
early  settlement ;  they  have  been  useful  and 
public  spirited  members  of  society,  and  have 
won  the  respect  of  their  associates.  The  name 
has  been  well  represented  in  the  professions, 
and  in  all  walks  of  life. 

fl)  The  records  of  I'.ergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  show  the  will  of  Eewis  L.  Conklin, 
dated  January  i.  1827,  proved  March  18,  1828. 
He  lived  in  Franklin  township,  Bergen  county, 
with  his  wife  Ellen,  whose  maiden  name  is 
supposed  to  have  been  Hopper.  He  had  sons : 
John  L..  .\lbert,  Lewis  and  Peter. 

(H)  John  L.,  son  of  Lewis  I,.  Cnnklin,  was 
born  in  Franklin,  New  Jersey,  where  he  be- 
came a  farmer,  and  operated  a  flour  mill  in 
Saddle  River.  He  had  children:  Albert  L.,  of 
.Mew  York;  Louis  L.,  Charity,  wife  of  William 
Van  Dalsen,  of  Paterson ;  Martha,  wife  of 
Fred  Van  Orden,  of  Spring  Valley,  New  York, 
son  of  General  Van  Orden,  of  revolutionary 
fame. 

(  HI )  Louis  L.,  son  of  John  L.  Conklin,  was 
born  in  1819,  in  Saddle  River,  New  Jersey, 
and  died  in  1884.  He  received  a  common 
school  education,  and  when  eighteen  years  of 
age  removed  to  Paterson,  where  he  became 
bookkeeper  in  the  employ  of  the  Oldham  Ma- 
chine Works,  which  position  he  filled  five 
years.  He  then  went  into  the  grocery  business 
on  his  own  account,  and  by  his  energy  and  per- 
severance built  up  a  good  patronage;  he  was 
able  to  retire  from  active  business  life  in  1883. 
one  year  before  his  death.  He  was  a  Repub- 
lican in  political  views,  and  an  active  worker 
for  the  interest  of  that  party ;  he  served  some 
time  as  city  alderman,  also  as  freeholder  of 
Passaic  county,  and  as  trustee  of  the  school 
board.  He  was  an  earnest  member  of  the 
I-'irst  Baptist  Church,  of  Paterson  and  served 
many  years  as  deacon  of  same.  He  married 
Su.san,  daughter  of  William  Van  Blarcom,  of 
Newton,  New  Jersey,  and  they  became  the  par- 
ents of  seven  children,  of  whom   four  are  liv- 


ing, namely :  Edward  L.,  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  auditor  of  Essex  county ;  John  L. ; 
Frank  B..  of  Paterson ;  and  Rev.  Judson,  a 
I5aptist  clergyman,  of  Trenton,  New  Jersey. 

(IV)  John  Louis,  son  of  Louis  L.  and 
Susan  (Van  Blarcom)  Conklin,  was  born 
January  6.  1848.  at  Paterson.  New  Jersey,  and 
attended  the  local  schools  until  May,  1863,  at 
which  time  he  enlisted  in  Company  B.  Thirty- 
seventh  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  from  Pater- 
son. He  served  before  Peter.sburg.  Virginia, 
niider  ( leneral  Crubb,  and  though  but  five 
mniiths  in  service  was  several  times  under  fire 
and  was  actively  engaged  during  that  time, 
l^pon  his  return  he  attended  the  Bryan  & 
.Stratton  Business  College  of  New  York,  and 
in  1866  became  a  clerk  in  the  post  ofifice  of 
l^aterson  under  Postmaster  Darius  Wells.  By 
diligent  and  faithful  service  he  was  able  to 
advance  in  rank  from  time  to  time  until  he  be- 
came assistant  ])ostmaster,  and  in  1874  was 
appointed  to  the  office  of  postmaster  by  Presi- 
dent (^rant ;  he  was  re-appointed  by  Presidents 
Hayes  and  Arthur,  and  filled  the  office  twelve 
years.  In  1887  Mr.  Conklin  opened  a  store 
in  the  gents'  furnishing  line,  which  he  carried 
on  with  success  for  several  years.  In  1892  he 
became  city  assessor,  which  office  he  held  for 
three  years.  He  then  accepted  the  agency  of 
the  Fciuitable  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York,  which  he  continued  for  several 
years.  In  1906  Mr.  Conklin  was  elected  by 
the  freeholders  of  Passaic  county  to  the  po- 
sition of  county  collector  for  one  year,  but  as 
the  law  was  changed  at  this  time,  making  the 
length  of  office  two  years,  he  filled  same  for 
that  period  and  in  1908  was  re-appointed,  fill- 
ing that  office  at  the  present  time  (1909). 
He  is  a  strong  supporter  of  the  Republican 
partv.  and  stands  high  in  the  party  councils. 
He  served  ten  years  as  chairman  of  the  Pas- 
saic county  Republican  committee,  and  has  for 
many  years  been  a  delegate  to  the  Republican 
state  conventions.  He  has  worked  indefatig- 
ably  for  the  interests  of  the  party,  and  his 
efforts  have  received  their  due  appreciation. 
He  is  upright  and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings, 
and  has  won  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his 
associates.  He  is  a  member  of  Farragut  Post. 
No.  28.  (irand  Army  of  the  Republic,  of  Pat- 
erson. and  past  commander  of  the  organiza- 
tion. He  is  affiliated  with  Fabriola  Lodge. 
No.  57.  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  Paterson.  and 
with  Paterson  Lodge  No.  60.  Benevolent  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks. 

Mr.  Conklin  married  Isabella  A.,  born  May 
2<).  1850.  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Margaret 


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N.  (Oiiinii )  Post,  of  Paterson.  She  died  No- 
vember 8,  1901.  Children:  i.  John  \\'.,  of 
P.rooklyn,  New  York,  born  February  28,  1873; 
married  Kate  Powers.  2.  Joseph  M.,  born 
[une  2,  1878;  resides  in  Paterson  ;  is  a  member 
I  if  Board  of  Banking  and  Insurance  Commis- 
sioners: married.  July  16,  1904,  Edna  Abild- 
gaard. 

Among  the  earliest  settlers  in 
.SX(  )W  .\ew  England  were  persons  bear- 
ing this  name.  Nicholas  .Snow 
was  a  passenger  in  the  "Ann,"  1623.  and  set-, 
tied  at  Plymouth ;  Thomas  was  of  Boston, 
ir)36;  Anthony  was  of  Plymouth,  1638;  Will- 
iam was  of  Plymouth.  1643 ;  probably  came 
over  in  1635:  Richard  was  in  Woburn,  1643; 
and  various  others  of  the  name  were  in  East- 
ham  and  Woburn.  The  Mas,sachusetts  revo- 
lutionary rolls  show  over  two  hundred  and 
fifty  enlistments  under  this  name.  The  civil 
annals  of  the  country  show  many  individuals 
<loing  worthy  service  in  the  advancement  of 
civilization  in  many  states  and  territories. 

(I)  It  is  natural  to  believe  that  Nicholas 
.Snow,  of  Plymouth  and  Eastham,  Massachu- 
setts, was  influential  in  bringing  others  of  the 
name  to  the  new  colony,  and  it  seems  probable 
that  part  or  all  of  the  other  early  emigrants  of 
the  name  were  related  to  him.  Among  these 
was  "William  .Snoe,  an  apprentice  to  Mr. 
Richard  Derby,  1637,  and  by  him  brouglit  over 
nut  of  lingland  and  assigned  over  to  Edward 
DotcTi,  (638,  to  serve  him  seven  years,"  at 
Plymouth.  It  appears  from  the  above  that 
he  was  a  minor,  and  was  sent  inider  appren- 
ticeship to  join  or  be  among  relatives  already 
here.  lie  appears  on  the  list  of  those  able  to 
bear  arms  at  Plymouth  in  1643,  when  he  was 
probably  an  adult.  Me  was  early  in  Duxbury, 
and  though  not  an  original  proprietor  appears 
in  the  list  of  such  in  1645,  when  he  was  likely 
a  single  man.  He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts,  where  he  sub- 
scribed to  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  1657.  His 
will  was  made  in  1699  and  proved  in  1708,  pre- 
'-umably  the  year  of  his  death,  at  the  age  of 
abnut  eighty-four  years,  and  he  was  cared  for 
in  old  age  by  his  son.  William.  His  wife's 
l)aj)tismal  name  was  Rebecca,  and  they  had 
children :  William.  James,  Joseph.  Benjamin, 
.Mary.  Lydia,  Hannah  and  Rcbeckah. 

(II)  Joseph,  second  son  of  William  and  Re- 
becca Snow,  resided  in  Bridgewater,  where  he 
died  in  1753.  He  had  a  wife,  Hopestill,  and 
children:  Jo.seph,  born  1690;  Mary,  1691; 
James,    1693:    Rebeckah.    ^6c)f>■.    Isaac.    1700: 


Jonathan  and  David,  1703.  The  elder  daugh- 
ter marrieil  Joseph  Lathrop  in  1718,  and  the 
younger  married  Thomas  Wade  in  1722. 

(Ill)  Joseph  (2),  eldest  child  of  Joseph 
(  I  )  and  Hopestill  Snow,  was  born  1690  in 
liridgewater,  and  removed  about  1790  to 
Easton  and  later  to  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
probably  ai)out  1738.  He  was  there  a  member 
of  the  Beneficent  Congregational  Church  of 
which  he  was  made  a  deacon  in  1738,  and  rul- 
ing elder,  October  14,  1743,  and  continued  in 
that  office  until  his  death.  He  had  wife  Eliza- 
beth and  children:  Joseph,  born  1715;  James, 
1717;  Elizabeth,  1719;  .Susanna,  1722:  Sarah, 
1725;  Daniel,  1727:  and  .Mary,  baptized  1733 
in  Providence. 

(I\  '  Rev.  Joseph  (3),  eldest  child  of  Jo- 
seph (  2  ,  and  Elizabeth  Snow,  was  born  April 
'1,  1715.  in  Bridgewater,  and  died  April  10. 
1803.  in  Providence,  where  he  acted  as  min- 
ister of  the  gospel  fift-eight  years.  He  was  a 
house  carpenter  and  went  to  Providence  early 
in  life  to  e.xercise  his  calling.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  church.  May  7,  1738.  and  was 
one  of  the  twenty-five  persons  who  withdrew 
March  7,  1743.  This  group,  comprising  about 
half  the  membership,  continued  to  worship 
without  a  settled  pastor  for  some  years  until 
Joseph  .Snow  was  ordained  as  a  minister  in 
I'ebruary,  1747.  He  conducted  their  worship 
from  the  beginning,  and  was  chosen  as  pastor 
in  October,  1746.  In  the  meantime,  he  had 
urged  upon  the  flock  the  necessity  of  procuring 
(iiu-  better  fitted  and  held  the  appointment 
under  consideration  for  one  year  after  his 
election.  He  was  gifted  as  a  leader  and 
preacher,  and  after  deciding  to  enter  the  min- 
istry, [ircpared  himself  as  well  as  he  could. 
Like  another  celebrated  carpenter  who  began 
teaching  more  than  seventeen  hundred  years 
before  him.  his  work  was  successful  and  he  en- 
joyed the  respect  and  esteem  of  a  large  circle 
of  followers.  During  his  ministry  he  bap- 
tized two  hundred  and  forty-nine  children. 
He  is  described  as  of  sober  demeanor,  of  fine 
])erson,  always  wearing  the  big  wig  dictated 
by  the  fashion  of  the  time.  In  1750  the  so- 
ciety built  a  house  of  worship,  the  minister 
going  to  the  woods  to  aid  in  cutting  the  tim- 
bers used.  The  structure  covered  thirty-six 
bv  forty  feet  of  ground,  and  was  afterward 
enlarged.  A  bell  was  brought  from  England 
in  \~y2-'/^,  to  hang  in  its  tower.  The  same 
ground  is  now  occupied  by  its  succes.sor.  In 
1793  Rev.  John  Wilson  was  made  colleague 
of  Mr.  Snow,  to  lighten  somewhat  the  latter's 
labors,  but  this  led  to  disagreements,  and  Mr. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEV. 


Snow  witluirew  from  the  church  in  the  fol- 
lowing year.  With  his  followers  he  built  a 
church  in  1795,  where  he  continued  as  pastor 
until  death  closed  his  labors.  This  is  known 
as  the  Richmond  Street  Congregational  So- 
ciety. Joseph  Snow  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber I.  1737.  Sarah  Field,  born  .\ugust  9,  1710, 
died  July  19.  1753.  He  married  (second) 
.March  14.  1754,  Rebecca  Grant.  Children  of 
first  marriage:  Sarah,  born  October  27,  1738; 
John,  February  3,  1740;  Joseph,  died  young; 
Joseph,  September  2.  1742:  Lydia.  January  8, 
1744:  Susannah.  October  14,  1745;  Elizabeth, 
October  10,  1747;  Abigail,  .March  26,  1749; 
Josiah,  February  24,  1750.  Children  of  sec- 
ond wife:  Rebecca,  February  13,  1756;  Sam- 
uel, August  I,  1758;  Edward,  Alay  9,  1760; 
Renjamin,  December  6,  1761. 

(V)  Joseph  (4),  third  son  of  Rev.  Joseph 
(3)  and  Sarah  (Field)  Snow,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 2,  1742.  He  resided  in  Providence. 
He  married,  October  24,  1775,  Mary  Proctor. 

(\  II)  Josiah,  probably  a  grandson  of  Rev. 
Joseph  Snow,  possibly  a  generation  later,  was 
born  in  Providence.  1809.  His  mother's 
maiden  name  was  Dunham.  The  vita!  records 
of  Providence  show  nothing  of  her  baptismal 
name  or  of  his  father,  and  family  tradition  is 
the  only  available  authority  for  information. 
In  the  spring  of  1829  Josiah  Snow  went  to 
Southbridgc.  Massachusetts,  and  purchased 
the  type  and  other  material  which  had  been 
used  in  printing  a  paper,  and  established  the 
Southbridgc  Register.  This  he  published 
until  1832.  when  he  sold  out.  Later  he  went 
to  Ceneva,  .\ew  York,  where  he  established 
a  newspaper  and  was  an  ardent  supporter  of 
William  H.  Seward  in  public  policies.  He  set- 
tled ultimately  in  Detroit.  Michigan,  and  was 
the  founder  of  the  Detroit  Tribune,  still  a 
powerful  journal,  as  it  was  under  his  guid- 
ance. While  resident  at  Detroit  he  served  as 
register  of  Wayne  county.  He  removetl  to 
Rivervale.  Xew  Jersey,  and  there  passed  his 
last  years  in  quiet  retirement  on  a  tract  of 
twenty-five  acres  which  he  purchased.  He 
was  a  Whig  in  politics  until  the  formation  of 
the  Republican  party,  of  which  he  was  one  of 
the  most  enthusiastic  founders,  and  he  exer- 
cised a  large  influence  in  political  afifairs  in  his 
day.  Being  a  close  personal  friend  of  Mr. 
Seward,  he  was  naturally  associated  with  other 
leading  men  of  the  times  including  Joseph 
.Medill.  founder  of  the  Chicago  Tribune,  and 
his  yeoman  service  in  behalf  of  advanced 
])rinciples  brought  to  his  aid  many  leading 
minds  of  the  west  as  well  as  the  east.      .\  lib- 


eral in  religious  ideas,  he  was  a  supporter  of 
the  Unitarian  church.  He  married.  May  21, 
1829,  Louisa  Xorthrup,  born  .\ugust  26,  1810, 
on  an  island  in  Xarragansett  bay.  daughter  of 
a  sea  captain.  Two  sons  and  a  daughter  sur- 
vived the  period  of  infancy:  William  D.  and 
Eugene  J.,  the  latter  a  resident  of  Brooklyn, 
Xew  York,  and  Louise,  married  Dr.  James 
Ketchum  :  left  no  issue.  Josiah  Snow  dieil  at 
his  home  at  Rivervale,  Xew  Jersev,  Mav, 
1886. 

(\T1I)  William  Dunham,  elder  son  of  Jo- 
siah and  Louisa  (Xorthrup)  Snow,  was  born 
in  Webster.  Massachusetts,  February  2,  1832. 
He  began  his  educational  training  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Detroit,  Michigan.  He  then  at- 
tended the  Branch  of  L^niversity  of  Michigan 
at  Romeo,  before  the  consolidation  of  that 
university  at  Ann  .Arbor,  and  graduated  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one.  He  studied  law  at  Dixon, 
Illinois,  under  the  late  .\ttorney  General 
Edson.  of  Illinois.  He  established  at  Detroit, 
jMichigan,  in  connection  with  his  father,  Jo- 
siah Snow,  the  Detroit  Tribune,  and  for  many 
years  served  in  the  capacity  of  associate  editor. 
Becoming  interested  in  telegraphic  operations, 
he  was  one  of  two  individuals  who  constructed 
the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  telegraph  line  from 
Xew  York  to  San  Francisco.  In  i860,  in  as- 
sociation with  his  father,  he  built  telegraph 
lines  in  .Arkansas,  from  Memphis  to  Little 
Rock.  Fort  .Smith  and  to  Xapoleon,  and  other 
])oints  of  that  state.  In  1871  ^Ir.  Snow  went 
to  Paris,  France,  remaining  two  years  and  dur- 
ing that  time  studied  civil  law.  In  1874  he 
entered  the  Columbia  Law  School,  New  York 
City,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1876, 
and  immediately  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Xew 
York.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the 
courts  of  Xew  Jersey  in  1894,  a^rid  the  United 
States  supreme  court  in  1908.  In  1882  he  was 
elected  secretary  and  counsel  to  one  of  the 
large  Xew  York  trust  companies,  necessitat- 
ing a  special  devotion  to  mercantile,  trust  and 
cor]5oration  law.  but  in  1888  resigned  to  take 
up  a  general  practice,  which  he  continued 
until  189(1,  when  he  decided  to  retire  and 
moved  to  Hackensack,  Xew  Jersey,  where  he 
has  since  resided.  He  found  it  difficult,  how- 
ever, to  retire  from  activity  and  is  still  con- 
ducting an  extensive  practice,  with  office  on 
Main  street,  Hackensack. 

In  i860,  before  the  civil  war,  Mr.  Snow 
settled  at  Pine  Bluff,  Arkansas,  and  during  the 
election  of  i860  was  the  chosen  political  corre- 
spondent of  .Abraham  Lincoln  as  to  the  senti- 
ments,  tendencies  and   i)revailing  opinions   of 


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tliat  >c'ction  in  the  contest  then  yoing  on.  As 
a  knDwii  L'nion  man.  i\Ir.  Snow  was  selected 
1(1  represent  Jefferson  county  in  the  Consti- 
tutional convention  of  Arkansas,  which  re- 
sulted ni  the  establishment  of  the  first  free 
state  constitution  in  any  of  the  so-called  se- 
ceded states.  The  United  States  military 
authorities,  in  the  chaos  of  public  opinion  on 
the  question  of  reconstruction,  had  prejudiced 
President  Lincoln  against  the  elections  for 
free  state  (officers,  ordered  b_v  that  convention. 
.\t  tliis  juncture  Mr.  Snow  was  requested  by 
President  Lincoln  to  come  to  Washington  and 
e.\]jlain  the  action  of  the  c(.invention  and  the 
state  of  public  opinion  in  Arkansas.  .After 
two  interviews  with  President  Lincoln  on 
February  15,  1864,  Mr.  Snow  returned  to 
Little  Rnck  with  the  following  document:  "To 
I.  Mur])hy.  Provisional  Governor,  .Arkansas. — 
My  Order  to  General  Steele  about  an  election 
was  made  in  ignorance  of  the  action  your 
Convention  had  taken  or  would  take.  A  sub- 
sequent letter  to  General  Steele,  directs  him 
to  aid  you  in  your  plan  and  not  to  thwart  or 
hinder  you.     Show  this  to  him.     A.  Lincoln." 

The  elections  were  held  in  March  following, 
resulting  in  an  overwhelming  majority  for  the 
L'nion  cause.  The  Free  State  Constitution 
was  carried  by  ten  thousand  majority,  and 
.A.rkan.sas  was  the  first  state  from  the  confed- 
eracy to  return  to  the  L^nion  on  a  free  and 
unbiased  vote  of  its  people.  Isaac  Murphy, 
the  only  man  w'ho  had  voted  "no"  on  the  or- 
dinance of  secession,  in  the  convention  which 
assumed  to  take  the  state  out  of  the  LTnion, 
was  elected  governor  and  the  legislature  sub- 
sequently elected  Mr.  Snow  for  a  long  term 
to  the  L'nited  States  senate.  The  last  public 
speech  made  by  Abraham  Lincoln,  a  few  days 
previous  to  his  assassination,  was  a  plea  for 
the  re-admission  of  Arkansas  to  the  senate. 
The  senators  from  Arkansas  were  accorded 
seats  in  the  senate,  but  their  credentials  were 
retained  by  the  judiciary  committee,  pending 
the  intense  excitement  growing  out  of  the  dif- 
ferences of  congress  with  President  Johnson 
on  reconstruction  and  on  the  passage  of  the 
final  reconstruction  measures.  Mr.  Snow  de- 
clined a  re-election  and  settled  in  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  practicing  his  profession  of  law 
in  New  York  City. 

During  the  civil  war  ^^Ir.  Snow  acted  in  the 
capacity  of  volunteer  aid  to  General  Powell 
Clayton  and  Major  General  Fred  Steele,  was 
present  at  several  battles  and  was  largely  in- 
strumental in  enlisting  and  organizing  three 
regiments  of  native  .Arkansians  for  the  Union 


army,  more  than  nine  hundred  strong  each. 
For  that  service  he  was  tendered  an  appoint- 
ment by  Governor  .Murphy  as  brigadier  gen- 
eral of  volunteers,  which  he  declined,  pleading 
want  of  educated  military  knowledge  sufficient 
to  undertake  the  responsibility  of  that  office, 
in  a  contest  already  organized,  going  on  and 
calling  for  immediate  action. 

-As  a  result  of  strong  convictions  he  became 
an  ardent  anti-slavery  advocate,  contributing 
largely  to  the  magazines  and  journals  of  that 
day,  occasionally  indulging  in  poetry,  and 
among  his  most  noted  poems  was  "Freedom," 
which  appeared  in  the  "Autographs  of  Free- 
dom," published  in  New  York,  1854.  Among 
Mr.  Snow's  co-contributors  in  the  same  book- 
were  William  H.  Seward,  Joshua  R.  Geddings, 
Henry  W'ard  Beecher,  Harriet  Beecher  .Stowe, 
David  Paul  Broom,  T.  Starr  King,  Charles 
Francis  .Adams,  and  many  others  of  those  early 
apostles  of  liberty,  who  in  the  burning  nature 
of  the  crisis  that  came  soon  after  its  ]niblica- 
tion  found  a  torch  which  illuminated  their 
pathways  to  national  fame.  Mr.  Snow  has 
always  been  interested  in  hymnnology,  de- 
claring as  a  theory  that  worship  should  be 
characterized  by  the  divinest  poetical  afflatus 
attainable,  that  the  higher  the  elevation  of 
thought  and  symbol,  the  more  spiritualizing 
will  be  the  influence  of  sacred  song.  The  two 
Christmas  hymns,  written  by  Mr.  Snow  for 
the  Church  of  the  Saviour  (L^nitarian)  Brook- 
lyn, 1867,  show  the  poetic  fervor  of  Mr. 
Snow's  flymns,  of  which  there  are  many. 
He  has  amused  himself  during  a  long  lifetime 
ill  the  intervals  of  his  professional  duties  by 
the  study  of  natural  philosophy,  and  is  the  in- 
ventor of  several  successful  inventions.  His 
thermostat  is  regarded  as  the  most  reliable 
and  sensitive  of  that  class  of  instruments  be- 
fore the  public,  and  there  are  said  to  be  in 
New  York  City  alone  more  than  forty  thou- 
sand of  his  invention  for  equalizing  the  pres- 
sure of  gas,  independent  of  the  pressure  at  the 
holder.  Mr.  Snow  is  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  the  L^^nitarian  church  of  Hack- 
eiisack,  and  was  president  of  the  Bergen 
County  Historical  Society  in  1908.  He  is  a 
Master  Mason,  a  trustee  of  the  Bergen  County 
P>ar  .-\ssociation,  and  a  member  of  the  Law- 
yers' Club,  the  Bullion  Club  of  New  York,  the 
Columbia  College  Association  of  both  New 
York  and  New  Jersey,  and  ex-president  of  the 
Board  of  Trade. 

Mr.  Snow  married,  August  21,  1854,  Mary 
Elizabeth,  born  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
September  30,  1833,  died  at  Hackensack,  New 


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STATE    Ul'"    NEW  JERSEY. 


Jersey,  November  i,  1909,  daughter  of  Asa 
and  Mary  (Kelleyj  Newell,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Dr.  Kelley,  who  left  a  medical 
school  in  Boston  to  join  the  revolutionary 
army.  Mrs.  Snow  was  a  graduate  of  the 
.Spingler  Institute  of  New  York,  a  woman  of 
rare  intellectual  attainments  and  a  linguist. 
Children:  i.  Walter  Newell,  born  October  31, 
i(S55,  died  December  15,  1863.  2.  Louise  S., 
born  February  25,  1864;  married,  January  i, 
1885,  Dr.  Charles  A.  Jersey,  born  June  27, 
1859,  died  August  16,  1902;  resides  in  Hack- 
ensack ;  has  one  son,  Chester  C.  Jersey,  born 
August  9,  1887,  now  a  midshipman  at  Aniiap- 
(jHs  and  the  star  member  of  the  first  class.  3. 
Mabel  S.,  born  March  26,  1867;  married,  Oc- 
tober 16,  1890,  Captain  Francis  J.  Kester,  a 
graduate  of  \\'est  Point,  also  a  graduate  of  the 
War  College  at  Washington,  D.  C. ;  now  cap- 
tain of  the  Fifth  Cavalry,  United  States  army. 
4.  William  J.,  born  December  16,  1868  ;  a  grad- 
uate of  West  Point,  the  Artillery  School  at 
l<"ortrfss  Monroe  and  the  War  College  at 
Washington,  D.  C. ;  now  adjutant  of  the  Sixth 
Light  Artillery,  United  States  arm}',  stationed 
at  F'ort  Riley,  Kansas;  he  stands  third  in  line 
of  promotion ;  he  is  considered  an  authority 
on  military  matters ;  he  married,  Ajjril  19, 
1892,  Isabel,  daughter  of  Arthur  Hall  Locke, 
of  Charleston,  South  Carolina  ;  one  son.  Will- 
iam Arthur,  born  April  21,  iBigef-  5.  Emily 
Christine,  born  December  zj,  1874,  died  in  her 
senior  year  at  college,  July  12,   1896. 


This  name  has  been  burnc  Ijy  men 
l\l.\(i  in  all  stations  of  life;  it  has  been 
made  famous  by  many  professional 
men,  autlinrs.  lawyers  and  orators,  as  well  as 
merchants  and  statesmen.  They  have  con- 
tributed a  fair  share  to  the  upbuilding  of  the 
cnmnumities  in  which  has  been  their  abode, 
and  have  won  the  respect  of  their  fellows. 

(I)  Elias  Brown  King  was  born  in  1820, 
at  Dingman's  Ferry,  -  Pennsylvania,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  in  his  native  ttiwn.  In 
1845  he  removed  to  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  learned  the  trade  of  plumber,  and  in 
1848  began  business  on  his  own  account,  at 
which  he  became  very  successful.  Mr.  King 
retired  fmm  active  life  in  1889,  and  his  death 
ciccnrred  in  1892.  Tie  was  city  tax  assessor 
for  some  years,  and  filled  the  office  very  ac- 
ceptably. He  was  an  active  worker  in  church 
circles,  being  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  in  which  he  filled  several  ofifices. 
He  married  Rose,  daughter  of  William  Mit- 
chell, of  Ireland,  and  they  became  parents  of 


^ix  children,  of  whom  four  are  living,  namely; 
Mary,  wife  of  Samuel  McCloud,  of  Long 
llranch.  New  Jersey.  Amelia,  wife  of  Ed- 
ward Van  Winkle,  of  Atlanta,  Georgia. 
Charles  Mitchell,  see  forward,  (j-orge  L.,  of 
I  'aterson. 

(  II )  Charles  Mitchell,  son  of  Elias  Brown 
and  Rose  (Mitchell)  King,  was  born  August 
30,  1849,  ^t  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  which  is 
still  his  residence.  He  attended  the  public 
schools  until  he  reached  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  when  he  entered  the  Grant  Locomotive 
Works  in  order  to  learn  the  trade  of  machin- 
ist. After  s])ending  three  years  in  this  po- 
sition he  entered  the  employ  of  the  \'an  Win- 
kle Cotton  Manufacturing  Company.  At  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years  he  became  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  surrogate  of  Passaic 
county,  and  in  1885  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
^nrrogate,  which  he  now  fills,  being  in  his  fifth 
term.  He  has  had  ample  opportvm.ity  to  learn 
the  duties  and  res])onsibilities  of  this  office, 
and  through  close  application  to  the  details  of 
^ame  has  become  a  most  acceptable  incumbent 
of  the  position.  He  is  a  staunch  supporter  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  has  represented 
same  in  many  state  conventions.  ]\Ir.  King 
is  a  member  of  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  No.  88,  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Paterson, 
and  a  life  member  of  Paterson  Lodge,  No. 
')0.  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
being  a  charter  member  of  the  latter  organi- 
zation and  actively  associated  in  its  work  since 
the  institution  in  1887;  he  has  filled  the  ofifice 
of  secretary,  and  is  past  exalted  ruler  of  the 
lodge.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Silk  City  Safe 
De])Osit    and    Trust    Company    of    Paterson. 

Air.  King  married,  October  15,  1879,  Char- 
lotte M.,  born  in  New  York  City,  December 
II.  i860,  daughter  of  John  P.  and  Louise 
(  .Sjianenberger )  Mayer,  of  Paterson,  the 
former  born  in  Germany  and  the  latter  in 
Xew  York  City.  Children:  I.  William  Ber- 
dan,  born  July  4,  1880;  married,  October  30. 
ii>o7.  Florence  G.,  born  August  4.  1883,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Martha  Ann  (Mottershead) 
Grimshaw,  natives  of  England.  2.  Charles 
Leonard,  born  August   19,   1883. 


This  name  is  often  found  in 
H()(iERT     various    spellings    in    the    early 

records  and  two  distinct  forms 
are  widely  used  in  the  present  day,  many  em- 
ploying the  spelling  Bogart.  There  were  sev- 
eral immigrants  bearing  the  name  among  the 
early  settlers  of  New  Amsterdam  and  Long 
Island   and   their   descendants   have   scattered 


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STATE   OF   NEW     JERSEY. 


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over  a  wide  region  being  especially  numerous 
in  northeastern  New  Jersey.  The  conspicuous 
Dutch  traits  of  industry  and  thrift  have  been 
well  perpetuated  in  this  family  and  it  has 
taken  active  part  in  the  general  development 
oi  this  state.  Most  of  its  re])resentatives  have 
been  devoted  to  agriculture. 

(  1  )  Cornelis  Jansen  Bogaerilt  came  from 
llolland  before  1661  and  settled  on  the  village 
lot  at  Flatbush.  Long  Island,  which  he  shortly 
sold  to  Peter  Jansen.  In  1677  h^  was  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  the  Flatbush  patent,  and 
died  at  that  place  in  1684.  The  name  of  his 
wife  who  accompanied  him  from  Holland  is 
given  as  Geesie  Williams,  which  indicates  that 
her  father's  christian  name  was  William.  It 
is  presumable  that  the  general  usage  in  spell- 
ing her  name  was  Williamse.  Children : 
W  yiitie.  Jan  Cornelise,  Classic,  Roeloff,  Alaritie 
and  Peter.  All  of  these  except  the  eldest  evi- 
dently settled  at   flackensack.  New  Jersey. 

( II )  Jan  Cornelise,  eldest  son  of  Cornelis 
Jansen  Ijogaerdt,  resided  in  New  Lots,  Long 
Island,  until  1694,  when  he  sold  his  property 
there  and  joined  others  in  a  large  purchase  of 
land  southeast  of  flackensack.  His  descend- 
ants are  now  very  numerous  in  Bergen  county 
and  have  spread  to  other  regions.  He  married 
.Angenitie  Strycker.  Children:  Roeloff,  Lam- 
neetie,  Claes,  John,  Cornelis  and  Albert. 

(III)  Albert,  youngest  child  of  Jan  Cor- 
nelise and  Angenitie  (Strycker)  Bogert,  was 
born  about  i6go  at  New  Lots,  and  was  reared 
near  flackensack  on  his  father's  farm.  He 
married,  February  17,  1713,  Martha  Bartholf. 
Children :  John.  William,  (juilliaem,  Isaac,  Ja- 
cobus, Angenitie,  Henry,  Cornelius  (died 
young).  Cornelius  and  Angenitie. 

(I\')  Isaac,  third  son  of  Albert  and  Martha 
f  Bartholf)  Bogert,  was  born  near  Ilacken- 
sack,  1718,  and  settled  on  lands  at  what  is  now 
Westwood,  which  he  purchased  in  1765.  He 
was  a  car])enter  by  trade.  The  deed  to  his 
l;ind,  which  included  about  si.xty-five  acres, 
was  dated  March  26,  1765,  the  grantor  being 
Jnhn  Marselis  and  the  purchase  price  eight 
linndred  jiounds.  This  land,  except  a  small 
portion  reserved  for  the  homestead,  is  all 
within  the  village  of  Westwood,  and  has  been 
sold  off  in  village  lots.     He  married.  June  4, 

1742.  Lea.  daughter  of  John  Demorest. 
(  hildren  :  .\lbert.  Jacobus.  John  and  Martina. 

The  second  son  was  a  soldier  of  the  revolution 
and  died  in  the  service. 

(\')  -Albert  (2),  eldest  child  of  Isaac  and 
Lea  (Demorest)  Bogert.  was  born  March  16, 

1743,  at  flackensack,  died  July  25,    1833,  at 


Westwood,  aged  ninety  and  one-third  years. 
He  inherited  the  homestead  from  his  father 
and  resided  there  through  life. 

(\T)  Isaac  A.,  son  of  Albert  (^2)  Bogert. 
was  born  May  9,  1769.  at  what  is  now  West- 
wood,  tlied  there  March  29,  1847.  He  in- 
herited, occupied  and  tilled  the  homestead 
farm.  He  married,  June  26,  1788,  Margaret 
Duryea,  born  April  17,  1770.  He  was  an 
active  citizen  and  served  as  constable  and  in 
other  civil  capacities.  He  had  a  daughter  and 
a  son,  the  first.  Lea,  born  January  6,  1791, 
became  the  wife  of  Daniel  Demarest  and  re- 
sided at  Oradell. 

(\"II)  David  A.,  only  son  of  Isaac  A.  and 
Margaret  (Duryea)  Bogert,  was  born  July  2, 
1800,  on  the  paternal  homestead,  which  he  oc- 
cupied through  life,  and  died  January  18,  1872. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Reformed  Church, 
then  known  as  the  North  Schraalenburgh 
Church,  in  wdiich  he  was  deacon  and  elder. 
He  was  an  industrious  and  successful  farmer, 
and  a  respected  member  of  the  community. 
He  married,  December  20,  1817,  Hannah  Ack- 
erman,  born  February  27,  1802,  died  June  19, 
1897.  Her  father,  David  Ackerman,  was 
born  May  23,  1774,  died  October  31,  1846. 
His  wife,  Adaline  (Cooper)  Ackerman,  born 
December  28,  1777, 'died  April  13.  1859.  Of 
the  four  children  of  David  A.  Bogert  three 
grew  to  maturity,  viz:  Adaline,  born  July  5, 
1824;  Albert,  December  17,  1826:  Isaac  David, 
mentioned  below.  The  first  is  the  widow  of 
Benjamin  Zabriskie  Van  Emberg,  residing  at 
Woodcliff.  Her  husband  died  September  29, 
1 89 1.  Albert  Bogert  died  September  25,  i860. 
He  married,  November  19,  1845,  Ellen  Flear- 
aboam  and  left  five  children :  Hannah  Maria, 
born  .April  i,  1848;  John  Henry,  April  7,  1831  : 
Leah  Margaret,  November  14,  1853;  Harriett 
.\nn.  .April  5,  1856;  Adaline,  February  15,  1859. 

(  \'III)  Isaac  David,  youngest  child  of  David 
.\.  and  Hannah  (Ackerman)  Bogert,  was  born 
August  25,  1834,  on  the  paternal  homestead, 
where  he  now  resides,  and  received  his  primary 
education  in  the  school  near  his  home.  He 
also  attended  the  school  at  what  is  now  Oradell, 
and  another  at  Pascack.  He  early  engaged  in 
farming  upon  the  homestead,  and  in  1869  en- 
gaged in  the  grocery  business  as  head  of  the 
firm  of  Bogert  &  Van  Emburgh,  and  served 
twenty  years  as  postmaster  at  Westwood.  His 
homestead  was  gradually  sold  off  in  village 
lots,  and  he  now  resides,  retired  from  active 
business,  in  the  old  mansion  on  the  southwest 
corner  of  First  avenue  and  Mill  street.  Al- 
though he   is  a  Republican,   while  the  voting 


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STATE    Ol-     NEW    lERSEY 


strength  of  the  town  is  nominally  Democratic, 
he  has  been  active  in  public  affairs  and  served 
as  collector  of  the  town  of  Washington  for 
several  years,  and  was  six  years  a  freeholder, 
being  director  of  the  board  during  his  last  two 
years  of  service.  He  was  the  leader  in  tlie 
movement  to  incorporate  the  borough  of  West- 
wood  and  was  its  first  mayor.  He  has  filled 
the  same  office  three  times  subsequently,  and 
is  the  present  incumbent,  1909.  In  1894  he 
gave  to  the  borough  a  tract  of  land  for  a  park, 
which  is  now  being  improved  and  is  a  beauti 
ful  adjunct  of  that  handsome  village.  He  is  a 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  bank  of 
Westwood.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Ber- 
gen County  Gas  and  Electric  Company  and  of 
the  Hackensack  Trust  Company.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Reformed  church  of  Westwood. 
which  he  was  instrumental  in  organizing  in 
1887,  and  was  one  of  its  first  elders,  which 
position  he  still  fills.  For  over  twenty  years 
lie  has  Iieen  a  member  of  Gabriel  R.  Paul  Post, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  of  Westwood, 
which  he  was  active  in  organizing  and  of  which 
he  was  first  commander.  He  enlisted  in  1862 
as  a  member  of  Company  D,  Twenty-second 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  and  served  in  the 
\rmy  of  the  Potomac.  He  was  singularly 
fortunate  in  escaping  injury,  being  present 
among  the  reserves  at  the  battle  of  Fredericks- 
burg, and  participating  in  the  battle  of  Gettys- 
burg as  a  member  of  the  First  Army  Corps. 
Soon  after  that  engagement  he  received  an 
lionorable  discharge.  Mr.  Bogert  is  one  of 
the  most  progressive  and  enterprising  citizens 
of  Bergen  county,  and  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  a  large  circle  of  his  fellow  citi- 
zens. He  married,  December  23,  1852,  Anna 
Van  Wagoner,  born  September  22,  1831,  at 
( )radell,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Cooper) 
\\-m  Wagoner,  natives  of  that  locality. 


Many  of  the  emigrants  who 
ll().\GL.\XD  came  to  this  country  from 
Holland  in  the  early  colonial 
days  settled  in  New  Jersey  and  displayed  re- . 
markable  traits  of  endurance  in  all  the  troubles 
which  came  to  the  first  colonists.  Some  of  their 
ilesccndants  are  to  be  found  in  that  state  at  the 
present  day,  among  them  being  those  bearing 
the  name  of  Hoagland. 

Carlton  P.  Hoagland,  one  of  the  descendants 
mentioned  above,  is  the  son  of  Stephen  T.  and 
Alary  J.  Hoagland.  He  was  born  at  Millstone, 
Somerset  county,  New  Jersey,  July  9,  1879,  ''c- 
moved  to  Somerville  with  his  parents  when  he 
was  four  years  of  age,  and  has  since  resided  in 


that  town.  His  education  was  acquired  in  the 
Somerville  grammar  and  high  schools,  leaving 
the  latter  at  the  beginning  of  his  senior  year 
when  he  was  eighteen  years  old.  His  first  busi- 
ness employment  was  in  a  grocery  store,  where 
he  remained  six  months,  going  then  to  New 
\'ork  to  accept  a  position  in  the  accounting  de- 
])artment  of  an  advertising  agency.  At  the  end 
of  three  years  he  became  associated  with  the 
liallantine  &  \'an  Fleet  Carriage  Company,  of 
.Somerville,  and  one  year  later  became  the  book- 
keeper and  solicitor  of  the  Somerville  Publish- 
ing Company,  which  published  The  Somerset 
Deiiioerat.  He  was  soon  actively  engaged  in 
newspaper  work  and  was  made  local  editor  of 
the  Deiiioerat.  While  thus  engaged  he  acquired 
a  good  general  knowledge  of  the  printing  busi- 
ness, and  in  September,  1905,  when  the  manage- 
ment of  the  business  changed  hands,  Mr.  Hoag- 
land was  given  full  charge  of  the  plant.  At  that 
time  the  business  was  in  a  greatly  crippled  con- 
dition, but  under  the  skillful  direction  of  Mr. 
Hoagland,  it  was  completely  reconstructed  and 
was  put  on  a  paying  basis  in  less  than  two  years. 
During  the  past  two  years  new-  presses  have 
been  installed,  new  typesetting  machines  and 
other  equipments  added,  and  the  output  has 
been  more  than  doubled,  as  the  typesetting 
machines  are  operated  by  a  day  and  night  force. 
.\t  the  present  time  the  concern  is  handling  a 
large  amount  of  book  printing,  much  of  it 
coming  from  New  York  and  other  cities.  Mr. 
Hoagland  is  a  director  of  the  Citizens'  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association,  and  a  member  of  the 
bfiard  of  directors  of  the  Board  of  Trade.  In 
{politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  his  fraternal 
affiliations  are  with  the  following  named  organ- 
izations: Solomon's  Lodge,  No.  46,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons ;  Somerville  Lodge,  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  Knights  of 
Pythias,  in  which  order  he  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Grand  Lodge ;  Independent  Order  of  For- 
esters ;  and  secretarj-  of  the  Bachelor  Club,  one 
of  the  oldest  social  organizations  in  the  state  of 
New  Jersey.  He  attends  services  at  the  Second 
Dutch  Reformed  Church,  of  which  he  is  a 
'  member. 

Mr.  Hoagland  married,  January  16,  1906, 
Lucy  Kent,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Samuel  Stewart, 
of  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  they  have 
one  child :  Carlton  Stewart,  born  January  10, 
1907. 

It  is  said  on  very  good  au- 
LAFFERTY     thority  that  the  LafTertys  of 
New  Jersey,  with  the  excep- 
tion  of   the   descendants  of   Bryan   LaiTerty, 


STATE   OF    NEW    lERSEY 


Esij.,  uf  Middlesex  county,  are  the  descend- 
ants of  the  old  Huguenot  emigrant,  Edinond 
Lefetra,  of  Shrewsbury,  who  died  between 
September  4,  and  November  22,  1687,  leaving 
a  wife  Frances,  and  children  Edniond,  Sarah, 
Elizabeth,  and  probably  others.  Edmond  his 
only  known  son,  died  in  Shrewsbury  prior  to 
May  27,  1719,  leaving  a  wife  Hannah,  and  chil- 
dren George,  Edmond,  James,  Joseph,  Eliza- 
beth and  Sarah.  The  name  Lafetra  has  prac- 
tically disappeared.  The  last  instance  of  its 
mention  was  the  letters  of  administration  of 
Lea  Lafetra  in  1826,  but  it  is  said  by  several 
genealogists  of  reputation  that  the  family  has 
not  died  out  with  the  name,  and  that  the  Laf- 
fertys  who  are  now  found  in  the  same  counties 
formerly  inhabited  by  the  Lafetras  are  the 
same  in  blood. 

( I )  John  Lafferty.  earliest  known  ancestor 
of  the  family,  died  in  1795,  and  was  buried  at 
the  old  Stone  Church  near  Port  Norris,  Cum- 
berland county.  New  Jersey.  He  married,  and 
was  father  of  four  children:  i.  John,  went 
west  and  was  never  after  heard  from.  2.  Re- 
becca,   married    Enoch    Northrup ;    children : 

Emma,    married    Robinson ;    Harriet, 

married Ranibo.     3.   Nancy,  married 

John  Drew  ;  children :  John,  married  Martha 
Hines  ;  children  :  Lilly  and  Annie  ;  Jane,  mar- 
ried John  Hines,  and  had  children :  Dolly, 
died  1908,  unmarried,  and  James,  died  unmar- 
ried.   4.  James,  see  forward. 

(H)  James,  son  of  John  Lafferty,  married 
Hannah  Mulford,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the 
old  families  prominent  in  the  history  of  Salem 
and  Gloucester  counties.  Children:  i.  John, 
born  1821:  married  (first)  Martha  Elvvell ; 
(second)  Elizabeth  Elwell ;  children:  Whit- 
tier,  went  west ;  William  E.,  married  Maria 
.\lnold;  children:  Floyd,  died  in  infancy;  Or- 
lando, Estella,  Helen,  Edith ;  Annie,  married 
Howard  Lee,  and  has  Harriett,  married  Benja- 
min Parker ;  children  :  Allen,  Serena  ;  Hannah 
J.,  died  young.  2.  Whittier,  born  1821  ;  died 
1825.  3.  William,  see  forward.  4.  Eli,  born 
1827;  still  living  (1909);  married  Rebecca 
Daniels  ;  children  :  Hannah  J.,  died  in  infancy  ; 
Dennis,  died  young;  John  D.,  married  (first) 
Ella  Hill,  (second)  Sarah  Allie  Fisher;  chil- 
dren :  Raymond,  Nettie,  Orville,  Pearl,  Maud 
Mills,  Ada  May;  Mary  Ellen;  James  L.,  mar- 
ried Rachel  Deneen ;  Emeline.  married  Aaron 
Hess ;  children ;  Rexie  Clifford,  Beulah, 
Connie ;  Albert ;  Oliver,  married  Lola  Lytle ; 
Elizabeth ;  Amos  Stiegers,  married  Rose  Mc- 
Cullough.  5.  James,  born  1833,  died  1895 ; 
married  Annie  Grimshaw  ;  children  :    John  G., 

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married  Margaret  Mood ;  children :  Mabel 
and  Bessie ;  Harry,  married  Viola  Adams ; 
James,  married  Sarah  Walters ;  children : 
Howard;  Harry,  died  in  infancy;  Anna  Fran- 
ces and  Clyde. 

(HI)  W'illiam,  son  of  James  and  Hannah 
(Mulford)  Lafferty,  was  born  at  Mullica  Hill, 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  September  5, 
1823;  died  September  9,  1895.  He  was  a 
farmer,  and  was  a  trustee  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Daniels, 
of  Franklin  Mills.  Pennsylvania.  Children:  i. 
Aluiford,  born  November  20,  1854;  married 
Hannah  Morgan;  children:  Mulford,  died  in 
infancy;  Bruce,  died  in  infancy;  Berta,  May, 
Warren,  Florence,  Lamont,  \'erna.  Earl  and 
Everett.  2.  Martha,  born  1858;  died  1866.  3. 
Hannah  born  October  9,  i860;  married  B. 
Frank  Hand;  children  :  William  F.,  Grace  H., 
Hope  and  Myrtle.  4.  Annie  E.,  born  April  30, 
1866;  married  'SI.  T.  Groff;  children:  Elise, 
died  young ;  Franklin  and  James  Raymond. 
He  married  (second)  Martha  AL,  daughter  of 
William  McKibbin,  a  farmer  of  Bucks 
\  alley,  Fulton  county,  Pennsylvania.  5. 
William,  born  April  28,  1869;  died  in  infancy. 
(•>.  Francis,  hereafter  mentioned.  7.  Sarah  L, 
born  July  7,  1872;  married  Thomas  Neal;  chil- 
dren :  James  LeRoy  and  Joseph.  8.  William, 
born  January  28,  1874;  died  1904;  unmarried. 

(I\')  Francis,  son  of  William  and  Martha 
.\1.  (McKibbin)  Lafferty,  was  born  in  Mullica 
Mill,  Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  February 
20,  1870.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  public  schools,  after  which  he  graduated 
from  the  Dickinson  Law  School.  He  then 
read  law  with  Hon.  Robert  S.  Clymer,  of 
Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  and  Hon.  A.  H. 
Swackhamer.  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  in  November,  1898,  as  attorney,  and 
in  February,  1902,  as  counsellor.  Since  then 
he  has  been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of 
his  profession.  LTntil  1903  he  practiced  at  At- 
lantic City,  New  Jersey,  and  in  that  year  came 
to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  S.  P.  Northrop.  Esq.,  and 
later  with  Charles  Pilgrim,  Esq.  Mr.  Lafferty  is 
a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  has  no  inclination 
for  holding  political  office,  preferring  to  give 
his  attention  to  his  profession,  and  like  his 
I)artner  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading  lights 
of  the  younger  generation  of  lawyers.  He  is 
a  member  of  Trinity  Lodge,  No.  79,  Free  and 
.Accepted  Masons,  of  Atlantic  City,  and  when 
he  came  to  Newark  was  transferred  to  Rose- 
ville  Lodge,  No.  143.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Lawyers'  Club  of  Newark. 


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Mr.  Lafferly  married,  June  2,  1898.  in  Salem 
county,  New  Jersey,  Sadie  E.,  born  August  19, 
1870,  fourth  child  and  third  daughter  of  Solo- 
mon S.  and  Sarah  (Baldwin)  Denelsbeck,  of 
Whig  Lane,  whose  children  were :  i.  Lemuel, 
married  Phebe  Cheeseman  ;  children  :  Leona 
and  Hiram,  ii.  Alinda,  married  George  A. 
Ledden  :  children  :  Earl,  Leon,  Roy  and  Cur- 
tis ;  iii.  Ella,  married  James  A.  Wentzel ;  child, 
Helen  ;  iv.  Sadie  E.,  referred  to  above ;  v.  Cur- 
tis, married  May  Hadley.  Children  of  Francis 
and  Sadie  E.  (Denelsbeck)  Lafiferty :  Frances 
Leilah.  born  May  14,  1899.  2.  Elton  P.raddock, 
March  24.  1904. 


Matthias  Simon, of  Sulz,  in  Alsace- 
SIMON     Loraine,    Germany,     formerly    a 

province  of  the  republic  of  Franv.o, 
was  born  in  Sulz  and  was  a  farmer  there 
throughout  the  period  of  his  life.  The  family 
name  of  his  wife  was  Biehler,  but  her  bap- 
tismal name  is  not  known.  Among  their  chil- 
dren were  sons  Matthias,  August  and  Charles, 
and  daughters  Margaret  and  Mary. 

(H)  August,  son  of  Matthias  and  Margaret 
(  Biehler )  Simon,  was  born  in  Sulz,  province 
of  Alsace-Loraine,  Germany,  August  28,  1826, 
and  died  there  March  15,  1902.  As  a  boy  he 
was  sent  bv  liis  parents  to  the  tow-n  school  in 
Sulz,  but  early  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade 
(or  perhaps  the  art)  of  silk  dyeing,  and  having 
served  out  his  time  followed  that  vocation, 
having  an  establishment  of  which  he  was  the 
pro])rietor.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  very 
skillful  dyer  of  silks,  a  man  of  high  principles 
and  honest  ambition,  which  qualities  both  he  and 
his  wife  taught  to  their  children.  He  married 
Barbara  Rcdler.  born  in  Sulz,  December  17, 
183 1,  and  died  there.  March  6,  1908.  They 
had  six  children,  five  of  whom  grew  to  matu- 
rity, as  follows:  i.  .\ugust,  married  Gabrielle 
Aland ;  has  four  children ;  lives  in  Allentown, 
Pennsylvania.  2.  Charles,  of  Paterson,  New 
Jersey.  3.  Mary,  lives  in  Sulz;  not  married. 
4.  Matilda,  also  of  Sulz ;  not  married.  5. 
Jeanne,  married  Frank  Dalton.  and  has  one 
child ;  lives  at  Petersburg,  Virginia. 

(HI)  Charles,  son  of  August  and  Barbara 
(Redler)  Simon,  was  born  in  Sulz,  Alsace- 
Loraine,  Germany,  June  17,  1858,  and  was 
given  a  good  education  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  town.  After  leaving  school  he  w-ent  into 
his  father's  works  and  there  learned  the  art  of 
silk  dveing.  He  too  became  an  expert  work- 
man in  his  special  occupation,  and  after  his 
apprenticeship  worked  in  various  establish- 
ments  in    h'rance,   Germany   and   Switzerland. 


Thus  it  was  that  when  he  came  to  Peterson  in 
( )ctober,  1882,  he  was  not  only  a  skillful  silk 
dyer,  but  also  was  possessed  of  a  wide  and  use- 
ful exjierience  in  his  art.  His  first  employ- 
ment in  I'aterson  was  in  the  capacity  of  fore- 
man in  the  silk  works  of  Jacob  Weidman,  of 
Paterson,  where  he  continued  three  years,  and 
;ifterward  for  two  years  w-as  in  the  employ 
of  |ohn  \.  Stearns  &  Companv,  of  New  York 
City. 

In  September,  1887.  Mr.  Simon,  in  company 
with  Charles  L.  .Xnger,  established  a  silk  dye- 
ing works  in  Paterson,  beginning  business  in 
a  small  way,  but  the  ultimate  outgrowth  of 
their  limited  enterprise  is  the  present  Auger  & 
Simon  Silk  Dyeing  Company,  incorporated, 
now  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  the  city 
(if  Paterson.  and  having  an  important  branch 
at  W'illianisport,  Pennsylvania.  Something  of 
the  extent  of  the  business  operations  of  the 
company  will  be  understood  wdien  it  is  men- 
tioned that  the  works  in  Paterson  cover  an  area 
of  nearly  five  acres  of  land,  with  an  additional 
three  acres  for  the  company's  other  purposes. 
The  works  in  Williamsport  cover  three  acres 
of  land,  and  the  company's  entire  tract  there 
includes  twenty  acres.  The  business  in  Pater- 
son employs  about  six  hundred  skilled  opera- 
tives, while  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  em- 
jiloyees  are  in  the  Williamsport  mills. 

In  Paterson  Mr.  Simon  enjoys  a  wide  ac- 
<|uaintance  in  business  circles  and  is  looked 
upon  as  one  of  the  leading  men  in  the  industrial 
life  of  the  city.  His  business  career  has  been 
one  of  gratifying  success,  and  wdiatever  he  has 
accomj)lished  in  a  business  way  is  the  result 
of  his  own  personal  efTort.  He  takes  an  earn- 
est interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  city  and  its 
institutions,  is  a  progressive  and  public  spirited 
citizen,  and  his  home  is  beautifully  situated  on 
Broadw-ay,  Paterson. 

He  married,  October  20.  1886.  Mary  J-. 
born  February  4,  1868.  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Florine  (Clement)  Auger,  of  Paterson.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Paterson:  Marv  F.,  M^  6, 
1S88;  Matilda  A.,  May  28.  i88<^:  Charles' F., 
July  I,  1897. 

Three  brothers  bv  the  name 
HE  MOTT  of  de  Mott,  of  Huguenot  de- 
scent, like  so  many  of  the 
I'mtcstant  families  who  were  forced  to  leave 
I'rance  under  the  conditions  that  brought  about 
the  Edict  of  Nantes,  came  to  the  friendly  shores 
of  .America  to  found  new^  homes,  making  the 
route  of  their  departure  across  the  Rhine  into 
Holland  and  thence  to  New  .Amsterdam.     On 


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reaching  the  New  Netherlands  the  Huguenots, 
who  had  been  but  a  short  time  sojourners  in 
Holland  or  in  any  other  of  the  provinces  of 
Netherlands,  did  not  at  once  affiliate  with  the 
Dutch,  but  formed  villages  and  made  com- 
munities in  which  they  could  retain  their  native 
language,  manners  and  customs. 

Many  of  these  Huguenots  went  u]i  the  Hud- 
son river  and  settled  along  its  banks  and  are 
readily  distinguished  by  their  family  names. 
One  of  the  objective  points  to  which  many 
French  families  came  directly  from  the  ship 
that  landed  them  in  New  Amsterdam  harbor 
was  W'iltwick,  one  hundred  miles  up  the  river 
on  its  west  bank  at  the  confluence  of  Esopus 
creek.  It  is  claimed  that  a  short-lived  settle- 
ment was  made  at  Esopus  Point,  which  ex- 
tends far  out  into  the  river,  as  early  as  1614. 
but  we  do  know  that  Governor-Cjeneral  Stuy- 
vesant  chartered  the  proposed  settlement  under 
the  name  of  W'iltwick  in  1661.  and  its  inhabit- 
ants became  jiermanently  settled  under  the  di- 
rection of  the  English  government  in  iC/iS.  and 
regularly  incorporated  by  patent  in  1667,  untler 
the  English  name  of  Kingston.  The  chrono- 
logical history  of  Kingston  is  full  of  interest. 
The  first  constitution  of  the  state  of  New 
York  was  adopted  there  by  the  provincial 
legislature  which  assembled  Ajjril  20,  1777, 
and  the  state  legislature  under  the  new  con- 
stitution assembled  in  the  state  house  at  Kings- 
ton in  September,  1777,  but  dispersed  October  7, 
1777,  on  the  ai)proach  of  the  llritish  army  under 
Sir  Henry  Clinton,  and  the  place  was  burned 
b}-  the  British,  but  soon  rebuilt.  The  brothers 
de  Alott  could  not  have  found  in  Esopus  the 
conditions  that  they  sought,  and  we  give  an 
accoimt  of  two  of  the  brothers  who  planted 
themselves  in  I'.ergen  county.  New  Jersey, 
<.>l)posite  New  Amsterdam,  where  tliey  jjur- 
•chased  considerable  acreage  nf  land,  married 
and  reared  families. 

Michael  de  Mott,  one  of  the  brothers,  pur- 
chased a  tract  of  land  "lying  between  the  hills 
and  the  Pequannack  river  in  Morris  county. 
New  Jersey,  knov\-n  as  Pompton  Plains."  The 
deed  for  his  laud  was  given  October  o.  1704. 
and  he  soon  after  removed  from  Pergen  coun- 
ty to  the  new  estate  and  located,  built  and  lived 
in  the  house  still  standing  and  known  as  the 
"Old  De  Mott  Place."  He  was  a  blacksmith 
by  trade,  also  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  he 
built  his  blacksmith  shop  at  the  south  end  of 
his  dwelling  house  and  attached  to  it.  He  wa.^ 
the  father  of  three  sons:  John,  who  settled  in 
English  Neighborhood,  New  Jersey.  Richard, 
who  settled  in  Raritan.  New  Jersey.   Hendrick. 


bcjrn  in  17 1 5.  who  came  into  possession  of  the 
homestead  at  Pompton  Plains;  married  Janette 
\'an  Wagoner,  and  they  had  twelve  children 
born  at  PomjJton  Plains  on  the  old  homestead. 

(1)  Matthias  de  Mott,  brother  of  Michael 
de  Alott,  removed  from  Kingston  to  Bergen, 
.North  New  Jersey,  in  1704,  in  company  with 
his  brother  Michael.  On  April  4,  1693,  he  had 
bought  of  Elias  Michaels  Vreeland  three  lots 
of  land  in  Bergen  (now  Jersey  City),  having 
an  aggregate  area  of  eighty-seven  acres.  He 
subse(|uently  added  to  his  purchase  other  tracts 
at  Jjergen  and  North  Bergen.  He  married, 
April  4,  1705,  Margaretje  llrinkerhofi'.  of 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  John, 
who  died  young.  2.  Michael,  married  Clarisse 
Winne.  but  had  no  children;  died  intestate, 
November  16,  1799;  imder  the  conditions  of 
his  father's  will  his  estate  in  Bergen  went  to 
his  brother  George.  3.  Henry,  died  young.  4. 
.\nn.  5.  John,  married  but  had  no  issue ;  died 
December  8,  1744.  6.  Henry,  see  forward.  7. 
lieorge,  who  inherited  the  estate  left  by  his 
brother  Michael ;  he  left  the  entire  estate,  as  it 
came  to  him  by  the  will  of  his  father,  to  his 
nephew  Michael,  son  of  his  brother  Henry;  he 
died  unmarried  in  1 800.  8.  Jacob,  married 
Soi)hia  \'an  Houten,  October  1 1,  1747,  and  lived 
in  Schraalenburg,  New  Jersey.  9.  Mary.  10. 
Cishy,  died  in  1744.  Matthias  de  Mott.  father 
of  these  children,  died  in  May,  I73(),  and  by 
his  will  proved  June  18.  1731).  he  made  his 
-■on-.  Michael  and  (.ie(.)rge,  joint  tenants  of  all 
his  I'.ergen  lantls. 

(H)  Henry,  fifth  son  an<i  sixth  child  of 
.Matthias  and  Margaretje  (  BrinkerholY)  de 
.\ii)lt.  was  born  in  Bergen,  now  Hutlstjn  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey.  He  was  married,  in  1742,  to 
Janettjc  \  an  Wagoner,  and  among  their  chil- 
dren was  a  son  Michael,  see  forward.  After 
the  birth  of  this  son  they  removed  from  Ber- 
gen to  Pomptiin  Plains.  Morris  county.  New 
Jersey. 

(Ill)  Michael,  sdu  of  ilenry  and  Janettje 
(  \  an  Wagoner)  de  Mott,  was  born  in  Bergen, 
udw  lludson  county.  New  Jersey,  September 
-"•  '750;  'li^fl  ill  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
.Ma\  2y.  1832.  He  was  the  owner  of  property 
in  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  which  he  possessed 
through  tlie  will  of  his  uncle,  George  de  Mott, 
who  clied  intestate  and  without  children  in 
1808.  In  his  will  Michael  left  his  jjroperty  in 
Bergen  to  his  children.  He  married  Alargaret 
Mandeville.  of  Poiu])ton  Plains,  New  Jersey, 
hern  June  18.  17113:  died  Se]iteniber  7,  1854. 
l/hildrcu,  born  in  Bergen,  New  Jersey:  i. 
|(>hn,    died    in    childhood.      2.     lane,    married 


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Peter  Etlo  Alarselis.  3.  Margaret,  married 
Richard  Vreeland.  4.  Maria,  married  James 
Cadmus.  5.  George,  see  forward.  6.  Garrett. 
7.  Henry,  who  died  before  his  father.  8.  Cath- 
arine, married  Richard  Cadmus. 

(  IV)  George,  second  son  and  fiftli  child  of 
Michael  and  Margaret  (Mandeville)  De  Mott, 
was  born  in  Bergen,  New  Jersey.  June  1. 1787; 
died  July  7,  1866.  He  located  on  the  estate  he 
inherited  in  Bergen,  the  place  being  now  known 
as  West  Hoboken,  and  there  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Church,  of  Bergen.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Jane  \'reeland,  born  1790,  died 
July  II,  1826,  and  they  had  four  children,  two 
of  whom  died  in  early  life,  and  two  survived. 
namely:  i.  Maria  IMandeville,  born  August  11, 
1816;  married  John  Sturgis.  2.  Get)rge  V., 
see  forward.  He  married  (second)  Ellen 
.Smith,  who  bore  him  twelve  children  :  i.  Amelia 
Ann,  born  February  11,  1828.  2.  Julia  Ellen, 
October  28,  1829.  3.  James  Smith,  September 
26,  1 83 1.  4.  Mary  F'rancis,  November  12, 1833. 
5.  Eliza  Jane,  March  14,  1835.  6.  Abraham 
Huyler,  February  13,  1837.  7.  Hester  (jarret- 
son,  October  10,  1839.  8.  Henry  Augustus, 
March  12,  1840.    9.  Thomas  (lautier,  October 

I.  1841.      10.    Georgianna,  January    17,    1843. 

II.  Edgar  Montelle,  May  14.  1845.  12.  Hin- 
son  Curtis,  May  27,  1851. 

(V)  George  V.,  only  surviving  son  of  George 
and  Jane  (\'reeland)  De  Mott,  was  born  in 
Bergen  township,  now  West  Hoboken,  Hudson 
county.  New  Jersey.  April  27.  1822.  He  was 
reared  to  the  age  of  fifteen  years  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  then  entered  a  dry  goods 
establishment  in  New  York  City.  In  1845  he 
engaged  in  the  manufacturing  business,  con- 
tinuing up  to  1870.  About  1865  he  purchased 
a  tract  of  land  in  what  is  now  Clifton,  Acquack- 
anonk  township,  Passaic  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  in  i86g  located  in  the  village  of  Clifton, 
.•\cc|uackanonk  township,  where  he  has  con- 
tinued to  reside  up  to  the  present  time  (1910). 
He  was  a  prominent  and  active  factor  in  the 
growth  and  development  of  the  village.  Mr. 
De  Mott  married  (first).  February  5,  1846, 
Mary  Newkirk,  born  April  17,  1826,  died  Janu- 
ary 12,  1858.  daughter  of  Henry  and  Eliza 
(Provost)  Newkirk.  He  married  (second). 
October  20.  1875,  Hiley  Ann  Merselis,  born 
July  29,  1844,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Gertrude 
(Sip)  Merselis.  Children  of  first  wife:  i. 
Henry  Newkirk,  born  November  9,  1846;  died 
without  issue.  July  30,  1887.  2.  George  Win- 
field,  January  15.  1849;  ^'^'^  without  issue. 
Tunc  TO.  1873.     3.  Edward  Provost,  December 


25.  1850;  died  C)ctober  26,  1885;  married, 
October  4.  1876,  Louise  Curtis,  born  December 
5,  1857,  daughter  of  Dr.  G.  and  C.  Sophia 
Curtis ;  one  child,  Helen  De  Mott,  born  July 
31,  1877,  married  Harry  MacDonald  Ander- 
son ;  one  child,  Daniel  Anderson,  born  May  16, 
1904,  who  is  a  representative  of  the  eighth 
generation  from  Matthias  de  Mott.  the  emi- 
grant. 4.  John  Walton.  March  9.  1853;  mar- 
ried. October  20,  1886,  Catherine  Merselis. 
born  August  15,  1861,  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Julia  (Bogardus)  Merselis;  three  children:  i. 
Mary  N..  born  August  10.  1888 :  ii.  Florence  'M., 
June  30,  1891  ;  iii.  Mabel  W.,  June  9,  1896.  5. 
Jane    Maria.   June   22.    1855 ;   died    April    18, 


-Stephen  Dusenberry,  the 
I  )l'.SI''XriERRY  first  member  of  the  fam- 
ily of  whom  we  have  defi- 
nite infurniation,  was  born  in  either  Westches- 
ter or  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  and  died  in 
Orange  county.  New  York.  He  was  probably 
the  grandson  of  \\'illiam  and  Lena  Dusenberry. 
of  Harrison's  Purchase.  Rye.  Westchester 
county.  New  York,  and  a  descendant  of  the 
Long  Island  family  of  Dusenberrys  who  were 
from  very  early  times  associated  with  the  his- 
tory of  Hempstead  and  Jerusalem.  April  2, 
1806,  Stephen  Dusenberry  was  appointed  cap- 
tain under  Lieutenant  Colonel  Zachariah  Flag- 
ler, in  the  Dutchess  county  militia,  and  June  8, 
1808.  was  promoted  first  major.  March  4, 
1817.  John  Cooper  was  promoted  first  major, 
vice  Stephen  Dusenberry,  "moved  away."  He 
married  Anna  Townsend,  and  among  his  chil- 
dren were  Townsend  and  Peter,  both  referred 
to  below. 

(II)  Townsend.  son  of  Stephen  and  Anna 
(Townseiifl)  Dusenberry.  was  born  in  Orange 
county,  New  York,  and  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey. 

(III)  Henry  Townsend,  only  child  Town- 
send  Dusenberry,  was  born  in  Orange  county, 
.Vew  York,  in  1835.  and  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  in  May,  1886.  He  was  deputy  county 
clerk  of  Newark,  1862-67,  and  county  clerk, 
1867-72.  He  received  his  education  at  the 
Hackettstown  Seminary,  in  politics  was  a  Dem- 
ocrat, was  a  member  of  the  town  council  of 
Newark,  1872-73.  and  school  commissioner  for 
the  Seventh  Ward  of  Newark  in  1876-77.  He 
married  Mary  Louisa  Baldwin,  born  in  Au- 
gust, 1835.  Children  :  John  Baldwin,  referred 
to  below :  Emily  Townsend,  now  living  at  No. 
86  Orchard  street,  Newark,  New  Jersey,  whose 
courtesy  has  made  possible  much  of  this  sketch. 


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(IV)  John  Baldwin,  son  of  Henry  Town- 
send  and  Mary  Louisa  (Baldwin)  Dusenberry, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  21, 
1857,  and  died  there  December  10,  1909.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  ])ublic 
schools,  and  afterwards  to  the  Newark  Acad- 
emy, from  which  he  graduated  in  1876.  After 
spending  three  years  in  mercantile  jiursuits  he 
entered  the  surrogate's  otitice  in  Newark,  under 
Colonel  C.  Meyer  Zulick,  where  for  nine  years 
he  was  probate  clerk,  and  in  1889  was  elected 
to  the  office  of  surrogate  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  and  served  as  such  for  five  years,  when 
he  was  appointed  by  President  Grovcr  Cleve- 
land as  assistant  appraiser  of  the  Port  of  New 
York,  which  office  he  held  until  July  10,  1897. 
He  then  came  to  Newark,  where  he  made  a 
business  of  taking  charge  of  and  caring  for 
large  estates.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Joel 
Parker  Club,  the  Jeffersonian  Club,  and  the 
I'ourth  \\'ard  Democratic  Club.  For  twenty- 
eight  years  he  was  a  director  in  the  Mutual 
Benefit  and  Loan  Association,  and  was  also 
treasurer  of  the  Real  Estate  Brokers'  Ex- 
change, and  first  vice-president  of  the  Road 
Horse  Association  of  New  Jersey,  lie  was  a 
member  of  the  South  Baptist  Church,  of  New- 
ark. He  married  (first)  in  Newark,  Novem- 
ber 16,  1885.  Elizabeth,  born  1858,  died  Janu- 
ary 25,  1887.  daughter  of  Captain  Christian 
Myers,  who  was  killed  in  the  civil  war;  (sec- 
ond) in  Newark,  November  12,  1897,  Helen 
Wood,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Effie  (Sweasy) 
Van  Ness,  who  was  born  in  December,  1868. 
Children,  one  by  first  wife:  Helen  Townsend, 
born  January  20,  1887 ;  John  Baldwin,  Octo- 
ber 26,  1898;  Grant  \"an  Ness,  June  26,  1905. 

(H)  Peter,  son  of  Stephen  and  Amia 
(  Townsend  )  Dusenberry,  was  born  in  Orange 
county,  New  York.  He  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Josei)h  Lyon  and  Phebe  (Jones)  Wheel- 
er (see  Wheeler).  Children:  Augustus  and 
James  Peter,  both  referred  to  below;  .Anna, 
married  Jose])h  E.  ISuzby. 

(HI)  Augustus,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary 
(Wheeler)  Dusenberry,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  December  4,  1837.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  Dr.  Hedges,  after- 
wards to  Dr.  Ely's  boarding  school  at  Railway, 
and  then  to  Mr.  Conklin's  boarding  school  at 
Basking  Ridge,  after  which  he  began  his  career 
as  clerk  in  a  clothing  store  in  New  York  City. 
This  position  he  gave  up  in  order  to  take  an- 
other with  one  of  the  safe  manufacturers,  and 
ui  1874  he  started  in  the  hardware  business 
with  James  W.  Thatcher,  then  became  con- 
nected with  Roe  &•  Conover,  and  later  became 


|jresident  of  the  J.  B.  Cnnuver  Comi)any,  con- 
tinuing until  July,  1908,  when  he  sold  out  to 
Crane  &  Company.  I-'rom  1868  to  1872  he 
was  in  the  office  of  the  Newark  street  com- 
missioner, and  was  also  for  twelve  years  an 
alderman.  In  1888  he  was  elected  assembly- 
man, after  which  he  served  for  eight  years  as 
police  commissioner.  .At  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  Regiment. 
New  York  Volunteers,  as  private,  May  13, 
1801  ;  ])romoted  sergeant  May  following;  dis- 
charged May  16,  1863.  He  then  recruited 
Company  I,  Thirty-fifth  New  Jersey  Veteran 
X'olunteers.  of  which  he  was  appointed  captain, 
.Sej)tember  18.  1863.  mustered  out  with  same 
rank.  July  25,  1865.  September  17,  1862,  he 
was  taki-n  prisoner  and  sent  to  Libby  prison 
till  exchanged ;  July  22,  1864,  taken  prisoner 
at  Decatur,  Alabama,  and  sent  to  Atlanta  and 
Macon.  Georgia,  and  Charleston.  South  Caro- 
lina ;  he  escaped  from  the  latter  place,  and  was 
three  months  in  reaching  the  Union  army  at 
Nashville,  Tennessee.  He  is  a  member  of 
Lincoln  Pf)st,  No.  11.  G.  A.  R.  He  married  in 
.Xewark,  .August  3,  i8(x),  Mary  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Van  Winkle) 
Smith.  Children:  I.  Russie,  born  December 
28,  1872;  married  Carlton  George  Winans, 
who  was  born  November  13.  1872;  child, 
James  Dusenberry.  2.  I'red  Wheeler,  born 
May  ID.  1874;  married  Iva.  only  child  of  Dr. 
Ivlward  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (  Ryno)  Wake- 
field ;  child,  Fred  Augustus. 

(HI)  James  Peter,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary 
(Wheeler)  Dusenberry,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  April  19.  1844.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools, 
and  after  graduating  from  the  New^ark  high 
school  he  entered  a  store  as  boy  and  rose  to 
the  |)osition  of  bookkeeper.  In  1862  he  be- 
came attached  to  the  (luartermaster's  depart- 
ment ijf  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  after 
the  St.  .Mbans  raid  went  with  Cieneral  Pitkin 
to  \erniont  to  assist  the  state  (|uartermaster  in 
organizing  the  militia  to  resist  any  future  at- 
tacks from  Canada,  from  thence  to  Richmond 
after  its  cajjture  and  later  to  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  with  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment. United  States  army.  After  the  war  was 
over  he  becaiue  a  manufacturer  of  expansion 
I'uvelopes.  I'or  three  years  he  was  secretary 
for  the  Board  of  Assessment  and  Revision  of 
Taxes  of  Newark,  and  later  became  secretary 
of  the  Newark  Gas  Light  Comjiany ;  treasurer 
of  the  Newark  Gas  Company;  secretary  of  the 
llu<lson  (ias  Company,  and  treasurer  of  the 
Public  Service  Corporation  cif  New  Jersey.  He 


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is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  Newark,  and  a  director  in  the  National 
Newark  Banking  Company,  the  Firemans'  In- 
surance Company,  and  the  PubUc  Service  Cor- 
poration of  New  Jersey.  He  married  in  New- 
ark, February  i6,  1897,  P>ances,  daughter  of 
Judge  Caleb  S.  and  Frances  (Grant)  Tits- 
wortli  ( see  Titsworth). 

(The   Wheeler    Line). 

Deac<in  James  Wheeler,  founder  of  the 
branch  of  the  Wheeler  family  at  present  under 
consideration,  was  probably  with  the  two  Jo- 
seph Wheelers  who  were  in  Newark  in  1726, 
a  member  of  the  Milford  family  of  the  name. 
He  died  in  Newark,  January  ^.  1747,  aged 
si.xty-three  years.  In  1712  he  was  constable 
of  .N'ewark,  and  bought  from  .\braham  Kitchel 
the  home  lot  in  Newark  which  had  formerly 
been  the  property  of  Robert  Kitchel.  The 
name  of  his  first  wife  is  unknown.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  after  1723,  Alary,  widow  of 
Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Abigail  (Car- 
man) Coe,  who  was  born  about  1679,  and  died 
January  i,  1763,  aged  eighty- four  years.  Child, 
Caleb,  referred  to  below.  There  were  perhaps 
other  children. 

(II)  Deacon  Caleb,  son  of  Deacon  James 
and  Mary  Wheeler,  died  December  22,  1803, 
aged  seventy-seven  years,     lie  married  Phebe 

.      Children  :   Caleb,  married,   February 

23,  1778,  Betsy  Morris;  James,  referred  to 
below ;  A  daughter,  married  Rt)bert  Neil. 

(III)  Captain  James,  son  of  Deacon  Caleb 
and  Phebe  Wheeler,  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  March  12,  1777,  aged  thirty-seven 
years.  He  enlisted  during  the  revolution  and 
rose  to  the  rank  of  captain,  and  as  Cougar  well 
says,  he  is  "worthy  of  a  more  honorable  monu- 
ment than  the  edifice  stealthily  and  illegally 
erected  on  the  burial  place  of  the  family."  He 
married  Rhoda  Lyon,  who  after  his  death 
married  (second)  John  Crane.  Children:  Ste- 
phen, James.  Joseph  Lyon,  referred  to  below  ; 
Phebe,  married  (jovernor  William  S.  Penning- 
ton ;  Mary,  married  Halstead. 

(I\')  Joseph  Lyon,  son  of  Captain  James 
and  Rhoda  ( Lyon )  Wheeler,  married  Phebe, 
daughter  of  Zebulon  Jones.  Twelve  children, 
among  whom  Mary,  referred  to  below. 

(\')  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  Lyon  and 
Phebe  (Jones)  Wheeler,  married  Peter,  son  of 
.Ste])hen  and  Anna  (  Townsend  )  Dusenberry. 

Benjamin    Franklin    Faulk- 
l~.\l'LK  N  I-T\     ner.  first  member  of  the  fam- 
ily of  whom  we  have  definite 
iufnrmatii)n.  was  the  son  of  a  farmer  in  Oueen 


.Vnne's  county,  Maryland,  where  he  was  born 
in  1 81 7.  He  lived  at  Easton,  Talbot  county, 
Afaryland,  where  he  died  in  1844.  He  was  a 
manufacturer  of  wagons,  carts  and  wheels;  in 
politics  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  religion  a 
Methodist.  He  married  Emily  Adeline  Mills. 
Three  children:  Alfred  Beaston,  referred  to 
below,  and  a  son  and  daughter  who  died  in 
infancy. 

(II)  .Alfred  Beaston,  son  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  and  Emily  Adeline  (Mills)  Faulk- 
ner, was  born  at  Easton,  Talbot  county,  Mary- 
land, December  17,  1842.  After  leaving  school 
he  took  a  position  as  clerk  with  Goldsborough 
&  Dawson,  in  Easton,  Maryland,  after  which 
he  went  to  Baltimore,  where  he  found  a  posi- 
tion at  first  with  Murray  &  Hazlehurst,  and 
later  with  John  W.  I-lruft'  &  Company.  When 
this  latter  firm  dissolved  he  became  a  member 
of  its  successor,  Bruff,  Faulkner  &  Company, 
which  later  became  the  firm  of  Bruff,  Maddo.x 
&  Faulkner,  which  failed  about  1884.  Mr. 
h'aulkner  then  became  connected  with  the  law 
and  collection  firm  of  Snow,  Church  &  Com- 
pany, at  first  in  Philadelphia  and  afterward  in 
New  York.  Mr.  F^aulkner  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  LTnited  Merchants  Associa- 
tion of  New  York,  and  from  the  time  of  its 
organization,  about  1888,  until  his  death  in 
1891,  he  was  the  secretary  of  the  association. 
He  was  a  Presbyterian  in  religion  and  a  Dem- 
ocrat in  ])olitics,  but  he  was  always  a  lover  of 
])eace  and  retirement  and  held  himself  aloof 
from  public  services.  He  married  at  Glen 
Cove,  Long  Island,  November  19,  1867,  Louisa 
.•\ugusta,  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  March 
25,  1844,  granddaughter  of  Parker  and  Re- 
becca (Fisher)  Robinson,  who  were  married, 
October  10,  1795,  and  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Charlotte  ( Henoig)  Robinson.  Her  father 
was  born  November  24,  1802,  died  October  9. 
1863.  Her  mother  died  January  31,  1862. 
Children:  I.  Daniel  Robinson,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Emily  Josephine,  born  May  12,  1872. 

(III)  Daniel  Robinson,  son  of  Alfred 
lieaston  and  Louisa  Augusta  (Robinson) 
I'aulkner,  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
December  13,  1869.  .After  receiving  his  early 
education  in  the  Baltimore  public  school,  he 
attended  the  private  school  of  Major  Wilburn 
B.  Hall,  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  which  he  left 
without  graduating  in  June,  1886.  He  then 
started  in  business  with  the  insurance  broker- 
age firm  of  Butcher  &  Benedict,  145  Broad- 
way, New  York,  with  whom  he  remained  from 
November,  1886,  until  December,  1894,  when 
he  resigned  his  position  in  order  to  go  into 
business  for  himself  uiuler  the  firm  name  of 


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903 


King  &  Faulkner,  45  Cedar  street,  New  York. 
Tlie  new  tirm,  however,  was  not  a  success  so 
Mr.  Faulkner  separated  from  Mr.  King  in 
September,  1896,  and  took  a  position  with 
Frederick  P>.  Thomason,  then  of  13  William 
^trcet.  and  now  64  Wall  street.  New  York. 
Here  he  remained  until  February,  igo2,  when 
he  started  once  more  in  the  insurance  business 
un  his  own  account,  this  time  making  a  decided 
success,  his  office  being  95  William  street,  Xew 
York.  In  politics  Mr.  Faulkner  is  an  Inde- 
pcmlent.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Maryland 
Society  of  Xew  York,  and  of  the  New  York 
.•-Southern  Society.  He  married.  May  10,  1900, 
in  Elizabelli,  New  Jersey,  Susan  Creighton, 
born  in  Gladstone,  New  Jersey.  October  10, 
1879.  daughter  of  Elwood  and  Sarah  (Backus) 
Trail.  Children;  i.  Daniel  Robinson,  Jr.,  born 
January  1,  1903.  2.  Elwood  I'rall,  .\pril  2, 
1905. 

The  Entwistles  are  an  Eng- 
EN'TWiSTLE  lish  family,  said  to  be  one 
of  great  antiquity,  and 
better  ^till  of  honest  endeavor  and  honorable 
achievement  in  all  generations  in  the  mother 
country  and  also  on  tliis  side  of  the  Atlantic 
ocean,  where  the  surname  has  been  known  for 
something  like  a  century.  The  immediate  an- 
cestors of  the  particular  family  here  under 
consideration  were  noted  cotton  manufacturer^ 
in  Manchester,  Berry  and  Leeds,  England  ;  all 
men  of  character,  worth  and  influence  in  the 
Inisiness  w(jrld  and  in  the  more  private  walks 
of  life. 

I  1)  Thomas  Entwi.'-tle,  immigrant,  was  born 
in  .Manchester,  England,  and  came  to  .Amer- 
ica when  a  young  man,  settling  in  I'aterson, 
Xew  Jersey,  which  even  then  was  famous  for 
the  diversity  of  its  manufactures  and  the  skill 
of  its  mechanics,  operatives  and  artisans. 
Doubtless  young  Entwistle  found  former  ac- 
quaintances there  and  perhaps  was  induced  to 
come  to  this  country  through  the  re]iresenta- 
tions  of  those  who  had  precedeil  him  to  the 
nourishing  industrial  city  near  the  great  metrop- 
olis of  .America.  He  was  apprenticed  to  the 
trade  of  a  machinist,  and  after  having  became 
a  practical  workman  removed  to  New  York 
City  and  was  made  su])erintendent  of  the  Nov- 
elty Iron  Works.  Still  later  lie  was  emijloyed 
in  the  service  of  Horatio  Allen  a  mechanical 
engineer  of  wide  repute,  while  he  himself  had 
then  gained  considerable  prominence  as  a  me- 
chanical inventor,  having  patented  several  me- 
chanical a])pliances  and  was  engaged  in  their 
manufacture  and  sale  when  he  was  striken  and 


died.  .\t  that  time  he  had  sailed  for  Cuba, 
We.st  Indies,  with  a  shipment  of  machinery, 
and  during  his  stay  there  was  attacked  with 
climatic  fever  which  resulted  in  his  death  in 
1888,  soon  after  he  had  returned  to  New  York. 
Mr.  Entwistle  married  Fanny  Holt,  by  whom 
he  had  seven  children,  only  two  of  whom  are 
now  living,  Jane  F.lizabetli,  now  Mrs.  David 
Hutchinson,  and  James,  nf  wh(im  mention  is 
made  in  succeeding  paragra])hs. 

(  II  )  Rear  .Admiral  James  Entwistle,  son  of 
Thomas  and  I-'anny  (Holt)  Entwistle,  is  a  na- 
tive of  I'aterson,  New  Jersey,  born  July  8, 
1837,  ^"f'  s'i"  Vives  in  that  city,  although  much 
i>f  his  life  as  an  officer  of  rank  in  the  United 
States  navy  has  been  spent  in  other  scenes. 
.\s  a  boy  he  received  a  good  common  school 
educati<'n  in  his  native  town,  and  afterward 
for  some  time  was  a  student  at  the  Free  Acad- 
emy of  New  A'ork.  After  leaving  school  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  trade  of  ma- 
chinist at  the  Novelty  Iron  Works,  and  later 
became  a  mechanical  draughtsman  in  his 
father's  office  in  that  city.  He  was  thus  em- 
j)loyed  at  the  beginning  of  the  civil  war,  and 
within  less  than  ten  days  after  Mr.  Lincoln's 
call  for  volunteers  "to  suppress  treasonable 
reliellion."  he  enlisted  for  three  months  as  pri- 
vate in  Company  C,  Eighth  New  York  Volun- 
teer Militia.  He  continued  in  service  until  the 
e.xpiration  of  his  term  of  enlistment  and  took 
part  in  all  of  the  military  movements  of  iiis 
regiment,  including  the  tirst  battle  of  I'ull  Run, 
and  was  discharged  and  mustered  out  August 
2,  i8()i.  F"rom  the  day  of  his  enlistment  as 
private  in  the  three  months'  service  Admiral 
lintwistle's  life  has  belonged  to  our  national 
government  and  his  subsec|uent  sjilendid  record 
(if  achievement  has  become  a  part  of  our  na- 
tional annals  so  well  and  widely  known  as  to 
re(|nire  little  elaboration  of  detail  in  these 
pages;  and  the  story  of  his  rise  from  the  posi- 
ticiii  of  private  of  militia  to  the  rank  of  rear 
admiral  is  j)erliaps  best  told  in  a  recent  narra- 
tive account  pulilished  in  a  leading  military 
magazine,  from  which  free  ([notation  is  made 
in  the.se  pages. 

Immediately  after  his  discharge  in  .August. 
1X61,  he  was  granted  permission  by  the  secre- 
tary (jf  the  navy  to  appear  before  the  board  of 
examiners  for  admission  to  the  engineer  corps 
of  the  naval  department,  and  having  passed  a 
satisfactory  examination  was  appointed  to  that 
corps  as  a  third  assistant  engineer  from  civil 
life,  October,  i8r)i,  and  immediately  was  de- 
tailed for  duty  on  the  gunboat  "Aroostook," 
then  building  at  Kennebec,  Maine.    \N'hile  tiiat 


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vessel  was  being  fitted  out  at  the  Boston  navy 
yard  under  direction  of  Lieutenant  Commander 
J.  C.  Beaumont,  urgent  telegraphic  orders  were 
received  from  the  secretary  of  the  navy  to  pro- 
ceed to  sea  immediately  and  search  for  the 
L'nited  States  ship  "Vermont,"  which  vessel 
had  been  reported  as  having  lost  her  rudder. 
After  seven  days'  cruising  she  was  finall\- 
sighted  and  found  to  be  in  a  disabled  condition 
with  rudder  gone,  but  with  the  aid  of  a  hawser 
she  was  kept  head  to  the  sea  for  six  days 
while  a  temporary  rudder  was  being  put  in 
place ;  and  then  being  relieved  by  another  gun- 
boat the  "Aroostook"  sailed  for  Philadelphia 
and  was  immediately  ordered  to  Hampton 
Roads  atul  to  report  to  Admiral  Goldsborough, 
commanding  the  Xortli  Atlantic  squadron, 
reaching  there  the  next  day  after  the  historic 
battle  between  the  confederate  ram  "Merri- 
mac"  and  the  original  "Monitor,"  under  the 
command  of  Lieutenant  Commander  W'orden. 
He  took  part  in  all  subsequent  engagement^ 
between  the  "Ram"  and  her  escorts  in  tiieir 
attempts  to  destroy  the  L'nion  fleet,  and  after 
the  defeat  of  the  confederate  ships  entered  the 
James  river  with  a  detached  fleet  under  com- 
mand of  (.omuKMlore  Rogers  and  engaged  the 
batteries  at  I'^ort  Darling,  which  protected  the 
approach  to  Richmond,  Virginia ;  and  after  a 
bombardment  of  several  hours  the  fort  was 
silenced,  but  soon  afterward  having  been  rein- 
forced by  the  crew'  of  the  "Merrimac,"  which 
vessel  a  few  days  ])revi(iusly  had  been  blown 
up  by  the  Confederates,  the  engagement  was 
renewed  and  continued  until  nightfall,  when 
the  L'nion  gunboats  were  compelled  to  drop 
down  the  river  and  anchor  off  Sandy  Point. 
Afterwards  the  ".\roostook"  engaged  in  the 
work  of  covering  McClellan's  retreat  from  be- 
fore Richmond  to  Harrison's  Landing  on  the 
James  river,  and  soon  afterward  was  detach- 
ed from  the  Xorth  Atlantic  squadron  and  sent 
to  Pensacola,  Florida,  for  blockade  duty,  under 
command  of  .Admiral  P"arragut,  commanding 
the  west  gulf  blockading  squadron,  embracing 
the  coast  line  from  Pensacola  to  tlie  southern 
end  of  Texas  ;  and  later  took  part  in  nearly  all 
of  the  naval  engagements  under  command  of 
that  famous  naval  hero.  On  one  occasion, 
while  blockading  off  Mobile.  Alabama,  the 
"Aroostook"  had  the  extreme  good  fortune  to 
capture  the  first  prize,  the  schooner  "Sea 
Lion,"  with  her  cargo  of  two  hundred  and 
eighty-five  bales  of  Sea  Island  cotton,  while 
attempting  to  run  the  blockade  from  that  port 
The  "Aroostook"  continued  to  serve  in  the 
west  gidt    s(|uadron   until   January.    1865.   and 


tiien  was  detached  and  ordered  home.  In 
.\pril  following  .Admiral  Entwistle  was  ordered 
to  the  ship  "Mohongo,"  Captain  J.  \V.  A. 
Xickolson.  which  vessel  was  detailed  for  the 
Pacific  coast,  by  way  of  the  Straits  of  Magellan, 
and  while  enroute  touched  at  all  of  the  princi- 
jial  [jorts  on  the  Atlantic  coast  of  South  .Amer- 
ica, and  arrived  at  \alparaiso,  Chile,  at  the 
l)eginning  of  the  six  months'  blockade  and  final 
bombardment  of  that  city  by  the  Spanish  fleet 
under  command  of  Admiral  Menzes  Nunez. 
Following  the  movements  of  the  Spanish  fleet 
after  the  bombardment  he  w-as  a  witness  of  the 
final  attem]it  of  the  Spaniards  to  subdue  the 
.Sciuth  .\merican  republic  in  the  repulse  and 
[jartial  destruction  of  their  fleet  by  the  Peru- 
vians in  their  attempt  to  lay  waste  the  city  of 
Callao,  Peru,  and  proceeded  thence  to  Panama, 
where  the  "Mohongo"  remained  six  months 
guarding  the  railroad,  and  then  sailed  for 
.\capulco,  Mexico :  remained  at  the  latter  port 
during  the  Maximilian  sojourn,  and  from  there 
made  port  at  San  Francisco,  where  he  was  de- 
tached from  the  "Alohongo''  and  ordered  home 
by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  He  then 
was  attached  to  the  L^nited  States  ship  "Wamp- 
anoag"  during  the  experimental  trial  of  her 
machinery  at  the  navy  yard  at  New  W")rk;  re- 
mained there  until  February,  1868,  and  then 
was  ordered  to  the  "Amanorsac"  for  the  same 
duty  until  June,  1868.  After  that  he  was  at- 
tached to  the  ship  "Nipsic."  Commander  Self- 
ridge,  from  September,  1868.  until  December. 
i86f).  while  engaged  in  the  important  work  of 
making  a  preliminary  survey  of  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama  for  a  new  canal  route:  and  in  the 
light  of  subsequent  events  this  duty  on  the 
part  of  .\dmiral  Entwistle  may  be  regarded  as 
i)f  significant  importance.  Subsequently  he  had 
short  tiiurs  of  duty  aboard  the  ship  "Michigan" 
on  Lake  Erie,  at  League  Island.  Pennsvlvania. 
.md  I  in  the  monitors  "Saugus"  and  "Canoni- 
cun."  Next  be  was  ordered  to  the  flagship 
"I'rankliu."  under  command  of  Admiral 
W'orden  of  "Monitor"  fame,  for  a  cruise  to 
I'.urope,  and  on  the  return  of  that  vessel  in 
1876  one  of  her  involuntary  passengers  was 
William  M.  Tweed,  a  fugitive  from  justice, 
who  had  been  taken  at  \  igo.  Spain,  after  his 
escape  from  America. 

In  March.  1877.  .Admiral  Entwistle.  then 
passed  assistant  engineer,  rank  of  lieutenant, 
senior  grade,  was  ordered  to  special  duty  at 
the  navy  department  in  Washington,  and  in 
July  following  was  ordered  to  special  duty  at 
the  Morgan  Iron  \\  orks.  New  York,  as  assist- 
ant to  (ieneral  Inspector  Chief  Engineer  .Alex- 


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aiuler  Henderson,  United  States  navy,  for  the 
inspection  of  machinery  being  built  for  the  gov- 
ernment. In  December,  1878,  he  was  ordered 
to  duty  at  Mare  Island  navy  yard,  California. 
Three  years  later.  February,  1881,  he  was 
ordered  to  the  L'nited  States  ship  "Palos," 
Asiatic  station,  under  command  of  Commodore 
Green,  to  verify  the  longitude  of  all  open  ports 
on  the  coast  of  China  and  Japan,  from  Vladi- 
vostok, Siberia,  to  Hong  Kong,  China,  and 
upon  the  fulfillment  of  tiiese  duties  to  the  ship 
"Ashnielot."  Commander  Mullen,  United  States 
navy,  which  vessel  was  wrecked  in  February, 
1882.  on  Lammock  rocks  lying  between  Foo- 
chow  and  Amoy,  off  the  coast  of  China.  This 
loss  was  in  great  measure  due  to  treacherous 
currents,  dense  fogs  and  extreme  darkness 
j)eculiar  to  that  locality  during  the  winter 
months,  and  when  all  hope  of  saving  the  ship 
had  vanished  she  was  finally  abandoned  and 
went  down  in  seventeen  fathoms  of  water  in 
forty  minutes  from  the  time  of  striking,  officers 
and  men  losing  everything  but  what  they  stood 
in.  .\t  daylight  those  who  escaped  made  a 
landing  on  a  barren  island  and  found  eleven 
men  missing.  In  the  meantime  a  whaleboat 
had  been  disj)atched  to  Foochow,  thirty  miles 
distant,  for  ])rovisions  and  assistance,  which 
arrived  on  the  following  morning  and  proved 
to  be  a  Chinese  man-of-war  under  command 
of  a  former  English  naval  officer,  and  all  were 
taken  to  Hong  Kong  and  soon  afterward 
ordered  home. 

In  .November,  1885,  Admiral  Entwistle  was 
again  on  duty  at  the  Morgan  Iron  Works  dur- 
ing the  completion  of  the  "Chicago,"  "Boston," 
"Atlantic"  and  "Dolphin,"  after  the  failure  of 
John  Roach  &  Comjjany,  the  once  famous 
ship-building  concern  of  Chester,  Pennsyl- 
vania. An  interesting  fact  in  this  connection 
is  that  these  four  vessels  formed  the  nucleus 
of  our  present  powerful  American  navy.  .Mter 
the  completion  of  his  duties  in  the  connection 
just  mentioned  he  had  short  tours  of  experi- 
mental duty  on  the  ".Marm,"  our  first  torpedo- 
boat,  and  the  double-turretted  monitor  "Puri- 
tan," followed  by  inspection  duty  at  Newport, 
Bristol  and  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  in  con- 
nection with  steam  capstan  engines,  which 
were  the  first  to  be  installed  on  a  United  States 
man-of-war.  Subse(|uently  lie  spent  one  year 
on  special  duty  on  board  the  training  ship 
"Minnesota,"  stationed  at  New  York.  In  Se])- 
tember  1887,  he  was  assigned  to  the  govern- 
ment ship  "Fnter])rise,"  Commander  B.  H. 
.McCalla,  United  States  navy,  which  vessel  made 
line  of  the  most  varied  and  extended  cruises  in 


lutropean  waters  that  ever  was  made  by  an 
.American  man-of-war,  and  during  her  thirty- 
two  months'  commission  she  steamed  some- 
thing like  forty-three  thousand  miles,  includ- 
ing a  voyage  around  the  island  of  Madagascar 
and  also  visiting  nearly  seventy  percent  of  the 
ports  and  inland  cities  by  river  navigation, 
tjoth  in  Euro])e  and  the  Continent.  In  June, 
1890,  he  was  ordered  to  the  Bath  Iron  Works, 
Batli.  Maine,  as  inspector  of  machinery  of  the 
"Machias."  "Castine,"  "Amnion,"  and  the  ram 
"Katahdin,"  having  been  on  this  duty  five 
vears  and  six  months.  In  November,  1895, 
iie  was  assigned  to  duty  on  the  "Boston,"  Cap- 
tain Frank  Wilde,  fitting  out  at  the  Mare 
Island  navy  yard  for  a  cruise  to  China;  de- 
tached January,  1897,  and  reported  for  duty 
(111  .Adiiiiral  Dewey's  flagshi])  "Olympia,"  as 
engineer  of  the  fleet.  He  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Manilla  Bay,  May  i,  1898,  and  was  highly 
commended  by  Admiral  Dewey,  awarded  the 
Dewey  medal  and  commended  by  the  secretary 
of  the  navy  and  board  of  naval  officers  for  ad- 
vancement in  numbers  for  eminent  and  con- 
spicuous services  in  the  battle.  In  December, 
1898,  he  was  detached  from  the  "01yiii])ia" 
by  telegraph  from  the  secretary  of  the  navy  and 
ordered  to  the  United  States  ship  "Raleigh," 
Captain  J.  R.  Coghlan,  United  States  navy,  for 
passage  to  the  United  States,  arriving  home  in 
.April,  1899,  and  placed  on  the  retired  list  of 
officers,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
the  revised  statutes  of  the  United  States. 

Having  thus  noted  in  a  general  way  some- 
thing of  the  life  and  experiences  of  .Admiral 
Entwistle  as  an  officer  of  the  American  navy, 
it  is  perhaps  necessary  to  our  present  narrative 
to  note  his  individual  rank  and  advancement 
from  time  to  time  throughout  the  long  period 
of  his  naval  career :  Appointed  third  assistant 
engineer,  rank  of  ensign,  October,  1861  ;  pro- 
moted second  assistant  engineer,  rank  of  lieu- 
tenant, junior  grade,  July,  1866;  jiromoted 
passed  assistant  engineer,  rank  of  lieutenant, 
senior  grade,  October,  1866;  promoted  chief 
engineer,  rank  of  lieutenant  commander,  July, 
1877:  promoted  chief  engineer,  rank  of  com- 
mander. October,  1896;  promoted  captain. 
March,  1899;  promoted  rear  admiral.  Febru 
ary.  1901. 

In  Scotland  the  ( Iraliams  are 
(iR.MlAM      a  family  of  distinction,  and  in 

England  and  Ireland  are  those 
(>\  this  honored  surname  who  have  attained 
til  positions  of  i)rominence  in  official  life.  The 
traditional   origin   of  the   family  dates   to  the 


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ducal  house  of  Montrose  and  thence  traces 
back  in  its  ancestry  to  about  the  fifth  century. 
In  early  Scottish  history  the  clan  Graham 
played  an  important  and  chivalrous  part,  and 
for  gallantry  acquired  the  designation  of  the 
"gallant  Ciraemes."  In  ancient  times  the  Gra- 
hams were  famous  champions  of  right  and 
justice,  and  even  in  more  recent  times  there 
have  been  those  of  this  honorable  house  who 
have  lent  their  aid  to  the  cause  of  rights  of 
man  ;  and  it  was  through  the  advocacy  of  prin- 
ciples such  as  these  that  the  immigrant  ances- 
tor of  the  particular  Graham  family  here  treat- 
ed came  to  this  country. 

(  I  )  Joseph  Graham,  the  immigrant,  was 
liorn  in  I'jigland  and  died  at  Haledon,  New 
Jersey,  aged  sixty-three  years.  P.ecause  of  his 
advocacy  of  the  cause  of  the  workingmen  of 
England,  in  seeking  to  secure  for  them  shorter 
hours  of  daily  labor,  he  was  virtually  e.xiled 
from  his  native  land  and  com])elled  to  seek  a 
new  home  in  .America;  and  here  as  in  the 
mother  cnuntry  he  was  the  first  man  to  cham- 
pion the  cause  of  shorter  hours  of  labor  for 
workingmen.  He  was  a  skillful  designer  and 
metal  engraver. 

(II)  John,  son  of  Joseph  Graham,  was  born 
in  England  in  1818,  died  in  Jersey  City,  New 
Jersey,  July  2,  1881.  He  was  quite  young  when 
he  came  with  his  father  to  this  country.  He 
was  one  of  the  earliest  engineers  on  the  old 
Paterson  and  Hudson  railroad,  also  was  a 
skilled  taxidermist  and  a  horticulturalist  of 
considerable  local  celebrity.  His  wife  was 
Dorothy  Ryerson,  and  by  her  he  had  two  chil- 
dren:  I.  Joseph  Ryerson.  2.  Harriet,  married 
James  Johnson. 

(III)  Joseph'  Ryerson,  son  of  John  and 
Dorothy  (Ryerson)  Graham,  was  born  in  Pat- 
erson, New  Jersey,  September  21,  1842;  died 
there,  January  30,  1906.  He  was  educated  in 
the  ]niblic  schools  and  as  a  pupil  exhibited  such 
remarkable  jjroficiency  in  studies  that  thrice 
was  he  sought  out  and  asked  to  become  him- 
self a  teacher,  lint  he  declined  all  of  these 
offers  in  favor  of  his  own  determination  to 
become  a  business  man,  and  as  a  foundation 
of  his  subse(|uent  career  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade,  becoming  a  competent  and  practical 
workman.  .\nd  like  his  father  and  grand- 
father before  him,  Mr.  Graham  always  mani- 
fested a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  work- 
ingmen in  general,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty 
years  organized  the  first  carpenters'  union  and 
became  the  first  president  of  that  pioneer  body. 
In  1874  he  was  elected  alilerman  of  old  Ward 
5.  Paterson,  served  two  terms  in  that  office,  and 


in  1879  was  elected  mayor  of  the  city  and 
served  efficiently  a  full  term.  And  withal,  Mr. 
Graham  was  a  capable  and  successful  business 
man,  having  begun  his  career  as  a  journeyman 
carjienter.  In  1864  he  started  in  business  on 
his  own  account,  as  a  manufacturer  of  sash, 
doors  and  blinds,  and  then  established  what 
eventually  became  one  of  the  largest  enter- 
prises of  its  kind  in  Passaic  county. 

lie  married,  August  3,  1871,  Anna  M.,  born 
( )ctober  2T^.  1855.  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Madaline  ( Haultzhausen)  Meyers,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York.  Qiildren :  i.  George  Ryer- 
son, born  June  14,  1872;  died  August  14,  1873. 
2.  Emma  J.,  October  5,  1873 !  died  August  5, 
1898.  3.  Florence  May,  May  5,  1877;  died 
March  19.  1882.  4.  Viola  K.,  January  3,  1883; 
married,  February  28,  1908,  \'ernon  E.  Royle. 
5.  Joseph  R.,  February  9,  1885;  died  .March  3, 
1909. 

The  Keighley  family  is  an- 
l\  I'"  IGi  I LE'^'  other  of  the  late  acf|uisitions 
to  this  country  and  to  New 
Jer>e\-  soil,  being  represented  by  only  three 
generations,  the  last  of  which  has  still  to  make 
its  name  for  itself;  but  the  two  first  genera- 
tions have  already  left  a  permanent  impress 
on  the  industries  of  the  state  in  their  chosen 
calling  and  now  enjoy  not  oidy  a  local  but  also 
a  national  reputation. 

(  I )  Charles  Keighley,  founder  of  the  fam- 
il\',  was  born  in  ("ireat  Horton,  Bradford,  York- 
shire, England,  June  i,  1842,  and  is  now  living 
in  X'ineland,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey. 
.\fter  receiving  his  etlucation  in  Great  Horton 
he  became  an  apj^rentice  in  the  shoe  factory 
of  his  grandfather,  where  he  learned  his  trade. 
.\fter  this  he  went  to  Bradford  to  complete 
his  term  of  apprenticeship,  and  then  set  up  in 
business  for  himself,  conducting  a  retail  boot 
and  shoe  store  successfully  until  1870,  when  he 
accepted  an  offer  to  become  the  agent  in  Amer- 
ica of  Pitt  Brothers,  of  Cleckheaton,  York- 
shire, who  were  introducing  into  this  country 
their  circular  feed  sewing  machine.  Mr. 
Keighley  was  so  pleased  with  his  experiences 
while  here  on  this  work  that  he  subsequently 
returned  with  his  family,  and  made  his  home 
in  Philadelphia  as  the  regular  representative 
of  Pitt  P.rothers.  In  1873  he  removed  to  \''ine- 
land,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
tried  farming,  but  after  about  a  year  went 
back  to  his  old  trade,  obtaining  a  position  in  a 
shoe  factory,  which  he  retained  until  his  em- 
ployers failed  in  1873.  He  then  made  an  agree- 
ment   with    Hunt    ^c    Reeves    to    manufacture 


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shiK's  for  tlieiii  at  a  given  price,  they  supply- 
ing the  materials.  Beginning  with  twenty 
workmen,  his  business  grew  so  that  in  1884  he 
erected  his  present  four-story  brick  factory, 
covering  fifty-four  thousand  square  feet  of 
superficial  area,  where  he  employed  four  hun- 
dred operatives,  with  a  capacity  of  two  thous- 
and pairs  of  shoes,  both  hand  and  machine 
made,  for  men,  women,  misses  and  children, 
sending  his  product  to  all  parts  of  the  United 
States.  In  1894  he  took  into  partnership  with 
himself  his  two  sons,  and  since  then  the  firm 
name  has  been  Charles  Keighley  &  Sons.  Much 
of  his  success  has  been  due  to  a  number  of 
labor-saving  devices  and  machines  which  he 
has  invented  and  patented,  the  most  important 
of  which  in  his  estimation  is  the  automatic 
Ileal  burnisher,  which  enables  the  work  of  three 
men  to  lie  done  by  one.  This  machine  but 
recently  he  has  still  further  im]irove<l  as  to 
cajiacity  and  qualitv  of  work  done. 

To  Mr.  Keighley  is  mainly  due  the  pure 
water  supply  of  the  town.  In  1885  lie  obtain- 
ed from  the  authorities  of  the  borough  the 
fr;uichise  necessary,  and  immediately  set  about 
drilling  the  wells  and  building  the  needed  struc- 
tures for  the  water  works.  When  completed 
he  liad  put  in  at  the  pump  station  a  fire  punif) 
so  jiowerful  that  three  streams  from  hydrants 
could  be  i)layed  through  the  regulation  hose 
over  any  building  in  the  town.  He  had  laid 
some  fifteen  miles  of  water  mains.  This  pro- 
ject has  now  become  the  Vineland  Water 
Works  Company,  which  is  now  a  part  of  the 
borough  e<|uipment.  Air.  Keighley  has  not 
only  devoted  himself  to  his  chosen  line  of  shoe 
manufacturing,  but  has  become  interested  in 
other  enterprises,  among  which  are :  The 
manufacture  of  glass  bottles,  window  glass, 
artificial  stone,  leather  tanning,  shoe  machinery, 
gold  mining  in  Arizona,  Idaho,  Montana,  Ne- 
vada and  r.ritish  Columbia.  In  1898  he  etiuip- 
])ed  an  expedition  to  search  the  Peace  river 
district  of  Piritish  Columbia  for  placer  gold 
deposits,  which  was  partially  successful.  He 
has  always  had  a  particular  fondness  for  fancy 
farming  and  stock  raising  and  he  hopes 
some  day  when  the  arduous  duties  of  active 
business  life  become  less,  to  retire  to  an  ideal 
spot  close  to  Vineland,  where  he  can  devote 
the  remainder  of  his  days  to  his  long  cherished 
fancies  in  farm  and  live  stock.  To  Air.  Keigh- 
ley's  credit  it  must  be  said  that  he  has  helped 
many  a  struggling  manufacturer  to  get  on  his 
feet  and  make  a  success.  Mr.  Keighley  is  a 
director  of  the  Tradesmen's  Piank  of  Vine- 
land,      For   twenty-two  years   he   has  been   a 


trustee  of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  and  a  director  of  the  New  Jersey 
Training  School  for  Feeble  Minded  Children, 
while  his  wife  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  State  Institute  for 
I'Veble  Minded  Women,  and  on  the  board  of 
lady  visitors  of  the  Training  School  for  Feeble 
Minded  Children,  and  for  many  years  presi- 
dent of  the  Women's  Christian  Temperance 
L'nion.  Charles  Keighley  married,  December 
17,  1863,  Martha,  daughter  of  William  Parker 
Uottomley,  of  Great  Ilorton,  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land. They  have  had  eight  children,  only  two 
of  whom  reached  maturity :  W'illiam  Bottom- 
ley,  and  Charles  Percv.  bi>th  of  whom  are  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(Ill  William  Bottomley,  eldest  son  to  reach 
maturity  of  Charles  and  Martha  ( Ijottoniley  ) 
Keighley,  was  born  in  Pradford,  Yorkshire, 
March  31,  1868,  and  is  now  living  in  Vineland. 
New  Jersey.  For  his  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  public  schools  of  \'ineland,  and  after- 
wards to  Pennington  .Seminary,  where  he  grad- 
uated with  marked  honors.  He  then  became 
one  of  tlie  deiiartment  foremen  in  his  father's 
factory,  and  wdien  the  new  firm  was  formed 
was  taken  into  partnership  and  he  became  the 
general  manager  and  buyer  of  most  of  the  ma- 
terial used,  and  is  now  also  vice-presiilent  of 
the  Keighley  Company,  manufacturers  of  shoe 
machinery  and  supplies.  He  was  also  interested 
in  the  Vineland  Water  Works  Company,  of 
which  he  was  secretary  and  treasurer,  and 
helped  to  make  that  comjiany  the  success  it 
attained.  Like  his  father,  he  is  an  inventor, 
and  has  taken  out  many  patents  for  improved 
boot  and  shoe  machinery,  glass  machinery,  gold 
washing  machinery,  rubber  tires,  etc..  and  his 
business  ability  is  of  a  high  order.  He  is  a 
student  and  close  observer  in  the  sciences,  espe- 
cially metaphysics  as  applied  to  natural  phe- 
nomena. He  believes  that  the  connng  method 
of  transportation  will  be  by  the  air,  even  for 
carriage  of  heavy  bulky  freight  and  cargoes, 
and  that  it  is  possible  and  probable  that  we 
will  be  able  to  leave  New  York  City  at  7  p.  m. 
and  be  in  London  by  7  p.  m.  next  day,  and  that 
bv  1920.  Besides  shoes  and  shoe  machinery  he 
is  interested  in  window  glass  mamifacturing, 
gold  mining  in  Mexico,  Nevada,  California, 
.Montana  and  Colorado.  In  1898  he  headed 
an  expedition  to  the  Peace  river  country  in 
search  of  placer  deposits.  He  predicts  that 
British  Columbia  will  be  one  of  the  greatest 
mining  countries  of  the  world,  that  its  mineral 
wealth  is  simply  marvelous  and  that  it  awaits 
only  the  transportation   facilities  necessary  to 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


cause  a  movement  in  that  direction  that  will 
eclipse  the  rush  of  1849  to  California  or  the 
rush  of  1898  to  the  Klondyke.  He  is  an  ac- 
complished musician,  and  for  eighteen  years 
has  been  chorister  and  organist  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  Vineland ;  he 
organized  and  led  for  years  a  fine  concert  band. 
Mr.  Keighley  is  a  Prohibitionist  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  Vineland  Lodge,  No.  69,  I'^ree 
and  Accepted  Alasons,  and  of  Eureka  Chapter, 
No.  13,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Vineland.  He 
married,  September  11,  1891,  Carrie  Frances, 
daughter  of  Rev.  George  S.  Sykes,  a  Meth- 
odist minister  of  Pennsylvania ;  they  have  no 
children. 

(H)  Charles  Percy,  second  child  of  Charles 
and  Martha  (Bottomley)  Keighley  to  reach 
maturity,  was  born  in  P.radford,  Yorkshire, 
England,  July  12,  1870,  and  is  now  living  in 
Vineland.  New  Jersey.  Like  his  brother,  he 
was  sent  to  the  Vineland  public  schools  and  to 
Pennington  Seminary  for  his  education.  He 
then  took  charge  of  his  father's  Philadelphia 
office,  at  1 1  North  Fourth  street,  where  he  re- 
mained for  the  ne.xt  three  years,  when  his 
father  discontinued  the  office  because  he  had 
determined  to  sell  direct  to  the  jobbers  and  the 
retailers.  Charles  Percy  then  came  to  Vine- 
land  and  took  charge  of  the  sales  and  financial 
department  of  the  business,  and  also  became 
the  buyer  of  the  upper  leathers.  He  is  now 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Keithley  Com- 
pany. He  is  a  member  of  the  .'Mplia  and 
Omega  Greek  letter  fraternity  of  Pennington 
Seminary,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Hobah 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
Like  his  brother,  he  is  a  Prohibitionist.  He  is 
also  an  inventor  and  interested  in  the  manu- 
facture of  window  glass,  shoe  machinery  and 
in  mining  operations  in  the  west.  He  has  ably 
fillcfl  the  position  of  secretary  and  treasurer 
in  a  number  of  large  business  combinations 
and  is  very  active  in  business  circles.  Charles 
Percy  Keighley  married.  September  2,  1891. 
Elizabeth  IL.  daughter  of  John  \\'.  Carson,  of 
\'ineland.  They  have  two  children:  Ilelenc 
Jennings  and  Marian  Holden. 


This  family  of  IMcKees  came  to 
.McKEF.  America  from  the  north  of  Ire- 
land, and  while  the  McKees  of 
that  region  of  country  had  lived  there  for  many 
generations  previous  to  the  last  century  and 
while  some  of  them  perhaj^s  had  intermarried 
with  pure  Irish  families,  they  sprung  from 
original  Scotch  ancestors  who  were  famous  in 
olden  times. 


(I)  William  McKee,  immigrant  ancestor  of 
the  family  here  treated,  was  born  in  the  north 
of  Ireland,  January  13,  1813;  died  at  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  I'ebruarj-  19,  1881.  He  came  to 
this  country  about  the  year  1830,  settling  first 
at  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  from  whence  he  re- 
moved up  the  Hudson  river,  changing  his  resi- 
dence from  there  about  the  year  1850,  settling 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  where  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  a  stock  farmer 
by  principal  occupation  for  many  years  after 
he  settled  in  Hoboken,  and  is  remembered  as 
having  been  much  interested  in  the  breeding  of 
fine  blooded  horses.  Just  how  many  horses  he 
bred  for  the  racing  track  would  be  difficult  to 
say  at  this  time,  but  among  the  many  was  the 
famous  trotter  "Judge  Fullerton,"  one  of  the 
very  best  horses  of  his  day  in  the  L'nited  States. 
The  producing  of  thorough-bred  horses  gave 
Mr.  McKee  a  wide  reputation  among  genuine 
sportsmen  and  lovers  of  fine  stock,  and  in  the 
times  when  track  racing  was  in  its  infancy  he 
was  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  the  stock 
breeding  business.  Cpon  taking  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Paterson,  he  was  proprietor  of  a 
livery  and  sales  stable  which  stood  in  the  cen- 
ter of  the  city  on  the  site  now  occupied  by  the 
county  courthouse.  Mr.  McKee  married  Eliza 
(W'illis)  Berdan,  born  June  22,  1806;  died  at 
Paterson,  January  17,  1876,  daughter  of  John 
and  Catherine  Willis,  and  widow  of  Jacob 
Berdan.  Children:  i.  James  Willis,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Alida,  born  August  31,  1842;  died 
May  14,  1893. 

( II)  James  Willis,  only  son  of  William  and 
Eliza  (Willis)  (Berdan)  McKee,  was  born  in 
Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  October  24,  1840;  died 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  May  4,  1902.  He 
was  a  boy  of  eleven  years  when  his  father 
moved  to  Paterson,  and  when  old  enough  to 
work  learned  the  trade  of  cabinet  making,  be- 
coming a  practical  workman,  and  for  many 
years  built  the  cabs  for  the  engines  constructed 
at  the  Cooke  Locomotive  Works.  About  the 
beginning  of  the  civil  war  he  became  proprietor 
(if  a  hotel  and  continued  in  that  business  some 
ten  or  twelve  years.  In  1872  he  became  a 
professional  singer,  and  is  remembered  as  one 
of  the  noted  vocalists  of  his  day,  a  popular 
member  of  the  Tony  Pastor  company  and  also 
a  favorite  under  Harrigan  and  Hart.  In  1880 
he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  free- 
holders of  Passaic  county,  and  in  1884  was 
elected  sheriff  of  the  county,  holding  the  latter 
office  until  January  i,  1888.  He  then  engaged 
in  the  undertaking  business  with  his  son,  Will- 
iam B..  under  the  firm  name  of  Tames  W.  Mc- 


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Kcf  &  Still,  and  ctMitinued  the  same  until  his 
(Icatii.  I'or  man)'  )-ears  Mr.  McKee  was  one 
of  the  most  popular  citizens  of  Paterson,  and 
few  men  had  a  more  extended  acquaintance 
than  he  in  the  entire  county.  In  politics  he 
was  a  strong  Republican,  but  he  had  also  many 
sincere  friends  in  the  Democratic  party  who 
were  always  ready  to  support  him  when  he  was 
a  candidate  for  public  office.  He  was  a  prom- 
inent member  of  New  York  Lodge,  No.  i, 
lienevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He 
married,  C)ctober  10,  1861,  Margaret  Bush, 
horn  September  22,  1837,  daughter  of  Peter 
and  Eliza  Ann  (W^anamaker)  Bush,  of  Lodi, 
liergen  county.  New  Jersey.  Children:  i. 
-Mida,  born  March  25,  1863;  died  December  4, 
18(13.  2.  \\'illiani  Bush,  July  20,  1864  ;  married 
(first)  Etta  C.  Burton,  by  whom  he  had  one 
child,  Alida  ; married  (second)  Josephine  Phae- 
lan  ;  no  children.  3.  Wood,  November  10,  1866  ; 
see  forward.  4.  Jesse,  June  18,  1869;  married, 
January  9,  i88g,  Charles  Loman  Dooley,  born 
.August  3,  1866;  one  child,  Charles  Cameron 
Dooley,  born  December  14,  1899.  5.  Eugene 
X'ott,  January  25,  1872;  died  July  3,  1872.  6. 
Walter.  June  9,  1877  ;  died  July  7,  1877. 

( III )  Wood,  son  of  James  W^illis  and  Mar- 
garet (Bush)  McKee,  was  born  in  the  city  of 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  November  10,  1866. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  Father  McManus'  Seminary.  After 
leaving  school  he  took  up  the  study  of  law 
with  Judge  Francis  Scott,  and  in  1888  was 
admitted  to  practice.  For  twenty  years  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Passaic  county  bar,  en- 
gaged in  active  general  practice,  and  in  connec- 
tion with  professional  employments  he  has 
taken  considerable  interest  in  public  afifairs, 
always  on  the  Republican  side,  for  Mr.  McKee 
is  regarded  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  that  party 
in  the  city  and  county.  From  1897  to  1899  he 
was  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  state 
legislature,  and  from  1900  to  1906  occupied 
a  seat  in  the  state  senate.  I^ike  his  father,  Mr. 
McKee  is  an  accomplished  vocalist,  and  is 
basso  in  the  choir  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  Prot- 
estant Episcopal.  He  is  a  thirty-second  de- 
gree Mason,  member  of  Ivanhoe  Lodge,  No 
88,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  Adelphic 
Chapter,  No.  ^^.  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Terry 
Council,  No.  6.  Royal  and  Select  Masters; 
Melita  Commandery,  No.  13,  Knights  Temp- 
lar; Silk  City  Conclave,  No.  232,  Order  of 
Heptasophs ;  Fabiola  Lodge,  Knights  of 
Pythias;  Pioneer  Camp,  No.  7734,  Modern 
Woodmen  of  .'\merica ;  Paterson  Lodge,  No. 
60,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 


He  also  is  a  member  of  the  Mecca  and  Hamil- 
ton clubs,  of  Pater.son.  Mr.  McKee  married 
Alargaret  Ayres,  born  February  22,  1868,  died 
May  22,  1908,  daughter  of  James  G.  and  Ellen 
(Watson)  .\yres,  the  former  of  whom  was 
for  many  years  superintendent  of  the  Cooke 
Locomotive  Works,  of  Paterson.  Children : 
I.  Dorothy,  born  June  24,  1896.  2.  Jessie,  July 
3.  1898.     3.  Margaret,  July  23,  1906. 


The  Cook  family  in  America  was 
C()()K  founded  by  Francis  Cooke,  who 
came  to  Massachusetts  in  1620,  on 
the  "Maytlower,"  with  one  child  John.  His 
wife  Esther  and  children  Jacob,  Jane  and 
Esther  came  in  the  ".\nn"  in  1623.  The  name 
was  spelled  with  an  "e"  until  later  generations. 
From  Xew  England  descendants  of  I'rancis 
t'ooke  settled  in  Hunterdon,  Monmouth  and 
Mercer  counties.  New  Jersey.  The  Cook  fam- 
ily of  Trenton  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  that  city 
or  vicinity.  Among  the  archives  of  New  Jer- 
sey is  found  the  following:  "1867,  Apr.  20 
Ballefield  Certificate  of  Mahlon  Stacy  and  that 
•Vnthony  Woodhouse  employee  of  William 
Cook  had  done  his  duty  in  West  Jersey."  "On 
April  23,  1687,  William  Cook  of  Sheffield,  Eng- 
land, gave  forty  acres  to  Anthony  Woodhouse 
yeoman  of  the  First  Fourth  for  his  services." 
In  Hunterdon  county  the  f(5under  of  the  fam- 
ily retained  the  final  "e"  and  in  Shrewsbury, 
Monmouth  county,  one  Thomas  Cooke  men- 
tions in  his  will  of  December  12,  1698,  his  wife 
Elizabeth,  sons  William,  Thomas  and  daugh- 
ter Elizabeth.  Henry  Cook  appears  in  the 
New  Jersey  Archives  by  indenture  between 
himself  and  one  Peeps,  the  same  bearing  date 
of  November  I,  1708.  This  land  was  one 
hundred  acres  in  what  was  then  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey.  It  is  from  the  Mercer 
county  Cooks  that  Henry  Brown  Cook,  of  At- 
lantic City,  descends. 

(I)  Henry  Brown  Cook  was  a  leading  con- 
tractor and  builder,  and  settled  in  Atlantic 
City,  New  Jersey,  where  in  1872  he  built  what 
was  then  a  large  hotel  which  he  called  the 
"Senate  House,"  which  he  conducted  until  his 
death,  enlarging  it  in  1879  and  again  in  189 1. 
He  married  Rebecca  Emmons  and  they  had 
Henry  C,  deceased ;  Joiin  J.,  now  living  in 
.Atlantic  City,  Franklin  Pierce,  see  forward, 
and  Elizabeth  A.,  married  David  R.  Barrett. 

(II)  F'ranklin  Pierce,  son  of  Henry  Brown 
and  Rebecca  (Emmons)  Cook,  was  Ixirn  in 
IMiiladelphia,  Pennsylvania,  December  5,  185 1. 
On  the  death  of  his  father  the  business  of  con- 
ducting the  hotel  devolved  ujjon  him.     In  1897 


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STATE    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


the  property  was  again  enlarged,  the  location 
•on  the  beach  front  making  it  a  very  desirable 
resort  for  tourists.  Air.  Cook  was  a  member 
of  the  Atlantic  City  common  council  in  1882, 
.and  was  three  times  re-elected.  He  was  pro- 
gressive in  his  ideas  and  stood  boldly  for  all 
needed  public  improvements,  lie  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  Neptune  Fire  Company,  and  the 
first  to  advocate  the  use  of  horses  by  the  fire 
department,  and  had  a  great  deal  to  do  with 
making  the  "IJoard  Walk,"  a  steel  elevated 
structure,  lie  was  a  member  of  the  board  of 
water  commissioners  in  1895.  Many  of  the 
attractive  features  of  Atlantic  City  were  either 
introduced  or  chamj)ioned  by  Mr.  Cook.  He 
married  Sally  S.  liarrett,  born  on  Long  Island, 
New  York,  daughter  of  David  R.,  Sr.,  and 
Lydia  ( Naylor)  liarrett.  Lydia  Naylor's 
mother  was  Marion  Jackson,  a  daughter  of 
Major  William  Luke  Jackson,  who  served  on 
the  staff  of  General  Washington  during  the 
revolution,  and  served  as  private  secretary  to 
President  Washington  in  first  term.  Major 
Jackson's  wife  was  Elizabeth  Willing.  The 
children  of  Franklin  P.  and  Sally  S.  (Barrett) 
Cook  are:  i.  Harry  Brown,  see  forward.  2. 
Rebecca  E.,  born  in  1879;  married  Leonard 
D.  Alger,  born  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. 3.  Benjamin  Harrison,  born  in  1881.  4. 
Howell  E.,  born  in  1886.  The  brothers  are 
owners  and  proprietors  of  the  "Seaside  House," 
Atlantic  City,  which  they  conduct  under  the 
name  of  F.  P.  Cook's  Sons.  They  are  the 
third  generation  in  the  business,  and  comprise 
the  oldest  hotel  family  in  the  city.  The  "Sea- 
side" was  established  in  1870  and  rebuilt  in 
1900.  situated  at  the  sea  end  of  Pennsylvania 
avenue,  Atlantic  City's  most  fashionable  thor- 
oughfare, facing  the  ocean,  and  clirectly  over- 
looking the  "Pioard  Walk"  and  famous  steel 
])iiT,  and  is  open  all  the  year. 

(Ill)  1  larry  Brown,  son  of  Franklin  Pierce 
and  Sally  S.  (  Barrett)  Cook,  was  born  in  Phil- 
adel])hia,  I'ennsylvania,  March  27,  1873.  He 
attended  the  .Atlantic  City  schools  and  Prick- 
etts  Business  College  at  Philadelphia.  He  was 
taught  the  hotel  business  by  his  father  who 
early  took  him  into  his  employ,  and  has  proved 
a  worthy  successor  to  the  two  generations  of 
hotel  jiroprietors  who  preceded  him.  Air. 
Cook  is  a  member  of  the  .Atlantic  City  Yacht 
and  Country  clubs,  and  vice-president  of  the 
Hotel  Alen's  .Association.  He  married  Hancie 
.A.,  burn  in  Philadel])hia.  in  1877,  daughter  of 
Tho!nas  Irwin,  formerly  a  resident  of  Phila- 
delphia, now  of  .'Atlantic  City.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Harry  B.  Cook  are  the  parents  of  two  children. 


F"ranklin   Pierce    (2),  born   October   4,    1902, 
and  Ellen  Irwin,  bom  June  18,  1905. 


The  Twinings  of  Twining  be- 
'JA\T.\ING    longed  to  the  race  which  was 

English  before  William  the 
Conijueror  arrived,  and  the  home  from  which 
they  sprang  is  in  the  county  of  Gloucester. 
Prior  to  the  Sa.xon  invasion  under  Cuthwrin 
in  577,  there  is  no  mention  of  the  name,  the 
patronymic  originating  at  that  time.  Twyning 
Manor  dates  from  the  time  of  King  Edward  I, 
and  from  that  day  on  we  find  the  name  spelt  in 
some  fourteen  or  fifteen  different  ways  in  the 
recortls.  especially  in  Tewkesbury,  Pershore 
and  Evesham.  Among  the  prominent  members 
of  the  family  was  Richard,  1472,  monk  of 
Tewkesbury  Abbey:  John,  lord  abbott,  of 
Winchcombe,  1474 ;  Thomas,  monk  of  Tewkes- 
bury, 1539,  and  from  that  day  to  the  present 
a  continuous  line  of  leading  and  prominent 
ecclesiastics  in  the  English  church.  In  other 
branches  of  life,  Daniel,  1853,  was  rector  of 
Stilton  Hunts;  FZlizabeth,  1805-89,  his  daugh- 
ter, was  celebrated  botonist  and  philanthropist ; 
I'Vank  Theed  Twining,  1848-83,  was  a  famous 
physician.  The  family  is  also  prominent  in 
Wales  and  in  Nova  Scotia. 

(  I  )  \\'illiam  Twining,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily in  .America,  came  to  this  country  before 
June  I,  1641,  when  his  name  is  found  in  the 
court  records  of  the  Plymouth  Colony  in  a  case 
I  if  trespassing  regarding  certain  lines.  He  was 
then  a  resident  of  Yarmouth,  some  thirty  miles 
southeast  of  Plymouth,  and  incorporated  as  a 
tiiwn  in  1639.  His  daughter  Isabel  was  mar- 
ried there  the  same  date,  and  his  first  wife  was 
then  living.  In  1643  he  is  included  in  the  list 
of  those  able  to  bear  arms  at  A'armouth,  and 
for  the  next  two  years  the  records  rank  him 
anuing  the  militia,  consisting  of  fifty  soldiers, 
to  each  of  whom  was  given  on  going  forth, 
one  pound  of  ])owder,  three  pounds  of  bullets, 
and  one  pound  of  tobacco.  In  1645  he  was 
one  of  the  five  soldiers  to  send  out  against  the 
Narragansetts.  Soon  after  this  he  removed 
to  Nauset,  now  Eastham,  Barnstable  county, 
Alassachusetts ;  in  this  latter  place  he  was 
chosen  constable  June  5,  1651  ;  May  13,  1654. 
he  was  granted  two  acres  of  meadow,  "lying 
at  head  of  Great  Namshaket."  In  1655  his 
name  is  included  in  the  list  of  twenty-nine 
legal  voters  of  Freemen  in  the  town.  The 
same  records  show  several  parcels  of  land  were 
granted  to  him  at  Rock  Harbor,  Poche,  and 
other  localities  on  the  Cape.  He  appears  to 
have  residefl  in  Poche.  "on  the  east  side  of  the 


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town  Cove,  on  the  lot  containing  two  and  onu- 
half  acres,  lying  next  the  Cove."  lie  died  here 
April  15,  1659.  That  he  was  a  man  of  more 
than  ordinary  character  is  shown  by  the  title 
of  Mister  affixed  to  his  name  in  the  early 
records,  a  distinction  given  to  but  few  men, 
even  thongh  they  were  men  of  snbstance.  In 
1652  he  married  Anna  DoaAie,  who  died  Feb- 
ruary zj,  1680.  She  may  have  been  a  sister  to 
Deacon  John  Doame,  1590-1685,  who  came  tt) 
Plymouth  1621,  and  Eastham,  1645.  Children 
so  far  as  known,  by  his  first  wife,  born  in  Eng- 
land: I.  Isaliel,  died  in  Yarmouth,  May  i(), 
1706;  married  I'rancis  Baker,  and  immigrated 
with  her  husband  in  the  "Planter,"  1635 ;  eight 
children.     2.   William,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i) 
Twining',  was  born  about  1625,  jirohably  in 
England,  and  was  therefore  but  a  boy  when  he 
came  over  with  his  father.  He  is  first  men- 
tioned in  the  records  when  he  married,  at  East- 
ham.  In  1652  he  was  admitted  and  sworn, 
and  from  this  date  to  1671  his  name  occurs 
four  times  as  one  of  the  grand  jury.  As  earl\ 
as  1677  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  Eastham 
church,  and  is  alluded  to  as  Deacon  Twining 
as  late  as  i()8i.  He  deeds  land  at  Bound 
Brook  in  Yarmouth,  1669,  and  two  years  later 
sells  Thomas  Dagget  one  hundred  acres  at 
Mama  Kasset.  In  1659  the  town  of  Eastham 
granted  him  three  and  one-half  acres  which 
had  formerly  belonged  to  Joshua  Cooke.  He 
also  hacl  lands  at  Billingate  and  several  other 
places  in  Barnstable  county.  The  last  occurrence 
of  his  name  in  the  Eastham  records  is  in  1695, 
when  he  and  his  son  William  were  nimierated 
among  the  legal  voters  of  the  town.  Previou> 
to  this  date  his  religious  views  underwent  a 
radical  change  and  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  I'Viends.  The  circumstances  of 
this  change  are  unknown,  and  the  monthly 
meeting  with  which  he  united  is  not  on  record. 
With  the  change  of  creed,  however,  came  also 
a  change  of  habitation  in  order  that  he  might 
enjoy  the  jjcaceful  fruits  of  a  peaceful  religion. 
We  therefore  find  him  and  his  son  Stephen 
locating  in  the  new  province  of  Pennsylvania. 
Up  to  this  date  ( 1695)  the  family  had  remauied 
intact  and  this  was  the  first  division.  William 
Twining,  Jr.,  located  at  Xewtown,  lUicks  cutui- 
ty,  Pennsylvania,  and  his  name  first  appears  in 
1699  u])on  the  Middletown  monthly  meeting 
record,  together  with  that  of  his  son  Stejihen,  in 
a  discussion  against  selling  rum  or  strong  drink 
to  the  Indians,  In  1703  the  records  state  a 
marriage  was  held  at  his  house.  He  died  No- 
vember 4.   1703,  and  his  will,  after  being  liwt 


>ight  III  inr  one  humlred  and  eighty  years,  was 
found  in  1885  in  the  register's  office  in  Phila- 
delphia. William  Twining  married  Elizabeth, 
(laughter  of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Ring) 
Deane,  wlio  died  December  28,  1708.  Chil- 
dren: ].  Elizabeth,  died  March  lo,  1725; 
married  John  Rogers,  of  Alayflower  descent ; 
eight  children.  2.  Ann,  died  September  1, 
J(^i75;    married    Thomas    jjills;    two    children. 

3.  Susanna,  born  January  25,  1654  ;  died  young, 

4.  William,  referred  to  below.  5.  Mehitable, 
supposed  to  have  marrietl  Daniel  Doalne.  6. 
Joanna,  born  May  30,  1657;  died  ^une  4, 
1723;  married  Thomas  liills,  widower  of  her 
sister  .\nna.  7.  .Stejiheu,  l'"el)ruary  6,  i'>59; 
married   .\bigail   Young. 

(  HI)  William  (3),  .son  of  William  (2)  and 
l'".lizabeth  'Deane)  Twining,  born  January  25, 
1(154;  died  January  23,  1734.  \"ery  little  is 
known  about  him.  He  seems  to  have  remained 
behind  when  his  father  and  one  brother  re- 
mn\eil  to  Pennsylvania,  and  to  have  devoted 
the  eighty  years  nf  his  life  to  the  tilling  of  his 
land,  in  which  he  was  eminently  successfvil. 
He  was  also  a  mechanic.  His  descendants, 
while  not  so  numerous  as  those  of  his  brother 
Stephen,  are  characterized  as  a  people  of  note, 
refinement,  and  success  in  life.  Many  of  them 
have  lilleil  the  higher  aveiuies  of  life.  He 
married,  March  21,  1(181;,  Ruth,  burn  1668, 
died  after  1735,  daughter  nf  John  and  Ruth 
(Snow)  Cole,  a  Maytlower  descendant  through 
a  line  nf  ])rominent  Cape  Cod  families.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Elizabeth,  born  .August  25,  1690; 
married  Joseijh  Merrick,  Jr.  2.  Thankful, 
January  n,  1(197;  died  August  28,  1779;  mar- 
ried, April.  1719,  Jiiuathan  Mayo;  twelve  chil- 
lien.  3.  Ruth,  August  i"],  1699;  married,  Oc- 
tnber,  1711),  Joshua  Higgins,  Jr.;  eleven  chil- 
dren. 4.  Hannah,  A])ril  2,  1702;  married. 
Jiuie  12,  1731.  David  ^'oung,  jiossibly  also 
(second)  "Drathaneal  Snow,  Jr.  5.  William, 
referred  to' below.  6.  Barnabus,  September  29, 
1705;  married  Hannah  Sweet.  7.  Mercy,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1708;  married  David  Higgins;  six 
children. 

(  l\)  William  (4),  son  of  William  (3)  and 
Ruth  (Cole)  Twining,  born  September  2,  1704, 
dill!  .Vovember  17,  1769,  becoming,  according 
to  trailition,  a  practitioner  of  law  in  Orleans. 
His  will  was  made  and  ])rol)ated  the  year  of 
his  death.  He  married  Apphia  Eewis,  Febru- 
ary 21,  1728,  and  she  was  living  in  1776.  Chil- 
dren: I.  .Abigail,  born  December  28,  1730; 
died  before  1769;  married  Joscjih  Rogers;  one 
daughter.  2.  Thomas,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Rutli,   December  30,    T73('i;  died  before    1769. 


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4.  William.  1739  to  1759,  gravestone  at  Or- 
leans. 5.  Elijah,  November  4,  1724,  to  Octo- 
ber 2,  1802;  married  Lois  Rogers;  nine  chil- 
dren. 6.  Eleazer,  1744  to  1762,  gravestone  at 
Orleans. 

(V)  Thomas,  son  of  William  (4)  and  Ap- 
phia  (Lewis)  Twining,  was  born  July  5,  1733, 
and  died  April  23,  18 16.  That  he  was  a  man 
of  more  than  ordinary  prominence  and  ability 
is  fidly  borne  ont  by  the  Orleans  church  and 
town  records.  Fifty  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  in  the  callings  of  farmer  and  carpenter. 
In  1758  he  served  as  corporal  in  the  French 
and  Indian  wars.  In  1783  he  sold  his  home- 
stead located  just  south  of  the  present  Uni- 
versity Church  to  Simeon  Higgins,  and  with 
his  brother  Elijah  removed  to  Tolland,  later 
called  Grandille,  Massachusetts,  where  they 
purchased  an  extensive  tract  of  land  upon 
which  their  remaining  days  were  spent.  In 
1797  the  Tolland  Congregational  Church  wai 
organized,  and  Thomas  Twining  was  chosen 
its  first  deacon.  The  house  which  he  built  at 
Tolland  is  still  standing  in  good  condition  and 
shows  that  Deacon  Twining  was  a  good  car- 
penter and  selected  the  most  durable  material 
out  of  his  forests.  As  late  as  1793  he  sold 
his  remaining  salt  water  and  meadow  lands  on 
Pleasant  Bay.  The  gravestones  of  himself  and 
his  brother  Elijah  are  still  standing  in  the 
Twining  cemetery.  He  married  (first)  Alice 
Mayo,  January  17,  1766,  (second)  Anna, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Cole,  October  24,  1765,  who 
was  born  December  3,  1740,  died  October  12, 
1828.  It  is  traditionally  claimed  that  she  was 
a  Doane.  Children,  all  by  second  wife:  i. 
.Stephen,  referred  to  below.  2.  William,  born 
December  14,  1769;  died  November  22,  1842; 
lived  in  his  father's  house  at  Tolland ;  married 
Rebecca  Brown ;  ten  children.  3.  Alice,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1772,  to  1846;  married  James  Gra- 
ham; one  child.  4.  Apphia,  1774  to  1843; 
married  Chauncey  B.  Fowler;  seven  children. 

5.  Anna,  1777,  December  23,  1861,  married 
Colonel  Joseph  Wolcott. 

(VI)  Stephen,  son  of  Thomas  and  Anna 
(Cole)  Twining,  was  born  .September  28, 1767, 
and  died  December  18,  1832.  He  graduated 
from  Vale  L'niversity  in  1795,  and  for  many 
years  was  steward  and  treasurer  of  the  col- 
lege. His  profession  was  that  of  a  lawyer. 
From  1809  to  1832  he  was  a  deacon  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  of  New  Haven. 
The  following  anecdote  is  related  of  him : 
"After  .Stephen,  who  was  much  more  disposed 
to  work  with  his  head  then  with  his  hands, 
went  to  Yale  College,  the  old  man  and  his  son 


W  illiam  were  ploughing  with  a  yoke  of  oxen, 
one  of  which  was  rather  inclined  to  reflection 
than  to  action.  The  old  man,  quite  out  of  pa- 
tience, finally  exclaimed,  "What  can  we  do  with 
that  lazy  off  ox?'  'Send  him  to  college,'  was 
the  prompt  reply."  His  tombstone  in  the  New 
Haven  cemetery  bears  the  inscription,  "He 
feared  God."  His  descendants,  though  not  a 
lumierous  body,  have  excelled  in  the  higher 
avocations  and  the  leading  professions.  Octo- 
ber 2,  1800,  Stephen  Twining  married  Almira, 
daughter  of  Alexander  and  Margaret  Catlin, 
who  was  born  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  Au- 
gust 24,  1777,  and  died  in  New  Haven,  May 
30,  1846.  Children:  i.  Alexander  Catlin,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  William,  born  December 
9,  1805;  died  June  5,  1844;  of  him  and  his 
brother  Alexander  Catlin  it  is  said  they  were 
men  of  "strong  and  cultured  minds,  and  of 
perfectly  balanced  characters.  They  were 
always  physically  vigorous."  William  Twin- 
ing married  Margaret  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Horace  and  Catharine  (Thorn)  Johnson;  eight 
children.  3.  Mary  Pierce,  July  26,  1809,  to 
March  16,  1879;  "a  man  of  great  energy,  op- 
portunity, and  executive  ability,  an  active 
leader  in  New  Haven  charitable  societies.  4. 
Helen  Almira,  April  4,  1812;  married  Sea- 
grove  W.  Alagill ;  one  child.  5.  Julia  Webster, 
February  11,  1814,  July  8,  1893.  6.  Ann  Lor- 
ing,  November  19,  1816,  to  February  21,  1897; 
married  James  Hadler ;  she  was  mother  of 
Arthur  Twining  Hadler,  president  of  Vale 
L'niversity.    7.  Almira,  died  young. 

(VII)  Alexander  Catlin,  son  of  Stephen 
and  Almira  (Catlin)  Twining,  was  born  in 
New  Haven,  Contiecticut,  July  5,  i8or,  and 
died  November  22,  1884.  He  graduated  from 
Yale  Ll^niversity  in  1820.  He  was  a  civil 
engineer,  and  a  classmate  of  President  Woolsey 
and  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.  D.,  and  an  asso- 
ciate of  Professors  Silliman  and  Olmsted  in 
scientific  observation.  Yale  University  con- 
ferred on  him  the  degree  of  LL.  D. ;  from 
1856  to  1882  he  was  a  deacon  in  the  first  Con- 
gregational Church.  When  he  died  the  New 
York  Independent  said  of  him:  "The  death 
of  Professor  A.  C.  Twining  ends  a  long  life 
of  varied  and  brilliant  achievements,  and 
which  was  even  richer  and  more  brilliant  in 
richness  and  fruitfulness  of  christian  character. 
Professor  Twining  is  known  among  astron- 
omers as  the  author  of  the  'Cosmic  Theory  of 
the  Meteors.'  As  a  civil  engineer  he  was  en- 
gaged as  chief  or  controlling  engineer  of  every 
line  running  out  of  New  Haven ;  on  the  north- 
east   roads   through    V'ermont ;    on    the    Lake 


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Shore,  the  Cleveland,  Colunihus,  Pittsburgh, 
and  various  roads  out  of  Chicago,  incluiling 
the  Rock  Island  and  old  Milwaukee  line.  As 
an  inventor  he  pioneered  to  a  successful  result 
the  industrial  manufacture  of  artificial  ice.  For 
nine  years  he  served  as  professor  of  mathe- 
matics and  astronomy  in  Middlebury  school, 
and  while  then  residing  in  \'ermont  was  active 
in  the  temperance  reform,  into  which  he  enter- 
ed with  energy  as  chairman  of  the  State  Tem- 
jierence  Committee.  In  political  matters  he 
took  deep  interest  as  one  of  the  promoters  of 
the  original  movement  which  issued  in  the 
foundation  of  the  Republican  party.  He  was 
one  of  the  projectors  of  the  famous  'Comiecti- 
cut'  letter  to  President  LUichanan.  He  was 
deeply  interested  in  constitutional  questions, 
and  reached  the  highest  point  in  his  lectures 
on  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  in 
Vale  Law  School.  In  questions  of  theology 
and  philosophy  he  was  at  home,  and  discussed 
them  with  bold  figure  and  subtle  ingenuity  to 
his  friends.  The  beauty  of  his  face  and  head 
and  striking  and  winning  courtesy  of  his  man- 
ner, the  simplicity  of  his  christian  character, 
mafle  a  lasting  impression,  and  while  few  that 
met  him  even  casually  have  failed  to  notice 
that  to  him  it  was  given  to  invite  and  receive 
tlie  spiritual  confidence  of  others  and  to  give 
them  solid  and  permanent  assistance,  and 
where  there  are  few  to  attempt  it,  and  still 
fewer  to  succeed." 

March  2,  1829,  Alexander  Caplin  Twining 
married  Harriet  Kinsley,  of  West  Point,  New 
York,  who  died  in  1871.  Children:  I.  Kins- 
ley, referred  to  below.  2.  Harriet  Anna,  born 
December  27,  1833,  died  February  23,  1896. 
3.  Theodore  W'oolsey,  September  4,  1835,  to 
August  14,  1864;  graduate  of  Yale,  academic 
1859,  law  1862;  paymaster  U.  S.  N. ;  died  of 
yellow  fever  on  board  U.  S.  S.  "Robuck"  at 
Tampa  Bay,  Florida.  4.  Sutherland  Doug- 
lass (twin  with  Theodore  W.),  Yale  Medical 
School,  1864:  surgeon  U.  S.  .A.  at  Baltimore 
and  Alexandria,  Virginia ;  prominent  physi- 
cian of  Chicago;  married  Gertrude  Tenny, 
who  died  without  issue,  1880.  5.  Sarah  Julia, 
November  9,  1837:  living  unmarried.  New 
Haven,  Connecticut.  6.  Mary  Almira,  April 
23,  1840;  living  New  Haven,  Connecticut; 
married  A.  D.  Gridley,  who  died  without  issue, 
1876.  7.  Eliza  Kinsley,  June  19,  1843;  """ 
married. 

(VIII)  Kinsley,  eldest  child  of  .Mcxander 
Catlin  and  Harriet  (Kinsley)  Twining,  was 
born  at  West  Point,  New  York,  July  18,  1832. 
He   graduated    from   Yale   University   in   the 


class  of  1853,  ^"'^1  was  prepared  for  the  min- 
istry at  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1856.  He  then  became 
licensed  as  a  Congregational  minister,  and  from 
1859  to  1876  was  a  clergyman  of  that  denomi- 
nation. h"or  two  years  after  this  he  traveled 
abroad,  and  on  his  return  to  this  country  in 
1S78  he  became  the  literary  editor  of  the  New 
N'ork  Indc[<i-ndcnt.  which  position  he  retauied 
until  i8<>S,  when  he  undertook  the  editorship 
of  the  ISzangclist.  Yale  University  gave  him 
the  degree  of  D.  D.,  and  Hamilton  College  that 
nf  L.  II.  D.  He  died  in  the  fall  of  190 1.  Dr. 
Twining  was  a  man  of  remarkable  gifts,  both 
intellectual  and  spiritual,  and  the  range  of  his 
learning  was  exceedingl)-  wide.  On  all  ques- 
tions of  an  educational,  philosoj)hical,  theolog- 
ical and  sociological  character,  he  had  positive 
convictions  and  well  developed  ideas  for  prac- 
tical reform.  He  was  a  man  who  won  and  re- 
tained strong  friendship  among  a  wide  circle 
of  acquaintances,  and  his  social  gifts  were 
])roverbial.  June  3,  1861,  he  married  (first) 
Mary  K.  Plunkett,  who  died  in  1864,  without 
issue;  (second),  August  25,  1870,  Mary  Ellen, 
horn  at  Clinton,  New  York,  March  30,  1844, 
daughter  of  .Amos  Delos  Gridley.  Children: 
I.  ICdith  de  Gueldry,  born  September  23,  1872; 
married,  September  9,  1903,  vice-chancellor 
I'rederick  William  Stevens.  2.  Alice  Kinsley, 
born  September  27,  1877 ;  married.  May  4, 
1904,  Eloit,  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  son 
of  Judge  Watrous,  and  grandson  of  Governor 
Dutton.  of  Connecticut,  3.  Kinsley,  referred 
tn  below. 

(IX)  Kinsley  (2),  only  son  of  Kinsley  (i) 
and  Mary  Ellen  (Gridley)  Twining,  was  born 
in  i'rovidence,  Rhode  Island,  September  9, 
1879,  and  is  now  living  in  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,  lie  was  prepared  for  college  at  the 
I'hillips  Academy  in  Andover,  Massachusetts, 
and  entering  Yale  University,  graduated  there- 
from in  the  class  of  1901.  He  studied  law  in 
Cornell  University  Law  School  and  the  Yale 
University  Law  School,  after  which  he  enter- 
ed the  law  office  of  Messrs.  Lindabury,  Depue 
&  Faulks,  in  Newark,  where  he  studied  for 
eighteen  months  longer,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  New  Jersey  bar  in  November,  1905.  Soon 
after  this  he  formed  a  legal  co-partnership 
which  continued  for  two  and  one-half  years, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  present  alliance  as 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lindabury,  Depue  & 
h'aulks.  In  politics  Mr.  Twining  is  a  Repub- 
lican. For  some  time  he  has  been  one  of  the 
alderman  of  Morristown,  and  is  now  serving 
his  second  term  in  that  office.    He  is  a  member 


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of  the-  Alpha  Delta  I'hi  fraternity,  the  Wolf's 
Head,  and  the  Phi  Delta  I'hi  fraternit\- ;  the 
Morristown  Field  Club ;  the  Vale  Club ;  the 
Morristown  Club,  and  tlie  Morris  County  Golf 
Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  F'resby- 
terian  Church  of  Morristown. 


The  family  here  made  the  subject 
\\'.\kl)  of  consideration  is  that  which  is 
descended  from  one  of  five  immi- 
grant brothers — Ichabod,  Pelatiah,  Ebenezer, 
John  and  Xathan  Ward — who  in  an  early  day 
sailed  to  America  and  were  among  the  earl\ 
but  not  the  earliest  planters  in  New  Fuigland. 
It  is  with  the  family  and  descendants  of 
Pelatiah  Ward  that  we  have  particularly  tn 
deal  in  this  narrative. 

(  I )  Pelatiah  Ward,  immigrant,  was  born 
December  i6,  1689.  and  on  coming  to  this 
country  with  his  four  brothers  settled  in  the 
colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay.  where  his  subse- 
t|ucnt  life  was  spent  and  where  he  died.  He 
married  at  Killingworth,  Connecticut.  Decem- 
ber 20,  1723,  Jerusha  Kelsey,  and  bad  children. 
(II)  Captain  Ichabod.  son  of  Pelatiah  and 
Jerusha  (Kelsey)  \\'ard,  was  born  in  Killing- 
worth.  Connecticut,  1743,  died  in  Dover, 
Dutchess  county.  New  York,  December  20, 
1822.  lie  is  understood  to  have  lived  at  one 
time  in  -  Massachusetts  and  subsequently  re- 
moved to  Rhode  Island.  Still  later  he  removed 
to  New  York  state  and  took  up  his  residence 
in  Dutchess  county,  where  he  was  a  substantial 
farmer.  During  the  revolution  he  was  captain 
of  a  com])any  in  the  Third  Regiment  of  Dutch- 
ess county  militia,  of  which  regiment  Colonel 
John  Field  and  Colonel  Andrew  Morehouse 
were  commanding  officers.  His  wife  was  Me- 
hitalile  Marcy,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Mar- 
tha (  Nicholson)  Marcy,  of  Dover.  Dutchess 
county.  (See  Marcy.  11).  Children:  1. 
(iriffin,  married  and  had  four  children:  John, 
married  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Carhart ;  Spencer, 
married  Patty  Soule ;  Annie,  married  a  Tra- 
vers :  and  Mehitable,  married  William  Lee.  2. 
Pelatiah.  born  1770,  died  November  2,  1830: 
lived  in  Dover,  New  York,  and  was  a  farmer 
and  drover:  married.  February  27,  1791,  Annie 
.Soule.  born  September  24,  1774,  died  July  20, 
1840.  daughter  of  Ichabod  Soule,  and  by  her 
had  five  children:  Henry,  married  .\lmeda 
Peanlsley :  Ira;  Edward  P.;  (Iriffin:  Sarah, 
married  Myron  Preston.  3.  Ichabod.  a  farmer  ; 
married  Rachel  Hurd.  and  had  one  son.  Myron. 
4.  Iose])h.  a  farmer:  married  Eliza  Martin,  and 
had  chililren  :  Pliebe  Marilla.  married  Reuben 
Chajtman  :   Newton  and   .\lfred,  twins;  Eliza, 


married  a  Flower:  Sallie,  married  a  Sweet; 
and  Hetty,  married  a  Pool.  5.  Ebenezer,  a 
farmer ;  married  .\bba  Sheldon,  daughter  of 
-Agrippa  Sheldon,  and  by  her  had  children: 
Waldo,  Amanda,  Lodesca,  Ebenezer,  Polly, 
Henry  and  Oneida.  6.  John,  a  farmer;  mar- 
ried Cynthia  Cyher.  and  had  one  son,  (Griffin. 
7.  Jerusha,  married  Reuben  Worcester  and 
liad  children  :  Peter,  Ichabod,  William,  Oliver 
and  Hannah  Worcester.  8.  Mehitable,  married 
Edmund  \arney,  a  farmer,  and  had  children : 
Alfred.  John,  Milton.  .-\nn,  Almeda,  Clarinda 
and  Frances  \'arney.  9.  Polly,  married  Daniel 
Cutler,  a  farmer,  ancl  had  children :  John, 
l-'anny,  I'llma,  Jane,  (Jeorge,  Ward  and  Amor 
Cutler. 

(Ill)  One  of  the  sons  of  Ca])tain  Ichabod 
and  Mehitable  (  Marcy)  Ward  constitutes  the 
third  generation  of  the  family  in  the  line  here 
considered,  but  the  somewhat  meagre  records 
give  us  no  clear  light  as  to  which  of  them  was 
father  of  the  John  M.  Ward  mentioned  in  the 
ne.xt  paragraph. 

(I\')  John  M.,  grandson  of  Captain  Icha- 
bod and  Mehitable  (Marcy)  Ward,  was  born 
in  Dover.  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  and 
was  one  of  the  several  Wards  who  were  among 
the  early  settlers  in  the  Wyoming  valley  in 
Pennsylvania,  in  what  then  was  Luzerne  coun- 
ty but  now  is  Wyoming  county.  He  lived  at 
Tunkhannock  and  was  one  of  the  most  enter- 
prising men  of  that  region,  having  engaged  in 
canal  construction  and  other  extensive  opera- 
tions, all  of  which  brought  him  large  wealth 
for  his  time.  The  period  of  his  life  is  not 
known,  and  one  account  has  it  that  he  married 
a  daughter  of  Governor  William  Earned 
Marcy,  of  New  York,  and  by  her  had  sons 
John.  Charles.  Walsingham  Griffin  (born 
Dover  IMain,  Dutchess  county,  New  York), 
and  Zebulon  Marcy,  and  daughters  Cynthia. 
Mary  and  Cleopatra. 

( \  )   Captain    and    Judge    Zebulon    Marcx 

Ward,  son  of  John  M.  and  (Marcy) 

Ward,  was  born  in  Tunkhannock,  Wyoming 
county,  Pennsylvania..  February  17,  1837,  died 
at  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  April  17,  1904.  After 
receiving  his  early  education  in  public  schools 
he  went  to  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  and  studied 
law  under  the  instruction  of  his  elder  brother. 
Judge  Walsingham  Griffin  Ward.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  Luzerne  county.  August 
17.  1863.  and  afterward  for  some  time  prac- 
ticed in  partnership  with  his  brother.  During 
the  civil  war  he  took  a  loyal  and  active  part  in 
raising  Company  E,  Eleventh  Pennsylvania 
Infantrj',    was   chosen    and   commissioned    its 


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captain  and  remained  in  service  for  tliree  years, 
dnring  the  ])eriod  of  his  enhstnient.  After  the 
war  he  returned  to  Scranton  and  resumed  law 
practice,  hut  in  the  course  of  the  next  few 
years  his  health  became  so  greatly  impaired 
that  on  the  advice  of  his  physician  he  was 
induced  to  change  his  place  of  residence  from 
Scranton  to  Paterson,  in  this  state.  In  the 
latter  city  he  occupied  a  position  of  enviable 
prominence  in  jjrofessional  and  social  circles, 
and  while  he  never  courted  public  office  he 
.served  several  years  as  counsel  to  the  board 
of  chosen  freeholders  of  Passaic  county  and 
also  for  several  years  held  the  ofTice  of  county 
surrogate.  Captain  Ward  married  Kate  E., 
daughter  of  John  Taylor  Smith,  a  descendanl 
of  the  old  .Smith  family  who  once  owned  the 
historic  mansion  house  near  Haverstraw.  .\e\\ 
York,  in  which  .^ndre  and  Arnold  held  their 
secret  treasonable  conferences.  Captain  and 
Mrs.  ^\'ard  had  two  children,  Lou  E.,  born 
March  22.  1878,  wife  of  Edmund  G.  Stalter 
of  Paterson,  and  John  M.  W.  Ward,  also  of 
Paterson. 

(\T)  John  Marcy  l>urnoise.  son  of  Ca])tain 
Zel;ulon  Marcy  and  Kate  E.  (Smith)  Ward, 
was  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  December 
16,  1880.  He  acquired  his  earlier  literary 
education  in  private  schools  in  that  city,  and 
afterward  took  a  college  preparatory  course 
in  New  York  and  then  entered  Columbia  Col- 
lege, where  he  was  a  student  for  some  time, 
but  because  of  a  physical  injury  he  was  com- 
pelled to  abandon  the  idea  of  completing  liis 
collegiate  education.  He  then  matriculated  at 
the  New  York  Law  School,  completed  the 
course  of  that  institution,  and  in  1901  was  ad- 
mitted to  ])ractice  in  the  courts  of  this  state ; 
in  1906  he  was  admitted  member  of  the  su- 
preme court  of  the  United  States.  Having 
come  to  the  bar,  Mr.  \Vard  began  his  pro- 
fessional career  in  Paterson  in  partnershij) 
with  his  father,  which  relation  was  maintained 
until  Captain  Ward's  death.  Soon  afterward 
he  became  law  partner  with  Peter  J.  Mc- 
Ciiiuiis,  and  since  that  time  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  active  and  general  practice  and  has 
attained  an  enviable  standing  at  the  bar  of  the 
courts  and  also  in  all  professional  circles  in 
Pa.s.saic  county.  His  jiractice  includes  both 
civil  and  criminal  cases,  and  on  the  criminal 
side  of  the  courts  he  has  been  retained  as  coun- 
sel in  some  of  the  most  important  cases  i^rc- 
sented  to  the  attention  of  the  courts  in  recent 
years.  He  was  one  of  the  active  counsel  for 
the  prisoner  in  the  famous  ]\Iustol  murder  trial 
and   alsii   at    tlie   trial   of    Luigi   (lalleani,   the 


noted  anarchi.st.  This  last  case  (the  Mustol) 
was  more  remarkable  from  the  fact  that  it 
marked  the  second  occasion  in  the  history  of 
Passaic  county  criminal  trials  in  which  the 
attorney  general  of  the  state  was  called  to 
assist  in  the  prosecution  of  the  accused  crimi- 
nal. Mr.  \Vard  is  a  Mason,  member  of  Benev- 
olent Lodge,  No.  45,  I">ee  and  Accepted 
Masons;  Court  I'.lacks'tone  Order  of  Fore.sters 
of  .America,  Council  Lafayette,  Royal  Ar- 
canum, of  Paterson;  the  f)ritani  Field  Club, 
the  North  Jersey  Country  Club,  and  of  the 
Hackensack  Golf  Club.  On  May  14,  1902,  he 
married  Clara  \'.  \'ander  Burgh,  of  Hacken- 
sack, born  March  30,  1881,  daughter  of  Harry 
Sargeant  and  Cora  (  \ander  Pick)  Vander 
Burgh,  and  has  one  child.  John  Zebulon  Marcy 
Ward.  liMrn  September  22.  11J03 

(The   .Marcy   Liiio). 

De  Marcy,  or  simply  Marcy,  is  a  surname 
now  (juite  common  in  France  and  in  its  col- 
onies. It  appears  to  have  come  into  Normandy 
with  Rollo,  A.  D.,  912;  thence  it  went  into 
ICngland  with  William  the  Conqueror,  .A.  D., 
1068,  and  became  very  common  in  Cheshire, 
where  it  is  now  quite  generally  written  as 
Massey  or  Massie.  .As  Massey  the  name  is 
frequently  found  in  the  English  and  Irish  peer- 
age. ,\s  evidence  that  the  name  in  its  present 
form  was  known  early  in  iMigland  it  may  be 
said  that  in  "The  Patents  of  King  John,"  A.  D. 
1208.  there  is  found  the  name  of  Radus  de 
.\larc\ . 

There  are  two  families  of  the  .Marcy  sur- 
name in  tliis  country.  One  of  these  families 
is  descended  from  John  Marcy.  of  whom  the 
first  notice  appears  in  Elliot's  church  record 
in  Roxbury,  Alassachusetts,  as  follows:  "John 
.Marcy  took  the  Covenant  March  7,  1685." 
.\mong  his  descendants  are  the  late  secretary 
(jf  state  and  governor  of  New  ^'ork,  William 
Earned  Marcy,  of  whom  mention  is  luade  in 
.•1  later  part  (jf  this  narr.ative ;  ,also  ( leneral 
K.mddlph  I'l.  .Marcy  and  Dr.  I'lrastus  1{.  Marcv 
so  well  known  to  our  history  and  literature 
The  other  family  is  rejiresented  by  Hon.  Daniel 
Marcw  of  Portsmouth,  New  llam|)shire,  and 
of  Peter  .Marcy,  of  New  Orleans,  and  his  de- 
scendants. The  father  of  the  late  Daniel  and 
Peter  Marcy  came  to  this  country  a  few  years 
previous  to  1800,  from  the  island  of  Marie 
r,alante.  West  Indies;  their  grandfather  went 
til  that  island  from  France. 

(  I  )  John  Marcy  was  son  dt  the  high  sherift 
of  Limerick,  Irelan<l.  lie  was  bm-n  about  the 
year    1662,   joined    F.llii.t's   chinch   in    IvLNlinry 


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STATF.    OF    NEW    lERSEY. 


in  i()85,  and  in  April,  i(i8(),  with  several  others. 
tut)k  possession  of  Qnatosell  (Woodstock, 
Coimecticnt),  granted  in  1663  by  the  colony 
of  Massachusetts  to  the  town  of  Roxbury. 
lie  married  Sarah  Hadlock,  daughter  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Draper)  Fladlock,  of  Rox- 
bury. She  was  born  December  16,  1670,  and 
died  May  g,  1743.  John  Marcy  died  Decem- 
ber 23,  1724.  aged  sixty-two  years.     Children: 

I.  Anna,  born  Ro.xbury,  October  11,  1687.  2. 
John,  November  17,  1689.  3.  James,  February 
26,  1691.  4.  Edward,  June  28,  1695.  5.  Jo- 
seph, September  18,  1697.  6.  Benjamin,  March 

II,  1699.  7.  Moses,  April  18,  1702,  see  for- 
ward. 8.  Samuel,  July  28,  1704.  9.  Sarah. 
F'ebruary  8,  1707.  10.  Ebenezer,  June  6,  1709. 
see  forward.    II.  Elizabeth,  November  8,  171 1. 

(II)  Colonel  Moses,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Hadlock)  Marcy,  was  born  April  18,  1702, 
died  October  9,  1779,  "leaving  an  honorable- 
name,  a  large  estate,  and  a  numerous  family." 
In  1732  he  removed  to  Sturbridge,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  became  "the  principal  man  in 
the  colony."  He  was  the  first  incumbent  of 
the  office  of  justice  of  the  ])eace,  the  first 
representative  from  that  town  to  the  general 
court,  ami  was  moderator  of  seventy  town 
meetings.  During  the  l-'rench  and  Indian  wars 
he  fitted  out  soldiers  for  the  army  at  his  own 
expense,  but  afterward  was  remunerated  by 
the  town.  In  1752,  at  a  meeting  of  the  church 
to  compromise  with  the  "separatists,"  Moses 
Marcy  was  moderator,  and  the  historian  speaks 
of  the  "excellent  sjiirit  displayed  by  the  ex- 
cellent and  venerable  moderator."  In  1723  he 
married  Prudence  ]\Iorris,  and  according  to 
the  best  information  obtainable,  although  the 
records  are  quite  imjierfect,  they  are  believed 
to  have  had  eight  children:  i.  Alary,  married 
Westbrook  Remington.  2.  Alartha,  married 
Cershom  Plympton.  3.  Miriam,  married  Tim- 
othy Newell.  4.  Daniel,  married  Hannah 
Morris.  5.  ^  Mehitable,  married  Jonathan 
Newell.  6.  Martha,  married  Jared  Freeman. 
7.  Jedediah,  see  forward.  8.  T'.lijah,  married 
—  '- Stacy. 

(II)  Ebenezer,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
(Hadlock)  Alarcy,  was  born  in  Woodstock, 
Connecticut,  June  6,  1709,  died  in  Dover. 
Dutchess  county.  New  York,  December  10, 
180S.  He  was  a  farmer  in  Dover  and  lived 
to  attain  the  remarkable  age  of  almost  one 
hundred  years.  He  married,  July  23,  1738, 
Martha  Nicholson;  children:  i.  Mehitable, 
married  Captain  Ichabod  Ward  (see  Ward, 
II).  2.  Dolly,  married  a  Hodgkis.  3.  Jerusha, 
married  a  Connit.    4.  Griffin.     5.  Josejih.  never 


married.  (>.  libenezer,  married  Martha  Spen- 
cer. 7.  Zebulon,  married  Jerusha  Conet.  8. 
Sarah,  married  a  .Marcy.  9.  .Ambrose  L.  10. 
Benjamin. 

(Ill)  Jedetliah,  son  of  Colonel  Moses  and 
I'nulence  (Morris)  Marcy,  lived  and  died  in 
the  town  of  Dudley,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Healy,  of  Dudley;  children:  I. 
Joseph,  born  October  21,  1749,  died  October 
^5'  1779-  2.  Jedediah,  July  23,  1751,  died 
January  20,  1756.  3.  Jedediah,  July  26,  1756, 
see  forward.  4.  Mary,  January  19,  1760.  5. 
Rhoda.  .Ma\-  4.  1762.  fi.  Daniel,  April  27, 
1765. 

tl\  I  Jedediah  12),  son  of  Jedediah  (i) 
and  .Mary  (  lleah)  Marcy,  was  born  July  26, 
1750,  (lied  .\ugust  14.  181 1.  Fle  married, 
.March  i,  1782,  Ruth  Earned;  children:  i. 
Rhoda,  born  August  21,  1783;  married  Steven 
Healy.  2.  Joseph,  June  10,  1784;  married 
.\bigail  Shumway.  3.  William  Earned,  De- 
cemljer  12,  1786,  see  forward.  4.  Hannah, 
January  14.  1789.  5.  Jedediah,  October  19. 
1791  ;  married  Esther  Healy.  6.  Caroline,  Oc- 
tober IT,  1798,  died  in  1802 

(  \  I  William  Earned,  son  of  Jedediah  (2) 
and  Ruth  I  Earned)  Marcy,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1786,  died  July  4,  1857.  He  graduated 
from  lirown  I'niversity,  [808;  recorder,  city 
(jf  Troy.  New  York,  1816;  adjutant  general, 
1821;  state  comptroller,  1823;  justice  of  the 
'supreme  court.  1829  ;  senator  in  congress,  1831 ; 
governor  of  New  York,  1833-39;  secretary  of 
war,  1845-49;  secretary  of  state,  1853-57.  He 
married  (  first )  Dolly  Newell ;  (second)  Cor- 
nelia Knower. 


.Vbout  the  year  1700,  or  prob- 
ZEEEEY  ably  between  1700  and  1715, 
there  migrated  from  the  district 
of  Nailsworth,  Gloucestershire,  England,  two 
men  and  four  women  bearing  the  surname  of 
Zelley.  One  of  these  women  was  the  mother 
of  the  other  five  of  that  name:  John,  Daniel, 
Martha,  Rachel  and  Sarah. 

The  records  of  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meet- 
ing of  Friends  discloses  that  when  her  son 
John  was  married  6  mo.  13.  1713,  to  Margaret 
Howell,  "the  young  man's  mother  was  present 
and  consenting."  Burlington  Alonthly  j\Ieet- 
ing  of  Friends  in  New  Jersey  in  recording  the 
marriage  of  Rachel  Zelley  to  Francis  Smith, 
10  mo.  12,  1728,  mentions  Rachel  as  the  daugh- 
ter of  Martha  Dexon.  This  being  the  case  the 
mother  must  have  been  a  widowed  woman  and 
remarried,  but  no  record  can  be  found  of  the 
occasion.      Nailsworth    Montblv    Meeting    of 


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England  reports  the  burial  of  Daniel  Zelley 
10  mo.  16,  171 1.  Philadelphia  Monthly  Meet- 
ing of  Friends  possesses  a  copy  of  the  certifi- 
cate of  the  removal  of  membership  of  Martha 
Zelley  from  Xailsworth  Monthly  Meeting, 
England,  addressed  "to  the  friends  and 
brethren  of  Pennsylvania  or  Jersey  where 
these  may  come,"  dated  12  mo.  9,  17 1 2,  as 
follows:  "The  bearer  hereof  Martha  Zealey 
having  a  brother  in  your  jjarts  who  by  invita- 
tion hath  induced  her  to  come  to  him  where- 
fore she  desired  a  certificate  from  us." 

These  records  conclusively  show  that  Daniel 
and  Martha  Zelley  were  the  parents  of  five 
children,  at  least,  at  Xailsworth,  Gloucester- 
shire, England,  and  we  find  them  as  witnesse> 
to  each  others  marriages  in  Philadelphia  and 
I'.urlington  in  this  country  from  171,^  to  1728. 
That  Daniel  died  in  Xailsworth  and  that  his 
widow  came  to  America  some  time  thereafter 
and  remarried,  and  that  some  of  his  children 
if  not  all  came  to  America  prior  to  his  death. 
The  daughter  Martha  must  have  died  single  as 
we  find  no  record  of  her  marriage.  Sarah 
married  Thomas  Antrum  at  Burlington  Month- 
ly Meeting,  3  mo.  1715.  John  Zelley  and  Mar- 
garet Howell  had  a  daughter  who  was  Ijuried 

6  mo.   16,   1714,  and  John  himself  was  buried 

7  mo.  21,  1714,  thus  showing  that  he  died 
without  leaving  a  descendant.  His  widow  Mar- 
garet later  married  Daniel  Thomas,  of  .\biiig- 
ton,  Pennsylvania. 

The  remaining  child  Daniel,  the  prugenitor 
of  all  bearing  the  surname  Zelley  in  .\merica. 
married.  9  mo.  1723.  Damaris  Putcher  at  Rur 
lington.  Xew  Jersey,  daughter  of  Jt)hn  ISutcher, 
of  Lillingston  Lovell,  count\-  of  Oxon,  Eng- 
land, car])enter,  and  Damaris  Wickins,  of 
Paulers  Perry,  Xorthamptt)nshire,  England, 
spinster,  wdio  were  married  7  mo.  4.  1682.  at 
Biddle.sdon,  liucks,  England.  John  later,  or 
very  soon  thereafter,  came  to  .America  and 
became  one  of  the  West  Jersey  proprietors. 
Daniel  and  Damaris  Zelley  bought  land  of 
John  Butcher  near  "Slab-town,"  now  Jack- 
sonville in  Sjiringfield  township,  liurlington 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  and  settled  thereon.  Two 
children  were  born  to  them:  John  and  Syl- 
vanus.  John  9  mo.  1748,  married  Rachel 
r.riffith.  of  Richland,  Bucks  county,  Penn.syl- 
vania,  and  died  leaving  children :  Daniel, 
Samuel,  .Aaron,  .\brahain.  John  and  Damaris. 
His  widow.  Rachel  Zelley,  afterward  married. 
10  nnx  1773,  Solomon  .Southwick.  I>>anklin 
S.  and  I'enjamin  Zelley,  of  IVIt.  Holly,  and 
Samuel  J.  Zelley,  of  Moorestown,  New  Jer- 
sey, are  descendants.     Sylvanus,  12  mo.   1757, 


at  Burlington,  Xew-  Jersey,  married  Ann 
Haines,  a  descendant  of  Richard  and  Mar- 
garet Haines,  his  wife,  of  ".\ynhoe  of  ye  Hill," 
Xorthamjitc^nshire,  England,  who  sailed  from 
the  Downs,  England,  in  the  ship  "Amity," 
Richard  Diamond's  ship,  on  the  23rd  of  April, 
1682.  Richard  died  on  the  voyage,  and  his 
voungest  son  Joseph  "was  born  in  mid-ocean." 
Sylvanus  and  Ann  had  children:  .Amos,  Jo- 
seph, Sylvanus,  Daniel,  (jeorge,  Noah,  Mar- 
garet, Martha  and  Mary.  Both  John  and  Syl- 
vanus, sons  of  Daniel  and  Damaris  Zelley, 
continued  to  reside  near  Jacksonville,  Spring- 
field township,  Xew  Jersey,  until  their  deaths. 

Daniel,  son  of  Sylvanus  and  Ann  (Flaines) 
Zelley.  was  born  in  Springfield  township,  Bur- 
lington county,  Xew  Jersey,  b  mo.  17,  1760. 
He  married.  5  mo.  \<\  1787,  Bathsheba  Brad- 
ilock,  daughter  of  Rehoboam  and  Jemima 
I  Darnell)  liraddock,  of  Evesham,  Burlington 
ciiunt\.  Xew  Jersey,  and  lived  on  the  farm  of 
his  father  in  Springfield.  The  following  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them:  i.  Job,  born  5  mo. 
17,  1788,  died  10  mo.  27.  1854.  2.  Daniel,  born 
5  mi>.  14.  1 79 1.  <lit'd  8  mo.  24,  1861.  3.  Will- 
iam P..  l)urn  3  mo.  2().  \7<)^.  died  3  mo.  4, 
1880.  4.  Jemima.  I  mo.  2.  179'').  3.  Sylvanus, 
born  2  mo.  13,  1801,  died  2  mo.  16,  1857.  6. 
Rehoboam.  born  f)  mo.  20,  1803,  died  3  mo. 
24,  1873.  7.  llathsheba,  born  10  mo.  28,  1805, 
died  12  mo.  fi,  1830.  8.  Chalkley,  born  2  mo. 
3.  1808,  died  7  mo.  7.  1878.  9.  John,  born  7 
mo.  3.  1812.  10.  J()se]ih.  born,  10  mo.  14. 
1 81 3.  died  12  mo.  20.  1873.  These  children 
all  married  except  Jemima  and  Joseph.  Fran- 
cis R.  Zelley,  of  Trenton.  Xew  Jersey,  is  a 
descendant  of  Job.  F'erdinand  Smith,  of  Cam- 
den, is  a  descendant  of  William  B.  Herbert 
and  .Mice  Zelley,  of  Burlington,  are  descend- 
ants of  Sylvanus.  Rehoboam  and  P>athsheba 
left  no  children.  Herbert  E.  Zelley,  of  Flor- 
ence, is  a  descendant  of  John.  Chalkley  B. 
Zelley.  of  Moorestown,  .Xew  Tersev,  is  the  only 
child'of  Chalkley. 

Mary,  daughter  of  Sylvanus  and  .Ann 
I  Haines)  Zelley,  married  (iershon  I'enquite 
and  lived  at  the  "Cross-Keys"  south  of  Med- 
ford,  Xew  Jersey,  of  whom  Charles  B.  Chew, 
butcher,  of  Marlton,  Xew  Jersey,  is  a  descend- 
ant,    (iershon  Penquite  was  a  blacksmith. 

Daniel,  second  child  of  Daniel  and  Bath- 
sheba (  Bradd(x-k  )  Zelley,  married,  3  mo.  26, 
i8ih.  I^orotby  Stratton.  daughter  of  I-'noch 
;ind  Hannah  (Branini  Stratton.  of  Eves- 
ham township,  Burlington  county.  Dorothy 
I-^tratton  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Mark 
Stratton,   whose   ancestry   and  nativity   is  not 


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establi>he(l,  but  a  record  of  his  great-grand- 
daiigliter.  Martha  Covvperthwaite,  states  "that 
he  came  in  from  old  Rngland  in  1702  with 
Robert  Braddock  Sr.  and  several  others"  and 
died  4  mo.  3,  1759.  aged  sixty-nine  years.  [lis 
was  the  first  burial  in  the  Orthodo.x  Friends 
burial  ground  at  Medford,  Xew  Jersey.  Mark 
Stratton  married,  8  mo.  8.  1713.  at  Evesham, 
iiurlington  c(junty,  Xew  Jersey,  Ann,  daugh- 
ter of  Timothy  Hancock,  of  Hrayles,  in  War- 
wickshire, England,  and  sailed  in  the  ship 
"Paradice,"  Captain  Evele,  in  1681.  Timothy 
Hancock  with  John  Roberts  and  William  Mat- 
lack  settled  on  land  between  the  north  and 
south  branches  of  the  Penisaukin  Creek  near 
Moorestown.  X'ew  Jersey,  where  still  remains 
an  old  graveyard  on  the  north  branch  of  said 
creek,  sold  by  Timothy  Hancock  for  the  pur- 
jiose,  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Charles 
Haines.  Hannah  ISranin  was  the  daughter  of 
John  ISranin  and  Jane  Moore,  Protestant  Irish 
stock,  whose  emigration  and  nativity  is  not 
fully  known. 

Daniel  and  Dorothy  Zelley  spent  their  mar- 
ried life  successfully  as  farmers  in  Evesham 
tt)\vnshi]),  finally  possessing  a  portion  of  the 
tract  of  land  belonging  to  Enoch  Stratton 
south  of  Medford  near  the  "Cross  Keys"  on 
which  they  built  a  substantial  house  and  other 
buildings.  The  children  born  to  them  were: 
I.  Caleb  Edwin,  born  10  mo.  7,  1821,  died  ft 
nio.  I.  1843,  single.  2.  Enoch  Stratton,  born 
ft  mo.  2"/.  1823,  died  12  mo.  15,  1900.  3.  Mark 
.Stratton,  born  ft  mo.  14,  1826,  died  1  mo.  2, 
1909.  4.  Rebecca  Wills,  born  I  mo.  12,  1834. 
died  3  mo.  4,  1881.  Rebecca  Wills  Zelley 
married.  3  mo.  11,  i8ft8.  Jonathan  Bonsall, 
of  Salem,  Ohio,  son  of  Isaac  Bonsall  and  Han- 
nah Evans,  his  wife,  member  of  Orthodox 
I'Viends,  and  had  two  children :  Anna  S.,  born 
3  mo.  22.  1870,  single,  and  Laura  R..  born 
I  mo.  17,  1873,  married,  5  mo.  14,  189ft,  Will- 
iam Meloney,  son  of  James  Meloney  and  Anna 
C  Reid,  his  wife,  of  .\vondale.  Pennsylvania, 
Orthodox  Friends.  Laura  R.  and  William 
Meloney  have  children  :  Edward^  born  6  mo. 
3,  1898:  Rebecca  A.,  born  12  mo.  11,  1900: 
Dorothea,  born  8  mo.  9,  1902;  Esther,  born  3 
mo.  3.  1904.  They  were  all  born  at  Lands- 
downe,  Pennsylvania,  where  the  parents  located 
and  engaged  in  business. 

Enoch  Stratton  Zelley,  born  near  Marlton, 
Evesham  township.  Burlington  county,  New- 
Jersey,  ft  nio.  27,  1823,  spent  his  life  within  the 
county  of  Burlington,  and  was  more  or  less 
prominent  in  public  affairs,  having  held  a 
luunber  of  offices  of  local  importance,  as  did 


his  father  and  grandfather,  the  two  Daniels 
[preceding  him  in  Springfield  and  Evesham 
townshi]js,  Burlington  county.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  consistent  member  of  the  Society 
of  (Jrthodox  Frienils,  and  married  at  Crop- 
well  Preparative  Meeting  of  the  Society  near 
Marlton,  3  mo.  22,  1849,  Sarah  Butcher  Ashead, 
daughter  of  Amos  .Ashead  and  Sarah  liutcher. 
-Vmos  .\shead  was  a  descendant  of  Amos  As- 
head,  of  Newton  township,  who  was  one  of 
the  judges  of  Old  Gloucester  county  in  1712 
and  later,  but  whose  ancestry  and  nativity  is 
unknt)wn.  He  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  were 
members  of  [-"riends  at  Haddonfield  in  1798 
and  earlier.  .Sarah  Butcher  was  a  direct  de- 
scendant of  Thomas  Butcher,  of  Leckhamstead 
in  the  county  of  Bucks,  England,  who  married 
Hester  Norman,  of  Lillingston  Dayrell  in  the 
same  county,  u  mo.  21,  1679,  at  Whittlebury 
in  Northamptonshire,  and  sailed  from  London, 
England,  12  mo.  168 1,  or  1  mo.  1682,  as  their 
son  Samuel  "was  born  ye  i8th  of  i  mo.  1682 
on  board  ye  ship  cald  ye  Samuell  of  London, 
near  Mary  Island  so  called  up  ye  coast  of 
Portegees." 

Mark  .Stratton  Zelley,  born  at  Fostertown 
in  old  livesham  townshij),  6  mo.  14,  1826, 
married,  2  mo.  22,  1866,  Beulah  Haines  Stokes, 
daughter  of  William  Stokes  and  .\nn  Wilson, 
his  wife,  descendant  of  Thomas  Stokes  and 
.Mary  liernard,  who  were  married  10  mo.  30, 
i')ft8,  Westbury  Street  Friends  Meeting,  Lon- 
don, England,  and  belonged  to  the  Devonshire 
1  louse  Meeting.  No  children  were  born  to 
them. 

Thomas  and  John  Butcher,  heretofore  men- 
tioned, were  brothers,  and  Damaris,  the  daugh- 
ter of  the  latter,  married  Daniel  Zelley,  the 
progenitor,  and  thus  the  descendants  of  these 
two  brothers  were  united  in  the  marriage  of 
Enoch  Stratton  Zelley  and  Sarah  Butcher  As- 
head.  The  children  born  to  the  latter  named 
are:  1.  Charles  Earl,  born  6  mo.  6,  1850; 
married.  2  mo.  18,  1897,  Rachel  Fogg,  of 
.Salem,  New  Jersey,  daughter  of  Joseph  H. 
and  Rachel  ( .Allen  )  Fogg.  He  is  a  successful 
farmer  of  Mannington  township,  Salem  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  and  a  consistent  member  of 
the  Salem  Orthodox  Friends  Meeting,  holding 
])ositions  of  trust  in  the  meeting  and  township. 
2.  William  Henry,  born  i  mo.  5,  1854,  see  for- 
ward. 3.  Joseph  Howard,  born  8  mo.  11,  1857; 
married,  3  mo.  26,  1884,  at  Orthodox  Friends 
Meeting,  Salem,  Ohio,  Edith,  daughter  of 
Richard  B.  and  Edith  \V.  (Test)  Fawcett, 
where  he  settled  in  successful  business.  One 
daughter  was  born  to  them  who  married  Oliver 


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I'.  Asliead,  a  cousin,  of  Camden,  Ww  Jirscv. 
and  have  one  child,  Dudley  Fawcett  Asliead. 
4.  Amos  Asliead,  born  8  mo.  i,v.  1867;  mar- 
ried. (J  mo.  6,  1894,  Emma  .\.  Weeden,  of 
I'liilacleljihia,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Walton)  Weeden:  the  ancestry  of  Mary 
(  Walton  )  \\'eedeii  runs  back  through  the  Wal- 
ton families  of  lUicks  and  Montgomery  coun- 
ties, l'enns)ivania.  After  finishing  his  studies 
Amos  A.  Zclley  was  employed  in  the  office,  of 
W'hitall,  Tatum  &  Company,  of  Philadelphia, 
I 'ennsylvania,  for  nine  jears,  then  turned  his 
attention  to  farming,  and  finally  in  1907  set- 
tied  at  Masonville  in  the  general  store  business, 
proving  a  successful  and  useful  business  man. 
Two  children  were  born  to  them :  John 
I'jKicli,  12  mo.  8,  1902,  and  Charles  Earl,  11 
mil.   10,   1905 

.Vil  the  children  of  liiioch  Stratton  Zelley 
and  Sarah  Uutcher  Ashead  were  educated  at 
the  I-Vienils  Westtown  Boarding  School,  Ches- 
ter ctiunty,  Pennsylvania,  from  which  William 
llenry  Zelley  graduated  in  1873,  remaining  as 
ail  assistant  instructor  the  year  following.  He 
was  born  in  the  old  homestead  at  "Cross  Keys" 
near  Medford,  Xew  Jersey,  w  hich  was  built  by 
his  great-grantl father.  Enoch  Stratton.  who 
m.nrried  llannah  liranin,  in  1791.  as  was  also 
his  brother,  Charles  Earl.  From  W'esttown 
William  Henry  entered  the  old  established 
drug  house  of  Charles  Ellis.  Son  &  Company 
at  the  southwest  corner  of  Tenth  and  Market 
streets,  I^hiladeljihia,  and  later  with  A.  W. 
Wright  iS;  CLimpany  at  the  northeast  corner 
<if  I'ront  and  Market  streets,  Philadelphia.  In 
the  spring  of  1877  he  purchased  the  drug  store 
and  property  at  Marlton.  Xew  Jersey,  where 
he  still  continues  in  successful  business.  He 
acconi])lished  his  marriage  the  same  year  con- 
trary to  the  discipline  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
for  which  he  was  treated  with  as  state<I  in  the 
minutes  of  Cpjier  Evesham  Mcnithly  Meeting 
cif  5  mo.  II,  1878,  as  follows:  "lie  ])reseiited 
an  acknowledgement  which  u]inn  being  read 
and  deliberately  considered  the  meeting  was 
united  in  receiving,"  the  Monthly  Meeting  hav- 
ing been  informed  by  Cropwell  Preparative 
.Meeting  that  "he  has  been  treated  with 
for  accom|)lishing  his  marriage  contrary 
to  disci])line."  His  subsequent  life  and  de- 
fiortment  must  have  been  satisfactory  to 
I'Viends  as  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  Upper 
I'Aesham  Monthly  Meeting.  2  mo.  11,  1905, 
and  an  overseer  in  Cropwell  Preparative  Meet- 
ing. I  mo.  8.,  1 910. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  he  has  represented 
liis  party   in   many   state  and   Cdunty   conven- 


tions. In  s])eaking  of  the  county  convention 
for  clerk  of  [Uirlington  county.  9  mo.  30,  1893, 
the  Xew  Jersey  Mirror  says  :  "Evesham  (town- 
shi]))  also  had  a  favorite  son  and  his  claims  to 
the  nomination  were  placed  before  the  con- 
\ention  in  a  very  able  manner  by  William  H. 
he  jiresented  the  name  of  William  W.  Morrell 
iK'c."  The  Mt.  Holly  Xews  rejiorting  the  same 
Zelley,  of  that  township.  In  a  stirring  address 
cc)n\enti(in  says:  "Mr.  Zelley  inade  a  telling 
s|)eecli  in  national  affairs  making  each  part 
ajjjily  to  the  present  occasion,  lie  was  fre- 
c|uentl_\-  greeted  with  hearty  applause."  He 
has  also  made  speeches  at  other  conventions 
and  |)ublic  school  commencement.  He  was 
elected  clerk  of  his  townshi])  in  1886  and 
served  1  number  of  years;  was  postmaster 
under  the  Harrison  administration  and  elected 
township  collector  of  taxes  in  i8gi,  which 
office  he  still  holds  (  1910),  He  w'as  elected  a 
member  of  the  township  "Hoard  of  Education" 
in  1886,  and  with  the  exce])tion  oi  one  year 
has  been  in  continued  service  until  the  present 
time  (  i<;io),  occujiying  the  different  ])Ositions 
therein.  He  was  one  of  the  active  organizers 
and  incorpurators  of  the  Marlton  Water  Com- 
pany in  i8<;7:  the  Marlton  P'ire  Coni])aiiy,  No. 
I,  in  1898;  the  Marlton  Light,  Heat  &  Power 
Company  in  1903,  and  the  Marlton  Land  and 
lm])rovement  Company  in  1907,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  directors  and  the  secretary 
of  each  company.  He  was  elected  a  director 
of  the  Farmers'  Club  at  Mt.  Laurel.  New  Jer- 
sey, in  1904.  and  its  secretary  in  1907.  and  a 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Mt. 
Laurel  i'ursuing  Detective  and  Insurance  Com- 
jiany  in  1910.  He  has  always  taken  an  active 
interest  in  public  affairs  and  the  institutions 
of  his  town. 

William  llenry  Zelley  married.  11  mo,  8, 
1S77,  .Mar\  P.,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Eliza 
(Pennell)  Webster.  Isaac  Web.ster  was  a 
grandson  of  Lawrence  and  Hannah  (Wills) 
\\'ebster,  the  later  of  whom  was  a  granddaugh- 
ter of  Dr.  Daniel  Wills,  the  progenitor  of  the 
Wills  family.  Lawrence  Webster  was  the 
grandson  of  Samuel  Webster,  the  emigrant, 
Eliza  (i'ennell)  Webster  was  a  descendant 
of  Robert  Pennell,  of  P.olderton,  Lancashire. 
England,  who  came  to  .\merica,  8  mo.  3.  1684, 
and  settled  at  Middleton,  Delaware  count>-. 
Pcnns>  Ivania,  168(^1. 


In  October.  1(135.  the  great 
W  ILKIXS(  ).X     and  general  coiirt  of  Mass- 
achusetts   P.ay    summoned 
Roger  Williams  to  ajipc-ir  and  answer  cli;irges 


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STATE    OI-    NEW  JERSEY. 


before  tlieiii,  all  the  ministers  in  the  bay  beinj; 
present.  After  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker  had  failed 
by  argument  to  redeem  him  from  any  of  his 
errors,  the  general  court  sentenced  him  to  de- 
part out  of  our  jurisdiction  within  si.x  weeks, 
all  the  ministers  present,  save  one,  approving 
the  sentence.  The  act  of  banishment  was  pass- 
ed on  October  8,  1635,  and  is  in  these  words : 
"Whereas  Mr.  Roger  Williams  one  of  the 
elders  of  the  Church  of  Salem  hath  broached 
and  divulged  new  and  dangerous  opinions 
against  the  authority  of  magistrates ;  has  also 
writ  letters  of  defamation,  both  of  the  magis- 
trates and  churches  here,  and  that  before  any 
conviction,  and  yet  maintaineth  the  same  with- 
out any  retraction ;  it  is,  therefore,  ordered 
that  the  same  Williams  shall  depart  out  of  this 
jurisdiction  within  six  weeks,  now  next  ensu- 
ing, which  if  he  neglects  to  perform  it  shall  be 
lawful  for  the  governor  and  two  of  the  magis- 
trates to  send  him  to  some  place  out  of  this  juris- 
diction, not  to  return  any  more  without  license 
from  the  Court."  In  the  middle  of  January, 
1636,  he  "steared  his  course"  from  Salem  in  a 
small  canoe  and  the  vessel  "was  sorely  tossed, 
without  bed  or  bread"  and  proceeding  along 
the  coast  he  held  intercourse  with  the  Indians 
and  finally  found  welcome  in  the  wigwam  of 
his  aged  friend  Massasoit,  from  whom  he  ob- 
tained a  grant  of  land  at  Seacunck,  which  in 
1645  became  the  town  of  Rehoboth,  in  IMym- 
outh  colony.  He  cleared  the  ground  and  plant- 
ed corn,  and  some  of  his  followers  joinetl  him 
there,  but  not  his  wife  and  children  who  were 
left  behind  in  Salem.  Williams  says :  "I  first 
pitched  and  began  to  i^lant  at  Seacunck,  now 
Rehoboth.  but  I  received  a  letter  from  my 
ancient  friend,  Mr.  Winslow,  the  governor  of 
Plymouth,  professing  his  own  and  others'  love 
and  res])ect  for  me,  yet  lovingly  advising  mc. 
since  1  had  fallen  into  the  edge  of  their  bounds 
and  they  were  loath  to  displease  the  Bav,  to 
remove  to  the  other  side  of  the  water,  and 
there  he  said  I  had  the  country  free  before  me 
and  might  be  as  free  as  themselves,  and  we 
should  be  loving  neighbors  together."  During 
the  latter  i)art  of  June.  1636,  with  his  five 
friends,  he  re-embarked  at  Seacunck  and 
rounded  the  point,  making  their  way  up  the 
Massachusetts  river,  landed  and  named  the 
I)lace  I*r(.ividence  and  commanded  a  settlement. 
He  mortgaged  his  house  in  Salem  and  with  the 
money  purchased  from  the  Indians  by  formal 
deed,  made  by  Canonicus  and  Maintonomi, 
wiio  represented  the  Indian  owners  of  the  soil, 
and  by  this  purchase  he  became  the  owner  and 
he  exjiresseil  his  right  to  the  ])roperty  bv  say- 


ing it  "was  now  as  much  his  as  his  coat  on  his 
back."  This  land  he  freely  gave  to  his  fellow 
settlers,  reserving  for  himself  no  special  rights 
and  securing  from  this  ownership  no  promi- 
nence above  his  fellow  exiles.  He  founded  the 
first  Baptist  church  in  America  and  was  its 
first  pastor.  This  relation  did  not  last  long, 
however,  as  he  became  a  "seeker"  preferring 
not  to  be  connected  with  any  particular  church 
or  creed  and  he  was  instrumental  in  securing 
Mr.  Chad  Brown  as  pastor  and  he  continued 
to  both,  the  pastor  and  the  society,  his  en- 
couragement and  support  and  he  continued  to 
preach  the  gospel  to  "the  scattered  English  at 
Narragansett."  About  this  time  he  became  a 
friend  and  neighbor  of  Lawrence  Wilkinson 
((|.  v.),  who  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends  and  the  two  men  co-operated  in  build- 
ing up  the  colony. 

(1)  Lawrence  Wilkinson  came  from  Eng- 
land to  New  England,  but  the  year  of  his 
arrival  is  stated  various!)'  as  1645-46-52,  each 
claimant  having  reasons  for  fixing  the  date. 
He  was  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  one  child. 
He  was  born  early  in  the  seventeenth  century 
at  Harperly  House,  Lanchester,  Durhamshire, 
England,  but  the  date  of  his  birth  and  the  his- 
tory of  his  early  youth  are  unknown.  He  was 
the  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Conyers)  Wil- 
kinson, and  grandson  of  Lawrence  Wilkinson, 
for  whom  he  was  named  and  the  proprietor  of 
llar])erl)'  House.  He  went  into  the  Royal 
army  as  a  lieutenant  and  served  in  maintaining 
the  cause  of  Charles  II.  against  Cromwell  in 
1640,  and  he  was  taken  jirisoner  on  the  fall  of 
N'ew  Castle  and  his  estates  were  sequestered 
by  the  parliamentary  government.  He  obtained 
from  Lord  Fairfax  permission  to  embark  for 
.\merica.  and  poor  in  purse  and  with  no  coun- 
try he  could  call  his  own  he  found  a  new  home 
for  himself,  his  wife  and  his  children  in  the 
newly  formed  settlement  at  Providence  planta- 
tions. Rhtxle  Island,  and  a  friend  in  Roger 
Williams,  although  he  did  not  agree  with  Will- 
iams in  religious  views,  he  being  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends.  He  was  made  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  Providence  plantations,  was 
presented  with  twenty-five  acres  of  land  and 
was  one  of  the  signers  of  the  original  civil 
comjiact  made  between  the  founders,  and  dated 
iith  month.  19th  day,  1645.  The  marked 
ifualities  of  his  character  found  for  him  favor 
in  the  community,  and  he  soon  accumulated  a 
large  estate  by  his  thrift  and  energ}',  and  he 
was  honored  by  being  sent  to  represent  the 
town  in  the  colonial  legislature,  and  he  met  in 
ciinnscl  at  IVirtsmouth  in  1659,  1667,  1673, and 


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many  times  thereafter.  He  was  in  full  account 
with  Williams  in  his  doctrine  of  "soul  liberty," 
and  when  the  Indian  troubles  threatened  to 
put  an  end  to  the  settlement  he  was  with  Roger 
Williams  and  Major  llojikins,  the  three  leaders 
who  would  not  seek  safety  in  flight,  but  stood 
their  ground  and  saved  the  colony.  His  wife, 
to  whom  he  was  married  before  he  left  Eng- 
land, was  the  daughter  of  Christopher  Smith, 
who  probably  came  from  England  in  the  same 
>hip  and  who  was  made  a  freeman  in  1655,  the 
place  of  his  residence  being  known  as  Smith 
Hill,  rrovidence,  where  he  located  about  1650. 
(  hildreu  of  Lawrence  and  Susanna  (Smith) 
Wilkinson:  1.  Samuel,  born  probably  in  Eng- 
land, see  forward.  _>.  .Susanna,  born  in  Provi- 
dence, March  9.  i'>52,  died  young.  3.  John, 
.March  2,  1654,  was  noted  for  his  great  physical 
■-trength,  he  took  up  land  near  the  Providence 
settlement  and  within  the  boundaries  of  the 
town,  he  was  noted  fur  bravery  bordering 
on  rashness  in  King  Philip's  war,  and  in  an- 
other fight  with  the  Indians ;  several  years 
afterward,  he  was  severely  wounded  and  the 
general  assembly  voted  him  ten  pounds,  in 
token  of  their  ajjpreciation  of  his  service ;  he 
was  deputy  to  the  general  court  for  several 
years :  he  married  Deborah  Whipple,  by  whom 
he  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  and 
most  of  the  Wilkinsons  of  Cumberland  and 
several  of  Smithfield  are  his  descendants :  he 
died  suddenly  and  without  an  attendant,  on 
the  road  leading  from  his  house  to  that  of  his 
brother  Samuel,  on  July  10,  1708.  4.  Joanna, 
horn  June  2.  1657,  of  whose  existence  or  death 
there  is  nothing  known.  5.  Josias,  born  about 
if)()o:  he  tijok  the  oath  of  fidelity  to  King 
Charles  1!.,  .May  29,  1682,  and  died  August 
10,  i(i<)2,  the  day  succeeding  that  on  which  his 
father  died ;  he  married  Hannah  Tyler,  of 
Taunton.  Massachusetts,  and  received  from 
his  father  a  gift  of  the  homestead  in  Provi- 
dence: they  had  one  child,  Hannah.  6.  .Sus- 
.nma.  married  a  Mr.  P>oss..  of  Rehobcth. 

(II)  Samuel,  eldest  son  of  Lawrence  and 
Susanna  (Smith)  Wilkinson,  was  born  prob- 
ably in  England  about  1650.  He  married,  in 
1672.  Plain,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Wicker- 
den,  associate  i)astor  with  the  Rev.  Chad 
r.rown,  of  the  Mrst  Bajitist  Church  in  Provi- 
dence, and  after  Mr.  lirown's  resignation  for 
several  years  sole  jiastor  of  the  church.  Sanuiel 
Wilkinson  settled  on  a  farm,  which  became  a 
part  of  Smithfield.  where  he  was  a  pioneer, 
and  when  King  Philip's  war  broke  out  he  sent 
his  wife  and  child  to  the  garrison-house  in 
Providence   for  safetv  and   lie  went  with   the 


MtJRr  men  of  the  jjlace  to  defend  their  homes 
:iii(l  if  possible  put  down  the  savages.  He  was 
in  command  of  a  company  of  minute-men,  and 
when  the  war  was  ended  by  the  death  of  King 
Philip,  he  returned  home  and  resumed  work 
upiiii  his  farm.  He  was  a  justice  of  the 
Peace  and  a  re])resentative  in  the  colonial  legis- 
lature. He  met  a  sudden  death  on  August  27, 
1727,  Ijeing  accidentally  drowned  in  the  Paw- 
tucket  river,  his  wife  perishing  with  him.  The 
children  of  Captain  Samuel  and  Plain  (Wick- 
erden )  Wilkinson  were:  I.  Samuel,  born  9th 
month,  i8th,  1674;  died  1st  month,  i8th,  1726; 
he  married  Huldah  (Thayer)  .\l(lrich  ;  he  lived 
on  the  homestead  farm  which  he  received  as  a 
gift  from  his  father,  and  besides  being  a  farmer 
was  aLo  a  tanner,  currier  and  shoemaker;  he 
was  a  -nember  of  the  Society  of  b'riends ;  the 
father  of  fifteen  children,  born  between  1697 
and  1720,  in  the  following  order:  Huldah, 
Isaiah,  Samuel,  Zebiah.  I'atience,  Mercy,  David. 
Jacob,  Sarah,  William,  Ruth,  Caleb,  Plain, 
Peleg  and  Ichabod.  2.  John,  see  forward.  3. 
William.  November  1,  1O80;  he  was  a  preacher 
111  the  Society  of  Friends  and  went  to  Bar- 
badoes  and  thence  to  England,  where  he  mar- 
ried a  \'orkshire  lass;  he  never  returned  to 
\merica.  4.  Joseph,  born  January  22,  1682; 
married  Martha  Pray,  a  granddaughter  of  one 
of  the  ])ioneer  settlers  of  Scituate,  Rhode 
Island,  and  he  lived  in  that  town  wdiere  he 
accumulated  large  wealth,  being  owner  of  one 
thousand  acres  of  land;  he  died  about  1780.  5. 
Ruth,  married  William  Hopkins,  wiio  was  a 
mechanic  and  day  laborer  on  her  father's  farm, 
and  their  oldest  son,  William  Hopkins,  was  a 
sea  captain  with  a  life  full  of  adventures;  an- 
other son,  Stephen  Hopkins,  the  signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Indejiendence ;  another  son, 
Esek  Hopkins,  was  the  first  commander-in 
chief  of  the  L'nited  States  navy.  6.  Susanna, 
born  .April  27,  1688;  married  James  .Angell. 
and  bv  the  marriage  they  had  three  sons  and 
two  daughters. 

(  III  )  John,  second  son  of  Samuel  and  Plain 
(  Wickerdeii )  Wilkinson,  was  born  at  "Lo- 
(|uisset"  in  the  town  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  January  25,  1677-78.  He  was  brought 
up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  about  1706  re- 
moved to  Hunterdon  county,  New  Jersey,  with 
his  wife  whose  maiden  name  was  ^Tary  Walk- 
er. The  first  child,  Mary,  was  born  in  Hunter- 
don county.  New  Jersey,  July  17,  1708,  and  in 
.•\ugust.  1730.  she  married  Joseph  Chapman, 
of  W'rightstown.  He  removed  to  Bucks  coun 
tv.  I'ennsylvania,  before  1713,  received  and 
hail   recorded   a   deed   for  three   hundred   and 


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seven  acres  on  Xesliaminy,  in  Bucks  county, 
then  a  primeval  forest,  tenanted  by  Indians 
and  wild  beasts.  The  tract  .still  known  as  the 
"W'ilkinsim  Tract"  was  on  the  laying  out  of 
townships  [lartly  in  W'rightstown  and  partly  in 
Warwick  and  Uuckinghani  township.  2.  Keziah, 
married  Thomas  Ross,  and  was  the  mother  of 
Judge  John  Ross.  3.  Plain,  married  Peter 
Ball.  4.  Susanna,  married  Andrew  Davis.  5. 
Ruth,  married  Joseph  Chapman.  6.  John,  see 
forward.  His  home  in  the  wilderness  was 
subject  to  all  the  dangers  of  frontier  life,  and 
his  wife  and  children  had  scant  society  and  no 
educational  advantages  except  such  as  could  be 
acquired  at  their  own  firesides  and  in  the 
Friends  meeting.  In  175 1,  when  seventy- four 
years  of  age,  lie  made  his  will  and  a  few  days 
after  he  died.  His  will  was  probated  April  23, 
1751,  which  is  the  only  date  that  indicates  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  buried  in  the  fam- 
ily burial  ground  set  apart  on  his  farm  for  that 
purpose  when  lie  built  his  house  and  fenced 
the  cultivated  fields. 

(I\')  John  (2),  sixth  child  and  only  son  of 
John  (1  )  and  Mary  (Walker)  Wilkinson,  was 
born  in  Wrightstown,  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, about  1723.  He  was  brought  up  liter- 
ally in  the  wilderness  and  he  grew  up  to  be  the 
chief  dependence  of  his  father  in  the  care  of 
the  farm.  He  became  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Wrightstown,  serving  as  a  delegate  to  the  pro- 
vincial assembly  of  Pennsylvania,  1761-62;  as 
magistrate  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  of 
Bucks  county,  1764-70-74-76;  as  a  member  of 
the  committee  of  safety,  1775-76;  a  member  of 
the  provincial  conference  in  1774;  lieutenant 
colonel  of  the  Third  Bucks  County  Battalion, 
1775,  and  in  the  American  revolution  did  serv- 
ice in  the  field,  as  well  as  being  a  member  of 
the  committee  to  hear  and  discharge  prisoners, 
appointed  June  25,  1776;  member  of  the  gen- 
eral assembly  of  Pennsylvania  in  1776  and  a 
member  of  the  committee  to  raise  money  to 
carry  on  the  war  by  issuing  two  hundred  thous- 
and pounds  in  bills  of  cretlit  in  1777  and  a  dele- 
gate to  the  state  constitutional  committee  that 
met  in  Philadelphia,  July  15,  1776.  He  was 
called  to  account  by  the  Society  of  Friends  for 
his  active  jiarticipation  in  war  and  public 
affairs,  contrary  to  the  rules  of  the  society, 
and  he  was  expelled  from  the  Society  of 
Friends  in  1777.  He  married.  May  27,  1740, 
Mary,  daughter  of  General  John  Lacey  (1752- 
1814),  a  revolutionary  soldier  and  brigadier- 
general  of  the  Pennsylvania  militia;  grand- 
daughter of  John  and  Rachel  (Hestra)  Lacey, 
great-granddaughter    of    William    Lacey,    the 


immigrant,  who  came  from  the  Isle  of  \\  ight, 
England,  and  took  up  land  near  the  Wrights- 
town lueetinghouse,  in  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania. By  this  marriage  he  became  the  father 
of  nine  children  who  intermarried  with  the 
best  families  of  Bucks  county  and  the  youngest 
child,  Elisha  (1774-1846),  settled  in  the  town- 
ship of  Buckingham,  was  lieutenant-colonel 
and  (|uartermaster  in  the  war  of  1812;  sherifi 
of  Bucks  county  for  two  terms,  a  noted  sports- 
man and  the  keeper  of  a  popular  tavern.  He 
married  (first)  .Ann  Dungan,  and  (second) 
Maria  Whitman.  His  son,  Ogden  Dungan 
Wilkinson  (1806-1866),  removed  to  Trenton. 
New  Jersey,  and  was  one  of  the  contractors  of 
the  Delaware  and  Raritan  canal.  Another  son, 
.\braham.  lived  on  the  oUl  homestead  during 
his  entire  life,  married  Mary  Thwing  and  had 
five  children  :  Jane,  John,  .\braham,  Samuel 
T.  and  Eleazer.  Another  son  was  Josiah,  see 
forward.  One  of  his  daughters  married  Gen- 
eral Samuel  Smith  (1749-1835),  and  they  had 
seven  sous  and  one  daughter.  Colonel  John 
Wilkinson  died  May  31,  1782,  and  he  probably 
was  buried  in  the  old  family  burial  lot  on  the 
homestead,  rather  than  in  the  meetinghouse 
grounds  as  he  had  been  expelled  from  the 
meeting  on  account  of  his  activity  in  war. 

( \' )  Josiah,  son  of  Colonel  John  (2)  and 
.Mary  (  Lacey  )  Wilkinson,  was  born  in  \\'rights- 
town,  Bucks  county.  Pennsylvania.  He  was 
one  of  nine  children  and  was  born  probably 
between  the  years  1745  and  1750.  He  mar- 
ried ]\Iary  Burrows  (or  Burroughts)  and  re- 
moved with  other  members  of  the  family  to 
Xew  Jersey,  where  their  son,  Eleazer  Burnett, 
was  born. 

(  \  I)  Eleazer  Burnett,  son  of  Josiah  and 
Mary  (Burrows)  Wilkinson,  was  born  in  New 
Jersey,  June  2,  1813;  died  October,  1879.  He 
was  a  traveling  Methodist  preacher  during  his 
early  manhooil,  and  later  in  life  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  in  Newark  New  Jersey.  He 
married  Catherine  Ackerson,  who  was  born  in 
183 1.  Children,  born  in  Chatham,  Morris 
county,  Xew  Jersey:  I.  Elias  Ackerson,  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Frances  Asbury,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows. 3.  Kate  L.  4.  Mary  L.,  married  James 
W.  Lent,  and  in  1909  was  living  in  Bernards- 
ville,  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey. 

(\  II  )  Elias  Ackerson,  son  of  Eleazer  Bur- 
nett and  Catherine  (Ackerson)  Wilkinson,  was 
born  in  Chatham,  Morris  county.  New  Jersey, 
May  II,  1842.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  township  and  on  leaving 
school  became  a  clerk  in  the  country  store  of 
Frances  .\sburv  Wilkinson,  and  he  also  carried 


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(111  a  country  store  in  Cliathani,  on  liis  own 
account,  and  subsequently  engaged  in  the  dairy 
business,  and  in  1867  with  the  Wilkinson, 
Gaddis  &  Company.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
party  politics,  and  was  a  director  in  the  Essex 
County  National  l.ank.  He  married  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  May  2.  18(16,  Alice  Blanche, 
daughter  of  David  and  Phoebe  R.  (Soverel) 
Earl.  She  was  born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
lanuary  31,  1841  ;  died  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, February  28,  1887.  Children,  born  in 
Xewark,  New  Jersey:  i.  Blanche  Earl,  mar- 
ried in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  4, 
i8i)i,  Ilarrv.  son  of  W'icklifife  Baldwin  and 
lane  A.  (Taylor)  Duraiid  and  had  five  chil- 
dren. J.  .Mice  Bell,  married  Job  Morris,  son  of 
Wesley  C.  and  ;\Iary  (;\Ieeker)  Miller,  and  had 
three  children  born  between  1899  and  1904. 
3.  Ethel  Ackerson,  married  George  McCutchen 
Eamont,  M.  D.,  of  192  Clinton  avenue,  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  and  had  four  children.  4. 
Flia.s  Alva.,  see  forward. 

(\TII)  Elias  Alva,  only  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Elias  Ackerson  and  Alice  Blanche 
(  Earl )  Wilkinson,  was  born  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  February  18,  1878.  He  was  a  inipil  in 
the  public  schools  of  Newark  and  in  the  New- 
ark Academy,  was  prepared  for  college  at  St. 
George's  Hall  and  was  graduated  at  Princeton 
University,  A.  B.,  1899.  He  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  the  Wilkinson,  Gaddis  &  Company,  of 
Newark,  and  in  1904  was  made  president  of 
the  cori)oration.  He  was  elected  to  member- 
ship in  the  Essex  Club  and  the  Essex  County 
Club.  He  was  made  a  director  in  the  Iron 
Bond  Trust  Company,  of  Newark.  He  mar- 
ried. October  19,  1899,  Helen  Louise,  daughter 
of  Theodore  and  Clementine  (Bruen)  Runyon, 
whose  children  were :  Mary,  Juha,  Helen 
Eouise,  Chauncey  and  Frederick  Runyon.  The 
children  of  Elias  Alva  and  Helen  Louise  (Run- 
yon) Wilkinson  were:  i.  Theodore  Runyon, 
born  April  12,  190 1.  2.  Helen  Louise,  April 
6,  1904.  The  address  of  Elias  Alva  Wilkin- 
son, jiresident  of  the  Wilkinson,  Gaddis  & 
Comiiany  is  8(16  Broad  street,  Newark,  New- 
Jersey.  

(For   precediiiK    generations   .see    Lawiencc    Wilkin- 
son   1  I. 

(  VH)  Francis  .Asbury  Wil- 
WIl.K  I  XSON  kinson,  second  son  of  Elea- 
zar  I'urnett  and  Catharine 
( .\cker>on )  Wilkinson,  was  born  in  Chatham, 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  Marcii  12,  1844; 
died  in  Newark,  January  25,  1901.  Except  for 
three  years  s])ent  as  a  soldier  during  the  civil 


war,  and  for  one  or  two  years  just  after  the 
war  spent  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  his  whole  life 
was  spent  in  Newark,  of  which  he  was  one  of 
the  most  representative  citizens.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  Newark  schools, 
which  he  attended  until  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war,  when  at  the  age  of  eighteen  in  1861 
he  enlisted  in  Company  l\  First  Regiment,  In- 
dependent Essex  Brigade,  which  later  became 
a  part  of  the  Union  Volunteer  Army.  His  en- 
listment was  for  three  years.  His  company 
was  commanded  by  Captain  John  E.  Beam, 
and  was  known  as  Beam's  battery,  although 
l^eam  was  killed  at  Malvern  Hill  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Colonel  Judson  Clark.  With  this 
batter)-  Francis  Asbury  served  from  Septem- 
ber 3,  1861,  to  September,  1864,  and  was  en- 
gaged at  the  defence  of  Washington  in  1861,  at 
the  siege  of  Yorkt(jw-n,  in  A]3ril  and  May, 
1862,  at  Twin  Pines,  Seven  Pines,  Peach 
Orchard,  Fan  Oaks,  Malvern  Hill,  Fredericks- 
Ijurg,  Cliancellorsville.  Gett)-sburg.  Locust 
(irove.  Mine  Run,  Wapping  Heights,  Williams- 
burg, the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  Spottsyl- 
vania  Court  House,  Cold  Harbor,  North  and 
South  .\nna  River,  Petersburg,  and  in  all  the 
engagements  to  Deer  llottom,  Virginia. 

.\fter  he  was  mustered  out  of  service,  he 
sjieiit  a  year  or  two  at  work  in  Cincinnati, 
( )hio,  and  then  returned  to  Newark  in  order  to 
take  his  ])Iace  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Wil- 
kinson &  \'oorhees,  the  forerunner  of  the  pres- 
ent firm  of  Wilkinson,  Gaddis  &  Company, 
which  had  been  founded  in  1864  by  Elias  .Ack- 
erson Wilkinson  and  Jacob  Runer,  and  in  1866 
replaced  by  the  firm  of  Wilkinson  &  Voorhees, 
which  continued  until  1873,  when  it  in  turn 
was  replaced  by  the  present  firm  of  Wilkinson, 
(iaddis  &  Company.  The  new  firm  began  on 
Commerce  street,  where  the  Mutual  I'enefit 
Life  Insurance  Company  building  now  stands. 
In  .Vpril,  1886,  the  firm  became  a  corporation 
with  a  capital  of  $500,000  and  Francis  Asbury 
Wilkinson  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  corpora- 
tion. .-\t  the  time  of  its  incorporation  the  firm 
was  negotiating  for  the  site  of  its  present  main 
building  on  the  corner  of  Broad  and  Fair 
streets  and  in  Sejitember,  1887,  the  handsome 
six-story  building  the  corporation  now  occu- 
pies was  completed  and  opened.  The  remark- 
able growth  of  the  corporation  has  been  almost 
altogether  accomplished  since  the  two  Wilkin- 
sons and  E.  B.  Gaddis  came  together.  From  a 
com[)aratively  modest,  though  well  established 
and  prosperous  business  in  the  early  seventies, 
it  has  grown  to  very  great  proportions,  being 
now  the  third  largest  wholesale  grocery  house 


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ill  tlie  count ly.  Jn  addition  to  its  buildings  at 
Broad  and  Fair  streets,  the  corporation  has  a 
grain  elevator  in  Chicago,  offices  in  New  York 
City,  branch  warehouses  in  Paterson  and  As- 
bury  Park,  New  Jersey,  and  it  is  said  that  its 
business  now  amounts  to  very  nearly  if  not 
tjuite  ten  millions  a  year.  Its  trade  is  in  whole- 
sale groceries  of  all  kinds,  in  flour  and  grain 
and  creamery  products.  It  controls  a  number 
of  dairies,  secures  a  large  share  of  the  govern- 
ment contracts  in  its  line  and  does  a  large  busi- 
ness of  this  sort  almost  every  week.  Its  rating 
is  of  the  highest. 

In  addition  to  fulfilling  the  duties  of  treas- 
urer of  this  great  corporation,  Francis  .A.sbury 
\\'ilkinson  was  a  director  of  the  Essex  County 
National  Bank  and  of  the  Security  Savings 
Institution.  He  was  also  president  of  the  Or- 
ville  Milling  Company,  of  Orville,  Ohio ;  sec- 
retary of  the  North  Bangor  Slate  Company, 
and  a  director  in  the  Brooklyn  Slate  and  Man- 
tel Company.  Besides  this  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Newark  Board  of  Trade,  of  the  Essex 
Club.  Essex  County  Country  Club,  and  of  the 
Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  All  his 
life  he  had  been  greatly  interested  in  St.  Luke's 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  Newark,  with 
which  he  had  been  connected  from  his  youth- 
ful days  as  a  Sunday  school  scholar.  For  the 
last  thirty  years  of  his  life  he  was  one  of  the 
officials  of  the  society  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  president  of  its  board  of  trustees.  He 
was  always  regular  in  his  attendance  at  the 
services,  and  most  liberal  in  giving  to  further 
the  objects  of  the  church  for  and  in  which  also 
he  was  a  most  earnest  worker  in  many  direc- 
tions. Not  the  least  of  these  was  the  payment 
of  the  church  debt,  the  coincidence  of  the  ac- 
complishment of  which  with  his  death  has  been 
often  ])ointed  out  and  commented  on  by  his 
friends.  ,\  few  days  before  his  death  he  at- 
tended the  jubilee  .services  at  St.  Luke's  in 
celebration  of  the  payment  of  this  debt  and 
then  succumbed  to  an  attack  of  pleuro-pneu- 
monia  which  caused  his  death. 

Francis  .\sbury  Wilkinson  married  Lucetta 
E  Munroe,  who  with  their  five  children  sur- 
vive him.  Children:  I.  Jennie  Brown,  mar- 
ried. .\pril  24,  1889.  John  Lewis  Hay.  born 
March  22,  1867,  in  Newark.  New  Jersey: 
graduate  of  Newark  Academy,  then  engaged 
with  his  father  in  Hay  Foundry,  and  at  the 
l)resent  time  (19101  is  treasurer  of  the  Hay 
Foundry  Company :  a  Republican  in  politics : 
for  seven  years  inember  of  the  Essex  Troop; 
a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  Children : 
i.  John  Lewis.  Jr..  born  January   tq.   1891  :  ii. 


Francis  Wilkinson,  October  23.  1893;  '•'■  Joan, 
.'\ugust  29,  1898;  iv.  Virginia.  March  22,  1901. 
John  Lewis  Hay  is  son  of  Ebenezer  C.  and 
-Annabelle  (Lewis)  Hay,  who  were  the  parents 
of  five  children,  three  claughters  of  whom  died 
in  childhood,  and  the  remaining  children  were 
John  Lewis,  aforementioned,  and  James  Bruce, 
married  Bertha  \\'.  Schaffer  antl  they  have  one 
child.  Gertrude.  2.  Elizabeth  Munroe,  mar- 
ried Halsey  Sleeker  Larter,  of  Newark ;  chil- 
dren :  i.  Charlotte,  born  May  28,  1897 ;  ii. 
Halsey  Munroe,  August  3,  1899;  iii.  Elizabeth, 
September  12,  1902.  3.  Burnet  Foster,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  Mary  Lucretia,  married 
Edward  J.  Ileilborn:  child,  Edward  J.,  jr.  5. 
Vinton  Parker,  referred  to  below. 

(\'III)  Burnet  Foster,  eldest  son  of  Francis 
Asbury  and  Lucetta  E.  (Munroe)  Wilkinson, 
was  born  October  3.  1879,  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  Newark  .Academy  and  the  Penn  Mili- 
tary College.  He  then  entered  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, class  of  1900.  and  afterward  engaged 
in  the  wholesale  grocery  business  of  W'ilkin- 
son,  Gaddis  &  Company,  of  which  his  father 
was  the  treasurer  from  1887  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death  in  1901.  Burnet  Foster  Wilkinson 
at  this  latter  date  succeeded  his  father  as  the 
treasurer  of  Wilkinson,  Gaddis  &  Company, 
and  in  addition  is  a  director  in  the  Esse.x  Coun- 
ty National  Bank,  treasurer  of  the  North 
Bangor  Slate  Company,  of  .\'orth  Bangor, 
I'ennsylvania.  and  takes  besides  a  very  active 
jiart  in  the  operation  of  many  other  interests. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Essex  County 
Country  Club,  of  Baltusrol  Golf  Club,  and  of 
St.  Luke's  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of 
.Vewark.  March  20,  1901,  Burnet  Foster  Wil- 
kinson married  Lillian  .\ugusta  Merrick,  of 
Johnstown,  New  York. 

(\III)  N'inton  Parker,  youngest  child  of 
Francis  .Asbury  and  Lucetta  E.  (Munroe^ 
Wilkinson,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
June  15,  1883.  He  was  educated  at  the  New- 
ark .Academy  and  at  the  Lawrenceville  school 
where  he  was  graduated  in  1900,  after  which 
he  entered  Princeton  I'niversity,  class  of  1904. 
.\fter  leaving  college  he  became  interested  in 
the  wholesale  grocery  business  of  Wilkinson, 
(laddis  &  Company,  and  in  1909  was  made  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  corporation.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Essex  Troop,  Esse.x  County 
Country  Club,  and  of  the  Union  Club,  of  New- 
ark, and  he  is  the  treasurer  of  the  Alotor- 
Tractor  Company  of  -America,  incorporated. 
March  27,  1906,  Vinton  Parker  Wilkinson 
married   Jane,    daughter   of   Theodore    Eaton 


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and  Edith  Evelyn  Otis.  Children:  i.  Bar- 
bara Otis,  born  .March  6,  1907.  2.  Jane,  born 
September  28.  i<)o8. 


John  Campbell,  son  of  John 
CA.MPBELL  andP.ridgetCampbell,of  Mon- 

nunith  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
is  the  tirst  member  of  the  family  of  whom  we 
have  definite  information.  Steen  held  him  to 
be  a  descendant  of  Lord  Xeil,  but  of  this  there 
is  not  sufficient  evidence.  That  he  was  a  man 
of  prcjminence  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  he 
was  one  of  "the  twelve  loving  subjects''  to 
whom  the  charter  of  St.  Peter's  Church  was 
granted,  1736,  and  one  of  the  first  vestrymen; 
and  he  was  also  a  judge  or  justice  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas,  Monmouth  county. 

(I)  John  Campbell  (named  above)  was 
born  November  6,  17 19,  and  died  March  31. 
1804.  It  is  ])ossible  that  he  was  the  son  of  John 
and  Mary  Campbell,  of  Hunterdon  county.  He 
married  (first),  January  22,  1746,  Rachel 
Walker,  who  died  May  10,  1761 ;  (second), 
Xovember  30,  17(11,  Hendrika,  born  .\pril  12, 
1726,  died  December  7,  1805,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Elizabeth  Covenhoven.  Children,  five 
by  first  wife,  baptized  in  Christ  Church, 
Shrewsbury;  four  by  second  wife,  baptized  in 
old  Tennant's  Church:  i.  George,  born  Janu- 
ary 7.  1747;  died  September  22,  1798;  un- 
married. 2.  John,  born  February  5,  1750; 
died  March  28,  1783.  3.  Duncan,  born  1753, 
baptized  June  10,  1753;  died  January  12,  1813. 
4.  Eleanor,  born  December  10,  1755;  died  June, 
1774.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  January.  1758;  bap- 
tized February  i,  1758;  died  September,  1760. 

6.  Rachel,  born  December  20,  1762.  7.  Will- 
iam, referred  to  below.  8.  Elizabeth,  born 
December  10,  I7'')7;  died  September  18,  1769. 
9.  P)enjamin  C,  born  Xovember  8,  \~(*)\  died 
January  11,  1810. 

(H)  William,  son  of  John  and  Hendrika 
(Covenhoven)  Campbell,  was  born  January 
20,  1765,  and  died,  according  to  the  record  on 
his  tombstone,  in  1847.  He  married,  in  1787, 
Margaret,  born  Xovember  i,  1771,  died  ]\Iay 
15.  1838,  daughter  of  Thomas  Cook.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John,  born  June  i,  1788;  died  July 
27.  1823.  2.  George,  born  May  17,  1791.  3- 
Rachel,  born  .'August  29,  1793:  died  October 
23t  1793-  4-  Thomas,  born  January  14,  1795; 
ilied  November  8,  1829.  5.  Nancy,  born  No- 
vember 4,  1798.  6.  William,  referred  to  below. 

7.  Maria,  born  January  12,  1805.  8.  Caroline, 
bom  .April  19,  1808.  9.  Rue,  born  .April  24. 
181 3:  died  February  25,  1882. 

(HI)   William  (2).  son  of  William  (i)  and 


-Margaret  (Cook)  Cami)bell,  was  born  .\ugust 
3,  i8qo.  and  died  l-"ebruary  i,  1870.  He  was 
a  farmer,  and  a  man  of  standing  and  reputa- 
tion in  the  community.  He  was  an  Episco- 
palian, but  fell  out  with  some  of  the  church 
officers  (St.  Peter's,  Freehold)  and  his  family 
thereafter  became  members  of  cither  the  Pres- 
byterian or  Dutch  church,  h'reehold,  according 
as  they  married.  He  was  a  cripple  the  last 
many  years  of  his  life,  and  therefore  did  not 
attend  church.  He  married,  May  21,  1822, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann  (Thomp- 
son) Piowne  (see  ISowne).  Children:  Mar- 
garet Ami,  Jane  Thompson,  Henry,  Peter 
Bowne  (referred  to  below),  .Amelia  -Augusta, 
John  Throckmorton,  William,  Maria,  Caro- 
line. 

(I\  )  Peter  Bowne,  son  of  William  and 
Hannah  (  Ijowne)  Campbell,  was  born  in  Free- 
hold, .\ew  Jersey,  January  20,  1830.  and  is 
now  living  at  Shrewsbury,  Xew  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools.  Like  his  forefathers  he  devoted  him- 
self to  agriculture,  ever  striving  to  make  his 
farm  a  model  in  the  neighborhood.  '  He  is 
])assionately  fond  of  horses,  and  in  his  younger 
days  owned  many  of  the  best  and  is  probably 
excelled  by  few  in  his  judgement  of  them.  He 
married,  June  15,  1853,  Mary  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Susan  (Wall)  Schureman 
(see  Schureman).  Children:  I.  James  Wall 
Schureman,  born  .April  2^.  1854;  now  living 
in  Freehold,  Xew  Jersey;  married,  Xovember 
27,  1878,  Alary,  daughter  of  Dennis  and  Ellen 
(  Bell)  \"alentine;  children:  Henry  Valentine, 
Edwin  Schureman,  Ellen,  and  two  others.  2. 
Hannah  Matilda,  born  March  12.  1856;  died 
March  26,  1861.  3.  William  Denise,  born  Oc- 
tober 17,  1858:  died  1891  ;  married  Harriet 
Cooper :  child,  William  Roy,  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  4.  Henry,  referred  to  below.  5.  George, 
twin  with  Henry,  born  June  13,  1865;  died 
June  16.  1865;  with  sister  Hannah  Matilda, 
buried  in  Christ  Church  graveyard.  Shrews- 
bury. Peter  Bowne  Campbell  and  Mary  Eliz- 
abeth .Schureman,  his  wife,  are  both  descended 
from  William  Bowne,  through  his  son  James. 
James  (2nd)  married  Margaret  Xewbold. 
whose  Bible.  i)ublished  in  London,  1661,  in 
good  state  of  preservation,  is  now  owned  bv 
J.  W.  S.  Campbell. 

(  \^  Henry,  son  of  Peter  P.owne  and  Mary 
l'"lizabeth  (Schureman)  Campbell,  was  born  in 
Shrewsbury,  New  Jersey.  June  13,  1865,  and 
is  now  living  in  Red  Bank,  New  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
-chools  and  to  Prof.  Schlciter's  German  .Acad- 


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SLATE    Ol'"    NEW   JERSEY. 


emy,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1880.  He 
then  became  a  messenger  in  the  First  National 
Bank,  of  Red  Bank,  and  by  industry  and  abil- 
ity so  proved  his  worth  and  worked  himself  up 
that  an  A]iril  18.  1898,  he  was  appointed 
cashier  of  that  institution,  and  was  at  that 
time  the  youngest  man  in  the  state  to  hold  such 
an  important  ])osition.  He  is  a  DemcKrat  in 
politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order 
of  L'nited  \\'orkmen,  the  Knights  of  Malta, 
the  Loyal  Legion,  and  the  Aztec  Club.  He  is 
the  treasurer  and  ranks  eldest  in  point  of  serv- 
ice of  the  vestrymen  of  Christ  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  Shrew.sbury,  and  for  the  past 
twenty-three  years  (since  1886)  has  been  di- 
rector and  treasurer  of  the  Red  Bank  Building 
and  Loan  Company.  He  married  in  Shrews- 
bury, January  14,  1893,  Maud  Barclay,  daugh 
ter  of  William  R.  and  Caroline  (  Barclay ) 
.Stevens. 

iThi-    H..«ni-    Limi. 

(I)  William  Bowne,  founder  of  this  branch 
of  the  family  of  his  name  in  America,  and 
probably  a  brother  or  cousin  of  the  famous 
Quaker,  minister,  John  Bowne,  of  Flushing, 
whose  descendants  have  played  such  an  imi)ort- 
ant  [lart  in  the  history  of  West  Jersey,  came 
from  Yorkshire,  England,  and  settled  at  Salem. 
}ilassachusetts,  in  1631.  He  afterwards  re- 
moved to  Gravesend,  Long  Island,  where  he 
bought  a  plantation.  November  12,  1646.  Early 
in  1665  he  came  to  Monmouth  county.  New 
Jersey,  and  settled  at  what  is  now-  known  as 
Holmdel,  the  name,  according  to  family  tradi- 
tion, having  been  bestowed  upon  it  in  compli- 
ment to  the  wife  of  his  son  John.    He  married 

(first)    Ann ,   in    England:    (second). 

July  2,  i6'K).  Marv  H'^Felt.  Sons  of  record 
by  first  wife:  1.  John,  died  January  3,  i(''i84: 
married  L_\dia.  daughter  of  Rev.  Obadiah 
Holmes.  2.  James,  baptized  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts. .\ugust  25.  1636:  died  1692;  married. 
1665.  Mary  Stout.  3.  .\ndrew,  baptized  .\u- 
gu.st    12.    1638:  died    1708;  married   Elizabeth 

;   settled   in   Monmouth  county  before 

1692.  and  commissioned  governor  of  East  Jer- 
sey.   4.  Philip  { f>r  Peter). 

(  11  )  Peter,  a  descendant  of  William  Bowne, 
married  and  had  children:  Joseph,  referred  to 
below:  Jonathan.  David.  Lydia :  l^aughter. 
name  unknow'u. 

(  HI )  Joseph,  son  of  Peter  Bowne.  was  born 
\ray  17.  1735:  died  October  8,  i8i2.  He  mar- 
ried, January  18.  17(13,  Hannah  .\nderson, 
born  January  25.  1740.  Children:  I.Hannah, 
born  March  31.  i7'^>3.    2.  Obadiah.  .\ugust  19. 


1705.  3.  John,  September  2,  1767;  died  1857; 
niarrie<l  Nancy  Corle.  4.  Anna,  born  March 
■^?f  '770-  5-  Peter,  referred  to  below.  6. 
James,  born  September  20,  1775;  ^'^^l  April 
22.  1833;  married  (first)  Lydia  Mount;  (sec- 
ond) ^lary  Craig.  7.  David,  born  October  i. 
1777.  8.  Catharine,  June  12,  1779.  9.  Lydia, 
I'ebruary  28,  1781  ;  died  April  14,  1829. 

(JA')  Peter,  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah 
(.\nderson)  Bowne,  w'as  born  June  27,  1772, 
and  died  October  3,  1835.  He  married  (first) 
.\nn  Thompson;  (second).  May  26,  1816, 
Amelia  Holmes,  daughter  of  John  and  Ann 
Craig,  who  died  June  3,  1855,  aged  seventy- 
seven  years,  five  months,  seventeen  days.  Chil- 
dren, one  by  second  wife,  and  probably  others 
bv  first  wife:  Hannah,  referred  to  below-; 
Aima  .Maria,  married  Enoch  Cowart,  Sr. 

(  \  )  Hannah,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann 
(Thompson)  liowne,  w-as  born  April  3,  1805. 
and  died  March  13,  1886.  She  was  married 
in  old  Tennant  Church,  by  Rev.  John  Wood- 
hull,  May  21,  1822,  to  W'illiam,  son  of  William 
and  Margaret  (Cook)  Campbell. 


James  Schureman,  of  New  Brunswick,  was 
born  I'"ebruary  12,  1756,  and  died  January  22, 
1824.  He  graduated  from  Rutgers  College  in 
1775,  served  in  the  revolutionary  army,  and 
was  a  delegate  from  New-  Jersey  to  the  Conti- 
nental congress.  1786-87.  He  was  elected  to 
the  first  Cnited  States  congress  as  a  FederaHst, 
and  also  to  the  fifth  congress.  He  was  then 
elected  United  States  senator  from  New  Jer- 
sev.  vice  John  Rutherfurd.  resigned,  and 
served  from  December  3.  1799,  until  he  resign- 
ed. February  6,  1801.  He  was  then  elected 
mayor  of  New  Brunswick,  and  later  a  repre- 
sentative from  New  Jersey  to  the  thirteenth 
congress.  In  1812  he  was  president  of  the 
Council  of  New  Jersey,  a  position  correspond- 
ing to  the  present  office  of  president  of  the 
state  senate. 

James  (2),  son  of  James  Schureman  (1), 
was  born  March  10.  1790.  and  died  May  12. 
1877.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812. 
I  le  married  Susan,  sister  of  Garret  D.  Wall. 
of  Trenton,  who  was  born  January  21,  1785, 
and  died  .\pril  13,  1880.  Children:  James 
Wall ;  Marv  Elizabeth,  referred  to  below. 

(HI)  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James 
and  Susan  (Wall)  Schureman,  was  born  No- 
vember 13,  1823,  and  married.  June  15,  1853, 
Peter  Bowne,  son  of  W'illiam  and  Hannah 
(  P.owne)  Campbell. 


STATE  OF  NEW    |^:RSl•:^• 


')^7 


lohn  \aleiUinc  .\lullar  (  Miller 
Mll.l.l'.K  ur  Muller)  lived  at  Xeeder 
^lorjiatan,  in  I'faltz,  Swey- 
briickin.  in  Ampt  Lantzberg.  John  Henr)- 
.Miller  (Muller)  was  born  j\Iay  22,  1728,  in 
Ampt  Lantzberg,  German)-,  and  died  February 
9,  1819.  lie  was  a  descendant  of  the  Millers 
who  in  1557,  under  the  leadership  of  Father 
George  Muller  (or  Miller),  pastor  of  the 
church  in  W'innis^eii.  joined  the  Lutheran  Ref- 
ormation. He  left  Germany  on  account  of 
religious  persecution,  and  arrived  in  Philadel- 
phia on  August  12,  1750,  and  settled  near  Ger 
mantown.  New  jersey,  in  1753.  On  April  1, 
1755,  he  married  Maria  Catherine  Melich, 
daughter  o\  John  I'eter  ^lelich,  and  was  born 
in  liendorf  on  the  Rhine,  July  13,  1732,  died 
January  22,  1807.  He  held  the  office  of  town 
clerk  of  Tewkesbury  thirty-one  years.  The 
local  chronicles  of  German  \'alley  are  rejilete 
with  his  high  iileals  and  reputation  and  of  the 
si^irituai  character  of  his  wife.  The  Melichs 
(or  Moelichs)  were  prominent  in  the  town  of 
Bendorf  during  the  seventeenth  century.  Chil- 
dren :  1.  Elizabeth,  born  July  11,  1758,  died 
January  6,  1845:  married  Christian,  son  of 
(iodfrey  Kline.  2.  Maria  Catharina,  born  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1763;  died  January  7,  1849;  mar- 
ried IJaltis  Stiger.  3.  Henry,  born  November 
7,  1 76(1:  married  (tirst)  Miss  Baird,  (second) 
Catlierine,  daughter  of  John  Peter  Sharp.  4. 
David,  referred  to  below. 

(  II  )  David,  son  of  John  Henry  Miller,  burn 
April  26,  1769,  lived  in  Middle  German  \'alley, 
Hunterdon  county,  and  was  a  man  of  high 
princi])les  and  strong  religious  convictions.  He 
was  appointed  major  First  Battalion,  Second 
Regiment,  Xew^  Jersey,  February  19.  1794.  He 
married  Mar\-  Elizabeth,  born  December  10. 
1776,  ilaughter  of  William  and  Dorotliea 
Welsh.  He  died  January.  1844,  at  Paterson, 
New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  William  W.,  boni 
1797.  2.  David  W.,  born  1799,  died  February 
12.  1866;  married  Miss  Swan.  3.  Jacob  \\  ., 
born  October.  1800.  4.  Henry,  married  Miss 
Shafer.  5.  Eliza,  married  Rev.  John  C.  Vander- 
voort.  ().  Dorothy,  married  Thomas  G.  Tal- 
mage.  7.  Mary,  married  Mr.  \'an  Pelt.  8. 
Catherine,  diefl  unmarried.  0.  Lydia  .\nn, 
married  Moses  De\\'itt. 

(HI)  William  W.,  son  of  David  and  Mary 
f-^lizabeth  Welsh,  was  born  in  Hunterdon  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  in  1797.  After  practicing  law 
a  >liort  time  in  Morristow-n  he  moved  to  New- 
ark, where  he  acf|uired  a  reputation  as  an 
orator  of  unconinmn  ability.  A  speech  he  de- 
livered in   1824  in  Trinity  Church,  Newark,  in 


behalf  of  the  (ireeks,  was  remembered  for  more 
than  a  generation  as  a  specimen  of  lofty  elo- 
i|uence.  Susequently  he  was  [)itted  against 
Thomas  A.  Emmet  in  a  law  suit  which 
required  the  highest  attainments,  and  the  occa- 
sion of  this  etTort  was  memorable  for  the  fame 
which  the  plea  for  his  client  gave  him,  but  his 
oratory  was  his  death  blow,  as  he  was  seized 
witli  a  hemorrhage  immediately  after  and  was 
hurried  abroad  by  his  physician.  The  famous 
young  lawyer  died  in  Paris,  July  24,  1825,  in 
the  twenty-ninth  year  of  his  age.  A  meeting 
of  the  New  Jersey  bar  was  called  when  the 
news  of  his  death  reached  this  country  at  which 
Richard  Stockton  presided.  A  fellow  member 
wrote  of  him:  "Never  do  I  take  from  my 
shelf  the  volume  once  thine,  and  containing 
thy  name,  written  with  thy  own  hand,  without 
having  thee  before  me,  as  thou  stoodest  in  thy 
beauty  and  intellectual  might,  pouring  forth 
thy  elo(|uence  upon  the  very  margin  of  thy 
grave.  Thy  last  notes  were  like  those  of  the 
swan.  My  thoughts  of  thee  are  like  the  recol- 
lected tunes  of  melancholy  music,  for  when  1 
think  of  thee,  I  hear  that  most  ])Owerful  of 
all  instruments  they  variable  voice,  in  all  the 
insjiirations  of  high  and  noble  feeling." 

(  111 )  Jacob  Welsh,  son  of  David  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Welsh)  Miller,  was  born  at  German 
N'alley,  Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  in  Octo- 
ber, 1800,  and  died  at  Morristown,  New  Jer- 
sey, Se])tember  30,  1862.  leaving  l)ehind  him  a 
national,  state  and  local  rejjutation  as  a  man  of 
integrity  and  high  sense  of  honor.  He  pre])ared 
for  college  at  Somerville,  New  Jersey,  under 
Samuel  L.  Southard,  who  was  afterwards  in 
the  L'.  S.  senate  with  his  |>u])il.  In  1819  he  be- 
gan the  study  of  law  under  his  brilliant  brother, 
William  W.  Miller.  Mr.  Miller  was  admitted  to 
the  New  Jersey  bar  in  1823,  and  began  his  pro- 
fession in  Morristown,  where  he  soon  acquired 
a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  especially  in  the 
higher  courts,  gaining  distinction,  also  as  a 
counsellor.  .\s  a  lawyer  he  was  remarkable 
for  industry,  faithfulness,  tact,  fervent  and  im- 
|)ressive  oratory,  and  above  all,  the  common 
sense —  more  rare  than  genius,  if  not  more 
valuable — which  marked  his  career  in  the  sen- 
ate not  k>s  than  at  the  bar,  stamping  its  sage 
ini|)riiU  ujion  his  whole  life.  In  1832  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  but 
in  1833  resumed  the  practice  of  his  [profession. 
In  1825  he  was  quartermaster-general  of  mili- 
tia, and  was  prominent  the  year  previous  on 
the  occasion  of  the  visit  of  General  Lafayette 
to  Morristown  on  July  14th.  During  1827  he 
became  one  of  tin-  incorporators  as  well  as  the 


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first  vtstrynicn  i.>f  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  Church, 
the  corner-stone  of  the  edifice  being  laid  on 
May  14,  1828.  In  1838  he  was  nominated  for 
the  state  senate  by  the  Whigs,  and  elected  by  a 
large  majority.  He  represented  his  district  in  the 
senate  of  the  state  for  two  years  with  such  use- 
fulness and  distinction  that  at  the  close  of  the 
term  in  1840  he  was  elected  United  States 
senator  for  New  Jersey.  In  that  high  theatre, 
then  crowded  with  the  most  illustrious  figures 
of  our  parliamentary  history,  he  discharged 
his  duties  so  ably  and  acceptably  that  on  the 
e.xpiration  of  his  term  in  1846  he  was  re-elected, 
serving  two  full  terms  in  the  upper  house  of 
the  first  legislative  body  in  the  world  when 
that  body  in  both  branches  was  at  the  zenith 
of  its  glory.  In  a  senate  which  included  Clay, 
Web.ster  and  Calhoun  with  lienton,  Wright 
Grundy,  Berrien,  j\Ianginii,  Crittenden,  Bu- 
chanan. McDufifie,  Corwin,  Reverdy  Johnson, 
Cass,  Pierce  and  Bayard,  he  was  not  thrown 
into  the  background,  but  stood  out  among  the 
principal  figures  of  the  scene,  commanding 
their  respect,  enjoying  their  friendship,  and 
])articipating  with  honor  in  their  most  renowned 
debates.  He  spoke  but  seldom,  reserving  him- 
self for  the  more  important  f|uestions,  content 
for  the  rest  with  a  vigilant  attention  to  the 
business  of  legislation,  including  a  diligent 
study  of  propo.sed  or  pending  measures,  prac- 
ticing as  a  statesman  the  industry,  thorough- 
ness and  fidelity  that  had  characterized  him  as 
a  lawyer.  It  was  partly  on  this  account  that 
when  he  did  speak  it  was  with  great  efl^ect,  but 
it  was  certainly  much  more  on  account  of  the 
knowledge,  fairness,  ability,  wisdom  and  elo- 
c|uence  which  he  used. 

One  of  the  ablest  and  most  impassioned  of 
his  speeches  was  delivered  towards  the  close 
of  his  term,  when  the  annexation  of  Texas  was 
being  discussed  in  the  senate.  He  opposed  the 
measure  as  contrary  to  the  constitution,  dan- 
gerous to  the  public  peace,  and  dishonorable  to 
the  national  character,  declaring  that  for  those 
reasons  he  would  "reject  Texas  were  she  to 
bring  with  her  the  wealth  of  the  Indies,"  and 
concluding  with  a  citation  from  the  report 
made  by  Aristides  to  the  Athenians  in  the 
stratagem  that  Themistocles  had  secretly  de- 
vised for  their  benefit:  "Nothing  could  be 
inore  advantageous  but  at  the  same  time  noth- 
ing would  be  more  unjust." 

Pie  bore  a  prominent  and  efi'ective  jiart  in 
the  discussion  over  the  momentous  question  of 
the  compromise  of  1850.  Pie  opposed  the  com- 
bination of  the  several  measures  of  com- 
promise into  a  single  measure,  and  after  the 


rejection  of  the  combination  known  as  the 
"Omnibus  Bill,"  supported  some  of  the  meas- 
ures when  put  upon  their  passage  separately, 
and  on  the  passage  of  all  of  the  measures  in 
this  manner,  sustained  the  compromise  as  a 
whole,  while  not  entirely  approving  every  part 
of  it.  In  one  of  his  latest  and  most  eloquent 
speeches  he  states  his  objections  to  continued 
agitation  after  laws  had  been  enacted.  The 
occasion  of  this  speech  was  the  presentation 
of  certain  resolutions  of  the  legislature  of  New 
Jersey,  under  the  recently  acquired  control  of 
the  Democratic  party,  instructing  the  New 
Jersey  senators  "to  resist  any  change,  altera- 
tion or  repeal  of  the  Compromise,"— instruc- 
tions which  the  Whig  senator  not  unnaturally 
construed  as  implying  a  very  unnecessary  re- 
flection upon  his  fidelity  to  the  measure,  and 
which  he  treated  with  derision,  as  gratuitously 
feeding  the  very  agitation  they  condemned. 
What  he  thought  of  this  sort  of  agitation  he 
had  told  unequivocally  enough  in  an  oration 
flelivered  at  his  home  in  Morristown  the  previ- 
ous July:  "I  will  not  say,"  he  observed,  "that 
those  men  who  are  continually  compassing  the 
government  with  wordy  threats  of  violence,  or 
horrifying  their  imaginations  with  the  dissolu- 
tion of  the  Union,  may  be  legally  chargeable 
with  the  desire  to  bring  about  the  death  of  our 
King,  the  Constitution,  yet  they  are  justly 
chargeable  with  that  moral  treason  which 
disturbs  the  confidence  of  a  loyal  people  in  the 
safety  and  stability  of  their  government  and 
u.ndermines  their  allegiance.  Let  us  not  be 
moved  by  the  cry  of  fanatics,  nor  alarmed  at 
the  threats  of  secessionists  *  *  *  Poli- 
ticians may  fret  and  fume,  state  conventions 
may  resolve  and  re-solve,  and  Congress  itself 
become  the  arena  of  fearful  agitation,  but 
above  and  around,  as  in  a  mighty  amphitheatre, 
in  undisturbed  and  undismayed  majesty,  stands 
the  American  people,  with  steady  eye  and 
giant  hand,  overlooking  all,  governing  all ;  and 
wo !  wo !  to  the  man  and  destruction  to  the 
state  that  attempts  to  resist  their  supreme 
Authority." 

It  was  about  this  period  of  his  senatorial 
career  that  the  landing  of  Kossuth  on  our 
siiorcs  called  forth  from  him  two  or  three  of 
themost  admirable  speeches  of  his  life.  Drawing 
a  broad  distinction  between  Kossuth  as  a  pri- 
vate individual  and  as  a  political  agitator,  he 
contended  that  the  brilliant  but  unfortunate 
Hungarian  should  be  generously  welcomed  in 
the  former  relation,  but  in  the  latter  let  severely 
alone,  grounding  his  argmnent  on  the  Wash- 
ingtonian    policy    of    non-intervention     in     the 


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domestic  affairs  ut  foreign  countries.  On  leav- 
ing the  senate  in  1853  he  refused  to  be  consid- 
ered as  a  candidate  for  governor. 

W'itli  the  expiration  of  j\lr.  Miller's  second 
term  ended  the  line  of  able  and  accomplished 
senators  that  the  Whigs  of  New  Jersey  fur- 
nished to  the  Union — I'Velinghuysen,  South- 
ard. Dayton,  Miller —  a  line  never  renewed; 
for,  when  power  again  passed  from  the  hands 
of  the  Democracy  of  New  Jersey,  the  Whig 
party  was  no  more.  Against  this  result  no 
man  struggled  more  zealously  than  the  last 
\\  hig  senator  of  the  state.  In  the  presidential 
campaign  of  1852  he  uiiheld  the  Whig  banner 
in  a  succession  of  masterly  speeches,  and  when 
tiiat  standard  had  gone  down  in  what  proved 
to  be  irretrievable  defeat,  he  still  endeavored 
to  rally  the  flying  s'|uadrons,  refill  the  skeleton 
regiments,  and  reinforce  the  army  in  general, 
publishing  as  late  as  December,  1854,  a  series 
of  strong  and  eloc|uent  papers,  insisting  on  the 
maintenance  of  the  Whig  principles,  but  recom- 
mending as  a  concession  to  the  spirit  of  the 
times  the  substitution  of  the  name  "American,' 
and  the  enlargement  of  the  i)latforni  so  as  "to 
condense  into  one  efficient  power  the  public  fac- 
tions" into  which  the  people  were  subdivided. 
Events  j^roved  too  powerful  for  his  logic,  and 
in  1855  he  abandoned  the  struggle  and  cast  in 
his  lot  with  the  Republican  party,  to  which 
with  characteristic  steadfastness  he  adhered 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  But  the  end  was 
near,  and  the  passage  to  it  thick-set  with  in- 
firmities, so  that  he  was  not  able  to  do  all  that 
he  would  have  wished  to  do  for  his  country 
in  the  crisis  of  her  fate.  Yet  he  did  much, 
both  with  his  voice  and  pen,  cheering  the  de- 
spondent, convincing  the  doubtful,  shaming  the 
lukewarm,  applauding  the  ardent,  and  quicken- 
ing all.  His  conviction  that  the  L'nion  would 
be  victoriously  maintained  was  clear  and  abid- 
ing, lie  foretold  the  triumph  of  his  country, 
but  did  not  live  to  see  it;  sinking  beneath  his 
increasing  infirmities  he  died,  leaving  a  wife 
and  a  large  family  of  sons  and  daughters,  two 
of  the  former  being  in  the  navy,  the  elder  dis- 
tinguished for  gallant  conduct  during  the  civil 
war.  and  two  lawyers  of  New  York  of  high 
abilities  and  attainments.  He  married,  No- 
vember 7.  1825.  Mary,  daughter  of  George 
Perrott  and  Louisa  Edwina  Saunderson  Mc- 
Culloch  (see  McCulloch).  Children:  i.  Ed- 
wina Louisa,  born  .August  20,  1826:  died  Au- 
gust 18,  1888;  married,  as  second  wife,  An- 
thony Ouinton,  son  of  Dr.  Edward  Ouinton 
and  Mary  Parry  (Aertsen)  Keasbey.  for  whose 
ancestry  see  name  in  index.    2.  Elizabeth,  born 


September  18.  1828,  died  August  14.  1852; 
married,  as  first  wife,  .Anthony  Quinton  Keas- 
bey. 3.  Frances  h'ord,  Ixjrn  September  1.  1830, 
died  July  1.  i<jo(>:  married  Luman  N.  Hitch- 
cock. I'cbruary.  18(10.  4.  George  Macculloch, 
born  .May  4,  1832  ;  referred  to  below.  5.  Lind- 
ley  lloft'man.  born  March  2(>.  1834;  died  July 
3.  1864;  referred  to  below.  ().  Henry  William, 
born  May  8.  183A;  died  January  30,  1904;  re- 
ferred to  below.  7.  h'rancis  McCulloch,  born 
September  2^.  1839;  died  August  29,  1854.  8. 
Leverett  Saltonstall,  born  August  8.  1843;  died 
September  18,  1845.  9-  Jacob  William,  born 
June  I.  1847;  referred  to  below. 

(R)  George  Macculloch,  son  vi  Jacoli 
Welsh  and  Mary  McCulloch  .Miller,  was  burn 
at  Morristown,  May  4,  1832.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  he  graduatetl  from  Burlington  Col- 
lege, and  after  studying  law  under  his  father 
and  taking  a  course  at  the  Harvard  Law 
.Schocjl.  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
Jersey  and  of  New  York.  In  1854  he  decided 
to  practice  in  New  York  City,  where  he  soon 
obtained  a  high  position  as  a  lawyer  and  a 
man  of  energy  and  accurate  and  careful  legal 
habits.  He  was  conse(|uently  employed  as 
counsel  and  attorney  for  many  large  institu- 
tions. In  1871  he  became  president  of  the 
Newport  &  Wickford  Railroad  &  Steamboat 
Company;  in  1873  ^  clirector  of  the  New  York. 
Providence  &  lioston  Railroad  Company,  and 
subsec|ucntly  was  chosen  as  its  vice-president. 
In  1879  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Provi- 
dence i!t  Stonington  Steamship  Company,  antl 
was  also  president  of  the  Denver,  LUah  & 
Pacific  Railroad  Company  for  the  six  years 
ending  1887.  For  a  time  he  was  president  of 
the  ilousatonic  Railroad  Company,  and  for 
many  years  has  been  one  of  the  leading  di- 
rectors of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hart- 
ford Railroad  Com])any.  He  founded  the  firm 
of  Miller,  Peckham  &  Dixon,  which  is  one  of 
the  leading  corporations  of  the  state.  Mr. 
Miller  is  also  a  trustee  of  the  Central  Trust 
Com])any  and  the  Bank  of  Savings,  as  well  as 
of  Greenwood  Cemetery.  He  has  been  fore- 
most in  religious  and  benevolent  activities  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  was  one 
of  the  original  trustees  of  the  Cathedral  of  St 
John  the  Divine,  and  is  still  devoting  his  ener- 
gies towards  the  completion  of  that  magnificent 
edifice.  Since  1869  he  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  is  to-day 
its  president,  having  been  frequently  re-elected 
to  that  position.  He  is  also  president  of  the 
Hospital  Saturday  and  Sunday  Association  of 
.\'ew    York,    and   a    warden   of    St.    Thomas 


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Church.  Ill  poHtics  he  has  always  been  a  Re- 
pubHcan,  and  was  one  of  the  committee  of 
.seventy  to  advance  municipal  reform.  Mr. 
Miller  married,  in  1857.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Lindley  ^Murray  Hoffman;  children:  Hoff- 
man: Mary  Louisa  (now  Airs.  William  Bard 
Mc\  ickar  j  ;  Leverett  Saltonstall :  Elizabeth 
i\gnes  (now  Mrs.  Godfrey  Brinley )  ;  Edith 
Macculloch. 

(I\')  Lindley  Hoffman,  son  of  Jacob  Welsh 
and  Mary  McCuUoch  Miller,  was  born  at 
Morristown.  New  Jersey,  i\larch  26,  1834. 
graduated  from  Burlington  College,  1852,  sub- 
sequently admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced 
law  in  Xew  York,  showing  great  ability  in  his 
profession  and  as  a  young  orator  and  poet 
Notable  among  his  addresses  was  one  delivered 
before  the  Delta  I'si  fraternity  on  December 
27.  1855.  which  was  considered  a  memorable 
effort  for  a  man  of  twenty-one.  The  subject 
was  the  "Responsibilities  of  Literary  ]Men.' 
On  this  occasion  a  poem  was  read  by  Stewart 
L.  Woodford,  who  was  his  intimate  friend, 
and  afterwards  our  minister  to  Spain  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Hudson-Fulton  Celebration  Com- 
mission. At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  he  joined 
the  Seventh  Regiment  as  a  private,  serving 
with  it  at  .\nnapolis  and  Washington  in  1861, 
and  at  Baltimore  in  1862.  Having  lost  his 
wife  and  only  child  he  accepted  an  appomt- 
ment  as  captain  of  Company  H,  First  Regi- 
ment .Arkansas  \olunteers,  and  was  ordered 
to  Goodrich  Landing,  Louisiana.  This  was 
one  of  the  first  of  the  negro  organizations  to 
be  mustered  into  the  .service.  His  commission 
was  dated  November  5,  1863.  He  was  in  com- 
mand during  the  fight  at  Snyder's  Bluff',  near 
Roaches  Plantation,  Alarch  30,  1864,  repulsmg 
the  enemy  and  covering  a  retreat  of  the  cavalry. 
On  April  9,  1864.  he  was  promoted  to  major. 
Fifth  Regiment  Missouri  Colored  Troops, 
which  afterwards  became  the  Seventy-second 
L'nited  .States  Colored  Infantry.  Having  con- 
tracted fever  on  the  Mississippi  river,  he  re- 
turned home  and  died  at  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,  julv  3.  1864.  lie  married  .Anne  Hunt- 
ington Trac\-,  in  1862.  She  was  born  June  10, 
1838,  and  died  September  5,  1863. 

(I\')  Henry  William,  son  of  Jacob  Welsh 
and  Mary  (McCuUoch)  Miller,  was  born  at 
Morristown,  New  Jersey,  May  8,  1836,  and 
died  at  Morristown,  January  30,  1904.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  Xaval  Academy  on 
June  8,  1857.  and  June  26,  1857,  reported  for 
duty  on  board  the  Ignited  States  ship  "Minne- 
sota." having  received  his  warrant  as  midship- 
man lune  10.     The  cruise  of  the  "Minnesota" 


to  China  was  memorable  both  for  speed-break- 
ing records  and  on  account  of  the  new  type  of 
>ail  and  steam-frigate  which  she  represented, 
and  the  incidents  of  her  career  brought  reputa- 
tion to  her  ct>mmander,  Captain  S.  F.  DuPont. 
anil  strong  letters  of  recommendation  from 
him  to  Miller.  The  latter  performed  special 
duty  with  Hon.  W.  B.  Reed  at  Tien  Sing, 
when  our  men-of-warsmen  held  at  bay  the 
inhaliitants  of  that  populous  region.  On  June 
4,  185Q,  he  was  detached  from  the  "Minne- 
sota" at  P.oston,  and  reported  on  board  the 
L'nited  .States  shiyi  "Mohican,"  at  Portsmouth, 
Xew  Hampshire,  Xovember  29,  1859,  serving 
on  l)oard  that  vessel  on  the  coast  of  Africa, 
and  ]iarticipating  in  the  capture  of  the  last 
slaver,  the  "Erie."  The  captain  of  the  slaver 
was  later  hanged  in  Xew  York.  Miller  was 
])romoted  to  passed  midshipman  June  25,  i860, 
and  October  24  same  year  to  master.  During 
.April,  1861,  the  "Mohican"  was  ordered  home, 
arriving  at  New  York  about  July  ist.  Her 
captain  was  S.  W.  Gordon.  He  was  then 
ordered  to  Hampton  Roads,  and  the  vessel 
was  one  of  the  large  fleet  which  assembled 
there  in  the  early  days  of  October  under  Du- 
PoiU.  On  the  way  to  Port  Royal,  and  on  the 
night  of  Xovember  ist.  Miller,  during  a  heavy 
gale  oft'  llatteras,  rescued,  after  six  hours 
work,  in  an  open  boat,  the  crew  of  the  "Peer- 
less." for  which  act  he  was  commended  ofifi- 
cially.  He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Port 
Royal  on  Thursday,  Xovember  7,  and  received 
the  battle  flag  of  the  "Mohican"  from  Gordon, 
after  the  action,  for  duty  well  performed.  On 
March  4,  1862,  he  took  possession  of  Fort 
Clinch,  near  Fernandina,  and  also  participated 
in  the  attacks  on  P>runswick,  Georgia,  and 
(ither  engagements.  On  July  9,  1862,  he 
was  detached  from  the  "Mohican"  at  Phila- 
delphia, and  reported  September  4th  for  duty 
as  inspector  of  gunnery  at  the  Xew  York  Xavy 
Yard.  In  October  he  was  ordered  to  the  frigate 
"Colorado,"  and  was  in  the  engagement  off 
Mobile,  and  served  on  board  of  her  in  the  Gulf 
until  February  18,  1864.  From  February  23 
to  Alarch  7  he  was  on  duty  on  board  the 
"Xererus,"  and  on  the  latter  date  joined  the 
"Mendota,"  Captain  E.  T.  Nichols.  During 
this  service  he  participated  in  the  battles  of 
Fort  Darling,  Drury's  Bluff,  Hewletts.-  Deep 
Bottom,  and  other  fights  on  the  James  river, 
being  detached  from  the  "Mendota"  Septem- 
ber 23,  1864.  He  was  then  ordered  to  the 
Xaval  .Academy,  reporting  there  October  24th. 
(  )n  March  3,  1865,  he  was  commissioned 
lieutenant-commander;  while  attached  to  the 


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Naval  Academy,  he  served  on  board  the 
"Marblehead"  from  June  13  until  September 
25,  1865.  On  April  3,  1866,  he  was  detached 
from  the  Naval  Academy,  and  resigned  from 
the  navy  at  Philadelphia,  April  10,  1866.  He 
then  returned  to  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  and 
in  1871  was  elected  recorder,  and  in  1880  mayor 
of  tiie  city.  For  many  years  he  served  as 
president  of  the  Morris  County  Savings  Bank 
and  of  the  Morristown  Safe  Deposit  Company, 
and  as  one  of  the  pilot  commissioners  of  New 
Jersey.  He  was  a  member  of  various  orders, 
including  the  Loyal  Legion,  Navy  League, 
Naval  Academy  Graduates'  Association,  and 
Naval  Order,  being  also  a  warden  of  St. 
Peter's  Church.  Captain  Aliller  died  in  the 
house  in  which  he  was  born,  and  was  buried 
in  the  graveyard  of  the  church  which  his  father 
had  helped  organize.  A  fellow  officer  wrote  of 
him  in  the  ,lniiy  and  Nai'V  Joiinia!  of  Febru- 
ary 20,  1904,  as  follows:  "The  uplifting  in- 
fluence of  his  Christian  character  can  scarcely 
be  overestimated.  It  jiermeated  the  ships  in 
which  he  served,  the  locality  where  he  lived. 
His  house  was  the  spot  frequented  by  men  to 
discuss  the  future  of  tlie  navy,  and  recount 
the  deeds  of  its  past.  His  was  the  cheerful 
brightness  begotten  of  broad  sympathy  with 
his  fellow  man.  The  crowded  church  on  the 
day  of  his  funeral  showed  the  loving  respect 
of  his  fellow  townsmen;  deputations  from  cor- 
porations and  military  orders  filled  the  pews, 
while  a  rear  admiral  headed  the  pall  bearers, 
who  were  his  distinguished  loving  friends  and 
neighbors."  He  married,  August  13.  1862, 
Catharine  Seton  Hoffman. 

(IV)  Jacob  W'illiam  (2),  son  of  Jacob 
Welsh  and  Mary  (McCulloch)  Miller,  was 
born  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  June  I,  1847, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  place.  Entering  the 
Naval  Academy  in  September,  1863.  he  grad- 
uated June,  1867,  and  lived  the  ordinary 
routine  life  of  junior  officer  until  1872,  serving 
on  the  European,  Pacific  and  West  Indian 
stations.  He  was  then  a])])ointed  to  special  serv- 
ice in  connection  with  the  Nicaragua  Inter- 
Oceanic  Canal  Survey  in  1872,  and  surveyed  a 
portion  of  the  Western  Divide,  and  had  charge 
of  the  hydrographic  work  on  the  San  Juan 
river.  He  returned  to  Nicaragua  in  the  autumn 
of  1873  as  secretary  to  the  commission  ap- 
pointed by  the  L^nited  States  government  to 
determi]ie  the  best  route  for  a  siiip  canal  across 
the  Isthmus;  and  after  completing  this  work 
he  was  engaged  in  Washington  in  writing  the 
report  on  the  Nicaragua  Canal.  In  1875  he 
was  ordered   to  the   European   squadron,  and 


servetl  in  tiie  Mediterranean  on  bciard  the 
"Franklin."  During  the  winter  of  1877-78  he 
was  on  board  the  "Vandalia,"  when  Cieneral 
( Irant  visited  the  Levant  in  the  course  of  his 
celebrated  trip  around  the  world.  Having  com- 
pleted his  three  years  of  sea  service  in  Euro- 
pean waters,  Mr.  Aliller  was  assigned  to  duty 
at  the  Naval  .Kcademy  as  instructor  of  ordnance 
and  gunnery,  where  he  remained  until  1881, 
when  he  was  once  more  ordered  to  sea,  and 
made  his  last  cruise  in  the  United  States  ship 
"Jamestown"  as  her  navigator  from  San  Fran- 
cisco to  New  York,  when  that  vessel  came  to 
the  Atlantic  under  sail.  This  was  probably 
the  last  sailing  man-of-war  that  went  around 
Cape  Horn.  After  returning  from  this  voyage 
he  left  the  navy  and  went  to  Kansas,  where  he 
became  identified  with  railroad  interests,  and 
was  made  vice-president  and  general  manager 
of  the  St.  Louis,  Fort  Scott  &  Wichita  rail- 
road. He  remained  with  the  above  railroad 
and  other  corporations  in  the  west  until  May, 
1800,  when  he  was  tendered  and  accepted  the 
position  of  general  manager  of  the  Providence 
iS;  .Stonington  Steamship  Company,  and  of  the 
New  York,  Providence  &  Boston  railroad.  In 
May,  1889,  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
Providence  &  Stonington  Steamship  Company, 
and  snbsec|uently  president  of  the  Newport  & 
Wickford  Railroad  and  Steamboat  Company. 
When  the  IVovidence  &  Stonington  Steamship 
Company  was  merged  with  the  properties  of 
the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  rail- 
road, he  became  vice-president  of  the  New 
England  Navigation  Company,  a  corporation 
which  controlled  all  the  Sound  Line  steamers, 
resignmg  from  that  position  in  .\ugust,  1909. 
to  accept  the  vice-presidency  of  the  Cape  Cod 
Construction  Com])any.  Mr.  Miller  was  for 
many  years  identified  with  the  proposed  con- 
struction (if  the  Nicaragua  Canal,  acting  as 
])resi(lent  of  the  Nicaragua  Company.  He  took 
an  active  part  in  the  development  of  the  tiaval 
militia  of  the  state  as  the  first  commander  of 
the  New  'S'ork  Battalion  at  its  organization  in 
1S91,  and  is  now  commodore  of  the  naval  mili- 
tia of  the  state  of  New  York.  He  entered  the 
navy  in  1898,  during  the  Spanish-American 
war.  as  lieutenant-commander,  and  had  com- 
luand  of  the  Third  District  .Auxiliary  Naval 
iMirce.  In  1894  he  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee on  docks.  Chamber  of  Commerce,  New 
"\'(>rk,  and  is  still  on  the  committee  of  nautical 
schiiolship  of  the  city  of  New  York,  and  in 
ii)Oi;.  on  the  Panama  canal  committee  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  is  a  member  of 
the   fnllowiug  clubs:     The  I'niversitv.  on  the 


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STAFE    (>F    NEW  JERSEY. 


Cduncil  of  whicli  lie  served  for  many  years; 
the  Century,  the  Alorristown  Club,  and  is  one 
of  the  council  of  the  Xaval  Academy  Alumni 
Association  of  New  York.  He  has  been  vice- 
commander  of  the  Xaval  Order  of  the  L'nited 
States,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Foreign 
Wars,  the  Xaval  and  Military  Order  of  the 
Spanish- American  W  ar,  vice-president  of  the 
Society  of  Xaval  Architects  and  Marine  Engi- 
neers, and  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Hud- 
son-Fulton Celebration  Commission  had  charge 
of  the  naval  ])arades  during  the  memorable 
celebration  of  September  and  October.  1909. 
He  is  la\-  manager  of  the  Seamans'  Church 
Institute,  a  member  of  the  board  of  managers 
of  the  New  York  Infant  Asylum,  a  member  of 
the  Washington  Association  of  Xew  Jersey, 
besides  serving  on  most  of  the  committees  for 
the  rece|)tion  of  foreign  visitors,  including 
Princess  Eulalie  and  Prince  Henry.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  ]ilan  and  scope  committee  of 
the  Linc(5ln  Centenary  Committee,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  American  Steamship  Association. 
He  married,  in  Washington.  D.  C.  Novem- 
ber 28,  1874.  Katherine,  daughter  of  Captain 
Henry  A.  and  Charlotte  (Everett)  Wise,  of 
\'irginia,  who  was  born  in  Spezzia,  Italy.  Her 
father  was  chief  of  the  P>ureau  of  Ordnance, 
C  S.  N.,  during  the  civil  war,  ami  her  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Edward  Everett.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Henry  Wise,  born  at  Xice,  France, 
November  15.  1873:  married,  October  5,  1899, 
Alice  Duer :  child.  Denning  Duer.  2.  Dorothea, 
born  July  16,  1878;  married,  September  20. 
1906,  James  Otis  Post ;  child,  James  Otis  Post. 
Jr.  3.  Charlotte  Everett,  born  November  15. 
1880;  married.  June  30,  1905,  Robert  I'.onner 
Bowler;  children:  Robert  P..  P>nwler.  Jr..  and 
Katherine  Wise  Bowler. 

(The  .McCiilloch  Line). 

(jeorge  Perrott  McCulloch,  born  at  Bombay, 
December  15,  1775,  was  a  descendant  of  the 
McCullochs  of  Galloway.  Scotland.  His  grand- 
father John  was  proprietor  of  Barholm  Castle, 
the  estate  having  belonged  to  the  family  since 
1340.  His  father.  William,  was  a  younger  son, 
who  early  in  life  entered  the  military  service 
of  the  East  India  Company,  and  at  the  age  of 
forty  attained  the  rank  of  major  of  the  Fif- 
teenth Sepoys.  While  in  command  of  this 
battalion  and  assisted  by  the  "Campbells,"  he 
gained  the  notable  victory  at  Annantapore, 
over  Hyat  Saib,  during  the  early  part  of  1783. 
Subsequently  he  and  the  greater  part  of  his 
command  were  treacherouslv  poisoned  bv  Tippo 
Saib. 


The  son,  having  lost  both  his  parents,  was 
sent  to  Edinburgh  through  the  instrumentality 
of  (ieorge  Perrott,  after  whom  he  was  named, 
and  who  was  one  of  Warren  Hastings's  council. 
There  he  received  a  most  liberal  education  at 
the  university,  being  the  master  of  five  lan- 
guages. .At  the  age  of  twenty-five  we  find  him 
a  partner  of  Francis  Law,  and  engaged  in 
large  financial  and  diplomatic  affairs  with  the 
East  India  Company.  On  December  26,  1801, 
lie  was  sent  to  Madrid  to  conduct  certain  deli- 
cate and  important  negotiations.  This  and 
|)revious  trips  to  I'aris  and  Holland  required 
an  intricate  knowledge  of  the  languages  of  the 
countries,  and  at  one  time  he  had  to  pass 
through  Napoleon's  army  as  a  German.  Upon 
one  of  these  tours  he  became  acquainted  with 
Count  de  Lauriston,  the  brother  of  his  partner, 
and  thus  formed  an  intimacy  with  the  leading 
men  of  these  stirring  times.  The  Laws  were 
of  Scottish  descent,  and  his  father  was  asso- 
ciated with  Francis  Law,  Sr.,  in  India. 

His  health  being  im]:)aired.  he  came  to  .\mer 
ica  in  the  spring  of  1806,  with  his  wife  and  two 
children,  and  bought,  on  May  24.  1808,  the 
property  belonging  to  Ebenezer  Stiles,  on  Morris 
Plains.  New  Jersey.  This  he  sold  in  181 1.  and 
it  afterwards  passed  into  the  hands  of  the 
Bunihain  family.  He  had  previously  pur- 
chased, on  .April  10.  1810.  from  Gen.  John 
Doughty,  the  estate  at  Morristown  known  as 
.McCulloch  Hall,  still  occupied  by  his  descend- 
ants. .\  few  3'ears  after  he  settled  in  Morris- 
town  he  lost  a  large  part  of  the  property  he 
ijrought  from  England,  and  in  1814  set  about 
to  regain  his  losses  by  establishing  a  boys' 
school,  which  he  conducted  with  great  success 
I'cir  about  fifteen  years.  Among  the  lists  of 
the  scholars  are  found  those  of  DeKay,  Cruger, 
Renwick.  Weeks,  and  other  New  York  fam- 
ilies. On  December  20,  1820,  he  organized  the 
Morris  County  Agricultural  Society,  and  was 
its  first  president.  About  this  time,  while  fish- 
ing at  Lake  Hopatcong,  he  conceived  the  idea 
of  joining  the  Delaware  and  Hudson  by  a 
canal.  He  was  thus  the  projector  of  the  Morris 
canal  and  devoted  himself  to  it  with  an  energy 
and  ability  that  are  attested  by  the  whole  early 
history  of  the  enterprise.  He  enlisted  the 
interest  of  De\\"itt  Clinton,  Prof.  Renwick,  of 
Columbia  College,  and  extorted  from  John  C. 
Calhoun,  secretary  of  war,  the  services  of  such 
persons  as  General  Barnard  and  Colonel  Tot- ' 
ten ;  and  made  the  mountain  climbing  feasible 
by  recommending  the  use  of  Robert  Fulton's 
"inclined  planes."  His  persistence  through  the 
press  as  to  the  necessity  of  cheap  transporta- 


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lion  fur  the  newly  found  anthracite  coal,  in- 
duced the  legislature  to  pass,  on  November  15, 
1822,  a  bill  incorporating  the  Morris  Canal  and 
Hanking  Cotiipany,  Mr.  McCulloch  being  ap- 
pointed senior  member  of  the  board.  Finding 
that  the  canal  was  being  managed  more  for  the 
benefit  of  speculators  than  for  the  people,  he 
began  a  fight  against  the  "banking"  clique,  en- 
listing the  services  of  a  young  lawyer,  Jacob 
W.  Miller  (who  married  his  only  daughter  on 
Xovember  7,  1825).  and  together  they  fought 
the  cause  of  the  people,  gaining  a  victory  over 
.S.  j.  Southard,  president  of  the  Canal  Com- 
pany. l')uth  Miller  and  Southard  were  after- 
wards in  the  L'nitcd  States  senate  together. 
the  latter  iiaving  been  the  school  teacher  of  the 
former.  .\t  tiie  age  of  fifty  Mr.  McCulloch 
<lecided  to  abandon  any  ideas  of  public  life 
except  as  through  his  pen  and  example  as  a 
private  citizen  he  could  influence  it  for  good  in 
l)oth  capacities.  Me  rendered  great  service  to 
his  state  and  country,  contributing  many  phiio- 
sojihical,  religious  and  ])olitical  articles  t(_i  the 
press,  while  his  home  was  the  center  of  social 
life  in  a  community  which  numbered  at  that 
time  some  interesting  peoi)le.  .\  few  random 
abstracts  from  letters  in  AlcCulloch  Hall  may 
be  of  interest  as  showing  side  lights  on  the 
times.  "To-day,  July  14.  1S24,  the  town  is 
agog  witli  Lafayette  here;  h'ord  making  a 
s]ieech  ;"  "Aiiller  gaudy  in  a  military  unif(.)rm." 
"The  Thebauds  (  1S25  )  have  bought  the  Meeker 
farm  at  I'ottle  Hill."  .\  year  before  lioisaubin 
(  I'ere  I  was  to  be  married  to  Madame  Duberc- 
can,  and  in  1829  Amedee  F.oisaubin  became  en- 
gaged to  Miss  Thebaud,  his  old  grandfather 
having  died  in  the  West  Indies  and  left  $700,- 
noo.  Whether  this  fact  occurred  at  a  "rout" 
at  Orange  where  all  the  North  Jersey  swells 
went,  returning  by  coach  in  the  early  morning, 
is  not  mentioned,  nor  what  people  drank  at  the 
ball,  although  there  was  ])lenty  of  champagne 
when  Rev.  P>enjaniin  Holmes  married  Jane 
Ogden.  October  31,  1829.  Holmes  was  the 
first  pastor  of  St.  Peters,  the  corner-stone  hav- 
ing been  laid  May  14,  1828.  Episcopal  serv- 
ices had  previously  been  held  in  the  school- 
room belonging  to  the  old  Scotch  Presbyterian, 
his  Church  of  England  wife  having  got  around 
liei  doting  husband,  wIkjsc  religious  views  were 
broad  even  for  these  davs,  broad  enough,  in 
fact,  to  fight  in  the  Palladium  of  Liberty  the 
silly  clamor  against  the  Free  Masons  whicli 
raged  through  the  country  in  1828;  while  the 
whole  land  went  wild  for  Greek  freedom. 
Morristown  was  selling  slaves  on  the  Green,  on 
March   10.   1828.  the  comity  paper  advertising 


the  fact,  together  with  a  notice  of  the  won- 
derful railroad  drawn  by  horses,  and  a  steam 
ferry  from  Pawlus  lliiok  to  Cortlandt  street 
every  fifteen  minutes. 

.Mr.  McC'ulIocb  occupied  many  honorary 
positions  during  his  lifetime,  .\iiiong  them  he 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  visitors  to  West 
Point  in  1842.  His  residence  in  the  various 
imp(.nant  states  of  Europe,  his  ac(|uaintance 
with  their  language,  and  his  just  perception  of 
their  true  national  characteristic,  gave  to  his 
judgment  of  foreign  affairs  an  unusual  value; 
while  his  long  residence  in  this  country  made 
him  perfectly  familiar  with  our  general  and 
local  iiolitics.  Few  lives  in  their  earlier  years 
displayed  more  romantic  features  than  his.  He 
possessed  his  full  faculties  to  a  ripe  and  mature 
age,  dying  at  his  Morristown  home,  aged  eighty- 
two,  on  June  I,  1858.  Mis  only  son,  Francis 
Law  .McCulloch,  a  leading  lawyer  of  .Salem, 
died  on  June  18,  1859.  His  wife,  Louisa  Ed- 
wina  Saunderson,  a  beautiful  woman,  and  be- 
loved by  all  who  knew  her,  lived  until  Deceni- 
bei-  V'-  '8fi,V  aged  seventy-eight. 


The   earliest    Englishmen   bear- 

H.\LSEV  ing  the  name  of  Halsey  lived  in 
the  extreme  western  end  of 
(  ornwall,  between  Penzance  and  Lands  End, 
a  portion  of  England  so  old  in  story  that 
Phoenician  navigators  are  believed  to  have 
visited  it  in  order  to  obtain  their  supplies  of 
tin.  The  solid  foundations  of  the  family  were 
laid  in  the  reign  of  Henry  \'I1I.,  when,  on  the 
rectory  of  ( ireat  (laddesden,  county  Hertford, 
coming  to  the  Crown,  it  was  that  granted  by 
that  monarch  to  William  llalsey,  alias  Cham- 
ber. Since  that  time  the  estate  has  been  con- 
tinued in  the  family,  and  was  a  few  years  ago 
in  the  ])ossession  of  Thomas  Frederick  Halsey, 
l-'s(|.,  M.  P.,  whose  ancestors  have  lived  thereon 
for  over  three  hundred  and  fifty  years. 

(  I  )  John  Halsey.  of  the  Parsonage,  (_ireat 
(iaddesden.  county  liertfor<l,  was  living  in 
I  5  1 2. 

(  II  )    William,  son  of  John   llalsey,  died  in 

1541).     He  married  .Mice ,  who  died  in 

1557.  Children:  Robert,  William.  Thomas, 
flarry,   Isabel,  James,  Elizabeth. 

(  lil  )  William  (2  ),  son  of  William  (  1  )  and 
.Mice    Halsey,    died    May    1596,    and    married 

.\nna .    Children:    John,  William,  Rob 

ert  (referred  to  below),  Raljili,  Edward, 
Thomas,  Triamore,  Philip,  Joan,  .\niie. 

(  i\)  Robert,  son  of  William  (2)  and  Anne 
llalsey,  died  October,  1618.  He  married  Doro- 
tli\-.  daughter  of  William  Downes,  of  Linslade 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


cuuiity  r>uck>.  w  liu  died  in  September,  1620. 
Children:  1.  William,  baptized  June  23,  1690. 
2.  Thomas,  referred  to  below.  3.  Duncombe, 
died  before  1633.  4.  James,  buried  March  12, 
1641,  in  the  chancel  of  Saint  Alphege,  London, 
of  which  he  had  been  rector ;  with  his  brother 
William  was  granted  a  coat-of-arms  January 
^'  ^^''S3-  5-  Fdward.  6.  Jane.  7.  Joane.  8. 
Mary.  y.  Amy.  10.  Ann.  11.  Avis.  12. 
Hester.     13."  Sara.     14.  Dorothy. 

(V)  Thomas  (first  in  the  American  line), 
son  of  Robert  and  Dorothy  (Downes)  Halsey, 
was  born  in  tjreat  Gaddesden,  January  2,  1591- 
92,  and  died  in  Southampton,  Long  Island,  Au- 
gust 2/,  1678.  He  became  a  mercer  in  Lon- 
don, and  August  10.  1621,  was  living  at  N'aples, 
Italy,  from  which  place  he  wrote  to  his  brother 
William  a  letter  which  has  been  preserved  that 
gives  a  graphic  account  of  the  conditions  of 
travelling  in  those  days.  In  1637  he  is  found 
at  Lynn,  Massacliusetts,  owning  one  hundred 
acres  of  land,  and  being  a  resident  of  the  town 
during  the  stirring  epoch  of  the  first  synod  of 
-Massachusetts,  the  trial  and  banishment  of 
.•\nn  Hutchinson,  and  the  persecutions  of  John 
Wheelright,  the  Quakers  and  the  witches,  and 
it  is  possible  that  it  was  in  consequence  of  these 
events  that  he  determined  to  emigrate  to  Long 
Island,  w'hich  he  did  with  the  founders  of  that 
town  in  1640,  becoming,  it  is  said,  "the  richest 
man  in  the  place."  In  1648,  when  the  site  of 
the  village  was  changed  from  Old  Town  street, 
to  the  present  Main  street,  Thomas  Halsey's 
residence  was  south  of  the  old  homestead  of 
the  late  l-'rancis  W.  Cook.  Thomas  Halsey 
became  very  influential  in  town  affairs,  and  in 
1664  was  a  delegate  to  the  general  court  at 
Hartford,  became  active  in  establishing  the 
jurisdiction  of  Connecticut  over  Southampton, 
and  in  1669  was  again  the  town's  representa- 
tive. He  was  a  man  of  independent  spirit  and 
strong  will,  and  appears  to  have  been  very  out- 
spoken. March  16,  1643,  he  was  reprimanded 
by  the  town  meeting  for  the  manner  of  his 
speech  to  Daniel  Howe,  and  on  several  occa- 
sions was  fined  for  his  outspokeness.  When 
the  Dutch  recaptured  New  York  and  laid  claim 
to  Southampton,  Thomas  Halsey  was  vigorous 
in  opposing  them,  although  at  that  time  one  of 
the  oldest  citizens  in  the  place.  That  he  had 
the  right  to  coat  armor  is  proven  by  the  fact 
that  he  is  styled  "gentleman"  in  the  old  records. 
.November  i,  1776.  he  was  named  in  the  con- 
firmatory patent  and  December  6,  1686,  his 
name  is  found  in  Gov.  Dongan's  patent.  He 
married  (first)  Phebe  ,  who  was  mur- 
dered 1)\    the   Indians,  either  some  from  New 


England  who  wished  to  e.xcite  a  war  in  the 
Southampton  settlement,  or  by  some  from 
Long  Island  at  their  instigation.  He  married 
(second)  July  25,  1660,  Ann,  widow  of  Ed- 
ward  Johnes.      Children,    all   by    first    wife: 

Thomas,  died  about  1688,  married  Mary ; 

Isaac  referred  to  below;  Daniel,  born  about 
1636,  (lied  i()82,  married  Jemima ;  Eliz- 
abeth, married  Richard  Howell. 

(\  1)  Jsaac,  son  of  Thomas  and  Phebe  Hal- 
sey, was  born  about  1628,  and  died  January  21, 
1725.  He  was  a  man  in  middle  life,  and 
already  a  land  owner  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death,  and  in  1698,  with  several  other  lialseys, 
he  is  named  in  a  list  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Southampton.  In  the  Dongan  patent,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1686,  he  is  named  as  one  of  the  trustees 
of  Southampton,  and  he  lived  on  the  west  side 
of  Main  street  near  the  north  end  of  the  town, 
and  was  buried  in  the  old  graveyard  at  South- 
ampton.   He  married  Mary — .   Children  : 

1.  Isaac,  born  1C64,  died  March  23,  1752  ;  mar- 
ried Phebe,  supposed  to  have  been  daughter 
of  Edward  Howell.  2.  Joseph,  referred  to 
below.     3.  Daniel,  born  about  1670;  married, 

August  1710,  Mary .     4.  Joshua,  born 

1<)74,  died  about  1734;  married  Martha,  daugh- 
ter of  .\braham  Willman.  5.  Thomas,  died 
January,  1764,  married  and  left  issue.  6.  Eliz- 
abeth, married  Howell.    7.  Samuel.   8. 

.Mary,  married  Post.  9.  Jemima,  mar- 
ried Jc>hn  Larison.  lo-ii.  Possibly  also  Anna, 
born  1675,  'i''-'^'  J"ly  3>  1/14.  ^"^  Ruth,  born 
1668.  died  December  9,  1770. 

(\  II)  Joseph,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  Hal- 
sey, was  born  in  Southampton,  Long  Island, 
in  1668,  and  died  in  Elizabethtown,  New  Jer- 
sey, April  17,  1725.  He  emigrated  to  New 
Jersey  about  1664,  and  lived  at  Wheatsheaf 
Tavern,  about  midway  between  Elizabeth  and 
Railway.  1  le  married,  probably,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Jemima  Halsey,  his 
first  cousin.  Children:  Daniel,  died  1727, 
married  .Abigail :  Joshua;  Joseph,  re- 
ferred to  below:  Elizabeth;  Anna;  Timothy; 
Isaac:  Nathaniel.  The  last  three  were  under 
age  Xcivember  4,  1723,  when  their  father  wrote 
lii>.  w  ill,  and  Elizabeth  was  married. 

(\  HI)  (ieneral  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph  and 
h^lizabeth  (Halsey)  Halsey,  was  born  about 
1695,  and  died  December  16,  1771,  his  will 
being  dated  June  i,  1765,  and  proved  March 
J-,.  1772,  and  he  and  his  second  wife  are  buried 
in  the  churchyard  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Elizabeth.  He  lived  near  the  Wheat- 
sheaf Tavern,  and  married  (first)  Elizabeth, 
daughter   of    Stephen    Haines,   and    (second) 


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Abigail  ,  who  died  January  i8,  1777,  in 

her  seventy-second  year.  Children:  i.  Re- 
becca Miller,  born  about  1728,  died  October 
5,  1785  ;  married  Thomas  Williams.  2.  Joseph, 
born  1730,  died  July  9-  1813;  married  (first) 
Mary  Armstrong,  (second)  Anna  Van  Arsdale, 
(third)  Elizabeth  Ryerson.  3.  Sarah,  married 
1754,  Joshua  Conklin.  4.  Daniel,  born  1739, 
died  November  16.  1801  ;  major  in  the  revolu- 
tion, married   (first)   March  28,  1762,  Abigail 

Williams,    (second)    Mary  .      5.    Isaac, 

referred  to  below.  6.  Phebe,  married  Ijenja- 
min  Crane,  Jr.,  of  Westfield.  7.  Hannah,  mar- 
ried (first)  I'enjamin  Miller,  (second)  Gen- 
eral William  Crane,  of  Elizabeth.  8.  Abigail, 
married  James  Miller,  of  I'iscataway.  9. 
Rachel,  Ixirn  about  1743,  died  March  20.  1783. 
married,  January  5,  I7()2,  Benjamin  Magie^ 
of  Elizabethtown.  10.  Deborah,  died  March 
i(),  1836:  married  (first)  James  Magie,  (sec- 
ond) Isaiah  Meeker,  iif  .\'ew  fnividence.  11. 
Xancy.  or  \una,  married  John  Hamilton,  of 
Westfield. 

(IX)  Isaac,  son  of  General  Joseph  Halsey, 
was  born  in  1741,  and  died  November  24. 
[788.  and  is  buried  at  Scotch  I'lains.  He  owned 
much  laud  l)etween  Westfield  and  Scotch 
i'lains.  and  was  a  man  of  considerable  means 
He  was  an  active  jiatriot,  and  on  the  breaking 
out  of  the  revolution  became  a  member  of  the 
committee  of  safety,  and  paymaster  and 
(|uartermaster  of  the  Essex  militia,  and  his  de- 
scendants have  many  receipts  and  documents 
to  show  the  requisitions  made  upon  him  for 
supplies  and  for  furnishings  to  the  patriot 
army.  August  20,  1778,  and  also  at  several 
other  times,  he  is  requested  by  Joseph  Lewis 
to  furnish  the  money  to  pay  the  militia.  In  the 
New  Jersey  Journal  of  December  3,  1788,  the 
following  obituary  of  him  was  given :  "On 
Monday.  24th  of  this  instant,  departed  this 
life,  in  the  forty-eighth  year  of  his  age,  Mr. 
Isaac  Halsey.  (  )n  Wednesday  following,  his 
funeral  was  attended  by  a  respectable  con- 
course of  people,  and  a  discouse  suitable  to  the 
occasion  delivered  from  2  Cor.  vii:io  by  Rev. 
Mr.  \'an  Horn.  In  him  the  public  have  lost  a 
respectable  citizen  and  the  church  a  liberal 
benefactor."  He  married,  March  12,  1761,  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Henry  and  Anna  (Tulon) 
(iarthwaite,  whose  grandfather,  Maximillian 
Tulon,  married  a  French  emigre.  She  died 
January  17,  1788,  in  the  forty-fifth  year  of  her 
age.  and  in  her  obituary,  published  in  the  New 
Jersey  Jouninl  of  January  30,  1788,  it  is  said: 
".She  passed  tlirough  a  lingering  and  tedious 
illness   in   which   slie  exhibited   an   uncommon 


degree  of  ])atience  and  fortitude,  and  at  last 
met  death  with  the  humble  resignation  which 
Christianity  inspires,  having  left  the  world 
without  a  groan.  ,\s  to  herself,  her  friends 
have  the  consolation  to  hope  that  she  has  ex- 
changed the  trials  and  vanities  of  this  life  for 
a  blessed  and  glorious  immortality,"  Children: 
I.  Mary,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Isaac,  died  Au- 
gust <).  1780,  aged  nineteen.  3.  Infant,  died 
unnamed.  4.  Henry,  a  lawyer,  removed  to 
Wilmington,  North  Carolina;  married  Sus- 
anna, daughter  of  William  and  .\nn  Ross.  5. 
Ichabod  ISenton,  M.  D.,  born  about  April  26, 
^  J_726,  died  May  3,  1818;  married,  November 
'  19,  1789,  Maria,  or  Tatty,  Williams.  6.  Will- 
iam, bi'rn  1770,  married  Julia  lledden,  7. 
Jemima,  died  August  28,  1808.  8.  Benjamin, 
said  to  have  gone  south.  9.  Jacob  Benton, 
referred  to  below.  10.  Mary,  or  I'olly,  bom 
1783,  (lied  March  14,  1787. 

( X  )  Jacob  Benton,  son  of  Isaac  and  Re- 
becca ( ( iarthwaite )  Halsey,  died  at  Camptown, 
near  Newark,  New  Jersey,  June  24,  181 5.  He 
was  the  editor  of  the  Newark  Gazette,  and  a 
publisher  of  books.  He  served  as  captain  in 
war  of  1812,  and  lived  at  the  southwest  corner 
of  Washington  Park  and  Broad  street,  and  at 
one  time  in  Rector  street,  and  had  his  ]jrinting 
office  in  his  yard.  He  married  Mary,  daughter 
(^if  Captain  Caleb  and  Elizabeth  (Moriis) 
Wheeler,  of  Newark,  who  lived  in  the  stone 
mansion  at  the  corner  of  Market  and  Mulberry 
streets.  Many  acts  of  kindness  to  our  soldiers 
are  related  of  both  the  Captain  and  his  wife, 
and  deserters  from  the  I>ritish  army  were  hid- 
den and  fed  by  them.  .\11  <_il  his  nc|)hews  were 
soldiers  and  officers  in  the  revolutionary  war. 
.\fter  Jacob  Benton  Halsey 's  death  his  widow 
married  (second)  (jeorge,  son  of  Captain  Levi 
Holden,  of  the  revolutionary  army,  by  whom 
she  had  two  children — George  Holden,  Jr., 
and  Otis  Holden.  Children  of  Jacob  Benton 
and  Mary  (Wheeler)  Halsey:  Caleb,  born 
about  1800,  died  December  26,  1816;  Sarah 
Pierson,  born  October  3,  1803,  died  Sei)tem- 
ber  30,  1863,  married,  October  3,  1822,  Ed- 
wartl  Lenniel  Hedenberg,  of  Newtown,  Long 
Island:  Charles  Henry,  referred  to  below. 

(  Nl  )  Rev.  Charles  Henry  Halsey,  D.  D.,  son 
of  Jacob  P.enton  and  Mary  (Wheeler)  Halsey, 
was  born  February  22,  1810,  and  died  May  2, 
1855.  He  studied  law  with  his  uncle  William 
Halsey,  with  whom  he  lived  after  bis  father's 
death.  .After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  he 
entered  the  (ieneral  Theological  Seminary  in 
New  ^'ork  City,  and  was  ordained  to  the  min- 
istry of  the  Protestant  Eiiiscopal  Church,  and 


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became  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Xew  York. 
His  death  was  the  result  of  an  accident,  the 
following  account  of  which  is  taken  from  the 
Mav  York  Herald  of  May  3,  1855.  "A  most 
sad  casualty  yesterday  deprived  us  of  one  of 
our  most  exemjilary  clergymen,  the  Rev. 
Charles  H.  Halsey,  rector  of  Christ  Church. 
It  appears  that  Mr.  Halsey  was  visiting  the 
new  building  now  in  ])rogress  adjoining  the 
Everett  House,  on  Union  Square,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  inspecting  parts  of  the  workmanship, 
to  which  his  attention  had  been  drawn  in  view 
of  the  erection  of  a  parsonage  for  his  church. 
He  was  standing  at  the  fourth  floor  of  the  edi- 
fice looking  through  the  opening  of  the  large 
central  window,  which  are  as  yet  without 
sashes.  In  approaching  the  sill  of  this  window, 
unusually  near  the  floor,  he  probably  lost  his 
balance  and  fell  through  to  the  ground,  a  dis- 
tance of  some  sixty  feet,  lie  never  spoke  after 
the  fall,  and 'survived  the  injury  but  half  an 
hour.  A  very  large  circle  ni  attached  friends 
will  join  with  the  congregation  which  Mr.  Hal- 
sey so  w(irthil_y  served,  in  deploring  this  disas- 
trous event  which  has  deprived  the  community 
of  one  of  its  most  faithful,  laborious,  and  con- 
sistent ministers  of  the  g(.)spel.  Mr.  Halsey 
was  in  his  forty-sixth  year.  He  was  a  son-in- 
law  of  President  King,  of  Columbia  College. 
'Phe  funeral  will  be  on  May  5th,  at  Christ 
Church,  from  hi>  late  residence,  9  East  i8th 
street,  burial  at  Jamaica.  Long  Island." 

He  married  (first)  Mary  l'>oeruni  Smith,  ol 
New  York,  (second)  September  18.  1838. 
Eliza  Gracie,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Eliza 
(Gracie)  King,  (see  King).  Children,  one  by 
first  wife:  l.  Mary,  died  in  infancy,  January 
18,  1842.  2.  Eliza  Gracie,  born  .April  25.  1840: 
married  Col.  Charles  Crook  Suydam  (see  Suy- 
dam).  3.  Emily,  born  Jatuiary  2^.  1843:  mar- 
ried Frederic  \\'illiam  \  incent  (see  Vincent). 
4.  Esther  King,  born  lanuarv  1,  184^:  married 
J.  ().  Pinneo,  M.  D.,  of  Elizabeth.  '5-  Charles 
Henry  King,  referred  to  below.  6.  William 
I'^rederic.  I'.  S.  N.,  born  April  11,  1853,  mar- 
ried .\nnie  Brewster,  of  Elizabeth  ;  children  : 
William  I-'rcderic.  junior,  born  October  30. 
1882,  and  Deborah  Grant,  born  November  21, 
T88fi,  married  Archibald  Douglass  Turnbull. 
who  was  born  October  6,  1887. 

(.\II)  Charles  Henry  King  Halsey.  son  of 
Rev.  Charles  Henry  and  Eliza  Gracie  (  King) 
Halsey.  was  born  in  .\'ew  York  City.  July  2. 
1850.  and  is  now  living  in  I'^lizabeth,  Xew  Jersey. 
When  he  was  five  years  old  his  mother  placed 
him  in  Cliirst  (hurch  .School,  in  Elizabeth. 
after  which  lie  wa--  --ent  to  and  graduated  from 


Dr.  Pingry's  School.  In  1867  he  entered  the 
office  of  a  broker  in  Wall  street,  New  York 
City,  where  he  remained  until  1873,  when  he 
took  a  position  in  the  National  City  Bank  of 
.Xew  York.  In  1882  he  came  to  Elizabeth, 
Xew  Jersey,  as  paying  teller  of  the  National 
.Slate  Bank  of  that  city,  a  position  he  continued 
to  hold  until  1901,  when  he  was  chosen  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  L'nion  County  Trust 
Ctmipany.  Since  1905  he  has  been  president 
of  the  same  institution.  In  politics  Mr.  Halsey 
is  a  Republican,  and  from  1898  to  1891  he  was 
alderman  for  the  Sixth  Ward  of  Elizabeth. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
.Society;  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, through  his  great-grandfather,  Rufus 
King;  and  of  the  Founders  and  Patriots  of 
.\merica.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Elizabeth 
Club,  and  a  member  of  the  Baltusrol  Golf 
Club.  For  the  last  twenty  years  he  has  been 
senior  warden  of  Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  Elizabeth.  He  married,  October  13, 
1885.  Helen  Isabelle,  daughter  of  Robert  Gos- 
man  and  Lavina  (Sausman)  Kittle,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Rev.  .\ndrew  Xicholas  Kittle,  one 
time  Dominie  of  Red  Hook,  Xew  York.  Chil- 
dren :  .\lfred  DeWitt.  born  July  5.  1888: 
Eliza  Gracie,  January  20.  1890:  Helen  Isabelle, 
.March  17.  1892. 

iThf    Kins    l.inel. 

(  I  )  Rufus  King,  revolutionary  statesman 
and  ])atriot,  was  born  in  Scarborough,  Maine, 
in  1753,  and  died  in  New  York  City,  April  29, 
1827.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Richard  King, 
a  successful  merchant  of  Scarborough.  He 
graduated  from  Harvard  L'niversity  in  1777, 
and  studied  law  with  Chief  Justice  Theophilus 
Parsons,  at  Xewburyport.  While  thus  engaged 
he  became  aide  to  {',en.  (  dover  whom  he  served 
in  the  unsuccessful  Rhode  Island  expedition. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1780,  and  soon 
took  high  rank,  taking  his  seat  in  1783  in  the 
general  court  of  Massachusetts,  to  which  he 
was  several  times  re-elected,  becoming  also  a 
member  of  the  Continental  congress  in  Decem- 
ber. 1784,  and  being  re-elected  thereto  in  March, 
1785.  and  1786,  and  introducing  in  1785  a 
resolution  |)rohibiting  slavery  in  the  Xorth- 
west  Territory,  the  substance  of  which  was 
subse<|uentl\'  incorporated  by  his  colleague, 
Xathan  Dane,  into  the  famous  Ordinance  of 
1787.  He  took  a  ])rominent  part  in  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  convention  of  1787  which 
framed  the  I'^ederal  Constitution,  and  in  the 
.Massachusetts  convention  called  to  decide 
upon  the  adoption  or  rejection  of  that  instru- 


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imiit.  he  \\a>  in>tninKntal  in  st'cnring  ratiti- 
catiiin.  In  1788  he  removed  to  New  York 
City,  wliere  he  was  elected  to  the  state  assem- 
i)ly  in  1789,  and  in  the  same  year  elected  also 
to  the  L'nited  States  senate,  where  he  at  once 
took  a  high  place  as  a  leader  of  the  Federalists. 
I  Ic  was  re-elected  to  the  senate  in  1795.  and  in 
1796  he  accepted  from  President  Washington, 
who  had  previously  offered  him,  a  place  in  his 
cahinet  as  secretary  of  state,  the  responsible 
post  of  minister  to  England,  and  he  distin- 
guished himself  highly  in  the  dij^lomatic  serv- 
ice, in  which  he  continued  until  1803.  In  the 
year  following  his  return  he  was  mentioned  as 
candidate  for  the  senate  and  for  governor  of 
Xew  ^'ork,  and  as  the  Federalist  candidate  for 
vice-president  he  received  fourteen  votes,  and 
again  in  1808,  as  the  I'^ederalist  candidate  for 
the  same  office,  he  received  forty-seven  vot^s. 
In  1813  and  again  in  1819  he  received  the 
honor  of  an  election  ti>  the  I'nited  States  senate 
by  a  legislature  a  majnrity  nf  which  was  Re- 
public. During  the  war  with  England  he  did 
not  side  with  the  extreme  I'ederalists,  but  sup- 
ported the  administration  in  such  measures  a-- 
seemed  to  him  to  be  for  tlie  general  good : 
nevertheless,  in  1816,  the  few  Federalist  elec- 
troal  votes  for  ])resident  were  cast  for  him. 
In  1825-26  he  was  again  minister  to  England, 
lie  married,  in  1786,  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
Also]),  whose  father  was  deputy  from  New 
N'ork  to  the  first  Continental  congress. 

(  11  )  Charles,  son  of  Hon.  Rufus  and  Mary 
I  .\lso]i )  King,  was  born  in  New  York  City. 
-March  16,  1789,  and  died  in  Frascati,  Italy. 
October.  1867.  He  was  educated  at  Harrow. 
England,  and  in  Paris,  while  his  father  was 
minister  to  the  court  of  St.  James.  Return- 
ing to  Xew  York  in  1806,  after  a  short  experi- 
ence as  clerk  in  the  banking  house  of  Hope  & 
Company  in  Amsterdam,  he  entered  the  cm- 
ploy  of  Archibald  Gracie,  becoming  his  son-in- 
law  and  partner  four  years  later.  In  1813  he 
was  elected  to  the  New  York  legislature,  and 
tiiough  opposed  to  war  with  England,  he  en- 
listed as  a  volunteer  in  1814  and  1813.  The 
firm  in  which  he  was  a  partner  failing,  he  be- 
came associated  with  Yerplanck  as  editor  and 
proprietor  of  the  N czc  York  American,  which 
they  ably  edited  together  from  1823  to  1827, 
ancl  he  alone  as  sole  editor  from  1827  to  1847. 
In  1840  he  became  president  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege, at  which  time  he  received  the  degree  of 
LE.  U.  from  both  Princeton  and  Harvard  Uni- 
versities. Owing  to  failing  health  he  resigned 
this  position  in  1863  and  went  abroad. 


(Jll)  I'lliza  (Iracie.  daughter  of  Charles 
King,  EL.  D.,  was  born  in  Xew  York  City, 
December  18,  1810,  and  died  in  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  August  7,  1883.  September  18,  1838, 
she  married  Rew  Charles  Henry,  son  of  Jacob 
I'.enton  .iml  .Mar\-  (Wheeler)  Halsev. 


Ciilonel  Iharles  Cn>ok  Suydam,  son  of 
llenry  and  .\lniira  (  \'an  Xostrand)  Suydam, 
was  burn  in  .\ew  York  City,  June  3,  1836.  He 
graduated  from  L'olumbia  College  in  1856,  re- 
ceiving his  A.  AI.  degree  in  1859,  and  is  now  a 
counsellor  at  law,  with  offices  at  206  Broad- 
way, Xew  York  City.  He  served  during  the 
civil  war,  being  commissioned  in  1864  lieu- 
tenant .-ol<inel.  I'hird  Xew  Jersey  Cavalry.  He 
married,  .\pril  18,  i860,  Eliza  Gracie,  daugh- 
ter of  Rev.  Charles  Henry  and  Eliza  Gracie 
(King)  Halsey.  Children:  i.  Eliza  (Oracle, 
born  February,  1861.  2.  Margaret  R.,  born 
.Xoveniber  3,  1864;  married  James  M.  S. 
lirewster.  and  lias:  James  N.  S.  Pirewster, 
Jr..  born  June  19,  1889;  Margaret  S.  Brewster. 
July  1891  :  ,\lice  King  Brewster,  1893;  Charles 
.^uydam  P.rewster ;  .Sydney  Stephens  Brews- 
ter; and  Harold  Suydam  I5rewster.  3.  Charles 
King,  liorn  December  21,  1866,  died  February 
3.  1867.  4.  Emily  Halsey,  born  July  31,  1866. 
3.  .Mice  King,  born  November  4,  1869:  mar- 
ried. ( )ctober  28,  1905,  Joseph  How  land  Big- 
lev :  child,  .Alice  King  Bigley,  born  September 

26.  1906.  6.  Frederica  David,  born  September 
8.  1874:  married  Edward  Augustus  Weeks: 
chililren  :  Edward  Augustus  Weeks,  Jr.,  born 
I""ebruary  19,  1898:  Rufus  King  Weeks.  Feb- 
ruary. 1903:  hrederica  Suydam  Weeks,  No- 
vember 2H,  1904:  Eliza  (iracie  Weeks,  Sep- 
tember   17,    1907.     7.   PIsther   King,  born  July 

27,  1878;  married.  June  4,  1899,  Raymond 
.Stone,  U.  S.  N.  Children :  Raymond  Stone, 
Jr..  born  September  8,  1900:  Esther  King 
Stone,  November  29,  1901  ;  Charles  Halsey 
.Stone,  born  in  Island  of  Luzon,  Philippines, 
.September  8,  1603:  John  King  Stone,  born 
October  6,  1903:  .Mexander  ( iraham  Intone. 
March  16.  1907. 


I'rederic  X'incent  was  born  in  1777,  and  dieil 
June  30,  1873.  He  lived  in  Virginia,  and  mar- 
ried Susan  ^Ii!nor.  born  October  22.  1817.  died 
July  30.  1888.  Children:  i.  Frederic  William, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Charles  F.,  born  June  15. 
1834.  3.  Emily,  November  17,  1835.  4.  Harry 
W..  July   1837.     5.  Eleanor  M.,  born  October 


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28,  1839:  married  George  Fuller,  of  New  York. 
6.  Louis,  born  1844,  died  aged  sixteen,  killed 
in  the  civil  war. 

Frederic  William,  son  of  Frederic  and  Susan 
(  Milnor  )  X'incent,  was  born  in  Xorfolk,  Vir- 
ginia. February  17,  1833,  and  died  in  Elizabeth, 
New  Jersey,  January  i.  1907.  He  obtained  his 
early  education  in  Xorfolk,  and  afterwards 
was  sent  to  school  in  Philadelphia.  He  then 
studied  civil  engineering,  and  came  to  New 
York  City,  where  after  a  time  he  went  into  the 
brokerage  business,  which  he  followed  until  he 
retired  in  1900.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat. 
He  was  a  communicant  of  Christ  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  Elizabeth,  where  he  mar- 
ried, May  27,  1867,  Emily,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Charles  Henry  and  Eliza  Gracie  (King)  Hal- 
sey.  Children:  i.  Eliza  Halsey,  born  March 
I,  1869.  2.  Eleanor  Mihior,  January  15,  1874, 
died  Xovember  25,  1877.  3.  Emma  Lx)uise. 
born  Xovember  4,  1876:  married.  Alay  24, 
1899.  James  Hude  Xeilson  (see  index  under 
Xeilson  family  ).  Children:  Eleanor  \'incent 
Xeilson.  born  March  2^,,  1900  :  Catharine  Pjcek- 
man  Xeilson,  October  7,  1905. 


Between  1625  and  1675  there 
DE  CAMP  was  a  large  family  of  Prot- 
estant De  Camp  at  J\Iontauban. 
I5etween  I(KX)  and  1780  there  w^s  a  great 
Roman  Catholic  family  of  Du  Campe  at  Bou- 
logne and  an  indication  of  Decamps  at  Rouen. 
Perhaps  a  clue  to  the  ancestor  of  the  Xew 
Jersey  family  of  the  name  may  be  found  in 
connection  with  Laurent  De  Camps,  who  was 
chief  surgeon  at  Mauberge,  and  with  Laurent 
De  Camps,  who  was  Sieur  de  Bernoville  in 
1746.  M  any  rate  the  statement  that  the 
founder  of  the  New  Jersey  family  was  a  rela- 
tive of  the  Xicholas  Camp  who  went  from 
\\'etiiersfield  to  Milford,  Connecticut,  in  1639, 
had  a  son  or  grandson,  W'illiam  Campe,  who 
reuKned  to  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  about  1665, 
is  without  the  slightest  proof,  and  in  addition 
the  prefix  De  does  not  appear  among  any  mem- 
bers of  the  Milford-Xewark  families,  and  there 
is  conclusive  evidence  that  this  latter  family 
was  of  English  origin. 

(I)  Laurens  Jansen  De  Camp,  the  founder 
of  the  family  at  present  under  consideration, 
was  a  French  Huguenot  who  arrived  in  this 
country  about  1664,  and  appears  to  have  been 
the  first  and  the  only  one  of  his  name  who 
came  to  the  shores  of  the  Xew  Xetherland.  He 
was  [irobably  born  in  the  province  of  either 
Picarde  or  Xormandy  about  1643.  He  arrived 
in   Xew    Amsterdam    in    compaiu-   with    other 


Huguenots  from  Holland,  but  the  name  of  the 
vessel  in  which  he  crossed  the  ocean  i.s  un- 
known. In  1687  he  appears  on  the  rolls  of 
Kings  county,  Xew  York.  In  1675  he  is  on 
the  assessment  rolls  of  Xew  Ctrecht,  and  two 
years  later  he  and  his  wife  are  among  the 
church  members  of  the  same  place,  where  he 
undoubtedly  lived  from  1664  to  1688.  Shortly 
after  this  date  he  must  have  removed  to  Staten 
Island.  Xew  York,  where  there  was  a  large 
Huguenot  settlement  and  a  French  church 
established  as  early  as  1680.  On  Decemljer  30, 
1 701,  he  joined  in  a  petition  to  King  W'illiam  111. 
as  one  of  the  inhabitants  to  Richmond  county. 
About  1676  Laurens  Jansen  De  Camp  mar- 
ried Elsie,  daughter  of  Gillis  and  Aetje  (Hend- 
ricks )  de  Mandeville.  and  their  children  were: 

1.  Joannes,  baptized  April  2.  1677,  at  Brooklyn. 

2.  Johannis.  baptized  February  2,  1679,  at  Flat 
l)Ush.  Will  ])robated  in  Essex  county.  New 
Jersey.  May  28,  1766.  He  married  Mary, 
(laughter  of  Piter  and  Mary  Praae.  3.  Styntze, 
baptized  January  16.  1681,  married  Stoffel 
Christopher,  of  Staten  Island,  4.  Hendrick, 
referred  to  below.  5.  Agidius.  baptized  April 
8,  1683;  removed  to  New  Brunswick,  New 
Jersey,  about  1735;  married  Henrietta  Ellis. 
6.  Weraichie,  baptized  1685 ;  married  Charles 
Ellens,  of  Staten  Island.  7.  Aeltje.  baptized 
about  1690;  married  Cornells  Egmont. 

ill)  1  iendrick.  fourth  child  and  third  son  of 
Laurens  Jansen  and  Elsie  Gillis  (de  Mande- 
ville) De  Cam]),  was  born  at  New  Utrecht 
about  1682,  died  between  June  4  and  August 
10.  1 77 1,  the  dates  of  executing  and  proving 
his  will.  He  died  in  Middlesex  county,  New 
Jersey,  and  in  case  of  any  controversy  in  his 
letter  he  appoints  his  friend,  Joseph  Shotwell. 
of  Rahway,  as  a  mediator.  April  17,  1704.  at 
the  Dutch  Church  in  New  York  City,  Hend- 
rick (Henry)  De  Camp  married  jVIaria  de 
Lamars.  Their  children  were:  i.  Laurens, 
ba])tized  February  18,  1704,  at  Xew  Am.ster- 
dam,  died  young.  2.  Laurens,  baptized  April 
19,  1709.  at  Staten  Island,  removed  to  Som- 
erset county.  Xew  Jersey.  3.  Lammert  or  Lam- 
bert, baptized  April  17,  1711,  died  about  1790; 
lived  at  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey.  4.  Aeltje. 
baptized  1715.  5.  Hendrick,  baptized  1715, 
died  about  1785:  lived  at  \\'oodbridge,  a 
Quaker,  and  married.  6.  Johannes,  referred  to 
below.  7.  David,  baptized  August  2,  1719.  8. 
Gideon,  baptized  May  21,  1721.  9.  ChristofTel. 
baptized  February  13,  1725.  10.  Benjamin, 
baptized  January  21,  1728,  at  Hackensack ; 
lived  and  died  at  Woodbridge,  1759;  married. 
I  I.  Christina,  married Woodroflfe. 


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(111)  jdliu  (Johannes),  sun  of  Ik-nrv  and 
.Maria  ( dc  Laniars)  Dc  Camp,  was  born  at 
Staten  Island  and  baptized  there  April  17,  1717, 
died  October  23,  1782,  and  buried  on  the  lot  be- 
tween Westfield  and  Railway  in  a  wood  near 
the  grave  of  his  brother,  lienjaniin  De  Camp. 
About  1733  he  married  and  removed  to  Wood- 
bridge  or  Elizabethtown,  where  he  owned  a 
plantation  which  was  afterwards  divided  off  to 
Morris  De  Camp  who  conveyed  it  to  his  son 
Gideon.  Among  the  children  of  John  De 
Camp  were:  i.  Morris,  jirobably  the  sergeant 
in  Colonel  Elisha  Sheldon's  Second  Regiment 
of  Dragoons,  Captain  liarnet's  c(jmpany,  who 
was  wounded  in  the  foot  at  Staten  Island  fight, 
August  23,  1777.     2.  Abraham.     3.  John. 

(  1\' )  John  (2),  son  of  John  ( I )  De  Camp, 
of  W'oodbridge  at  Elizabethtown,  died  leaving 
a  will  ilated  January  4,  1843,  proved  Novem- 
ber 2().  1844.  About  1800  he  removed  from 
W'oodbridge  to  New  Hanover  township,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  about  the  same 
time  that  several  of  his  brothers  and  cousms, 
the  latter  the  children  of  his  L'ncle  John  of 
.Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  removed  to 
Ohio,  lie  married  Mary  Emley,  wdio  bore 
him  nine  children:  i.  Gideon,  died  withoitt 
issue.  2.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  3.  John. 
4.  Jaiues.  5.  Elizabeth,  married  John  Emley. 
6.  Mary,  married  Thomas  Emley.  7.  Lydia, 
married  William  Ilartshorne,  Jr.  8.  Rebecca, 
married,  as  his  thirfl  wife,  William  Hartshorne, 
Jr.,  aforementioned  as  the  husband  of  her 
sister  Lydia.    9.  Job,  died  without  issue. 

(V)  Joseph,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Mary 
(Emley)  De  Camp,  was  born  in  New  tlan- 
over  township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
about  1708.  lie  married  and  became  the  father 
of  nine  children,  two  of  whom  are  now  living: 
I.  Andrew  Jackson,  see  forward.  2.  Elizabeth, 
married  a  Mr.  Foulke.  3.  Mary,  married  James 
I.  Wright.  4.  Peter.  5.  Joseph.  6.  Emily.  7. 
Wardell.  8.  Thomas,  who  was  at  last  accounts 
living  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  g.  .\delaide, 
died  young. 

(VI)  Andrew  Jackson,  son  of  Joseph  De 
Camp,  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  in  New 
Hanover  township,  lUirlington  county.  New 
Jer!-ey.  He  married  Hannah  Poinsette,  and 
their  I'lily  child  was  .Andrew  Jackson,  see  for- 
ward. 

(\'II  )  .\ndrew  Jackson  (2),  son  of  Andrew 
Jackson  (i)  and  Hannah  (Poinsette)  De 
Cam]i,  was  born  in  New  Hanover  township, 
I'urlington  county,  New  Jersey,  in  the  old 
liomestead,  April  2,  1842,  and  is  now  living  in 
Philadelphia.    Pennsylvania.      After    receiving 


hJN  education  in  the  public  schools,  Mr.  De 
Laniji  entered  at  once  u])on  a  business  career, 
and  is  now  the  general  manager  of  the  Phila- 
delphia Electrical  Comiiany,  at  the  corner  of 
Tenth  and  Chestnut  streets,  Philadelphia.  In 
religion  he  is  an  Independent  and  in  politics 
a  Re]iublican.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union 
League  Club,  of  Philadelphia.  A  member  also 
of  Malita  Lodge,  No.  295,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Electric  Light  Association. 
.\ndrew  Jackson  De  Camp  married  (first) 
Rachael,  daughter  of  James  Brown,  of  Phila- 
del])hia,  who  died  without  issue  in  1874.  He 
married  (  second  )  Mary,  daughter  of  John  K. 
Cuming,  of  Philadeljihia,  and  their  children 
are:  I.  Mary  Adelaide,  born  March  16,  1878; 
married  Charles  Willis,  of  Philadelphia.  2. 
John  Cuming,  January  6,  1884,  flid  Jnne  25, 
1899.  .V  Andrew  Neville,  September  25,  1891. 
4.  Gladys  Poinsette,  October  6,  1894. 

The  Stetsons  have  been  promi- 
S'ri"rS(  ).\  nently  connected  with  the  Hat- 
ting district  of  the  (Granges 
for  nujre  than  one-half  a  century.  Of  the 
early  history  of  this  branch  of  the  family,  little 
is  known,  except  that  the  founder  and  the  first 
i)f  his  name  in  Orange  came  from  Connecti- 
cut, where  all  the  descendants  of  the  immi- 
grant ancestor  have  been  settled  for  more  than 
tw(j  hundred  years. 

( I )  Stephen  Stetson,  of  Orange,  founiler  of 
the  branch  under  con.sideration,  was  probably 
a  grandson  of  Stephen,  born  1762,  great- 
grandson  of  W'illiam,  1738,  great-great-grand- 
son of  W'illiam,  1700,  great-great-great-grand- 
son  of  Robert,  1653,  and  great-great-great- 
great-grandson  of  Robert  Stetson,  born  in 
Scotland,  1612.  settled  in  Scituate,  Alassachu- 
setts,  i((()4.  He  was  the  cornet  of  the  First 
Horse  C'limpany,  raised  in  i^lymouth,  Massa- 
chusetts, 1658-59,  and  known  as  cornet.  In 
i6{)i  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  tlie  counsellor 
of  war  and  held  that  position  for  more  than 
twenty  years.  Stephen  Stetson,  of  Orange, 
referred  to  above,  established  a  hat  manu- 
facture of  the  east  branch  of  the  Rahway 
river  where  the  present  "No  Name"  hat  manu- 
factory is  now  locatetl.  He  conducted  a  suc- 
cessful business  for  many  years,  and  estab- 
lished a  reputation  for  the  superior  ([uality  of 
his  goinls.  By  his  marriage  to  .Susan  Batter- 
son,  of  Westport,  Connecticut,  he  had  twelve 
children,  four  of  whom  continued  in  the  same 
line  of  business.  These  four  children  were: 
r.  Henrv  Thomas,  referred  to  below.     2.  Na- 


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IjdIc'ijii.  married  (first)  Mary  Leonard,  who 
bore  him  seven  children,  and  (second)  Fanny 
C.  Dodd.  3.  John  B.,  founder  of  the  great 
riiiladelphia  lionse.  4.  Charles  W.,  at  one 
time  a  ]«rt!KT  of  his  brother,  John  B.,  but 
now.  owing  to  ill  health,  retired  and  residing 
in  one  of  the  suburbs  of  Philadelphia. 

(II)  Henry  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Stephen 
and  Susan  (  Batterson )  Stetson,  was  born 
May  4,  1817,  died  August  8,  1853.  H^  learned 
the  hatter's  trade  with  exceptional  thorough- 
ness, and  early  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account  as  a  partner  with  his  brother.  Napoleon 
Stetson.  .\s  a  business  man.  he  was  one  of  the 
brightest,  most  energetic  and  successful  of  his 
day.  In  the  early  50's,  his  name  stood  first  on 
the  list  of  the  hat  manufacturers  of  Orange 
and  he  employed  a  larger  number  of  workmen 
than  any  of  his  competitors.  He  was  cut  off 
in  the  very  prime  of  his  life,  while  coming 
from  New  York  on  the  then  New  Jersey,  now 
Pennsylvania  railroad.  While  crossing  the 
bridge  over  the  Hackensack  river,  the  locomo- 
tive whistle  was  blown  to  warn  some  laborers 
near  the  track.  The  passengers  on  the  train 
became  frightened  and  some  attempted  to 
throw  themselves  from  the  windows.  Mr. 
Stetson  was  picked  up  dead,  his  skull  having 
been  crushed  l)y  the  beams  of  the  structure 
enclosing  the  bridge.  Mr.  Stetson  was  best 
known  in  Orange  for  his  business  capacity, 
fine  social  qualities,  and  his  goodness  of  heart. 
He  exemplified  the  motto,'  born  on  the  arms 
of  his  early  English  ancestor.  "X'irtus  nobilitat 
omnia" — Virtue  enobles  all  things.  He  is  re- 
membered by  many  of  the  present  day  for  his 
energy  and  activity  in  the  promotion  of  all 
enterprises  into  which  he  embarked.  Many 
organizations  which  have  since  made  Orange 
famous  as  a  philanthro])ic  community  had  no 
existence  in  his  day.  Had  there  been  any  such, 
however,  he  would  have  lieen  the  first  and 
foremost  to  engage  in  them.  He  loved  his 
I'ellowmen,  sympathized  with  them  in  their 
misfortunes,  and  was  ever  ready  to  lend  a 
hel])ing  hand  at  whatever  cost  or  personal  sacri- 
fice. His  many  virtues  are  still  cherished  in 
loving  remembrance  by  those  who  knew  him. 
lie  married  Susan  Cam])bell,  who  died  the 
same  year  as  her  husband.  Children:  i. 
Horace,  referred  to  below.  2.  Mortimer,  died 
in  1868.     3.  Child,  who  died  in  infancy. 

(  III  )  Horace,  second  son  of  Henry  Thomas 
.•md  .Susan  ( Camiibell)  Stetson,  was  born  in 
<  )range.  New  Jersey,  .-\pril  7,  1848.  Fie  was 
but  five  years  of  age  when  he  was  left  an 
"irphan.  and   from  the  time  he  began  his  pro- 


fessional career  he  has  been  wholly  dependent 
upon  his  own  resources.  For  his  early  edu- 
cation, which  he  began  at  the  age  of  six  years, 
he  was  sent  to  private  schools,  and  then  began 
his  preparation  for  college  in  1861,  at  what  was 
then  known  as  the  Mount  Washington  Institute 
on  Washington  s(|uare.  New  York  City.  After 
lea\'iiig  here,  he  entered  Columbia  University, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1866.  and  for  one 
year  afterward  read  law  in  the  office  of  John 
1..  Blake,  Esquire,  of  Orange.  He  entered 
Columbia  University  Law'  School  in  1867, 
from  which  he  received  his  degree  of  LL.  13. 
in  1869.  and  in  the  same  year  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar.  In  1871  he  was  elected 
city  clerk,  and  for  more  than  twenty-three 
years,  tinder  several  administrations  which 
were  njiposed  to  him  politically,  he  held  that 
position  continuously  until  June  i,  1896,  when 
he  resigned.  He  was  one  of  the  most  popular 
officers  who  ever  held  a  similar  position  in 
I'lsse.x  county,  and  lawyer  and  layman  alike, 
who  were  brought  into  close  relations  with 
him.  cherished  with  grateful  remembrance  his 
courteous  treatment,  kindly  manner,  cheerful 
disposition,  and  readiness  to  assist  them  in  the 
work  connected  with  his  office.  In  1873  ^I""- 
."stetson  was  made  assistant  treasurer  of  the 
Half  Dime  Savings  liank.  and  1883  became 
treasurer  of  the  institution.  He  is  now  its 
vice-president  and  treasurer.  .At  the  beginning 
of  his  connection  with  the  aft'airs  of  the  bank, 
the  number  of  depositors  were  about  eight 
hundred,  and  the  amount  of  deposits,  $200,000. 
There  are  now  over  seven  thousatid  depositors, 
more  than  $2,300,000  on  deposit,  and  a  surplus 
of  ."-^230,000.  For  over  thirty  years  Mr.  Stet- 
son was  connected  with  the  board  of  education 
of  ( )range  as  its  secretary,  being  appointed  to 
that  position  in  1873,  and  resigning  in  1902. 
He  was  made  a  Mason  in  1868,  and  is  a  past 
master  of  Corinthian  Lodge,  No.  57,  Free  and 
.\cce]ited  Masons,  of  Orange.  He  is  also  a 
Royal  .\rch  Mason,  and  a  member  of  Live  Oak 
Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
He  is  a  communicant  of  Grace  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Orange. 

Horace  .Stetson  married,  January  2~ ,  1876. 
Eva  ]..  daughter  of  Emery  II.,  a  descendant 
of  1  lenry  .\dams,  of  Braintree,  Massachusetts, 
the  progenitor  of  Presidents  John  Adams  and 
John  Ouincy  Adams,  and  other  distinguished 
members  of  that  famous  family.  Her  mother 
was  Laura  R.  (Proctor)  .\dams.  Children  of 
Emery  H.  and  I.aura  R.  (Proctor)  .Adams;  I. 
Cieorge  Emery,  a  dentist  of  Park  street.  East 
Orange.     2.  Eugene  E..  of  Pine  Orchard.  Con- 


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nccticiit.  3.  l^va  j.,  referred  to  above.  4. 
I'Vank  1...  deceased.  Children  of  Horace  and 
I'^a  j.  (.\danis)  Stetson:  r.  Gertrude  Proc- 
tor, married  Ilerljert  S.  Baker,  of  37  Union 
s(|iiare.  \e\v  York  C"ity.  and  has  three  chil- 
dren: Alyra,  I'-ditli  and  Stetson.  2.  Myra, 
died  at  the  aye  nf  twenty-three  years.  3. 
Horace,  jr..  married  Mahel  Russell  and  has 
one  child.  Russell.  Imrn  Julv  11.  li)08.  4. 
Mortimer  Adams,     c^.  IIenr\-  Thomas. 


John  Ilijustdu,  fcunderc.f  the 
ll()l'ST().\     iiranch  ni  the  family  bearini; 

his  name  at  present  luider 
ccinsideration.  was  born  in  Scotland,  l""ebruary 
12.  1792,  died  in  New  Jersey,  August  25,  1852. 
lly  occupation  he  was  a  foreman  in  a  cotton 
mill.  He  emigrated  to  America,  June  4,  1840. 
and  settled  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  wdiither 
he  brought  his  family,  May  16,  1841.  He 
married,  in  Scotland,  December  31,  1818,  ]\Iar- 
garet  Murraw  born  October  20,  1797,  died 
May  16.  1857.  Children:  i.  Alexander,  born 
(October  4,  1819,  died  February  27,  1862.  2. 
.\gnes.  October  12,  1822,  died  July  13,  1904. 
3.  Catharine,  December  10,  1823,  died  October 
24.  1824.  4.  John.  Jr.,  June  14,  1825,  died 
h'ebruary  13,  1857.  3.  David,  twin  with  [ohn, 
died  March  12,'  1881.  h.  Richard,  June  28, 
1827,  died  January  18,  1830.  7.  Adam.  Octo- 
ber 22,  1829,  died  May  5,  1830.  8.  Robert, 
May  16.  183 1.  9.  Margaret,  June  27,  1833, 
died  July  13.  1833.  10.  Thomas  Borthwick. 
referred  to  below.  11.  James,  July  10,  died 
Jidy  30,  1836.  12.  Janet  Pinkerton,  September 
-5'  1837.  (lied  January  24,  1863.  13.  James, 
July  2^^.  1840,  died  June  20,  1907. 

(H)  Thomas  Borthwick,  son  of  John  and 
.Margaret  (Murray)  Houston,  was  born  in 
Johnston,  Renfrewshire.  Scotland,  June  i, 
1834.  and  is  now  living  at  690  East  Twenty- 
eighth  street,  I^aterson,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
brought  over  to  this  country  by  his  parents 
when  seven  years  of  age.  and  after  receiving 
his  education  in  the  public  schools,  he  learned 
the  trade  of  machinist  under  William  Swin- 
burne, after  which  he  found  employment  with 
Rogers  Brothers,  for  whom  he  worked  for 
twenty-one  years,  and  afterwards  with  the 
(jrant  Locomotive  Company,  with  whom  he 
remained  thirteen  years.  He  then  went  back 
to  Rogers  Brothers  and  became  one  of  their 
travelling  salesmen,  and  worked  for  them  most 
efficiently  until  he  retired  from  active  business 
in  T902.  Afr.  Houston  is  a  Republican,  and  a 
member   of   Joppa   Eodge,    No.   29,   Free   and 


Accepted  Masons  of  Xew  Jersey.  He  married 
in  Paterson,  Xew  Jersey,  July  2,  1857,  Mary, 
Ijorn  in  Skipton,  Yorkshire,  England,  Febru- 
ary 8,  1840.  daughter  of  John  and  Ann  (Hug- 
ginson)  Coates.  Her  father,  John  Coates,  was 
born  .\pril  4,  1810.  died  February  i,  1880.  Her 
mother  was  l)orn  in  1 809.  and  died  Octo- 
ber 15.  1837.  Her  brothers  and  sisters 
were:  John.  William.  Henry.  Joseph,  James, 
Jlarmon  T..  Sarah  and  Elizabeth  Coates. 
Children  of  Thomas  P.orthwick  and  Mary 
(Coates)  Houston:  i.  Annie  Coates,  born 
June  1,  1858;  married  Harry  M.  A.sh,  of  Pat- 
erson; children:  Jessie,  Mabel,  Harry  M.  Jr. 
anil  Raymond  Ash.  2.  Janet  Pinkerton,  Au- 
gu.st  12.  i860;  married  Thomas  Flitcroft ;  chil- 
dren :  Edith  and  Ruth  Flitcroft.  3.  William 
Hugginson,  referred  to  below.  4.  Mary  Coates. 
.Vovember  10,  1865;  married  Walter  S. 
Schoole)-.  5.  Margaret  Murray,  March  3, 
1868.  6.  John  Coates,  March  25,  1873;  'n^f- 
ried  Elizabeth  Sullivan;  children:  Eleanor, 
Margaret  and  John  Coates,  Jr.  7.  Jessie,  De- 
cember jy,  1875.  8.  David  Thomas  Borth- 
wick. April  17,  1883. 

(IH)  William  Hugginson,  son  of  Thomas 
Borthwick  and  Mary  (Coates)  Houston,  was 
born  in  Paterson.  New  Jersey,  May  24,  1863, 
and  is  now  living  in  Red  Bank,  New  Jersey. 
.Vfter  attending  the  public  schools  he  completed 
his  education  at  the  John  Water's  Seminary, 
and  then  took  u])  clerical  work.  In  1886  he 
accepted  a  position  with  the  Atlantic  and  Pa- 
cific Tea  Company,  and  has  been  with  the 
Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company  since  June 
21,  1894.  Mr.  Houston  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican  and  very  active  in  support 
of  his  [larty.  For  five  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  township  committee,  during  one  year  of 
wdiich  he  was  the  chairman.  In  1895  ^^  was 
elected  town  treasurer  of  Red  Bank,  and  Janu- 
ary, 1909,  was  appointed  water  comniissioner 
of  the  town.  He  is  a  member  of  Long  Branch 
Lodge,  No.  742,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
( )rder  of  Elks  ;  of  Mystic  Brothers  Lodge,  No. 
21.  I'Vee  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Red  Bank; 
of  1  liram  Chapter,  No.  i.  Red  Bank  ;  of  Valley 
C"onsistory,  Jersey  City ;  and  of  Salaam  Tem- 
ple, Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
l)er  of  the  Monmouth  Boat  Club,  and  Garfield 
('Inb.  of  Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  married 
in  Paterson,  January  21,  1885,  Kate  S.,  born 
there  December  31,  1865,  daughter  of  Leonard 
and  Charlotte  (Smith)  White.  She  is  the  only 
daughter  of  her  parents,  her  two  brothers  being 
Charles  E.  White,  married  Lucv  Decker,  one 


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child,  Lc-ruy  White;  and  Frank  li.  Wliite.  mar- 
ried EHzahetli  (iarrison,  child,  (Charlotte  W. 
White. 


lM>r  more  than  two  and  three- 
r.lv.W'lX  i|uarter  centuries  the  family 
name  of  I'.ranin  has  been  in 
some  way  associated  with  the  best  interests  and 
history  of  the  commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  while  jierhaps  the  greater  part  of  those 
bearing  the  surname,  esjjecially  in  the  earlier 
generations,  were  chiefly  engaged  in  farming 
pursuits,  the  professions  have  claimed  a  fair 
[jroportion  of  its  representatives  and  still  others 
have  attained  celebrity  in  jjublic  life. 

I  I  )  I-'rancis  liranin,  progenitor  of  the  fam- 
ily in  this  country,  was  born  in  Ireland  about 
the  year  1683,  and  came  to  America  about  or 
soon  after  the  year  1700,  and  previous  to  the 
birth  of  his  son  ^Jichael.  Little  else  appears 
to  be  known  of  Francis  Jlranin  except  that  he 
married  and  had  one  or  more  children. 

(II)  Michael,  son  of  I-Vancis  Branin,  was 
born  September  9,  1708,  probably  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  married,  November  24,  1730,  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Norcross ; 
they  had  children. 

(III)  William,  son  of  Michael  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Norcross)  liranin,  was  born  December 
15,  1749,  and  lived  in  New  Jersey  during  a 
part  of  his  active  life,  pn>bably  in  Burlington 
county,  where  he  died  February  14,  1813.  He 
married,  in  1778,  .\bigail,  daughter  of  John 
Roger*;  they  had  children. 

( I\' )  Abijah,  son  of  William  and  Abigail 
(Rogers)  Branin,  was  born  probably  in  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  May  19,  1783. 
Me  learned  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith  and  fol- 
lowed that  occu])ation  until  about  1821,  wdien 
he  removed  with  his  family  to  Philadelphia 
count)-,  Pcnn.sylvania,  and  engaged  in  farming 
l)ursuits.  He  afterward  purchased  a  farm  in 
Abington  townshiiJ,  Montgomery  county,  Penn- 
sylvania,  and  lived  there  until  the  time  of  his 
death,  August  18,  1855.  .\bijah  Branin  mar- 
ried, October  18,  1804,  Mary,  daughter  of  John 
Houston,  of  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  by  whom  he  had  si.\  children;  John  (see 
post).  Elizabeth,  Mark,  William,  Almira  and 
Richard. 

(  \"  )  John,  eldest  son  of  Abijah  and  Mary 
(Houston)  P)ranin,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  December  16.  1806,  and 
removed  with  his  father's  family  to  Philadel- 
phia county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  became  a 
farmer,  .\ftcr  his  marriage  he  lived  on  the 
farm  of  his  father-in-law.  Samuel  Tones,  which 


had  been  in  his  ])ossession  since  1797.  On  this 
farm  John  Branin  died  October  4,  1866,  and 
his  wife  died  December  13,  1884.  She  was 
.\ini,  daughter  of  Samuel  Jones,  of  Hatfield 
townshij),  Montgomery  county,  who  married 
Hannah  Clayton,  wdio  w'as  a.  daughter  of  Rich- 
.ird  and  Margaret  (Kenderdine)  Clayton. 

i\l)  Ceorgc,  only  son  and  child  of  John 
and  .\nn  (Jones )  Branin,  was  born  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Cheltenham  township,  Mont- 
gomery county,  Pennsylvania,  December  30, 
1833,  .A.fter  a  period  of  time  spent  at  the  town- 
shi])  school  he  completed  his  studies  at  Tree- 
niiiunt  Seminary,  in  Norristown,  then  under 
charge  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  .\aron.  C)n  return- 
ing f n  im  the  seminary  he  gave  his  entire  atten- 
tion to  the  cultivation  of  the  farm,  and  on  the 
death  of  his  father  he  assumed  its  manage- 
ment. -Mr.  P)ranin  is  known  as  a  thrifty  and 
substantial  farmer,  a  good  citizen,  a  firm  Re- 
publican, and  a  consistent  member  of  the  Soci- 
et\-  of  h>iends.  He  married,  February  26, 
i8f)3,  .Ann  Elizabeth  Branin,  born  Medford, 
New  Jersey,  June  19,  1840,  died  May  17,  1893, 
daughter  of  John  Branin,  who  married  Abi- 
gail .\nn  Jones.  This  niarriage  created  a  soine- 
what  unusual  family  condition,  as  may  be  seen 
from  the  following  extract  from  a  family 
narrative.  George  Branin's  father  and  his 
wife's  father  bore  the  same  name,  John  Branin. 
Iliey  were  somewhat  distantly  related  and  not 
personally  acquainted ;  and  they  both  married 
the  same  day.  month  and  year,  to  women  of 
almost  identical  names,  the  father  of  each  of 
whom  was  Samuel  Jones,  but  neither  related 
nor  ac(|uainted.  Ceorge  and  Ann  Elizabeth 
Pranin  had  three  children,  the  last  born  of 
whom  died  in  extreme  infancy.  Their  other 
children  are  John  \\'alter,  see  post;  Ruth, 
married  Israel  Hallowell.  and  has  children. 
( icorge.  -Mice  and  Mary  Hallowell. 

I  \  1 1  I  Dr.  John  Walter  Branin,  son  of  George 
and  Ann  Elizabeth  (Branin)  Branin,  was  born 
at  Wyncote,  Cheltenham  township,  Montgom 
erv  county,  Pennsylvania,  January  28,  1864. 
He  received  his  earlier  education  in  ])ublic 
sch(jols.  the  I'Viends"  Central  School,  Philadel- 
phia, and  Pierce's  Business  College,  Philadel- 
phia, graduating  from  the  latter  in  June,  1885. 
1  Ic  was  educated  for  his  profession  at  the 
llalniemann  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia, 
where  he  completed  the  course  and  was  grad- 
uated April  6,  1888.  Since  that  time  he  has 
engaged  in  active  and  successful  practice  in 
Mt.  Holly.  New  Jersey.  Dr.  Branin  is  a  mem- 
ber of  tile  New  Jersey  State  Homoeopathic 
Me<lical  Society  and  of  the  .American  Institute 


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of  Hoiiiteopathy.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican, lie  married  (first)  March  12,  1890, 
Martha  C,  daughter  of  Joseph  A.  Jones,  of 
\'incenti)wn.  New  Jersey,  and  had  three  chil- 
<Iren.  She  died  October  24,  1897.  ''"d  he  mar- 
ried (second)  Aui^ust  2.  i8')9.  Ida  L.  Sailer, 
born  Medford,  died  March  14.  U)0/,  liaving 
borne  him  two  children.  Children:  Ruth  |.. 
Helen  M.,  Elsie  \\'.,  Dorothy  A.  and  John  \V. 


The  Antrum,  .\ntram,  and  An- 

\X  TRl.M  trim  families  in  New  Jersey 
ha\e  all  nf  them  sprung  from 
the  twii  lirotlK-r-.,  Jnhn  and  James,  who  were 
auKpug  the  earliest  of  the  Uuaker  settlers  01 
West  Jersey,  and  their  descendants  have  been 
among  the  sturdiest  and  strongest  sujiporters 
of  that  belief  in  the  colony  and  state  as  well  as 
among  the  front  rank  of  New-  Jersey's  repre- 
sentative citizens. 

(I)  James  Antram,  the  brcither  of  Jcihu.  re- 
ferred to  abtive,  came  to  this  country  in  1678, 
and  settling  at  Mansfield  township,  Burling- 
ton county,  married  at  the  ])ublic  meeting  of 
Friends  in  Shrewsbury,  on  the  fifth  day  of  the 
week,  May  14.  1696,  Mar)',  eldest  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  Hance,  born  September 
29,  1670,  in  Shrewsbury.  James  .Antram  then 
bought  five  hundred  acres  of  his  brother  John 
in  Mansfield,  where  he  died  leaving  a  will  dated 
i73(').  Children  of  James  and  Mary  (Hance) 
Antram  were;  i.  John,  married  Alary  Gar- 
wood. 2.  James,  referred  to  below.  3.  Eliza- 
betli,  married  Joseph  Garwood.  4.  Mary,  mar- 
ried Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Rachel 
(Grosbeck)  Biddle. 

(H)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  and 
Mary  (Hance)  Antram,  was  born  in  Mansfield 
townshi]),  Burlington  county.  He  was  a  farmer, 
and  spent  his  life  and  died  there.  He  married, 
July  2,  1725,  Mary  Mulcher  and  had  one  child. 
Ebenezer,  referred  to  below, 

(HI)  Ebenezer,  only  child  of  Jame>  (j) 
and  Mary  (Mulcher)  .\ntram,  w-as  born  and 
died  on  the  farm  inherited  from  his  father  in 
Mansfield.  In  175*)  he  married  Elizabeth 
.  who  liiire  liim  four  children:  I.  Sam- 
uel, married.  (Jctober  11,  1780.  Elizabeth 
Hawk  and  had  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  born 
Sejitember    16,   1782.     2.   Benajah,  born   1758. 

died  February  4,  1821  ;  married  I'ernice . 

3.  Sarah,  October  7,  1764,  died  July  2_i.  1821  ; 
married,  .April  25,  1791,  David  I'.ransdn.  4. 
Stacy,  referred  to  below. 

(  I\' )  Stacy  .Antrim,  ycjungest  child  of  l'".ben 
ezer  and  Elizabeth  .Antram,  was  born  in  .Mans- 
field  townshii),    Burlington  county.    ij()().  and 


si)ent  his  life  on  his  farm  near  Juliustown. 
In  this  branch  ijf  the  faiuily  the  change 
in  the  spelling  of  the  surname  occurred.  He 
marrieil  Mary  Knight  and  had  seven  children: 
I.  Charles,  born  January  i,  1790.  2.  Elizabeth, 
.Xovember  3,  1792;  married  a  Mr.  White,  but 
had  no  children.  3.  Earl,  December  25,  1794. 
4.  Daniel,  h'ebruary  2,  1796;  married  Hannaii 
I'ierson.  5.  bienajah,  referred  to  below.  6. 
Alary,  I'"ebruary  f).  1803  :  married  James  Kemj)- 
ton.  7.  Henry,  July  27,,  1805;  married  Mary 
Russell. 

(  \"  )  r.enajali,  fifth  child  and  fourth  >on  of 
.Stacy  and  Alary  (Knight)  Antrim,  was  born 
October  14,  1800.  died  in  1895.  For  a  good 
many  years  he  was  a  merchant  in  I'emberton, 
.\'ew  Jersey,  conducting  his  business  in  the 
store  now  occupied  by  William  H.  Bishop.  He 
\vas  an  assemblyman  in  New  Jersey  legislature 
in  1852.  He  was  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
h'armers'  Bank,  of  Mount  Holly,  for  many 
years  and  until  his  death,  and  for  over  sixty 
\ears  trustee  of  the  church  and  superintendent 
of  the  .Sunday  school  in  I'emberton.  He  mar- 
ried Eliza  Bodine.  Their  children  were:  i. 
John  Henry,  referred  to  below.  2.  Charles, 
l)i>rn  January,  1831,  died  July  28,  1874;  mar- 
ried Sarah  .Ann  Davis  and  had  Howard  D., 
Clarence  D.,  \irginia  and  William  L.  3.  Emma, 
married  .Alfred  Shinn,  of  Pemberton,  and  had 
I'annie.  Benajah,  Laura,  Eliza,  Josephine  and 
Henrietta.  4.  Watson,  born  1836,  died  in  1902: 
married  and  had  one  child,  George.  5.  George, 
died  in  infancv. 

(  \"1  )  John 'Henry,  eldest  chihl  of  ik-najah 
and  Eliza  (Bodine)  Antrim,  was  born  in  Pem- 
berton, Burlington  county,  1828,  died  in  1904. 
He  was  educated  in  private  schools,  and  be- 
came an  accountant  and  merchant.  He  was  a 
Re])ublican  and  was  clerk  of  the  board  of  free- 
holders for  over  twenty-five  years  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  the  commissioner 
of  deeds.  I-'or  a  great  many  years  he  was  the 
secretary  of  the  Sunday  school.  He  lived  and 
died  at  Pemberton.  He  married  Henrietta  E., 
daughter  of  .Samuel  W.  and  Ann  (Trippe) 
Ihuld.  whose  children  were:  Alary,  Samuel, 
Thomas.  William,  Charles  H.,  Ann,  Alartha 
and  Henrietta  E.  Budd.  Samuel  W.  was  son 
of  Levi  and  Alary  (Woolston)  Budd,  and 
grandson  of  William  Budd  and  Susanna, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Cole  and  Alary,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Alary  Kendall,  the  emigrants. 
.Samuel  was  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Cole, 
the  emigrants.  William  was  son  of  William 
Budd  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
.\bigail  Stockton,  the  emigrants,  and  grandson 


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of  William  ami  Ann  ( Clapgut )  Budd,  the 
emigrants.  Henrietta  E.  (Budd)  Antrim  was 
born  in  1827,  died  in  1865.  (See  Budd,  \TI). 
Children  of  John  Henr_v  and  Henrietta  E. 
(Budd)  Antrim  were:  i.  Harry  liudd,  an 
umbrella  manufacturer  in  I'hiladelphia :  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  King  and  had  Carlton,  William, 
\\'alter  and  I'aul.  2.  Walter,  referred  to  below. 

3.  JMinnie  Budd,  married  Joseph  B.  Turpin,  a 
Methodist  clergyman,  and  had  Mary  Budd. 
Henrietta  Budd.  Helen   B>udd  and  Joseph   B. 

4.  Annie  liudd,  lives  in  Pemberton. 

(\II)  \\'alter.  second  child  and  son  of  John 
Henry  antl  Henrietta  E.  (Buddj  Antrim,  was 
born  in  Pemberton.  Burlington  county,  New 
Jersey,  August,  1856,  and  is  now  living  in 
Camden,  Camden  county,  Xew  Jersey.  He 
was  educated  in  iliss  Nicholsons  private 
school  in  Pemberton  and  in  the  state  schools  at 
Trenton,  from  which  latter  institution  he  grad- 
uated in  1877.  In  the  following  year  he  went 
to  work  for  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Com- 
pany with  which  he  has  been  employed  ever 
since.  He  started  in  as  a  telegraph  operator  at 
Sea  Ciirt,  wdiere  he  was  stationed  for  two 
years,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Camden 
as  train  dispatcher,  and  this  position  he  tilled 
for  the  following  three  years.  In  1885  he  was 
made  division  operator  with  his  ofificc  in  Cam- 
den, and  in  1895  was  promoted  to  the  post  of 
assistant  train  master,  and  six  years  later  be- 
came train  master,  which  position  he  still  holds. 
In  1882  Walter  Antrim  married  Helen  E.. 
daughter  of  William  and  Jane  R.  (Budd) 
Budd.  Her  grandfather  on  her  father's  side 
was  Joseph  Budd,  of  Gloucester  county,  and 
on  her  mother's  side  the  Rev.  Samuel  Budd, 
of  llurlington  county.  Walter  and  Helen  E. 
(  Budd  )  .\utrim  have  no  children. 

(The    Budd    Line). 

The  Budd  family  of  New  Jersey  and  Penn- 
sylvania are  the  descendants  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Budd,  a  Church  of  England  clergj- 
man,  who  became  a  Quaker,  and  whose  four 
younger  sons  emigrated  to  this  country  about 
1678.  There  is  another  family  of  Budds  also 
connected  with  New  Jersey,  but  most  prom- 
inently with  the  colonies  of  New  York  and 
New  Haven,  whose  ancestors  were  John  and 
Jose])h  Budd,  his  brothers,  who  emigrated 
about  1632,  the  descendants  of  the  former 
being  the  famous  family  of  Long  Island  and 
W'estchester  county.  New  York.  One  branch 
of  the  Long  Island  family  coming  over  into 
New  Jersey  settled  in  Morris  county,  and  inter- 
mingling  with   a  branch  of   the   \Vest  Jersey 


family  became  with  them  the  ancestors  of  the 
North  Jersey  Budds. 

(  1  )  The  Rev.  Thomas  Budd,  founder  of 
the  \\  est  Jersey  branch  of  the  family,  w-as  the 
grandson  of  John  Budd,  Earl  of  Berkshire, 
whose  eldest  son  had  been  slain  in  the  battle 
of  Barnet.  Having  taken  priest's  orders  in 
the  Church  of  luigland,  he  became  the  rector 
of  Martock,  county  Somerset,  England,  but 
becoming  a  disci])le  of  George  Fox,  he  gave  up 
his  benefice  and  became  a  minister  among 
I'riends.  In  Iti6i,  being  required  to  take  the 
oath  of  obedience,  he  was  indicted  and  arrested 
for  refusal,  and  being  imprisoned  in  the  jail  at 
Ilchester,  he  died  there  June  22,  1670.  His 
five  sons  were,  according  to  one  of  his  descend- 
ants, William  liradford,  the  famous  attorney 
general  under  President  Washington:  I.  Sam- 
uel, eldest  son,  who  remained  in  England.  2. 
James,  died  1692;  was  member  of  the  West 
Jersey  colonial  assembly,  and  according  to  At- 
torney General  Bradford,  "poisoned  at  Brid- 
lington" (the  present  Burlington),  and  accord- 
ing to  another  account,  drowned  in  the  Dela- 
ware at  Burlington.  He  was  unmarried.  3. 
John,  died  before  1738:  emigrated  to  Burling- 
ton, removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  was 
for  many  years  a  prominent  merchant ;  mar- 
ried and  left  issue.  4.  Thomas,  died  1697. 
perhaps  the  most  prominent  of  all  the  brothers, 
emigrated  to  Burlington,  held  many  important 
provincial  offices,  removed  in  1690  to  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  died  :  was  author  of  the  famous 
Ijamphlet  printed  by  him  in  1685  and  entitled 
"(iood  Order  Established  in  Pennsylvania  and 
New  Jersey  in  America.  "  Married  and  had 
issue.     5.  William,  referred  to  below. 

(  11  )  William,  son  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Budd, 
of  the  parish  of  Martock,  Somersetshire,  Eng- 
land, was  born  about  1649,  died  March  25. 
1722.  His  gravestone  containing  also  the 
epitaph  of  his  wife,  who  died  September  30. 
1722.  aged  sixty-seven,  is  still  standing  in  the 
cluirchyard  of  St.  Mary's  Burlington.  He 
was  one  of  the  largest  locators  of  land  in  W^est 
Jersey,  and  he  and  his  brother  Thomas  were 
the  original  proprietors  of  the  site  of  the  pres- 
ent towns  of  Pemberton.  Juliustown  and 
.\rney's  Mount.  His  name  is  less  conspicuous 
in  the  civil  records  of  the  jirovince  than  that 
of  his  brother  Thomas,  and  while  he  undoubt- 
edly became  a  Quaker,  since  his  children  were 
married  in  the  monthly  meeting,  he  afterwards 
returned  to  the  church  of  his  ancestors,  prob- 
ably owing  to  the  efforts  of  George  Keith.  His 
liome  was  near  the  present  town  of  Pemberton, 
;!nd  the  jiroperty,  known  to-day  as  the  Arney 


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Lip])iiiciitt  farm,  about  two  miles  north  of 
I'eniberton  and  one  mile  southwest  of  the 
Mount  Holly  Friends"  meetinghouse,  is  now 
the  property  of  Murrell  Dobbins,  of  Philadel- 
phia, lie  married  Ann  Clapgut.  Children : 
I.  William,  referred  to  below.  2.  John,  1682, 
died  1730  ;  married  Hannah  Wilson.  3.  Thomas, 
born  1686,  died  1742;  married  Deborah  Lang- 
staff.  4.  Susan,  1691,  married  Samuel  Woolston. 

5.  Ann.  born   1694,  married  James   Bingham. 

6.  James,  1695,  died  before  1729;  married 
Sarah  Tindal. 

(HI)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (  i)  and 
.Ann  (Clapgut)  Budd,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county.  West  Jersey.  1680,  died  in  1727.  He 
inherited  from  his  father,  not  only  the  original 
farm  on  Arney's  ]\Iount,  but  also  his  love  of 
domestic  and  home  life.  From  him  also  have 
sprung  most  of  the  Budds  in  Burlington  coun- 
ty, and  it  is  claimed  that  over  one-half  of  all 
the  persons  buried  in  the  old  and  densely  filled 
Methodist  burying-ground  at  Pemberton  are  his 
descendants.  He  married,  December  2,  1703, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail 
Stockton,  at  that  time  living  in  Springfield 
township,  Burlington  county,  who  was  born  in 
Flushing,  Long  Island,  in  1680.  Children:  i. 
Mary,  born  1704;  married  Joseph  Shinn.  2. 
Susan,  170C),  married  Jacob  Gaskill.  3.  Thomas, 
1708.  died  C)ctober  15,  1775;  married  Jemima 
Leeds.  4.  William,  referred  to  below.  5. 
David,  1712,  died  June  5.  1760;  married  Cath- 
arine .-\llen.  6.  Rebecca,  1714:  married  Joseph 
Lamb.  7.  Abigail,  1716;  married  John  Fisher. 
B.  .Sarah.  1718;  married  John  Gosling.  9.  Ann, 
married  Kendall  Cole.  10.  Elizabeth,  died 
May  26,  1752,  unmarried, 

(I\')  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Elizabeth  (Stockton)  Budd,  was  born  in  the 
Did  homestead  on  Arney's  Mount,  1709,  died 
.August  28,  1770.  January  2,  1710,  he  was 
baptized  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  Burlington, 
md  after  reaching  manhood,  settled  in  New 
Hanover  township,  Burlington  county.  In 
April,  1738,  he  married  Susanna,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Mary  (Kendall)  Cole,  whose 
brother,  Kendall  Cole,  married  his  sister,  Ann 
Budd.  Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  about  1740, 
:lied  ^^ay  27,  1796:  married,  April,  1766,  Han- 
nah Gill.  2.  Eli,  married,  April,  1774.  Ann 
Carman.  3.  Levi,  referred  to  below.  4.  George, 
married  Elizabeth  Cooper.  5.  Jonathan,  mar- 
ried (first)  October,  1777,  Anna  Sexton:  (sec- 
ond) Mary  Woolston.  6.  IMary,  married 
Thomas  Piatt.  7.  Elizabeth,  married,  Septem- 
ber, 1772,  Vincent  Shinn.    8.  Rachel,  died  un- 


married. 9.  Rebecca,  married,  November, 
1785,  James  Sterling. 

(  \')  Levi,  son  of  William  (3)  and  Susanna 
(  Cole  )  Budd,  was  born  in  New  Hanover  town- 
ship, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  1751, 
died  in  1828.  He  married,  September,  1774, 
Mary  Woolston,  born  1757,  died  1821.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  William,  married  a  Miss  Croshaw. 
2.  Samuel  Woolston,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Rev.  Thomas  L.,  died  aged  twenty-seven  years. 
4.  James,  married  Sarah  Van  Wyck.  5.  Mar- 
garet, married  Rev.  Daniel  Fidler.  6.  Ann, 
married  Isaac  Hilliard.  7.  Rebecca,  married 
William  Page.  8.  Martha,  married  William 
Croshaw. 

(\'I)  Samuel  Woolston,  son  of  Levi  and 
Mary  (Woolston)  Budd.  was  born  in  1781 
on  his  father's  farm  near  Buddtown,  now  gen- 
erally known  as  the  Samuel  B.  Shinn  farm, 
and  died  at  Pemberton,  1854.  When  quite 
young,  much  to  the  regret  of  his  father,  he 
manifested  a  restless  disposition  and  lack  of 
interest  in  agricultural  pursuits,  and  found  his 
amusement  in  fishing  and  trapping  in  the 
nearby  woods.  At  the  earliest  opportunity  he 
left  the  home  on  the  farm  and  becoming  an 
apprentice  to  an  apothecary,  he  later  on  enter- 
ed into  the  wholesale  drug  business  as  one  of 
the  members  of  the  firm  of  Wetherill  &  Budd, 
whose  offices  and  warehouse  on  Front  street, 
Philadelphia,  were  long  known  as  one  of  the 
most  important  of  their  kind  in  the  Quaker 
city.  Having  amassed  quite  a  large  fortune  for 
the  days  in  which  he  lived,  on  September  12, 
1 82 1,  he  purchased  the  Thomas  R.  Lacy  prop- 
erty at  New  Mills,  now  Pemberton,  New  Jer- 
sey, from  .\nthony  S.  Earl,  and  upon  retiring 
from  business  he  spent  his  time  improving  and 
beautifying  his  new  home.  He  enlarged  and 
improved  the  dwelling  house,  built  new  out- 
buildings, and  laid  out  large  and  beautiful 
grounds  around  them,  spending  on  this  work 
more  than  $25,000,  and  constructing  a  resi- 
dence which  at  that  time  was  considered  to  be 
the  finest  in  Burlington  county.  His  children, 
all  having  married  or  died  before  their  father's 
death,  the  property  was  sold  by  Mr.  Budd's 
executors  and  passed  into  other  hands,  and  it 
has  now  lost  a  great  deal  of  its  former  neat- 
ness and  beauty.  Mr.  Budd  married  (first) 
.Ann  AlcCullough,  and  (second)  Ann  Trippe. 
Children,  all  by  second  marriage:  i.  Samuel, 
died  young.  2.  Mary,  died  unmarried.  3. 
Samuel,  professor  at  Mercersburg  College. 
Pennsylvania ;  married  Jane  Williams.  4. 
Thomas,   went   to   Kentucky,   married    (first) 


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Elizabeth  Muffit;  then  removed  to  Chambers- 
burg.  Pennsylvania;  married  (second)  Sabina 
S.  Schroeder.  5.  William,  married  Phoebe 
Ann  Sheppard.  6.  Ann,  married  Henry  Cole. 
7.  John  Piatt,  died  young.  8.  Martha  Ann 
Piatt,  died  young.  9.  Caroline  Matilda,  died 
young.  10.  Charles  H.,  M.  D.,  professor  in 
Girard  College,  Philadelphia ;  married  Caro- 
line Jones.  II.  Martha,  married  Harris  Cox. 
12.  Henrietta  E.,  referred  to  below.  13.  John 
Wetherill,  died  young. 

(VH)  Henrietta  E.,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Woolston  and  Ann  (Trippej  Budd,  was  born 
in  Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  1827,  died  in  1865. 
She  married  John  Henry,  eldest  child  of  Bena- 
jah  and  Eliza  (  Bodinej  Antrim.  (See  An- 
trim. \T  ). 


The  Aaronson  or  Aronson 
AARON  SON  family  are  said  to  be  de- 
scended from  Dirck  or  Di- 
rick  Areson,  who  emigrated  from  Holland  and 
died  in  Flushing,  Long  Island,  October,  1678, 
from  the  result  of  injuries  sustained  while 
shoeing  a  horse.  In  his  will  he  leaves  to  his 
wife  Mary  all  of  his  lands  and  goods  during 
her  widowhood,  and  if  she  remarries  her  estate 
is  to  be  divided  among  his  seven  children,  and 
"the  estate  which  is  in  Holland,"  if  recovered, 
is  to  be  divided  among  his  seven  children.  His 
executors  were  Captain  Thomas  Willett  and 
Elias  Doughty,  and  the  witnesses  of  the  will 
were  James  Clement  and  William  Ward.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Dirck,  probably  his  eldest  child,  in- 
herited his  Flushing  property  and  died  there, 
September  or  October,  1710,  leaving  children — 
Benjamin,  who  became  an  innholder  in  New 
York,  and  died  1766,  leaving  widow  Ann  to 
administer  his  estate ;  Samuel ;  Deborah,  and 
Hannah.  2.  Sarah,  married  Caleb  Shreve. 
founder  of  the  family  of  that  name  in  New 
Jersey.    3.  John,  referred  to  below. 

(11)  John  Aronson,  who,  if  the  date  of  his 
birth,  1678,  is  correct,  must  have  been  the 
youngest  child  of  Dirck  and  Mary  Areson,  re- 
mained in  Flushing  until  he  was  about  twenty- 
five  years  old,  and  August  11,  1703,  bought  of 
Abraham  Brown,  for  forty-five  pounds  silver, 
one  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Mansfield  town- 
ship, Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  bounded 
on  the  south  by  lands  of  Mordecai  Andrews, 
and  on  the  north  by  those  of  John  Heaton  and 
Daniel  Bacon.  In  this  deed,  recorded  in  the 
office  of  the  secretary  of  state  at  Trenton,  liber 
B.  B.  B.,  p.  342,  he  is  styled  as  "of  Queens 
County  on  the  Island  of  Nassau,  State  of  New 
York."    He  died  in  Mansfield  township,  in  1742, 


leaving  a  wife  Mary,  and  children:  Thomas; 
Joseph,  referred  to  below;  Benjamin;  .Aaron; 
Elizabeth ;  Sarah. 

(HI)  Joseph,  son  of  John  and  Marv  Aron- 
son, died  in  Mansfield  township,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  about  1755.  He  married, 
in  November  or  December,  1749,  Ann  Marriott, 
of  Burlington,  the  date  of  the  license  being 
November  20,  1749.  Children:  Benjamin; 
Sarah;  Mary;  Hannah;  John,  referred  to  be- 
low. 

(I\")  John  (2),  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann 
(Marriott)  Aronson,  was  born  about  1754, 
and  died  December  11,  1785.  He  married  Re- 
becca Haines.  Children  :  Joseph  ;  Samuel ; 
John;  George;  Rebecca;  Thomas,  referred  to 
below. 

(\  )  Thomas,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Rebecca 
(Haines)  Aronson,  was  born  in  Mansfield 
township,  November  20,  1764,  and  died  there, 
March  22,  1830.  He  married,  in  July  or  Au- 
gust, 1787,  Sarah  Black,  the  date  of  the  license 
being  July  24,  1787.  Children:  Ezra;  Clay- 
ton; Amy;  .\nn ;  Thomas,  referred  to  below; 
Martha  R. ;  Elizabeth ;  Sarah  Ann. 

(VI)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Sarah  (  Black)  Aronson,  was  born  in  Mans- 
field township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
April  18.  1795,  and  died  in  Columbus,  Burling- 
ton county,  where  he  had  removed  a  number 
of  years  previous  to  his  death,  July  8,  1867. 
He  married  Ann  Foster,  who  died  April  6, 
1834.  Children:  Thomas  Elwood;  Robert, 
referred  to  below;  Mary  P.;  Martha  R. ;  Ed- 
ward R. 

(\TI)  Robert,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and  Ann 
(F'oster)  Aaronson,  was  born  in  Mansfield 
township,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  Jan- 
uary 5,  1823,  and  died  in  Columbus.  New  Jer- 
sey, January  3,  1894.  After  receiving  a  com- 
mon school  education  he  taught  school  in  Mans- 
field for  a  time,  and  then  took  up  farming  on 
his  father's  farm,  and  followed  this  until  1866, 
when  he  moved  into  Columbus  and  went  into  a 
general  store  in  company  with  his  brother, 
Thomas  Elwood  .Aaronson.  Later  he  carried 
on  the  business  alone  until  about  1880,  when 
he  bought  a  canning  business  in  Columbus, 
which  he  conducted  until  his  death,  under  the 
firm  name  of  .Aaronson,  Harvey  &  Company, 
the  members  of  the  firm  being  Robert  Aaron- 
son, John  Harvey  and  R.  Howard  Aaronson. 
Mr.  Aaronson  was  a  Democrat,  and  took  an 
active  interest  in  politics,  served  as  a  member 
of  the  assembly  in  1873,  ^"^  as  a  member  of 
the  board  of  freeholders  at  various  times.  For 
twelve  years  he  was  collector  of  taxes  for  the 


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township,  serving  as  such  during  the  civil  war. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  of  Columbus.  He  married  Caro- 
line B.,  daughter  of  John  B.  and  Susan  B. 
(Woolman)  Taylor,  who  was  born  July  13, 
1833.  Children:  i.  Francis,  born  March  15, 
1854;  died  in  infancy.  2.  Robert  Howard,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Susan  Elizabeth,  born  July^ 
16,  1857;  widow  of  Dr.  Daniel  G.  Van  Mater, 
of  537  Penn  street,  Camden,  New  Jersey,  with 
whom  her  mother  is  now  living.  4.  Charles 
Taylor,  born  April  25,  1866;  formerly  assistant 
and  paying  teller  in  the  Trenton  Bank,  but  now 
and  for  several  years  past  with  Jacob  E.  Ridg- 
way,  operating  in  real  estate  and  mining  prop- 
erty, and  living  in  Camden,  New'  Jersey. 

(Vni)  Robert  Howard,  son  of  Robert  and 
Caroline  B.  (Taylor)  Aaronson,  was  born  in 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  May  5,  1855, 
and  is  now  living  in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey. 
He  was  educated  in  the  local  schools,  and  then 
became  interested  in  the  canning  business  with 
his  father.  February  i,  1887,  he  came  to 
Bordentown  in  order  to  take  charge  of  a  can- 
ning factory  in  that  place,  and  after  conduct- 
ing this  for  five  or  six  years  he  opened  a  real 
estate  and  insurance  office  there  in  1894,  and 
to  this  he  has  since  devoted  his  whole  time  and 
attention.  He  has  been  a  director  in  the  Borden- 
town Banking  Company  for  twelve  years,  and 
he  is  also  a  director  and  the  treasurer  of 
the  Bordentown  &  Philadelphia  Transportation 
Company,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators when  the  company  was  organized  in 
1899.  He  is  also  a  director  of  the  Blount 
Holly  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company,  with 
which  he  has  been  connected  since  its  organiza- 
tion in  1902  :  and  until  the  work  was  taken  over 
by  the  Public  Service  Corporation  he  was  also 
superintendent  of  and  collector  for  the  Borden- 
€ntown  Gas  Light  Company.  He  was  collector 
for  the  Bordentown  Water  Company  until  the 
city  took  charge  of  the  supply,  and  is  now  col- 
lector of  water  rents  for  the  city ;  and  until  the 
road  was  sold  was  also  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Columbus,  Kinkora  &  Springfield  Rail- 
road Company.  He  is  a  member  of  Mount 
Moriah  Lodge,  No.  28,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  of  Bordentown,  and  of  Mount  Moriah 
ChajHer,  No.  20,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  also  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and 
treasurer  of  the  Citizens'  Hook  and  Ladder 
Company.  .-Kpril  23,  1901,  Mr.  .Aaronson  mar- 
ried Ada  E..  daughter  of  Davis  C.  and  Mary 
A.  Wells,  of  Pemberton,  Burlington  county, 
New  Jersey,  and  they  have  one  child — Robert 


Howard  Jr.,  born  at  Bordentown,  Jainiar_\-  15, 
1902. 


William  Cniney  Bannard,  the 
I'lAXN.VRD  first  member  of  the  faiuily  of 
whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, was  born  in  England,  and  emigrated 
with  his  family  to  America,  in  the  early  part  of 
the  nineteenth  century.  Children  :  John  ;  Will- 
iam, referred  to  below;  .Alfred. 

(  H  )  Rev.  William  Bannard,  son  of  William 
L'mney  Bannard,  was  born  in  England,  and 
died  in  Asbury  Park,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
brought  to  this  country  by  his  father,  and  after 
prejiaring  for  the  Presbyterian  ministry  became 
pastor  of  the  Madison  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church,  corner  of  Twenty-ninth  street,  which 
he  served  faithfully  and  acceptably  more  than 
twenty  years.  He  then  resigned  in  order  to 
accept  a  call  to  Kingsboro,  New  York,  which 
he  resigned  in  turn  in  order  to  go  to  Saleiu, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  until  his  re- 
tirement, when  he  went  to  live  in  Philadel- 
phia. He  married  Frances,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Heath.  Children:  i.  William  Newell,  mar- 
ried Mary  Blanchard,  of  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania; children:  William  Newell  Jr.,  and 
Margaret.  2.  Horace  Brown.  3.  Arthur  Um- 
ney.  4.  Charles  Heath,  married  Eliza  Clem- 
ent, of  Salem,  New  Jersey  :  children  :  Charles 
Heath  Jr.  and  Margaret  C. 

(HI)  Horace  Brown,  son  of  Rev.  William 
and  Frances  (Heath)  Bannard,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  July  29,  1851.  For  his  early 
etlucation  he  was  sent  to  the  New  York  City 
public  schools,  and  after  preparing  for  college, 
in  Williston  Seminary,  Easthampton,  Massa- 
chusetts, he  entered  Lafayette  College,  Easton, 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1871.  He  then  took  up  the  study 
of  engineering,  and  in  1872  obtained  a  position 
with  the  West  Jersey  railroad,  and  later  in 
the  engineering  department  of  the  Jersey 
City  office  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad.  In 
1876  he  was  chosen  city  engineer  of  Rahway 
in  order  that  he  might  revise  the  city  street 
assessments.  During  1879  and  1880  he  was  in 
Harrisburg  as  one  of  the  engineers  on  the 
Pennsylvania  canal.  From  1880  to  1886,  he 
was  in  the  Camden  office  of  the  West  Jersey 
railroad,  and  in  1886  he  came  to  Long  Branch 
as  chief  engineer  of  the  Long  Branch  railroad. 
In  politics  Mr.  Bannard  is  a  Republican.  For 
ten  years  he  was  an  officer  in  the  grand  lodge 
of  the  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons,  state  of  New 
ler^ey.   He  is  a  member  of  .Asbury  Lodge,  No. 


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142;  Standard  ChapttT.  Xi).  33:  Corean  Cmn- 
iiiandery.  Xo.  15,  Knights  Templar.  Asbiiry 
I'ark.  X'ew  Jersey:  A.  A.  Scottish  Rite,  \alley 
of  Jersey  City,  thirty-second  degree;  and  Tall 
(  edars  (if  Lel)anun,  Xo.  9.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  .Monniduth  Club,  of  Asbiiry  Park,  and  of 
the  .\sbnr_\-  i'ark  Wheelmen.  He  married  Eliza 
Carnet,  daughter  of  William  L.  and  Eleanor 
H.  (  DaveniJort )  Jones.  She  was  born  in  1844, 
and  died  July  15,  1899.  Her  father,  William 
idewellyn  ap  John,  who  took  the  surname 
Jones,  was  born  in  Swansea,  Wales.  Her 
mother  was  born  in  Somerville,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  \\'illiam  Heath  and  Llewellyn  Jones, 
both  referred  to  below;  Horace  Brown  Jr., 
born  August  9,  1879. 

(  1\' )  William  Heath,  son  of  Horace  Brown 
and  Eliza  Garnet  (Jones)  Bannard,  was  bbrn 
in  I'lainfield,  New  Jersey,  February  16,  1875. 
He  prepared  for  college  in  the  Long  Branch 
high  school,  and  in  the  Princeton  preparatory 
school,  and  graduated  from  Princeton  Uni- 
versity in  the  class  of  1898.  He  then  became 
physical  director  in  Northwestern  University, 
at  Evanston,  Illinois,  where  he  remained  for 
one  year,  when  he  took  up  the  study  of  law 
with  Hon.  Frederick  Parker,  but  gave  this  up 
a  short  while  afterwards  in  order  to  become  a 
partner  in  a  furniture  firm  at  Asbury  Park, 
with  Walter  W.  Davis,  after  whose  death  Mr. 
Bannard  continued  the  business  alone.  March 
2,  1909,  Mr.  Bannard  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  as  postmaster  for  four  years  of 
.\sbury  I'ark.  Mr.  Bannard  is  a  Re()ublican, 
and  for  eighteen  months  has  been  councilman 
at  large  of  Asbury  Park,  and  for  some  time 
also  chairman  of  the  Republican  city  com- 
mittee. He  is  a  member  of  Asbury  Lodge,  No. 
142.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  Lodge  No. 
128,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks; 
Court  Neptmie,  No.  166,  Foresters  of  .\merica, 
and  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Monmouth  Club, 
and  in  religion  is  a  Presbyterian.  He  married 
in  .Asbury  Park,  October  23,  1901,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Lybrand  and  Melvina  (Stout) 
.Sill,  who  was  the  only  child  of  lier  parents,  and 
was  born  at  .\sbury  Park,  April  8,  187(1.  Chil- 
dren: Janet  Sill,  born  July  11.  1902;  Homes, 
December  31.  1905;  William  Heath  Jr.,  Octo- 
ber 12.  1909. 

(  I\')  Llewellyn  Jones,  son  of  Horace  Brown 
and  Eliza  Garnet  (^Jones)  Bannard,  was  born 
in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  February  16,  1875, 
and  is  a  twin  with  his  brother,  William  Heath. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  the 
Princeton  jireparatory  school,  after  which,  since 


1899,  he  devoted  himself  to  the  interests  of  the 
ISannard  Furniture  Company  at  Asbury  Park 
until  1909,  when  he  was  appointed  general  sales 
superintendent  to  Butler  Brothers  of  New  York 
(/ity.  In  politics  Air.  Bannard  is  an  independ- 
ent, anil  from  conviction  a  member  of  the  Long 
Branch  I'resbyterian  Church.  He  married  in 
Brooklyn,  New  Ygrk,  November  9,  1902.  Kath- 
eryn,  daughter  of  .\ndrew  and  Elizabeth  Agnes 
(Smith)  Cornwell,  who  was  born  in  Tuckahoe, 
New  Jersey,  February  16,  1880.  Children  of 
.Andrew  and  Elizabeth  Agnes  (Smith)  Corn- 
well:  Jacob  S.  C,  married  Edith  Hersey; 
.Amia ;  Katheryn ;  Andrew-  Jr.  Children  of 
Llewellyn  Jones  and  Katheryn  (Cornwell) 
Bannard:  Hugh  Janeway,  born  September  2, 
1903;  Muriel,  .April   10,  1905. 


Joseph  Beldon,  the  first  member 
BELDON  of  the  family  of  whom  we  have 
been  able  to  obtain  definite  in- 
formation, had,  according  to  the  Bible  records 
in  the  possession  of  one  of  his  descendants,  by 
his  wife  Jane  a  son  Hosea  \\'illard,  referred  to 
below. 

(  II  )  Hosea  Willard,  son  of  Joseph  and  Jane 
I'.eldon,  was  born  F"ebruary  8,  1778,  and  died 
.Se])tember  2,  1823,  in  Madisonville,  Louisiana. 
January  I,  1804,  he  married  Mary  Payne, 
(laughter  of  Levin  and  Hannah  (Payne; 
-Snead  (see  Snead).  Children:  i.  William 
.Augustus,  born  March  3,  1810;  died  same  day. 
2.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  3.  Hannah  Snead. 
Ixirn  September  15,  1813;  died  November  4. 
1873;  unmarried.  4.  Jane,  born  August  10. 
1816;  died  December  i,  1881  ;  married  .Abijah 
Begal  Warden.  5.  Sarah  Kern,  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1818;  died  December  18,  1861 ;  married 
James  Sheppard  Moore.  The  first  two  chil- 
dren were  born  in  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  the 
third  in  Barnsborough,  New  Jersey,  and  the 
last  two  in  Philadelphia.  AV'illiam  Augustus 
P.eldon  died  in  Woodbury,  and  the  last  three 
died  in  P'hiladelphia. 

(Ill)  Joseph,  son  of  Hosea  Willard  and 
Mary  Payne  (.Snead)  Beldon,  was  born  in 
Wooflbury,  New  Jersey,  April  13,  181 1,  and 
died  in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  October  15. 
1889.  (In  reaching  manhood  he  entered  the 
liajitist  ministry,  and  served  a  number  of  dif- 
ferent churches  most  acceptably,  retiring  at 
last  on  account  of  ill  health  and  making  his 
home  in  Bordentown,  which  was  the  residence 
of  his  wife's  family.  He  married  Jane  Amanda 
Kester,  of  P)ordentown  (see  Kester).  Chil- 
dren: Frank,  died  in  infancy;  Samuel  White, 
referred  to  below. 


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(  III  I  SanuicI  White,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Jane  Amanda  (  Kester)  Beldon,  was  born  in 
Ijordentown,  New  Jersey,  April  4,  1861,  and 
is  now  living  in  Newark.  He  received  his  early 
edncation  under  the  private  tutelage  of  his 
father,  and  then  went  to  the  New  Jersey  Col- 
legiate Institute  at  Bordentown.  For  four 
years  after  graduating  from  the  institute,  I\Ir. 
Beldon  taught  school,  at  the  same  time  study- 
ing law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey 
bar  in  June,  1882.  He  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession  at  Trenton,  tind  later  continued 
it  at  Camden,  New  Jersey,  until,  in  1903,  he 
formed  a  connection  with  the  Fidelity  Trust 
Company  of  Newark,  with  which  corporation 
he  is  still  connected.  In  politics  Mr.  Beldon  is 
a  Republican,  and  from  religious  conviction  a 
member  of  the  F"irst  Baptist  Church  of  East 
Orange,  of  which  he  is  also  one  of  the  deacons. 
He  is  president  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  of  Orange,  and  a  member  of  Hope 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  Among 
the  numerous  clubs  of  which  he  is  a  member 
are  the  L'nion  Club  of  Newark,  the  County  and 
State  Lawyers'  clubs,  the  Elaltusrol  Golf  Club, 
the  Fore.st'  Hill  Golf  Club,  and  the  Roseville 
.\thletic  Association. 

June  29,  1892.  Mr.  Beldon  married  Sara, 
daughter  of  Mahlon  Frank  and  Sarah  { Hub- 
bell)  Shreve,  of  Bordentown,  whose  children 
were:  Kate  M. ;  William  Ambrose,  married 
Mary  A.  Dunn,  and  has  one  child,  Mary  Dunn  ; 
Emma  Hubbell,  married  Samuel  Dunseith,  and 
Sara,  referred  to  above.  Child  of  Samuel 
White  and  Sara  (Shreve)  Beldon:  Joseph 
AX'illard,  born  in  Bordentown.  New  Jersev.  Julv 
9.  1893- 

(The   Snead    Line). 

The  following  record  from  the  Bible  of 
Levin  Snead,  born  April  2,  1753,  gives  the  an- 
cestry of  the  wife  of  Hosea  W'illard  Beldon. 
Levin  Snead  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Major  George  Payne,  of  Egg  Harbor  town- 
ship, Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  who  was 
born  October  25,  1755,  and  died  October  26. 
1822.  Her  father  was  captain  of  the  Third 
Battalion,  Gloucester  county  militia,  November 
14.  1777,  and  was  promoted  first  major  of  the 
same  battalion.  March  31,  1778.  Children  of 
Levin  and  Hannah  (Payne)  Snead:  i.  Mary 
Payne,  born  September  8,   1781  ;  died  March 

7.  1844;  married,  January  I,  1804,  Hosea  W^ill- 
ard  Beldon.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  November  21, 
1783;  died  July  27,  1786.  3.  Louisa  Ann,  born 
April  10,  1785.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  May  15, 
1787;  died  July  29,  1787.     5.  Sara,  born  .\pril 

8.  1790.    6.  I'^liza  .\nn.  born  January  12,  1792; 


died  i'Vbruary  15,  1S02.  7.  Jane,  born  May 
16,  1795.  8.  Hannah,  born  October  17,  1797; 
died  l''ebruary  i,  1804.  9.  Arabella,  born  De- 
cember 6,  1799.  10.  Robert  Payne,  born  Sep- 
tember 8,  1802;  died  September  6,  1803.  11. 
Samuel  G.,  born  August  17,  1804:  died  Sep- 
tember 10.  1804. 


The  Blodgett  family  in 
BLODGETT     America  is  of  English  origin, 

and  in  this  country  holds  a 
well-deserved  rank  for  its  patriotic  services, 
members  of  the  family  iiaving  distinguished 
themselves  in  the  French  and  Indian  wars,  at 
the  siege  and  capture  of  Louisburg,  in  the  in- 
vasion of  Canada,  and  in  the  revolutionary 
war.  There  were  one  hundred  Blodgetts  in 
the  revolutionary  war,  eighty-eight  from  Mass- 
achusetts and  twelve  from  New  Hampshire. 
In  the  eighth  generation  is  numbered  a  Lhiited 
States  senator,  a  judge  of  the  L'nited  States 
district  court,  a  chief  justice  of  the  supreme 
court  of  one  New  England  state,  an  eminent 
judge  of  the  superior  court  of  another,  a  pub- 
licist and  statistician  of  national  reputation,  a 
member  of  the  New  York  chamber  of  com- 
merce, and  in  the  ninth  generation  a  judge  of 
the  supreme  court  of  a  third  New  England 
state.  John  Taggart  Blodgett  is  a  judge  in 
Rhode  Island  and  a  cousin  of  the  father  of 
Harry  Thornton  Blodgett. 

(I)  Thomas  Blodgett,  founder  of  the  family 
in  America,  emigrated  to  New  England  with 
his  wife  and  two  eldest  children,  leaving  Lon- 
don in  the  ship  "Increase,"  April  18,  1635.  He 
was  then  thirty  years  of  age  and  his  wife 
thirty-seven.  They  arrived  in  Boston  and  set- 
tled in  Newtown,  now  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  dieii  in  1642,  and  by  his  will 
[jrobated  in  1643  left  to  each  of  his  three  chil- 
dren. £15.  His  widow  Susan  married  (sec- 
ond), h'ebruary  15,  1644,  James  Thompson, 
of  Woburn,  Massachusetts.  Children:  i.  Dan. 
iel,  referred  to  below.  2.  Samuel,  born  in  Eng- 
land, 1633 ;  died  in  Woburn,  Massachusetts, 
May  21,  1720;  married,  December  13,  1655, 
Ruth,  daughter  of  Stephen  Eggleton.  3.  Sus- 
anna, born  Newtown,  June,  1637;  died  Octo- 
ber 21,  1691  ;  married,  November  28.  1655, 
Jonathan,  son  of  her  step-father,  James  Thomp- 
son, of  Woburn.  Her  eldest  son  Jonathan  was 
the  great-grandfather  of  Sir  Benjamin  Thomp- 
son, Count  Rumford.  4.  Thomas,  died  Au- 
gust 7,  1639;  his  death  being  the  seventh  re- 
corded in  Newtown. 

(II)  Daniel,  son  of  Thomas  and  Susan 
Blodgett,  was  born  in  England  in  ir>3i  ;  died  at 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  January  28,  1672. 
He  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  America 
when  four  years  old,  and  was  taken  by  his 
mother  to  Woburn  on  her  second  marriage ; 
became  a  freeman  of  Cambridge  (formerly 
Newtown),  1652;  was  one  of  the  original  in- 
corporators of  Chelmsford.  Massachusetts, 
Alay  29,  1635,  and  in  the  following  year  set- 
tled in  the  west  precinct  of  Chelmsford,  which 
was  set  off  and  incorporated  as  the  tow-n  of 
Westford,  September  23,  1729.  March  12, 
1667,  he  was  one  of  the  committee  appointed 
to  allot  the  proportions  of  fence  to  each  pro- 
prietor of  Chelmsford.  He  married  (first) 
-September  15,  1653.  Mary,  daughter  of  Benja- 
min Butterfield,  who  died  September  5,  1666; 
(second)  March  10,  1669,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
William  Underwood.  Children,  seven  by  first 
marriage:  i.  Thomas,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Anna,  born  November  2,  1655.  3.  Daniel,  Jan- 
uary 6,  1657.  4.  Benjamin,  1658;  died  April 
9,  1708;  married,  February  4,  1683,  Mary 
Pellat.  5.  Jonathan,  September  18,  1660;  mar- 
ried, February  7,  1687,  Mary  Rowlandson.  6. 
Samuel,  C)ctober  12,  1662;  died  July  3,  1687. 
7.  Nathaniel,  October  22,  1664;  died  October 
27,  1666.  8.  Nathaniel  (2),  March  16,  1670; 
married,  July  17,  1695,  Elizabeth  Warren.  9. 
William,  about  1672;  died  about  1728;  mar- 
ried, June  14,  1696,  Mary  Warren. 

(HI)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary 
(Butterfield)  Blodgett,  w'as  born  in  Chelms- 
ford, Massachusetts,  June  25,  1654;  died  prob- 
ably. Alarch  30,  1741.  aged  eighty-seven  years. 
He  married  (first),  June  29,  1682,  Mary,  born 
August  10,  1657,  died  November  9,  1694, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Parkis,  of  Chelmsford ; 
(second).  July  8,  1696,  Mary  Drues,  of  Gro- 
ton,  or  Concord,  Massachusetts.  Children, 
four  by  first  v^'ife:  I.  Rebecca,  born  April  12, 
1684.  2.  Thomas,  about  1686;  died  in  1730; 
married.  September  30.  1719.  Tabitha  Blanch- 
ard.  3.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  4.  Beniah, 
October  22,  1694;  died  February  4,  1773;  mar- 
ried Abigail  Booth.  5.  John,  November  26, 
1698:  married,  in  1723,  Abigail  Blanchard.  6. 
Samuel,  .September  27,  1702.  7.  Mary.  Janu- 
ary 4.  1706;  probably  married  about  1733, 
Moses  Foster.    8.  Anne,  May  9,  1714. 

(IV)  Joseph,  son  of  Thomas  (2)  and  ]\Iary 
(  Parkis)  Blodgett,  was  born  in  Chelmsford, 
Massachusetts,  October  10,  1689:  died  in  Hud- 
son, New  Hampshire,  December  3,  1761.  He 
is  jirobably  the  Joseph  Blodgett  who  was  one 
of  the  grantees  of  the  tow-n  of  Mason  in  1749, 
and  afterwards  owned  in  his  own  right  one  of 
the  allotted  sections  of  that  town.    About  1710 


he  removed  from  the  west  precinct  of  Chelms- 
ford to  that  part  of  Dunstable.  New  Hamp- 
shire, which  in  1732  became  Nottingham;  in 
1741,  Nottingham  West,  and  is  now  Hudson. 
.•\t  the  date  of  his  removal  the  place  was  on 
the  outskirts  of  the  frontier.  He  married 
Dorothy,  born  July  9,  1696,  died  March  6, 
1778.  daughter  of  Joseph  Perham.  Children: 
I.  Joseph,  born  February  9,  1718.  2.  Ebenezer, 
January  3.  1720.  3.  Jeremiah,  referred  to 
below'.  4.  Abigail,  about  1723;  died  March 
20,  1818:  married,  Alay  27,  1744,  Samuel  Gree- 
ley. 5.  Dorothy,  February  18,  1724;  married 
(first)  Air.  Thompson,  and  (second)  Onesi- 
jjhorus  Marsh.  6.  Rebecca,  February  3,  1728; 
married  Samuel  Merrill  Jr.  7.  Jonathan,  De- 
cember 3,  1730.    8.  James,  February  17,  1734. 

(  V)  Jeremiah,  son  of  Joseph  and  Dorothy 
(  Perham)  Blodgett,  was  born  in  Hudson,  New 
Hampshire.  July  20,  1721  :  died  there,  in  1796. 
From  October  15  to  November  26,  1745,  he 
was  one  of  the  twenty- four  men  scouting  under 
the  command  of  John  Goff  Jr.  from  the  Merri- 
mac  to  the  Connecticut  rivers.  He  married 
Miriam  Provender,  who  died  in  Alay,  1800. 
Children:  i.  Jeremiah,  born  Alay  9,  1751 ; 
died  1776:  married,  April  15,  1774,  Lucy 
Nevins.  2.  Ebenezer,  January  29,  1753;  died 
1776;  married,  Alay  19,  1775,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  James  Blodgett.  Both  Jeremiah  and  Eben- 
ezer served  in  the  revolution.  3.  Asahel,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  Hannah,  September  24, 
1757:  died  about  1845;  married,  October  31, 
1776,  Stephen  Chase  Jr.  5.  Sarah,  Alay  16, 
1760;  died  February,  1777.  6.  Isaac,  May  2, 
1762:  died  January  21,  1777.  7.  Beniah, 
Alarch  3,  1765:  died  January,  1830;  married 
Betsey  Hamblet. 

(\T)  Asahel.  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Aliriam 
(Provender)  Blodgett,  was  born  in  Notting- 
ham ^^'est,  New  Hampshire,  June  19.  1755: 
died  in  Dorchester,  New  Hampshire,  June  3, 
1842.  He  enlisted  in  Captain  William  Walker's 
company  in  December,  1776,  and  served  for 
three  months,  when  he  returned  home  in  order 
to  assist  his  father  in  the  management  of  the 
farm,  as  he  was  the  only  surviving  son  old 
enough  to  do  so.  In  1805  he  sold  his  farm  at 
Hudson  and  bought  one  at  Dorchester,  whither 
he  removed  in  the  spring  of  1806  and  where 
he  died.  One  of  his  grandsons,  the  Hon.  Rufus 
Blodgett.  of  New  Jersey,  says,  "I  remember 
our  grandfather  quite  distinctly,  though  I  was 
but  eight  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
.As  I  recall  him  he  was  a  man  of  stern  nature, 
very  firm  convictions,  and  so  far  as  I  have 
been  able  to  judge  of  strict  integrity.     It  is 


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possible  he  possessed  more  native  talent  than 
any  of  his  descendants,  *  *  *  b^t  they. 
both  male  and  female,  were  a  strong  people 
intellectually,  though  they  lacked  early  educa- 
tion and  business  training."  He  married 
(first).  December  13,  1781,  Catharine,  born 
June  12,  1761,  died  December  20,  1795,  daugh- 
ter of  Ebenezer  and  Abigail  Pollard.  He  mar- 
ried (second),  in  1796  or  1797,  Lois  Pollard, 
sister  to  his  first  wife,  born  August  18,  1771. 
Children,  seven  by  first  wife:  i.  Catharine, 
born  November  24,  1782;  died  December  10, 
1805:  unmarried.  2.  Asahel.  May  15,  1784; 
died  .\pril  11.  1863  :  married,  about  1804,  Polly, 
daughter  of  Phineas  and  Martha  (Hamblet) 
lllodgett.  3.  Ebenezer,  January  14,  1786;  died 
March  19,  1870;  married,  June  21,  1827,  Sally 
Cheever.  4.  Isaac,  August  12,  1787;  died  Oc- 
tober 29,  1816;  unmarried.  5.  Sibyl,  Novem- 
ber 13,  1789:  (lied  March  6,  1863;  unmarried. 
6.  Lois,  February  17,  1792;  died  June  6,  1877; 
married,  about  1845,  Wales  Dole.  7.  Caleb.  De- 
cember 13,  1793;  died  October  5,  1872;  mar- 
ried, September  7,  1824,  Charlotte  Piper.  8. 
Rufus.  November  12,  1798;  died  March  20, 
1881  ;  married,  about  1826,  Ruth  Webster  Fel- 
lows. 9.  Lucinda,  November  18,  1800;  died 
August  9,  1879;  unmarried.  10.  Abner,  De- 
cember 5,  1802:  died  r)ctober  5,  1889;  married. 
December  9,  1832,  his  second  cousin,  Persis, 
daughter  of  Jabez  and  Rachel  (  Pollard)  Blod- 
gett.  II.  P.eniah,  April  25,  1804;  died  April  8, 
1817.  12.  Jeremiah,  referred  to  below.  13. 
Betsy,  ]May  10,  1810:  died  February  23,  1892; 
unmarried. 

(\'II)  Jeremiah  (2),  son  of  Asahel  and 
Lois  (Pollard)  Blodgett,  was  born  in  Notting- 
ham West,  March  10,  1806;  died  in  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  August  2,  1881,  and  was 
buried  at  Wentworth,  New  Hampshire.  His 
childhood  and  youth  were  passed  at  Dorches- 
ter, whither  his  father  had  removed  when  he 
was  but  a  few  months  old.  At  twenty-six 
years  of  age  he  had  acquired  enough  money  by 
brick  making  to  purchase  a  good  farm  in  Dor- 
chester, and  in  1842-43  he  represented  that 
town  in  the  New  Hampshire  legislature.  In 
1845  he  removed  to  Rumney,  New  Hampshire, 
where  he  was  appointed  deputy  sheriff  for 
Grafton  county,  and  in  the  following  year  re- 
moved to  \\'entworth.  His  appointment  as 
deputy  sheriff  raised  much  bitter  feeling  against 
him  among  the  friends  of  the  rival  candidate, 
but  by  the  end  of  his  term  of  five  years  service 
he  had  won  his  former  opponents  over  into 
the  number  of  his  warmest  friends  and  sup- 
])orters.      He   was   jjrompt   and   efficient   as   a 


jniblic  officer,  yet  generous  to  a  fault,  perform- 
ing his  unpleasant  duties  with  the  least  possible 
annoyance  and  expense  to  the  parties  in  litiga- 
tion, and  often  relinquished  his  fees  rather  than 
add  to  the  burdens  of  the  poor.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  constitutional  convention  of 
1850,  presided  over  by  Franklin  Pierce,  which 
contained  among  its  members  some  of  the  most 
distinguished  men  of  the  state,  and  he  was  also 
a  member  of  the  convention  of  1876  which  re- 
])orted  the  jiresent  state  constitution.  In  1855- 
56-57-58  he  was  the  candidate  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  for  the  office  of  registrar  of  deeds 
for  Grafton  county,  and  during  the  adminis- 
tration of  President  Buchanan  was  offered  the 
post  of  inspector  at  the  Boston  custom  house, 
which  he  declin<;d ;  later  he  accepted  the  ap- 
jiointmeiit  of  mail  route  agent  between  Con- 
curd  and  Littleton.  He  was  the  representative 
of  Wentworth  in  the  legislature  from  1870  to 
1872.  and  in  1875-77  was  a  member  of  the 
governor's  council.  He  was  endowed  with  an 
unusually  sound  discretion,  and  lived  an  active, 
useful  life,  but  he  seemed  to  enjoy  serving 
others  better  than  himself.  He  careil  little  for 
worldly  gain,  loved  his  books,  and  being  a 
great  reader,  with  a  remarkably  retentive 
memory,  his  store  of  general  and  varied  in- 
formation was  equalled  by  few.  He  possessed 
great  force  of  character  and  firm  determina- 
tion of  purpose,  and  yet  he  was  as  tender  as  a 
child,  and  his  sympathy  for  others  caused  him 
to  make  sacrifices  for  their  benefit.  His  attach- 
ments, particularly  to  his  family  and  kindred, 
were  strong  and  enduring,  and  so  keen  was  his 
perception  of  character  that  he  who  once  gained 
his  full  confidence  and  respect  always  retained 
it.  He  married  (first),  November  2;^.  1833, 
Amanda,  born  April  8,  1813,  died  February 
9,  1849,  daughter  of  Deacon  William  and  Han- 
nah (  Brown )  Jcihnson,  of  W'entworth ;  her 
grandfathers  were  both  revolutionary  soldiers. 
He  married  (second),  in  September,  1850, 
Anne  Bloilgett,  born  in  Rumney,  February  16, 
1804,  died  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire, 
June  8.  1889,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Ann 
(Blodgett)  Burns.  Her  mother  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  Blodgett,  of  Hudson  and  Rum- 
nev.  Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  i.  Rufus, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Jeremiah,  born  April 
7,  1836;  died  May  18,  1836.  3.  Louisa  John- 
son, March  31,  1837:  died  May  24,  1837.  4. 
Beniah,  April  19,  1838;  died  September  5, 
1852.  5.  Louisa  Johnson,  September  15,  1841  ; 
died  November  12.  1891  ;  married,  June  27, 
1877,  John  Atwell,  of  Peacham.  6.  Jeremiah, 
.'\pril    18,    1844;  died   December  9,    1859.     7. 


952 


STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


William  luhiison,  October  9,  1846;  died  Octo- 
ber 26.  1868. 

(VIII)  The  Hon.  Rufus,  son  of  Jeremiah 
(2)  and  Amanda  (Johnson)  Blodgett,  was 
born  in  Dorchester,  New  Hampshire,  Octo- 
ber 9,  1834,  and  is  now  Hving  in  Long  Branch, 
New  Jersey.  After  receiving  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools,  he  graduated  from 
the  Wentworth  Academy,  and  then  while  quite 
young  began  learning  the  trade  of  a  locomotive 
builder  at  the  Amoskeag  Locomotive  Works, 
of  Manchester,  New  Hampshire.  He  followed 
this  trade  for  several  years  in  New  Hampshire, 
and  afterwards  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut, 
and  in  1866  was  appointed  master  mechanic  of 
the  New  Jersey  Southern  railroad.  He  became 
the  superintendent  of  the  road  in  1874  and  in 
1884  was  appointed  to  the  position  which  he 
still  holds,  that  of  superintendent  of  the  New 
York  and  Long  Branch  railroad.  He  has 
ranked  among  the  prominent  citizens  of  New 
Jersey  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
not  only  as  a  railroad  manager,  but  also  as  a 
politician  and  a  business  man.  As  a  life-long 
Democrat  he  has  held  many  of  the  most  im- 
portant political  offices  in  the  gift  of  his  party, 
and  he  still  exerts  a  powerful  influence  in  shap- 
ing the  acts  and  policies  of  the  councils  of  the 
New  Jersey  democracy.  He  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  assembly  in  1877 
and  was  re-elected  in  1878-79,  and  in  the  last 
named  year  was  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
speaker.  He  was  one  of  the  district  delegates 
of  New  Jersey  to  the  national  Democratic  con- 
vention, which  in  1880  nominated  General  Han- 
cock for  the  presidency,  and  in  1896  was  a 
delegate  at  large  to  the  convention  which  nomi- 
nated William  J.  Bryan.  During  the  presi- 
dential contest  of  1884  he  was  chairman  of  the 
Democratic  state  committee.  In  the  Demo- 
cratic state  convention  of  1886  he  was  the 
strong  rival  of  Robert  Stockton  Greene  for 
the  nomination  as  governor,  but  after  an  ex- 
citing and  bitterly  fought  contest  he  was  de- 
feated on  a  very  close  vote.  In  1887  he  was 
elected  I'nited  States  senator  and  served  as 
such  until  1893,  '"  which  year  he  was  elected 
mayor  of  Long  Branch,  a  position  which  he 
held  by  successive  re-elections  each  year  until 
1898.  He  was  one  of  those  who  organized  the 
First  National  Bank  and  the  Citizens'  National 
Bank  of  Long  Branch,  New  Jersey,  and  of 
each  of  these  institutions  he  was  chosen  presi- 
dent at  its  organization.  He  is  a  present  presi- 
dent of  the  Citizens"  National  Bank,  of  Long 
Branch;  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank, 


of  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  and  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank,  of  South  Amboy,  New  Jersey, 
and  he  is  also  president  of  the  Tintern-Manor 
Water  Company.  On  his  maternal  side  his 
great-grandfathers,  Samuel  Johnson  and  Will- 
iam Brown,  both  rendered  distinguished  serv- 
ice during  the  revolution,  the  one  in  the  army 
and  the  other  in  the  navy,  for  which  service 
each  received  a  pension  from  the  government 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  Samuel  Johnson 
was  born  in  Sutton,  New  Hampshire,  and  died 
at  Wentworth  in  1847.  William  Brown  was 
burn  in  England  about  1753,  and  came  to  this 
country  in  1772.  He  enlisted  on  board  the 
American  frigate  "Boston,"  and  sailed  from 
Marblehead,  under  Captain  Samuel  Tucker. 
Afterwards  his  vessel  was  used  to  transport 
to  Europe  John  Adams  and  his  son,  John 
Quincy  Adams,  the  former  as  minister  to 
P^rance. 

.Mr.  lilodgett  married  (first),  November  27, 
18111.  .\manda  ]\L,  born  in  Peacham,  Ver- 
mont, July  27,.  1836,  died  there,  January  28, 
1879.  daughter  of  Charles  and  Alary  (Harri- 
man  )  Hoyt,  of  Wentworth.  He  married  (sec- 
ond), July  28,  1879,  Chastina  (Clark)  Simp- 
son, widow  of  Henry  F.  Simpson  and  daugh- 
ter of  Enoch  and  Ruth  (Harriman)  Clark, 
born  in  I'iermont,  New  Hampshire,  December 
14,  1833.  Children,  both  by  first  marriage:  i. 
.\manda  Louisa,  born  in  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, August  18,  1862;  died  there,  January 
8,  1863.  2.  Harry  Thornton,  referred  to  below. 

(IN)  Harry  Thornton,  son  of  the  Hon. 
Rufus  and  Amanda  M.  (Hoyt)  Blodgett,  was 
born  in  Manchester,  New  Jersey,  August  25, 
1867,  and  is  now  living  at  Long  Branch.  For 
his  early  education  he  attended  the  district 
school  at  Manchester,  and  after  graduating 
from  the  Chaltel  high  school  at  Long  Branch, 
he  spent  a  year  in  the  same  place  under  private 
tutors.  He  then  took  up  the  study  of  telegraphy 
in  the  main  office  of  the  Central  railroad  of 
New  Jersey,  being  attached  to  the  southern 
division,  and  here  he  remained  until  his  father 
became  superintendent  of  the  New  York  and 
Long  I'lranch  railroad,  when  he  took  a  posi- 
tion under  him  and  has  gradually  worked  up 
to  the  place  which  he  now  occupies  as  assistant 
general  ticket  agent.  Like  his  father  he  is  a 
Democrat,  and  after  being  twice  elected  coun- 
cilman for  the  second  ward  of  Long  Branch, 
he  declined  a  third  election.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Royal  .Arcanum.  He  married.  .\]iril  14, 
i8go.  Bertha,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Lena 
(Schwartz)  Gerner. 


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Charles  Frederick  Degen- 
DEGEXRIXG  ring,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily of  his  name  in  this  coun- 
try, was  born  in  Bavaria,  and  comes  of  a  fam- 
ily which  supplied  four  sons  to  the  German 
army.  He  was  a  shoemaker  by  occupation, 
and  learned  his  trade  in  Bavaria,  whence  he 
came  to  this  country  with  his  family  in  1852. 
Twelve  years  later  he  enlisted  during  the  civil 
war  in  the  Twenty-eighth  Massachusetts  In- 
fantry, and  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Cold 
Harbor  in  June.  1864.  He  married  Catharine 
Schreiber.  Children  :  Anna  ;  Catharine  ;  Mag- 
dalen :  Frederica ;  Jacob,  referred  to  below; 
Caroline  ;  Charles  Frederick  Jr. 

(11)  Jacob,  son  of  Charles  Frederick  and 
Catharine  (Schreiber)  Degenring.  was  born 
in  Bavaria.  September  12,  1844.  H^  ^"^"'is  eight 
years  old  when  his  father  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica, and  he  was  left  behind  in  Bavaria,  where 
he  went  to  school  until  he  was  thirteen  years 
old,  after  which  he  did  boy's  work  until  i860, 
when  he  came  to  the  L'nited  States  and  found 
work  on  a  farm.  In  186 1  he  enlisted  in  the 
Fifty-second  Xew  York  Infantry,  and  was 
wounded  after  a  year's  service  in  the  battle  of 
Fair  Oaks,  June  i,  1862.  He  was  invalided 
home  and  discharged  in  the  following  Septem- 
ber. He  then  worked  for  a  time  at  the  trade 
of  shoemaking.  but  in  February,  1864,  re-en- 
listed in  the  First  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  and 
received  his  discharge  in  September,  1865. 
.\fter  this  he  came  to  Red  Bank,  where  he  went 
to  work  in  a  hotel,  and  in  the  following  year 
came  to  Xew  York  City,  where  he  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits  until  1871,  when  he  came 
to  Red  Bank  and  started  in  business  for  him- 
self as  a  hotel  proprietor,  in  which  for  the  past 
thirty-eight  years  he  has  been  successfully  en- 
gaged. He  is  a  member  of  Arrowsmith  Post. 
No.  61.  Grand  Army  of  Republic,  Department 
of  Xew  Jersey;  a  member  of  the  Mystic 
Brotherhood;  of  Lodge,  No.  21,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Alasons,  of  Xew  Jersey ;  of  the  New 
Era  Society;  of  the  Monument  and  Benevolent 
Association  ;  of  all  the  German  organizations, 
and  of  the  Exempt  Firemen,  and  was  chief  of 
the  Red  Bank  fire  department  one  year.  Among 
his  clubs  are  the  Eintracht  Singing  Society  and 
the  Monmouth  Boat  Club.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Lutheran  church.  He  married,  June  10. 
1867.  in  Xew  York  City.  Susanna,  daughter  of 
(ieorgc  i'hilip  and  .Susanna  (  Gabel)  Ziegler. 
who  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany.  February 
8.  1849.  and  emigrated  to  the  L^nited  States  in 
1865.  Her  father  was  a  farmer  and  a  couucil- 
Icir  in  his  native  town,  and  besides  Mrs.  De- 


genring. who  was  his  youngest  child,  he  had 
five  chiklren :  George.  Catharine,  Frederick, 
Barbara,  and  Philip  Ziegler.  Children  of  Jacob 
and  Susanna  (Ziegler)  Degenring:  i.  Anna, 
born  March  24,  1868;  married  Leon  de  la 
Reussille  ;  children  :  Leon  Jr.  and  Paul.  2. 
Catharine  E^>arbara,  born  January  30,  1870; 
married  .Samuel  J.  Coggins.  3.  Caroline,  born 
June  ly,  1875;  married  T'rederick  J.  Smock; 
children  :  Henry  and  Anna  Elizabeth  Smock. 
4.  Henry  Gunther,  referred  to  below\ 

(  III)  Henry  (junther,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sus- 
anna (Ziegler)  Degenring,  was  born  in  Red 
liaiik.  Xew  Jersey.  December  30,  1880.  He 
received  his  education  at  the  Bordentown  Mili- 
tary Institute,  and  then  spent  one  year  at  the 
Shrew--liury  Academy  in  Red  Bank,  after 
which  he  went  to  work  for  his  father  and 
finally  succeeded  him  in  his  wholesale  business 
of  bottling  carbonated  beverages.  In  politics 
Mr.  Degenring  is  an  independent.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  the 
Xew  Era  Society,  and  of  the  Society  of  Sons 
of  \'eterans  of  the  Civil  War.  He  married, 
in  Long  Branch.  Xew  Jersey,  August  4,  1901, 
.Anna  Julia,  daughter  of  George  F.  and  Louise 
( Lorenz)  Gramann,  who  was  born  at  Sea 
Bright,  April  30,  1882.  She  is  the  grand- 
daughter of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Kuhnhold) 
(jramann.  Her  brothers  are  Henry  C.  Gra- 
mann. who  married  Valerie  Ely,  and  has  one 
child  Donald;  and  George  F.  ('iramann  Jr. 
Child  of  Henry  Gunther  and  Anna  Julia  (Gra- 
mann )  Degenring:  Mae  Eleanor,  born  July 
2,  1905. 

Aaron  P.  Hyer,  the  earliest  mem- 
HYER    ber  of  the  family  of  wdiom  we  have 

definite  information,  was  a  son  of 
Peter  Hyer.  of  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  was  born  about  1798  and  died  in 
1878.  The  family  is  said  to  have  been  of  Eng- 
lish origin,  although  the  emigrant  ancestor 
associated  himself  with  the  old  Dutch  colonists, 
and  five  members  of  the  family  intermarried 
with  five  children  of  Tennis  Van  Pelt.  Aaron 
P.  Hyer  married  Gertrude,  daughter  of  Ger- 
shom  Cottrell,  of  Monmouth  county,  who  was 
born  about  1796  and  died  in  1880.  Children: 
I.  Rebecca,  married  Gordon  Bowd.  2.  James 
,\..  died  Xovember  17,  1883,  aged  sixty-five 
years ;  married  a  sister  of  Sheriff  Clayton  Rob- 
bins  ;  lived  at  Toms  River.  3.  ]Mary  Ann.  mar- 
ried llenr}-  Bills.  4.  Lewis  Spencer,  referred 
to  below, 

(II)  Lewis  Sjjencer.  son  of  Aaron  P.  and 
( lertrude   (Cottrell)    liver,  was  born  in   Free- 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


hold  township,  Alonmouth  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, March  i,  1839,  and  died  in  Rahway,  Union 
county,  New  Jersey,  August  15,  1909.  He 
received  his  education  in  a  small  district  school 
house  about  half  a  mile  from  his  home.  In 
May,  1855,  he  entered  the  Monmouth  Demo- 
crat office  as  an  apprentice,  and  became  fore- 
man before  he  reached  his  majority.  In  March, 
1865,  he  went  to  Rahway,  and  the  following 
j'ear  purchased  the  National  Democrat,  after 
having  leased  it  from  Hon.  Josephus  Shann 
for  a  year.  He  changed  its  name  to  the  Union 
Democrat,  which  title  it  retained  throughout 
his  management,  and  until  Mr.  Hyer  retired 
from  editorial  and  newspaper  work,  when  its 
new  proprietor  gave  it  the  name  of  the  Rah- 
way Nezi's  Herald.  Mr.  Hyer  held  a  number 
of  public  offices  beginning  in  1874,  when  he 
was  elected  mayor  of  the  city  of  Rahway,  and 
was  at  the  same  time  appointed  clerk  of  the 
board  of  freeholders  of  the  county.  In  1881 
he  accepted  the  nomination  for  state  senator, 
but  was  defeated  by  a  small  majority  on  ac- 
count of  adverse  party  combinations.  March 
I,  1882,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Lud- 
low for  five  years  a  judge  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas  for  Union  county,  was  reappointed 
by  Governor  Green  in  1887,  and  again  by  Gov- 
ernor Abbet  in  1892,  and  served  continuously 
until  April  i,  1896.  when  changes  in  the  forma- 
tion of  the  county  courts  caused  the  office  to 
be  abolished.  In  1889  he  was  again  elected  for 
one  year  mayor  of  Rahway,  re-elected  in  1890 
to  succeed  himself  for  two  years,  and  after 
this  he  withdrew  from  active  politics  and  de- 
voted his  life  to  his  paper,  his  church  and  his 
family.  He  joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  in  early  life,  and  for  many  years  held 
various  lay  ecclesiastical  positions.  He  was 
musical  director  of  Trinity  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  one  of  the  trustees,  and  chair- 
man of  the  building  committee  during  the 
erection  of  Trinity  edifice,  and  many  of  its  at- 
tractions are  due  to  his  suggestions.  Mr. 
Hyer  was  a  member  of  Lafayette  Lodge,  No. 
27,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  New  Jer- 
sey ;  of  Chapter,  No.  26,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
of  Esse.x  County  Lodge,  No.  27,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows.,  and  for  twenty  years  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
New  Jersey  Editorial  .•\ssociation,  of  which 
he  was  an  honorary  member  at  his  death. 
When  this  occurred  the  Rahway  News  Herald, 
his  old  paper,  in  a  long  obituary  said  of  him : 
'■Judge  Lew'is  S.  Hyer  is  dead,  and  into  every 
home  in  Rahway  sorrow  has  come  because  of 
it.     Patiently,   faithfully,  year  after  year   for 


forty- four  years,  has  he  come  in  and  gone  out 
before  the  people,  making  friends  and  neigh- 
bors of  them  all ;  gentlemanly,  courteous,  a 
thorough  Christian,  and  one  who  lived  up  to 
his  professions.  Nearly  two  years  ago  his 
health  began  failing,  since  which  time  his 
friends  and  associates  have  watched  him  grad- 
ually losing  in  strength  and  vitality,  although 
he  kept  still  at  his  desk,  writing  kindly  articles 
and  editorials,  counselling  peaceful  tactics  to 
his  fellow-workmen,  and  doing  many  a  kindly 
deed  with  the  right  hand  of  which  the  left 
hand  knew  nothing.  After  an  association  of 
twelve  years,  with  not  a  shadow  of  a  misunder- 
standing or  an  unpleasant  word,  the  writer 
feels  that  one  of  the  best  friends  he  ever  had 
in  the  world  has  passed  peaceful  to  other 
realms  and  'is  reaping  his  reward  for  the  good 
deeds  done  here  in  the  body.'  The  sorrowing 
family  may  rest  assured  of  the  sympathy, 
earnest  and  sincere,  of  the  people  at  large,  not 
only  of  Rahway,  but  a  large  territory  round 
about.  The  loss  to  the  city,  the  newspaper 
field,  the  church,  and  the  large  circle  of  rela- 
tives and  friends,  is  not  one  to  be  made  up 
again,  for  there  has  never  been  but  one  Judge 
Lewis  S.  Hyer  in  Rahway,  and  now  he  is  gone. 
Coming  here  at  a  time  when  all  was  turmoil 
and  strife,  he  pushed  his  way  as  a  young  man 
to  the  front  in  political  matters,  and  kept  ever 
in  the  van,  counselling  for  what  he  firmly  be- 
lieved was  for  the  best  interests,  and  generally 
in  the  right,  he  showed  himself  a  safe  leader  to 
the  last."  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Minchie  (Morris)  Young,  who  was  born 
May  22,  1839.  Only  child,  Frederick  C,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(HI)  Frederick  C,  son  of  Lewis  Spencer 
and  Jane  (Young)  Hyer,  was  born  in  Rah- 
way, Union  county,  New  Jersey,  December 
10,  1874.  Mr.  Hyer  received  his  education  in 
the  Rahway  public  school,  and  shortly  after 
leaving  school  became  connected  with  the  print- 
ing establishment  of  his  father  and  assisted  in 
the  newspaper  and  mechanical  work  for  two 
years,  after  which,  in  1892,  he  entered  the  law 
offices  of  Shafer  &  Durand,  in  Rahway,  sub- 
sequently attending  the  New  York  Law  School, 
from  which  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of 
LL.  B.  in  1894.  He  then  entered  as  a  student 
in  the  offices  of  Guild  &  Lum,  in  Newark,  and 
remained  with  them  until  1896,  when  he  was 
admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney, 
becoming  counsellor  February,  1899.  He  then 
took  offices  in  Newark,  at  the  same  time  doing 
clerical  work  in  the  law  offices  of  John  Oliver 
Halsted  Pitney.    Shortly  after  becoming  coun- 


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seller,  Mr.  Ilyer  opened  offices  in  Rahway, 
occupying  those  of  the  late  tirni  of  Shafer  & 
Durand,  both  members  of  the  firm  having  then 
recently  died.  Since  that  time  he  Ijas  had  a 
gradual  increasing  law  practice.  In  1903  Mr. 
Hyer  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  United 
States  supreme  court.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  acted  in  the  capacity  of  associate  editor  of 
his  father's  paper,  the  Union  Democrat.  In 
1004  he  was  honored  by  the  appointment  of 
city  attorney  for  five  years,  but  resigned  at  the 
end  of  one  year,  finding  that  the  duties  inter- 
fered with  his  general  practice  of  law.  In 
1908  he  became  Democratic  candidate  for  New 
Jersey  state  senator  from  Union  county.  He 
is  now  attorney  and  director  of  the  Rahway 
National  liank.  Mr.  Hyer  is  a  member  of 
Lafayette  Lodge,  No.  27,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  New  Jersey;  of  Chapter  No.  26, 
Royal  Arch  Masons;  of  Lodge  No.  1075, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  of 
the  Royal  Arcanum ;  and  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution.  He  is  also  an  ex-secre- 
tary of  the  Union  County  Bar  Association,  and 
a  trustee  of  Trinity  ]\Iethodist  Episcopal 
Churcli,  Rahway.  He  married,  in  Elizabeth, 
January  12,  1898,  Edith,  daughter  of  James  H. 
and  Mary  (Phillips)  Cook,  who  was  born  in 
Jersey  City,  November  25,  1874.  Children: 
\'irginia,  born  February  23,  1904;  Frederick 
Lewis,  born  October  2,  1907. 


George  Taylor  Morford,  the 
Mr)RFORD    first   member  of  this    family 

of  whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, was  a  native  of  Monmouth  county, 
New  Jersey.  He  married  Maria  Wardell. 
Children  :  I.  Jane,  married  Robert  W.  Parker. 
2.  Caroline,  married  John  Githeus.  3.  Char- 
lotte, married  George  Klots.  4.  Thomas,  mar- 
ried Hannal  \'oorhees;  two  children.  5.  Jo- 
seph, married  Jane  Van  Dorn ;  two  children. 
6.  John  Aken,  referred  to  below.     7.  Jarratt, 

married Annin.       8.    Julia,    married 

Jacob  C.  Parker. 

(II)  Jolin  Aken,  son  of  George  Taylor  and 
Maria  (Wardell)  Morford,  was  born  at  Red 
Bank.  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1809, 
and  died  in  1881.  For  fifty  years  he  kept  the 
general  store  at  Long  Branch,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  school  trustees  and  a  director  of  the 
Long  Branch  Banking  Company.  He  was 
always  interested  in  public  affairs,  and  from 
1849  to  1 85 1  was  Democratic  state  senator  for 
Monmouth  county.  He  married  Sarah  Ann 
Conovcr,  born  in  October,  1813,  and  still  living, 


in  New  Britain,  Connecticut,  with  her  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Joseph  E.  Ilance.  Children:  i. 
Maria,  married  Abram  Trafford  Vandervere ; 
children :  Frederick,  Anna  Conover,  and  Julia 
Vandervere.  2.  Tylee  Conover,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Elizabeth  A.,  married  Joseph  E. 
Hance  :  children  :  Clifford,  Joseph  and  Sarah 
Hance. 

(  HI )  Tylee  Conover,  son  of  John  Aken  and 
Sarah  Ann  (Conover)  Alorford,  was  born  in 
Long  Branch,  New  Jersey,  February  16,  1840. 
After  receiving  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  he  went  into  his  father's  store,  and 
when  nineteen  years  of  age  became  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  John  A.  Morford  &  Son.  He  left 
this  in  order  to  serve  in  the  Union  army  dur- 
ing the  civil  war,  at  the  close  of  which  he  came 
back  to  the  store,  and  later  for  a  period  of  eight 
years  served  as  cashier  of  the  Long  Branch 
Banking  Company.  For  one  year  he  was  super- 
intendent of  schools  for  Ocean  township.  After 
the  death  of  the  father  he  gave  up  the  general 
store  and  retired  from  the  bank  and  established 
a  department  store  which  he  conducted  under 
the  name  of  Morford.  Brown  &  Company,  until 
1890,  when  he  retired  from  mercantile  life  and 
opened  his  office  as  justice  of  the  peace,  to 
which  post  he  had  been  appointed.  He  also 
wrote  editorials  for  the  Long  Branch  Press, 
and  soon  afterwards  for  the  Taxpayer  and 
Workingman.  In  1903  he  began  his  work  in 
the  interests  of  "Citizens  out  of  office,"  which 
led  him  into  his  fight  with  the  city  charter.  He 
married,  at  Aston,  Rhode  Island,  Annie,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  and  Lucy  (Hammond)  Har- 
rington. Children  :  John,  died  in  infancy  ; 
Harold  Conover,  referred  to  below;  Sarah; 
Lucy,  married  Charles  Blakeley. 

( IV)  Harold  Conover,  son  of  Tylee  Cono- 
ver and  Annie  (Harrington)  Morford,  was 
born  at  Long  Branch,  Monmouth  county,  New 
Jersey,  July  26.  1881,  and  is  now  living  in  that 
city.  After  receiving  a  public  school  educa- 
tion he  graduated  from  the  Long  Branch  high 
school,  and  entering  Columbia  University, 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1904.  He  then 
read  law  with  Charles  M.  Vreeland,  of  Jersey 
City,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar 
as  attorney  in  1905.  Since  that  time  he  has 
specialized  in  the  law  concerning  real  property, 
and  practices  in  Jersey  City  and  Long  Branch, 
in  both  of  which  places  he  is  looked  upon  as 
one  of  the  coming  generation  of  New  Jersey's 
legal  lights.  Mr.  Alorford  is  a  Democrat,  and 
a  vestryman  of  St.  James'  Episcopal  Church, 
Long  Branch. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY, 


John   Henry  Sliedaker,   son 
SHEDAKER    of  John   (q.  v.)   and  EUza- 

beth  (Rodman)  Shedaker. 
was  born  in  Burlington,  Xew  Jersey,  April  15, 
1831.  and  died  in  March,  1887.  He  was  reared 
on  the  home  farm  and  received  a  good  common 
school  education.  He  followed  in  the  foot- 
steps of  his  father  in  selecting  an  occupation, 
and  became  a  farmer.  Following  the  custom  of 
his  section,  his  farming  was  principally  along 
the  line  of  vegetables  and  small  fruit  culture. 
To  tliis  he  added  the  manufacture  of  pickles, 
establishing  the  business  so  firmly  that  it  is 
still  a  profitable  feature  of  the  business  of  his 
son,  William  B.  Shedaker.  He  erected  a  fac- 
tory and  did  a  successful  business  as  long  as 
he  lived,  and  retained  an  active  personal  inter- 
est in  his  business  affairs  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  In  politics  he  belonged  to  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  served  as  township  committee- 
man and  surveyor  of  highways.  He  was  an 
active,  interested  member  of  the  Patrons  of 
Husbandry,  holding  membership  in  Burlington 
Grange :  and  was  a  member  of  Burlington 
Lodge,  No.  22,  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  Mr.  Shedaker  married  Alary  Borton, 
born  near  Moorestown,  New  Jersey,  in  1832. 
Children:  i.  Frederick  W.,  now  a  farmer  of 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey  ;  married  Lizzie 
Scott;  children:  Walter,  John  and  Parker. 
2.  Hannah,  deceased.  3.  William  B.,  see  for- 
ward. 4.  Elizabeth,  deceased;  was  wife  of 
Charles  Parker,  a  farmer  of  Burlington  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey.  5.  Sarah  M.,  resides  with 
her  mother  in  Camden,  New  Jersey.  6.  Amy 
married  Edward  Johnson,  since  divorced ;  she 
resides  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  with  her 
daughter.  Marv  Johnson. 

( II )  William  B.,  third  child  of  John  H.  and 
Mary  (Borton)  Shedaker,  was  born  in  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  September  5,  1865.  He 
received  a  good  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Burlington,  and  grew  up  on  the  farm,  learn- 
ing all  the  details  of  farming  as  practiced  in 
that  section  and  of  his  father's  manufacturing. 
He  chose  the  latter  as  his  principal  line  of 
eft'ort.  and  has  established  himself  firmly  in 
a  most  profitable  line  of  pickled  fruits  and 
vegetables.  He  annually  contracts  with  neigh- 
boring farmers  for  the  raising  and  delivering 
to  him  of  small  cucumbers  and  other  products 
for  pickling,  to  an  amount  surprisingly  large. 
His  goods  are  well  and  favorably  known  in 
the  different  surrounding  markets.  This  line 
of  business  is  inherent  in  the  family,  as  Jacob 
D.  Shedaker,  of  the  fourth  generation,  built 
and  operated  successfuly  the  first  cannery  for 


small  fruits  in  Burlington,  although  the  manu- 
facture of  an  exclusive  line  of  pickles  and  con- 
diments began  with  John  Henry  Shedaker,  of 
the  prece(Jing  generation.  In  politics  Mr.  She- 
daker is  Republican,  and  has  taken  active  part 
in  his  township  government.  For  two  years 
he  has  been  chairman  of  the  township  com- 
mittee ;  since  1903  president  of  the  township 
board  of  health;  and  in  1909  a  member  of  the 
Burlington  county  grand  jury.  His  religious 
connection  is  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church,  and  fraternally  he  is  united  with  Bur- 
lington Lodge,  No.  22,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows ;  Burlington  Lodge,  No.  996, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and 
Burlington  Grange,  No.  150,  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry. He  married,  July  12,  1883,  Hannah 
E.,  daughter  of  Peter  F.  and  Mary  A.  (Kim- 
ble) Mattson,  of  Burlington  township,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Shedaker  are  the  parents  of  five  children:  i. 
Hannah  May,  born  February  4,  1886.  2.  Ray- 
mond B.,  January  20.  1888:  married  Lilly  Ris- 
k'V,  Alay  II,  1909.  3.  Florence  M.,  June  19, 
1890.  4.  \'ernie  E.,  July  25,  1892.  5.  J.  Earl, 
February  4,  1896. 


This  ancient  English  family 
ST.  JOHN  comes  into  New  England  colo- 
nial history  with  the  other 
Puritans,  and  in  the  early  records  the  sur- 
name is  found  written  variously  St.  John,  Sen- 
sion  and  Sention ;  but  however  written  the 
record  refers  to  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the 
family  here  treated  or  to  some  of  his  de- 
scendants. 

( I  )  Matthias  St.  John,  immigrant,  was  born 
in  England  and  first  appears  in  New  England 
as  of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  1631-32,  and 
was  made  freeman  there  September  3,  1634; 
had  a  grant  of  lands  January  14,  1635,  "at  the 
boiuids  betwixt  Ro.xbury  and  Dorchester."  In 
1636  the  town  ordered  "that  Matthias  Sension 
and  Thomas  Stampford  shall  keepe  the  cowes 
this  yere  to  begin  the  17th  day  of  .April  and  to 
continue  the  keeping  of  them  till  the  15th  of 
November  to  have  for  their  pay  in  keepeing 
5  shills  the  head  for  as  many  as  are  brought 
in  :  the  sayd  five  shill  p'  head  to  be  payd  1-3  in 
hand  1-3  at  halfe  the  tyme  and  the  other  at  the 
end  of  the  tyme.'"  The  Dorchester  records 
show  that  Matthias  St.  John  became  possessed 
of  several  small  tracts  of  land  in  the  town 
some  by  grant  and  others  by  purchase,  but 
in  1640  he  left  that  town  and  took  up  his  abode 
in  \\'indsor.  Connecticut,  where  he  was  one 
of  the  carlv  planters,  and  where  he  acquired 


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lands  by  grant  and  by  purchase.  There  he  was 
knuwn  as  .Mathias  Seiichon,  Mathewe  Sensioii 
and  also  as  ^latthias  Sension.  He  is  men- 
tioned among  the  first  settlers  of  Wethers- 
field,  between  1636  and  1645,  ^"t  he  was  grand 
juror  in  \\  iiidsor  in  1643.  He  was  "Juryman 
in  Particular  Court"  at  Hartford  in  1650,  and 
i()5i,  also  afterward,  and  he  appears  to  have 
been  frecjuently  chosen  to  perform  public  serv- 
ice, from  which  it  may  be  assumed  that  he  was 
a  jierson  of  some  consequence  in  the  plantation. 
In  1O54  lie  removed  with  his  family  to  N'or- 
walk,  and  there  he  discharged  important  duties 
in  connection  with  the  afifairs  of  town  govern- 
ment. His  will  is  dated  October  19,  1669,  and 
lie  died  in  that  or  the  following  month.  His 
will  mentions  his  wife,  but  does  not  give  her 
name.  His  estate  was  inventoried  as  of  the 
value  of  three  hundred  pounds.  Children:  I. 
Matthias,  born  1630;  died  December,  1728-29. 
2.  Mark,  1633-34;  died  August  12,  i'J93.  3. 
Samuel,  1637-40;  died  January  14,  1685.  4. 
Mercy,  June  8,  1645.  5.  James,  1649;  'l'<^'' 
May  9,  1684. 

(II)  Matthias  (2),  first  son  of  Matthias 
(  I  )  St.  John,  was  born  probably  in  England 
in  1630,  died  in  December,  1728-29.  He  lived 
in  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  and  held  various 
offices;  was  selectman,  fence  viewer  in  1659, 
and  his  name  appears  frequently  in  the  records 
as  having  discharged  various  duties,  some  of 
them  of  an  important  character  in  the  affairs 
of  the  town  government.  The  baptismal  name 
of  his  wife  was  Elizabeth,  but  her  family  name 
does  not  appear.  Children:  i.  Ebenezer,  born 
about  1660,  died  1723-24;  married  Elizabeth 
Comstock.  2.  Matthias,  born  in  Xorwalk,  1667- 
(<H ;  see  forward.  3.  Mary,  married  Thomas 
Hyatt,  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  war;  died 
.March  29,  1698.  4.  James,  born  1674;  died  in 
January,  1754;  married,  December  18,  1693, 
.Mar\-  Comstock. 

(HI)  Matthias  (3),  son  of  Matthias  (2) 
and  Elizabeth  St.  John,  was  born  in  Norwalk, 
Connecticut,  1667-68:  died  (says  one  author- 
ity )  August  17,  1748,  in  Wilton,  Connecticut.  He 
owned  land  at  what  was  called  Flaxhill,  in  i6<j<), 
and  was  a  husbandman.  He  also  filled  various 
town  offices,  assisted  in  building  the  school 
house,  was  fence  viewer,  and  was  selected  "to 
beat  ye  drum  on  Sabbath  days."  This  last 
duty  was  imposed  on  his  son  in  case  he  should 
not  do  it  himself.  He  had  various  grants  of 
lands  in  Xorwalk  and  Ridgefield,  Connecticut. 
In  March.  1734-35,  he  served  as  juror.  He 
married  Rachel  Routon,  born  December  16, 
I''i77.  daughter  of  John   Ronton  Sr.,  of  Nor- 


walk, who  married  .Abigail  (_or  Elizabeth)  St. 
John,  and  had  ten  children:  i.  Ebenezer.  2. 
John,  bom  about  1685;  died  March,  1773; 
married  (first),  April  29,  1724,  Eunice  Hayes; 
married  (second),  1749,  Sarah  Scribner.  3. 
Matthew,  born  1686;  died  August  3,  1755; 
married,  October  13,  1709,  Anne  Whitney.  4. 
Samuel,  born  about  1688;  see  forwartl.  5. 
Nathan,  born  1692;  died  March  10,  1749;  mar- 
ried, June  7,  1721,  Hannah  Seymour.  6.  Mat- 
thias, born  1695:  died  1732;  married,  about 
1723-24,  Elizabeth  Trowbridge;  she  married 
(second)  Nehemiah  Gregory.  7.  Benjamin, 
born  about  1700:  married  (first),  1729,  Mary 
:  (second)  Elizabeth,  w'idow  of  Rich- 
ard Everett.  8.  Rachel,  born  about  1700,  died 
1774;  married,  April  2y,  1721,  John  Marvin. 
9.  Hannah,  born  about  1700;  died  in  Sharon, 
Connecticut,  February  5,  1774;  married,  1721, 
Captain  Ebenezer  Carter.  10.  Elizabeth,  born 
about  171 7-18;  married  Ezra  Hickok. 

(  I\')  Captain  Samuel,  son  of  Matthias  (3) 
and  Rachel  (  Ronton  )  St.  John,  was  born  prob- 
ably about  1688,  died  at  Cortland  Manor,  New 
York,  1755.  He  went  with  his  father  from 
Norwalk  to  Ridgefield  and  was  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  in  that  town  in  1708,  when 
a  colony  of  twenty-four  settlers  bought  lands 
there  from  the  Indians.  In  the  subsequent 
division  of  their  purchase  Captain  St.  John  re- 
ceived lot  No.  I,  which  was  "Granted  by  ye 
Proprietors  of  ye  Town  of  Ridgefield  unto 
Serjeant  Samuel  Saint  John  and  recorded  unto 
the  said  Samuel  Saint  John  his  heirs  and  as- 
signs forever."  Subsequently  he  had  other 
lands  and  appears  to  have  been  one  of  the 
principal  men  of  the  town.  He  was  one  of 
three  men  appointed  to  "look  over  town  and 
propriety  votes  and  as  much  as  they  think 
necessary,  order  for  file,"  in  1715;  was  made 
townsman,  1718;  fence  viewer  in  1720-21; 
lister  in  1724;  townsman  in  1727-28;  surveyor 
and  moderator  of  the  town  meeting  in  1729: 
appointed  lieutenant  of  the  train  band  of 
Ridgefield  in  1718,  and  became  captain  in  1727. 
He  evidently  removed  to  Cortland  Manor  in 
Westchester  county.  New  York,  about  1740, 
l)erhaps  earlier,  for  in  a  deed  executed  by  him 
in  1740-41,  he  is  described  as  "Samuel  Saint 
John  lately  of  Ridgefield  now  living  on  Cort- 
land Manor  in  ye  County  of  West  Chester." 
In  1742  he  describes  himself  as  "late  of  Ridge- 
field, now  living  in  Cortland  Manor  in  ye 
County  of  W'estchester  and  Province  of  New 
York."  Captain  St.  John  married  Rebecca 
()lmstead,  born  about  1681,  daughter  of  Lieu- 
tenant lohn  and  Elizabeth  Olmstead.     She  sur- 


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vived  him  and  married  for  her  second  hus- 
band a  Lockwood.  Captain  Samuel  and  Re- 
becca (Olmsteadj  St.  John  had  eleven  chil- 
dren: I.  Samuel,  born  about  1703;  see  for- 
ward. 2.  Joanna,  married,  December  21,  1727, 
Christopher  Burt.  3.  Jane,  married  in  Ridge- 
lield,  August  27,  1730,  Ebenezer  Brooks.  4. 
Peregrina,  married,  August  27,  1730,  Nathan 
Northrup.  5.  Abigail,  died  April  28,  1720.  6. 
Abigail,  married  John  Warren  Jr.  7.  Rebecca, 
married  Samuel  Lobdell.  8.  Noah,  born  1713; 
died  October  5,  1778;  married,  October  6, 
1737,  Jane  Smith.  9.  Daniel.  10.  Job.  11. 
Ebenezer. 

(V)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Captain  Samuel 
(i)  and  Rebecca  (Olmstead)  St.  John,  was 
born  in  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  about  1703-04, 
died  in  Ridgefield,  Connecticut,  November  9, 
1777-  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
church  in  Ridgefield  in  1769,  and  appears  to 
have  been  a  man  of  influence  and  means.  The 
records  show  that  he  owned  several  tracts  of 
land  in  ditterent  localities.  He  married  (first) 
March  6,  1727-28,  Sarah  Northrup,  born  July, 
1702,  died  June  20,  1731  ;  married  (second) 
January  8,  1735-36.  Sarah  Wallace,  born  De- 
cember I,  1714,  died  January  6,  1754;  married 
(third)  Hannah  Hyatt,  who  died  April  26, 
1765.  His  children:  i.  Sarah,  born  May  31, 
1729.  2.  Samuel,  May  4,  1733.  3.  James, 
born  October  27,  1736;  died  February,  1829; 
married,  April  13,  1758,  Jerusha  Thomas.  4. 
Thomas,  October  12,  1738;  died  January  12, 
1816;  married  (first),  March  8,  1759,  Sus- 
anna Northrup;  married  (second)  April  14, 
1760,  Betty  Thomas.  5.  John,  1740;  died 
April  14,  1746.  6.  Rebecca,  June  18,  1743.  7. 
Jacob,  August  30,  1745.  8.  Daniel,  July  16, 
1748;  died  March  29,  1813;  married,  February 
26,  1768,  Abigail  Holmes,  of  Bedford,  New 
York.  9.  Martha,  January  2,  1750;  married 
(first)  September  19,  1767,  John  Thomas; 
married  (second)  August  29,  1782,  Solomon 
Goodwin  Jr.  10.  John,  April  11,  1753;  died 
October  22  or  26,  1825  ;  married,  October  22, 
1779,  Hannah  Fitch. 

(VI)  Daniel,  son  of  Samuel  (2)  and  Sarah 
(Wallace)  St.  John,  was  born  July  16,  1748, 
died  probably  March  29,  1813.  He  married, 
at  Bedford,  New  York,  and  i.''.  supposed  to 
have  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  that 
state.  In  1796  he  is  mentioned  as  of  Scoduck, 
\'an  Runsleywck  county  (Rensselaer).  He 
married,  February  26,  1768,  .Abigail  Holmes, 
of  Bedford  :  children  :  i.  Azuba,  married  Amos 
Bowen.  2.  Noah,  born  April  2,  1769;  see  for- 
ward.   3.  John,  .\ugust  17,  1770;  married,  No- 


vember 27,  1796,  Jane  Brown.  4.  Stephen. 
February  7,  1772;  died  August  28,  1773.  5- 
Daniel,  November  7,  1775.  6.  James,  about 
1778;  died  about  1826;  married  Betsey  Brown. 
7.  Enos  Frost,  married  Martha  Waterbury.  8. 
Wallace.    9.  Arna. 

(\  II)  Noah,  son  of  Daniel  and  Abigail 
(Holmes)  St.  John,  was  born  April  2,  1769; 
died  October  25,  1854.  There  was  a  Lieuten- 
ant Noah  St.  John  in  the  New  York  militia  in 
1798,  who  is  thought  to  have  been  the  head 
of  the  family  here  under  consideration.  He 
married  Betsey  Waterbury,  born  in  1769,  died 
September  24,  1857.  Children:  i.  John  Water- 
bury, born  April  24,  1789;  died  July  31,  1855; 
married  Sally  Fancher.  2.  Stephen,  1790;  died 
1863;  married  Polly  Webb.  3.  Daniel,  Janu- 
ary 15,  1793;  died  September  23,  1879;  mar- 
ried Belinda  Rhodes.  4.  David,  November  24, 
1794;  see  forward.  5.  Enos,  married  Eliza- 
beth   — .    6.  James,  married  Louisa  Webb. 

7.  Noah,  married  Eliza  Webb. 

(\I1I)  David,  son  of  Noah  and  Betsey 
(Waterbury)  St.  John,  was  born  November 
24,  1794;  died  December  31,  1857.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Tamer  Rhodes,  born  in  1794,  died 
in  1837.  He  married  (second)  about  1842, 
Mary  Johnson,  born  in  1811,  died  in  1891, 
daughter  of  Caleb  and  Kate  (Ross)  Johnson. 
He  had  seven  children,  three  by  his  first  and 
four  by  his  second  wife:  i.  George  R.,  born 
1814;  died  1852;  married  Emeline  Tubs  and 
had  Almeda,  Isabella,  Hiram  T.  and  Amasa. 
2.  Emeline,  married  (first)  Ira  Owen;  (sec- 
ond) Clark  Sherman  and  had  one  child, 
Charles.  3.  Marietta,  married  Francis  Wager. 
4.  Elizabeth  Tamer,  born  1844;  died  1875.  5. 
Catherine  Townsend,  August  17,  1845;  mar- 
ried, January  2,  1867,  Harvey  Wesley  Bell.  6. 
Mary  T.,  twin,  March  27,  1849 ;  married 
Charles  Hochstrasser.  7.  David,  twin,  see  for- 
ward. 

(IX)  Dr.  David  (2),  youngest  child  of 
David  (  i)  and  Mary  (Johnson)  St.  John,  was 
born  March  27,  1849,  i"  Berne,  Albany  county, 
Xew  York.  He  first  took  up  the  study  of 
medicine  in  the  office  of  his  brother-in-law. 
Dr.  H.  W.  Bell,  in  his  native  town;  later  he 
entered  the  office  of  Professor  James  H.  Arms- 
bv.  M.  D.,  at  that  time  the  leading  surgeon  of 
.\lbanv.  New  York.  After  taking  a  course  at 
the  .Albany  Medical  College  and  the  Buffalo 
Medical  College,  he  entered  the  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital Medical  College  in  New  York  City, 
whence  he  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D. 
in  1875.  After  graduating  he  located  in  Hack- 
ensack.  New   lersev.     In   1888  he  was  instru- 


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iiiciital  in  organizing  the  Ilackensack  Hospital, 
and  has  been  a  prominent  factor  in  contrib- 
uting to  the  success  and  high  rank  of  this  insti- 
tution. He  is  the  medical  and  surgical  di- 
rector, president  of  the  medical  board  and  visit- 
ing surgeon.  At  his  own  expense  he  added  a 
wing  to  the  hospital  containing  two  wards,  and 
these  were  refurnished  after  the  death  of  Mrs. 
St.  John,  by  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary,  as  a  me- 
morial to  her.  In  1886  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  John  W.  Griggs  a  manager  of  the 
State  Hospital  at  Morris  Plains,  which  posi- 
tion he  still  holds.  As  a  physician  and  surgeon, 
Dr.  St.  John  enjoys  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  a  large  clientele,  and  in  addition  to  his  pro- 
fessional duties  takes  an  active  interest  in  the 
civic  welfare  as  a  public-spirited  citizen.  He 
is  first  vice-president  of  the  Hackensack  Trust 
Company,  a  director  of  the  Hackensack  Na- 
tional Bank,  a  director  of  the  Spring  Valley 
National  Rank.  New  York;  president  of  the 
Gas  and  Electric  Company  of  Bergen  County, 
New  Jersey :  president  of  the  Hackensack 
Heights  Association.  He  is  now  president, 
and  was  formerly  vice-president  of  the  State 
Medical  Society  of  New  Jersey,  and  a  member 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  also  a 
member  and  ex-president  of  the  Bergen  Coun- 
ty Medical  Society,  member  of  the  New  York 
State  Medical  Association  and  the  New  York 
.-\cademy  of  Medicine.  Dr.  St.  John  married 
( first  j  October  i,  1879,  Jennie  Angle,  born 
November  25,  1855,  died  in  Hackensack,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1903.  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Reed)  Angle.  Children:  i.  Olive  Graham, 
born  Alarch  12,  1882;  graduate  of  Dana  Hall, 
W'ellesley.  Massachusetts.  2.  Fordyce  Barker, 
February  10,  1884;  graduate  of  Princeton 
University  in  1905.  graduate  of  College  of 
Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New  York,  1909, 
and  is  now  serving  a  two  years  course  in 
Roosevelt  Hospital  in  New  York.  3.  Florence 
Angle,  June  26,  1887 ;  graduate  of  Dana  Hall, 
W'ellesley,  Massachusetts,  1907.  Dr.  St.  John 
married  (second)  September  27,  1907,  Alice 
\'era  Connell,  daughter  of  William  N.  Con- 
nell.  Esquire,  of  Woodstock,  New  Brunswick, 
Canada. 


The  original  form  of  this  fam- 
TERRELL  ily  name  was  Tyrrejl.  The 
Terrells,  originally  a  New  Eng- 
land family,  came  to  New  Jersey  from  the 
state  of  Ohio.  The  great-great-grandfather  of 
William  Jones  Terrell,  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Burlington.  New  Jarsey,  was  a  soldier  with 
General  Wolfe  at  the  taking  of  Quebec  from 


the  I'Vench,  afterward  settling  in  the  state  of 
Connecticut,  where  he  married  and  reared  a 
family. 

Jonathan  Terrell,  grandson  of  the  emigrant, 
was  born  in  Litchfield,  Connecticut,  1776.  He 
married,  and  was  the  father  of  sons :  Judson, 
Jonathan,  Reuben  and  Sherman,  and  other  chil- 
ilren. 

Sherman,  son  of  Jonathan  Terrell,  was  born 
in  Woodbury,  Connecticut,  October  5,  1805; 
died  in  February,  1875.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
at  one  time  was  in  the  employ  of  Rev.  Lyman 
Beecher,  father  of  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher, 
removed  to  the  state  of  Ohio,  residing  there 
for  the  remainder  of  his  days.  He  was  also  a 
local  preacher  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  de- 
nomination. He  married,  at  Hartford,  Ohio, 
December  26.  1831,  Olive  Jones;  children: 
Lorena  ;  William  Jones,  see  forward  ;  Mary  : 
Elzaida;  Leavitt,  Albert,  Leavitt.  (See  Jones). 

William  Jones  Terrell,  eldest  son  and  sec- 
ond child  of  Sherman  and  Olive  (Jones)  Ter- 
rell, was  born  in  Johnston,  Trumbull  county, 
Ohio.  November  11,  1834.  He  attended  the 
common  and  select  schools  of  his  native  town ; 
Hartford  and  Farmington  academies,  Trum- 
bull county ;  Kingsville  Academy,  Ashtabula 
county,  adjoining  Trumbull,  leaving  that  insti- 
tution at  the  close  of  1859;  in  1861  he  attend- 
ed the  literary  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor.  Later  he  engaged 
in  school  teaching,  thus  obtaining  the  means 
for  the  further  prosecution  of  his  studies,  and 
in  1864  again  entered  the  Univerity  of  Michi- 
gan, this  time  in  the  law  department,  graduat- 
ing therefrom  in  June,  1865.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  practice  of  law  by  the  supreme  court  of 
Michigan,  held  at  Detroit,  immediately  after 
his  graduation,  and  in  Missouri  by  the  circuit 
court,  and  practiced  as  attorney  and  counsellor 
of  law  from  August,  1865,  to  June,  1889.  in 
Missouri,  and  from  July,  1889,  to  March,  1892. 
in  Ohio.  He  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of 
law  in  the  circuit  court,  eighth  judicial  circuit, 
and  in  all  federal  courts  of  the  United  States. 
In  1865  he  was  commissioned  by  the  governor 
of  Missouri  as  superintendent  of  public  schools 
for  Cass  county,  and  elected  in  1866  to  the 
same  office.  He  served  as  county  solicitor 
with  criminal  jurisdiction  two  terms  of  two 
years  each,  the  last  time  by  appointment  of  a 
Democratic  county  court;  was  chairman  of  the 
Republican  county  committee  from  1870  to 
1889.  member  of  congressional  committee  for 
two  terms  up  to  removal  to  Ohio  in  1889.  nomi- 
nated as  Republican  elector  for  fifth  district 
of   Missouri,    1880,   and   nominated   and   can- 


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vassed  tlie  sixth  district  for  congress,  1882. 
In  Jmie,  1865,  Mr.  Terrell  located  in  the  state 
of  Missouri,  and  in  September  of  that  year 
settled  in  Harrisonville,  the  shire  town  of  Cass 
county.  Later  he  established  himself  in  busi- 
ness at  Youngstown,  Ohio,  where  for  three 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Jones,  Andrews  &  Terrell.  He  was  a  lawyer  of 
good  repute,  and  handled  some  very  important 
legal  cases  with  gratifying  result  to  his  clients 
and  credit  to  himself.  During  the  four  years 
that  he  was  prosecuting  attorney  he  made  a 
vigoro'us  and  able  prosecutor,  and  gained  popu- 
larity with  all  classes  except  wrong-doers. 

On  Alay  i,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  B, 
Eighty-seventh  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry.  He 
was  taken  prisoner  at  Harper's  Ferry,  \'irginia, 
and  was  honorably  discharged  from  the  service 
October  4.  1862,  on  the  expiration  of  his  term 
of  enlistment.  He  has  always  taken  an  interest 
in  politics,  being  a  staunch  adherent  of  the 
principles  of  Republicanism,  and  has  been  an 
active  factor  in  the  management  of  county  and 
state  affairs.  In  March,  1892,  Mr.  Terrell  left 
the  active  and  strenuous  political  and  pro- 
fessional life  that  had  claimed  him  for  so  many 
years  and  came  to  New  Jersey,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  beautiful  estate  two  and  a  half  miles 
from  the  city  of  Burlington,  where  he  has 
since  resided,  leading  the  quiet  life  of  a  pros- 
perous farmer.  His  farm,  "West  Hill,"  con- 
tains about  seventy  acres,  which  he  devotes 
largely  to  the  culture  of  small  fruits,  etc.  He 
is  high  up  in  Masonry,  having  been  made  a 
Mason  while  in  college  at  Ann  Arbor,  Michi- 
gan, 1865.  He  is  affiliated  with  Burlington 
Lodge,  No.  ^2 ;  Boudinot  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  and  Helena  Commandery,  No.  3, 
Knights  Templar,  joining  the  latter  in  1872. 
He  served  as  past  grand  commander  of  Knights 
Templar  of  Missouri  Grand  Commandery, 
1882-83,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  Grand 
Commandery  of  New  Jersey  with  rank  of  past 
commander  by  election.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  (irand  Encampment,  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Knights  of  Honor. 

Mr.  Terrell  married,  December  24,  1864,  at 
South  Ridge,  Ashtabula  county,  Oliio,  Julia. 
A.  Quigley,  born  at  Portland,  New  York,  June 
18.  1835,  daughter  of  Captain  Robert  and 
Obedience  (Everts)  Quigley,  the  father  a  sea 
captain,  engaged  on  steamers  on  the  northern 
lakes,  a  resident  of  Chautauqua  county.  New 
York :  he  died  in  1836,  aged  about  thirty  years. 
His  wife.  Obedience  (Everts)  Quigley.  was 
born  in  \'crmont,  181 1,  and  was  of  French  de- 
scent.    Mrs.  Terrell  received  a  thorough  aca- 


demic education  at  the  Kingsville  .\cademy. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Terrell  are  connected  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  They  had  one 
adopted  daughter,  Daisy,  born  in  Harrisonville, 
Missouri,  November  26,  1871,  died  at  Youngs- 
town, (Jhio,  June,  1891. 

(Tlie    Jones    Line). 

Benjamin  Jones,  ancestor  of  Olive  (Jones) 
Terrell,  wife  of  Sherman  Terrell,  and  mother 
of  William  Jones  Terrell,  the  date  and  location 
of  whose  birth  is  unknown,  served  in  King 
Philip's  war  (1675-76),  and  subsecjuent  to  that 
event  was  residing  in  Enfield,  Connecticut.  The 
"History  of  Enfield"  states  that  he  tvas  of 
W  elsh  descent,  but  makes  no  mention  of  his 
parents.  He  was  the  first  setfler  in  Somers, 
removing  there  from  Enfield  in  1689  and  erect- 
ing a  dwelling  house  about  half  a  mile  east  of 
the  present  village.  He  and  his  family  resided 
there  during  the  summer  season  until  1706, 
when  they  settled  there  permanently,  and  he 
died  in  that  town  July  6,  17 18.  He  served  as 
highway  surveyor  and  also  held  other  town 
offices.  The  christian  name  of  his  wife  was 
Anne  ;  children  :  Thomas,  see  forward  ;  Ben- 
jamin, Joseph,  Eleazer,  Anne,  Levi,  Abigail, 
Naomi,  Samuel. 

Lieutenant  Thomas  Jones,  eldest  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  .-\nne  Jones,  was  born  at  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  1680,  died  there  in  1763.  He  was 
a  man  of  wealth  and  prominence,  and  was 
chosen  first  representative  from  Enfield  to  the 
general  assembly  of  Connecticut  after  its  sepa- 
ration from  Massachusetts.  In  the  records  he 
is  referred  to  as  Thomas  Jones,  gentleman.  He 
married,  April  24,  1708,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Captain  Isaac  Meacham ;  she  died  November 
8,  1744,  aged  sixty  years.  Children:  i.  Alary, 
born  April  22,  1709;  married  Abraham  Whip- 
ple. 2.  Jerusha,  April  8,  171 1;  married  A. 
Spencer.  3.  Thomas,  March  15,  1712-13.  4. 
Israel,  see  forward.  5.  Isaac,  January  29,  1717- 
18:  educated  at  Harvard  College,  entered  the 
ministry  and  became  pastor  of  the  church  in 
Weston,  Massachusetts;  died  May  3,  1784. 
6.  Ijathsheba,  February  25,  1719-20;  married 
John  Rees.  7.  Samuel,  October  29,  1724.  8. 
Elizabeth,  married  David  Kellogg. 

Israel  Jones,  son  of  Lieutenant  Thomas  and 
Mary  (Meacham)  Jones,  was  born  in  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  March  18,  1715,  died  in  Bark- 
hamsted,  Connecticut,  December  28,  1798.  He 
was  the  second  permanent  settler  in  Barkham- 
sted,  settling  there  in  1761,  and  in  the  records 
is  designated  as  husbandhnan.  He  served  as 
constable  in  Enfield,  1748-49,  and  was  a  cap- 


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tain  in  tlie  culonial  militia.  He  married.  Xo- 
vember  g,  1744,  Jemima  Clark  (intentions  pub- 
lished Sei)teniber  2^).  Children:  i.  Samuel, 
born  January  3,  1745-46;  died  September  4, 
1747.  2.  Mary,  October  28,  1747.  3.  Samuel, 
July  31,  1749.  4.  Thomas,  June  6,  1751.  5. 
Israel,  September  21,  1753;  served  in  the  revo- 
lutionary war  as  sergeant  in  Captain  Watson's 
company,  Colonel  Benjamin  Hinman's  regi- 
ment, September,  1775;  as  ensign  in  Seventh 
Regiment  Connecticut  line,  1777;  second  lieu- 
tenant, 1778;  captain  in  Eighth  Regiment  Con- 
necticut Militia,  same  year,  and  attained  rank 
of  colonel:  participated  in  the  battles  of  Ger- 
mantovvn  and  Monmouth  Court  House,  and 
wintered  at  X'alley  Forge:  married,  1790,  Lois 
W'adsworth :  died  in  Barkhamsted,  September 
1,  1812.  6.  Jemima,  June  5,  1755.  7.  Submit, 
(Mober  8,  1757.  8.  William  Clark,  see  for- 
ward. 

William  Clark  Jones,  youngest  son  of  Israel 
and  Jemima  (  Clark)  Jones,  was  born  in  Enfield, 
Connecticut,  May  9,  1760.  He  was  drafted 
August  25,  1777,  and  served  in  Captain  Skin- 
ner's company,  of  which  John  Rockwell  was 
lieutenant,  and  Simon  Abel  ensign ;  discharged 
October,  1777.  He  married,  December  28, 
1784,  Elizabeth  Hayes,  of  Hartland,  Connecti- 
cut. 

William  Jones,  son  of  William  Clark  and 
Elizabeth  (Hayes)  Terrell,  was  born  at  Bark- 
hamsted, Connecticut,  October  3,  1785.  Later 
he  resided  in  Hartford,  Ohio.  He  married 
Olive  Brockway,  October  27.  1807;  she  died 
at  Hartford,  Ohio,  April  26,  1813.  They  were 
the  parents  of  Olive  Jones,  aforementioned  as 
the  wife  of  Sherman  Terrell. 


Edwin  M.  Wight,  of  Somerville, 
WICiHT      New  Jersey,  was  born  in  Troy, 

New  York,  October  31,  1836,  son 
of  Daniel  and  Sophrone  (Porter)  Wight.  Mr. 
Wight  was  educated  in  the  private  schools  of 
his  native  city,  and  prepared  for  college  in  the 
Troy  Academy.  In  1853  he  was  matriculated 
in  Williams  College,  Massachusetts,  from  which 
he  graduated,  taking  his  A.  B.  in  1857.  Among 
the  close  friends  and  companions  of  his  college 
course  were  Rev.  Charles  A.  Stoddard,  of  the 
New  York  Observer,  class  of  1854;  Hon.  John 
J.  Ingalls,  class  of  1855,  late  United  States 
senator  from  Kansas,  now  deceased ;  James  A. 
Garfield,  class  of  1856,  the  martyred  president, 
next  wJiom  at  table  Mr.  Wight  sat  for  nearly 
two  years  ;  and  Henry  M.  Alden.  Ph.  D..  LL.  D., 
for  forty  years  editor  of  Harper's  Magazine,  a 
classmate. 


Immediately  after  graduation  Mr.  Wight 
came  to  New  York  and  began  his  student  work 
in  the  law  office  of  Hon.  James  R.  Whiting, 
ex-justice  of  the  supreme  court,  and  continued 
with  him  until  his  death  in  1872.  Mr.  Wight 
took  a  law  course  of  two  years  in  the  law 
school  of  the  L'niversity  of  Albany,  where  he 
received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.,  and  was  admitted 
to  practice  in  New  York  state  in  1859. 

On  May  10,  1862,  in  the  great  fire  in  Troy, 
the  old  home  of  Mr.  Wight's  parents,  his  col- 
lection of  American  and  Asiatic  shells,  of  which 
he  had  made  a  study  and  had  gathered  in  per- 
son and  by  exchanges  during  several  years,  a 
considerable  collection,  with  everything  of  early 
association  of  school  or  college,  including  a 
large  number  of  books  and  old  Americana, 
were  burned.  The  next  year  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Bloomfield.  New  Jersey.  In  1864  his 
father  died  in  the  city  of  New  York. 

During  the  season  of  1863  Mr.  Wight  had 
with  him  as  an  associate  clerk  in  Judge  Whit- 
ing's office,  Frederick  F.  Cornell  Jr.,  of  Somer- 
ville, and  through  him  became  interested  in 
furnishing  army  supplies,  particularly  pressed 
hay  in  bales,  which  extended  to  a  considerable 
business  and  made  it  necessary  to  visit  Somer- 
ville frequently,  and  about  April  I,  1865,  to 
remove  there  with  his  mother  and  sister.  He 
then  began  to  commute  between  Somerville 
and  New  York,  and  has  continued  until  this 
writing.  In  i?>6g  Mr.  Wight  became  interested 
in  journalism  and  purchased  the  Somerset 
Messenger,  which  he  owned  for  two  years  and 
sold  to  J.  Rutsen  Schenck.  During  his  owner- 
ship the  Messenger  plant  was  moved  from  the 
Lance  building  to  Somerset  Hall  building,  being 
the  first  tenant  of  that  newly  erected  structure 
in  its  upper  part.  In  1887  the  Somerset  Demo- 
erat  was  founded,  and  Mr.  Wight  became 
interested,  and  by  wish  of  its  pro]:>rietor  acted 
as  its  political  editor  from  its  starting.  In  1903 
it  had  become  insolvent  and  was  foreclosed. 
Mr.  Wight  made  arrangements  with  the  bond- 
holders and  jHirchased  the  property.  It  is  still 
(1910)  continued  by  him  at  the  old  stand  in 
the  Somerset  Hall  building,  which  he  owns. 
The  present  plant  occupies  about  four  times  as 
much  of  the  building  as  was  occupied  by  the 
Messenger  when  it  was  published  there  in  1870. 
The  .Somerville  Publishing  Company  is  the 
name  under  which  Mr.  Wight  conducts  the 
publishing  business,  and  the  plant  has  fully 
trebled  its  capacity  in  the  six  years  since  it 
was  taken  over,  while  the  business  has  more 
than  kept  pace  with  the  growth  of  the  plant, 
having  customers  among  New  York  publishing 


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houses  anil  clscw  licri.',  and  a  large  jobbing  trade. 

In  1894  Mr.  Wight  was  admitted  as  an  at- 
torney and  counsellor  of  New  Jersey,  and  has 
had  a  considerable  clientele  among  New  York- 
ers, having  legal  business  in  New  Jersey.  He 
has  been  active  in  his  profession  in  the  state  of 
New  York  since  his  admission  to  practice  in 
that  state  in  1859. 

Mr.  Wight  is  of  New  England  ancestry,  de- 
scended in  the  seventh  generation  from  ( I ) 
Thomas  Wight,  the  immigrant,  who  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  and  was  ad- 
mitted as  an  inhabitant  in  1637.  having,  with 
eleven  other  persons,  subscribed  the  covenant 
in  that  year.  On  October  8,  1640,  he  became 
a  freeman,  and  for  six  years,  beginning  in  1641, 
was  a  selectman  of  Dedham.  (II)  Ephraim, 
born  in  Dedham,  in  1645;  married,  in  1668, 
Lydia  Morse,  of  Medfield.  His  name  appears 
among  the  Medfield  proprietors  in  1675;  he 
was  a  subscriber  to  the  building  of  the  "New 
Brick  College,"  of  Cambridge  (Harvard  Col- 
lege). ( III)  Daniel,  born  at  Medfield,  Novem- 
ber 19,  1680;  married,  1721,  Lydia  Estey.  (I\') 
Peter,  born  May  21,  1722,  in  Medfield;  mar- 
ried, October  12,  1752,  his  remote  cousin,  Mary 
I'.arber,  whose  grandmother,  Mary,  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  original  ancestor  Thomas.  Peter  was 
a  member  of  Captain  Josiah  Fuller's  company, 
Colonel  Wheelock's  regiment,  which  marched 
from  Medway  to  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  on 
the  alarm  of  December  8,  1776.  By  trade  Peter 
was  a  blacksmith.  (  \' )  Daniel,  born  at  Med- 
way, October  4,  1753;  married,  January  11, 
1781,  Mary  Putter,  of  Wrentham,  and  removed 
with  his  family  to  South  Brimfield,  now  Wales, 
in  1791,  where  he  kept  the  first  grist  mill  on 
Elbow  Brook.  ( \T  )  Daniel,  born  in  South 
Brirnfield,  Massachusetts,  June  14,  1793.  was 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

On  his  mother's  side  Mr.  Wight  was  de- 
scended in  the  seventh  generation  from  (I) 
John  Porter,  of  Hingham,  Massachusetts, 
immigrant,  born  1595,  at  Wraxall  Abbey, 
Kenilworth,  Warwickshire,  England,  where  the 
Porters  had  been  seated  for  many  generations. 
John,  immigrant  ancestor,  with  Rose  his  wife, 
sailed  from  Europe  in  the  ship  "Anne,"  arriv- 
ing at  Dorchester  May  30,  1627.  In  1635  he 
assisted  in  the  settlement  of  Windsor,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  had  lands  granted  to  him, 
and  died  there,  in  1648.  .\mong  his  thirteen 
children  was  a  son  (II )  Samuel,  born  in  War- 
wickshire, in  1626.  He  married  Hannah  Stan- 
ley, born  in  England,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Stanley,  a  younger  son  of  the  earl  of  Derby. 
He  came  from  London  in  the  ship  "Planter," 


in  if>35,  and  became  one  of  the  original  pro- 
[irietors  of  Hartford.  Samuel  removed  from 
Windsor  to  Hadley  in  1659,  and  died  Septem- 
ber 6,  1689.  He  had  a  son  ( III  )  Thomas  Stan- 
ley Porter,  born  April  i,  1683,  who  married, 
November  13.  1707,  Thankful  Babcock,  born 
in  Conventry,  in  1686.  He  was  the  first  town 
clerk  of  Coventry,  Connecticut,  a  captain  in 
the  Indian  wars,  and  died  August  7,  1755.  They 
lived  near  the  South  Coventry  meetinghouse. 
.\mong  their  twelve  children  was  (IV)  Jona- 
than Porter,  born  March  20,  1713.  He  mar- 
ried, January  20,  1734,  Sarah  Ladd,  born  in 
Coventry,  1 7 14.  .\mong  their  nine  children 
were  (\")  Jonathan  Porter,  born  September 
17,  1737,  and  (V)  Noah  Porter,  born  October 
4,  1742.  Jonathan  married  Lois  Richardson, 
of  Coventry.  Among  their  seven  children  was 
(  \'l )  Lois  Porter,  born  April  17.  1759.  Noah 
married,  November  29,  1764,  Submit  Cooke, 
born  April  17,  1743,  daughter  of  Deacon  Jesse 
Cooke,  of  Coventry.  He  died  July  10,  1794. 
.Among  their  seven  children  was  (VI)  Eben- 
ezer  Porter,  born  .\pril  7,  1780.  Lois  Porter 
(\'I)  married,  February  21,  1780,  Joseph 
Kingsbury,  of  Coventry,  a  descendant  on  pater- 
nal side  of  Henry  Kingsbury,  who  came  from 
England  in  ship  "Talbot,"  to  Dorchester,  Mass- 
achusetts, in  1636.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  tiie 
army  of  the  revolution.  Among  their  eleven 
children  was  (\H)  Eunice  Backus  Kingsbury, 
born  November  14,  1784.  Ebenezer  Porter,  of 
the  si.xth  generation  of  Porters,  married,  No- 
vember 21,  1802,  his  second  cousin,  Eunice 
Backus  Kingsbury,  of  the  seventh  generation. 
They  lived  in  Coventry.  Their  eldest  child, 
Sopiirone  Porter,  born  September  26,  1803. 
was  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 


James  Wilson,  of  Birmingham. 

WILSON  England,  the  founder  of  this 
family,  was  born  in  Walsall, 
near  Birmingham,  county  Stafiford,  England, 
and  emigrated  with  his  family  to  .America  in 
1847.  He  was  a  saddler,  and  established  him- 
self in  a  successful  saddlery  hardware  busi- 
ness. He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
attended  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  He 
married,  in  England,  Alary  Ann  Livsey,  who 
was  born  in  Walsall.  Children :  William,  re- 
ferred to  below :  Jane,  married  a  Air.  Frank- 
lin :  Emma,  married  Air.  Marthaler ;  Henry, 
who  was  killed  in  the  civil  war:  James. 

(II)  William,  son  of  James  and  Alary  .Ann 
(Livsey)  \\'ilson,  v^-as  born  in  Walsall,  Eng- 
land, Alav  5.  1840,  and  died  in  Elizabeth,  New 
lersev,  Alarch  17,  1885.     He  became  a  whole- 


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sale  shipper  of  bituminous  coal,  and  worked  up 
a  highly  successful  business,  supplying  many 
of  the  trans-Atlantic  steamship  companies. 
He  served  as  major  of  the  Third  Regiment 
New  Jersey  X'olunteers.  He  married  Adaline 
Woodward,  tlaughter  of  Charles  Edward  and 
Sarah  Moore,  who  was  born  in  Milltown.  Ches- 
ter county,  Pennsylvania,  January  i.  1840. 
Children:  Norton  Luther,  referred  to  below; 
Harry  Douglass,  born  in  March.  1863.  died  in 
Februar)-,  1903;  married  Minnie  Fishbotigh, 
children.  Ethel  Corlies  and  Glatlys. 

(HI)  Norton  Luther,  son  of  William  and 
Adaline  Woodward  (  Moore  )  Wilson,  was  born 
in  Elizabeth.  New  Jersey.  November  18,  1861, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  city,  where  he  is  one 
of  the  leading  representatives  of  the  medical 
profession  of  L'nion  county.  On  his  mother's 
side  he  is  related  to  the  celebrated  physicians, 
Drs.  Woodward  and  Pepper,  of  Philadelphia. 
For  his  early  education  he  went  to  the  famous 
school  conducted  for  so  many  years  in  Eliza- 
beth by  Dr.  I'ingry,  and  here  he  prepared  to 
enter  Princeton  L'niversity.  Owing  to  busi- 
ness reverses  in  the  family  he  was  compelled 
to  relinquish  his  classical  studies  and  to  en- 
gage in  mercantile  pursuits,  which  occupied  his 
time  for  several  years.  He  then  became  a 
medical  student  with  Dr.  Mack,  at  Elizabeth, 
and  was  graduated  in  1884  from  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  College.  New  York  City,  and 
spent  the  ensuing  year  as  an  interne  at  the 
Elizabeth  General  Hospital.  In  1885  he  open- 
ed an  ofifice  in  Roselle,  New  Jersey,  and  later 
settled  himself  in  the  practice  of  his  chosen 
profession  in  Elizabeth,  making  a  specialty  of 
diseases  of  the  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat.  Dr. 
Wilson  has  been  very  active  in  all  matters  per- 
taining to  medical  advancement.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Medical  .-\ssociation ;  of 
the  American  Laryngological.  Rhinological  and 
Otological  Society :  a  fellow-  of  the  New  York 
.Academy  of  Medicine;  third  vice-president  of 
the  New  Jersey  .State  Medical  Society ;  ex- 
president  of  the  Clinical  Society;  ex-president 
of  the  Medical  Club;  member  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey .State  Microscopical  Society;  life  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society ;  presi- 
dent of  the  staff  of  the  Elizabeth  General  Hos- 
pital and  Dispensary,  and  al.so  the  opthalmo- 
logist.  laryngologist  and  otologist  of  that  hos- 
pital and  of  St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital.  He  is 
an  e.\-surgeon  of  the  Newark  Charitable  Eye 
and  Ear  Infirmary;  member  of  the  .'Anti-tuber- 
culosis .Association;  ex-member  of  the  Board 
of  Health  of  Elizabeth  City;  ex-president  of 
the  New  Jersey  Sanitary  Association  ;  a  trustee 


of  the  Society  for  the  Widows  and  C)rphans 
of  the  Medical  Men  of  New  Jersey.  He  was 
also  a  trustee  of  the  Elizabeth  Public  Library. 
a  member  of  the  Elizabeth  Athletic  Club,  and 
the  Surburban  Golf  Club.  He  is  a  member  of 
Washington  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
of  New  Jersey,  a  life  member  of  the  thirty- 
second  degree,  Scottish  Rite  Masons ;  a  noble 
of  Mecca  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine ;  and  a 
member  of  the  North  End  Improvement  Asso- 
ciation, and  also  of  many  other  organizations. 
Dr.  Wilson  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  married,  February  i,  1888,  Susan 
Smart,  only  daughter  of  George  H.  and  Sarah 
A.  (Smart)  Griggs  (see  Griggs).  Children: 
Marguerite  Griggs,  born  February  9,  1889; 
ileatrice  Louise.  N'ovember  19.  1891. 

(The  Griggs  Line). 

George  H.  Griggs,  of  Boston,  father  of  Mrs. 
Susan  Smart  (Griggs)  Wilson,  belongs  to  a 
family  of  very  distinguished  railroad  people. 
His  father  was  the  inventor  of  the  brick  arch, 
the  present  method  of  welding  on  tires ;  the 
crossing  gate  and  many  other  devices  of  mod- 
ern railroading.  George  H.  Griggs,  besides 
being  superintendent  of  several  railroads,  in- 
vented a  spark  arrester,  a  coupling  devise,  the 
portable  stove,  and  a  number  of  other  devices. 
He  dieil  in  1891.  His  widow,  Sarah  \.  (Smart) 
Griggs,  is  still  living,  aged  seventy  years.  Chil- 
dren :  George  A.,  born  1859.  now  cashier  in 
Savings  Bank  at  Butte.  Montana ;  Oscar,  died 
in  Mexico  about  1901  ;  Theodore  Griggs,  now 
a  civil  engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  Delaware, 
Lackawanna  and  Western  railroad ;  Susan 
.Smart,  referred  to  below. 

(11)  Susan  Smart,  daughter  of  George  H. 
and  Sarah  .\.  ( Smart )  Griggs,  was  born  in 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  December  9,  1863.  She 
married.  February  i.  1888.  Dr.  Norton  Luther, 
son  of  William  and  .Adaline  Woodward 
(Moore)    Wilson,   of    Elizabeth.   New  Jersev. 


The  Cooper  name  has  honorable 
COOPER  distinction  among  the  early  set- 
tlers of  our  country.  The  most 
distinguished  member  of  the  family  in  .Amer- 
ica is  without  doubt  James  Fenimore  Cooper, 
the  novelist,  who  is  descended  frorn  James 
Cooper,  born  at  Stratford-on-.Avon  in  t66i. 
This  James  Cooper  came  to  America  before 
1682,  in  which  year  he  received  a  grant  of  land 
in  New  Jersey.  In  1683  he  bought  a  lot  of 
land  in  Philadelphia,  situated  on  Chestnut 
street,  opposite  the  marble  custom  house.  Sev- 
eral generations  of  this  family  were  Quakers. 


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Antitlier  earl\-  immigrant  of  note  was  Thomas 
Cooper,  of  Boston,  born  about  1650,  probably 
in  London.  He  was  the  founder  of  the  fam- 
ous Brattle  Street  Church  in  Boston,  and  he 
inherited  the  "Green  Dragon  Tavern,"'  another 
landmark  from  Governor  Stoughton,  whose 
niece,  Mehitable  Minot,  he  had  married.  Their 
son,  William  Cooper,  born  March  20,  1694,  was 
ordained  pastor  of  the  Brattle  Street  Church 
in  1716.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  the 
presidency  of  which  he  afterward  declined,  and 
lie  married  Judith  Scwall,  daughter  of  Chief 
Justice-  Samuel  Sewall.  The  present  branch 
is  descended  from  a  still  earlier  settler  than 
either  of  those  nientiuned.  Probably  no  fam- 
ily in  Xew  Hampshire  can  show  an  unbroken 
continuity  of  deacons  through  so  many  genera- 
tions or  a  higher  record  for  probity  and  public 
service  than  here  follows. 

(I  j  Deacon  John  Cooper,  ancestor  of  all  the 
Coopers  of  Croydon,  New  Hampshire,  was 
born  in  England,  1618.  His  father  died  com- 
paratively young,  and  his  mother,  Widow 
Lyclia  Coojier,  married  Gregory  Stone.  She 
had  two  children  by  her  first  marriage :  John 
and  Lydia ;  and  si.x  children  by  her  second 
marriage:  John,  Daniel,  David,  Samuel,  Eliz- 
abeth and  Sarah  Stone.  The  whole  family  of 
Stones  and  Coopers  migrated  to  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts,  before  1636.  John  Cooper  be- 
came a  man  of  influence  in  his  new  home, 
serving  as  selectman  of  Cambridge  for  thirty- 
eight  years,  from  1646  to  1690,  and  as  town 
clerk  from  1669  to  1681.  He  was  deacon  of 
the  church  there  in  1688.  Deacon  John  Cooper 
married  .\nna,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Spar- 
hawk,  of  Cambridge,  who  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, and  came  to  this  country  with  her  par- 
ents. Children :  Anna,  born  November  16, 
1(143:  Mary,  John,  Samuel,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows: John,  Nathaniel,  Lydia,  Anna,  born  De- 
cember 2(>,  1667.  Deacon  James  Cooper  died 
August  22,  1691,  and  his  widow  married  James 
Converse,  of  VN'oburn,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
living  in  1712. 

(  11)  Deacon  Samuel,  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  Deacon  John  and  Anna  (Sparhawk) 
Cooper,  was  born  January  3,  1653,  probably  in 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  He  inherited  the 
homestead  of  his  father,  was  chosen  deacon 
of  the  church,  March  22.  1705,  and  was  select- 
man twelve  years,  from  1702  to  1 71 6.  On  De- 
cember 4.  1682,  Deacon  Samuel  Cooper  mar- 
ried Hannah,  daughter  of  Deacon  Walter  and 
Sarah  Hastings,  who  was  born  in  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.  January  0,  \(i~fi.  They  had 
nine  children:      llaiuiah,   Lvdia,   .Sarah,   Sam- 


uel (2),  whose  sketch  follows;  Mary,  Eliza- 
beth, Walter,  John  and  Jonathan.  Deacon 
Samuel  Cooper  died  in  Cambridge,  January  8, 
1717,  and  his  widow  died  October  9,  1732. 

(ill)  Deacon  Samuel  (2),  eldest  son  and 
fourth  child  of  Deacon  Samuel  (i)  and  Han- 
nah (Hastings)  Cooper,  was  born  in  Cam- 
bridge, Massachusetts,  March  29,  1689.  He 
inherited  the  homestead  of  his  father,  which 
he  sold  in  1730  to  Ebenezer  Frost,  and  re- 
moved to  Cirafton,  Massachusetts.  There  he 
became  a  member  of  the  first  church,  formed 
December  28,  1731,  and  about  a  month  later 
he  and  James  Whipple,  grandfather  of  Dea- 
con Moses  Whipple,  of  Croydon,  New  Hamp- 
shire, were  chosen  the  first  deacons  of  said 
church.  Deacon  Samuel  (2)  Cooper  was  mod- 
erator of  Grafton  in  1738,  selectman  in  1735- 
3S-43 :  .school  committee  in  1738;  town  clerk 
in  1739,  the  first  to  hold  that  office.  He  was 
evidently  a  man  of  education,  for  the  Grafton 
records  of  1738  contain  this  entry  :  "Paid  Dea- 
con Samuel  Cooper  three  pounds,  four  shillings 
for  kee])ing  school."  On  March  29,  1719, 
Deacon  Samuel  {2)  Cooper  married  Sarah, 
(laughter  of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(  Griggs  )  Kidder,  who  was  born  in  Cambridge, 
August  17.  i(K\)o.  The  children  of  whom  we 
have  any  record  were  born  in  Cambridge:  Na- 
thaniel, July  21,  1720;  Samuel,  Joseph,  John 
and  Sarah.  The  date  of  the  deaths  of  Deacon 
.Samuel   (2)  Cooper  and  his  wife  is  unknown. 

(]\')  Deacon  John  (21,  fourth  son  and 
child  of  Deacon  Samuel  (2)  and  Sarah  (Kid- 
der )  Cooper,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, March  4,  1725,  and  moved  with  his 
])arents  to  (irafton,  Massachusetts,  1730.  After 
marriage  he  settled  in  Hardwick,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  lived  till  1769,  when  he  moved  to 
Cornish.  New  Hampshire,  the  first  of  his  line 
to  come  to  this  state.  He  remained  in  Corn- 
ish but  a  year,  and  in  1770  moved  around  Blue 
Mountains  to  Croydon.  With  his  wife  and 
eight  children  he  settled  on  the  farm  which 
afterwards  descended  to  his  grandson.  Dea- 
con Otis  Coo])er,  Deacon  John  (2)  Cooper  and 
Moses  Whipple  were  chosen  deacons  of  the 
first  church  in  Croydon  in  1783.  Deacon  Cooper 
was  tythingman  in  1773-81  ;  town  treasurer  in 
T773:  town  clerk.  1772-73-74:  moderator  seven 
times,  and  selectman  nine  years.  His  honor- 
able di.stinction  at  Croydon  was  but  a  continua- 
tion of  his  record  at  Hardwick,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  deacon  twenty  years,  assessor  ten 
\ears.  town  clerk  five  years,  selectman  one 
year,  and  schoolmaster  many  times.  On  March 
15.    1748,   Deacon  John    ('2)    Cooper  married 


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Mary,  daiigiiter  of  Nathaniel  and  Alar)-  Sher- 
man, who  was  born  in  Grafton,  Massachusetts, 
December  9,  1726.  She  was  a  cousin  of  the  cele- 
brated Roger  Sherman,  of  Connecticut.  They 
had  ten  children,  all  born  in  Hardwick,  Massa- 
chusetts: Sarah,  Nathaniel,  Mary,  John.  Joel, 
Huldah.  Sherman,  Matilda,  Barnabas  and  Chloe. 
Deacon  John  {2)  Cooper  died  at  Croydon, 
New  Hampshire,  August  10,  1803.  and  his 
wife  died  there  September  4,  1796. 

(  V)  Sherman,  son  of  Deacon  John  (2)  and 
Mary  (Sherman)  Cooper,  was  born  at  Hard- 
wick, Massachusetts,  April  3,  1761.  He  moved 
with  his  father's  family  to  New  Hampshire, 
settling  at  Croydon.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
revolution  in  Captain  Joshua  Hendee's  com- 
pany. Colonel  David  Hobart's  regiment,  1777; 
also  in  Colonel  Joshua  Chase's  regiment  from 
Cornish  and  vicinity,  which  reinforced  the 
army  at  Ticonderoga,  1777;  also  in  Captain 
Samuel  Paine's  company.  Major  Benjamin 
Whitcomb's  regiment,  for  six  months  in  1780 
for  the  defence  of  the  western  frontier.  In 
1790.  according  to  the  first  federal  census,  he 
was  living  in  Cro3'don  and  had  one  son  under 
sixteen  and  three  females  in  his  family  (prob- 
ably wife  and  two  daughters  ). 

(V'l)  Otis,  son  of  Sherman  Cooper,  was  a 
farmer  and  school  teacher  in  Croydon,  Sulli- 
van county.  New  Hampshire.  He  married 
Hannah  (  Powers )  Barton,  widow  of  Bazeleel 
Barton,  and  daughter  of  Ezekiel  Powers,  of 
Croydon,  Sullivan  county.  New  Hampshire, 
who  bore  him  two  children:  i.  Augusta,  died 
in  infancy.  2.  Augusta,  referred  to  below. 
Hannah  Powers  by  her  first  marriage  with 
Bazeleel  Barton  had  eight  children  :  Lucinda, 
Adelia,  Levi  W.,  Williams.  Hiram,  .\lanson. 
Ziba  and  Angeline. 

(  \TI  I  Augusta,  youngest  child  of  Otis  and 
Hannah  (Powers-Barton)  Cooper,  was  born 
in  Croydon.  Sullivan  county.  New  Hampshire, 
.'\[)ril  17,  1833,  and  is  now  living  in  Vineland, 
Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey.  She  was  a 
precocious  child  and  her  poetical  abilities  show- 
ed themselves  at  an  early  period  of  her  life, 
her  first  verses  being  written  when  she  was 
only  eight  years  of  age,  and  her  first  published 
poems  appeared  in  the  newspapers  when  she 
was  fifteen,  and  the  poems  puljlished  in  book 
form  when  thirty  years  of  age.  She  was  a 
good  scholar,  forward  in  mathematics,  and 
showing  an  ajjtitude  for  logical  and  philosoph- 
ical reasoning.  .\t  the  age  of  thirteen  she  was 
studying  the  same  books  that  her  half-brother 
was  studying  in  Dartmouth  College.  She  at- 
tended  the  i)ul)lic   ^clidcils   of  Crovdon   and   a 


[)re])arat(iry  school  at  Meridcn,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  then  went  to  the  Canaan  Union 
Academy,  and  to  Kimball  Cnion  Academy. 
She  began  teaching  when  she  was  fifteen,  and 
kept  to  this  employment  for  seven  years,  when 
she  married.  In  1869  Augusta  Cooper  publish- 
ed her  first  volume  of  poems  and  gave  her  first 
public  lecture,  which  events  appear  to  have 
changed  the  course  of  her  intellectual  career, 
as  since  tiiat  time  she  has  been  a  prominent 
[)latform  speaker.  For  four  years  she  was 
president  i_>f  the  Ladies'  Social  Science  Class  of 
X'ineland.  giving  lessons  from  Spencer  and 
Carey  every  month.  In  the  winter  of  1880  she 
gave  a  course  of  lectures  before  the  New  York 
Positivist  Society  on  "The  Evolution  of  Char- 
acter." and  followed  it  by  another  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Women's  Social  Science  Club 
of  New  York  City.  In  June,  1880,  she  was 
sent  by  friends  in  New  York  to  study  the 
equitable  association  of  labor  and  capital  at  the 
Familistere  in  Guise,  France,  founded  by  AI. 
Jean  Baptiste  Godin,  the  inventor  and  re- 
former. She  was  also  commissioned  to  repre- 
sent the  New  York  Positivist  Society  in  an 
international  convention  of  liberal  thinkers  in 
Brussels,  in  September,  1880.  She  lived  at  the 
Famili-itere.  or  "Social  Palace"  for  three 
months,  and  gave  a  lecture  on  the  "Scientific 
Basis  of  Morality"  before  the  Brussels  con- 
vention. .\ftcr  her  return  to  the  United  States 
she  tauglit  French  for  many  years  in  Vine- 
land,  .New  Jersey,  and  translated  and  published 
"The  Rules  and  Statutes  of  the  Association 
of  Labnr  and  Capital  of  Guise"  from  the 
French.  In  1881  she  was  chosen  state  lecturer 
of  the  I'atrons  of  Hu.sbandry  in  New  Jersey. 
In  1882  she  was  employed  by  the  national  lec- 
ture bureau  of  that  society.  Since  her  second 
husband's  death,  she  has  apjieared  but  seldom  on 
the  public  platform,  being  wholly  occupied  with 
the  care  of  her  estate.  A  short  while  ago  she 
sold  her  farm  in  the  township  and  is  now  liv- 
ing in  the  city  of  Vineland  itself.  Some  of  her 
philoso])hic  and  scientific  lectures  have  been 
translated  and  published  in  foreign  countries. 
In  1870  she  published  her  "Philosophy  of  Art ;" 
in  1876  her  "Relations  of  the  Maternal  Func- 
tions to  the  \Voman  Intellect:"  in  1880  her 
".Science  as  the  Basis  of  Morality,"  a  French 
edition  of  which  appeared  in  1882;  in  1893 
her  volume  of  poems  entitled  "The  Web  of 
Life;"  and  in  1904  the  volume  "Spray  of 
Cosmos-." 

In  1837  Augusta  Cooper  was  married  to 
G.  H.  Kimball.  By  this  marriage  she  had 
one  chilli.  Aimic  Loraine.  born  March  23.  1837. 


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a  musician  and  musical  composer,  who  married 
William  A.  Sloane,  a  lawyer  and  judge  in  San 
Diego,  California,  to  w-hom  she  bore  three  chil- 
dren :  Harry,  Paul  and  Hazel,  the  two  boys 
being  now  at  Pomona  College,  California.  In 
January,  1866,  Augusta  (Cooper)  Kimball  was 
married  to  Louis  Bristol,  an  attorney  of  New 
Haven,  Connecticut,  who  died  in  1882.  He 
was  a  nephew  of  the  celebrated  Jonathan  Ed- 
wards, president  of  Yale  University,  and 
])reaclier  in  Northampton,  Massachusetts.  He 
graduated  from  Yale  University  in  1835,  at 
age  of  seventeen,  and  after  his  marriage  re- 
moved to  southern  Illinois,  where  he  managed 
a  fruit  farm.  In  1872  he  bought  a  farm  in 
\"ineland,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey, 
and  removed  thither.  Louis  and  Augusta 
(  Cooper  )  Kimball-Bristol  had  two  children  : 
I.  Bessie,  married,  1905,  John  Mason,  of  Vine- 
land,  and  has  one  child,  Augusta  Loraine,  born 
August  26,  1907.  ^Irs.  Mason  conducts  a  very 
successful  music  school  in  Vineland,  and  her 
,  husband  is  an  inspector  of  glass  in  a  glass  fac- 
tory in  the  same  jilace.  2.  Otis  Cooper,  died 
aged  seven. 

Robert  Murphy,  immigrant  an- 

MURPHY  cestor  of  this  branch  of  the 
Murphy  family,  was  born  in 
Ireland,  and  about  1756  emigrated  from  Eng- 
land to  Connecticut,  where  he  settled.  Soon 
after  his  arrival  he  engaged  in  the  occupation 
of  teaching  school.  He  married  .\nn  Knapp, 
daughter  of  Joshua  Knapp.  of  Greenwich,  Con- 
necticut, and  among  his  children  was  Robert, 
referred  to  below. 

( II )  Robert  Jr.,  son  of  Robert  Murphy  (  i), 
was  born  in  Connecticut,  in  1759.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  revolution  he  enlisted  in  the  Ber- 
gen county  (  New  Jersey)  troops,  and  did  good 
service  during  the  war,  serving  in  the  battle  on 
Long  Island  under  General  Nathaniel  Greene 
and  in  other  conflicts.  He  married  Hannah 
Doane.  Among  his  children  was  a  son  Will- 
iam, referred  to  below. 

(HI)  William,  son  of  Robert  Murphy  Jr., 
was  born  April  23,  1795.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Phebe  (Crane) 
Lyon,  of  Elizabethtown.  She  was  of  Scotch 
descent,  and  her  immigrant  ancestor,  Henry 
Lyon,  was  a  soldier  under  Cromwell.  .Among 
their  children  was  William  Hayes. 

(I\')  William  Hayes,  son  of  William  and 
Sarah  (Lyon)  Murphy,  was  born  in  Newark. 
New  Jersey,  April  15,  1821,  and  died  October 
7,  1905.  He  was  educated  in  the  Newark 
public  schools  and  in  the  preparatory  school  at 


\\  ilbraham.  .Massachusetts,  after  leavmg  which 
he  graduated  from  the  Collegiate  Preparatory 
-School  at  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania.  He  passed 
the  first  seventeen  years  of  his  business  career 
in  Jersey  City,  and  the  rest  of  his  life  was 
spent  in  Newark,  the  city  of  his  birth.  At  one 
time  Air.  Murphy  was  elected  an  alderman 
from  the  third  ward  in  the  city  of  Newark, 
where  he  then  resided,  and  after  holding  this 
office  for  two  consecutive  terms  he  was  elected 
twice  a  member  of  the  house  of  assembly  for 
Essex  county.  From  childhood  his  religious 
affiliations  were  always  with  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  of  which  he  was  a  faithful 
and  consistent  member  for  more  than  three 
score  years.  He  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the 
General  Conference,  and  in  August,  1901,  went 
to  London,  England,  as  the  accredited  delegate 
from  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  North 
of  the  L'nited  States  to  the  Ecumenical  Council 
of  all  the  branches  of  that  denomination.  He 
was  interested  in  the  furtherance  of  the  plan 
for  raising  an  endowment  fund  the  interest  of 
which  should  be  devoted  to  the  support  of 
superannuated  ministers  of  the  Newark  Con- 
ference. He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
Society,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  was  one  of  the  managers 
of  the  organization.  He  married  (first)  x\bi- 
gail  Elizabeth  Hagar,  of  Bloomfield :  (second) 
Sarah  Richardson  Morgan,  of  Poughkeepsie. 
Children,  five  by  first  marriage:  i.  William 
.Augustus.  2.  Franklin,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Howard.  4.  Theodore.  5.  Robert.  Children 
of  second  marriage :  Henry  Morgan,  now 
dead,  and  a  daughter  Florence. 

(  \' )  Franklin,  son  of  William  Hayes  and 
.\bigail  Elizabeth  (Hagar)  Murphy,  was  born 
in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  January  3,  1846, 
and  is  now  living  in  Newark.  He  was  ten 
vears  old  when  his  parents  removed  to  the 
latter  city.  He  was  educated  in  the  well-known 
Newark  Academy,  which  he  left  in  July,  1862, 
in  order  to  enlist  in  the  Thirteenth  Regiment 
New  Jersey  Volunteers.  He  was  in  active 
service  until  the  close  of  the  war,  a  part  of  the 
time  being  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and 
the  remainder  of  his  term  in  the  west  under 
General  Sherman.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he 
was  mustered  out  as  first  lieutenant,  having 
been  promoted  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
service. 

In  1865  Mr.  Murphy  founded  the  firm  of 
Murphy  &  Company,  varnish  manufacturers  in 
Newark.  In  1891  the  company  was  incor- 
jjorated  as  the  Murphy  \'arnish  Company,  and 
since  that  time  Mr.  Murphy  has  been  its  presi- 


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(lent.  iM'uni  the  comniencenieiit  of  his  career 
lie  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  all  niunicii)al 
and  state  matters.  He  has  held  various  iniblic 
offices,  including  membership  in  the  common 
council  of  Newark  from  1883  to  1886.  being  at 
one  time  president  of  that  body;  and  in  1885 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  house  of  assembly, 
where  he  was  highly  regarded  as  a  conservative 
and  able  leader.  He  has  also  held  the  office  of 
park  commissioner  to  lay  out  and  complete  the 
parks  of  Essex  county.  As  a  trustee  for  the 
Reform  School  for  Boys  during  the  three  years 
term  beginning  March  24,  1886,  he  brought  to 
that  institution  all  the  benefits  of  his  business 
sagacity  antl  wide  experience.  He  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  McKinley  one  of  the 
commissioners  to  the  Paris  Universal  Exposi- 
tion of  1900.  He  has  been  called  upon  to 
assume  many  responsibilities  in  connection  with 
public  institutions,  banks,  societies  and  other 
organizations,  such  as  fall  to  the  lot  of  a  man 
(li  general  activities,  and  which  he  has  dis- 
charged in  a  manner  as  to  command  the  un- 
(jualified  approval  of  the  public.  Mr.  Murphy 
has  been  a  lifelong  Republican.  Since  1892  he 
has  been  chairman  of  the  Republican  state 
committee  of  New  Jersey,  and  during  his  chair- 
manship the  Re]niblican  cainpaigns  were  uni- 
formly successful  and  New  Jersey  was  brought 
prominently  into  the  list  of  the  Republican 
states.  Since  1900  he  has  also  been  a  member 
of  the  Republican  national  committee.  In  No- 
vember. 1901,  Mr.  Murphy  was  elected  gov- 
ernor of  New  Jersey  for  a  term  of  three  years 
over  James  ^I.  Seymour,  by  a  plurality  of 
seven  thousand  one  hundred  and  thirty-three 
vote.  He  entered  upon  his  office  at  the 
beginning  of  1902,  and  in  his  accession  to  the 
governor's  chair  New  Jersey  was  to  have  her 
first  experience  with  a  business  man  as  her 
chief  executive  of  state.  Governor  Murphy 
came  to  the  chief  magistracy  with  a  national 
rejnitation  as  a  captain  of  industry.  He  had 
planted  extensive  trade  posts  of  his  business 
in  Newark,  throughout  the  country,  and  across 
the  seas,  and  upon  his  election  the  people  of 
the  state  realized  that  public  affairs  were  to  be 
administered  rather  upon  the  newer  business 
lines  than  upon  the  conventional  technical  basis 
of  the  barrister's  profession.  With  a  business 
man's  instinct  Mr.  Murphy  had  devoted  him- 
self in  the  common  council  of  Newark  to  the 
betterment  of  the  city  he  had  been  called  upon 
to  serve.  In  the  character  of  his  work  for  his 
home  city  and  county  there  was  the  fore- 
shadowing that,  in  his  higher  station  as  chief 
executive  of   the  state,  something  substantial 


for  the  civic  and  communal  betterment  of  New 
Jersey  as  a  whole  was  to  be  obtained.  During 
the  three  years  of  his  administration  Governor 
Murphy  gave  his  own  characteristic  touches  to 
the  progress  of  the  state,  with  many  excellent 
results.  As  an  instance,  New  Jersey  is  now 
earning  $80,000  a  year  in  interest  upon  balances 
in  banks  that  before  his  time  had  had  free  use 
of  her  great  deposits.  The  conservation  of  the 
I'assaic  river  for  the  benefit  of  the  communities 
through  which  it  flows  was  promoted  by  his 
commission  to  devise  means  of  purifyijig  its 
waters.  The  state  departments,  which  had 
hitherto  been  unscrutinized,  were  obliged  to 
submit  their  books  to  the  inspection  of  a  state 
auditor :  an  assistant  attorney  general  was  for 
a  reasonable  compensation  set  to  doing  what 
had  previously  taken  a  long  line  of  special 
counsel  and  a  vast  expense  to  accomplish.  An 
efficient  system  of  factory  inspection  was  estab- 
lished which  did  more  than  anything  else  to 
put  an  end  to  child  labor  in  New  Jersey;  a 
tenement  house  commission  was  created  to  see 
that  light  and  air  were  let  into  the  homes  of 
the  poor  ;  and  then,  applying  the  business  man's 
[irinciple  of  having  safety  checks  to  the  nomi- 
nating methods  of  the  diflierent  political  parties, 
he  provided  the  people  with  an  open  primary 
system,  surrounded  by  all  the  safeguards  of  a 
regular  election. 

In  private  life  Governor  Murphy  is  an  ami- 
able, social  and  cultured  gentleman,  and  has 
not  allowed  his  business  and  political  afifairs  to 
engross  all  of  his  time.  He  has  given  special 
attention  to  the  development  of  the  patriotic 
societies  of  the  nation,  and  his  interest  in  the 
afifairs  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  is 
shown  in  membership  on  the  board  of  man- 
agers of  the  National  Home  for  Disabled  Vol- 
unteer Soldiers.  In  spite  of  his  large  afifairs 
and  the  many  responsibilities  upon  his  shoul- 
tlers,  Mr.  Murphy  has  still  found  time  to  culti- 
vate art  and  literature,  and  his  business  suc- 
cesses have  not  diverted  him  from  higher  pur- 
suits. A  uniform  courtesy  and  grace  of  man- 
ner and  geniality  of  disposition  inherent  to  the 
man  have  made  him  friendships  which  his 
(|ualities  of  heart  and  mind  have  never  failed 
to  hold  and  endear.  As  a  public  speaker  he 
has  a  persuasiveness  and  grace  that  lend  charm 
to  his  practical  business  views.  The  degree  of 
LL.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  in  1902  by 
both  Lafayette  College  and  Princeton  Univer- 
sitv.  He  is  a  tnember  of  the  more  important 
Newark  and  New  York  clubs,  also  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion;  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  of  which  he 


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STATE    OF    NEW   TERSEY. 


was  the  president  general  in  1809;  of  the  Soci- 
ety of  Colonial  Wars,  and  of  the  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati. 

Governor  AInrphy  married,  June  24,  1868, 
Janet,  born  December  30.  1842,  died  February 
10,  1904,  daughter  of  Israel  Day  and  Cath- 
erine Cox  Gale  (  Hoghland )  Colwell.  Two 
children  are  now  living  :  i.  Franklin,  born  No- 
vember 29,  1873;  married,  October  17,  1908. 
Harriet  Alexander  Long,  of  Chicago ;  he  is 
now  vice-president  of  the  Murphy  Varnish 
Company.  2.  Helen,  born  September  19,  1877; 
married.  June  8,  1901,  William  Burnet,  son  of 
Thomas  Talmage  and  Estelle  (  Condit )  Kinney 
(see  Kinnev  familv). 


This  family  originated  in  Eng- 
RIGElJ  )\\'     land,  and  was  of  a  distinctive 

stock  of  blended  German  and 
Scandinavian  blood.  The  founder  of  the  Amer- 
ican branch  was  actively  identified  with  the  be- 
ginnings of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  colony,  and 
his  descendants  were  prominent  figures  in  the 
development  of  the  other  colonies  and  states 
among  which  they  became  dispersed. 

fl)  John  Bigelow,  the  American  ancestor, 
born  in  Wrentham,  England,  in  16 17,  was  one 
of  the  early  settlers  in  Watertown,  Massachu- 
setts, which  was  founded  in  1630.  He  served 
in  the  Pe()uod  and  other  Indian  wars,  and  was 
of  such  prominence  that  he  was  called  to  vari- 
ous civil  offices  in  the  colony.  Soon  after  his 
coming  to  Watertown  he  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Warren,  of  the  "Mayflower"  com- 
pany. This  was  the  first  marriage  of  public 
record  in  Watertown,  and  from  it  came  lines 
of  descendants  in  all  the  New  England  and 
adjacent  states.  Among  his  children  were : 
John,  died  childless ;  and  Jonathan,  of  \Vhom 
further.    John  Bigelow  died  July  14,  1703. 

(II)  Jonathan,  son  of  John  Bigelow,  was 
born  in  Watertown.  December  11,  1646.  He 
married  Rebecca  Shepherd,  and  settled  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut.  Among  his  children  were 
Jonathan  and  John,  of  whom  further. 

(III)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Bigelow,  married  Mabel,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Timothy  Edwards.  Their  son  Timothy  was 
adjutant  in  the  Canada  expedition,  and  was 
father  of  Lieutenant  Timothy  Bigelow,  who 
died  at  Fort  Stanwix  in  1746,  and  from  them 
came  the  name  given  to  Colonel  Timothy  Bige- 
low, the  imtimate  associate  of  Otis  Warren 
and  other  |)atri()ts,  and  commandant  at  West 
Point  at  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war. 
The  name  also  descended  to  others  of  the  fam- 
ilv I  if  later  distinction. 


(Ill)  John  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i)  and 
Rebecca  ( Shepherd )  Bigelow,  was  born  in 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  in  1679.  His  father 
gave  him  a  farm  of  two  hundred  and  seventy 
acres  in  (jlastonbury.  Connecticut.  November 
13.  1709,  a  part  of  which  he  sold  December  23, 
17 16,  and  the  remainder  December  8,  1729.  He 
removed  to  Hanover,  New  Jersey,  about  1715, 
with  others  from  Connecticut,  who  sought  gold 
and  silver  ores,  and  settled  Whippany,  the 
oldest  town  in  Morris  county,  and  gave  its 
name  to  the  Pequannoc  river.  While  the  pre- 
cious metals  were  not  found,  iron  was  un- 
covered, and  the  Bigelows  were  ainong  the 
founders  of  the  iron  industry  in  New  Jersey. 
So  late  as  1769  John  and  Aaron,  grandsons  of 
John  Bigelow,  owned  and  operated  the  White 
Meadow  Forge,  near  Rockaway.  A  contract 
preserved  in  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Soci- 
ety's archives,  of  date  June  15,  1718,  between 
John  Bigelow  and  others,  locates  him  in  New- 
ark. In  1723  he  was  the  first  collector  of  Han- 
over, then  comprising  the  present  Morris  coun- 
ty. He  married.  January  11,  17 10,  in  Con- 
necticut, Abigail  Richards.  He  died  July  25, 
1733,  and  his  wife  September  5,  1749;  both 
are  buried  in  the  old  WhipiJany  burying-ground 
the  oldest  burying-ground  in  the  oldest  town 
in  Morris  county,  by  the  side  of  John  Rich- 
ards, who  donated  the  ground  for  burial  pur- 
poses. Children,  born  in  Whippany :  John, 
Daniel,  Samuel.  Jonathan,  Joshua,  and  daugh- 
ters. 

I  1\')  John  (3).  son  of  John  (2)  and  Abi- 
gail (  Richards )  Bigelow,  was  a  mine  owner 
and  farmer,  and  died  in  Whippany,  in  1773. 
Me  married  Elizabeth  Dickerson,  and  was  sur- 
vived by  sons  John,  Aaron,  Closes  and  Timo- 
thy, and  by  daughters.  A  memorial  in  the 
library  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society, 
the  "Pequannoc  Remonstrance,"  dated  May, 
1776,  signed  by  one  hundred  and  eighty  free- 
holders of  Pequannoc  township,  Morris  coun- 
tv.  expresses  in  forceful  terms  hostility  to  the 
liritish  crown,  and  affords  evidence  of  the  dis- 
lovaltv  of  the  influential  men  of  that  neighbor- 
IkkxI.  This  has  the  signatures  of  all  the  adults 
in  the  lligelow  family  in  Morris  county — • 
Daniel.  Josiah.  Aaron.  Jonathan  and  Jabez. 
nf  the  i>thers.  John  was  in  Canada:  Timothy 
and  Moses  were  not  of  age:  and  Samuel  and 
Jo-hua  were  living  elsewhere.  Samuel,  who 
was  in  Monmouth  county,  signed  a  similar 
document,  and  became  a  captain  in  the  naval 
service,  and  was  renowned  for  courage  and 
enterprise.  John  and  . Karon  were  captains  in 
the  niilitarv  service  and  ti.i'ik  part   in   variou-; 


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battles,  narratives  of  which  were  told  1)y  David 
Gordon,  a  revohitionary  soldier  of  Morris  coun- 
ty, and  are  contained  in  the  unpublished  manu- 
scripts of  Rev.  J.  F.  Tuttle,  D.  D.,  president  of 
Wabash  University,  in  possession  of  the  His- 
torical Society. 

(\')  Timothy,  son  of  John  (3)  and  Eliza- 
beth (Dickerson)  Bigelow,  was  born  in  Whip- 
[lany.  New  Jersey,  November  23,  1763.  At 
the  age  of  sixteen  he  volunteered  in  the  patriot 
army,  took  part  in  various  engagements,  and 
was  present  at  the  Yorktown  surrender.  After 
the  war  he  married  Hannah  Ogden  Meeker, 
and  established  his  home  at  Lyon's  Farms,  now 
Newark.  As  a  girl  his  wife  witnessed  warlike 
scenes,  and  often  fled  from  her  father's  house 
to  escape  from  British  and  Hessian  marauders. 
Mr.  Bigelow  was  of  reserved  and  quiet  disposi- 
tion and  devoted  to  his  family.  He  was  inter- 
ested in  educational  affairs,  and  for  some  years 
served  on  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  "Old 
Stone  School  House,"  a  neighborhood  land- 
mark. He  died  April  8,  1847.  3.ged  eighty- 
four  years,  and  his  wife  May  23,  1852,  aged 
eighty-six  years. 

(VI)  Moses,  only  son  of  Timothy  and  Han- 
nah Ogden  (Meeker)  Bigelow,  was  born  on 
the  family  homestead  at  Lyons  Farms  (New- 
ark ),  January  12,  1800.  He  attended  the  schools 
there  and  at  Elizabethtown.  Studious  and 
thoughtful,  in  his  youth  he  read  all  avail- 
able standard  works  and  excelled  in  various 
branches  of  knowledge,  especially  mathematics. 
He  read  law  in  a  desultory  way  in  the  office  of 
(iovernor  William  Pennington,  and  derived 
much  pleasure  from  this  pursuit.  On  arriving 
at  age  he  engaged  in  manufacturing,  with  which 
he  was  prominently  identified  for  more  than  a 
lialf  century.  His  activity  also  led  him  into 
various  important  enterprises.  In  1835,  with 
John  P.  Jackson  and  J.  M.  Meeker,  he  pro- 
cured the  incorporation  of  the  Morris  &  Essex 
railroad.  He  also  draughted  the  charter  of 
the  Mechanics'  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance 
Company,  long  a  prosperous  institution,  and 
was  an  incorporator  and  director  of  the  Bank 
of  Xew  Jersey,  the  Howard  Savings  Institu- 
tion, the  Firemen's  Insurance  Company,  the 
Republic  Trust  Company,  the  Citizens'  Gas 
Light  Company,  and  other  local  corporations, 
lie  was  for  many  years  an  efificient  trustee  of 
the  Trentnn  .Asylum  for  the  Insane,  under  ap- 
])ointnient  by  the  supreme  court,  and  was  the 
first  ]iresident  of  the  Xew  Jersey  Society  for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals. 

He  was  elected  in  185^)  first  Democratic 
mayor  of    X'ewark.   and   conducted   nnuiicipal 


affairs  with  so  great  wisdom  and  discretion 
that  he  was  re-elected  four  times.  He  was 
unusually  well  equipped  for  such  a  position. 
Cautious,  reticent,  infle])endent  and  firm,  his 
conduct  was  uniformly  even  and  correct  yet  his 
success  never  led  him  to  unseemly  self-asser- 
tion or  personal  ambition.  As  mayor  he  in- 
augurated a  system  of  block  maps  to  facilitate 
taxation  and  numbering  of  houses ;  procured 
the  establishment  of  sinking  funds  to  extinguish 
the  city  debt ;  brought  about  the  purchase  of 
private  water  rights  and  the  formation  of  the 
Newark  Aqueduct  Board  ;  organized  a  police 
department,  a  dispensary  of  medicines  for  the 
poor,  and  a  board  of  health;  and  directed  the 
codification  of  the  city  ordinances,  and  the 
modification  or  repeal  of  various  obnoxious 
ordinances.  During  the  civil  war  he  made  the 
financial  affairs  of  the  city  his  especial  care 
and  negotiated  all  public  loans,  and  it  is  high 
tribute  to  him  to  record  that  all  his  plans  were 
approved  and  adopted  by  the  common  council. 
In  person  he  had  an  impressive  presence :  he 
was  of  superior  intelligence  and  entire  sincerity, 
and,  withal,  liberal  in  benevolence.  He  was 
intensely  fond  of  literature,  and  his  evenings 
were  devoted  to  his  books  and  his  library.  He 
died  in  Newark,  January  10,  1874. 

Hon.  Moses  Bigelow  married,  February  4, 
1836,  Julia  Ann  Breckinridge  Fowler,  who  had 
the  advantages  of  the  best  associations  and 
schools  of  her  time,  in  Elizabethtown,  Morris- 
town  and  New  York,  and  the  social  benefits  of 
several  seasons  in  Washington  City  with  her 
father,  a  member  of  congress.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  the  accomplished  mineralogist,  Dr. 
Samuel  Fowler,  of  Franklin,  Sussex  county, 
and  granddaughter  of  Colonel  Mark  Thomp- 
son, officer  in  the  revolution,  deputy  in  the 
provincial  congress,  and  member  of  congress  in 
Washington's  time.  The  family  home  of  Air.  and 
Mrs.  Bigelow  was  at  1020  Broad  street.  New- 
ark. Children,  born  in  Newark:  1.  Samuel 
Fowler,  see  forward.  2.  Moses,  died  March 
26,  1897.  He  inherited  many  of  the  parental 
traits  of  character,  and  was  a  leading  citizen 
of  Newark  during  his  entire  active  career.  He 
was  a  promoter,  trustee  and  treasurer  of  the 
Newark  Technical  School;  trustee  and  treas- 
urer of  the  New  Jersey  Reform  School  for 
Boys :  and  a  governor  of  the  Essex  Club,  and 
member  of  the  Essex  Country  Club.  Lie  held 
several  official  jiositions  without  emoluments, 
and  was  several  times  a  delegate  to  Democratic 
national  and  state  conventions.  He  married 
I'"liza  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel 
I'liwler,   of    I'"ranklin.    .Sussex    count\',   grand- 


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daughter  of  General  julin  Alifllin  Brodhead, 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Colonel  Robert  Ogden,  of  New  Jersey.  Chil- 
dren :  Moses,  Frederic,  John  Ogden  and  Henri- 
etta. 3.  F'rederick,  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Newark,  much  interested  in  religion,  and  for 
a  time  treasurer  and  vestryman  of  Grace  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church.  After  traveling  ex- 
tensively for  his  health  he  died  at  his  home, 
"Alontrose,"  near  Newark,  July  13,  1871.  He 
married  Harriet  Van  Rensselaer  Bleecker,  of 
New  York.  Children :  Julia,  wife  of  Francis 
H.  Gellatly,  of  South  Orange ;  Harriet  Van 
Rensselaer,  and  Frederica.  4.  Josephine,  mar- 
ried John  C.  Kirtland,  of  East  Orange;  chil- 
dren: Josephine,  wife  of  Russell  Colgate,  of 
Llewellyn  ]'ark;  Alay,  and  Katherine  Camp- 
bell. 

(VIl)  Samuel  Fowler  Bigelow,  eldest  child 
of  Hon.  Moses  and  Julia  Ann  (Breckenridge) 
Bigelow,  was  prepared  for  college  at  Newark 
Academy,  Ashland  Hall  and  Freehold  Insti- 
tute. He  matriculated  at  Princeton  College  in 
1853.  and  graduated  in  1857.  After  the  pre- 
scribed course  of  law  studies  under  Amzi  Dodd, 
of  Newark,  and  Jehiel  G.  Shipman,  of  Belvi- 
dere,  he  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as 
an  attorney  at  law  in  i860,  and  as  a  counsellor 
in  1866.  He  was  subsequently  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  New  York  and  California,  and  of  vari- 
ous Federal  courts.  He  has  occupied  various 
positions  of  importance  in  the  line  of  his  pro- 
fession. He  was  elected  city  attorney  of  New- 
ark in  1863,  and  judge  of  the  Newark  city 
court  in  18C8.  He  also  received  appointments 
as  follows :  From  President  Cleveland,  as 
United  States  attorney  for  New  Jersey ;  from 
the  supreme  court  of  New  Jersey,  as  supreme 
court  commissioner ;  from  Chancellor  William 
T.  McGill,  as  special  master  in  chancery ;  from 
Judge  Andrew  Kirkpatrick,of  the  United  States 
district  court.  United  States  commissioner  for 
New  Jersey.  The  clistrict  courts  were  estab- 
lished chiefly  through  his  instrumentality,  but 
he  declined  the  position  of  judge  of  the  New- 
ark district  court  tendered  him  by  Governor 
Robert  S.  Green.  He  also  declined  the  posi- 
tion of  aide,  with  rank  of  colonel,  tendered 
him  by  Governor  Joseph  D.  Bedle.  Mr.  Bige- 
low is  now  actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  his  native  city  of  Newark. 
He  is  unmarried. 


The  mere  mention  of  the  busi- 
CLARK      ness    of    the    manufacturing    of 
cotton  goods  to  a  citizen  of  New- 
Jersey,  will  have  the  same  eti'ect  that  the  men- 


tion of  the  name  of  Slater  has  in  Rhode  Island, 
as  the  names  are  as  familiarly  connected  with 
the  cotton  industry  as  is  Watts  with  steam, 
Stephenson  with  the  railroad  locomotive,  I'ul- 
ton  with  the  steamboat,  and  Whitney  with  the 
cotton  gin. 

P'eter  Colt,  superintendent  of  the  first  cotton 
mill  established  in  New  Jersey  by  the  Society 
for  Establishing  Useful  Alanufactures,  and  of 
which  society  Alexander  Hamilton  was  an 
enthusiastic  patron,  wrote  and  signed  a  certifi- 
cate, dated  August  22,  1817,  in  which  he  testi- 
fies that  he  (Mr.  Clark)  "made  in  company 
with  a  partner  who  worked  in  iron  and  brass, 
all  the  valuable  machinery  in  the  first  cotton 
mill  that  was  ever  erected  in  this  part  of  the 
country,  and  the  first  (as  I  believe )  that  was 
worked  in  America."  He  further  states  in  the 
same  certificate,  "Mr.  Clark  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  this  town  ever  since  the  period  first 
mentioned  (1794),  and  has  always  carried  on 
the  business  of  making  machines  for  spinning 
both  cotton  and  the  wool  of  sheep,  and  is  a 
very  able  mechanic  and  an  industrious  citizen." 
This  machinist,  cotton  and  wool  manufacturer 
and  early  fitter  up  of  the  first  cotton  mill  in 
New  Jersey  was  John  Clark,  of  whom  further. 

( I )  John  Clark,  the  immigrant,  was  born  in 
Renfrewshire,  Scotland,  May  21,  1763.  He 
was  brought  up  to  the  machinist's  trade  and 
learned  to  make  and  set  up  looms  in  the  cotton 
and  woolen  mills  of  his  native  country.  Gen- 
eral Alexander  Hamilton,  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Society  for  Establishing  Useful  Manu- 
factures in  the  United  States,  was  a  personal 
friend  of  Mr.  Clark  and  advised  him  to  come 
to  America  to  assist  the  society  in  their  w-ork. 
He  embarked  with  his  wife,  Jane  Slater,  a 
native  of  Sterlingshire,  Scotland,  born  May  i, 
1768,  and  who  died  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
May  30,  1838,  and  their  two  children,  Jane  and 
John  Jr.,  both  born  in  Renfrewshire,  Scotland, 
and  they  landed  in  New  York  in  1794,  after  a 
long  and  tiresome  voyage  in  a  sailing  vessel. 
The  society  under  whose  auspices  the  venture 
was  made,  sent  the  family  to  Paterson,  where 
they  established  a  home  and  the  father  began 
the  manufacture  of  cotton  spinners  and  looms. 
He  formed  a  partnership  with  a  fellow  country- 
man who  is  described  above  as  a  worker  in 
iron  and  brass,  one  Mcllwhame,  and  March  18, 
1799.  the  firm  of  Mcllwhame  &  Clark  render- 
ed an  account  for  services  rendered  to  the  soci- 
ety to  the  amount  of  two  thousand  one  hundred 
and  one  pounds  four  shillings  two  pence.  Mr. 
Clark,  besides  manufacturing  machinery  for 
cotton  and  woolen  mills,  engaged  prominently 


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in  tlie  niamitacture  of  woolen  fabrics,  and  in 
fact  became  the  principal  founder  of  the  textile 
industry  in  I'aterson,  where  he  died,  October 
12,  1830. 

Tlie  children  of  John  and  Jane  (Slater) 
Clark,  with  the  exception  of  the  first  two  born 
in  Renfrewshire,  Scotland,  were  born  in  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Jane,  October 
5,  1791  ;  married  Robert  Cunningham,  a  ma- 
chinist, of  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  where  she 
died  August  6,  1863.  2.  John  Jr.,  March  4, 
1793:  became  first  secretary  of  the  Society  for 
Establishing  Useful  Manufactures,  and  with 
Thomas  Rogers  became  manufacturer  of  cot- 
ton looms  in  the  "Eieaver  Mill,"  erected  by  his 
father  soon  after  his  arrival.  The  firm  of 
Goodwin,  Clark  &  Rogers  continued  through- 
out the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and  became 
known  as  the  Rogers  Locomotive  Works,  and 
was  very  ]:)rofitably  conducted.  He  died  in 
Paterson,  April  3,  1841.  3.  William  I^.,  Octo- 
ber 5.  1795:  managed  the  store  connected  with 
the  cotton  factory,  fitted  up  by  his  father  for 
Peter  Colt,  and  subsequently  became  book- 
keeper for  Rogers,  Ketcham  &  Grosvenor, 
builders  of  steam  locomotives.  He  died  in 
Paterson,  November  9,  1859.  4.  Robert,  Sep- 
tember 22,  1798;  died  March  9,  1869.  5. 
Elisha  Boudinot,  Alay  30,  1801  :  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Clark  &  Robinson,  cot- 
ton spinners,  and  occupied  the  mill  site  now 
owned  by  the  Ivanhoe  Paper  Mill.  He  was  a 
man  of  influence,  held  various  prominent  local 
offices  in  Paterson,  and  represented  the  district 
in  the  legislature  of  New  Jersey.  He  died  in 
Paterson,  March  i,  1842.  6.  Alexander,  Octo- 
ber 17,  1803:  died  in  Paterson;  we  find  no 
record  of  date  of  death.  7.  Henry  (q.  v.).  8. 
Edward  (twin  of  Henry),  February  14,  1807; 
worked  as  a  machinist  in  the  shop  of  his 
brother  John,  and  in  1826  established  an  iron 
foundry  in  Paterson  at  the  corner  of  Mulbury 
and  River  streets,  and  in  1829,  in  company  with 
his  brother  Henry,  engaged  in  the  hardware 
business,  which  included  mill  supplies.  He 
married,  November  8,  1828,  Ann,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  Mclntyre,  of  New  York  City. 
She  was  born  May  26,  1812,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 7,  1868.  They  had  two  children  :  Morton, 
who  succeeded  his  uncle,  Henry,  in  the  hard- 
ware business,  and  Livingston,  born  April  22, 
1841,  died  October  14,  1857.  Edward  Clark 
died  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  May  15,  1875. 

HP)  Henry,  sixth  son  and  seventh  child  of 
John  and  Jane  (Slater)  Clark,  was  born  in 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  February  14,  1807.  He 
was  a  pujiil  in  the  public  school  of  his  native 


city,  and  while  quite  young  worked  as  a  ma- 
chinist. In  1829  he  engaged  in  the  hardware 
business  in  partnership  with  his  brother  Ed- 
ward, and  the  business  of  "Clarks'  Hardware 
Store"  was  continued  for  forty-six  years  by 
the  twin  brothers.  He  was  a  man  of  high 
character,  and  an  elder  in  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  of  Paterson.  He  died  at  Pater- 
son,  August  9,    1875.     He  married,   in   May, 

1842,  Catherine  Van  Winkle,  born  March  i, 
1816,  died  September  6,  1877,  daughter  of  Edo 
antl  Jane  (  Van  Houton)  Van  Winkle,  of  Pater- 
son, New  Jersey.  Catherine  \'an  Winkle  was 
of  the  seventh  generation  in  line  of  descent 
frt>m  Jacob  \'an  Winkle,  who  came  from  Hol- 
land in  1684  and  settled  in  Bergen  county. 
New  Jersey.     (See  Van  Winkle).     Children: 

1.  Henry  Irving,  born  July  10,  1843  !  see  below. 

2.  John  Edo,  born  April  28,  1845;  mentioned 
below.  3.  Mary,  born  June  2,  1848;  married, 
Sejitember  2"/,  1871,  Andrew  Kerr;  children, 
born  at  Ilchester,  I3altimore  coimty,  Maryland : 
i.  Mary  Clark,  August  19,  1872,  died  Novem- 
ber 2~,  1873:  ii.  Annie  Couper,  born  October 
21,  1873,  married,  June  23,  1905,  Chauncy 
( )wens  Ransom ;  iii.  Katherine  Van  Winkle, 
born  September  17,  1876,  now  residing  in  Dun- 
murry,  county  Antrim.  Ireland,  married,  June 
16.  1908,  Edward  Percy  Richardson,  child — 
Eleanor  Coates,  born  March  22,  19CX) ;  iv. 
Henry  Clark,  born  May  8,  1878,  married,  June; 
7,  1905,  Emma  Pounds,  child — John  Clark, 
born  May  20,  1907 :  v.  William  Morris,  born 
July  22.  1879,  married,  .April  24.  1907,  Mercy 
Elizabeth  Niblock,  child — William  Morris  Jr., 
born  July  15,  1909.  4.  Catherine,  born  De- 
cember 3.  1850:  married,  December  i,  1886, 
Rev.  George  Bothwell,  who  died  May  3,  1891 ; 
children  :  i.  Mary  Clark,  born  December  5, 
1887;  ii.  .Ada,  born  December  23,  1889.  5. 
David  Burnett,  born  January  24,  1854;  resides 
in  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  6.  William  Livings- 
ton, born  May  11.  1857  :  see  below. 

(Ill)  Henry  Irving  Clark,  son  of  Henry 
(q.  v.)  and  Catherine  (Van  Wrinkle)  Clark, 
was  born  at  Paterson.  New  Jersey,  July   10, 

1843.  He  attended  various  private  schools  in 
his  native  city  up  to  September,  1855,  under 
the  tuition  of  Garret  J.  Hopper,  when  the  pub- 
lic schools  were  started  there  with  first-class 
teachers  in  all  departments.  The  grammar 
school  which  he  entered  was  in  charge  of  Pro- 
fessor Samuel  C.  Hosford  as  ])rincii)al,  a  very 
superior  teacher.  He  remained  a  pupil  in  the 
public  schools  until  1857,  at  the  same  time 
studying  Latin,  as  only  English  was  taught  in 
the  schools,   special   attention   being  given   to 


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mathematics.  In  September,  1857,  h<^  entered 
the  classical  school  of  Professor  Theodore 
Ryerson,  and  commenced  preparation  for  col- 
lege. In  March,  1859,  his  father  requested  him 
to  relinquish  the  idea  of  going  to  college,  and 
requested  him  to  enter  the  hardware  store  of 
E.  &  H.  Clark,  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in  the 
capacity  of  clerk.  He  remained  in  that  posi- 
tion until  March,  i860,  when  he  secured  a  posi- 
tion with  T.  Ketcham  &  Company,  stock  bro- 
kers, at  No.  I  lianover  street.  New  York  City. 
The  following  year,  1861,  with  the  commence- 
ment of  the  civil  war,  a  much  greater  activity 
was  started  in  Wall  street  in  stocks  and  bonds 
than  this  country  had  ever  experienced  before. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  firm  of  T.  Ketcham  & 
Company  in  the  early  part  of  1864,  and  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Ex- 
change in  November,  1864.  He  continued  his 
connection  with  the  firm  until  May,  1867,  when 
the  firm  was  dissolved.  That  same  month 
he  entered  into  partnership  with  \\^illiam  P. 
Ketcham,  under  the  firm  name  of  Ketcham  & 
Clark,  stock  brokers.  In  1868  his  brother, 
John  Edo  Clark,  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
under  the  same  firm  name,  and  this  relation 
continued  until  1874  when  the  firm  was  dis- 
solved. In  that  same  year  was  formed  the 
firm  of  H.  &  J.  Clark,  composed  of  Henry 
Irving  and  John  Edo  Clark,  both  members  of 
the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  which  remain- 
ed in  existence  until  February,  1893,  when 
John  E.  Clark  retired  from  business.  In  that 
same  month  Henry  I.  Clark  formed  the  firm 
of  Henry  I.  Clark  &  Company,  composed  of 
Henry  1.  Clark.  Herbert  H.  Clark,  Elisha  T. 
Everett.  Henry  L.  Clark  was  admitted  to 
membership  in  1897  and  Josiah  H.  Clark  in 
1902.  On  October  7,  1905,  E.  T.  Everett  re- 
tired from  the  firm.  The  firm  of  Henry  I. 
Clark  &  Company,  stock  brokers,  is  still  in 
existence  at  No.  80  Broadway,  New  York 
City.  Mr.  Clark  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
having  cast  his  first  vote  for  Lincoln  and  John- 
son in  November,  1864.  He  has  never  held 
public  office,  preferring  to  devote  his  time  and 
attention  to  business.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  the  Redeemer  (Presbyterian),  of 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  and  a  member  of  the 
Hamilton  Club,  of  Paterson. 

Mr.  Clark  married,  April  13,  1870,  Ada 
Huntoon.  born  .August  14,  1849.  daughter  of 
Josiah  P.  and  Sarah  M.  (Doremus)  Huntoon. 
Children  :  i.  Herbert  Huntoon,  born  March  7, 
1871  :  married.  June  23,  1897,  Elspah  John- 
son,of  P>ethlehem,  Pennsylvania  :  child — Henry 
Irving    (2),  born    .April    24,    1899.      2.   Josiah 


Huntoon,  born  December  4,  1873.  3-  Henry 
Livingston,  born  February  11,  1876;  married, 
September  12,  Kpo,  Sarah  Fifield,  of  Pater- 
son ;  children:  Edward  Fifield,  born  July  21, 
1903;  Sarah  Margaret,  born  December  14, 
1905.  4.  Meta,  born  June  15,  1879;  mar- 
ried, April  5,  1906,  Clifton  F.  Leatherbee,  of 
West  Newton,  Massachusetts  ;  child — Kath- 
erine,  born  March  2,  1907.  5.  Florence,  born 
October  21,  1882:  married,  April  13,  1905, 
Roger  C.  Turner,  of  Paterson;  children:  .Ada 
Ann.  born  June  I,  1906;  Roger  Chamberlain, 
September  1 1,  1909. 

(  III )  John  Edo  Clark,  second  son  of  Henry 
and  Catherine  (Van  Winkle)  Clark,  was  born 
at  Paterson.  New  Jersey,  April  28,  1845.  His 
elementary  educational  training  was  in  the  best 
private  and  select  schools  of  Paterson  under 
the  best  instruction,  and  this  was  supplemented 
by  a  course  in  the  public  schools.  He  ranked 
high  in  his  studies  and  graduated  from  the  Pat- 
erson high  school  in  i860.  Shortly  afterward  he 
entered  the  employ  of  E.  &  H.  Clark  as  clerk  in 
their  hardware  store,  remaining  about  four 
\-cars.  Desiring  to  enter  the  mercantile  world 
and  make  a  mark  for  himself,  he  began  a  clerk- 
ship in  the  office  of  T.  Ketcham  &  Company, 
bankers  and  stock  brokers,  at  No.  i.  Hanover 
street.  New  York,  during  the  civil  war,  when 
the  brokerage  business  was  at  its  height.  By 
strict  attention  to  the  business  in  all  its  details 
and  by  his  probity  he  rose  to  positions  of 
greater  responsibility  and  remuneration,  be- 
coming thoroughly  familiar  in  the  purchase  and 
sale  of  stocks  and  bonds  of  the  New  York 
Stock  P'xchange.  In  1868  he  was  admitted  a 
partner  in  the  banking  house  of  Ketcham  & 
Clark,  the  firm  having  been  formed  in  May, 
1867.  by  Henry  I.  Clark,  a  brother  of  Mr. 
Clark,  and  William  P.  Ketcham.  The  three 
partners  continued  in  active  and  prosperous 
l)usiness  until  1874,  when  the  firm  was  dis- 
solved and  the  two  brothers,  Plenry  I.  and 
John  E.  Clark,  entered  into  partnership  under 
the  firm  name  of  H.  &  J.  Clark,  with  quarters 
at  Xo.  66  Broadway,  and  later  removed  to 
Wall  street,  where  the  business  was  continued 
under  that  name  until  1893.  when  Mr.  Clark 
retired,  although  he  held  his  seat  in  the  New 
A'ork  Stock  Exchange  until  1900,  when  he  sold 
it  and  retired  from  all  active  business.  Mr. 
Clark  believed  in  outdoor  exercise  and  recrea- 
tion, and  became  an  ardent  and  active  member 
of  the  North  Jersey  Golf  Club,  in  which  he 
held  membership  since  its  organization.  He 
was  a  much  respected  member  of  the  Hamilton 
Club,  the  leading  social  organization  of  Pater- 


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son,  taking  a  deep  interest  in  its  welfare.  In 
piilitical  preferment  he  was  a  Republican  of  the 
tr\ie  type  that  never  sought  public  office. 

In  social  as  well  as  in  private  life  Mr.  Clark 
was  a  model  man.  At  home  he  was  the  center 
of  the  affection  of  Iiis  sister's  family,  where 
for  twenty-three  years  he  watched  over  the 
welfare  of  her  children  with  the  tenderness  of 
a  fond  parent.  In  the  church,  whicji  was  his 
suj)reme  delight,  he  was  a  pillar,  the  same  in 
which  his  father  had  been  an  elder.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
stood  loyal  to  its  interests  when  others  with- 
drew from  it.  The  religious  element  in  his 
character  was  positive  and  of  a  high  type.  He 
was  a  close  student  of  the  faith  of  his  fathers, 
yet  was  free  from  all  cant  and  narrowness. 
and  preserved  through  his  life  the  pre-eminent 
christian  character.  John  Edo  Clark  died  at 
his  residence  on  Hamilton  avenue.  November 
7,  1909.  To  those  who  knew  him  best  he  was 
most  strongly  endeared.  His  very  goodness 
made  him  noble  and  placed  him  on  that  plane 
above  the  common  run  of  mankind.  .Always 
of  the  kindest  and  most  lovable  nature,  John 
E.  Clark  was  indeed  a  noble  man.  It  was  en- 
nobling to  know  him  and  to  appreciate  him. 
He  was  just  to  all  and  guarded  in  his  word. 
"None  were  ever  wounded  by  word  or  act  of 
his.  and  his  many  excellent  (|ualities  of  lieart 
and  mind  shone  brightly.'' 

(HI)  William  Livingston  Clark,  youngest 
child  of  Henry  and  Catherine  ( Van  Winkle ) 
Clark,  was  born  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  May 
IT,  1857.  He  attended  the  Paterson  public 
scliDcjls.  and  this  was  supplemented  by  a  course 
at  the  Paterson  Seminary,  where  he  prepared 
for  college,  entering  the  University  of  the  City 
of  New  York,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1877.  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  .\rts. 
He  subsequently  received  from  the  same  insti- 
tution, the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1879. 
During  this  time  he  took  a  course  at  the  Colum- 
bia Law  School  in  New  York  City,  and  grad- 
uated in  1879  with  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  New  York  bar  in  June, 
1879.  and  began  the  jjractice  of  law  with 
Thomas  Darlington,  with  offices  at  No.  7  Beek- 
nian  street.  New  York  City.  Mr.  Clark  has  con- 
tinued in  active  practice  in  the  city  of  New  York 
cdutinuously  since  that  time.  He  was  admitted  to 
practice  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  at  law 
by  the  supreme  court  of  New  Jersey,  where  he 
has  been  largely  engaged  in  the  court  of  chan- 
cery. Mr.  Clark  was  a  resident  of  Paterson. 
New  Jersev,  from  his  birth  until  February  23. 
1885.  when  he  was  uniteil  in  marriage  to  ^lary 


E.  Si)encer.  and  removed  to  Brooklyn.  New 
York,  where  he  resided  until  April  of  the  fol- 
lowing year,  when  he  removed  to  Passaic,  New 
Jersey.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  erect  a 
residence  in  his  section  of  the  city,  and  became 
active  in  promoting  and  improving  the  locality 
which  has  become  the  finest  residential  section 
of  l^assaic.  He  has  taken  an  active  interest  in 
the  conduct  of  the  public  affairs  of  Passaic 
for  a  number  of  years,  relating  to  the  growth 
and  development  of  the  city,  and  assisted  in 
the  formation  of  the  Citizens'  Association  and 
Board  of  Trade,  of  Passaic.  He  was  instru- 
mental with  others  in  forming  and  organizing 
the  Passaic  Club,  and  became  its  first  trea3urer 
and  second  president.  In  addition  to  the  Pas- 
saic Club  he  holds  membership  in  the  .\cquack- 
anonk  Club,  of  Passaic  ;  the  Yountakat  Coun- 
try L'lub.  and  the  Lotos  Club,  of  New  York 
L'ity.  In  religicjn  Mr.  Clark  retains  the  faith 
of  liis  ancestors,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Pas- 
saic Presbyterian  Church,  having  served  that 
body  as  its  trustee  for  fifteen  years.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  served  the  third  ward 
of  his  city  as  councilman  from  1890  to  1893. 

Mr.  Clark  married  at  Paterson.  New  Jersey, 
I-'ebruary  25.  1885.  Mary  E..  born  December  i, 
1861, daughter  of  Lucius  F.  and  Caroline  (Deni- 
son  )  Spencer.  Lucius  F.  Spencer  is  a  prominent 
resident  of  Passaic.  New  Jersey,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Michael  Spencer,  a  brother  of  Will- 
iam Spencer,  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  the 
early  New  England  ancestor.  The  only  child 
of  this  marriage  is  Marv  .Alice,  born  at  Passaic, 
.New  jersey,  Julv  26,  r88('i. 


The  name  Worthing- 
WORTIHNGTON    ton    is    derived    from 

three  Saxon  words, 
"Wearth  in  ton,"  that  is.  "Farm  in  town." 
signifying  a  farm  wdfich  formed  part  of  a 
town  or  village,  and  as  a  surname  was  derived 
from  the  town  or  locality  where  those  assum- 
ing it  resided  at  the  time  surnames  were  adopt- 
ed. Twenty  miles  northeast  of  Liverpool,  in 
the  county  of  Lancaster,  England,  is  the  town 
or  village  of  Worthington.  in  the  hundred  of 
Ledyard,  [larish  of  Standish.  Here  and  in 
the  adjoining  territory  resided  the  family  of 
Worthington,  founded  in  that  name  in  the  time 
of  the  Plantaganets,  and  for  many  generations 
of  high  repute,  the  elder  male  line  being  traced 
back  to  W'orthington  de  Worthington.  who  was 
proprietor  of  Worthington  Manor  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  HI..  1236-37.  and  was  the  progenitor 
of  all  the  Worthingtons  of  Lancashire.  The 
old  manor  house  of  Worthington,  the  residence 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


of  the  family  for  seven  years,  was  pulled  down 
abont  a  half  century  ago. 

In  the  first  quarter  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury we  find  John,  Thomas  and  Samuel  Worth- 
ington  resident  in  Byberry  township,  Philadel- 
phia county,  Pennsylvania,  all  members  of  the 
Society  of  Friends,  at  Abington  monthly  meet- 
ing, but  worshipping  at  the  old  Byberry  meet- 
inghouse, then  under  the  jurisdiction  of  Ab- 
ington monthly  meeting.  Tradition  relates  that 
they  were  all  natives  of  Lancashire,  and  that 
they  came  to  Pennsylvania  about  1703.  How- 
ever, since  none  of  them  were  more  than  ten 
years  of  age  at  that  date,  if  the  statement  is 
true  they  must  have  been  accompanied  to  this 
country  by  parents  or  other  relatives  in  the 
nature  of  guardians. 

(I)  John  W'orthington,  ancestor  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Lancashire, 
England,  about  the  year  1697.  He  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Byberry  township.  Philadelphia  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  when  he  married  there,  in 
1720,  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  ]\Iary 
(Paxson)  Walmsley,  of  Byberry,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Walmsley, 
who  with  their  six  minor  children  were  among 
a  group  of  members  of  Settle  monthly  meeting, 
Lancashire,  who  secured  a  certificate  from  that 
meeting  in  1682,  and,  removing  to  Pennsyl- 
vania, settled  in  Bucks  county,  where  Thomas 
died  soon  after  his  arrival.  John  W'orthing- 
ton's  name  ap[)ears  among  the  list  of  the  mem- 
bers of  Byberry  preparative  meeting  who  con- 
tributed to  the  fund  for  maintaining  the  poor 
in  1721,  and  he  continued  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  that  section  until  his  death,  January 
14.  1777,  at  about  the  age  of  eighty  years. 
John  W'orthington  was  a  weaver  and  farmer, 
and  spent  his  whole  adult  life  on  his  plantation 
in  the  northern  end  of  Byberry  township.  His 
wife,  Mary  I  Walmsley )  W'orthington,  died 
April  18,  1754.  The  births  of  their  six  sons 
and  five  daughters  are  of  record  on  the  registry 
of  Abington  monthly  meeting.  Five  of  the 
sons  and  at  least  three  of  the  daughters  mar- 
ried and  reared  children,  and  all  have  left 
numerous  descendants.  Three  of  the  sons, 
A\'illiam.  Isaac  and  Joseph,  removed  in  middle 
life  to  that  part  of  Buckingham  township, 
Bucks  county.  bor<lcring  on  W^rightstown  town- 
ship, and  many  of  the  descendants  of  William 
and  Joseph  have  ever  since  been  residents  of 
these  two  townships.  Isaac  removing  later  to 
Chester  county. 

(II")  William,  sixth  cliild  and  third  son  of 
Thomas  and  Mary  (Walmsley)  Worthington, 
was   born   in    Byberry   township.   Philadelphia 


county,  Pennsylvania,  September  20,  1732,  and 
continued  to  reside  in  that  township  until  1770, 
when  he  removed  to  Buckingham  township. 
Bucks  county,  whither  he  had  been  preceded 
by  his  two  younger  brothers,  Joseph  and  Isaac. 
He  purchased  a  farm  on  the  line  of  Wrights- 
town  township  of  his  brother  Isaac,  and  later 
purchased  considerable  other  land  adjoining, 
I)artly  in  both  townships,  and  became  one  of 
the  principal  landowners  and  prominent  men 
of  his  section.  He  was  a  birthright  member 
of  Abington  monthly  meeting  of  Friends,  but 
was  married  at  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church, 
of  \orth  and  Southampton,  March  18,  1764, 
to  Esther  Homer,  also  a  member  of  Abing- 
ton meeting.  For  this  breach  of  the  "good 
order  maintained  among  Friends"  complaint 
was  brought  to  the  monthly  meeting  by  By- 
berry meeting,  December  31,  1764,  and  they 
were  "dealt  with''  by  the  meeting,  but  finally 
acknowledged  their  sorrow  for  the  breach  of 
discipline  in  a  manner  satisfactory  to  the  meet- 
ing. L)n  December  30,  1770,  they  obtained  a 
certificate  which  included  their  four  minor 
children,  Mary,  William,  Jesse  and  John,  to 
W'riglitstown  monthly  meeting,  Bucks  county, 
with  which  they  and  their  descendants  were 
thereafter  associated  to  the  present  time.  There 
other  children,  Benjamin,  Hiram  and  Esther, 
were  born  to  them  in  Buckingham.  W'illiam 
Worthington  died  on  his  plantation  in  Lower 
Buckingham,  near  the  present  village  of  Wy- 
combe, December  6,  1816,  in  the  eighty-fifth 
year  of  his  age.  His  widow  Esther  survived 
until  January  2^.  1832,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine  years. 

I  HI )  Benjamin,  son  of  W'illiam  and  Esther 
( Homer )  Worthington,  was  born  in  Bucking- 
ham township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania, 
soon  after  the  settlement  of  his  parents  in  that 
township,  about  the  year  1771.  He  married, 
October  21,  1795.  Mary,  daughter  of  Wat- 
son and  Ruth  (Bradshaw)  Welding,  of  the 
"Rush  \'alley  Mills,"  Wrightstown  township, 
and  took  up  his  residence  on  a  portion  of  his 
father's  plantation  in  Buckingham,  which  he 
inherited  at  his  father's  death  in  1816.  He  died 
in  Buckingham,  April  26,  1852.  He  and  his 
wife  were  members  of  Wrightstown  Friends' 
meeting,  on  the  registry  of  which  appears  the 
record  of  the  birth  of  their  eight  children,  four 
of  whom  died  before  their  parents.  Mary 
(Welding)  Worthington  died  September  i. 
1840.  She  was  a  great-granddaughter  of  Ely 
Welding,  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  who  came 
to  I'nckingham  from  .\bington  in  1723  and 
died  there  about  1760,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth 


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Beale.  Juhii  Welding,  son  of  Ely,  married 
Hannah  Watson,  of  Chesterfield,  Burlington 
county.  New  jersey,  in  1747,  and  settled  there 
tlie  following  year.  He  died  prior  to  1760, 
and  his  son  Watson  Welding  returned  to  Buck- 
ingham and  married,  in  1771,  Ruth,  daughter 
of  James  and  Ruth  (  Lowder )  Bradshaw,  of 
L'pper  liuckinghani.  He  inherited  the  lands  of 
his  grandfather  in  Buckingham,  but  in  1793 
purchased  the  historic  old  mills  at  Rushland. 
long  known  as  Mitchell's  Mills,  in  Wrights- 
town,  on  the  old  Swamp  road.  Watson  Weld- 
ing died  in  Wrightstown,  December  6,  1817. 
His  wife  Ruth  died  August  19,  1804. 

(  1\  )  Amasa.  fourth  child  and  eldest  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Mary  (  \Velding)  Worthington, 
was  born  in  Lower  Buckingham,  Bucks  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  January  11,  1802.  On  April 
7,  1832,  his  father  and  mother  conveyed  to 
him  the  homestead  farm,  on  which  he  resided 
until  185 1,  when  he  purchased  a  large  farm 
at  the  Chain  Bridge  over  the  Neshaminy.  in 
\\  rightstown,  extending  across  the  Neshaminy 
into  Northampton  township,  and  settled  there- 
on. He  owned  at  different  periods  several 
other  properties  in  Buckingham,  and  was  prom- 
inent in  the  affairs  of  the  community  in  which 
he  lived.  He  married  Amy,  daughter  of  John 
Spencer,  of  a  family  long  prominent  in  mid- 
dle Bucks  county,  and  both  were  active  and 
consistent  members  of  Wrightstown  Friends' 
meeting.  He  died  on  his  plantation  at  Chain 
Bridge,  in  Wrightstown,  August  21,  1877.  Am- 
asa and  Amy  (Spencer)  Worthington  had 
seven  children  who  survived  them,  viz. :  Sarah, 
widow  of  James  Slack,  deceased,  a  veteran  of 
the  civil  war ;  Mary  Louise,  unmarried ;  Thad- 
deus  S.,  born  P'ebruary  19,  1840,  a  farmer  in 
Warwick  township,  Bucks  county;  Benjamin, 
who  acquired  the  Chain  Bridge  homestead  at 
the  death  of  his  father  in  1877,  and  died  there 
ten  years  later:  Lucretia  ^L,  wife  of  Henry  C. 
Buckman.  farmer  of  W^rightstown  ;  John  Spen- 
cer, of  whom  presently  ;  and  Annie,  unmarried. 
Mrs.  Sarah  { AV'orthington)  Slack  and  her  two 
unmarried  sisters,  Mary  Louise  and  Annie 
Worthington.  have  resided  since  the  death  of 
their  brother  Benjamin  at  106  Chancellor  street, 
Newtown.  Bucks  county. 

f\')  John  Spencer,  sixth  child  and  youngest 
son  of  Amasa  and  Amy  (Spencer)  Worthing- 
ton, was  born  in  Buckingham  township,  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania.  March  15,  1848,  but  was 
reared  on  the  old  homestead  at  Chain  Bridge, 
Wrightstown  township,  where  his  parents  re- 
moved when  he  was  three  years  of  age.     He 


received  his  education  in  the  public  schools, 
and  when  a  young  man  engaged  in  the  ice  busi- 
ness,erecting  large  ice  houses  on  theNeshaminy. 
near  Neshaminy  Falls,  and  shipping  the  ice  to 
Philadelphia,  where  he  did  a  large  and  profitable 
business.  In  1899  h^  organized  the  Jefi'erson  Ice 
Manufacturing  Company,  of  which  he  was  pres- 
ident until  his  death  in  1905.  This  company  was 
the  largest  retail  ice  dealers  in  Philadelphia.  He 
also  established  and  carried  on  a  large  coal  and 
feed  business  in  Philadelphia.  In  1904  Mr. 
Worthington  removed  to  Burlington,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  established  the  plant  of  the  Diamond 
Plate  Ice  Company,  manufacturing  ice  exclu- 
sively from  water  drawn  froiu  artesian  wells. 
He  died  at  Burlington,  September  29,  1905. 
John  Spencer  Worthington  married,  Novem- 
ber I,  1881,  Clara  Delany,  born  at  Hunting- 
don X'alley,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania, 
September  18,  1853,  daughter  of  William  R. 
Delany  (died  December  24,  1909),  and  of  a 
family  long  resident  in  lower  Bucks  and  Mont- 
gomery counties.  She  is  now  living  at  No.  113 
East  Union  street,  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
Children  of  John  Spencer  and  Clara  (Delany) 
Worthington:  i.  Henry  Delany  W'orthington. 
subject  of  this  sketch.  2.  S.  Cameron  Spencer 
W'orthington,  born  in  Philadelphia,  February, 
i88f);  now  paying  teller  in  the  Central  Trust 
and  Savings  Fund,  of  Philadelphia.  He  mar- 
rietl  Charlotte  McKensie,  of  Somerton,  Phila- 
delphia, and  has  two  children — Murrell  Mere- 
dith Worthington,  and  .Mice  Minerva  W^orth- 
ington. 

( \'I  )  Henry  Delany,  eldest  son  of  John 
Spencer  and  Clara  (Delany)  Worthington,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  February  18,  1883.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
later  entered  the  famous  William  Penn  Char- 
ter School  of  that  city,  and  graduated  from 
Dean  Academy,  Franklin.  Massachusetts.  On 
leaving  the  latter  institution  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion in  the  Ivlerchants'  National  Bank,  of  I'hil- 
adelphia,  but  soon  after  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  management  of  the  ice  busi- 
ness at  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  and  at  the 
latter's  death  took  entire  charge  of  the  busi- 
ness and  has  since  conducted  it  with  eminent 
success.  Henry  Delany  Worthington  married, 
June  30,  1908,  Mary  Edith,  daughter  of  Edgar 
Ezekiel  and  Hannah  (Forbes)  Allen,  of  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  and  they  have  one  child — 
Gertrude  Elizabeth  Worthington,  born  August 
29,  1909.  They  reside  at  I'urlington,  where 
Mr.  Worthington  is  one  of  the  preeminent  and 
successful  voung  business  men. 


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Ciilbert  Cullins,  Justice  of  the 
(_'(  )LL1.\S  Supreme  Court  of  Xew  Jersey, 
from  March  8.  1897,  until  1903, 
when  he  resigned  to  re-enter  the  practice  of 
law,  was  born  in  Stonington,  New  London 
ci^)unty,  Connecticut,  August  26,  1846,  and  is  a 
descendant  of  an  old  English  family  which 
originally  came  from  Kent.  England.  His  great- 
great-grandparents  were  Daniel  Collins  and 
.\lice  PeW.  His  great-grandfather,  Daniel  Col- 
lins (1732-1819J,  of  Stonington,  served  in  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  according  to  existing 
records  was  first  lieutenant  in  the  First  Regi- 
ment Connecticut  Line,  formation  of  1777  ;  and 
it  is  also  known  that  he  was  in  service  from 
1775.  He  married  Anne  Potter.  His  son,  Gil- 
bert (  1789-1865),  grandfather  of  the  present 
Gilbert  Collins,  served  several  terms  in  the 
Connecticut  legislature.  His  wife  was  Pru- 
dence Frink.  Judge  Collins'  father,  Daniel 
Prentice  Collins  (born  in  1813.  died  in  1862). 
was  a  manufacturer  in  Stonington  througliout 
his  life:  he  also  had  business  relations  in  Jer- 
sey City,  and  on  this  account  his  son  eventually 
made  choice  of  that  city  as  his  field  of  labor, 
and  his  home.  His  mother,  Sarah  R.,  was  a 
descendant  of  the  Wells  family  of  Connecticut. 
Judge  Collins  was  prepared  for  Yale  College, 
but  the  death  of  his  father  changed  his  purpose. 
The  family,  which  consisted  of  his  mother  and 
one  sister,  removed  to  Jersey  City  in  1863,  and 
in  1865  he  there  entered  the  office  of  Jonathan 
Dixon,  now  deceased  and  former  justice  of 
the  supreme  court  of  Xew  Jersey.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  as  an  attorney  in  February, 
1869,  and  as  a  counselor  in  February,  1872. 
On  January  I,  1870,  he  became  a  partner  of 
;\Ir.  Dixon,  and  continued  in  that  relationship 
imtil  that  gentleman  was  elevated  to  the  bench 
in  .\pril,  1875.  Pie  afterward  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Charles  L.  Corbin,  one  of  New 
Jersey's  most  distinguished  lawyers.  In  1881 
William  H.  Corbin  was  admitted  as  a  member 
of  the  firm,  which  continued  under  the  .style  of 
Collins  &  Corbin  till  March  8,  1897,  when  Mr. 
Collins  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  supreme 
court  of  Xew  Jersey,  which  position  he  held 
from  March  8,  1897,  until  1903,  when  he  re- 
signed and  re-engaged  in  the  practice  of  law 
with  his  former  partners,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Collins  &  Corbin. 

Judge  Collins  is  in  politics  a  Re]niblican ;  he 
has  been  nominated  by  his  party  for  state  sen- 
ator (1880)  once,  and  for  congress  twice  (1882 
and  1888).  For  two  years,  from  May,  1884, 
to  'Slay.  1886,  he  served  as  mayor  of  Jersev 
Citv,  having  been  elected  by  a  combination  of 


an  independent  organization  of  citizens  with 
the  Republicans.  I-'or  five  years  previous  to 
1893  ''"^  served  as  chairman  of  the  Republican 
county  committee,  when  he  declined  a  re-elec- 
tion. He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
and  Palma  clubs,  of  Jersey  City,  and  of  the 
.Xew  Jersey  Society  of  the  .Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. 

June  2,  1870,  Judge  Collins  married  Harriet 
Kingsbury  Bush.  Of  their  si.x  children,  two 
daughters  survive.  Their  son,  Walter  Collins, 
was  educated  at  Columbia  University,  New 
York,  and  Williams  College,  Massachusetts. 
He  studied  law  in  his  father's  office,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  1896,  and  was  a  practicing 
lawyer  in  Jersey  City.  He  died  Xovember  11, 
1 900. 

Dr.    Jesse    Steelton    Adams,    of 
.\D.\M.S      Uurlington,    descends    from    the 

Atlantic  county  line  of  the  Adams 
family.  His  grandfather  was  Joshua  .\dams, 
who  was  born  in  Atlantic  county,  and  was  a 
]jrosperous  farmer.  He  reared  a  family  of 
sons,  and  with  the  eldest  of  these,  William  B., 
the  line  is  continued  to  Dr.  Adams.  These 
sons  were  William  B.,  I'eter,  Richard  and 
Ryan.    There  was  also  one  daughter. 

(II)  William  Boice,  son  of  Joshua  Adams, 
was  born  at  Somers  Point,  Atlantic  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  August  13,  1801,  and  died  April 
15,  1867.  He  received  a  good  common  school 
education,  and  learned  the  trade  of  a  black- 
smith, which  he  followed  for  a  great  many 
years.  About  the  year  1855  he  removed  to 
liritlgeton,  Xew  Jersey,  where  for  eleven  years 
he  was  proprietor  of  a  hotel.  About  a  year 
])revious  to  his  death,  in  1867,  Mr.  Adams  re- 
tired from  active  life.  Although  in  the  hotel 
business  Mr.  Adams  neither  sold  nor  used 
liquor.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Alethodist  church  and  of  the  order  of  Sons  of 
Temperance.  His  political  preference  was  for 
the  Democratic  party.  He  married,  March  3, 
1825,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Clement  Cordrey. 
She  was  born  at  Cordrey's  Brook,  .\tlantic 
county.  Xew  Jersey,  March  14,  1802,  and  died 
in  1889.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church,  and  a  devoted  wife  and  mother.  The 
children  of  this  marriage:  i.  Clement  C,  born 
.\ugust  25,  1826;  is  a  business  man  of  Tren- 
ton, Xew  Jersey.  2.  Henrietta  D.,  died  in 
childhood.  3.  .Absalom  D.,  born  May  19,  183 1  ; 
he  followed  the  sea  inany  years,  and  now  re- 
sides in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  4.  Mary 
P.,  died  in  infancy.  5.  Daniel  C,  born  April 
15,  1836:  is  a  merchant  of  Cumberland  county. 


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New  Jersey.  6.  James  Henry,  died  in  childhood. 
7.  Jesse  Steelton,  see  forward.  8.  Thomas 
I  lenry.  (Hed  in  childhood. 

( III  )  Jesse  Steelton,  son  of  Wilhani  B.  and 
Rebecca  (  Cordrey  )  .Adams,  was  born  m  Bakers- 
ville,  .\tlantic  county,  Xew  Jersey,  May  15, 
1842.  He  received  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  at  the  W  est  Jersey  Academy, 
r.ridgton,  Xew  Jersey.  While  hardly  more 
than  a  boy,  Mr.  .Adams  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army  to  help  suppress  the  great  rebellion  then 
in  progress.  He  enlisted  for  nine  months  serv- 
ice beginning  in  .August,  18^12,  in  Com])any  F, 
Twenty-fourth  New  Jersey  Infantry.  He  saw 
much  hard  service  and  participated  in  those 
two  memorable  battles  and  Union  defeats.  Fred- 
ericksburg and  Chancellorsville.  His  company 
was  commanded  by  Captain  Samuel  Harris. 
.At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  enlistment 
.Mr.  .Adams  received  an  honorable  discharge. 
1  laving  now  to  decide  on  a  profession  or  busi- 
ness, he  chose  dentistrv,  and  entered  the  office 
of  Joseph  C.  Kirby,  who  became  his  mstructor 
and  with  whom  he  remained  five  years.  In 
1868  Dr.  .Adams  located  in  Burlington,  .\'e\\ 
jersey,  and  from  that  time  until  the  present 
I  loog)  has  been  in  successful  practice  in  that 
city,  with  the  exception  of  four  years  spent  in 
I  lightstown,  Xew  Jersey.  He  is  a  gold  Demo- 
crat politically,  and  for  si.x  years  was  secre- 
tary of  the  Elurlington  Board  of  Health,  his 
term  of  office  ending  with  his  resignation.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  served 
the  church  at  Hightstown  as  warden.  His 
fraternal  relations  are  with  the  Masonic  order, 
in  which  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second  de- 
gree Scottish  Rite.  He  is  a  member  of  Bur- 
lington Lodge,  Xo.  32,  F.  and  A.  AI.,  and  is 
past  high  priest  of  Boudinot  Chapter,  No.  3, 
R.  .\.  M, 

Jesse  S.  .Adams  married,  March  19,  1874, 
I'.mily  Francis,  daughter  of  Joseph  D.  and 
lunily  .A.  (Schuyler)  Deacon,  of  Burlington, 
.\'ew  Jersey.  TJiree  children  have  been  born 
to  them:  one  only,  the  first  born,  .Alfred,  sur- 
\ives:  i.  .Alfred  Leslie  Deacon  .Adams,  was 
born  in  lUirlington,  New  Jersey,  February  4, 
1875.  He  was  educated  at  the  Bordentovvn 
.Military  Institute,  Bordentown,  New  Jersey, 
and  at  Dre.xel  College,  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. He  is  now  a  resident  of  Newark,  New 
ler.sey,  where  he  is  employed  in  the  home 
office  of  the  Prudential  Insurance  Company. 
He  married,  in  1900,  .Annie  \'an  Rossen,  of 
I'everly.  Xew  Jersey.  2.  Carleton  Cordrey 
.Adams,  born  February  24,  1879;  died  at  the 
age  of  seven   years.     3.    Heathcote   Steelman 

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.Adams,   born    November  21;,    1887;  died  aged 
eight  vears. 


The  Rev.  Frederick  Augustus 
LI':HLI;-\CH  Lehlbach,  founder  of  the  fam- 
ily of  his  name  in  New  Jersey, 
was  liorn  at  Ladenburg,  Baden,  in  1805;  died 
in  Newark,  .Xew  Jersey,  September  11,  1873. 
He  was  educated  at  lleidleburg  and  Halle,  and 
in  1832  became  [lastor  of  the  Lutheran  church 
at  Xuenstetten,  where  he  remained  until  1841. 
.After  that  he  took  charge  of  a  large  parish  in 
Heiligkreutzsteinach,  Baden,  and  while  there 
was  chosen  several  times  by  his  people  as  their 
representative  in  the  second  chamber  of  the 
Baden  legislature.  He  became  a  prominent 
character  among  the  revolutionists  of  1848-41), 
and  when  the  grand  duke  was  expelled  and 
Baden  declared  a  republic.  Pastor  Lehlbach 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  constituante  or 
constitutional  assembly  by  several  districts.  He 
accepted  the  election  from  his  old  district  of 
W'einheim.  When  the  revolution  collapsed,  he 
was  proscribed  and  sentenced  to  fifteen  year^ 
solitary  confinement  for  his  share  in  the  re- 
bellion. He  escaped  this  severe  sentence  by 
fleeing  to  Strasburg,  and  in  Xovember,  1849, 
emigrated  to  .America.  After  spending  a  few 
days  in  Xew  York  City,  he  went  to  Xewark, 
Xew  Jersey,  where  he  settled  as  pastor  of  the 
Mulberry  Street  German  Evangelical  Church, 
and  for  the  next  quarter  of  a  century,  in  fact 
until  he  died,  maintained  an  e.xalted  reputation 
there  as  a  teacher  of  Christianity  and  as  an 
exemplar  of  morals.  It  was  truly  said  of  him 
at  the  time  of  his  death  that  he  was  a  man  of 
advanced  thought,  and  a  fearless  and  zealous 
advocate  of  civil  and  religious  liberty.  He 
took  a  prominent  part  in  educational  and  pro- 
gressive measures,  and  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Green  Street  German-English  School, 
of  the  German  Hospital,  and  kindred  charitable 
institutions.  Children  :  Charles  F.  J. :  Emma  ; 
Paul  Frederick,  re/erred  to  below:  Gustav : 
Hermann:  Hugo:  Rudolph:  Laura:  Ernst; 
Robert :  Franklin. 

(II)  Paul  Frederick,  son  of  the  Rev.  l-'red- 
erick  .Augustus  Lehlbacii,  was  born  in  Heilig- 
kreutzsteinach, Baden,  in  .April,  1842:  died  in 
Xew  York,  April  19,  1884.  He  was  brought 
over  to  this  country  by  his  father  when  only 
nine  years  old,  and  after  receiving  his  educa- 
tion, started  in  life  as  a  pharmacist  in  Xew 
York  City.  Later  he  became  secretarv  of  the 
Xew  York  College  of  Pharmacy.  He  married, 
in  1874,  Anna  Marie,  born  Alay  19.  1856, 
daughter  of  Philip  and  Catherine  (Leitz)  Jung- 


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manii.  Children:  i.  Frederick  Reimold,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Anna,  born  November  7, 
1878:  married  Daniel  K.  Van  Ingen.  3.  Ed- 
ward, ( Jctober  16,  1880.  4.  Emma.  January 
30,  1884.  Children  of  Philip  and  Catherine 
(  Leitzj  Jungmann  ;  Johanna  ;  Elizabeth  ;  Lina  : 
Julius;  Anna  Marie,  referred  to  above  ;  I'hilip: 
Emil. 

( III  )  h'rederick  Reimold,  son  of  P'aul  Fred- 
erick and  Anna  Marie  (Jungmann)  Eehlbach, 
was  born  in  Xew  York  City.  January  31,  1876, 
and  is  now  living  in  Newark,  Xew  jersey.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  private  schools 
in  New  York  City,  and  after  coming  to  New- 
ark in  1884  entered  the  Newark  public  schools, 
graduating  from  the  high  school  in  1893,  after 
which  he  entered  Yale  University  and  grad- 
uated with  the  class  of  1897.  M  r.  Lehlbach  then 
began  reading  law  with  the  firm  of  Riker  i<; 
Riker  in  Newark,  and  attended  the  lectures  at 
the  New  York  Law  School.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  Novem- 
ber, 1899,  and  as  counsellor  in  February,  1902. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  gen- 
eral practice  of  his  profession  in  Newark, 
^'oung  as  he  is,  Air.  Lehlbach  has  already  be- 
come prominent  both  in  his  profession  and  in 
the  field  of  politics.  He  has  been  an  active 
worker  for  the  success  of  the  Republican  party 
since  attaining  his  majority,  antl  is  a  member 
of  the  Essex  county  Republican  committee. 
In  1899  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board 
of  education  of  Newark  from  the  third  ward 
by  a  majority  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-one, 
although  the  ward  gave  a  Democratic  majority 
for  mayor  and  alderman.  He  was  elected  to 
the  assembly  in  1903.  and  again  in  1904,  and 
re-elected  for  a  third  term  in  1905  by  a  plural- 
it\-  of  twenty-four  thousand  two  hundred  and 
twentv-one  over  Mr.  Waller,  the  highest  candi- 
date on  the  Democratic  ticket.  In  1904  Mr. 
Lehlbach  served  as  chairman  of  the  committees 
iin  militia  and  passed  bills,  and  as  a  member  of 
the  committees  on  municipal  corporations,  state 
hospitals,  and  Home  for  Feeble  Alinded  Boys 
and  Girls.  1  le  was  clerk  of  the  state  board  of 
equalization  of  taxes  in  1905,  in  April,  1908, 
was  appointed  second  assistant  prosecutor  of 
the  pleas,  and  January  i,  1910.  first  assistant 
prosecutor  of  the  pleas.  Air.  Lehlbach  is  as 
active  and  popular  in  private  as  in  public  life. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  County  Bar  Associa- 
tion, and  is  a  Free  Mason,  member  of  St. 
John's  Lodge. 

He  married  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Jime 
10,  1908.  Frances  Estelle,  born  January  12. 
1878.  daughter  of  William  and  Harriet  (.Ox- 


ford) Martin.  Children  of  William  and  Har- 
riet {.\xford)  Martin:  i.  May.  2.  Dell, 
married  Daniel  E.  Ellis,  at  .\mesbury,  Mass- 
achusetts ;  child — Harriet,  born  January  23, 
1 89 1.    3.  Frances  Estelle,  referred  to  above. 


In  the  year  1682  a  large  ship  of 

\\  H  ITF  five  hundred  and  fifty  tons,  from 
England,  arrived  at  West  Jersey 
and  ran  aground  in  Delaware  Bay.  She  lay 
there  eight  days  and  then  by  favorable  wind 
and  tide  got  off,  "and  coming  up  the  river, 
landed  her  passengers,  being  three  hundred  and 
>ixt\  in  number,  between  Philadelphia  and  Bur- 
lington on  the  Jersey  shore.  Their  provisions 
being  nigh  gone,  they  sent  them  in  to  an  In- 
dian town  near  Rankokus  creek,  for  Indian 
corn  and  pease.  The  king  of  this  tribe  being 
then  there,  treated  them  kindly,  and  directed 
such  Indians  as  had  provisions,  to  bring  it  in 
the  next  morning,  who  accordingly  brought 
]jlenty  ;  which  being  delivered  and  put  in  bags, 
the  messengers  took  leave  of  the  king :  who 
kindly  ordered  some  of  the  Indians  to  carry 
their  bags  for  them  to  their  canoes." 

"The  assembly  of  West-Jersey  having,  at 
their  last  sitting  adjourned  to  the  first  of  second 
month  this  year  (1682)  met;  but  not  being  a 
full  house  they  adjourned  to  the  fourteenth  and 
then  dissolved  themselves  without  doing  any 
business.  .Another  being  called,  sat  from  the 
second  to  the  eleventh  of  the  first  month  fol- 
lowing," and  among  those  who  sat  in  its  coun- 
cils was  one  John  \Miite,  progenitor  of  the 
New  Jersey  family  of  that  surname  purposed 
to  be  treated  in  these  annals. 

(I)  John  White  is  supposed  to  have  been 
one  of  the  passengers  in  the  "large  ship"  above 
mentioned,  which  ran  aground  in  Delaware 
l>ay,  and  he  was  one  of  those  who  afterward 
constituted  the  assembly  of  West  Jersey,  to 
which  also  reference  has  been  made.  C)n  tiiis 
occasion  the  governor,  council  and  assembly 
passed  sundry  laws  for  the  government  of  the 
inhabitants  within  tiieir  jurisdiction;  and  t<i 
appoint  sundry  officers  to  fulfill  the  mandates 
of  the  governor  and  assembly  and  otherwise  to 
maintain  the  law  then  established.  For  the 
jurisdiction  of  Burlington  John  White  was 
appointed  sheriti'.  but  that  was  done  long  years 
before  the  county  of  Burlington  was  estab- 
lished. He  also  performed  other  duties  and 
was  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  poor  in  1682. 

ill)  Philip,  son  of  John  White,  but  extant 
records  do  not  appear  to  furnish  any  account 
(if  his  life  or  family. 

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born  August  17,  1762.  He  married  Sarah  M. 
Scott  and  had  six  children:  JJlanchard.  Ben- 
jamin, Mary,  Ann,  Louisa  ami  EUzabeth. 

(I\")  Benjamin,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
M.  (Scott)  White,  was  born  in  ijgb;  died 
March  3,  187ft.  He  was  a  large  and  enter- 
prising farmer  in  Springfield  township  and 
raised  some  of  the  best  blooded  horses  ever 
bred  in  the  county.  He  married.  May  3,  1825, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  John  and  Abigail  Eld- 
ridge,  granddaughter  of  John  Eldridge,  who 
came  over  with  AX'illiam  Penn,  and  by  her  had 
five  children :  Julia  Ann,  born  January  28, 
1826;  Charlotte,  February  5,  1828;  Blanchard, 
April  20.  1830;  Samuel,  December  27,  1835; 
Anna,  November  31,  1837;  Benjamin,  March 
20,  1840. 

(V)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  11) 
and  Margaret  (  Eldridge )  White,  was  born  in 
Springfield  township.  New  Jersey,  March  20. 
1840,  received  his  education  in  public  and  ])ri- 
vate  schools  in  his  native  township  and  at 
Mount  Holly.  He  afterward  taught  school  for 
some  time  in  Burlington  and  then  turned  his 
attention  to  farming  pursuits,  which  has  been 
his  princi])al  occupation  in  business  life.  In 
politics  Mr.  W'hite  is  a  lifelong  Democrat,  and 
for  twenty-five  years  served  as  justice  of  the 
peace.  He  is  a  member  of  Harmony  Lodge, 
No.  10,  Jimior  ( )rder  of  .\merican  Mechanics. 
and  in  religious  preference  is  a  Baptist.  He 
married  Eliza  (jaskell,  born  April  6,  1842, 
daughter  of  .Xbraham  Gaskell,  of  Burlington 
county.  They  had  two  children,  Blanchard  H. 
and  A.  Harry  W'hite,  the  latter  of  whom  was 
a  young  man  of  s])lendid  promise,  law  student. 
member  of  the  legislature,  and  who  met  acci- 
dental death  by  drowning. 

( \'T )  Blancliard  H.,  only  surviving  son  and 
child  of  Benjamin  (2)  and  Eliza  (Gaskell) 
W'hite.  was  loom  in  Springfield  township,  June 
30.  1864,  and  was  given  a  good  early  educa- 
tion in  public  schools.  During  the  ne.xt  twelve 
years  after  leaving  school  he  was  engaged 
in  clerical  work  for  various  large  mercantile 
houses  in  Philadelphia,  the  last  of  which  was 
John  W'anamaker's  store  on  Market  and  Chest- 
nut streets,  where  he  remained  some  time,  and 
for  the  ne.xt  four  years  was  em])loyed  by  the 
F.dilystown  Manufacturing  Company,  Eddys- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  However,  in  i8q2,  on 
the  death  of  his  brother,  he  took  up  the  study 
of  law  with  Charles  E.  Hendrickson,  of  Moimt 
Holly,  and  E.  P.  Budd,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  at  Mount  Holly  in  June,  1896.  For  two 
years  he  served  as  clerk  of  the  board  of  chosen 
freeholders,  once  stood  as  a  candidate  for  the 


legislature,  and  his  name  has  been  mentioned 
in  connection  with  congressional  nominations, 
although  he  has  not  at  any  time  declared  candi- 
dacy for  that  honor.  Originally  a  Democrat, 
during  more  recent  years  he  has  allied  himself 
strongly  with  the  Republican  party.  He  is  a 
Mason,  an  Elk,  an  Odd  Fellow,  Knight  of 
Pythias  and  a  Red  Man.  Air.  W'hite  married. 
December  10.  1902,  while  serving  as  great 
sachem  of  the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Alen, 
by  Hon.  Joseph  E.  Mowry,  mayor  of  Camden, 
who  at  the  time  was  great  prophet  of  the  order 
just  mentioned,  Aurietta  E.  Cope,  daughter  of 
George  B.  Cope,  former  treasurer  of  Bucks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  who  married  Fran- 
ces Crook,  the  latter  a  native  of  New  Hope, 
Pennsylvania.  One  child  has  been  born  of 
this  marriage — Margaret  White,  .\pril  6,  igo(i>. 


John    Nicholas    Steiger    (as    the 

ST^'1•"I\  name  was  formerly  spelled)  was 
a  horseman  in  the  regiment  of  the 
.Must  Illustrious  Bernard,  commander  of  the 
cavalry  of  his  majesty,  the  king  of  Bohemia. 

(Hi  Jacob  Styer,  who  seems  to  have  been 
the  first  to  change  the  spelling  of  the  name. 
w  as  a  son  of  John  Nicholas  Steiger. 

(  III  )  Leonard,  son  of  Jacob  Styer,  married 
.Mary  Tyson. 

(  I\'  I  David,  sc)n  of  Lecmard  and  Mary  (Ty- 
son )  Styer,  was  burn  June  21,  1810.  He  was 
a  railroad  c(.)ntractor,  and  in  the  pursuit  of  his 
calling  built  man)-  miles  of  railroad  tracks, 
mosti)'  for  the  Pemisylvania  railroad.  He  set- 
tled first  in  W'hite  Hill,  later  in  Florence,  Bur- 
lington comity.  New  Jersey.  He  was  in  active 
service  during  the  civil  war.  His  political  affil- 
iations were  with  the  Whig  and  Republican 
l^arties,  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  Mr.  Styer  married  at  German- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  Mary  .\nn  Jones.  Chil- 
dren :  h>rdinand  Clay,  Gertrude,  Mary,  Henry 
Clay  (see  forward),  David,  Clara,  Rebecca, 
Matilda.  Frances.  Kate.  Thomas  Leonard,  Paul 
and  Harriet. 

(V)  Henry  Clay,  second  son  and  fourth 
child  of  David  and  Mary  Ann  (Jones)  Stver, 
was  born  in  Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  De- 
cember 21,  1841.  He  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  this  w'as  supple- 
mented in  various  ways,  so  that  his  entire  edu- 
cation was  broad  and  liberal.  He  was  but 
nineteen  years  of  age  when  he  enlisted  in 
1861  in  the  Second  Pemisylvania  Regiment; 
he  served  in  the  quartermaster's  de|)artment 
from  1861  to  1865.  .'\fter  leaving  the  army 
Mr.  Styer  assisted  his  father  for  a  time  in  the 


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railroad  contracting  bnsiness.  then   conducted 
a  <^eneral  store  in  Elorence,  Xew  Jersey.   Later 
lie'' settled  in  Trappe.  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
cidtivated  a  farm  and  also  conducted  a  general 
store      He  returned  to   Xew  Jersey  m   1888, 
was  a  merchant  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
state  for  a  time,  then  removed  to  a  farm  near 
r.urlmtjton.  Xew  lersev,  where  he  now  resides. 
Mr    Suer  is  a  Repuljlican,  and  justice  of  the 
peace    'for    Sjjringfield    township,    Burlington 
county,  and  for  several  years  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  education.      He  has  also 
served    his    townshii.    as    collector,    clerk    an,l 
committeeman.      He    is    a    Presbyterian,    an-l 
elder  ..f  the  church  at  Jacksonville,  Xew  Jer- 
sey     Mr   Stver  married,  June  _',  1874,  Martha 
Emilv,  born'.\pnl  24,  1843,  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (  Bowne  )  Scott,  and  granddaugh- 
ter of    Henry    Scott,   and   of    Phoebe    Bowne. 
Children  :    Harry  P.utler  ;  1-rank,  born  Xovem- 
ber  7    1876:  Uavid.  see  forward  ;  Phoebe  .\nna, 
born  October  i ,  1880 :  Archibald  ;  Oliver  Smith. 
(VI)   David,  third  son  and  child  ot   Henry 
Clav  and   Martha   Emilv    (Scott)    Styer,   was 
born  at  Florence,  Xew  Jersey,  December   10, 
1877     He  received  his  education  m  the  district 
schools   of    Burlington    county,   Mount   Holly 
Academy,  \'an  Rensselaer  Seminary,  Burling- 
ton  Xew  Jersey:  Rider  Business  Lollege,  Iren- 
ton',  Xew  "Jersey:  and  Lafayette  College,  Las- 
ton    Pennsylvania,   from  which  he  was  grad- 
uated with  the  degree  of  civil  engineer  in  1904. 
He   became    connected    with   the    Bordentown 
(  Xe\v  [ersev  I  Military  Institute  in  1896,  hold- 
iiur   the    position    of    stenographer   and   book- 
keqjer    and  since  that  time  has  served  as  in- 
structor and  general  assistant  in  the  adminis- 
trative department.     He  is  a  member  ot   the 
Delta  Upsilon  fraternity,  and  his  political  vievvs 
are  those  of  an  independent  Republican.     He 
:md  his   family  are  attendants  at  the   f'resby- 
terian  church.'    Mr.  Styer  married  at   Pueblo, 
Colorado,  lune  2^,  1909.  Lillian  Scott,  born  near 
Burlington,  Xew   Jersey,  July  fi.  1877.  <laugh- 
ter  of  \\illiam  and  Sarah  Ann  (Antrim)  Rich- 
anPon     whose   other   children   are:      William. 
J,,hn   .\ntrim   and   Rebecca.      .Mr.    Richardson 
was  a  fanner. 

Alexander  Stewart,  the  fnuiid- 
STIA\'.\KT  er  of  the  family  at  present 
under  consideration,  was  born 
in  Scotland  and  emigrated  to  .\merica.  settling 
in  Philadelphia,  where  he  died  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  nineteenth  century.  He  married 
\nnie   Clibboni.  born   in   Scit'land.     t  ■hildren  : 


lames,  referred  to  below  :  William  ;  Alexander  : 
"\nnie  :  Mary  :  Thomas  :  Joseph  ;  John. 

(  n  )  lames,  son  of  Alexander  Stewart,  was 
born  in  "Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  June  12. 
1857,  and  died  in  Long  Branch,  ^^lonmouth 
county,  Xew  Jersey,  March  2,  1888.  After  re- 
ceiving a  good  common  school  education  he 
learned  the  trade  of  plumber,  and  then  removed 
to  Long  Branch,  where  he  set  up  for  himself 
and  conducted  a  prosperous  and  successful 
business  until  his  death.  He  married  Cornelia, 
daughter  of  Matthias  W.  and  Hannah  (  Truax  ) 
Wcinlley  (see  W'oolley).  She  was  born  Janu- 
ary I.  18(12.  Children:  William,  born  and 
died  .Vugust  14,  1886:  James  Alexander,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(HI)    lames  Alexander,  son  of  James  and 
Cornelia  "(  Woolley  )  Stewart,  was  born  in  Long 
Branch,  Monmouth  cmnty,  Xew  Jersey,  Janu- 
ar\-  1 1.    1888,  and  is  now   living  in  that  town. 
Vuv  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  pub- 
lic schools   of   Long   Branch,   after   which   he 
attended  Eastman's  Business  College  at  Pough- 
keepsie.  Xew  York,  graduating  May  29,  1906. 
(  )ii    lune   1  1.  following,  he  was  offered  a  posi- 
tion'with  the  Tintern  Manor  Water  Company, 
with  whom  he  has  been  ever  since.     Mr.  Stew- 
art is  a  Repulilican.  and  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
ndist  Episcopal  church.     He  married  in  Long 
Branch,    Xovember   2,    1909,   Z^Iabel   Dorothy, 
(laughter   of   William    Eugene   and   Susan    H. 
(  Ming)   Lawrence,  who  was  born  October  3. 
1889      Her  father  was  born  in  June,  1856,  and 
her  mother  May  3.  1861.    Her  brother  Edward 
I'.  Lawrence  was  born  January  22.   1885. 

Indubitable  family  tradition 
HEX  DRV  which  handed  down  the  fact 
that  the  first  member  of  this 
family  to  seek  the  shores  of  the  new  world  came 
to  \'irginia  in  the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  is  confirmed  by  Hotton,  in  his  "Lists  of 
Persons  of  Ouality  who  went  from  England  to 
the  .\merican  Plantations  1600-1700,'"  wherein 
is  given  as  a  passenger  in  the  "Safety,"  John 
( "irannt,  master,  from  ye  port  of  London,  -\u- 
gu.st  1635,"  one  "To:  'Hendry,  24  years. '"_  S" 
far  as  can  be  ascertained  the  records  of  the 
■Old  D(.minion"  are  silent  as  to  the  career  ot 
this  emigrant—  a  fact  which  confirms  the  fur- 
ther family  tradition  that  he  remained  but  a 
short  time'  in  \'irginia.  The  next  of  his  de- 
scendants heard  of  is  Thomas  Hendry,  mer- 
chant in  P.urlington.  Xew  Jersey,  in  1730,  who 
held  the  agencv  for  the  ship  "Prince  \\  illiam, 
plving  betVeen   that    p.  .rt   and   Liverpool   and 


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Dublin  in  1731  (i):  ijuricd  "Janio,  ^em  in 
i'lionias  and  Anni.'  Hendry,  who  departed  tlii^ 
Life.  Sept.  12.  1731,  aged  i  year  8  days,"  in 
the  graveyard  attaclied  to  the  venerable  St. 
Mary's  Church  (2)  ;  and  cluring  the  following 
year,  administered  upim  the  estate  of  (.)ne 
Thomas  I'ettigrew  (31. 

ill)  John  Hendry,  who  ajjpears  to  be  hi> 
only  surviving  child,  was  also  a  resident  of 
llurlington.  irle  held  the  office  of  collector  in 
1770.  and  was  among  the  aldermen  and  com- 
monalty, 1785-89  (4).  He  was  a  pewhokler  in 
St.  IVIary's  Church  nearly  all  his  life.  It  is  a 
matter  of  regret  that  the  maiden  name  of  his 
first  wife,  the  mother  of  his  two  distinguished 
sons,  is  unknown.  He  married  (second),  in 
1764,  Sarah  Lovett,  a  descendant  of  Samuel 
Lovett,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Burling- 
ton, who  in  1676  signed  "The  Concessions  and 
-Agreements  of  the  Proprietors,  Freeholders, 
and  Inhabitants  cif  the  Frovince  of  West  Jer- 
sey in  .\nierica."  To  this  "dearly  beloved  wife" 
and  his  sons  Thomas  and  Samuel,  he  bequeath- 
ed his  estate  by  a  will  proved  November  9. 
1807  (51.  In  the  records  of  St.  ]\Iary's  Church, 
during  the  rectorship  of  Rev.  C.  H.  Wharton. 
U.  D.,  occurs  this  entry:  Oct.  2^^.  1807  "lUiried 
John  Hendry,  aged  86  years." 

(  III  )  Thomas  Hendry,  the  elder  of  his  sons, 
born  in  llurlington,  1747,  studied  medicine, 
took  his  degree  as  a  physician,  and  settled  in 
Woodbury,  (iloucester  county.  New  Jersev. 
just  previous  to  the  revolution.  In  this  strug- 
gle he  engaged  with  all  the  ardor  of  a  disinter- 
ested patriot.  His  military  record  reads  thus: 
"Thomas  Hendry,  surgeon,  brigade,  militia: 
superintendent  liospital.  A])ril  3d,  1777:  sur- 
geon. Third  P>attalion.  Gloucester"  |6).  He 
was  taken  |)risoner  at  the  battle  of  Hancock's 
liridge,  May  10.  1778.  .After  the  war  he  re- 
sumed the  duties  of  his  profession  and  became 
a  successful  and  highly  popular  practitioner. 
Eulogistic  biographical  notices  of  him  are  tfi 
be  found  in  Frowell's  "History  of  Camden 
Comity.  New  Jersey,"  |).  239.  and  in  "History 
of  Medicine  in  New  Jersey  and  its  Medical 
-Men,"  by  Stephen  Wickes,  A.  M.,  M.  D..  pp. 
283-84.  Dr.  Hendry  married  Elizabeth  P.(jw- 
man,  residing  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  in 
New    Hanover    township,    llurlington    county. 

(1)  "Amerifan  Weeklv  Meriui-v."  .\Iarcli  26  to 
April   1.   17.?1. 

(2)  Stillwell's  "Historical  and  General  Mi.sccl- 
lany." 

(.•!)    New  Jersey  Wills,  liber  S,  page  21S. 

(4)  Hist.  Burlinpton  and  Mercer  cos..  Woodward 
and  Hageman.   pp.   127-S. 

(5)  New  .Terspy   Wills,  liber  A,  page  201. 

(6)  Adj.  Gen.  Stryker's  Work,  page  .T77. 


.\ew  |erse\.  Descendants  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Hendry. 

1.  llowman  Hendry.  M.  D.,  located  in  Had- 
doiitield.  New  Jersey.  In  volume  II,  of  "Hes- 
ton's  .\nnals"  we  are  told  that  ".V  hundred 
years  ago  (1804)  Dr.  Bowman  Hendry  of 
Haddonfield  made  professional  visits  through- 
out that  county  ((Gloucester),  riding  as  far  as 
Egg  Harbor."  In  the  "Biographical  Encyclo- 
paedia of  .\ew  Jerse)-,"  p.  393.  and  in  the 
"Histor\-  of  Camden  County,"  before  quoted, 
are  to  be  found  highly  eulogistic  sketches  of 
this  greatly  admired  and  beloved  gentleman. 
Two  jiamphlets  treating  of  his  life  of  merits 
as  a  man  and  physician  have  been  written :  one 
by  Isaiah  Bryant,  M.  D,,  of  Camden,  New 
Jersey:  the  other  by  Reynell  Coates,  M.  D.,  of 
the  same  cit\-.  Dr.  Ilendrv  married  Elizabeth 
Duffield.  dai'ighter  of  Chaiies  Duffield,  M.  D., 
of  Philadelphia,  of  the  same  ancestry  with  the 
Rev,  <  ieiirge  Duffield,  of  revolutionarv  fame. 
Issue  : 

(  .\  I  Charles  Duffield  Hendry.  .\1.  D.,  l8o<j- 
')!).  (iraduate  of  L"iiiversit\  of  Pennsylvania. 
1832.  Married  Maria  M.  Mickle,  Foraccount 
I  if  .Mickle  family  see  "Clement's  Sketches,"  pp. 
i3()-48.  He  was  a  distinguished  physician 
having  been  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Cam- 
den Medical  Society  in  1846.  and  president, 
1852-53.  For  a  biographical  sketch  illustrated 
by  an  engraved  portrait  see  "History  of  Cam- 
den (.'ounty"  before  referred  to  p.  267.  Issue: 
(a)  Bowman  Hendry.  M.  D.,  died  unmarried, 
.November  i,  1904;  (b)  Joseph,  married  Clara 
Rogers;  (c)  .Spencer,  married ,  deceased 

(  11)  Bowman  Hendry,  M.  D,.  born  in  Had- 
donfield. 1820-68.  Ciraduate  of  Jefferson  Med- 
ical College.  Philadel]3hia.  Member  of  Cam- 
den County  Medical  Society,  1847,  president, 
i860.  .Served  throughout  the  civil  war  as  sur- 
geon of  Si.xth  New  Jersey  Regiment.  See 
Prowell's  "History  Camden  County,"  p.  275. 
.Married,  in  1850.  Helen  .\manda  Sarchet,  of 
(Gloucester  City,  who  died  1905.  One  daugh- 
ter survives:  (d)  Alary  AlcCalla  Hendry,  re- 
siding in  (/amden,  New  Jersey. 

((  I  I^lizabeth  Hendry,  married  E]}hraim 
Buck,  .M.  D.,  of  Philadelijhia.  See  "Origin. 
History  and  (jenealogy  of  the  P)Uck  Family," 
by  (.'ornelius  B.  Harvey,  pj).  37-38.  and  "His- 
tory <if  (iloucester,  Salem  and  Cumberland 
Counties.  New  Jersey"  by  Thomas  Cushing, 
M.  I).,  and  Charles  E.  .Shepperd,  p.  564.  Issue: 
(e)  Maria  M.,  married  Thomas  B.  Black;  (f ) 
Sarah  H.,  married  Robert  H.  Reeves;  (g) 
.Mary  11.:  (h)  llowman  Hendry,  married  Car- 
oline   .\vres;    (i)    Hannah,    married     Horace 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Saunders  (see  "Sharpless  Genealogy"  p.  1088)  : 
( j)Elizabeth;  (k)  Joseph;  (1)  Ephraim,  mar- 
ried Mary  J.  W'estcott ;  (m)  Emily  H., 
married    Robert   J.    Brown;    (n)    Charles    H. 

(D)  Henrietta  Hendry,  born  in  Haddon- 
field.  New  Jersey.  Married,  1807,  Joseph  Levis 
Shivers.  For  sketch  of  Shivers  family  see 
t'rowell's  "History  Camden  County,"  p.  275. 
and  "Clement's  Sketches,"  p.  251.  Issue:  (o) 
Isaac,  died  unmarried;  (p)  Elizabeth,  died  un- 
married; (q)  William  ]\I.,  married  Lucy  Car- 
man, issue — (aaa)  William  Duffield,  (bbb) 
Tacey  Hendry;  (r)  Bowman,  married  Clara 
Moore;  (s)  Clara  Moore;  (t)  Henrietta  Hen- 
dry. 

(E)  .\nna  Hendry.  (I")  Sarah  Ik-ndrv. 
(G)  Charlotte  Hendry.  fH)  Emily  Hendry. 
all  died  unmarried. 

I.  Mary  Duffield  Hendr}-.  married  .\n- 
lay  McCalla,  of  Bridgeton.  New  Jersey,  a 
descendant  of  John  McCalla,  of  the  Isle  of 
Isla,  .Scotland,  who  having  received  a  grant  of 
land  from  the  crown  in  Northumberland  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  settled  there  in  1750.  Issue: 
lu)  Elizabeth  Hendry;  (v)  William  Hollings- 
head  ;  (  w)  Sarah  Hendry;  (x)  Jane  Harrison; 
ly)  Bowman  Hendry,  rear-admiral,  U.  S.  N., 
retired ;  now  residing  at  .Santa  Barbara,  Cali- 
fornia. See  "Records  of  Living  Officers  of 
United  States  Navy  and  Marine  Corps."  by 
Lewis  Randolph  Hammersley,  p.  133. 

Rear-Admiral  McCalla  on  his  father's  side 
descends  from  the  Dennis.  Fithian,  Seeley  and 
( libhon  families,  all  old  settlers  of  New  Jersey, 
and  most  honorably  identified  with  the  cause 
of  the  colonies  in  that  state,  both  before  and 
during  the  revolution.  Among  his  ancestors 
were  Colonel  Ephraim  Seeley,  who  was  judge, 
justice,  member  of  the  assembly,  colonel  of 
militia,  and  extensive  landholder  ;  Alajor  .\nlay 
McCalla.  afterward  spoken  of  as  colonel,  of 
the  Second  Battalion,  Cumberland  county  mili- 
tia, when  said  battalion  was  discharged  in 
1783;  and  that  devoted  patriot,  John  Gibbon, 
whose  death  resulted  from  the  cruel  treatment 
he  received  when  confined  on  the  prison  ship 
in  New  York  during  the  revolution.  Rev. 
Daniel  McCalla.  the  learned,  eloquent  and  fear- 
less cha])lain  of  the  .Second  Pennsylvania  Bat- 
talion during  the  revolution,  and  Colonel  .-Xn- 
lay  McCalla.  who  held  that  rank  in  the  army, 
sent  to  (|uell  the  Western  Insurrection  of  1794, 
were  also  of  this  family.  Rear-.\dmiral  Mc- 
Calla married  Elizabeth  Hazard  Sargent, 
daughter  of  General  Horace  Binney  Sargent 
and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Little  Sweet,  both  of 
lV)ston.  Massachusetts.  Issue:  fa.  a.)  Elizabeth 


Sargent,  married  Lieut.  Commander  William 
(iardiner  Miller,  U.  S.  N.,  of  Richmond,  Vir- 
ginia ;  (  b.b.  )  Mary  Hendry,  married  Lieutenant 
-\rthur  Mc.-Vrthur  Jr.,  L-.  S.  N.,  of  ^Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  and  has  issue:  (c.  c.  c.)  Arthur  Mc- 
.Arthur  (3d),  (d.  d.  d. )  Bowman  Hendry 
Mc.\rthur;  (c.  c.)  Lily  Hazard,  married  Lieu- 
tenant Dudley  Wright,  U.  S.  N. ;  (d.  d.)  Stella 
-Apthorp. 

2.  Henrietta  Hendry,  only  daughter  of  Dr. 
Thomas  Hendry,  married  James  S.  Ritchie,  of 
Philadelphia.  Issue:  (.\)  Robert,  commo- 
dore L'.  S.  .\'.;  see  work  of  Lewis  Randolph 
H;ininKTsley  liefore  quoted,  p.  464.  (B) 
Thomas,  a  physician.  ( C)  William.  (D) 
Thompson.  (E)  Bowman.  (F)  John.  (G) 
Alary.     (H)  Anna. 

3.  John  Hendry,  younger  son  of  Dr.  Thomas 

Hendry,  married  Louisa  ,  and  removed 

to  Posey  county,  Indiana.  No  further  infor- 
mation. 

One  Thomas  Hendry  Jr.,  of  Woodbury, 
.New  Jersey,  who,  there  is  every  reason  to  sup- 
pose, was  a  son  either  of  Dr.  Thomas  Hendry 
or  of  his  son  John,  served  in  the  L'nited  States 
navy.  1811-17,  rising  from  the  position  of  mid- 
shipman to  the  rank  of  lieutenant.  No  further 
information. 

Cajnain  Samuel  Hendry,  second  son  of  John 
Hendry,  of  Burlington,  was  born  in  that  city 
in  1754.  He  was  among  the  first  to  enter  the 
revolutionary  army,  as  his  military  record  here 
given  indicates:  "Ensign,  Captain  Lawrie's 
company.  Second  Battalion,  First  Establish- 
ment. November  27,  1775  ;  second  lieutenant, 
ditto.  Sejitember  5,  1776;  second  lieutenant. 
Captain  .Stout's  company.  Second  Battalion, 
Second  Establishment,  November  29,  1776; 
first  lieutenant.  Captain  .Anderson's  company, 
ditto.  February  5.  1777;  captain-lieutenant. 
Second  Regiment ;  captain,  ditto,  to  date  July 
5.  1779;  discharged  at  close  of  the  war."  The 
foregoing  record  is  from  .\djutant-Generai 
Stryker's  admirable  work,  "Officers  and  Men 
of  New  Jersey  in  the  Revolutionary  War,"  p. 
81.  In  Heitman's  "Historical  Register,"  it  says  : 
"Captain  Hendry  retained  in  New  Jersey  Bat- 
talion, .\pril,  1783,  and  served  to  3rd  Novem- 
ber. 1783."  Captain  Hendry  also  participated 
in  the  Indian  campaign  of  1779.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati.  As  he  retired  from  service  perma- 
nently invalided,  the  remainder  of  Captain 
Hendry's  life  was  passed  very  quietly  in  his 
home  at  Burlington.  Like  his  father,  he  was 
a  pewholder  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  and  accord- 
ing to  the  records  was  interred  in  the  grave- 


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yard  that  surrounds  it,  October  17,  1823.  he 
having  (Hed  two  days  before  that  date. 

Captain  liendry  was  married  three  times. 
His  first  wife  was  Phebe  Chandler,  of  the  cele- 
brated Elizabeth  (New  Jersey)  family  of  that 
name.  She  died  June  22,  1781.  The  only  child 
of  this  marriage,  an  infant  daughter,  is  interred 
with  Iier  in  the  graveyard  of  the  Plrst  Presby- 
terian Church,  of  Elizabeth,  where  her  tomb- 
stone with  its  pathetic  epitaph  is  still  to  be 
seen,  in  a  fine  state  of  preservation.  His  sec- 
ond wife,  whom  he  married,  as  entered  in  the 
Xew  Jersey  archives,  first  series,  vol.  xxii, 
marriage  records,  p.  178,  by  license,  March  2, 
1785,  was  Elizabeth  .Anderson,  an  heiress.  She 
was  sixth  in  line  of  descent  from  Louris  Jensen 
( )p  Dyke,  a  native  of  Holland,  who  came  to  New 
.\msterdam  before  1653.  Her  great-grandfather 
was  Enoch  Anderson,  who  married  Tryntie  Op 
Dyke,  and  gave  the  land  for  the  church  now- 
known  as  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  inTren- 
t<jn.  Xew  Jersey.  Her  grandfather  was  Captain 
John  Anderson,  a  wealthy  resident  of  Maiden- 
head, now  called  Lawrenceville,  New  Jersey, 
who  was  successively  assessor,  freeholder,  con- 
stable and  town  clerk;  (Op  Dyke  Genealogy, 
pj).  136-82).  Her  father  was  the  brave  Ezekiel, 
who  was  chosen  by  Washington  to  act  as  one 
of  his  guides  to  the  camp  of  the  British  on  the 
night  of  the  "Princeton  Surprise,"  and  who 
served  in  the  .Second  Regiment  New  Jersey 
Line,  which  participated  in  the  siege  of  York- 
town.  ( )n  her  mother's  side  this  favored  lady 
descended  from  the  Combs  family  of  Middle- 
sex, Xew  Jersey,  which  counted  among  its 
members  Captain  Jonathan  Combs  of  the  rev- 
olutionary army,  afterwards  judge.  John 
Combs  was  many  times  a  member  of  the  as- 
sembly. Captain  Hendry's  third  wife,  to  whom 
he  was  married  in  St.  ^Iary's  Church,  Burling- 
ton, by  Rev.  C.  H.  Wharton,  D.  D.,  March  13, 

1806,  was  Mary  daughter  of Llewellen, 

and   widow   of Hughes.      She   was  a 

most  estimable,  devout  woman. 

Descendants  of  Ca])tain  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Anderson)  Hendry. 

(1)  John  .\nderson  Hendry,  M.  D.,  1786 
1834.  A  man  of  distinguished  appearance, 
noted  for  the  elegance  of  his  manners,  and  his 
scholarly  attainments.  He  rose  to  eminence  in 
his  profession,  h'or  a  sketch  of  his  career  see 
"Extracts  from  Transactions  of  the  Medical 
Society  of  Hunterdon  County,  New  Jersey, 
for  1872,"  by  John  Blaine,  A.  M.,  M.  D.  Of 
this  society  Dr.  Hendry  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers. He  afterwards  became  a  member  of  the 
.Medical   Society  of  the  City   and   County  of 


Xew  ^'ork.  He  succeeded  iiis  father  as  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Society  of 
the  Cincinnati  in  1824.  He  married,  in  1810, 
.\bigail,  daughter  of  Robert  Chambers,  of 
Trenton,  New  Jersey,  a  revolutionary  soldier, 
and  Francinah,  nee  Reeder,  his  wife.  The 
branch  of  the  Chambers  family  from  which 
.Mrs.  .\bigail  Hendr\-  came  descends  from  John 
Chambers,  who  emigrated  to  Xew  Jersey  from 
ICdinburgh,  Scotland,  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  Robert  Chambers,  her 
father,  entered  the  revolutionary  army  when 
in  his  eighteenth  year,  and  was  with  Washing- 
ton in  the  "march  through  the  Jerseys."  Fran- 
cinah Keeder  could  number  among  her  for- 
bears such  Newtown  (Long  Island)  worthies 
as  John  Lauronson.  Ralph  Hunt,  Thomas  Haz- 
ard, Captain  Richard  Betts,  James  Way,  John 
Burroughs  and  John  Reeder  (7).  The  founder 
of  the  family  in  New  Jersey  was  John  Reeder 
(2(1),  who  came  to  Erring  townshiji,  then  in 
Hunterdon  county,  early  in  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury. His  grandson,  John  Reeder,  married 
Hannah  Mershon,  and  had  thirteen  children, 
of  whom  ten  married,  mostly  into  the  first 
families  of  the  county.     Issue  : 

( A )  Charles  Fox,  born  in  Trenton,  New 
Jersey;  married,  1845.  Ann  Frances,  daughter 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  Kelly,  of  Pittsburgh, 
I'ennsylvania,  a  descendant  through  her 
mother's  mother,  Bessie  Carr,  of  one  of  the 
cadet  branches  of  the  ancient  Scottish  house 
of  Lothian.  Both  deceased.  Children:  (a) 
Mary  Ellen,  deceased:  (b)  Elizabeth  Carmel, 
member  of  Quaker  City  Chapter,  Daughters 
American  Revolution;  (^c)  Julia  Cody,  mar- 
ried Bernardo  H.  Knight,  a  descendant  of  the 
followingpersonages  conspicuous  for  theirhelp- 
fulness  in  Philadelphia  and  its  vicinity  during 
colonial  times:  Giles  Knight  (  ist),  1653-1726; 
(i):  John  Kaighn.  16 — 1724  (2);  Tobias 
Leech,  1652-1726  (3)  :  George  Shoemaker, 
1682-17 —  (4)  :  Rynear  Tyson,  1659-1745  (5)  ; 
Giles  Knight  2nd,  1719-1799  (6)  ;  Bartho- 
lomew Penrose  (7)  :  .\rthur  Donaldson,  1734- 
1797   (8).     He  was  also  descended   from  the 

(7)  Riker's  "Annals  of  Newtown.  Long  I.sland." 
l)p.  ri6-Sr)-3.'!2-:)73-:i7S-.'!S3.  "Genealosy  of  the  Early 
Settlers  of  Ewing  township,  Old  Hunterdon  County. 
New  Jersey."  by  Miss  Hannali  L.  Cooley,  pp.  28-206. 

(1)  "A  History  of  the  Townships  of  Byberry  and 
Moreland  in  Pennsylvania,"  by  Joseph  C.  Martin- 
dale,  M.  D.;  revised  edition  by  Albert  W.  Dudley. 
B.  S..  pp.  317   to  336. 

(3)  "Sketches  of  the  First  Kmigrant  Settlers  in 
Newton  Township.  Old  Gloucester  County.  West 
New  Jersey,"  bv  John  Clement,   pp.   149  to   157. 

(3-4-5-7)  "Genealogy  of  the  Shoemaker  Family  of 
Cheltenham,  Pennsylvania,"  by  Benjamin  Shoe- 
maker; pp.  8-11-12-13-261-405-06. 

(8)  "Pennsylvania  Archives,"  2d  Series,  vol.  iii, 
p.  55. 


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same  woman  as  Betty  Ross,  Sarah  Griscom 
Kaighn.  and  is  trebly  connected  otherwise  with 
Iier  ;  and  from  James  Estangh  (2),  brother-in- 
law  to  Elizabeth  Haddon.  His  mother,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Ann  Catherine  Hoff,  de- 
scends from  a  Swedish  baron,  who  was  at  one 
time  governor  of  a  province.  His  father  was 
Dr.  Isaac  Donaldson  Knight.  V.  S.  A.,  whose 
career  both  as  a  civilian  and  surgeon  in  the 
army  during  the  civil  war  is  worthy  of  the 
highest  praise.  Issue:  (a.  a.)  Anna  F.  Hen- 
dry, member  of  Quaker  City  Chapter,  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  and  Dames 
of  the  Loyal  Legion  :  (b.  b. )  Paul  Hendry,  de- 
ceased :  (c.  c. )  Maria  Immaculata,  member  of 
(jeneral  Muhlenberg  Chapter,  Children  of  the 
.American  Revolution,  and  Order  Dames  of  the 
L<iyal  Legion:  (  d.  d. )  Bernardo  Hoff,  mem- 
ber (if  <  ieneral  Muhlenberg  Chapter,  Children 
of  the  American  Revolution :  ( e.  e. )  Isaac 
Donaldson,  deceased ;  (  f.  f. )  Julia  Catherine, 
deceased  ( g.  g. )  John  Ezekiel  Anderson,  mem- 
ber of  (ieneral  Muhlenberg  Chapter,  Children 
of  the  .American  Revolution.  (^d)  Edwin 
Chambers,  deceased.  (e)  Paul  Augustine, 
member  of  New  Jersey  State  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati ;  of  Pennsylvania  Society,  Sons  of 
the  Revolution  :  of  N'eteran  Corps,  First  Regi- 
ment, National  Guard,  Pennsylvania. 

(B)  Mary  Frances  Pratt,  married  Asli1)el 
S.  Thompson.     No  issue. 

(  C  )  \Villiam  Wallace,  married  Sarah  Over- 
man, whiim  he  ])redeceased.  No  surviving 
issue. 

(D)  Juliet  Lucretia,  married  Isaac  I'..  .Muiui. 
of  a  highly  respectable  famil_\-  of  Chatham. 
Alorris  county,  New  Jersey  ( see  "History 
Essex  Comity,  New  Jersey,"  page  275.  Issue : 
(  f )  Mary  Hendry,  married  Charles  O.  Mc- 
Cord,  who  died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  No 
vember  i,  1880:  child,  .\nnie  Jane  Dickson, 
married  Lindley  Haines  Eastburn,  deceased : 
child,  .\nnie,  died  in  infancy:  (g)  Sarah  Hen- 
dry, married  John  M.  Hewitt,  deceased:  (h) 
Juliet  Lucretia.  married  Edwin  Clark  Jr. : 
child.  Edith,  married  Arthur  van  Buskirk, 
memlier  of  the  bar  of  Hackensack,  New  Jer- 
sey I  see  "History  of  Bergen  Coinitv,  .Vcw  Jer- 
sey," b\  J.  M.  \'an  \  alon.  page  ,^,^7  )  :  child. 
iXrthur. 

(E)  Elizabeth,  died  in  early  childhodd. 

(F)  John  Anderson,  deceased:  married 
Sarah  West  Rulon.  daughter  of  John  and  .\nn 
(I'lUrr)  Rulon.  Mrs.  Hendry  descends  from 
the  Ivulon.  I'urr,  Thorn.  West  and  Mawleverer 
families,  the  latter  traciiitr  their  ancestry  back 


to  Etlward  HI.  of  England  (see  "The  Rulon 
Family  and  Their  Descendants,"  by  John  C. 
Rulon,  pp.  13-27;  ".-\  History  of  the  Burr 
I'^amily,"  by  Charles  Burr  Todd,  edition,  1902 : 
"The  Thorn  Genealogy,"  vol.  i,  p.  177;  and 
the  Mawleverer  Chart).  Issue:  (i)  \\'illiam, 
died  in  childhood:  ( j  )  Mary  F.,  died  in  child- 
hood: (k)  Emma  i,ouisa,  deceased,  1908;  (1) 
.Annie  Rulon,  married  William  W.  Cooper, 
deceased,  a  descendant  of  William  Cooper,  of 
Cooper's  Point,  New  Jersey  (see  "William 
Coojjer  of  Cireenfield,  Woodbury,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  his  Cooper  Ancestry,"  by  Howard  Al. 
Coo])er,  and  Prowell's  "History  Camden  Coun- 
ty." pp.  404-15):  issue:  J.  West  Rulon  and 
Horace,  members  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society. 
.Sons  of  the  Revolution:  Edwin  Augustus,  de- 
ceased; married  Mary  Anna  Browning  (see 
"(ienealogy  of  the  Brownings  in  America  from 
i'i2i  to  1908."  by  Edward  Franklin  Brownmg. 
]).  428)  :  issue:  Clifford  .Archer,  died  in  child- 
linod.  and  Marguerite,  died  in  infancy:  (m) 
l-^allie  West,  died  in  childhood. 

((i)    .Abbie  .\lmira,  deceased:  unmarried. 

(Ill  Edwin  Augustus,  deceased :  married 
( tirst )  Annie  Jane  Dickson,  who  died  May  (\ 
1852  ;  child.  Annie  Jane  Dickson,  died  in  child- 
hood:  luarried  (second)  Sarah  Runkle,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Jacob  and  Matilda  (  Runkle  )  Burke, 
of  Easton.  Penn.sylvania.  Mrs.  Hendry  ile 
scends  through  her  father  from  Le  Sieur  Jean 
|ac(|nes  Egernian.  Alsace,  1590-1660.  a  cap- 
t.iin  lieutenant  in  the  "Thirty  Year's  War,"  and 
through  her  mother  from  the  Earls  of  Isen- 
lierg.  Runkle  and  \\  ied.  ( ieriuany  (see  "The 
.\ncestry  of  Alarguerite  and  John  Egeman." 
by  John  ligerman.  V.  Z.  S.,  F.  G.  S.  H.,  and 
"The  Runkle  I'amily,"  by  FJenjamin  A'an  D. 
[•"isher,  p.  132).  Mrs.  Hendry  died  in  1867; 
child,  John  Burke,  a  lawyer,  practicing  in  Lon- 
don, luigland. 

(  I  )  Hannah  I'.lizabeth.  deceased  ;  marrietl 
Isaac  I!.  r)enners,  deceased.  Issue:  Henry 
(  hambers.  deceased  ;  .Abbie,  died  in  childhood  : 
William,  deceased:  Edwin  Hendry,  married 
Lilian,  daughter  of  Henry  Harding  Edwards 
and  Mary  (  \'an  Cleve)  Edwards.  Mr.  Ben- 
ners  is  president  of  the  Crown  Castings  Coni- 
|iany.  Xew  N'ork  City.  Issue:  Ethel  Hendry. 
Royal  Whitman.  Walter  Scott  and  Edwin  Ben- 
ners. 

(2)  I'eter  I'erne  Hendry  married  Rhoda 
Cook,  of  Trenton.  Xew  Jersey.  P>oth  deceased. 
Issue:  (a)  Mar\-  Elizabeth,  born  1812.  died 
1S86:  married  William  t^ornell.  both  deceased. 
Issue:     I'jiwin  I  lenr\-.  deceased,  married  Hen 


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rietta  Kiilj^way  :  cliild.  IJclcn,  married  Jacob 
M.  IJaer,  cliild,  .Mildred;  Aiigcline.  married  A. 
tlimiboldt  ( iarber.  deceased,  children,  Edwin 
and  Ida;  Henrietta,  married  Arthur  Sterling, 
child,  Helen;  Mary  L.,  married  Joseph  H. 
I'arvin,  child.  May.  (b)  Angeline,  born  1814, 
died  1878;  married  llenjamin  Holmes  van 
.Schaick  ;  both  decea.sed  ;  no  issue.  (  c  )  Theo- 
iliire  .\nderson,  born  1820,  died  18^3;  married 
Susanna,  (laughter  of  Jose])h  and  P^Iizabetli  Cox, 
■  if  Trenton.  New  Jersey;  issue;  Helen,  married 

riiomas   L'.    .Stokes,   child,    Eilwin    I.    Stokes ; 

riieodore  Anderson,  deceased,  married  Mary 
Lanniug;  children;  Herbert;  Evelyn,  married 
Herbert  .Schotl,  child,  Herbert;  Susie;  Helen, 
(d)  Enc>cli,  married  Mary  Shertz,  both  de- 
ceased. Issue;  William,  deceased,  married 
l£lizabeth  Wallace ;  Ida,  married  Anthony  1". 
Iirvin  ;  issue;  Edwin  Hendry,  married  Helen 
.Xagle  and  had  children;  Frazier,  Edwin, 
1  larold,  Ruth  Iilizabeth  ;  Itlanche  I^stelle,  mar- 
ried John  Anderson  and  had  children;  Eliza- 
beth," Dorothy,  William  1". ;  Harriet  Estelle, 
married  Joseph  McKiznon;  issue;  Clayton 
Hendry  and  Horace  .Stanley;  PVank  I'^erne, 
married  X'irginia  Gilmore  ;  child,  Ida,  married 
J.  C.  Adair;  children;  Warren  and  Norman. 
Children  of  Captain  Samuel  Hendry  and 
.Mary  Hughes   (  Llewellen  )    Hendry,  his  wife; 

1.  Mary,  born  1807,  died  1839  ;  married  Rev 
Levin  M.  I'rettyman,  of  Georgetown,  Dela- 
ware, a  gifted,  zealous  and  faithful  minister  of 
the  Methodist  E])iscopal  church.  Issue;  Mar\- 
.Matilda, married  William  1 1.  Ridgaway,  a  prom- 
inent and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  Dover, 
Delaware,  who  descends  from  early  settlers  of 
the  state,  and  whose  merits  are  set  forth  in  a 
highly  api)reciative  manner  in  the  "Biographical 
and  (lenealogical  History  of  Delaware,"  pp. 
X07-09 ;  children;  Mary  Hendry,  married  the 
Rev.  .Albert  I'.  Lasher,  of  I'ennington,  New 
Jersey,  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
cliurch,  and  had  children ;  Charles  Wilbur, 
married  Augusta  J.  Borden,  of  Jacobstown, 
N'cw  Jersey,  and  Frank  Hickman;  Charles 
Bascom.  a  graduate  of  Dickinson  College ;  for 
many  years  a  teacher  in  California;  at  ]jresent 
a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Wyoming  College  ; 
married  .\nna  Chandler,  of  Cambridge.  Massa- 
chusetts ;  Wilbur  J.,  married  Estelle  Wood,  of 
Roselle  Fark.  New  Jersey;  child,  L'lara ;  .\nna 
Clara,  married  James  Hazel,  of  Dover,  Dela- 
ware, no  issue.  Caroline,  died  in  infancy. 
.\nna  L.,  died  in  infancy.  Lawrence  D.,  died 
in  infancy. 

2.  Elizabeth,  clied  unmarried,  in  middle  age 


llenjamin  Jijne^,  the  earliot  mem- 
JONES  ber  of  thi^  family  concerning 
whom  there  is  no  controversy, 
was  born  in  Chester  county,  Fennsylvania,  No- 
vember 7,  1767,  and  died  May  10,  1849.  ''^^" 
cording  to  some  authorities  he  was  son  of  Jo- 
seph and  .-\m\-  (Cock)  Jones,  who  was  born 
near  the  Concord  monthly  meeting,  in  Chester 
county,  Pennsylvania,  5  mo.  14,  1759,  and 
according  to  another  authority  e(|ually  good  liis 
father  was  Benjamin  Jones,  who  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  (if  William  and  Rachel  (New- 
lin  )  Walter,  who  was  born  January  28,  1743, 
and  died  A]iril  2'^.  1791.  After  her  first  hus- 
band's death  she  married  (second  )  a  Mr.  Reed, 
by  whom  she  had  five  daughters.  Children  of 
Benjamin  and  Hannah  (Walter)  Jones;  Will- 
iam, married  Mary  Leedom ;  Benjamin,  re- 
ferred to  above  and  Iielow. 

(II)  lienjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
and  Hannah  (Walter)  Jones,  born  Noveml>er 
7,  17(17,  died  May  10,  1849,  was  an  iron  founder 
and  the  owner  of  a  number  of  furnaces  in 
different  parts  of  the  country,  one  at  Wor- 
cester, Maryland,  another  in  Somerset  county, 
I'emisylvania,  and  still  a  third,  perhaps  the 
most  celebrated  of  them  all,  at  Hanover,  New 
Jersey,  where  Mr.  Jones  manufactured  cannon 
for  use  in  the  war  of  18 12,  and  in  connection 
with  which  he  established  the  "'gun  road"  from 
Hanover  to  .Sandy  Hook.  He  was  also  inter- 
ested and  instrumental  in  the  construction  of 
the  railroad  from  Kinkora  to  New  Lisbon.  He 
married  (first),  May  18.  1797,  Rebecca  Moore, 
born  April  16.  1778.  died  .\ugust  2",  1802; 
(second).  June  6.  1805,  Mary,  born  November 
18,  1778,  died  March  3,  1839.  daughter  of 
Samuel  antl  Sarah  (Stretch)  Howell.  Chil- 
dren, three  by  first  wife;  I.  William,  born 
May  29,  1798;  died  June  29.  1798.  2.  Walter 
Moore,  born  June  14,  1799;  died  .\ugust  15, 
1823;  married  Maria  Holton.  3.  Andrew 
Moore,  born  July  13,  1801  ;  died  January,  1885; 
married  Caroline  I'.onsall:  no  children.  4. 
Ann  Emlen,  born  July  21,  1806;  died  No- 
vember r,  1883;  married  Anthony  Saunders 
Morris.  3.  W'illiam  Howell,  born  .April  16, 
1808;  died  .September  2,  1819;  unmarried.  6. 
.Margaretta  Howell,  born  December  19.  1809; 
married  John  Madison  Taylor.  7.  Richard, 
referred  to  below.  8.  Mary  Reveridge,  born 
I'^ebruary  18,  1814;  died  October  26.  1887; 
married  Samuel  H.  Tobey.  9. .Harriet,  born 
March  17.  1816;  died  January  2.  1835;  un- 
married. 10.  .Samuel  Howell,  born  June  30. 
1818;  died  January  27,   1883;  married   (first) 


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Lydia  H.  Bishop,  uf  Medford,  New  Jersey; 
(second)  Kate  Jacob,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky. 
1 1.  Benjamin  Walter,  born  June  2Q,  1821  :  died 
December  15.  1883:  married  Harriet  W.  Davis. 

(  III)  Richard,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mary 
( I  lowell)  Jones,  was  born  in  Burlington  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  February  21.  1812,  and  died 
October  29,  1890.  Like  his  father  he  was  an 
iron  founder,  and  owned  the  furnaces  at  Han- 
over. New  Jersey,  which  he  continued  with 
his  brother,  Samuel  Howell  Jones,  under  the 
firm  name  R.  &  S.  H.  Jones.  About  1850  Mr. 
Jones  went  to  Newark.  New  Jersey,  where  he 
organized  the  New  Jersey  Zinc  Works,  and 
owing  to  the  fact  of  his  uncle  William's  having 
been  a  member  of  the  first  board  of  directors 
of  the  Mercantile  Library  of  I'hiladelphia,  on 
which  he  served  for  five  years,  he  became  very 
much  interested  in  the  Newark  Library  Asso- 
ciation, which  was  being  organized  and  incor- 
porated at  that  time,  and  became  one  of  the 
first  stockholders  of  the  corporation.  Tn  1853 
he  went  to  I'lorence,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
established  an  iron  furnace  which  he  operated 
until  18^14,  when  he  retired  from  active  pur- 
suits and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  partly 
at  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  and  partly  in 
Philadel])hia.  Mr.  Jones  married  (first)  Susan 
Gibbs,  (second),  on  June  2,  1841.  Alice  Wood- 
mansie  Davis,  of  Chesterfield,  New  Jersey. 
Children,  two  by  first  wife:  i.  Joseph  Gibbs, 
married  Christine  Kellog.  2.  Benjamin,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Ivins  Davis,  died  unmar- 
ried ;  became  captain  of  Company  C,  First  New 
Jersey  \'olunteer  Infantry,  and  afterward 
major  of  First  New  Jersey  \'olunteer  Cavalry, 
and  served  during  the  civil  war.  4.  .Alice,  mar- 
ried Cyril  Monier  Williams.  5.  Mary  Howell. 
6.  .Susan  Emlen,  married  (first)  Mortimer 
Oldham  Heath,  of  England;  (second)  George 
W.  Carpenter.  7.  Richard  Jones,  married  Eliz- 
abeth Brightly. 

(IN)  Benjamin,  son  of  Richard  and  Susan 
((iibbs)  Jones,  was  born  in  Hanover,  New- 
Jersey,  in  1828,  and  died  in  Pemberton,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  October  6,  1899. 
.After  receiving  a  good  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Hanover  he  entered  and  graduated 
from  the  Gibbs  school  at  Plattsburg,  New  Jer- 
sey, after  which  he  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  conduct  of  the  latter's  iron 
furnace  in  Florence.  New  Jersey,  where  he 
continuetl  in  business  for  several  years,  after 
which  he  turned  his  attention  to  school  teach- 
ing, which  became  the  chief  occupation  of  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  and   for  manv  vears  he 


was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the 
educational  field  of  Burlington  county.  He 
did  not  specially  identify  himself  with  any 
ecclesiastical  organization,  although  his  own 
tastes  and  ancestral  affiliations  inclined  him 
strongly  to  the  Society  of  Friends.  About 
1859  Mr.  Jones  married  Mary  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Carroll,  of  Juliustovvn,  New 
Jersey.  Children;  i.  Susan,  now  dead.  2. 
William  Carroll,  referred  to  below.  3.  Lillie, 
married  George  West,  superintendent  of  an 
electrical  construction  company  in  Fairhaven, 
N'ermont:  child,  ^lary  Elizabeth  West.  4.  An- 
drew, an  employee  of  Pennsylvania  Railroad 
Company ;  lives  in  Pemberton,  New  Jersey ; 
married  .Amy  Emmons  ;  children  ;  Inez,  Paul 
and  Oscar.  5.  .Alice,  married  Charles  Wills, 
of  Mncentown,  New  Jersey.  6.  Elizabeth, 
now  dead.  7.  .Arthur,  married  .Annie  Wells,  of 
Pemberton  ;  lives  in  Camden,  New  Jersey;  one 
child,  Barclay  Jones.  8.  Mary,  married  Oscar 
-Ayres,  of  Freehold,  New  Jersey.  9.  Horace, 
now  dead.  10.  Rebecca,  married  Roy  Rue, 
of  Hightstown,  New  Jersey;  one  son,  Oscar 
Rue.     II.  Martha,  now  dead. 

(\')  William  Carroll,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Carroll)  Jones,  was  born  in 
Hanover,  New  Jersey,  October  10,  1862,  and 
is  now  living  in  New  Egypt,  Ocean  county. 
New  Jersey.  He  received  his  early  education 
in  the  high  school  at  Pemberton.  and  in  1878, 
when  sixteen  years  of  age,  obtained  a  position 
in  the  drug  store  of  J.  Harley  Compton,  in 
New  Egypt,  where  he  remained  for  the  ensu- 
ing ten  years,  taking,  at  the  same  time  the 
regular  courses  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmac)-,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1888 
with  the  degree  of  Ph.  G.  Shortly  after  his 
graduation  he  obtained  a  position  as  phar- 
macist and  clerk  in  the  drug  store  of  E.  B. 
Jones,  of  Mount  Holly,  with  whom  he  con- 
tinued until  1895,  when  he  returned  to  New- 
Egypt  and  bought  up  the  business  of  his  former 
employer.  Air.  J.  Harley  Compton.  Since  that-, 
time  Mr.  Jones  has  been  the  proprietor  of  thatr*. 
establishment,  and  although  it  is  one  of  the 
largest  businesses  of  its  kind  in  that  portion 
of  the  state,  it  comprises  in  reality  only  a  small 
portion  of  the  business  interests  of  which  Mr. 
Jones  is  the  head.  In  1906  he  organized  the 
Jones  Break-up  Company,  a  corporation  organ- 
ized under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey 
for  the  manufacture  of  druggists'  specialties 
and  proprietary  remedies.  Of  this  company 
Mr.  Jones  is  president  and  active  managing 
head.      Besides    these    business   intere.sts    Mr. 


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987 


Junes  has  been  closely  identified  with  many  of 
the  best  corporations  and  institutions  of  New 
Egypt.  He  is  the  one  who  was  mainly  respon- 
sible for  the  organization  of  the  First  National 
Rank  of  New  Egy])t  in  1906,  and  he  is  now 
vice-president  of  the  institution.  He  is  also  a 
director  and  the  treasurer  of  the  New  Egypt 
Water  Company,  as  well  as  treasurer  of  the 
X'illage  Improvement  Association,  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  organizers. 
He  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  benefits  of  fraternal 
organizations,  and  is  an  enthusiastic  member 
of  several,  among  them  the  Masons,  Golden 
Eagle,  Odd  Fellows,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and 
Junior  Order  of  American  Mechanics.  Al- 
though he  was  brought  up  under  the  influence 
of  the  Society  of  Friends,  he  has  for  many 
years  been  a  faithful  and  consistent  member 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  is 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  that  de- 
nomination in  New  Egypt,  which  he  also  served 
for  eleven  years  as  secretary  of  its  Sunday 
school. 

January  i,  1887,  ^^r.  Jones  married  Louisa 
C,  daughter  of  William  and  Charlotte  L. 
(Miller)  Holzbaur,  of  New  Egypt,  whose 
father  is  a  native  of  Germany  and  emigrated 
to  this  country,  landing  in  1854  in  New  York 
City,  where  for  a  time  he  worked  at  his  trade 
of  shoe-making,  removing  in  a  few  years  to 
Piordentown.  and  shortly  afterward  to  Colum- 
bus, New  Jersey.  He  settled  in  1866  perma- 
nently at  New  Egypt,  where  he  still,  as  he  has 
for  many  years  past,  conducts  his  business  as 
proprietor  of  a  variety  store  in  connection  with 
general  shoe  repairing.  He  married,  in  Colum- 
bus, New  Jersey.  Charlotte  L.  Miller  (or 
Mueller).  Children:  Francis,  Hannah,  Char- 
lotte, Margaret,  Louisa,  William  and  Sarah 
Holzbaur.  Mr.  Holzbaur  is  son  of  Christopher 
and  Elizabeth  Holzbaur,  whose  children  were: 
Jacob,  Rose,  Casper,  William,  referred  to 
above,  and  Riker  Holzbaur.  Child  of  William 
Carroll  and  Louisa  C.  (Holzbaur)  Jones: 
Harley  Roscoe,  referred  to  below. 

(VT)  Harley  Roscoe  Jones,  born  in  New 
Egypt,  New  Jersey,  April  2,  1888,  was  edu- 
cated in  a  private  school  of  that  town,  after 
which  he  went  to  the  Mount  Holly  high  school, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1905.  Since  1907 
_he  has  been  connected  with  the  Corn  Exchange 
of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  for  a  shorter 
while  has  been  engaged  with  the  Interstate 
Instructional  Banking  School.  He  is  also  trea.s- 
iirir  of  the  Jones  Break-up  Company. 


(For  i>iececling  sreneratinn.-;  .st-f  Matthia.'i  Cmwii]   li. 

(Vll)  Joseph  Albert  Cor  win, 
CORWIN  son  of  William  and  Martha 
(Vance)  Corwin,  was  born  in 
Sparta,  New  Jersey,  May  17,  1810.  He  grad- 
uated from  Yale  Medical  College,  1835,  and 
throughout  his  active  career  was  a  noted  phy- 
sician and  surgeon,  practicing  his  profession 
at  I'.elleville,  New  Jersey,  from  1837  to  1850, 
and  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  from  1850  until 
1880.  1  le  was  a  member  of  the  Newark  Board 
of  Education,  and  warden  of  Christ  Episcopal 
Church,  Newark.  He  married  (first)  Tar- 
(|uina  Kenney;  (second),  September  18,  1856, 
Emma  Whybrew,  born  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, July  29,  1831,  daughter  of  Samuel  A.  "and 
(Ward)  Baldwin,  of  Newark,  grand- 
daughter of  Nehemiah  and  Rhoda  Baldwin,  of 
Newark,  and  a  descendant  of  Lieutenant  Ail- 
ing, of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  who  was  a 
nnnute-nian  in  the  war  of  the  revolution.  Chil- 
dren of  Nehemiah  and  Rhoda  Baldwin:  Sam- 
uel .\.,  Amarintha  and  George  W'.  Baldwin. 
Children  of  first  wife:  i.  Francis  Nicholas 
West,  born  July  4,  1840:  married  (first) 
Louisa  Westervelt ;  (second)  Sarah  E.  Condit. 
2.  William  Albert,  born  March  12,  1843;  stud- 
ied medicine;  became  a  surgeon  in  United 
States  navy  in  1871,  and  remained  in  service 
to  his  death  at  Panama  from  yellow  fever  in 
1887.  3.  Charles  l^^rederick,  born  July  25, 
1843.  4-  ^lary  Garette,  born  February  14, 
1850:  died  September  9.  1851.  Children  of 
second  wife:  5.  Theodore  Wellington,  see  for- 
ward. 6.  Harry  Clifl^ord,  born  1859;  died  in 
his  second  year.  7.  Robert  Lowell,  born  1870; 
employed  in  pension  office  at  Washington, 
D.  C.  8.  Joseph  Wilmer.  born  1871  ;  resides 
in  Orange.  New  Jersey ;  conducts  a  wholesale 
paper  business  in  New  York  City. 

(VHI)  Theodore  Wellington,  eldest  child 
of  Joseph  Albert  and  Emma  Whybrew  (Bald- 
win )  Corwin,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, June  I,  1857.  He  was  educated  at  the  pri- 
vate school  of  Professor  Shier,  and  later  stud- 
ied medicine  in  his  father's  office.  For  three 
years  he  jnirsued  a  course  of  lectures  at  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  New 
York  City  (medical  department.  Columbia 
College),  and  was  graduated  with  honors,  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1879,  when  he  received  a  prize 
awarded  for  general  proficiency.  He  at  once 
entered  Charity  (now  called  the  City)  Hos- 
pital of  New  York  City,  and  received  the  hos- 
pital diploma  October  i,  1880,  having  served  as 
interne  for  eighteen  months.    He  then  engaged 


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STATF.    (JF    NEW  JERSEY. 


ill  general  jiractice  in  Newark,  making  a  spe- 
cialty uf  <liseases  of  the  nose,  throat  and  lungs, 
in  which  branches  he  achieved  success  and  re- 
nown, becoming  one  of  the  leading  local  au- 
thorities, his  opinions  being  sought  by  many 
from  far  and  near.  He  also  became  connected 
with  the  Hospital  of  St.  Barnabas.  Newark. 
serving  in  the  capacity  of  e.xterne.  In  1886  he 
was  ap])ointed  visiting  physician  to  the  same. 
Jn  1887  he  became  connected  with  St.  ^Michael's 
llospital.  Newark,  and  in  1890  established  a 
clinic  for  treatment  of  diseases  of  the  nose  and 
throat.  This  has  since  steadily  grown  in  ini- 
j)ortaiice  and  favor.  In  1900  Dr.  Corwin  re- 
liiu|uishcd  general  practice  and  limited  his 
practice  to  diseases  of  the  nose,  throat  and 
lungs.  He  is  a  member  of  tlie  .\mericaii  Med- 
ical .Association,  and  its  .state  and  county 
branches:  the  New  York  .\cademy  of  Medi- 
cine :  .American  Laryngological.  Otological  and 
Rhinological  Society  ;  .National  .-Vssociation  for 
.^tudy  and  Prevention  of  Tuberculosis;  New 
Jersey  .State  Association  for  I'revention  and 
Relief  of  Tuberculosis  ;  Newark  Medical  and 
.Surgical  Society ;  Esse.x  County  Medical  Soci- 
ety ;  Practitioners'  Club  of  New  ark.  and  other 
medical  bodies.  He  is  a  member  of  the  .\meri- 
can  I'ublic  Health  .Association  and  New  Jer- 
se\-  Sanitary  .Association.  North  End  Club, 
.Xorthern  Republican  Club.  Wednesday  (liter- 
ar\-  )  Club,  F'orest  Hill  Literary  Society,  Young 
.Men's  Christian  .Association,  and  was  formerly 
connected  with  the  Golden  Star  Fraternity  and 
Knights  of  Honor.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
lioard  of  Trade,  Newark,  and  has  served  as 
commissioner  of  public  health,  city  of  Newark. 
since  January,  1909.  He  is  a  member  and 
junior  warden  of  St.  James  Church  (Prot- 
estant Episcopal)  of  Newark,  Both  he  and 
Mrs.  Corwin  are  actively  interested  in  many 
philanthro])ic  and  charitable  associations. 

!)r.  Corwin  married,  at  Rorchester,  New 
^  (irk.  July  2.  1891,  Lillian  E..  born  at  (_ireece, 
.\'ew  York,  now  Rochester,  January  4,  i860, 
daughter  of  Delafield  and  Eugenia  E.  (Put- 
nam )  Whiting,  the  former  of  whom  was  lieu- 
tenant in  L'nited  States  army ;  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  A'ork  National  (iuard.  and 
later  was  connected  witli  the  civil  department 
lit  Rcichester.  New  York,  in  charge  of  poor 
house.  Children  of  Lieutenant  Whiting:  Dela- 
t^eld  Jr..  W'ilHs  P.,  Bertha,  Lillian  E.  (Mrs. 
t'orwin):  another  child,  who  dieil  in  infancy. 
C'liildreii  of  Dr.  and  Airs.  Corwin:  1.  Emma 
Eugenia,  born  May  22.  1892  ;  educated  in  New- 
ark jHiblic  schools  and  Newark  high  (or  ]'>ar- 
riiiger)   school,  graduating  therefrom  in   I<K)<^ 


2.  Ruth  Backus,  born  .\ugust  8,  1893 ;  edu- 
cated in  Newark  public  school,  entered  high 
school,  and  after  one  year  entered  Blair  .Acad- 
emy at  lilairstown.  New  Jersey. 


W 


J  lenr\-  W'iese,  the  first  of  the  line 
V.SV.     herein  treated  of  whom  we  have 

information,  came  to  this  country 
from  (jermany  and  located  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  became  an  importer 
of  wall  papers,  with  store  on  Chestnut  street. 
He  was  a  public-spirited  citizen,  as  are  most 
of  the  emigrants  from  Germany,  ready  and 
willing  to  conform  to  the  laws  of  their  adopted 
country  and  willing,  if  necessary,  to  lay  down 
their  lives  for  its  honor.  He  married  and  was 
the  father  of  twelve  children,  two  of  whom 
attained  years  of  maturity,  namely :  Edward 
and  FYederick  (ieorge.  Edward  was  born 
about  1832,  was  sent  to  Germany  and  educated 
at  W  ittenburg.  becoming  a  celebrated  linguist ; 
he  returned  to  the  United  States  and  was  a 
prcuninent  educator  for  many  years:  after  a 
separatiim  of  thirty-eight  years  the  brothers 
met.  The  mother  of  these  children,  Rosine 
W'iese.  died  at  the  birth  of  Frederick  George, 
and  Henry  W  iese  removed  to  New  Orleans, 
Louisiana,  where  he  married  again  and  en- 
gaged in  business,  continuing  with  marked  suc- 
cess until  1849,  when  the  gold  fever  broke  out 
and  he  started  for  California  but  died  em  the 
journey. 

(II)  Frederick  George,  son  t)f  Flenry  and 
Rosine  W'iese,  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  Penn- 
sylvania, F'ebruary  9,  1840,  his  mother  dying 
at  his  birth  as  aforementioned.  He  was  adopt- 
ed by  F.  L.  .Albrecht,  a  prominent  piano  manu- 
facturer of  his  day,  whose  place  of  business 
was  at  the  corner  of  Third  street  and  Apple 
alley.  Philadelphia:  Mr.  .Albrecht  was  the  in- 
\entor.  jiatentee  and  manufacturer  of  the  cele- 
brated iron  tuning  board  now'  used  in  all 
])ianos :  Mr.  .Albrecht  died  .suddenly  of  heart 
trouble  when  Frederick  G.  W'iese  was  three 
years  of  age,  and  he  was  then  reared  by  Airs. 
.Albrecht.  who  in  1845-46  came  to  Borden- 
town.  New  Jersey.  Airs.  .Albrecht  gave  young 
W'iese  an  excellent  practical  education.  an<i 
u])0ii  attaining  years  of  maturity  he  well  re- 
paid her  for  her  care  and  kindness  to  him  by 
looking  carefully  after  her  welfare,  she  spend- 
ing her  last  years  at  his  home,  where  her  de- 
mise occurred.  When  fifteen  years  of  age, 
Frederick  G.  W  iese  entered  a  general  mercan- 
tile store  as  clerk,  and  four  years  later  engaged 
in  the  dry  goods  and  trimming  business,  w'hich 
he  ci.inducted  successfully  until   1890.  when  he 


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sdld  out,  and  in  lcS(JS  tngaged  in  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  business,  wliicli  lie  has  followed 
to  the  ])resent  time  (  1909),  attaining  a  large 
degree  of  success  as  a  result  of  his  enterprise 
and  sagacity.  In  1870  ^Ir.  W'iese  erectetl  the 
lirick  block  where  the  ISordentown  post-office 
now  stands,  in  1885,  at  the  first  election  of 
drover  L'ieveland  as  president,  Mr.  Wiese  was 
appointed  postmaster  of  ISordentown,  serving 
through  that  administration,  and  was  again  ap- 
])ointed  on  President  Cleveland's  second  elec- 
tion, discharging  the  duties  thereof  to  the  ])er- 
fect  satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  He  served 
three  years  as  a  member  of  the  common  coun- 
cil and  two  years  as  president.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat in  politics,  advancing  the  interests  of  his 
]iarty  at  every  ojiportunity.  Probably  as  an 
active  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  Mr 
W'iese  is  best  known  throughout  the  state  and 
comitry.  In  1861  his  petition  was  ]M"esented 
for  membership  in  Mt.  Moriah  Podge.  P'ree 
and  .Vccejited  Alasons,  in  which  order  he  has 
passed  through  all  the  chairs  and  is  past  mas- 
ter. He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  first  liigh 
priest  of  Mt.  Moriah  Chapter,  Royal  .\rch 
.Masons.  He  was  high  priest  of  the  Grand 
Cha])ter  of  .\ew  jersey  in  1875,  and  has  held 
the  office  of  grand  treasurer  of  the  ( irand 
Chapter  continuously  since  1 88 1.  Pie  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  Ivanhoe  Commandery. 
Knights  Tem]ilar,  Xo.  11.  of  Itordentown,  and 
was  its  first  eminent  commander.  He  was 
grand  commander  of  the  (irand  Commandery 
of  Xew  Jersey  in  1876,  and  has  served  as  grand 
treasurer  of  the  (jrand  Commandery  since  De- 
cember 7.  1880,  a  period  of  almost  thirty  suc- 
cessive years.  He  tot)k  the  consistory  degree> 
to  the  thirty-second  in  the  Masonic  Temple, 
Philadelphia,  in  1867.  but  resigned  and  joined 
h'ycelsior  Podge.  Su])reme  Princes  of  the 
Royal  Secret,  at  Camden.  Xew  Jersey.  He 
was  a  charter  member  of  Pu  Pu  Temple.  \n- 
cient  .Xrabic  ( )rder  .Xobles  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  of  i'hiladelphia,  but  changed  his  mem- 
bership and  was  a  charter  member  of  Cres- 
cent Temple  of  Trenton,  Xew  Jersey.  He  is 
aPo  a  member  of  Podge  Xo.  16,  lndei)endent 
<  )rder  of  ( )(ld  Fellows,  and  past  chief  patriarch 
of  Chosen  I'riends  Encampment,  No.  6. 

Mr.  W'iese  married  (first),  February  4. 
1862.  Susan  M.  Hamilton,  daughter  of  James 
Hamilton,  of  'Prenton,  Xew  Jersey.  .She  died 
June  _^o.  1904.  .Mr.  W'iese  married  (second) 
.Vovember  <).  1907.  Mrs.  Emma  A.  Williams, 
daughter  of  Israel  Riggins.  of  Cape  May  coun- 
ty. Xew  Jersey.  Children  of  first  wife:  1. 
II.    I'.rnsoii.   born   January    iX.    186^^.   attcnrled 


the  ISordentown  Collegiate  Institute,  is  a  civil 
engineer,  having  been  in  the  employ  of  the 
Pennsylvania  railroad  for  many  years,  becom- 
ing supervisor  of  the  Parksburg  division,  and 
is  now  (1909)  superintendent  of  the  Parks- 
burg Iron  Company;  he  married  .\mi  Macal- 
tioner,  of  W'oodstown.  .\'ew  Jersey;  they  have 
one  child.  Joseph  P'rederick.  2.  Pouis  W.,  born 
December"  8.  1865.  attended  the  schools  of 
ilordentown.  learned  the  trade  of  printer  and 
has  an  oflice  in   iJordentovvn. 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  the 
l!,\k  Tk  \.M  (Juaker  City,  as  Philadelphia 
has  been  called,  was  the  resi- 
dence of  comparatively  few  Quakers,  most  of 
the  disciples  of  George  P^o.x  settling  in  the 
country  round  about,  and  leaving  the  city  to 
Ije  occujiied  by  men  of  many  religious  convic- 
tions, among  them  even  Roman  Catholics.  This 
was  due  in  part  to  the  fact  that  the  only 
Cluakers  in  William  Penn's  family  were  him- 
self and  his  wife,  all  his  children  returning  to 
ihc  Church  of  PIngland,  and  in  conse(|uence 
giving  a  churchly  tone  to  their  proprietary 
government.  Tliis  led  to  the  Quakers  seek- 
ing isolation  in  the  country  round  about,  and 
among  the  little  party  of  Derbyshire  Quakers 
who  settled  at  Darby,  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1682  or  1683,  was  the  founder  of 
ihe  family  at  present  under  consideration. 

(  I  )  John,  son  of  Richard  Bartram,  of  Derbv- 
shirc,  England,  was  born  in  .\shbourne,  Eng- 
land, and  died  in  Darby,  Pennsylvania,  May  1. 
i'kj7.  With  his  wife  and  four  chililren  he 
came  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  became  actix'e 
and  influential  in  the  religious  and  social  afl'airs 
of  that  day,  co-operating  early  in  the  organ- 
ization of  the  monthly  meeting  at  Darby.  He 
settled  on  the  western  side  of  Darby  creek, 
just  above  the  present  village  of  Darby,  where 
was  surveyed  to  him  .\ugust  30,  1O85,  three 
hundred  acres  of  land,  ])ortions  of  which  tract 
are  still  in  the  possession  of  certain  of  his  de- 
scendants. In  1689  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Pennsylvania  assembly  from  Chester  county. 
His  wife  Elizabeth  survi\ed  him  many  years, 
dying  September  4.  1723.  Children:  John, 
died  yoimg.  .\ugust  14.  1692  ;  Isaac,  died  .March 
10.  1707.  unmarried;  William,  referred  to 
below;  Mary,  married  John  Wood;  Elizabeth, 
born  July  8,  1684,  married  John  Cartlige. 

(II)  \\'illiani.  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
I'.artram.  was  born  in  .\shbourne.  England. 
;md  brought  over  to  Petmsylvania  by  his  par- 
ents about  1^183.  He  was  a  man  of  ability  and 
intbu'iice,   being  chosen   in    1708  a  member   of 


STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


the  i)rovincial  assembly,  lie  married  (tirstj, 
May  22,  1696,  Elizabeth,  who  died  October  21, 
1701,  daughter  of  James  Iliiiit.of  Kingsessing; 
(second),  in  1707,  Elizabeth,  born  March  17, 
1689,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Smith  ; 
in  171 5,  after  her  husband's  death,  she  mar- 
ried (second)  John  Smith,  of  Burlington,  New- 
Jersey.  Children,  two  by  each  wife:  i.  John, 
referred  to  below.  2.  James,  born  October  6, 
1701  :  married,  September  30,  1725,  Elizabeth, 
<laughter  of  Richard  and  Elizabeth  (Mayes) 
.Maris  (see  Maris),  and  whose  daughter  Mary, 
born  November  12,  1727,  died  December  16, 
1750.  married,  November  21.  1747,  Isaac 
liowell.  and  their  daughter  Eliza  became  the 
wife  of  Jolin  Bartram  ( I\' ),  referred  to  below. 
3.  F^lizabeth,  born  February  10,  1709;  died 
January  15.  1732;  imniarried.  4.  \\'illiam, 
born  June  3.  171 1  ;  died  about  1770;  married 
Elizabeth  (Locke)  Smith,  and  removed  to  the 
vicinity  of  Cape  Fear,  North  Carolina. 

(Ill)  John  (2),  .son  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth ( 1  lunt )  Bartram.  was  born  May  23,  1699, 
iind  died  .September  22,  1777.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  men  of  his  time,  and  it 
slundd  be  noted  that  the  date  of  his  birth  as 
given  by  almost  all  the  leading  authorities, 
namely,  March  jt,.  i(i<)c).  is  incorrect,  as  the 
record  of  the  Darby  monthly  meeting,  "23 
Third  Month  \(v)C),"  is  according  to  the  olcl 
style  calendar,  by  which  the  year  is  reckoned 
from  March  instead  of  January. 

liorn  during  the  infancy  of  the  colony  estab- 
h.'-hcd  by  I'emi,  John  Bartram  was,  it  is  need- 
less tn  say,  surrounded  by  conditions  which 
held  the  minds  of  most  men  to  the  material 
things  of  life.  He  was.  however,  essentially 
a  student,  and  developed  at  an  early  age  a 
propensity  for  scientific  investigation,  rather 
out  of  place  at  such  a  time.  In  spite  of  lack 
of  educational  advantages  he  became  familiar 
with  l.;\tin  and  (ireek  atid  the  natural  sciences  ; 
lint  lie  was  pre-eininently  a  student  of  nature, 
.uid  one  of  his  sons,  \\illiani  Bartram  Jr., 
himself  an  eminent  botanist,  thus  comments 
upon  his  father's  tastes  and  inclination  ;  "While 
engaged  in  plowing  his  fields  and  mowing  his 
meadows,  his  inquisitive  eye  and  mind  were 
frequently  exercised  in  the  conteinplation  of 
\egetahles.  the  beauty  and  harmony  displayed 
in  their  mechanism,  the  admirable  svstem  of 
order  which  the  great  .Author  of  tlic  universe 
has  established  throughout  their  various  tribes, 
and  the  e(|u.dly  wonderful  powers  of  their 
gener.iticin.  the  progress  of  their  growth,  and 
the  various  stages  of  their  maturitv  and  ]ier- 
fection." 


His  investigations  and  discoveries  led  to  the 
establishment  of  his  fame  as  the  first  great 
botanist  in  America ;  indeed,  as  has  been  said, 
he  was  the  first  Anglo-.\merican  who  conceived 
the  idea  on  instituting  a  botanic  garden  for  the 
reception  and  cultivation  of  the  various  vege- 
tables native  to  the  country,  as  well  as  e.xotics. 
.At  sheriff's  sale.  Sejitember  30,  1728,  he  pur- 
chased in  what  was  then  known  as  Kingsessing, 
rhila<Iel])hia  county,  now  within  the  city  of 
Philadelphia,  but  at  that  time  about  three  miles 
below  the  old  city,  a  tract  of  land  famous  for 
a  century  and  three-c|uarters  as  "Bartram's 
( iarden.  "  1  lere  with  his  own  hands  he  erected 
of  hewn  stone  the  structure  still  standing, 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  and  occupied 
for  many  years  thereafter  by  his  descendants. 
It  is  now  the  proiierty  of  the  city  of  Philadel- 
I)hia.  Thrt)ughout  the  lives  of  John  Bartram. 
and  of  his  sons,  William  and  John  Bartram  Jr., 
who  succeeded  him  in  the  occupancy  of  the 
|)lace  and  in  devotion  to  botanical  research. 
"Bartram's  Garden"  was  ever  a  noted  resort 
for  those  visiting  Philadelphia,  and  indeed  to 
1  'hiladel]ihians  themselves.  Its  fame  was  world- 
wide, Bartram  being  recognized  as,  to  quote 
the  words  of  the  celebrated  Linnaeus,  "the 
{greatest  natural  botanist  in  the  world." 

John  Bartram  was  one  of  the  most  noted 
travellers  of  his  time,  when  journeys,  as  a  rule, 
were  only  undertaken  for  compulsory  reasons, 
owing  to  the  disadvantages  incident  to  touring 
at  that  ])rimitive  period.  As  his  son  tells  us, 
"he  began  his  travels  at  his  own  expense.  His 
various  excursions  rewarded  his  labours  with  the 
])ossession  of  a  great  variety  of  new,  beautiful 
and  useful  trees,  shrubs  and  herbaceous  plants. 
His  garden  at  length  attracting  the  visits  and 
notice  of  many  virtuous  and  ingenious  persons, 
he  was  encouraged  to  persist  in  his  labours. 
1  laving  arranged  his  various  collections  and 
observations  in  natural  history,  one  of  his  par- 
tictdar  friends  undertook  to  convey  them  to 
the  celebrated  Peter  Collinson,  of  London. 
This  laid  the  foundation  of  that  friendshi]) 
and  correspondence  which  continued  uninter- 
rupted, and  even  increasing,  for  nearly  fifty 
jears  of  the  lives  of  these  two  eminent  men. 
Collinson,  ever  the  disinterested  friend,  com- 
municated from  time  to  time  to  the  learned  in 
Europe  the  discoveries  and  observations  of 
Bartram.  It  was  principally  through  the  inter- 
est of  Collinson  that  he  became  acquainted 
.ind  entered  into  a  correspondence  with  many 
111  the  most  celebrated  literary  characters  in 
l'".uroj)e.  He  employed  much  of  his  time  in 
traxelling  through   the   different  provinces  of 


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North  America,  at  tliat  time  subject  to  Eng- 
land. Neitlier  clanger  or  difficulties  impeded 
or  confined  his  researches  after  objects  in 
natural  histor\-.  The  summits  of  our  highest 
mountains  were  ascended  and  explored  by 
him.  The  lakes  Ontario,  Irocjuois  and  George; 
the  shores  and  sources  of  the  rivers  Hudson, 
Delaware,  Schuylkill,  Susijuehanna,  Allegheny 
and  San  Juan  :  were  visited  by  him  at  an  early 
j)erioil.  when  it  was  truly  a  i)erilous  under- 
taking to  travel  in  the  territories,  or  even  on 
the  frontiers  of  the  aboriginees." 

He  continuetl  his  journeys  alnn.ist  until  the 
close  of  his  long  life.  At  the  advanced  age  of 
sixty-six  he  sailed  from  I'hiladelphia  for  the 
south.  Landing  at  Charleston,  he  went  over- 
land through  South  Carolina  and  Georgia  to 
St.  .\ugustine,  Florida,  whence  he  set  out  to 
seek  the  sources  of  the  San  Juan  or  St.  John's 
river,  which  he  exi)lored  for  nearly  four  hun- 
dred miles.  The  results  of  his  observations 
and  discoveries  were  embraced  in  a  report 
which  was  duly  approved  by  the  governor, 
which  was  then  sent  to  the  board  of  trade  and 
])lantation  in  Englancl,  who  published  tlie  same. 

Collinson's  friendship  not  only  brought  Bar- 
tram  into  close  fellowship  with  the  leading 
scientific  men  of  England,  but  also  secured 
for  him  the  patronage  of  Robert,  Lord  Petre. 
the  Earl  of  liute,  the  Duke  of  Richmond,  Hans 
.^loane,  and  other  of  the  nobilit)',  who  contrib- 
uted a  fund  raised  to  lic|uidate  the  expenses 
incurred  by  Bartram  in  his  numerous  excur- 
sions into  the  American  wilderness.  Through 
the  influence  moreover  of  his  friends  in  Eng- 
land, Bartram  was  appninted  botanist  to  King 
George  IH. 

Bartram  maintained  the  same  close  relations 
to  the  great  men  of  America  as  with  those  of 
England,  his  intimates  embracing  the  leailing 
scholars  and  scientists  of  Philadel]3hia.  then 
the  chief  center  of  learning  in  the  new  world, 
and  among  his  particular  friends  should  be 
noted  James  Logan,  mayor  of  T'hiladeli)hia, 
chief  justice  and  governor  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  "the  most  polished  gentleman  of  his  time," 
and  Tienjamin  Franklin,  with  the  latter  of 
whom  as  early  as  1743  Bartram  was  associated 
in  the  organization  of  the  .American  Philo- 
sophical Society.  .-\s  a  writer  John  Bartram 
i>  best  known  by  his  letters  to  Collinson  and 
others,  his  "Observations,''  published  in  Lon- 
<lon  in  175 1,  and  the  report  of  his  Florida  trip, 
which,  together  with  his  jom-nal,  was  likewise 
imblished  in  London  in  1766. 

John    Bartram    married    (first),    .\pril    25. 


1723,  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Eliza- 
beth (Hayes)  Maris  (see  MarisJ.  She  died 
in  1727,  and  he  married  (second),  December 
II,  1729,  .\nn,  born  September  22,  1703,  died 
January  29,  1789,  daughter  of  Benjamin  anil 
.-\nn  (  I'ennell)  Mendenhall.  Her  father,  Ben- 
jamin Mendenhall,  came  from  Alildenhall, 
county  Wilts,  England,  settled  at  Concord  in 
that  part  of  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania, 
which  is  now  Delaware  county,  and  in  1714 
was  a  member  of  the  provincial  assembly. 
Children,  two  by  first  wife:  Richard,  Isaac, 
James,  Moses,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  \\'illiam,  Eliz- 
;ibeth,  Ann,  John  (referred  to  below),  Benja- 
min. 

(IN)  John  i;^).  son  of  John  (2)  and  .\nn 
(Mendenhall)  B>artram,  was  born  at  King- 
sessing,  October  24,  1743,  and  died  there,  No- 
vember 16,  1812.  Like  his  distinguished  father 
and  his  brother  William,  John  Bartram  Jr. 
gave  his  attention  to  the  science  of  botany. 
The  garden  was  given  to  him  by  his  father 
soon  after  his  marriage,  and  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  a  number  of  societies  both  in  America 
and  in  Europe :  and  to  a  considerable  extent 
he  travelled  in  search  of  plants  and  seeds  for 
reproduction  at  his  establishment,  and  the  first 
general  catalog  of  plants  in  the  garden  was 
published  by  him  in  1807.  May  9,  1771,  John 
Bartram  married  his  cousin,  Eliza,  daughter 
of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Bartram)  Howell,  foi' 
whose  ancestry  see  (II)  above.  Children: 
Mary,  .\nn  Mendenhall,  Elizabeth,  John.  .Ann, 
James  Howell  (referred  to  below).  Only  two 
ilaughters  and  one  son  married. 

(V)  James  Howell,  son  of  John  (3)  and 
I'^liza  (Howell)  Bartram,  was  born  at  King- 
scssing,  November  24,  1783,  and  died  in  Phila- 
delphia. .April  18.  1818.  He  matriculated  in 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in 
1802,  and  finished  his  professional  studies  under 
Professor  Benjamin  S.  Barton.  Throughout 
his  life  he  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  but  he  also  inherited  from  his 
father  and  grandfather  a  predilection  for  bot- 
any, and  gave  considerable  attention  to  the 
furtherance  of  that  science.  In  1805  he  em- 
barked in  the  ship  "George  Washington,"  with 
Ca]5tain  John  Travis,  for  the  Cape  of  Good 
1  lope,  the  island  of  Java,  anil  the  East  Indies. 
In  the  following  year  he  sailed  for  home  from 
Calcutta  in  the  brig  "Mercury,"  bringing  many 
lare  plants  and  seeds  to  enrich  the  garden.  He 
was  a  man  of  strict  Quaker  principles,  and  for 
years  never  accepted  a  fee  for  his  medical 
services.      Dr.    Bartram    married,    .\ugust    13. 


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STATK    ()!•     NEW  JERSEY. 


1810,  Mary  Ann  joycf.  Children:  John 
William,  rt-ffrruil  to  belnw;  James  Jones,  nn- 
marrifd. 

(\I)  John  William,  son  of  Dr.  James 
Howell  and  Mary  Ann  (Joyce)  liartram,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He  mar- 
ried W'illiamina  ^liddleton.  Children:  John, 
William  Middleton,  Mary  Jones,  Ann  Carr, 
lunma  A.  (referred  to  below).  Rebecca,  Mar- 
garet Howell.  Caroline  G. 

(All  )  luiima  A.,  daughter  of  John  William 
and  Williamina  ( Middleton )  Bartram,  mar- 
ried. March  26.  1874,  John  S.  D.  Lavens,  who 
was  born  in  MiU'ord,  Ireland,  August  14,  1845, 
and  died  in  Philatlelphia,  March,  1884.  His 
widow  is  now  living  at  loii  Spruce  street. 
Children  of  John  S.  D.  and  Emma  .\.  (Bar- 
tram  i  l.avens:  Charles  Malcolm,  born  .Au- 
gust 4,  1875,  died  in  infancy:  Elizabeth  Ruth- 
erford, born  November  6,  1878,  died  1886: 
John  Bartram,  born  December  7,  1879.  living 
with  his  mother  in  Spruce  street,  and  holding 
a  position  with  the  ( iirarcl  P>ank  of  Philadel- 
phia. 

(The    Maris    Lint- I. 

( I )  (jeorge  Maris,  emigrant  ancestor  of 
this  family  was  born  in  England  in  1632,  came 
to  .\merica  in  1683  and  settled  in  "Home 
House,"  .Sjjringfield  township,  Chester  county, 
] Pennsylvania,  where  he  became  one  of  the 
county  justices,  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
assembly,  a  j^rovincial  councillor,  and  held 
other  offices  of  public  trust  and  responsiblity. 

(H)  Richard,  third  son  of  (ieorge  Maris, 
was  jjorn  in  England,  came  to  Pennsylvania 
with  his  father,  and  was  at  one  time  a  member 
of  the  Pennsylvania  assembly.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Hayes:  two  of  his  daughters.  Eliza- 
beth and  Alary,  are  referred  to  below. 

(HI)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Elizabeth  (Hayes)  Maris,  married  .September 
30.  1725,  James,  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
( Hunt )   Bartram. 

(HI)  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Hayes)  Maris,  died  in  1727.  .A]iril  2^. 
1723.  she  became  tirst  wife  of  John,  son  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  (Hunt)  I'.artram  (see 
r.artrnm  I. 


William  'l\-nlor.  of  Dore.  cnun- 
■J'.XNLOR     ty      Derby.'    England,     and     a 

brother  of  Samuel  Taylor,  of 
Chesterfield,  Burlington  county.  West  New 
Jersey,  committed  a  deed  for  land  in  West 
New  Jersey  province  to  Benjamin  Phorse.  of 
luigland.  who  disappeared  and  was  never  heard 
from,  and  .May  25,   1606,  Ceorge  Hutchinson, 


the  maker  of  the  deed,  gave  a  new  deeil  direct 
to  .Samuel  Taylor  to  cover  the  transfer  made 
by  the  original  deed.  Samuel  Taylor,  accord- 
ing to  Revel's  book  of  surveys,  made  in  Bur- 
lington county,  secured  one  hundred  acres 
from  William  Black,  September,  1682;  fifty 
acres  from  Marmaduke  Horsman  in  March, 
I  ( 184,  located  on  Block  creek  :  one  hundred  and 
fifty  acres  adjoining  his  former  settlement  of 
one  hundred  and  fift\-nine  acres,  making  a 
total  of  three  hundred  and  nine  acres,  Eebru- 
ary  9,  1688:  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  from 
( ieorge  Hutchinson,  August  26,  1696.  He  is 
ilescribed  as  Samuel  Taylor,  stutif-weaver,"  of 
Crosswicks  Creek,  March  19-20,  i()84-85,  an.ri 
also  as  "planter"  in  1685.  ( )n  I'"ebruarv  10. 
iC),S()-87,  'i*^  '"^  described  as  of  Horner's  Creek, 
\\'est  Jersey,  as  "yoeman,"  and  November  10, 
1090,  Samuel  Taylor,  of  Chesterfield,  sold  t( 
.Marmaduke  Horsman  fifty-three  acres  of  land. 
These  dates  show  him  to  have  been  a  native 
■  if  England  and  therefore  an  important  and  a 
large  landholder.  We  find  no  close  connection. 
iiowe\'er,  with  the  Taylors  of  Derbyshire,  al- 
though it  is  a  common  name  in  that  section  of 
England. 

(I)  Samuel  Taylor.  b(jrn  1(163,  died  1723, 
made  his  will  in  Chesterfield,  liurlington  coun- 
ty. West  New  Jersey,  November  26,  1723,  in 
which  he  names  children;  Samuel,  John. 
Ceorge,  William  and  Robert,  the  names  of  all 
of  whom  appear  in  the  county  lists  of  the 
townshi]j  of  Chesterfield  as  holding  various 
town  offices  between  1700  and  1732,  some  of 
them  serving  as  long  as  six  years,  and  one 
name,  Josejih  Taylor,  appears  in  the  civil  list 
not  named  as  a  son  of  .Samuel  .Sr.  These 
sons  must  have  been  born  very  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century  or  very  late  in  the  seven- 
teenth, say   1695  to  1705. 

(II)  John,  second  son  of  Samuel  Taylor, 
born  ])robal)!y  in  1695.  appears  i)ermanently  in 
the  civil  list  between  1735  and  1750,  being 
chosen  freeholder  of  the  townshiji  of  Chester- 
field in  1745,  and  overseer  of  highways.  He 
evidently  had  sons:  John,  Joseph,  Robert, 
C  harles,  Samuel  and  William.  Robert  was  a 
freeholder  in  1779-80  and  overseer  of  the  poor 
from  1782. 

(HI)  Joseph,  second  son  of  John  Taylor, 
was  born  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
jirobably  about  173.5.  He  was,  like"  his  father, 
])roniinent  in  town  affairs.  He  married,  and 
among  his  children  was  David. 

(  1\' )  David,  son  of  Joseph  Taylor.  wa.s  born 
in  Chesterfield.  lUirlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sev.  .\ugiist  2^1.  1774.  died  in  Cookstown.  New 


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993 


MaiioviT  tiiwiiship.  I')Urlin.<,'tiin  cmiiUy,  .May  9. 
i8()_^.  lie  was  brought  up  tn  tlic  traik-  of 
weaver,  liaving  been  apprenticed  to  a  weaver 
in  Mansfield,  Xew  Jersey,  the  adjoining  town- 
slii]).  He  carried  on  the  trade  in  connection 
with  conducting  a  farm  in  Cookstown  :  weav- 
ing was  the  vocation  of  his  ])rc)genitors  for 
three  generations.  Me  married  Elizabeth  llul- 
lock.  born  December  21,  1783,  died  in  Cooks- 
town,  November  30,  1834.  Children,  born  in 
Cookstown:  i.  .\my,  C)ctober  20,  1806:  mar- 
ried I'orman  Townsend.  2.  John  Uullock  (i|. 
v.).  3.  Mary,  March  3,  i8n  :  married  Jnhn 
Hornerland,  of  Georgetown.  .\cw  jersey.  4. 
.Margaret,  .'^ejitember  id.  1812.  5.  Isaac. 
March  20.  1814:  married  .Mary  Wile\.  (>. 
lulvvard,  A]iril  17,  1816:  married  Sarah  \"an 
Dusen. 

( \' )  John  llullock,  eldest  son  and  second 
child  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (  l.ullock  )  Taylnr, 
was  born  in  Ct)okstown,  New  Jersey.  Novem- 
ber 18,  1808,  died  in  ISordentown,  New  Jer- 
sey. March  26.  1877.  He  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  and  in  a  boarding  school  at 
Wilmington,  and  on  leaving  school  became  a 
school  teacher  in  \'incentown.  New  Jersewand 
afterward  kept  a  cimntry  store  at  liuddtuwn. 
lie  next  |iurcliased  the  Woodman  farm  near 
Jacksonville,  formerly  ciwned  by  his  grand- 
father, which  he  cultivated  for  four  years.  In 
18(14  he  removed  to  Camden,  New  Jersey, 
where'in  1865  he  engaged  in  business,  having 
liurchased  the  feed  store  of  Troth  &  Beagary, 
in  which  store  his  three  sons  were  engaged  as 
clerks.  He  retired  in  1866,  leaving  the  busi- 
ness entirely  with  his  three  sons.  He  made  his 
home  at  Columbus,  New  Jersey,  up  to  within 
a  few  years  of  his  death,  when  he  removed  to 
llordentown.  He  was  married  (first)  by 
I'riends"  ceremony,  Se]jtember  2"],  1832,  to 
Susan  D.,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  ^lary  Wool- 
man  :  she  was  born  on  her  grandfather's  farm 
near  Jacksonville,  liurlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. October  21,  1807.  died  there  May  21. 
1832.  Children,  burn  in  Iluddtown,  Xew  J  er- 
st y  :  I.  Caroline  I'ullock,  July  13.  1833:  mar- 
ried, and  became  mother  of  R.  H.  .\aronson, 
I'f  llordentown,  whose  sketch  appears  in  this 
work.  2.  Charles  Woolman.  .-\ugust  11,  1836. 
3.  Josejih  W.,  January  16,  1845.  4.  George  E. 
ii|-  \ '■  I  .T  Elizabeth.  March  24,  1839.  The 
mother  of  these  children  died  May  21,  1852, 
Mr.  Taylor  married  (second)  Hannah  Bunting. 
and  had  nne  child,  Edw'in  .-\..  born  November 
5.  1854. 

(  \I  )  (leorge  1'",..  thirri  sen  and  lunrtli  child 
nf  John    r.nllock    and    Susan    1).    (Woolman) 


Tayliir,  was  burn  in  liuddtuwn,  llurlingtoii 
count}',  .Xew  Jersey,  November  7.  1842.  He 
attended  the  Friends'  school  near  Jacksonville, 
liurlington  county.  He  worked  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  after  his  father's  removal  to  Cam- 
den in  i8''i4  he  worked  in  the  ieed  store  of 
Truth  \  r>eagar\  as  clerk,  and  in  1865  his 
father  liuught  out  the  business  uf  the  firm  and 
he  hecame  a  jiartner  in  the  business  with  his 
father  and  brothers,  Charles  W.  and  Joseph 
W  .  His  father  retired  at  the  end  of  the  year, 
and  the  three  brothers  continued  the  business 
of  |uhn  r>.  Taylor  &  Company  under  the  old 
lirm  name.  On  December  31,  1871,  Joseph 
W.  retired  frcmi  the  firm,  but  the  business  was 
c(intinued  under  the  same  firm  name  by  Charles 
W.  and  George  E.  Taylor.  ( )n  December  31, 
1875,  I'harles  Woolman  Taylor  st)ld  out  liis 
interests  to  his  brother,  Joseph  W.,  and  they 
conducted  the  business  thereafter  as  Taylor 
I'.roihers.  In  1880  Taylor  llrothers  built  a 
new  storehouse  fifty  by  one  hundred  feet,  and 
their  business  in  handling  feed,  seeds  and  agri- 
cultural implements  increased  from  the  time 
the  business  was  undertaken  by  John  lUdlock 
Taylor  and  his  three  sons  in  1865,  when  the 
firm  employed  two  helpers  on  the  |)ay  roll,  and 
in  i()09  the  firm  carried  fifty-eight  employees 
on  tiie  pay  roll.  In  1881  Joseph  \V.  withdrew 
frijm  the  firm  and  George  E.  contimied  in  the 
business  with  no  ])artner  but  under  the  same 
firm  name  until  1891,  wdien  he  admitted  as  a 
partner  his  son,*  ( ieorge  Wilbur  Taylor,  then 
twent\-five  years  of  age.  George  E.  Taylor 
affiliated  with  the  Republican  party,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  liaptist  church  in  Camden, 
serving  as  suiierintendent  of  the  Sunday  school 
for  twenty-five  years.  He  married,  June  20, 
1 8(15.  T'mma  Jane,  daughter  of  F.phraim  and 
.\iui  (Starr)  illustin)  Davis,  and  grand- 
daughter of  t'liarlutte  Starr.  Emma  Jane 
Davis  was  burn  in  l';miden.  July  28,  1843. 
Children,  burn  in  Camden,  Xew  Jersey:  1. 
(ieurge  Williur  (  i|.  \).  2.  Marry  I'.uft'um,  juh 
20.  18(18:  died  in  infancy.  3.  (^'harlutte.  ,\i)ril 
27.  1872;  married  Jesse  Starr  White,  of  Mer- 
chantville.  Xew  Jerse)-.  a  member  of  the  Tay- 
lor White  Ivxtracting  Cunipan)-  with  factory 
in  Camden. 

(  Vn  )  (ieorge  ^\■ilbur,  eldest  son  of  (jcorge 
I'^.  and  Emma  Jane  (Davis)  Taylor,  was  born 
in  Camden.  New  Jersey,  May  20,  i8(56.  He 
\\;is  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Cam- 
ilen  and  graduated  at  the  Camden  high  school. 
He  became  a  clerk  in  his  father's  business  as 
dealer  in  flour,  feed,  seeds  and  agricultural 
implements   and    farmers    supplies,    conducted 


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STATK    (_)!■     NEW  JERSEY. 


in  Caiiidcn  as  Taylor  Brothers,  and  in  1891 
w  as  admitted  as  a  partner.  He  married  in 
Camden,  Ai)ril  1,  1891,  Emilie,  daughter  of 
Frank  antl  Anna  (Maxwell j  Shute ;  child, 
(_iwend<il\n  I-'..,  born  March  g,  1892. 


John  I  or  Conrad,  or  John  Conrad  ) 
HIRES  Hires  came  from  W'urtemburg,  a 
kingdom  of  Europe,  where  every 
child  between  seven  and  fourteen  years  of  age 
must  attend  school,  every  district  of  thirty  or 
more  families  enjoying  a  free  school  and  a 
teacher  for  every  ninety  children,  and  where 
a  great  university  is  sustained  at  Tubengen 
with  eighty  ordinary  and  extraordinary  j)ro- 
fessors  and  tutors :  four  Protestant  theological 
seminaries  with  a  course  of  four  years  study; 
numerous  gymnasiums,  grammar,  trade  and 
high  scliools ;  agricultural  and  botanical  insti- 
tutions instructing  and  informing  in  forestry 
and  gardening,  and  with  not  one  person  above 
ten  years  of  age  who  cannot  read  or  write,  it 
was  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century 
when  John  Conrad  Hires,  came  and  he  became 
the  progenitor  of  a  numerous  family  in  \\est 
Jersey  and  I'ennsylvania.  It  is  to  such  men, 
coming  from  so  enlightened  a  country,  that  the 
excellent  free  school  system  of  the  section  in 
which  they  settled  is  due.  J(jhn  Conrad  Hires 
had  born  to  him  four  sons:  John,  Conrad, 
Jacob  and  David. 

(  H  )  John,  eldest  son  of  John  Conrad  Hires, 
the  patriarch  emigrant  from  W'urtemburg,  was 
born  in  \\'est  Jersey,  probably  about  1765, 
and  was  an  early  farmer  of  Hopewell,  Mer- 
cer county,  Xew  Jersey,  and  the  father  of 
eight  children.  He  removeil  from  Hope- 
well to  I'.ridgeton.  Cumberland  county,  and 
located    on   a    farm   near   Roadstown   in   that 

countv    where    he    married   Christina   . 

Children,  born  in  Roadstown,  their  names 
being  given  jirobably  without  regard  to  order 
of  births:  I.  George.  2.  Daniel  (q.  v).  3. 
John  D.,  born  February  17,  1817;  lived  in 
Salem  county  u[)  to  1862,  when  he  moved  to 
Cumberland  county  and  settled  at  Roadstown  : 
married  Mary  Williams,  of  Port  Elizabeth. 
Cumberland  cctunty.  4.  Lewis  M.  3.  Ain>-. 
6.  Christine.  7.  Elizabeth.  8.  Maria.  9 
Phoebe.  John  Hires,  the  father,  died  at  the 
home  of  his  son  John  D..  in  Roadstown,  New 
Jersey,  but  the  date  of  his  death  is  not  given. 
( III )  Daniel,  second  son  of  John  and  Chris- 
tine Hires,  was  born  in  Roadstown.  Cumber- 
land county.  New  Jersey.  1807,  died  in  Elsin- 
boro.  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1869.  He 
was  a  farmer  in  Elsinboro,  served  as  township 


collector,  and  was  a  man  of  progressive  edu- 
cational ideas.  He  married  Alercy,  daughter 
of  Phineas  Sheppard :  children:  1.  Elizabeth, 
married  Leavitt  Libby,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
died  his  widow.  2.  Emeline.  tlied  unmarried. 
3.  Phineas  S.,  (q.  v. ).  4.  Mary,  married  Charles 
Marker.  5.  Martha,  twin  of  ]Mary ;  married 
(leorge  Mulford.  6.  Sarah  S.,  never  married. 
7.  Daniel  S.,  married  Mary  Mayhew%  of 
Mauricet(-)wn,  Cumberland  county.  8.  Charles, 
died  young. 

(iV)  Phineas  Sheppard,  eldest  son  and 
third  child  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Sheppard) 
Hires,  was  born  in  Salem,  New  Jersey,  May  9, 
1839.  He  w^as  educated  in  the  district  schools 
and  Salem  Academy.  He  engaged  first  in 
farming  and  subsequently  in  hotel  keeping, 
then  as  a  dealer  in  fertilizers.  1892-1907,  and 
finally  went  back  to  the  farm  after  1907.  He 
was  always  a  Democrat  in  political  faith  and  a 
I'resbyterian  in  religious  thought  and  life.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  township  committee  for 
several  terms,  and  an  esteemed  and  respected 
citizen.  He  married  (first)  Rachel  A.  Smith, 
of  Ouinton.  Salem  county.  New  Jersey;  chil- 
dren: I.  Delia  \'.  2.,Elwood  E.,  settled  in 
Elmer.  Salem  county,  New  Jersey.  Phineas 
S.  Hires  married  (second)  Lydia  L.,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Rachel  ^\'.  (Smith)  Swing.  an<l 
granddaughter  of  Michael  Swing,  a  Methodist 
[ireacher  and  founder  of  Methodism  in  Tren- 
ton. .\ew  Jersey:  Lydia  L.  Swing  was  born  in 
I'.ridgeton,  May  31.  1851.  Children  of  second 
marriage:  3.  Rachel  E.,  married  Dr.  Hunnell. 
of  Camden.  Xew  Jersey.  4.  Chester  S..  a 
farnit-r:  married  Mary  Lott ;  children;  Rod- 
new  Walter,  Sarah  and  Chester  S.  Jr.  3. 
Lewis  M.  ( c|.  V. ).  6.  Emma,  married  H.  K.  Part- 
ridge, of  Camden.  New  Jersey,  dealer  in  real 
estate;  one  child,  H.  K.  Partridge  Jr.  7. 
Phineas  Sheppard  Jr.,  died  unmarried  at  age 
of  twenty-one  years.  8.  Jessie,  died  at  age  of 
six  years.  9.  Martha,  died  in  infancy.  10. 
Henry,  died  in  infancy.  In  1892  Phineas  S. 
Hires  was  a  resident  of  Salem,  New  Jersey. 

I  \' )  Lewis  M..  fifth  child  of  Phineas  Shep- 
pard Hires  and  second  son  of  his  second  mar- 
riage, was  born  in  Seeley,  Cumberland  county. 
Xew  Jersey,  November  27,  1879.  He  attend- 
ed the  Seeley,  Deerfield  and  Bridgeton  public 
schools,  and  was  graduated  at  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  in  1900.  .\s  a  youth  he 
worked  in  the  drug  store  of  Reeve  it  Fithian 
at  I'.ridgeton,  New  Jersey,  for  four  years,  and 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count in  Salem.  Xew  Jersey,  with  others,  and 
(in  .\pril  21).  1908,  established  a  drug  store  in 


ST  ATI:  OF  NEW    [i-:rsey. 


905 


Riverside.  Iluiiington,  Xew  Jersey,  wiiicii 
proved  successful.  He  voted  the  Democratic 
ticket.  He  affiliated  witli  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity as  a  member  of  Excelsior  Lodge.  No.  34. 
of  Salem ;  was  made  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  P'ythias.  of  Salem:  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  at  Bridgeton.  He  mar- 
ried. November  9,  1905.  Elizabeth  G..  daughter 
of  John  S.  and  Elizabeth  (Allen)  Redstrake. 
of  \\'oodstown,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey, 
and  granddaughter  of  Edward  D.  and  Mar\' 
Redstrake. 


The  branch  of  the  [.ambert 
[^A.Mlll'.RT  family  which  is  at  ])resenl 
under  consideration  has  no 
connection  or  at  least  a  very  remote  one  with 
the  families  of  the  same  name  which  are  found 
in  New  England  and  in  New  Jersey  in  the  old 
colonial  days,  as  until  the  present  generation 
began  to  make  their  home  in  the  last  named 
^tate.  the  family  belonged  entirely  to  I'hiladel- 
pliia. 

(ll  William,  son  of  John  Lambert,  bulb 
born  and  died  in  county  Kent.  England,  where 
the  founders  of  the  family.  William  married 
Mary ,  who  was  born  and  died  in  coun- 
ty Kent,  and  had  John,  Richard.  William. 
Charles.  Mary,  and  Thomas. 

(II)  Thomas,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
Lambert,  was  born  in  county  Kent,  in  1832, 
and  died  in  Philadelphia,  I  ennsylvania.  in 
1877.  When  he  was  still  a  young  man  he  came 
over  to  this  country  and  settled  in  Philadelphia, 
where  he  became  a  shi])  chandler  and  stair 
builder.  He  was  a  Republican,  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  F'ythias,  and  a  communicant  of 
the  I'rotestant  Episcopal  church.  He  married 
Jane,  born  in  Leeds,  England,  daughter  of 
C.eorge  and  Sarah  (Wood)  Hartley.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  in  Philadel- 
phia :  married  William  Wilkinson,  a  contractor 
for  the  Baldwin  locomotive  works :  children : 
Thomas  and  Emma  Lambert.  2.  William 
George,  is  referred  to  below.  3.  Sarah,  born 
in  England  while  her  jiarents  were  there  on  a 
visit ;  married  Charles  I'fau.  a  promoter.  4. 
Jane,  born  in  Philadelphia:  married  Milton 
Kleppenger:  one  child:  Cliarlotte.  5.  Ann. 
married  Captain  John  \'ansciver ;  children : 
Lambert,  Herman,  Walter,  Beatrice,  Mildred. 
Heuling,  George  and  Charlotte.  6.  Emma. 
married  W'alter  Leech,  a  shoe  manufacturer  of 
Riverside.  New  Jersey,  and  has  Florence.  Isa- 
belle.  Edith,  and  one  child  that  died  in  infancy. 
7.  C'harlr>tte.  died  aged  nine  vears. 


(Ill)  (icorge  William,  (baptized  William 
(ieorge),  son  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Hartlevi 
Lambert,  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsvl- 
vania,  February  9.  i860,  and  is  now  living  at 
Riverside,  New  Jersey. 

He  was  educated  in  the  iniblic  schools  of 
Pliiladel])hia.  and  then  went  into  the  office 
of  William  Sellers  Company,  founders  and 
machinists,  when  less  than  twelve  years  (jld. 
and  was  a  clerk  in  the  foundry  office  when 
only  si.xteen  years  old.  .After  this  he  went 
lo  work  for  the  firm  of  .Stokes  &  Parrish. 
whose  business  was  later  merged  into  that 
of  the  Otis  Elevator  Company.  Here  he 
remained  for  twenty-six  years,  being  pro- 
moted to  the  post  of  ft)renian  and  then 
being  made  district  superintendent  for  the 
company.  In  1908  he  went  with  the  Key- 
stone Elevator  Company,  and  from  Febru- 
ary to  December  of  that  year  was  superin- 
tendent of  that  firm.  In  1893  he  came  to 
Rix'erside.  and  since  then  lias  ma<le  that  place 
liis  home,  having  real  estate  interests  there.  In 
1 1 104  he  Ijuilt  the  house  in  wdiich  he  now  resides. 
Mr.  Lambert  is  a  Republican,  and  has  served 
for  twelve  years  on  the  schcxil  board  and  is 
now  the  president  of  the  board.  For  two  terms 
he  was  the  district  clerk,  for  two  years  county 
freeholder.  He  was  appointed  June  22,  1909. 
]iluml>ing  inspector  and  superintendent  of  the 
dis])osal  plant  of  the  town  of  Riverside, 
being  the  first  a|)]iointment  to  that  plant,  also 
one  of  the  first  five  ]iark  commissioners  of 
Riverside,  and  has  served  as  secretary  since 
aii]iointment.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  lohn 
Lodge,  No.  1 15,  F.  and  .\.  .M.,  of  Philadelphia  ; 
of  Palestine  Chapter,  R.  .K.  .\1.:  Mary  Com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templars:  Lu  Lu  Temple. 
Mystic  Shrine,  of  Philadelphia:  and  a  charter 
member  of  the  Veritas  Council,  Jr.  O.  A.  M. 
lie  is  a  communicant  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal church.  November  29.  1882.  (jeorge 
William  Lambert  married  Ruth  .Marion,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Marion  (  MacDougal )  Tav- 
lor,  of  Philadelphia.  Children:  i.  ]\Iarion. 
born  in  Philadelphia  (where  all  but  the  young- 
est child  was  born).  November  16,  1883:  sten- 
ographer in  office  of  Watch  Case  Companv. 
Riverside.  Pennsylvania.  2.  Jane,  born  Octo- 
ber 2-j.  1885:  now  with  Watch  Case  Company 
at  Riverside.  3.  Charlotte,  born  .\ugust  (), 
18S7:  school  teacher  in  Riverside.  4.  Ruth, 
born  December  18,  1889:  lives  at  home.  5. 
Thomas,  born  March  14.  1892:  died  lune  11. 
x^yci).  (1.  .Samuel  Taylor,  born  in  Riverside. 
Xew  Jersey.  May  2.   l8():^. 


9'/) 


STATI-:    ()!•     NEW    TERSFA'. 


I'lie  Li)\vrys  are  uf  rhiladeljihia 

l,(t\\l\\'  Imth  for  many  generations,  the 
present  l)eing  the  first  to  settle  in 
Xew   Jersey. 

(  1  )  James  l.owry  was  born  in  I 'hiladelphia, 
I 'emisx  Kania.  where  lie  was  e(hieate(l.  lie 
learneil  tile  painter's  trade  and  followed  the 
tiadc  in  his  native  cit)  all  his  life,  lie  married 
Margaret  (lolden,  horn  April  2.   1818. 

(11)  William,  son  of  James  and  .Margaret 
((ioldeni  [,i.i\\r\.  wa^  hijrn  in  1 'hiladel])hia, 
( )ctober  i(),  1845.  lie  married  lunma,  liorn 
December  21,  1849.  daughter  of  Washington 
and  Catherine  (Meredith)  McMnllin.  The 
children  of  William  and  lunma  (  McMnllin  1 
l.owry  are:  1.  \\  illiam.  see  forward.  2.  Mar- 
!;;aret  Stow,  born  December  25.  187.^:  married 
l-'rank  l'a>hly,  of  1 'ort  .\birns.  Xew  Jersey,  anil 
has  Katherine  .Stow  and  William  Stow    I'ashly. 

(  111  )  William  Jr..  ^<m  of  William  (  i  I  and 
I'mma  (  .McMnllin  )  l,owr\.  was  born  at  I'hila- 
del])hia.  rennsylvania,  January  11.  1871.  lie 
attended  the  ])nblic  schools  until  the  removal 
of  his  ])arents  to  .\tlaiitic  City,  Xew  Jerse\'. 
in  i88i,  finishing  Iiis  education  in  the  schools 
cd'  that  city.  Ills  hist  business  exi)erieiice  was 
as  a  drug  clerk,  remaining  in  that  employnieiit 
three  years.  I'ntil  181)7  he  was  eni]iloyed  in 
the  .\t:lantic  City  offices  of  the  rhilaiieljihia 
and  Reading  railroad,  leaving  there  to  become 
private  secretary  to  h'ranklin  I'.  Stoy,  then 
niayoi-  at  .\tlantic  City.  lie  remained  with 
him  during  the  vears  l8()7-<;8.  In  the  latter 
year  he  was  elected  as  collector  of  .\tlantic 
(  ity  and  served  through  successive  re-elections 
u|)  to  the  ])resent  time  1  i(;o)).  lie  fs  an  effi- 
cient and  \aliicd  official.  Mr.  l.owry  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Si.  Paul's  .MetlKidist  Episcopal  Church 
of  .Atlantic  City.  He  has  attained  alt  the  de- 
grees of  .Scottish  Rite  .Masonry  u])  to  and  in^ 
eluding  the  thirty-second,  lie  is  a  member  of 
llelcher  Lodge.  Xo.  180,  Royal  .\rch  Masons: 
Trinity  Chajiter.  Xo.  38.  and  a  Knight  Tem- 
])lar  of  Atlantic  C'ommandei'y.  Xo.  20.  all  of 
.\tlantic  l.'ity.  llis  consistory  membershi])  is 
held  in  Camden,  Xew  Jersey.  Me  has  other 
fraternal  meinbershiijs.  including  the  Knights 
of  Malta,  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  Patriotic 
Order  of  Sons  of  .\merica.  William  Lowtv 
married  l.aura  ("olwell,  born  June  22.  T87O. 
daughter  of  Thomas  1',.  Wick,  of  .\tlantic  Citv. 


I'or  more  than  two  and  a  half 

R.XRXES     centuries    the    surname    Ilarnes 

has  been  known  on  this  side  of 

llu-  .\tlantic  ocean.     It  first  found  root  in  Xew 


England  in  the  early  colonial  period  and  thence 
was  gradually  distributed  throughout  the  entire 
country.  The  name  is  found  in  the  revolution- 
ary rolls,  also  in  the  muster  rolls  of  the  second 
war  with  the  mother  country  and  in  the  more 
recent  ci\il  war.  In  the  latter  coiilEct  the  name 
is  well  knijwii,  and  many  have  also  attained 
distinction  as  clergymen,  writers,  in  the  other 
learned  professions,  in  the  arts  and  sciences, 
and  in  the  industrial  and  commercial  life  of 
our  country.  .\11  who  have  borne  this  honor- 
able name  are  descendants  of  English  ances- 
tors, although  the  origin  of  the  name  in  the 
mother  country  "is  enveloped  in  the  imiiene- 
trable  mists  of  anti(|nity."' 

(  1  )  (ieiirge  Barnes,  immigrant,  was  born  in 
I'.lackbiirn,  luigland.  .Sejitember  17.  181 5,  and 
died  in  I'aterson.  Xew  Jersey,  May  14.  1885. 
lie  was  educated  in  England,  and  was  twenty 
years  old  when  he  came  to  this  country.  In 
the  course  of  a  few  years  he  returned  to  his 
nati\e  lan<l  and  there  acquired  a  knowledge  of 
the  art  of  coli>r  making,  or  better,  ])erha])s,  of 
making  colors  such  as  are  used  in  the  manu- 
facture of  calico  jirints.  When  he  again  came 
to  ,\merica  he  located  first  at  Taunton,  Massa- 
chusetts, worked  at  his  trade  there  some  time, 
and  then  came  to  I'clleville,  Xew  Jersey,  where 
he  made  colors  for  the  ne.xt  eleven  years,  then 
removed  to  Paterson,  and  worked  two  years  in 
the  employ  of  D.  G.  Scott,  calico  printer.  In 
1S57  he  started  in  business  on  his  own  account 
in  the  manufacture  of  mordants  for  calico 
|irinters  and  silk  dyers,  and  continued  success- 
fully in  that  line  until  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1885.  Thus  for  nearly  thirty  years  Air.  IJarnes 
was  actively  and  prominently  identified  with 
the  industrial  history  of  the  city  of  Paterson. 
and  otherwise  ai^jiears  to  have  taken  a  com- 
mendable interest  in  whatever  would  tend  to 
promote  the  welfare  of  that  municipality.  He 
was  conscientiously  just  in  all  his  affairs,  and 
in  business  circles  his  name  was  regarded  as 
a  s\non\in  for  honesty  and  probity  of  char- 
acter. In  politics  he  was  a  hrm  Republican, 
and  as  the  candidate  of  his  jiarty  was  elected 
to  a  seat  in  the  lower  house  of  the  state  legis- 
lature in  187,^.  Me  was  a  communicant  and  a 
^■estryman  of  .St.  Paul's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Clnirch  of  Paterson,  and  was  affiliated  with 
various  Masonic  bodies.  Mr.  liarnes  married. 
Jiuic  5.  1845.  Harriet  Walsh,  horn  October  16, 
1 82  V  at  Darwin.  Lancashire.  England,  daugh- 
[vr  of  John  and  .Ann  (Chadwick)  \\'alsh.  of 
I'.nglish  birth.  Children  of  Cieorge  and  Har- 
riet   I  Walsh  )    P.arnes  : 

i.    Ilarriet  F...  born   Pielleville,  Xew    lersev. 


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August  20.  1846:  married.  \'iiveiiil)er  13,  iSS_>. 
William  Ellison,  burn  March  2-,.  1S44.  at  Little 
l-"alls.  I'assaic  county,  New  Jersey;  no  issue. 

2.  tleorge  H..  born  October  10.  1847,  at 
iielleville.  Xew  Jersex- :  died  there,  (October  13, 
184). 

1,.  Alfred  WaLh.  born  ."^epteniher  jj,.  1841;. 
in  Uelleville,  Essex  county.  New  jerse\-.  lie 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  took  a 
course  in  the  Tiryant  &  Stratton  lUisiness  C'ol- 
lege  in  New  York  City,  i8f)f).  .\t  the  age  of 
sixteen  years  he  entered  the  emjiloy  of  the 
Franklin  Manufacturing  L'omiiany,  calico 
jirinters.  continuing  with  the  same  for  ten 
vears.  In  1876  he  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  manufacture  of  mordants  and 
chemicals  for  dyeing  ])urposes.  and  was  thus 
engaged  until  the  death  of  his  father  in  1885. 
when  lie  and  his  brothers.  ( ieorge  .\.  and 
I'rank  I'.,  liarncs.  a.ssnmed  the  management  ol 
the  husine-~s  in  the  interest  (if  the  father's 
estate,  and  he  has  been  thus  t)ccu])ie(l  to  the 
])resent  time  (  iipt)).  In  business  circles  he  is 
recognized  as  a  most  capable  manager,  straight- 
forward in  ,ill  his  transactions,  and  enjoys  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  a  large  ciicle  of 
friends.  He  is  a  member,  elder  and  trustee  ul 
die  I'irst  Presbyterian  Church  uf  I'atersoii. 
lie  married  (first),  December  20,  1871,  Marx- 
Shields,  l)orn  .August  3,  1850.  died  October  14, 
1888.  daughter  of  Thomas  and  laicy  Shields. 
He  married  (second).  September  18.  1890. 
Eva  L.  London,  liorn  Mav  2(),  1837.  daughter 
of  Edward  and  Jane  P..  fCapwell)  London,  of 
\\'voming  county,  Pennsylvania,  they  have  an 
adopted  daughter.  Mildred  J.,  born  .\pril  (>. 
iSo(,. 

4.  I'hebe  Ann.  born  at  P>elleville.  New  Jer- 
sey. July  22,  183 1  :  unmarried. 

3.  (ieorge  .\..  born  April  30.  T833.  at  IV-lle- 
ville.  New  Jersey.  Me  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools,  and  took  a  course  in  the  i'.ack- 
ard  IJusiness  College.  New  "S'ork  City.  lie 
became  engaged  in  his  father's  chemical  and 
color  works,  and  was  actively  identified  with 
the  same  until  the  death  of  the  father,  in  1883. 
since  which  time  he  has  been  associated  with 
his  brothers,  .\lfred  \^'.  and  Frank  E.  P>arncs. 
in  the  management  of  the  business  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  estate.  Mr.  Barnes  married.  June 
17.  i8(/i.  Isabelle  F.  Morris,  born  October  23, 
1863.  daughter  of  William  and  Janet  (Forsyth) 
.Morris:  children:  Harriet  Walsh,  born  May 
20.  i8()7:  Isabelle  h'orsyth,  September  2.  1901 

(t.  M.  Josephine,  born  in  lielleville.  New 
Jersev.  (  )ctol)er  13.  1833;  she  married,  Sep- 
tember I,  1873,  James  D.  Dunkerly ;  ciiildren  : 


I.  Harriet  bisephine.  Ixirn  .\lav  lO,  18/6,  mar- 
ried. .\larcii  3.  1897,  John  W  .  LatTey,  of  Belle- 
\  ille,  .\'ew  Jerse}':  children:  i.  Lillian,  born 
(  ictolier  14.  1898;  ii.  (korge,  October  28,  1899; 
iii.  .\lfred  W.  liarnes,  November  4,  igoo;  iv. 
I'.eatrice.  December  23.  1902;  v.  John,  August 
I.  |ijo8.  2.  Mabel  F"lorence  Dunkerly,  born 
.March  13.  1878;  married.  .Xjiril  14.  i<)04.  Dr. 
Andrew  I'..  \  anflerbeek,  and  li.is  .Nmlrew  V<. 
Jr..  horn  March  29,  1903. 

7.  I'rank  E.,  born  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey. 
.Ma\'  24.   1862;  unmarried. 

8.  Mary  E.,  born  at  Paterson,  New  Jersey, 
February  17,  1863:  unmarried. 

The  faithful  wife,  and  mother  of  the  aliove 
named  children,  survived  her  honored  husband, 
and  resides  at  the  corner  of  W'est  TweTity-hfth 
and  I'anal  streets,  I'aterson.  New  Jersey. 


There  have  been  many  distin- 
M(  )r\lTZ  guished  jiersons  bearing  the 
name  Maurits,  Mauritz  and 
.Miiritz,  in  .\nierica  and  also  several  luiropean 
cunntries.  The  faniih-  here  described  emi- 
grated to  this  couiitr\'  from  (  iermany,  where 
tlie\  were  tradesmen,  i.if  the  respectable  niiil- 
illf  class,  wlio  are  known  fur  their  thrift  an<l 
industry. 

I  1  )  John  Moritz  was  born  about  1799.  at 
.Mberfelt,  situateil  on  Rhine  river,  CTcrmaiiy, 
died  i8ri3.  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  .\fter 
receix'iiig  the  education  atTorded  by  the  schools 
of  his  native  town,  he  learned  the  trade  of 
enameler  on  hollow  ware  and  worked  at  it  in 
( Germany  :  in  1848  he  came  to  .\inerica,  locating 
at  Philadelphia,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade 
in  the  eni])loy  of  Stewart  Peterson,  continuing 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  In  political  views 
he  was  a  Democrat,  and  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Catholic  church.  Mr.  M(.)ritz  married  in 
("icrmanv.  Katrina  .\rbender  :  children  :  I.  John. 
2.  Adolpli.  died  in  .Vndersdinille  jirisun.  3. 
I'eter.     4.  .Annie. 

(  II  )  Peter,  third  and  youngest  son  n\  \nhu 
anil  Katrina  (.\rbender)  Moritz.  was  born  in 
1833,  at  -Mberfelt.  ( iermany,  being  brought  to 
.America  with  his  parents  when  a  young  boy  of 
thirteen  \ears.  and  his  earlier  education  was 
supplemented  by  attending  the  schools  of  Phil- 
adelphia. In  1834  he  enlisted  in  the  Second 
I  nited  States  Regulars,  at  Baltimore,  and  sub- 
se(|uent1y  saw  service  in  California,  (  )regon 
and  .Arizona,  among  the  Indian  tribes,  .\fter 
nine  years'  service  with  the  Regulars,  he  en- 
listed in  the  California  Infantry,  at  Sacra- 
niriito.  and  from  there  went  to  Los  .\ngeles. 
.•md    distinguished    himself    by    his    service    at 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


l-'orl  .McDnwell,  Arizuna.  In  18OO  Mr.  Aluritz 
letiinictl  tu  I'liiladclphia  and  engaged  in  rnn- 
ning  a  hotel,  called  the  California  Hotel,  which 
he  owned  and  operated  for  fifteen  years,  and 
since  that  time  has  retired  from  active  business 
on  account  of  i)Oor  liealth.  He  located  in 
Riverside.  Xew  Jersey,  in  1888.  and  still  makes 
his  residence  in  that  place,  where  he  has  many 
friends.  Air.  Aloritz  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, although  he  takes  no  very  active  part  hi 
])olitical  affairs.  Me  married  (first)  Alerta 
r.incla,  who  died  in  1871,  and  they  had  one 
child,  Katherine,  who  married  Lewis  Eberly 
of  the  Eberly  Brewing  Company,  of  Philadel- 
])hia,  and  they  have  two  children,  JNIatilda  and 
Lewis.  Mr.  Moritz  married  (second),  in  1873, 
Alatilda  Ilopf.  horn  in  ( iermany,  and  their 
children  are:  i.  ( lertrnde,  now  Airs.  Cham- 
berlain, lives  at  Des  Aloines.  Iowa,  and  has 
two  children,  Davis  and  Juliet.  2.  Louisa, 
born  in  Philadelphia,  lives  with  her  parents,  at 
Riverside. 


The  name  of  Walter,  in  vari- 
W  ALTER  iius  forms,  has  been  known  in 
manv  European  countries,  and 
there  have  l>een  many  emigrants  to  America 
hearing  it.  The  family  here  described  is  from 
(jermany,  and  the  members  wlio  have  taken 
up  their  residence  in  ,\ew  Jersey  have  made 
for  themselves  an  honorable  position  in  com- 
mercial and  social  circles,  being  identified  with 
]Hiblic  aft'airs  and  the  community's  develop- 
ment. 

(  I  )  (ieorge  Walter  lived  all  his  life  in  Enip- 
fingen,  Prussia,  at  which  place  he  was  born. 
His  wife  was  I-'rancisco  (jouss,  of  Empfingen. 
and  their  children  were:  I.  Kate,  died  in  Ger- 
man\'.  2.  Xaver.  3.  Felix,  resides  in  Ger- 
many. 4.  Julia,  died  in  Germany.  5.  Karl, 
resides  in  Germany. 

(  II )  Xaver,  oldest  son  of  George  and  Fran- 
cesco (Gouss)  W' alter,  was  born  in  1834,  at 
Empfingen,  Prussia,  and  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  his  native  town.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  wheelwright,  and  worked 
also  on  a  farm:  in  July,  1857,  he  emigrated  to 
.America,  going  first  to  Aloorestown,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  spent  a  short  time  with  an  uncle, 
lie  then  removed  to  Philadelphia  and  worked 
for  three  years  at  his  trade  in  that  city  and 
Camden.  New  Jersey.  In  i860  Air.  Walter 
removed  to  Westfield,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
worked  three  years  at  his  trade,  and  then 
located  in  Riverside,  where  he  bought  a 
piece  oi  property  and  built  a  large  black- 
smith  and    w  lu'elwright    slioj).   which   he   con- 


ducte<l  until  i8yi,  manufacturing  light  and 
lieav\-  carriages  and  wagons,  as  well  as  doing 
ie])air  work.  He  then  retired  from  active 
business,  and  has  since  devoted  his  time  and 
attention  to  his  large  real  estate  interests  in 
and  around  Riverside ;  he  has  built  and  sold 
several  residences.  He  visited  his  native  land 
in  1891  and  again  in  1901.  In  jjolitical  views 
Air.  Walter  is  a  Democrat,  and  he  has  served 
t\\(j  terms  on  the  township  committee.  He  has 
also  served  as  surveyor  of  public  highways, 
and  was  ai)pointed  by  the  governor  as  super- 
visor of  the  stone  road,  having  charge  of  build- 
ing same.  He  takes  great  interest  in  public 
imiirovements,  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  water  works  system  of  Riverside,  was 
ciganizer  and  director  of  the  First  National 
Hank,  and  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Trust  Com- 
pany of  Aloorestown,  New  Jersey.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Catholic  church,  was  formerly 
a  trustee,  ami  gave  material  help  towards  the 
building  of  the  present  edifice.  Air.  Walter 
married,  in  August,  i860,  at  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  Kate  Kreck,  born  February  11,  1839, 
near  Bamberg,  Germany,  daughter  of  Fred- 
erick Kreck,  and  came  to  America  in  1859. 
Their  children  are:  i.  Charles,  born  in  West- 
field,  New  Jersey,  May  17,  1861,  died  Alarch 
If).  1887;  married  Theresa  Hass ;  children: 
Theodore,  deceased ;  Henry,  deceased,  and 
Charlie.  2.  John,  born  October  22,  1862,  at 
Westfield.  New  Jersey ;  merchant,  living  in 
1  'hiladelphia  :  married  Barbara  Crist.  3.  Henry. 
4.  W  illiam,  born  in  1866,  at  Westfield,  New 
Jersey:  contractor,  lives  at  Riverside;  married 
.Mary  Emmeck :  children:  Alary,  Francis, 
(iertrude  and  William.  5.  Alary,  born  .Septem- 
ber 14,  i8<'>7,  was  drowned,  in  infancy.  6. 
.Anna,  Ixjni  July  4,  1869,  at  Riverside,  New 
Jersey;  married  Charles  Alich,  now  a  retired 
lumber  dealer,  living  at  Riverside ;  children : 
Theresa,  Joseph,  .Anna,  Charles  and  Madeline 
7.  Thomas,  born  September  27,  1870,  at  River- 
side, New  Jersey.  8.  George,  born  Septem- 
ber 16,  1872,  in  Riverside,  -New  Jersey,  died 
}oung.  9.  (ieorge,  born  December  23,  1875, 
in  Riverside,  died  in  1880.  10.  Franz  X..  born 
December  8,  1878,  in  Riverside,  died  Alarch 
1 1,  1880.  11.  .Albert,  born  September  22,  1880, 
at  Riverside,  lives  with  his  father  at  Riverside, 
and  is  an  engineer  employed  at  the  watch  case 
works ;  married  Theresa  Hass,  of  Riverside. 

(HI)  Henry,  third  son  of  Xaver  and  Kate 
(  Kreck)  Walter,  was  born  September  15,  1864, 
at  Westfield,  New  Jersey,  and  while  quite 
voung  removed  with  his  parents  to  Riverside. 
w  here  he  received  his  education  in  the  Catholic 


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M'liool  of  tliat  town.  At  the  age  of  fourteen 
he  became  employed  in  his  father's  store,  of 
which  he  finally  had  entire  charge,  and  he 
jiurchased  same  in  1 891,  carrying  it  on  success- 
fully ever  since.  Mr.  Walter  takes  great  inter- 
cut in  all  the  affairs  of  Riverside,  where  he  re- 
sides; is  a  member  of  the  board  of  education, 
director  in  the  Riverside  National  Hank  and 
Ihiilding  and  Loan  .\ssociation,  member  and 
director  of  the  h'ire  Comjjany  of  Riverside, 
and  member  also  of  the  Turners  and  Maen- 
nerchor.  lie  belongs  to  Burlington  Lodge,  No. 
(Hj(),  llenevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
and  also  Knights  of  Columbus,  of  Burlington. 
He  is  a  Catholic  in  religion  and  a  Democrat  in 
])olitics.  Mr.  Walter  married,  in  June,  1895, 
losephine,  daughter  of  Lewis  Much,  of  Phila- 
delphia, and  they  have  one  child,  Helen,  born 
in  Se|)teniber,   l!^97.  at  Riverside. 


It  is  now  a  ])retty  well  estab- 

l',l':i-:i\M  AX  li>hed  fact  that  the  families  in 
.\'ew  Jersev  bearing  the  name 
of  lieekman  are  descended  from  two  distinct 
sources,  one  of  which  is  Willem  Beeckman.  of 
New  N'ork,  who  emigrated  to  New  .Amster- 
dam in  1647.  and  the  other,  ;\Iaarten  Beeck- 
man, of  .Albany,  who  is  the  progenitor  of  the 
branch  of  the  family  at  present  under  consid- 
eration. 

(1)  Maarten  lleeckman  emigrated  to  Xew 
Xetherland  in  1^)38,  and  settled  in  Albau}', 
where  he  pHed  his  trade  of  blacksmith,  and 
died  before  June  21.  1677.  He  married  Sus- 
anna Jans,  and  had  at  least  three  children: 
Johannes  :  I  lendrick,  referred  to  below  ;  Metie. 

(Hi  Hendrick,  son  of  Maarten  and  Sus- 
anna (Jans)  ]!eeckman,  lived  for  a  number  of 
years  at  Schodack,  near  Albany,  and  Novem- 
l)er  13,  1710.  purchased  from  Octavo  Coen- 
raats.  merchant  of  New  A'ork,  two  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  of  land  on  the  Raritan  river  in 
Somerset  county.  Xew  Jersey,  it  being  a  part  of 
the  tract  bought  by  Coenraats  from  Peter  Son- 
mans,  who  in  turn  had  purchased  it  from  the 
pro])rietors  of  East  Jersey.  The  deed  for  this 
land  has  never  been  recorded,  and  is  now  in 
|io^session  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Beekman  Vred- 
enburgh,  who  still  owns  a  ])ortion  of  the  land 
de-.crilied,  which  she  iidierited  from  her  father 
lienjamin  i'leeknian  and  her  mother  Cornelia 
I'leeknian.  .Among  liis  children  was  Marten, 
referreii  to  l>elow. 

(HI)  Afarten.  son  of  Hendrick  Beeckman, 
was  born  in  1685.  and  died  October  27,  1757. 
'ihc  descendants  of  his  three  sons  are  very 
numerous  in    Xew    '^'ork.  (  )hio,    Indiana.    Illi- 


ULiis.  Michigan,  (_)regon,  and  elsewhere.  June 
21.  1724.  be  married  Elizabeth,  born  1700,  died 
.November  ij .  \'](^o.  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
granddaughter  of  Kesolvert  Waldron.  Chil- 
dren: Elizabeth;  Hendrick,  referred  to  below  ; 
Samuel,  .Annate,  Johannes. 

I  1\'  )  I  lendrick  (2),  second  child  and  eldest 
von  I  if  Alarten  and  Elizabeth  (  Waldrnn  )  Beeck- 
man. was  l>orn  in  Somerset  county,  Xew  Jer- 
se\ .  March  24.  1727,  and  died  there.  January 
2(1,  i7o'>.  He  married  Phoebe  I'loomfield,  who 
dieil  (  )ctoljer  23,  1807.  Cliildren  :  i.  Eliza- 
beth. 2.  Henry.  3.  Benjamin,  married  Cor- 
nelia Beekman,  his  own  cousin,  and  had  Eliza- 
beth (  i^)eekman  )  \  redenburgh,  referred  to 
above.  4.  John  H.,  referred  to  below.  S.Will- 
iam, settled  in  Alichigan  with  his  brother 
Henry.  (>.  .Susanna.  7.  Martin,  removed  to 
Warren  count}',  Ohio,  and  said  to  have  de- 
scendants who  have  retaineil  the  old  spelling 
of  the  name.  8.  I'rancis  Brazier,  removed  to 
(  ihio. 

(  \'  )  John  I  I.,  fourth  child  and  thir<l  son  of 
I  lendrick  (  2  )  and  I'hoelje  (  Bloomfield  )  Beeck- 
man, was  born  on  the  old  Beekman  farm.  Feb- 
ruar\'  9.  1769,  and  died  there  l-'ebruary  24. 
i8C)i.  He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  when 
a  \(iung  man  and  followed  it  for  many  years. 
Later  in  his  life  he  was  a  farmer.  .All  of  his 
jieople  were  Whigs  in  politics,  and  when  he 
turned  Democrat  his  aimt  disinherited  him. 
He  adhered  to  his  convictions,  however,  left 
Raritan,  and  purchased  for  himself  a  farm  on 
Xorth  P.ranch.  He  was  a  Presbyterian.  De- 
cember 2~,.  1 79 1,  he  married  EfYe  Brewer.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Mary,  born  January  26,  1794,  died 
l>e])tember  8.  1874.  immarried.  2.  Phoebe,  born 
Ma\-  14,  1796.  died  April  24,  1852;  married 
John  1\.  N'oorhees.  3.  Llenry,  born  October 
iT^.  171)8,  died  June  15,  1853;  married  Cath- 
arine \  an  Duvne.  4.  Daniel,  referred  to  below. 
5.  John,  born  Julv  30,  180S;  married  Fann)'  .A. 
Stiger. 

(\  1)  Haniel,  fourth  child  and  second  son 
of  John  H.  and  Efife  (Brewer)  Beekman,  was 
born  on  his  father's  Xorth  Branch  farm,  Feb- 
ruary II,  1804.  He  was  educated  in  the  old- 
fashioned  way  by  a  travelling  teacher,  then 
learned  the  trade  of  a  cabinet-maker,  and  later 
became  a  carpenter.  At  first,  however,  he  was 
unfortunate,  Ijeing  taken  sick  and  using  up  all 
of  his  savings.  He  then  began  to  build  houses. 
and  in  this  way  accpiired  considerable  property, 
and  when  he  married  he  built  his  new  home 
himself  and  took  his  bride  into  it  before  it  was 
finished.  .After  his  marriage  he  turned  farmer, 
:'.nd  he  and  bis  wife  lived  together  on  his  farm 


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fnr  fifty-five  years.  He  was  a  Democrat,  and 
:icti\e  in  the  I'resbyterian  church  of  Laming- 
ton.  of  which  for  many  years  he  was  first  trus- 
tee and  then  elder,  ile  married  Sarah  Jane, 
daughter  of  Isaac  \"an  Duyne.  Children : 
Child,  died  in  infancy;  J.ilin  11..  referred  to 
beli;)u . 

(\  Jh  Joim  11.,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah 
lane  (  \  an  Duj-ne )  Beekman,  was  born  on 
iiis  father's  North  Branch  farm,  August  15, 
1 84 1,  and  is  now  living  in  North  Branch.  Ile 
was  educated  there,  and  at  fourteen  years  of 
age  began  to  work  on  the  farm  for  his  father. 
After  reaching  manhood  he  bought  a  farm  for 
himself,  but  continued  to  live  at  home  and  to 
work  on  both  farms  until  the  death  of  his 
father,  lie  was  a  Denicjcrat,  but  always  said 
that  he  was  no  politician.  For  more  than 
twenty  vears  he  has  been  a  trustee  of  the 
l.amington  I'resbyterian  church,  and  to-day 
stands  as  a  magnificent  specimen  of  the  gentle- 
man of  the  old  school.  March  4,  i86r),  he  mar- 
ried Alarv  l':iizaheth,  daughter  of  Frederick 
11.  and  Alary  ,\.  (Craig)  Eane,  of  New  ( ier- 
niantown.  descendants  of  another  old  colonial 
Dutch  stock,  the  same  as  that  from  which  have 
sprung  the  \'an  Pelts,  her  progenitor  in  this 
country  being  either  Gysbert  or  Jacob  Thysz 
\an  I'elt  l.anen,  some  of  whose  descendants 
chose  \an  Felt,  and  the  others.  Fane,  Faen,  or 
Faan.  as  a  surname. 

(\  111)  Daniel  IF,  only  child  of  John  IF 
and  Mary  Fdizaheth  (Fane)  Beekman,  was 
born  on  his  father's  farm  at  North  Branch, 
May  29.  1874.  and  is  now  living  at  Sonierville, 
New  [er.sev.  l-'or  his  early  education  he  was 
sent  to  the  .school  at  North  Branch.  He  then 
graduated  from  the  Metz  private  school,  after 
which  he  attended  the  New  York  Faw  School 
at  New  York,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
[ersev  bar  as  attorney  in  June,  1898,  and  as 
"coun.s'ellor  in  February,  1902.  Since  then  he 
has  been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Somerville,  making  a  specialty 
of  inheritance  and  real  estate  law.  in  which 
field  he  is  in  very  great  demand,  particularly  as 
trustee  and  executor  in  settling  estates.  He 
is  a  Democrat,  and  very  active  and  iirominent 
in  the  politics  of  his  locality.  His  many  gootl 
(|ualities  have  won  bim  a  host  of  friends,  and 
he  ha-  the  confidence  and  trust  of  every  one. 
a  fact  which  was  i-emarkably  em]jhasized  at 
the  time  he  ran  for  the  ottice  of  assemblyman 
on  the  Democratic  ticket.  The  district  went 
Rei)ublican  for  president  by  over  one  thousand 
six  hundred  majority,  hut  Mr.  I'.eekman  was 
defeated   b\    a   >canl   -even   hundred   niinnrit). 


lie  is  a  member  of  the  l^rst  Dutch  Reformed 
Llnircli  of  Somerville. 

X'dvember  is.  i8i-)i).  Mr.  h'.eekman  married 
iMuetta,  daughter  of  Henry  C.  and  Catharine 
(Khinehart)  Hoffman  (see  HolTman  below). 
Children:  John  H.,  horn  C)ctober  2-j .  1903, 
and   .Mabel   Elizabeth,  .\ugust  23.   19CKJ. 

l.Thp    HiilCnlMii    I,inei. 

The  early  generations  of  the  Hoffman  fam- 
ilv  of  .New' York  and  New  Jersey  are.  from  a 
genealogical  point  of  view,  still  in  considerable 
confusion,  but  there  seems  now-  to  be  no  doubt 
whatever  that  the  common  ancestor  of  the 
families  bearing  the  name  was  Marten  Her- 
manzen  llofl'man,  .saddler,  of  Revel,  who  mar- 
ried (first).  .\]3ril  22.  1663.  in  I>rooklyn.  Fys- 
beth  1  lermans.  of  Ootmarsum.  a  town  in  C)ver- 
yssel.  and  (second)  in  New  Amsterdam,  May 
Id.  if/>4.  Emnierentje  De  Witts,  from  Edent. 
in  lunberlandt. 

(  1  )  lohn  Iloft'man.  the  earliest  a.scertainable 
ancestor  of  the  line  at  present  under  considera- 
tion, died  between  1741  and  1748,- in  Reading- 
ton.  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey.  Fie  lived 
in  -New  York  and  Readington.  He  was  twice 
married,  and  his  second  wife,  Margaret  An- 
huisen.  survived  him.  Children:  Catharina ; 
Henry,  referred  to  below;  Mary;  Frederick; 
|ohn  ;  William  ;  Jacob. 

ill)  Henry,  .son  of  John  Hott'man.  lived  on 
the  William  Stevenson  place  in  Cokesbury.  in 
High  Bridge  township.  Hunterdon  county,  and 
died  between  1790  and  1794.  He  was  twice 
married.  Children:  Harmon  ;  John,  referred 
tol)elow;  I'eter.  Henry.  Frederick,  Eva.  .Annie. 
Marv. 

I  111)  |ohn  (2).  son  of  Flenry  Iloft'man. 
was  born  July  12.  174O.  and  die<l  .April  22. 
1828.  He"  lived  at  Cokesbury.  and  married. 
December  19.  1771.  Ann  Elizabeth,  born  May 
..'O.  1752.  died  Ni.ivember  I.  1828.  daughter  of 
I'eter  ' Young.  Children:  -Ann.  Elsie  Cath- 
arine. Alarv,  Elizaljeth.  Henry  F.  Peter  F. 
Frederick  F.  William  F.  Alargaret.  John  I. 
(referred  to  below).   Philip  C. 

(  l\'i  John  F.  tenth  child  and  fifth  son  of 
lohn  (2)  and  Ann  b'.lizabeth  (A'oung)  Hoff- 
man, was  born  July  18.  1772.  and  died  in  i8')5, 
Ile  married  Fvdia.  daughter  of  John  Hayes. 
(-hildren:  lohn  IF.  married  Harriet  Cox; 
Fetta.  married  John  Fleet;  Elizabeth,  married 
I  'eter  Eick  ;  Fvdia  Ellen,  married  Isaiah  .Apgar : 
1  lenrv  C.  referred  to  below  ;  Charles  W..  mar- 
lied  -Marv  C.  Flumerfelt :  Thomas  .A.,  married 
Sarah  Cole  ;  Alarv  Jane,  die  1  young. 

I  \'  I    Henr\  C.'.  fifth  child  and  -econd  -on  of 


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juhn  1.  and  Lydia  (  !  laycs  )  llort'nian,  married 
t  atliariiH-,  daughter  of  John  Rhinehart,  and 
among  their  children  was  Emetta,  who  mar- 
ried. Xovember  15,  1899.  Daniel  H..  son  of 
lnhn  11.  and  Mar\-  Elizabeth  (  Eane  )  Beekman. 


The  American  progen- 
\  AX  I'-.M  l'.l'i<(  d  I  itor  of  this  family  was 
( iysbert  \  an  Imbrock. 
whci  came  with  nthers  from  Amsterdam,  Hol- 
land, and  tir^t  settled  at  Xew  Amsterdam,  lie 
did  not.  hnwexer,  remain  fc.ir  a  long  period 
with  the  new  settlement,  and  with  other  Hol- 
land families  went  farther  north  on  the  Hud- 
son river  and  settled  at  h'ort  Orange  (  Albany  ). 
where  he  later  married  Rachel  De  la  Montagne. 
who  was  born  in  1(134.  and  was  a  daughter  of 
1  )r.  lohannes  De  la  .Montague,  who  was  for 
siiuie  time  councillor  of  the  Xew  Xetherlands 
and  \ice-director  of  Fort  (  )range. 

(ill  Johannes,  son  of  (iysbert  and  Rachel 
(  De  la  Alontagne)  \'an  Imbrock.  was  born  at 
Kingston,  Xew  ^'(lrk.  in  idfii.  When  he  was 
but  four  vears  old  he  wa'^  taken  by  his  mother, 
with  twc.i  (ither  children,  to  Xew  .Vmsterdam, 
w  here  he  w  as  reared  to  luanhood.  and  acc|uired 
a  knowledge  of  medicine  through  his  maternal 
grandfather.  Later  he  settled  in  Hackensack. 
Xew  Jersey,  where  he  ])racticed  his  profession, 
lie  married  (first)  in  1687,  ^Margaret  \'an 
Schaick.  by  whom  lie  had  one  daughter.  Jle 
ni;irried  (  second  )  I'atrina  Santvort.  and  to 
tliem  were  born  children:  I.  (iysbert.  2.  W'ill- 
i.im.     3.  Johannes,  ancestor  of  the  line  herein 

-traced,  and  of  whom   further  is  given  below. 

C4.   Mary.    marrie<l   John    Sandford.      5.    Catli- 
^  erine,  married  Richard  ( libbs,  of  Xew  Bruns- 

J^wick.    Xew     Jersc\.       (k     Elizabeth,    married 

\  Jacobus  r.ertholf.  Dr.  Johannes  \'an  Imbrock 
died  in  1742.  at  Ridgewood.  Xew  Jersey,  where 
lie  built  a  brown  stone  house  in  1700.  it  being 
the  first  house  in  the  present  borough  of  Ridge- 
wood,  and  where  he  had  bought  a  tract  of  five 
hundred  acres  of  land  for  the  sum  of  thirty- 
twii  ])Mun<ls,  ten  shillings  and  some  pence. 

(  111  )  Jiihannes  \'an  Imburgh  (as  the  name 
now  apiiears),  son  (if  Dr.  Johannes  and  Cat- 
vlna  (  .Santvort  I  \  an  Imbrock.  was  born  at 
Kidgewood.  Xew  Jersey,  at  the  parental  home- 
■~tead.  March  28.  1703.  lie  jiassed  his  life  at 
Ridgewood.  where  lie  followed  farming,  lie 
married,  and  aniung  his  children  was  Juhn,  df 
w  hom  further. 

(I\  )  John  \  an  luiiburgh  (with  whom  the 
family  name  came  to  its  ])resent  form),  son  of 
Johannes  \'an  Imburgh.  was  born  in  1738,  on 
the  famih   h(>nK"^tead  at  Ridgewood,  where  he 


was  reared  and  siient  lii>  life  as  a  farmer,  I  Ic 
marrieil  .\ntje .  and  auKiiig  their  chil- 
dren was  Henry,  of  whom  further. 

(\  )  Henry,  son  of  John  and  .\ntje  \  an 
Ijuburgli,  was  born  in  I7<i<),  on  the  family 
h(.inie>tead  at  Ridgewood.  lie  followed  in  the 
fciotsteps  of  his  forefathers,  and  was  a  tiller 
id'  the  soil,  passing  his  life  in  Edgewood,  where 
he  died,  in  1830.  He  was  noted  for  industry 
and  probity  of  character.  He  married  Mary 
\  iiiirliis.  born  Xovember  17,  1770,  died  Octo- 
bei-  21;.  1848.  Children:  i.  John,  born  June 
28,  171)!,  died  1860.  2.  .\lbert,  January  2^. 
1703.  died  1881.  3.  Anna,  January  5,  1795, 
died  1833.  4.  Martha,  January  12,  1799,  died 
1S73.  5.  Ilenry,  see  forward.  6.  Peter,  Feb- 
ruary II.  1804,  died  1887.  7.  Ralph  Wester- 
\elt.  June  24.  1806,  died  1880.  8.  (jeorge.  De- 
cember 7,  1808.  9.  Caty.  January  31,  1812. 
10.  I'olly.  September  16, '1814,  died  1887.  Of 
the  suns,  (ieorge,  Peter  and  Ralph  \\  .,  settled 
in  Ridgewocid,  where  they  were  known  among 
the  substantial  husbandmen  cif  that  town. 

(\l)  Ilenry  (2).  .son  of  Ilenry  (i)  and 
.\lar\-  (N'dorhis)  \'an  Emburgh.  was  born  on 
the  family  homestead  in  Ridgewood.  July  13, 
1801.  died  in  Paterson,  Xew  Jersey,  April  15, 
1870.  He  was  reared  on  the  home  farm,  and 
learned  the  wheelwright  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  some  time.  He  also  owned  and  con- 
ducted the  road  house  or  hotel  at  the  place 
now  known  as  Maple  Homestead,  on  the 
I'aramus  road;  this  was  one  of  the  leading 
taverns  on  that  road,  being  a  favorite  stopping 
place  for  travellers  and  drovers,  and  the  last 
stopo\'er  night  ])lace  before  arriving  in  Xew 
^'ork•.  lie  also  operated  a  wheelwright  and 
blacksmith  shop  for  a  number  of  years  with 
much  success,  .\bout  1846,  having  amassed 
an  ample  competence,  he  sold  his  farm  to  Jacob 
Demarest  \"an  Emburgh,  and  removed  to  Pat- 
erson, Xew  Jersey,  where  he  passed  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  His  career  was  active  and 
useful.  He  became  well-known  to  the  leading 
cattle  dealers  and  drovers  of  .Xew  York  as  a 
genial  and  lioS]ntable  hc.ist,  ami  in  business 
circles  his  name  was  everywhere  regarded  as 
synonymous  with  honor  and  integrity.  He 
married  (first)  at  Small  Lots  (now  Fairlawn). 
r.ergen  countv.  .September  id.  1820.  Margaret 
Demarest.  born  .\])ril  12.  l8oi .  'daughter  of 
lacob  and  Keziah  (llo])per)  Demarest.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Jacob  Demarest,  l)orn  July  12.  1822. 
see  forward.  2.  Maria,  .August  (),  1824:  mar- 
ried Stejihen  Terhune.  3.  Henry.  February 
14.  182(1:  married  (_'harity  .\nn  .\ckerman.  4. 
lames.    March    3.    1828:    married    .Sarah    Ter- 


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liune.  5.  jiihn  il.,  October  29,  1829;  married 
Olarissa  Lewis.  6.  Kezia.  August  25,  1831, 
(lied  October  8,  183 1.  The  mother  of  these 
children  died  October  16,  1831.  Mr.  Van 
I'.mburgh  married  (second),  April  19,  1832, 
Jane  Carlock.  born  January  27.  1816.  Chil- 
dren: 7.  leremiali.  April  11,  1834:  married 
Jane  IbitL  8.  Alfred.  December  15,  1842: 
married  Margaret  Ho])per.  The  mother  of 
these  children  died  .\ugust  20,  1832.  Mr.  \'an 
luuburgh  married  (third),  December  5,  1852, 
Matilda  P>lauvelt,  who  died  July  10,  1880,  sur- 
viving her  husband  about  ten  years ;  of  this 
union  there  were  no  children. 

(\TI)  Jacob  Demarest,  eldest  son  of  Henrv 
(2)  and  Margaret  (Demarest)  \'an  Emburgh, 
was  born  at  Ridgewood.  New  Jersey,  July  12. 
1822.  died  at  the  old  home.  June  4.  1907,  after 
a  married  life  of  almost  sixty-three  years.  He 
was  reared  and  educated  in  his  native  town, 
and  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter.  He  be- 
came a  contracting  carpenter,  and  as  a  result 
of  his  thrift  and  enterprise  accumulated  con- 
■^iderable  property.  He  became  prominent  in 
tmvn  affairs,  and  served  for  some  time  on  the 
board  of  chosen  freeholders.  He  was  held  in 
high  esteem  by  all  who  knew  him  for  his  hon- 
esty and  straightforwardness  in  all  his  affairs. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed (now  Presb}'terian)  church,  and  his 
influence  was  always  for  good.  He  married. 
April  15,  1844,  ]\Iaria  Jane  Bogert,  born  at 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey.  December  12,  1824, 
died  October  20,  1906,  daughter  of  John  and 
Sarah  (Demarest)  Bogert.  Children:  i.  John 
Henry,  born  July  25,  1845.  2.  Sarah  Jane, 
January  18,  1848.  3.  Demarest,  September  13, 
1849.  fi'Cfl  June  2,  1834.  4.  Wesley,  see  for- 
ward. 5.  Alargaret  Matilda,  July  25,  1854.  6. 
Jacob  Demarest,  January  25,  1857.  7.  Cal- 
vin Bogert,  June  3,  1839,  died  October  31, 
1839.  8.  William,  January  2,  1861,  died  .\u- 
gust  15,  1862.  9.  Martha,  March  26,  1863. 
10.  IJzzie  T.,  June  9,  1865,  died  November  13, 
1866.     II.  Irene,  September  24,  1869. 

( VHI)  Wesley,  son  of  Jacob  Demarest  and 
]\laria  Jane  ( I'ogert)  Van  Emburgh,  was  born 
on  the  old  family  homestead,  at  Paramus 
(Ridgewood),  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
November  201.  1831.  ITe  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  old  district  school  near  the  Paramus 
church.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  went  to  New 
"S'ork  Cit>-  and  served  a  five  year  apprentice- 
ship with  an  uncle,  John  \'an  Emburgh,  in  the 
tailoring  business.  He  made  excellent  ad- 
\  ancement.  and  (  k'tnber  i.  1872.  came  to  Pat- 
crsiin.  New  Jer-ey,  where  he  took  emplo\'ment 


as  cutter  in  the  tailoring  department  of  \'ander- 
voort  &  Slingerland.  On  April  I,  1878,  with 
James  Simonton,  a  fellow  workman  for  the 
firm,  as  partner,  he  bought  out  that  depart- 
ment, and  from  that  time  has  continued  in  busi- 
TlCss  at  the  same  stand.  During  the  more  than 
thirty  years  of  his  mercantile  career  as  mer- 
chant tailor,  he  has  been  recognized  as  one  of 
the  substantial  and  ])rogressive  business  men 
iif  the  city  of  Paterson.  In  religion  he  is  a 
Presbyterian,  and  in  politics  a  Democrat.  He 
belongs  to  the  liolland  Society  of  New  York, 
and  the  Bergen  county  (New  Jersey)  branch 
11  f  the  same  organization.  He  is  loyal  to  the 
nieuKiry  of  his  ancestors,  and  deeply  interested 
in  all  relating  to  their  history.  He  has  in  his 
jiossession  the  original  deed  made  about  the 
year  1700  by  F'eter  Jansen  to  his  early  ances- 
tor. Dr.  Johannes  Van  Imbrock,  conveying  the 
lands  at  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey,  upon  a  part 
of  which  that  village  has  been  built  up,  and  a 
portion  of  which  is  yet  held  in  the  Van  Em- 
luirgh  family. 

^[r.  \'an  Emburgh  married,  in  New  York 
(  ity.  August  29,  1883,  .\nnie  Brower,  born 
there  February  24,  1858,  daughter  of  Peter  D. 
and  Rachel  fRomaine)  Brower.  Her  father 
was  a  leading  merchant  tailor  in  Eighth  ave- 
nue. New  York  City.  Children:  i.  \\'ilbur 
Demarest.  born  February  3.  1883 :  married, 
June  28,  1906,  Sadie  Hicks  :  child,  W'ilbur,  born 
I'^eljruary  12,  1908.  2.  Elizabeth  Bogert,  Au- 
gust 9,  1886:  married,  June  19,  1909,  Charles 
Gilbert  Milham.  3.  Anita  B.,  October  18. 
1888.     4.  Clara  Eleanor,  February  i.  1893. 


The  Gastons  of  New  Jersey  be- 
( lASTON     long  to  that  large  and  stalwart 

class  of  Huguenot  refugees  who 
fled  from  the  persecutions  which  followed  upon 
the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes  over  to 
the  hospitable  shores  of  Ireland.  Here  the 
founder  of  the  family  under  consideration 
made  a  home  for  himself  and  his  family,  and 
here  the  founder  of  the  .American  family  of  the 
name  was  born  and  spent  his  early  life,  little 
dreaming  that  in  a  new  world  his  descendants 
would  number  among  themselves  Hon.  Athel- 
stan  Gaston,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Right  Hon. 
AMlliam  Gaston,  A.  M.,  LL.  D..  speaker  of  the 
assembly  and  member  of  the  senate  of  North 
Carolina,  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  North 
Carolina,  and  representative  of  that  state  in 
the  Federal  congress. 

(  I )  Josejih  Gaston,  born  in  Ireland,  of 
Huguenot  refugee  parentage,  emigrated  to  the 
new  world  ;d)out  1720.  and  found  his  way  over 


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1005 


iiitii  Xcw  Jersey,  wlierc  he  established  hini- 
selt.  married,  and  hrrmght  ii])  his  famil)'  in 
Somerset  county.  \'o  record  remains  of  his 
wife's  name  or  iiarentage,  and  the  names  of 
(inl_\-  two  oi  his  children  have  ct)me  down  to  us. 
though  he  undoubtedly  had  otiiers.  as  repre- 
sentatives of  the  family  not  only  in  New'  Jer- 
sev,  New  .York,  and  Pennsylvania,  but  also  in 
the  Southern  states,  claim  to  be  descended 
from  him.  The  two  sons  of  whom  record  has 
been  found  are  John,  who  is  referred  to  below  ; 
and  Robert,  whose  daughter  Margaret  became 
the  first  wife  of  Daniel,  son  of  .\aron  and 
Charlotte  ( Aliller )  Mellick,  and  whose  son 
loseph  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  .\aron 
and  Charlotte   (Miller)    Mellick. 

(11)  John,  son  of  Jose])h  Caston.  the  emi- 
grant, was  born  November  10.  1730.  in  Somer- 
set county,  New  Jersey,  and  died  in  the  same 
county  October  3,  1776.  He  was  a  farmer, 
and  June  2/,  1758,  married  Elizaljeth,  born 
April  4.  1738.  in  New  Jersey,  and  died  in  Som- 
erset county.  May  6,  1765,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam  and  Katharine  Ker,  emigrants  from  .Scot- 
land to  New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Catharine, 
horn  May  12,  1759,  died  April  14.  1762.  2. 
William,  referred  to  below.  3.  Joseph,  Ijorn 
May  29,  1763,  died  October  16,  I7<76;  married, 
.November,  1772,  iNIargaret  Lines,  and  had  at 
least  two  children,  William  B.  (laston  and  John 
( iaston.  both  of  Somerville.  New  Jersey.  All 
of  the  above  are  buried  in  Lamington  church- 
yard. 

(HI)  William,  second  child  and  eldest  son 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Ker)  Gaston,  was  born 
in  Somerset  comity.  New  Jersey.  May  13,  1761, 
and  died  there  February  13.  1809.  Like  his 
father  he  was  a  farmer.  December  10,  1782, 
he  married  Naomi,  second  child  of  John,  son 
of  George  Teeple,  who  emigrated  to  America 
from  Germany  about  1700,  and  his  wife  Mar- 
garet, (laughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Naomi  Cast- 
ner.  who  was  born  July  15.  1737,  and  died 
.March  17.  1813.  three  hours  before  her  hus- 
band. John  Teeple.  Naomi  (Teeple)  Gaston 
was  born  in  New  Jersey,  July  20,  1760,  and 
died  June  24.  1818.  Her  elder  sister.  May 
Teeple.  born  December  21,  1756,  died  October 
21.  i8if>;  her  younger  sister.  Ann  Teeple,  born 
April  13.  17^)4.  died  June  9.  1803.  Children  of 
William  and  Xaomi  ( Teejile )  Gaston:  1-2. 
John  and  William,  both  referred  to  below.  3. 
Walter  (iaston,  born  October  10.  1787,  died 
November  8,  same  year.  4.  Margaret,  born 
October  30,  1789.  5.  Josejih  (Jaston.  born 
l'"el)ruary  13.  1792.  died  .April  5.  1814.  6-7. 
Janie^  and  '  ilivi-r,  twins,  born  Januarv  8.  1795. 


James  d\  ing  in  i8(k).  and  (  )liver  in  young  man- 
hood. June  10.  1821.  8.  .\braham  Gaston,  born 
April  j^,  \/')/.  (lied  January.  1823.  9.  Hugh, 
named  after  his  cousin,  the  revolutionarv  sol- 
dier. b(jrn  August  27.  1800,  died  a  >iiung  man. 
March  30.  1821. 

(  I\'  )  John  (  2  ).  eldest  child  of  William  and 
Naomi  ('feeiile)  (laston.  was  born  in  Somer- 
set count}'.  .\ew  Jersey.  September  26,  1783. 
and  died  in  that  county  June  21.  1857.  Octo- 
ber 17.  1805.  he  niarried  Sarah,  only  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Hilary  (Thompson)  Castner. 
(hildren:  1.  William  Ker  Gaston,  born  July 
23.  180(1,  died  December  24,  1885.  2.  Daniel 
Castner  (laston.  born  (  )ctober  14,  1807,  died 
.\ugust  2.  1888.  3.  Samuel  ISarnes  Gaston, 
born  Decemi)er  14,  1809,  died  November  I, 
1870.  4.  Margaret  Gaston,  born  November 
21).  iSii.  died  (  )ctober  31,  1869.  5.  Robert 
(iaston,  horn  December  15.  1813.  died  Febru- 
ary 17.  i8(jo.  (I.  Josejjh.  born  April  12,  1816, 
died  December  3,  1832.  7.  [ohn.  born  .Au.gust 
31.  1818.  died  February  3.  "1888.  8-9.  Oliver 
liarnes  and  Naomi,  twins,  born  January  14. 
1820;  Oliver  Barnes  Gaston  died  January  8. 
i8()4:  Naomi  Gaston  married  Isaac  F.  Stevens, 
had  five  children,  and  died  October  17.  1897. 
10.  llugli  Craston.  referred  to  below.  11.  Isaac 
(laston.  born  July  2^.  1823.  died  in  Newark. 
Xew  Jerse\'.  in  1900. 

(\  )  Hugh,  tenth  child  and  eighth  son  of 
John  (2)  and  .Sarali  (Castner)  Gaston,  was 
born  in  .Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  April 
2\.  1823.  and  died  in  Pluckemin,  New  Jersey. 
.March  23.  1899.  He  was  named  for  his  uncle. 
He  was  a  faruier.  P'or  a  long  time  be  was  con- 
nected with  the  Dutch  Reformed  church,  but. 
the  1  'resljyterians  becoming  numenjus  in  T'luck- 
emin.  he  became  one  of  tlie  most  prominent  of 
them,  and  it  is  mainly  due  to  his  efforts  that 
the  Presbyterian  church  there  was  built.  Mr. 
(jaston  had  a  very  good  voice,  and  for  rnany 
years  sang  in  different  churches  as  a  chorister, 
performing  this  service  in  Pluckemin  and 
Readington  from  iSix)  to  1881.  in  North 
liranch  from  1881  to  1884,  and  at  Somerville 
from  1884  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
a  Republican,  and  was  for  many  years  col- 
lector of  taxes  for  Somerset  county,  while  for 
a  number  of  vears  he  was  one  of  the  chosen 
freeholders. 

November  2.  1884,  Hugh  (jaston  married 
Jane  \'anderveer  Garretson.  Her  tather  was 
Peter  Garret.son.  who  by  his  first  wife,  Jane 
Conover.  had  three:  (Garret  Remsen  Garret- 
son.  I'ileanor  Sehenck  Garretson,  and  .Ann 
l\li/a    I'icld    Garretson.      \)\   his   second   wife. 


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STATF.    ol-     NEW, JERSEY. 


(_  athariiif  W'ilscjii,  Ik-  1i;u1  jane  \  aiulerveer 
(^arretson.  i-eferred  t<>  ahuve,  burn  September 
2tj.  1S28.  and  Catharine  W'ortman  ( iarretson, 
Mary  Pinnyea.  William  Sloan.  Martha  Parker 
and  John  Wilson  ( larretson.  Mrs.  Jane  \'an- 
<!erveer  ((iarretson)  (laston  is  still  living  in 
Somerville.  Children  of  Hugh  and  Jane  \'an- 
derveer  (  Carretson  )  Ciaston:  1.  Robert,  born 
August  21.  1845.  died  June  11,  1852.  2.  Cath- 
arine, born  January  24,  1847.  ^'^'l'  living;  mar- 
ried (  first )  Andrew  Quick ;  one  child.  Jane. 
married  Archibald  Derby,  and  lives  in  Arling- 
ton. Xew  Jersey;  Catharine  married  (second) 
( )scar  Dunham.  3.  Sarah  Gaston,  born  Janu- 
ary 29.  1849,  married  William  \'oorhees.  of 
Jacksonville.  Illinois;  children:  Lena  May 
\'oorhees.  married  Otto  Coultas.  of  Riggston. 
Illinois;  and  Hugh  \'oorhees.  unmarried.  4-5. 
Hilary  and  Martha,  twins,  born  March  5.  1851. 
both  died  in  infancy.  Mary  on  .August  8,  and 
.Martha  on  Se]5tember  12,  1851.  6.  Margaret 
(iaston.  born  Januar\-  29,  1853,  married  Ira 
\  oorhees ;  no  children.  7.  Cornelia  Gaston, 
born  September  22.  1855.  married  James  C. 
llenry.  now  deceased,  no  children.  8.  Jane 
Gaston,  born  November  21.  1857;  married 
Isaac  Xewton  Dumont ;  one  child,  Helen,  un- 
married. 9.  Marrietta  (iaston.  born  January 
7.  iSfto;  married  Peter  B.  lOumont ;  lives  in 
.Somer\  ille  ;  children  :  Emma  Jane,  married 
William  Parry;  Hugh  (jaston;  Cornelia  and 
Irene,  bntli  nc)w  dead;  Lilian,  wife  of  William 
Hill;  Mary;  Harold;  and  .\rthur.  10.  John 
(iarretson  Gaston,  referred  to  below.  n. 
Hugh  (jaston,  born  June  11,  1865,  died  .August 
II.  i8fi6.  12.  Isaac  (Iaston.  born  October  20. 
1867.  died  September  9.  1868.  13.  William 
(iarretson  Gaston.  Ixirn  March  14.  1870;  is 
a->istart  cashier  (if  b'ifth  .\veuue  National 
Hank.  .New  ^'ork  City;  married,  ( )ctober  12. 
i8()7.  I'^lizabetb  Sutphen.  daughter  of  David 
Kline  Craig  and  Mary  Elizabeth  .\mmerman  ; 
children:  Katharine  Craig  Gaston,  born  L'eb- 
ruar\-  4.  died  June  5.  1903.  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth (laston.  born  August  22.  igo8. 

I  \  I  I  jolin  (iarretson.  tenth  child  and  sec- 
ond son  (eldest  son  to  reach  maturity)  of 
Hugh  and  Jane  \  anderveer  ((iarretson)  Gas- 
ton, was  born  in  Pluckemin,  New  Jersey.  .-Au- 
gust 28.  1862.  and  is  now  living  in  Somerville. 
I-~or  his  early  education  he  went  to  the  North 
P.ranch  district  school  and  then  came  to  Som- 
erville. where  he  obtained  a  clerkship  about 
1881  with  the  grocery  firni  of  Tunison  &  Losev- 
with  whom  he  remained  for  two  years.  In  1883 
he  procured  a  better  position  as  clerk  for  the 
<li\   goods  firm  of   I.   D.  .^niith.  and  this  place 


he  kept  for  eight  \ears  more,  when  he  found 
himself  in  a  position  to  set  x\\y  in  business  for 
himself,  whicli  he  did  in  189 1,  forming  the  firm 
of  John  ( !.  (jaston  &  Company,  dry  goods,  the 
company  being  Philip  Case.  In  1905  Air. 
( iaston  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Somer- 
ville. which  he  has  since  held.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican, but  outside  of  his  present  post  he  has 
held  no  office.  He  is  a  Mason  and  Elk,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  P.  C).  S.  -A.,  the  Royal  Arcanum, 
and  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  and 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Somerville  Athletic 
(.'lub.  He  attends  the  Second  Reformed  Church' 
of  which  he  has  been  deacon  from  1893  to 
1893.  f^li^'  latter  year  being  also  treasurer,  and 
<leac(jn  again  from  1904  to  1906.  He  is  vice- 
president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Som- 
erville. and  also  of  the  Somerville  Realty  Com- 
])any. 

.March  17.  1880.  |ohn  (iarretson  (iaston 
married  in  Somerville,  at  the  home  of  his 
father-in-law.  Ella  Picrgen  Smith,  born  at 
.Vorth  liranch,  February  8.  1868.  Her  father, 
Cornelius  \'an  Dyne  Smith,  born  October  15, 
1831,  died  I-'ebruary  10,  1889,  married,  Octo- 
ber 14,  1857,  Judith  Tuni.son,  second  daughter 
of  .Andrew  .-A.  and  Ellen  .Ann  ( \'an  Marter) 
Ten  Eyck.  born  I'ebruary  28.  1829,  and  now- 
living  with  Air.  Ciaston  and  her  daughter.  Chil- 
dren of  Cornelius  \'an  Dyne  and  Judith  Tuni- 
son  (Ten  Eyck)  Smith:  i.  Eugene  Ten  Eyck 
Smith,  born  May  10.  1858,  died  April  4,  1890, 
married  Catharine  Hodge,  and  had  one  child, 
-Margaret,  who  lives  in  Brooklyn;  ii.  .Anna 
\  osseler  Sniith,  born  October  20.  1859.  died 
Ala\-  2.  1885,  married  December  12,  1883,  Ste- 
|ilien  \  an  Clief.  but  had  no  children  ;  iii.  Louisa 
Ten  Eyck  ."^mith.  born  July  29.  18(13,  married 
(ieorge  D.  Totten.  Jime  2.  1886;  iv.  Ella  Ber- 
gen Smith,  referred  to  above. 

John  (iarretson  and  Ella  Bergen  (  .^niith ) 
(iast<in  have  one  child,  (ieorge  Gaston,  born 
May  I,  1887.  who  graduated  from  the  Somer- 
ville high  school  in  1903,  and  from  Penning- 
ton Seminary  in  1905,  and  in  now  paying  teller 
of  the  Carnegie  Trust  Company  in  New  A'ork 
(.  ity. 

(  I\  )  \\  illiam.  second  child  and  son  of  W  ill- 
iam  and  Xaomi  (  Teeple )  Gaston,  was  bori-i  in 
Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  September  2r). 
1785.  and  died  September  12,  1837.  .After 
reaching  manhood  he  left  the  place  of  his  birth 
and  established  a  home  for  himself  in  Savan- 
nah. ( ieorgia.  where  at  a  meeting  of  the  mer- 
chants and  citizens  generally  held  "'in  pursu- 
ance of  a  public  notice  at  the  exchange  in  the 
Citv   of   Savannah,   on     Thursday.    ,Se])tember 


STATE    OF    NEW     ll-.kSl-A' 


ii-t.  i''^,^7.  fur  the  piiriicisc  ut  ti-sti t'yini;  tlit'ir 
re^ix-'Ct  fur  lii>  Liieiiiiir\  ami  their  dec])  >ense 
(if  Idss  sustained  hy  this  cnnimunit\-  hy  his 
decease,"  the  fnlldwiiiy;  prcanihle  and  resdhi- 
tii  ins  w  ere  adnpted  : 

■'\\'illiam  (jaston.  (or  many  yt-ars  Loiispitiiout^  as 
line  of  our  most  eminent  mercliants  and  respectable 
riiizens,  having:  tieen,  through  the  wi.se  dispensa- 
tion of  Providence  removed  from  tis  by  death,  and 
iliis  sad  event  having  occurred  when  at  a  dislance 
from  this,  the  place  of  his  home,  so  that  his  felluw- 
oitizens  were  denied  the  melanclioly  satisfaction  of 
individually  offering  to  his  remains  the  last  rites  of 
respect  and  affection,  they  deem  it  proper  publii  1\ 
to  commune  on  the  occasion  and  to  express  iheir 
deep  regret  for  a  bereavement  which  cannot  but 
touch  the  sympathies,  not  only  of  this  commuriit\-. 
but  of  thousands  far  away,  for  the  stranKi-is" 
friend  will  not  be  unwept,  while  gratitude  yields  to 
worth  the  just  tribute  of  a  tear  .  .  Mr.  Caston, 
as  a  merchant,  was  distinguished  for  his  intelli- 
gence. Industry  and  Integrity,  for  his  promjitness. 
frankness  and   liberality  As  a  citizen   lie  was 

patriotic,  public-spirited  and  munificent,  and  in  the 
contribution  of  private  charity,  of  unsurpassed 
benevidence  .  .  He  was  tlie  patron  of  merit  in 
every  form,  and  emphallcally  the  friend  of  llie 
stranger,  dispensing  with  a  liberal  hand  the  avails 
of  his  honorable  and  successful  enterprise 
In  the  intercourse  of  domestic  life  his  friends  can 
through  long  years  I'ememher  liis  cheerful  welcome 
and  kind  hospitality,  liis  glowing  genius,  refined 
intelligence  and  accomplished  manners,  his  gener- 
ous and  confiding  spirit  .  .  In  his  character  as  a 
man  and  a  citizen  he  combined  a  rare  assemblage 
of  virtues,  which  no  time  i-an  efface  from  our  mem- 
ory: and  although  they  ai'e  extensively  known  and 
appreciated,  we  take  the  ipelanclioly  pleasure  of 
repeating  them,  as  a  saltitary  contemplation  ;iiol 
attractive  example:  and  for  their  commemoration, 
be  it  further  resolved.  Thai  under  the  superlntend- 
ance  of  a  committee  to  be  apjtointed  foi'  that  ]tur- 
pose.  there  shall  be  erected  in  Ihe  Old  Cemelery.  a 
vault  for  the  intermenl  of  strangers,  which  s.all 
hear  lire  lunne  of  The  iJaslon  Vault,  as  a  monu- 
ment to  perpetuate  llie  living  kindness  of  tlie 
strangers'  friend,  and  teiiching  posterit.\*  a  lesson 
of  universal  philanthropy  .  .  .  Also,  that  the  chair- 
man, in  behalf  of  this  meeting,  he  re(iuestetl  to 
address  William  K.  caston  a  letter,  requesting  liim 
.  .  .  to  have  the  remains  ot  his  late  uncle.  \^  illiam 
I'.aston.  Esq..  brought  to  this  city,  it  being  in  llie 
opinion  of  this  meeting  the  most  pioio-r  place  for 
their   repose." 


The  .\ll)riolit  family  (if  1 'enn- 
\  1  J'lk  1(  il  I  T     sylvania     and     New     Jersey 

seems  almust  nndi)ul)tedly  to 
he  iif  (icrman  orifjin  and  to  have  had  for  its 
founder  (leorge  Alhrccht,  who.  with  his  sons, 
was  so  prominent  a  fij^ure  in  the  early  history 
of  Ihicks  and  Chester  comities.  I'nfortmiate- 
Iv.  however,  the  records  of  the  descendants  of 
( ieoroe  Alhrecht  and  his  children  are  too  scanty 
to   make    the    jiriKif    an    ahsulnte   (inc.    ;md    al- 


tlmugh  there  is  no  e\idence  tn  indicate  that 
there  is  any  connection  hetween  the  .Mhri^dit 
famiU  which  ap|)ears  in  two  or  three  places  in 
Xew  England,  with  the  Xew  Jersey  family  of 
the  name,  which  is  at  jiresent  under  considera- 
tion, there  is,  of  course,  a  possibility  that  such 
a  ctiimection  exists. 

(  I  )  John  .\lbright,  earliest  known  ancestor 
of  the  present  branch,  was  born  in  the  first 
(|uarter  of  the  last  century.  He  enlisted  in 
Company  1'",  Twelfth  Xew  Jersey  \dlunteer 
Infantry,  from  .Mullica  Mill,  Gloucester  coun- 
ty, .Xew  Jerse\',  commanded  by  Captain  lul- 
ward  L.  .Stratton,  and  he  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  (  iettysburg,  I 'ennsyhania,  Jul\'  ,V 
i8'i,^,  leaxing  a  widow,  llannah  C,  anil  a  son, 
Eouis  W'..  referred  tt)  below. 

(  II  )  Louis  \\'.,  only  living  child  of  John  and 
llannah  C.  {  Haines)  .\lbright,  was  born  June 
4.  1 1^5(1.  and  is  now  living  in  Camden,  .Xew 
Jersey,  .\ftcr  lea\'ing  school  he  took  up  the 
newspaper  business  and  was  a  newspajier  man 
for  more  than  thirty  years.  At  the  first  he 
was  connected  with  the  Camden  Post,  and  left 
that  paper  in  order  to  take  a  position  on  the 
f'hikulrlpliia  I^ublic  Lcdi/rr.  at  that  time  under 
the  editorshi])  of  (  .eorge  W.  Childs.  (  )f  this 
celebrated  Philadelphia  paper,  Mr.  .Mbright 
was  the  Xew  Jersey  editor  for  twenty  years. 
( )n  Se])tember  28,  1902.  with  his  son.  William 
Haines  .Mbright,  .Mr.  .Albright  bought  the 
i'liiistitiitidii  of  Wooilbury,  Xew  Jersey.  This 
pa]ier.  which  was  and  still  is  the  Re])ublican 
party  or,i;an  of  (  iloucester  county.  .Mr.  Al- 
bright and  his  son  have  very  greatly  imjiroved 
and  enlarged,  and  they  are  now  conducting  it 
with  \'ery  marked  success.  It  is  the  oldest 
news|iaper  in  southern  Xew  Jersey,  having 
been  established  in  1834.  Mr.  Albright  mar- 
ried .Maroaret  C.  daughter  of  John  and  Elvira 
."stringer,  the  fi  inner  a  textile  weaver  of  Eng- 
land, who  came  over  to  this  country  and  set- 
tled first  in  I'ennsylvania  and  later  in  Cilou- 
cester  (itw  Xew  Jersey.  Children:  (.  Will- 
iam llaines.  referred  to  Ijelow.  2.  Frank 
Stringer,  born  .\ugust  1(1.  1877.  city  editor  of 
the  I'tisl  I'rhujrain.  of  Camden:  married  Annie 
Sheiiperkotter,  and  has  one  child,  Lillian  May. 
:5  Louis  Marry  Knerr,  born  1880  ;  married  ATay 
I'arker.  of  Camden,  and  has  one  child,  Louis 
II.  4.  Lillian  May,  born  1S83:  married  Fran- 
cis II.  .Stevens,  of  Camden. 

I  III  )  William  llaines,  eldest  child  of  Louis 
W,  :iuil  Margaret  L.  (Stringer)  Albright,  was 
burn  at  l'".Imer.  Salem  county,  X^ew  Jersey,  De- 
cember 20,  1875.  For  his  earlv  education  he 
was   sent   fu   the   public   schouls   of   (lluiicester 


Too6 


STATE    OF    NEW    lEKSliV. 


•LitN'  ami  Camden,  New  Jersey.  Early  in  life 
he  entered  t!ie  service  of  the  Philadelphia /^/(/>- 
lic  Ledger,  of  which  his  father  was  at  that 
time  the  Xew  Jersey  editor,  and  for  the  next 
eleven  years  acted  as  one  of  the  reportorial 
staff  of  that  i)aper,  and  as  its  field  correspond- 
ent for  South  Jersey,  until  September  28,  iy02. 
when  he,  with  his  father,  bought  the  W'cjod- 
bury  Coiistitiitiuii.  which  since  that  time  he 
has  assisted  his  father  to  edit  and  conduct,  lie 
has  his  home  at  Woodlnir)'.  h'rom  IQ04  t<i 
1905  he  served  as  the  private  secretary  of  the 
speaker  of  the  Xew  Jerse_\-  house  of  assembly, 
and  during  igo6  to  1908  inclusive  as  the  assist- 
ant secretary  of  the  New  Jersey  state  senate. 
^Ir.  Albright  has  always  been  devoted  to  the 
history  of  his  state,  and  to  the  preservation  of 
its  great  histnrical  relics  and  monuments.  He 
is  a  member  1.1  f  the  ( iloucester  County  His- 
torical Society,  and  was  aj^pointed  by  Governor 
.Stokes,  of  -Xew  Jerse\-,  j)resident  of  the  Red 
Bank  liattle  ^Monument  Commission,  whose 
object  was  the  erection  of  the  monument  com- 
memorating that  episode  of  the  revolutionary 
war.  Mr.  Albright  has  always  been  interested 
in  and  an  active  member  of  the  Republican 
Ijarty.  He  is  a  member  of  the  (iloucester 
County  Rei)ublican  Club,  and  its  secretary  for 
several  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  .Ancient 
(.)rder  of  Cnited  WUrkmen,  Woodbury  Coun- 
try Club.  Hoard  of  Trade,  Improved  Order  of 
Hepti>.sophs,  and  the  I'riendship  Fire  Company. 
William  Haines  .Albright  married,  March  30, 
1897,  Klla  Ituzby.  daughter  of  Francis  and 
Elizabeth  Hoogar,  of  W'illiamstown,  and  later 
of  Haddon  Heights,  .Xew  Jersey.  Child,  Paul- 
ine (iibsnn.  burn  .May  h.   H)02. 


Thomas  Cawley.  the  first  mem- 
(    \\\  l.l'A'       her  of  this  family  of  whom  we 

have  definite  information,  was 
a  farmer  in  .Xi>rtham]iton  county,  Pennsyl- 
\ania.  lie  may  have  been  the  son  of  the 
Thomas  "Cally."  who  witnessed  the  will  of 
(ieorge  Reichert,  of  .Xorthampton  county.  .\])ril 
5,  1787.  In  ])olitics  Thomas  Cawley  was  an 
old  line  \\  big.  Children  :  Thomas  S.,  referred 
to  below  :  h'li,  b'ranklin,  James,  .Absolom,  W'ill- 
i.im.  .^arab.  Jacob. 

ill)  Thomas  .'^.,  son  of  Thomas  Cawley.  of 
Xorthampton  county.  Pennsylvania,  was  born 
there  in  i8o(j,  and  died  in  Hunterdon  county, 
Xew  Jersey,  in  1859.  .After  receiving  his  edu- 
cation in  the  common  scliools  he  became  a 
shoemaker  and  successfully  plied  his  trade  for 
many  years.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  an  active  member  of  the  Christian  Church, 


in  which  he  was  chosen  at  different  times  to  all 
the  lay  offices,  lie  married  Mary  .\.,  daughter 
of  James  Smith,  who  died  November  5,  1888, 
aged  seventy-five  years.  Children,  the  first 
three  deceased  before  1896:  Thomas  F.,  James 
Smith.  .Sarah;  William  H.,  referred  to  below; 
iennic,  Ataiah. 

(  111  )  William  11.,  son  of  Thomas  S.  and 
.Mary  .\.  (.Smith)  Cawley,  was  born  in  Hunt- 
erdon county.  .Xew  Jersey,  in  1846,  and  is  now 
i'\ing  in  .Somerville,  New  Jersey.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  Hunter- 
don county,  and  leaving  the  home  farm  when 
si.\teen  years  of  age,  he  enlisted  in  the  L'nion 
army  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  and 
served  throughout  the  entire  war  until  after 
the  surrender  of  General  Robert  E.  Fee,  being 
promoted  first  corporal,  then  sergeant,  and 
lastly  commissary,  .\fter  the  war  was  over 
lie  started  in  the  business  of  turning  spokes, 
but  later  gave  this  up  in  order  to  engage  in  a 
wholesale  and  retail  restaurant  business.  He 
then  established  a  bottling  business  at  Somer- 
\ille.  .Xew  Jerse\',  which  he  operated  success- 
full\  for  four  years,  together  with  a  similar 
]ilant  at  Dover,  New  Jersey.  In  addition  to 
these  enter]irises  Mr.  Cawley  owned  a  good 
farm,  was  a  director  of  the  Second  National 
Hank  of  Somerville.  and  connected  with  a 
number  of  other  financial  institutions.  In  poli- 
t'Cs  he  is  a  staunch  and  active  Republican.  He 
i^  a  member  of  (jen.  W'adsworth  Post,  No.  73, 
( ..  .\.  R. :  of  Lodge  of  the  Castle,  No.  82. 
Knights  of  Pythias:  of  Solomon  Lodge,  I.  O. 
( '.  1'".,  and  in  this  last  has  passed  through  all 
the  chairs.  I  le  married,  July  3,  1867.  Mary  .\., 
daughter  of  Josejjh  Gilbert'  Children.  Will- 
i.im  II..  junior  teller  of  Second  National  Hank 
of  Somerville;  Jemiie  I!.;  Chester  .\rthur.  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(1\')  Chester  .Vrthur,  son  of  William  11. 
and  Mary  .\.  ((iilbert)  Cawley,  was  born  in 
Somerville,  Xew  Jersey,  .April  27,  1882,  and  is 
rmw  living  in  that  town.  .After  receiving  his 
e;irly  education  in  the  Somerville  public  school 
he  took  the  course  at  a  commercial  college  in 
Xew  N'ork  City,  and  then  began  to  learn  his 
father's  business.  Starting  at  the  bottom  he 
a])])lied  himself  diligently,  and  gradually  rose 
step  by  ste])  until  he  had  attained  the  position 
of  manager  of  the  Flemington  branch  of  the 
business,  which  he  held  until  the  firm  was  in- 
corporated, when  he  was  recalled  to  Somer- 
ville and  made  secretary  of  the  new  corpora- 
tion, which  now  has  a  jjaid  up  capital  of  ?35.- 
000,  and  an  undivided  surplus  of  profits  of 
,*s3i,ooo.    This  position  Mr.  Cawley  still  retains. 


STATE   OF    NEW     |l-:RSi':V, 


He  is  ail  active  wurker  for  the  Republican 
I 'arty  in  his  county,  and  liesides  being  member 
of  many  clubs  in  Philadelphia,  Memington, 
Somerville  and  other  cities,  he  organized  and 
was  made  the  tirst  president  of  the  Somerville 
Athletic  Club.  Me  is  a  member  of  the  F.  and 
A.  ]\I.  of  New  Jersey,  of  the  Nobles  of  the 
.Mystic  Shrine,  and  of  the  local  chapter  of  the 
llcnevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  in 
which  he  holds  the  chair  of  Esteemed  L.  K. 
I  le  is  also  an  ardent  and  enthusiastic  promoter 
and  supporter  of  the  Somerville  baseball  organ- 
ization. He  married,  Sejitember  2,  1908,  Jen- 
nie 1!.,  daughter  of  P'rederick  and  llarbara 
Wmk. 


John    Patterson,    the   tirst 

P.ATTFR.SOX  member  of  this  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation was  burn  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania. March  ■}(>,  1781.  He  may  liave  been 
the  son  of  Charles  and  Alary  Patterson,  who 
was  born  there  October  14,  1752,  and  who  was 
baptized  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  to- 
gether with  his  brother  ^Villiam  and  his  sisters 
Elizabeth  and  Mary.  August  2S.  1762.  He 
\\as  twice  married.  The  children  of  his  first 
marriage  were:  I.  James,  deceased.  2.  Sam- 
uel, referred  ti.>  below.  3.  Francis,  removed 
to  New  York.  4.  Eliza,  married  John  Kerr, 
of  P)aItimore.  an  auditor  of  one  of  the  rail- 
road companies  there.  5.  Mary  .\nn,  deceased. 
Children  of  second  marriage:  6.  John,  who 
was  for  many  years  an  official  of  the  House  of 
Correction,  in  P'hiladelphia.  7.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Mr.  Higginbottom.  and  was  mur<lere(l 
.several  years  ago. 

(H)  Samuel,  son  of  John  Patterson,  of 
Philadeljihia,  died  in  Swedesborough.  New 
Jersey,  in  1834,  leaving  an  infant  son  b'rancis 
F.,  referred  to  below. 

(]H)  I'rancis  1'".,  son  of  Sanuiel  Patter- 
son, of  Swedesborough,  New  Jersey,  was  only 
tiiree  m(.)nths  old  when  his  father  died.  He 
married  .\bigail  Derrickson,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam Null,  of  Null's  Mill,  Cumberland  count\-. 
New  Jerse_\-.  and  grandilaughter  of  Michael 
Null,  .-\mong  their  children  was  braucis  I-'. 
Jr..  referred  to  below. 

fl\')  l-'rancis  V.  Jr..  son  of  Francis  ]•".  (  1  1 
and  .Abigail  Derrickson  (  .\'ull  )  Patterson,  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  July  30.  18(17. 
For  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  pub- 
lic schools  at  Woodbury,  New  Jersey,  and  to 
the  hriends"  .Academy  there,  which  latter  lie 
attended  for  about  a  vear.  Leaving  school 
w  lien  lie  was  fifteen  vears  of  age,  he  entered 


a  printing  otifice  and  has  Ijecii  in  <jiie  ever 
since,  rising  gradually  from  the  humble  post 
of  [irinter's  devil  through  all  the  various  grad- 
uations of  position  to  editor  and  pro^jrietor. 
I'lir  some  time  he  was  a  reporter  and  later 
on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Philadeliiliia  Rec- 
ord, then  for  a  time  v\as  reported  on  the  stati' 
of  the  Philadel|)hia  Times,  tlie  Philadelphia 
Ich'ijraph.  the  Paltimore  Herald,  the  C'amden 
(  .\ew  Jersey)  Sunday  Rez'iezi.',  and  the  Cam- 
den lelei/raiii.  Mr.  Patterson  is  an  ardent 
and  influential  member  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  has  ik.jI  only  done  valuable  work 
for  its  interests,  but  has  served  it  ami  his 
country  in  more  than  one  capacity  at  various 
times.  In  1899  he  was  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  legislature,  and  in  1900  he  was  elected 
clerk  of  Camden  county,  and  again  in  K}03  he 
was  re-elected  to  the  same  position,  which  he 
now  holds.  In  religion  Mr.  i'atterst.iii  is  a 
member  of  the  P'irst  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Camden.  He  also  is  a  member  of  the  A'oung 
.Men's  Christian  .Association  of  Camden,  of 
the  Camden  Hoard  of  Trade,  and  of  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Camden  Republican  Club 
of  Camden.  .\s  a  Mason  Mr.  Patterson  is 
ardent  and  enthusiastic  and  prominent  in  manv 
hollies.  He  is  a  memljer  of  Camden  Lodge 
.\<i.  15.  ¥.  and  .\.  A  I.,  i.if  Camden;  of  Siloam 
Cha|iter  No.  m),  R.  .\.  M.,  of  C'amden ;  a 
Knight  Tem])lar.  and  a  noble  cif  Crescent 
rem|)le.  Mystic  .^hrine,  of  Trenton.  He  has 
also  taken  all  of  the  consistory  degrees  in 
b'ree  Atasonry  up  to  and  including  the  thirty- 
second  degree.  He  alsc.i  is  a  member  of  the 
(  )rder  of  hdks  and  the  Improved  <  )rder  of 
Red  Alen. 

Mr.  Patterson  married,  .September  23,  189'!, 
Isabel  I'^owler.  <)augliter  oi  Captain  Robert 
L.  Leyburn.  of  Tamai|ua.  Pennsvlvania.  (  liil- 
dren  :  b'rancis  b'l.ird  (^);  Robert  Levburn  ; 
Isabel   E.  .\..  and  Marv\\ull. 


This  famiU'  name  is  of 
XORTHRCP  binglish  origin,  and  is  a 
compound  of  the  words 
.X'orth  and  the  .Saxon  thorp  (middle  I'Jighsh 
tlirope).  meaning  town,  or  village.  The  earli- 
est mention  of  the  name  found  in  I^ngland  is 
of  the  marriage  of  Maude,  daughter  of  Simon 
.Vortlircipe,  in  county  York,  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  All.  (1485-1509).  ln*tlie  Yorkshire 
P.irish  Register,  vol.  ix.  ap])ears  the  follow- 
ing :  i()04  :  Xorthro]).  .Vorthrope  :  1^117  :  North- 
r<ipc;  i()4i):  Xorthrope;  ir)()4:  Xortliroppe. 

(  I  )   Josei)h   Xorthru|).   founder  of  the  fam- 
ily  in    America,   came    from    A'orksliire.    i'.ng- 


1 1 )  )S 


SPATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY 


laml,  with  Sir  kichanl  Salt' install,  in  I'Latnn 
and  I  )a\x'n|iiirt's  C(ini]>any.  in  the  ship  "1  lec- 
tin- ami  Martha."  landini;  at  Huston  un  July 
-'(>,  I '137.  With  others  he  formed  the  .settle- 
ment lit  .\lilford,  Connecticut,  in  1639,  and 
his  name  appears  as  one  of  the  forty-four 
"IVee  Planters"  on  the  document  which  laid 
the  fiinndatiiin  for  their  government  of  the 
"I 'lantatiiin."  Thencefiirward  the  name  .Vorth- 
nip  a|)|)ears  frei|nently  in  the  records,  and 
e!e\'en  ditterent  .\orthnip  signatures  are  a]i- 
jiended  to  the  patent  granted  hy  the  (lovernor 
and  C'om])any  to  Milford  in  1713.  Joseph 
Xorlhrn]!  married  .Mary,  daughter  of  h'rancis 
.Xorton.      lie  died  .September   11.    i()<ii). 

(  11  )  Joseph  (2).  son  of  Jo.seph  (i)  \orth- 
rnp,  \\;is  horn  Jidy  17,  164Q,  and  died  June 
I,  1700.  lie  married  Miriam,  daughter  of 
lames  lUakeman,  son  of  Rev.  .\aron  IMake- 
man.  who  was  horn  in  Stratfordshire,  Eng- 
land, in  I3<;f^.  and  was  hrcd  at  Christ  College, 
(  )xford.   luigland.  matriculated  .May  28.   1617. 

(  111  )  Moses,  son  of  Josejjh  (J)  Xorthrup, 
was  baptized  March  31.  lAy^.  He  removed 
to  Dutchess  county.  New  ^'ork.  in  1734.  and 
died  in  174(1  or  1747.  lie  marrieil  Abigail 
Cornwall. 

(1\  )  I'.enjamin.  son  of  Moses  .\'iii'thru|), 
was  born  in  Dutchess  count)'.  Vew  N'urk.  in 
1731).  lie  removed  to  Sussex  county,  .New 
Jersey,  in  1760,  and  died  there  September  4. 
1774.      lie  married   M.  Eenora  Whitehead. 

I  \' )  .Moses  ij).  son  of  lienjamin  Xorth- 
ini|i.  was  born  in  I7'i2,  in  Xewtoii.  .Sussex 
connty.  Xew  Jersey,  and  died  there  -\ugust 
4.  1X4(1.  lie  kept  a  general  store,  and  erected 
and  o])erated  a  mill  for  carding  wool.  The 
mill  was  continued  by  a  son  and  grandson  in 
turn,  and  its  walls  are  still  standing  in  iqio. 
lie  married.  May   1.  1787.  Sarah  De  Witt. 

l\'l)  James,  son  of  .Moses  \2)  .Xorthrup. 
was  bijrn  January  3.  1806,  on  the  Xorthru]i 
homestead  (the  carding  mill  jiruperty).  in 
.Sussex  connty.  .Xew  Jersey,  and  died  there 
October  15,  1876.  He  followed  the  business 
of  wool-carding  and  cloth-dressing,  and  .also 
i-onducted  a  farm.  He  was  a  man  of  promi- 
nence in  the  community,  and  held  various 
town  iifhces.  He  married,  .\pril  29,  182(1. 
\lary  \  .•uiglin.  burn  .March  20.  1809.  Chil- 
dren: I 'hiielie.  born  b\d)ruary  1  j.  1827:  Rich- 
ard \..  Angus*  25,  1828:  .Moses  )..  November 
21.  1830;  Thompson.  .Xnxember  t8.  1832: 
I  \ni,in.  1  )(,-cember  17.  1834;  .Sarah.  July  7. 
1X37:  Mar\-  Amelia.  Xovember  ii),  1831;:  ^lon- 
trva.  \]iril  id.  1  S43  ;  Austin  and  (  )scar.  twin--. 
\ngusi   7.    1S47. 


(\  11)  (  )scar.  siiii  of  James  .Xorthroii.  was 
l)orn  -\ugust  7.  1X47.  in  Sussex  county.  .Xew 
Jersey,  on  the  .Xorthrup  homestead  (carding 
mill  property),  and  died  there  in  1900.  He 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  was  a  I'res- 
byterian  in  religion,  and  a  Re]inblican  in  poli- 
tics, lie  married,  November  19,  1867,  Mary 
riiillips.  born  in  .Sussex  county,  January  17, 
I S44,  daughter  of  Xelson  and  Rebecca 
(  \\  ykei' )  l'hilli|)s.  Children:  .Sallie  I'inkney, 
liiirn  June  7.  i8'i8.  now  deceased;  James 
llenr\.  liorn  .March  17.  1871  ;  .Sinmn  rhilli])s. 
horn   August  2^.   \Hj(h 

(  \  1  1  h  Simon  Phillips,  son  of  Oscar  Xorth- 
rup. was  born  near  liranchville,  Susse.x  coun- 
ty. .Xew  Jersey,  .August  23,  1876.  He  attend- 
ed the  puljlic  schools,  and  at  the  early  age  of 
sixteen  was  a  teacher  in  Sussex  county  public 
schools.  He  completed  his  literary  studies  in 
Dickinson  College.  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania, 
graduating  in  1897,  the  year  in  which  he  at- 
tained his  majority.  He  entered  the  \'ale 
Law  School,  Xew  Haven,  Connecticut:  wdiile 
a  student  there  he  was  president  of  the  W'ay- 
l;>nd  (  lub  :  and  at  his  graduation  in  1899  he 
received  the  Kent  jM'ize  for  superiority  in  de- 
bate. In  T'ebruary  of  the  same  year  he  was 
.idmitted  to  the  Xew  Jerse}'  bar.  'The  same 
year  he  was  engaged  in  the  law  otTice  of 
( leorge  P.  Rust,  in  Passaic,  from  i<)00  to  i<-;03 
in  the  office  of  h'lavel  Mc(iee.  in  Jersey  City, 
and  in  11)03  '"  the  office  of  Edward  M.  Colie. 
in  .Xewark.  In  1904-3  he  was  in  law  partner- 
ship with  h'rancis  Lafferty.  at  Newark,  under 
the  tirm  name  of  Northru])  &  Laflferty.  In 
i<)0'>  he  became  associated  with  the  Fidelity 
'Trust  Company,  and  is  now  assistant  title 
officer  of  that  corporation.  With  his  family 
beholds  luembership  in  the  Park  Presliyterian 
(  Inu'eb.  Ne\\ark.    In  ]iolitics  he  is  a  Democrat. 

.\!r.  Xorthrup  married  in  .Xewark.  .Xovein- 
bei-  1).  (1)04.  Jennie  Mabel  Roe,  born  in  ISranch- 
\ille.  Xew  Jersey.  Ma\-  2.  1880.  daughter  of 
•  ieiirge  Warren  and  T'lizabeth  (.Adams)  Roe: 
the  father  is  a  bookkeeper,  and  has  one  other 
child,  Warren  .\dams  Roe.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Xorthrup  have  one  child.  Mary  I'.lizabeth. 
born   .Xo\-ember   1  3.   li>o'i. 


.\s  the  name  indicates, 
Ml  AI. LISTER  the  .Mc.Mlister  family  of 
.Xew  Jersey  belongs  to 
that  stalwart  band  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry 
which  had  done  so  much  to  shape  the  destiny 
of  this  country  during  the  early  stages  of  its 
life  as  an  independent  nation. 

(  I  I    William  McAllister,  the  earliest  known 


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ancestor  of  the  branch  at  present  under  con- 
sideration, was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Sharps- 
town,  New  Jersey,  where  his  children  were 
born  :  i.  Thomas,  referred  to  below.  2.  Irene, 
married  G.  Howard  \'an  Meter.  3.  Johanna, 
married  W'ilHam  C.  Hanna.  4.  Raymond, 
married  Rachael  \  an  Meter. 

(II)  Thomas,  sun  uf  William  McAllister, 
of  Sharpstown,  was  born  in  Cumberland  coun- 
ty, New  Jersey,  in  1858.  He  married  Phebe 
Garrison,  daughter  of  Samuel  Batten,  a  farmer 
living  near  Swedesboro,  New  Jersey.  She  was 
born  in  Deerfield,  Cumberland  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  1862.  Among  their  children  is  Al- 
bert Robeson,  referred  to  below. 

(III)  Albert  Robeson,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Phebe  Garrison  (Batten)  McAllister,  was 
born  at  Shiloh,  New  Jersey,  November  4, 
1879,  and  is  now  living  at  Bridgeton.  For  his 
early  education  he  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Bridgeton  and  the  West  Jersey  Academy, 
from  which  latter  he  graduated  in  1898.  After 
leaving  school  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  in 
the  office  of  Messrs.  Hampton  and  Fithian,  of 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  supreme  court  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in 
February,  1903,  as  an  attorney,  and  as  coun- 
sellor in  February,  1906,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  engaged  in  his  general  practice  of  his 
profession  in  I'.ridgeton.  Mr.  McAllister  is  an 
active,  energetic  and  able  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  since  he  was  admitted  as  coun- 
sellor he  has  been  the  corporation  counsel  for 
the  city  of  Bridgeton.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  State  Bar  Association,  and  also  of 
the  Cumberland  County  Bar  .Association,  and  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  ablest  of  the  rising  gener- 
ation of  lawyers  in  South  Jersey.  In  November, 
igog,  Mr.  AfcAllister  was  elected  by  the  Repub- 
lican party  to  the  house  of  assembly  of  New  Jer- 
>ey.  His  secret  society  affiliations  are  with  Even- 
ing Star  Lodge,  No.  105,  I'ree  and  Accepted 
Masons, of  Bridgeton,andCohansey  Lodge,  No. 
205,IndependentOrderof  Odd  Fellows, of  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member  of  Second 
Presbyterian  Church, of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey. 

November  29,  1905,  Hon.  Albert  Robeson 
McAllister  married  Carolyn,  daughter  of  Colo- 
nel J.  Howard  Willets,  of  Port  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  who  has  borne  him  two  children :  Al- 
bert Robeson,  Jr.,  born  October  6,  1906,  and 
John  Howard,  February  i,  igog. 


This   name  ilerived  its  origin 
S.AWYER      from  an  occupation.     In  New 
England  it  was  formerly  identi- 
cal with   that  of   Saver.     The   New   England 


Sawyers  are  for  the  most  part  the  posterity  of 
John  Sawyer,  a  well-to-do  farmer  of  Lincoln- 
shire, England,  whose  sons  William,  Edward 
and  Thomas  arrived  in  the  Massachusetts  bay 
colony  about  the  year  1636.  William  settled 
in  New-bury,  Massachusetts,  and  Thomas  was 
(ine  of  the  original  settlers  of  Lancaster,  Mass- 
achusetts. Bearers  of  this  name  have  won 
distinction  as  clergymen,  jurists,  statesmen, 
merchants  and  manufacturers.  It  is  worthy 
of  note  that  the  officers  of  a  company  recruit- 
ed in  Lancaster  for  service  in  the  American 
revolution  were  all  named  Sawyer,  and  it  is  on 
record  that  no  less  than  eighteen  members  of 
the  Lancaster  family-descendants  of  Thomas, 
were  in  the  Continental  army  at  the  same  time. 
They  also  assisted  in  defending  the  colonies 
against  the  aggressions  of  the  I-'rench  and  In- 
dians, and  the  name  is  well  represented  in  the 
muster-rolls  of  the  war  of  1812-13,  the  strug- 
gle with  Me.xico  and  the  civil  war.  General 
Thomas  Sawyer  and  two  others  of  this  sur- 
name, bearing  the  same  title,  are  known  to 
have  settled  in  Vermont  shortly  after  the  Amer- 
ican revolution.  The  branch  of  the  Sawyer 
family  about  to  be  mentioned,  and  of  which 
Waldo  Fitch  Sawyer,  M.  D.,  the  present  mayor 
of  A  ineland.  New  Jersey,  is  a  representative, 
is  doubtless  descended  from  either  William  or 
Thomas,  referred  to  above,  but  owing  to  the 
fragnentory  condition  of  the  X'ermont  records 
an  attempt  to  obtain  his  line  of  descent  from 
the  immigrant  has  proved  fruitless. 

( 1  )  The  earliest  ancestor  of  the  family  men- 
tioned in  the  data  at  hand  was  Ebenezer  Saw- 
yer, Dr.  Sawyer's  grandfather,  who  was  a 
native  of  Thetford,  Vermont.  He  resided  on 
Christian  street,  in  that  town,  and  reared  a 
family. 

(  11  )  James,  son  of  Ebenezer  Sawyer,  was 
born  in  Thetford,  December  25,  1825.  He  was 
one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  in  Kansas,  going 
there  overland  from  \'ermont  and  carrying 
with  him  the  first  Sharpe's  rifle  ever  used  in 
that  locality.  He  erected  the  first  dwelling 
house  in  Lawrence,  Kansas,  where  he  resided 
some  two  or  three  years,  and  as  a  member  of 
the  Free  State  Association  he  was  intimately 
associated  with  John  Brown  during  the  famous 
struggle  arising  from  the  attempt  to  make 
Kansas  a  slave-holding  state.  He  was  intrust- 
ed with  the  delivery  of  important  despatches 
by  the  governor,  and  during  those  troublesome 
times  he  contracted  disease  from  exposure 
from  w'hich  he  never  fully  recovered.  From 
Kansas  he  w-ent  to  Wisconsin,  and  locating  in 
Fond  du  Lac  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 


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lumber.  He  was  elected  mayor  of  Fond  du 
Lac,  and  in  1865  was  a  member  of  the  W'is- 
consin  state  legislature.  After  the  civil  war  he 
spent  some  time  in  Florida  for  the  benefit  of 
his  health,  and  in  1868  settled  permanently  in 
V'ineland,  New  Jersey.  He  subsequently  served 
in  the  township  council,  and  was  a  candidate 
for  the  New  Jersey  legislature  on  the  Green- 
back ticket,  but  lost  the  election  by  a  margin 
of  seven  votes.  He  died  in  Vineland,  New- 
Jersey,  in  February,  1881.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried. His  first  wife  was  Clarissa  Gillett.  of 
Flarlford,  Vermont,  and  she  died  in  Fond  du 
Lac,  leaving  one  daughter  Emma  L.  Sawyer, 
born  April  11,  1852.  died  October  29,  1905. 

Clarissa  Gillett  was  a  daughter  of  Billa  and 
Laura  (Griswold)  Gillett,  and  a  descendant  in 
the  seventh  generation  of  John  Gillett  (I), 
who  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
Lebanon,  Connecticut.  He  married  Experi- 
ence Dewey,  of  Lebanon,  and  had  several  chil- 
dren. John  f  H),  son  of  John  and  Experience 
(Dewey)  Gillett,  was  born  October  7,  1702; 
married  Abigail  Lee.  Ebenezer  Gillett  (HI), 
son  of  John  and  Abigail  (Lee)  Gillett.  was 
born  June  5,  1705.  He  was  one  of  the  charter 
proprietors  of  Hartford.  Vermont,  but  never 
resided  there.  He  married  Mary  Ordway, 
and  had  children :  Israel,  Rhoda  and  Ezekiel 
( twins  )  .John, Mary.  Lsaacand  Rebecca  (twins ) , 
Ebenezer.  and  Jacob.  John  (IV),  son  of  Eben- 
ezer and  Alary  (Ordway)  Gillett,  was  bap- 
tized .\pril  7,  1745.  He' settled  in  Hartford, 
Vermont,  in  1768,  held  many  public  offices, 
and  March  5,  1772,  donated  sixty  acres  of  land 
lying  in  HaVtford  to  Dartmouth  College.  He 
died  January  19,  1829.  He  married  Jemima 
Smalley:  children  were:  Jemima  (died  young), 
Sendea'  (died  young),  Billa,  Sendea.  jemima. 
Anne,  and  Levina.  Billa  (V).  son  of  John  and 
Temima  (Smalley)  Gillett,  was  born  in  Hart- 
ford, Tune  7.  1774.  died  April  5.  1844.  He  mar- 
ried ("first)  Ruby  Marsh,  (second)  Elizabeth 
Tilden.  His  children  were:  Jasper,  Billa, 
Ruby,  Azro,  Infant  (died  at  two  months), 
Charles,  Norman,  Maria  G.  Billa  (VI),  son 
of  Billa  and  Ruby  (Marsh)  Gillett,  was  born 
in  Hartford.  May  14.  1799,  died  in  Sharon. 
\'ermont.  March  20.  1841.  He  was  known  as 
Deacon  William  Gillett.  He  married  (first) 
Laura  Griswold,  of  Randolph,  \^ermont.  (sec- 
ond) Almira  Partridge,  of  Norwich.  \'erniont. 
The  children  of  his  first  union  were :  Clarissa, 
previously  mentioned  as  first  wife  of  James 
Sawyer :  Nanc}'.  born  in  1834.  married  in 
Galesburg.  Illinois,  January  23,  1856.  Pro- 
fessor T.  B.  Roberts,  of  Morton,  that  state,  and 


had  six  children.  By  Billa  Gillett's  second 
marriage  there  were  two  sons,  who  reside  in 
California. 

James  Sawyer  married  (  second)  Mrs.  Lucy 
Dunham,  nee  Meacham,  who  had  one  daugh- 
ter Ida  C.  Dunham,  born  in  Juneau,  Wisconsin. 
April  15.  1856. 

Lucy  Meacham,  born  in  Moriah  (now  Port 
Henry),  New  York,  October  8,  1826,  was  a 
daughter  of  William  Meacham,  and  a  grand- 
daughter of  Captain  William  Meacham,  who 
lost  his  life  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  Her 
immigrant  ancestor  was  one  of  two  brothers 
who  are  said  to  have  come  from  near  Bristol, 
England,  and  settled  at  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
in  1630.  James  Meacham,  a  descendant  of 
one    of    these    immigrants,    married    Rebecca 

,  and  had  at  least  five  sons,  one  of  whom 

was  killed  in  1756,  while  serving  in  the  F"rench 
and  Indian  war  under  Colonel  Ephraim  Will- 
iams, the  founder  of  Williamstown,  Massachu- 
setts, and  the  titular  founder  of  Williams  Col- 
lege, of  which  Ebenezer  Fitch  was  the  first 
president.  The  other  sons  of  James  and  Re- 
becca Meacham  were  Captain  William  (previ- 
ously referred  to),  Jeremiah,  Jonathan  and 
John.  One  of  these  brothers  settled  in  Will- 
iamstown. A  record  at  hand  states  that  Cap- 
tain \Villiani  Meacham  and  his  three  brothers 
served  in  the  same  company.  Colonel  Wood- 
bridge's  regiment,  and  that  all  were  residents 
of  New  Salem.  Massachusetts.  Another  ac- 
count states  that  Captain  William  Meacham 
commanded  a  company  of  minute-men  and 
participated  in  the  battle  of  Lexington.  He 
was  killed  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  his  name  ap- 
pears on  the  memorial  tablet  in  Winthrop 
Square,  Charlestow-n,  Massachusetts.  He  was 
born  in  Salem,  March  10,  1742  (old  style); 
married  Sarah  Cook,  in  1770,  and  had  two 
sons :  William  and  Jeremiah.  Captain  Will- 
am  Meacham,  son  of  Captain  William  Meach- 
am, was  born  in  Adams,  Massachusetts,  Sep- 
tember 20,  1771.  He  commanded  a  company 
during  the  war  of  1812-15.  and  participated  in 
the  battle  of  Plattsburg.  After  peace  was  de- 
clared he  met  two  brothers,  Captain  William 
Meacham  and  Lieutenant  Jeremiah  Meacham. 
of  the  Royal  Guards.  British  army.  They  were 
sons  of  Robert  Aleacham,  who  at  that  time 
was  living  on  the  old  homestead  in  the  west  of 
England.  Captain  \\'illiani  Aleacham  married 
Keziah  How,  August  14,  1796.  Keziah  How- 
was  born  May  25,  1773,  at  Poultney,  \'ermont, 
died  there  in  April,  1818.  He  married  Lucy 
Fitch,  February  29,  1824:  one  daughter  was 
born   to   them,   at   Moriali.   New-   York    (now 


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Port  Henry  ),  Lucy  Juliet.  Lucy  Fitch  Aleach- 
aiii  died  January  22,  1 85 1.  Captain  William 
Meacham  died  April  25,  1852.  Their  graves 
are  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Port  Henry.  The 
daughter  Lucy  became  the  second  wife  of 
lames  Sawyer,  as  previou.sh-  stated.  She  died 
at  \'ineland.  Xew  Jersey,  in  December,  iSyj. 

James  and  Lucy  (  Meacham-Dunham  )  Saw- 
yer reared  two  sons:  1.  James  William,  born 
October  21,  1861,  in  Fond  du  Lac,  married 
Lulu  Simonson  and  resides  in  Brookdyn,  New 
^'ork :  children :  William,  Aimee,  Waldo  Wat- 
scin  and  Maizie  :  ii.  Waldo  Fitch. 

(HI)  Waldo  Fitch  Sawyer,  M.  D.,  son  of 
James  and  Lucy  ( Aleacham-Dunham)  Sawyer, 
was  born  in  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin.  October 
15.  iS')5.  His  early  education  was  obtained 
in  the  public  schools  of  Vineland,  New  Jersey, 
and  prior  to  his  majority  he  went  to  Cheboy- 
gan, Michigan,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the 
lumber  business  for  two  years.  Returning  to 
\  ineland  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  with 
Dr.  C.  R.  Wiley,  and  entering  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  in  1887,  was 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1890.  He  immeili- 
ately  began  the  ])ractice  of  medicine  in  \'ine- 
land,  and  has  ever  since  resided  there,  attain- 
ing high  rank  in  his  profession,  and  sub- 
stantially demonstrated  his  ability  in  other  di- 
rections ;  notably  in  civic  affairs. 

In  politics  Dr.  Sawyer  is  a  Republican,  but 
is  a  staunch  supporter  of  non-partisan  govern- 
ment in  municipal  affairs,  and  his  official  rec- 
ord is  in  full  keeping  with  these  convictions. 
In  November,  1891,  he  was  elected  coroner  of 
Cumberland  county  for  a  term  of  three  years, 
and  in  1897  ^^'^s  again  elected  to  that  office. 
He  was  first  elected  a  member  of  the  city  coun- 
cil in  1892,  and  was  re-elected  to  that  body  in 
1896.  He  introduced  the  first  resolution  look- 
ing to  the  municipality  owning  its  public  util- 
ities, and  through  his  advocacy  and  instru- 
mentality, \'ineland  became  the  owner  of  its  own 
electric  light  plant,  water  supply  and  sewerage 
systems.  As  chairman  of  the  committee  for 
the  investigation  of  municipal  improvements 
he  became  thoroughly  cognizant  of  the  advan- 
tages to  be  gained  from  municipal  ownership 
of  public  utilities,  and  also  became  full}/  con- 
vinced that  it  would  be  almost  a  financial  im- 
possibility for  the  city  to  maintain  a  sewerage 
system  without  owning  its  own  water  supply. 
At  this  time  the  city  was  being  supplied  with 
water  by  a  i^rivate  concern,  and  the  additional 
cost  of  flushing  the  sewers  would  be  greatly  in 
excess  of  what  it  should  be,  while  under  muni- 


ci[)al  ownership  the  cost  of  water  for  sewerage 
piurposes  would  be  nominal.  After  consulting 
with  a  competent  sanitary  and  hydraulic  engi- 
neer and  obtaining  feasible  plans,  the  com- 
mittee, vi  which  Dr.  Sawyer  was  still  chair- 
man, recommended  the  purchase  and  improve- 
ment by  the  city  of  the  water  works  then  in 
use.  which  was  approved  and  adopted  by  the 
city  council,  and  ratified  by  the  people.  This 
undertaking,  together  with  the  construction  of 
a  sewerage  system  and  the  installation  of  an 
electric  plant,  were  finally  accomplished.  In 
November,  1906,  Dr.  Sawyer  was  elected  mayor 
of  \"ineland  for  a  term  of  two  years,  and  re- 
elected in  1908.  His  popularity  as  chief  magis- 
trate was  forcibly  emphasized  on  the  occasion 
of  his  last  election,  when  only  thirty-five  votes 
were  cast  against  him.  From  igo6  to  the  pres- 
ent time  he  has  served  with  ability  as  president 
of  the  Landis  township  board  of  health.  In 
\'ineland,  as  in  other  municipalities  where  con- 
servation is  still  the  watchword  of  the  electors 
in  choosing  its  public  officials,  a  citizen  of  ex- 
tensive business  experience  is  considered  pref- 
erable to  a  professional  man  for  mayor.  There 
are,  however,  exceptions  in  all  cases,  and  the 
present  chief  executive  has  amply  demonstrated 
the  fact  that  a  man  well  versed  in  anatomy, 
physiology,  materia  medica  and  therapeutics, 
is  equally  capable  of  grappling  with  the  intri- 
cate problems  of  political  economy,  and  for- 
ward them  to  a  satisfactory  solution.  Al- 
though economy  has  ever  been  the  guiding  in- 
fluence in  his  administration,  progress  has  not 
been  sacrificed  and  the  march  of  improvement 
is  plainly  visible  in  every  department.  A  glance 
at  his  annual  message  to  the  council  and  citi- 
zens discloses  the  fact  that  the  city  is  at  the 
present  time  enjoying  an  era  of  unusual  pros- 
perity, that  the  public  utilities  previously  re- 
ferred to  are  practically  self-supporting,  that 
the  business  opportunities  of  the  city  are  su- 
perior and  its  future  prospects  exceedingly 
bright.  Many  of  the  improvements  wrought 
during  the  present  adminstration  have  in  a 
great  measure  been  conceived  with  a  view  of 
surviving  the  test  of  time,  and  the  mayor's 
solicitude  for  the  future  prosperity  and  at- 
tractiveness of  the  city  is  clearly  expressed  in 
the  following  extract  from  his  second  annual 
message. 

"I  am  glad  to  note  that  in  .spite  ot  the  money 
-stringency  ot  the  past  year,  more  building  has  been 
done  in  Vineland  than  for  a  number  of  years  past. 
This  is  a  good  sign.  Communities  cannot  stand 
still.      They   must   either   go   forward   or   retrograde. 


STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


With  the  completion  of  the  tunnel  under  the  Dela- 
ware river,  at  Camden,  connecting  New  Jersey  and 
Pennsylvania,  which  now  seems  assured,  there  will 
start  a  suburban  movement  that  will  be  felt 
throughout  South  Jersey.  Our  favorable  location, 
splendid  climate,  excellent  railroad  facilities,  fine 
educational  system,  well  laid  out  streets,  adequate 
public  utilities,  and  the  advanced  intelligence  of 
our  citizens,  should  place  Vineland  in  line  to  derive 
great  benefits  from  this  movement,  and  in  making 
public  improvements  within  the  next  two  years  I 
would  urge  upon  Council  the  keeping  in  view  of 
this  great  coming  movement  of  population  and  bus- 
iness, that  our  town  may  be  made  so  inviting  as  to 
secure  its  full  share  of  the  resulting  benefits.  One 
of  the  great  needs  of  Vineland,  if  we  are  to  expand 
and  prosper,  is  an  increase  of  high  class  manufac- 
turing industries,  which  will  pay  good  wages, 
enabling  our  surplus  labor  to  find  steady  employ- 
ment at  remunerative  compensation  and  drawing  to 
our  community  as  permanent  residents  a  high  class 
of  intelligent  artisans,  who  will  be  a  distinct  gain 
in  our  town  and  be  the  means  of  increasing  the 
volume  of  business  of  our  tradesmen  in  all  lines. 
At  the  present  day  no  town  can  hope  to  expand 
without  manufacturing  industries,  and  I  would, 
therefore,  urge  upon  Council  that  in  co-operation 
with  the  business  men  of  Vineland  and  the  Board 
of  Trade,  they  exert  their  utmost  influence  to 
induce  such  industries  as  may  be  seeking  location, 
and  which  they  consider  would  promote  the  welfare 
of  the  community,  to  locate  in  our  midst,  present- 
ing to  them  our  advantages,  and  extending  to  them 
every  concession  consistent  with  the  safeguarding 
of  the  interests  of  the  Borough.- 

Dr.  .Sawyer  is  jiresident  ni  the  \ineland 
JMedical  Society,  and  a  nienilier  vi  the  New 
York  State  Medical  Society:  member  of  X'ine- 
laiid  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M..  and  of  Eureka 
Royal  Arch  Chapter;  of  Hobah  Lodge,  L  <  ). 
O.  F. ;  Perseverance  Council,  LT.  ().  Junior 
American  Mechanics,  of  which  he  is  senior 
past  councillor :  also  president  of  the  Physi- 
cians' Hospital  Association,  chairman  of  the 
board  of  trustees,  and  chairman  of  the  Train- 
ing School  Committee  for  Xurses  and  Nurses 
Home ;  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
the  \'ineland  Free  Public  Library.  He  is  also 
a  charter  member  of  the  \'ineland  Country 
Club.  For  a  period  of  six  years  he  served  in 
Company  K,  Sixth  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Na- 
tional Guard,  and  attained  the  rank  of  sergeant. 

On  June  5,  1805,  Dr.  Sawyer  married,  in 
Bear  Brook,  Canada,  Isabella  Hill,  born  in 
Bear  Brook,  Canada,  March  17,  1871,  daugh- 
ter of  Alfred  and  Alice  (Walsh)  Hill,  the 
former  of  whom  is  a  well-known  resident  of 
Ottawa.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Sawyer  have  had  two 
children:  \\'al(lo  Alfred,  born  August  4.  igoo, 
died  January  13.  1905.  and  Lucy  Isabella,  born 
November  4,  1904. 


The  Ten  Eyck  family  which 
TEN   EYCK      has  been  so  prominent  in  the 

history  of  the  Raritan  River 
\'alley  and  of  various  counties  in  New  Jersey 
and  Long  Island,  derives  its  origin  from  the 
little  village  of  Eyck.  in  Holland.  The  name 
was  originally  \'an  Eyck.  and  the  change  to 
Ten  Eyck  appears  to  have  taken  place  many 
years  before  the  family  came  over  to  Amer- 
ica. In  the  present  form  the  name  signifies 
"The  Oak."  and  that  tree  forms  the  figure  on 
the  family  coat-of-arms.  So  far  as  known,  all 
members  of  the  name  are  to  be  traced  back  to 
the  one  common  ancestor,  referred  to  below. 

( I )  Coenraedt  Ten  Eyck.  the  common  an- 
cestor of  the  family,  emigrated  to  New  Nether- 
land  from  Amsterdam,  about  1650.  He  bought 
land  in  New  Amsterdam,  on  the  west  side  of 
what  is  now  Broad  street,  and  in  1674 his prop- 
ertv  was  estimated  as  worth  in  modern  cur- 
rency .^5,000,  quite  a  large  fortune  for  those 
days.  He  became  one  of  the  prominent  busi- 
ness men  of  the  town,  and  his  tannery,  which 
was  carried  on  after  his  death  by  his  sons 
Dirck,  Tobias  and  Coenraedt  Jr.,  was  one  of 
the  well-known  and  prominent  landmarks  of 
the  old  town.  He  died  in  1687.  He  married 
(first)  .Maria  P.oele :  (second),  April  15,  1682, 
.Annetje  Daniels,  w'idow  of  Herman  Smee- 
man.  Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  I.  Jacob, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Dirck.  baptized  in  New 
.Amsterdam.  January  26.  1653,  died  171 1  ;  mar- 
ried Aefje  Boele.  3.  Maritje.  born  August 
20. 163 1  ;  marriecl  W'essel  Ten  Broeck.  4.  Tobias, 
January  26,  1653:  married  (first)  Aeltje  Duy- 
ckynck,  (  second  )  Elizabeth  Hegeman.  5.  Coen- 
raedt, November  22,  1654;  married  Beletje 
Herricks.  6.  Hendrik.  April  30.  1656;  married 
Petromella  DeWitt.  7.  Mathys.  March  20, 
1658:  married  Janneke  Roosa.  8.  Margrietje, 
October  26.  1659.  9.  Ambries.  January  15, 
1662.     10.  Metje.  April  11,  1664. 

(II)  Jacob,  eldest  child  of  Coenraedt  and 
Maria  (Boele)  Ten  Eyck,  was  born  probably 
in  New  Amsterdam,  and  some  time  before  his 
father's  death  removed  to  Albany.  New  York. 
He  was  a  shoe-maker  by  trade.  He  married 
Gertrey.  born  April  23.  1664.  died  February  2. 
T736.  daughter  of  Barent  Coeymans  and  the 
daugFiter  of  Anvries  DeVos.  Children:  i. 
Coenraedt.  referred  to  below.  2.  Barent.  mar- 
ried, September  30,  1700,  Neeltje  Schermer- 
liorn.  3.  Hendrik,  December,  1680.  died  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1772:  married  Margarita  Bleecker. 
4.  Mayken.  A])rU  2,  1685  :  married  .Andries  van 
Petten.  of  Schenectady.     5.  Andries,  baptized 


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:rsky. 


March  25,  1688,  died  February  2"],  1735.  6. 
Anneken,  August  20,  1693.  died  December  9, 
1738;  married  Johannes  Bleecker.  7.  Jannetje, 
March  23,  1701.  8.  Geertys,  August  20.  1702. 
9.  Jannetje.  December  12.1705.  10.  iNIarca.May 
20,  1708.    II.  Johannes.  November  27.  1709. 

(Ill)  Coenraedt  (2).  eldest  child  of  Jacob 
and  Gertrey  ( Coeymans  )  Ten  Eyck.  was  born 
in  .-Mbany,  April  9,  1678.  and  was  buried  Janu- 
ary 21,  1753.  October  10.  1703.  or  September 
24.  1704.  he  married  Geertje,  baptized  Septem- 
ber II.  1687.  daughter  of  Antony  and  Maria 
Teunisse  (van  Poel )  \'an  Schaick.  Children: 
I.  Jacob  C,  referred  to  below.  2.  Maria,  born 
July  3,  1707 :  married  Gerrit  Bradt.  3.  Gerritje. 
July,  1710.  died  young.  4.  Anthony.  Septem- 
ber 17.  1712.     5.  Barent,  September  29.  1714, 

died  ^larch  i.  1795:  married  Effie .    f). 

Catrina.  January  29,  1716.  died  November  I. 
1741.  7.  Andries.  December  18.  1718;  mar- 
ried Anna  Margarita  Coeymans.  8.  Anna  Mar- 
garita. February  12,  1721.  9.  Tobias,  May  18. 
1723:  married  Juditkje  ^'an  Beuren.  10.  Ger- 
retje.  July  18.  1728;  married  Pieter  ( ianse- 
voort. 

(  W )  Jacob  C,  eldest  child  of  Coenraedt 
and  Geertje  ( \'an  Schaick)  Ten  Eyck,  was 
liorn  in  Albany,  .\pril  21,  1705.  and  died  there 
September  0.  \'j(^}^.  He  was  one  of  the  must 
prominent  men  of  his  day  in  .\lbany.  for  many 
years  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas,  and 
in  1748  mayor  of  the  town.  August  i,  173ft. 
he  married  Catbarina.  born  February  18.  1710. 
died  November  22.  1790.  daughter  of  Abraham 
and  Caatje  (Bleecker)  Cuyler.  Children:  i. 
Coenraedt.  born  November  27.  1741.  2.  .Abra- 
ham J.,  referred  to  below.  3.  Catbarina.  March 
14.  1746.  4.  Anthony,  September  15,  1749, 
died  June  10.  1849:  member  of  New  York 
convention  which  ratified  the  constitution  of 
the  United  States  .and  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent men  of  his  times:  married  Hester  G,. 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  ^Magdalena  (Ganse- 
voort)  Ten  Eyck. 

( \' )  Abraham  J.,  second  son  of  Jacob  C. 
and  Catbarina  (Cuyler)  Ten  Eyck,  was  born 
November  20.  1743,  and  died  in  October  or 
November,  1824.  ,\|)ril  14,  1769,  he  married 
Annetje,  born  July  11,  1746,  died  November 
I",  1824,  daughter  of  Jacob  Jr.  and  Marytje 
(Egbertse)  Eansing.  Children  i.  Catbarina. 
born  November  17.  1769;  married  Sanders 
E.nnsing.  2.  Jacob.  February  17,  1772,  died 
July  26.  18(12:  married  Magdalena  Gansevoort. 
3.  Maria,  June  28,  1774:  married  Charles 
Bridgen.  4.  Abraham.  October  23,  1777:  mar- 
ried G.  Schu\ler.     3.  Lena,  .August  26,   1779. 


died  young.  (1.  Coenraedt,  July  17,  1782.  7. 
Jeremiah  \  an  Rennsalaer,  May  13,  1(183.  died 
ymnig.  8.  Lena,  or  Helen,  June  13,  1787: 
married  ( ierrit  Y.  Lansing.  9.  Jeremiah,  re- 
feried  to  below. 

(  \'l  )  Jeremiah,  youngest  child  of  Abraham 
J.  and  .\nnetje  (  Lansing)  Ten  Eyck,  was  born 
April  3,  1790.  He  was  a  farmer  of  Hillsboro 
tinvnship,  near  South  Branch,  Somerset  coun- 
t\',  New  Jersey,  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church,  and  a  Democrat.  He  married 
Elsey.  daughter  of  Harmon  and  Jane  (  Broom) 
Hoagland  (see  Hoagland).  Children:  i.  Abra- 
ham, referred  to  below.  2.  Harmon  Hoag- 
land. 3.  Sarah,  married  Henry  Boice.  4.  Ann, 
married  Peter  Thatcher.  3.  Jane,  married 
Phillip  \'an  Arsdale.  6.  Rebecca,  married  J.  \V. 
Kline.    7.  Madeline,  unmarried. 

(\'II)  Abraham,  eldest  child  of  Jeremiah 
and  Elsey  (  Hoagland  )  Ten  Eyck.  was  born  at 
South  Branch,  August  7,  181 5,  and  died  in 
October,  1883.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  at  South  Branch,  and  when  while 
a  young  man  "Worked  out"  on  a  farm.  Later 
he  bought  a  plantation,  which  he  managed  until 
his  death.  He  was  a  Democrat,  and  a  member 
of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church.  He  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  James  J.  and  Alletta 
(N'oorhees)  Quick.  Children:  i.  Mary,  mar- 
ried Francis  \'an  Cam]i.  2.  John,  now  living 
on  the  home  farm:  married  .Annie  Scudder. 
3.  EKie.  married  William  McCullough.  4. 
James  Ouick.  referred  to  Ijelow.  3.  Sarah, 
married  Nicholas  Kip.  6.  Catharine,  married 
D.  Y.  Rynearson. 

(\^ni)  James  Quick,  fourth  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth  (Quick) 
Ten  Eyck,  was  born  at  South  Branch,  January 
31,  1833,  and  is  now  living  at  Sonierville.  New 
Tersev,  He  received  his  early  education  at  the 
common  schools  at  New  Center,  and  at  the 
Mowers  private  school  at  Somerville.  Before 
coming  of  age  he  worked  on  a  farm,  and  then 
went  out  to  Kansas,  where  he  remained  for 
aliout  six  months.  Returning  home,  he  worked 
for  his  father  for  about  three  years.  He  then 
married,  and  worked  for  his  father-in-law  the 
ne.vt  year,  and  in  April,  1885,  came  to  Somer- 
ville, where  he  clerked  in  the  grocery  store  of 
X.  1").  Richardson.  July  6,  1886,  he  went  into 
partnership  with  George  Gulick,  and  they  pur- 
chased a  coal  and  feed  business.  His  partner 
died  in  December.  1897.  and  he  then  took  en- 
tire control  and  built  up  a  large  and  prosper- 
ous business,  in  which  he  handled  about  thirty- 
five  hundred  tons  a  year.  He  disposed  of  the 
business  in  1909. 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


]\Ir.  Ten  Eyck  is  one  of  the  ablest  men  of 
the  locahty  in  which  he  lives,  and  one  of  the 
most  public-spirited,  and  his  fellow  citizens 
hold  him  in  the  highest  regard.  For  five  years 
he  has  been  one  of  the  town  commissioners, 
and  for  seven  years  has  served  on  the  township 
committee.  A  number  of  times  he  has  refused 
the  office  of  surrogate.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Democrat,  and  in  religious  views  a  Baptist. 
For  five  years  he  was  superintendent  of  the 
Baptist  Sunday  school,  and  for  fourteen  years 
treasurer  of  the  church.  He  has  been  one  of 
the  leading  spirits  in  the  organization  and  man- 
agement of  most  of  the  organizations  for  the 
improvement  and  betterment  of  the  town.  He 
is  the  last  living  active  corporate  member  of 
the  hose  company,  organized  in  1888,  when 
with  Joshua  Doughty  Jr.,  foreman,  he  was 
made  assistant  foreman.  Later  he  became 
president,  and  for  many  years  retained  that 
position.  He  assisted  in  organizing  the  Build- 
ing and  Loan  Association,  of  which  he  became 
vice-president,  director,  and  for  most  of  the 
time  has  been  chairman  of  the  valuation  com- 
mittee. For  about  eight  years  he  has  been  a 
director  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Som- 
erville.  He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Somer- 
set Hospital  since  its  organization,  and  is  chair- 
man of  its  building  committee.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers  and  for  many  years  president 
of  the  Somerville  Board  of  Trade.  Refusing 
at  length  to  serve  as  such  any  longer,  he  was 
elected  vice-president.  He  was  secretary  and 
a  director  in  the  Standard  Gas  and  Fixture 
Company  of  Bound  Brook.  Until  that  cor- 
poration became  absorbed  by  the  trust.  For 
several  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Coding- 
ton Restaurant  Company  of  New  York  City, 
of  which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers,  and  he 
is  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Somerville 
F'ublishing  Company  and  a  director  of  the 
Somerville  Woolen  Mill,  and  Somerville  Stove 
Works. 

December  13,  1883,  Mr.  Ten  Eyck  married 
Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Charles  B.  and  Cath- 
arine (Ent)  Dilts.  One  child,  Charles  H., 
born  October  14,  1886. 


At  the  period  of  the  great 
1-  HC).A(IL.\XD  Dutch  immigration  to  Amer- 
ica Hoagelandt  was  an  es- 
tablished family  name  of  considerable  antiq- 
uity in  the  Netherlands,  since  we  trace  it 
back  at  least  a  century  in  Zeeland.  and  Utrecht, 
and  quite  as  far  back  in  the  collateral  line  of 
the  viscounts  and  governors  of  Dormael  in 
Pjrahant  and  other  jjlaces.  who  claimed  descent 


frrjui  the  ancient  Lords  Hoagelant,  the  name 
being  derived,  like  a  great  majority  of  sur- 
names, from  a  country  or  locality  as  its  signifi- 
cation, "Highlands,"  plainly  indicates,  must 
iiave  been  plainly  written  at  first  van  Hoage- 
land,  although  the  prefix  had  evidently  fallen 
into  disuse  long  before  the  immigration  to  this 
country.  Traces  of  it,  however,  are  found  in 
the  sixteenth  century  in  two  or  three  branches 
of  the  family.  The  family  had  spread  and 
formed  several  different  branches  in  Holland 
before  it  found  its  way  to  America,  because 
those  of  the  name  who  immigrated  came  at 
(lififerent  times,  and  from  dift'erent  localities 
and  s]3elt  their  name  differently.  So  far  as  we 
know  now,  there  were  at  least  four  such  immi- 
grant founders  in  the  new  world — Cornells 
Dirchson  Hoochlandt,  from  Amsterdam,  was 
here  as  early  as  1638;  Christoffel  Hooglandt, 
from  Haarlem,  founder  of  the  family  at  pres- 
ent under  consideration ;  Dirck  Jansen  Hoog- 
laud.  who  came  out  in  1657  from  Maerseveen; 
and  Cornells  Andrieszen  Hoogland,  who  immi- 
grated from  The  Hague,  in  1658.  So  far  there 
is  no  direct  evidence  of  blood  relationship  be- 
tween any  of  these  four  persons,  although  the 
name  Dirck,  common  to  three  of  them,  might 
seem  to  indicate  it. 

(  I )  Christoft'el  Hooglandt,  pioneer  founder 
of  the  family  under  consideration,  was  born  in 
Holland,  in  1634,  and  came  from  Haarlem  to 
New  Amsterdam  when  but  a  youth.  He  was 
clerk  for  a  mercantile  house,  and  it  appears 
t'lat  on  coming  of  age  he  commenced  business 
for  himself.  In  1655  his  name  appears  on 
the  records  of  the  burgomasters  and  schepens 
court,  and  he  next  appears  to  our  notice  March 
16,  1 66 1,  when  he  united  with  the  Dutch  church 
in  New  Amsterdam.  While  yet  young,  he  was 
regarded  as  the  leading  citizen.  On  the  con- 
(juest  of  the  country  by  the  English  in  1664, 
he  as  schepen  took  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and 
we  find  he  afterwards  filled  his  place  with  the 
best  of  the  citizens.  He  seems  not  only  to  have 
won  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  asso- 
ciates, but  also  to  have  prospered  in  his  busi- 
ness, and  to  have  left  behind  him  a  large  prop- 
erty. He  died  February  8.  1684.  He  married 
Catharine  Cregier,  and  his  widow,  October 
3.  1688,  married  (second)  Roelof  Mortemse 
.'^chenck,  of  Flatlands,  and  removed  with  her 
younger  children  to  that  place,  where  she  was 
still  living  September  4,  1704.  Children  of 
Christoff'el  and  Catharine  (Cregier)  Hoog- 
landt: I.  Dirck,  baptized  November  i,  1662.  2. 
Elizabeth.  October  29.  1664,  died  young.  3. 
Harmonus,  January  31,  1666.  died  young.     4. 


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Martin,  1667,  probably  died  Noung.  3.  Christo- 
pher, November  24,  1667,  died  1748:  married 
(  first)  Sarah  Teller,  (  second)  Helena  !Midcagh. 
6.  Francis,  born  April  15,  1672.  7.  Jacob,  (Jc- 
tober  25,  167O.  8.  Harmanus,  referred  to 
below. 

( II )  Harmanus.  son  of  Christofifel  and  Cath- 
arine ( Cregier )  Hooglandt,  was  born  in  Xew 
York  City,  February  18,  1681,  and  was  bap- 
tized Alarch  22.,  following.  He  tlied  at  I'lat- 
lands.  Long  Island,  Xovember  8,  1771.  He 
owned  and  occupied  a  house  near  the  Flat- 
land  church,  and  he  was  also  an  elder  in  the 
Flatbush  church,  in  1710-12-16.  He  married 
(  first )  Alida,  daughter  of  Jan  \'an  Dyck,  who 
died  in  April,  1706.  June  20,  1707,  he  married 
(second)  Adriana  StoothofT,  born  January  11, 
1687,  died  August  18.  1781.  Children,  all  by 
second  wife:  i.  Christopher,  born  April  2, 
1708,  died  January  18,  1766:  married  Xeeltja 
Albertse  van  Voorhis,  and  probably  also  Jan- 
netje  \'echten.  2.  Alida,  March  ig,  1710,  died 
Xovember  6,  1781  :  married  Jacobus  van  Ar- 
stalen.  3.  Joanna,  May  5,  1712,  died  Novem- 
ber 25,  1764:  married  Jan  Renisen.  4.  Gerrit, 
Xovember  8.  17 14,  died  January  8,  1771  :  mar- 
ried Jacaminse  Gulick.  widow  of  Adrian  Hoog- 
lancl.  of  Ameveer.  5.  Martinus,  referred  to 
below.  6.  Catharine.  July  15,  1719,  died  Octo- 
ber 19,  1785:  married  Henry  Cortelyou.  7. 
Albert,  Alarch  11,  1722,  died  June  4,  1785; 
married  Mary  Gulick.  8.  Harmanus  Jr.,  Janu- 
ary I,  1725,  died  1806;  married  Styntjy  \'an 
Gelder.  9.  Helena,  July  20,  1729,  died  July  5, 
j  1820:  married  Peter  \anderbilt. 
1  (HI)   Martinus  (2)  Hoagland,  son  of  Har- 

I      manus    (i)    and   Adriana    (Stoothofif)    Hoog- 
j      land,  was  born  at  Flatlands.  CJctober  27,  1716. 
He  removed  to  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey, 
in  1740,  where  he  located  on  a  farm  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  on  the  south  branch 
I     of  the  Raritan,  near  Hillsborough,  adjoining 
I     the  farms  of  his  nephew  Christopher  and  his 
brother  Harmonus.     He  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  in  the  cluirch  at  Neshanic.      l!y 
his  wife  Annatje  he  had  :   Harmon,  referred  to 
below;  John,  born  November  21,   1761,  died 
October  5,  1835,  married  Sarah  Bergen ;  Elsie, 

married Stoothoff. 

(I\')  Harmon,  son  of  Martinus  (2)  and 
Annatje  Hoagland,  was  Ixjrn  in  Somerset  coun- 
ty, New  Jersey,  October  27,  1750.  He  was  a 
farmer  for  many  years  at  South  Branch,  on 
the  road  to  Flagtown,  in  Hillsborough  town- 
ship. This  farm,  afterwards  occupied  by  his 
son  Harmon,  is  now  the  property  of  Thomas 
Sebring.    December  21.  1774,  he  married  Jane 


\'room,  born  July  26,  1757,  died  October  18, 
1793.  He  and  his  wife  both  joined  the  church 
at  .Xeshanic.  Children:  i.  Martin,  born  No- 
vember 2"/,  1775,  died  August  29,  1777.  2. 
Sarah,  January  2,  1778;  married  Peter  Dilts. 
3.  Herman,  July  26,  1780,  died  May  17,  1840; 
married  Helena  Stryker.  4.  Peter,  March  15, 
1783,  died  May  17,  1783.  5.  Hannah,  Xovem- 
l)er  21.  1783:  married  Andrew  Hagaman.  C. 
Jane.  A])ril  18,  1781J;  married  Thomas  Davis. 
7.  Elsey,  referred  to  below.  8.  Peter  H.,  Octo- 
ber 22,  1798;  married  Christiana  Stryker. 

(\')  Elsey,  daughter  of  Harmon  and  Jane 
(  Vroom)  Hoagland,  was  born  March  17,  1794, 
and  married  Jeremiah  Ten  Eyck  (q.  v. ). 


In  1708.  at  Schreisheim,  Ba- 
JOHXSf  )X  varian  (iermany,  a  sect  was 
f<:)unded  by  Alexander  Mack 
and  preached  by  his  grandson  John  Fox,  of 
Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  Maryland,  New 
Jersey,  Virginia,  Ohio  and  Indiana.  Ale.x- 
andcr  Mack  was  driven  by  persecution  to 
America  in  1729.  The  peculiarities  of  the  sect 
are:  The  practice  of  true  immersion  (placing 
tlie  candidate  face  down  instead  of  backwards  ) , 
with  the  lying  on  of  hands  while  in  the  water. 
Their  administrative  olificers  are  bishops,  elders, 
teachers  and  deacons.  The  bishops  are  chosen 
from  among  experienced  and  faithful  teachers. 
In  their  itinerancy  among  the  scattered  con- 
gregations they  preach,  officiate  at  marriages 
and  funerals,  and  are  present  at  love  feasts, 
communions,  ordinations,  election  of  teachers 
and  deacons,  and  when  an  officer  is  to  be  ex- 
communicated. An  elder  is  the  most  proficient 
teacher  in  a  congregation  where  there  is  no 
bishop.  His  duties  are  to  appoint  meetings, 
exhort,  preach,  baptize  and  to  perform  all  the 
work  of  a  bishop,  when  that  official  is  not  pres- 
ent. Teachers  are  elected  from  time  to  time 
and  their  duties  are  to  exhort  and  preach  at 
stated  meetings  and  when  requested  by  a  bishop 
or  elder  to  officiate  at  baptisms  and  marriages. 
The  deacons  take  care  of  the  poor  widows  and 
their  children  and  visit,  exhort,  comfort  and 
reconcile  differences  that  may  arise  in  families 
or  communities.  They  dress  and  use  the  plain 
speech  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  They  do 
not  go  to  law,  are  opposed  to  war,  and  seldom 
exact  interest  for  money  loaned  to  their  breth- 
ren. Possibly  five  hundred  churches,  twelve 
hundred  preachers  and  fifty  thousand  church 
members  would  be  a  fair  estimate  of  their 
strength. 

(  1  )   John  Daniel  Johnson  came  from  Eng- 
land to  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  about  the 


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close  of  the  eighteentli  century,  where  he  was 
an  artificer  in  wood  and  iron.  He  married 
JMary  Xutt  and  they  had  three  children,  born 
in  Philadelphia,  probably  between  1790  and 
1800,  as  follows:  i.  Robert  Montgomery,  see 
forward.  2.  John  D.,  who  learned  the  trade 
of  cabinet-making  from  his  father.  3.  Ann. 
who  married  James  Sutton.  Both  father  and 
mother  died  in  Philadel])hia. 

(11)  Robert  Montgomery,  eldest  child  of 
John  Daniel  and  Mary  (  Xutt)  Johnson,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  about  1795.  He  was 
brought  up  to  the  trade  of  tobacconist  and  was 
engaged  in  that  line  all  his  life.  He  manufac- 
tured plug  tobacco,  much  used  in  the  United 
States  navy  and  by  seamen  generally,  and  es- 
tablished an  excellent  trade.  He  was  married 
to  Esther  Martin,  a  granddaughter  of  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier,  who  participated  in  the  battle 
of  the  Brandywine,  and  with  General  Mont- 
gomery at  Quebec.  The  mother  of  Esther 
(Martin)  Johnson  lived  to  be  over  one  hun- 
dred and  four  years  old.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren born  in  Philadelphia,  as  follows:  i.  John 
D.,  see  fiirward.  2.  James,  who  became  asso- 
ciated with  lii>  father  in  the  tobacco  business. 
3.  Charles,  who  likewise  was  a  clerk  and  a 
partner  with  his  father.  4.  Robert,  who  learn- 
ed the  trade  of  artisan  in  iron,  but  when  he 
reached  his  majority  went  upon  the  dramatic 
stage  as  an  actor  and  remained  in  that  pro- 
fession during  his  entire  life.  Robert  Mont- 
gomery and  liis  wife  Esther  (Martin)  John- 
son died  in  Philadelphia. 

(HI)  John  Daniel  (2),  eldest  child  of  Rob- 
ert Montgomery  and  Esther  (iMartin)  John- 
son, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
July  25,  1825,  died  in  Hainesport,  New  Jersey, 
1875.  He  was  a  studious  youth  and  besides 
taking  advantage  of  the  public  day  schools  of 
Philadelphia,  he  also  attended  the  night  school 
where  he  was  taught  draughting  and  mechanics, 
and  he  went  into  a  machine  shop  in  Lumber- 
ton,  on  leaving  school,  and  became  a  practical 
machinist  and  draughtsman.  After  four  years 
in  Lumherton  as  superintendent  of  the  Lum- 
berton  Iron  Works,  he  went  to  Hainesport 
and  founded  the  Columbia  Iron  Works  in 
partnership  with  a  fellow  workman,  Richard 
Dawson,  and  they  operated  the  plant  up  to  the 
beginning  of  the  civil  war  in  1861,  when  the 
works  were  closed  and  Mr.  Johnson  enlisted 
August  12,  1861,  in  the  I'edera!  volunteer 
army,  and  was  made  captain  of  Company  C. 
Tenth  New  Jersey  \'olunteers,  which  regiment 
was  mustered  into  the  regular  service  October 
16.  1861,  and  ordered  to  dutv  at  the  national 


capital.  He  was  there  placed  in  command  of 
the  department  of  patrol :  was  chief  of  detec- 
tive department  of  the  provost  marshal's  office, 
and  he  was  attached  to  the  command  of  Gen- 
eral James  S.  Wadsworth  in  charge  of  the  de- 
fense of  Washington,  D.  C,  and  military  gov- 
ernor of  the  District  of  Columbia,  from  Janu- 
ary. 1862.  to  April,  1863,  when  General  Wads- 
worth  was  ordered  to  take  command  of  the 
first  division  of  General  John  F.  Reynolds" 
corps  at  Chancellorsville.  Upon  this  change 
in  the  provost  marshal's  office,  Captain  John- 
son was  ordered  to  Philadelphia  on  secret  serv- 
ice duty,  and  his  work  was  of  great  value  to 
the  go\ernment  during  Lee's  invasion  of  the 
state  and  the  attendant  responsibility  of  keep- 
ing open  the  communication  between  Phila- 
delphia and  Washington  and  Philadelphia  and 
New  York.  In  September,  1863,  he  was  order- 
ed to  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  to  prevent  riot 
threatened  to  occur  between  the  miners  and  he 
was  on  picket  duty  at  the  fords  of  the  L^pper 
Potomac  until  November,  1863.  when  he  was 
transferred  to  ]Mauch  Chtmk  in  the  district  of 
Carbon,  and  he  was  on  duty  there  until  April 
II,  1864,  when  he  was  assigned  to  the  First 
Brigade,  First  Division,  Sixth  Army  Corps, 
and  he  was  engaged  in  the  battle  of  the  Wild- 
erness, May  5-7,  1864,  and  on  May  7  he  was 
captured  by  the  Confederate  forces  and  taken 
to  Camp  Sorghum,  Columbia,  South  Carolina, 
and  soon  after  he  was  among  the  Federal  sol- 
diers placed  under  fire  of  the  Federal  guns  at 
Charleston.  South  Carolina.  He  was  paroled 
at  North  East  Ferry,  South  Carolina,  March 
I,  1865.  and  honorably  discharged  from  the 
army.  March  11,  1865,  as  a  paroled  prisoner. 
He  was  recommissioned  March  31,  1865,  with 
the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel  and  was  re- 
mustered  in  the  United  States  service  in  May, 
1865,  and  he  was  mustered  out  July  15,  1865, 
with  the  Tenth  New  Jersey  Regiment  at  Tren- 
ton. New  Jersey.  Home  again,  he  started  up 
the  Columbia  Iron  Works  at  Hainesport  and 
successfully  conducted  the  business  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  December  12.  1875.  \\'hile 
in  \\'ashington,  D.  C,  he  was  initiated  in  the 
^lasonic  Order.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fello\Vs,  of  Phil- 
adelphia. His  political  principles  were  those 
of  the  Democratic  party,  to  which  he  remained 
true  during  his  entire  lifetime. 

He  was  married  in  1845  to  Catherine,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Catherine  (Fisher)  Fox, grand- 
daughter of  Emanuel  and  Anna  Margaret 
(Mack)  Fox,  and  great-granddaughter  of  Jus- 
tin Fox.  who  came  from  Germanv  to  German- 


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town,  Pennsylvania,  and  of  Alexander  Mack 
Jr.,  whose  father,  Alexander  JMack,  was  born 
in  Schreisheim,  Bavaria,  Germany,  1679,  and 
died  in  Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  in  I775- 
Alexander  Mack  (  1O79-1735)  was  the  founder 
of  the  German  Baptist  or  Dunkers  religious 
faith  at  Schreisheim,  Germany,  in  1708.  His 
parents  were  e.xiles  from  Switzerland  in  1672 
and  found  refuge  from  religious  persecutions 
in  Bavaria,  where  Alexander  married  Anna 
Newgarth  antl  came  to  America  in  1729,  and 
took  up  land  in  ( iermantown.  Pennsylvania, 
where  Alexander  Mack  Jr.  was  born  and  where 
he  married  and  had  a  daughter  Anna  Margaret 
]\Iack,  who  in  turn  married  Emanuel  Fox  and 
had  a  son  John  Fox,  who  accepted  the  faith 
of  his  great-grandfather  .Alexander  Mack,  and 
preached  the  Dunkard  faith  in  all  parts  of 
Pennsylvania  and  Xew  Jersey  for  forty  years. 
This  John  Fox  married  Catherine  Fisher  and 
bv  this  marriage  Catherine  Fox  was  born  in 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  February  7,  1830, 
and  the  other  children  were  :  Justin  Fox  :  Mary 
AI.  Fo.x,  wdio  married  Samuel  McCutchin ; 
Margaret,  who  married  James  Sutton ;  Sarah 
Fox,  who  married  William  Owen,  and  Samuel 
Fox,  who  married  Catherine  Stoyer.  The  chil- 
dren of  Colonel  John  Daniel  and  Catherine 
fFox)  Johnson  were:  i.  Catherine  Fox.  born 
April  22.  1848:  married  Barkley  H.  Moore, 
who  died  in  Mt.  Holly.  Xew  Jersey.  C)ctober 

3.  1908.  leaving  a  widow  and  one  daughter 
Florence  Johnson  Moore,  born  August  i,  1883. 
2.  Robert  Montgomery,  see  forward.  3.  Sarah 
F..  who  married  Benjamin  Deacon,  of  Mt. 
Holly,  and  had  children :  Catherine,  Marion, 
Benjamin  H..  Joseph  and  Charles  S.  Deacon. 

4.  John  Daniel,  born  in  Hainesport,  New  Jer- 
sey, October  10.  1862,  was  a  pupil  in  the  Bap- 
tist Institute  of  Bridgton,  New  Jersey,  and  be- 
came associated  with  his  father  in  the  iron 
business,  when  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  he 
has  since  continued  in  the  business  in  con- 
nection with  his  brother.  In  1898  the  cor- 
porate name  was  changed  from  the  Columbia 
Iron  Works  to  the  Ronalds  Johnson  Company, 
manufacturers  and  dealers  in  plumbing  sup- 
plies, of  w'hich  corporation  he  was  elected 
president,  and  his  brother  Robert  Montgomery 
Johnson  continued  as  general  manager.  He 
affiliated  with  the  Republican  party  and  was 
made  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  of 
T'hiladelphia.  His  religious  affiliation  is  with 
the  Piaptist  cliurch.  He  was  married  in  1883 
to  Elizabeth  S..  daughter  of  Thomas  A.  and 
granddaughter  of  .Xrdin  Atkinson,  and  their 
onlv   son    Inhn    Daniel    |r.    was  born   in    |ulv. 


18S4.  married  Mary,  ilaughter  of  Judge  Hild- 
reth,  of  Cape  May,  and  is  connected  with  the 
Ronald  Johnson  Company.  Their  daughter 
Jilizabeth  was  born  December  17.  1889,  and 
their  son  Thomas  Arthur,  l'\'bruary  13,  1900. 

(1\')  Robert  Montgomery  (2),  eldest  son 
and  second  child  of  Colonel  John  Daniel  (2) 
and  Catherine  (Fox)  Johnson,  was  born  in 
Hainesport,  New  Jersey,  June  9,  1856.  He 
v\  as  educated  at  Charles  Aaron's  private  school 
at  Mt.  Holly,  New  Jersey,  and  on  graduating 
went  into  his  father's  foundry  to  learn  the 
business  of  founding  and  finishing  iron  for 
useful  and  ornamental  work.  He  was  taken 
into  the  concern  as  a  partner  w  hen  he  reached 
his  majority,  and  was  made  superintendent 
and  general  manager  of  the  same,  having  al- 
ready occupied  that  position  for  two  years,  or 
since  the  death  of  his  father  in  1875.  When 
the  business  was  incorporated  in  1898  as  the 
Ronalds  Johnson  Company,  he  was,  at  his  own 
re(|uest,  continued  in  the  position  of  general 
manager,  his  brother  John  Daniel  Johnson 
accepting  the  office  of  president.  In  1905  he 
retired  from  active  business,  retaining  his  inter- 
est in  the  corporation  as  a  stockholder  and  di- 
rector. In  1909  he  organized  the  Mt.  Holly 
Iron  Works,  located  at  Mt.  Holly,  being  presi- 
dent of  the  company.  He  was  originally  a 
Democrat  by  right  of  inheritance,  but  became 
indejiendent  of  party  politics  later  in  life.  He 
served  in  the  Lumberton  township  committee 
and  his  fraternal  affiliations  have  been  with 
the  Mt.  Holly  Lodge,  No.  14.  F.  and  A.  M. 
His  religious  faith  was  that  of  the  German  Bap- 
tists and  commonly  called  Dunkers  or  Tunkers, 
from  the  German  tunken.  to  "dip."  He  was 
married,  March  27,  1878,  to  Kate  C.  daughter 
of  James  and  Catherine  (Clark)  Henderson, 
of  Philadelphia,  and  their  children  were  as  fol- 
lows: I.  Robert  Montgomery,  born  January 
27,  1879,  died  July  31,  1879.  2.  Ella  S..  .Au- 
gust 15.  1882.  3.  Grover  Cleveland.  April  10, 
1885,  in  Hainesport,  attended  the  Friends' 
high  school  at  Moorestown  and  completed  his 
education  at  the  Peddie  Institute.  Hightstown ; 
after  leaving  school  he  became  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Mt.  Holly  Iron  Works. 


Hans  Hansen,  ancestor  of  the 
BERGEN     Bergen  family,  was  a  native  of 

Bergen,  Norway,  and  ashipcar- 
l)cnter  by  trade,  who  emigrated  thence  first  to 
Holland  and  in  1633  to  New  .Amsterdam, 
w  here  he  took  up  his  residence,  working  at  his 
trade,  and  at  one  period  cultivating  a  tobacco 
plantation.      .About    i'')43    he    removed    to    his 


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]i!anataion  of  four  hundred  acres  at  the  Walla- 
bout,  for  which  he  obtained  a  patent  March  30, 
1647.  He  married,  in  1639,  Sarah,  born  at 
Albany,  June  9,  1625,  daughter  of  Joris  Han- 
sen Rapalie.  In  a  petition  to  the  council  ask- 
ing for  a  grant  of  land  in  1656,  she  describes 
herself  as  the  "first  born  Christian  daughter  in 
New  Netherland,"  and  this  expression  has  been 
interpreted  by  some  authorities  as  meaning 
that  she  was  the  first  white  female  child  of 
European  parentage  born  in  the  colony,  and 
by  other  authorities  as  merely  implying  that 
she  was  the  first  child  of  any  colonist  baptized 
in  New  Netherland.  Children :  i.  Anneken, 
baptized  Jtily  12,  1640;  married  (first),  Janu- 
ary 17,  1661,  Jan  Cler(|,  of  Brazil;  (second), 
October  8,  1862,  Derek  Janse  Hooglandt,  of 
Flatbusli.  2.  Breckje,  baptized  July  27,  1642; 
married  Aert  Anthonize  Middagh.  3.  Jan, 
baptized  April  17,  1644,  died  after  1715;  mar- 
ried Jannetje,  daughter  of  Tennis  Myssen. 
(See  Denise).  4.  Michael,  baptized  November 
4,  1646,  died  after  January  22.  1731  ;  married 
Fenmetje.  daughter  of  Tennis  Myssen.  5. 
Joris,  referred  to  below.  6.  ^larretje,  baptized 
October  8,  1651  :  married  Jacob  Ruthzen.  7. 
Jacob,  baptized  September  21,  1653,  died  after 
1738;  married,  July  8,  1677,  Elsje  Frederick, 
daughter  of  Frederick  Lubbertsen,  of  Brook- 
lyn. 8.  Catalyn,  baptized  November  30,  1653. 
(U)  Joris  (or  George)  Hansen,  son  of 
Hans  Hansen  von  Bergen  and  Sarah  Jovisse 
Rapalie,  was  baptized  in  New  Amsterdam,  July 
18,  1649,  and  died  after  1736.  He  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
in  Brooklyn  in  1687.  He  was  commissioner 
of  Brooklyn,  1690-99,  and  in  1698  he  bought 
a  farm  of  nearly  forty  acres,  east  of  Smith 
street  and  north  of  the  mill  creek,  formerly  the 
property  of  Gerrit  Wilfertsen  van  Cowen- 
lioven.  From  1703  to  1705  he  was  supervisor 
of  Brooklyn,  and  in  1697  was  one  of  the  com- 
missioners appointed  to  divide  and  apportion 
the  common  lands  of  the  town.  He  mar- 
ried, August  II,  1678,  Sara,  daughter  of  Jan 
Strycker,  of  Flatbush.  Children:  i.  Lam- 
metje,  baptized  December  26,  1679;  married 
(first)  Joris,  son  of  Rem  and  Marytje  (Van- 
derbilt)  Remsen,  and  grandson  of  Rem  Rem- 
sen  V'anderbeeck  and  Jannetje,  daughter  of 
Joris  Jansen  de  Rapalie;  married  (second)  a 
wife,  name  unknown.  2.  Sara,  baptized  March 
13,  1681.  3.  .-\altje,  baptized  October  15,  1862, 
died  about  1724;  married,  August  17,  1707, 
Rem  Remsen,  son  of  Joris  and  Femmetje, 
daughter  of  Dirck  J.  \Y.  \\'oortman,  and  grand- 
son   of    Rem    Jansen    Vanderbeeck.     4.   Jans 


Jorisse,  referred  to  below.  5.  Jannetje,  bap- 
tized May  27,  1688;  married  (first),  January 
21,  1711,  Hendrick  Vroom,  of  Brooklyn;  (sec- 
ond), January  18,  1745,  Dortie  Dumont,  a 
widower.  6.  Annetje,  baptized  March  9,  1689- 
90;  married,  March  12,  1720,  .-\rnouret  Arnout 
Abrahamz.  7.  Jan,  baptized  May  17,  1694.  8. 
lireckje,  baptized  May  24,  1696.    9.  Joris,  died 

before  April  8,  1749;  married  Tramyntje . 

10.  Catharine,  married  September  21,  1726, 
I'ieter  Ewetse,  of  Brooklyn  and  New  York. 

(HI)  Hans  Jorisse,  son  of  Joris  Hansen 
and  Sara  (.Strycker)  Bergen,  was  baptized  in 
Flatbush,  Long  Island,  August  31,  1684,  and 
died  in  1726.  He  resided  at  first  in  Flatbush 
and  Brooklyn,  but  later  removed  to  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  where  he  died.  At  one 
[leriod  he  owned  a  grist  mill  later  known  as 
Remsen's  mill,  within  the  present  boundaries 
of  the  Brooklyn  navy  yard.  He  married,  .\u- 
gust  16,  1711,  Sytje,  daughter  of  Everet  Janse 
von  Wickelen  and  Elizabeth  Fredericks,  daugh- 
ter of  Frederick  van  Liew,  of  New  Lotts. 
Children:  I.  George,  born  October  9,  1712; 
died  about  1784;  married  (first),  June  3,  1738, 
Grietje  Dumont  (according  to  another  account 

Hoagland),    (second),   September    14, 

1744,    ]\Iaria   .     2.    Evert,    referred   to 

below. 

( I\')  Evert,  son  of  Hans  Jorisse  and  Sytje 
(\'an  Wickelen)  Bergen,  was  born  in  Hemp- 
stead, Long  Island,  in  1717,  and  died  at  Royce- 
field,  Hillsborough  township,  Somerset  county. 
New  Jersey,  November  17,  1776.  His  father 
dying  when  he  was  about  eight  years  old,  he 
spent  his  boyhood  days  with  his  grandfather. 
Evert  Jansen  \'an  Wickelen,  in  New  Lotts,  at 
that  time  within  the  bounds  of  Flatbush.  Just 
before  reaching  his  majority,  in  1737,  he  bought 
and  settled  on  a  plantation  of  one  hundred  and 
forty  acres  in  Roycefield,  about  three  miles 
from  the  present  town  of  Somerville,  New 
Jersey,  and  also  bought  a  farm  at  Whitehouse, 
nine  miles  from  Somerville.  \\'hen  he  left 
Flatbush  he  took  with  him  a  pear  tree  which 
he  transplanted  on  his  Roycefield  property  and 
which  bore  fruit  until  1861,  a  period  of  over 
twenty-one  years,  when  it  was  blown  down  in 
a  violent  hailstorm.  There  is  also  a  tradition 
among  his  descendants  that  he  brought  with 
him  from  Flatbush  a  colt  which  shortly  after- 
wards w'as  missed  from  the  pasture  wdiere  it 
was  kept  anil  finally  located  in  its  old  home  in 
Flatbush.  He  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Denyse 
Hegeman.  Children:  i.  John,  born  September 
26,  1746,  died  June  6,  1828;  married  Alche 
(or  Alte)  Rapalye.    2.  Jane  or  Yannitie,  bap- 


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tized  August  5.  1750,  died  jMarcli  20,  1812  ;  mar- 
ried (first)  George  Rapalye,  (second)  Abra- 
ham  \'oorhees,    (third)    Jeronymus    Rapalye. 

3.  James,  referred  to  below.  4.  Evert,  born  in 
1756,  died  December  6,  1777,  unmarried  ;  revo- 
lutionary soldier,  and  fought  at  Monmouth 
Court  House. 

i\')  James,  son  of  Evert  and  Jane  (Hege- 
man)  Bergen,  was  born  in  Roycefield,  Somer- 
set county,  New  Jersey,  September  11,  1755, 
and  die3  January  30,  1830.  He  inherited  from 
his  father  and  occupied  the  homestead  farm 
in  Roycefield,  to  which  he  added  two  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  by  purchase.  Dying  intestate, 
this  property  was  divided  equally  among  all  his 
children.  He  married.  May  20,  1779,  Annache, 
born  February  20,  1761,  died  January  11,  1852, 
daughter  of  Zacheus  Van  Voorhees.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Evert  ].,  born  October  30,  1780;  mar- 
ried, September  14,  1804,  Jane  Stryker.  2. 
Mary,  born  March  5,  1786,  died  March  12, 
1861  :  married,  November  16,  1802,  Abraham 
Staats.  3.  John  V.,  born  February  19,  1790; 
married,  Alay  29,  1830,  Phebe  Totten.  4. 
Zacheus,  born  October  i,  1792  ;  married,  Janu- 
ary 18.  1816,  Mary  Simonson.  5.  Jane,  born 
March  15,  1794:  died  October  10,  1795.  6. 
Jane,  born  October  4,  1797;  married,  October 

4,  1817,  William  Willson.  7.  James,  referred 
to  below. 

(\T)  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  and 
-Xnnache  f  \'an  Voorhees)  Bergen,  was  born  in 
Roycefield,  August  30,  1799,  and  died  there 
August  16,  1855.  He  was  a  farmer  at  Royce- 
field, and  lived  on  the  plantation  of  about  one 
hundred  and  forty  acres  which  he  received  as 
his  share  of  his  father's  estate.  He  married, 
February  17,  1820.  Phebe  Patterson,  born  Sep- 
tember 8,  1801.  Children:  i.  Garret  P.,  born 
November  20,  1820;  married  (first)  April  10, 
1849.  Mary  K.  Thompson;  (second),  October 
14,   1861,   Henrietta,   sister  of   his   first  wife. 

2.  John  J.,  referred  to  below.  3.  James,  born 
September  19,  1825:  married.  April  18,  1855, 
Jane  Tunison.  4.  \'anderveer,  born  Septem- 
ber 24,  1827;  died  April  19,  1858;  unmarried. 

3.  Zacheus,  born  September  i,  1829;  married, 
October  23,  1856,  Sophia  C.  Tiiompson.  6. 
Elizabeth,  born  October  12,  1831 ;  unmarried. 
7.  Evert,  born  June  24,  1834:  married  Mary 
Elizabeth  Husted.  8.  Cornelius,  born  Janu- 
ary 31,  1838;  married,  in  October,  i860,  Sarah 
Jane  Ballard  :  he  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  Union 
army  during  the  civil  war,  and  was  wounded. 

9.  W^illiam,  born  August  10,  1840:  unmarried. 

10.  Ann,  born  August  16,  1846;  unmarried. 
(\'ir)   John  J.,  son  of  James  J.  and  Phebe 


(Patterson)  Bergen,  was  born  in  Roycefield, 
New  Jersey,  June  2/,  1823.  He  removed  to 
the  town  of  Somerville  and  engaged  in  the 
lumber  trade.  He  married,  February  17,  1847, 
Mary  Ann  Park.  Children:  i.  James,  referred 
to  below.  2.  M.  Fannie,  born  July  15,  1849. 
3.  William,  born  September  12,  1852:  married, 
/\ugust  II,  1873,  Pauline,  daughter  of  William 
P.  Major,  of  Soinerville.  4.  Maria  Emmans, 
born  October  19,  1855.  5.  Emma  L.,  born  De- 
cember 15,  1857;  died  August  30,  1858. 

(\Tn)  Hon.  James  J.  Bergen,  justiceof  the 
supreme  court  of  New  Jersey,  son  of  John  J. 
and  Mary  Ann  (Park)  Bergen,  was  born  in 
Somerville,  New  Jersey,  C)ctober  i,  1847,  and 
is  now  living  in  that  city.  He  attended  the  old 
brick  academy  in  his  native  town,  and  was 
graduated  from  Calvin  Butler  Seminary  of  the 
same  place  in  1863.  At  the  early  age  of  seven- 
teen he  entered  upon  the  study  of  law  with  the 
late  Hugh  M.  Gaston,  of  Somerville,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  he  was  admitted  as  an 
attorney  at  the  November  term  in  1868,  the 
year  in  which  he  attained  his  majority.  Dur- 
ing the  following  year  he  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Plainfield,  New  Jersey.  On  Janu- 
ary I.  1870,  he  returned  to  Somerville  and 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  his  preceptor, 
Mr.  ("laston,  which  was  continued  under  the 
firm  name  of  Gaston  &  Bergen  for  twenty 
years,  when  Mr.  Gaston  withdrew.  In  No- 
vember, 1 87 1,  he  was  made  a  counselor  at  law. 
In  1877  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Bedle 
as  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  of  Somerset  county, 
which  office  he  held  for  six  years.  In  March, 
1904,  he  was  appointed  a  vice-chancellor  by 
Chancellor  Magie  for  a  full  term  of  seven 
years.  (Jn  October  11,  1907,  Governor  Stokes 
nominated  him  as  a  justice  of  the  supreme 
court,  and  the  nomination  was  confirmed  by 
the  senate  without  reference — an  eloquent  trib- 
ute to  his  great  ability  as  a  jurist  and  his  purity 
of  personal  character.  His  term  will  expire  in 
1914.  His  circuit  comprises  the  counties  of 
Union  and  Middlesex. 

Mr.  Bergen  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
was  elected  to  the  legislature  in  1875,1876, 
1890  and  1891,  serving  as  speaker  of  the  as- 
sembly during  the  sessions  of  1891-2.  In  1896 
he  was  a  deputy  to  the  Democratic  national 
convention.  He  was  previously  president  of 
the  Somerville  board  of  commissioners,  and 
was  es|)ecially  active  in  organizing  the  police 
and  fire  departments,  and  is  credited  with 
creating  the  public  sentiment  which  made  it 
possible  the  introduction  of  a  sewage  system 
and  other  y)ublic  improvements.     He  has  also 


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served  as  ]jresident  of  the  Sonierville  Savings 
Bank,  and  as  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Sonierville.  He  married  (first)  Sarah 
L.,  daughter  of  Theodore  L.  Yoimg.  She  died 
in  ]88i,  leaving  two  children — Alary  T.  and 
Herbert  S.  He  married  (second)  Helen  A., 
daughter  of  James  S.  Huggins.  of  New  York 
City.  The  children  of  second  marriage  are: 
Guy  H.,  Francis  L.  and  Helen  A.  Bergen. 


According  to  the  records  of  East- 

HAXD  hampton,  Long  Island,  the  Hand 
family  came  originally  from  Stan- 
stede,  county  Kent.  England,  and  according  to 
Judge  Alfred  Hand,  of  Scranton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, then'  arms  are :  Argent,  a  chevron  azure 
between  three  hands  gules.  Crest:  on  a  wreath 
argent  and  gules  a  buck  trippant  or. 

( 1)  John  Hand,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this 
country,  appears  on  a  whaling  list  in  Southamp- 
ton in  1644.  At  the  time  of  the  settlement  of 
Easthampton,  Long  Island,  in  1648,  he  was 
one  of  the  company  from  -Southampton  who 
founded  the  new  settlement.  He  was  born  in 
ifiri,  and  died  in  i6l>o,  leaving  seven  children 
by  his  wife  Alice,  daughter  of  William  Stan- 
borough,  of  Canons  Ashbie,  England,  and  sister 
of  Josiah  Stanborough,  of  Lynn  and  Southamp- 
ton :  I.  John.  2.  Stephen,  died  1693:  had  eight 
children,  one  of  whom,  Joseph,  was  in  West 
Jersey  in  1705.  3.  Joseph.  4.  Benjamin,  who 
removed  with  his  family  to  Cape  INlav  county, 
whence  his  descendants  spread  into  Burling- 
tcin  and  Hunterdon  counties,  New  Terse}'.  3. 
Thomas,  referred  to  below,  ft.  ^Margaret,  or 
Mary.    7.  Shanigar. 

(  II )  Thomas,  son  of  John  and  Alice  ('Stan- 
borough)  Hand,  of  Easthampton,  Long  Island, 
removed  from  Long  Island  to  Cape  May  coun- 
ty. Xew  Jersey,  and  died  there  in  17 14,  leaving 
a  will  written  (Jctober  21.  1709,  proved  No- 
vember 3,  T714,  in  which  he  mentions  his  wife, 
tliree  daughters  and  four  sons,  two  of  whom, 
however,  he  does  not  name,  and  disposes  of 
personal  and  real  property,  including  slaves. 
The  witnesses  are  his  brother  Shamgar  Hand, 
John  Townsend,  and  Samuel  ]\Iatthews.  The 
inventory  of  his  personal  estate  made  Octolier 
g.  1714.  b>'  John  Paige  and  John  Parsons, 
amounted  to  £302  14s.  By  his  wife  Katharine 
he  had  children:  i.  John.  2.  Recompence, 
referred  to  below.  3-4.  Two  sons,  nientioned, 
hut  not  named  in  his  will.  3.  Deborah.  6.  .Alee 
or  Elsie.    7.  Prudence,  married  a  Crowell. 

( III )  Recompence.  son  of  Thomas  and  Kath- 
arine Hand,  died  intestate  in  1769.  letters  of 
adniin^tratii'ii   on   his  estate  being  granted   to 


his  widow  Martha,  March  22  that  year.  His 
son  Recompence  had  died  about  four  years 
previously  without  issue,  another  son  Jona- 
than is  referred  to  below. 

( I\' )  Jonathan,  son  of  Recompence  and  Mar- 
tha Hand,  died  intestate  in  1789  or  1790,  letters 
of  administration  on  his  estate  being  granted 
to  Eli  or  Elijah  Townsend,  February  19,  1790. 
From  1773  to  1776  he  served  in  the  colonial 
assembly,  and  from  1776  to  1778  was  g.  mem- 
ber of  the  revolutionary  council  of  the  state. 
His  wife,  who  was  possibly  a  Townsend,  jirob- 
ably  predeceased  him,  and  it  is  probable  also 
that  he  had  only  one  son  surviving  him,  Jona- 
than, referred  to  below. 

( \' )  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (i) 
Hand,  was  jnit  under  the  guardianship  of  F2Ii 
or  Elijah  Townsend,  probably  his  mother's 
brother,  two  letters  of  guardianship  being 
granted,  the  first  dated  November  27,  1794, 
and  the  second  August  29,  1796.  Like  his 
father,  he  died  intestate  in  Cape  May  county  in 
1834,  having  been  for  the  last  four  years  of  his 
life  and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  county  clerk. 
By  his  wife  Sarah  Aloore,  who  was  one  of 
the  young  girls  who  strewed  flowers  in  the 
path  of  (jeneral  George  \\"ashington  wdien  he 
made  his  triumphal  entry  into  Trenton  on  his 
way  to  his  inauguration  as  the  first  president 
of  the  Cnited  States,  he  had  a  son  Jonathan, 
referred  to  below. 

(  \  I )  Jonathan  (3),  son  of  Jonathan  (2] 
and  Sarah  (Moore)  Hand,  was  born  in  Cape 
May  county,  December  22,  1818,  and  died  in 
Cape  May  Court  House,  ]\Iarch  2,  1897.  From 
1840  to  1845  he  was  county  clerk  of  Cape 
May  county,  and  for  nine  niore  successive 
terms  afterwards,  making  a  continuous  serv- 
ice in  that  office  of  fifty  years  in  all,  being  re- 
elected each  time  usualh'  without  opposition. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  the  most  efficient  coun- 
ty clerk  the  state  has  ever  had.  In  1852  he 
became  a  inaster  in  chancery,  and  in  i8'^)2 
draft  commissioner.  By  his  wife  Judith  \\'. 
he  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters :  Mor- 
gan :  Winfield  Scott,  referred  to  below :  Jona- 
than :  Laura  W. ;  Julia,  married  William  H. 
\  an  Gilder  :  Sarah  M. 

(ATI)  Winfield  Scott,  second  son  of  Jona- 
than (  3  )  and  Judith  W.  Hand,  was  born  in 
Caijc  May  Court  House,  March  14,  i860,  and 
is  now  living  in  Ocean  City,  Xew  Jersey.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  by  pri- 
vate tutors,  and  then  procured  a  responsible 
position  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk,  under 
Iiis  father,  with  whom  he  served  for  ten  years 
befiire  the  latter's  retirement   from  office.     It 


STATE   OF    NEW    ll-.RSl'lY, 


was  here  that  he  aeqniretl  and  <levekiped  tlie 
promptness,  courtesy  and  accuracy  for  which 
he  is  so  noted,  and  which  have  procured  hini 
such  success  in  his  jjresent  position.  He  has 
now  become  one  of  the  leaehng  citizens  of 
Ocean  City.  May  15.  1899.  he  entered  the  em- 
])loy  of  the  Central  Trust  Company  at  Ocean 
City,  and  January  I.  1 901,  he  was  elected  as 
the  company's  local  agent.  When  the  First 
National  Bank  bought  the  building  and  the 
business  of  the  Trust  Com])any.  January  I. 
i()02,  Mr.  Hand  was  elected  cashier  of  the 
bank,  which  position  he  now  h(jlds.  He  is 
enterprising  and  public-spirited,  and  has  been 
particularly  efficient  in  aiding,  developing  and 
advancing  judicious  measures  conducive  to  the 
prosperity  of  his  city  and  his  native  county. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  stewards  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  his 
famih'  are  members.  He  takes  his  recreation 
in  shooting  and  fishing.  He  is  the  only  mem- 
ber from  Cape  May  county  on  the  "Ocean 
Boulevard  Committee  of  New  Jersey." 

Winfield  Scott  Hand  married.  May  26,  1885, 
Mary  Hand,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Mary  Ann 
(  Hoft'man  )  Cresse,  born  May  i/.  1864.  They 
have  two  children:  Morgan,  born  June  29, 
1887.  and  Cecilia,  February  12,  1900. 


This  family,  accortling  to  Irish 
LCJGL'E  history,  dates  back  to  the  tenth 
century,  and  the  names  of  Logue 
and  Logan  are  anglicized  names  of  Lochan.  son 
of  Daimhin,  king  of  Argille,  and  from  whom 
the  families  are  descended.  In  the  eighteenth 
century,  and  during  the  reign  of  King  Louise 
X\T,  the  ancestor  of  the  Logue  family  was  in 
France,  and  his  loyalty  to  the  king  led  to  the 
confiscation  of  his  property,  and  he  fled  to 
Scotland,  thence  to  Ireland. 

(I)  John  Logue.  his  son.  came  to  this  coun- 
try a  young  man.  from  Dublin,  Ireland,  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  settling  in  New  Jersey,  and 
finally  in  Salem,  New  Jersey.  His  brother, 
James  Logue,  also  came  early  to  this  country, 
and  to  Pennsylvania,  and  was  a  lieutenant 
throughout  the  revolutionary  war.  This  same 
John  Logue  married  Rebecca  Sherron,  of 
Salem,  New  Jersey,  granddaughter  of  High 
Sheriff  James  Sherron,  formerly  of  England. 
One  of  his  sons  was  John  Logue,  born  Novem- 
ber 18,  1788,  in  Salem.  New  Jersey,  but  re- 
sided in  Port  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  where 
his  children  were  born. 

(II)  James  Lee.  son  of  John  Logue  (IT), 
was  born  in  Port  Elizabeth,  New  Jersev,  al- 
though   reared    from    a   child   in    .Salem,    New 


Jersey,  the  home  oi  his  ancestors.  He  married 
I'dizabetli  (ilendon,  of  Salem,  who  bore  him 
the  following  children  :  i.  Alary  Elizabeth.  2. 
James  Edward  (now  deceased),  married  a 
Miss  Gibe,  and  left  one  son  surviving  him, 
James  Edward  Logue  Jr.  3.  Katherine  Louisa, 
married  Joseph  Winthrop,  M.  D.,  of  Charles- 
ton, South  Carolina,  a  descendant  of  the  fam- 
ily of  Ciovernor  Winthrop.  of  Massachusetts, 
his  immediate  line  coming  from  Joseph  Win- 
.throp.  4.  Ida  Frances,  married  Albert  Fitz 
Randolph  (now  deceased),  whose  two  chil- 
dren, Courtlandt  and  Albert,  survive.  5.  Annie 
E.  B.  Logue.     6.  William  Augustin  Logue. 

(  III )  William  Augustin  Logue  was  born  in 
Bridgeton,  New  Jersey  {a\\  the  other  children 
being  born  in  Roadstown,  New  Jersey),  and  is 
now  living  in  that  city.  For  his  early  educa- 
tion he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of 
Bridgeton,  after  leaving  which  he  began  the 
reading  of  law  with  Franklin  Fisk  Westcott, 
Esq.,  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  He  was  ad- 
mitted by  the  New  Jersey  supreme  court  to 
the  bar  as  an  attorney  in  June,  1875,  ^"d  ''i 
February,  1879,  was  admitted  as  counsellor, 
since  which  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Bridgeton. 
Mr.  Logue  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  given  a 
good  deal  of  his  energy  and  ability  to  laboring 
for  the  welfare  and  advancement  of  his  party. 
His  unfailing  courtesy,  his  splendid  executive 
abilities  and  his  well  deserved  popularity  have 
won  him  many  marks  of  confidence,  trust  and 
friendship  of  the  community  in  which  he  lives. 
I'or  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Logue  was  city 
solicitor  of  Bridgeton,  and  for  the  last  five 
years  he  has  been,  by  the  appointment  of  the 
mayor,  president  of  the  Bridgeton  City  Park 
Commission.  From  1889  to  1899,  by  the  ap- 
pointment of  the  governor  of  New  Jersey,  he 
served  as  ]jrosecutor  of  the  pleas  in  Cumber- 
land county.  In  1907  he  was  appointed  for 
the  five  years  term  expiring  in  1912  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  New  Jersey  Board  of  Fish  and 
Game  Commissioners.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  New  Jersey  State  Bar  Association,  and 
jiresident  of  the  Cumberland  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  Logue  is  also  much  interested  in 
and  takes  an  active  part  in  the  financial  inter- 
ests of  Bridgeton,  being  a  director  in  and 
counsel  for  many  of  its  largest  and  most  stable 
corporations,  among  which  should  be  men- 
tioned the  Cumberland  National  Bank  of 
Bridgeton,  the  Bridgeton  &  Millville  Traction 
Company,  and  the  Bridgeton  Electric  Com- 
panv. 

Alarch   24.    1S80,   William   .'\ugustin   Logue 


STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


married  Mary  Smith,  daughter  of  Josiah  H. 
Reeves,  of  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey,  a  descend- 
ant of  one  of  New  Jersey's  oldest  and  most 
prominent  families.  Their  children  are :  Frank 
Reeves  Logue,  born  April  15,  1881 ;  William 
Sherron,  died  at  the  age  of  four  years;  Law- 
rence Bateman,  who  likewise  died  when  four 
years  old;  and  Mary  Louise,  born  November 
29,  1887,  and  who  married,  October  20,  1909, 
Emerson  M.  Allen,  of  New  York. 


The  Mack  families  in  this  country 
MACK      derived  their  origin  from  several 

different  sources,  one  large  branch 
coming  from  Scotland,  another  from  England, 
a  third  from-  Ireland,  and  still  a  fourth,  as  in 
the  case  of  the  one  at  present  under  considera- 
tion, from  Germany. 

(I)  Wolfgang  Kups,  born  in  Germany,  in 
1698,  and  dying  there  in  1769,  is  the  founder 
of  the  present-  line.  Among  his  children  was 
Moses,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Moses,  second  son  of  Wolfgang  Kups, 
was  born  in  German}',  in  1728,  and  died  there 
in  1803.  In  1754  he  married  Getta  Sender,  in 
Mitwitz,  and  at  the  same  time  changed  his 
name  to  Mack.  Amoiig  their  children  was 
Alexander,  referred  to  below. 

(III)  Alexander,  fourth  child  of  Moses  and 
Getta  (Sender)  Mack,  was  born  in  Germany, 
March  26,  1774,  and  died  there,  October  31. 
1847.  In  1802  he  married,  in  Bayersdorf,  Sara 
Aub,  born  in  1775  and  died  in  1845.  Among 
their  children  was  Wolfgang,  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Wolfgang,  third  child  of  Alexander 
and  Sara  (Aub)  Mack,  was  born  in  Germany, 
February  14,  1808,  and  died  in  1884.  He  was 
a  permanent  physician,  and  his  practice  ex- 
tended over  a  period  of  fifty  years.  July  24, 
1832.  he  married,  in  Ilamberg.  Germany,  Louise 
Geldersheimer,  born  there  July  8, 1808.  Among 
their  children  was  Adolph,  referred  to  below. 

(  \' )  Adolph,  third  child  of  Wolfgang  and 
Louise  (Geldersheimer)  Mack,  was  born  in 
Germany,  December  23,  1835,  and  died  De- 
cember 25,  1909.  He  was  educated  in  the 
University  of  Hamburg,  and  in  1851  came  to 
America  and  located  at  Cincinnati,  C)hio.  where 
he  engaged  in  the  hardware  business.  About 
1861  he  went  to  New  York  City,  where  he 
became  connected  with  an  importing  house, 
and  subsec|uently  became  interested  in  the  silk 
business.  In  1878  he  came  to  Raritan,  Som- 
erset county.  New  Jersey,  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Raritan  \Voolen  Mills,  also  of 
the  Somerset  Manufacturing  Company,  which 
business  had  been  established  by  his  father-in- 


law,  Lewis  Einstein.  In  politics  Mr.  Mack 
was  a  Republican  and  one  of  the  most  influ- 
ential men  of  his  party  in  Somerset  county. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  most  popular,  as  is 
testified  by  the  fact  that  he  was  twice  elected 
presidential  elector.  He  was  a  j\Iason,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  an  organizer 
of  the  Phoenix  Club  of  Cincinnati.  December 
26,  1866,  he  married  Therese,  daughter  of 
Lewis  and  Judith  (Lewis)  Einstein,  who  was 
born  September  24,  1846,  and  died  August  18, 
1906.  Children:  Alexander  W.,  referred  to 
below;  Lewis  C,  referred  to  below;  Clara  L., 
1874. 

(  \  I)  Alexander  W.,  eldest  child  of  Adolph 
and  Therese  (Einstein)  Mack,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  in  1868.  After  receiving  his 
early  education  in  the  public  schools  he  was 
prepared  for  college  in  the  Stevens  high  school 
at  Hoboken,  and  graduated  from  Cornell  Uni- 
versity in  the  class  of  1889.  During  his  col- 
lege course  he  became  a  member  of  the  Greek 
letter  fraternity.  Beta  Theta  Pi.  After  leav- 
ing college  he  entered  the  office  of  the  S.  L. 
Moore  &  Sons  Company,  at  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  remained  for  si.x  years,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  he  was  appointed  secre- 
tary of  the  Raritan  Woolen  Mills  and  the 
Somerset  Manufacturing  Company,  which  are 
among  the  largest  plants  of  their  kind  in  the 
country,  employing  over  twelve  hundred  hands 
and  manufacturing  every  year  more  than  two 
million  yards  of  finished  product.  Mr.  Mack 
is  the  member  of  various  bodies  of  Masonry, 
including  that  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  for 
the  last  two  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  married  Made- 
line, daughter  of  .\lva  A.  Clark,  of  Somerville. 
Children:  i.  Adolph  C,  born  1894.  2.  Cath- 
arine, 1901. 

(  \  I )  Lewis  C,  youngest  son  of  Adolph  and 
Therese  (Einstein)  Mack,  was  born  in  1869, 
died  in  1905,  and  married  Louise  F.  Chambers. 
( )no  child,  Lewis  A.,  born  1903. 

Charles  Meeks  Mason  was  born 
MA.SON     in     Natchez,    Mississippi,    May 

7,  1876,  son  of  Samuel  A.  and 
Mary  P.  (Mellen)  Mason.  On  the  maternal 
line  he  traces  his  ancestry  through  some 
of  the  most  illustrious  members  of  the  bench 
and  bar  of  New  England  to  William  Pepperell, 
who  was  born  in  Plymouth.  Wales,  and  came 
to  .A.merica  in  1668,  settled  in  Kittery,  Maine, 
where  in  1690  he  was  made  judge  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas  and  was  colonel  of  the  militia 


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in  1 7 14.  He  had  one  son,  William  Pepperell, 
born  in  ifjyO,  who  commanded  the  American 
forces  which  captureil  Louisburg  from  the 
French,  after  which  he  was  made  heutenant- 
general.  He  also  had  the  honor  of  being  the 
first  native  of  New  England  to  be  knighted  by 
the  king  of  England.  He  also  was  a  member 
of  the  bar  and  practiced  law.  and  was  governor 
and  chancellor  of  Alassachusetts  in  1756.  His 
sister,  Mary  Pepperell,  married  Captain  John 
Frost,  1691 -1 732.  who  was  a  captain  in  the 
fleet  that  went  to  Louisburg  under  the  com- 
mand of  Lieutenant  General  Pepperell. 

Captain  Frost  was  also  a  lawyer,  and  in 
1724  was  a  member  of  the  council  for  the 
province  of  New  Hampshire.  His  son  was 
George  Frost,  born  1720,  died  1796.  He  was 
chief  justice  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  of 
Stafford  county.  New  Hampshire,  also  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Continental  congress,  1776-79.  His 
daughter,  ]\Iartha  Frost,  married  Henry  Mel- 
len,  who  was  also  a  lawyer  practicing  in  New 
Hampshire.  His  brother,  Prentiss  Alellen,  was 
United  States  senator  from  Massachusetts. 
When  Maine  was  formed  as  a  separate  state  in 
1820  he  resigned  from  the  senate  to  become 
the  first  chief-justice  of  Maine.  Sergeant  S. 
IVentiss,  the  American  orator,  was  a  first 
cousin  of  Henry  Mellen. 

William  Pepperell  Mellen,  son  of  Henry 
]\Iellen,  born  in  1806,  died  in  1864,  removed 
to  ]\Iississip|M  in  1831.  He  was  a  lawyer,  and 
a  member  of  the  legislature  of  Mississippi,  and 
established  the  first  daily  newspaper,  the 
Natchez  Courier,  in  ^lississippi.  and  was  grand 
master  of  the  Masonic  order  of  that  state.  He 
married  Sarah  Lewis,  daughter  of  Archibald 
Lewis,  who  was  presiding  justice  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas  of  Adams  county,  Mississippi. 
.■\  brotherof  .Archibald  Lewis  was  Seth  Lewis, 
who  studied  law  in  Tennessee  under  Andrew 
Jackson,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first  legis- 
lature of  Tennessee.  In  1800  he  was  appoint- 
ed the  first  chief-justice  of  Mississippi  by 
President  John  Adams,  anrl  later  served  as 
Cnited  States  circuit  court  judge  for  Louisiana. 

Two  sons  of  William  Pejjperell  Mellen  be- 
came lawyers —  William  F.  (born  1836.  died 
1890),  who  had  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  con- 
ferred on  him  by  the  University  of  Mississippi, 
and  was  dean  of  the  law  department  of  Tulane 
University  in  New  Orleans:  and  Thomas  L., 
born  1847,  died  1909,  a  member  of  the  legis- 
lature of  Mississip])i  in  1882,  and  prosecutor 
of  .\dams  county.  Mary  Peyton  Mellen.  the 
daughter  of  William  Pepperell  Mellen,  born 
1845,  died   1904,  married   Samuel   A.   Mason, 


born  in  Fro>tburg.  Maryland,  in  1833,  and 
died  in  Natchez,  Mississippi,  February  18, 
1881.  He  was  a  commission  merchant  in 
Natchez,  and  served  four  years  in  the  Twelfth 
Alississippi  Regiment,  Confederate  States 
Army.  Two  children  survive  this  union : 
Charles  AL  Mason,  the  subject  of  this  sketch: 
and  Sarah  E.  Mason,  who  married  Frederick 
L.  Cobb,  of  Newark. 

Charles  Meeks  Mason  was  graduated  from 
Rutgers  College,  New  Jersey,  in  1897,  ^^'it'^ 
degree  of  A.  B.  In  1901  the  degree  of  A.  M. 
was  conferred  upon  him  for  special  educational 
work.  Having  determined  to  follow  the  ])ro- 
fcssion  in  which  his  ancestors  had  achieved 
such  successes  and  were  so  highly  honoreil.  he 
entered  the  New  York  Law  School,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  with  honor  in  1901, 
and.  had  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
LL.  B.  During  this  time  he  also  read  law  in 
the  office  of  Lintott,  Johnson  &  Capen,  of 
Newark.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
\ovk  as  an  attorney  and  counsellor  in  1901 
and  to  the  bar  of  New  Jersey  in  1902  as  an 
attorney,  and  as  a  counsellor  in  1905.  In  poli- 
tics he  has  been  a  consistent  adherent  of  Dem- 
ocratic principles.  He  served  as  under-sheriff' 
of  Essex  county,  under  Sheriff"  William  C. 
Nicoll  and  under  Sheriff'  Frank  H.  Sommer. 
For  six  months,  he  was  acting-sheriff'  of  the 
county  while  Sheriff'  Sommer  was  ill  and  ab- 
sent from  the  state. 

Mr.  ^Nlason  is  dean  of  the  faculty  of  the 
New  Jersey  Law  School,  and  a  member  of  the 
Rutgers  Club,  the  Lawyers'  Club,  the  Gott- 
fried Krueger  .Association:  Franklin  Lodge, 
No.  10,  F.  and  .\.  M. :  LInion  Chapter,  R.  A. 
M.:  Clinton  Lodge,  No.  18,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and 
the  Beta  Theta  Pi  college  fraternity.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  militia  of  his  state,  and 
i>  a  member  of  the  First  Regiment,  New  Jer- 
sey National  Guard.  He  was  married,  in  1905, 
to  Eva  P.  Bloomfield.  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jer- 
sey, a  relative  of  Joseph  Bloomfield,  governor 
of  New  Jersey.  They  have  two  children : 
Charles  Bloomfield  Mason  and  William  Pep- 
perell Mason. 

(II)  William,  first  of  the  three 
Hr)PPER  sons  of  Andries  Hopper  ( i|.  v. ), 
born  in  New  .Amsterdam,  was 
born  in  1654.  He  was  married  to  Mynen  Paulus 
in  that  city  and  their  three  children,  Christina, 
("Gertrude  and  Bridget  fP.elitza),  were  born  in 
New  Amsterdam  in  the  order  named.  The  fam- 
ily removed  to  Hackensack,  Bergen  countv,  New- 
Jersey,  in  1686,  where  he  joined  the  Reformed 


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Dutch  church,  located  "On  the  Green"  in 
March.  1686.  Here  his  fourth  child  and  only 
son  Andrew  was  born  and  baptized  in  the 
church  in  March,  1686,  and  as  there  is  no 
further  record  of  the  father  he  probably  died 
soon  after  the  son  was  born. 

(  II  )  Hendrick,  second  of  the  three  sons  of 
Antlries  Hopper,  born  in  New  Amsterdam, 
was  born  in  1656.  He  removed  to  Bergen, 
New  Jersey,  across  Hudson  river  from  New 
Netherlands  in  1680,  and  he  was  there  mar- 
ried, March  14,  1680,  to  Alary  Jans  Van 
Blarkum,  whose  fatlier,  John  \'an  Blarkum, 
came  from  Holland  to  New  Amsterdam  before 
tliis  daughter  was  born.  Hendrick  Hopper 
jirobably  rented  land  in  Bergen,  as  his  name 
does  not  ajjpear  as  a  landowner.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  his  brother,  Mathias  Adolphus, 
who  accompanied  him  to  Bergen  also  worked 
a  farm,  and  the  two  brothers  removed  in  1687 
to  Hackensack  where  their  elder  brother  Will- 
iam had  settled  in  1686.  Here  the  two  brothers 
])urchased  from  Captain  John  Berry  a  large 
tract  of  land  extending  from  the  west  bank  of 
the  Hackensack  river  to  the  east  bank  of  Sad- 
dle river  and  this  tract  they  divided  into  two  • 
farms  of  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
each,  and  they  built  on  it  two  houses  and  estab- 
lished homes.  Hendrick  was  a  good  farmer,  a 
good  citizen,  and  a  devout  member  of  the 
church.  Children  of  Hendrick  and  Mary  Jans 
(  \'an  Blarkum  )  Hopper,  were  born  in  Bergen 
before  the  removal  to  Hackensack,  as  follows: 
I.  Andries  Hendrickse,  see  forward.  2.  Jans 
Hendrickse,  see  forward.  3.  William,  1684.  4. 
Catherine.  1685;  married  I'eter  Garretse  \'an 
-Allen,  of  Rotterdam,  Holland.  5.  Garret 
Hendrickse,  see  forward.  6.  Gertrude  Hend- 
rickse, 1699;  married  Hendrick  Albertse  Za- 
briski.  May  16,  1719.  7.  Lea  Hendrickse,  prob- 
ably 1700;  married  Christian  Albertse  Zabriski, 
May  28,   1715. 

( n )  Mathias  Adolphus,  youngest  of  the 
three  sons  of  Andries  Hopper,  born  in  New 
Amsterdam.  New  Netherlands,  was  born  in 
1658.  He  removed  with  his  brother  Hendrick 
to  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  located  on  the 
west  bank  of  Hudson's  river  and  opposite  the 
fort  at  New  Amsterdam  in  1680,  where  he 
carried  on  a  farm.  He  was  married  in  New 
York  City  by  the  preacher  of  the  Bergen  church 
of  which  he  was  a  member  to  -\nna  Poulusse. 
a  native  of  New  Amsterdam.  We  also  find  her 
name  written  .Antje  Jorkse.  In  1687  he  removed 
with  his  brother  Hendrick  to  Hackensack  in  the 
northern  part  of  Bergen  county,  where  they 


jiurchased  farms  and  built  new  homes.  Mathias 
.\dol])hus  was  made  a  deacon  of  the  Hacken- 
sack church  in  1705,  and  appears  to  have  been 
a  prosperous  farmer.  Four  of  his  five  children 
were  born  in  Hackensack.  according  to  the  rec- 
ords of  the  Reformed  Dutch  church,  ])opularly 
known  as  "The  Church  on  the  Green."  Chil- 
dren cif  Alathias  .-Vdolphus  and  Anna  Poulusse 
(or  .\ntje  Jorkse)  Hopper:  i.  Andries,  see 
forward.  2.  Christina,  1686;  married  Johannes 
Huysman,  Alay  21,  1709.  3.  Lea,  1695;  mar- 
ried Johannes  \'anderhoflf,  of  Albany,  New 
York,  May  15,  1714.  4.  Rachel,  1703;  mar- 
ried, became  a  widow  and  married  a  second 
time.     5.  Jan  (John),  see  forward. 

(  HI )  Andries,  eldest  child  of  Alathias  Adol- 
phus and  Anna  (Poulusse)  Hopper,  was  born 
in  Bergen,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  1684, 
died  in  1819.  He  was  brought  as  an  infant  to 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  and  was  raised  on 
his  father's  farm  and  attended  the  Hackensack 
church,  from  which  church  he  was  married 
August  12,  1710,  to  Elizabeth  Bros.  Children: 
I.  Andrus  or  .Andrew,  born  1714.  2.  Hendrick, 
married  Elizabeth  Terhune.    Others. 

( III)  John,  youngest  child  of  Alathias  Adol- 
])hiis  and  Anna  (Poulusse)  Hopper,  was  born 
in  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  1705.  He  was 
bnuight  up  as  a  farmer,  lived  in  the  homestead, 
and  married,  Alarch  13,  1736,  Elizabeth  Kip. 

(Ill)  .Andries  Hendrickse,  eldest  child  of 
Hendrick  and  Alary  Jans  (Van  Blarkum)  Hop- 
per, was  born  in  Bergen,  Bergen  county.  New 
Jersey,  1681,  and  removed  with  the  family  to 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  in  1687,  where  he 
\^  as  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm  in  the 
Saddle  river.  He  was  married,  according  to 
the  records  of  the  Hackensack  church,  in  July, 
1707,  to  Abigail  Ackerman. 

(HI)  Jan  (John)  Hendrickse,  second  son 
of  Hendrick  and  Alary  Jans  (\'an  Blarkum) 
Hopper,  was  born  in  Bergen,  Bergen  county. 
New  Jersey,  1682.  He  married,  July,  1707, 
Rachel,  daughter  of  .Albert  .A.  and  Weyntje 
(  liruches )  Terhune.  and  they  had  children, 
including  Lieutenant  John,  a  soldier  in  the 
American  revolution. 

(HI)  Garret  Hendrickse,  fourth  son  of 
Hendrick  and  Alary  Jans  (\'an  Blarkum) 
Ho])per,  was  born  in  Bergen,  Bergen  county. 
New  Jersey,  in  1686.  He  was  carried  as  an 
infant  to  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  in  1687, 
wlff^n  his  parents  changed  their  residence.  He 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  fann.  He 
married  (first)  about  1725.  Catharine  Kejoyne, 
and  they  had  a  son  Jacob  G.,  born  1727;  (sec- 


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(iiid)  (Jctober  31,  1741,  Hendrickje,  daugliter 
iif  juhn  and  Elizabeth  (Barthoff)  Terhune, 
and  widow  of  Jacob  Deickse. 

( 1\')  Jacob  G.,  eldest  son  of  Garret  Hend- 
rickse  Hopper  by  his  first  wife,  was  born  in 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  on  his  father's  farm 
near  Saddle  river  about  1727,  died  in  1814. 
He  married,  September  22,  1750,  Cornelia 
Ackerman.  according  to  the  records  of  the 
Hackensack  church.  Children :  Katrina,  Cor- 
nelius (who  had  a  son,  Peter  C,  who  had  a 
son  Jonathan  P.,  of  whom  below),  Garret, 
Elizabeth,  Henry,  John  J. 

(\')  John  J.,  son  of  Jacob  G.  and  Cornelia 
(Ackerman)  Hopper,  was  born  in  Hackensack, 
New  Jersey,  November,  1774,  died  there  Au- 
gust 23,  1833.  He  married,  March  24,  1799, 
Maria  Terhune,  born  June  9,  1782,  died  Janu- 
ary I,  1857,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by 
the  minister  of  the  Schraalenburgh  church. 
Children :  Cornelia,  Altia,  Catherine  (married 
Jonathan  P.  Hopper,  q.  v.  below),  Albert, 
Jacob  J.,  John,  for  many  years  judge  in  Pater- 
son  ;  Eliza,  Maria,  Jane. 

(VI)  Jonathan  P.,  second  son  of  Peter  C. 

and (Odell)    Hopper,    was    born    in 

Hoppertown,  New  Jersey,  February  21,  1795, 
(lied  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  October  2,  1866. 
He  was  reared  to  manhood  in  his  native  town, 
and  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Paterson. 
Upon  attaining  his  majority  he  became  en- 
gaged in  the  capacity  of  a  clerk  in  New  York 
City,  continuing  in  this  position  for  a  number 
of  years,  when  he  became  a  proprietor  of  a  dry 
goods  store  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  one  of 
the  first  in  the  place.  He  also  served  the  town 
of  Paterson  as  special  collector  of  taxes,  the 
period  of  his  service  covering  over  twenty 
years.  He  was  regarded  as  a  useful  and  highly 
respected  citizen.  I\Ir.  Hopper  married.  May 
24.  1799,  in  the  Schraalenburgh  church,  Cath- 
erine, daughter  of  John  J.  and  Maria  (Ter- 
hune) Hopper.  (See  above).  Catherine 
Hopper  was  born  in  Polyfly,  Bergen  county. 
New  Jersey,  October  26,  1805,  died  in  Pater- 
son. New  Jersey,  January  26,  1886.  Children, 
born  in  Paterson:  i.  Peter  J.,  June  24,  1826; 
went  to  California  in  1849  and  there  took  an 
active  interest  in  the  political  afl^airs  at  Sacra- 
mento; was  elected  to  the  legislature  and  was 
speaker  of  the  house;  he  died  there  in  1883 
and  left  two  sons  and  one  daughter.  2.  Mary, 
May  12,  1828;  married  William  Gledhill.  3. 
Elizabeth,  October  25,  1830,  died  young.  4. 
Cornelia,  March  25,  1833.  died  young.  5. 
Catherine,  March  2,  1835.  6.  Albert  J.,  Octo- 
ber 4,  1837,  died  in  1907.    7.  John  J.,  May  14, 


1840.  8.  Charles  Henry,  December  24,  1842, 
see  forward.    9.  Bessie,  August  21,  1846. 

(VH)  Charles  Henry,  eighth  child  of  Jon- 
athan P.  and  Catharine  (Hopper)  Hopper, 
was  born  December  24,  1842,  in  Paterson, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  educated  in  the  first 
[mblic  school  of  Paterson,  under  the  tuition  of 
]\Ir.  Hosford,  then  a  noted  teacher.  Upon 
taking  up  the  practical  duties  of  life,  lie  be- 
came em]iloyed  in  the  capacity  of  a  clerk.  In 
1S84  he  entered  the  employ  of  Charles  N. 
Martin,  of  New  York  City,  a  manufacturer 
and  dealer  in  silk  thread  and  silk  goods,  where 
he  remained  employed  until  the  death  of  Mr. 
Martin  in  1896,  at  which  time  a  partnership 
was  formed  with  the  heirs  of  Mr.  Martin's 
estate,  Charles  Henry  Hopper  and  Richard 
Schutte,  who  continued  the  business  under  the 
firm  name  of  C.  N.  ^lartin  &  Company.  This 
arrangement  continued  successfully  until  1898, 
when  ]\Ir.  Hopper  and  ]\Ir.  Schutte  purchased 
the  remainder  of  interest  of  the  heirs  of  Mr. 
Martin,  and  since  that  time  have  successfully 
conducted  this  enterprise.  The  success  that 
Mr.  Hopper  has  attained  is  the  direct  result  of 
his  perseverance  and  fidelity  to  duty. 

Charles  Henry  Hopper  married,  December 
24.  1883,  Catherine  Elizabeth  Mesler,  born 
March  7,  1850,  daughter  of  Artemus  and 
Rachel  Ann  (Cueman)  Mesler;  one  child, 
Marda  -Alberta,  born  April  29,  1888.  In  1903 
-Mr.  Hop])er  erected  a  modern  residence  in 
Passaic.  New  Jersey,  w'here  he  has  since  re- 
sided and 'has  become  well  known  and  highly 
respected  by  all  who  know  him. 


(  \T )  Jacob  A.,  son  of  Abra- 
HOPPER  ham  (q.  v.)  and  Leah  (Bo- 
gart)  Hopper,  was  born  in 
I^chraalenburgh,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey, 
on  his  father's  farm  which  was  located  near 
Ivlount  Etna,  July  21,  1788,  and  he  was  bap- 
tizefl  in  the  Dutch  church  at  Schraalenburgh, 
.\ugust  17,  1788.  He  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  and  became  a  very  prosperous  and  influ- 
ential citizen.  He  married  Alargaret  Cooper ; 
children:  i.  Leah,  married  John  Westervelt. 
2.  Richard  Jacob,  see  forward. 

(VII)  Richard  Jacob,  son  of  Jacob  A.  and 
Margaret  (Cooper)  Hopper,  was  born  in  Ber- 
gen county.  New  Jersey,  December  19,  1819, 
died  there  in  1889.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  like  most  of  the  Hoppers 
of  Bergen  county  was  a  successful  agricul- 
turist, and  at  the  same  time  an  influential  citi- 
zen, but  retiring  in  disposition  and  devoted  his 
time  to  his  farm  and  familv.    He  married,  No- 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


vember  21,  1849,  Ellen  Van  Wagoner,  a  native 
of  Bergen  county,  and  daughter  of  Jacob  and 
Ellen  (Cooper)  \'an  Wagoner,  the  former  an 
influential  and  leading  citizen  of  the  town  in 
which  he  resided.  Ellen  Van  Wagoner  was 
born  May  22,  1823,  in  the  village  of  Xew  JMil- 
ford,  and  like  the  young  women  of  the  time 
was  brought  up  to  perform  the  various  duties 
that  fall  to  the  life  of  housekeeper  and  mother's 
assistant  in  the  household.  Richard  and  Ellen 
(Van  Wagoner)  Hopper  had  children:  i. 
Jacob  Richard,  see  forward.  2.  Ella  iNIaria, 
March  28,  1855  ;  married.  May  9,  1877,  David 
D.  LSrickell.  3.  Margaret  Jane,  September  7, 
1858;  married,  October  12,  1881,  John  H.  De- 
Mott.  After  the  death  of  her  husband  the 
mother  of  these  children  lived  in  the  village 
of  Westwood,  Bergen  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
which  had  grown  out  of  the  rural  settlement 
of  the  neighborhood  of  her  home.  Here  she 
was  still  a  resident  in  1909,  surrounded  by 
children,  grandchildren  and  great-grandchil- 
dren. 

(Vni)  Jacob  Richard,  only  son  of  Richard 
and  Ellen  (Van  Wagoner)  Hopper,  was  born 
in  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  September  22, 
1850.  He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's 
farm  which  he  inherited  and  carried  it  on  with 
the  same  satisfactory  results  as  attended  the 
labors  of  his  father,  w^ho  spent  his  declining 
years  on  the  farm,  but  relieved  by  the  son  of 
all  care  and  annoyance  incident  to  the  conduct 
of  its  affairs.  He  married,  May  17,  1876, 
Hattie  A.  Bogart,  of  Westwood,  and  their 
home  and  neighborhood  took  the  name  of 
Westwood  and  became  one  of  the  growing 
suburban  towns  of  northern  New  Jersey  within 
easy  railroad  communication,  hourly,  with  New 
York  City.  The  children  of  Jacob  R.  and 
Hattie  A.  (Bogart)  Hopper,  born  in  West- 
wood,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  were:  i. 
Richard  J.,  born  December  i,  1877,  died  at 
Westwood,  New  Jersey.  2.  Anna  Bogart,  De- 
cember 24,  1879,  married  Fred  Zabriskie  Board 
and  their  children,  born  in  Westwood,  New 
Jersey,  were :  Cornelius  J.  Board  and  Mary 
Wessel  Board.  3.  Isaac  Bogart,  August  13, 
1882.  4.  Ella  C.  August  8,  1885 ;  married 
Harold  Berry,  and  their  first  child,  Doris 
Berry,  was  born  September,  1908.  Hattie  A. 
(Bogart)  Hopper  married  (second)  October 
21,  1909,  Rev.  David  Talmage. 


1774.'''  He  was  a  farmer  in  Oakland,  which 
jjlace  became  known  as  Crystal  Lake,  located 
in  Pompton  \'alley,  Bergen  county,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  married  Sarah  Tice  ;  children  :  Henry, 
Abraham,  Statia,  Jacob,  Andrew,  Peter,  Mar- 
garet. Eliza,  Ann. 

(  \  II,)  Peter,  sixth  son  of  Jacob  and  Susan 
(Tice)  Hopper,  was  born  in  Oakland,  Bergen 
county,  New  Jersey,  November  25,  1797,  died 
at  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  November  22,  1875. 
He  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Moses  and 
Maria  (Terhune)  Decker,  born  January  24, 
1804,  died  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1880.  He  was  a  mason  by  occupa- 
tion and  did  business  in  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey on  his  own  account  during  his  early 
life.  He  was  a  man  of  great  physical 
endurance  and  was  accustomed  to  walk  from 
Paterson  to  New  York  City  and  other  nearby 
jilaces  in  which  he  had  work.  He  later  lived 
on  a  farm  at  Wyckoff,  and  later  at  Camp  Gaw. 
Children:  i.  Jacob,  born  September  22,  1820; 
married  Rosanna  Riley ;  he  was  a  farmer ;  he 
was  forty-one  years  old  when  the  civil  war 
broke  out  and  his  country  called  for  volunteers 
to  put  down  the  southern  rebellion ;  he  volun- 
teered, served  in  the  New  Jersey  Volunteers 
during  the  entire  period  of  the  war,  and  died 
three  weeks  after  returning  home.  2.  Maria, 
October  18,  1822.  3.  Abram  D.,  July  18,  1824; 
marriedi  Laura  W'illiams.  4.  Elizabeth  M., 
April  3,  1831  ;  married  (first)  Stephen  Yurie; 
(second)  James  Ackerman ;  (third)  George 
Reynolds.  5.  Sarah  Ann,  December  11,  1835; 
married  Jacob  C.  Banta.  6.  Susan,  January  31. 
1837  ;  married  Andrew  Barton.  7-8.  Twins,  died 
in  infancy.  9.  I\Iargaret,  see  forward.  10.  John 
H.,  May  15,  1846;  married  Louisa  Sippel. 

i  \TII)  Margaret,  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Catherine  (Decker)  Hopper,  was  born  at 
\\'yckofT,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  March 
23,  1843.  She  married,  January  3, 1863,  Alfred 
\'an  Emburgh,  born  December  15,  1842,  died 
June  II,  1905,  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  builder,  a  man  of  consid- 
erable mechanical  genius,  a  thorough  work- 
man, and  an  upright  citizen.  He  suffered  from 
serious  illness  during  his  last  years,  and  was 
incapacitated  for  any  physical  exertion.  The 
only  child  of  Alfred  and  Rlargaret  (Hopper) 


HOPPER 


(\  I)  Jacob,  son  of and 

( )  Hopper,  was 

born     in     Oakland,     Franklin 
township,   Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  about 


•Jacob  Hopper,  of  Oakland,  and  Jacob  Hopper,  of 
Wvckoff,  Hved  in  the  district  covered  by  the  rec- 
ords of  the  Dutch  church  at  Ponds.  This  church, 
according  to  WiUiam  Nelson,  of  Paterson,  was 
founded  in  1710,  but  its  records  were  destroyed 
about  1865.  There  is  therefore  nothing  to  be  found 
about  families  in  this  region  for  the  early  periods 
except  as  may  hereafter  be  discovered  through 
wills,  deeds,  etc.,  which  are  now  unknown,  and  may 
possibly  be  learned  of  in  the  future. 


STATE   OF   NEW    I  ERSE  Y. 


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Van  Emburgh  was  Kittle,  born  January  22, 
1866;  married,  Alarcb  17,  1885,  Cbarles  C. 
Bogert,  born  August  2y,  1864,  died  February 
17,  1899,  and  they  had  one  child,  Chester  A. 
Bogert,  born  November  14,  1887.  In  1909 
Mrs.  Margaret  (Hopper)  Van  Emburgh  was 
living  in  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey,  with  her 
widowed  daughter.  Kittie  (Van  Emburgh) 
Bogert,  and  her  grandson,  Chester  A.  Bogert. 


(\T)   Jacob,  son  of and 

HOPPER  '—  ( )  Hopper,  mar- 
ried Charity  Van  Horn  and 
lived  in  \\'yckoff,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey.* 
(  \  II )  John,  son  of  Jacob  and  Charity  (Van 
Horn )  Hopper,  was  born  in  W'yckoff ,  Bergen 
county,  New  Jersey,  October  30,  1824,  died  in 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  February  24,  1905.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  kept  a  hotel  at  Wyckoft  for 
several  years  and  later  went  to  New  York  City, 
where  he  was  a  truckman.  Late  in  life  he 
went  to  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  the  livery  business  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  married,  August  5,  1849,  Abbie 
Ann,  daughter  of  John  and  Anna  (V^an  Blar- 
com)  Terwilliger,  and  granddaughter  of  John 
Van  Blarcom.  Children:  i.  John  J.,  see  for- 
ward.   2.  Cornelius.    3.  Jeremiah.    4.  George. 

5.  Annetta,    born    August    7,    1859 ;    married 
Noah  McDow,  of  Staten  Island,  New  York. 

6.  Sarenda,  February  13,  1862;  never  married. 

7.  Child,  died  in  infancy. 

(\'III )  John  Jacob,  eldest  child  of  John  and 
.\bbie  Ann  (Terwilliger)  Hopper,  was  born  in 
\\'yckoff,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  May  8, 
1S50.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  builder  in  Ruth- 
erford, New  Jersey,  and  later  a  livery  stable 
keeper  in  Paterson,  from  whch  business  he  re- 
tired with  a  competence,  and  was  residing  with 
Ins  son  in  East  Rutherford  in  1909.  He  mar- 
ried, 1875,  Susan  Randolph,  daughter  of  Ed- 
win F.  and  Hannah  ( Goetschious )  Randolph, 
the  former  a  descendant  of  the  Fitz  Randolphs, 
of  \'irginia.     Child,  Edmund  C. 

(IX)  Edmund  C,  only  child  of  John  Jacob 
and  Susan  (Randolph)  Hopper,  was  born  in 
Rutherford,  Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  June 
14,  1876.  He  was  a  ])upil  in  the  public  schools 
of  Paterson,  and  from  his  father,  a  master 
carpenter,  learned  the  trade  and  followed  the 
vocation  for  three  years,  when  he  accepted  the 
I>osition  of  bookkeei)er  for  P.  S.  Van  Kirk, 
carpenter  and  contractor  at  Paterson,  and  he 
continued  with  this  concern  for  twelve  years. 
Late  in  1906  he  began  the  lumber  business  on 

•See  footnote  on  preceding  page. 


his  own  account  at  East  Rutherford  and  his 
trade  increased  rapidly,  and  in  1909  he  was  the 
proprietor  of  a  large  and  well  established  busi- 
ness. He  affiliates  with  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  an  immensely  popu- 
lar organization  founded  in  1868,  wdiich  in 
1905  had  a  membership  of  over  two  hundred 
thousand  in  the  United  States,  comprising  the 
best  class  of  professional  and  business  men. 
Mr.  Hopper  acquired  his  membership  through 
Rutherford  Lodge,  No.  547,  in  1907. 

He  married,  June  15,  1899,  Maud  J.,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Eliza  J.  (Albert)  Ketcham  ; 
children,  born  in  East  Rutherford,  New  Jer- 
sey: I.  Edmund  R.,  August  25,  1900.  2. 
Winfield  K.,  February  23.  1904.  3.  Randolph 
T.,  September  5,  1906 


The  families  of  this  name  in 
TAYLOR     New  Jersey  are  numerous  and 

all  of  English  origin.  Like 
many  others  it  is  derived  from  an  occupation, 
and  was  doubtless  associated  with  the  bap- 
tismal name  of  its  bearer  when  he  assumed  it 
as  a  surname  about  five  hundred  years  ago. 
Many  of  the  best  citizens  of  this  common- 
wealth have  borne  the  patronymic,  and  it  is 
still  well  known  in  leading  circles. 

(I )  Samuel  Taylor  is  the  first  of  this  family 
now  known  by  baptismal  name.  His  father 
came  from  England  and  settled  at  Hempstead, 
Rockland  county,  New  York.  Samuel  Taylor 
was  born  May  14,  1779,  in  England,  and  was 
an  adult  when  he  accompanied  his  father  (or 
was  accompanied  by  the  latter)  to  America. 
He  settled  in  Pompton,  New  Jersey,  and  was 
a  farmer  and  tanner.  He  served  as  a  drummer 
in  the  war  of  1812.  Later  in  life  he  removed 
to  the  present  site  of  Westwood,  Washington 
township,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  where 
he  died  December  11,  1857.  He  married,  July 
10,  1802,  Sarah  Doremus,  of  Preakness,  Pas- 
saic county.  New  Jersey,  born  September  7, 
1783,  died  x'Xugust  7,  1843.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eight  children,  among  whom  was 
Cornelius  D.,  see  forward. 

(II)  Cornelius  D.,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah 
(Doremus)  Taylor,  was  born  about  1810-14, 
at  what  is  now  Westwood,  Bergen  county, 
New  Jersey.  Early  in  life  he  became  identi- 
fied with  the  cotton  mills  at  Lodi,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  became  expert  in  dying  fabrics.  In 
1842,  after  sveral  years  connection  with  the 
former  employment,  he  built  a  hotel  at 
Paramus,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  which 
he  conducted  some  thirteen  years.  Having 
come  into  possession  of  the  Mansion  House 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


;U  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  he  conducted  it 
as  a  hotel  until  1860,  when  he  returned  to 
j'arannis  and  continued  to  conduct  his  hotel 
there  for  about  six  years.  For  thirty  years 
])revious  to  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Hack- 
ensack, August  24,  1876,  he  was  greatly  af- 
flicted with  rheumatism  and  was  compelled  to 
live  in  enforced  retirement  for  several  years. 
In  addition  to  his  business  interests  Mr.  Tay- 
lor devoted  considerable  time  to  the  welfare 
and  improvement  of  his  adopted  city,  and 
served  in  the  capacity  of  assessor  of  the  town 
of  Midland,  which  covered  a  large  district  at 
the  time.  His  nature  was  genial  and  sym- 
pathetic, and  he  was  honored  and  esteemed  by 
his  fellow  citizens.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Dutch  Reformed  church,  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  an  adherent  of  the 
Democratic  party.  He  married  Hannah  Wald- 
ron.  born  August  15,  181 5,  died  April  11,  1901, 
daughter  of  Captain  Barney  and  Matilda  (\'an 
Dien)  W'aldron,  of  New  York.  Children:  i. 
Matilda,  born  1834,  became  wife  of  William 
Cronkright,  of  Hackensack,  New  Jersey,  where 
she  died  July  23,  1906.  2.  Samuel,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Richard,  born  1842 ;  is  a  resident  of 
Hackensack,  New  Jersey. 

(HE)  Samuel  (2).  elder  son  of  Cornelius 
D.  and  Hannah  (Waldron)  Taylor,  was  born 
at  Areola,  Fiergen  county,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 24,  1838.  He  was  reared  in  Hackensack 
and  there  attended  the  public  schools.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  years  he  went  to  work  in  the 
general  store  of  Henry  A.  Berry,  dealer  in  all 
^orts  of  merchandise,  also  proprietor  of  a  coal 
and  lumber  yard.  Samuel  Taylor  in  this  man- 
ner became  thoroughly  proficient  along  various 
lines  of  mercantile  pursuits,  and  the  informa- 
tion and  experience  thus  gained  proved  of 
great  value  to  him  in  his  subsequent  career. 
He  continued  in  the  emjiloy  of  Mr.  Berry  two 
and  one-half  years,  after  which  he  was  em- 
ployed in  the  New  York  brokerage  office  of 
Louis  Becker,  where  his  knowledge  of  busi- 
ness affairs  was  greatly  enhanced.  In  1857  ■^^''• 
Becker  established  the  Bergen  County  Bank  at 
Hackensack,  and  Samuel  Taylor  was  assigned 
to  the  position  of  cashier,  thus  demonstrating 
the  trust  reposed  in  him  by  his  employer,  and 
\\as  ]irobably  one  of  the  youngest  men  who 
ever  occu]iied  such  a  responsible  position.  The 
panic  of  1857  ruined  the  bank,  and  Mr.  Taylor 
was  then  compelled  to  turn  his  attention  to 
other  pursuits,  but  his  spirit  and  love  for 
active  commercial  life  did  not  desert  him.  T-'or 
a  number  of  years  he  was  manager  of  the 
Mansion    House    at    Hackensack,    which    was 


then  his  father's  property  and  is  now  his  own, 
and  in  1866  he  established  a  bottling  business 
which  he  actively  conducted  for  ten  years  and 
in  which  he  still  has  an  interest.  ]\Ir.  Taylor 
has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  local 
affairs,  and  by  his  progress  and  enterprise  has 
contributed  materially  to  the  growth  and  ad- 
vancement of  Hackensack.  His  political  alle- 
giance has  been  given  to  the  Democratic  party ; 
in  1877-78  he  acted  as  collector  of  New  Bar- 
badoes  township,  and  in  1880  was  elected  coun- 
ty clerk,  serving  in  this  important  position  fif- 
teen years,  a  sufficient  testimonial  to  his  ability 
and  integrity.  He  has  been  employed  as  re- 
ceiver of  large  properties  and  has  conserved 
them  with  remarkable  success.  He  is  a  di- 
rector of  the  Hackensack  National  Bank  and 
member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Hack- 
ensack Trust  Company.  Mr.  Taylor  is  a  man 
of  genial  nature,  kind-hearted  and  hospitable, 
and  is  esteemed  and  respected  in  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  resides.  He  is  liberal  in 
religious  views,  and  subscribes  to  the  broad 
fraternal  principles  of  the  Masonic  fraternity, 
being  an  early  member  of  Hackensack  Lodge, 
No.  70. 

Mr.  Taylor  married,  August  10,  1859,  Sarah 
E.  Lovett,  born  July  10,  1839,  died  January 
26,  1905,  daughter  of  John  and  Jane  W. 
(Weaver)  Lovett,  of  Hackensack,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  John  L.,  born  June  9,  1862,  died 
March  20,  1866.  2.  Fannie,  born  December 
2"],  1864;  married,  November  26,  1884,  Abra- 
ham J.  Demarest,  born  February  14,  1858,  son 
of  John  A.  and  Elizabeth  (\'anderbeek)  Dema- 
rest ;  superintendent  of  schools  of  Hoboken, 
New  Jersey ;  one  child,  Stanley  Taylor  Dema- 
rest, born  November  25,  1890.  3.  Mamie  E.  L., 
born  January  9,  1868;  married,  December  2, 
1891,  John  Wakeman  Holberton,  of  Hacken- 
sack, New  Jersey;  children:  Taylor  Wakeman, 
born  September  16,  1891,  and  Thomas  Seir 
Cummings,  born  July  24,1894. 


This  is  one  of  the  early  names  of 
SOOY     New  Jersey  of  Dutch  origin,  and 

has  had  numerous  worthy  repre- 
sentatives in  Burlington  county.  One  of  the 
leading  scions  of  the  family  is  now  clerk  of 
that  county. 

(I)  Yoos  Sooy  was  a  Hollander  by  birth, 
who  came  to  New  Jersey  at  a  ven,^  early  date. 
The  English  equivalent  of  his  christian  name  is 
Joseph.  His  grave  is  located  at  Lower  Bank, 
New  Jersey.  He  had  three  sons — Nicholas, 
Joseph  and  Luke. 

(II)  Nicholas,  eldest  son  of  Yoos  Sooy,  re- 


STATE   OF   NEW    JERSEY. 


1029 


sideil  at  Pleasant  Mills.  He  was  a  well-to-do 
tanner.  He  married  Sarah  Sears  and  they 
had  children;  Nicholas,  Noah,  William,  Arche- 
laus.  Sears,  Elizaheth,  Hannah,  Sarah,  Jemima 
and  I'arnell. 

( IH  )  Nicholas  (2),  eldest  child  of  Nicholas 
(  I  )  and  Sarah  (Sears)  Sooy,  was  born  at 
Cireen  Bank,  New  Jersey,  where  he  resided  on 
the  paternal  homestead.  He  was  a  well-to-do 
farmer,  and  gave  land  to  the  Methodist  Epis- 
co]ial  Church  at  Green  Bank  for  a  cemetery 
and  also  built  the  church  of  that  denomination. 
He  married  Esther  Weeks.  Children  :  Samuel, 
William,  Ejihraim,  Josephus,  Nicholas,  Eliza- 
beth, Mary,  Sarah,  Sophia  and  Esther. 

(IV'j  William,  second  son  of  Nicholas  (2) 
and  Esther  (Weeks)  Sooy.  was  born  in  1815, 
at  Green  Bank,  where  he  died  October  2,  181/1, 
aged  eighty-owe  years.  He  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Haywood.  She  was  born 
about  1811-12,  and  died  April  I,  1901,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-nine  years.  Both  were  active 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
Mr.  Sooy  was  a  Democrat  in  early  life,  but 
was  later  an  enthusiastic  Republican.  He  was 
an  esteemed  and  respected  citizen,  and  served 
three  terms  as  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
legi>lature.  During  and  after  the  civil  war  he 
was  internal  revenue  assessor,  while  that  office 
was  maintained  by  the  United  States  govern- 
ment. He  served  as  town  clerk  and  was  for 
many  years  a  freeholder.  He  kept  a  general 
store  and  also  dealt  in  lumber  at  Green  Bank. 
His  children:  i.  Joel  H.,  resided  at  Bristol, 
Pennsylvania,  and  has  been  for  many  years 
engaged  in  the  oyster  business  in  South  Jersey. 
2.  Anna  }tl.,  became  wife  of  Edward  Johnson, 
and  now  resides  at  Atlantic  City.  3.  Watson 
T.,  mentioned  below.  4.  Franklin  W..  is  an 
artist,  residing  at  Asbury  Park,  New  Jersey. 

(Vj  Watson  Thomas,  second  son  of  Will- 
iam and  Mary  (Haywood)  Sooy,  was  born 
February  14,  1849,  at  Green  Bank,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Providence  Conference  Semi- 
nary, now  known  as  Greenwich  Academy,  at 
Greenwich,  Rhode  Island,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  graduated.  For  one  year  he  taught 
music  in  that  school,  and  then  went  to  Ran- 
di)l[ih  and  was  several  years  a  teacher  in  a 
school  at  that  place.  He  subsequently  served 
in  the  same  capacity  for  a  period  of  two  years 
at  Bristol,  Pennsylvania.  He  then  returned 
to  his  native  place  and  was  busily  engaged  for 
five  years  in  the  menhaden  fisheries.  He  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  the  conduct  of  the  general 
store  at  (Jreen  Bank,  which  he  continued  until 
1904,   when   he    was   elected   to   the   office   of 


county  clerk  for  a  period  of  five  years.  He  is 
an  active  supporter  of  the  Republican  party 
and  exercises  considerable  influence  in  its 
councils  in  his  county.  For  several  years  he 
served  as  freeholder.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Green  Bank, 
and  of  Tuckerton  Lodge  No.  4,  A.  F.  and 
A.  M.,  and  of  Green  Bank  Lodge,  L  O.  O.  F. 
Mr.  Sooy  married,  in  1883,  Harriet  W.  Lane, 
who  was  born  at  Lower  Bank,  a  daughter  of 
Peter  and  Rebecca  (Van  Zant)  Lane. 


This  great  historical  family 
HAMILTON     is  known  to  be  of  English 

origin,  but  when  or  how  it 
took  root  in  Scotland  has  not  been  ascertained 
as  easily.  The  name  is  obviously  territorial, 
taken  from  one  of  the  many  English  manors 
called  Hamilton,  especially  in  Buckinghamshire, 
Hampshire,  Surrey,  Lancashire,  Rutlandshire, 
Yorkshire  and  Leicestershire.  Several  persons  of 
the  name  of  Hamilton  appear  in  English  and 
Scottish  records  about  the  middle  of  the  thir- 
teenth century,  and  one  of  these  seems  to  have 
held  the  Yorkshire  Manor  of  Hamilton,  to- 
gether with  the  lands  in  the  parish  of  Oxnam 
in  Scotland.  But  the  pedigree  of  the  family 
cannot  ]'^e  carried  beyond  (I)  "\\'alter  Fitz- 
Gilbert  (or  Gilbertson)  of  Hamilton,"  who  in 
121)6  held  lands  in  Lanarkshire,  Scotland,  and 
sworn  fealty  to  King  Edward  I.  of  England  as 
overlord  of  Scotland.  He  early  surrendered 
this  strong  fortress,  and  of  the  English  knights 
and  nobles  who  had  fled  to  it  from  the  field  of 
Bannockburn,  was  rewarded  by  King  Robert 
Bruce  by  grant  of  the  land  and  baronies  for- 
feited by  Cuni}-ns  and  other  adherents  of  Eng- 
land. He  attained  the  rank  of  knighthood,  and 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Sir  Adam  of  Gor- 
don of  Hurtly,  by  whom  he  left  two  sons.  The 
elder  son  was  Sir  David  Fitz-Walter  Fitz  Gil- 
bert (  2  ) ,  or  as  he  was  sometimes  more  shortly 
called  Sir  David  Fitz  Walter,  or  Sir  David  of 
Hamilton.  His  eldest  son  (3),  Sir  David  of 
Hamilton  of  Cadyow,  died  before  1392,  leav- 
ing by  his  wife  Janet  of  Keith  five  sons  and  a 
daughter.  The  eldest  son  (4)  Sir  John  of 
Hamilton  of  Cadyow,  married  Janet,  daughter 
of  Sir  James  of  Douglas  of  Dalkeith,  by  whom 
he  was  the  father  of  (5)  Sir  James  of  Hamil- 
ton of  Cadyow.  who  about  1422  married  Janet, 
(laughter  of  Alexander  of  Livingston  of  Cal- 
lander, by  whom  he  had  (6)  Sir  James  of 
Hamilton  of  Cadyow,  and  four  other  sons. 
Sir  James  was  in  1445  created  Lord  Hamilton 
b\'  a  charter  which  erected  his  manor  jilace  of 
"the  Orchard"  to  the  barony  of  Cadyow,  and 


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gave  to  it  the  name  of  Hamilton,  which  it  still 
bears.  His  second  son  (7)  James,  second  Lord 
Hamilton,  was  in  1503  made  Earl  of  Orran, 
and  he  wrote  his  name  "James  by  the  Grace  of 
God,  earl  of  Orran  and  lord  Hamilton,  gov- 
ernor and  prince  of  Scotland."  He  resigned 
his  high  office  in  1554  in  favor  of  Mary  of 
Guise,  receiving  in  return  from  Henry  11.  of 
France  a  grant  of  the  duchy  of  Chatelherault. 
His  nearness  to  the  throne,  his  following  and 
large  possessions  were  so  large  that  his  eldest 
son,  the  Earl  of  Arran,  as  he  was  called,  was 
proposed  as  the  husband  of  Mary,  Queen  of 
Scotland,  and  at  another  time  as  the  husband 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  of  England,  but  he  was 
afflicted  with  madness  in  1562  and  never  re- 
covered his  reason.  His  father,  the  first  Duke 
of  Chatelherault,  dying  in  1575,  the  second 
son  (8)  Lord  John  Hamilton,  became  the  head 
of  the  house,  and  in  1599  was  created  Marquis 
of  Hamilton.  He  died  in  1604  and  his  son  (9) 
Tames,  second  marquis,  was  created  Earl  of 
Cambridge  in  England  in  1619,  and  died  in 
1625.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son  (10) 
James,  the  third  marquis,  who  for  his  military 
services  to  the  king  was  created  Duke  of  Ham- 
ilton. In  1648  he  led  the  Scottish  army  into 
England  for  the  king's  relief,  but  was  defeated 
by  Cromwell  at  Preston  in  Lancashire,  and  be- 
headed at  Westminster,  March,  1649.  His 
brother  William  succeeded  him  and  was  cre- 
ated Earl  of  Lanark,  and  died  in  165 1  from 
wounds  received  in  the  battle  of  Worcester. 
The  Duchy  of  Hamilton,  by  the  terms  of  the 
patent  of  creation  of  Henry  H.  of  France  in 
1534  to  Lord  Hamilton,  now  devolved  on  the 
daughter  of  the  first  duke,  Lady  Anne,  whose 
husband.  Lord  William  Douglas,  Earl  of  Sel- 
kirk, was  in  1660  created  duke  of  Hamilton 
for  life.  He  died  in  1694  and  the  ducess  Anne. 
who  survived  him,  in  1698  resigned  her  title  in 
the  king's  hands  in  favor  of  her  eldest  son  (H) 
James,  Earl  of  Arran,  who  was  anew  created 
Duke  of  Hamilton,  with  the  precedency  of 
1643.  In  171 1  he  was  created  Duke  of  Bran- 
don in  England,  but  the  House  of  Lords  re- 
fused him  a  seat  or  vote  in  Parliament  on  the 
ground  that  the  crown  was  disabled  by  the  act 
of  union  for  granting  a  peerage  of  Great  Brit- 
ain to  any  person  who  was  a  peer  of  Scotland 
before  the  Cnion.  He  was  killed  in  a  duel  in 
Hyde  Park  with  Lord  Mohun  in  1712,  and  his 
eldest  son  ("12)  James  succeeded  him  as  Earl 
of  Arran.  John  Hamilton  of  Lanark,  who 
came  to  America  early  in  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury and  married  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey, 
in    17^0.    Sarah    Manning,   may   have   been   a 


brother  of  James  of  the  twelfth  generation, 
Duke  of  Hamilton. 

The  two  municipal  and  parliamentary  bor- 
oughs of  Hamilton  and  Lanark,  market  towns 
of  Scotland,  are  both  located  in  the  county  of 
Lanark,  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Clyde,  are  ad- 
jacent boroughs,  and  unite  with  four  other 
boroughs  in  sending  a  member  to  parliament. 

( I )  John  Hamilton,  of  Lanark,  Scotland, 
came  to  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  married  in 
1730  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Fitz-Randolph)  Manning,  born  in 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  in  1708.  She  was  a 
granddaughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Den- 
nis )  I'itz  Randolph ;  sister  of  Nathaniel  Fitz 
Randolph,  who  gave  land  on  which  to  build 
Princeton  College,  now  Princeton  L'niversity ; 
and  great-granddaughter  of  Edward  Fitz  Ran- 
dolph ( 1614-1674-5)  the  Pilgflm,  and  Eliza- 
beth Blossom,  his  wife.  Edward  Fitz  Ran- 
dolph immigrated  to  Barnstable,  Plymouth 
Colony.  New  England,  about  1630,  and  built 
the  thirty-sixth  house  in  Scituate,  after  the 
bounds  of  the  town  were  established,  March 
7,  1643,  o.  s.  John  Hamilton  and  Sarah  (Man- 
ning) Hamilton  settled  in  Princeton,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  had  children,  of  whom  John  (q.  v.) 
was  probably  the  eldest. 

dl)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Sarah 
(Manning)  Hamilton,  was  born  in  Princeton, 
New  Jersey,  May  19,  1764,  and  died  in  that 
town  June  24,  1824.  He  married,  in,  1787, 
Phebe,  daughter  of  Captain  John  and  Rhoda 
(Joline)  Ross,  of  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey.  Cap- 
tain John  Ross  was  captain  in  the  colonial 
militia,  and  died  before  the  outbreak  of  the 
American  revolution,  the  date  of  his  death 
being  July,  1774.  In  his  will  he  leaves  his 
"silver  hilted  sword"  to  his  eldest  son  John 
Ross  (2).  His  widow  did  not  marry  again,  al- 
though the  will  of  her  husband  provided  that 
her  share  of  his  estate  should  be  paid  her  even 
if  she  did  remarry.  She  died  at  the  home  of 
her  daughter,  Mrs.  John  Hamilton,  Jr.,  in 
Princeton,  and  her  tombstone  reads :  "Rhoda, 
widow  of  John  Ross,  born  October  7,  1738, 
died  March  21,  1821,  late  of  the  borough  of 
Elizabeth.  New  Jersey."  The  children  of  John 
Hamilton  and  Phebe  (Ross)  Hamilton,  were 
born  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey. 

(Ill)  Samuel  Fitz  Randolph,  son  of  John 
(2)  and  Phebe  Ross  Hamilton,  was  born  in 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  June  7,  1790,  and  died 
in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  August  13,  1856.  He 
was  educated  in  Princeton,  graduating  at  the 
College  of  New  Jersey,  A.  B.,  1808,  and  stud- 
ied law  in  the  office  of  Chancellor  Williamson, 


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111  Trenton,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  an 
attorney  at  law  in  18 1 2,  and  as  a  counsellor  in 
1815.  He  was  a  legal  adviser  of  Joseph  Bona- 
parte during  the  residence  of  that  distinguished 
personage  at  Bordentown.  New  Jersey,  and  he 
was  mayor  of  the  city  of  Trenton  for  one  term. 
He  was  prosecutor  of  pleas  for  Mercer  county, 
New  Jersey ;  his  political  affiliations  was  Dem- 
ocratic, and  his  religious  faith  Presbyterian. 
His  fraternal  affiliation  was  with  the  Masonic 
order,  in  which  he  attained  by  his  work  a  high 
degree.  He  was  known  as  a  friend  and  sup- 
porter of  public  schools,  and  always  took  a 
lively  interest  in  his  alma  mater  and  in  the 
other  educational  institutions  conducted  under 
the  patronage  of  tlie  Presbyterian  church.  His 
interest  in  the  New  Jersey  state  militia  gained 
his  title  of  general  by  holding  the  office 'of 
quartermaster-general  of  the  state,  which  office 
he  resigned  one  year  before  his  death  by  rea- 
son of  continued  ill  health.  While  holding  the 
office  of  quartermaster-general  he  instituted 
the  practice  sham  battles  between  brigades  of 
the  state  militia  on  successive  anniversaries  of 
the  battle  of  Trenton.  He  was  buried  with 
military  honors,  and  the  public  press  of  Au- 
gust 18,  1856  gave  full  accounts  of  the  cere- 
monies attending  the  funeral  and  burial.  He 
was  married  at  Oxford  Furnace,  the  home  of 
David  Morris  and  Tacy  (Paul)  Robeson,  to 
their  daughter,  Eliza  Robeson,  May  20,  1818, 
David  Morris  Robeson  was  born  at  "Forest  of 
Deane,"  New  York,  in  1759,  and  died  at  Ox- 
ford Furnace,  New  Jersey,  1823,  where  he  had 
engaged  in  the  iron  industry.  He  was  a  son  of 
Maurice  ( 1724-61  )  and  .Anne  (  Rockhill)  Robe- 
son, who  were  married  in  1750.  Maurice  Robe- 
son built  "Forest  of  Deane  Furnace,"  one  of 
the  first  iron  furnaces  in  the  state  of  New 
"^'ork.  Maurice  Robeson  was  the  son  of  Jona- 
than Robeson,  born  in  Gloucester  county,  New 
Jersey,  about  1686.  married,  in  1721.  Elizabeth 
Phillipine  Morris,  daughter  of  David  and 
Mary  (  Phillipine )  Alorris,  and  grandson  of 
Philip  l'hilli])iiie,  of  Radnor,  Pennsylvania,  and 
his  wife,  Phebe  Evans,  Welsh  Friends,  who 
were  married  in  1685.  Jonathan  lived  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  near  Oxford,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  built  the  first  iron  furnace  and 

I     forge  in  1742.  He  died  in  Pennsylvania  in  1766. 

'  Jonathan  Robeson  was  the  son  of  Chief  Jus- 
tice .Andrew  Robeson,  born  in  Scotland  in  1653, 
and  died  near  Douglasville,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1 7 19.  He  married,  about  1684,  and  served  as 
chief  justice  of  the  commonwealth  of  Penn- 
s>lvania  from  1693  to  1699. 

Tacv  Paul,  the  wife  of  David  Morris  Robe- 


son, was  the  daughter  of  John  Paul,  who  mar- 
ried, in  1758,  Mary,  daughter  of  his  first  cousin 
Jonathan  and  Deborah  (Kenton)  Paul,  who 
were  married  in  January,  1739,  and  grand- 
daughter uf  John  and  Mary  (I^ivezey)  Paul, 
who  settled  in  .Abingdon,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1630,  and  of  Jonathan  and  Rachel  (Taylor) 
Livezey,  who  were  married  in  1686,  and  great- 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Livezey,  who  settled 
in  Pennsylvania  about  1680  and  owned  land  on 
Pennypack  creek,  and  also  a  lot  at  Fourth  and 
Chestnut  streets  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  on 
which  he  built  a  house  in  which  he  resided 
about  1683.  Anne  Rockhill.  wife  of  Maurice 
Robeson,  was  descended  from  the  families  of 
Ward,  Clayton,  Parnell  and  Taunt,  and  the 
Rockhill  ancestry  is  traced  back  to  Robert 
Rockhill,  born  in  England,  January  4,  1614, 
son  of  Robert  Rockhill.  This  Rockhill  record 
is  from  an  old  family  Bible,  published  in  1607. 
The  children  of  Samuel  Fitz-Randolph  and 
Eliza  (Robeson)  Hamilton  were:  i.  Morris 
Robeson.  2.  John  Randolph.  3.  Samuel  Alex- 
ander (q.  v.).  4.  l-"rances  Maria,  married 
.Samuel  Sherrerd.* 

(  IV )  Samuel  Alexander,  third  son  of  Sam- 
uel Fitz-Randolph  and  Eliza  (Robeson)  Ham- 
ilton, was  born  in  Princeton,  Mercer  county, 
New  Jersey,  July  31,  1824.  He  was  in  the 
real  estate  business ;  a  Presbyterian  in  religious 
faith  :  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  a  soldier  in 
the  civil  war,  1861-65.  holding  the  rank  of  Cap- 
tain of  cavalry.  He  married  Phebe  ]\Iaria, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Susan  (\Viley)  Baker 
of  Princeton,  New  Jersey,  and  widow  of  Will- 
iam Penn  Ely,  who  was  born  in  Princeton,  New 
Jersey.  .August  2^.  1833.  Her  mother.  Susan 
Wiley  Baker,  w-as  a  native  of  Georgetown.  D.  C. 
The  children  of  Samuel  Alexander  and  Phoebe 
Maria  (Baker)  Ely  Hamilton,  were  born  in 
Princeton,  New  Jersey,  as  follows:  i.  Charles 
Ross  (q.  v.).  2.  Morris  Stroud,  October  23, 
1866.  3.  Susie  Baker,  March  31,  1868.  4. 
Eliza  Robeson.  February  12,  1872. 

(\")  Charles  Ross,  eldest  son  of  Samuel 
Alexander  and  Phoebe  Maria  (Baker)  Ely 
Hamilton,  was  born  in  Princeton,  New  Jersey, 
February  27,  1865.  He  was  educated  in  pri- 
vate schools  and  by  tutors.  Instead  of  going 
to  Princeton  as  originally  intended,  he  entered 
the  business  field  and  entered  the  employ  of 
the  stationery  house  of  Louis  Dreka,  Philadel- 
phia, which  afterwards  grew  into  The  Dreka 
Company,  of  which  corporation  he  afterwards 

♦The  above  on  the  ancestry  of  the  Hamilton  and 
Robe.=on  families  are  from  advance  sheet.«  of  the 
"Hi.^tory  and  Genealogy  of  the  Descendants  of 
Cliief   Justice  Andrew   Robeson   of  Penna." 


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became  president.  His  political  faith  has  been 
allied  with  the  Republican  party,  and  he  has 
taken  an  active  interest.  He  was  identified 
with  the  Young  Republicans  of  Philadelphia 
and  The  Lincoln  Club.  Among  social  clubs, 
he  was  a  member  of  the  Art  Club  of  Philadel- 
phia, the  Merion  Cricket  Club,  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  the  Undine  Barge  Club,  the  Ches- 
ter \'alley  Hunt  Club,  the  Bryn  Alawr  Polo 
Club,  and  the  Devon  Polo  Club.  His  church 
affiliation  has  been  with  the  Presbyterian  de- 
nomination. He  was  married,  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  October  18,  18Q4,  to  Florence, 
daughter  of  John  P.  and  Emil)-  i\I.  W'oolver- 
ton.  Her  father  was  a  lumber  merchant  of 
Philadelphia,  and  her  mother  a  daughter  of 
Charles  Harmstead,  a  merchant  of  Philadel- 
phia. John  P.  and  Emily  M.  W'oolverton  had 
two  children,  Runyon  and  I'lorence. 

The  first  child  born  to  Charles  Ross  and 
Florence  (W'oolverton)  Hamilton  was  Charles 
Ross  Jr.,  in  Philadelphia,  March  8,  1898.  In 
1905  he  entered  the  Blight  School  and  became 
a  member  of  the  class  of  191 5,  and  has  taken 
an  active  interest  in  athletics  and  horses.  He 
is  the  sixth  generation  from  John  Hamilton, 
the  Scotch  immigrant  to  Xew  Jersey,  who  was 
married  in  1730  to  Sarah  INIanning.  and  in  the 
ninth  generation  from  Edward  Fitz  Randolph. 
Plymouth  Colony,  New  England,  1630,  through 
Benjamin,  Ephraim  and  Sarah,  wife  of  John 
Hamilton,  his  Scotch  ancestors. 


John     Casler,     of     Monmouth 
CASLER      county.    New    Jersey,    the    first 

member  of  the  family  of  whom 
we  have  definite  information,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 8,  1770,  and  died  ]\Iarch  2,  1862.  He  is 
buried  in  the  old  Hartshorne  burying-ground 
at  Middletown,  New  Jersey.  It  is  possible  he 
may  ha\-e  been  a  son  of  George  Cassler  of  that 
place,  wdio  was  granted  a  license  September  10, 
1760,  to  marry  .\nn  \'an  Schaick,  of  Freehold. 
I  or  many  years  John  Casler  held  the  post  of 
'lighthouse  keeper  at  Sandy  Hook.  He  married 
Margaret  Clayton.  Children:  Hannah,  born 
Sejitember  15,  1794:  Peter,  referred  to  below; 
Joseph,  born  February  12.  1800:  John,  July  3. 
1802,  died  October  i,  1877:  Rebecca  Clayton, 
born  May  9,  1805;  Adelia  .\.,  March  21.  1808; 
Robert  F.,  January  11,  t8ii,  died  in  infancy; 
Robert,  born  June  21,  1814:  George.  June  9, 
1817. 

(IT)  Peter,  son  of  Tohn  and  Margaret 
(Clayton)  Casler.  was  born  in  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  August  6,  1797,  and  died 
there   in    1882.     He  married    (first)    Septem- 


ber 29.  1817,  Mary  Paxton ;  (second)  about 
1843,  Elizabeth  Paxton,  sister  to  his  first  wife. 
Children,  fourteen  by  first  and  three  by  sec- 
ond marriage:  I.  Joseph,  born  September  6, 
1818.  2.  John,  February  21,  1820;  married 
Elizabeth  Rue ;  children :  Mary  Ellen,  Aaron 
r.,  John  N.,  Annie,  Emily,  and  Harriet.  3. 
Theodocia,  born  Se])tember  20.  1S23:  married 
Edward  Lufton;  children:  Mary  and  Ed- 
ward Lufton.  4.  William  C,  born  February 
II,  1824:  married  Laura  Shackleton ;  child, 
Mary.  5.  ?vlargaret  A.,  born  December  6, 
1826;  married  William  Throckmorton;  chil- 
dren: James,  Mary,  Theodore,  Annie  and 
Elizabeth  Throckmorton.  6.  Robert,  born  April 
24.  1828.  7.  James  H.,  December  20,  1820. 
8.  Mary  Elizabeth,  November  16,  1831  ;  mar- 
ried Dr.  Cooke ;  child,  John  Cooke.  9.  Emily, 
bcirn  April  11,  1833  ;  married  Joseph  Williams ; 
children:  Emma  and  Edward  Williams.  10. 
Edward,  liorn    September   24,    1834:   married 

:    cluldren :      Edward   and    Edna.      11. 

Peter,   born    March    15,    1836;   married  Julia 

;  children  :     Emma,  Adele,  Amelia  and 

William.  12.  Adelia,  born  January  16,  183S: 
married  Albert  Martin.     13.  Aaron,  born  June 

14,   1839:  married  Anna  ■ .     14.  Rufns 

Taylor,  referred  to  below.  15  Sarah  E.,  brirn 
July  16,  1844.  married  Ira  Borden.  16.  Har- 
riet A.,  born  Tanuarv  22.  18^7:  married 
Charles  Wikofi"; "child,  Thaddeus  Wikolif.  17 
Theodore  A.,  born  December  31,  1849. 

(  HI)  Rufus  Taylor,  son  of  Peter  and  Mary 
(  Paxton)  Casler,  was  born  in  Eatontown 
township,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1841,  and  is  now  living  in  Eaton- 
town,  New  Jerse}'.  After  receiving  his  educa- 
tion in  the  district  schools  of  Monroe  township, 
Middlesex  county,  while  living  with  his  grand- 
uirither.  he  returned  to  his  father's  home 
v.hen  about  twenty-six  years  old.  and  went  to 
work  on  his  father's  three  iumdred  acre  farm, 
which  he  and  his  brothers  Joseph  and  Henry 
afterwards  bought  of  the  estate,  and  started 
out  on  his  successful  agricultural  career,  which 
he  continued  until  1889,  when  they  sold  the 
farm  to  the  Monmouth  Park  Association, 
which  turned  it  into  the  famous  race  course. 
I\Ir.  Casler  then  retired  from  active  business 
and  has  since  been  leading  a  life  of  well  earned 
leisure.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He 
married,  in  Long  Branch.  July  12,  1892,  Grace 
Ann,  born  in  Long  Branch,  February  i,  1855. 
daughter  of  George  H.  and  Mary  Jane  (W'il 
cut)  (]reen.  Her  father  was  born  January  9. 
1 83 1,  and  her  mother  March  6.  1833.  Chil- 
dren of  George  H.  and  Mary  Jane   (Wilcut) 


Manning  Cresl,  Coal-of- Arms  and  Motto,  Granted  and 
Confirmed     1577,   A.  D. 


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Green:  I.  Grace  Ann,  referred  to  above.  2. 
Margaret,  married  Harry  W'ardell,  of  Asbury 
I'ark.  3.  Estelle,  married  Joseph  Robbins,  of 
Long-  Branch  ;  children  :  Harold,  Forrest  and 
Grace  Robbins.  4.  Isabelle,  unmarried.  5. 
Charles,  married  Elizabeth  Bayton :  children : 
John  and  Charles  Carroll.  6.  Forrest,  married 
Mautl  Cottrell;  child,  George. 


Andrew  Watson  ]_>ray,  of  (Jrange, 
1!RA\'  is  descended  from  bturdy  Revolu- 
tionary stock,  three  generations  of 
his  family  having  fought  in  the  war  for  Inde- 
pendence. Andrew  Bray,  hisgreat-grandfatlier, 
who  married  Cornelia  Traphagen,  was  a  pri- 
vate in  the  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey, 
militia.  John  Bray,  his  great-great-grandfather, 
married  Susan  Bray,  and  served  as  a  lieutenant 
of  Hunterdon  county  militia.  His  great-great- 
great-grand  father,  Andrew  Bray,  was  a  pri- 
vate in  the  New  Jersey  Line,  Continental  army. 
This  Andrew  Bray  was  the  son  of  John  and 
Susanna  Bray,  and  married  Margaret  Wat- 
son. The  official  records  of  these  revolution- 
ary patriots  are  in  the  adjutant-generars  office 
in  Trenton,  and  constitute  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable exhibits  in  this  connection  in  the  his- 
tory of  New  Jersey. 

Andrew  Watson  Bray  has  inherited  and  de- 
veloped all  the  sterling  (|ualities  of  his  race — a 
race  that  has  been  resident  in  the  colony  and 
the  state  for  many  generations,  and  one  which 
has  always  been  active  in  patriotic  and  com- 
mercial capacities.  He  is  the  son  of  Andrew 
Watson  Bray  Sr.  and  Sarah  Thompson ;  a 
grand.son  of  John  Traphagen  Bray  and  Eu- 
phemia  Armstrong;  and,  as  previously  stated, 
a  great-grandson  of  Andrew  Bray,  one  of  the 
trio  of  revolutionary  patriots. 

Mr.  Bray  was  born  in  Rockaway,  Morris 
county,  New  Jersey,  July  24.  1855.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
r.elvidere,  Warren  county,  and  subsequently 
held  the  position  of  ticket  agent  at  the  Broad 
Street  Station,  Newark,  from  1875  to  1887. 
Since  that  date  he  has  been  the  New  Jersey 
state  manager  for  the  Massachusetts  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company  of  Springfield,  Mass- 
achusetts. In  this  latter  position  he  has  dis- 
played great  executive  ability  and  built  up  a 
large  and  successful  business.  He  is  one  of 
tlie  best  known  life  insurance  managers  in  the 
state.  In  public  life  Mr.  Bray  has  also  been 
j)rominent.  He  has  served  three  terms  as  pres- 
ident of  the  RejHiblican  Club  of  Newark,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  Newark  Board  of  Edu- 


cation from  1887  to  1 89 1,  removing  subse- 
ijuently  to  C)range,  where  he  now  lives.  He  is 
a  member,  and  for  eight  years  was  vice-presi- 
dent, of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution 
of  New  Jersey,  and  is  now  a  trustee  of  the 
National  Society.  I-'rom  1906  to  1907  he  was 
vice-president  general  of  the  National  Society. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  His- 
torical Society,  the  East  C)range  Republican 
Club,  the  L'nion  League  Club  of  Orange,  and 
the  South  Orange  Field  Club,  also  the  New 
England  Society  of  Orange. 

He  married,  December  12,  1883,  I'hilletta 
Crane  Dalton,  and  has  a  daughter,  Gertrude 
I'.ray,  wife  of  Walter  R.  Okeson,  of  Phoenix- 
ville.   Pennsvlvania. 


The  Mannings  had  their  early 
MANNING     origin  in  Germany,  and  went 

over  in  the  fourth  and  fifth 
centuries  from  Saxony  to  England.  The  first 
o*'  the  name  mentioned  in  the  cc)unty  of  Kent 
was  Ranulph  de  Manning,  or  Manheim,  Lord 
of  Manheim,  who  married  the  aunt  of  King 
Harold.  Simon  de  Manning,  son  of  Ranulph, 
])0ssessed  lands  at  Downes,  in  Kent,  and  was 
knighted  in  the  Second  Crusade.  He  was 
Lord  of  Betiad  (now  Downe),  and  the  first  of 
the  English  barons  to  take  up  the  Cross  and  go 
with  King  Richard  (Coeur  de  Lion)  to  the 
Holy  Wars,  1190  A.  D.  He  was  the  ancestor 
of  the  line  of  Mannings  of  Downe  and  Coot- 
ham  who  were  knights-marshal  of  the  house- 
holds of  England's  sovereigns  for  nearly  four 
hundred  years.  The  old  manor  house  of  this 
progenitor  was  an  entailed  estate,  anrl  is  still  in 
the  Manning  family.  Sir  Henry  Manning, 
knight-marshal  to  Henry  VIL,  about  A.  D. 
1300,  married  Lienor  Brandon,  aunt  of  the 
Duke  of  Suft'olk,  who  was  the  husband  of 
Mary,  Queen  Dowager  of  France,  sister  of 
Henry  \'III.,  and  grandmother  of  Lady  Jane 
(irey.  Sir  Henry's  grandson,  John  Manning, 
son  of  Hugh,  had  a  grant  of  a  large  part  of 
l!ie  possessions  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  in 
Ireland,  and  joined  the  Earl  of  Essex  about 
1600.  in  the  reign  of  Oueen  Elizabeth,  in  an 
expedition  to  Ireland.  (  From  "History  of  tlie 
Mannings").  This  John  Manning  was  the 
English  ancestor  of  the  family  hereinafter 
mentioned. 

According  to  Burke's  Peerage  a  coat-of- 
arms  was  granted  in  1577  to  Manning,  of 
Downe,  county  Kent.  It  appears  the  same  in 
various  branches  of  the  family — a  cross,  with 
four  trefoils;  but  the  crests  slightly  varying — 


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an  eagle  head  on  a  crown  with  two  feathers. 
Motto:  "Malo  mori  quam  foedari" — "I  would 
die  rather  than  be  disgraced." 

( I )  The  earliest  of  the  name  on  record  as 
coming  to  America  was  John  Manning,  then 
twenty  years  of  age,  who  sailed  from  London, 
England,  for  Xew  England,  in  the  ship  "Globe," 
in  August,  1635.  In  1640  he  was  on  record  in 
Boston  wnth  his  wife  Abigail,'  and  laid  the 
foundations  for  a  large  line  of  descent.  Many 
of  the  name  took  part  in  the  colonial  wars,  the 
revolution,  the  war  of  1812,  the  war  of  the 
rebellion,  and  the  late  war  with  Spain,  and 
bore  themselves  most  creditably.  The  ditYerent 
branches  of  the  family  also  embrace  among 
their  number  some  of  the  most  distinguished 
names  on  the  pages  of  Xew  Jersey  history,  in- 
cluding many  scholars. 

(IT)  Jeffrey,  son  of  John  ^Manning,  is  said 
to  have  emigrated  from  Xew  England  to  Xew 
Jersey  about  1671,  and  was  living  in  Piscat- 
away  township  in  1676,  and  died  in  1693.  I" 
i6(S2  he  was  one  of  three  commissioners  who 
laid  out  extensive  land  grants  in  Piscataway, 
Middlesex  county,  and  the  following  year  was 
marshal  of  the  first  county  court  of  Aliddlesex 
county,  which  was  held  at  Piscataway.  In 
landed  estate,  Jeffrey  Manning  and  his  chil- 
dren were  among  the  largest  and  most  success- 
ful citizens  of  the  county.  He  married  Hep- 
zibah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Andrews,  of  Hing- 
ham,  Massachusetts,  granddaughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Andrews,  Lord  Mayor  of  London.  Chil- 
dren of  Jeft'rey  and  Hepzibah  (Andrews)  Plan- 
ning :  John,  born  about  1670,  married  Elizabeth 
Dennis :  Benjamin,  born  about  1674,  married 
Ann  Blackford;  James,  born  about  1676,  mar- 
ried Christiana  Laing;  Elizabeth,  married 
Thomas  Fitz  Randolph ;  and  Joseph.  The 
Tliomas  family,  of  which  Mrs.  Manning  was 
a  member,  were  formerly  natives  of  Devon- 
shire, England,  which  was  also  the  ancestral 
home  of  some  of  the  Alannings.  Among  the 
descendants  of  Jeffrey  Manning  was  Dr.  James 
Manning,  founder  and  first  president  of  Brown 
University,  IVovidence,  Rhode  Island. 

( II)  Joseph,  fourth  son  of  Jeffrey  and  Hep- 
zibah (Andrews)  Manning,  was  born  about 
1678,  at  Piscataway,  Xew  Jersey,  and  died  in 
172S.  He  and  his  brothers  w-ere  among  the 
early  settlers  who  successfully  petitioned  the 
royal  powers  for  relief  from  the  oppressive 
jurisdiction  of  the  proprietors.  He  married, 
in  1802,  Temperance,  daughter  of  John  and 
Sarah  (Bonham)  Fitz-Randolph,  and  their 
children  were:  Joanna,  born  about  1705,  mar- 
ried   Mr.    Campbell ;    Trustrum ;    Mary,   born 


1712;  Elizabeth.  1713;  Eunice,  1715:  Rachel, 
1717;  Jeffrey,  1719;  Grace,  1 721,  married  Dan- 
iel Cooper;  and  Ruth,  born  1726. 

(Ill)  Trustrum,  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and 
Temperance  (Fitz-Randolph)  Manning,  was 
born  in  1710,  in  Piscataw'ay,  Xew  Jersey,  and 
died  in  1771.  He  married  Johanna  Drake,  and 
had  a  son  Andrew,  named  below ;  also  four 
other  children:  Joseph,  Sarah,  Trustrum,  and 
David,  born  1734.  David,  son  of  Trustrum 
and  Johanna,  married  and  had  Jeremiah,  who 
married  Beersheba  Laberteau,  and  had  Rachel, 
who  was  born  in  1809,  and  married  Andrew 
Manning,  son  of  Benjamin  Manning  and  Phebe 
Drake;  see  Andrew  (VI). 

( lY)  Andrew,  son  of  Trustrum  and  Jo- 
hanna (Drake)  Manning,  was  born  about  1740, 
and  was  a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary  war.  He 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Hannah  Stelle,  and  had  a  son  Benjamin. 

(\')  Benjamin,  son  of  Andrew  and  Mary 
(Stelle)  Manning,  was  born  in  1764,  on  the 
family  homestead  at  Piscataway,  and  inherited 
a  farm  of  five  hundred  acres  of  land  from  his 
father.  Like  his  father  he  also  was  a  soldier 
in  the  revolutionary  war.  He  married  Phebe 
Drake  :  their  children  were :  Andrew,  Isaac, 
Sarah,  Mary  Eliza,  Elizabeth,  Osy  and  Phebe. 

(\T)  Andrew  (2),  eldest  son  of  Benjamin 
and  Phebe  (Drake)  Manning,  was  born  in 
1801,  died  in  July  30,  1881,  in  Piscataway, 
Xew  Jersey.  He  w-as  a  highly  respected  citi- 
zen, and  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  He 
married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and 
Beersheba  (Laberteau)  Manning ;  children :  i. 
Joel  D.,  born  1824.  2.  Abel,  born  1826;  died 
February  5,  1879;  married  (first)  Mary  J. 
Shotwell ;  (second)  Sarah  Comjiton  ;  children 
by  second  wife:  Mary,  Frederick,  Lizzie, 
Adeline  and  Howard.  3.  Catherine,  born  in 
1829.  died  January  13,  1910;  married  Isaac 
Randolph  ;  children  :  Albert,  deceased  ;  and 
Howard.  4.  Jeremiah,  born  in  1831  ;  died  No- 
vember 19,  1904;  married  Catherine  Comp- 
ton :  children:  James,  married  Jennie  Leland, 
and  had  Jeremiah,  Leland  and  James ;  Clara ; 
Margaret  and  Catherine.  5.  Isaac,  born  in 
1832,  died  young.  6.  Adeline,  born  in  1836; 
married  David  Townsend ;  one  daughter, 
Rachel,  married  W.  B.  R.  Mason,  and  has 
three  sons :  David  Townsend,  Frederick  and 
H.  Randolph.  7.  Lebbeus,  see  forward.  8. 
Daniel,  born  March  29,  1840,  married  (first) 
Amelia  Tappen,  (second)  Mrs.  Palmer;  by 
his  first  wife  he  had  a  son  Clifford,  born  Sep- 
tember 18.  1876,  married  Luthera  Randolph. 
Daniel  had  also  a  daughter  Edith,  who  mar- 


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ried  Clarence  Bruard,  and  has  a  daughter  Ele- 
nor. 

(VII)  Lebbeiis  L.  Manning,  fifth  son  of 
Andrew  (2)  and  Rachel  (Manning)  Man- 
ning, was  born  May  28,  1838,  at  the  family 
homestead  at  Piscataway,  New  Jersey,  and 
ac(|uired  his  education  in  the  local  public 
schools,  after  which  he  entered  the  employ  of 
Andrew  Vanderbeck,  of  Plainlield,  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  learned  the  art  of  marble  and 
stone  cutting.  He  removed  to  New  York  City 
and  worked  for  some  time,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  the  farm  at  Piscataway,  and  opened 
a  stone-cutting  establishment  for  himself, 
commencing  on  a  small  scale  and  gradually 
enlarging  his  business  until  he  was  able  to  re- 
move the  enterprise  to  Plainfield,  and  invest 
in  a  larger  business,  which  has  now  grown  to 
such  magnitude  that  it  is  one  of  the  leading 
marble  and  granite-cutting  concerns  in  the 
state.  ]Mr.  Manning  is  one  of  the  prominent 
business  men  of  Plainfield,  and  is  a  member  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church.  He  married  (first) 
Matilda  Sebring,  and  (second)  Elizabeth  Hey- 
niger.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  two  children: 
I.  Walter,  married  Catherine  Ackerman,  and 
has  three  chidren — Dorothy,  Catherine  and 
Eleanor.  2.  Carrie,  married  Philip  Maclntyre, 
and  has  one  son,  Russel.  Lebbeus  L.  Man- 
ning died  April  28,  1910. 

(VH)  Joel  D.,  eldest  son  of  Andrew  (2) 
and  Rachel  (^Manning)  Manning,  was  born 
•  ■ctober  22,  1824,  died  June  10,  1909,  at  Plain- 
field,  New  Jersey.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  neighboring  schools.  He  inherited  from 
his  father  his  farm  which  has  been  in  the  fam- 
ily about  two  hundred  and  fifty  years  or  more, 
being  a  land  grant  from  the  English  crown  to 
his  emigrant  ancestor,  Jeffrey  Manning.  By 
untiring  industry  and  close  study  of  the  best 
methods  of  conducting  a  farm,  Mr.  Manning 
succeeded  to  so  high  a  degree  as  to  be  con- 
sidered the  most  successful  farmer  in  Middle- 
sex county,  and  it  was  his  great  distinction  to 
receive  an  award  for  agricultural  and  cereal 
industry  from  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion in  Chicago,  in  1893.  In  1902  he  retired 
from  active  labor.  He  was  an  exemplary  mem- 
ber of  the  First  ?5aptist  Church  of  Plainfield. 
In  both  person  and  intellect  he  greatly  resem- 
bled Daniel  Webster.  He  married  Emeline, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Harriet  (Boice) 
Townsend.  Children:  i.  Dr.  Andrew  Man- 
ning, of  whom  further ;  Sarah  Townsend  and 
Harriet   Townsend   Manning. 

(VIIT)  Dr.  Andrew  Manning,  only  son  of 
Joel  D.  anfl  Emeline   (Townsend)    Manning, 


was  born  January  6,  iSGi,  and  died  May  19, 
1898.  After  being  a  student  of  Rutgers  Col- 
lege, he  was  a  graduate  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  of  New  York  City;  was 
also  house  surgeon  at  Charity  Hospital,  and  a 
successful  physician.  He  married  Aretta  Het- 
field,  June  27,  1894,  and  left  one  daughter, 
iMiicline  Townsend   Manning. 

(The    Townsend    Line). 

The  name  Townsend  was  formerly  spelled 
Atte  Towns  End,  and  went  through  the  vari- 
ous changes  of  Towneyshend,  Townesend, 
Townshend,  and  others,  finally  becoming  short- 
ened to  Townsend  the  form  ailopted  by  nearly 
all  the  American  members  of  the  family.  The 
significance  is  doubtless  "at  the  town's  end," 
used  first  to  describe  the  location  of  a  dwell- 
ing. They  were  among  the  prominent  families 
of  Norfolk,  England,  and  were  living  there 
in  the  thirteenth  century.  Richard  HI.  ap- 
pointed a  Townsend  a  Baron  of  the  Court ; 
later,  one  Roger  Townsend,  a  sailor,  assisted 
the  cause  of  Queen  Elizabeth  by  giving  her  the 
use  of  some  ships,  becoming  a  knight  by  way 
of  reward.  Richard  Townsend,  of  a  later 
day,  was  a  colonel  in  Cromwell's  army,  and  re- 
ceived an  estate  in  Ireland.  Several  of  the 
family  in  England  became  followers  of  George 
I"ox  and  were  led  to  seek  a  home  in  New  Eng- 
land, but  as  the  governments  of  most  of  the 
colonies  were  inimical  to  the  Quakers,  many 
of  them  removed  to  Long  Island  ;  the  Dutch 
authorities  also  tried  to  keep  out  the  Quakers, 
and  most  of  them  left  Long  Island  for  Rhode 
Island  or  the  West  Indies,  most  of  them,  how- 
ever, returning  at  a  later  date.  The  Friends 
grew  to  be  very  numerous  in  the  vicinity  of 
Flushing  and  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  and 
their  records  of  meetings  have  been  helpful  in 
tracing  the  different  branches  of  the  family 
here  described.  Thomas  Townsend,  according 
to  a  deposition  made  in  New  England,  was 
born  about  1600  and  emigrated  to  New  Eng- 
land about  1635,  being  located  in  Lynn,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1638  where  he  became  freeman  in 
1639,  and  died  December  22,  1677.  He  had 
sons  Thomas,  John  and  Andrew,  from  whom 
most  of  the  Long  Island  family  are  descended. 

(I)  From  the  Friends'  records  it  is  shown 
that  John  Townsend,  of  Queens  county,  Long 
Island,  had  certificate  of  clearness  from  the 
Society  of  Flushing,  and  with  the  consent  of 
his  father  married  at  Plainfield,  New  Jersey, 
March  17,  1768,  Susannah,  daughter  of  John 
and  Grace  (Webster)  Shotwell,  born  Febru- 
ary   I.    1744.     John   Townsend   was   born    in 


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1734.  son  of  Joiiadalj.  ami  died  in  I^ssex  coun- 
ty, Xew  Jersey,  April  8,  1810.  Ijeiiig  buried  at 
I'lainfield.  His  children  were:  I.  Martha, 
born  April  26,  i/ff).  married  James  Powell; 
she  was  his  second  wife.  2.  Grace,  born  in 
1770.  3.  Sarah,  1771.  died  1837.  4.  Hugh. 
5.  Jotham,  born  December  19,  1774.  6.  John, 
August  18,  1776. 

(  n  )  Hugh,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Susanna 
(Shotwell)  Townsend,  was  born  August  8, 
1773;  died  April  25,  1849;  married  Mary  Dell, 
born  January  I,  1771,  by  whom  he  had  chil- 
dren :  Richard,  Joseph,  Elizabeth  and  Jotham. 
Jotham.  born  November  29,  1797,  died  Janu- 
ary 1,  1876,  removed  about  1853  from  New 
Market  or  F'lainfield,  New  Jersey :  he  married, 
for  his  second  wife,  in  1820,  Catherine  Shot- 
well. 

(HI)  Richard,  son  of  Hugh  and  Mary 
(Dell)  Townsend,  was  born  at  New  Market. 
New  Jersey,  November  6,  1805 ;  died  June  3, 
1872.  He  married  Harriet  Covert  Boice,  born 
December  4,  1804,  daughter  of  David  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Covert)  Boice.  Their  children  were: 
John  and  David  (twins),  born  November  27, 
1825;  Emeline ;  Sarah  and  Hugh. 

(IV)  Emeline,  bom  October  19.  1827, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Harriet  ( Boice ) 
Townsend,  married  Joel  D.  Manning.  She 
died  October  7,  1903. 

( For  Townsend  coat-of-arms  see  Burke's 
Peerage).  The  crest  is  a  stag,  passant,  proper, 
and  the  motto,  "Haec  generi  menta  fides" 
(  Faith  gave  these  honors  to  our  race). 


David  Poinier,  the  first  mem- 
r'()lXlh~R  her  of  the  family  of  whom  we 
have  definite  information,  was 
a  descendant  of  the  old  Huguenots  who  set- 
tled in  and  around  New  Rochelle  between  1690 
and  1700.  He  removed  from  New  Rochelle 
to  \\'hite  Plains,  and  became  there  a  highly 
prosperous  farmer.  Owing  to  the  destruction 
of  the  land  records  by  the  burning  of  the 
White  Plains  courthouse  during  the  revolu- 
tion, his  descendants  lost  much  of  the  prop- 
erty which  they  had  inherited,  and  in  conse- 
quence left  the  town  and  founded  new  homes 
for  themselves  elsewhere. 

(II)  John,  son  of  David  Poinier,  of  White 
Plains,  was  born  there  in  1769.  He  removed 
to  Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  1790.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  Phebe,  sister  to  John  Woods,  the 
first  editor  of  the  Newark  Gazette,  and  (sec- 
ond )  the  widow  of  Jonathan  Parkhurst.  Chil- 
dren, two  by  first  marriage:  i.  Amelia,  mar- 
ried Joseph  C.  .Ashley,  of  Albany,  New  York. 


2.  Jcihn  Woods,  married  Ella  ]\Iorris,  and  had 
one  child.  3.  Horace  J.,  referred  to  below. 
4.  Eliza,  married  Timothy  Mann.  5.  Charles, 
married  Sarah  ^liller.  6.  Elisha,  married 
Frances  Keen,  of  Newark.  7.  Jeremiah,  mar- 
ried Catharine  Carter,  who  is  still  (  1910)  liv- 
ing in  Newark,  over  ninety-seven  years  of  age. 

(Ill)  Horace  J.,  son  of  John  Poinier  and 
hi^  second  wife  the  widow  of  Parkhurst,  was 
born  ill  Newark,  New  Jersey,  October  12, 
T8i.">9.  He  learned  the  lumber  trade,  and  in 
that  was  engaged  for  the  greater  part  of  his 
life,  lie  was  also  jiresident  of  the  Newark 
City  Insurance  Company  until  the  corporation 
became  extinct,  a  director  in  the  Newark  City 
Bank,  and  mayor  of  Newark  from  185 1  to 
1855.  He  was  for  many  years  an  elder  in  the 
Presbyterian  church,  and  with  his  father  help- 
ed to  build  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Newark.  He  married,  in  Newark,  in  1832, 
Sarah  Pierson,  daughter  of  William  and  Mar- 
garet Myers  of  Newark.  Children :  William 
K.  and  John  Woods,  both  referred  to  below. 

( I\' )  William'K.,  son  of  Horace  J.  and  Sarah 
Pierson  (Myers)  Poinier,  was  born  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  June  4,  1833.  After  graduating 
from  Dr.  Hedges's  school,  he  and  his  brother 
entered  the  lumber  business  of  their  father, 
which  the}-  carried  on  together  for  some  years. 
William  Poinier  then  sold  out  his  interest  to 
his  brother  and  went  into  the  harness  business 
with  his  own  son-in-law.  Frances  W.  Bonneau, 
and  continued  in  this  until  his  death.  He  was 
one  of  the  well  known  business  men  of  New- 
ark, and  was  interested  in  all  movements  for 
the  public  good.  He  was  a  Republican,  and 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  He 
married,  in  Newark,  September  4,  1854,  Eliz- 
abeth T..  daughter  of  Aaron  Condit  and  Mary 
C)liver  (Alunn)  Ward  (see  Ward).  She  was 
born  June  iS,  1834,  and  is  now  living  with 
her  daughter,  Mrs.  Bonneau,  at  iii  South 
nth  street,  Newark.  Children:  i.  Mary 
Ward,  born  July  15,  1855;  married  Francis 
W.  Bonneau ;  child,  Marian  Evans,  born  June 
I,  1885,  married  John,  son  of  Dr.  Holden,  of 
Newark.  2.  Annie  Seymour,  born  August  22, 
1856:  married  J.  F.  Sweasy.  of  Newark.  3. 
Fanny  Whitney,  born  August  18,  1858:  died 
Octob'er  21,  1861.  4.  Julia  Isabell,  born  No- 
vember 30,  i860:  died  March  12,  1888.  5. 
Horace  Johnson,  born  December  11,  1863  :  died 
January  19,  1875.  6.  Joseph  Ward,  born  Jan- 
uary 2.  18C16;  died  June  9,  1905  :  married  Mary 
J.  McCarthy  of  Newark. 

(1\')  John  Woods,  son  of  Horace  J.  and 
.Sarah  Pierson   (Mvers)   Poinier.  was  born  in 


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Newark,  June  18,  1836.  After  being  educated 
in  tlie  Newark  schools  he  and  his  brother  suc- 
ceeded their  father  in  the  lumber  business,  and 
later  he  bought  out  the  interest  of  his  brother 
and  continued  it  alone,  his  yards  being  on 
South  ]\Iarket  street  and  the  river.  In  1893 
Mr.  Poinier  retired  from  active  business,  and 
now  lives  quietly  at  41  South  street,  Newark. 
He  is  a  Republican,  and  was  a  freeholder  from 
1876  to  1877.  He  is  a  member  of  the  South 
T'ark  Presbyterian  Church.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1857,  Abbey  L.,  daughter  of  E.  T. 
and  Elizabeth  (Winans)  Tucker,  who  was 
born  in  Newark,  October  K),  1836.  Children: 
Alice  B.,  l)orn  August  28,  1861,  married  John 
A.  Sandford,  professor  of  Greek  in  Adelphi 
College,  Brooklyn,  New  York;  Helen,  born 
l-'ebruary   10,  1867. 


The   name  of  Johnson    (son 
JOHNSON     of  John)  was  adopted  about 

the  time  of  surnames  after 
the  Norman  Conquest  (1066),  the  name  being 
distinctly  Saxon  or  English.  The  armorial 
bearings  are  of  the  seat  of  Goldington,  coun- 
ty Bedford,  England,  and  are  as  follows:  Az., 
a  chevron ;  or,  in  chief  two  eagles  volant,  in 
base  a  son  of  the  second.  Crest :  Eagle,  dis- 
played. The  family  of  Johnson  is  noted  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Connecticut  for  their 
strong  intellectual  ability  and  independence. 
The  ancestry  of  Thomas  Johnson,  the  New- 
ark ancestor,  shows  that  three  brothers — John, 
Robert  and  Thomas — were  in  the  New  Haven 
Colony,  the  record  of  John  beginning  in  1639, 
that  of  Robert  in  1(141,  and  of  Thomas  in 
1647. 

(I)  Evidence  shows  that  the  progenitor  of 
the  family  was  Robert  Johnson,  father  of 
Thomas  Johnson,  the  Newark  ancestor.  He 
was  of  the  New  Haven  Colony.  He  came 
from  the  noted  town  of  Hull  ( Kingston-upon- 
Hull),  riding  of  York,  in  Y'orkshire.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  founders  of  the  New  Haven 
Colony,  and  lived  "in  the  northwest  of  the 
^<|uare  of  lots  where  Mr.  Mix  and  the  college 
are  on,  over  against  Darlings.'  Owing  to  the 
granting  to  King  Charles  H.  the  charter  that 
included  large  domains  of  New  England,  in- 
cluding the  New  Haven  tracts,  the  colony  at 
that  place  were  awakened  by  jealous  fears  of 
the  loss  of  their  liberties,  and  together  with 
the  Restoration  aroused  anxious  fears  in  the 
minds  of  the  New  England  settlers.  .At  this 
time  the  Dutch  were  in  possession  of  New 
Amsterdam  and  of  the  beautiful  fertile  terri- 
torv  between  the    Hudson   river  and   Newark 


Bay,  and  claimed  jurisdiction  as  far  south  as 
Virginia.  In  1661  they  issued  a  proclamation 
invitmg  all  christian  God-fearing  people  who 
loved  the  liberty  of  worship  after  their  own 
creed,  wherever  oppressed,  to  erect  colonies 
with  in  the  bounds  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Pet- 
rus  Stuyvesant.  This  was  Cjuickly  and  gener- 
ously accepted  by  the  New  Haven  Colony. 
The  Duke  of  Y'ork  obtained  the  sovereign  right 
from  his  royal  brother  to  the  vast  domain  of 
Connecticut  and  New  Netherland,  and  sent 
Colonel  Richard  Nicholls,  his  deputy  governor, 
to  take  possession  and  establish  the  laws. 
Among  other  acts,  Nicholls  extinguished  the 
Indian  title  to  the  tract  between  the  Raritan 
and  Passaic  rivers  in  1664.  Later  the  terri- 
tory west  of  the  Hudson  river  was  sold  to 
John  Lord  Berkeley  and  Sir  George  Carteret, 
to  be  known  as  Nova  Caesarea  (New  Jersey), 
and  it  was  shortly  after  that  that  there  began 
a  large  emigration  from  within  the  territory 
of  the  New  Haven  Colony. 

(II)  Before  the  end  of  May,  1666,  a  com- 
pany comprising  some  thirty  families  from 
Milford,  Connecticut,  and  nearby  plantations, 
were  among  the  first  settlers  at  Newark,  and 
Thomas  Johnson  came  in  this  company.  The 
first  town  meeting  was  held  May  21,  1666,  in 
reference  to  a  township,  and  a  committee  of 
eleven  men,  of  whom  Thomas  Johnson  was 
a  member,  was  chosen  from  the  tw'o  parties 
to  promote  the  enterprise.  Thomas  Johnson, 
Samuel  .Swaine  and  three  others  were  a  com- 
mittee who  met  John  Ogden,  Robert  Treat  and 
others  from  Elizabethtown  to  settle  boundary 
disputes  of  the  town.  Thomas  Johnson,  of 
Newark,  was  a  most  active  man  and  useful 
settler ;  was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  church 
and  state,  and  became  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent men  in  the  settlement.  His  residence  was 
on  the  northeast  corner  of  Broad  and  Walnut 
streets,  on  the  site  of  the  present  Grace  Church. 
George  Day  lived  across  Walnut  street  from 
him.  and  John  Brown  Sr.  across  Broad  street 
opposite.  In  1670-71  Thomas  Johnson  was 
chosen  by  the  town  to  keep  the-  ordinary  or 
public  tavern  for  the  convenience  of  travelers 
and  strangers,  and  to  prohibit  all  others  from 
selling  any  strong  liquors  at  retail  under  a 
gallon  unless  in  case  of  necessity  and  that  by 
leave  of  the  magistrate,  showing  that  even  in 
those  early  days  there  were  restraints  as  to  liquor 
drinking.  That  he  was  a  man  of  independent 
views  in  shown  while  in  the  New  Haven  Col- 
ony, when  Mrs.  Goodman,  accused  of  witch- 
craft in  1655  and  who  served  a  term  in  prison, 
was   suffered  later  to  dwell   in   the   family  of 


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Thomas  Johnson  until  her  death,  October  g, 
1660,  thereby  braving  suspicion  of  himself  by 
sheltering  this  forlorn  and  persecuted  creature. 
Thomas  Johnson  died  November  5,  1694-95, 
aged  si.xty-four  years.  His  will  was  dated  No- 
vember 2,  1694.  proved  November  21  and  re- 
corded December  5,  1694.  He  "leaves  his 
wholl  estate  real  and  personell,  lands,  meadow, 
housing,  orchard,  barn  building,  and  build- 
ings, also  all  my  movable  estate,  chattels, 
household  furnishings,  to  my  beloved  son,  Eli- 
})halet  Johnson;  to  Joseph,  John  and  Thomas 
£40  apiece,  making  his  son  Eliphalet  his  exec- 
utor." He  was  delegate  to  the  provincial  as- 
sembly, 1675-78-84;  assistant  magistrate,  1677; 
magistrate,.  1680;  justice  of  monthly  court, 
1675-78-79-80;  collector,  1668;  town  treasurer, 
1676-82-83 ;  one  of  the  townsmen,  1674-75 ; 
burner  of  woods  and  meadows,  1673  '>  pound 
keeper,  1670;  captain  of  militia. 

He  was  three  times  married,  and  the  births 
of  four  of  his  children  previous  to  1663  are 
proof  of  one  marriage,  though  the  name  of 
his  first  wife  is  not  obtainable.  He  married, 
September,  1763,  Frances  Hitchcock,  and  a 
tombstone  at  Newark  is  inscribed  with  the 
death  of  his  third  wife,  Mrs.  Ellena  Johnson, 
November  2.  1694,  aged  sixty-one.     Children: 

I.  Joseph,  born  November  30,  i65i,died  March 

II,  1733;  married  Rebecca  Pierson.  2.  John, 
born  April  27,  1654.  3.  Abigail,  born  Janu- 
ary 19,  1657,  died  young.  4.  Eliphalet,  re- 
ferred to  below.  6.  Saving,  born  November 
25.  1659.  6.  Abigail,  born  January  14,  1662, 
died  November  2,  1694.  7.  Thomas,  born  July 
II,  1664;  married  Sarah  Swayne. 

(HI)  Eliphalet,  son  of  Thomas  Johnson, 
was  born  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  1658, 
died  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  April  20,  1718. 
He  was  his  father's  favorite  son,  and  received 
the  major  part  of  his  father's  estate.  He  be- 
came a  prominent  yeoman  (yeoman  in  his 
will),  which  was  made  August  27, 1717, proved 
August  13,  1718,  and  is  the  will  of  a  sub- 
stantial farmer,  as  is  further  shown  by  the 
inventory  of  his  estate,  dated  March  8,  1718. 
The  amount  of  personal  property  sworn  to  by 
the  executors,  Nathaniel  and  Eliphalet  John- 
son, was  £258  15s.  7d.  His  wife  Abigail  re- 
ceived her  third  of  all  the  estate.  To  his  two 
sons,  Eliphalet  and  Nathaniel,  he  gives  the 
two  "new  lotts  of  land  and  Wakeman's,"  also 
equal  half  of  salt  meadow  at  Two  Mile  Brook. 
John  and  Samuel  are  also  remembered  in  the 
will.  To  Timothy  he  gives  his  homestead  ;  to 
Deborah  and  Phebe  the  other  two-thirds  of  his 
movable  estate,  they  to  get  £10  each  from  each 


of  the  five  sons.  The  wills  of  the  three  first 
generations  of  the  Johnson  ancestors  are  on  file 
in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state  at  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey.  Eliphalet  Johnson  served  as 
town  committeeman  in  1696,  as  fence  viewer 
from  1696  to  1708,  and  as  assessor  in  1702. 
He  married  (first)  Deborah  Ward,  who  died 
after    1700;    she   was   the    daughter   of   John 

Ward.      Married    (second)    Abigail    . 

Children:  I.  Eliphalet  Jr.  (Colonel  Eliphalet) 
born  1696,  died  November  13,  1760.  2.  Na- 
thaniel, referred  to  below.  3.  Captain  John, 
born  1715,  died  October  4,  1752.  4.  Timothy. 
5.  Deborah.    6.  Phebe.    7.  Samuel. 

(IV)  Nathaniel,  son  of  Eliphalet  Johnson, 
was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  1698,  died 
there  April  6,  1765.  He  was  called  Esquire 
Johnson,  and  is  said  to  have  been  "a  magistrate 
of  respectability  and  wealth."  He  held  large 
possessions  in  Newark,  and  was  a  farmer  of 
unusual  c|uality.  His  will  is  dated  November 
12,  1764,  proved  April  15  and  July  15,  1765, 
and  appoints  his  son  David  and  two  sons-in- 
law,  Uzal  Ward  and  James  Banks,  executors. 
He  gives  to  "my  son  Steven  all  that  orchard 
and  lott  of  land  that  I  bought  of  my  brother 
Eliphalet,"  and  £100  of  Jersey  money.  To  his 
grandson,  Josiah  Ward,  £50  of  Jersey  money 
when  of  age,  and  to  his  grandson,  Jacob  Jami- 
son Banks,  the  same.  To  his  daughters,  Mar- 
tha Ward  and  Catherine  Banks,  "equal  re- 
maining half  of  all  my  personal  and  movable 
estate.  To  grandson,  Stephen  Johnson,  all  my 
house,  barn  and  lot  which  he  now  lives  in 
which  I  bought  of  Captain  Nathaniel  Wheeler. 
To  grandson,  Nathaniel  Johnson,  house  and 
lot  which  I  bought  of  Zophar  Beach,  eight 
acres.  To  grandson,  Jotham  Johnson,  all  that 
lot  of  land  lying  above  Two  ]\Iile  Brook  which 
I  bought  of  Colonel  Joseph  Tuttle.  Also  to  two 
grandsons,  Nathaniel  and  Jotham  Johnson,  the 
two  several  lots  of  fresh  meadow  and  upland 
in  the  Neck."  At  a  town  meeting,  March  13, 
1732,  Nathaniel  Johnson,  with  Thomas  Ser- 
geant, were  chosen  overseers  of  the  poor.  In 
1738-39  Nathaniel  Johnson  was  a  chosen  free- 
liolder,  and  for  the  two  years  previous,  1736- 
T,~,  was  surveyor  of  the  highway.  He  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Captain  David  Ogden,  and 
sister  of  Elizabeth  Ogden,  who  married  John, 
brother  of  Nathaniel  Johnson.  Children:  i. 
Thomas,  born  February  15,  17 19,  died  Novem- 
ber II,  1759.  2.  David,  referred  to  below.  3. 
Steven  (Rev.),  born  May  17,  1724;  married 
(first)  July  26,  1744,  Elizabeth  Diodate ;  (sec- 
ond) December  i,  1762,  Mary  (Gardner) 
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4.  Martha,  born  June  19,  1728;  married  Uzal 
Ward.  5.  Sarah,  born  November  2,  1731,  died 
January  14,  1760.  6.  Catharine,  born  Janu- 
ary 2^,  1737',  married  James  Banks. 

(V)  David,  son  of  Nathaniel  Johnson,  was 
born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  21,  1721, 
(hed  there  1776.  He  became  a  properous 
farmer,  following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father, 
who  gave  him  the  following  in  his  will :  "Item : 
I  give  and  be(iueathe  and  devise  unto  my  son, 
Da\-id  Johnson,  all  my  house  and  homestead 
together  with  all  the  rest  and  remainder  of 
my  laiKl  and  meadow  with  all  my  right  of 
lands  that  1  now  have  or  ought  to  have,  that  is 
not  otherwise  devised,  together  with  all  my 
farming  utensils  with  the  Cyder  Mill  and 
presses  and  all  casks  belonging  to  the  house, 
and  my  will  is  that  my  son  David  shall  fully 
use  and  occupy  the  devised  lot  of  land  for  one 
year  after  my  decease.  I  likewise  give  unto 
my  son  David  that  lot  or  piece  of  salt  i:ieadow 
lying  below  Indian  Corner."  He  married 
Eunice  Crane,  born  1720,  died  October  22, 
1776,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Phebe  Crane. 
Children:  Nathaniel;  David;  Jotham,  referred 
to  below  ;  Jabez ;  Timothy  Crane ;  Phebe,  mar- 
ried Daniel  Johnson ;  Martha,  married  Aaron 
Day. 

(VT)  Jotham,  son  of  David  Johnson,  was 
born  in  the  ancestral  homestead  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  May  10,  1746,  died  June  30,  1796. 
Me  owned  the  tract  of  land  bought  from  the 
Indians,  beginning  near  Clinton  and  Elizabeth 
avenues,  and  bounded  by  /\von  avenue,  Clin- 
t(  n  avenue  being  cut  through  the  center  of  his 
farm.  His  homestead  stood  where  the  present 
."^t.  Stephen's  Episcopal  Church  now  stands, 
lie  followed  farming  throughout  his  active 
career,  and  inherited  a  large  portion  of  his 
father's  estate.  At  his  death  he  left  an  un- 
finished h.omestead  then  near  completion.  This 
Vi'as  completed  by  his  widow,  who  was  a  most 
energetic,  astute,  capable  business  woman.  She 
was  granddaughter  of  Zophar  and  Martha 
lieach.  Zophar  was  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(I'latt)  Beach,  of  Milford,  Connecticut.  His 
widow  conducted  the  affairs  of  his  estate  up  to 
her  decease,  and  her  will  is  dated  August  31, 
1833,  proved  July  2,  1834.  She  gives  to  grand- 
daughter. Sarah  L.  Johnson,  her  large  family 
I'lible  and  settee;  to  granddaughter,  Harriet 
Larter,  one  silver  tablespoon  marked  H.  B. ; 
to  granddaughter,  Elizabeth  Carter,  her  Mt. 
N'ernon  picture;  to  granddaughter,  Matilda 
Johnson,  "my  silver  shugar  tings ;"  to  Josiah 
Johnson  one  of  my  table  spoons  marked  with 
three  letters,  J.  A.  B. ;  to  three  grandchildren — 


Elizabeth.  Harriet  and  Mary,  daughters  of 
Phebe  Carter,  deceased — three  shares  of  capi- 
tal stock  of  Newark  Banking  and  Insurance 
Company  and  one  share  of  the  new  stock ;  to 
two  grandsons,  Horace  and  Aaron  Carter, 
twenty  dollars  each,  to  be  paid  for  watches. 
She  divides  woodland  between  Hannah  John- 
son Conger  and  Phebe  Carter's  children.  Part 
of  this  property  is  now  owned  by  Catherine 
(Carter)  Poinier,  of  Newark,  the  last  survivor 
of  the  Carters. 

Jotham  Johnson  married,  January  14.  1772, 
Hannah  Beach,  born  in  Newark,  December  24, 
1751,  died  there  June,  1S34,  daughter  of  Josiah 
and  Annas  (Day)  Beach.  Hannah  (Beach) 
Johnson  was  a  small,  light-comple.\ioned  and 
fair  woman;  she  died  at  the  home  of  her  son, 
Nathaniel  Johnson.     Children:     i.  Catherine, 

married Parkhurst.   2.  Josiah,  referred 

to  below.  3.  xVathaniel,  married  (first)  Rhoda 
Meeker;  children:  Obadiah  Meeker,  Sarah  L., 
Thomas,  James;  he  married  (second)  Nancy 
Crane  ;  children  :  Mary  Crane,  married  Ira  M. 
Harrison ;  John  Cooper,  born  March  18,  1822, 
died  November  17,  1873,  married  Hannah 
Magee;  children:  Walter  Tufts,  born  August 
21,  1856,  and  Florence  May,  born  May  i, 
1863:  Hannah,  married  Ira  M.  Harrison.  4. 
Thomas.     5.  Phebe,  married  Caleb  Carter.     6. 

Jane.    7.  Ebenezer,  married ;  children: 

"William  S.,  Henry  P.,  Charles,  Mary  Cath- 
erine. 

(VH)  Josiah,  eldest  son  of  Jotham  and 
Hannah  (Beach)  Johnson,  was  "born  in  the 
homestead  of  his  father,  at  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey. October  23,  1774.  died  July  27,  1854.  He 
v.-as  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  acquir- 
ing the  usual  select  school  education  of  a 
farmer's  son  at  that  period.  He  and  his  brother 
Nathaniel  received  an  equal  share  of  their 
father's  estate,  while  Ebenezer,  their  brother, 
received  one  thousand  dollars  and  a  trade. 
Josiah  and  Nathaniel  settled  opposite  each 
other  on  the  road  near  the  present  Clinton  and 
Elizabeth  avenues,  and  their  interests  became 
in  common.  Josiah  followed  his  chosen  occu- 
pation of  farming  throughout  his  entire  life- 
time. He  was  an  honest  and  industrious  man, 
of  a  kind  and  gentle  spirit,  and  very  philan- 
thropic in  his  nature.  His  deep  regard  for  the 
feelings  of  others  was  very  pronounced,  and 
his  tenderness  of  heart  was  so  strong  that  it  is 
said  that  he  bought  a  neighbor's  slave  who 
for  a  penance  was  obliged  to  wear  a  yoke, 
rather  then  see  him  suffer.  He  became  pros- 
perous in  this  world's  goods  and  gained  a  com- 
petency.    He  conducted  his   farm  with  strict 


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regard  to  the  best  and  most  improved  ideas, 
raised  the  common  crops,  and  reared  cattle, 
which  he  sold  to  the  butchers  of  Newark.  He 
was  an  extensive  maker  of  butter  and  cheese. 
During  the  early  spring  he  drove  his  cattle  to 
Newfoundland,  New  Jersey,  where  he  pastured 
and  fattened  them  during  the  summer  to  sup- 
ply the  trade.  In  later  years  he  sold  his  farm 
to  S.  R.  W.  Heath  and  John  Whitehead,  and 
came  to  live  with  his  son,  Aaron  C.  Johnson, 
wdiere  he  passed  his  remaining  days.  He  was 
broad  in  his  views  and  of  a  religious  tempera- 
ment. In  his  early  days,  when  religious  serv- 
ices were  held  at  the  different  homes,  George 
Whitfield,  the  noted  evangelist,  preached  in 
Josiah  Johnson's  parlor.  He  was  strong  in 
liis  principles  of  temperance.  He  was  formerly 
a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Newark,  but  was  dismissed  to  the  Third  Pres- 
byterian Church,  having  joined  the  church  late 
in  life.     He  was  a  Whig  in  politics. 

He  married,  at  Newark,  February  13,  1805, 
Elizabeth  (Betsey)  Crane,  born  at  Newark, 
.September  9,  1782,  died  there  August  9,  1840, 
daughter  of  Rufus  and  Charity  (Campbell) 
Crane.  Rufus  Crane  was  son  of  Jonas,  son  of 
Azariah,  son  of  Jasper  Crane,  the  emigrant. 
Children:  i.  Catharine,  born  April  9,  1806, 
died  January  23,  1846:  married  Archibald 
Woodruff :  children  :  i.  John  Crane,  born  Jan- 
uary 4.  1827:  married,  (Jctober  6,  1853.  Julia 
Johnson  Williams,  born  April  30,  1833,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Brown  and  Harriet  (Crane) 
Williams  ;  children  :  a.  Charles  Hinsdale,  born 
September  22,  1856.  died  July  5,  1867  ;  b.  .\nna 
Hillyer,  born  December  31,  i860;  married, 
September  14,  1887,  Charles  Flenry  Van  Ness; 
children:  Hendrick  Woodruff,  born  January 
21,  1889;  Anneke,  born  August  3,  1892;  Helene 
Cerstein,  born  July  16,  1897;  Katharine,  born 
June  I.  1902;  c.  Julia  Taber,  born  February 
24.  1868;  d.  Helene  Johnson,  born  November 
28,  1872;  ii.  Elizabetli  Johnson,  born  July  31. 
1828,  died  April  i,  1872;  married  (first)  Oc- 
tober 24,  1848,  Rev.  Nathaniel  Conklin,  born 
August  20,  1823,  died  August  17,  1892,  son  of 
Stephen  and  Catherine  (Taylor)  Conklin  ;  chil- 
dren: a.  Katherine  Johnson,  born  Alarch  21, 
1850,  died  January  13,  1890;  married,  Decem- 
ber 22.  1884.  .Almon  Ra.xter  Mervvin ;  b.  John 
Woodruff",  born  December  30,  185 1,  died  Sep- 
tember 12,  T909;  missionary  to  India;  married, 
September  16,  1880,  Elizabeth  J.  Lindsley; 
children  :  John  :  Elizabeth  Woodrtiff,  born 
February  fi.  1885;  .Archibald  Lindsley,  born 
August  28.  1886: 'Robert  Heath  Lindsley,  born 
May  2/.   i8(ji  :  Sherman  Lindslev,  born  Janu- 


ary 26,  1894;  c.  Archibald  Woodruff',  born 
April  2,  1854;  cashier  Union  National  Bank  of 
Newark;  d.  Mary  Jane,  born  October  18,  1856; 
e.  William  Bogart,  born  April  30,  1859;  mar- 
ried, June  25,  1902,  Sarah  Hogate  Groff ;  chil- 
dren :  Edward  Groff,  born  September  6,  1904, 
William  Groff,  born  November  9,  1905 ;  f.  Dr. 
Edward  Dore  Griffin,  born  May  27,  1862 ;  mar- 
ried. May  20,  1891,  Helen  Ford;  child,  Alice 
Ford,  born  November  29,  1892;  g.  Martha 
Heath,  born  November  18,  1864,  died  October 
7,  1882;  h.  Anna  Clarkj  born  October  2,  1867; 
i  "Vernon  Shields,  born  September  15,  1870. 
Married  (second)  March  17,  1880,  Jennie  M. 
Drinkv^'ater ;  iii.  Cephas  Mills,  born  February 
I,  1832,  died  June  29.  1882;  married,  Septem- 
ber 15,  1852,  Sarah  Jane  Southard;  children: 
a.  iXgnes  Heath,  born  July  21,  1853;  b.  Henry 
Johnson,  born  August  24.  1855,  died  May  20, 
1856;  c.  Nellie,  born  January  13,  1857,  died 
March  13,  1868;  d.  Anna,  twin  with  Nellie, 
died  February,  1908 ;  e.  Caroline  Mills,  born 
November  23,  1861 ;  f.  Archibald  Mulford, 
burn  Se])tember  21,  1865;  g.  Katherine  Heath, 
born  March  4,  1869;  married,  February  14, 
1895.  Edward  Harris  Lum ;  children:  Mar- 
garet Woodruff,  born  November  22,  1895,  died 
.Se])tember  7,  1896 ;  Caroline  Woodruff",  born 
July  II,  1898,  died  April  25,  1900:  Richard, 
born  February  12,  1902;  Harvey  Mundred, 
born  May  26,  1906 ;  iv.  Mary  Crane,  born  De- 
cember 4,  1843,  died  August  31,  1867.  2. 
Aaron  Crane,  referred  to  below.  3.  Elizabeth, 
born  August  25,  1810,  died  August  31,  1887; 
married,  February  13,  1833,  Daniel  Baldwin 
Brown,  born  July  3,  1802,  died  April  12,  1850, 
son  of  Samuel  Baldwin  and  Hannah  (Ward) 
Brown  ;  children  :  i.  Anna  Alletta  Johnson, 
born  March  18,  1834,  died  December  26,  1861 ; 
ii.  Theodore  Johnson,  born  February  5,  1837, 
died  October  15.  1899;  married  Eliza  Weed; 
iii.  Josiah  Johnson,  born  August  29.  1839; 
married.  June  17,  1868,  Mary  Emma  \\'ilcox; 
children:  a.  Mary  Florence,  born  January  12, 
1870';  b.  Theodore  Johnson,  born  October  10, 
1871,  died  April  11,  1877:  c.  Elizabeth  John- 
son, born  November  11,  1876;  d.  Sarah  Alice, 
born  November  17,  1881 ;  iv.  Eliza  Baldwin, 
born  February  18,  1842,  died  September  7, 
i8f)2;  V.  Mary  Cornelia,  born  March  5,  1845; 
vi.  Henry  \\'ard,  born  August  I,  1847,  died 
September  19,  1865;  vii.  Daniel  Baldwin,  born 
June  12,  1849;  f'ied  March  8,  1878.  4.  Ma- 
tilda, born  September  6.  181 3,  died  .April  5, 
1819. 

(\"III)    Aaron  Crane,  son  of  Josiah  John- 
son, was  born  at  Newark,  New"  [ersev,  on  Clin- 


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1041 


ton  avenue,  opposite  the  jirescnt  Monmouth 
street,  June  13,  1808,  died  on  CHnton  avenue, 
corner  of  Monmouth  street,  September  27, 
1874.  He  received  liis  elementary  educational 
training  in  the  select  schools  of  Newark,  and 
later  became  a  clerk  for  David  Hayes  in  his 
grocery  store,  continuing  until  1834.  He  then 
entered  the  Auburn  (New  York)  Seminary, 
where  he  studied  for  the  ministry  until  about 
1841,  when  owing  to  imjjaired  health  he  was 
obliged  to  give  up  his  chosen  profession.  Re- 
moving his  family  back  to  Newark,  he  entered 
the  grocery  business  on  his  own  account,  con- 
tinuing for  six  years,  his  store  being  located 
at  the  corner  of  Clinton  avenue  and  Monmouth 
street.  He  also  entered  into  light  farming, 
having  bought  a  number  of  acres  near  the 
homestead  of  his  birth.  This  was  later  sold  to 
Mr.  Peshine,  and  Mr.  Johnson  removed  to  the 
corner  of  Clinton  avenue  and  Monmouth  street 
(the  site  of  the  Clinton  Avenue  Baptist 
Church)  where  he  and  his  father  were  part 
owners.  It  was  on  this  spot  that  father  and 
son  dierl.  Mr.  Johnson  later  entered  into 
partnership  with  Aaron  C.  Ward  and  Johnson 
Huntington,  under  the  firm  name  of  Ward  & 
Huntington,  manufacturers  of  all  kinds  of 
mouldings  and  house  finish;  the  factory  was 
located  at  the  corner  of  McWherter  and  Ham- 
ilton streets.  The  firm  continued  successfully 
in  business  for  about  fifteen  years,  when  the 
plant  was  destroyed  by  fire  and  the  firm  was 
dissolved.  Owing  to  the  condition  of  his 
health  Mr.  Johnson  was  obliged  to  retire  from 
all  active  engagements,  having  been  greatly 
incapacitated  for  some  time  previous  to  the 
dissolution  of  the  firm.  His  last  years  were 
the  fitting  close  of  twenty-five  years  of  feeble 
health.  He  w'as  respected  and  beloved  by  all 
who  knew  him,  the  soul  of  honor  in  all  his 
transactions,  whose  word  was  as  good  as  his 
bond.  He  led  an  upright  christian  life,  and 
was  a  patient  and  Godfearing  man.  Even 
during  his  enfeebled  condition  he  was  wont 
to  be  jovial  and  of  a  bright  disposition.  His 
mind  was  ever  on  the  alert,  keen  and  never 
forgetful  of  his  own  or  his  friends;  he  was 
true  to  his  principles,  always  practicing  what 
he  advocated.  In  early  life  he  followed  the 
principles  laid  down  by  the  old  line  Whigs,  and 
on  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  be- 
came a  strong  supporter  and  was  a  great  ad- 
mirer of  Abraham  Eincoln.  He  never  held 
public  office,  but  during  the  panic  of  1857  was 
a  member  of  the  relief  committee  of  the  poor. 
In  religion  he  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his 
father,    having   joined   the   old    First    Presby- 


terian Church,  and  later  the  Third  Presby- 
terian Church,  but  became  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  South  Park  Presbyterian  Church, 
serving  as  elder  in  the  two  latter  churches. 

He  married,  at  Littleton,  New  Jersey,  April 
16,  1834,  Catherine  Wheeler  Johnson,  born 
there  July  5,  181 2,  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
June  14,  1863,  daughter  of  Mahlon  and"  Sarah 
( r>aker)  Johnson.  Mahlon  Johnson  was  a 
farmer  and  prominent  in  town  and  military 
afi^airs.  Catherine  Wheeler  (Johnson)  John- 
son was  a  woman  of  rare  and  lovable  traits ; 
she  was  reared  under  christian  influence,  and 
before  her  marriage  became  a  member  in  full 
communion  of  the  old  First  Prsebyterian 
Church  at  Newark.  Of  the  most  charitable 
nature,  she  was  endowed  with  many  excellent 
qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  keenly  alive  to  all 
that  was  sympathetic,  moral  and  magnanimous. 
A  most  devoted  wife  and  mother,  whose  text 
v,-as :  "Hope  thou  in  the  Lord."'  Children : 
I.  Anna  Vail,  born  April  10,  1835,  died  Sep- 
tember 28,  1847.  2.  Eliza  Orr,  born  August  5, 
1838,  died  November  14,  1891.  3.  Harriet 
Winslow,  born  March  24,  1840,  died  March 
22,  1897;  married,  March  2,  1869,  Jacob  Kline 
Meade  ;  children  :  i.  Catherine  Wheeler,  born 
May  28,  1870;  married,  September  18,  1906, 
Dr.  .Alderbert  P>.  Twitchell,  Jr. ;  ii.  Mary 
Camp,  born  July   19,   1871  ;  married,  October 

9,  1906,  Moses  Pigelow,  Jr.  4.  Susan  Day, 
born  August  14,  1841,  died  October  27,  1903. 
5.  Luther  Halsey,  born  July  8,  1843,  died  July 
25,  1897.  6-  Mary  Condit,  born  March  15, 
1S45.  7-  Martha  Hallock,  born  November  7, 
1846;  married,  December  15,  1870,  William 
Henry  Douglas,  born  August  14,  1842,  died 
March  9,  1806,  son  of  Samuel  and  Eliza 
(Rockefellar)  Douglas.  8.  Josiah  William, 
born  April  21,  1849;  married,  October  i,  1874, 
Josephine  P.  Umbach ;  children :  i.  Pauline 
Catherine,  born  April  i,  1876;  ii.  Luther  Hal- 
sey. born  October  12,  1877:  iii.  Dr.  William 
Clinton,  born  January  27,  1885.  9.  Henry 
Vail,  born  April  2,  1851,  died  April  18,  1857. 

10.  Annie  Catherine,  born  December  9,  i8s5, 
(lied  April  16,   1857. 


(For   preceding  generati 


Ja.sper  Crane    1>. 


(Ill)  Azariah  (2)  Crane,  son 
CRANE  of  Azariah  (i)  Crane  (q.  v), 
was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, in  1682.  He  came  to  that  part  of  the 
mountain  which  was  later  known  as  West 
Rloomfield,  where  he  settled  near  his  brother 
Nathaniel.  Elias  B.  Crane  lived  on  his  place 
in  1851.     He  and  his  brother  Nathaniel  were 


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the  promoters  of  Cranetown,  Montclair,  locat- 
ing their  home  places  near  the  spring  which 
.was  a  few  years  ago  and  possibly  at  the  pres- 
ent time  may  be  seen  on  Myrtle  avenue,  near 
Orange  road.  It  has  since  been  known  as  the 
Frost  property,  northeast  corner  of  Myrtle 
avenue  and  Orange  road.  In  1733  he  granted 
three  acres  at  the  mountain  plantation  to  his 
well  beloved  son-in-law,  Zachariah  Baldwin. 
In  1753  he  conveyed  to  his  son  Azariah  a  tract 
of  land  south  of  what  is  now  Union  street, 
e.xtending  to  the  top  of  the  mountain,  and 
bounded  by  the  property  of  Nathaniel  Crane. 
With  his  father,  Azariah  and  his  brothers 
Nathaniel.  Noah  and  William,  in  their  turn, 
took  leading  positions  in  the  church  society, 
and  he  was  a  subscriber  to  the  fund  for  erect- 
ing the  parsonage  at  Montclair,  and  also  the 
meetinghouse.  He  was  not  without  honors  at 
the  hands  of  his  fellow  townsmen,  for  as  early 
as  November  2,  1703,  he  was  chosen  one  of 

the  pounders.  He  married  Rebecca ,  born 

1691,  died  June  15.  1739.  Children:  i.  Re- 
becca, born  September  6,  1707.  2.  Azariah. 
3.  Job.  4.  Gamaliel.  5.  Ezekiel.  6.  Josiah. 
7.  Moses.     8.  Stephen,  mentioned  below. 

(IV)  Stephen,  son  of  Azariah  (2)  Crane, 
was  born  in  Cranetown,  and  settled  at  West 
Bloomfield,  where  he  died  in  1794.  He  was 
a  prominent  citizen,  and  was  chosen  March 
14,  1758,  one  of  the  overseers  of  highways. 
In  his  will,  among  his  children  he  mentions 
"My  poor  son  Bradford."  Deeds  describe  the 
boundaries  of  Newark,  thence  along  the  line 
of  Caldwell  township  to  a  point  in  the  First 
Mountain  called  Stephen  Crane's  "Notch."  Ar 
a  convention  of  the  committee  of  the  several 
counties  held  at  Brunswick  in  response  to  the 
appeal  of  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  of 
county  of  Essex,  province  of  New  Jersey,  to 
take  action  in  regard  to  the  late  acts  of  parlia- 
ment, etc.,  seventy-two  gentlemen  took  part  in 
the  deliberations.  Stephen  Crane,  of  Essex, 
was  in  the  chair.  At  the  meeting  Stephen 
Crane  was  appointed  one  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  Continental  Congress  held  at 
Philadelphia,  September,  1774.  He  was  in 
communion  with  the  Mountain  Society  previ- 
ous to  1756,  and  among  those  who  entered 
into  covenant  with  the  society  during  the  pas- 
torate of  the  Rev.  Jedediaii  Chapman  was 
Rhoda,  wife  of  Stephen  Crane.  It  is  said  she 
was  a  most  capable  woman.  Stephen  Crane 
served  in  the  revolution.  First  Regiment  New 
Jersey  Line,  Continental  army;  also  New  Jer- 
sey militia.  Captain  Squire's  company.  Colo- 
nel Phillip  Van  Cortland's  Second  Essex  coun- 


ty regiment,  and  was  attached  to  Hurd's  upper 
brigade.  He  married  Rhoda  Holloway.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Benjamin,  born  1753,  died  1812; 
married  Mehitable  Dunning.  2.  Azariah,  born 

1754,  died   March   14,   1814;  married 

Tucker.  3.  Rhoda,  born  1759;  married  Linus 
Baldwin.  4.  Lois,  baptized  May  11,  1760, 
died  November  7,  1831  ;  married  Justice  Bur- 
net. 5.  Jeremiah,  born  April  2,  1770,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Stephen  Bradford,  born  1771. 

7.  Sarah,  born  1776;  married  Nehemiah  Bald- 
win. 8.  Keturah.  married  Ira  Williams;  emi- 
grated to  New  York  state.  9.  Abigail,  mar- 
ried Caleb  Martin.  10.  Stephen,  born  Sep- 
tember I.  1787.     II.  Polly,  married  Dr.  Bone. 

(V)  Jeremiah,  son  of  Stephen  Crane,  was 
born  at  West  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey.  April 
2,  1770,  died  there  December  21,  1829.  His 
homestead  stood  on  the  foundation  of  what 
is  now  the  cottage  of  Thomas  Porter,  prop- 
erty near  the  corner  of  Harrison  avenue  and 
Union  street,  and  his  farm  extended  from 
what  is  now  Harrison  avenue  to  the  top  of 
the  First  Mountain.  He  became  prosperous 
and  well-to-do,  and  a  man  of  considerable 
note  in  the  community,  noted  for  his  straight- 
forward manner  and  strong  convictions.  He 
was  affiliated  with  the  First  Church,  although 
he  never  held  an  office  in  the  society.  He 
raised  his  family  of  twelve  children  on  the  old 
homestead.  He  was  in  the  war  of  1812,  and 
stationed  at  Staten  Island.  While  there  he 
swam  from  Staten  Island  to  Newark  Bay  to 
see  his  folks,  and  swam  back  again.  He  married 
Hannah  Corby,  born  June  22,  1774.  daughter 
of  William  Corby,  of  Vernon,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  William,  born  March  27,  1797, 
died  October  2,  1880;  married  Sarah  Jacobus. 

2.  Stephen,  died  unmarried,  December  11, 
1^36-  3-  Linus,  was  a  constable;  married 
Peggy  Yorks.    4.  Israel,  died  March  11,  1832. 

3.  Ira,  mentioned  below.     6.  Rhoda.    7.  Julia. 

8.  Hannah.  9.  Eliza.  10.  Mary.  11.  Martha. 
12.   Parthenia. 

(\'I)  Ira,  fifth  son  of  Jeremiah  Crane,  was 
born  on  his  father's  homestead  at  West 
Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  May  24,  1808,  died 
at  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  1868.  He  succeed- 
ed to  his  father's  estate.  He  was  brought  up 
on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the  usual  com- 
mon school  education  of  the  farmer's  son  at 
that  period.  During  his  minority  he  was  ap- 
prenticed to  the  trade  of  shoe-maker,  which 
trade  he  followed  about  forty  years.  His 
shop  was  on  Bloomfield  avenue,  in  Montclair, 
and  he  employed  many  workmen  during  his 
years   of   shoe-making,   which   in   those   days 


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was  mostly  of  the  hand  product.  He  conduct- 
ed his  farm,  situated  at  the  corner  of  Orange 
road  and  Union  street,  then  known  as  "Jer- 
imy  Lane,"  undoubtedly  named  after  his  father 
Jeremiah  Crane.  This  farm  of  some  fifty 
acres,  mostly  tillage,  was  productive  of  large 
crops  of  market  produce  which  he  disposed 
of  in  Newark.  He  was  progressive  not  only 
as  a  manufacturer  but  as  an  agriculturist,  and 
his  farm  compared  favorably  with  the  best  in 
the  locality.  After  retiring  from  the  shoe 
business  he  bought  and  sold  several  pieces  of 
farm  properties.  He  purchased  the  property 
on  South  Fullerton  avenue,  and  built  a  home- 
stead. This  house,  altered  and  remodeled,  has 
since  been  owned  by  Dr.  Butler.  He  was  a 
man  of  note  in  the  community,  served  on  the 
town  committee  and  other  offices  of  trust  and 
responsibility.  He  was  an  old-line  Whig.  He 
was  a  member  and  officer  of  the  Bloomfield 
Presbyterian  Church.  Both  he  and  his  wife 
were  devout  Christians.  He  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Montclair.  He  married  (first)  Margaret 
Norwood,  born  July  22,  1813,  died  January, 
1862.  Children:  i.  Jarvis  G.,  born  February 
8,  1831,  mentioned  below.  2.  Angeline,  Janu- 
ary 9,  1833,  died  September  24,  1896;  mar- 
ried, October  13,  1858,  Albert  W.  Harrison; 
children  :  Clara  Billings  ;  Margaret  Norwood, 
married  J.  Norman  Gibbs ;  Mary  Crane ;  Al- 
bert \\'illiams.  3.  Israel,  born  January  16, 
1839.  died  September  5,  1891  ;  married,  De- 
cember 19,  1867,  Mary  Grant  Lathrope ;  he 
was  a  dealer  in  dry  goods  and  carpetings  at 
Carbondale,  Pennsylvania;  children:  i.  Mar- 
garet Norwood,  born  November  12,  1870,  died 
August  4,  1878;  ii.  Dwight  Lathrope,  born 
December  12,  1872;  iii.  Marion  Fraser,  born 
September  7,  1875,  married  Frank  Stocker ; 
iv.  Albert  Harrison,  born  October  3,  1877. 
Mr.  Crane  married  (second)  Mary  Saunders. 
(\Tr)  Jarvis  G.,  eldest  child  of  Ira  Crane, 
was  born  February  8,  1831,  on  the  homestead, 
corner  of  Harrison  avenue  and  Union  street, 
Montclair.  New  Jersey,  and  died  in  Mont- 
clair in  July,  1889.  He  received  his  education 
up  to  seventeen  years  of  age  in  the  nearby 
district  school,  assisting  his  father  on  the 
farm.  During  his  minority  he  was  bound  out 
to  learn  the  trade  of  cabinet-maker  to  John 
Jellif,  of  Newark.  Later,  preferring  the  trade 
of  carpenter,  he  entered  the  employ  of  Meeker 
&  Hedden,  at  Newark,  where  he  was  employ- 
ed a  few  years.  In  1854  he  moved  to  Boon- 
ton,  New  Jersey,  where  he  resided  five  years. 
Subsequently,  in  1859,  he  engaged  in  the  busi- 


ness of  contractor  and  builder,  and  became  the 
leading  man  in  his  line  in  Montclair,  and  some 
of  the  best  houses  there  were  erected  by  him, 
namely :  Dr.  Love's,  Samuel  Wild's  on  Fuller- 
ton  avenue,  Julius  Pratt's  in  Elm  street,  Will- 
iam Torrey's,  George  S.  Dwight's,  J.  C.  Hart's, 
Joseph  Van  Vleck's  and  Robert  M.  Boyd's 
being  among  the  many  that  came  under  his 
supervision  and  building.  He  continued  the 
contracting  business  until  1881,  when  he  enter- 
ed into  the  hardware  business  with  his  son, 
I.  Seymour  Crane,  in  Montclair  Centre.  The 
business  prospered  from  the  start.  Owing  to 
impaired  health  he  retired  from  the  firm  Jan- 
uary I,  1889,  the  son  continuing  the  business 
under  the  name  of  I.  Seymour  Crane.  Mr. 
Crane  Sr.  bought  the  lot  adjoining  that  of  his 
father  on  Fullerton  avenue  and  built  the  home- 
stead now  occupied  by  his  son.  Dr.  Frank 
.Sn:ith  Crane.  Jarvis  G.  Crane  was  a  con- 
scientii:)us,  ui)right  and  industrious  citizen.  His 
principles  of  right  he  strongly  adhered  to,  no 
matter  what  the  consequence  might  be.  He 
was  patriotic  and  a  devoted  admirer  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  and  his  policies.  He  was  a  great 
reader  of  the  daily  papers,  keeping  in  touch 
with  the  afifairs  of  the  nation  antl  world  at 
large.  He  was  in  his  younger  days  a  strong 
Whig,  but  when  the  Republican  party  was 
launched  he  accepted  its  principles,  which  he 
ever  after  followed.  He  did  not  accept  office 
in  the  gift  of  his  citizens,  believing  like  many 
others,  that  the  first  duty  of  a  citizen  was  with 
his  family.  He  attended  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  was  a  member  of  Montclair  Lodge 
of  Masons,  and  of  the  Montclair  Odd  Fellows 
Lodge.  He  married,  at  Boonton,  New  Jersey, 
February  8,  1855,  Henrietta  Smith,  of  Boon- 
ton,  who  died  September,  1886,  daughter  of 
William  and  Amanda  (McCarty)  Smith,  the 
former  of  whom  was  a  fanner.  Children:  i. 
Ira  Seymour,  born  December  29,  1855,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Frank  Smith,  born  July  4, 
1861  ;  surgeon  dentist  in  South  Fullerton  ave- 
nue, Montclair;  married,  December  15,  1886, 
Sarah  Lowndes  Crolius,  born  October  28, 
1863,  daughter  of  George  Clinton  and  Cath- 
erine Mary  (Lowndes)  Crolius;  children: 
Frank  Leroy,  born  October  24,  1889;  Harriet 
Stevens,  November  26,  1890;  Dudley  Win- 
throp,  January  11,  1892.  3.  Alice  Bovd,  born 
August  3,  1868;  married.  May  24,  1888,  Will- 
iam Yates  Bogle,  born  April  10,  1855,  son  of 
William  Brooks  and  Margaret  (Williams) 
Bogle;  children:  Margaret,  born  August  23, 
1889;  Caroline  Crane,  September  24,  1892; 
William  Yates  Jr.,  May  23,  1896. 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


(VIII)  Ira  Seymour,  eldest  child  of  Jarvis 
G.  Crane,  was  born  at  Boonton,  New  Jersey, 
December  29,  1855.  At  the  age  of  four  years 
he  removed  with  his  parents  to  West  Bloom- 
field  (now  Montclair),  New  Jersey.  The  best 
educational  advantages  then  to  be  had  in  the 
town  were  given  to  him  by  his  parents,  and 
in  187^  he  graduated  from  the  high  school. 
Preferring  a  trade  to  begin  life  with,  he  learn- 
ed carpentering  of  his  father,  following  this 
faithfully  for  eight  years  up  to  1881.  When 
the  senior  Crane  purchased  the  hardware  busi- 
ness, which  has  since  grown  to  large  propor- 
tions, he  took  his  son  Ira  S.  in  company.  The 
business  was  bought  of  William  S.  Morris, 
who  established  it  in  1834,  and  was  then  situ- 
ated on  the  north  side  of  Bloomfield  avenue, 
near  the  Centre.  It  later  became  William  S. 
Morris  &  Son.  Just  previous  to  the  purchase 
of  tlie  business  it  was  moved  to  the  present 
location,  and  when  the  senior  Crane  admitted 
his  son,  Ira  Seymour  Crane,  the  firm  became 
J.  G.  Crane  &  Son,  and  continued  until  Janu- 
ary I,  1889,  when  Mr.  Crane  purchaseil  his 
father's  interest,  and  the  firm  name  became  I. 
Seymctur  Crane.  The  business  consists  of  gen- 
eral hardware,  building  supplies,  plumbing, 
heating  apparatus,  etc.  Mr.  Crane  enjoys  a 
large  patronage  both  in  Montclair  and  sur- 
rounding towns. 

I.  Seymour  Crane  is  one  of  the  most  public- 
spirited  and  progressive  men  of  the  present 
generation,  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  popular. 
He  assisted  in  organizing  the  fire  department, 
and  was  elected  assistant  foreman  of  the  com- 
pany. In  1880  he  was  made  fire  chief,  and 
under  his  able  management  the  department 
has  increased  in  efficiency  and  strength,  and  is 
one  of  the  best  conducted  fire  departments 
cctnnected  with  any  suburban  town  in  the  state. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  In  i8gi  he  be- 
came a  member  of  the  town  committee,  and 
was  made  the  first  township  treasurer  on  the 
creation  of  that  office.  He  has  given  eminent 
satisfaction  to  the  ta.xpayers  by  the  able  man- 
ner in  which  he  has  discharged  the  duties  of 
his  office.  He  is  president  of  Oak  Lane  Realty 
Company,  a  corporation  under  New  Jersey 
laws  for  the  buying  and  developing  of  lands, 
building  and  selling  real  estate,  in  Montclair ; 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  security  com- 
mittee of  the  Building  and  Loan  Association 
of  Alontclair  for  twenty  years,  director  and 
manager  of  the  Savings  Bank  of  Montclair 
since  its  organization,  and  managing  director 
of  the  Bank  of  Montclair,  vice-president  of 
Montclair  Trust  Comjiany,  director  of  Rose- 


dale  Cemetery  at  Orange,  New  Jersey.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Montclair  Club.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Montclair,  has  been  trustee  for  fifteen  years, 
and  deacon  since  1899.  He  lives  in  a  beautiful 
residence  which  he  erected  on  Church  street, 
near  Montclair  Centre. 

He  married  (first)  at  Montclair,  September 
25,  1882,  Caroline  Amelia  Doremus,  born  in 
August,  1853,  died  October  14,  1892,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Caroline  (Mead)  Doremus,  of 
Montclair.  Joseph  Doremus  was  a  searcher 
of  titles  and  registrar  of  Essex  county  since 
1840,  and  up  to  eighty  years  of  age  was  con- 
sidered the  best  authority  on  titles  in  the  coun- 
ty. Children:  i.  Henrietta  Mead,  born  De- 
cember 24,  1883.  2.  Joseph  Doremus,  de- 
ceased. 3.  Ira  Seymour  Jr.,  born  March  11, 
1888;  now  machinist  for  Sanitary  Can  Com- 
pany at  Fairport,  New  York.  Mr.  Crane  mar- 
ried (second)  at  Verona,  New  Jersey,  June  20, 
1895,  Sarah  Maud  Walker  Priest,  born  No- 
vember 17,  1864,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  J. 
Addison  Priest,  D.  D.,  pastor  at  Montclair, 
1858-62,  and  Frances  (Walker)  Priest.  Chil- 
dren :  4.  Wolcott  Bogle,  born  March  13,  1896. 
5.  Paul  Howard,  October  17,  1897.  6.  Theo- 
dore Jarvis.  August  8,  1906. 


(For  early  generations  see  Jasper  Crane  1). 

(V)  Samuel  Crane,  son  of  Noah 
CRANE  Crane  (q.  v.),  was  born  at  Crane- 
town,  New  Jersey,  October  g, 
1746,  died  February  28,  181 1,  at  Caldwell, 
New  Jersey.  He  settled  in  that  part  of  Cald- 
well known  as  "'Westville,'"  December  3,  l774^ 
when  the  first  church  was  organized  at  Cald- 
well, his  name  appears  on  the  first  list  with 
Mary  and  Phebe  Crane.  He  was  elected  dea- 
con in  1784.  He  was  a  properous  farmer,  and 
an  inlluential  man  in  his  community.  He 
served  in  the  revolutionary  army.  Dr.  Wicks, 
in  his  "History  of  the  Oranges,"  makes  several 
(juotations  from  Jemima  Cunditt's  diary  of 
revolutionary  events  :  one  of  these  contains  the 
following  reference  to  Samuel  Crane:  "Sept 
ye  12  1777  on  Friday  there  was  an  alarm  our 
Militia  was  Called.  The  Regulars  Came  over 
into  Elizabethtown  Where  they  had  a  Brush 
with  a  Small  Party  of  our  People  then  march- 
ed Quietly  up  to  Newark  &  took  all  the  Cattle 
thev  Could,  there  was  five  of  the  militia  of 
Newark.  They  killed  Samuel  Crane  &  took 
Zadock  and  .\ilen  Neady  &  Samuel  Freeman 
Prisoners.  One  out  of  five  run  and  escapt." 
(The  report  of  the  death  of  Samuel  Crane  was 
an  error,  although  he  had  it  recorded  as  such)> 


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1045 


Samuel  Crane  niarried,  1768,  Alary  Bald- 
win, born  October  3,  1747.  died  January  26, 
1817,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Bald- 
win. Children:  i.  Caleb,  born  August  28, 
1769,  died  January  10,  1844,  married,  April  6, 
1793,  Lydia  Personett :  children;  i.  iVIaria, 
born  April  29,  1794,  died  October  14,  1830; 
ii.  Samuel  Gibson,  born  February  17,  1797, 
died  August  21,  1820,  married  Lydia  S.  Crane, 
had  child,  Ann  Alaria  Gibson,  died  1839;  iii. 
Elizabeth  Baldwin,  born  May  4,  1800,  married 
Gershom  Freeman  :  children  :  Zenas  Gibson  ; 
Eliza,  married  Richard  C.  Campbell ;  Ann 
Alaria  Gibson,  married  Wesley  Taylor;  iv. 
Afoses  Personett,  born  August  19,  1801,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Hedges,  children :  a.  Caleb  Gibson, 
born  July  2,  1833;  married  Mary  Alaynard : 
children :  Etta  Amelia,  Sarah  x\ugusta,  Waldo 
Alaynarfl  and  Mary  Ernestine ;  b.  William 
Wallace,  died  April  28,  1837;  c.  Edward  Nel- 
son, died  January  11,  1840;  d.  Edward  Wal- 
lace, born  March  31,  1843:  married  Elmira 
Maynard ;  children :  Edward  Lincoln,  died 
1890,  and  .\dele ;  v.  Zenas  C,  born  October  22, 
1804,  died  July  10,  1883:  married,  October  11, 
1833,  Mary  Harrison;  children:  a.  Marcus 
Harrison,  born  October  10,  1842,  married 
Effie  Muzzy,  children :  Edgar  Melvin,  Maria 
Steele  and  Frances ;  b.  Calel).  born  October  22, 
1844;  married,  JMay  i,  1878,  Rachel  Jacobus; 
children:  Lew-is  Martin,  born  September  17, 
1879;  Zenas  Gibson,  December  11,  1882;  Mary 
Harrison,  February  24,  1884,  died  September 
9,  1898;  Raymond  Lockward,  December  24, 
1886;  b.  x\nna  Maria,  born  October  28,  1846; 
married  Lewis  G.  Lockward ;  children :  Lewis 
Gibson,  Robert  and  Lynn  Grover;  vi.  Lydia 
P.,  born  April  20,  1809;  married  George  C. 
Steele  ;  children  :  a.  Gibson  ;  b.  Maria  Crane  ; 
c.  Aaron  D.  Crane ;  d.  George  Whitfield ; 
e.  Jane  I^.  Crane.  2.  Zenas,  born  1772, 
drowned  1801  ;  married  Abbie  Grover;  chil- 
dren :  i.  Ciarinda,  married  Collins  Hasslet ; 
children :  Clarinda,  Ann,  Louise,  Maria,  Cath- 
erine Jane,  Wesley ;  ii.  Sarah,  married  Samuel 
Dobbins  ;  iii.  Zenas,  married  Mary  Stiles  ;  chil- 
dren :  Mary,  Emily,  Cyrus,  Cynthia,  Martha, 
Alice,  Zenas.  3.  Cyrus,  died  in  infancy.  4. 
Dorcas,  married  Timothy  Crane ;  children  :  i. 
Cyrus;  ii.  Zenas,  married  Eliza  Speer ;  chil- 
dren :  Dorcas  Maria,  Cyrus  and  Emma.  5. 
Colonel  Cyrus,  born  October  23,  1779,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Polly,  born  September  15, 
1784,  died  March  19,  1858;  married  Samuel 
Harrison  ;  children  :  i..  Joanna,  born  June  20, 
181 1,  died  March  20,  1888;  married  A.sher 
Baldwin  Crane:  ii.  Marv;  iii.  Rhoda  C,  mar- 


ried Daniel  Baldwin  ;  children  :  Samuel,  Will- 
iam Henry,  Elizabeth  M.,  Anna  Maria  and 
Sarah  Marinda;  iv.  Samuel  Orton,  born  De- 
cember 17,  1816;  married  (first)  Elizabeth 
Baldwin  ;  children  :  Amelia  and  Elizabeth  ; 
married  (second)  Sarah  A.  Baldwin;  children: 
Samuel  Edgar,  Edward  Clark,  Mary  A.,  Lizzie, 
Samuel  Ezra;  married  (third)  Gertrude  L 
Budd;  children:  Helen  and  Annie;  v.  Cyrus, 
married  (first)  Sarah  Crane:  (second)  Abbie 
M.  Baldwin ;  vi.  Zenas  Gibson,  married  Fran- 
ces Reeve ;  children :  a.  Elston  ]\L  ;  b.  Ed- 
ward N.,  married  Addie  Canfield  and  had 
Helen  and  Howard ;  c.  Flattie  R. ;  d.-e.  Clar- 
ence D.  and  Clifford  B.,  twins ;  vii.  Marinda  T. 

7.  Betsey,  born  1787;  niarried  Matthias  Can- 
field  ;  children  :  i.  Samuel,  married  Lydia  Bond  ; 
child,  George  Alunson ;  ii.  Esther,  married 
John  J.  Moore:  children:  Wallace,  Smith  and 
Myron  ;  iii.  M.  Smith,  niarried  Elizabeth  Van 
Amberg:  iv.  Cyrus,  married  Eliza  Courter ; 
children  :  a.  Caroline,  married  John  Francisco  ; 
b.  Milton  H.,  married  (  first )  Molly  Budd  :  mar- 
ried (second) and  had  two  children;  v. 

Mary ;  vi.  Emeline,  married  Nathaniel  Bald- 
win ;  vii.  Isaac  Newton,  married  Caroline  Con- 
dit :  children  :    Ann  Augusta  and  Mary  Emma. 

8.  Major  Nathaniel,  born  1789;  married  (first) 
February  20,  1800.  Jane  L.  Duryea ;  children: 
i.  Samuel,  born  1810,  died  1874;  married  Maria 
Pierson  ;  children  :  a.  Jane  L.,  married  George 
W.  Steele ;  b.  Nathaniel  Nelson,  married  Eu- 
phemia  Colyer ;  children :  Ida,  Grace  and 
iNlaria ;  c.  Anna  Maria  Gibson;  d.  Eliza  C, 
married  George  Poole;  children:  Samuel,  John, 
Robert,  Raymond  and  Clarence ;  ii.  John  Dur- 
yea, born  181 3,  died  April  3,  1888,  married 
(first)  Ann  S.  Day:  (second)  Charlotte 
Thompson;  (third)  Rachel  Speer:  iii.  Caleb, 
born  1815,  died  1851  ;  married  Rhoila  AI. 
Dodd ;  children :  a.  Aaron  D.,  married  Alaria 
Steele ;  b.  Henry  D.,  married  Abbie  L.  Cook ; 
child,  Frederick;  c.  Alaria  Dodd,  married 
Frank  AL  Wheeler,  and  had  children:  Henry 
G.,  Julius  P.,  Alary  L.,  Samuel  C,  Ruth,  Frank 
A.  and  Edgar  T. ;  d.  Louisa  W.,  married  C. 
Alexander  Cook ;  children,  Helen,  Louise  and 
Alexander;  iv.  Henry  A\'ilson,  born  1817,  died 
i8<;o;  married  Sarah  Duryea;  children:  a.  Gil- 
bert D.,  married  (first)  Edna  Dickerson ;  chil- 
dren: Frank  W.  and  Reta;  married  (second) 
Sarah  \^an  Patten ;  child,  Catherine  Duryea ; 
b.  Cornelia  J. ;  c.  Edward  W. ;  d.  Laura,  mar- 
ried Albert  Brugler;  child,  Helen;  e.  Mary 
Lea,  married  Jacob  G.  Rockefellar  ;  child,  Ken- 
neth D. ;  f.  Carrie  W.,  niarried  James  C.  Car- 
ter,   chililren,    Aliriani    and    Donald;    v.    Jane 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Eliza,  married  Caleb  N.  Pierson;  children: 
Joseph,  Maria,  Janette,  married  Cyrus  Crane, 
Walter,  Orville,  Caleb,  John  D.,  Julia ;  vi. 
Delphin  Edgar,  born  1822,  died  1827;  vii. 
James  Harvey,  born  1824,  married  Abbie  Har- 
rison ;  children:  a.  William  M.;  b.  Ella,  born 
1852,  married  Thomas  Gould,  children:  C)live 
and  Thomas;  viii.  Phebe  Maria,  born  1826, 
married  William  Gould,  died  February  17, 
1910;  ix.  Cyrus  Edgar,  born  1829;  married 
(first)  Mary  L.  Stiles;  (second)  Josephine 
Fields;  children:  Lillie  and  Willie;  x.  Julia 
Hedges,  born  1833,  married  Rev.  L.  S.  Pot- 
win  :  xi.  Joseph ;  xii.  Joseph  Wilmot,  born 
1842;  married  Annie  Parkhurst;  children: 
May,  Herbert  and  Julia.  Major  Nathaniel 
married  (second)  Julia  F.  Hedges;  (third) 
Janette  E.  Cook. 

(\"I)  Colonel  Cyrus  Crane,  son  of  .Samuel 
Crane,  was  born  October  23,  1779,  in  the  old 
Hatfield  house,  situated  on  the  Crane  farm  at 
"Westville,"  township  of  Caldwell.  He  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the 
usual  common  school  education  of  a  farmer's 
son  at  that  period.  When  eighteen  years  of 
age  his  father,  with  the  assistance  of  Cyrus, 
built  the  first  Crane  homestead,  vidiere  his  de- 
scendants have  since  lived.  Colonel  Cyrus 
Crane  followed  his  chosen  occupation  of  farm- 
ing throughout  his  life,  and  with  his  brothers 
Caleb,  Zenas  and  Nathaniel,  and  sisters  Betsey 
and  Polly,  were  joint  owners  in  the  saw  mill, 
the  brothers  running  it  week  about  in  their 
own  and  their  sisters'  interests.  At  the  death 
of  Cyrus  in  1827,  his  share  in  the  mill  property 
descended  to  his  children.  He  became  deeply 
interested  in  military  affairs  and  rose  to  the 
office  of  colonel  of  state  militia.  He  served  in 
the  war  of  1812,  having  a  command  at  Brook- 
lyn at  that  time.  He  was  a  public  spirited  man 
and  prominent  in  affairs  pertaining  to  the  busi-' 
ness  of  his  town.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Caldwell. 

Colonel  Cyrus  Crane  married,  February  26, 
1807,  Hannah  Crane,  born  September  15,  1781, 
died  May  I,  1849,  daughter  of  William  and 
Lydia  (Baldwin)  Crane;  William  Crane  was 
lieutenant  and  captain  in  the  revolution  and  in 
the  war  of  1812.  Children:  i.  Dorcas,  born 
January  25.  1808,  died  about  1895;  married, 
December  14,  1823,  Demas  Harrison;  chil- 
dren: i.  Hannah  Maria,  Ixjrn  April  7,  1827, 
died  .\ugust  5,  1832;  ii.  Marcus,  born  June  24, 
1830;  married,  C)ctober  4,  1854,  Frances 
Crane  ;  children  :  a.  Theodore,  married  Hattie 
Herdman ;  child,  Marcus  L. ;  b.  Joseph  Leslie, 
married  Nora  Bond:  child,  Benjamin  D. ;  iii. 


Mary,  born  September  24,  1838;  married,  No- 
vember 10, 1864,  George  Ougheltree ;  iv.  Joseph, 
born  October  7,  1842,  died  January  22,  1846; 
V.  Rufus  A.,  born  November  29,  1844,  died 
October  5,  1884;  married,  May  i,  1876,  Emily 
Taylor;  children:  George,  died  in  California 
about  1904,  and  Frank,  born  November,  1882, 
died  June  6,  1885;  vi.  Phebe,  born  April  i, 
1847,  d'fd  November  28,  1862.  2.  Asher  Bald- 
win, born  November  30,  1809,  mentioned 
below.  3.  Marcus  E.,  born  October  5,  181 1, 
died  September  22,  1843.  4-  Mary  B.,  born 
February  28,  1814;  married  George  Pierson; 
children :  i.  Cyrus  M. ;  ii.  Anna  E. ;  iii.  Will- 
iam W.,  married  (first)  Alexma  McWhorten ; 

(  second ) ,  child,  Anna  A. ;  iv.  Emma 

Caroline,  married  Stephen  Brow'n ;  child : 
Ethelwyn  May;  v.  Asher  Crane;  vi.  Alary 
Amelia.  5.  Joseph  B.,  born  April  19,  1816, 
(lied  !March  25,  1832.  6.  Elizabeth  Marcia, 
born  August  13,  1818;  married,  March  7,  1843, 
Aaron  G.  Baldwin ;  children :  i.  Sarah  C.,  born 
March  13,  1844;  married,  April  27,  1870, 
George  Chandler;  children:  Frank  H.  and 
Mabel ;  ii.  Ida  H.  M.,  born  June  26,  1845  '> 
married,  November  18,  1869,  Charles  S.  Bald- 
win :  children :  Grover  E.,  died  February  14, 
1880;  Charles  .S.,  George  E.  and  Elizabeth 
Marcia;  iii.  Stephen,  born  May  22,  1847,  died 
June  19,  1854;  iv.  Lucasta  C,  born  Septem- 
ber 17,  1852;  V.  George  P.,  born  April  8,  1855; 
married,  October  27,  1886,  Harriet  A.  Lovett; 
children:  Aaron  Grover  and  Orton  Roswell; 
vi.  .Silas  K.,  born  February  4,  1858;  vii,  Jo- 
seph C,  born  February  4,  18-—;  viii.  Marcus 
G.,  born  December  13,  1861,  7.  Sarah,  born 
September  19,  1820;  married  Cyrus  F.  Harri- 
son ;  children :  Joseph  Wilber,  Emma,  Laura, 
Minnie  C.  and  George. 

(\II)  .\sher  Baldwin  Crane,  son  of  Colo- 
nel Cyrus  Crane,  was  born  November  30.  1809, 
on  the  old  homestead  built  by  his  grandfather 
in  that  part  of  Caldwell  known  as  "Westville." 
His  educational  training  was  limited  to  the 
district  school,  wdiere  he  improved  his  spare 
opportunities,  and  with  constant  reading  in 
after  years  became  thoroughly  versed  in  the 
affairs  and  topics  of  the  day  and  world  at 
large.  At  eighteen  years  of  age.  on  the  death 
of  his  father,  he  being  the  eldest  son,  the  care 
and  conduct  of  the  farm  was  given  to  him  and 
he  continued  conducting  it  until  his  marriage. 
In  his  father's  will  he  received  his  share  of  the 
property.  He  gradually  acc|uired  the  shares 
of  the  other  heirs  by  purchase,  and  at  last 
owned  upwards  of  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
five  acres  of  the  best  farm  property  in  Essex 


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county.  He  conducted  an  extensive  lumbering 
business  and  had  a  share  in  the  mill  property 
left  him  by  his  father,  who  received,  among 
other  heirs  of  his  grandfather,  Samuel  Crane, 
his  equal  share.  About  1853  the  mill  was 
destroyed  by  fire  and  soon  rebuilt.  Asher  B 
Crane,  with  his  cousins,  Samuel  and  Moses  P. 
Crane,  formed  a  partnership  under  the  firm 
name  of  Samuel  Crane  &  Company.  The  busi- 
ness prospered,  the  cousins  remaining  together 
until  the  death  of  Samuel,  when  his  son.  Nel- 
son N.  Crane,  took  his  father's  interest.  The 
business  was  reorganized  under  the  firm  name 
of  Nathaniel  N.  Crane  &  Company,  Asher  B. 
Crane  remaining  active  in  the  concern  up  to 
his  death,  March  4,  1888,  when  his  interest 
was  taken  up  by  his  sons,  Cyrus  B.  and  Marcus 
S.  Crane,  the  older  brother  later  selling  his 
interest  to  the  younger,  March  i,  1894.  The 
firm  of  Nathaniel  N.  Crane  &  Company  did  a 
general  mill  suii])ly  business,  getting  out  frames 
for  houses,  bridge  timber,  oak,  ash  and  hickory 
wagon  stock. 

As  an  agriculturist  Asher  B.  Crane  was 
enterprising,  industrious  and  progressive.  He 
followed  the  best  methods  and  improved  his 
land,  raising  the  common  crops,  grain  and  hay. 
He  maintained  a  herd  of  cattle,  made  butter 
and  raised  young  stock  for  the  market.  He 
was  considered  one  of  the  enterprising  and  in- 
fluential citizens  of  Caldwell.  He  lived  a  high- 
ly useful  and  honorable  life,  and  stood  in  high 
esteem  of  his  neighbors  and  townsmen.  He 
was  a  man  of  great  force  of  character.  His 
social  and  amiable  disposition,  together  with 
his  first  consideration  of  others,  gained  for 
him  a  host  of  friends  which  he  always  retain- 
ed. He  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  afifairs  of 
his  native  town,  and  kejit  in  touch  with  the 
affairs  of  the  nation  and  world  at  large  through 
reading  the  daily  papers.  During  the  trying 
times  of  the  war  he  became  a  great  admirer  of 
Abraham  Lincoln  and  his  policies,  and  was  a 
-launch  Republican  up  to  his  death.  He  was 
a  chosen  freeholder  of  Caldwell,  and  served  on 
the  town  cxminiittee,  being  ever  ready  to  fur- 
ther the  best  interests  of  the  community.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  old  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Caldwell,  his  wife  being  also  a 
devoted  member.  He  gave  liberally  to  its  sup- 
port, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  deacon, 
trustee  and  ruling  elder. 

Asher  B.  Crane  married  (first)  April  22, 
1840,  Eunice  Baldwin,  born  February  26,  1810, 
died  April  14,  1848.  Children:  i.  Cyrus  Bald- 
win, born  October  21,  1843,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Joseph   Emmons,  born   September  6,    1846, 


died  June  2},,  1876;  married  Annie  Sears; 
child,  Asher  Sears,  died  young.  Married  (sec- 
ond), December  4,  1850,  Joanna  Harrison, 
born  June  20,  181 1,  died  March  20,  1888, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Polly  (Crane)  Harri-- 
son.  Chiklrcn:  3.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  Octo- 
ber I,  1851,  died  March  21,  1863.  4.  Marcus 
Spencer,  mentioned  below. 

(  \Tn  )  Cyrus  Baldwin  Crane,  son  of  Asher 
Baldwin  Crane,  was  born  in  his  father's  home- 
stead, at  Westville,  Caldwell,  New  Jersey,  Oc- 
tober 21,  1843.  His  early  educational  training 
was  limited  to  the  district  school  nearby,  ami 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  years  he  attended  the 
private  school  of  Arthur  B.  Noel  four  terms, 
supplemented  by  a  course  during  the  winter 
terms  at  the  Newark  Academy  under  Head 
Master  Samuel  A.  Farrand,  LL.  D.,  up  to 
twenty  years  of  age.  He  assisted  his  father 
in  the  conduct  of  the  farm  and  remained  in 
his  emplciy  until  his  marriage,  and  began  farm- 
ing (in  a  [lart  of  the  homestead  farm,  which 
came  to  him  by  inheritance.  At  the  death  of  the 
senior  Crane,  Cyrus  B.  received  by  his  father's 
will  eighty-five  acres  of  the  homestead  prop- 
erty', and  the  other  son,  Marcus  S.,  a  like  share, 
each  brother  receiving  an  equal  interest  in  their 
lather's  mill.  This  interest  was  sold  to  Marcus  S. 
when  the  mill  plant  was  purchased  by  the  latter 
of  the  other  heirs,  March  i,  1894.  Mr.  Crane 
has  in  the  neighborhood  of  one  hundred  acres 
of  fine  farm  property,  consisting  of  thirty 
acres  of  tillage,  twenty-five  acres  of  pasture, 
and  the  remainder  in  meadow  and  woodland. 
He  is  progressive  and  enterprising,  and  is 
numbered  among  the  staunch  citizens  of  Cald- 
well, having  served  in  town  affairs  to  the  credit 
of  his  townspeo])le  and  himself.  He  has  fol- 
lowed the  course  of  true  Republicanism,  and 
in  the  gift  of  the  citizens  has  been  elected  town- 
ship committeeman  and  borough  councilman 
of  W'est  Caldwell.  He  has  also  acted  as  com- 
missioner of  appeals.  He  served  as  one  of  the 
board  of  visitors  of  the  State  Agricultural  Col- 
lege connected  with  Rutgers  College  for  eight 
years ;  has  served  for  six  years  as  president  of 
the  Essex  County  lioard  of  Agriculture,  which 
organization  is  identified  with  the  State  Board ; 
has  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  man- 
rgers  of  the  Montclair  Savings  Bank  since  its 
organization  in  1893:  and  in  December,  1909, 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Citizens'  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Caldwell,  New  Jersey,  and  was 
elected  vice-jjresident  of  the  same.  Mr.  Crane 
is  a  member  of  Caldwell  Grange,  No.  107, 
Patrons  of  Husbandry.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crane 
are  members  of  the  I'irst  Presbyterian  Church 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


of  Caldwell :  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
board  ot  church  trustees  twelve  years,  and  has 
been  a  ruling  elder  since  1889.  He  has  been  a 
former  officer  in  the  Temple  of  Honor,  and 
is  an  ardent  supporter  of  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance. 

Mr.  Crane  married  (first)  at  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey,  November  9,  1881,  Phebe  Elizabeth 
Stiles,  born  April  23.  1853,  died  September  2, 
1890,  daughter  of  Elias  \\'ade  and  Mary 
(Crane)  Stiles,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
farmer.  Children:  i.  Alice  Stiles,  born  March 
8,  1885.  2.  William  Asher,  September  2,  1890. 
Mr.  Crane  married  (second)  at  Elizabeth, 
New  Jersey,  April  2,  1892,  Julia  Meeker  Stiles, 
born  June  10,  1843,  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary" (Meeker)  Stiles. 

(Vni)  Marcus  Spencer  Crane,  son  of  Asher 
Baldwin  Crane,  was  born  in  the  old  Crane 
homestead  at  "'^\'estville,'"  Caldwell,  New  Jer- 
sey, April  21.  1853.  His  early  education  was 
gained  in  the  nearby  district  school,  supple- 
mented by  two  winter  terms  in  the  private 
school  of  Arthur  B.  Noll  at  Caldwell,  and  the 
private  school  of  E.  O.  Stratton,  subsequently 
taking  a  winter  course  in  the  Newark  Acad- 
emy up  to  nineteen  years  of  age.  At  an  early 
age  he  assisted  his  father  in  the  duties  of  the 
farm  and  worked  in  his  father's  mill.  Con- 
tinuing with  his  father  in  conducting  the 
affairs  of  the  farm,  he  received  on  the  decease 
of  his  father,  by  his  will,  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  acres  of  the  homestead  property 
and  one-half  interest  in  the  saw  mill.  The 
other  half  interest  in  the  mill,  left  to  the  other 
son  and  heir,  Cyrus  B.  Crane,  was  purchased 
by  ]\Iarcus  Spencer  at  the  time  he  bought  the 
entire  rights  in  the  mill  plant.  March  i,  1894. 
He  then  took  possession  and  started  to  im- 
prove the  plant,  succeeding  the  old  firm  of 
Nathaniel  N.  Crane  &  Company  who  so  long 
o])erated  the  privilege.  Mr.  Crane  has  since 
installed  a  steam  boiler  and  twenty-two  horse 
])ower  engine ;  he  operates  a  grist  mill  in  addi- 
tion to  his  saw,  planing  and  turning  mill,  sup- 
])lying  finished  timber  of  all  kinds,  wagon  stock 
and  general  mill  work.  He  erected  his  present 
homestead  in  1900  on  the  site  of  the  old  Crane 
house.  His  barns,  spacious  and  up-to-date  in 
all  their  appnintments,  stand  west  of  the  resi- 
dence, and  are  capable  of  storing  one  hundred 
tons  of  hay.  He  also  erected  an  improved  milk 
house.  He  has  devoted  much  time  to  the  study 
of  entomology,  which  has  greatly  aided  him 
in  exterminating  destructive  insects  in  his 
locality.  His  collection  is  one  of  the  best  pri- 
\ate  collections  in  the  state. 


Marcus  Spencer  Crane  was  married  at  Plain- 
field,  New  Jersey,  October  23,  1901,  by  Rev. 
Dr.  William  Richards,  to  Mabel,  born  March  4, 
1870,  daughter  of  David  Oliver  and  Nancy 
M.  (W'inans)  Bonnell,  of  Plainfield,  New  Jer- 
sey. David  O.  Bonnell  was  a  provision  dealer 
and  farmer.  Children :  Herbert  Bonnell,  born 
January  30,  1903,  and  Elsie  Joanna,  June  26, 
1905. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crane  are  members  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Caldwell,  Mr. 
Crane  serving  the  society  as  deacon.  He  is 
active  in  the  cause  of  temperance,  and  a  former 
member  of  the  Temple  of  Honor.  In  politics 
he  is  to  be  found  on  the  side  that  is  best  to 
the  community  at  large,  and  while  he  is  inde- 
])endent,  strongly  favors  the  Republican  party. 
He  served  as  town  committeeman  three  years, 
and  later  on  the  board  of  health  for  the  bor- 
ough. He  is  a  member  of  Caldwell  Grange, 
No.  107,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  and  served 
that  hoilv  as  its  treasurer  a  number  of  years. 


Josiah  Ward,  the  earliest  member 
\\.\RD  of  the  family  of  whom  we  have 
information,  was  born  June  17, 
1781.  and  died  at  Cranetown,  now  IMontclair, 
New  Jersey,  June  18,  1835.  He  was  the  son  of 
Samuel,  and  grandson  of  Lawrence  and  Elea- 
nor f  Bald  win)  Ward,  for  whose  ancestry  see 
Crane  in  inde.x.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  plantation,  acquired  a  common  school 
education,  and  succeeded  to  his  father's  eighty 
acre  farm  in  the  south  part  of  the  present 
town  of  Montclair.  This  farm  he  willed  at 
his  death  to  his  eldest  son  Joseph.  He  was  a 
Whig  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church,  and  was  esteemed  by  all  who 
knew  him  for  his  industry,  honesty,  frugality, 
and  force  of  character.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Phineas  and  Abigail  (Baldwin) 
Crane,  who  was  born  at  ^^'est  Bloomfield,  May 
5.  1783,  and  died  at  Montclair,  August  28, 
1851.  Children:  i.  Joseph,  referred  to  below. 
2  George,  born  January  29,  1817:  married 
(first)  Harriet  Cone;  (second)  Sarah  Smith, 
3.  Aaron,  born  June  i,   1819;  died  December 

29,  1894:  twice  married.  4.  Phineas  Johnson, 
born  Julv  26,  1823:'  see  forward.  5.  Abbey 
Elizabeth,  born  April  13,  1826;  died  January 

30,  1901  ;  married,  April,  1850,  Alexander 
Crouthers  Piercy  ;  children  :  Lawrence  Phineas 
Piercy,  born  September  20,  1S53,  died  May  i, 
i8c)8:  Walter  Alexander  Piercy,  born  Decem- 
ber 6,  1856,  died  September  2.  1867:  Mary 
Piercy,  born  July  7,  1858:  Harriet  Ward 
Piercv.  born  March  2;.  i8'i2. 


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(  ]  I ')  I'liineas  Johnson  Ward,  son  of  Josiah 
and  Elizabeth  (Crane)  Ward,  was  born  at 
Cranetown  (now  jMontclair).  New  Jersey, 
July  26,  1823,  died  at  Glen  Ridge,  New  Jersey 
(Bloomfield),  April  4,  1894.  Mr.  Ward  mar- 
ried at  Montclair,  October  18,  1834,  Margaret 
.\niclia  Campbell,  daughter  of  Ira  and  Jane 
(Dodd)  Campbell.  Children:  Jane  Dodd, 
Frank  Dodd  and  Walter  Campbell.  Frank 
Dodd  married  Grace  W.  Mcintosh,  October  28, 
1886:  child,  Marjorie  IMcIntosh. 

(IF)  Joseph,  son  of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth 
( Crane )  Ward,  was  born  in  the  old  Ward 
family  homestead  at  \^'est  EUoomfield,  F"eb- 
ruary  24,  181 3,  and  died  there  April  29,  1880. 
After  receiving  his  early  education  in  the 
ISloomfield  district  school,  he  attended,  until 
seventeen  years  old,  the  private  school  kept  by 
Isaac  ^\'heeler.  He  was  industrious  in  his 
studies,  and  was  regarded  as  an  excellent 
mathematician  and  grammarian,  and  was  high- 
ly gifted  also  as  a  penman,  specimens  of  his 
writing  being  still  preserved  by  his  family, 
showing  his  care,  skill  and  capability  in  that 
■direction,  I'ntil  he  was  of  age  he  remained 
at  home  helping  his  father  on  the  farm,  and 
after  his  father's  death  he  continued  to  manage 
it  with  the  assistance  of  his  mother,  who  is 
said  til  ha\e  Ijeen  a  most  energetic  and  capable 
v.uman,  and  under  their  joint  labours  the 
plantation  produced  a  handsome  yearly  income. 
His  father  left  the  farm  to  the  eldest  son  Jo- 
seph, who  voluntarily  bestowed  upon  his 
brothers  and  sister  an  equal  share  in  money 
and  retained  the  homestead  property.  He  was 
progressive  in  every  sense  of  the  term.  Later 
on  he  sold  some  of  his  lands,  which  amounted 
to  over  one  hundred  acres,  to  advantage.  He 
built  houses  on  Ridgewood  avenue,  Montclair. 
now  known  as  Glenridge,  which  he  disposed  of 
at  a  very  good  profit.  He  was  regarded  as  "a 
man  among  men."  "He  was  an  upright,  hon- 
orable type  of  man,  kept  in  touch  by  constant 
reading  with  the  affairs  of  the  world  at  large, 
and  being  of  a  quiet  nature  he  would  never 
acce])t  any  ])ublic  office  in  the  gift  of  his  fellow 
citizens,  although  he  always  strongly  upheld 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party."  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Montclair,  and,  possessing  a  good  tenor  voice, 
sang  in  the  choir  there  for  many  years.  He 
married  (first)  Marinda,  born  in  1816,  died 
October  31,  1842,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Mary 
(Dodd)  Baldwin.  He  married  (second)  Oc- 
tober 19,  1852,  Sarah  C,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Phebe  (Peck)  Condit  (see  Condit).    Chil- 


dren, f(jur  by  second  marriage:  i.  Charlotte 
Baldwin,  born  October  11,  1837;  married, 
March  12,  1883,  Albert  Matthews.  2.  Lucinda 
lialdwin,  born  January  8,  1842;  married,  Sep- 
tember, 1874,  Samuel  S.  Xeck,  an  English- 
man: child,  Jessie  Miran<la.  burn  March  15, 
jS/I).  3.  Samuel  Condit,  born  .\pril  6,  1854; 
married  Matilda  Donaldson;  child,  Samuel. 
4.  Ira  Harrison,  born  October  23,  1856,  died 
August  24,  1874;  he  had  graduated  from  the 
Riverview  Military  Academy  at  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York;  he  then  read  law  in  the  office  of 
Bigelow  &  Johnson  at  Newark;  he  lost  his  life 
by  an  accident,  the  running  away  of  a  horse ; 
he  was  an  apt  and  brilliant  speaker  and  had  a 
brilliant  career  before  him.  5.  Frank  Condit, 
referred  to  below,  'i.  William  Condit,  born 
April  9,  1859,  died  April  9,  1875,  of  typhoid 
fever,  while  attending  Riverview  Academy. 

(HI)  Frank  Condit,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Sarah  C.  (Condit)  Ward,  was  born  in  the  old 
Ward  homestead,  on  Orange  Road,  Montclair, 
being  the  fourth  generation  to  be  born  in  the 
house,  February  5,  1858.  For  his  early  edu- 
catiiju  he  attended  the  public  schools  of  Mont- 
clair, where  he  received  a  good  literary  edu- 
cation, and  graduateil  from  the  high  school. 
He  then  took  up  a  practical  commercial  course 
at  the  New  Jersey  Commercial  College  at 
Newark,  and  after  finishing  it  entered  the 
Riverview  Military  Academy  at  Poughkeepsie. 
where  he  took  up  a  classical  course,  supple- 
mented by  another  business  course.  Mr.  Ward 
next  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  and  book- 
keeper in  the  brokerage  building  of  Hills 
Brothers,  in  New  York  City,  where  he  remain- 
ed for  one  year,  and  then  resigned  in  order  to 
accept  a  similar  position  with  the  firm  of  Lyon 
I'.rothers,  of  New  York,  Soon  after  this  he 
began  a  successful  real  estate  and  brokerage 
business  in  East  Orange  and  Brick  Church, 
New  Jersey,  in  partnership  with  Charles  W. 
L.  Roche,  the  firm  name  being  Ward  &  Roche, 
and  for  eleven  years  the  partners  enjoyed  not 
only  the  most  successful  but  also  the  largest 
real  estate  business  in  that  section.  The  part- 
nership was  then  dissolved,  and  for  the  follow- 
ing two  years  ;\Ir.  Ward  establishing  himself 
in  the  "Studio  Building,"  of  which  he  was 
part  owner,  as  an  operator  buying  and  selling 
real  estate.  After  this  he  took  up  his  quarters 
in  Berkley  Hall,  a  building  erected  liy  Mr. 
Ward,  and  remained  in  business  here  for  six 
years  longer.  In  1905  the  building  of  the  pres- 
ent storage  warehouse  was  begun  under  his 
supervision,   and   upon   its   completion    in   the 


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spring  of  1909  the  Orange  Storage  Warehouse 
Company  was  incorporated  in  April,  1909, 
vvitli  Mr.  Ward  as  president,  Judge  Thomas 
A.  Davis  as  vice-president,  and  CHnton  M. 
Field  as  secretary  and  treasurer.  Among  the 
many  valuable  properties  which  Mr.  Ward 
has  been  instrumental  in  developing  is  the  pres- 
ent Washington  Terrace  locality.  He  has  also 
opened  up  a  valuable  property  from  the  old 
\Vard  estate,  which  belonged  to  his  ancestors ; 
erecting  many  of  the  residences  and  greatly 
improving  the  southern  location  of  Montclair. 
He  is  considered  an  expert  on  land  values  and 
is  constantly  engaged  as  an  appraiser  in  every 
part  of  the  country.  He  is  also  an  e.xpert 
breeder  of  fine  cattle  and  horses  and  has  met 
with  very  marked  success.  He  has  imported 
as  many  as  five  hundred  of  cattle  at  one  time, 
much  of  his  stock  coming  from  the  Channel 
Islands  and  his  stock  has  been  sold,  and  is  well 
known  in  almost  every  state  in  the  Union.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Montclair,  and  of  the  New  Jersey  Driving 
Association. 

(The   Condit   Line). 

(VI)  Samuel,  son  of  Samuel  (q.  v.)  and 
Hannah  (Harrison)  Condit,  was  born  at  Tory 
Corner,  Orange,  New  Jersey,  March  22,  1798, 
and  died  in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  October 
22,  1864.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  large  farm- 
ing property  in  East  Orange,  which  he  left  to 
his  children.  It  is  now  largely  built  upon  and 
has  passed  out  of  the  family.  He  married 
Phebe.  daughter  of  James  and  Hannah  (Can- 
field)  Peck  of  Orange  (see  Peck).  She  was 
born  June  17,  1801,  and  died  March  29,  1848. 
Children :  Hannah  Eliza,  born  December  25, 
1820,  died  April  6,  1883;  married  Caleb  W. 
Harrison.  2.  Samuel,  born  November  27, 
1822,  died  August  24,  1824.  3.  Samuel  Dixon, 
born  November,  1824;  married  Mary  E.  Bald- 
win. 4.  Sarah  C,  referred  to  below.  5.  Will- 
iam P.,  born  March  30,  1829 ;  married  Emily 
Mead,  widow  of  John  Olds.  6.  Harriet,  born 
February  18,  1831  ;  unmarried.  7.  Ira,  born 
April  27,  1833;  died  January  3,  1854.  8.  Har- 
rison, born  October  10,  1835,  died  of  hydro- 
phobia, September  10,  1846.  9.  Mary  Frances, 
born  December  17,  1837;  married  Austin 
Leake  of  New  York  City.  10.  Aaron  P.  born 
December  17,  1839:  married  Sarah  A.  Ward. 
II.  J.  Frederick,  born  May  22,  1842,  died  of 
hydrophc^bia,  September  10,  1846.  12.  Edward 
A.,  born  February  22,  1845:  unmarried. 

(VTI)  Sarah  C.,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Phebe  (Peck)  Condit,  was  born  in  East 
Orange.  New  Jersey,  October  20,  1827.     She 


married,  as  second  wife,  October  15,  1852,  Jo- 
seph, son  of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (Crane) 
Ward,  of  Montclair  (see  Ward). 


This  name  probably  came  from 
HOLMES      the    Norse    "holmr,"    meaning 

small  islet,  or  the  English  from 
of  the  same  word,  "holm,"  being  low  flat 
ground  near  or  in  water;  the  present  form 
evidently  arose  from  using  the  name  in  the 
possessive  case,  and  it  has  been  found  written 
in  many  dift'erent  ways,  prominent  among  them 
being  Holm,  Hoomes,  Wholms,  Whooms, 
Whomes,  Holms  and  Holmes.  David  Holmes, 
of  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  who  died  in 
1G66,  mentions  his  wife  Jane,  daughter  Mar- 
garet, and  speaks  of  two  young  sons,  but  does 
not  give  their  Christian  names.  As  there  is 
fc)und  no  mention  of  John  and  James  Holmes, 
viho  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Wood- 
stock, Connecticut,  until  they  appear  in  that 
town,  it  is  highly  probable  that  they  were  the 
sons  above  referred  to  in  the  will  of  David 
Holmes,  especially  as  their  ages  would  seem 
to  have  corresponded  with  those  of  the  same 
young  men.  The  most  prominent  member  of 
this  family  in  America  is  the  well-beloved  poet, 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

(I)  John  Holmes,  born  about  1664,  prob- 
ably in  Dorchester,  Massachusetts,  and  thought 
to  have  been  son  of  David  Holmes,  was  one 
of  the  original  proprietors  of  the  town  of 
\Voodstock,  Connecticut,  and  died  there  June 
20,  1713.  He  held  many  town  offices,  and  was 
considered  a  man  of  ability;  for  his  public 
services  several  grants  of  land  were  made  to 
him,  .so  that  in  this  and  other  ways  he  became 
possessed  of  considerable  property.  He  mar- 
ried, April  9,  1C90,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Isaac 
Newell,  of  Roxbury,  granddaughter  of  Abra- 
ham Newell,  who  came  to  American  from  Ips- 
wich, England,  in  the  ship  "Francis,"  in  1634. 
She  was  baptized  February  19,  1671,  and  died 
May  9,  1743;  her  children  were:  Hannah, 
given  in  records  as  born  March  26,  1690,  which 
is  a  mistake,  or  the  date  of  marriage  is  given 
wrong;  David,  born  1692,  became  great-grand- 
father of  the  poet,  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes; 
John,  born  June  28,  1695;  Ebenezer ;  Mar- 
garet, March  16,  1698;  Elizabeth,  December 
18,  1702:  Experience,  June  8,  1706. 

( II)  Ebenezer,  third  son  of  John  and  Han- 
nah (Newell)  Holmes,  was  born  February  13, 
1697,  at  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  and  died 
prolaably  between  1720  and  1724.  He  married 
Joanna  Ainsworth,  and  record  is  found  of  one 
child.    Ebenezer;   his   widow   is   probably   the 


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Joanna  Holmes  who  married,  fulv  13,  1734, 
Matturin  Allard. 

(III)  Ebenezer  (2),  son  of  Ebenezer  (i) 
and  Joanna  (Ainsworth)  Holmes,  was  born 
February  27,  1720,  at  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
and  died  there  June  28,  1794.  He  married 
(tirst)  August  26,  1742,  Phebe  Abbott,  by 
whom  he  had  five  children;  (second)  April  12, 

1759,  jMartha  Howlet,  by  whom  he  had  three 
children;  and  (third)  November  16,  1775, 
Eliza  Barret,  by  whom  he  had  one  child.  His 
children  were:  F'hebe,  born  June  22,  1743; 
Dorothy,  April  13,  1745:  Ebenezer;  Chandler, 
December  27,  1750,  died  May  4,  1755  ;  Huldah, 
July  10.  1756;  Chandler,  March  10,  1760;  Per- 
ley  and  Martha,  twins,  March  18,  1763;  Moses, 
March  6,  1779. 

(IV)  Ebenezer  (3),  oldest  son  of  Ebenezer 
(2)  and  Phebe  (Abbott)  Holmes,  was  born 
November  i,  1748,  at  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
and  died  January  29,  1810 ;  he  married,  Janu- 
ary I,  1778,  Marcella  Colburn,  born  I\Iav  11, 

1760.  died  April  28,  1815;  children:  I.  Eben- 
ezer, born  February  18,  1779.  2.  (Jliver,  June 
3.  1 78 1.  3.  Jeremiah.  4.  Mary,  born  May  8, 
1786,  in  Woodstock;  married  A.  Knceland, 
and  died  January  10,  1819,  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts. 5.  Perley,  born  October  7,  1788,  died 
May  28,  1864.  6.  Sarah  Ann,  born  August 
18,  1792,  in  Woodstock;  married  Mr.  Fullick, 
and  died  November  22,  1858.  7.  Lucy,  born 
December  20,  1794.  8.  Susan,  December  20, 
1795.  9.  Eliza  Ann,  November  10,  1798;  mar- 
ried Mr.  Williams,  and  died  August,  1848.  10. 
Charles,  born  April  8,  1801. 

{X)  Jeremiah,  third  son  of  Ebenezer  (3) 
and  Marcella  (Colburn)  Holmes,  was  born 
February  10,  1784.  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
and  died  January  19,  1846.  He  married,  Au- 
gust 16,  1804,  Tryphena  Shattuck,  born  March 
9.  1785,  died  January  23,  1841  :  children:  Jere- 
miah Stone  ;  Charles  and  Chandler,  twins,  born 
March  21,  1807;  Tryphena,  April  15.  1809; 
Jane,  .August  21,  181 1 ;  George,  January  25, 
1814;  Eliza,  March  26,  1817;  Albert,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1819;  Perley,  October  20,  1821  ;  Fred- 
erick, August  15,  1824;  James,  September  5, 
1826,  died  October  i,  1833;  Almira,  born  Sep- 
tember 8,  1830,  died  March  21,  1833. 

(\"I)  Jeremiah  Stone,  oldest  son  of  Jere- 
miah and  Tryphena  (Shattuck)  Holmes,  was 
born  January  24,  1805,  at  Woodstock,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  learned  the  trade  of  stone 
ma.son  and  worked  at  same  for  many  years. 
In  middle  life  he  removed  to  Charlton,  Massa- 
chusetts,  where  he  acciuired   a   large   amount 


of  land  and  carried  on  farming  with  good  suc- 
cess. He  was  a  man  of  high  character,  and 
earned  the  respect  and  regard  of  the  commu- 
nity ;  he  died  in  Charlton,  June  10,  1889.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Church.  He 
married  (first)  Harriet,  daughter  of  Johnson 
and  Sibil  (  Wheeler)  Henry,  born  Alarch  26, 
1809,  died  June  21,  1843;  (second)  Sarah 
Congden.  His  children  were:  i.  Clementine 
Williams,  born  October  11,  1833,  at  Grafton, 
Massachusetts,  died  July  11,  1852,  in  Rutland, 
Massachusetts.  2.  Marion  Eliza,  born  June 
II,  1835  :  married,  December  27,  1855,  Isaac  E. 
Parker  :  children  :  .\nnie  M.,  married  Charles 
Rose,  and  has  one  child,  Mabel ;  Minnie,  died 
3'oung ;  Charles,  died  young.  3.  Oliver,  born 
1837,  died  1838.  4.  Edwin  Henry.  5.  Burton 
W'allace,  born  August  17,  1841 ;  married  Fran- 
ces Rose,  and  died  in  1896. 

(VI I)  Edwin  Henry,  second  son  of  Jere- 
miah Stone  and  Harriet  (Henry)  Holmes,  was 
born  August  5,  1839,  at  Grafton,  ]\Iassachu- 
setts.  He  received  his  education  at  Rutland, 
Massachusetts,  where  he  lived  in  the  family  of 
his  uncle,  Edwin  Henry.  He  assisted  his  uncle 
on  his  farm  at  Rutland  until  he  reached  his 
majority,  and  then  found  employment  in  the 
nearby  town  of  \\'orcester,  where  he  remained 
until  1862,  in  September  of  which  year  he  en- 
listed in  the  Fifty-first  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  served  nine  months,  bearing 
himself  creditably.  Among  the  engagements  in 
which  he  took  part  were  the  battles  of  New- 
berne,  Whitehall,  Goldsboro  and  Kinston,  N. 
C.  At  the  time  of  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  the 
regiment  volunteered  its  services  to  reinforce 
General  Meade's  army,  although  their  time  had 
expired. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  Mr.  Holmes  removed 
to  Plainfield,  New  Jersey,  where  for  twenty- 
five  years  he  acted  as  agent  for  the  Adams  Ex- 
press Company.  From  1888  until  1907  he  was 
very  successfully  engaged  in  the  coal  business, 
after  which  he  retired  from  active  business. 
He  is  an  enterprising  citizen,  and  much  re- 
spected for  his  sterling  qualities  and  public 
spirit,  as  well  as  his  service  in  behalf  of  his 
country.  Mr.  Holmes  was  for  many  years  a 
member  of  Winfield  Scott  Post,  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  of  Plainfield,  and  belongs  to 
the  Crescent  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church.  He 
married,  June  9,  1870,  Rebecca  Morton,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  Lockwood  and  Amelia  (Morton) 
Kellogg;  they  have  no  children,  but  adopted 
a  daughter,  Louise.  (See  Kellogg  IX) 


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Most  historical  researchers 
KELLOGfi     agree    that   this   name    is    of 

Sc(jtch  origin,  and  there  is  a 
tradition  that  one  of  the  earliest  families  came 
from  Scotland  with  James  VI.,  who  became 
James  I.  of  England.  Some  of  the  name  were 
found  early  in  Wales,  where  it  is  claimed  by 
some  the  name  originated.  The  first  record 
found  of  the  name  in  tax  lists  is  in  1525,  when 
Nicholas  Kellogg  was  taxed  ;  he  was  born  in 
1488.  The  first  of  the  name  of  whose  emigra- 
tion to  America  there  is  knowledge  is  Na- 
thaniel, who  came  about  1637  and  was  at 
Windsor,  Connecticut,  in  the  early  part  of 
1640. 

(I)  Phillippe,  probably  son  of  Thomas  and 
grandson  of  Xicholas  Kellogg,  is  the  first  Eng- 
lish ancestor  to  whom  the  family  here  de- 
scribed can  positively  trace  their  ancestry.  The 
first  record  of  his  name  is  September  15,  1583, 
when  his  son  Thomas  was  baptized  at  Bocking, 
in  Essex ;  two  years  later  he  was  living  at 
Great  Leighs.  His  children  were:  Thomas; 
Annis ;  Robert,  baptized  November  14,  1585; 
]\Iary,  baptized  February  16,  1588:  Prudence, 
March  20,  1592  ;  Martyn  or  Martin  :  Nathaniel, 
died  in  New  England  ;  John  ;  Jane  ;  and  Rachel. 

(II)  Martin,  third  son  of  Phillippe  Kellogg, 
was  baptized  November  23,  1595,  at  Great 
Leighs.  England ;  he  was  a  weaver  of  cloth, 
and  lived  at  Braintree  and  Great  Leighs.  He 
married,  October  22,  1621,  at  Stortford,  coun- 
ty Hertford,  Prudence,  daughter  of  John  Bird, 
who  was  dead  May  20,  1671,  at  the  time  his 
will  was  dated.  His  will  was  proved  at  Brain- 
tree,  England.  September  20,  1671.  His  chil- 
dren were  :  John  :  Nathaniel,  baptized  March 
12,  1624:  Joseph,  baptized  April  i,  1626,  re- 
moved to  New  England  ;  Sarah  ;  Daniel ;  Sam- 
uel, removed  to  New  England ;  and  Martin. 

(III)  Daniel,  fourth  son  of  Martin  and 
Prudence  ( IJird)  Kellogg,  was  baptized  Feb- 
luary  6,  1630,  at  Great  Leighs,  England,  and 
was  an  early  settler  of  Norwalk,  Connecticut, 
which  town  was  incorporated  in  165 1 ;  he  at- 
tended the  town  meeting  of  March  20,  1656. 
He  was  remarkable  for  his  great  size,  being 
considerably  over  seven  feet  tall  and  broad  and 
strong  accordingly.  A  story  is  related  of  his 
summary  treatment  of  two  Indians  who  were 
making  themselves  objectionable  to  some  of 
the  women  of  the  neighborhood,  who  were 
much  surprised  by  his  taking  one  in  each  hand. 
In  1670  he  was  selectman,  and  in  the  same  year 
and  seven  times  thereafter  he  was  a  repre- 
sentative. His  inventory  of  estate,  dated  De- 
cember,  1688,  showed  him  to  be  possessed  of 


considerable  land  ;  same  was  filed  by  his  widow 
in  March,  1689.  He  married  Bridget,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Alice  Bouton,  who  died  in 
1689;  children:  Sarah,  born  February,  1659; 
Mary,  February,  1661  :  Rachel,  February,  1663  ; 
Elizabeth,  August  1666;  Daniel,  May  7,  1671 ; 
Samuel;  Lydia.  April,  1676;  Benjamin  and 
Joseph,  twins,  March,  1678. 

(T\')  Samuel,  second  son  of  Daniel  and 
Bridget  (Bouton)  Kellogg,  was  born  P'ebruary 
19,  1673,  at  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  and  died 
October  13,  1757.  He  was  prominent  in  civil 
and  church  affairs  of  Norwalk,  and  his  name 
is  found  on  lists  of  church  committees.  In 
1703  he  was  a  collector,  in  1705  a  selectman, 
and  in  1714  a  member  of  the  Connecticut  as- 
sembly. He  married  (first)  September  6, 
1704.  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Clark)  Piatt,  born  :\Iay  21"  1678,  in  Norwalk, 
died  November  10,  1750,  who  was  the  mother 
of  his  eight  children.  He  married  (second)  in 
Wilton,  March  9.  1755,  Sarah  (Lockwood) 
llickok,  widow  of  Benjamin  Hickok,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (  Ferris)  Lockwood, 
born  in  1678,  who  had  previously  been  mar- 
ried twice,  first  to  Nathaniel  Selleck,  who  died 
August  14,  1712,  and  second  to  Benjamin 
Hickok:  at  the  time  of  her  third  marriage  she 
was  in  her  seventy-third  year  and  Mr.  Kellogg 
in  his  eight-third  year.  She  died  in  1765. 
Samuel  Kellogg's  children  were :  Sarah,  born 
September  26.  1705 ;  Samuel,  December  23, 
1706:  Mary,  January  29,  1708;  Martin;  Abi- 
gail, January  19,  1713;  Lydia,  October  30, 
1715:  Gideon,  December  5,  1717;  and  Epene- 
tus.  Tune  26,  1719. 

iV )  Martin  (2),  second  son  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  (Piatt)  Kellogg,  was  born  March  23, 
171 1,  at  Norwalk,  Connecticut,  and  died  July 
7.  1756.  He  removed  to  New  Canaan,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  and  his  wife  were  admitted 
to  the  church.  He  married  (first)  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  Eliphalet  and  Mary  (Gold) 
Lockwood;  she  died,  and  he  married  (second) 
Mercy,  perhaps  daughter  of  Samuel  Wood, 
who  after  his  death  married.  March  22,  1757, 
Captain  Samuel  Hanford,  and  died  December 
28,  1783.  Martin  Kellogg's  children  were: 
Eliphalet;  IMartin,  born  October  10,  1740; 
Samuel,  baptized  October  16.  1743,  died  young; 
Mercy,  bajitized  September  i,  1745:  and  Sam- 
uel. 

(  \T  )  Samuel  (2),  fourth  and  youngest  son 
of  Martin  (2)  Kellogg,  was  born  June  29. 
1749.  at  New  Canaan,  Connecticut,  and  died 
October  12,  1829.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the 
revolution:   he   enlisted   July    i,    1780,   in   the 


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Fifth  Connecticut  Regiment,  and  was  dis- 
charged December  4  same  }ear.  By  occupa- 
tion he  was  a  farmer,  and  was  a  much  respect- 
ed member  of  society.  He  married  (  first )  May 
30,  1771.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Deacon  Jona- 
than and  Mary  (  Richards  )  Waring,  born  April 
25.  1751,  and  (second)  October,  1812,  Mrs. 
Lydia  (Smith)  Crane,  of  Somers,  Connecti- 
cut, daughter  of  Peter  .Smith,  who  died  April 
24,  1832.  l!y  his  first  wife  he  had  si.x  chil- 
dren: Samuel,  born  June  21,  1772;  Seth 
Shove;  Mary,  December  31,  1775,  died  May 
2,  1779;  .-\bigail,  January  27,  1778;  Jonathan 
Warren,  April  7,  1780;  Alary,  April  10,  1782. 

(VH)  Seth  Shove,  second  son  of  Samuel 
(2)  and  Elizabeth  (Waring)  Kellogg,  was 
born  December  29,  1773,  in  New  Canaan,  Con- 
necticut, and  died  August  15,  1832.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  resided  at  New  Canaan,  where  he 
and  his  wife  joined  the  church  in  1802.  Later 
he  removed  to  New  York  City,  where  with  his 
wife  he  was  admitted  to  the  church  presided 
over  by  Dr.  Mc.\uley,  in  1828.  Mr.  Kellogg 
married.  January  20,  1799,  Matilda  Lockwood, 
of  Pound  Ridge,  New  York,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Hannah  (Close)  Lockwood.  who  died 
.April  29.  i860,  and  their  children  were:  i. 
Caroline  Matilda,  born  November  19.  1799; 
married  Leman  Fitch,  and  died  July  19,  1893. 
2.  Joseph  Lockwood.  3.  Howard  Close,  born 
October  9,  1804,  died  at  the  age  of  seven.  4. 
Elizabeth  Waring,  born  July  18,  1806,  died 
July  7,  1881.  5.  Rev.  Samuel,  born  June  30, 
1808:  married  Mary  Henry  (first),  and  (sec- 
ond )  Eliza  Henry.  6.  Charles  Lewis,  born 
September  2t,,  1810:  married  Mary  \'ance,  of 
Connecticut.  7.  Hannah  Close,  born  Novem- 
ber I,  1812.  died  November  4,  1890.  8.  Mary 
Ann,  born  P'ebruarv  22,  1815,  died  ^Nlarch  10, 
1866. 

(\'1I1)  Jose]ih  Lockwood,  oldest  son  of 
Seth  Shove  and  Matilda  (  Lockwood  )  Kellogg, 
was  born  April  20,  1802,  at  New  Canaan,  Con- 
necticut, and  died  .\ugust  15,  1877.  in  New 
York  City.  .After  his  removal  to  New  York 
City  he  was  for  several  years  employed  in  a 
dry  goods  establishment  as  clerk,  and  later 
entered  the  employ  of  the  New  York  &  Harlem 
railroad.  He  married,  June  26,  1827,  .-Amelia, 
daughter  of  Elihu  and  Amelia  (Ballard)  Mor- 
ton, who  was  born  March  27,  1808,  and  died 
November  24,  1849.  Their  children  were:  i. 
Lewis  Morton,  born  September  20,  1834 ;  mar- 
ried, June,  1871,  Maria  Hart,  of  Menasha, 
Wisconsin,  which  became  his  residence,  and 
where  he  died  .'\i)ril  12.  1872:  he  was  a  soldier 
in  the  civil  war,  and  in  Grant's  campaign  was 


made  first  lieutenant;  no  children.  2.  Elvira 
Matilda,  born  August  17,  1837;  married.  May 
7,  1861,  Samuel  Stuart  Ferris;  eight  children; 
slie  died  about  1840.  3.  Frances  Caroline,  born 
March  4,  1840;  married  Charles  F.  Lipman,  of 
San  F'rancisco ;  five  children.  4.  Rebecca  Mor- 
ton. 5.  Charles  Wesley  Wallace,  born  Janu- 
ary 29,  1846;  married,  September  26,  1876, 
Caroline  L.  Searing,  of  Hampstead,  Long 
Island  ;  one  child.  6.  Florence  Amelia,  born 
.August  21,  1849,  'I'C'l  J"ly30,  1880,  unmarried. 
(IN)  Rebecca  Morton,  third  daughter  of 
Joseph  Lockwood  and  .Amelia  (Morton)  Kel- 
logg, was  born  November  2,  1843,  'n  New 
York  City,  and  married,  June  9,  1870,  Edwin 
Henry  Holmes.     (See  Holmes  VH). 


Nathaniel  Taylor,  the  first  mem- 
T.-\YLC)R  ber  of  the  family  of  whom  we 
have  definite  information,  was 
in  Newark  on  April  8,  1793,  when  he  "agreed 
to  keep  the  first  Class  of  the  Poor  for  the  sum 
of  Twenty-Eight  Pounds  Ten  Shillings."  He 
is  possibly  the  son  of  the  Nathaniel  Taylor 
who  died  in  New  Providence,  February  4, 
1772.  Children:  i.  Moses,  born  .August,  1767, 
dietl  December  6,  1853 ;  married  Mary  Brown, 
born  December  17.  1774,  died  September  29, 
1851  ;  one  child,  Huldah,  born  1808,  died  July 
30,  1886.  2.  Henry.  3.  Ezekiel,  married  Miss 
Davidson ;  one  child,  Betsy,  married  a  Mr. 
James. 

(II)  Henry,  son  of  Nathaniel  Taylor,  was 
born  in  1777,  and  died  at  Montclair,  New  Jer- 
sey, .\pril  15,  1861,  aged  eighty-four  years. 
He  and  his  wife  were  both  buried  in  the  old 
burial-ground  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
which  a  few  years  ago  was  taken  for  improve- 
luent  purposes,  at  which  time  the  bodies  of 
Henry  Taylor  and  his  wife  were  removed  to 
a  plot  in  the  Orange  cemetery.  Mr.  Taylor 
learned  the  trade  of  shoemaking  at  an  early 
age  and  until  his  marriage  lived  with  his 
brothers  in  South  Orange.  .After  that  event 
he  removed  to  Cheapside,  or  Livingston,  New 
Jersey,  where  his  first  child  was  born ;  return- 
ing after  this  to  South  C)range,  he  lived  there 
for  a  few  years,  and  then  removed  his  family 
to  Newark,  where  he  set  up  as  a  journeyman 
shoemaker.  In  those  days  a  trade  was  con- 
sidered an  essential  to  a  man's  education,  and 
it  was  the  custom  for  journeymen  to  be  fur- 
nished stock  from  the  large  workshops  in  New- 
ark, which  they  took  home  where  they  had  the 
family  work-bench  in  a  small  shop  of  their 
own.  Here  they  made  the  boots  and  shoes 
which  were  returned  to  the  makers  in  a  finish- 


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cd  state,  and  often  times  the  whole  family  took 
a  part  in  the  work  and  a  share  in  the  profits  of 
the  labor.  So  it  was  in  the  family  of  Henry 
Taylor,  who  taught  his  sons  his  trade,  which 
they  in  after  years  followed  for  themselves. 
He  was  considered  an  expert  workman,  dili- 
gent at  all  hours  of  the  day,  and  often  until 
late  in  the  evening,  for  in  those  times  every 
moment  counted  in  the  wages  of  the  family. 
About  1852  he  removed  to  Montclair,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  later  on  made  his  home  on 
Elm  street.  Here  he  contiiuied  in  his  chosen 
occupation  many  years,  and  only  ceased  when 
his  usefulness  was  ended  by  a  stroke  of  paraly- 
sis which  rendered  active  work  impossible. 
From  this  time  until  his  death  he  received 
kindly  and  sympathetic  assistance  from  his 
sons,  who  lovingly  provided  for  him  till  his 
death.  Aluch  might  be  said  of  this  kind-heart- 
ed old  man  who  loved  his  family  and  their 
children.  His  sympathetic  nature  was  always 
predominant.  He  was  always  thoughtful  for 
others,  and  his  last  days  were  fruitful  of  his 
own  good  nature  returned  to  him  by  others.  He 
was  not  a  deeply  religious  man,  but  he  was 
faithful  to  his  vows  as  a  member  of  the  Pres- 
b3terian  church,  to  which  he  was  attached 
both  in  Newark  and  Montclair.  His  wife,  his 
loving  and  faithful  help-mate,  was  a  hard 
working  considerate  woman,  engrossed  with 
the  cares  of  her  household,  but  taking  a  help- 
ing hand  whenever  occasion  required  in  order 
that  the  running  expenses  might  be  met.  She 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years.  Henry 
Taylor  was  a  staunch  Democrat  when  that 
party  was  the  opposing  faction  in  the  political 
strifes  of  the  day,  and  he  was  faithful  to  the 
cause.  While  of  rather  slim  proportions  and 
of  medium  height,  he  was  for  a  few  years  the 
drum  major  of  the  band  of  a  Newark  military 
company,  and  it  is  said  that  he  served  in  the 
war  of  1812.  He  married  Catherine  Davidson. 
Children:  i.  Calvin,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Lucinda.  married  Abraham  Clark;  had  Caro- 
line. Theodore,  Edward,  Frances.  Josephine 
and  Martha  Clark.  3.  Henry  D.,  married  Car- 
oline Case :  had  Sarah,  Louisa  and  INIary  Tay- 
lor. 4.  John  D.,  married  Margaret  Draw- 
bridge :  had  Charles,  Frank  and  Evelyn  Taylor, 
the  last  marrying  a  Mr.  Bruno.  5.  Eliza,  mar- 
ried Stephen  O.  Youngs,  of  Harlem,  New 
York,  and  had  Henrietta,  Catherine,  Theodore, 
William  and  Stephen  Youngs.  6.  Jane,  mar- 
ried .\braham  Youngs,  and  had  Sarah,  George 
and  .Abraham  Youngs.  7.  Phebe,  married 
John  Christie,  and  had  Emma,  Mary,  John  and 
William  Christie. 


(HI)  Calvin,  son  of  Henry  and  Catherine 
(Davidson)  Taylor,  was  born  at  Cheapside, 
now  Livingston,  New  Jersey,  IMarch  11,  1801, 
and  died  at  ilontclair,  in  November,  1893.  He 
attended  the  district  schools  of  South  Orange, 
where  his  parents  moved  while  he  was  a  child. 
As  a  boy  he  also  worked  on  the  farm  of  Elias 
Gray,  and  later,  when  his  parents  went  to  New- 
ark, he  learnt  from  his  father  the  trade  of 
shoemaking,  serving  under  him  a  number  of 
years  as  apjirentice.  He  was  an  apt  pupil  and  be- 
came an  expert  and  worked  for  himself.  In  1836 
he  came  to  West  Bloomfield,  the  present  Mont- 
clair,  where  he  settled  with  his  family  and 
worked  for  Lampson  Doremus,  a  shoe  manu- 
facturer whose  factory  was  on  the  site  of  what 
IS  now  Church  and  Fullerton  avenues.  At  a 
later  period  he  worked  for  this  brother  John 
D.  Taylor,  taking  the  stock  home  where  he 
had  his  own  bench  and  where  his  three  sons  as 
soon  as  they  were  old  enough,  helped  him  in 
making  the  shoes.  From  1836  to  1838  he  lived 
on  Church  street,  anil  then  moved  to  Glen 
Ridge,  where  he  continued  at  his  trade  until 
1 844,  when  he  moved  to  a  house  on  the  Orange 
road  and  Washington  street,  in  West  Bloom- 
field,  where  he  worked  at  his  trade  for  Moses 
Canfield,  at  Orange.  His  family  also  took 
part  in  the  making  of  the  shoes,  doing  the 
stretching  and  other  work  of  that  sort.  He 
continued  to  work  for  Mr,  Canfield  until  the 
latter  gave  up  his  business,  after  which  he  him- 
self retired.  In  1874  his  wife  died,  and  he 
went  to  live  with  his  daughter  Louisa,  in  Caro- 
line county,  Maryland,  but  after  a  few  years 
came  back  to  IMontclair  and  took  up  his  resi- 
'ence  with  his  son  George  W.  Taylor,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  his  death,  when  he 
was  buried  beside  his  wife  in  Rosedale  Ceme- 
tery. He  was  industrious,  frugal,  and  easy 
going,  fond  of  humor,  and  well  respected.  His 
wife  was  a  most  capable  woman  and  was  noted 
for  her  extreme  kindness  of  heart.  She  was 
the  ministering  angel  of  her  community  in  all 
cases  of  sickness,  was  never  known  to  speak 
ill  of  another  nor  to  allow  others  to  do  so.  and 
it  is  said  that  she  was  the  sunshine  of  the  fam- 
ily. Mr.  Taylor  was  a  member  of  the  Mont- 
clair  Methodist  church,  and  oneof  its  stewards, 
and  for  a  long  time  served  as  sexton.  In 
politics  he  was  an  old-fashioned  Jeffersonian 
Democrat,  and  when  a  young  man  at  Newark 
he  was  a  member  of  a  military  company.  He 
married  at  South  Orange.  July  3,  1824,  the 
ceremony  being  performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Hillyer, 
Harriet  Bonnel  Hays,  born  May  5.  1807.  died 
August    20,    1874.      Her    mother    was    Sarah 


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(Parsel)  Ha}s.  Children:  i.  Susan.  2. 
George  W'a.shington,  born  March  23,  1827, 
died  Alay  20,  1904:  married  July  4,  1854,  Julia 
Van  Houten,  of  JMontclair;  had  Llewellyn 
Haskell,  born  April  8,  i860,  married  Belle 
White.  3.  Louisa  Butler,  born  September  6, 
1829 ;  married  Thomas  Kealey,  of  New  York 
City,  who  afterwards  removed  to  Caroline 
county,  Maryland.  4.  Susan  Amanda,  born 
September  30.  1831  ;  married,  January  i,  1852, 
John  Gorman,  of  Montclair  ;  children  :  i.  Ida 
Augusta  Gorman,  born  October  14,  1852.  died 
February  15.  1854;  ii.  Mary  Ella  Gorman,  born 
March  25,  1854,  married,  May  30,  1877,  Will- 
iam Flenry  Ketchum,  of  New  York  City,  and 
has  Samuel  Ketchum,  born  November  14,  1879, 
Harriet  Ketchum,  born  December  21,  1883. 
died  May  3.  1886  ;  and  Kenneth  Ketchum,  born 
Seiitember  8,  1889;  iii.  Charles  Gorman,  born 
September  26,  1855,  a  bank  clerk  in  New  Y'ork, 
married.  October  24.  1880,  Clara  A.  Madison, 
of  Alontclair,  and  has  Lillian  Gorman,  born 
May  28,  1883,  Edward  Everett  Gorman,  born 
December  12,  1864,  married  May  30,  1885, 
Jessie  Hope  Elizabeth  \Vhite.  and  has  Grace 
Jessie  Gorman,  born  March  21,  1886,  married 
April  15,  1909,  Edward  Keene  Storms;  iv. 
Ralph  Gorman,  born  July  3,  1889;  v.  John 
Lyall  Gorman,  born  June  14,  1898;  vi.  Leslie 
Aloody  Gorman,  born  December  22,  1899.  5. 
William  Henry,  born  April  12,  1833;  married. 
May  31,  1853.  Mary  Doremus ;  children:  Ed- 
ward, married,  and  has  one  child :  Cornelius 
Doremus,  married,  and  has  one  child ;  George, 
married  and  has  one  child.  6.  Alfred  Black- 
well,  born  August  15,  1835;  married  Amanda 
Brown ;  children :  Orion  Wallace,  married 
and  has  four  children :  Sarah  Maria,  mar- 
ried Charles  Angell,  and  has  five  children ; 
Silas  Brown,  married,  and  has  one  child,  Daisy. 
7.  Thomas  Wesley,  referred  to  below. 

(I\')  Thomas  W'esley,  son  of  Calvin  and 
Harriet  Bonnel  (Hays)  Taylor,  was  born  June 
3,  1839.  at  Montclair.  in  that  section  which 
used  to  be  known  as  Cranetown.  His  educa- 
tional training  was  received  in  the  common 
schools  of  Montclair  up  to  sixteen  years  of 
age,  and  for  the  next  two  years  he  worked  on 
the  neighboring  farms.  He  then  for  ten  months 
became  an  apprentice  to  Amos  Gore,  in  order 
to  learn  the  trade  of  carjjenter.  and  then  for 
two  and  a-half  years  worked  with  Henry  Mat- 
thews. Subsequent  to  completing  three  terms 
of  service  he  went  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  took  charge  for  two  years  of  the  box  fac- 
tory of  Hays  Brothers,  521  W^ashington  street. 
He  then  came  to  Orange,  where  he  worked 


at  his  trade  for  Daniel  Gardner,  W  illard  E. 
Howell,  Cook  &  Berryman,  and  George  Cook. 
Mr.  Taylor  was  for  nineteen  years  in  Mr. 
Cook's  mill,  taking  charge  of  the  different  mill 
work  in  the  manufacture  of  doors,  sashes, 
blinds,  etc.  Jn  1906,  when  his  son,  Charles 
H.  Taylor,  entered  into  the  business.  Mr.  Tay- 
lor became  his  son's  foreman,  which  he  has 
been  ever  since.  At  one  time  he  was  a  partner 
of  L  N.  \\'illianis  in  the  firm  of  William  & 
Taylors,  contractors.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  Church  of  Orange,  as  is  also  his  wife, 
and  he  has  served  as  Deacon  for  the  past  six 
years.  Some  years  ago  he  was  one  of  the 
trustees  and  a  member  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee. In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  His 
residence  is  171  Alden  street.  Orange.  He 
married,  May  3.  1866,  Annie  Freeman,  of  an 
old  and  highly  respected  family  of  the  Oranges, 
whose  ancestor  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 
of  Newark.  She  was  born  at  Orange.  June 
29,  1846,  and  is  daughter  of  Gershom  Williams 
and  Eliza  (Crane)  Freeman,  of  Orange.  Her 
grandparents  were  Silas  and  Eunice  (Will- 
iams) Freeman,  and  Ezra  and  Betsy  (Nut- 
man)  Gildersleeve.  Children:  Oscar  Wilcox 
and  Charles  Hays,  both  referred  to  below. 

( V)  Oscar  Wilcox,  son  of  Thomas  Wesley 
and  Annie  (Freeman)  Taylor,  was  born  at 
East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  November  11,  1867. 
After  a  short  schooling  he  was  brought  to 
Orange  by  his  parents  at  seven  years  old  and 
placed  in  the  Day  street  public  school,  which 
he  attended  until  sixteen  years  of  age,  work- 
ing during  his  vacation  in  the  wood-working 
mill  of  Cook  &  Berryman.  At  sixteen  he  took 
a  regular  position  under  them,  running  the  saw 
and  the  different  mill  machines  and  doing  work 
in  the  engine  room.  He  remained  in  the  em- 
pli.)y  of  Cook  &  Berryman  for  five  years,  and 
while  there  was  instructed  in  the  trade  of  car- 
pentering, going  out  to  work  as  carpenter  for 
them  on  dift'erent  buildings.  He  subsequentlv 
worked  for  Williams  &  Parkhurst,  R.  F.  Wes"- 
cott.  Oakley  &  Roberts,  Orville  E.  Freeman, 
Jesse  Lockwood,  and  Preiss  &  Company,  with 
the  last  named  of  whom  he  has  been  connected 
for  the  past  fifteen  years.  He  is  a  member  and 
a  trustee  of  the  Washington  Street  Baptist 
Church,  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a 
member  of  the  Carpenters  Local  Union,  No. 
34().  He  married,  June  5,  1895,  Bertha,  daugh- 
ter of  Simeon  and  Anna  (Frazer)  \'an  Duyne, 
whose  father  was  a  machinist.  She  was  born 
in  Boonton,  New  Jersey,  in  1870,  and  died 
September  21,  1898.  Child.  George  Wesley, 
born  November  22,  1897. 


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(V)  Charles  Hays,  son  of  Thomas  Wesley 
and  Annie  (Freeman)  Taylor,  was  born  at 
East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  February  i,  1871. 
He  received  his  education  at  the  Orange  public 
schools,  and  graduated  from  the  Orange  high 
school  when  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age. 
He  then  entered  the  employ  of  Elliott  John- 
son, in  whose  bicycle  store  he  was  clerk  for  a 
year,  after  which  he  accepted  a  position  as 
bookkeeper  for  George  Cook,  in  his  building 
and  finishing  mill.  Here  he  remained  for  eight 
years,  doing  the  estimate  work  and  having 
charge  of  the  office  work.  He  subsequently 
became  a  salesman  for  Spaulding  &  Company, 
of  Elmira,  New  York,  selling  builders'  finish, 
sashes,  doors  and  trimmings,  throughout  New 
York  state,  and  after  six  years  of  this  work 
he  started  in  the  same  line  for  himself  in  1906, 
and  in  the  following  year  erected  his  present 
shop  and  storage  building,  where  he  carries  a 
high-grade  stock  and  has  a  large  local  patron- 
age besides  supplying  neighboring  towns  and 
states.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Washington 
Street  Baptist  Church,  and  has  served  one 
term  as  its  treasurer.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  has  been  a  delegate  to  the  Essex  coun- 
ty convention,  and  served  his  city  on  the  board 
of  education.  He  is  a  member  of  Live  Oak 
Lodge,  L  O.  O.  F.,  and  has  served  that  body 
as  noble  grand.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
Orange  Council,  No.  975,  Royal  Arcanum,  and 
a  member  of  the  Master  Carpenter  Association 
of  the  Oranges.  He  married  at  Orange,  .Au- 
gust 15,  1893,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edmund 
B.  Reeves,  a  carpenter ;  she  was  born  June  22, 
1872.  Children:  Frances  Elizabeth,  born  Sep- 
tember II,  1894:  Russell  Earle,  August,  1903. 


Walter  S.  Nichols  is  a  repre- 
NICHOL.S  sentative  of  many  of  the  oldest 
and  best  families  in  New  Jer- 
sey. His  ancestors  were  distinguished  in  the 
early  history  of  Newark  and  classed  among  its 
most  influential  and  distinguished  citizens.  The 
name  Nichols  is  first  mentioned  in  the  Newark 
town  records  on  December  3d,  1669,  a  little 
more  than  three  years  after  the  first  settlement 
of  the  town.  The  notice  is  very  brief  and  not 
much  to  the  point,  giving  no  information  as  to 
the  subject  matter  of  the  titles  of  which  men- 
tion is  made.  It  was  agreed,  so  says  the  rec- 
ord, "the  town  assembled,  that  the  letter  pre- 
pared should  be  copyied  out  and  sent  to  Col. 
Nicholls  in  the  Town's  behalf — and  signed  by 
Mr.  Treat  in  the  name  of  the  Town."  This 
Colonel  Nicholls  was  undoubtedly  the  governor 
who  was  appointed  in   1664,  by  the  Duke  of 


^'ork.  over  the  lands  granted  to  him  by  King 
Charles  H.,  and  who,  under  his  commission, 
unilertook  to  give  titles  to  lands  in  New  Jer- 
sey although  the  duke  had  conveyed  the  whole 
of  that  province  to  Lord  Berkeley  and  Sir 
George  Carteret  prior  to  Nicholl's  commission 
as  governor.  Genealogical  investigations  indi- 
cate an  older  brother  of  this  turbulent  officer 
who  settled  in  Connecticut  as  the  ancestor  of 
the  Nichols  family  in  Newark ;  through  this 
ancestor  the  family  are  lineal  descendants  in  the 
female  line  of  Robert  Bruce,  King  of  Scotland. 

The  ne.xt  mention  of  a  Nichols  is  in  1775, 
when  Robert  Nichols  is  named  as  one  of  three 
persons  appointed  to  treat  with  Captain  Riggs 
concerning  "some  disputed  lands."  In  181 5 
Isaac  Nichols,  grandfather  of  Walter  S. 
Nichols,  appears  prominently  in  the  business 
of  the  town  as  one  of  its  leaders,  and  from  that 
time  for  half  a  century  he  was  identified  with 
all  the  interests  of  Newark,  both  public  and 
private.  He  was  of  uncommon  sagacity,  wise 
and  prudent,  thoughtful  and  considerate  in  all 
his  undertakings.  He  was  very  frequently 
called  upon  to  act  in  many  fiduciary  capacities, 
as  executor,  administrator,  trustee  and  guar- 
dian. 

Walter  S.  Nichols  was  born  in  Newark,  No- 
vember 2  7,.  1 84 1,  son  of  Alexander  Mc- 
Whorter  Nichols  and  Hannah  Riggs  Ward. 
His  paternal  grandfather  was  Isaac  Nich- 
ols, already  mentioned,  and  his  maternal 
grandfather  was  Caleb  S.  Ward,  a  descendant 
of  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Newark.  He 
is  the  great  grandson  of  Captain  Robert 
Nichols,  of  the  Second  Regiment  of  New  Jer- 
sey militia,  and  of  Deacon  Joseph  Davis, 
wagonmaster  in  the  Essek  county  militia,  both 
of  W'hom  served  w-ith  credit  in  the  revolution- 
ary army.  He  is  also  a  descendant  of  many  of 
the  first  and  early  settlers  of  Newark,  whose 
names  will  be  recognized  at  once  by  any  stud- 
ent of  the  history  of  that  town,  such  as  Riggs, 
\\  ard,  Swaine.  Farrand,  Johnson,  Lawrence, 
Bruen  and  Davis.  His  lineal  descent  from  sev- 
eral noble  families  of  England,  including  the 
Clintons,  Montgomeries,  and  Beauchamps,  is 
undoubted,  as  is  also  his  descent  through  Sir 
William  Booth  from  the  Saxon,  Norman  and 
Scottish  kings  of  England,  the  Carlovingian 
rulers  of  France,  and  the  early  emperors  of 
Germany.  ISlr.  Nichols  is  too  good  a  repub- 
lican to  lay  any  stress  or  claim  any  more  re- 
spect on  account  of  these  genealogies,  but  as 
these  facts  seem  to  be  within  the  scope  of  this 
publication,  his  biographer  feels  in  duty  bound 
to  state  them. 


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Mr.  Nichols  was  prepared  for  college  in  the 
Newark  W'esleyan  Institute.  He  entered  Prince- 
ton University  in  i860  and  was  graduated  in 
1863,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  M.  from  that 
institution  in  1866.  After  graduation  he  enter- 
ed the  office  of  Hon.  Joseph  P.  Bradley,  late 
associate  justice  of  the  supreme  court,  as  a 
student  at  law,  but  has  never  practiced  that 
profession.  Soon  after  this  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  C.  C.  Hine,  now  dead,  in  the  busi- 
ness of  publication  of  insurance  literature  in 
the  city  of  New  York.  This  led  to  his  adop- 
tion of  a  new  and  rather  untried  profession, 
that  of  consulting  mathematician  and  legal  ad- 
viser of  various  corporate  and  other  business 
interests  on  insurance  matters,  and  as  editor  of 
several  works  on  the  law  of  insurance,  con- 
tracts, and  agents,  and  of  the  Insurance  Law 
Journal  and  the  Insurance  Monitor.  This  he 
has  followed  assiduously  and  successfully  for 
the  last  thirty  years,  and  has  acquired  in  it  a 
reputation  known  and  recognized  all  over  the 
republic. 

He  is  a  member  and  has  been  one  of  the  di- 
rectors for  several  years  of  the  New  Jersey 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion, and  is  also  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
Historical  Society.  He  is  now  and  for  many 
years  has  been  president  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  old  historic  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Newark,  the  oldest  church  organiza- 
tion of  that  denomination  in  the  state.  He  is 
a  director  in  the  old  Newark  Fire  Insurance 
Company,  a  member  of  the  American  Mathe- 
matical Societ)'.  and  has  been  one  of  the  coun- 
sel and  mathematical  examiners  of  the  Acturial 
Society  of  America,  of  which  he  is  a  fellow 
and  a  large  contributor  to  its  proceedings.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science  and  the  Amer- 
ican Academy  of  Political  and  .Social  Science. 
In  1888  he  was  the  American  representative 
of  the  Acturial  .Society  to  the  International 
Congress  of  Actuaries  in  London,  of  which 
he  is  also  a  member. 

Mr.  Nichols  possesses  the  virtues,  but  not 
?ny  of  the  objectionable  characteristics,  of  his 
Puritan  ancestors.  Broad  and  comprehensive 
in  his  views  on  all  subjects  submitted  to  him, 
tenacious  in  his  opinion,  decided  and  firm  in 
his  judgment  of  men  and  measures,  he  is  never- 
theless tolerant  of  the  opinions  of  others,  be- 
lieving that  it  is  the  birthright  of  freemen  to 
exercise  unchallenged  private  judgment  in  all 
important  matters  relating  to  human  actions 
and  human  happiness.  He  is  an  important  and 
influential    member    of    society,    and    yields    a 

iii  — 14 


forceful  mastery  by  the  sheer  force  of  his  firm 
and  decided  character. 


(\T)  Theodore,  the 
FRELINGHUYSEN  youngest  child  of 
the  Hon.  Frederick 
Theodore  (c|.  v.)  and  Matilda  E.  (Griswold) 
Frelinghuysen,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, April  17,  i860,  and  is  now  living  at  Tux- 
edo Park,  Orange  county.  New  York.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  various  pri- 
vate schools,  after  which  he  entered  Rutgers 
College,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1879.  He 
then  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  New 
York  City,  which  he  has  continued  ever  since, 
at  80  White  street.  For  the  last  twenty-five 
years  he  has  made  New  York  City  his  winter 
home,  and  spent  his  summers  at  Tuxedo.  He 
is  treasurer  of  the  Spool  Cotton  Company,  and 
is  a  member  of  many  clubs,  among  which 
should  be  mentioned  the  Knickerbocker  Club, 
the  Union  Club  of  New  York,  the  Merchants' 
Club,  and  the  Tuxedo  Club. 

August  25,  1885.  Theodore  Frelinghuysen 
married  Alice  Dudley,  daughter  of  James 
Coats,  who  died  March  4.  1889.  leaving  sur- 
viving her  two  children:  i.  Frederick  Theo- 
dore, born  September  5.  1886.  and  James  Coats, 
born  July  i,  1888,  died  in  March,  1890.  June 
2,  1898.  Theodore  Frelinghuysen  married  (sec- 
ond) Elizabeth  Mary,  daughter  of  Hon.  W.  G. 
Thompson,  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  widow 
of  Henry  Le  Grand  Cannon.  There  has  been 
no  issue  to  this  marriage. 


Joshua  Doughty,  the  first 
DOUGHTY  member  of  this  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  infor- 
mation, resided  in  Somerset  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, where  he  died  at  an  advanced  age,  Decem- 
ber 27,  1822.  The  author  of  the  Doty-Doten 
genealogy  claims  that  he  was  the  son  of  Moses 
Doty,  of  Bernards  Town,  who  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Samuel  Doty  of  Piscataway,  a  son  of 
Edward  Doty  of  the  "Mayflower,"  but  there 
are  very  grave  reasons  for  doubting  this,  and 
the  evidence  w-hich  has  been  brought  to  light 
by  Mr.  Joshua  Doughty,  Jr.,  of  Somerville, 
who  has  had  an  exhaustive  search  of  the  New 
York,  Long  Island  and  New  Jersey  records 
made,  points  very  strongly  to  the  conclusion 
that  Joshua  Doughty  was  the  son  of  Benjamin 
Doughty,  of  Princeton,  whose  widow  Abigail 
became  the  third  wife  of  Judge  Thomas  Leon- 
ard. This  Benjamin  was  the  .son  of  Elias 
Doughty,  of  Flushing,  and  grandson  of  Rev. 
Francis  Doughtv,  who  emigrated  first  to  Mass- 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


achusetts,  then  to  Long  Island,  and  lastly  to 
\  irginia,  and  whose  sister  was  the  wife  of 
\\  illiam  Stone,  governor  of  Maryland,  1648- 
54.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Solomon 
and  Susanna  Magdalena  (Pelletreauj  Boyle 
(see  Boyle).  Children:  Solomon,  referred  to 
below;  Margaret,  born  August  2,  1777.  died 
in  1838,  married  Joseph  Bullman ;  Susanna, 
born  in   1781,  died  unmarried.  Ma}'  25,   1825. 

(II)  Solomon,  son  of  Joshua  and  Sarah 
(Boyle)  Doughty,  was  born  in  Somerset  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  September  26,  1772,  and  died 
at  New  Providence,  New  Jersey,  December  20, 
1827.  He  married,  March  9,  1796.  Mary, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Agnes  (Ludlow) 
Pierson,  who  was  born  in  Elizabethtown.  April 
3.  1775,  and  died  in  Somerville,  New  Jersey, 
July  6,  1856.  Children:  i.  Agnes,  born  De- 
cember 12,  1796,  died  May  18,  1886:  married 
John  Darbee  Jackson.  M.  D.  of  Rockaway.  2. 
Joshua,  referred  to  below.  3.  Elizabeth  Pier- 
son,  born  October  25,  1803.  died  July  28,  1838; 
married  Charles  H.  Jackson,  M.  D.,  of  New 
York  City.  4.  Sineus  Pierson,  born  October 
15,  1808,  died  October  20,  1832;  unmarried. 
5.  Eugene  Solomon,  born  May  12,  i8ii,  died 
April  4.  1886:  married  Eliza  (\'an  Arsdale) 
L'nclerdunk.  6.  Sarah  Maria,  born  July  13, 
1814,  died  July  25,  1838:  unmarried. 

(ill)  Joshua,  son  of  Solomon  and  Mary 
(Pierson)  Doughty,  was  born  near  Milling- 
ton,  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  February 
25,  1799,  and  died  in  Somerville,  in  December, 
1881.  He  married,  June  30.  1835.  Susan  Maria, 
daughter  of  Isaac  and  Mary  \\'right  (Doty) 
Southard,  who  was  born  in  1813,  and  died  in 
1893.  Her  father,  who  was  born  in  1783  and 
died  in  1850,  was  son  of  Hon.  Henry  and 
Sarah  (Lewis)  Southard,  and  brother  to  Sam- 
uel H.  Southard,  a  prominent  lawyer  and  dis- 
tinguished American  public  official.  ( See 
Doty).  Children  of  Joshua  and  Susan  Maria 
(Southard)  Doughty:  i.  Louisa,  married, 
1864,  Walter  Cammann,  born  1839,  died  1869; 
children :  Sarah  Cammann,  Walter  Cam- 
mann, Susan  Cammann  (wife  of  Hugh 
K.  Gaston),  and  Albert  Cammann.  2.  Sarah 
Elizabeth.  3.  Mary  Pierson,  died  1899:  mar- 
ried. 1869,  A.  Clarkson  Dunham:  child:  Laura 
Clarkson  Dunham,  wife  of  .Abraham  B.  Dick- 
inson. 4.  John  Rowland,  married  Miss  Bald- 
win :  children :  Louise,  Effie  and  Laura.  5. 
Joshua,  referred  to  below.  6.  Susan,  died  in 
1892:  married,  1871,  Frederick  Van  Liew ; 
children :  Florence  \'an  Liew,  wife  of  Ed- 
ward Speer,  both  since  deceased :  and  Edward 
Van  Liew,  now  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 


7.  Agnes  Jackson,  married,  1887,  Cornelius 
X'anderbeek.  8.  Laura  Rebecca,  died  1893; 
unmarried. 

(R)  Joshua  Doughty,  Jr.,  son  of  Joshua 
(2)  and  Susan  Maria  (Southard)  Doughty, 
was  born  in  Somerville,  Somerset  county,  New 
Jersey,  and  is  now  living  in  that  town.  He 
married  Lillian  M.  Teel,  who  died  in  1892. 
.Mr.  Doughty  graduated  from  Rutgers  College 
in  1869.  After  leaving  college  he  took  up  the 
profession  of  civil  engineer,  and  has  been 
county  surveyor  since  1886.  He  has  been  a 
Mason  since  1869,  affiliated  with  Solomon 
Lodge,  No.  46. 

<The    Boyle    Line). 

Solomon  Boyle,  the  founder  of  this  family 
of  his  name,  emigrated  from  Ireland  to  New 
Jersey,  and  settled  prior  to  1746  on  a  tract  of 
land  on  the  Passaic  river,  part  of  a  two  thous- 
and acre  tract  patented  to  Robert  Barclay, 
"about  one  mile  from  the  house  of  Justice 
Samuel  Cooper."  He  married  (first)  Susanna 
Magdalena  Pellertreau,  a  French  Huguenot ; 
(second)  January  5,  1763,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Susanna  (Kitchel)  Baldwin, 
widow  (first)  of  Samuel,  brother  to  Colonel 
Jacob  Ford,  of  Morristown  (see  Ford),  and 
(second)  of  John  Allen.  Children,  all  by  first 
marriage:  i.  John,  married  Hannah  Frazee. 
2.  Solomon,  born  in  February,  1734-5  ;  mar- 
ried Margaret  Hull.  3.  Benjamin,  died  unmar- 
ried. 4.  William.  5.  Robert,  removed  to  New 
York.  6.  Joseph,  married  Katharine  Cross. 
7.  Jane,  married  Joseph  Dalrymple.  8.  Sarah, 
referred  to  below.  9.  Magdalena,  married 
John  Cooper.  10.  Polly,  married  Daniel  Mun- 
roe. 

(II)  Sarah,  daughter  of  Solomon  and  Sus- 
anna Magdalena  (Pelletreau)  Boyle,  was  born 
in  1739,  and  died  May  25,  1808.  She  married 
the  Joshua  Doughty  first  above  mentioned. 

(The    Doty    Line). 

Edward  Doty,  founder  of  the  family  of  his 
name  in  America,  was  a  London  youth  in  the 
service  of  Stephen  Hopkins.  But  little  is 
known  of  his  origin  or  early  history.  He  came 
to  this  country  with  the  Pilgrims  in  the  "May- 
flower," and  landed  at  Plymouth.  Massachu- 
setts, in  1620.  He  married,  in  1634-5,  Faith 
Clarke,  born  in  1619.  Children:  Edward, 
born  1637  :  John,  born  1639-40 ;  Thomas.  1641 ; 
Samuel,  referred  to  below;  Desire,  born  1645; 
Elizabeth.  1647:  Isaac,  1648-9;  Joseph.  1651; 
Mary.  1653. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Eilward  and  Faith 
(Clarke)  Doty,  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Massa- 


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1059 


chusetts,  in  1643,  t^rid  died  in  Piscataway,  New 
fersev,  in  1 715.  He  married,  in  1678,  Jane 
Harmon.  Children:  Samuel,  born  1079; 
John,  1680:  Sarah,  1681  ;  Isaac,  1683:  Ed- 
ward, 1685:  James,  1686;  Jonathan,  referred 
to  below;  Benjamin,  \(X)i  ;  Elizabeth,  1695; 
Joseph,  1696:  Daniel.  1701  :  Margaret,  1704: 
Nathaniel,  1707-8. 

(HI)  Jonathan,  son  of  Samuel  and  Jane 
( Harmon )  Doty,  was  born  in  Piscataway, 
New  Jersey,  in  1687-8.     He  married,  in  1717, 

Mary .     Children:  William,  born  1719; 

Jonathan,  1724:  Daniel,  1727;  Joshua,  1730; 
Joseph,  referred  to  below;  Mary;  Jane,  mar- 
ried,  1747.  John  Johnson;  Elizabeth. 

(  I\' )  Joseph,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
Doty,  was  born  in  1735.  He  married  Grace 
Colyer.  Children:  Daniel,  referred  to  below  ; 
Elsie,  born  1764-5;  Joseph  Denman,  1767; 
Barnabas,  or  Burnet.  1771  ;  Hannah,  1774: 
Elizabeth.  1777;  Jane.  1780.  married  1806, 
Joseph  Riley;  Stephen,  born  1784;  Keziah, 
died  young. 

(V)  Daniel,  son  of  Jose]>h  and  Grace  (Col- 
yer) Doughty,  was  born  in  1762,  and  died  in 
1823.  He  married,  in  1783,  Elizabeth  Budd. 
Children:  Thomas  Budd,  born  1783  or  1784, 
died  1798;  Elijah,  born  1786,  died  young; 
Mary  Wright,  referred  to  below;  Susan  Stew- 
art, born  1789;  Samuel  Sutton,  1794;  Joseph, 
1797;  Daniel  W.,  1800;  Eliza  Anne,  1802; 
Barnabas.  1805. 

( \  I  )  Mary  Wright,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  (  Budd)  Doty,  was  born  in  1788,  and 
died  in  1864.  She  married,  in  1806,  Isaac,  son 
of  Hon.  Henry  and  -Sarah  (Lewis)  Southard, 
and  her  daughter.  Susan  Maria  Southard,  mar- 
ried Joshua  Doughty,  referred  to  above. 


"Concerning  the  ancestry  of 
BIGELOW  John  Biglo_!  the  progenitor  of 
the  Bigelows  of  this  country," 
the  compiler  of  the  Bigelow  genealogy  says, 
"we  are  unable  to  get  any  satisfactory  account ; 
traditions  are  so  numerous  and  conflicting, 
that  we  can  place  no  reliance  upon  any  of 
tlieni ;  they  would  make  our  common  ancestor 
a  native  of  Wales,  Scotland,  Ireland  and  Eng- 
land, as  well  as  a  French  Huguenot.  The 
common  belief  has  been  that  we  were  of  Eng- 
lish descent." 

(I)  The  first  flefinite  information  with  re- 
gard to  the  family  are  the  records  in  this  coun- 
try of  John  and  Elizabeth  Bigelow,  who  are 
believed  to  have  been  brother  and  sister.  Eliz- 
abeth Bigelow  married  Deacon  Richard  But- 
ler, of  Hartford,  and  died  September  11,  1691. 


having  borne  her  husband  four  chiltlren.  John 
Biglo  appears  first  on  the  Watertown  town 
records,  where  he  is  groom  in  the  first  mar- 
riage recorded  in  that  town,  the  entry  read- 
ing "1642-30-8,  John  Bigulah  and  Mary  W'arin 
joyned  in  mariag  before  Mr.  Nowell."  In 
1052  he  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  at  Watertown, 
and  was  made  freeman  Ajjril  18,  1690.  He 
was  one  of  the  soldiers  who  saw  service  from 
November  25  to  December  3,  1675,  in  King 
Phillip's  war;  was  surveyor  of  highways  1652 
and  1660,  constable  in  1663,  and  a  selectman 
in  1665-70-71.  His  homestead  of  six  acres 
was  bounded  north  by  Richard  Ambler  and 
\\illiam  Parker,  east  by  Thomas  Straight, 
south  by  the  highway,  and  west  by  Miles  Ives. 
He  died  July  14,  1703,  aged  eighty-six  years. 
He  married  (first)  Mary,  born  in  England, 
died  October  19,  1691,  daughter  of  John  and 
Margaret  Warren;  (second)  October  2,  16)4, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  Bemis,  of  Water- 
town,  Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  i. 
John,  born  October  27,  1643;  marrietl  Rebecca 
Olmsted,  Hved  in  Hartford,  Connecticut.  2. 
Jonathan,  born  December  11.  1646.  died  Janu- 
ary 9,  171 1  ;  married  Rebecca  Shepard.  3. 
Mary,  born  March  14,  1648,  married  June  3, 
1674.  Michael,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
Flagg,  of  Watertown,  brother  to  her  brother 
Joshua's  wife,  referred  to  below.  4.  Daniel, 
born  December  i,  1650,  married  Abigail  Pratt; 
li\ed  Framington.  5.  .Samuel,  born  October 
2S.  1653;  married.  June  3.  1674.  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Mary  Flagg.  and  sister  to 
his  brother  Joshua's  wife,  referred  to  below. 
6.  Joshua,  referred  to  below.  7.  Elizabeth, 
born  June  15,  1657,  died  April  18,  1694;  mar- 
ried Lieutenant  John  Stearns,  of  Billerica, 
Massachusetts.  8.  Sary.  born  September  29. 
1659;  married  July  23.  1679,  Isaac  Leanerd. 
9.  James,  died  January  20,  1728;  married 
(first)  F'atience  Brown,  (second)  Elizabeth 
Child,  (third)  Joanna  Erickson.  10.  Martha, 
born  April  i,  1662;  married  twice;  second 
husband,  Obadiah  Woods,  of  East  Hartford, 
Connecticut.  11.  Abigail,  born  February  4, 
16(34,  died  January  12,  1754;  married,  Decem- 
ber 10,  1684,  Benjamin  Harrington.  12.  Han- 
nah, born  March  4,  1666,  died  March  8,  1666. 
13.  Son,  born  and  died  December  18,  1667. 

(II)  Joshua,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (War- 
I  en )  Biglo,  was  born  in  Watertown,  Massa- 
chusetts. November  5,  1655,  and  died  in  West- 
minster, February  i,  1745.  being  the  first  adult 
who  died  in  that  town.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
Captain  Ting's  company  in  King  Phillip's  war, 
was  wounded,  and  in  consideration  of  his  serv- 


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ices  the  general  court  gave  him  a  grant  of  land 
ill  Xarraganset,  No.  2.  He  lived  in  Water- 
town  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and  his  chil- 
dren were  born  there.  When  his  father  died 
he  was  appointed  co-executor  with  his  brother- 
in-law,  Isaac  Learned,  of  his  father's  will,  but 
late  in  life,  being  an.xious  to  reside  on  the  land 
which  he  had  earned  by  his  war  services,  he 
removed  in  his  eighty-seventh  year,  in  com- 
pany with  his  youngest  son,  to  Narraganset 
No.  2,  now  \\'estminster.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 20.  1676,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Alary  Flagg,  who  was  born  Alarch  22, 
1657,  and  died  August  9,  1729.  Children:  i. 
Joshua,  born  November  25,  1677,  died  May 
9.  1728.  married  Hannah  Fiske.  2.  Jonathan, 
born  March  22,  1679;  married  (first)  Eliza- 
beth Bemis,  (second)  Mary  Rice.  3.  John, 
referred  to  below.  4.  Benjamin,  born  January 
20,  1683,  died  October  2"/.  1709.  5.  Jabez.  6. 
Elizabeth,  born  August  3,  1687:  married  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1724.  Jonathan  Harrington.  7. 
David,  born  April  30,  1694.     8.  Joseph,  born 

December  29,    1695,  married    (first)   : 

(  second  )  Thankful  Robinson.  9.  Daniel,  bap- 
tized August  29,  1697;  married  Elizabeth 
\Miitney.  10.  Ebenezer,  born  September  4, 
1698:  married.  May  29,  1720,  Hannah  Browne. 
II.  Gershom,  born  September  6,  1701,  died 
February  2,  1789,  married  Rachel  Gale.  12. 
Eleazer,  born  Alarch  14,  1705,  died  February 
24,  1762;  married  Mary  Fiske. 

(IIF)  Lieutenant  John,  son  of  Joshua  and 
Elizabeth  (  Flagg  )  Bigelow.  was  born  in  W'ater- 
town,  Massachusetts,  December  20,  i()8i,  and 
died  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  March  8, 
1770.  He  is  supposed  to  have  removed  to 
Hartford  in  early  life,  and  may  have  married 
liis  first  wife  in  that  town.  In  1706  he  was 
living  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  and  in  1 7 10 
built  his  house  there,  on  Bulkley  Hill,  said  to 
have  been  the  most  elegant  house  in  town,  and 
until  a  few  years  ago,  when  it  was  taken  down 
to  make  room  for  a  more  modern  dwelling, 
was  one  of  the  old  landmarks  of  the  place. 
-Vccording  to  tradition,  when  the  house  was 
built,  there  not  being  enough  men  in  the  town 
for  the  purpose,  twelve  men  rode  from  Hart- 
ford on  horseback  through  the  wilderness  to 
assist,  finding  their  way  for  twenty-five  miles 
by  a  trail  blazed  by  John  Bigelow.  He  mar- 
ried (first)   Hannah  .  who  died  March 

31,  1709:  (second)  November  4,  1709.  his  cou- 
sin. Sarah,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Rebecca 
(Shepard)  Bigekiw.  of  Hartford,  referred  to 
above,  whom  trailitinn  says  was  a  tailoress 
and    brought    him    a   bushel   of    silver   monev 


which  she  had  earned  with  her  needle,  and 
with  which  he  built  his  Colchester  house.  She 
died  October  13,  1754,  and  he  married  (third) 

Abigail  ,  who  died  August  i,   1760,  in 

her  fifty-eighth  year.  He  married  (fourth) 
Hannah  Munn.  Children,  two  by  first,  and 
three  by  second  wife:  i.  David,  referred  to 
below.  2.  John,  born  March  25,  1709,  died 
January  17.  1789:  married  (first)  Anna  Bate, 
(second)  Sarah  Bate.  3.  Sarah,  born  July  17, 
17 1 2,  died  Xovember  30,  1744.  unmarried.  4. 
Jonathan,  born  May  12,  1714,  died  August  14, 
1739;  unmarried.  5.  Asa,  born  September  3, 
1720,  died  October  9,  1754;  married  Dorothy 
Otis. 

(IV)  David,  son  of  Lieutenant  John  and 
Hannah  Bigelow,  was  baptized  in  the  Second 
Church  at  Hartford,  September  22,  1706,  and 
died  June  2,  1799.  in  the  ninety-third  year  of 
his  age,  and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at 
Alarlborough,  Connecticut.  As  a  child  he  was 
taken  by  his  father  to  Colchester,  where  he 
remained  during  his  life,  living  in  that  part  of 
the  town  afterw-ard  set  off  and  incorporated  as 
the  town  of  Marlborough.  He  married  (first) 
December   11,    1729,   Editha.  born   September 

10,  1705,  died  January  19.  1746,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  Day;  (second)  January  21, 
1747,  Mercy  (Kellogg)  Lewis,  widow  of  Rev. 
Judah  Lewis,  and  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Lydia  (Belding)  Kellogg,  of  Westfield,  who 
was  born  October  30,  1709,  and  died  January 
5,  1795.  Children,  eight  by  first  wife:  I. 
Flannah,  born  November  11,  1730;  married 
Barret  Felts,  of  Hebron,  Connecticut.  2.  David, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Amasa,  born  September 
3,  1733:  married,  December  31,  1754,  Jemima 

"Strong.  4.  Ezra,  born  April  10,  1736;  mar- 
ried. September  7,  1755,  Hannah  Strong,  sister 
to  his  brother  Amasa's  wife.  5.  Daniel,  born 
May  25,  1738,  died  November  11,  1822;  mar- 
riecl  (first)  January  8,  1761,  Mary  Brainerd.  a 
descendant  of  the  noted  Indian  missionary ; 
(second)  June  11,  1778,  Sarah  F.  (Ingham) 
Chapman,  of  Saybrook.  6.  Eli,  born  August 
25,  1739.  died  August  10,  1751.  7.  Azariah, 
born  December  26,  1741  ;  married  March  26, 
1767,  Alargaret  Foote.  8.  Editha,  born  March 
16,  1744:  married  March  2,  1788,  Air.  Gary, 
of  Haddam.  9.  Stephen,  born  October  27, 
1747,  died  September  13,  1748.  10.  Stephen 
(2d),  born  June  5,  1749,  died  August  5.  1751. 

11.  Moses,  born  October  4,  1750,  ilied  Decem- 
ber 2T,,  1750.     12.  Mercy,  born  November  23, 

1753- 

(\  )  David  (2),  son  of  David  (i)  and 
Editha  (Day)   Bigelow,  was  born  in  Colches- 


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ter,  Connecticut,  May  7,  1732.  and  died  in 
Glastonbury,  Connecticut.  October  6,  1820.  He 
settled  in  that  part  of  Glastonbury  which  was 
afterwards  set  off  to  Marlborough.  He  mar- 
ried, June  17,  1762.  Patience,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel Foote,  Jr.,  who  died  June  26,  1791. 
Children:  i.  David,  born  November  9,  1762, 
died  November  22,  1843:  married  Lydia 
Chapel.  2.  Erastus,  born  February  11,  1765, 
died  July  13,  1855:  married  (first)  Lucy  Root, 
(second)  Mrs.  Gifford.  3.  Patience,  born  De- 
cember 28,  1767,  died  March  10,  1832;  mar- 
ried Solomon  Finley.  4.  John  Day,  born  July 
2T,.  1770,  died  December  30,  1870:  aged  one 
hundred  years  five  months  seven  days ;  mar- 
ried Sally  Buell.  5.  Anna,  born  January  15. 
1773.  died  May  14,  1842;  married  Benjamin 
Sears.  6.  Isaac,  born  October  29,  1775,  died 
May  7,  1832;  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Aaron  and  Mary  ( Isham )  Foote.  7.  .\sa.  re- 
ferred to  below.  8.  Esther,  born  ^larch  22, 
1782,  died  September  11,  1849:  married  Will- 
iam Buell. 

(\T)  .Asa.  son  of  David  (2)  and  Patience 
(Foote)  Bigelow,  was  born  in  Glastonbury, 
Connecticut,  January  18.  1779,  and  died  in 
Maiden,  New  York,  February  12.  1850.  He 
married,  Februar}-  18,  1802,  Lucy  Lsham,  of 
Colchester,  Connecticut,  born  there  September 
22,  1780,  died  in  Maiden,  September  14.  1853. 
Children:  i.  Susan  Emeline,  born  Colebrook, 
Connecticut,  December  5,  1805,  died  February 
13,  1884:  married,  January  i,  1822,  Stephen 
Kellogg,  of  Troy,  New  York,  who  lived  in 
Maiden.  2.  Edward,  referred  to  below.  3. 
David,  born  in  Maiden.  June  26.  1815;  mar- 
ried Maria,  daughter  of  Lucas  J.  and  Eliza- 
beth (  \'an  der  Poel )  van  Alen.  4.  John,  born 
JIalden,  November  25,  1817:  graduated  Union 
College.  1835,  admitted  to  the  bar  1838;  ap- 
['ointed  an  inspector  of  state  prison  at  Sing 
Sing.  1845;  joint  editor  with  William  Cullen 
Bryant  of  .Yezc  York  E'c'cuiug  Post.  1861  ;  ap- 
pointed by  President  Lincoln  consul  at  Paris, 
1865  :  appointed  to  succeed  William  L.  Dayton, 
of  New  Jersey,  as  Envoy  Extraordinary  and 
Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  the  Court  of  Na- 
poleon HL  In  1875  one  of  five  commissioners 
to  investigate  the  management  of  the  canal 
system  of  New  York  state,  and  later  in  the 
same  year  elected  secretary  of  state ;  in  1886 
one  of  the  executors  of  the  will  of  Governor 
Tilden,  and  the  following  year  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  "Tilden  Trust;"  a  voluminous 
writer  on  many  im])ortant  topics ;  summer  resi- 
dence Highland  Falls  on  the  Hudson,  winter 
residence,   21    (irammercy    Park,    New    York. 


He  married,  June  11.  1850,  Jane  Tunis,  daugh- 
ter of  Ivan  and  Jane  (Tenuis)  Poultney.  of 
Baltimore,  Maryland,  who  was  born  there  Jan- 
uary 16,  1829.  and  died  City,  February  8,  1889; 
children :  Grace,  John,  Poultney,  Jenny,  Annie 
and  Flora.  5.  Adeline,  born  ]\Ialden,  Decem- 
ber 26,  1823,  died  December  23,  1850;  married, 
October  20.  1847,  Henry  H.  Beers. 

(\'II)  Edward,  son  of  Asa  and  Lucy 
(lsham)  Bigelow,  was  born  in  Saugerties, 
New  York,  .\ugust  20,  1810.  and  died  there 
July  23,  1889.  He  married  (first)  Caroline  E. 
j'loies.  was  born  in  Blandford,  Massachusetts, 
July  6,  1814,  and  died  in  Saugerties,  Septem- 
ber II,  1852;  (second)  Mary  A.  Boies,  sister 
to  his  first  wife,  born  May  6,  1825.  Children: 
John  A.,  referred  to  below;  Nathan  R.,  of 
Montreal,  Canada, 

(\  nil  John  .'V.,  son  of  Edward  and  Caro- 
line E.  (  Boies )  Bigelow,  was  born  in  New 
"S'ork,  and  is  now  living  at  170  West  Eighty- 
fifth  street.  New  York  City.  He  married  Har- 
riet, daughter  of  Rev.  Asa  Smith,  of  Hanover, 
New  Hampshire.  Children:  Edward;  Will- 
iam Smith,  both  referred  to  below-;  Alice,  mar- 
ried .Arthur  M.  Strong:  John  A.  Jr.:  Harriet, 
married  John  Lewis  Hildreth,  and  had  chil- 
dren Harriet,  Lewis,  and  Robert  Hildreth : 
Frank  B. ;  Charlotte  K, 

(  IN)  Edward,  son  of  John  A.  and  Harriet 
(  Smith )  P.igelow,  was  born  in  Maiden,  New 
\  ork.  December  8,  1864.  After  receiving  his 
early  education  in  Hanover.  New  Hampshire, 
he  attended  the  Cleveland,  Ohio,  public  schools, 
and  after  graduation  started  in  as  a  boy  with 
E.  H.  van  Ingen.  of  160  Fifth  avenue.  New 
York  City,  and  by  industry  and  perseverance 
has  risen  to  be  one  of  the  firm's  head  sales- 
men. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  deacon 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  a  member  of  the 
Royal  Arcanum,  and  secretary  of  the  Eliza- 
beth Whist  Club.  He  married,  in  Elizabeth, 
December  5,  1888,  Rebecca  Bispham,  daughter 
of  DeWitt  Clinton  and  Anna  (Roe)  Morris, 
who  was  born  in  Fladdonfield,  New  Jersey, 
January  10,  1863,  and  is  a  member  of  two  of 
the  most  famous  families  in  New  Jersey  and 
Pennsylvania.  Her  sister.  .Anna  Roe,  died  in 
infancy.  Her  brother,  Edward,  married  Eva 
Lawrence.  Children  of  Edward  and  Rebecca 
Bispham  (Morris)  Bigelow:  Russel,  born  De- 
cember 2,  1899;  Margaret  Roe,  born  July  9, 
1894;  William   Smith,  born  March  22.   1903. 

(IN)  William  Smith,  son  of  John  .A.  and 
Harriet  ( .Smith)  Bigelow.  was  born  in  Maiden, 
New  York.  February  28,  1866.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  Hanover,  New  Hamp- 


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shire,  and  then  graduated  from  the  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  public  schools,  after  which,  in  1883.  he 
started  to  learn  the  dry  goods  business  in  the 
commission  house  of  Albert  D.  Smith,  and  by 
ability  and  application  has  risen  until  he  is 
now  practically  in  full  control  of  that  busi- 
ness. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  attends 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  married,  in  Eliz- 
abeth, April  10,  1889,  Caroline,  daughter  of 
Rev.  David  Harrison  and  Caroline  (Peck) 
Pierson  (see  Pierson).  Child  of  William 
Smith  and  Caroline  (  Pierson )  Bigelow  :  Car- 
oline Pierson.  born  IMarch  19,  1890. 

(The  Pierson  Line). 

Thomas  Pierson,  ancestor  of  the  New  Jer- 
sey family,  emigrated  to  Branford,  Connecti- 
cut, from  which  place  he  removed  with  the 
original  colonists  to  Newark,  in  1666.  He 
was  a  weaver  by  occupation,  and  died  about 
1701.  He  married.  November  27,  1662.  I\Iaria, 
daughter  of  Richard  Harrison,  foimder  of  the 
Newark  family.  Children :  Samuel,  referred 
to  below  ;  Hannah  ;  Elizabeth  :  Abigail :  ]\Iary, 
married  Samuel  Lyon  ;  Thomas,  born  1678,  died 
March  5,  1758,  married  and  had  issue. 

(H)  Samuel,  son  of  Thomas  and  jMaria 
(Harrison)  Pierson,  was  born  in  1663,  and 
died  in  1730.  He  married  his  cousin  Mary, 
daughter  of  Sergeant  Ricl^ard  Harrison,  who 
was  born  in  1664  and  died  in  1732.  Children: 
Joseph,  born  1693,  died  1759,  married  Heph- 
zibah  Camp;  Samuel,  born  1698,  died  1781, 
married  Mary  Sergeant ;  James,  married  and 
removed  to  the  Lake  country;  Daniel,  born 
1703,  died  1777,  married  Jemima  Ogden ; 
Caleb,  referred  to  below  ;  Jemima  ;  Mary,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Dodd ;  Hannah,  born  1729,  died 
1794. 

(HI)  Caleb,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Har- 
rison) Pierson,  married  Ruth  C)gden.  Chil- 
dren :  Thomas,  married  Ruth  Harrison  ;  Caleb, 
I  fferred  to  below  ;  Elizabeth,  married  Jay  Mar- 
tin ;   jemima,  married   Tedia  Lindslev. 

(IV)  Caleb  (2),  son  of  Caleb  (i)'and  Ruth 
(C)gden)  Pierson,  was  born  in  1738.  He  mar- 
ried Joanna  Pialdwin.  born  in  1743.  Children: 
Sarah,  married  David  Ogden  ;  John,  married 
Susanna  Russel ;  Elizabeth,  born  1767,  died 
1793,  married  Linas  Dodd;  Jeptha,  born  1775, 
diecl  1857;  Israel;  Joanna,  married  David,  son 
of  Elihu  Pierson ;  Abraham,  married  Jemima 
Miller;  Jane,  died  young;  Elijah,  referred  to 
below  ;  Lydia,  married  James  Crockett. 

(V)  Elijah,  son  of  Caleb  and  Joanna  (Bald- 
win)  Pierson.  was  born  in  1779,  and  died  in 


1862.  He  married  (first)  Martha  Williams, 
born  1784,  died  1851  :  (second)  Mary  Will- 
iams, sister  to  his  first  wife.  Children:  i. 
James  C,  died  in  infancy.  2.  Louisa,  born 
1807;  married  Aaron  Dodd.  3.  Elijah  B., 
born  in  1809  or  1810;  died  1876;  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Mingus.  4.  Calvin 
D.,  born  181 1,  married  (first)  Lavinia  Dodd; 
and  (second)  I\Iargaretta  Dodd.  5.  Maria, 
born  1813;  married  Samuel  Crane.  6.  Caleb 
Nelson,  born  1815;  married  Jane  E.  Crane. 
7.  David  Harrison,  referred  to  below.  8.  Na- 
than \\'.,  born  1 82 1 ;  married  Susan,  daughter 
of  Abiather  Harrison. 

(\I)  Rev.  David  Harrison,  son  of  Elijah 
and  ]\Iartha  (Williams)  Pierson,  was  born  in 
1818,  and  died  in  1889.  He  married  Caroline, 
daughter  of  Aaron  and  Miranda  (Pierson) 
Peck  (see  Peck).  Children:  Mary  Halsey; 
James  A.,  married  Ida  Ralston ;  David  Harri- 
son ;  George  Peck,  married  Ida  Goepp ;  Caro- 
line Peck,  referred  to  below. 

(\'II)  Caroline,  daughter  of  Rev.  David 
Harrison  and  Caroline  (Peck)  Pierson,  was 
born  July  8,  1865.  She  married,  in  Elizabeth, 
April  10,  1889,  \Villiam  Smith,  son  of  John  A. 
and  Harriet  (Smith)  Bigelow. 

(Tlie    Peck    Line). 

Henry  Peck,  ancestor  of  the  East  Orange 
branch  of  the  family  of  its  name,  emigrated 
to  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  1637,  and  after- 
wards became  one  of  the  founders  of  the  New 
Haven  colony,  signing  the  Fundamental  Agree- 
ment, June  4,  1639,  and  taking  the  oath  of 
fidelity  in  July,  1644.  He  died  in  the  autumn 
of  1651.  His  wife's  maiden  name  is  unknown  ; 
her  Christian  name  was  Joan.  Children :  Elea- 
zer,  baptized  March  13,  1643;  Joseph,  referred 
to  below ;  Benjamin,  baptized  September  5, 
1647;  Elizabeth,  born  March  16,  1649. 

(II)  Joseph,  son  of  Henry  and  Joan  Peck, 
was  baptized  in  New  Haven,  September  5, 
1647.  He  married,  November  28,  1672,  Sarah, 
born  October  12,  1649,  daughter  of  Roger 
and  Mary  (Nash)  Ailing.  Children:  i.  Sarah, 
born  September  11,  1673;  married  (first) 
Thomas  Gilbert :  (second)  Joseph  Moss.  2. 
Joseph,  referred  to  below.  3.  Samuel,  born 
December  29.  1677,  died  December  30,  1703; 
married  Abigail  Hitchcock.  4.  James,  born 
February  17,  1679,  died  1760:  married  (first) 
Abigail  Morris,  (second)  Hannah  Leek.  5. 
John,  born  October  6,  1(382:  married  Esther 
Morris.  6.  Eliphalet.  born  May  12,  1685.  7. 
Abigail,  born  May  2,  1686:  married  Robert 
Talmage.     8.    Mary,   born   October  6,    1689; 


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married  Stephen  Rowe.  9.  Ebenezer.  born 
May  2,  1693. 

(Ill)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  and 
Sarah  ( AUing)  I'eck.  was  born  in  New  Haven. 
October  9,  1675,  and  died  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  January  9,  1745.  He  sold  the  land  in 
New  Haven,  inherited  from  his  father,  and 
removed  to  Newark,  where  he  located  in  that 
portion  of  the  town  known  for  many  years 
afterwards  as  Pecktown,  and  now  as  East 
Orange.  He  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward and  Abigail  (Blatchly)  Ball,  born  about 
1676,  died  .\ugust  22,  1742.  Children:  Sarah, 
Josei)h  (referred  to  below)  Timothy,  Ruth, 
Mary,  Elizabeth. 

(I\')  Joseph  (3),  son  of  Joseph  (2)  an(, 
Lydia  ( Ball )  Reck,  was  born  in  Pecktown 
(East  Orange),  in  1702,  and  died  July  12, 
1772.  He  was  a  ruling  elder  and  deacon  in  the 
Mountain  Society,  and  an  executor  of  the  will 
of  Rev.  Daniel  Taylor.  He  married  Jemima 
Lindsley,  who  died  about  1781.  Children: 
David,  referred  to  below;  Jesse,  born  1730, 
died  1771  :  John,  born  1732,  died  December  28, 
181 1,  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Dodd,  (sec- 
ond) Mary  Harrison:  Joseph,  born  January  2, 
1735  :  Moses,  born  October  6,  1740.  died  1748; 
Abigail,  born  1743:  Ruth,  married  Stephen 
Dod  ;  Elizabeth,  born  I74<),  died  1819,  married 
John  Wright. 

(\  )  David,  son  of  Joseph  and  Jemima 
(Lindsley)  Peck,  was  born  in  East  Orange, 
in  1727.  and  died  there  April  3,  I7C)6.  He  mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  grand- 
daughter of  Matthias  Williams,  who  died  Jan- 
uary 9,  1799.  Children:  Daniel,  died  1827; 
James,  referred  to  below  :  Abiel,  married  Phebe 
Canfield;  Ruth. 

(\T  )  James,  son  of  David  and  ^lary  (Will- 
iams) Peck,  was  born  in  East  Orange,  about 
1760.  He  served  with  the  Essex  county  mili- 
tia in  the  revolutionary  war.  He  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Matthew  and  Sarah  (Treat) 
Canfield.  Children :  William,  born  Septem- 
ber 13.  1790,  died  May  4,  1849,  married  Fanny 
Canfield ;  Aaron,  referred  to  below ;  Phebe, 
born  June  17,  1801,  died  March  29,  1848,  mar- 
ried Samuel  Condit. 

(VH)  Aaron,  son  of  James  and  Hannah 
(Canfield)  Peck,  was  born  in  East  r)range, 
March  2,  1798,  and  died  there  April  8.  1865. 
From  1819  to  183S  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Essex  county  militia,  rising  to  the  rank  of  cap- 
tain. He  was  appointed  a  master  in  chancery 
by  Governor  \\'illiam  Pennington,  and  was 
president  and  principal  owner  of  the  Sussex 
railroad.  He  married,  Ajiril  19,  1820,  Miranda, 


daughter  of  Bethuel  and  Mary  (Condit)  Pier- 
son.  Children:  Caroline,  referred  to  below; 
Mar\-  Ann,  born  1823,  died  in  infancy  ;  George, 
born  July  9,  1826,  married  Eliza  .Ardelia 
Brewster;  Cyrus,  born  November  i,  1829, mar- 
ried Mary  Picton  Halsey :  Mary  Jane,  born 
183 1  ;  Aaron,  born  June  6,  1836,  married  Julia 
Manning,  a   F'resbyterian  clergyman. 

(\IH)  Caroline,  daughter  of  Aaron  and 
Miranda  (  Pierson )  Peck,  was  born  in  Orange 
in  1821.  and  died  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  in 
1902.  She  married,  in  1844,  Rev.  David  Har- 
rison, son  of  Elijah  and  Alartha  (Williams) 
Piersun. 


The  Ballantines  are  among 
B.XLLANTINE;  the  later  arrivals  to  this 
country,  the  founder  of 
the  family  having  emigrated  during  the  first 
quarter  of  the  nineteenth  century;  but  the 
name  and  reputation  which  three  generations 
of  the  family  have  made  and  fostered,  as  well 
as  the  connections  and  associations  that  they 
have  formed  entitle  them  to  be  recognized 
among  the  prominent  representative  families 
of  Essex  county,  and  among  those  sons  of 
New  Jersey  whom  the  state  delights  to  honor. 
(  I  )  Peter  Ballantine,  the  emigrant  and 
founder  of  the  family  of  his  name  in  Essex 
county,  was  born  in  ^lauchline.  Ayrshire.  Scot- 
land. November  16,  1791.  The  place  of  his 
birth  has  been  made  famous  by  Robert  Burns, 
who  during  fourteen  years  of  the  latter  part 
of  his  life  lived  with  his  brother  Gilbert  on 
a  small  farm  at  Mossgiel,  about  a  mile  and  a 
half  to  the  north  of  Alauchline,  where  were 
written  some  of  the  poet's  finest  poems,  as 
"The  Jolly  Beggars,"  "The  Cottar's  Saturday 
Night,"  and  "Lines  to  a  Mouse,"  and  in  the 
neighborhood  of  wdiich  place  the  scenes  of  some 
of  his  most  admired  lyrics  were  laid — the  cot- 
tage of  "Poosie  Nancy,"  and  Mauchline  Kirk, 
the  scene  of  the  "Holy  Fair,"  being  in  the 
town  itself.  For  the  first  twenty-nine  years 
of  his  life  Peter  Ballantine.  lived  amid  the 
scenes  depicted  so  well  by  Burns,  and  then 
the  pressure  of  poverty  and  the  call  to  great 
achievement  sent  him  forth  to  seek  his  fortune 
in  the  new  world. 

In  1820  he  came  to  America,  and  soon  after 
landing  found  himself  in  Albany,  where  he 
obtained  work  in  an  ale  brewery.  Thrifty  and 
canny,  like  all  his  fellow-countrymen,  he  soon 
began  to  save  his  pennies,  and  after  awhile 
found  himself  with  sufficient  capital  to  start 
his  own  brewing  plant  and  to  settle  down  with 
his  bride  in  a  home  of  his  own.    This  occurred 


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about  1830.  and  for  the  next  ten  years  he  pros- 
pered ;  his  three  sons  were  born ;  and  the  ex- 
cellence of  his  product  brought  him  an  ever- 
increasing  custom  and  a  constantly  enlarging 
income  and  credit.  In  1840  Peter  Ballantine 
lemoved  himself  and  his  family  to  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  began  laying  the  perma- 
nent foundations  of  the  enormous  business 
ever  since  associated  with  his  name,  by  tak- 
ing a  partner,  and  under  the  firm  name  of  Pat- 
terson &  Ballantine  brewing  ale  in  the  old 
Morton  plant  in  High  street,  near  Orange. 
Here  also  success  awaited  liis  efforts,  and  in  a 
little  while  he  found  himself  able  to  enlarge  his 
plant  and  to  become  sole  owner  and  manager 
of  the  business.  This  was  about  1850,  in 
which  year  he  bought  the  property  on  the  Pas- 
saic river  and  Front  street,  where  he  erected 
his  new  ale  brewery  with  all  the  modern  ap- 
pliances of  those  days.  In  this  brewery  the 
family  took  great  pride,  it  became  a  family 
affair,  rapidly  assumed  large  proportions ;  and 
in  accordance  with  the  then  almost  universal 
idea  of  living  almost  in  one's  shop,  the  home- 
stead of  the  Ballantine  family  was  here,  on 
Front  street,  near  the  Center  street  bridge. 
Nowadays,  a  business  man  lives  as  far  away 
from  shop  and  office  as  his  wife  considers 
suitable  to  the  family  station ;  and  it  seems  to 
be  the  rule  that,  the  wealthier  people  are,  the 
correspondingly  distant  are  they  from  the 
source  of  their  wealth.  In  the  old  days  it  was 
dift'erent.  Then  the  pioneer  manufacturer, 
more  often  than  not,  had  his  residence  as  close 
as  possible  to  his  shop  or  factory,  in  order  that 
he  might  keep  in  personal  touch  with  his  busi- 
ness, for  neither  telephone,  telegraph  nor  good 
cheap  transit  service  had  yet  been  applied  pub- 
licly, and  it  was  through  the  use  of  these  con- 
veniences that  people  gradually  were  released 
from  dwelling  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of 
their  work,  sometimes  in  very  undesirable 
quarters.  The  quaint  old  Ballantine  home- 
stead is  still  standing  in  Front  street,  and  is 
one  of  the  conspicuous  landmarks  of  the  neigh- 
borhood. Peter  Ballantine  built  it  and  took  up 
his  residence  in  it  when  he  began  brewing  ale 
in  his  new  {)lant.  and  there  remained  until  his 
death,  by  which  time  the  huge  factory  build- 
ings had  begun  to  close  in  on  the  little  house 
and  to  spread  over  the  grassy  lawns  around  it. 
Then  for  many  years  more  it  was  occupied 
by  the  superintendent  of  the  factory,  it  being 
necessary  to  have  a  watchful  eye  and  ready 
counsel  always  close  at  hand.  At  present  the 
pictures(|ue  old  cottage  is  untenanted  and  de- 
serted exce|)t  fur  the  companionship  of  the  malt- 


houses  and  brewery  buildings ;  and  eventually 
it  will  probably  give  way  before  the  encroach- 
ments i.if  the  business,  for  the  ground  upon 
which  it  stands  is  infinitely  more  valuable  to- 
day than  it  was  in  1846.  As  Peter  Ballantine's 
three  sons  grew  up  they  took  their  places  in 
their  father's  factory,  and  in  1857,  when  the 
youngest  had  reached  his  majority,  the  father 
organized  the  firm  of  P.  Ballantine  &  Sons, 
maltsters  and  brewers  of  ales ;  and  when  he 
acquired  the  old  Schalk  lager  beer  brewery 
in  Freeman  street  he  formed  the  new  company 
of  Ballantine  &  Company  fop  the  purpose  of 
making  beer.  As  time  went  on,  Peter  Ballan- 
tine became  to  be  recognized  as  the  wealthiest 
man  in  Newark,  the  valuation  of  his  personal 
property  alone  being  estimated  at  ^5,000,000, 
and  we  must  remember  that  this  was  in  the 
days  when  the  present  day  paper  fortunes  were 
almost  if  not  altogether  unknown,  and  that  his 
wealth  was  practically  all  of  it  real  and  tangi- 
ble. Peter  Ballantine  was  for  a  long  time 
prominent  in  many  enterprises  in  Newark,  but 
some  years  before  his  death,  owing  to  advanc- 
ing years,  he  retired  from  active  work,  al- 
though he  always  retained  his  interests  in  the 
business,  and  in  his  will  directed  that  his  exec- 
utor; were  to  continue  that  interest  and  repre- 
sent him  for  ten  years  after  his  decease,  un- 
less, upon  mature  consideration,  his  three  sons 
should  unaniniously  agree  that  it  were  better 
for  the  business  and  for  their  own  interests 
tiiat  this  aj'rangement  should  cease.  In  one 
of  the  codicils  to  this  will,  dated  about  eight 
years  later,  he  authorizes  his  executors  at  their 
discretion  to  turn  one  or  both  of  the  brewing 
firms  into  a  joint  stock  company,  reimbursing 
his  sons  for  their  shares  and  interests,  in  one 
or  more  ways  at  their  option. 

For  more  than  two  years  before  his  death, 
Peter  Ballantine  was  confined  to  his  house  for 
most  of  the  time  except  when  he  rode  out. 
.-\bout  Christmas,  1882,  he  caught  a  severe 
cold  which  turned  into  bronchitis,  which, 
coupled  with  his  age  (he  had  then  attained 
ninety-one  years)  and  an  attendant  weakness 
of  the  lieart,  caused  his  death,  January  23, 
1883.  He  was  buried  from  his  home,  74 
Front  street,  Friday.  January  26,  1883,  at  II 
o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  was  interred  at 
Mount  Pleasant  cemetery.  For  many  years 
he  had  been  a  member  of  the  First  Dutch  Re- 
formed Church  of  Newark,  and  shortly  before 
his  death,  he  had  become  connected  with  the 
North  Reformed  Church.  The  week  after  his 
death,  the  Sciitiuc!  of  Freedom.  January  30. 
1883.  published  a  long  obituary  and  encomium 


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of  hiin.  His  will,  dated  (  )ctober  24,  1874.  and 
containing  six  codicils  of  various  dates,  was 
proved  in  the  prerogative  court  of  New  Jer- 
sey at  Trenton,  February  17,  1883,  and  Janu- 
ary 24.  1906.  when  his  son's  son-in-law,  George 
Griswold  Frelinghuysen.  was  appointed  a  new 
trustee  under  the  terms  of  one  of  the  trusts  in 
the  will,  a  certified  copy  was  filed  with  the 
Essex  county  surrogate.  He  left  large  legacies 
to  the  American  Bible  Society,  the  Foreign- 
and  Home  Missions  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  the  Newark  Orphan  Asylum,  the 
American  Sunday-school  Union,  the  trustees 
of  Rutgers  College,  New  Brunswick,  "for  the 
support  and  education  of  indigent  young  men 
for  the  ministry  in  connection  with  the  Re- 
formed Church  in  .\merica ;"  to  the  Society 
for  the  Relief  of  Respectable  Aged  Women, 
and  to  the  Society  of  the  Home  of  the  Friend- 
less. Besides  a  couple  of  annuities  and  a 
couple  of  lagacies  to  "faithful  servants,"  he 
left  to  his  grand<laughter.  Julia  E..  daughter  of 
his  youngest  son,  Robert  F.,  "her  grand- 
mother's watch  and  chain,  her  bureau,  her 
silver  spoons  marked  'I.  W.,'  and  her  brown 
satin  dress  she  wore  at  the  wedding  of  the 
said  Robert  F.  Ballantine."  His  executors 
were  his  three  sons  and  .\bner  S.  Reeve. 

Peter  Ballantine  married  about  1830,  Julia, 
sister  to  Alexander  \\'ilson,  born  Alay  19, 
1796,  who  died  in  Newark,  of  remittent  fever, 
June  7,  1868.  aged  seventy-two  years,  and  left 
her  husband  three  sons :  Peter  Hood,  John 
Holme,  and  Robert  F.  Ballantine,  all  referred 
to  below. 

(ll)  Peter  Hood,  eldest  son  of  Peter  and 
Julia  (\\''ilson)  Ballantine,  was  born  in  Al- 
bany, New  York,  December  16,  1831,  and  died 
at  Morris  Plains,  Morris  county,  New  Jersey, 
September  16,  1882,  about  four  months  before 
his  father's  death.  During  the  whole  of  his 
life  he  was  connected  with  his  father's  brew- 
ing business,  although  he  became  likewise 
interested  and  identified  with  many  other 
financial  and  industrial  institutions  of  New- 
ark. He  was  a  director  in  the  Newark  City 
National  Bank,  of  the  American  Insurance 
Company,  of  theXewark  and  Bloomfield  Horse 
Car  Railway,  and  the  Newark  City  Ice  Com- 
pany. His  Newark  residence  was  3  West  Park 
street,  and  his  country  home,  "Springside," 
was  near  Littleton  and  Morris  Plains.  Short- 
ly before  his  death  he  went  to  Europe,  appear- 
ing at  his  dejiarture  to  be  in  very  robust  health, 
but  when  he  returned  soon  afterwards,  August 
30,   1S82.  his  constitution   seemed  to  be  con- 


siderably undermined  and  broken.  He  hoped 
however  that  a  few  weeks  rest  in  the  country 
would  restore  him,  and  he  accordingly  went  at 
once  to  "Springside,"  where  the  trouble  soon 
developed  into  typhoid  pneumonia  which  ended 
fatally,  and  he  was  buried  in  Mount  Pleasant 
cemetery  September  19,  1882.  On  the  day  of 
his  death,  the  Newark  Daily  Journal  published 
in  a  long  obituary  the  following  testimonial 
from  one  of  Mr.  Ballantine's  intimate  friends: 
"The  death  of  Mr.  Peter  Hood  Ballantine  is  a 
great  loss  to  this  community.  He  was  well 
known  as  a  very  influential,  if  not  the  controll- 
ing member  of  the  prosperous  and  wealthy 
firm  of  P.  Ballantine  &  Sons,  long  engaged  in 
the  brewing  business  in  this  city.  He  was  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  best  business  men  among 
us — a  'solid'  man,  quick  and  sagacious  in  ap- 
prehension, resolute  in  conduct,  firm  in  his 
views,  and  of  unimpeached  and  unimpeachable 
integrity.  He  was  not  a  talking  man.  Indeed, 
reticence  distinguished  him.  Yet  he  was  genial, 
kindly,  charitable  to  others,  just  and  generous. 
Newark  has  never  had  a  better  man.  Origin- 
ally an  attendant  of  the  First  Reformed 
Church,  he  has  for  several  years,  beginning 
when  Dr.  Eccleston  (Rev.  John  Houston 
Eccleston,  D.  D..  since  1884  rector  of  Emman- 
uel Church,  Baltimore)  came  here  or  shortly 
before,  been  a  regular  worshipper  in  Trinity 
Church,  of  which  a  year  ago  last  Easter  he 
was  elected  a  vestryman.  He  had  the  entire 
confidence  of  his  rector,  who  we  5re  sure  will 
greatly  mourn  his  loss,  as  will  the  whole  con- 
gregation, among  whom  he  was  conspicuous 
in  ever}-  good  word  and  work." 

Peter  Hood  Ballantine  married  Isabella 
Linen,  who  was  born  in  England,  and  who 
with  his  children  survived  him.  Children: 
Sara  Linen  Ballantine.  referred  to  below: 
George  Alexander  Ballantine.  born  October  14. 
1866;  Isabel  Al>bie  Ballantine.  January  23. 
1864:  and  Mary  Cartwright  Ballantine.  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(Ill)  Sara  Linen,  eldest  child  of  Peter 
Hood  and  Isabella  (Linen)  Ballantine,  was 
born  in  Newark.  March  5.  1858,  and  married, 
April  26,  1881,  George  Griswold,  son  of  Hon. 
Frederick  Theodore  and  Matilda  E.  (Gris- 
wold) Frelinghuysen.  the  marriage  being  per- 
formed by  Rev.  John  Houston  Eccleston,  D. 
D.,  rector  of  Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  Newark.  (See  Frelinghuysen). 

fill)  Mary  Cartwright,  youngest  child  of 
Peter  Hood  and  Isabella  (Linen)  Ballantine, 
was  born  in   Newark,  October   14,   1866,  and 


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married,  April  12,  1893,  R*'l'crt  William,  son 
of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  Aiken  (Miliar)  Gum- 
ming, whose  sketch  see. 

(II)  John  Holme,  second  son  of  Peter  and 
Julia  (Wilson)  Ballantine,  was  born  in  Al- 
bany. February  28,  1834,  and  died  at  his  home, 
43  Washington  street,  Newark,  April  27,  1895, 
Like  his  brothers  he  entered  his  father's  fac- 
tfiry  and  became  one  of  the  partners  in  the 
firm,  ^^'hen  the  firm  was  incorporated  he 
became  president  of  the  company,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in 
1895.  He  also  purchased  much  real  estate  in 
Newark  and  around  Bernardsville.  Somerset 
county,  and  was  interested  in  and  identified 
with  many  of  the  large  financial  interests  and 
institutions  of  Newark.  He  was  a  director 
in  the  American  Insurance  Company;  was 
interested  in  the  management  of  the  Celluloid 
Company,  and  was  also  a  director  of  the  Essex 
County  National  Bank,  the  Newark  Electric 
Light  and  Power  Company,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Essex  Club,  .\bout  six  weeks  before  his 
death,  while  travelling  in  the  .South,  he  learn- 
ed that  he  was  suffering  from  a  cancer  in  his 
throat.  Returning  home,  at  once  he  put  him- 
self under  the  care  of  Dr.  Joseph  Fewsmith, 
but  without  avail.  He  was  buried  in  Mount 
Pleasant  cemetery,  from  his  home,  Tuesday, 
April  30,  1895,  leaving  his  widow  and  four 
tHit  of  his  eight  children  surviving  him.  His 
will,  dated  April  15,  1887,  proved  May  8,  1895, 
names  as  his  executors  his  wife,  his  brother 
Jiobert  F.  Ballantine,  and  his  two  sons,  John 
Herbert  and  Robert  Dickson  Ballantine,  and 
makes  his  wife  the  guardian  of  his  minor  chil- 
dren. He  left  large  legacies  to  the  American 
Bible  Society,  the  Pioards  of  Foreign  and  Home 
I'viissions  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church,  the 
Newark  Orphan  Asylum,  the  Society  for  the 
Ivelief  of  Respectable  Aged  Women,  the  Soci- 
ety of  the  Home  of  the  Friendless  of  Newark, 
the  Newark  Charitable  Society,  and  to  Foster 
Home  Society.  To  his  wife  he  left  the  home 
house  and  lot  43,  Washington  street,  together 
with  all  furniture,  horses,  carriages,  etc.,  and 
the  country  place  which  he  had  bought  in  1890 
near  Bernardsville,  and  named  "Cowndale." 
'lo  his  son,  John  Herbert,  he  left  $5,000  and 
his  dwelling  house  on  the  corner  of  Wash- 
ington Place  and  Halsey  street,  Newark,  and 
to  his  remaining  surviving  children,  when  they 
attained  the  age  of  twenty-five,  $50,000.  The 
remainder  of  his  estate  he  put  in  trust,  the 
income  to  be  divided,  one-third  to  his  wife, 
and  the  remaining  two-thirds  to  be  equally 
divided  among  his  children. 


John  Holme  Ballantine  married  Jeannette 
Boyd  of  Baltimore,  Maryland;  children:  i. 
Margaret,  born  October  9,  1857;  died  Janu- 
ary 15,  1865.  2.  Peter  Wilson,  born  May  12, 
i860,  died  January  20,  1865.  3.  Jeannete  Wil- 
son, born  November  4,  1864,  died  in  1872  or 
1873.  4.  John  Herbert,  referred  to  below. 
5.  Robert  Dickson,  referred  to  below.  6.  Edith, 
died  in  infancy.  7.  Alice  Isabel,  referred  to 
below.  8.  Percy,  married  Elizabeth  Parker ; 
children :     Peter,  Robert  and  Percy. 

(HI)  John  Herbert,  fourth  child  and  sec- 
end  son,  eldest  child  to  reach  maturity,  of  John 
Holme  and  Jeannette  (Boyd)  Ballantine,  was 
born  in  Newark,  February  16,  1867,  and  is 
now  living  at  his  home,  18  Washington  Place. 
Newark,  which  he  inherited  from  his  father. 
For  his  early  education  he  went  to  the  Newark 
.■Vcademy  and  to  the  private  school  of  Dr. 
Pingry  at  Elizabeth,  afterwards  completing 
bis  preparatory  education  at  St.  John's  Mili- 
tary Academy,  Ossining,  New  York,  and  the 
Stevens  Institute  of  Technology,  Hoboken, 
after  which  he  spent  two  years  at  Cornell  Uni- 
versity, graduating  in  1889.  He  became  a 
niember  of  the  firm  of  P.  Ballantine  &  Sons, 
and  here  remained  until  1902,  when  he  severed 
his  connection  with  the  brewing  business  in 
order  to  become  vice-president  and  treasurer 
of  the  Neptune  Meter  Company,  of  which 
he  is  now  president  and  treasurer.  He  is 
also  president  of  the  American  Pastry 
and  Alanufacturing  Company  of  New  York. 
]Mr.  Ballantine  is  a  Republican,  and  a  member 
of  the  college  Greek  letter  fraternity  of  Chi 
Phi,  also  of  many  clubs,  among  which  are  the 
Essex,  the  Essex  County  Country,  the  L'nion 
Club,  the  Union  League,  the  New  York  Yacht, 
the  Lawyers',  the  Cornell  L^niversity,  and  the 
Robins  Island  Clubs.  All  his  life  he  has  been 
a  member  of  the  North  Reformed  Church. 

September  24.  1890,  John  Herbert  Ballan- 
tine married  Lois  Naomi,  daughter  of  John 
and  Alargaret  (Standart)  Wilgus,  of  Cleve- 
land, Ohio.  Children :  John  Holme  Ballan- 
tine. born  August  27,  1892;  Herbert  Wilgus 
Ballantine,  December  5,  1893 ;  Jeannete  Boyd 
Ballantine,  August,  1897,  died  April  25,  1899. 

(HI)  Robert  Dickson,  fifth  child  and  third 
son  of  John  Holme  and  Jeannette  (Boyd) 
Ballantine,  was  born  in  Newark,  July,  1870, 
and  died  unmarried,  at  the  home  of  his  mother, 
43  Washington  street,  December  9,  1905,  about 
eighteen  hours  before  his  uncle  Robert  F.  Bal- 
lantine, his  last  surviving  member  of  the  sec- 
ond generation  of  the  family.  He  was  a  grad- 
uate of  the  law  and  medical  schools  of  the  Uni- 


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versity  of  \irginia,  and  made  his  home  on  the 
famous  Edge  Hill  estate,  near  Monticello,  the 
home  of  Jefferson,  in  Albermarle  county,  Vir- 
ginia, which  he  purchased.  Here  he  enter- 
tained lavishly,  being  particularly  hospitable 
to  students  of  the  University  of  Virginia, 
many  of  whom  were  aided  by  him  in  material 
ways.  He  also  made  liberal  gifts  to  the  Uni- 
versity, and  was  a  most  liberal  patron  of  its 
athletic  teams.  He  is  buried  in  ]\Iount  Pleas- 
ant cemetery,  Newark. 

(IH)  Alice  Isabel,  only  daughter  of  John 
Holme  and  Jeannette  (Boyd)  Ballantine  to 
reach  maturity,  was  born  in  Newark,  and  mar- 
ried, February  18,  1899,  Henry,  eldest  son  and 
child  of  Henry  and  Margaret  (Hitchcock) 
Young   (see  Young). 

(H)  Robert  F.,  youngest  and  last  surviving 
child  of  Peter  and  Julia  (Wilson)  Ballantine, 
was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  January  3, 
1836,  and  died  at  his  country  home,  "Linden 
Neuk,"  near  Madison,  New  Jersey,  of  pleuro- 
pneumonia, the  indirect  result  of  a  fall  from 
his  horse,  at  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of 
December  10,  1905.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  not  only  the  head  of  the  two  brewing 
firms  of  P.  Ballantine  &  Sons  and  Ballantine  & 
Company,  but  he  was  the  only  member  of  the 
family  still  having  any  connection  with  those 
firms,  his  two  brothers  being  dead,  and  his  three 
surviving  nephews,  George  Alexander,  son  of 
Peter  Hood  Ballantine,  and  John  Herbert  and 
Percy,  the  sons  of  John  Holme  Ballantine, 
having  severed  their  connection  some  time  be- 
fore. At  seventeen  years  of  age  Robert  F. 
Ballantine  entered  his  father's  brewery,  and 
four  years  later,  when  his  father  formed  the 
first  of  the  two  firms  he  was  to  make  so  fam- 
ous, he  became  one  of  the  partners.  In  1895, 
when  his  brother  John  Holme  died,  he  became 
the  president  of  the  firm,  a  position  he  retained 
until  his  death.  As  a  philanthropist,  Robert  F. 
Ballantine  used  his  wealth  for  the  benefit  of 
the  city  and  county  in  diverse  ways.  Almost 
his  last  benefaction  was  the  gift  of  a  new 
building  to  the  Newark  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
which  was  built  on  Central  avenue,  and  com- 
pleted shortly  before  the  donor's  death.  When 
the  park  system  of  the  county  was  being  start- 
ed, Mr.  Ballantine,  with  the  members  of  his 
two  brothers'  families,  made  a  grant  of  thirty- 
nine  acres  to  the  Essex  county  park  commis- 
sion, and  the  tract  is  now  included  in  the  upper 
section  of  Branch  Brook  park.  In  1900  he 
built  and  presented  to  the  city  park  board  the 
imposing  gateway  at  the  foot  of  the  parkway, 
which  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $27,000.     To 


Rutgers  College  he  gave  a  new  gymnasium, 
and  to  the  North  Reformed  Church,  of  which 
he  was  a  member,  he  donated  a  new  parsonage. 
When  ex-Governor  Franklin  Murphy  resign- 
ed his  position  as  a  member  of  the  park  com- 
mission in  the  winter  of  1901,  Mr.  Ballantine 
was  appointed  to  take  his  place,  and  held  that 
(pfiice  until  his  death.  He  was  also  president 
of  the  Newark  Sinking  Fund  Commission.  In 
the  financial  world  of  both  Newark  and  New 
'S'ork  Mr.  Ballantine  was  also  very  prominent. 
He  was  vice-president  of  the  Mutual  Benefit 
Life  Insurance  Company,  and  of  the  Howard 
Say  ings  Institution.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  a  di- 
rector of  the  Farmers  Loan  and  Trust  Com- 
;iany  of  New  York. 

He  was  also  a  trustee  of  Rutgers  College,  a 
member  of  the  Union  League  Club,  and  the 
Downtown  Association  of  New  York,  besides 
being  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club,  the  Essex 
County  Country  Club,  the  Morristown  Club, 
and  the  Morris  County  Golf  Club.  His  long 
residence  in  Madison  during  the  summer 
months  had  made  him  a  well  known  person- 
age there  and  he  became  interested  in  many  of 
the  charitable  institutions  of  the  place.  In  No- 
vember, 1905,  while  out  riding,  his  horse  shied 
and  ran  into  a  tree,  unseating  and  throwing 
his  rider.  When  he  was  brought  home  it  was 
discovered  that  besides  being  severely  bruised, 
Mr.  r.allantine  had  sustained  the  fracture  of  a 
rib.  A  few  days  later  an  abcess  formed  on  the 
lungs  and  pleurisy  set  in  which  afterwards 
developed  into  pneumonia,  to  wdiich  disease 
Mr.  P)allantine  succumbed.  His  body  was  re- 
moved to  his  Newark  home,  37  Washington 
street,  Tuesday,  December  12,  and  the  funeral 
was  from  there,  the  officiant  being  Rev.  James 
I.  \'ance,  of  the  North  Reformed  Church,  and 
the  burial  being  in  Mount  I'leasant  cemetery. 

In  1857  Robert  F.  Ballantine  married  Annie 
Elizabeth  Brown,  of  Charleston,  South  Caro- 
lina, by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Lawrence  Bal- 
lantine, who  died  in  infancy,  and  two  daugh- 
ters: Julia  Elizabeth,  Iwrn  September  18, 
1859,  who  married  April  12,  1882,  Charles 
Bradley;  and  Roberta  Augusta,  wife  of  John 
Oliver  Halstead  Pitney. 


Isidor  Kalisch,  D.  D.,  one  of 
KALISCH  the  most  distinguished  rabbis 
of  his  time,  was  born  in  Kro- 
toschin,  Dutchy  of  Posen,  Prussia,  November 
3,  1816,  and  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  May 
9,  1886.  The  Rev.  Burnham  Kalisch,  of  Kro- 
toschin,     his     father,     was     "widely     known 


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throughout  the  Dutchy  as  a  man  of  learning, 
piety,  and  benevolence"  and  was  "deeply 
\ersed  in  Hebraic  lore."  He  died  in  Kro- 
toschin,  September  i,  1856.  His  wife  was  a 
woman  of  strong  intellect  and  great  force  of 
character.  Of  their  seven  children  the  eldest 
was  the  Rev.  Isidor  Kalisch,  D.  D. 

Dr.  Kalisch  was  even  more  illustrious  than 
his  father,  receiving  international  recognition 
through  his  public  labors  and  his  published 
works.  From  early  childhood  he  evinced  de- 
cidedly scholarly  predilection,  and  "in  his 
ninth  year  was  remarkably  proficient  in  Tal- 
mudical  and  Hebrew  learning."  After  finish- 
ing the  curriculum  of  the  gymnasium  (on  a 
par  with  our  American  colleges)  he  studied  in 
the  Universities  of  Berlin,  Rreslau,  and  Fragile, 
obtaining  testimonials  from  the  most  eminept 
professors.  During  this  time  he  was  a  con- 
tributor to  leading  German  periodicals,  not- 
ably the  Breslaucr,  Bcobachtcr,  the  Figaro,  and 
Dr.  Julius  Fuerst's  Orient.  He  was  the  author 
of  one  of  the  most  popular  songs  of  that  war- 
like period  in  Germany.  "War  Songs  of  the 
Germans"  (  "Schlacht  Gesang  der  Dcutschcn" ) . 
which  was  dedicated  to  the  Prince  of  Prussia, 
December  31,  1842,  and  was  accepted  by  the 
Prince  (afterward  Emperor)  William  in  a 
note  to  Dr.  Kalisch,  January  12,  1843.  The 
song  was  set  to  music  by  Music  Director 
Mueller,  of  Breslau.  and  at  once  became  the 
fashion.  His  attitude  has  thus  been  cliaracter- 
i;'ed  : 

"Imbued  with  the  love  of  liberty,  and  wit- 
nessing the  oppression  of  his  fellowmen  under 
the  forms  of  government  and  law,  his  generous 
nature  decried  these  things:  he  wrote  poems 
breathing  the  true  spirit  of  liberty,  contrib- 
uted articles  to  newspapers  which  were  con- 
demned as  seditious  by  tyrannical  censors  ;  and 
thus,  when  in  1848  the  revolutionary  fever  had 
reached  a  crisis,  he  became  one  of  the  many 
obnoxious  citizens  who  were  inimical  to  the 
welfare  of  Prussia  because  they  were  stum- 
bling blocks  to  the  progress  of  tyranny  and 
oppression.  He  was  compelled  to  leave  Ger- 
many. He  made  his  way  to  London,  England, 
and  after  3  so'ourn  there  of  several  months 
he  left  for  New  York  City." 

Dr.  Kalisch  delivered  in  Krotoschin,  in  1843, 
the  "first  German  sermon  ever  preached  in  his 
native  town."  He  arrived  in  New-  York,  on 
August  28.  1840,  and  the  following  July  was 
called  as  minister  of  the  congregation  Tifireth 
Israel,  of  Clevelanrl,  (^hio.  Here  he  began  the 
distinctive  work  which  was  afterward  to  char- 
acterize  his   labors   as   a   rabbi   and  carrv   his 


name  to  every  section  of  the  country.  Finding 
his  charge  at  Cleveland  strictly  "orthodox 
(hermetically  attached  to  all  the  useless  and 
meaningless  Jewish  religious  rites  and  cere- 
monies of  bygone  ages,)"  Dr.  Kalisch  "un- 
hesitatingly and  boldly  planted  the  banner  of 
reformed  Judaism"  among  them,  and  by  means 
of  his  sound  reasoning  disarmed  opposition, 
and  presently  saw  the  congregation  "thorough- 
ly infected"  with  his  own  spirit  of  reform. 
Tiis  work  in  Cleveland  has  been  well  character- 
ized as  a  "sudden  revolution  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Jewish  Church."  It  inaugurated  a  move- 
ment which  spread  in  every  direction.  The 
immediate  effect  is  best  described  in  the  words 
of  the  memoir  previously  cited :  "The  preach- 
er's course,  while  it  received  the  sanction  of 
his  congregation,  drew  him  into  heated  news- 
paper controversies  with  the  orthodox  Jewish 
ministers  in  various  cities.  They  were,  how- 
ever, silenced  by  his  trenchant  and  facile  pen." 

The  result  of  his  vigorous  onslaught  on  the 
worthless  ceremonies,  customs  and  rites  prac- 
ticed by  orthodox  Jews  was  the  assembling  of 
the  first  conference  of  rabbis  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  in  1855.  The  object  of  this  conference 
was  to  better  the  spiritual  condition  of  the 
Jews  in  America :  to  strip  the  Jewish  divine 
services  from  heathenish  and  idolatrous  cus- 
toms :  to  weed  out  senseless  and  useless  pray- 
ers:  and  to  establish  a  uniform  divine  service 
throughout  the  land.  Dr.  Kalisch's  removals 
from  one  city  to  another  were  largely  induced 
bv  his  zeal  to  spread  and  perfect  the  movement 
begun  at  Cleveland.  Moreover,  he  devoted 
several  years  between  pastorates  to  lecturing 
and  preaching  in  all  the  large  cities  in  the 
I'nion,  carrying  on  the  same- propaganda.  Yet 
in  no  instance  did  he  fail  to  devote  himself 
v.-ith  equal  zeal  to  the  material  condition  of 
his  congregation.  In  Cleveland,  through  his 
exertions,  a  new  synagogue  and  school  were 
erected.  In  Milwaukee  he  accomplished  a 
similar  achievement  after  having  reunited  a 
congregation  which  had  divided  into  two  fac- 
tions, worshipping  in  separate  synagogues. 
Through  his  efforts  was  also  organized  in  Mil- 
waukee the  "Die  Treue  Schwester,"  a  benev- 
olent society  among  the  Jewish  ladies. 

.■\s  a  profound  scholar,  philologist,  and 
prolific  author.  Dr.  Kalisch  must  always  re- 
main best  known  to  the  learned  world.  He 
wrote  numerous  essays  on  religious  and 
secular  subjects,  maintained  and  carried  on 
extensive  religious  controversies  in  the  Jew- 
ish press,  both  aggressive  and  defensive,  with 
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Jiulaisni,  ami  wrote  poems  which  apiieared  at 
frequent  intervals  in  German  newspapers  and 
periodicals.  His  lecture  on  the  "Source  of  all 
Civilization'"  attracted  wide  attention,  and  was 
reviewed  by  James  Parton  in  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  (August,  1867)  ;  another  on  "Ancient 
and  Modern  Judaism"  was  not  less  notable; 
while  still  others  of  note  were  on  "Divine 
f'rovidence,"  "The  Origin  of  Language  and 
the  Great  Future  of  the  English  Tongue," 
"Jewish  Ethics,"  and  the  "Life  and  Works  of 
Moses  Maimonides."  He  contributed  a  series 
of  articles  on  the  Talmud,  "The  W  ine  of  the 
Bible,"  "All  Christians  Astray  on  FJaptism," 
and  kindred  topicsm  to  the  Christian  Union, 
of  which  Henry  Ward  Beecher  was  then  edi- 
tor :  and  in  various  periodicals  in  this  country 
published  such  essays  as  the  "Origin  of  the 
Doctrine  of  Demons  and  Evil  Spirits  taught 
by  Judaism  and  Christianity  Illustrated," 
"Opinions  on  the  \'alue  of  the  Talmud  by  the 
Most  Learned  Christian  Theologians,"  "On 
the  Sphere  of  our  Activity  as  Israelites,"  "The 
Old  Biblical  Doctrine  of  the  Idea  of  God,  C)n 
the  Science  of  Education,"  together  with  criti- 
cal biographies  of  Moses  Maimonides  and 
Haftaly  Hartewid  Wesely.  His  "Wegweiser 
fuer  rationelle  Forschungen  in  den  Biblischen 
Schriften,"  published  in  1853,  receiving  the 
flattering  notice  of  the  German,  English  and 
French  press.  In  this  profound  work  he  con- 
tends upon  the  basis  of  a  critical  examination 
of  the  New  Testament  Scriptures  that  all  that 
is  distinctive  in  Christianity  is  derived  from 
Judaic  doctrines  and  customs.  In  1855,  at  the 
solicitation  of  Professor  Gibbs,  of  Yale  Col- 
lege, Dr.  Kalisch  deciphered  the  Phoenician 
inscription  found  at  Sidon,  Asia.  His  render- 
ing was  read  before  the  London  Syro-Egyptian 
Society  and  i)ublished  in  the  transactions  of 
that  society  as  preferable  to  the  translations 
submitted  about  the  same  time  by  the  Due  de 
Luynes,  of  Paris,  E.  C.  Dietrich,  of  Marburg, 
Germany,  and  W.  M.  W.  Turner.  Dr.  Kalisch 
published  a  splendid  English  translation  of 
Lessing's  "Nathan  de  Weise,"and  rendered  the 
same  service  for  the  "Sepher  Yezirah,"  the  first 
philosophical  book  ever  written  in  the  Hebrew 
language.  In  connection  with  this  last  he  also 
issued  a  "Sketch  of  the  Talmud,"  in  which  he 
summarizes  the  results  of  fifty  years  of  study. 
Besides  his  rare  learning  and  fecundity  as  a 
prose  writer  he  was  a  poet  of  unusual  powers. 
He  possessed  the  extraordinary  ability  of  cul- 
tivating the  music  in  three  languages.  German, 
Hebrew  and  English.  In  T865  his  German 
poems  to  that  date  were  collected  in  a  volume 


entitled  "Sounds  of  the  (Jrient"  ("Toene  des 
Morgen-Landes" ).  Such  gems  in  this  volume 
as  "Die  Mystiche  Harfe,"  "Der  Teufelstein," 
and  "Gesicht  der  Seele,"  are  unsurpassed  of 
their  kind.  Of  his  Hebrew  hymns  many  are 
to  be  found  in  the  Reformed  Hebrew  Prayer 
Book.  Another  poem  in  Hebrew,  read  before 
the  Cleveland  Conference  already  referred  to, 
has  been  pronounced  a  masterpiece.  "After 
his  death,"  we  learn,  "among  his  manuscripts 
was  found  a  considerable  collection  of  original 
Hebrew  poems,  tales  and  fables,  and  transla- 
tions from  German  and  English  poets  into 
Hebrew,  which  have  never  found  their  way 
into  print,"  Among  his  other  published  writ- 
ings may  be  mentioned  his  contributions  to 
Talmudic  Lexicography  in  the  London  Jczmsli 
Chronicle  and  Hcbrciv  Observer,  (March  22, 
18(17  )  and  in  the  Judischc  Litcratnr  Blatt  (  Mag- 
deburgh,  Germany )  ;  English  sermons  which 
appeared  in  the  Jcicish  Messenger  on  "Timely 
Words,"  in  1870,  and  on  "Excellence  of 
Judaism"  in  1871  ;  a  series  of  "Exegetical  Lec- 
tures on  the  Bible"  (  The  Occident,  Philadel- 
phia, 1 85 1  and  1852)  ;  a  series  of  "Contribu- 
tions on  Philosophical  Literature"  (American 
Israelite,  1854  and  1855)  "IVefatory  Remarks 
to  the  Book  of  Esther"^  ( 1857  )  ;  "The  Book  of 
Antiochus"  (translated  from  the  Hebrew, 
1859)  ;  "A  Disquisition  Concerning  the  time 
of  Composing  the  Accents  of  the  Hebrew" 
(  1863)  ;  "Hebrew  Literature  and  Proselytism 
according  to  the  Biblical  Talmudical  Laws" 
(  1866)  :  "Discourse  on  the  Preference  of  the 
Mosaic  Laws,"  as  delivered  by  Rabbi  Moses 
ben  Nacham  in  1263,  before  King  Jacob,  at 
Saragossa  (translation  1866);  "Contributions 
to  the  Jewish  Liturgy"  (1870):  "Historical 
Researches — Who  was  Tryphon,  mentioned  by 
Justin  the  Martyr,"  etc.  (1880)  ;  "Disquisition 
on  some  Liturgical  Subjects,"  (1880)  ;  "The 
\  alue  of  the  Hebrew  Language"  (1880); 
"Real  Treasures  of  Earth"   (1880). 

Dr.  Kalisch  left  five  sons,  of  whom  four — 
Leonard,  Samuel,  Abner  and  Burnham — be- 
came law-yers,  and  one,  Albert,  became  a  jour- 
nalist ;  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Simon  Wiener. 

Samuel  Kalisch,  son  of  the  Rev.  Isidor 
Kalisch,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
April  18,  1851.  He  was  educated  under  his 
father,  and  mastered  Greek  and  Latin  at  the 
age  of  twelve.  In  1869  he  was  graduated  from 
the  Columbia  Law  School  with  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
New  Jersey  bar  as  an  attorney  in  February, 
1871.  and  soon  afterward  began  active  practice 
in  Newark,   where  he  has   since  resided.     In 


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Februar)-,  1874,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as 
counselor. 

\'ery  soon  after  he  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  Mr.  Kahsch  came  into  prominence 
as  one  of  the  leading  criminal  lawyers  in  the 
state,  and  for  many  years  held  the  foremost 
place  in  the  department  of  legal  practice.  This, 
however,  he  gradually  abandoned,  owing  to 
the  large  increase  of  his  civil  business,  consist- 
ing principally  of  damage  cases  against  rail- 
roads ;  yet  he  is  still  recognized  as  one  of  the 
ablest  and  most  prominent  criminal  lawyers 
in  New  Jersey.  Among  his  noted  criminal 
cases  may  be  mentioned  that  of  Joseph  Koer- 
ner,  indicted  for  murder,  whose  acquittal  he 
secured  in  1878.  He  also  successfully  defend- 
ed ^^'estbrook.  of  Newton,  arid  Burke,  Noonan 
and  Dunn,  of  Union  county;  and  in  1880  se- 
cured a  reversal  in  the  supreme  court  in  the 
judgment  in  the  case  of  Dr.  Gedicke.  His 
eloquent  pleading  also  resulted  in  a  verdict  of 
manslaughter  in  the  seemingly  hopeless  case 
of  George  Stickert,  "Fiddler"  Smith,  William 
Hoffman,  John  Weiss,  Thomas  Hefferan,  and 
U'ildinghaus.  He  carried  the  famous  cases  of 
James  B.  Graves  and  John  Chisholm  (the 
latter  indicted  for  wife  murder)  through  the 
higher  courts  before  relinquishing  his  efforts. 
In  his  appeals  to  the  higher  courts  he  has  been 
remarkably  successful,  often  establishing  pre- 
cedents and  frequently  surprising  the  bench 
by  unearthing  forgotten  statutes.  He  was  the 
first  lawyer  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey  to  get  a 
man  out  of  state  prison  under  a  writ  of  habeas 
corpus. 

In  recent  years  I\Ir.  Kalisch  has  devoted 
himself  exclusivel}'  to  important  civil  litiga- 
tions, a  department  in  which  his  efforts  have 
been  no  less  notable  and  successful.  He  is 
counsel  for  many  important  interests.  From 
1877  to  1879  he  was  counsel  for  the  American 
Protective  Association,  and  in  1875  was  elected 
corporation  attorney  for  the  city  of  Newark, 
filling  the  position  with  distinction.  He  was 
nominated  for  the  New  Jersey  Assembly  on 
the  Democratic  ticket  in  1879  and  was  defeat- 
ed by  a  very  narrow  margin.  Outside  of  his 
fjrofession  his  tastes  are  distinctly  literary,  as 
were  those  of  his  father.  In  his  study  days  he 
occupied  himself  considerably  in  journalism, 
both  as  editor  and  special  writer,  and  is  the 
author  of  poems,  essays,  sketches  of  travel, 
and  other  miscellany.  He  is  the  author  of  the 
memorial  of  Dr.  Kalisch,  published  in  1886.  an 
article  on  "Influence  of  Women  on  American 
Juries."  "Up  the  Hudson,"  "Newark  to  Nash- 
ville," a  poem,  "Legend  of  the  Talmud,"  and 


many  similar  efforts.  His  series  of  articles  on 
"Legal  Abuses"  are  credited  with  having  "led 
to  the  reform  of  the  minor  judiciary  and  the 
establishment  of  the  district  courts."  His 
memorial  volume  of  his  father  published  in 
1886.  attracted  wide  attention  in  the  religious 
world.  He  has  gathered  an  extensive  library, 
which,  added  to  the  valuable  library  inherited 
from  his  father,  constitutes  a  notable  collec- 
tion. To  this  he  has  added  some  of  the  rarest 
treasures  of  the  bookmaking  art,  which  he 
acquired  in  the  course  of  his  extensive  travels 
abroad.  He  is  president  of  the  New  Jersey 
State  Bar  Association,  to  which  position  he 
was  elected  in  June.  1909,  and  he  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  ]\Iedical  Jurispru- 
dence of  New  York  and  of  the  Grolier  Club. 


Hon.  George  Richards,  bank- 
RICHARDS  er,  railroad  president,  mine 
operator,  manufacturer  and 
merchant,  was  born  in  Pottsville,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1833,  son  of  Henry  Richards,  a  mine 
operator  of  that  city.  He  received  a  common- 
school  education  and,  being  at  an  early  age 
thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  his  eighteenth 
year  found  him  employed  in  an  iron  mine  at 
Hurdtown,  New  Jersey,  operated  by  the  Glen- 
don  Iron  Company,  which  had  extensive  inter- 
ests throughout  northern  New  Jersey,  as  well 
as  in  Pennsylvania.  It  was  at  the  Hurdtown 
mine  that  ]\Ir.  Richards  laid  the  foundation 
for  that  practical  knowledge  which  character- 
ized his  subsequent  endeavors,  and  it  was  not 
long  before  his  close  attention  to  the  duties 
assigned  to  him  received  recognition  at  the 
hands  of  his  employers,  the  logical  result  of 
which  was  his  promotion  from  weighmaster 
to  shift  boss.  This  was  at  that  time  considered 
a  position  of  great  importance,  yet  it  fell  far 
short  of  the  measure  of  young  Richards's 
capacity,  and  his  promotion  to  the  office  of 
superintendent,  in  1853,  before  he  had  reached 
his  majority,  was  a  fitting  acknowledgment 
of  the  remarkable  energy  and  ability  displayed 
by  him  in  the  brief  time  he  had  been  in  the 
company's  employ. 

Not  long  after  becoming  superintendent.  Mr. 
Richards  was  made  manager  of  all  the  Glen- 
don  Iron  Company's  mining  interests  in  New 
Jersey,  filling  that  position  for  upwards  of 
forty  years.  But  even  the  duties  of  this  latter 
post,  important  as  they  were,  were  performed 
by  him  with  perfect  ease,  and  from  time  to 
time,  as  opportunity  off'ered,  he  identified  him- 
self with  other  ventures,  or,  to  be  more  exact, 
other  ventures  were  originated  bv  him.     For 


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example,  when  machinery  was  needed  in  the 
operation  of  the  mines,  Mr.  Richards  estab- 
Ushed  a  company  to  build  it,  and  the  Morris 
County  Machine  and  Iron  Company  sprang 
into  existence  with  Mr.  Richards  as  president ; 
lumber  was  required,  and  the  Dover  Lumber 
Company  was  formed,  Mr.  Richards  being 
made  its  president.  With  this  spirit  of  ex- 
pansion dominating  him,  it  was  but  a  step  to 
organize  the  Dover  Iron  Company,  to  work 
up  in  part  the  product  of  the  mines  under  his 
superintendency :  to  organize  various  branch 
railroads  for  the  transportation  of  ores,  etc. ; 
to  organize  a  bank,  which  institution  the  multi- 
plication of  mining,  manufacturing  and  mer- 
cantile institutions  made  necessary ;  until 
finally  Mr.  Richards's  interests  became  diversi- 
fied to  an  almost  incredible  degree,  as  will  be 
seen  by  a  perusal  of  the  following  array  of 
posts  of  usefulness  of  which  he  was  simul- 
taneously the  incumbent.  He  was  president 
of  the  Dover  Iron  Company ;  the  Dover  & 
Rockaway  Railroad  Company ;  the  Morris 
County  Machine  &  Iron  Company ;  the  Ogden 
Mine  Railroad  Company:  the  Hibernia  Mine 
Railroad  Company:  the  Hibernia  Underground 
Railroad  Company  ;  the  Xational  L'nion  Bank : 
the  Dover  Lumber  Company  :  the  Dover  Print- 
ing Company :  and  the  George  Richards  Com- 
pany, controlling  four  of  the  largest  stores  in 
Dover.  He  was  director  in  the  following:  Del- 
aware &  Bound  Brook  Railroad  Company ; 
East  Tennessee  &  Western  North  Carolina 
Railroad  Company :  Cranberry  Iron  &  Coal 
Company:  Chester  Iron  Company;  Ross  & 
Baker  Silk  Mill,  at  Port  Oram :  the  American 
Sheet  Iron  Company;  and  Lincolnton  Lithia 
Water  Company,  of  North  Carolina.  These 
varied  interests  made  Mr.  Richards  the  most 
prominent  man  identified  with  iron  and  other 
industries  in  northern  New  Jersey,  and  recog- 
nition of  another  kind  followed  as  a  matter  of 
course. 

In  1871  Mr.  Richards  was  appointed  state 
director  of  the  United  Railroads  of  New  Jer- 
sey, his  office  being  to  supervise  the  vast  trust 
funds  of  the  state  invested  in  those  securities. 
During  his  term  of  office,  the  important  ques- 
tion of  the  lease  of  these  roads  to  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad  arose,  and  Mr.  Richards'  posi- 
tion in  the  controversy,  as  state  director, 
though  at  first  decided  adversely  by  Chancellor 
Zabriskie,  was  subsequently  approved  by  the 
court  of  appeals.  The  point  taken  by  him 
was  that,  under  a  somewhat  blind  act  of  the 
legislature,  passed,  however,  for  the  purpose, 
it  was  not   lawful    for   the   old   companies  to 


make  the  lease.  The  final  decision  rendered 
further  legislation  necessary.  Mr.  Richards 
k.bored  earnestly  against  the  efforts  of  the 
monopoly  and  its  adherents,  and  not  only  com- 
passed their  defeat  but  went  much  further,  and 
the  general  railroad  law  now  on  the  statute 
b(joks,  one  of  the  most  beneficient  laws  ever 
enacted  by  the  New  Jersey  legislature,  stands 
as  a  monument  to  the  unremitting  aggressive- 
ness and  excellent  generalship  displayed  by 
Mr.  Richards  in  the  great  fight  of  the  people 
against  that  erstwhile  dominant  monopoly,  the 
I'ennsylvania  Railroad  Company. 

Mr.  Richards'  political  affiliations  were 
strongly  with  the  Republican  party,  and  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Republican  state  com- 
mittee from  Morris  county.  In  1872  he  was 
ajipointed  master  in  chancery  by  Chancellor 
Abraham  Zabriskie;  in  1873  '"^  ^^'^-^  made 
notary  public  by  Governor  Joel  Parker  ;  and  in 
1 89 1  Governor  Leon  Abbett  appointed  him  a 
member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  state 
lunatic  asylums,  and,  although  he  was  the  only 
Republican  on  the  board,  his  colleagues  ac- 
corded to  him  the  honor  of  being  elected  vice- 
president  of  the  body.  In  1894  the  board  was 
legislated  out  of  office  for  the  purpose  of  insti- 
tuting a  non-partisan  organization,  and  Mr. 
Richards  was  the  only  member  of  the  old 
board  who  was  honored  with  re-appointment 
by  Governor  Werts,  officiating  under  the  new 
regime  as  president.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  managers  of  the  State  Geological 
Survey,  he  was  a  life  member  of  the  Wash- 
ington Association  of  Morristown,  also  a  life 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society. 
His  interest,  in  agricultural  matters  led  him  to 
become  a  member  of  the  State  Agricultural 
Society. 

The  marriage  of  Air.  Richards  was  solem- 
nized in  i8')0,  when  he  was  united  in  matri- 
mony to  Miss  Elizabeth  .\nn  McCarty,  of 
Morris  county,  by  whom  he  is  survived,  and 
they  have  one  son,  George  Richards,  Jr. 
George  Richards  died  April  3,  1900,  in  New 
t'rleans,  Louisiana, and  Mrs.  Richards  on  March 
4,  1899,  in  Dover:  they  are  buried  in  Rocka- 
way, New  Jersey.  ' 


Thomas  Canficld,  the  first 
CAN  FIELD  re])resentative  of  the  Can- 
field  family  here  under  con- 
sideration, was  born  in  England,  came  to 
American  about  1640,  and  settled  in  Milford, 
Connecticut,  1646,  where  his  death  occurred  in 
1689.  His  will  was  dated  February  23,  1687- 
88,  and  signed  "Thomas  Canphield  Sen."    He 


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served  in  the  militia  during  the  Imlian  wars; 
was  sergeant  of  train  band;  represented  the 
town  of  ^lilford  in  the  general  court  held  at 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  October,  1673,  Novem- 
ber, 1674,  May  and  October,  1676— this  was 
the  legislature  of  Connecticut;  was  often  ad- 
ministrator of  estates.  He  married  Phoebe 
Crane,  of  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  before 
1650.  Children :  Sarah,  Phoebe,  Mary,  Eliz- 
abeth, Thomas,  see  forward;  Jeremiah,  Abi- 
gail, Hannah  and  Alehitable. 

(Hj  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  and 
Phoebe  (Crane)  Canfield,  was  born  at  Mil- 
ford,  Connecticut,  October  14,  1654,  died 
about  .August,  1689.  He  married,  February 
26, 1679,  Rebecca  Atkinson.  Children  :  Thomas, 
born  January  5,  1680,  died  December  i,  1760; 
Rebecca,  born  January  28,  1682.  died  October 
22,  1731  :  Israel,  see  forward;  Phoebe,  baptized 
May  29,  1687 ;  Abiram,  baptized  January  5, 
1689,  died  1772. 

(HI)  Israel,  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Re- 
becca (Atkinson)  Canfield,  was  born  March 
24,  1684,  died  Alay  19,  1744.  He  removed  to 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  about  1712,  was  a  tan- 
ner by  trade,  prosperous  and  successful,  and 
was  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  commu- 
nity ;  he  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  leather 
business ;  he  was  the  owner  of  large  tracts  of 
land :  he  served  as  overseer  of  the  poor,  fence 
viewer,  and  many  other  responsible  positions. 
He  married  Sarah  Johnson^  Children:  Phoebe, 
born  about  1716,  died  February  2,  1792; 
Ihomas,  born  about  1717,  died  June  i",  1791  ; 
Hannah,  born  September  30,  1719,  died  April 
3,  1760;  David,  died  1756;  Ephraim,  died 
about  1759;  Israel,  born  February,  1728,  died 
August  2,  1754;  Abraham,  see  forward;  Abi- 
gail ;  Sarah. 

(R)  Abraham,  fourth  son  of  Israel  and 
Sarah  (Johnson)  Canfield,  was  born  about 
1732,  died  July  29,  1789.  He  removed  from 
Newark  to  the  vicinity  of  Morristown,  and 
later  settled  at  New  Vernon.  He  built  a  forge 
near  Logansville.  on  the  Passaic  river,  and 
here  made  iron  from  ore  brought  from  Dicker- 
son  mines  in  saddle  bags,  a  distance  of  about 
thirteen  miles.  He  was  a  Jarge  landowner,  a 
merchant,  and  was  an  express  rider,  serving 
in  the  light  horse  cavalry  in  the  revolutionary 
war.  He  married  (first)  Sarah  Sealy ;  (sec- 
ond) .Sarah  (Crane?).  Children,  all  by  first 
wife:  I.  Alary,  born  1755,  died  about  1S24. 
2.  Sarah,  born  July  26.  1757,  died  March  17, 
1799.  3.  Israel,  born  July  3,  1759,  died  Au- 
gust 27,  1841.  4.  Hannah,  baptized  July  5, 
1761,  died  September  18,  1825.     5.  Isaac,  bap- 


tized July  17,  1763,  died  May  i,  1822.  6. 
Jacob,  born  June  4,  1765,  died  January  20, 
1838.  7.  Abraham,  baptized  June  21,  1767, 
died  August  28,  181 1.  8.  Abner,  baptized 
March  19,  1769,  died  December  2,  1798.  9. 
Phoebe,  born  January  5,  1770,  died  September 
25,  1804.  10.  Anna,  born  January  20,  1772, 
died  April  9,  1809.  11.  David  Sealy,  see  for- 
ward. 

(  \' )  David  Sealy,  youngest  son  of  Abra- 
ham and  Sarah  (Sealy)  Canfield,  born  Febru- 
ary 24,  1774,  died  June  13,  1830.  He  was  a 
merchant  in  Morristown  in  1795,  was  also  an 
iron  worker,  interested  in  mines,  and  conduct- 
ed a  hotel.  He  married,  October  2,  1796,  Alary 
Dickerson,  born  September  18,  1778,  died 
April  27,  1830.  Children:  Mahlon  Dickerson, 
born  November  26,  1798,  died  January  5, 
1865 ;  Augustus,  born  April  9,  1801,  died  April 
18,  1854;  Mary  D.,  born  May  26,  1803,  died 
October  14,  1803;  Caroline,  born  October  3, 
1804,  died  February  6,  1830;  Silas  Dickerson, 
born  July  2,  1807,  died  March  25,  1861 ;  Fred- 
erick, see  forward. 

(\T)  Frederick,  youngest  son  of  David 
Sealy  and  Mary  (Dickerson)  Canfield,  was 
born  May  15,  1810,  died  January  31,  1867.  He 
removefl  from  Alorristown,  New  Jersey,  his 
native  town,  to  Ferro  Monte,  near  Dover, 
when  seven  years  of  age.  The  place  was  locat- 
ed three  miles  southwest  from  Dover,  and  was 
originally  named  Suckasunny,  the  Indian  name, 
from  which  was  derived  the  name  of  a  village 
two  miles  further  west.  He  had  charge  of 
the  Dickerson  mines  in  Ferro  Monte  thirty- 
nine  years.  He  was  fond  of  natural  history, 
and  made  a  large  collection  of  the  minerals  of 
Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  which  are  on  ex- 
hibition in  two  large  rooms  in  the  house  built 
by  himself  at  Ferro  Monte,  now  owned  and 
occupied  by  his  son,  Frederick  A.  Canfield,  a 
beautiful  place  surrounded  by  magnificent  trees 
and  hedges.  Among  the  collection  may  be 
seen  the  huge  gems  of  the  spinel  family,  true 
spinels,  franklinites  and  dysluites,  sharp-angled 
or  modified,  in  specimens  unequalled  anywhere 
in  quality,  size  and  perfection  of  form.  Jef- 
fersonite,  the  usual  dark  brown  zinc  pyroxene, 
is  represented  by  several  large  groups  of 
crystals  distinct  and  fine  looking.  Calamine, 
distinguished  in  catalogues  by  the  name  of 
"maggot  ore"  is  shown  in  fine  large  aggregates 
of  white  crystals.  Garnets  in  several  varieties, 
and  green  tourmalines  and  actinolite  abound 
in  choice  crystallizations.  Corundum  crystals 
are  shown  in  several  forms,  banded  blue  in 
color,  and  are  either  imbedded  in  the  matrix  or 


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corroded  out  in  relief.  Zincite  is  imbedded  in 
cleavages  of  limestone  in  the  peculiarly  fan- 
tastic forms  this  mineral  so  often  assumes. 
The  present  owner's  liking  for  the  New  Jersey 
minerals  is  manifested  in  the  acijuisition  of  a 
fine  series  of  the  later  products  of  Sussex 
county,  many  of  which  he  dug  out  or  picked 
up  himself  at  the  mines.  The  terminated  trans- 
parent micas,  the  beautiful  pink  fowlerites, 
glass-clear  crystals  of  willemite,  ruby  zincites, 
and  smaller  but  equally  perfect  crystals  of 
irany  of  the  minerals  names  in  the  old  collec- 
tion, supplement  it  perfectly.  The  West  Pat- 
erson  minerals  are  well  represented,  and  among 
them  is  one  prehnite  showing  the  long  square 
prisms,  as  fine  and  silky  a  natrolite  as  can  be 
seen  anywhere,  and  a  series  of  splendid  dato- 
lites.  A  rosette  of  rutile  from  Magnet  Cove, 
is  a  perfect  beauty.  The  quartz  group,  the 
calcites  and  fluors,  fill  several  drawers,  and 
many  odd,  rare  and  interesting  forms  were 
noticed.  One  large  sceptre  quartz,  about  nine 
inches  long,  labelled  from  Connecticut,  is  a 
wonderful  example  of  the  possibilities  of  the 
crystal  formation  of  this  mineral. 

Frederick  Canfield  married.  May  31,  1838, 
Julia  Ann  Halsey,  born  near  Morristown,  New 
Jersey,May5,i8i7,died  February25, 1901. Chil- 
dren :  Louise  Halsey,  born  August  5,  1839,  died 
February  14, 1863  ;  Mahlon  Dickerson, born  No- 
vember 19,  1840,  died  September  i,  1841  ;  Au- 
gustus Cass,  born  May  4,  1842,  died  May  5, 
1 89 1  ;  Edmund,  born  December  15,  1844,  died 
December  26,  1884;  Frederick  Alexander,  see 
forward. 

(  \'II )  Frederick  Alexander,  youngest  son  of 
Frederick  and  Julia  Ann  (Halsey)  Canfield, 
was  born  at  Ferro  Monte,  April  7,  1849.  He  at- 
tended a  private  school  at  Ferro  Monte,  a 
private  school  conducted  by  William  Rankin 
at  Chester,  the  Collegiate  Institute  at  Newton, 
a  school  conducted  by  William  Rankin  at 
Mendhani,  Rutgers  College  at  New  Brunswick 
(  from  which  he  was  grafluated  with  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  1870,  and  Master  of  Arts, 
1873),  School  of  Mines  at  Columbia  Univer- 
sity, New  York,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
as  Engineer  of  Mines  in  1873.  Since  then 
he  has  practiced  his  profession  in  North  and 
South  America,  and  spent  two  years  in  Bolivia. 
He  is  compiler  of  "History  of  Minerals  of 
New  Jersey,"  published  in  volume  ii,  part  2,  of 
"Final  Report  of  the  State  Geologist,"  pub- 
lished 1889.  In  1886  he  discovered  the  fossil 
plants  which  determined  the  geological  age  of 
the  famous  mountain  of  silver,  the  "Cerro  de 


Potosi"  in  Bolivia,  the  greatest  silver  mine 
ever  discovered.  One  species  of  these  plants 
was  named  "Passiflora  Canfieldi,"  it  being 
new  to  science.  A  new  mineral  was  named 
Canfieldite  in  his  honor  in  1894.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  in  the 
State  of  New  Jersey  (New  Jersey  Division)  ; 
the  American  Institute  of  Alining  Engineers ; 
life  member  and  trustee  for  ten  years  of  the 
New  Jersey  Historical  Society ;  corresponding 
member  of  Brooklyn  Institute ;  member  of 
Franklin  Institute  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania ;  secretary  and  treasurer  of  Ferro  Monte 
Railroad  Company ;  secretary  and  general 
manager  of  the  Dickerson  Suckasunny  Mining 
(.  ompany ;  president  of  Morris  County  Ma- 
chine &  Iron  Comijany ;  and  member  of  board 
of  managers  of  State  Geological  Survey.  He 
is  a  collector  of  minerals,  as  mentioned  above, 
and  has  also  written  a  genealogy  of  the  Can- 
field  family.  He  is  a  member  of  Zeta  Psi 
(Rutgers  College)  and  Sigma  Ni,  a  scientific 
society  of  very  high  standing. 

Augustus  C.  Canfield,  brother  of  Frederick 
Alexander  Canfield,  was  a  graduate  of  the 
College  of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton  Univer- 
sity, 1863,  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Arts,  and  that  of  Master  of  Arts  in  1866. 
Fie  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867,  and  prac- 
ticed law  in  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  He 
was  elected  to  the  assembly  of  New  Jersey  in 
1870-71-72,  and  secured  the  passage  of  the 
general  railroad  law,  important  at  the  time, 
and  was  elected  state  senator  from  Morris 
county  in  1877.  He  was  one  of  the  incor- 
porators of  the  Morris  County  Savings  Bank, 
and  manager  of  the  same  until  his  death.  For 
many  years  he  was  secretary  and  manager  of 
the  Dickerson  Suckasunny  Mining  Company, 
and  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Ferro  Monte 
Railroad  Company  until  his  death.  He  com- 
piled and  published  a  "Table  of  Distances  be- 
tween towns  in  Morris  county.  New  Jersey ;" 
this  was  done  as  a  jiastime. 

Ednumd  Canfield,  brother  of  Frederick 
Alexander  Canfield.  was  a  graduate  of  the  Col- 
lege of  New  Jersey  (now  Princeton  Univer- 
.'ity).  receiving  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts 
in  1864  and  Master  of  Arts  in  1867.  He  pur- 
sued a  special  course  in  civil  engineering  at 
the  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  New  York, 
and  served  as  civil  engineer  for  some  of  the 
leading  railroads  in  New  Jersey,  building  many 
of  the  same.  He  was  active  in  the  manu- 
facture of  iron  in  New  Jersey  and  also  in  min- 
ing affairs. 


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(Tlie  Dickerson  Line). 

(I)  Philemon  Dickerson  (old  spelling  Feli- 
nian),  born  in  Suffolk,  England,  1598,  came  to 
America  in  1640,  settling  in  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts, and  later  at  Southold,  Long  Island,  where 
he  died  in  1672.  He  was  a  tanner  by  trade. 
He  married  Mary  Payne,  in  Salem:  children; 
Mary,  Thomas,  Elizabeth,  Peter,  see  forward. 

(H)  Peter,  son  of  Philemon  and  Mary 
(Payne)  Dickerson,  was  born  in  Salem,  bap- 
tized July  9,  1648,  died  at  Southold,  Long 
Island,  j\Iarch  15,  1722.  He  was  a  tanner  by 
trade.  He  married  Naomi  Mapes ;  children : 
John,  Thomas,  see  forward. 

( III)  Thomas,  son  of  Peter  and  Naomi 
(Mapes)  Dickerson,  was  born  at  Southold, 
Long  Island,  1672,  died  July  12,  1725.  He 
was  a  tanner  and  farmer.  He  married  Abi- 
gail Reeve  ;  children  :  Thomas,  Daniel,  Joshua, 
Joseph,  Abigail,  Elizabeth  and  Peter.  Thomas, 
Daniel,  Joshua  and  Peter  came  to  Morris  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  about  1745. 

(IV)  Peter  (2),  son  of  Thomas  and  Abi- 
gail (Reeve)  Dickerson,  was  born  in  Southold, 
Long  Island,  1725,  died  in  Morristown,  New- 
Jersey,  May  10,  1780.  He  married  (first) 
October  20,  1745,  Ruth  Coe,  who  bore  him 
eight  children;  married  (second)  November 
17,  1763,  Sarah  Armstrong,  widow  of  John 
O'Hara,  who  bore  him  four  children. 

(V)  Jonathan,  eldest  son  of  Peter  and  Ruth 
(Coe)  Dickerson,  was  born  September  20, 
1747.  died  at  Succasunna,  November  7,  1805, 
and  buried  there.  He  was  a  millwright,  build- 
ing forges  and  grist  mills  and  running  them. 
He  was  the  first  in  the  family  to  assume  title 
to  the  land  around  the  Dickerson  mine  prop- 
erty (1780).  The  Suckasunny  Mine  was  held 
by  many  heirs,  and  in  1780  he  began  acquir- 
ing their  interests.  He  worked  the  mine  and 
sold  ore  to  the  forges  for  twenty  miles  around. 
He  married,  October  12,  1768,  Mary  Coe,  who 
bore  him  eleven  children. 

(\T)  Mahlon,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary 
(Coe)  Dickerson,  was  born  April  17,  1770,  at 
Morris  Plains,  New  Jersey,  died  October  5, 
1853,  at  Ferro  Monte,  New  Jersey.  He  grad- 
uated from  Princeton  Lfniversity  in  1789,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember, 1793.  He  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  1797,  and  practiced  law  there. 
He  was  elected  councilman  in  1802,  in  Phila- 
delphia ;  appointed  commissioner  of  bank- 
ruptcy by  President  Jefferson ;  appointed  by 
Governor  Kean,  January,  1805,  adjutant-gen- 
eral of  Pennsylvania ;  served  as  quartermaster 
general,  and  was  recorder  of  city  of  Philadel- 


phia. He  resigned  the  latter  office  in  October, 
1810,  and  returned  to  Succasunna  to  develop 
the  mining  property  which  he  had  become  pos- 
sessed of.  He  continued  buying  up  the  inter- 
ests where  his  father  left  off  and  obtained  com- 
plete title  to  the  mining  properties.  In  181 1- 
12-13  '""^  ^'^'^s  elected  member  of  legislature 
from  Morris  county ;  was  appointed  by  legis- 
lature in  1813  justice  of  supreme  court;  was 
appointed  reporter  of  the  supreme  court,  but 
resigned  February  9,  1814.  He  was  made 
governor  of  New  Jersey,  October  26,  1815, 
elected  by  state  legislature,  and  again  made 
governor,  October  28,  1816,  without  opposi- 
tion, the  only  governor  that  ever  succeeded 
himself  in  New  Jersey.  He  resigned  as  gov- 
ernor February  i,  1817,  having  been  elected 
United  States  senator  for  six  years  beginning 
March  4.  1817.  In  1822  he  was  again  elected 
United  States  senator  without  opposition,  office 
to  expire  in  March,  1829.  He  was  elected 
again  the  same  year  to  the  same  office,  his  term 
expiring  March  4,  1833,  and  he  was  elected  to 
state  legislature.  He  was  appointed  minister 
to  Russia  by  President  Jackson,  May  20,  1834, 
but  declined  the  honor.  He  was  a  great  friend 
of  President  Jackson,  and  his  name  was  spoken 
of  for  the  office  of  vice-president  of  the  United 
States.  He  was  appointed  secretary  of  the 
navy  June  30,  1834,  and  held  this  cabinet  posi- 
tion under  President  Jackson's  administration, 
also  a  part  of  that  of  President  \  an  Buren, 
after  which  he  resigned  and  returned  to  pri- 
vate life.  In  September,  1840,  he  was  appoint- 
ed by  President  Van  Buren  judgeof  the  United 
States  district  court,  state  of  New  Jersey,  but 
after  six  months  he  resigned  and  was  succeed- 
ed by  his  brother,  Philemon  Dickerson.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  state  constitutional  con- 
vention in  1844,  and  was  a  very  prominent 
member.  In  1846-47  he  was  president  of  the 
.American  Institute  of  New  York;  honorary 
member  of  the  New  England  Historic-Gene- 
alogical Society  in  1848.  He  spoke  several 
languages,  and  was  a  noted  botanist.  He  was 
six  feet  two  inches  tall,  and  of  fine  jjhysique. 
Silas  Dickerson,  brother  of  General  Alahlon 
Dickerson,  born  October  3,  1771,  died  January 
7,  1807,  was  one  of  the  first  to  make  nails  by 
machinery,  and  was  killed  by  one  of  the  nail 
machines  at  Stanhope,  New  Jersey.  Philemon 
Dickerson,  another  brother  of  General  Dicker- 
son,  born  June  26,  1788,  died  December  10, 
1862,  in  Paterson,  New  Jersey,  was  governor 
of  New  Jersey  in  1840,  and  the  following  year 
succeeded  his  brother,  Mahlon  Dickerson,  as 
L^nited  States  district  judge,  as  aforemention- 


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ed,  and  held  that  office  until  his  death.  He 
married  Sidney  Maria  Stotesbury,  April  13, 
1816.  One  of  their  four  children  was  Edward 
N.  Dickerson,  a  leading  lawyer  in  New  York 
City,  who  had  no  superior  as  a  patent  attorney. 


Michael  Jansen  Vreelandt, 
VREELAXD    the  founder  of  the  family  of 

his  name  in  America,  left 
Broeckhuysen,  in  North  Brabant,  in  the  ship 
"Rensselaerwyck,"  October  i,  1636.  He  set- 
tled at  what  is  now  (ireenbush,  o])posite  Al- 
bany, as  a  "boereknecht"  or  farm  servant,  but 
soon  gave  this  up  in  order  to  engage  in  the  fur 
trade,  in  which  it  is  said  "he  made  his  fortune 
in  two  years."  The  fur  trade,  however,  was 
the  prerogative  of  the  Dutch  West  India  Com- 
pany, and  prohibited  to  private  parties,  conse- 
quently Michiel  Jansen  found  himself  in  diffi- 
culty with  the  authorities,  and  removed  to  New 
Amsterdam  before  November  4,  1644,  when 
he  empowered  Arent  \'an  Curler  to  settle  his 
accounts  and  differences  with  Patroon  Van 
Rensselaer.  In  1646  he  settled  in  Communi- 
paw,  on  the  bouwerie  owned  by  Jan  Evertsen 
Bout,  and  in  1647-49-50,  he  represented  Pa- 
vonia  in  the  Council  of  Nine,  and  joined  his 
associates  in  their  crusade  against  Governor 
Peter  Stuyvesant.  It  was  at  his  house  that  the 
journal  of  \'an  der  Donck  was  seized,  and  it  is 
supposed  that  the  seizure  was  on  information 
furnished  by  himself.  July  26,  1649,  'i^  was 
one  of  the  signers  of  the  application  for  the 
first  municipal  government  in  New  Nether- 
land.  He  was  also  the  inventor  and  the  in- 
augurator  of  the  excise  license  system  in  New 
Jersey,  his  plan  and  petition  being  presented 
and  granted  June  15,  1654.  On  September 
15,  1665,  the  Indians  massacred  every  one  in 
the  Pavonia  community  except  the  family  of 
Michael  Jansen,  which  was  obliged  to  take 
refuge  in  New  x-Xmsterdam :  and  there,  because, 
he  was  "an  old  man  with  a  heavy  family"  who 
had  lost  his  all,  he  was  allowed  to  open  a  tap- 
room November  22,  1655.  In  February,  1656, 
he  was  granted  a  lot  in  the  city  for  the  same 
reason,  and  February  21,  1657,  he  was  ap- 
pointed one  of  the  measurers  of  lime  and  grain. 
April  13,  1657,  he  was  enrolled  as  one  of  the 
lesser  burghers.  January  22,  1658,  he  asked 
for  permission  to  return  to  Communipaw,  and 
three  years  later  he  was  living  there  on  his  own 
farm  in  competence.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
magistrates  of  the  new  court  at  Bergen,  and 
in  December,  1662,  he  joined  in  the  petition  to 
the  Governor  for  a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  to 
whose  support  he  pledged  twenty-five  florins. 


He  died  in  1663.  He  married  Fitje  Hartmans. 
who  died  September  21,  1697.  In  October, 
1679,  the  Labadists  dined  with  her,  and  they 
have  left  this  quaint  record  concerning  her : 
"We  found  her  a  little  pious,  after  the  manner 
of  the  country,  and  you  could  discover  that 
there  was  something  of  the  Lord  in  her,  but 
very  much  covered  up  and  defiled."  This  is  no 
light  testimony  to  her  religious  attainments 
when  we  remember  that  it  was  given  by  two 
men  who  apparently  looked  on  all  mankind, 
save  the  small  portion  which  accepted  their 
own  peculiar  views,  as  tlestined  to  eternal  dam- 
nation. Children:  i.  Claes,  married,  April 
14,  1657,  Annetje  Maria  Gerbrants.  2.  Elias, 
married,  August  30,  1665,  Margrietje  Jacobse 
Van  Winckel.  3.  Enoch,  baptized  C)ctober  26, 
1649;  died  August  17,  17 14:  married  (tirst) 
June  20,  1670,  Dircksje  Meyers,  who  diefl 
October  5,  1688;  (second),  October  23,  1693, 
Grietje  Wessels.  widow  of  Jan  Janse  Lande- 
dyck,  w'ho  died  November  20,  1697,  and 
(third)  January  13,  1704,  Aagtje  \^an  Hoorn. 
4.  Hartman.  bajitized  Octolier  i,  1651  ;  died 
January  18,  1707  ;  married,  1672,  Metje,  daugh- 
ter of  Dirck  Claese  Braecke.  5.  Johannis,  re- 
ferred to  below.  6.  Cornelis,  born  June  3, 
1660.  died  in  May.  1727;  married  (first)  May 
II,  1691,  Neeltje,  daughter  of  Dirck  Claese 
Braecke,  and  (second),  April  17.  1892,  the 
widow  of  Lysbet  Jacobs.  7.  Jannetje,  married 
Dirck  Teunissen  \'an  \'echten.  8.  Pryntje, 
died  April  21,  171 1  ;  marrie<I.  March  25,  1688, 
Andries  Claesen. 

(II)  Johannis,  son  of  Michiel  Jansen  \'ree- 
landt  and  Fitje  Hartmans,  was  baptized  in 
New  Amsterdam,  October  i,  1636,  and  died  in 
Communipaw.  June  26.  1713.  He  married. 
May  14,  1682,  Claesje,  daughter  of  Dirck 
Claese  Braecke  and  Neeltje  Jacobs,  making 
himself  by  this  marriage  the  third  son  of 
Michiel  Jansen  to  become  son-in-law  to  Dirck 
Claese.  His  father-in-law  was  patentee  of 
Cavan  Point  and  Stony  Point,  and  about  1646 
held  a  lease  of  the  island  of  Hoboken,  and 
he  was  one  of  the  commissioners  to  fortify 
Communipaw  in  1663.  Children:  i.  Michael, 
born  September  14,  1684 ;  died  January  27, 
1710.  2.  Dirck,  baptized  October  11,  1686: 
married.  May,  1717,  Fitje  Dirckse  Banta.  3. 
Fitje,  baptized  October  28,  1688;  died  unmar- 
ried, January   27,    1710.     4.    Enoch,   baptized 

October  28,  1688 ;  married  Mercy  .     3. 

Aagtje,  baptized  April  22. 1690;  married,  April 
19,  171 1,  Cornelis  Helmigsen  Van  Houtcn.  6. 
Helena,  died  March  15,  1774;  married  June 
17.  1 7 19.  Johannis  Helmigsen  \'an  Houtcn.   7. 


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Jaiinetje,  married  December  21,  1716,  Martin 
W'iniie.  8.  Elias,  referred  to  below.  9.  Jo- 
haniiis,  born  July  I,  1705;  died  February  11, 
1783;  married,  1726,  Antje  Dietriths.  Sev- 
eral other  children. 

(III)  Elias,  son  of  Johannis  and  Claesje 
Dirckse  (Braecke)  \'reelandt,  died  between 
1767  and  1775.  He  removed  to  Weasel,  Sus- 
sex county.  He  married.  May  11,  1723,  Maritje 
\  an  Hoorn.  Children:  Johannis,  referred  to 
below;    Neeltje,    married   Dirck   Van    Riper; 

Claesje,  married  — Van  Riper;  Jannetje, 

married Drummond. 

(IV)  Johannis  (2),  son  of  Elias  and  Maritje 
(Van  Hoorn)  \'reelandt,  was  born  August  30, 
1730,  and  died  before  October  29,  1770,  when 
letters  of  administration  on  his  estate  were 
granted  to  his  father.  He  married,  about  1754, 
Aef  je  Terhune.  Children :  Isaac,  born  Janu- 
ary 21,  1755;  Johannis,  baptized  June  20, 
1756;  Tryntje,  baptized  November  13,  1757; 
Abraham,  referred  to  below;  Petrus,  ba])tized 
May  3,  1761  ;  Jacob,  born  November  i,  1765; 
Elias. 

( \' )  .Abraham,  son  of  Johannis  (2)  and 
Aefje  (Terhune)  Vreelandt,  was  born  on  the 
farm  in  Pollifly  (now  Hasbrouck  Heights)  to 
which  his  father  had  removed  on  his  marriage, 
it  being  a  part  of  his  wife's  dower,  June  9, 
1759,  and  died  there  August  17,  1826.  During 
the  revolution  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
Bergen  county  militia  and  rose  to  the  rank  of 
sergeant.  He  inherited  the  homestead  of  about 
one  hundred  and  forty  acres  near  his  mother's 
old  home.  He  was  one  of  the  most  prosper- 
ous gentlemen  farmers  of  that  region,  and 
among  his  numerous  slaves  were  the  famous 
Ceasar  Berry  and  his  w-ife  Phebe  and  their 
ten  children.  He  married.  December  2,  1786, 
Rachel  Ackerman,  born  September  25,  1756. 
Children:  John,  born  .\ugust  6,  1789,  died 
January  13,  1798;  Amy,  February  2,  1793,  died 
January  27,  1798;  Eve,  born  August  15,  1795, 
died  May  22,  1796;  John,  born  August  4,  1798, 
died  March  16,  1832;  Lawrence,  referred  to 
below. 

(VI)  Lawrence  X'reeland,  son  of  Abraham 
and  Rachel  (Ackerman)  X'reelandt,  was  born 
in  the  Pollifly  homestead.  June  6, 1803,  and  died 
at  Secaucus,  Hudson  county,  New  Jersey,  March 
19.  1835.  He  received  his  early  education  in 
the  district  school,  where  he  was  an  apt  and 
studious  pupil.  His  love  for  music  w'as  very 
marked,  and  he  became  a  proficient  musician, 
[performing  on  several  different  instruments. 
As  his  father's  heir  he  inherited  the  homestead, 
and  in  early  manhood  after  his  father's  death 


he  took  up  farming  with  his  young  wife.  After 
some  years  he  exchanged  the  old  farm  for 
another  of  one  hundred  and  forty-five  acres 
in  Secaucus,  known  as  the  Beddell  estate,  in  a 
neighborhood  where  game  at  that  time  was 
plentiful,  and  where  being  fond  of  rod  and 
gun  he  gave  up  much  time  to  the  sport.  It  is 
said  that  his  reason  for  making  the  exchange 
of  farm  properties  w'as  that  the  new  place 
afforded  him  the  best  shooting  in  the  country. 
He  kept  a  pack  of  the  best  hounds  in  the  state. 
With  the  assistance  of  his  boys  and  his  former 
slaves,  all  of  whom  he  had  liberated,  he  culti- 
vated his  many  acres  and  was  very  successful 
as  a  fruit  grower,  having  three  large  orchards 
of  apples  and  peaches  which  yielded  him  a 
h.andsome  yearly  income.  He  also  raised  the 
common  crops,  kept  a  herd  of  twenty  cows, 
and  sold  his  milk  in  New  York  City,  He  add- 
ed fifteen  acres  to  the  original  property,  buy- 
ing from  Howard  \'an  Duyne.  He  took  a 
contract  to  build  a  section  of  the  Morris  and 
F^ssex  canal,  and  another  to  build  a  section  of 
the  Long  Island  railroad  and  various  railroad 
bridges,  among  which  were  the  Morris  and 
Essex  bridge  and  the  Erie  railroad  bridge.  He 
was  associated  with  ex-Mayor  Selah  Hill,  of 
Jersey  City,  in  many  of  these  enterprises.  Most 
of  the  piles  in  the  construction  of  the  bridges 
he  furnished  from  his  own  woodland,  and  he 
also  contributed  lumber  towards  the  building 
of  the  Baptist  church  at  New  Durham,  being 
one  of  the  organizers  of  this  society  and  a 
deacon  of  it  until  his  death.  He  also  served 
as  chorister.  He  was  the  leading  man  in  his 
community,  being  often  sought  to  fill  office. 
He  was  a  true  Jacksonian  Democrat,  and  his 
influence  and  power  were  always  felt  in  polit- 
ical circles.  For  many  years  he  was  assessor 
and  president  of  the  board  of  school  trustees, 
and  often  served  on  the  grand  jury.  He  was 
a  constant  reader  of  the  Bible  and  a  deep 
thinker  thereon,  and  reared  his  children  under 
Christian  influences.  He  was  the  true  type  of 
the  country  gentleman,  courteous  to  all,  and 
possessing  a  charitable  heart  to  all.  It  is  said 
he  never  turned  an  unfortunate  away  from  his 
door.  In  his  early  days  he  was  an  officer  in 
the  local  military  company.  He  married  (first) 
November  18,  1822,  Mary,  born  September  15, 
1803,  died  May  17.  1839,  daughter  of  Abel  and 
Jane  (Lozier)  Smith.  Her  father  was  born  Sep- 
tember 20. 1 776,  and  died  in  1 841,  and  had  charge 
of  the  Erie  bridge  at  the  Hackensack  river.  Her 
mother  was  born  March  4,  1786,  and  died  May 
5,  1826.  He  married  (second),  July  18,  1840, 
Eliza  L.,  born  September  15,  1815,  died  Janu- 


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ary  21,  1888,  daughter  of  Conelius  L.  Mande- 
ville.  Children,  eight  by  first  marriage:  i. 
Rachel  Ann,  born  July  13,  1823,  died  May 
24,  1837.  2.  Jane  Lozier,  born  March  7,  1825, 
died  June  2,  1898:  married  Andrew  Anderson. 
3.  Abraham  Lawrence,  born  May  31,  1827, 
died  December  12.  1863.  4.  Smith,  born  May 
3.  1829,  died  in  February,  1861  ;  married  Eliza 
Outwater;  children  :  Jacob  and  Lawrence.  5. 
John  Lawrence,  born  November  18,  1831  ; 
married  (first)  February  4,  1837,  Louisa  Park- 
er :  (second)  September  26,  1877,  Esther  A. 
De  Shon ;  child :  Persis  May,  born  June  24. 
1878.  6.  Jacob  Henry,  referred  to  below.  7. 
Chester,  j\L  D.,  born  February  18,  1837,  died 
in  March,  1889:  married  (first)  Celia  Parker; 
(second)  Mar_v  Jerome.  8.  Sophronia,  died  in 
April,  1863:  married  Jolm  Middleton  Mande- 

ville;  children:  Frank,  married  Jennie  , 

anil  had  Lawrence  and  Helen;  and  John  Law- 
rence, married  Margaret .  9.  Lawrence. 

born  September  25,  1842.  10.  George  Wash- 
ington, born  February  22,  1845,  died  October 
31,  1909;  married,  December  21,  1869,  Melissa 
Zabriskie ;  child:  George  Washington  (2) 
born  August  28,  1870,  married  July  26,  1892, 
Catharine  Winters,  and  has  Ethel  Lucile,  born 
June  3,  1893,  Dorothy  Winters,  July  7,  1899, 
and  Grace  Elizabeth,  August  11,  1901.  11. 
Henry  Mandeville.  born  May  22,  1847;  mar- 
ried (first)  March  25,  1868,  Lucy  A.  San- 
son ;  ( second )  Ida  Harman ;  children,  three 
by  first  marriage :  Cornelius,  married  Anna 
Gates  and  has  George ;  Mary  Lydia ;  Grant ; 
Turner;  and  Nellie,  married,  and  has  two 
children.  12.  Cornelius,  born  June  22,  1849, 
died  November  2,  1895.  13.  Franklin  Pierce, 
born  December  8,  1852,  died  June  16.  1863. 
(\TI)  Jacob  Henry,  son  of  Lawrence  and 
Mary  (Smith)  Vreeland,  was  born  at  Secau- 
ciis,  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  August  16, 
1834,  and  died  May  11,  1910.  He  was  reared 
on  his  father's  farm,  attended  the  district 
school,  and  later,  with  his  brother,  John  L. 
Weeland.  was  placed  under  the  renowned  in- 
structor William  P.  Wilson.  When  he  was  six- 
teen years  of  age  young  Jacob  Henry  was 
apprenticed  to  Hogg  &  Delameter,  builders  of 
marine  engines,  at  foot  of  West  Thirteenth 
street.  New  York  City,  to  be  taught  the  trade 
of  machinist.  The  firm  also  built  sugar  re- 
fining machinery.  After  the  completion  of  his 
apprenticeship,  when  he  came  of  age,  he  re- 
mained with  his  old  masters  for  a  year  longer, 
and  then  accepted  a  responsible  position  in 
charge  of  repairs  for  the  Collins  Steamship 
Company,  refitting  and  repairing  the  machin- 


ery of  the  different  ships  of  their  line.  He  re- 
mained with  this  company  until  it  went  out 
of  business,  when  he  took  a  position  with  the 
Singer  Manufacturing  Company,  Broadway 
and  Grand  streets.  New  York  City.  He  was 
subsequently  transferred  to  the  Albany  office 
of  the  same  firm,  where  he  became  superin- 
tendent of  repairs  in  the  Troy,  Albany,  Cohoes 
and  Schenectady  offices,  a  position  which  he 
retained  until  about  i860,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  company's  offices  at  Richmond, 
\irginia,  remaining  there  until  that  state  se- 
ceded from  the  L'nion  at  the  outbreak  of  the 
civil  war,  when  the  company  was  obliged  to 
close  up  their  business  in  the  south,  owing  to 
the  opposition  of  the  people  there  to  all  north- 
ern products.  Mr.  \'reeland  returned  to  his 
New  Jersey  home  and  conducted  a  stage  route 
from  West  Hoboken  to  the  Hoboken  ferry 
for  about  a  year,  and  then  took  a  contract  for 
installing  engines  in  the  William  M.  Brood 
steamers  plying  between  Perth  Amboy  and 
New  York  City.  In  1864  he  was  engaged  as 
machinist  in  the  Erie  railroad  shops,  and  after 
six  months,  by  his  strict  attention  to  the  needs 
of  his  department,  he  was  given  a  position  of 
greater  responsibility  and  remuneration,  tak- 
ing charge  of  the  different  departments.  About 
1875  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  master 
mechanic  of  the  eastern  division  and  its 
branches,  a  position  he  held  for  about  four- 
teen years.  During  this  period  Mr.  Vreeland 
perfected  his  hydraulic  jack  with  transverse 
pit.  so  that,  in  engine  repairing,  the  large  driv- 
ing wheels  of  a  locomotive  could  be  removed 
without  raising  the  body  of  the  engine.  He 
then  built  and  sold  his  invention.  After  resign- 
ing his  position  with  the  Erie  railroad  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Beale  Steam  Brake  Com- 
pany, and  during  this  interval  organized  the 
Rutherford  Gas  Company,  acting  as  its  presi- 
dent for  two  years.  He  subsequently  engaged 
in  the  grocery  and  delicatessen  business  with 
his  son  Walter  A.  Vreeland,  at  the  corner  of 
Ames  and  Park  streets,  Rutherford.  He  then 
bought  this  building,  and  later  sold  his  interest 
to  Johnson  Decker,  and  still  later  his  store 
property.  Mr.  Vreeland  has  been  retired  from 
active  business  for  eight  years,  and  in  the  latter 
years  has  attended  to  his  property  interests  at 
Rutherford. 

He  and  Mrs.  Vreeland  are  communicants  of 
Grace  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Ruther- 
ford, of  which  he  is  an  ex-vestryman.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  mission  at  East 
Rutherford, and  was  the  ])rincipal  contributor  to 
the  building  of  the  chapel  now  located  on  Boiling 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Springs  avenue.  In  politics  Mr.  V'reeland  is  a  Re- 
publican as  to  national  issues,  but  a  conservative 
independent  as  to  local  ones.  He  has  served 
as  tax  collector  and  councilman,  was  president 
of  the  school  board  fifteen  years,  and  has  been 
road  commissioner  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Boiling  Springs  Lodge,  No.  152,  F.  and 
A.  M.,  of  New  Jersey,  and  served  as  its  first 
worshipful  master,  1881-83.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  State  of  New  Jersey.  He  is  chairman 
of  the  present  building  committee  of  the  new 
lodge  building  soon  to  be  erected  on  the  lot  on 
Park  avenue,  Rutherford.  He  was  formerly 
a  member  of  the  United  Friends  and  the  North 
Western  Masonic  Association,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Bergen  County  Historical  Society. 
At  one  lime  he  was  a  director  of  the  White 
Line  Traction  Company  which  ran  between 
Paterson  and  Hoboken. 

He  married  in  the  town  of  L'nion,  C)ctober 
24.  1850,  Mary  Frances,  daughter  of  Nathan 
and  Henrietta  Louisa  (Dunham)  Ferrill,  who 
was  born  August  9,  1836.  Her  father,  a  con- 
tractor, builder  and  extensive  real  estate  dealer 
in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  was  born  July  11, 
t8o8,  and  died  February  5,  1861.  Her  mother 
v.'as  born  June  25,  181 5,  and  died  February 
h,  1887.  Children:  i.  John  Lawrence,  born 
September  9,  i8()0,  died  March  18,  1880;  he 
was  killed  in  the  Jersey  City  depot,  and  was 
at  the  rime  of  his  death  studying  law  with 
Senator  William  A.  Brinckerhoff.  2.  Marga- 
retta,  born  May  23,  died  June  27,  1862.  3. 
Irving  Douglass,  born  May  23,  died  July  15, 
1863.  4.  Jane  Lozier,  born  July  6,  1864;  mar- 
ried, August  13,  1884,  George  Tisdale  Holmes, 
born  July  9,  1863 ;  children :  Chester  \Tee- 
land  Holmes,  born  August  8,  1885 ;  Anita 
Henrietta  Holmes,  December  26,  1886,  died 
December  12,  1904;  Wilson  Love  Holmes, 
born  August  12,  1888;  Charles  Clinton  Holmes, 
March  23,  1891.  3.  Henrietta  Louise,  born 
April  I,  1866;  married  April  18,  1894,  William 
Clarence  Talman  ;  children  :  Mary  Genevieve 
Talman,  born  IMay  10,  1895  ;  William  Vree- 
land  Talman,  May  28,  1901.  6.  Alary  Eugenia, 
born  December  30,  1867;  married,  June  26, 
1900.  Samuel  Dempster;  child  :  Francis  Vree- 
land  Dempster,  born  June  16,  1903.  7.  Walter 
Abraham,  born  May  2,  1870;  married,  Novem- 
ber II,  1896,  Ella  Frances  Kline,  born  August 
19,  1816,  died  March  10.  1910;  children:  Adele 
May,  born  August  17.  1897;  Jacob  Henry, 
January  16,  1903.  8.  Anna  Rachel,  born  March 
16,  1872;  married,  September  8,  1897,  Charles 


Fletcher  Hallet :  children  :  Charles  Vreeland 
Hallett,  born  November  15,  1899;  Florence 
Mary,  July  7,  1909.  9.  Charles  Nathan,  born 
January  9,  1874,  died  May  7,  1876. 


Thomas   Hunt,   the  first  member 
HUNT      of  this  family  of  whom  we  have 

definite  information,  was  born  in 
Stillwater  township,  Sussex  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, November  10,  1785,  and  died  in  Sandiston 
township,  same  county,  in  October,  1856.  He 
was  probably  a  brother  or  cousin  to  Dr.  David 
Hunt,  of  Sussex  county,  son  of  Lieutenant 
Richard  and  Mercy  (Hull)  Hunt,  who  was 
born  in  1776  and  died  March  2,  1831,  and  mar- 
ried, in  November,  1800,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
John  and  Alargaretta  ( Schaetfer)  Roy. 
Thomas  Hunt  married,  August  25,  1812,  Re- 
becca Turner,  born  in  Sussex  county,  New 
Jersey,  January  10,  1790,  died  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  Alay  19,  1846.  She  was  prob- 
ably a  sister  to  the  Richard  and  Margaret 
Turner  who  married  respectively  Margaret 
and  Isaac,  children  of  Peter  Bernhardt  and 
Elizabeth  (Simpson)  Shaver.  Children:  i. 
Elizabeth,  born  December  27,  1813;  died  De- 
cember 2'/,  1892;  married  (first)  Henry  Miles, 
(second)  William  G.  Gardner.  2.  Dorcas 
Maria,  born  January  7,  1815 ;  still  living;  mar- 
ried Henry  Hopper.  3.  Samuel,  born  Sep- 
tember II,  1816;  died  in  infancy.  4.  Abra- 
ham, born  August  27,  1817,  died  August  11, 
1822.  5.  Isaac  Schaelfer.  born  November  i, 
1819;  died  1876;  married  Sarah  Ann  Fleming; 
was  a  physician.  6.  Thomas  C,  born  January 
19,  1822;  died  February  i,  1894;  married 
Mary  Mattock.  7.  Margaret  Turner,  born  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1824;  died  October  18,  1906,  married 
William  Pask.  8.  Robert  Watson,  born  No- 
vember 19,  1829;  died  1900;  married  Sarah 
Mann.  9.  Schuyler  Halsey,  born  January  10. 
1831,  died  May,  1895;  married  Jane  Roland. 
10.  Daniel  Dosten,  referred  to  below.  11. 
Richard  Erwin,  referred  to  below. 

( II )  Daniel  Dosten,  son  of  Thomas  and  Re- 
becca (Turner)  Hunt,  was  born  in  Sussex 
county,  New  Jersey,  February  7,  1833,  and 
died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  April,  1872. 
While  still  a  young  man  he  left  home,  and  com- 
ing to  Newark,  started  in  to  learn  the  con- 
tractor's and  builder's  trade,  in  which  he  later 
spent  his  life  successfully  and  prosperously. 
He  was  a  member  of  Kane  Lodge,  F.  and  A. 
AL,  of  Newark,  and  was  for  some  years  one 
of  the  school  commissioners  of  the  city.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Scott,  born  in  New  York 
City,  October  21, 1841,  died  in  Newark,  in  1908, 


STATE   OF   NEW     lERSEY. 


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daughter  of  John  and  Ehzabeth  (Scott)  Mc- 
Donald. Her  parents  were  natives  of  Dundee, 
Scotland,  who  emigrated  to  America  in  1842. 
Her  father  was  a  baker  and  confectioner,  and 
was  the  first  pie  baker  in  Newark.  Children : 
Margaret  Turner,  Ijorn  October  5,  1861,  mar- 
ried Walter  Mockridge ;  Frank  Sutherland,  re- 
ferred to  below  :  Daniel  Dosten  ( 2  ) ,  born  Jan- 
uary 28,  1868,  died  aged  two  and  one-half 
years  of  age. 

(HI)  Frank  Sutherland,  son  of  Daniel  Dos- 
ten and  Elizabeth  Scott  (McDonald)  Hunt, 
was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Alay  30, 
1865,  and  is  now  living  in  that  city.  He  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schools,  after 
leaving  which  he  entered  the  employ  of  George 
C.  Miller  in  order  to  learn  the  tailoring  trade. 
Here  he  remained  for  ten  years,  and  in  1889 
accejited  a  much  better  position  with  McGregor 
&  Company,  with  whom  he  remained  until 
1892,  wjhen  he  bought  out  the  business  and 
good  will  of  James  Harrison,  and  started  in 
for  himself  under  the  name  of  Frank  Hunt  & 
Company,  custom  tailors,  making  a  specialty 
of  high  grade  custom  work,  in  which  he  has 
been  eminently  successful.  Mr.  Hunt  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  a  member  of  St.  John's 
L.odge,  No.  I,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Newark,  and 
of  Union  Chapter.  R.  A.  M. ;  also  of  Lodge 
No.  41,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  of  the  Royal  Arcanum, 
and  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Automo- 
bile Club.  He  married,  in  East  Orange,  No- 
vember I,  1S99,  Florence  Adele,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Catharine  (Gracken)  Mulford,  of 
2624  Blaisdell  avenue,  ^Minneapolis,  Minnesota  ; 
(see  Mulford).    No  children. 

(H)  Richard  Erwin,  son  of  Thomas  and 
Rebecca  (Turner)  Flunt,  was  born  in  Sussex 
county.  New  Jersey,  February  i,  1835,  and  is 
now  living  at.  206  Fourth  street,  Roseville, 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  married,  February 
20,  1861,  Mary  Elizabeth  Kindred,  of  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  John  Rich- 
ard, born  January  14,  1862,  married  Mary  Ella 
Blackwell.  2.  Ferman  Dayton,  born  Septem- 
ber I,  1863;  married  Margaret  M.  Preston. 
3  Eunice  Rebecca,  born  March  21,  1867;  died 
unmarried,  April  15,  1889  4.  Richard  Erwin 
(2d),  born  A])ril  19,  1870;  married  Katharine 
Funnell.  5.  ISertus  Thomas,  born  February 
20.  1872,  living  unmarried  with  his  father. 

(The  Multord  Line). 

Henry  Mulford,  of  Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
married  Catharine  Gracken.  Children:  I. 
Jennet,   married    Professor    \"entura,    of    the 


University  of  California.  2.  Florence  Adele, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Frederick,  tlied  unmar- 
ried, aged  thirty  years. 

(II)  Florence  Adele,  daughter  of  Henry 
and  Catharine  (Gracken)  Mulford,  was  born 
in  Dubuque,  Iowa.  Early  in  her  childhood 
her  parents  moved  to  Minneapolis,  where  she 
passed  her  girlhood,  and  here  Began  the  de- 
velopment of  her  musical  talent,  which  has 
brought  her  fame  not  only  in  her  native  land 
but  also  in  various  European  musical  centers, 
where  she  has  won  for  herself  a  splendid 
reputation  as  an  artist  of  first  rank,  in  London, 
Paris,  Berlin  and  Munich,  as  well  as  in  Amer- 
ica. Even  in  her  early  years  she  sang  for  the 
jiure  love  of  singing,  and  her  first  musical 
efforts  were  in  a  local  choir,  where  the  rich, 
warm  cjuality  of  her  voice,  even  thus  early, 
gave  a  prophecy  of  future  fame.  When  she 
was  sixteen  years  old  her  desire  for  instructors 
and  training  was  so  strong  that  she  determined 
to  come  to  the  east,  where  she  could  have  ad- 
vantages not  only  for  study  but  also  for  hear- 
ing and  becoming  acquainted  with  good  music 
that  her  home  could  not  give  her.  Almost  the 
first  thing  that  she  did  was  to  apply  for  and 
win  a  three  years  scholarship  in  Mrs.  Thurber's 
National  Conservatory  of  Music.  She  also  ob- 
tained a  church  choir  position,  and  for  several 
years  was  contralto  soloist  in  the  IMunn  Ave- 
nue Presbyterian  Church  of  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  where  the  celebrated  organist,  Samuel 
I'.  \\  arren,  is  the  musical  director.  Later  she 
went  to  the  West  End  Collegiate  Church,  New 
York,  remaining  there  until  she  left  to  become 
a  member  of  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Com- 
pany. Beginning  at  local  concerts,  the  beauty 
of  her  voice  became  more  and  more  widely 
known  and  admired,  and  it  was  not  long  be- 
fore her  concert  engagements  became  numer- 
ous and  profitable.  She  never  ceased  studying 
however,  and  continually  advanced  in  ex- 
perience and  ability.  Her  voice  was  beautiful 
from  the  first  and  always  has  remained  so,  but 
the  ability  to  use  it  with  effect  came  from  her 
constant  study.  Every  summer  she  went  to 
Europe  and  spent  about  three  months  in  study 
there.  In  London  she  studied  with  Herman 
Klein  in  song  and  oratorio  interpretation.  In 
Paris  she  placed  herself  under  Fidele  Koenig, 
for  dramatic  singing.  In  Berlin  her  teacher 
was  Madame  Artot  de  Padilla.  Then  she  went  to 
Munich  and  studied  stage  action  and  deport- 
ment with  Anton  Fuchs,  being  one  of  the  only 
two  private  pupils  lie  ever  took.  While  Ma- 
dame Mulford  was  a  member  of  the  Metrop- 
olitan  0])era  Company  she   sang  Gianetta   in 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


''Elisir  d'Ainnre."  associated  with  Sembrich. 
Caruso  and  Scotti ;  Flosshilde  in  "Rheingold" 
and  "Gotterdanimerung,"  Grimgirde  in"\Valk- 
iire,"  Einhirt  in  "Tannhauser,"  Pastore  in 
"Tosca,"  and  other  roles,  appearing  during  her 
last  season  there  thirty-nine  times.  She  re- 
mained a  member  of  this  company  for  three 
years  and  theft  asked  for  her  release  that  she 
might  go  to  Europe  for  study  and  appearances 
there.  She  went  direct  to  Berlin,  and  less  than 
two  weeks  after  her  arrival  appeared  at  the 
new  Royal  Opera,  singing  Azucena,  in  "Tro- 
vatore,"  the  famous  tenor,  Werner  Alberti, 
being  the  Manrico.  She  made  a  great  success 
and  was  engaged  for  three  years  at  the 
Komische  Oper,  having  to  sing  Carmen  thirty 
times  the  first  season.  She  cancelled  this  con- 
tract to  return  to  America  for  a  tour  with  the 
Boston  Festival  Orchestra,  under  the  leader- 
ship of  Emil  MoUenhauer.  Her  voice  is  a 
warm  and  highly  colored  mezzo  soprano,  with 
a  very  extensive  range,  running  from  the  low 
D  to  the  high  B  flat.  Throughout  this  entire 
range  the  voice  is  sweet  and  powerful.  Her 
sustaining  power,  sympathetic  interpretation, 
faultless  enunciation,  whether  singing  in  Eng- 
lish, French.  German  or  Italian,  dramatic  and 
often  thrilling  delivery  of  passionate  passages 
— all  combine  to  make  her  one  of  the  most 
satisfying  singers  either  on  the  concert  plat- 
form or  operatic  stage.  Wherever  she  has 
sung  she  has  been  received  with  enthusiasm 
bv  the  audience  and  with  highly  appreciative 
and  almost  extravagant  praise  by  the  critics. 
While  singing  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  one  of 
the  local  critics  published  this  sonnet  in  her 
praise : 

TO    A    F.^MOU.?    SINGER. 
When  the  rich  tones  of  thy  warm,  vibrant  voice 
Thrill  through  the  air  and  fall  on  raptured  ears. 
Bringing  once  more  the  dreams  of  happy  years. 
When  naught  we  knew  of  this  life's  dreear  annoys: 
'Tis  then  we  fear  no  more  to  make  a  choice 
Between  the  good  and  ill  of  Fate,  the  boding  fears 
That  haunt  us,  or  the  bitter  falling  tears: 
But  evermore  our  hearts  shall  still  rejoice. 
Sing  on.  O  Singer,  with  thy  heavenly  art: 
.Sing  on.  and  cheer  us  on  our  earthly  way: 
Sing  on.  and  waken  up  each  slumb'ring  heart. 
To  hope  of  truer  love  and  brighter  day. 
And  lo,  till  severed  be  this  earthly  chain. 
Thy  cheering  song  shall  drive  away  our  pain. 

— D.    E.   HERVEY. 

Madame  Mulf<ird  has  sung  with  all  the  fam- 
ous orchestras  and  at  many  music  festivals. 
She  has  made  several  tours  of  the  country,  and 
has  appeared  with  nearly  all  of  the  many  choral 
societies.     She  is  now  in  the  prime  of  life  and 


at  the  top  of  her  profession.  For  her  the 
future  has  many  happy  and  successful  days 
in  store. 

She  married,  November  i,  1899,  Frank  Suth- 
erland, son  of  Daniel  Dosten  and  Elizabeth 
Scott  (McDonald)  Hunt  (see  Hunt). 


The  Young  family  of  Essex 
YOUNG     county,  New  Jersey,  is  of  Scotch 

extraction,  and  has  played  quite 
an  important  and  jirominent  part  in  the  history 
of  both  Scotland  and  America.  The  independ- 
ence and  activity  of  the  founder  of  the  family 
in  America  caused  his  exile  from  his  old  world 
home.  In  the  new  world,  in  the  different  learn- 
ed professions  of  America's  social  and  busi- 
ness life,  one  descendant  became  a  noted 
astronomer,  and  others  have  risen  to  the  front 
rank  of  the  medical  and  legal  fraternities. 

( I )  Robert  Young,  founder  of  the  family, 
was  one  of  the  band  of  Scottish  exiles  wel- 
comed by  the  town  of  Newark  in  1696,  and 
settled  in  that  place.  Among  his  children  w-ere 
two  sons,  David  and  John,  the  latter  referred 
to  below,  both  of  whom  settled  in  Hanover, 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey. 

(II)  David,  son  of  Robert  Young,  of  New- 
ark, became  a  Presbyterian  minister,  and 
grandfather  of  David  Young,  the  astronomer. 
John,  the  other  son,  who  settled  in  Hanover, 
(lied  probably  April  25,  1783,  in  his  seventy- 
third  }'ear.  The  names  of  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren are  still  unknown,  but  his  grandson  John 
is  referred  to  below. 

(I\')  John,  grandson  of  John  Young,  of 
Hanover,  was  born  there  about  1776,  and  died 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  15,  1854. 
He  lived  in  Hanover  until  1829.  when  he  re- 
moved from  Newark,  taking  his  letter  of  dis- 
missal from  the  P'irst  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Morristown  to  the  Third  Church  of  Newark. 
It  is  generally  believed  that  he  was  the  first 
leather  manufacturer  in  Newark.  If  this  be 
not  essentially  correct,  he  was  certainly  among 
the  very  first,  and  his  name  is  indissolubly  con- 
nected with  the  beginning  of  that  industry. 
He  had  for  a  partner  George  Dougherty,  and 
was  associated  with  him  in  the  manufacture  of 
morocco  leather,  then  an  entirely  new  product, 
and  this  enterprise  was  the  beginning  of  this 
manufacture  which  made  Newark  famous  as 
a  chief  seat  of  the  production  of  morocco.  In 
other  ways  Mr.  Young  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent men  of  Newark,  active  in  promoting  all 
its  various  interests.  He  married  Catherine 
Tuttle.      Children;      Charles    E.,    referred   to 


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below ;  Esabella  Eugenia,  born  September  6, 
1816.  died  July  26,  1831  ;  John  Tuttle,  born 
July  14.  1818,  died  December  25  following. 

(\')  Charles  E.,  son  of  John  and  Catherine 
(Tuttle)  Young,  was  born  at  W'hippany,  Mor- 
ris county,  New  Jersey,  February  19,  1816, 
and  died  in  1898.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
active  and  enterprising  men  of  his  day.  He 
was  first  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business  in 
Newark.  He  later  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  manufacturer  of  leather,  in- 
cluding their  celebrated  morocco,  the  most  fin- 
ished and  artistic  of  leather  products.  Mr. 
Young  was  a  principal  factor  in  the  establish- 
ment of  various  financial  and  commercial  enter- 
prises, being  among  the  organizers  of  the  New- 
ark ISoard  of  Trade  and  of  the  National  State 
Bank,  of  which  he  was  a  director.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Newark,  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Rod- 
ney and  Charlotte  (Denman)  Wilbur,  of  New- 
ark, and  granddaughter  of  Mathias  Denman. 
To  Charles  E.  and  Charlotte  ^'oung  were  born 
three  sons,  each  of  whom  came  to  distinction 
in  his  own  chosen  profession. 

(M)  Charles  Young,  M.  D.,  eldest  child  of 
Charles  E.  and  Charlotte  (Wilbur)  Young, 
was  born  in  Newark,  August  17,  1842.  He 
received  his  early  education  anrl  was  prepared 
for  college  at  private  schools,  and  graduated 
from  Princeton  University  in  1861.  He  then 
entered  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons in  New  York  City  and  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1866.  He  spent  two 
years  as  an  interne  in  Bellevue  Hospital,  New 
York  City,  and  then  coming  to  Newark  was 
in  general  ]iractice  in  that  city  for  forty  years, 
rising  to  the  front  rank  of  his  profession  as  a 
surgeon,  being  the  general  surgeon  for  St. 
Barnabas,  St.  Michaels'  and  the  City  Hospitals 
of  that  city.  He  is  a  member  of  both  the  State 
and  County  Medical  Societies.  He  married 
Annie  Catharine  Lafon.  Children:  John 
Lafon,  born  December  31,  1876,  came  to  his 
death  by  accident  in  an  elevator  in  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  October  14,  1902 ;  Gayle  Lafon,  born 
December  i,  1880;  Katharine,  born  July  16. 
1885. 

( \  I )  Henry,  second  son  of  Charles  E.  and 
Charlotte  ( Wilbur)  Young,  was  born  October 
24,  1844,  and  died  at  his  home,  1078  South 
Broad  street,  Newark,  March  30,  1908.  He 
was  a  precocious  child,  and  entered  Princeton 
as  a  soi)homore  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years,  and 
graduated  in  1862,  not  yet  eighteen  years  old. 
He  then  studied  in  the  Harvard  Law  School 
and  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Frederick  Theodore 
I'relinghuysen.     He  was  admitted  to  the  New 


Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  1805  and  as  counsellor 
in  1868.  Princeton  College  gave  him  his  Master's 
degree  when  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  years,  and  two  years  later,  in  1867,  he  was 
ap])ointed  Assistant  United  States  District 
Attorney.  In  1873  he  was  elected  by  the  com- 
mon council  of  Newark  as  city  counsel,  and  re- 
tained this  office  by  re-election  until  1884.  His 
legal  services  to  the  city  were  of  untold  value 
and  assistance  during  a  period  of  distrust,  de- 
falcations and  partisan  dispute,  being  rendered 
with  the  absolute  justice,  impartiality  and 
moral  courageousness  which  have  placed  him 
in  the  estimation  of  the  public  as  one  of  the 
most  capable  corporation  counsels  the  state 
has  even  been  honored  with  possessing.  From 
18S4  to  1903  he  was  devoted  to  the  general 
practice  of  his  profession,  and  in  the  latter 
year  he  became  city  counsel  again  by  appoint- 
ment of  Mayor  Doremus.  He  served  until 
May,  1904,  when  (Governor  Murphy  appointed 
him  prosecutor  of  the  pleas  for  Essex  county. 
Mr.  Young  was  not  only  officially  prominent, 
but  he  was  also  a  leading  member  of  the  bar 
of  the  state  and  county,  and  his  intellectual 
attainments,  graces  of  manner  and  wide  knowl- 
edge of  New  Jersey  law  and  New  Jersey  men 
made  his  advice  sought  and  his  opinion  re- 
spected in  all  circles.  His  courtesy,  lofty  prin- 
ciple, devotion  to  duty  and  kindness  of  heart 
won  for  him  the  affection  and  respect  of  all. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Lawyers'  Club,  of 
the  State  Bar  Association,  and  other  legal 
organizations,  as  well  as  a  member  and  one 
of  the  governors  of  the  Essex  Club.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  North  Reformed  Church  of 
Newark.  His  death  was  caused  by  blood 
poisoning  following  the  effects  of  erysipelas, 
and  his  last  illness  was  painful  and  long. 
F"uneral  services  were  held  in  the  North  Re- 
formed Church,  by  Rev.  James  L  Vance  and 
L.  W.  Allen,  the  pallbearers  being  Chief  Jus- 
tice William  S.  Gummere,  Vice-Chancellor 
John  R.  Emery,  Governor  Franklin  Murphy, 
Frederick  Frelinghuysen,  Jay  Newton  Van 
Ness.  Oscar  Keen,  Cortlandt  Parker,  Jr.,  J.  O. 
H.  Pitney  and  George  W.  Hubbell,  and  among 
those  who  paid  their  tribute  to  his  worth,  were 
many  of  the  most  distinguished  men  in  the 
state  and  country. 

Mr.  Young  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
James  K.  and  Mary  (Kellogg)  Hitchcock,  of 
Utica,  New  York.  Their  children,  three  sons, 
all  successful  professional  and  business  men, 
are  referred  to  below. 

(\'\l)  Henry  (2)  Young,  eldest  son  of 
Henrv  (  i  )  and  Margaret  (  Hitchcock)  Young, 


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was  horn  in  Newark,  where  he  received  his 
early  education  and  was  prepared  for  college 
at  Newark  Academy.  He  then  entered  Prince- 
ton University,  from  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1893.  He  read  law  under  the  tutorship  of 
his  father,  and  afterward  with  John  R.  Hardin 
Esq.,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar 
as  attorney  in  June,  1896,  and  as  counsellor  in 
November,  1899.  He  at  once  entered  upon 
the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  New- 
ark, where  he  is  now  located,  with  offices  at 
No.  800  Broad  Street.  He  has  drawn  to  him- 
self a  large  and  important  clientele,  and  is 
recognized  as  a  most  capable  and  trustworthy 
lawyer.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
.'\ssembly  in  1907- 1908.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Essex  Club,  the  Somerset  Hills  Country 
and  of  the  University  Club  of  New  York.  Mr. 
Young  married,  February  i,  1899,  Alice  Isabel, 
daughter  of  John  Herbert  and  Jeannette 
(Boyd)  Ballantine.  Children:  i.  Henry  (3d), 
born  June  2,  1900.  2.  .Alice  Ballantine.  July 
15,  igoi.  3.  John  Ballantine,  ]\Iay  10,  1905. 
4.  Rodney  Stuart,  August  i,  1907. 

(\'n)  Stuart  .Adams  Young,  second  child 
of  Henry  and  Margaret  (Hitchcock)  Young, 
was  born  in  Newark,  August  25,  1882.  He 
attended  the  schools  of  that  city,  was  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Newark  Academy,  and 
entered  Princeton  1  University,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1902.  For  two 
\ears  afterward  he  was  engaged  in  the  offices 
of  Henry,  Brothers  &  Company,  bankers  and 
brokers,  \\'all  street.  New  York.  He  then 
read  law  with  his  father  and  Vice  Chancellor 
Howell,  and  for  one  year  was  in  the  offices  of 
Pitney,  Hardin  &  Skinner,  of  Newark.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1907,  and  is  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  partnership 
with  John  D.  Bigelow-.  with  offices  at  800 
Broad  street,  Newark.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Princeton  Club  of  New  York  City  and  New- 
ark, and  the  University  Cottage  Club.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics. 

I  \'II )  Roger  Young,  third  child  of  Henry 
and  Margaret  (Hitchcock)  Young,  was  born 
.August  13,  1883,  in  New'ark.  He  received  his 
academic  education  in  that  city,  and  entered 
Princeton  University,  from  which  he  w-as 
graduated  in  1905.  He  is  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business  with  Littleton  Kirkpatrick,  at 
800  Broad  street,  Newark. 

(VI)  Frederick  Beardsley  Young,  youngest 
child  of  Charles  E.  and  Charlotte  (Wilbur) 
"^'oung,  was  born  March  16,  1862.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  at  Newark  Academy,  and 
entered  Princeton  University,  but  on  account 


of  an  injury  was  unable  to  remain  and  com- 
plete the  course  of  study.  For  some  years  he 
was  engaged  in  the  Department  of  State,  Wash- 
ington City,  where  he  also  read  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Otis,  daughter  of  William  P.  Morton,  D.  D.  S., 
the  discoverer  of  ether. 


The  Hoffman  family  is  one 
HOFFM.AN  the  oldest  in  Salem  county. 
New  Jersey.  The  will  of 
.Andrew  Hoffman,  of  Piles  Grove  precinct, 
that  county,  was  proved  May  18,  1728.  His 
wife's  name  was  Slary,  and  he  was  the  father 
of  a  large  family.  He  was  a  properous  farmer 
and  a  man  of  influence  in  the  community.  The 
father  of  Hon.  Samuel  D.  Hoffman  was  a 
native  of  Gloucester  county,  but  resided  in 
Salem  county  most  of  his  life,  where  the  fam- 
ily has  always  been  well  represented. 

James  Hoffman  was  born  m  Gloucester 
county.  New  Jersey,  in  March,  1804,  and  died 
in  1866.  He  married  Sarah  Fisler,  born  in 
Colchester  county.  New  Jersey,  and  died  in 
1878. 

Samuel  D.,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  (Fitz- 
gerald) Hoffman,  was  born  at  Auburn,  Salem 
county.  New  Jersey,  February  27,  1848.  He 
received  his  primary  education  in  the  Salem 
county  schools,  and  in  1871  entered  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Trenton,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  two  years  later.  He  had  prepared 
liimself  for  teaching,  and  after  receiving  his 
diploma  was  appointed  principal  of  the  high 
school  at  Mays  Landing,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  remained  five  years.  He  had  in  the  mean- 
time decided  to  enter  the  legal  profession,  and 
now  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
J.  E.  P.  Abbott.  He  was  later  employed  as 
a  clerk  in  the  law  office  of  William  Aloore.  In 
February,  1 881,  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
as  an  attorney  at  the  New  Jersey  bar,  and  in 
1884  was  admitted  a  counsellor.  In  1883  he 
settled  in  .Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  where  his 
home  now  is,  and  where  his  twenty-five  years 
residence  has  brought  him  high  professional 
and  political  honors.  On  commencing  his  pro- 
fessional career  in  Atlantic  City  he  associated 
himself  in  the  law  business  with  Judge  Joseph 
I'hompson,  the  firm  name  being  Thompson  & 
Hoffman.  This  firm  became  well  known  as 
al)le  and  successful  practitioners  and  the  rec- 
ords of  the  .Atlantic  county  courts  are  burden- 
ed with  the  trial  proceedings  of  the  cases  with 
which  they  have  been  connected  either  for  the 
defense  or  prosecution.  Mr.  Hoffman  at  once 
sprang  into  political  prominence  in  the  Repub- 


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lican  party,  with  which  he  aUied  himself,  and 
in  South  Jersey  he  still  ranks  as  one  of  the 
leading  men  of  his  party.  He  was  appointed 
clerk  to  the  board  of  freeholders,  and  in  this 
capacity  served  several  years,  forming  a  wide 
acquaintance  and  making  many  intiuential 
friends.  In  1884  he  was  elected  an  alderman 
of  Atlantic  City.  His  interest  in  educational 
matters  and  his  experience  as  a  teacher  made 
him  the  successful  candidate  for  city  superin- 
tendent of  schools.  He  brought  the  schools  of 
.Atlantic  City  to  a  much  higher  level  than  they 
had  hitherto  attained,  and  introduced  methods 
that  received  marked  approbation  from  promi- 
nent educators.  He  remained  in  this  position 
until  there  was  a  demand  for  him  to  take  the 
head  of  the  city  government.  He  was  elected 
mayor  of  the  city,  and  held  that  high  respon- 
sible office  five  years,  giving  the  city  a  wise 
and  business  like  administration.  His  term 
of  office  was  marked  by  many  public  improve- 
ments made  necessary  by  the  marvelous  growth 
of  the  famous  City  by  the  Sea.  In  these  years 
of  public  service  Air.  Hofifman  has  proved  his 
worth  as  a  public  officer,  and  in  1891  he  was 
chosen  by  his  party  to  represent  the  district 
in  the  Xew  Jersey  legislature.  In  the  follow- 
ing year  he  was  taken  from  the  lower  house 
and  elected  state  senator,  and  in  1895  was  re- 
elected to  the  senate.  In  both  houses  he  served 
on  important  committees  and  w'as  connected 
with  many  measures  of  public  importance  both 
to  his  district  and  the  state  at  large.  Skill- 
ful law'yer  and  trained  practical  politician  as 
he  is,  it  is  very  doubtful  if  either  law  or  politics 
lay  as  near  his  heart  or  bring  out  his  best  effort 
as  does  the  cause  of  education.  In  1896  he 
was  appointed  superintendent  of  instruction 
for  Atlantic  county,  and  at  this  date  (1909) 
is  still  in  that  office.  He  stands  high  as  an 
educator,  is  eminently  practical,  and  has 
brought  the  schools  of  Atlantic  county  to  a 
state  of  efficiency  that  entitles  them  to  rank 
among  the  best  in  the  state. 

Mr.  Hoffman  holds  membership  in  the  New 
Jersey  State  and  Atlantic  County  Bar  Asso- 
ciation, the  New  Jersey  Association  of  School 
Superintendents,  and  the  South  Jersey  School 
Masters  Club.  To  these  professional  asso- 
ciations he  gives  his  loyal  support.  His  polit- 
ical club  is  the  Republican  of  Atlantic  City. 
He  holds  fraternal  membership  with  all  the 
Masonic  bodies  of  Atlantic  City:  Trinity 
Lodge,  No.  79,  Trinity  Chapter,  No.  38,  and 
Atlantic  Commandery.  He  is  a  member  of 
Lulu  Temple,  Mystic  Shine,  of  Philadelphia. 
He  is  unmarried.     In  his  threefold  capacity  of 


lawyer,  politician  and  educator,  his  time  is 
fully  occupied.  His  life  has  been  a  busy  one, 
and  he  will  long  be  remembered  for  the  valu- 
able public  service  he  has  rendered  his  adopted 
countv,  Atlantic,  and  his  loved  home,  Atlantic 
City. 


This  family  is  of  French  origin, 
LA  RL'E  the  name  being  originally  Le 
Roy,  and  the  immediate  ances- 
tors of  that  branch  of  the  family  now  under 
consideration  were  doubtless  among  the 
Huguenots  who  left  their  mother  country 
about  1666  and  took  refuge  in  Switzerland  and 
Palatinate,  many  at  the  same  time  emigrated 
to  England  and  America.  About  1680,  Franz, 
Jacques  and  Abraham  Le  Roy,  probably  all 
brothers,  and  the  two  last  named  certainly 
such,  came  from  Manheim,  "in  the  Palz,"  and 
located  in  the  province  of  New  York — Franz 
at  or  near  the  present  site  of  Albany,  New 
York,  where  there  was  a  considerable  colony 
of  Huguenots  under  the  leadership  of  Louis 
Du  Bois,  otherwise  "Louis  the  Walloon,"  who 
had  fled  from  Franz  to  Manheim  in  1658,  and 
thence  to  America  in  1660;  Jacques  on  the 
Hackensack  river  in  New  Jersey;  and  Abra- 
ham on  Staten  Island,  New  York. 

Abraham  LaRue,  the  first  member  of  this 
branch  of  the  family  of  whom  we  have  definite 
information,  settled  in  Bensalem  township, 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  doubt- 
less a  descendant  of  the  Staten  Island  and 
New  Jersey  families  of  the  same  name.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  a  wood-turner,  and  owned 
a  horsepower  turning-mill  where  he  made 
broom  handles.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics, 
and  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  He  married  Ann  Clark.  Children: 
Charles  Clark,  referred  to  below;  William; 
Wesley ;  Eliza  ;  possibly  other  children  died  in 
infancy. 

(II)  Charles  Clark,  son  of  Abraham  and 
.•\nn  (Clark)  LaRue,  was  born  in  Bensalem 
township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  about 
1834,  and  died  in  1889.  After  receiving  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  he  worked  on 
liis  father's  farm  in  the  summer  time  and  dur- 
ing the  winters  manufactured  brooms.  He 
was  a  deep  thinker  and  was  gifted  in  man)' 
ivays.  He  frequently  did  the  local  preaching 
for  many  months  at  a  time,  being  a  forcible 
and  magnetic  speaker  on  religious  as  well  as 
political  topics.  He  was  also  very  successful 
ijiith  as  a  prose  writer  and  a  poet,  his  works 
containing  a  unique  vein  of  excellent  humor. 
He  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  but  steadily  refused 


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to  hold  any  office.  He  married  Alary,  daugh- 
ter of  Robert  and  Ehzabeth  (  Hamilton)  Lett 
of  Llridgewater,  Pennsylvania.  Children  ;  Child, 
died  in  infancy;  Howard  H. ;  Pearson; 
Charles  F.,  referred  to  below;  Emma;  Annie; 
William  P>.,  referred  to  below;  George. 

(HI)  Charles  Frederick,  son  of  Charles 
Clark  and  Mary  ( Lott )  LaRue,  was  born  in 
Bensalem  township,  Bucks  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, July  9,  1857,  and  is  now  living  in  Bound 
Brook.  New  Jersey.  After  receiving  his  edu- 
cation in  the  public  scliools  he  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  until  he  was  twenty-one  years 
old,  when  he  went  to  Kansas  and  other  por- 
tions of  the  west  and  far  west  in  order  to  see 
the  country  and  to  prospect  for  gold.  Return- 
ing to  Bensalem  township  six  years  later,  he 
took  up  farming  again  until  after  his  mar- 
riage, when  he  removed  to  Philadelphia  and 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  business.  In  1902  he 
removed  again  to  Bound  Brook,  where  he 
has  been  ever  since,  engaged  in  partnership 
with  his  brother  in  the  gentlemen's  furnishing 
business.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Church  of  Bound 
Brook,  where  for  the  last  five  years  he  has 
been  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  and 
of  the  official  board  of  the  church.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  He  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Tacy  (Hall)  Leedom,  of  Richborough, 
Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania.,  Children:  Kars- 
ner  and  Adella  W. 

( III)  William  Burrell,  son  of  Charles  Clark 
and  Mary  (Lott)  LaRue,  was  born  at  Scotts- 
ville,  Southampton  township,  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania,  and  is  now  living  in  Bound 
Brook,  Somerset  county.  New  Jersey.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  when  seven- 
teen years  old  entered  the  employ  of  the  Phila- 
delphia &  Reading  railroad  as  telegraph  oper- 
ator. Here  he  was  promoted  again  and  again, 
each  time  to  a  more  important  station,  and 
hnally  posted  at  Bound  Brook.  In  1902  he 
resigned  his  position  with  the  Reading  railroad 
and  formed  the  partnership  with  his  brother  in 
the  gentlemen's  furnishing  business.  He  has 
been  justice  of  the  peace  and  tax  collector  for 
many  years,  and  is  also  custodian  of  the  school 
funds.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a 
p.ember  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
of  which  he  is  steward,  besides  being  on  a 
number  of  important  committees.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Junior  Order  of  United  Amer- 
ican Mechanics  and  in  1910  was  state  vice 
councilor  of  this  order.     He  married,  Septem- 


ber I,  1891,  Adella,  daughter  of  John  and  Han- 
nah (  Lacey)  Worthington,  of  Bucks  county, 
Pennsylvania.  Children  :  Mervin  W. ;  Archi- 
bald C. ;  LeRoy  B. ;  Edwin  D. ;  Winifred  W. 


Nehemiah  Taylor,  the  first 
TAYLC)R  member  of  this  family  of  whom 
we  have  definite  information, 
came  to  this  country  from  England  in  the  i8th 
century  with  several  brothers  who  settled  in 
various  parts  of  the  country.  Nehemiah 
finally  settled  in  Springfield,  New  Jersey,  be- 
came a  farmer,  and  his  old  home  is  still  stand- 
ing (1910)  on  the  Morris  turnpike  road  in 
Springfield,  near  the  crossing  of  the  Lacka- 
wanna railroad  over  the  said  road.  He,  with 
his  wife  and  a  number  of  his  descendants,  are 
liiiried  in  the  cemetery  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church. 

(II)  John  N.,  son  of  Nehemiah  Taylor,  was 
born  in  Springfield,  June  25,  1812,  the  young- 
est of  five  brothers — Aaron,  Benjamin,  Caleb, 
Jotham.  John  had  no  middle  name,  and  added 
the  middle  initial  "N"  in  his  young  manhood. 
Fie  became  a  merchant  tailor  in  Morristown, 
New  Jersey,  and  moved  to  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, about  1854.  He  died  November  8,  1856. 
Flis  wife  was  Sarah  Mead  Comstock,  of  Con- 
necticut. Children:  i.  Sarah  Jane,  married 
F.lias  Sanders,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey; 
children :  George  E.  Sanders,  who  was  twice 
no  children  ;  Elizabeth  Sanders,  un- 
and  Emma  Sanders,  married  Charles 
2.  James  W.,  married  Amanda  At- 
wood :  is  now  living  in  Millbrook,  New  York; 
children :  Frank  Taylor,  of  Waterbury,  Con- 
necticut, and  Lulu,  who  married  Elijah  Rus- 
sell, of  Millbrook,  New  York,  and  have  three 
children.  3.  William  H.,  married  Lydia  Mor- 
gan, of  Fremont,  Ohio.  4.  Margaret  S.,  mar- 
ried Rev.  R.  F.  Elsden ;  children :  Robert  Ed- 
ward Elsden,  of  Housatonic,  Massachusetts, 
married ;  and  Paul  Elsden,  of  Waverly,  Iowa. 
5.  Lucy  Jane,  married  Henry  R.  Williams,  of 
Newark:  children:  J.  Harry  Williams,  Irving 
Wilbur  \\'illiams  (q.  v.),  Elwood  M.  Williams. 
Howard  C.  Williams,  and  Sarah  Lucy  Will- 
iams, fi.  John  Nehemiah,  referred  to  below. 
7.  Charles  Edwarfl,  married ;  one  daughter. 

(HI)  John  Nehemiah.  son  of  John  N. 
and  Saraii  Mead  (Comstock)  Taylor,  was  born 
in  \Miippany.  Morris  county.  New  Jersey. 
After  receiving  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Newark  he  learned  the  jeweler's 
trade  with  Smillie  &  Dorrance  and  Shafer  & 
Douglas  of  Newark,  and  in  1871  was  given 
a  position  as  traveling  salesman  by  the  latter 


married, 
married : 
Navlor. 


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1085 


tinn.  Ill  February,  1879,  he  was  employed  by 
Krementz  &  Co.,  with  whom  he  remained  as 
employee  and  afterward  partner  imtil  1908, 
when  he  decided  to  retire  from  business  perma- 
nently. Mowever,  during  igo8  he  was  induced 
to  again  go  into  business  with  his  son-in-law, 
George  H.  Wright  and  his  friend  Archibald 
Rutherford,  and  in  January,  1909,  with  them 
formed  the  corporation  of  Taylor  &  Co.,  inc., 
manufacturers  of  jewelry.  Mr.  Taylor  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  for  many  years  was 
an  active  ofificial  member  first  of  the  Methodist 
Protestant  Church,  and  afterward  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Philadelphia  Jewelers'  Club,  of  the  Boston 
Jewelers'  Club,  a  former  president  of  the 
Brotherhood  of  Traveling  Jewelers,  and  a 
member  of  the  Baltusrol  Country  Club  of 
Short  Hills,  New  Jersey.  On  January  31, 
1872.  he  married  Margaret  V.,  born  in  New- 
ark, July  14,  1851,  daughter  of  James  Comp- 
ton  and  Hester  V.  (Westervelt)  Tingley.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Adelaide  V.,  referred  to  below.  2. 
John  Nelson,  born  November  30,  1878,  died 
July  18,  1908,  unmarried. 

(I\')  Adelaide  V.,  daughter  of  John  Nehe- 
miah  and  Margaret  \'.  (Tingley)  Taylor,  was 
born  in  Newark,  and  married  George  Hill 
Wright,  April  27,  1901. 

Mr.  Wright  was  born  in  Mt.  Kisco,  New 
York,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
New  York  and  New-ark,  and  after  being  con- 
nected as  employee  and  director  of  Unger 
Bros.,  silversmiths,  for  fourteen  years,  be- 
came secretary  and  treasurer  of  Taylor  &  Co., 
inc.,  jewelers,  of  New-ark,  New  Jersey. 


Elisha  Moody,  the  first  member 
MOODY  (if  this  family  of  which  we  have 
definite  information  is  the  de- 
scendant of  an  old  Massachusetts  and  New 
Hampshire  family  whose  founder,  William 
Moody,  emigrated  from  Ipswich,  England,  to 
Newbury,  Massachusetts,  where  he  died  Oc- 
tober 25.  1673.     He  married  Margaret , 

and  among  his  children  was  Edward  M.,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

dl)  Edward  M.,  son  of  Elisha  and  Mar- 
garet Moofly,  married  Eleanor  R.,  daughter 
of  Amos  and  Ellen  Sophia  (Briggs)  Ilolbrook. 
Among  their  children  was  Edward  Erie,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(JIT)  Edward  Erie,  son  of  Edward  M.  and 
Fleanor  M.  (Holbrook)  Moody,  was  born  in 
Cnckpo-t.  Niagara  county.  New  York,  May  6, 
1877,  and  is  now  living  at  45  Walnut  street, 


Ne'A-ark,  New  Jersey.  After  receiving  his  early 
education  in  the  Berkeley  School,  New  York, 
he  attended  Williams  College,  and  then  came 
l-j  New^  Jersey,  where  he  became  state  agent 
for  the  Provident  Savings  Life  Insurance 
Company,  and  after  serving  two  years  in  this 
capacity  was  appointed  cashier  of  the  same 
company  in  New  York.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  for  five  years  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Esse.x  Troop,  First  New  Jersey 
I,  avalry.  He  is  a  member  of  several  college 
societies,  of  ihe  Union  Club  of  Newark,  the 
Baltusrol  Golf  Club,  and  the  Town  and  Coun- 
ty Club.  Through  his  mother  (see  Briggs )  he 
is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati 
as  the  representative  of  Captain  Jeremiah 
Stiles.  He  is  a  communicant  of  Trinity  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church  in  Newark.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Newark,  P'ebruary  8,  1906,  Helen  Mat- 
thew-s,  daughter  of  Edward  Nichols  and  Cor- 
delia Catharine  (Matthews)  Crane,  who  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  27, 
1876;  (see  Crane  in  index). 

(The   Brigg.s   Line). 

Eliphalet  Briggs,  Sr.,  married  a  daughter 
of  Captain  Jeremiah  Stiles.  Her  father  was 
born  in  Lynchburg,  Massachusetts,  February 
23,  1744,  and  died  in  Keene,  New  Hampshire, 
December  6,  1800.  During  the  revolutionary 
war  he  cc>mmanded  Captain  Jeremiah  Stiles's 
company.  Colonel  Paul  Dudley  Sargent's  regi- 
ment of  Massachusetts  militia.  He  enlisted 
April  21,  1775,  for  three  months  apd  eighteen 
days  service,  he  at  that  time  belonging  to  the 
town  of  Keene.  New  Hampshire.  He  fought 
at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  wrote  the  only 
official  account  of  the  death  of  General  War- 
ren, to  a  committee  of  the  Continental  Con- 
gress then  sitting  in  New  York  City.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  committee  of  safety,  and 
a  delegate  to  the  state  convention  to  form  a 
plan  for  the  government  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

Eliphalet    (2),    son   of   Eliphalet    (i) 
(Stiles)   Briggs,  was  born  Febru- 

1788. 
Ellen  Sophia,  daughter  of   Eliphalet 

Jr.,  was  born  September  2,  1813.  She 
married  Amos  Holbrook,  who  was  born  May 
25,  1809,  and  their  daughter  Eleanor  R.  mar- 
ried Edward  M.  Moody,  and  became  the 
mother  of  Edward  Erie  Moody,  referred  to 
above,  who  is  the  present  representative  of 
Captain  Jeremiah  Stiles  in  the  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati. 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Peter  Lorry  Sebring,  the  first 
SEBRING     member  of  the  family  of  whom 

we  have  definite  information, 
was  born  in  Somerset  county,  New  Jersey, 
October  26,  1799,  and  died  there  September  6, 
1884.  He  may  have  been  the  son  of  the  Abra- 
ham Sebring  who  died  intestate  in  181 3,  and 
he  was  undoubtedly  a  descendant  of  Roelof 
Sebring,  of  Drenthe,  Holland,  whose  sons  Jan, 
Jacob  and  Daniel  Roelofse  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica and  settled  on  the  Raritan  prior  to  1699, 
and  whose  daughter,  Willemptje  Roelofse,  was 
in  Flatbush  before  1677,  and  was  second  wife 
of  Steven  Coerte  van  \'oorhees,  the  emigrant 
ancestor  of  that  family  in  this  country.  Peter 
Lorry  Sebrmg  learned  the  trade  of  cabinet 
making,  and  later  conducted  a  grain  and  gen- 
eral store  near  Millstone.  He  also  ran  a  line 
of  boats  between  Millstone  and  New  York 
City.  He  married.  October  30,  1823,  Cath- 
arina  Wortman  Van  Nest,  who  was  born  Janu- 
ary II,  1801,  and  died  July  14,  1885.  aged 
eighty-four  years  six  months  three  days.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Abraham,  referred  to  below.  2. 
John  \'an  Nest,  born  September  28,  1826; 
died  October  28,  1828.  3.  Mary  Elizabeth, 
born  September  19,  1828:  died  June  16,  1830. 
4.  Emiline,  born  April  5,  1831  ;  died  August 
20,  1831.  5.  Louisa,  twin  with  Emiline,  died 
August  20,  1887;  married  Ambrose  Smalley. 
6.  Maria  Cornell,  born  June  i,  1833;  died  No- 
vember 18,  1868;  married,  January,  1862,  Al- 
bert Drake.  7.  Peter  P.,  born  June  21,  1835; 
died  April  J  I.  1863:  married,  !\Iarch  13,  1861, 
Elizabeth  Price.  8.  Theodore  Frelinghuysen, 
born  June  16,  1838;  still  living:  married,  Janu- 
ary I,  1862,  Susanna  Maria  Rockfellow.  9. 
Gertrude  Broach,  born  December  23,  1840; 
died  May  28,  1850.  10.  Margaret  Ann,  born 
December  13,  1844;  died  February  2,  1845. 
II.  Frances  Dullois,  born  February  27,  1847: 
still  living;  married,  November  12,  1868,  Peter 
Boice  Randolph. 

(U)  Abraham,  son  of  Peter  Lorry  and 
Catharine  Wortman  (Van  Nest)  Sebring,  was 
born  at  Millstone,  Somerset  county.  New  Jer- 
sey. August  21,  1824.  and  died  March  3,  1879. 
being  killed  by  a  pair  of  vicious  mules  in  a 
runaway.  On  coming  of  age  he  settled  down 
to  farming  near  Bound  Brook,  Somerset  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey ;  he  was  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  he  attended  the  Bound  Brook  Pres- 
byterian Church,  of  which  his  parents  had 
been  members  since  1823.  He  married,  De- 
cember 24.  1846.  Margaret  Maria,  daughter  of 
John  and  Margaret  (Fisher)  Fulkerson.    Chil- 


dren:     Peter   A.,    referred    to   below;   John; 
Kate  M. 

(HI)  Peter  A.,  son  of  Abraham  and  Mar- 
garet Maria  (Fulkerson)  Sebring,  was  born  in 
Bound  Brook,  New  Jersey,  June  7,  1853,  and 
is  now  living  in  that  place.  For  this  early 
education,  he  attended  the  district  schools  near 
his  home,  and  afterwards  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  until  he  became  of  age,  when, 
after  a  period  of  working  out  for  the  farmers 
near  by,  he  found  a  position  with  the  company 
building  the  railroad  between  Bound  Brook 
and  Somerville  and  between  Bristol  and 
Doylestown,  Pennsylvania.  After  this  he  was 
employed  by  large  financial  interests  to  repre- 
sent them  in  Spanish  Honduras  and  Guate- 
mala, and  after  making  his  second  trip  to  these 
places  he  took  charge  of  a  large  force  of  men 
who  cleared  1830  acres  which  were  planted 
with  bananas.  He  also  had  charge  of  the  work 
of  constructing  the  dikes  which  were  needed 
to  protect  the  lowlands  of  the  plantation  from 
the  rivers,  and  he  was  also  manager  of  the 
company  store.  Mr.  Sebring  has  the  credit 
of  having  introduced  unto  Honduras  the  first 
mowing  machine  ever  seen  there,  and  his  life 
was  not  without  excitement  during  his  sojourn 
in  the  tropics,  for  he  was  involved  in  three 
revolutions,  and  in  the  memorable  "Southeni 
Coast  Flood,"  and  at  one  time  nearly  lost  his 
life  from  yellow  fever.  In  1906,  after  his 
return  home,  he  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Pathe  Freres,  moving  picture  manufacturing 
company,  with  whom  he  still  is.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  married,  April  3, 
1876,  Mary,  daughter  of  Abiel  and  Jennie 
(Smith)  Price.  Children:  Abraham;  Mar- 
garet, married  Charles  H.  Dunster  (q.  v. ) 


The  Hendricksons  of 
HENDRICKSON  South  Jersey  are  the 
descendants  of  that 
noble  band  of  Swedes  who  came  to  this  coun- 
try and  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  along 
the  shores  of  the  Delaware.  As  with  the  Dutch 
colonists,  the  Swedes  had  no  system  of  sur- 
names, and  it  becomes  a  matter  of  extreme 
difficulty  to  trace  back  the  generations,  espe- 
cially in  instances  like  the  present,  when  the 
christian  names  are  not  uncommon  ones.  An 
additional  difficulty  is  found  in  the  fact  that 
there  were  several  families  of  Hendricksons 
in  the  colony  of  West  Jersey,  and  the  records 
at  present  in  existence  and  accessible  are  too 
scanty  to  admit  of  a  detailed  classification  of 
individuals. 


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1087 


(I)  Job  Henilrickson,  of  Gibbsboro,  Cam- 
den county,  Xew  Jersey,  is  the  first  of  this 
branch  of  the  Hendrickson  family  of  whom 
we  have  definite  record,  but  there  are  many 
indications  to  prove  that  lie  was  not  the  first 
member  to  settle  in  that  vicinity.  He  was  a 
dealer  in  timber  and  lumber  land,  and  also 
manufactured  charcoal  which  he  sold  in  the 
Philadelphia  market.  He  cleared  much  of 
the  land  in  and  around  Cjibbsboro  at  an  early 
day.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  he 
and  his  family  were  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  Mr.  Hendrickson  married 
and  his  children  were:  1.  William  Everhart, 
see  forward.  2.  Joseph.  3.  John,  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years.  4.  Anna,  married 
^\'illiam  Dill.  5.  Elizabeth,  married  James 
JMasterson,  of  Philadelphia.  6.  Mary,  married 
Jesse  Pratt,  of  Blackwood,  Camden  county. 
New  Jersey.  7.  Lydia,  married  Henry  C. 
Cattell,  of  Washington,  District  of  Columbia. 
8.  Deborah,  married  Philip  Dixson,  who  lost 
his  eyesight  in  the  civil  war. 

(II)  \\'illiam  Everhart,  son  of  Job  Hend- 
rickson, of  Gibbsboro,  was  born  in  1818.  He 
married  Emeline,  born  September  12,  1821, 
one  of  the  eight  children  of  Richard  Davis,  of 
Chew's  Landing.  Children:  i.  Harriet  A., 
married  Espin  Ashton,  who  died  in  1893  (  ?). 
2.  Mary  E.,  married  Isaac  Pidgeon.  3.  Joseph 
Davis,  see  forward.  4.  Richard  D.  5.  William 
E.  6.  Emma  Minerva,  married  Jacob  Ander- 
son. 7.  Levi  L.  All  of  these  children  were 
living  in  1909. 

(III)  Joseph  Davis,  third  child  and  eldest 
son  of  William  Everhart  and  Emeline  (Davis) 
Hendrickson,  was  born  in  Gibbsboro,  New  Jer- 
sey, December  12,  1843,  ^^^  i*  "ow  residing 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Camden  county.  New 
Jersey,  but  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war 
left  school  and  September  2,  1862,  enlisted 
from  Center  township,  Camden  township,  as 
a  private  in  Company  I,  Twenty-fourth  Regi- 
ment New  Jersey  Volunteers.  He  served  for 
nine  months  and  was  an  active  participant  in 
the  battles  of  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellors- 
ville.  In  addition  to  these  he  was  engaged  in 
several  other  skirmishes.  At  the  expiration  of 
his  term  of  enlistment  he  returned  to  his  home, 
living  for  a  time  on  his  father's  farm,  then 
went  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  became  a  clerk 
in  the  store  of  his  uncle,  who  was  one  of  the 
largest  produce  dealers  in  the  city  at  that  time. 
With  this  uncle,  James  Masterson,  he  remained 
until  1868,  when  he  started  in  the  ])roduce 
business    for   himself    in    Philadelphia.      The 


style  of  the  firm  was  at  first  Taylor  &  Hend- 
rickson, but,  after  a  number  of  changes  in  the 
firm  name,  it  was  incorporated  in  1909  as  the 
J.  D.  Hendrickson  Company,  with  Mr.  Hend- 
rickson as  president.  In  addition  to  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  this  concern,  Mr.  Hendrick- 
son has  found  time  and  energy  to  engage  in  a 
number  of  other  business  enterprises,  in  all  of 
which  he  fills  the  office  of  president.  Among 
them  may  be  mentioned :  The  Art  Workers' 
Buikling  and  Loan  Association,  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  successful  organizations  of 
its  kind  in  Philadelphia ;  The  Ledger  Building 
and  Loan  Association  of  Philadelphia  ;  and  The 
Lee  Pope  Fruit  Company,  of  Crawford  coun- 
ty, Georgia,  a  corporation  having  at  the  pres- 
ent time,  in  active  bearing,  one  hundred  thous- 
and peach  trees,  from  which  in  1908  there 
were  shipped  from  Georgia  sixty-three  thous- 
and crates  of  fruit.  Mr.  Hendrickson  is  also 
a  director  in  the  Philadelphia  Cold  Storage 
Warehouse  Company,  and  a  member  of  the 
Manufacturers'  Club  of  Philadelphia.  His 
Masonic  affiliations  are  many,  and  in  this  field 
he  is  enthusiastic  and  prominent.  He  became 
a  Mason  in  Vaux  Lodge,  No.  393,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  of  Philadelphia,  withdraw- 
ing from  it  in  order  to  become  a  charter  mem- 
ber of  Robert  A.  Lamberton  Lodge,  No.  487, 
of  Philadelphia, and  of  this  lodge  he  is  the  senior 
past  master  and  its  representative  to  the  Right 
W'orshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  St.  John's  Chapter,  No. 
232,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Philadelphia ;  he 
has  taken  all  of  the  Scottish  Rite  degrees  in 
I'Veemasonry  up  to  and  including  the  Thirty- 
second  ;  he  is  a  member  of  Mary  Commandery, 
No.  36,  Knights  Templar,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  In 
politics  Mr.  Hendrickson  is  a  Republican,  and 
i'^  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Association  of 
Philadelphia. 

He  married,  December  2,  1872,  Mary  E., 
horn  August  20,  1841,  daughter  of  Michael 
Eveland,  of  Bloomfield,  New  Jersey,  and  has 
one  child :  Jennie  Louise,  born  February  10, 
1876. 

\\'illiam   Hastings,  the  first 
HA.STIN'(_iS      member    of    the    family    of 
whom   we  have  definite  in- 
formation, was  a   farmer  of  Ayrshire,  Scot- 
land.    He  married,  and  had  among  other  chil- 
dren a  son  David,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  David,  son  of  William  Hastings,  was 
born  in  Scotland,  Se])tember  23,  1821.  He 
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went  to  Ireland,  where  for  many  years  he 
was  a  successful  auctioneer  of  live  stock.  In 
religion  he  was  a  Presbyterian.  He  married 
April  24,  1854,  Jennie  Dick;  children:  Jessie, 
born  March  5,  1856;  Flora,  December  8,  1857; 
John,  Way  11,  1859;  Margaret,  November  8, 
i860:  Agnes,  July  6,  1862;  David,  see  below; 
Sarah,  born  October  25,  1866;  William,  June 
12,  1870,  died  in  infancy. 

(IIIj  David,  son  of  David  and  Jennie 
(Dick)  Hastings,  was  born  February  7,  1864, 
in  Belfast,  Ireland.  After  attending  school 
he  entered  the  office  of  John  Rowan  and  Sons, 
Ltd.,  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  and  remained  there 
five  years.  In  1882  he  came  to  America,  and 
in  December  of  the  same  year  entered  the 
office  of  the  Bound  Brook  Woolen  Mills,  of 
which  he  is  now  secretary.  He  served  three 
years  in  the  city  council  at  the  time  when  the 
big  trolley  fight  was  on,  his  sound  judgment 
and  business  ability  proving  of  much  value. 
Mr.  Hastings  is  secretary  of  the  Bound  Brook 
Water  Company ;  director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank,  also  of  the  Building  and  Loan 
Association,  and  a  promoter  of  real  estate.  He 
is  in  religion  a  Presbyterian ;  in  politics  a  Re- 
publican. He  is  a  Mason,  and  a  member  of 
the  Eastern  Star  Lodge.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 2"],  1888,  Florence,  daughter  of  William 
Manuel,  of  Newark,  Delaware ;  children : 
David  AL,  born  July  4,  1895;  Anna  F.,  May 
17,  1898:  Jessie,  June  13.  1906;  Kenneth 
Drummiind,  September  20,   1908. 


The    family    here    described 
KL'EHNLE     have   been   Germans    as    far 

back  as  can  be  ascertained, 
and  in  their  native  country  were  respectable 
people  of  the  middle  class,  the  men  having 
trades,  and  attaining  a  fair  degree  of  prosper- 
ity. In  this  country  they  have  made  and  taken 
l)rominent  places  among  their  fellows,  and 
have  been  of  considerable  ambition  and  ability. 
Their  integrity  and  usefulness  have  been 
proven,  and  they  have  won  reputations  for 
patriotism. 

( I )  Louis  Kuehnle  was  born  January  6, 
1827,  at  Ilacmusheim,  in  the  principality  of 
Batlen,  Germany,  and  died  August  7.  1885,  at 
Egg  Harbor,  New  Jersey.  In  his  native  coun- 
try he  received  the  training  requisite  for  a  first 
class  chef,  and  came  to  America  in  1849,  ob- 
taining em])loyment  at  some  of  the  leading 
hotels  and  restaurants  of  the  country.  While 
in  Washington.  D.  C.,  he  had  the  honor  of 
presiding  as  chef  at  the  hotel  where  President 
Buchanan  boarded.     In    1858  he  opened  the 


New  York  Hotel  at  Egg  Harbor,  being  con- 
nected with  same  until  his  death.  January  9, 
1875,  he  purchased  and  opened  Kuehnle's 
Hotel,  at  Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  placing 
same  under  the  management  of  his  son,  Louis 
K.  He  was  held  in  high  esteem  by  his  fellow 
citizens  at  Egg  Harbor,  who  several  times 
elected  him  to  the  office  of  mayor ;  he  was  also 
a  member  of  the  city  council  and  the  school 
board.  He  married,  in  1852,  Katherine  Werd- 
rann,  of  Germany,  and  they  had  three  sons — 
George,  Louis  and  Henry. 

(II)  Louis  (2),  son  of  Louis  (i)  and  Kath- 
erine (Werdrann)  Kuehnle,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 25,  1857,  in  New  York  City,  and  received 
a  liberal  education.  In  1875  h^  became  man- 
ager of  Kuehnle's  Hotel,  opened  in  Atlantic 
City  by  his  father,  and  eventually  became  sole 
owner.  He  is  ambitious  and  enterprising,  and 
has  become  interested  in  various  other  enter- 
prises. November  3,  1903,  Mr.  Kuehnle  organ- 
ized the  Marine  Trust  Company  of  Atlantic 
City,  with  a  capitalization  of  $100,000,  becom- 
ing its  first  president,  a  position  still  held  by 
him ;  this  financial  institution  has  been  im- 
mensely successful,  and  has  already  accumu- 
lated a  surplus  of  $100,000.  He  is  treasurer 
of  the  Atlantic  City  Brewery  Company,  and 
owner  of  extensive  real  estate  in  Atlantic  City, 
where  he  is  a  prominent  and  much  esteemed 
citizen.  He  is  president  of  the  Board  of  Water 
Commissioners,  having  been  appointed  by  the 
mayor  at  the  time  the  water  i)lant  became  the 
property  of  the  municipality,  and  having  ably 
filled  the  position  ever  since.  He  is  Republican 
in  political  views,  and  is  known  as  the  energetic 
leader  of  the  party  in  Atlantic  City.  He  is 
president  of  the  Consumers'  Gas  and  Fuel 
Company  of  Atlantic  City. 

Air.  Kuehnle  is  popular  and  much  sought 
after,  and  belongs  to  the  following  organiza- 
tions :  Trinity  Lodge,  No.  79,  A.  F.  and  A. 
M.:  Trinity  Chapter,  No.  38,  R.  A.  M. ;  At- 
lantic Commandery,  K.  T.,  of  Atlantic  City ; 
Lulu  Temj)le,  Alystic  Shrine,  of  Philadelphia; 
Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  Order 
of  Eagles:  Atlantic  Avenue  Business  League; 
Republican  Club  of  Atlantic  City;  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  Atlantic  City  Automobile  Club,  and 
Commodore  of  Atlantic  City  Yacht  Club.  Mr. 
Kuehnle  is  unmarried. 


George  Ross,  the    founder  of  the 

ROSS      distinguished   family  of   his  name 

in  New  Jersey,  was  a  Scotchman 

by  birth,  and  one  of  those  who  were  taken 

jirisoner  by   the  parliamentary   forces   at  the 


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battle  of  Dunbar,  September  3.  1630.  Owing 
tci  bis  youth,  being  then  scarcely  twenty  years 
old,  he  was  sentenced  to  transjiortation  to  the 
New  England  colonies,  and  he  was  sent  over 
a  few  months  later  in  the  ship  "John  and 
Sarah,"  of  London,  John  Green,  master,  arriv- 
ing in  Boston  before  July  28,  165 1,  when  the 
Rev.  John  Cotton  refers  to  him  in  a  letter. 
He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  he  found  his 
way  to  New  Haven,  before  1658,  when  he  was 
made  freeman  of  that  colony.  About  1670 
he  removed  to  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  was  appointed  lieutenant  December 
3,  1683,  and  one  of  the  judges  of  small  causes 
^lay  I,  1686.  He  was  also  one  of  the  two 
deacons  of  the  church  in  Mr.  Harriman's  time. 
He  died  at  Elizabethtown,  in  January,  1705. 
He  married,  in  New  Haven,  December  7,  1658, 
Constance  Little.  Children:  i.  John  referred 
to  below.  2.  George,  baptized  in  Alay,  1662; 
died  in  1717;  married  Hannah,  possibly  a 
S])inning.     3.  Daniel,  born  October  10,  1663; 

married     (first) ;     (second)     Abigail, 

widow  of  his  brother  John.  4.  Elizabeth, 
born  December  16,  1665;  died  in  1742;  mar- 
ried Daniel  Price.  S-  Hannah,  born  August 
14.  1(68. 

(II)  John,  son  of  George  and  Constance 
( Little )  Ross,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Con- 
necticut, February  23.  1660,  and  died  at  West- 
field.  New  Jersey.  December  9,  1702.  He  mar- 
ried Abigail,  said  to  have  been  an  Ailing,  who 
after  his  death  became  the  second  wife  of  her 
deceased  husband's  brother  Daniel  Ross.  Chil- 
dren :    I.  John,  born  1683;  died  1764;  married 

I'rsula  .     2.  George,  referred  to  below. 

3  Abigail,  born  1687;  married  Jonathan  Mil- 
ler. 4.  Sarah,  born  1689;  married  Peter  Kings- 
land.  5.  Nathaniel,  born  1691  ;  died  about 
1738:  married  Jane  Price.  6.  James,  born 
1693;  died  unmarried,  1723.     7.  Joseph,  born 

1695  ■  niarried  Elizabeth .    8.  P>enjamin, 

born  1697;  died  about  1760. 

(III)  George,  son  of  John  and  .Abigail 
Ross,  w-as  born  in  W'estfield,  in  1685,  and  died 
there  in  1750.  His  wife's  name  is  unknow'n. 
Children  :  John,  referred  to  below  ;  George  ; 
David,  niarried  Hannah  Scudder :  Susanna, 
married  Edward  Griffin ;  Hannah,  married 
Josiah  Crane;  Phebe,  unmarried  in  1750. 

(IV)  John,  son  of  George  Ross,  of  West- 
field,  was  born  there  December  24,  1715,  and 
died  April  7,  1798.  In  1748  he  was  alderman 
of  the  borough  of  Elizabeth.  He  married 
(first)  June  11,  173''),  Hannah  Talmage.  born 
July  6,  171 5,  died  in  1753.  He  married  (sec- 
ond)   January  22,   1754,   Joanna,  daughter  of 

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Alderman  William  Miller,  and  widow  of 
Moses  Crane,  who  died  September  13.  1779. 
He  married  (third)  February  27,  1780,  Su- 
sanna, sister  to  Alderman  Miller,  the  aunt  of 
his  second  wife,  and  widow  of  Jeremiah  Crane, 
w'ho  died  in  November,  1797.  Children,  all  by 
first  marriage:  i.  John,  born  August  26,  1737; 
died  1800;  married  Sarah  Scudder.  2.  Re- 
becca,  born   June    14,    1739;   married    (first) 

Cornelius  Ludlam  ;   (second),  Frazee. 

3.  Timothy,  referred  to  below.  4.  Sarah,  born 
July  II,  1743:  died  August  4.  1717;  married 
Andrew  Miller.  5,  Ichabod,  born  September 
24,  1745:  died  January  24,  1810;  married 
(first)  Elizabeth  Davis;  (second),  Elizabeth 
Lamb.  6.  James,  born  November  9,  1731  ; 
died  October  12,  1826;  married  (first)  Han- 
nah Thompson;  (second),  Sarah  Thompson. 

(V)  Timothy,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Talmage)  Ross,  was  born  in  Westfield,  Au- 
gust 26,  1741.  He  niarried,  March  20,  1765, 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  Bryant.  Child  :  Sam- 
uel referred  to  below. 

( \T )  Samuel,  son  of  Timothy  and  Mary 
( Bryant)  Ross,  was  born  about  1766.  He 
married  (first)  Huldah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Randolph;  (second),  a  daughter  of  Ezekiel 
Day.  Children,  four  by  first  marriage :  Tim- 
othy, married  Sarah  Laing :  I\Iilan.  referred  to 

below  ;   John  ;   Sarah,   married Coon  ; 

James :  Daughter,  married   Peter   Houseman. 

(\'II)  Milan,  son  of  Samuel  and  Huldah 
( Randolph )  Ross,  was  born  in  L'nion  county. 
New  Jersey.  He  married  Susan  Force.  Chil- 
dren :  Samuel;  Randolph,  referred  to  below; 
John:  William:  Susan,  married  Daniel,  son  of 
Timothy  and  Sarah  (Laing)  Ross,  referred 
to  above. 

(\'III)  Randolph,  son  of  Milan  and  Susan 
(  Force )  Ross,  was  born  in  Laiion  county.  New 
Jersey.  He  was  a  carriage  maker  in  Railway. 
Child :    ]\Iilan,  referred  to  below. 

(  IN  )  Milan,  son  of  Randolph  Ross  of  Rah- 
way,  was  born  there  in  1830,  and  died  there  in 
i8fi^).  He  began  life  as  a  carriage  salesman 
for  his  father,  and  later  was  taken  into  part- 
nership with  him,  the  firm  name  becoming 
Randolph  Ross  «S:  Son,  the  manufactory  being 
in  Rahway  and  the  depot  in  New  York  City 
He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Aaron  Dol- 
beer,  by  his  second  wife.  Children:  Emma 
A.:  Leonard  Chapin ;  Milan,  Randolph,  ami 
Benjamin  Parvin,  all  referred  to  below. 

(N)  Milan  (2),  son  of  Milan  (i)  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Dolbeer)  Ross,  was  born  in  Rahway, 
January  6,  1861,  and  is  now  living  at  Asbury 
Park,  New  Jersey.    He  received  his  earlv  edu- 


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cation  in  the  public  schools,  which  he  left 
however  when  he  was  about  thirteen  years  old 
in  order  to  become  a  clerk  for  Hon.  James  A. 
Bradley,  who  was  developing  the  Jersey  Coast. 
In  the  spring  of  1877  he  entered  the  real  estate 
and  insurance  office  of  Willisford  Dey,  where 
he  remained  until  18S5,  rising  in  the  first  six 
years  from  clerk  to  cashier  and  then  to  office 
manager.  In  these  various  positions  he  was 
noted  for  his  unfailing  courtesy  and  constant 
attention  to  his  business,  which,  as  his  fellow 
citizens  grew  to  know  him,  made  him  not  only 
highly  respected  but  very  popular.  January  i, 
1885,  he  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account,  starting  the  Milan  Ross  Agency,  deal- 
ing in  real  estate  and  insurance,  and  later  in 
property  developments,  and  having  his  offices 
in  Asbury  Park  and  Allenhurst.  From  the 
outset  his  venture  was  successful  and  has 
steadily  increased  from  year  to  year.  In  1894 
Mr,  Ross  admitted  his  brother  Randolph  Ross 
into  partnership  in  the  agency,  and  being  far- 
seeing  and  progressive,  he  developed  several 
large  deals,  while  in  addition  to  purchasing  and 
developing  local  real  estate  he  promoted  and 
managed  the  Deal  Reach  Land  and  Improve- 
ment Company,  and  negotiated  the  purchase 
of  the  Hathaway,  Drummond  and  Hendrick- 
son  farms,  situated  near  Asbury  Park,  at  an 
expenditure  of  $380,000.  On  this  tract  the 
company  laid  out  the  hamlet  of  Darlington, 
which  name  was  later  changed  to  Deal.  Mr. 
Ross  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  served  as 
collector  of  Asbury  Park  from  1884  until  the 
organization  of  the  city  government,  when  he 
became  city  treasurer,  and  served  continuously 
in  that  capacity,  endorsed  at  each  re-election 
by  the  citizens  irrespective  of  party,  until  1907. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Asbury  Park  for  ten  years,  and  also  in  the 
Ivlonmouth  Tru,st  and  Safe  Deposit  Company. 
He  is  treasurer  of  the  Asbury  Park  Amuse- 
ment Companies,  which  provide  amusement 
attractions  for  summer  visitors.  He  has  served 
for  years  as  foreman  of  the  Wesley  Engine 
Company,  and  is  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Asbury  Park  fire  department.  In  1898  he  en- 
listed in  the  Monmouth  County  Troop,  and  at 
tlie  end  of  his  term  of  enlistment,  May  30. 
1904,  re-enlisted  and  served  one  year.  He  is  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  142,  F.  and  A.  M.  of 
Asbury  Park:  of  Standard  Chapter,  R.  A.  M., 
of  Long  Branch:  of  Corson  Commandery  No. 
13,  Knights  Templar;  of  Mecca  Temple,  No.  i. 
Ancient  Arabic  Order  of  the  Nobles  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  of  Xew  York  City ;  of  the  Tall 
Cedars  of  Lebanon  :  of  the  Deal  Countrv  Club, 


and  of  the  B.  P.  O.  E.  Although  deeply 
engrossed  with  his  business  afl:'airs,  Mr.  Ross 
is  ever  ready  to  give  much  of  his  time  and 
attention  to  aid  the  advancement  of  education 
and  politics,  and  to  assist  all  worthy  enter- 
prises having  the  progress  of  the  city  as  their 
objects.  He  married,  November  4,  1886,  Nelly 
\'.,  daughter  of  David  H.  and  Lydia  Wyckoff 
of  Matawan,  New  Jersey.  Children :  Milan, 
born  July  30,  1891 ;  Rodney  WyckofT,  August 
18,  1905. 

(X)  Randolph,  son  of  Milan  (i)  and  Eliz- 
alieth  (Dolbeer)  Ross,  was  born  in  Rahway, 
Cnion  county.  New  Jersey,  October  19,  1862, 
and  is  now  living  at  Asbury  Park.  For  his 
early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  of  Rahway,  and  then  graduated  from 
a  military  academy,  after  which  he  entered  tlie 
leal  estate  office  of  Hon.  James  Bradley,  \\'ith 
whom  he  remained  for  eighteen  )ears  until 
1894,  when  he  became  the  partner  of  his 
brother  Milan  Ross,  and  the  two  formed  their 
well-known  firm  for  dealing  in  insurance,  real 
estate  and  mortgage  loans,  and  projierty  devel- 
opment. Mr.  Ross  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  for  twenty-four  years  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Health  of  Asbury  Park,  the 
greater  part  of  the  time  serving  as  clerk  of 
the  board.  For  fourteen  years  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Education  of  Asbury 
Park,  and  the  last  year  served  as  its  president. 
He  is  a  member  of  Lodge  No.  142,  F.  and  .A.. 
M.,  of  Asbury  Park,  and  for  the  last  twenty- 
seven  years  has  been  a  member  of  the  official 
board  of  the  First  Alethodist  Church  of  Asbury 
Park,  for  ten  years  serving  as  the  president  of 
its  board  of  trustees.  Like  his  brother,  Mr. 
Ross  has  made  himself  a  host  of  warm  friends 
by  his  pleasing  personality,  his  unfailing  cour- 
tesy, and  his  many  fine  qualities  both  of  heart 
and  head,  while  his  business  ability,  coupled 
with  his  willingness  to  devote  time  and  atten- 
tion to  everything  wdiich  benefit  or  promote 
the  best  public  interests,  have  placed  him  high 
among  the  substantial  and  representative  men 
of  the  community.  He  married,  April  29, 
1886,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Gilies- 
I^e,  of  Philadelphia.  Children:  i.  Randolph, 
born  April  3,  1887;  Thomas  Gillespie,  Sep- 
tember 24,  1889:  Henry  Mitchell,  August  27, 
1891. 

(X)  Benjamin  Parvin,  son  of  Milan  and 
Elizabeth  (Dolbeer)  Ross,  was  born  in  Rah- 
way, Union  county.  New  Jersey.  March  16, 
1866,  and  is  now  living  in  Asbury  Park.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
.\sburv  Park,  and  when  he  was  sixteen  vears 


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old  he  started  to  learn  the  trade  of  manufac- 
turing candy,  but  gave  this  up  in  order  to 
accept  a  clerkship  with  his  brothers  Milan  and 
Randolph  Ross.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  a  member  of  the  Junior  O.  U.  A.  M.  He 
married,  September  28,  1899,  Ida  May  Free- 
man. Children  :  I'arvin  I'reenian,  born  Is'ovem- 
ber  8,  1900:  Marjorie,  July  25,  1902. 


Samuel  Manning,  the  first 
MAXXIXG  member  of  this  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  infor- 
mation was  born  in  Hunterdon  county.  New 
Jersey,  in  1749,  and  died  there  November  10, 
1832.  His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Children: 
I.  Helen,  born  June  16,  1772.  2*  Margaret, 
September  18,  1774.  3.  Thomas,  July  18,  1776. 
4.  Elizabeth,  November  24,  1778.  5.  John, 
I'ebruary  9,  1781.  6.  Leah,  August  9,  1783. 
7,  Catharine,  December  12,  1785:  married 
Nicholas  J-".,  son  of  W'illiam  and  Catharine 
(Pickle)  Apgar.  8.  Mary,  horn  April  12,  1787. 
9.  Samuel,  referred  to  below.  10.  Hannah 
\"an  \'endet,  born  November  20,  1791.  11. 
Sarah,  July  9,  1795. 

(II)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  Man- 
ning, was  born  in  Hunterdon  county,  New 
Jersey,  September  21,  1789,  and  died  there 
October  18,  1837.  He  married  Nancy,  born 
July  12,  1792.  died  March  12,  1848,  daughter 
of  William  and  Catharine  (Pickle)  Apgar  (see 
Apgar).  Children:  i.  James  Apgar,  born 
January  i,  181 1.  2.  W'illiam  A])gar,  referred 
to  below.     3.  Sarah,  born  December  18,  1814: 

married Henry,  of  New  York  City.   4. 

Catharine,  born  January  4,  1817:  married  Jo- 
seph I'otts.  5.  Isaac  B.,  born  April  6,  1819. 
6.  John  W.,  October  10,  1821.  7.  Christian 
\\'.,  December  9,  1824;  married  Henry  Max- 
well. 8.  Hannah,  born  March  6,  1826;  married 
Henry  Eckman.  9.  Aaron  D.,  born  June  17, 
1828.     10.  Samuel,  December  27,  1830. 

(III)  William  Apgar,  son  of  Samuel  (2), 
and  Nancy  (Apgar)  Manning,  was  born  in 
Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  August  16, 
1812,  and  died  at  Mount  Pleasant,  same  coun- 
ty, June  6,  1895.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a  shoe- 
maker at  Mount  Pleasant,  a  W  hig  in  politics, 
and  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church.  He  mar- 
ried, February  7,  1835,  Hannah,  born  Febru- 
ary I,  181 5,  died  August  2^,  1897,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Mary  (Daisy)  Aller.  Her  parents 
lived  at  Evansville,  Rock  county,  Wisconsin, 
but  her  great-grandfather  was  probably  the 
Peter  .\ller  who  came  to  Philadelphia  in  the 
ship  "Two  Brothers,"  in  1752,  and  settled  in 
Amwell,  Hunterdon  county,  New  Jersey.  Peter 


Aller  died  leaving  a  widow  Elizabeth,  three 
sons  and  seven  daughters.  One  son,  Peter, 
remained  in  New  Jersey;  the  other  two,  John 
and  Philij),  it  is  believed  went  west  from  New 
Jersey  to  IVnnsylvania,  then  to  Ohio  and 
finally  to  Wisconsin,  and  one  of  them  was 
])robably  the  father  of  Henry  Aller  and  grand- 
father of  Hannah  (  .A.ller )  Manning.  Chil- 
dren: Joseph  Ketchum,  refered  to  below; 
John  Wall;  Elizabeth,  married  William  Beers, 
and  had  two  children ;  Harriet,  married  David 
Beers  ;  children  :  Frank  Beers  ;  Hannah  Beers  ; 
Ella  Beers. 

( I\' )  Rev.  Joseph  Ketchum  Manning,  D.  D., 
son  of  William  Ajigar  and  Ilannah  ( Aller ) 
Manning,  was  born  in  Mount  Pleasant,  Hunt- 
erdon county.  New  Jersey,  and  is  now  living 
in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  where  he  is  pastor  of 
Calvary  Baptist  Church.  He  started  life  as 
a  farmer,  went  to  Claverack,  New  York,  then 
studied  for  the  ministry,  and  after  ordination 
entered  on  his  life  work  there.  He  married, 
September  2/,  1866,  Beulah,  born  in  1836, 
died  January  2~,  1893,  daughter  of  Lewis  and 
.\nn  R.  (Salter)  Young  (see  Young  and  Sal- 
ter). Children:  Louis  Young  and  Harriet 
A.,  referred  to  below;  Frank  L. 

( \' )  Louis  Young,  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  Joseph 
Ketchum  and  Beulah  (Young)  Manning,  was 
born  at  Glen  (Gardner,  Hunterdon  county.  New 
Jersey.  September  21,  1867,  and  is  now  living 
at  Red  Fiank,  New  Jersey.  He  received  his 
early  education  at  the  private  school  at  Key- 
l>ort,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  conduct- 
ed by  Mr.  George  Holiues,  after  which  he  at- 
tended the  Glenwood  Institute  at  Matawan. 
In  1883  he  started  in  the  life  insurance  busi- 
ness, working  for  the  Mutual  Reserve  Fund 
Life  Insurance  Company  until  1898,  being  in 
their  home  office  for  eight  years  and  for  the 
succeeding  seven  in  their  IBoston  office.  Ill 
health,  the  cause  of  his  resigning  his  position, 
forced  him  to  remain  inactive  for  a  year,  but 
in  1899  he  became  the  general  manager  of  the 
Monmouth  Ice  Company,  and  since  then  has 
been  engaged  in  the  coal  and  ice  business.  He  is 
a  ReiHiblican  in  i)oIitics,  and  for  three  years 
from  1905  to  1907  was  a  member  of  the  town 
council.  In  1908  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Red 
Bank,  but  after  serving  as  such  for  two  months 
he  resigned  in  order  to  accept  the  position  of 
postmaster  of  Red  Bank,  February  20,  1909, 
a  position  he  is  still  holding.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Mystic  Lodge,  No.  21,  F.  and  A.  M., 
Red  Bank,  of  which  he  became  master  in  1908. 
He  is  also  a  trustee  of  the  Baptist  Church  of 
Red  Bank.   He  married,  in  Red  Bank,  January 


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28.  1892,  Ada,  born  there  August  4,  1867, 
daughter  of  W'ilham  H.  and  Sarah  Matilda 
(  Davis  )  Slierman.  Children  :  Beulah  Young, 
born  December  6,  1894,  and  Sherman  A.,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1906.  Children  of  William  H.  and 
Sarah  Matilda  (Davis)  Sherman:  Ada,  re- 
ferred to  above ;  Albert  Percy,  married  Emma 
Mount;  William  H.  (2d),  married  Clara 
Mount ;  child,  Marian  G. 

(\')  Harriet  A.,  daughter  of  Rev.  Joseph 
Ketchum  and  Beulah  (Young)  Manning,  was 
born  in  Glen  Gardner,  Hunterdon  county, 
iXewJersey.  She  married, in  1895.  Hon.  Thomas 
W'hitaker,  son  of  Hon.  William  Barrett  and 
.\nna  ^laria  (Colder)  Trenchard,  who  was 
born  at  Centreton,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey, 
December  13,  1863;  (see  Trenchard). 

(The    Apgar    Line). 

The  name  Apgar  was  originally  spelt  Eb- 
gert.  then  Ebcher,  still  later  Ebgar,  and  finally 
assumed  its  present  form  about  the  time  that 
John  Adam  Ebger  came  from  the  Swiss  bord- 
ers of  Lombardy,  in  Italy,  to  Philadelphia, 
September  13.  1749.  He  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  there.  His  wife's  name  is  unknown. 
Children:  i.  Herbert,  of  East  Cokesburg ;  died 

1800;  married  (first)  ;  (second)  Anna 

Eick.  2.  Heinrich,  born  1745;  died  October 
19,  1832;  married  (first)  Anna  Maria  Nixon; 

(second) Groendyke.     3.  Jacob,  born 

July  18,  1746;  died  May  6,  1814;  married 
Hannah  Charity,  daughter  of  Conrad  Pickle. 
4    Peter,  of   Lebanon,   New   Jersey ;   married 

(first)    Catharine    Clover;    (second) . 

5.  John  Peter,  died  1792;  married  Elizabeth 
McCracken.  6.  William,  referred  to  below. 
7.  Adam,  died  1815;  married  Anna  Barbara 
Manning,  probably  a  sister  to  Samuel  Man- 
ning, referred  to  above.  8.  Frederick,  of 
Alexandria  township.  Hunterdon  county,  born 
Cktober  7,  1753:  died  March  5.  1832;  married 
Elizabeth  F'hilhower.  9.  Conrad,  married 
(first)  ]\Iary  Farley  ;  (second)  Charity  Sutton. 
10.  George,  went  west.  11.  Catharine,  mar- 
ried (first )  John  Emery  ;  (second)  John  Sharp. 
(  H  )  William,  son  of  John  Adam  Ebger  (or 
Apgar,  as  he  signed  his  name  both  ways),  was 
born  in  1752  and  died  April  9,  1836.  He  lived 
in  Clinton,  New  Jersey,  and  married,  .-Xpril  17, 
1774,  Catharine,  born  in  1752,  died  December 
9.  1831.  daughter  of  Conrad  Pickle.  Children: 
I.  Joanna  (.Gertrude,  born  March  3,  1775.  2. 
Hannah,  March  3,  1776;  died  young.  3.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  1777:  died  young.  4.  Nicholas 
P..  June  29,  1779:  married  Catharine,  daugh- 
ter (>f  Samuel  (i)  Planning,  referred  to  above; 


chil'Iren :  James,  George,  John,  Catharine, 
Maria.  5.  James,  born  January  28,  1781 ;  died 
immarried.  6.  William,  born  October  29, 
1782;  (lied  young.  7.  Elizabeth,  June  12, 
1785;  married  William  Mettler.  8.  Sarah, 
twin  with  Elizabeth,  married  Isaac  Bloom.  9 
Catharine,  born  August  2,  1789;  died  young. 
10.  Nancy,  referred  to  below.  11.  William, 
born  July  15,  1794;  died  young.  12.  George 
P.,  born  1799;  married  Elizabeth  McPherson, 
of  Brooklyn. 

(HI)  Nancy,  daughter  of  William  and 
Catharine  (  Pickle )  Apgar,  was  born  in  Clin- 
ton, Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  July  12, 
1792,  and  died  in  Mount  Pleasant,  same  coun- 
ty, March  i?,  1848.  She  married  Samuel  (2), 
son  of  .Samuel  (i  )  Manning,  referred  to  above. 


Lewis,  son  of  Silas  and  Sarah  Young,  the 
first  member  of  this  family  of  whom  we  have 
definite  information,  was  born  in  Sussex  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  September  22,  1803,  and  died 
in  Clarksville,  Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey, 
January  15,  1878.  He  married,  February  26, 
1834,  Ann  R.,  claughter  of  John  C.  and  Beulah 
(Wills)  Salter,  of  \'alley  Church,  Hunterdon 
county.  New  Jersey,  who  was  born  May  31, 
1 80 1,  and  died  in  Red  Bank,  New  Jersey,  July 
9,  1890.  (See  Salter).  Children:  i.  Beulah, 
referred  to  below.  2.  Eli  Wills,  born  May  14, 
1844:  died  May  16,  1879;  unmarried.  3.  Har- 
riet Oleanna,  born  February  12,  1839;  died 
August  20,  1880:  married,  June  14,  1864, 
(Jliver  Tumbleson.  son  of  Joseph  Carver  and 
Mary  (  \ansant )  Terry,  of  Philadelphia,  who 
was  born  I-"ebruary  25,  1839.  Children:  Kate 
Lizzie  Terry,  Anna  Young  Terry.  Sarah  Grace 
Terry,  Oliver  Tremont  Terry. 

(II)  Beulah,  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Ann 
R.  (Salter)  Young,  was  born  in  Clarksville, 
Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  April  26,  1837, 
and  (lied  in  Bridgeton,  Cumberland  county, 
New  Jersey,  January  2(1,  1894.  She  married, 
in  Clarksville,  September  27,  1S66,  Rev.  Jo- 
seph Ketchum,  D.  D.,  son  of  William  Apgar 
and  Hannah  (.Aller)  Planning,  referred  to 
above. 

(The    Salter   Line). 

John  Salter,  the  first  member  of  this  family 
of  whom  we  have  definite  information,  came 
from  Westchester  county.  New  York,  to  Mor- 
ris county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  bought  land 
July  13.  1764.  from  David  Ransford  a  Quaker. 
He  married  Charlotte  Weissenfeld.  Children: 
John  C,  referred  to  below;  Susan:  Elizabeth; 
Charlotte ;  Sarah. 


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(II)  John  C,  son  of  John  and  Charlotte 
(W'eissenfeld)  Salter,  was  born  January  2, 
1779,  and  died  April  25,  1847.  He  removed 
to  Tewkesbury  township,  Hunterdon  county. 
New  Jersey,  in  1808.  He  married  Beulah, 
born  Alarch  26,  1778.  died  November  3,  1835, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Wills,  of  Mendham.  Chil- 
dren :  Samuel  \\'ills  and  Nancy,  referred  to 
below. 

(HI)  Samuel  Wills,  son  of  John  C.  and 
Beulah  ( Wills )  Salter,  was  born  in  Alorris 
county.  New  Jersey,  September  14,  1802.  He 
was  a  merchant  at  Fairmount,  New  Jersey, 
and  was  a  judge.  He  married  (first)  June  16, 
1836.  Sophia  Zoe,  daughter  of  Archibald  and 
Martha  (Sayre)  Sayre,  of  Madison.  New 
Jersey,  who  was  born  October  10,  1808,  and 
died  January  26.  1845.  He  married  (second) 
July  28,  1846.  Hannah  Maria  Sayre,  born  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1807.  died  about  1873.  sister  to  his 
first  wife.  Children,  all  by  first  marriage:  i. 
George  Edward,  born  June  19,  1837 ;  died  in 
April,  1883:  married  (first)  Aletta  M.  Lewis; 
(second)  Margaret  Pitney.  2.  Beulah  W'ills, 
born  Alarch  22.  1839;  died  1853.  3.  Martha 
M.,  born  August  24,   1832,  died  1843. 

(HI)  Nancy,  or  Ann  R.,  daughter  of  John 
C.  and  Beulah  (\\'ills)  Salter,  was  born  in 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  May  31,  1801, 
and  died  in  Red  Bank,  New  Jersey,  July  9, 
1890.  She  married.  February  26,  1834,  in 
Hunterdon  county,  New  Jersey.  Lewis,  son 
of  Silas  and  Sarah  Young,  referred  to  above. 


Henry  Albert  Potter,  of  East 
POTTER     Orange,  is  a  direct  descendant 

of  George  Potter,  an  officer  in 
Cromwell's  army,  who  accompanied  that  dis- 
tinguished leader  to  Ireland  and  received  for 
his  services  grants  of  land  in  county  Fer- 
managh. Under  the  settlement  of  1660,  in  the 
time  of  Charles  II.,  he  was  confirmed  in  the 
possession  of  several  estates  in  that  county, 
afterward  known  as  Potterstown,  or  Potters- 
rath.  The  famil}-  is  of  Norman  origin,  the 
ancient  spelling  of  the  name  being  Pottier,  or 
Porterie. 

( I )  In  1 79 1  James  Potter  became  the  owner 
of  property  in  county  Tyrone,  which  passed 
to  his  son,  (ieorge  Potter,  who  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1828  and  settled  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  who  by  his  wife,  Ann  Scott,  had 
a  son  Thomas. 

(II)  Thomas  Potter  was  born  at  Relagh- 
guiness.  county  Tyrone,  Ireland,  August  14. 
1819.  and  died  at  Chestnut  Hill.  Philadelphia. 
September    29.    1878.      He    was    educated    in 


Philadelphia,  served  for  many  years  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  city  council,  and  as  chairman  of  the 
finance  committee  was  chiefly  instrumental  in 
securing  for  the  city  the  land  now  known  as 
West  P^airmount  Park,  and  in  the  establish- 
ment of  the  paid  fire  department.  In  1837  he 
founded  the  house  of  Thomas  Potter,  Sons  & 
Co.,  one  of  the  largest  oilcloth  and  linoleum 
manufacturing  concerns  in  the  LInited  States. 
Me  was  president  of  the  City  National  Bank 
of  I'liiladeljihia  for  many  years  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  held  many  ]iositions  of  trust  in 
municipal  and  financial  corporations,  and  was 
.a  man  of  upright  Christian  character.  He  mar- 
ried Adeline  Coleman  Bower,  daughter  of 
George  Bower,  and  a  granddaughter  of  Gen- 
eral Jacob  Bower,  who  was  born  in  Reading. 
Pennsylvania,  in  September,  1757,  and  died 
at  Womelsdorf,  Pennsylvania.  August  6.  1818. 

General  Bower  was  a  distinguished  officer 
in  the  revolutionary  war,  becoming  quarter- 
master in  Captain  George  Nagle"s  company. 
Colonel  Thompson's  rifle  battalion,  June  23. 
1773.  which  marched  to  Cambridge.  Massachu- 
setts, and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Bunker 
Hill  and  Lachmere  Point.  He  was  a  lieu- 
tenant in  the  First  Pennsylvania  Regiment. 
Continental  Line.  January  18,  1776;  Captain 
in  the  Pennsylvania  Flying  Camp,  Continental 
Line,  in  1776;  Captain  in  the  Sixth  Pennsyl- 
vania Regiment.  February  13.  1776;  and  Cap- 
tain in  the  Second  Pennsylvania  Regiment. 
January  i.  1783,  to  the  close  of  the  war,  being 
then  twenty-five  years  of  age.  He  was  one 
of  the  officers  who  on  J\Iay  13,  1783,  in  the 
cantonment  on  the  Hud.son  river,  formed  the 
General  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  was  an 
original  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society 
of  the  Cincinnati,  which  convened  in  Phila- 
delphia. October  4.  1783.  His  son.  Dr.  Henry 
Bower,  succeeded  to  the  membership  in  1823. 
and  his  grandson.  Dr.  William  Bower,  in  1845. 
General  Bower  was  one  of  the  five  delegates 
appointed  by  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the 
Cincinnati  to  the  first  meeting  of  the  (^leneral 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  held  May  4-18.  1784. 
in  Philadelphia.  General  \\'ashington  in  the 
chair.  In  the  war  of  1812.  Captain  Bower  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Snyder,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, brigadier-general  commanding  the  First 
Brigade,  Sixth  Division,  Pennsylvania  regi- 
ments. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Adeline  Coleman 
(Bower)  Potter:  George,  born  August  7, 
1846,  died  October  4,  1876;  Margaret,  born 
July  16.  1848,  died  November  23,  1834; 
Thomas  Jr..  born  July  12,  1830;  William,  who 


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was  minister  to  Italy  under  President  Harri- 
son ;  Margaret  (2dj,  born  December  12,  1854, 
married  Stephen  J.  Meeker,  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  "EHzabeth- 
town  Associates;"  Henry  Albert,  the  subject 
(if  this  article;  James  Bower,  born  November 
-\  1858;  and  Charles  A.,  born  October  4,  i860. 

(Ill)  Henry  Albert  Potter  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  December  19, 
1856.  He  pursued  his  preparatory  studies  at 
the  Friends'  Central  High  School,  Philadel- 
phia, and  entered  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania with  the  class  of  1877,  but  left  at  the 
end  of  his  sophomore  year  and  joined  the  class 
of  1877  at  Lafayette  College,  where  he  was 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Science.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Sigma  Chi 
fraternity.  He  soon  after  entered  his  father's 
factory,  worked  his  way  up  step  by  step,  was 
appointed  superintendent,  and  in  1879  was  re- 
ceived into  the  firm  as  a  partner.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  established  the  New  York  branch, 
the  business  of  which  has  steadily  increased 
under  his  management.  He  built  up  a  local 
trade  second  only  to  that  of  the  parent  house. 

Mr.  Potter  settled  in  East  Orange  in  1880, 
and  purchased  the  Reune  Martin  place,  at  95 
Harrison  street.  He  soon  became  interested 
in  local  politics,  and  gradually  his  influence  ex- 
tended throughout  the  state.  At  the  present 
time  ( 1909)  he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
strongest  leaders  in  the  Republican  party. 
While  participating  in  every  movement  for  the 
advancement  of  party  interests,  he  is  in  no 
sense  a  politician  according  to  the  modern  ac- 
ceptation of  the  term.  His  position  is  always 
clearly  defined  and  his  course  straightforward 
and  upright.  His  entrance  into  public  life  be- 
gan in  1885,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  state 
legislature.  It  was  during  the  height  of  the 
labor  agitation,  and  he  had  the  combined  ele- 
ments of  the  Democratic  and  Labor  parties 
against  him.  The  district  included  Orange 
and  East  Orange.  His  course  in  the  legis- 
lature was  upright  and  exceedingly  gratifying 
to  his  constituents.  He  introduced  and  carried 
through  two  important  measures  relating  to 
his  own  township,  viz.,  the  division  of  East 
Orange  into  wards  and  the  organization  of 
the  Board  of  Education.  Mr.  Potter  declined 
the  nomination  for  a  second  term  tendered  him 
by  his  party.  He  has  been  liberal  in  his  dona- 
tions to  the  party  for  legitimate  expenses.  In 
1888  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  national  conven- 
tion which  nominated  Benjamin  Harrison  :  and 
after  the  election,  in  which  Mr.  Potter  took  a 
prominent  i>art.  he  was  oft'ered  the  position  of 


secretary  of  legation  at  Berlin,  by  Hon.  Will- 
iam Walter  Phelps,  which  he  declined.  He 
has  made  frequent  trips  to  Washington  on  be- 
half of  the  oil  cloth  manufacturers,  to  protect 
their  interests. 

Mr.  Potter's  efforts  in  behalf  of  Orange 
have  been  by  no  means  limited  to  politics, 
but  to  whatever  concerns  the  public  good  or 
advances  the  welfare  of  the  people.  He  was 
one  of  the  originators  of  the  Orange  Athletic 
Club,  and  was  one  of  its  governors ;  he  also 
assisted  in  the  reorganizing  and  rebuilding 
of  the  Orange  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Country  Club  and  other  social  organizations. 
In  January,  1897,  he  w^as  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Griggs  a  member  of  his  military  staff. 

He  married,  April  9,  1879,  Frances,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  Henry  Green,  chief  justice  of  the 
supreme  court  of  Pennsylvania.  Judge  Green 
was  the  son  of  Enoch,  son  of  John,  son  of 
Richard,  son  of  Richard,  son  of  William,  the 
ancestor  who  left  England  at  an  early  age 
and  landed  at  Philadelphia.  William  Green 
soon  after  visited  Long  Island  and  there  be- 
came acquainted  with  John  Ruder,  whose  sister 
or  daughter  he  married.  He  removed  to  Ewing 
township  about  1700.  He  purchased  345  acres 
of  Colonel  Daniel  Coxe,  the  deed  bearing  date 
1712,  and  on  it  erected  the  first  brick  house  in 
the  township,  which  is  still  standing,  having 
on  the  west  end  the  date  1717.  His  qualities 
were  such  as  to  give  him  distinction,  for  he 
was  appointed  the  first  judge  of  Hunterdon 
county.  New  Jersey,  and  from  the  frequent 
r'icntion  of  his  name  in  public  office  he  was 
evidently  a  prominent  and  useful  citizen.  John 
Green,  great-grandfather  of  Mrs.  Potter, 
served  in  the  revolutionary  war,  in  the  First 
and  Second  Battalions  of  Salem,  in  the  state 
troops,  and  also  in  the  Continental  army.  The 
mother  of  Mrs.  Potter  was  Anna  Hulsizer, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Hulsizer  and  Christiana 
Hummer.  Daniel  Hulsizer  was  the  son  of 
Christopher,  son  of  Martin  Hulsizer,  who 
came  from  Germany  about  1750,  and  located 
first  at  Phillipsburg  and  later  resided  at  dif- 
ferent points  along  the  Musconetcong  creek. 
His  sons  were  Christopher,  Jacob,  Valentine, 
and  John  Martin. 


The  first  Landon  to  come  to 
LANDON     Southold,    New    York,    which 

was  the  first  home  of  this  fam- 
ily in  America,  was  Nathan  Landon,  born  in 
1664,  in  Herefordshire.  England,  near  the 
border  of  Wales;  he  sailed  from  Liverpool 
for  Boston  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years.     His 


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wife  Hannah  died  at  the  age  of  thirty  years, 
and  he  died  March  9,  1718.  Four  brothers 
of  this  name — Thomas,  James,  Daniel  and 
David — removed  from  Southokl  to  Litchfield, 
Connecticut,  where  the  family  had  many  repre- 
sentatives. 

(I)  David  Landon,  born  in  Southold,  Long 
Island,  married  Mary  Osborn,  of  East  Hamp- 
ton, Long  Island,  and  they  removed  to  Litch- 
field, Connecticut.  Children  :  Mary,  born  Xo- 
vember  22,  1739:  Davis:  Benjamin,  March  8, 
1744:  Thomas,  January  14,  1745-6:  Nathan, 
.August  7,  1748:  Reuben:  Ebenezer :  Thankful, 
,'\ugust  30,  1756:  and  Ebenezer,  December  10, 
1760. 

(II)  David  (2),  oldest  son  of  David  (i) 
and  Mary  (Osborn)  Landon,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 13.  1741,  and  married  Chloe  Buell,  of 
Litchfield.  Children:  Temperance,  born  De- 
cember 9,  1762:  Ozias,  October  28,  1764: 
Thaddeus,  December  i,  1766;  David,  April  6, 
1769:  Asahel :  Chloe:  Idea:  and  Sina. 

(III)  Asahel,  fourth  son  of  David  (2)  and 
Chloe  (Buell)  Landon,  was  born  August  6, 
1772,  at  Litchfield.  Connecticut,  and  removed 
to  South  Hero,  \'ermont.  His  children  were: 
Hiram.  Judson.  Reverend  ."^eymour,  Asahel. 
Milo  and  Sybil. 

(I\')  Rev.  Seymour  Landon,  third  son  of 
Asahel  Landon,  was  born  in  1798,  at  Grand 
Isle,  in  Lake  Champlain,  New  York,  and  died 
in  1880.  at  Jamaica,  Long  Island.  He  was  a 
Methodist  clergyman,  and,  as  was  the  custom 
of  many  at  that  time,  rode  over  circuits  and 
preached  at  the  various  country  churches  or 
other  buildings  as  opportunity  offered.  He 
married  Phebe,  daughter  of  George  Thompson, 
of  Ticonderoga,  New  York,  and  their  children 
were :  Dr.  Stephen,  Mary,  Louise  and  Thomp- 
son H. 

(\')  Rev.  Thompson  Hoadley  Landon,  sec- 
(■nd  son  of  Rev.  .Seymour  and  Phoebe  (Thomp- 
son) Landon,  w-as  born  November  18,  1830, 
at  Lansingburg,  New  York.  He  prepared  for 
\\'esleyan  University  at  \Vilbraham  Academy, 
graduating  from  Wesleyan  Lhiiversity  in  the 
class  of  1852.  He  taught  at  Amenia  Seminary, 
Xew  York,  and  was  later  vice-principal  of  the 
F'ennington  Seminary  at  Pennington,  New 
Jersey.  About  i860  he  entered  the  Methodist 
Epicopal  ministry  as  a  member  of  the  New 
Jersey  conference.  Later,  when  the  Newark 
conference  was  formed,  he  joined  that  confer- 
ence, a  member  of  which  he  has  been  till  his 
death.  One  of  his  earliest  appointments  was 
at  Franklin,  or,  as  it  is  now  known,  Nutley, 
Xew  Jersey.     While  pastor  of  the  Methodist 


Church  at  Little  Falls,  New  Jersey,  he  mar- 
ried. May  18,  1864,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas 
E.  and  Mary  Ellen  (  Booth)  Durland,  of  War- 
wick, Orange  county.  New  York.  Sarah  Dur- 
land was  born  at  Pulaski,  Illinois,  January  12, 
1841.  Their  children  were:  Thomas  Durland, 
born  May  18,  1863;  Dr.  Seymour,  August  21, 
1867,  residing  at  New  Brighton,  Staten  island, 
and  Louise  E.,  born  August  29,  1869,  residing 
now  as  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Whiting,  at  Evanston, 
Illinois. 

Thompson  H.  Landon  received  the  degree 
of  A.  B.  on  graduation,  later  was  given  the 
I'egree  of  A.  M.,  and  in  1907  was  honored  by 
the  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Wesleyan  L^niver- 
sity.  As  a  Methodist  clergyman  his  pastorates 
were:  Belvidere.  Phillipsburg,  Alontclair, 
Madison,  Rahway,  all  in  New  Jersey :  Port 
Richmond,  New  York :  and  Succasunna,  Eliz- 
abeth and  Paterson,  all  in  New  Jersey.  In 
1885  he  took  charge  as  principal  of  the  Bord- 
entriwn  Military  Institute,  Bordentown,  New 
Jersey.  Later  with  his  son,  Thomas  D.,  as 
]'artner,  the  institute  property  was  purchased 
and  developed. 

(  \T  )  Thomas  Durland.  older  son  of  Thomp- 
son H.  Landon  and  Sarah  Durland,  was  born 
at  Belvidere,  New  Jersey,  May  18,  1865.  He 
attended  various  schools,  public  and  private, 
the  last  being  \Vesleyan  Academy,  Massachu- 
setts. A  short  advertising  business  experience 
with  Joseph  H.  Richards  preceded  his  associa- 
tion with  his  father  in  the  Bordentown  Mili- 
tary Institute.  He  is  vice-principal  and  com- 
mandant of  the  institute.  In  1885  he  enlisted 
in  the  National  Guard  of  the  state,  and  in 
1885  went  out  as  captain  of  Company  A,  Sixth 
Regiment,  N.  G.  N.  J. ;  later  was  promoted  to 
he  major  of  the  Third  Regiment,  New  Jersey 
\  oluntecr  Infantry,  and  later  was  elected  lieu- 
tenant-colonel of  the  Third  Regiment,  N.  G. 
N.  J.  .As  a  military  instructor  he  has  had 
charge  of  different  schools  and  organizations 
with  success. 

On  June  29,  1892,  Colonel  Landon  married 
Margaret  A.  Reese,  daughter  of  Thomas  N. 
Adams,  of  Bordentown.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren, born  in  Bordentown :  Margaret,  Louise 
and  Elizabeth. 


(iovernor  John  F.  Fort  was  born 
F(  )RT     in    Pemberton,   Burlington  county. 

New  Jersey,  on  March  20,  1852, 
and  is  the  son  of  Andrew  H.  Fort,  who  still 
lives  in  Mount  Holly.  His  father  was  in  1866- 
67  a  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly,  and 
his  father's  brother  was  Governor  George  F. 


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Fort,  who  held  the  executive  office  from  1851 
to  1854.  Young  Fort  remained  in  Pemberton 
until  he  was  twenty-one  years  of  age,  leading 
the  life  of  a  farmer's  boy  and  having  his  share 
of  the  country  boy's  hardships.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  secured  in  Miss  Nicholson's  private 
school  in  Pemberton,  and  after  that  he  went  to 
Pemberton  Academy,  where  his  teacher  was 
Charles  E.  Hendrickson,  a  warm  personal 
friend  and  in  recent  years  his  associate  on  the 
Supreme  Court  bench.  His  next  tutor  was  Will- 
iam Hutchinson, afterward  well  known  as  "John 
Sands,"  under  which  name  he  wrote  articles 
for  the  New  York  Sun.  He  then  went  to 
Mount  Holly  Institute,  conducted  by  Charles 
Aaron,  and  from  there  he  went  to  Pennington 
Seminary,  where  he  graduated  in  1869. 

In  the  fall  of  1869  Mr.  Fort  entered  the  law 
office  of  former  Chief  Justice  Edward  M. 
Paxton,  who  was  then  a  well-known  practicing 
lawyer  in  Philadelphia,  but  six  months  later  he 
leturned  to  New  Jersey  because  of  Mr.  Pax- 
ton's  appointment  to  a  common  pleas  judge- 
ship by  Governor  Gerry  of  the  Keystone  State. 
Upon  his  return  he  entered  the  office  of  Ewan 
Merritt  in  Mount  Holly,  and  in  order  to  help 
pay  his  expenses  w'hile  studying  he  taught 
school  at  Ewanville.  He  was  also  in  the  office 
of  Colonel  Garrit  S.  Cannon  at  Bordentown, 
from  which  place  he  went  to  the  Albany  Law 
School,  where  he  graduated  in  1872  with  the 
degree  of  LL.  B.  Among  his  most  intimate 
friends  and  housemates  at  the  law  school  was 
former  Chief  Judge  Alton  B.  Parker,  candi- 
ilate  on  the  Democratic  ticket  for  president  of 
the  I'nited  States  in  1904.  This  friendship 
still  continues. 

Returning  from  law  school  without  having 
attained  his  majority,  he  again  entered  the 
office  of  Ewan  Merritt.  and  in  November, 
1873,  liaving  just  passed  twenty-one  by  a  few 
mc->nths,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 

When  Mr.  Fort  returned  from  law  school 
the  Greeley-Grant  campaign  of  1872  was  in 
progress,  and  he  entered  that  campaign  for 
General  Grant  with  vigor.  During  the  next 
three  months  he  made  twenty-seven  speeches 
in  South  Jersey.  In  the  winter  of  1873  l^^ 
was  made  assistant  journal  clerk  of  the  assem- 
lily  and  he  also  held  the  same  position  in  1874, 
earning  money  enough  to  reimburse  his  father 
for  every  cent  the  latter  spent  on  his  educa- 
tion. 

Mr.  Fort  went  to  Newark  upon  the  advice 
of  John  W.  Taylor,  then  president  of  the  sen- 
ate,  whci  wa-i   at   that   time  the   senator   from 


Essex.  Hardly  had  he  settled  in  Newark 
before  he  became  interested  in  politics,  and  in 
1874  he  went  on  the  stump  for  George  A. 
Halsey,  the  Republican  candidate  for  governor. 
In  April,  1876,  Mr.  Fort  married  Miss  Char- 
lotte Stainsby,  daughter  of  former  State  Sen- 
ator William  Stainsby,  of  Newark. 

In  1878  Governor  McClellan  appointed  Mr. 
Fort  a  judge  of  the  First  District  Court  of 
Newark,  and  he  was  reappointed  by  Governor 
Ludlow,  but  resigned  the  office  in  1886  to  en- 
gage solely  in  the  [iractice  of  the  law. 

In  1884  he  was  elected  a  delegate  at  large 
by  the  Republican  state  convention  to  the  na- 
tional convention  held  at  Chicago.  At  that 
place,  with  six  others,  he  acted  independently 
and  voted  for  George  F.  Edmunds,  of  \'er- 
mont,  for  president,  until  the  latter  was  drop- 
ped, and  then  voted  with  the  rest  of  the  New 
Jersey  delegates  for  James  G.  Blaine,  whom 
he  loyally  and  vigorously  supported  after  the 
convention.  In  1889  he  was  chairman  of  the 
convention  which  nominated  General  E.  Bur<l 
Grubb  for  governor,  and  toured  the  state  with 
him.  and  was  greatly  disappointed  at  his  de- 
feat. He  was  also  chairman  of  the  Griggs 
convention  in  1895,  and  was  a  speaker  with 
the  latter  in  the  "whirlwind"  campaign  of  that 
year,  which  resulted  in  the  election  of  the  first 
Republican  governor  in  thirty  years. 

In  1896  Mr.  Fort  was  a  delegate  to  the  na- 
tional convention  at  St.  Louis  at  wdiich  Mc- 
Kinley  and  Hobart  were  nominated,  and  speak- 
ing for  New  Jersey,  he  placed  the  name  of 
Garret  A.  Hobart  before  the  convention.  He 
was  also  chairman  of  the  committee  on  cre- 
dentials at  this  convention,  and  presented  the 
majority  report  for  that  committee,  wdiich 
read  J.  Edward  Addicks,  of  Deleware,  out  of 
the  Republican  party.  Judge  Fort's  speeches 
denouncing  Addicks  and  later  nominating 
Hobart  gave  him  a  national  reputation  as  an 
orator.  He  was  also  a  delegate  at  large  to  the 
Reiniblican   national  convention  of   1908. 

Governor  Griggs  appointed  Mr.  Fort  judge 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Essex  coun- 
ty in  December,  1896,  and  on  May  4,  1900,  he 
was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
by  Governor  \'oorhees.  The  date  of  his  ap- 
pointment was  the  anniversary  of  the  date  of 
his  coming  to  Newark.  While  a  member  of 
the  Supreme  bench.  Justice  Fort  sat  in  many 
of  the  counties  of  the  state  and  made  friends 
in  all.  He  has  presided  over  the  courts  of 
.Atlantic.  Morris.  Monmouth,  Middlesex, 
Ocean.   L'nion   and   Hudson  counties.     While 


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in  Monmouth  county  he  directed  the  move- 
ments which  drove  the  gamblers  from  Long 
Branch  in  1902. 

Governor  Fort  has  made  speeches  in  differ- 
ent parts  of  the  country  on  various  subjects 
by  request.  In  1899  he  made  a  tour  of  Euro- 
]iean  i)riscjns  under  a  commission  from  the 
United  States,  and  reported  on  them  on  his 
return.  The  idea  of  probation  and  indetermi- 
nate sentences  was  such  a  new  one  that  when 
Governor  Fort  drew  the  original  bill  providing 
for  them  for  N'ew  Jersey,  he  had  trouble  in 
getting  any  one  to  father  it.  .\  hearing  was 
given  (in  the  bill,  and  the  Governor  appeared 
in  its  behalf,  with  the  result  that  it  passed  by 
unanimous  vote  in  each  house  with  the  excep- 
tion of  one  man. 

He  was  elected  Governor  of  Xew  Jersey 
for  a  term  of  three  years,  on  November  5th, 
1907,  by  a  plurality  of  8,013  over  Frank  S. 
Katzenbach,  Jr.,  the  Democratic  candidate,  the 
vote  standing:  Fort,  Republican,  194,313; 
Katzenbach,  Democrat,  186,300;  Mason,  Pro., 
5,25s;  Krafft,  Soc,  6,848:  Butterworth.  Soc- 
l.aix.  1,568. 

Governor  Fort  was  nominated  for  giivernor 
by  one  of  the  largest  and  probably  the  most 
turbulent  conventions  ever  held  in  the  state. 
He  had  the  support  of  a  majority  of  the  so- 
called  regulars,  and  a  part  of  the  "New  Idea" 
faction  of  his  party.  He  was  at  that  time  a 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  state,  and 
actually  sitting  in  a  conference  of  the  court  at 
the  time  of  his  nomination.  He  immediately 
resigned  his  judicial  office  and  appeared  before 
the  convention  and  accepted  the  nomination 
in  a  notable  and  independent  speech. 

The  platform  on  which  he  was  nominated 
was  progressive  along  all  lines.  It  contained 
a  pledge  to  favor  among  other  things,  the 
following:  xA.n  effective  primary  law  for  the 
expression  of  choice  for  United  States  senator ; 
reform  of  the  petit  jury  system  and  the  selec- 
tion of  grand  juries;  e.xtension  of  the  primary 
law,  and  the  ])revention  of  fraud  at  the  pri- 
maries ;  a  Public  Utilities  Commission,  with 
power  to  regulate  such  corporations  eft'ective- 
ly ;  the  maintenance  of  the  Bishops  law,  so- 
called,  which  regulates  the  saloon  ;  the  continu- 
ance of  the  good  road  policy  of  the  state;  an 
amendment  to  the  State  Constitution  to  elect 
members  of  the  House  of  Assembly  by  dis- 
tricts ;  the  abolition  of  useless  commissions 
and  departments,  and  the  consolidation  of 
others ;  a  general  and  effective  civil  service 
statute. 

During  his  term   much   effective   and   valu- 


able legislation  has  been  enacted.  Among 
others :  A  general  civil  service  act.  which  has 
proven  very  useful ;  a  public  utilities  bill  with 
a  reasonable  power,  but  not  as  broad  as  the 
Governor  desired ;  a  highway  system  through- 
out the  state,  in  connection  with  a  state  high- 
way  alijng  the  Atlantic  ocean ;  the  opening  of 
an  inland  waterwa}'  between  Bay  Head  and 
Cape  May,  through  the  various  bays  and  arms 
of  the  sea  of  the  state;  reforms  in  state  insti- 
tutions ;  extension  of  the  direct  primaries  to 
the  selection  of  county  committees ;  laws  to 
protect  the  various  reservations  of  the  state, 
and  to  prevent  forest  fires  from  sparks  from 
l(icomotives ;  a  scheme  for  the  establishment 
of  a  State  Park  at  Washington's  Crossing  on 
the  Delaware ;  the  imi)rovement  of  the  general 
system  of  finances  of  the  state;  a  commission 
of  experts  to  revalue  the  railway  property  of 
the  state  for  purposes  of  taxation ;  statutes 
modifying  the  law  as  to  accidents  at  railway 
crossings;  general  act  modifying  the  doctrine 
a>;  to  liability  of  employers  for  accidents  to 
employes;  the  creation  of  a  commission  to 
recommend  to  the  state  a  law  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  general  system  of  compensation 
fur  injured  employes;  an  act  providing  for  the 
retirement  of  judicial  officers  after  long  and 
faithful  service,  on  one-third  of  their  salary; 
general  acts  for  the  conservation  of  the  waters 
of  the  state,  and  preventing  their  transporta- 
tion from  the  state ;  statutes  providing  for  the 
uniting  of  various  cities  in  the  construction  of 
municipal  plants  through  the  State  Water 
Supply  Commission  for  the  supply  of  water  to 
municipalities ;  a  law  protection  against  fraud 
in  the  transmission  of  moneys  to  foreign  points 
by  private  bankers. 

He  has  looked  into  the  affairs  of  all  state 
institutions  and  departments  more  closely  than 
any  previous  governor,  and  has  suggested 
many  reforms  therein.  His  motto  has  been 
"Do  only  for  the  State,"  and  neither  party  nor 
friendshi])  reasons  have  had  the  least  influence 
in  nmulding  his  action.  His  independent  course 
has  given  him  great  strength  with  the  people, 
and  correspondingly  lessened  his  influence  with 
the  political  organizations  and  time-servers. 

His  campaign  was  the  most  thorough  and 
active  ever  undertaken  in  the  state,  the  auto- 
mobile for  the  first  time  being  brought  into 
use.  His  inaugural  aildress  was  publicly  com- 
mended by  President  Roosevelt  as  a  remark- 
able state  document.  It's  keynote  was  "keep 
party  pledges."  During  his  whole  term,  in 
message  and  address  on  all  public  occasions, 
he  has  stood  for  that  princijile. 


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His  party  leaders  soon  broke  with  him,  be- 
cause they  could  not  use  liim,  and  because  he 
insisted  that  a  pohtical  pledge  was  as  sacred  as 
any  other,  and  because  he  stood  for  progres- 
sive legislation  for  the  regulation  of  corpora- 
tions. All  legislation  against  the  interests  of 
the  people  has  been  killed  during  his  term. 

Governor  Fort,  during  his  term,  has  vetoed 
more  proposed  legislation  than  probably  any 
other  governor  in  the  history  of  the  state, 
there  having  been  sixty-eight  vetoes  during 
the  session  of  the  legislation  of  1910  alone. 

Governor  Fort  removed  from  Newark  to 
East  Orange  in  1889,  and  has  lived  at  51  Ar- 
lington avenue,  north,  in  that  city,  since  that 
time.  He  has  three  children  :  Aliss  Margretta 
Fort.  Franklin  W.  Fort,  a  lawyer  in  Newark 
(see  forward),  and  Leslie  R.  Fort,  editor  of 
the  Lakewood  Times  and  Journal.  The  Gov- 
ernor attends  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Munn  Avenue  Church  at  East 
Orange  and  the  Spring  Lake  Presbyterian 
Church,  at  which  latter  place  he  owns  a  sum- 
mer cottage  and  spends  five  months  in  the 
year.  He  was  active  in  St.  Paul's  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  for  many  years  when  in 
Newark. 

He  is  a  man  with  few  recreations.  He  en- 
joys riding  a  horse,  annually  finds  pleasure  in 
a  shooting  trip  south  and  has  lately  taken  up 
golf.  He  was  devoted  to  the  law  and  his 
judicial  duties,  and  he  found  them  a  delight. 
He  is  no  respecter  of  persons;  rich  and  poor 
approach  him  with  equal  ease.  He  probably 
knows  as  many  people  as  any  man  in  the  state. 
He  was  president  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution  of  New  Jersey  from  1905  to  1909, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciation and  the  New  York  and  East  Orange 
Rejiublican  Club,  Essex  Club  and  the  Lake- 
wood  Country  Club.  The  degree  of  LL.  D. 
has  been  conferred  upon  Governor  Fort  by 
Dickinson  College,  Seton  Hall  College,  New 
York,  and  L^nion  Universities,  and  Rutgers 
and  Aliddlebury  Colleges. 

Franklin  William,  second  child  and  eldest 
son  of  John  Franklin  anfl  Charlotte  (Stains- 
by)  Fort,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
March  30,  i860.  For  his  early  education  he 
was  sent  to  the  Newark  Academy,  then  attend- 
ing the  East  Orange  high  school,  was  prepared 
for  college  at  the  Lawrenceville  Academy,  and 
entered  Princeton  College,  from  which  he  was 
graduated  in  iQoi,  the  year  in  which  he  at- 
tained his  majority.  After  leaving  college  he 
read  law  with  the  firm  of  Sommer  &  Adams, 
in  Newark,  and  at  the  New  York  Law  School. 


He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New  Jersey  as 
attorney  in  June,  1903,  and  as  counsellor  in 
June,  1906.  He  has  served  as  recorder  of 
East  Orange,  and  is  now  secretary,  treasurer 
and  counsel  for  the  Anglo-American  Varnish 
Company,  and  secretary  and  counsel  for  the 
Newark  Safety  Razor  Company.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
L'nion  League  Club  of  the  Oranges,  the  East 
Orange  Republican  Club,  the  New  Jersey  Au- 
tomobile Club,  and  several  Princeton  College 
Alumni  Associations. 

Mr.  Fort  married,  in  East  Orange,  January 
23,  1904.  Emita  H.  Ryan,  only  child  of  Colonel 
Abraham  and  Emma  A.  (Hitch)  Harris  Ryan. 
Her  father.  Colonel  Ryan,  made  a  distinguish- 
ed record  in  the  civil  war.  Children  of  ]\Ir. 
and  Mrs.  Fort :  Franklin  Ryan,  born  Septem- 
ber 26,  1905 ;  Barbara,  October  5,  1908- 


The  Rev.  Franciscus  Dough- 
DOUGHTEN  ty  (the  name  has  been  writ- 
ten in  the  records :  Doughty, 
Doughten,  Doten,  Doty,  Dotey,  Doghtey  and 
Dohtey )  was  a  member  of  the  ancient  and 
honorable  family  of  Doughty  of  Easher,  Surry 
and  Boston  in  Lincolnshire,  England,  and  de- 
scended from  an  English  Saxon  house  of  the 
Dohtey  that  dates  back  to  1066  A.  D.  Since 
the  time  of  Henry  VHL  the  English  family 
have  continuously  spelled  it  Doughty.  The 
American  immigrant  was  of  the  younger  of  two 
English  branches  of  the  house  of  Doughty  and 
now  absorbed  by  the  noble  house  of  Doughty- 
Tichbourne.  The  coat-of-arms  of  the  Dough- 
ty family  are :  Arms :  "Two  bars  between 
three  mullets  of  six  parts  sable  pierced." 
Crest :  A  Cubit  arm  erect  per  pale  crenelle 
cuffed  of  the  first  holding  in  the  hand  a  Mullet 
as  in  the  arms."  Alotto :  "Palma  non  sine 
Pulvere,"  translated  freely  means :  "Nothing 
obtained  without  labor." 

(I)  Francis  Doughty  (Doughten)  was  an 
English  clergyman,  educated  in  one  of  the 
universities  of  England  and  a  very  learned 
man.  Pie  came  to  America  in  1633,  by  way 
of  Holland,  and  settled  at  Plymouth  in  Plym- 
outh colony,  which  colony  had  been  in  exist- 
ence for  twelve  years  and  was  made  up  of 
Pilgrims  who  had  escaped  to  Holland  from 
religious  persecutions  in  England,  and  thence 
for  greater  freedom  to  the  New  World.  The 
first  Pilgrims  in  America  were  the  passengers 
of  the  "ilayflower,"  who  landed  December  20, 
1620,  and  founded  Plymouth  colony.  Francis 
Doughty  had,  like  the  other  Pilgrims,  left  Eng- 
land and  found  refuge  in  Holland,  where  under 


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the  protection  of  the  government  of  the  Neth- 
erlands he  sought  to  enjoy  freedom  of  con- 
science according  to  Dutch  Reformation.  With 
full  faith  in  the  fellowship  in  purpose  and  de- 
sign professed  by  the  "Mayflower"  passengers, 
he  left  Holland  for  America  and  arriving  in 
Plymouth  in  1633  settled  there.  He  soon 
found  his  conscience  not  in  accord  with  the 
views  of  the  Pilgrims  on  the  subject  of  infant 
baptism.  At  Cohasset,  on  the  northern  bounds 
of  the  colony,  of  which  church  he  was  minister 
in  1642,  he  publicly  asserted  "that  Abraham's 
children  should  have  been  baptized,"  and  for 
this  teaching  he  was  dragged  out  of  the  assem- 
bly and  harshly  used.  He  sought  refuge  first 
in  the  Colony  of  Connecticut  and  then  at  New- 
port, Rhode  Island,  and  finally  in  New  .Amster- 
dam, where  he  sought  protection  for  freedom 
of  thought  and  speech  from  the  Dutch  author- 
ities. He  was  induced  by  Governor-General 
Kieft  to  settle  there  and  establish  a  colony  on 
Nassau  Island.  To  this  end  the  director  gen- 
eral granted  and  conferred  on  him  a  patent 
which  is  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  secretary 
of  state  of  New  York  at  Albany  in  book  of 
patents  C.  G.,  page  40,  and  bears  date  March 
28,  1642.  It  covers  thirteen  thousand  three 
liundred  and  thirty-three  acres  of  land,  which 
embraced  all  the  town  of  Alespacht  (  Mespath) 
(now  Newton)  and  included  a  part  of  the 
town  of  Flushing.  The  patent  granted  him 
manorial  privileges  as  patroon  and  his  power 
was  absolute.  He  added  a  few  families  to  his 
settlement  at  ]\Iaspeth,  Long  Island,  the  first 
year,  but  the  war  that  broke  out  between  the 
English  and  Dutch  governments  resulted  in 
the  settlers  being  driven  from  their  lands  and 
some  of  them  were  killed  in  their  resistance  to 
the  orders  for  ejectment,  and  they  all  lost  most 
of  their  possessions  in  their  hasty  flight  to 
Manhattan  Island,  where  they  sought  protec- 
tion from  the  English  government,  to  whom 
all  the  English  refugees  resorted  at  this  trouble- 
some time,  blaster  Doughty  was  made  the 
minister  to  the  English  refugees,  and  he  was 
the  first  clergyman  to  speak  in  the  English 
language  on  ]\Ianhattan  Island.  As  the  lands 
had  been  seized  and  he  was  without  money, 
his  repeated  efiforts  to  re-establish  his  colony 
on  his  Mesj)ath  grant  proved  futile.  Fearing 
that  his  persistence  might  hinder  other  settlers 
from  founding  a  village  there,  a  suit  was  enter- 
ed against  the  minister  and  by  it  his  rights  in 
the  lands  were  confiscated.  He  appealed  to 
Director-General  Kieft,  but  the  director's 
answer  was  that  no  a])peal  lay  from  his  judg- 
ment which  was  absolute,  and  Minister  Dough- 


ty was  imjirisoned  and  fined  twenty-five  gilders, 
but  he  was  released  at  the  end  of  twenty-four 
hciurs.  He  was  not  only  the  first  minister  to 
[ireach  on  Manhattan  Island  in  the  English 
language,  but  he  was  also  the  first  English 
]iastor  of  the  first  Presbyterian  church  estab- 
lished in  Brooklyn.  He  soon  after  went  to 
Flushing,  where  he  found  a  safer  religious 
home  in  the  Society  of  Friends.  His  sister, 
who  accom|)anied  him  to  Maryland  when  he 
left  Flushing,  married  Governor  Stone,  second 
governor  of  Maryland,  under  Lord  Calvert. 
Minister  Doughty  died  in  Maryland. 

Francis  Doughty  married  Bridget  Stone,  a 
sister  of  Governor  Stone,  above  referred  to. 
Children:  i.  Francis.  2.  Charles,  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Seaman)  Jackson.  3.  Elias,  had  a  grant  of 
two  hundred  acres  of  land  between  Jamaica 
and  Hempstead,  and  settled  his  children  there. 
4.  Jacob,  see  forward.  5.  William.  6.  Maria, 
marriefl  Dr.  Adrian  Van  Der  Donck,  and  be- 
fore her  father  left  Maryland  he  conferred  on 
her,  at  her  marriage,  his  farm  on  Flushing 
Bay.  The  land  granted  to  these  sons  was  ob- 
tained through  a  petition  made  by  Francis, 
Charles,  Elias  and  Jacob  as  compensation  for 
the  six  thousand  six  hundred  and  sixty-six 
acres  at  Maspeth  granted  to  their  father  by 
Director-General  Kieft,  and  of  which  he  had 
been  wrongfully  deprived. 

( II )  Jacob,  fourth  son  of  Rev.  Francis  and 
Bridget  (Stone)  Doughty  (Doughten),  was 
born  in  Flushing,  Long  Island,  March  14, 
1671.  His  wife  Anne  was  born  September  17, 
1679.  They  were  both  members  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  and  in  1714  they  left  Flushing, 
with  eight  children,  and  carried  with  them  a 
certificate  frcmi  the  Flushing  Friends  to  the 
Chesterfield  Friends  Meeting  in  Burlington 
county.  West  New  Jersey,  where  they  had  de- 
cided to  settle.  Before  they  left  Flushing 
their  daughters,  .\bigail,  Deborah  and  Ann, 
had  died  the  same  year,  1713,  Abigail  at  the 
age  of  sixteen  years  and  Ann  at  three  years; 
three  daughters  were  born  to  them  in  Chester- 
field and  named  Abigail,  Deborah  and  Ann  for 
the  three  deceased.  On  their  arrival  in  Moores- 
town,  Burlington  county,  they  were  welcomed 
by  the  Chesterfield  Friends  ]\Ieeting,  their  cer- 
tificate being  read  on  the  ist  of  2  month,  1714. 
In  Burlington  county  Jacob  Doughty  was  one 
of  the  members  of  the  general  assembly  and 
one  of  the  signers  of  a  congratulatory  address 
to  the  English  government  on  the  defeat  of 
the  Scotch  rebellion.  On  May  25,  1716,  he 
was  one  of  several  Quakers  who  added  their 


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names  to  the  official  addresses  of  congratula- 
tion concurring  in  the  matter  of  the  address, 
but  making  some  exception  as  to  the  '"stile." 
He  appears  as  having  received  of  the  receiver 
general  £3400  in  1713,  and  £1000.  March  13, 
1723,  for  .services  as  member  of  the  colonial 
assembly.  He  was  an  executor  of  the  will  of  Ann 
Beck,  of  Chesterfield,  September  1. 1716;  of  the 
will  of  John  Bunting,  senior.  March  8,  I7i4,and 
of  the  will  of  William  Stevenson  made  April 
24,  1724.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the  three 
judges  of  Burlington  county,  March  19.  1721. 
On  February  12,  1728,  he  bought  of  the  exec- 
utors of  William  Stevenson  one  hundred  and 
thirty-eight  acres  of  land  in  Amwell  township. 
Hunterclon  county.  New  Jersey.  On  March 
30,  1733,  he  conveyed  to  Samuel  Large,  Sam- 
uel Wilson,  John  Stevenson,  Edward  Rock- 
hill  and  Joseph  King  trustees,  four  acres  of 
the  Amwell  land  for  Friends  ^Meeting  House, 
first  called  Bethlehem  Meeting,  next  King- 
wood  Meeting  and  later  Quakertown  Meeting. 
On  May  25,  1716,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
colonial  assembly,  and  in  the  record  is  put 
down  as  a  "Quaker."  He  was  also  a  justice 
of  the  peace  and  appears  as  a  prominent  citi- 
zen of  Burlington  county. 

Children  of  Jacob  and  Anne  Doughty,  ac- 
cording to  the  records  of  the  Friends'  Meet- 
ing in  Flushing,  and  the  family  Bible  of  Dan- 
iel Doughty,  second  son  of  Jacob  and  Anne, 
and  now  in  the  possession  of  Joseph  J.  White, 
of  New  Lisbon,  Burlington  county.  New  Jer- 
sey:  I.  Jacob,  27th  of  loth  month,  1696.  2. 
Abigail,  5th  of  2d  month,  1697,  died  27th  of 
12th  month,  1713.  3.  Mary,  17th  of  2d  month, 
1699 :  married  John  James,  12th  of  9th  month, 
1717.  4.  Sarah,  19th  of  nth  month,  1701.  5. 
Anne,  30th  of  4th  month,  1702;  married  Sam- 
uel Stockton,  of  Stony  Brook,  i8th  of  4th 
month,  1719.  6.  Daniel,  17th  of  loth  month, 
1703.  7.  Deborah,  23rd  of  6th  month,  1705, 
dieil  young.  8.  Elizabeth,  ist  of  1st  month, 
1707.  9.  Easter,  17th  of  8th  month,  1708. 
10.  Ann,  loth  of  8th  month,  1710,  died  13th  of 
2d  month,  1713.  II.  Hannah.  2d  of  2d  month, 
1712.  12.  Abigail,  3rd  of  8th  month.  1716. 
13.  Ann.  28th  of  8th  month,  1717.  14.  Deb- 
orah. 1 2th  of  3rd  month,  1720.  The  Bible 
gives  the  children  of  Daniel  and  Anne,  his 
wife,  who  died  24th  of  7th  month,  1742,  as 
follows:  I.  Mary,  '27th  of  Tst  month,  1731  ; 
married  \\'illiam  Levett  Smith,  15th  of  9th 
month.  1749.  2.  Anne,  ist  of  2d  month,  1734, 
died  1 2th  of  7th  month,  1742.  3.  Jacob,  4tli 
of  nth  month.  1736-37,  died  9th  of  7th  month, 
1742.     4.    Mercy.    i6th   of   4th   month,    1741, 


died  14th  of  7th  month,  1742.  In  this  record 
we  see  the  mother  and  three  of  her  four  chil- 
dren carried  away  apparently  by  some  epidemic 
in  November.  1742,  between  the  ninth  and 
twenty-fourth  of  the  month. 

(HI)  Jacob  (2),  eldest  son  of  Jacob  (i) 
and  Anne  Doughten,  was  born  in  Flushing, 
r_ong  Island,  27th  of  loth  month,  1696.  He 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Burlington  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  became  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  that  county  and  was  a  large  land- 
owner in  Chesterfield  township  in  the  vicinity 
of  Moorestown,  located  in  that  part  of  the 
county  adjoining  Camden,  formerly  Glouches- 
ter  county.  He  was  overseer  of  highways  in 
1718.  His  marriage  and  the  names  of  his  chil- 
dren cannot  be  determined  by  any  data  that 
lias  been  available,  the  current  published 
archives  and  local  histories  of  the  township 
of  P.urlington  county  not  having  any  data. 
His  children  apjjear  to  have  changed  the  spell- 
ing of  the  name  to  Doughten,  possibly  with  a 
\iew  of  avoiding  confusion  with  the  descend- 
ants of  Edward  Doughty,  the  immigrant  an- 
cestor of  the  Doughtys  of  Absecom,  Great 
Egg  Harbor,  who  were  in  no  w-ay  related. 

( 1\')   There  is  no  record  of  this  generation. 

(  \' )  William  Doughten,  born  1753,  died 
1824.  He  married  and  among  his  children  was 
a  son  William,  see  forward. 

(M)  William  (2),  son  of  William  (i) 
Doughten.  was  born  at  Aloorestown.  New  Jer- 
sey, 1783,  died  in  1844.  He  married  Lenity 
Folwell.  Ijorn  1787.  died  in  1831.  They  were 
the  parents  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  two 
are  livnig  at  the  present  time  (1909).  namely: 
^\'ilIiam.  of  Philadelphia,  and  his  sister,  wdio 
rc-ides  in  Moorestown,  Nev^'  Jersey. 

(\Tn  George  F..  son  of  \Villiam  (2)  and 
I'nity  ( Folwein  Doughten,  was  born  in 
Moorestown,  Chester  township,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  November  29,  1809,  died 
there 'May  28,  1891.  He  opened  a  general 
store  in  AToorestown  on  the  corner  of  Main 
and  Chester  streets  in  1841,  and  he  conducted 
t!ie  i)usiness  for  fifty  years,  selling  the  stock 
and  good  will  to  William  Alatlock  in  1891.  He 
had  as  a  partner  John  Cordland.  1836-39.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  and  incorporators  of 
the  Medford  National  Bank,  and  his  brother 
Frank  became  its  president.  He  worshiped 
in  St.  Mary's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 
Colestown.  Delaware  township.  Camden  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  up  to  1837.  when  he  joined 
other  churchmen  in  Moorestown  in  founding 
Trinity  Church  in  that  place,  and  he  became 
one  of  the  senior  wardens  on  its  organization, 


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and  his  son  Henry  W.  was  made  a  vestryman. 
He  was  a  large  landholder  in  Moorestown, 
originally  owning  a  large  part  of  the  township. 
He  married  Susan  Assheton,  who  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Dr. -Ralph  Assheton,  son  of  Ralph 
and  Snsan  (Rodman)  Assheton,  of  Philadel- 
[)hia.  Dr.  Assheton  jointed  the  District  Medi- 
cal Society  of  the  County  of  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  in  1763.  Susan  Rodman  was  a  descend- 
ant of  Dr.  John  Rodman,  who  came  from  Bar- 
badoes,  where  he  was  born  May  14,  1679,  and 
married  (first)  Margaret  Ray,  and  (second) 
^lary,  daughter  of  William  \Villett,  of  Flush- 
ing, Long  Island.  He  lived  in  Philadelphia, 
then  in  Boston,  and  about  1724  settled  in  Bur- 
lington, New  Jersey,  and  practiced  there  thirty- 
two  }ears.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Friends,  and  was  a  member  of  His  Maj- 
esty's Council  for  the  Province  of  New  Jer- 
sey up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  July  13,  1756. 
Dr.  Ralph  Assheton  was  born  about  1736.  The 
family  were  members  of  the  Colonial  aristoc- 
racy of  Philadelphia  and  related  to  William 
I'enn,  who  refers  to  "Cousin  Assheton"  in 
his  letters.  Dr.  .\ssheton  died  January  4,  1774, 
and  was  probably  buried  in  the  family  vault 
in  Christ  Church  burial-ground  in  Philadel- 
phia. He  removed  from  Burlington  to  Phila- 
delphia in  1765.  Children  of  George  F.  and 
Susan  ( .Assheton )  Doughten,  born  in  Moores- 
town.  New  Jersey:  i.  Henry  W.,  see  forward. 
2    Emma  S.,  born  in  1842,  died  in  1906, 

(\'llli  Henry  W.,  only  son  of  (jeorge  F. 
and  Susan  ( .\ssheton  )  Doughten,  was  born  in 
Moorestown,  Chester  tow'nship,  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  November  28,  1840,  died 
there  December  10,  1907.  He  was  educated  at 
the  Friends  School  in  Moorestown  and  at  Dr. 
Lyons  School,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania.  He 
learned  the  business  of  merchandising  in  the 
store  of  his  father  and  remained  with  him  in 
the  cajiacity  of  clerk  for  ten  years,  1860-70. 
1  le  then  went  into  business  on  his  own  account, 
buying  and  selling  seed,  coal,  wood  and  agri- 
cultural implements.  He  took  out  several 
patents,  and  later  in  life  his  business  was 
wholesale  entirely,  in  which  he  was  actively 
engaged  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Moorestown  Na- 
tional Bank  and  of  the  Burlington  County  Safe 
Deposit  and  Trust  Company;  and  served  as 
director  in  each.  He  was  also  a  large  owner 
and  dealer  in  real  estate.  He  conducted  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  and  ninety  acres  at  Glou- 
cester. He  was  a  vestryman  in  Trinity  Church, 
Moorestown.  of  which  his  father  was  senior 
warden,  and  his  uncle.  Henrv  Doughten,  one 


of  the  first  vestrymen.  Mr.  Doughten  married 
(first)  October,  1884,  Anne  l3oughten,  of 
Camden,  New  Jersey.  Children:  i.  Henry 
W.,  see  forward.  2.  Helen  S.,  born  October 
4,  1894.  The  mother  of  these  children  died 
January  2,  1896.  Mr.  Doughten  married  (sec- 
ond )  Louise,  daughter  of  Theodore  and  Louisa 
T,  Chamberlain,  of  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 
(Children:  3.  Marie  Louise  Chamberlain.  4. 
Susan  .\ssheton. 

(IN)  Henry  W.  Jr.,  son  of  Henry  W.  (i) 
and  Anna  (Doughten)  Doughten,  was  born  in 
Moorestown,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
October  16,  1885.  He  was  educated  at  Friends 
.\cademy  at  Moorestown  and  at  Haverford 
College,  Haverford,  Pennsylvania.  He  en- 
gaged in  merchandising  with  his  father  in 
Tvloorestown,  and  at  the  death  of  his  father 
purchased  the  business  from  the  estate  and 
csrried  it  on  alone  as  his  father  had  done  be- 
fore him.  He  affiliated  with  the  Republican 
party,  the  college  societies  of  Haverford,  and 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  in  which  he 
was  baptized  and  confirmetl. 

Ozias  N.  Miller,  the  earliest 
MILLER  member  of  this  family  of  whom 
we  have  any  information  as 
being  connected  with  New  Jersey  and  its  his- 
tory, was  born  in  North  Salem,  Westchester 
county,  New  York,  in  1818,  and  died  in  As- 
bury  Park,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey, 
October  31,  1883.  Until  1854  he  was  engaged 
in  the  produce  business  in  New  York  City,  but 
that  year  leasing  the  Peter  Drummond  farm 
of  two  hundred  and  ninety-si.x  acres  in  Deal, 
Monmouth  county,  New  Jersev,  he  settled 
there.  In  1880  he  went  to  reside  in  Asbury 
Park  and  retired  from  active  life.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  First  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  at  that  place,  and  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  First  Church  at  Long 
Branch.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
-Aaron  and  Francythye  (Conover)  Conover 
(see  Conover).  Children:  i.  Albert  Orrin. 
married  Estelle  Blauvelt :  children  :  Frederick 
Blauvelt  and  Albert  Conover.  2.  Frank  Morti- 
mer, referred  to  below.  3.  Carrie  Wild,  mar- 
lied  Professor  Nelson  Haas.  4.  Taulman  Al- 
laire, referred  to  below.     5.  Esther  Conover. 

( II )  PVank  Mortimer,  son  of  Ozias  N.  and 
Hannah  (Conover)  Miller,  was  born  in  Deal, 
New  Jersey,  July  17,  1859,  and  is  now  living 
in  Asbury  Park,  New  Jersey.  After  receiving 
a  public  school  education  he  became  a  clerk  in 
a  hardware  and  grocery  store  in  Long  Branch, 
and  then  obtained  a  position  in  the  New  York 


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postoffice,  whicli  he  retained  for  two  years. 
He  tlien  returned  to  Asbury  Park  and  became 
a  bookkeeper  in  tine  Asbury  Park  and  Ocean 
Grove  Bank  in  1900;  was  placed  in  charge  of 
the  branch  of  the  same  institution  in  Ocean 
Grove :  was  made  assistant  cashier  in  1906. 
In  politics  Mr.  Miller  is  a  Republican,  and  for 
sixteen  years  he  has  been  steward  and  treas- 
urer of  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
of  Asbury  F'ark.     He  is  unmarried. 

(H)  Taulman  Allaire,  son  of  Ozias  and 
Hannah  (Conover)  Miller,  was  born  in  Deal, 
New  Jer.sey,  March  19,  1869.  After  receiving 
a  good  public  school  education  he  secured  a 
position  in  1886  in  the  First  National  Bank 
of  Asbury  Park,  and  in  1900  became  the 
cashier  of  the  Ocean  Grove  National  Bank. 
He  is  a  Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  Asbury  Park. 
He  married.  October  5,  1898.  Edith  May, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Mary  A.  (Cooley ) 
Finch,  who  was  born  at  Jamesburg.  New  Jer- 
sey. June  26.  1876.  No  children.  Children  of 
Cornelius  and  Alary  A.  (Cooley)  Finch:  i. 
Edith.  May.  referred  to  above.  2.  Cora,  mar- 
ried Kenneth  W.  Towner ;  child,  Reginald  F. 
Towner,  t,.  Julia  E..  married  Daniel  C.  Cor- 
nell;  child."  Edith  M.  Cornell. 


(\')  Peter,  son  of  Peter  (q.  v.)  and  Pa- 
tience (Daws)  Covenhoven.  was  born  January 
]i.  1712.  He  married.  December  17.  1735. 
Leah,  born  December  24,  1714.  daughter  of 
Jan  Roelofse  and  Sarah  (Covenhoven) 
Schenck.  Children:  i.  John  P.,  born  Janu- 
ary 6,  1740.  died  December  24,  181 1 ;  married 
Jane  McGalliard.  2.  Patience,  born  March  29. 
1742.  died  March  8,  1826;  married,  December 
I,  1765,  Albert  Covenhoven.  3.  Sarah,  born 
December  22,  1744,  died  May  13,  1826;  mar- 
ried, February  19,  i'^)7,  Joseph  Thompson. 
4.  Eleanor,  born  December  25,  1746;  married 
Johannes  Schenck.  5.  Peter,  born  March  3. 
1749.  6.  Elias,  born  May  14,  1751 ;  married. 
October  2,  1774,  Catharine  Forman.  7.  W'M- 
iam,  referred  to  below.  8.  Leah,  born  March 
25.  1756;  married,  August,  1780,  William 
Combs.  9.  Rulif.  born  February  3.  1758:  mar- 
ried Rachael  Carr. 

(  \T )  William  P.,  son  of  Peter  and  Sarah 
(Schenck)  Covenhoven.  was  born  January  4. 
1753.  and  died  February  13.  1823.  He  bought 
from  Gib  Hendrickson  a  farm  for  his  sons 
Richard  and  William :  the  latter  died  soon 
after,  and  the  whole  property  was  given  to  the 
former.    He  owned  nearly  the  whole  of  Eng- 


lishtown.  including  the  mill,  which  he  left  to 
his  son  Samuel.  He  married  Altia  Jewell, 
who  died  March  4,  1813.  aged  sixty-nine  years. 
Children  :  Samuel ;  Richard,  referred  to  below  : 
Jane,  born  October  21,  1771  ;  Alice,  February 
4,  1774;  William,  August  6,  1777;  Joseph,  Au- 
gust 3,  1786,  died  May  2,  1849,  niarried  Alice 
Laird. 

(VH)  Richard  Conover  (note  change  in 
form  of  name),  son  of  \Villiam  P.  and  Altia 
(Jewell)  Covenhoven,  was  born  April  8,  1770, 
and  died  September  20,  1851.  He  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  James  Reid.     Children : 

I.  James,  married Shepherd.  2.  Alchey, 

or  .Alice,  died  October  27,  1880,  aged  78  years 
four  months  28  days ;  married,  December  26, 
1 82 1,  Gilbert  Hendrickson.  3.  Eliza,  married 
Joseph  Horner.  4.  Samuel,  married  (first) 
Mary  Piatt,  (  second  )  Matilda  Reid.  5.  Will- 
iam R.,  married  (first)  Eliza  McKnight,  (sec- 
ond) Deborah  Tilton.  6.  Richard,  married 
Susan  \'annote.     7.  Aaron,  referred  to  below. 

( Vni)  Aaron,  son  of  Richard  and  Hannah 
(  Reid  )  Conover,  married  Francythye  Conover. 
Children:  i.  Esther,  married  William  Miller; 
Hannah,  referred  to  below;  Sophia,  married 
George  \'an  Artsdale ;  Ida ;  Mary  P.,  married 
James  B.  Rogers. 

(IX)  Hannah,  daughter  of  Aaron  and 
Francythye  (  Conover )  Conover,  married  Ozias 
N.  Miller  (q.  v.) 


Among  the  representative  citi- 
I'ATEM.W     zens  of  Somerville,  who  have 

aided  materially  in  its  devel- 
opment, upbuilding  and  substantial  progress, 
may  be  mentioned  Charles  Heisler  Bateman,  a 
native  of  Pennington,  New  Jersey,  born  July 
2,  1861,  son  of  Charles  Wesley  and  Mary 
(  Bunn)  Bateman,  and  grandson  of  Israel  and 
Susan  (Bra}')   Bateman. 

(I)  Israel  Bateman  married.  May  20,  1820, 
Susan,  daughter  of  General  Daniel  Bray.  Chil- 
dren :  Charles  Wesley,  see  forward ;  Whit- 
field Israel,  Rhoda,  Amy.  Daniel  Bray  was 
commissioned  to  collect  a  fleet  of  boats  at 
Lambertville  with  which  General  Washington 
crossed  the  Delaware  at  Trenton  before  the 
battle  of  Trenton. 

(II)  Charles  Wesley,  eldest  son  of  Isreal 
and  Susan  (Bray)  Bateman,  was  a  farmer  by 
occupation,  an  active  member  of  the  Methodist 
church,  serving  as  superintendent  of  Sunday 
school  at  Pemiington,  New  Jersey,  for  twelve 
years.  He  was  a  lifelong  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, but  never  sought  or  held  public  office.  He 
was  highly  respected  and  esteemed  in  the  com- 


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nuinity  in  which  he  resided,  and  he  exerted  an 
influence  for  good  upon  those  with  whom  he 
was  brought  in  contact.  He  married  at  Pen- 
nington, in  1850.  Mary,  daughter  of  Joshua 
and  Fann\-  (  Hoff)  Bunn.  Joshua  Bunn  was 
prominent  in  the  vicinity  of  Trenton  as  a  local 
preacher  and  justice  of  the  peace;  his  ances- 
tors came  from  Holland,  settling  first  on  Long 
Island,  from  whence  one  of  three  brothers 
came  to  Pennington,  Xew  Jersey,  in  1738,  and 
])urchased  the  farm  which  has  since  been  in 
the  possession  of  the  family.  Children  of 
Joshua  and  Fanny  (  Hofl' )  Bunn  :  John  Wesley 
Bunn,  Sarah  (I.unn)  \'ancleve,  Alary  (Bunn) 
Bateman.  Children  of  Charles  Wesley  and 
Wary  (Bunn)  Bateman:  Fannie  A.,  born 
1851  ;  Annie  M.,  born  1855:  Charles  Heisler, 
see  forward, 

(HI)  Charles  Heisler,  only  son  of  Charles 
Wesley  and  jMary  ( Bunn )  Bateman,  attended 
the  public  schools  of  Pennington,  and  the 
knowledge  thus  acquired  was  supplemented  by 
attendance  at  Pennington  Seminary,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1880,  and  then  entered 
Princeton  University,  class  of  1885.  He  began 
his  active  career  as  reporter  for  the  State  Ga- 
zette and  Times  of  Trenton ;  was  city  editor  of 
tlie  True  American  of  Trenton  for  a  period  of 
four  years  ;  legislafive  correspondent  and  polit- 
ical writer  from  1887  to  1908:  represented  the 
New  York  Evening  Post,  Philadelphia  Ei'en- 
iny  Telegraph,  Paterson  Press,  Trenton  True 
American,  and  the  Associated  Press  during 
that  time ;  became  editor  and  part  owner  of 
the  Vnionist-Gazettc  at  Somerville,  New  Jer- 
sey, 1 89 1,  in  connection  with  legislative  work. 
The  L'ni(.inist-Gazette  Association,  of  which 
Mr.  Bateman  is  the  sole  manager,  conducts  an 
extensive  printing  and  publishing  business, 
being  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  Somer- 
ville and  a  prominent  factor  in  the  growth  and 
welfare  of  that  place.  Mr.  Bateman  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Somerville  Board  of  Educa- 
tion for  ten  years,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
btjard  of  directors  of  the  Somerville  Dime  Sav- 
ings liank.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Re- 
formed Church  of  Somerville.  He  is  a  Re- 
[jublican  in  politics ;  he  served  twice  as  private 
secretary  to  the  president  of  the  senate  of  New 
Jersey  when  office  was  held  by  Charles  A.  Reed 
and  by  Lewis  A.  Thompson ;  was  appointed 
a  member  of  state  civil  service  commission  in 
1908,  and  reappointed  by  Governor  I<"ort  in 
1910.  He  holds  membership  in  the  New  Jer- 
sey Legislative  Correspondents'  Club,  serving 
as  president  in  1909. 

Mr.  Bateman  married,  at  Newark,  Xew  Jer- 


sey, June  25,  1896,  Louise  Palmer,  born  at 
Alamuchy,  New  Jersey,  October  16,  1869, 
daughter  of  Abraham  M.  and  Sarah  (  Knowdes ) 
I'almer.  Abraham  M.  Palmer  was  a  Meth- 
odist minister,  pastor  of  many  leading  churches 
of  Northern  Xew  Jersey;  for  fifty-seven  years 
a  member  of  the  Newark  Conference,  and  for 
forty  years  treasurer  of  the  same.  Children 
of  Abraham  'SI.  and  Sarah  (Knowles)  Pal- 
mer: Abraham  J.  Palmer,  Mary  (Palmer) 
Dickinson :  Edmund  Janes  Palmer,  Louise 
(  Palmer)  Bateman.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bateman:  Charles  Palmer,  born  July  2J.  1898. 
Ruth,  November  10,  1900. 


Squire  Blanchard,  the  first 
BLANCHARD  member  of  the  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, was  a  highly  respected  farmer  of 
Nashua,  New  Hampshire.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  Rachel  Searles, 
who  was  of  English  extraction,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  nine  children;  a  daughter  died 
in  infancy;  the  others  are:  Rachel  Elvira, 
Noah  Farwell  (referred  to  below),  David  O., 
Ann  Eliza,  Samuel  F.,  Harriet,  Martha, 
Charles  C. 

(II)  Noah  Farwell,  son  of  Squire  and 
Rachel  (Searles)  Blanchard,  was  born  in 
Nashua,  Xew  Hampshire,  January  27,  1822, 
and  died  in  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  May  11, 
1881.  C^ntil  he  was  fifteen- years  old  he  assist- 
ed his  father  on  the  farm  and  attended  the 
district  school.  He  served  an  apprenticeship 
at  the  leather  trade  in  Xashua,  acquiring  a 
thorough  knowdedge  of  the  same,  and  in  1844 
located  in  W'ilmington,  Massachusetts.  He 
had  many  difficulties  to  encounter  from  busi- 
ness depressions  and  the  dishonesty  of  those 
in  whom  he  trusted,  but  never  lost  his  de- 
termination to  succeed,  and  in  1847  came  to 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  in  order  to  accept  em- 
ployment in  the  leather  manufacturies  of  T.  P. 
Howell  &  Company,  He  shortly  afterward  be- 
came general  superintendent  of  the  company, 
and  later  was  admitted  as  a  member  of  the  firm. 
In  i860  he  dissolved  his  partnership  and  estab- 
lished a  leather  business  on  his  own  account, 
which  he  conducted  alone  for  two  years,  when 
he  was  joined  by  his  brother,  David  O.  Blanch- 
ard, and  the  firm  become  known  under  the 
name  of  X.  F.  Blanchard  &  lirother.  .A.t  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war  the  United  States 
government  awarded  to  Mr.  Blanchard  a  con- 
tract for  knapsacks,  haversacks,  etc.,  for  the 
Federal  troops,  and  this  resulted  in  the  firm 
being  obliged  to  work  day  and  night,  with  a 


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fcrce  of  four  Iniiulred  hands,  in  order  to  ful- 
fill the  contract.  In  1869  Mr.  P.  Van  Zant 
Lane  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  and  the 
establishment  was  known  as  Blanchard, 
Brother  li  Lane  became  one  of  the  best  known 
of  the  larger  manufacturers  of  patent  and 
enamel  leather  in  the  L'nited  States.  Mr. 
Blanchard  advanced  rapidly  in  popular  esteem 
as  a  thorough  business  man. 

In  social  and  religious  matters  he  took  an 
active  part.  He  was  a  member  of  Trinity 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  for  twenty- 
five  years  president  of  its  board  of  trustees; 
was  president  of  the  Law  and  Order  Associa- 
tion of  Newark  in  1879  when  that  body  made 
its  famous  campaign  against  Sabbath  desecra- 
tion, and  was  nominated  as  its  candidate  for 
mayor,  but  refused  to  accept.  In  politics  he 
was  a  staunch  Republican.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Newark  Board  of  Trade,  and  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Merchants'  Fire  In- 
surance Company.  He  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent New-ark  citizens  who  organized  the  Pru- 
dential Life  Insurance  Company,  and  from 
1870  until  his  death  served  as  its  president. 
He  maintained  confidence  in  the  future  of  the 
company  as  a  means  of  protection  to  the  fam- 
ilies of  the  great  industrial  classes.  In  all  busi- 
ness dealings  he  observed  to  the  fullest  extent 
fairness,  and  always  insisted  on  the  rights  and 
interests  of  others  being  considered.  He  was 
genial  in  personal  traits,  approachable  at  all 
times,  a  true  friend,  large-hearted  as  well  as 
broad-minded,  popular  with  all,  and  inspired 
confidence  in  all  who  had  dealings  with  him. 
He  was  a  self  made  man  in  the  fullest  sense  of 
that  often  misused  term.  He  carved  out  his 
own  way,  unaided,  and  it  has  been  well  said 
of  him  that  his  career  illustrated  most  forcibly 
what  can  be  accomplished  by  steady  applica- 
tion, industry,  integrity  and  sobriety.  Mr. 
r.lanchard  was  an  ardent  Mason,  a  member  of 
Newark  Lodge  No.  7,  Union  Chapter  No.  7, 
and  Damascus  Commandery,  No.  5,  Knights 
Templar.  In  1873  he  was  instrumental  in 
organizing  the  Newark  Industrial  Institute,  for 
the  purpose  of  placing  on  exhibition  the  varied 
industries  of  the  city,  which  resulted  largely  in 
jiromoting  those  industries. 

Mr.  Blanchard  married,  July  25,  1844,  Eme- 
line  Cordelia,  daughter  of  Jesse  Pow-ers,  who 
died  during  her  infancy.  Her  mother  married 
( second  )  ]\Ioses  Wood,  and  her  daughter  as- 
sumed the  name  of  her  stepfather  and  was 
most  generally  known  as  Emeline  C.  Wood. 
Children  of  Noah  Farwell  and  Emeline  C. 
(Powers- Wood)  Blanchard:     i.  Emma  Cath- 


erine; married  Isaac  H.  Searles;  both  de- 
ceased; children:  i.  Clifton  Elmer  Searles, 
of  Chester,  New  Jersey,  who  has  a  wife  and 
four  children ;  ii.  Cora  May  Searles,  married 
Miles  Macon.  2.  Theodore  Charles  Edwin ; 
served  as  vice-president  of  the  Blanchard, 
Brother  &  Lane  Company,  and  at  the  present 
time  (1910)  superintendent  of  real  estate  in 
the  Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company;  mar- 
ried Fannie  E.  Wilson ;  children :  i.  Flora, 
married  Dillon  Beebe ;  two  children:  Theodore 
B.  and  a  babe ;  ii.  Mabel,  widow  of  C.  Edger- 
ton  Allcot ;  children :  C.  Edgerton  Jr.  and 
Dorothy;  iii.  Leslie,  unmarried;  iv.  Edith,  mar- 
ried Albert  McCluse ;  child,  Lester.  3.  Leon 
Noah  Farwell ;  interested  in  a  number  of  busi- 
ness concerns  in  New'ark  and  elsewhere ;  mar- 
ried (first)  Lavin  Roberts;  (second)  Annie 
Barry ;  children :  i.  Bertha,  married  a  Mr. 
Clayton  ;  ii.  Harry,  unmarried  ;  iii.  Edna,  mar- 
ried Carl  Sutphin,  M.  D. ;  one  child,  Kenneth ; 
iv.  Wallace,  married  Charlotte  Ward;  v.  Ly- 
nns, married.  4.  Frederick  Clinton,  referred 
to  below.  5.  William  \\'ashington,  twin  with 
Lillie  Letitia,  married  Harriet  E.  Dickinson ; 
children:  i.  Ralph,  umuarried  ;  ii.  Lillie,  mar- 
ried William  Crabb.  no  children  ;  iii.  Edith,  un- 
married. 6.  Lillie  Letitia,  married  James  H. 
Hart:  children:  i.  Percy  G.,  married  Emily 
Adams;  cliildren :  Percy  G.,  Jr.,  and  Alary 
Frances  Hart;  ii.  Edith  Lillie  Cordelia,  mar- 
ried Walter  Alartin  Kremenz  ;  one  child,  James 
H. :  iii.  William  H.,  died  in  infancy.  7.  Alilton 
Elvin,  married  Julia  T.  Mercer;  children:  El- 
vin  and  Harold.  8.  Effie  May,  married  Julian 
H.  Walter:  child,  Effie  May. 

(Ill)  Frederick  Clinton,  son  of  Noah  Far- 
well  and  Emeline  Cordelia  ( Powers-\\'ood) 
Blanchard,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
September  13,  1856,  and  is  now  living  in  Con- 
vent, near  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  For  his 
early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  Newark 
public  schools  and  afterward  to  the  Newark 
high  school.  Fie  then  engaged  in  business 
with  his  father,  working  his  way  up  gradually 
until  he  became  superintendent  of  the  factory. 
In  1889  he  became  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
Prudential  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  is 
now  also  the  supervisor  of  its  loan  depart- 
ment. He  is  the  worthy  son  of  a  great  father, 
inheriting  many  of  his  father's  best  traits  and 
characteristics.  Like  his  father  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  has  served  four  years  on  the 
New-ark  board  of  education.  He  is  also  an 
ardent  believer  in  and  worker  for  secret  and 
fraternal  organizations,  being  a  past  master  of 
St.  John's  Lodge,  No.   i,  Free  and  Accepted 


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■Masons ;  member  of  Kane  Council.  \o.  2 ; 
Union  Chapter,  No.  7 ;  Damascus  Command- 
ery,  No.  5,  Knights  Templar;  Scottish  Rite 
Consistory  of  Jersey  City,  and  Salem  Temple. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Society,  and  of  the  ]\Iethodist  Episcopal  church 
in  Morristown.  Air.  Blanchard  married,  June 
7,  1882.  in  Woodbridge,  New  Jersey,  Mary 
Elizabeth  Dickinson,  born  in  Elizabeth,  New 
Jersey.  September  21,  1859,  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  George  F.  and  Julia  Ann  (Van  Dome) 
Dickinson,  the  former  of  whom  was  for  many 
years  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  Children  of  Rev.  George  F.  and  Julia 
.Ann  (Van  Dome)  Dickinson:  i.  Mary  Eliz- 
abeth, referred  to  above.  2.  Harriet  E.,  mar- 
ried William  W^ashington  Blanchard,  brother 
of  Frederick  Clinton  Blanchard ;  children : 
Ralph ;  Lillie,  married  W^illiam  Crabb,  and 
Edith.  3.  Charles  B.,  deceased;  married  Marie 
(jreen ;  child,  Harriet.  4.  George  F.,  married 
Elizabeth  Bourn  ;  children  :  Marie  and  Vir- 
ginia. Children  of  Frederick  Clinton  and  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Dickinson)  Blanchard:  I.  Maud 
Ella,  married  Harold  H.  Hurlburt.  2.  Nellie 
May,  married  Augustus  G.  Belden ;  children : 
Augustus  G.  Jr.  and  Mary  Elizabeth.  3.  Fred- 
erick Clinton  Jr.     4.  Ruth  Elizabeth. 


C)f  all  the  families  bearing  the 
SAHTH  patronymic  of  Smith,  which  have 
been  connected  with  the  history 
and  progress  of  New  Jersey,  there  is  none  that 
has  ranked  so  high  as  and  had  so  honorable  a 
record  as  that  commonly  known  as  the  Bur- 
lington Smiths,  which  had  among  its  members 
such  names  as  Dr.  Jonathan  Smith,  William 
Morris  Smith,  James  Logan  Smith,  and,  in 
the  present  day,  Francis  Hopkinson  Smith.  An 
unfortunate  paucity  of  record  makes  it  im- 
possible at  the  present  time  to  state  definitely 
e.xactly  where  the  branch  at  present  under  con- 
sideration is  connected  with  the  Burlington 
Smiths,  but  all  of  the  indications  point  to  the 
ancestry  being  in  the  line  of  George  Smith,  of 
Burlington. 

(I)  \\'illiam  Fenimore  Smith,  born  about 
1792,  died  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey,  May 
16,  1867,  son  of  Joseph  and  Cordelia  (Feni- 
more) Smith.  Joseph  Smith  was  a  son  of 
George  Smith.  Cordelia  (Fenimore)  .Smith 
was  born  November  2,  1767,  daughter  of 
William  and  Rachel  (Jennens)  Fenimore,  the 
latter  the  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Margaret 
Jennens.  Isaac  Jennens  was  the  lawful  heir 
of  John  Jennens,  who  came  from  Birmingham, 

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England,  in  the  ship  "Kent,"  1677,  and  located 
in  .Salem,  New  Jersey. 

William  Fenimore  Smith,  like  so  many  of 
the  Burlington  Smiths,  was  a  scholar,  and 
interested  in  books  and  printing  and  all  the 
various  operations  connected  with  them.  For 
a  time  he  worked  at  the  trade  of  printing  and 
bookbinding,  having  a  binding  press  in  his  own 
home.  He  was  then  connected  for  some  time 
with  the  Dollar  Nezvspapcr  in  Burlington,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  with  the  Burlington 
Gaccttc.  Subsequently  he  taught  school  in 
Burlington  for  several  years,  and  during  the 
last  years  of  his  life,  at  the  time  of  the  civil 
war,  clerked  in  Milner's  coal  office.  During 
the  last  twenty-five  years  of  his  life  he  was 
librarian  of  the  Burlington  City  Librarv.  In 
1855  he  was  a  member  of  the  common  council 
of  Burlington,  and  it  was  during  his  term  of 
office  that  the  second  track  of  the  Amboy  divi- 
sion was  put  partly  through  the  city.  He  also 
served  for  a  term  as  city  assessor  and  as  city 
clerk.  He  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Seth 
Austin,  whose  ancestral  line  will  be  found  else- 
where in  this  work.  Children:  John  (ist)  ; 
Evan  Fenimore;  Charles  Pancoast  (ist),  see 
forward  ;  Thomas  Hewlings.  a  sketch  of  whom 
follows  in  this  work ;  Louisa ;  Marv ;  John 
(2nd).  '      ■ 

(II)  Charles  Pancoast,  second  son  and  child 
of  \\'illiam  Fenimore  and  Hannah  (.\ustin) 
Smith,  was  born  in  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
in  September,  1824,  and  died  in  the  same  city, 
June  27,  1892.  He  was  educated  at  first  in  tlie 
schools  of  his  native  city,  then  for  a  time  at- 
tended a  business  college  in  Philadelphia,  in 
which  city  he  taught  penmanship  for  some 
time.  Returning  to  Burlington  he  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  with  Horace  Price,  pur- 
chased the  entire  interest  in  this  undertaking 
in  1852,  and  conducted  the  business  most  suc- 
cessfully for  the  ne.xt  forty  years  for  himself. 
In  politics  Mr.  Smith  was  a  Democrat,  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  common  council 
and  as  city  clerk.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  and  of  Burlington  Lodge, 
I.  0.0.  F.  Mr.  Smith  married  (first)  Fannie 
Nesbit,  from  which  marriage  there  were  no 
children.  He  married  (second)  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Roberts)  Mitch- 
ell, of  Burlington.  Children:  Charles  Pan- 
coast  (2nd),  see  forward;  Alice,  died  in  in- 
fancy ;  Annie  Roberts,  principal  of  Elias  Bou- 
dinot  School,  in  Burlington. 

(III)  Charles  Pancoast  (2nd),  onlv  son  of 
Charles    Pancoast    and    Elizabeth    (Mitchell) 


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Smith,  was  born  in  P.urlington,  New  Jersey, 
April  21,  18(19.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Burlington  and  was  graduated  from 
the  high  school  in  1886.  For  the  next  two 
years  he  clerked  in  the  ofifice  of  the  Burlington 
Gas  Light  Company  in  Burlington,  and  for 
one  year  after  this  in  the  coal  office  of  Thomas 
Milnor  &  Son,  in  the  same  city.  He  then  at- 
tended Palmer's  Business  College  in  Philadel- 
phia, from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1891, 
having  previously  worked  as  a  clerk  for  the 
McNeal  Pipe  and  Foundry  Company.  His 
next  position  was  in  the  office  of  the  Amboy 
division  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  at  Cam- 
den, as  stenographer  and  clerk,  where  he  stead- 
ily rose,  and  for  several  years  has  occupied 
the  position  of  chief  clerk  of  the  Amboy  divi- 
sion. Mr.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  auditing 
committee  of  the  r>urlington  City  Loan  and 
Building  Association.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican, and  for  seven  years  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Burlington  common  council,  serving 
for  two  years  as  president  of  that  body,  and  is 
now  in  his  third  term ;  he  is  also  chairman  of 
the  finance  committee  of  the  council.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  His  fra- 
ternal affiliations  are  with  :  Burlington  Lodge, 
No.  32,  F.  and  A.  M.;  Burlington  Lodge,  No. 
22,  I.  O.  C).  F. :  charter  member  of  Burlington 
Lodge.  No.  996.  B.  P.  O.  E. ;  and  the  Oneida 
Boat  Club. 

Air.  Smith  married,  October  4.  1898,  Mary, 
daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Bersch)  Bell, 
whose  father  served  during  the  civil  war  from 
Woodbury,  Baltimore  county,  in  the  division 
of  General  Lew  Wallace ;  her  grandfather, 
Edward,  son  of  Richard  Bell,  was  a  L^nited 
States  marshal  during  the  war.  Children  of 
Charles  Pancoast  and  Mary  (Bell)  Smith: 
Dorothy  Bell,  born  in  Burlington,  August  11, 
1899;  Helen  Elizabeth,  August  i,  1904; 
Charles  Pancoast   (3rd),  December  20,   1908. 

(The    Fenlmore    Line). 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  original  record : 

Elizabeth  Fenimore,  daughter  of  William 
Fenimore  and  Rachel  Fenimore,  his  wife,  was 
born  ye  first  day  of  the  3rd  month  called  May 
in  ye  year  of  our  Lord.  1743. 

Sarah  Fenimore,  daughter  of  William  P'en- 
imore  and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  23rd 
day  of  ye  loth  month,  called  December  in  ye 
year  of  our  Lord  1744. 

Joshua  Fenimore,  son  of  William  Fenimore 
and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  7th  day  of 
ye  7th  month  called  Sejitember  in  ye  year  of 
our  Lord  1746. 


Samuel  Fenimore,  son  of  William  Fenimore 
and  Rachel  Fenimore,  his  wife,  was  born  ye 
27th  day  of  ye  7th  month  called  September  in 
ye  year  of  our  Lord  1748. 

Joseph  Fenimore,  son  of  William  Fenimore 
and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  19th  day  of 
ye  2nd  month  called  .April  in  ye  year  of  our 
Lord  1750. 

Anne  Fenimore,  daughter  of  William  Feni- 
more and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  21st 
day  of  ye  12th  month  called  February  in  ye 
year  of  our  Lord  1751. 

William  F"enimore,  son  of  William  P'eni- 
more  and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  first 
day  of  ye  first  month  in  ye  year  of  our  Lord 

1754- 

Jonathan  Fenimore,  son  of  William  Feni- 
more and  Rachel,  was  born  ye  loth  of  ye  first 
month  1756. 

Rachel  Fenimore,  daughter  of  William  Fen- 
imore and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  24th 
of  ye  8th  month  1758. 

Alary  Fenimore,  daughter  of  William  Feni- 
more and  Rachel,  his  wife,  was  born  ye  loth 
day  of  ye  first  month  called  March  in  ye  year 
of  our  Lord   1761, 

Barzilla  Fenimore,  son  of  William  Feni- 
more, was  born  the  twentieth  day  of  Novem- 
ber 1765,  on  the  first  day  of  the  week'. 

Cordelia  Fenimore,  daughter  of  ^^'illiam 
and  Rachel  Fenimore,  was  born  the  2nd  day 
of  November  1767. 


f II )   Thomas     Hewlings     Smith, 
SMITH    third   child   and   son   of   William 

Fenimore  (q.  v.  above)  and  Harriet 
(.Austin")  Smith,  was  born  in  Burlington.  New 
Jersey,  March  8,  1826.  and  died  there  March 
26,  1879.  He  was  educated  in  the  Burlington 
citv  schools,  and  then  learned  the  trade  of 
shoemaking,  which  he  followed  all  his  life. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  religious 
views  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  and  of  the  Redmen  of  Burling- 
ton. About  1848  he  married  Caroline  Fenton, 
born  May  i,  1826,  died  September  22,  1888. 
Children:  i.  Mary  F.,  born  September  26, 
1849.  -■  Clara  M.,  Afay  17,  1852.  3.  William 
Fenimore,  referred  to  below.  4.  Sarah  E.. 
born  January  5,  1857,  died  October  24,  1903. 
3.  Alargaret  Y.,  born  August  14,  1859,  died 
.August  ID,  1899.  6.  F^annie  N.,  born  .August 
2^,  i860.  7.  Charles  Pancoast.  born  .April  20, 
1868.  died  July  24,  1868. 

(Ill)   William    Fenimore,   third   child    and 
eldest  son  of  Thomas  Hewlings  and  Caroline 


STATE   OF   NEW    lERSEY. 


(Fenton)  Smith,  was  born  in  Burlington.  New 
Jersey,  September  lO.  1854.  ami  is  now  living 
in  that  city.  After  receiving  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  lUirlington  he  learned  the 
business  of  shoemaking,  which  he  has  follow- 
ed steadily  for  the  last  thirty-nine  years,  work- 
ing at  first  in  different  shops  in  the  city,  and 
for  the  last  twenty-one  years  with  the  firm  of 
G.  W.  Lewis  &  Son,  of  which  firm  he  is  now 
bookkeeper  and  cliief  clerk.  Mr.  Smith  was 
a  Democrat  and  was  one  of  the  strongest  mem- 
bers of  the  party  in  Burlington.  In  1890  he 
was  chosen  assessor  of  the  town,  and  at  an- 
other time  he  was  clerk  of  the  ward  election. 
From  1892  to  1895  h^  '^^'^*  ^  member  of  the 
city  council.  In  1903-04-03  he  was  collector 
of  ta.xes,  while  for  seven  and  one-half  years  he 
has  served  on  the  board  of  education,  five  and 
one-half  years  of  which  he  has  been  the  board's 
secretary.  He  is  a  Republican.  Mr.  Smith  is  a 
communicant  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  Burlington. 
Mr.  Smith  married  (first)  October  16.  1874, 
Ida  Poole,  of  Philadelphia.  She  died  the 
following  June.  He  married  (second)  Sep- 
tember 15,  1878,  \''irginia  Wright,  daughter 
of  Captain  J.  ^^^  and  Mary  Ann  (Durrel!) 
Goodenongh.  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Elsie  Lillian,  born  September  25. 
1879.  died  January  5,  1881.  2.  Thomas  How- 
ard, January  15,  1881,  died  February  15.  1881. 
3.  Clarence  Elwood,  March  7,  1883;  gradu- 
ated from  Burlington  College ;  now  teller  in 
Burlington  City  Loan  and  Turst  Company, 
which  company  he  engaged  with  when  it  first 
opened  for  business.  4.  Eva,  June  20,  1884, 
died  September  23,  1884.  5.  Elsie  Lillian,  Au- 
gust I,  1890,  died  July  i.  1906.  6.  William 
Fennimore,  Jr.,  November  2},.  1900,  died  April 
16,  1901. 

"vX'hether  the  Abbott  family  of 
ABBOTT  South  Jersey  is  related  to  the 
.A.bbotts  of  Rowley,  Massachu- 
setts, is  rather  questionable  in  the  light  of  evi- 
dence existing  at  j^resent,  but  the  conjecture 
has  been  made  and  should  not  be  passed  over 
in  silence. 

(1)  The  christian  name  of  the  founder  of 
the  Salem  county  Abbotts  has  been  lost  as  has 
been  also  that  of  his  wife,  but  as  early  as  1692, 
five  of  his  children  were  in  the  region  of  Fen- 
wick's  colony.  They  were:  John,  of  Salem 
county,  and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  who  died  in 
1693  '  Thomas,  of  Cohansey,  and  his  wife  Mar- 
garet, who  died  in  1719;  Stephen;  George,  re- 
ferred to  below  ;  Eve,  wife  of  Dickason  Sheep- 
ard. 


( II )  George,  son  of  the  founder  of  the  Ab- 
bott family  in  Salem  count)',  established  him- 
self there  in  1698,  and  in  1704  built  the  brick 
house,  still  standing,  in  which  he  lived.  He 
died  in  1729.  By  his  wife,  Mary,  he  had  the 
following  children:  Benjamin,  born  March 
2,  1700;  Hannah,  November  30,  1702;  George, 
December  13.  1704:  Sarah,  ,\pril  16,  1707,  died 
unmarried,  1730;  Rebeckah,  born  August  10, 
1709,  married  Lewis  Howell;  Samuel,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Mary,  born  October  26,  1714. 

( III  )  .Samuel,  youngest  son  of  George  and 
Mary  Abbott,  of  Elsinborough  township,  was 
born  August  26,  1712.  In  1733  he  married  at 
the  Haddonfield  Monthly  Meeting,  Hannah 
Foster,  and  had  children  :  George,  born  Feb- 
ruary 28,  1734;  William,  referred  to  below; 
Rebeckah,  born  December  26,  1740;  married 
Joseph  Brick,  of  Cumberland  county. 

(IV)  William,  youngest  son  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  (Foster)  Abbott,  was  born  in  Elsin- 
borough township.  Salem  county.  June  4,  1737. 
died  there  in  April,  1800.  About  January,  17(33, 
he  married  Rebecca  Tyler,  of  Elsinborough, 
by  whom  he  had  three  sons :  Samuel,  referred 
to  below;  George,  born  September  27,  1765; 
Josiah,  September  23,  1768. 

(V)  Samuel  (2),  eldest  child  of  William 
and  Rebecca  (Tyler)  Abbott,  was  born  in 
Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county,  Novem- 
ber 27,  1763,  died  there  April  14,  1835.  In 
1791  he  married  (first)  Marcia  or  Mercy  Gill 
in  the  Haddonfield  Monthly  Meeting,  who  died 
February  i,  1798.  Children:  i.  William, 
born  August  22.  1792.  2.  Rebecca,  July  29. 
1794;  married  Andrew  Thompson.  3.  Han- 
nah, April  3,  1796;  married  Jedediah  T.  .Allen  ; 
died  December  25,  1866.  4.  Sarah.  October  8, 
1797,  died  January  12,  1798.  Samuel  Abbott 
married  (second)  Martha  Ogden ;  children: 
5.  Mary  Ann.  born  October  20,  1810,  died 
January  10,  1844,  unmarried.  6.  Lydia,  Jan- 
uary 21,  1813,  died  June  14,  1845,  unmarried. 
7.  Samuel,  March  14.  1815,  died  September  15, 
1885  ;  married  Sarah  ^^'istar.  8.  George,  re- 
ferred to  below.  9.  Martha.  April  4,  1819. 
Martha  (Ogden)  Abbott  died  May  4,  1848, 
aged  seventy  years. 

(VI)  George  (2),  youngest  son  of  Samuel 
and  Martha  (Ogden)  Abbott,  was  born  in 
Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county,  July  13, 
1817,  died  there  September  27,  1888.  He  was 
an  elder  in  the  Salem  Monthly  Meeting,  and 
an  active  business  man,  and  like  all  of  his 
immediate  ancestors  was  a  large  landholder 
and  had  large  farming  interests. 

He  married  Ruth  S.  Baker,  of  New  Bed- 


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ford,  Massachusetts:  children:  i.  Henry  B., 
born  August  5,  1846,  now  hving  in  Philadel- 
phia. 2.  Charles  T..  April  12.  1848.  3.  George, 
referred  to  below.  4.  William,  September  2, 
1852,  died  December  30,  1862.  5.  Joseph  B., 
born  and  died  between  1853  and  1856.  6.  Jo- 
seph B.,  February  26,  1857.  7.  William,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1868. 

(V'll)  George  (3),  tliird  child  and  son  of 
George  (2)  and  Ruth  S.  (Baker)  Abbott,  was 
born  in  Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county, 
September  11,  1849.  He  was  educated  at  the 
Friends  school  at  Salem,  the  Westtown  board- 
ing school  and  at  Alsophs  school  at  Strouds- 
burgh,  Pennsylvania.  He  lived  on  the  old 
homestead  which  is  still  in  the  family,  and  was 
much  interested  in  dairying.  He  organized  the 
Abbott  Alderney  dairies,  and  is  president  of 
the  company,  with  his  headquarters  in  Phila- 
delphia, whither  he  removed  in  1877.  In  1880 
he  removed  finally  to  Aloorestown,  where  he  is 
now  living.  He  is  a  minister  among  Friends 
there.  He  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Aquilla  B.  and  Sarah  Atkinson  (Eldridge) 
Lippincott,  of  Moorestown  :  children:  i.  Ed- 
ward Lippincott,  born  September  2,  1873,  died 
1892.  2.  George,  referred  to  below.  3.  Sarah 
Lippincott,  who  died  in  1894.  4.  Elizabeth, 
born  April  27,  1887.   5.  Ruth,  April  13,  1895. 

(\'ni)  George  Jr.,  son  of  George  (3)  and 
Elizabeth  (Lippincott)  Abbott,  was  born  in 
Elsinborough  township,  Salem  county,  Decem- 
ber 9,  1876,  and  is  now  living  in  Moorestown, 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Friends  Academy  at  Moorestown, 
and  at  the  Westtown  boarding  school,  and  then 
went  into  business  with  his  father  in  the  Ab- 
bott Alderney  creameries,  and  is  now  vice- 
president  of  the  company.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Friends,  and  is  also  the  corre- 
sponding secretary  for  the  Burlington  County 
iJistorical  Society.  He  married  May  19,  1898, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth 
(Cope)  Scattergood,  of  Westchester.  Penn- 
sylvania; children:  I.  George  Scattergood, 
born  December  6,  1900.  2.  Joseph,  Marcli  30, 
1904.     3.  Edward,  December  16.  1905. 


The  name  Morin  stands  for  a 
MORIN  French  family  of  distinction  in 
both  social  and  military  life,  and 
while  the  jjarticular  branch  here  under  consid- 
eration had  been  known  in  New  Jersev  less 
than  two  score  years,  its  representatives  have 
been  persons  of  character  and  worth. 

(1)   Captain    John     Francis     Morin.    with 
whom  the  New  Jersey  line  begins,  , was  .born 


in  Nantes.  France,  in  1797,  and  died  in  the 
West  Indies,  in  1875.  He  was  educated  in 
the  college  in  Nantes,  and  after  leaving  there 
chose  army  life  as  most  suited  to  his  tastes. 
He  entered  the  army  of  France,  winning  a 
captain's  commission.  His  military  record  was 
one  of  splendid  courage,  and  throughout  his 
soldier  career  he  showed  himself  to  be  a  man 
of  high  character.  During  the  reign  of  the 
third  Napoleon,  being  an  Orleanist.  he  ex- 
patriated himself,  taking  refuge  in  England, 
whence  he  sailed  for  the  West  Indies,  and 
there  passed  a  life  of  genteel  retirement,  being 
well  possessed  of  means,  as  well  as  being  a 
gentleman  of  education  and  refinement.  He 
married  Mary  Magdelena  de  Mathen,  a  French 
lady,  who  died  in  the  ^\'est  Indies,  having 
borne  her  husband  six  children  :  Claire,  Mary, 
John  Francis,  who  became  a  British  customs 
officer;  Gustave,  Charles,  Michelle  Arnold. 

(II)  Michelle  Arnold,  son  of  Captain  John 
Francis  Morin,  physician  and  surgeon,  of  New 
Egypt,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  was 
born  in  Jamaica,  \\'est  Indies,  in  April,  1855, 
and  there  acquired  his  earlier  education.  He 
subsequently  went  to  England,  entered  St. 
Joseph's  College,  London,  and  was  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1875.  In  the  following 
year  he  came  to  the  United  States.  Soon  after 
landing  in  New  York  he  became  connected 
with  the  reportorial  staffs  of  the  Herald,  the 
Sun.  and  other  metropolitan  newspapers.  He 
traveled  extensive,  and  was  occupied  in  vari- 
ous capacities  until  1893,  when  he  matriculated 
in  the  medical  department  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  completed  the  regular  four 
year  course  there,  and  in  1897  was  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  After  his  gradua- 
tion. Dr.  Morin  remained  a  year  in  Philadel- 
phia and  then  located  for  practice  in  \\' rights- 
town.  New  Jersey,  and  there  he  remained  until 
1902,  when  he  located  permanently  in  New 
Egypt.  Dr.  Morin  married,  December  30. 
1897,  Anna,  daughter  of  Colonel  Charles  and 
.Ann  (Rogers)  Bennett,  of  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey;  children:  Charles,  born  in  Wrights- 
town,  November  8,  1899;  Eda,  born  at  same 
place,  July  18,  1900. 

Colonel  Charles  Bennett,  of  Mt.  Holly,  New 
Jersey,  fatiier  of  .Anna  ( Bennett)  Morin,  was 
born  in  1822,  and  died  January  17,  1905.  He 
took  an  honorable  part  in  the  Mexican  war, 
having  organized  a  company  in  which  he  was 
commissioned  lieutenant,  and  which  he  led  to 
the  field.  He  was  soon  promoted  to  captain, 
and  at  the  close  of  the  war  was  honorably 
mustered  out  of  service  with  the  brevet  com- 


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mission  of  colonel.  After  returning  home  he 
engaged  in  contracting  and  building  in  Mt. 
Holly,  where  he  made  his  residence.  Polit- 
ically he  was  a  Democrat  of  the  old  school. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Firemen's 
Relief  Fund  of  Alt.  Holly,  and  treasurer  of 
the  organization  for  many  years,  and  so  stern 
was  his  integrity  that  he  was  not  required  to 
give  bond.  Samuel  Bennett,  father  of  Colo- 
nel Charles  Bennett,  was  born  in  Mt.  Holly, 
September  3,  1771,  and  died  August  23,  1841  ; 
he  married  Sarah  Wright.  Joseph  Bennett, 
father  of  Samuel  Bennett,  died  at  Mt.  Holly. 
October  6.  1818,  and  his  wife  Martha  died 
May  29,  1820.  having  borne  her  husband  three 
children:  Elizabeth,  born  Xi.ivcmber  24,  1768: 
Samuel,  September  ^,  1771  ;  Joseph,  March  18, 
1780. 

There  is  perhaps  no  more 
HOPKINS  interesting  character  in  the 
early  history  of  Gloucester 
county  than  Elizabeth  Estaugli.  The  passing 
away  of  one  generation  after  another  has  not 
blunted  the  interest  felt  in  her  good  deeds,  nor 
has  the  lapse  of  time  obliterated  the  traditions 
handed  down  from  parent  to  child.  She  came 
to  New  Jersey  a  young,  unsophisticated  girl, 
comparatively  alone.  She  left  a  home  where 
she  had  been  surrounded  by  friends  and  all 
that  rendered  life  attractive  and  she  cast  her 
lot  in  the  midst  of  an  unbroken  forest  at  some 
distance  from  her  neighbors,  a  stranger  in  a 
strange  land.  Her  father  was  John  Haddon, 
a  Friend,  who  lived  in  Rotherhithe,  parish  of 
St.  George,  Southwark,  county  Surrey,  Eng- 
land, a  place  at  that  time  a  suburb  of  London 
and  on  the  east  side  of  the  Thames.  He  was 
a  blacksmith,  extending  his  business  to  the 
making  of  anchors  and  had  his  shop  between 
the  street  before  mentioned  and  the  river.  His 
ancestry  may  possibly  be  traced  to  the  manor 
of  Haddon  in  Derbyshire,  now  a  part  of  the 
estates  of  the  Duke  of  Rutland.  Born  in 
1682,  Elizabeth  Idaddon,  whose  name  is  per- 
petuated in  Haddonfield,  came  to  New  Jersey 
in  1 701  with  a  few  friends  in  order  to  look 
after  her  father's  property  in  the  province. 
Here  she  met  and  married  John  Estaugh,  and 
passed  her  long  eventful  life,  dying  March  30, 
1762,  and  having  no  children,  she  left  most 
of  her  property  to  be  taken  care  of  by  the  de- 
scendants of  her  sister's  children  who  were  the 
founders  of  the  Ho]ikins  family  of  New  Jer- 
sey. 

( I  )    Benjamin    Hopkins    was    a    wine    mer- 
chant in  the  city  of  London.     In  1706  he  mar- 


ried Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Iladdon,  of 
Rotherhithe,  and  the  only  sister  of  Elizabeth 
(  Haddon  )  Estaugh.  His  children  were  :  Mary. 
Sarah,  Betty,  who  died  young;  Benjamin,  who 
died  young;  liaddon,  born  1715  ;  Ebenezer,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(II)  Ebenezer.  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah 
(  Haddon)  Hopkins,  was  born  in  J^(_in(lon,  Eng- 
land, Jime  20,  1718,  died  in  1737.  His  aunt. 
Elizabeth  Estaugh,  having  no  children  of  her 
own,  adopted  her  nephew  Ebenezer,  brought 
him  to  America,  educated  him,  and  had  him 
live  with  her  in  New  Haddonfield.  In  1752 
she  conveyed  to  him  a  tract  of  land  fronting 
on  Cooper's  creek  in  Haddon  township,  later 
on  known  as  the  Ann  Burr  farm,  and  adjoin- 
ing other  lands  which  she  had  given  him.  On 
this  property  he  probably  resided  and  besides 
his  farming  became  a  surveyor  and  land  con- 
veyancer. After  his  death  his  widow  removed 
to  Haddonfield  and  occupied  a  house  anil  lot 
bought  in  1752  by  Elizaljeth  Estaugh  of  the 
estate  of  Samuel  Mickle.  It  stood  on  the 
west  side  of  Main  street,  and  is  still  in  the  pos- 
session of  a  descendant  of  Ebenezer  Hopkins, 
although  the  house  was  removed  several  years 
ago  and  now  stands  on  the  north  side  of  Ellis 
street.  It  is  the  only  building  now  left  in 
Haddonfielfl  that  can  be  associated  with  Eliza- 
beth Estaugh,  and  in  it  resided  her  only  col- 
lateral descendants  and  those  who  were  to  her 
the  continuation  of  her  family  in  America. 
Ebenezer  Hopkins  married,  April  9,  17,^6, 
.Sarah,  daughter  of  James  Lord,  of  Woodbury 
creek,  who  bore  him  seven  children:  i.  John 
Estaugh,  referred  to  below.  2.  Elizabeth  Es- 
taugh, born  March  14,  1738,  died  May  11, 
1790;  married,  in  1762,  John  Mickle.  3.  Had- 
dcMi.  June  30,  1745,  died  1768;  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Joshua  and  Amy  ( Hinch- 
man )  Stokes.  4.  Ebenezer  Jr.,  October  26, 
1746.  died  June  13,  1781  ;  married,  1764,  Ann, 
daughter  of  William  Albertson,  5.  Sarah, 
February  4,  1749,  died  1769;  married,  1767, 
Caleb  Cresson.  6.  Mary,  October  31,  1750, 
married,  1770,  Joshua  Cresson.  7.  Ann,  Au- 
gust 17,  1757,  died  1833;  married,  in  1793, 
Marmaduke  Burr.  The  property  on  which 
her  father  lived  descended  to  and  took  its 
name  from  her. 

(III)  John  Estaugh,  son  of  Ebenezer  and 
Sarah  (  Lord)  Hopkins,  was  born  July  6,  1737. 
died  March  2,  1806.  He  married,  in  1762, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  William  Mickle,  and  had 
seven  children:  i,  James,  born  January  25, 
1763.  died  1826;  married  (first)  1784,  Re- 
becca Clement,  and   (second)   Ami   Ilugg.     2. 


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Hannah,  November  i8,  1764,  died  January  5, 
1838.  3.  Job,  January  19,  1766,  died  1766.  4. 
John  Mickle,  February  16,  1767,  died  1835. 
5,  WiHiam  Estaugh,  referred  to  below.  6. 
Samuel,  September  29,  1774,  died  June  19, 
1775.  7.  Sarah,  March  2S.  1776,  died  Novem- 
ber 2,  1808. 

(IV)  William  Estaugh,  fifth  child  and 
fourth  son  of  John  Estaugh  and  Sarah 
(Mickle)  Hopkins,  was  born  December  31, 
1772,  died  in  1820.  He  married,  October  22, 
1783,  Ann,  daughter  of  Grififith  Morgan  and 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Samuel  Clement.  Grif- 
fith Morgan  was  the  son  of  .\lexander  Mor- 
gan and  Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Lydia  Cooper,  and  granddaughter  of  William 
Cooper,  the  emigrant.  Alexander  Morgan  was 
the  son  of  Grififith  Alorgan,  the  emigrant  from 
Wales,  and  Elizabeth,  the  widow  of  Samuel 
Cole,  the  emigrant.  The  children  of  William 
Estaugh  and  .\nn  (Morgan)  Hopkins  were: 
I.  Hannah,  born  January  15,  1797,  died  June 
25,  1874:  married  Samuel,  son  of  Joseph 
Reeves.  2.  ( iriffith  Morgan,  referred  to  below, 
3.  Sarah,  .April  10,  1801,  died  September  27, 
1885  :  married,  April  25,  1818,  John  Gill.  4. 
Rebecca  Morgan.  July  27,  1803,  died  Novem- 
ber 5,  1837;  married  November  2,  1826.  Sam- 
uel Nicholson.  5.  Mary  Ann,  August  26, 
i8o('i,  died  1872;  married,  November  18,  1824, 
B.  W.  Blackwood.  6.  Elizabeth  L.,  Septem- 
ber II,  1808,  died  1882.  7.  John  Estaugh, 
May  6,  181 1,  died  1884:  married,  1833,  .An- 
toinette Hicks. 

(V)  Griffith  Morgan,  second  child  and  eld- 
est son  of  William  Estaugh  and  Ann  (Mor- 
gan) Hopkins,  was  born  near  Haddonfield, 
October  16,  1799,  died  June  19,  i860.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  a  miller.  January  8,  1823,  he 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Clement,  who 
died  September  10,  1887.  Their  children  were: 
\Mlliam  Estaugh,  born  December,  1824,  died 
November,  1874;  married,  1858,  Elizabeth 
Mickle.  2.  Sarah,  ]\Iarch,  1827,  died  January, 
1894.  3.  John  Clement,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Hannah,  November,  1831,  died  July,  1855.  5. 
Griffith  Morgan,  Jr.  6.  .Anna,  died  November, 
1896.  7.  Henry  W.,  married  (first)  Novem- 
ber, 1869,  Anna  Reeves,  and  (second)  Janu- 
ary, 1892,  Ada  Bertrand.  8.  .Amelia  B.  9. 
Elizabeth. 

(VI)  John  Clement,  third  child  and  second 
son  of  Griffith  Morgan  and  Sarah  (Clement) 
Hopkins,  was  born  near  Haddonfield,  Febru- 
ary 17,  1830.  He  is  a  farmer  and  a  miller, 
now  retired.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
the  Moorestown  Bank  and  of  the  Moorestown 


Trust  Company,  being  made  vice-president 
and  director  in  each  institution.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Moorestown 
Water  Company.  In  1880  he  built  the  resi- 
dence now  occupied  by  his  son,  and  in  1908, 
the  home  now  occupied  by  himself.  In  March, 
1858,  he  married  Kezia,  born  near  Haddon- 
field, daughter  of  Mickle  Clement  and  Mary 
Wills,  daughter  of  Ahab  Lippincott  and  Mary, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Wills  and  Mary,  daughter 
of  Amos  Haines  and  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
William  and  Eliazbeth  (Field)  Troth,  the  emi- 
grants. Amos  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Haines 
and  Elizabeth,  sister  of  Francis  .Austin,  the 
emigrant.  Thomas  was  the  fourth  son  of 
Richard  and  Margaret  Haines,  the  emigrants. 
Jacob  was  the  son  of  Micajah  Wills  and  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  Jacob  Hewlings  and  Doro- 
thy, daughter  of  Thomas  and  .Anna  Eves,  and 
granddaughter  of  Thomas  Eves,  the  emigrant. 
Jacob  Hewlings  was  the  son  of  William  the 
emigrant.  Micajah  was  the  son  of  James 
Wills  and  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  \Vools- 
ton  and  Lettice,  daughter  of  Michael  New- 
bold,  the  emigrant.  John  was  the  son  of  John 
Woolston,  the  emigrant,  and  his  wife  the  sister 
of  Ciovernor  Thomas  Olive.  .Ahab  was  the 
son  of  Thomas  Lippincott  and  Rachel,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Haines  and  ]\Iary  Shreve.  Thomas 
was  the  son  of  Caleb  Lippincott  and  Hannah 
Wilkins.  grandson  of  Freedom  and  Elizabeth 
(Wills)  Lippincott,  and  great-grandson  of 
Freedom  and  Alary  (Curtis!  Lippincott.  John 
Clement  and  Kezia  (Clement)  Hopkins  were 
the  parents  of  four  children  :  i.  Horace  Clem- 
ent, born  March  7,  1859,  died  July,  1870,  2. 
John  Clement,  referred  to  below.  3.  Helen, 
born  August  4,  1863.  married  Charles  F.  At- 
kinson ;  children :  Witmer  F.  and  Dorothea 
Atkinson.  4.  Carrie  Busby,  born  Alarch  7, 
1875,  married  J.  Heulings  Cole;  child,  Joseph 
H.,  born  July  18,  1908. 

(VII)  John  Clement  Jr.,  son  of  John  Cle- 
ment (i)  and  Kezia  (Clement)  Hopkins,  was 
born  near  Haddonfield,  now  Collinswood,  Au- 
gust 23, 1861 .  and  is  now  living  in  Moorestown, 
Burlington  county.  He  was  educated  in  the 
select  schools  of  Haddonfield,  Friends'  high 
school,  Moorestown ;  Race  Street  Friends' 
School  in  Philadelphia,  and  Pierce's  Com- 
mercial College.  He  then  went  into  the  mill 
business  with  his  father,  at  eighteen  years  of 
age,  and  has  been  engaged  in  that  ever  since, 
ami  now  that  his  father  has  retired  he  has  en- 
tire charge  and  control  of  the  business.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Commercial  Exchange  of 
Philadelphia.     In   1889  he  married  Clara  A., 


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daughter  of  Henry  and  Margaret  lUirr,  of 
\'incento\vn.  and  has  two  children,  both  born 
in  Moorestown  :     Margaret  and  John  Irick. 


The    township    of    S])uthold, 
REE\'ES     Long     Island,     embraces     the 

shorter  of  the  two  long  and 
narrow  peninsulas  that  form  the  extreme 
eastern  end  of  that  island.  Its  average  width 
is  less  than  three  miles  at  high  water,  and  its 
length  twenty-two  miles.  The  first  settlement 
by  Europeans  was  made  in  1639-40  by  settlers 
of  English  birth  and  characteristics.  The  pre- 
served records  of  the  town  of  Southold  begin 
with  1 65 1.  Before  that  date  we  have  only 
clouded  and  questionable  recollections  handed 
down  by  family  memory.  In  the  burial 
ground  of  the  first  church,  one  of  the  oldest 
in  the  island,  are  found  graves  of  the  early 
settlers  by  the  name  of  Reeve,  which  give  a  bit 
(if  genealogical  data:  I.  "Here  lyes  ye  biidy 
of  Nathan  Reeve,  son  to  John  and  Martha 
Reeve,  aged  twenty-two  years  five  months  and 
eleven  days.  Dec'd  March  ye  i,  1724".  2.  "In 
Mmory  of  Martha  ye  wife  of  Mr.  John  Reeve, 
who  died  May  i6th.  1762,  in  the  87th  year  of 
her  age".  3.  An  old  and  somewhat  obliterated 
inscription:  "Plere  lyeth  ye  body  of  W  Reve 
who  d  in  the  49  yea  of  his  age,  dyed  April 
ye  29,  1697.  4.  "In  memory  of  Mr.  Samuel 
Reeve,  who  departed  this  life  April  15,  A.  D. 
1769,  aged  si.xty-three  years,  three  months  and 
twenty-two  days".  Joshua  and  Mary  Reve 
buried  five  young  children  :  Ketyry  died  Octo- 
ber 3.  1772;  Abigail,  October  7,  1772;  Mary, 
( Jctober  8,  1772:  Benjamin,  October  23,  1772, 
and  Mary  .April  I,  1764.  Another  stone 
records:  "Here  lyes  the  body  of  Mr.  Joseph 
Reeve  Aged  eighty  years  Dec'd  April  ye  22nd 
1736.  and  "Here  I^yss  ye  body  of  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Reve,  wife  of  Mr.  William  Reeve  who 
died  January  3rd.  1738-9  in  ye  40  year  of  her 
Age. 

John  Reeve,  of  Southold.  was  probably  in 
the  same  generation  with  W'alter  Reeve,  a 
colonist  of  West  Jersey,  who  came  to  that 
province  some  time  prior  to  1682  and  settled 
in  Burlington  county.  He  probably  came  from 
Southold,  Long  Island,  a  member  of  the  Reeve 
family  who  came  from  England  to  Southold 
about  1650.  John  and  Martha  Reeve  of 
.Southold  had  sons:  John,  Elisha,  Walter, 
Samuel  and  Jonathan,  all  names  common  to 
the  names  in  the  family  of  Walter  Reeve  of 
Burlington  county  ((].  v.). 

(I)  Walter  Reeve,  a  native  of  England,  is 
found  in  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  be- 


fore 1682.  He  was  the  owner  of  a  farm  on 
Rancocas  creek,  which  he  purchased  from 
Daniel  and  Mordecai  Howell  in  1688,  and 
was  living  on  the  homestead  which  he  estab- 
lished and  occupied  up  to  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1698.  W'alter  Reeve,  besides  carrying  on  a 
farm,  engaged  in  trade  with  foreign  ports,  as 
he  shipped  an  invoice  of  "cheese,  flour  and 
beef"  to  John  Britt,  a  merchant  of  the  island 
of  Earbadoes,  West  Indies,  April  3,  1691. 
(New  Jersey  Archives).  He  owned  at  the 
time  uf  his  death  two  plantations  or  farms, 
one  of  one  hundred-sixty  and  one  of  two  hun- 
dred acres.  He  had  children  by  both  his  first 
and  second  wives.  The  name  of  his  first  wife 
is  not  preserved,  but  by  this  wife,  he  had 
probably:  I.  John,  (q.  v).  2.  Susanna.  3. 
William,  born  in  England,  or  Southold,  Long 
I.'-land.  and  came  with  his  father  and  family 
to  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  before  1682; 
he  was  a  farmer,  and  probably  a  man  of  fam- 
ily at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  and  had 
charge  of  one  of  the  farms  left  by  his  father. 
William's  children  as  far  as  any  records  exist, 
were  :  i.  Sanuiel,  named  in  will  of  his  uncle 
Samuel,  the  youngest  child  of  \\'alter,  the  im- 
migrant, ii.  Elizabeth,  licensed  January  12, 
1736,  to  marry  Isaac  Atkinson,     iii.  William, 

born  about   1 716,  married  Sarah  ,  who 

survived  hiiu  :  he  died  July  24,  1763.  iv.  Jo- 
seph, born  on  his  father's  farm  on  Rancocas 
creek.  New  Jersey,  about  1720:  married  Jane 

,  who  survived  him ;  in  his  will,  August 

26,  1767,  proyed  September  26  same  year,  all 
his  children  are  married  except  Jane,  whose 
tombstone  is  in  St.  Andrew's  burying-ground. 
Mount  Holly,  on  which  is  stated  her  parentage. 
The  children  of  Joseph  and  Jane  Reeves 
( the  name  then  taking  on  the  final  s ) ,  were 
born  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  as 
follows:  I.  John,  August  i,  1740,  died  Febru- 
ary 26,  1800 ;  married  Mrs.  Sarah  (  Reeves ) 
Paterson  (his  cousin)  who  was  born  March  4, 
1737  and  died  April  6,  1807.  2.  Henry,  June 
2"].  1749;  tlied  November  23,  1840:  married 
February  8,  1772,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Dorothy  Furness,  who  was  born 
May  15,  1753,  and  died  November  17,  1824. 
3  Joseph,  born  1753;  died  October  26,  1801 ; 
married,  license  dated  August  8,  1782,  Eliza- 
beth Toy,  born  1757.  died  May  17,  1830.  4. 
Abraham  (1764-1838).  5.  Meribah,  married 
Edward  Lenthicum,  marriage  license  dated 
September  20,  1783.  6.  Jane.  1764,  died  June 
14,  1783:  married  July  18,  1782,  James  Cop- 
jHick.  VValter  Reeves,  progenitor  of  the  Bur- 
lington  family  of  Reeves,  in  will  made  May 


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i6,  1698.  proved  June  18,  1698.  names  his  wife 
Anne  and  all  his  children  then  of  age,  omitting 
the  names  of  the  children  by  his  second  wife, 
then  infants  in  the  language  of  the  law.  His 
widow  made  her  will  September  23,  1732,  and 
it  was  proved  July  31,  1733.  she  having  sur- 
vived her  husband  nearly  forty  years.  The 
children   by   this   marriage   were :    5.   Walter, 

born  about    1(384,   married   Ann ;  died 

Alarch  21,  1754.  6.  Jonathan,  made  his  will 
March  18,  1724-26,  in  which  he  names  his  wife 
Mary,  his  brother  Walter,  his  cousins  Esther 
and  Solomon  Curtis;  Matthew  Hewlings  "son 
of  his  wife,"  who  at  the  time  of  her  marriage 
to  the  testator  was  the  Widow  Hewlings.  7. 
Elisha.  8.  Caleb,  died  before  May  8,  1753.  9. 
Samuel,  married  Alary  Hill,  license  granted 
by  Friends'  meeting,  January  2,  1735.  In  his 
will,  dated  October  2,  1737,  he  names  his  wife 
Mary  and  "Samuel,  son  of  my  brother  Will- 
iam" as  his  legatees. 

(\l)  John,  eldest  son  of  Walter,  the  pro- 
genitor of  the  Reeve  family  in  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  was  born  probably  in 
England,  and  came  with  his  father  and  mother 
to  Southold,  Long  Island,  or  he  may  have  been 
born  in  Southold.  He  went  with  his  father 
and  the  other  children  born  in  Southold  to 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  where  he  re- 
sided on  his  father's  fann  and  was  granted 
the  right  to  keep  a  ferry  between  Burlington 
and  Philadelphia  in  1704,  by  Governor  Corn- 
bury,  the  ferry  privilege  being  among  the  most 
valuable  franchises  in  the  gift  oi  the  colonial 
governor.  This  ferry  was  an  open  boat  with 
sails,  and  rates  for  passengers  and  freight 
fixed  by  his  franchise,  and  there  is  no  record 
of  his  departure  from  the  strict  terms  of  the 
contract,  which  was  a  monopoly,  and  many 
jealous  and  watchful  eyes  were  upon  him, 
anxious  for  a  breach.  He  owned  large  landed 
estates  in  Burlington  county,  and  was,  as  were 
tlie  family  at  the  time,  members  of  the  Estab- 
lished Church  and  attendants  of  that  church  in 
Burlington.  It  is  believed  that  he  died  in  Bur- 
lington, but  may  have  died  at  the  home  of  one 
of  his  sons  who  removed  to  Gloucester 
county.  In  an  inventory  of  his  estate,  dated 
November  8,  1748,  he  is  styled  "late  of  Bur- 
lington county."  His  estate  was  appraised 
at  over  1300  pounds,  which  made  him 
among  the  very  wealthy  men  of  his  time. 
He  is  styled  in  a  deed  executed  by  his 
son,  Thomas  Reeves,  of  Deptford  township, 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  "son  and 
heir  at  law  of  Walter  Reeve."  He  was  mar- 
ried   in    Burlington   county,   at   the   house   of 


Thomas  Revell,  Esqr..  a  noted  surveyor,  on 
July  22,  1695,  '^o  Ann  Bradgate,  and  they  had 
three  sons  born  of  the  marriage,  and  possibly 
other  children.  Their  sons  were:  i.  Thomas, 
as  eldest  son  the  heir  to  his  estate,  born  about 
1700,  in  Burlington  county.  He  lived  in  Well- 
ingborough, where  he  owned  large  estates  and 
was  a  well-to-do  farmer.  In  1734  he  conveyed 
two  large  tracts  of  land  to  Thomas  Wetherell, 
and  removed  to  Deptford  township,  Gloucester 
county,  where  he  died  December  2,  1789,  aged 
eighty  years.  2.  Henry  (q.  v.).  3.  Abraham, 
married  Susan  Bryant ;  children :  Henry, 
James,  William,  Hannah ;  Charlotte  and  Exer- 
cise. 

(Ill)  Henry,  second  son  of  John  and  Ann 
(Bradgate)  Reeves,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  about  1702,  and  died  in 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1745  or 
early  in  1746.  He  was  brought  up  as  a  farmer. 
He  obtained  a  license  to  marry  .\bigail.  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  .-Vbigail  (  Lippincott )  Shinn, 
February  26,  1728.  and  they  removed  to  Glou- 
cester county,  where  he  purchased  two  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  from  George  Ward.  His 
will  was  dated  October  24,  1745,  and  proved 
January  20,  1766,  at  which  time  his  six  chil- 
dren were  all  under  age,  and  his  wife  and  his 
brother  Thomas  Reeves  were  made  executors. 
Children  of  Henry  and  .\bigail  (Shinn) 
Reeves,  born  in  Gloucester  county:  i.  Hope, 
married  Joseph  Haines,  of  Burlington,  license 
granted  November  2,  1748.  2.  James.  3.  Ann. 
4.  Abraham,  born  about  1748;  probably  the 
.Abraham  Reeves  licensed  to  marry  Mary 
Ward,  license  dated  February  24,  1769.  5. 
Henry  (q.  v. ).    6.  Mary. 

( I\')  Henry,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Henry  and  Abigail  (Shinn)  Reeves,  was  born 
in  Gloucester  county,  Ne\V  Jersey,  December 
31,  1742,  died  in  Northumberland  township, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey.  April  2,  1809. 
He  was  a  farmer  in  Northampton  township, 
Burlington  county,  New  Jersey :  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Mount  Holly  Meeting,  Society  of 
Friends.  He  was  licensed  by  the  meeting. 
March  2,  1765,  to  marry  Rachel,  daughter  of 
David  and  Ruth  (Silver)  Jess,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Zechariah  and  Rachel  ( Lippin- 
cott) Jess,  and  of  .Archibald  and  Ma'i-y  (Cog- 
hill  )  Silver.  Children  of  Henry  and  Rachel 
(Jess)  Reeves,  born  in  Northampton  town- 
ship: I.  Isaiah,  January  27,  1766,  died  March 
16,  1851  :  inarried  Tabitha  Maulsbury,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1795  ;  children  :  lienjamin,  Abigail,  Allen, 
Rebecca,  Clayton.  Barzillia.  Zechariah.  Ed- 
mund N.  and  William  W.  Reeves.    2.  Joel,  Oc- 


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tober  14,  1767;  married  Hannah  ("uiskill ;  died 
September  12,  1840.  3.  Abigail,  March  2,  1770, 
married  Samuel  Rogers;  died  February  21, 
1849.     4.  Eli,  March  9,   1773;  married,  June 

10,  1798,  Amy  Carty;  died  June  5,  1818;  no 
children.  5.  Sorepta,  January  17,  1774;  mar- 
ried May  13,  1801,  buried  January  17,  1849 
had  one  daughter.  6.  Mary,  February  29 
1776:  married  November  12,  1800,  Isaac  Carr 
died  i8s7:  had  children.     7.  Abraham  (q.  v.) 

8.  Rachel.  June  8,  1781,  died  May  8,  1782.  9 
Henry.  March  7,  1783;  married  September  20 
1804,  Mary  Rokestraw,  died  December  19 
1831.  10.  David.  August  2,  1786;  married  De- 
cember 23,  1807,  Grace  Renaer.  died  December 

11,  1840.  II.  Zechariah,  January  2,  1789; 
married  Sarah  T.  Coles,  died  January  27,  1854. 

12.  Ann,  February  19,  1791,  died  October  i, 
1870.   13.  Rachel,  August  23.  1793,  died  March 

9,  1830. 

(V)  Abraham,  fourth  son  and  seventh  child 
of  Henry  and  Rachel  (Jess)  Reeves,  was  born 
in  Northumberland  tcfwnship,  Burlington  coun- 
ty, New  Jersey,  July  29.  1778,  and  died  there 
T'ebruary  3,  1836.    He  married  (first)  January 

13.  1803,  Hope  Stratton.  who  died  July  30, 
1819;  (second)  April  12.  1821,  Mary  Matlock, 
who  died  March  27,  1838.  He  was  a  farmer, 
and  member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  Chil- 
dren of  Abraham  and  Hope  Stratton  Reeves, 
all  born  in  Northampton  township,  Burling- 
ton county:  i.  Mary,  December  5,  1803,  died 
February  6,  1828.  2.  Elwood,  October  16, 
1810;  married  (first)  October  11,  1832,  Eliza- 
beth W'oolman,  (second)  Eliza  Woolman.  He 
died  August  3,  1871.  3.  Israel,  April  16,  1814: 
married  June  22,  1850.  4.  Henry,  August  21, 
1816;  married.  November  30,  1848,  Hannah 
Allen.  Children  of  Abraham  and  Mary  ( Mat- 
lock) Reeves.  5.  Rebecca,  February  11,  1822; 
married  July  4,  1855,  Mordecai  C.  Haines.  6. 
Joseph,  February  i,  1825;  married  May,  1855, 
Elizabeth  Reeves.  7.  Anna,  September  11, 
1826:  married  .August  2.  1849,  John  J.  Lytle. 
8.  Stacy  (r|.  v.).  9.  Rachel,  March  22.  1830; 
married  July  4,  1849,  .Abraham  C.  Brown.  10. 
Mary,  October  5.  1831  :  married,  May  31,  1S53, 
James  Lasell. 

(\T)  Stacy,  second  son  and  fourth  child 
of  Abraham  and  Mary  ( Matlock )  Reeves, 
was  born  in  Northampton  township.  Burling- 
ton county,  New  Jersey.  He  learned  the  trade 
of  carpenter  and  builder,  and  established  the 
firm  of  Stacy  Reeves  &  Sons,  161 1  Filbert 
street.  Philadeli)hia,  of  which  his  sons  Albert  A.. 
Mark  R.  and  Henry  became  partners  June  16, 
1828,  and  died  March  8.   1903.     He  married 


Ann  Satterthwaite,  November,  1849.  Chil- 
dren, born  in  Philadel|)hia,  Pennsylvania:  .Al- 
bert A.:  Mark  B. ;  Rachel;  Marv;  Heiu-v  (q. 
v.). 

(VTI)  Henry,  third  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Stacy  and  Ann  (Satterthwaite)  Reeves,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Septeml^er 
17,  1861,  and  died  April  22.  1910.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia 
and  the  academy  at  Media,  Pennsylvania, 
1874-76;  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  be- 
came a  partner  with  his  father  and  two  elder 
brothers,  of  the  firm  of  Stacy  Reeves  &  Sons, 
ifiii  Filbert  Street,  Philadelphia.  He  was  in- 
dependent of  church  creeds,  but  with  his  fam- 
ily he  attended  the  Lutheran  church.  His  polit- 
ical faith  was  that  of  the  Republican  party.  He 
was  made  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Society 
of  Pennsylvania  by  right  of  inheritance,  and 
is  treasurer  of  the  organization.  He  was  also 
a  member  and  treasurer  of  the  Master  Builders 
F.xchange  of  Philadelphia,  and  a  member  of 
the  Carpenters  Craft  of  that  city.  Many  of 
the  beautiful  buildings  of  Philadelphia  owe 
their  beauty,  stability  and  honest  workmanship 
to  the  firm  of  Stacy  Reeves  &  Sons.  Henry 
Reeves  married,  September  10,  18S4,  Cath- 
erine S.,  daughter  of  Joseph  Randlaw.  She 
was  born  April  16,  1865,  and  by  her  marriage 
with  Henry  Reeves  became  the  mother  of  four 
children  born  in  Philadelphia  as  follows:  I. 
Mabel  Gertrude,  January  17,  1887,  who  be- 
came a  teacher.  2.  Helen,  September  24,  1889. 
3.  Edith,  January  6,  1892.  4.  Katharine,  March 
28,  1900. 


Dr.  John  Durand,  founder  of 
DCR.AND      the  faiuily  of  his  name  in  New 

England  and  New  Jersey,  was 
born  in  La  Rochelle,  France,  in  1667,  and  died 
in  Derby,  Connecticut,  March  29,  1727.  He 
was  educated  as  a  physician  in  the  schools  of 
F" ranee,  but  being  a  Huguenot,  and  still  a  young 
man  when  Louis  NI\'.  revoked  the  Edict  of 
Nantes,  October  22,  1685,  '^^  determined  to 
emigrate  to  the  new  world,  and  consequently 
came  over  to  New  York  about  1694.  After 
a  short  stay  in  that  city  he  went  to  South  Caro- 
lina, but  soon  returned,  and  after  si^ending  a 
few  years  in  New  Rochelle,  Westchester  coun- 
ty. New  York,  finally  settled  in  Connecticut, 
going  first,  in  1696,  to  Milford,  and  later  to 
Derby,  where  he  died.  He  married,  about 
1698,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Richard  Bryan, 
who  was  baptized  in  November,  1685.  Her 
mother  is  said  by  Savage  to  have  been  Eliza- 
beth   Powell,  but  this  is   questioned   by  some 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


authorities.  She  was  living  in  1756.  Children: 
John,  born  Xovember  10,  1700;  Andrew;  Eliz- 
abeth, died  in  infancy  :  Xoah  ;  Joseph  ;  Samuel, 
referred  to  below:  Abigail;  Elizabeth;  Alary; 
Ebenezer. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Dr.  John  and  Elizabeth 
(Bryan)  Durand,  was  born  in  Derby,  Con- 
necticut. July  7,  1713,  and  died  in  Newark. 
New  Jersey,  January  27,  1787.  He  married 
Mary,  supposed  to  have  been  the  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  ( Tompkins )  Bruen.  of  New- 
ark, although  Mr.  Frederick  Beacii,  of  Los 
Angeles.  California,  believes  that  she  may  pos- 
sibly have  been  ]\Iary,  daughter  of  Israel  and 
Sarah  (  Barrett)  Coe,  and  granddaughter  of 
Stephen  and  Sarah  (Nichols)  Barrett.  Chil- 
dren, the  first  three  born  in  Derby,  the  others 
in  Newark:  Elizabeth;  John,  referred  to 
below  ;  Hannah,  Ezra.  Elijah,  Bryant,  referred 
to  below. 

( III )  John,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (  Bruen 
or  Coe )  Durand,  was  born  in  Derby,  Connecti- 
cut, July  16.  1745  or  1748.  and  died  in  Camp- 
town,  or  Jefferson  village,  then  a  part  of 
Springfield  township,  Essex  county,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  married  Rachel  (Myers)  Post.  Chil- 
dren :  Henry,  referred  to  below  ;  Mary ;  Lydia  ; 
Cyrus,  referred  to  below  ;  Elijah  ;  Isaac  ;  John  ; 
Asher  Brown,  referred  to  below;  lolin  ;  Eliza- 
beth. 

( IV )  Henry,  son  of  John  and  Rachel 
(Myers-Post)  Durand,  was  born  in  Camp- 
town,  New  Jersey,  November  2,  1780.  He 
married  Electa  Baldwin.  Children :  \\'illiam, 
bi.irn  .Ajjril  14.  1806,  died  September  26,  1822, 
unmarried:  Rachel,  born  July  14,  1808,  died 
September  26,  1822,  unmarried ;  Theodore, 
born  July  26,  1810,  died  March  3,  1837  ;  James 
M.,  referred  to  below ;  Cornelia,  born  Febru- 
ary 22,  1816;  George,  May  4,  1819,  died  Sep- 
tember 22,  1822;  Lydia.  born  July  30,  1823, 
married  John  Crawford;  William,  born  Sep- 
tember 2,  1828. 

(V)  James  M.,  son  of  Henry  and  Electa 
(Baldwin)  Durand,  was  born  in  Camptown. 
New  Jersey.  March  23,  1813.  He  married 
Sarah  A.  Carroll.  Children  :  Henry  ;  Wick- 
liffe  Baldwin,  referred  to  below;  Wallace: 
Frank ;  Celia  ;  Sarah. 

( \'I )  W'ickliffe  Baldwin,  son  of  James  AI. 
and  Sarah  A.  (Carroll)  Durand,  was  born 
about  1840,  and  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
December  13.  1906.  He  married  Jane  A. 
Taylor.  Children  :  Henry,  referred  to  below  ; 
Jane  A.;  Grace,  married  H.  B.  Dorrance; 
Marie  Louise,  married  Charles  M.  Echeverria ; 
Beatrice. 


(\TI)  Henry,  son  of  W'icklilife  Baldwin  and 
Jane  A.  (Taylor!  Durand,  was  born  in  New- 
ark. New  Jersey,  December  24,  1865,  and  is 
now  living  in  that  city.  He  received  his  early 
education  from  a  private  school  and  graduated 
from  the  Newark  Academy  in  1882.  He  then 
entered  the  firm  of  Durand  &  Company,  manu- 
facturing jewelers,  and  rose  step  by  step  in 
their  employ  until  1903,  when  he  became  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  corporation.  He  is 
a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  communicant  of 
Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Newark. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Essex  Club  and  of  the 
Essex  County  Country  Club ;  and  besides  a 
director  of  Wilkinson,  Gaddis  &  Company,  is  a 
director  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  of 
Newark,  and  of  the  Irvington  National  Bank, 
and  president  of  the  Irvington  Building  and 
Loan  Association,  and  secretary  of  the  Manu- 
facturing Jewelers  Association  of  Newark. 
He  married,  in  St.  Stephen's  Church,  Newark, 
November  4.  1891,  Blanche  Earl,  daughter  of 
Elias  Ackerson  and  Alice  Blanche  (Earl)  Wil- 
kinson ( see  Wilkinson).  Children:  Prudence 
Earl,  born  November  8,  1892;  Henry  (2), 
January  30,  1898;  Elias  Robert.  June  14.  1902. 

(I\')  Cyrus,  sonof  John  and  Rachel  (Myers- 
Post)  Durand,  was  born  in  Camptown.  New 
Jersey,  July  27,  1787,  and  died  in  Newark,  in 
1868.  He  was  for  the  most  part  self-educated, 
and  at  fourteen  years  of  age  began  making 
sleeve  buttons  and  finger  rings  in  his  father's 
shop.  He  next  learnt  the  trade  of  silversmith, 
and  when  nineteen  years  old  took  up  the  clock- 
making  trade  and  invented  his  first  machine. 
L'nder  the  advice  of  John  Taylor  he  turned 
his  attention  to  lathes  for  turning  brass  and 
iron  work,  and  the  present  high  character  of 
cur  banknote  engraving  is  mainly  due  to  his 
inventions,  and  it  may  truly  be  said  that  he 
was,  when  in  prime  of  life,  the  "'inventive 
genius,  the  mechanical  brains,  of  Newark." 
When  he  died  he  was  master  of  twenty-four 
dififerent  occupations.  He  married.  August 
16.  1822,  Phebe.  daughter  of  Elias  Wade,  who 
was  born  November  15,  1791.  and  died  in  De- 
cember, 1891,  over  one  hundred  years  old. 
Children  :  Susan  ;  Albert :  Jane  ;  Elias  W..  the 
distinguished  engraver,  landscape  painter,  and 
fruitgrower  ;  Juliette  ;  Beswick  :  Cyrus  B. 

(I\')  Asher  Brown,  son  of  John  and  Rachel 
(Myers-Post)  Durand,  was  born  in  Camptown, 
New  Jersey,  August  2r,  1796,  and  died  in 
Maplewood,  same  county,  September  17,  1886. 
He  received  his  first  lessons  in  engraving  in 
his  father's  workshop,  cutting  monograms.  In 
1 81 2  he  was  apprenticed  to  Peter  Maverick, 


STATE   OF   NEW    lERSEY. 


1115 


an  engraver  of  New  York  City,  and  four  years 
later  became  a  member  of  the  firm.  His  first 
original  work  was  "The  Begger,"  after  a 
painting  by  Samuel  Waldo,  and  he  was  the  en- 
graver of  what  is  probably  the  best  known  en- 
graving in  the  United  States — John  Trum- 
bull's celebrated  painting,  the  "Declaration  of 
Independence."  He  contributed  many  engrav- 
ings to  the  "annuals"  of  his  day,  and  also  many 
heads  for  the  National  Portrait  Gallery.  In 
1836  he  took  up  landscape  painting,  and  Rob- 
ert W.  Weir  calls  him  "one  of  fathers  of 
American  Landscape."  Some  of  his  paintings 
now  hang  in  the  Corcoran  Gallery,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. :  and  a  number  were  exhibited  at 
the  Centennial  Exposition  in  1876.  In  1826 
he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  National 
Academy  of  Design  and,  from  1845  to  1861 
its  president.  He  married  (  first ) ,  Lucy  Bald- 
win, of  Bloomfield :  (second)  Mary  Frank,  of 
New  York.  Children,  three  by  first  marriage : 
John,  Caroline,  Lucy,  Frederick  F.,  Asher, 
Eugene  H. 

(III)  Bryant,  son  of  Samuel  and  Alary 
(Bruen  or  Coe)  Durand,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  April  26,  1753,  and  died  in 
Camjitown,  New  Jersey,  September  21,  1808. 
He  married  Prudence,  daughter  of  Caleb  and 
Hannah  Brown,  of  Connecticut  Farms.  Chil- 
dren:  Caleb  Brown,  born  1776,  married  widow 
Hannah  Brown,  of  South  Orange ;  Hannah, 
born  1779;  Samuel,  referred  to  below;  Isaac, 
born  1786,  married  Phebe  Brown  ;  Daniel,  born 
1789;  Josiah,  born  1792:  Phebe,  born  1795. 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  Bryant  and  Prudence 
(Brown)  Durand,  was  born  in  Essex  county. 
New  Jersey,  November  i,  1782,  and  died  April 
2,  1871.  His  wife's  name  is  unknown.  Chil- 
dren :  Oliver,  referred  to  below ;  Marv,  or 
Polly. 

(\')  Oliver,  son  of  Samuel  Durand,  mar- 
ried Mary  Edwards.  Children :  Oscar,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Harriet. 

(VI)  Oscar,  son  of  Oliver  and  Alary  (Ed- 
wards) Durand,  was  born  in  1834,  and  died 
February  4,  1899.  He  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Gershom  and  Nellie  Bernart.  Chil- 
dren :  Katharine  J. ;  Frank,  referred  to  below  ; 
Sarah  Bernart. 

(VII)  Frank,  son  of  Oscar  and  Elizabeth 
(Bernart)  Durand,  was  born  in  Chatham, 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  April  8,  1861,  and 
is  now  living  at  Alanasquan,  Monmouth  coun- 
ty. He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Elizabeth  and  Long  Branch,  New 
Jersey,  and  then  began  reading  law  in  the  latter 
town  with  Hon.  John   E.   Lanning,  and  was 


admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in 
June,  1882,  and  as  counsellor  in  February, 
1887.  Since  then  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Asbury 
Park,  New  Jersey.  For  sixteen  years  he  was 
in  partnership  with  John  F.  Hawkins,  Esq., 
the  firm  name  being  Hawkins  &  Durand,  and 
after  the  dissolving  of  this  partnership  he  prac- 
ticed alone  until  1907,  when  the  present  firm 
of  Durand,  Ivins  &  Carton,  consisting  of  Air. 
Durand,  Charles  H.  Ivins  and  James  D.  Car- 
ton, was  formed.  Air.  Durand  is  a  Democrat 
in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  married,  in  Perry,  Georgia,  June 
6,  1894,  Florence  Eliza,  daughter  of  Lyman 
and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Boynton)  Bates,  who 
was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  Alay  19, 
1869,  and  died  October  28,  1909.  Children: 
Frank  (2),  bom  Alarch  9,  1895  •  ^^'alter  Bates, 
July  I,  1896:  Alary  Elizabeth,  October  23, 
1902.  Children  of  Lyman  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth (Boynton)  Bates:  ^Valter.  married  Nelly 
Page;  Mcirence  Eliza,  referred  to  above 
Edith  S. 


George  I'..  Ulmer,  of  Aloores- 
ULAIER  town.  New  Jersey,  is  a  descend- 
ant of  an  old  Pennsylvania  fam- 
ily that  were  landowners  in  that  state  for  sev- 
eral generations.  His  great-grandparents  were 
Frederick  and  Alargaret  L'lmer,  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, x^nother  branch  of  the  family,  taken 
from  the  "History  of  Thomaston,  Alaine," 
consisted  of  three  brothers — Captain  John 
Ulmer,  born  in  Germany,  1736,  was  brought 
to  Waldoboro,  Maine,  1740,  married  Catharine 
Remilly,  died  in  August,  1800;  Captain  Philip 
AI.  LHmer,  an  American  general ;  and  George 
Ulmer,  born  1755,  died  January,  1826;  settled 
at  Ducktrap,  Alaine ;  was  a  soldier  of  the 
revolution,  major-general  of  Sixth  Division  of 
militia,  sherifif  of  Hancock  county,  senator  of 
Alassachusetts  and  Alaine. 

(II)  George,  son  of  Frederick  and  Alar- 
garet Ulmer,  was  born  June  4,  1790,  died  in 
the  year  1840.  He  was  a  resident  of  German- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  He  was  a  shoe  manufac- 
turer, and  employed  what  was  then  a  large 
force  of  journeymen — seventeen.  There  being 
no  machinery  for  making  shoes  in  those  days, 
these  men  were  really  shoemakers,  each  be- 
ginning and  finishing  a  shoe.  In  addition  to 
his  business  Mr.  Ulmer  owned  and  conducted 
a  large  farm  in  Germantown.  He  married, 
in  181 1,  Alary  Magdaline  Knoop,  born  No- 
vember 19,  1790,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Eliz- 
abeth Knoop.     Children  :     Albert,  George  B. ; 


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Mary  Magdaline.  born  March  21.  1820,  widow 
of  John  (iraham  (she  is  the  only  surviving 
member  of  this  family),  Melinda,  Elizabeth 
Catherine,  Margaret.  Susanna  and  Sarah. 

(Ill)  George  Boyd,  second  son  of  George 
and  Mary  M.  (Knoop)  Ulmer,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  November  6,  1829, 
died  in  December,  1903.  He  received  a  good 
early  education.  His  father  died  when  he  was 
twelve  years  of  age.  and  he  at  once  began  work 
in  a  printing  office,  where  he  continued  until 
he  had  thoroughly  acquired  the  art  and  mystery 
of  printing.  For  thirty-two  years  he  was 
superintendent  of  one  printing  establishment, 
that  of  Henry  B.  Ashmead,  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  From  the  age  of  twelve  until 
1901,  two  years  previous  to  his  death,  he  was 
actively  and  continuously  in  the  printing  busi- 
ness, a  period  of  sixty  years.  The  last  two 
years  of  his  life  he  lived  retired.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  an  ad- 
herent of  Republican  princi])les.  His  fraternal 
membership  was  with  the  United  (Irder  of 
American  Mechanics.  He  married  (first) 
Mary  Stine,  of  Philadelphia,  born  in  1803,  died 
in  1869.  Children:  i.  Mary  A.,  married 
Henry  W.  Boureau,  a  broker  of  Philadelphia ; 
children  :  Harry,  Bessie  and  Ethel  Boureau  ; 
the  family  reside  in  Moorestown,  New  Jersey. 
2.  George  B.  Jr..  see  forward.  Mr.  Ulmer 
married  (second)  .\melia  Millbourne.  of 
Frankfort.  Pennsylvania.  She  survives  her 
husband. 

(  I\  )  George  Boyd  Jr..  only  son  of  George 
Boyd  (i)  and  Mary  (Stine)  Ulmer,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  April  25,  1854 
(or  1857).  He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  city,  and  later  apprenticed  to  the 
printing  business  in  the  firm  of  Henry  B.  Ash- 
mead, where  for  seven  years  he  served  under 
the  instruction  of  his  father.  Subsequently  he 
went  to  the  eastern  shore  of  Maryland,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming,  continuing  for  three 
years,  after  which  he  returned  to  Philadelphia 
and  his  trade.  For  five  years  he  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  National  Publishing  Company 
of  Philadelphia;  f(jr  the  following  seven  years 
was  superintendent  of  the  Sunshine  Publish- 
ing Company  of  Philadelphia ;  the  following 
six  years  was  superintendent  of  the  Alfred  M. 
Slocum  Company,  and  since  1907  has  held  the 
same  i:)osition  with  the  Chilton  Printing  Com- 
pany, the  latter  two  being  also  of  I'hiladelphia. 
Air.  Ulmer  removed  from  Merchantville  to 
Moorestown  in  1892.  and  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years  has  been  a  daily  commuter  on  the 
Pennsvlvania   railrcad       Mr.   Ulmer  married. 


November,  1877,  Alary  Elizabeth  Reid,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Josephine  Reid,  of  F'hiladel- 
phia.  Children:  i.  John  Reid,  born  May  2. 
1878,  in  Caroline  county,  Maryland;  married. 
May  27,  1908,  Alice,  daughter  of  Samuel  B. 
Lippincott,  of  Moorestown,  New  Jersey.  2. 
George  Boyd,  Jr.,  born  December  28,  1879,  in 
Caroline  county,  Maryland ;  he  is  cashier  and 
bookkeeper  for  the  Capwell  Horse  Shoe  Nail 
Company  of  Philadelphia ;  married  Nannie  C, 
daughter  of  Caleb  and  Henrietta  Wright,  of 
Moorestown.  3.  Henry  B.,  born  September 
18,  1881,  in  Caroline  county,  Maryland;  re- 
sides at  home  with  his  parents.  4.  David  Hed- 
ding  Bartina,  born  December  11,  1885,  at 
Merchantville,  New  Jersey ;  he  entered  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  1905,  and 
was  graduated  therefrom  in  1909  with  the  de- 
gree of  M.  D. ;  he  is  now  taking  a  two  years' 
hospital  course. 

Henry    Simpson,    of    Sussex 
SIMF'SON     county,    the    earliest    ancestor 

of  this  family  of  whom  we 
have  any  definite  information,  was  born  and 
died  in  Newton,  New  Jersey.  He  was  a  car- 
riage maker  there,  held  several  of  the  local 
offices,  and  was  prominent  and  influential  in 
the  community.  He  married  Nancy  F"..  daugh- 
ter of  James  Huston,  a  former  judge  of  the 
county  courts,  and  a  member  of  one  of  the 
prominent  families  of  Sussex  county.  Among 
their  children  was  Captain  James  H.,  referred 
to  below. 

(II)  Captain  James  H.,  son  of  Henry  and 
Nancy  F.  (Huston)  Simpson,  was  born  in 
Newton,  New  Jersey,  November  29,  1833,  and 
lived  in  Dover,  Morris  county.  New  Jersey. 
He  died  April  23,  1910.  After  receiving  his 
education  in  the  Newton  public  schools  he  en- 
gaged for  several  years  in  mercantile  business 
in  Newton,  New  Jersey,  and  about  1867-68  re- 
moved to  Dover,  where  he  was  most  prosperous 
and  successful  until  his  retirement  in  1904. 
At  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  Mr.  Simpson 
recruited  Company  I,  and  was  made  captain, 
in  the  Fifteenth  Regiment  New  Jersey  \"olun- 
teers.  He  fought  in  every  battle  from  that  of 
Mine  Run,  which  occurred  just  previous  to 
the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  until  the  sur- 
render, but  was  never  wounded.  Air.  Simp- 
son, while  not  a  member  of  any  church,  was 
a  generous  supporter  of  all,  and  frequently 
attended  the  Presbyterian  church.  February 
20,  i860,  he  married  Asenath  A.  Lance,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  and  Emily  Pellitt  Lance.  Chil- 
dren:      I.    Edward    S.,    died   in    infancv.     2. 


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1 1 17 


Charles  C.  died  aged  twenty-four;  married 
a  Miss  Yawger.  3.  Frederick  I.,  married  Ger- 
trude Sickles.  4.  Emma  L.,  married  Charles 
A.  Allen ;  children :  Emil}'  S.  and  Charles  A. 
5.  James  H.,  married  Jessie  Richards.  6. 
Asenath  Ann,  married  Fred  I.  Cox ;  children : 
Asenath  Simpson  Cox  and  James  H.  Simpson 
Cox.  7.  Bessie  Richards,  married  Horace 
Lindsley,  M.  D. ;  one  child,  James  H.  Simpson 
Lindsley.    8.  Clarence  H.,  unmarried. 


The  progenitor  of  the  Thomp- 
THOMPSOX  son  family,  of  which  Charles 
Dederer  Thompson,  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  legal  fraternity  of  Jersey 
City,  New  Jersey,  is  a  representative  member, 
was  Aaron  Thompson,  who  with  his  younger 
brothers,  Moses  and  Hur,  emigrated  from  Scot- 
land to  America  in  1686.  Hur,  the  youngest, 
settled  in  New  England,  and  Aaron  and  Moses 
in  Elizabethport,  New  Jersey,  and  their  de- 
scendants are  found  at  Connecticut  Farms 
(Union),  Battle  Hill  (Madison)  and  Mend- 
ham,  New  Jersey. 

(H )  Joseph,  youngest  son  of  Aaron  Thomii- 
son,  removed  from  Connecticut  Farms  to  Mend- 
ham  in  1739.  He  was  a  man  of  prominence  in 
the  community,  exerting  his  influence  for  good 
on  all  occasions.  He  died  in  July,  1749,  and 
his  wife  Lydia  died  March  24,  1749,  the  same 
year,  five  of  their  nine  children  died  of  a  pre- 
vailing epidemic  called  long  fever. 

(HI)  David,  youngest  child  of  Joseph  and 
Lydia  Thompson,  was  born  October  4,  1737. 
died  December  28,  1824.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  energy  and  strong  force  of  character. 
During  the  revolutionary  war  he  commanded 
a  com])any  of  minute-men,  and  at  the  time  the 
American  army  was  encamped  at  Morristown, 
when  despair  of  success  and  extreme  poverty 
weighed  heavily  upon  the  forces,  his  house 
became  the  welcome  home  of  multitudes  of 
famishing  soldiers,  and  his  hospitality  was 
limited  only  by  his  means  of  supply.  He  was 
familiarly  known  as  "Captain"  and  as  often  as 
"Judge,"  obtaining  his  latter  title  from  having 
served  on  the  bench  of  the  court  of  common 
pleas.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  Mendham,  and  served 
in  the  capacity  of  elder  during  the  greater  ])art 
of  his  life.  Being  well  versed  in  Bible  truths, 
his  desires  were  never  gratified  until  all  who 
came  in  contact  with  him  had  received  whole- 
some impressions  of  a  better  life  from  his 
teachings.  He  was  always  the  favored  guest 
among  both  old  and  young:  his  retentive  mem- 
ory, c|uaint  sayings,  ready  wit,  often  accom- 


panied with  sarcasm,  made  his  companionship 
agreeable,  and  his  narratives  and  stories  of 
"Olden  Times"  instructive.  He  possessed  a 
keen  perception  and  a  bright  intellect,  coupled 
with  faculties  of  a  high  order,  and  was  a  close 
student  of  the  best  authors  and  of  the  current 
topics  of  his  time,  and  his  chief  aim  in  life  was 
to  give  his  children  the  best  opportunities  then 
offered  for  an  education.  He  married  (  first ) 
Rachel  Bonnel,  born  October  15,  1737,  died 
March  2-j,  1766,  who  bore  him  two  sons  and 
two  daughters.  He  married  (second)  August 
II.  1766,  Hannah  Cary,  born  April  26,  1747, 
died  November  19,  1831,  who  bore  him  six 
sons  and  five  daughters.  One  of  his  sons  was 
David  Thompson  Jr.,  graduate  of  Princeton 
College,  class  of  1804.  He  was  surrogate  of 
Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  for  many  years, 
and  was  prominent  and  influential  in  local  and 
national  politics,  retaining  the  speakership  in 
the  lower  branch  of  the  New  Jersey  legislature 
for  ten  years.  Pie  was  a  friend  of  .Samuel  L. 
Southard,  and  while  that  gentleman  held  high 
places  in  the  state  and  nation  Mr.  Thompson's 
counsel  was  often  sought.  He  died  in  1831. 
aged  forty-nine. 

(  IV  )  Stephen,  son  of  David  Thompson,  was 
born  January  16.  1775,  in  Mendham.  on  the 
old  homestead  purchased  by  his  grandfather, 
Joseph  Thompson,  in  1740,  and  died  in  June, 
1858.  He  succeeded  to  the  home  property  on 
his  father's  decease  and  resided  upon  it  dur- 
ing his  lifetime.  He  led  the  (|uiet  life  of  a 
farmer,  and  being  a  man  of  good  character  and 
integrity  was  esteemed  and  honored  by  all  with 
whom  he  was  brought  in  contact.  Although 
not  an  aspirant  for  public  office,  he  was  chosen 
by  his  fellow  citizens  for  legislative  honors  and 
served  one  term,  performing  the  duties  thereof 
in  an  efficient  and  capable  manner.  He  was  a 
devoted  Christian,  serving  for  many  years  as 
elder  in  the  same  church  in  which  his  father 
worshipped,  and  reared  his  children  under  the 
strictest  discipline  of  the  old  Puritan  style.  He 
married,  August  12,  1802,  Susanna,  born  May 
15'  1 776-  cJied  in  1 84 1,  daughter  of  (George  and 
Mary  (Boyd)  Harris,  and  granddaughter  of 
William  Harris,  who  came  from  Ireland  in 
1742,  settled  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
and  belonged  to  the  family  who  foundefl  Harris- 
burg.  Pennsylvania.  Children  :  George  ;  Nancy  ; 
Robert,  resided  on  the  old  homesteail  in  Mend- 
ham ;  .Alexander,  died  in  1834,  aged  nineteen, 
in  Charleston,  South  Carolina  :  David,  see  for- 
ward. 

(  V  )  David  (2  ),  son  of  Stephen  and  Su.sanna 
( Harris )   Thomijson,  was  born  in  Mendham, 


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STATE   OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


New  Jersey,  October  26,  1808,  and  died  No- 
vember 5,  1888.  At  an  early  age  be  evinced 
rare  ability  as  a  student,  and  at  tbe  age  of 
eleven  was  found  reading  Virgil.  He  was 
prepared  for  college  under  the  tutorship  of  the 
late  Samuel  H.  Cox,  then  a  clergyman  of  the 
F'resbyterian  church  at  Mendbani  and  Bloom- 
field,  New  Jersey,  and  entered  tbe  junior  class 
at  Princeton  in  1823,  at  the  age  of  fifteen, 
irom  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  usual 
honors  in  1825.  Among  his  noted  classmates 
were  William  L.  Dayton  and  A.  O.  Zabriskie. 
For  four  years  following  bis  graduation  he  was 
a  classical  teacher  in  the  academy  at  Mentlham. 
In  1830  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Jacob  W. 
Miller,  of  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
remained  one  year,  after  which  he  removcfl  to 
Newton,  New  Jersey,  and  for  two  years  was 
a  student  in  the  office  of  the  late  Judge  Thomas 
C.  Ryerson.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  as  an 
attorney  at  the  November  term.  1833.  and  as 
a  counselor  at  the  November  term  in  1836.  In 
the  winter  of  1833  he  established  a  law  office 
in  Newton,  and  remained  in  continuous  prac- 
tice until  1888,  a  period  of  fifty-five  years,  a 
fact  worthy  of  note.  He  was  successful  in  his 
profession :  he  was  a  man  of  strong  convic- 
tions, and  being  a  Huent  and  forcible  as  well  as 
logical  speaker,  rose  rapidly  in  the  estimation 
of  his  clientage.  In  November,  1838,  he  was 
appointed  surrogate  of  Sussex  county  and  held 
the  office  for  five  years.  Outside  of  tbe  duties 
of  his  profession,  he  was  interested  in  the  vari- 
ous worthy  local  enterprises  of  tbe  village  and 
county  of  his  adoption,  and  in  an  unostenta- 
tious way  be  sought  to  fill  all  obligations  in- 
cumbent upon  him  as  a  citizen.  In  1844  be 
was  elected  a  director  of  the  Sussex  Bank  in 
Newton,  later  was  made  vice-president,  and 
upon  tbe  resignation  of  David  Ryerson  was 
elected  president  of  the  bank,  now  the  Sussex 
National  Bank,  which  responsible  position  he 
held  until  bis  death.  He  was  formerly  a  Whig 
in  politics,  but  upon  the  organization  of  the 
Republican  party  transferred  his  allegiance 
thereto.  He  never  sought  public  office,  pre- 
ferring to  devote  his  entire  time  to  bis  pro- 
fession and  business  pursuits.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  Newton, 
giving  his  support  to  the  work  connected  there- 
with ;  and  bis  entire  career,  as  a  citizen,  lawyer 
and  business  man,  was  such  as  to  win  for  him  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  bis  fellow  townsmen. 
He  married.  November  11.  1835,  Susanna, 
born  November  10,  1815,  died  May  28,  1879, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and   Susanna    (.\ntbony) 


Dederer.  She  was  a  woman  of  real  moral 
worth  and  excellence.  Children:  i.  .Alexander, 
died  at  age  of  eight  years.  2.  Juliana,  wife  of 
David  R.  Hull,  of  Newton,  who  died  August, 
1885.  3.  Susanna  Dederer;  never  married; 
lived  all  her  life  in  Newton,  and  was  teacher  of 
the  infant  class  of  the  Presbyterian  church 
there  for  over  fifty  years  until  her  death,  March 

21,  1908.  4.  William  Armstrong,  civil  engi- 
neer ;  graduate  of  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute, Troy,  New  York,  class  of  1868.  5. 
Charles  Dederer,  see  forward. 

(VI)  Charles  Dederer,  son  of  David  (2) 
and  Susanna  (  Dederer )  Thompson,  was  born 
in  Newton,  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  June 
28,  1853.  He  was  graduated  from  I'rinceton 
College  in  1874,  and  then  attended  Columbia 
Law  School  while  it  was  under  the  direction  of 
the  noted  Dr.  Theodore  W.  Dwight.  He  then 
read  law  under  the  preceptorship  of  bis  father 
at  Newton,  and  was  admitted  to  tbe  New  Jer- 
sey bar  as  an  attorney  in  June,  1877,  and  as  a 
counselor  in  June  7,  1880.  He  immediately 
established  himself  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  Newton.  In  January,  1886,  he  re- 
moved his  law  office  to  Jersey  City,  and  later 
formed  a  partnership  with  Colonel  Asa  W. 
Dickinson,  under  tbe  firm  name  of  Dickinson 
&  Thompson.  Mr.  John  S.  McMaster  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  firm  in  1892,  and  this  association 
was  continued  until  Mr.  Dickinson's  death  in 
1899.  From  1899  to  1903,  Mr.  Thompson's 
firm  was  composed  of  himself  and  Mr.  Frank 
H.  Hall,  under  the  firm  name  of  Thompson  & 
Hall,  and  from  1903  to  1906  he  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Bedle,  Edwards  &  Thompson, 
composed  of  William  D.  Edwards,  Joseph  D. 
Bedle  Jr.  and  himself.  Since  1903  he  has  been 
practicing  alone.  During  the  years  1894-5, 
while  a  resident  of  Montclair,  New  Jersey,  he 
serveil  as  a  member  of  the  town  council,  and 
in  the  latter  year  was  appointed  as  a  member 
where  he  served  on  the  board  of  health  of 
Montclair,  and  in  these  capacities,  as  in  all 
others,  be  exhibited  sound  judgment  and  pro- 
nounced public  spirit. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  married,  October  6, 
1880,  to  Anna  Ryerson  McMurtry,  born  June 

22.  1854,  died  May  18,  1904,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Katherine  R.  McMurtry,  of  Newton, 
and  has  three  sons :  Charles  D.,  Laurance 
Mills  and  Julian  Francis.  In  April,  1906,  he 
married  (second)  Laura  A.  M.  Eaton,  of 
Montclair,  New  Jersey,  daughter  of  George  H. 
and  Mary  B.  Mills,  of  Montclair,  and  formerly 
of  Newton. 


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The  name  of  Medden,  Hod- 
IIF.DDEX  den  and  Hoddon,  is  of  ancient 
origin,  and  has  many  corrup- 
tions, sncli  as  Headen  Hedde,  HecHn,  lieadden 
and  Heady.  This  name  is  (Hstinctly  English, 
though  we  find  the  name  in  Scotland,  Ireland 
and  Wales.  That  they  fought  in  the  crusades 
is  evinced  by  the  crescent  on  the  armorial  bear- 
ings. The  coat-of-arms  is  described  as  follows  : 
Quarterly  first  and  fourth,  ar.  a  saltire  en- 
graved sable.  Second,  ar.  a  saltire  engraved 
between  four  roses,  gules.  Third,  or,  a  bend 
chequy  ar.  and  sable.  In  the  centre  over  the 
quarterings  is  a  crescent  ar.  The  crest :  An 
eagle  erased  or.  Motto:  "Suffer."  An  en- 
graving in  colors  of  these  arms,  executed  by 
tlie  house  of  Tiffany  &  Company,  of  Xew 
York  City,  is  now  in  possession  of  Mrs.  Julia 
(  Hedden  )  Worthington,  of  Xew  York  City. 

(  I )  The  first  of  this  family  came  from  Eng- 
land, and  the  first  we  find  was  a  Jared,  or 
Gerard  Hadden,  born  about  1608,  recorded  by 
Savage,  and  mentioned  as  coming  probably  in 
the  fleet  with  W'inthrop,  for  he  is  among  the 
first  hundred  men  of  the  Boston  church  ad- 
mitted prior  to  any  second  arrival  of  freemen. 
May  14,  1634.  He  first  settled  at  Cambridge, 
1632,  and  was  there  made  a  freeman.  He  own- 
ed a  house  and  three  acres  extending  from 
Sparks  street  to  Garden  street  in  1635.  He 
was  a  tailor  and  planter,  also  a  proprietor  of 
Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1640,  and  received 
land  in  the  first  division,  and  was  among  others 
who  removed  to  the  west  side  of  the  Powow  in 
1644.  He  was  a  commoner  and  taxed  in  1650. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  Amesbury, 
1654-55,  where  he  received  land  in  1654-64. 
He  received  a  seat  in  the  meetinghouse,  1667, 
but  was  a  member  later  of  the  Salisbury  church, 
1677-1S7.  He  received  "children's  land"  in 
Amesbury  for  his  daughter  in  1659.  and  a 
"township"  for  one  daughter  in  1660.  He  was 
a  selectman  in  1680.  He  died  at  Amesbury. 
1689,  and  his  will  was  dated  January  20,  1686-7, 
and  proved  March  20.  1689-90.  His  daughters. 
Mary  and  Sarah,  and  their  children,  are  men- 
tioned, also  Elizabeth  Huntington  and  Ensign 
John  Weed,  of  Amesbury.  His  wife  Margaret 
died  March  20,  1672-73.  There  was  a  George 
Hadden,  of  Cambridge,  or  at  least  of  Harvard 
College,  in  1647;  a  Catherine,  witness  to  will 
of  Thomas  Bittlestone,  and  a  Ferman  Hadden, 
of  Charlestown,  who  may  have  been  children 
of  Jared  Hadden. 

(II)  It  is  safe  to  assume  that  a  few  of  the 
Haddens,  like  many  of  the  Xew  England  set- 
tlers, emigrated  to  Connecticut  and  eventually 


into  Xew  Jersey,  as  did  Edward  Hedden. 
While  there  is  no  documentary  proof  that  Ed- 
ward Hedden,  born  1666,  was  the  son  of  Jared 
Hedden,  we  do  know  that  he  married  Jane 
Jones,  a  Welch  girl,  though  no  record  of 
their  marriage  can  be  found  at  Xewark  or  else- 
where. There  was  a  family  of  Edward  Jones 
which  came  in  the  fleet  with  Winthrop  at  the 
same  time  that  Jared  Hadden  is  recorded, 
which  is  mentioned  as  a  coincident  that  a  mar- 
riage should  result  between  the  near  succeed- 
ing generations  of  Jared  Hadden  and  Edward 
Jones.  There  is  every  evidence  that  Edward 
and  Jane  Hedden  settled  at  the  "Mountain," 
now  in  the  vicinity  of  South  Orange,  where 
they  received  grants,  as  their  sons  John,  Jo- 
seph, Eleazer  and  Oliver  all  owned  tracts  at 
the  "Mountain."  Jane  Hedden,  born  1668, 
was  a  member  of  the  First  Church,  I'resljv 
terian,  at  Xewark  prior  to  the  formation  nf 
the  "Mountain  Society,"  and  she  is  interred  in 
the  burial-ground  of  the  church  on  I'.road 
street,  having  died  February  23,  1773,  at  tlK\ 
advanced  age  of  one  hundred  and  five  years, 
and  is  said  to  have  been  the  oldest  person  that 
ever  died  in  Xewark  up  to  that  time  antl  possi- 
bly since  then.  Her  gravestone  was  removed 
from  the  old  Presbyterian  cemetery  at  Xew- 
ark when  Broad  street  was  widened,  and  is 
now  in  possession  of  Mr.  Harry  Hedden,  a 
fourth  great-grandson.  Children  of  Edward 
and  Jane  Hedden  :  John  ( (|.  v. )  ;  Joseph,  men- 
tioned below  :  Eleazer  (  q.  v. )  ;  Oliver  ;  Dianna, 
born  1708,  died  October  ly,  1728;  Rebecca, 
unmarried. 

Many  of  the  early  records  that  would  throw 
much  light  on  the  Xewark  ancestors  have  been 
destroyed,  but  according  to  the  best  autlmrity 
Edward  and  Jane  Hedden  owned  lands  in 
Xewark,  and  their  sons  were  possessors  of 
these  tracts  later  known  as  the  Hedden  tracts 
at  South  Orange  at  the  "Mountain."  near  Lud- 
dington  brook  anfl  Rahway  river,  where  Ed- 
ward and  Jane  lived  and  died.  The  Heddens 
of  Xew  Jersey  were  noted  for  their  courage 
and  firmness  during  the  trying  times  of  the 
revolution,  many  of  them  taking  an  active  part 
in  the  scenes  enacted  in  and  around  Essex 
county. 

(HI)  Joseph,  son  of  Edward  and  Jane 
( Jones )  Hedden,  was  born  at  Xewark,  Xew 
Jersey,  1702,  and  died  in  that  part  of  Xewark 
now  Orange,  Xovember  3,  1798,  aged  ninety- 
six.  He  settled  at  the  mountain,  now  South 
i)range,  and  owned  lands  with  his  brother, 
John  Hedden.  December  25,  1732,  John  and 
Joseph   Hedden,   both  of    Xewark,  countv  of 


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Essex,  eastern  division  of  Xew  Jersey,  yeo- 
man, sell  to  Samuel  Freeman  for  £36  a  certain 
tract  of  land  at  the  Mountain  bounded  west  by 
the  highway,  &c.,  -running  to  the  top  of  the 
mountain  and  north  along  the  mountain,  &c., 
containing  some  twenty  acres  ;  Oliver  and  Elea- 
zer  Hedden,  witnesses.  In  1739  Joseph  Hed- 
den  for  £11  sells  to  Hugh  Roberts  tract  of 
land  lying  and  being  at  a  place  commonly  call- 
ed Mikel  Thompson's  land,  beginning  west 
side  of  Elizabethtown  river,  "at  the  south 
corner  of  my  land  beginning  at  a  gumb  tree, 
thence  rumiing  north  sixty  degrees,  &c.,  where- 
of ye  said  Joseph  Hedden  have  unto  set  my 
hand  and  assigned  my  seal  this  6th  day  of  De- 
cember, 1739,  in  the  twelfth  year  of  ye  Rayne 
of  our  Sovereign  Lord  George  the  second  by 
the  grace  of  God  and  Grate  Britten,  France 
and"  Ireland,"  &c.,  &c.  (lender  same  date) 
Hugh  Roberts  in  exchange  quitclaimed  to  Jo- 
seph Hedden,  yeoman,  of  Newark,  certain 
tracts  of  meadow  near  (ieorge's  pond  of  five 
and  a  half  acres,  being  part  of  my  lower 
meadow  at  the  Newark  end,  bounded  by  Jobe 
thrown,  Thomas  Ball  and  Tichenor's  meadow, 
Joseph  Hedden  was  surveyor  of  highways  in 
1746-47-48.  On  the  death  of  Joseph  Hedden 
the  Ccntinal  of  Freedom  of  Newark,  Novem- 
ber, 1798,  said:  "This  venerable  citizen  has 
from  his  youth  sustained  the  character  of  an 
honest  and  upright  man  and  was  much  lament- 
ed by  those  who  were  acquainted  with  him. 
He  had  thirteen  children,  one  hundred  and 
seventy-six  grandchildren  and  three  great- 
grandchildren." It  is  a  no  less  curious  than 
amusing  fact  that  this  "father  of  a  host"  im- 
mediately upon  arising  every  morning  and  be- 
fore dressing  took  a  generous  draught  of  pure 
Jersey  distilled  liquor.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
ninety-six  years,  and  was  wont  to  speak  with 
pride  of  the  fact  that  he  had  eight  sons  who 
served  their  country  during  the  revolution. 
"Shaw's  History,"  p.  38,  He  is  buried  beside 
his  wife  Rebecca,  in  the  old  First  Presbyterian 
burial-ground  at  Orange,  both  having  been 
members  in  full  communion  of  the  "Mountain 
Society"  prior  to  1756. 

He  married  (first)  Rebecca  Dod,  born  1703. 
died  May  14,  1745,  daughter  of  Samuel  Dod. 
son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (  Riggs  )  Dod,  son 
of  Stephen  Dod,  of  Guilford,  Connecticut  (see 
Dod).  He  married  (second)  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  Matthew  and  Ruth  (Wheeler  )  Williams, 
or  Orange.  Children:  i.  Ebenezer.  highway 
surveyor,  1743-46:  married;  children:  Oba- 
diah,  Jedediah,  Sarah,  Joanna,  Phebe.  2.  David, 
married   I-lsther ,  born   1755,  died  Au- 


gust 8,  1789,  3.  Elijah,  married  Margaret, 
widow  of  Dr.  Daniel  Farrand.  4.  Job.  5. 
Simon,  a  man  of  great  strength  and  ignorant 
of  fear,  served  for  three  montlis  in  whaleboat 
service  during  the  revolution.  6.  Martha,  mar- 
ried Joel  Coleman.     7.  Phebe,  married  

Safifron.  8.  Rebecca,  born  1751.  died  Decem- 
ber 16,  1841  ;  married  Daniel  Ball.  9.  Eliza- 
beth, married Roberts.     10.  Joseph,  Jr., 

born  1738.  died  September  2J.  1780:  married 
(first)  .Abigail  ,  born  1724,  died  Janu- 
ary 25,  xjCx):  (second)  Sarah  Canfield ;  chil- 
dren :  William,  Moses,  Israel,  James,  Isaac, 
Sarah  (married  John  N.  Cummings).  11. 
Jonathan,  mentioned  below,  12.  Sarah.  13. 
Joanna. 

(  W  )  Jonathan,  son  of  Joseph  Hedden,  was 
born  in  that  part  of  Newark,  now  South 
Orange.  New  Jersey,  1733,  died  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  present  Burnet  street.  East  Orange,  De- 
cember 23,  1795,  and  is  buried  in  the  old  F"irst 
Presbyterian  burial-ground.  Main  and  Scot- 
land streets.  Orange.  He  early  learned  the 
trade  of  tailor,  which  he  followed  for  many 
years  in  connection  with  the  operation  of  his 
farm.  He  married  Phoebe  Canfield,  whose 
father  said  he  would  not  will  her  anything  on 
account  of  her  marrying  Jonathan,  but  poor 
Jonathan  did  so  well  in  his  business  that  her 
father  forgave  her.  They  saved  some  money 
and  bought  from  the  Harrisons  the  property 
through  which  Burnet  street  now  runs.  Here 
his  son  Abiel  brought  his  wife,  and  they  had 
sons  and  daughters  born  here,  where  Abiel 
died.  Caleb,  another  son,  settled  on  Whiskey 
Lane,  where  he  died  in  1841,  Joseph  Hedden 
Jr..  brother  of  Jonathan  Hedden.  often  came 
to  see  him.  He  was  a  marked  patriot,  and  the 
British  determined  to  strike  him  down.  On 
the  night  of  January  23,  1779,  Joseph  said,  "Til 
go  up  to  Jonathan's,  where  I'll  be  safe."  but 
( ieneral  Cummings,  who  married  Joseph's 
(laughter  Sarah,  said  "Xo.  I'll  put  a  guard 
around  the  house."  which  stood  just  south  of 
Bridge  street  on  Broad  street.  New-ark.  While 
lie  was  confined  in  bed  by  illness  during  the 
plundering  and  persecution  of  the  British, 
there  being  an  insufficient  guard  around  the 
house,  he  was  forcibly  taken  from  his 
bed  in  his  night  clothes,  marched  to  Paulus 
1  look  and  thence  across  the  ice  to  New  York, 
and  thrown  into  the  old  sugar  house  prison, 
where  he  was  kept  for  a  considerable  time. 
This  exposure  caused  his  limbs  to  mortify, 
resulting  in  his  death.  He  was  a  merchant  of 
prominence  at  Newark,  a  justice  and  commis- 
sionei-  for  the  countv  of  Essex  for  signing  and 


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II2I 


imciituring  the  estate  and  effects  of  persons 
gone  over  to  the  enemy,  which  rec|uire(l  a  man 
of  great  nerve,  which  position  cost  him  his  hfe. 
Jonathan  Hedden  and  his  brothers  all  served 
their  country  during  the  revolution.  In  a  deed 
dated  April  6,  1781,  for  a  stream  privilege  for 
use  of  the  grist  mill  of  Captain  Thomas  Will- 
iams, Day  and  Washington  streets.  Orange, 
given  by  Daniel  Williams  (  brother  of  Thomas  ) , 
Thomas  paid  the  said  Daniel  five  shillings  for 
use  of  said  privilege.  Jonathan  Hedden  and 
Lydia  Williams,  witnesses,  Jonathan  Hedden 
was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Newark  (  Brick  Churcli 
of  C)range  )  after  the  revolution.  He  became 
one  of  the  seven  trustees  and  was  duly  quali- 
fied before  Jvulge  Peck  at  the  parsonage  house, 
.September  22,  1776,  each  trustee  taking  the 
nath  'oi  allegiance  to  his  country.  Jonathan 
Hedden  was  elected  president  of  this  board  in 
the  autumn  of  the  same  year  and  held  the  office 
for  many  years  He  married  Phebe,  daughter 
of  Joseph  and  Phebe  (Freeman)  Can  held. 
( 'liiklren  :  Caleb  (  q.  v.),  born  1761  ;  Daniel; 
.\bia!,  born  July  11,  1767;  Jotham,  born  about 
1769;  Mary,  married  Joseph  Peck:  Rebecca, 
married  Matthias  Baldwin ;  Deborah,  married 
Ebenezer  Rawson. 

( \' )  Abial,  son  of  Jonathan  Hedden,  was 
born  in  that  part  of  Newark,  now  East  Orange, 
July  II,  1767,  died  at  Orange,  Xew  Jersey, 
later  East  Orange,  September  24,  1841.  He 
early  learned  tlie  trade  of  stone  cutter,  which 
he  followed  with  that  of  farming  during  his 
life.  Many  of  the  tombstones  in  the  old  Scot- 
land street  burial-ground  were  inscribed  by 
him.  He  also  aided  by  his  work  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  forts  of  Castle  Garden  and 
Fort  Lafayette  in  New  York  harbor,  and  did 
a  general  stone  cutting  business,  and  many  of 
the  foundation  stones  of  the  old  residences  of 
the  Oranges  were  cut  by  him.  This  trade,  with 
that  of  village  undertaker,  was  his  princijial 
source  of  income.  The  transfer  of  many  of 
the  bodies  from  the  old  Presbyterian  burial- 
ground  to  Rosedale  cemetery  was  under  his 
direction.  He  taught  his  son  Czal  the  art  of 
stone  cutting.  He  was  also  counted  one  of  the 
prosperous  farmers  of  the  section.  His  farm 
nf  about  twenty-five  acres  was  situated  in  East 
<  )range,  extending  from  Main  street  nearly 
to  Central  avenue,  Burnet  street  in  later  years 
running  through  the  center  of  it.  His  liome- 
stcad  was  moved  back  when  this  street  was  cut 
through,  and  now  faces  Burnet  street,  near  the 
lailroad,  and  is  in  an  excellent  state  of  preser- 
\ation.     During  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life 

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he  was  an  invalid.  He  also  became  lame, 
causetl  by  an  accident  in  falling.  He  was  very 
honest  and  temperate,  and  a  member  of  the 
l'"irst  Presbyterian  Church,  where  he  owned  a 
pew.  He  was  a  \\  liig  in  politics,  and  was 
preeminent  in  liis  church  and  town.  He  and 
his  wife  are  buried  in  the  old  part  of  Rosedale 
cemetery,  where  their  tombstone  now  stands. 

His  wife,  Elizabeth  (or  "Betsey,"  as  she  was 
called)  married  (first)  August  17,  1785,  Sam- 
uel Sayre,  a  soldier  in  the  revolution.  Her 
application  for  pension  was  made  March  20, 
1845,  when  she  was  seventy-seven  years  of 
age,  and  residing  in  Orange.  She  had  by  Mr. 
Sayre  three  children:  John  Eow,  born  March 
15,  1786.  married  Sarah  Stackweather ;  Cath- 
erine (twin  with  John),  married  Noah  Bald- 
win :  Peggy,  married  Charles  Prentice.  Betsey 
Hedden  was  remembered  as  a  good-souled 
motherly  woman  who  brought  her  family  up  in 
the  straight  and  narrow  path  ;  she  was  bright 
and  energetic,  and  a  faithful  member  of  the 
I'irst  Presbyterian  flock.  She  was  left  a  witlow 
with  three  children  when  twenty  years  old. 
1  he  sons  of  Abial,  Elijah  and  Uzal  W.,  lived 
near  their  father.  They  occu]3ied  plain  houses 
which  they  built  on  the  "Old  Road." 

He  married,  September  2^.  1790,  Mrs.  Bet- 
sey (Hedden)  Sayre,  born  January  15,  1768, 
died  April  3,  1848.  She  was  a  first  cousin  to 
Abial  Hedden.  Children:  i.  Phebe,  born  May 
13,  1791,  died  May  24,  1831  ;  married  Charles 
Looker  :  children  :  Charles  and  Margaret.  2. 
Margaret,  born  June  15,  1792.  3.  Uzal  W  ., 
born  October  19,  1793:  married  Mary  Bald- 
win :  children  :  i,  Minard,  died  January,  1859  ; 
married  Julia  Ketchell  Baldwin ;  children : 
Emily  Baldwin,  born  October  16,  1848,  mar- 
ried, February  5,  1868,  Ransford  W^ells  Van- 
dervoort,  and  they  had  children  :  Seldon,  born 
November  5,  1868,  died  January  ifi,  1870,  and 
Ransford  Wells,  born  March  q,  1879,  died  Feb- 
ruarv  20,  1882;  Edward;  Lucius  Howard; 
Jane  Augusta,  born  ;\Iarch  30,  1858;  ii.  Sarah, 
married  Aaron  Matthews;  chikh'en :  l\lary 
Matilda,  married  Edmund  \'an  liergen  ;  child, 
Harold;  Emeline,  G.,  married  Frederick  H. 
Pierson,  and  had  Robert  and  Frederick ;  iii. 
iVIorris,  born  June  14,  1832,  died  .\pril  18, 
1909 ;  married  Martha  J.  Norman ;  children : 
Sarah  Frances,  born  June  30,  1855,  married. 
February'  28,  1878,  Ira  Jarolemon,  and  had 
children:  Belle  Hedden,  born  September  12, 
i8S(),  married,  April  3,  1903,  Roy  Hopping, 
and  Francis  Parker,  born  December  11,.  1891  ; 
Ezra  Wilbur,  born  February  27.  1858,  mar- 
ried   Marv    Maxwell    Crane;    child:      Morris, 


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born  June  30,  1887:  Mary  Augusta,  born  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1861,  married,  December  25,  1882. 
Dr.  Charles  E.  Pease;  children:  Norman  De 
Ett,  born  December  28,  1890,  and  Scott,  born 
October  13,  1892;  Ella  Taylor,  born  April  4. 
1863;  Margaret  T.,  married,  November  20, 
1906,  Rev.  Edmund  L.  Cleveland ;  Edna  Nor- 
ma ;  Julia ;  Emma  ;  Edward  ;  ^linard  ;  iv.  Mar- 
garet, married  Aaron  Matthews;  v.  Emeline. 
married  Alfred  Meeker  ;  children  :  Mortimer 
Addison,  and  Margaret,  married  Henry  Ber- 
gen. 4.  Caleb,  born  December  5,  1794  (q.  v.). 
5.  Sarah  Low,  born  February  21,  1798,  died 
August  2"],  1871.  6.  Elijah  (q.  v. ).  born  Octo- 
ber 4,  1799.  7.  Samuel  Sayre,  born  August 
24,  1803,  mentioned  below.  8.  Joanna,  born 
July  3,  1805,  died  September  6,  1806.  9.  Abial 
Jr.,  born  August  20,  1808,  died  April  2},.  i88i  ; 
married  Mrs,  Mary  (Looker j  Spencer.  10. 
Betsey  Joanna,  born  July  5,  181 1,  died  Octo- 
ber 27,  1826. 

(VI)  Samuel  Sayre,  son  of  Abial  Hedden, 
was  born  on  the  old  Hedden  homestead  in  East 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  August  24,  1803,  died 
September  20,  1876,  on  Hedden  place.  He 
v/as  reared  on  his  father's  farm,  and  during 
the  winter  months  attended  the  district  school 
a  short  distance  away.  During  his  early  man- 
hood years  he  was  apprenticed  to  Cyrus  Jones 
until  he  became  of  age  to  learn  the  trade  of 
hatter.  Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  pur- 
chased a  farm  of  ten  acres  where  he  did  light 
farming  with  the  assistance  of  his  sons.  His 
homestead  was  the  first  beyond  the  "Meadow 
Brook."  a  good  stream  then  with  fine  fish.  He 
also  followed  the  trade  of  hatter,  working  for 
Cyrus  Jones,  who  had  his  shop  near  Munn 
avenue.  He  also  worked  for  the  Stetson  Hat 
Company  and  other  factories  at  Belleville. 
After  1858  he  devoted  his  energies  to  his 
farm  and  gave  up  his  trade.  His  farm  was  a 
model  of  e.xcellence  and  he  made  it  yield  a  hand- 
some yearly  income.  He  was  advanced  in  his 
ideas  and  continually  improved  his  land.  He 
was  most  particular  in  the  choice  of  seeds,  and 
from  his  painstaking  and  constant  application 
of  the  best  methods  his  farm  was  known  for 
its  large  crops.  He  was  fond  of  the  gun  and 
his  dog,  and  was  an  excellent  shot ;  he  hunted 
for  the  New  York  market,  and  during  the  sea- 
son supplied  the  most  famous  hotels  in  New 
York  with  his  game.  Before  his  death  he 
deeded  his  farm  equally  to  his  children,  a 
greater  portion  of  which  has  been  cut  up  and 
sold. .  His  son,  .Mbert  E.  Hedden,  is  now 
living  on  a  part  of  the  land.  He  was  retiring 
in  his  habits,  a  great  reader  of  the  daily  papers. 


greatly  devoted  to  his  home  and  children.  He 
was  strictly  moral,  upright  in  all  his  dealings, 
anrl  of  a  religious  temperament.  He  attended 
ilie  Jjaptist  church  of  East  Orange,  and  later 
the  Roseville  Presbyterian  Church.  He  was 
a  staunch  Democrat  in  politics,  and  served  in 
the  early  Orange  militia. 

He  married  Mary  Ann  Cochran,  born  De- 
cember 6,  1806,  at  East  Orange  (Doddtown), 
died  February  26,  1877,  daughter  of  James  and 
Sarah  (Wright)  Cochran.  James  Cochran 
was  the  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Peck) 
Cochran,  and  came  from  Scotland  and  was  a 
weaver  by  trade.  Children:  i.  Viner  Jones, 
born  November  6,  1823,  died  August  i,  1824. 
2.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  May  31,  1825,  died 
.-Vugust  16,  1868:  married,  September  10,  1848. 
William  Deyo  Johnson,  born  September  8, 
1824,  died  (October  8,  1854,  son  of  Peter  and 
Jane  (  Deyo)  Johnson  ;  children  :  i.  (jrace  E., 
born  July  24,  1849;  married,  March  31,  1869, 
John  Agar,  born  June  15,  1844,  son  of  James 
and  Eliza  (  Whittiker)  Agar  (see  Agar)  ;  child, 
\\'illiam  Clifton,  born  January  11,  1870,  mar- 
riefl,  October  21,  1896,  Lillian  Braundis,  and 
they  have  a  child,  Dudley  Clifton,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  1897;  ii.  Clifton  Norton,  born  April  19, 
1852,  died  October  10,  1857.  3.  Viner  Jones, 
born  July  29,  1827,  mentioned  below.  4.  Har- 
riet Alarvin,  born  January  3,  1830,  died  Janu- 
ary 26,  1892;  married,  May  i,  1830,  James 
I'eck ;  children :  i.  Laura  L,  born  July  25, 
1852,  died  March  7,  1904,  married,  July  25, 
1 87 1,  Henry  D,  Havell,  born  January  27,  1848, 
son  of  Henry  and  Martha  ( Devoe )  Havell: 
children  of  Henry  D.  and  Laura  L  (Peck) 
Havell:  a.  Harry  Peck,  born  July  i,  1876, 
married,  Alarch  29,  1910,  Mabel  Hedden,  born 
August  20,  1877,  daughter  of  Albert  Emmet 
and  Mary  E.  (Rittenhouse)  Hedden;  b.  Grace 
May,  born  July  22,  1878;  c.  George  Luke,  born 
February  9,  1882;  ii.  William,  born  February 
2,  1856,  married,  September  29,  1880,  Ella 
Parsil ;  children :  James,  born  January  23, 
1882,  died  April  24,  1883:  Howard,  born  No- 
vember 20,  1883;  Edith  Gertrude,  born  June 
28,  1888:  iii.  Emeline,  born  March  18,  1859, 
married.  May,  1899,  Louis  ilagee ;  iv.  Jessie 
Olivia,  born  February  17,  1862,  married,  June 
14,  1888,  Frederick  \\'illiam  Ward;  children: 
Sterling  Davies,  born  January  26,  1891 :  Ethel, 
March  i,  1894:  Jessie,  October  8,  1895;  Mar- 
jiirie,  September  2,  1898;  v.  Jennie  Gertrude, 
born  June  2~ ,  1865,  married,  June  25,  1889. 
George  Ward  Dodd ;  children:  Marvin  James, 
born  June  4,  1892;  Philip.  March  7,  1901,  died 
July  29,  1905:  George  Bingham,  Alay  11,  1903. 


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5.  Mary  Olivia,  born  January  2" ,  1835,  died 
October  31,  i8gi  :  married,  January,  1856. 
Xelson  Gates  Baldwin;  children:  Clinton  J., 
born  February  18,  1857,  died  November  21, 
1862;  Mary  Louise,  born  May  3,  1867,  died 
March  17,  1886.  6.  George  Washington,  born 
July  8,  1838,  died  July  12,  1899:  married,  Oc- 
tober 24,  1862,  Phebe  Jane  Thatcher  ;  children  : 
Clinton  Baldwin,  born  November  \2,  180)4, 
married,  September  28,  1905,  Julia  Hedges 
Crane  :  child,  George  Wilmot,  born  February 

6,  1907.  7.  Albert  Emmet,  born  ATay  4,  1841, 
mentioned  below.  8.  Alonzo  S.,  born  February 
16,  1844.  died  November  20,  1845.  9-  Samuel 
Clinton,  born  October  4,   i8si,  died   Tune  12, 

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(  \  II )  \'iner  Jones,  son  of  Samuel  Sayre 
Hedden,  was  born  at  East  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey, July  29,  1827,  on  his  grandfather's  home- 
stead, in  the  vicinity  of  the  present  Burnett 
street.  His  elementary  educational  training 
was  obtained  at  the  district  school  then  situated 
on  the  Orange  road  (  now  Main  street,  between 
Munn  and  Maple  avenues  ),  supplemented  by  a 
course  of  four  terms  in  Dr.  W'icks's  private 
school  at  Newark.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he 
was  apprenticed  to  William  \\'hittimore  until 
he  attained  his  majority  to  learn  the  trade  uf 
carpenter,  and  later  worked  as  journeyman  for 
Baldwin  &  Hedden,  MV.  Hedden  of  their  firm 
being  a  cousin,  Minard  Hedden,  son  of  L'zal 
Hedden.  In  about  1850  Mr.  Hedden,  with 
Joseph  J.  Meeker,  formed  a  partnership  under 
the  firm  name  of  Meeker  &  Hedden,  with  quar- 
ters where  the  present  \'.  J.  Hedden  &  Sons 
Company  is  located.  The  firm  was  later 
changed  to  \'.  J.  Hedden  &  Sons,  Mr.  Hed- 
den having  been  in  business  at  this  location 
since  1850  ujj  to  the  ])resent  (  1910).  They  have 
erected  many  notable  buildings,  among  which 
were  the  Traders'  Bank,  Toronto,  Canada  ;  the 
New  Jersey  State  Asylum  at  Morris  Plains, 
and  the  Produce  Exchange  at  New  York  City. 
The  firm  has  a  wide  reputation  throughout  the 
country,  and  the  most  congenial  relations  exist- 
ed between  the  jjartners.  In  1884,  on  the  death 
of  t]ie  senior  member,  the  firm  was  dissolved 
and  the  firm  of  \ .  J.  Hedden  &  Sons  was 
formed,  Wx.  Hedden  admitting  his  three  sons. 
Charles  R.,  Samuel  S.  and  Louis  O.  Hedden, 
ef|ual  partners.  The  firm  were  manufacturers 
of  every  variety  of  interior  finish  and  later 
general  contractors.  June  i,  1896,  the  business 
was  incorporated  under  New  Jersey  laws,  the 
firm  name  being  changed  to  V.  J.  Hedden  &• 
Sons  Company,  \'iner  J.  Hedden,  president 
and  treasurer;  Charles  R.  Hedtlen,  first  vice- 


[iresident ;  Louis  O.  Hedden,  second  vice-presi- 
dent ;  Samuel  S.  Hedden,  secretary.  In  1907 
Charles  R.  witlidrew  and  Louis  (J.  iDecame  first 
vice-president,  in  1890  the  Heddens  became 
general  contractors  and  builders,  and  have  been 
identified  with  the  erection  of  many  of  the 
largest  and  most  costly  edifices.  The  Prudential 
Building  at  Newark  was  among  their  first 
large  contracts,  they  erecting  the  entire  build- 
ings and  all  the  interior  finish  being  furnished 
by  them.  The  interior  work  finish  of  the  pres- 
ent Prudential  Building,  under  the  construc- 
tion of  the  Hedden  Construction  Company  of 
New  York  City,  is  to  be  done  by  the  Y.  J.  Hed- 
den &  Sons  Company.  They  also  had  the  con- 
tract for  the  Mutual  Benefit  Life  Insurance 
Company's  building  at  Newark,  Howard  Sav- 
ings Bank,  American  Insurance  Company  build- 
ing, and  many  of  the  station  buildings  on  the 
Morris  &  Essex  division  of  the  D.  L.  &  W. 
R.  R.,  and  work  of  the  Central  Railroad  of 
New  Jersey,  under  Judge  Lathrop,  who  was 
the  receiver  of  the  road  in  the  building  of 
depots.  The  firm  have  one  of  the  finest  e(|uip- 
[led  plants  in  the  country,  making  a  specialty 
of  interior  finish  from  the  most  costly  woods, 
under  tlie  general  superintendency  of  Henry 
S.  I'.abliage.  Although  Mr.  Hedden  has  at- 
tained his  four  score  years,  he  is  still  the  active 
head  of  the  company,  whose  success  in  a  great 
measure  is  due  to  the  untiring  efforts  and  sound 
judgment  of  its  senior  member. 

Mr.  Hedden  in  his  political  views  is  an  inde- 
]iendent  on  general  principles,  though  reared  a 
Democrat,  and  although  he  has  never  sought 
political  preferment  has  served  his  city  as  coun- 
cilman. He  attends  the  East  Orange  Baptist 
Church,  and  is  a  liberal  contributor  to  its  sup- 
I'ort.  Mr.  Hedden  is  one  of  the  four  oldest 
members  of  Northern  Lodge,  No.  25,  F.  and 
.\.  M.,  having  entered  the  lodge  more  than  fifty 
years  ago,  his  application  having  been  received 
September  i,  1856.  He  was  passed  December 
I,  1856,  and  raised  to  the  sublime  degree  of 
Master  Mason,  July  20,  1857.  He  was  exalted 
in  Harmony  Chapter.  R.  .\.  M. ;  received  his 
cyr])tic  degree  in  Cain  Council,  R.  and  S.  M.  ; 
was  made  a  member  of  Damascus  Command- 
ery,  K.  T.,  at  Newark.  Mr.  Hedden  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Newark  Board  of  Trade. 

He  married,  May  21,  1851,  at  Newark,  El- 
mira  \'ader  Meeker,  born  June  8,  1832,  died 
.A])ril  2A,  1907,  daughter  of  Caleb  Halsey  and 
Hannah  .Meeker.  Cliildren:  i.  Charles  Rohr- 
bach,  born  March  25,  1852;  married,  June  17, 
1874,  Martha  Havell,  born  July  9.  1853,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  and  Mary  Etta  (Devoef  Havell; 


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children :  Etta  and  Lillian.  2.  Samuel  Sayre, 
born  September  i,  1854;  married,  September 
i;^.  1876,  Emma  Jane  Coles,  born  .\pril  4,  1856, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Lorenzo  and  Sarah  (  Morn- 
ingstern )  Coles;  children:  i.  X'iner  Jacob, 
born  June  2,  1878,  married,  October  3.  iyo6, 
Florence  McMullen,  daughter  of  Henry  A.  and 
Ella  .Matilda  (  Mertz  )  McMullen.  and  have  one 
child.  Jane  Matilda,  born  September  9,  1907 : 
ii.  Edith  Carrie,  born  August  29.  1882:  iii. 
Daisy  ^Madeline,  born  .\ugust  30.  1888.  3. 
.\bbie  \\'ard,  born  July  4,  1857:  married.  May 
21,  1879,  Edwin  James  Meeker,  born  June  11, 
1883,  son  of  Edwin  L.  and  Pamelia  (James  ) 
Meeker;  children:  i.  Herbert  James,  born  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1879,  married,  December  2,  1905, 
Pearl  Brewster;  child,  Doris,  born  February 
13,  1908;  ii.  Evelyn  Eugenia,  born  August  i, 
1881,  died  September  24,  1884;  iii.  Harold 
Ernest,  born  .\Iarch  31,  1883;  iv.  Edwin  Will- 
iam, born  .Xovember  20,  1885  ;  v.  .Wirman 
Hedden,  born  .May  10,  1888;  vi.  Dorothy,  born 
September  22.  1895.  4.  Louis  Oscar,  born  July 
19,  1859.  5.  Eugene  Bleything,  born  .May  11, 
1862.  6.  Emma  Louise,  born  ,\pril  8,  1865; 
married,  June  18,  1890,  Louis  Edwin  McCoy, 
born  January  22,  186 1,  son  of  Nathaniel  Drake 
and  Jane  (\\'hite)  McCoy;  children:  i.  Louise 
Eugenie,  born  .\pril  30,  1893,  "^'i^'^  ^^^y  9. 
iSt)3;  ii.  Ralph  Hedden,  born  August  26,  1895, 
died  August  26.  1895  •  '"■  Robert  Graves,  born 
.\pril  26,  1899;  iv.  Donald  Edwin,  born  .Au- 
gust 20,  1902.  7.  Minnie  E.,  born  October  15, 
1867,  died  January  22.  1870.  8.  .\lonzo  Brown, 
liorn  September  13,  1869;  married,  February 
24,  1897,  Sadie  Elizabeth  \"an  Houten,  daugh- 
ter of  Edgar  W".  and  Emma  (  Bales )  \'an  Hou- 
ten ;  child.  Doris,  born  .\pril  2,  1905,  died 
.\pril  10.  1905.  9.  Minnie  Elmira.  born  Sep- 
tember, 1871  ;  married,  .\pril  12,  1893,  Claude 
E.  I^anterman.  born  May  11,  i86(_).  son  of  Will- 
iam (i.  and  Jane  Hall  ( .\dams )  Lanterman ; 
children :  i.  Helen  Blanche,  born  September 
21,  1895;  ii.  and  iii.  William  Gerald  and  Ger- 
aldine  Hedden,  twins,  born  May  31,  1905.  10. 
.\lice.  born  .April  n.  1879.  died  .April  3,  1908. 
( \TI )  Albert  Emmet,  son  of  Samuel  Sayre 
Hedden,  was  born  on  his  father's  homestead, 
Hedden  place  (then  known  as  the  old  road  to 
Orange  ).  May  4.  1841.  He  attended  the  district 
school  during  the  winter  terms  up  to  si.xteen 
year.s  of  age.  He  later  served  a  four  years 
apprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's  trade  with 
Meeker  &  Hedden,  at  Newark,  where  he  had 
been  associated  as  journeyman  for  three  years, 
foreman,  and  later  as  superintendent  of  the 
present   firm's   plant,      ^^r.    Hedden  has  been 


associated  with  the  Hedden  Company  over 
fifty-two  years,  which  has  changed  from 
Meeker  &  Hedden  to  \'.  J.  Hedden  &  Sons, 
and  in  1896  to  V.  J.  Hedden  &  Sons  Company. 
Mr.  Hedden  resides  on  Hedden  Place,  East 
( Jrange,  having  erected  a  residence  there  in 
1875.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Roseville  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  and  served  as  steward 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  is  affiliated  with 
the  Republican  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  having  first  joined  St.  .Al- 
bans L.odge,  No.  68,  and  later  was  a  charter 
member  of  fiope  Lodge  of  East  Orange,  from 
which  he  demitted  and  joined  Northern  Lodge. 
.\o.  25,  of  Newark.  He  received  his  Royal 
.Arch  degrees  in  Harmony  Chapter,  Royal  .Arch 
Masons,  at  Newark.  He  married  (first)  Har- 
riet Garland,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Jen- 
nette  (  Thompson  )  Young.  Robert  Young  was 
a  hat  finisher.  Child,  Robert  Emmet.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  March  18,  1875.  Mary  E.  Ritten- 
house.  born  Alay  5,  1840,  daughter  of  .Abner 
and  I-"rances  (Snyder)  Rittenhouse.  .Abner 
Rittenhouse  was  a  cooper  and  farmer.  Chil- 
dren :  .\nna  Mary,  born  .April  19,  1876;  Mabel. 
.August  20,  1877;  .Albert  Hermann,  July  23. 
1 88 1,  married,  June  17,  1908,  Daisy  Hunt. 

(\  IH)  Louis  Oscar  Hedden,  son  of  X'iner 
J.  Hedden  ( q.  v.),  was  born  in  the  Hedden 
homestead,  on  Heddert  Place.  East  Orange. 
New  Jersey.  July  19.  1859.  His  early  edu- 
cational training  was  gained  in  the  select  school 
conducted  by  Aliss  Anna  A'ail ;  later  he  attend- 
ed the  public  school,  then  situated  on  Main 
street,  between  the  present  Munn  and  Majile 
avenues,  and  this  was  supplemented  by  a  course 
in  the  eastern  district  school  at  East  Orange, 
continuing  his  studies  up  to  seventeen  years  of 
age.  He  then  served  his  time  up  to  twenty- 
one  years  with  the  firm  of  ^[eeker  &  Hedden. 
at  the  trade  of  carpenter,  and  later  filled  sev- 
eral positions  including  that  of  superintendent, 
remaining  with  the  firm  until  it  dissolved  in 
1884,  when  he  with  his  two  brothers,  Charles 
R.  and  Samuel  S.  Hedden,  entered  into  part- 
nership with  their  father  under  the  firm  name 
of  A'.  J.  Hedden  &  Sons,  manufacturers  of 
every  variety  of  interior  finish,  and  in  1890 
became  general  contractors  and  builders.  In 
June.  1896,  when  the  firm  was  incorporated. 
Air.  Hedden  was  elected  second  vice-president, 
and  on  the  retirement  of  Charles  R.  Hedden. 
who  was  vice-president.  Louis  O.  was  elected 
to  fill  this  office,  1907,  in  which  capacity  he  is 
now  serving.  Air.  Hedden  is  also  directly  inter- 
ested in  a  number  of  important  outside  enter- 
prises.    He  was  vice-president  and  is  now  a 


STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


director  of  the  Tri-Bullion  Siiielting  and  De- 
veloping Company  of  Xew  Mexico,  a  valuable 
mining  pro])erty.  with  offices  at  Xew  York 
City.  He  was  also  vice-president  of  the  lios- 
ton  and  Alta  Copper  Company  of  Montana, 
with  offices  at  Boston,  Massachusetts.  He  is  a 
director  and  member  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  East  Orange  Bank.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  a  company  interested  in  constructing  a 
terminal  building  and  subway,  also  a  steel 
plant  of  large  magnitude  at  Tacoma,  Wash- 
ington. This  company  has  receiveil  the  fran- 
chise from  the  city  of  Tacoma  for  a  subway 
for  the  terminal  facilities  for  the  various  trans- 
continental railway  lines  entering  the  city  of 
Tacoma,  wdiich  will  exceed  any  present  engi- 
neering project  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He  is  a 
trustee  of  the  Job  Haines  Home  for  Aged 
People,  Bloomfield  avenue,  Watsessing,  New 
Jersey.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  was 
a  communicant  of  the  Baptist  faith  and  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  Cliurch  of  East 
r)range.  In  1884  he  took  membership  with 
the  F"irst  Congregational  Church  of  East 
(Grange,  of  which  Mrs.  Hedden  is  also  a  mem- 
ber. Mr.  Hedden  is  on  the  board  of  trustees 
and  treasurer,  and  Mrs.  Hedden  has  served  as 
chairman  of  the  \\'omen's  Society  of  Christian 
\\'ork  and  jjresident  of  the  same.  She  has 
been  active  in  the  various  offices  of  the  church, 
especially  in  music,  and  has  been  leading  so- 
])rano  of  the  choir.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Orange  Musical  Art  Societ}^,  and  of  the  Orange 
W'omans'  Club,  also  on  the  music  and  art  com- 
mittees, having  been  prominent  in  concert  work 
of  the  club.  In  politics  Mr.  Hedden  is  of  sound 
Republican  principles,  and  he  has  been  active 
for  the  good  of  the  community.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Orange  Council.  No.  975,  Royal  Ar- 
canum :  .Aldine  Association.  Essex  Club  of 
Newark.  Roseville  .-\thletic  .Association.  Re- 
publican Club  of  East  r)range.  Congregational 
Club  of  New  York  City,  and  Trojan  Bowding 
Club.  Mr.  Hedden  married,  at  East  Orange. 
New  Jersey.  July  2,  1884,  iMabel  Campbell  Ste- 
venson, born  July  6,  1852.  daughter  of  George 
Washington  and  Susan  Emeline  (  Tompkins ) 
Stevenson.  George  \\'.  .Stevenson  was  a  car- 
riage manufacturer  at  Newark.  Children: 
Myra  McKay,  born  May  3.  1886;  Donald  Ste- 
venson. June  4,  1895. 

(\TII)  Eugene  Bleything  Hedden.  son  of 
^^iner  J.  Hedden  (q.  v.).  was  born  at  Hedden 
Place,  East  Orange,  New  Jersey.  May  11, 
1862.  He  early  attended  the  eastern  district 
public  school,  graduating  from  tiie  grammar 
grades,  and  later  taking  a  high  school  course 


in  the  same  building.  In  18S1  he  entered  the 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute,  at  Troy,  New 
York,  and  was  graduated  from  there  in  1885 
with  the  degree  of  civil  engineer.  He  subse- 
quently entered  the  employ  of  the  Riverside 
Bridge  and  Iron  Works,  at  Paterson,  New 
Jersey,  wdiere  he  remained  a  year  in  the  study 
of  steel  and  iron  construction.  He  later  ac- 
cepted a  similar  position  with  the  ^\'allis  Iron 
Works  of  Jersey  City,  remaining  a  vear,  after 
which  time  he  was  a  year  with  the  firm  of  Post 
&  McCord.  In  1889  he  established  himself  in 
steel  and  iron  construction  work  for  build- 
i!ig  purposes,  with  offices  at  35  Broadway, 
New  York  City.  In  1892  a  plant  was  erected 
at  Bloomfield  Center,  with  railroad  facilities  on 
the  Delaware.  Lackawanna  &  Western  rail- 
road, for  the  manufacture  of  all  kinds  of  c(5n- 
structional  iron  and  steel  work.  In  i()03  Ik- 
incorporated  under  the  name  of  Hedden  In>n 
Construction  Company,  with  office  at  22  Clin- 
ton street.  Newark,  New  Jersey.  The  com- 
])any  was  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  New 
Jersey  with  an  authorized  capital  of  $100,000. 
and  Mr.  Hedden  was  made  president.  In  1910 
the  Pdoomfield  plant  was  abandoned,  and  a  new 
plant  was  erected  on  eleven  acres  of  ground  at 
Lyons  Farms,  on  the  Irvington  branch  of  the 
Lehigh  \alley  railroad.  The  main  shop  (jf 
the  new  plant  is  one  hundred  and  ten  b\-  two 
hundred  and  forty  feet,  and  has  switching 
facilities  for  twenty-three  cars  on  a  dcniblc 
end  switch.  The  new  plant  is  equipped  with 
the  most  modern  machinery,  capable  of  manu- 
facturing any  kind  of  constructional  steel  work. 
Mr.  Hedden  has  been  treasurer  and  trustee  nf 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  East  Orange  for 
many  years,  he'and  his  wife  holding  member- 
shi])  in  the  same.  His  ]3olitical  principles  are 
allied  with  the  Republican  party.  He  was  made 
a  member  of  Hope  Lodge,  No,  124,  Free  and 
.Accepted  Masons,  at  Fast  Orange,  November 
II.  1909. 

Mr.  Lledden  married,  September  30,  1880, 
Llattie  Searing  Harrison,  born  December  (>, 
1863,  (laughter  of  Phillip  A.  and  Mary  .Ann 
(  Dayton  1  Harrison,  of  East  Orange.  New  Jer- 
sey. Children:  i.  Gertrude  Searing.  Ijorn 
May  S,  1888:  graduate  of  Smith's  College, 
class  of  1910.  2.  Edwin  Eugene,  born  July  ti, 
1894.  died  July  28,  1895.  3.  Gilbert  Dayton, 
born  .\pril  6,  1897. 


(Ill)   John  Heilden,  eldest  .son 

HEDDEN      of   Edward    (c|.   v.)    and   Jane 

(Jones)   Hedden,  was  born  at 

Newark,  New  Jerse)',  about  i()i)8,  and  died  in 


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ihat  part  of  Newark  now  South  C)range.  Like 
most  of  his  brothers,  he  followed  fanning  and 
owned  many  tracts  at  the  "Mountain."  Un 
December  25,  1732,  John  Hedden  and  Joseph 
Hedden  (yeomen),  both  of  Newark,  Esse.x 
county,  eastern  division  of  New  Jersey,  in  con- 
sideration of  thirty-six  pounds  lawful  money, 
conve}'  to  Samuel  Freeman  Jr.  a  certain  tract 
of  land  at  the  "Mountain,"  beginning  at  the 
west  side  of  the  highw-ay  at  the  east  corner  of 
John  Hedden's  orchard,  thence  to  the  top  of 
the  mountain,  thence  along  the  mountain  to 
Samuel's  own  land,  &c.,  to  John  Hedden's  land 
south,  &c.  Oliver  and  Eleazer  Hedden 
!  brothers  of  John  and  Joseph  )  witnesses.  Sep- 
tember 28,  1744,  John  Hedden  was  one  of 
many  indebted  to  estate  of  Joseph  Riggs.  He 
married,  about  1723,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Sarah  Riggs.  Joseph  Riggs  died 
September  11,  1744,  and  his  wife  died  June 
17,  1733.  aged  fifty-two  years.  Children:  i. 
John  Jr..  born  about  1724,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Silvanus,  born  ^vlay.  1726,  died  of  diphtheria, 
July  25,  1735.  3.  Ephraim,  born  January,  1733,  * 
died  of  diphtheria,  August  7,  1733.  during  that 
fearful  pestilence  that  pervaded  the  colonies 
that  year. 

(I'V)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (1)  Hedden, 
was  born  in  the  part  of  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
now  South  Orange,  about  1724,  died  after 
1770.  He  was  a  yeoman  and  ow'ned  a  tract 
of  land  at  the  "Mountain,"  now  .South  Orange. 
On  November  23,  1767,  Bethuel  Person  and 
John  Hedden  Jr.  were  witnesses  to  a  deed 
which  transferred  the  old  Bowers  Plantation 
sold  to  Samuel  Riggs  from  Joseph  Gardner 
and  wife  Mary.  Part  of  the  Bowers  planta- 
tion, a  survey  of  ten  acres,  came  to  John  Hed- 
den Jr.  (see  township  map.  No.  TiT,).  A  deed 
of  the  above  states:  "The  ten  acre  piece  which 
said  John  Hedden  is  to  have  begins  at  the  east 
corner  of  the  \\'idow  ]\Iary  Hedden's  land  by 
the  road.  &c."  \\'hether  Widow  Mary  Hed- 
den was  mother  or  stepmother  of  John  Hed- 
den Jr.  is  not  known.  It  is  conjectured  that 
Mary  was  the  second  wife  of  John  Hedden 
.Sr.,  as  his  first  wife  was  Hannah,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Riggs.  John  Hedden  Jr.  was  of 
full  communion  with  the  "Mountain  Society" 
(First  Presbyterian  Church)  prior  to  1736. 
Hugh  Roberts  and  John  Hedden  were  wit- 
nesses to  a  bond  passed  from  Daniel  Roberts 
(yeoman)  to  Uzal  Ogden,  merchant,  for  fifty 
pounds,   April   23.    1750.     He  married,   about 

1750.    .\llen.      Children:      i.    ,\bijah, 

died  of  yellow  fever ;  married  \\  ard. 


J.  Josiah,  unmarried ;  captured  by  the  P)ritish 
in  a  raid  in  Newark;  suffered  and  died  in  a 
New  York 'prison.  3.  Zadock,  born  1734.  men- 
tioned below.  4.  Allen,  unmarried :  served  in 
Canadian  expedition  during  1775,  and  died 
from  wounds  while  there.  5.  Laton.  6.  Com- 
fort, baptized  May  6,  1759,  at  Orange ;  mar- 
lied  Elizabeth  Lewis.  7.  Rachel,  baptized  at 
C)range,  June  4,  1769;  married  Daniel  Meeker. 
8.  Electa,  married  Hugh  McDougal. 

( Y)  Zadock,  son  of  John  (2)  Hedden,  was 
born  on  Broad  street,  Newark,  New-  Jersey, 
January,  1754,  and  was  baptized  the  same 
month  by  Rev.  Jedediah  Chapman,  of  the  First 
Pre.sbyterian  Church  at  Orange.  He  died  at 
Stamford,  Connecticut,  April  29,  1840,  aged 
eighty-seven  years,  in  the  homestead  he  erect- 
ed during  the  latter  years  of  his  life.  He  was 
reared  on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the 
usual  common  school  education  of  a  farmer's 
son  at  that  period.  After  the  revolutionary 
war  he  settled  on  Broad  street,  Newark,  for 
a  time,  but  was  residing  in  New  York  City 
in  the  early  part  of  1818.  He  served  through- 
out the  revolutionary  war  from  1775  to  1783. 
and  in  the  Montgomery  expedition  to  Canada. 
His  sufferings  were  many  and  great,  but  he 
rendered  a  noble  service  in  the  struggle  for 
independence.  Mr.  John  Condit,  of  Essex 
county.  New  Jersey,  gives  the  following  ac- 
count of  the  character  and  services  of  Zadock 
Hedden  under  date  of  January  10,  1818.  "I 
certify  that  I  became  acquainted  with  him  and 
his  familv  early  in  the  Revolutionary  war  ;  that 
he  and  a  brother  enlisted  in  1775  and  marched 
to  Canada  under  command  of  General  Elias 
Dayton,  who  was  a  colonel  in  that  company. 
His  brother  lost  his  life,  and  after  Zadock's 
term  of  service  had  expired  he  returned  to  his 
father,  and  with  another  brother  joined  the 
militia,  who  were  then  almost  constantly  on  the 
lines.  The  British  came  over  from  Staten 
Island  by  way  of  Elizabethtown  in  consider- 
able force,  and  made  a  severe  attack  on  the 
militia  stationed  on  the  lines,  at  wdiich  time 
said  Zadock  Hedden  and  his  brother  and  a 
number  of  others  were  taken  prisoners  and 
carried  to  New  York  and  there  confined  in 
their  loathsome  prisons,  where  said  Zadock 
Hedden  lost  his  other  brother  and  sufTered 
much  himself.  But  after  a  long  impri.'ionment 
he  w'as  released  and  returned  home  again.  As 
soon  after  his  return  from  prison  as  his  health 
and  strength  would  permit,  and  anxious  to  be 
again  in  the  service,  he  received  a  commission 
as  captain  of  a  company.     I  have  always  con- 


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siderecl  him  one  wlio  rendered  much  >t-rvice 
and  who  suffered  much  in  the  cause  of  his 
country  in  the  Revohitionary  struggle." 

Zadock  Hedden  married  Rachel  lialdwin. 
born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  January  _'(>, 
1755,  died  at  New  York  City,  March  2,  1814, 
daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Sarah  ( Baldwin ) 
Baldwin.  Ezekiel  Baldwin  died  in  1805,  aged 
eighty-six,  son  of  John,  who  died  1773,  aged 
ninety,  son  of  Jonathan,  who  died  1739,  aged 
ninety-one,  son  of  the  first  settler,  Joseph 
Baldwin,  who  settled  at  Alilford,  Connecticut, 
1639.  Children:  Josiah,  mentioned  below; 
I\Iary,  baptized  Ajjril  6,  1783.  in  First  Presby- 
terian     Church,      Orange,      married     

Fhoenix :  Jeptha,  died  in  infancy;  .Sarah 
Glover:  John  Allen;  James,  married  Millicent 
Eewis ;  Robert;  Frances  (Aunt  Fanny),  died 
unmarried  in  Xew  Yoi'k  City.  1878,  aged 
ninety. 

(\'I)  Josiah,  son  of  Zadock  lledden,  was 
born  on  Piroad  street,  Newark,  Xew  Jersey, 
February  23,  1781.  died  in  New  York  City, 
August  17,  1832.  The  major  part  of  his  edu- 
cation was  gained  at  L'nion  College,  Sche- 
nectady, New  York,  subsequently  entering  the 
law  ofilice  of  Alexander  Hamilton  in  New  York 
City,  where  he  applied  himself  to  the  study  of 
law,  graduating  therefrom,  and  adopted  the 
profession,  which  he  practiced  with  distinction 
during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  His  first 
commission  to  practice  law  is  signed  by  Chief 
Justice  Morgan  Lewis,  nf  the  supreme  court. 
May  14,  1803,  and  the  next  commission  is 
signed  by  Edward  Livington,  mayor  of  New 
^'ork.  May  19,  1803,  to  practice  in  the  court  of 
iiimmon  pleas,  called  the  mayor's  court.  Other 
"f  his  commissions  are  signed  by  Governor 
I  )aniel  D.  Tompkins,  1810-13.  He  was  regu- 
L.rly  admitted  a  counsellor  at  law  by  court  of 
ciiuimon  pleas,  called  the  mayor's  court  of  New 
\  ork  City,  at  July  term,  1812  (July  20)  umler 
^eal  of  Governor  De  Witt  Clinton.  ( Hher  com- 
missions by  John  Lansing  Chandlor,  181 2,  and 
De  Witt  Clinton,  1812-25-27;  Governor  Yates, 
1824:  Chancellor  James  Kent,  1820.  He  was 
,'ippointed  master  in  chancery  for  state  of  New 
^  ork,  April  14,  1827,  under  seal  of  Governor 
Ue  Witt  Clinton.  His  last  commission  is  from 
Mayor  Walter  Bowne  and  council.  May  2, 
1832,  appointing  him  four  years  as  a  special 
justice  of  the  city  of  New  York.  He  was  elect- 
'■(I  ald.erman  of  the  city  181 1-12-19- 24-25.  He 
was  on  the  committee  of  the  council  to  meet 
De  Witt  Clinton  with  the  Erie  canal  celebra- 
tion in  1825  on  the  arrival  of  the  flotilla  in  the 
first  ])assage  through  the  iM-ie  canal.     In  p(jli- 


tics  Judge  Hedden  was  a  hederalist  until  just 
before  the  war  of  1812,  when  lie,  with  Hugh 
Maxwell,  Gulian  Ver]ilank  ;uk1  nthers  cif  the 
"Coody  Party"  of  that  da_\-,  joined  the  ram- 
many  society.  He  died  .\ugust  17,  1832,  being 
killed  by  his  horse  running  away  at  the  avenue, 
throwing  him  out  of  the  carriage.  I  le  suffered 
a  compound  fracture  of  the  skull  and  died 
twelve  hours  after,  being  unconscious.  His 
companion,  John  Hedley.  also  died  a  few  days 
after.  The  New  York  Ez'cniiig  Fast  of  August 
1(1,  1S32,  gives  the  following  account:  "Shock- 
ing Accident:  Yesterday  afternoon  as  1\\\-. 
Hedley,  a  member  of  the  bar  in  this  city,  and 
Mr.  Justice  Hedden,  were  riding  out  of  town 
in  a  gig,  the  horse  suddenly  took  fright  and 
took  it  into  his  head  to  run  away  with  them 
and  dashed  up  Third  Avenue  at  full  speed. 
\\'hen  he  came  to  the  corner  of  12th  street  he 
plunged  among  a  heap  of  sharp  craggy  rocks 
which  had  been  recently  blasted  and  thrown 
a  little  out  of  the  road  on  an  unfenced  lot,  n])- 
setting  the  gig  and  dashing  both  gentlemen 
foremost  among  the  stones.  The  wounds  in- 
flicted uj)on  their  heads  are  frightful,  and  little 
lio])e  is  entertained  of  their  recovery.  Neither 
have  been  able  to  speak  since  the  accident  to 
give  any  account  of  how  it  ha]ipened,  but  from 
an  eye  witness  who  saw  the  horse  when  he 
first  started  to  run  we  learned  that  both  gentle- 
men seized  the  reins  and  one  pulling  stronger 
tiian  the  other  upon  one  of  the  reins  gave  the 
animal  the  direction  over  the  heap  of  stones. 
Hafl  it  been  left  alone  to  the  management  of 
the  one  who  was  driving  they  probably  would 
have  escaped  so  terrible  an  accident." 

Josiah  Hedden  married,  November  i(),  1803, 
at  the  John  Street  Church,  Xew  York  City, 
Elizabeth  June,  descended  from  Huguenot 
stock,  her  ancestors  coming  to  this  country 
from  Guyanna,  France,  settling  in  and  about 
New  Rochelle,  Westchester  county,  New  York. 
The  original  I'rench  name  was  Jean.  She 
was  born  near  the  vicinity  of  Rye,  New  York, 
April  22.  1787,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Penfield )  June,  the  latter  of  whom  was 
the  (laughter  of  Samuel  Penfield,  of  Fairfield, 
(_'onnecticut.  Elizabeth  (June)  T-fedden  died 
at  Stratford,  Connecticut,  June  17,  1863,  aged 
seventy-seven.  .She  was  the  emljodiment  of 
virtue  and  her  heart  was  the  abode  of  heavenly 
purity.  .She  was  the  second  of  three- sisters, 
the  first,  Harriet,  born  in  Newburg,  New  York, 
May  22,  1793,  married  Jacob  Duyclink,  and 
they  had  two  sons,  Everet  Augustus  and 
George,  each  of  whom  inherited  sufficient  for- 
tunes to  enable  them  to  live  an  exceptionally 


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literary  life,  and  they  distinguished  themselves 
in  pubhshing  several  works,  chief  of  which  has 
been  a  standartl  book,  the  "Encyclopedia  of 
American  Literature,"  The  other  sister  of 
Elizabeth  (June)  Hedden  was  Sarah  Ann. 
born  in  Fairfield  City,  Connecticut,  December 
2,  1784.  She  married  George  Long,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  extensive  firm  of  book  pub- 
lishers in  New  York  City,  Wiley  &  Long,  for- 
merly Duvclink  &  Long  in  Water  street  near 
"Old  Slio.'" 

Children  of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (June) 
Hedden,  all  born  in  Xew  York  City:  i.  Samuel 
Fenfield,  August  2~.  1804:  died  aged  nineteen. 
2.  Elizabeth  Lewis.  December  10,  1806:  died 
June  28,  18.4.2:  married  Rufus  Lockwood : 
cliildren :  i.  William  Rufus;  ii.  Augustus  Hed- 
den; iii.  .Alfred:  iv.  Elizabeth;  v.  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Dr.  James  R.  IMack ;  vi.  Francis  (jranger, 
died  1854;  vii.  George,  married  Sarah  R.  .Alex- 
ander, of  Baltimore;  viii.  Charles.  3.  Sarah 
.Ann,  born  February  12,  1809,  died  at  Saratoga, 
New  York,  October  10,  1870:  married  Robert 
D.  I\lcEwan:  children:  i.  Maria  Catharine, 
married  Edward  Wells^  of  Stratford,  Connec- 
ticut ;  ii.  Harriet  Eliza,  married  Theodore  E. 
liorott :  iii.  Robert  D.,  died  1893;  married 
(first) .Armstrong,  of  St.  Croix;  (sec- 
ond) Sarah  F'erry.  of  Saratoga:  iv.  John,  died 
young:  v.  Jane  Lee,  married  \'ictory  E.  \\'et- 
nu^re.  4.  Harriet  June,  born  October  2,  181 1. 
died  October  21,  1846;  married  W'illiam  M. 
Gawtry ;  children :  i.  Harrison  E..  married 
Louise  Brown,  daughter  of  Lewis  B.  Brown: 
ii.  Harriet  Aliranila:  iii.  Edward  Hedden.  3. 
Rachel  Baldwin,  born  .April  28,  1814,  died 
July  14.  188(1;  married  IDaniel  K.  Granger; 
ciiild,  Morence  Herlden,  married  Edward  C. 
Ilaight,  son  of  David  Haight.  6.  Mary,  born 
November  3,  1816,  died  at  St.  I^ouis,  Missouri, 
Jidy  0,  1840:  married  James  E,  W'oodruff.  who 
was  lost  at  sea  on  steamship  ".Arctic,"  1854: 
children;  i.  Alary  Hedden.  married  James  H. 
Barrc ;  ii.  Sophia,  married  Charles  H.  .Sharp; 
iii.  Emily,  married  Henry  W.  Nason  ;  iv.  Ben- 
jan'in  Lillie,  died  1891.  7.  Frances,  burn  De- 
cember 19,  1830,  died  in  Baltimore,  Maryland, 
February  3,  1872;  married  John  (!.  Williams; 
children:  Eleanor,  Sarah,  Mary,  F'rances. 
Susan,  Lillie.  8.  .Susan  Long,  born  .August  28, 
1823,  died  Jtdy  3,  1890;  married  Charles  R. 
Tomlinson.  9.  Josiah.  born  January  23,  1826. 
died  June  27,  1878;  married  Lucy  .Ashmun; 
children:  Waldron  Post,  Emily  Bliss.  Lucv 
.Ashmun,  Josiah.  10.  Edward  Long,  born  De- 
cember 24,  1828,  mentioned  below.  11.  Robert 
McEwen,  born  July  9,  1830:  married  Margaret 


Derry  ;  children:  i.  Sarah  B..  married  Alonzo 
B.  Miller;  ii.  Frances  W.,  married  Roscoe  \\  . 
Ingalls  ;  iii.  Jennie  D.,  married  Charles  Cox  : 
iv.  Josiah  (2),  married  Ida  S.  Miller:  v.  Harry 
Franklin,  born  February  13,  1878. 

(\TI)  Edward  Long,  third  son  and  tenth 
child  of  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (June)  Hedden, 
was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  in  his 
father's  homestead  at  Xo.  28  Howard  street. 
His  elementary  educational  training  was  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city,  supplemented 
by  a  course  in  the  Stamford  (Connecticut! 
.Academy.  During  his  minority  he  entered  the 
employ  of  one  of  the  largest  East  Indian  im- 
porting houses  in  New  A'ork  City,  that  of  W  het- 
more,  Cryder  &  Company,  No.  "jt^  South  street, 
r.ear  Wall  street.  Beginning  as  a  boy,  he  was 
industrious  and  attentive  in  the  duties  assign- 
ed him  by  those  with  whom  he  was  employed, 
and  by  strict  attention  to  the  business  in  all 
its  details  and  by  his  probity  he  rose  to  posi- 
tions of  greater  responsibility  and  remunera- 
tion. He  became  head  clerk,  which  he  held 
but  a  short  time,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the 
management  of  the  firm's  afifairs.  .After  a 
faithful  service  of  twenty-five  years  he  was 
admitted  a  partner  under  the  same  firm  name, 
\\'ctmore.  Cryder  i!^  Company.  On  the  death 
of  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  Air.  Hedden 
became  its  active  head  until  the  dissolution  of 
the  business.  The  success  that  marked  his 
management  of  this  vast  business  house  to 
which  he  had  so  many  years  devoted  his  best 
energies,  naturally  attracted  the  attention  of 
men  connected  with  other  large  enterprises. 
In  1883  his  influence  and  judgment  was  sought 
in  the  affairs  of  the  North  River  Bank  at  Day 
and  Greenwich  streets,  where  he  was  made 
vice-president  and  director,  his  father-in-law, 
Levi  .Apgar,  having  been  president.  In  1883, 
during  President  Cleveland's  administration, 
he  was  appointed  by  Air.  Cleveland  collector 
of  the  port  of  New  ^'ork.  His  vast  experience 
in  the  various  lines  of  imports  and  his  rare  ' 
'Knowledge  of  values,  and  with  an  experience  .■ 
of  over  thirty-five  years  with  the  customs  in 
connection  with  his  own  business,  together 
with  his  strict  fidelity  and  honesty,  naturally 
found  favor  with  the  business  element  of  New 
York,  and  he  was  appointed  to  fill  one  of  the 
most  res])onsible  government  positions  in  the 
stale.  Mr.  Hedden  did  not  seek  political  favor 
in  this  appointment,  as  he  was  always  much 
adverse  to  enter  ]iolitics,  and  owing  to  this  fact 
it  may  be  said  that,  on  Mr.  Cleveland's  second 
term,  political  antagonism  removed  him  from 
lliis   position,   and   he   later  devoted   his   time 


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between  hi>  Ijank  ami  utlier  interests.  1  le  was 
also  a  director  and  on  the  finance  committee  of 
the  Niagara  Insurance  Company  initil  his 
death. 

In  personal  respects  Mr.  Hedden  was  a  type 
of  the  highest  American  citizenship,  a  man  of 
the  purest  integrity  and  loftiest  ideals,  devoted 
to  the  obligations  of  family  and  friendly 
attachment,  most  valuable  and  attractive  in  his 
private  character,  and  with  his  family  sustain- 
ing a  prominent  social  position.  He  retained 
in  a  remarkable  degree  a  wonderful  spirit  of 
youth,  and  his  interests  became  a  part  of 
tiiose  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  no  matter 
how  old  or  young.  He  was  greatly  beloved  by 
all  who  knew  him,  ever  ready  to  share  their 
sorrows  as  well  as  their  pleasures.  In  his 
business  relations  with  men  his  word  was  his 
bond,  and  he  was  never  known  to  break  the 
trust  reposed  in  him.  He  was  an  ideal  and 
popular  manager,  and  stood  in  the  highest 
esteem  with  his  partners  and  his  employees, 
being  broad  and  liberal  in  his  views,  rising  on 
occasion  above  the  prejudices  of  the  hour  and 
ever  eminently  just  and  resolute  in  the  pursuit 
of  the  right  as  lie  saw  it,  truly  a  gentleman  of 
the  old  school.  In  political  preferment  he  fol- 
lowed the  fortunes  of  the  Democratic  party, 
though  he  never  accepted  office  for  personal 
ends.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  political 
aft'airs  and  felt,  like  many  others,  that  the  first 
dutv  of  a  citizen  was  with  his  family,  and  he 
lived  (lut  this  principle  always.  He  was  a 
member  of  St.  Thomas  Episcopal  Church, 
being  a  constant  attendant  of  the  same.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution.  In  his  earlier  years  he  was  a 
member  of  the  City  Guards,  a  military  organi- 
zation whose  membership  was  enrolled  from 
the  best  families  of  New  York.  At  the  time 
this  company  was  changed  to  the  Old  Guard 
he  received  a  lieutenant's  commission,  but 
never  served. 

Mr.  Hedden  married,  at  New  ^'(lrk  City,  in 
St,  John's  Episcopal  Church,  Elizabeth  Caro- 
line Apgar.  born  in  New  York  City,  daughter 
of  Levi  and  Julia  .Ann  (Hamilton)  Apgar. 
Children:  i.  Julia  Apgar,  married.  April  ii, 
1879.  Charles  Carnpbell  Worthington.  son  of 
Henry  R.  and  Sara  (Newton)  Worthington; 
children :  i.  Julia  Hedden,  married  Edmmid 
Munroe  Sawtelle,  son  of  General  Charles  G. 
Sawtelle,  U.  .^.  .A.;  children:  Edmund  Rossi- 
ter.  Charles.  Chester  Munroe;  ii.  Henry  Ros- 
siter ;  iii.  Charles  Campbell  Worthington  Jr.; 
iv.  Edward  Hedden,  married  Janet  I'.urnett; 
child,   Edward    Hedden  Jr.    (2):  v.   Reginald 


.^tuart.      2.    Maria    Louise.      3.    Edward.      4. 
Elizabeth  Caroline.    5.  Duncan  Cryden, 


(For  preceding  generations  see  Jared   Hedden    1). 

(Ill)  Eleazer  Hedden,  son  of 
H  EDDEN  Edward  and  Jane  ( Jones  )  Hed- 
den, died  in  Orange  township, 
ab(5ut  1770.  He  was  a  yeoman,  and  owned 
tracts  at  the  "mountain."  He  and  his  brother 
Oliver  were  witnesses  to  a  deed  made  by  their 
brothers  John  and  Joseph  Hedden,  conveying 
to  Samuel  Ereeman  Jr.  twenty  acres  for  thirty- 
si.x  pounds,  as  follows :  "Beginning  at  the  west 
side  of  the  highway  at  the  east  corner  of  John 
Hedden's  orchard,  thence  to  the  top  of  the 
mountain  thence  along  the  mountain  to  Sam- 
uel's own  land  which  he  had  of  Josiah  C)gden. 
thence  down  said  line  to  the  highway,  thence 
to  beginning  and  John  Hedden's  south."  A 
copy  of  this  deed  in  manuscript  is  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  Historical  Society  at  Newark. 
The  will  of  Eleazer  Hedden,  dated  at  Newark, 
1770,  names  his  three  sons  and  four  daughters. 
His  wife  and  the  wife  of  Joseph  Hedden,  John 
Hedden  and  his  son  John,  were  memljers  in 
full  ciuiimimion  of  the  Mountain  Society  prior 
to  173'x  I'hebe.  daughter  of  Eleazer,  was  bap- 
tized May  7,  1758,  by  the  Rev.  Caleb  Smith. 
Eleazer  Hedden  married,  and  had  children:  i. 
Eleazer  (Captain),  born  May  16,  1731,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Edward,  born  1742.  died  Jan- 
uary 10.  1782.     3.  Nehemiah.     4.  Keziah.     5. 

Ruth.      ').    Mary,   married lligbe.      7. 

Phcbe.  baptized  May  7.  1758;  married 

Jones. 

(I\')  Captain  Eleazer  (2).  smi  of  Eleazer 
(i)  Hedden,  was  born  at  South  ( )range,  New 
Jersey  (then  Newark).  May  16.  1751,  and 
died  in  that  part  now  known  as  Irvington,  .Au- 
gust 30,  1819.  and  is  buried  beside  his  wife,  in 
the  Presbyterian  burial-ground.  He  was  a 
cordwainer  and  farmer,  and  owned  land  in 
South  Orange,  within  the  present  boundaries 
of  Irvington,  then  known  as  Camptown.  He 
Vi'as  among  thirty-five  who  in  May,  180S,  sub- 
scribed to  a  fund  for  painting  the  school  house. 
During  the  revolution  he  served  in  Colonel 
Phillip  \'an  Cortland's  Second  Essex  County 
Regiment.  In  his  will,  dated  October  24,  1819, 
he  gives  to  his  wife  Hester  (Ester):  "One 
room  in  my  house,  also  one  bed  and  suitable 
bedding,  also  her  choice  of  one  of  mv  cows, 
also  sufficient  utensils  to  keep  house  shoidd  she 
choose  to  do  so.  Also  I  give  her  the  use  of 
one-half  of  my  farm  during  her  natural  life." 
To  his  granddaughters  Eliza  and  F,sther  he 
•rives   "one-third   of   mv    farm   in   acres  to  be 


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taken  off  the  east  end."  He  gives  "to  my 
grandsons  Eleazer  and  Edward  the  other  two- 
thirds  of  all  the  remainder  of  my  estate,  to  be 
divided  equally  between  them,"  etc.  The  exec- 
utors of  the  will  were  Joseph  W.  Camp  and 
Hester  Hedden.  His  real  estate  amounted  to 
thirty  acres,  and  his  goods  and  chattels  $356.25. 
Many  unique  articles  of  furniture  were  men- 
tioned in  the  inventory.  He  married  (first) 
Sarah  Baldwin  ;  children  :  Aaron,  mentioned 
below;  and  Edward.  He  married  (second) 
Esther  Terrel,  born  — ,  1765,  died  September 
I,  1844. 

(V)  Aaron,  son  of  Captain  Eleazer  (2) 
Hedden,  was  born  at  Camptown,  Clinton  town- 
ship, in  1779,  and  died  at  Irvington,  March  2, 
1836.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  old  Camptown 
school  house,  then  an  ancient  structure,  situ- 
ated near  the  center  of  Irvington.  The  build- 
ing was  demolished  about  1806,  when  the  new 
one  was  erected.  In  early  life  Aaron  learned 
the  trade  of  housewright  or  carpenter,  wdiich 
he  followed  with  farming.  The  records  show 
that  January  8,  1810,  Aaron  Hedden,  carpenter, 
Eleazer  Roberts,  cutting  and  hewing  timber, 
Henry  Roberts,  mason,  Uzal  Wilson,  mason. 
Edward  Rail,  mason,  Jeffrey  J.  Baldwin,  shav- 
ing shingles  and  laying  floor,  and  Samuel  Rob- 
erts, painter,  were  all  engaged  in  building  the 
second  schoolhouse.  On  December  15,  1806, 
Aaron  and  his  brother  Edward  each  subscribed 
ten  dollars  toward  the  building  fund  of  the 
schoolhouse. 

Aaron  Hedden  was  an  extensive  projierty 
holder,  his  lands  covering  a  large  part  of  Irving- 
ton. His  homestead,  where  all  his  children 
were  born,  was  situated  near  the  present  Drake 
feed  store.  .Springfield  avenue,  when  laid  out, 
passed  through  his  orchard.  Part  of  his  land, 
where  his  grandson  ;\ndrew  C.  Hedden  now 
lives,  he  sold  to  Caleb  Belcher.  He  afterwards 
rebought  it  and  the  i)ro])erty  has  descended  to 
his  heirs. 

He  married,  about  1800.  .\bigail  Woodruff, 
born  1782,  died  March  12,  1844.  She  was  a 
very  pious  woman,  a  member  of  the  Presby- 
terian church,  and  it  is  recorded  of  her  that 
she  always  said  grace  at  the  table.  She  sjnni 
and  wove  the  flax  that  was  grown  on  the  farm. 
She  outlived  her  husband,  but  met  with  a  tragic 
fate;  her  mind  became  alTected  and  she  juni])- 
ed  into  the  well.  Though  not  drowned,  she 
died  from  the  shock  after  being  taken  out. 
She  and  her  husband  are  buried  in  the  Con- 
necticut Farms  burial-ground. 

Aaron  was  a  great  worker,  and  while  he 
possessed   a   rough   exterior   he  had   a  kindly 


heart.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  and  a  good 
citizen.  His  will,  dated  Clinton  township,  Feb- 
ruary 29,  1836,  gives  $300  each  to  his  two 
daughters — Sarah  Harrison,  wife  of  John  Har- 
rison, and  Phebe  Jennings.  To  his  son  Daniel 
W.  he  gave  $400,  and  the  rest  of  his  estate  to 
be  divided  between  Daniel  W  .  and  Samuel  R. 
Hedden.  He  also  conveyed  land  to  James, 
Susan  and  Moses,  children  of  his  deceased  son 
Jabez  B.  Hedden,  and  their  mother  Sarah  Hed- 
den. To  these  three  grandchildren  he  gave 
.$100  each.  On  March  14,  1836.  the  balance  of 
his  estate  was  appraised  at  $388.25.  This  in- 
cluded an  old  gig,  shaving  horse,  bench  and 
screw. 

Ciiildren :  I.  Jabez,  died  of  consumption; 
who  married  Sarah  Osborne;  children:  James, 
jMoses,  Susan,  married Faul.  2.  Sam- 
uel R.,  married  Susan  Redding;  sons:  Samuel 
and  .^aron,  both  died  of  consumption.  3. 
James,  born  1801 ;  died  of  lockjaw,  in  Mary- 
land, December  27,  1824.  4.  Daniel  Wood- 
ruff, mentioned  below.  5.  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth, died  March  26,  1837:  married  John 
.S.  Harrison;  children:  Abigail,  married  Ed- 
ward I<"ullings :  .Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  De- 
cember I,  1828,  married  March  18,  1847,  An- 
drew K.  Carnrite,  and  had  Emma  Jane,  born 
March  2-/.  1848,  Dora  A.,  born  May  5,  1850, 
Anna  Elizabeth,  born  May  19,  1853;  Emma, 
died  aged  two  years.  6.  Phebe,  married  Elea- 
zer Jennings,  who  died  of  smallpox. 

(  \'] )  Daniel  Woodruff',  son  of  .Aaron  Hed- 
den, was  born  at  Irvington  (then  Camptown). 
at  the  homestead  of  his  father,  at  the  center, 
and  died  on  Stuyvesant  avenue  (then  Wall 
street) ,  and  was  buried  in  the  Clinton  cemetery, 
Irvington.  He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's 
farm,  acquiring  the  district  school  education 
of  a  farmer's  son  at  that  period.  He  early 
learned  the  trade  of  carpenter  from  his  father, 
after  whose  death  he  lived  with  his  brother 
.Sanuiel.  It  is  said  he  was  an  adept  at  his  trade 
and  could  make  anything  that  was  a  part  of  a 
house  or  that  was  cabinet  work.  He  later  built 
his  homestead  on  Stuyvesant  avenue,  where 
his  son  .Andrew  now  resides.  .After  following 
liis  trade  he  took  up  tramming  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  drew  all  the  glass  to  New  York 
City  for  the  Crystal  Palace,  a  celebrated  edifice 
in  its  day.  His  latter  days  were  spent  at  farm- 
ing and  milk  raising.  He  dis]iosed  of  his  milk 
to  Harvey  T.  Meeker,  Silas  Hitchcock,  and  his 
son  Charles  P,  Hedden.  He  had  a  strong  con- 
stitution and  could  outwork  all  others.  He 
was  rather  austere  by  nature  and  deeply  relig- 
ious.    With  his  wife  he  was  a  member  of  the 


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Christian  church,  which  he  supported.  In  poh- 
tics  he  was  a  Democrat. 

He  married  (first)  Phebe.  daughter  of  Aaron 
and  Elizabeth  (Hedges)  Doty.  She  was  very 
strong-minded  and  a  great  reader  of  the  Scrip- 
tures. Children:  i.  Charles  Pitman,  mention- 
ed below.  2.  Juliette,  married  Sewell  Augustus 
Parker ;  child  Bertha,  married  Plarry  CliiYord 
Baldwin,  and  had  Clifford,  Helen  and  Clyde. 

3.  Daniel  Baldwin,  born  May  8,  184^1,  died 
February  26,  1886;  married,  November  2S. 
1867,  Mary  Elizabeth  Van  Cleeve ;  children: 
i.  Fannie  Louisa,  born  December  26,  1868,  died 
March  14,  1907,  married  August  i,  1892,  Sam- 
uel G.  Webb,  and  had :  Roger  Everett,  born 
May  16,  1895,  Herbert  Edsell,  May  26,  1898, 
Dorothy  Elizabeth.  July  26,  igoo:  ii.  Charles 
Arthur,  born  December  13,  1870,  died  January 
16,  1906,  married  June  8,  1893,  Lora  A.  Ste- 
vens, children :  Frank  Elmer,  born  November 
16,  1894,  Mabel  Lavinia,  July  3,  1897,  Charles 
.Arthur  Jr.,  June  20,  1900,  Lora  Elizabeth, 
June  16,  1903,  Hazel,  November  10,  1905;  iii. 
Lora  Emma,  born  December  24,  1872,  died 
January  7,  1907,  married  November  23,  1895. 
Joseph  Shotweil,  and  had  Edith  Hedden,  born 
February  11,  1898;  iv.  Leitha  May,  born  July 
15,  1875,  married  March  31,  1898,  William 
Stevens,  and  had  Florence  May,  Gertrude, 
William,  Leitha  Maud,  Harold  Leslie  ;  v.  Ernest 
Clifton,  born  January  9,  1878,  died  July  17, 
1878;  vi.  Frank  Elmer,  born  May  21,  1879, 
married,  June  22,  1901,  Lulu  Baker,  and  had 
Elwood,  born  April  26,  1902,  Agnes  Baker, 
June,  1903,  Amie,  August  i,  1905,  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, September  i.  1907;  vii.  Ella  Maud,  born 
October  21,  1881,  died  June  i,  1908,  married 
October  9,  1902,  Goffe  DePue  Hedden,  son  of 
Charles  Pitman  Hedden,  and  had  a  son  Earle 
DePue,  born  June  30,  1903:  viii.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth, born  A]3ril  2,  1884,  dietl  February,  1885. 

4.  Ida  Vincent,  born  October  i,  1857,  died  May 
II,  1908;  married  (first)  Romanzo  Gage;  chil- 
dren: i.  Harold;  ii.  Clara  May,  born  May  17, 
1880,  married  July  22,  1903,  Walter  L.  Dona- 
hue, and  bore  him  Leslie  William,  born  March 
21,  1904,  died  August  12,  1904,  and  Ida  Au- 
gusta, born  March  30,  1905.  She  married 
(second)  \\"illiam  llird  Emory;  four  sons.  iii. 
Ernest,  born  April  8,  1884,  died;  iv.  Edward, 
twin  with  Ernest,  married,  June  5,  1903,  Lillian 
Haldridge,  who  had  a  son  Edward  Paul :  v. 
Andrew  Carnrite,  born  December  14,  1885, 
married  June  20,  1903,  Laura  I'ella.  and  had 
Laura,  Clara  May,  Clement  B.,  Mabel  Belle ; 
vi.  Harrold  Clifford  Baldwin,  born  June  i. 
1888,   married   December    14,    1908,   Christina 


Romayne.  5.  Andrew  Carnrite,  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1849;  married.  May  13,  1880,  Josephine 
Fisher  Webb,  and  had :  i.  Albert  William, 
born  February  19,  1881,  died  August  12,  1881  ; 
ii.  Samuel  Webb,  born  May  27,  1883,  died 
October  28,  1901 ;  iii.  Martha  Mildred,  born 
August  15,  1885,  died  July  9,  1887:  iv.  Bessie 
Alberta,  born  November  30,  1888;  v.  Phebe 
Doty,  born  July  26,  1892.  6.  William,  died.  7. 
Isaac,  died.    8.  Edward,  died.  9.  Phebe  Emma. 

( VHI)  Charles  Pitman,  son  of  Daniel  Wood- 
ruff Hedden,  was  born  in  1839,  on  the  home- 
stead of  his  father,  then  situated  near  the  junc- 
ture of  New  street,  Springfield  and  Union  ave- 
nues. He  died  in  1905.  He  attended  the  dis- 
trict school  taught  by  Master  Burdict  and  Jo- 
seph Haynes  (who  was  later  a  mayor  of  the 
city  of  Newark),  in  the  old  brick  academy.  He 
also  received  instruction  from  Dominie  Chap- 
man, who  kept  a  private  school.  In  his  early 
manhood  he  learned  the  trade  of  printer  with 
Moses  Cummings,  and  followed  the  same  trade 
at  Yonkers,  New  York,  and  New  York  City, 
working  for  Horace  Greeley  on  the  Tribiuic. 
During  the  civil  war  he  was  for  a  time  a  cook 
in  the  army,  but  gave  this  up.  He  later  lived 
in  Union  avenue,  Irvington,  and  followed  the 
milk  business.  Later  he  moved  to  Stuyvesant 
avenue,  where  he  lived  two  years  and  then 
moved  back  to  LTnion  avenue.  Subsequently 
he  leased  the  old  McChesney  farm,  which  he 
conducted  a  year,  raising  milk.  About  1881 
he  bought  the  seven  acre  farm  known  as  the 
Richard  \^an  Riper  place.  By  his  thrift  and 
enterprise  he  added  to  his  lands,  and  ten  years 
later,  in  1891,  owned  twenty-two  acres.  He 
was  successful  in  business,  and  his  farm  com- 
pared favorably  with  the  best  in  the  vicinity. 
He  had  a  herd  of  thirty  to  thirty-five  head  of 
cattle  of  the  best  mixed  stock,  and  was  a  good 
judge  of  cattle,  no  man  being  more  particular 
than  he  was  in  buying,  and  the  best  results 
were  obtained  by  his  careful  selection.  He  be- 
lieved in  the  improved  methods  of  agriculture. 
In  habits  he  was  retired,  and  led  the  simple, 
honest  life,  industrious  and  frugal.  He  was  a 
constant  reader  of  Signs  of  the  Times  and  the 
Christian  //rru/rf.and  was  greatly  attached  to  his 
home  and  church.  He  was  a  member  with  his 
wife  of  the  First  Christian  Church,  serving  in 
various  church  offices.  He  was  strong  in  his  prin- 
ciples of  temperance,  and.  wdiile  reared  a  Dem- 
ocrat, in  later  years  was  a  Prohibitionist.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  was  overseer  of  the  high- 
ways. 

He  married,  December  4,  1890,  Caroline  \'ir- 
ginia  Melville,  born  July  15,  1847,  died  July  14, 


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STATE    Ol'     NEW  JERSEY. 


1899,  at  Irvington.  daughter  of  Samuel  .Mel- 
ville. Children:  1.  Edward  Fullings,  horn 
January  7,  1872,  died  I'ebruary  11.  1872.  2. 
Ida  \'incent.  born  January  4.  1873;  married 
(first)  September  6.  1894.  Horace  Greeley 
Owens,  and  had  Sidney  ]\Ierton.  born  May  7. 
1897.  She  married  (second)  I-"ebruar\- 4.  1904, 
I'Vank  Curtis  Sanford,  and  had  Leah  X'irginia. 
born  October  31.  1905.  3.  Marion  Mercellis, 
born  December  3.  1875.  died  January  22, 
1878.  4.  William  Melville,  born  December  7. 
1876.  mentioned  below.  5.  C.offe  Del'ue.  born 
September  20.  1878;  married.  October  9.  1902, 
Ella  Maud,  daughter  of  Daniel  B.  Hedden  :  son. 
F.arle  DePue,  born  June  30,  1903.  Goffe  D. 
Hedden  is  employed  at  the  Murphy  \'arnish 
Works,  Newark.  6.  Carrie  Wilbur,  born  Octo- 
ber 5,  1880;  married.  January  21,  ujoi.  Lyman 
Compton  Tingley  Jr. ;  children  :  Warren  Hed- 
den. born  November  27.  1901  :  Ralph  Wilkin- 
son, February  22,  1907:  Caroline  Loraine.  June 

9-  1909- 

(\T11)  William  Melville,  son  of  Charles 
Pitman  Hedden,  was  born  at  Irvington,  New 
Jersey.  December  7.  1876.  His  educational 
training  was  gained  in  the  central  public 
school  of  Irvington.  During  his  boyhood 
and  after  he  completed  his  schooling  he 
became  associated  with  his  father  in  the  milk 
business,  driving  the  milk  wagon  in  the  delivery 
of  milk.  By  his  strict  attention  to  all  the  de- 
tails of  business  the  son  soon  gained  his  father's 
confidence  as  to  his  business  ability,  and  the 
entire  management  of  the  concern  was  placed 
in  his  hands.  In  this  the  father  was  not  dis- 
appointed, for  the  business  was  well-cared  for 
and  was  made  to  yield  a  large  yearly  income. 
.At  his  father's  death  the  son  succeeded  him. 
Mr.  llcdden  enjoys  a  large  patronage  of  many 
of  the  foremost  families  of  Newark  and  Irving- 
ton, and  among  his  patrons  numbers  many  of 
liis  father's  original  customers. 

.•\t  the  time  of  his  father's  deatii  Mr.  Ilcd- 
(Icn  erected  a  handsome  residence  on  (Jrangc 
avenue,  on  part  of  the  estate,  which  he  admin- 
istered after  his  father's  death.  lie  is  a  man 
of  domestic  tastes  and  devotedly  attached  to 
liis  home.  He  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
the  First  Christian  Church  at  Irvington,  and 
take  an  active  interest  in  all  that  relates  to  it. 
Mrs.  Hedden  is  active  in  the  Ladies"  .\id  Soci- 
ety and  a  teacher  in  the  .Sunday  school.  She  is 
also  ]5resident  of  the  International  Sunshine 
Society.  In  politics  Mr.  Hedden  has  always 
manifested  a  Democratic  leaning,  following  in 
the  steps  of  his  stern,  staid  forefathers.  Of 
recent  vears,  however,  he  has  been  an  ardent 


sujjporter  of  Socialistic  jjrinciples,  and  belongs 
to  the  Irvington  branch  of  that  party.  He  was 
a  charter  member  of  the  Junior  Order  of 
Irvington  Council,  No.  167,  of  which  he  has 
acted  as  recording  secretary,  conductor  of  work, 
and  inside  sentinel.  He  was  formerly  a  di- 
rector of  the  Standard  Building  and  Loan 
.Association  of  Newark. 

He  married,  October  6,  1898,  Mabel  Moore 
Tingley,  born  October  6,  1877,  daughter  of 
Lyman  Compton  and  Hannah  F^rances  ( Wil- 
kinson )  Tingley.  Lyman  Compton  was  a 
jeweler  in  Newark,  and  served  in  the  Twenty- 
;i.\tli  Regiment  New  Jersey  X'olunteer  Militia 
in  the  civil  war.  One  child  :  Frances  Melville, 
born  December  29.  H)02. 


,' V  )  Caleb  Hedden.  son  of  jon- 
HEDDEN  athan  (q.  v.)  and  Phebe  (Can- 
field)  Hedden.  was  born  on  his 
father's  homestead  on  Main  street.  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  1761,  died  in  Grove  street,  June 
16,  1846.  He  inherited  part  of  his  father's 
.property,  but  later  removed  to  Grove  street 
and  bought  a  ]iortion  of  the  Canfield  property 
belonging  to  his  mother's  peoi)le.  This  thorough- 
fare was  known  as  old  W  hiskey  Lane,  made 
famous  by  the  events  enacted  while  the  British 
were  plundering  the  town.  Besides  farming, 
Caleb  Hedden  had  a  fine  pair  of  horses  with 
which  he  did  teaming.  He  contracted  to  cart 
the  stone  and  brick  with  which  to  build  the 
Third  Newark  Presbyterian  Church.  He  and 
his  wife  were  constant  in  their  church  attend- 
ance, being  members  in  full  communion  of  the 
Fir.st  Presbyterian  Church  of  Orange,  Their 
homestead  on  (irove  street  was  of  stone,  and 
built  before  revolutionary  days;  it  stood  until 
about  1823  when  their  son  Jotham  replaced  it 
with  a  modern  frame  structure  which  is  now 
standing  and  owned  by  a  Mr.  Osman,  who  re- 
moved it  twenty  feet  south  and  took  off  the 
north  and  south  wings  to  make  room  for  an- 
other building.  When  Caleb  Hedden  was  si.\- 
tecn  years  of  age  the  British  passed  through 
the  town,  and  it  was  at  this  time  that  he  en- 
listed in  the  cause  of  the  patriots.  He  was  in 
Captain  Nichols  comi)any.  Colonel  Phili])  \an 
Cortland's  Second  Essex  County  Regiment. 
How  long  he  served  is  not  obtainable,  but  he 
did  credit  to  his  country  and  his  family.  He 
died  at  an  old  age. 

He  married  Rhoda.  daughter  of  Judge  John 
and  Mary  (Harrison)  Peck,  of  Orange,  New 
Jersey.  She  died  September  29,  1832.  She 
was  a  very  superior  woman,  very  devout  and 
much  respected,  beloved  by  all  who  knew  her : 


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she  possessed  very  gentle  ways  and  a  most 
lovable  disposition.  (See  Peck).  Children:!. 
Mary,  born  August  21,  1798;  married  Caleb 
Jl.  Paterson  ;  children:  Hedden,  Rhoda,  Mary 
[ane,  Margaret,  Elizabeth.  Thomas,  Ellen, 
Sarah,  Henrietta.     2.  Rebecca,  burn  February 

1,  1800;  married  Henry  D.  Rowe ;  children: 
Lewis,  Mary  Ann,  Jane,  Henry,  George,  Eliza, 
Albert,  Emily.  3.  Jotham,  born  June  8,  1802, 
died  December  6,  1877;  married  Eliza  Jeffries; 
children  :    Mary  ;  Rhoda.  born  1828,  died  April 

2,  1895;  Emily;  Kate;  George  \\'..  born  1834. 
died  December  28,  1856;  Jotham  E.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1841.  died  April  5.  1899,  married 
Caroline  Ely:  Frank  M..  born  1844.  died 
March  13,  18S8;  Eliza.  4.  Lewis,  referred  to 
below.  3.  Eliza,  born  December  17,  1807; 
married  John  Orr ;  children:  Ann.  Caroline, 
Henry.  Jotham.  Sarah. 

( \  I )  Lewis,  son  of  Caleb  and  Rhoda  (  Peck  ) 
Hedden,  was  born  on  his  father's  homestead, 
on  Grove  street.  East  Orange,  Xew  Jersey,  Oc- 
tober 4,  1804,  died  ]\Iarch  12,  1872.  He  was 
reared  on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the 
usual  common  school  education  of  a  farmer's 
son  at  that  jieriod.  During  his  minority  he 
was  ap]3renticed  to  Lewis  Dodd  to  learn  the 
trade  of  shoemaker.  This  not  proving  bene- 
ficial to  his  health,  be  bought  his  time  of  Mr. 
Dodd  and  worked  with  his  brother  Jotham  at 
the  trade  of  mason,  which  he  learned  of  his 
brother.  This  became  his  chosen  calling,  and 
he  followed  it  with  success  and  profit  during 
the  major  part  of  his  life.  He  did  a  large  con- 
tract work  for  new  residents  who  moved  to 
the  Oranges  from  Xew  York  City  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  inrtux  of  outside  residents.  He 
made  a  sjiecialty  of  concrete  building  and  erect- 
ed the  first  concrete  residence  in  the  locality. 
Me  built  the  Aaron  Mitchell  house  on  (irove 
street,  and  two  concrete  houses  for  the  Fenner 
Brothers  at  South  Orange,  and  other  notable 
houses.  At  one  time  he  was  engaged  in  brick 
making  on  what  is  now  \\'illiams  street.  He 
inherited  his  share  of  his  father's  property, 
and  with  his  brother  Jotham  ow-ned  separate 
estates  on  Grove  street.  Lew'is  occupying  the 
west  side,  opposite  his  brother  Jotham.  To 
his  twelve  acres  Lewis  added,  and  at  his  death 
the  farm  comprised  some  twenty  acres.  He 
sold  milk  to  Mathias  Dodd.  a  dealer,  and  raised 
the  common  crops.  He  wa.s  industrious,  hon- 
t>t  an:l  frugal,  extremely  retired  in  his  habits 
and  manners.  He  was  deeply  religious  and  a 
devoted  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
P.rick  Church,  having  been  dismissed  from  the 
eld  First  Church,  where  at  the  age  of  fifteen 


he  was  admitted  in  full  cummuniun.  He  be- 
came deeply  interested  in  the  work  of  the 
church  and  became  one  of  its  pillars.  He  was 
devoted  to  his  family  and  friends,  and  was  the 
soul  of  honor  in  all  his  doings,  being  just  to  his 
neighbor  and  strictly  teiu])erate.  He  possessed 
a  rare  mechanical  ability.  He  was  one  of  the 
staunch  Whigs  of  his  town,  and  later  became 
a  Republican.  He  was  at  one  time  in  the 
Orange  military  organization.  He  married.  Jan- 
uary 4,  1828,  Mary  JefTries,  born  June  4,  1803, 
died  October  5,  1897,  daughter  of  Nicholas  and 
Mary  (Cocks)  Jeffries,  the  former  of  whom 
was  a  cooper  in  New  York  City.  Children:  i. 
Rev.  William,  referred  to  below.  2.  Harriet, 
born  September  22,  1832;  married,  September 
I.  1859.  William  Gilbert  Boyce.  3.  Thomas 
Jeffries,  born  October  zt,.  1834.  died  I-'ebruary 

(  \  n  )  Rev.  W  illiam,  son  of  Lewis  and  Mary 
(Jeffries)  Hedden,  was  born  on  his  father's 
homestead,  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  November 
6.  1828.  His  early  elementary  educational  train- 
ing was  limited  to  the  village  select  schools,  and 
while  attending  Dr.  Week's  school,  at  sixteen 
years  of  age,  he  was  brought  into  especially  good 
companionship  and  under  christian  influences, 
and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  took  a  decided 
stand  for  His  Master.  His  parents  were  among 
the  consistent  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  but  he  was  baptized  by  Rev.  L  M. 
Church,  and  became  a  member  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church  of  Orange,  which  he  afterward 
served  as  pastor  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
P'eeling  called  to  the  ministry,  he  entered  Madi- 
son L'niversity  at  Hamilton,  New  York,  in 
1847.  and  left  in  June  1850.  He  came  to 
Rochester  with  the  first  class  of  the  L'niversity 
of  Rochester,  which  class  was  practically  the 
establishment  of  the  college,  from  which  insti- 
tution in  1 85 1  he  graduated,  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  A.  B.,  and  that  of  M.  A.  in  1834.  In  1870 
received  D.  D.  degree  at  Columbian  Llniver- 
sity,  W^ashington,  D.  C.  Immediately  after  his 
graduation  he  returned  to  the  home  of  his 
nativity  to  spend  the  summer.  His  first  pas- 
torate was  at  Meridian.  Cayuga  county,  New 
York,  where  he  commenced  his  labors  and 
was  ordained  in  October.  1853.  Here  he  dili- 
gently and  successfully  labored.  He  returned 
to  his  old  home  in  C)range  and  w-as  made 
pastor  May  13.  1835.  and  continued  until  June 
22.  1836.  and  in  October,  1837,  an  invitation 
was  extended  to  Rev.  W^illiam  B.  Matchett. 
but  not  being  regularly  ordained  as  a  Baptist 
minister  he  retired  in  1838  and  ]\rr.  Hedden 
was  recalled  and  continued  as  pastor  without 


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intermission  until  February  I,  1882.  During 
this  time  the  church  grew  in  numbers  and  intlu- 
ence,  although  it  passed  through  periods  of 
financial  depression  and  discouragement.  The 
winter  of  1875-76  was  an  eventful  period  in 
the  history  of  the  church  under  ^Ir.  Hedden. 
A  great  revival  took  place  at  that  time  which 
resulted  in  a  large  addition  to  the  church  mem- 
bership. In  1880  the  number  of  active  mem- 
bers as  shown  by  the  church  rolls  was  one 
hundred  and  seventy-three.  In  1881  the  new 
church  building  was  started  and  the  corner- 
stone laid  by  the  wife  of  Dr.  Hedden. 

Dr.  Hedden's  great  faith,  patience  and  perse- 
verance, as  well  as  his  ability  and  diligence  in 
pastoral  work  and  preaching,  were  demanded 
and  called  forth  in  sustaining  and  fleveloping 
the  weak  band  under  the  overshadowing  influ- 
ence of  Presbyterianism,  while  a  flood  of  Bap- 
tists swept  by  it  or  from  it  to  newer  churches. 
On  February  i,  1882,  Dr.  Hedden  resigned  his 
pastorate,  and  on  March  2gth  preached  his 
farewell  sermon  and  left  a  united  church, 
financially  and  spiritually  strong.  On  the  fol- 
lowing May  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  his 
pastorate  was  celebrated  in  a  manner  befitting 
the  occasion,  and  at  the  same  time  a  floating 
debt  of  si.x  hundred  dollars  was  lifted.  The 
following  year  he  rested  from  his  labors,  and 
in  February,  1883,  took  the  pastorate  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Peekskill,  New  York. 
Here  he  labored  zealously  for  seven  years  until 
April,  1890,  when  from  failing  health  he  was 
compelled  to  resign.  The  church,  hoping  that 
God  in  His  providence  might  see  fit  to  spare 
him  to  them,  delayed  accepting  his  resignation 
till  the  need  of  another  pastor  compelled  them 
to  accept  his  resignation,  oflfered  again  to  take 
elifect  June  i,  1890.  He  labored  earnestly  for 
this  church,  and  in  building  it  up  spiritually  he 
increased  its  material  prosperity.  Debts  and 
interest  vanished  together  before  his  earnest-, 
ness,  determination  and  simjjle  trust  in  God. 
Finding  them  in  debt  and  discouraged,  he  left 
them  freed  from  all  financial  burdens,  a  ready, 
united  and  enthusiastic  people  for  the  cause  of 
Christ.  Having  removed  to  his  Orange  home 
tlie  last  day  of  h'ebruary,  1890,  he  there 
lingered  until  December  24  of  that  year,  when 
he  died  among  those  who  loved  him  best.  The 
last  years  of  his  life  were  years  of  acute  suffer- 
ing, but  his  strong  will  and  intense  earnestness 
enabled  him  to  go  about  his  duties  until  com- 
pelled to  give  up. 

I  lis  fine  poetic  sense  and  love  of  the  beauti- 
ful brought  to  him  many  cherished  and  lovable 
thoughts,  and  what  he  said  and  did  were  in 


accordance  with  the  true  christian  spirit  of  the 
inner  man.  His  love  of  literature  made  him  a 
deep  student,  and  he  was  an  adept  with  his  pen. 
He  was  the  author  of  "Sunshine  Among  the 
Clouds,"  a  truly  spiritual  uplift,  a  story  of 
christian  faith  bringing  forth  the  fruits  of 
righteousness  under  most  trying  ordeals.  .An- 
other of  his  books  was  "Bridal  Days."  Dr. 
Hedden  was  a  loving  and  lovable  man.  His 
love  to  his  friends  was  like  that  of  Jonathan 
to  David,  self-sacrificing  and  enduring.  While 
a  wise  and  judicious  parent,  he  was  a  most 
affectionate  father  and  husband.  Such  was 
his  love  for  his  brethren  in  the  ministry,  that 
the  churches  he  served  never  heard  him  speak 
evil  of  any  of  them.  If  called  upon  to  rebuke 
an  error  or  sin,  he  did  it  in  such  a  loving  spirit 
and  manner  as  to  quite  surely  win  back  the 
sinner ;  as  he  was  so  gentle,  affectionate  and 
considerate  towards  them  they  could  not  be 
jealous  of  or  bitterly  criticize  him,  but  were 
con.strained  to  love  him  in  return.  No  one 
was  more  beloved  by  his  ministerial  acquaint- 
ances. The  following  was  said  by  the  Meth- 
odist divine  of  Peekskill:  "Mr.  Hedden  was 
a  Baptist,  but  he  did  not  belong  to  them.  He 
belonged  to  humanity,  for  their  sorrow  was 
his  sorrow."  He  was  a  peacemaker  in  his 
Lord's  vineyard.  Discord  and  angry  strife 
could  scarcely  e.xist  in  his  loving  presence,  and 
when  the  sea  of  passion  was  deeply  stirred  and 
threw  up  mire  and  dirt,  his  wise  and  gentle 
councils  were  generally  as  oil  on  the  raging 
billows.  .\s  a  pastor  and  preacher  he  was 
drawing  and  winning,  not  to  himself — he  was 
too  modest  and  unassuming — but  to  Christ  and 
holiness.  While  he  was  sometimes  scholarly, 
literary  and  even  poetical,  his  sermons  were 
remarkable  for  their  winning  and  attractive 
representations  of  Christ.  It  was  his  holding 
up  his  Master  in  his  sermons  and  his  daily  life 
that  drew  men  to  Christ  and  from  sin  to  holi- 
ness. He  was  steadfast,  persevering  and  faith- 
ful to  his  high  calling  to  the  end.  \\'hen  others 
fainted  or  grew  weary  he,  trusting  in  the  Lord 
and  his  brethren,  held  on  mitil  the  end.  He 
built  slowly  and  substantially. 

He  married,  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  August 
3,  1853,  Rachel  Hatt,  born  at  Redding,  Berk- 
shire county,  England,  November  5,  1828. 
daughter  of  Joel  and  Rachel  (Wells)  Hatt. 
Joel  Hatt.  eldest  son  of  John  and  .\nn  (Church") 
Hatt.  was  born  at  Redding,  Berkshire  county, 
England.  He  was  engaged  in  the  boot  and 
shoemaking  business  in  New  York  City  and 
East  Orange,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Orange,  as  were 


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also  his  father  and  brother.  John  Hatt,  father 
of  Joel  Hatt,  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1831 
and  settled  at  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and 
became  the  first  deacon  of  the  new  First  Bap- 
tist Church,  and  during  the  tirst  two  or  three 
years  frequently  supplied  the  pulpit,  having 
been  regularly  licensed  a  Baptist  preacher  in 
the  old  country.  He  became  a  man  of  great 
influence  in  the  community.  Of  his  grand- 
daughter. Rachel  (Hatt)  Hedden,  may  be  truly 
said:  "Slie  openeth  her  mouth  with  wisdom 
and  in  her  tongue  is  the  law  of  kindness.  She 
iooketh  well  to  the  ways  of  her  household,  and 
eateth  not  the  bread  of  idleness.  Her  children 
arise  up  and  called  her  blessed ;  her  husband 
also  praiseth  her."  At  the  age  of  fourteen  she 
became  teacher  of  the  infant  class  in  the  Sun- 
day school  of  the  church  of  which  Rev.  William 
Hedden  was  pastor :  the  Sunday  school  was 
organized  in  1837.  As  a  teacher,  and  later  as 
the  life  companion  of  Dr.  Hedden,  she  was  one 
of  the  most  efficient  helpers  and  godly  sup- 
porters the  church  ever  had.  Children:  i. 
Harriet  Isabelle,  born  March  31,  1S55,  died 
April  5,  1892;  married  Lewis  Adam  Aloring- 
stern  ;  children :  Charles  Gurney,  born  Janu- 
ary 27,  1877;  Rachel,  January  16,  1879:  Anna 
Belle,  April  2,  1889.  2.  William  Gurney.  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(\'HI)  William  Gurney,  son  of  Rev.  Dr. 
William  and  Rachel  (  Hatt)  Hedden,  was  born 
on  Maple  avenue,  south  of  New  street.  East 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  January  22,  1858.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
up  to  seventeen  years  of  age,  subsequently 
entering  the  employ  of  Colgate  &  Comjjany, 
New  York  City,  where  he  was  a  clerk  for  a 
year.  In  1885  he  was  engaged  in  important 
work,  and  later  for  a  time  was  in  the  employ 
of  Ford,  Howard  &  Hurburt,  of  New  York, 
in  the  sale  of  their  "Lights  of  History,"  a 
popular  publication  at  that  time.  In  1888  he 
entered  into  a  fire  and  life  insurance  business 
on  his  own  behalf,  but  made  a  specialty  of  fire 
insurance.  Mr.  Hedden  has  been  eminently 
successful  as  agent  for  many  of  the  most  repre- 
sentative companies,  and  enjoys  a  large  trade 
in  East  Orange  and  vicinity.  He  is  the  local 
representative  of  the  Liverpool,  London  and 
Globe  Continental  of  New  York  City,  Com- 
mercial Union  of  London,  and  National  Fire 
Insurance  Company  of  Hartford,  Connecticut. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  of  the  true  type. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  of 
East  Orange,  having  been  admitted  in  full 
communion  when  twelve  years  of  age  in  No- 


vember, 1870.  For  seven  years  he  was  a  meiu- 
ber  of  the  Peekskill  Baptist  Church,  but  May 
17,  1883,  became  affiliated  with  his  fonuer 
church  at  liast  Orange.  Mr.  Hedden  is  un- 
married. 

(The    Peck    Line). 

The  name  Pek,  Peck,  Pecke,  Peke,  P'eak,  or 
Peake  are  supposed  to  have  been  originally 
the  same.  During  a  portion  of  the  fifteenth 
century  many  by  the  name  added  the  "e"  to 
their  names,  but  to-day  this  is  extinct.  The 
name  is  of  very  ancient  origin  and  great  an- 
tiquity, found  seated  in  England,  Belton,  York- 
shire, at  a  very  early  date.  The  arms  found  in 
the  British  Museum,  with  the  pedigree  certified 
to  by  the  heralds,  are  as  follows :  Arms  :  argent, 
on  a  chevron,  engrailed  gules,  three  crosses 
fornice,  of  the  first.  Crest :  a  cubit  arm  erect 
habited  azure,  cuiif  argent,  hand  proper,  hold- 
ing on  one  stalk  enfiled  with  a  scroll,  three 
roses  gules  leaves  vert. 

(V)  Judge  John,  third  son  of  Jose]ih  13) 
(  q.  V. )  and  Jemima  (  Linsley  )  Peck,  was  born  in 
that  part  of  Newark  now  known  as  EastOrange, 
1732.  died  there  December  28,  181 1.  The  old 
homestead  where  he  lived  was  built  of  stone, 
and  stood  on  the  southeast  corner  of  what  is 
now  Main  street  and  Maple  avenue.  This  was 
torn  down  in  181 3  and  a  part  of  the  stone  used 
in  the  construction  of  the  F'irst  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  was  an  active  and  uncompromis- 
ing patriot  in  the  revolution.  "On  December 
7,  1774,  he  was  one  of  twenty-three  representa- 
tive citizens  chosen  as  a  'committee  of  observa- 
tion' for  the  town  of  Newark  to  watch  and  re- 
port any  inhabitant  of  the  colony  found  to  be 
disloyal  to  the  congress,  so  that  he  be  held  up 
to  public  notice  as  unfriendly  to  the  liberties 
of  his  country,  and  all  dealings  with  him  or  her 
be  thenceforward  forever  broken  off."  John 
Peck  was  conspicuous  in  all  local  events  that 
preceded  the  revolution,  and  when  afterwards 
the  British  army  was  encamped  in  the  locality, 
he  made  himself  especially  obnoxious  to  them 
and  was  frecjuently  obliged  to  flee  to  the  moun- 
tains to  escape  their  vengeance.  After  the 
close  of  the  war  he  became  judge  of  the  court 
of  common  pleas,  and  although  unlettered  he 
was  a  man  of  good  judgment  and  sound  com- 
mon sense  but  rather  eccentric.  He  was  ex- 
tremely lenient  towards  his  old  neighbors  who, 
because  of  their  adherence  to  the  crown  during 
the  war  were  obliged  to  flee  to  Nova  Scotia, 
and  who  after  the  war  desired  to  return  to 
take  advantage  of  the  act  of  the  New  Jersey 
legislature  ])assed  June  5,  1777,  and  it  is  said 


iiy, 


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tliat  lie  sdHictiincs  strctcheil  a  point  t<i  assist 
tlicin  in  saving  their  property  from  confisca- 
tion, lie  was  elected  an  elder  of  the  First 
I'resbyterian  Church  in  1784.  Judge  Peck's 
house  was  the  first  house  west  of  Great 
Meadow  IJrook.  This  old  stone  house  faced 
the  east  and  was  under  the  hill  end  towards 
the  road.  It  was  attacked  by  a  company  of 
British  soldiers ;  a  shot  was  fired  through  the 
house,  killing  a  woman,  one  of  the  ])arty  of  the 
Ilritish  who  had  just  stejipcd  into  the  room, 
loseph.  a  son  of  Judge  I'eck,  was  struck  by 
the  butt  of  a  luusket  in  the  skirmish,  and  his 
jaw  broken  and  teeth  knocked  out.  1  le  ran  to 
the  to])  of  the  hill  and  shouted,  "Come  on,  boys, 
we  can  take  them  now."  Scared  by  this  arti- 
fice, the  enemy  (led,  leaving  the  dead  body  of 
the  woman.  Judge  Peck  was  always  a  lead- 
ing man.  He  served  as  captain  of  the  militia 
and  was  an  assemblyman. 

He  married  (first)  January  26,  1757,  Eliza- 
beth Dodd,  born  1737,  died  1761,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  ( f.ampson )  Dodd.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Joseph,  born  November  27,  1758; 
married  Mary  Hedden;  children:  Phebe,  Bet- 
sey, Lydia,  Mary  Ann,  Aaron,  Sarah,  Fanny, 
Deborah.  2.  Stephen,  born  1760;  father  of 
Deacon  Peter  Peck,  of  South  Orange.  Judge 
John  lledden  married  (second)  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Joscjih  and  Martha  (Sargent)  llarrison. 
Children:  3.  Rhoda,  died  September  2(>,  1832; 
married  Caleb  Hedden ;  chiUlren :  i.  Mary. 
born  August  21,  1798;  ii.  Rebecca,  February 
I,  1800;  iii.  Jotham,  born  June  18,  1802,  died 
December  6,  1877;  iv.  Lewis,  born  October  4. 
1804;  V.  Eliza,  December  17,  1807.  4.  P.etsey, 
married  Ezekiel  Pjall.  5.  Sarah,  married  Ste- 
|)lien  lledden.  6.  .\aron,  born  1771:  married 
I'.sther  Canfield  :  children :  Lewis  and  Nancy. 
7.  Ji)hn,  born  November  28,  1773:  married 
Phebe  Matthews;  children:  i.  Mary,  born 
1795;  ii.  Stephen  M.,  1801  ;  iii.  John,  1803:  iv. 
Nancy,  1808;  v.  Lydia,  1811;  vi.  Phebe  M., 
1815.     8.  Jared,  killed  in  revolutionary  army. 


(V)  Jotham  lledden,  sou  of 
HEDDEN  Jonathan  Hedden  (q.  v.),  was 
born  in  that  part  of  Newark 
now  East  Orange.  1769  (about),  and  died 
Octol)cr  12,  1803.  He  was  a  farmer  in  that 
]jart  of  East  Orange  in  the  vicinity  of  North 
(irave  street,  then  known  as  Whiskey  Lane. 
I>esides  the  occupation  of  farming  he  did 
shoemaking,  as  was  the  custom  in  those  days. 
He  was  a  man  of  prominence  in  his  commu- 
nitv.  served  his  town  as  constable  for  a  short 
period,  and  was  ])romiuent  in  the  h'irst  Churcli. 


he  and  his  wife  .Mary  being  members.  Aaron 
Peck  and  Miranda  I'eck  for  £100  sell  to  Jo- 
tham lledden  a  tract  of  land  on  the  north  side 
of  Newark  and  Mt.  Pleasant  turnjiike.  west  of 
Whiskey  Lane,  boimded  by  lands  of  Daniel 
Munn,  Henry  ISall  and  John  Orr,  together 
with  houses,  buildings,  trees,  ways,  waters, 
profits,  privileges  and  advantages.  Jotham  and 
Mary  Hedden,  March  15,  1802,  for  $1,000  sell 
to  .\lexander  Dean,  of  Orange,  parcel  of  land 
bounded  by  land  of  Isaac  Jones  on  north  side 
of  main  road  from  Orange  to  Newark  and 
northwesterly  by  land  of  Silas  Condit  and 
southerly  by  roadway,  containmg  —  acres, 
also  all  estate  rights  (Abial  and  Caleb  Hedden, 
witnesses).  Jotham  Hedden  and  John  Peck 
were  witnesses  to  a  deed  from  Daniel  lledden 
and  wife  to  Jabez  Giger  for  £170,  a  certain 
tract  of  land  which  Joseph  Hedden  (deceased) 
left  to  the  heirs  of  Jonathan  Hedden,  eight 
acres,  bounded  west  by  lands  of  Simon  Hed- 
ilen  and  Joseph  Rogers,  easterly  by  Abial  Can- 
field  and  David  Hedden's  lands.  Application 
made  to  the  court  by  Cyrus  Jones,  one  of  the 
administrators  of  all  and  singular  the  gtjods, 
chattels,  rights  and  credits  which  were  of  Jo- 
tham Hedden  for  the  order  of  the  court  on 
Daniel  Hedden  to  administration  with  said 
Cyrus  Jones  which  have  come  into  the  hands 
of  said  Daniel  lledden,  said  Daniel  to  give 
separate  security.  Jotham  Hedden's  debts  ex- 
ceeded his  personal  pro])erty  and  the  court 
order  his  real  estate  be  sold  to  pay  his  just 
debts.  On  full  examination  the  court  do  find 
that  the  |)ersonal  estate  of  the  said  deceased  is 
insufficient  to  ])ay  his  said  debts.  Therefore 
the  court  do  order  and  direct  the  said  adminis- 
trators to  sell  six  acres  of  land  situate  in  the 
townshi])  of  Newark,  boiuided  east  by  land  of 
Caleb  lledden,  west  by  Abial  Hedden.  .soutii 
by  lands  of  Joseph  Munn  Sr.,  and  north  l)y 
land  of  said  estate  of  Jotham  Hedden. 

He  married,  1795,  Mary  Jones,  born  at 
Orange.  New  Jersey,  June  4,  1774,  baptized 
bv  Rev.  Jedcdiah  Cha|)man.  in  the  old  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  November  30,  1774. 
Mary  (Jones)  Hedden  died  October  28,  1827. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Jo- 
anna (Harrison)  Jones,  of  Orange.  Joanna 
Jones  entered  into  covenant  with  the  "Moun- 
tain Society"  October  16,  1774.  The  home- 
stead of  the  Jones  family  occupied  the  sjjot  on 
which  stood  the  residence  of  Dr.  Duffield, 
corner  of  Alain  street  and  Munn  avenue.  East 
Orange.  Mary  (Jones)  Lledden  and  Cyrus 
I  ones,  her  brother,  were  born  on  the  place. 
Tiiis   house   was   left   to  his   two  eldest  sons, 


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Samuel  and  Cyrus :  Samuel  sold  his  interest 
to  Cyrus  and  moved  to  New  York  state.  He 
is  described  as  a  handsome,  dignified  old 
gentleman.  His  farm  extended  from  oppo- 
site William  Peck's  to  Pluck  Lane,  now  Ar- 
lington avenue.  Cornelius  Jones  was  a  very 
active  man  in  the  comnumity,  and  espoused 
the  cause  of  the  patriots.  It  is  related  that  he 
was  obliged  to  flee  with  his  family  to  the 
mountain  to  escape  the  raid  of  the  Hessians 
who  were  terrifying  the  community.  His  fam- 
ily took  with  them  all  their  silver  plate  and 
money  together  with  enough  provision  to  last 
several  days.  The  cattle  were  turned  loose  to 
shift  for  themselves.  Upon  returning  after 
the  raid  they  were  pleased  to  find  that  the 
house  and  barn  were  not  burned,  though  the 
Hessians  plundered  the  house  and  confiscated 
the  cattle  and  hogs.  After  their  return  a 
skirmish  occurred  a  little  east  of  the  home- 
stead, which  terminated  in  the  capture  of  Cor- 
nelius Jones  and  his  nephew,  Moses  Jones, 
both  being  taken  to  Newark  as  prisoners  but 
released  the  following  day.  Cornelius  Jones 
served  in  the  army,  a  private  in  Captain  Henry 
Squire's  company,  Colonel  Philip  Van  Cort- 
land's Second  Essex  County  Regiment.  He 
was  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Morris) 
Jones.  Samuel  was  son  of  Joseph  and  Han- 
nah Jones.  Joseph  was  son  of  John  Jones, 
the  ancestor,  who  came  from  Wales,  and  may 
have  been  the  father  of  Jane  Jones  Hedden, 
wife  of  Edward  Hedden,  the  Newark  ances- 
tor. Children  of  Jotham  and  Mary  (Jones) 
Hedden:  Israel,  mentioned  below;  Nancy, 
born  July  i8,  1797,  died  October  31.  1816; 
Albert,  born  January  4,  1801.  mentioned  below. 
(\'I)  Israel,  son  of  Jotham  Hedden,  was 
born  on  his  father's  homestead  in  that  part  of 
Newark  now  East  Orange,  New  Jersey 
Mlrove  street).  May  i,  1796,  died  at  Orange, 
Cjctober  10,  1825.  He  attended  the  nearby 
district  school,  and  during  his  minority  was 
apprenticed  to  his  uncle,  Cyrus  Jones  (who 
lived  to  be  ninety-nine  years  of  age),  to  learn 
hat  making.  In  1790  Mr.  Jones  set  up  in  busi- 
ness on  a  lot  bought  of  Benjamin  Munn  on  the 
west  side  of  Main  street  at  the  East  Orange 
Junction.  It  was  here  that  Israel  Hedden 
learned  his  trade.  He  set  up  as  a  hatter  in 
Orange,  and  his  shop  was  about  on  the  site 
which  in  1884  was  occupied  by  Eckert's  paint 
shop,  near  "Willow  Hall,"  in  the  vicinity  of 
Main  and  Park  streets.  He  could  not  have 
remained  in  business  any  great  length  of  time, 
as  his  death  occurred  in  1825,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine  years,  of  consumption,  which  he 

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C(-)ntracted  while  serving  in  the  war  of  1812. 
His  residence  in  Orange  was  for  a  time  in  the 
old  First  Presbyterian  parsonage,  next  the 
present  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
Iniilding,  where  Charles  I.  Hedden  was  born. 
He  erected  a  homestead  on  Main  street,  di- 
rectly opposite  the  present  Park  Hotel,  where 
he  died.  He  served  in  the  war  of  1812  at 
Staten  Island.  December  20,  1823,  Albert 
Hedden,  brother  of  Israel,  and  Abby,  his  wife, 
for  $150,  quitclaimed  to  Israel  Hedden  three 
acres,  all  right,  title,  iStc,  to  a  certain  tract  of 
land  formerly  belonging  to  Jotham  Hedden, 
between  the  township  of  Newark  and  C)range, 
beginning  near  the  shop  of  Abial  Hedden  cm 
south  side  of  Newark  and  Mt.  Pleasant  Turn- 
pike. The  will  of  Israel  Hedden  was  dated 
October  4,  1825.  His  wife  Maria  was  to  have 
one-third,  and  "the  balance  between  my  chil- 
dren now  living.  Mary  J.  and  Charles  I.,  and 
such  child  or  children  which  may  be  born  to 
me  after  my  decease."  Samuel  W.  Tichenor, 
Jotham  Hedden  Jr.  and  William  Pierson,  exec- 
utors, they  also  to  be  proper  guardians  of  chil- 
dren during  their  minority.  The  inventory  of 
his  goods  and  chattels  amounted  to  ^i.SS7-75- 
Among  some  of  the  articles  mentioned  are  the 
following :  Surtout  coat,  great  coats,  one  light 
body  coat,  English  watch,  saddle  skirts,  one 
carpenter's  work  bench,  two  hives  of  bees, 
wheat  in  the  barn,  one  leg  tub,  buck  saw  and 
buck.  He  married,  March  17,  1821,  Maria 
Stiles,  born  October  27.  1798,  died  October  8, 
1830.  Children:  i.  Mary  Josephine,  born 
March  2,  1822,  died  April  6,  1841.  2.  Charles 
Israel,  born  C)ctober  i,  1823,  mentioned  below. 
3.  Maria  Augusta,  born  November  17,  1825; 
married,  February  23,  1848,  Oliver  Bidwell. 
The  family  lived  at  Decatur,  Georgia. 

( VI )  Albert  Hedden,  son  of  Jotham  and 
Mary  (Jones)  Hedden,  was  born  on  the  Jo- 
tham Hedden  homestead  at  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  which  was  situated  near  what  was 
then  "Cjreat  Meadow  Eirook"  and  not  far  from 
his  father's,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  present  liiir- 
net  street,  January  4,  1801.  He  attended  the 
select  schools  taught  by  private  masters,  as 
was  the  custom  in  those  days.  He  early  learn- 
ed the  trade  of  carpenter  or  joiner,  and  doubt- 
less served  his  time.  His  early  life  was  passed 
in  Orange  and  Newark,  and  here  learned  the 
trade  of  pattern  maker.  He  subse(|ucntlv  re- 
moved to  Jersey  City,  where  he  followed  his 
trade  and  was  employed  in  the  Erie  railroad 
shops  until  1852,  when  he  removed  his  family 
to  Su.squehanna,  Pennsylvania,  to  accejit  a 
position    with   the    Erie    railroad    locomotive 


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wiiiks.  taking  charge  <_if  their  i)attcrn  roum. 
lie  held  this  position  until  his  death.  May  20, 
1870.  I'"roni  one  who  knew  him  it  is  said  he 
fdled  this  position  with  honor  to  himself  and 
to  his  company,  and  was  known  for  his  fair- 
ness with  those  under  his  charge.  He  was  a 
man  of  exactness  and  a  good  mechanic,  and 
stood  in  high  esteem  hy  all  who  knew  him. 

Jle  married,  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1822,  Abby  Young  I-'aulkner,  born 
at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  9,  1800, 
died  at  Sus(|uehanna.  Pennsylvania,  .August 
10,  1874,  daughter  of  Peter  and  .\bby  (  Young) 
Faulkner.  Children:  i.  Abby  .\nn,  born  .Au- 
gust 2,  1823.  died  .April  17,  1889:  married, 
April  9,  1848,  Samuel  Falkenberg:  children: 
i.  Mary  Emma,  born  May  14,  1849;  married, 
September  28,  1870,  Myron  Benjamin  Wright, 
born  June  12.  1847,  died  November  14,  1894; 
children:  Sarah  Emma,  born  .August  17,  1872, 
died  .August  6.  1874:  Albert  Frederick,  born 
June  10,  1876.  died  November  14,  1894:  Clar- 
ence Edgerton,  born  April  10,  1882;  Chester 
Samuel,  born  August  21,  1887,  died  August  29, 
1888;  ii.  Albert  Hedden,  born  December  24, 
1830;  iii.  Clara  Eliza,  born  September  10. 
1855.  2.  Frances  Caroline,  born  1825,  died 
March,  1850. 

(\'II)  Charles  Israel,  son  of  Israel  Hedden, 
was  born  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  October  i, 
1823,  died  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  on  Thir- 
teenth avenue,  January  7,  1903.  After  the 
death  of  his  father  in  1825,  he  was  brought 
U]j  by  his  uncle.  Job  Williams,  of  Orange.  His 
elementary  educational  training  was  limited  to 
the  district  school,  working  out  as  a  boy.  When 
yet  a  lad  he  went  to  Ohio,  remaining  for  a 
time,  living  with  his  grandfather  Stiles.  It  was 
during  his  stay  here  that  he  was  injured  by 
the  fall  of  a  tree,  causing  a  broken  leg  which 
rendered  him  lame  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  subsequently  went  to  Cayuga  county. 
New  A'ork,  with  his  grandfather,  where  he 
worked  on  the  farm  for  a  short  period,  eventu- 
ally returning  to  the  town  of  his  nativity,  where 
he  was  apprenticed  to  his  uncle,  Job  \Villiams, 
to  learn  the  art  of  hat  making  until  he  was  of 
age.  Tie  then  was  employed  as  a  journeyman 
for  various  concerns,  one  of  whom  was  Mar- 
shall Smith's,  with  whom  he  resided.  In  1856 
he  established  himself  in  the  manufacture  of 
hats  in  a  factory  that  he  later  owned.  This 
was  a  s])acious  wooden  structure  about  one 
hundred  and  fifty  by  one  hundred  and  fifty  in 
dimensions,  on  Williams  street,  adjacent  to  Par- 
row  P.rook.  He  was  the  pioneer  in  Orange  to 
introduce  a  steam  boiler  and  a  set  of  pouncing 


machines  in  his  factory.  He  was  alsii  the  first 
nian  who  took  the  refuse  hat  roundings  and 
rcpicked  them  into  hat  fur  stock,  the  process 
being  done  by  Robert  Slater,  of  Pompton. 
I'Vom  that  time  to  the  present  every  part  of 
waste  hat  stock  has  been  converted  into  new 
stock  and  utilized.  Air.  Hedden  was  during 
I'lis  business  at  Orange  a  heavy  buyer  of  fur 
from  Stei)hen  Brown  and  .Martin  Bates,  of 
New  York.  During  the  civil  war  Mr.  Hedden 
became  embarrassed  financially,  but  made  an 
honorable  settlement  and  later  formed  the  firm 
of  John  M.  Myers  &  Company,  which  con- 
tinued u])  to  1868,  when  they  disolved.  Mr. 
Hedden  removed  with  his  family  to  Ridgway, 
Warren  county.  North  Carolina,  where  he  pur- 
chased fifteen  hundred  acres  of  plantation  from 
the  Solomon  Green  estate,  Solomon  Green 
having  been  a  revolutionary  ])atriot.  With 
the  cultivation  of  tobacco  and  grain  the  ])lanta- 
tion  was  made  to  yield  a  hand.some  yearly  in- 
come. In  1870  Mr.  Hedden  was  deprived  of 
his  helpmate,  his  wife,  by  death.  He  remain- 
ed in  North  Carolina  until  1872,  when  the  fam- 
ily removed  north,  the  children  going  to  Hay- 
denville,  Alassachusetts,  where  they  resided 
for  a  time.  Mr.  Hedden  returned  to  Newark, 
.\ew  Jersey,  and  subsequently  went  to  Te.xas 
with  his  eldest  son  for  the  purpose  of  starting 
a  sheep  ranch.  He  returned  after  a  short  stay, 
and  for  a  time  was  engaged  in  the  provision 
business  at  Washington  Market,  New  York. 
He  subsequently  entered  into  the  hat  manu- 
facturing business  with  Philip  Hogan  at  P.elle- 
ville.  New  Jersey,  the  partners  remaining  to- 
gether about  a  year.  His  family  removed  from 
Haydcnville  to  Newark,  and  about  this  time 
Mr.  Hedden  formed  the  firm  of  W.  Ij.  Huey 
iJv;  Company,  consisting  of  Mr.  Hedden,  Wilbur 

B.  Huey  and  Clarence  M.  Hedden,  with  <|uar- 
tcrs  on  .Adams  street,  later  (1877)  removing 
to  204-208  .Academy  street,  in  the  old  John 
II.  Case  baby  carriage  factory.  After  a  time 
the  partners  dissolved,  when  the  new  firm  of 

C.  Af.  Hedden  &  Company  was  formed  and 
continued  the  business  in  the  same  (|uarters 
(^n  .Academy  street  until  December,  1883.  when 
they  erected  a  larger  and  more  commodious 
factory  on  Thirteenth  avenue  and  occupied  it 
in  April,  1884.  Mr.  Hedden  by  his  skill  and 
enterprise  became  one  of  the  leading  and  larg- 
est manufacturers  of  his  day.  The  firm  at 
that  time  employed  ujnvard  of  two  hundred 
jiersons,  with  a  daily  output  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  dozen  fur  hats,  their  trade  ex- 
tending not  only  in  the  United  States  but 
in    South    .America    and    the    islands    of    the 


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sea.  Mr.  Iledden  remained  the  active  head  of 
the  firm  until  the  time  of  his  death,  and  was 
counted  one  of  the  successful  factors  in  the  hat 
industry.  As  a  man  Mr.  Hedden  had  many 
e.\cellent  (jualities  both  of  head  and  lieart.  He 
was  an  earnest  lover  of  truth  and  spoke  his 
thoughts  ]ilainly.  He  was  highly  respected, 
honorable  in  his  dealings,  and  while  endowed 
M-ith  many  kindly  virtues  was  a  man  of  unre- 
lenting principles,  firm  in  his  convictions  and 
unc(.impromising.  He  was  appalled  by  no  ob- 
stacles, and  overcame  all  that  lay  in  his  path. 
His  industry  and  business  push  was  remark- 
able. He  was  a  thorough  exponent  of  the 
cause  of  temperance,  never  having  been  known 
to  use  intoxicating  liquors,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  old  Temple  of  Honor,  the  leading  tem- 
perance organization  of  his  day.  In  religion 
lie  was  a  staid  Presbyterian,  and  retained  his 
membership  in  the  old  First  Presbyterian 
Church  at  Orange,  although  he  was  a  constant 
attendant  of  the  Wickliff  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Newark.  In  early  political  days  Mr.  Hed- 
den was  an  ardent  Whig,  but  on  the  formation 
of  the  Republican  party  in  1856  became  affili- 
ated with  it  and  adhered  to  its  princi])les  dur- 
ing life.  He  was  one  of  the  strongest  abvoli- 
tionists  of  his  day,  and  it  is  said  was  in  league 
with  the  "Underground  railway,"  a  society  for 
the  helping  of  escaped  slaves.  He  was  one  of 
the  freeholders  of  Essex  county  and  a  member 
oi  the  grand  jury.  He  was  a  close  personal 
friend  of  Horace  Greeley  and  it  is  said  that  he 
thought  as  much  of  the  Tribune  as  he  did  of 
his  Piible. 

He  married,  June  9.  1852,  Matilda  Ward 
IVIyers,  born  June  11,  1827,  died  June  17,  1870, 
daughter  of  Zebulon  and  Eliza  (Lindsley) 
Myers,  granddaughter  of  Judge  John  and 
Phebe  { Baldwin )  Lindsley,  and  was  related 
to  the  old  families  of  Days,  Condits,  W'^ards 
and  other  first  settler  families.  She  was  a 
refined  and  cultivated  person  of  considerable 
literary  ability,  which  she  exercised,  not  often 
for  publication  but  for  her  own  pleasure  and 
thqt  of  her  friends.  She  was  reared  under 
christian  influence,  and  was  a  member  in  full 
communion  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Orange.  Her  death,  which  occurred  in 
North  Carolina,  was  in  consequence  of  taking 
up  her  abode  there,  contracting  a  cold  and 
fever  from  the  change  of  climate  which 
brought  on  peritonitis.  Children:  i.  Richard 
Stiles,  born  April  27,  1853;  married,  Novem- 
ber 22,  1876,  Ellen  N.  Conroy;  children:  i. 
Jennie  Matilda,  born  April  15,  1878;  ii.  Flor- 
ence Adelle,  born  June  27,  1884;  married,  Sep- 


tember 12,  1907,  Robert  P.uchanan ;  child, 
Ethel,  born  September  9,  1908;  iii.  Ida  Myers, 
born  May  6,  1886;  iv.  Roy  Stanley,  born  Sep- 
tember 29.  1890;  V.  Richard  Stiles  Jr.,  born 
May  14,  1892.  2.  Lilia  Matilda,  born  October 
30,  1854:  married,  January  21,  1875,  Wilbur 
Baldwin  Huey,  born  August  4,  1850'  died  Oc- 
tober 20,  1896,  son  of  John  and  Eliza  (  Bald- 
win) Huey;  children:  i.  Ella  Pennell,  born 
February  6,  1878;  married,  April  11,  1890, 
Charles  Madison  Oxford ;  children :  Gilbert 
Huey,  born  January  11,  1901  ;  Alice  Irene, 
born  November  23,  1902 ;  Anna  Marion,  born 
January  12,  1907:  ii.  Arthur  John,  born  April 
12.  1880;  eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat  specialist. 
New  York  City.  3.  Clarence  Myers,  born 
June  25,  1856,  mentioned  below.  4.  Israel 
Charles.  5.  Alice  Eliza,  bom  May  3,  1861, 
died  August  21,  1891.  6.  Jesse  Williams,  born 
April  4,  1864;  see  forward.  7.  Edith  May, 
born  May  30,  1868;  see  forward.  Charles 
Israel  Hedden  married  (second)  August  11, 
1881,  Rhoda  Eliza  Marsh;  of  this  marriage 
there  was  no  issue ;  she  is  a  daughter  of 
Justus  Morris  and  Susanna  King  (Wright) 
Marsh,  the  former  a  native  of  Railway,  New 
Jersey,  and  the  latter  of  Northfield.  New  Jer- 
sey. 

(VIII)  Clarence  Myers,  son  of  Charles 
Israel  Hedden,  was  born  at  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey. June  25.  1856,  the  third  of  .seven  children. 
His  education  was  gained  in  private  schools  at 
Orange  until  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  when 
owing  to  financial  reverses  of  his  father  fol- 
lowing the  civil  war,  he  removed  his  family 
from  Orange  to  a  plantation  in  North  Caro- 
lina. There  the  mother  died  and  the  family 
circle  was  broken  for  a  time.  After  a  few 
months  of  school  life  in  a  Massachusetts 
school,  Clarence  M.  was  obliged  to  abandon 
his  studies  and  seek  employment  for  self- 
support.  Through  untiring  energy  and  perse- 
verance he  succeeded  after  a  time  in  putting 
aside  a  few  hundred  dollars,  which  gave  him 
an  opportunity  to  put  in  practice  that  business 
ability  and  rare  good  judgment  which  later 
made  his  name  well  known  among  business 
men.  At  the  age  of  twenty-five  he  eiitered 
into  a  partnership  with  his  father  for  tht  i^anu- 
facture  of  hats  in  Newark :  subsequently, 
when  the  firm  was  incorporated  under  New 
Jersey  laws,  1899,  Clarence  M.  Iledden  becanV. 
the  president,  his  wife,  Nellie  F.  Hedden,  vice-\ 
president,  William  H.  Fitz,  secretary  and 
treasurer.  Besides  the  hat  business,  Mr.  Hed- 
den for  several  years  carried  on  an  extensive 
real  estate  business.     In  speaking  of  his  abso- 


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lute  integrity  in  all  his  business  transactions, 
his  associates  had  only  words  of  the  highest 
commendation.  As  an  employer  he  was  ever 
considerate  of  the  interests  of  those  who  served 
him.  and  many  a  one  can  tell  of  rough  places 
made  smooth  and  life  made  easier  by  his  ever 
ready  sympathy  and  timely  aid.  but  all  was 
done  so  quietly  and  unobtrusively  that  few 
ever  knew  save  those  he  benefited.  Mr.  Red- 
den was  a  member  of  Newark  Lodge,  No.  8, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  also  an  active  member  of  the 
West  End  Club,  where  he  served  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  on  the  board  of  governors.  His 
genial  disposition,  largeness  of  heart  and  lib- 
eral views,  made  him  a  good  friend  and  con- 
genial companion.  He  was  highly  regarded 
and  esteemed  by  his  neighbors  and  those  with 
whom  he  came  in  daily  contact.  He  was  con- 
nected with  the  Sixth  Presbyterian  Church, 
having  been  an  active  member  twenty-eight 
years,  and  for  sixteen  years  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees.  As  an  expression  of  the 
high  regard  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  asso- 
ciates in  the  work  of  the  church  we  give  here- 
with a  partial  copy  of  a  set  of  resolutions 
authorized  by  the  board  of  trustees :  "Re- 
solved :  By  tlie  death  of  Brother  Clarence  M. 
Hedden  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Sixth 
Presbyterian  Church  have  lost  a  faithful  and 
efficient  member  who  served  the  church  for  a 
period  of  si.xteen  years,  and  whose  business 
judgment  and  sagacity  have  always  been  of 
incalculable  benefit  to  us  in  conducting  the 
affairs  of  our  work.  While  our  church  has 
lost  a  member  who  for  twenty-eight  years  has 
ever  rallied  to  its  every  call,  liberally  giving  of 
his  strength  and  substance  that  our  Master's 
work  might  be  supported  and  His  kingdom 
advanced."  Air.  Hedden  in  personal  respects 
was  a  type  of  the  highest  American  citizen- 
ship, a  man  of  the  purest  integrity  and  high 
ideals,  devoted  to  the  obligations  of  family 
and  friendly  attachments,  most  valuable  and 
attractive  in  his  private  character,  and  with 
his  family  sustaining  a  prominent  social  posi- 
tion. He  found  his  chief  pleasure  in  the  home 
circle,  which  was  broken  by  his  death,  May  11, 
1904.  His  life  was  not  long  in  years  yet  it  had 
in  it  something  of  completeness. 

He  married,  at  Ilaydenville,  Massachusetts, 
Nellie  Frances  Hamilton,  born  at  Shelburne 
Falls.  November  2,  1857,  daughter  of  John 
Royal  and  Sarah  Clarissa  (Mather)  Hamilton. 
John  R.  Hamilton  was  a  carpenter  and 
builder,  and  a  descendant  of  an  old  pioneer 
family  of  \'ermont.  Children:  i.  l-'rances 
Matilda,   born    ."September   2,    1880.      2.    Lulu 


Josephine.  October  12,  1882.  3.  Clarence 
Hamilton.  July  i.  1885.  4.  Nellie  Estelle.  De- 
cember 14.  1887.  5.  Charles  Leslie,  January 
I,  1890.  6.  Ernest  Myers,  September  28, 
1892.  7.  .Albert  Henry,  June  23.  1895.  8. 
Walter  Page,  June  25,  1898.  9.  Dorothy,  De- 
cember 28,  1902. 

(VHI)  Dr.  Jesse  \Mlliams  Hedden,  fourth 
son  of  Charles  Israel  Hedden,  was  born  at 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  April  4.  1864.  .-\t  an 
early  age  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  War- 
ren county.  North  Carolina,  where  he  remained 
until  after  the  death  of  his  mother,  when  he 
removed  to  Ilaydenville,  Massachusetts,  to 
attend  school  with  his  brothers.  In  1876  the 
family  removed  to  Newark,  New  jersey, 
where  he  attended  the  public  schools,  graduat- 
ing from  the  high  school.  As  a  boy  he  was 
very  fond  of  such  studies  as  pertained  to 
nature,  geology,  natural  history  and  compara- 
tive anatomy.  While  in  the  high  school  he 
mounted  many  skeletons  of  the  smaller  ani- 
mals (dogs,  mink,  weasel,  rabbit,  etc.)  Hav- 
ing completed  preparatory  studies,  he  attended 
the  medical  school  of  New  York  I'niversity. 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1887  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  During  his  college  course  he 
devoted  much  time  to  special  courses,  and  on 
graduating  spent  the  following  year  working  in 
I'.ellevue  Hospital.  He  subseciuently  entered 
the  surgical  (lepartment  of  the  Out-1'atient 
Department  of  Bellevue,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged for  a  year,  and  later  for  fourteen  months 
he  worked  at  the  DeMilt  Dispensary  on  nerv- 
ous diseases.  He  was  associated  with  Dr.  J. 
K.  Nichols,  at  Bellevue,  Post-Graduate  and 
Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital,  treating 
nose,  throat  and  ear  cases,  and  later  he  became 
an  assistant  surgeon  at  the  Manhattan  Eye  and 
F.ar  Hospital,  which  position  he  held  for  two 
years. 

Dr.  Hedden  had  meanwhile  opened  an  office 
in  West  Fifth-fourth  Street,  New  York, 
where  he  remained  but  a  few  months,  remov- 
ing in  1889  to  Thirteenth  Street  and  Third 
.\venue.  again  removing  in  1891  to  (jramercy 
Park,  where  he  remained  in  active  practice  for 
sixteen  years.  On  April  25,  1907,  he  removed 
to  No.  160  \\'est  Eighty-seventh  street,  where 
he  is  engaged  in  general  jiractice.  Dr.  Hedden 
i:;  a  member  of  the  New  York  County  Medi- 
cal Society,  American  Medical  Association. 
Medical  .Association  of  Greater  City  of  New 
"Sork,  .Vmerican  Pharmaceutical  League,  and 
the  Salamagundi  Club.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
I'Durteenth  Street  Presbyterian  Church. 

Dr.  Hedden  married,  at  Newark,  New  Jer- 


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sey,  June  25,  1890,  Kate  Isabella,  born  Sep- 
tember 9.  1865,  daughter  of  Theodore  Fassett 
and  Catharine  (AlcPeck)  Langstroth.  Theo- 
dore Langstroth  was  a  tobacco  merchant. 
Children :  Harold  Raymond,  born  January  7, 
1894,  and  Howard  Leslie,  January  5.  1899. 

(  \'1II  )  Edith  -May  (  Redden  )  Alfen,  young- 
est (laughter  of  Charles  Israel  Hedden  (  q.  v. ), 
and  wife  of  Rev.  John  Stevenson  Allen,  was 
born  on  the  homestead  of  her  father,  on  Main 
street,  (Grange,  Xew  Jersey.  May  30,  i8(')8. 
When  an  infant  her  parents  moved  to  Warren 
county.  Xorth  Carolina,  where  she  remained 
with  the  family  about  four  years  when,  after 
the  death  of  her  mother,  the  family  removed  to 
Haydenville,  Massachusetts,  remaining  for  a 
short  period,  when  they  came  to  Newark,  Xew 
Jersey.  Here  the  youngest  daughter  received 
her  educational  training  in  the  i)ublic  schools, 
graduating  from  the  Newark  high  school. 
After  completing  preparatory  studies  for 
\\'ellesley  College,  a  special  course  in  literature 
was  substituted  for  the  college  course,  and 
after  a  year  she  was  united  in  marriage  to  the 
Rev.  John  Stevenson  Allen,  who  became  pas- 
tor of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Westchester, 
New  York,  where  they  resided  one  year,  Mr. 
Allen  had  a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church  at  Patterson,  Putnam  county. 
New  York,  where  during  the  three  years  that 
followed,  Mrs.  Allen  became  associated  with 
her  husband  in  the  work  of  the  church.  She 
was  president  of  the  Missionary  Society  con- 
nected with  the  church,  and  took  an  active 
interest  in  other  branches  of  the  work.  Mr. 
Allen  subsef|uently  had  a  call  to  the  New  York 
Avenue  Reformed  Church  of  Newark,  New 
Jersey  (  1891  ).  where  he  filled  the  pulpit  for 
fourteen  years.  Mrs.  Allen  took  a  deep  inter- 
est in  the  missionary  work  and  children's 
classes,  and  was  for  a  number  of  years  presi- 
dent of  the  Woman's  Classical  Missionary 
Cnion  of  the  Classis  of  Newark.  .She  was  a 
prominent  active  worker  in  the  Young 
Women's  Christian  Association.  Fur  the  past 
five  years  she  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Women's  P)Oard  of  Domestic  Missions  of  the 
Reformed  Church  of  .America,  and  since  her 
removal  to  New  York  City  in  1905  was  elected 
to.  fill  the  office  of  corresijonding  secretary  of 
the  board.  She  has  written  much  on  the  work 
ot  the  board,  which  has  been  ]niblished  for  the 
use  of  all  missionary  societies.  Her  duties  in 
connection  with  domestic  missions  have  been 
many  and  varied,  necessitating  visits  to  the 
Indian  missions  throughout  the  west,  and  to 
the  missions  among  the    mountains    of    Ken- 


tucky, and  has  addressed  the  different  churches 
in  the  interest  of  the  board  in  various  parts 
of  the  country.  Mrs.  Allen  is  a  member  of 
the  Marble  Collegiate  (Dutch  Reformed) 
Church,  Twenty-ninth  street  and  Fifth  ave- 
nue. New  York  City,  of  which  Mr.  Allen  is 
one  of  the  associate  pastors.  She  is  a  member 
(if  the  Council  of  Women  for  Home  Missions, 
and  has  entered  extensively  into  the  various 
activities  connected  with  the  work  of  the  Coun- 
cil, and  publishing  of  te.xt  books  for  use  of 
home  missions  for  all  denominations,  and  the 
arranging  of  interdenominational  conferences, 
Edith  May  Hedden  married,  June  6,  1888, 
Joiin  Stevenson  Allen,  born  October  20,  1857, 
son  of  Cochran  and  Elizabeth  (Wilson)  Allen, 
of  Mercer  county,  Pennsylvania.  Cochran 
.Allen  was  a  farmer,  and  an  elder  in  the 
C(;ivenanter  Church.  Children:  i.  Edith  Louise, 
born  .\i>ril  5.  1889:  in  junior  year  at  Pjarnard 
College.  2.  Marguerite  Harrison,  born  De- 
cember 13,  i8i;o;  freshman  at  Barnard  Col- 
lege. 3.  Douglas  Hedden.  born  September  5, 
1893:  a  member  of  the  old  Collegiate  school. 
Seventy-seventh  street  and  West  End  avenue. 
New  York  City. 


( \'I )  Elijah  Hedden,  son  of 
HEDDEN  Abial  Hedden  (  q.  v. ),  was  born 
on  the  old  Hedden  homestead, 
in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  October  4,  1799, 
and  died  at  Verona,  New  Jersey,  August  24, 
1872.  He  was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm. 
ac(|uiring  the  usual  district  school  education  of 
a  farmer's  son  at  that  period.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  years  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade 
of  shoemaker,  a  then  very  worthy  occupation, 
and  folh.iwed  by  man}-  of  the  early  manhood 
of  the  time.  He  made  this  his  chosen  occupa- 
tion, and  with  that  of  farming  followed  it 
throughout  the  active  years  of  his  life.  He 
and  his  three  brothers,  Samuel  S,,  L'zal  and 
Caleb,  purchased  a  tract  of  some  twenty  odd 
acres  in  the  vicinity  of  the  present  Hedden 
place,  e.xtending  nearly  to  Grove  street,  each 
brother  taking  his  allotted  share  according  to 
the  amount  of  money  invested.  Here  Elijah 
Hedden  followed  his  trade,  later  removing  to 
his  father's  homestead  pro])erty.  About  183 1 
he  exchanged  his  property  for  lands  at  \'ernon. 
now  \'erona,  with  William  Miles,  of  Xew 
A'ork,  receiving  about  thirty-four  hundred 
acres.  Here  he  cultivated  the  common  crops 
and  followed  shoemaking.  His  farm  compared 
favorably  with  the  best  in  the  region.  He  was 
a  practical  up-to-date  farmer  and  believed  in 
the  improved  methods  of  agriculture.    He  was 


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honest,  industrious  and  frugal,  and  was  held 
in  high  esteem  b)'  his  townsmen.  He  was 
somewhat  retired  in  manner,  fond  of  his  dog 
and  gun,  which  was  a  part  of  his  pleasure  in 
life.  He  loved  his  home  and  fireside,  and  had 
a  deep  regard  for  the  Holy  Scri])ture,  being  a 
great  reader  of  the  Bible.  During  the  last 
eight  years  of  his  life  he  was  in  impaired  health, 
which  greatly  incapacitated  him  for  the  carry- 
ing on  of  his  farm.  He  attended  the  \'erona 
Methodist  Church.  In  politics  he  was  the  true 
type  of  the  Jacksonian  Democrat,  and  served 
on  the  Verona  town  committee.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  early  military  company  at  Newark. 
He  married  Sally  Alaria,  born  September  2, 
1798,  died  May  28,  1853,  daughter  of  Enos  and 
Jane  (Wright)  Baldwin.  Children:  i.  Jo- 
seph \\'hitfield,  born  January  20,  1823,  died 
August  7.  1861  :  married  (first)  May  20,  1846. 
Martha  Munn ;  child,  Martha  Emily,  born  No- 
vember 29,  1848,  married,  September  25,  1879, 
William  Condit;  married  (second)  Emeline 
Ward ;  child,  Harriet  Emeline.  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  1857,  married,  September  i,  1882, 
Thomas  Gore;  children:  Edith  Hedden,  born 
July  13,  1883,  married,  November  9,  1905, 
Frank  H.  Bulkley,  child,  Lucille;  Cuthbert, 
born  November  9,  1886;  Emily  Lucille,  born 
May  5,  1887;  Chauncey,  October  10,  1896.  2. 
John  Sayre,  born  March  20.  1825,  died  Decem- 
ber 17,  1904;  married  (first)  Harriet  Munn; 
children:  i.  Ann,  died  aged  four  years:  ii. 
Clarence  Eel  ward,  born  November  8,  1856, 
married  (first)  December  28,  1881,  Matilda 
Hayes ;  child,  Clarence  Earle,  born  January 
21,  1883;  married  (second)  August  11,  1887, 
Julia  Ann  Condit;  child.  Norma,  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1895,  died  October  12,  1896;  John  Sayre 
married  (second)  September  23,  1865,  ]\Irs. 
Sarah  (Jacobus)  Prior  ;  children  :  iii.  Edward, 
born  July  10,  1868,  married,  October  6,  1891, 
Gcorgie  Lane ;  child,  Dorothy  Inez,  born  Feb- 
ruary, 1895;  iv.  Harry,  born  March  10,  1871, 
died  June  10,  1899;  married,  January  5,  1893, 
Anna  Myrtle:  children:  Harold,  born  Decem- 
ber II,  1893;  Russell,  born  June,  1895;  Kdgar, 
born  February,  1897:  v.  Eleanor  Maria,  born 
June  14,  1873,  married,  October,  1897,  James 
Demarest ;  child,  John  Hueson,  born  June  6, 
1903;  vi.  Leon,  born  August  28.  1883,  married, 
April  6,  1909,  Grace  Chinn.  3.  Betsey  Joanna, 
born  September  i.  1827.  4.  Caroline,  born 
April  18,  1830,  died  November  24,  1856;  mar- 
ried the  Rev.  James  H.  Parks;  child,  Louise. 
5.  Catherine  Ann,  born  February  27,  1833 ; 
married.  February  14,  1855,  ^saac  Newton 
Dobbins  ;  children  :    i.  Justus  S.,  born  Septem- 


ber 10,  1856,  died  February  5,  1857;  ii.  Odessa 
Maria,  born  July  9,  1858,  died  January  20, 
1861 ;  iii.  William  H.,  born  December  2,  i860, 
died  January  14,  1865;  iv.  Justus  \\'..  born 
March  23,  1863;  married  (first)  October  8, 
1880,  Emma  C  Dickerson  :  children:  Alargaret 
E.,  born  October  18,  1881  ;  Ethel,  born  July 
24,  1883 ;  Helen,  born  April  20,  1885  ;  married 
(second)  August  12,  1903,  Caroline  Bowen ; 
children:  Robert  Newton,  born  October  18, 
1904:  Meriam  B.,  born  November  10,  1909; 
V.  Tillie  Louisa,  born  December  5,  1865,  died 
July  2^,  1868 ;  vi.  Bertha  Kate,  born  January  8, 
1869;  married,  October  12,  1896,  .Anson  Day; 
vii.  Mary,  born  July  30,  1872;  married,  .\pril 
12,  1899,  Randolph  C.  Luttgens ;  children: 
Alargaret  Louise,  born  August  i,  1903;  Cath- 
erine Runyon,  born  May  13,  1906.  6.  Sarah 
Alatilda,  born  March  3,  1836,  died  February 
14,  1866.  7.  \\'illiam  Alfred,  born  December 
18,  1839,  died  March  i,  1896;  married  Eliza- 
beth Thornton  ;  children  :  i.  Anieta,  married 
Abel  Pierson;  children:  Edward  and  Elsie;  ii. 
William:  iii.  Charles.  8.  Austin  Elijah,  men- 
tioned below. 

(  \'II)  Austin  Elijah,  son  of  Elijah  Hedden. 
was  born  at  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 27,  1843,  on  the  homestead  of  his  father 
near  the  present  Hedden  place.  His  element- 
ary educational  training  began  at  East  Orange 
in  the  nearby  public  school,  and  about  the  age 
of  eight  years  he  removed  with  his  jjarents  to 
\^ernon,  now  \'erona,  where  he  attended  the 
district  school,  assisting  in  the  duties  of  the 
farm.  He  continued  with  his  father  to  culti- 
vate the  farm,  and  on  the  death  of  the  senior 
Hedden,  1872,  received  thirty-three  acres  of 
the  homestead  projierty,  and  after  his  marriage 
in  1875  settled  in  a  new  residence  erected  on 
his  i)roperty.  He  has  devoted  the  major  por- 
tion of  his  life  to  agricultural  pursuits.  Like 
liis  father  he  has  followed  the  improved  ideas 
of  agriculture,  and  has  developed  and  improved 
his  lands.  He  has  recently  disposed  of  about 
three-quarters  of  his  "Brookside"  farm  for 
developing  and  building  purposes,  and  the  sec- 
tion is  destined  to  become  one  of  the  fine  resi- 
dential sections  of  \'erona,  embracing  Cumber- 
land and  Derwent  avenues.  .Aside  from  his 
farm  duties,  Mr.  Hedden  has  engaged  in  local 
road  contracting,  having  constructed  a  portion 
of  Fairview  avenue  as  well  as  all  of  Grosch 
avenue.  During  his  active  engagements  Mr. 
Hedden  has  found  time  to  faithfully  serve  his 
township  in  various  important  offices.  Being 
a  staunch  Democrat  in  his  political  principles, 
he  has  upheld  the  institution  with  a  firm  and 


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honest  purpose.  He  has  served  on  the  Demo- 
cratic county  committee  and  for  twelve  years 
on  the  election  boards.  He  stands  for  principle 
in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  his 
town  and  community  and  firmly  believes  in  the 
old  adage  "Be  sure  you  are  right  and  then  go 
ahead,"  and  is  always  to  be  found  on  the  side 
of  right  even  should  it  effect  his  own  party 
principles.  He  opposed  the  bounding  of  his 
township  for  the  construction  of  hard  roads 
during  the  period  of  financial  depression  and 
the  bill  was  lost,  which  as  it  afterwards  proved 
was  a  financial  rescue  for  the  town.  Mr. 
Hedden  was  an  active  member  of  the  com- 
mittee appointed  to  devise  ways  and  means 
and  to  make  recommendations  as  to  the  best 
course  to  pursue  in  the  matter,  as  he  has  in  all 
municipal  affairs  of  his  township  for  many 
years.  The  tow'n  of  Verona  has  honored  Mr. 
Hedden  by  electing  him  to  the  office  of  as- 
sessor in  IQOI  and  again  in  IQ07,  serving  at 
the  present  time.  Mr.  Hedden  is  a  member  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at  Caldwell,  and 
{■■  also  a  trustee  of  the  Verona  Presbyterian 
Church.  During  the  existence  of  the  Verona 
Club  Mr.  Hedden  was  one  of  its  leading  mem- 
bers, having  donated  the  land  on  which  the 
club  house  stands.  When  the  Caldwell  Grange, 
Patrons  of  Husbandry,  No.  107,  was  organized, 
Mr.  Hedden  was  one  of  the  charter  members 
and  was  later  elected  as  grange  master ;  he  has 
served  as  master  of  Central  District  Pomona 
Grange,  and  is  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Grange. 
He  has  received  the  highest  honors  that  can  be 
conferred  on  one  in  the  order  by  having  the 
higiiest  degree  of  husbandry  conferred  on  him 
at  the  assemblage  of  the  National  Grange  at 
Rochester,  New  York,  in  1902.  He  takes  great 
pride  in  his  love  of  the  order,  which  is  a  fav- 
orite topic  with  his  brother  grangers.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Caldwell  Brass 
Band  and  one  of  its  leading  musicians  for 
twenty  years. 

Mr.  Hedden  married  (first)  February  10, 
1875.  Jennie  Cox  Lindsley,  died  January  16, 
iS(/),  daughter  of  John  Philip  and  Catherine 
(Mandeville)  Lindsley.  ]\Iarried  (second) 
August  12,  1904,  Mrs.  Emma  (Willett)  Linds- 
ley, born  March  12,  1864,  daughter  of  Sea- 
brook  and  Marv  Frances  (Gray)  Willett. 


(\'I)   Caleb    Hedden,    son    of 
HEDDEN     Abial     Hedden     (q.    v.)     was 
born  on  the  old  Hed<len  home- 
stead in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  near  the 
present  Burnet  street,  December  5,  1794,  and 


died  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  March  26,  1852. 
Like  his  brothers  and  sisters,  he  attended  the 
nearbv  district  school  and  was  reared  on  his 
father's  farm.  He  early  learned  the  trade  of 
shoemaker,  which  he  followed  more  or  less 
throughout  his  active  career.  He  and  his 
three  brothers  Samuel.  Elijah  and  LTzal  pur- 
chased a  tract  of  land  of  about  twenty  acres 
near  the  present  Hedden  place,  extending  to 
Grove  street.  They  divided  this  according  to 
the  amounts  each  invested,  and  Caleb  had 
some  four  acres  whereon  he  built  his-  home- 
stead on  what  was  then  Drift  road.  For 
several  years  he  operated  a  clay  pit  and  hop- 
per and  disposed  of  his  product  to  nearby  pot- 
teries. This  he  followed  until  the  death  of  his 
wife,  when  he  took  up  farming  and  shoemak- 
ing  with  his  son,  James  S.  Hedden.  Caleb 
Hedden  was  an  enthusiastic  sportsman,  and 
was  a  very  peculiar  character.  After  his 
death  his  homestead  was  destroyed  by  fire. 
This  was  rebuilt  by  his  son  Edwin,  at  whose 
house  his  father  died.  This  homestead  was 
in  later  years  sold  to  John  Boylan,  whose  heirs 
in  turn  sold  it  to  others,  and  the  house  was 
moved  to  Fifteenth  street,  where  it  now  stands. 
He  married  Matilda  Baldwin,  born  November 
30,  1801,  died  November  26,  1847.  Children: 
I.  Samuel  S.,  born  March  9,  1821,  died  Janu- 
ary 4.  1847 ;  married  Margaret  McKirgan : 
child,  Samuel  Wallace,  born  January  7,  1847, 
died  Alarch  13,  1847.  2.  Jane  E.,  born  Decem- 
ber II,  1822,  died  July  11,  1850:  married  Enos 
E.  James.  3.  Enos  Baldwin,  born  January 
10,  1823.  died  August  24,  1846,  unmarried. 
4.  Mary  Ann,  born  Alay  5,  1829,  died  May  31, 
1849;  married  Abraham  Morningstern.  5. 
Edwin,  born  1826,  died  December  9,  1887. 
6.  James  Smith,  born  March  28,  1S36,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Sarah  Maria,  born  March, 
1839,  died  October  6,  1883;  married  Musson 
Pier.  8.  Martha  Jennette,  born  November  2, 
1842 ;  married,  March  31,  1869,  Ira  F.  Weaver, 
born  July  I,  1837,  son  of  Henry  and  Catherine 
(Jennings)  Weaver;  children:  i.  Lora  Belle, 
born  November  7,  1870;  married.  May  9,  1894, 
Clyde  C.  Kelly;  child,  Cecil  Raymond,  born 
May  10,  1895:  ii.  Walter  Hedden,  born  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1874,  died  July  9,  1874;  iii.  Maggie 
Lledden,  born  December  27,  1875:  married, 
August  8,  1896,  Ivy  D.  Tarpley ;  child,  Lucile, 
born  September  9,  1906;  iv.  Cora  Phillips, 
born  September  27,  1880,  died  February  22, 
1882  ;  V.  Bertha  Adelle,  born  December  3,  1883, 
married,  November  21,  1900,  John  Borgeson ; 
children :  Nettie  Blanche,  born  November  8, 
1 90 1,  and  Ralph  Weaver,  born  April  4,  1904. 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


(\TI)  Edwin  Iledden,  tliird  son  of  Caleb 
Hedden  (q.  v.),  was  born  at  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  1826,  died  of  ])aralysis  at  liis 
liome  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  December  9. 
1887.  He  was  reared  on  bis  fatber"s  boine- 
stead.  attending  the  nearby  district  school,  and 
during  bis  minority  learned  the  trade  of  mason 
from  his  brother  Samuel,  who  was  a  prom- 
inent contractor  at  that  time.  On  the  death 
of  Samuel,  Edwin  took  the  business  and  set- 
tled his  estate  and  carried  on  the  business  suc- 
cessfully u\i  to  i86g.  Much  of  his  w^ork  was 
in  and  around  Newark.  His  office  was  in  the 
Smith  building,  and  he  resided  for  nearly 
forty  years  at  .\o.  213  Walnut  street,  which 
he  built  and  where  he  died.  He  erected  many 
houses  in  Newark  for  investment,  and  w-as 
one  of  the  representative  business  men  of 
Newark.  He  retired  from  contracting  in  1869, 
and  the  following  year  was  elected  president 
of  the  New  Jersey  f'late  ( liass  Insurance  Com- 
pany at  Newark,  being  associated  with  Mr. 
Hager  in  founding  the  company,  and  remained 
at  its  head  until  his  death.  He  was  a  stirring 
and  energetic  business  man,  of  sound  judgment 
and  integrity.  lie  was  a  staunch  Democrat  of 
the  Jacksonian  type,  and  represented  his  dis- 
trict in  the  New  Jersey  legislature  during  the 
years  1867-68  with  satisfaction  to  his  constit- 
uents. He  was  for  some  years  a  member  of 
the  Newark  board  of  education  and  served  on 
important  committees,  and  was  an  alderman 
from  his  ward.  From  its  earliest  history  he 
was  an  active  member  of  the  Fifth  Baptist 
Church,  where  he  and  his  wife  were  members 
in  full  communion.  He  contributed  liberally 
to  the  support  of  the  church,  as  well  as  to 
other  worthy  charitable  o1)jects,  and  until  his 
death  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees 
and  treasurer  of  the  church.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Pythegoras  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons.  In  ])ublic  business  and  ])rivate  life. 
Edwin  Hedden  was  a  model  of  the  upright 
nsan,  and  in  his  church,  which  was  his  sujireme 
delight,  he  was  a  ])illar.  The  broader  fields  of 
his  activity  did  not  ])reclude  his  interest  in 
the  social  world  and  his  friends  were  many 
and  lasting.  In  ])ersonal  respects  he  was  the 
type  of  the  highest  .American  citizenship,  a 
man  of  the  purest  integrity  and  loftiest  ideals, 
devoted  to  the  obligations  of  family  and 
friendly  attachment,  most  valuable  and  attrac- 
tive in  his  private  character.  Among  his 
Masonic  friends  he  was  known  as  a  square 
stone  in  the  temple  of  Masonry.  Mr.  Hedden 
married  (first)  Miss  Hayden,  who  died  in 
earlv     womanhood,      lie     married      t  second  j 


.Mary  Frances  Stackhouse,  died  January  i. 
1905,  daughter  of  Abner  and  Mary  ( Munroe") 
Stackhouse,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  silver 
plater  by  trade.  Child:  Julia  Baldwin,  born 
March  24.  1855;  married,  October  11,  1876, 
Samuel  Collyer  Hoagland.  born  September  8. 
1849,  son  of  William  and  Matilda  (Collyer) 
Hoagland.  Children:  i.  Victor  Edwin  Hed- 
den, born  August  23,  1877:  ii.  Irving  I'ier, 
born  December  26,  1879;  niarried,  March  '). 
1907,  Caroline  Eldert  Lemington,  born  Octo- 
ber 28,  1880,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Wyckoff 
and  Frankie  Elizabeth  (Hoagland)  Leming- 
ton; child:  Samuel  Collyer.  born  March  5. 
1908 :  iii.  Chester  Frank,  born  November  5. 
1881  ;  married,  October  12,  1905,  Nellie  May 
Stanley,  born  February  6,  1883.  daughter  of 
Ethelb'ert  A.  and  Elizabeth  ( DeLaud )  Stan- 
ley :  children :  Grace  Hedden,  born  October  4. 
1906;  Julia  DeLaud,  born  March  27,  1909. 

(\'H)  James  Smith,  son  of  Caleb  Hedden. 
was  born  in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey.  March 
28,  1836.  in  the  locality  then  known  as  Drift 
road.  He  died  at  Newark,  100  Pacific  street. 
February  16,  1902.  His  educational  training 
was  gained  in  the  district  school,  then  situated 
on  the  present  Main  street,  between  Munn 
avenue  and  South  Maple  street,  until  he  was 
almost  fourteen  years  of  age.  He  assisted  his 
father  on  the  homestead  place,  and  at  an  early 
age  went  to  Newark  and  served  his  time  at  the 
trade  of  mason  with  his  brother,  lulwin  Hed- 
den. In  1859.  at  the  age  of  twenty-three 
years,  he  entered  the  business  as  a  mason  con- 
tractor, and  was  first  associated  with  James 
Reed  under  the  firm  name  of  Hedden  &  Reed. 
About  1872  the  firm  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Hed- 
den continuing  the  business  up  to  1895.  Dur- 
ing his  career  as  a  contractor  he  took  many 
notable  contracts,  and  was  among  the  leading 
contractors  of  his  day.  He  built  the  Passaic 
Alordant  Works  at  Belleville  and  the  Belleville 
Wire  Cloth  Works,  also  the  Strauss  Tannery 
and  Ballard  Foundry.  His  last  notable  con- 
tract was  the  mason  work  and  capping  of  the 
towers  and  bridges  for  the  Pennsylvania  rail- 
road signal  sj'Stein.  He  was  also  associated 
with  his  son,  Harry  C.  Hedden,  in  the  whole- 
sale grocery  business  from  1887  to  1889.  In 
1894  he  became  associated  with  the  New  Jer- 
sey Plate  Class  Insurance  Company,  and  was 
elected  secretary  and  treasurer,  holding  that 
office  until  his  death.  Much  of  the  growth 
and  success  of  this  company  was  due  to  Mr. 
Hedden's  recognized  ability,  sound  judgment 
and  untiring  elTorts.  Mr.  Hedden  was  a  self- 
made    man.    and    what    he    gained    in    life    he 


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created.  In  iSi'kd  he  built  his  home  on  Pacific 
street.  He  possessed  a  kind,  genial  nature 
and  a  jovial  disposition,  and  these  gained  for 
him  many  true  and  lasting  friends.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  L'nion  Street  Methodist 
Church,  and  served  that  body  as  president  of 
the  board  of  trustees  for  over  twenty  years 
and  treasurer  for  many  years.  He  became 
identified  with  the  affairs  of  Newark.  He  was 
a  Republican  in  principle,  and  served  one  year 
as  a  member  of  the  Newark  board  of  educa- 
tion and  in  other  responsible  positions.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows;  he  was  first  made  a 
member  in  Protection  Lodge,  No.  28,  later 
was  a  member  of  Apollo  Lodge,  No.  135,  and 
subsequently  a  charter  member  of  Newark 
Lodge,  No.  8,  serving  this  body  as  noble  grand 
and  also  treasurer.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  Washington  Encampment,  No.  13,  same 
order.  He  married,  at  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
May  14,  1857,  Elma  Ryerson,  born  December 
20,  1836.  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  ( Car- 
cufi^)  Camp.  Daniel  Camp  was  a  shoemaker. 
Children:  i.  Harry  Camp,  born  April  18, 
i860,  mentioned  below.  2.  William  Edwin, 
born  August  19,  1862,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Alarvin  Evi,  born  November  8,  1868,  died 
August  23,  1869.  4.  Jesse  Lyman,  born  March 
18,  1872;  married  Ida  M.  Romer ;  children: 
James  Lewis,  Dorothy  Romer,  Donald,  Paul 
\'an  Tassel. 

(VIII)  Harry  Camp,  son  of  James  Smith 
Hedden,  was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
April  18,  i860.  He  attended  the  public  schools, 
graduating  from  the  Newark  high  school  in 
1876,  subsequently  taking  a  two  years  course 
in  the  Wyoming  Seminary  at  Kingston,  Penn- 
sylvania, supplemented  by  a  three  years  course 
in  the  Syracuse  (New  York)  LIniversity. 
From  1882  to  1889  he  taught  school  at  Liv- 
ingston and  Madison,  New  Jersey.  For  two 
years  subsecjuent  to  1889  he  was  associated 
with  his  father,  James  S.  Hedden,  in  the 
wholesale  grocery  business,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Hedden  &  Company,  at  Newark.  In 
1891  he  became  associated  with  the  New  Jer- 
sey Plate  (ilass  Insurance  Company,  and  was 
their  special  agent  for  five  years,  and  subse- 
quently apjjointed  superintendent  of  agencies, 
which  position  he  held  five  years.  In  1902  he 
was  elected  to  his  present  responsible  position 
of  trust  secretary  of  the  company.  Mr.  Hed- 
den resides  in  the  West  Orange  Valley,  on 
]Mt.  Pleasant  avenue.  He  is  an  attendant  of 
St.  Cloud  Presbyterian  Church,  and  his  family 
also  worship  there.   Mrs.  Medden  was  admitted 


a  member  of  the  North  (Jrange  Baptist  Church 
in  1882,  and  joined  the  St.  Cloud  Society  in 
1900  by  letter.  Mr.  Hedden  is  a  staunch  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  has  served  his  party 
as  delegate  to  its  various  conventions,  and  has 
served  the  town  of  West  Orange  as  a  member 
of  the  school  board.  He  is  a  member  of  Union 
Lodge,  No.  II,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  the  New  Jersey  Automobile  Club.  He 
married,  at  West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 2},.  1885,  Lillian  Electa,  born  August  10, 
1865,  daughter  of  William  Nathan  and  Phebe 
Ann  (PTnderhill)  Williams.  William  N.  Wil- 
liams was  a  prominent  West  Orange  official. 
Children:  i.  Elma  W^illiams,  born  April  12. 
1887.  2.  Lilliam  Electa,  May  27.  1889,  died 
.April  4,  1892.  3.  Phebe  Ethel,  born  October 
22,  1893.  4.  Julia  Bertha,  October  20,  1894. 
(VIII)  \\'illiam  Edwin  Hedden,  son  of 
James  Smith  Hedden  (q.  v),  was  born  at  the 
homestead  of  his  father,  100  Pacific  street, 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  August  19,  1862.  He 
attended  the  Oliver  street  public  school  until 
fourteen  years  of  age,  when  he  gave  up  school 
for  the  purpose  of  learning  the  trade  of  mason 
with  his  father,  serving  at  this  during  his 
minority.  He  then  worked  as  journeyman  for 
his  father  up  to  1890,  when  his  father 
admitted  him  to  partnership  under  the  firm 
name  of  James  S.  Hedden  &  .Son,  in  July, 
1890.  The  first  contract  the  new  firm  filled 
was  the  Sixth  Presbyterian  Church,  L'nion 
and  Lafayette  streets,  Newark,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  they  erected  the  New  York  Avenue 
Reformed  Church,  where  later  the  Rev.  John 
S.  Allen  was  pastor.  The  Hedden  Company 
did  extensive  mason  work  for  machinery  and 
boiler  setting,  also  other  foundation  work. 
The  stone  foundations  for  the  signal  system 
of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  from  Meadow 
Shop  to  Scott  avenue,  Rahway,  were  put  up 
by  them.  When  the  senior  Hedden  retired 
from  the  firm  in  1894  the  son  continued  the 
business,  admitting  Thomas  G.  Mercer  to  part- 
nership, under  the  firm  name  of  Hedden  & 
Mercer.  At  the  expiration  of  a  year  the  firm 
was  dissolved  and  Mr.  Hedden  continued 
under  his  own  name  up  to  1903,  when  he  was 
engaged  as  journeyman  mason.  He  subse- 
cjuently  was  appointed  instructor  of  mason 
work  at  the  New  Jersey  Reformatory  at  Rah- 
way, where  he  had  many  boys  under  his  care 
and  instruction.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Master  Masons'  Association  of  Newark,  and 
was  formerly  a  member  of  the  Builders'  and 
Traders'  Exchange.  In  religion  he  was 
formerlv    a    member,    trustee    of  the   Lhiion 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Street  Methodist  Church  and  was  dismissed 
to  the  New  York  Avenue  Reformed  Church, 
where  Mrs.  Hedden  is  also  a  member  and 
has  charge  of  the  primary  department  of  the 
Sunday  school  and  prominent  in  all  the  work 
of  the  various  societies.  She  was  formerly 
soprano  of  the  Sixth  Presbyterian  Church  and 
Union  Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
In  politics  Mr.  Hedden  is  a  Republican. 

He  married,  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  May 
26,  1886,  Lydia  M.,  born  at  Easton,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  25,  1865,  daughter  of  Emil  and 
Dorothea  (Schwartz)  Robst.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  by  Rev.  G.  H.  W'inans.  Emil 
Robst  was  a  professor  of  music;  a  civil  war 
veteran  of  Com])any  G,  153d  New  York  Vol- 
unteer Militia;  he  saw  service  at  Cliancellors- 
ville  and  Gettysburg,  where  he  was  injured  at 
second  day"s  battle,  and  .\]iponiatto.x  Court 
House.     Professor  Emil  Robst  was  a  son  of 

Herbert    and    (Enders)    Robst;    the 

Enders  family  were  a  prominent  and  influ- 
ential family  of  the  Province  of  Saxony,  Ger- 
many, where  the  family  belonged  to  the  nobil- 
ity. Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hedden:  i. 
P.lancbc  Ruth,  both  l->bruary  12,  1888.  2. 
Mabel  Robst.  January  11,  i8gi.  3.  William 
Percy,  July  12,  1894.  4.  Mirriam  Gertrude, 
October  14,  1896.  5.  Grace  Ethel,  July  11, 
1898.  6.  Matilda  Baldwin,  November  25, 
1900.    7.  Hermine  Emily,  September  22.  1903. 


John    .Agar,   the   first   of    the    line 

.-\G.\R     here    under    consideration,    was    a 

farmer  of  Carlow  county,  Ireland. 

He  married  and  reared  a  large  family  of  whom 

John  was  his  eldest  son. 

(  II)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  .Agar,  was 
born  and  reared  in  Carlow  county,  Ireland.  He 
followed  farming  during  his  life,  and  became 
a  man  of  considerable  means.  His  farm,  situ- 
ated on  the  side  of  the  mountain,  was  produc- 
tive of  large  (|uantities  of  grain,  which  was  its 
princi])al  crop,  and  he  raised  large  numbers  of 
sheep  and  cattle.  He  was  a  devout  church- 
man, a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church,  with 
his  wife.  He  was  a  man  of  set  ])rinciples  and 
could  not  be  moved  from  his  ojjinion.  He 
was  of  large  ])hysic|ue,  honest  to  a  fault,  and 
was  respected  in  his  community.  He  married 
(first)  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Bailey,  a  Meth-,^ 
odist  divine;  (second)  Nancy .  Chil- 
dren, by  first  wife:  James  (mentioned  below) 
and  John.  Children  by  second  wife:  Thomas, 
Henry.  Annie,  Margaret,  William. 

(Ill)   James,   son   of  John    (2)    -Agar   and 
Mary    Ilaikv.   his   wife,   was  born   in   Carlow 


county,  Ireland,  in  the  town  of  KnockuUard, 
July  17,  1815,  died  at  St.  Barnabas  Hospital, 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  15,  1881 
Born  of  sturdy  parents,  he  was  reared  on  the 
farm  of  his  father,  and  accordingly  was  strong 
and  healthy.  His  mother  died  when  he  was  six 
years  of  age.  He  attended  the  nearby  jjarish 
school,  and  when  fourteen  years  of  age  was 
bound  out  to  the  trade  of  nail  maker  until  he 
became  of  age.  In  his  long  term  of  apprentice- 
ship he  became  an  expert  in  the  art  of  nail 
making,  a  purely  hand  process.  At  the  end  of 
his  ap])renticeship  a  near  relative,  Henry  Bur- 
gess, seeing  the  ambition  of  the  young  man  and 
his  knowledge  of  the  trade,  offered  him  a  space 
in  his  blacksmith  shop.  Here  in  one-half  of 
the  shop  he  set  up  his  forge  and  anvil,  and  for 
two  years  conducted  a  prosperous  business 
and  became  a  trusted  associate  of  his  cousin 
in  many  ways.  Shortly  after  his  marriage,  in 
1837,  he  removed  his  shop  to  quarters  of  his 
own  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  home.  He 
became  very  prosperous  at  his  trade,  employ- 
ing apprentices  and  journeymen  in  the  manu- 
facture of  nails  for  Henry  and  Watson  New- 
ton, prominent  contractors  of  the  town,  shoe- 
makers, and  other  trades  requiring  his  product. 
He  took  contracts  for  many  thousand  nails  at 
a  time,  sujjplying  the  general  trade.  He 
became  involved  financially  through  misplaced 
confidence,  having  gone  security  on  several 
notes.  Being  a  man  of  honor,  he  met  these 
adversities  with  fortitude,  but  they  greatly 
reduced  his  finances.  This  led  him  to  turn  to 
new  fields  of  labor,  and  about  the  year  1850 
he  emigrated  to  America,  settling  first  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained  a 
short  time,  subsequently  removing  to  North- 
field,  where  he  engaged  as  a  farmer.  .After 
two  years  of  saving  he  sent  for  his  family, 
who  embarked  from  Liverpool  in  1852.  While 
on  the  trip  his  wife  and  son  James  were 
stricken  with  ship  fever,  died  in  a  few  days 
and  were  buried  at  sea.  On  the  arrival  of  the 
vessel  in  New  York,  learning  of  his  loss,  his 
grief  was  unbounded,  but  with  a  father's  love 
for  his  motherless  children  he  strove  to  make 
the  iiest  of  things,  working  for  and  providing 
suitable  schooling  for  his  children.  In  about 
three  years  he  had  saved  sufficient  to  purchase 
a  three  acre  farm  of  Nelson  Sharp,  and  in 
time  bought  several  acres  of  George  Mulford. 
of  Springfield,  having  in  all  about  twenty 
acres  of  good  farming  land  in  Northfield.  The 
latter  property  has  since  been  sold  to  the 
Orange  Water  Corporation.  He  became  pros- 
])erous   as   a    farmer,   and  after  a    few   years 


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exchanged  his  property  for  some  at  Newark, 
where  he  resided  between  Prince  and  Grove 
streets  until  his  death.  Mr.  Agar  was  progres- 
sive in  his  ideas,  and  beheved  in  improved 
methods  of  agriculture,  and  was  industrious 
and  frugal.  He  was  known  for  his  strict  hon- 
e;-ty  and  religious  principles,  and  while  retiring 
in  disposition  possessed  many  friends  of  a  true 
worth.  He  possessed  a  deep  retentive  memory 
and  had  a  keen  power  of  calculating,  especially 
in  figures,  and  was  always  correct.  He  was 
reared  in  the  Episcopal  faith,  but  became  a 
communicant  of  the  Orange  \'alley  Congrega- 
tional Church,  and  reared  his  family  under 
christian  influence.  He  was  a  Democrat  in 
politics. 

He  married  (first )  in  his  native  town, 
Eliza,  who  died  at  sea,  October,  1852,  daughter 
of  Benjamin  and  Mary  (Whittaker)  Whit- 
taker,  of  Carlow  county,   Ireland.     Children  : 

I.  Mary  Ann,  born  July  29,  1838:  married, 
July  3,  1859,  William  Spencer  Ashby,  born 
January  4,  1838,  son  of  William  and  Julia 
(  Spencer  )  Ashby  ;  children  :  i.  James  Harvey, 
born  October  12,  i860,  married  Jessie  Bird; 
children:  a.  James  Jacobus,  married  Caroline 

:   b.   John    \\'illiam :   c.    Charles    Bird: 

d.  Edna  ^lay,  married  Harry  Wolfram,  child. 
Kenneth ;  e.  Frank ;  f.  Raymond ;  ii.  Julia 
Elizabeth,  born  October  25,  1862,  died  March 

II,  1864;  iii.  Alice  Adelle,  born  June  10,  1865. 
died  July  4,  18S5;  iv.  John,  born  June  I,  1867: 
married,  October  10,  1886,  Emily  Buell ;  chil- 
dren:  .Alice  Hazel,  Lillian  Mabel,  Emily  Alil- 
dred.  Lyle  Adelle,  John  Buell,  Caroline  Brown- 
ing, Edith,  Dorothy :  v.  Eliza  IMaria,  born 
August  13,  i86q:  married  Jackson  Livingston 
Brown ;  vi.  Affie  Frances,  born  September  29, 
1872:  married,  January  27,  1894,  \\'allace  Jef- 
ferson Smith ;  child,  Olive  Adelle,  born  July 
20,  1897 :  vii.  Lillian  Mabel,  born  June  25, 
1878,  died  October  20,  1886;  viii.  William 
Everett,  born  May  19,  1881.  2.  John,  born 
June  15,  1844,  mentioned  below.  3.  Bessie, 
died  in  infancy.  4.  Benjamin,  died  in  infancy. 
5.  James,  died  at  sea,  aged  seven  years.  6. 
Tliomas  Peter,  born  May  26,  1851  ;  scalded 
to  death  in  Newark  factory ;  died  December 
10.  1902  ;  married.  May  6,  1874,  Julia  McSulla  ; 
children:  i.  Mary  Agnes,  born  February  18. 
1875,  died  June  28,  1877;  ii.  .\nna  Elizabeth, 
born  September  30,  1876,  died  December  24, 
1881  ;  iii.  George  Thomas,  born  February  4, 
1878:  iv.  Clarence  Francis,  born  February  9, 
1881  :  v.  Harry,  born  June  9,  1883,  died  June 
29,  1883:  vi.  John,  born  August  15,  1884,  died 
December  i.  i8<;2:  vii.  William,  born  May  16, 


1887,  died  August  8,  1887:  viii.  Thomas 
Joseph,  born  January  5,  1890,  died  July  b. 
1890.  ix.  Florence  May,  born  May  19,  1888. 
He  married  (second)  Maria,  daughter  of 
James  and  Mary  Ann  (McChesney)  W'ade, 
of  Northfield,  New  Jersey.  She  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Northfield  Baptist  Church. 

(IV)  John  (3),  son  of  James  and  Eliza 
(  Whittaker)  Agar,  was  born  at  Knockulard, 
Carlow  county,  Ireland,  June  13.  1844.  His 
early  educational  training  in  the  Iqjiscojjal 
school  of  his  native  parish  was  of  short  dura- 
tion. In  1852,  by  reason  of  his  father  having 
[ireccded  his  family  to  the  United  States,  John 
with  his  mother,  sister  and  two  brothers,  set 
sail  in  the  ship  "Antartic"  from  Liverpool  to 
join  his  father,  then  two  years  in  the  new 
country.  When  but  a  few  w-eeks  out,  his 
mother  and  brother  James  contracted  the 
fated  ship  fever  and  were  buried  at  sea.  Dur- 
ing the  seven  weeks  passage  of  the  ill-fated 
vessel  eighty-seven  of  her  passengers  suc- 
cumbed to  the  dread  disease.  The  three  chil- 
dren, ^lary  Ann,  John  and  Thomas,  arrived 
in  New  York,  were  met  by  their  father,  and 
for  a  short  time  resided  in  Newark,  subse- 
(luently  removing  to  the  mountain  town  of 
Northfield.  Here  they  attended  the  nearby 
district  school,  the  boys  assisting  their  father 
at  farming  and  working  out  in  the  neighbor- 
hood. At  the  age  of  sixteen  young  John  began 
to  learn  the  trade  of  shoemaker  with  Joseph 
Johnson,  of  Northfield.  After  two  years  with 
Mr.  Johnson  and  during  the  progress  of  the 
civil  war,  he  became  imbued  with  the  spirit  of 
patriotism,  and  September  3,  1862,  enlisted  in 
his  country's  cause  to  serve  nine  months.  Fie 
was  mustered  into  the  LTnited  States  service 
at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  as  a  private  in  Cap- 
tain George  W.  Harrison's  company.  Twenty- 
sixth  Regiment  New  Jersey  Volunteer  Infan- 
try, Colonel  Andrew  J.  Morrison.  The  regi- 
ment was  quickly  recruited  in  response  to  a 
call  from  the  president  for  volunteers.  A  draft 
had  been  ordered  to  commence  September  3, 
but  so  great  was  the  enthusiasm  that  the  entire 
(|uota  was  raised  by  voluntary  enlistment  and 
the  organization  of  the  regiment  was  fully 
completed,  officered  and  equipped  by  the  i8th, 
iJ  which  time  the  command  was  mustered  into 
service.  It  left  the  state  September  26  for 
Washington,  D.  C.^  where  u])on  arrival  it  went 
into  camp  on  Capitol  Hill,  having  been 
assigned  to  General  Brigg's  brigade.  Second 
Army  Corps.  It  remained  in  this  vicinity  until 
October  i,  when  under  orders  it  proceeded  to 
Hagarstown,    Maryland,    having    been    trans- 


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ftrrcd  to  the  Second  ISrigade.  Howe's  division. 
Sixth  Corps,  Army  of  tlie  Potomac.  The  regi- 
ment remained  on  active  (kity  until  the  expira- 
tion of  its  term  of  service,  and  at  all  times  per- 
forming gallant  and  meritorious  service. 
While  in  the  field  it  jiarticipated  in  the  follow- 
ing engagements:  Fredericksburg  (two  bat- 
tles), Marye's  Heights,  or  Salem  Church, 
Cliancellorsville,  Franklin's  Crossing,  Virginia, 
and  a  number  of  minor  engagements.  It  also 
performed  guard  and  provost  duty.  Mr.  Agar 
was  constantly  with  his  command  during  its 
service  as  outlined  above,  bore  a  gallant  part 
:n  all  its  engagements,  and  rendered  faitliful 
service  to  his  country  before  being  mustered 
out,  June  27,  1863,  receiving  an  honorable  dis- 
charge. 

After  his  discharge  from  service  Mr.  Agar 
learned  the  trade  of  hatter  with  William 
Clarkson,  of  .South  Orange,  where  he  remained 
until  his  enlistment  in  the  navy.  He  re-enlisted 
August  4.  18A4.  at  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  in 
the  United  States  navy,  to  serve  one  year  and 
was  mustered  as  a  landsman  on  the  receiving 
ship  "North  Carolina,"  at  the  Brooklyn  navy 
yard,  aufl  transferred  to  the  "Aphrodite,"  a 
transport,  which  was  wrecked  off  the  coast  of 
North  Carolina.  .About  half  the  number  on 
board  were  lost ;  he  was  the  only  one  saved 
out  of  the  boat  in  whicli  he  left  the  ship  for 
the  shore.  Lighters  w-ere  sent  up  the  sound 
to  take  the  rescued  sailors  to  Reaufort,  where 
they  went  on  board  the  "Mercidite."  and  from 
Reaufort  to  Key  West,  Florida,  and  were 
transferred  to  the  "Proteus,"  which  was  doing 
duty  in  the  East  Gulf  Squadron  under  Acting 
Admiral  T.  Railey  and  H.  C.  Schibling.  He 
was  always  to  be  found  at  his  post  of  duty 
and  achieved  a  proud  record  for  efficient  ser- 
vice. He  received  a  final  honorable  discharge 
at  Rrooiclyii,  New  York,  May  23.  1865.  by 
reason   yl  close  of  the  war. 

On  his  return  he  again  took  up  his  trade  of 
hatter  and  worked  as  a  finisher  with  C.  R. 
.Mston,  Moore  &  Seely,  of  Newark.  Frederick 
Cunimings,  and  Cummings  &  Matthews,  of 
Orange.  While  engaged  with  the  latter  firm, 
Mr.  .\gar,  who  was  progressive  and  practical 
Ml  his  ideas,  began  to  make  a  study  of  the 
needs  <:nd  rec|uirements  necessary  to  do  away 
with  the  never  ending  ojieration  of  hand  work. 
Before  Mr.  .Agar  invented  his  hat  brim  curl- 
ing machine,  the  operation  of  this  part  of  hat 
manufacture  was  very  cruflc,  the  brims  being 
curled  into  shajDe  by  hand  process  by  the  use  of 
hand  irons  of  peculiar  shape.  He  conceive<l 
the  idea  of  having  a  machine  whereby  a  hat 


brim  could  be  fed  through  a  convex  and  con- 
cave wheel  on  rolls,  the  concave  wheel  being 
four  inches  in  diameter  and  the  convex  wheel 
one  and  a  (|uarter  inches,  both  running  hori- 
zontally. The  concave  wheel  being  heated, 
gave  a  setting  or  stift'ening  to  the  shape  of  the 
brim  as  it  passed  through  the  rolls.  After 
careful  experimenting  he  soon  saw'  its  utility 
and  what  the  demand  might  be,  as  it  was  bound 
to  revolutionize  the  entire  process  of  hat  brim 
curling  at  a  most  surprising  saving  of  time  and 
money,  also  giving  a  greater  uniformity  to  the 
work.  He  early  realized  the  success  of  such 
an  inveutitn,  and  was  alive  to  the  fact  that 
it  could  only  be  realized  by  tireless  activity  and 
through  demonstration  of  the  device  for  prac- 
tical use.  In  i8q6  he  took  out  his  patent  and 
his  first  machine  was  installed  under  the  most 
favorable  results  in  Cummings  &  Matthews 
factory,  and  another  in  the  factory  of  E.  \'. 
Connett.  In  1898  he  was  issued  his  patent  and 
another  was  granted  in  1899  and  the  invention 
placed  on  the  market.  Mr.  Agar,  seeing  its 
future,  invested  his  own  means  with  others  at 
the  start,  forming  a  company  under  New  Jer- 
sey laws  with  .Anthony  L.  Ehardt  as  president, 
Mr.  .Agar  as  vice-president  and  manager. 
Frederick  Cummings  as  treasurer,  and  H.  D. 
Parmelec  as  secretary.  The  present  head- 
quarters are  at  17-19  Washington  place.  New 
York  City.  The  scope  of  the  enterprise  has 
been  extended  very  materially  so  that  the  .Agar 
hat  brim  curling  machines  have  found  a  ready 
sale  in  every  hat  manufacturing  plant  of  im- 
]K)rtancc  in  the  L'nited  States  and  Canada, 
and  is  being  adopted  by  many  of  the  factories 
al  ruad.  Mr.  .Agar  has  also  taken  out  patents 
for  a  hat  shaping  machine,  which  like  the  first 
iu\-cntiMi].  will  sujiersede  the  process  of  hand 
lab..^r. 

Mr.  .Agar  is  a  resident  of  East  Orange,  hav- 
ing creeled  his  residence  on  Grove  place  a 
number  of  years  ago.  He  has  other  propcty 
interests  in  the  locality.  He  is  a  staunch  advo- 
cate of  RejiubHcanism,  but  is  not  active  in  the 
af!airs  of  his  party,  although  he  has  served 
as  delegate  to  its  various  conventions.  He  and 
his  wife  are  members  of  the  Hawthorn  Ave- 
nue Ba])tist  Church.  He  was  formerly  an  affil- 
iated member  of  Lafayette  Lodge.  No.  12. 
I.  O.  O.  F...  of  Orange.  He  is  a  member  of 
L'zal  Dodd  Post,  No.  12,  G.  .A.  R.,  and  has 
served  that  body  as  post  commander.  .As  a 
young  man  he  was  a  member  of  the  Morris- 
tcwn  militia. 

Mr.  .Agar  married,  March  31.  1869,  Grace 
E.    born  July  24,   1849,  daughter  of  William 


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Deyo  and  Sarah  Elizalx-tli  (lledden)  John- 
son, crf  (_)range.  .Mrs.  Agar  is  seventh  in  hne 
frciin  Fifhvard  and  Jane  (Jones)  Hedden,  early 
settlers  id  Newark.  The  only  child  of  John 
and  Grace  E.  (Johnson)  Agar  is  William 
Clifton,  born  January  1 1,  1870  ;  married,  Octo- 
ber 21,  1896,  Lillian  Brandis,  born  September 
9,  1873,  daughter  of  August  and  Christina 
Brandis,  and  thev  have  one  child,  Dudley  Clif- 
ton, born  CJctober  10,  1897. 


I  That  branch  of  the  Wright 
'^WRIGHT  family  that  settled  in  New 
Jersey  was  of  English  origin. 
The  immigrant  ancestor  was  Deacon  Samuel 
Wright,  who  is  believed  to  have  been  a  son  of 
Nathaniel,  and  a  descendant  of  John  Wright, 
Lord  of  Kelvendon  Hall,  who  died  in  London, 
England,  in  the  year  1351.  Deacon  Samuel 
was  an  early  settler  of  Springfield,  Massachu- 
setts, and  in  1639  was  of  Agawam,  where  he 
is  mentioned  in  1641  as  one  of  the  proprietors 
of  that  town.  In  1655  or  1656  he  removed  to 
the  neighboring  town  of  Northampton,  where 
he  died  October  ly,  1665.  He  was  admitted  a 
freeman  A])ril  13,  1648.  He  became  a  well 
known  and  prominent  man  of  Northampton, 
was  a  deacon  of  the  church,  and  in  the  absence 
of  their  regular  minister  preached  to  the  con- 
gregation. In  1656-57,  he  served  the  church 
regularly  as  their  preacher.  Deacon  Samuel 
Wright  married,  before  leaving  England,  Mar- 
garet   ,  who  died  January  25,  168 1.     She 

is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Deacon  Samuel, 
dated  November  10,  1663,  proved  March  27, 
1666.  Children  of  Deacon  Samuel  and  Alar- 
garet  Wright:  i.  Benjamin.  2.  Samuel;  see 
forward.  3.  Hester,  married  Samuel  Marsh- 
field.  4.  Margaret,  married  Thomas  Bancroft. 
5.  Lydia,  married  (first)  Lawrence  Bliss; 
(second)  John  Newton;  (third)  John  Lamb; 
(tourth )  George  Cotton.  6.  ]\Iary.  7.  James. 
8.  Judah.    9.  Helped.     10.  Hannah. 

Samuel  (2),  second  son  of  Deacon  Samuel 
(  I  )  and  Alargaret  Wright,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, in  1629,  and  was  killed  by  the  Indians 
during  King  Philip's  war,  September  2,  1675. 
He  was  an  "engager"  for  Northfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, in  1671,  and  became  a  settler  of  that 
town  in  1673.  He  married,  November  24, 
1653,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Henry  Burt. 
She  survived  her  husband  and  married  (sec- 
ond) Nathaniel  Dickinson,  of  Hatfield,  Massa- 
chusetts. Children  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth 
(Burt)  \\Tight:  Samuel ;  Joseph  ;  Benjamin, 
see  forward ;  Ebenezer ;  Elizabeth,  married 
Thomas     Stebbins ;     Eliezer ;     Hannah ;     and 


Benoni,  born  ten  days  after  the  death  of  the 
father.  Eliezer,  the  sixth  child,  became  noted 
in  Father  Rasle's  war,  as  Lieutenant  Eliezer. 
He  was  the  grandfather  of  Captain  Azariah 
Wright,  who  had  a  remarkable  career  as  a 
soldier  and  pioneer,  served  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War  and  in  the  Revolution,  was  captain 
of  a  company  at  Westminster,  Vermont,  and 
was  known  as  an  "Ethan  Allen"  for  the  part 
he  took  in  the  New  York-New  Hampshire 
land  grant  difficulties  that  culminated  in  the 
"Westminster  Massacre."  A  descendant  of 
Captain  Azariah  Wright,  John  Bemis  Wright, 
made  a  national  reputation  as  a  news  writer 
on  the  Boston  Herald,  and  later  became  editor 
of  the  Haverhill  Gazette. 

Benjamin,  son  of  Samuel  Wright,  was  born 
July  13,  1660 — the  first  of  the  family  born  in 
America.  Other  record  of  him  is  not  to  lie 
found,  nor  of  immediate  descendants. 

Earned  Moore,  son  of  Benjamin  Wright, 
and  a  descendant  of  Samuel  Wright,  the  immi- 
grant, was  born  in  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont,  in 
1813,  and  died  in  1899.  He  received  a  good 
common  school  education,  and  learned  the 
trade  of  millwright.  He  became  a  contractor 
in  the  niillwrighting  line,  and  erected  many 
mills  in  Vermont,  including  grist,  starch,  and 
fulling  mills.  About  1847  '^^  removed  to 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where  he  engaged  as 
a  civil  engineer.  He  was  assistant  engineer 
on  the  great  dam  at  Lawrence,  and  was  con- 
nected with  other  engineering  work  in  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  of  great  mechanical  ingenu- 
ity, and  was  connected  with  the  building  of 
the  first  turbine  water  wheel  ever  built  in  the 
country.  He  later  removed  to  Troy,  New 
York.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war  he 
recruited  a  company  of  volunteers  among  the 
Adirondacks,  accompanying  them  to  the  front. 
He  was  later  commissioned  captain  of  a  com- 
pany of  the  Fiftieth  New  York  Engineer  Regi- 
ment. He  served  in  the  engineering  depart- 
ment, mainly  in  the  construction  of  bridges, 
and  was  attached  to  the  stafif  of  General  Mc- 
Dowell. After  the  war  closed,  Captain  W' right 
returned  to  Troy  and  resumed  his  profession 
of  civil  engineering,  and  he  resided  in  that  city 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  Ver- 
mont National  Guard  when  a  student  of  that 
state.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  served  locally  in  important 
positions.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Unitarian 
Church.  Captain  Wright  married,  in  1838, 
Sarah  Blake,  born  in  Sutton,  Vermont,  1829, 
and  died  in  1894,  daughter  of  Jacob  Blake. 
She  was  a  descendant  of  tlie  English  Admiral 


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Blake.  Four  children  were  born  to  Earned  M. 
and  Sarah  (  P.lake  )  Wright,  i.  Charles  Jeffer- 
son ;  see  forward.  2.  Walter,  a  manufacturer, 
of  Illinois.  3.  Charlotte,  married  General 
McW'ick,  and  resides  at  Eagles  Mere.  Pennsyl- 
vania. 4.  Emma,  a  resident  of  Freehold,  New 
Jersey. 

Charles  Jefferson  first  child  of  Earned 
W.  and  Sarah  (lUake)  Wright,  was  born 
in  St.  Johnsbury,  Vermont,  October  21, 
1839.  He  was  educated  at  Dwight  School, 
Boston;  Buffalo  (New  York)  high  school, 
and  was  graduated  from  Hobart  College,  class 
of  1861.  He  early  enlisted  in  the  Union  army 
as  a  private  in  Company  G,  Si.xteenth  New 
Hampshire  \'oluntcers,  recruited  at  Nashua, 
New  Hampshire.  He  was  promoted  to  ser- 
geant, and  served  through  the  New  Orleans, 
Red  River,  and  Port  Hudson  campaigns,  under 
Generals  Butler  and  Banks.  He  was  selected 
by  Admiral  Farragut  as  bearer  of  dispatches, 
and  for  his  services  was  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant and  recommended  for  a  commission  in 
the  United  States  reg^ilar  army.  This  promo- 
tion came  in  the  form  of  a  Heutenant-colonel's 
commission  in  the  Thirty-ninth  Regiment  of 
Colored  Troops.  At  the  beginning  of  the 
Wilderness  campaign  he  was  transferred  to 
the  Twenty-seventh  Infantry  (colored)  which 
regiment  he  led  through  all  the  battles  of  that 
campaign,  being  wounded  at  the  Petersburg 
Mine  and  later  at  F'ort  Fisher.  On  March  13, 
1865,  Eieutenant-Colonel  W'right  was  brev- 
etted  colonel  for  "gallant  and  meritorious  ser- 
vices during  the  war."  He  was  employed  dur- 
ing the  period  of  reconstruction,  and  did  not 
return  from  the  service  until  1866. 

Previous  to  the  war,  and  then  only  sixteen, 
Mr.  Wright  was  principal  of  a  school  at  Grand 
Isle,  near  Niagara  Falls,  and  after  retiring 
from  military  life  he  resumed  the  profession 
of  teaching.  For  three  years  he  taught  in  the 
Milton  Classical  Institute  at  Milton,  Pennsyl- 
vania, his  term  of  service  ending  with  the 
destruction  of  the  Institute  by  fire.  He  next 
taught  at  Ossinning,  New  York,  later  was  vice- 
principal  of  the  Yonkcrs  (New  York)  School, 
after  which  he  began  a  term  of  fifteen  years 
as  principal  of  the  Peekskill  Military  .Xcad- 
emy,  seeing  that  institution  grow  from  an 
attendance  of  seven  cadets  to  one  hundred 
and  forty.  Colonel  Wright  now  decided  on  a 
school  of  which  he  should  be  the  real  as  well 
as  the  nominal  head.  He  proceeded  to  estab- 
lish at  Cornwall,  New  York,  a  military  school 
known  as  the  New  York  Military  Academy, 
of  which  he  is  the  owner  and  president  of  the 


faculty.  This  school  has  now  been  in  suc- 
cessful operation  for  twelve  years.  In  the  year 
1900  Colonel  Wright  secured  the  land  and 
building  at  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  known  as 
the  F'reehold  Institute,  Military  Academy,  an 
institution  that  enrolls  annually  one  hundred 
boys.  Cononel  Wright  is  superintendent,  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees,  and  commandant 
of  the  Cadet  Battalion.  He  has  recently 
acquired  another  school  at  Matteawan,  New 
York,  which  he  will  conduct  in  conjunction 
with  his  other  two  well  established  and  ikijju- 
lar  academies. 

Colonel  Wright  is  an  active  Republican,  and 
a  campaign  orator  of  force  and  vigor.  He 
formerly  served  his  party  freely  "on  the 
stump"  during  Campaigns.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  IMilitary  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion, 
the  Society  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  At  the  dedication 
of  a  monument  erected  on  the  battlefield  of 
Monmouth,  Colonel  Wright  was  one  of  the 
chosen  orators.  He  is  a  member  of  Lafayette 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  New  York  City,  of  the  Army 
and  Navy  Club,  the  Arts  Club,  and  the  Artists' 
.\id  Society.  He  is  a  worldwide  traveler,  and 
his  home  is  beautified  and  his  artistic  taste 
gratified  by  numerous  beautiful  paintings  and 
^art  treasures  found  in  foreign  lands.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  serves  the  Freehold  congregation  as 
vestryman. 

Colonel  Wright  married,  in  1866,  Margaret 
Bard,  daughter  of  James  M.  Bard,  of  New 
York,  of  an  old  Pennsylvania  family.  Her 
father  was  at  one  time  recorder  of  West- 
chester countv.  New  York. 


The  Ogden  family  trace  their 
OGDEN  ancestry  to  England,  and  author- 
ities on  English  surnames  gener- 
ally agree  that  the  name  comes  from  the  Saxon 
ock,  oak-tree,  and  den,  a  local  termination 
occurring  in  the  weald  of  Kent,  Sussex,  and 
elsewhere,  implying  a  covert  and  feeding  place 
for  animals,  and  synonomous  with  dean,  a 
wooded  valley,  or  tract  yielding  acorns  or 
mast.  The  surname  is  thus  freely  rendered, 
"the  oak  valley,"  "oak  dale,"  "vale  of  oaks," 
"leafy  vale,"  "the  oak  vale,"  or  "shady  valley." 
In  support  of  this  interpretation  the  fact  may 
be  stated  that  on  all  the  escutcheons  of  the 
arms-bearing  Ogden  families  of  England,  the 
oak  branch,  or  oak  leaves  and  acorns  are 
always  found,  and  usually  in  the  crest.  One  of 
the  earliest  arms  (that  of  "Okton,"  in  (niil- 
lim's   "Display  of   Heraldry,"    1724)    has  the 


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ouartering  of  the  Quaker  Ogden  arms,  but  in 
blue,  and  canton  in  corner,  while  the  same 
quartering  is  found  in  the  "Okeden"  arms,  by 
Edmondson,  1780,  in  which  the  blue  is  replaced 
by  red ;  for  "Okeden  of  EUingham  in  Hamp- 
shire," 1780,  the  arms  consist  of  "sable,  on 
a  fesse  argent,  between  3  acorns  gold,  as  many 
oak  leaves  vert."' 

When  surnames  became  necessary  it  was 
common  to  designate  a  man  by  some  dis- 
tinguished locality  or  calling  in  life.  Thus, 
John  de  Oketon  retained  this  surname,  as  he 
lived  near  a  thickly  wooded  valley.  Many 
old  English  works  give  unmistakable  evidence 
that  several  families  of  this  surname,  variously 
spelled  and  located  in  different  parts  of  Eng- 
land, extend  back  to  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror  (1027-87).  Beardsley  says  that 
Ogden  was  first  written  de  Hoghton.  Peter 
de  Iloton.  1150  A.  D.,  founded  Erden  or 
Arden  Priory,  a  Benedictine  nunnery  near 
Black  Hameldon,  in  the  deanery  and  arch- 
deanery  of  Cleveland.  In  A.  D.  1200,  John 
de  Hoton,  father  of  Sir  John  de  Oketon, 
Knight  of  Rowcandura,  granted  luill  and 
water  power  and  gave  two  oxgangs  of  laml 
to  the  parish  of  Hoton.  The  various  Ogden 
families  (or  the  civil  and  church  authorities 
for  them)  often  spelled  the  surname  differ- 
ently, even  among  their  immediate  connec- 
tions, and,  in  its  mutations,  we  have  "de  Oke- 
ton," "Oketone,"  "Ocktone,"  "Okedone," 
"Okeden,"  "Okeden,"  "Oakden,"  "Okden," 
and  finally  "Ogden."  The  earliest  date  of  the 
present  spelling  of  the  surname  is  circa  1500 
A.  D.,  while  some  of  the  earlier  spellings, 
especially  "Okeden,"  are  found  as  late  as  1738. 

( I )  The  earliest  discoverable  ancestor  of 
the  Ogden  family  here  represented  was  Robert 
Ogden,  who  appears  as  witness  to  a  grant  of 
land  in  Nutley.  Hampshire,  1453.  and  again 
with  others  in  1457  in  connection  with  a  post- 
mortem search  concerning  lands  in  Nutley, 
belonging  to  one  Joan  Ogden,  of  EUingham 
county,  Southants.  He  was  the  father  of  two 
sons.  Richard  and  William. 

(H)  Richard,  son  of  Robert  r)gden,  mar- 
ried, before  March  8,  1503,  Mabel,  daughter  of 
Johannes  De  Hoogan,  of  the  parish  of  Lynd- 
hurst,  Hants.  Children:  John,  married  Alar- 
garet  Wharton  ;  William,  see  forward ;  Rob- 
ert, whose  line  became  extinct  in  ifii3. 

(HI)  William,  son  of  Richard  and  Mabel 
(Delloogan)  Ogden,  died  before  July  10. 
1569,  on  which  date  Abigail,  widow  of  William 
Ogden,  of  Bradley  Plain,  confirms  to  Edward 
Ogden,  her   eldest  son,  and  to  Margaret  his 


wife,  all  her  lands  and  tenements  in  Bradley 
Plain  and  Minstead.  William  (Jgden  married, 
May  9,  1539,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Henry 
Goodsall,  of  Bradley  Plain.  Children :  Ed- 
ward, see  forward:  Abigail,  born  July  14. 
1541  ;  married.  (Jctober  3,    13(12,   Philip   IJen- 

nett :    Charles,    born     1543;    married 

Williams. 

(IV)  Edward,  son  of  William  ami  Abigail 
((}oodsall)  Ogden,  born  in  Bradley  Plain. 
September  6,   1540.  married  there.   December 

16.  1563.  ]\Iargaret.  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Margaret  Wilson.  On  December  18,  1563. 
Richard  and  Margaret  Wilson  confirm  to  Ed- 
ward and  Margaret  C)gdcn,  and  their  lawful 
issue,  land  in  Bradley  Plain,  also  four  acres 
in  Minstead.  Children:  Thomas,  born  May 
4.  1565;  married  Elizabeth  Samford;  Mar- 
garet, born  February  21,  1566;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1593,  Isaac,  son  of  John  Samford: 
Richard,  see  forward;  Edward  Jr.,  died  April 

17.  1570:  John,  born  September  19.  1571  :  mar- 
ried. May  2.  1592.  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel and  Margaret   (Crane)   Huntington. 

(V)  Richard  (2).  son  of  Edward  and  Mar- 
garet (Wilson)  Ogden.  was  born  in  Bradley 
Plain.  Alay  15.  1568.  He  appears  to  have  lived 
in  Wiltshire,  and  had  lands  in  New  Sarum 
and  Plaitford.  He  married.  May  2,  1592, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Margaret 
(Crane)  Huntington.  Children:  Richard, 
born  May  3,  1596.  died  in  infancy:  Richard, 
born  September  18,  1597,  died  May  3.  1599; 
Edward,  born  July  21.  1598:  married.  Decem- 
ber 2.  1630.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Alice  (Dimery)  Knight,  of  \\^oodbury 
Hill,  Worcester:  Elizabeth,  born  December  17, 
1603,  died  in  infancy;  Elizabeth,  born  May  13, 
1607;  married  Martin;  John,  see  for- 
ward :  Richard,  born  July  i,  1610,  died  in  Fair- 
field, Connecticut.  1687;  married.  August  21, 
1639,  Mary,  daughter  of  David  Hall,  of 
Gloucester,  England:  David,  born  Tune  11, 
1611. 

(\  I)  John,  son  of  Richard  (2)  and  Eliza- 
beth (  Huntington )  Ogden,  born  September 
19.  1609,  in  Bradley  Plain,  Ham]ishire.  Eng- 
land, died  in  May,  1682.  He  acquired  prop- 
erty in  England,  and  prior  to  his  emigration 
to  the  new  world  conveyed.  October  18,  1639. 
to  Ezekiel  Howard,  also  of  Bradley  Plain,  a 
garden,  orchard,  four  acres  of  pasture  and 
two  acres  of  woodland,  with  appurtenances. 
The  name  of  the  vessel  in  which  John  (  )gdcn. 
and  his  fellow  emigrants  sailed  is  nut  known, 
but  it  probably  landed  at  Southampton,  on  the 
southern  shore  of  Long  Island,  early  in  1640. 


STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


The  first  mention  of  John  Ogtkn's  name  is  in 
connection  with  his  taking  up  residence  at 
Southampton,  and  being  one  to  whom  was 
granted,  April  17,  1640,  the  tract  known  as 
Shinnecock  Hill,  which  adjoined  Southampton 
on  the  west.  He  was  a  leader  among  the  set- 
tlers in  founding  the  town.  In  1647  he 
obtained  permission  of  the  Southamiiton 
authorities  to  plant  a  colony  of  six  families 
at  "North  Sea"  (Great  Peconic  Bay),  about 
three  mile.s  north  of  Southampton.  Two  or 
three  years  elapsed  before  his  removal  and 
planting  of  his  colony  at  "North  Sea,"  which 
later  was  called  Northampton.  One  of  the 
enterprises  which  engaged  the  attention  of 
John  Ogden  was  whaling,  an  industry  in  which 
he  was  interested  as  late  as  1668.  He  was 
made  freeman  at  Southampton,  March  31, 
1650.  His  integrity  and  ability  in  public 
affairs  are  attested  by  the  fact  that  he  sat  in 
general  court  as  representative  from  South- 
ampton in  May,  1659,  and  in  the  upper  house. 
May,  1661,  and  at  subsequent  periods.  He  is 
many  times  mentioned  in  the  records  as  sitting 
upon  juries.  When  past  fifty-four  years  of 
age  and  after  having  spent  twenty-four  years 
on  Long  Island,  he  evidently  determined  to 
remove  to  New  Jersey,  and  began  to  dispose  of 
his  real  estate,  which  was  quite  extensive.  The 
integrity  of  John  Ogden  and  his  associates  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  they  first  secured  the 
consent  of  habitation  from  the  Indians  and 
bought  the  Elizabeth  Town  tract  in  New  Jer- 
sey from  them,  October  25,  1664,  a  month 
before  the  patent  was  granted  by  the  English 
governor.  Philip  Carteret  was  appointed  first 
proprietary  governor,  and  he  appointed  John 
Ogden  deputy  governor,  and  the  Dutch,  who 
had  retaken  New  York  by  force  of  arms,  July 
30,  1673,  made  John  Ogden  sheriff  in  charge. 
The  high  regard  and  confidence  of  Governor 
Carteret,  of  New  Jersey,  is  manifested  in  the 
following  commission,  making  Jolin  Ogden 
deputy  governor : 

To  mj'  trusty  &  WeU  beloved  ffriend 
John  Ogden  Ksq: 
WHEREAS  I  am  assured  of  ye  knowledge,  Wis- 
dome,  Prudence,  &  Integrity  In  the  management  of 
the  publique  affaires  in  these  partes  of  America, 
I  have  thought  fitt  and  doe  by  these  presents.  Nom- 
inate &  Appoint  you  the  said  .John  Ogden  durelng 
pleasure  to  be  one  of  my  Councellours  for  the 
afflres  of  the  said  Province.  .\nd  to  be  assistant  to 
mee  your  said  Governour  or  my  Deputy  for  the 
time  being.  And  doe  hereby  authorize  &  require 
you  to  putt  in  Execution.  Observe  and  follow  such 
Orders  and  Directions  as  you  shall  from  time  to 
time  receive  from  the  said  Lords  Proprleto  :  or  my 
selfe,  as  to  the  Office  and  Duty  of  a  Councellour  and 


Assistant  to  mee  your  said  Governor;  doth  apper- 
taine  &  belong.  Given  under  my  hand  &  Seale  of 
the  Province  aforesaid  the  first  day  of  November 
A  1665  and  in  the  Seaventeenth  yeare  of  the  Raigne 
of  Our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  the  second.  King  of 
England.  Scotland,  France  &  Ireland,  Defender  of 
the  Faith. 

By   the  Governour  Ph:   Carteret 

Ja:  Bollen  Secy: 

John  Ogden  was  the  first  of  sixty-five  men 
who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  King 
Charles  II.,  February  19,  1665.  Among  them 
were  his  sons,  John  Jr.,  David  and  Jonathan. 
He  was  settled  upon  the  Elizabeth  Town  tract 
as  early  as  August  ist,  1665,  and  increased  his 
holdings  that  year  by  buying  the  rights  in  the 
tract  held  by  Daniel  and  Nathaniel  Denton. 
His  house  was  doubtless  located  on  Point  road, 
now  Elizabeth  avenue.  In  the  legislature  con- 
stituted at  Elizabethtown,  May  26,  1668,  John 
Ogden  was  chosen  one  of  the  burgesses.  He 
was  an  acknowledged  pioneer  of  the  towp,  the 
accepted  leader  of  the  people,  a  pillar  in  the 
church  and  in  the  state,  honored  and  trusted 
by  all :  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  of  whom  the 
town,  as  well  as  his  numerous  posterity,  should 
be  gratefully  mindful.  John  Ogden  married, 
at  Bradley  Plain,  May  8,  1637,  Jane,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  Bond,  of  England,  and  tradition 
says  she  was  sister  of  Robert  Bond,  an  inti- 
mate associate  of  John  Ogden,  both  in  South- 
ampton, Long  Island,  and  Elizabethtown,  New 
Jersey.  Children:  John,  born  in  England. 
March  3,  1638,  died  November  24,  1702:  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Plum ;  David,  born  England, 
January  11,  1639;  married  Elizabeth  (  Swaine  ) 
Ward ;  Jonathan,  see  forward ;  Joseph,  born 
in  America,  November  9,  1642  ;  married  Sarah 
Whitehead :  Benjamin,  born  in  America, 
1654,  died  November  20,  1722;  married  Han- 
nah WoodrufT;  Mary,  born  in  America:  mar- 
ried John  WoodrufT. 

Through  these  five  sons  and  one  daughter 
flowed  a  strain  of  blood  that  assured  high 
grade  of  thought  and  action  throughout  the 
nation.  Perhaps  ten  per  cent,  were  above  the 
average  in  the  scale  of  excellence,  and  were 
in  some  way  prominent.  Of  the  learned  jiro- 
fessions,  a  remarkable  number  attained  high 
degree  in  the  law,  a  number  helping  to  frame 
colonial  and  state  constitutions,  and  many 
becoming  judges  of  supreme  court;  three  were 
governors  of  New  Jersey.  In  the  various 
records  of  the  state  of  New  York  the  activi- 
ties of  members  of  the  Ogden  family  are 
frequently  recorded.  At  the  time  of  the  revo- 
lutionary war,  John  Ogden,  great-grandson  of 
John  Ogden,  the  Pilgrim,  owned  and  operated 


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a  mill  on  a  stream  that  empties  into  the  W'hip- 
pany  river  near  Whippany  village.  Where  the 
road  leading  from  Morristown,  New  Jersey,  to 
J'arsippany  crosses  this  stream  the  remains 
of  the  house  and  mill  could  be  seen  only  a  few 
years  ago.  He  made  flour  for  the  army  at 
^lorristown,  and  it  is  stated  that  his  wife  often 
made  the  flour  into  bread  for  the  hungry 
soldiers.  That  property  afterwards  came  mto 
possession  of  Abraham  Ogden,  a  son,  and  so 
remained  until  May  3,  1819,  when  he  sold  it 
to  John  Canfield.  He  was  the  father  of  the 
late  \\'illiam  B.  Ogden,  who  was  the  first 
mayor  of  Chicago,  and  for  many  years  was 
prominent  in  the  railroad  and  financial  develop- 
ment of  the  west. 

(MIj  Jonathan,  son  of  John  and  Jane 
(Bond)  Ogden,  was  born  in  England,  January 
II,  1639,  died  January  3,  1732.  He  was  twin 
to  his  brother  David.  He  removed  with  his 
family  from  Southampton,  Long  Island,  to 
Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey,  in  1665,  and  was 
one  of  the  original  associates.  He  took  the 
oath  of  allegiance  to  King  Charles  II.  on  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1665.  He  took  the  oath  of  allegiance 
to  the  Dutch  government  of  New  York,  Sep- 
tember II,  1673.  On  June  14,  1676,  he  applied 
to  the  surveyor  general,  or  his  deputy,  asking 
that  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  be 
laid  out  to  him.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the 
overseers  of  his  father's  will  November  21, 
1681,  and  in  1702  swears  that  he  "hath  safely 
kept  it  ever  since  that  time  till  now."  In  1692 
he  was  receiver  of  taxes  for  Essex  county, 
New  Jersey.  That  he  was  a  zealous  church- 
man is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  in  the  year 
1678  and  later,  with  his  brother  John,  he  is 
named  as  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  minister's 
support.  In  1691  he  is  called  Deacon  Jonathan 
Ogden,  and  is  again  named  as  one  of  the 
largest  contributors.  On  December  26,  1699, 
he  was  one  of  the  assistants  to  John  Harriman, 
who  had  been  chosen  surveyor  "to  la)'  out, 
divide  and  equally  assize  all  lands  and 
meadows  within  the  whole  bounds  and  jnir- 
chase  of  Elizabeth  Town,  to  every  one  inter- 
ested therein  by  right  of  purchase  under  the 
honorable  General  Richard  Nicholls,  their 
several  &  respective  parts  and  shares  of  the 
whole."  The  will  of  Jonathan  Ogden  was 
probated  January  9.  1732.  He  married 
Rebekah  Wood,  liorn  November,  1648,  died 
Septemljer  11,  1723.  Children:  Jonathan,  see 
fiirward:  Samuel,  born  1678,  died  1715;  mar- 
ried (first)  Rachel  (jardiner;  (second)  Johan- 
nah  Schellinx ;  Robert,  born  ir)87,  died  No- 
vember   20,    1733;    married     (first)     Hannah 


Crane:  (second)  I'hebe  (Roberts)  Baldwin: 
Hannah,  married  John  Meeker,  Rabecca,  mar- 
ried James  Ralph. 

(VIII)  Jonathan  (2),  son  of  Jonathan  (  i  ) 
and  Rebekah  Ogden,  was  born  1676.  tlied 
before  June  10,  1731.  He  is  named  in  "New 
Jersey  Colonial  Documents"  as  one  of  the 
many  who  petitioned  the  king,  probably  in 
1696,  for  greater  protection  from  the  East 
Jersey  proprietors.  He  had  then  about  attained 
his  majority;  he  was  a  resident  of  Elizabeth- 
town,  New  Jersey,  and  occupied  a  house 
owned  by  his  father.  Fie  was  one  of  the  peti- 
tioners to  the  king  asking  to  be  taken  under 
his  direct  government,  should  the  proprietors 
not  ap]3oint  a  suitable  [)erson  as  governor.     He 

married     Elizabeth .     Children:  Jnna- 

than:  married ,  and  had  a  son  Jonathan 

and  other  children ;  John,  see  forward. 

(IX)  John,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  ami  Eliza- 
beth Ogden,  was  born  November  22,  1700, 
died  November  15,  1780.  He  resided  in  a 
neighborhood  about  two  miles  from  Elizabeth- 
town,  called  Sodom,  and  because  of  his  singu- 
lar piety  was  familiarly  called  "Righteous 
Lot."  His  will  was  made  June  6,  1779,  proved 
December  10,  1780.  He  married,  October  8, 
1722,  Mary  Osborn,  born  1705.  died  April  15, 
1758.  Both  John  Ogden  and  his  wife  are 
buried  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Churchyard, 
Elizabeth,  New  Jersey.  Children :  Abigail, 
born  March  30,   1725,  died  March   18,   1782: 

married Pierson ;  Mary,  born  June  16, 

1728,  died  October  10,  1757;  married  Michael 
Meeker,  born  1720,  died  June  28,  1755,  son  of 
Daniel  Meeker;  John  Jr.,  born  June  23,  1733, 
died  February  5,  1777;  married  (first)  Eliz- 
abeth Pierson;  (second)  Joanna  Ouigley; 
Phebe,  born  August  25,  1734,  died  July  10, 
1798:  married  John  Magie;  Jonathan,  born 
August  26,  1736;  Ezekiel,  see  forward. 

(X)  Ezekiel,  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Osborn)  Ogden,  was  born  June  23,  1741,  died 
January  5,  1766.  He  married,  and  among  his 
children  was  Ezekiel. 

(XI)  Ezekiel  (2),  sou  of  Ezekiel  (i)  Og- 
den, was  born  November  26,  1765,  died 
December  10,  1822.  He  married,  March, 
1787,  Abigail,  born  October  3,  1765,  died  May 
14.  1820,  daughter  of  Matthais  and  Margaret 
(Magie)  Ogden.  Ezekiel  Ogden  and  his  wife 
lie  side  by  side  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Churchyard,  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey.  Chil- 
dren :  Abraham,  born  L'nion,  New  Jersey, 
December  30,  1787,  died  New  York  City,  July 
8,  1812:  Ichabod,  born  July  18.  1789,  died 
Septemljer  30.   i8C)\  ;  married  Rebecca  Town- 


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ley  ;  Ezekiel,  born  January  12,  1791,  died  1823  ; 
married  Jane  Lewes  Cochran ;  James  Kilborn, 
born  July  30,  1793,  died  1869;  married  Mar- 
garet Hall ;  Abigail,  born  Alarch  30.  1795,  died 
September  25,  1871  ;  married  Jonathan  Magie ; 
Phebe,  born  December  5,  1796,  died  young; 
Hatfield,  born  June  10,  1798,  died  October  7, 
1817;  P^hebe,  born  July  8,  1799.  died  Novem- 
ber 20,  1878;  married,  October  11,  1827,  Hon. 
Elias  Darby,  born  December  27,  1797.  died 
March  26,  1879  ;  John,  born  February  18,  1801, 
died  January  23,  1891  :  married  Jane  Eliza 
Gray;  Samuel,  born  July  18,  1803,  died  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1881  ;  married  Alary  Barr  Campbell ; 
Joseph  Meeker,  see  forward ;  Theodore  Ham- 
ilton, born  January  17,  1806;  married,  October 
26,  1830,  Alary  Jane  Magie ;  Jonathan,  born 
June  12,  1807,  died  June  4,  1888:  married 
Elizabeth  Gorham. 

(XH)  Rev.  Joseph  Meeker  Ogden,  son  of 
Ezekiel  (2)  and  Abigail  (Ogden)  Ogden,  was 
born  in  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey,  September  21, 
1804,  died  in  Chatham.,  New  Jersey,  February 
13,  1884.  He  was  graduated  from  P'rinceton 
College  in  1824.  He  entered  the  Presbyterian 
ministry  and  was  installed  first  pastor  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Chatham,  New  Jersey, 
in  November,  1828.  This  church  was  organ- 
ized October  23,  1823,  and  the  Rev.  Asa 
Lyman,  of  Morristown.  New  Jersey,  became 
its  steady  supply.  His  health  having  failed  he 
was  compelled  to  resign  his  labors  in  1827, 
and  the  congregation  called  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Ogden  to  become  their  settled  pastor.  The 
original  house  of  worship  soon  became  inade- 
quate to  accommodate  the  growing  congrega- 
tion, and  a  new  church  was  erected  in  1832. 
This  building  was  subsequently  enlarged  and 
beautified  in  1882,  the  efficient  labors  of  the 
pastor  and  the  growing  regard  of  the  people 
requiring  more  e.xtended  accommodations. 
Rev.  Dr.  Ogden  was  not  only  popular  with 
his  own  church  and  community  but  was  well 
known  and  appreciated  throughout  the  state, 
having  officiated  at  scores  of  weddings  in  var- 
ious quarters.  He  resigned  from  the  pastorate 
of  the  church  at  Chatham,  September  23,  1873. 
having  enjoyed  an  iminterrupted  and  success- 
ful pastorate  of   forty-five  years. 

He  married,  1849,  Emeline  Atwood.  born  in 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  April  26,  1822,  died  at 
Chatham,  New  Jersey.  .August  17,  1890, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Hannah  (Hayes) 
Sweasey.  Rev.  Dr.  Ogden  and  his  wife  lie 
side  by  side  in  the  burying-ground  at  Chatham. 
Children:  i.  William  Wilberforce,  born 
March,   1850:  president  of  J.   AL  Quimby  & 


Company,  carriage  and  automobile  builders, 
Newark,  New  Jersey;  married,  June  2,  1874, 
Alarana  Norton,  daughter  of  El  ford  and 
Marana  (Baldwin)  Jarman.  2.  Cornelia 
Townley,  born  .\ugust  16,  1851  ;  married, 
February  16,  1876,  FVancis  L.  Alinton,  lawyer 
and  member  of  firm  of  R.  G.  Dun  &  Company, 
son  of  Hudson  and  Caroline  E.  (Lum)  Alin- 
ton. 3.  Joseph  Wallace,  see  forward.  4. 
Edward  Prine,  born  July  15,  1855,  died  at  East 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  February  2,  1899;  was 
for  a  time  engaged  in  the  carriage  business  at 
Newark  ;  while  living  in  Chatham  was  superin- 
tendent of  the  Presbyterian  church  Sunday 
school,  and  upon  his  removal  to  East  Orange 
became  a  member  of  the  Brick  Presbyterian 
Church:  married,  October  14,  1891,  Sarah, 
born  October  27,  1868,  daughter  of  David  L. 
and  Charlotte  (Clark)  Alinton.  5.  Henry  Day, 
born  Alarch,  1856;  secretary  of  the  J.  AL 
Quimby  &  Company,  of  Newark;  married. 
April,  1885,  Alary  Freeman,  of  Newark. 

(XHJ)  Joseph  Wallace  Ogden,  son  of  Rev. 
Joseph  AL  and  Emeline  Atwood  (Sweasey) 
Ogden,  was  born  at  Chatham,  New  Jersey,  in 
April,  1853.  His  father  prescriberl  for  him  a 
liberal  education,  and  he  accordingly  entered 
Lafayette  College  in  the  class  of  "72." 
Although  he  did  not  remain  till  the  end  of  the 
course  and  was  not  graduated  with  his  class, 
he  later  on  received  the  degree  of  A.  AL  from 
the  college. 

On  entering  business  life  his  first  occupation 
was  that  of  clerk  in  a  brokerage  firm  in  Wall 
street.  In  1881  he  established  the  banking 
and  brokerage  firm  of  J.  W.  Ogden  &  Co.,  and 
has  conducted  it  with  marked  success  for  a 
number  of  years.  The  house  has  been  engaged 
in  many  large  financial  transactions,  and  has 
acquired  a  well  merited  reputation  for  business 
sagacity  and  for  safe  and  conservative 
methods.  Air.  Ogden  was  a  director  and  vice- 
])resident  of  the  New  York,  Susquehanna  and 
Western  Railroad  for  several  years  until  it 
was  absorbed  by  the  Erie  Railroad.  .\t  a  later 
period  he  acquired  extensive  interests  in  the 
anthracite  coal  fields,  and  became  president  of 
both  the  .Mgonquin  and  Laurel  Run  Coal  Com- 
panies of  Wilkesbarre,  Pennsylvania.  Air 
Ogden  has  never  sought  nor  held  political 
office.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union,  Down 
lown  and  Riding  clubs  of  New  York,  and  of 
the  Alorristown  Golf  and  Whippany  River 
clubs.  His  property  at  Alorristown,  known  as 
"Loantaka  Farms,"  where  he  resides  a  part  of 
the  year,  was  owned  by  members  of  the  Ogden 
family  in  early  Colonial  days.     His  business 


STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


offices  are  at  loo  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
Air.  Ogdeii  married,  in  1884,  Charlotte  Ward. 


His  friend,  George  Morgan,  has 
\'EALE  written  the  following  sketch  of 
Companion  Moses  \'eale.  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  it 
coincides  so  perfectly  with  our  own  estimate  of 
the  Alajor  that  it  is  here  inserted  without 
change. 

"Some  seven  thousand  books  have  been 
written  about  the  War  for  the  Union.  When, 
forty  years  after  Appomattox,  one  reverts  to 
this  war.  his  thoughts  about  it  are  challenged 
by  its  complexity,  its  magnitude,  its  glory.  He 
finds  it  hard  to  pick  just  the  right  words  in 
praising  any  one  man,  or  act  of  man,  among 
the  enormous  number  of  participants.  There 
were  so  many  opportunities  for  the  exercises 
of  heroic  qualities ;  there  were  so  many  acts 
of  heroism:  there  were  so  many  varieties  and 
types  of  self-immolating  soldiers,  as  to  cause 
one  to  guard  his  pen  lest  it  give  expression  to 
estimates  lacking  that  most  essential  of  com- 
ponents, a  just  sense  of  proportion. 

"However,  it  is  to  one  particular  man  that 
these  lines  refer.  Fortunately,  he  represents 
a  type.  There  were  scores  of  young  men  in 
1861-65  who  felt  as  he  felt,  thought  as  he 
thought,  acted  as  he  acted.  They  gave  up  much 
to  go  to  war.  They  knew  its  meaning.  In  all  its 
gravity  they  measured  it  and  weighed  it.  They 
v/ere  read}'  with  their  lives,  and  some  of  them 
gave  those  lives.  'Knightly  soldiers,'  they  were 
humbled  before  God.  Such  certainly  was 
Alajor  Moses  \eale,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
But,  before  telling  of  Major  \'eale's  experi- 
ences in  the  war  for  the  Union,  one  may  be 
permitted  to  recall  certain  facts  of  heroic 
interest  in  connection  with  his  father's  family 
and  that  of  his  mother,  the  Veales  and  the 
Sharpes,  each  of  English  origin.  The  X'eales 
were  well  placed  at  Idyslegh,  North  Devon,  in 
Queen  Elizabeth's  time — the  Rev.  Walter 
\  eale  being  rector  of  the  parish  there,  three 
hundred  and  five  years  ago.  In  that  same  cen- 
tury, Major  Veale's  immigrant  ancestor  left 
old  England  for  the  New  World,  settling  in 
Massachusetts  in  1635.  One  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Veales  was  captain  of  a  company  of 
'Green  Mountain  Boys'  at  the  battle  of  Ben- 
nington, in  the  Revolutionary  War.  But  long 
before  that,  Major  Veale's  great-great-great- 
grandfather, originally  of  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts, had  bought  and  built  upon  a  large  tract 
of  land  near  Bridgeton,  New  Jersey.  The 
house  thus  built  two  hundred  vears  ago  still 


stands,  its  present  owner  being  Henry  \  eale. 
That  a  family  should  hold  its  home-acre^  for 
so  long  a  time  is  certainly  uncommon  in  our 
country,  where  the  unceasing  flow  from  east 
to  west  has  separated  so  many  millions  of  kins- 
men. While  the  \'eales  have  a  Green  Moun- 
tain record,  they  also  have  a  'Jersey  Blue'  rec- 
ord, several  members  of  the  family  having 
taken  part  m  the  Rebellion.  Coming  down  to 
the  Civil  War,  we  find  Captain  Veale,  Major 
\'eale's  father,  one  of  the  first  sufferers.  He 
was  in  the  south  during  the  Fort  Sumter 
excitement,  lost  valuable  personal  property  by 
confiscation,  and  became  one  of  the  first,  if  not 
the  first,  prisoner  of  war.  Adding  to  this  rec- 
ord the  death  in  battle  of  the  gallant  Delany 
Sliarpe  \'eale.  Major  \'eale's  younger  brother, 
who  fell  at  Gettysburg,  one  sees  how  closelv 
woven  into  the  nation's  history  is  the  history 
of  his  family. 

"No  less  interesting  is  the  chronicle  of  the 
Sharpes.  The  original  immigrant  of  this  line 
reached  Salem,  New  Jersey,  in  1675.  He 
was  appointed  by  the  King  of  England  judge 
of  the  old  district  of  Suffolk,  now  cut  up  into 
the  counties  of  Salem,  Cumberland,  Cape  May, 
Gloucester  and  Camden.  Of  Judge  Sharpe's 
blood  was  the  Revolutionary  hero,  Delany 
Sharpe,  who  married  Lydia  Stretch.  Very 
interesting  historically  is  a  logbook  kept  by 
Delany  Sharpe  while  he  was  in  the  first  Amer- 
ican navy.  He  was  midshipman,  or  as  the 
term  ran,  '.\pprentice,'  and  won  a  medal  for 
proficiency,  not  in  fighting,  as  his  descendants 
did  at  the  battle  of  Wauhatchie,  but  in  some- 
thing which  we  think  a  vast  deal  harder,  to 
wit,  mathematics.  In  this  logbook,  now- 
treasured  by  Thomas  Wynne,  a  great-grand- 
son. Delany  Sharpe,  gives  an  account  of  the 
capture  of  a  British  vessel.  Perhaps  Delany 
Sharpe  should  be  spoken  of  as  a  hero  of  the 
War  of  1812,  rather  than  as  a  Revolutionary 
hero.  He  was  at  Lundy's  Lane,  and  in  one 
or  two  letters  written  home  by  him  at  the  time 
of  the  battle  occurs  this  passage:  I  was  stand- 
ing near  General  Scott  when  he  called  Colonel 
Miller,  and  said  to  him:  'Can  you  take  those 
heights?'  (where  the  enemy's  battery  was 
placed)  and  Colonel  Miller  replied,  'I  will  try.' 
Subsequently,  in  this  same  battle,  Delany 
Sharpe  suffered  his  death  wound.  He  was 
buried  at  Sackett's  Harbor.  The  words  T  will 
try,'  since  famous,  were  first  written  by  him. 
His  daughter,  Elizabeth  Sharpe,  kept  these 
letters,  and  they  are  now  in  her  son's  posses- 
sion. 

"Thus,   by   two   lines,   Major    Moses   \'"eale 


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came  of  sturdy  lighting  and  patriotic  stock. 
Mis  father's  namesake,  he  was  born  at  Bridge- 
ton.  November  9.  1832.  His  boyhood  was 
passed  in  Philadelphia,  which  since  he  was  a 
tiny  child  has  been  his  home.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  Quaker  Seminary,  and  was  an 
instructor  in  that  same  school  for  three  years. 
He  came  to  the  bar  in  1856  and  was  admitted 
to  the  supreme  court  on  motion  of  David  Paul 
Hrown,  Esq.  In  .May,  1861,  Major  V'eale  was 
appointed  second  lieutenant  in  the  8th  Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry,  then  the  'Cliormann 
Rangers.'  This  is  the  regiment  which  rode 
ir.to  Jackson's  line  of  battle  at  Chancellors- 
ville  at  a  critical  moment.  lUit  on  November 
8.  i8()i.  he  was  commissioned  second  lieuten- 
ant of  Company  I-",  109th  Pennsylvania  X'ulun- 
teers  and  his  first  service  at  the  front  was 
with  that  regiment.  In  the  spring  of  1862  he 
was  assistant  provost  marshal,  serving  on  the 
staff  of  General  C.  C.  Augur.  At  the  battle  of 
Cedar  Mountain,  August  9,  1862,  he  was 
wounded  in  the  groin  and  in  the  arm.  He  was 
taken  prisoner  and  placed  in  Libby  Prison, 
where  he  was  subjected  to  a  peculiar  ordeal. 
In  retaliation  for  an  order  issued  by  General 
Pope,  Jefferson  Davis  caused  Major  Veale, 
with  the  other  L'nion  officers,  to  be  singled  out 
for  sacrifice.  He  was  declared  to  be  without 
the  rights  of  a  ])risoner  of  war,  and  was  placed 
as  a  felon  among  criminals,  whites  and  blacks, 
and  condenuied  to  be  shot  to  deatli.  ^^'hen 
President  Lincoln  heard  of  the  retaliatory 
order  he  forced  its  cancellation  by  a  counter- 
thrust  in  the  case  of  Confederate  ofiiicers. 
After  his  exchange  Major  Veale  was  com- 
missioned ca])tain,  April  4,  1863,  distinguished 
himself  at  Chancellorsville,  and  during  the 
Gettysburg  campaign  served  on  the  staff'  of 
General  John  \V.  Geary,  commanding  the  Sec- 
ond Division,   12th  Corps. 

"On  the  first  day  of  the  battle  of  Gettysburg 
a  matter  of  historic  importance  came  especially 
under-  Major  \'eale"s  observation.  The  divi- 
sion halted  about  10  A.  M.,  July  ist,  at  Two 
Taverns.  About  2  P.  M.  Gen.  Geary  received 
an  order  from  Gen.  Henry  W.  Slocum,  com- 
manding the  1 2th  Corps  to  take  two  brigades 
and  proceed  along  the  P)altimore  and  Ohio 
road  in  the  direction  of  Gettysburg.  .  \\  hen 
the  two  brigades,  headed  by  (ien.  George  S. 
Greene,  were  on  the  line  of  march.  Gen.  Geary 
ordered  Major  \eale  and  two  other  staff'  offi- 
cers to  proceed  with  him  in  advance  of 
Greene's  troops.  They  set  out  at  a  gallop,  and 
between  3.30  and  4  P.  M.,  came  to  Cemetery 
Ridge,  where  Gen.  \Y.  S.  Hancock  was  stand- 


ing. Geary  saluted  and  dismounted.  Han- 
cock asked,  'General,  where  are  your  troops?' 
Geary  replied,  'Two  brigades  are  now  on  Bal- 
timore Pike  and  coming  in  this  direction." 
Hancock  pointed  towards  Little  Round  Top 
and  said:  'In  the  absence  of  Gen.  Slocum,  I 
give  you  an  order  to  take  that  hill,  which  is  the 
key  to  a  battle  line.  If  we  can  get  possession 
of  it  before  the  enemy  does,  we  can  fight  a 
battle  here ;  otherwise,  we  shall  be  compelled 
to  fall  back  seven  miles  to  Pipe  Creek.'  There- 
u])on  Gen.  (leary  turned  to  Major  Veale  and 
ordered  him  to  ride  rapidly  to  Gen.  Greene 
and  tell  that  officer  to  doublc-i|uick  diagonally 
across  the  fields  to  the  hill  indicated.  Major 
\'eale  sped  back  along  the  road  he  had  come, 
transmitted  the  order  and  personally  guided 
Gen.  Greene's  troops  to  Little  Round  Top. 
This  designation  of  the  hill  was  not  known  to 
any  of  the  officers  at  the  time,  but  it  was  the 
same  rugged  little  eininence  soon  to  become 
famous  the  wide  world  over.  Major  Veale 
placed  the  147th  Pennsylvania  and  the  5th 
Ohio  in  position  on  the  crest  of  the  hill,  and 
the  other  regiments  of  the  two  brigades  north- 
ward to  the  left  of  the  nth  Corps.  The 
troops  then  on  the  field  were  the  hard-fought 
First  Corps  on  the  right;  next  the  nth  Corps, 
also  below  its  strength  ;  the  two  brigades  of  the 
I2th  Corps,  just  mentioned,  and  Buford's 
Cavalry.  About  8  P.  M.  the  3rd  Corps  relieved 
the  two  brigades  under  (Greene,  and  they  took 
position  to  the  right  of  tlic  ist  Corps,  on  the 
crest  of  Culjj's  Hill. 

"For  a  long  time  historians  in  writing  of  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg  overlooked  this  first  day 
occupation  of  Little  Round  Top,  leaving  the 
impression  that  it  was  disregarded  until  mid- 
afternoon  of  the  second  day,  when  its  dramatic 
seizure  on  the  initiative  of  Gen.  G.  K.  Warren 
caused  that  officer's  name  to  become  associated 
with  the  height  to  his  everlasting  glory.  Now 
while  its  does  not  detract  from  the  fame  of 
the  accomplished,  zealous  and  much-loved 
Warren,  it  does  set  history  right,  and  it  does 
set  the  e(|ually  accomi)lished.  zealous  and 
much-loved  Hancock  riglit  to  give  the  story  of 
Little  Round  Top  in  all  its  fullness  and  truth. 
Many  years  after  Gettysburg,  Major  \'eale, 
being  then  in  Montana,  and  happening  to  meet 
Hancock  and  to  mention  this  timely  occupation 
of  Little  Round  To]3  by  Geary's  troops,  was 
astonished  at  the  eagerness  with  which  the 
General  received  his  words.  'Time  and  again.' 
said  Hancock,  T  have  tried  to  recall  the  staff" 
officers  who  were  with  Geary  on  that  occasion.' 
He  was   delighted.      He   insisted   that   Major 


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\'eale  should  write  out  a  statement  of  the  inci- 
dent ;  and  when  Major  Veale  had  done  so 
declared  that  he  would  treasure  it  among  his 
papers  relating  to  the  campaigns  of  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac.  In  all  ]irobability  if  (ien. 
Hancock  had  lived  to  prepare  his  memoirs,  he 
would  have  incorporated  Major  Veale"s  testi- 
mony in  liis  account  of  the  battle  of  Gettys- 
burg. 

"Major  \'eale  participated  in  the  12th  Corjis 
movements  and  combats  on  July  2nd  and  3rd. 
On  July  5,  he  accompanied  Geary's  division 
when  it  took  position  on  the  extreme  left  of 
Meade's  line  facing  Lee's  extreme  right. 
After  the  pickets  had  been  posted  he  made 
a  detour  and  got  inside  the  enemy's  picket 
lines.  Having  ridden  some  distance  towards 
\\  illiamsport  he  sto]jped  at  a  farm  and  asked 
a  woman  whether  she  hatl  seen  any  Confed- 
erate officers.  'A  number  have  just  taken  din- 
ner here,'  she  replied ;  'their  cannon  are  in  that 
field  over  there.'  Not  far  away  was  packed  a 
large  amount  of  artillery.  Speeding  as  fast 
as  his  horse  would  take  him,  Major  \  eale 
made  a  wide  detour  to  the  left  and  soon  got 
inside  the  Union  lines.  He  reported  his  dis- 
covery to  Gen.  Geary,  wdio  accompanied  him 
to  (ien.  Slocum's  headquarters.  When  Slocum 
had  heard  the  story  he  said:  'General  Geary, 
I  order  you  to  advance  your  division  and  feel 
the  enemy.'  As  Geary  was  leaving,  one  of 
Gen.  Meade's  staff  officers  entered,  saying 
'Gen.  Slocunij  the  compliments  of  Gen.  Meade, 
and  he  requests  you  to  attend  a  council  of 
war.'  Thereupon,  Gen.  Slocum  counter- 
manded his  order  to  ( len.  Geary.  Gen.  Geary, 
commanding  the  2nd  Division,  12th  Army 
Corps,  Army  of  the  I'otomac,  in  his  report  of 
the  Gettysburg  campaign,  mentions  the  valu- 
able services  of  Captain  \'eale,  assistant  com- 
missary of  musters. 

"Major  Veale  was  now  to  see  something  of 
war  in  the  west.  After  the  terribly  bloody 
battle  of  Chickamauga,  the  nth  and  12th 
Corps  went  down  into  the  land  of  fine  old 
Indian  names  and  beautiful  mountains.  (Jn 
October  28,  1863,  Geary's  troops  were  under 
the  eyes  of  Longstreet,  then  on  Lookout 
Mountain.  The  enemy,  from  his  post  on  the 
height,  saw  that  the  rear  of  the  nth  Cor])s 
was  about  three  miles  in  advance  of  Geary, 
and  that  this  hiatus  gave  opportunity  for  a 
night  attack.  Accordingly  a  large  force  of 
Longstreet's  veterans,  led  by  Gen.  Bratton, 
prepared  to  poimce  upon  Geary,  who  had  with 
him  the  78th  and  I4yth  New  York,  luider  Gen. 
George  S.   (jreene,   the  2gth,    lootii  and    iith 


Pennsylvania,  umler  Col.  (Jeorge  A.  Coghani 
Jr.,  and  four  pieces  of  Knapp's  battery — all 
told,  some  1400  men.  About  5.30  l\  M.  the 
two  brigades  went  into  camp  on  a  timbered 
mound  near  Wauhatchie,  at  the  base  of  Look- 
out Mountain.  Aware  of  his  isolated  position. 
Gen.  Geary  took  every  precaution  to  guard  his 
camp.  The  78th  New  York  was  deployed  to 
the  rear,  and  the  29th  Pennsylvania,  Col.  Wil- 
liam Richards  Jr.,  was  thrown  out  on  the 
wooded  front  and  flanks  and  along  Lookout 
creek.  Between  11  P.  M.  and  midnight,  the 
moon  shining  dimly  among  the  rocks  and  trees, 
picket-firing  aroused  the  camp.  Word  came 
through  C<.il.  Richards  of  the  ])resence  of  the 
enemy  near  the  foot  of  the  mountain.  The 
iiith  Pennsylvania  was  formed  on  the  right, 
with  its  right  resting  on  a  railroad  embank- 
ment; the  109th  Pennsylvania  and  137th  New 
^'ork  took  position  on  the  left,  and  the  149th 
New  York  at  the  left  and  near.  Knapp's  four 
gims,  a  captain,  first  lieutenant  and  forty-eight 
men.  were  posted  on  a  knoll  a  short  distance 
to  the  rear  of  the  right  centre.  .Although  un- 
known at  the  moment,  the  line  of  the  enemy's 
vastly  superior  force  overlapped  the  Cnion 
line  a  long  ways.  The  first  picket  firing  ceased 
and  the  camp  was  soon  again  at  rest.  A  half 
hour  after  midnight  there  was  a  sharp  resump- 
tion of  fire.  The  pickets  came  tumbling  back 
and  were  placed  in  support  of  the  battery. 
Immediately  the  troops,  each  man  having  sixty 
rounds  of  ammunition,  got  back  into  line  again, 
but  by  the  time  they  were  ready  to  receive  the 
enemy  he  was  seen  to  be  within  three  hundred 
yards  and  rapidly  advancing.  As  a  part  of  the 
command  was  guarding  wagons  to  the  left, 
only  about  nine  hundred  muskets  could  be 
brought  to  bear.  These  were  speedily  enveloped 
front,  right  and  left.  The  Hampton  Legion 
advanced  against  the  Pinion  left ;  the  2d  South 
Carolina  and  the  Palmetto  sharpshooters  ap- 
]K'ared  on  the  right,  and  the  First,  Fifth  and 
Sixth  South  Carolina  descended  upon  the  front. 
Longstreet  says  that  the  'Union  forces  were  in 
the  centre  of  a  circular  converging  fire.'  But 
the  two  little  brigades  were  not  the  only  things 
endangered.  They  covered  Kelly's  ferry  on 
the  Tennessee  river.  If  they  should  succeed 
in  saving  this  ferry,  boats  could  pass  up  the 
river  to  Chattanooga,  where  the  Union  army 
was  on  small  rations;  if  they  should  lose  it. 
those  rations  might  be  reduced  to  starvation 
size  and  the  further  advance  of  the  L^nion 
troo])s  jeopardized.  Only  a  few  days  before. 
Jeft'erson  Davis,  gazing  down  from  Lookout, 
had  seen  much  to  raise  his  hopes  of  L'nion  dis- 


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comfiture.  Thus,  with  so  much  depending 
upon  the  issue,  the  attack  was  ferocious  and 
the  defense  stubborn  and  heroic.  From  the 
start  the  fire  was  deadly,  and  it  was  continu- 
ously fierce.  The  gun  roar  so  close  under  the 
mountain  walls  multiplied  itself  in  echoes.  Cap- 
tain .\twell,  of  the  battery,  was  mortally  wound- 
ed, living  but  a  few  hours,  (ien.  Geary's  son, 
Lieutenant  Geary,  was  shot  through  the  brain, 
and  most  of  the  sergeants  were  either  killed  or 
wounded.  So  were  twenty-four  of  the  forty- 
eight  men.  and  eighty  per  cent,  of  the  horses 
went  down  under  the  withering  fire. 

"Captain  Davis  and  Major  \'eale,  of  Geary's 
staff,  both  mounted,  were  constantly  on  the 
front  line  or  with  the  battery  until  the  wounds 
of  the  former  made  it  necessary  that  he  should 
be  borne  from  the  field.  Major  Veale,  then 
with  the  battery,  was  a  target  for  many  shots 
in  the  gun  flashes.  His  horse  was  slightly 
wounded  A  ball  passed  through  his  shirt 
collar,  another  through  his  hat ;  another 
through  his  coat,  another  through  his  right 
shoulder.  When  the  shot  pierced  his  shoul- 
der, his  arm  fell,  causing  him  to  lose  con- 
trol of  his  horse,  which  reared,  plunged  and 
threw  Major  Veale  headforemost  into  the  bat- 
tery. He  got  upon  his  feet  and  placed  his  arm 
in  a  sling.  His  horse  was  cauglit  for  him  and 
he  was  assisted  into  the  saddle.  Companies 
C  and  G,  of  the  29th  Pennsylvania,  in  the  ab- 
sence of  artillery  horses,  dragged  one  of  the 
guns  to  the  right  flank  so  as  to  gain  an  enfi- 
lading fire  upon  the  enemy.  Major  \"eale  rode 
to  the  front  and  helped  to  place  the  gun  and 
arrange  for  its  defense.  He  remained  upon 
the  field  until  the  three-hours'  battle  was  over. 
Before  daylight,  when  the  enemy's  fire  had 
ceased.  Major  N'eale  volunteered  to  go  alone 
outside  the  lines  and  reconnoitre.  Orders  were 
passed  along  the  line  for  the  Union  troops  to 
withhold  their  fire,  and  Major  \eale  moved 
forward.  Having  gone  about  one  hundred 
yards  he  saw  the  figures  of  men  in  the  dim 
light.  He  ordered  the  men  to  surrender,  and 
went  at  them.  They  threw  down  their  guns, 
and  followed  him  into  the  L"nion  lines — nine 
prisoners — of  whom  one  was  a  lieutenant.  The 
body  of  the  enemy  had  retired  up  the  moun- 
tain, leaving  157  dead  upon  the  field.  The 
prisoners  taken  numbered  133,  mostly  wound- 
ed. General  1  looker,  who  arrived  at  \\  au- 
hatchie  that  morning,  expressed  great  surprise 
at  the  evident  ferocity  of  the  struggle.  It  was 
for  his  unsurpassed  bravery  in  this  action  that 
Major  X'eale  was  voted  his  Medal  of  Honor. 

"Upon  the  consolidation  of  the  nth  and  12th 


Corps,  Major  \'eale,  who  was  commissioned 
major  May  4,  1864,  became  identified  with  the 
2d  Division,  20th  Corps.  He  took  part  in  the 
battles  of  ^lissionary  Ridge.  Rock  Face  Ridge, 
Ringgold,  Xickajack  Trace.  Snake  Creek  Gap, 
Dalton.  Resaca,  Cassville,  Dallas,  and  Kene- 
saw  Mountain.  At  Rocky  Face  Ridge  he 
^sisted  in  reforming  the  left  of  the  Second 
Division  line  and  led  the  charge  mounted.  For 
this  act  of  gallantry  he  was  mentioned  in  Gen- 
eral orders  by  the  division  commander.  At 
Pine  Knob,  on  June  14,  1864,  Major  \'eale 
was  again  severely  wounded.  His  horse  was 
.^hot  from  under  him  while  he  was  charging 
up  the  steep  ridge,  and  a  ball  passed  through 
his  right  lung.  This  necessitated  a  temporary 
absence,  but  Major  \'eale  rejoined  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland  in  time  to  participate 
in  the  siege  and  capture  of  Atlanta,  the 
march  through  Georgia,  and  siege  and  cap- 
ture of  Savannah.  Here  occurred  an  inter- 
esting incident.  Geary  rested  on  the  river, 
constituting  Sherman's  extreme  left.  As  soon 
as  the  troops  were  in  position.  Major  Veale 
set  out  in  a  boat,  with  three  blacks  as  oarsmen, 
passed  a  Confederate  liattery.  and  landed  at  a 
rice  village  on  the  upper  end  of  an  island  which 
stretched  down  stream,  lapping  the  city  and  its 
river-front  fortifications.  The  villagers,  all 
colored,  received  him  with  prayers  and  songs. 
Three  of  them  guided  him  to  a  point  on  the 
island  directly  opposite  the  city's  centre.  He 
noted  the  lay  of  the  batteries  and  their  strength, 
and  gathered  other  data  of  value,  keeping 
under  cover  of  the  rice  dykes  as  much  as 
possible.  But  the  stir  among  the  plantation 
hands  excited  the  enemy's  suspicions,  and  a 
detachment  of  graycoats  landed  on  the  lower 
end  of  the  island,  and  Major  \eale  made  a 
hurried  exit  from  the  ui)])cr.  Through  Genls. 
Geary  and  .Slocum  the  facts  gathered  passed  to 
Gen.  Sherman.  Major  Veale  was  brevetted 
colonel  on  January  16.  1865.  But  the  end  was 
drawing  near.  Passing  northward  with  Sher- 
man. Afajor  \'eale  was  in  action  at  .'Vverysboro, 
I^entonvillc  and  Bennett's.  North  Carolina,  and 
accompanied  the  victors  to  XX'ashington.  There 
he  was  discharged.  June  8.  1865. 

"Few  soldiers  received  more  sterling  praise 
from  their  commanders  than  did  Major  \'eale 
in  war  time.  That  spendid  fighter.  Gen.  Kane, 
speaking  of  Chancellorsville,  states  that  'Lieu- 
tenant \'ealc  showed  much  gallantry  in  the 
action  on  Sunday  last'  (May  6.  1863).  Gen. 
Geary  asked  Governor  Curtin  to  appoint  the 
Lieutenant  to  the  colonelcy  of  the  regiment, 
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died  in  \'eale's  arms.  And  he  (Geary)  placed 
on  file  at  Washington  this  brief  eulogiuni : 
A'eale  was  the  bravest  of  the  brave.'  (jen. 
Hooker  writes,  ']  knew  Major  \'eale  well  dur- 
ing the  late  war,  and  I  regarded  his  services  on 
the  staff  of  Gen.  Geary  as  being  the  most  able 
and  distinguished  of  all  his  ofificers,  among 
whom  were  many  of  brilliant  reputations."  And 
Gen.  Geary  never  tired  of  praising  him.  Gen. 
Geary,  in  his  report  of  the  re-opening  of  the 
Tennessee  river,  October  28-29,  1863,  officially 
lenders  his  thanks  to  Captain  \'eale,  assistant 
commissary  of  musters,  and  mentions  his  being 
slightly  wounded. 

"General  Geary,  2nd  Division,  20th  Army 
Corps,  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  in  his  report 
of  the  battle  of  Mill  Creek  Gap,  May  8,  1864, 
says  :  'I  must  mention  with  especial  commenda- 
tion Major  \'eale,  of  my  staff',  who  e.xhibited 
more  than  ordinary  gallantry,  forming  the 
troops  and  assisting  personally  in  the  heroic 
assault  made  to  the  very  summit  of  the  ridge.' 
General  Geary,  in  his  report  of  the  battle  of 
Pine  Hill,  Georgia.  June  15.  1864,  mentions 
the  severe  wounding  of  Afajor  \'eale,  assistant 
commissary  of  musters,  acting  aide-de-camp, 
and  in  summing  up  his  report  of  the  Atlanta 
(Georgia)  campaign,  speaks  of  'the  brave 
Major  \'eale.'  Gen.  Geary,  in  his  report  of 
the  siege  of  Savannah,  Georgia,  December  11 
to  21,  1864,  says,  'Major  Veale,  aide-de-camp  of 
my  staff,  crossed  alone  in  a  canoe  to  Hutchin- 
son's Island,  Savannah  river,  and  walked  the 
entire  length,  reconnoitred  the  enemy's  position 
along  the  river,  returned  safely,  bringing  valu- 
able information,  (jcneral  Orders  No.  i, Decem- 
ber 23,  1864,  Gen.  Geary  commanding  the  City 
of  Savannah,  announces  among  his  staff  officers 
i\Iajor  Moses  Veale,  aide-de-camp. 

"It  was  Gen.  Slocum  who  named  Major 
\  eale  to  the  president  for  the  Medal  of  Honor, 
and  his  comrades  in  the  order  have  paid  him 
the  high  compliment  of  electing  him  com- 
mander of  the  Legion.  He  has  also  served  at 
junior  vice  commander  of  the  Loyal  Legion; 
is  a  member  of  Post  2,  G.  A.  R. ;  president  of 
Philadelphia  Chapter.  Sons  of  the  .\merican 
Revolution,  and  member  of  I'lue  Lodge,  211, 
r.  and  .\.  M. 

"Like  many  another  man  who  came  out  of 
the  war  all  the  better  for  the  lead  that  was  in 
him.  Major  \'eale  has  had  a  distinguished 
career  in  civil  life — useful,  as  well  as  distin- 
guished, and  most  honorable  in  every  way.  For 
a  while  he  was  in  Montana,  first  as  United 
States  attorney  and  then  as  clerk  of  Indian 
.Affairs ;  but  his  days  have  been  mainly  spent 


in  Philadelphia.  He  was  nominated  for  com- 
mon council  in  February,  1876,  and  in  Novem- 
ber of  the  same  year  for  the  state  senate.  He 
was  appointed  health  officer  in  1882,  and  again 
in  i8yi.  It  was  he  who  originated  the  idea 
of  conducting  a  scientific  compaign  against 
the  spread  of  tuberculosis.  Perhaps  no  words, 
however  warm  and  emphatic,  couUl  give  so 
clear  an  idea  of  the  part  borne  by  Major  \'eale 
in  the  life  of  Philadelphia  as  the  following 
memorandum  of  his  duties  in  this,  his  73rd 
year.  He  is  treasurer  of  the  League  for  \Vork 
among  Colored  People  in  the  Diocese  of  Penn- 
sylvania;  treasurer  of  the  Church  Club;  treas- 
urer of  the  Boys'  Club;  rector's  warden  of  the 
Parish  of  St.  Philip's  Episcopal  Church  :  mem- 
ber of  the  vestry  of  the  Church  uf  the  Cruci- 
fi.xion  ;  trustee  and  manager  of  the  House  of 
Industry  for  Discharged  Prisoners;  trustee  of 
the  Home  for  the  Homeless;  trustee  for  St. 
Michaels  and  All  Angels,  and  for  the  Home 
for  Colored  Children  (Crippled)  ;  member  of 
the  board  of  incorporators  of  Hays  Mechanics' 
Home ;  member  of  the  Episcopal  Board  of 
Missions  :  member  of  the  board  of  managers 
of  the  Free  and  ( Jpen  Church  of  the  Ejiiscopal 
Church  of  the  United  States,  and  that  of  the 
Society  for  the  advancement  of  Christianity  in 
PennsyK'ania ;  member  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Club,  and  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

"A  few  words  as  to  Major  Veale's  home  life. 
He  married  Emma  AlacDonald,  whose  great- 
great-great-grandfather  was  Donald  MacDon- 
ald,  one  of  the  Free  Quakers  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  Her  mother  was  the  great-great- 
great-granddaughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Wynne, 
who  came  over  as  William  Penn's  surgeon  on 
the  ship  'Welcome.'  Companion  \'eale's  chil- 
dren are  \Villiam  MacDonald  \'eale.  married 
to  Miss  Blanche  Graham,  and  Elizabeth  Sharpe, 
married  to  Herbert  Morris,  who  is  the  son  of 
a  veteran.  The  first  named  will  inherit  the 
Medal. 

"At  the  beginning  of  this  sketch,  it  was  sug- 
gested that,  in  1861,  Major  \'eale  stood  for  a 
stype  of  the  patriotic,  (iod-fearing  young  man- 
hood of  America.  With  equal  truth  it  may 
now  be  added  that  throughout  his  career  he  has 
stood  for  a  type  of  the  best  American  citizen- 
ship. Spirited,  zealous,  plain-spoken,  he  has 
never  flagged  or  grown  luke-warm.  Personally 
a  man  of  marked  courtesy  and  grace  of  man- 
ner, he  gives  no  quarter  to  men  or  things  that 
make  for  evil,  or  threaten  to  undermine  our 
beneficent  democracy.  Deliberate  and  exact  in 
speech,  his  utterances  are  clear  and  forceful. 


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To  liear  him  denounce  the  sinister  forces  that 
tend  to  bring  on  bUght  of  manhood,  is  to  hear 
that  same  voice  that  spoke  in  the  roar  of  \\  au- 
liatchie.  where  he  stood  up  for  the  perpetua- 
tion of  our  American  heritage,  so  dear  to  his 

•■Major  \'ealc's  young  brother,  Delany 
Sharpe  \'cale,  a  handsome  boy  of  seventeen, 
was  killed  bv  his  side  at  Gettysburg  on  the 
second  dav  of  the  battle,  and  the  Major,  with 
his  own  hands,  buried  the  young  martyr  on  the 
line  of  battle,  then,  returning  to  duty,  he  left 
the  boy  to  rest  in  glory  where  he  had  stood  with 
his  comrades  and,  at  the  last,  had  given  his  life 
for  his  countrv.  When  the  fighting  was  over 
and  Compani(m  \'eale  could  be  spared  from 
the  front,  he  returned  to  Gettysburg,  took  up 
the  body  and  re-interred  it  at  Roadstown,  New 
Jersey,  in  the  old  family  burying-grounds.  In 
all  the  history  of  that  sad  war,  can  one  think 
of  anything  more  pathetic  than  this  incident  .- 
And  yet,  it  was  only  one  of  many  thousands 
of  a  similar  nature." 


(For  ancestry  see  Abraham  Reeves  1). 

(VI)   Francis  Brewster,  son  of 
REEX'ES      Johnson  and  Elizabeth   (Riley) 
Reeves,  was  born  in  Bridgeton, 
Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey,  October  lo, 
1836,  and  is  now  living  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania.    He  received  his  early  education  at 
private   schools,   and   at    Harmony   Academy, 
Bridgeton,  with  occa.sional  intervals  of  vaca- 
tion during  which  he  was  employed  as  a  clerk 
in  his  father's  store,  until  April  2^,.  1832.  when 
his  school  books  were  dropped  for  a  business 
life.     Three  days  later,  while  still  only  fifteen 
years  old.   he   entered  the  drygoods   store  of 
Joel    Fithian,   Bridgeton,   where   he   remained 
until  October  3,  1852.  when  he  engaged  himself 
to  W.  H.  Thompson  to  learn  the  watch  repair- 
in"  and   jewelrv    business.      About    eighteen 
months  later,  March  ().  1854,  he  became  a  clerk 
in  the  Girard  Bank  of  Philadelphia,  which  posi- 
tion he  resigned  in  October,  1858,  in  order  to 
enter  the  office  of  N.   P..  Thompson  &  Com- 
pany, wholesale  grocers,  i'hiladelphia.     bebru- 
ary'i,  1859,  he  became  a  member  of  this  hrm, 
and  up  to  the  present  time  has  continued  as  a 
member  of  that  firm  and  its  successors,  now 
and   since    1865  known  as   Reeves,    Parom   cV 
Company.     He  was  ordained  a  ruling  elder  111 
the  Wakefield   Presbyterian  Church.  German- 
town.    Philadelphia.    May    4-    1874.    has   been 
superintendent  of  its  Sunday  school  since  1879. 
and  is  a  trustee  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church.     He  has  also  served 


as  a   member  of  the   Presbyterian    Board   of 
Education  and  of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of 
Publication    and   the    Sabbath    School    Work. 
He  was  chairman  of  the  executive  committee 
of  the  noted  municipal  reform  "Committee  of 
One  Hundred"  of  Philadelphia,  1881-83.     In 
February.  1888,  he  was  appointed  by  the  judges 
of  the  court  of  common  pleas  of  Philadelphia, 
member  of  the   Philadelphia  board  of  public 
education,  and  controller  of  the  Twenty-second 
School  Section,  but  resigned  two  years  later. 
On  the  occasion  of  the  Johnstown,   Pennsyl- 
vania, flood  in  1889,  he  was  appointed  by  the 
mayor  of  Philadelphia  a  member  of  the  "Citi- 
zens' Permanent  Relief  Committee  of  Phila- 
delphia,"   and    by    appointment    of    Governor 
James  A.  Beaver  was  chairman  of  the  "Com- 
mittee on  Annuities  to  Johnstown  Flood  Or- 
phans"  of  the   State   Rehef   Committee.      As 
representative  of  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and 
its  permanent  relief  committee  he  was  com- 
missioned to  visit  Russia  in  the  spring  of  1892 
to  deliver  and  distribute  a  cargo  of  food_  sup- 
plies sent  on  the  steamship  "Conemaugh"  for 
the  relief  of  the  sufferers  by  famine  in  that 
country,  and  Emperor  Alexander  HI.  recog- 
nized his  personal  service  by  the  presentation 
to  him  of  a  costly  punch  set  of  seven  pieces  in 
silver  and  gold.     Mr.  Reeves  was  elected  di- 
rector of  the  Girard  National  Bank  in  1881. 
was  re-elected  for  seventeen  successive  years, 
January  3,  1896  was  chosen  vice-president,  and 
July   18,  1899,  became  president  of  the  bank, 
a  position  he  still  hold.s.     He  is  also  president 
of  the   Philadelphia   Belt  Line   Railroad,  first 
vice-president   of   the   Philadelphia   Bourse,  a 
member  of  the  board  of  managers  of  the  Ger- 
mantown  Saving  Fund  Society,  a  director  ot 
the   Philadelphia    Mortgage   and   Trust   Com- 
pany,  of   the   Delaware   Insurance   Company, 
of  tiie  advisory  board  of  the  Germantown  Real 
Flstate  Deposit  and  Trust  Company,  a  member 
of  the  boards  of  managers  of  the  Merchants 
Fund  and  of  the  Mercantile  Beneficial  Asso- 
ciation,  of   the    Bell   Telephone   Company   of 
Pennsylvania,   and   president  of  the   Clearing 
House  Association  of  the  Banks  of  Philadel- 
phia.    He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Art  Club 
of  Philadelphia,  of   the   Germantown   Cricket 
Club,  of  the  Science  and  Art  Club  of  Gcrman- 
t.'wn",  and  of  the  Civil  Service  Reform  Asso- 
ciation  of    Philadelphia,   and   member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  (leneral  .Assembly  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  I'niteil  States 
01  .\merica. 

He  married,  April  26,  i860,  Ellen  Bernard, 
born  July  30,  1837,  died  December  22,  1901. 


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daughter  of  Xewcomb  Butler  and  Harriet 
Lloyd  (Peters)  Thompson  (see  Thompson). 
Children,  all  born  in  Philadelphia:  I.  Mary 
Primrose,  referred  to  below.  2.  .\llison  Cleve- 
land, born  December  13,  1862 ;  died  December 
14,  1874:  buried  at  Laurel  Hill.  3.  Emily 
Tlionipson,  referred  to  below.  4.  Francis 
Brewster,  born  February  21,  i8f)8:  died  Sep- 
tember 18,  i8()8.  5.  Caroline  Thompson,  born 
Sejjtembcr  2.  i8(x):  dieil  December  11,  1S74. 
6.  Francis  Butler,  referred  to  below.  7.  Ellen 
Elizabeth,  referred  to  below. 

I  \dl  )  Mary  Primrose,  daughter  of  Francis 
Brewster  and  Ellen  liernard  ( Thompson  I 
Reeves,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Penns\-1- 
vania,  Alarch  28,  1861.  She  married,  Novem- 
g,  1886.  George  Hartley  Deacon,  of  Mount 
Holly,  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  now 
teacher  of  mathematics  in  the  (jermantovvn 
Academy.  Child,  Gerald  Hartley  Deacon,  born 
July  25,  1888.  2.  Ellen  Reeves  Deacon,  bom 
Feliruary  15,  1890:  died  October  5,  1896.  3. 
Margaret  Deacon,  born  December  17,  1893. 
4.  l~rank  Deacon,  January  16.  1S97. 

(  \'II )  Emily  Thompson,  daughter  of  Fran- 
cis Brewster  and  Ellen  Bernard  ( Thompson  ) 
Reeves,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, November  2,  1864.  .She  married,  r3e- 
cember  17,  1891,  Sidney  W^illiams,  of  Boston, 
^lassachusetts,  formerly  comptroller  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Coal  Company  and  of  the  Erie 
and  Wyoming  \'alley  Railroad  Company,  now 
purchase  agent  of  the  L^nion  Pacific  Railroad 
Company.  Her  present  home  is  Plainfield. 
New  Jersey.  Children :  Dorothy  \\'illiams. 
born  San  Francisco,  California,  September  26, 
1892 :  Alison  Reeves  Williams,  born  in  Ger- 
mantown,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 7,  1894:  Elizabeth  Williams,  born  in  Ger- 
mantown,  August  19,  1896. 

(\TI)  Francis  Butler,  son  of  Francis  Brews- 
ter and  Ellen  Bernard  (Thompson)  Reeves, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania.  May 
20.  1837.  He  married.  I-'ebruary  16.  1897. 
I^illian.  daughter  of  William  F.  and  Josephine 
( 1  land  )  Primrose,  of  Baltimore,  Alaryland. 
wild  was  born  June  15,  1873.  They  are  now 
living  in  Germantown,  Philadelphia.  Children  : 
Josephine  Primrose,  born  April  28, 1898  ;  Mary 
Primrose.  August  24,  1899;  Francis  Brewster. 
.April  6,  1901  ;  Johnson.  July  20,  1903;  Lloyd, 
December  7,  1905. 

(\TI)  Ellen  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  I'^rancis 
Brewster  and  Ellen  liernard  (Thompson) 
Reeves,  was  born  in  Philadelphia.  Pennsyl- 
vania, March  i.  1878.  .She  married,  October 
7    i(;02.  .Arthur  llaines,  of  Philadclidiia.    Thev 


are  now  living  in  ( iernianti  a\  n.    Child:  .\rthur 
Haines   (2),  born  .May  30.  1904. 


Mark  Riley,  the  first  member  of  this  family 
of  whom  we  have  definite  information,  was 
born  in  January,   1732,  and  died  in  October, 

1794.    He  married  Prudence ,  who  died 

in  ( )ctober,  1799.  Children:  Mark  (2)  and 
Ruth,  both  referred  to  below. 

(H)  Mark  (2),  son  of  Afark  (i)  and  Pru- 
dence Riley,  was  born  March  13,  1762.  He 
married,  April  5,  1790,  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  and  Abigail  (Padgett)  Harris,  who 
was  born  October  26,  1768,  and  died  July  19, 
1838.  (See  Harris).  Child:  Elizabeth,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(HI)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Alark  (2)  and 
Abigail  (Flarris)  Riley,  was  born  in  Bridge- 
ton,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  March 
II,  1800,  and  died  there  June  21,  1845.  She 
married,  Alarch  i,  1822,  Johnson,  son  of  John 
and  Alartha  (Reeves)  Reeves,  referred  to 
above. 

(  H  )  Ruth,  daughter  of  Mark  (  i)  and  Pru- 
dence Riley,  was  born  in  1770,  and  died  in 
I'.ridgeton,  Cumberland  county,  New  Jersey, 
November  17,  1799.  She  married,  April  25, 
1789,  Samuel,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Phebe 
(  Davis)  Thompson,  referred  to  in  appended 
Thompson  sketch. 

(The    Harri.<;    Linel. 

Nathaniel  Harris,  the  first  member  of  this 
family  of  whom  we  have  definite  information, 
was  born  October  8,  1693,  and  died  in  1775. 
He  married  (first)  Alarian  Brook;  (second) 
Elizabeth . 

ill)  Nathaniel  (2).  son  of  Nathaniel  (i) 
and  Alarian  (Brook)  Flarris,  was  born  Alay 
27,  1723,  and  died  December  3,  1797.  He 
married,  November  12,  1746,  .Abigail,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Dorotliy  ( .Sayre )  Padgett. 
of  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  who  was 
born  June  28,  1727,  and  died  November  i, 
1810.  Children:  i.  Mary,  born  1747.  2. 
Rachel,  1750.  3.  John.  1753.  4.  Noah.  1755. 
5.  Hannali.  1738.  (1.  Thomas,  17^.  8.  Na- 
thaniel, 1763,  married  Catharine,  <laughtcr  of 
Colonel  John  and  Esther  (Bowes)  Cox,  of 
Philadelphia,  and  widow  of  Samuel  Witliam 
Stockton,  brother  of  Richard  Stockton,  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  (see  Stock- 
ton, Cox  and  Bowes).  9.  Abijah,  liorn  i7(>3. 
10.  .Abigail,  referred  to  below. 

(IH)  Abigail,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  an<l 
.Abigail    (Padgett)    Harris,  was  born  (  )cti)ber 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


26,  1768.  and  died  July  19.  1838.  She  married, 
April  5,  1790,  Mark,  son  of  Mark  and  Pru- 
dence Riley,  referred  to  above. 

(The  Thompson    Line). 

Benjamin  Thompson,  the  first  member  of 
this  family  of  whom  we  have  definite  informa- 
tion, was  bom  in  Salem  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
in  May,  1705,  and  died  there  in  April,  1763. 
He  was  probably  son  of  John  Thompson,  born 
in  Salem  county,  June  23,  1864,  son  of  Andrew 
and  Isabella  (Rlarshall)  Thompson,  and  grand- 
son of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Thompson,  wdio 
emigrated  in  1677  from  Ireland  to  Fenwick's 
colony.  Benjamin  Thompson  lived  in  Fair- 
field and  Pilesgrove  townships,  Salem  county, 
New  Jersey,  was  a  farmer  owning  five  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  land,  and  was  at  one  time 
overseer  of  roads.     He  married   ("first)    1733, 

Amy   Xewcomb:     (second)     Abigail    . 

Children,  all  by  first  marriage  :  Anna,  married 
Lewis  \\'hitaker  :  Benjamin,  referred  to  below  ; 
Patience,  died  18.13,  married  Elijah  Davis: 
Mary :  Newcomb,  died  1783  :  Butler,  died  1791. 
married  Hannah  Foster ;  Priscilla,  married 
Daniel  Riley. 

(II)  Benjamin  (2),  son  of  Benjamin  (i) 
and  Amy  (Newcomb)  Thompson,  was  born 
in  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  August  11,  1736, 
and  died  in  Fairfield  township,  same  county,  in 
1786.  He  married,  November  16,  1756,  Phebe. 
born  October  16,  1737,  died  in  August,  1777, 
daughter  of  Arthur  and  Martha  (Moore) 
Davis.  Children:  Benjamin,  died  in  1815, 
married    Elizabeth    Cleaver;    Elijah,    married 

Rebecca  Riley  :  Anna,  married Russell ; 

Hester,  married  Elmer;  Samuel,  re- 
ferred to  below  ;  Patience ;  Elizabeth  ;  Pris- 
cilla. 

(III)  Samuel,  son  of  Benjamin  (2)  and 
Phebe  (Davis)  Thompson,  was  born  in  Fair- 
field township,  Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  De- 
cember 9,  1766,  and  died  February  16,  1835. 
He  removed  to  Deerfield,  Cumberland  county. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  a  farmer,  and  be- 
came justice  of  the  peace  and  judge  of  court 
of  common  pleas.  He  married  (first)  in  Deer- 
field,  April  25,  1789,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Mark 
and  Prudence  Riley,  w'ho  was  born  in  1770, 
and  died  in  Bridgeton,  Salem  county.  New 
Jersey,  November  17,  1799.  (See  Riley).  He 
married  (second)  Ruth,  daughter  of  Ephraim 
and  Hannah  (W'hitacar)  Foster,  and  (third) 
Elizabeth  Foster,  sister  to  his  second  wife,  and 
widow-  of  Matthew  Newkirk.  Children,  four 
by  first,  and  three  by  second  marriage :  Philip, 
bom    February   5,    1790,   died    September   25, 


1791  :  Samuel,  born  November  28,  1791,  died 
February, 15,  1835;  Mary  Dare,  born  January 
10,  1793,  died  July  i,  1831,  married  Holmes 
Parvin,  M.  D. ;  Newcomb  Butler,  referred  to 
below  ;  Phebe ;  Harriet :  Elizabeth. 

(IV)  Newcomb  Butler,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Ruth  (Riley)  Thompson,  was  born  in  Deer- 
field,  Cumberland  county.  New  Jersey,  March 
15,  1799,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsyl- 
vania, March  17,  1859,  and  is  buried  at  Laurel 
Hill.  He  was  an  importer  and  wholesale  gro- 
cer. He  married,  October  25,  1727,  Harriet 
Lloyd,  daughter  of  Reese  and  Mary  (Lloyd) 
Peters,  who  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  June 
3,  1807,  and  died  there  February  i,  1889.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Philadelphia,  those  deceased 
buried  at  Laurel  Hill:  i.  Lucius  Peters,  born 
March  13,  1829;  died  July  11.  1883;  married, 
October  9,  1851,  Caroline  J.  Burling.  2.  Harriet 
Peters,  born  August  3.  1832;  died  August  31, 
1834.  3.  Mary  Peters,  born  March  16,  1835; 
died  March  31,  1838.  4.  Ellen  Bernard,  re- 
ferred to  below.  5.  Emily,  bom  January  14. 
1840:  died  December  15,  1848.  6.  Harriet 
Lloyd,  born  September  3,  1843;  died  .April  21. 
1857.  7.  Newcomb  Butler  (2).  born  January 
14,  1847 ;  still  living,  married  Katharine  Ash- 
ton,  of  Philadelphia.  8.  Caroline,  born  Janu- 
ary I,  1850:  died  February  3,  1869,  unmarried. 

(\')  Ellen  Bernard,  daughter  of  Newcomb 
Butler,  and  Harriet  Lloyd  (Peters)  Thomp- 
son, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania, 
July  30,  1837,  and  died  there  December  22, 
1901.  She  married  April  2(^,  i860,  Francis 
Brewster,  son  of  Johnson  and  Elizabeth 
(Riley)  Reeves,  referred  to  above. 


The  surname  Cole  is  derived  from 
COLE  an  ancient  personal  name  of  un- 
known antic|uity.  Coel,  as  the  name 
was  formerly  spelled,  one  of  the  early  kings  of 
Britain,  was  the  founder  of  Colchester.  Jus- 
tice Cole  lived  in  the  reign  of  King  Alfred. 
Another  Cole  defeated  Sweyne.  the  Danish 
chieftain,  in  looi  at  Pinhoe.  \\illiam  Cole 
and  wife  Isabella  are  names  in  the  assize  roll 
of  county  Cornwall  in  1201,  showing  that  Cole 
was  at  that  time  established  as  a  surname. 
Various  branches  of  the  English  Cole  family 
bear  coats-of-arms,  all  indicating  relationship 
by  the  similarity  of  the  device.  The  Hertford- 
shire family,  to  which  the  .-\merican  is  believed 
to  belong,  bears  :  Party  per  pale  or  and  argent, 
a  bull  passant,  within  a  bordure  sable  on  a 
chief  of  the  third,  three  bezants.  Crest :  A 
demi-dragon  vert  bearing  in  his  dexter  paw  a 
javelin  armed  or,  feathered  argent. 


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( I J  James  Cole,  the  immigrant  ancestor,  was 
living  in  Highgate,  a  suburb  of  London,  Eng- 
land, in  1616.  He  is  spoken  of  as  a  great  lover 
of  flowers.  He  married,  in  1624,  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  the  noted  botanist  and  physician,  Mathieu 
Lobel.  Her  father  was  a  physician  to  James 
I.,  and  was  a  great  student  and  the  author  of 
a  number  of  books  on  medicinal  plants  ;  he  dis- 
covered the  medicinal  qualities  of  the  plant 
which  he  called  lobelia  after  himself.  In  1632 
James  Cole,  his  wife  and  two  children,  came  to 
Saco,  Elaine,  and  in  the  following  year  located 
at  Plymouth,  ^Massachusetts,  where  he  was  ad- 
mitted a  freeman.  In  1634  his  name  appears 
on  the  tax  list  of  Plymouth,  and  he  received  a 
grant  of  land.  His  house  stood  on  the  lot  next 
below  the  preseijt  site  of  the  Baptist  church. 
He  was  the  first  settler  on  what  is  still  known 
as  Cole's  Hill,  the  first  burial-ground  of  the 
Pilgrims.  This  land  probably  included  the 
ground  upon  which  rests  Plymouth  Rock.  He 
had  other  grants  of  land,  and  was  surveyor  of 
highways  in  1641-42-51-52 ;  constable  in  1641- 
44.  In  1637  he  was  on  a  list  of  volunteers 
against  the  Pequot  Indians.  Soon  after  his 
arrival  at  Plymouth  he  opened  the  first  inn  or 
public  house,  which  was  among  the  first  public 
houses  in  New  England,  if  not  the  first.  This 
house  was  kept  by  him  and  his  son  James  until 
1698.  Children  :  James,  born  in  London,  1625  : 
Hugh,  mentioned  below  ;  John,  born  November 
21,  1637.  in  Plymouth:  Alary,  born  1639,  in 
Plymouth. 

(II)  Hugh,  son  of  James  Cole,  was  born  in 
London,  England,  in  1627,  and  came  with  his 
father  to  Plymouth  in  1633,  He  was  admittetl 
a  freeman  there  in  1657.  He  was  a  surveyor 
of  highways  in  liarnstable,  and  granted  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  at  Acushauett.  In  1667, 
with  others,  he  bought  of  King  Philip  five  hun- 
dred acres  of  land  on  the  west  bank  of  the 
river  named  for  him.  Cole  river,  near  .Swansea. 
He  was  a  shipwright  and  civil  engineer,  and  a 
great  part  of  Swansea  was  surveyed  by  him. 
He  was  selectman  of  Swansea  many  years,  and 
deputy  to  the  general  cotirt  nine  years  in 
i673-74-75-8o-83"-84-.S5-86-89  For  years  he 
was  a  friend  of  King  Philip,  and  in  i()73,  at 
the  beginning  of  the  war,  when  two  of  Hugh 
Cole's  sons  were  made  prisoners  by  the  In- 
dians, King  Philip  ordered  their  release  be- 
cause Hugh  Cole  had  always  been  his  friend. 
He  sent  word  to  him  that  he  could  no  longer 
restrain  his  warriors,  and  for  him  to  remove 
his  family  to  Rhode  Island.  This  he  did,  and 
Vi'ithin  an  hour  after,  the  Cole  house  was  in 
flames.      It   was   the   first   house   burned.      He 


was  sergeant  in  King  Philip's  war.  .\fter  the 
close  of  the  war,  in  1677,  he  returned  to  Swan- 
sea and  built  a  house.  The  well  built  by  him 
on  the  bank  of  the  Kickemuit  river  is  still  there. 
This  part  of  the  farm  has  descended  by  will, 
no  deed  having  been  made  for  it ;  it  has  never 
passed  out  of  possession  of  the  family,  and  is 
now  owned  by  Miss  Abby  Cole.  Part  of  the 
land  owned  by  him  in  Swansea  is  now  a  part 
of  Warren,  Rhode  Island.  He  married,  Janu- 
ary 8,  1654,  Mary  Foxwell,  born  in  Scituate, 
August  17.  163s,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Ann 
(Shelly)  Foxwell,  of  Barnstable,  Massachu- 
setts. (Her  father,  Richard  Foxwell,  came 
from  England  with  Governor  Winthrop  in 
1631,  and  the  same  year  removed  to  Scituate 
and  was  admitted  as  freeman.  He  removed 
tci  Barnstable  and  was  a  member  of  the  Barn- 
stable militia  in  1643).  He  died  January  22, 
1699,  in  Swansea,  and  was  buried  in  what  is 
now  known  as  the  Tyler  Point  cemetery  in 
Barrington.  Children,  the  first  seven  born  in 
Plymouth,  the  others  in  Swansea :  James,  No- 
vember 3,  1655;  Hugh,  March  6,  1658:  John, 
May  15,  1660,  mentioned  below ;  Martlia,  .'\pril 
16,  1662:  Ann,  December  14,  1664;  Ruth,  Jan- 
uary 8,  1666;  Joseph,  May  18,  1668:  Eben- 
ezcr,  1671  ;  Mary,  1676;  Benjamin,  1678. 

(III)  John,  son  of  Hugh  Cole,  was  born 
May  15,  1660,  at  Plymouth,  and  married  Sus- 
annah   ,  date  unknown.     He  died  June 

25,  1748,  and  was  buried  in  the  Kickemuit 
burying-ground.  His  will,  dated  September 
22,  1742,  begins  with:  "I,  John  Cole,  son  of 
Plugh  Cole,"  and  after  certain  bequests  to  his 
wife  and  daughters  gives  "to  my  son  John, 
who  has  and  does  take  care  of  me,  all  of  the 
farm  where  I  dwell,  in  Swansea,  aforesaid." 
The  house  built  by  him  before  1700  in  the  town 
of  Swansea  is  still  standing.  Children :  Mary, 
born  July  8,  1689;  Elizabeth,  November  9, 
1692 ;  John  November  3,  1695,  mentioned 
below  :  Susannah,  November  19,  1696  :  Hannah, 
February  4,  1698:  Experience,  June  8.  1702. 

(IV)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  Cole,  was 
born  November  3,  1695,  "^  Swansea,  and  mar- 
ried Abigail,  daughter  of  Zacheus  and  Sarah 
Butts,  born  November  i,  171 5,  died  September 

26,  1757.  Children:  Ichabod,  born  February 
10,  1716:  Thomas,  November  5,  1717;  Will- 
iam, October  5,  1719:  Susannah,  November  17, 
1721  :  John,  February  28,  1724,  died  January 
20,  1736;  Isaac,  October  30,  1726;  Nathan, 
January  2,  1729;  James,  February  2, 1731  ;  Abi- 
gail, August  II,  1732:  .Sarah,  February  11, 
1735;  Comfort,  January  20,  1739:  John,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1742. 


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STATE    (_)[■'    NEW  JERSEY. 


(\')  Isaac,  son  of  Joliii  (2)  Cole,  was  born 
October  30,  1726.  in  .Swansea,  and  married. 
.September  26,  1745,  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Joanna  (Wood)  Easterbrook. 
She  died  October  18,  1770.  Children:  i.  Jo- 
anna, born  December  20,  1746.  2.  Ichabod, 
November  17,  1748,  in  the  revolution,  a  colonel. 

3.  Isaac,   October    i,   1755,  mentioned  below. 

4.  Thomas,  July  i.  1758,  soldier  in  the  revolu- 
tion. 5.  Reuben,  December  12,  1762.  6.  Rar- 
den.  July  9,  1772. 

(\T)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Isaac  fi  )  Cole,  was 
bprn  October  i,  1755,  in  Warren,  Rhode  Island. 
He  was  a  revolutionary  soldier.  General  La- 
fayette passed  one  winter  encamped  on  his 
farm  on  Grave's  Hill,  near  Warren.  In  1805 
he  was  lieutenant  in  Rhode  Island  militia.  In 
1809-10-11-12  he  was  justice  of  the  peace  in 
Bristol  county.  He  married  (first)  Phebe 
Pierce,  November  12,  1780,  died  January  24, 
1793 ;  she  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Simmons)  Pierce.  Isaac  Cole  died  Oc- 
tober 2r,  1S23.  Children:  Betsey,  born  July 
17.  1786;  Simmons,  mentioned  below. 

(\T1)  Simmons,  son  of  Issac  (2)  Cole,  was 
born  .September  12,  1789,  in  Warren,  Rhode 
Island,  and  died  March  11,  1861.  He  was  a 
school  teacher  in  Warren :  ensign  Bristol  coun- 
ty company  of  militia,  1814-16;  lieutenant 
1817;  captain  1818-19.  He  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  the  service  of  his  town  and 
state.  He  was  sheriff  from  1814  to  1820. 
member  of  town  council  and  court  of  probate 
1829  to  1834,  member  of  the  general  as.sembly 
of  Rhode  Island  from  1837  to  1843.  ^"  P*^''" 
tics  he  was  a  Whig  and  in  religion  a  Unitarian. 
He  married,  February  10,  181 1.  Sarah,  born 
Sc])tcmber  10.  1790.  died  December  12,  1857, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (.Anthony) 
Mason.  Children:  Caroline,  born  April  24, 
1813:  ITanun  Wilbur,  August  30.  1816,  men- 
tioned below  :  John  V.,  .'April  26,  1822. 

(VIII)  Hanun  Wilbur,  son  of  Simmons 
Cole,  was  born  August  30,  1816,  in  Warren, 
and  died  I-'ebruary  16,  1885.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 8,  1846,  .Abby  Brown,  daughter  of  Oliver 
and  Sarah  ( Jencks )  Shaw,  of  Providence, 
Rhode  Island.  (  I  ler  father.  Oliver  Shaw, 
was  of  the  family  of  Shaw  who  came  from 
New  Bedford.  His  ancestors  were  merchants 
owning  ships.  The  Jencks  were  from  RIkxIc 
Island  and  Sarah  Jencks  was  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  (iovernor  Jencks  of  that  state).  Hanun 
Wilbur  Cole  was  a  merchant  and  scholar.  In 
jKjlitics  he  was  a  Rc])ublican.  and  in  religion 
a  I'nitarian.  Chililren:  John  Hanun,  born 
July  23.  1848:  Caroline  .Minna.  Xovember  24. 


1850;  Charles  DTJrban,  of  whom  further.  The 
first  two  were  born  in  Providence.  Rhode 
Island. 

(IX)  Charles  D'L'rban  Morris  Cole,  son  of 
Hanun  Wilbur  Cole,  was  born  June  5,  1861, 
in  New  York  City.  He  was  fitted  for  college 
at  the  Cainbridge  Massachusetts  high  school, 
from  which  he  entered  Harvard,  graduating 
with  the  class  of  1883.  He  then  studied  law 
at  Columbia,  took  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Laws  in  1885,  and  the  same  year  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  New  York  City.  He  established  him- 
self there  as  a  specialist  in  corporation  law,  and 
devoted  his  efforts  exclusively  to  that  business 
until  1890,  when  he  became  associated  with  the 
.American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company, 
of  which  he  is  now  the  attorney.  He  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  New  Jersey  in  1895,  and 
lives  in  Morristow^n,  New  Jersey.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers  of  the  Morristown  Civic 
Association,  and  has  taken  a  prominent  ]3art 
in  all  movements  to  improve  the  city.  In  Ai^ril, 
1905,  he  was  appointed  by  the  supreme  court 
of  New  Jersey  one  of  four  commissioners  to 
build  a  system  of  sewers  for  Morristown.  He 
is  connected  as  director  and  in  other  official 
capacities,  with  several  corporations,  mostly 
telephone,  and  is  widely  and  favorably  known 
in  business  circles.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Zeta  Psi  Society,  the  L'niversity  Club  of  New 
A'ork,  University  Club  of  Chicago,  Railroad 
Club  of  New  A'ork,  Columbia  Club  of  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  Alorristown  Club,  and  several 
golf  and  field  clubs.  In  religion  he  is  an  Ei)is- 
copalian,  and  a  vestryman  of  the  Church  of 
the  Redeemer,  Morristown ;  in  politics  he  is  a 
Democrat,  adhering  to  the  princijiles  n])lield 
by  Grover  Cleveland.  He  married,  .Ajiril  26, 
1888,  at  Morristown.  Emma  Louisa,  daughter 
of  John  Goddard  and  Eliza  Stearns.  Her 
father  was  a  manufacturer  of  safes  in  New 
York  and  founded  the  Alarvin  Safe  Comjjany  ; 
l;is  children  were  John  Goddard,  George  Mar- 
shall, Joseph  Goddard,  Elizabeth  Frances  and 
Emma  Louisa.  Children  of  Charles  D'L'rban 
Morris  Cole:  Joseph  Stearns:  Charles  Luke: 
Hugh  Livingston  Morris,  born  Alay  13,  18(^4, 
in  Morristown,  being  prepared  for  Harvard 
College  at  the  Hill  School. 


(For  preceding  generations   see   George   Deacon    1  i. 

(Ill)   George,   eldest    child    of 
DEACON    John  and  Hester  (Wills)  Dea- 
con, was  born  in  1726,  and  died 
in   I'lUrlington  county.  May  22,    1787.      When 
his  uncle  George  died,  he  left  him  in  his  will 
hi?;  silver  cup  and  gun.      He   married    (  fir->t ; 


Ct..^en^,<^«v 


STATE   OF    NEW" 


HRSEY. 


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1J57,  Ann  E..  daughter  of  Jose])h  and  Jane 
(Abbott)  Burr,  of  Mount  FloUy,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Hudson) 
Burr,  the  immigrants.  Children :  Rebecca, 
Miriam,  John  (see  forward)  and  Jane,  (ieorge 
Deacon  married  (second)  Susanna  Xorcross, 
who  died  in  1803.  Children:  James;  .Anna, 
married  Samuel  Hains  ;  George  ;  Isaac  :  Rachel, 
died  unmarried  in  1825;  Theodosia. 

(I\')  John,  only  son  of  George  and  .\nn  E. 
(Burr)  Deacon,  was  born  in  Burlington  town- 
.ship,  March  22,  1761,  and  died  there  May  10, 
1846.  He  married,  November  20,  1787,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Thomas  and  Keturah 
(]\loore)  Eayre,  grancUlaughter  of  Thomas 
and  I'riscilla  (Hugg)  Eayre,  and  great-grand- 
daughter of  Richard  and  Margaret  Eayre,  the 
immigrants  and  founders  of  Eayrestown,  Bur- 
lington county.  Children:  1.  Anna  D.,  born 
September  22,  1788,  died  unmarried,  August 
27,  1870.  2.  Thomas  Eayre,  born  December 
26.  1789;  married  Elizabeth  W'oolman.  3. 
Elizabeth.  4.  Keturah,  born  July  28,  1791  ; 
died  unmarried.  May  24,  1830.  5.  Benjamin, 
see  forward.  6.  Rebecca,  born  December  27, 
1794;  died  unmarried,  September  23,  1862.  7. 
Keziah,  born  October  21,  1796:  died  unmar- 
ried, November  30,  1871.  8.  Hannah,  born 
June  14,  1799:  died  unmarried,  July  11,  1869. 
9.  Mary,  born  July  8,  1801  ;  died  unmarried, 
December  3,  1872.  10.  John  C,  born  April  7, 
1803,  died  August  30,  1870:  married  Maria 
W.  Buzby.  II.  George  I'urr,  born  June  b. 
1805,  died  April  13,  187(1;  niarried  Mary  Ridg- 
way.  12.  Charles  T.,  i)urn  June  2,  1807:  died 
June  16.  1828,  unmarried.  13.  Edmund,  born 
March  17,  1810,  died  F'ebruar)-  11,  1877;  mar- 
ried (first)  Rachel  Peterson,  (second)  Cath- 
erine Want. 

(  \' )  Benjamin,  second  son  and  fifth  chihl 
of  John  and  Hannah  (Eayre)  Deacon,  was 
born  in  Burlington  township,  September  11, 
1793,  and  died  in  Eayrestown,  August  15,  1874. 
He  married  (first)  Hannah,  born  November 
I.  1795,  died  C)ctober  26,  1835,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Keturah  (Moore)  Hewlings  ;  (sec- 
ond )  Martha  Burr.  Children,  all  by  first  mar- 
riage :  Joseph  Hewlings  (see  forward)  ;  Sarah 
Hewlings,  born  October  2,  1819;  John  Eayre, 
February  17,  1822,  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Eayre  and  Esther  (.Stokes)  Butter- 
worth;  Ann,  born  November  3,  1824,  married 
Chalkley  Wills;  Benjamin  Franklin,  born  July 
K),  1826.  married  Mary  Moore  Brick;  Charles 
T..  born  January  13,  1829,  married  Helen  L. 
Peterson,  of  Philadelphia. 

(\  I)   Joseph  Hewdings,  eldest  child  of  Ben- 


jamin and  Hannah  (Hewlings)  Deacon,  was 
born  in  Burlington  township,  January  20,  1818, 
and  died  in  Camden,  New  Jersey,  in  December, 
1897.  He  was  brought  up  on  a  farm,  and  edu- 
cated at  Westtown  Boarding  School,  in  Ches- 
ter county.  Ptnns)-lvania.  For  a  time  he 
taught  school,  and  then  engaged  in  farming,  a 
inu'suit  he  followed  until  about  1875,  when  he 
retiied  from  active  work  and  removed  to  Cam- 
den, .New  Jersey.  Politically  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican, and  served  as  superintendent  of  schools 
in  Burlington  county.  He  had  been  raised  in 
the  religion  of  the  Friends,  but  later  in  life 
became  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  He 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas  Hancock. 
Children:  Clifford;  Thomas;  Benjamin,  see 
forward  ;  Edmund,  twin  of  Benjamin;  .Mbert ; 
Marcus  Ward;  Joseph  Hewlings;  Clara;  two 
others,  names  not  known,  who  died  in  infancy. 

(  \  H)  Benjamin,  third  son  and  child  of  Jo- 
seph Hewlings  and  Martha  (Hancock)  Dea- 
con, was  born  in  Lumberton  township,  Bur- 
lington county,  New  Jersey,  October  6,  1854. 
His  education  was  acquired  in  the  district 
schools,  Kelley"s  school,  and  Charles  Aaron's 
school,  at  Mount  Holly.  He  assisted  his  father 
in  the  cultivation  of  the  farm  until  he  was 
about  twenty  years  of  age,  then  became  a  clerk 
in  a  country  store  at  Hainesport,  New  Jersey. 
For  a  time  he  held  a  similar  position  at  Lum- 
berton, and  then  with  Oliver  Jefifries,  at  Mount 
Holly.  In  1879  '1^  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Columbian  Iron  Works  as  shipping  clerk,  ris- 
ing step  by  step  until  in  the  year  1898,  when 
they  combined  with  the  firm  of  Ronalds  & 
Company,  of  New  York,  the  entire  concern 
was  incor]iorated  and  Mr.  Deacon  was  matle 
treasurer.  The  main  office  is  in  Philadelphia, 
and  they  have  branch  offices  in  Camden,  New 
^  ork,  and  Brooklyn,  and  Long  Island,  with 
the  factory  for  the  manufacture  of  iron  pipes 
and  fittings  located  at  Hainesport ;  their  capi- 
tal is  one  million  dollars.  Mr.  Deacon  is  also 
a  director  in  the  F'armers'  National  Bank  at 
iMount  Holly.  Politically  he  is  a  Republican, 
and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
and  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
l-~!ks.  and  i\Ianufacturers'  Club  of  Philadel- 
])hia. 

Mr.  Deacon  married,  December  29,  i88t, 
.Sarah  Fox  Johnson.  Children  :  Catharine  J., 
married  \'.  Claude  Palmer,  an  attorney  at 
Mount  Holly ;  Marion  H.,  married  Eugene 
Burns,  of  Philadelphia;  Benjamin  Harold,  a 
student  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania;  Jo- 
seph G.,  a  student  at  a  Lavvrenceville  school, 
in  .New  Jersey ;  Charles  Stanley,  at  home. 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Charles  Rollinson.  the  first 

KOLLIXSOX  member  of  this  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation was  the  son  of  William  Rollinson, 
who  emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Xew 
York  City,  where  his  son  Charles  was  born. 
Children:  Mary  ;  William,  referred  to  below  ; 
Charles ;  Joseph  ;  Osborne ;  Eliza,  married 
Joseph  Lamb. 

(11)  ^^'illiam,  son  of  Charles  Rollinson, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  ^Nlarch  21,  1817, 
and  died  in  Rah  way,  New  Jersey,  December 
27,  1891.  He  studied  for  the  ministry,  became 
a  Baptist  minister,  and  for  over  half  a  century 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  that 
denomination,  and  for  nearly  forty  years  was 
pastor  of  the  First  liaptist  Church  ir»  Rahway. 
He  married,  in  October,  1843,  Sophronia, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Iloyt,  of  New  York  City, 
and  formerly  of  Warwick.  Orange  county. 
New  York,  who  was  born  December  25,  181 7, 
and  diedDecember  25,1891.  Children:  i.  Joseph 
R..  referred  to  below.  2.  Charles  died  in  infancy. 
3.  William,  died  infancy.  4.  Oceanus,  died  in 
infancy.  5.  Oscar,  died  in  infancy.  6.  Henry 
Butler',  referred  to  below.  7.  Frederick,  died 
in  infancy.  Children  of  Stephen  Hoyt  of  New 
York  City:  Amanda,  Sarah,  Sophronia  (re- 
ferred to  above),  Frances,  Stephen,  Frances 
(2d). 

(IH)  Joseph  R.,  son  of  Rev.  \\  illiam  and 
Sophronia  (Hoyt)  Rollinson,  was  born  in 
Rahway,  September  14,  1845,  and  is  now  living 
there,  em])loyed  by  the  Phoenix  National  Bank, 
New  York  City.  He  married  .Augusta  Bridge- 
man.    Children :    Jane  1).,  Lillian,  Edith  Hoyt. 

(  HI )  Henry  Butler,  son  of  Rev.  William  and 
Sophronia  (Hoyt)  Rollinson,  was  born  in  San 
Francisco,  California,  September  27,  1853,  and 
is  now  living  in  Rahway,  New  Jersey.  He  was 
brought  to  Rahway  by  his  parents  when  be 
was  a  child,  and  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
years  residence  in  Jersey  City  he  has  lived  in 
Rahway  all  his  life,  [-"or  his  early  education 
he  was  sent  to  a  private  school  in  Jersey  City, 
afterwards  graduating  from  Hasbrouck  Insti- 
tute and  a  business  college.  He  then  started  in 
on  a  mercantile  career  in  New  York  City,  but 
he  always  had  a  liking  for  new.spaper  work, 
and  even  while  engaged  in  business  in  New 
York  he  found  time  to  do  considerable  work 
for  the  metro])olitan  dailies.  In  1884  he  pur- 
chased the  controlling  interest  in  the  Xczc  Jer- 
sey Advocate.  Rahway,  owned  by  the  late  H. 
H.  Soule,  and  with  but  little  jiractical  experi- 
ence began  the  work  of  editing  and  i)ublishing 
that   newspaper.      When   he   took   charge   the 


financial  affairs  of  the  paper  were  in  any- 
thing but  a  flattering  or  even  satisfactory  con- 
dition, and  this  fact  increased  very  much  the 
difficulties  confronting  the  new  editor.  He 
was  fond  of  the  work,  however,  and  deter- 
mined to  make  it  a  success.  For  the  first  few 
years  this  necessitated  extremely  hard  work 
of  from  fifteen  to  eighteen  hours  a  day  and 
the  most  steady  devotion  to  business ;  but  he 
was  at  length  rewarded  by  seeing  the  business 
of  his  paper  increase  and  its  influence  grow 
steadily.  He  has  now  one  of  the  best  etiuipjjed 
newspaper  offices  in  the  county,  and  an  excel- 
lent job  printing  department  in  connection 
therewith.  While  conducting  the  Advocate  as 
a  strict  party  paper,  he  has  always  dealt  fairly 
and  justly  with  his  political  opponents.  In 
public  affairs  his  paper  has  been  aggressive  and 
progressive,  fearless  in  defending  the  rights 
of  the  people,  and  a  zealous  champion  of  good 
government.  Mr.  Rollinson  himself  has  always 
been  an  active  and  prominent  Republican.  He 
was  president  of  the  Young  Men's  Republican 
Club  during  the  campaigns  of  1876  and  1880. 
From  1880  to  1886  he  served  in  the  common 
council  from  the  third  ward,  and  was  elected  a 
second  time  by  a  large  increased  majority.  In 
1889  he  was  appointed  postmaster  by  Presi- 
dent Harrison,  and  his  administration  of  the 
office  won  him  the  highest  approval  of  the  citi- 
zens. When  the  Republicans  secured  control 
of  the  legislature,  Mr.  Rollinson  was  appointed 
in  1894  as  assistant  journal  clerk  of  the  senate. 
.•\t  the  session  of  1895  there  was  a  vacancy  in 
the  office  of  secretary  of  the  senate,  caused  by 
the  appointment  of  \\'ilbur  A.  Mott,  of  New- 
ark, to  be  a  police  justice.  Mr.  Rollinson  be- 
came a  candidate  for  the  vacancy.  His  atten- 
tion to  duty  and  courteous  manners  made  it  an 
easy  matter  for  his  friend,  Senator  Voorhees, 
to  secure  the  appointment  for  him.  He  was 
re-elected  for  the  sessions  of  1896-97.  As  sec- 
retary of  the  senate  Mr.  Rollinson  had.  many 
friends,  who  take  pleasure  in  referring  to  him 
in  the  most  complimentary  terms.  From  1894 
to  1898,  under  President  ]\lcKinley,  he  was 
postmaster  of  Rahway  and  he  was  reappointed 
in  1902  and  1906  by  President  Roosevelt  and  in 
1910  by  President  Taft.  Mr.  Rollinson  is  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  of  the 
Rahway  Club,  and  is  an  attendant  of  the  Sec- 
ond Presbyterian  Church  of  Rahway,  and 
served  as  trustee  for  three  years.  He  married, 
in  Newark,  June,  1873,  Jennie  Louise,  daugh- 
ter of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Tallman  \'an  Ri- 
per, who  was  born  in  Bergen  Hill,  Hudson 
county.  New  Jersey,  .\pril  5,   1853   (see  \'an 


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Ryper).  Children:  i.  William  ilcnry,  re- 
ferred to  below.  2.  Charles  R.,  born  October 
18,  1878:  married  Jessie  Waters;  child:  Dud- 
lev.     3.  Grace  S.    4.  Helen  Louise.     >  [oseiih 

r; 

(  1\  )  William  Henry,  son  cif  Henry  Butler 
and  Jennie  Louisa  (Van  Ryper j  Rollinson, 
was  born  June  22,  1874.  He  married  Eva  'SI. 
Oliver.  Children :  Charlotte,  born  .August, 
1901  :  William  ( )liver,  born  11^3:  Reginald 
Hoyt,  born  1907. 

(The  Van   Ryper  Line). 

The  various  forms  of  the  name  of  this  fam- 
ily are  all  derived  from  the  Latin  word  r/'/'d, 
meaning  the  river  bank,  which  was  itself  also 
the  name  of  a  city  on  the  north  bank  of  the 
river  Xibbs,  sometimes  called  Xipsick,  or 
Gram.  The  district  in  which  this  city  was 
situated.  North  Jutland,  in  Denmark,  was  di- 
vided into  four  dioceses,  the  most  southwester- 
ly of  which,  lying  along  the  German  ocean, 
was  also  called  Ripen,  and  was  a  part  of  the 
Cimbrica  Chersonesus  of  the  ancients,  and  the 
home  of  the  warlike  Cimbri  who  invaded  the 
Roman  empire.  Ripen  in  the  diocese  of  Ripen 
is  next  to  W^ibourg  the  most  ancient  town  of 
North  Jutland.  Once  it  had  a  commodious 
harbor  and  a  prosperous  commerce,  its  cathe- 
dral was  imposing  and  noted  as  a  landmark 
for  mariners,  and  though  captured  in  the  Swed- 
ish war  of  1645  it  was  recovereil  by  the  Danes 
soon  afterwards.  From  this  port  in  1663  the 
ship  "Bonte  Koe."  or  "Spotted  Cow,"  sailed 
for  New  Netherland,  with  eighty-nine  passen- 
gers, among  them  Juriaen  Tomassen,  a  young 
man  of  the  city  of  Ripan.  Settling  in  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  he  became  the  founder 
of  a  numerous  family  of  descendants,  some  of 
whom  took  the  name  of  Jurianse,  changed  later 
into  Yereance  and  Auryansen,  and  others  the 
n.ame  \'an  Ripen,  from  the  city  of  their  found- 
er's nativity.  In  later  days  this  last  name  also 
took  memberless  forms,  the  most  common  of 
which  are  Ripen,  Reipen,  Reypen,  Riper, 
Reiper,  Reyper  and  Ryper,  each  having  the 
Van  prefixed.  Juriaen  Tomassen  died  Se])tem- 
ber  12,  1695.  May  12,  1667,  he  married  Pryntjc 
Hermans.  Children:  i.  Tomas,  baptized  June 
10,  1668;  married  June  2,  ii')9i,  Jaunetje, 
daughter  of  Jan  Straatmakcr.  2.  Gerrit,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  .\eltje,  baptized  Decem- 
ber 21,  1672.  4.  Chrystyntje.  baptized  Novem- 
ber 24,  1677;  married  .August  i,  1698.  Pieter 
Gerbrantse.  5.  Maritje,  baptized  .April  28, 
1680;  married,  .Ajiril  11,  1704.  Claas  (ier- 
brantse.      6.    Harman.   baptized    October    21. 


1(182,  died  in  infanc}-.  7.  Jan,  married  .April  7. 
1702,  Neeltje  Gerbrantse.  8.  Harman,  born 
December  6,  1686;  died  between  1754  and 
1756;  married  (first)  June  20,  1709,  Marytje 
Fredericks;  (second)  1721,  Judith  Stoftelse 
Steimiiets.    9.  Grietje,  born  October  5,  1691. 

(H)  Gerrit,  son  of  Juriaem  Tomassen  and 
Pryntje  (Hermans)  A'an  Ripen,  was  born  in 
Bergen  county,  New  Jersey,  and  baptized  June 
2/,  1670.  He  died  September  4,  1748.  He 
married,  June  6,  1693,  Beelitje.  daughter  of 
Dirck  Janse  Osten  and  Elizabeth  Cornelis,  of 
Hoboken,  who  died  May  20,  1745.  Children: 
I.  Elizabeth,  born  ]\Iay  29,  if')94:  died  Novem- 
ber 18,  1767;  married  May  30,  1719,  Michael 
Hartmanse  A'reelandt.  2.  Lea,  born  Septem- 
ber II,  1697;  died  December  19,  1775;  mar- 
ried May  2,  1 7 19,  Jacob  \'an  \\'agenen..  3. 
Juriaen,  born  August  15,  ir)99 ;  died  July  29. 

1739  ;  married  Grietje .    4.  Garret,  born 

December  4,  1701  ;  married  Martje  Gerbrandse. 

5.  Dirck,  born  January  17,  1704.  6.  Aeltje, 
born  March  29,  1705;  died  September  30, 
1710.  7.  Cornelis,  referred  to  below.  8.  Jo- 
hannis,  born  June  3,  1710;  died  .August  24. 
1776;  married  (first)  December  2,  1740,  Sarali 
Hendrickse  Kuyper,  who  died  July  2,  1741  : 
(second)  September  5.  1742,  ^largrietje  \'an 
Winckel. 

(HI)  Cornelis,  son  of  Gerrit  and  Beelitje 
(Cornelis)  Van  Rypen,  was  born  in  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  October  6,  1707,  and  died 
January  17,  177 1.  He  married,  June  29,  1728, 
Aeltje.  born  .April  13,  1712,  and  died  July  19, 
1776,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Jaunetje  (\'ree- 
landt )  \'an  Winckel.  Children:  i.  Garret, 
died  unmarried  about  April,  1795.  2.  Daniel, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Beelitje,  born  October 
10,  1741  :  died  February  13,  1826;  married 
May  6,  1762,  Johannis  Nan  Home.  4.  Jaunetje, 
baptized  April  16,  1745,  married  May  15,  1766, 
Nicholas  Tuers.     5.  Aeltje,  born  June  7.  1848, 

6.  Cornelis,  born  December  8,  1750:  died  .Au- 
gust 13,  1767. 

( lA' )  Daniel  A'an  Ripen,  son  of  Cornelis  and 
Aeltje  (\^an  Winckel)  \'an  Rypen,  was  born 
in  Bergen  county.  New  Jersey,  June  26,  1736, 
and  died  there  July  23,  1818.  He  was  a  black- 
smith by  trade,  and  it  is  said  possessed  little 
education  but  much  good  sterling  common 
sense.  During  the  revolutionary  war  he  was 
a  staunch  and  unyielding  patriot.  For  a  short 
time  he  was  lieutenant  in  the  militia.  He  was 
taken  prisoner  by  a  Tory  named  \'an  Wart 
and  was  locked  up  in  the  "old  sugar  house" 
prison  in  New  A'ork  City.  When  brought  be- 
fore the  British  officer  for  examination.  Colo- 


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nel  William  Bayard,  the  celebrated  Tory,  and 
one  time  owner  of  the  island  of  Hoboken,  and 
\'an  Wart,  his  captor,  were  present.  The 
latter  asked  \'an  Rypen  where  his  "rebel  coat" 
was.  \'an  Ry[)en  replied  "the  coat  does  not 
make  the  man."  "W'hat  does  then?"  asked 
the  officer.  Putting  his  hand  over  his  heart, 
the  patriot  replied.  "This,  Sir."  Colonel  Bay- 
ard wished  to  have  \'an  Rypen  held  a  prisoner, 
but  the  officer  in  charge  was  so  pleased  with 
him  that  he  discharged  him  with  the  assurance 
that  he  would  do  tiie  same  as  often  as  he  was 
arrested.  Daniel  \'an  Rypen  was  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas  of  Bergen  county 
for  a  number  of  years  after  the  revolutionary 
war,  and  his  name  appears  on  many  papers  and 
records  of  his  day.  He  married,  October  13, 
1761,  Elizabeth  Terhune,  born  July  15,  1738, 
died  June  i,  181 1.  Children:  i.  Catlyntje,  born 
September  2,  1762;  died  November  14,  1833; 
married  as  second  wife.  May  2, 1779, Garret, son 
of  Johannis  andMargrietje  (Van  Winckel)  Van 
Ryoen,  and  grandson  of  Gerrit  Juriaense,  re- 
ferred to  above,  who  was  born  February  4, 
1/49,  died  .August  31,  1831.  and  married 
(first)  Catlyntje  \'an  W'agcnen.  2.  Cornelius, 
born  May  23,  1767,  died  January  6,  1842  :  mar- 
ried (first)  January,  1787,  Elizabeth  X'reeland, 
(second)  Wouwtje  Gerrebrantse  Gerritsen,  of 
Slosterdam,  (third)  Aeltje  \'an  Horn,  widow 
of  Michael  Van  Houten.  3.  Derrick,  referred 
to  below. 

(V)  Derrick  (Dirck,  or  in  English,  Rich- 
ard), son  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth  (Terhune) 
Van  Ryper,  was  born  in  Bergen  county,  New 
Jersey,  August  28,  1772,  and  died  there  July 
3.  1S51.  He  married,  in  October,  1792,  Jen- 
neke.  born  1775,  died  July  i,  1848,  (laughter 
of  Michael  and  Annatje  (Vreeland)  Vreeland. 
Children;  i.  Michael,  born  November  8,  1793; 
died  April  22,  1868;  married  December  21, 
1816,  Cecilia  Cadmus.  2.  Elizabeth,  born  No- 
vember 23,  1795;  died  September  3.  1796.  3. 
Annatje,  born  June  25,  1797;  married,  No- 
vember 30.  1816,  Abraham  X'recland.  4.  Eliz- 
abeth, born  July  9,  1800.  5.  -Aegie,  December 
19,  1801  ;  died  immarried.  6.  Daniel  R.,  re- 
ferred to  below.  7.  Cornelius  R.,  born  March 
27,  1805;  married,  September  15,  1827,  Mary 
Sickles.  8.  Catharine,  born  September  24, 
1807:  died  December  31,  186S;  married  No- 
vember 7,  1822,  Albert  Zabriskic.  9.  Jane, 
born  December  27,  1809;  died  June  14.  1872; 
married,  January  17,  1828,  Egbert  W'auters. 
10.  George,  born  September  23,  181 1;  died 
May  3,  1864;  married,  September  13,  1862, 
Gitty  Out  water ;  no  children.    11.  Helena,  born 


April  20,  181^.  died  May  6,  1813.  12.  Aletta, 
born  October  6,  1819,  died  March  29,  1855; 
married,  October  29,  1840,  John  S.  Tuttle. 

(VI)  Daniel  R.,  son  of  Derrick  and  Jenneke 
(Vreeland)  \'an  Ryper,  was  born  in  Bergen 
county.  New  Jersey,  Sejncmber  7,  1803,  ^and 
died  there  April  22,  1873.  He  married,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1826,  Jane,  daughter  of  Adrain  M. 
Post.  Children:  i.  Eliza,  born  July  i,  1826; 
married  Henry  B.  Beaty.  2.  Richard,  referred 
to  below.  3.  Adrain,  born  November  7,  1832, 
married  Sarah  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Van 
Pelt,  of  Millstone.  4.  John  M..  born  July  25, 
1835,  died  April  27,  1868;  married,  March  27, 
i860,  Loui.sa,  daughter  of  John  Gurney.  5. 
Hannah  Jane,  born  August  21,  1839;  married. 
January  15,  1869,  Walter  Gurney.  6.  Clara 
P.,  born  April  3.  1842;  married,  April  13, 
i86g,  John  Wallace  Jr.  7.  Daniel,  born  Octo- 
ber 21,  1844.  8.  Catharine  Emphemia,  Au- 
gust 22,  1847;  died  August  10,  1858.  9.  Aletta, 
born  April  i,  1850. 

(VH)  Richard,  son  of  Daniel  R.  and  Jane 
(Post)  Van  Ryper,  was  born  in  Bergen  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  December  3,  1829.  He  mar- 
ried, April  16,  185 1,  Sarah  G.,  daughter  of 
James  Tallman.  Children:  i.  Jennie  Louise. 
referred  to  below.  2.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born 
December  10,  1854;  married.  May  8,  1873, 
John  A.  Humstcd.  3.  Daniel,  born  June  10, 
1857.  4.  Clara,  December  5,  i860.  5.  Mary, 
March  5,  1865.    6.  Richard,  August  20,  1866. 

(Vni )  Jennie  Louise,  daughter  of  Richard 
and  Sarah  G.  (Tallman)  Van  Riper,  was  born 
in  Hudson  (before  1840  Bergen)  county,  New 
Jersey,  April  5,  1853.  She  married,  in  June, 
1873,  Henry  Butler,  son  of  Rev.  William  and 
Sophronia  (Hoyt)  Rollinson ;  (see  Rollinson). 


The  origin  of  the  Garrison 
GARRISON  family  at  present  under  con- 
sideration is  Dutch.  The 
name  appears  in  the  old  records  as  Garrison. 
Garretson,  Gerritson,  Gerritse  and  Gerritsz. 
all  of  them  being  patronymic  forms  of  Garret, 
and  indicative  of  the  Christian  name  of  the 
emigrant  ancestor  or  of  one  of  his  immediate 
descendants,  the  Dutch  in  this  country  not 
having  adopted  surnames  as  a  general  rule 
until  about  1730,  using  instead  for  each  gen- 
eration the  name  of  the  man's  or  woman's 
father  with  a  suffi.x  denoting  son  or  daughter. 
By  this  method  the  patronymic  changed  with 
each  generation,  and  owing  to  the  common- 
ness of  the  name  Garret  it  is  an  extremely  dif- 
ficult matter  to  determine  the  correct  ancestry 
prior  to  1725.    The  first  member  of  the  fam- 


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ily  of  whom  we  have  definite  information  ap- 
pears to  have  settled  in  Somerset  county,  New 
Jersey,  where  we  find  at  least  four  of  his  chil- 
dren:    I.  Jacobus,  died  betw-een  December  23, 

1745,  and  June  ,5,  1746;  married  Sarah ; 

and  left  two  children,  Sara  and  Jacobus.  2. 
Rem,  died  between  April  i,  and  December  18, 
1786;  married  Mary .  3.  Samuel,  re- 
ferred to  below.  4.  A  daughter,  married  John 
Koerte. 

(11)   Samuel,  son  of Garretson,  of 

Somerset  county,  died  between  June  i,  and 
August  5,  1801,  the  dates  of  the  execution  and 
proving  of  his  will.  He  married  Ann  Ten  Eyck, 
a  widow  with  one  daughter.  Ann  Ten  Eyck. 
Children  :     Rem  and  Jacobus. 

(  111  )  Jacobus,  or  James,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Ann  (Ten  Eyck)  Garrison,  lived  in  Windsor 
township,  Somerset  county,  and  left  a  son 
Samuel. 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  Jacobus  Garrison,  of 
Windsor,  was  a  farmer.     He  married   (first) 

;  (second)  Rhoda,  daughter  of  William 

Scott.  Children,  all  by  second  marriage :  Annie, 
Eliza,  Mary,  Bathsheba,  Catharine,  John,  Sam- 
uel, referred  to  below-. 

(V)  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Samuel  (i)  and 
Rhoda  (Scott)  Garrison,  was  born  in  Windsor 
township,  Mercer  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1845, 
and  died  in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  in  De- 
cember, 1896.  He  was  educated  in  the  Wind- 
sor township  public  schools  and  several  years 
before  reaching  his  majority  enlisted  in  one 
of  the  New  Jersey  regiments  for  the  civil  war, 
serving  for  three  years  and  being  promoted 
sergeant  of  his  company.  After  being  muster- 
ed out  of  service  at  the  close  of  the  war  he 
secured  employment  as  clerk  in  the  grocery 
store  of  Daniel  Smith  Mershon,  of  Borden- 
town, New  Jersey,  and  later  he  established 
himself  in  a  grocery  business  of  his  own  which 
he  carried  on  most  successfully  until  his  death. 
He  also  owned  a  large  cranberry  bog  which 
was  very  profitable.  He  was  a  member  of 
Mount  Moriah  Lodge,  No.  28,  F.  and  A.  M. ; 
Mount  Moriah  Chapter,  No.  20,  R.  A.  M.; 
Ivanhoe  Comniandery.  No.  11,  K.  T.,  of  Bord- 
entown, and  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
at  one  time  served  as  commissioner  of  appeals. 
He  w'as  a  vestryman  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  Bordentown.  He  married 
Hannah  Gary,  daughter  of  Daniel  Smith  and 
Anna  Mershon,  whose  father  was  his  former 
employer  and  owner  of  a  line  of  packets,  who 
had  fitted  out  two  gunboats  for  the  use  of  the 
government  during  the  civil   war.     Children  : 


1.  Frances  Anneta.  died  aged  eighteen  years. 

2.  Daniel  Mershon.  of  whom  further.  3.  Sam- 
uel Frederick,  referred  to  below.  4.  Mary 
Gihon,  died  young.  5.  Anna  Beatrice,  died 
April,  1902. 

(VI)  Daniel  Mershon,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  Gary  (Mershon)  Garrison,  was  born 
in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  May  3,  1874.  He 
graduated  from  the  Bordentown  Military  In- 
stitute in  June,  1891,  and  from  the  United 
States  Naval  Academy  in  June.  1895.  He 
served  on  board  the  U.  S.  S.  "Indiana"  during 
the  Spanish-American  war,  and  was  presented 
with  a  medal  by  Congress  for  participation  in 
the  battle  of  July  3,  1898,  and  with  service 
medals  for  campaigns.  He  was  chief-engineer 
of  the  expedition  which  surveyed  the  route 
across  the  Pacific  for  the  submarine  cable  since 
laid.  He  was  on  guard  duty  in  Chemulpo, 
Korea,  and  Chefoo,  China,  during  the  Russo- 
Japanese  war.  He  was  promoted  to  lieutenant 
(junior  grade)  July  i,  1900;  to  lieutenant,  July 
4,  1902;  to  commander,  August,  1907.  Fie  is 
professor  of  mathematics  at  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Academy,  Annapolis,  Maryland.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  of  the  Graduates  Associa- 
tion ;  member  of  the  Military  Order  of  Foreign 
Wars,  and  various  patriotic  and  scientific  soci- 
eties. He  married  Jessie  Croft,  daughter  of 
Colonel  William  Aiken  and  Jessie  Ball  (Croft) 
Kelly,  of  Charleston,  South  Carolina,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1901.  Children:  Jessie  Croft,  born 
September  20,  1902;  and  Daniel  Mershon  (2), 
born   August  29,   1903. 

(VI)  Samuel  Frederick,  son  of  Samuel  and 
Hannah  Gary  (Mershon)  Garrison,  was  born 
in  Bordentown,  New  Jersey,  October  15,  1879, 
and  is  now  living  in  that  place.  After  receiving 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  he 
graduated  from  the  Bordentown  Military  In- 
stitute in  June,  1897.  He  then  studied  law  in 
the  office  of  Linton  Southwaite  Esq.,  of  Tren- 
ton, New  Jersey,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
New  Jersey  bar  in  November,  1901,  after 
which  he  started  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  Bordentown,  where  he  has  been  ever 
since.  In  addition  to  his  professional  duties 
he  continues  the  lucrative  cranberry  business 
e,stablished  by  his  father.  He  is  an  Independ- 
ent in  politics,  a  member  of  Mount  Moriah 
Lodge,  No.  28,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  Mount 
Moriah  Chapter,  No.  20,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Borden- 
town. He  is  a  vestryman  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  Bordentown.  He  mar- 
ried, April  17,  1906,  Agnes  W..  daughter  of 
George  Le  Baw  and  Annie  Lloyd  (Ilendrick- 
son)  1  (owcll,  who  was  born  September  9,  18S0. 


STATE    or    NEW  JERSEY. 


Children:  I.  I'rances  Agnes,  born  March  20, 
1907:  died  August  10,  1907.  2.  Samuel  l-'red- 
erick  (21,  lx)rn  September  8,  1908. 

Dr.  Ora  i\L  Walker,  of  Dover, 

WALKER  New  Jersey,  is  present  day 
representative  of  an  old  fam- 
ily of  Western  New  York,  where  its  members 
have  been  known  for  generations  as  among  the 
most  respected  citizens  of  Orleans  county. 

(I)  William  Norton  Walker  was  born  .-Xpril 
5,  1817,  and  died  January  15,  1869.  His  father 
was  a  general  in  the  revolutionary  war.  He 
was  a  farmer  of  Orleans  county.  New  York. 
He  married,  March  i,  1843,  Mary,  born  Au- 
gust 23,  1823,  died  January  3,  1875,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Irishman)  Ingalsbe. 
.Among  his  children  was  Judsnn  L.,  referred 
to  below. 

(H)  Judson  L.,  .son  of  William  Walker,  of 
Orleans  county,  was  born  in  Alabama,  (jene- 
see  county,  New  York,  January  3,  1845,  and  is 
now  living  in  West  Shelby,  Orleans  county. 
For  several  years  before  locating  in  W'est  Shel- 
by he  lived  at  North  Ridgway.  He  is  a  farmer, 
and  also  a  veterinary  surgeon,  and  his  agricul- 
tural specialty  is  fruit,  of  which  he  has  raised 
a  great  quantity.  He  is  a  Democrat,  and  has 
held  several  local  offices.  He  married,  Decem- 
ber 27,  1871,  Lenora,  daughter  of  Ansel  Chase  ; 
she  was  born  at  North  Ridgway,  October  27, 
1852,  and  is  now  living.  (See  Chase).  Among 
their  children  was  Ora  M.,  referred  to  below. 

(Hi)  Ora  M.,  son  of  Judson  L.  and  Le- 
nora (Chase)  W'alker,  was  born  in  West 
Shelby,  New  York,  May  17,  1884,  and  is  now 
living  in  Dover,  New  Jersey.  After  receiving 
his  early  education  in  the  county  schools  and 
in  the  high  school  at  Medina,  Orleans  county. 
New  York,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1904, 
he  entered  the  American  School  of  Osteopathy, 
at  Kirksville,  Missouri,  and  received  his  di- 
ploma in  June,  1908.  He  then  located  in  Sil- 
ver City,  New  Mexico,  where  he  remained  for 
a  year,  and  in  June,  1909,  settled  in  Dover, 
New  Jersey.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Atlas 
Club,  of  the  .\nierican  School  of  Osteopathy, 
and  is  an  Independent  in  politics.  He  married, 
June  6.  1908.  Caroline,  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Elizabeth  ( DufTord)  Spangenberg;  she  was 
born  in  Washington,  New  Jersey,  graduated 
from  the  .Vnierican  School  of  Osteopathy,  in 
l'"ebruary,  1908,  and  is  now  practicing  with  her 
husband. 

(The   Chase   Llne>. 

Through  his  mother.  Dr.  Ora  M.  Chase  is 
descended  from  one  of  the  old  English  families 


whose  ancestry  in  England  is  traceable  to  the 
days  of  Columbus.  The  present  line  was  of 
Chasam  Manor,  Bucks  county,  England,  (i) 
Thomas.  (2)  John.  (3)  Nathan,  married 
Eliza  Bould.  (4)  Richard,  married  Mary 
Jloberts.  (5)  Richard,  baptized  August  3, 
1542,  married,  April  16,  1564,  Jane  Bishop. 
(6)  Aquilla,  born  1580,  baptized  August  14, 
1580.  (7)  Aquilla,  born  1618;  came  to 
New  England  in  1637,  with  his  brother 
Thoma> ;  married,  in  Hampton,  Massachu- 
setts, 1638,  Anne  Wheeler;  moved  to  New- 
buryport,  Massachusetts,  1646.  (8)  Moses. 
born  December  24,  1663,  the  first  of  the  family 
born  in  America.  (9)  Moses,  born  January 
20,  1688.  (10)  Seth.  (11)  Josiah,  born  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1748.  (12)  John,  born  June  3, 
1779,  in  Worcester  county,  Massachusetts, 
died  May  24,  1867;  married,  October  10,  1802, 
Roxana  Thompson,  born  in  Swanseytown, 
New  Hampshire,  December  6,  1782,  died  Jan- 
uary 15,  1858.  (13)  Ansel  Chase,  born  in 
Central  Otsego  county.  New  York,  1807,  died 
1893.     (Sec  Walker  above). 


William  Nixon,  the  first  member 
NIXON      of  the  family  of  whom  we  have 

definite  information,  lived  at 
Quakertown,  Hunterdon  county,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  kept  a  well  and  favorably  known 
hotel  for  many  years.  He  was  one  of  the  prom- 
inent men  in  his  locality  and  served  for  two 
terms  as  sheriff,  elected  on  the  Democratic 
ticket.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  of  Quakertown.  He  mar- 
ried Annie  Meyers.  Children  :  Justus  L.,  re- 
ferred to  below:  William:  Hiram:  John: 
Eliza:  Harriet. 

(II)  Justus  L.,  son  of  William  and  .\nnie 
(Meyers)  Nixon,  was  born  in  Quakertown, 
Hunterdon  county.  New  Jersey,  February  i, 
1825,  and  died  there  June  27.  1907.  aged  eighty 
years  five  months  twenty-seven  days.  He  was 
born  and  lived  on  the  home  farm  which  has 
been  in  the  possession  of  the  family  for  more 
than  one  hundred  years,  and  which  has  been 
so  devised  by  will  that  it  cannot  be  sold  or  pass 
out  of  the  hands  of  its  life  tenants  except  to 
some  other  member  of  the  family.  Mr.  Nixon, 
after  receiving  a  good  early  education,  became 
a  large  dealer  in  blooded  cattle  and  a  grower 
of  peaches,  in  both  of  which  businesses  he  be- 
came eminently  prosperous  and  successful.  He 
was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  was  for  many  years 
overseer  of  the  poor  of  Hunterdon  county,  and 
also  for  a  long  time  county  collector.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 


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of  Ouakertown,  and  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows.  He  married  Annie  Daven- 
port. Children  :  William  E. ;  Annie  ;  Lam- 
bert;  Ella:  Warford  L.,  referred  to  below; 
Ehvin  ;  Jane. 

{Ill)  Warford  Lock,  son  of  Justus  L.  and 
Annie  (Davenport)  Xixon,  was  born  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Ouakertown.  New  Jersey, 
and  is  now  living  in  Raritan,  Xevv  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  Fleming- 
ton  public  schools  and  to  the  business  college 
at  Trenton,  after  which  he  went  to  the  Tren- 
ton normal  school  and  the  Pennington  Semi- 
nary. He  then  graduated  with  the  class  of 
i88g  from  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Flemington  with  Dr.  Case,  with 
whom  he  remained  for  about  seven  years.  He 
then  went  to  Raritan,  New  Jersey,  where  he 
opened  an  office,  and  at  the  same  time  spent  a 
day  each  week  in  attendance  at  St,  Michael's 
Hospital,  Newark.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
national,  state  and  Somerset  county  medical 
societies.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a 
member  of  the  Raritan  Methodist  Church.  He 
married,  in  1896,  Amelia,  daughter  of  Madison 
Hcacock.     ( )ne  child,   Edna. 


This  branch  of  the  Miller  fam- 
^HLLER  ily  is  not  native  to  New  Jersey, 
but  is  of  Pennsylvania  for  many 
generation  past.  The  family  is  so  numerous 
in  that  state  that  from  the  great  number  bear- 
ing similar  names  it  is  almost  impossible  to 
separate  the  families  and  give  true  line  of  de- 
scent. 

The  Miller  family  appears  in  Chester  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  records  at  an  early  date. 
Gayen  Miller  with  Margaret,  his  wife,  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Kinnet  township, 
where  he  bought  land  in  1702.  They  were  the 
parents  of  eleven  children  born  between  the 
years  1696  and  1723.  Robert,  one  of  the  sons, 
married  Ruth  Haines  and  had  seventeen  chil- 
dren. Another  descendant  was  Dr.  Warwick 
Miller,  of  Sadsburyville,  a  noted  man  of  his 
day,  born  1785,  died  1812,  John  Miller,  per- 
haps a  brother  of  Gayen  Miller,  settled  at  what 
is  now  Avondale,  Chester  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, 1709.  Another  settler,  thought  to  be 
a  brother  of  Gayen  and  John,  was  James  Mil- 
ler, who  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Light- 
foot,  in  Ireland  and  came  to  Pennsylvania  in 
1729,  settling  at  New  Garden.  Others  of  the 
name  settled  in  York  and  Lancaster  counties. 
It  is  from  the  Chester  county  families  that  the 
branch  in  Edgewater  Park  descend. 


(I)  (ieorge  K.  Miller  was  born  at  North 
Coventry,  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  He 
followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer,  owning 
his  own  farm  in  that  county,  where  he  died 
aged  sixty-three  years.  He  married  Sally 
Evans,  who  bore  him  children:  Amos  E.,  see 
forward,  ^\'arren  R.,  Fremont  Allen,  Sally, 
Adeline  and  Carrie. 

(II)  Amos  E.,  eldest  son  and  child  of 
George  K,  and  Sally  (Evans)  Miller,  was  born 
in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  February  12, 
1850.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools 
of  the  township,  and  on  attaining  a  suitable  age 
was  apprenticed  to  a  house  carpenter.  He 
worked  for  years  at  that  trade,  paying  par- 
ticular attention  to  stair  building  at  which  he 
was  rated  an  expert.  Leaving  Chester  county 
he  went  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  established 
hiinself  as  a  manufacturer  of  stairs  and  be- 
came well  known  in  the  trade.  Although  in 
business  in  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Miller  resides  in 
Palmyra,  New  Jersey.  He  is  an  adherent  of 
the  Republican  party.  He  married  Ariadne 
Paugh,  of  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania, 
daughter  of  Harris  Baugh,  an  attorney  of  the 
Chester  county  bar,  and  granddaughter  of 
Daniel  Paugh.  Children:  i.  Gertrude,  mar- 
ried William  Truman,  of  West  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania  :  children  :  Fremont  and  George 
Truman.    2.  Hugh  B.,  see  forward. 

(III)  Hugh  B.,  only  son  of  Amos  E.  and 
Ariadne  (P.augh)  Miller,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania,  December  24,  1877,  His 
parents  removed  to  Palmyra,  New  Jersey, 
when  he  was  eight  years  of  age,  and  his  edu- 
cation was  obtained  there  in  the  public  schools, 
supplemented  by  a  course  at  a  business  col- 
lege and  in  drawing  at  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  night  class  in  Philadelphia, 
He  learned  the  trades  of  carpenter  and  stair 
builder,  working  for  a  time  with  his  father 
under  whose  careful  instruction  he  became  an 
expert  in  the  business.  In  1903  he  embarked 
in  business  on  his  own  account  in  company 
with  George  W.  Shaner  under  the  firm  name 
of  Shaner  &  Miller.  They  maintain  offices  and 
conduct  business  operations  in  Palmyra,  where 
Mr.  Shaner  is  in  charge,  and  at  Edgewater 
Park,  New  Jersey,  where  Mr.  Miller  resides 
and  manages  the  business.  They  are  well 
known,  reliable  and  e.xpert  craftsmen.  Mr. 
Miller  is  a  Republican,  and  is  an  elected  justice 
of  the  peace  at  Edgewater  Park.  For  fifteen 
years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Patriotic 
Order  Sons  of  America,  and  is  past  president 
of  the  Palmyra  order.  Mr.  Miller  married,  in 
1902,  ElizalK'th  1)..  daughter  of  Henrv  C.  and 


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Lovina  (Christie)  Adams,  of  Edgcwater  I'ark. 
(See  Adams).  Children  :  i.  Child,  died  in  in- 
fancy. 2.  Lavinia  Helen,  born  September  i, 
i<)05.  ,^  Warren  .-\dams,  February  21,  1907. 
4.    llu.i;h    I'.urton.  January  20,   1909. 


James   Dobbins.  Jr..  so  called 
DOIU'ilXS     to    distinguish    him    from    his 

luicle  or  cousin  James  Dob- 
bins. Sr..  is  the  first  member  of  the  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  information.  lie  died 
in  Mount  Holly.  New  Jersey,  in  1776,  aged, 
according  to  his  tombstone  in  St.  Andrew's 
Churchyard  there,  "about  forty-six  years." 
He  may  have  been  a  descendant  of  either  the 
Widow  Dobbins  of  Delaware  Neck,  North- 
ampton county,  Pennsylvania,  or  the  family 
that  originated  in  Fairfax  county,  Virginia. 
He  was  a  blacksmith  in  the  days  when  that 
trade  included  the  forging  of  all  kinds  of  iron 
work  from  a  horseshoe  nail  to  a  cannon,  and 
he  or  his  parents  probably  came  to  Mount 
Holly  in  the  pursuit  of  that  calling,  the  first 
iron  furnace  and  forge  having  been  started  in 
that  place  about  1730.  In  1775  sheet  iron 
made  in  these  works  was  used  to  make  camp 
kettles  for  the  Continental  army,  and  in  the 
following  year  shot  and  shell  were  manufac- 
tured there.  The  Briti.sh  learning  this,  de- 
stroyed the  works,  and,  so  far  as  Mount  Holly 
was  concerned,  the  iron  industry  also.    James 

Dobbins,  Jr.,  married  Ruth  ■ .  possibly 

before  he  came  to  Motmt  Holly.  Children:  i. 
John,  referred  to  below.  2.  Rachel;  married, 
July  30,  1789,  Samuel  Lewis,  a  carpenter  of 
Mount  Holly,  and  builder  of  the  courthouse 
and  most  of  the  noted  buildings  in  that  county 
seat.  3.  Child,  name  and  sex  unknown.  4. 
James,  born  November  i,  1767.  5.  \\'illiam. 
born    October    4.    1771  :    died    iS4^:    married 

Mary  R.  . 

(II)  John,  son  of  James.  Jr..  and  Ruth 
Dobbins,  was  born  probably  in  Mount  Holly, 
Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  June  2.  1760, 
and  died  there  January  16,  1841.  and  is  buried 
in  St.  Andrew's  Churchyard,  Mount  Holly. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  well 
known  citizens  of  the  town  and  is  generally 
spoken  of  as  John  Dobbins,  Sr..  in  order  to 
distinguish  him  from  his  son,  w-ho  was  also  a 
])romincnt  man.  He  opened  and  conducted  the 
first  store  in  Mount  Holly,  which  was  contin- 
ued for  many  years  after  his  death  by  his 
two  .sons,  John  Dobbins,  Jr.,  and  Edward 
Tonkin  Dobbins,  under  the  firm  name  of  John 
Dobbins  &  Brother.  These  last  were  in  turn 
succeeded    by   the    firm   of    I'urtis    &    Quick. 


John  D(jbbins.  .Sr..  and  his  son  John  were 
among  the  incorporators  of  the  Farmers' 
National  Bank  of  Mount  Holly,  which,  though 
existing  in  1814,  received  its  charter  in  the 
following  year,  the  father  becoming  a  member 
of  the  first  board  of  directors.  He  was  also 
for  many  years  from  181 1  to  1841  warden  of 
St.  Andrew's  Church,  Alount  Holly.  One  of 
the  most  exquisite  bits  of  ecclesiastical  archi- 
tecture in  this  county  is  the  Dobbins  Memo- 
rial Chai5el,  which  has  been  erected  on  the  site 
of  the  original  St.  .Andrew's  Church.  He  was 
also  connected  in  soiue  way  with  the  old 
Camden  &  Amboy  railroad,  the  first  steam 
railroad  in  New  Jersey,  and  he  w-as  one  of  the 
original  members  of  the  Relief  Fire  Company, 
said  to  be  the  second  company  of  its  kind 
formed  in  South  Jersey.  He  married  (first) 
December  23,  1779.  Mary  Murrell :  (second), 
February  7,  1796,  Susanna  (Peat)  Ridgway, 
born  July  18,  1765,  died  November  14,  1838. 
(See  Ridgway).  Children,  five  by  first  mar- 
riage: I.  .Sarah,  born  in  Moimt  Holly,  Octo- 
ber 20.  1781.  died  July  20,  1877;  she  married, 
as  second  wife.  Dr.  Benjamin  Say  Budd,  of 
Mount  Holly,  one  of  the  most  ]iopular  and 
prominent  physicians  of  his  day;  (see  Budd). 

2.  Mary  Murrell,  died  in  1796.  3.  Lucy  Mur- 
rell, born  June  i,  1786;  died  December  2, 
1854;  married  Moses  Kempton ;  no  children. 
4.  John.  Jr..  born  March  5.  1790;  died  January 

7.  1869:  married  Sarah  I'udd.  daughter  of 
General  .Sanuiel  Read ;  children  all  died  young. 

3.  Joseph,  born  in  T793;  died  in  1798.  6.  Ed- 
ward I'onkin,  Sr.,  born  November  26,  1796; 
died  May  7,  1845;  married,  1826.  ]\Iartha, 
daughter  of  General  Samuel  Read ;  no  chil- 
dren.    7.  Joseph  Ridgway,  referred  to  below. 

8.  Richard  James,  born  1803;  died  1831  ;  un- 
married ;  ])hysician  and  surgeon.  9.  James 
Lott.  born  March  2.  1805;  died  September  26, 
1803.  10.  Susanna  Ridgwav.  born  1807.  died 
1808. 

(HI)  Joseph  Ridgway.  son  of  John,  Sr., 
and  Susanna  ( Ridgway)  Dobbins,  was  born 
in  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey.  April  15,  1798, 
and  died  there  September  19,  1857.  Like  his 
father,  he  was  a  prominent  and  well-known 
citizen,  and  owner  and  operator  of  the  mills  at 
Pemberton,  New  Jersey,  as  well  as  of  a  num- 
ber of  large  farms  in  the  vicinity  of  Mount 
Holly.  He  married,  .\pril  17.  1827.  Mary 
Ann.  born  April  12,  1807.  died  August  27, 
1872,  daughter  of  Eber  and  Sarah  (Summers) 
Hilyard ;  (see  Hilyard).  Children:  i.  Eber 
Hilyard.  born  March  25,  1828.  now  (1910) 
living  in  South  Carolina.    2.  John  James,  born 


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March  29.  1830:  died  unmarried,  May  7,  1889. 
3.  Richard  James  See.  born  March  24,  1832; 
died  January  8,  1893;  married  CaroHiia  W. 
Emmert,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  4.  Susan 
Ridgway.  born  December  26,  1833;  died  July 
24,  1867 ;  married  Rev.  Robert  Green  Chase. 
5.  Sarah  See,  born  March  21,  1836;  died  June 
28,  1870;  unmarried.  6.  Joseph  Kemper,  born 
December  27.  1838;  died  April  16,  1905  :  mar- 
ried Sarah  M.  Jemkins,  of  Georgetown,  D.  C. 
7.  Edward  Tonkin,  born  May  29,  1841  ;  died 
unmarried,  February  17.  1906.  8.  Murrell, 
referred  to  below.  9.  Walter,  born  March  12, 
1847;  died  in  infancy,  June  16.  1848.  10. 
Mary  Ann,  born  October  7,  1850. 

(IV)  Murrell,  son  of  Joseph  Ridgway  and 
Alary  Ann  (Hilyard)  Dobbins,  was  born  in 
Pemberton,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey, 
August  29,  1843,  ^"*^'  's  now  living  in  Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania.  He  received  his  early 
education  at  the  Kellys  school  in  Mount  Holly, 
and  afterwards  attended  the  Friends'  school 
at  Fifteenth  and  Race  streets,  Philadelphia. 
Subsec|uently  he  entered  but  did  not  graduate 
from  I'lurlington  College.  He  originallv  in- 
tended to  study  for  the  ministry,  in  accord- 
ance with  his  parents'  wishes,  but  finally  de- 
ciding that  he  had  no  vocation  for  the  work, 
he  learned  the  trade  of  brick  mason  and  went 
into  business  for  himself,  becoming  a  manu- 
facturer and  increasing  both  his  output  and 
his  plant  until  he  is  to-day  president  of  the 
Camden  Pottery  Company  of  Camden.  New 
Jersey,  of  which  his  son,  Thomas  Munroe 
Dobbins,  is  secertary  and  treasurer.  He  was 
the  organizer  and  first  president  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania Society  of  New  Jersey,  and  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars,  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  of 
Philadelphia,  the  Pennsylvania  Horticultural 
Society,  and  the  Pjricklayers'  Company  of 
Philadelphia.  He  is  a  member  of  Franklin 
Lodge.  No.  134,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Philadel- 
phia": of  Chapter  No.  169,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Phila- 
delphia ;  of  St.  John's  Commandery  No.  4. 
K.  T..  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  has  served  for  many  years  on 
both  the  Board  of  Trade  and  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  Pliiladelphia.  He  is  also  president 
of  the  Board  of  Eastern  Pennsylvania  State 
Prison  Inspectors,  and  in  November,  1909, 
was  elected  city  treasurer  of  Philadelphia. 
Among  the  many  financial  interests  with  which 
he  is  identified  are  the  Builders'  Exchange  of 
Philadelphia,   the   John    Wyeth    Company   of 


Philadel|ihia,  of  which  he  is  vice-president, 
and  the  Third  National  Bank  of  Philadelphia, 
of  which  he  is  a  director  and  former  presi- 
dent. Mr.  Dobbins  has  also  been  elected  an 
honorary  member  of  the  old  Relief  Fire  Com- 
pany of  Mount  Holly,  of  which  his  grand- 
father was  an  original  charter  member.  He 
married,  in  Philadelphia,  January  26,  1871, 
Emily,  daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  Gold- 
smith and  Hester  West  (Art)  Munroe,  of 
Philadelphia.  Her  grandfather  was  William 
Munroe,  of  Annapolis,  of  the  distinguished 
Maryland  family  of  that  name,  and  her  mother 
was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Bailey  Art  of 
Lewis,  Delaware.  Children:  i.  Laura  Eve- 
lyn, to  whose  courtesy  anil  labors  much  of  the 
present  sketch  is  due.  2.  Thomas  Munroe, 
born  February  28,  1878;  now  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Camden  Pottery  Company, 
and  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club  of 
Philadelphia. 

(The   Ridgway   Line). 

Richard  Ridgway,  the  founder  of  the  family 
of  his  name  in  America,  was  a  native  of  Berk- 
shire. England,  where  the  name  had  been 
prominent  for  many  generations.  His  father's 
grandfather,  Thomas  Ridgway,  is  said  to  have 
been  held  in  high  favor  by  both  Queen  Eliz- 
abeth and  King  James  I.,  and  to  have  been  the 
intimate  friend  and  companion  of  Robert 
Cecil,  the  son  of  Lord  Burleigh,  who  became 
the  first  Earl  of  Salisbury  and  prime  minister 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  and  King  James  I.,  and 
the  ancestor  of  the  late  Robert  Cecil,  Marquis 
of  Salisbury,  England's  famous  prime  minis- 
ter. .\t  the  baptism  of  Thomas  Ridgway's 
eldest  son,  we  are  told,  his  friend  Robert  Cecil 
stood  godfather  and  gave  him  his  own  name 
Robert.  Shortly  after  his  first  marriage  Rich- 
ard Ridgway,  his  wife  and  his  eldest  child, 
left  Wallingford,  Berkshire,  and  sailed  for  the 
new  world  in  the  ship  "Jacob  and  Mary,"  of 
London,  which  arrived  in  the  Delaware  river 
in  September,  1679.  On  the  12th  of  that 
miinth  he  was  in  Burlington,  but  after  a  short 
stay  there  removed  to  Crewcorn,  in  what  is 
now  I'alls  township.  Bucks  county.  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  we  finil  him  on  April  12,  lASo. 
signing  the  petition  to  the  Governor  to  sup- 
press the  sale  of  "brandy  and  strong  liquors  to 
ye  Indians."  Six  years  later.  May  3,  1686,  the 
governor's  council  at  Philadelphia  recommend 
him  as  "a  fitt  pson  for  ye  Keeping  an  Ordi- 
nary," and  his  petition  for  a  license  was 
therefor  granted.  October  7,  1690,  he  bought 
six  hundred  acres  in  Maidenhead,  west  of  the 
province    line,    anil    running    fmni    the    Great 


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Meadows  at  Port  Alercer  northward  for  about 
a  mile.  Here  he  lived  several  years,  and  on 
February  7,  1697,  purchased  from  John  Ho!- 
lingshead  a  farm  in  the  township  of  Spring- 
field, lUirlington  county,  New  Jersey,  whereon 
he  afterwards  resided,  giving  one  acre  of  his 
property  to  the  Society  of  Friends  for  a  meet- 
inghouse and  burying-ground.  The  original 
Ijuilding  has  disappeared,  but  the  acre  is  still 
used  for  the  purposes  indicated  in  the  deed. 
August  8.  1700,  he  was  apjiointed  a  judge  or 
justice  of  Burlington  county,  and  held  the  office 
until  .\pril,  1720.  He  married  (  first )  in  England, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 
Chaniberlayne,  of  Wiltshire,  who  died  at 
Crewcorn,  March  31,  1692.  He  married  (sec- 
ond) before  February  i,  1693-4,  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail  Stockton ; 
(see  Stockton).  This  marriage  "not  being  to 
friends  order,"  the  Chesterfield  Monthly  Meet- 
ing appointed  Mahlon  Stacy  and  Robert  \\\\- 
son  to  inquire  and  remonstrate  with  Richard 
and  Abigail,  and  the  result  was  that.  April  25, 
1694,  the  two  sent  a  paper  to  the  Monthly 
Meeting  "condemning  their  outgoing  in  mar- 
riage." From  this  it  would  seem  that  they 
had  been  married  by  a  justice  of  the  peace. 
Richard  Ridgway  died  between  September  21, 
1722,  and  April  5,  1723.  Abigail  (Stockton) 
Ridgway,  survived  him  only  a  few  years, 
dying  between  March  8  and  December  19, 
1726.  Children,  seven  by  first  marriage:  i. 
Thomas,  born  July  25,  1677;  died  August  24, 
1724;  married  (first)  1699,  Ann  Pharo ;  (sec- 
ond), November  6,  1712,  Elizabeth  Andrews. 
2.  Richard,  born  August  27,  1680;  died  be- 
tween February  12,  1718-9  and  April  4,  1719; 
married  (first)  October  9,  1702,  Mary  Wil- 
lits;  (second)  November  11.  1714.  Mary, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Abigail  Stockton, 
and  widow  of  Thomas  Shinn  and  also  of  Silas 
Crispin.  3.  Elizabeth,  born  April  17,  1682; 
married,  September  15,  1704,  Richard  Wil- 
lits.  brother  to  first  w-ife  of  her  own  brother 
Richard.  4.  ^^'illiam.  died  in  infancy.  5. 
.Sarah,  died  in  infancy.  6.  Josiah,  referred  to 
below.  7.  Joseph,  died  in  infancy.  8.  Job, 
died  1761  ;  married,  December  7,  1719,  Re- 
becca P>utcher.  9.  Abigail,  married,  1717. 
Henry  Clothier.  10.  John.  11.  Mary,  married, 
December  11,  1719,  John  P)allinger.  12.  Jane; 
married.  1721,  Isaac  Antrim.  13.  Sarah,  men- 
tioned in  her  mother's  will  as  being  lame.  14. 
Joseph,  died  1760:  married  (first)  November 
II,  1727,  Sarah  Butcher;  (second)  February 
15.  1737-8,  Hannah  Allen. 

(II)   Josiah,  son  of  Richard  and  I*".lizabeth 


( Chamberlayne)  Ridgway,  was  born  in  Crew- 
corn,  Bucks  county,  Pennsylvania,  September 
6,  1690.  In  171 7  he  was  constable  of  Spring- 
field township,  Burlington  county.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah .     Children  :     Lott,  referred 

to  below;  Josiah,  married,  October  12,  1736, 
Rachel  Brown.     Probably  other  children  also. 

(III)  Lott.  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  Ridg- 
way, was  born  in  Springfield  township,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  August  9.  1718, 
and  died  there  December  30,  1784.  He  mar- 
ried, in  December,  1750,  Susanna  Peat,  of 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  born  July  11, 
1723,  died  November  18,  1788.  Children:  i. 
Samuel,  born  February  10,  1751.  2.  Caleb, 
July  29.  1752.  3.  Barzillai,  May  21,  1754; 
married,  December  28,  1775 ;  Edith  Haines. 
4.  Hephzibah,  born  November  20,  1755;  mar- 
ried, March  18,  1777.  Edward  Tonkin.  3. 
Lott,  born  May  24,  1757;  married  April  24, 
1780,  Deborah  Johnson.  6.  Daniel,  born  De- 
cember 4,  1758.  7.  Beulah,  born  May  28, 
1760,  married  Jacob  Lamb.  8.  Richard,  born 
c3ctober  2,  1762.  9.  Freedom,  December  18, 
1763.     10.  Susanna,  referred  to  below. 

(IV)  Susanna,  daughter  of  Lott  and  Su- 
sanna (Peat)  Ridg^vay,  was  born  in  Spring- 
field township,  I'lurlington  county,  New  Jer- 
sey, "on  the  sixth  day  of  the  week  in  the 
morning"  of  July  18,  1765,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 14,  1839.  She  married,  February  7,  1796, 
as  second  wife,  John,  son  of  James  and  Ruth 
Dobbins,  referred  to  above. 

(The  Budd  Line). 

(Hit  Thomas,  son  of  William  (q.  v.)  and 
Ann  (Clapgut)  Budd,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county.  New  Jersey,  in  1686,  and  died  there 
suddenly  in  1742.  His  farm  of  five  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  was  about  a  mile  from  the  old 
Lippincott  place.  He  married  (first)  Deborah 
Langstaflf;  (second),  Margaret .  Chil- 
dren, nine  by  first  marriage:  i.  John,  mar- 
ried (first)  Mary  Beckett  or  Mary  Jolley ; 
(second)  Rosamond  Goslin.  2.  Thomas,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Ann,  married  Benjamin 
Springer.  4.  Elizabeth,  married  (first)  Sam- 
uel Bustill ;  (second).  Job  Ruston.  5.  Rachel, 
married  William  Bradford ;  among  her  chil- 
dren was  William  Bradford,  Jr.,  attorney- 
general  of  the  United  States  under  Washing- 
ton, who  married  Susan  \'ergcrcau.  daughter 
of  the  Hon.  Elias  and  Hannah  (Stockton) 
Boudinot.  6.  James,  died  at  sea,  unmarried. 
7.  Sarah,  married  John  Goslin.  8.  George, 
died  unmarried.  9.  Levi,  born  May  20,  1726, 
died  February  5,  1790;  married  (first)  Eliza- 


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beth  Coates :  (second)  Elizabeth  Shields.  lo. 
Mary. 

(I\'')  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  and 
Deborah  (Langstaff)  Budd.  was  born  in  I'.nr- 
lington  county.  New  Jersey,  about  1710.  and 
died  in  Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  in  1751. 
He  sold  the  homestead  which  he  had  inherited 
from  his  father  and  removed  to  Mount  Holly, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  cooperage  business. 
He  married,  March  12,  1739,  in  the  Evesham 
Monthly  Aleeting,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel and'  Ruth  (Stacy-Beakes)  Atkinson,  who 
survived  her  husband  and  married  (second) 
October  3,  1753,  Dr.  Thomas  Say,  of  Phila- 
delphia. Her  mother  was  daughter  of  Mah- 
lon  and  Rebecca  ( Ely)  Stacy,  of  Nottingham 
township,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  and 
widow  of  \\'illiani  Beakes,  of  the  same  town- 
ship. Children:  I.  Stacy,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Elizabeth,  married  Moses  Barton.  3.  Jo- 
seph, married  (first)  Rebecca  Worrell;  (sec- 
ond) Ann  Good.  4.  Rachel,  died  September 
15,  1805:  married.  May  5,  1771,  Isaac  Col- 
lins, the  distinguished  printer.  5.  Ruth,  died 
in  infancy. 

( \' )  Dr.  Stacy,  son  of  Thomas  and  Re- 
becca (Atkinson)  Budd,  was  born  in  Mount 
Holly,  New  Jersey,  and  died  there  February 
13,  1804.  He  studied  medicine  under  Dr. 
Alexander  Ros.s.,  of  Burlington,  who  married 
his  cousin,  Elizabeth  Becket,  and  with  his  step- 
father, Dr.  Thomas  Say,  of  Philadeliihia. 
After  practising  for  a  year  in  Moorestown  he 
settled  in  Mount  Holly.  He  married  Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  Monroe.  Children:  i.  Mar- 
garet, married  John  Bispham.  2.  Mahlon, 
born  about  1766:  died  November  8,  1820: 
married  (first)  Edith  Coates;  (second),  Eliz- 
abeth Sterling.  3.  Stacy,  born  July  4,  I7()7 ; 
died  December  26,  1821  ;  unmarried.  4.  Ben- 
jamin Say,  referred  to  below.  5.  Ehzabeth, 
born  May  18,  1771  ;  died  April  4,  1842;  mar- 
ried Joseph  Halkinson.  6.  Rebecca,  died  Au- 
gust 9,  1832;  married  John  Comly.  7.  Rachel, 
born  March  4,  17711;  married  Benjamin  West. 
8.  Charles,  born  November  8,  1778;  died  A])ril 
2^.  1846;  married  Henrietta  Scott.  9.  Sarah, 
married  Samuel  J.  Read.  10.  Ann,  born  June 
II,  1785;  died  March  10,  1867;  unmarried. 

(\'l)  Dr.  Benjamin  Say,  son  of  Dr.  Stacy 
and  .Sarah  (Alonroe)  Budd,  was  born  in 
Mount  Holly,  New  Jersey,  June  26,  1769,  and 
died  there  November  9,  1833.  He  became  a 
popular  physician  in  Mount  Holly,  where  he 
was  for  many  3'ears  the  partner  and  after- 
wards successor  to  his  father,  lie  married 
(first)   in    1793,   Hannah,  daughter  of  Joseph 


Burr,  of  \'incentown  :  (second)  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  (  Murrell )  Dobbins,  of 
Mount  Holly,  who  was  born  October  20,  1781, 
and  died  July  20.  1877:  fur  her  ancestry  see 
alidve.  Children,  three  by  fir>t  marriage:  I. 
Maria  B..  married  John  Beaty.  2.  Joseph,  died 
\"i:)ung.  3.  Hannah,  died  young.  4.  Sarah  Ann, 
married  I^ieutenant  John  Elton  Bispham.  5. 
Benjamin,  married  Emily  Stout.  6.  Stacy, 
died  aged  twenty-one  years.  7.  .Susan  Dob- 
bins, married  George  \\'.  Camblos,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 8.  Elizabeth,  married  F'arker  Owen. 
9.  .\nna.  10.  John  Dobbins,  married  Caroline 
Str\'ker.  11.  Lucy.  12.  Mary,  married  Will- 
iam Parven. 

(Tlie    Hilyarcl    Uiie). 

John  Hilyard,  the  founder  of  the  Hilyard, 
Hilver  and  Hilliard  families  of  New  Jersey, 
emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Kent 
county,  Delaware.  The  name  of  his  wife  is 
unknown.  Children:  John,  referred  to  below; 
Joseph,  Marv,  married,  1707,  Zachariah  Ros- 
sell. 

(H)  John  (2).  son  of  John  (i)  Hilyard, 
died  intestate  before  January  5,  1719-20.  He 
removed  from  Kent  county  to  Northampton 
township.  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey,  and 
married  Martha,  daughter  of  Bernard  Devon- 
ish.  Children  :  John  ;  Joseph  ;  Elizabeth  ;  Jane  ; 
Edward,  referred  to  below;  a  daughter,  mar- 
ried John  Atkinson ;  Esther,  married  Robert 
Lodge. 

(  fn  )  Edward,  son  of  John  {  2  )  and  Martha 
( Devonish )  Hilyard,  was  born  in  1706,  and 
died  in  1766.  He  married,  March  21,  1733, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Richard  (2)  and  ]\iary 
(Carlisle)  Haines;  (see  Haines  in  index). 
Children  :  John,  married  (  first )  Mary  Heus- 
tis,  (  second  )  Frances  Haines  ;  Abraham,  died 
unmarried ;  Isaac,  married  Sarah  Haines ; 
Jacob,  referred  to  below ;  Samuel,  married 
Hannah  Atkinson ;  Joseph,  married  Keziah 
Mullen;  Martha,  married  Job  Ridgway ; 
Mary  ;  Elizabeth. 

( I\  )  Jacob,  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah 
(Haines)  Hilyard,  was  born  November  25. 
1739,  and  died  .April  3,  1818.  He  married 
Alartha  Robinson.  Children:  i.  Edward, 
born  September  5,  1763;  married  Nancy, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  .'Ann  (Gaskill) 
.Stockton;  (for  ancestry  see  index).  2.  Sam- 
uel, born  September  5,  1766.  3.  Margaret, 
born  December  27,  1768.  4.  .\braham,  born 
February  9,  1771.  5.  Eber,  referred  to  below. 
6.  Kesiah,  born  January  25,  1776,  died  Sep- 
tember I,  1777.  7.  ^\'illiam,  born  December 
22,  1778.     8.  Kesiah,  born  April  29,  1781. 


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(\")  Eber,  son  of  Jacob  and  Martha  (Rob- 
inson) Hilyard,  was  born  in  Rancocas,  Bur- 
lington county,  New  Jersey,  June  20,  1823. 
He  is  buried  with  his  wife  in  St.  Peter's 
churchyard,  Philadelphia.  Pie  was  the  builder 
of  the  fortifications  at  Fort  Columbus,  Gover- 
nor's Island,  in  New  York  harbor.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  daughter  of  Captain  .Andrew  Sum- 
mers, of  High  street,  Philadel])hia.  who  com- 
manded the  artillery  under  Colonel  Jehu  Eyre, 
General  Cadwalader's  division,  in  the  Revolu- 
tion, and  saw  active  service  in  the  battle  of 
Trenton  and  at  Valley  Forge.  Children:  i. 
John  P.,  born  May  12,  1803;  buried  July  29, 
1850.  2.  Margaretta,  born  March  15,  1805; 
died  -August  5,  1872;  married  Richard  Cal- 
houn See,  a  silk  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  mem- 
ber of  the  First  City  Troop,  and  of  the  escort 
of  (ieneral  Lafayette  from  New  York  to  Phil- 
adelphia in  1824.  3.  Mary  .'\nn,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Eber  Henry  D.,  born  April  12,  1810; 
died  March  27,  1826:  unmarried.  5.  William 
Frederick,  born  October  27,  1812:  died  Jul\- 
17.  1837:  unmarried. 

(\T)  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Eber  and 
Sarah  (Summers)  Hilyard.  was  born  at  Fort 
Columbus.  New  "\'ork  harbor,  November  12. 
1807.  and  died  in  i'hiladeli)hia,  August  27. 
1872.  She  married,  April  17,  1827.  Joseph 
Ridgway,  son  of  John  and  Susanna  ( Ridg- 
wav )  Dobbins,  referred  to  above. 


The  Hlevthing  familv  of 
BLEVTH  1N( ;  Morris  county  is  of  Welsh 
origin,  and  its  name  is 
traceable  back  beyond  the  date  of  the  Saxon 
conquest.  The  original  form  of  the  name  aj)- 
]>cars  to  have  been  I^>lethyn,  or  l>lethin,  and  sev- 
eral members  of  the  family  in  England  to-day 
still  s])ell  their  name  in  one  of  these  forms. 
The  home  of  the  founder  of  the  .\merican 
family  was  W'rexham,  county  Denbigh,  Wales, 
near  the  border  of  the  Cheshire  Marches. 

(  1  )  Joseph  Pileything.  founder  of  the  .Amer- 
ican family,  was  the  son  of  William  and  Mary 
(Duckworth)  Pdeything,  of  Wrexham,  where 
he  was  born  September  23,  1784.  He  died  in 
\\'bi]>pany.  Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  May 
12.  1844,  and  was  buried  in  the  Whip])any  Pres- 
byterian graveyard.  He  married  (first)  in 
England.  July  9,  1806.  Hilary,  born  .April  24, 
1788,  died  February  24,  1822.  fourth  daughter 
of  Jonathan  and  Ellen  (Hope)  Hughes.  Her 
father.  Jonathan  Hughes,  was  born  June  21. 
1736.  and  her  motlier.  whom  he  married,  Sep- 
tember 25,  1781,  was  born  February  17.  1759. 
a  sister  to  Beresford  Hope,  and  a  member  of 


the  famous  Scottish  family  to  which  belonged 
Professor  Thomas  Charles  i  lope,  of  Edinburgh, 
1760-1844;  Thomas  Hope,  1770-1831,  the 
English  author  and  virtuoso;  Sir  James  Hope, 
1808-81,  the  British  admiral :  Alexander  James 
Beresford  Hope,  1820-27,  the  English  politi- 
cian and  author:  and  "Anthony  Hope"  Haw- 
kins, the  novelist.  He  married  (second)  May 
18,  1824,  Phoebe,  daughter  of  Captain  Timo- 
thy and  Mary  (Ward)  Tuttle ;  (see  Tuttle), 
Children,  two  by  second  marriage:  i.  Jona- 
than Hughes,  born  about  1807,  died  May  26, 
1827,  2.  William  Henry,  born  August  31. 
1809,  died  October  11,  1836,  unmarried.  3. 
Edmund  Langstroth.  referred  to  below.  4. 
Susan  Hughes,  or  Hope,  born  September  27, 
1815.  died  September  3.  1898;  married.  May 
24,  1834,  Cornelius  \'oorhees,  son  of  Lewis 
and  Electa  (\'oorhees)  Freeman;  six  children. 
3  Sarah  Michaels,  born  about  1816,  died  .Au- 
gust 24,  1834,  unmarried.  6.  Mary  .A.  Fletcher, 
died  unmarried.  7.  Josei)h  Duckworth,  born 
January  22,  1822:  married,  November  15. 
1848,  Caroline  Crowell :  child,  Mary,  born  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1830,  married  Henry  Heinsheimer. 
of  Newark,  8,  Emily  Eugenie,  born  January 
3,  1826,  died  April  11,  1827.  9.  Eugene  Al- 
])hnnse,  referred  to  below. 

( II )  Edmund  Langstroth.  son  of  Jose])h  and 
Mary  (Hughes)  Bleything,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land, October  18,  181 1,  and  died  in  Whippany. 
New  Jersey,  March  4,  1873.  He  married 
Alarv  (Ward),  daughter  of  Captain  Timothv 
and  Alary  (Ward)  Tuttle;  (see  Tuttle).  Chil- 
dren :  I.  William  Henry,  born  January  3. 
1837.  died  February  21,  1880;  married  Eleanor 
J.  Boughton :  children :  George  Langstroth. 
born  June  20.  1873,  died  October  14,  1874: 
Louise  Swords,  wife  of  Mr,  Haight ;  and  Julia 
Halsted,  unmarried,  2.  George  Dacre,  re- 
ferred to  below.  3.  Lydia  Juliana,  born  March 
3,  1846.  married  Jacob  Robert  Halsted. 

(HI)  George  Dacre  Bleything,  M,  D..  son 
of  Edmund  l^angstroth  and  Mary  VV'ard  (  Tut- 
tle) Bleything.  was  born  in  Whippany,  .\"ew 
Jersey,  October  18,  1842,  and  is  now  living 
in  New  A^ork  City.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation from  j)rivate  tutors,  and  after  being 
prepared  for  college  at  Trenton  .Academy  he 
graduated  from  the  medical  school  of  Colum- 
bia L^niversity  in  1871.  He  then  served  his 
term  as  interne  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  New 
A'ork  City,  where  he  afterward  set  up  for 
himself  in  the  general  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. He  is  a  member  of  the  Pathol<jgical 
Society,  the  County  Medical  Society,  the 
Lenox   Medical    Societv,   the   Societv   of   the 


STATE   OF    NEW     iERSEV 


Alunitii  uf  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  the  I'hysi- 
cians'  Mutual  Aid  Society.  He  married  Maria 
Howard  Bulhnch,  granddaughter  of  Charles 
Fjulfinch.  of  Boston,  the  architect  of  the  Fed- 
eral Capitol  at  Washington,  and  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  House  at  Boston.  Her  maternal 
grandfather  was  Samuel  Howard,  of  Savan- 
nah, Georgia,  at  whose  cost  the  first  steamhoat 
upon  the  Savannah  river  was  launched  and 
navigated.  To  the  courtesy  and  labors  of  Dr. 
Bleything  much  of  the  informatinn  in  this 
sketch   is   due. 

(U)  Eugene  .\lphonse,  son  of  Joseph  and 
riKiehe  (  Tuttle )  Bleything.  was  born  in  Whiji- 
yiany.  New  Jersey,  December  i8,  1827,  and 
liied  in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  April  24. 
HjQi).  When  he  was  fourteen  years  of  age 
his  parents  moved  to  Newark,  and  Mr.  Bley- 
thing was  apprenticed  to  a  plumber  with  whom 
lie  remained  until  lie  was  twentv-one  vears 
(lid.  .Shortly  afterwards  he  '-et  u])  in  business 
for  himself  in  Newark,  where  for  iiiore  than 
half  a  century  he  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent master  [^lumbers  in  the  city.  About  igoi 
he  retired  from  active  business,  and  his  home 
was  22  North  Munn  avenue.  East  Orange. 
He  took  a  great  interest  in  the  military  affairs 
of  the  country  before  the  civil  war,  and  in  1853 
was  elected  ensign  of  the  Second  Battalion. 
American  Continentals.  \\"hen  the  civil  war 
liroke  out  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninth  New  Jersey 
Regiment  of  \'oIunteers,  and  owing  to  his 
previous  military  experience  he  was  at  once 
promoted  captain,  and  as  such  took  part  in 
many  important  engagements.  He  was  a  past 
commander  of  Lincoln  P'ost,  G.  A.  R.,  of 
Newark,  and  until  his  last  illness  took  an  active 
interest  in  its  affairs.  He  was  a  charter  mem- 
ber and  the  first  master  of  Saint  Alban's 
Lodge,  No.  68,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Newark,  and 
was  the  last  surviving  officer  of  that  lodge  who 
I)articipated  in  the  ceremonies  attending  the 
beginning  of  Hope  Lodge  of  East  Orange, 
lie  was  also  a  thirty-second  degree  Free 
Mason,  and  a  member  of  East  Orange  Lodge, 
B.  I'.  O.  E.  Through  his  grandfather,  Cap- 
tain Timothy  Tuttle,  he  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  branch  of  the  Sons  of  the  Ameri- 
can Revolution.  His  funeral  was  conducted 
by  Lincoln  Post.  (j.  A.  R.,  and  his  body  was 
interred  in  the  family  plot  in  Rosedale  Ceme- 
tery, Orange.  He  married  May  18.  1870.  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Stephen  C)gden  and  Sarah 
(White)  Chedister.  and  granddaughter  of 
(allies  and  Penina  Chedister,  of  Morristown 
and  .\'ew  York  City,  who  with  two  daughters 
survives     her     Inisliand.        C'hildren:      .Minnie 


I- ranees,  referred  to  below  :  Margaret  Estelle. 
l.xirn  April  30.  1874.  now  living  in  New  York 
Lity. 

(  IIIj  Minnie  L" ranees,  daughter  of  Eugene 
Alphonse  and  Margaret  (Chedister)  Bley- 
thing, was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  June 
14,  1872.  She  married  (first)  April  25,  1894. 
Herbert  H.  Grift'en,  who  died  without  issue, 
November  19,  1897.  She  married  (second) 
March  26,  1907,  lidward  H.,  son  of  Alfred 
and  Mary  (Mason)  Daggett;  (see  Daggett); 
child :  Elizabeth  Pdeything  Daggett,  born  May 
i^.  1909. 

(Tlie  Daggett  Linp). 

(  I  1  Alfred  and  Mary  (  Mason  I  Daggett  had 
children:  John,  married  Winifred  Comer; 
James,  married  Mary  Shaw,  one  child,  Muriel ; 
Edith;  Grace;  Edward  H.,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Edward  H.,  son  of  Alfred  and  Mary 
(Mason)  Daggett,  was  born  November  26, 
1872,  and  is  now  living  in  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey. March  26,  1907,  he  married  Minnie 
Frances,  daughter  of  Eugene  Alphonse  and 
Margaret  ( Chidester )  Blevthing.  and  widow 
of  Herbert  H.  CiriiTen.  Child:  Elizabeth,  born 
May  12,   1909. 

(The  Tuttle  Line). 

(I\')  Timothy,  son  of  Ste])heii  (<i.  v.)  and 
Ruth  (  Fitz  Randolph )  Tuttle.  was  born  at 
Woodbridge,  New  Jersey.  October  16,  1696, 
and  died  in  Hanover.  Morris  county,  New 
Jersey,  December  31.  1754.  With  his  brother 
Joseph  he  settled  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
where  in  1728  he  was  chosen  clerk  of  strays ; 
in  1730-31  he  was  made  fence-viewer  and  one 
of  the  overseers  of  the  poor,  and  in  1732  was 
chosen  assessor.  After  this  there  is  no  further 
mention  of  him  in  the  Newark  records,  but 
from  deeds  in  possession  (_)f  his  brother's  de- 
scendants we  learn  that  riiiiotln'  removed  to 
Hanover,  Morris  county,  about  1733.  and  was 
made  there  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He  married 
Cecilia  Moore,  whose  burial.  July  3.  1768.  at 
the  age  of  sixty-eight  years,  is  the  first  record 
in  the  "Morristown  Bill  of  Mortality."  Chil- 
dren :  Daniel,  referred  to  below  ;  Thomas,  died 
Alarch.  1810.  aged  eighty-two  years,  married 
Mchitable  Fairchild  ;  Isaac,  buried  November 
(>.  1776.  married  Sarah  Lindsley ;  Ste])hen ; 
Abraham,  died  December  17.  1762.  in  his 
twenty- fourth  year  ;  Mary  ;  Joanna,  buried  Sc])- 
tember  17,  1781,  married  Jonathan  .Stiles. 

(\')  Daniel,  son  of  Timothy  and  Cecilia 
( Moore )  Tuttle,  was  born  in  \Voodbridge, 
New  Jersey.  January  13.  1725.  and  died  in 
Hanover.   .New  Jersey.  ( )ctoi)cr  i).    1803.      He 


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married  (first)  in  1747.  Jeniiiiia.  daughter  of 
Hezekiah  Johnson,  who  died  July  21.  1774: 
(second)  May  17,  1780.  Catharine  McDowell, 
who  died  September  28.  1783:  (third)  in  June, 
1785,  Mary  Plum,  who  died  Sq^tember  17, 
1803.  Children,  thirteen  by  first  wife,  and  two 
by  second:  i.  Timothy,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Anna,  born  February  23,  1750,  died  .-Kpril  g, 
1815;  married,  March  29,  1768,  Uzal  Kitchel. 
3.  riiebe,  born  February  8.  1752,  died  August 
n,  1766.  4.  Joseph,  born  June  22.  1753,  died 
April  13.  1802;  married  (first)  Esther,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Esther  (  Baldwin )  Park- 
hurst ;  (second).  1790.  Lydia  ^litchell.  5. 
John,  born  October  2,  1754,  died  April,  1778, 
at  X'alley  Forge;  a  revolutionary  soldier.  6. 
Jemima,  born  March  25,  1756,  died  December 
18,  1818:  married  Walter  Moflfat,  a  native  of 
Scotland.  7.  Mary,  born  July  27,  1757,  died 
May  30,  I7(5i.  8.  Daniel,  born  August  3,  1739, 
died  May  27,  1760.  9.  William,  born  Novem- 
ber 5.  1760,  died  January  11,  1836;  married 
April  3,  1788,  Tempe,  daughter  of  Henry  and 
Mary  (Cooper)  Wickham.  10.  Cecilia,  born 
December  29.  1762:  married  Charles  Gordon 
.Smith.  II.  Katurah,  born  December  11,  1764, 
died  unmarried,  March  18,  1850.  12.  David, 
born  March  22,  1766,  died  August  2}^,  1828; 
married  October  10,  1793.  Jemima,  daughter 
of  Elijah  and  Joanna  (Tuttle)  Leonard,  and 
granddaughter  of  Joseph  Tuttle  Jr.  13.  Uzal, 
born  June  23,  1767,  died  March  28.  1818;  mar- 
ried Susan,  daugliter  of  John  .Mner,  of  New 
York  City.  14.  John,  born  December  24,  1781, 
died  in  Indiana,  in  1839;  married  Caroline  P. 
Thomas.  15.  Jabez.  born  September  19,  1783, 
died  in  Ohio,  in  1865;  married.  1808,  Rhoda 
H..  daughter  of  Captain  Justus  Burnett,  of 
Caldwell,  New  Jersey. 

(\'l)  Timothy,  son  of  Daniel  and  Jemima 
(Johnson)  Tuttle,  was  born  in  Hanover,  Alor- 
ris  county.  New  Jersey,  September  18,  1748, 
and  died  there  June  16,  1816.  lie  served  as  a 
ca])tain  in  the  revolution,  and  July  4,  1790, 
made  profession  of  religion  at  \\'hippany, 
Morris  county.  He  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  Timothy  Cooper  Ward  (see  Ward).  Chil- 
dren: I.  James,  born  January  23.  1782,  died 
February  6,  1884:  married,  November  13. 
1806,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Phinehas  Far- 
rand,  who  was  born  Alay  13,  1787;  eight  chil- 
dren. 2.  .\shbcll,  born  October  i,  1783,  died 
in  New  York  City,  January  21,  1829;  married 
Harriet  Halsey,  who  was  born  June  9,  1790. 
and  died  September  23,  1849;  seven  children. 
3.  Captain  Timothy  Jr..  born  September  17. 
1785.  died   September  7,   1855;  married   Sus- 


anna Washburn  Lee,  who  was  born  October 
4.  1793:  eight  children.  4.  .Ambrose.  5.  Phebe. 
referred  to  below.  6.  Elizabeth,  died  in  .Au- 
gust, 1852 ;  married  Harvey  Davis,  and  re- 
moved to  Schnectady,  New  York.  7.  Lydia, 
died  March  24.  1843.  unmarried.  8.  Mary 
Ward,  referred  to  below.  9.  .Ambrose  Johns- 
ton, died  unmarried :  lived  Fentonville,  Cha- 
tauc|ua  county,  New  York. 

(\TI)  Phebe,  daughter  of  Cajjtain  Timothy 
and  Mary  (Ward)  Tuttle,  was  born  about 
1789,  and  died  December  22,  1843.  aged  fifty- 
four  years.  She  married  October  3,  1822,  Jo- 
seph, son  of  William  and  Mary  (Duckworth) 
Bleything,  a  native  of  Wrexham.  England,  who 
had  emigrated  to  Whippany.     (See  above). 

(\'H)  Mary  AV'ard.  daughter  of  Captain 
Timothy  and  Mary  (Ward)  Tuttle.  was  born 
in  Whippany.  Alorris  coimty.  New  Jersey,  Juh' 
25.  1804,  and  died  there.  April  20.  1882.  She 
married.  January.  1836.  Edmund  Langstroth. 
son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Hughes)  Bleything. 
a  step-son  of  her  sister,  Phebe.     (See  above). 

(The  Ward  Line). 

(HI)  Caleb,  son  of  John,  the  dish  turner 
((|.  v.).  and  Sarah  Ward,  died  February  9. 
1735.  aged  si.xty-six  years.  In  1709  he  was 
overseer  of  the  poor  in  Newark,  and  from  the 
inscription  on  his  tombstone  he  is  generally 
known  as  Caleb,  "honest  and  pious."  Chil- 
dren :  Elizabeth,  married  Moses  Ward  :  Caleb, 
"of  Canoe  Brook,"  died  1746,  married  Han- 
nah    :    Timothy:    Theophilus,    referred 

tfi   below  ;    Thomas  :    John  :    Stephen  :    Mary, 

married Smith ;  Sarah,  married 

Scaly ;  Hannah,  married WoodrufT. 

(I\')  Theophilus,  son  of  Caleb  Ward,  died 
about  1783.  leaving  a  will  in  which  he  names 
his  son  Joseph.  Other  children  :  Caleb  :  Timothy 
Cooper,  referred  to  below. 

(V)  Timothy  Cooper,  son  of  Theophilus 
Ward,  lived  in  Hanover,  Morris  county.  New 
Jersey,  and  died  there  March  13,  1816,  in  the 
eighty-first    year    of    his    age.      He    married 

Jerusha ,  who  died  in  Whippany,  March 

21,  1811,  aged  seventy-four  years  two  months. 
Children  :  Mary,  referred  to  below  ;  Elizabeth, 
married  Josejih  Brittin  ;  Lydia,  married  Jona- 
than Bruin:  Phebe,  married  Jacob  Gray. 

(\  I)  Mary,  daughter  of  Timothy  Cooper 
and  Jerusha  Ward,  died  in  Whippany,  New 
Jersey,  June  5,  1851,  in  the  ninety-first  year 
of  her  age.  She  married  Captain  Timothy,  son 
of  Daniel  and  lemima  ( Tohnson  )  Tuttle  ( see 
Tuttle). 


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The  Fomian,  Foreman,  or  Fur- 

FORMAN  man,  and  also  as  the  name  is 
sometimes  spelt.  Firman,  fam- 
ily, is  one  of  the  oldest  of  the  English  families 
in  this  country,  having  been  in  Xew  England 
before  1630,  when  John  and  Giles  Firmin  came 
over  with  the  fleet  bringing  Governor  Win- 
throp.  The  family  iiad  spread  into  New  Jer- 
>;ey  as  early  as  1681,  when  George  Foreman 
bought  in  company  with  John  Inians  640  acres 
near  what  is  now  New  Brunswick,  and  the 
n;inie  has  been  one  of  the  representative  names 
'if  Monmouth  county  since  1688,  when  Sam- 
uel and  Aaron  Forman  went  there,  and  i6qi, 
when  Thomas  Forman  followed  them.  The 
original  home  of  the  Fornians  was  .Sudbury, 
county  Suffolk,  England. 

(I)  Robert  Forman,  founder  of  the  branch 
of  the  family  at  present  under  consideration, 
is  first  heard  of  as  one  of  the  original  jiatentees 
of  the  town  of  Flushing,  Long  Island,  in  1645. 
He  was  later  chosen  by  Governor  Stuyvesant 
in  1658  to  be  one  of  the  two  magistrates  of 
Mempstead,  and  in  1664  he  was  appointed  as 
one  of  the  two  magistrates  of  Oyster  Bay,  then 
under  the  English  colony  of  Connecticut,  llis 
will  is  dated  February  7,  1671,  and  mentions 
sons  :  Moses,  married  Hannah  Crooker  ;  Aaron, 
referred  to  below  ;  Samuel,  married  Mary  Ann 
(or  ]\Iiriam),  daughter  of  Simon  Hoyt.  His 
wife's  name  was  Joanna. 

(  H)  Aaron,  .son  of  Robert  and  Joanna  For- 
man, of  Flushing,  was  born  about  1637,  and 
removed  to  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey, 
about  1688.  By  his  wife  Dorothy  he  had  chil- 
dren :  Aaron  Jr.,  married  Susannah  Town- 
send  ;  Alexander,  married  Rachel ;  Sam- 
uel, referred  to  below  ;  Thomas,  married  Marj' 
Allen. 

(HI)  Samuel,  son  of  Aaron  and  Dorothy 
Forman,  born  1662,  died  1740,  also  as  well  as 
his  father  and  brother  Thomas,  removed  to 
Monmouth  county,  where  he  was  commis- 
sioned high  sheriff  in  1695  by  Goveronr  .An- 
drew Hamilton.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  archives 
of  Xew  Jersey  as  among  those  who  siezed  and 
kept  under  guard  the  governor,  the  justices, 
the  attorney-general,  and  other  officials,  from 
a  Tuesday  to  the  following  Saturday,  in  March, 
1 701,  in  order  to  prevent  the  authorities  from 
trying  for  piracy  one  of  their  own  people. 
Samuel  I'^orman  married  Mary  Wilbur,  of 
Providence,  Rhode  Island.  Children:  i.  Sam- 
uel, born  1686,  died  1746;  married  (first)  Alar- 
tha  Brownell ;  (second)  Mary  Reed.  2.  Jon- 
athan, referred  to  below.  3.  Hannah,  born 
December   24,    1689,   died  January    11,    1755; 


married  William  Maddock.  4.  Rebecca,  born 
1696,  died  September  14,  1748;  married  a  Van 
Cleef.  5.  Alary,  born  1697,  married  a  Romine. 
6.  Aaron,  born  May  22,  1699,  died  January  13, 
1741  ;  married  L-rsula,  daughter  of  Archibald 
Craig.  7.  John,  born  September  23,  1701,  died 
November  25,  1748;  married  Jane  Wycktiff. 
8.  Joseph,  born  December,  1703,  died  Jul)-  14, 
1775  ;  married  Elizabeth  Lee  ;  had  among  other 
children  General  David  Forman,  the  hero  of 
Monmouth,  whose  daughter  Rivine  became 
first  wife  of  James  Neilson  Esq.,  of  New 
Brimswick.  9.  Ezekiel,  born  November  I, 
1706,  died  October  3,  174(1,  married  Elizabeth 
Seabrokke. 

(ly )  Jonathan,  second  child  and  son  of 
Samuel  and  Mary  (Wilbur)  Forman,  was 
born  in  1688,  and  died  in  1762.  He  married 
Margaret  Wyckoff,  born  1693,  died  December 
21,1765.  Children:  i.  Elinor,  born  1713  ;died 
1733  ;  married  Abraham  Van  Dorn.  2.  Samuel, 
born  November  13,  17 14,  died  January  18,  1792  ; 
married.  May  26.  1752,  Helena  Demise.  3. 
John,  born  September  14,  1716,  died  1799; 
maiTied  Rebecca  Taylor.  4.  Peter,  born  May, 
1719,  died  September  8,  1785;  married  Elinor 
\\'illiamson.  5.  Jonathan  Jr.,  born  1722,  died 
May  20,  1758;  married  Sarah  Throckmorton. 
6.  j\Iary,  married  Robert  Rhea.  7.  William, 
born  1729,  died  1735.  David,  referred  to 
below. 

(\')  David,  youngest  child  of  Jonathan  and 
Margaret  (Wyckoff)  Forman.  was  born  Octo- 
ber I,  1733,  and  died  March  30,  1812.  He  was 
the  sheriff  of  Monmouth  county  during  the 
revolutionary  war,  and  his  commission  is  in  the 
possession  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  soci- 
ety. June  16,  1757,  he  married  (first)  Anna 
Denise,  half  sister  to  his  sister-in-law,  Helena 
(  Denise)  Forman,  his  brother  Samuel's  wife, 
born  June  16,  1736,  died  September  9,  1798. 
December  4,  1799,  he  married  (second)  widow 
Elinor  Van  Brunt.  Children  of  David  and 
Anna  (Denise)  Forman  were:  i.  Jonathan, 
born  April  16,  1758,  died  January.  1803;  mar- 
ried Hope,  sister  to  Major  John  Burrowes.  2. 
Tunis,  born  1761,  died  1835;  married  Eleanor 
Remsen.  3.  Samuel,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Anna,  married  Corlies  I^loyd. 

(VI)  Samuel,  third  child  and  youngest  son 
of  Sherift'  David  and  Anna  (Denise)  Forman, 
was  born  in  1764,  and  died  December  11,  1843. 
He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Henderson,  and 
it  is  said  in  Philadelphia  also,  although  he  did 
not  graduate  from  the  university  there.  He 
received  his  medical  license  in  May,  1788,  and 
at  that  time  was  received  as  a  member  of  the 


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Xew  Jersey  medical  society.  He  commenced 
practice  in  his  native  town  of  Freehold  in  1790, 
and  continued  in  it  until  near  the  close  of  his 
life.  He  was  highly  esteemed  as  a  citizen,  and 
possessed  a  decidedly  religious  character.  He 
was  chosen  one  of  the  first  elders  of  the  Pres- 
byterian church  in  I-Veehold,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  founders.  He  was  buried  in  the  Ten- 
nant  churchyard  near  Freehold.  Dr.  Samuel 
Forman  married  (first)  in  1790.  Ann  Rogers, 
of  Rordentown,  who  bore  him  no  children  and 
died  before  1795,  when  he  married  (second) 
Sarah  Throckmorton,  by  whom  he  had  three 
sons  and  one  daughter:  i.  David,  born  .Sep- 
tember 23,  1796,  died  in  Freehold.  1826.  stud- 
ied medicine  and  received  his  license  in  icS2o. 
2.  Richard,  was  in  early  life  a  merchant,  and 
later  retired  to  his  farm  in  Monmouth,  where 
he  died.  3.  John  Fisher  T.,  referred  to  below. 
4.  A  daughter. 

(VH)  John  Fisher  T.  (Throckmorton  (2)), 
youngest  son  of  Doctor  Samuel  and  Sarah 
( Throckmorton )  Forman,  was  born  in  Free- 
hold, Monmouth  county,  in  1798,  and  died  in 
1877.  He  was  a  farmer  in  his  native  county 
all  his  life,  and  owned  several  farms  between 
Freehold  and  the  shore.  He  married  Fran- 
sanshy  Smock,  of  Marlborough,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  Sarah  E.,  married  Howard  Sin- 
nickson,  of  Salem,  New  Jersey.  2.  David.  3. 
John  Fisher  T.  Jr..  married  Catharine  Holmes. 
4.  Samuel  Randolph,  M.  D..  of  Jersey  City : 
married  Mary  Wilder  .Ailing.  5.  .\nnie,  mar- 
ried L'riel  Titus,  of  Trenton.  6.  Charles  D.  B., 
married  Sarah  E.  Conover.  7.  Margaretta. 
8  Daniel  McLean,  referred  to  below.  9.  Child, 
died  in  infancv. 

(\"lTr)  Daniel  McLean,  child  of  John  Fisher 
T.  and  Fransanshy  (Smock)  Forman.  was 
born  in  Freehold,  in  1845.  and  died  there  March 
29,  1909.  He  was  educated  at  the  Freehold 
Institute  and  Columbia  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City.  Lie  then 
spent  some  time  as  surgeon  in  P.ellevue  FL)s- 
pital.  New  York,  and  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital. 
New  York.  During  the  latter  years  of  the 
civil  war  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  navy.  After 
the  war  he  settled  in  Freehold  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  1869.  and  continued  there 
in  active  practice  until  his  death.  He  was  one 
of  the  surgeons  at  the  Monmf)uth  Hospital  at 
Long  P)ranch,  and  was  on  the  board  of  man- 
agers of  the  State  Insane  .\sylum  at  Trenton 
many  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  .Amer- 
ican Medical  Association  and  State  Medical 
Society,  and  secretary  of  the  Monmouth  Coun- 
ty Medical   Society   thirty  years.     He  was  a 


Democrat.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  the  Royal  Arcanum,  L'nited  V\  ork- 
nien,  and  Royal  Benevolent  .Association.  For 
many  years  he  was  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

In  1874,  Doctor  Daniel  McLean  Forman 
married  Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Jacob 
Vanderveer  of  Long  Branch,  New  Jersey, 
riieir  children  are:  i.  Eliza  R.,  marrietl  Fred- 
crick  N.  Whitcomb,  of  Freehold,  who  is  with 
the  A.  P.  Smith  Manufacturing  Company  of 
Newark,  New  Jersey ;  one  child :  McLean 
Forman.     2.  Edward  Ciale.  referred  to  below. 

(IX)  Edward  Gale,  only  son  of  Daniel  Mc- 
Lean, M.  D.,  and  Elizabeth  (Vanderveer)  For- 
man, was  born  in  Freehold,  Monmouth  coun- 
ty, in  1877,  and  is  now  living  in  that  town.  He 
was  educated  in  the  town  schools,  graduating 
from  the  Freehold  Institute  in  1895,  and  from 
the  New  York  Law  School  in  1902,  having 
previously  studied  law  with  Judge  William 
LI.  \'rcdenburg,  of  Freehold.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  1902  and 
as  counsellor  in  1908.  Since  1902  he  has  been 
practicing  in  Freehold.  He  is  a  vestryman  of 
St.  l*eter"s  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in 
Freehold.  He  is  a  member  of  Olive  Branch 
Lodge,  No.  16,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Freehold.  He 
is  unmarried. 


The  Willguss  family,  of 
WILLGUSS  which  Delancy  Walter' Will- 
guss, of  Red  Bank,  New 
Jersey,  is  a  representative,  is  undoubtedly  de- 
scended from  English  stock.  In  books  on 
heraldry  the  following  descriptions  of  the  coat- 
of-arms  belonging  to  the  family  appears : 
"Wildgoose  (Kent),  vert,  on  a  chev.  ar.  be- 
tween three  lions  heads  erased  or.  as  many 
(juatrefoils  sa.,''  which  means  that  the  shield 
was  green,  with  a  chevron,  i.  e..  an  inverted  \' 
of  silver  on  the  face  of  the  shield,  between 
three  lions'  heads  of  gold,  with  the  neck  edged 
or  serrated  as  if  the  head  had  been  torn  off. 
and  with  three  black  four-leafed  clovers  on 
the  chevron.  Another  is  '"Wildgoose.  or  Wil- 
gos,"  gold  field,  and  on  a  black  shevrnn  be- 
tween three  black  lions'  heads  with  broken 
necks,  three  golden  four-leafed  clovers  ("or. 
on  a  chev.  betw.  three  lions  heads  erased  sa. 
as  many  c|uatrefoils  of  the  field").  Still  an- 
other is  "Wildgoose  or  Wilgos  (judge  of  court 
in  Essex  and  Sussex)"  a  silver  field  with  black 
band  across  the  middle,  with  three  gold  rings 
around  the  center  of  the  shield.  (".\r.  on  fesse 
sa.  three  annulets  or.").  This  was  accompanied 
by  a  crest  consisting  of  a  wild  man  clothed  only 


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STATE   OF    NEW     IKRSEY, 


with  a  green  wreath  around  both  his  head  and 
loins,  and  bearing  a  great  chib.  The  meaning 
of  these  various  devices  on  the  shield  is  as 
follows:  The  chevron  meant  that  tlie  bearer 
had  accomplished  some  memorable  work,  com- 
pleted some  important  business,  or  been  the 
founder  of  his  family.  The  fesse  or  bar  across 
the  middle  of  the  shield  "is  supposed  to  repre- 
sent the  waist  belt  or  girdle  of  honor  which 
was  one  of  the  insignia  of  knighthood."  The 
lion  represents  kinship  with  royalty,  and  the 
crest  rei)resenting  the  wild  man,  naked, 
wreathed  about  the  temples  and  waist  with 
leaves  and  holding  a  club,  was  precisely  the 
same  as  each  of  the  two  figures  that  constitute 
the  supporters  of  the  arms  of  the  kings  of 
Denmark  (Cussan's  Hand-book  of  Heraldry). 
The  family  name  seems  to  have  taken  various 
forms  as  the  years  passed.  In  court  records 
we  find  it  in  the  form  of  W'ilgris,  Wildigos, 
Wilgrice  and  Wilgress,  and  other  forms,  but  it 
i>  found  in  the  form  of  Wilgus  as  early  as  1586. 

There  seem  to  have  been  two  by  the  name 
of  William  Wilgus  and  one  by  the  name  of 
James  Wilgus  in  the  revolutionary  war  from 
New  Jersey.  From  the  best  information  at 
hand  at  present,  there  seems  to  have  been  in 
New  Jersey  about  the  middle  of  the  last  cen- 
tury, five  brothers  at  least  (possibly  descended 
from  the  William  and  James  above  named,  or 
perhaps  \\'illiam  was  one  of  them  )  from  whom 
five  different  lines  of  the  Wilgus  family  are 
descended.  Members  of  the  family  have  gen- 
erally been  farmers,  merchants,  traders  or 
stock  dealers,  or  store-keepers,  plain,  all-around 
business  men,  although  there  have  been  many 
school  teachers,  several  lawyers  and  some  min- 
isters. Although  the  name  does  not  seem  to 
be  very  numerously  inscribed  high  on  the 
rolls  of  fame,  the  family  in  all  its  branches 
has  been  characterized  by  being  made  up  of 
active,  vigorous,  sturdy  men  and  women,  many 
of  them  of  more  than  ordinary  intellectual 
capacit}'  and  acquirement :  strong-willed,  yet 
withal,  under  nearly  all  circumstances,  open 
to  conviction  by  fair  reasoning,  and  as  a  rule 
of  most  excellent  business  judgment  and  broad 
public  spirit.  In  fact,  the  family  has  made 
up  a  liberal-minded,  law-abiding,  progressive, 
public-spirited  citizenship  such  as  in  the  mass 
of  our  peo])le  makes  uj)  the  strength,  the  sta- 
bility, the  dignity  and  a  large  part  of  the  honor 
of  the  Republic. 

(I)  John  Willguss,  the  first  member  of  the 
line  here  under  consideration  of  whom  there 
is  definite  inf(irmati(in.  was  a  farmer  in  .Sussex 


County.  New  Jerse}-.  His  wife  .Mary  bore  him 
two  children;  John,  referred  to  below,  and 
Samuel. 

(II)  John  (2),  .son  of  John  [1)  and  Mary 
\\''illguss,  was  born  in  Susse.x  county,  New 
Jersey,  December  25,  1797,  died  there  Decem- 
ber 24,  1868.  He  was  a  farmer.  During  the 
Mexican  war  he  drilled  for  a  soldier  and  was 
captain  of  a  company,  but  was  not  called  upon 
to  serve  actively.  He  was  a  Whig  m  politics. 
His  chief  recreation  was  hunting,  and  he  was 
one  of  the  noted  sportsmen  of  tlie  country  in 
his  day.  He  also  for  a  time  taught  singing 
school.  He  married  Eliza  .\nn,  daughter  of 
Walter  and  Ann  AlcCann.  of  Sussex  county; 
she  was  born  in  1806,  died  in  1869.  Children: 
I.  Minerva  E.,  born  1839;  married  Henry 
Kishpaugh  :  children  :  Charles,  Clarence,  Lillie, 
Amiie  and  Hampton  Kishbaugh.  2.  Mercy 
Jane,  born  1843,  died  1861.  3.  George  Win- 
sor,  born  October  6,  1846;  married  Ida  Ander- 
son :  children:  Alva,  Glenn,  Leon  A.  antl 
Cecil  D. ;  they  reside  in  Baldwin,  Kansas.  4. 
Delancy  Walter,  referred  to  below. 

(  HI  )  Delancy  Walter,  son  of  John  (  2  )  and 
Eliza  Ann  (McCann)  Willguss,  was  born  near 
Andover,  Sussex  county,  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 7,  1850,  and  is  now  living  at  Red  Bank, 
Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey.  For  his  early 
education  he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools, 
after  leaving  which  he  spent  three  years  in 
the  State  Normal  School  at  Trenton,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1873.  In  1876  he  began 
studying  law  in  the  same  offices  which  he  now 
occupies,  with  the  firm  of  Applegate  &  Nevius, 
who  occupied  those  offices  at  that  time,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attor- 
ney in  1880  and  as  counsellor  in  1900.  While 
pursuing  his  legal  studies  he  taught  school, 
first  in  New  Brunswick  and  afterwards  in  sev- 
eral places  in  Monmouth  county.  Since  his 
admission  to  the  bar  he  has  been  engaged  in 
the  general  practice  of  his  profession  in  Red 
Bank.  Mr.  Willguss  has  served  as  trustee  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  in  Red  Bank, 
and  is  now  serving  as  treasurer  of  the  same. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  record- 
ing secretary  of  the  Junior  Order  United 
American  Alechanics,  of  Red  flank,  and  a 
member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Inde- 
jiendent  C)r(ler  of  Foresters.  He  married,  in 
I'hiladelphia,  Pennsylvania,  April  2,  1875, 
Emma  L.,  born  August  17,  1856,  died  March 
10,  1910,  daughter  of  Joel  T.  and  Margaret 
(Reid)  Clayton.  Children:  Flora  E.,  born 
April  27,  1876:  Ralph  ().,  .\pril  7.  i88r.. 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


Jacob  Everitt,  founder  of  the 
E\  ERITT      \c\v  Jersey  family  of  his  name. 

and  the  earhest  member  of 
wliom  we  liave  definite  information,  was  born 
in  Germany,  about  1735.  Me  emigrated  with 
his  brother  to  America  when  about  twenty 
years  old  and  settled  first  in  Hunterdon  coun- 
ty, New  Jersey,  where  he  married.  He  was  a 
physician,  and  author  of  a  medical  work  which 
was  long  a  standard  authority  in  Germany.  He 
is  said  to  have  performed  active  service  during 
the  French  and  Indian  war,  and  to  have  been 
present  at  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga.  About 
1770  he  removed  to  Montague  township,  Sus- 
sex county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  remained 
until  his  death,  about  1800  or  1802.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  Langafelt,  daughter  of  a  Presby- 
terian clergyman.  Children:  i.  John,  private 
in  Ca]itain  Marker's  company.  Second  Regi- 
ment Sussex  county  militia,  during  the  revolu- 
tion. 2.  Christian.  3.  Jacob,  shot  during  the 
Whiskey  war  in  lY-nnsylvania.  1794;  private 
in  Captain  Ribble's  company.  First  Regiment 
Sus.sex  county  militia,  during  the  revolution. 
4  Godfrey,  private,  Morris  county  militia,  dur- 
ing the  revolution.  5.  Abraham,  one  of  the  first 
settlers  in  Oswego  county.  New  York.  6. 
Isaac,  referred  to  below.  7.  Marshall,  removed 
to  Michigan,  in  1835.  8.  George,  removed  also 
to  Michigan. 

(11)  Isaac,  son  of  Dr.  Jacob  and  Hannah 
iLangafelt)  Everitt,  was  born  in  Montague 
townsliip,  Sussex  county.  New  Jersey,  March 
13,  1771.  died  there  March  7,  1833.  He  learn- 
ed the  trade  of  blacksmith,  which  he  followed 
for  some  time,  but  later  gave  up  in  order  to 
turn  farmer.  Me  was  a  man  of  standing  and 
influence  in  the  community,  possessed  of  a 
strong  will  and  self-reliant  nature,  and  was  a 
Whig  in  politics.  He  filled  various  township 
offices,  and  in  181 7  was  appointed  a  justice  of 
the  peace.  He  married,  in  1797.  Mary,  born 
1777,  died  June  23,  1835.  daughter  of  Daniel 
Davis.  Children:  i.  John  Davis,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Betsy,  born  I'^bruary  10.  1800.  died 
August  19,  1828;  married  .\braham  Shinier. 
3.  George  P>.,  born  June  14.  1802,  died  May  22. 
1874.  4.  Jane  Westbrook,  born  August  24, 
1804.  died  September  18,  1835.  5.  Mary  .\nn. 
born  February  26.  1807;  married  Isaac  J. 
Labar,  of  Wyoming  county.  Pennsylvania.  (>. 
Hannah,  born  October  10.  1809.  died  January 
I.  1840;  married  Elislia  Depue.  7.  .Mien,  re- 
ferred to  below.  8.  Catharine,  born  January 
9.  1817,  died  January  16.  1856:  married  John 
y.1.  Barlow,  of  Michigan.     9.   Isaac  Jr.,  born 


December  31,  1818.  10.  Matthew  L.,  born  No- 
vember 10,  1822,  died  April  28,  1872. 

(III)  John  Davis,  son  of  Isaac  and  Mar\ 
(Davis)  Everitt,  was  born  in  Montague  town- 
ship, Sussex  county,  New  Jersey,  March  23. 
1798,  died  there  in  1877.  In  early  life  he  fitted 
himself  for  the  profession  of  a  teacher,  which 
he  followed  for  some  years,  but  afterwards 
gave  up  in  order  to  become  a  merchant  and 
farmer.  In  the  community  in  which  he  lived 
he  was  a  man  of  considerable  prominence  as 
an  old  Line  Whig,  and  was  active  in  the  county 
politics  of  his  day.  At  one  time  he  was  a  jus- 
tice of  the  peace,  and  at  another  one  of  the  asso- 
ciate judges  of  Sussex  county.  He  married  Ro- 
anna,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Lena  or  Catharine 
(Rosencrans)  Decker  (  see  Rosencrans).  Chil- 
dren:    I.  Katy  Jane,  married  John  B.  Layton. 

2.  Daniel   Davis,  of   Montague,   New  Jersey. 

3.  Isaac  J.,  referred  to  below.  4.  Martin  Cole, 
born  February  4,  1828,  died  at  Port  Jervis. 
New  York,  December  23,  1899  :  married,  Octo- 
ber 9,  i860.  Louisa  Armstrong;  three  children. 
5.  Robert  H.,  of  Centreville,  New  Jersey.  6. 
Allen,  died   1851,  aged  twenty-one  years. 

(IV)  Isaac  J.,  son  of  John  Davis  and  Ro- 
anna  (Decker)  Everitt,  was  born  at  Montague. 
Sussex  county,  New  Jersey,  December  5,  1825, 
and  died  in  Orange,  Essex  county,  New  Jersey, 
November  1 1,  1875.  When  he  was  seven  years 
old  his  parents  removed  to  Sandyston,  Sussex 
county,  where  he  began  life  as  a  clerk  in  his 
father's  store.  For  one  year  he  attended  school 
at  EHngman's  Ferry,  Pennsylvania,  but  his  edu- 
cation was  of  a  practical  character  and  was 
leceived  mostly  behind  his  father's  counter. 
He  was  industrious,  faithful  and  capable,  and 
in  1846  entered  the  employ  of  Day  &  Bailey. 
of  Orange,  being  recommended  to  them  in  the 
highest  terms  by  Mr.  Joseph  Fleming,  of  Mon- 
tague. Here  he  made  himself  so  useful  to 
his  employers  that  they  found  him  almost  in- 
dispensible,  and  in  1849  ^^  bought  out  'Squire 
Day's  interest  in  the  business  and  became 
junior  member  of  the  new  firm  of  Bailey  & 
I'Neritt,  which  occupied  the  old  corner  of  Day 
and  Main  streets  until  i860,  when  they  moved 
into  their  new  building  and  the  Music  Mall 
building  was  erected  on  their  old  site.  Mr. 
Everitt  always  took  a  great  interest  in  local 
affairs,  and  worked  untiringly  for  the  success 
of  every  measure  by  which  he  thought  the  town 
would  be  benefited,  and  in  such  an  unostenta- 
tious way  that  often  the  credit  went  to  others. 
It  was  principally  through  his  influence  that 
the  first  telegraph  line  was  brought  to  Orange. 


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the  office  being  originally  in  the  old  store  of 
Uailey  &  Everitt,  and  later  on  in  the  Eibrary 
building.  He  was  one  of  the  original  Repub- 
licans in  Orange,  and  an  ardent  supporter  of 
the  government  during  the  civil  war.  lie  was 
also  at  the  head  of  a  movement  to  save  Orange 
from  the  conse(juences  of  the  draft  by  hiring 
substitutes  for  Orange  men.  ile  had  great 
influence  at  Trenton,  and  in  1867  was  very 
active  in  supporting  the  passage  of  an  act  by 
which  Xewark  would  have  been  set  off  from 
the  rest  of  Essex  county  and  Orange  would 
have  become  the  county  seat,  a  result  which 
lacked  but  little  of  success.  When  (Jrange 
was  incorporated  he  was  active  in  securing  the 
passage  of  the  charter.  From  its  inception 
until  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  manager 
of  the  Orange  Savings  Bank,  and  also  of  the 
Republic  Trust  Company  of  Xewark.  For 
many  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Orange 
National  Bank,  but  withdrew  at  the  time  of  a 
change  in  its  administration.  Until  his  death 
he  was  treasurer  of  the  Rosedale  Cemetery 
Company,  and  for  many  years  appraiser  for 
all  insurance  companies  who  desired  to  eft'ect 
loans  on  property  in  the  vicinit}'  of  Orange, 
and  his  valuation  was  the  generally  accepted 
standard  on  Orange  property.  Mr.  Everitt 
was  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the 
joint  water  committee,  and  it  was  owing  to  his 
individual  efforts  that  the  experiments  were 
made  which  resulted  in  a  plentiful  supply  of 
water  for  Orange.  He  was  also  the  most 
efficient  street  commissioner  Orange  ever  had. 
His  quickness  of  perce]5tion  and  earnestness 
in  every  cause  which  he  espoused  made  him 
an  invaluable  ally  and  a  most  formidable  op- 
ponent. As  an  organizer  and  worker  in  polit- 
ical aft'airs  he  was  one  of  the  most  valuable 
members  of  his  party  in  his  day.  During  the 
contest  which  resulted  in  the  election  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  to  the  presidency,  he  was  inde- 
fatigable and  devoted  in  promoting  the  success 
of  the  Republican  cause  in  Orange.  During 
the  war  his  warm  support  of  the  administra- 
tion left  no  one  in  doubt  as  to  his  attitude  in 
the  conflict.  He  was  impetuous  in  disposition, 
and  would  become  thoroughly  aroused  upon 
the  receipt  of  favorable  news  from  the  battle 
field.  When  news  was  received  in  Orange  of 
the  capture  of  Fort  Donelson,  that  memorable 
victory  which  came  like  a  gleam  of  sunshine 
in  a  day  of  cloud  and  desjjondency,  Mr.  Everitt, 
who  was  one  of  tiie  first  to  hear  the  announce- 
ment, rushed  hastily  forth,  ])rocure<l  the  key 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  entered  the 
building   headlong   and    hatless,    mciunted    the 


belfry,  and  rang  the  old  bell  in  such  a  tumul- 
tuous manner  as  to  electrify  the  whole  com- 
munity. He  was  one  of  the  largest  property 
owners  in  Orange,  being  the  possessor  of  real 
estate  in  all  parts  of  the  city,  which  he  held  in 
his  own  name  individually,  besides  owning  a 
large  annimU  in  partnershi])  with  Mr.  Bailey 
and  Mr.  jdhn  L.  I'.lake.  In  additi(_)n,  he  also 
owned  a  large  farm  in  Belleville. 

He  died  in  the  prime  of  life,  and  his  Iuss 
was  deeply  felt  throughout  the  whole  commu- 
nity. During  his  last  illness,  Hon.  Cortlandt 
Parker,  of  Newark,  writing  to  a  friend  in 
Orange,  said:  "I  trust  he  will  pid!  through, 
as  the  country  can  spare  no  such  man."  At 
a  special  meeting  held  for  the  purpose  of  tak- 
ing action  on  his  death,  the  common  council  of 
Orange  said  in  its  resolutions:  "For  the  last 
thirty  years  he  has  been  a  resident  of  Orange, 
and  identified  with  its  growth  and  prosperit}'. 
During  nearly  the  whole  of  that  period  he  has 
occupied  a  prominent  place  in  public  affairs. 
He  never  refused  the  primary  obligation  of 
citizenship,  that  ever)-  man  shall  do  in  his  own 
place  and  in  his  own  way  the  utmost  in  his 
power  for  the  general  good,  (jf  the  city  as 
of  the  former  town  and  township  he  has  ever 
been  one  of  the  chief  supports.  He  was  of 
the  few  who  are  absolutely  without  ambition 
for  office.  Many  of  our  local  improvements 
are  due  to  his  wise  forecast  and  the  same  dili- 
gence tempered  by  the  same  prudence  which 
he  exhibited  in  the  details  of  his  private  busi- 
ness were  conspicuous  in  the  performance  of 
all  his  public  trusts.  His  sagacity  was  unusual, 
his  energy  untiring.  \\'hatever  he  had  to  d6 
was  done  with  all  his  might,  and  it  was  always 
well  done.  With  pleasing  manners  and  a 
strange  power  of  personal  magnetism,  it  is  not 
to  be  wondered  at  that  he  compelled  success." 
Mr.  Everitt's  baptismal  name  was  Isaac,  but 
there  being  several  other  Isaac  Everitts  in  Sus- 
sex county,  where  he  was  born,  he  ado]ited  the 
initial  "]"  for  purposes  of  differentiation.  Mr. 
Day  always  insisted  upon  calling  him  "John,""  and 
by  that  name  he  came  to  be  generally  known 
in  Orange,  and  although  he  always  signed  him- 
self "Isaac  J.  Everitt,'"  he  never  took  any 
pains  to  deny  that  the  "J"  stood  for  "John."" 

He  married  Martha  Britton,  daughter  of 
James  Britton  and  Mary  Dayton  (  Foster  )  .\rm- 
strong  (see  Armstrong),  who  was  born  in  Mcni- 
tague,  Susse.x  county.  New  Jersey,  Jmie  11, 
1825:  died  in  Orange,  August  2.  1S78.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Edward  .-Xllen,  referrerl  to  below.  2. 
Mary  Louisa,  married  J.  Roland  Mix :  chil- 
ilren  :     Louise.  Julia  Ruland,  Dorothy.   3.  John 


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Davis,  referred  to  below.  4.  Robert  .\rmstrong. 
of  Basking  Ridge,  New  Jersey:  married  Mary 
Freeman  ;  children  :  Tiritton  and  James  Foster. 
5.  Fannie  .-Krmstrong,  married  Percy  Hayward 
Hall,  of  288  Central  avenue,  Orange;  three 
children.     6.  W  illis  Britton,  referred  to  below. 

(Y )  Edward  Allen,  son  of  Isaac  J.  and 
Martha  Britton  (Armstrong)  Everitt,  was  born 
on  Day  street,  near  William  street.  Orange. 
New  Jersey,  April  19,  1854.  He  attended  the 
best  private  schools  and  then  entered  Belle- 
fonte  (  Pennsylvania)  Academy,  from  which  he 
gr.aduated  in  the  class  of  1872.  As  clerk  he 
then  entered  the  firm  of  Bailey  &  Everitt  (his 
father's  grocery  and  dry-goods  store),  con- 
tinuing in  that  capacity  there  until  his  father's 
death.  .\  new  copartnership  was  then  formed 
and  a  former  clerk,  George  W.  Kynor,  being  a 
member,  the  name  was  changed  to  Bailey. 
Everitt  &  Company,  and  notwithstanding  the 
changes  since  made  by  death,  the  business  was 
carried  on  in  Orange  under  that  name  until 
1908. 

ifr.  Everitt  is  an  active,  energetic  business 
man,  and  in  this  respect  is  a  fit  representative 
of  his  worthy  father.  He  became  his  father's 
successor  as  manager  of  the  Orange  Savings 
Bank,  and  in  .April,  1899,  was  chosen  treasurer. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  the  first  vice- 
president  of  the  Second  National  Bank  of 
(Jrange.  He  is  thoroughly  interested  in  every- 
thing which  pertains  to  the  improvement  and 
advancement  of  the  interests  of  Orange,  but 
he  does  not  care  for  political  life.  He  is  a 
staunch  Republican,  and  his  opinions  are  highly 
talued  by  his  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Newark  ISoard  of  Trade,  and  through  his  great- 
grandfather. Lieutenant  Thomas  .Vrnistrong,  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of  the  Sons 
of  the  American  Revolution. 

He  married,  October  10,  1889.  in  Jersey 
City.  Ellen  G.  Fields,  born  in  Jersey  City,  Sep- 
tember 26,  i8s7.  daughter  of  James  B.  and 
Rachel  W.  (\\almsley)  Fields.  Her  father 
was  born  June  23,  1834,  and  her  mother,  .Au- 
gust 16,  1832.  Her  grandfather  was  Peter 
Fields,  son  of  James  Fields,  of  Rockland  coun- 
ty. New  York.  Children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Everitt :  Edward  Allen  Jr.,  born  August  23, 
1891  ;  Ellen  M..  September  2,  1893. 

(V)  John  Davis,  son  of  Isaac  J.  and  Martha 
Britton  ( .\rmstrong)  Everitt,  was  born  on  Day 
street,  near  William  street.  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey, November  6,  1858.  F'or  his  early  educa- 
tion he  was  sent  to  the  public  schools  of  Orange, 
and  afterward  to  the  Orange  high  school.  He 
entered    the   office    of    William    T.    Meredith, 


banker  and  broker,  and  member  of  the  .\ew 
York  Stock  E.xchange,  and  was  admitted  to 
partnership  August  i,  1891.  By  his  industry 
and  ability  he  gradually  rose  ste])  by  step  until 
May  I,  1893,  he  went  into  ])artnershii)  with 
George  A.  Benwell,  the  name  of  the  firm  being 
Ben  well  &  Everitt.  On  May  15,  1899,  the  firm 
became  John  D.  Everitt  &  Company  by  the 
letirement  of  Mr.  Benwell  and  the  admission 
to  the  firm  of  Willis  B.  Everitt.  Mr.  Everitt 
is  a  Republican,  and  he  is  regarded  as  one  of 
the  strongest  men  of  his  party  in  the  Oranges, 
a  fact  which  has  been  emphasized  over  and 
over  again  by  the  people  of  the  community, 
who  have  kept  him  continually  in  places  of  the 
greatest  responsibility  and  trust.  Besides  hav- 
ing been  a  member  of  the  Esse.x  county  Rejnib- 
lican  committee,  Mr.  Everitt  has  for  fifteen 
years  been  treasurer  of  the  board  of  commis- 
sioners of  the  sinking  fund  of  the  city  of 
Orange.  He  is  president  and  one  of  the  di- 
rectors of  the  Orange  National  Bank,  presi- 
dent of  the  Consolidated  Fire  .Alarm  Company 
of  New  York,  and  a  director  of  the  .Automatic 
Fire  .Alarm  Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Essex  County  Country  Club,  and  of  the  New 
England  Society  of  Orange.  He  is  a  com- 
municant of  St.  Mark's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  West  Orange. 

He  married,  in  Albany,  New  York,  Decem 
her  26,  1888,  Marguerite,  daughter  of  Sylves- 
ter D.,  M.  D.  (after  whom  the  Willard  Insane 
Asylum  in  New  York  state  was  named),  and 
Susan  E.  (Spence)  Willard  (whose  brother. 
Sylvester  D.  \\'illard  Jr.,  M.  D..  is  the  famous 
cancer  specialist  of  London,  England).  Chil- 
dren: I.  Eleanor  Willard,  born  .August  2,  1891. 
2.  John  Willard.  July  4,  1895.  3.  Theodore 
Trail,  December  30,  1899.  4.  Sylvester  Dud- 
Icy,  August  2,  1901  ;  died  December,  1906. 

(V)  Willis  Britton,  son  of  Isaac  J.  anfl 
Martha  Britton  (.Armstrong)  Everitt.  was  born 
on  Lincoln  avenue,  Orange,  .\'ew  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber 7,  1869.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Orange  and  at  Stevens  Institute  of 
Technology  in  Hoboken.  He  found  a  position 
in  the  Mid  vale  Steel  Works,  where  he  remain- 
ed until  September,  1894,  when  he  took  a  posi- 
tion with  his  brother,  John  Davis  Everitt,  with 
whom  he  entered  into  jjartnership  in  1899.  He 
married,  at  Bridgewater,  Massachusetts,  Octo- 
ber 14,  i8c;7,  Helen,  daughter  of  Henry  Re- 
vere, and  a  great-great-great-granddaughter  of 
the  celebrated  Paul  Revere.  Children:  Paul 
Revere,  born  January  10,  1899 ;  Serenne,  May 
2,  1902. 

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Everitt,  was  born  in  ]\Iontague  township,  Sus- 
sex county,  New  Jersey,  July  24,  1814.  His 
earlier  years  were  passed  upon  his  father's 
farm,  and  until  he  was  fourteen  he  attended 
the  district  school.  He  then  for  two  years 
served  as  clerk  in  tlie  store  of  his  brother, 
John  Davis  Everitt,  at  Hainesville,  and  wdien 
his  father  died  in  1833.  he  worked  the  Imme 
farm  on  shares  with  his  mother  until  her  death 
two  years  later.  He  then  rented  the  Imnie- 
stead  for  a  time,  and  gradually  buying  out 
the  other  heirs,  he  became  its  sole  owner.  In 
1857  he  sold  the  property  to  his  cousin,  Daniel 
D.  Everitt,  and  two  years  later  purcliased  a 
farm  of  two  hundred  and  thirty  acres  near 
Brick  House.  Mr.  Everitt  was  one  of  the  hard- 
working, industrious  and  .successful  farmers 
of  the  township,  and  his  reputation  in  the 
community  in  which  he  dwelt  was  regarded  as 
remarkable  for  honor  and  uprightness.  At 
first  ^Ir.  Everitt  was  a  Whig,  and  afterw-ards 
a  Republican,  his  first  vote  being  cast  in  1836 
for  General  W^illiam  H.  Harrison.  He  was 
never  a  seeker  after  political  positions,  and  he 
filled  only  the  ordinary  offices  of  his  township. 
He  was  a  supporter  of  the  Reformed  Church, 
of  Montague,  was  well  known  and  highly  in- 
t]uential  in  financial  circles,  and  was  a  director 
of  the  First  National  Bank,  of  Port  Jervis, 
New  York,  and  of  the  Merchants"  National 
]]ank  of  Newton. 

He  married  (first).  March  2.  18-17,  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Jesse  and  Margaret  P.  Hunt,  of 
Frankford  township,  who  died  February  2~ . 
1837.  ]VIarried  (second),  April  5,  1859,  Sarah 
Jane,  widow  of  John  Finch,  of  Orange  county. 
New  York,  and  daughter  of  James  Bntton 
and  Mary  Dayton  (Foster)  Armstrong  (see 
Armstrong),  who  was  sister  to  Martha  Britton 
Armstrong,  wife  of  his  nephew,  Isaac  J.  Everitt, 
referred  to  above.  Children,  four  by  first  mar- 
riage :  I.  Hannah  Jane,  born  January  5,  i8.).8; 
married  Wilhelmus  Westfall.  2.  George,  C)c- 
tober  6,  1850;  died  March  4,  1834.  3.  Martin, 
March  26,  1833:  died  June  22,  1878.  4.  Infant, 
died  unnamed.  5.  ( Jeorge  Lindley.  born  April 
21,  i860;  died  September  17,  i860.  6.  Frank 
Allen,  March  14,  1862;  died  March  18,  1864. 
7.  Sarah  Allen,  April  6,  1865. 

(The  Rosencrans  Line). 

The  name  Rosenkrans  signifies  in  Dutch  a 
garland  of  roses.  In  the  old  records  the  spell- 
ing varies  from  Rozenkrantz  to  Rosenkrans,  to 
Rosecrans  and  Rosencrans.  The  early  home 
of  the  family  is  said  to  have  been  in  Bergen,  a 
province  of  Norway,  and  the  founder  of  the 

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family  in  this  country,  Harmen  Hcndrickszen 
van  Bergen  in  Noordwegen,  emigrated  to  New 
Amsterdam  about  1650,  where  he  married  and 
whence  later,  about  1660,  he  settled  in  Ulster 
county,  where  in  1661  his  wife  united  with  the 
Dutch  church  there,  and  he  himself  became  a 
liberal  contributor  toward  the  building  of  the 
parsonage  for  the  first  dominie  at  Kingston, 
Hermanns  Blom.  Some  time  before  1697  he 
removed  to  Mombacus,  now  Rochester,  Ulster 
county.  New  York,  where  he  died  about  1708. 
He  married,  March  3,  1637,  Magdaleen  Dirks, 
the  widow  of  Cornelius  Caper.  Children:  I. 
Alexander,  born  Kingston,  baptized  there,  April 
12,  1661  ;  married,  December  11,  1713,  Mar- 
retjen  de  Pue.  He  owned  considerable  land  at 
Rochester,  including  a  mill  site  in  company 
with  his  brother-in-law,  Gysbert  Aelbertz  van 
Ciorden:  and  about  1730  he  removed  to  W'al- 
pack.  New  Jersey.  His  son,  Johannes,  born 
May  18,  1724;  married,  August  9,  1751,  Mar- 
garet de  Wit,  a  cousin  of  De  Witt  Clinton,  and 
was  a  colonel  in  the  revolutionary  war  and  an 
elder  in  the  Shepenack  Church,  to  which  he 
gave  the  ground  on  which  the  church  stood. 
His  great-grandson  is  Martin  Rosenkrans  Esq.. 
of  Newton,  New  Jersey.  2.  Annatje,  baptized 
August  20,  1662;  died  young.  3.  Rachel,  bap- 
tized October  21,  1663:  married  Gysbert  A. 
van  Gorden.  4.  Harmanus,  baptized  May  2, 
1(^66.  3.  Anna,  married  Humphrey  Davenport. 
6.  Henxdrick,  of  Rochester;  married  (first), 
January  3,  1697,  Annetje  Vredenberg;  (sec- 
orid),  October  26,  1721,  Annetje  Delva,  widow 
of  Luycas  de  Witt  and  of  Gerrit  van  Bun- 
schoten.  7.  Christina,  married,  December  26, 
1700,  Cornells  Hendricksen  Kortregt.  8.  Der- 
rick, referred  to  below. 

(II)  Derrick  or  Dirck,  son  of  Harman  Ilend- 
licksen  Rosenkrans  and  Magdaleen  Dirks,  mar- 
ried, September  6,  1702,  Wentje  Roelofse  Kier- 
stede,  widow  of  Jan  de  Wit,  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  Anneke  Jans,  the  widow  of  Dominie 
Bogardus.  and  one  of  the  original  owners  of 
most  of  the  real  estate  now  owned  by  the 
corporation  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York. 
Children:  i.  Herman,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Jacobus,  baptized  March  17,  1705;  married 
(first )  Sarah  Decker  ;  (  second)  Catharine  Cole ; 
removed  to  Shippekonk  before  1729,  and  later 
to  Machackemach  ;  children,  two  by  second  wife  : 
Helena,  Daniel,  Geertje.  Solomon,  Johannes ; 
niandina,  married  Abraham  Westbrook,  of 
Minnesink,  New  Jersey;  Aloda,  Solomon  (2). 
3.  Helena,  baptized  June  20,  1708;  married, 
February  26,  1725,  Albert  Costerhout.  4.  Sara, 
baptized    February,    1711  ;   married    Arie   van 


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\'re(lenburg,  and  settled  in  Minnisink.  5. 
Lydia,  baptized  May  3,  1713  ;  married,  May  1 1, 
1730,  Jocheni  Schoonmaker.  6.  Antjen,  bap- 
tized April  29.  1716;  married  Alexander  van 
Winkle. 

(III)  Herman  or  Harmon,  son  of  Dirk  and 
W'hntje  Roelfse  (Kier.stede)  Rosenkrans.  was 
bajjtized  at  Rochester,  March  28,  1703.  He 
removed  to  West  fall,  I'ike  county,  F'ennsyl- 
\ania.  He  married,  .^pril  29,  1725,  .\ryaantie, 
daughter  of  Jan  Janszen  van  Oosterhout,  from 
Brabant,  and  .\nna  Hendricks,  and  daughter 
ot  Teunis  and  .Vriaantje  ( Roose )  van  Ooster- 
hout, who  was  baptized  September  29,  1706. 
Children:  I.  Dirk,  baptized  January  16,  1726. 
2.  Katrina,  baptized  June  16,  1728.  3.  Petrus, 
baptized  December  25,  1732.  4.  .Ariaantje, 
baptized  at  the  Minnisink,  May  18,  1736.  5. 
Jacobus,  referred  to  below.  6.  Benjamin,  bap- 
tized July  17,  1748. 

(IV)  Jacobus,  son  of  Herman  and  Aryaantie 
(van  Oosterhout)  Rosenkrans,  was  born  at 
Westfall,Pike  county,  Pennsylvania, and  Mach- 
ackemech,  April  21,  1745.  His  farm,  called 
"Theesacht,"novv  Rosetown,  Pike  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, was  the  place  made  famous  by  the 
death  of  Tom  Quick,  "the  Indian  slayer."  He 
married  Maria,  daughter  of  Evert  and  Eleanor 
(Cuddcback)  Hoornbeeck.  Children:  i.  Betsy, 
married  Manuel  Brink.  2.  Lena,  or  Catharine, 
referred  to  below. 

(V)  Lena  (or  Catharine  ),  daughter  of  Jaco- 
bus and  Maria  (Hoornbeeck)  Rosencrans, mar- 
ried (first)  Daniel  Decker;  (second)  Crissie 
Bull.  Children  by  first  husband:  Lena  Decker; 
Roanna  Decker,  referred  to  below.  Chiklren 
of  second  husband :  Rosencranse  C.  Bull,  of 
Milford;  Hannah,  married  Henry  Mott,  of 
Milford;  Maria,  wife  of  Eli  Van  Inwegen,  of 
Port  Jcrvis,  New  York. 

(VI)  Roanna,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Lena 
(or  Catharine)  (  Rosencrans)  Decker,  married 
Judge  John  D.  Everitt  (see  Everitt  III). 

(The  Armstrong  Line). 

The  family  of  Armstrong  was  in  ancient 
times  settled  on  the  Scottish  border,  and  spring- 
ing from  the  parent  stock  several  branches  at 
a  very  early  era  became  located  in  the  northern 
counties  of  England.  Tradition  states  that 
the  original  name  was  Fairbairn  and  that  it 
was  changed  to  -Xrm.strong  on  the  following 
occasion  :  .\n  ancient  king  of  .Scotland  having 
liis  horse  killed  under  him  in  battle,  was  im- 
mediately remoiuited  by  Fairbairn,  his  armor- 
bearer,  on  his  own  horse.  For  tliis  timely 
assistance  the  king  amply  rewarded  him  with 


lands  on  the  borders,  and  to  perpetuate  the 
memory  of  so  important  a  service  as  well  as 
the  manner  in  which  it  was  performed  (for 
iairbairn  took  the  king  by  the  thigh  and  set 
him  on  the  saddle)  his  royal  master  gave  him 
the  appellation  of  Armstrong,  and  assigned 
him  for  crest :  .Vn  armed  hand  and  arm,  in 
the  hand  a  leg  and  foot  in  armour  couped  at 
the  thigh,  all  ppr.  The  meaning  is,  strong  of 
arm. 

Andrew  Armstrong  (direct  descendant  of 
the  first  Armstrong),  born  in  the  castle  of 
Maugerton  in  1576,  who  having  dis])osed  of 
his  patrimony  in  Scotland  to  one  of  his  kins- 
men, immigrated  in  the  commencement  of  the 
seventeenth  century  to  the  north  of  Ireland, 
and  established  himself  near  his  uncle  in  the 
county  Fermanah.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the 
rebellion  in  1661,  he  embraced  a  military  life 
and  served  as  an  officer  of  horse  in  the  army 
of  Charles  I.  for  several  years,  with  great 
reputation. 

Hugh  Armstrong,  a  descendant  of  Andrew 
Armstrong,  emigrated  to  New  Jersey  from  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  settled  in  Deckertown, 
Sussex  county. 

Thomas  .Armstrong,  a  descendant  of  Hugh 
Armstrong,  was  a  lieutenant  of  militia  and  also 
wagon  master  during  the  revolution. 

James  Britton  .Armstrong,  son  of  Thomas 
.Vrmstrong.  married  Mary  Dayton  Foster  and 
they  were  the  parents  of  Martha  Britton  (Arm- 
strong) Everitt,  wife  of  Isaac  f.  Everitt  (see 
Everitt  IV). 


George  Fry,  the  earliest  member  of 
FRY  this  family  of  whom  we  have  defi- 
nite information,  married  .Ann  Ware. 
Children  :  Jacob,  married  Rebecca  Wright ;  Rob- 
ert Taylor,  referred  to  below;  .Asa  W. ;  John; 
George;  Elizabeth,  married  William  Wright; 
William. 

(II)  Robert  Taylor,  son  of  George  and  .Ann 
(  Ware)  Fry,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
.sylvania,  October  15,  181 1,  and  died  there. 
March  9,  1880.  He  married,  October  10,  1842, 
Drusilla  Coles,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Eliza- 
beth (Coles)  Morris  (see  Morris,  following 
this  narrative).  Children:  i.  Elizabeth  Morris, 
born  .August  3,  1843;  married,  December  15, 
1870,  George,  son  of  .Asher  and  Phoebe  Ilartel. 

2.  Henry  Jonathan  .Abbett,  referred  to  below. 

3.  Georgianna,  born  May  14,  1849.  4.  Alina 
Moretta.  born  December  3.  1852;  married,  No- 
vember 6,  1878;  Cyrus  D.  Tatman.  5.  Emily 
Coles,  born  [anuarv  25,  1853;  died  .August  14, 
1857. 


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(HI)  Henry  Jonathan  Abbett,  son  of  Rob- 
ert Taylor  and  Drusilla  Coles  (Morris)  Fry, 
was  born  in  Fhilatlelphia,  Fennsylvania,  No- 
vember 28.  1845,  and  is  now  living  in  that  city. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  on  leaving  school  became  a  clerk  in 
the  wholesale  dry-goods  house  of  R.  Wood. 
Marsh  &  Haywood,  of  Philadelphia.  Later 
he  became  assistant  librarian  of  the  Mercantile 
Library  of  Philadelphia.  After  this  he  became 
bookkeeper  for  Ivins  &  Allen,  of  321  North 
Front  street,  with  whom  he  remained  for  three 
years,  leaving  them  to  enter  the  employ  of 
Samuel  S.  Thompson  &  Company,  wholesale 
grocers.  He  became  a  member  of  this  firm  in 
1869,  and  the  name  was  then  changed  to 
Thompson,  Fry  &  Company.  In  1890  Mr.  Fry 
bought  out  the  interest  of  Mr.  Thompson  and 
changed  the  firm  name  once  more  to  Henry  A. 
Fry  &  Company,  dealers  and  importers,  their 
specialty  being  tea  and  coffee  and  their  trade 
entirely  wholesale.  The  storehouse  and  mill  is 
at  Gloucester,  New  Jersey,  and  the  offices  are 
now  at  151  South  Front  street,  Philadelphia. 
Mr.  Fry  is  a  member  of  Williamson  Lodge. 
No.  369,  F.  and  A.  ^L,  Philadel]ihia  :  of  the 
Fhiladelphia  Chapter,  R.  A.  ]\L  ;  and  of  St. 
Albans  Commandery,  No.  47,  K.  T.,  of  Phila- 
delphia. In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  he 
is  a  life  member  of  the  L'nion  League  Club  of 
Philadelphia,  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Society 
of  Pennsylvania,  of  the  Historical  Society  of 
Pennsylvania,  of  the  New  Jersey  Society  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  Philadel- 
phia for  the  past  twenty  years.  Mr.  Fry  mar- 
ried (first),  February  I,  1876,  Rebecca  Joseph- 
ine, daughter  of  Charles  and  Esther  ( .Strick- 
ler )  Delany,  of  Philadelphia,  who  died  May  2S. 
1879.  He  married  (second)  in  St.  Mark's 
Church,  the  ceremony  being  performerl  by  Dr. 
(afterwards  Right  Rev. )  Isaac  Lea  Nicholson, 
Bishop  of  Milwaukee,  June  4.  1884,  Etalena, 
daughter  of  Dr.  William  Monroe  and  Hannah 
Dean  (Collom)  (Sore.  Child,  by  first  marriage  : 
Anna  Delany,  born  May  6,  1877,  educated  at 
Friends'  Central  School  in  Philadelphia,  and 
at  Bryn  Mawr  College,  where  she  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  B.  A.  in  1898. 


Anthony  Morris,  the  first  mem- 
MORRIS  ber  of  this  branch  of  the  family 
of  whom  we  have  definite  infor- 
mation, was  the  son  of  Anthony  Morris,  born 
about  1600,  at  Reading,  England,  and  of  Bar- 
badoes.  West  Indies.  He  was  lost  at  sea  or 
died  in  Barbadoes  in  1655-6.    In  the  baptismal 


register  of  Stepney,  London,  England,  where 
his  son  was  baptized,  he  is  styled  "mariner," 
and  he  spent  his  life  voyaging  between  Lon- 
don and  Barbadoes.  He  married,  about  1653, 
Elizabeth  Senior.  One  child,  Anthony,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(  II )  Anthony  (  2  |,  son  of  Antlmny  (  1  )  and 
Elizabeth  (Senior)  Morris,  was  born  in  Old 
Gravel  Lane,  Stepney,  London,  August  23, 
1654,  and  was  baptized  two  days  later  at  St. 
Dunstan's  Stepney.  He  died  in  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania.  October  24,  1721.  Emigrating 
to  America,  he  settled  first  in  New  Jersey,  but 
in  1683  removed  to  Philadelphia.  In  the  char- 
ter of  that  city,  dated  March  20,  1691,  he  is 
mentioned  as  alderman.  In  1692  he  was  ap- 
pointed judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas 
and  quarter  sessions  and  of  the  orphans"  court, 
of  which  in  the  following  year  he  became  presi- 
dent judge.  In  1694  he  was  made  a  judge  of 
the  supreme  court,  and  he  retained  his  several 
judicial  ofiices  until  1698.  He  was  one  of  the 
judges  that  in  1693  sat  in  the  noted  trial  of 
(jeorge  Heith,  John  Budd  and  others.  Of  his 
judicial  career.  William  Penn  wrote  to  the 
Lords  of  Trade  in  London:  "Morris  is  one 
of  the  most  sufficient  as  well  as  diligent  magis- 
trates there."  In  1695  to  1697  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  provincial  council,  and  served  for 
several  years  as  a  member  of  the  assembly.  In 
1704  he  served  as  mayor  of  the  city  of  Phila- 
delphia. He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
I'riends.  and  began  to  preach  in  1701,  and 
thereafter  devoted  nearly  all  his  time  to  minis- 
terial labor,  travelling  through  most  of  the 
North  American  provinces  and  visiting  Great 
Britain  in  17 1 5.  He  married  (first)  at  the 
Savoy  monthly  meeting,  in  the  Strand,  Lon- 
don, I  mo.  30,  1676,  Mary  Jones,  who  died  in 
Philadelphia,  3  mo.  6,  1688  He  married  (sec- 
ond )  in  the  Philadelphia  monthly  meeting,  8 
mo.  28,  1689,  Agnes,  widow  of  Cornelius  Bom, 
who  died  5  mo.  26,  1692.  He  married  (third) 
January  18,  1693-4,  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island, 
Mary,  widow  of  Thomas  Coddington,  and 
daughter  of  John  Howard,  of  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land, who  died  7  mo.  25,  1699.  He  married 
(fourth)  at  the  Philadelphia  monthly  meeting, 
S  mo.  30.  1700,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Luke 
and  Sarah  Watson,  who  died  February  2,  1767, 
in  her  ninety-fourth  year.  Children,  seven  by 
first  and  three  by  second  marriage,  others  by 
fourth  wife  :  i.  Susanna,  born  March  7,  1676-7  : 
"dyed  about  6  years  old."  2.  Mary,  born  Sep- 
tember 18,  1678;  died  aged  one  year.  3.  An- 
thony, born  April  24,  1680;  died  aged  one  year. 
4.  Anthony,  born  March  15,  1681-2;  died  Sep- 


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tembcr  23.  1763:  married  I'hoebe  Guest.  5. 
John,  born  .\pril  17,  1685:  died  June  12,  1690. 
6.  Samuel,  born  February  28.  1686-7:  died  No- 
vember 2,  1689.  7.  Jame.s,  born  July  8,  1688; 
died  December  31,  1747;  married,  i  mo.  8, 
1709,  .Margaret  Cook.  8.  William,  referred  to 
below.  9.  Elizabeth,  born  June  28,  1697 ;  mar- 
ried (first)  December  13,  1716,  Samuel  Lewis; 
(  second  )  William  Dury.  10.  Joseph,  born  May 
12,  1699  ;  died  July  26.  1699.  1 1.  Isaac,  born  De- 
cember 24,  1701  ;  died  October  24,  1755.  12. 
.Sarah,  born  January  16,  1703-4;  died  unmar- 
ried. October  24,  1775.  13.  Israel,  born  De- 
cember 25,  1705 ;  died  in  1729.  16.  Luke,  born 
August  25,  1707;  died  Xovember  17,  1793: 
married,  in  .April,  1749,  Mary  Richard.  15. 
Hannah,  born  July  4,  1717;  died  unmarried, 
August  25,  1741. 

(Ill)  William,  son  of  .Anthony  (2)  and 
Mary  (  Floward-Coddington  )  Morris,  was  born 
in  Pliiladelphia,  Pennsylvania.  5  mo.  23,  1695, 
and  died  there,  Xovember  6,  1776.  He  is  buried 
at  Trenton,  New  Jersey.  He  removed  to  Bar- 
badoes.  where  he  married  his  first  wife,  but 
returned  to  Philadelphia  in  1798  for  the  settle- 
ment of  hi*  father's  estate.  In  1729  he  return- 
ed to  Barbadoes  to  wind  up  his  affairs  there, 
and  the  following  year  settled  in  Trenton, 
where  he  soon  became  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Chesterfield  monthly  meeting,  and  it  was 
largely  through  his  efforts  that  the  Trenton 
monthly  meeting  was  established.  In  1739  he 
was  appointed  judge  of  Hunterdon  county, 
and  in  1750  Governor  Jonathan  Belcher  nomi- 
nated him  to  the  Lords  of  Trade  to  succeed 
John  Coxe  Esq.  in  the  provincial  council.  He 
married  (first),  4  mo.  14,  1718,  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Sarah  Dury,  of  Speights 
Town,  Barbadoes,  who  was  born  12  mo.  26, 
1694,  and  died  6  mo.  26,  1750.  He  married 
(second),  at  the  Philadelphia  monthly  meeting, 
II  mo.  6,  1752,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John  and 
Rebecca  Cadwalader,  who  died  October  9,  and 
was  buried  October  11,  1764,  in  the  F'riends' 
burying-ground  at  Trenton.  Children,  all  by 
first  wife:  i.  William,  born  8  mo.  18,  1719; 
married  Rebecca  Peters.  2.  Mary,  born  3  mo. 
30,  1721  :  died  4  mo.  5,  1721.  3.  Sarah,  born 
7  mo.  9,  1722:  died  in  1746;  married,  in  Octo- 
ber. 1745.  Joseph  Richardson.  4.  Mary,  born 
10  mo.  15.  1724:  died  in  .August.  1726.  5. 
.Anthony,  referred  to  below.  6.  Mercy,  born 
4  mo.  9,  1731  ;  died  February  15,  1775;  mar- 
ried Dr.  Horton.  7.  Joseph,  born  9  mo.  25, 
1733;  died  II  mo.  15,  1733.  8.  Israel,  born  2 
mo.  13,  1738;  died  4  mo.  3.  181 8;  married 
(first),  2  mo.  19,  1761,  Phoebe  Brown,   (sec- 


ond) Sarah  Bond.  9.  Josei)h.  b(jrn  5  mo.  19, 
died  6  mo.  14,  1739. 

(IV)  Anthony,  son  of  William  and  Sarah 
(Dury)  Alorris,  was  born  in  Barbadoes,  West 
Indies,  8  mo.  31,  1727.  and  died  3  mo.  10,  1804, 
at  Slabtown,  now  Jacksonville,  near  Copeiuiy 
meeting,  now  Old  Springfield,  liurlington  coun- 
ty, Xew  Jersey.  Removing  to  Little  Egg  Har- 
bor township,  he  remained  there  for  some 
years  after  his  marriage,  but  later  returned  to 
and  settled  in  Burlington  county.  Of  his  large 
family  of  fourteen  children  some  remained  in 
Xew  Jersey,  but  the  greater  part  of  them  emi- 
grated to  Western  Pennsylvania,  Ohio  and 
Iowa.  He  married,  at  Little  Egg  Harbor 
monthly  meetinghouse,  lO  mo.  1746,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Cranmer,  who  was  born 
9  mo.  20,  172 — ,  and  died  5  mo.  26,  1805.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Stephen,  referred  to  below.  2.  Mary, 
born  10  mo.  24,  1748:  died  9  mo.  4.  1819: 
married  Abraham  Rakestraw.  3.  Hannah,  born 
3  mo.  3,  1750;  died  young.  4.  Sarah,  born  3 
mo.  24,  1751.  5.  John,  born  February  5,  1753. 
6.  Hannah,  born  February  9.  1755:  married. 
July  25.  1774.  Sarah  Rockhill.  7.  Esther,  born 
Xovember  29.  1757;  died  unmarried.  1826.  8. 
.Alice,  born  July  4,  1758:  died  in  infancy.  9. 
George,  born  August  20,  1760.  10.  Alice. 
April  14,  1762.  II.  Anthony,  .April  15,  1764. 
12.  Joseph,  February  5,  1767;  died  March  17. 
1825;  married  Rachel  Zelley.  13.  Elizabeth, 
born  Xovember  23.  1770;  married  Levi  Pit- 
man. 14.  .Antliony,  born  .April  18,  1773:  <lied 
May  i<),  1826:  married,  in  May,  1797.  Hannah 
I'"rench. 

(  \' )  Stei)hen,  son  of  .Anthony  and  Sarah 
(Cranmer)  Morris,  was  born  2  mo.  20,  1747. 
and  died  at  Burlington,  Xew  Jersey,  October 
I,  1818.  He  lived  at  various  times  in  Burling- 
ton and  Evesham,  Xew  Jersey,  and  was  re- 
membered by  his  grandson,  John  Morris,  "as 
a  stately,  kindly  old  gentleman."  He  married, 
in  October  or  Xovember.  1770,  Bathsheba. 
daughter  of  David  and  Ruth  (Silver)  Jess, 
who  died  May  4,  1834.  at  Burlington.  (See 
Jess).  Children:  i.  Jesse,  died  young.  2. 
Ruth,  born  about  1774:  died  unmarried,  and 
buried  at  Burlington,  March  17.  185 1.  3. 
Sarah,  married  Thomas  Pancoast.  4.  David, 
married  Elizabeth  (Burden)  Knight.  5.  Mary, 
born  December  i.  1780:  died  June  16.  1845; 
married,  December  19.  181 1.  Samuel  Butcher. 
6.  John,  born  December  3,  1782;  married.  De- 
cember 24,  1812,  Prudence  Butcher.  7.  Ste- 
phen, referred  to  below. 

( Yl)  Stephen,  son  of  Stephen  ( i )  and  Bath- 
sheba   (Jess)    Morris,   was  born   August   30,. 


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178S,  and  died  December  25,  1831.  He  mar- 
ried, August  15,  1812,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Job  Coles,  who  was  born  October  19.  1783, 
and  died  May  3,  1841.  Children:  i.  John. 
born  May  8,  1814:  died  June  11,  i8i;3:  mar- 
ried. May  13,  1838,  Mary  Katz.  2.  Rebecca 
Wright,  born  November  16,  1816;  died  May 
28,  1894;  married,  February,  1859,  Charles 
Delany.  3.  Samuel  Coles,  born  August  21, 
1818;  died  July  20.  i860;  married  (first)  July 
16,  1839,  Eliza  Harris  Johnson:  (second). 
March  14,  1847,  Justina  Quick.  4.  Drusilla 
Coles,  referred  to  below.  5.  Stephen,  burn 
April  14,  1823;  died  F"ebruary  14,  18S9:  mar- 
ried, October  31,  1847.  Artemisia  Curtis,  f). 
Elizabeth  Pancoast,  born  July  29,  1S25:  died 
January  2~ ,  1889:  married  (first)  Ueccmbcr 
20,  1847,  Mary  Hutchinson  Hoy;  (second), 
November  i,  1875,  Elizabeth  Childs.  7.  Eliza- 
beth Coles,  born  August  20.  1829;  died  Sep- 
tember 21,  1829.  8.  Charles  Coles,  born  Au- 
gust 20,  1829;  died  September  16,  1829. 

(\'II)  Drusilla  Coles,  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Elizabeth  (Coles)  Alorris.  was  born  April 
13.  1820.  and  died  October  21.  1900.  She 
niarried,  October  10,  1842,  Robert  Taylor,  son 
of  George  and  Ann  (Ware)  Fry.  referred  to 
above. 

(The  Jess   Line). 

Zachariah  Jess,  the  founder  of  this  family  in 
New  Jersey,  was  probably  of  English  origin. 
The  first  authentic  record  of  him  is  April  11. 
170().  when  he  witnessed  the  will  of  John  Mills, 
of  Chesterfield  township,  Burlington  county, 
New  Jersey.  He  settled  permanently  in  Spring- 
field, Hanover  township,  in  the  same  county, 
and  as  a  minister  among  Friends  travelled 
throughout  Long  Island  and  New  England  in 
1713  and  1721  :  and  his  testimonial  recorded 
after  his  death  on  the  Chesterfield  monthly 
meeting  books  says  he  did  so  "to  good  satis- 
faction, and  was  respected  at  home ;  and  died 
in  unity  with  Friends  in  the  Sixth  month 
1724."  He  married,  January  11,  1713  or  1714, 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Restore  and  Hannali 
(Shattock)  Lippincott  (see  Lippincott).  She 
married  (second),  November  19,  1729,  Fran- 
cis Dawson,  of  Northampton  township,  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  by  whom  she  had 
no  issue.  Children  :  David,  referred  to  below  ; 
Zachariah.  married.  1750,  Hannah  Southwick  : 
Jonathan;  .Ann.  married,  November  2.  1743. 
Caleb  Shreve. 

(II)  David,  son  of  Zachariah  and  Rachel 
( Lippincott )  Jess,  was  born  in  Burlington  coun- 
ty, Ncw^  Jersey.     The  dates  of  his  birlh  and 


death  are  unknown.  According  to  a  not  un- 
common practice  of  his  day  he  probably  divid- 
ed his  estate  among  his  children  during  his 
lifetime.  He  married,  at  Mount  Holly  monthly 
meeting.  January  31,  1741-2,  Ruth,  daughter 
of  Archibald  Jr.  and  Mary  (Cowgill)  Silver. 
Children:  Rachel,  born  May  i,  1746,  died  De- 
cember 4,  1810.  married,  Alarch.  1765,  Henry 
Reeves  ;  Bathsheba,  referred  to  below  ;  David, 
married  Ann  Thackary ;  Zachariah,  married 
Rebecca  Fed  rick  ;  James,  married  Keziah  Leeds. 
(Ill)  Bathsheba,  daughter  of  David  and 
Ruth  (Silver)  Jess,  died  in  Burlington,  New 
Jersc}-,  May  4,  1834.  She  married,  in  Octo- 
ber or  November,  1770.  Stephen,  son  of  .An- 
thony and  .Sarah  (  Cranmer  )  Morris,  referred 
to  above. 


The  first  to  bear  the  name 
GR'JSN  EN(.)R  ( irosvenor  was  a  captain- 
general  of  William  the 
CoiKjueror.  known  as  Hughlufas.  He  was  the 
owner  of  a  castle  in  Normandy.  Castle  ( iros- 
\enor.  or  the  castle  of  the  great  hunter.  I  lugh- 
lufas.  on  becoming  the  owner  of  the  castle 
added  the  surname  to  his  own  name  and  there- 
after was  Hughlufas  Cirosvenor.  and  it  was 
adopted  by  his  posterity.  He  was  honored 
with  a  coat-of-arms.  and  the  motto  emblazoned 
on  the  shield  is  "Nobilitatus  vertus  non  stamma 
charactu."  His  direct  descendant,  who  was 
the  first  of  the  name  to  make  a  home  in  .Amer- 
ica, was  John  Grosvenor  (q.  v.  ). 

( I )  John  Grosvenor  came  from  England 
and  settled  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts  Bay 
colony,  as  early  as  1(^73.  He  was  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  "Masha  Maquet  Purchase," 
which  became  the  home  of  some  of  his  chil- 
dren, and  which  after  1703  was  known  as  Pom- 
fret,  in  the  colony  of  Connecticut.  John  Gros- 
venor was  a  tanner  by  trade  and  occupation 
and  served  the  town  of  Roxbury  as  constable. 
He  was  married,  about  1671.  to  Esther  Cook, 
and  their  children  were  born  in  Ro.xlniry,  Mass- 
achusetts, as  follows:  i.  William.  l)a|itized  in 
P'rench  church  at  Roxbury.  by  John. Eliot,  the 
minister  of  the  church  and  the  apostle  to  the 
Indians,  October  14,  1673:  graduated  at  Har- 
vard College  .A.  B.  1693,  A.  M.  1696.  2.  John, 
born  April  6.  1673;  killed  by  Indians  on  his 
farm  on  the  frontier,  July  22,  1709.  3.  Leices- 
ter, born  1676;  died  September  8,  1739.  4. 
.Susanna,  born  December  13,  1680.  3.  Eben- 
ezer  (c|.  v.).  6.  Thomas,  born  June  30,  1687. 
7.  Joseph,  born  September  i,  1689.  John,  the 
immigrant,    died    in    Roxbury.    .Se])tember    27, 


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1691,  and  his  widow,  Esther  (Cook)  Gros- 
venor,  died  in  Pomfret,  Connecticut  colony, 
June  15,  1738. 

(II)  Ebenezer,  fourth  son  and  sixth  child 
of  John  and  Esther  (Clark)  Grosvenor,  was 
born  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  October  9, 
1684.  lie  married  Ann  Marcy,  about  1707. 
and  removed  to  the  Masha  Maquet  i'urchase 
and  became  an  original  proprietor  of  the  town 
of  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  which  was  the  name 
given  to  the  purchase  in  1703.  The  children 
of  Ebenezer  and  Esther  (Clark)  Grosvenor 
were  all  born  in  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  as  fol- 
lows:  I.  Susanna,  October  31,  1708.  2.  John, 
May  22,  171 1.  3.  Ebenezer,  December  24, 
1713;  married  Lucy  Cheney;  children:  Eben- 
ezer, born  about  1740,  Yale  College,  A.  B. 
1759,  A.  M.  1762,  and  A.  ]\I.  (honorary) 
Harvard,  1763,  was  a  minister  of  the  gospel, 
and  died  in  1778 ;  Elizabeth  ;  Daniel,  born  about 
1750,  Yale  A.  B.  1769,  A.  M.  1772,  became  a 
minister  of  the  gospel  and  received  honorary 
degree  of  A.  M.  from  Dartmouth  College  in 
1792,  he  died  in  1834;  Lemuel;  Ezra;  Chole ; 
Nathan.  4.  Caleb,  May  15,  1716.  5.  Joshua 
(q.  v.).  6.  Moses.  7.  Ann,  .September  24, 
1724.     8.   I'enelope. 

(IIP)  Joshua,  fourth  son  and  fifth  child  of 
Ebenezer  and  .\nn  (Marcy)  Grosvenor,  was 
born  in  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  about  17 18.  He 
married  and  had  a  son  Josiah  (q.  v.). 

( IV)  Joshua,  eldest  son  of  Joshua,  was  born 
in  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  about  1745.  He  mar- 
ried, and  his  son  was  named  Robert  (q.  v.). 

(V)  Robert,  son  of  Joshua  Grosvenor,  of 
Pomfret,  Connecticut,  was  born  .August  20, 
1772,  and  died  October  20.  1849.  He  married 
.Abilene  Howe,  born  March  28,  1775  :  died  .\u- 
gust  10,  1796,  and  they  had  one  child,  Robert 
Howe  (q.  v.).  Dr.  Robert  (Grosvenor  studied 
medicine  with  Dr.  Warren  and  Dr.  Jonathan 
Hall,  of  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  and  he  was 
licensed  to  practice  in  1792,  when  only  twenty 
years  of  age.  He  settled  on  Killingly  Hill  and 
practiced  in  the  surrounding  country  for  fifty- 
five  con.secutive  years.  He  was  a  physician  of 
the  old  school  and  adhered  to  the  heroic  medi- 
cal practice  of  blood-letting  and  a  rigid  course 
of  calomel.  He  added  to  his  duties  as  medical 
practitioner  that  of  manufacturer,  and  was  also 
considered  a  shrewd  and  successful  financier. 
He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Howe 
Cotton  Factory.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
committee  in  building  the  meetinghouse  at 
Killingly,  of  which  he  was  a  member,  and  was 
prominent  in  public  affairs,  besides  being  the 
oracle  in  most  of  the  households  in  a  large  sec- 


tion of  the  country.  His  wife,  Abeline,  eldest 
child  of  Sampson  and  Huldah  (Davis)  Howe, 
was  born  March  25,  1775,  was  of  the  sixth  gen- 
eration from  William  Davis,  the  immigrant  of 
Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  1642,  through  Huldah 
(Davis)  Howe  (5),  David  Davis  (4),  Samuel 
(3),  John  (2),  to  William  (  i  ),  the  immigrant. 

(VI)  Robert  Howe,  only  child  of  Dr.  Rob- 
ert and  Abilene  (Howe)  Grosvenor,  was  born 
in  Killingly,  Connecticut,  April  26,  1796.  He 
married  Lucretia  Hartshorn. 

(\TI)  Samuel  Howe,  only  child  of  Rob- 
ert Howe  and  Lucretia  (Hartshorn)  Gros- 
venor, was  born  in  Pomfret,  Connecticut,  in 
1833.  He  married  (first)  Ursula  Walcott 
Noyes ;  children :  Sarah  Elizabeth,  Ellen 
Gurley  and  Hannah  Eli.  These  children  did 
not  marry.  His  wife,  Ursula  Walcott  (Noyes) 
Grosvenor  died,  and  May  20,  1862,  he  married 
(second)  Alaria  Strieker,  daughter  of  Archi- 
bald and  Hannah  (Wheat)  Mercer.  She  was 
born  January  2,  1827,  and  by  her  he  had :  4. 
William  Mercer  (q.  v.).  5.  Gertrude  fiercer, 
born  October  20,  1865.  6.  Maria  Ursula,  .Au- 
gust II,  1867.  .Archibald  Mercer,  the  grand- 
father of  these  children,  was  born  December 
I,  1788,  and  died  October  3,  1850.  Their 
grandmother,  Harriet  (Wheat)  IMercer,  died 
February  20,  1854.  Their  great-grandfather 
was  .Archibald  Mercer,  and  their  great-great- 
grandfather was  William  Mercer. 

(VIII )  William  Mercer,  eldest  son  andfourth 
child  of  Samuel  Howe,  and  first  child  of  his 
second  wife,  Maria  Strieker  (Mercer)  Gros- 
venor, was  born  in  New  London,  Connecticut, 
June  23,  1863.  He  was  prepared  for  college 
by  private  tutors  and  was  graduated  at  Will- 
iams College,  -A.  B.  1885.  and  at  Berkeley  Di- 
vinity School.  Ixliddletown.  Connecticut,  1888, 
and  received  his  degree  of  D.  D.  from  the  I'ni- 
versity  of  New  York  in  1905.  True  to  the 
traditions  of  the  family  that  the  professions 
of  medicine  and  theology  were  their  inherited 
right,  he  was  admitted  to  the  diaconate  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church  through  the  order 
conferred  on  him  by  Right  Rev.  John  Will- 
iams, bishop  of  Connecticut,  in  1888,  and  he 
was  advanced  to  the  priesthood  by  Right  Rev. 
Abram  Newkirk  Littlejohn,  bishop  of  Long 
Island,  in  1889.  His  first  official  charge  was 
that  of  assistant  minister  of  Grace  Church, 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  where  he  served  1888- 
90.  In  1890  he  was  called  to  Trinity  Church. 
Lenox,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  rector 
189095.  In  1895  the  wardens  and  vestrymen 
of  the  Church  of  the  Incarnation,  New  York 
City,  asked  him  to  serve  that  parish  as  rector, 


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and  he  assumed  the  office  with  all  its  res])on- 
sibilities  in  1895^  and  in  1909  he  was  still  at  his 
post,  and  with  his  vicars  and  other  assistants 
was  doing  a  great  work  in  caring  not  only  for 
his  large  congregation  on  Park  avenue,  but  as 
well  or  even  better,  caring  for  the  poorer 
classes  crowded  into  the  tenement  district  on 
the  east  side  above  Thirty-fourth  street,  where 
the  institutional  work  which  he  inaugurated 
and  directed  was  productive  of  great  good  in 
uplifting  and  encouraging  to  a  better  life  a 
worthy  class  in  need  of  just  such  ministration. 
He  was  made  president  of  the  standing  com- 
mittee of  the  Diocese  of  New  York  to  the  gen- 
eral convention:  trustee  of  Barnard  College 
for  \\'omen,  connected  with  Columbia  Uni- 
versity: trustee  of  the  Cathedral  of  St.  John 
the  Divine,  New  York  City;  trustee  of  the 
General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City  ; 
trustee  of  Trinity  School,  New  York  City ; 
and  trustee  of  the  Seaman's  Institute,  .\'ew 
York  City.  His  college  fraternity  affiliation 
is  with  the  Chi  Psi,  and  his  social  and  intel- 
lectual with  the  Century  Association  and  the 
University  Club  of  New  York.  Dr.  Grosvenor 
never  married.  He  is  the  author  of  occa- 
sional sermons  and  addresses.  So  far  he  has 
found  his  duty  to  be  that  of  pastor  and  priest, 
and  he  has  refused  advancement  to  the  office 
of  bislioj)  on  repeated  occasions. 


The  name  of  Durand  is  one  of 
DURAXD  very  ancient  origin,  records  ex- 
tant showing  its  existence  in 
ecclesiastical  history  about  iioo  A.  D.  in  both 
France  and  Italy,  the  name  Dante  being  a 
contraction  of  the  Italian  form  of  Durante. 
Jr  has  been  a  conspicuous  and  historical  family 
in  .\merica,  and  prominently  identified  from  a 
very  early  period,  members  of  it  having  con- 
tributed in  a  large  measure  to  the  industrial 
prosperity  wherever  the  name  is  dispersed  and 
whose  fine  abilities  were  directed  to  the  accom- 
plishment of  valuable  results,  being  ever  domi- 
nated and  guided  by  the  most  inflexible  integ- 
rity and  honesty  of  purpose. 

Jean  Durand,  progenitor  of  the  Durand  fam- 
ily of  Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  was  a  Hugue- 
not refugee  from  Toulose,  France,  antl  like 
many  of  the  God-fearing  Huguenots  who  in 
their  religious  fervor  and  independence  hated 
tyranny  and  oppression  of  the  church  and 
state  and  fled  from  France,  he  left  his  native 
land  to  escape  the  persecutions  there  entailed 
by  the  memorable  revocation  of  the  Edict  of 
Nantes.  The  family  tradition  says  that  this 
was  not  alone  the  cause  of  his  leaving  his  native 


country,  but  that  it  was  also  owing  to  the  loss 
of  a  sweetheart  who  basely  betrayed  him  by 
wedding  another.  His  name  in  France  was 
Jean  Durand  Durapce ;  the  latter  name  he  dis- 
carded when  he  immigrated  to  England,  where 
in  1684  he  was  naturalized.  For  wdiat  reason 
he  tlid  not  remain  in  England  is  not  known, 
but  he  shortly  immigrated  to  America,  coming 
first  to  Massachusetts  and  later  to  Derby,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  is  mentioned  in  the  records 
there  in  1685.  Like  all  of  his  descendants 
Jean  Durand  possessed  great  mechanical  abil- 
ity. Whether  in  France  or  England  he  studied 
or  practiced  medicine  is  not  known,  but  it  is 
safe  to  say  that  he  was  versed  in  the  science, 
for  he  soon  became  noted  in  the  Ojunecticut 
colony  for  his  medical  knowledge.  He  was 
known  as  the  "Little  French  Doctor,"  and  it  is 
said  that  when  not  engaged  in  this  vocation  he 
did  fine  mechanical  repairing  of  watches  and 
jewels,  and  it  is  recorded  his  son  Samuel  was 
taught  the  art.  His  sons,  John  and  Noah,  how- 
ever, became  noted  doctors  in  the  colony. 

Jean  Durand,  the  immigrant,  was  a  man  of 
great  force  and  character.  He  was  much  older 
than  his  wife,  whom  he  married  about  1685,  at 
Stratford,  and  came  to  Derby,  taking  up  his 
residence  near  Edward  Wooster.  in  Derby 
village,  where  he  was  made  a  freeman.  His 
wife  was  Elizabeth  Bryan,  born  1680  and  bap- 
tized in  1685,  daughter  of  Richard  Bryan  and 
granddaughter  of  Alexander  Bryan.  She  in- 
herited quite  an  estate  from  her  father  and 
grandfather.  Dr.  John  Durand  had  many  land 
records:  November  3,  1704,  Sylvester  Woors- 
ter  for  £12  sells  to  John  and  Elizabeth  Dur- 
and land  in  Derby  on  Grassy  Island,  one  and 
one-half  acres.  June  12,  1712,  Ebenezer  John- 
son, for  £40  paid  by  John  Durand  and  Eliza- 
beth, his  wife,  sold  twenty  acres  of  meadow- 
land  in  Derby.  September  29,  1704,  it  was 
voted  to  sue  Dr.  Durand  for  ye  town's  high- 
way, it  being  for  a  surrender  of  the  highway 
where  carts  can  pass.  Januarj-  i,  1704-05,  Dr. 
Durand  made  a  proffer  to  the  town  to  leave  it 
to  two  indifferent  men  to  settle,  &c.,  which  was 
finally  arbitrated  and  satisfactorilly  settled.  De- 
cember 15,  1707,  he  was  chosen  by  the  town 
to  be  collector  of  the  "minister's  rate."  It  was 
also  voted  that  Dr.  Durand  and  John  Davis 
and  their  wives  shall  sit  in  third  row  of  seats 
facing  the  pulpit.  Dr.  Durand  owned  the  home- 
stead of  Edward  Wooster,  the  first  settler  at 
Derby,  and  resided  in  it  just  opposite  where 
the  road  from  the  bridge  now  enters  the  river 
road  at  the  old  town  of  Derby.  Dr.  Durand 
claimed  damages  for  encroachment  on  his  land 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


after  the  bridge  was  built.  In  1718  his  estate 
was  £55.  In  the  records  he  was  recorded  as  a 
chirurgeon  or  surgeon.  The  children  of  Dr. 
John  and  Elizabeth  Durand :  i.  John,  born 
November  10.  1700:  died  March  8.  1773;  mar- 
ried, November  5.  1730,  Sarah  Lum  :  died  June 
2,  1747  ;  married  ( second  ) ,  June  2,  1748,  Sarah 
Chatfield,  who  bore  him  the  following  chil- 
dren: i.  Jeremiah,  born  August  8.  1749;  mar- 
ried, November  21,  1772,  Hannah  Trowbridge  ; 
ii.  Elizabeth.  February  17,  1751  ;  iii.  Nehemiah, 
December  7,  1753;  iv.  Jerirah,  November  5, 
1756:  V.  John,  February  2,  1758;  vi.  Susannah, 
November  13,  1760;  vii.  Joseph,  May  21,  1764. 
2.  Andrew,  born  December  16,  1702;  died  Oc- 
tober 28.  1791  ;  married  Jane  Andrews.  3. 
Elizabeth,  born  June  4,  1705:  died  young.  4. 
Noah,  born  August  27,  1707:  died  .\ugust  6, 
1792:  married  (first)  November  9,  1742,  Abi- 
gail Riggs  :  married  (second)  Damaris : 

children:  i.  Mercy,  born  December  21,  1738: 
died  young;  ii.  Mercy,  born  May  8,  1748.  5. 
Joseph,  born  December  10,  1709;  died  .August 
6,  1792;  married,  April  25,  1734,  Ann  Tom- 
linson  :  children :  i.  Samuel,  born  February 
28,  1735;  ii.  Joseph,  March  28,  1737;  iii.  Noah, 
born  May  12,  1740;  iv.  .'\nn,  born  December  3, 
1742;  V.  Isaac,  born  August  14.  1745:  vi.  Elea- 
zer,  born  October  5,  1754.  6.  Samuel,  born 
Julv  7,  1713;  mentioned  below.  7.  Abigail, 
born  June  2,  1716:  married  Abner  Johnson.  8. 
Elizabeth,  born  February  6,  1719;  married. 
.\ugust  9,  1738,  Joseph  Johnson.  9.  Ebenezer, 
born  December  7,  1724;  married,  December  17. 
1754,  Hannah  White,  and  had  l-lbenezer,  Ixirn 
February  24,  1755. 

(II)  Samuel,  son  of  Jean  Durand,  was  born 
July  7,  1713;  died  at  .Newark,  New  Jersey, 
January  27,  1787,  in  that  part  now  called  South 
Orange.  He  learned  the  art  of  watch  tinker, 
as  they  were  then  called,  and  followed  this 
through  life.  About  1740  he  removed  from 
Connecticut  to  New  York  City  with  his  fam- 
ily, where  a  farm  of  considerable  area  was 
then  situated  at  the  present  location  of  Sixth 
avenue  and  .\mity  and  .Sullivan  streets.  Here 
he  practiced  his  trade,  having  his  bench  in  the 
homestead.  During  the  season  he  cultivated 
the  farm,  raising  large  quantities  of  wheat  and 
grain.  .After  a  time  (in  1750)  he  removed  to 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  had  farm 
tracts:  about  1756  he  is  recorded  as  a  land- 
owner at  South  C)range,  which  was  about  the 
time  that  he  removed  his  family  there  and  set- 
tled on  what  is  now  JetTerson  avenue,  near  the 
railroad.  Here  he  built  the  old  stone  homestead, 
where  in  later  years  his  granddaughter,  Betsy 


(  Durand)  Beach,  lived  and  died;  Fred,  son  of 
Asher  B.  Durand,  afterwards  purchased  the 
property  of  the  heirs.  It  was  near  the  spot 
where  John  Durand's  homestead  was  destroyed 
by  fire.  Here,  in  what  was  then  called  Jeffer- 
son X'illage,  Samuel  Durand  followed  his  trade. 
Rev.  John  S.  Chapman,  husband  of  Jane  Dur- 
and, who  w-as  daughter  of  Cyrus  Durand,  anrl 
Samuel's  great-granddaughter,  in  his  history 
of  Clinton  township,  speaks  of  Samuel  as  "the 
skillful  and  modest  watch-maker  of  the  vil- 
lage." He  was  a  man  of  genial  manners,  a 
great  hunter  and  fond  of  his  apple-jack,  which 
he  used  moderately.  He  married,  in  1742. 
Mary,  daughter  of  John,  born  in  1690,  and 
Mary  (Tompkins)  Bruen.  Children:  i.  Eliza- 
beth, born  July  29,  1743.  2.  John,  July  16. 
1745;  mentioned  below.  3.  Hannah.  October 
4,  1748.  4.  Ezra,  February  11,  1749.  5- 
Bryant,  January  14,  1751  ;  died  September  21. 

1808;  married  Prudence .    6.  Elijah. 

(HI)  John,  son  of  Samuel  Durand,  was 
born  at  New  York  City,  October  16,  1745: 
died  at  South  Orange,  New  Jersey,  June  25. 
1813.  He  immigrated  with  his  parents  to  New 
Jersey,  living  first  at  Newark  and  later  .going 
to  Jefferson  \'illage,  now  Maplewood,  South 
Orange,  about  1756.  His  early  days  were 
spent  at  the  cooper's  trade,  but  he  was  an 
expert  mechanic  and  could  make  any  mechan- 
ical <levice.  In  those  days  people  heljied  them- 
selves as  well  as  their  neighbors,  and  an  inven- 
tive cajjacity  became  a  great  service  to  the 
community.  He  was  not  merely  an  adept  in 
mechanics  but  was  skilled  more  especially  in 
the  more  delicate  branches.  Besides  being  able 
to  make  and  mend  every  sort  of  farm  im])le- 
ment.  he  was  skilled  in  the  manufacture  of 
jewelry  and  silverware,  such  as  spoons,  car- 
rings,  etc..  and  an  excellent  repairer  of  watches, 
clocks,  etc.  In  addition  to  these  valuable  and 
useful  achievements  he  acted  as  moral  counsel- 
lor to  his  neighbors.  Temperate  in  oiiinion,  cool 
in  judgment,  and  inflexibly  honest,  they  could 
confidently  consult  him  in  all  their  difficulties. 
While  a  plain  country  farmer  and  a  skilled 
artisan,  he  was  not  indifferent  to  literature, 
judging  by  his  books,  for  he  was  a  subscriber 
to  "(lordon's  History  of  the  I'nited  States," 
and  he  also  possessed  the  large  folio  "Browns 
Bible,"  an  important  publication  of  the  period. 
His  shop,  which  was  on  the  farm,  handy  to 
the  traveled  road,  was  the  resort  of  prominent 
well-to-do  men  of  the  vicinity,  where  they  dis- 
cussed political  and  .social  questions,  serving  as 
an  intellectual  exchange,  suiting  the  simjile. 
primitive   habits  of   those   colonial   days.      .\t 


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1193 


the  breaking  out  of  the  rcvuhition  he  enlisted 
in  the  continental  army,  with  iiis  brothers. 
Elijah  and  Bryant,  but  the  authorities,  discov- 
ering his  skill  in  mechanics,  sent  him  back  to 
make  bayonets,  the  troops  being  badly  deficient 
in  arms.  The  family  possess  one  of  his  bayo- 
nets stained  with  blood  of  P.ritish  grenadiers. 
When  General  Washington  had  his  headcjuar- 
ters  at  Morristown,  he  expressed  his  great 
regret,  to  a  group  of  friends,  that  he  had 
broken  or  otherwise  injured  one  of  the  lenses 
of  his  fi'eld-glass.  As  it  could  not  be  repaired, 
he  believed,  without  sending  it  to  I'hiladelphia, 
he  would  be  deprived  of  its  use  for  many  days. 
( )ne  of  the  company  said  that  he  knew  of  an 
ingenious  artisan  at  the  foot  of  Short  Hills, 
which  was  not  an  hour's  ride  from  Morris- 
town,  who  he  thought  could  repair  it.  and  he 
ofl:"ered  to  go  and  see  for  the  general.  The 
general  gladly  accepted  the  proposal  and  the 
instrument  was  taken  to  John  Durand.  who 
was  the  most  ingenious  worker  on  fine  brass 
and  iron  work  thereabouts,  and  whose  skill 
hail  made  him  a  necessity  among  the  people 
of  the  mountain  in  repairing  watches,  clocks, 
lucks,  and  doing  other  work  recjuiring  delicate 
and  intelligent  skill.  The  field-glass  was  placed 
in  his  hands  with  the  inquiry  whether  he  could 
put  it  in  repair.  Upon  examining  it  he  replied 
That  he  thought  he  could.  "Huw  liing  will  you 
want  til  make  it  perfect"^"  "Not  long:  you  can 
liaxe  it  to-morrow."  Within  a  day  or  two 
thereafter.  Washington  rode  down  with  his 
friend  and  escort,  through  the  Short  Hills,  to 
the  artisan's  house.  He  found  that  the  valued 
instrument  had  been  ])ut  in  good  condition, 
"better,  as  he  declared,  than  it  ever  was  be- 
fore." After  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
('range  had  received  its  charter,  Rev.  Mr. 
Chapman  was  recjuested  to  prepare  a  device 
for  a  corporate  seal.  Upon  presenting  one 
satisfactory  to  the  trustees  they  voted  Mr. 
Durand  be  recjuested  to  execute  the  work.  His 
bill  for  the  same,  paid  January  23.  1787.  was 
sixteen  shillings.  The  same  seal  is  still  in  use. 
His  old  ancestral  homestead  was  a  hundred  feet 
more  or  less  south  of  the  residence  of  his  son. 
Asher  B.  Durand^  which  he.  the  elder  Durand. 
built  for  himself  and  where  he  spent  the  last 
years  of  his  life.  This  homestead  was  destroy- 
ed by  fire  about  1844. 

He  married.  November  9. 1770.  Wiflow  Rachel 
(Meyer)  Post,  born  June  13.  1758;  died  .April 
26.  1832.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Eydia  (  Cani]:)bell )  Meyer.  Children:  i.  Henry, 
born  November  2.  1780;  mentioned  below.  2. 
Pollv    (Marv).  born   October   28.    1782:   died 


November  28,  i860:  married  Rufus  l-'reeman, 
and  had  the  following  children:  i.  William: 
ii.  Rebecca,  married  Daniel  Crumb:  iii.  John 
Durand,  married  Julia  Tucker:  iv.  Mary  Ade- 
laide, married  Henry  McKean  :  v.  Henry,  mar- 
ried Caroline  Crowell :  vi.  Lucy,  married  (  first ) 

Cayle  ;  married  (second) Miller: 

vii.  Isaac,  married  Lucy  \\'eaver.  3.  Lydia. 
born  December  21,  1784:  died  June  24,  1869: 
married  David  Tichenor :  children:  i.  Alary, 
married  George  Osborne:  ii.  Jemima,  married 
Albert  Boise;  iii.  David;  iv.  Alfred.  4.  Cyrus, 
born  February  27,  1787;  died  September  18. 
1868:  he  was  a  famous  inventor  and  engraver: 
he  invented  the  machine  for  engine  turning 
which  is  now  used  in  the  engraving  of  bank 
notes  and  ornamental  engraving ;  married 
(first)  Jane  Brown  ;  married  (second)  August 
22,  1822,  Phebe  Wade,  born  November  15, 
1701  ;  died  December  26,  1891  :  children:  i. 
-Susan,  married  Wesley  Paradise :  ii.  Albert, 
died  June  13,  1849:  iii.  Jane,  born  .April  3, 
1823;  married  Rev.  John  S.  ChajMiian;  iv. 
Elias  Wade,  born  December  13,  1824;  died 
August  26,  iC)o8;  married,  December  16.  1846, 
Emma  Averill ;  v.  Berwick,  born  October  1 1 . 
1826;  died  March  26,  1827;  vi.  Juliet.  b(jrn 
December  19.  1827:  married  (first)  October 
\('\  1849.  ^Villiam  \\'.  Sherman;  married  (sec- 
ond)       Baker;  vii.   Cyrus   Bervic.  born 

July  2/.  1835:  died  August  14.  1904:  married. 
.\ugust  19.  1863,  Sarah  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Cornelius  and  Caroline  Donaldson  (  Tompkms  ) 
Mersereau ;  Cyrus  Bervic  was  rector  of  St. 
Peter's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Peekskill, 
in  1888,  and  later  and  until  his  death,  of  St. 
James  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  at  New- 
ark;  Cyrus  P..  and  Sarah  Elizabeth  had  two 
daughters  :  Phebe  Jane,  born  July  4,  1864,  and 
Juliet  Mersereau,  born  September  15,  1868: 
Juliet  M.  married,  November  16,  1887,  Frank 
Dempster  Sherman,  a  professor  at  Columbia 
College,  and  had  a  son,  Dempster  Durand.  born 
February  19.  1890.  5.  Elijah,  born  July  21, 
1789 ;  died  July  7,  1858  ;  married  F'olly  Reeves  ; 

children  :    i.  Isaac,  married Dohmn  ;  ii. 

Emily:  iii.  Jane,  married  Jabez  Ih'own :  iv. 
Charles :  v.  .Adeline,  married  Samuel  Question. 
C).  Isaac  Meyer,  born  February  19,  1792:  died 
July  II,  1811  ;  married  Nancy  Smith;  child, 
Frances,  married  James  Leonard.  7.  John, 
born  March  24,  1794:  died  October  8,  1821  : 
married  Mary  Foster  Ross.  8.  Asher  Brown, 
born  August  21.  1796:  died  September  17. 
1886;  he  was  the  famous  scenic  artist  of  New 
A'ork  City;  married  (first)  Lucy  Pjaldwin ; 
children:     i.    lohn,  born    1821  :  died   in   Paris. 


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October  17,  1908;  ii.  Caroline,  born  December 
15,  1826:  died  January  5,  1902;  iii.  Lucy,  born 
February  27,  1829  :  married  George  Woodman  ; 
married  (second)  Mary  Frank,  who  bore  him: 
iv.  Frederick  F. ;  v.  Eugene  H.,  born  1852: 
died  February  26,  1881.  9.  Jabez  Pierson,  born 
September  11,  1799;  died  June  30,  1877.  !"• 
Betsy  (Elizabeth),  born  December  10,  1802; 
died  March  20,  1882;  married  (first)  Joseph 
Manners;  (second)  Morris  Tillou ;  (third) 
Daniel  Beach. 

(IV)  Henry,  son  of  John  Durand,  was  born 
at  Jefferson  Village,  South  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey, now  Maplewood,  November  2,  1780;  died 
there  August  10,  1846.  He  was  reared  on  the 
homestead  of  his  father,  attending  school  in 
the  little  old  wooden  district  schoolhouse  until 
he  could  read  and  write,  which  was  at  about 
the  age  of  twelve.  As  a  boy,  after  completing 
his  schooling,  he  pegged  shoes  for  Henry  Lock- 
wood  two  years,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
went  to  New  York,  where  his  brother,  Asher 
B.  Durand,  was  an  engraver.  Here  Henry 
learned  the  art  of  watch-making  in  parts,  work- 
ing on  w'heels,  pinions,  and  various  parts  of 
the  movements,  also  in  making  silversmith's 
products.  He  remained  here  about  five  years, 
then  returned  to  the  parental  roof  and  follow- 
ed his  trade.  After  his  marriage,  in  1805,  he 
received  enough  land  from  his  father  to  erect 
a  homestead  of  his  own  with  the  assistance  of 
his  brothers  and  father.  In  the  rear  room  of 
his  house  he  erected  his  workshop  with  a  stone 
for  grinding  watch  crystals,  etc.,  and  where  he 
worked  and  devoted  his  entire  life  to  the  trade 
of  jeweler  and  watchmaker.  His  expert  work- 
manship brought  him  trade  from  miles  around, 
and  he  was  known  all  over  the  state  for  his 
skill.  In  1812  he  enlisted  in  the  war,  serving 
three  years  as  private  and  fifer,  and  was  sta- 
tioned on  Staten  Island.  His  military  ac- 
coutrements remained  in  the  family  for  many 
years.      His   homestead,    on    Ridgwood    road, 

Maplewood,  is  now  owned  by  Hatch. 

He  was  fond  of  hunting,  and  in  disposition 
was  very  jovial  and  full  of  mirth.  He  was 
noted  for  his  jollity,  a  great  wag,  and  was 
greatly  beloved  by  the  neighboring  children. 
He  played  the  violin.  He  was  an  ardent  Whig, 
and  a  Free  Mason  in  his  early  days  in  New 
York.  His  wife.  Electa  Durand,  after  her 
parents'  death,  when  she  was  a  very  .small 
child,  was  bound  out  to  the  father  of  "Trim"' 
Brown,  with  whose  family  she  lived  for  a 
time,  and  she  worked  in  the  mill  at  wool  pick- 
ing. She  became  a  very  capable  woman  and 
noted  for  her  good  cooking.     She  spun,  wove 


the  garments  for  her  family,  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Tiaptist  church. 

He  married,  July  18,  1805,  Electa  Baldwin, 
born  January  i,  1783;  died  October  18,  1863. 
Children:  I.  William  Baldwin,  born  April  14. 
1806,  died  September  6,  1822.  2.  Rachel  Meyer, 
born  February  14,  1808;  died  August  17,  1890; 
married  (first),  in  1828,  Henry  Lockwood.and 
had  two  children :  i.  Mary,  born  May  30. 
1829;  died  January  27,  1870:  married,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1855,  Elisha  M.  Smith,  and  had  two 
children  :  ]\Iyron  August,  born  September  28. 
1856,  died  October  13,  1886,  and  Lydia  May, 
born  May  27,  1862;  died  May  30,  1864;  ii. 
Henry,  born  1831 ;  married  (second)  Richard 
Terhune.  3.  Theodore  Ross,  born  June  26, 
1810;  died  ^larch  3,  1837:  married  Ellen  Car- 
roll ;  one  child,  Theodore,  born  October  i . 
1833 :  died  February  18,  1905 ;  married,  April 
27,  1857,  Emily  Finehow.  4.  James  Madison, 
mentioned  below.  5.  Cornelia,  born  February 
22,  1816;  died  November  28,  1907;  married. 
December  i,  1833.  ^Marquis  De  Lafayette  Ball : 
children :  i.  Phebe  Angeline,  born  December 
30,  1834;  died  November  16,  1836;  ii.  George 
Oscar,  born  October  22,  1836;  died  same  day: 
iii.  Electa  Annie,  born  November  i,  1837  ;  mar- 
ried, September  11,  1867,  Orrin  Ward,  and 
had  four  children  :  Frederick  Elizur,  born  Au- 
gust 20,  1868;  married,  September  3,  1894: 
Lillian  Magovern,  and  had  two  children,  Ray- 
mond Clarence,  born  May  23,  1898,  and  Ruth 
Electa,  born  September  13,  1900;  Nelson 
Orrin,  born  July  31,  1871 ;  Helen  Electa,  born 
.^pril  5,  1876:  Rulison  Ambrose,  born  Novem- 
ber 10.  1878;  died  February  3,  1882;  iv.  Fran- 
ces Angeline,  born  July  13,  1840:  married. 
May  20,  1863,  Alexander  Smith;  children: 
Harry  Winslow,  born  April  20,  1865 ;  married. 
September  20,  1884,  Annie  Taylor,  and  had 
tht'ee  children:  Mark  Winslow,  born  August 
2,  1885:  Angle  Durand.  born  May  13,  1888: 
Bessie  Louisa,  born  January  11.  1893;  the 
other  two  children  of  Frances  Angeline  and 
Alexander  Smith :  Cornelia  Angeline.  born 
November  12,  1871 :  died  September  3,  1898; 
and  Marcus  Beach,  born  June  29,  1877;  died 
February  20,  1884:  v.  Jane  Elizabeth,  born 
Sci)tember  2~.  1842 :  married,  November  7, 
i8fi6,  Charles  F.  Mackenzie,  and  had  four  chil- 
dren: Fanny  Ball,  born  July  26,  1867:  mar- 
ried. May  9,  1889,  Edward  Baldwin,  and  had 
a  .son.  Nelson,  born  December  31, 1890;  Charles 
Frederick,  born  January  17,  187 1  :  Jennie 
Pierce,  born  May  12,  1877:  married,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1896,  Charles  Jay  Becker,  and  had  two 
children,  Austin  Paul,  born  November  15, 1900, 


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antl  Frederick  Jay.  born  DL-ceniber  14,  1904; 
Alexander  Smith,  born  April  12,  1880;  mar- 
ried, August  2,  1902,  May  Tuttle,  and  had 
three  children :  Chester  Alexander,  born  June 

24,  1903  ;  Marcus  Ball,  born  August  19,  1905, 
and  Royal,  born  August  9,  1907 ;  vi.  Alary 
Amanda,  born  November  27,  1844;  married, 
August  II,  1870,  Joseph  A.  Smith;  six  chil- 
dren: Mary  Cornelia,  born  November  17, 
1870;  married,  October  3,  1890,  Frank  H.  Tay- 
lor, and  had  three  sons :  Howard  \\'.,  born 
July  3,  1891  ;  died  May  22,  1904:  Harry  Au- 
gustus, born  February  8,  1894;  Frances  Dur- 
and,  born  July  11,  1905;  the  other  children  of 
Mary  Amanda  and  Joseph  A.  Smith :  Olive 
Booth,  born  July  20,  1872;  died  May  I,  1874; 
Delmar  Bunnell,  born  July  2,  1875  ;  Olive  Eu- 
dora,  born  January  28,  1882;  married,  June 
19,  1905,  Frederick  \\'elker,  and  had  a  daugh- 
ter, Marion  Hildgrade,  born  .September  26, 
1906:  Gertrude  Elburtis,  born  April  25,  1885; 
Ezekiel  Beach,  born  May  11,  1888:  vii.  John 
Henrj-.  born  December  14,  1848:  married,  July 
26,  1868,  Annie  King,  and  had  two  children: 
Frank,  born  April  2,  1871 ;  married,  October 
18,  1899,  Hannah  Latham;  Nellie,  born  De- 
cember 31.  1873;  married,  November  26,  1891, 
Thomas  Amis,  and  had  three  children :  Lur- 
etta  Cornelia,  born  August  4.  1893  •  George 
Williams,  born  February  7,  1898,  and  Dorothy 
Ellen,  born  March  28,  1905  ;  married  (second  ) 
September  6,  1881,  Marie  Barrot,  and  had  chil- 
dren :  Mark,  born  July  26,  1882;  Conzuelo, 
born  December  12,  1884;  married,  October  31, 
1902,  Frank  Foulk,  and  had  a  daughter  Elea- 
nor, born  February,   1906;  Aimee,  born  May 

25,  1886;  married  (third),  November  26,  1900, 
Belle  Moore;  viii.  Howard  Winslow,  born  Ati- 
gust  21,  1854;  died  August  20,  1856.  6.  George, 
born  May  4,  1819;  died  September  2,  1822.  7. 
Lydia  Elizabeth,  born  July  30,  1823 ;  died  Sep- 
tember 21,  1863;  married,  1843,  John  Craw- 
ford; children:  i.  John  Durand,  born  184-1; 
died  1856;  ii.  Robert  Henry,  born  August  9, 
1846;  married,  November  6,  1865,  Jennie  Sipp  ; 
two  children :  William,  born  April  4,  1870, 
and  Lotta,  born  1873;  married  Thomas  Ricol- 
ton,  and  had  two  children,  Robert  and  Helen. 
8.  William  Baldwin,  born  September  2,  1828; 
died  September  i,  1889;  married,  November 
5.  1862,  Jennie  Thompson  ;  children  :  i.  Blanche, 
born  July  18,  1863:  died  October  26,  1864;  ii. 
Allen,  born  August  11,  1865;  married  (first), 
October  6,  1890,  Grace  Eichorn,  and  had  a 
daughter,  Dorothy  ;  married  ( second  ) ,  Decem- 
ber 21.  1901,  Sarah  Watson;  children:  fean 
and  Jeanett,  twins,  born  July  22,  1905  ;  iii.  Nel- 


son Crawford,  born  June  28,  1872;  married, 
October  21,  1901,  Elizabeth  Parmely  ;  children  : 
Louise,  born  January  3,  1903 ;  Margaret,  born 
July  5,  1904. 

(V  )  James  Madison,  son  of  Henry  Durand, 
was  born  at  South  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
in  the  Cherry  Hill  district,  as  then  known, 
March  20,  1813  ;  died  at  the  Westminster  Hotel, 
New  York  City,  August  9,  1895.  He  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  homestead,  and  was 
one  of  a  family  of  eleven  children,  gaining  an 
education  in  the  nearby  district  school.  He 
was  early  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  jeweler, 
v.'hich  he  served  until  he  became  of  age,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  worked  at  his  trade  as 
journeyman  for  Major  Baldwin,  a  i)rominent 
watchcase  maker  on  Walnut  street,  Newark, 
and  for  whom  he  named  his  son,  Wicklift"  Bald- 
win Durand.  In  1848  he  became  one  of  the 
pioneers  in  the  great  jewelry  manufacturing 
industry  of  Newark.  He  was  a  thorough, 
conscientious  workman  and  was  exacting  in 
his  work,  and  as  an  adept  in  every  branch  of 
the  art  of  manufacture  he  was  not  only  the 
proper  man  to  found  such  a  business  but  be- 
came the  very  one  who  was  to  succeed  in  the 
undertaking  from  the  start.  He  brought  his 
sons  up  in  the  same  channel  of  the  business 
and  they  acquired  consummate  skill  in  all  its 
branches.  His  eldest  son,  Henry,  who  died  in 
recent  years,  was  a  master  in  the  art  of  making 
jewelry,  and  the  others  had  their  particular 
place  in  the  great  enterprise.  To  the  founder 
of  the  Durand  house  is  due  an  honored  name. 
He  was  first  among  his  equals,  and  the  results 
of  his  sound  judgment,  energy  and  probity  of 
character  will  remain  a  monument  for  years 
to  come.  During  his  long  and  active  business 
life  Mr.  Durand  found  time  to  take  part  in  the 
business  afifairs  of  his  city,  and  about  1865 
served  three  terms  as  the  Republican  alderman 
of  the  old  ninth  ward.  He  numbered  among 
his  personal  friends  the  leading  business  and 
professional  men  of  Newark  and  held  their 
esteem  and  friendship  as  long  as  he  lived.  He 
was  at  one  time  president  of  the  Merchants' 
National  Bank  and  was  one  of  the  chief  fac- 
tors in  making  that  institution  what  it  is  to-day. 
He  made  during  his  business  career  thirty-five 
round  trips  to  Europe  to  purchase  diamonds 
and  study  new  styles  in  jewelry,  and  was  well 
known  in  London.  He  was  an  expert  angler 
and  fond  of  fishing  trips,  becoming  a  regular 
visitor  to  Greenwood  Lake. 

Mr.  Durand  married,  1833,  Sarah  Ann,  born 
Ajiril  29,  1815,  died  March  24.  1886,  daughter 
of  John  and  Sarah  Carroll;  children:  i.  Ange- 


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line,  born  1S33;  died  .Marcii  8,  1.S74:  married 
Frederick  Warner  ;  children  :  Caroline,  mar- 
ried (first  I  Harmon  ;  (  second  ) ; 

Thomas;  Joseph.  2.  Henry,  born  1834;  died 
December  8,  1880;  married  Charlotte  llragaw. 
died  July  27,  1895;  children:  i.  Charlotte, 
married  John  Fletcher;  children:  Durand, 
Lucien,  Constance;  ii.  James  Madison.  3. 
Celia,  born  1836;  married  (first)  James  Hunt- 
ing; (.second)  John  J.  Clark.  4.  \\'icklifif  Bald- 
win, mentioned  below.  5.  James,  horn  Sep- 
tember 28.  1S43  ;  died  aged  one  year  six  months 
seven  days.  6.  Wallace,  mentioned  below.  7. 
Frank,  born  December  29,  1847  '<  died  Janu- 
ary 13,  1885.  8.  Sally,  born  /Vpril  25,  1858; 
married  ex-Governor  Henry  C.  Warmoth.  of 
Lawrence,  Louisiana;  four  children:  Frank 
Sheriilan,  born  October,  1878;  Henry,  died 
young:  Reinette ;  Lester,  born  1885;  Carroll 
Kenneth,  born   1889. 

( \T )  Wickliff  Baldwin,  second  son  of  James 
Madi.son  Durand,  was  born  in  Broad  street, 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  Se])tember  28,  1841  ; 
died  at  Millburn,  New  Jersey.  December  13, 
1906.  He  was  reared  in  his  father's  home. 
Broad  street,  near  Kinney,  and  attended  the 
boarding  school  conducted  by  Mr.  Francis  at 
liloomfield  during  his  youth.  He  was  greatly 
devoted  to  his  home,  and  finally  through  home- 
sickness returned  to  Newark  to  the  parental 
roof  and  attended  the  old  celebrated  Newark 
Academy,  then  conducted  by  Nathan  Hedges. 
When  about  eighteen  years  of  age  he  entered 
bis  father's  employ  as  clerk  and  salesman  in 
the  New  York  office,  then  at  No.  9  Maiden 
Lane.  Mr.  Durand,  while  jjossessing  the  taste 
of  the  family,  early  developed  remarkable  busi- 
ness cajiacity  and  introduced  a  novelty  of 
method  into  the  business  which  had  ])reviously 
been  lacking.  It  was  said  of  him  that  he  was 
the  first  manufacturing  jeweler  to  have  visited 
the  retailers  with  goods  for  sale.  Previous  to 
that  retailers  called  upon  the  manufacturers  or 
the  business  was  done  through  jobbers.  He 
learned  the  business  from  beginning  to  end 
and  became  a  practical  manufacturer  as  well 
as  a  practical  salesman.  He  became  an  ex])crt 
tlirough  his  knowledge  of  diamonds  and  one 
of  the  best  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  well 
known  in  the  trade.  .\t  the  time  of  the  senior 
Durand's  retirement  from  the  business,  about 
1882.  hi.s  sons  took  the  affairs  to  conduct.  The 
firm  had  always  made  a  specialty  of  fine  and 
artistic  jewelry,  and  many  of  the  finest  speci- 
mens of  American  handiwork  were  exhibited 
in  the  cases  of  leading  jewelers  of  New  ^'ork 
and  other  large  cities,  and  the  firm   sniiplied 


the  leading  jewelry  house  of  Tiffany  &  Com- 
]iany.  For  a  number  of  years  the  late  Charles 
L.  TifTany,  the  head  of  that  house,  was  con- 
nected in  the  Durand  firm,  also  the  late  Joseph 
G.  Ward,  whose  son  also  became  active  in  the 
present  company.  The  firm  of  Durand  & 
Company  was  established  over  sixty  years  ago 
and  embraced  the  senior  member,  who  was  also 
foimder  of  the  business,  with  his  sons,  Henry, 
Wickliff  B.,  Wallace  and  Frank  Durand.  The 
Du rands  were  an  artistic  family,  and  several 
members  besides  these  were  connected  with 
the  jewelry  business  and  were  noted  artists, 
the  most  famous  being  Asher  B.  Durand,  the 
celebrated  .scenic  artist,  many  of  his  noteworthy 
and  renowned  work  being  .American  mountain 
views  and  numerous  other  subjects.  He  died 
Sei^tember  17,  1886.  at  the  venerable  age  of 
ninetv  years.  Wallace  Durand,  brother  of 
Wickliff  P>..  is  now  the  president  of  the  com- 
pany. Mr.  Durand  showed  great  energy  in  all 
the  business  relating  to  the  manufacture  and 
sale  of  jewelry,  and  during  his  period  of  activ- 
ity its  prosperity  was  remarkable.  He  resided 
for  many  years  on  Broad  street,  Newark,  and 
was  a  noted  host,  entertaining  with  unstinted 
hospitality.  He  was  fond  of  horses  and  main- 
tained the  most  expensive  equipment  in  New- 
ark. He  was  an  expert  whip  and  drove  a  tan- 
dem and  four-in-hand  frequently,  displaying 
great  skill.  After  his  retirement  from  busi- 
ness, about  1891,  he  passed  his  remaining  years 
on  his  estate  at  Millburn  or  old  Short  Hills, 
New  Jersey.  He  was  a  ready  wit,  fond  of 
social  life,  and  possessed  a  most  kindly  and 
amiable  disposition.  F'or  years  he  was  an  at- 
tendant of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church  at  New- 
ark. He  was  a  staunch  Rejjublican  and  served 
his  city  on  its  board  of  aldermen.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Essex  Club. 

Mr.  Durand  married,  at  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey, February  15,  1865,  Jane  .Vugusta,  born 
September  29,  1842.  daughter  of  .Mva  Burr 
and  Prudence  (Cheney)  Taylor,  of  New  York 
City.  Alva  B.  Taylor  was  a  manufacturer  of 
])rinting  presses  in  New  York  City.    Children  ; 

1.  Harry,  born  December  24,  1865,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Jane,  born  December  20,  1867;  un- 
married. 3.  Grace,  born  Sci>tember  8.  i86(); 
married.  June  26,  :8(/i.  Henry  Billings,  Dor- 
rance.  of  Providence,  Rhode  Lsland ;  children : 
i  Lockwood,  born  October  18,  1905;  ii.  Nancy, 
born  August  20,  1908.  4.  Beatrice,  born  July 
24,  1874,  died  September  2.  1874.  5.  Marie 
Louise,  born  March  15,  1876:  married.  ^Lirch 

2,  1906,  Carlos  Manuel  Eche  Verria. 

(\in    Harrv,  eldest  son  of  Wickliff  Bald- 


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win  and  Jane  Augusta  (  Ta_\-lor  )  Durand.  was 
born  in  Newark,  New  jersey,  December  24, 
1865.  He  was  graduated  at  the  Newark  Acad- 
emy in  1882,  and  began  his  business  hfe  with 
Durand  &  Company,  as  clerk,  and  he  learned 
the  business  thoroughly  under  the  tuition  of 
his  father.  In  1892,  when  the  business  was  in- 
corporated as  Durand  &  Company,  he  became 
secretary  of  this  corporation,  and  in  1903  was 
appointed  secretary  and  treasurer,  which  'posi- 
tions he  held  in  1910.  His  other  business  affili- 
ations are  with  the  Wilkinson  Gaddis  Com- 
pany as  director ;  Merchants"  National  Bank 
as  director;  Irvington  National  Bank  as  di- 
rector; Irvington  Building  &  Loan  Association 
as  president;  Manufacturing  Jewelers'  Asso- 
ciation of  Newark  as  secretary.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Essex  Club  and  of  the  Essex  Coun- 
try Club.  His  religious  affiliation  is  with  Trin- 
ity Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  diocese 
of  Newark.  He  married,  November  4.  iSgi. 
Blanche  Earl,  daughter  of  Elias  .-\ckerson  and 
Alice  Blanche  (  Earl )  Wilkinson.  Children, 
born  in  Newark:  i.  Prudence  Earl,  November 
8,  1892.  2.  Harry  Jr.,  January  30,  1898.  3. 
Elias  Robert,  June  14,  1902. 

(  \  I  )  Wallace  Durand.  son  of  James  Madi- 
son Durand  (f|.  v.),  was  born  at  Newark,  .New 
Jersey,  March  4,  1846.  He  early  attended  a 
private  school  at  Newark,  subsequently  taking 
a  course  in  Frames  Boarding  School  at  Bloom- 
field,  New  Jersey,  which  was  supplemented  by 
a  course  in  the  Newark  .\cademy  and  Blairs- 
town  Presbyterian  Academy.  He  studied 
abroad  and  completed  his  studies  at  Geneva. 
Switzerland.  After  returning  to  his  native 
city,  he  entered  as  an  apprentice  with  Durand, 
Carter  &  Company,  manufacturing  jewelers, 
at  Newark,  and  after  completing  his  apjiren- 
ticeship  worked  as  a  journeyman  up  to  1869, 
when  the  firm  of  Durand  &  Com]jan}-  was 
formed,  comprising  James  M.  Durand.  his  sons, 
Wickliff  B.  and  Wallace  Durand,  and  Joseph 
G.  W'ard,  Wallace  Durand  having  charge  of 
the  manufacturing  end  of  the  business.  In 
1892  the  firm  of  Durand  &  Company  was  in- 
corporated under  New  Jersey  laws ;  Wallace 
Durand  was  elected  president,  Joseph  G.  Ward, 
vice-president,  and  Harry  Durand,  secretary 
and  treasurer ;  Mr.  Ward  subsec|uently  died 
and  his  son,  Harry  C.  Ward,  was  elected  to  fill 
that  office.  The  house  of  Durand  &  Company 
manufacture  every  variety  of  solid  gold  jewelry 
and  precious  jewel  work,  their  product  being 
the  very  highest  class  on  the  market.  Mr. 
Durand  personally  superintends  to  the  manu- 
facturing end  of  the  business  and  represents 


the  company's  interests  in  New  ^'ork  City. 
1  he  house  has  an  extensive  patronage  through- 
out the  United  States  and  Canada  and  are 
represented  in  Paris  and  London.  Mr.  Dur- 
and is  a  veteran  of  the  civil  war,  having  served 
in  Company  F,  Second  New  Jersey  Volunteers, 
in.  Pennsylvania  emergency  service.  He  was 
in  reserve  within  twenty  miles  of  Gettysburg 
during  that  memorable  action,  having"  been  en- 
camped at  Charlottsburg,  Shippensburg  and 
Harrisburg.  as  a  reserve  in  case  of  a  Rebel 
invasion  into  Pennsylvania.  In  his  political 
views  Mr.  Durand  is  a  strict  Republican  in 
every  sense,  though  he  has  never  accepted  office 
in  the  gift  of  the  peojjle.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  fraternity,  affiliating  with  Kane 
Lodge,  No.  55,  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons, 
joining  November  4.  i8b8.  He  was  exalted  in 
Harmony  Chajiter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  No- 
vember 26,  1875  ;  was  knighted  in  Damascus 
Commandery.  No.  5,  Knights  Templar,  March 
30,  i87();  was  a  member  of  Mecca  Temple, 
Ancient  .\rabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine,  at  New  York,  and  when  Salaam 
Temjile  was  organized  he  became  one  of  its 
charter  members.  He  is  a  member  of  Essex 
Lcjunty  Country  Club  and  the  New  Jersey 
.Autiimobile  and  Motor  Club.  Mr.  Durand  and 
members  of  his  family  are  communicants  of 
Trinity  Episcopal  Church  at  Newark,  where 
he  has  served  as  vestryman. 

Mr.  Durand  married  in  Trinit\'  Church. 
Newark,  New  Jersey,  November  i().  1869. 
Anna  M.,  born  July  3,  1848,  daughter  of  James 
Harvey  and  Harriet  (  Halsey )  Halsey.  James 
H.  Halsey  was  a  manufacturer  of  leather,  and 
served  his  city  in  the  office  of  alderman.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Halsey.  born  September  7,  1870; 
mentioned  below.  2.  Helen,  born  October  3, 
1876.  3.  Sara  Carroll,  born  April  2/.  1879; 
married,  October  7.  1902.  Dr.  Edward  Blair 
Sut|)hen,  son  of  Dr.  Theron  Yoeman  and 
Sarah  Locke  (  \  ail )  Sutphen.  Child,  Wallace 
Durand  Sutphen,  born  August  13,  1903. 

(VII)  Halsey.  son  of  Wallace  Durand,  was 
born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Sej)tember  7, 
1870.  His  elementary  educational  training 
began  in  Miss  Craven's  private  school  and  this 
was  supplemented  by  a  course  in  the  Newark 
Academy  under  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Farrand  up  to 
18S7,  when  he  graduated,  and  shortly  after- 
ward entered  Princeton  College,  taking  special 
courses  in  chemistry.  He  received  the  degree 
of  B.  S.  in  class  of  1891.  He  subsequently 
established  a  laboratory  in  the  Durand  &  Com- 
pany's factory,  performing  much  of  the  chem- 
ical  work  of   the   jewelry  business,   assaying. 


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analysis,  electrical  metalogy  and  photography. 
He  also  was  engaged  in  much  outside  work  in 
chemistry,  &c.  In  1893  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  New  York  City  Health  Department, 
where  he  was  appointed  assistant  chemist  and 
inspector,  remaining  in  that  office  nine  years, 
since  which  time  he  has  held  office  of  first 
assistant  chemist  under  Chief  Chemist  J.  P. 
Atkinson.  Mr.  Durand  is  a  member  of  Trinity 
Episcopal  Church  at  Newark,  and  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Prince- 
ton Club  of  New  York  City,  University  Cottage 
Club  of  Princeton,  Baltusrol  Golf  Club  of 
Short  Hills,  New  Jersey,  Salamagundi  Club, 
a  social  club  of  New  York  artists,  and  was 
formerly  a  member  of  Society  of  Chemical 
Industry  of  London. 

Lewis  .Mitchell,  the  first 
MITCHELL  member  of  this  family  of 
whom  we  have  definite  in- 
formation, was  born  about  1793,  and  being 
left  an  orphan  at  an  early  age  was  adopted  by 
a  family  in  East  Orange.  He  was  probably 
a  descendant  of  Jacob  Mitchell,  of  Elizabeth- 
town,  who  died  intestate  in  1730.  leaving,  it  is 
believed,  a  son  Daniel  and  a  daughter  Mary. 
It  is  also  supposed  that  Jacob's  father  was 
James,  son  of  Matthew  Mitchell,  who  in  1635 
emigrated  to  America  from  England  and  the 
following  year  removed  from  Charlestown, 
Massachusetts,  to  .Saybrook,  and  after  remov- 
ing first  to  W'ethersfield  and  then  to  Stamford. 
finally  joined  the  New  Haven  colony,  and  died 
in  1645.  Through  his  marriage  Lewis  Mitchell 
came  into  jjossession  of  a  part  of  the  old  Peck 
farm  and  homestead  property  in  East  Orange, 
situated  on  Main  street,  and  here  in  1738  he 
built  a  house  near  the  old  Peck  homestead, 
lie  was  a  thrifty  prosperous  farmer  and  a  man 
of  influence  in  the  community.  He  married 
Mary  .\nn,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary 
(Hedden)  Peck  (see  Peck).  Children:  i. 
Aaron  Peck,  referred  to  below.  2.  George 
Lewis,  born  August  9,  1831,  died  March  29. 
1891  ;  married  Joanna  Wyckofif,  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Jane  (Wyckoff)  Collins.  3.  Mary 
T.,  married  Joseph  1.  IsJrby,  of  Brooklyn. 

(II)  Aaron  Peck,  son  of  Lewis  and  Mary 
Ann  (Peck)  Mitchell,  was  born  on  Main  street. 
East  Orange,  near  the  present  Greenwood  ave- 
nue. July  3,  1820.  on  the  farm  purchased  by  his 
mother,  and  when  (|uite  young  moved  with  his 
parents  to  their  new  home  on  Main  street,  near 
the  present  Maple  avenue.  After  preparing 
for  college  at  the  school  of  Mr.  Williams, 
which  in  its  day  was  celebrated  as  one  of  the 


best  in  the  country,  and  where  he  had  for  a 
classmate  Dr.  William  Pierson.  he  entered 
Madison  University  with  the  intention  of  tak- 
ing a  course  in  medicine,  but  his  health  giving 
way  he  was  obliged  to  leave  during  the  sopho- 
more year.  Returning  to  East  Orange  he 
started  a  dairy  farm,  which  he  carried  on  suc- 
cessfully for  a  number  of  years,  and  having 
acquired  from  his  parents  a  large  tract  of  land, 
he  was  one  of  the  first  to  take  advantage  of 
the  upward  movement  in  real  estate  which 
began  as  the  result  of  increased  railroad  accom- 
modation that  made  Orange  a  convenient 
suburb  to  New  York.  He  was  a  man  of  broad 
ideas  and  large  hearted  liberality,  favored 
every  public  improvement,  and  was  actively 
connected  with  all  the  great  enterprises  which 
had  for  their  object  the  development  of  East 
Orange.  He  was  one  of  the  chief  promoters 
of  the  system  of  macadamized  roads,  some  of 
which  passed  through  his  own  property  and  all 
of  which  he  improved  and  beautified.  He 
encouraged  the  planting  of  shade  trees,  and 
was  earnest  in  every  endeavor  to  make  the 
locality  an  attractive  one  for  suburban  homes. 
Among  the  streets  and  avenues  which  he  and 
his  brother  were  instrumental  in  opening,  were 
Pula.ski,  Steuben  and  William  streets,  and  Cen- 
tral, North  and  .South  Maple,  Arlington,  Green- 
wood and  Ninth  avenues,  most  of  which  pass- 
ed through  his  own  or  his  brother's  property. 
He  opened  Grove  street,  south  of  Main,  and  on 
it  he  erected  the  beautiful  homestead,  where  he 
lived  for  many  years.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  and  chief  promoters  of  the  First 
Congregational  Church  of  East  Orange,  and 
before  his  death,  December  28,  1893  he  was 
])ermitte(l  to  witness  the  fruition  of  his  hopes 
and  the  cotupletion  of  his  labors  in  one  of  the 
most  ])rosperous  religious  organizations  and 
one  of  the  finest  church  edifices  in  all  the 
Oranges.  During  the  early  struggles  of  the 
congregation,  when  the  expenses  often  exceed- 
ed the  income  from  all  sources,  he  and  his 
brother  and  a  few  others  made  up  the  annual 
deficits ;  and  he  was  not  only  one  of  the  largest 
contributors  to  the  building  fund,  but  as  a 
member  of  the  building  committee,  he  can- 
vassed other  churches  and  individuals  for  miles 
around,  soliciting  subscriptions,  and  his  win- 
ning, persuasive,  and  yet  persistent  manner, 
opened  their  hearts,  as  well  as  the  pockets  of 
all  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  He 
was  an  ardent  Republican,  but  he  had  a  rooted 
dislike  to  "politics."  and  although  frequently 
solicited  to  do  so,  he  could  never  be  induced 
to  accept  an  appointive  office.     At  one  time 


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he  was  a  member  of  the  township  committee. 
and  as  such  rendered  most  efficient  service, 
and  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  East 
Orange  Republican  Chib.  He  was  president 
of  tlie  Summit  Gas  Company,  a  director  in  the 
Merchants'  Insurance  Comjiany  of  Newark. 
and  a  prominent  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
branch  of  the  Society  of  Sons  of  the  American 
Revohition.  It  has  been  well  said  of  him: 
"He  w'as  a  man  among  men,  of  a  retiring  dis- 
position, rather  reserved,  never  seeking  a  con- 
troversy or  intruding  his  views  on  others,  but 
firm  in  his  convictions  of  right.  He  never 
turned  a  deaf  ear  to  an  appeal  for  help  from 
the  truly  deserving,  but  exercised  wisdom  and 
tact  in  the  distribution  of  his  charities.  He 
was  broad  in  his  religious  views,  and  tiie 
foundation  of  h.is  faith  was  what  has  been  term- 
ed the  "Fatherhood  of  God  and  the  Brother- 
hood of  Man,'  and  he  exemplified  the  teachings 
of  the  Master  in  his  daily  walk  and  conversa- 
tion." 

He  married  Anna  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
^latthias  Munn  and  Harriet  (Rowe)  Dodd 
(see  Dodd).  Children:  \\''inthrop  Dodd,  re- 
ferred to  below :  Matthias  Alunn  Dodd.  of  26 
South  Maple  avenue.  East  Orange,  married 
Mary  E.  Dukes,  and  has  two  children,  Aaron 
Peck  and  Janet ;  Anna ;  Arthur  Herbert,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

flH)  Winthrop  Dodd,  eldest  son  of  Aaron 
Peck  and  Anna  Elizabeth  (Dodd)  Mitchell, 
was  born  on  South  Grove  street.  East  C)range, 
May  ~,  1862,  and  is  now  living  in  East  Orange. 
After  attending  the  Orange  public  schools  he 
went  to  Phillips  Andover  Academy.  Massa- 
chusetts, and  in  1884  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  with  Professor  Frederick  S.  Dennis, 
and  graduating  from  P.ellevue  Hospital  ^ledi- 
cal  College,  he  served  two  years  as  interne  in 
St.  \'incent"s  Hospital,  New  York.  He  then 
spent  eighteen  months  studying  at  Vienna, 
Munich,  London  and  Dublin,  and  on  his  return 
to  this  country  served  for  about  a  year  and  a 
half  more  as  assistant  to  Professor  Dennis. 
In  1892  he  began  practicing  in  Newark,  and 
in  1895  he  removed  permanently  to  his  father's 
old  home  on  Grove  street,  where  he  nov^-  has  a 
successful  practice,  especially  in  surgical  cases. 
He  is  visiting  surgeon  for  St.  Michael's  Hos- 
pital, and  a  member  of  the  Esse.x  County  Medi- 
cal Society,  American  Medical  Association, 
and  Hospital  Graduates'  Club  of  New  York. 

He  married,  in  1889,  Harriet,  daughter  of 
Charles  H.  Morgan,  of  Worcester,  Massachu- 
setts, a  well-known  mechanical  engineer,  and 
a  descendant  of  Miles  Morgan.    Child  of  Win- 


throp Dodd  and  Harriet   (Morgan)    Mitchell: 
Beatrice,  born  June  6,  1891. 

(Ill)  Arthur  Herbert,  youngest  son  of 
Aaron  Peck  and  Anna  Elizabeth  ( Dodd ) 
Mitchell,  was  born  in  East  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey, August  II,  1877.  He  prepared  for  college 
at  the  Newark  Academy,  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1896,  and  then  taking  the  scientific 
course  in  Princeton  University,  he  received  his 
B.  S.  degree  in  1900.  Shortly  after  graduat- 
ing from  college  he  began  reading  law  with 
Hon.  Philemon  Woodrufif,  and  taking  a  course 
in  the  New  York  Law  School  was  admitted  to 
tlie  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  June,  1903. 
and  as  counsellor  in  February,  1907.  He  then 
entered  upon  the  general  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Newark,  where  he  has  offices  at 
7O3  Broad  street,  and  where  he  is  building  up 
for  himself  a  successful  and  lucrative  practice. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  in  1905  and 
1906  he  was  one  of  the  councilmen  of  East 
Orange.  He  is  a  member  of  Hope  Lodge,  No. 
124,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  the  Lawyers'  Club,  the 
Essex  Club,  and  the  New  Jersey  Automobile 
Club.  He  is  counsel  for  the  East  Orange 
Bank,  and  a  member  of  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  East  Orange,  with  which  his 
father  was  so  closely  identified.  September  17, 
1907,  Mr.  Mitchell  married  Bertha  K.,  daugh- 
ter of  George  A.  and  Katherine  ( Spangeer ) 
Wood,  of  Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania,  where 
slie  was  born  April  9,  1882.  Children  of 
Arthur  Herbert  and  Bertha  K.  (Wood) 
Mitchell:  Katherine,  born  June  2"],  1908: 
Elizabeth.  November  27,  1909. 

(The   Peck   Line). 

(  V)  John,  son  of  Deacon  Joseph  (q.  v.)  and 
Jemima  (Lindsley)  Peck,  was  born  in  Peck- 
town,  in  1732,  and  died  December  28,  181 1. 
He  lived  on  what  is  now  the  corner  of  Main 
street  and  Maple  avenue,  East  Orange.  He 
was  one  of  the  committee  of  observation  for 
the  township  of  Newark  in  1774.  and  was  an 
ardent  patriot,  though  not  a  soldier.  After  the 
close  of  the  revolution  he  became  a  judge  of 
the  court  of  common  pleas,  and  in  1784  he  was 
an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Orange.  He  married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Lampson)  Dodd; 
(second)  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  iNIar- 
tha  (Tompkins)  Harrison.  Children,  two  by 
first  wife:  i.  Joseph,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Steplien,  born  1760,  married  Naomi  Condit. 
3  Jared,  born  1766.  4.  Rhoda,  married  Caleb 
lledden.  5.  Elizabeth,  born  1769,  married 
Ezekiel  Pall.    6.  Aaron,  horn  1771,  died  1793, 


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married  Esther  Canfield.  7.  John,  born  Xo- 
vember  28,  1/73.  'I'^fl  i8'>3;  married  Phebe 
•Matthews.  8.  Sarah,  married  Stephen  Hed- 
den. 

(\'l)  Joseph,  .son  of  John  and  Ehzabeth 
( Dodd )  Peck,  was  born  in  Pecktown.  Novem- 
ber 27,  1758,  and  died  in  East  Orange,  New 
Jer.sey,  May  22.  1835.  He  married  Mary, 
born  175Q.  died  December  26,  1830,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  Hedden.  Children:  Phebe,  Ehz- 
abeth, Lydia,  Mary  Ann  (referred  to  below), 
Aaron,  Sarah,  I-'annie,  Deborah. 

(\TT)  Mary  y\nn,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
^lary  ( ITedden  )  Peck,  married  Lewis  Mitchell, 
ihe  founder  of  the  East  Orange  family. 

(The  Dodd  Line). 

(I)  Daniel  Dod,  emigrant  ancestor  of  the 
famous  New  Jersey  family  of  his  name,  was 
one  of  the  forty  planters  who  in  1644  pur- 
chased from  the  Indians,  the  plantation  of 
Totoket,  which  they  named  Branford.  He  died 
there  in  1666.  His  wife  Mary  died  May  26, 
1657.  Children  :  Mary,  married  Aaron  Blachly  ; 
Hannah,  married  Fowler;  Daniel,  re- 
ferred to  below ;  Ebenezer :  Daughter,  born 
March  28,  1(^53;  Stephen,  married  Mary  Ste- 
vens; Samuel,  married  Martha  . 

(H)  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Dod, 
v.as  born  about  1650,  in  Branford,  Connecticut. 
He  became  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  New- 
ark, and  finally  settled  in  what  is  now  known 
as  Watsessing.  He  married  Phebe,  daughter 
of  Jolm  Brown.  Children :  John,  married 
Elizabeth  Lampson  (see  Peck,\I);  Stephen; 
Daniel,  referred  to  below;  Dorcas,  married 
■  Ward. 

(HI)  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel  and  Phebe 
(Brown)  Dod,  was  born  in  Newark,  about 
1680,  and  died  in  1767.  He  was  one  of  the 
Newark  Branford  settlers,  and  married  before 
September  16,  1725,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Sam- 
uel Jr.  and  Sarah  (Curry)  Ailing,  whose  great- 
grandfather, through  his  son,  Samuel  Allen 
Sr.,  was  Roger  Allen,  the  emigrant  (see  Peck, 
H).  Children:  Eunice,  born  1718;  Sarah, 
1720;  Thomas,  1723;  Daniel,  1725;  Isaac, 
1728;  Joseph,  referred  to  below  ;  Moses,  1734; 
Amos.  1737;  Caleb,  1740. 

(I\')  Joseph,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (  Ail- 
ing) Dod,  was  born  September  12,  1731.  He 
married  (first)  Mary,  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
I.indsley,  who  died  February  14,  1763,  aged 
twenty-nine:  (second)  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Amos  Williams,  who  was  born  February  23. 
1742,  and  died  September  3,  1818.  Children, 
seven  by  first   wife;     Matthias,  referred   to 


below;  Ebenezer;  Rachel:  Joseph  and  Mary, 
twins  ;  another  pair  of  twins  born  1763  ;  Amos  : 
Abigail ;  Daniel ;  Moses  ;  Lydia :  .Abigail ;  .Allen. 

(V)  Matthias  Dodd,  son  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Lindsley)  Dod,  was  born  in  Orange, 
.April  29,  1753.  He  was  a  farmer  and  a  car- 
jx'nter,  and  served  as  private  in  the  Essex 
county  militia,  taking  part  in  the  battles  of 
.Springfield  and  Monmouth,  during  the  latter 
of  which  he  captured  a  good  musket  from  the 
enemy  to  replace  his  own  old  one.  This  musket 
descending  to  his  grandson  Matthias,  it  was 
;)resented  by  him  to  the  trustees  of  the  Wash- 
mgton  Headquarters  in  Morristown.  July  23. 
1801,  he  was  drowned,  attempting  to  save  his 
daughter  Rachel  while  on  an  excursion  to 
Coney  Island.  She  and  her  cousin  Stephen 
Munn  had  gotten  out  beyond  their  depth,  and 
Mr.  Dod(l,  who  was  an  expert  swimmer,  went 
to  iheir  assistance,  but  was  clutched  by  both 
of  them  in  such  a  way  that  all  three  perished 
together.  He  married  Sarah,  born  .August 
31,  1759,  died  May  31.  1848,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph Alunn.  Children  :  Mary ;  William  ;  Rachel ; 
Lewis,  referred  to  below;  Abigail;  Charlotte; 
Bethuel ;  Nancy ;  Mary. 

(\M)  Lewis,  son  of  Matthias  and  Sarah 
(Munn)  Dodd,  was  born  in  Orange,  New  Jer- 
:ey.  September  8,  1784.  For  several  years  he 
carried  on  a  shoemaking  business,  and  later 
took  cargoes  of  fruit  and  cider  to  sell  at  the 
south,  and  by  his  perseverance  acquired  a 
competency  and  made  a  good  provision  for  his 
children.  He  married,  November  12,  1808, 
F^lizabeth,  born  December  17,  1788,  daughter 
of  Caleb  and  Lydia  (Johnson)  Baldwin.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Rachel,  born  August  21,  1809:  mar- 
ried John  Dunham.  2.  Jane,  September  11, 
181 1;  married  I'ernando  Crans.  3.  Matthias 
Munn,  referred  to  below.  4.  Lydia,  born  .April 
9,  1816.  5.  Jared,  .April  27,  1818.  6.  Sarah, 
August  8,  1820.  7.  William,  November  11. 
1822.  8.  Bethuel  Lewis,  January  16,  1826; 
married  (first)  Susan  E.  Jaques,  (second) 
Gertrude  Ray  Ward.  0.  Julia  .Ann.  February 
17,  1828;  married  Edward  Wallace. 

(VH)  Matthias  Munn,  son  of  Lewis  and 
Elizabeth  (Baldwin)  Dodd,  was  born  in  East 
Orange,  January  24,  1814,  and  was  one  of  the 
first  members  of  the  township  committee  of 
East  Orange  after  that  had  been  formed  into 
a  separate  township.  He  married  (first)  Har- 
riet, daughter  of  Stephen  Rowe,  who  died  in 
1880;  (second)  Emily  (Padden)  Bullock. 
Children,  all  by  fir.st  wife:  Anna  Elizabeth, 
leferred  to  below ;  Myra,  married  Horace  N. 
Jennings;  Adelaide. 


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(\'III)  Anna  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Mat- 
thias Aliinn  and  Harriet  (Rowe)  Dodd,  was 
born  in  East  Orange  in  1839,  and  died  there 
February  10,  1906.  She  married  Aaron  Peck, 
son  of  Lewis  and  Mary  Ann  (Peck)  Mitchell. 


The  families  which  settled  in  New 

NOTT  Haven  and  Hartford  colonies  were 
not  of  that  nigged,  honest,  fear- 
less and  simply  born  class  which  were  among 
the  first  settlers  of  New  England  :  for,  while 
they  possessed  all  these  qualities,  thev  had  in 
addition  a  degree  of  affluence  and  cultivation 
which  the  majority  of  the  earlier  New  Eng- 
land settlers  did  not  possess.  They  were  of  a 
superior  social  class,  and  were  more  generously 
endowed  with  this  world's  goods. 

( 1 )  John  Nott.  the  founder  of  the  family, 
emigrated  from  Nottingham,  England,  about 
1640.  He  is  supposed  to  have  been  a  grandson 
of  Lord  John  Nott,  of  Nottingham.  Stiles 
says  he  was  in  Wethersfield.  He  was  a  juror 
in  1646,  townsman  in  1658,  surveyor  in  1639 
deputy  in  1662-63,  representative  to  the  gen- 
eral court  for  nineteen  years  from  1665,  and 
on  the  committee  in  1670  to  settle  the  west  line 
of  \\  ethersfield.  In  the  same  year  he  drew  an 
allotment  of  land.  By  trade  he  was  a  joiner. 
He  died  January  25,  1682,  leaving  a  widow 
Ann,  and  children:  Hannah:  John,  referred 
to  below  ;  Elizabeth. 

(U)  John  (2),  son  of  John  (i)  and  Ann 
Nott,  was  born  in  Wethersfield,  Connecticut, 
about  1650,  and  died  May  21,  1710.  For  some 
lime  he  was  sergeant  of  the  Wethersfield  train- 
ed band,  and  in  1702  he  was  hay  ward.  March 
28,  1683,  he  married  Patience,  daughter  of 
W'illiam  Miller,  who  is  said  to  have  died  in 
Saybrook  after  1745.  Children:  John;  Jon- 
athan :  \Villiam  ;  Thomas  ;  Nathaniel :  Gershon  ; 
Thankful;  Abraham,  referred  to  below;  Ann. 

(HI)  Abraham,  son  of  John  (2)  and  Pa- 
tience (Miller)  Nott,  was  born  in  Wethers- 
field, Connecticut,  January  29,  1696,  and  died 
in  Saybrook,  Connecticut.  January  24,  1756. 
He  graduated  from  "^'ale  in  1720,  and  became 
the  first  pastor  of  the  Seconcl  Congregational 
Church,  now  the  Essex  Society  of  Saybrook. 
He  was  a  noted  athlete,  especially  as  to  feats 
of  strength  and  endurance,  and  tradition  says 
that  he  could  raise  a  barrel  of  cider  by  the 
chines  and  hold  it  at  arms  length  above  his 
head.  He  was  notable  both  as  a  man  and  as  a 
minister,  and  with  one  exception  all  of  his  chil- 
dren were  remarkably  prosjierous.  He  mar- 
ried Phebe,  daughter  of  John  Topping,  of 
Southamiiton,  Long  Island,  whose  father.  Cap- 


tain Thomas  Topping,  was  one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Wethersfield.  After  Rev.  Abraham 
Nott's  death  his  widow  married  ( second  )  June, 
1758,  Lieutenant  John  Pratt,  of  Saybrook. 
Children  :  Abraham  ;  Keturah  :  Stephen,  re- 
ferred to  below  ;  Temperance  ;  Jo.siah  ;  Ephrus. 

(IV)  Stei)hen,  son  of  Rev.  Abraham  and 
Phebe  ( Topping)  Nott,  was  born  in  Saybrook, 
Connecticut,  July  24,  1728,  and  died  in  Frank- 
lin, Connecticut,  January  29,  1790.  He  was  an 
unusually  intelligent  and  well  read  man,  but 
was  the  only  one  of  his  father's  children  who 
did  not  prosper.  At  first  he  kept  store  in  Sav- 
brook  and  was  for  ten  years  successful.  In 
1759  his  home  and  contents  were  destroyed 
by  fire  and  the  family  barely  escaped  with 
their  lives,  his  son  Samuel,  then  five  years  (jjd, 
being  rescued  by  his  mother.  In  a  new  home 
he  met  with  a  second  disaster,  and  be  began 
moving  from  place  to  place,  first  to  PZast  Had- 
dan,  then  to  Ashford,  and  finally  to  Franklin. 
December  15,  1749,  he  married  (first)  Deb- 
orah, daughter  of  Samuel  Selden,  of  Lyme. 
Connecticut,  who  died  October  24,  1788.  In 
1789  he  married  Abigail  Bradford.  Children, 
all  by  first  marriage:  Temperance;  Samuel, 
Yale  graduate,  1780,  pastor  at  Franklin,  Con- 
necticut, for  nearly  fifty  years;  Phebe;  Tem- 
perance (2d)  ;  Charlotte  ;  Lovice  ;  Rlioda  ;  Deb- 
orah ;  Eli]ihalet,  referred  to  below. 

(  \' )  Eliphalet,  youngest  child  of  Stephen 
and  Deborah  (Selden)  Nott,  was  born  in 
Ashford,  Connecticut,  June  25,  1773,  and  died 
in  Schenectady,  New  York,  in  1866.  He  was 
a  joyous  jolly  Yankee  boy,  notable  for  his  de- 
votion to  his  mother,  his  retentive  memory, 
and  his  unceasing  desire  for  knowledge.  At 
sixteen  years  of  age  he  joined  the  church  of 
his  brother  Samuel,  studied  with  his  brother 
and  ii.  li.e  Franklin  school,  and  before  he  was 
twenty  years  old  became  principal  of  the  Plain- 
field  Academy,  where  he  conceived  his  "Moral 
Motive"  system  of  government.  Continuing 
Ins  studies  he  took  the  senior  examination  at 
Brown  I'niversity  in  1795  and  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  Master.  June  26,  1796, 
he  was  licensed  to  preach,  and  refusing  to  re- 
main in  Connecticut  because  missionaries  were 
so  much  needed  in  the  lesser  settled  portions 
of  the  country,  he  went  to  New  York  with  a 
roving  commission  from  the  Domestic  Mis- 
.sionary  Society  of  Connecticut.  Before  set- 
ting out  Dr.  Nott  married,  and  leaving  his 
briile  behind  him,  set  out  alone  on  horseback 
for  Cherry  Valley,  New  York,  where  he  was 
to  ])e  missionary  and  .school  teacher,  and  where 
he  later  brought  his  wife,     October  13,   1798, 


STATK    (U-     NEW    JERSEY, 


he  recciveil  and  accepted  a  call  to  the  pastorate 
of  the  First  I'resbyterian  Church  of  Albany, 
where  he  remained  until  1804.  September  14 
of  that  year  he  was  elected  president  of  Union 
Trolley,  Schenectady,  of  which  he  had  been 
chosen  a  t'ustee  soon  after  his  coming  to  Al- 
bany. This  position  he  held  for  sjxty-twr 
years,  vntil  his  death,  lie  found  the  college 
without  funds,  building  or  library,  and  in  debt. 
He  soon  provided  for  its  needs,  and  under  bis 
administrai'on  the  college  prospered  and  jjro- 
duced  many  of  the  most  jjrominent  men  in  the 
ea.st,  for  e.xample.  Dr.  \\'ayland,  president  of 
Brown  I'niversity.  and  later  the  Hon.  Ches- 
ter A.  .Artluir,  ])resident  of  the  United  States. 
During  the  whole  time  of  his  presidenc\'.  the 
college  graduated  more  than  four  thousand 
students.  Dr.  Xott  was  (|uite  a  mechanical 
genius  and  took  out  over  thirty  patents  for 
various  inventions,  lie  spent  considerable  time 
experimenting  with  anthracite  coal  for  heat- 
ing purposes,  lie  had  been  considered  the  most 
finished  pulpit  orator  of  his  time :  his  most 
notable  public  address,  however,  was  that 
which  he  delivered  in  Albany  on  the  death  of 
.Mexandcr  Hamilton.  He  had  left  few  ])uh- 
lished  manuscripts.  In  1810  he  published 
"Councils  to  Young  Men,"  in  1847  "Lectures 
on  Temperance."  His  life  was  published  by 
\'an  Santvoord  in  1876.  July  4,  1796,  Dr. 
Xott  married  Maria,  eldest  daughter  of  Rev. 
Dr.  Joel  Benedict,  of  Plainfield.  Children:  i. 
Joel  Benedict,  born  .November  17,  1797.  died 
about  1879;  married  Margaret  Tayler.  2.  John, 
died  1879.  3.  Benjamin,  referred  to  below.  4. 
Howard,  died  about  1881.  5.  Maria,  married 
Right  Rev.  Alonzo  Potter,  D.  D.,  Protestant 
lipiscopal  Bishop  of  Pennsylvania,  and  became 
the  motlier  01  a  large  family  of  sons,  distin- 
guished in  every  walk  of  life. 

(\T)  Benjamin,  third  son  of  Rev.  Elijihalet 
and  Maria  (Benedict)  Nott,  was  born  in  Al- 
bany, New  York,  in  1803,  and  died  in  1881. 
After  graduating  from  llnion  College  he  read 
law  in  the  office  of  President  \  an  P>ureu,  and 
then  began  practice  in  Northern  New  York 
with  much  success.  At  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage he  was  a  rapidly  rising  man,  and  removed 
to  Bethlehem,  New  York,  where  he  spent  his 
life  and  lived  to  be  one  of  the  oldest  and  most 
distinguished  citizens  of  the  town,  and  of 
Albany.  During  the  latter  \ears  of  his  life 
he  lived  at  his  place.  Rock  Hill,  a  few  miles 
south  of  the  city.  For  several  years  he  was 
county  judge,  and  always  a  respected,  thought- 
ful, anil  influential  citizen.  He  was  a  man  of 
large  acijuirements,  strong  reasoning   faculty, 


and  great  facilit}'  of  expression.  In  conversa- 
tion he  was  a  genial  and  agreeable  man,  with  a 
curious  streak  of  humor.  Just  before  his 
death  he  had  completed  for  the  press  a  work 
on  "Constitutional  Ethics,"  to  which  he  had 
been  devoting  his  attention  for  many  years. 
At  the  time  he  died,  it  was  said  of  him,  "Judge 
Nott  was  extensively  connected  with  and 
known  by  all  our  people.  He  lived  a  long, 
blameless,  and  useful  life,  universally  respect- 
ed, a  credit  to  the  distinguished  family  of 
which  he  was  a  member,  and  his  loss  would  be 
greatly  deplored."  Judge  Nott  married  Eliza- 
beth, sister  to  John  Taylor  Cooper,  of  Albany. 
Children:  1.  Charles  D.  K.,  clergyman,  in  New 
Jersey.  2.  Francis  Asbury,  referred  to  below. 
3.  Robert,  a  merchant  in  Iowa.  4.  Charlotte, 
married  I'Vancis  L.  Prime.  5.  Susan,  married 
.A.  Dough  Lansing.  6.  Elizabeth,  married 
Howard  Kidd.  7.  Antoinette,  married  Stew- 
art Doughty.    8.  Cooper,  merchant,  Texas. 

(\TI)  Francis  Asbury  (2).  second  son  of 
Hon.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Cooper)  Nott, 
was  born  in  Albany,  New  York.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  went  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  limiber  business  and  became 
a  substantial  and  prosperous  merchant.  He 
afterward  removed  to  27  South  Arlington  ave- 
nue. Orange,  New  Jersey,  where  he  is  now 
residing.  In  1888  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  city  council  of  East  Orange,  and  occupied 
that  position  to  the  utmost  satisfaction  of 
everyone  for  the  ensuing  four  years.  He  mar- 
ried Julia,  daughter  of  Francis  \V.  and  Doro- 
thy (  Lord )  Edmonds.  Her  brothers  and  sis- 
ters are:  Mary,  wife  of  Charles  R.  Tyng. 
Grace.  .Alice,  Joseph  Lord,  and  John  W.  Chil- 
dren of  Francis  .Asbury  and  Julia  (Edmonds) 
Nott:  Francis  Asbury  Jr.,  referred  to  below; 
Cooper  E.,  born  May  6,  1875. 

( \TI )  Francis  .A.sbury  Jr.,  .son  of  Francis  As- 
bury (i)  and  Julia  (Edmunds)  Nott,  was  born 
in  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  October  19,  1873. 
I'or  his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  East  Orange,  after  which  he  was 
])repared  for  college  by  a  private  tutor.  He 
then  read  law  with  Philemon  Woodruff.  Esq.. 
and  was  admitted  to  the  New  Jersey  bar  in 
June,  1901.  October  12,  1908,  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Hon. 
I'ranklin  \V.  Ford,  as  judge  of  the  recorder's 
court  of  the  city  of  East  Orange,  and  when 
this  term  expired  he  was  appointed  for  a  full 
term.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is 
a  member  of  Roseville  Lodge.  No.  143,  F.  and 
.\.  M.,  of  Newark,  and  of  the  Lawyers'  Club 
and  the  Republican  Club  of  East  Orange.    He 


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is  a  communicant  of  St.  Barnabas  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church.  September  14,  1904,  Mr. 
Xott  niarrieil  Laura,  daughter  of  Henry  M., 
M.  D.,  Ph.  D.,  andMarvAL  (  Chace  )  Ikiuscher. 


The  Perrine  family  of  New 
PERRIXE  Jersey  is  of  old  French  Hugue- 
not extraction,  and  belongs 
among  the  earliest  of  the  old  French  colonists 
who  came  to  this  country.  They  tracetl  their 
lineage  back  to  the  group  of  refugees  who  were 
brought  over  to  East  Jersey  by  Sir  Philip  Car- 
teret in  1665,  when  he  came  over  to  take 
charge  of  the  government  of  that  province. 

(  1  )  Daniel  Perrine,  the  emigrant  ancestor 
of  the  family  in  this  country,  reached  New 
\()rk  Harbor  on  the  ship  "Philip,"  July  29, 
i6()5.  It  is  said  that  he  was  a  descendant  of 
Pierre  P'errine,  of  Lower  Charante,  France, 
w  ho  had  fled  from  the  persecution  consequent 
on  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes  by 
Louis  Ouatorze  in  1683,  carrying  with  them 
only  the  wealth  that  they  could  conceal  about 
their  persons,  Pierre  and  his  family  embarked 
at  La  Rochelle,  and  by  way  of  the  Netherlands 
found  their  way  to  England,  from  whence 
Pierre's  descendant  Daniel  came  over  to  Amer- 
ica. Daniel  was  married  in  the  year  following 
his  arrival  in  East  Jersey,  and  removed  to 
Staten  Island  where  his  children  were  born. 
February  12,  1666,  Governor  Carteret  issued 
the  marriage  license  to  Daniel  Perrine,  of  Eliz- 
abethtown.  and  Marie  Thorel,  a  French  girl 
who  had  come  over  in  the  same  shi])  with 
Daniel.  This  marriage  is  said  to  have  been 
the  first  marriage  celebrated  in  the  Elizabeth 
plantation.  She  bure  hor  husband  ^even  chil- 
dren. 

( II )  Henry,  third  child  of  Daniel  and  Marie 
(Thorel)  Perrine,  was  born  on  Staten  Island, 
and  November  1,  171 1,  he  bought  land  on 
Matchaponix  Neck,  then  in  Middlesex  county, 
New  Jersey,  .\mong  his  children  were  :  Daniel : 
John,  is  referred  to  below;  Henry,  of  Cran- 
bury.  New  Jersey. 

(III)  John,  son  of  Henry  Perrine,  had  land 
adjoining  Hoffman's  cemetery,  at  Englishtown, 
where  he  and  his  wife  are  buried.  His  will 
was  probated  .A]iril  19,  1779,  and  by  his  wife 
had  children:  John,  referred  to  below;  Henry, 
died  August  18,  1785;  James,  died  about  1816; 
Daniel;  Joseph,  born  173.^,  died  September  4, 
1791,  married  Margaret  ^IcFarren ;  William, 
married.  1765,  and  had  si.x  children  ;  Margaret, 

married Wilson  ;  Rebecca,  married  jo- 

>e\Ai   Store ;   Hannah,   married   William    Dey ; 
Annie,  married  James  Abrams. 


(IV)  John  Jr.,  son  of  John  Perrine,  was 
born  October  20,  1722,  and  died  April  26,  1804. 
He  was  buried  at  Hills.  June  3,  1755,  he  mar- 
ried Mary  Rue,  born  March  17,  1736,  died 
April  18,  1824,  and  buried  at  old  Tennent 
Church,  Children:  Ann,  born  May  14,  1757, 
married  William  Johnson ;  Rebecca,  born  Au- 
gust 3,  1759,  married  John  Rue,  of  Matcha- 
ponix;  John,  referred  to  below  ;  Haimah,  born 
April  28,  1765,  married  Dr,  James  English; 
Peter,  born  March  3,  1768,  died  September  6, 

1846,    married    Catherine    ;    Alatthew, 

born  May  19,  1770,  died  1809,  married  Cath- 
arine Knott;  Joseph,  born  October  28,  1775, 
died  August  i,  1821,  married  Elizabeth  Cook. 

( \' )  John,  third  child  and  eldest  son  of 
John  and  Mary  ( Rue )  Perrine,  was  born 
March  30,  1762,  and  died  November  17,  1848, 
and  was  buried  at  the  old  Tennent  churchyard. 
He  owned  a  large  tract  of  land,  now  the  resi- 
dence of  Louis  Ryno.  He  served  as  a  private 
in  the  Middlesex  militia  during  the  revolution- 
ary war.  .\ugu.st  5,  1785,  he  married  (first) 
Ann,  born  .August  12,  1761,  died  December  28. 
1822,  buried  in  old  Tennent  churchyard,  daugh- 
ter of  David  and  Catherine  (Barclay)  Stout; 
children:  i.  John,  born  July  22,  1782,  died 
February  4,  1862;  married  Sarah  Ely.  2. 
David,  referred  to  below.  3.  William,  born 
1786,  married  Sara  Jobs,  4.  Louis,  born  March 
20,  1788,  died  January  20,  1837;  married  Deb- 
orah Ely,  5.  Mary,  born  February  19,  I790; 
(lied  April  20,  1823  ;  married  John  I.  Ely,  June, 
1814.  6,  Enoch,  born  1801,  died  1856;  mar- 
ried, in  1823,  Mary  Ely.  7.  Catherine,  mar- 
ried Enoch  Allen.  8.  Jesse,  born  1793,  died 
young.  9.  Barclay,  born  1795,  died  young. 
John  Perrine  married  (second),  about  1825, 
Catherine,  born  December  17,  1803,  died  July 
23,  1843,  daughter  of  John  Perrine  and  Anna, 
daughter  of  Captain  John  and  Anna  (Lloyd) 
.Anderson.  John  Perrine,  father  of  Catherine, 
was  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Alargaret  (McFar- 
ren)  Perrine,  referred  to  above.  Children  of 
John  and  Catherine  (Perrine)  Perrine:  10. 
(ieorge  \\'ashington,  born  September  19,  1826, 
died  March  13.  1849.  11.  Isaac,  born  April 
19,  1828,  12,  Ann  Eliza,  born  June  19,  1831, 
died  January  5,  1856;  married  .Archibald  For- 
man  Jobs.  13.  Mary  Matilda,  born  July  31, 
1833,  died  February  24,  1852:  married  James 
H.  Laird.  14.  Catherine  Henry,  born  April 
30,  1837,  died  January  27.  1870.  15.  Symmes 
Henrv,  burn  .\pril  ^o,  18^7,  died  October  9, 
1839. 

(VI)  David,  second  child  and  son  of  foim 
and  Ann   (Stout)   Perrine,  was  born  Jaiuiarv 


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lo,  1784,  and  died  August  4,  1843,  ^"<J  was 
buried  at  Perrineville.  March  31,  1808,  he 
married  Phoebe,  born  November  14,  1790.  died 
December  17,  1855.  and  buried  at  Perrineville, 
daughter  of  David  and  Lydia  (Tapscot)  (Jas- 
ton  Baird.  Her  father  had  been  a  captain  in 
the  First  Regiment  of  the  New  Jersey  militia 
ill  the  revolutionary  war.  Their  children  were : 
I.  Lydia  Ann,  born  January  21.  1809,  died  July 
1882;  married  William  Snowhill.  2.  John  D., 
born  April  3,  181 1,  died  May  31,  1892;  mar- 
ried Mary  "Matilda  Mount.  3.  Mary,  born 
April  13,  1813,  died  November  30,  1836.  4. 
David  Clark,  referred  to  below.  5.  Alfred, 
born  September  14,  1819.  died  December  14. 
1879:  married  Elizabeth  C.  More.  6.  Rei 
Baird,  born  September  18,  1820,  died  October 
29,  1829.  7.  Deborah  Ely,  born  July  23,  1822, 
died  March  19,  1893:  married  (first)  Richard 
Mount,  (second)  Cjilbert  Woodhull  ]\Iount. 
8.  De  La  Fayette,  born  July  19,  1824,  died 
December  11,  1829.  9.  Caroline,  born  Febru- 
ary 13.  1826.  died  .\pril  18,  1861  ;  married  Gil- 
bert Woodhull  Mount.  10.  Charles,  born  Sep- 
tember 29,  1829,  died  April  10,  1872;  married 
Maria  A.  Matlock.  11.  Edwin  Augustus  Ste- 
vens, born  May  5,  1832,  died  November,  1881. 
12.  Margaret  Cook,  married  James  Bowne. 

(VII)  David  Clark,  fourth  child  and  sec- 
ond son  of  David  and  I'hoebe  (  Baird  )  Perrine, 
was  born  at  Clarksburg,  October  20,  1816.  and 
died  July  6,  1888,  and  is  buried  at  the  old  Ten- 
nent  churchyard.  F'or  his  early  education  he 
was  sent  to  the  schools  at  Hightstown.  When 
he  was  fourteen  years  old  he  removed  to  F'ree- 
hold,  Monmouth  county,  where  he  began  a 
business  career  as  a  clerk  at  a  salary  of  $25  a 
year,  with  an  advance  of  $10  each  succeeding 
year  for  six  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he 
was  admitted  as  a  partner  in  the  firm,  that  of 
Lippincott  Davis  &  Company.  In  1833  he 
formed  a  partnership  and  established  the  firm 
of  Cowart  &  Perrine,  and  in  1852,  having  dis- 
solved this  partnership,  he  embarked  alone  in 
an  independent  mercantile  enterprise,  found- 
ing an  extensive  department  store  which  be- 
came the  extensive  department  store  at  Free- 
hold. He  also  carried  on  a  large  milling  busi- 
ness and  was  actively  identified  with  other 
business  interests  of  the  city,  being  president 
of  the  Freehold  Gas  Company,  and  treasurer 
of  the  Freehold  &  Englishtown  Turnpike  Com- 
pany. His  mill  was  on  the  Matchaponi.x  river, 
in  Middlesex  county,  and  he  was  regarded  as 
the  most  considerable  buyer  and  shi])])cr  of 
grain  in  the  count)'.  He  took  an  active  inter- 
est in  all  local  improvements,  contributed  in  a 


very  large  measure  for  the  public  welfare,  and 
was  a  generous  supporter  of  the  Freehold 
Presbyterian  Church.  February  5.  185 1,  David 
Clark  Perrine  married  Hannah  Matilda,  born 
June  4,  1829,  died  March  15,  1900,  buried  at 
the  old  Tennent  churchj^ard,  daughter  of  David 
1.  and  Mary  (Conover)  Vanderveer.  Of  their 
five  children,  four  are  buried  at  the  old 
Tennent  churchyard.  Their  children  were  :  i. 
David  Vanderveer,  referred  to  below.  2.  Will- 
iam Conover,  born  .April  16,  1855,  died  May  6, 
1856.  3.  John  Rhea,  born  May  23,  1857,  died 
March  23,  186 1.  4.  Mary  Conover,  born  April 
17.  1863.  died  February  5,  1873.  5-  Arthur  D., 
born  .\pril  28,  1868,  died  .August  13,  1869. 

(V'lII)  David  X'anderveer,  eldest  and  sole 
surviving  child  of  David  Clark  and  Mary 
(\'anderveer)  Perrine,  was  born  in  Freehold, 
New  Jersey,  May  25,  1853,  and  is  now  living 
in  that  place.  For  his  early  education  he  was 
sent  to  the  public  schools  of  Freehold,  and 
later  to  the  Freehold  Institute.  In  1873  he 
entered  sophomore  class  in  Princeton  College, 
and  was  graduated  from  that  institution  in 
1876,  receiving  four  years  later  his  master's 
degree.  Immediately  after  completing  his  col- 
lege course  he  took  charge  of  the  financial  de- 
jjartment  of  his  father's  store,  and  was  con- 
nected with  the  establishment  in  this  way  until 
his  father's  death  in  1888,  when  he  assumed 
the  entire  control,  and  has  since  become  the 
sole  proprietor.  His  store  building  is  a  capa- 
cious L  shaped  structure  fronting  on  Main 
street,  where  it  occupies  three  lot  numbers, 
and  also  three  lot  numbers  in  the  L  on  South 
street.  It  is  four  stories  high,  and  affords 
accommodation  for  an  immense  stock  of  gen- 
eral merchandise,  the  business  having  one  of 
the  handsomest  structures  in  Freehold.  While 
his  mercantile  interests  necessarily  from  the 
enormous  size  occupy  a  great  deal  of  Mr.  Per- 
rine's  time  and  attention,  he  nevertheless  finds 
opportunity  to  branch  out  in  other  directions 
of  work.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  large  farm  in 
Monroe  township,  Aliddlesex  county,  on  which 
i~  a  well  equipped  flouring  mill,  which  he  sold 
in  1894.  He  is  also  one  of  the  leading  stock- 
holders in  the  Freehold  Gas  Company,  and  his 
wise  counsel  has  proved  an  important  factor 
in  his  successful  conduct  of  these  various  enter- 
prises. Mr.  Perrine  is  identified  with  various 
fraternal  and  social  organizations,  being  an 
active  and  valued  member  of  the  .Ancient 
Order  of  I'nited  Workmen,  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Holland  Society  of  New  York,  and  the  .Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Civics  of  New  York.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  takes  a 


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deep  interest  in  church  work,  gives  liberally 
towards  the  cause  of  charity  and  religion,  and 
in  December,  1889,  was  installed  as  an  elder 
ill  the  church.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 
Iiut  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  office.  His 
life  has  been  just  and  useful,  characterized  by 
industry,  honesty  and  justice  in  his  business 
relations,  devotion  to  the  duties  of  citizenship, 
and  in  his  social  relations  his  genial  disposition 
and  unfailing  courtesy  have  won  him  high  re- 
gard and  gained  him  many  friends.  November 
29,  1900,  ^Ir.  Perrine  married  Elizabeth  W'yck- 
off,  born  in  Marlboro  township.  Monmouth 
county,  August  27,  1857,  daughter  of  Elias 
and  Marv  Ann   (\\'vckoff)  Conover. 


Daniel  \\  hitehead,  of  Beck- 
W'l  IITEHE.VD  man  precinct,  Dutchess  coun- 
ty. New  York,  is  the  first 
member  of  the  family,  of  whom  we  have  definite 
infdrmation.  h>om  the  history  of  the  famdies 
amiing  which  he  lived  it  is  reasonable  to  sup- 
])Ose  that  his  ancestors  formed  a  part  of 
the  emigration  from  Salem,  Massachusetts, 
through  Long  Island  and  Westchester  countv. 
New  York,  into  Dutchess  and  Orange  counties, 
New  York. 

The  earliest  record  which  can  he  found  of 
him  is  his  marriage  in  1760,  and  the  records  of 
tax  receipts  for  17^11-62,  and  his  name  in 
the  Dutchess  county  road  book.  He  married 
Esther  Rogers.  Children  recorded  in  the  regis- 
ters of  the  Rrinkerhofville  Presln'terian 
(liurch  in  Dutchess  county  are:  i.  Jemima, 
born  November,  1761.  2.  Thomas,  born  Sep- 
tember 16,  1764;  served  during  the  American 
revolution.  He  removed  to  I'pper  Canada  and 
became  a  prominent  ]\Iethodist  minister  and 
president  of  the  Methodist  conference  there. 
3.  Stephen  G.,  referred  to  below.  4.  Jesse, 
married  Phebe  Hills,  sister  to  his  brother  Ste- 
I'hen's  wife.  S-  Henrv.  fi.  Lvman.  7.  Daniel 
Jr.     8.  Elizabeth. 

fll)  .Stephen  C,  son  of  Daniel  and  Esther 
(Rogers)  Whitehead,  was  born  in  P.eekman 
precinct.  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  in  1774. 
He  became  converted  to  Methodism,  and  be- 
came a  preacher  in  that  denomination.  In 
1804  he  was  a  farmer  at  Duanesburg.  He  dis- 
posed of  his  farm  and  removed  to  Schenectady, 
New  York,  about  181 5.  He  was  ordained  in 
1806  by  Bishop  Francis  Asbury,  after  which 
he  travelled  on  what  was  known  as  the  Dela- 
ware Circuit.  He  died  in  1822.  and  was  buried 
in  Schenectady.  He  married,  in  1796,  Sibil, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Cobb) 
Hills.    Sibil  died  in  1832  and  was  buried  beside 


her  husband.  Her  grandfather  was  Ebenezer 
Hills,  a  revolutionary  soldier  and  farmer  in 
Duanesburg.  Children  of  Ste])lien  ( \.  an<i  Sibil 
Hills  Whitehead:  1-2.  Twins,  died  in  infancy. 
3.  Samuel  Hills  Whitehead,  died  in  infancy.  4. 
Joanna,  married  Edmund  ]>.  Bailey,  of  Pough- 
keepsie.  3.  Phebe,  died  unmarried.  6.  Charles 
Herrick,  died  in  infancy.  7.  Chancy,  emigrated 
to  California.  8.  Elizabeth,  married  Isaac 
Requa.  9.  Angeline.  10.  Edmund  Bailey,  re- 
ferred to  below.  II.  Deborah  Ann,  married 
James  Taylor.  12.  Willard  \\'illie  Whitehead, 
child  died  in  infancy. 

(HI)  Edmund  Bailey,  son  of  Rev.  Stephen 
G.  and  Sibil  Hills  Whitehead,  was  born  in 
Schenectady,  New  Y'ork,  January  24,  1819, 
and  died  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  December 
18,  1899,  in  the  eighty-first  year  of  his  age. 
He  resided  in  Newark  for  over  fifty  years,  and 
for  eighteen  years  he  was  the  assistant  collector 
in  the  department  of  internal  revenue  under 
Presidents  Lincoln,  Grant  and  Garfield.  He 
was  a  member  of  Oriental  Lodge  F.  and  A.  M. 
Three  years  before  his  death  he  and  his  wife, 
who  survived  him,  celebrated  their  golden  wed- 
(iing.  He  married,  in  1846,  Elizabeth  Stains- 
by,  who  died  December,  1907.  Children  of 
Edmund  Beebe  and  Elizabeth  (Stainsby) 
Whitehead:  i.  Frederick,  died  aged  seventeen 
years.  2.  Ella,  married  Frank  England,  of 
Ocean  Grove,  New  Jersey  ;  children  :  Edward. 
Hazel,  and  ClijTord  England.  3.  Annie,  mar- 
ried Thomas  G.  Post,  of  Newark ;  children : 
Minnie  and  Elsie  Post.  4.  Clara  Minetta,  mar- 
lied  Nestor  H.  Brewster,  of  East  Orange.  5. 
Benjamin  Stainsby,  referred  to  below.  6.  Will- 
iam T.,  died  age  three  years.  7.  Elizabeth, 
living  unmarried,  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  8. 
Edmund  Hays,  died  aged  three  years. 

(IV)  Benjamin  Stainsby  Whitehead,  son  of 
Edmund  Bailey  and  Elizabeth  Stainsby  White- 
head, was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 24,  1838,  and  is  now  living  in  that  city. 
For  his  early  education  he  attended  the  public 
school,  and  then  after  taking  a  course  in  a 
business  college  he  took  up  the  course  in  chem- 
istry in  the  Cooper  Institute,  New  York  City 
After  this  he  learnt  the  printing  business,  and 
in  1873  he  started  in  business  for  himself,  an<I 
to-day  his  business  is  the  largest  of  its  kind  in 
the  L'nited  States.  In  politics  Mr.  Whitehead 
is  a  Republican,  and  from  religious  conviction 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Centenary  Methodist 
Church,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the  trustees. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  St.  John's  Chapter,  F. 
and  A.  M. :  of  the  Essex  Cliib.  the  Tnion  Club. 
North   End  Club  of  Newark,  the  Forest  Hill 


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Golf  Club,  and  the  Automobile  and  Motor 
Club  of  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Manufacturers'  National  Bank  of  Newark,  a 
trustee  of  the  Centenary  Collegiate  Institute, 
president  of  The  Whitehead  &  Hoag  Co.,  and 
one  of  the  managers  of  the  Newark  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association. 

He  married  Fannie  M.,  daughter  of  Ceorge 
M.  and  Elizabeth  (Smith)  Thompson,  who 
was  born  in  Mendham,  New  Jersey,  November 
2,  1861.  Children  of  Benjamin  Stainsby  and 
Fannie  M.  (Thompson)  Whitehead:  i.  Ray- 
mond Benjamin,  born  February  22.  1883  ;  mar- 
ried Florence  M.  Rowe ;  one  child.  Muriel, 
born  March  12,  1906.  2.  Helen  Thompson, 
born  December  3,  1886;  married  Roy  F.  An- 
thony, October  20,  1909. 

The  name  was  originally 
BLAISDELL      written   Blasdale,  Blesdale, 

Blasdell,  as  well  as  in  the 
form  here  used,  and  others.  The  name  Blais- 
dell  is  derived  from  the  .Saxon  words  Blas-die- 
val,  signifying  a  "blazed  path  through  the  vale," 
which  could  be  followed  through  the  forest  by 
trees  which  had  been  blazed  with  an  a.xe  to  guide 
the  traveler.  Tt  came  from  England  among 
the  early  einigrants,  and  has  spread  all  over 
New  England  and  the  United  States. 

(I)  Ebenezer  Blaisdell,  the  first  member  of 
this  family  of  whom  we  have  definite  infor- 
mation, may  have  been  the  grandson  of  Eben- 
ezer and  Hannah  Blaisdell,  of  Amesbury.  He 
was  born  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  He 
was  by  trade  and  occupation  a  tanner  and 
farmer,  conducting  these  operations  in  Frank- 
fort, now  \\'intcr])ort,  Maine,  where  his  chil- 
dren and  grandchildren  were  born,  removing 
there  from  Kennebunk])ort,  Maine.  He  mar- 
ried Annie  Ferren,  of  Kennebunkport,  Maine, 
daughter  of  a  soldier  in  the  revolutionary  war, 
serving  with  General  Washington,  and  also  a 
participant  in  the  l*"rench  and  Indian  war.  He 
was  taken  captive  by  the  Indians  and  sold  into 
Canada  for  twenty-five  cents,  later  was  taken 
to  Quebec  and  finally  returned  home.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Ebenezer  Ferren,  referred  to  below. 
2.  Sarah,  married  Hiram  Morrill;  children: 
Frank  and  Edward  Morrill.  3.  Latinus,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth :  children  :  Charles,  Ern- 
est and  Albert. 

(II)  Ebenezer  F"erren,  son  of  Ebenezer  and 
Annie  (Ferren)  Blaisdell.  was  born  in  Frank- 
fort, now  Winterport,  Maine,  January  30, 
1823,  died  April  29,  1901.  at  Bradford,  Penn- 
sylvania, at  the  home  of  his  son.  As  a  boy  he 
assisted  in  the  cultivation  of  his  father's  farm, 


later  learned  the  trade  of  tanner,  and  subse- 
quently turned  his  attention  to  the  cooperage 
business.  He  married  Nancy  Chase,  born  No- 
vember 30,  1821,  died  in  ISrooklyn,  New  York, 
January  25,  1900,  (laughter  of  a  mechanic  and 
L'niversalist  minister  who  lived  between  Bald- 
hill  Cove  and  Winterport,  on  the  Maine  coast. 
Children:  i.  Walter  Ferren.  born  November 
5,  1848;  married  (first)  Nelly  Mitchell;  (sec- 
ond) Cordelia  Bruce:  children:  i.  Charles 
Orrin,  born  June  8,  1879;  married,  November 
21,  1908,  Frances  Seniza,  born  in  Alay,  1882: 
ii.  Sarah,  born  October  15,  1880:  married 
(ieorge  Bell;  children:  Walter  Blaisdell  Bell, 
born  March  12,  1906,  William  Bell,  born  May 
8,  1910.  2.  ^lark  Lester,  married  (first)  Dora 
Herman;  (second)  Caroline  Penney;  children, 
one  by  first  marriage :  i.  Herbert  Chase,  born 
September  4,  1873:  married  Emma  School- 
master; child,  Philo:  ii.  Mary  Lee,  born  .Au- 
gust 15,  1882;  married  Lothrop  Higgins;  iii. 
Fanny  Fern,  born  December  14.  1888.  3. 
Frank  Louis,  referred  to  below.  4.  Joseph 
William,  referred  to  below.  5.  Silas  Canada, 
is  a  practicing  physician  of  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  residing  at  No.  500  Bedford  avenue : 
married  Ella  Fisher.  6.  Philo  Chase,  referred 
to  below.  7.  Abraham  Lincoln,  married  Cora 
Neeley  ;  children  :  i.  Annie,  married  Robert 
Lincoln  Grayson  :  ii.  Florence,  married  William 
Lewis;  iii.  Kathryn :  iv.  Silas:  v.  Cora.  8.  Ed- 
ward, married  Sarah  Harris,  who  died  Novein- 
ber  27,  1904;  child,  Eleanor  I-'isher,  born  Oc- 
tober 15,  1900. 

(Ill)  Frank  Louis,  son  of  Ebenezer  Ferren 
and  Nancy  (Chase)  Blaisdell,  was  born  in 
Winterport,  Maine.  November  6,  185 1.  died 
in  Red  Bank,  Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey, 
January  6,  1910.  He  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Winterport,  and  upon  the 
completion  of  his  studies  learned  the  trade  of 
cooper.  He  came  to  New  York  City  and  enter- 
ed the  employ  of  the  Havemeyer  Sugar  Refin- 
ing C(1:nj)any,  working  as  a  cooper,  and  also 
filling  contracts  in  kindling  wood.  He  finally 
abandoned  this  occupation  in  order  to  enter 
into  partnership  with  his  brothers,  Walter  Fer- 
ren. Joseph  \\'illiam  and  Philo  Chase,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Blaisdell  Brothers,  and  in 
January,  1893,  they  organized  the  Standard 
Wood  Comijany  of  New  Jersey,  which  corpo- 
ration has  various  branches  in  the  state  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  consumes  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  thousand  cords  of  wood  annually, 
which  is  cut  up  into  kindling  wood  and  sold 
in  all  the  large  cities  of  the  eastern  part  of  the 
L'nited  States.     The  brothers,  in   1877,  under 


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tlie  name  of  t'.laisilell  I'irotliers.  cngagcil  111  the 
kindling  wood  business,  making  and  patenting 
their  own  machines  and  thoroughly  systema- 
tizing the  business,  which  proved  a  most  profit- 
able investment.  The  brothers  were  also  mem- 
bers of  the  firm  of  Curtis  &  Blaisdell,  which 
was  incorporated  in  1908  as  the  Curtis-Blais- 
dell  Company,  with  main  office  and  depot  at 
56th  and  57th  streets  and  East  river,  with 
depots  and  offices  at  1  lOth  street  and  East  river. 
96th  street  and  Xorth  river.  337  Water  street. 
40th  street  and  Xorth  river,  (jo  West  street. 
100  Washington  street,  and  303  (irand  street, 
Jersey  Citw  New  Jersex'.  They  had  a  ship 
tonnage  of  three  thousand  tcjns.  and  in  190S 
the  tonnage  had  increased  to  one  million  one 
hundred  thousand  tons;  they  devised  and 
put  into  operation  the  first  steam  shovel  and 
the  first  coal  scow  to  lioist.  load  and  unlnad 
coal  used  in  America.  The  I'.laisdell  I'.rotliers, 
in  connecticm  with  coal  and  wood  business,  en- 
gaged in  the  wid(_>w  glass  trade,  which  they 
sold  to  an  exc(  llent  advantage  to  tlie  United 
States  Glass  Company.  They  also  owned  a 
gas  supplying  business  which  they  sold  to  the 
Standard  Oil  Compan\-.  They  still  conduct 
the  Blaisdell  Machine  Company  at  P.radford. 
Pennsylvania,  where  they  manufacture  air 
compress(jrs  and  enguies  >ised  in  house  clean- 
ing ])lants  familiarly  known  as  the  vacuum 
process.  The  brothers  are  also  largely  inter- 
ested in  southern  pine  and  cypress,  owning 
iarge  tracts  of  timber  lands  in  the  southern 
and  gulf  states.  Frank  L.  Blaisdell  was  a 
member  of  the  ( )r<ler  of  Free  and  Accented 
Masons  of  Xew  Jersey  and  was  a  Democrat 
in  politics. 

lie  married,  in  Brooklyn,  Xew  Vnrk.  Sep- 
tember 13.  1877,  Margaret,  Ijorn  in  .Xew  'S'ork 
City,  October  23,  1852,  daughter  of  Frederick 
Charles  and  Margaret  (  Ludwig )  I^'enter.  the 
former  of  whom  was  born  Jtdy  22,  1826,  died 
June  17.  1901.  and  the  latter  born  March  8. 
1821.  died  September  18.  i8r)5.  Children  of 
Frederick  C.  and  Margaret  (Ludwig)  Fenter: 
I.  Margaret,  referred  to  below.  2.  Carolyn, 
brjrn  July  31,  1855.  died  June  26,  1890;  mar- 
ried Charles  Rowe.  3.  Kathryn.  born  Novem- 
ber 2"/.  1857,  died  February  23,  1901.  unmar- 
ried. 4.  I'Teilerick  Charles  Jr..  born  May  24, 
i8f)0.  Children  of  I'rank  Louis  and  Margaret 
(  Fenter j  Blaisdell:  i.  Joseph  Fenter,  born 
July  27,  1878:  married,  November  21,  1907, 
Lelia  \Iorgan,  born  May  11.  1883.  2.  Alice. 
born  January  3.  1880;  married  William  Alar- 
tin  Thomyjson.  born  September  7.  1878; 
child.    William    .Martin    Thompson.    Jr..    born 


Januar_\-  (),  1908.  3.  Xancy.  born  b'ebru- 
ary  10.  1883;  married  Richard  Chesman  Hack- 
stafif.  born  September  3.  1881.  4.  Margaret, 
born  January  23,  1885.  5.  Freen  I'rank.  born 
December  13,  1886.  (>.  Carcjlyn,  l)(irn  Jul\  30. 
1 81 )  I . 

(  111  )  joseiili  William,  sdu  of  Ebenezer  Fer- 
reu  and  .Xancy  1  Chase  )  Blaisdell,  was  born  in 
Winterport,  Maine.  May  11,  1854,  and  is  now 
Ining  in  Xew  York  City.  After  completing 
liis  studies  in  the  public  schools,  he  learned 
the  trade  of  ct)oper  and  is  now  head  of  the  firm 
of  Blaisdell  lirothers,  mentioned  fully  above. 
He  married,  in  Brooklyn,  Xew  York,  Septem- 
ber 25,  1883.  Rebecca,  born  in  Brooklyn,  Sep- 
tember 21.  1838.  died  June  17,  1906,  daughter 
of  David  and  Rebecca  (Swasey)  Bruce.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Jean  Biruce,  born  November  7,  1886; 
married  Edward  J.  Boyd;  child.  Edward  J. 
Jr.,  born  .\pril  11.  ii)io.  2.  David  Bruce,  born 
December  i^  i88().  ^  Maud  I'.ruce.  born 
March   I.  1892. 

(  ill  )  I'hilo  Chase,  son  of  Ebenezer  I'^erren 
and  Xancy  ( Chase )  lilaisdell,  was  born  in 
Winterport,  Maine.  March  30.  1858,  and  is 
now  living  in  Xew  York  City.  Like  his  brothers, 
he  attended  the  public  schools  and  learned  the 
trade  of  cooper.  He  entered  the  employ  of 
Havemeyer  &  Elder,  sugar  refiners.  April  i6, 
1873,  and  subsequently  joined  his  brothers  in 
the  organization  of  the  firm  of  Blaisdell 
Brothers,  mentioned  above.  Mr.  Blaisdell  is 
a  member  of  the  Order  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  and  of  the  Zem  Zem  Temple.  He  mar- 
ried, in  Winterport.  Maine.  .April  24.  1884, 
Sarah  Frances,  daughter  of  Enoch  and  Han- 
nah (Cole)  Grant.  Children:  i.  Ella  Fisher, 
bi:)rn  June  6.  1886;  married  William  Cullen 
liryant;  child,  (ieorge  Blaisdell  Bryant,  born 
.\ugust  5,  1909.  2.  .\da  W.,  born  July  7,  1888; 
married  Howard  D.  Yates  ;  child,  \Valter  Blais- 
dell Yates,  born  October  11.  11)09.  3.  Walter 
(i..  born  February  (>.  1893.  4.  ( ieorge  Grant, 
born  June  6.  1895. 


The  Yard  family  is  of  Norman 
^'.\RD    origin,    and    accompanied    William 

the  Conqueror  into  England,  where 
they  established  themselves  at  Yard,  near  Marl- 
borough, county  Devon,  (jne  proof  of  the 
anti(|uity  of  the  family  is  that  there  has  issued 
nineteen  or  twenty  generations  in  the  direct 
line,  whose  fruit  is  also  seen  in  many  fine 
s])reading  branches  it  has  yielded  at  Bradley, 
lirusbur,  Whitney  and  E.xeter.  Their  arms 
have  been  used  by  the  .\mcrican  liranch  as  of 
right  belonging  to  theiu.  being  engraved  on  an 


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STAT]*:    (JF    NEW  JERSEY. 


old  seal  which  is  said  to  have  been  brought 
over  to  this  country  more  than  two  hundred 
years  ago,  and  now  in  the  possession  of  the 
family.  This  coat-of-arms  was  created  in  1442. 

The  direct  ancestor  of  the  New  Jersey 
branch  was  Richard  Yard,  one  of  the  high 
sheriffs  of  county  Devon.  Two,  possibly  three 
of  his  descendants,  brothers,  Joseph  and  Will- 
iam, emigrated  to  America  about  1687.  The 
exact  relation  of  these  two  to  Thomas  Yard, 
of  Cohansey,  who  died  in  1695,  is  not  yet  defi- 
nitely known,  probably  he  was  either  a  brother 
or  cousin.  Jo.seph  Yard  .settled  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  he  died  in  171 5,  possessed  of  a 
large  landed  estate,  part  of  which  was  a  town 
lot  on  Third  street.  He  and  his  brother's  de- 
scendants took  prominent  parts  in  the  French 
and  Indian  wars  and  in  the  revolution,  and 
their  names  are  enrolled  among  those  of  the 
founders  and  early  worshippers  of  the  early 
Presbyterian  institutions  of  Philadelphia  and 
Trenton. 

(I)  William  Yard,  founder  of  the  branch 
at  present  under  consideration,  died  December 
8,  1744.  his  will,  dated  February  12,  1742, 
being  proved  July  4,  1745.  Until  about  17 10 
he  lived  with  his  brother  Joseph  in  Philadel- 
phia, where  three  of  his  children  were  baptized 
between  1707  and  1709.  He  then  removed  to 
Trenton,  then  called  Hopewell,  where  in  the 
minutes  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  Septem- 
ber 27.  171 1,  it  is  recorded,  "Upon  the  desire 
of  the  people  of  Maidenhead  and  Hopewell, 
signified  by  William  Yard,  for  our  assisting 
them  in  getting  a  minister,  it  was  agreed  that 
in  case  tbe  people  of  Maidenhead  and  Hope- 
well are  not  engaged  with  Mr.  Sackct,  they 
use  all  opportunities  they  have  for  a  s]ieedy 
supjjly.  and  apply  themselves  to  the  neighbor- 
ing ministers  for  assistance  in  getting  a  min- 
ister for  them."  April  i,  17 12,  William  Yard 
purchased  from  Mablon  Stacy  Jr.,  two  acres 
on  Second  (now  State)  street,  extending  to 
the  Assunpink  creek,  and  between  King  (now 
Warren)  and  Queen  (now  Broad)  streets.  He 
built  his  residence  on  Front  street,  near  the 
intersection  of  that  street  with  IJroad.  The 
homestead  lot  was  thirty-five  feet  front  and 
the  same  in  depth.  Here  he  kept  a  public  house 
called  the  "Ligonier,  or  Black  Horse."  which 
was  taken  down  in  1889.  Later  he  purchased 
other  large  portions  of  land,  and  when  the 
time  came  for  the  final  naming  of  the  town  it 
was  a  serious  qtiestioii  ior  (|uite  a  little  while 
as  to  whether  the  name  should  be  ^'ards-town 
or  Trents-town.  L'ntil  1719  the  courts  of  Hun- 
terdon  countv   were    held   alternatelv   at   the 


house  of  William  Yard,  in  Trenton,  and  the 
house  of  A.  Heath.  In  March,  1720,  the  court 
appointed  his  house  as  the  rendezvous  where 
the  public  house  keepers  and  the  justices  and 
freeholders  were  to  meet  in  order  to  receive 
and  issue  licenses.  For  many  years  the  clerk 
of  the  court  was  William  Yard.  By  his  wife 
Alary,  who  died  in  1747,  he  had  seven  children  ; 

1.  Jethro,  died  December,  1760,  without  issue. 

2.  Joseph,  baptized  in  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Philadelphia.  F"ebruary  21,  1707,  died 
January  or  June.  1764;  married  Anne,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Dangworth  :  left  issue.  3.  Marv. 
baptized  Philadeljihia,  February  21,  1707  ;mar- 
ried,  January,  1728,  Henry  Mershon  :  had  issue. 
4.  W'illiam  Jr.,  baptized  in  Philadelphia,  May 
TO,  1709,  died  .August  19,  1760;  married,  Sep- 
tember, 1746,  Mary  Peace,  of  Trenton;  had 
Isaiah,  Elijah  and  Alary.  5.  John,  referred  to 
below.  6.  Benjamin,  born  1714,  died  1808: 
married  Ann,  daughter  of  Robert  Pearson,  of 
Burlington  county.  7.  Elizabeth,  baptized  at 
Hopewell.  September  13,  1715:  married  Mor- 
ris Justice. 

(II)  John,  son  of  William  and  Mary  Yard, 
died  in  1763  or  1765.  September,  1732,  he 
married  (first)  Jane  Ward;  children:  Isaac, 
leferred  to  below;  William,  said  to  have  died 
unmarried.  By  his  second  wife,  Hannah  Oak- 
ley, he  had:  Thomas;  .^chsah,  born  in  1744, 
died  October  2,  1823,  married  Samuel  Baller- 
jean,  and  had  Henry,  Benjamin,  John,  Samuel. 
Thomas,  Daniel,  Haimah,  and  Sarah ;  Benja- 
min ;  David,  or  Daniel. 

(III)  Isaac,  eldest  child  of  John  and  Jane 
(Ward)  Yard,  died  January  i,  1819.  He 
married  Mary,  sister  to  George  Ely,  of  Tren- 
ton ;  children :  Isaac ;  Benjamin,  referred  to 
below  ;  William  ;  Jane  ;  John, 

(IV)  Benjamin,  second  child  of  Isaac  and 
Mary  (Ely)  Yard,  was  born  April  12,  1679, 
and  died  September  9,  1832.  On  the  occasion 
of  (ieneral  Washington's  triumphal  entry  into 
Trenton  on  his  way  to  his  inauguration  as  first 
president  of  the  United  States,  the  triumphal 
arch  under  which  he  passed  wdiile  being  wel- 
comed by  the  matrons  and  maids  of  the  city 
was  erected  the  day  before  by  workmen  in 
charge  of  Benjamin  Yard;  and  his  wife's  sis- 
ter. Miss  Mary  C.  Keen,  was  one  of  the  thir- 
teen young  ladies  who  represented  the  thirteen 
new  states,  and  strewed  flowers  in  the  path  of 
the  "Con(|uering  Hero."  Benjamin  Yard  mar- 
ried Priscilla.  born  September  29,  1771,  died 
December  2S,  1852.  daughter  of  Jacob  Keen, 
of  Trenton,  a  gallant  soldier  of  the  revolu- 
tionary war.    Children  :  Isaac,  born  March  14, 


STATE   OF    NEW- 


ERSE  V. 


1 79 1,  died  December  21,  1822;  Edward,  born 
January  19,  1793;  Jacob  Keen,  born  March  11, 
1795,  died  November  21,  1822;  John,  born 
January  6,  1798:  Charles  Cox.  born  May  15, 
1800;  Joseph  Ashton,  referred  to  below;  Ben- 
jamin, born  October  29,  1806,  died  October 
22,  1847,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Barna- 
bas and  Mary  (Cart)  Davis;  Mary  D.,  born 
August  7.  1810;  Wilson  H..  born  January  27, 
1813.  died  September  16.  1818:  William. 

(\'')  Joseph  Ashton.  sixth  child  and  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Priscilla  (Keen)  Yard,  was 
born  March  23.  1802,  and  died  October  17. 
1878.  He  studied  medicine  in  Philadelphia, 
but  afterwards,  with  his  brother  Charles,  took 
up  his  brother  Jacob  Keen's  business  of  manu- 
facturing brushes,  in  which  branch  of  industry 
he  built  up  a  large  trade.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  cholera  epidemic  in  1832  he  devoted  him- 
self largely  to  alleviating  the  sufferings  of  the 
sick.  In  1835.  business  reverses  over  which 
he  had  no  control,  caused  his  failure,  and  he 
started  afresh  that  same  year  as  the  keeper 
of  the  New  Jersey  state  prison,  and  for  the 
four  subsequent  years,  1836  to  1840.  was 
superintendent  of  the  new  prison.  At  the  end 
of  this  time  he  had  established  himself  in  a 
business  which  rendered  him  independent. 
Until  the  outbreak  of  the  Mexican  war  he  was 
one  of  the  inspectors  of  the  New  York  custom 
house,  and  he  then  became  captain  in  the 
Tenth  United  States  Infantry,  raising  the  first 
com]iany  of  that  regiment.  He  served  with 
distinction  in  the  war.  and  was  publicly 
thanked  by  one  of  the  Mexican  governors  for 
his  humanity  to  the  townspeople.  After  the 
war  he  was  elected  to  the  New  York  assembly, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  state 
]irisons.  He  was  next  appointed  warden  of 
the  new  Syracuse  Denitentiary,  and  then  in- 
spector in  the  New  York  custom-house  until 
1861.  He  then,  anticipating  a  call  for  troops, 
callerl  for  volunteers  and  raised  the  first  com- 
pany either  raised  in  the  state  or  mustered  into 
service.  It  was  called  the  "Olden  Guards," 
and  was  attached  to  the  Third  New  Jersey 
militia,  in  Ceneral  Runyon"s  brigade,  being 
designated  as  Company  A.  and  being  tlie  first 
company  from  the  north  to  occupy  Virginia 
soil.  Being  honorably  discharged  at  the  end 
of  his  term  of  enlistment,  he  raised  another 
company  to  oppose  Lee's  invasion  of  Penn- 
sylvania, and  after  the  war  he  removed  from 
Trenton  to  Farmingdale,  Monnifnith  county, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
was  a  zealous  Methodist  and  temperance 
reformer  and.  became  well-knnwn  thrdughdut 


the  county.  In  1824  Josej)!!  .\shtc:in  ^ard  mar- 
ried Mary  ^\'oodward.  daughter  of  John  Wesley 
Sterling,  by  whom  he  had  eight  sons  and 
three  daughters,  all  but  one  of  whom,  a  son, 
lived  to  maturity.  One  of  their  children  was 
James  Sterling  Yard,  referred  to  below. 

(VI)  James  Sterling,  son  of  Joseph  Ashton 
and  Mary  Woodward  (Sterling)  Yard,  was 
born  in  Trenton,  April  20.  1826,  and  died  in 
Freehold,  Monmouth  county,  April  29,  1900. 
He  was  educated  at  the  Trenton  Academy,  but 
left  school  early  in  order  to  help  his  father. 
He  then  learned  the  printer's  trade,  and  in 
1849.  with  Jacob  Stults.  began  the  publication 
of  the'Hightstown  J'iHagc  Record,  his  interest 
in  which,  however,  he  soon  after  sold  to  Ed- 
ward Crowell  Taylor,  and  then  after  various 
experiences  with  several  newspapers,  finally 
in  1854  purchased  the  Monmouth  Democrat 
from  Bernard  Connelly.  From  1855  to  i860 
he  was  postmaster  at  Freehold.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  civil  war  he  served  as  major  in 
the  Third  regiment  of  militia  ("First  Defend- 
ers"), and  was  afterwards  connected  with  all 
military  operations  in  the  coimty  for  the  rais- 
ing of  troops  until  the  close  of  the  war.  From 
1873  to  1883  he  was  commissioner  of  railroad 
taxation,  and  in  1878  was  appointed  deputy 
quartermaster-general  by  Governor  McClel- 
lan.  Like  his  father,  he  was  a  zealous  Metho- 
dist, and  he  was  one  of  the  trustees  of  Dickin- 
son college. 

September  25,  1856,  James  Sterling  Yard 
married  Adeline  Clark,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Doughty  Swift,  of  Lancaster  county.  Pennsyl- 
vania. She  lived  in  the  house  in  which  Robert 
Fulton  was  born,  which  is  still  standing.  Chil- 
dren :  Emma,  wife  of  William  Mills  Ivins,  of 
New  York  city;  Mary  Sterling,  wife  of  A. 
Harvey  Tyson,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania ; 
Daniel  Swift,  died  in  1883,  the  year  after  his 
.graduation  from  Princeton  University  ;  Joseph 
Ashton.  referred  to  below:  Adaline  Swift; 
James  Sterling  Jr..  died  in  1877;  Thomas 
Swift,  died  in  1880. 

(VII)  Joseph  Ashton.  fourtli  child  and  sec- 
ond .son  of  James  Sterling  and  Adeline  Clark 
(Swift)  Yard,  was  born  in  I'reehold.  Mon- 
mouth county.  February  19.  1866.  and  is  now 
living  in  that  town.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  the  Freehold  Institute. 
and  then  went  into  the  office  of  the  Monmouth 
Democrat,  in  1885,  in  order  to  learn  the 
printer's  trade.  In  1893  he  was  taken  in  with 
his  father  as  a  ]iartner.  and  on  his  father's 
death  in  igoo  he  became  editor  and  manager, 
which  ]iosition  he  has  filled  ever  since.      De- 


STATI':    ()!■     NEW  JERSEY 


ccnibcr  4.  1886,  lie  became  a  private  in  Com- 
pany E,  Seventh  Regiment  New  Jersey  Na- 
tional Ciuard ;  promoted  corporal,  April  2, 
1892;  first  sergeant,  January  30,  1894;  first 
lieutenant,  l''ebruary  12,  1894.  April  12,  1898, 
he  was  appointed  first  lieutenant  Company  I, 
Third  Regiment,  New  Jersey  National  Guard, 
\  oiunteer  Infantry,  and  in  that  capacity  served 
through  the  Spanish-American  war  and  was 
mustered  out  with  the  regiment  at  Athens, 
Georgia ;  appointed  first  lieutenant  Company 
G.  Second  Regiment,  May  2.  i8(;():  captain, 
October  2,  1899. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  his 
duties  on  the  paper  at  Freehold.  He  has 
served  two  terms  as  assistant  town  commis- 
.sioner;  is  secretary  of  the  Monmouth  Battle 
Monument  Commission ;  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  stewards  of  the  Methodist  Episcojial 
church. 

June  2,  1897,  Joseph  Ashton  Yard  married 
Emily  Stillwell,  daughter  of  James  Thompson 
and  Hannah  (Shotwcll)  Hurtis,  her  father 
being  of  Freehold,  and  her  mother  belonging 
to  a  family  from  Crosswicks,  Burlington 
county.  They  have  one  child,  Elizabeth,  born 
in  Freehold,  September  20,  1907. 


Peter  Garrabrant,  the 
GARR.\BRANT  first  member  of  this 
family,  of  whom  we 
liave  definite  information,  lived  and  died  in 
Somerset  county.  New  Jersey,  He  was  a  de- 
scendant of  Gerbrand  Claesen,  the  emigrant 
ancestor  of  the  Gerrebrants,  Gerbrantz,  Gar- 
rabrant family,  who  played  an  important  part 
in  the  early  history  of  IJergen,  and  who  mar- 
ried, August  25,  1674,  Marytje,  only  daughter 
of  Claes  riertersen  Cos.  A  diligent  search  of 
the  records  not  only  at  Trenton  but  elsewhere, 
fails  to  reveal  the  exact  line  of  descent.  Peter 
Garrabrant  married  Elizabeth  McMurtry. 

(11)  Robert,  sou  of  Peter  and  F.lizabeth 
(^McMurtry)  Garrabrant,  was  born  in  Somer- 
set county.  New  Jersey,  September  19,  1827. 
He  married  Mary  Anderson,  daughter  of 
Aaron  and  Hannah  (Anderson)  Pitney;  (see 
Pitney).  She  was  born  in  Mendham,  Morris 
county.  New  Jersey.  April  11,  1831.  Children: 
I.  .\aron  Pitney,  born  June  30,  1833;  married 
Dalinda  A.  Boyter ;  is  now  an  attorney  and 
real  estate  dealer  in  New  York  City.  2.  Clar- 
ence, referred  to  below.  3.  Ira  Forsyth,  born 
February  14,  1863:  married  Mamie  \'an 
Doren :  children:   Robert  B.  and  Delia. 

(HI)  Dr.  Clarence  Garrabrant,  son  of  Rob- 
ert and  Mary  .Anderson  (Pitney)  Garrabrant, 


was  born  at  -Mendham,  New  Jersey,  Septem- 
ber 2^.  1856,  and  is  now  living  at  Atlantic 
City,  New  Jersey.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  Mendham  public  schools,  and 
then  entered  the  New  Jersey  Normal  School 
at  Trenton,  .\fter  his  graduation  he  taught 
for  four  and  a  half  years  in  the  schools  of 
Morris  county,  and  during  this  period,  becom- 
ing interested  in  the  .study  of  medicine,  he  en- 
tered the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons, 
I'altimore,  Maryland,  in  October,  1884.  He 
received  his  M.  D.  degree  March  15,  1886,  and 
immediately  began  the  practice  of  medicine  at 
New  Gretna,  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  remained  ten  years  in  active  general 
practice,  (^n  June  i,  1896,  he  removed  to 
.Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey,  where  he  has  since 
been  in  continuous  practice  of  his  profession. 
He  is  highly  rated  both  as  a  physician  and  a 
citizen.  Dr.  Garrabrant  is  a  Democrat,  with 
very  decided  independent  proclivities.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  IVesbyterian  church.  His  pro- 
fessional membershi])S  are  held  in  the  .Amer- 
ican Medical,  the  New  Jersey  Medical  and 
Atlantic  County  Medical  .As.sociations.  He  is 
a  Master  Mason  and  of  Trinity  Chapter  No. 
38,  R.  A.  M.,  and  a  Knight  Templar  of  .Atlantic 
Commandery  No.  20,  K.  T.,  both  of  Atlantic 
City.  He  married  (first)  June  13,  1888,  Mary 
Miller,  daughter  of  Zeblous  Mathis,  of  New 
Gretna,  New  Jersey,  who  was  born  February 
5,  1865,  and  died  March  19,  1902,  at  Atlantic 
City.  He  married  (second)  October  i,  1904, 
.Annie,  daughter  of  Gideon  Conover,  who  was 
born  in  Atlantic  City,  .April  19,  1865.  Chil- 
dren, two  by  first  marriage  :  i.  Arthur  Ander- 
son, born  at  New  Gretna,  December  13,  1889: 
now  a  student  at  Princeton  University.  2. 
Ralph  Pitney,  born  at  New  Gretna.  July  12, 
1895  •  now  a  pupil  in  Atlantic  City  graiumar 
school.  3.  Robert  Clare,  born  November  6, 
1903  :  died  in  infancy.  4.  Mary  .Anna,  born  at 
.Atlantic  City.  June  19,  1907. 

(The  Pitney  Line). 

(1\")  .Aaron,  son  of  Mahlon  and  Sarah 
(Pitney)  Pitney,  was  born  in  Mendham,  Mor- 
ris county.  New  Jersey,  .August  12,  1793.  He 
married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Lady  I.etitia  .Anderson,  who  was  a  sister  to 
Judge  John  .Anderson,  of  Somerset  county, 
and  an  aunt  of  Commodore  Thomas  Anderson 
Conover,  U.  S.  A. 

(\')  Mary  .Anderson,  daughter  of  Aaron 
and  Hannah  (.Anderson)  Pitney,  was  born  in 
Mendham,  Morris  county.  New  Jersey,  April 
II,  1 83 1.     She  married  Robert,  son  of  Peter 


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and    Elizabeth    ( AIcMurtry  I    Garrabrant,    re- 
ferred to  above. 


Ihe  Hulse,  Hulsart,  J  lulshart  and 
HL'LSE  liolsaert  families  are  descended 
from  old  Dutch  families  which 
formed  the  first  inhabitants  of  Kings  county, 
New  Jersey.  From  there  Benjamin  Holsaert 
tmigrated  to  Alonmouth  county,  and  in  1717 
bought  land  of  Thomas  Hankinson,  an<l  the 
^ame  year  he  and  his  wife,  .\nnetje  Leyster, 
joined  the  Marlboro  Brick  Church,  where  later 
vn  they  had  several  of  their  children  baptized. 
In  1718  he  bought  more  land  in  Freehold  town- 
ship, and  in  all  of  these  deeds  he  is  described 
as  being  from  New  L^trecht,  Long  Island.  His 
will  was  dated  (Dctober  18,  1732,  and  proved 
-May  20,  1733.  Unfortunately  the  records  are 
too  scanty  to  enable  us  to  trace  the  descent  of 
all  of  his  descendants,  and  although  there  are 
missing  links  in  the  genealogy  of  the  line  at 
jjresent  under  consideration,  there  is  more  than 
enough  evidence  to  warrant  the  assertion  that 
Mr.  John  Wesley  Hulse,  of  Freehold,  is  a  de- 
scendant of  the  Benjamin,  referred  to  above. 
(1)  Edward  Hulshart,  probably  the  great- 
grandson  of  Benjamin  Holsaert  and  his  wife. 
Annetje  Leyster,  lived  in  Freehold  township, 
where  he  was  a  farmer.  By  his  wdfe  Hetty 
lie  had:  ■  Gideon;  John  Wesley;  Joseph  G.. 
referred  to  below  ;  Stephen  ;  Sidney  ;  .-Knadosia. 
(  H  )  Joseph  G., third  son  of  Edward  Hulshart, 
was  born  in  Freehold  township,  Monmouth  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  in  1800,  and  died  there  in  1880. 
After  having  received  a  common  school  educa- 
tion he  learned  the  trade  of  a  millwright,  which 
he  followed  until  he  was  forty  years  of  age, 
and  then  gave  up  in  order  to  take  up  farming, 
which  he  pursued  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  was  at  one 
time  elected  a  justice  of  the  peace,  but  did  not 
qualify.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Methodist 
church  at  Blucball,  now  Aldelphia.  He  married 
Achsah,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  Bennett, 
of  Jackson  township,  Monmouth  (now  Ocean) 
county,  New  Jersey.  Children,  besides  two 
who  died  in  infancy:  William  Bennett;  Gar- 
rett; Rachael,  now  dead;  Benjamin;  James 
Henry,  now  dead;  John  Wesley,  referrefl  to 
below;  Matilda;  Alice. 

(HI)  John  Wesley  Hulse,  child  of  Joseph 
G.  and  Achsah  (Bennett)  Hulshart,  was  born 
in  Freehold  township,  near  the  Georgia  school- 
house,  October  g,  1846,  and  is  now  living  in 
I'reehold,  New  Jersey.  Until  the  breaking  out 
of  the  war  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm, 
and  then,  Seiitember  23,  1864,  enlisted  in  Com- 


pany A,  38th  New  Jersey  Volunteer  Regiment, 
under  Colonel  (later  Senator)  Sewell.  At  the 
close  of  the  war,  June  30,  1865,  he  was  muster- 
ed out  of  service,  after  having  been  in  several 
skirmishes.  It  was  during  this  period  of  serv- 
ice that  he  changed  his  name  to  its  present 
spelling  of  Hulse.  After  his  retirement  from 
the  army  Mr.  Hulse  returned  to  Freehold, 
v.here  he  learned  the  trade  of  painter,  and  set- 
ting up  in  business  for  himself  he  carried  on  a 
most  successful  plant  from  1870  to  1892,  in 
which  he  gave  employment  to  c|uite  a  number 
of  men.  In  1892  he  was  elected  a  justice  of 
the  peace,  and  for  the  last  seventeen  years  he 
has  continuously  filled  this  office,  having  been 
re-elected  four  times  without  any  opposition  h'or 
fourteen  years  he  has  been  a  ])olice  justice,  and 
lor  a  number  of  years  ]jast  he  has  been  a  com- 
missioner of  deeds  and  a  notary  iiublic.  In 
politics  Mr.  Hulse  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  one 
of  the  most  popular  men  in  the  town,  and  one 
of  the  most  highly  regarded.  He  was  the 
chief  engineer  of  the  fire  department  in  Free- 
hold for  ten  years,  1888-1898.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  James  W.  Conover  Post,  No.  63,  G.  A. 
R.,  Freehold,  and  he  held  a  commission  as  sec- 
ond in  command  of  Company  E,  Second  Regi- 
ment, National  Guard,  State  of  New  Jersey. 
In  1867.  lohn  Wesley  Hulse  married  Lidia, 
daughter  of  John  C.  Van  Cleaf,  of  Manalapan 
townshi]).  Children,  besides  two  that  died  in 
infancy:  I.  Alargaret,  born  in  Freehold,  New 
Jersey,  in  1880;  married  Charles  H.  J.  Clayton, 
an  undertaker  of  Adelphi,  New  Jersey;  chil- 
dren— Ada  and  Ensley.  2.  James  Burnett, 
born  1884;  a  printer  in  the  Record  office,  at 
J^ong  Branch ;  married  Martha  Palmer 


The    common    ancestor 
VANDER  VEER    of     the     various     lines 

which  spell  their  names 
\ander  \'eer,  \'an  der  \'eer,  Vanderveer.  \'an- 
dervier,  etc.,  was  Cornelis  Jansen,  a  Dutch 
farmer,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1659,  in  the  ship  "Otter."  In  the  will 
of  his  father-in-law  he  is  called  Cornelis  Jan- 
sen de  Seenn,  which  is  the  only  clue  we  have 
as  to  the  particular  part  of  Holland  from 
which  he  came,  as  the  name  on  the  passenger 
list  of  the  ship,  "Van  der  Veer,"  simply  means 
"from  the  ferry,"  and  is  too  indefinite  a  de- 
scription to  be  identified  with  any  certainty  at 
the  present  day.  He  himself  signs  his  name 
"Cornelis  Janse  Vande  \'eer,  and  the  branches 
of  his  descendants  at  present  under  considera- 
tion have  ado])ted  the  spelling  \'ander  Veer. 
(I)   According  to  Tennis  G.   Bergen,  Cor- 


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nelis  Janse  \  ander  \  eer  came  from  Alkmaar, 
North  Holland,  to  Flatbush,  Long  Island, 
where  on  February  24,  1678,  he  bought  of  Jan 
Janse  Fyn  for  2600  guilders  (a  sum  amounting 
to  about  $1,045)  'I  farm  in  Flatbush  "lying 
south  of  the  purchaser's  farm,"  from  which  it 
is  evident  that  at  this  time  he  was  a  resident 
of  Flatbush.  The  "purchaser's  farm"  referred 
to  in  the  deed  was  probably  the  tract  of  twen- 
ty-six morgens  in  that  town  patented  March 
12,  1661,  by  Governor  Stuyvesant  to  "Cornelis 
Janse,"  and  lying  on  the  north  side  of  the  land 
of  Jan  Snediker.  In  1678  and  again  in  1680 
liis  name  appears  on  the  lists  of  magistrates ; 
and  it  it  also  one  of  the  names  of  the  patentees 
of  the  town  in  the"  patent  of  1685.  Cornelis 
Janse  Vander  Veer  married  Tryntje,  eldest 
daughter  of  Yellis  (sometimes  called  Gillis,  the 
English  Giles)  de  Mandeville,  who  had  emi- 
grated from  \'oorthuisen,  a  village  near  Gard- 
eren,  Holland,  in  the  "De  Trouw/'  February 
12,  1659,  with  his  wife  and  four  children.  His 
wife's  name  was  Elsje  Ifeudricx,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  Hendrik,  married  Annetje 
Pieterse  Scholl.  2.  David,  married  Marytje 
\'an  Hoesen.     3.  Tryntje,  referred  to  below. 

4.  Aeltje,  married  Laurens  Jansen  de  Camp. 

5.  (ierritje,  married  (first)  Wiert  Eppens.  bet- 
ter known  as  Wiert  Epke,  the  ancestor  of  the 
P.anta  family:  (second)  Increase  Power,  fi. 
Cirietje,  married  Ian  Pieterse  Meet.  7.  Tan. 
8.  Willem. 

Children  of  Cornelis  Janse  and  Tryntje  Yel- 
liss  (de  Alandeville)  Vander  Veer:  i.  Cornelis 
Jr.,  of  Flatbush  (q.  v.),  1731.  2.  Neeltje,  mar- 
ried, August  13,  1685,  Daniel  Polhemus.  3. 
Jan,  married,  January  6,  i6f)5,  Femmetje. 
daughter  of  Michael  Hansen  P>ergen  and  Fem- 
metje. Teunissen  Nyssen,  the  father  of  the 
last  named  being  the  ancestor  of  the  Denyse 
and  Dcnise  families.  4.  Maria,  bajitized  June 
or  July  30.  1682:  possibly  wife  of  Jan  Mon- 
fort.  5.  Ilendrikje,  baptized  May  17  or  Au- 
gust  27.  1684,  conjectured  to  be  wife  of  Jo- 
hannes \\'yckoff.  6.  Dominicus,'  referred  to 
below.  7.  Jacoba,  ba])tized  in  P>rooklyn.  April 
29,  1686;  about  1704  married  Johannes  Will- 
empse  van  Couweiihoven.  of  i'rooklyn,  who 
removed  to  New  Jersey.  Probably  also  in 
addition  to  these  should  be  added :  8.  Jacobus, 
of  Penn's  Neck,  Salem  county,  New  Jersey, 
bajnized  Octoljer  29.  ifiSfi,  died  in  1726:  wife's 
name  Catharine.  9.  Michael,  died  before  1770; 
by  wife  Belitje  had  seven  children.  It  has  also 
been  conjectured  that  there  was  another  son, 
Pieter:  but  the  Pieter  Cornelise  X'ander  A'eer 
to  whom  reference  is  made  was  a  grown  man 


in  i(>S3  and  1658,  when  he  bought  land  and  ob- 
tained a  patent  in  New  Amsterdam,  so  that 
the  conjecture  is  highly  improbable,  especially 
as  the  only  other  known  occurrence  of  the 
name  is  in  Petrus,  son  of  Cornelis  Jr.  and  Jan- 
netje,  and  in  this  case  probably  comes  from  the 
mother's  side  of  the  house. 

(II)  Dominicus,  son  of  Cornelis  Janse  and 
Tryntje  Yellis  (de  Mandeville)  Vander  Veer, 
was  baptized  November  16,  1679,  in  Flatbush, 
and  lived  in  New  Utrecht.  He  died  probably 
about  1755.  His  name  appears  on  the  Flat- 
bush records  in  connection  with  the  salt 
meadows  and  the  church  funds  in  1724-27-49; 
and  in  1736  he  was  sheriff  of  Kings  county. 
The  name  of  his  wife  has  been  variously  given, 
and  Tennis  G.  Bergen  says  that  he  was  twice 

married,  first  to  Jannetje .and  (second) 

I'^ebruary  7,  1702,  to  Maria  Margreta  Nortlyck 
01  \  an  Ortcck.  As  the  Flatbush  records  as 
late  as  1724  mention  the  name  of  his  wife  as 
Jannetje,  this  is  undoubtedly  wrong;  but  the 
fact  that  Giliam  Cornell,  of  Flatbush,  speaks 
of  Dominicus  in  his  will  as  brother-in-law,  the 
]>robable  e.xj^Ianation  of  the  confusion  is  that 
Dominicus  married  Jannetje.  daughter  of 
Simon  and  Folckertje  \'an  Noortwyck.  and 
sister  of  Cornelia  Van  Noortwyck,  Giliam's 
own  wife,  the  confusion  having  arisen  in  con- 
nection with  Giliam's  only  sister  Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  and  Margreta  (Verscheur)  Cor- 
nell, 

Children  of  Dominicus  and  Jannetje  \'ander 
Veer,  all  of  whom  were  baptized  at  New  Ut- 
recht, although  the  baptisms  of  some  of  them 
Vv-ere  also  recorded  at  Flatbush  :  i.  Dominicus 
Jr.,  baptized  November  3,  1723;  married.  July 
2.  1748,  Elizabeth  Lequire.  2.  Catlyntje,  bap- 
tized July  25,  1715 ;  said  by  some  to  have  mar- 
ried Jacobus  Lefferts.  although  others  claim 
that  his  wife  was  Catrina,  daughter  of  Cornelis 
Jr.  and  Jannetje  Vander  Veer.  3.  Jannetje,  bap- 
tized June  21,  1719.  4.  Jacobus,  baptized  De- 
cember 10,  1721  ;  married,  Alay  25,  1745.  Fem- 
metje, daughter  of  Jan  Pieterse  Strycker  and 
Sara,  daughter  of  Alichael  Hansen  Bergen.  5. 
Tunis,  referred  to  below.  6.  Neeltje.  baptized 
July  9,  1727;  married  Pieter  Lott.  of  New 
Lotts,  Flatbush.  7.  Jeremias,  baptized  March 
30,  1729;  married  Elizabeth  Ditmars.  8. 
.•\ntje,  baptized  October  17,  1731  ;  probably 
the  .\nn  \'ander  \'eer  who  married  Cornelius 
\"an  Duyn.  9.  Jan.  baptized  .August  19.  1733. 
In  addition,  the  following  children  have  also 
been  assigned  to  Dominicus  and  Jannetje :  10. 
Cornelius,  born  1700,  removed  to  Shrewsbury, 
New  Jersey  ;  married  (first)  Jannetje  Wyckoff, 


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(second)  AIat}e  Smock  (Bergen  says  Alatye 
Schenck').  ii.  Cornelia.  12.  Hendrick,  mar- 
ried Xeeltje  \'an  Cleef,  and  is  said  by  some  to 
liave  removed  to  Xew  Brunswick,  Canada, 
and  by  others  to  have  removed  to  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey. 

(Ill)  Tunis,  son  of  Dominicus  and  Jan- 
netje  N'ander  \'eer,  was  born  in  I'datbush, 
Long  Island,  in  1704,  and  died  in  Monmouth 
county.  New  Jersey,  about  1775.  About  1723 
lie  married  Aeltje,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Roelofse 
and  Neeltje  Coerts  (Van  Voories)  Schenck,  by 
whom  he  had  six  sons  and  three  daughters, 
among  whom  were:  i.  Tunis  Jr.,  bap- 
tized April  22,  1739;  married  Jannetje  Nos- 
trand.  2.  Garret,  born  December  4,  1731,  died 
January  31,  1803;  married,  April  20,  1756, 
Jane,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Sarah  (  Schenck  ) 
\  oorhees.    3.  David,  referred  to  below. 

( I\  )  David,  son  of  Tunis  and  Aeltje  ( ler- 
ricse  ( Schenck )  Vander  \'eer,  was  born  in 
1748.  and  married,  February  28,  1765,  Catha- 
rine Conover,  a  lineal  descendant  of  old  Gerrit 
W'olfertse  van  Kouwenhover.  He  and  his  wife 
settled  in  Philadelphia,  and  among  their  chil- 
dren was  David  Jr.,  referred  to  below. 

(\')  David  Jr.,  son  of  David  and  Katha- 
rine (Conover)  Vander  Veer,  was  born  in  Had- 
donfield.  New  Jersey,  March  26,  1778.  and 
died  January  19,  1859.  -He  lived  in  Fhiladel- 
phia,  where  he  carried  on  a  lumber  business 
at  the  corner  of  Brown  and  Broad  streets.  He 
was  most  successful  in  business,  and  retired 
at  an  advanced  age  with  a  great  deal  of  wealth. 
He  was  an  active  and  faithful  member  all  of 
his  life  to  the  Baptist  church.     November  16, 

1801,  he  married  Elizabeth,  born  November  11, 
1785,  died  March  9,  1843,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Morris.    Children:    i.  Ann,  born  September  6, 

1802,  died  August  31,  1823.  2.  Alary,  born 
.A.ugust  30,  1804,  died  January  17,  1889:  mar- 
ried, March  3,  1825,  Abraham  Heulings ;  seven 
children.  3.  Thomas  Morris,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Elizabeth,  born  April  22,  1809,  died 
1890:  married,  January  14,  1829,  Edmund 
Brown.  5.  Elenor,  born  August  24,  181 1,  died 
September  26,  181 2.  6.  William,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1813;  married,  February  28,  1844, 
Mary  Teresa  Wunder;  one  son,  David  Guy. 
7.  Sarah,  born  November  27,  1816,  died  No- 
vember 4,  1824.  8.  David  (3rd),  born  March 
27,  1819,  died  January  21,  1888:  married,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1845,  Anna  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
George  and  Louisa  Hacker.  Their  two 
daughters  married — Maria  Louisa,  Joseph  D. 
Robinson;  and  .Ann  Elizabeth,  Jose|)h  11. 
Rohrman.      David    (3rd)    married    (second). 


January  3,  1867,  Mary  M.,  daugiiter  of  Judge 
James  Moore,  of  Chester  county,  I'ennsyl- 
vania.  widow  of  John  F.  HanscH.  9.  Emily 
Welding,  born  August  21,  1821,  died  Decem- 
ber'26,  1846,  married,  September  28,  1843, 
Stephen  C.  Foulk.  10.  John  AL,  born  April 
4.  1825,  died  August  23,  1856;  married,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1851,  Julia  Young;  one  son,  lidwin, 
(lied  age  five  years. 

(\'l  )  Thomas  Morris,  third  child  and  eldest 
son  of  David  Jr.  and  Catharine  (Conover) 
\'ander  Veer,  was  born  in  I'hiladelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania, February  11,  1807,  and  died  at  Free- 
hold,  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey,  March 

1,  1880.  He  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Philadelphia,  after  graduating  from 
which  he  began  his  life  work  as  a  tanner  and 
manufacturer  of  leather.  After  a  time  he  sold 
out  his  leather  business  and  removed  to  Mon- 
mouth county.  New  Jersey,  where  he  bought  a 
farm  near  the  town  of  Freehold,  upon  which 
he  lived  for  several  years.  After  this  he 
opened  a  general  store  in  Freehold,  and  con- 
tinued there  in  business  most  successfully  for 
some  time.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  Church  in  Freehold,  and  was  for 
many  years  one  of  the  school  trustees  of  that 
town.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  and  later 
became  a  Republican.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  original  founders  of  the  Freehold  Ceme- 
tery Association.  January  30,  1828,  he  married 
Margaret  DuBois.  born  December  23,  1810, 
died  February  17,  1857,  daughter  of  John 
Henry  and  Elizabeth  ( Du  Bois)  Smock,  of 
Marlboro,  Monmouth  county,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  John  Henry,  born  August  21, 
1829,  died  in  Florida,  189 — ;  married  (first), 
January  9,  1861,  Lemma  A.  Rapelye,  who  died 
November  26,  1874,  leaving  six  children;  Mar- 
garet, Elizabeth,  Thomas,  William.  Augustus 
and  Victoria.  John  Henry  married  (second), 
May  29,  1877,  Lucretia  Loomis.  2.  Morris, 
born  November  29,  1831,  died  April  12,  1863, 
unmarried.  3.  David  .\ugustus,  referred  to 
below.  4.  Elizabeth  Smock,  born  March  6, 
1836,  died  February  2,  1871  ;  married,  .\ugust 

2,  1858,  A.  Cadmus  Stryker.  5.  Ann,  born 
September  9,  1838,  died'  February  5.  1867; 
married,  August  2,  1858,  Rev.  A.  A.  E.  Tay- 
lor, D.  D.  6.  Mary  Heulings,  born  April  26, 
1 84 1  ;  married,  February  20,  1862,  John  C. 
\"an  Doren.  7.  Emily  Foulk,  born  February 
7.  1846,  died  July  16,  1879;  married,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1869,  Thomas  C.  Wheeler.  8.  Daniel 
Schenck,  born  February  14,  i84<),  died  |anu- 
ary  27,  1850. 

(\TI)    David     .\ugustus,     third     child     and 


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son  of  Thomas  Morris  and  Margaret  Du  Bois 
(Smock)  \'ander  Veer,  was  horn  in  Moores- 
town,  Burhngton  county,  New  Jersey.  Decem- 
ber 14,  1833.  ile  was  educated  in  the  pubHc 
schools  of  Freehold,  after  graduating  from 
which  he  began  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  store. 
After  remaining  in  this  position  about  three 
years  he  went  to  New  York  City  and  entered 
the  wholesale  store  of  Wilson  C.  Hunt  & 
Company,  with  whom  he  remained  about  six 
years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  returned 
to  F'reehold,  New  Jersey,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
five  years,  and  went  into  the  general  mer- 
chandise business  with  two  partners,  the  name 
of  the  firm  being  Patterson,  \'ander  \'eer  & 
Company.  For  about  five  years  this  business 
durationship  continued,  and  then  Air.  \'ander 
Veer  returned  to  New  York,  where  he  spent 
a  year  in  the  employ  of  Lord  &  Taylor.  This 
position  he  left  in  order  to  attend  to  important 
business  interests  which  had  arisen  in  Penn- 
sylvania. These  interests  demanded  his  atten- 
tion for  several  years,  and  he  then  returned 
to  F'reehold,  where  for  si.x  years  he  turned 
his  attention  to  farming  and  agricultural  pur- 
suits, having  the  com])lete  management  of  the 
old  Schenck  farm,  now  known  as  the  Battle 
Monument  farm.  He  next  removed  to  Mana- 
lapan,  where  for  twenty  years  longer  he  oper- 
ated a  large  farm,  and  during  President  Gar- 
field's administration  served  as  postmaster. 
In  this  last  place  Mr.  \'ander  Veer  became 
widely  known  and  celebrated  as  a  breeder  of 
Jersey  cattle,  and  also  as  a  fruit  grower.  He 
was  the  first  cliartcr  member  of  Monmouth 
County  Grange,  No.  92,  F'reehold.  being  for 
several  years  the  secretary  of  the  Association, 
and  also  a  member  of  the  state  and  of  the 
national  granges.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Monmouth  County  Board  of 
Agriculture,  and  at  present  is  secretary  of  that 
organization.  l*"or  many  years  he  has  been 
an  active,  enthusiastic  and  ijrominent  member 
of  the  State  Horticultural  Society,  on  the 
executive  committee  of  which  he  served  con- 
tinuously from  1888  to  1906,  in  addition  to 
which  he  has  for  twenty-three  years  held  the 
office  of  vice-president  of  that  society.  Among 
other  things  for  which  the  state  and  the  country 
at  large  owe  him  a  debt  of  gratitude,  is  the 
remarkably  creditably  showing  of  the  state 
exhibits  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
at  Chicago  in  T893,  ''"^l  ^Iso  at  the  \\'orld's 
Fair  Exjjosition  in  Piufifalo  in  1901.  For  seven 
years  Mr.  \'ander  \"eer  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Freehold  Kifie  Corps.  lie  is  a  director  in 
the  Stokes  Brothers  Manufacturing  Company 


of  I'Veehold.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Holland  Societ\'  of 
New  ^'ork,  of  which  from  1888  to  1894  he 
was  the  society's  vice-president  from  Mon- 
mouth county.  In  early  manhood  Mr.  \'ander 
Veer  became  a  member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  and  was  for  many  years  a  consistent 
member  of  that  body,  giving  to  it  not  only  his 
means  but  also  his  time  and  energy  in  the 
offices  of  deacon  and  clerk  of  the  consistory. 
At  the  present  time  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  in  Freehold. 

November  13,  1861,  David  Augustus  \  an- 
der  Veer  married  Georgianna,  born  .August  28, 
1842.  daughter  of  George  and  Ann  (Ely) 
Hunt.  Children:  i.  Louise  Hunt.  2.  Mari- 
anna  Hunt,  born  October  24,  1870;  married 
Edward  Taylor,  of  Freehold.  3.  Ella  Hunt, 
born  February  21,  1875;  married,  April  2, 
1903,  Bowen  Bancroft  Smith,  of  New  York 
City :  they  have  one  child,  Bowen  Hunt  Ban- 
croft, born  June  19,  1904. 


(II)    Cornelius,   son  of 

\AN  DER\  EER  Cornelis  Janse  (q.  v.) 
and  Tryntje  Gillis  fde 
iMandeville)  \'an  Derveer,  was  baptized  No- 
vember 16,  1679.  He  was  recorded  on  the 
assessment  roll  of  Flatbush  in  1683,  and  on  the 
census  enumeration  of  1698.  In  1731  he  was 
sheriff  of  Kings  county,  Long  Island.  His  will 
is  dated  June  7,  1775,  and  proved  April  8, 
1782.  He  married  (probably)  Jannetje, 
daughter  of  Gerret  Hansen  and  Jannetje 
(Remscn)  \'an  Nostrand.  Children:  John, 
deafl  in  1782;  Katrina,  born  May  30,  1722. 
married  Jacobus  Lefferts ;  Cornelius,  referred 
to  below;  Petrus,  born  June  5,  1735. 

(Ill)  Cornelius,  son  of  Cornelis  and  Jan- 
netje (van  Nostrand)  Van  Derveer,  was  born 
in  December  5,  1731.  He  married  Lea,  daugh- 
ter of  Jan  Roelofs  and  Annetje  (Enimans) 
Ver  Kerk,  who  was  baptized  in  New  L'trecht. 
February  i.  1741.  Among  their  children  were: 
John  C.  father  of  late  John  \'an  Derveer.  of 
I-'latbush :  George  F.,  referred  to  below. 

(I\')  George  F.,  son  of  Cornelius  and  Lea 
(\'cr  Kerk)  Ya.n  Derveer,  was  born  in  Flat- 
bush.  Long  Island,  in  1779.  and  died  in  New 
I'runswick.  New  Jersey,  in  1876.  lie  was  a 
farmer.  Children :  Cornelius ;  Ferdinand ; 
Henrietta,  married  Richard  R.  \'an  Dyke,  of 
New  Brunswick  ;  George  F..  referred  to  below. 

(V)  George  F.,  son  of  George  I*".  \'an  Der- 
\cer.  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  New  Jer- 
sey, in  1832.  .After  receiving  a  common  school 
education   he   began   working  on   his    father's 


STATE   OF    NEW    H'.RSI-A'. 


farm,  which  he  afterwards  inherited.  In  1879 
he  removetl  to  Dayton,  Middlesex  county,  and 
later  to  EngHshtovvn,  Monmouth  coimty, 
where  he  remained  until  his  death.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Republican.  He  married  Mary  T., 
born  in  Dayton,  in  1835,  daughter  of  Garret 
and  Elizabeth  Anderson.  September  18,  1864 
lu  enlisted  in  the  Union  army,  and  the  follow- 
ing September  27  was  mustered  in  Compan\' 
G,  Thirty-eighth  Regiment  New  Jersey  N'olun- 
teers,  and  was  mustered  out  June  30,  1865. 
Children  of  George  F.  and  Mary  T.  ( Annis ) 
\'an  Derveer :  i.  George  F.  (3),  deceased. 
2.  William  H.,  in  cigar  antl  tobacco  business 
in  Freehold  ;  married  Mary  Elliot.  3.  Richard 
R.,  a  farmer  at  Jamesburg;  married  Caroline 
Lane;  one  child,  George  F.  4.  Matilda  E.. 
n\arried     and     deceased,     leaving    one     child, 

Clarence .      3.    Edgar    1..    referred    ti> 

below. 

(  \  I )  Edgar  I.,  son  of  (ieorge  F.  and  Mary 
T.  (Annis)  \'an  Derveer,  was  born  in  New 
Brunswick,  New  Jersey,  December  7,  1869. 
and  is  now  living  in  Freehold.  He  received 
his  early  education  in  the  school  at  Dayton, 
where  he  went  with  his  parents  when  he  was 
ten  years  of  age.  Six  years  later  he  entered 
the  employ  of  Luther  \'.  Dey,  of  Englishtown. 
a  dealer  in  general  merchandise,  for  whom  he 
worked  as  clerk  for  seven  years,  and  in  1892 
was  admitted  as  a  partner  in  the  business, 
which  was  conducted  under  the  firm  name  of 
E.  L  Van  Derveer  &  Company.  This  ]iartner- 
ship  was  dissolved  three  years  later,  and  Mr. 
Van  Derveer  then  came  to  Freehold,  where  he 
went  to  work  for  Burtis  &  Zimmerman,  the 
well  known  wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in 
bicycles,  musical  instruments,  etc.  Here  he 
remained  four  years  longer,  and  then  he  and 
his  brother.  William  H.  \'an  Derveer,  started 
the  wholesale  and  retail  tobacco  business  at 
Freehold,  which  they  have  carried  on  ever 
since  under  the  firm  name  of  \  an  Derveer 
Brothers.  At  the  time  that  this  firm  was 
formed,  Mr.  Edgar  L  \'an  Derveer  became 
identified  with  the  Prudential  Insurance  Com- 
])any  as  its  local  and  general  agent,  a  connec- 
tion which  he  still  continues  to  have.  Mr. 
Van  Derveer  is  a  Republican,  and  in  igor  was 
elected  coroner  of  Monmouth  cimnty;  after 
serving  in  this  capacity  for  three  years  he  was 
in  1904  elected  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey 
assembly,  a  position  to  which  he  was  re-elected 
in  1905.  While  in  the  assembly  ?iTr.  \'an  Der- 
veer proved  himself  a  most  valuable  and  ]jrom- 
inent  statesman,  .serving  with  distinguished 
ability  as  the  chairman  of  the  committee  on 


agricultural  colleges  and  a  number  of  other 
im|i<irtant  c<imniittees.  In  1906  he  was  made 
collect<.>r  f(ir  the  township  of  Freehold,  and 
was  appointed  treasurer  and  custodian  of  the 
schoc)l  funds.  In  November,  1908,  he  was 
appointed  chief  clerk  in  the  sheriff's  office, 
under  Sheriff  C.  E.  F.  Hetrick.  All  these  posi- 
tions he  resigned  June  5,  1909.  In  1907, 
although  strongly  urged  by  everyone,  he 
declined  to  accept  the  nomination  as  candidate 
for  surrogate  of  Monnunith  county,  which 
was  oiTered  to  him.  May  7,  1909,  President 
Taft  appointed  him  postmaster  of  h'reehold  to 
succeed  A'Ir.  James  Wesley  Danser,  who  died 
April  ID,  1909.  Mr.  \  an  Derveer  is  an  enthus- 
iastic and  a  firm  believer  in  the  benefits  of 
fraternal  organizations,  and  is  a  prominent 
and  influential  member  of  a  number  of  frater- 
nities, among  which  should  be  mentioned 
C'(.)lumbia  Lodge,  No.  65,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
of  Englishtown;  the  Knights  of  the  Golden 
Eagle,  of  I'reehold,  and  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  ( )rder  of  h^lks.  No.  742,  of  Long 
Branch.  Mr.  \"an  Derveer  is  alst)  a  member  of 
the  Freehold  Driving  Club,  of  the  Merchants' 
Association  of  Freehold,  and  Hulse  Hose 
Company,  of  which  he  is  foreman.  He  is  an 
enthusiastic  and  an  e.xpert  sportsman,  and  for 
a  long  time  had  been  a  member  of  the  Freehold 
( iun  Club,  in  connection  with  which  he  won 
and  still  holds  the  individual  state  champion- 
ship as  a  sharpshooter.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
Republican  executive  committee  of  Freehold, 
and  a  member  of  the  Republican  executive 
committee  of  Monmouth  county.  I""or  many 
years  he  has  been  a  regular  attendant  of  the 
Fhitch  Reformed  Church,  and  in  recent  years 
he  has  become  a  vocal  musician  of  considerable 
note. 

In  February,  i8<;3.  Mr.  \  an  Derveer  mar- 
ried Alary  E.,  daughter  of  i\bijah  and 
Amanda  (  Davidson  )  Perrine,  of  Englishtown, 
the  descendant  of  a  family  as  old  and  as  hon- 
orable in  New  Jersey  annals  as  is  that  of  Mr. 
\'an  Derveer.  Children,  both  born  in  Free- 
hold: Mildred  B..  March  6.  1897;  and  Alvah, 
J;uin;iry  2,   u)oi. 

The  surname  Bacheller,  or 
BACl  1 ELLFR     Bachelor,  Bachelder,  Bach- 

ilor  and  Batcheller,  is  de- 
rived un(|iK-stiinably  from  the  English  word 
l>;ichelor,  meaning  an  unmarried  man.  or  col- 
lege graduate.  The  spelling  even  at  the  pres- 
ent time  varies  greatly  in  different  branches 
nf  the  same  family  bearing  this  surname.  Be- 
f(jre    1600  the   family   was   scattered   through 


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STATE    Ol*'    NEW  JERSEY. 


the  English  counties  of  Kent.  -Surrey.  Sussex, 
Wilts,  llants,  I'.ucks,  Middlesex,  Xorfolk  and 
SulTolk,  all  in  the  southeastern  part  of  the 
kingdom.  Very  few  are  found  north  of  Lon- 
don. The  earliest  mention  of  the  name  is 
found  in  Surrey,  and  that  country  was  prob- 
ably  the  home  of  the  most  im])ortant  branch 
of  the  family  at  the  time  surnames  came  into 
use.  It  is  likely  that  many  unrelated  Bachelor 
families  adopted  this  surname  in  the  eleventh 
and  twelfth  centuries,  however. 

(I)  Joshua  Hatcheller,  of  Canterbury,  came 
to  this  country  with  his  wife  and  children  be- 
tween 1630  and  1635.  and  about  the  same  time 
as  his  brothers  Joseph,  Henry  and  John,  and 
settled  in  Ipswich,  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony. 
The  name  of  his  wife  is  unknown,  and  the 
names  of  but  three  of  his  children  have  come 
down  to  us  :  John,  referred  to  below  ;  Eliza- 
beth ;  and  Hannah,  married  Daniel  Warner,  of 
Ipswich.  Massachusetts. 

(II)  Sergeant  John,  son  of  Joshua  Datch- 
eller,  was  born  in  England,  and  died  in  Read- 
ing, Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  March  3,  1676. 
He  was  one  of  the  proprietors  of  Watertown 
in  1636,  when  he  was  granted  six  lots  there,  and 
was  selectman.  May  13,  1635,  he  was  admitted 
freeman, Init  he  soon  renujved  to Dedham,  where 
he  and  his  wife  were  admitted  to  the  church 
May  30,  1641.  One  of  his  Watertown  lots  of 
thirty-six  acres  he  sold  to  Jeremiah  Norcross 
before   1642.     His  will  is  dated  July  2,  1670. 

He  married  Rebecca  ,  who  died  March 

9,  1662,  in  Reading,  where  her  husband  was 
selecttuan,  165 1-54-58- 166 1-64  ;  and  town  clerk. 
1693-99.    Children  :  I.  John,  referred  to  below. 

2.  Jonathan,  born  October  14,  1643,  baptized 
December  24,    1643;  '1'*-'^  December  4,   1653. 

3.  David,  twin  with  Jonathan,  baptized  in  Ded- 
liam,  l_)ecember  14.  1643;  married  there,  De- 
cember 30,  1679,  Hannah  I'lummer,  who  bore 
him  five  children.  He  was  a  .soldier  in  King 
Philip's  war,  in  the  company  of  Captain 
Thomas  Wheeler,  and  is  said  participated  in 
the  relief  of  Brookfield,  in  the  Great  Fort  fight 
under  Captain  Nathaniel  Davenport.  4.  Mary, 
born  1635,  died  1729:  married,  November  22. 
1660,  Nathaniel,  son  of  Deacon  William  and 
Joanna  Cowdrey.  5.  Samuel,  baptized  Janu- 
ary n.  1639.  died  March  25,  1662. 

(HI)  John  (2),  son  of  Sergeant  John  fi) 
and  Rebecca  Batchelder,  was  born  in  Reading, 
Massachusetts,  and  died  there  September  17, 
1705.  In  \C)66  he  drew  land  in  the  division  of 
the  Great  Swamp,  and  his  minister's  rate  was 
£1.  6.  4.  In  1686  he  was  taxed  to  assist  in 
paying  for  land  bought  from  the  Indians,  and 


in  1688  he  was  the  fourth  largest  subscriber 
to  the  fund  for  building  the  new  meetinghouse. 
From  it)76  to  1702  he  was  selectman  of  Read- 
ing, and  town  clerk  i694-<;7.  In  1675  he 
served  in  King  Philip's  war.  in  the  company  of 
Lieutenant  William  Hasey,  in  the  Third  com- 
pany troo]j,  the  captain  being  Edward  Hutchin- 
son and  the  cornet  Jonathan  Poole.  His  heirs 
were  granted  land  in  the  division  of  Narragan- 
sett.  No.  2,  now  Westminster,  Massachusetts. 
He  married  (first)  January  2,  1662,  Sarah 
,   died   December  21,   1685.     Children: 

1.  Rebecca,  born  October  30,  1663;  married 
David,  son  of  Thomas  and  Susanna  Harts- 
horne  ;  a  soldier  in  the  I'Vench  and  Indian  wars. 

2.  John,  born  February  23,  1666,  died  Novem- 
ber 2,  1732;  married,  November  10,  1696, 
Sarah  Poore ;  eight  children.  3.  Henry,  born 
July  29,  1668,  died  November  11,  1688.  4. 
Sarah,  born  July  9,  1670,  died  in  1751  :  mar- 
ried, 1691,  John  Pratt;  six  children.  5.  Sam- 
uel, born  January  23.  167 1,  referred  to  below. 
6.  Nathaniel,  born  March  17,  1675,  died  May 
18,  1763  ;  was  selectman  1734;  married,  .August 
26,  1703,  Hannah  Ellsley;  five  children.  John 
Batchelder  married    (second)    May   10.    1687, 

Hannah -,   who  died   October   5,    1693. 

Children:  7.  Mary,  born  November  19,  1688; 
married,  November  27.  1707,  John  (or  Josejih) 
Damon ;  two  children  of  record,  and  probably 
others.  8.  Elizabeth,  born  August  18,  1691  ; 
married,  April  29,  1713.  .Stephen  Parker.  John 
Batchelder    married    (third)    June    12,    it'194, 

Hannah ,  who  died  August  8,  1722;  no 

children. 

(I\')  Samuel,  fifth  child  of  John  (2)  Batch- 
elder  by  his  first  wife,  Sarah,  was  born  in 
Reading,  Mas.sachusetts.  January  23,  1671,  and 
died  June  22,  1704,  when  his  will  was  dated. 
John  Poole,  of  Lyim,  was  appointed  guardian 
of  his  "nine  year  old"  daughter  Alary,  and  his 
"seven  year  old"  son  Henry,  and  Jonathan 
Poole,  of  Reading,  was  appointed  guardian  of 
his  "ten  year  old"  son  William.  Samuel  Batch- 
elder    married    (first)    in    Reading,   June    25. 

1694,  Mary ,  who  died  .Ijiril  23.  1701. 

Children:  i.  Samuel,  born  May  31,  1605,  died 
unmarried,  1722.  2.  William,  born  May  22, 
1697.  3.  Mary,  born  November  12,  1698.  4. 
Henry,  born  July  5,  1700:  referred  to  below. 
February  20,  1702,  Samuel  Batchelder  married 
(second)  in  Charlestown,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Sweetser,  born  February  a8,  1671.  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  ALiry  (Frothingham)  White, 
and  widow  of  Joseph  Sweetser.  She  luarried 
(third)  Afay  8,  1706,  John  Pearson,  of  Read- 
ing and  Lynnfield.     She  bore  Samuel  Batch- 


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elder  one  child:    Elizabeth,  born  February  21, 
1703,  probably  wife  of  Samuel  Houtel. 

(\')  Henry  Bacheller,  youngest  child  of 
Samuel  Batchelder,  by  his  first  wife,  Mary, 
was  born  in  Reading,  Massachusetts,  July  5, 
1700,  and  died  in  January,  1767.  He  lived  in 
Lynn.  His  will  was  written  November  19, 
1766,  and  proved  March  2,  1767,  while  the 
inventory  of  his  estate  was  made  April  7,  1767, 
and  the  real  estate  was  divided  among  his 
heirs  June  6,  1769.  He  was  the  first  to  write 
hiis  name  Bacheller.  He  married  (first)  No- 
vember 24,  1723,  Hannah  Stocker.  Children; 
I.  Samuel,  referred  to  below.  2.  Lydia,  born 
January  16,  1727.  3.  Hannah,  born  January 
I,  1728.  4.  Henry,  born  in  Lynn,  January  31, 
1723,  died  January  12,  1826;  married,  April 
4,  1758,  Jerusha  Breed;  ten  children.  5.  Sarah, 
born  October  i,  1734.  6.  Mary,  born  April  2, 
1738,  died  August  6,  1757.  7.  Theophilus, 
born  February,  1743,  died  young.  Henry 
Bacheller  married  (second)  in  Lynn,  Massa- 
chusetts, August  18,  1747,  Sarah  Johnson. 
Children:  8.  Louis  or  Louie,  July  17,  1848. 
9.  Rupee,  August  7,  1733;  served  in  the  Rhode 
Island  state  troops  of  the  Continental  army, 
and  March  4,  1831,  was  granted  a  pension  of 
Si6<).98.  He  married  (first)  at  Newport,  Rhode 
Island,  Sarah  Parsons,  who  bore  him  eleven  chil- 
dren,and  (second)  in  1803, Mrs. Try])hena  Cam- 
eron, of  Vergennes,  Vermont,  who  iDore  liim  no 
children.  10.  Theophilus,  called  Corporal,  born 
June  II,  1751,  died  C)ctober  21,  1833;  mar- 
ried (first)  Mehitable  Breed,  who  died  in  1804; 
(second)    a   woman    who   died   in    1807;   and 

(third)  Zeviah ,  who  died  in  1821.     11. 

Anna,  born  November  7,  1755.     12.  Jonathan, 
born  August  20.  1758. 

(VI)  Samuel  (2),  eldest  child  of  Henry 
and  Hannah  (Stocker)  Bacheller,  was  born  in 
Lynn,  Massachusetts,  r)ctober  11,  1725,  and 
died  there  in  September,  1759.  He  lived  in 
Lynn,  and  administration  on  his  estate  was 
granted  there  September  27,  1759,  the  in- 
'.entory  being  filed  December  17  following,  and 
the  account  rendered  August  2,  1768.  January 
3,  1769,  the  general  state  court  of  Essex  coun- 
ty appointed  guardians  for  his  two  children. 
Cjn  ^farch  6,  1755,  Samuel  Bacheller  married, 
in  Lynn,  Hannah  Breed.  Children:  i.  James, 
born  February  26,  1756,  died  intestate,  August 
31.  1837:  was  a  shoe  manufacturer,  and  lived 
at  Lynn  ;  married,  August  26,  1784,  Elizabeth 
Perkins,  born  1761,  died  December  13,  1845; 
seven  children.   2.  Samuel  Jr.,  referred  to  below. 

(VII)  Samuel  (3),  youngest  child  of  Sam- 
uel  (2)  and  Hannah   (Breed)   Bacheller,  was 


born  in  Lynn,  ^Massachusetts,  November  i, 
1757,  and  died  March  5,  1831,  administration 
being  granted  on  his  estate  October  4,  1831, 
and  the  inventory  being  filed  April  3,  1832. 
He  was  a  cordwainer  and  lived  at  Lynn.  He 
married,  in  Lynn,  September  23,  1779,  Anna 
Derby,  born  August  ij ,  1761,  died  at  Amherst, 
New  Hampshire,  February  22.  1843.  Chil- 
dren: I.  John  Derby,  referred  to  below.  2. 
James,  born  March  25,  1782,  died  1834.  3. 
Hannah,  born  February  24.  17S4,  died  March 
25,  1809.  4.  Joshua,  born  Feljruary  11,  1790, 
died  December  28,  1840.  5.  Nancy,  born  Au- 
gust 28,  1792.  6.  Samuel,  born  April  19,  1795. 
7.  Jessie  Lee,  born  September  2,  1797,  died 
May  10,  1820.  8.  Joseph,  March  31,  1801, 
died  September  10,  1824.  9.  Lydia,  born  Oc- 
tober 12,  1804,  died  October  20,  1832. 

(VIII)  John  Derby,  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
and  Anna  (Derby)  Bacheller,  was  born  in 
Lynn,  Massachusetts,  December  25,  1787,  and 
died  in  Salem  in  1842.  He  was  a  shoemaker, 
and  lived  at  Lynn.  In  18 10  he  married  (first) 
Rachel  Newhall,  who  died  in  January,  1828. 
Children:  i.  Joseph  Newhall,  referred  to 
below.  2.  Rachel  Newhall,  born  December  2, 
1818,  died  November  30,  1896  ;  married,  March 
14,  1844,  John  Breen,  born  in  Nova  Scotia, 
February  6,  1818,  died  July  26,  1896;  lived  at 
Salem,  Massachusetts;  two  children.  3.  Ben- 
jamin Pickering,  born  November  13,  1820,  at 
Salem,  Massachusetts ;  cordwainer,  living  at 
Lnion.  Maine;  married,  December  i,  1844, 
Ann  Stetson,  born  July  17,  1824.  John  Derby 
Bacheller  married  (second)  Ann  Haseltine. 
Children :  4.  John  Derby  Jr.,  born  September 
29,  1832:  is  a  musician  and  shoemaker,  living 
in  Salem,  Massachusetts ;  married,  August  2, 
1857,  Lydia  A.  Chandler,  born  October  3, 
1838;  four  children.  5.  Margaret,  married 
Hosea  Burrell,  and  lives  in  Lynn.  6.  Cath- 
erine, married  William  Mansfield ;  lives  in 
Lynn.  7.  Miriam,  now  dead ;  married  Jere- 
miah Paul. 

(IX)  Joseph  Newhall,  eldest  child  of  John 
Derby  and  Rachel  (Newhall)  Bacheller,  was 
born  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  October  30,  181 1, 
and  died  February  19,  1894.  He  was  a  shoe- 
maker by  trade  and  a  farmer  by  occupation. 
He  came  to  Newark  in  early  life  and  lived 
there  and  in  South  Orange  and  Vailsbury,  but 
later  lived  at  New  Hampton,  Orange  county. 
New  York.  He  married,  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
in  January,  1840,  Phoebe  Stone  Collins,  born 
September  16,  1822,  died  February  i,  1894. 
Children:  I.  Joseph,  born  in  1841,  died  un- 
married,  August  22,    1868.     2.  John   Collins, 


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referred  to  below.  3.  IJenjamiii,  born  March 
17,  1847,  i"  South  CJrange,  New  Jersey,  died 
in  New  Hampton,  New  York ;  married,  Au- 
gust 18,  1880,  Mary  Ella  Wood,  born  Novem- 
ber 4,  i860;  five  children.  4.  Marian,  born  in 
December,  1853;  married  Robert  JMoreland ; 
lives  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  5.  Charles,  born 
October  4,  1855;  is  a  farmer  living  in  New 
Hampton,  Orange  county.  New  York;  mar- 
ried (first)  June  4,  1879,  Louisa  Daum,  born 
November  5,  1856,  died  August  22,  1886; 
(second)  Mary  Aschenbach,  born  November 
5,  1861 ;  four  children.  6.  Phoebe,  born  June 
2,  1863,  died  in  November,  1873. 

(X)  John  Collins,  second  child  and  son  of 
Joseph  Newhall  and  Phoebe  Stone  (Collins) 
Bacheller,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
November  4,  1845,  and  is  now  living  in  that 
city.  He  was  a  manufacturer  and  lived  in 
Newark,  being  the  first  of  the  family  to  make 
New  Jersey  his  permanent  home.  October  18. 
1866,  he  married  Harriet  Amelia,  daughter  of 
]ienry  L.  Parcells,  and  a  niece  of  George  D. 
G.  Moore,  born  February  4,  1840.  Children: 
Joseph  Henry,  referred  to  below ;  Harriet  Es- 
telle,  married,  September  23,  1891,  Albert  H. 
Kent,  lived  in  Elizabeth.  New  Jersey.  (See 
I'arcells). 

(XI)  Joseph  Henry,  only  son  of  John  Col- 
lins and  Harriet  Amelia  (Parcells)  Bacheller, 
was  born  February  i,  1869,  in  Newark,  New 
Jersey.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  city,  including  the  high  school. 
After  leaving  school  at  the  age  of  sixteen  in 
1885,  he  obtained  a  clerical  position  with  the 
New  York  Life  Insurance  Company,  with 
which  he  remained  until  1890.  In  the  latter 
year  he  became  associated  with  Mr.  Samuel  S. 
Dennis,  and  later  was  placed  in  charge  of  large 
jjrivate  interests  connected  with  the  estate  of 
A.  L.  Dennis,  with  which  he  is  still  connected. 
He  is  also  president  of  the  Ironbound  Trust 
Company,  and  a  director  of  the  Newark  Fire 
Insurance  Company.  Mr.  Bacheller  entered 
u])on  what  has  proved  to  be  a  most  useful  and 
honorable  ])ublic  career  in  1897,  in  which  year 
he  was  elected  alderman  from  the  Ninth  Ward, 
and  was  re-elected  in  1899,  ^"^1  i"  1901.  In 
the  spring  of  1899  he  was  chosen  leader  of  the 
Republican  minority  in  the  common  council, 
succeeding  Winton  C.  Garrison.  In  the  spring 
of  1900  the  Republicans  gained  ascendancy, 
and  he  was  again  selected  as  leader,  and  con- 
tinued to  act  in  that  capacity  and  also  as  chair- 
man of  the  finance  committee  until  January. 
1903,  when  he  was  elected  president  of  the 
council.     He  served  as  a  member  of  assembly 


in  1900-01-02,  and  during  the  last  two  years 
was  leader  of  the  Esse.x  county  delegation  in 
that  body.  He  served  upon  various  important 
assembly  committees,  and  always  bore  a  prom- 
inent and  efficient  part  in  the  legislative  af- 
fairs. In  the  fall  of  1902,  after  a  sharp  cam- 
paign, he  was  elected  to  the  state  senate,  repre- 
senting Esse.x  county,  by  a  plurality  of  10,269 
votes  over  his  Democratic  opponent,  Samuel 
Kalisch.  During  his  three  year  senatorial 
term  he  served  on  several  committees,  and  as 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  municipal  cor- 
porations rendered  efficient  service  in  all  mat- 
ters affecting  the  industrial  and  municipal 
interests  of  the  city  of  Newark.     On  January 

23,  1904,  Mayor  Henry  M.  Doremus  appoint- 
ed Air.  Bacheller  to  membership  in  the  first 
Shade  Tree  Commission  which  had  recently 
been  created,  of  which  he  was  made  the  first 
president,  and  which  position  he  resigned  De- 
cember 31,  1904,  in  order  to  accept  the  posi- 
tion of  comptroller.  On  January  4  following, 
jMayor  Doremus  nominated  him  for  city  comp- 
troller, and  he  was  immediately  confirmed  by 
the  common  council,  and  in  which  position  he 
is  now  serving.  He  is  also  president  of  the 
Municipal  Insurance  Fund  Commission,  and  a 
member  of  the  New  Jersey  State  Water  Sup- 
ply Commission.  Mr.  Bacheller  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics ;  president  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  F~airmount  Baptist  Church ;  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  John's  Lodge,  Free  and  .Accepted 
Masons,  and  Cnion  Chapter,  Royal  .\rch 
Masons ;  of  the  Esse.x  Club,  the  Garfield  Club, 
and  the  Republican  Club  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Bacheller  married,  in  Newark,  April  30. 
1895,  Edith  .-\dele,  daughter  of  Israel  Pierson 
and  Mary  Ella  ( \'an  Ness)  Smith,  of  that 
city,  whose  two  children  were  Edith  .\dele  (  re- 
ferred to  above),  born  in  Newark,  March  10. 
1876,  and  Alphena  Pierson.  born  July  5,  1877. 
The  children  of  Joseph  Henry  and  Edith  .-\dele 
(Smith)  Bacheller  are:  Muriel,  born  March 
27.  1896;  Adele,  .August  25,  1897;  Joseph 
Henry  Jr.,  I'ebruary  25,  1905';  John  Smith. 
October  2,  1907. 

(The  ParceUs  Line). 

The  name  Parcell  has  passed  through  many 
modifications.  Its  original  spelling  in  tliis  conn- 
try  was  Pearsall,  and  the  founder  of  the  familx'. 
Henry  Pearsall,  was  one  of  the  early  emigrants 
tc  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  where  he  died  July 

24.  1667,  leaving  five  children — Nathaniel, 
Tliomas,  Daniel,  William,  and  probably  Nico- 
las, although  the  name  of  the  fourth  child  has 
not  been  absolutely  ascertained. 


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(  11  )  W'illiani  Parcell,  as  he  spells  his  name 
in  his  will,  son  of  Henry  Pearsall.  of  Hemp- 
stead, (lied  in  Xewtown,  Long  Island,  between 
December  22,  1724,  and  October  6,  1728,  leav- 
ing, according  to  his  will,  seven  children — 
Nicholas.  Walter,  Thomas,  Abraham,  Jacob, 
Abigail,  Catherine.  To  Nicholas,  eldest  son, 
he  left  his  Newtown  plantation ;  to  his  son 
Walter  his  plantation  "in  New  Jersey."  This 
]jlantation  was  in  Bergen  count}',  and  Walter's 
descendants,  as  well  as  those  of  his  brother 
Abraham,  who  moved  thither,  became  very 
numerous  in  that  part  of  the  county,  affiliating 
themselves  with  the  Dutch  settlers,  and  their 
name  becoming  changed  in  its  spelling  to  Par- 
cel, Persel,  and  even  Purcels.  To  his  sons 
Thomas  and  Abraham.  William  Parcell  left  his 
"Plantation  in  Elizabethtown,  New  Jersey." 
Abraham,  as  we  have  seen,  followed  his  brother 
Walter  to  Bergen  county,  and  Thomas's  de- 
scendants, it  would  appear,  formed  the  Eliza- 
bethtown branch  of  the  family. 

(III)  Thomas  Persells,  son  of  William  Par- 
cell,  removed  in  early  manhood  to  Staten  Island, 
where  he  recorded  his  earmark  May  15,  1697. 
May  22,  1702,  he  bought  from  Richard  Salter, 
of  Freehold,  attorney  for  William  Dockwra, 
of  London,  one  of  the  East  Jersey  jiroprietors 
a  tract  of  land  near  Elizabethtown,  and  May 
6,  1709,  he  made  a  still  larger  purchase  from 
Thomas  Gordon.  The  name  of  his  wife  and 
the  births  of  his  children  have  been  ascertained, 
but  so  far  as  is  known  he  is  the  only  possible 
person  in  or  near  Elizabeth  who  could  have 
been  the  father  of  Stephen  Passels,  referred 
to  below. 

(IV)  Stephen  F^assels,  of  Elizabethtown. 
was  born  about  1726,  and  died  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  April  8,  1786,  in  his  sixtieth  year.  In  his 
will  he  names  his  six  children  and  his  wife.  I  le 
married  Phebe.  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and 
I\lary  (Price)  Crane,  a  great-granddaughter  of 
Stephen  Crane,  of  Elizabethtown,  through  his 
son  Nathaniel,  and  Damaris  (Ward)  Crane. 
Children:  i.  Mary,  born  about  1751.  died 
October    14,    1814;   married   Charles   Tooker. 

2.    Sarah,    marrie<l    (iirst)    Mulfi)rd: 

(second)  William  Pierson ;  (third)  William 
Christie.  3.  .\nn  or  Nancy,  married  Alexander 
Scott.  4.  Abigail,  born  1764,  died  1821 ;  mar- 
ried W'illiam  Stiles.  -  5.  Abner,  referred  to 
below.  (1.  .Stejihen,  born  1774:  died  March  29, 
1796.  unmarried. 

(\  )  Abner,  eldest  son  of  Stephen  and  Phebe 
(Crane)    Passels.  was  born  in  Elizabethtown. 

He  married  (first)  Elizabeth ,  and  after 

her  death.  March  24,   1799,  he  married   (sec- 


ond) Polly  or  Mary  Lyon,  wiilow  of  a  Mr. 
Wheeler,  of  Lyons  Farm,  who  died  January 
15,  1822,  in  her  fifty-first  year.  Among  his 
children  were:  Price,  died  June  18,  1795,  in 
his  third  year;  Henry  Lyon,  referred  to  below. 

(\'l)  Henry  Lyon,  son  of  Abner  and  Mary 
(  Lyon- Wheeler )  Passels,  was  burn  at  Lyons 
I'arms,  in  1809.  He  was  a  coach  maker,  a 
l/niversalist,  and  a  Whig.  In  1832  he  married 
Nancy  Crane,  born  in  Caldwell,  181 1,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Maria  (Crane)  Moore. 
Her  father  was  born  about  1762,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1835,  in  his  seventy-third  year.  Her 
motlier  died  May  18.  1844,  in  her  sixty-fourth 
year. 

(\'II)  Harriet,  daughter  of  Henry  Lyon 
and  Nancy  Crane  (Moore)  Parcells,  was  born 
in  Newark,  New  Jersey,  February  4,  1840,  and 
married,  October  18,  1866,  John  Collins  (q.  v.), 
second  child  and  son  of  Joseph  Newhall  and 
Phoebe  Stone  (Collins)  Bacheller, 


Previous  to  iSfio  this  name 
BEL'GLESS  was  spelled  Bugless.  Charles 
Bugless  was  born  in  Dela- 
ware county,  Pennsylvania.  He  married  Mar- 
tha Aliller,  of  Delaware  county,  Penn.sylvania, 
and  they  had  seven  children:  Charles  F'.  (q. 
v.),  John,  James,  Elizabeth,  Rebecca,  Martha, 
Mary. 

(II)  Charles  P.,  eldest  child  of  Charles  and 
Martha  (Miller)  Bugless,  was  born  in  Middle- 
town,  Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1809.  He  was  a  pupil  in  the  public 
schools  of  Middletown,  and  became  a  clerk 
when  sixteen  years  of  age,  and  subsec|uently 
learned  the  trade  of  tailor,  in  which  trade  he 
became  an  expert  cutter  and  fitter.  He  next 
went  into  the  grocery  trade  on  his  own  account 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  and  continued 
the  business  for  two  years,  when  he  sold  out 
and  went  upon  a  farm  in  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  remained  in  that  occupation  for 
five  years.  He  next  worked  upon  a  farm  in 
Delaware  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1869 
located  in  Burlington  county.  New  Jersey, 
where  he  was  a  farmer  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  While  in  I\^nnsylvania  he  went  to 
the  Friends  meeting,  but  on  removing  to  Bur- 
lington county.  New  Jersey,  joined  the  Baptist 
church.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  Tem- 
yerance,  and  his  wife  of  the  Daughters  of 
Temperance,  both  working  in  the  same  suborbi- 
iiate  division.  His  political  faith  was  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party.  He  was 
married,  about  1832,  to  Anna  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Catharine  (Barrows)  Hyde, 


STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


born  in  Manchester,  England,  September  20, 
181 1.  Children,  born  in  Delaware  county, 
Pennsylvania:  i.  Thomas,  about  1834.  2. 
John  Davis  (cj.  v.).  3.  Azariah,  about  1S36. 
4.  Mary  Elizabeth,  about  1838:  lives  in  Bur- 
lington. 5.  Katharine,  about  1844;  niarried 
George  W.  Barker,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
6.  Rebecca,  1846 ;  lives  in  Burlington  ;  has  been 
president  of  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
I'nion  twenty  years.  7.  Hannah,  twin  of  Re- 
becca ,  married  John  D.  Antrim,  of  Burling- 
ton, a  farmer.  The  mother  of  these  children 
died  in  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  1902. 
(Ill)  John  Davis  Beugless,  second  son  of 
Charles  P.  and- Anna  Elizabeth  (Hyde)  Bug- 
less,  was  born  in  Middletown,  Delaware  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania,  October  18,  1836.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Middletown 
and  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  in  1848  attended 
the  Friends'  school  ni  Chester,  and  in  1852 
went  to  Greenwood  Dell  boarding  school.  In 
1854  was  for  a  short  time  a  drug  clerk,  but 
went  with  his  father  m  the  grocery  trade, 
meantime  attending  the  granunar  and  high 
school  of  F'hiladelphia.  .After  leaving  school 
he  took  a  position  in  the  American  Baptist 
Publishing  Society  as  retail  salesman  and 
packer,  and  while  in  this  concern  decided  to 
study  for  the  Baptist  ministry.  With  that  end 
in  view  he  entered  Bucknell  University,  Lewis- 
burg.  Pennsylvania,  in  Se])tember,  1856,  and 
worked  his  way  through  college,  graduating 
A.  B.  i860,  and  was  ordained  to  the  Baptist 
ministry  at  Pawtu.xet,  Rhode  Island.  His  first 
and  last  charge  in  the  Baptist  church  was  inter- 
rupted by  the  civil  war  and  his  appointment  as 
chaplain  of  the  Second  Rhode  Island  Volun- 
teer Regiment,  February  11,  1863.  He  re- 
ceive<l  his  commission  from  the  governor  Se])- 
tcmber  14,  1863,  and  at  the  battle  of  the  Wil- 
derness, Alay  5,  1864,  he  was  shot  through  the 
arm,  and  for  the  work  done  by  him  that  day 
he  was  offered  command  of  a  battalion.  His 
wound,  however,  caused  him  to  be  taken  by 
an  army  wagon  with  wounded  comrades  to 
Washington,  and  on  being  released  from  the 
hospital,  convalescent,  he  was  mustered  out  of 
the  Second  Rhode  Island  Volunteers,  and  Jiuie 
19,  i8f)4,  was  nominated  for  chaplain  in  the 
United  States  navy,  appointed  by  President 
Lincoln,  July  2,  1864,  and  his  appointment  was 
confirmed  by  the  senate.  He  was  assigned  to* 
the  frigate  "Suscjuehanna,"  and  that  vessel  was 
ordered  to  report  off  Fort  Fisher,  North  Caro- 
lina, and  he  was  a  witness  of  the  bombardment 
of  that  Confederate  stronghold  at  both  of  the 
assaults  made,  the  unsuccessful  one  of  Decem- 


ber 24,  i8f>4,  and  the  successful  one  of  Janu- 
ary 16,  1865,  when  the  fort  was  captured  with 
all  its  etiuipment  through  the  determined  opera- 
tions of  both  the  navy  and  army.  He  was  in 
Washington,  D.  C.  March  4,  1865,  and  wit- 
nessed the  second  inauguration  of  President 
Lincoln,  and  after  the  close  of  the  war  the 
"Susf|uehanna'"  was  ordered  on  the  South  At- 
lantic station.  February  2,  1867,  he  was  order- 
ed to  report  at  the  United  States  navy  yard. 
Mare  Island,  California,  and  he  made  the  jour- 
ney to  his  post  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Pana- 
ma, having  been  detached  from  the  "Susc|ue- 
hanna"  June  30,  1866.  After  three  years  serv- 
ice at  the  navy  yard  he  was  detached  June  3, 
1870,  and  made  the  journey  home  overland, 
and  awaited  order  at  his  home  in  Burlington, 
-New  Jersey.  He  was  ordered  to  the  United 
States  steamship  "Franklin,"  on  the  European 
station,  in  1874,  and  on  leaving  A'irgo.  Sj^ain, 
in  September,  1876,  the  '"Franklin"  took  on 
board  William  M.  Tweed,  who  had  been  cap- 
tured on  his  yacht,  having  fled  from  the  coun- 
try, being  charged  with  gross  frauds  against 
the  city  of  New  York,  and  his  captors  return- 
ed him  a  prisoner  to  be  dealt  with  according  to 
law.  On  March  2,  1877,  Chaplain  Beugless 
was  detached  from  the  "Franklin"  at  Nor- 
folk, \'irginia,  and  returned  to  Burlington, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  was  assistant  editor  on 
local  papers,  and  correspondent  for  the  Oi'cr- 
hiud  Monthly,  New  York  Tribune,  The  Watch- 
man, and  other  leading  magazines  and  news- 
papers, meantime  occupying  various  Baptist 
pulpits,  lecturing,  etc.  On  September  6,  1878, 
he  was  ordered  to  duty  at  the  Brooklyn  navy- 
)-ard,  and  was  detached  in  1881,  when  he  again 
returned  to  liurlington,  awaiting  orders.  In 
June,  1885,  he  was  ordered  to  the  United  States 
steamship  "Brooklyn,"  which  vessel  was  as- 
signed to  duty  at  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  after- 
ward assisted  at  the  Key  West  fire,  and  upon 
returning  to  New  York  was  ordered  to  the 
-Asiatic  station,  sailing  via  Lisbon,  stopping  at 
the  Azores,  Algiers.  Port  Said,  Suez,  Batavia. 
Java,  .Manilla,  .\moy,  China.  Yokohama  and 
Tokio,  and  reached  Nagasaki  late  in  June, 
1886,  and  while  in  the  latter  port,  on  Sunday, 
July  31,  1887,  after  he  had  held  the  Sunday 
morning  service,  he  was  stricken  with  apo- 
[jle.xy  and  died  almost  instantly.  .At  the  time 
of  death  he  ranked  as  a  commander.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  and  was  the  first  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  Crematory  Society, 
and  the  first  president  of  the  New  York  Cre- 
mation Company  that  built  the  first  crematory 
at   Fresh   Pond,  Queensboro.  New  York,  in: 


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1876,  where  up  to  1905  over  four  thousand 
bodies  had  been  cremated.  Rev.  John  Davis 
Bugless  was  married,  at  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 24,  1862,  to  Kate  Griffith,  born  in  Chester 
county,  Pennsylvania,  February  4,  1836.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Lizzie,  born  in  Pawtuxet,  Rhode 
Island,  September  8.  1863;  married  C.  S.  Car- 
ter, of  Ansonia,  Connecticut,  June  29,  1898; 
children:  i.  Raymond  Carter;  ii.  M.  Emerson 
Carter,  born  April  24,  1904;  iii.  Howard 
Swartz  Carter,  born  March  8,  1907.  2.  Charles 
Malcom  (q.  v.).  3.  Ida,  born  at  Alare  Island, 
United  States  navy  yard,  California,  Novem- 
ber 10,  1868:  married  Henry  Bonsall,  of  Pal- 
myra, New  Jersey.  4.  Anna,  born  in  Burling- 
ton, New  Jersey,  September  20,  1870;  married 
George  C.  Gunn,  editor  of  The  Daily  Enter- 
prise of  Burlington  ;  children  :  i.  Malcom  Beug- 
less  Gunn.  born  February  28,  1893;  ii.  Helen 
Jewett  Gunn  ;  iii.  Eleanor  Anna  Gunn,  Febru- 
ary 2,  1896;  iv.  John  K.  Gunn.  5.  Owen  Mere- 
dith, born  November  25,  1877,  of  Ansonia, 
Connecticut. 

(W)  Charles  Malcom,  eldest  son  of  Rev. 
Jolm  Davis  and  Kate  (Griffith)  Beugless,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  July  18, 
1867.  He  attended  the  Farnum  preparatory 
school,  Beverly,  New  Jersey,  and  is  a  graduate 
of  the  grammar  school,  Burlington,  New  Jer- 
sey, March  3,  1884.  He  began  his  business 
career  as  a  boy  sixteen  years  old  in  the  audit- 
ing office  of  the  International  Navigation  Com- 
pany, Philadelphia.  On  January  i,  1886,  he 
',vas  promoted,  and  Alay  i,  1893.  was  made 
chief  clerk  to  the  comptroller,  and  January  i, 
1904,  was  made  assistant  comptroller ;  the 
office  was  removed  to  New  York  City,  with 
offices  at  No.  9  Broadway,  and  the  name 
changed  to  International  Mercantile  Marine 
Company.  The  company  control  or  own  the 
steamship  liners  of  the  Red  Star  line,  Amer- 
ican line.  White  Star  line,  Atlantic  Transport 
line.  Dominion  line,  Leyland  lines  and  the  Na- 
tional line.  Mr.  Beugless  was  also  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Consolidated  Electric 
Company  of  Philadelphia,  liaverford  Electric 
Light  Company,  Kennett  Electric  Light,  Heat 
and  Power  Company  from  January  i,  1901, 
up  to  January  i,  1903,  when  the  companies 
sold  their  plants  to  the  United  Gas  Improve- 
ment Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  Sparta,  of  Philadelphia,  from  De- 
cember, 1889,  to  May,  1893.  He  was  secretary 
of  the  Oneida  Boat  Club,  Burlington,  New 
Jersey,  1894-95,  treasurer  of  the  club  1896- 
1904,  and  is  still  an  active  member.     Septem- 


ber 2,  1893,  he  won  the  club  championship  in 
single  sculls.  He  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Endeavor  Fire  Company  of  Burlington 
since  January  i,  1890,  and  served  for  one  or 
two  years  as  its  secretary.  He  is  an  attendant 
with  his  family  of  the  Baptist  church  of  Bur- 
lington. Mr.  Beugless  married,  in  Philadel- 
phia. Pennsylvania,  June  17,  1896,  Harriett 
Dean,  daughter  of  Theodore  and  Sarah  (Cath- 
cart)  Bunting,  of  Burlington,  New  Jersey. 
Children:  i.  Catharine,  born  June  29,  1897. 
2.  Francis  Alexander,  February  9,  1899.  3. 
John  Griffith,  September  2>'>.  1906. 


Eminent   authority,   in   con- 
WILL1.\MS    tributing    to    the'  name    of 

Williams,  states  that  the 
family  is  one  of  the  most  noted  of  the  early 
New  England  settlers  for  intellectual  ability, 
and  the  social  and  public  standing  of  its  mem- 
bers. They  antedated  the  Christian  era,  flour- 
ished and  came  down  through  the  mediaeval 
reigns.  Burke's  "Book  of  Peerage  and  Bar- 
onetage" says  of  the  house  of  Williams,  of 
Penrhyn,  the  most  ancient  family  of  the 
northern  principality  of  Wales,  that  it  deduces 
its  pedigree  with  singular  persjiicuity  from 
Brutus,  son  of  Sylvius,  posthumous  son  of 
Acencus,  son  of  Acucus,  which  Brutus  was 
first  King  of  Britain,  and  began  the  reign 
about  eleven  hundred  years  before  the  birth 
of  Christ.  Other  authorities  trace  them  back 
to  several  vears  before  the  Xorman  Con- 
c|uest  (ro66)  from  a  Welch  chief.  From 
Marchudel  of  Cyam,  Lord  of  Abergelin,  in 
Denbighshire,  one  of  the  fifteen  tribes  of 
Northern  Wales,  is  descended  Endyfid 
\'ycham.  Lord  of  Brynffenigl,  in  Denbighland, 
a  powerful  noble  of  his  time,  and  from  whom 
the  royal  house  of  Tudor  is  claimed  to  have 
succeeded.  The  eminent  family,  in  common 
with  the  royal  house  of  Tudor,  Lloyds  of 
Plymog,  Lord  ^loslyn,  and  other  distinguished 
lines,  derive  from  Marchudd  ap  Cynam,  Lord 
of  Carnervon,  founder  of  the  eight  noble  tribes 
of  North  Wales  and  Powys,  contemporary 
with  Rhodri  Mawr  ( Roderic  the  (Ireat),  King 
of  Wales,  who  succeeded  to  the  throne  in  843 
and  died  in  877  A.  D. 

The  first  to  adopt  the  name  of  \\  illiams  as  a 
surname  was  Roger  Williams,  of  Liangibby 
Castle  and  the  Priory  at  L'ske,  county  Mon- 
mouth, England.  He  was  said  to  be  a  direct 
descendant  of  Brychan  Bricheinish,  prince  and 
lord  of  Brecknock,  who  lived  about  the  year 
400.  The  pedigree  also  shows  the  name  of 
Roger  Williams,  of  Flint,  Wales,  from  whom 


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ilcscended  John  Williams,  receiver  of  Flint- 
shire in  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.,  which 
fxtended  from  the  year  1461  to  1483,  who 
married  for  his  first  wife  the  daughter  and 
heir  of  Edward  Matthews,  of  Yorkshire. 
Their  son  George  assumed  the  name  of  Mat- 
thew, which  has  continued  to  be  a  family  name 
e\er  since.  The  Welch  coat-of-arms  has  the 
inscri])tion :  "He  beareth  sable,"  showing 
I  oyalty,  and  is  as  follows :  Arms,  lion,  rampant, 
argent,  armed  and  languid.  Gules.  Crest :  A 
Moor  cock  or  partridge.  Motto :  "Cognosce 
Occasionen"  ("Watches  his  Opportunity"). 
The  Welch  motto:  "Y  fyno.  Dwy  Y.  fi'dd" 
("What  God  willeth  will  be"). 

(I)  Matthew  Williams,  progenitor  of  the 
Essex  county,  New  Jersey,  families,  born  about 

1605,  was  according  to  the  best  authority  the 
eldest  son  of  Richard  Williams,  who  descended 
from  the  Williams  family  of  Glamorganshire, 
the  south  ])rincipality  of  Wales.  Authority 
further  states  that  Richard  was  a  kinsman  of 
Oliver  Cromwell,  a  traditional  claim  of  Ivich- 
aid  Williams  as  well,  and,  moreover,  which  is 
not  common  to  other  pioneer  Williams  families 
of  New  England.  It  is  claimed  that  Oliver 
Cromwell  was  a  Williams  by  birth.  Coyle 
.'^tates  that  Cromwell  descended  from  General 
Williams,  of  Berkshire,  or  from  Alorgan  Will- 
iams, of  Glamorganshire,  and  called  him  Crom- 
well, alias  Williams,  he  having  assumed  the 
name  from  his  maternal  uncle,  Thomas  Crom- 
well, secretary  of  .state  to  Henry  VIH.,  on  ac- 
count of  estates  left  to  him.  Matthew  Will- 
iams for  a  time  seems  to  have  been  at  Water- 
town,  Massachusetts,  from  whence,  like  manj' 
other  settlers  there,  allured  by  the  attractive 
reports  of  Oldham  and  Hall,  the  pioneer 
tiaders  and  explorers  of  the  Connecticut  val- 
leys, came  to  Pyquaug,  the  old  Indian  name  of 
Wethersfield,  in  1642.  He  was  doubtless  a 
brother  of  Thomas,  who  later  settled  at  Rocky 
Hill  (Old  Wethersfiekl)  and  a  cousin  of  Rich- 
ard Williams,  of  Taunton,  born  January  28, 

1606,  son  of  William  Williams,  who  descend- 
ed from  a  family  of  that  name  in  Glamorgan- 
shire, Wales.  William  Williams  was  of  Syn- 
well,  a  hamlet  in  the  Wotten-under-Edge.  .Ac- 
cording to  his  will  he  speaks  of  his  brother, 
Mr.  Richard  Williams. 

Matthew  Williams,  of  Wethersfield,  was  a 
brickmaker  by  trade,  and  a  yeoman,  which  is 
proved  by  the  earmarks  of  his  cattle,  which 
were  recorded  in  the  records.  After  1655  he 
was  for  a  time  at  Long  Island,  and  eventually 
at  the  Piarbadoes,  though  still  a  householder  at 
the  Wethersfield  colony,  where  his  family  were 


still  living.  January  14,  1678,  according  to 
Hutton's  emigration  records,  he  was  granted  . 
a  ticket  of  leave  back  to  the  colony  with  his 
servant,  a  slave.  Plis  death  probably  occurred 
the  following  year  (1679),  for  in  1680  his 
widow,  Susanna  Williams,  asked  the  court  at 
Wethersfield  to  appraise  the  estate  and  divide 
between  the  sons,  and  this  step  on  her  part 
probably  fixes  a  conclusive  date  for  the  de- 
parture of  the  widow  and  her  three  sons,  as 
follows :  Amos,  now  thirty-five  years  of  age, 
with  his  wife  and  three  children — Matthew, 
twenty-nine  years  of  age.  Samuel,  twenty- 
seven,  all  coming  to  Essex  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, in  the  second  Branford  emigration.  Sam- 
uel settling  at  Elizabethtown,  and  .-\mos  near- 
by. Samuel  died  in  1706.  Matthew  Williams 
Sr.  married,  about  1644,  Susanna  Cole,  of  Eng- 
lish birth,  probably  a  sister  of  James  Cole,  an 
early  settler  there,  and  in  1639  an  original  set- 
tler and  planter  of  Hartford,  Connecticut. 
Children:  Amos,  born  March  14,  1643;  Mat- 
thew, October  27,  1647,  die<l  an  infant:  Mat- 
thew, born  May  14,  165 1  ;  Samuel,  born  Janu- 
ary 4,  1653-34,  died  at  Elizabethtown,  1706. 

'(H)  Mat'thew  (2),  .son  of  Matthew  (i) 
Williams,  was  born  at  Wethersfield,  Connecti- 
cut, May  14,  1631,  died  in  that  part  of  New- 
ark (now  Orange),  New  Jersey,  November  12, 
1732.  Dr.  Wicks,  the  historian,  assumes  that 
Matthew  was  a  planter  in  1680  (November 
29,  1680,  John  Johnson,  Thomas  Lyon,  Mat- 
thew Williams  and  John  Mckency  are  admitted 
planters  provided  they  pay  the  purchase  jirice 
for  what  land  they  have  as  other  planters  have 
done),  which  was  about  the  time  he  emigrated 
from  Branford,  Connecticut,  to  Newark,  and 
according  to  the  records  in  the  second  division 
of  land,  received  the  customary  allotment,  tak- 
ing up  a  house  lot  on  the  hill  (in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Hill  and  High  streets  I  in  the  rear  of 
Henry  Lyon's  house  lot.  (See  map  of  New- 
ark, p.  148,  Atkinson's  "History  of  Newark"). 
In  1688,  according  to  deeds  at  the  Essex  coun- 
ty registry  at  Newark,  George  Day  exchanged 
lands  with  Matthew  Williams,  the  latter  part- 
ing with  a  dwelling  house,  shop,  other  edifices 
and  orchard  and  lands  near  Newark,  and  re- 
ceiving two  tracts  at  the  mountain,  one  bound- 
ed east  by  Wigwam  brook  and  the  other  on 
Farrow's  brook.  For  some  reasons  the  lands 
near  Eagle  Rock  were  known  to  the  later  de- 
scendants as  the  David  Day  fields.  About  1693, 
before  the  birth  of  Thomas  and  after  the  birth 
of  Matthew,  the  elder  Matthew  moved  to  his 
mountain  lands  and  built  a  dwelling  on  the 
south  side  of  Eagle  Rock  road,  near  where  the 


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mountain  stream  unites  witli  Wigwam  brook, 
at  that  time  a  dense  wilderness  inhabited  only 
by  bears,  wolves  and  panthers,  for  whose  de- 
struction large  bounties  were  offered  as  late  as 

1751.  Lawrie  describes  the  mode  of  building 
among  the  first  settlers :  "They  built  with 
cloven  timber  eight  or  ten  inches  broad^  like 
planks,  one  end  in  the  ground  and  the  other 
nailed  to  the  raising  which  they  plasted  within." 
Whether  Matthew  built  in  this  way  or  with 
logs  we  have  no  knowledge,  but  timber  was 
plenty  for  any  style  of  architecture.  It  is  prob- 
able that  the  stone  house  erected  about  1720 
on  the  north  side  of  the  road  and  stream  was 
built  by  him  with  the  assistance  of  his  son 
Matthew.  A  description  of  this  house  can  be 
found  in  the  history  of  Zenas  Williams.  This 
house  was  demolished  in  1822,  a  great-grand- 
son, Zenas  Williams,  replacing  it  by  a  modern 
frame  structure. 

Matthew  Williams  married  Ruth  Wheeler, 
born  1657,  died  July  27,  1724,  daughter  of 
Lieutenant  Thomas  Wheeler,  of  Wethersfield, 
Connecticut.  Children:  i.  Jemima,  born  1686, 
died  February  20,  1758;  married  Samuel  Har- 
rison, born  1684,  died  1776.  2.  Jane,  born 
1688;  married,  December  10,  1741,  Abraham 
Soverel.  3.  Amos  (q.  v.),  born  1690.  4. 
Eunice,  born  1692,  died  unmarried,  August  19, 

1752.  5.  Matthew,  mentioned  below.  6.  Ger- 
shom,  born  1698;  married  Hannah  Lamson. 
7.  Thomas,  born  1700,  died  April  19,  1795; 
married  Martha  Dodd.  8.  Johanna,  born  1702; 
married  John  Condit,  born  1701,  died  June  16, 
1783.  9.  Rebecca,  born  1703,  died  May  14, 
1745  ;  married  Joseph  Redden,  born  1702,  died 
November  8,  1798. 

(HI)  Matthew  (3),  son  of  Matthew  (2) 
Williams,  was  born  on  the  first  homestead 
farm  of  his  father,  in  1694,  where  his  descend- 
ants now  live,  in  the  vicinity  of  Day  and  Wash- 
ington streets.  When  an  infant  he  removed 
with  his  parents  to  their  mountain  home  north 
of  the  Eagle  Rock  road,  and  here  he  was  rear- 
ed after  the  customs  of  his  forefathers  in  this 
vast  wilderness.  He  became  a  master  in  the 
trade  of  stone  mason,  and  a  farmer  (yeoman 
in  the  deeds).  After  the  death  of  the  father, 
Amos  reigned  in  the  homestead,  and  Matthew 
undoubtedly  inherited  the  Washington  tract  of 
land.  He  gave  a  deed  for  land  where  the  "par- 
sonage house  now  stands,"  of  four  acres,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1748,  on  the  north  side  of  the  high- 
way, to  the  mountain.  He  died  in  the  old  home- 
stead near  Day  and  Park  streets,  June  22, 
1772,  aged  seventy-eight  years.  He  married 
Abigail  Nutman,  born  1698,  died  .September  i. 


1771.  Children:  Isaac  {q.  v.);  Sarah,  born 
1722:  Joanna,  born  1727,  (lied  17 — ;  Jemima, 
born  1729,  died  1736;  Lydia,  born  1731,  died 
1801  :  Joanna,  born  1736,  died  181 1  :  Thomas, 
mentioned  below. 

( I\' )  Captain  Thomas,  son  of  Matthew  (3) 
Williams,  was  born  in  1740,  at  the  homestead 
erected  by  his  father,  at  Washington  and  Day 
streets,  died  there  July  12,  1830.  He  was  an 
earnest  patriot  and  among  the  first  to  espouse 
the  cause  of  independence.  He  was  commis- 
sioned captain  in  the  Second  Regiment,  com- 
manded by  Philip  \'an  Courtland  (Essex  coun- 
ty) and  attached  to  Heard's  upper  brigade. 
It  is  said  that  Washington  made  occasional 
visits  to  his  house  while  in  the  neighborhood, 
and  consulted  with  him  in  regard  to  the  affairs 
of  the  surrounding  country.  He  was  known 
throughout  the  war  and  ever  after  as  "Captain 
Tom."  He  was  a  leading  man  in  his  own 
neighborhood,  although  his  name  does  not  ap- 
pear anywhere  in  the  municipal  affairs  of  the 
township  at  large.  He  was  well  known  to  the 
lories,  but  escaped  serious  injury  to  himself 
and  property.  One  day  a  party  of  about  forty 
Hessians  came  to  his  house  while  he  was  in 
his  yard.  They  threatened  to  shave  one-half 
his  head.  When  about  to  proceed  to  the  opera- 
tion they  were  attracted  by  some  barrels  of 
cider  standing  near  at  hand.  Having  drank  all 
they  wanted,  they  took  their  leave,  going  across 
the  fields  towards  the  highway  (now  Main 
street),  and  at  a  convenient  spot  in  the  rear  of 
the  meetinghouse  and  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Music  Hall,  they  lay  down  among  the  trees 
and  slept  off  the  effects  of  their  potations. 
While  true  to  the  cause  of  his  country.  Cap- 
tain Thomas  was  charitable  to  his  Tory  neigh- 
bors and  relatives  who  honestly  differed  with 
him,  and  after  the  close- of  the  war  did  all  in 
his  power  to  assist  them  to  recover  their  prop- 
erty. He  inherited  the  property  at  the  comer 
of  Washington  and  Day  streets,  on  which  the 
first  grist  mill  was  built  in  1780.  He,  with 
Isaac  Williams,  Joseph  Hedden  and  Zenas 
Ward,  were  equal  owners  in  the  mill,  and  they 
ran  the  mill  "week  about"  in  turn  and  received 
its  earnings  accordingly.  Cajitain  Thomas  re- 
tained his  one-quarter  interest  and  it  descended 
to  his  heirs.  The  other  three  owners  sold  their 
resjjective  shares,  some  of  which  jjassed  through 
many  hands.  They  finally  came  into  posses- 
sion of  William  Brown  Williams,  who  after 
a  few  years  sold  them  to  his  cousin,  Jesse 
Williams.  When  the  mill  was  built  the  water 
power  was  derived  from  Parrow  and  Wigwam 
brooks.     The  latter  supply  was  diverted  from 


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the  pond  several  years  since  by  the  improve- 
ment of  the  meadows  through  which  the  mill 
race  passed.  Captain  Thomas  was  one  of  the 
owners  and  managers  of  the  parish  sloop 
"Orange,"  built  1784,  to  run  between  Newark, 
New  Jersey,  and  Albany.  New  York,  which 
was  built  as  a  source  of  income  or  revenue  for 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  one-third  of 
the  profits,  which  was  from  forty  to  sixty 
pounds  a  year.  Fie  was  a  great  friend  of  his 
Tory  cousin,  "Governor  Ben,"  and  his  friend- 
ship remained  cemented  as  long  as  they  lived. 
A  copy  of  his  will  and  account  books  are  now 
in  possession  of  his  great-grandson,  Henry 
Clinton  Williams.  The  gravestones  of  Cap- 
tain Thomas  Williams  and  Dorcas,  his  wife, 
are  to  found  in  the  old  Presbyterian  burial- 
ground  on  Scotland  street,  Orange. 

Captain  Thomas  \\'illiams  married  Dorcas 
Harrison,  born  1741,  died  March  12,  1806,/ 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  Harrison.  Children : 
I.  Phebe,  born  1762,  died  1825:  married  Sam- 
uel Lindsley.  2.  Hannah,  born  1763,  died 
1840;  married  Daniel  Lindsley.  3.  Jesse,  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Johnson.  4.  Keturah,  born  1767; 
married  Thomas  Piucklee.  5.  Abigail,  born 
1759,  died  1848;  married  Joseph  Munn.  6. 
Moses,  born  June  10,  1771,  died  December  24, 
1821.  7.  Matthew,  mentioned  below.  8.  Will- 
iam (q.  v.),  born  December  18,  1777.  9. 
Tabitha,  married  Elijah  Williams. 

(V)  Matthew  (4),  son  of  Captain  Thomas 
Williams,  was  born  in  Orange,  on  the  old 
homestead  corner  of  Washington  and  Day 
streets,  1774,  and  was  baptized  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  by  Rev.  Jedediah  Chap- 
man, November  26,  1775.  His  early  life  was 
spent  in  his  father's  mill  and  the  district  school. 
In  early  manhood  he  was  apprenticed  to  the 
trade  of  carpenter,  and  this  he  followed,  with 
the  occupation  of  farmer.  He  was  an  honest, 
hardworking  man,  industrious  and  frugal,  liv- 
ing in  high  esteem  with  his  neighbors  and 
townsmen,  abiding  by  the  simple,  wholesome 
life.  He  died  at  the  homestead,  in  1830,  within 
a  short  period  of  his  father:  both  died  of 
typhus  fever.  Fie  was  elected  one  of  the  over- 
seers of  the  highways  of  Orange  in  181 1.  He 
married  (first)  Phebe  Williams,  born  1773, 
died  1805,  daughter  of  (lovernor  Benjamin 
and  Phebe  (Crane)  Williams  (see  sketch). 
Children:  i.  Phebe.  died  1854.  2.  Philip, 
born  1803,  died  .April  6,  1877;  married  Jane 
Wright.  3.  Sarah,  born  1805,  died  1880.  He- 
married  (second)  Elizabeth  Leonard.  Chil- 
dren: 4.  John,  born  July  4,  1808,  died  July 
30,  i848;Tnai"r?Kl~Catherine  McCormack.     5. 


Jesse,  mentioned  below.  6.  Abby,  died  1863; 
married  Thomas  Sargent  Tichenor.  7.  .\mzi. 
born  181 5,  died  1837. 

(\T)  Jesse,  son  of  Matthew  (4)  Williams, 
was  born  on  the  old  homestead,  corner  of  W'ash- 
ington  and  Day  streets.  Orange,  April  29, 
1810,  and  died  there  in  1885.  His  educational 
training  was  somewhat  limited,  the  district 
school  affording  but  small  opportunity.  He 
was  taught  the  habits  of  industry  and  frugal- 
ity. During  his  early  manhood,  from  early 
youth  until  he  became  of  age,  he  was  ajiprenticed 
to  the  trade  of  hatter,  but  did  not  follow  the 
trade  after  twenty-one,  as  at  this  time  he  in- 
herited the  original  farm  of  his  grandfather, 
which  passed  from  father  to  son.  He  took  up 
farming  in  earnest  and  cultivated  and  improved 
his  lands.  He  and  his  cousin,  William  Brown 
Williams,  jmrchased  the  old  grist  mill  of  their 
grand  father.  Thomas  William.  Jesse  owning  one 
share  and  \\'illiam  B.  three  shares.  Together 
they  operated  the  mill  ten  years,  Jesse  running 
it  one  week  and  \\'illiam  B.  three  weeks,  tak- 
ing one-tenth  of  the  grinding  for  their  ])ay  to 
sell  and  use.  Jesse  finally  bought  his  cousin's 
interest  and  became  sole  proprietor.  He  later 
sold  his  share  of  the  land  to  D.  N.  Ropes,  who 
wanted  the  stream  for  a  water  privilege.  He 
was  the  owner  of  several  parcels  of  real  estate, 
one  of  which  was  at  the  foot  of  Alt.  \"ernon 
avenue,  known  as  the  old  copper  mine  prop- 
erty. He  was  always  fond  of  books  and  had  a 
thirst  for  knowledge,  so  that  in  early  life  he 
became  a  great  reader.  As  he  grew  in  years 
his  thirst  for  books  grew  with  him,  and  his 
wonderful  retentive  memory  enabled  him  to 
profit  by  all  he  read,  and  this,  combined  with 
a  ([uickness  of  retort  and  a  keen  sense  of  the 
ridiculous  and  a  vein  of  sarcasm,  made  him  a 
dangerous  opponent  in  debate.  In  his  day  he 
was  a  pronounced  \\  big,  and  when  the  Repub- 
lican party  was  launched  he  became  an  ardent 
su])porter.  He  held  various  offices  of  trust 
in  the  gift  of  the  citizens.  lie  was  for  two 
terms  director  of  the  board  of  freeholders,  and 
for  two  years  was  member  of  the  Esse.x  coun- 
ty road  board.  He  was  justice  of  the  peace 
fifteen  years,  and  for  a  term  was  judge  of 
court  of  common  pleas.  He  also  held  the  com- 
mission of  major  of  the  militia  for  many  years. 
Fie  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  trustee  of 
of  the  Orange  .Savings  Bank.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Cnion  Lodge.  No.  11,  F.  and  A.  M., 
and  served  that  body  as  its  worshipful  master 
rne  year.  He  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Episco]ial  church,  and  outspoken  in  the  cause 
of  temperance,  and  gave  it  his  influence  and 


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support  for  over  sixty  years.  He  died  at  his 
homestead  on  Washington  street,  in  1885,  and 
i^  survived  by  his  daughter,  Miss  Juha  Will- 
iams, who  occupies  and  conducts  the  estate 
left  by  her  father. 

Jesse  Williams  married,  November  2^.  1832, 
Mary  Williams,  born  in  Orange,  July  4,  1809, 
died  there  December  23,  1892,  daughter  of 
Liovernor  Benjamin  and  Joanna  (Williams) 
Williams.  Children:  i.  Joanna,  born  bebru- 
ary  24,  1834,  died  April  17,  1834.  2.  Matthew, 
born  June  19,  1835,  died  November  19,  1835. 
3.  Julia,  born  September  19,  1837,  now  re- 
sides on  the  original  Matthew  Williams  home- 
stead propert)'.  4.  Mary,  born  January  25, 
1840,  died  March  5,  1889.  5.  Jesse,  born  De- 
cember 13,  1842,  died  November  14,  1859.  6. 
Alatthew,  born  April  17,  184^,  died  April  19, 
1857. 

(II)  Amos  Williams,  son  of 
WILLIAMS  Matthew  Williams  ( I-q.  v. ), 
was  born  at  Wethersfield, 
Connecticut,  March  14,  1645-46.  died  August 
20,  1683.  He  was  on  the  tax  list  and  town 
crier  in  1668  at  W'ethersfield,  and  was  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  of  Rocky  Hill  section  of 
C)1<1  Wethersfield.  With  his  brothers.  Matthew 
and  Samuel,  he  was  one  of  the  second  liran- 
furil  emigration  to  Essex  county.  New  Jersey. 
Exactly  when  the  brothers  severed  their  con- 
nection with  the  \Vethersfield  colony  is  not  ob- 
tainable, and  it  is  almost  certain  that  he  settled 
not  far  from  his  brotiier  Samuel  at  Elizabeth- 
town.  The  Amos  who  owned  property  at  the 
North  Corner  at  Orange,  was  Ca])tain  Amos 
Williams,  his  son,  who  was  the  father  of  Sam- 
uel Williams,  who  died  in  1812,  aged  ninety- 
nine  years.  There  is  no  certainty  of  record  of 
Amos  Williams  at  Wethersfield  after  the  ap- 
prisal  and  division  of  his  father's  estate  in 
1680,  although  he  may  have  been  there.  He 
did  not,  however,  visit  his  brother  Matthew 
in  Newark  (who  lived  at  Day  and  Washington 
streets.  Orange).  Amos  Williams  died  .Au- 
gust 20,  1683.  and  the  inventory  of  his  Wethers- 
field estate  when  probated  was  £217  15s.  Janu- 
ary 3,  1697.  Lieutenant  Thomas  Hollister 
moved  to  Connecticut  to  appoint  a  suitable 
jierson  to  make  distribution  of  the  estate  of 
.-\mos  Williams,  Llollister  having  married  the 
widow  of  Amos  Williams  in  1690.  Ami)>; 
Williams  drew  land  in  the  1670  allotment.  In 
1673  he  bought  a  tract  of  sixteen  and  a  half 
acres  at  Rocky  Hill  from  Tln^mas  Hollister,  on 
west  side  of  Middle  road,  between  Jonathan 
Loardman's    south    and     Samuel     lioardman's 


north,  where  he  settled.  He  bought  five  acres 
from  John  Miller  next  north  of  William  ]\Ior- 
ris  at  Rocky  Hill.    He  married,  June  29,  1670- 

71,  Elizabeth .     Children:    Amos,  born 

March  17,  1670-71,  mentioned  below;  Samuel, 
born  June  25,  1675,  named  for  his  uncle;  Eliz- 
abeth, born  March  3,  i>'JJ.  named  for  her 
mother;  Susanna,  bi.irn  July  22.  if  180,  named 
after  her  grandmother. 

(HI)  Captain  Amos  (2),  son  i.if  Amos  (  i) 
Williams,  was  born  at  Wethersfield,  Connecti-. 
cut,  March  17,  1670-71,  died  at  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  April  19,  1774.  On  January  3,  1705, 
Josiah  Ogden,  merchant,  and  Catherine  his 
wife,  of  the  town  of  Newark,  Esse.x  county,  in 
the  eastern  division  of  New  Jersey,  sell  to 
Amos  Williams,  of  Newark,  a  tract  of  land 
belonging  to  said  Ogden  and  from  his  beloved 
mother,  Elizabeth  Ogden,  comprising  twenty 
acres,  lying  on  the  side  of  the  "long  hill" 
( Mountain )  bounded  south  by  the  highway, 
west  partly  by  Nathaniel  Wheeler's  and  John 
Johnson's  lands,  north  by  George  Day's  and  on 
the  east  by  "Faraway's"  brook  as  the  brook 
runs.  He  was  a  yeoman  and  prominent  in 
town  affairs,  a  devout  churchman.  His  name 
appears  in  the  list  of  grand  jurors  of  Essex 
county  in  1700,  and  he  was  among  the  signers 
of  the  agreement  for  the  Third  Indian  pur- 
chase of  over  Mountain  lands  in  1701,  on  which 
land  he  settled  in  the  Northfield  region  (now 
Livingston)  where  his  children  were  born.  He 
was  witness  to  will  of  Peter  Condit,  of  New- 
ark, February  7,  1713-14.  He  was  captain  of 
militia  April  2,  1720.  "L^pon  reading  a  com- 
]>laint  made  by  one  Captain  Amos  Williams,  of 
Newark,  that  Major  Josiah  Ogden  in  Colonel 
Johnson's  regiment,  has  lately  made  it  his  busi- 
ness to  make  the  people  believe  that  the  mili- 
tary commissions  lately  granted  by  his  Honor 
the  President  of  the  Council,  are  not  legal,  the 
President  having  no  power  to  grant  military 
cijmmissions  ;  Ordered  that  said  Ca]itain  .'\mos 
Williams  and  Major  Josiah  Ogden  appear  be- 
fore the  board  ]\Ionday,  Ajiril  4,  1720.  Cap- 
tain Amos  W-'illiams,  of  Newark,  being  order- 
ed to  attend  this  board  today,  but  he  being  sick 
could  not  come  and  has  sent  Joseph  Jones  his 
ensign."  Captain  Amos  Williams  and  Eunice 
his  wife  are  buried  in  the  old  burial-ground  on 
Scotland  street,  where  their  headstones  now 
stand.  He  married  (first)  1700,  Hannah 
Wheeler,  born  1676,  died  November  13.  1719, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Esther  Wheeler. 
Children:  I.  David,  born  1703,  died  March  8. 
I/81  ;  he  was  a  lieutenant  of  horse  troop,  and 
inirchased  half  the  Anthonv  (  )live  farm,  Mav 


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i8,  1726,  and  in  1730  bought  the  other  half.  2. 
Josiah,  born  1705,  died  Xovember  17,  1758. 
3.  Phebe,  born  1706,  died  May  3,  1769.  4. 
Samuel,  born  1713,  mentioned  below.    Captain 

Amos  ^^"illian■ls  married  (second)  Eunice , 

born  June  6.  1692.  died  August  19,  1752. 

(IV)  Samuel,  son  of  Captain  Amos  (2) 
Williams,  was  born  in  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
1713,  died  at  West  Orange,  April  i,  1812,  aged 
ninety-nine  years.  He  took  up  land  in  First 
'Mountain,  where  he  had  twelve  children  born 
to  him.  They  settled  around  him  in  the  valley 
and  at  St.  Cloud,  the  locality  which  now  covers 
the  old  Williams  farms  and  homesteads.  The 
homestead  of  Samuel,  modified  in  1892,  stands 
diagonally  opposite  the  St.  Cloud  Presbyterian 
Church.  A  painting  of  this  homestead  can  be 
seen  in  the  home  of  Han  ford  S.  Williams,  on 
Hawthorn  street.  Orange.  He  became  a  pros- 
perous well-to-do  farmer,  and  made  cider  and 
rum,  as  was  the  custom  in  those  days.  As  a 
man  he  possessed  many  noble  traits  of  char- 
acter. He  was  an  upright,  intelligent  man  and 
useful  citizen.  He  and  his  wife  were  faithful 
members  of  the  First  Presbyterian  flock,  both 
being  deeply  religious.  Their  gravestones,  be- 
side that  of  his  father.  Captain  Amos  Williams, 
can  be  seen  in  the  old  Scotland  street  burial- 
ground.  The  following  obituary  was  in  the 
Newark  Sentiiial  of  Freedom,  April,  1812.  con- 
tributed by  Rev.  Asa  Hillyer,  D.  D. : 

"Died  at  Orange  on  the  2nd  inst.  Mr.  Sam- 
uel Williams  in  the  99th  year  of  his  age.  P)orn 
Newark,  1713.  He  enjoyed  an  almost  unin- 
terrupted health  from  his  youth.  He  was  the 
head  of  a  family  more  than  70  years,  and  dur- 
ing this  time  had  but  one  death  in  his  family, 
that  of  an  infant,  until  his  wife  departed  her 
life  a  few  years  since  (1810).  He  retained  in 
a  remarkable  manner  the  use  of  his  mental 
faculties  to  the  last.  In  the  relations  of  hus- 
band, parent  and  neighbor  he  discharged  his 
duty  with  great  fidelity.  He  was  indeed  an 
honest  man  and  through  his  life  he  uniformly 
expressed  a  high  respect  for  the  institutions  of 
our  Holy  religion,  and  was  always  a  cheerful 
supporter  of  the  Gospel.  liut  not  withstand- 
ing the  many  virtues  which  adorned  his  fair 
and  unexceptional  character,  he  was  often 
heard  to  lament  his  imperfect  life  and  guilt 
and  to  declare  his  only  hope  of  salvation  rested 
in  the  mercy  of  God  through  a  crucified  Sav- 
iour. As  long  as  any  live  who  knew  him.  he 
will  be  affectionately  remembered.  He  left 
twelve  children,  all  of  whom  were  at  his  fu- 
neral and  paid  their  last  respects  to  a  father 
who  they  deservedly  loved  and  revered.     He 


had  at  time  of  his  death  forty-five  grandchil- 
dren, forty-one  great-grandchildren.  His  de- 
scendants now  living  are  just  equal  in  number 
to  the  years  he  lived." 

He  married  Hannah  Harrison,  born  1723, 
died  April  6,  1810,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Martha  (Sargeant)  Harrison.  Children:  i. 
Ivlartha,  married  Cyrus  Baldwin  ;  children  :  i. 
Sarah,  married  Joshua  Baldwin,  and  had  chil- 
dren :  Eunice,  married  Stephen  Peck  ;  Martha, 
married   Asher   Crane :    Sarah,   married    I'zal 

Hedden  ;  Uzal  S. ;  ii.  Charlotte,  married 

McDanicl ;  iii.  Eunice;  iv.  Henry,  married 
Sarah  Baldwin  ;  children  :  Cyrus,  Catherine 
and  Albert :  v.  Amos,  married  Sarah  Crane ; 
children :  Sears,  Daniel  and  Nathaniel.  2. 
Hannah,  married   (probably)   Joseph  Brown; 

children  :    i.  Hannah,  married Durand  ; 

ii.  Samuel,  married  Ellen  Brown ;  iii.  Phebe. 
3.  Daniel,  born  1744,  died  January  9,  1823.  4. 
Jonathan,  born  June,  1747,  died  November  15, 
1838.  5.  Dorcas,  born  1752,  died  January  2, 
1818;  married  Henry  Townley.  6.  Samuel, 
born  1754;  see  sketch.  7.  Susan,  born  1757. 
died  September  8.  1832:  married  Jonathan 
Baldwin ;  children :  i.  Noah,  married  Cath- 
erine Sears ;  ii.  Elihu,  married  Jemima  I\Iat- 
thews :  iii.  Hannah;  iv.  Lydia,  married  Silas 
Washburn;  v.  John,  married  Hulda  Ham- 
ilton ;  vi.  Dorcas ;  vii.  Cyrus,  married  Phebe 
Mingus :  viii.  Lewis";  ix.  Sarah,  married  Henry 
Ball ;  X.  Caleb  Z.,  married  Sarah  Hamilton.  8. 
Eunice,  born  1763,  died  March  3,  1829;  mar- 
ried Nathan  Squire.  9.  Joseph,  born  1758, 
died  July  i,  1815.  10.  Lydia,  born  1761.  died 
January  6,  1836.  11.  Moses,  born  November 
28.  1762,  mentioned  below.  12.  Mary,  born 
1764.  died  unmarried,  September  26,  1841. 

(V)  Moses,  son  of  Samuel  Williams,  was 
born  on  the  old  Williams  homestead  on  Orange 
Mountains,  West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 28,  1762.  He  attended  the  district 
school  and  worked  on  the  farm  during  other 
seasons.  He  learned  the  trade  of  shoemaker, 
serving  an  apprenticeship,  and  followed  his 
trade  for  many  years  as  was  the  custom,  taking 
out  t!ic  rough  product  from  the  Orange  shops 
and  making  it  up  at  home.  He  later  was  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  the  farm,  also  working 
at  his  trade.  He  was  a  hard-working,  industrious 
and  frugal  man,  and  was  known  for  his  lionesty. 
.\  ]iart  of  his  father's  estate,  some  forty  acres, 
came  to  him  at  the  decease  of  his  father.  This 
he  cultivated  and  resided  there  until  his  death. 
The  property  is  now  owned  by  Ira  C.  Kipp. 
He  died  June  26,  .  He  was  a  Presby- 
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wife  Sarali  was  noted  for  her  piety,  and  regu- 
larly attended  the  prayer  meetings  during  even- 
ing services,  coming  down  the  mountain  by  the 
way  of  the  Christian's  Pathway.  She  pos- 
sessed many  lovable  traits  and  was  of  an  in- 
domitable spirit.  Dr.  Hoyt,  the  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  at  her  funeral,  said  : 
"She  was  like  a  shock  of  corn  fully  ripe  for 
Heaven."  Moses  Williams  served  in  the  revo- 
lution, in  Captain  Wood's  company.  First  Regi- 
ment of  Essex  county,  also  in  state  troops.  He 
married,  1792,  Sarah  Matthews,  born  Febru- 
ary 21,  1775,  died  February  28,  1856,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Anna  Matthews.  Children:  i. 
Abiah,  born  April  22,  1794,  died  April  10. 
1813;  married  Garry  King.  2.  Anna,  born 
March  29,  1796;  married  Isaac  Williams.  3. 
Isaac,  born  July  22,  1798.  4.  Lydia,  born  April 
2,  1800,  died  September  12,  1808.  5.  Henry, 
born  March  i,  1804,  mentioned  below.  6.  Jo- 
seph, born  October  21,  1807,  died  August  10, 
1883;  married  Amanda  Gardner;  children: 
Elizabeth;  Theodore,  born  December  17,  1832. 
7.  Samuel,  born  June  23,  181 1,  died  1864,  un- 
married. 8.  Daniel  Morris,  born  July  30,  1813, 
married  Lucy  Steele.  9.  Lydia,  born  August 
10,  1816,  died  1833.  10.  Sarah,  born  February 
13,  1820,  died  April  19,  1863;  married  Samuel 
Freeman. 

(\T)  Henry,  son  of  Moses  Williams,  was 
born  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  March  i,  1804, 
at  the  old  family  homestead  situated  on  First 
Mountain,  now  in  West  Orange.  He  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the 
usual  school  education  of  a  farmer's  son  at  that 
period.  During  his  early  manhood  days  he 
came  to  Orange  Centre,  where  he  apprenticed 
himself  to  one  of  the  leading  hatters  by  name 
of  Stryker,  serving  seven  years,  Orange  at 
that  time  being  noted  for  its  hat  industry, 
flere  young  Williams  found  employment  as  a 
hatter.  The  process  of  manufacture  was  in  the 
use  of  fur  so  applied  as  to  form  the  hat  body. 
After  time,  having  prospered  at  his  trade  and 
accumulated  his  savings,  he  bought  a  small 
farm  of  twenty  acres  at  West  Orange,  in  what 
is  now  South  Valley  road,  his  land  running  to 
the  top  of  First  Mountain,  and  erected  his 
iiomestead  and  hat  shop,  and  in  company  with 
John  Matthews  continued  in  the  mamifacturc 
of  hat  bodies.  This  business  he  continued  for 
a  number  of  years,  until  the  era  of  machinery, 
when  the  making  by  hand  went  out.  He  tlien 
manufactured  wool  bodies  for  a  Rloomfiekl 
firm,  continuing  in  this  for  c|uite  a  time.  Dur- 
ing his  hat  business  he  conducted  his  farm, 
hiring  the  work  done,  and  after  giving  up  the 


hat  business  gave  his  entire  time  to  farming. 
He  was  a  man  of  quiet  nature,  reticent,  and  on 
this  account  was  nicknamed  "Deacon,"  al- 
though not  a  deacon  of  the  church.  He  and 
his  wife  were  members  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church.  He  was  a  Whig  in  politics. 
He  was  a  Free  Mason,  having  taken  the  thirty- 
second  degree,  being  the  first  in  Orange  to  take 
that  high  degree.  He  served  in  early  manhood 
in  a  cavalry  company  at  Orange.  He  married 
Mary  Jane  Smith,  born  December  14,  1810^ 
died  January  11,  1892,  daughter  of  William 
Isaac,  born  May  20,  1798,  and  Betsey  (Mat- 
thews) Smith,  born  November  12,  1796.  Will- 
iam I.  Smith  was  a  farmer.  Children:  i. 
Horace,  born  October  22,  1831,  died  Septem- 
ber, 1832.  2.  William  Smith,  born  November 
16,  1834,  mentioned  below.  3.  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth, born  June  12,  1837,  died  September  16, 
1873;  married.  May  26,  1859,  Enos  Smith; 
children :  i.  James  Elmore,  born  January  20, 
1863,  died  September  16,  1878;  ii.  Henry  Will- 
iams, born  February  25,  1864,  married  Emily 
Maddock  ;  children  :  Henry  Enos,  born  Janu- 
ary 16,  1896;  Edgar  Maddox,  born  April  22, 
1898;  iii.  William  Pierson,  born  November  2, 

1866,  married  Ella  Harris;  children:  James 
Elmore,  born  September  16,  1894,  and  Gladys 
Harris,  born  December  14,  1898:  iv.  Thomas 
Luddington,  born  April  18,  1869,  married 
Emma  Smith ;  children :  Raymond,  (Irace 
Louise,  Mildred,  Elizabeth,  Alilton,  Harold. 
4.  Winfield  Scott,  born  April  21,  1839,  men- 
tioned below.  5.  Isaac  Morris,  born  October 
18,  1841,  married,  December  15,  1870,  Harriet 
Jane  Van  Duyne ;  children:  i.  Nettie  Mabelle, 
born  September  23,  1872,  married,  June,  1897, 
Barton  Miller ;  child,  Morris  Randolph,  born 
July  3,  1899;  ii.  Julia  Crane,  born  December  2, 
1873,  married,  October  15,  1904,  Francis  Will- 
ard  ;  child,  Percy,  born  July  20,  1907  ;  iii.  Sadie, 
born  January  i,  1876,  died  October  10,  1878; 
iv.  Henry  Smith,  born  October  24,  1877,  mar- 
ried, March  3,  1904,  Mattie  Hixon ;  children: 
Ruth  Harriet,  born  April  i,  1905,  and  Ralph 
Winfield,  born  December,  1907 ;  v.  Arthur, 
born  April  17,  1880;  vi.  Benjamin,  born  March 
22,  1882,  died  October  2,  1883.  6.  Mary  Ann, 
born   January   20,    1844.  married,  January  3, 

1867,  Stephen  Slack;  children:  i.  Thomas  H., 
born  January  4,  1868,  married,  June  24,  1891, 
Anna  Gorman;  ii.  Bertha,  born  April  8,  1872, 
died  August  12,  1872;  iii.  Edith,  born  July  24, 
1873;  iv.  Myra,  born  July  31,  1875,  died  May 
I,  1904;  v.  Stephen,  born  October  4,  1879,  mar- 
ried, November,  1906,  La  I'lanche  Niesman ; 
children:     Everett   Shirley,   born    .August   25, 


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1907,  and  Stephen  Williams,  born  Alay  19, 
1909;  vi.  \'ictoria.  born  September  3,  1881. 
married,  September  7,  1904,  William  Richard 
Clark;  children:  Constance  Mason,  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1905,  and  William  Richard,  born 
June  7,  1909;  vii.  John.  b(^rn  February  22. 
1883.  7.  Nancy  Maria,  born  October  6,  1846, 
married,  October  18,  1888,  Albert  Edmund 
Pruden.  8.  Lydia  Caroline,  born  August  25, 
1848,  died  February  25,  1904.  9.  Alargaret 
Selina,  born  November  4,  1850.  10.  \'irginia 
Louisa,  born  May  11,  1853.  11'.  Ida  Matilda, 
born  July  28,  1856,  died  October  18,  1866,  12. 
John  Henry,  born  October  21,  1858,  died  Oc- 
tober 27,  1866. 

(VII)  William  Smith,  son  of  Henry  Will- 
iams, was  born  at  West  Orange,  then  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  November  16,  1834.  His  early 
educational  training  beginning  in  the  district 
school  three  months  during  the  winter  term 
was  supplemented  by  two  winter  terms  of  pri- 
vate instruction  under  Master  Alonzo  Brackett. 
Being  the  oldest  boy  in  the  family,  it  was  his 
duty  to  help  his  father  in  the  work  of  the 
farm.  During  his  early  manhood  years  he 
was  apprenticed  to  Peter  Dorcmus  to  learn 
the  trade  of  carpenter  until  he  became  of  age. 
The  few  years  under  Mr.  Doremus  fitted  him 
to  apply  himself  as  a  journeyman,  and  at  the 
end  of  his  apprenticeship  he  began  work  as  a 
journeyman  for  Jones  &  Doremus,  where  he  re- 
mained for  several  years,  subsequently  accL-pt- 
ing  a  similar  position  for  two  years  with  Jo- 
seph H.  Condit  and  later  for  Joseph  AI.  Dodd 
and  several  other  well  known  builders,  and  for 
Lucius  D.  Gould,  working  at  stair  building  for 
Mr.  Dodd  at  Newark  and  for  Mr.  Ciould.  In 
1862,  feeling  himself  fitted  to  do  business  in  his 
own  behalf,  having  gained  the  practical  experi- 
ence and  accumulated  sufficient  savings  to  start, 
he  located  at  33  Flarrison  street.  East  Orange, 
his  present  home  and  shop.  From  that  time  to 
the  present  Mr.  Williams  has  devoted  his 
energy  and  skill  to  the  art  of  stair  building. 
His  shop,  situated  in  the  rear  of  his  residence, 
is  a  model  in  e(|ui])ment.  having  the  latest  im- 
proved machinery  used  in  wood  work.  His 
shop,  which  is  carefully  arranged  and  neatly 
kept,  is  used  as  his  office ;  here  Mr.  Williams 
attends  to  the  details  of  the  business  in  the 
drafting  and  laying  out  the  work  in  conjunc- 
tion with  his  many  contracts.  .\  major  part  of 
the  stair  building  of  the  Oranges  has  been  done 
by  Mr.  Williams,  and  some  of  the  contracts 
were  for  the  Dearborn  and  Morgan  schools. 
First  Pre-sbyterian  Church.  City  Hall,  and  in- 
numerable   private    residences    both    in    the 


Oranges  and  surrounding  towns.  Mr.  Will- 
iams is  also  interest  in  the  ownership  and  sale 
of  land  and  lots  of  his  father's  old  homestead 
farm.  He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the  old 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  Oranges.  He  is 
a  Democrat  in  politics.  He  formerly  belongetl 
to  the  Order  of  United  Americans  and  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  Master 
Builders'  Association  of  Orange.  He  married, 
at  East  Orange,  New  Jersey,  May  14,  1857, 
Ann  Eliza  Gruett,  born  June  13,  1833,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  and  Mary  Tichenor  (Harrison) 
( iruett,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  weal  coverer 
in  a  hat  factory,  and  later  engaged  in  the  livery 
business.  Children:  i.  Mary  Jennie,  born  May 
II,  1859;  married,  June  7,  1887,  William  Clay- 
ton Durand,  born  June  7,  1851,  son  of  Byron 
and  Eleanor  (Clayton)  Durand;  child.  Eva 
Mabel,  born  July  7,  1888.  2.  Anna  Eliza,  born 
July  18,  1861.  3.  Walter  Smith,  born  March 
19,  1867,  died  March  17.  1908.  4.  Eugene 
Gruett,  born  November  30,  1871,  died  August 
29,  1893,  married  Mary  Lindsay;  children:  i. 
Estelle  Georgianna,  born  January  i,  1891,  and 
William  Smith  Jr.,  born  November  27,  1892. 

(\"II)  W'infield  Scott,  son  of  Henry  Will- 
iams, was  born  April  21,  1839.  at  the  family 
homestead  in  West  Orange,  New  Jersey.  He 
early  attended  the  nearby  district  school  and 
Alonzo  Brackett's  private  school  at  Orange. 
He  later  attended  public  and  private  schools  at 
South  Orange,  and  subsequently  up  to  seven- 
teen was  a  pupil  in  Rev.  Dr.  Berry's  private 
school  on  Iligh  street.  Orange.  During  his 
youth  he  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm,  and 
during  his  early  manhood  years  served  a  three 
years  apprenticeship  under  Henry  Matthews 
at  the  carpenter  trade,  and  continued  as  a  jour- 
neyman for  Mr.  Matthews  up  to  August.  1861, 
when  he  enlisted  in  the  service  of  his  country, 
entering  the  navy.  He  was  assigned  to  the  re- 
ceiving ship  "North  Carolina,"  then  in  Brooklyn 
navy  yard.  He  subsequently  proceeded  to 
Pensacola,  Florida,  where  he  was  assigned  to 
the  schooner  "M.  A.  Wood,"  one  of  the  early 
cruisers,  where  he  remained  about  four  months. 
Ivcturning  to  New  Jersey  he  re-enlisted  in 
18(13  and  was  assigned  to  the  dispatch  boat. 
"A.  D.  \'ance."  seeing  service  in  the  operations 
around  Fort  Fisher  when  it  was  captured  by 
the  I'nion  forces.  He  remained  on  the  "A.  D. 
\  ance"  nine  months,  after  which  he  was  honor- 
ably discharged  from  the  receiving  ship  "\'er- 
mont."  He  returned  to  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
and  shortly  after  entered  into  partnership  with 
his  brother,  Isaac  M.  \\'illiams,  under  the  firm 
name  of  I.  M.  &  W.  S.  Williams,  contractors 


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and  builders,  at  West  C)raiige,  New  Jersey. 
After  three  years  the  brothers  dissolved  f)art- 
iiership,  Mr.  ^^  illiams  following  his  trade  as 
a  journeyman.  While  not  active  at  his  trade, 
he  is  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  cultivat- 
ing his  acres  which  are  a  part  of  the  old  Will- 
iams homestead  property  on  the  Mountain.  A 
great  part  of,  this  has  been  placed  on  the  mar- 
ket for  building  purposes.  Mr.  Williams  is 
one  of  the  heirs  of  the  property,  which  has 
descended  from  father  to  son  for  several  gen- 
erations. Mr.  Williams  resides  at  103  Central 
avenue,  having  erected  his  residence  about 
forty-four  years  ago.  ]\Ir.  and  Mrs.  W^ilHams 
and  their  sons  are  members  of  Hillside  I'res- 
byterian  Church  at  Orange.  Mr.  Williams  is 
a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of 
Uzal  Dodd  Post,  No.  12,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  a  charter  member  of  Carpenters' 
Union  at  Orange,  and  in  his  early  days  was  a 
member  of  the  Orange  military  compan).  He 
married.  May  30,  1866,  Georgianna  Freeman, 
born  at  Orange,  January  17,  i8;5,  daughter  of 
Alexander  Phoenix  and  Margaret  (Harrison) 
]'"reenian  (see  Freeman  family).  Alexander 
I'.  Freeman  was  a  butcher  by  trade,  and  died 
in  the  California  gold  fields  in  1853.  Children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Williams:  i.  Marv  Ida,  born  fulv 
18.  i8r,7.  died  September  8,  1872.  2.  Albert 
W'infield.  born  March  7,  1871,  died  September 
II,  1872.  3.  Milton  Elwood,  born  January  28, 
1874,  resides  at  home.  4.  Wilbur  Scott,  born 
December  fi,   1877.   resiiles   at  home. 


(HI)  Amos  \\^illiams,  son 
WILLIAMS  of  Matthew  Williams  (II- 
q.  v.),  was  born  in  1690,  at 
Newark,  New  Jersey.  He  removed  with  his 
parents  to  the  Mountain,  and  after  the  death 
of  his  father  in  1732  reigned  in  the  homestead, 
where  he  died  June  16,  1754,  aged  sixty-four 
years.  He  was  a  cooper  by  trade,  and  a  noted 
justice  of  the  peace.  His  name  appears  in 
Newark  town  records  as  surveyor  of  high- 
ways, 1737-38,  and  assessor,  1741-42.  He  re- 
ceived by  deed  from  his  father-in-law,  James 
Nutman,  "for  love  and  affection,"  one  hundred 
acres.  (Shaw's  "History  of  Essex  and  Hud- 
son Counties,"  p.  810).  James  Nutman  was 
concerned  in  the  third  Indian  purchase  of  over- 
the-Mountain  lands  in  1701.  He  came  from 
Edinburg,  Scotland,  and  his  name  appears  in 
Newark  as  early  as  1695.  June  17,  1730,  Amos 
Williams  received  from  his  father,  Matthew 
Williams,  in  consideration  of  love,  good  will 
and  affection,  land  and  meadow  lying  and  being 
in  Newark  at  the  mountain  plantations  so  call- 


ed. (See  copy  of  deed  in  Shaw's  "Esse.x  and 
Hudson  County  History,"  p.  809).  He  married 
Alary  Nutman,  about  1723,  born  1 700,  died 
February  18,  1777.  Children:  Enos,  born 
1724,  died  1742;  Sarah,  born  1728,  died  1736; 
Nathaniel,  born  1733.  died  1782;  James,  born 
1737,  died  1758;  Benjamin,  mentioned  below; 
Sarah,  born  1742,  died  1818. 

( I\' )  Benjamin,  son  of  Amos  Williams,  was 
born  in  the  homestead  of  his  father  in  C)range, 
New  Jersey,  March  4,  1739,  died  September  4, 
1826.  In  accordance  with  his  father's  will, 
Benjamin  learned  the  trade  of  cooper  from  his 
brother  Nathaniel,  when  fourteen  years  of  age. 
After  he  became  of  age  he  took  up  by  his 
father's  will  the  upper  part  of  his  father's 
farm,  then  a  wilderness,  and  commenced  clear- 
ing and  building  a  home.  The  brothers  built  a 
dam  and  erected  a  saw  mill  on  Wigwam  brook 
about  1765.  When  the  revolutionary  war  broke 
out  the  brothers,  together  with  their  uncle, 
James  Nutman,  were  imprisoned  at  Morris- 
town  and  Sussex  county  jails  by  the  committee 
of  safety.  Nathaniel  was  sent  to  New  York, 
where  he  died  of  smallpox  in  1782.  The  fol- 
lowing from  Jemima  Cundict's  book  of  old 
valuable  records  appears  "December  ye  26, 
1777:" 

"Our  people  took  three  green  Cc:>ats  (the 
term  applied  to  Loyalist  troops;  to  distinguish 
them  from  the  British  regulars  they  wore  a 
uniform  of  green  coats  faced  with  white  and 
cocked  hats  with  broad  white  binding  around 
them)  and  they  Swore  they  see  Benjamin 
Williams  over  upon  Staten  island  &c.  So  upon 
that  they  Sent  a  file  of  men  and  fetch  him 
Amediately  Down  to  Newark  where  he  is  to  be 
kept  in  Close  Confinement  until  further  exam- 
ination." Benjamin  took  out  a  written  protec- 
tion from  a  British  officer  which,  owing  to  the 
situation  of  the  opposing  armies,  was  of  little 
value.  At  the  last  moment  he  was  allowed  by 
law,  being  induced  by  his  father-in-law  and  his 
cousin.  Captain  Thomas  Williams,  whose  re- 
gard and  friendship  had  not  been  lessened  by 
the  diversity  of  political  sentiment,  to  take  the 
oath  of  allegiance  to  the  new  government  and 
save  his  property.  He  always  said  that  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  was  as  big  a  lie  as 
was  even  written,  and  would  never  accept  an 
office  under  the  new  government,  although 
prominent  as  a  business  man.  After  the  close 
of  the  war  he  acquired  much  real  estate,  start- 
ed a  tannery  and  built  a  bark  mill,  carding  mill, 
distillery,  currying  shoj)  and  cider  mill.  Among 
other  lands  he  purchased  that  of  Peter  Schuv- 
kr    (Colonel).      This    farm    was    next    north 


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above  General  J'hilip  Kearny's  jilace  over  the 
river  and  above  Newark,  at  what  was  known 
as  Barbadoes  Neck.  "Captain  Tom,"  his  cou- 
sin, remained  true  to  his  frientlship  for  his 
Tory  cousin,  "Governor  Ben,"ashe  was  always 
called.  The  first  coach  that  ever  came  to 
Orange  was  said  to  have  belonged  to  Benja- 
min, the  "Old  Governor,"  and  this  was  used 
by  him  for  many  years  in  attending  Trinity 
Church  at  Newark.  During  his  stay  in  New 
York  he  read  a  work  on  Episcopacy  which 
drew  his  attention  to  the  ecclesiastical  polity 
and  religious  faith  of  the  Church  of  England, 
which  he  adopted,  and  afterwards  held  meet- 
ings at  his  house,  which  were  the  beginning  of 
the  movement  leading  to  the  organization  of 
St.  Mark's  Church  at  West  Orange.  In  his 
early  days  he  was  possessed  of  a  full  rich  bass 
voice.  He  made  half  a  dozen  wills  and  out- 
lived them  all.  "The  old  man  finished  his  last 
barrel  while  a  grandchild  held  the  candle,  for 
the  day  was  too  short,"  and  "I  will  never  make 
another,"  he  said.  Now  and  then  his  stooping 
form  may  be  seen  walking  with  feeble  step 
over  the  fields  leaning  on  his  cane  and  follow- 
ed by  his  faithful  dog  Ponto,  or  he  reads  the 
New  York  Spectator  and  New  Jersey  Eagle. 
He  makes  a  social  call  on  his  cousin,  Thomas, 
son  of  Matthew  Jr.,  who  is  about  the  same  age. 
Their  children  have  intermarried.  Captain 
Tom  the  patriot.  Governor  Ben  the  loyalist,  a 
busy  stirring  life  of  over  eighty  years — each 
has  exhausted  his  energies,  and  they  live  their 
eventful  lives  over  again:  they  differ,  the  dim 
eyes  flash,  the  indomitable  old  Welch  blood  is 
up ;  Ah  !  but  it  is  all  blown  over  blood  is  thicker 
than  water :  they  part  with  mutual  respect." 
Governor  Ben  was  a  slave  holder.  The  records 
show  in  December,  1774,  where  he  purchased 
for  £90  a  negro  slave  "Jack"  of  Jonathan 
Sayres,  of  Newark.  Also  a  receipt  from 
Schuyler  Colfax,  dated   New  York,  June  25, 

1821,  from  -Xbraham  Williams  (attorney) 
$200.00  in  part  payment  for  negro  man 
"Charles"  sold  Benjamin  Williams. 

He  married  (first)  Elizabeth  Condit,  died 
May  30,  1763.  He  married  (second)  Phebe 
Crane,  born  November  19.  1748.  died  May  7, 

1822,  daughter  of  Caleb  Crane,  of  Cranetown, 
a  direct  descendant  of  Jasper  Crane,  who  was 
one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Newark,  through 
Deacon  Azariah,  son  of  Jasper,  who  married 
the  daughter  of  Governor  Treat,  of  Connecti- 
cut. Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  May  26, 
1763,  died  April  12.  1784.  2.  Caleb,  born  Jan- 
uary 14,  1767.  died  November  2,  181 1  :  mar- 
ried Sarah  Reach  Kilburn.    3.  Enos.  born  No- 


vember 3,  1768,  died  April  13,  1829.  4.  Josiah, 
born  November  5,  1770,  died  July  21,  1828. 
5.  Phebe,  born  July  27,  1773,  died  November 
I,  1805:  married  Matthew  Williams.  6.  Ben- 
jamin, born  June  11,  1776,  died  July  15,  1842. 
7.  Samuel,  born  June  29,  1778,  died  May  19, 
1839;  married  Alary  Crane.  8.  Phillip,  born 
June  23,  1780,  died  October  7,  1812;  married 
Sarah  Hedden.  9.  .\mos,  mentioned  below. 
10.  Alethea.  born  January  9,  1785,  died  July 
26,  1847;  married  Timothy  Ward.  11.  James, 
born  May  7,  1788,  died  1859;  married  Sarah 
Hunt.  12.  Mary  E.,  born  November  10,  1790, 
died  March  12,  1876;  married  Charles  Harrison. 

(V)  Amos,  son  of  Governor  Benjamin 
AX'illiams,  was  born  at  the  old  home  of  his 
father  at  "Tory  Corner,"  November  6,  1782. 
died  there  July  30,  1843,  aged  sixty  years,  and 
is  buried  in  the  Episcopal  burying-ground  on 
Main  street.  He  was  for  many  years  engaged 
m  the  tanning  business  with  his  brother  Sam- 
uel, on  the  property  where  the  old  homestead  is 
still  located  on  \'alley  road  near  Eagle  Rock 
avenue,  which  was  occupied  later  by  his  son 
Edward,  who  carried  on  the  business  under 
the  name  of  C.  &  E.  Williams.  The  business 
carried  on  by  the  name  of  S.  &  A.  Williams 
was  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the  state  of  New 
Jersey  for  many  years,  and  the  place  became 
afterwards  known  as  the  "old  tan  yard."  He 
was  a  most  progressive  business  man,  of  the 
upright  and  honorable  type,  and  known  for  his 
sound  judgment.  In  the  jKuiic  of  1835  he  car- 
ried many  of  the  prominent  leather  merchants, 
saving  them  from  financial  embarrassment  by 
carrying  their  notes.  He  was  one  of  the  early 
directors  and  large  stockholders  of  the  Na- 
tional Newark  Banking  Company,  the  oldest 
New  Jersey  banking  house  now  in  existence. 
He  was  elected  one  of  the  overseers  of  the 
highways  of  Orange  in  1812.  He  married 
(first)  Phebe  Munn,  born  October  12.  1787, 
died  June  6,  1823.  daughter  of  Ichabod  Munn. 
Children:  i.  James  .\lfred.  mentioned  below. 
2.  Stephen,  born  1812,  died  .^pril  27,  1835.  3. 
Maria,  born  1814,  died  February  23,  1888.  4. 
jMargaret,  born  1817,  died  March,  1887.  5. 
Eilward  W.  (q.  v.),  born  October  6,  1821. 
Amos  Williams  married  (second)  Joanna 
Campbell,  born  1798.  died  October  2,  1841, 
daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Baldwin) 
Campbell.  Children :  6.  William  \\'hitting- 
ham,  born  May  7,  1834,  died  February  2,  1837. 

(\'I)  Rev.  Dr.  James  .\lfred  Williams,  son 
of  Amos  Williamf.  was  born  September  6, 
1809,  in  the  old  Park  Hotel,  a  famous  hostlery 
then  owned  bv  his  maternal  grandfather,  and 


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died  September  2,  1883.  He  received  a  com- 
mon scliool  education  in  the  nearby  schools, 
assisting  his  father  in  his  business  until  he  was 
twenty-one  years  of  age.  He  was  then  sent  to 
the  school  of  Dr.  Barry,  in  Jersey  City,  to  be 
prepared  for  college.  This  required  six  months 
and  he  then  entered.  Columbia  College.  He 
was  graduated  from  there  in  two  years.  He 
graduated  with  high  honors,  and  immediately 
entered  the  General  Theological  Seminary  of 
New  York,  and  was  ordained  deacon  in  St. 
Mark's  Church,  Orange.  July  10,  1836,  and 
soon  after  that  Rev.  Benjamin  Holmes,  the 
rector,  died,  and  ]\Ir.  Williams  was  called  to 
the  rectorship.  He  declined  at  that  time,  but 
took  the  parish  on  trial;  on  August  13th  the 
following  year  he  was  ordained  a  priest  in  the 
Episcopal  Church  at  Burlington,  New  Jersey, 
and  then  accepted  the  rectorship  and  entered 
upon  its  duties  in  that  capacity  September  9, 
1837.  He  was  instituted  rector  of  St.  Mark's 
on  .September  9.  1837.  and  devoted  forty-seven 
years  of  faithful  untiring  duty  to  the  position. 
fJnly  once  or  twice  during  that  long  pastorate 
did  he  allow  himself  a  vacation,  although  fre- 
(juentl)'  urged  by  his  people  to  do  so. 

It  was  at  the  home  of  Dr.  Williams's  grand- 
father. Governor  Benjamin  Williams,  that  Rev. 
Benjamin  Holmes,  of  Morristown,  about  1825, 
started  the  mission  which  afterwards  develoj)- 
ed  into  the  strong  and  influential  St.  jAIark's 
Church  and  parish.  Beautiful  for  situation  is 
that  grand  old  church,  standing  as  it  does  upon 
the  brow  of  the  hill  overlooking  the  valley  just 
below  and  over  to  the  mountains.  Apparently 
only  a  step  beyond  reminds  one  of  "The  land 
of  Beulali,"  near  to  the  gates  of  the  Celestial 
City,  in  Bunyan's  never-to-be-forgotten  story. 
Perhaps  in  the  autumn  garb  of  varicolored  ivy 
leaves  the  scene  is  the  finest,  though  each  sea- 
son it  has  its  charms.  In  possession  of  Dr. 
Williams's  son  and  daughter,  who  reside  on 
Linden  place.  Orange,  there  is  a  tall  old 
"Grandfather  Clock"  that  has  come  down  to 
them  from  the  time  of  the  revolution,  and  still 
is  ticking  away  as  solemnly  and  faithfully  as 
in  the  days  of  George  Washington,  who  was  a 
frequent  visitor  in  those  parts.  The  clock 
originally  belonged  to  the  grand-uncle  of  Dr. 
Williams,  who  died  many  years  ago  in  New 
York  of  smallpo.x.  The  dearly  beloved  pastor 
of  St.  Mark's  was  not  one  to  seek  his  own  ag- 
grandizement. His  nature  was  so  modest  and 
retiring  that  when  the  opportunity  to  ac(|uire 
the  position  that  is  esteemed  the  highest  the 
Episcopal  church  can  offer,  that  of  bishop,  and 
offered  him,  he  declined  to  become  a  candidate. 


Never  was  he  too  busy  or  engaged  to  respond 
to  the  call  of  the  needy,  and  it  is  said  that  "he 
never  turned  his  face  from  a  poor  man."  His 
manner  was  always  gentle  and  kindly.  He  was 
well  known  for  zealousness  in  his  work.  That 
a  prophet  may  be  with  honor  in  his  own  coun- 
try and  in  his  own  home  was  exemplified  in 
this  life  of  untiring  zeal  among  his  people. 
He  received  much  honor  where  he  was  best 
known  and  loved.  Dr.  Williams  was  a  man  of 
well  stored  mind,  and  had  the  reputation  of 
being  one  of  the  best  informed  priests  in  the 
diocese.  From  the  parish  have  grown,  directly 
or  indirectly,  All  Saints'  Church,  Orange  \'al- 
ley;  Holy  Innocents,  West  Orange;  Holy 
Communion,  South  Orange ;  Grace  Church, 
Orange;  Christ  Church,  East  Orange;  St. 
Paul's  Church,  East  Orange ;  Christ  Church. 
Bloomfield;  St.  Luke's  Church,  Montclair; 
Holy  Trinity,  West  Orange. 

Dr.  Williams  married,  October  4,  1837,  Eliza- 
beth Ann  Condit,  born  in  Orange,  April  24. 
1813,  died  there  March  i,  i860,  daughter  of 
Ichabod  and  Elizabeth  (Leonard)  Condit. 
Ichabod  Condit  was  a  shoe  merchant  in  Orange. 
Children:  Maria  Elizabeth,  deceased;  James 
Alfred  Jr.,  deceased;  Selena  Frances;  Anna 
Margaret,  deceased ;  Stephen  Whittingham. 


(Ill)  Gershom  Williams, 
WILLIAMS  third  son  of  Matthew  Wil- 
liams (  II-C).  v.),  was  born 
in  1698,  at  the  mountain  homestead  of  his 
father,  north  of  Eagle  Rock  road,  .\fter  mar- 
riage and  after  the  death  of  his  father  in  1732, 
Gershom  Williams  occupied  lands  from  the 
corner  of  Valley  and  Washington  streets  with 
some  intervals  down  to  the  corner  of  North 
Park  street,  while  his  brother  Matthew  Jr. 
owned  from  Day  street  to  Park  street,  (ier- 
shom  W'illiams  died  on  his  property.  The  fol- 
lowing is  a  copy  of  a  paper  explanatory  of 
itself: 

"To  whom  it  may  concern  :  Ik-  it  kn(jwn  that, 
Wiiereas :  Gershom  Williams,  Amos  Williams 
and  Matthew  Williams  Jr.  and  Thomas  W'U- 
liams  of  Newark  are  under  obligations 
mutually  and  jointly  to  stand  by  and  for  each 
other  in  the  maintaining,  securing  and  defend- 
ing such  right  and  property  of  lands  as  they 
and  each  of  them  have  and  hold  of  by.  from 
and  under  their  honored  father,  Matthew 
Williams  of  Newark  &c  deceased.  These 
presents  now  show  and  declare  that  Amos 
Williams  his  heirs  and  executors  abovesaid  is 
hereby  released  and  discharged  from  the  obli- 
gation   abovesaid,    so    far   as    it   may   concern 


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STATE    OF    NEW  JERSEY. 


or  have  rcspecl  unto  tlic  ri^'ht.  interest  and 
property  of  the  abovesaid  CJershom  Williams, 
Lis  heirs,  executors  and  administrators  over 
or  above  the  mountains.  In  witness  whereof 
the  said  Gershom  hath  hereunto  set  his  hand 
and  seal  this  thirteenth  day  of  March  in  the 
eleventh  year  of  his  ^[ajesties  Reign,  Anno 
Dom.  1738.     Signed  Gershom  Williams." 

In  the  tlispute  of  Indian  titles,  Gershom  paid 
seven  shillings  in  1727  to  establish  his  right 
of  lands  and  "defray  the  charges"  thereon, 
which  shows  he  was  a  proprietor  about  the 
time  of  his  marriage.  In  1753  he  subscribed 
toward  the  building  of  the  second  meeting 
house,  and  also  paid  £4  4  shillings  towards  the 
building  of  the  parsonage  house.  He  married, 
about  1722,  Hannah  Lawson.  Children:  i. 
Ruth,  born  December  29,  1723.  died  Xovember 
23,  1807;  married  Daniel  Condit ;  children:  i. 
Adonijah,  born  1749,  died  September  13.  1770; 
ii  Eunice:  iii.  ^lartha:  iv.  Mary,  born  Janu- 
ary 18.  1756:  V.  Joel;  vi.  .\mos.  born  January 
22,  1759;  vii.  Samuel,  born  August  16,  1761  ; 
viii.  Ira,  born  February  21.  1764;  ix.  Jemima. 
2.  Joanna,  married  David  Tichenor.  3.  Mat- 
thew, married  Mary  Dodd.  4.  (iershom,  born 
1730:  married,  1750,  ;\Iartha  Gmdit;  children: 
i.  Jotham,  born  1751,  died  September  20,  1780; 
ii.  Mary,  born  1753,  died  1832;  iii.  Rhoda ;  iv. 
Jairus,  born  1757;  v.  Eunice,  born  July  12, 
1760;  vi.  Joel,  born  February  11,  1764,  died 
February  28,  1849;  vii.  Gershom,  born  Octo- 
ber 13,  1766.  5.  Eleazer,  born  August  22, 
1734,  mentioned  below;  married  Mary  Ball; 
children:  i.  Naomi,  born  February  24,  1756, 
died  1838;  ii.  Martha,  born  March  12,  1763, 
died  June  24,  1845;  iii.  Deborah,  born  Novem- 
ber 27,  1765,  died  November  3,  1799;  iv.  Dan- 
iel, born  July  24,    1770.     6.  Joseph,  married 

Elizabeth ;  children  :  i.  Zophar,  married 

Sarah  Hedden ;  died  1798:  ii.  Susanna,  born 
1781,  died  1875;  married  I'eter  Condit.  7.  Za- 
dock,  mentioned  below. 

(I\')  Zadock,  son  of  Gershom  Williams, 
was  born  at  the  old  homestead  at  West  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  about  1740.  died  in  Livingston 
.some  time  after  1816.  He  settled  in  Living- 
-ston  township  about  the  time  of  his  marriage 
to  Rachel  Kew,  where  he  spent  his  life.  He 
was  a  farmer,  on  what  was  called  "Chucktaw 
Hill,"  Livingston,  New  Jersey.  He  owned  the 
farm  where  Mr.  Leo  Mines  now  lives  in  Rose- 
land.  His  grandsons,  Jacob  and  .\bner  Wil- 
liams, in  later  years  bought  the  old  Zadock 
\\'illiams  farm.  His  will  dated  July  4,  1816, 
while  "enjoying  good  health"  is  to  be  found 
in  Will  Book  C,  P.  157.  at  Newark  courthouse. 


a  portion  of  which  is  as  follows:  "I  give  to 
my  son  Simeon  the  whole  of  my  right  to  a 
certain  tract  of  land  of  20  acres  which  we  had 
b}  a  joint  deed  given  by  Josiah  Steele,  Richard 
I  larrison  and  Jonathan  Condit  also  a  piece 
of  land  belonging  to  the  homestead  where  I 
now  live  bounded  as  follows  on  the  main  road 
to  Orange  from  crossroad  leading  from 
Simeon  Williams  &c  &c.  I  give  to  my  son 
Joseph  Williams  one  half  of  the  Ohio  lot  on 
that  part  that  binds  westerly  on  land  belonging 
t )  Aaron  Dodd  north  and  David  Jeffers  south 
and  Jonathan  Condit.  Agreeably  to  the  divi- 
sion already  made  between  sons  Joseph  and 
Zadock  Williams.  I  give  to  my  son  Zadock 
the  other  half  of  the  Ohio  lot  also  the  house 
barn  and  homestead  whereon  I  now  live  except 
the  ])art  already  given  to  my  son  Simeon  pro- 
vided nevertheless  that  if  my  wife  Rachel  out- 
lives me  she  is  to  have  the  sole  use  of  house 
and  garden  during  her  life  and  provided  my 
son  Zadock  do  pay  to  each  of  my  five  daugh- 
ters the  sum  of  $10  each  viz:  Betsey  Pierson, 
Mary  Corby,  Abigail  Corby,  Ruth  Kent  and 
Rachel  King.  My  movable  property  also  to 
be  divided  between  them  at  my  death.  Simeon. 
Joseph  and  Zadock,  executors." 

He  married  Rachel  Kent.  Children  :  Simeon  ; 
Joseph,  mentioned  below ;  Zadock,  married 
Mary  Corby;  Elizabeth,  married  Pier- 
son;   Mary,   married   Corby;  Abigail. 

married  Corbv;  Ruth,  married  


Kent ;    Rachel,    married 
Jacob. 


King;    Levi; 


(  \' )  Joseph,  son  of  Zadock  Williams,  was 
born  in  Livingston  township,  New  Jersey,  May 
6,  1780,  died  there  April  13,  1853.  fie  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm  and  actjuired 
a  common  school  education.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  wood  turning  and  shingle  maker  in 
his  early  days.  He  got  much  of  the  shingle 
stock  used  in  the  community,  then  manufac- 
tured by  hand,  being  split  and  shaved.  He  also 
made  barrel  staves  and  turned  chair  stock  by 
lathe,  .\fter  marriage  he  settled  on  the  farm, 
a  part  of  which  is  now  owned  by  his  grandson, 
Joseph  A.  Mesler.  At  the  time  he  purchased 
it  it  contained  eighty  acres,  but  some  sixty 
acres  have  been  sold  to  outside  parties.  He 
dejjcnded  largely  on  the  cultivation  of  the 
common  crops,  of  fruit,  butter  and  eggs,  and 
always  kept  a  small  herd  of  cattle.  He  was 
considered  a  prosperous  and  well-to-do  farmer 
of  the  old  type,  and  always  paid  his  debts.  He 
v,-as  the  upright,  honorable  type  of  man, 
despised  a  lie,  and  was  strict  in  his  religious 
principles,  he  and  his  wife  being  devoted  mem- 


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bers  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  He 
was  a  staunch  \\  hig.  known  in  his  conimnnity 
for  his  outspoken  principles.  Me  belonge<l  to 
tlie  early  military  company  in  his  district.  He 
married  Mary  Kent,  born  April,  1780,  died 
January  30,  1843,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Abbie 
(Edwards)  Kent.  Children:  i..\buer  ( (|.  v. ) 
2  Jacob,  married  .\ffie  Kent ;  children : 
Matilda,  Emeline,  Silas  and  \'erinus.  3. 
Aaron,  married  Belinda  Corby :  child,  Charles. 
4.  Sarah,  born  August  11,  1824,  died  ]\Iay  14, 
i860:  married,  November  28.  1S40,  Abraham 
Mesler;  children:  i.  Mary,  born  May  25,  1841, 
(lied  May  6,  igcxj;  married  Thompson  Sa\ers ; 
children :  Grace,  married  William  Fowler ; 
Lillian,  George,  Edmund,  born  June  28,  1878, 
and  Eva,  born  June  20,  1882:  ii.  Joseph  Abra- 
ham, born  January  10,  1844;  married,  1872, 
I'hebe  Lavinia  Williams;  children:  Minnie 
Loretta.  born  ^lay  3,  1873,  Wa  Amelia,  born 
December  14,  1875.  Emma  Elizabeth,  born 
January  2S.  1877:  iii.  Parmelia,  born  (Jctober 
30,  1845;  niarried  \\'illiam  H.  McCready ; 
chiildren:  Emma,  Amelia.  Katherine.  Daisy 
Gertrude,  William  Harry,  Chauncy ;  iv.  John 
George,  born  May  23,  1849.  5-  Milincla,  born 
February  28,  1805,  died  April  6,  1874:  mar- 
ried Calvin  Kew ;  children :  i.  Ira  Miles,  mar- 
ried (first)  Sarah  Bowman;  (second)  .\nn 
^\'^oodrufif ;  child,  Calvin  Kew  ;  ii.  Arza  Nelson, 
born  November  5,  1826,  died  September  22. 
1877:  niarried  (first)  Esther  Day;  (second) 
Sarah  J.  Anderson ;  iii.  Marcus  Calvin,  mar- 
ried Louisa  Condit.  6.  Levi,  born  March  i, 
1814,  mentioned  below.  7.  Betsey,  married 
Bowden  Corby ;  children :  Parmelia,  Alexan- 
der, Albina,  Clark.  8.  Charlotte,  married 
David  \'an  Buskirk;  children:  Aaron,  Ira, 
Levi.  9.  Caroline,  married  William  Mosher  ; 
children ;  Israel  R.,  William  Henry,  Joscjih. 
10.  Lyclia,  unmarried. 

(\"I)  Levi,  son  of  Joseph  Williams,  was 
born  at  Livingston,  New  Jersey,  (now  Rose- 
land),  March  i,  1814,  in  the  old  homestead 
of  his  father.  He  acquired  a  district  school 
education  and  w-as  reared  on  his  father's  farm. 
Fie  remained  with  his  father  up  to  early  man- 
hood, when  he  was  ajiprenticed  to  the  shoe- 
making  trade  until  he  became  of  age.  He  fol- 
lowed liis  trade  more  or  less  through  life.  He 
had  twelve  acres  of  his  father's  homestead 
farm  and  later  purchased  one  hundred  and  two 
acres  in  Roseland  of  John  W'illiams,  and  on 
this  he  reared  his  family.  He  was  successful 
as  a  farmer,  and  during  the  seasons  worked 
at  farming.  Much  of  his  farm  has  lieen  sold 
to  the  Essex  Fells  Realty  Comj)any,  and  many 


of  the  best  residences  of  this  section  have  been 
erected  on  the  old  Williams  farm.  He  raised 
the  common  crops,  kept  cattle  and  horses,  and 
made  butter  and  cheese.  He  was  liberal  in 
his  views,  led  a  good  upright  life,  was  honest, 
frugal  and  industrious,  of  sober  and  temper- 
ate habits.  He  was  possessed  of  a  strong 
individuality,  and  of  a  mind  capable  of  just 
reasoning  with  men.  He  was  popular  in  the 
community,  and  was  known  for  his  jokes.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  \'erona  Methodist 
Church,  where  he  was  steward.  He  was  a 
Whig  in  ijolitics,  later  a  l\e]niblican.  He 
served  on  the  townshi])  committee  and  the 
committee  of  highways.  He  married  I'hebe 
Ann  Kent,  born  June  12,  1818,  died  December 
25,    1898,   daughter  of    Nathaniel    and    Ruth 

( )    Kent.     Children:    i.    Almira.    born 

August  10,  1837,  burned  to  death,  1842.  2. 
Martin  Levi,  born  February  14,  1840,  men- 
tioned below.  3.  Mary  Ellen,  born  Mav  13, 
1843,  died  March  18, ■  1904.  4.  Esther  .Ann, 
born  March  4.  1847:  married  (jeorge  Wolfe; 
children:  i.  Levi;  ii.  Jnhn  George,  married 
Dora  Tridell ;  iii.  hVed  Je])tha,  married  Minnie 
Freeman ;  iv.  Margaret ;  v.  William  Martin, 
married  Mabel  Waite.  5.  Phebe  Lavinia,  born 
October  23,  1850;  married  Joseph  Abraham 
Mesler;  children:  Minnie  Loretta,  Ida  .Amelia 
and  Emma  Elizabeth.  6.  Jeptha  .\aron.  born 
March  30,  1855;  married  Elizabeth  DeCamp  ; 
children:  Ella.  Leslie,  Bessie,  Cora,  Clifford. 
7.  Almira,  born  December  23,  1862 ;  married, 
September  29,  1881.  Martin  Bessinger;  chil- 
dren: i.  .Alfred  Lester,  born  May  26,  1882; 
ii  Dora  Estelle.  born  April  i.  1886;  iii.  How- 
ard Martin,  born  March  26,  1895;  ^lartin  Bes- 
singer was  born  April  8,  i860,  died  January 
14,  1906,  son  of  John  and  Margaret  (Haines) 
liessinger. 

|\'1I)  Martin  Levi,  son  of  Levi  Williams, 
was  born  at  Centreville,  Roseland,  township 
of  Livingston,  New  Jersey,  February  14,  1840, 
(lied  there  January  5,  1886.  He  early  attended 
the  district  school  in  the  neighborhood,  assist- 
ing his  father  in  the  care  of  the  farm.  During 
his  early  manhood  years  he  attended  the  ])riv- 
ate  school  of  Professor  .Arthur  R.  Noll  at 
Caldwell,  where  in  return  for  his  education 
and  music  taught  him  Ijy  Professor  Noll  he 
taught  astronomy  and  otlier  branches.  .After 
his  marriage  in  1862,  for  a  period  of  two 
years  during  the  winter  terms,  he  taught 
school  in  his  district,  working  with  his  father 
at  shoemaking  at  other  times.  For  a  time  he 
took  government  w(.)rk  making  shoes.  Lie  later 
(.ntered    into    the    general     store    business    at 


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Rosclaiid  willi  Riifus  Harrison  under  tlie  firm 
name  of  Harrison  &  \\'illiams,  on  Eagle  Rock 
avenue.  After  a  few  years  Mr.  Williams  pur- 
chased liis  partner's  interest  and  continued 
the  business  up  to  his  death  in  1886.  Reared 
under  adverse  circumstances,  he  displayed  the 
best  of  his  mental  faculties,  ever  increasing 
his  store  of  useful  knowledge.  What  he  stud- 
ied for  he  obtained  and  what  he  acquired  was 
from  what  little  he  possessed.  He  lived  an 
honorable  and  useful  life.  He  was  a  man 
possessed  of  a  truly  noble  character  and  a 
great  and  tender  heart  that  could  not  refuse 
to  alleviate  the  suliferings  of  others  even  at  the 
expense  of  his  purse.  He  could  never  bear 
to  see  the  ])oor  suffer  and  never  did  the  way- 
farer turn  from  his  door  without  some  kind 
offering  at  his  hands.  He  loved  his  home  and 
family,  and  he  loved  children,  who  in  turn 
sought  the  affections  of  this  simjile  kind- 
hearted  father  to  all  who  knew  him.  lie  was 
a  man  among  men.  upright  in  all  his  deahngs 
with  them,  possessing  the  true  friendship  of 
every  one  he  came  in  contact  with,  which  he 
always  retained  through  his  generous,  amiable 
and  jovial  disposition.  He  was  deejjly  relig- 
ious and  he  taught  his  children  that  to  live 
respected  and  die  regretted  was  the  greatest 
virtue  one  could  possess.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  at  Roseland, 
where  he  was  steward  and  led  the  singing, 
being  possessed  of  a  rich  tenor  voice;  for  five 
years  he  led  the  choir  without  compensation. 
He  was  a  talented  man  in  every  way  and 
taught  the  singing  school  at  Roseland  on  Sat- 
urday evenings,  and  many  of  the  present  peo- 
ple of  Roseland  were  his  pupils.  He  was  a 
staunch  Republican  in  politics,  serving  the 
town  as  assessor  and  on  the  township  com- 
mittee. 

He  married,  at  Roseland,  Xew  Jersey,  June 
19,  iii'tCiz,  Mrs.  Sarah  .\manda  (  llonnell )  Wil- 
liams, widow  of  Dr.  George  Steele  Williams, 
of  Roseland,  and  daughter  of  Benjamin  Ball 
and  Sarah  ( DeCamp )  Bonnell.  She  was  born 
at  -Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  May  8,  1835;  her 
father  was  a  coach  maker.  Children  :  i .  Ella 
Xora,  born  February  16,  1863;  married.  Xo- 
vember  3,  1886,  James  George  W'elton,  of 
Caldwell.  Xew  Jersey,  born  May  10.  1865.  son 
of  John  I'ulcher  and  .\nn  (Xash)  W'elton; 
children  :  i.  Edith  Eoretta,  born  March  6,  1888 ; 
ii.  Winnifred.  born  February  16,  1902.  2. 
Emma  Loretta,  born  June  20,  1865;  married. 
November  19.  1890,  William  Hartley  Clem- 
ents, born  February  25,  1868,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Catherine  (Hartley)  Clements;  children: 


i  Marjorie,  born  Xovember  25,  1899;  ii. 
Thomas  Hartley,  born  December  10,  1904; 
iii.  William  Everett,  born  June  5,  1906.  3. 
Benjamin  Levi,  born  September  2.  1867;  clerk 
for  W.  B.  .Atwater  &  Company,  grocers,  Xew- 
ark, Xew  Jersey ;  he  married  Ruth  Elizabeth 
Peters,  born  October  11,  1878,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Rachel  (Donnelly)  Peters.  4. 
Gilbert  Martin,  born  May  i,  1871  ;  see 
sketch.  5.  Sylvester  Howell,  born  August  6, 
1873,  mentioned  below.  6.  Edith  May,  born 
Xovember  10,  1875;  married,  November  14, 
1900,  Lewis  Cadwallader  Patton,  born  .-Xiiril 
27,  1870,  son  of  Rev.  Ale.xander  and  Lydia 
(  De  Ford)  Patton  ;  child,  Lewis  De  Ford,  born 
November  2,  1907.  7.  Charlotte  Bonnell.  born 
February  21,  1878;  living  on  the  Williams 
homestead ;  unmarried. 

(VHI)  Sylvester  Howell,  son  of  Martin 
Levi  Williams,  was  born  in  Centreville,  Rose- 
land, a  part  of  the  townshi])  of  Livingston. 
New  Jersey,  August  6,  1873.  When  quite  a 
youth  he  attended  the  nearby  district  school 
r.p  to  twelve  years  of  age.  He  was  taught  the 
rudiments  of  thrift  an(l  enterprise,  and  while 
attending  school  drove  the  mail  from  Caldwell 
to  Roseland.  He  early  entered  upon  a  life  of 
industry,  and  at  the  age  of  twelve  started  to 
learn  the  leather  goods  business  with  Thomas 
Clements,  of  Roseland,  where  he  became  cut- 
ter and  finisher  in  the  making  of  toilet  and 
cigar  case  work,  remaining  four  years  in  this 
position.  He  subse(|uently  entered  the  employ 
of  William  T.  F'lume,  insurance,  at  780  Broad 
street.  Xewark,  Xew  Jersey,  where  he  was 
clerk  for  seven  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time 
he  purchased  the  business  of  Mr.  F'lume  and 
continued  under  the  firm  name  of  S.  H.  Wil- 
liams &  Company.  In  1900  the  business  was 
removed  to  18  Clinton  street,  where  it  was 
incorporated  under  the  state  laws  of  New  Jer- 
sey, the  firm  name  being  Knox,  W'illiams  & 
Kno.x — Andrew  Knox,  president ;  Charles 
Kno.x.  vice-president ;  Mr.  W'illiams.  secretary 
and  treasurer.  At  the  end  of  two  years  Mr. 
Williams  withdrew  from  the  corporation  and 
established  the  insurance  and  brokerage  firm 
of  (iucrin,  Steadman  &  Williams,  which  firm 
continued  for  seven  years  up  to  June  1.  19CX-). 
when  the  firm  was  dissolved  and  the  firm  of 
Guerin  &  Williams  was  incorporated:  William 
IL  Guerin,  president ;  Mr.  W'illiams,  vice- 
president,  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  com- 
]iany  conduct  a  general  insurance  brokerage, 
and  is  considered  the  second  largest  firm  in  the 
amount  of  business  there  is  in  Xewark.  with 
offices  at  781  Broad  street.    Mr.  Williams  has 


STATE   OF   NEW     [ERSEV. 


officiated  as  treasurer  for  the  D.  D.  Slater 
Hardware  Company  of  Xewark  two  }-ears. 
While  in  the  firm  of  Knox,  Williams  &  Knox 
Mr.  Williams  was  instrumental  in  establishing 
the  insurance  offices  of  William  T.  Plume  & 
Company.  Mr.  Williams  resides  at  Roseland, 
Xcw  Jersey.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church  of  Roseland,  serving  as  trustee  of  that 
body,  anrl  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school. 
He  is  dee])ly  interested  in  music,  which  he 
comes  naturally  to  by  inheritance  from  his 
father.  He  possesses  a  rich  baritone  voice 
and  is  a  pupil  of  William  R.  Williams,  of 
Xewark.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He 
is  a  member  of  Roseland  Grange,  Patrons  of 
Husbandry,  and  is  a  representative  of  the 
X'ewark  E.xchange  of  Insurance. 

He  married,  at  Roseland,  Xew  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber 12,  1898,  Marie  Mills  Moger,  "born  July  15, 
1877,  daughter  of  I\Iicah  and  Mary  Anna 
(Raynor)  Moger,  of  Caldwell.  Micah  Aloger 
was  a  farmer.  Children:  Douglass  Everett, 
born  j\Iay  17,  1903:  ^Mildred.  May  6,  1008. 


t  I\' )  Xathaniel  Williams. 
WILLIAMS  son  of  Amos  Williams  (III- 
q.  v.),  was  born  at  West 
Orange,  on  the  homestead  of  his  grandfather, 
Matthew  Williams,  near  Tory  Corner,  in  1733, 
died  at  Long  Island,  X'ew  York,  in  1782.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  cooper  with  his  father, 
who  desired  him  in  his  will  to  instruct  his 
brother  Picnjamin,  then  fourteen  years  of  age, 
in  the  same  trade,  which  he  did.  In  1760  the 
brothers  dammed  the  Wigwam  brook  and  built 
a  saw  mill,  also  a  cider  mill  and  a  distillery  in 
the  same  neighborhood.  Nathaniel  was  over- 
seer of  highways,  1756.  When  the  revolu- 
tionary war  broke  out  the  brothers,  together 
with  their  uncle,  James  Xutman,  for  good  and 
sufficient  reasons  thereunto  them  moving,  were 
uncompromising  in  their  loyalty  to  the  king. 
James  Nutman  was  imprisoned  at  Morristown 
and  Sussex  county  jails  by  the  committee  of 
safety.  Nathaniel  went  to  New  York.  His 
wife  petitioned  the  committee  of  safety  not  to 
be  sent  to  her  husband,  but  asked  to  be  allowed 
to  remain  with  her  children  at  home.  He  died 
of  smallpo.v  which  he  contracted  from  the 
British  soldiers.  His  property  was  confiscated, 
but  as  his  action  was  the  result  of  an  honest 
opinion  there  was  no  personal  ill  will  against 
him  by  his  former  neighbors,  but  rather  sym- 
pathy for  his  family,  and  at  the  sale  no  one 
would  bid  against  the  widow.  Amos,  one  of 
his  sons,  exiled  himself  to  Nova  Scotia  and 
died  there.     lames,  the  otlier  son,  was  about 


twenty  years  old  when  he  went  to  Xew  Y(jrk 
antl  entered  the  British  service.  He  was  there 
in  the  severe  winter  of  1779-80,  when  the  bay 
of  Xew  York  was  frozen  so  hard  that  sleighs 
heavily  laden  with  provisions  crossed  from 
New  York  to  Staten  Island.  He  also  went  to 
Xova  Scotia,  but  in  thirty  years  returned  and 
died  without  issue.  These  royalists  all  lived 
a<-  "Tory  Corner."  At  times  it  had  been  called 
"Williamsville,"  but  the  old  war  name  can 
never  be  displaced.  He  married  Mary  Pier- 
son,  born  1736,  died  1816,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Sergeant)  Pierson.  Children:  i. 
Amos,  born  1757,  went  to  Xova  Scotia  where 
he  died ;  he  married,  and  had  James  and  Ben- 
jamin. 2.  James,  born  1759,  died  1825  ;  mar- 
ried Rebecca  Williams.  3.  Zenas,  born  1762. 
4.  Joanna,  born  1767,  died  1770.  5.  John,  born 
1769,  died  1770.  6.  John,  born  1771,  died 
1849:  married  Joanna  Harrison.  7.  L'zal.  8. 
Xathaniel,  mentioned  below. 

(V)  Xathaniel,  son  of  Xathaniel  Williams, 
was  born  in  1776,  at  Tory  Corner,  West  Orange. 
New  Jersey,  and  died  in  1845.  He  gained  a 
meagre  education  in  the  district  school,  and 
assisted  his  mother,  then  a  widow,  in  the  duties 
of  the  farm.  He  was  early  apprenticed  to  the 
trade  of  tailor,  which  he  followed  the  greater 
part  of  his  life.  The  custom  then  of  the  tailors 
was  to  go  from  house  to  house  and  make  the 
outfit  of  the  family,  which  necessitated  a  stay 
in  many  cases  of  many  weeks  at  a  place.  His 
wife,  Ruth  Williams,  was  said  to  have  been  a 
most  capable  and  energetic  woman,  strongly 
devoted  to  the  church  and  her  family.  She 
exerted  a  great  influence  with  her  husband  and 
children.  Xathaniel  Williams  was  a  staunch 
Whig  and  closely  adhered  to  their  principles. 
He  married  Ruth  Ludlow,  born  1792,  died 
i860.  Children:  i.  Owen  C,  born  1817,  mar- 
ried Mary  Harrison.  2.  Silas,  born  1819,  died 
1884.  3.  L'zal,  born  1821,  died  1843;  niarried 
Margaret  Harrison.  4.  Joanna  G.,  Wn  1824, 
married  Elias  M.  Baldwin.  5.  James  R.,  born 
1823:  he  lost  his  life  by  accident  about  1894. 
6.  Mary  A.,  born  May  30,  1827,  married  (first ) 
May  31,  1847,  .Tohn  'M.  Condit :  (second)  July 
-9<  1857,  ]Mo.ses  Gardner.  7.  George  Newton, 
born  June  22,  1829.  mentioned  below.  8. 
Amos,  born  1831,  died  1834. 

(VI)  George  Newton,  son  of  Nathaniel 
Williams,  was  born  June  22,  1820,  on  the  home- 
stead at  West  Orange,  New  Jersev.  He  was 
reared  on  the  home  place,  gaining  his  educa- 
tion at  the  Tory  Corner  di.strict  .school  until 
fourteen  years  of  age.  As  a  youth  he  worked 
in  the  tannery  of  his  uncle  and  later  learned 


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the  trade  of  harness  maker,  but  did  not  follow 
this  as  a  trade.  In  his  early  manhood  years 
he  learned  the  trade  of  carpenter,  and  in  time 
became  a  builder  of  note  and  erected  many 
buildings  and  residences  in  the  Oranges.  In 
1857.  owing  to  adverse  conditions,  he  decided 
to  emigrate  west,  thinking  this  might  better  his 
condition.  He  located  at  Elkhart;  Indiana, 
where  he  followed  his  trade,  and  while  living 
there  decided  to  serve  his  country's  cause.  lie 
came  back  to  his  native  town  and  enlisted  in 
1862  in  the  Twenty-si.xth  New  Jersey  \'ohm- 
teer  Infantry.  The  regiment  was  immediately 
called  to  the  front,  and  among  the  engagements 
in  which  he  participated  was  the  memorable 
battle  of  Fredericksburg,  one  of  the  worst 
carnagces  of  the  rebellion.  He  also  fought  at 
Rapijahannock  and  in  other  minor  engage- 
ments. Just  before  the  eventful  Gettysburg, 
Mr.  W'illiams  received  an  honorable  discharge 
from  the  United  States  service  at  Camp  P>e- 
linghuysen,  in  his  own  state.  He  subsequently 
returned  to  Indiana  and  located  at  North  Jud- 
son,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  with  his  son, 
Charles  S.  W'illiams.  In  1872  he  removed  to 
California,  thinking  he  might  take  up  a  new 
home  there,  but  after  two  years  returned  to 
North  Judson,  where  he  continued  at  farm- 
ing until  1889,  when  he  returned  to  his 
native  state  and  settled  at  South  Orange, 
where  he  later  retired,  and  died  at  his 
residence  in  Prospect  avenue,  December  20. 
1902.  Mr.  W'illiams  was  held  in  high  esteem 
by  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  of  high  moral 
character  and  a  worthy  citizen.  He  was  a  faith- 
ful member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  In  the 
old  days  he  cast  his  fortunes  with  the  old  line 
Whigs,  but  when  the  new  party  came  in  he  was 
an  ardent  supporter  to  the  Lincoln  policies  and 
remained  a  Republican  up  to  his  death,  al- 
though he  never  accepted  public  office.  He 
married,  October  27,  1852.  at  Orange,  New- 
Jersey,  Louisa  .Augusta,  daughter  of  John 
Smith  and  Hulda  (Hamilton)  Baldwin.  She 
was  born  June  8,  1827.  died  at  Caldwell,  New 
Jersey,  March  29.  1909.  John  S.  Baldwin  was 
a  farmer. 

(\'ir)  Charles  Stanley,  only  child  of  (ieorge 
Newton  W'illiams,  was  born  .August  30,  1855, 
on  the  maternal  Baldwin  homestead,  then  situ- 
ated on  Boiling  Spring  road  and  Cherry  street, 
now  .Arlington  avenue  and  Springdale  avenue. 
East  Orange.  He  attended  the  nearby  district 
school,  and  when  about  fourteen  went  to  a 
private  school  at  Charlottesville,  New  York, 
also  to  Mr.  Shearer's  select  school.  At  about 
eighteen  years  of  age  he  became  clerk  in  J.  H. 


Greenfield's  grocery  store  at  East  Orange, 
where  he  remained  a  year,  when  he  removed  to 
North  Judson,  Indiana,  with  his  parents,  to 
settle  on  the  farm  purchased  by  his  father, 
which  he  conducted  with  his  father.  In  1872 
the  senior  W'illiams  removed  to  California  for 
the  purpose  of  settling  in  that  state,  but  after 
two  years  returned  to  Indiana.  In  1879  Charles 
S.  Williams  returned  to  East  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  and  engaged  in  the  milk  business,  con- 
ducting this  for  his  uncle,  Elias  M.  Baldwin, 
for  a  short  time.  He  later  became  engaged  in 
coal  sujiply  trade  in  his  own  behalf  and  was 
agent  for  different  dealers.  He  represented  at 
different  times  the  Hobart  Company,  \'an  Ness 
&  Company.  Roberts  &  Company,  East  Orange 
Coal  Company,  all  in  East  Orange,  and  Fairlee 
&  Wilson,  of  Newark,  whom  he  represented 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  actively 
identified  in  the  best  business  circles  of  East 
Orange.  He  was  the  conscientious  type  of 
man,  with  broad  humanitarian  principles,  of 
deep  sympathy  and  kindly  temperament  and 
lovable  and  amiable  disposition.  His  jovial 
and  kindly  manner  made  him  a  host  of  friends. 
He  was  ])hilanthropic,  and  his  duty  to  his 
church  and  family  was  always  first  in  his  heart. 
He  died  September  20,  1905.  While  reared  in 
Grace  Church  (Episcopal),  South  Orange,  he 
became  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal 
Church  at  East  Orange.  He  was  a  true  Re- 
publican in  his  principles,  and  at  different 
tunes  was  elected  clerk  of  his  ward.  He  was 
a  member  of  Trinity  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  at 
Newark,  and  served  that  body  as  its  noble 
grand.  He  belonged  to  the  Order  of  Chosen 
1-ricnds.  also  the  Order  of  Heptasophs  of  East 
(Jrange.  He  married,  at  Christ  Church.  East 
Orange,  December  20,  1876,  Matilda  Green- 
field, born  in  New  York  City,  June  12,  1850. 
daughter  of  James  Harriet  and  Matilda 
( Young)   Greenfield. 

(VHI)  Stanley  May,  only  child  of  Charles 
Stanley  W'illiams,  was  born  at  North  Judson. 
Indiana,  October  13.  1878.  He  removed  when 
an  infant  with  his  parents  to  East  Orange. 
New  Jerse\',  the  ancestral  home  of  his  parents. 
His  education  was  received  in  the  East  Orange 
schools,  graduating  from  the  high  school  in 
1898.  He  subsequently  entered  Cooper  Insti- 
tute, New  York  City,  where  he  devoted  a  three 
years  course  to  the  study  of  chemistry,  grad- 
uating in  1901,  receiving  degree  of  chemistry, 
which  is  the  same  as  Bachelor  of  Chemistry. 
During  his  college  course  at  Cooper  Institute 
he  was  employed  as  chemist  with  Heller  & 
Merz    Company   at    Newark,   where    he    had 


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charge  of  the  color  department  of  their  works 
for  three  years.  He  subsequently  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Asbestos  Flooring  Company  at 
Greenpoint,  Long  Island,  for  a  year,  as  their 
chemist.  In  1904  he  became  chemist  for  A. 
Gross  Candle  Manufactury  at  Newark  and 
Jersey  City  having  charge  of  their  chemical 
department.  .A.11  of  the  raw  product  received 
is  under  his  direct  analysis  and  the  various  pro- 
cesses of  manufacture  are  tested  by  him.  He 
resides  at  269  Springdale  avenue,  East  Orange, 
with  Iiis  mother,  on  a  part  of  the  estate  of  his 
ancestors.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Epis- 
copal Church  of  East  Orange.  He  is  an  ardent 
Republican  in  politics,  having  served  his  party 
as  their  delegate.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Chemical  Industry  of  the  World, 
.American  Chemical  Society  of  the  United 
States,  .\merican  Chemical  Society  of  Neu- 
York,  and  Cooper  Union  Chemical  .Society  of 
New  York.     Air.  Williams  is  unmarried. 


l\")  Colonel  William  Will- 
W1LLL\M.^  iams,  son  of  Captain  Thomas 
Williams  ( q.  v.),  was  born 
on  the  old  homestead  place  of  his  father  near 
Washington  and  Day  streets.  Orange.  New 
Jersey,  December  28,  1777,  died  June  6,  1833. 
He  gained  a  thorough  schooling  such  as  was 
aiTorded  in  the  nearby  district  school.  He  was 
taught  the  rudiments  of  penmanship  and  be- 
came an  e.xpert.  his  accounts  in  later  years 
being  a  work  of  art  from  his  hand.  During 
his  early  manhood  years  he  assisted  his  father 
in  the  mill  and  on  the  farm,  and  later  served 
his  time  at  the  trade  of  harness  maker.  He 
followed  this  trade  through  his  lifetime  in  con- 
nection with  various  other  lines,  and  from  his 
accounts  appears  to  have  done  a  thriving  trade. 
He  also  did  considerable  business  in  the  letting 
of  teams.  After  his  marriage  he  lived  on  Alain 
street,  opposite  Prospect  street.  East  Orange. 
The  property  was  his  wife's  by  inheritance. 
During  his  residence  there  he  frequently 
slaughtered  cattle  and  hogs  for  his  neighbors, 
as  was  the  custom  then.  He  carried  on  farm- 
ing in  a  moderate  way,  raising  cattle  and  sheep. 
The  cattle  he  slaughtered  and  sold,  as  also  his 
sheep,  and  the  wool  from  the  shee]i  was  sjiun 
for  the  wearing  apparel  of  the  household.  Ik- 
bore  an  excellent  reputation  among  his  neigh- 
bors, and  was  apparently  a  public-spirited  man, 
much  interested  in  military  organizations  of 
his  time.  He  was  an  ardent  Whig  in  politics 
and  occupied  offices  of  trust  in  his  town.  He 
was  elected  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  high- 
wavs  at  the  second  town  meeting  of  Orange, 


an  office  of  responsibility  which  he  faithfully 
filled.  He  was  appointed  justice  of  the  peace 
November  29,  1822,  and  November  6,  1827, 
by  Governor  Isaac  H.  \\'illiams.  He  was  ap- 
pointed judge  of  the  superior  court  of  com- 
mon pleas  for  Essex  county,  February  26, 
1830.  by  Governor  Peter  D.  Vroom.  He  was 
appointed  justice  of  the  peace  by  Governor 
Samuel  L.  Southard.  November  i.  1832.  He 
was  consulted  on  many  legal  matters.  He  was 
prominent  in  military  circles  and  received  the 
following  commissions  issued  to  him  by  the 
governors  of  New  Jersey:  May  9,  i8oj\,  en- 
sign of  Orange  \'olunteer  Company.  Second 
battalion.  First  Regiment  Esse.x  Alilitia  of 
New  Jersey;  February  2,  1809,  ensign  of 
Fourth  Company,  First  Battalion,  Fifth  Regi- 
ment of  Esse.x  Brigade.  New  Jersey  Militia: 
.April  17,  1809,  lieutenant  of  Fourth  Company, 
First  Battalion,  Fifth  Regiment:  June  i,  181 1, 
captain  of  same  company.  The  above  com- 
missions were  signed  by  Joseph  Bloomfield 
(governor)  :  February  9,  1816,  major  of  same 
regiment,  signed  by  Governor  Alahlon  Dicker- 
son ;  February  11,  1818,  colonel  of  same  regi- 
ment, signed  by  Governor  Isaac  H.  Williams. 
Colonel  Williams  was  reputed  to  be  a  good 
disciplinarian.  He  was  a  charter  and  active 
member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  "Brick" 
Church,  and  strict  in  his  household  regarding 
church  attendance.  He  was  a  man  of  good 
physique  and  of  dignilied  bearing,  ever  court- 
eous in  his  manner  to  all,  and  was  known  for 
his  keen,  sightedness,  uprightness  and  charit- 
able disposition.  His  wife,  Phebe  (  Harrison  ) 
\\'illiams,  was  a  gentle  quiet  woman,  very  lov- 
able, and  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  her. 
He  was  buried  in  the  old  Scotland  street  burial- 
ground,  but  early  in  the  seventies  was  removed 
to  the  family  lot  beside  his  wife  in  the  Rose- 
dale  cemetery.  He  married.  1798,  Phebe  Har- 
rison, born  Alay  6,  1779,  died  October  8,  1854. 
daughter  of  Jotham  Harrison,  son  of  Stephen 
Harrison.  Stephen  Harrison,  born  1698,  died 
1786,  was  son  of  Joseph  Harrison,  born  1649. 
died  1742,  and  Dorcas  AVard  Harrison.  Jo- 
seph Harrison  was  son  of  Sergeant  Richard 
Harrison,  who  came  to  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
in  1667.  being  son  of  Richard  Harrison  who 
came  from  Cheshire,  England,  and  died  at 
Bran  ford,  Connecticut,  October  25,  1653.  Chil- 
dren of  Air.  and  Airs.  Williams:  i.  Emily, 
born  February  (),  1800,  died  1804.  2.  Harriet, 
born  October  18,  1807,  died  July  21.  1833;  mar- 
ried Gershom  Kilburn :  child,  Phebe  .-Ann,  mar- 
ried Frank  Medina  and  removed  to  California. 
3.  W  illiam,  mentioned  below. 


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(\T)  William  Williams,  son  of  Colonel 
William  Williams,  was  born  in  the  family  home- 
stead on  Main  street,  East  Orange,  where  the 
present  bank  building  now  stands,  October  9, 
1822,  died  at  his  residence  on  Hillyer  street. 
Orange,  October  25,  1901.  His  educational 
training  was  limited  to  the  select  school  then 
located  on  the  mountain,  where  he  attended  to 
early  manhood.  As  a  young  man  before  mar- 
riage he  kept  a  general  store  at  the  corner  of 
Main  and  Washington  streets,  East  Orange, 
for  a  brief  period.  About  1852  he  erected  his 
homestead  on  Hillyer  street,  where  he  settled 
and  engaged  in  farming  in  a  small  way  on  the 
lands  of  his  ancestors.  I  le  possessed  a  con- 
siderable tract  left  him  by  his  father,  this  being 
a  part  of  the  original  Matthew  Williams  lands. 
I\Ir.  Williams  was  instrumental  in  the  opening 
of  this  section ;  Elm  and  State  streets  were 
built,  and  through  his  ability  and  good  judg- 
ment much  of  his  valuable  property  was  sold  at 
a  satisfactory  profit.  A  number  of  modern 
houses  were  erected  by  him  for  rental.  He  in- 
herited many  of  the  true  qualities  of  his  an- 
cestors, was  retiring  in  disposition,  and  his  rec- 
ord as  a  man  and  citizen  was  above  reproach. 
He  was  a  deep  reader  and  strong  thinker,  and 
kept  in  touch  with  the  affairs  of  the  world  at 
large  through  reading  of  history  and  the  cur- 
rent news.  He  never  aspired  to  participate  in 
public  affairs,  and  was  a  staunch  Republican 
in  ])olitical  jirinciple.  Following  the  footsteps 
of  his  ancestors,  he  affiliated  with  the  Presby- 
terian faith  and  became  in  early  life  a  member 
of  the  Second  I'resbyterian,  but  was  later  dis- 
missed to  the  Old  First  Church  at  Orange, 
where  he  served  as  trustee.  He  later  I>ecame 
a  member  of  the  Central  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  married,  June  11,  1850,  Louisa  l^eck,  born 
April  25,  1827,  died  July  5,  1908,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Matthew  and  Martha  (Baldwin)  Peck, 
the  former  of  whom  was  a  farmer.  Children:  i. 
Frederick  I larrison. born  .\pril  i(k  1851  (^c).  v. ). 
2.  Harriet  Fouisa,born  .\pril  20,  1856:  married, 
June  12,  1884,  Henry  Plall  Duncklee,  born  Au- 
gust 5,  1857,  son  of  George  Otis  and  Mary  S. 
(Little)  Duncklee:  children:  Mary  Louise, 
bom  May  4,  1885;  .Adelaide  Elizabeth.  January 
17,  188!^.     3.  Henry  Clinton,  mentioned  below. 

(\'ll  )  Henry  Clinton  Williams,  son  of  Will- 
iam Williams,  was  born  in  the  Hillyer  street 
homestead,  September  i8,  1862.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  public  schools,  graduating 
from  the  .Xshland  grammar  school  and  taking 
a  two  years  course  in  the  high  school.  .At  the 
age  of  sixteen  he  was  emjiloyed  as  clerk  in  the 
Wall  street  brokerage  office  of  Musgrave  & 


Company,  New  York,  where  he  remained  two 
years,  subsequently  becoming  assistant  teller 
C'f  the  Newark  Banking  Comi)any,  where  he 
remained  six  years.  From  1886  to  1902  Mr. 
Williams  was  engaged  as  a  concert  and  church 
vocalist,  and  devoted  his  energies  successfully 
in  the  musical  world,  but  was  obliged  to  aban- 
don this  calling  owing  to  impaired  health.  In 
February,  1902,  he  entered  the  employ  of  W. 
B.  Smith  &  Company,  stock  brokers,  of  New 
York  City,  and  became  the  manager  of  their 
branch  office  at  Orange.  In  June,  1909,  he 
retired  from  this  position  and  at  present  ( 1910) 
is  a  member  of  the  board  of  assessors  of  East 
Orange.  He  resides  at  19  State  street.  He  is 
a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Central  Presbyterian  Church,  Mrs.  Will- 
iams also  being  a  member ;  she  is  a  member  of 
the  Woman's  Auxiliary  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  of  Hakuai  Circle  of 
King's  Daughters,  and  president  of  same,  also 
a  member  of  the  Woman's  Club  of  East 
Orange. 

He  married,  at  East  Orange,  March  5,  1902, 
Elizabeth  Bomeisler,  born  in  New  York  City, 
April  21,  1874,  daughter  of  Theodore  and 
Esther  (Rowland)  Bomeisler,  the  former  of 
whom  was  a  merchant  in  New  York.  Chil- 
dren :  Esther,  born  May  8,  1903 ;  Phebe  Har- 
rison, May  20,  1906. 


(VI)  Edward  Williams,  son 
WILLIAAIS  of  Amos  Williams  (\'-q.  v.), 
was  born  in  the  Amos  Will- 
iams homestead  (built  in  1812),  October  6, 
1821,  died  there  April  21,  1893.  in  the  room 
in  which  he  was  born.  He  attended  the  dis- 
trict school  taught  by  Schuyler  Hillyer,  and 
later  attended  a  military  school  on  the  Hudson, 
supi^lemented  by  a  course  at  a  school  in  Troy, 
New  York,  up  to  sixteen  years  of  age.  At 
this  time  he  engaged  himself  to  his  father  in 
the  tannery  business  as  a])])rentice,  and  con- 
tinued as  his  father's  assistant  during  his  life. 
After  his  father's  death  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Charles  Williams,  his  cousin,  under 
the  firm  name  of  C.  &  E.  \\'illiams.  The  tan- 
nery, situated  near  the  homestead  on  Eagle 
Rock  avenue,  derived  its  ])ower  from  the 
waters  of  Wigwam  brook,  where  a  mill  pond 
was  formed.  This  water  jjrivilege  ran  the  bark 
mill,  where  bark  was  brought  from  over  the 
mountains  as  far  back  as  Wanague  Mountains 
by  the  settlers.  In  the  early  fifties  the  part- 
ners leased  the  tannery  plant  to  Goldstein  & 
Trier,  of  Newark,  who  carried  on  the  business 
a  few  years,  when  the  partners  again  took  the 


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business,  converted  the  old  bark  mill  intci  a 
grist  mill,  and  for  a  time  made  flour.  This  did 
not  prove  profitable,  and  in  1856  the  partners 
dissolved,  Edward  embarking  in  business  with 
Dennis  Sullivan  under  the  firm  name  of  Sulli- 
van &  Williams,  dealers  in  leather,  the  firm 
supplying  various  dealers  in  the  county.  In 
the  panic  of  1857  they  suffered  heavy  loss  re- 
sulting a  dissolution  of  partnership,  .Mr.  Will- 
iams retiring  to  the  old  farm  which  he  conduct- 
ed during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

Edward  Williams  possessed  a  wonderful  re- 
tentive memory.  He  was  a  great  reader  and 
careful  thinker.  His  study  of  mathematics  and 
algebra  and  his  fondness  for  astronomy  mark- 
ed him  as  a  man  of  the  rarer  type,  self-school- 
ed in  the  higher  problems  of  culture.  His  man- 
ner was  quiet  anrl  unassuming,  and  he  held  the 
respect  of  the  entire  community.  Following 
the  faith  of  his  ancestors,  he  became  a  vestry- 
man of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  Church,  where 
he  and  his  family  attended.  In  early  years  he 
was  an  ardent  WHiig,  but  during  the  early  Lin- 
coln times  became  affiliated  with  the  Lincoln 
I 'arty.  He  was  an  ardent  patriot,  served  in  the 
Home  Guards  during  the  civil  war,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  L^nion  League.  In  later  years, 
before  the  seventies,  he  was  elected  township 
superintendent  of  the  W'est  Orange  schools, 
and  in  the  early  seventies  served  on  the  town 
committee  and  board  of  assessors  of  West 
( )range.  He  married,  November  3,  1847,  Mar- 
ion White,  born  September  6,  1823,  died  Octo- 
ber 8,  1900,  daughter  of  Richard  Mansfield 
and  Ann  Eli^a  (Tousey)  White.  Richard 
Grant  White,  brother  of  Marion  White,  was 
editor  of  the  New  York  World  and  New  York 
Times,  a  renowned  English  scholar,  writer  and 
publisher.  Children:  i.  Edward  Grant,  born 
October  22,  1848,  died  August  20,  1849.  2. 
James  Austin,  mentioned  below.  3.  George 
Herbert,  born  May  13,  1833;  married,  Decem- 
ber 27,  1889,  Josephine  Hart;  child,  Edward 
Hart,  born  June  22,  1894.  4.  Anne  Eliza,  born 
March  23,  1855.  5.  Marion,  born  August  30, 
1857.    6.  Alfred  Grant,  mentioned  below. 

(VII)  James  Austin,  son  of  Edward  Will- 
iams, Vvas  born  in  West  Orange,  June  3,  1850. 
He  received  his  education  in  the  public  .schools, 
and  later  was  associated  with  the  Newark  Daily 
Adi'crtiscr  for  twenty  years.  He  has  been 
engaged  in  literary  work  for  some  time.  He 
is  now  engaged  in  general  insurance  business 
in  Newark,  representing  as  an  insurance  broker 
for  Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  accident,  burg- 
lary, liability  and  fire  insurance.  He  is  general 
agent  for  the  Great  Eastern  Casualty  and  In- 


demnity Company  of  New  York  City.  He  re- 
sides in  Newark.  He  married,  January  11, 
1S77,  ^lary,  daughter  of  James  Brand  and 
Elizabeth  (Plowman)  Robertson. 

(VII)  Alfred  Grant,  son  of  Edward  Will- 
iams, was  born  at  West  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
.'\pril  5,  i860,  on  the  homestead  of  his  grand- 
father Amos  Williams,  built  in  1812.  He  at- 
tended Robinson's  select  school  on  Lincoln 
avenue,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1876. 
He  subsequently  entered  the  employ  of  W.  T. 
]\[eredith,  a  stock  broker  on  \\'illiam  street, 
New  York  City,  where  he  was  clerk  one  year, 
occupying  a  similar  position  with  Dater  & 
Timpson.  Here,  by  his  energy  and  strict  at- 
tention to  every  detail  of  the  business,  and  his 
probity,  he  gained  for  himself  such  favor  with 
the  firm  that  he  was  promoted  to  a  position  of 
greater  responsibility  and  remuneration,  be- 
coming cashier,  which  position  he  held  at  the 
end  of  his  fifteen  years  service  with  the  firm. 
In  1887,  desirous  of  obtaining  a  yet  broader 
field  for  his  chosen  occupation,  he  entered  into 
business  for  himself  at  26  Ilroad  street.  New 
York  City,  and  maintained  a  stock  brokerage 
office  until  1904,  when  he  located  in  more  com- 
modious quarters  at  52  F)roadway,  his  present 
location.  Mr.  Williams  conducts  a  strict  broker- 
age and  commission  business,  buying  and  sell- 
mg  all  kinds  of  marketable  stock.  He  has 
made  his  home  at  the  old  family  homestead  on 
Eagle  Rock  avenue.  West  Orange,  with  his 
sisters,  Anne  Eliza  and  Marion  W'illiams.  Mr. 
\\  illiams  is  a  member  of  Holy  Trinity  Epis- 
copal Church  at  West  Orange,  a  branch  of  St. 
Mark's  Episcopal  Church,  established  through 
tlie  adoption  of  Episcopacy  by  his  great-grand- 
father, Governor  P>enjamin  Williams.  Mr. 
Williams  is  at  present  senior  warden  and  treas- 
urer of  this  church.  Politically  he  is  a  staunch 
Reiniblican,  having  represented  his  party  as 
delegate  from  the  eighth  congressional  district. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Men's  Club  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  Newark  of  the  Episcopacy.  He  mar- 
ried. May  23,  1889,  Josephine  Baldwin,  born  at 
South  Orange.  June  22,  1858,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Rebecca  (Tompkins)  Baldwin. 
No  issue. 


(  I\')  Isaac  \Villiams,  son  of 
WILLIAMS      Matthew    Williams    (Ill-q. 

v.),  was  born  in  the  first 
\\  illiams  homestead  at  the  corner  of  Day  and 
Washington  streets.  Orange,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 6,  1722,  died  1806.  He  was  the  oldest 
of  seven  children,  his  only  brother.  Captain 
Thdinas  Williams,  lieing  the  youngest-  He  and 


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his  brother,  Captain  Thomas  Williams,  inherit- 
ed their  father's  property  at  the  corner  of  Day 
and  Washington  streets,  on  which  the  first 
grist  mill  was  built  in  1780,  and  with  Captain 
Thomas  Joseph  Hedden  and  Zenas  Ward  was 
an  equal  owner  in  the  mill  which  they  ran 
"week  about"  in  turn,  receiving  its  earnings 
accordingly.  He  later  sold  his  share  with  the 
others,  while  Captain  Thomas  retained  his  own 
quarter  interest.  Isaac  W'illiams  was  a  pros- 
perous farmer  and  lived  and  died  on  his  prop- 
erty, which  descended  to  his  heirs.  In  1753 
he  subscribed  to  the  new  meetinghouse  £5  9 
shillings  9  pence,  the  tribes  of  Williams  giving 
£58  6s.  8d.  Prior  to  1756  he  was  a  member 
in  full  communion  of  the  Mountain  Society 
(First  Presbyterian  Church).  "The  five  lots 
on  the  north  side"  (of  the  glebe)  were  on  the 
Tiorth  side  of  Main  street,  being  a  part  of  the 
parsonage  house  tract  which  had  been  bought 
in  two  parcels  from  Matthew  Williams  in  1748 
and  Lsaac  Williams  in  1787  "wdio  sold  a  single 
acre  between  Park  and  Hillyer  streets  adjoin- 
ing the  Parsonage."  He  married  Eunice,  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Sergeant)  Pierson, 
and  sister  of  Dr.  Matthias  Pierson.  Children: 
I.  Abigail,  born  1746,  married  Stephen  Will- 
iams. 2.  Jabcz,  born  1748,  married  Paty  Sov- 
erell,  and  moved  to  \\'ilkes-Barre,  Pennsyl- 
vania. 3.  Jemima,  born  March  14,  1750:  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Jacobus,  and  lived  in  Piloomfield. 
4.  Matthias,  born  July  26,  1753:  married, 
Xancy  Hall.  5.  Mary,  born  November  3,  1756, 
married  John  Harrison.  6.  Aaron,  born  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1759.  mentioned  below.  7.  Caleb, 
born  July  18,  1763,  died  1844;  married  Phebe 
Ward,  born  1768.  died  1849,  daughter  of 
Zenas  Ward.  8.  Isaac,  born  March  15,  1768, 
died  1851  :  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Abel  Dodd;  .she  died  1823.    9.  Mary. 

(V)  Aaron,  .son  of  Isaac  Williams,  was 
born  on  the  homestead  property  in  the  vicinity 
of  Day  and  Washington  streets.  Orange,  F"eb- 
ruary  5,  1759,  ba])tized  }klarch  18.  1759,  died 
there  February  3,  1830.  1  le  was  reared  on  the 
home  of  his  father,  and  in  his  early  manhood 
years  was  a  shoemaker  and  farmer  and  did  his 
own  blacksmithing.  His  farm  was  of  consid- 
erable area,  and  was  in  the  vicinity  of  Wash- 
ington street,  between  Park  and  North  Centre 
streets.  He  built  his  homestead  in  Washing- 
ton street,  now  the  property  of  William  P. 
Condit.  where  he  lived  and  died,  lie  was  a 
man  of  staid  c|ualities,  honest,  industrious  and 
frugal,  a  strict  Presbyterian,  like  all  his  ances- 
tors, and  contributed  to  the  building  of  the 
Presbvterian  church  edifice  at  Main  and  Dav 


streets.  He  was  for  a  time  highway  surveyor. 
He  was  a  private  in  Captain  Henry  Squire's 
company.  Second  Essex  County  Regiment, 
Cokinel  Philip  \"an  Cortland,  and  attached  to 
1  iurd's  I'pjjer  Brigade.  Why  he  was  not  in  his 
Uncle  Thomas  \\'illiams's  company  has  not 
been  conjectured,  except  that  comjsany  had  its 
full  quota  or  were  not  at  hand  when  young 
Williams  enlisted.  Captain  S(|uire's  company 
was  mustered  in  June  14,  1776.  He  married 
Mary  Dodd,  a  twin  sister  to  Joseph  Dodd,  born 
October  10,  1760,  died  September  24,  1829, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (  Lindley )  Dodd. 
C  hildren:  i.  Bethuel,  born  February  29.  1790, 
died  unmarried,  March  27,  1870.  2.  Ebenezer, 
born  January  7,  1792,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Mary,  born  July  5,  1794,  died  unmarried,  .Au- 
gust 27,  1861.  4.  -\aron,  born  November  10. 
1797  (q.  v.).  5.  Smith,  born  September  9. 
1800,  died  unmarried  February  20.  1874. 

( \T )  Ebenezer  Williams,  son  of  Aaron 
Williams,  was  born  on  the  old  \\'illiams  home- 
stead on  Washington  street,  Orange,  New  Jer- 
sey, now  occupied  by  William  P.  Condit,  Jan- 
uary 7,  1792,  and  died  at  9  Washington  street. 
I-\'bruary  14,  1874.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm,  acquiring  the  usual  education 
of  the  farmer's  sons  at  that  period.  When 
fourteen  years  of  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  his 
uncle.  Moses  Dodd,  in  New  York  City,  at  the 
trade  of  carpenter,  serving  until  he  became  of 
age.  He  became  journeyman  at  his  trade  with 
Mr.  Dodd,  who  built  the  present  I'resbyterian 
church  at  Day  and  Main  streets,  Orange,  then 
the  Third  Church,  which  was  erected  about 
1812.  During  his  occupation  there  he  enlisted 
in  an  Essex  county  of  militia  to  serve  in  the 
war,  and  was  stationed  at  Sandy  Hook,  New- 
York  Bay.  He  later  secured  a  ])ension  from 
the  government.  RetiU"ning  to  Orange  he  again 
engaged  at  liis  trade  and  helped  complete  the 
church  edifice.  In  1830  he  was  engaged  in  the 
building  of  the  .Second  Presbyterian  "P>rick 
C  hurch"  of  East  Orange.  For  over  sixty  years 
he  followed  his  trade,  and  became  one  of  the 
leading  contractors  of  his  day.  Many  of  the 
residences  of  the  Oranges  were  erected  by  him. 
He  also  conducted  his  farm  lands  on  Washing- 
ton and  North  Park  streets.  Orange,  and  with 
the  assistance  of  his  sons  was  made  to  }ield 
handsome  yearly  incomes.  He  died  in  the 
eiglity-second  year  of  his  age.  He  was  a 
staunch  W  big,  and  in  later  years  his  political 
sentiments  wore  with  the  Republican  party. 
He  had  a  wonderful  mechanical  gift,  was  al- 
ways active  and  progressive,  possessing  a  quiet, 
retiring  disposition.    He  kept  in  touch  with  the 


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affairs  of  his  state  and  nation  through  the 
reading  of  the  daily  news,  but  never  accepteil 
office  in  the  gift  of  his  citizens,  feehng  hke 
many  of  his  townsmen  that  the  first  duty  as  a 
citizen  was  with  his  family.  He  was  a  plain 
matter-of-fact  man,  deeply  religious,  and 
taught  his  family  a  strict  observance  of  the 
Sabbath  laws.  He  married,  December  16,  1817, 
Abigail  Crane,  born  September  17,  1795,  died 
June  21,  1891,  daughter  of  Phinehas  and  Mary 
(Ualdvvin)  Crane,  of  West  Bloomfield,  New 
Jersey,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  farmer. 
Children:  i.  Alfred  Smith,  born  November  2, 
1818,  died  February  8,  1849;  married  Maria 
Ualdwin  ;  child,  Alfred  Augustus,  born  b^ebru- 
ary  5,  1847,  died  April  15,  1851.  2.  Harriet, 
born  October  I,  1820,  died  .SeiJtember  },o. 
i8_|4.  3.  Mary  Olive,  born  January  28,  1823. 
died  .\ugust  24,  1897.  4.  Edward  Henry,  born 
Se])tember  20,  1825  (q.  v. ).  5.  Sarah  Crane, 
born  January  30,  1828.  died  August  14,  1852. 
6.  Aaron  Crane,  born  August  13,  1830,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Horton  Dodd,  born  April 
f).  1833  {i\.  v.).  8.  George  Whitfield,  born 
December  28,  1836,  died  August  4,  1866.  9. 
Joseph  Ebenezer,  born  December  22.  1840, 
died  June  10,  1859. 

(  \  II )  Aaron  Crane,  third  son  of  Ebenezer 
\\  illiams,  was  born  in  the  Washington  street 
homestead  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  .\ugust  13, 
1830.  His  early  education  was  under  the  tuition 
of  Mrs.  Simpson,  a  Scotch  woman  of  staid 
Presbyterian  principles,  and  her  daughters, 
whose  school  was  on  the  south  side  of  Main 
street  opposite  the  present  I'ark  Hotel  ami 
later  near  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Day  street.  He  subsequently  attendetl  the  old 
white  schoolhouse  in  the  rear  of  the  Brick 
Church,  and  later  the  Franklin  school  on  Dodd 
street,  then  kept  by  Munroe  Dodd  for  a  time, 
later  attending  the  private  school  of  his  brother, 
Alfred  S.  Williams,  then  at  the  corner  of 
llillyer  and  Washington  streets,  going  until 
twelve  years  of  age.  After  twelve  he  went  to 
live  with  his  cousin,  Joseph  Ward,  in  West 
liloomfield,  where  he  worked  two  years  on  the 
Ward  farm,  and  later  for  a  year  worked  on  a 
farm  near  the  Pjloomfield  line  in  Orange  own- 
ed by  his  father,  Ebenezer  Williams.  .-\t  seven- 
teen he  went  to  Newark  to  learn  the  trade  of 
carpenter  with  lialdwin  &  Hedden.  He  also 
began  the  studypf  music  with  George  F.  Root, 
a  then  celebrated  teacher,  who  had  classes  at 
Orange,  .\fter  two  years,  owing  to  impaired 
health,  he  was  obliged  to  give  U])  his  trade  and 
seek  a  rest,  but  later  went  to  .\ew  >'ork  and 
filled  a  ])Osition  as  tenor  in  the  Mercer  Street 


Church  for  two  years,  at  the  same  time  con- 
tmuing  his  voice  culture  under  Mr.  Root.  After 
instruction  for  a  year  he  settled  in  New  York 
in  1 85 1,  where  he  commenced  to  take  up  his 
chosen  occupation  of  teaching,  and  for  over  a 
year  taught  music  in  the  Half  Orphan  Asylum 
on  Sixth  avenue  near  Eighth  street.  Later  he 
taught  on  Staten  Island  for  a  time,  subsequent- 
ly teaching  in  a  school  on  Twenty-second  street 
near  Second  avenue.  Here  he  had  six  hundred 
pupils  under  his  care,  and  was  the  first  teacher 
in  New  York  City  to  teach  notation.  He  later 
acce])ted  a  position  in  a  school  on  Twenty- 
fourth  street,  between  Sixth  and  Seventh  ave- 
nues, where  he  remained  two  years,  and  while 
engaged  in  his  vocation  there  he  suff"ered  ill 
health  and  was  obliged  to  relintiuish  his  duties, 
eventually  going  to  Jacksonville,  Illinois,  Octo- 
ber 2,  1854,  gradually  taking  up  his  work  in 
the  schools  there  until  the  winter  of  1856-57, 
when  he  began  to  tour  the  state,  giving  lessons, 
engaged  in  musical  association  work  and  teach- 
ing at  Bunker  Hill  and  Hillsboro,  Illinois.  In 
1859  he  returned  to  his  native  town  of  C)range, 
subsequently  removing  to  North  Reading, 
Massachusetts,  where  Mr.  Root  was  located. 
^Ir.  Williams  soon  came  to  New  York,  where 
he  was  a  pupil  of  the  renowned  Bassini,  at  that 
time  counted  one  of  the  world's  greatest  vocal 
teachers.  After  a  year  under  his  instruction 
he  removed  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he 
taught  a  )'ear,  going  to  Warsaw,  Illinois,  to 
teach,  and  later  to  Jacksonville,  Illinois.  After 
two  years  he  went  to  Hillsboro,  Illinois,  and 
while  there  he  purchased  a  farm  twenty  miles 
tc)  the  east  in  Fayette  county,  then  an  unsettled 
district.  He  taught  during  this  time  at  Spring- 
field in  the  public  schools,  and  while  there  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Elizabeth  Jane  Browti,  a 
resident  of  Hillsboro.  With  his  young  wife  he 
settled  C)n  the  farm,  and  while  there  had  a  call 
to  teach  in  the  St.  Louis  public  schools,  where 
he  went  in  the  fall  of  1866,  remaining  two 
years.  Later  he  taught  for  two  years  at  Jack- 
sonville. He  previously  traded  his  first  farm 
for  one  in  Hillsboro,  and  in  1871  removed 
from  Jack.sonville  and  settled  there,  which  was 
situated  two  miles  east  of  the  center  of  Hills- 
boro, comjjrising  two  hundred  and  thirty-five 
acres.  Henceforth  he  devoted  his  years  to 
improving  his  farm,  raising  large  (|uantities  of 
grain,  and  maintaining  a  dairy  with  fifty  pounds 
of  butter  a  week.  He  adopted  the  improved 
methods  of  agriculture  and  kept  a  herd  of  the 
best  cattle.  Mr.  Williams  in  addition  to  his 
ilillsboro  projierty  is  the  owner  of  a  himdred 
acre  farm  southeast  of  Coffeen,  a  uearb\-  town. 


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He  has  been  retired  from  active  engagements 
for  tlie  past  ten  years  and  now  resides  in  Hills- 
boro  city,  having  leased  his  farm  properties. 
Mr.  W'ilHams  was  counted  among  the  success- 
ful agriculturists  of  his  community.  He  stands 
for  all  that  is  best  in  the  affairs  of  his  city, 
and  has  never  sought  office  or  notoriety.  He 
is  ardent  in  support  of  Republican  principles, 
and  in  his  earlier  days  upheld  the  Whig  party. 
He  is  deacon  of  the  Hillsboro  Presbyterian 
Church,  where  for'  twenty  years  he  has  con- 
ducted the  music  of  the  church.  For  the  past 
six  years  he  has  served  the  church  as  treas- 
urer. 

He  married,  November  25,  1864.  at  Hills- 
boro, Illinois,  Elizabeth  Jane  Brown,  born  Feb- 
ruary 7,  1837,  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth (Craig)  Brown.  Children:  i.  Edward 
Ebenezer,  born  February  3,  1866;  married, 
April  5,  1898.  Grace  Kilpatrick.  2.  Margaret 
Abigail  born  ]\Iay  22,  1869.  3.  Mary  Gifford, 
born  July  12,  1870;  married.  November  24, 
1897,  Charles  Emet  Swann,  born  August  14, 
1868,  son  of  George  Perry  and  Mary  Louise 
(Villar)  Swann:  children:  i.  Stanley  \'illar, 
born  September  16,  1898,  died  January  20. 
1899;  ii.  Margaret  Annetta,  born  December  20, 
1899 ;  iii.  Perry  \\'illiams,  born  May  19,  1902 ; 
iv.  Eleanor  Elizabeth,  born  September  24. 
1904;  V.  Charles  Benjamin,  born  June  23, 
1908.  4.  Bessie  Jannette,  born  September  10, 
1874,  died  July  20,  1876.  5.  Alfred  Aaron, 
born  October  14,  1877:  married,  November  30. 
1904,  Katie  Ann  Cary ;  child,  Elizabeth  Cary. 
born  October  23,  1906. 


(MI)  Horton  Dodd  Will- 
WILLIAMS      iams,  son  of  Ebenezer  W'ill- 

iams  (q.  v.),  was  born  in 
the  homestead  on  Washington  street,  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  April  6.  1833.  His  elementary 
educational  training  was  limited  to  the  nearby 
district  school,  supplemented  by  a  course  in  the 
Lewistown,  Pennsylvania,  Academy,  then 
taught  by  his  brother,  Alfred  S.  Williams.  The 
younger  brother  remained  under  his  tuition 
until  the  death  of  Alfred  S.  in  1849,  when  he 
returned  to  the  parental  roof  and  shortly  after 
entered  the  employ  of  Osborne  &  Woodruff, 
hardware  dealers,  at  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  rcmamed  a  year.  He  subsequently 
worked  on  the  home  farm  for  two  years,  when 
he  entered  the  employ  of  A.  M.  Ouimby,  and 
during  1854  was  engaged  for  Mr.  Ouimby  in 
his  lightning  rod  business.  He  then  for  two 
years  served  an  ap])renticeship  with  Lewis  A. 
Ward  in  the  marble  cutting  trade,  after  which 


time  he  engaged  in  the  business  for  himself, 
1856,  starting  on  Hillyer  street,  in  the  old  car- 
penter shop  formerly  occupied  by  his  father. 
Flere  he  prospered  for  two  years,  subsequently 
removing  to  more  cominodious  quarters  at  Day 
and  Washington  streets  in  1858,  where  he  re- 
mained about  four  years,  when  he  bought  a 
location  at  253  Washington  street  in  1863. 
Here  he  remained  in  the  monumental  business 
rntil  July,  1895,  when  he  removed  the  busi- 
ness near  the  entrance  of  Rosedale  cemetery 
on  Washington  street.  Mr.  Williams  was  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  the  monumental  business 
fifty-one  years  in  his  own  name  up  to  January 
1.  1907,  when  he  transferred  the  business  to 
his  son,  Albert  H.  Williams,  who  now  con- 
tinues under  the  firm  name  of  H.  D.  Williatns. 
Mr.  Williams  .Sr.  has  for  the  past  few  years 
devoted  his  time  and  interests  to  the  affairs 
of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Orange,  of 
which  he  is  vice-president  and  director.  He  is 
on  the  bank's  managing  board  of  investments. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Orange  Savings  Bank 
and  is  identified  on  the  board  of  investment  of 
that  institution.  He  is  on  the  executive  Iioard 
of  managers  of  the  Rosedale  Cemetery,  and 
president  of  the  Orange  Building  and  Loan 
Association  for  a  number  of  years.  He  is 
actively  identified  with  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Orange,  he  and  his  wife  being  con- 
sistent members  of  this  society,  Mr.  \\'illiams 
having  served  his  church  in  the  office  of  deacon 
since  1864.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Temple 
of  Honor  since  August,  1854,  and  has  held 
many  of  that  body's  leading  offices.  He  has  been 
actively  identified  in  all  temperance  movements 
connected  with  the  Temple  of  Honor,  and  is 
known  far  and  near  for  his  upholding  of  tem- 
perance. In  politics  he  has  always  adhered  to 
strict  Republican  principles.  He  is  a  member 
of  Corinthian  Lodge,  No.  57,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
at  Orange,  and  was  exalted  in  Orange  Chapter. 
No.  23,  R.  A.  M.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New- 
England  Society  at  Orange.  He  resides  on 
Washington  street  and  Park  avenue,  having 
built  his  residence  in  August,  1874. 

He  married,  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  June 
II,  1863,  Mary  Frances  Williams,  born  at 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  October  23,  1836,  daugh- 
ter of  Albert  and  Phebe  (Frost)  Williams,  the 
former  of  whom  was  a  hatter  by  trade.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Harriet  Frost,  born  March  8,  1864: 
resides  with  her  parents.  2.  Albert  Horton. 
of  whom  further. 

(\TII)  .Albert  Horton.  only  son  of  Horton 
Dodd  and  Mary  Frances  (Williams)  Williams, 
was  born  in  East  Orange,  February  7,   1871, 


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and  is  ncnv  living  in  East  Orange.  He  attL-ndcd 
the  public  schools  of  East  Orange,  and  after 
graduating  from  there  pursued  an  academic 
course  in  a  business  college.  In  January,  1889, 
he  entered  his  father's  business  of  cemetery 
memorials,  and  after  mastering  the  same  was 
manager  for  several  years  until  the  retirement 
of  his  father  from  active  business  in  1907, 
when  he  became  the  owner  and  proprietor  of 
the  business,  which  he  still  conducts  at  Orange, 
New  Jersey.  He  is  a  Republican,  a  member 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Orange,  a 
member  of  Hope  Lodge,  No.  124,  V.  and  .\. 
Al.,  and  the  Orange  Camera  Club.  He  mar- 
ried, February  7,  1895,  in  East  Orange,  Ida 
.Mabel,  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 4,  1869,  daughter  of  Hobart  and  Lucy  F. 
(  Metcalf )  Linton,  whose  children  were:  (. 
Ida  Alabel,  referred  to  above.  2.  Emily  F., 
married  Sidney  Howard  Soverel,  and  has 
Clarion  L.  and  Sidney  Howard  Jr.  3.  Hobart 
.A.  Children  of  .\lbert  Horton  and  Ida  Mabel 
(Linton)  Williams:  i.  Emily  Mabel,  born 
December  16,  1895.  2.  Albert  Horton  Jr.,  born 
March  4,  1904. 

(V)  Caleli  Williams,  son  of 
W'lLLI.VMS  Isaac  Williams  (q.  v.),  was 
born  at  C)range,  New  Jersey, 
i~(<T,,  and  died  there  1844.  He  married  I'hebe 
\Vard,  born  1765,  died  1849,  daughter  of  Zenas 
Ward.  Children:  i.  Elizabeth,  born  1792, 
died  1892;  married  Abiathar  Harrison.  2. 
Mary,  born  1795  ;  married  Caleb,  son  of  Josiah 
Williams.  3.  Albert,  born  1797,  mentioned 
below.  4.  Susan,  born  1800,  died  1874;  mar- 
ried Thomas  A.  Rammage.  5.  Adeline,  born 
1803,  died  from  accident,  being  burned  to 
death,  1840. 

(VI)  Albert,  son  of  Caleb  Williams,  was 
born  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  1797,  and  died 
there  November  2,  1869.  He  married  Phebe 
Frost,  born  1798,  died  May  12,  1876,  daughter 
of  Josiah  Frost.  Children:  i.  Albert  Theo- 
dore, born  January,  1823,  died  October  3,  1851  : 
married  Sarah  Williams,  born  1823;  children: 
Sarah  Augusta,  born  June  8,  1850,  died  Sep- 
tember ifi,  1851;  Frances  Augusta,  born  Sep- 
tember 6,  1851.  2.  Josiah  P>.,  born  September 
29,  1824;  married,  April  1859,  Phebe,  daugh- 
ter of  Ira  and  Polly  Harrison;  children:  .Mice 
May,  born  April,  i860:  .'\bby  Louisa,  July, 
1862;  Frances  M.,  February,  1870.  3.  Caleb 
Augustus,  born  December  21,  1827,  died  March 
16,  1897:  married,  December  27,  1859,  Sarah 
J.  Campbell;  child:  Albert  Eugene,  born  July 
2T„    1861  :  married.  June   14,    1888,   Sarah   M. 


Norris  ;  children  :  David  Campbell,  born  April 
2,  1890,  and  Helen  Elizabeth,  born  September 
2,  1892.  4.  Anne  Elizabeth,  born  March  i, 
1830,  died  February  13,  1894;  married,  Janu- 
ary 13,  1870,  Edward  Henry  Williams,  son  of 
Ebenezer  and  Abigail  (Crane)  Williams.  5. 
Mary  Frances,  born  October  20,  1836,  men- 
tioned below.  6.  Abigail  L.,  born  November 
2,  1838,  died  y\ugust  27,  1849. 

(VH)  Mary  Frances  Williams,  daughter  of 
Albert  Williams,  is  wife  of  Horton  Dodd  W'ill- 
iams  (see  Williams  \TI). 


(A  I)  .\aron  Williams,  son 
WILLIAMS  of  Aarun  Williams  ( V-q. 
V. ) ,  was  born  at  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  on  the  old  Williams  homestead  on 
Washington  street,  opposite  Park  street,  No- 
vember 10,  1797,  died  there  March  14,  1878. 
He  attended  the  district  school,  and  during 
his  early  manhood  years  learned  the  trade  of 
shoemaker.  About  the  time  of  his  marriage  he 
bought  a  small  tract  of  land  (three  acres)  on 
Park  street,  where  he  erected  his  homestead 
and  where  his  children  were  all  born.  He  also 
erected  a  shop  where  he  did  custom  boot  mak- 
ing for  the  different  nearby  factories,  taking 
out  the  stock  and  returning  the  finished  pro- 
duct. He  also  let  part  of  his  shop  to  neighbor- 
ing boot  makers.  He  was  considered  the  most 
expert  workman  in  the  region.  During  the 
summer  months  he  cultivated  his  farm,  his 
sons  assisting  him.  About  1850  he  gave  up 
shoemaking  and  with  his  brothers,  Bethuel 
and  Smith  Williams,  cultivated  the  old  farm  of 
their  father.  He  remained  active  in  the  affairs 
of  his  farm  up  to  his  death,  dying  of  heart 
disease  on  the  night  of  March  14,  1878.  He 
was  a  man  of  deep  thought,  deeply  religious, 
and  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
"Brick"  Church  since  1831,  when  he  was  ad- 
mitted by  letter  from  the  First  I^resbyterian 
Church  of  Orange.  He  was  strong  in  his 
principles  of  temperance,  and  the  first  society 
formed  in  Orange  was  organized  at  his  house. 
He  was  honest  and  industrious,  devoted  to  his 
home  and  family,  of  a  somewhat  serious  nature, 
and  with  a  keen  eye  to  all  that  came  in  touch 
with  him.  He  was  a  pronounced  Whig  in  ]ioli- 
tics,  and  when  the  Rei)ublican  party  was  launch- 
ed became  an  ardent  sui:)porter  of  its  principles. 
He  was  overseer  of  the  poor  and  filled  this 
office  with  honor  and  a  kindly  heart  to  all  who 
came  under  his  care.  He  was  overseer  of  high- 
ways in  1844,  his  district  beginning  at  Barny 
Day's,  from  thence  to  William  Nnrris,  on  Park 
street  including  W-'illiam   street  and   from  the 


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locality  of  Park  street  to  XorthfieKl  district. 
Fie  served  in  the  early  Orange  military  com- 
pany. 

He  married  at  Orange,  April  5,  1826,  Sarah, 
born  July  18,  1802,  died  June  2,  1884,  daughter 
of  Josiah  and  Abbic  (Jones)  Frost,  the  former 
of  whom  had  a  fulling  mill  at  Orange.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Caroline  Matilda,  born  .April  7,  1827, 
died  July  28,  1908 ;  married  Moses  H.  Will- 
iams; children:  i.  .-Vrthur  Baldwin,  born  Sep- 
tember 2,  1849:  married,  December  8.  1870, 
Ida  Lydia  Harrison ;  children :  .\rthur  B.  Jr.. 
born  .Ajjril  11,  1874.  married,  June  6.  1900, 
Emma  Hanlcy :  Helen,  born  September  4,  1876  ; 
ii.  Matilda;  iii.  William  Frost;  iv.  Charles 
Sumner,  born  April  19,  1859.  2.  Henrietta, 
born  February  12,  1829,  died  September  26. 
1857.  3.  Bethuel  Smith,  born  June  19,  1831.  4. 
Ann  Maria,  born  October  27,  1833.  5.  Will- 
iam Lindley.  mentioned  below.  6.  Amzi  Frost. 
born  July  12.  1838;  married  Harriet  Ba.xter ; 
children :  i.  FVank  Randall,  married  Louise 
Green  ;  children  :  Certrude  and  Oscar :  ii. 
Aaron,  married  Charlotte  Poureep ;  child, 
Aaron  Jr.;  iii.  Oscar  Baxter,  married  Mary 
Lever ;  iv.  Edward  Stillson,  married  Clara 
Fletzman  ;  children  :  Dorothy  and  Eleanor.  7. 
Euphemia  Earle,  born  .August  29,  1841,  died 
unmarried,  September  i,  1894.  8.  Cyrus,  born 
December  19.  1849,  died  unmarried  June  i  ^, 
1874. 

(\II)  Bethuel  Smith  Williams,  son  of 
-Aaron  Williams,  was  born  at  the  corner  of 
F'ark  avenue  and  Park  street,  in  the  old  family 
homestead,  June  19,  1831.  He  attended  the 
district  .school  at  Doddtown  until  ten  years  of 
age,  later  at  the  old  academy,  and  Alonzo 
Brackett's  private  school,  and  .Alfred  Wil- 
liams' private  school.  During  the  summer 
months  he  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm. 
.After  sixteen  years  of  age  he  was  clerk  for  a 
year  in  the  general  store  of  William  Littell,  at 
the  Summit,  subsequently  coming  to  East 
Orange  and  serving  his  time  at  trade  of  wheel- 
wright with  George  Williams,  his  ajjprentice- 
ship  continuing  until  he  became  of  age.  He 
then  worked  for  Mr.  Williams  several  years, 
and  for  a  few  years  worked  at  his  trade  with 
Harrison  Mulford.  .About  1855  he  went  to 
Newark,  where  he  ran  a  .scroll  saw  for  Elias 
Norwood,  and  later  for  Wright  t't  Huntington. 
.About  i860  he  bought  machinery  and  built  a 
mill  at  the  corner  of  Washington  and  Park 
streets.  Orange,  where  he  and  his  brother, 
William  L.  Williams,  were  associated  in  mill 
work  for  wagon  makers,  carpenters  and  con- 
tractors.    He  was  engaged  in  this  enterprise 


for  about  five  years.  In  1861  he  built  his 
present  residence  on  F'ark  street.  After  he 
gave  up  his  mill  sawing  and  -planing  he 
leturncd  to  Newark  with  Ward  &  Huntington, 
where  he  worked  as  a  journeyman,  selling 
them  part  of  his  mill  machinery.  A  year  later 
he  returned  to  Orange  and  for  a  year  was 
engaged  in  the  sawing  business  for  Jabez  I*. 
Condit,  and  later  with  Thomas  Root.  .About  this 
time,  owing  to  impaired  health,  he  took  a  west- 
ern trip  and  after  returning  retired  from  active 
work  for  a  time.  Later  he  engaged  in  the  milk 
business,  carrying  about  twenty  head  of  mi.xed 
stock.  He  enjoyed  about  twenty  years  of  suc- 
cessful trade,  furnishing  customers  in  Orange 
and  East  Orange.  About  1893  he  sold  his 
milk  business  to  Daniel  M.  Grannis,  and  has 
since  devoted  himself  to  cultivating  his  few 
acres  and  attending  to  the  management  of  his 
])roperty.  Fie  and  his  family  are  members  of 
the  .Second  Presbyterian  I  jjrick )  Church  at 
East  Orange.  Air.  Williams  was  admitted 
untler  Dr.  Gallagher  at  the  age  of  twenty  years. 
Fie  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  married, 
at  East  Orange^  New  Jersey,  April  7.  1858, 
.Sarah  Fllizabeth  Harrison,  born  November  24. 
1835.  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Catherine 
(  Baldwin )  I  larrison,  the  former  named  a  car- 
riage maker.  Children:  i.  Edwin  Harrison, 
born  January  31,  1859;  married,  .April  12. 
1888.  -Ada  Blair  Caswell,  of  Waterbury.  Con- 
necticut; child,  Lucy,  born  September  5.  1895. 
2.  Mabel,  born  November  15,  1864.  3.  Luther 
Smith,  born  November  29,  1866;  married, 
November  5,  1890,  Alartha  Seip,  of  .Allentown, 
Pennsylvania ;  child.  Bernice  Seip,  born  Janu- 
ary 26,  1903.  4.  Mar\-  Howell,  born  Februarv 
18',  1872. 

(\"II)  William  Lindley.  son  of  .Aaron  Will- 
iams, was  born  on  his  father's  homestead  at 
the  corner  of  Park  avenue  and  Park  street. 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  April  12,  1836.  He  at- 
tended the  district  and  select  schools  of  his 
native  town,  assisting  his  father  on  the  farm. 
In  1855  he  entered  the  emjjloy  of  the  Newark 
Gas  Company,  where  he  acc|uired  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  business.  .About  i860  he  and 
his  brother,  Bethuel  S.  Williams,  entered  into 
the  mill  sawing  business,  doing  sawing  and 
]ilaning  for  contractors  and  the  getting  out  of 
wagon  work.  In  1868  he  resigned  from  the 
Newark  Gas  Company  and  became  superin- 
tendent of  the  Paterson  Gas  Light  Company, 
who  had  at  this  time  removed  from  their  Jer- 
sey street  plant  to  more  commodious  quarter? 
at  Riverside  (Paterson)  and  continued  in  the 
making  of  gas  from  the  natural  coal  product. 


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]n  1881,  through  the  knowledge  of  Mr.  Will- 
iams, the  Lowe  process  of  water  gas  was  intro- 
iluced  and  bj'  his  ability  and  skill  the  venture 
proved  not  only  a  commercial  but  a  financial 
.success,  Mr.  Lowe  himself  acknowledged  that 
the  practical  development  of  his  invention  was 
due  to  the  invaluable  aid  of  Mr.  Williams. 
From  the  original  output  of  the  com|)any  under 
the  old  coal  process,  when  seventeen  million 
cubic  feet  was  the  limit  of  production,  they 
were  enabled  under  Mr.  Lowe's  process  to 
I-iroduce  five  hundred  and  sixty  million  cubic 
feet  to  supply  the  increasing  demand  of  a  city 
the  size  of  Paterson.  Mr.  Williams  continued 
at  the  head  of  the  company's  plant  until  May 
I,  1907,  when  he  decided  to  retire  from  its 
active  management,  feeling  that  he  had  earned 
the  much  needed  rest  consequent  of  a  long  and 
faithful  service  which  resulted  in  the  many 
improvements  installed  during  his  connection 
with  that  company.  The  esteem  and  regard 
of  his  associates  have  always  been  manifest. 
In  i8fi8,  on  his  retirement  from  the  Newark 
Company,  he  was  presented  with  a  handsome 
silver  service  in  token  of  their  esteem  and  good 
felIowshi[).  Mr.  Williams  has  shown  efficient 
service  in  the  affairs  of  his  city  and  his  church. 
Me  is  a  ruling  elder  of  the  Broadway  Reform- 
ed Church,  tie  is  a  decidedly  jniblic-spirited 
citizen,  having  always  been  in  the  front  rank 
of  every  movement  for  the  moral  and  material 
welfare  of  his  adopted  city.  For  several  years 
he  was  a  director  of  the  Orphan  Asylum  and 
\oung  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  is  a 
member  of  Benevolent  Lodge.  No.  2,  Odd  F'el- 
lows,  of  Paterson,  and  member  of  American 
Gas  Light  Association.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  managers  of  the  Paterson  Savings  Institu- 
tion. He  resides  at  the  family  homestead,  63 
Twelfth  avenue.  He  married.  May  14,  1862. 
Mary  Lucinda,  born  February  13,  1837,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Brown  and  Harriet  ( Crane ) 
Williams,  of  Orange,  New  Jersey.  William 
P).  Williams  was  a  miller  and  farmer.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  Thomas  Lindley,  mentioned  below. 
2.  Henrietta  Frost,  born  May  30,  1871 ;  mar- 
ried, June  8,  IQ04,  Charles  Lee  Raper ;  child, 
Mary  Lee,  born  T'ebruary  11,  1908.  3.  Kate 
Sanford,  .September  17,  1872,  died  April  11, 
1886. 

(VIII)  Thomas  Lindley,  son  of  William 
Lindley  Williams,  was  born  at  East  Orange, 
New  Jersey,  May  5,  1863.  At  si.\  years  old 
he  removed  to  Paterson  with  his  parents,  and 
his  elementary  educational  training  was  begun 
in  the  Paterson  public  schools,  supplemented 
by  a  three  years'  course  at  the  Gray  Lock  Insti- 


tute at  Williamstown,  Massachusetts.  At  the 
age  of  eleven  years  he  commenced  a  three 
years'  course  of  private  instruction  under  the 
Uev.  James  Blaine  at  Mannys  Corner,  New 
York.  Later  he  attended  the  Dearborn  and 
Morgan  private  school  at  Orange,  subsequently 
receiving  a  preparatory  course  for  Stevens  Col- 
lege at  Hoboken  under  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wyckoff, 
of  Paterson.  Preferring  to  enter  the  com- 
mercial world,  he  gave  up  the  college  course 
and  accepted  a  clerical  position  in  the  office 
of  the  Paterson  Gas  Company,  with  his  father, 
where  he  remained  until  September,  1881,  when 
he  accepted  a  similar  position  with  the  Newark 
Gas  Light  Company  at  Newark,  New  Jersey. 
He  had  by  energy  and  strict  attention  to  busi- 
ness in  all  its  details,  and  by  his  probitv,  gain- 
ed such  favor  with  his  employers  that  he  was 
looked  upon  as  a  valuable  and  promising  factor 
for  the  company.  He  was  an  indefatigable 
worker,  considered  their  most  valuable  em- 
])loyee,  implicitly  trusted  and  highly  esteemed 
b_v  his  associates.  His  close  application  and  his 
desire  to  master  what  was  to  his  chosen  field, 
coupled  with  the  valued  instruction  gained 
from  his  father,  fitted  him  for  a  position  of 
greater  responsibility  and  remuneration.  His 
ability  in  this  particular  line  of  work  became 
recognized,  and  at  the  advent  of  the  installing 
of  the  large  holder  of  the  Omaha  (Nebraska) 
Gas  Company's  plant,  Thomas  L.  Williams 
was  employed  by  the  company,  he  being  best 
fitted  and  most  competent  to  undertake  a  proj- 
ect of  this  importance,  and  on  April  16,  1885 
I  then  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years)  went 
to  Omaha,  where  he  became  sujierintendent  of 
the  company's  plant.  Every  detail  in  the  con- 
struction of  this  immense  gas  holder  came 
under  his  direct  supervision  and  was  carried 
through  successfully,  a  monument  to  his  un- 
tiring efforts  and  superior  training  and  knowl- 
edge. It  was  by  such  effort  that  his  success  in 
life  was  gained,  and  all  his  energies  and  soul 
were  in  his  work.  It  was  through  his  devotion 
to  his  ideals,  coupled  by  his  never  failing  appli- 
cation to  business,  that  his  health  was  made  to 
suffer  greatly,  undermining  his  constitution 
and  resulting  in  his  contracting  the  dread 
disease,  typhoid  fever,  causing  his  death  at 
Omaha,  November  26,  1885. 

Thomas  Lindley  Williams  was  a  man  of  high 
moral  ideals  and  attainments  and,  while  modest 
and  unassuming,  his  thorough  unselfish  nature 
so  charmingly  manifested  not  only  in  his  home 
circle  but  abroad  was  one  of  his  leading  char- 
acteristics and  drew  to  him  a  large  circle  of  de- 
voted friends.     His  christian  sjiirit  was  always 


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manitc.--t  to  tho>e  with  whom  he  came  in  con- 
tact, and  in  Paterson,  where  lie  always  lived, 
he  was  first  among  his  equals.  He  was  fond 
of  his  home  and  books,  and  devoted  to  his  par- 
ents whom  he  sincerely  and  respectfully  loved. 
He  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Broadway 
Dutch  Reformed  Church  at  Paterson,  and  be- 
came a  deep  student  in  all  its  teachings,  as  he 
was  in  the  material  affairs  of  life,  even  far  in 
advance  of  his  years.  By  his  death  a  bright 
future  was  blotted  out;  he  left  an  example  to 
be  sweetly  cherished,  a  comfort  to  those  who 
knew  and  loved  him  best. 


(\'II)  Edward  Henry  WiU- 
WTLLIAMS  iams,  son  of  Ebenezer  Will- 
iams (\'I-q.  v.),  was  born 
on  his  father's  homestead  on  Washington 
street,  Orange,  New  Jersey,  September  20, 
1825.  He  received  his  education  in  a  private 
school  kept  by  Sally  Pierson,  and  later  in  the 
old  White  school  back  of  the  present  Brick 
Church.  He  also  attended  the  old  academy 
at  Doddtown  up  to  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  the 
academy  on  Main  street.  Orange,  also  work- 
ing on  the  farm  for  his  father,  who  was  a  car- 
penter and  left  this  work  for  his  boys  to  do. 
Edward  H.  also  helped  his  father  at  carpenter- 
ing and  learned  of  him  the  trade,  working  at 
it  for  a  time  and  doing  some  contracting.  Later 
he  removed  to  Newark  and  worked  for  Thomas 
Gruett,  making  coach  bodies  until  he  was 
about  twenty-four  years  of  age  when  Mr. 
Gruett  failed.  He  subsequently  found  employ- 
ment with  Edward  E.  Quimhy,  of  New  York, 
who  was  manufacturer  of  lightning  rods.  He 
was  employed  in  the  work  of  putting  lightning 
rods  on  the  buildings  of  New  York  City  and 
suburbs  and  outside  towns.  About  185 1  the 
business  was  turned  over  to  Mr.  Williams  by 
Mr.  Quimby,  and  the  former  continued  in  it 
up  to  i860  when  he  reinoved  to  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  where  he  took  up  his  old  trade  of  car- 
penter. He  removed  to  Munroeville,  a  nearby 
town,  in  March,  1861,  and  continued  at  his 
trade.  In  July.  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Coinpany 
D,  One  Hundred  and  First  Ohio  Infantry.  .At 
the  mustering  in  of  his  company  it  was  found 
to  be  over  numliered,  and  he  with  others  were 
transferred  to  Company  B,  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-third  Ohio  Infantry,  August  i,  1862, 
under  Colonel  William  T.  Wilson,  and  Sep- 
tember 24  was  mustered  into  service.  The 
regiment  left  for  Parkersburg,  West  Virginia. 
October  16,  1862,  and  after  marching  and 
countermarching  among  the  mountains  and 
participating  in  several  small  engagements,  ar- 


rived at  Winchester.  \'irginia,  March  17,  1863. 
C;n  June  12  they  encountered  the  advance  guard 
of  Ewell's  corps,  which  was  on  its  way  to 
Pennsylvania,  and  drove  them  back,  but  the 
following  day  the  whole  corps  w-as  met  by  the 
Union  force  of  eight  thousand  men  and  the 
regiment  suffered  in  lost  and  killed  seventy-six 
men.  The  fighting  continued  through  the  fol- 
lowing day,  June  14,  and  morning  of  June  13. 
In  endeavoring  to  cut  its  way  they  again  lost 
heavily  in  killed  and  wounded.  Three  officers 
were  wounded  and  one  afterwards  died  in 
Libby  Prison.  Three  hundred  and  one  men 
and  tw-enty  officers  were  taken  prisoners  and 
sent  to  Libby  Prison  and  Belle  Isle.  On  July 
3,  Mr.  Williams  was  paroled  with  many  others 
and  sent  to  "Camp  Parole,"  at  Annapolis. 
Maryland,  where  he  was  exchanged  November 
I.  On  Noveinber  29,  1863,  he  w-as  promoted 
to  quartermaster  sergeant  to  rank  from  Octo- 
ber 25,  1863.  The  regiment  continued  in  serv- 
ice until  the  surrender  of  General  Lee  at  Ap- 
pomattox. His  regiment  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Winchester,  July  13-14-15,  1863: 
New  Market,  May  15,  1864;  Piedmont.  June 
5.  1864;  Lynchburg,  June  17-18,  1864;  Snick- 
er's Ford,  July  19,  1864:  Winchester,  July  24, 
1864;  Berry ville,  September  3,  1864;  Opequan. 
September  19.  1864;  Fisher's  Hill,  September 
22,  1864:  Cedar  Creek,  October  19,  1864: 
Petersburg  and  Hatcher's  Run  from  Alarch  30 
to  April  2,  1865,  and  High  Bridge.  April  6. 
1865.  After  the  surrender  of  General  Lee  the 
regiment  returned  to  Camp  Chase,  Columbus. 
Ohio,  where  it  was  mustered  out  on  June  12, 
1865. 

CJn  his  return  from  the  war  Mr.  Williams 
resumed  the  lightning  rod  business,  and  con- 
tinued in  this  up  to  1903,  covering  a  period  of 
about  fifty  years.  Mr.  Williams  has  since  been 
retired.  He  resides  on  Hillyer  street.  East 
Orange.  His  office  was  on  Commerce  street. 
New  York  City,  for  many  years,  and  he  also 
occupied  other  offices  in  New  York  City.  He 
has  done  much  work  in  the  Oranges,  New  Jer- 
sey, and  as  far  west  as  Ohio  and  Illinois.  He 
found  a  market  for  his  business  from  Maine  to 
Montana  and  to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico.  He  built 
his  residence  on  Hillyer  street  in  1872.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  old  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
serving  that  body  as  elder  for  nearly  thirty 
years.  He  is  deeply  interested  in  foreign  mis- 
sionary work.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Men's 
Club  of  his  church:  L^z.il  Dodd  Post.  No.  12, 
Grand  .Army  of  the  Republic,  at  Orange,  serv- 
ing as  post  commander  during  1883,  and  is  a 
Republican  in  politics.     He  married,  January 


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13.  1870,  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Ann  Eliza- 
beth Williams,  born  March  i,  1830,  died  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1894,  daughter  of  Albert  and  Phebe 
(  Frost )  Williams,  of  Orange.  Albert  Will- 
iams was  a  hatter  bv  trade. 


(  \' )  Samuel  Williams,  son  of 
WILLIAMS  Samuel  Williams  (  I\'-q.  v.  ), 
was  born  at  West  Orange,  in 
the  locality  of  St.  Cloud,  New  Jersey,  July  6. 
1754.  tiled  there  April  17,  1824.  He  was  reared 
on  the  moiuitain  homestead  at  St.  Cloud,  and  at 
the  breaking  out  of  the  revolution  was  in  Cap- 
tain Christopher  Marshe's  troop  of  light  horse, 
connected  with  the  Second  Essex  county  regi- 
ment. He  was  a  prosperous  farmer  at  St. 
Cloud,  where  he  reared  six  sons  and  two 
daughters.  In  1810  he  w-as  elected  one  of  the 
overseers  of  the  highways  of  Orange,  and 
served  his  town  in  other  capacities.  He  was 
a  man  of  strong  influence  in  his  neighborhood 
and  town.  He  was  a  devout  churchman,  a 
member  of  the  old  First  Presbyterian  Church 
at  Orange.  He  married  Eunice,  born  1760, 
died  January  2,  1840,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Rebecca  (Smith)  Pierson.  She  was  a  bright, 
energetic  woman,  and  is  remembered  for  her 
gentle  christian  influence.  Joseph  Pierson  was 
a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Sergeant)  Pier- 
son, grandson  of  Samuel  and  Alary  (Harri- 
son) Pierson,  and  great-grandson  of  Thomas 
and  Maria  ( Harrison )  Pierson,  the  former  the 
emigrant  of  Beauford,  Connecticut.  Rebecca 
( Smith )  Pierson  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Hannah  Smith,  and  granddaughter  of 
James  and  Jane  (  Crane )  Smith,  the  former  the 
Scotch  ancestor.  Children  of  A'Ir.  and  Mrs. 
Pierson:  i.  Amos  S.,  mentioned  below.  2. 
Daniel  Smith,  born  1785,  died  November  19, 
1853  ;  moved  to  Delaware  county,  Ohio  ;  mar- 
ried Eunice,  daughter  of  Japhia  Condit ;  chil- 
dren :  i.  Dorcas,  born  November  8,  1808,  died 
September  2,  1824;  ii.  Reuben  Smith,  born 
March  13.  181 1  ;xnarried  Elizabeth  Markwith  ; 
died  April  2t,.  1876;  iii.  Susan,  born  July  25, 
1813;  married  Lewis  L.  Pierson;  iv.  Silas 
Condit,  born  May  2,  1816;  married  Pyrena 
M.  Pierson ;  v.  Matilda,  born  December  29, 
1817;  married  Smith  Perry;  vi.  Linus  E.,  born 
January  16,  1820;  married  Mary  J.  Wheaton  ; 
vii.  Japhia  Condit.  born  I'^ebruary  3,  1823,  died 
April  8,  1848;  viii.  Eunice  Condit,  born  April 
21,  1827;  married  Caleb  Bragaw  ;  died  Feliru- 
ary  3,  1872;  ix.  Dorcas  A.,  born  November  16. 
1830;  married  Harvey  Meeker;  died  Febru- 
ary 4,  1876.  3.  Bethuel,  born  1787,  died  Feb- 
ruary 15,  1838;  married  Sarah  Pierson;  chil- 


dren: i.  Elicta,  born  November  18,  1S14; 
married  George  McCloud ;  ii.  Phebe  A.,  born 
October  15,  1817;  married  George  McHead : 
iii.  Margaret  N.,  born  September  8,  1820;  mar- 
ried George  Perry ;  iv.  Hannah  Maria,  born 
April  9,  1824;  married,  March  21,  1847,  David 
S.  Beach ;  v.  Sarah  Maria,  born  December  30, 
1831  ;  married  John  Snow;  vi.  Ira,  born  July 
5,  1826,  died  November  30,  1836;  vii.  Bethuel, 
born  July  17,  1828,  died  July  19,  1828.  4. 
Linus,  born  1793,  died  May  17,  1848;  married 
Pyrena  Pierson  ;  children  :  i.  L.  Erdin,  mar- 
ried Jane  Wheaton ;  ii.  Caroline,  married 
Caleb  Brokaw ;  iii.  Almira,  married  Harry 
Meeker;  iv.  Clark.  5.  Lewis,  born  171)5,  '-li'-'cl 
December  25,  1839;  married  Mary  Pierson; 
children :  i.  Enos  ;  ii.  Mary,  married  Charles 
Townley ;  iii.  Lydia,  married  Thomas  Thomp- 
son ;  iv.  Laura,  married  Phinehas  Martin ;  v. 
Amos ;  vi.  Elicta ;  vii.  Abigail.  6.  Jonathan, 
born  1797,  died  January  27,  1839.  7.  Hannah, 
born  October  22,  1800,  died  April  11,  1876; 
married  Jotham  Pierson  ;  children :  i.  Eunice, 
married  Amos  Stagg;  ii.  Harriet,  married 
Lewis  Condit;  iii.  Samuel,  married  Abbie 
Soper ;  iv.  Linus,  married  Mary  Geer;  v. 
George  ;  vi.  Bethuel ;  vii.  Jonathan  Smith,  mar- 
ried Matilda  Ross.  8.  Eunice,  died  Decemljer 
12,  1845. 

( \T )  Amos  S.,  son  of  Samuel  Williams, 
was  born  in  the  homestead  of  his  father  at  St. 
Cloud,  Alarch,  1781,  died  there  May  7,  1832. 
He  was  educated  in  the  district  school  at  St. 
Cloud.  Like  many  of  the  Williams  famil_\'  he 
learned  the  trade  of  shoemaking,  which  he  fol- 
lowed in  conjunction  with  farming.  He  in- 
herited much  of  his  father's  property  at  the 
mountain,  and  occupied  the  original  homestead 
of  his  grandfather,  Samuel  Williams,  in  later 
years  occupied  by  Columbus  Meeker.  His 
farm  comprised  about  eighty  acres,  and  con- 
pared  favorably  with  the  best  in  the  section. 
He  cultivated  the  common  crops,  kept  a  herd 
of  cattle,  and  was  a  thoroughly  honest  and 
haril-working  individual.  He  was  known 
among  his  neighbors  for  his  quaint  sayings, 
and  was  a  great  joker.  In  1827  he  was  one 
of  the  overseers  of  the  highways.  He  married 
Rachel  Perry,  born  1785,  died  November  6, 
1836.  Children:  i.  Caleb  Perry,  mentioned 
below.  2.  Jane,  married,  September  11,  1834. 
Benjamin  Townley.  3.  Samuel,  born  June  23. 
181  I,  died  September  3,  1865;  married,  Xo- 
\ ember  8,  1834,  Sarah  Merrick;  children  :  John 
Merrick,  Amos,  Frank,  David,  Ada.  4.  \Vick- 
liff,  married  Mary  Lambert;  children:  Lewis, 
Sanuiel.   .\nna   M.     5.   Lewis,  married   Elvira 


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:  children:  Minnie  and  Alice.  6.  Jon- 
athan Perry,  born  February  i.  1814;  married 
(first)  Rachel  Norwood;  (second)  Bridget 
McCjoodwin :  children:  .\nne  E.,  Harriet, 
Emma.  Josephine. 

(\TIj  Caleb  Perry,  son  of  Amos  Williams, 
was  born  at  West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Janu- 
ary 2,  1808,  died  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Oc- 
tober 27,  1880.  His  educational  training  was 
gained  at  the  West  Orange  schools.  In  his 
early  manhood  days  he  learned  the  trade  of 
shoemaker.  He  owned  a  small  farm  adjacent 
to  lands  of  his  ancestors  at  St.  Cloud.  While 
engaged  at  farming  he  was  also  an  expert  auc- 
tioneer, following  this  line  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  was  quite  a  wit,  and  also  possessed 
a  jovial  disposition,  and  these  charactistics 
made  him  highly  successful  in  the  capacity  of 
auctioneer.  He  also  taught  singing  school  for 
many  years.  He  took  up  the  shoemaking  trade, 
and  after  leaving  his  St.  Cloud  farm  became 
foreman  for  Joseph  A.  Conclit,  who  had  a  shop 
at  the  foot  of  Livingston  road  in  West  C^range. 
He  remained  with  ^Ir.  Condit  about  thirteen 
years,  living  in  Dark  lane.  When  Mr.  Condit 
discontinued  business,  Mr.  Williams  became  a 
shoe  cutter  for  Robert  McGowan,  a  prominent 
shoe  manufacturer  of  the  Oranges  and  remain- 
ed in  this  position  up  to  his  death  in  1880.  He 
was  a  man  of  prominence  in  the  community, 
strong  in  his  principles  of  Democracy.  For 
six  years  he  was  assessor  in  the  second  ward 
at  \\'est  Orange,  and  under  Mayor  Roche 
served  in  the  office  of  city  clerk.  He  was  also 
constable  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was 
choir  master  in  the  old  First  Methodist  Church 
for  twelve  years.  He  possessed  a  jiatriotic 
spirit  and  a  kind  heart,  and  it  is  said  he  never 
had  an  enemy.  He  was  a  good  citizen,  high- 
ly respected  in  all  walks  of  life.  He  married, 
September  23,  1830,  Maria,  born  May  26.  1812, 
died  June  9,  1893,  daughter  of  Calvin  and  Jane 
(Ward)  Townley.  Children:  i.  Calvin  Town- 
ley,  born  June  20,  1831,  died  .March  7,  1897; 
married  Margaret  Mooney  :  children:  Lowell. 
Mary,  Grace.  2.  Mary,  born  January  27.  1833, 
married  Robert  Farron.  3.  Paulina  White- 
head, born  July  14,  1834,  died  February  26, 
1839.  4.  .Miiheus  .Allen,  mentioned  below.  5. 
Hanford  Smith,  born  August  11.  1839;  mar- 
ried. November  2,  1870,  Minna  Ikirnett:  chil- 
dren: i.  Clarence  Leon,  born  October  2.  1871  ; 
married.  October  29,  1905.  Mabel  Hardy: 
child,  Leon  Hardy,  born  1906;  ii.  Editli  Daisy, 
born  .April  6.  1873.  6.  Ellen,  born  December 
9,  1841  :  married,  June  15,  1864,  Charles  Hanty  : 
children :   W'illiam,   Edward,  Gretta.   Herbert. 


John.  7.  Harriet,  born  February  7,  1846;  mar- 
ried (first)  May  28,  1865,  John  Mack;  (sec- 
ond) Henry  Townley;  children:  Elmer,  Eliz- 
abeth :  Flarriet,  Warren.  8.  Horace,  born  June 
8.  1844.  died  February,  1845.  9.  Martha  .Ann, 
born  October  i,  1848,  died  August  19,  1852. 
10.  Alonzo  Smith,  born  August  10,  1851,  died 
January  25,  i860.  11.  Stephen  Perry,  born 
-April  2,  1858;  married,  January  i,  1876,  Mary 
Elizabeth  Fallon;  children:  i.  Sylvester  Paul, 
born  September  14,  1877;  married,  November, 
1903,  Laura  Peterson  ;  ii.  Joseph  James,  born 
March  15,  1879;  married  Annie  Smith;  chil- 
dren :  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Florence ;  iii.  Stephen, 
born  January  24,  1881,  died  June  21,  1883;  iv. 
Stephen  Victor,  born  June  7,  1883;  married, 
December  23,  1903,  .Anna  Golden:  John  Clif- 
ford, born  November  22,  1904;  Mary  Frances, 
born  February  22,  1907;  v.  Alonzo  Alfonsas, 
born  June  24,  1884,  died  May  31,  1890;  vi. 
Mary  Loiola,  born  May  25,  1886;  married. 
June  27,  1907,  Charles  Coleman ;  child,  John 
P.ernard,  born  September  31,  1908;  vii.  Jen- 
nette  Barbara,  born  March  23,  1888:  married 
Daniel  Coleman  ;  children  :  .Anna,  born  Octo- 
ber 10,  1907:  Daniel  Stephen,  born  December 
23,  1908,  died  .August  27,  1909 ;  viii.  John  Ed- 
ward, born  .August  18,  1890  ;  ix.  Florence  Rose. 
bt>rn  June  29.  1892 :  x.  Edith  Marie,  born  .Au- 
gust 29,  1894;  -xi.  Elizabeth,  born  .August  3. 
1896. 

(V'HI)  Alpheus  Allen,  son  of  Caleb  Perry 
Williams,  was  born  on  the  old  Williams  farm 
at  St.  Cloud,  West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 23,  1836.  He  was  reared  on  his  father's 
homestead,  attending  the  St.  Cloud  district 
school  until  fourteen  years  of  age,  when  he 
moved  with  his  parents  to  \"alley  road,  West 
Orange.  He  attended  the  Tory  Corner  and 
St.  Mark's  schools  up  to  fifteen  years  of  age, 
and  subsequently  up  to  seventeen  helped  his 
father  at  shoemaking.  .At  the  age  of  seventeen 
he  spent  two  years  learning  the  trade  of  ma- 
chinist of  Ezra  Gould  at  Newark,  after  which 
time  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  engaged  in 
car])entering,  remaining  in  and  around  Chicago 
until  1858,  when  he  returned  to  Orange  and 
entered  the  employ  of  William  Reeves  as  a 
journexman  carpenter,  subse(|ucntly  working 
for  \\'illiam  .Mien,  remaining  to  the  breaking 
out  of  the  civil  war.  On  .September  17.  1862,  he 
enlisted  in  Company  H.  Twenty-sixth  New  Jer- 
sey X'olunteer  Infantry,  at  Newark.  New  Jersey. 
r)n  September  26  the  regiment  left  Cami)  Fre- 
linghuysen  at  Newark  and  proceeded  to  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  where  it  encamped  on  Capital 
Hill,  and  was  assigned  to  General  Brigg's  bri- 


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gade,  Sumner's  corps,  remaining  in  the  vicinity 
until  October  i,  when  the  regiment  proceeded 
towards  Fredericksburg,  Maryland,  and  on  the 
nth  marched  to  Hagerstown,  the  regiment 
being  under  command  of  Colonel  Andrew  |. 
Morrison.  It  later  proceeded  towards  the  Rap- 
pahannock and  was  exposed  to  severe  sharp- 
shooting  fire  in  crossing  the  bridge  at  Fred- 
ericksburg, and  December  13,  1862,  was  on  the 
celebrated  Mud  Alarch  and  in  the  Fredericks- 
burg engagement.'  April  28,  1863,  it  advanced 
again  towards  Rappahannock,  and  May  3, 
1863,  took  part  in  engagements  of  Fredericks- 
burg and  Salem  Church,  May  4.  He  was  con- 
fined at  hospitals  at  Aquia  Creek  and  Finlay 
Hospital  at  Washington.  The  Twenty-sixth 
being  a  nine  months  regiment,  he  was  honor- 
ably discharged  June  2;,  1863,  by  reason  of  ex- 
piration of  term  of  service. 

Mr.  Williams  subsecjuently  went  to  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  and  took  a  contract  with  the 
government  as  carpenter  in  the  car  shops  of 
that  town.  He  remained  there  but  six  months, 
owing  to  breaking  out  of  yellow  fever.  He  re- 
turned to  Orange,  New  Jersey,  and  re-engaged 
liimself  to  William  Allen  as  journeyman  car- 
penter, remaining  in  his  service  as  long  as  Mr. 
.Allen  continued  in  business.  He  later  formed 
a  partnership  with  Moses  J.  Williams  under 
the  firm  name  of  M.  J.  &  A.  A.  Williams,  con- 
tiactors  and  builders:  their  quarters  were  in 
the  old  Eleazer  W'illiams  shop  on  Hillyer  street. 
After  two  years  the  partners  dissolved  their 
relations,  and  Mr.  Williams  became  foreman 
for  Willard  Howell,  remaining  fourteen  vears, 
after  which  he  entered  into  partncrshi])  with 
John  H.  Parkhurst,  under  the  firm  name  of 
W  illiams  &  Parkhurst,  conducting  a  prosper- 
ous business  for  fourteen  years,  when  the  busi- 
ness was  dissolved,  Mr.  Williams  removing  to 
Pirooklyn  and  becoming  an  appraiser  of  prop- 
erty for  the  city  of  New  York,  continuing  for 
five  years.  He  subsequently  returned  to 
Orange  and  again  engaged  in  the  building  busi- 
ness, and  in  1905  admitted  his  son,  P'rank  .\., 
as  a  partner.  The  present  firm  is  known  as 
A.  A.  &  F.  .A.  Williams,  contractors  and  build- 
ers, with  shop  c|uarters  on  North  Park  street. 
The  firm  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  reli- 
able in  the  Oranges  for  their  thorough  and 
conscientious  workmanship,  many  residences 
liaving  been  erected  by  them.  The  Williams  & 
I'arkhurst  firm  erected  Masonic  Hall,  Decker's 
Block,  and  other  buildings  of  prominence  in 
and  arcjund  the  Oranges.  Mr.  Williams  is  a 
member  of  the  Washington  .Street  Baptist 
Church,  being  connected  tlierewith  for  the  past 
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thirt}--three  years,  having  served  fifteen  years 
as  deacon,  trustee,  and  in  other  offices.  His 
wife  was  also  a  devout  member  of  this  church. 
He  adheres  strictly  to  Republican  principles 
ni  politics,  and  has  served  on  the  board  of  edu- 
cation for  four  years.  He  is  a  member  of  L'zal 
Dodd  Post,  No.  12,  G.  .\.  R.,  and  served  as 
commander.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Master 
Carpenters'  Association  of  the  Oranges. 

He  married,  January  5,  1865,  Mary  Jane, 
born  .August  7,  1842,  died  September  10,  1902, 
daughter  of  James  and  Jane  Cathcart.  Chil- 
dren:  I.  George  Marr,  born  November  13, 
1865:  married,  November  16,  1887,  Lotty 
Moore,  bom  October  7,  1868,  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Emma  (Carleton)  Halleck:  i.  Flora 
Allen,  born  February  3,  1890,  died  July  I, 
1901 ;  married,  June  24,  1908,  Thomas  Carter 
Shannon  ;  child,  Thomas  Carter  Jr.,  born  April 
26,  1909;  ii.  Hazel  Cathcart,  born  February 
7,  1893;  iii,  .Almira  Metcraft,  born  June  25, 
1896.  2.  Frank  Allen,  mentioned  below.  3. 
Ida  May,  born  May  17,  1884;  married  Edward 
Bedford. 

(IX)  Frank  Allen,  son  of  Alpheus  .Alien 
Williams,  was  born  on  Day  street,  near  Main, 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  January  17,  1869.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
i;ntil  thirteen  years  of  age,  when  he  entered 
the  eniplo}'  of  Ward  &  Johnson,  dealers  in 
sewing  machines,  remaining  two  years.  Subse- 
(luently  for  about  a  year  he  was  in  the  employ 
of  Seabury  &  Johnson  in  their  printing  depart- 
ment. .At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  a  three 
years  apprenticeship  with  his  father  at  the 
trade  of  carpenter,  and  later  for  si.x  years  con- 
tinued as  journeyman  and  foreman,  subse- 
(|uently  entering  the  business  (building).  He 
was  successful  as  a  builder,  having  his  shop  on 
Washington  street  until  it  was  destroyed  by 
fire  in  1893,  when  he  was  engaged  in  the  same 
line  in  Connecticut  for  a  time.  Later  he  re- 
turned to  Orange  to  take  a  position  as  car- 
penter for  the  Electric  Light  Company,  which 
position  he  occupied  until  the  winter  of  1897. 
In  January,  1898,  he  made  a  trip  to  Alaska  on 
a  ])rospecting  tour.  After  a  short  stav  there 
he  located  in  Tacoma,  Washington,  where  he 
was  engaged  as  a  journeyman  carpenter  for 
two  years.  Fie  returned  to  Orange,  March  12, 
1900,  'and  for  a  year  was  engaged  in  building 
in  his  own  behalf,  and  later  was  foreman  for 
John  Berryman,  contractor.  In  1905  he  was 
adnn'tted  as  equal  partner  with  his  father  under 
the  firm  name  of  A.  .A.  tS;  F.  ,A.  Williams,  con- 
tractors and  builders.  This  firm  has  erected 
many  fine  residences  in  the  C)rangcs,  the  large 


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addition  of  tiie  North  Orange  Baptist  Church 
having  been  buih  by  them.  Mr.  WilUams  has 
erected  a  number  of  residences  on  speculation, 
a  number  of  them  being  on  Baldwin  Terrace. 
He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Washington 
Street  Baptist  Church;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Williams 
are  now  members  of  the  Hawthorn  Baptist 
Church.  Mr.  Williams  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans. 
Uzal  Dodd  Camp,  No.  14,  having  served  that 
body  as  treasurer  since  its  organization ;  and 
the  Master  Builders  Association  of  the 
C'Tanges.  He  married,  .\ugust  19,  1891,  Mary, 
borii  November  2,  1870,  daughter  of  William 
and  Hannah  (Buckley)  Parkinson,  of  Orange. 
William  Parkinson  was  a  real  estate  dealer  of 
Orange,  and  served  as  alderman  six  years. 
Children:  i.  William  Kenneth,  born  June  21, 
1892,  died  July  28,  1892.  2.  Allen  E.,  born 
October  7,  1893.  3.  Floyd  Allen,  December  30. 
1895.  4.  Erie  Bruce,  November  25^.  1899.  5. 
Emily  Parkinson,  July  2,  1901. 


(V)  Zenas  Williams,  son  of 
WILLIAMS  Nathaniel  Williams  (  l\-q. 
V. ),  was  born  in  1762,  in  the 
homestead  erected  by  his  great-grandfather,  the 
first  -Matthew,  which  came  to  his  son  Amos,  who 
was  grandfather  of  Zenas.  This  house  was 
built  of  quarried  stone,  disposed  to  crumble, 
twenty  feet  front  and  twenty-eight  feet  deep, 
one  and  one-half  stores  high,  a  clumsy  chimney 
like  a  stone  fence  set  on  end,  a  roomy  garret 
containing  a  large  grain  bin  with  a  spout  at 
the  bottom  to  draw  off  the  contents ;  two  small 
windows  in  the  front  of  the  house  and  an  entry 
eight  feet  wide  across  the  eastern  end.  a  cavern- 
ous and  gloomy  house,  but  comfortable  and 
secure.  It  was  demolished  about  1822  :  at  times 
it  looked  as  diough  it  were  a  himdred  years  old. 
It  was  then  replaced  by  a  frame  structure, 
standing  in  1884,  by  Zenas  Williams,  'i'lie 
spot  has  since  been  owned  by  Mr.  Bramhali 
(1886).  Zenas  \\'illiams  was  a  captain  of  the 
local  military  company.  He  invested  largely 
in  lands  and  owned  large  tracts.  The  present 
farm  of  J.  Caldwell  Williams  was  part  of  Jiis 
lands  and  descended  to  his  son,  John  Williams, 
fatlier  of  J.  Caldwell  Williams,  and  lias  come 
to  the  present  generation.  It  is  said  Zenas  Will- 
iams had  sufficient  lands  to  give  each  of  his 
six  sons  a  farm  when  they  married.  He  culti- 
vated the  soil,  raised  conimon  crops  and  harl 
horses,  cattle  and  sheep.  His  wife  Naomi  was 
said  to  have  l)een  a  most  capable  woman  and  a 
good  manager.  They  were  members  of  the 
First    Presbyterian    Church   of    Orange,    and 


were  buried  in  the  old  burial-ground  in  Orange. 
He  was  one  of  the  overseers  of  highways,  elect- 
ed in  1812.  He  died  May  18,  1829.  He  mar- 
ried Naomi  Williams,  born  1759,  died  April 
19,  1838,  daughter  of  Eleazer  and  Mary  (Ball ) 
Williams.  Children:  i.  Joanna,  born  1785, 
died  1870;  married  Daniel  Williams:  children: 
.Amanda,  Mary,  Archibald,  John  Crane,  Char- 
lotte, Ann,  Cardine  and  Henry  Justus.  2. 
Hiram,  born  1787,  died  1825;  married  Mary 
Dodd ;  children :  Malon  and  Mehitable.  3. 
Nancy,  born  1789,  died  1857;  married  Hiram 
Ouimby.  4.  Alehitable,  born  1791,  died  i860; 
married  Edwin  Gray;  children:  Mary,  Naomi. 
Henrietta,  Edward  and  Mehitable.  5.  Am- 
brose, born  1793;  married  Sarah  Plum;  chil- 
dren :  Joseph  and  Marcus.  6.  Eleazer,  born 
1796,  died  1870:  married  Sybel  Howell:  chil- 
dren ;  Horace  Eugene,  ^laria  Louise.  James 
pfowell  and  Sarah  Eliza.  7.  John,  born  De- 
cember 3,  1798  (q.  v.V).  8.  Zenas  Jr.,  born  1801 . 
died  1880;  married  Sarah  Williams;  childreu  : 
Phebe,  Zenas  (3),  Thomas  and  Sarah  .\lethia. 
9.  Daniel  Edmund,  mentioned  below. 

(\'I)  Daniel  Edmunrl.  son  of  Zenas  \\'ill- 
iams,  was  born  at  Tory  Corner,  West  Orange. 
New  Jersey,  May  15,  1804,  died  February  21. 
1880.  He  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm, 
acquiring  the  common  school  education  of  a 
farmer's  son  at  that  period.  As  a  young  man 
he  was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  hatter, 
which  he  followed  many  years.  He  married 
Harriet,  adopted  daughter  of  John  Gardner. 
Both  went  to  live  with  the  old  folks  in  1843. 
In  consideration  of  taking  the  farm  and  caring 
for  them  during  their  declining  years,  John 
Gardner  willed  the  property  to  Daniel  E.  Will- 
iams, and  after  his  decease  to  go  to  his  sons, 
John  N.  and  Charles  P.  Williams.  Daniel  E. 
Williams  engaged  in  farming  and  was  successful 
in  raising  the  common  crops.  It  is  said  that  he 
could  raise  the  finest  crops  of  corn  in  the  region. 
It  was  said  of  him  one  year  that  he  had  a  very  fine 
piece  of  corn  which  he  was  very  proud  of.  and 
he  remarked  to  .\nthony  Thompson,  a  colored 
man  of  high  re])ute  in  the  neighborhood,  "An- 
thony. I  am  going  to  have  the  finest  crop  of 
corn  in  Essex  county;"  Anthony  remarked.  "If 
the  Lord  wills,  Mr.  Williams;"  Williams  re- 
plied "I  am  going  to  have  it  anyway."  In  a 
few  days  a  terrible  hailstorm  entirely  destroyed 
the  crop.  .\ntliony,  meeting  him  after  the 
storm,  remarked.  "How  about  the  corn,  Mr. 
Williams."  "Well,  .Anthony,  I  spoke  too 
(|uick."  Mr.  Williams  lived  the  simple  life, 
was  honest,  industrious  and  frugal,  and  greatly 
beloved  by  all  for  his  kindness  of  heart.     He 


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was  a  devoted  member  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church.  He  was  an  ardent  Whig,  tak- 
ing mucii  interest  in  the  earl}'  pohtics  of  the 
day,  and  later  a  RepubHcan.  He  married,  Oc- 
tober 7,  1835,  Harriet  Garchier.  born  Novem- 
ber 22,  1812,  died  December  10,  1873,  adopted 
daughter  of  John  Gardner.  Children:  i.  John 
Newton,  born  June  29,  1836.  2.  Henry  Justin, 
born  February  7,  1838,  died  October  30,  1840. 
3-  Charles  Payson,  mentioned  below.  4.  Anna 
Alatilda,  born  January  5,  1843,  cl'^d  July  6, 
i860.  5.  Edward  Harrison,  born  January  6, 
1845,  died  February  4.  1898;  married  (first) 
September  30,  1868,  Caroline  A.  Bacron  ;  child. 
Grace,  born  December  24,  1872,  died  Septem- 
ber 24,  1884;  married  (second)  Laura  Stager. 
6.  Daniel  \\'atson,  born  January  18,  1848,  un- 
married. 

(\'n)  John  Newton  Williams,  son  of  Dan- 
iel Edmund  Williams,  was  born  June  29,  1836. 
at  the  corner  of  Prince  and  South  Main  streets. 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  died  on  Eagle  Rock  ave- 
nue (at  his  home),  Alarch  5,  1906.  When  seven 
years  of  age  he  removed  with  his  parents  to 
the  Tory  Corner  district,  where  he  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  attended  the  nearby 
district  school  and  a  private  school  in  Orange 
up  to  si.xteen  years  of  age,  assisting  his  father 
on  the  farm.  He  was  early  ai^prenticed  to 
Jones  &  Doremus  to  learn  the  trade  of  car- 
penter and  later  worked  as  a  journeyman  for 
them.  He  also  worked  for  Smith  &  Williams, 
contractors,  during  their  stay  in  business.  After 
they  dissolved  and  the  firm  of  Williams  & 
WoodrulT  was  formed,  Mr.  Williams  became 
their  foreman.  His  strict  attention  to  business 
and  his  reliability  made  him  a  valued  man  to 
those  he  was  associated  with.  In  1892  he 
erected  his  residence  at  No.  170  Eagle  Rock 
avenue.  West  Orange.  Mr.  Williams  was  a 
man  of  retiring  disposition,  of  the  njiright  and 
honorable  type.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  nearly  fifty  years,  and 
his  wife  was  also  a  member.  He  was  a  con- 
stant attendant  and  contributed  liberally  to  its 
support.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  but 
never  accepted  public  office  in  the  gift  of  his 
fellow  citizens,  feeling  like  many  others  that 
to  attend  to  the  affairs  of  his  own  family  was 
the  first  duty  of  a  citizen.  Pie  loved  his  home. 
He  was  a  deep  reader  of  books  and  the  current 
news  of  the  day.  being  well  versed  on  the  topics 
of  the  world  at  large. 

He  married  (first)  December  ifi.  1863,  Mar- 
garet Matilda  Condit.  born  January  12,  1838, 
died  May  2j.  1866,  daughter  of  Ira  and  Re- 
becca  (  Condit  j   Condit,  the   foriuer  of  whom 


was  a  farmer.  Child,  Mary  Condit,  horn  May 
6,  1866.  He  married  (second)  April  4,  1888. 
at  Nicholson,  Pennsylvania,  Antoinette  .Xmes 
Williams,  born  ^lay  i,  1840.  daughter  of  Her- 
vey  Dwight  and  Matilda  (Condit)  Williams, 
the  former  of  whom  was  a  farmer  and  lumber 
niLTchaiit.  and  held  important  town  offices.  No 
i.'sue. 

(\'1I)  Charles  Payson,  son  of  Daniel  Ed- 
mund Williams,  was  born  in  the  homestead  of 
h.is  father,  at  the  corner  of  Prince  and  South 
Main  streets.  Orange,  New  Jersey,  December 
22.  1840,  died  at  St.  Barnabas  Hospital.  New- 
ark. January  6,  1879.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  nearby  district  school,  assisting 
his  father  on  the  farm.  In  early  manhood  he 
learned  the  trade  of  gold  plater,  working  for 
a  time  at  Bridgeport,  Connecticut.  Later  he 
entered  into  partnership  with  John  C.  Will- 
iams, under  the  firm  name  of  C.  P.  &  J.  C. 
Williams,  dealers  in  hats,  caps  and  gents'  fur- 
nishings, buying  out  the  stock  of  Leander  Will- 
iams. The  partners  conducted  the  business 
for  over  a  year,  when  iMr.  Williams  purchased 
the  interest  of  J.  C.  W^illiams.  The  store  was 
situated  on  the  present  site  of  the  post-oiifice 
at  Orange.  \Villiam  Lattimer  was  later  ad- 
mitted to  partnership  with  Mr.  Williams,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Lattimer  &  Williams,  con- 
tniuing  a  few  years,  and  then  became  em- 
barrassed. He  then  engaged  in  selling  sewing 
machines  and  spring  beds,  and  subsequently 
entered  into  the  grocery  business  on  Valley 
Road,  near  the  present  site  of  the  Washington 
school  building,  opposite  the  present  liolv 
IVinity  Episcopal  Church.  He  conducted  this 
store  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  pos- 
sessed of  many  natural  talents,  having  a  taste 
for  music  and  being  an  accomplished  organist. 
He  was  well  respected  by  his  townsmen  and 
had  a  host  of  friends.  He  was  a  Presbyterian 
in  faith,  his  wife  being  a  member  of  St.  iMark's 
Episcopal  Church.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  but  never  held  any  public  office.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  be- 
longing to  Union  Lodge,  Orange  Chapter,  and 
was  organist  in  both  these  bodies.  He  mar- 
ried, February  4,  1869,  Julia  Ida  Condit,  born 
August  II,  1841,  died  January  27,  1907,  daugh- 
ter of  Ira  and  Rebecca  (Condit)  Condit,  the 
former  a  farmer  and  captain  of  the  militia. 
Children:  i.  Harriet  Elizabeth,  born  May  i. 
1870;  married,  August  4,  igoB,  Cyril  (leorge 
Croot.  2.  Ida  Matilda,  born  May  22.  1872; 
married,  Sei)tember  7,  1898,  Walter  Frank  Ed- 
\v  ards  :  child,  Harold  Gardner,  born  June  24, 
1904.     3.   Rebecca  .\ntoinettc.  burn   March  7. 


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1875.  4.  Charles  Edmund,  born  October  20, 

1876.  5.  Alvin  Marcus,  mentioned  below. 
(\'IH)   Alvin  Marcus,  son  of  Charles  Pay- 

?on  Williams,  was  born  on  Eagle  Rock  avenue. 
West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  April  18,  1878.  He 
attended  the  public  schools,  graduating  from 
the  West  Orange  high  school  in  1895.  He  sub- 
sequently entered  the  wholesale  importing 
woolen  house  of  O.  C.  Wheeler  &  Company, 
New  York  City,  where  he  was  clerk  three 
years.  He  was  later  three  years  clerk  and 
bookkeeper  in  the  commission  firm  of  J.  H. 
Krenrich  &  Company,  Harrison  street,  New 
York  City,  subsecjuently  entering  the  employ 
of  Baker  &  Company,  Newark,  gold,  silver  and 
platinum  refiners,  as  clerk,  and  at  the  present 
time  (  1909)  is  serving  as  assistant  office  man- 
ager. The  concern  is  located  at  Xew  Jersey  Rail- 
road avenue  and  Murray  street.  Mr.  Williams 
resides  at  Xo.  3  High  street.  West  Orange.  He 
is  an  enthusiastic  antoist.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  Orange.  In 
politics  he  strictly  adheres  to  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party.  He  married,  April  26, 
1905,  Gertrude  Amelia  Smith,  born  September 
7,  1879,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Matilda  (Zuck- 
schwert)  Smith,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
carriage  maker  by  trade.  Child,  Kenneth  Smith, 
born  September  18,  1907,  died  October  6,  1907. 


(\')  Jonathan  Williams,  son 
WILLI. \.MS  of  Samuel  Williams  ( l\'-q. 
V.  I ,  was  born  on  his  father's 
homestead  at  West  Orange,  June,  1747,  died 
November  15,  1838.  in  the  family  homestead 
now  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  Orlando 
Williams.  He  was  a  farmer  all  his  life  and  own- 
ed considerable  ])ro])erty  in  the  valley,  as  shown 
in  his  will  dated  Alay  22,  1818:  To  his  son 
Nathan  and  grandson  Jonathan  S(|uire  Will- 
iams all  his  lands  and  real  estate  excejit  his  lot 
of  twenty  acres  adjoining  the  lands  of  Rich- 
ard Harrison  and  Jonathan  Force  in  the  town- 
ship of  Livingston,  subject  to  right  of  dower 
in  name  of  Polly,  his  wife.  Later  he  em- 
powers his  executors  (Nathan  and  Jonathan 
S.)  to  sell  his  lot  of  land  in  Livingston  and 
divide  proceeds  e(|ually  between  his  five  daugh- 
ters. He  served  in  the  revolution,  a  private  in 
Captain  Craig's  company  of  state  troops,  also 
a  private  in  Captain  Thomas  Williams'  com- 
pany. Colonel  I'hilli])  \"an  Cortland's  Second 
(Essex  county)  regiment,  Heard's  brigade, 
quartered  in  the  Orange  \'alley.  There  was 
much  dissension  and  discontent  among  the 
troops,  and  not  a  few  were  fined  for  insubordi- 
nation, among  whom  was  Jonathan  Williams. 


an  account  of  which  will  be  found  in  Wick's 
"History  of  the  Oranges,"  p.  308.  This  was 
no  disgrace,  as  many  of  the  soldiers,  fearing 
their  families  were  in  dire  need  and  jiossibly 
starving,  left  their  regiment  to  administer  to 
the  needs  of  their  household.  Jonathan  Will- 
iams married  Mary  Squier,  who  was  said  to 
have  been  a  most  estimable  and  capable  woman. 
Children:  Phebe,  married  Richard  Harrison; 
Catherine,  married  Moses  De  Camp:  Martha, 
married  Elijah  Pierson ;  Hannah,  married 
David  Dobbins:  Mary;  .Nathan,  mentioned 
below. 

(\T)  Nathan,  son  of  Jonathan  Williams, 
was  born  at  West  Orange,  New  Jersey,  Octo- 
ber 12,  1774,  died  there  in  the  Williams'  home- 
stead, December  11,  1861.  He  was  reared  a 
farmer,  and  in  early  days  learned  the  trade  of 
shoemaker.  He  followed  farming  throughout 
his  lifetime,  was  prosperous  in  tlie  affairs  of 
his  farm,  and  acquired  much  property  in  the 
vicinity  of  Mt.  Pleasant  street.  West  Orange 
Valley.  He  was  a  member  of  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church  at  Orange.  He  was  a  Whig 
in  politics  but  took  no  active  part  in  the  affairs 
of  his  township.  He  was  elected  in  1812  one 
of  the  overseers  of  highways,  and  in  T815  a 
member  of  the  township  committee.  lie  was 
a  representative  of  the  South  Orange  or  Camp- 
town  district.  He  and  his  wife  Catherine  are 
buried  side  by  side  in  the  Scotland  street  burial- 
ground,  appropriate  stones  marking  their  last 
resting  place.  He  married  Catherine  Wade, 
born  December  30.  1779.  died  August  5.  1841. 
Children  :  i.  Jonathan  Squier.  mentioned  below, 
2.  Abigail,  married  Joseph  Dobbins.  3.  Electa, 
married  Henry  P.each.  4.  Albert,  graduate  of 
Princeton  College  and  a  clergyman  in  Cali- 
fornia ;  married  Mary  P.  Havens ;  children : 
Henry  W..  and  Henrietta  Mulford.  married 
Dr.  J.  C.  liarron. 

(VII)  Jonathan  .Squier,  son  of  Nathan 
Williams,  was  born  on  the  old  W'illiams  home- 
stead, in  West  Orange  \'alley.  February  11. 
1801,  died  there  August  5,  1875.  He  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  acquiring  the 
usual  common  school  education  of  a  farmer's 
son  at  that  period.  During  the  early  manhood 
years  he  learned  the  trade  of  hatter,  and  during 
the  winter  months  was  engaged  in  traffic,  sell- 
ing the  products  of  the  farm,  such  as  honey, 
butter  and  fowl,  doing  his  own  teaming  and 
finding  a  ready  market  in  New  York.  Newark. 
I'aterson.  and  other  nearby  towns.  He  invested 
ir  [jroperty  later,  buying  a  portion  of  the  ohJ 
Condit  estate,  which  he  later  sold  to  the  hat  finn 
of  William    Rodwell   and    Nathaniel    Stevens. 


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wlio  erected  a  shop.  Mr.  Williams  was  at  that 
time  following  the  trade  of  hatter.  He  later 
associated  himself  with  ]\Ir.  Stevens  in  the 
manufacture  of  hats,  and  after  the  death  of 
Mr.  Stevens  continued  in  business  under  his 
own  name  for  a  number  of  years.  His  shup, 
situated  on  the  main  road,  near  the  Railway 
river  (west  branch),  was  destroyed  by  fire. 
^Ir.  Williams  then  gave  up  the  business  and 
devoted  the  remainder  of  his  years  to  farming, 
which  he  continued  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
justice  of  the  peace,  and  had  the  settlement  of 
many  estates.  He  was  chairman  of  the  town 
committee,  and  devoted  much  time  to  the  inter- 
ests of  the  business  of  the  town.  During  his 
latter  years  he  was  an  invalid,  yet  directed  his 
work  with  the  best  results.  He  was  honest, 
industrious  and  frugal,  deeply  religious,  being 
an  elder  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  since 
1834.  fie  was  a  Whig  in  politics,  later  a  Dem- 
ocrat. He  served  in  the  early  military  com- 
pany of  Orange.  He  was  a  man  of  great  will 
jower,  and  strong  character.  He  was  tall,  light 
complexioned.  with  blue  eyes.  He  was  known 
for  his  christian  character.  He  acquired  a  tract 
of  land  where  the  present  city  of  Detroit. 
Michigan,  now  stands,  but  this  was  lost  through 
the  dishonesty  of  his  agent,  who  was  a  lawyer. 
He  married,  at  West  Orange.  December  22, 
1822,  Phoebe  Perry,  born  in  West  ( )range. 
October  18.  1802.  died  there  Augu.st  8,  1882, 
daughter  of  William  Samuel  and  Rachel  Perry, 
the  former  of  whom  was  a  farmer  and  black- 
smith. Children  :  i.  Samuel  Augustus,  born  Sep- 
tember 3.  1824  (q.v. ).  2.  Rachel  Catharine,  b<irn 
November  23.  1825.  died  December  27.  1006; 
married.  November  28,  1849.  Albert  Condit. 
who  died  August  4,  1899:  children:  i.  (Jrlando 
Emmons,  born  March  20.  1833.  married,  Octo- 
ber 16.  1878.  Elizabeth  R.  Midford ;  children: 
a.  Helen  Louise,  born  December  12,  1879:  mar- 
ried. October  16,  1903,  Fred  Rutherford  Hood; 
children:  Elizabeth  Mulford,  born  September 
15,  1905:  .\lan  Condit,  .\ugust  16,  1907;  Fred 
Rutherford,  November  6,  1908;  b.  .\lbert  Em- 
mons, born  February  26,  1882:  c.  Timothy 
Mulford.  born  March  23,  1884;  ii.  Alice  Cary, 
born  .\ugust  23.  1837  ;  iii.  William  Elmer,  born 
March  6,  1861  ;  iv.  P.ertha  Catherine,  born  July 
24,  1863.  3.  William  Nathan,  born  Septem- 
ber 15.  1829  (q.  v.).  4.  Orlando,  mentioned 
below.    5.  Albert  Squier,  born  January  2,  1834. 

6,  Jotham  Edgar,  born  October  27,  1S36  (  q.  v. ). 

7.  Sarah  .'\melia,  born  May  3,  1844:  married, 
August  18.  1863.  Herman  Woodrutif;  children: 
i.  Ernest  Herbert,  born  June  10.  1866;  married 
September   21,    1892.   .\da   Relle  Coddington ; 


child.  \'elma  Antoinette,  born  June  20.  1893:  ii. 
Clarence  Orlando,  born  July  12.  1879:  mar- 
ried. IMarch  12.  1901,  Florence  Belle  Crane; 
children:  a.  Viola  .\ntoinette,  born  July  13, 
1902;  b.  Flerman  Everett,  born  January  23. 
1906;  iii.  Maud  Ethelyn,  born  March  2,  1882. 
died  January  11.  1903:  married,  Se[)tember  10. 
1897,  Edward  Conklin ;  children:  a.  .-Kda 
Amelia,  horn  January  27,,  iqoo;  b.  Dorothy 
Ethelyn.  born  February  28.  1903. 

{X'HF)  Orlando,  son  of  Jonathan  S.  Will- 
iams, was  born  at  West  Orange.  New  Jersey, 
October  30,  1831.  His  educational  training 
V  as  limited  to  the  district  school  in  the  nearby 
neighbtirhood  up  to  sixteen,  during  the  long 
winter  months,  working  at  ^  other  seasons  on 
tiie  farm.  About  the  age  of  seventeen  years 
he  learned  the  trade  of  hatter  with  his  father, 
with  whom  he  worked  a  short  time,  after 
which  he  devoted  a  few  years  to  the  trade  of 
slioeniaker,  working  for  different  ones  in  the 
neighborhood.  The  custom  in  those  days  was 
to  take  unfinished  stock  from  nearby  factories 
and  manufacture  the  same  at  home,  returning 
the  finished  product  to  the  manufacturers. 
(  )wing  to  close  application  to  this  tradehishealth 
failed,  and  he  was  compelled  to  take  up  the  work 
of  the  farm,  thinking  work  in  the  open  air 
would  be  a  benefit  to  his  health.  This  proved 
beneficial  from  the  start,  and  Mr.  Williams  has 
made  this  pursuit  his  chosen  occupation.  His 
farm,  comprising  upwards  of  fifty-five  acres, 
is  situated  in  the  West  Orange  Valley,  over 
First  Mountain,  on  Mt.  Pleasant  Place.  It 
has  descended  to  him  through  his  father,  grand- 
father and  great-grandfather,  is  composed  of 
jiart  tillage  and  ])art  woodlanil.  Mr.  Williams 
has  successfully  conducted  this  farm,  and  for 
nearly  thirty-eight  years,  until  within  two 
years,  devoted  his  energies  to  the  production 
of  milk,  which  he  supplied  to  the  neighboring 
dealers,  having  had  an  average  of  twenty  head 
of  the  best  stock.  His  labors  have  been  well- 
directed,  and  his  success  has  been  the  result 
of  careful  luanagement.  enterprise  and  indus- 
try. He  believed  in  the  improved  ideas  of 
agriculture,  and  his  farm  compares  favorably 
with  the  best  in  the  valley.  He  has  practically 
retired  from  active  work  of  the  farm,  yet 
superintends  its  management.  Mr.  Williams 
antl  family  attends  the  St.  Cloud  Presbyterian 
Church,  contributing  to  its  sujiport.  His  polit- 
ical support  is  given  to  no  one  ])arty,  believing 
that  the  independent  voter  will  do  the  most 
g(>od  to  every  community.  He  has  never  sought 
public  office,  but  was  elected  to  the  office  of 
chairman  of  town  committee,  and  i>  a  memlier 


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STATE    OF    XEW    JERSEY. 


of  tlic  committee  on  the  division  of  back  taxes, 
supervising  and  collecting.  He  is  a  member  of 
Orange  Chapter,  .Sons  of  Revolution,  and  also 
of  the  state  chapter.  He  served  as  captain  of 
an  early  military  company. 

lie  married,  April  27,  187:,  at  Roseland, 
AIi>s  Hannah  Condit,  born  October  9,  1839, 
daughter  of  Ira  Harrison  and  I'hebe  (Far- 
rand  )  Condit,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
farmer  and  freeholder.  Their  only  child  is 
Marie  Antoinette,  born  July  12,  1872. 

(\TII)  Jotham  Edgar  Williams,  son  of 
Jonathan  Squier  Williams,  was  born  October 
2/,  1836.  He  received  his  education  in  the 
district  school  near  the  homestead.  When 
quite  young  he  wJs  apprenticed  to  Durand  & 
Company,  of  Newark,  watch  case  makers, 
where  he  learned  the  trade  of  watch  case  fin- 
i^hing,  and  worked  for  a  time  as  journeyman 
at  his  trade.  He  was  subsequently  engaged 
for  a  time  in  connection  with  the  shoe  manu- 
facturing business,  and  was  in  the  employ  of 
Benedict  Hall  &  Company,  New  York  City, 
and  later  with  Andrew  Brittan  and  Joseph  A. 
Condit.  of  West  Orange.  In  1864  he  removed 
to  \"erona,  Essex  county.  New  Jersey,  where 
lie  formed  a  partnership  with  his  father-in- 
law,  Charles  Smith,  under  the  firm  name  of 
.'^mith  &  Williams,  and  were  engaged  in  the 
liandling  of  dry  goods  and  paper  stock.  About 
1868  the  partners  dissolved  their  relations, 
each  carrying  on  a  portion  of  the  business  in 
his  own  behalf,  the  senior  member  of  the  firm 
taking  the  paper  stock  and  Mr.  Williams  the 
dry  goods.  In  i8()i)  he  suffered  a  fire  loss,  but 
s(jon  rebuilt  and  continued  in  the  business.  In 
1878  he  embarked  in  the  business  of  selling 
remnants,  continuing  in  this  alone  to  about 
January  i,  1891,  when  Anson  A.  \'oorhees,  his 
son-in-law,  and  Charles  A.  W'illiams  w'ere 
admitted  to  partnership  under  the  firm  name 
of  J.  E.  Williams  &  Company.  He  died  No- 
vember 24,  1902,  in  the  si.xty-sixth  year  of  his 
age.  Mr.  Williams  was  a  generous,  public- 
spirited  citizen,  possessing  the  qualities  of  true 
manhood.  Ilis  social  and  jovial  nature,  with 
his  fondness  for  jokes  at  all  times,  gained  him 
many  true  and  lasting  friends.  He  became  an 
expert  domino  player  and  there  were  few  who 
could  get  the  advantage  of  his  skill.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  \'erona,  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of 
that  society,  giving  the  land  that  the  church 
was  built  on.  serving  on  the  building  and 
standing  committees  and  as  one  of  the  trus- 
tees. ^Ir.  Williams  was  a  director  in  the 
Montclair  National  Hank,  and  one  of  the  man- 


agers of  the  Montclair  Savings  Bank.  He  was 
president  of  the  N'erona  (Social)  Club.  He 
affiliated  with  Montclair  Lodge  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows. In  early  manhood  he  held  a  commission 
in  the  Newark  military  company.  In  politics 
he  was  identified  with  the  Democratic  party ; 
he  served  two  years  as  committeeman  of  Cald- 
well township,  and  for  four  years  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  chosen  freeholders  of 
Essex  county,  ^\'hen  \'erona  was  set  off  from 
Caldwell,  he  was  made  chairman  of  the  first 
town  committee.  He  married.  October  4,  i860, 
Martha  Ellen  Smith,  born  May  3,  1839,  died 
December  11,  1895,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Martha  Ellen  (Ilardham)  Smith.  Mrs.  W'il- 
liams was  a  devout  member  of  Dr.  Bradford's 
church  at  ]\Iontclair  for  over  eighteen  years. 
She  was  a  devoted  christian  woman,  of  beauti- 
ful mind,  and  known  for  her  philanthro])ic 
nature.  "She  lived  respected  and  died 
regretted.''  Children:  i.  Anna  X'irginia,  born 
September  15,  1864:  married,  F'ebruary  i^, 
1889,  Anson  Augustus  Voorhees,  born  Octo- 
ber 22,  1862,  son  of  Judah  R.  and  Matilda 
(Oaks)  \'oorhees ;  children:  i.  Judah  Edgar, 
born  January  21,  1890;  ii.  Anson  Willard.  born 
June  12,  1895.  2.  Jav  Edgar,  born  Julv  i^. 
1878,  died  May  7,  1881'. 


(Vni)  William  Nathan  Will- 
\\'ILLI.\MS    iams,  son  of  Jonathan  Squier 

Williams  (q.  v.),  was  born 
Se])tember  15.  1829,  on  the  old  family  home- 
stead in  the  West  Orange  X'alley.  died  April 
15'  1907-  '^t  an  early  age  he  went  to  live  with 
an  aunt.  Electa  (Williams)  Beach,  attending 
the  district  school  in  the  valley.  About  the  age 
of  fourteen  he  went  to  the  Clinton  (New  York  ) 
Seminary,  where  for  two  years  he  was  under 
the  tutelage  of  his  uncle.  Rev.  Albert  Williams, 
subsec|uently  attending  a  course  of  instruction 
in  Albert  Pierson's  private  school  in  Orange, 
New  Jersey.  In  the  spring  of  1846  he  went  to 
New  York,  where  he  entered  the  employ  of  H.\". 
Sigler,  a  cabinet  maker,  to  learn  the  trade,  with 
whom  he  was  for  three  years  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  ])icture  and  mirror  frames.  Mr. 
Williams  subse(|uently  removed  to  Chicago, 
Illinois,  where  he  was  a  clerk  two  years,  but 
soon  returned  to  his  native  town  to  assist  in 
the  conduct  of  the  farm  with  his  father.  From 
this  time  on  he  made  farming  his  chosen  occu- 
pation, lie  was  industrious,  practical  and  pro- 
gressive; he  adojned  improved  ideas  of  agricul- 
ture, and  kept  his  farm  in  a  model  way  so  that 
it  compared  favorably  with  the  best  in  the 
region  and  was  made  to  yield  a  handsome  year- 


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])•  income.  ]\Ir.  Williams  was  a  man  univer- 
sally beloved  and  respected,  and  while  some- 
\\  hat  outspoken  in  manner,  his  frankness  and 
zeal  was  always  in  evidence  and  he  possessed 
qualities  that  went  to  make  the  true  man.  Me 
followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  ancestors,  ac- 
cepting their  religious  views,  which  had  re- 
mained unchanged  through  a  long  ]ierioil  of 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  St.  Cloud 
I'resbyterian  Church,  served  as  clerk  of  the 
session,  and  succeeded  General  George  B.  .Mc- 
Clellan  as  a  ruling  elder.  Air.  Williams  was 
always  a  pronounced  Democrat  in  his  political 
principles.  When  the  borough  of  Eairmount, 
ihen  a  part  of  West  Orange  and  Livingston, 
was  made,  he  was  selected  as  assessor  of  ta.xes. 
He  became  one  of  the  first  freeholders  of  West 
C>range,  serving  for  twenty-two  years  up  to 
1887,  when  he  was  elected  to  serve  as  collector 
of  taxes,  which  office  he  held  up  to  two  years 
before  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  L'uion 
Lodge,  No.  II,  A.  E.  and  A.  M.,  and  of  Union 
Chapter,  No.  23.  R.  A.  M.  He  was  a  director 
in  the  Half  Dime  Savings  Rank  at  Orange 
from  its  organization  until  his  death,  and  a 
director  of  New  Jersey  Plate  Glass  Insurance 
Company  for  a  number  of  years.  He  married 
(first)  December  20,  1854,  Phebe  Ann  LTnder- 
hill,  born  March  2,  1835,  died  March  30,  1893, 
daughter  of  Gilbert  and  Sarah  ( Omberson ) 
Underbill.  Children:  i.  John  Francis,  men- 
tioned below.  2.  Lillian  Electa,  born  August 
10.  1865:  married,  December  23,  1885,  Harry 
Camp  Hedden,  son  of  James  S.  and  Elma  R. 
(Camp)  Hedden  :  children  :  i.  Elma  Williams, 
born  April  12,  1887:  ii.  Lillian  Electa,  born 
May  27,  i88g,  died  April  4,  1892:  iii.  Phebe 
P-thel,  born  October  22,  1893  ;  iv.  Julia  Bertha, 
born  October  20,  1894.  Mr.  Williams  married 
(second)  May  25,  1894,  Sarah  A.  King,  born 
September  2,  1837,  daughter  of  Charles  R.  and 
Eliza  M.  King,  both  of  Morristown,  New  Jer- 
sey. 

(IX)  John  Francis,  son  of  William  Xathan 
Williams,  was  born  on  the  old  Williams  home- 
stead on  Mount  Pleasant  Place,  West  Orange. 
New  Jersey,  November  28.  1839.  He  attend- 
ed the  district  school  on  the  hill  up  to  about 
thirteen  years  of  age,  when  he  came  to  Orange 
high  school,  coming  and  going  over  the  W'est 
Orange  mountains  daily  during  the  school  sea- 
sons until  he  graduated  in  1878.  He  then 
entered  the  University  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  graduating  in  1882,  in  the  dejiartment  of 
arts  and  sciences,  with  the  A.  R.  degree.  He 
subsetpiently  became  de])uty  warden  of  the 
Essex  Coiuitv  Insane  .\svluni  at  Newark,  re- 


maining in  this  office  for  a  short  time.  In 
July,  1882,  he  entered  the  employ  of  F.  Berg 
tc  Company  in  their  office,  where  he  remained 
until  February,  1884.  During  this  ])eriod  he 
\\as  appointed  deputy  warden  of  the  Essex 
county  penitentiary  at  Caldwell,  New  Jersey, 
occupying  this  office  until  Septemlier  10,  1886, 
w  heii  he  resigned  to  acce])t  a  position  in  the  hat 
manufacturing  firm  of  Cunimings.  Matthews 
&  Company,  remaining  in  their  employ  and 
their  successors,  Frederick  Cummings  Son  & 
Company,  up  to  September,  1906,  when  he  ac- 
cejJted  the  position  of  sujx^rintendent  of  E.  \'. 
Connett  &  Company,  hat  manufacturing  plant 
on  Richmond  street,  Newark,  New  Jersey, 
leaving  this  position  in  February,  1910,  to 
become  associated  with  the  Essex  Hat 
Manufacturing  Company  of  .Newark.  New 
New  Jersey,  as  manager,  and  later  becoming 
president  of  the  corporation.  Mr.  Williams 
and  family  attend  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Orange.  In  political  affairs  he  may 
be  counted  as  an  Independent,  with  a  tendency 
towards  the  Democratic  side.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Union  Lodge,  No.  11,  A.  F.  and  A.  M., 
having  received  his  degrees  in  Caldwell  Lodge, 
No.  59,  in  January,  1885.  He  is  a  member' of 
Hillside  Council.  No.  1329,  Royal  Arcanum, 
having  served  this  body  as  secretary  for  twen- 
ty-five years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Loyal 
.Association,  and  of  the  Zeta  Psi  fraternity. 

He  married,  at  Caldwell,  New  Jersey,  De- 
cember 9,  1884,  Ella  Jacobus,  born  P^ebruary 
13,  1863,  daughter  of  John  S.  and  Mary  Eliza- 
beth (Husk)  Jacobus,  of  Caldwell.  John  S. 
Jacobus  was  a  cigar  maker  by  trade.  Chil- 
dren :  .Arthur  Francis,  born  September  18, 
1885  :  Carrie  Louise.  November  14,  1887  ;  Will- 
iam Nathan  (2),  April  13,  1892;  Marjorie, 
February  25,  1895. 


(\TII)  Albert  S(|uier  Will- 
\MLLLAMS  iams,  son  of  Jonatlian  Squier 
Williams  ( (|.  v. ) ,  was  born  on 
the  old  Williams  homestead,  on  Mt.  Pleasant 
Place,  in  the  W'est  Orange  \'alley,  January  2, 
1834.  He  acc]uired  the  usual  district  school  edu- 
cation, supplemented  by  a  select  course  at 
Orange.  FJefore  and  after  school  hours  he  assist- 
ed his  father  on  the  farm,  and  learned  the  trade 
of  shoemaker,  doing  work  in  the  attic  of  the  old 
homestead.  About  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he 
was  apprenticed  until  of  age  to  the  trade  of 
jeweler  with  Durand  &  Comi)any,  on  Franklin 
street.  Newark,  where  he  learned  the  art  of 
watchcase  making,  stone  setting  and  gen- 
eral  jewelry-   manufacture.      For   three   years, 


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until  twenty- four  years  old,  he  worked  for 
them  as  journeyman,  when  he  became  engaged 
in  the  same  line  with  Hunting  Earle,  in  New 
York.  He  was  master  in  the  art  of  stone  set- 
ting and  line  special  work,  and  did  much  of 
the  fine  work  for  Tiffany  &  Company  and 
other  leading  concerns  in  Xew  York,  .\fter 
about  five  years  he  became  foreman  in  the  dia- 
mond department  of  Hunting  Earle,  where 
he  remained  four  years.  Owing  to  a  general 
depression  in  business  he  went  to  Brooklyn, 
where  he  was  engaged  as  foreman  for  Jaenott 
&  Sheibler,  on  State,  street,  taking  charge  of 
their  watchcase  dejjartment.  During  his  serv- 
ice for  the  firm  his  system  became  poisoned 
from  inhaling  the  fumes  of  quicksilver  used  in 
the  process  of  smelting,  though  he  still  worked 
two  years  in  this  condition.  His  system  was 
so  thoroughly  permeated  with  this  poison  that 
he  was  obliged  to  resign,  and  for  ten  years 
suffered  from  the  effects.  During  this  period 
he  engaged  in  the  paper  supply  business  at 
Paterson,  New  Jersey,  in  his  own  name,  on 
Van  Houten  street,  where  he  remained  one 
year,  but  was  obliged  to  give  up  on  account  of 
his  condition,  disposing  of  his  stock  to  his 
brother.  J.  Edgar  Williams.  He  returned  to 
Orange  and  in  course  of  time  his  health  seem- 
ingly improved,  and  he  again  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Daniel  Fitzgerald,  a  manufacturing 
jeweler  in  New  York,  where  he  remained  as 
journeyman  two  years,  subsequently  accepting 
a  similar  position  in  the  Crescent  Watch  Case 
Factory  at  Roseville,  New  Jersey,  working 
there  fourteen  months.  While  on  a  vacation 
he  was  suddenly  stricken  at  his  home,  and 
after  a  few  hours  died  from  a  stroke  of  paral- 
ysis, December  i8,  1892.  He  was  a  man  of 
rare  excellent  qualities,  and  possessed  of  gen- 
erous impulses.  He  was  greatly  domesticated, 
and  while  devoted  to  his  home  and  family  he 
brought  his  children  up  to  respect  and  revere 
the  church.  He  was  a  dee])  reader  and  thinker, 
and  a  student  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  He  held 
strongly  to  the  ])rincii)les  of  tem])erance 
through  life,  and  it  is  said  of  him  that  he  never 
used  liquor  in  any  form.  I  le  w-as  a  strictly 
moral  man,  and  his  uniform  courtesy  and 
agreeable  manners  made  him  many  friends. 
He  was  a  Republican  in  political  principles, 
but  never  accepted  office  in  the  gift  of  the 
citizens,  believing  that  to  attend  to  his  home 
and  family  was  the  first  and  highest  duty  of  a 
citizen. 

He  married.  January  11.  1851.  .\bby  I'ran- 
ces  Townley.  born  July  13.  1836.  daughter  of 
Calvin  and  Jane  Salyer  (\\'ard)   Townley.  of 


Orange,  Xew  Jersey.  Calvin  Townley  was  a 
shoemaker.  Children:  i.  Albert  Durand.born 
.-\ugu.st  II.  1852,  died  May  25.  1892;  married 
Henrietta  Walker:  children:  i.  Sarah  Frances, 
married  George  Ruby :  children :  Edwin  and 
Emma  :  ii.  Charles  Frederick,  married  Eliza- 
beth Watson:  child.  Albert;  iii.  Harriet,  mar- 
ried Charles  Butte :  vi.  Albert  \'alentine.  2. 
Charles,  born  November  29,  1855,  died  No- 
vember 23,  1862.  3.  Clara,  born  March  11. 
1854,  died  February  I.  1857.  4.  Clara  Louise, 
born  December  27,  1857:  married.  Xovember 
14,  1884,  William  Rainard  Henderson,  born 
July  28,  1859.  .son  of  William  Henry  Hender- 
son and  Louisa  Sommers  Henderson  :  children  : 
i.  .Albert  Squier,  born  February  20,  1886;  ii. 
Ethel  Frances,  born  April  16.  1891,  died  March 
14,  1892.  5.  Frank  Elwood,  born  October  8. 
1859.  mentioned  below.  6.  Emma  Augusta, 
born  June  24,  1862.  7.  Mary  F" ranees,  born 
January  18.  1867;  married  (first)  September 
31.  1 891,  Charles  Brewster  Boies,  who  died 
July  31.  1897;  children:  i.  Marv  Hazel,  born 
July  28.  1892.  died  July  6.  1897;  ii.  Ethel  El- 
vina.  born  January  16.  1895:  married  (sec- 
ond) June  2,  1906,  Henry  Ward  Bucher.  8. 
Charles  Edwin,  born  November  19.  1870.  men- 
tioned below. 

(IX)  Frank  Elwood  Williams,  son  of  .\1- 
bert  Squier  Williams,  was  born  at  Xewark. 
New  Jersey,  October  8,  1859.  His  elementary 
eflucational  training  was  limited  to  the  public 
schools  of  Newark  until  eleven  years  of  age. 
when  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Brooklyn. 
New  York,  where  he  attended  the  Meadow 
street  school  for  two  years,  removing  then 
with  his  parents  to  Bergen,  New  Jersey,  where 
lu  attended  the  public  schools  for  two  years. 
He  possessed  thrift  and  enterprise,  and  like 
many  boys  with  an  idea  of  getting  a  start  in 
worldly  goods,  conducted  a  prosperous  busi- 
ness in  the  selling  of  newspapers,  an  experi- 
ence which  he  never  regretted.  .\t  thirteen 
years  of  age  he  practically  left  school  and  be- 
came clerk  for  Peter  Lee  in  his  grocery  store 
yt  Cedar  Grove,  New  Jersey,  remaining  for  a 
year,  when  he  removed  to  Orange  with  his 
parents  and  w-as  clerk  in  the  stationery  store 
of  Thomas  Bayse  a  year,  and  subse<|uently 
clerk  in  a  grocery  store  for  a  like  period.  .\  f ter 
a  vear  as  clerk  for  Joseph  Hardwick.  a  butcher. 
he  entered  the  hat  manufactury  of  Damon  I". 
Stocker.  to  learn  the  trade  of  hatter  as  an  ap- 
prentice, and  was  for  three  years  in  the  finish- 
ing department,  after  which  time  his  energy 
and  strict  attention  to  business  in  all  its  de- 
tails and  his  probity  gained  for  himself  such 


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favDF  with  his  employer  that  he  was  prdinoted 
to  a  position  of  greater  responsibiUty  and  re- 
nnnieration,  that  of  foreman  of  the  finishing 
(le])artment.  where  he  remained  one  year.  He 
>ul>se(|uently  accepted  a  position  in  the  hat 
factory  of  John  B.  Stetson  in  Orange  X'alley- 
After  a  year  there  he  was  employed  six  months 
liy  Austin  Drew  as  finisher.  He  subsecjuently 
entered  the  employ  of  F.  Berg  &  Company, 
where  for  four  and  one-half  years  he  attended 
to  the  bookkeeping  of  the  concern.  He  later 
accepted  a  position  from  Austin  Drew  &  Com- 
])any  as  buyer  and  salesman,  where  he  remain- 
ed five  years.  He  then  became  traveling  sales- 
man for  Abegg  &  Rusch.  makers  of  hat  bands 
and  satins,  and  was  in  their  employ  eleven 
years,  when  he  became  salesman  in  the  same 
hue  for  Pass  &  Company,  in  1903.  which  posi- 
tion he  now  holds.  Mr.  Williams  is  first  among 
his  equals  in  this  particular  line  of  trade,  hav- 
ing attained  a  high  success  as  a  salesman,  com- 
manding the  confidence  and  regard  of  those 
with  whom  in  business  relations  he  is  brought 
in  contact.  He  has  a  high  regard  for  the  in- 
stitution of  harmony,  having  been  a  member  of 
Markwith's  P'ifth  Regiment  Band.  He  is  a 
member  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church  of  Orange, 
and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  work 
I  if  the  Sunday  school,  as  has  also  Mrs.  Will- 
iams. Mr.  Williams  was  among  the  founders 
of  the  church  at  Lake  Hopatcong,  Morris 
ciiunt}',  Xew  Jersey,  where  his  family  reside 
< luring  the  summer  season.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  and  has  served  as  justice  of 
the  jieace.  He  is  a  member  of  Hillside  Council. 
Xo.  1529,  Royal  Arcanum,  and  served  that 
body  as  secretary  five  years.  He  erected  his 
residence  on  Park  place,  Orange,  in  1903.  Mr. 
^\'illiams  married,  at  Orange,  New  Jersey,  No- 
\ember  15,  1881,  Augusta  Heick.  born  there 
.A])ril  14,  1861,  daughter  of  John  and  Eliza 
Jane  (Hull)  Heick,  of  Orange.  John  Heick 
was  a  hat  manufacturer.  Children:  i.  Ethel 
.\ngnsta.  born  September  6.  1882,  died  Julv 
28,  1883.  2.  Donald  Elwood.  born  l-ebruary 
8,  1886,  mentioned  below.  3.  Lucy  Evel>n, 
born  May  26,  1887.  4.  V'erna  May,  born  May 
25.  1888.  5.  I-"rank  Everett,  born  February 
4,  1893.  6.  John  Albert,  born  January  27, 
1896.  7.  Roger  Augustus,  born  January  2-. 
1901.    8.  Judson,  born  July  6,  1903. 

(  X  I  Donald  Elwood  Williams,  .son  of  Frank 
Elwood  Williams,  was  born  on  Williams  street, 
near  Day  street.  Orange,  Xew  Jersey,  Febru- 
ary 8.  1886.  He  attended  the  schools  of  Orange, 
including  the  high  school,  and  after  a  two  years 
Course  in  thi'  latter  entered  the  .'^outh  (  )rant;c 


h.igh  school,  fr(.ini  which  he  graduated  in  1904. 
])resident  of  class.  He  spent  the  year  following 
at  Betts  Academy,  Stamford,  Connecticut,  and 
the  year  following  in  Syracuse  University.  A*" 
the  age  of  sixteen,  upon  entering  his  third  year 
in  the  high  school  at  .South  Orange,  he  accept- 
ed the  position  of  physical  director  in  the 
"1  oung  Glen's  Christian  Ass(.)ci;i.tion  at  Madi- 
son, New  Jersey,  in  which  ca])acity  he  served 
for  two  years.  He  served  as  a  sub-master  in 
lietts  Academy,  taking  his  studies  in  the  nature 
of  a  student  and  earning  his  way  by  teaching 
the  classes  in  physical  culture.  He  was  active 
in  athletics,  serving  as  pitcher  of  the  baseball 
team  and  fullback  of  the  football  team.  In 
October,  1906,  he  accepted  tiie  position  of 
physical  director  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  at  Butler,  Pennsylvania,  and 
in  February,  1907,  left  this  work  to  enter  the 
auditor's  office  of  the  Standard  Steel  Car  Com- 
]:)any,  from  which  he  resigned  in  February. 
1908,  at  the  request  of  his  father-in-law,  in 
order  to  assist  him  in  his  work^  managing  his 
farms,  etc.,  in  Greenwich,  New  York.  While 
residing  in  Greenwich  he  became  interested  in 
the  work  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
and  the  following  F'ebruary  (1909)  decided  to 
enter  the  ministry  at  the  recommendation  of 
the  pastor  at  Greenwich,  the  Rev.  P.  O. 
Cirieves.  The  t|uarterly  conference  of  the 
Greenwich  church  voted  that  he  be  given  a 
license  to  preach.  In  April,  1909,  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Troy  conference  held  at  (ilovers- 
ville,  Xew  York,  placed  him  in  charge  of  the 
work  centering  in  Johnsburg,  Xew  York,  in 
which  charge  there  are  four  churches  to  sup- 
ply. His  political  principles  incline  him  toward 
Republicanism,  but  he  casts  his  vote  for  the 
man  best  suited  for  office,  irrespective  of  party 
affiliations.  While  in  college  he  joined  the 
CJrange  Club,  which  in  1907  became  the  frater- 
nity of  Sigma  .Alpha  Epsilon,  of  which  he  is 
now  a  membei'.  He  married,  September  13, 
1906,  Ellen  Clarinda  Rich,  born  October  31, 
1885,  daughter  of  Dr.  Jacob  Astor  and  Franc 
(Pierce)  Rich.  Child,  Ruth  Augusta,  born 
October  17,  1909. 

(IX)  Charles  Edwin  Willi.ims.  son  of  Al- 
bert S(|uier  Williams,  was  born  in  Willow 
Place,  Brooklyn,  Xew  ^'ork.  November  19, 
1870.  When  an  infant  his  parents  removed  to 
Bergen  and  later  to  I'aterson,  Xew  Jersey,  and 
when  five  years  of  age  they  removed  to  Orange. 
I  le  attended  the  St.  Marks  |)ublic  school  on 
\  alley  road  until  nine  years  old,  when  he  re- 
turned to  his  native  citv,  Brooklyn,  with  his 
]u-irents.  whero  he  passed   through   the   se\eral 


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STATE    OF    NEW    TERSEY. 


grades  of  the  grammar  school  and  for  a  time 
attended  the  iiigh  school.  I-'or  a  short  time 
after  completing  his  schooling  he  was  asso- 
ciated in  the  advertising  department  of  the 
Xew  York  World,  subsequently  accepting  a 
position  of  assistant  bookkeejier  under  his 
brother,  Frank  E.  Williams,  in  F.  Berg  & 
Company,  hat  manufacturers,  at  Orange,  New 
Jersey,  where  he  remained  a  year.  He  subse- 
qently  passed  through  a  period  of  illness,  and 
later  accepted  a  position  with  F.  Berg  &  Com- 
pany as  assistant  salesman  in  their  New  York 
office.  In  1891  he  became  their  traveling  sales- 
man for  Boston,  Philadelphia,  and  surrounding- 
New  York  towns.  In  1892  he  accepted  a  posi- 
tion as  salesman  with  McGall  Brothers,  the 
largest  hat  makers  of  the  Orange  \'alley,  his 
territory  being  as  far  west  as  the  Mississijjpi 
and  through  the  south,  remaining  for  a  period 
of  two  years.  He  severed  his  connection 
with  this  house  on  account  of  financial 
difficulties,  and  accepted  a  similar  position  with 
A.  Fitch  &  Company,  of  Newark,  where  he 
remained  a  year,  going  then  with  Abegg  & 
Rusch,  of  90  Crand  street.  New  York 
City,  importers  and  makers  of  hat  bands  and 
satins,  where  he  remained  as  salesman  eleven 
years.  CJn  October  i,  1905,  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  well  known  firm  of  Edelhoiif  & 
Rinke,  22  Washington  Place,  New  York  City, 
in  the  .same  line.  In  1907  this  firm  changed  to 
Robert  Miiller  &  Company,  Mr.  Williams  being 
retained  as  traveling  salesman,  wliere  he  is 
now  located.  In  politics  he  is  strongly  Repub- 
lican ;  he  is  a  member  of  Bedford  Council,  No. 
ZJT^,  Knights  of  Columbus,  and  of  the  order 
of  Alhambra.  Caravan  ".Ab  Der  Rahman."  He 
resides  at  1405  Dean  street.  Brooklyn,  New 
York.  He  married  at  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
April  26,  1898,  at  the  Church  of  Our  Lady  of 
Mctory  (Catholic),  Mary  Margaret  Burns, 
born  at  Brooklyn.  New  York,  September  23, 
1872,  daughter  of  William  Augustine  and  Mar- 
garet (Kerrigan)  Burns,  of  Brooklyn.  IVlr. 
and  Mrs.  \\'illiams  attend  the  Church  of  Our 
Lady  of  Yictory. 


(V'lII)  Samuel  .Augustus 
WILLIAMS  Williams,  son  of  Jonathan 
S(]uier  Williams  (c|.  v.).  was 
born  on  the  old  homestead  farm  of  his  ances- 
tcrs,  in  the  West  Orange  \alley,  September  3, 
1824,  and  died  in  .August,  1893.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  nearby  district  school,  and  at  an 
early  age  was  apprenticed  to  William  Bodwell 
to  learn  the  hatter's  trade,  serving  a  seven 
years  apprenticeship.     He  followed  his  trade 


up  to  the  time  of  his  enlistment  in  the  army 
in  the  civil  war,  working  for  George  Harrison, 
a  hat  manufacturer  in  Essex  avenue,  living  for 
a  time  with  his  employer.  He  enlisted  Sep- 
tember 8,  1864.  in  company  H,  Thirty-ninth 
Regiment  New  Jersey  \'olunteers,  for  a  period 
of  one  year  under  Lieutenant  Peter  Clute,  who 
ccimmanded  the  company  during  that  tipie.  His 
regiment  left  Newark  early  in  October,  1864, 
arriving  at  City  Point,  Virginia,  where  it  was 
temporarily  employed  on  the  fortifications, 
moving  thence  to  Poplar  Grove  Church,  on  the 
left  of  the  Weldon  railroad,  a  few  miles  south 
of  Petersburg,  where  the  regiment  was  attach- 
ed to  the  First  Brigade.  Second  Division,  Ninth 
Army  Corps,  and  he  participated  in  the  move- 
ment against  the  Southside  railroad.  The 
command  was  subsequently  encamped  until 
November,  when  the  Ninth  Corps  relieved  the 
Second  Corps,  then  holding  the  center  of  the 
Union  line,  and  Williams  with  his  regiment 
moved  into  position  before  Petersburg,  later 
going  into  camp  until  February,  1865,  when  it 
was  placed  in  Fort  Davis,  which  it  garrisoned 
until  the  night  before  April  2d.  He  took  part 
in  the  charge  upon  Fort  Mehone.  his  regiment 
thrice  entering  the  works,  and  finally  holding 
them,  with  nuich  loss  of  men.  To  his  regiment 
belongs  the  credit  of  capturing  one  of  the  most 
formidable  rebel  works  around  Petersburg, 
afterward  joining  in  the  pursuit  of  Lee's  army, 
after  its  retreat  from  its  stronghold.  The  last 
important  service  of  Mr.  Williams's  regiment 
was  provost  <luty  for  two  weeks  at  Farmville, 
and  after  the  surrender  of  Lee  proceeded  to 
Alexandria,  \'irginia,  remaining  in  camp  there 
until  June,  when  the  regiment  was  ordered 
home,  and  was  mustered  out  at  Newark,  June 
17,  1865. 

Mr.  \\  illiams  returned  to  his  trade  of  hat 
making,  and  followed  it  for  the  active  remain- 
der of  his  life.  He  resided  on  Glibe  street, 
where  he  died  in  August,  1893.  He  was  thor- 
oughly respected  in  his  community,  as  a  man 
of  goo<l  moral  character  and  strong  in  his  prin- 
ciples. 

Mr.  Williams  married,  September  30.  1847, 
Francis  Harrison,  born  February  12,  1828.  died 
November  23,  1869,  daughter  of  .Abraham  P. 
and  Rhoda  ( Tichenor)  Harrison :  her  father 
was  a  shoemaker.  Children:  i.  Frances  .Au- 
gusta, born  .May  29,  1849.  died  Alay  23.  1861. 
2.  Abraham,  born  .September  6,  1851,  died  Sep- 
tember 20,  185 1.  3.  Harriet  .Alida,  born  F'eb- 
ruary  12,  1854.  4.  Daniel  Harrison,  born  March 
14,  1857;  married,  June  29,  1887,  Mary  Mead; 
children:     Harrison  Edward,  born  September 


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18.  1S88:  Frances  Louisa,  August  9,  1890; 
Margaret  Elizabeth,  April  4,  1893.  5.  Joseph- 
ine, born  June  i,  1859;  married,  June  18,  1877, 
George  Milton  Tyler;  children:  Harriet  May, 
born  April  9,  1878;  married  June  6,  1899,  Sam- 
uel Joseph  Doupe.  6.  Herbert  Wallace,  born 
January  22,  1862;  married,  December  23,  1884, 
Antoinette  Boese,  children :  Helen  Henrietta, 
born  March  13,  1886;  Herbert  Kenneth,  De- 
cember 26,  1888,  married  August  5,  1907, 
Xettie  Louise  Bradshaw,  and  liad  Helen  Idonia, 
born  March  30,  1908;  ^Marguerite  Harrison, 
born  March  26,  1898;  Flenry  Boese,  June  30, 
1893.  7.  Helen  Frances,  born  January  12, 
1868:  married,  November  19,  1890,  Michael 
Buckley,  born  November  19,  1850,  son  of  John 
and  Bridget  (  Silk  1  Buckley:  child.  Lida  \lay, 
born  September  12,  1892. 


(\'I)  John  Williams,  ^on  of 
WILLIAMS  Zenas' Williams  (  \"-(|.  v), 
was  born  at  West  ( )range. 
New  Jersey,  at  the  foot  of  Eagle  Rock  avenue, 
(in  the  old  Williams  homestead,  December  3, 
1798.  died  at  West  Bloomfiekl  (  now  Montclair  ) . 
November,  1866.  He  was  brought  up  on  his 
father's  farm,acquiringthe  usual  common  school 
education  of  a  farmer's  son  at  that  period.  He 
remained  with  his  father  in  the  conduct  of  the 
affairs  of  the  fartn  until  after  his  marriage,  when 
he  moved  with  his  bride  to  land  given  him  by  his 
father  in  West  Bloomfield,  comprising  about 
thirty  acres,  this  being  a  part  of  the  legacy  to 
come  to  him.  He  started  under  rather  adverse 
conditions.  In  early  manhood  he  learned  the 
trade  of  shoemaker,  but  never  followed  this, 
choosing  the  occupation  of  farmer,  which  he 
followed  through  life.  He  cultivated  his  lands, 
raising  general  crops.  He  was  an  honest  hard 
worker  and  highly  respected  in  the  neighbor- 
hood. He  was  retired  in  his  manner  and  fond 
of  a  good  joke.  He  was  an  ardent  Whig  and 
in  later  years  a  Republican.  He  never  accc])t- 
ed  office  in  the  gift  of  the  citizens,  feeling  like 
many  others  that  to  attend  to  the  comfort  of 
his  family  was  the  first  duty  of  a  citizen.  He  was 
reared  an  Episcopalian,  although  he  attended 
the  Methodist  church.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 26,  1827,  Martha  Ho])]iing  Carter,  born 
November  i,  1805,  died  .\pril  24,  K/)i,  daugh- 
ter of  Philander  and  Lydia  (Stiles)  Carter. 
Children:  I.  Lydia  .\nn,  born  July  16,  1828: 
married,  January  14,  1854,  Aslier  Durand 
Ward,  son  of  Caleb  and  Eunice  (Taylor) 
Ward :  children :  i.  Walter  Williams,  born 
( 'ctober  26.  1833;  ii.  Mary  .\nn,  horn  Febru- 
ary 15,  1857;  married,  December  25,  1877,  .Au- 


gustus Eichhorn ;  children:  a.  Martha,  born 
October  16,  1878;  married,  July  17,  1907, 
Chauncy  Irving  Norris,  child,  Walter  Irving, 
born  July  31,  1908;  b.  .Anna  Daisy,  born  No- 
vember 21,  1879;  c.  Maria  Augusta,  born  Sep- 
tember 10,  1881  ;  d.  Mary  Ward,  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1883:  married,  September  6,  1905, 
Edward  Benedict  Lowden  ;  children  :  Mary 
Ethel,  born  September  15,  1906,  and  Evelyn 
Alice,  August  8,  1909  :  e.  Robert  Job,  born  Jan- 
uary I,  1886;  f.  Joseph  Whipple,  born  Sep- 
tember 7,  1889;  g.  Thomas  Harold,  born  De- 
cember 8,  1891  .  h.  Edgar  Lindsay,  born  June 
2,  1897;  iii.  Laura  Matilda,  born  November  26, 
1859,  died  November  4,  1901  ;  iv.  Asher  .Au- 
gustus, born  August  17,  i860;  married,  No- 
vember 13,  1886,  Ella  .\lles ;  children:  a. 
Frances,  born  June  10,  1888;  b.  Florence,  No- 
vember 17,  1889;  c.  Joseph,  August  18,  1892; 
d  Elsie,  October  18,  1894;  v.  Alonzo  Clifford, 
born  September  17,  1864:  married,  October  23, 
1886,  Charlotte  Alles;  children:  a.  John  Clif- 
ford, born  April  11,  1890:  b.  Frank  Edmund, 
C)ctober  4,  1894;  c.  Matilda  Alles,  June,  1899; 
vi.  John,  born  F'ebruary  19,  1866,  died  July  25. 
i866.  2.  Edmund,  mentioned  below.  3.  Hiram 
Smith,  born  July  27,  1833;  he  now  resides  at 
Rockledge,  Florida,  an<I  extensively  engaged 
in  cultivating  orange  groves ;  married,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1870,  Cornelia  Coates  ;  children:  i.  Ed- 
mund Sidney,  born  .August  19,  1871  ;  ii.  Myra 
Gray,  born  December  3,  1877.  4.  John  Cald- 
well, mentioned  below. 

(\TI)  Edmund,  son  of  John  Williams,  was 
born  in  West  Pdoomfield  (now  Montclair), 
May  14,  1831.  Early  in  life  he  became  deeply 
interested  in  the  production  of  flowers  and 
fruit,  and  studied  closely  the  best  methods  of 
caring  for  and  cultivating  trees,  shrubs  and 
plants.  He  carried  his  investigations  and  re- 
searches far  beyond  the  average  horticulturist, 
and  his  discoveries  and  comprehensive  knowl- 
edge of  the  subject  gained  him  marked  prestige 
in  this  department.  He  became  known  through- 
out the  country  as  a  prominent  horticulturist, 
and  was  instrumental  in  introducing  the  Kitta- 
tinny  blackberry  ;  also  was  the  first  planter  of 
the  noted  Japan  or  Oriental  plum  in  this  local- 
itv.  His  forte  was  fruit  culture,  particularly 
grapes  and  straw-berries,  and  he  was  also  the 
originator  of  the  Montclair  raspberry.  Being 
a  readv  and  lucid  writer,  he  contributed  freely 
to  the  horticultural  press  of  the  country,  and 
what  he  wrote  had  sterling  ])ractical  value  as 
the  expression  of  a  wide  experience  and  a 
singularly  clear  insight,  lie  took  deep  inter- 
est in  the  arts  and  sciences  allied  to  his  pro- 


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fession,  and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  Society,  serv- 
ing as  secretary  the  first  fifteen  years  of  its 
existence,  and  afterward  as  president  for  two 
years.  He  married  Maria  L.  Saul,  February  22. 
1876,  daughter  of  Jane  Saul,  of  Brooklyn,  New 
"^  ork.  He  died  July  12,  1894,  and  at  the 
twentieth  annual  session  of  the  New  Jersey 
State  Horticultural  Society,  held  at  Trenton. 
January  2  and  3,  1895,  the  following  memorial 
was  read : 

"Nineteen  years  ago,  on  the  17th  of  August, 
1875,  a  few  men,  earnest  and  enthusiastic  hor- 
ticulturists of  this  state,  met  and  organized  the 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  Society,  num- 
bering among  them  men  from  all  sections  of 
the  state,  noted  for  their  love  and  interest  in 
horticulture,  the  object  being  mutual  inter- 
course and  promoting  the  interest  of  this 
science  so  intimately  interwoven  with  our  daily 
life,  many  of  whom  have  gone  to  join  the  silent 
hosts,  and  conspicuous  among  whom  was  our 
former  secretary  and  for  the  last  two  years 
president  of  this  society. 

"Edmund  Williams,  chosen  to  occu])y  the 
position  of  secretary  of  the  society  at  its  organ- 
iiiation,  ably  discharged — and  how  ably  we 
all  know — the  duties  devolving  upon  him 
for  a  number  of  years  until  incapaci- 
tated by  bodily  disease  and  intense  suf- 
fering, when  he  was  obliged  to  relinquish  the 
active  duties  pertaining  to  the  office,  but  still 
retained  his  interest  in  the  afifairs  and  pros- 
perity of  the  society.  Two  years  ago  he  was 
chosen  to  preside  over  the  society  as  its  presi- 
dent, and  retained  his  interest  in  it  to  the  last. 

"Edmund  Williams  was  in  many  respects  a 
uni(|ue  man.  Starting  in  life  in  an  entirely 
different  calling,  his  tastes  and  inclinations  letl 
him  to  adopt  the  profession  of  horticulture, 
and  in  this  he  was  certainly  the  right  man  in 
the  right  place.  Combined  with  his  ardent 
love  for  his  chosen  profession,  he  was  in  all 
respects  'the  noblest  work  of  God — an  honest 
man.' 

"In  his  investigation  of  all  tilings  he  was 
thorough,  active,  conscientious  and  true,  and 
gave  to  the  jiublic  his  honest  convictions,  but 
not  without  thorough  investigation  and  careful 
study.  1  le  was  a  large  and  popular  contributor 
to  the  horticultural  journals  of  the  day.  and 
his  o])inions  regarding  the  merits  of  the  new 
fruits  and  the  modes  of  cultivating  generally, 
as  well  as  older  varieties,  were  sound  and  reli- 
able, and  anything  over  the  signature  of  "E.  W.' 
secured  careful  attention.     We  recognized,  in 


addition  to  his  services  to  the  cause  of  horti- 
culture, the  benefit  he  conferred  upon  the  gen- 
eral public  by  his  timely  and  unsparing  criti- 
cisms and  exposure  of  many  of  the  horticul- 
tural humbugs  of  the  day. 

"Mr.  Williams — after  a  long  and  jiainful  ill- 
ness, and  how  painful  none  knew  save  those  in 
daily  intercourse  with  him — was  finally  called 
to  his  rest  on  July  12,  1894.  His  end  came 
peacefully,  and  he  passed  away  as  one  going  to 
sleep.  He  died  as  he  had  lived — in  the  hope  of 
a  glorious  immortality.  Truly  the  Lord  giveth 
his  beloved  sleep. 

"We  desire  to  record  our  testimony  to  his 
worth  as  a  man,  as  a  friend,  as  a  counselor  and 
as  a  Christian.  I\Iay  his  death  serve  to  incite 
us  all  to  increased  exertions  in  the  interest  of  the 
cause  he  loved  so  well,  and  be  prepared  to  do 
our  duty,  one  and  all,  and  when  the  final  sum- 
mons comes,  be  as  well  prepared  as  he." 

(VH)  John  Caldwell,  son  of  John  Williams, 
was  born  on  the  homestead  of  his  father,  on 
rlarrison  avenue,  Montclair,  February  i,  1846. 
He  attended  the  jsublic  schools  and  grammar 
school,  after  which  he  attended  the  commercial 
school  of  Bryant  &  Stratton  at  Newark  up  to 
eighteen  years  of  age.  F"or  the  following  few 
months  he  was  clerk  in  the  grain  store  of  N.  CX 
rilLsbury.  He  subsequently  entered  into  part- 
nership in  the  hat  and  furnishing  business  with 
Charles  P.  Williams  at  Orange,  New  Jersey, 
buying  out  the  business  of  Leander  Williams, 
the  new  firm  being  known  C.  P.  &  J.  C.  Will- 
iams. After  about  eighteen  months  he  disposed 
of  his  interest  to  his  partner  and  returned  to 
the  farm,  entering  into  business  with  his 
brother  Edmund  under  the  firm  name  of  E.  & 
J.  C.  Williams,  pro])rietors  of  the  Chestnut 
Hill  Nurseries.  They  engaged  in  a  general 
nursery  business  and  stood  at  the  head  of  their 
line  of  trade  in  this  part  of  the  state.  The 
senior  member  of  the  firm  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  and  honored  horticulturists 
that  the  state  has  produced,  and  J.  C.  Williams, 
tlie  junior  member  of  the  firm,  has  ably  suc- 
ceeded him.  Mr,  Williams,  during  his  brother's 
long  illness  and  since  his  decease,  has  followed 
in  the  footsteps  of  his  brother  in  the  conduct 
of  the  business.  He  believes  in  the  best  meth- 
ods of  raising  fruits  and  nursery  stock,  and  is 
])ractical  in  all  his  business  methods.  ]\Iuch  of 
the  original  farm  now  owned  by  him  he  has 
sold  for  improvement  and  building  purposes. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  married, 
June  I.  1904.  at  Roseville,  Melita  Kindred  Pell. 
born  at  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  July  3,  1871. 


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(iaughter  of  William  L.  and  Melita  C.  (Kind 
red)  I'ell.  Her  father  was  a  veteran  of  tli 
ci\il  war. 


(  \  I )  Abner  Williams,  son  of 
WILLIAMS  Joseph  Williams  (\'-q.  v.), 
was  born  in  the  township  of 
Livingstiin,  New  Jersc}',  at  the  top  of  Second 
iMountain,  on  the  present  Laurel  avenue.  He 
was  brought  up  on  his  father's  farm,  receiving 
a  limited  district  school  education.  As  a  youth 
he  earned  his  first  money  as  a  news])aper  clerk. 
With. his  savings  he  early  started  farming  on  a 
portion  of  his  father's  property  given  him  by 
his  father.  He  erected  his  homestead  here  and 
resided  on  the  spot  nearly  half  a  century.  His 
farm  comprised  nearly  fifty  acres,  and  he  also 
owned  a  sixteen  acre  tract  in  Hanover  town- 
ship. He  was  a  prosperous  farmer,  raised  suc- 
cessfully the  common  crops,  had  thirty-two 
head  of  cattle  and  a  flock  of  fifty  sheep,  selling 
his  wool  to  manufacturers.  He  was  honest, 
industrious  and  saving,  and  accumulated  a 
handsome  competence.  He  was  a  quiet,  simple- 
hearted  man,  who  never  used  li(|uor  or  tobacco 
in  any  form.  He  attended  the  .Methodist 
church,  and  was  a  strong  Whig  in  politics  in 
early  days,  later  a  Republican.  He  married 
(first)  Hannah  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Bet- 
sty  Conklin.  He  had  a  large  number  of  chil- 
dren, but  they  died  before  being  named.  He 
married  (second)  Rachel,  daughter  of  Elias 
and  Ruth  (Williams)  Kent;  child,  William 
Hyatt,  mentioned  below.  He  married  (third) 
Lllen,  daughter  of  .Abraham  and  Celinda  (Day) 
1  abcock.  Children :  Joseph,  Svlvester  and 
Laura,  all  died  young;  James,  married  Martha 
Sickler ;  Lorenzo,  born  June  20,  i860,  married, 
July  4,  1880,  Minnie  Sickler. 

("\TI)  William  Hyatt,  son  of  Aimer  Will 
iams,  was  born  January  4,  1828,  on  the  home- 
stead of  his  great-grandfather,  Zadock  Will- 
iams, on  Eagle  Rock  road,  towards  West 
Orange,  in  the  township  of  Livingston,  New 
Jersey.  His  educational  training  was  limited 
to  the  Roseland,  Pleasant  Dale,  district  schools. 
At  the  age  of  eight  years  he  went  to  live  with 
his  grandfather,  Joseph  Williams,  remaining 
until  si.xteen,  when  his  grandmother  died  and 
he  went  to  live  with  his  uncle,  Ryneer  Kent, 
Vv'ith  whom  he  learned  the  trade  of  shoemaker, 
remaining  until  he  became  of  age.  He  later 
for  five  years  lived  and  worked  for  him  at  his 
trade.  subser|uently  working  at  the  same  trade 
for  Isaac  I'ond,  Henry  Norwood  and  Nelson 
Kent.  He  continued  at  his  trade  and  lived  for 
a  time  with  Ryneer  Kent,  subsequently  living 


ai  Hanover  and  Caklwell  (in  the  Westville 
district).  He  later  lived  on  Eagle  Rock  ave- 
nue for  ten  years,  at  the  top  of  the  West 
Range.  This  property,  which  came  to  him  from 
his  mother,  he  sold  to  Jesse  Williams,  of 
C'range,  and  with  the  jiroceeds  purchased  a 
farm  of  forty  acres  in  the  "(Juarry"  district. 
Here  he  quarried  stone  for  two  years,  and 
sold  the  property  to  Jacob  Yose  and  bought 
the  Abraham  Mesler  place,  wdiere  he  resided 
four  years,  turning  his  attention  to  farming 
and  raising  milk,  having  a  herd  of  twenty  head, 
with  a  route  in  Rloomfield.  Lie  traded  this 
[property  for  a  residence  at  Brick  Church,  East 
Orange,  where  he  lived  four  years,  subseciuent- 
ly  removing  to  Rloomfield,  where  he  leased  a 
farm,  but  later  moved  to  Montclair,  wdiere  he 
bought  a  four  acre  place.  He  erected  his  home- 
stead here  and  resided  for  nineteen  years, 
after  which  period  he  traded  this  property  for 
a  ten  acre  farm  at  Hanover,  with  John  Shuttle 
Air.  Williams  has  since  followed  farming  here, 
cidtivating  common  crops.  Lie  is  a  Baptist 
in  religion,  and  in  political  principles  was  first 
affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party,  but  in 
lecent  years  has  become  a  Republican.  He 
has  served  as  road  master  and  trustee  of 
sthools.  In  early  life  he  was  a  member  of  the 
military  company  at  Roseland  under  Captain 
Jonathan  De  Camp,  and  is  now  commonly 
known  as  Captain  l]ill  W'illiams. 

He  married,  at  \'erona.  New  Jersey,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1850,  Rebecca  Day,  born  September  i, 
1832,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Polly  (Tuttle) 
Day.  Thomas  Day  was  a  tanner  by  trade. 
Children:  i.  Munson.  horn  December  i,  1851  ; 
married,  December  6,  1874,  lilizabeth  Vincent: 
children :      i.    Adolphus    Scott ;    married    Etta 

:     ii.    Elmer    Ellsworth :    iii.    Stephen 

Hyatt ;  iv.  Grover.  2.  George  Washington, 
born  October  6,  1853  ;  married,  August  9,  1875, 
Sarah  Elizabeth  Berry ;  children :  i.  Minnie 
Drucilla,  born  July  8,  1876;  married.  July  21. 
1904,  Charles  R.  Lyons,  and  had  Minnie  E., 
born  October  18,  i<)05 :  ii.  Lillie  May,  born 
May  14,  1882;  married,  July  12,  1900,  Her- 
man Wrightson  Schmitt,  and  had  Hazel  Eliza- 
beth, born  June  12,  1902,  Evelyn  Irene.  Sep- 
tember 19,  1906,  Madeline  Lillian,  October  21, 
1909:  iii.  Lucinda  Elizabeth,  born  July  21, 
1884:  married,  November  19,  1904,  George 
Norman  Baldwin,  and  had  Harry  Donald,  born 
December  31,  1906,  Florence  Irene,  June  21. 
1909:  iv.  George  Arthur,  born  September  9, 
1886;  V.  John  Henry,  born  October  22,  1888; 
vi.  Earl  LeRoy,  born  January  22.  1894:  vii. 
Russel    Hobart,   born    August    25,    1896;    \iii. 


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Herbert  Lewis,  burn  December  24.  i8<>S;  ix. 
Amy  Victoria,  born  January  i,  lyoo;  v.  Eva 
Maria,  born  October  24,  1904.  3.  Malon,  born 
August  18,  1856,  died  December  19,  1881.  4. 
Elizabeth  Armeda.  born  February  11,  1858, 
died  November  15.  1864.  5.  Robinson,  born 
September  15,  i860,  died  October  30,  1864. 
6  William  Hyatt,  born  March  17,  1865,  men- 
tioned below.  7.  Laura  Laurinda,  born  April 
14.  1868:  married,  June  26,  1890,  Horace 
Perry  \Mieeler.  born  May  14.  i8fi8.  son  of 
John  and  Harietta  (Ilerdman  )  Wheeler:  chil- 
dren :  i.  Ethel  Laurinda,  born  September  24, 
1891  :  ii.  Frank  Leslie,  born  June  14,  1893;  iii. 
Harry  .\lfred  Ivinomay.  born  July  7,  1895  :  iv. 
John  Leonard,  born  June  24,  1897,  died  Octo- 
ber 25,  1903:  v.  Rebecca  Bessie,  born  July  2, 
i8()<j,  died  July  13.  1899;  vi.  William  Horace, 
born  Xovember  26,  1900;  vii.  Marion  Evelyn, 
born  December  20,  1903;  viii.  Charles  Herbert, 
born  December  12,  1905.  8.  Charles  Augustus, 
born  December  21,  1872,  mentioned  below. 

(\"ni)  William  Hyatt  (2),  son  of  WilHam 
Hyatt  (i)  Williams,  was  born  in  We.st Orange, 
New  Jersey,  March  17,  1865,  on  Eagle  Rock 
road,  in  the  jjresent  locality  of  I'leasantdale. 
At  the  age  of  five  years  he  removed  with  his 
parents  to  the  locality  long  known  as  "Chuck- 
taw  Hill."  When  nine  years  of  age  his  parents 
moved  to  East  Orange.  He  attended  the  Ash- 
land street  public  school  two  years.  He  subse- 
quently worked  for  his  father  at  farming  and 
teaming  until  seventeen  years  of  age,  and  then 
served  a  year  at  cigar  making  with  William 
Tom])kins.  of  Montclair,  going  to  Rloomfield 
with  .Albert  Bush  and  working  at  cigar  making 
for  three  years.  In  1879  his  father  moved  to 
Bloomfield  and  the  following  year  to  Mont- 
clair, where  in  1885  the  son  entered  into  the 
manufacture  of  cigars  in  (]uarters  in  his  father's 
house,  remaining  in  the  business  two  years,  up 
to  his  marriage.  He  then  for  fourteen  years 
was  a  journeyman  cigar  maker,  serving  five 
years  for  John  G.  Crawford  &  Son  at  Newark, 
for  John  A.  Werner,  of  Orange,  for  a  similar 
period,  and  for  John  \alentine  and  Allen  Dun- 
ning the  remaining  four  years.  He  then  re- 
turned to  ]\lontclair,  where  in  1888-89  he  erect- 
ed a  residence  and  for  two  years  was  engaged 
in  cigar  making  and  the  tobacco  business.  He 
also  erected  another  residence,  after  which  he 
retired  from  his  trade  and  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business,  which  he  has  followed  success- 
fully up  to  the  present  time.  He  had  offices 
at  47  Montgomery  street,  Jersey  City,  and  later 
in  the  Firemen's  Building,  Newark,  four  years, 
also  at  188  Market  street,  Newark,  three  years. 


For  the  past  six  years  Mr.  W  illiams  has  been 
located  at  800  Broad  street  in  the  real  estate 
and  brokerage.  He  has  been  successful  in 
building  residences  for  sale  in  East  Orange, 
^lontclair  and  Little  Falls.  Mr.  Williams  ex- 
cellent judgment  in  land  values,  coupled  with 
clear  business  methods,  has  given  him  a  high 
prestige  with  real  estate  buyers  in  nearly  every 
section  in  and  around  Newark  and  the  Oranges. 
He  was  reared  a  Presbyterian,  but  is  not  a 
member  of  any  church.  His  political  affilia- 
tions was  formerly  Democratic,  but  is  now  Re- 
publican. He  was  formerly  a  member  of  the 
]\lontclair  fire  department.  He  is  a  member 
of  Eureka  Lodge,  No.  46,  Knights  of  Pythias. 
He  married,  at  Bloomfield.  New  Jersey,  March 
8,  1886,  Mary  McGinty,  born  October  7,  1863, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  and  Elizabeth  (Mulhol) 
McGinty,  of  Tarrytown.  New  York.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Nettie  Frances,  born  November  17, 
1886;  married,  December  8,  1903,  Robert 
Springfield  ;  children  :    i.  Robert,  born  March. 

1904,  died  same  day ;  ii.  Ruth,  born  April  7, 

1905.  2.  Lillian  ^lay.  born  April  23,  1888.  3. 
William  Hyatt  Jr.,  born  June  21.  1889.  4. 
Fllizabeth,  born  June  21,  1894. 

(\  III)  Charles  Augustus  \\'illiams.  son  of 
William  H.  Williams,  w^as  born  at  Roseland. 
New  Jersey,  December  21,  1872  (Livingston 
township).  At  the  age  of  two  years  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  East  Orange, 
and  after  four  years  removed  to  Bloomfield, 
New  Jersey,  subse(|uently  going  to  Montclair. 
He  received  his  schooling  in  the  public  schools 
of  Montclair.  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years 
began  to  learn  the  trade  of  carpenter  with  his 
brother.  ( icorge  W.  Williams,  and  after  a  time 
went  to  East  Orange,  where  he  was  under  the 
instructions  of  Ezra  Carter,  on  William  street. 
with  whom  he  served  an  apprenticeship,  sub- 
sequently completing  his  trade  with  \\'illiam 
Myers,  of  Montclair.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  he  become  a  journeyman  for  Mr.  Myers, 
Frank  Hayes  and  .Samuel  Baldwin,  and  later 
became  foreman  for  Jacob  \'ogel  for  a  time. 
When  the  Essex  F'alls  Realty  Company 
erected  their  first  residences  at  Essex  Falls, 
Mr.  \\'illiams  took  charge  of  the  building  of 
them.  Mr.  Williams  has  been  associated  in 
building  at  various  times,  forming  a  partner- 
.ship  with  William  W.  S.  Myers  at  Montclair. 
the  firm  name  being  Myers  &  Williams,  .\fter 
a  year  the  firm  dissolved  and  he  then  formed 
the  firm  of  Williams  &  Westerveldt,  Charles 
Westerveldt  being  junior  partner.  He  was 
also  associated  with  Edward  H.  Emery  under 
the  firm   name  of  Williams  &   Emerv.      Mr. 


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Williams,  with  his  brother,  William  M.  W'il- 
hams,  have  erected  a  number  of  attractive  resi- 
dences at  Little  Falls,  New  Jersey.  In  1908 
.\Ir.  Williams  engaged  in  building  on  his  own 
account  a  number  of  residences  in  the  Oranges. 
He  is  a  Presbyterian  in  religious  faith,  and  a 
Republican  in  politics,  but  votes  for  the  best 
man  regardless  of  party  affiliation.  Me  mar- 
ried, June  21,  1893,  ^latilda  Warner,  born  in 
(Jrange,  New  Jersey,  March  24,  1875,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Albert  and  Caroline  (  Kloblean ) 
\\  arner.  Jolni  .\.  Warner  was  a  cigar  manu- 
facturer. Children:  i.  Matilda  Rebecca, 
born  September  28,  1897.  2.  Charles  Augus- 
tus, May  6,  1899.  3.  Munson,  December  28. 
1901.  4.  Elmer  Ellsworth,  February  11,  1903. 
5  \'era,  April  14,  1905.  6.  Adele,  March  i, 
1907.    7.  Raymond,  September  6,  1908. 


(  \TI  )  I'rederick  Harrison 
WILLL\MS      Williams,    son    of    William 

Williams  (. \  l-q.  v.),  was 
bijrn  at  East  (.)range,  Xew  Jersey,  .\pril  10.  185 1. 
The  Williams  homestead  was  then  situated  on 
the  south  side  of  Main  street,  facing  Prosjject 
street,  and  consisted  of  an  old  brown  house 
formerly  the  home  of  his  grandfather.  Colonel 
William  \\  illiams,  and  stood  on  the  present 
site  of  the  People's  Bank.  When  quite  a  youth 
he  attended  Miss  Mary  Ward's  private  school 
on  Park  street.  Orange,  and  later  for  a  short 
period  attended  the  .Ashland  public  school,  then 
on  Prospect  street  in  the  rear  of  the  present 
Prick  Church.  He  subsequently  attended  the 
private  school  of  the  Misses  Robinson  at 
C^range.  From  1868  to  1870  he  was  employed 
in  the  wholesale  commission  house  of  S.  Perrv 
&  Son,  3  P'ront  street,  Xew  York  City.  In 
1870,  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  he  entered 
the  School  of  Mines  of  Columbia  College  and 
graduated  in  the  class  of  1874  as  a  mining  engi- 
neer. .\  portion  of  the  first  year  after  gradu- 
ation he  was  employed  as  private  assistant  to 
Dr.  H.  C.  Bolton,  instructor  in  chemistry  at  the 
School  of  Mines.  In  the  spring  of  1875  li^ 
was  engaged  as  chemist  and  assayer  for  the 
Wyandotte  Silver  Smelting  &  Refining  Com- 
pany of  Wyandotte,  Michigan,  and  remained 
in  their  employ  two  and  a  half  years.  In  1878- 
79  he  was  assistant  engineer  on  the  preliminary 
survey  for  additional  water  sujjply  for  the 
Newark,  New  Jersey  Aqueduct  I'.oard  under 
engineers,  J.  J.  R.  Croes  and  George  W. 
Howell.  In  June.  1879,  he  was  engaged  as 
assayer  antkchemist  with  the  Cummins  1.^  Fitnt 
Smelting  Com])any  of  I^eadville,  Colorado.  .\ 
portion   of  the  time  he   filled   the   position   of 


superintendent  of  the  works.  On  account  of 
impaired  health  he  resigned  from  the  position 
in  February,  1880.  In  .\.pril,  1880,  he  became 
chief  chemist  of  the  Vulcan  Steel  Works,  later 
known  as  St.  Louis  Ore  &  Steel  Company  of 
St.  Louis.  Missouri.  Me  retained  the  office 
until  the  company  ceased  operations  in  its  steel 
wtirks.  In  C)ctober,  1885,  he  was  engaged  by 
the  Riverside  Iron  Works  of  \\'heeling.  West 
\  irginia,  as  their  chief  chemist,  retaining  this 
office  when  the  company  merged  into  the  Na- 
tional Tube  Company  and  since  has  occupied 
the  same  office.  P'ollowing  the  creed  of  his 
ancestors  Mr.  Williams  is  an  elder  of  the  First 
Presljyterian  Church  of  Wheeling,  West  \'ir- 
ginia,  and  for  thirteen  years  officiated  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday  school.  He  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Men's  Organized  Bible  Class.  In 
politics  he  affiliated  with  the  Republican  party, 
but  has  never  held  any  political  office.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Engineers'  Society  of  Western 
Penn.sylvania,  .American  Chemical  Society, 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Young  Men's  Chris- 
tian Association  of  Wheeling,  West  \'irginia. 
Board  of  Directors  and  secretary  of  the  \\'est 
^'irginia  Home  for  Aged  and  Friendless 
Women,  and  a  member  of  the  Ro\'al  Arcanum 
and  .\ncient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 

-Mr.  Williams  married,  June  27,  1883,  Har- 
riet Luella  Stark,  born  at  Rushford,  Minne- 
sota, November  8,  1859,  died  .April  24,  1903, 
daughter  of  W^illiam  Dodge  and  Carrie  Amelia 
(  Fowler  )  Stark.  Mr.  Stark  was  a  carpenter 
and  builder.  Children:  i.  Ethel  .Amelia,  born 
.August  9,  1885.  2.  Frederick  Stark,  May  11, 
1 89 1 . 


Jnhn    Morris    Miller,    of    Rah- 
.MILLER      way,  or  Linden,  Cnion  county, 
.New  Jersey,   born   about    1813, 
married  Alary  Jane  Tucker. 

(II)  Wesley  C,  son  of  John  Morris  and 
Mary  Jane '(Tucker  )  Miller,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, New  Jersey,  He  married  Alary  E.,  daugii- 
ter  of  David  Magie  Meeker,  and  they  had  cJiil- 
dren  as  follows:  i.  Wesley  C,  who  married 
Jessie  B,  Baldwin,  lives  in  California  and  has 
business  office  at  11 10  Flood  Building,  San 
Francisco,  California;  they  have  two  children. 
2.  .Stephen  Meeker,  married  Laura  llamblett 
Jones,  and  they  had  four  children.  3.  John 
Morris  (q.  v.).    4.  Fannie  Olivia. 

(III)  John  Morris,  third  son  of  Wesley  C. 
and  Mary  E.  (Meeker)  Miller,  was  born  in 
Newark,  Xew  Jersey,  Jmie  9,  1873.  Me  was 
educated  in  the  |)ul)lic  schools  of  his  native  citv, 
and    on    leaving    school     he    engaged     in     the 


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jewelry  business  witii  Kiker  Brothers  and  other 
manufacturers  in  Newark,  and  in  1901  took  up 
the  brokerage  business  with  the  D.  G.  &  Com- 
pany, and  in  1909  he'  became  associated  with 
Henry  Bros.  &  Co.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party,  of  the  Essex  and  Automo- 
bile clubs  of  Newark,  and  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Newark.  He  married,  Octo- 
ber 19,  1898,  Alice  Belle,  daughter  of  Elias 
Ackerson  (q.  v.)  and  Alice  Blanche  (Earl) 
Wilkinson,  and  their  children  were:  i.  Alice 
Earl,  born  September  20,  1899.  2.  Isabelle 
Morris,  born  February  6,  1901.  3.  Rosemary, 
born  June  14,  1 904. 


John  Edward  Helm,  one  of  the 
HELM       most  successful  and  best  known 

lawyers  of  the  younger  genera- 
tion in  Eastern  New-  Jersey,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, August  20,  1878,  son  of  George  W.  and 
Bertha  (Nittinger)  Helm.  Both  his  parents 
were  natives  of -Newark. 

John  Edward- Helm's  elementary  education 
was  secured  in  the  Newark  public  schools,  in 
private  German  and  English  schools,  and  in 
the  New  York  pre])aratory  schools.  He  also 
had  the  advantage  of  private  instruction  in 
foreign  languages.  His  collegiate  education 
was  secured  in  the  New  York  University, 
where  he  was  a  member  of  the  class  of  1899. 
After  completing  his  education  he  studied  law 
with  the  late  Howard  W.  Hayes,  George  S. 
Duryee,  Edward  H.  Duryee  and  George  H. 
Lambert.  Completing  his  legal  studies  he  was 
admitted  to  practice  at  the  New  Jersey  bar  in 
I-"ebruary,  1900,  and  in  the  following  year  he 
became  associated  in  partnership  with  Howard 
W.  Hayes,  which  jiartnershi])  continued  for 
two  years,  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Hayes.  Then 
ht:  entered  into  partnership  with  Edward  H. 
Duryee  under  the  firm  name  of  Duryee  & 
Helm,  and  continued  this  association  until  the 
death  of  .Mr.  Duryee  in  1906,  when  he  associ- 
ated himself  with  Herbert  \V.  Knight,  found- 
ing the  law  firm  of  Helm  &  Knight.  Early  in 
his  legal  career  he  took  up  .as  a  specialty  the 
profession  of  trust  estate  la\v,  corporation  and 
patent  practice.  In  this  specialty  he  has 
?chieved  great  success,  and  made  himself  one 
of  the  recognized  authorities.  He  has  been  the 
representative,  since  1902.  of  Thomas  .\.  Edi- 
son and  of  the  interests  of  that  great  inventor 
as  counsel  in  his  commercial  and  corporation 
matters  in  every  state  in  the  Union  and  in 
Europe.  Of  this  work  he  has  taken  ]iersonal 
charge  and  in  its  prcjsecution  has  traveled  to 
all  parts   of   the    United   States   and    Euro]ie. 


During  the  last  ten  years  the  magnitude  of  his 
operations  and  the  high  standing  in  which  he 
is  held  by  his  clients  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
he  represents  many  other  corporations  and 
numerous  estates.  In  all  of  the  many  afi'airs 
that  have  been  entrusted  to  him,  he  has  been 
uniformly  successful,  and  his  work  has  been 
fully  satisfactory  to  his  clients.  Mr.  Helm 
has  many  other  interests  besides  his  legal  pro- 
fession. He  is  president  of  the  National  Elec- 
tric Welding  Company,  Automatic  Developing 
&■  Printing  Company,  and  Schroetler  Manu- 
facturing Company ;  vice-president  of  the 
Essex  Press  Inc.,  printers  of  Newark,  and  of 
the  Chronicle  Publishing  Company,  of  Orange, 
which  publishes  the  only  daily  newspaper  in 
the  Oranges ;  secretary  and  treasurer  of  sev- 
eral other  corporations.  He  is  a  member  of 
Kane  Lodge,  No.  55,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  Newark;  Union  Chapter,  No.  7, 
Royal  .\rch  Masons ;  Kane  Council,  No.  2, 
Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  Damascus  Com- 
mandery.  No.  5,  Knights  Templar ;  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite 
Mason  ;  a  charter  member  of  Salaam  Temple, 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine:  a  member  of 
Lodge,  No.  21,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks ;  Union  Club ;  Automobile  Club 
of  New  Jersey;  Friars  Club  of  New  York; 
Press  Club,  Lawyers'  Club,  Indian  League  and 
Newark  Board  of  Trade. 

Among  the  men  who  have 
MOXTEITl  I  done  so  much  to  give  Newark 
its  prominent  place,  not  only 
in  the  industrial  and  social  but  also  in  the  pro- 
fessional world  of  to-day.  must  be  reckoned 
lohn  Monteith,  who  for  the  past  c|uarter  of  a 
century  and  more  has  made  that  city  his  home 
and  the  scene  of  his  labor. 

Born  in  Paisley,  Scotland,  October  23,  1863. 
he  has  behind  him  a  long  line  of  distinguished 
ancestry  on  the  other  side.  His  father  was 
John  Monteith,  and  his  mother  Jeanette  Pur- 
don,  the  latter  now  living  at  288  Garside  street, 
Newark.  Their  children  were:  i.  Jane,  mar- 
ried James  McMillan,  of  Newark,  and  has  one 
child,  Jeanette.  2.  Nettie,  married  Elmer  E. 
Goodrich,  of  Belleville,  New  Jersey,  and  has 
four  children.  3.  John,  referred  to  above.  4. 
James,  now  living  in  Hoboken.  New  Jersey, 
who  by  his  wife  Jennie  has  had  twt)  children. 
John,  son  of  John  and  Jeanette  (  Purdon ) 
Monteith,  was  educated  in  the  public  .schools 
'of  Scotland,  and  came  to  this  courttry  in  1873. 
when  he  went  out  to  Elgin,  Illinois.  He  was 
at  this  time  ten  years  old,  and  his  parents,  after 


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living  in  Elgin  for  about  eighteen  months,  came 
east  to  Newark,  where  John  Monteith  com- 
pleted his  education  in  the  public  and  high 
schools,  and  then  read  law  in  the  office  of  Fred- 
erick Frelinghuysen,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  as  attorney  in  February,  1886,  and  as  coun- 
sellor in  February,  1905.  Mr.  Monteith  is  a 
Republican,  and  for  two  years  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  education,  lie  is  a  deacon 
in  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church. 

June  15,  1887,  John  Monteith  married,  in 
Newark,  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Charles  Wix. 
whose  children  were:  George,  Rachael  B., 
Amelia  C,  Annie  Hoffman,  Lena  Leigh  and 
Elizabeth,  born  October  14.  1864.  The  children 
of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Wix)  Monteith,  are: 
George  \\'ashington.  born  July  4,  1889:  John, 
July  20,  1893;  and  Helen,  April  10.  1908. 


Andrew  Griscom.  fc]un<k-r  of 
GRISCOM  the  family  of  his  name  in  New 
Jersey,  can  trace  his  lineage 
back  to  Edward  L,  King  of  England,  through 
liis  wife,  the  Princess  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
Ferdinand  HL,  King  of  Castile.  Andrew  Gris- 
com emigrated  to  America  in  ifi8o,  and  pur- 
chased a  large  tract  of  land  in  the  neighbcjr- 
hood  of  what  is  now  Camden,  New  Jersey. 
Here  he  settled,  also  practicing  carpentering  in 
Philadelphia,  wdiere  he  died  in  1694.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah,  sister  to  John  Dole,  of  Newton 
township,  Gloucester  county,  New  Jersey,  who 
survived  her  husband  and  married  (  second  ) 
John  Kaighn.  Children:  Tobias,  referred  to 
below  ;  Sarah. 

(H)  Tobias,  .son  of  Andrew  and  Sarah 
(Dole)  Griscom,  died  in  1719.  He  settled  in 
Newton  township,  Gloucester  county.  New 
Jersey,  where  he  dealt  considerably  in  real 
estate,  and  made  several  locations  in  his  own 
name  under  "rights"  which  he  purchased  in 
1716-17.  He  married  in  171 1,  in  the  lUirling- 
ton  monthly  meeting,  Deborah  Gabitas,  who 
survived  him.  Children  :  Andrew,  referred  to 
below:  Samuel,  married,  February,  1741,  Re- 
becca, daughter  of  George  Janns.  and  removed 
to  Philadelphia,  and  assisted  in  the  erection 
of  Independence  Hall:  William,  married,  1740, 
Sarah  Davis;  Tobias,  died  young;  Mary,  mar- 
ried Thomas  Holloway. 

(HI)  Andrew,  son  of  Tobias  and  Deborah 
(Gabitas)  Griscom,  was  born  about  171 1,  in 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  and  died  in 
Salem  county,  New  Jersey,  April  3,  1773.  aged 
sixty-two  years.  He  settled  at  Tuckahoe  short- 
ly after  his  first  marriage,  but  later  removed  to 
Salem  countv.    He  married  (first  )  in  the  Ches- 


ter monthly  meeting.  July.  1737,  Susanna, 
daughter  of  John  and  ]\Iary  (Chambless)  Han- 
cock, who  ilied  about  1750.  According  to  Asa 
Matlack's  "^Memoranda,"  "It  was  a  great  wed- 
ding" on  account  of  the  "splendid  entertain- 
ment." Fie  married  (second)  at  Salem  month- 
ly meeting,  1753,  Mary  Bacon.  Children,  three 
by  each  marriage:  Sarah,  born  September  8, 
1742,  died  July  5,  1762,  unmarried;  Everett, 
born  August  I,  1746.  died  May  15,  1780,  un- 
married; William,  referred  to  below:  Mary, 
born  December  16,  1753,  died  September  25, 
1762;  Andrew,  born  November  21,  1755,  mar- 
ried Letitia  T\ier :  Deljorah.  born  Ajjril  29, 
1758.  .         ..    .  ' 

(  1\  ;  W  illiam,  son  of  Andrew  and  Susanna 
(Hancock)  Griscom,  was  born  in  Tuckahoe, 
November  10,  1747,  and  died  in  Alloways  Creek, 
Salem  county.  New  Jersey,  January  28,  1813. 
For  a  time  he  conducted  a  saddle  and  harness 
business  in  the  village  of  Hancock's  Bridge,  and 
later  purchased  a  farm  in  Alannington  town- 
ship, near  Guineatown,  where  he  lived  till  his 
wife's  death,  after  which  he  returned  tci  Allo- 
ways Creek.  He  married,  at  Salem  monthly 
meeting,  April  8,  1773,  Rachel,  born  April  30, 
1745,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Bacon) 
Denn.  Children:  i.  John,  born  September 
27,  1774;  died  February  26,  1852;  married 
(first)  Abigail  Hoskins ;  (second)  Rhoda 
Denn.  For  many  years  he  was  a  professor  of 
chemistry  in  New  York  City,  and  considered 
one  of  the  best  American  scholars  of  his  time. 
He  was  the  father  in  this  country  of  Joseph 
Lancaster's  system  of  common  school  educa- 
tion. 2.  William,  referred  to  below.  3.  Sam- 
uel, born  January  22,  1780;  died  Alarch  11, 
1780.  4.  Everett,  born  December  24,  1781  ; 
drowned  while  bathing.  May  i,  1799;  unmar- 
ried. 5.  Rachel,  born  .August  24,  1784;  mar- 
ried John  Bullock.  0.  Samuel,  born  .April  2. 
1787;  married  .Ann  Powell.  7.  David,  born 
October  21,  1789;  married  Rachel  (  I'.radway) 
Stewart. 

(  \' )  William  (2),  son  of  William  I  I  )  and 
Rachel  (Denn)  (Iriscom,  was  born  in  Man- 
nington  township,  Salem  county,  .\ew  Jersey, 
August  8,  1777.  In  his  younger  days  he  was  a 
blacksmith,  later  he  tin-ned  farmer.  He  mar- 
ried. February  2,  1800,  .Ann.  daughter  qf  Sam- 
uel and  .Sarah  Stewart,  of  .Salem,  who  was 
born  December  22,  1777.  Children:  I.  Sam- 
uel, born  February  4,  1802:  married  Sidney 
Gillingham.  2.  William,  referred  to  below.  3. 
George,  born  January  i,  1806;  married  Mercy 
Brown.  4.  John,  born  March  25.  1808:  mar- 
ried  Margaret   .Acton.      5.    Mary   Wood,  born 


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August  21,  1812;  married  Samuel  Stewart. 
6.  David,  born  March  5,  1815;  married  (first) 
Ann  Whitelock ;  (second)  Jane  Whitelock.  7. 
Charles  William,  born  July  23.  1818:  married 
Elizabeth  (Denn)  Powell. 

(\"I)  William  (3),  son  of  William  (2)  and 
Ann  ( Stewart )  Griscom,  was  born  in  Man- 
nington  township.  Salem  county,  Xew  Jersey, 
April  30.  1804.  He  married  (first)  Mary, 
daughter  of  James  and  Ann  Stewart,  of  Cum- 
berland county.  New  Jersey;  (second)  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Whitelock,  of  Frankfnrd, 
Philadelphia  county,  Pennsylvania.  Children, 
three  by  each  wife:  Hannah,  Wade.  James 
Stewart,  Lsaac  Cooper  (referred  to  below), 
Ann,  Sarah. 

(VH)  Isaac  Cooper,  son  of  William  (3) 
and  .Sarah  (Whitelock)  (ririscom.  was  born  in 
Mannington  township.  Salem  county.  Xew 
Jersey,  about  1830.  He  settled  in  Penns  Xeck, 
Salem  county.  Among  his  children  was  Al- 
fred Cooper,  referred  to  below. 

( \'III)  Alfred  Cooper,  son  of  Isaac  Cooper 
Griscom,  was  born  in  Penns  Neck,  Salem  coun- 
ty. New  Jersey,  about  1850  or  i860.  He  mar- 
ried Esther,  daughter  of  John  Eaton  of  Penns 
Xeck.  Children:  Lee  Eaton;  Isaac  N.  (re- 
ferred to  below) ;  Ralph  Cooper. 

(IX)  Isaac  N.,  son  of  Alfred  Cooper  and 
Esther  (Eaton)  (Jriscom.  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania.  Septemljer  17,  1879,  and 
is  now  living  in  Ocean  City,  Xew  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  was  sent  to  the  ])ublic 
schools  of  Atlantic  City,  to  which  place  his 
parents  had  brought  him  from  Pennsylvania 
when  he  was  only  five  years  old.  After  leav- 
ing college  in  1900  he  entered  the  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  in  Philadeljjhia,  from  which 
he  graduated  and  received  his  yi.  D.  degree  in 
1904,  the  same  year  entering  ujwn  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  Ocean  City,  where  he  has 
remained  ever  since,  having  worked  up  for 
himself  a  successful  and  most  lucrative  prac- 
tice. Dr.  Griscom  is  a  vestryman  of  Holy 
Trinity  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  Ocean 
City,  and  a  member  of  the  Ocean  City  Lodge, 
Xo.  171,  F.  and  A.  M.  He  takes  a  great  inter- 
est in  and  is  very  enthusiastic  in  all  that  per- 
tains to  his  profession,  and  is  a  member  of  al- 
most all  the  medical  societies  of  this  country, 
among  them  the  Xew  Jersey  State  Homeoe- 
pathic  Medical  Society,  the  .\tlantic  City  Clin- 
ical Club,  and  the  .American  Institute  of 
Homeoepathy.  He  is  also  one  of  the  physicians 
of  the  Ocean  City  Board  of  Health,  of  the 
Ocean  City  public  schools,  and  of  the  Shore 
Fast  Line  railroad-,  besides  being  the  accredit- 


ed medical  exaiuiner  of  the  Equitable  Life  In- 
surance Company,  the  Masonic  Protective 
Association,  and  the  Philadelphia  Economic 
Life  Insurance  Company.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ocean  City  Board  of  Trade  and 
treasurer  of  the  Ocean  City  Yacht  Club.  He 
married  Lillian  Beatrice,  born  September  14. 
1882,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Risley  ) 
Scull  (see  Scull).  Mrs.  Griscom  is  a  member 
of  Lafayette  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution,  of  Atlantic  City.  Child.  Marie 
Roesch,  born  February  10,  1902. 

(The  ScuH  Line). 

( I\' )  Abef,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Scull, 
vras  born  June  3,  1760.  He  married  Alice, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  Collins,  the  first  resi- 
dent physician  in  Gloucester  county.  Children : 
I.  Joseph,  born  January  2.  1790:  died  May  iC). 
1S53  ;  married  Susanna  Blackman.  2.  Richard, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Andrew,  married  (  first ) 
pAuiice  Scull:  (second)  Mary  GifFord.  4. 
Enoch,  married  Ann  Hickman.  3.  Mary,  mar- 
ried (first)  Andrew  Blackman:  (second)  Dan- 
iel English;  (third)  Clayton  Leeds.  6.  Sarah, 
married  (  first )  Captain  Robinson  ;  (  second  ) 
David  Smith.  7.  Elizabeth,  married  John  Brod- 
erick.  8.  Xancy,  married  (first)  (icorge  Hick- 
man; (second)  Elvy  Scull;  (third)  \\'illiams 
Smith. 

(V)  Richard,  son  of  Abel  and  Alice  (Col- 
lins) Scull,  married  Elizabeth  Hickman.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Philip,  married  Lydia  Hickman.  2. 
.Ann,  married  Biddle  Edwards.  3.  Mary,  mar- 
ried ^\'illiam  Joline.  4.  Elizabeth,  married 
Cornelius  \'anderwater.  5.  George,  married 
Cinderella  Snow.  6.  Hannah,  married  Henry 
Smith.  7.  Margaret,  married  Thomas  Winner. 
8.  Alice,  married  Brazier  Westcott.  9.  Rich- 
ard, referred  to  below.  10.  Caroline,  married 
Alpheus  Barrett.  11.  Thomas  Edward.  12. 
Abel  J.,  twin  with  Thomas  Edward ;  married 
Hannah  .Ann  Steelman. 

(\T)  Richard  (2).  son  of  Richard  (i)  and 
Elizabeth  (Hickman)  Scull,  married  Eunice 
English.  Children :  Thomas,  married  .Anna 
M.  Risley;  Christojiher  English,  married  Anna 
Cordery ;  Joanna,  married  William  L.  Lore ; 
Richard :  IJUian  Beatrice,  married  Isaac  X. 
(iriscom,  M.  D.,  referred  to  above. 


At  the  period  of  emigration 
HO.AGL.AXD      to  this  country.  Hoogelandt 

was  an  established  family 
name  of  considerable  anti(]uity  in  the  Xether- 
lands.  and  can  be  traced  back  a  centur)'  in  Zee- 
land  and  Utrecht  and  quite  as  far  back  in  a 


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collateral  line  of  viscounts  and  governors  of 
Dormael  in  Brabant,  who  claimed  descent  from 
the  ancient  bards  of  Hoogelant.  The  name 
Hoogland  signifies  "Highland."  There  is  a 
village  of  Hoagland  in  the  province  of  Utrecht 
an'l  near  the  city  of  L'trecht,  the  only  town  by 
that  name  in  all  Holland.  The  coat-of-arms 
of  the  Hoagland  family  is  as  follows:  "Hoog- 
lande — d'  argent  a  la  grapjjc  de  raisin  de  pour- 
pre  pendants — d'  une  branche  femillie  de  deux 
pieces  an  natural  et  poree  en  farce.  An  chef 
de  senople  charg's  de  trois  courronnes  d'  or." 

(I)  Dirck  Jansen  Hoogland,  emigrant  an- 
cestor of  Samuel  Collyer  Hoagland,  of  East 
Orange,  New  Jersey,  came  to  New  Netherland 
in  1657,  from  Maer  Severn,  in  the  province  of 
L'trecht,  Holland,  being  then  twenty-two  years 
of  age.  Maer  Severn  was  a  district  consisting 
largely  of  meadow  or  turf  lands  called  veens 
(fens),  and  took  its  name  from  this  fact  and 
from  it  lying  adjacent  to  Maer  Sen,  a  village 
on  the  \'echt,  three  miles  northeast  of  the  city 
of  L'trecht.  Opposite  Maersen  the  ancient 
lordship  of  Maer  Severn  stretched  along  the 
north  side  of  the  V'echt  for  a  mile  and  a  half. 
whence  it  extended  its  limits  northerly  four  or 
five  miles ;  within  it  lay  the  villages  of  (Jud 
Maer  Severn  and  Xeenwe  Maer  Severn.  About 
as  far  as  Utrecht,  but  in  the  opposite  direction, 
southeast,  was  the  little  village  of  Hoogland  or 
Highland.  The  first  mention  of  Dirck  Hansen 
Hoogland  after  his  arrival  in  .\merica  is  the 
notice  of  his  marriage,  October  8,  1662,  to 
Annetje  Hansen  Bergen,  twenty-two  years  old, 
daughter  of  Hans  Hansen  Bergen  and  Sarah 
Rapelje,  who  was,  previous  to  her  last  mar- 
riage, widow  of  Jan  De  Clerk.  As  Hoogland 
brought  a  certificate  of  the  bans  of  the  church 
in  Flatbush  for  three  successive  Sabbaths,  ac- 
cording to  the  custom,  it  followed  that  he  was 
then  living  at  that  place. 

Jan  Rapelje,  Michael  or  Jan  Hansen  }'>crgen, 
and  other  residents  of  Wallabout,  had  on  March 
18,  1662,  applied  for  and  received  the  grant  of 
certain  lands  "situated  back  of  the  Wallabout 
for  farming  purposes."  Dirck  Jansen  Hoog- 
land, not  one  of  the  original  settlers,  seems  to 
have  become  interested  in  the  new  enterprise 
through  his  marriage  with  the  sister  of  Michael 
or  Jan  Hansen  Bergen,  for  on  May  26,  1663, 
he  with  others  who  had  lately  obtained  the 
aforesaid  grant  also  got  permission  from  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant  to  found  a  new  village  there, 
afterward  known  as  I'edford.  On  Alay  13, 
1664,  patents  were  issued  to  Hoogland  and  his 
a.ssociates  for  those  lands,  giving  twenty  mor- 
gen  to  each.    On  January  20.  i^^i^.  he  was  de- 


h\"ercd  one  p(5und  of  powder  from  the  public 
store  for  defense  against  the  Indians.  He  soon 
returned  to  Flatbush,  where  he  acquired  prop- 
erty, being  assessed  in  1675  on  twenty  morgen 
of  land  and  meadow,  and  where  he  became  to 
be  familiarly  known  among  his  Dutch  neigh- 
bors as  Kleyn  Dirck  or  Little  Dirck,  on  account 
of  his  small  stature.  He  conveyed  his  house 
and  land  at  Bedford  to  Dirck  Cornelissen 
Hoogland,  April  29,  1689.  There  is  preserved 
a  testimonial  of  the  court  and  overseers  of 
Brooklyn  and  Flatbush,  dated  November  19 
and  26,  1678,  as  to  the  uniform  good  character 
of  Dirck  Jansen  Hoogland  while  a  resident  of 
those  towns.  It  appears  that  having  lost  his 
wife,  he  about  this  time  was  married  to  Anne- 
tee  Tedden,  a  member  of  the  Flatbush  church. 

By  great  industry  and  economy,  Hoogland 
had  acquired  two  or  three  original  farm  lots  in 
Flatbush,  lying  in  the  west  side  of  the  highway, 
near  Flatbush  line,  and  as  a  freeholder  drew  a 
wood  lot  at  Oostwout  or  New  Lots,  April  2, 
1680.  Hoogland  had  a  long  and  vexatious 
controversy  with  his  neighbor,  Peter  Lot,  re- 
specting the  boundary  line  between  their  farms, 
which  after  some  litigation  and  much  bitterness 
of  feeling  was  finally  settled  by  arbitration. 
The  suit  was  brought  by  Hoogland  in  the  court 
of  sessions  at  Gravesend,  December  19,  1677. 
B  may  be  interesting  to  gather  up  wdiat  little  is 
known  of  his  characteristics  and  domestic  life. 
Coming  from  a  rural  district  in  Holland  and 
unschooled,  he  was  in  this  respect  behind  many 
of  his  neighbors,  while  in  natural  ability  he 
seems  to  have  equalled  the  best  of  them.  The 
I'ertinacity  with  which  he  maintained  his  rights 
evinces  a  clear  head  and  indomitable  will,  and 
bis  sharp  issues  with  his  neighbors  and  the  re- 
buffs he  met  with  must  have  chafed  him  sorely, 
j'.nd  it  is  surprising  that  only  once  did  his  pas- 
sion get  the  better  of  him  in  any  overt  act. 
This  was  in  1687,  when  in  an  altercation  with 
Denys  Teunisscn,  son-in-law  of  Dominie  Pol- 
hcmus.  each  drew  a  knife  for  which  an  indict- 
ment was  found  against  both.  In  his  exhibitions 
of  parental  love  and  his  assiduous  efforts  to 
provide  for  his  children,  he  was  all  that  a  fond 
parent  could  be.  There  is  no  record  that  he 
w  as  a  church  member,  but  on  several  occasions 
he,  with  his  jiious  wife,  presented  their  infant 
children  for  baptism.  I  lis  household  in  iCigS 
contained  six  children,  two  of  eight  that  were 
born  to  him,  the  others  having  gone  forth  to 
make  homes  for  themselves. 

Meanwhile  Hoogland, nowadvancing  in  years, 
foimd  it  exjiedient  to  reduce  bis  .acres,  which 
had  greatly  increased  by  ])urchase.     On    [aim- 


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ary  14.  1694,  he  sold  a  parcel  of  salt  meadow  in 
the  New  Lot,  at  the  "third  creek,"  to  Daniel 
l-'hillips;  on  March  9,  1694,  a  tract  of  land  to 
George  Wood;  on  August  9,  1701,  he  sold  to 
Jacobus  Van  Cortlandt.  the  alderman  and  later 
mayor  of  New  York,  certain  land  in  Flatbush, 
which  he  had  bought  of  Itelthazar  De  Hart :  on 
April  18,  1706,  he  petitioned  for  payment  of 
his  horses  lost  in  Colonel  Dougan's  ex])edition 
to  Albany  in  1688.  in  which  expedition  his 
cousin,  Johannes  Hoogland,  of  New  York, 
served  as  trooper.  It  is  said  he  doubtless  lived 
tc'  the  age  of  ninety-eight  years.  He  married, 
( 'ctober  8. 1662,  Annetje  Hansen  Bergen, afore- 
mentioned. Children:  i.  Annetje,  born  in 
Bedford,  Long  Island,  1663;  married,  1684, 
Hendrick  Van  \\'agenen.  2,  Jan  Dircksen,  born 
1766.  3.  ^\'illiam,  i66q.  4.  Cornelius,  1677. 
5  Hendrick,  mentioned  below.  6.  Sarah,  bap- 
tized at  E'latbush,  August  7.  1681.  7.  Lysbeth, 
baptized  at  Flatlands,  ]\Iarch  21,  1O84.  8. 
Xeltje,  baptized  at  Flatlands,  June  11,  1686. 

(II)  Hendrick,  son  of  Dirck  Jansen  Hoog- 
land. was  born  at  Flatbush,  Long  Island,  about 
1679;  died  prior  to  April  21,  1746.  He  bought 
a  tract  of  land  of  three  hundred  and  fifty- four 
acres  of  Richard  Leane,  April  9,  1737,  lying 
partly  in  Somerset  county  and  partly  in  Middle- 
sex county.  He  married  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Adrian  and  Annetje  ( Schenck )  Ryerse,  and 
sister  of  the  wives  of  Jan  and  William  Hoog- 
land. She  was  born  in  1680.  They  removed 
to  Xew  Jersey  probably  at  the  same  time  as 
Jans  removed  there.  On  April  5,  17 19,  he  and 
his  wife  Sarah  were  witnesses  to  the  baptism 
of  Johannes,  son  of  Dirck  and  Maira  Hoog- 
land. at  New  Brunswick.  Children  of  Hend- 
rick and  Sarah  (Ryerse  I  Hoogland:  Derrick: 
Adrian:  .\nnetie,  married  a  Mr.  Quirk,  and 
they  had  a  son  Abraham,  named  in  the  will  of 
Abraham  I  loogland  :  the  (Juirks  were  early  set- 
tlers on  the  Raritan  ;  .Nbraham  :  Johannes,  re- 
ferred to  below. 

(III)  Johannes,  son  of  Hendrick  and  Sarah 
(Ryerse)  Hoogland.  was  born  at  Flatbu.sh, 
Long  Island,  about  1712.  At  that  period  many 
Dutch  settlers  were  leaving  Long  Island  and 
settling  in  Xew  Jersey.  Thither  Hendrick. 
father  of  Johannes,  went  with  his  family  in 
1719.  Between  the  years  1745  and  1754  Jo- 
hannes purchased  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
six  acres  on  the  east  of  ]\lillstone  river,  in 
Somerset  county,  and  in  the  latter  named  year 
bought  of  John  Lott.  of  Long  Island,  another 
plot  on  the  southeast  corner  of  the  first  ])lot, 
containing  forty  acres,  for  which  he  paid  two 
hundred    pounds.      He   was   one   of   the   first 


deacons  in  the  Millstone  Reformed  Church  in 

1776.  his  wife  also  being  a  member.  His  will 
was  dated  March  7.  1777,  proved  December  16, 

1777.  He  married  Matje,  daughter  of  Tunis 
\\  oertman.  of  Flatbush.  Long  Island  :  she  must 
have  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age :  the  inventory  of 
her  estate  was  taken  January  4,  1809.  Chil- 
dren :  Hendrick,  baptized  at  Raritan,  May  5. 
1747,  died  young;  William,  born  1748;  John, 
referred  to  below ;  Tunis,  baptized  at  Six  Mile 
River,  February  25,  1753:  .Abraham,  baptized 
at  New  Brunsw^ick,  April  22.  1756:  Myndert. 

( I\')  John,  son  of  Johannes  Hoogland.  was 
baptized  at  Xew  Brunswick.  Xew  Jersey.  Feb- 
ruary 10.  1750-51.  On  the  south  side  of  his 
land  in  1791  were  lands  of  John  and  Cornelius 
Wyckoff ;  on  the  north  was  land  of  John  \'an 
Liew,  and  next  to  the  river  land  of  John  Ben- 
nett. In  1 791  the  executors  of  John  Hoagland, 
William  and  John  Hoagland.  of  Somerset,  and 
(Jarret  Terhune.  of  Middlesex,  sold  both  plots 
to  Tunis  Hoogland.  He  married  (first)  Phebe 
Flatfield  ;  (second)  Sarah  \'an  Tine.  Children: 
I  Cornelius  Hatfield,  referred  to  below.  2. 
Elizabeth  Miller,  baptized  at  Millstone,  May  3, 

1784.  3.  Mary,  baptized  at  Millstone,  May  29, 

1785.  4.  Charles  \  an  Tine,  baptized  at  Mill- 
stone, December  24,  1786.  5.  Johannes,  bap- 
tized at  Millstone,  October  10,  1791.  6.  Xellie, 
baptized  at  Xew  Brunswick,  January  6.  1798. 
7.  George,  baptized  at  Xew-  Brunswick,  ^Iay 
25.  1800. 

(\')  Cornelius  Hatfield,  son  of  John  and 
Phebe  (Hatfield)  Hoagland.  was  born  March 
II.  1781  ;  baptized  at  Millstone.  New  Jersey. 
March  18,  following,  and  died  at  Elizabeth, 
Xew  Jersey,  F"ebruary  19,  1832.     He  married 

(first) ;    (second)    Catherine. 

daughter  of  James  Brown,  of  Woodbridge. 
Xew  Jersey :  she  died  in  Lirooklyn.  Xew  York, 
March  30,  1888.  Children  of  first  wife:  Har- 
riet :  Eliza  ;  Lucinda.  Children  of  second  wife: 
Cornelius  \'an  Cleave,  born  March  4,  1812; 
George  Tunis,  February  7, 1814 :  Susan  Sprague. 
Xovember  17,  1815;  .Simeon  Dunn,  September 
13,  1817:  John  Elmon.  born  May  14,  1819. 
married  Frances  Lucas ;  James  Brown,  born 
January  19.  1823;  William,  referred  to  below: 
Mary  Jane,  born  .\ugust  8.  1829. 

(\T)  William,  .son  of  Cornelius  Hatfield 
and  Catherine  (Brown)  Hoagland.  was  lxirn 
at  Millstone.  .Xew  Jersey.  March  11.  1825.  He 
married  Matilda,  born  October  9.  1822.  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel  C.  and  Ruth  Collyer.  Children : 
-Samuel  Collyer.  referred  to  below ;  Amanda 
M..  born  .August  16.  1851  :  Cornelius  IL.  July 
16,  1856;  Georgianna,  August  30,  1858:  \\'ill- 


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i;'.m  \\'.,  August  12,  1859;  John,  born  February 
II,  1862.  died  April  15,  1888:  Mary  E.  C.  born 
September  30,  1865. 

(\'II)  Samuel  Collyer.  son  of  William  and 
]\latilda  (  Collyer)  Hoagland,  was  born  at  Xew- 
ark.  New  Jersey.  September  8,  1849.  I"  ^^'^^ 
he  was  made  president  of  the  Xew  Jersey  Plate 
Glass  Company  of  Newark.  He  married.  Octo- 
ber II.  1876.  Julia  Baldwin,  born  Afarch  24. 
1853.  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Mary  Frances 
(i^tackhouse)  Hedden.  of  Newark,  New  Jer- 
sey. Children:  i.  \'ictor  Edwin,  born  .August 
23.  1877.  2.  Irvin  Pier,  December  26,  1879; 
married.  March  6,  1907,  Caroline  Eldert.  born 
C'ctober  28.  1880.  daughter  of  Nicholas  Wyckoflf 
and  Frankie  Elizabeth  (Hoagland)  Lenington  : 
child — -Samuel  Collyer  (  2  ).  born  March  5,  1908. 
3.  Chester  Frank,  born  November  5,  1881  : 
married.  October  12.  1905.  Nellie  May.  born 
February  6.  1883,  daughter  of  Ethelbert  .\. 
and  Eva  Elizabeth  (De  Land)  Stanley:  chil- 
dren: Grace  Hedden,  born  October  4.  1906: 
Julia  De  Land.  May  2~.  1909. 


The  W'ootton  family  have 
W'OOTTON  long  been  well  known  in  Eng- 
land, where  they  were  peo- 
ple of  respectability.  Those  who  have  lived  in 
the  state  of  New  Jersey  have  so  conducted 
themselves  as  to  bring  credit  to  themselves  and 
their  adopted  state.  They  have  been  keen  and 
active  business  men  and  not  amiss  in  their 
interest  in  the  public  welfare. 

( I )  Samuel  W'ootton.  of  StaiTordshire.  Eng- 
land, became  the  parents  of  twenty-one  chil- 
dren, one  of  them  named  Jonah. 

(H)  Jonah,  son  of  .Samuel  and  Elizabeth 
Wootton.  w-as  born  February  24.  1814,  in  P.lox- 
wick,  StaiTordshire.  England,  and  became  a 
painter  and  builder.  In  1844  he  emigrated 
to  America,  landing  at  P.altimore.  Maryland, 
where  he  spent  four  years,  and  dien  removed 
to  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania.  In  1858.  having 
built  Light  House  Cottage,  on  New  llamjjshire 
avenue,  near  the  ocean,  he  settled  in  Atlantic 
City,  New  Jersey;  this  building  was  afterward 
moved  on  account  of  the  encroachment  of  the 
sea,  and  became  known  as  the  .St.  Charles, 
standing  near  Delaware  and  Pacific  avenues. 
Mr.  W'ootton  purchased  the  whole  square  from 
Pacific  avenue  to  the  ocean  for  the  considcra- 
tmn  of  $7,500  from  his  brother-in-law,  William 
W  hitehouse,  and  built  on  Massachusetts  ave- 
nue what  was  known  for  years  as  the  "White 
House."  Mr.  W'ootton  was  known  as  one  of 
the  most  enterprising  citizens  of  .Atlantic  City, 
and  helped  much  in  the  prosperity  of  that  city. 


He  married  (first)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Will- 
iam and  Mary  Whitehouse.  who  died  in  1877: 
she  was  the  mother  of  his  children.  He  mar- 
ried (second)  Mary  Coulter.  Mr.  Wootton 
died  January  24,  1890.  His  children  were :  I. 
Mary  .Ann.  born  February  12.  1836,  died  young. 
2.  Jonah.  June  5,  1837 ;  died  December  28. 
1892.  3.  Mary  A..  October  21,  1838:  married 
Henry  Hayes.  4.  Paul.  December  12.  1839.  5. 
Henry,  1841.  6.  Silas,  July  20,  1842;  was 
quartermaster-sergeant  of  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-si.xth  Regiment.  Pennsylvania  \'olun- 
teers,  and  was  killed  on  the  skirmish  line  at  the 
battle  of  Weldon  Railroad,  .August  18,  1864. 
7.  Philip,  September  12,  1844:  died  December 
21,  1844.  8.  William,  May  15,  1846:  died  June 
16,  1846.  9.  Elizabeth,  February  2,  1850;  died 
September  13,  1851.  10.  Lucy.  February  2, 
1852:  died  March  2.  1852.  11.  Eliza.  February 
2,  1855 :  died  March  2,  1855. 

nil)  Henry,  third  son  of  Jonah  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Whitehouse)  Wootton,  was  born  in 
January,  1841,  at  P.irmingham.  England,  was 
br<  night  by  his  parents  tn  America  when  an 
infant,  and  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  L^nited  States.  He  was  for  many 
years  connected  with  the  government  of  At- 
lantic City,  serving  several  terms  as  council- 
man and  assessor.  He  married  Ann  Jane, 
daughter  of  Lemuel  Eldridge,  born  in  Chester 
county,  Pennsylvania.    He  had  a  son.  Harry. 

(IV)  Harry,  son  of  Henry  and  .Ann  Jane 
(Eldridge)  W'ootton.  was  born  October  30. 
1869,  at  -Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  ]uiblic  schools 
of  his  native  town.  Later  he  attended  Colum- 
bia L'niversity,  entering  in  1888.  but  left  before 
his  graduation  and  continued  his  studies  in  the 
New  York  Law  .School,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1890  with  degree  LL.  B.  The  same 
year  he  was  admitted  as  attorney  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar,  and  since  that  time  has  been  in 
successful  practice  of  his  profession  at  -At- 
lantic City-  He  spent  some  time  in  the  office 
of  Hon-  Joseph  Thompson,  and  in  Nijvember. 
1901,  was  elected  an  alderman  of  the  city.  He 
resigned  irom  this  office,  however,  to  accept 
the  post  of  city  solicitor  in  June,  1902,  and  still 
fills  that  position,  having  l^een  elected  three 
times,  the  last  time  being  in  1909  for  a  term  of 
three  years.  In  connection  with  his  duties  he 
has  had  occasion  to  take  jiart  in  some  import- 
ant liti,gation  regarding  municipal  law,  among 
the  cases  being  those  regarding  deeds  to  ])rop- 
erty  along  the  ocean  front,  the  smoke  nuisance, 
and  other  municipal  regulations,  must  of  them 
having  been  decided  in  his  favor  in  the  higher 


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state  courts.  Mr.  W'ootton  has  attaine<l  an 
enviable  reputation  for  ability  and  keen  judg- 
ment, and  is  thoroughly  engrossed  in  his  chosen 
profession. 

Mr.  Wootton  is  a  believer  in  the  Christian 
Science  religion,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Xew  Jersey  State  liar 
Association,  Atlantic  County  Bar  Association, 
Republican  Club  of  Atlantic  City,  and  Young 
Republicans  of  Philadelphia.  He  belongs  to 
Belcher  Lodge,  No.  i8o.  Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons,  of  which  he  is  past  master ; 
Trinity  Chapter,  No.  38,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
ht  has  taken  the  Consistory  degrees  of  Free- 
masonry and  is  a  member  of  Lulu  Temple, 
Mystic  Shrine,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Atlantic 
City  Forest  of  Tall  Cedars  of  Lebanon.  He 
is  also  affiliated  with  Pequod  Tribe,  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men,  of  Atlantic  City;  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows:  Atlantic  City 
Aerie  of  Eagles ;  Lodge  No.  276,  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks;  Lodge  No.  10, 
Ancient  Order  United  Workmen,  and  is  an 
active  member  of  the  Morris  Guards  of  At- 
lantic City. 

Mr.  Wootton  married,  in  November,  1895, 
Mary  Marshall,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  A.  and 
Uphan  (Henry)  Down,  and  they  have  one  son, 
Harrv  Jr.,  a  pupil  in  the  public  schools  of  .At- 
lantic City. 

The  town  of  Hempstead, 
RUSHMORE  Long  Island,  was  settled  by 
a  colony  of  English  Pres- 
byterians, of  whom  Rev.  Robert  Fordham  was 
a  leader,  and  his  name  occurs  first  in  the  list  of 
patentees  in  the  patent  granted  by  Governor 
Kieft.  He  afterwards  removed  to  Southamj)- 
ton,  and  was  the  second  minister  in  that  town, 
and  died  there  in  September,  1674. 

(I)  Among  the  early  settlers  was  Thomas 
Rushmore.  whose  name  first  occurs  March  12, 
1656,  though  it  is  evident  that  he  was  there 
some  time  before.  Upon  that  occasion  he  ar- 
ranged an  agreement  between  Tackapusha,  the 
Indian  sachem,  and  the  governor  of  New  Neth- 
erland.  r)n  June  11,  1657,  he  is  mentioned  as 
one  who  "had  cattle  on  the  neck."  He  appears 
April  10,  1658,  as  one  of  the  "townsmen"  who 
made  an  agreement  with  a  man  as  "cowkeeper." 
This  shows  that  he  was  a  freeman  and  owner 
of  real  estate,  and  eligible  to  any  town  office. 
Again  as  "townsman"  he  makes  an  agreement 
with  George  Huylett  as  "calf  keeper,"  whose 
duty  it  was  "to  go  forth  every  morning  by  the 
time  the  Sun  is  Vj  an  Hour  above  the  Horizon, 
and  not  to  come  in  before  Sun  setting."     His 


rate  for  town  charges  was  i2~,  which  was  more 
than  the  average.  In  1658  he  "takes  up"  ten 
acres  of  land.  Savage,  in  his  "Early  Settlers 
of  New  England,"  mentioned  Thomas  Rush- 
more  as  being  "of  Hempstead,  under  juris- 
diction of  Connecticut,  in  1663,  but  would  not 
serve  as  constable,"  then  an  important  office. 
On  March  15,  1664,  he  and  .Samuel  Denton 
purchased  from  Jeremy  Wood  all  his  right  to 
Martin  Gerritsen's  Neck,  or  Matinicock.  On 
February  15,  1664,  he  with  others  was  ap- 
pointed to  help  Captain  John  Scott  in  some 
dispute  concerning  the  boundaries  of  the  town. 
During  the  same  year  he  sells  to  Captain  Scott 
three  lots  on  ^ladnans  Neck  (now  Great  Xeck  ). 
Ir  1680  he  sells  to  Moses  Mudge  one-eighth 
of  a  proprietor  right  on  Hempstead  Plains. 
Long  before  this,  'in  1665,  he  sells  to  John 
Smith  "rock"  land  on  Washburns  Neck  and 
Goes  Neck.  In  1680  the  town  granted  him 
"all  the  common  land  lying  on  the  south  of  his 
mill  jjlace,  not  exceeding  one  hundre<l  acres." 
In  1672  the  town  granted  him  "eight  acres 
upon  the  great  neck  lying  on  Jerusalem  swamp, 
or  brook."  On  September  29,  1679,  he  sells  to 
John  Mervin  "my  new  dwelling  house  and 
home  lot."  He  drew  one  hundred  acres  of 
land,  with  the  other  proprietors,  in  1667,  also 
fifty  acres  "at  a  brook  called  Johnson's  Run." 
On  December  2,  1668,  his  wife,  Martha,  had  a 
suit  against  John  Tredwell,  and  he  himself  had 
a  suit  against  John  Smith  Sr.  "for  mowing  his 
meadow  without  his  leave  or  liberty."  In  1682 
he  gives  i\  5s.  for  the  support  of  the  minister, 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Hobart.  The  last  act  of  his  life 
of  which  we  have  any  knowledge  was  that  on 
February  14,  1683,  the  town  ap]Jointed  him  as 
one  of  four  men  "to  take  an  account  of  those 
that  are  proprietors,  and  how  they  make  their 
pro])rietaries  appear."  Fie  died  previous  to 
March  31,  same  year.  His  homestead  and  mill 
were  on  Madnans  Neck  (Great  Neck),  and 
these  descended  to  his  son,  Thomas  Rushmore. 
It  seems  that  by  some  accident  he  built  his 
house  and  mill  on  a  lot  that  belonged  to  Rev. 
Jonah  Fordham,  who  released  the  same  to 
Thomas  Rushmore,  the  son,  in  1691. 

The  will  of  John  Smith  Sr.,  dated  May  10, 
1695,  states  that  he  leaves  a  legacy  to  Anne 
and  Mary  Rushmore  and  to  \\'illiam  Stejihen 
Chappelle,  "the  children  of  my  daughter  ^lar- 
tha  Chai)i)elle  deceased."  We  might  conclude 
from  this  that  the  wife  of  Thomas  Rushmore 
was  Martha  Smith,  and  that  after  his  death 
she  married  Francis  Chappelle.  We  may  men- 
tion that  on  October  26,  1676,  there  was  a 
"jirescntment  for  riot"  against  Thomas  Rush- 


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more  and  several  others  for  destroying  the 
dwelHng  of  John  Cornell,  and  treating  him 
with  menacing  and  abusive  language."  \\  hat 
the  facts  of  the  case  were  we  do  not  know,  but 
of  the  minister,  show  conclusively  that  the 
founder  of  the  American  family  was  not  a 
Quaker. 

( II )  Thomas  i  2).  son  of  Thomas  (  i  )  Rush- 
more,  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in 
Hempstead.  In  1685  he  appears  as  the  owner 
of  two  hundred  and  seventy-seven  acres  of 
land.  His  name  appears  on  list  of  Friends  in 
1733,  but  whether  this  v^'as  the  one  mentioned 
above  as  his  son,  does  not  distinctly  a])pear. 
He  married  Sarah  . 

(III)  Thomas  (3),  son  of  Thomas  {2)  and 
Sarah  Rushmore,  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Hicks  and  Mary  Doughty. 

( I\' )  Isaac,  son  of  Thomas  (3)  and  Mary 
(Hicks)  Rushmore,  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  John  Titus  and  Sarah  Pearsall,  Their  mar- 
riage license  was  dated  April  18,  1757.  Sarah 
Titus  was  born  1737,  died  1776.  Children: 
Pliebe,  born  1758;  Mary,  born  1760,  married 
Charles  Frost,  1780;  Stephen,  see  forward; 
Jane^  born  1768,  married  Lewis  Valentine, 
1790;  Edmund,  born  1771,  died  1782. 

(  \' )  Stephen,  son  of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (  Pear- 
sall) Rushmore,  was  born  5  mo.  i,  1763.  He 
married,  1787,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Alary  (Loines)  Townsend.  She  was  born 
II  mo.  23,  1767,  and  died  11  mo.  10,  1852, 
aged  eighty-nine  years  six  months  nine  days. 
Their  children  were:  i.  Isaac,  see  forward.  2. 
Sarah,  born  9  mo.  10,  1790;  married  John  D. 
Hicks;  died  1893.  3.  Townsend,  born  8  mo. 
2^.  1792;  his  son,  Isaac,  now  lives  in  Plainfield, 
New  Jersey,  and  has  two  sons,  Robert  and 
Townsend.  both  married  and  reside  there.  4. 
Mary,  born  7  mo.  15,  1794;  married  Edmund 
Post.  5.  Jane  8  mo.  7.  1796;  married  \'alen- 
tine  Willis.  6.  Thomas,  born  3  mo.  7,  1790. 
7.  Phebe,  6  mo.  10,  1803:  married  Isaac  Clif- 
ford. She  died  11  mo.  21,  1903,  aged  one 
hundred  years  five  months  eleven  days,  at 
I  rovidence,  Rhode  Island.  Stephen  Rushmore, 
father  of  this  family,  died  11  mo.  10,  1852, 
aged  eighty-nine  years  six  months  nine  days. 

(\T)  Isaac  (2),  son  of  Stephen  and  Phebe 
(Townsend)  Rushmore,  was  born  5  mo.  19, 
1788.  He  married,  3  mo.  24.  1813,  Lydia  Post, 
born  I  mo.  13.  1789;  died  9  mo.  12,  1841. 
Children:  i.  Stephen,  see  forward.  2.  Ed- 
mund, born  4  mo.  12,  1816;  died  18 17.  3.  Ed- 
mund P.,  born  4  mo.  12,  1818;  died  i  mo.  26, 
1890.  Isaac  Rushmore,  father  of  this  family, 
died  3  mo.  7,  1875. 


(\'II)  Stephen,  son  of  Isaac  (2)  and  Lydia 
(Post)  Rushmore,  was  born  9  mo.  8,  1814. 
He  married  Matilda,  daughter  of  John  H.  and 
Sarah  M.  P'owell,  i)  mo.  27,  1837.  She  was 
born  I  mo.  27,  181S.  Children;  i.  Isaac  L., 
born  9  mo.  1841  ;  died  1842.  2.  Lydia,  born  8 
mo.  4,  1843;  died  1844.  3.  Edward,  born  5 
mil.  1845  ;  now  living;  a  ]3hysician  in  Plainfield, 
New  Jersey.  4.  John  Howard,  see  forward. 
5.  Sarah  ^I.,  born  8  mo.  24,  1850;  died  1850. 
Stephen  Rushmore,  the  father,  died  I  mo.  13, 
1 8^0. 

(\II1)  John  Howard,  son  of  Stcjihen  and 
Matilda  (  I'owell)  Rushmore,  was  born  2  mo, 
19,  1847.  He  married,  September,  1869,  Julia 
Ann  Barker.  She  was  born  6  mo.  7,  1859,  and 
died  8  mo.  15,  1908.  Children;  i,  David 
Barker  Rushmore,  born  8  mo.  21,  1873.  ^• 
lulmund  Rushmore,  born  8  mo.  3,  1875;  mar- 
ried Cornelia  Faber,  April  5,  1899;  children; 
Dorothea.  Gladys  Isabella  and  Margaret. 

.Ml  of  the  generations  above  mentioned  were 
prominent  in  the  Society  of  Friends,  and  highly 
esteemed  citizens  of  Queens  county.  Isaac 
Rushmore  lived  at  Wheatly,  on  what  was  prob- 
ably the  homestead  of  his  father  before  him. 
Flis  son,  Stephen,  purchased  an  extensive  estate 
at  W'estbury,  which  remained  in  the  family 
till  very  recent  years,  and  passed  out  of  the 
name  in  1890.  Stephen  Rushmore  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Friends"  Academy  at  Locust  \'alley, 
and  treasurer  of  Jericho  Turnpike  Company, 
in  the  meanwhile  conducting  an  extensive  f ariu. 
Several  generations  of  this  honored  family  rest 
in  the  Friends'  cemetery  at  Westbury. 

John  Howard  Rushmore,  owing  to  poor  health, 
was  compelled  to  live  a  quiet  life  on  the  ances- 
tral homestead.  He  was  educated  in  the  Poly- 
technic Institute,  and  was  for  many  years  sec- 
letary  of  the  Queens  County  Agricultural  Soci- 
ety. A  large  part  of  his  time  was  passed  in 
the  south,  in  hopes  of  recovering  his  health. 
In  1891  he  removed  to  Plainfield,  New  Jersey, 
and  resided  there  till  his  death,  10  mo.  12,  same 
year.  He  rests  with  his  ancestors  at  West- 
bury,  Long  Island. 

( IX )  David  Barker,  son  of  John  Howard 
and  Julia  Ann  (Barker)  Rushmore,  was  grad- 
uated from  Swarthmore  College,  Bachelor  of 
Science,  in  1894,  and  engineer  in  1897,  and 
from  Cornell  Cniversity  electrical  engineer,  in 
1895.  He  is  prominent  in  his  profession,  and 
is  chief  engineer  of  the  power  and  mining  de- 
partment of  the  General  Electrical  Company, 
Schenectady,  New  York.  He  is  a  member  of 
tiie  following  bodies ;  American  Society  Me- 
chanical   Engineers.    .American    Society    Civil 


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Engineers.  American  Institute  Electrical  Engi- 
neers, American  Institute  Mining  Engineers. 
American  Electro-Chemical  Society,  National 
Electric  Light  Association.  Society  of  Engi- 
neers of  Eastern  New  York,  Engineers'  Club 
of  New  York,  the  Delta  Upsilon  fraternity ; 
various  Masonic  bodies  in  Pittsfield,  Massa- 
chusetts :  the  Schenectady  Board  of  Trade ;  the 
Mohawk  Club  and  Mohawk  Golf  Club,  of  Sche- 
nectady; and  the  Schenectady  Gun  Club  and 
Boat  Club. 

(IX)  Edmund,  son  of  John  Howard  and 
Julia  Ann  (Barker)  Rushmore,  was  educated 
at  the  Friends'  Academy.  Locust  \'alley,  and 
at  the  Preparatory  Collegiate  School  of  John 
Leal,  in  Plainfield.  It  was  his  intention  to 
enter  Swarthmore  College.  Pennsylyania.  to 
prepare  himself  for  the  study  of  medicine,  but 
the  sickness  of  his  honored  mother  com])elled 
him  to  relinquish  this  plan.  He  then  entered 
the  grain  business,  but  afterward  entered  the 
banking  business  in  Wall  street,  where  he  re- 
mained eleyen  years.  He  then  established  the 
real  estate  developing  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count, including  all  parts  of  the  state,  but  more 
especially  Plainfield  and  its  yicinity.  He  is 
president  of  the  Plainfield  Development  Com- 
pany, member  of  the  Board  of  Education  in 
North  Plainfield,  treasurer  of  the  Park  Club, 
member  of  the  W'atchung  Hunt  Club,  the  Log 
Cabin  Gun  Club,  the  Plainfield  Kennel  Club, 
the  Park  Golf  Club,  and  vice-president  of  the 
Plainfield  Board  of  Trade.  He  stands  high  in 
Masonry,  having  taken  thirty-two  degrees  in 
the  Scottish  Rite.  Withdrawing  fmui  the 
Society  of  Friends,  he  is  identified  witii  the 
Protestant  Ejiiscopal  church. 

David  Barker  Rushmore  and  Edmund  Rush- 
more  are  eligible  to  membership  in  the  Society 
of  Mayflower  Descendants. 


John  H.  Whitmore.  the  first 
WIIITMORE  member  of  the  family  of 
whom  we  ha\-e  definite  in- 
formation, was  born  in  Washington  county. 
New  York,  about  the  end  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  He  married  Hannah  Maria,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Skiff  (q.  v.).  He  left  two  sons: 
John  H..  referred  to  below  ;  and  James  C. 

(II)  John  H.  (2).  son  of  John  II.  Whit- 
more (  I  ),  was  born  in  Washington  county. 
New  York,  .\ugust  4.  1820.  lie  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  and  afterwards  received 
a  collegiate  education.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  was  clerk  of  the  New  York  City  prison,  and 
afterwards  held  the  cfTice  of  deputy  county  clerk 
of  New  York  county.    For  a  time  he  followed 


the  sea  for  a  living,  but  later,  having  studied 
law  in  New  York,  he  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  the  courts  of  New  York  and  was  permitted 
to  jiractice  in  the  United  .States  courts,  and  be- 
came the  partner  of  William  F.  Howe,  the  firm 
name  being  Howe  &  Whitmore.  He  retired 
from  business  in  1861,  and  is  now  living  at 
Red  Bank.  New  Jersey.  He  is  a  Democrat  in 
politics,  and  taking  a  very  active  intere.st  in  the 
subject,  he  was  at  one  time  of  great  service 
to  his  party  as  a  public  speaker.  For  a  time 
after  his  retirement  from  the  law  practice  he 
followed  the  avocation  of  a  farmer  in  Mill- 
stone township,  rather  more  as  a  matter  of 
sentiment  than  with  any  expectation  of  achiev. 
ing  practical  business  results.  He  is  a  communi- 
cant of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church,  and  a 
past  master  of  York  Lodge.  F.  and  A.  M..  in 
New  York  City.  He  married  Margaret  .-Xnn. 
daughter  of  John  Yorke  Savage,  who  was  born 
m  1823.  Her  father  came  from  England  to 
Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  where  she  was  born. 
He  was  a  jeweler  by  profession,  and  later  com- 
ing to  New  York  City  he  conducted,  until  his 
death,  a  jewelry  store  at  92  Fulton  street.  He 
made  the  first  clock  in  the  New  York.  City 
Hall.  Children  of  John  H.  and  Margaret 
(Savage)  Whitmore:  i.  Catharine,  married 
William  .A.  Butler,  who  in  1883-86  was  county 
clerk  of  New  York  county  :  children  :  William 
A.  Jr.,  Florence  and  Frank  Butler.  2.  Gertrude, 
now  dead  ;  married  Garret  Hartnian,  of  Free- 
hold, New  Jersey.  3.  Walter  Savage,  referred 
to  below.  4.  Sarah  or  Sadie,  married  Edwin 
Ackerman.  of  New  York  City;  children:    Eil- 

win  Jr..  married  Matilda .  and  has  Sadie 

and  Matilda  .\ckerman  ;  and  Gertrude,  married 
James  Barker,  of  I  lackensack. 

(Ill)  Dr.  Walter  Savage  Whitmore,  son  of 
John  H.  (2)  and  Margaret  Ann  (Savage) 
Whitmore.  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Octo- 
ber 18,  1849.  «'"fl  's  now  living  in  Red  Bank. 
New  Jersey.  For  his  early  education  he  was 
sent  to  \\'ard  .School.  No.  44,  in  New  York 
City,  after  which  he  graduated  from  the  Perine- 
ville  .Academy,  Perineville,  New  York.  He 
then  took  up  mercantile  life,  and  during  the 
mayorality  of  .-\.  Oakey  Hall  he  became  an 
inspector  of  jiermits  in  New  York  City.  Finally 
he  turned  his  attention  to  medicine,  and,  supple- 
menting his  common  school  education  by  a 
course  of  study  at  Columbia  University,  enter- 
ed the  New  York  Medical  College,  from  which 
he  graduated  and  received  his  M.  D.  degree 
r\Iay  12,  1887.  He  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  New  "S'ork  City,  where  he  re- 
mained for  one  year.  In  1888  he  went  to  the 


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Cook  County  Hospital,  Cliicago.  Illinois,  where 
he  remained  for  one  year,  and  then  coming  to 
Red  Bank,  New  Jersey,  he  settled  himself  there 
in  the  active  general  practice  of  medicine  and 
surgery,  in  which  field  he  has  become  espe- 
cially distinguished.  He  lives  at  Oceanic,  near 
Red  Bank,  where  he  possesses  a  most  charm- 
ing home.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
from  1890  to  1899  was  ])resi(lent  of  the  Board 
of  Health  of  Shrewsbury  township,  Monmouth 
county,  and  he  has  also  held  the  position  of 
])resi(lent  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  Rumson 
borough.  He  was  for  fifteen  years  a  member 
and  surgeon  of  the  Second  (  Monmouth )  Tr<  lOp, 
New  Jersey  National  (iuard.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  medical  staff  of  the  Monmouth  Memorial 
Hospital  of  Long  Branch,  of  the  New  Jersey 
State  and  Monmouth  County  Medical  societies, 
and  one  of  the  former  presidents  of  the  Practi- 
tioners' Society  of  Eastern  Monmouth.  He 
\\as  a  past  great  sachem  of  the  Improved  Order 
of  Red  Men  of  New  Jersey;  is  a  member  of 
Hiram  Lodge,  F,  and  A.  M. :  the  Knights  of 
Pythias,  and  a  member  also  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  L'nited  Workmen,  and  he  is  medical 
examiner  of  the  Heptasophs  and  the  Frater- 
nities Accident  Association.  He  married,  Janu- 
ary 18,  1893,  3t  Red  Bank,  Harriet  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  James  and  Harriet  Hume,  who  was  born 
in  New  York  City,  January  6,  1861.  Children, 
none.  Children  of  James  and  Harriet  Hume: 
I.  James.  2.  Harriet.  3.  Mary,  married  George 
Longstreet,  of  Oceanic :  child,  Harriet  Long- 
street.  4.  George,  married  Mary  Riddle  :  child, 
Henry  \\'hitemore  Hume. 

(The   Skiff  Line). 

(I)  James  Skiff,  progenitor  of  all  the  colo- 
nial families  of  this  surname,  is  said  to  have 
come  from  London,  England,  and  settled  at 
Plymouth,  New  England,  before  1636.  He  re- 
ceived five  acres  of  land  for  services  done  to 
Isaac  Allerton,  and  bought  five  more  acres  of 
Peter  Talbot  August  22,  J836,  •  He  sold  his 
house  and  land  at  Plymouth,  January  i,  1^37, 
and  removed  to  Sandwich.  He  had  lands 
granted  in  1641,  and  was  admitted  a  freeman 
June  5,  1644.  He  was  a  town  officer  and  fleputy 
to  the  general  court.  He  was  tolerant  in  relig- 
ion, and  on  account  of  his  humanity  toward 
the  Quakers  was  disciplined  by  the  general 
court.  He  deeded  lands  to  his  son, Nathaniel, 
February  27,  iC)7i.  His  wife,  Mary,  died  Sep- 
tember 21,  1673.  Children:  i.  James,  born 
September  12.  1638.  2.  Stephen,  April  14, 
1641.  3.  Nathanief,  March  20,  1645.  4.  Sarah. 
October    12,    I ('146.      5.    P.athshuah,    .Viiril    21, 


U148.  6.  Mary,  March  2^.  iri5o.  7.  Miriam 
(or  Marienne),  March  25,  1652.  8.  Patience, 
March  25,  1653.  9,  Benjamin,  November  15. 
1655.  10.  Nathan,  May  16,  1658:  mentioned 
below.     II,  Elizabeth  (  ?). 

(II)  Nathan,  son  of  James  Skiff,  was  born 
in  Sandwich,  Massachusetts,  May  16,  1658. 
He  married  (first)  Hepsibah,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Coleman,  1680:  (  second  )  Mercy,  daughter  of 
John  Chipman,  of  Barnstable,  December  13, 
1609.  They  settled  on  Martha's  \'ineyard. 
Children  of  first  wife:     i.  Hepsibah,  married 

Norton.     2.  Patience,  born  at  Tisbury, 

Martha's  \'ineyard.  3.  James,  born  at  Chil- 
mark,  Martha's  Vineyard,  March  10,  1689.  4. 
Elizabeth,  September,  1690.  5.  Benjamin,  April 
29,  1691,  6.  Stephen,  May  26,  1693.  7.  Mary, 
May  26,  1695.  8.  Sarah,  February,  1698.  Chil- 
dren of  second  wife:  \y.  Mercy,  July  5,  1701. 
10.  Samuel,  December^4,  1703;  was  in  Scitu- 
ate  and  Hanover,  Massachusetts,  ii.  John, 
born  August  22.  1705  ;  died  March  6,  1728.  12. 
Joseph,  November  18,  1707.  The  mother  of 
Mercy  Chipman  was  Hope  Howland,  of  May- 
flower ancestry.  Nathan  Skiff  died  February 
9'  ^726. 

(HI)  Benjamin,  sdu  of  Nathan  .Skiff,  was 
born  at  Martha's  \'ineyard.  Ajiril  29,  i(k)i.  He 
married  (  first)  Abigail  James  :  (  second)  Miriam 
Merry.  He  lived  in  Chilmark,  Martha's  Mne- 
yard,  and  Ellsworth,  Maine,  where  he  died  De- 
cember 2,  1781.  Most  of  this  family  were 
Quakers.      Children    of   first    wife:      Abigail, 

married Merry ;  Nathan,  lived  at  Mar- 

th.a's  Vineyard  ;  John,  mentioned  below  ;  Prince  ; 
Benjamin,  married  Susannah  Hillman,  of  Chil- 
mark. Children  of  second  wife:  Mary,  Sep- 
tember I,  1744:  Elizabeth,  1741,  died  at  Ells- 
worth, 1818. 

( IV  )  John,  son  of  Benjamin  Skiff",  was  born 
at  Chilmark,  Martha's  \"ineyard,  about  1730. 
The  genealogy  states  that  he  had  a  son,  Jacob, 
and  is  unable  to  trace  him.  He  seems  to  be 
without  doubt  the  John  Skiff,  of  Dartmouth 
(New  Bedford),  Massachusetts.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  revolution  from  Dartmouth,  in 
Captain  Daniel  Egery's  company.  Colonel  Tim- 
othy Danielson's  regiment,  in  1775;  was  musi- 
cian in  Captain  Thomas  Crandon's  company 
from  Dartmouth ;  matross  in  Captain  Timothy 
Iiigraham's  company,  March  i.  1778,  to  May  i, 
at  Dartmouth;  fifer  in  Captain  George  Clag- 
horn's  company.  Colonel  .Xbiel  Mitchell's  regi- 
ment, July  to  October,  1780,  in  L'ristol  county. 
In  the  census  of  1790  we  find  Benjamin,  Prince 
and  Stephen  Skiff,  of  this  family,  heads  of 
families  in  New  ^'ork.     Prince  was  at  Cam- 


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STATE   OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


bridge,  Albany  county,  and  the  other  two  in  the 
jMohawk  \alley,  Montgomery  county.  In  1790 
John  was  living  at  New  Bedford,  and  had  two 
sons  under  sixteen  and  four  females  in  his 
family.  His  elder  sons  probably  had  left  home. 
John  Jr.  had  a  family  of  his  own.  with  a  son 
under  sixteen  and  four  females.  Another  John 
Skiff  was  living  at  \\'orthington.  ^lassachu- 
setts,  in  1790.  Fairhaven  and  Xew  Bedford 
were  formerly  Dartmouth.  ^Massachusetts.  Ac- 
cording to  the  family  records.  John  Skiff  was 
a  soldier  in  the  revolution,  and  was  a  prisoner 
of  the  British  for  a  time  in  the  old  Coffee 
House,  Xew  York. 

(V)  John  Skiff,  son  of  John  Skiff,  was  born 
about  1760,  in  New  Bedford,  Massachusetts, 
of  adjoining  town.  As  stated  already  he  was 
living  there  in  1790.  and  had  a  family.  His 
daughter.  Hannah  Maria  Skiff,  married  John 
H.  \Vhitmore  (i). 


John  Somers,  founder  of  the 
SOMERS  family  of  his  name  in  New  Jer- 
sey, was  born  in  Worcester. 
England,  in  1640,  and  died  in  that  portion  of 
Egg  Harbor  township,  Gloucester  county.  New 
Jersey,  which  is  now  Somer's  Point,  Atlantic 
county,  in  1723.  He  emigrated  first,  it  is  said, 
to  upper  Dublin,  Pennsylvania,  but  if  so,  he 
removed  very  shortly  to  West  Jersey,  as  he  is 
styled  "husbandman  of  the  Province  of  West 
Jersey"  in  the  deed  of  Thomas  Budd.  of  Phila- 
delphia, dated  November  30.  1695,  conveying 
to  him  fifteen  hundred  acres  "on  the  Sound, 
north  east  of  Great  Egg  Harbor,"  eight  hun- 
dred acres  "between  Patconec  Creek,  the  Bay 
and  the  Sound,"  and  seven  hundred  acres  "on 
the  Sound  side  of  Great  Egg  Harbour  between 
Peter  Cowonover  and  Patconec  Creek."  In  a 
deed  dated  March  23.  1695-6,  in  which  he  con- 
veys to  James  Steelman  one  hundred  acres  of 
the  fifteen  hundred  acre  tract,  he  is  styled 
"John  Somers,  of  Great  Egg  Harbour,  Glou- 
cester county.  Esquire,"  a  title  that,  according 
to  its  use  in  those  days,  implied  that  he  had  the 
right  to  bear  coat  armor.  He  is  buried  in  the 
old  Somers  burying-ground,  in  the  pines,  near 
Somer's  Point.  He  married  (first)  in  Eng- 
land, a  woman  whose  name  is  unknown,  and 
who  died  during  the  voyage  to  .Xmerica.  He 
married  (second)  Hannah  Ilodgkins,  of  Wor- 
cester, England,  born  1667;  died  1738.  Chil- 
dren by  second  wife:  Richard,  referred  to 
below;   James,   born   July    15,    1695,   married 

Abigail ;  Samuel :  Job  :  Isaac  :  Edmund, 

married    January    2.    1704,    Mary    Steelman; 
Bridget;  Hannah;  Millicent,  born  October  7, 


1685,  married,  June  16,  1704.  Richard  Town- 
send,  of  Cape  ^lay. 

fll)  Richard,  son  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Hodgkins)  Somers,  was  born  probably  in 
West  Jersey,  in  March,  1693,  and  died  at 
Somer's  Point,  November  27,  1760.  It  was  he 
who  burnt  the  brick  and  built  at  Somer's  Point 
the  old  family  mansion  which  is  still  stand- 
ing, lie  married  Judith  Letart,  born  May  16, 
1712;  died  August  26.  1763.  According  to  one 
account  she  is  said  to  have  been  the  daughter  of 
Sir  James  Letart.  of  Acadia,  Nova  Scotia,  but 
according  to  another  and  very  circumstantial 
tradition  preserved  by  the  Frambes  family,  she 
v.as  the  daughter  of  William  Letart,  was  left 
an  orphan  while  still  very  young,  and  was 
brought  up  in  the  household  of  Peter  White, 
of  Shrewsbury.  Children:  i.  Francis.  2. 
James,  referred  to  below.  3.  John,  born  Octo- 
ber 14,   1727;  died  August  27,  1799;  married 

(first) ;  (second)  Hannah  Spiner 

Ludlam.  4.  Richard,  born  November  24.  1737  ; 
died  October  22,  1794;  married,  December  3, 
1761,  Sophia  Stilwell.  of  Cape  May.  He  was 
a  colonel  in  the  militia,  a  judge  of  the  county 
court,  a  member  of  the  provincial  congress  of 
1775,  although  he  did  not  take  his  seat,  and  an 
active  \\  hig  during  the  revolution.  5.  Edmund, 
born  May  20.  1745.  6.  Joseph,  lost  at  sea  with 
his  brother,  Edmund.    7.  Judith  S.,  born  April 

5,  1743;  married  Risley.    8.  Sarah  S., 

born  July  21,  1729;  married.  March  5,  1740, 
Frederick  Steelman.  9.  Elizabeth  S.,  born 
April  5,  1733;  married Paul.  10.  Han- 
nah, born  December  22,  1735;  married  Peter 
Andrews. 

(HI)  James,  son  of  Richard  and  Judith 
(Letart)  Somers,  was  born  at  Somer's  Point, 
New  Jersey,  July  2.  1739.  He  married.  July 
20,  1759,  Rebecca  Steelman.  Children:  James 
(2),  referred  to  below;  Abigail,  married  John 
Steelman  :  Samuel ;  Alice,  married  Peter  Fram- 
bes ;  Rebecca,  married  Conover ;  Han- 
nah, married  (first)  John  Holmes,  (second) 
John  Shillingsworth  ;  Aaron  ;  Sarah. 

(I\")  James  (2),  son  of  James  (i)  and  Re- 
becca (  Steelman)  Somers,  was  born  at  Somer's 
Point,  Atlantic  county.  He  was  a  slave  owner, 
and   built  the  old  mill   at   Bargaintown.     He 

married  (first)  Sarah ;  (second)  Mary 

(Brennan)  Scull.  Children,  all  by  first  mar- 
riage: I.  Samuel,  referred  to  below.  2.  Nich- 
olas, married  (first)  Ruth  (Willits)  Corson; 
(second)  Phebe  Scull.  3.  James,  married  Susan, 
daughter  of  James  and  Lettice  (Finley)  Som- 
ers. and  granddaughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
(Spicer)  Ludlam  Scull,  referred  to  above.    4. 


STATE   OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


Josepli.  5.  David.  6.  Jacob,  married  Mary 
Clark.  7.  Sarah,  married  John,  son  of  John 
Recompence  and  Phoebe  (Dennis)  Scull  (see 
Scull  J.  He  was  brother  of  her  brother  Nich- 
olas's second  wife.  8.  .Richard,  married  Leah 
Holmes.  9.  Francis,  married  Margaretta  Van- 
sant. 

(\')  Samuel,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  Soni- 
ers,  was  born  November  25,  1779,  and  died 
January  4,  1855.  He  married,  December  13. 
1801,  Roxanna,  daughter  of  John  Recompence 
and  Phoebe  (Dennis)  Scull,  and  granddaugh- 
ter of  John  and  Mary  Scull.  Her  sister.  Phoebe, 
married  her  husband's  brother,  Nicholas,  re- 
ferred to  above,  and  her  brother,  John  Recom- 
pence Jr.,  married  her  husband's  sister,  Sarah, 
referred  to  above.  Children:  i.  Sarah,  born 
1804;  married  Andrew  Frambes.  2.  Constant, 
referred  to  below.  3.  Washington,  born  i8og; 
married  Deborah,  daughter  of  James  and  Anna 
(  Dlackman)  Somers  (a  second  marriage),  and 
grandson  of  John  and  Hannah  (Spicer)  Lud- 
1am  Somers,  referred  to  above.  4.  Mary,  born 
181 2;  died  young.  5.  Eliza  Ann,  born  18 14; 
(lied  1872 ;  married  David  B.,  son  of  James  and 
Aner  (Rlackman)  Somers,  and  grandson  of 
John  and  Hannah  (  Spicer )  Ludlam  Somers, 
leferred  to  above,  who  was  born  in  June,  1807, 
and  died  April  12,  1874.  He  was  a  justice  of 
the  peace,  a  lay  judge,  and  a  member  of  the 
New  Jersey  senate.  6.  Mary,  born  1817;  died 
1836;  married  John  Brock.  8.  Phoebe,  born 
1824;  married  Josiah  Dilks. 

(\'I)  Constant,  son  of  Samuel  and  Rox- 
anna (Scull)  Somers,  was  born  in  Egg  Harbor 
township,  Atlantic  county,  in  1806,  and  died 
there  in  1891.  He  married,  in  1829,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Daniel  Edwards.  Children:  i. 
Samuel,  died  young.  2.  Maryett,  born  1832; 
died  1857  ;  married  Samuel  W.  Tilton  ;  one  son, 
Curtis.  3.  Daniel  E.,  born  1834;  died  igo8; 
married  Mary  E.  Price;  two  children.  4.  Sam- 
uel, referred  to  below.  5.  Lewis  Henry,  born 
1839;  died  1890;  married  Lenora  C.  Adams; 
two  children.  6.  Susan  E.,  married  Harrison 
Dubois,  of  Woodbury.  7.  Israel  S.,  born  1844; 
went  to  California  in  1866;  married,  and  had 
nine  children.  8.  Sarah,  married  James  Til- 
ton  :  six  children.  9.  Annie  J.,  born  1849;  ''i^d 
1S81  ;  married  James  Steelman  ;  removed  to 
Kansas,  where  both  died  about  the  same  time. 
TO.  .Aner  P.,  married  James  Farrish :  four  cliil- 
dren. 

(  \'II  )  .Samuel,  son  of  Constant  and  .Sarali 
(Edwards)  Somers,  was  born  at  Egg  Harbor, 
Atlantic  county,  December  5,  1836.  He  mar- 
ried Rachel  Lambert,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  H. 


Githens,  of  Philadelphia,  who  was  born  in 
1840.  Children:  Warren  and  Hubert,  both 
I  ef erred  to  below. 

(\Tn)  Warren,  son  of  Samuel  and  Rachel 
L.ambert  (Githens)  Somers,  was  born  in  1868. 
He  married  Isora  Blackman.  Children  :  Helen  ; 
Samuel ;  Harold,  born  1895,  died  1899  ;  Rachel ; 
Warren  Jr. 

(\'ni)  Hubert,  son  of  Samuel  and  Rachel 
Lambert  (Githens)  Somers,  was  born  in  Egg 
Harbor  township,  Atlantic  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, January  5,  1872,  and  is  now  living  at  At- 
lantic City,  New  Jersey.  He  married,  March 
4.  1907,  Laura  Estelle,  daughter  of  Isaac  C. 
Toone,  who  was  born  July  23,  1878.  Child, 
Florence,  born  April  19,  190S. 


.-\niong  the  numerous  fam- 
RICHARDS      ilies    bearing    the    name    of 

Richards  which  are  repre- 
sented in  the  new  world,  it  is  sometimes  diffi- 
cult to  ascertain  the  exact  nationality,  as  the 
modern  spelling  in  some  cases  is  derived  from 
the  German  Reichert,  in  others  from  the  Eng- 
lish Richard,  and  in  still  others,  as  in  the  pres- 
ent instance,  where  the  descent  has  been  proven 
by  Mr.  Louis  Richards,  of  Reading,  Pennsyl- 
vania, from  the  Welsh  christian  name,  which 
is  identical  in  form  with  the  English. 

(I)  Owen  Richards,  founder  of  the  family 
under  consideration,  emigrated  from  Merion- 
ethshire, North  Wales,  certainly  before  17 18, 
and  probably  not  earlier  than  1710  or  1715. 
Possibly  he  lived  for  a  time  in  PredytYryn, 
Whiteland,  or  some  other  of  the  Welsh  por- 
tions of  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 22,  1718,  he  bought  three  hundred  acres  in 
Amity  township,  then  Philadelphia,  now  Berks 
county,  and  in  1726,  with  another  Welshman 
named  David  Harry,  of  Chester  county,  he 
bought  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  in  Oley 
township.  He  died  some  time  after  1734.  Ac- 
cording to  tradition  he  was  accompanied  to  this 
country  by  his  wife,  three  sons,  and  one  daugh- 
ter. In  1727  he  married  (second)  in  Christs 
Church,  Philadelphia,  Elizabeth  Baker,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty,  in  1753.  Children: 
James  ;  William,  referred  to  below  ;  John,  mar- 
ried Sarah  ,  and  probably  removed  to 

X'irginia ;  Elizabeth,  probably  died  unmarried. 

(II)  William,  son  of  Owen  Richards,  was 
born  in  Wales,  and  had  grown  to  manhood 
when  he  came  with  his  father  to  this  country. 
He  seems  at  one  time  to  have  possessed  consid- 
erable property,  but  died  poor.  For  some  years 
he  was  constable  of  Amity  township,  and  a 
deposition  dated  in   1738  contains  a  diverting 


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account  of  his  rough  experience  as  a  peace 
office  with  some  violators  of  the  provincial 
law  against  the  obstruction  of  the  navigation 
of  the  Schuylkill  river  by  the  erection  of  racks 
for  taking  fish.  He  died  in  Oley  township, 
January,  1752;  his  will  being  dated  December 
26,  previous,  and  the  inventory  of  his  estate 
amounting  to  £207  7s.  lod.,  Pennsylvania  cur- 
rency. His  children  were:  i.  Mary,  married 
John  Ball,  of  Berks  county,  whose  son,  Joseph, 
became  the  manager  of  Colonel  John  Cox's 
foundry  at  Batisto,  New  Jersey,  where  many 
of  the  cannon  for  the  revolutionary  army  were 
forged.  2.  Owen,  served  in  the  revolution. 
3.  James,  referred  to  below.  4.  Ruth,  mar- 
ried Daniel  Kunsman.  5.  William,  born  Sep- 
tember 12,  1738,  died  August  23.  1823; 
another  of  Colonel  Cox's  resident  managers, 
and  one  of  the  revolutionary  army  at  \'alley 
Forge;  he  married  (first)  Mary  Patrick, 
(second)  Margret  Wood.  6.  Margret,  mar- 
ried Cornelius  Dewees.  7.  Sarah,  married 
James  Hastings,  and  removed  to  \'irginia. 

(HP)  James,  son  of  William  Richards,  was 
born  about  1722,  and  baptized  in  the  Old 
Swedish  (now  Prostestant  Episcopal)  Church 
of  St.  Gabriel's,  at  Morlattom,  Douglassville, 
on  the  Schuylkill.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  lived 
first  in  Amity  township  and  later  in  Cole- 
brooksdale  township,  Berks  county.  During 
the  revolution  he  served  as  sergeant  in  Cap- 
tain Tudor's  company.  Fourth  Pennsylvania 
Continental  Line,  enlisting  May  10,  1777.  He 
was  a  man  of  immense  brain  and  great  physi- 
cal strength,  and  his  life  was  full  of  adven- 
tures. He  died  in  1804.  By  his  wife  Mary  he 
had  children:  William,  born  January  2"/.  1734: 
Frederick  :  Elizabeth,  married  Enoch  Rutter  ; 
James;  Owen;  Mary,  married  Henry  Fox; 
Sarah,  married  Henry  Schmalc ;  Hannah,  died 
unmarried;  John,  married  (first)  Rebecca 
Ludvvig,  (second)  Louisa  Silvers;  seven  chil- 
dren. It  is  from  among  these  children  that 
the  ancestry  of  Enoch  Richards,  of  .\rdmore, 
Pennsylvania,  referred  to  below,  must  be 
sought. 

Enoch  Richards,  of  .A.rdmore,  Pennsyl- 
vania, married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John  Tay- 
lor, of  Ardmore.  and  among  their  children 
was  Jacob  Rickerbaugh,  referred  to  below. 

Jacob  Rickerbaugh,  son  of  Enoch  and 
Rebecca  (Taylor)  Richards,  was  born  at  Ard- 
more, Pennsylvania,  July  11,  1856,  and  is  now 
living  at  Atlantic  City.  New  Jersey.  For  many 
years  he  was  a  contractor  and  builder  in 
Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  but  in  1882  he 
established    at    South    Carolina    and    at    the 


Boardwalk.  Atlantic  City,  the  well-known 
Richards  Baths.  These  are  among  the  finest, 
if  not  actually  the  very  best,  of  the  bathing 
establishments  at  that  famous  summer  resort, 
and  it  is  not  an  unconmion  thing  for  them  to 
accommodate  four  thousand  bathers  in  a  single 
day.  Mr.  Richards  has  made  himself  extreme- 
ly popular,  and  by  his  attention  to  the  needs 
and  desires  to  his  patrons  he  has  won  a  well 
deserved  reputation  and  popularity,  which  is 
second  to  none. 

Mr.  Richards  married  Martina  Maida  Spah- 
mer  (  see  Spahmer).  October  13,  1882,  and  they 
have  one  child,  Lewis  Emerson  Richards,  born 
July  9,  1884,  who  graduated  from  the  Atlantic 
City  high  school  in  1 902,  then  entered  the 
lower  department  of  the  L'niversity  of  Penn- 
sylvania, from  which  he  graduated  with  a 
degree  of  LL.  A.  in  1906,  and  is  now  a  rising 
young  lawyer  of  the  Atlantic  City  bar,  with 
offices  at  516-517  Bartlett  Building.  He  is 
unmarried. 

(The  Spahmer  Line). 

The  Spahmer  family  which  has  intermarried 
with  the  Richards  belongs  with  the  nineteenth 
century  comers  to  this  country. 

Anton  Adam  Spahmer,  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  this  country,  was  born  April  23,  18 18, 
at  Frank fort-on-the-Rhine,  and  is  now  living 
in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  Before  coming 
to  this  coiuitry  he  served  as  one  of  the  old 
guard  of  France.  He  married  Maida  Pretcht. 
Children:  i.  Charles,  born  1856;  married  Miss 
Kenny  ;  children :  Marie,  married  Mr.  Sim- 
mons, of  Brooklyn,  Xew  York,  and  George, 
unmarried.  2.  Anton  Adams  Jr.,  married 
Mary  Keys,  of  Baltimore,  Maryland ;  chil- 
dren :  Alice  and  Howard.  3.  .Adolph,  mar- 
ried Miss  Leney.  4.  Josephine,  married  Ed- 
ward Skinner,  of  Hempstead,  Long  Island ; 
one  child  living,  Clarabel,  married  Alfred  Far- 
geon,  a  banker,  of  Xew  York  City.  5.  Mar- 
tina r^Iaida,  referred  to  below.  6.  Delia,  mar- 
ried Frederick  JeflFeries,  of  Irvington-on-the- 
lluilson,  an  expert  accountant.  7.  Domingo, 
married  Isaac  Stewart,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
has  one  son,  Paul. 

(II)  Martina  INIaida,  daughter  of  Anton 
Adams  and  "Maida  (Pretcht)  Spahmer,  was 
born  December  11,  1861.  and  married,  Octo- 
ber 13.  1882,  Jacob  Rickerbaugh  Richards  (see 
Richards). 

.Vmong  the  numerous  families  of 

SMITH     Smiths  which  have  played  such  a 

prominent  part   in   Xew   Jersey's 

history,  one  of  the  oldest  is  the  branch  at  pres- 


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^2: 


eiit  iinilcT  consideration,  which  traces  its  an- 
cestry back  as  far  as  and  beyond  tlie  revoUi- 
tioii. 

(I)  Asa  Smith,  tirst  of  the  line  of  whom 
there  is  certain  knowledge,  was  a  colonel  in 
the  New  Jersey  state  militia  during  the  war  of 
1812  and  as  such  took  part  in  the  repulse  of  the 
British  at  Cape  ]May.  Among  his  children 
was  Robert,  referred  to  below. 

(II)  Robert,  son  of  Asa  Smith,  was  a  farmer 
of  Fairton,  New  Jersey.  His  children  were : 
Asa,  Joseph.  Robert.  Phebe,  Mary  Jane,  Eliz- 
abeth. Emily,  Josiah  Franklin,  referred  to 
below. 

(HI  )  Josiah  Franklin,  son  of  Roliert  Smith, 
was  born  at  Fairton,  New  Jersey.  September 
24,  1836.  He  married  Anna  Maria,  daughter 
of  David  Campbell,  of  Atlantic  county.  New 
Jersey,  who  was  born  near  Weymouth,  March 
9.  1839.  Her  grandfather,  Donald  Campbell, 
of  Atlantic  county,  is  said  to  have  been  a  colo- 
nel in  the  revolutionary  army  and  to  have  been 
present  at  the  battle  of  Trenton.  One  of  his 
sons.  Archibald,  was  also  a  revolutionary  sol- 
dier. Josiah  Franklin  and  Anna  ]\Iaria  ( CaniiJ- 
bell)  Smith  had  six  children,  five  of  whom  died 
in  infanc}',  and  Joseph  F..  referred  to  below. 

(  I\' )  Joseph  F..  only  child  who  reached  matu- 
rity of  Josiah  P'ranklin  and  .\nna  Maria  (  Han- 
nah )  ( Campbell )  Smith,  was  born  at  Bridge- 
ton,  New  Jersey,  September  17,  1880,  and  is 
now  living  at  Millville.  He  came  to  this  place 
with  iiis  parents  while  he  was  yet  a  child,  and 
for  his  early  education  was  sent  to  the  public 
schools  there.  After  leaving  school  he  took 
up  the  study  of  law  in  the  ofifice  of  Lewis  H. 
I\iiller,  Esquire,  and  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Jersey  bar  by  the  supreme  court  as  attorney  in 
November,  1903,  and  as  counsellor  in  Febru- 
ary, 1907.  He  became  a  special  master  in 
chancery,  October  28,  1908.  He  has  ever  since 
been  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Millville,  and  in  the  fall  of  1901  was 
elected  justice  of  the  peace.  Mr.  Smith  is  a 
Republican  and  has  always  been  active  and 
prominent  in  his  party,  and  his  remarkable 
abilities  have  been  so  well  recognized  by  the 
community  in  which  he  lived  that  in  the  fall 
election  of  1907  he  was  chosen  as  mayor  of 
Millville  for  a  three  year  term.  He  is  thus 
almost  without  doubt  the  youngest  person  ever 
chosen  to  that  position  in  the  state  of  New  Jer- 
sey. On  January  8,  1908,  he  entered  into  the 
office.  Mr.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  Millville 
Lodge,  No.  580.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Tus- 
cola Tribe,  No.   176,  Improved  Order  of  Reil 


Men,  of  Millville,  and  a  memlier  of  Court 
Cumberland,  C)rder  of  Foresters  of  America. 
.\niong  his  clubs  and  societies  Mayor  Smith 
numbers  the  Cumberland  County  Bar  Associa- 
tion and  the  New  Jersev  Bar  Association. 


The  records  of  this  branch  of 
CRAMER  the  Cramer  family  begins  with 
Alfred  Cramer,  who  emigrated 
from  England  in  1750,  and  settled  on  Long 
Island,  where  he  remained  until  1780,  when  he 
removed  to  New  Jersey,  locating  in  Cumber- 
land county.  His  descendants  have  intermar- 
ried with  the  different  families  of  South  Jer- 
sey, and  can  trace  to  revolutionary  ancestors 
along  several  lines.  The  great-grandfather 
of  Lewis  Wheaton  Cramer  was  F"rederick 
Steelman.who  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  as 
was  his  son  Andrew  and  several  of  his  brothers. 
The  Steelmans  descended  from  James  Steel- 
man,  a  Swede,  who  was  of  the  New  Castle, 
Delaware,  Swedish  colony  prior  to  1690.  He 
was  the  owner  of  the  southwest  end  of  Abse- 
c|uam  Beach,  wdiich  he  bought  of  Thomas 
liudd.  James  Steelman  died  in  1734.  Fred- 
erick, his  grandson,  died  in  1778.  Andrew, 
son  of  Frederick  Steelman,  was  killed  on  Long 
Island  during  the  revolutionary  war  by  John 
Bacon,  a  Tory. 

(T)  George  Henry  Cramer  was  born  at 
May's  Landing,  New  Jersey,  in  1835.  He  was 
a  sea  captain,  and  during  the  civil  war  was  in 
the  government  transport  service.  He  married 
Sarah  Wheaton,  born  in  1833,  daughter  of 
George  Wheaton,  of  May's  Landing.  She  was 
a  sister  of  Rev.  William  Lewis,  Edward  and 
Henry  Wheaton,  all  deceased.  Her  sister, 
Lottie  (Wheaton)  Somers,  resides  in  Burling- 
ton, New  Jersey.  Her  father,  George  Wheaton, 
was  a  shipbuilder,  having  yards  at  Mays 
Landing.  In  1844  he  was  appointed  lay  judge 
of  Atlantic  county,  serving  with  dignity  and 
honor.  Children  of  Captain  George  N.  and 
Sarah  (Wheaton)  Cramer:  i.  Lewis  Wheaton, 
see  forward.  2.  \\'illiam  M.,  born  i860,  mar- 
ried L Neild.  and  had  a  daughter  Mary, 

who  married  Theodore  Townsend,  of  West 
CoUingswood,  New  Jersey.  3.  Mabel  Willits, 
born  1863;  married  Orris  R.  Estelville;  re- 
sides in  Kane,  F'ennsylvania. 

( II )  Lewis  Wheaton,  son  of  Captain  George 
H.  and  Sarah  (Wheaton)  Cramer,  was  born 
at  May's  Landing,  Atlantic  county.  New  Jer- 
sey, (October  30,  1855.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  .schools  of  his  native  town  and  at 
Bryant  and  Stratton's  Business  College.  His 
first  business  was  as  a  clerk  in  the  freight  ofifice 


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of  the  Camden  &  Atlantic  railroad,  after  which 
he  was  a  conductor  on  a  street  car.  He  had  a 
desire  to  follow  a  sailor's  life,  and  shipping 
with  his  father  as  seaman,  he  followed  the  sea 
for  ten  years.  He  rose  to  be  first  mate,  and 
finally  captain  of  a  vessel  engaged  in  the  coast- 
ing trade.  In  1887  he  receiveil  the  nomination 
of  the  Republican  party  for  county  clerk.  He 
was  elected  the  following  November,  and 
through  subsequent  re-elections  held  that  office 
for  ten  years  until  1897.  He  was  next  ap- 
pointed deputy  j)ostmaster  of  May's  Landing 
under  Postmaster  Lewis  E.  Jefiferies,  and  con- 
tmued  under  Postmaster  Captain  S.  S.  Hud- 
son. In  1906  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Roosevelt  postmaster  at  May's  Landing,  and 
is  now  serving  his  first  term.  He  is  a  thor- 
oughly experienced,  efficient  and  popular  offi- 
cial. Mr.  Cramer  is  a  Master  Mason  of  Unity 
Lodge  No.  96,  an  Odd  Fellow,  and  chaplain 
of  Atlantic  Lodge  No.  20,  and  for  the  past 
eight  years  treasurer  of  Lodge  No.  121,  Order 
United  .Ajnerican  Mechanics,  all  of  May's 
Landing.  He  married,  January  15,  1878.  Mary 
Jane,  born  in  .April,  1857,  daughter  of  William 
\'eal,  of  Buena  \'ista.  New  Jersey.  Mrs. 
Cramer  traces  to  revolutionary  ancestors,  her 
grandfather  Ackley  having  been  a  soldier  of 
the  revolution.  Children  of  Lewis  Wheaton 
and  Mary  Jane  (Veal)  Cramer:  i.  Bertha 
Ferrill,  born  at  May's  Landing,  in  October. 
1882;  graduate  of  New  Jersey  State  Normal 
School,  class  of  1885  ;  for  the  past  twelve  years 
has  been  assistant  principle  of  May's  Land- 
ing high  school.  2.  Arthur  Garfield,  born  in 
December,  1886:  graduate  of  Spring  Garden 
Institute,  Philadelphia :  an  electrician  in  the 
employ  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad :  married, 
January  23,  1909,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Adolph  Pennington. 


The  Dix  family,  although  it  has  several 
1)1  X     notable  representatives  in  New  Jersey 

who  have  done  more  than  sustain 
their  noble  name  in  its  new  environment,  have 
for  centuries  been  at  home  and  among  the 
foremost  makers  of  history  in  the  Old  Domin- 
ion. From  here  the  scions  of  the  Dix  family 
have  spread  into  various  colonies  and  later 
into  the  states  of  the  Union,  where  their  de- 
scendants have  become  such  noted  men  as 
Governor  Dix.  of  New  York,  and  Rev.  Morgan 
Dix,  so  long  the  rector  of  Trinity  Church.  New 
York  City. 

(I)  Levi  J.  Dix,  of  .Xccomac  Court  House. 
\'irginia,  was  one  of  the  largest  of  the  old 
plantation  slave  owners  of  that  state,  where 


his  house  was  noted  for  its  southern  hospitality, 
the  beauty  and  brilliancy  of  its  women  and  the 
wisdom  and  ability  of  its  men,  as  well  as  the 
happiness  and  prosperity  of  its  quarters.  Mr. 
Dix  was  one  of  the  most  noted  among  a  race 
of  noted  fox  hunters  and  sportsmen,  and  many 
was  the  gathering  that  met  in  the  early  dawn  at 
his  home  to  follow  the  hounds  through  the 
scented  woods.  His  wife,  who  was  one  of  the 
greatest  belles  of  that  section  of  the  country, 
was  Lovey  Wright,  whose  father  had  come 
from  England.  Among  their  children  was  Asa 
Thomas,  referred  to  below. 

(  II )  .Asa  Thomas,  son  of  Levi  J.  and  Lovey 
(  Wright )  Dix,  was  born  at  Accomac  Court 
House,  Virginia,  September  4,  1818.  He  was 
a  physician,  and  practiced  all  of  his  life  at 
Accomac  Court  House.  He  married  Lidia 
Jennett.  daughter  of  William  Kane,  born  in 
P>altimorc,  Maryland,  who  started  the  piano 
business  in  that  city,  being  the  maker  of  the 
Steep  and  Kane  piano.  Their  children,  twelve 
of  whom  are  now  living,  were:  George  H.. 
of  Parksley,  Virginia  ;  Preston  B. ;  Charles  C. ; 
Catharine  ;  Jefferson  .\. :  Jennett ;  Lily  :  Levi 
J.:  John  Morgan,  referred  to  below;  Norma 
L. :  Rose  E. ;  Minnie  ;  Sherwood  :  .Asa  Thomas 
Jr. :  Jewel. 

(HI)  John  Morgan,  ninth  child  and  sixth 
son  of  Asa  Thomas  and  Lidia  Jennett  (Kane) 
Dix,  was  born  at  Accomac  Court  House,  \'ir- 
ginia,  January  14,  1867,  and  is  now  living  at 
Cape  ^Iay  Court  House.  New  Jersey.  For 
his  early  education  he  attended  the  schools  at 
Accomac  Court  House,  and  afterwards  went 
to  the  .Xcademy  at  Onancock,  Virginia,  after 
graduating  from  which  he  entered  the  school 
of  medicine  of  Pjaltimore  University,  at  Balti- 
more. Maryland,  from  which  he  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1894.  In  the  fall  of  this 
year  he  became  an  assistant  at  the  medical 
college  of  John  Hopkins  University,  Baltimore, 
where  he  became  chief  of  clinics  and  demon- 
strator in  obstetrics,  and  at  the  same  time  was 
engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  the  city.  In  1899  the  Doctor  came  to 
Cape  May  Court  House,  where  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  ever 
since.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  State 
Medical  Society,  the  American  Medical  .Asso- 
ciation, and  the  Cape  May  County  Medical 
Society,  and  his  papers  before  these  various 
bodies  have  been  not  only  instructive  and  valu- 
able, but  have  been  the  subject  of  much  wide- 
spread favorable  comment  and  discussion.  Dr. 
Dix  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  in  Cape 
May  Court  House,  and  in  politics  is  an  Inde- 


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pendent.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Cape  May 
County  Lloard  of  Health,  and  of  the  Cape  May 
Court  House  Board  of  Education.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Indepenilent  Order  of  Odd 
F"ello\vs,  and  of  the  order  of  Red  Men.  In 
his  fine  and  beautiful  home  at  Cape  May  Court 
House  the  traditions  of  his  family  are  nobly 
preserved,  and  the  Doctor  is  one  of  the  worthi- 
est and  most  respected  members  of  a  com- 
numity.  which  is  one  of  the  nol)lest  in  the 
^tate. 

John  Morgan  Dix,  M.  D.,  married  (first) 
Nannie,  daughter  of  .Augustus  Wessels,  of 
Accomac  Court  House,  Mrginia,  who  died  in 
April.  1895,  leaving  two  children :  Lester, 
born  August  13,  1890,  now  at  the  Model  School, 
Trenton,  New  Jersey ;  and  Rosa,  born  October. 
1892,  who  took  the  scholarship  prize  at  the 
high  school  at  Cape  May  Court  House,  where 
she  graduated. 

In  .September,  1898  John  Morgan  Dix.  M. 
D.,  married  (second)  Jennie,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph T.  Yerby,  of  \'irginia,  who  served  in  the 
Confederate  army  during  the  civil  war,  under 
General  Stonewall  Jackson,  and  is  now  living 
in  Baltimore.  ]\Iaryland.  Child  of  John  Mor- 
gan. M.  D.,  and  Jennie  (Yerby  )  Dix  :  Isabella 
\  erby.  born  }*Iarch  15^  1902, 


The  Enders  family  of  Rah  way 
ENDERS     and   Newark,   New  Jersey,  are 

most  probably  a  branch  of  the 
family  of  the  same  name  which  has  been  for 
so  long  prominent  in  Dauphin  county.  Penn- 
sylvania, and  elsewhere,  but  as  yet  no  records 
have  come  to  light  which  will  establish  the 
exact  relationship.  In  fact  it  is  so  far  impos- 
sible to  get  further  back  than  John  Enders  of 
Rahway  the  founder  of  this  particular  branch 
of  the  family. 

( I )  John  Enders.  of  Rahway.  was  a  Quaker, 
who  lived  near  the  mill  pond  to  which  his  name 
has  been  given,  about  the  middle  and  latter 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  His  wife's 
name  has  become  lost.  Children  of  John  lend- 
ers :  I.  William.  2.  T'hebe,  married  a  Mr. 
Payne.  3.  James.  4.  Joseph.  5.  Cideon.  (>. 
John.     7.  Mary,  married  John  Ludlow. 

( II)  William,  son  of  John  Enders,  of  Rah- 
way, was  born  October  19,  1790,  and  died  -Sep- 
tember 9,  1826.  He  became  a  Presbyterian, 
and  was  married  twice.  February  15,  1820, 
he  married,  in  the  church  at  Westfield,  Phebe. 
daughter  of  .\aron  and  Jemima  (Lambert) 
Hatfield,  of  that  place.  She  was  granddaugh- 
ter of  Alatthias  Hatfield,  of  Westfield,  by  liis 


first  wife  Mary,  great-granddaughter  of  Mat- 
thias and  Hannah  (Miller)  Hatfield,  of  Eliza- 
bethtown,  whose  daughters  Phebe  and  Han- 
nah married  respectively  Colonel  Robert  and 
Samuel  Ogden.  She  was  great-great-grand- 
daughter of  Isaac,  antl  great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of  ^latthias  Hatfield,  the  emigrant, 
and  Maria,  the  daughter  of  the  famous  Jacob 
Melyn,  of  New  Amsterdam.  Phebe  (Hat- 
field) Enders  was  born  in  Westfield  in  1799, 
and  died  in  Rahway,  March  11,  1822.  She 
was  mother  of  one  child,  Mary.  After  her 
death  William  Enders  married  Anna  Bloom- 
field  Luke,  born  December  3,  1802.  died  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1888,  daughter  of  Captain  Robert 
Luke,  a  revolutionary  soldier,  whose  five  chil- 
dren were :  Mary,  Jane,  .\nna,  Martha  and 
Robert. 

(Ill)  William  llartnn,  sun  of  William 
and  Anna  Bloonifield  (Luke)  Enders,  was 
born  in  Rahway,  New  Jersey,  January  14. 
1827,  about  five  months  after  his  father's  death. 
At  fir.st  he  was  sent  to  a  private  school  in  Rah- 
way. and  after  that  he  went  to  the  Rahway  semi- 
nary, under  the  management  of  Rev.  XV'illiam 
Martin.  \\'hen  he  was  fifteen  he  went  into  a 
general  store  as  clerk  and  remained  there  for 
two  years,  and  then,  April  i.  1844,  secured  a 
position  with  James  M.  Ouimby  &  (Company, 
manufacturers  of  coaches  and  hearses,  New- 
ark. With  this  firm  he  remained  nine  years, 
and  in  1852  started  for  himself  in  the  carriage 
making  business  in  company  with  John  T.  Lev- 
erich.  the  firm  name  being  Leverich  &  Enders. 
In  1884  Mr.  Enders  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness life.  He  has  been  called  upon  by  the  courts 
to  a])praise  many  estates,  this  showing  him  to 
be  a  man  of  sound  judgment. 

Mr.  Enders  is  a  Republican,  and  so  little 
of  an  office  seeker  is  he  that  he  has  steadily 
refused  all  offers  to  have  him  run  for  or  be 
ai)pointed  to  any  office,  although  he  was  more 
tlian  once  pressed  to  do  so.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  Dutch  Reformed  Congregation  of 
Newark,  of  which  his  family  are  members. 

January  8,  1832,  William  Barton  Enders 
married  Joanna,  daughter  of  John  and  Zeruah 
(  Oanialson  )  .Suti)hen  (see  .Sutphen).  Chil- 
dren: I.  Charles  Frederick,  born  July  24, 
1852,  died  June  18,  1854.  2.  William  Barton 
Jr.,  born  September  8,  1856,  died  .\ugust  17, 
i860,  3.  Addie  Matilda,  born  May  15,  iSCx). 
4.  Joanna  Virginia.  December  14,  1861.  5. 
Mary  .Anna.  November  7.  i8fi^.  died  .\ugust 
28.  1864.  6.  Ida,  b..rn  March'  ().  iSf.s,  ilicd 
April  28,  1865. 


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STATE    OF    NEW   JERSEY. 


John  lleadley,  the  first  member 
IIEADLEY  of  this  family  of  whom  we  have 
definite  information,  married 
Alary,  daughter  of  Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth 
(Cranmer)  Alathis,  she  was  born  June  9,  1768, 
and  died  March  17,  1863.  (See  Alathis).  Chil- 
dren: 1.  Elizabeth.  2.  Job,  married  Alary 
Lemonyon  ;  children  :  James,  Joseph,  Thomas, 
Emelinc,  Alice.  3.  Samuel,  referred  to  below. 
4.  Sarah,  married  Jabez  Parker.  5.  Jemima, 
married  Elvin  Smith.  6.  John  (2),  married 
I'hebe  Lamson,  of  Alannahawkin.  7.  Alary, 
niarried  Richard  Parker ;  of  her  four  children, 
John  Parker,  the  eldest  son,  was  drowned 
while  saving  seamen  on  a  stranded  wreck  on 
Ijarnegat  Beach.  8.  Joseph,  married  Ann  Bur- 
ton ;  cliildren :  John,  Phineas,  Richard,  Je- 
mima, Sarah.  9.  Jesse,  married  Alary  Rock- 
hill  ;  children :  Subonian,  William,  Charles. 
Sarah,  Lydia,  Georgiana,  Jesse  and  Amanda. 

(II)  Samuel  (or,  as  his  name  is  sometimes 
written,  Samuel  B.),  son  of  John  and  Alary 
(Alathis)  Headley,  lived  in  Alathistown,  Little 
Egg  Harbor  township,  Ciloucester  county.  New 
Jersey.  Under  the  firm  name  of  Samuel  B. 
Headley  &  Sons  he  and  his  sons  conducted  for 
many  years  a  large  mercantile  established  at 
Tuckerton.  He  married  Alary  Foster.  Chil- 
dren: Joseph,  Alfred.  Sarah,  Elizabeth,  Alary, 
Dorcas,  Samuel- C.  (referred  to  below),  Ed- 
ward, Esther,  Charles. 

(HI)  Samuel  C,  son  of  Samuel  B.  and 
Mary  (Foster)  Headley,  was  born  in  Alanna- 
hawkin, New  Jersey,  and  lived  for  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  at  Tuckerton,  where  he  was  in 
jiartnership  with  his  father.  He  married  Helena 
Pharo.  born  at  West  Creek,  New  Jersey ;  she 
d'cd  when  her  only  .son  was  an  infant  of  a  few 
years  old.  Children:  Harry,  referred  to 
below ;  Alarian,  died  at  four  years  of  age. 

(IV)  Harry,  son  of  Samuel  C.  and  Helena 
( Pharo)  Headley,  was  born  at  Tuckerton,  New 
Jersey,  Alarcli  25.  1869.  and  is  now  living  at 
Ocean  City.  New  Jersey.  For  his  early  edu- 
cation he  attended  the  public  schools  at  West 
Creek.  New  Jersey,  and  when  his  parents 
moved  back  to  Tuckerton  he  went  with  them 
and  learned  the  trades  both  of  carpenter  and 
of  mason,  at  which  he  has  worked  from  time 
to  time  in  almost  all  jiarts  of  the  country.  Com- 
ing to  Ocean  City,  New  Jersey,  he  for  one 
year  worked  at  these  trades,  and  then  began  to 
take  contracts  for  building,  which  his  previ- 
ous experience  as  a  practical  carpenter  had 
eminently  fitted  him  to  do  with  success.  In 
1901  he  became  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  business  in  Ocean  Citv,  and  added 


this  to  his  contracting  business.  In  this  latter 
field  he  has  been  quite  if  not  more  successful 
than  in  his  former  work.  Air.  Headley  is  a 
Republican,  and  a  member  of  the  Alethodist 
Episcopal  Church.  He  is  active  in  public  af- 
fairs, and  is  considered  one  of  the  most  earn- 
est workers  for  his  party,  and  has  been  reward- 
ed for  his  energetic  services  by  being  appointed 
commissioner  of  deeds,  and  by  being  elected  by 
popular  vote  of  the  people  of  Ocean  City,  in 
1894.  a  member  of  the  city  council,  in  which 
capacity  he  has  served  continuously  up  to  this 
time  with  the  exception  of  four  years.  At  the 
present  time  he  is  still  in  office,  and  he  has 
served  longer  than  any  other  man  who  has  ever 
been  elected  to  that  or  similar  position  in  the 
town.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Junior  Ale- 
chanics,  and  president  of  No.  i  \'oIunteer  Fire 
Company  of  Ocean  City.  He  has  just  return- 
ed from  a  trip  to  Jamaica.  He  married,  June 
27,  1895,  Gertrude  Lydia,  daughter  of  John 
T.  and  Lydia  (Lake)  Price,  who  was  born  at 
Bargaintown,  Atlantic  county.  New  Jersey, 
November  20,  1870.     (See  Lake). 

(The  Mathis  Line). 

John  Alathis,  the  founder  of  this  family,  was 
born  in  England,  about  1690,  and  when  a  young 
man  he  and  his  brother.  Charles,  emigrated  to 
America.  They  settled  first  at  Oyster  P)ay, 
Long  Island,  and  Charles  Alathis's  descendants 
finally  settled  in  Shrewsbury  township.  Alon- 
mouth  county.  -New  Jersey.  John  Alathis  lived 
on  Long  Island  until  1713,  when  w-ith  William 
liirdsall  and  AToses  Forman,  he  bought  of 
Daniel  Leeds,  of  Springfield.  New  Jersey,  the 
island  then  known  as  Biddies  Island,  but  des- 
tined to  be  named  after  one  of  his  own  sons, 
the  Daniel  Alathis  Island.  This  island  on  Bass 
river  was  the  purchase  of  John  Alathis.  in  Egg 
Harbor,  but  it  was  only  the  beginning  of  a 
land  speculation  which  resulted  in  making  him 
tliC  largest  landholder  in  the  townshij).  and  he 
finally  became  the  wealthiest  and  most  distin- 
guished man  of  Little  Egg  Harbor.  He  mar- 
ried, in  1 7 16.  Alice,  daughter  of  Edward  (2) 
and  Sarah  (Ong)  Andrews,  and  widow  of 
John  Higbee,  of  Long  Island.  Her  father  was 
the  founder  of  Tuckerton,  New  Jersey,  and 
son  of  one  of  the  most  prominent  Quaker  min- 
isters of  his  day.  She  herself  is  said  to  have 
been  "possessed  of  unusual  business  talents, 
ordering  and  arranging  her  affairs  w-ith  the 
utmost  regularity  and  good  judgment."  and 
she  is  described  as  "a  large,  tall  and  muscular 
woman,  of  a  dark  complexion,  with  black  eyes 
and  hair,  which  she  inherited  from  her  father." 


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1285 


that  John  AFilIer  passed  under  his  emperor, 
who  was  about  his  own  age.  Francis  Josepli 
r^Iiller  was  given  the  usual  good  ethication  ac- 
corded by  the  government  to  German  boys,  and 
he  worked  at  fanning,  and  at  the  same  time 
learned  the  shoemaking  trade  so  as  to  fill  up 
all  his  time  to  advantage.  In  1854  he  left  Ger- 
many with  his  wife  and  sons,  William  and 
Jacob  R.,  and  they  settled  at  Cherry  \'alley. 
New  Jersey,  where  he  found  em]iloyment  on 
the  farm  of  John  Griggs,  where  he  remained 
for  two  years.  He  then  removed  his  family  to 
Bloomberry,  wdiere  he  worked  on  a  farm  for 
eight  years.  In  i86_|  he  located  his  family  in 
the  city  of  Trent(.>n,  and  he  worked  in  the 
rolling  mill  of  the  New  Jersey  Steel  and  Iron 
Company  continuously  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  Trenton,  September 
15,  i8c)2,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years.  He 
married,  about  1840,  in  Goldenbach,  on  the  river 
Xecker,  Baden,  Germany,  Elizabeth  Stught, 
born  1816:  died  in  l]loombcrry.  New  Jersey, 
in  1863.  Children:  i.  William,  born  in  ISaden, 
Germany,  about  1842.  2.  Jacob  R.  (i|.  v.). 
Others  were  born  in  New  Jersey,  among  them 
Charlie,  born  in  Cherry  \'alley,  about  1856. 

(II)  Jacob  R.,  probably  second  child  of 
Francis  Jose])h  and  Elizabeth  (Stught)  Miller, 
was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  in  1844.  whore 
he  attended  school  with  his  brother,  William, 
and  came  with  the  family  to  America  in  1851, 
where  he  continued  his  school  training,  and 
there  learning  English.  As  he  grew  beyond 
school  years  he  engaged  in  farming  work  ir. 
various  places  near  his  home,  atid  September 
15,  1862,  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  en- 
listed in  Company  F,  Thirtieth  New  Jersey 
X'olunteers,  which  company  was  recruited  in 
Bloomljerry,  Oliver  Kebbe  elected  captain.  The 
regiment  was  commanded  by  Colonel  John  J. 
Chadwick,  and  was  nuistered  into  the  L'nited 
States  volunteer  service.  Private  Miller  took 
])art  with  his  regiment  in  the  second  battle  of 
Fredericksburg,  May  3-3,  1863,  also  known  as 
the  battle  of  Chancellorsville.  He  was  muster- 
ed out  with  his  regiment  at  the  expiration  of 
its  nine  months'  service,  June  28,  1863,  at 
I'demington,  New  Jersey.  He  resumed  farm- 
ing, and  in  1872  went  to  Trenton,  where  he 
found  employment  in  the  rolling  mill  of  the 
New  Jersey  Steel  and  Iron  Company.  lie  re- 
signed his  position  in  1875,  in  order  to  take  a 
position  as  night  watchman  and  janitor  in  the 
buildings  of  the  College  of  .New  Jersey  at 
Princeton,  afterward  I'rincetnn  L'niversity.  He 
remained  at  the  college  for  about  three  years, 
when  he  resigned  to  become  head   farmer  for 


Paul  Trulane  in  Princeton.  In  1885  he  re- 
sumed work  for  the  New  Jersev  Steel  and  Iron 
Comj^any,  and  continued  in  its  employ  four- 
teen years.  In  1899  he  removed  to  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  to  take  a  responsible  posi- 
tion in  the  Baldwin  Locomotive  Works,  and 
the  engagement  was  extended  to  seven  years" 
service.  In  December,  1906,  he  removed  from 
Philadelphia  to  Roebling,  New  Jersey,  and  took 
a  position  in  the  rod  mill  of  the  steel  works, 
where  ho  was  still  employed  in  190Q,  On  re- 
moving to  Trenton  he  was  made  sexton  of 
Christ  Church  (Episcopal),  in  which  position 
he  served  for  six  years.  His  fraternal  affilia- 
tions were  :  Membership  in  the  Order  of  United 
American  Mechanics,  founded  in  1845,  Council 
No.  2,  of  Trenton,  and  the  Order  of  the  Shep- 
herd of  Bethlehem,  No.  88,  of  Roebling,  New 
Jersey.  His  service  as  a  soldier  in  the  civil 
war  was  recognized  by  Aaron  Wilkes  Post, 
No.  23,  G.  .\.  R.,  to  which  he  was  elected  a 
comrade.  His  political  party  was  the  Demo- 
cratic organization  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 
He  married.  February  22,  1867,  Mary  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Horace  Woodard,  of  Troy,  New 
York.  Children:  i.  William  H.,  born  in  Har- 
bourton.  New  Jersey,  October  28,  1869;  be- 
came a  rod  maker  in  mills  at  Roebling,  New 
Jersey:  married  Hannah  Davenijort ;  children; 
"Ellsworth,  Harold  F.,  Marion  Elizabeth,  Will- 
iam Anthony  and  Maud  .'\nna.  2.  Francis  Jo- 
sejjh  (q.  v.).  3.  Ellsworth  Rice,  born  in  Tren- 
ton, September  16,  1874;  became  superintend- 
ent of  rod  mill  at  Roebling:  married  Mary 
McCabe.  4.  Jacob  R.,  born  in  Princeton, 
March  5,  1876:  died  at  Camden,  January,  1900. 
5.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  in  Princeton,  April 
9,  1878:  married  Francis  M.  Rydel,  proof- 
reader in  office  of  North  American,  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania.  6.  Caroline  Emma,  born 
in  Trenton,  August  28,  1879:  married  John 
Clary,  electrical  engineer,  Philadelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania. 7.  Anna  Matilda,  died  in  1884,  aged 
three  years.  8.  Sophia  Julia,  born  in  Trenton, 
1887:  married  Henry  Richards,  timekeeper  at 
mills  in  Roebling :  child,  Caroline  Francis. 

(Ill)  Francis  Joseph,  second  son  of  Jacob 
R.  and  Mary  Ellen  (Woodard)  Miller,  was 
boni  in  Harbourton,  New  Jersey,  May  28, 
1872.  liis  school  training  was  received  in  the 
public  schools  of  Princeton  and  Trenton,  and 
at  the  Corresp'ondence  School  of  .Scranton, 
Pennsylvania.  His  first  employment  was  with 
the  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  Steel  and  Iron  C"om- 
])any,  1887-92.  and  in  the  rolling  mills  of  the 
Roeblings  at  Roebling.  New  Jersey,  1892-94. 
He  went  in   1894  to  .'\llentown,  Pennsylvania, 


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with  the  United  States  Steel  Company,  and 
from  there  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  the  same 
concern,  then  back  to  Allentown,  still  with  the 
same  concern.  Both  at  Allentown  and  in  the 
shops  at  Cleveland  he  was  assistant  roller,  be- 
came head  roller  in  Cleveland,  and  on  his  re- 
turn to  Allentown  was  second  roller  on  the 
night  tour.  In  1905  he  returned  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Roeblings  at  Trenton,  and  was 
made  head  roller  of  the  entire  plant,  and  in 
1907  was  transferred  to  Roebling  as  head  roller 
and  superintendent  of  the  rod  mill,  which  posi- 
tion he  was  still  holding  in  1909.  He  was  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  36,  1.  O.  O.  F.,  of  South 
Trenton,  and  of  the  Encampment  at  Trenton. 
He  was  also  member  of  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  initiated  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Lodge  No.  105,  Trenton.  He  was  bap- 
tized and  confirmed  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church,  which  was  the  church  of  his  parents. 
He  married  (first),  September  14,  1893,  Myrtle, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Martha  Hawk,  of  Tren- 
ton. Children,  born  in  Trenton  :  Myrtle,  \'iolet 
and  Edna.  The  mother  of  these  children  died  in 
Trenton,  in  19.02.  and  Francis  Joseph  Miller 
married  (second),  1903,  Lucy,  daughter  of 
George  and  l^ucy  Sticker,  of  Allentown,  Penn- 
sylvania. Children:  Francis  Joseph  Jr.,  born 
in  Trenton:  Herbert  \\'alter,  born  in  Roebling, 
New  Jersey. 

Thomas  .Arrowsmith  was 
ARROWS^HTH    born  in  England,  and  died 

at  Arrowsmith  Mills,  New 
Jersey.  1800-1802.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
owned  and  ran  a  mill,  from  which  the  place, 
Arrowsmith  Mills,  took  its  name.  Children: 
Thomas,  referred  to  below;  Joseph;  Henry; 
Maria. 

(H)  Thomas  (2),  son  of  Thomas  (i)  Arrow- 
smith,  was  born  at  Arrowsmith  Mills,  Middle- 
town  township.  New  Jersey,  in  1797,  and  died 
there,  December  27,  1869.  He  was  a  man  of 
limited  educational  advantages,  but  naturally 
gifted  with  superior  mental  endowments.  Hav- 
ing stored  his  mind  with  general  reading,  he 
became  an  interesting  and  entertaining  conver- 
sationalist as  well  as  a  pleasing  public  speaker. 
He  was  a  veteran  of  the  war  of  1812.  and  had 
a  pension  of  a  quarter  section  of  land  given 
him  in  return  for  his  services.  In  1835  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  legislative  counsel  of 
New  Jersey,  a  position  corresponding  with  that 
of  state  senator,  under  the  constitution  of  1S44. 
In  this  capacity  he  served  two  years,  being  suc- 
ceeded by  the  late  Hon.  William  L.  Dayton.  In 
1843  he  was  elected  to  the  responsible  position 


of  treasurer  of  the  state  of  New  jersey,  hold- 
ing the  office  until  1845.  From  1848  until 
1850  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  chosen 
freeholders  for  the  town  of  Raritan,  being  the 
first  to  represent  that  township  on  the  board. 
From  February.  1852,  until  February,  1858,  he 
was  one  of  ihe  lay  judges  of  the  court  of 
errors  and  appeals  of  New  Jersey.  In  all  these 
official  positions  he  discharged  his  duties  credit- 
ably and  acceptably  to  the  public,  and  his  integ- 
rity was  never  assailed.  Throughout  his  career 
he  enjoyed  in  the  highest  degree  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  his  fellow  citizens  He  married 
Emma,  daughter  of  Matthias  \'an  Brackle,  of 
Monmouth  county,  who  survived  the  death  of 
her  husband  a  few  years.  She  was  a  lady  of 
(|uiet  manner,  whose  countenance  seemed  radi- 
ant with  maternal  tenderness  and  alifection. 
and  whose  life  was  full  of  good  works.  Her 
father,  Matthias  \'an  Brackle,  was  a  substan- 
tial farmer,  who  in  1820  represented  his  district 
in  the  state  legislature.  Children  of  Thomas 
and  Emma  (\'an  Brackle)  Arrowsmith:  i. 
Joseph  Edgar,  M.  D.,  resident  of  Keyport ; 
children  by  first  marriage:  Emma  (died), 
.■\nnie  ;  children  by  second  marriage :  Cath- 
erine, Infant  (died).  2.  John  \'.,  resident  of 
Keyport ;  children  :  Emma,  died  :  Maria,  died  ; 
Joseph,  resident  of  New  Monmouth,  New  Jer- 
sev.  3.  Eleanor,  died  ;  married  Daniel  Roberts  ; 
children :  Thomas  H.  Roberts,  of  Rahway, 
New  Jersey ;  David  E.  Roberts.  4.  Cordelia, 
died  at  twenty  years.  5.  Thomas  \'an  Brackle. 
referred  to  below.  6.  Stephen,  died  in  infancy. 
7.  Emma,  died.  8.  George,  referred  to  below. 
9.  Stephen  \'.,  referred  to  below. 

(III)  Thomas  Van  Brackle,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Emma  (\'an  Brackle)  Arrowsmith,  was 
born  at  Arrowsmith  Mills,  New  Jersey.  At 
the  beginning  of  the  civil  war  he  enlisted  in 
the  Eighth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  and  wassub- 
se(|uently  promoted  to  the  position  of  brigade 
(|Uartermastcr.  with  the  rank  of  major,  serving 
until  the  end  of  the  war.  Afterwards  he  en- 
gaged in  teaching.  He  married  Elizabeth  Wall- 
ing. Children  :  Joe  ;  James  ;  .-Mfred  ;  Eusebius 
Walling,  referred  to  below;  Lottie;  Annie; 
Elizabeth. 

( IV)  Eusebius  Walling,  son  of  Thomas  \'an 
Brackle  and  Elizabeth  (Walling)  Arrowsmith. 
was  born  at  Keyport,  New  Jersey,  in  1844.  and 
died  October  3,  1907.  His  early  education 
was  obtained  at  a  public  school  from  whence 
he  passed  to  Holmes  Academy.  After  his 
graduation  he  read  law  with  Hon.  William  H. 
\'reedenburgh.  and  after  the  completion  of  his 
course  was  admitted  as  attorney  to  the  New 


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Brothers,  and  then  for  eleven  years  more  with 
the  chemical  company  of  A.  K.  Clipsteiii  & 
Company.  After  this  he  became  connected 
with  the  National  Aniline  &  Chemical  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  became  the  president.  He 
was  also  at  this  time  interested  in  the  firm  of 
Schoellkopf,  Hartford  &  Hanna.  In  this  latter 
company  he  still  retains  his  interest,  but  his 
princijial  business  is  as  the  president  of  the 
National  Aniline  &  Chemical  Company,  \vhose"~ 
offices  are  at  No.  109  North  Water  street, 
I'hiladelphia.  Mr.  Starr  is  a  Republican  and 
in  religion  an  inde]iendent.  In  a(ldition  to  his 
chemical  business,  he  is  a  director  in  the  Cen- 
tral Trust  Company,  of  Camden.  New  Jersey, 
and  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  West  Jersey 
Homreopathic  Hospital  of  Camden.  He  is  a 
member  of  numerous  clubs  and  organizations, 
besides  several  secret  societies,  among  these 
should  be  mentioned  Merchantsville  Eodge. 
No.  119.  Eree  and  Accepted  ?dasons,  Benev- 
olent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  Union 
League  Club  of  Philadelphia,  Country  Club  of 
Atlantic  City,  Dye  Club  of  New  York  City, 
Philadelphia  Yacht  Club,  New  Jersey  Society 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Manufacturers'  Club. 
Jesse  Williams  Starr  married  Blanche  L., 
daughter  of  Joseph  C.  and  Caroline  Lawrence. 
Children :  Lawrence  Hannah,  born  October 
13,  1897,  anil  Elinor,  October  23,  1901. 


The  Parker  family,  of  Mon- 
PARKER  mouth  county.  New  Jersey,  be- 
longs to  one  of  the  oldest  of  the 
early  settlers  of  that  region,  the  first  of  the 
family  whose  names  appear  being  Joseph  and 
Peter  Parker,  whose  names  are  found  in  the 
lecords  of  Shrewsbury  in  1667-68.  Thomas 
Parker  Sr.  and  Thomas  Parker  Jr.  are  named 
in  the  Freehold  records  of  17 16,  and  it  is  fmm 
these  persons  that  the  family  which  has  wnn 
itself  such  an  enviable  and  well-deserved  repu- 
tation in  the  county  and  state  are  descendants. 
(T)  Joseph  Parker,  ancestor  of  the  line 
under  present  consideration,  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  men  in  old  Shrewsbury,  being 
one  of  the  commissioners,  a  justice  of  the  court, 
a  deputy  to  the  general  assembly,  and  holding 
several  other  offices  at  various  times.  In  the 
general  assembly  of  1662-63  he  and  John 
Bowne  were  foremost  in  the  efiforts  to  main- 
tain the  rights  of  the  people  of  Monmouth 
against  the  demands  of  the  Lords  Proprietors. 
He  appears  to  have  died  in  1685.  as  in  May  of 
that  year  letters  of  administration  were  grant- 
ed on  his  estate  to  Jedcdiah  .Mien,  his  succes- 


Sfjr  in  the  assembly,  .-\mong  his  children  was 
Joseph  I^arker,  referred  to  below. 

(  II)  Joseph  (2),  son  of  Joseph  (i)  Parker, 
of  Shrewsbury,  died  in  1723,  devising  by  will 
his  land  in  Shrewsbury  township  to  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  and  nine  children.  Among  these 
was  Thomas,  who  is  referred  to  below. 

illL)  Thomas,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  Parker, 
of  Shrewsbury,  settled  in  Freehold  township, 
•where  he  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife 
being  a  Miss  James,  by  whom  he  had  children  : 

1.  Robert.  2.  John  (both  of  these  children 
went  west  while  they  were  yet  young  men ).  3. 
Thomas,  married;  children:  Thompson,  Isaac, 
Am\-,  Caroline.  Lydia  Ann,  Mary  Ann.  George. 
4.  Anthony,  married  Phebe,  daughter  of  David 
Stout;  children:  Thomas;  David  Stout;  Abi- 
gail, wife  of  Rev.  David  B.  Salter;  John,  and 
Joseph.  5.  William,  referred  to  below.  6. 
Lydia,  married  William  Barkalow  ;  children  : 
Ann.  wife  of  Job  Emmons;  Amy,  wife  of 
D.  D.  Denise ;  Thomas  Parker,  the  noted  hotel 
proprietor.  7.  Ann,  married  a  Mr.  Thompson. 
By  his  second  wife,  Sarah  (Stout)  Parker. 
Thomas  Parker  had  seven  more  diildren :  8. 
Jcisei^h,  married,  and  had  Sarah  Ann,  Achsah 
and  Henry.  9.  Hannah,  married  Cornelius 
Thompson,  and  had  Pemberton,  Burr,  Mary 
Ann  and  Sarah.  10.  Charles,  sheriff  of  Mon- 
mouth county ;  member  of  the  general  assem- 
bly thirteen  years ;  state  treasurer,  and  at  same 
time  state  librarian ;  married  a  daughter  of 
Captain  John  Coward,  of  the  Continental  army, 
and  had  Helen,  wife  of  Rev.  George  Burrowes  ; 
Mary,  married  James  B.  Glover ;  Joel,  the 
famous  governor  of  New  Jersey,  and  Charles. 
II.  Amy,  married  David  Reed,  and  had  Aaron 
and  Thomas.  12.  Mary,  married  John  John- 
stone, and  had  Lydia,  wife  of  a  Air,  Gravatt, 
and  had  William.  13.  Joel,  died  unmarried. 
14.  .Vnn,  married  John  Clayton,  and  had  one 
child.  Mary,  married  a  Mr.  Potts. 

(  I\' )  William,  son  of  Thomas  Parker,  mar- 
ried and  was  the  father  of  children:  i.  lesse, 
married  Martha  Davison;  children:  William, 
Exlmund,  Margaret,  Alexander,  and  one  died 
in  infancy;  Jesse  settled  in  Freehold  township. 

2.  Hannah,  married  a  Mr.  Cheeseman ;  five 
children  :  they  went  west.  3.  Lewis,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Asher  .Smith,  of  .Smith- 
burg;  went  west ;  among  their  children,  all  who 
settled  near  Dayton,  Ohio,  were:  .Asher,  John, 
Mary,  Lucy.  4.  Edmund,  see  forward.  5. 
Thomas.  6.  Robert.  7.  Lydia.  8.  James.  (), 
William.  10.  John.  The  last  five  named  went 
west  in  earlv  life. 


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STATE    OF    NEW    JERSEY. 


(\')  Edrnund,  son  of  \\'illiaiii  Parker,  set- 
tled in  Freehold  township.  He  married  .Sarah, 
daughter  of  John  and  \ancy  (Reed)  Smith. 
Children:  i.  John.  2.  Henry  William,  born 
at  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  1836;  died  July, 
1887,  leaving  a  widow,  who  was  daughter  of 
James  A.  Reid,  of  the  same  jjlace ;  children : 
Sarah  Smith,  died  soon  after  reaching  woman- 
hood ;  Lydia  Reid :  James,  married  a  Miss  Kid- 
der, of  New  York,  and  has  one  child.  John  R. ; 
John,  attended  F'reehold  Institute,  graduated 
from  Princeton  L'niversity  in  1888.  engaged  in 
business  in  F'reehold;  Cornelia:  Alfred,  died 
in  infancy;  Clarence,  attended  Freehold  Insti- 
tute, graduated  from  Princeton  University  in 
1890,  engaged  in  business  in  Paterson;  Ellen. 
3  James  Smith,  see  forward.  4.  Alfred.  5. 
Thomas.  6.  Rebecca  Ann.  7.  Sarah  Elizabeth. 
(\T)  James  Smith,  son  of  Edmund  Parker, 
was  born  at  F'reehold,  Xew  Jersey,  in  March, 
1839.  He  was  for  many  years  president  of 
the  Central  National  Bank  of  Freehold.  He 
married  Annie,  born  in  Monmouth  county. 
New  Jersey,  daughter  of  Enoch  Ely.  Chil- 
dren: I.  Edmund  J.,  born  in  Freehold,  New 
Jersey,  April  9.  1873:  in  April,  1894,  entered 
Central  Bank  of  Freehold,  and  in  1901  was 
made  cashier,  being  the  youngest  man  in  that 
capacity  in  the  state  of  New  Jersey.  2.  Enoch 
Ely,  see  forwartl.  3.  Mary  Rue,  married  a  Mr. 
Palmer,  of  Philadelphia,  and  is  living  in  south- 
ern California. 

(VII )  Enoch  Ely.son  of  James  Smith  Parker, 
was  born  in  F'reehold,  New  Jersey,  February 
28,  1875.  For  his  early  education  he  was  sent 
to  the  public  .schools  of  Freehold,  and  after 
graduating  from  I'reehold  Institute,  1894,  enter- 
ed the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  from  which  he  graduated  with 
high  honors  and  received  his  degree  of  M.  D. 
in  1898.  He  then  took  up  hospital  work  at  the 
Medico-Chirurgical  Hospital  in  Philadelphia, 
and  after  remaining  there  some  time  began 
general  ])ractice  at  Long  Branch,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  remained  about  two  years,  and  then 
removed  to  Philadelphia,  continuing  there  a 
little  over  a  year.  In  1900  he  came  to  .Atlantic 
City,  where  he  has  won  an  enviable  name  and 
a  most  successful  practice.  Since  taking  up 
his  residence  in  Atlantic  City  he  has  taken  an 
active  interest  in  politics,  and  has  been  affiliated 
with  the  second  ward  organization  of  the  city. 
During  the  memorable  campaign  for  governor 
between  Messrs.  Murphy  and  Seymour,  he 
organized  a  ]5olitical  club  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  state  and  was  unanimously  chosen  as 
the   president   of   the  organization.      Shortly 


after  his  advent  at  Atlantic  City  he  became  a 
Mason,  affiliating  himself  with  Trinity  Lodge, 
No.  79.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Trinity  Chap- 
ter, No.  38,  R.  A.  M.,  and  Atlantic  City  Lodge, 
Order  of  Foresters,  of  which  lodge  he  is  the 
physician.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
church,  and  in  politics  is  an  independent.  .Among 
the  nuiuerous  clubs  and  associations  to  which 
he  belongs  are  the  Atlantic  City  Yacht  Club, 
and  the  celebrated  City  Troop,  of  which  he  is 
not  only  a  member  but  a  director.  He  is  also 
one  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Board  Walk 
National  Bank.  Among  his  friends  he  is  con- 
sidered as  "a  good  fellow."  and  his  popularity 
among  the  permanent  residents  of  the  city  is 
well  known. 


This  is  a  common  family  name 
MILLER      in  Germany,  originating  in  the 

occupation  in  which  the  early 
ancestors  engaged,  and  generally  a  thrifty  fam- 
ily, largely  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits. 
The  first  American  ancestor  of  the  subject 
under  consideration  was  his  grandfather,  for 
whom  he  was  named. 

(I)  Francis  Joseph  Miller,  was  born  in  Col- 
senbuch,  Baden,  Germany,  in  1807.  He  was  a 
son  of  John  Aliller,  of  that  place,  who  was 
born  about  1761,  and  died  about  1857,  after 
attaining  the  unusual  age  of  four  score  years 
and  si.xteen,  reaching  within  four  years  of  the 
century  mjrk.  John  Miller  was  a  soldier  in  the 
(jernian  army,  and  was  taken  prisoner  by  Na- 
poleon the  Great  in  his  invasion  of  the  German 
.md  Prussian  territory,  and  subsequently  ex- 
changed. F'rancis  Joseph  w-as  named  for  his 
father's  commander,  Francis  I.  of  Germany, 
who  at  the  head  of  the  army  of  the  Nether- 
lands defeated  the  army  of  France  at  Catean 
and  Landrccy.  April  26.  1796.  and  May  22.  of 
the  same  year,  gained  the  bloody  battle  of 
Tournay.  The  fortunes  of  war  were,  however. 
with  the  young  Corsican,  and  his  triumphs  in 
Italy  forced  Francis  I.  to  conclude  the  treaty 
of  Campo  Fornica.  October  17.  1797,  and  this 
liumiliation,  followed  by  the  victories  of  Na- 
poleon at  I'lni  and  .\usterlitz  and  the  capture 
of  \ienna.  comi)letely  discouraged  Francis, 
who  surrendered  the  \'enetian  states  and  TyroK 
and  the  German  Empire,  after  an  existence  of 
one  thousand  years,  was  dissolved,  and  all  that 
was  left  to  the  proud  Francis  I.  was  the  title 
of  emperor  of  \ustria.  king  of  Bohemia  and 
Hungarv.  In  1809,  however,  he  renewed  the 
war  with  Nai)oleon,  and  the  victory  gained  at 
Aspern  did  much  to  restore  the  prestige  of  the 
Austrian  armv.     It  was  through  these  scenes 


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that  John  Miller  passed  under  his  emperor, 
who  was  aboul  his  own  age.  Francis  Joseph 
^Miller  was  given  the  usual  good  education  ac- 
corded by  the  government  to  German  boys,  and 
he  worked  at  farming,  and  at  the  same  time 
learned  the  shoemaking  trade  so  as  to  till  up 
all  his  time  to  advantage.  In  1854  he  left  ( ier- 
many  with  his  wife  and  sons,  William  and 
Jacob  R.,  and  they  settled  at  Cherry  Valley, 
New  Jersey,  where  he  found  employment  on 
the  farm  of  John  Griggs,  where  he  remained 
for  two  years.  He  then  removed  his  family  to 
Bloomberry,  where  he  worked  on  a  farm  for 
eight  years.  In  i8fi-|  he  located  his  family  in 
the  city  of  Trenton,  and  he  worked  in  the 
rolling  mill  of  the  New  Jersey  Steel  and  Iron 
Company  continuously  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  i>ccurred  in  Trenton,  September 
15,  1892.  at  the  age  of  eighty-live  years.  He 
married,  about  1840,  in  Goldenbach,  on  the  river 
Necker.  Baden,  Germany,  Elizabeth  Stught, 
born  1816;  died  in  Bloomberry,  New  Jersey, 
in  1863.  Children:  i.  \\'illiam,  born  in  Baden, 
Germany,  about  1842.  2.  Jacob  R.  (([.  \-. ). 
C)thers  were  born  in  New  Jersey,  among  them 
Charlie,  born  in  Cherry  Valley,  about  1856. 

(  II )  Jacob  R.,  probably  second  child  of 
Francis  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Stught)  Miller, 
w  as  born  in  Baden.  Germany,  in  1844,  where 
he  attended  school  with  his  brother,  William, 
and  came  with  the  family  to  America  in  1854, 
where  he  continued  his  school  training,  and 
there  learning  English.  As  he  grew  beyontl 
school  years  he  engaged  in  farming  work  u; 
various  places  near  his  home,  and  September 
15,  1862,  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  en- 
listed in  Comjiany  F,  Thirtieth  New  Jersey 
\'(jlunteers,  which  company  was  recruited  in 
nioumlierr)-,  Oliver  Kebbe  elected  captain.  The 
regiment  was  commanded  by  Colonel  John  J. 
Chadwick,  and  was  nuistered  into  the  United 
.States  volunteer  service.  Private  Miller  took 
part  with  his  regiment  in  the  second  battle  of 
Fredericksburg,  May  3-5,  1863,  also  known  as 
the  battle  of  ChanceJldrsville.  He  was  muster- 
ed out  with  his  regiment  at  the  expiration  of 
its  nine  months'  service,  June  28,  1863,  at 
Flemington.  New  Jersey.  He  resumed  farm- 
ing, and  in  1872  went  to  Trenton,  where  he 
found  employment  in  tiie  rolling  mill  of  the 
-New  Jersey  .Steel  and  Ircjn  Comjiany.  He  re- 
signed his  position  in  1875,  in  order  U>  take  a 
position  as- night  watchman  and  janitor  in  the 
buildings  of  the  College  of  New  Jersey  at 
Princeton,  afterward  Princeton  I'niversity.  He 
remained  at  the  college  for  about  three  years, 
when  he  resigned  to  become  head   farmer  for 


Paul  Trulane  in  Princeton.  In  1885  he  re- 
sumed work  for  the  New  Jersey  Steel  and  Iron 
Company,  and  continued  in  its  employ  four- 
teen years.  In  1899  he  removed  to  Philadel- 
phia, I'ennsylvania,  to  take  a  responsible  posi- 
tion  in  the  Baldwin  I-ocomotive  W^orks,  and 
the  engagement  was  extended  to  seven  years' 
service.  In  December,  Ujofi,  he  removed  from 
Philadeliihia  to  Roebling,  New  Jersey,  and  took 
a  position  in  the  rod  mill  of  the  steel  works, 
where  he  was  still  employed  in  190Q.  On  re- 
moving to  Trenton  he  was  made  sexton  of 
Christ  Church  (Episcopal),  in  which  position 
he  served  for  six  years.  His  fraternal  affilia- 
tion-; were:  Membership  in  the  Order  of  United 
American  Mechanics,  founded  in  1845,  Council 
No.  2,  of  Trenton,  and  the  Order  of  the  Shep- 
herd of  Bethlehem,  No.  88,  of  Roebling,  New 
Jersey.  His  service  as  a  soldier  in  the  civil 
war  was  recognized  by  Aaron  Wilkes  Post, 
No.  2^1,  G.  A.  R.,  to  which  he  was  elected  a 
comrade.  His  political  party  was  the  Demo- 
cratic organization  of  the  state  of  New  Jersey. 
He  married.  I''ebruary  22,  1867,  Mary  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Horace  Woodard.  of  Troy,  New 
York.  Children:  i.  W^illiam  H.,  born  in  liar- 
bourton.  New  Jersey,  Cktober  28,  1869:  be- 
came a  rod  maker  in  mills  at  Roebling,  New 
Jersey  :  married  Hannah  Davenport ;  children  : 
Ellsworth,  Harold  F.,  Marion  Elizabeth,  Will- 
iam Anthony  and  Maud  .Anna.  2.  F'rancis  Jo- 
se])h  (q.  v. ).  3.  Ellsworth  Rice,  born  in  Tren- 
ton, .Sejitember  16,  1874;  became  superintend- 
ent of  rod  mill  at  Roebling;  married  Mary 
McCabe.  4.  Jacob  R.,  born  in  Princeton, 
March  5,  1876 ;  died  at  Camden,  January,  igoo. 
5.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  in  Princeton,  April 
9,  1878:  married  Francis  M.  Rydel.  proof- 
leader  in  office  of  North  American.  Philadel- 
jdiia,  Pennsylvania.  6.  Caroline  Emma,  born 
in  Trenton,  August  28,  1879 :  married  John 
Clary,  electrical  engineer,  I'hiladelphia,  Penn- 
sylvania. 7.  Anna  ]\]atilda,  died  in  1884,  aged 
three  years.  8.  Sophia  Julia,  born  in  Trenton. 
1887:  married  Henry  Richards,  timekeeper  at 
mills  in  Roebling;  child,  Caroline  Francis. 

(  HI  )  I'Vancis  Joseph,  second  son  of  Jacob 
R.  and  Mary  Ellen  (W'oodard)  Miller,  was 
born  in  1  larbourton.  New  Jersey,  Alay  28, 
1872.  His  school  training  was  received  in  the 
iniblic  schools  of  Princetiin  and  Trenton,  and 
at  the  Correspondence  School  of  .Scranton, 
Pennsylvania.  His  first  employment  was  with 
the  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  Steel  and  Iron  Com- 
pany, 1887-92.  and  in  the  rolling  mills  of  the 
Roel)lings  at  Roebling.  New  Jersey.  1892-94. 
He  went  in   1X1)4  tn  .Mlentown,  i'ennsylvauia. 


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witli  the  United  States  Steel  Company,  and 
from  there  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  for  the  same 
concern,  then  back  to  Allentown,  still  with  the 
same  concern.  Both  at  Allentown  and  in  the 
shops  at  Cleveland  he  was  assistant  roller,  be- 
came head  roller  in  Cleveland,  and  on  his  re- 
turn to  Allentown  was  second  roller  on  the 
night  tour.  In  1905  he  returned  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Roeblings  at  Trenton,  and  was 
made  head  roller  of  the  entire  plant,  and  in 
1907  was  transferred  to  Roeblingas  head  roller 
and  superintendent  of  the  rod  mill,  which  posi- 
tion he  was  still  holding  in  1909.  lie  was  a 
member  of  Lodge  No.  36,  I.  O.  O.  P.,  of  South 
Trenton,  and  of  the  Encampment  at  Trenton. 
He  was  also  member  of  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  initiated  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Lodge  No.  105,  Trenton.  He  was  bap- 
tized and  confirmed  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church,  which  was  the  church  of  his  parents. 
He  married  (first),  September  14.  1893,  Myrtle, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Martha  Hawk,  of  Tren- 
ton. Children,  born  in  Trenton  :  Myrtle,  Molet 
and  Edna.  The  mother  of  these  children  died  in 
Trenton,  in  1902,  and  Francis  Joseph  Miller 
married  (second).  1903,  Lucy,  daughter  of 
George  and  Lucy  Sticker,  of  Allentown.  Penn- 
sylvania. Children  :  Francis  Joseph  Jr.,  born 
in  Trenton:  Herbert  Walter,  born  in  Roebling, 
New  Jersey. 

Thomas  Arrowsmith  was 
ARROWS^HTH    born  in  England,  and  died 

at  Arrowsmith  Mills.  New 
Jersey,  1800-1802.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
owned  and  ran  a  mill,  from  which  the  place, 
Arrow.smith  Mills,  took  its  name.  Children: 
Thomas,  referred  to  below  ;  Josepli ;  Henry  ; 
Maria. 

( n )  Thomas  (2) ,  son  of  Thomas  ( i )  Arrow- 
smith,  was  born  at  Arrowsmith  Mills,  Middle- 
town  township.  New  Jersey,  in  1797,  and  died 
there,  December  27,  1869.  He  was  a  man  of 
limited  educational  advantages,  but  naturally 
gifted  with  superior  mental  endowments.  Hav- 
ing stored  his  mind  with  general  reading,  he 
became  an  interesting  and  entertaining  conver- 
sationalist as  well  as  a  pleasing  public  speaker. 
Me  was  a  veteran  of  the  war  of  18 12.  and  had 
a  pension  of  a  quarter  section  of  land  given 
him  in  return  for  his  services.  In  1835  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  legislative  counsel  of 
New  Jersey,  a  position  corresponding  with  that 
of  state  senator,  under  the  constitution  of  1844. 
In  this  capacity  he  served  two  years,  being  suc- 
ceeded by  the  late  Hon.  William  L.  Dayton.  In 
1843  he  was  elected  to  the  responsible  position 


of  treasurer  of  the  state  of  New  jersey,  hold- 
ing the  office  until  1845.  From  1848  until 
1850  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  chosen 
freeholders  for  the  town  of  Raritan.  being  the 
first  to  represent  that  township  on  the  board. 
I'Vom  February,  1852,  until  February,  1858,  he 
was  one  of  ihe  lay  judges  of  the  ccxirt  of 
errors  and  appeals  of  New  Jersey.  In  all  these 
official  positions  he  discharged  his  duties  credit- 
ably and  acceptably  to  the  public,  and  his  integ- 
rity was  never  assailed.  Tliroughout  his  career 
lie  enjoyed  in  the  highest  degree  the  confidence 
and  respect  c)f  his  fellow  citizens  He  married 
Emma,  daughter  of  Matthias  \'an  Brackle,  of 
]\lonmouth  county,  who  survived  the  death  of 
her  husband  :i  few  years.  She  was  a  lady  of 
<|uiet  manner,  whose  coimtenance  seemed  radi- 
ant with  maternal  tenderness  and  alTection, 
and  whose  life  was  full  of  good  works.  Her 
father,  Matthias  Van  Brackle,  was  a  substan- 
tial farmer,  who  in  1820  rejiresented  his  district 
in  the  state  legislature.  Children  of  Thomas 
and  Emma  (\'an  Brackle)  Arrowsmith:  i. 
Joseph  Edgai',  M.  D.,  resident  of  Keyport ; 
children  by  first  marriage:  Emma  (died), 
.Annie  ;  children  by  second  marriage :  Cath- 
erine, Infant  (died).  2.  John  W,  resident  of 
Keyport ;  children  :  Emma,  died  ;  Maria,  died ; 
Joseph,  resident  of  New  Monmouth,  New  Jer- 
sey. 3.  Eleanor,  died  :  married  Daniel  Roberts ; 
children :  Thomas  H.  Roberts,  of  Rahway, 
New  Jersey;  David  E.  Roberts.  4.  Cordelia, 
died  at  twenty  years.  5.  Thomas  Van  Brackle, 
referred  to  below.  6.  Stephen,  died  in  infancy. 
7.  Emma,  died.  8.  George,  referred  to  below. 
9.  Stephen  V.,  referred  to  below. 

(HI)  Thomas  \'an  P>rackle,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Emma  (\"an  Brackle)  Arrowsmith,  was 
born  at  .\rrowsmith  Mills,  New  Jersey.  At 
the  beginning  of  the  civil  war  he  enlisted  in 
the  Eighth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  and  was  sub- 
sequently promoted  to  the  position  of  brigade 
quartermaster,  with  the  rank  of  major,  serving 
until  the  end  of  the  war.  Afterwards  he  en- 
gaged in  teaching.  He  married  Elizabeth  Wall- 
ing. Children:  Joe;  James;  Alfred:  Eusebius 
Walling,  referred  to  below ;  Lottie ;  Annie ; 
Elizabeth. 

(IV)  Eusebius  Walling,  son  of  Thomas  Van 
Brackle  and  Elizabeth  (Walling)  Arrowsmith. 
was  born  at  Keyport,  New  Jersey,  in  1844,  and 
■  died  October  3.  1907.  His  early  education 
was  obtained  at  a  public  school  from  whence 
he  passed  to  Holmes  Academy.  After  his 
graduation  he  read  law  with  Hon.  William  H. 
Vreedenburgh,  and  after  the  completion  of  his 
course  was  admitted  as  attorney  to  the  New 


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Jersey  bar.  He  settled  at  Erechold.  where  he 
entered  into  general  practice.  Mr.  Arrow- 
smith  was  an  ardent  Democrat,  luit  though 
prominent  in  party  politics,  he  neither  sought 
nor  held  office.  In  religion  he  was  an  Epis- 
copalian, and  was  a  vestryman  of  his  parish 
church.  He  married  IMary  Anna,  daughter  of 
Leonard  J.  and  Sarah  ( L. )  Johnston.  Chil- 
dren :  I.  Thomas  Van  Rrackle.  referred  to  below. 

2.  Eusebius  Walling  Jr.,  horn  1868:  married 
Rachel  Simmons  ;  children  :     Madeline,  Helen. 

3.  Leonard  Johnston,  horn  1870.  4.  Belle.  5.  Al- 
fred W..  died  as  a  young  man.  6.  James  Sloan  ; 
child,  Mary  Wealtheyear.  Children  of  Leonard 
J.  and  Sarah  L.  Johnston:  Abram,  Isaac, 
Jacob,  Catherine,  Rachel  Elizabeth,  Sarah.  Isa- 
bella, Mary  Ann,  referred  to  above. 

(\')  Thomas  \"an  Brackle,  son  of  Eusebius 
Walling  and  Mary  Anna  (Johnston)  Arrow- 
smith,  was  born  at  Keyport,  New  Jersey,  No- 
vember 9,  1866.  He  obtained  his  education  at 
the  Freehold  public  school,  and  at  the  institute, 
and  later  read  law  with  his  fatlier,  Mr.  Eusebius 
W.  .Arrowsmith,  at  Freehold.  He  was  admit- 
ted to  the  New  Jersey  bar  as  attorney  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1890,  and  from  then  until  1893  prac- 
ticed in  connection  with  his  father.  He  then 
removed  to  Long  Branch,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  entered  into  general  practice,  in  which  he 
has  attained  prominence  and  success.  Mr. 
.'Vrrowsmith  has  filled  the  office  of  recorder. 
He  is  past  master  of  Long  Branch  Lodge,  No. 
78,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Long 
Branch  Standard  Chapter.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  County  Bar  Association.  He  and 
his  faniily  are  members  of  the  Episcopalian 
church,  in  which  Mr.  Arrowsmith  is  a  vestry- 
man. In  politics  Air.  Arrowsmith  is  an  influ- 
ential member  of  the  Democratic  party.  He 
married  at  Long  Branch,  November  4,  looi, 
Carrie  Louise,  daughter  of  Edwin  F.  and  Har- 
riet Rachel  (W'est)  Osborne,  who  was  born 
.Se))tcmber  16,  1870.  Children:  Louise,  born 
August  5,  1902 ;  Thomas  Woolley,  July  2, 
1904;  Edwin  O.,  May,  1909. 

(Ill)  George,  son  of  Thomas  and  Emma 
(Van  I'rackle)  Arrowsmith,  was  born  in  Mid- 
dlctown  township,  now  Holmdel,  New  Jersey, 
April  18,  1839.  After  obtaining  his  early  edu- 
cation at  the  Middletown  Academy,  he  entered 
the  grammar  school  connected  with  Madison 
University,  at  Hamilton,  New  York.  In  Octo- 
ber, 1855,  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  entered  the 
freshman  class  of  Madison  LTniversity,  where, 
though  the  youngest  student,  he  took  and  main- 
tained a  high  rank,  both  in  class  and  literary 
work.    y\fter  grailuating  in  1859  with  the  high- 


est honors,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Hon. 
Charles  Mason,  judge  of  the  supreme  court, 
and  leading  lawyer  of  Madison  county.  At  the 
same  time,  in  order  that  he  might  become  self- 
supporting,  Mr.  Arrowsmith  accepted  the  posi- 
tion of  tutor  at  the  Hamilton  grammar  school, 
lie  had  already  for  several  years  been  a  con- 
tributor to  local  newspapers,  and  it  was  by 
means  of  his  spirited  and  interesting  letter 
sent  later  on  to  the  editor  of  the  Utica  Morn- 
ing Herald,  over  the  signature  of  "Aliquis," 
that  so  graphic  an  account  of  his  military 
career  has  been  preserved.  .Mr.  Arrowsmith 
was  an  ardent  Democrat,  and  furnished  many 
spic}'  and  incisive  articles  of  a  partisan  nature 
to  the  Union,  a  Democratic  paper  of  Hamilton. 
In  April,  1861,  Air.  Arrowsmith  was  duly 
licensed  a  member  of  the  New  York  bar.  About 
this  time  occurred  the  attack  on  Fort  Sumter, 
and  when  the  news  reached  Hamilton,  infuri- 
ated by  the  speech  of  a  rebel  sympathizer,  he 
was  the  first  to  offer  himself  in  the  service  of 
his  country.  A  company  of  fifty  men  was  hastily 
organized,  under  the  name  of  the  Union  Guards, 
and  unanimously  elected  George  Arrowsmith 
as  their  captain.  A  few  days  later,  April  29, 
i85i,  the  U^nion  Guards  left  Hamilton  and 
proceeded  to  Utica,  where  they  joined  the 
Twenty-si.xth  New  York  Volunteers,  then  form- 
ing under  Colonel  Christian,  as  Company  D. 
.After  a  couple  of  months  sj^ent  in  barracks  af 
Elmira,  the  Twenty-sixth  started  for  the  front. 
Even  before  his  regiment  left  Utica,  Captain 
Arrowsmith  had  acrjuired  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion as  an  officer.  He  had  applied  himself 
from  the  first  to  the  mastery  of  military  tactics, 
and  a  visitor  to  the  camp  at  Elmira  wrote  of 
him,  "Colonel  Christian  says  there  is  no  better 
officer  m  the  regiment."  On  July  21  Captain 
•Arrowsmith's  regiment  marched  from  Wash- 
ington to  Alexandria,  and  thence  was  convey- 
ed by  train  to  Springfield,  expecting  to  take 
part  in  the  battle  of  P.ull  Run,  which  was  then 
going  on.  It  was  met,  however,  by  news  of  a 
defeat,  and  was  ordered  to  fall  back.  Captain 
Arrowsmith's  letters  describing  the  condition 
of  affairs  at  this  crisis  are  interesting  in  the 
extreme,  also  his  accurate  and  humorous  ac- 
counts of  his  later  experiences  on  the  tented 
field.  His  regiment  about  this  time  was  an- 
nexed to  General  Heintzelman's  brigade,  com- 
prising also  the  Twenty-sixth  New  York  and 
Fifth  Maine. 

In  August,  1861,  an  important  mission  was 
entnistc'i  to  Cajitain  .Airowsmith  on  his  own 
lequest.  This  was  the  destruction  of  the  bridge 
o\er   Hunting   river,   the   name   given   to   two 


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small  streams  whicli  together  formed  the  divid- 
ing line  between  the  two  great  armies.  With 
two  companies  under  his  command,  Captain 
Arrowsniith  occupied  the  bridge  one  stormy 
night,  and.  though  running  grave  risk  of  at- 
tack at  ?nv  moment  from  the  enemy,  morning 
found  him  and  his  men  unhurt,  the  bridge  de- 
molished, and  the  capture  of  Alexandria,  con- 
sequent on  the  bridge's  use  by  the  enemy,  pre- 
vented. In  September  of  this  same  year  Cap- 
tain Arrowsmith  again  comes  into  prominence 
at  the  skirmish  at  Pohich  church,  wdiere  he 
led  two  companies  of  his  regiment  in  an  attack 
upon  a  body  of  rebel  cavalry,  who  were  quarter- 
ed in  the  church,  and  had  been  robbing  and 
plundering  the  Union  farmers  in  the  neighbor- 
hood. The  surprise  was  complete,  the  rebels 
put  to  rout,  and  their  untouched  breakfast 
cc)nfiscated  by  the  northerners.  After  an  irk- 
somely inactive  winter  spent  at  different  en- 
campments in  \'irginia,  Cai)tain  Arrowsmitli's 
brigade,  now  under  command  of  General  Rick- 
etts,  broke  camp  about  May  ist,  and  moved 
along  the  Rappahannock  to  Fredericksburg. 
From  here  a  forced  march  was  made  in  the  vain 
hope  of  surprising  Stonewall  Jackson,  bring- 
ing the  brigade  to  Front  Royal  in  June,  1862. 
From  F'ront  Royal  it  next  moved  to  Centre- 
ville,  where  on  June  25th  Captain  Arrowsmith 
was  chosen  by  the  new  I'.rigadier  General 
*Toiner.  to  act  as  his  assistant  adjutant-general. 
He  had  been  recoinmended  to  General  Joiner 
as  ''an  intelligent,  educated,  soldierly  officer,  of 
good  repute  in  his  regiment,  and  the  best  fitted 
person  of  his  age  in  the  regiment  for  this  im- 
portant place  on  the  stafif."  At  the  battle  of 
Cedar  Mountain,  August  9,  1862,  Captain  .Ar- 
row.smith  was  with  Rickett's  division  of  Pope's 
forces.  His  brigade  saw  the  main  part  of  the 
fight  but  was  engaged  only  in  the  last  of  it. 
Captain  Arrowsmitli  ac(|uitte(l  himself  so  well 
a?  to  obtain  favor  from  General  Tower,  who 
later  nominated  him  to  the  secretary  of  war 
for  conurination  in  his  position  as  assistant 
adjutant-general.  Engagements  at  Ra])pahan- 
nock.  Thoroughfare  Ga])  and  second  lUill  l\un 
now  (juickly  followed.  ]n  the  last-named  battle 
Captain  Arrowsmith  was  in  the  thick  of  the 
fight,  discharging  his  duties  regardless  of  dan- 
ger, with  the  greatest  efficiency.  His  straight 
black  hair,  swarthy  face,  and  erect  figure,  made 
him  a  consjjicuous  object  on  the  field.  In  the 
terrible  loss  suffered  by  the  brigade,  though 
grazed  by  bullets  again  and  again,  he  escaped 
without  a  wound.  It  was  in  this  engagement 
that  Captain  .Arrowsmith  won  for  himself  the 
sobriquet   of   "the  young   lion,"     His  gallant 


conduct  was  soon  rewarded  by  promotion  to 
the  [jost  of  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fifty-seventh,  a  Xew-  York  regiment 
then  forming.  About  the  same  time  he  was 
urged  for  the  colonelcy  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
.\'ew  York  Volunteers,  Colonel  Christian  hav- 
ing resigned.  He  decided  to  accept  the  lieu- 
tenant-colonelcy, and  was  commissioned  by 
Governor  Morgan,  of  New  York,  September 
16,  1862.  In  November  Colonel  Arrowsmith 
joined  his  regiment  at  New  Baltimore.  Through- 
out the  trying  circumstances  connected  with 
the  rout  of  the  Eleventh  Corps,  of  which  the 
( )ne  Hundred  and  Fifty-seventh  was  a  part,  at 
Chancellorsville.  April.  1863,  Colonel  .Arrow- 
smith  was  at  his  post  of  duty,  and  by  his  cool- 
ness and  intrei)idity  is  said  to  have  saved  his 
regiment  from  annihilation.  I^ter  in  June, 
the  Confederate  army,  on  its  way  to  invade 
the  north,  crossed  the  Potomac  and  pressed 
towards  Chambersburg,  Pennsylvania.  The 
northern  army  followed,  and  by  June  28  the 
One  Hundred  and  Fifty-seventh  had  reached 
Middletown,  Maryland.  On  June  30  the  Elev- 
enth Corps  lay  at  Emmetsburg,  ten  miles  south 
of  (Gettysburg,  with  orders  to  support  the  I-'irst 
Corps.  .Next  day,  July  i,  1863,  it  left  Emmets- 
burg and  marched  to  Gettysburg  to  take  part 
in  the  battle  which  had  already  begun.  Colo- 
nel .Arrowsmith,  though  not  fully  recovered 
from  a  '-ecent  illness,  insisted  on  going  into  the 
fight.  The  Eleventh  Corps  arrived  on  the  field 
just  as  the  First,  greatly  outnumbered,  was 
giving  way.  When  rebel  reinforcements,  under 
Rodes  and  Early,  began  to  arrive,  the  Federal 
line,  sorely  pressed,  took  the  form  of  a  cres- 
cent, the  One  Hundred  and  Fifty-seventh  oc- 
cupying a  dangerous  position  in  the  center, 
( 'n  the  advance  of  the  enemy  the  regiment  was 
ordered  to  check  their  ajjproach,  and  to  do  so 
was  obliged  to  advance  up  to  within  fifty  yards 
before  making  an  attack.  Colonel  Arrowsmith's 
voice  was  heard  above  the  din  of  battle,  en- 
couraging his  men  and  directing  their  fire. 
1  he  regiment  in  its  exposed  position  suffered 
fearful  slaughter  by  the  enemy  on  both  flanks, 
and,  after  fighting  only  a  short  time.  Colonel 
.Arrowsmith  fell,  struck  by  a  rifle  ball  in  the 
forehead.  It  was  afterwards  learned  from 
the  wounded  on  the  field  that  he  died  soon 
after  the  retreat  which  c|uickly  followed.  .An 
aitem])t  was  made  to  brmg  off  his  body,  but  it 
proved  unsuccessful.  On  receiving  the  sorrow- 
ful news  of  his  brother's  death.  Dr.  Joseph  E. 
.Arrowsmith.  hastened  to  the  scene  of  the  late 
conflict.  Colonel  .Arrow^smith's  body  was  ex- 
humed from  its  burial  place  and  forwarded  to 


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Mickllctowii,  New  Jersey,  where  the  funeral 
obsequies  were  held  in  the  ISaptist  church  on 
Sunday,  July  26,  1863.  The  brigade  board  of 
Alonmouth  and  Ocean  counties  was  present  in 
fulhini form,  without  sidearms.  Extended  obitu- 
ary notices  of  a  highly  eulogistic  character  ap- 
I)eared  in  the  new^sjjapers  of  Madison,  Cort- 
land and  Chennmg  counties,  of  New-  York,  and 
Monmouth  county.  New  Jersey,  also  in  the 
daily  papers  of  New  York  City,  Washington 
and  Philadelphia.  Later,  in  addressing  Arrow- 
smith  Post,  Department  of  Xew  Jersey,  G.  A. 
R..  Colonel  Place  writes :  "You  acted  wisely 
when  you  decided  upon  the  name  of  your  Post. 
The  name  of  George  Arrowsmith  is  enshrined 
in  the  hearts  of  his  surviving  comrades.  I  can 
only  exhort  you  to  emulate  his  patriotic  devo- 
tion to  the  cause  of  your  country's  welfare  and 
prosperity."  No  higher  tribute  to  Colonel  Ar- 
rowsmith's  memory  can  be  (|uoted  than  the 
following  sentences  taken  from  the  concluding 
chapter  of  the  account  of  his  career  written 
and  published  by  Mr.  J.  S.  Applegate :  "lie 
gave  his  all  to  his  country — cultivated  talents, 
alluring  prospects  in  civil  pursuits,  a  young 
life;  as  a  patriot  he  could  have  done  no  more. 
Of  his  courage  I  need  not  speak;  it  is  attested 
by  heroic  deeds  on  several  battle  fields  which 
are  at  once  his  monuments  and  his  eulogies. 
In  manhood  lie  was  the  si.iul  (jf  honor,  with  an 
inate  contem])t  for  whatever  was  mean  or 
intriguing     *  *.     On  the  eve  of  Gettys- 

burg his  coiurades  urged  his  higher  jiromotion, 
\»ith  flattering  testimonials  from  persons  of 
distinguished  military  rank,  but  here  was  ended 
his  rising  career.  It  was  an  honorable  death, 
and  his  epitath  is  briefly  written ;  a  sterling 
soldier,  a  true  patriot,  and  a  brave  man." 

(Ill)  Ste])hen  \'.,  son  of  Thomas  and  Emma 
(\'an  Brackle)  Arrowsmith,  was  born  at  Ar- 
rowsmith Mills,  April  13,  1842,  and  died  at 
Red  Bank,  Xew  Jersey,  January  17,  1910. 
After  obtaining  his  early  education  at  the  dis- 
trict school  he  went  to  Matawan,  New  Jersey. 
v.here  he  prepared  for  college  at  (jlenwood 
Institute.  In  1862  he  returned  to  his  home, 
where  he  remained  until  1876.  He  then  went 
to  Keyport,  New  Jersey,  where  he  taught  a 
country  school.  In  1878  he  undertook'  the 
management  of  the  principal  school  at  Mata- 
wan, but  in  1879  he  gave  this  up  and  returned 
to  Key])ort,  where  he  continued  teaching  until 
1897.  During  this  time  there,  Mr.  Arrowsmith 
b}-  liis  personal  energy  and  scholarly  abilities, 
raised  the  working  corp  of  the  Keyport  school 
from  six  teachers  to  thirteen.  He  next  removed 
to  Red   I'ank,  where  as  superintendent  he  iti- 


ciease.I  the  school's  working  force  from  sixteen 
teachers  to  forty-one.  For  many  years  before  his 
death  he  was  supervising  principal  of  all  the  Red 
Bank  public  schools,  and  was  for  thirteen  years 
secretary  and  later  president  of  the  council  of 
education  of  Xew  Jersey,  as  well  as  for  twenty- 
seven  years  a  member  of  the  board  of  exam- 
iners for  teachers.  Mr.  Arrowsmith  was  a  use- 
ful and  honored  member  of  the  comnumity  in 
public  as  well  as  in  private  life.  In  Keyport 
he  was  assessor  for  eight  years,  and  was  also 
for  a  number  of  years  president  of  the  town 
coiumission.  Mr.  Arrowsmith  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  Xew  York  School  Masters' 
Club,  formed  in  1890.  He  was  a  member  of 
Red  Bank  Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.;  of  the  Royal 
Arcanum,  and  of  the  Loyal  Association.  In 
P'olitics  he  waa  an  independent.  Mr.  Arrow- 
smith  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Baptist 
church,  having  united  with  that  body  in  1859, 
and  having  served  as  a  trustee  for  five  years. 
He  married  at  Brooklyn,  October  9,  1863, 
Sarah  S.,  daughter  of  John  Sprout,  of  Key- 
].ort.  Children:  i.  Eleanor,  born  r)ctober  12, 
\8<»):  a  teacher  at  Red  Bank,  Xew  Jersey.  2. 
Emma,  born  April  i,  1871  ;  married  George 
Morris,  ])rincipal  of  Bloomfield  public  school ; 
children  :  Helen,  Stephanie.  Children  of  John 
.Sprout :  John,  Edgar,  Luke,  Sarah  S.,  re- 
ferred to  above. 

The  Day  family  of  Xew  Jersey  which 
D.VY  is  at  present  under  consideration, 
comes,  it  is  said,  from  the  family 
which  settled  in  the  early  days  on  Long  Island. 
It  is  quite  possible,  however,  that  it  is  a  branch 
of  the  same  family  w  hich  was  so  pi^minently 
connected  with  the  early  history  of  Xewark. 
The  genealogy  of  the  line  followed  here,  how- 
ever, is  that  which  seems  to  have  the  balance 
of  probability  in  its  favor,  and  was  vouched 
for  originally  by  a  Dr.  John  Littell. 

(I)  George  Day,  of  Long  Island,  according 
to  Dr.  Littell,  had  three  sons,  who  came  to 
New  Jersey,  and  settled  in  the  Passaic  \'a!ley : 


George,  of  Long  1 
ferred  to  below. 

(11)   Josei)h,   son 
Hannah    Sergeant, 
referred    to    Ijelow. 
Magic.     3.  Thomas. 


David;  and  Jose])h,  re- 


of  George  Day,  married 
ChiWren :  i.  Jonathan, 
2.  Amos,  married  Miss 
4.  Paul,  married  (  first  ) 
h'lizabeth  Thompson,  f  second  )  Elizabeth  Crane, 
(third)  Patty  \\'illcox.  5.  Ste]:)hen,  married 
(first)  Damaris  I'^oster,  (second)  Jemimah, 
widow  of  Stephen  Johnson,  daughter  of  Judge 
John  Ogden,  of  Newark,  and  sister  to  Hannah, 
wife  of  Rev.  James  Caldwell,  the  revolutionary 


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patriot.  .6.  .Sarali,  married  Ger.'^hom  Mott.  7. 
Martha,  married  (tirst)  Samuel  l.um,  (sec- 
ond) Stephen  Howell,  (third)  Mr.  Carries. 
8.  Susannah,  married  (first)  Mr.  Darling,  (sec- 
ond) Mr.  Beach. 

(III)  Jonathan,  son  of  Joseph  and  ilannah 
(Sergeant)  Day.  is  supposed  to  have  had  a 
son  Daniel. 

(IV)  Daniel,  son  of  Jonathan  Day,  of  Long 
Island,  came  to  New  Jersey,  lived  at  Camp- 
town,  now  Clinton,  and  had  children :  Benja- 
min, referred  to  below;  Samuel  T. ;  Artemas  ; 
Timothy,  married  Mehetable  Merry;  Daniel 
Jr. ;  Ezekiel ;  Jeremiah  ;  Nehemiah  ;  Mary  ;  Ke- 
ziah ;  Hannah;  David. 

(V)  Benjamin,  eldest  child  of  Daniel  Day, 
was  a  prominent  man  of  his  day,  and  for  many 
years  was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  He  died  Sep- 
tember, 1783.  Benjamin  Day  married  (first) 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Darling;  five 
children.  He  married  (second),  July  19,  1770, 
Elizabeth,  who  survives  him,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel, and  sister  to  Samuel  Roberts  Sr.,  and  also 
sister  to  Phebe,  wife  of  Peter  Davison.  Chil- 
dren of  Benjamin  Day :  Stephen  ;  John  ;  Moses  ; 
Darling;  Abner ;  Daniel,  died  August,  1845, 
aged  seventy-one  years,  married  Nancy  Mor- 
rell ;  Stephen,  referred  to  below  ;  Abigail,  mar- 
ried (first),  .'^pril  10,  1791,  Jonathan  \^alen- 
tine,  f second)  John  Schureman:  Sarah,  mar- 
ried, September  22,  1792,  David  Valentine, 
(second)  Aaron  Baker,  of  Dayton,  Ohio. 

(VT)  Stephen,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Eliza- 
beth (Roberts)  Day,  was  born  in  December, 
1778.  He  w-as  a  captain  of  militia,  and  mar- 
ried (first)  Sail}',  daughter  of  Cornelius  Mul- 
ford,  and  (second)  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Captain  Daniel  S.  Wood.  Children,  all  except 
the  first  by  second  marriage:  Mulford,  died 
June  26,  1851,  married  (first)  Sarah  Brook- 
fit'ld,  (second)  Sarah  Thompson;  Daniel,  died 
1805,  aged  nine  months;  Benjamin,  married 
Mary  Taylor  ;  Stcjihen,  married  Rachael  Brook- 
field  ;  Peter  Davison,  married  (  first)  Stella  Eliz- 
abeth Reading,  and  (second)  Jane  Voorhies; 
Samuel  Thomas,  referred  to  below;  Waters, 
died  as  young  man;  Daniel  W.,  married  Caro- 
line Parrott;  Francis  .Asbury,  married  Han- 
nah D.  Hick;  William  McKcndry,  married 
Lidia  .Anne  Cole ;  Edwin  .Augustus. 

(\TI)  Samuel  Thomas,  son  of  Captain  Ste- 
phen and  ['".lizabeth  (Wood)  Day,  was  born  in 
New  Providence.  New  Jersey,  in  1803,  and  died 
in  1888.  He  married  Elizabeth  Crane, born  .April 
27,1805.  Children:  i.  Wilbur  Fisk.  referred 
to  below.    2.  Waters  Burrows.    3.  John  Crane. 


4.  Benjamin.  5.  Pennington  M.  6.  Stephen 
Sylvester.  7.  Franklin.  8.  Mary,  married 
Rev.  .Stephen  Jones,  a  Methodist  minister  of 
the  Newark  conference.  9.  Elizabeth,  died 
aged  three  months. 
"  f  \TII)  Wilbur  Fisk,  eldest  child  of  Samuel 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Crane)  Day,  was  born 
in  Morristown,  New  Jersey.  February  6.  1839. 
He  was  a  caterer,  and  lived  in  New  Provi- 
dence. He  married  Elizabeth,  born  1841,  died 
February  6,  1906,  daughter  of  Dr.  Phineasand 

(Badglcy)  Kinsey.    Children:   Waters 

Burrows  and  Wilbur  Fisk  Jr.,  both  referred  to 
below  ;  Nettie,  married  J.  Kelsey  Burr,  and  has 
Elizabeth  and  J.  Kelsey  Jr. ;  C3liver  K.,  mar- 
ried Lillian  Osborn,  and  has  two  children  ;  Fred- 
erick Morgan,  married  May  Sinclair:  Alay- 
nard  ;  Henry  P. ;  John  C. 

(IX)  Waters  Burrows,  eldest  child  of  Wil- 
bur Fisk  and  Elizabeth  (Kinsey)  Day,  was 
born  in  Alorristown,  New  Jersey,  June  25, 
1867.  He  was  educated  in  the  Morristown 
jiublic  schools,  from  which  he  graduated  in 
1885.  Two  years  later  he  graduated  from  the 
Centenary  Collegiate  Institute  of  Hacketts- 
town,  and  in  1891  received  his  B.  S.  degree 
from  Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Con- 
necticut. He  then  went  into  the  catering  busi- 
ness in  Newark  with  his  father  and  uncle,  the 
firm  name  being  W.  F.  Day  &  Brother.  Feb- 
ruary I,  1909,  he  was  chosen  president  of  the 
Newark  Trust  Company.  In  politics  Mr.  Day 
is  a  Republican.  April  25,  1894,  Mr.  Day  mar- 
ried in  Middletown,  Connecticut,  Anne  May, 
born  there,  April  15,  1872,  daughter  of  George 
W.  and  Anne  (Sage)  Burr.  Children:  Anita, 
born  May  10,  1895;  Margaret  Burr,  March  29, 
1901. 

(IX)  Wilbur  Fisk,  second  son  of  Wilbur 
Fisk  and  Elizabeth  (Kinsey)  Day,  was  born  in 
Morristown,  New  Jersey,  March  24,  1869.  He 
graduated  from  the  Morristown  high  school, 
the  Morris  Academy  in  1888,  and  the  Cente- 
nary Collegiate  Institute  of  Hackettstown  in 
1889,  and  has  been  in  the  catering  business 
with  his  father  in  Morristown.  He  is  a  Re- 
publican, treasurer  of  the  ward  committee  and 
first  assistant  engineer.  In  religion  he  is  a 
IMethodist,  and  he  is  a  past  grand  master  of 
the  Royal  .Arcanum.  November  21,  1894,  Mr. 
Day  married  Cora,  born  February  15,  1874. 
daughter  of  Gilbert  D.  and  Cornelia  (Pepper- 
ed) Young.  Children:  Evelyn,  born  ]v\y  5, 
1896;  Wilbur  Fisk,  May  16,  1898;  .Alice,  Janu- 
ary 20,  1900:  Lois.  May  18,  1905. 


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