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WILLIAM GAZZAM II.
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THE GAZZAM FAMILY.
The earliest accurate knowledge of the present Gazzam
family relates to William Gazzam, who lived in Cambridge,
England, during the middle of the eighteenth century.
The name itself, however, is an extremely old one, men-
tion of it being made in the Bible (Ezra ii, 48, and Nehe-
miah vii, 51). It is supposed to be of Egyptian origin, as
records are extant in which a province or district bearing
the name is mentioned. It may well be that the present
members of the family are really lineal descendants of
Abraham, through the ancient hewers of wood and drawers
of water who bore the name when the Prophets returned
with the " Remnant " to rebuild the Temple. The ancient
Gazzams were called " Nethenims," or servants of Solomon
and the Temple. Their chief city was Gibeon, and they
traced their origin to a grandson of Noah, being recorded
among the Hivites. One Biblical record has the name
spelled Gazera, by mistake.
(/) WII.UAM GAZZAM.
Little is known of William Gazzam, the common an-
cestor of the American and English branches of the Gaz-
zam family, beyond the fact that he married Martha Hart, *
daughter of Joseph Hart, of Burwell, Cambridgeshire,
England ; that he was the father of eight children, and
*See plate.
that his wife was many years a widow, dying during a
visit her youngest daughter, (p) Mrs. Mar>' Alice Gazzam-
Taylor, made to England in 1796 or 1797. One other fact
is also knov/n, that the couple were highly-respected
people and devout Christians, as is shown by a letter Mrs.
Taylor wrote to her sisters in America. In this she said : —
' ' Some of the sentences spoken by our dear mother, before her de-
parture hence, were these : ' Lord, make them willing in the day of
Thy power. ' ' He is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever ; not only
here, but in America also." [Alluding to her children there.] " He will
be my surety." ' He undertook my cause for me.' 'Be ye also ready.
* * * But tell them it must be through Christ Jesus, not measured by
their work, but by His grace through faith in Him.' ' My God and my
God, be Thou my shield and my defense.' ' Oh ! tell them to pray ; to
teach their children.' ' O Lord ! remember them in the day when Thou
makest up Thy jewels.' "
Of the children of (/) William Gazzam, the five daugh-
ters, and their husbands and one son, (5) William, and his
wife came to America, leaving but one child in England,
(7) Joseph, who subsequently married Ann Goodcheap.
The name Gazzam is believed to be extinct in England.
THE CHILDREN OE (/) WILLIAM AND MARTHA GAZZAM.
The names of the children of William and Martha Gaz-
zam, together with the known time of their births and
deaths, are as follows : —
{2) Martha ; born April 25, 1755; married William Girl-
ling, of St. Giles' Parish, Cambridge, September 3, 1781,
at Great St. Mary's, Cambridge, England. There is no
known record of the year of their removal to America.
Mrs. Girlling died August 19, 181 3, at Philadelphia, Pa.,
and is buried at German town. Pa., in the Presbyterian
[From a picture in the possession of J. B. Gazzam, St. Louis, Mo.
The original picture having been damaged by fire, the hood was
painted upon it by an amateur artist.]
MRS. MARTHA HART-GAZZAM.
(See page i.)
Burial Ground, Lots, 74 and 75. Mr. Girlling died April
14, 1839, at Bustleton, Pa. Of this marriage there was
issue six children. {See post ^ Nos. lo-i^.)
(j) Mmy ; born March 14, 1757; married William Chil-
cott Larwill, March 20, 1782, at Great St. Mary's, Cam-
bridge, England. Mrs. lyarwill died March 17, 1827, at
Wooster, Ohio, aged 70 years and 3 days. Mr. Larwill
died November 12, 1832, at Wheeling, West Va., aged 81
years, 6 months, 4 days. Of this marriage there was issue
nine children. {See post^ Nos. 16-2.^.)
{4) Sarah; died in England of consumption, aged 18
years.
(5)* William ; born in 1763 ; died November 16, 1811.
He was twice married, and the father of sixteen children.
{See post ^ Nos. 2^-40.
{6) Lydia ; born in Cambridge, England, in 1767 ; mar-
ried David Kimpton in England, and removed with her
husband to America, residing in Carlisle, Pa. They removed
to Beulah, Pa., and thence, in 1809 or 181 o, to a farm in
Wayne County, Ohio, where Mrs. Kimpton died April 8,
1827. ^^- Kimpton preached in the first house of worship
(Baptist) erected in Wayne County, Ohio. He died near
Newark, Ohio. Of this marriage there was issue nine
children. {See post., Nos. ^i-^g.)
(?) Joseph; married Ann Goodcheap, in England,
October 19, 1795. The date of his death is not known.
He was living in 1827, and also his daughter, (5/) Susan-
nah, who lived at Burwell with her Aunt Goodcheap.
Joseph Gazzam at one time lived at No. 19 Ivy Lane,
Newgate Street, London, England. At last accounts there
was but one daughter living, of whom all trace has been
*See post.
6
lost. Of the marriage of Joseph and Ann Goodcheap
Gazzam there was issue seven children. {See post^ Nos.
50-56')
{8) ^Rebecca; born in Cambridge, England, 1770 or
1771 ; died in Baltimore, Md, January i, 181 3 ; married,
at Philadelphia, Pa., Edward Jones, of Wales [born January
18, 1767], who came over on the same ship with her from
England. Rebecca came over to have charge of the
motherless children of her brother, (5) William. Mr.
Jones died at Mobile, Ala., December 25, 1838. Of this
marriage there was issue seven children. [See post^ Nos.
57-63.)
(p) Mary Alice; born at Cambridge, England, June
II, 1774; died at Greenbush, N. Y., August 11, 1831.
She was married at the Church of the Great St. Mary,
Cambridge, England, February 20, 1794, to William Tay-
lor, Jr., a son of William Taylor, of Cambridge. Mr. Tay-
for, Sr., came to this country in 1794, with his wife and
son, William. He is reputed to have been possessed of
considerable means. He first went to New Castle, Del.,
and thence to Philadelphia, where he purchased land and
built a handsome residence, in which he lived until his
death in 1822, at the age of 88 years. William Taylor the
younger was born at Cambridge, England, June 11, 1772;
and died at the residence of his son, {df) Dr. Benjamin
C. Taylor, Bergen, Hudson County, N. J., April 9, 1849.
He was an importing merchant in Philadelphia, being as-
sociated with Messrs. William Gazzam and Edward Jones, f
and subsequently with William Sheepshanks, William
Shufdebotton, James Curran and Gilbert Gay. Of his
marriage with Mary Alice Gazzam there was issue eleven
children. {See post^ Nos. 6^-y^.)
*See plate. fSee biographic sketch of (5) William Gazzam, post.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND
{2) MARTHA GAZZAM-GIRLLING.
(/o) Mai'-tha Maria ; died May 20, 1808.
(//) ElizabetJi ; died October 13, 1820.
{12) Sarah; died February 23, 1818, at Philadelphia,
Pa. ; married, at Philadelphia, Thomas Watson, March 5,
1 81 2. Of this marriage there was issue three children : —
^75) Wmif^^^i Lansdell ; born January 13, 1813 ;
died at Bridgeport, Conn., October 13, 1867.
ij6) James ; born and died July 15, 1815.
(77) George Robinson ; born September 29, 1816 ;
died at Wooster, Ohio, July 5, 1821.
(/j) Rebecca ; died at Newark, Ohio, F'ebruary 17, 1865.
(//) Mary ; died September 2, 1829.
(/j) Thomas Lansdell ; born 1796 ; died at Wooster,
Ohio, April 9, 1826, aged 31 years ; married Mary Quinby,
at Warren, Ohio, July 22, 1823. Of this marriage there
was issue one child : —
iyS) William; died at Wooster, O., in 1825 or 1826.
Mrs. Mary Quinby-Girlling married a second time Dr.
S. Spellman, of Granville, Ohio, and died at Wooster,
Ohio, April 24, 1888, aged 86 years, 3 months, 12 days.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF WILLIAM CHIL-
COTT AND (.?) MARY GAZZAM-LARWILL.
{16) Joseph Hart ; born January 12, 1783, at Chesterton,
England. He came with his parents to this country, set-
tling in Philadelphia. Afterwards he lived in Pittsburg,
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and later in Wooster, Oliio. After the death of his parents,
he and his four brothers and two sisters resided in Wooster
over half a century. He was a protege of General Jack-
son, whom he is said to have resembled mentally and
physically. He was Receiver of the Land Office for many
years. He died a very wealthy man, November 20, 1867.
He married Nancy Quinby at Warren, Ohio, May 22, 181 7.
Of this marriage there was no issue. [Mrs. Nancy Quinby-
Larwill was born May 9, 1793, and died at Wooster, July
23, 1893, aged 100 years, 2 months and 14 days.]
(//) Julia Robinson ; born October 7, 1784, at Chester-
ton, England ; died February 17, 1861 ; married, in Faw-
cettstown, Ohio, May 13, 1813, John Fawcett [born January
13, 1784 ; died August 18, 1866]. The marriage was with-
out issue.
(/(?) William; born December 30, 1786, at London,
England ; died at Wooster, Ohio, February 14, 1861 ; mar-
ried, at Georgetown, Pa., May 23, 181 6, Susan Christmas.
Mrs. William Christmas- Larwill was born January 10, 1795,
and died at Washington, D. C, September 7, 1878. Of this
marriage there was issue nine children : —
i79) Julia M. ; born March 30, 181 7 ; died March
I, 1847.
{80) Mary G. ; born in 181 9.
{81) John C. ; born February 20, 1821 ; a suc-
cessful business man of Mansfield, Ohio.
{82) Levinia ; died in infancy.
{8 J) Elizabeth C. ; born in June, 1825.
{8^ Lucretia ; died in infancy.
((^j) William; born November 8, 1829.
{86) Joseph H. ; born Dec. 25, 1833.
((?/) (9iT(^r; born April 13, 1835; died July 4, 1859.
(/p) Mary; )^ born and died in 1788. Interred in
(^o) Bcnoiii ; j Bimhill Fields, I^ondon, England.
(21) Mary B. ; born November 5, 1790, at Deptford,
Kent County, England ; died April 26, 1873.
{22) John ; born September 27, 1792, at Deptford, Kent
County, England ; died March 19, 1875 ; married, at
Salem, Ohio, January 3, 1826, Ann Straughan [born in
Salem, Ohio, October 9, 1805; died June 7, 1886]. Of
this marriage there was issue seven children : —
{88) William G. ; born August 25, 1827 i *^^^^^
February 11, 1830.
{8g) Ann E. ; born January 29, 1830.
(po) Martha H. ; born April 13, 1831.
(p/) Emma M. ; born April 11, 1833.
{^2) John S. ; born April 12, 1835.
^93) J'liiicL F. ; born September 7, 1839; died
May 15, 1877.
(p^) Infant son, born and died December 31, 1843.
{2 J) Ebeneser ; born and died at Philadelphia, Pa., in
1795, aged 6 months, 9 days.
{2 J) Jabez Brackenridge ; born at Pittsburgh, Pa., De-
cember 2, 1799 ; died June 12, 1863 ; married, at Morgan-
town, Va., August 13, 1829, Amanda Jarrett. Mrs.
Amanda Jarrett-Larwill died at Wooster, Ohio, December
7, 1884, aged 76 years, 11 months, 7 days. Of this mar-
riage was there issue nine children : —
{95) Joseph H.
{g6) Mary G.
{97) J^il^ci C.
\g8) William J.
{99) John Fawcett.
{100) Nancy Qimiby.
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(/o/) George M.
{102) Amanda J.
{loj) Leroy J.
THE CHILDREN OF DAVID AND (<5) LYDIA GAZZAM-KIMPTON.
(^/) William Gazzam ; born in England ; was a soldier
in the War of 181 2 ; died at Newark, Ohio.
{/f.2) David ; infant, buried at sea.
{43) Joseph ; died at Philadelphia, Pa.
{44) David ; died at Beulah, Pa., aged 18 months.
(^5) Lydia ; died November 7, 1824, at Wooster, Ohio.
{46) Mary ; married George Blaney ; died 1836 or 1837.
(^7) Rebecca ; married Charles Blaney ; died at Gardi-
ner, 111., March 30, 1873.
{48) Joshua; died at Newark, Ohio, January 5, 1854,
aged 47 years.
{4P) Mary Alice ; died at Columbus, Ohio, February 11,
1892, aged 84 years.
CHII.DREN OF (7) JOSEPH AND ANN GOODCHEAP-GAZZAM.
(50) Emma Goodcheap ; born July 25, 1796 ; died 1812
or 1813.
(57) James ; born August 18, 1797 ; died April 19, 1798.
(5^) Ann ; born October 26, 1798 ; died May 11, 1811.
(jj) Joseph ; born August 7, 1800 ; died March 18, 1807.
(5^) Susannah; born November 2, 1801.
(55) Sarah ; born December 30, 1802 ; died October 15,
1825.
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[From a picture in the possession of J. G. Butler, Atlanta, Ga.]
MRS. REBECCA GAZZAM-JONES.
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( 5^) Thomas Goodcheap ; born September 1 1 , 1 804 ;
died April 19, 1805.
All lived and died in England.
CHILDREN OF EDWARD AND (<?) REBECCA GAZZAM-JONES.
(57) Rebecca Gazzam ; born October 23, 1795, at Phila-
delphia ; died September 9, 1878, at Indianapolis, Ind.
(5(5*) Edivard Oldfield ; died September 30, 1838, at
Matagorda, Tex.
{59) Charles; died August 19, 1839, at Pittsburg, Pa.
( (5o) Emma Goodcheap ; missionary for 17 years, going
to Shanghai, China, in 1845, with Bishop Boone, Episco-
palian ; she died at Baltimore, Md., March 19, 1879. She
never married.
{61) Martha E.; married, first, William W. Fry, of Mo-
bile, Ala.; married, second. General Samuel Lewis, of Staun-
ton, Va. ; died at Staunton, July 27, 1870.
{62) Anna Selina ; married George H. Fry, of Mobile,
Ala., whom she survived. There were no children. She
died at the home of her niece, Mrs. General Lew Wallace
(wife of the distinguished author), at Indianapolis, Ind.,
September 25, 1891.
(<5j) Majy Alice ; died August 8, 1813, in infancy, at
Fawcettstown, Ohio.
THE CHILDREN OE WILLIAM AND (p) MARY ALICE GAZZAM-
TAYLOR.
{64) William Gazzam; born at Philadelphia, May 6,
1795 ; died May 7, 1795.
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{6j) TJiomas Davis ; born at London, England, August
9, 1797, while his mother was there on a visit ; died Sep-
tember 28, 1797.
{66) Thomas V/illiam ; born at Philadelphia, December
14, 1798 ; died August 25, 1858, at Edina, Mo. He was
twice married.
((5/) Benjamin Cook ; born at Philadelphia, February
24, 1801 ; died at Bergen, N. J., February 2, 1881. He
married Anna Rome, of which union there was issue four
children. {See post ^ Nos. ijj-Jr^S.)
{68) Othniel Hart ; born at Philadelphia, May 4, 1803;
died September 5, 1869, ^^ Camden, N. J. He was a phy-
sician of considerable reputation, practicing his profes-
sion at Camden for nearly thirty years. Previous to 1844
he was connected with several medical institutions at
Philadelphia. In 1820 he entered the literary department
of the University of Pennsylvania, and afterward took the
medical course, graduating in 1826. Dr. Taylor's name
appears as one of the incorporators of the Camden County
Medical Society in 1846, he being its first vice president.
In 1856 he became its president. He was the organizer
of the Camden City Medical Society ; also of the City
Dispensary. In 1849, 1850 and 1851 he was the vice presi-
dent of the New Jersey State Medical Society, and in 1852
was elected its president. He was a man of rare literary
taste, and the author of many valuable works. For twenty-
two years he was a warden of St. Paul's Protestant Episco-
pal Church. He married Evelina Constance Borrough, a
descendant of the earliest settlers of English Quakers in
West Jersey, namely, the Fenwicks, Adamses, Burroughs,
Wallaces, Hollinsheads and Roberts, who came there over
two hundred years ago. Of this marriage there was issue
four children. {See post ^ Nos. ijg-162.)
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(dp) Mary Alice Hay ; born at Philadelphia, November
20, 1804 ; died at Fairfield, Essex County, N. J.; married
to the Rev. Joseph Wilson. Of this marriage there was
issue five children. {See post^ Nos. idj-idf).
(70) Sarah Fidton ; born February 15, 1806; died March
4, 1806.
(7/) Martha Elizabeth ; born October 25, 1809; married
General Henry S. Genet. She now (1894) resides with her
son at Bergen, N. J., being the only living grandchild of
(5) William and Martha Gazzam. Her husband, Henry S.
Genet, was the son of Count Edmond Charles Genet, first
Minister of France to the United States ; projector of the
Erie Canal and one of the founders of the Democratic party.
Martha E. Genet was the mother of thirteen children. {See
post^ Nos. 168-180).
{y2) William Rivers ; born at Philadelphia, October 22,
1810 ; died February 23, 1826.
(/j) Isaac Ebenezer ; born April 25, 1812. At an early
age he was admitted to practice as a physician, and in the
pursuit of his profession attained considerable distinc-
tion. At the time of his death (in 1891) he was generally
conceded to be one of the most skillful practitioners in New
York City. He was chief physician of the Belle vae Medi-
cal Hospital. He was twice married, his first wife being
Eliza May, youngest daughter of Stuart Mollan, of New
York, and the second, Mrs. Emily Courtney, of New York.
Of his marriage with Eliza May Mollan there was issue four
children. {See post, Nos. 181-184)
{74} Joseph Gazzam; born February 12, 181 5, at Phila-
delphia ; died at Greenbush, N. J., January 21, 1853. He
was the father of seven children. {See post, Nos. 18^-1 gi.)
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THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF {6'/) BENJAMIN
COOK AND ANNA ROME-TAYLOR.
{135) Susannah ; married a Mr. Harris,
(/j^) Mary ; married a Mr. Van Alen. Of this mar-
riage there was issue one son : —
{2p6) Henry ; living in Hudson County, N. J.
(757) William J. Romeyn ; died in 1892. He was a
prominent minister, having had charge of the First Dutch
Reformed Church, of New Brunswick, N. J., for many
years. At the time of his death he was identified with the
American Bible Society. He was the father of four sons: —
{2(^f) Van Campeti ; architect.
ipgS) Southerland ; minister.
{2gg) William ; minister,
(joo) Livingston ; minister.
{i^S) Isaac ; a graduate of Rutger's College ; now one
of the leading lawyers of Jersey City, with considerable
practice as advisory master of the Court of Chancery. He
is married and has one daughter : —
{301) Bertha.
THE CHILDREN OF {68) OTHNIEL HART AND EVELINA BUR-
ROUGH-TAYLOR.
(/jp) Rivers; born at Philadelphia, January 5, 1833;
died August 31, 1833.
{160) Othniel Gaszam ; born at Philadelphia, January
24, 1834 ; died at Camden, N. J., March 14, 1886. He was
a pharmacist of the Camden City Dispensary for thirty
years.
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{i6i) Marmad^ike BorroiigJi ; born at Philadelphia, Au-
gust 17, 1835 ; died at Camden, N. J., January 15, 1890.
He graduated from the Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Law School,
and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1856. He
practiced law in Camden, being highly successful in his
profession. In addition to being a counsellor, an attorney-
at-law, solicitor in chancery and special master in chan-
cery, he was United States commissioner for the Court of
Claims, and held the office of clerk and solicitor for the
Camden Board of Education for many years. He was sec-
retary of the vestry of St. Paul's P. E. Church for years,
and at the time of his death was the only warden of
that church. He was counsellor for the Society of the
Sons of St. George, Philadelphia. He had traveled over
many of the countries of Europe, and lectured on the vari-
ous cities for a number of the Masonic bodies. On Septem-
ber 3, 1 86 1, he married Agnes Crain, daughter of Joseph
and Rebecca Gibson Wills-Crain. Of this marriage there
was issue three children. {See post^ Nos. J02-J04.)
{162) Henry Gejtet; born at Schodack, Rensalier County,
N. J., July 6, 1837. He was a graduate of the Medical De-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania. He entered,
as assistant surgeon, the New Jersey Militia at the com-
mencement of the Rebellion, and served throughout the
war. He has been secretary of the Camden Medical So-
ciety for thirty-five years, and secretary of the Camden
City Dispensary for thirty years. He has also been presi-
dent of the Camden County Medical Society, of the Cam-
den City Medical Society and of the New Jersey State
Medical Society, and is now chief physician of the Cooper
Hospital, of Camden. He married, October 23, 1879, Helen,
daughter of Alexander and Hannah Cooper, of 305 Cooper
street, Camden. Of this marriage there was issue three
children. {See post ^ Nos. 30^-joy.)
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THE CHILDREN OF JOSEPH AND {6p) MARY A. H. TAYLOR-
WILSON.
{i6j) Benjamin.
{164) Theodore.
(/dj) Sarah.
{166) Louise.
{^i6f) Jane.
THE CHILDREN OF HENRY JAMES AND (//) MARTHA ELIZA-
BETH TAYLOR-GENET.
{^168) Edmond Charles ; deceased.
{i6g) William Rivers ; deceased,
(//o) Martha Elisabeth ; single.
(77/) Hemy James ; deceased.
{172) Mary Alice ; deceased.
(//j) Cornelia Clinton (Mrs. Lockhart Mackie).
(77^) George Clinton ; single.
(775) Louise LLeniHetta ; single.
(77<5) He7iry Alexander ; married.
(777) Eugenie Spencer (Mrs. E. Bloodgood).
(77<i') Louis Franklin Facia ; married.
(77P) Josephine Adele ; single.
{^180) Julie Othnelia ; deceased.
THE CHILDREN OF {jj) ISAAC EBENEZER AND ELIZA MAY
MOLLAN-TAYLOR.
{^181) Stuart ; married Gertrude Judge, of Georgia.
{182) Emily ; married to Pierre lyorillard, of New York.
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{i8j) Ann Jane; married to Hilliard Meany Judge
(brother of Mrs. Gertrude Judge-Taylor).
{^184) Louise ; unmarried.
The above are all living.
THE CHILDREN OF (//) JOSEPH GAZZAM TAYLOR.
(7^5) Rivers.
{186) Elizabeth.
{18"/) Clinton.
\i88) William.
{i8p) Joseph,
{ipo) Theodore.
{191) Southerland.
THE CHILDREN OF (/<5/) MARMADUKE BURROUGH AND
AGNES CRAIN-TAYLOR.
{^302) Clarence Wills; born at Camden, N. J., July 11,
1862. He is a graduate of the Protestant Episcopal Col-
lege, class of '80 ; and of the University of Pennsylvania,
College Department, class of '84. He is now (1894) en-
gaged in the real estate business at Camden, having entered
it upon his graduation. He is a director of the Penn Elec-
tric Light Company, of the American Color Printing Com-
pany, and of the Weil Gas Enriching Company, besides
being the owner of several large tracts of woodland and
meadow in South Jersey ; also of the Taylor Building, in
Camden. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society of
the Cincinnati, the New Jersey Sons of the Revolution
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(from eight ancestors), and of the Society of the War of
1 812, of Pennsylvania ; a member of St. Panl's P. E.
Church, Camden; of the Camden City Board of Trade, and
Camden Republican Club.
(joj) Evelina Constance; born December 5, 1865; died
February 3, 1870.
{304) Annie ; born September 3, 1871. She is a mem-
ber of the New Jersey Societ}^ of the Colonial Dames (from
ten ancestors). She was married November 2, 1893, to
Rev. Robert Atkinson Mays, Rector of Holy Trinity Me-
morial P. B. Church, Twenty-second and Pine streets,
Philadelphia. Mr. Mays is a graduate of Princeton, class
of '78 ; of Columbia Law School, class of '80 ; and the
University of Virginia Theological Seminary, class of '84.
THE CHILDREN OF {162) HENRY GENET AND HANNAH
COOPER-TAYLOR.
(joj) Henry Getiet ; born July 19, 1883.
{jo6) Richard Cooper ; born September 29, 1884.
(jo/) Helen Elizabeth ; born February 27, 1887 ; died
March, 1889.
All born at Camden, N. J.
(S) WILLIAM GAZZAM.
William Gazzam, the eldest son of William and Martha
Gazzam, was educated at the University of Cambridge, and
became an eminent journalist in England during the latter
half of the eighteenth century. He was remembered there
as a very quiet man, but one who possessed liberal ideas
and high ideals, which he expressed with great vigor and
trenchant pen. Although his writings attracted wide at-
tention in England, he never cared to take any credit to
himself for public good attained thereby, preferring to
remain the unknown power behind the throne. He pub-
lished a newspaper at Cambridge, and in it said many
things that were not altogether to the liking of the King,
Being an ardent lover of freedom, he naturally sympathized
with the people of America, asserting the eminent justice
of their wished-for autonomy. In this opinion, it will be
remembered, the King failed to concur. Therefore, the
liberal writings of Mr. Gazzam, probably in much exagger-
ated recital, coming often to official attention, it naturally
followed that steps were finally taken to suppress the utter-
ances of the intrepid journalist of freedom. Purposing his
arrest, it is not unlikely the Crown would have welcomed
his death, since a patriot and fast friend of Mr. Gazzam' s,
Edward Despard, * was executed about this time for similar
utterances.
Warned of his impending danger, Mr. Gazzam made a
hasty flight from the country. America was naturally his
prospective bourne, though he first went to Paris, where he
remained a short time, being in that city at the time of the
*See Biographical Sketch of (j^) Edward Despard Gazzam ; post.
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execution of Lonis XVI (January 21, 1793). Shortly after-
ward lie returned to England, whence he embarked with
his family for the land of the free.
The following letter, written by the celebrated author of
" Rippon's Hymns," will convey some idea of Mr. Gazzam's
precipitate departure from England, as well as of the esteem
in which he was held by his neighbors : —
London, February 6, 1793.
To the Rev. Dr. Rogers, the Rev. Dr. Eusticks, of Philadelphia ; the
Rev. Dr. Foster, of New York ; the Rev. Dr. Edwards, of New Haven,
Conn.; the Rev. Dr. Lillman, of Boston ; the Rev. Dr. Hood, of Lex-
ington, or to any other of my American correspondents to whom this
may come : —
This is to certify that Mr. William Gazzam, the bearer of these lines,
is an honorable member of the Congregational Church at Cambridge, un-
der the pastoral care of Rev. Mr. Grier. He has been driven from his
own country only for speaking in behalf of the rights of mankind— per-
haps incautiously. So hasty was his removal that his much-loved pastor
had no opportiinity to give him testimonials. He is united with one of
our Baptist families, and with others of our friends, whose names would
gladly be united in recommending him and his attention to our foreign
friends, with the name of their obliged and affectionate brother and
servant, John Rippon.
In due course of time the fugitive reached Philadelphia,
Pa., where, on July 20, 1793, he affirmed allegiance to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and soon became well and
favorably known as a public-spirited citizen. In this coun-
try his great love for freedom and his constant advocacy of
it took a new direction, and he became an active member
of the old " Philadelphia Society for the Abolition of
Slavery and the Amelioration of the Condition of the
Colored People. ' ' This was a Quaker Society, for, though
not a Friend, he observed many of their customs, among
them being the constant refusal to take an oath, always
"affirming" when occasion required. During his resi-
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dence at Philadelphia he became a member of the Second
Presbyterian Church.
Shortly after his arrival in the Quaker City Mr. Gazzam
engaged in mercantile business at No. 20 North Front
Street. In those days importing merchants usually owned
the ships they freighted, it requiring a large amount of
capital to embark in this line of business, and Joseph Hart,
a kinsman, who was a bachelor of considerable means, fur-
nishing the necessary funds for Mr. Gazzam, the enterprise
started and flourished.
In 1796 the bookkeeper of the house, Mr. William Tay-
lor, was taken into partnership, the firm being designated
as Gazzam & Taylor, and the next year Mr. Edward Jones,
a clerk, was admitted, the firm becoming Gazzam, Taylor
& Jones. At the same time the place of business was re-
moved to No. 36 North Second Street. Mr. Taylor with-
drew in 1800 or 1 80 1, and the firm became Gazzam &
Jones, a partnership which was dissolved a year later. Mr.
Hart, brother of Martha Gazzam, wife of (/) William
Gazzam, the European agent of the American house, pur-
chased and shipped the goods sold by it ; and during the
troubles with France one of the firm's vessels, a brig laden
with teas, was seized by French privateers, the heavy loss
sustained falling, it seems, entirely upon Mr. Gazzam, a
loss for which neither he nor his heirs have ever received
indemnity.
In 1802 Mr. Gazzam moved to Pittsburg, Pa., where he
passed the remainder of his life. On March 31, 1808, he
was appointed first Collector of the Port of Pittsburg by
President Jefferson, being recommended for the place by
James Madison, then Secretary of State. * He was also ap-
*His commission as Collector and his ceitificates of marriage and membership in the
Philadelphia Society are in the possession of{ioS)]. B. Gazzam, of St. Louis.
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pointed magistrate by Governor Snyder, at that time an
office of dignity and importance.
He married twice, his first wife being Elizabeth Scaiffe,
of Cambridge, England, who, with their three children,
accompanied Mr. Gazzam to America. Mrs. Elizabeth
Gazzam died at Philadelphia, Pa., during the first year of
her residence in this country. Six months after her decease.
May 19, 1794, Mr. Gazzam married Ann Parker, of. Phila-
delphia.
(5) William Gazzam died in Pittsburg, November 16,
181 1, aged forty-eight years. His second wife, Ann Parker,
who was born in September, 1776, died March 7, 1843, ^^
Allegheny, Pa. They are buried in Allegheny Cemetery,
Lot No. 28, Section 19.
THE CHILDREN OF (j) WILLIAM GAZZAM.
Williamx Gazzam was the father of sixteen children, those
by his first wife, Elizabeth Scaiffe-Gazzam, being : —
(^5) William ; served in the War of 181 2, from Novem-
ber 9, 1813, to November 9, 1814, having enlisted as a
private in Captain Samuel Morris' company of Sea Fenci-
bles, from Philadelphia. He died in Texas, leaving a
family of children, one of whom was a Confederate prisoner
of war.
{26) Anna; born May 11, 1790 ; married Samuel Buck-
nail, of Philadelphia, December 14, 1814 ; died November
14, 1873. Of this marriage there was issue four children.
{See post^ Nos. lo^-ioy.)
(2/) Elizabeth; married her cousin, William Gazzam
Kimpton ; died at Newark, Ohio.
[From a silhouette in the possession of J. B. Gazzani, St Louis, Mo.
MRS. ANN PARKER-GAZZAM.
(See page 22.)
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Those by his second wife, Ann Parker-Gazzam, were : —
{2S) Sarah ; born May 10, 1796 ; died Angust 16, 1855.
{2 g) Joseph Parker ; born at Philadelphia, Pa., February
I, 1797 ; died at Pittsburg, Pa., May 29, 1863; a practicing
physician. He married, at Brownsville, Pa., December 28,
1824, Harriet Breading, daughter of Judge Nathaniel and
Mary Ewing Breading, of Fayette County, Pa., who was
born May 11, 1803, and died at Pittsburg, August 27,
1838. Both are buried in Allegheny Cemetery. Of this
marriage there was issue two children. {See post^ 1 08-1 op.)
(jo) Charles Wood ; born March 7, 1798 ; died at
Mobile, Ala., October 13, 1882. Born at Philadelphia, he
went with his father to Pittsburg. He married, at Pitts-
burg, Clementina Lea, a member of the Lea family, of the
old Philadelphia publishing house of Carey, Lea & Carey.
He resided for many years at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
amassed a large fortune, passing the last years of a long
and useful life in the city (Mobile) in which he died. He
was the founder of many business enterprises, among them
being the Mobile F'oundry Company, the first iron manu-
facturirfg company in the South ; and was the president of
the First National Bank of Mobile from its establishment
until the time of his death ; of the Mobile Savings Bank,
and of the Fulton Cotton Factory. He was the patron of
Hiram Powers, having furnished the great sculptor with
the money necessary to pursue his studies and travels.
Mrs. Clementina Lea-Gazzam died September 21, 1886.
There was issue of this marriage eleven children. {See
post^ Nos. 110-120.)
(ji) CathaiHne Selina ; born April 26, 1799; died at
Boston, Mass., January 28, 1882 ; married at Pittsburg,
May I, 182 1, by Rev. Joseph McElroy, to John Bartlett
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Butler, the son of John Butler, of the State of New York.
The latter, having left his farm and entered the Continental
Army, serv^ed three years during the War of the Revolu-
tion. [John Bartlett Butler was born in Columbia County,
N. Y., May 6, 1793, having had four brothers and four sis-
ters, who settled in various parts of New York and Con-
necticut. At 19 years of age he entered a printing office
in New York City. In the War of 181 2 he served for six
months in the defenses of Baltimore, and shortly afterwards
removed to Ravenna, Ohio, where he established a news-
paper. After a few years he settled at Pittsburg, being
editor and proprietor of the Pittsburg Statesman. After
an editorial career of twenty-seven years he sold his paper,
having been appointed president of the Pennsylvania Canal
Commission, which position he resigned at the outbreak ot
the Mexican War to accept an appointment as major on
the staff of General Taylor. At the close of the war he
was commissioned paymaster and military storekeeper in
the Regular Army, with the rank of captain, and stationed
at the Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburg. He retired from the
army at the close of the War of the Rebellion, in 1866, and
died at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 7, 1870.] Of the mar-
riage of John Bartlett Butler and Catharine Gazzam-Butler
there was issue ten children. {See post^ Nos. 121-ijo.)
( J 2) Louisa Paj^ker ; born in 1 800 ; died in 1 806. She
was accidentally burned to death.
(jj) Dudley Hart; born in 1801 ; died at Baltimore,
Md., April 7, 1893 ; married, at Paris, France, in August,
1844, Marguerite de Loche. Of this marriage there was
issue one daughter. {See post^ No. iji.)
(j^) Edwai'd Despard ; born at Pittsburg in 1803 ; died
at Philadelphia, February 19, 1878.*
*See biographical sketch ; post.
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(jj) Mary Alice; born at Pittsburg, November 24,
1804 ; died at Muscatine, Iowa, January 9, 1892 ; married
to Sage O. Butler, June 10, 1833. Of this marriage there
was issue six children, [See post^ Nos. ij^-i^o.)
{j6) Ebenezer ; born at Pittsburg in 1806 ; died at
Allegheny City, August 13, 188 1. In 1834 married Eliza-
beth Ann Stevenson [who was born January 18, 181 8, and
died April 6, 1891]. Of this marriage there was issue
fourteen children. {See post^ Nos. 141-1^4.)
{37) {3^) {39) {4^) Children who died in infancy. /
THE CHILDREN OF SAMUEIv AND [26) ANNA GAZZAM-
BUCKNALL.
{104) Joanna Rooker ; born December 9, 181 5. Living
(1894).
(705) Ebenezer Gazzam ; born November 29, 181 9.
Living, unmarried (1894).
{106) Samuel Rooker ; born July 9, 181 7 ; died Febru-
ary 22, 1888 ; married, March, 1848, Lydia S. Eastlack.
Of this marriage there was issue two sons. {See post^ Nos.
192-193.)
{lof) Martha Elisabeth ; born November 19, 1821; died,
unmarried, June 15, 1880.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF {106) SAMUEL
ROOKER AND LYDIA EASTLACK-BUCKNALL.
{192) Simeon Eastlack; born May 16, 1850 ; married,
Augiist 5, 1873, Marion Augusta Cochran. Of this mar-
riage there was issue five children : —
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{joS) Nellie Lydia ; born June 25, 1874.
(jop) Samuel Kazlett ; born January 6, 1876.
{^3 TO) Martha Elizabeth ; born Dec. 11, 1877.
{311) Marion Augiista ; born April i, 1878.
{312) Anna Maria ; born February 24, 1880.
(/p'j') '^"Samuel ; born September 13, 1852 ; married, No-
vember 22, 1882, Rebekah Russell. Of this marriage there
was issue three children : —
(j/j) George Gordoji ; born September 16, 1883 ;
died April 9, 1891.
{314) Mary Rnssell ; born August 14, 1885.
{313) Lydia Eastlack ; born April 20, 1887.
THE CHII^DREN OF i^Zg) JOSEPH PARKER AND HARRIET
BREADING-GAZZAM.
(/0(?) James Breading ; born at Pittsburg, May 4, 1833.
Removed in 1853 to St. Louis, Mo., where he still lives.
Married, October 27, 1859, Louisa Morris, daughter of John
Logan and Louisa Morris-Blaine, of Frankford, Ky. Mrs.
James Breading-Gazzam was born May 2, 1836. Of this
marriage there was issue one child : —
{194) Joseph Parker ; born at St. Louis, Mo., Jan-
uary 26, 1 861.
(/op) Harriet Breading ; born June 10, 1836; died, un-
married, in April, 1854. Buried in Allegheny Cemetery, Al-
legheny City, Pa.
*The sons of (w6) Samuel R. Bucknall (Simeon E. and Samuel) spell their names
with the original " e" instead of " a," which change was made by the grandfather of
S. R. B. in his declining years.
DR. JOSEPH P. GAZZAM.
(See page 23.)
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THE CHILDREN OF ( Jo) CHARLES WOOD AND CLEMENTINA
GAZZAM,
{no) Catharine Selina ; born at Cincinnati, O., Septem-
ber I, 1828 ; married, February 21, 1850, to Judge John A.
Hitchcock, whom she survived. Now living at Spring
Hill, near Mobile, Ala. No issue.
(///) Aiidley Hart ; born at Cincinnati, August 7, 1830;
died in infancy.
{112) George Gano ; born October 22, 1831 ; died in the
Confederate Army, September i, 1864. Married, April 25,
i860, Lucy A. Schuyler, of Mobile, Ala. Of this marriage
there was issue one daughter : —
(/p5) Kate Lea ; married at Mobile, Ala., to H,
G. Donald, of England. Of this marriage there was
issue two sons and several daughters.
(//j')\Twin sons, born October 24, 1833 ; died in in-
(///) j fancy.
(7/5) Charles Wood ; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, Au-
gust 29, 1834; moved with his mother to Mobile, Ala., in
1839, where he was employed in his father's banks. He
served through the War of the Rebellion in Bragg' s army.
He married, August 28, i860, Mary G. Thomas, at Mobile.
Of this marriage there was issue six children. {See post^
Nos. I g 6- 2 01).
{116) Clement Lea ; born at Cincinnati, January 3, 1837;
died at Mobile, January 26, 1851.
(7/7) William Parker ; born at Cincinnati, April 29,
1839 ; went to Mobile when an infant ; was educated in
Virginia and entered business in New Orleans, La. He
served in General Lee's Confederate Army, and married, De-
cember 5, 1882, Helen Maermurdo. Of this marriage there
is no issue (1894).
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(//<?) Henry McClyment ; born at Mobile, September
13, 1 841. Served in General Hood's Confederate army.
Died at Mobile, August 7, 1877. Married, in Texas, Sarah
A, Holland. Of this marriage there was issue one child: —
(y202) Selina.
{119) Claudius Douglas ; born February i, 1844 ; died
September 22, 1877.
{120) John Lea ; born November 8, 1846 ; died May 29,
1849.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OK (//j) CHARLES
WOOD AND MARY G. THOMAS-GAZZAM.
{^196) Warren Lea; born June 8, 1863 ; married at Se-
attle, Washington, where he resided for a number of years.
He is now living at Portland, Oregon. He is the father of
two children : —
{ji6) Lea.
{317)
{197) Geoige Goodwin; born February 24, 1866 ; died
in 1869.
{19S) Mary ; born October 16, 1867 ; married to Archi-
bald J. Fisken, of Seattle. Of this marriage there is
issue (1894) two sons : —
{ji8) Keith Gazzam.
{J19) Archibald Donald ; born April 14, 1894.
{199) Clement ; born January 19, 1869 ; a missionary at
Colon, Columbia, Central America.
{200) Lucy ; born October 8, 1872.
(20/) Emily Lea ; born March 30, 1876.
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THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF JOHN BARTLETT
AND ( Jl) CATHARINE SELINA GAZZAM-BUTLER.
{i2i) Charles Junius ; born at Pittsburg, March 6,
1822 ; married Margaret E. Lansing, in 1846. Of this mar-
riage there was issue five children : —
{20J) Margaret E. Lansing ; died.
(20/) Gertrude Letitia ; married.
(^05) Robert Lansing ; married.
{^206) George Jackson.
{20'/) Fannie Elisabeth ; died.
" {122) Joseph Curran ; born December 23, 1823; ^^^^
June 13, 1873. Married Alice Lafferty. Of this marriage
there was issue nine children : —
{^208^ Kate Una ; died March i, 1851.
{^2og) John Bryant ; died September 15, 1865.
{210) Pierce Ormond.
{211) Kenneth Lafferty ; married.
{212^ Alice.
{21J) Florence.
{214) Honoria.
{215) Joseph.
{216) Mary.
{12 J) Frances Ann ; born September 28, 1825; married,
May 21, 1846, to Dr. Albert G. Walter [born at Augesburg,
Prussia, June 21, 1811 ; died at Pittsburg, Pa., October 14,
1876]. Of this marriage there was issue four children.
{See post^ Nos. 2 1^-2 26).
{124) Liarriet Elizabeth; born September 30, 1827 ;
married to Samuel J. R. McMillan (late United States Sen-
ator), October 31, 1850, at the Allegheny Arsenal, Pitts-
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burg, Pa. Of this marriage there was issue nine children.
{See post^ Nos. 221-22^).
(i2j) Sarah Prudence; born December 23, 1829: died
January 6, 1852. Married to Austin Loomis at Pittsburg,
in 1 85 1. Of this marriage there was issue one child : —
(^jo) Austin Butler ; born in 1851; died in 1880.
(/2<5) Kate Aurelia ; born March 9, 1832 ; died April
30, 1858.
(7^7) Richard Aiidley ; born December 29, 1834 ; mar-
ried Ivydia Davis. Of this marriage there was issue four
children. {See post^ Nos. 2ji-2j^).
{128) Caroline Sydney ; born October 31, 1838; mar-
ried to Dr. David Day, September 29, 1858, at Pittsburg,
Pa. Of this marriage there was issue five children : —
{2jj) Gordon Butler ; died.
{2j6) David Henry ; married.
(2J7) Charles Butler.
{238) Alice.
{2j<p) Lillian Warnick.
{i2p) John Gazza7n ; born at Pittsburg, Pa., January
23, 1842. Appointed cadet at the United States Military
Academy, West Point, in 1859. Graduated in 1863. Was
appointed second lieutenant in Battery M, 4th U. S. Ar-
tillery, joining the Union Army in the field. He was
promoted for gallant conduct in the battle of Chickamauga,
and examined and promoted to the ordnance corps of the
army in 1864. After the close of the war he served as con-
tractor and inspector of ordnance at Boston, West Point,
Reading, Philadelphia and Pittsburg foundries, and later
served at various arsenals, and at the National Armory, and
again as assistant constructor of ordnance in New York
from 1873 to 1876. In command of the St. lyouis powder
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depot from 1887 to 1890, and from the latter date to the
present time (1894) in command of the arsenal at Angnsta,
Ga. Married at Philadelphia, Pa,, January 25, 1866, Eliza
(called Lillie) M. Warnick. Of this marriage there was
issue six children : —
{^240) Mary Warnick.
{242) Lawrence Parker.
{242) Harriet McMillan.
{24J) Rodman.
{244) Rollins.
{24^) Lillie.
{tjo) Alice Ohnstead ; born June 22, 1845 ; married to
George T. Tilden, at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 5, 1871.
Of this marriage there was issue four children : —
{^246) Laura May ; died January 12, 1876.
{242) Charles Joseph.
{248) Alice Foster.
{24Q) Edith Selina.
All the children of John Bartlett and (j/) Catharine
Selina Gazzam-Butler were born at Pittsburg, Pa.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF DR. ALBERT G.
AND {12 J) FRANCES ANN BUTLER-WALTER.
(^77) Joseph Gaszatn ; born July i, 1847 ; married Mary
E. Dean, February 27, 1877. Of this marriage there was
issue three children : —
{j2o) Hele7i ; born August 8, 1878.
{321) Alexander Dean ; born June 11, 1882.
(j^^) Albert Gustav ; born July 27, 1886.
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{^2 1 8) Selina Louisa ; born April lo, 1850; died March
18,1854.
(^/p) Sm^ah Looniis ; born December 3, 1852 ; died
March 18, 1854.
{^226) Augusta Hammer ; born January 3, 1855 ; mar-
ried, February 24, i88i,to Dr. William Wallace, who died
August 25, 1883. Of this marriage there was issue two
children : —
{^3 2 J) Selina Gazza7n ; born August 14, 1882 ;
died October 31, 1882.
{324) Albert Walter ; bom October 31, 1883.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF SAMUEL J. R. AND
{124) HARRIET ELIZABETH BUTLER-MCMILLAN.
{^221') Catharine Gazzam ; married, April 28, 1875, to
James B. Beals, whom she survives (1894). Of this mar-
riage there was issue two sons : —
( j-?5) Walter Burgess.
( J"-^^) James Bnrrie.
(222) /okn Butler ; died.
{^223^ Austin Loomis ; died.
{224) Anna Walter ; married, September i, 1880, to
Frank P. Shepard, of St. Paul, Minn. Of this marriage
there was issue three children : —
{32/) David Chau7icey.
( 328^ Samuel McMillan.
( 32g) Roger Bulkley.
{223) Joseph Butler.
{226) Jessie Garmily.
SAMUEL J. R. McMillan.
(See pa.tfc 29)
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{22^) Albert Walter.
{228) Thomas Erskine ; died, aged 4 years and 4 months,
(,?^p) Sanmel Benedick.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDEN OF (z^/) RICHARD
AUDREY AND LYDIA DAVIS-BUTLER.
(-pj/) Lina Louise ; married to Charles T. Moore. Of
this marriage there was issue two children : —
{330) Grace.
{331) Alice.
(232) Orniond ; died July 28, 1875.
(^Jj) Caroline Day.
{234) Andley Richard.
THE DAUGHTER AND GRANDCHILDREN OF (jj) AUDLEY
HART AND MARGUERITE DE LOCHE-GAZZAM.
(/J/) Marguerite ; born September 4, 1845 ; married, at
Baltimore, Md., October 19, 1865, to Louis Stow. Of this
marriage there was issue two children :
{23d) Aiidley Hart ; born January 21, 1867.
{231) Edith; born April 27, 1869; married, De-
cember 3, 1890, to Alexander Percy White, of
Philadelphia.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF SAGE O. AND
(jj) MARY ALICE GAZZAM-BUTLER.
(/J5) Clementina G. ; died in infancy.
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(/j(5) Fredei-ick Tomlin ; died in infancy.
(/J/) Elizabeth O. ; born March i6, 1842.
{ij8 ) Aiidlcy G.; born at Cincinnati, Ohio, December
II, 1843 5 married Adela Vesey at Moliere, 111., December
24, 1868. Of this marriage there was issne eight chil-
dren, all born at Muscatine, Iowa. : —
{26'j') Ellis P. ; born December 5, 1869.
{268^ Adela V. {Daisy); born March 25, 1872.
{26p) George O. ; born December 8, 1873.
{2yo) Alice {Pearl); born November 7, 1876.
{2J1) Lawrence L. ; born January 10, 1878.
{2'/2) Elizabeth L. ; born August 11, 1879.
(^/j) Frederick Daut ; born October 10, 1883.
{2^4) Edith O. ; born April i, 1886.
{139) W. Norman; born at St. Louis, Mo., April 5,
1847.
{140) Lawrence ; born at St. Louis, Mo., March, 1851 ;
died at Muscatine, Iowa, January 24, 1878.
CHII.DREN OF {36) EBENEZER AND ELIZABETH ANN
STEVENSON-GAZZAM.
{141) A7in Elizabeth ; died in childhood.
{142) Lctitia Jackson; died in 1875; married Ross A.
Workman. Of this marriage there was issue eight chil-
dren. {See post^ Nos. 223-282).
{143) William Thomas ; married Elizabeth Shell ; no
children.
{144) Charles Edzvard.
{143) Antoinette ; died in childhood.
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(/^d) George J. ; married Ann Russell. Of this mar-
riage there was issue four children. {See post^ Nos. 28 j-
286).
{147) John Butler ; married Susan Cherry. Of this mar-
riag'e there was issue one child : —
{28'/) Florence.
{148) Joseph ; died in childhood,
(/^p) Harriet Elizabeth,
{ijo) Sarah Selina.
{t^i) Henry Parker ; married Jane Harris. Of this
marriage there was issue five children. {See post^ Nos.
288-2C}2).
(752) Franklin Breading ; married Catharine Kanan.
Of this marriage there was issue three children. {See
pOSt^ Nos. 2C)J-2pj).
{1^3) Mary Butler ; died in childhood.
(75/) Clara Levinia.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF ROSS A. AND
{^142) LETITIA GAZZAM-WORKMAN.
(^75) Elisabeth; married to J. V. Newman. Of this
marriage there was issue three children : —
{345) Charles F.
{346) John R.
{347) Jessie-
{2'/6) John Q. ; married Dora Scott. Of this marriage
there was issue four children : —
{348) Myrtle.
{349) Gertrude.
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(jSo) Selina.
{351) Arden.
(^77) Amanda ; unmarried.
{^2'j8^ Ross A. ; married Nannie Sutton. Of this mar-
riage there was issue three children : —
{.35-) Goldie.
(jSj) Earl Gazzam.
{354) Pearl.
{2/'p) Selina B.; married to B. D. Cobbs. Of this mar-
riage there was issue four children :
(jj*^) Chester.
{357) Luther.
{358)
(2S0) H arriet.
{281) Henrietta.
{282) Frank.
THE CHILDREN OF (//<5) GEORGE J. AND ANNIE RUSSELL-
GAZZAM.
{28 j) Elizabeth A.
{284) Annie A.
(2(?5) May ; died.
{286) Letitia.
THE CHILDREN OF (/J/) HENRY PARKER AND JANE
HARRIS-GAZZAM.
{288^ Andley ; died.
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(28p) Clara.
{2po) Elizabeth.
{2gi) Henry Parker.
(2^2) John Harris.
THE CHILDREN OF (/J-?) FRANK B. AND CATHARINE KANAN-
GAZZAM,
(^pj) Nellie B.
{2^4) Mary.
{2pj) Frank.
{34) EDWARD DESPARD GAZZAM.
The fourth son of (5) William and Ann Gazzam, who
was born at Pittsburg in 1803, was, for a month or two,
called Albert Gallatin, in honor of the great philanthropist,
statesman and author of that name. But the boy's father
met, it seems, with a grievous disappointment in one of his
favorite great men, and so one day, after pondering the
matter over, he said : —
" Wife, Albert Gallatin is not dead yet ; he may change
before he leaves this world. Suppose we call this boy
Edward Despard ?"*
So the boy was named for the Irish patriot.
He was given a liberal education. When he became
nearly of age he commenced the study of law under the
preceptorship of the Hon. Richard Biddle, whose law part-
ner he afterward became. He was admitted to the Bar of
Allegheny County in 1826. After practicing for two years
he was compelled to abandon this profession on account of
ill-health. Later he commenced the study of medicine, and
in due time graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Gazzam was a man of the rarest intellectual attain-
ments, and always took a keen interest in the development
of the Republic, having inherited all his father's great love
of freedom. He thus naturally drifted into Pennsylvania
politics, in which he became an important factor, and a
nomination for Congress was conferred upon him early in
his political career. In the contest that followed he was
defeated by a single vote. Reared in the Democratic faith,
like many of the same school he was bitterly opposed to
*See page 19.
From a picture in the possession of J. M. Gazzam, Philadelphia, Pa.
UR. EDWARD D. GAZZAM.
(See page 38).
NEN^ YORK
PUBUIC LIBRARY'
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the extension of slavery. On this account he severed his
connection with Democracy, and in 1848, together with
Sahnon P. Chase (afterward Chief Justice of the United
States) and others, assisted in founding the Free vSoil
Party in the memorable Biiffalo Convention. In the same
year he became the Free Soil candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, his opponents being William F. Johnson,
Whig (who was elected), and Morris Longstreth, Democrat.
In 1855 Dr. Gazzam was the Free Soil candidate for State
Senator from Pittsburg, He was defeated in this contest,
but the next year he was again put forward, this time as
the candidate of the Union Republican Party. Being
elected, by about one thousand majority over the combined
votes of his two opponents, he thus became the first Repub-
lican Senator from Allegheny County. In 1857 he was
prominently mentioned as Republican candidate for Gover-
nor, and had a large number of counties instructed for him,
but withdrew from the contest before the Convention met.
Dr. Gazzam was also Postmaster at Pittsburg at one time.
When lyafayette visited this country, in 1824, ^^- Gazzam
was selected to make the welcoming speech in behalf of the
people of Western Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg. In the per-
formance of this duty he acquired considerable distinction
on account of his youth and the excellence of his address.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War Dr. Gazzam and
Dr. McCook, of Pittsburg, were the first persons who took
steps toward preventing Secretary of War Floyd from remov-
ing the guns, ammunition and other property of the United
States from the Allegheny Arsenal. They telegraphed, on
behalf of the Committee of Safety, to Washington regarding
the removal, and in response received the following : —
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Ordnance Office, Washington, D. C, \
May 3, 1861. /
E. D. Gazzam, Chainnan, Pittsburg, Pa.:
Sir : — Your telegram of May i to the Secretary of War about powder
now held by the Committee is received and sent to this office. If any of
the powder is needed by the commanding officer of Allegheny Arsenal,
and is, in his judgment, of suitable quality for the United States service,
it may be delivered to him. The Committee must use their discretion
about the residue, throwing every proper guard around the disposition
to be made of it.
Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
James W. Ripley, Lt.-Col. U. S. A,
The powder referred to was seized by the Committee of
Safety when about to be shipped to a point within the ju-
risdiction of the Southern States, from which the import-
ance of the step taken can be readily discerned.
On March 24, 1835, Dr. Gazzam married Elizabeth An-
toinette deBeelen.* Three children were born to them : —
{1J2) Aiidley lVilliam.'\
{ijj) -Emma Louise.^
{tj4) Joseph Murphy.^
In 1867 Dr. Qt2JLT.2cai retired from active life and removed
to Philadelphia, where he died January 19, 1878, and was
buried in Allegheny Cemetery, where the remains of his
wife also repose.
*See deBeelen family ; post. fSee biographical sketches ; post.
{ij2) AUDIvEY WILLIAM GAZZAM.
Audley William, the eldest son of {j4) Edward Despard
Gazzam and Elizabeth Antoinette, his wife, was born in
the city of Pittsburg, May 8, 1836. Receiving an excellent
education, he began the study of law at a comparatively
early age, and in due time was admitted to the AUeghen}^
County Bar.
At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion he was
president of the Firemen's Association of Pittsburg, from
which body he organized a company of volunteers, known
as the "Fire Zouaves," of which he became captain. This
company was placed under command of Generals Oakes
and Casey, in Virginia, and captured the first cannon taken
during the war, in an engagement on the Kanawha, about
sixty miles from Wheeling, W. Va. Subsequently elected
major of the One-Hundred-and-Tliird Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, he commanded this regiment in the many
actions in which it participated, always behaving gallantly,
and at the battle of Fair Oaks was severely wounded in the
head by a piece of shell. Later on he served in the United
States Veteran Reserve Corps until July, 1865, when he
resigned from the army and removed to Utica, N. Y.
Mr. Gazzam was well known in Pittsburg, New York,
and Philadelphia as a lawyer of ability, making a specialty
of bankruptcy cases. This branch of the law is indebted
to him for several important works, among them being
" Gazzam on Bankruptcy," and a " Digest of American and
English Decisions in Bankruptcy."
Audley William Gazzam died at his home in the city ot
Philadelphia, on Saturda}^, May 10, 1884, after an illness
of but a few hours. At the time of his death he was attor-
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ney for the National Cremation Society, of which method
of disposal of the dead he was a strong advocate, and he
was the first member of that society to be cremated, incin-
eration taking place at the Le Moyne Crematory, at Wash-
ington, Pa., then the only crematory in the country.
Mr. Gazzam was married" twice ; the first time at Pitts-
burg, Pa., to Mary Elizabeth Van Deusen, daughter of Rev.
Edwin M. Van Deusen, formerly rector of St. Peter's P. E.
Church, Pittsburg, and of Grace Church, Utica, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary Gazzam died in Utica, N. Y., April 12, 1871.
His second wife was Isabel Rogers, of New York, whom
he married in 1876. She is now (1894) residing at New
York.
THE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF {tJ2) AUDLEY
WILLIAM AND MARY ELIZABETH VAN DEUSEN-GAZZAM.
{2^2) Antoinette Elizabeth ; born at Pittsburg, Septem-
ber 27, 1861 ; married, September 6, 1883, to John Stanley
Fredericks, of the Baltimore Bar. Of this marriage there
was issue four children : —
{^332') Edzvin Stanley ; born at Carrollton, Md.,
August 2, 1884.
{333) Florence Antoinette; born at Carrollton,
Md., July 17, 1887.
{334) Thomas Emannel ; born at Cartersville,
Ga., December 17, 1890.
^335) Audley William; born at Cartersville, Ga.,
March 16, 1894.
(^jj) Mary Van Deusen ; born at Pittsburg, August 6,
1863 ; married at Bethlehem, Pa., on June 12, 1888, to the
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Rev. George Abbott Hunt, of the P. E. Church. Of this
marriage there was issue three children : —
{336) Rebecca Abbott ; born at Middletown, Conn.,
March 30, 1889.
(jj"/) Martin Van Deusen ; born at Radnor, Pa.,
February 7, 1891.
{^338) George Abbott ; born at Bddington, Pa.,
November 12, 1893.
{234) Edwin Van Deusen ; born at Utica, N. Y., February
5, 1866. Studied medicine at the University of Pennsylva-
nia ; afterward one of the staff of resident physicians, Post-
Graduate Hospital, New York City. Now a practicing
physician of that city.
(255) Ii^ene Gilbert ; born at Utica, N. Y., May 8, 1869;
married at Philadelphia, on February 7, 1893, to Edward
Hagaman Hall, of New York City.
{236) Maria Florence ; born at Utica, N. Y., April 4,
1871 ; now (1894) residing at Cartersville, Ga.
THE CHII^DREN OF (/J^) AUDLEY WILIvIAM AND ISABEI.
ROGERS-GAZZAM.
{.^57) Joseph Murphy ; born May 9, 1877.
{238) Lilabel ; born February 23, 1879.
(^5p) Emma Louise ; died in infancy.
{ijj) EMMA LOUISE GAZZAM-MACKENZIE.
Emma Louise, second child and only daughter of {j4) Ed-
ward Despard and Elizabeth Antoinette Gazzam, was born
at Pittsburg, November 4, 1837. She married in the same
city, June 5, 1856, John F. Mackenzie, a talented member
of the Allegheny County Bar, who during the war was sec-
retary of the Examining Board of Paymasters, afterwards
practicing law at Philadelphia for a number of years.
Emma Louise Gazzam-Mackenzie was a woman of gentle,
self-sacrificing, and affectionate disposition, passing through
life highly esteemed and greatly beloved by all who knew
her. After several years of suffering she died at Shamokin,
Northumberland County, Pa., on the 27th day of June,
1887. Her husband survived her only a few months, dying
at Philadelphia, Pa., on February 28, 1888. Their remains
rest in Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia.
THE CHILDREN OE JOHN E. AND {ijj) EMMA LOUISE GAZ-
ZAM-MACKENZIE.
{260) Edward Gazzam; born in Pitt Township, Alle-
gheny County, Pa. , July 4, 1858. Entered the printing busi-
ness at an early age, in which he continued for many years.
Now (1894) connected with the Porous Waterproofing Com-
pany, of Philadelphia. Married at Philadelphia, Septem-
ber 8, 1881, Mary C. Welsh, of that city. Of this marriage
there was issue five children, all born at Philadelphia : —
(jjp) Adele La Roche ; born August 15, 1882.
^340) Mary C; born and died in the month of
March, 1884.
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ANTOINE DeBEELEN MACKENZIE.
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{J4^) Frances ; born October 8, 1886.
{342) Anna Gazzam ; born October 2, 1888;
died in February, 1889.
{j4j) Edward Gazzam; born Nov. 29, 1889.
{261) Frankli7i Irish ; born in Pitt Township, Allegheny
County, Pa., July 15, 1859. Studied medicine at the Jef-
ferson College, Philadelphia, and was one of the projectors
of the Children's Sanitarium, now a prosperous and ex-
tremely beneficent institution. Died at Philadelphia, Au-
gust 27, 1878, his remains resting in Monument Cemetery,
Philadelphia.
{^262^ Antoine deBeelen ; born at Pittsburg, May 29,
1 86 1. Entered the printing business at an early age, first
becoming apprentice in the office of Taggarts'' Sunday
Times^ Philadelphia, where he remained until 1884, when
he went to Shamokin, Pa., conducting the Sentinel
newspaper of that town for four years, during which time
he was also special correspondent for the Philadelphia
Ledger^ New York Snn^ Boston Globe and Cincinnati Eji-
quirer. Returning to Philadelphia he did reportorial work
on the Nezvs and Taggarts' Sunday Tiines^ of that city.
On April 7, 1890, the Evening World^ of Reading, Pa., was
successfully launched upon the journalistic sea by Charles
F. Haage, with Mr. Mackenzie in the editor's chair, a
position he still (1894) occupies. He is a member of the
Pennsylvania State Editorial Association, the Reading
Press Club, and the International League of Press Clubs. He
married Adeline Barger Gregg, of Philadelphia, in that city,
on November 30, 1889. This union has resulted in the
birth of one child : —
{344) Nina deBeelen ; born at Reading, Pa., on
November 17, 1890.
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{2 6 j) Joseph Gazzani ; born at Vineland, N. J., on No-
vember 28, 1870. Was educated at Lawrenceville (N. J.)
Academy and Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pa., at
which latter school he was president of the Penn Charter
Athletic Association and of the Inter-Academic Athletic
Association, winning many prizes in field sports, at which
he has always been highly proficient. He was captain of
the foot ball, base ball and tug-of-war teams, and editor of
the Penn Charter Magazine. Subsequently entered the
Wharton School of Finance in the University of Pennsyl-
vania as a special student, remaining, however, only one
year, passing all examinations with credit. While attend-
ing the University he was a member of the K(PW Frater-
nity, Iota Chapter, manager of the Track Team and
athletic editor of the University Courier. He was recently
engaged in importing laces and lace curtains, being senior
partner of the firm of Mackenzie & Jenkins, of Philadelphia,
Pa. Joseph Gazzam Mackenzie is fourth vice president of the
Pennsylvania Club, of Philadelphia; member of the Penn-
sylvania Historical Society, the Philadelphia Humane So-
ciety and Skating Club, the Philadelphia Cricket Club,
the Republican City Committee, and the University
Republican Club, as well as a director of the North Caro-
lina Hedge and Wire Fence Company. Married at Phila-
delphia, Pa., June 13, 1894, Jennie Randolph Dorsey, of
that city.
{^264) Harold Darragh ; born at Philadelphia, February
17, 1 88 1. At present (1894) a student at the Stewart
Academy, Reading, Pa.
JOSEPH M. GAZZAM.
(See page 47.)
(/J/) JOSEPH MURPHY GAZZAM.
While it is true that many of the greatest names on the
pages of the world's history have been won by men of ob-
scure parentage, yet investigation will usually show that
such have been especially endowed by nature with indomi-
table will power, robust health or other advantages, they
being thus, by a combined strength of mind and body, en-
abled to acquire traits and habits not originally inherent
Such men necessarily mark an advance in the history of the
family from which they descend.
But there are men who have gained distinction in life
without the incalculable aid of strong physical condition,
and in such cases one naturally looks for inherited mental
capacity, the individual's ability predicating the merit of
those from whom he has sprung.
Joseph Murphy Gazzam, the subject of this sketch, may
with propriety be classed among the latter. Descended
from parents of cultivation and refinement, it is to be ex-
pected that he should have always evinced a desire for sim-
ilar culture, and, despite almost continuous ill-health, it is
not singular that he should have acquired distinction in his
professional, political and social career.
He was born in the city of Pittsburg, December 2, 1842,
being the second son and third child of {j4) Dr. Edward
Despard and Elizabeth Antoinette deBeelen-Gazzam. The
first fourteen years of Mr. Gazzam's life differed somewhat
from the ordinary, owing to lack of robust health, his
parents considering it advisable to keep him from the ardors
and restraints of regular school life. At home, however,
under the careful tuition of his father, he gained the rudi-
mentary elements of education, so that he was not by any
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means deficient when, at this age, he entered the Western
University of Pennsylvania. Here he remained for three and
a half years, at tlie end of which time his health compelled a
temporary suspension of study. An extended tour through-
out the Western States greatly benefitted him, however, so
that when he returned he felt capable of beginning what
afterwards proved an earnest and exhaustive study of the law.
On January 4, 1861, he entered the office of David Reed,
Esq., and three years later, January 6, 1864, he was
admitted to the Allegheny County Bar. In a short time his
practice became so extensive that he was able to decline
all criminal cases save those of regular clients, this, too, in
face of the fact that he had made quite a reputation in
this branch of the profession, although the practice was
always distasteful to him. In November, 1867, he was
admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ; in May,
1869, to the Circuit and District Courts of the United
States, and March 19, 1870, upon motion of the late Hon.
Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, to the Supreme
Court of the United States. In the latter body he was re-
marked as one of the youngest members ever admitted to
practice before it.
In 1 87 1 he was elected a director for Pennsylvania in the
United States Law Association, and in 1872 he entered into
a law partnership with Hon. Alexander G. Cochran. The
firm of Gazzam & Cochran became widely known through-
out the United States, and was continued until 1879, when,
owing to the removal of Mr. Cochran to St. Louis, it was
dissolved.
Mr. Gazzam' s life at this period had become a very busy
one. He was solicitor for a irumber of leading corporations
of Pittsburg, among them being the City Bank, the Security
Trust Company, the Iron City Fire Insurance Company,
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and others, besides being president of the United States
Building and Loan Association. Despite this extremely
active professional career, Mr. Gazzam found time to take
a leading part in numerous social organizations, being
president of the Pittsburg Gymnastic Association, president
of the Hygeia Base Ball Club, as well as an officer, or offi-
cer and director, in many other similar organizations.
A fondness for the political arena is one of the character-
istics undoubtedly inherited by Mr. Gazzam. In early life
it induced him to take active part in the municipal govern-
ment of his native city. He was frequently called upon to
speak at political meetings in various campaigns, and his
decisive and practical expressions advocating many needed
reforms soon attracted general attention. In consequence
he became (in 1869) Republican candidate to represent the
First Ward of Pittsburg in City Councils. Being elected he
was subsequently enabled to carry many of these excellent
ideas into effect, and to show himself a capable and patri-
otic public official. His name at this time was prominently
mentioned in connection with the Select Branch of Coun-
cils, and also for the Mayoralty. Concerning the former
the Pittsburg Sunday Times^ of November 10, 1872,
said : —
If strict attention to every duty and unceasing devotion to the best
interests of the city are commendable in a public officer, then Mr. Gaz-
zam will certainly be rewarded with a seat in the Select Branch of our
City Legislature. During the year about to close Mr. Gazzam has been
prominent in all important legislation, and has ever been on the popular
side. His constituents will do themselves a good service by honoring
Mr. Gazzam with promotion.
Alluding to the nomination for the Mayoralty, the
Pittsburg Evening Bulletin^ of May 9, 1872, said : —
so
Among the names suggested for the Mayoralty is that of Joseph M.
Gazzam. Mr. Gazzam is a young man of ability. He has represented
the First Ward in the Common Council for several years, and the people
have the utmost confidence in his honesty and integrity.
An important step in the career of Mr. Gazzam occurred
in 1876, when, by acclamation of the nominating conven-
tion, he became Republican candidate for the Forty-third
Senatorial District. He was elected by a large majority.
As a member of the Senate he soon ranked as of the highest
ability and character. Fair-minded yet tenacious, pacific
yet thoroughly equipped for debate, he formed his opinions
on public measures with deliberation and candor, and de-
fended them with courage and skill. He was a zealous
worker for Republican principles, though utterly devoid of
all that savored of " offensive partisanship," and so wise
were his counsels that at the expiration of his term he had
gained a most enviable position in his party. One of the
bills introduced by Mr. Gazzam was for a marriage license
law (similar to that now in effect in Pennsylvania), which
was then defeated.
In 1882 he was prominently mentioned throughout the
State as a candidate for the Ivieutenant-Governorship. This
was at a time, however, when private reasons urged Mr.
Gazzam to discourage all efforts made in his behalf by a le-
gion of friends, and so his name was not presented at the con-
vention. The following extract from an editorial in the
Philadelphia News^ published at the time, will convey
an idea of the general esteem in which his political actions
are held : —
There are many names being brought forward for the Lieutenant-
Governorship of this State. The Pre,»s of this city refers as follows to the
subject: "Various journals of the State have presented the name of
ex-Senator Joseph M. Gazzam as candidate for I^ieutenant-Governor on the
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Republican ticket. Mr. Gazzam has made an honorable record in public
life. He was the author of the law which prevented a session of the Leg-
islature in 1880, thus making a large saving for the State. He is recom-
mended as affable and well versed in parliamentary law and having the
qualities to make a strong candidate if nominated. ' ' This complimentary
notice is well deserved. Mr. Gazzam stands the peer of any man in the
State in purity of character, fullness of culture and clearness of intellect.
Having had years of experience in the State Senate, he is fully qualified
to perform any service required of the Lieutenant-Governor. And as the
term of Governor has been extended to four years, all the uncertainties
which attach to a Presidential term attaches to it. Therefore, whoever
may be selected as candidate for Lieutenant-Governor should be qualified,
in the event of need, to act as Governor. This Mr. Gazzam is amply
qualified to do. Prudent, cautious, and with good judgment, he would
fill the Executive chair with ability and success. If the policy this year
shall be to make up a ticket so unexceptionable that all Republicans will be
glad to support it, no better name can be selected for Lieutenant-Governor.
And this is the policy which should obtain. Locality this year should
give place to quality in candidates. It is the one thing that is important
above all else. And if this policy shall prevail, Mr. Gazzam will be in
the front for the Lieutenant-Governorship.
Unfortunately the policy above indicated did not prevail
in the convention that followed. A slated ticket was
rushed through, which proved so distasteful to the Inde-
pendent Republicans throughout the State that they met
in convention and put a ticket of their own in the field,
the final outcome being the defeat of both Republican
tickets and the election of the regular Democratic nominees.
Senator Gazzam moved from his native city to Philadel-
phia in 1879. Upon this occasion all the Pittsburg papers
commented upon his removal in the most flattering terms.
The Critic said : —
Pittsburg's loss is Philadelphia's gain. The community has long
since learned to respect and esteem him for his manly qualities, his genial
disposition, his inborn courtesy, his strict integrity, his usefulness in pub-
lic life and his devotion to all that Pittsburgers regard as noblest and
dearest.
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After his arrival in Philadelphia Mr. Gazzam opened an
office at 714 Walnut street, his law practice increasing
rapidly. Upon the completion of the Girard Building, at
Broad and Chestnut streets, Mr. Gazzam removed his offi-
ces to it, engaging six commodious rooms, which he fur-
nished luxuriously as business offices. Recently, however,
he has not actively practiced, owing to the pressing
duties of the numerous offices filled by him in various cor-
porations, and his connection with sundry other business
enterprises. He was one of the projectors of the Beech
Creek, Clearfield & Southwestern Railroad (later known as
the Beech Creek), a railroad which, beginning at Jersey
Shore, Pa., had its terminus in the thriving borough of
Gazzam, named after the subject of this sketch.
At the present time (1894) Mr. Gazzam is president of
the Philadelphia Finance Company, and the Bridgewater
Cordage Company (Philadelphia) ; of the Kenilworth Inn
Company, and Kenilworth Land Company (Asheville, N. C.) ;
of the Etowah Iron Company (Georgia), and of the Wilkes-
barre and Western Railroad Company (Pennsylvania). He
is vice president of the Quaker City National Bank (Phila-
delphia) ; of the Ames-Bonner Brush Company (Toledo,
Ohio) ; Auer Light Company (South America); Central
Coal and Coke Company and Dent's Run Coke Company
(Pennsylvania). He is a director in the Spring Garden In-
surance Company (Philadelphia), the Delaware Company,
and eight other corporations, making a total of twenty-nine
corporations in which he is concerned either as an officer
or director.
With all his arduous business duties, however, Mr. Gaz-
zam, owing to his methodical habits, still finds time to de-
vote to literary and other pursuits. He is a life member of
the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Fairmount Park
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Art Association, and of the Pennsylvania Horticultural So-
ciety. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Club,
one of the leading political organizations of the State, of
which he was for three years president, declining nomi-
nation for a fourth term recently tendered him. He is
also a member of the Union League Club, of Philadelphia,
and of the Citizens' Municipal Association, of the Philadel-
phia Cricket Club, of the Lawyers' Club, of the German-
town Cricket Club, of Philadelphia ; the Pennsylvania So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Geneo-
logical Society of Pennsylvania, University Archseological
Association, the American Academy of Political and Social
Science, and the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association,
of which latter he filled the office of president recently.
Mr. Gazzam married, October 30, 1878, Anna, daughter
of the late John G. Reading, one of Pennsylvania's successful
business men, and a great-grandson of Hon. John Reading,
Colonial Governor of New Jersey. Two children were the
result of this imion : —
(26J) Sada ; born September i, 1879; died November
17, 1880.
{266) A7itomette Elizabeth ; born March 8, 1883.
Mr. Gazzam married a second time September 7, 1893,
Nellie May, daughter of Benjamin and Olivia A. Andrews,
of New Orleans, who still survives (1894),
[From a picture iti the possession of A. deB. Mackenzie, Reading, Pa.]
BARON DeBEELEN BERTHOLFF.
(See page 57.)
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THE DeBEELEN FAMILY.
When the Revohition that resulted in the freedom of the
American Colonies was over, and after peace had been de-
clared between the United States and Great Britain, Joseph
II, Emperor of Austria, sent as Resident Minister of that
country to the new republic, (/) Baron Frederic Eugene
Francois deBeelen Bertholflf.*
The Baron brought with him his wife, the Baroness
deBeelen {iiee Marie Theresa de Castro y Toledo), and their
only son, {2) Constantine Antoine, and remained as Minis-
ter from 1783 to 1787. During the latter year he was or-
dered home ; but, being prevented from returning by reason
of political complications, his estates in Austria were seized
by the Government and confiscated. It was this, probably,
which finally determined the Baron to remain in America,
and leaving Philadelphia he settled in Chester County, Pa.,
near what is now Honeybrook Station, where he built an
imposing residence, for along time known as " The Castle,"
the surrounding estate lying partly in Chester and partly in
Lancaster Counties. Later the Baron removed to York
County, where he acquired some considerable additional
property.!
Baron deBeelen Bertholflf and his wife both died in York
County, Pa., and their remains repose in a sequestered
cemetery upon the bank of the Conawaga, the spot marked
by what was once an imposing monument.
*For information concerning the earlier family see "Annuaire de la Noblesse de
Belgique," published by Baron Isidore de Stein D'Altenstein, Belgium, 1871. Also, see
"Denny's Memoirs of his Father." Also, Rev. Lambrig's " History of the Catholic
Church."
fSee deed, post.
{2) CONSTANTINE ANTOINE DeBEELEN.
Constantine Antoine, the only child of (/) Baron and
Baroness deBeelen Bertholff, was born at Brussels, Bel-
gium, June 9, 1770.
An ancient document in Latin, on hand-made paper
much worn by the tooth of time, bears the following
endorsement in English, in the firm and cultivated hand-
writing of Constantine Antoine deBeelen : —
My Father's Certificate of my Baptism (Mon Baptistaire), taken from
the record of the Cathedral of Ste. Gudule in the City of Bruxelles, in
Belgium.
The contents of this paper, translated, are as follows :
On the ninth of June, in the year 1770, was baptized Constantine
Antoine, legitimate son of Sir Frederic Eugene Francois deBeelen
Bertholff and Lady Jeanne Marie Theresa de Castro y Toledo, husband
and wife ; born at nine o'clock in the morning, the 9th day of June, 1770.
The sponsors were by name Lady Marie Theresa Constance deBeelen
and Sir Antoine de Castro y Toledo, Toparcka in Zoombeeck, Van-
dengver ; and Lady Carolina and Sir Nicholas deBeelen, husband and
wife.*
After the death of his parents {2) Constantine Antoine •
deBeelen Bertholff settled in Pittsburg, where he became
well and favorably known as an importing merchant. It
is said that had he so desired he could have returned to the
home of his ancestors, reclaiming the title and estates of
his father. But it appears he had become too much im-
bued with the love of American institutions to submit him-
self and his fortunes to monarchical rule.
*The certificate of baptism is {1S94) in the possession of Hon. Joseph M. Gazzam, of
Philadelphia, Pa.
[From a picture in the possession of J. M. Gazzam, Philadelphia, Pa.]
CONSTANTINE ANTOINE DeBEELEN.
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While in Pittsburg he discontinued the use of the suffix
BertholfF, being commonly known as Antoine deBeelen.
He married in that city Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy,
daughter and only child of Captain Patrick Murphy, of the
Continental Army, around whose parentage there clings a
little romance.
It seems that sometime during the latter half of the 17th
century, a poor gentleman became tutor in the family of an
Irish nobleman, the father of a beautiful daughter. The
tutor fell in love with his charge, there was an elopement,
a hasty marriage, and — America.
During the Revolution the tutor became an officer in the
Continental Army. After peace was declared he moved to
Pittsburg, in which city his wife died at the time of the
birth of her daughter. It was this daughter who became
the wife of Antoine deBeelen.
Upon the death of his wife Captain Murphy sent to Car-
lisle, Pa., for a young woman named Molly, who had left
Ireland to come to America as maid to Mrs. Murphy,
marrying here and settling at Carlisle, shortly afterward
becoming a widow. She consented to take charge of the
infant daughter, and subsequently Captain Murphy married
her. From this union there was no issue, but Mrs. Murphy
survived the death of the Captain many years. He left
her comparatively well off and she became projector of
many business enterprises, being interested in the first gas
works and one of the first rolling mills ever started in
Pittsburg. Through clear-headed business ability she
acquired considerable additional property, in later years
extremely valuable.
Dying childless, this property was bequeathed to the de-
scendants of her stepdaughter, Elizabeth Antoinette.
6o
Constantine Antoine deBeelen and Elizabeth Antoinette,
his wife, left several children. But two of them married,
however : —
(j) Mary ; married Dr. William Simpson, of Pitts-
burg, Pa., and was the mother of the wife of the late Ben-
jamin Rush, Esq., of Philadelphia.
( 4) Elizabeth Antoinette ; born at Pittsburg, Pa. , in 1 8 1 7 ;
married, March 24, 1835, to Dr. Edward D. Gazzam.*
Mrs. E. A. Gazzam was a gentlewoman of fine education, of
polished and easy manners, hospitable disposition, good
and truly charitable nature, and ever ambitious to relieve
the wants of her suffering fellow-beings — a liberal Christian
in the broadest sense of the word. She lived a life of
influence, and in her death, which occurred suddenly on the
25th of July, 1 87 1, at Pittsburg, all who knew her recog-
nized the transition of an immortal soul from earth to a
happy and eternal heaven.
Constantine Antoine deBeelen survived his first wife, and
subsequently married a Miss Aiken. Of this marriage there
was issue five children : —
(5) Eliza; born March 24, 18 16.
{6) Frederick A.; born April 12, 1827; married and
lived in Brazil for a number of years.
( 7) Anna Maria ; married to General James A. Oakes,
U. S. A., in November, 1854.
{8) Caroline ; married to George S. Lovett, of Phila-
delphia, in October, 1850.
(p) Adeline; married to Colonel W. Milnor Roberts,
a celebrated civil engineer, who for many years was in the
service of Dom Pedro, the late Emperor of Brazil. /
*See page 40.
[From a picture in the possession of J . M. Gazzani, Philadelphia, Pa.]
MRS. EDWARD D. GAZZAM
(Nee Elizabeth Antoinette deBeelen.)
(See page 60.)
INTERESTING OLD DOCUMENTS.
There are several old documents in existence that pertain
to the Baron deBeelen's residence in this country. The
following is the copy of a deed relating to the purchase by
him of a tract of land in York county, Pa., which is of imme-
diate interest : —
THIS INDENTURE, Made the first day of February,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
ninety-eight, between John Brillinger, of York Township,
in the County of York and State of Pennsylvania, miller,
and Catharine, his wife, of the one part, and Frederic Eu-
gene Francois, Baron deBeelen BertholfF, of Manchester
Township, in the County of York aforesaid, gentleman, of
the other part.
WITNESSETH, That the said John Brillinger, and
Catharine, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of
two hundred and fifty pounds of the current gold and silver
money of Pennsylvania, to him, the said John Brillinger, in
hand paid by the said Frederic Eugene Francois, Baron de-
Beelen Bertholff, at and before the ensealing and delivery
of these presents, the receipt and payment whereof is here-
by acknowledged, and the said Frederic Eugene Francois,
Baron deBeelen Bertholff, thereof acquitted and forever dis-
charged by these presents.
Have granted, bargained, sold in fee, offered, released and
confirmed, and by these presents do grant, b argain, sell
in fee, offer, release and confirm unto the said Frederic
Eugene Francois, Baron deBeelen Bertholff, and to his heirs
and assigns, all that the following described messuage, ten-
ement and tract of land, which is situate, lying and being
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in Hellam Township, in the County of York aforesaid,
bounded and limited as follows : Beginning at a marked
black oak ; thence by land of Peter Garhaw, Sr., formerly, now
of John Fritz, north sixty-five degrees, east one hundred and
thirty-six perches, to a marked chestnut oak ; thence by
lands of James Smith, Esq., formerly, now of Wilkes Ket-
tera and Samuel Jago, Esq., north fifty-five degrees, east
one hundred and eighty-three perches, to a marked white
oak, thence north twenty-three degrees, west seventeen
perches, to a marked black oak ; thence by land of Wilkes
Kettera and Samuel Jago, south seventy degrees, west one
hundred and six perches, to a marked chestnut; thence north
thirty degrees, west forty perches, to a marked chestnut oak;
thence by vacant land, south sixty-two degrees, west seventy-
two perches, to a marked chestnut oak ; south thirty degrees,
east twelve perches, to a marked hickory; thence by the
said vacant lands of Philip Fellero, south sixty degrees, west
one hundred and fifty-seven perches, to stones ; thence by
lands of John Fritz, south forty degrees, east seventy-nine
perches, to the place of beginning, containing 134 acres, and
the usual allowance of six acres to the hundred for roads, &c.,
within the bounds and limits thereof [Being the same
which Philip Klug and Christina, his wife, by indenture of
bargain and sale bearing date the 23d day of January last past
for the consideration therein mentioned, did grant and con-
firm unto the said John Brillinger (party hereto), and to his
heirs and assigns forever, as, in and by the said in part
recited deed, intended to be recorded, reference having
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.]
Together with all and singular the houses, out-houses,
edifices and buildings thereon erected and built, and all
ways, woods, under woods, waters, water courses, meadows,
orchards, gardens, profits, commodities, advantages, emolu-
63
ments, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the
said described messuage, tenements and tract of land
belonging, or in anywise appertaining, and the reversions,
reminders, rents, issues and profits thereof, also all the
estate right, title, interest, use, possession, property claim
and demand whatsoever of them, the said John Brillinger,
and Catharine, his wife, in law or equity or otherwise how-
soever, of, into or out of the said described piece, or parcel
of land, oi any part thereof ; together, also, with all such
deeds or true copies of deeds, evidences and writings touch-
ing and concerning the hereby granted premises, or any
part or parcel thereof, to be had and taken at the costs and
charges of the said Frederic Eugene Francois, Baron
deBeelen Bertholfif, his heirs and assigns, to have and to
hold the said described messuage, tenement and tract of
land containing one hundred and thirty-four acres, and the
usual allowance, as the same is above described, and
premises hereby granted, mentioned or intended so to be,
with the appurtenances, unto the aforesaid Frederic Eugene
Francois, Baron deBeelen Bertholff, his heirs and assigns,
to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said
Frederic Eugene Francois, Baron deBeelen Bertholff", his
heirs and assigns forever, under and subject to the residue of
the purchase money, interest and quit rents (if any) due, and
to become due, and payable to such person, or persons, ap-
pointed to receive the same ; and the said John Brillinger, for
himself and for Catharine, his wife, and their heirs, doth cove-
nant, promise and grant to and with the said Frederic Eugene
Francois, Baron deBeelen Bertholff, his heirs and assigns,
by these presents, that he, the said John Brillinger, and his
heirs, the said described messuage, tenement and tract of
land hereby bargained and sold with the appurtenances
unto the said Frederic Eugene Francois, Baron deBeelen
64
BertholfF, his heirs and assigns, against him, the said John
Brillinger and Catharine, his wife, and their heirs, and
against the heirs of Charles King, and all and every other
person or persons whomsoever, lawfully claiming, or to
claim, the same, or any part thereof, by, from, or under
him, or them, or any or either of them, shall and will
warrant and forever defend.
In Witness Whereof, The said John Brillinger and
Catharine, his wife, to these presents hath hereunto set
their hands and seals, dated on the day and year first and
within written,
John Brilunger,
Her
Catharine ><! Brillinger.
Mark.
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Chr. Sinn,
Geo. IvEwis Lefler.
Received on the date of the foregoing indenture from the
within-named Frederick Eugene Francois, Baron deBeelen
BertholfF, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, current
money of Pennsylvania, in full of the consideration money
within mentioned.
John Brillinger.
Witness present :
Chr. Sinn.
York County ss :
Before me, the subscriber, one of the justices of the peace,
for said county, personally appeared John Brillinger and
65
Catharine, liis wife, the grantors in the foregoing indenture,
named and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed
to the intent that it may be recorded as such according to
law. She, the said Catharine, being of full age and by me
privately examined, declares that she became a party there-
to without coercion or compulsion from her said husband,
the contents thereof being first made known unto her, freely
consented.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this first day of February, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
Geo. Lewis Lefler.
A true copy taken from and compared with the original
at York the third day of February, A. D., 1798.
F. Barnitz, Recorder.
SERVICES BY INDENTURE.
The original of the following indenture, faded, weather-
stained and well-worn, is at present in the possession of
Hon. Joseph M. Gazzam, of Philadelphia, being of particular
interest at this time on account of the obsolete custom to
which it relates : —
THIS INDENTURE, made this twenty-sixth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun-
dred eighty-four, WITNESSETH that I, Philip Michel, and
Elizabeth, his wife, of Robeson township, in the county
of Berks, and State of Pennsylvania, do bind our son, Amos
Michel, unto Frederick Spar, of Brecknock township,
county and State aforesaid, to him, his heirs, or assigns.
The said Amos Michel is to continue and serve from the
66
fifteenth day of March, ensuing the date hereof, nntil the
full end and term of seventeen years, to be ended and fully
completed, during all which term the said servant his
master true and faithfully shall serve and keep his lawful
commands gladly. Neither shall he do damage to the said
master, nor see it done by others, without telling or giving
notice to his said master. He shall not waste his master's
goods, nor lend tliem to any without his consent. He shall
not play at cards, dice, or any unlawful game whereby his
master may be damaged, with his own goods or the goods
of others. He shall not commit fornication, nor contract
matrimony. He shall not absent himself at any time from
the service of his master, nor haunt ale houses or taverns;
but in all ways behave himself like a true and faithful ser-
vant. And said master shall procure and provide for him
sufficient meat, drink and apparel, washing and lodging,
during the above term; also the said master shall give him
eight months' schooling, but not till he is nine years old,
and two suits of clothes, the one for his freedom suit of
clothes that is sufficient ; one axe, and one grubbing hoe,
one pair of mall rings and two iron wedges. And for the
true performance of the said covenant and agreement,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, both the
said parties bindeth themselves unto the other firmly by
these presents.
In Witness Whereof, They have hereunto set their
hands and seals the day and year above written.
His
Philip ><! Michel.
Mark.
Her
Elizabeth X Michel.
Mark.
Done before me, February 26, 1784.
Jacob Morgan.
67
In consideration of tlie sum of seven shillings and six-
pence, Margaret Spar, on November 5, 1784, assigned the
time of Amos Michel (referred to in the foregoing indenture)
to John Evans. For seven pounds young Michel's services
were assigned by John Evans to Joseph Ashton, January
14, 1792. Joseph Ashton for nine pounds assigned to
Frederick Spar, May 29, 1792. Frederick Spar for eighteen
pounds assigned to Baron de Beelen BertholfF, March 7,
1794. The Baron for nineteen pounds, ten shillings, as-
signed to James Hamilton, March 17, 1795. James Ham-
ilton for eighteen pounds, fifteen shillings, assigned to John
Bicking, July 21, 1799. The last assignment of Michel's
services was made by John Bicking to James Hamilton,
September 4, 1800, the sum paid being three pounds, fifteen
shillings.
The following is a copy of the transfer of the services of
Amos Michel, made by the Baron deBeelen BertholfF,
together with ?ifac simile of the Baron's signature : —
In Consideration of the sum of nineteen pounds, ten
shillings, current money of Pennsylvania, to me in hand
paid this day by Mr. James Hamilton, I do assign the
within-mentioned servant's time to said James Hamilton,
to serve him, his heirs, or assigns the remainder of his time,
as witnesseth my hand and seal this seventeenth day of
March, 1795.
^^_9^ ^...^i^^c.
DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM GAZZAM I.
WHOSE NAMES APPEAR IN THIS WORK.
[Note. — The numbers on the extreme outside show parentage; those
in parenthesis ( ) at the end of the names, children.]
1 Gazzam, William (2-9)
1- 2 Gazzam, Martha (10-15)
3 Gazzam, Mary (lG-24)
4 Gazzam, Sarah
5 Gazzam, William (25-40)
6 Gazzam, Lydia (41-49)
7 Gazzam, Joseph (50-56)
8 Gazzam, Rebecca (57-63)
9 Gazzam, Mary Alice (64-74)
2- 10 Girding, Martha Maria
11 Girlling, Elizabeth
12 Girlling, Sarah (75-77)
13 Girlling, Rebecca
14 Girlling, Mary
15 Girlling, Thomas L. (78)
16 Larwill,
17 Larwill,
18 Larwill,
19 Larwill,
20 Larwill,
21 Larwill,
22 Larwill,
23 Larwill,
24 Larwill,
Joseph H.
Julia Robinson
William (79-87)
^^^'y . I Twins
Benoni j
Mary B.
John (88-94)
Ebenezer
Jabez B. (95-103)
25 Gazzam, William
26 Gazzam, Anna (104-107)
27 Gazzam, Elizabeth
38 Gazzam, Sarah
5- 29 Gazzam,
30 Gazzam,
31 Gazzam,
32 Gazzam,
33 Gazzam,
34 Gazzam,
35 Gazzam,
36 Gazzam,
37 Gazzam,
38 Gazzam,
39 Gazzam,
40 Gazzam,
Jos. P. (108-109)
Chas. W.(110-120)
Cath.Sel.(121-130)
Louise P.
Audley H. (131)
Edw. D. (132-134)
Mary A. (135-140)
Ebenezer (141-154)
(Infant.)
(Infant.)
(Infant.)
(Infant.)
6- 41 Kimpton,
42 Kimpton,
43 Kimpton,
44 Kimpton,
45 Kimpton,
46 Kimpton,
47 Kimpton,
48 Kimpton,
49 Kimpton,
William G.-
David
Joseph
David
Lydia
Mary
Rebecca
Joshua
Mary Alice
50 Gazzam, Emma Goodcheap
51 Gazzam, James
52 Gazzam, Ann
53 Gazzam, Joseph
54 Gazzam, Susannah
55 Gazzam, Sarah
56 Gazzam, Thos. Goodcheap
69
8- 57 Jones, Rebecca Gazzam
58 Jones, Edward Oldfield
59 Jones, Charles
60 Jones, Emma Goodcheap
61 Jones, Martha E.
63 Jones, Anna Selina
63 Jones, Mary Alice
9- 64 Taylor,
65 Taylor,
66 Taylor,
67 Taylor,
68 Taylor,
69 Taylor,
70 Taylor,
71 Taylor,
73 Taylor,
73 Taylor,
74 Taylor,
12- 75 Watson,
76 Watson,
77 Watson,
William Gazzam
Thomas Davis
Thomas William
Benj. C. (155-158)
OthnielH.(159-163)
Mary A. (163-167)
Sarah Fulton
Martha (168-180)
Wm. Rivers
Isaac E. (181-184)
Joseph G. (185-191)
Wm. Lansdell
James
George Robinson
15- 78 Girlling, William
18- 79 Larwill,
80 Larwill,
81 Larwill,
83 Larwill,
83 Larwill,
84 Larwill,
85 Larwill,
86 Larwill,
87 Larwill,
00_
34-
88 Larwill,
89 Larwill,
90 Larwill,
91 Larwill,
93 Larwill,
93 Larwill,
94 Larwill,
95 Larwill,
96 Larwill,
97 Larwill,
Julia M.
Mary G.
John C.
Levinia
Elizabeth C.
Lucretia
William
Josei3h H.
Oscar
William G.
Ann E.
Martha H.
Emma M.
John S.
Julia F.
(Infant son)
Joseph H.
Mary G.
Julia C.
34-
36-
39-
30-
31-
33-
34-
35-
98 Larwill, William J.
99 Larwill, John Fawcett
00 Larwill, Nancy Quinby
01 Larwill, George M.
03 Larwill, Amanda J.
03 Larwill, Leroy J.
04 Bucknall, Joanna Rooker
05 Bucknall, Ebenczer G.
06 Bucknall, S. R. (192-193)
.07 Bucknall, Martha E.
08 Gazzam, James B. (194)
09 Gazzam, Harriet Breading
10 Gazzam,
11 Gazzam,
13 Gazzam,
13 Gazzam,
14 Gazzam,
15 Gazzam,
16 Gazzam,
17 Gazzam,
18 Gazzam,
19 Gazzam,
30 Gazzam,
Catharine Selina
Audley Hart
George Gano(195)
Twin sous
C. W. (190-301)
Clement Lea
William Parker
Henry McC. (303)
Claudius Douglas
John Lea
31 Butler, Chas. J. (303-307)
23 Butler, Jos. C. (308-216)
33 Butler, Frances (317-330)
34 Butler, Harriet (331-339)
35 Butler, Sarah P. (230)
36 Butler, Kate Aurelia
37 Butler, Richard (331-234)
28 Butler, Caroline (335-339)
39 Butler, John G. (240-245)
30 Butler, Alice O. (346-349)
31 Gazzam, Marg. (250-251)
32 Gazzam, Audley (353-359)
33 Gazzam, Emma (300-364)
34 Gazzam, Jos. M. (305-266)
35 Butler, Clementina G.
36 Butler, Frederick Tomlin
37 Butler, Elizabeth O.
70
35-138 Butler, AudleyG. (267-274)
139 Butler, W. Norman
140 Butler, Lawrence
36-141 Gazzam, Ann Elizabeth
142 Gazzam, Letitia (275-282)
143 Gazzam, William Thomas
144 Gazzam, Charles Edward
145 Gazzam, Antoinette
146 Gazzam, Geo. J. (283-286)
147 Gazzam, John B. (287)
148 Gazzam, Joseph
149 Gazzam, Harriet Elizabeth
150 Gazzam, Sarah Selina
151 Gazzam, Henry P. (288-292)
152 Gazzam, F. B. (293-295)
153 Gazzam, Mary Butler
154 Gazzam, Clara Levinia
67-155 Taylor, Susannah
156 Taylor, Mary (296)
157 Taylor, W. J. R. (297-300)
158 Taylor, Isaac (301)
68-159 Taylor, Rivers
160 Taylor, Othniel Gazzam
101 Taylor, M. B. (302-304)
162 Taylor, Henry G. (305-307)
69-163 Wilson, Benjamin
164 Wilson, Theodore
165 Wilson, Sarah
166 Wilson, Louise
167 Wilson, Jane
71-
168 Genet,
169 Genet,
170 Genet,
171 Genet,
172 Genet,
173 Genet,
174 Genet,
175 Genet,
176 Genet,
177 Genet,
178 Genet,
Edward Charles
William Rivers
Martha Elizabeth
Henry James
Mary Alice
Cornelia Clinton
George Clinton
Louise Henrietta
Henry Alexander
Eugenie Spencer
Louis F. Facio
71-179 Genet, Josephine Adele
180 Genet, Julie Othnelia
73-181 Taylor, Stuart
182 Taylor, Emily
183 Taylor, Ann Jane
184 Taylor, Louise
74-185 Taylor, Rivers
186 Taylor, Elizabeth
187 Taylor, Clinton
188 Taylor, William
189 Taylor, Joseph
190 Taylor, Theodore
191 Taylor, Southerland
100-192 Buckncll, S. E. (308-212)
193 Buckncll, Sam'l (313-315)
108-194 Gazzam, Joseph Parker
112-195 Gazzam, Kate Lea
115-196 Gazzam, W. L. (316-317)
197 Gazzam, George Goodwin
198 Gazzam, Mary (318-319)
199 Gazzam, Clement
200 Gazzam, Lucy
201 Gazzam, Emily Lea
118-202 Gazzam, Selina
121-203 Butler, Margaret E. L.
204 Butler, Gertrude Letitia
205 Butler, Robert Lansing
200 Butler, George Jackson
207 Butler, Fannie Elizabeth
122-208 Butler, Kate Una
209 Butler, John Bryant
210 Butler, Pierce Ormond
211 Butler, Kenneth Lafferty
212 Butler, Alice
213 Butler, Florence
214 Butler, Honoria
215 Butler, Joseph
216 Butler, Mary
71
123-217 Walter, Jos G. (320-322)
218 Walter, Selina Louisa
219 Walter, Sarah Loomis
220 Walter, Augusta (323-321)
124-221 McMillan,
222 McMillan,
223 McMillan,
224 McMillan,
225 McMillan,
226 McMillan,
227 McMillan,
228 McMillan,
229 McMillan,
Cath. (325-326)
John Butler
Austin Loomis
Anna (327-329)
Joseph Butler
Jessie Garmily
Albert Walter
Thos. Erskine
Sam'l Benedick
125-230 Loomis, Austin Butler
127-231 Butler, Lina L. (330-331)
232 Butler, Ormond
233 Butler, Caroline Day
234 Butler, Audley Kichard
128-235 Day, Gordon Butler
236 Day, David Henry
237 Day, Charles Butler
238 Day, Alice
239 Day, Lillian Warnick
129-240 Butler, Mary Warnick
241 Butler, Lawrence Parker
242 Butler, Harriet McMillan
243 Butler, Rodman
244 Butler, Rollins
245 Butler, Lillie
130-246 Tilden, Laura May
247 Tilden, Charles Joseph
248 Tilden, Alice Foster
249 Tilden, Edith Selina
131-250 Stow, Audley Hart
251 Stow, Edith
132-252 Gazzam, A. E. (332-335)
253 Gazzam, Mary (336-338)
254 Gazzam, Edwin Van D.
255 Gazzam, Irene Gilbert
256 Gazzam, Maria Florence
132-257 Gazzam, Joseph Murphy
258 Gazzam, Lilabel
259 Gazzam, Emma Louise
133-260 Mackenzie, E. G. (339-343)
261 Mackenzie, Franklin Irish
262 Mackenzie, A. deB. (344)
263 Mackenzie, Jos. Gazzam
264 Mackenzie, H. Darragh
134-265 Gazzam, Sada
266 Gazzam, Antoinette E.
138-267 Butler, Ellis P.
208 Butler, Adela V.
309 Butler, George O.
Butler, Alice
Butler, Lawrence L.
Butler, Elizabeth L.
Butler, Frederick Daut
Butler, Edith O.
Workman, E. (345-347)
Workman, John (348-351)
Workman, Amanda
Workman, Ross (352-354)
Workman, Selina (355-358)
Workman, Harriet
Workman, Henrietta
Workman, Frank
270
271
272
273
274
142-275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
146-283 Gazzam, Elizabeth A. -
284 Gazzam, Annie A.
285 Gazzam, May
286 Gazzam, Letitia
147-287 Gazzam, Florence
151-288 Gazzam, Audley
289 Gazzam, Clara
290 Gazzam, Elizabeth
291 Gazzam, Henry Parker
292 Gazzam, John Harris
152-293 Gazzam, Nellie B.
294 Gazzam, Mary
295 Gazzam, Frank
156-296 Van Alen, Henry
72
157-297 Taylor, Van Campen
298 Taylor, Soutberland
299 Taylor, William
300 Taylor, Livingston
158-301 Taylor, Bertha
161-303 Taylor, Clarence Wills
303 Taylor, Evelina
304 Taylor, Annie
162-305 Taylor, Henry Genet
306 Taylor, Richard Cooper
307 Taylor, Helen Elizabeth
192-308 Buckuell, Nellie Lydia
309 Bucknell, Samuel Kazlett
310 Bucknell, Martha E.
311 Bucknell, Marion Augusta
312 Bucknell, Anna Maria
193-313 Bucknell, George Gordon
314 Bucknell, Mary Russell
315 Bucknell, Lydia Eastlack
196-316 Gazzam, Lea
317 Gazzam,
198-318 Fisken, Keith Gazzam
319 Fisken, Archibald Donald
217-320 Walter, Helen
321 Walter, Alexander Dean
322 Walter, Albert Gustav
220-323 Wallace, Selina Gazzam
324 Wallace, Albert Walter
221-325 Beals, Walter Burgess
326 Beals, James Burrie
224-327 Shepard, David Chauncey
328 Shepard, Samuel McMillan
329 Shepard, Roger Bulkley
231-330 Moore, Grace
331 Moore, Alice
252-332 Fredericks, Edwin S.
333 Fredericks, Florence A.
334 Fredericks, Thomas E.
335 Fredericks, Audley W.
253-330 Hunt, Rebecca Abbott
337 Hunt, Martin Van Deusen
338 Hunt, George Abbott
200-339 Mackenzie, Adele LaR.
340 Mackenzie, Mary C.
341 Mackenzie, Frances
342 Mackenzie, Anna Gazzam
343 Mackenzie, Edward G.
202-344 Mackenzie, Nina deBeelen
275-345 Newman, Charles F.
346 Newman, John R.
347 Newman, Jessie
276-348 Workman, Myrtle
349 Workman, Gertrude
350 Workman, Selina
351 Workman, Arden
278-352 Workman, Goldie
353 Workman, Earl Gazzam
354 Workman, Pearl
279-355 Cobbs, Mary
356 Cobbs, Chester
357 Cobbs, Luther
358 Cobbs,
FAMILY RECORD AND GENEALOGY.
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FAMILY RECORD AND GENEALOGY.
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FAMILY RECORD AND GENEALOGY.
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FAMILY RECORD AND GENEALOGY.
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Open Throughout the Year
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BILTMORE
NEAR ASHEVILLE. N. C.
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