p CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DATE DUE i§tt:3^^E FffT^^Ttrrp^ "PiP^^^Hf PRINTED IN U.S.A. Cornell University Library F 142H8 H34 + Genealogical history of Hudson and Berge 3 1924 028 828 238 olin Overs ^^ Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028828238 GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF Hudson and Bergen Counties NEW JERSEY CORNELIUS BURNHAM HARVEY EDITOR ^ The New Jersey Genealogical Publishing Company, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York 1900 F 5^/'/ "-'- ■Q-?f A7 S';t7^^ The Winthrop Press New York .1 I i Ki "/i II 'J y 1 I ^.jr-i VI Kill Hail to posterity ! * « * Let the young generations yet to be Look kindly upon this. Think how your fathers left their native land. — Pastorius. What he was and what he is They who ask may haply find. — Whittier. HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES THE FIRST SETTLERS AND THEIR ORIGIN P TO the close of the Civil War family origin and lineage re- ceived but a small measure of attention in the United States. Here and there, along the line of the centuries, persons possessed of wealth and leisure had caught up and reunited the broken threads of kinship; but the great mass of the com- mon people considered time thus spent as time squandered. In ac- counting for this it should be remembered that the early settlers of the country never expected to set foot again on European soil. Hav- ing deliberately severed all the ties that connected them with the past, they lived to remember only — and that with hatred — ^the tyranny, despotism, hardships, and persecutions of a church and state which had forced them from the land of their birth. Again, these pioneers of a new civilization had little time to think of remote family ties. With them " self preservation was the first law of nature." Bound- less forests must be felled; lands must be cleared and tilled; crops must be reared, harvested, and protected; the savages must be watched, fought, and exterminated; civil government must be organ- ized and maintained; highways, canals, churches, schools, court houses, and jails must be constructed and paid for; villages, towns, cities, counties, states, even a nation, must be built up; and, when, after long years of untold hardships, all these things had been accom- plished, then came the great revolt from, and struggle with, the mother country for freedom and national independence. After the republic, the War of 1812, then the war with Mexico, and, lastly, the Civil War, the great and final struggle for national life and perpetuity. This " building of the nation," and the wars incident thereto, did not stimulate genealogical research. The American Revolution arrayed the descendants of the early settlers against the descendants of their European oppressors, and the American Civil War arrayed father against father and brother against brother. Both of these conflicts tended to keep alive in the breasts of Americans the animosities kindled by wrongs committed on European soil several generations before. HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES But the surrender at Appomattox soon changed all this. The new nation had emerged triumphant from her great crucial struggle, freed from the curse of human slavery. Moreover, and quite as important, she had shown that she could and would maintain the integrity of the Aol Union. She immediately took a commanding position among the nations of the earth, a position which has grown stronger and more commanding as time has rolled on, until at last the respect of Europe has been won. Equality breeds sociability. And now the descend- ants of the early emigrants to America hobnob with Europeans with as much freedom as if they were members of the same household. THE FIRST SETTLERS All this has aroused a deep and abiding interest in family lineage, and this interest has been greatly intensified in the last decade by the organization of the Holland Society, the Huguenot Society, the New England Society, the Colonial Dames, the Sons of the devolu- tion, the Daughters of the Kevolution, and numerous societies of a similar character. The desire among all classes of the people to know something of their ancestry has been still further stimulated by 4 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES the numerous genealogical societies now established throughout the Union. It is a source of deep regret that the early records of Northern New Jersey are so widely scattered — more so, perhaps, than those of any other section of the country. The historian and genealogist must find them at Albany, New York, Goshen, Richmond, and New City in New York State, and at Trenton, Perth Amboy, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, and Hackensack in the State of New Jersey. Then, again, the chirography of the early records of this section is peculiar, and many of the documents and records are in a foreign language. Thousands of grants, deeds, wills, and other documents relative to Bergen County, all of the greatest importance to the searcher for knowledge, were never recorded and never even deposited in any pub- lic record office, owing to the bitter controversy between the Colonies of New York and New Jersey over the location of the boundary line between them, — a controversy which lasted more than a century from the time the country began to be settled by Europeans. I am forced to the conclusion that he who would make a successful plotting of the early grants of land in Northern New Jersey would need to spend at least five years in a house-to-house hunt for the necessary data, in trunks and chests of the old pioneers, now hidden away and forgotten, in the garrets of their descendants. I have prepared this article from such data as I have been able to find, but for the reasons above stated the matter it contains must necessarily be replete with errors and important omissions. Nevertheless, I am not without strong hope that it may be of some assistance to the thousands of descendants of the sturdy men and women who settled the Counties of Bergen and Hudson. I have prepared and inserted four maps : No. 1, showing Bergen County as erected in 1693; No. 2, showing the greater part of the same county as re-erected in 1709-10; No. 3, show- ing Hudson County at the present time; and No. 4, showing the greater part of Bergen County as erected in 1709-10, and, as far as possible, the locations of the original land patents. In the text these are called and on map No. 4 are numbered " Sections." The outlines of these " sections " are, of course, only approximately correct, but they will be found useful to the reader in locating any particular set- tler. I have also set forth the counties into townships, boroughs, and other municipalities, and, lastly, I have given in tabulated form the surname of each of the principal settlers, his nationality, and, as far as possible, the name and domicile of his European ancestor. FORMATION OF BERGEN AND HUDSON COUNTIES The first municipality within the limits of New Jersey M^as erected by order of Director General Stuyvesant and his council on Septem- THE FIRST SBTTLEKS ber 5, 1661, and christened " The Village of Bergen." The origin of the name " Bergen " rests in some doubt. Some writers confidently claim it to have been derived from " Bergen," the capital of Norway, MAP HUDSON COUNTY /900 while others as confidently assert it to have been derived from Ber- gm op Zoom, an 'important town on the Eiver Scheldt, in Holland, eighteen miles north of Antwerp. Without expressing an opinion, 6 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES I may say that, so far as my investigations have extended, the evi- dence seems to favor those who claim the name to have been derived from the Holland town. During the seven years following the christ- ening new settlers rapidly purchased and located on lands outside of the " Village " limits. These, with a view to more effectually pro- tecting themselves from the savages, asked that they might be an- nexed to the main settlement. Accordingly, on the 7th of April, 1668, Governor Philip Carteret and his council, of Bast New Jersey, granted to the settlers of Bergen (then comprising some forty fam- ilies) a charter under the corporate name of " The Towne and Corpora- tion of Bergen." This new " Towne " comprised the present County of Hudson as far west as the Hackensack Eiver. The line on the north, as described in the charter, started "at Mordavis meadow, lying upon the west side of Hudson's Eiver; from thence to run upon a N. W. lyne by a Three rail fence that is now standing to a place called Espatin [The Hill] and from thence to a little creek [Bellman's Creek] surrounding N. N. W. till it comes unto the river Hackensack [Indian name for "Lowland"], containing in breadth, from the top of the Hill, IJ miles or 120 chains." During the next sixteen years new settlements sprang up north of Bergen, but in matters of government these were termed " out lands " or " precincts," Avithout any corpor- ate power whatever, and subject to the jurisdiction of the authorities of the " Towne." As time went on and population increased, courts became neces- sary; and as all the colonial officials were Englishmen, and many Eng- lish immigrants had settled in the colony, it was but natural that they should desire the adoption of the English system of county govern- ment. On the 7th of March, 1 682, the provincial legislature passed, and Deputy Governor Eudyard approved, an act under which New Jersey was divided into four counties : Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth. Bergen County, as then defined, contained " all the settlements between Hudson's Eiver and the Hackensack Eiver, be- ginning at Constable's Hook and so to extend to the uppermost bounds of the Province, northward between the said rivers with the seat of government at the town of Bergen." (See Map No. 1.) Essex County comprised " all the settlements between the west side of the Hackensack Eiver and the parting line between Woodbridge and Elizabethtown, and northward to the utmost bounds of the Province." By this division the greater part of the present County of Bergen fell within the limits of Essex County, where it remained until 1709-10. This division into counties caused great dissatisfaction among the people, particularly in Northern New Jersey. They complained that the counties were too large, that the distance between their homes and the county seat was too long, and that traveling such lone dis- ^ fv^ "' «• .»»3 S*" V. * ^?^ THE FIRST SETTLERS 7 tances, over the worst of roads, in all sorts of weather, interfered with their pursuits and subjected them to great expense and bodily dis- comfort. Sheriffs found it difficult to summon and compel the at- tendance of jurymen and witnesses. The administration of justice and the transaction of all other public business were seriously re- tarded. From every part of the province petitions came pouring into the colonial assembly, sometimes accompanied by delegations of in- dignant citizens. For several years the assembly stood out against these numerous complaints and petitions, but in the end it was obliged to yield, and on the 2d of January, 1709-10, an act was passed and approved directing a redivision. By the terms of this act the boundaries of Bergen County were fixed as follows : " Beginning at Constable's Hook, so up along the bay to Hudson's River, to the partition point between New Jersey and the Province of New York; thence along the line and the line between East and West New Jersey to the Pequannock and Passaic Rivers; thence down the Pequannock and Passaic Rivers to the sound; and so following the sound to Constable's Hook where it begins." (See Map No. 2.) In the northwestern part of the county, as above described, was included the County of Passaic, and on the 22d of February, 1840, all that part of it lying south of the original north bounds of the " Town and Corporation of Bergen," together with a considerable area of territory west of the Hackensack River known as New Bar- badoes Neck, were, by legislative enactment, erected into the County of Hudson. A part of this was annexed to Bergen County in 1852, leaving the boundaries of Bergen and Hudson Counties as they are to-day. ( See Map No. 3.) INTRODUCTION OF TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS The first division of the counties into townships was made pursuant to two acts of the colonial assembly, one approved in September, 1692, and the other in October, 1693. The reasons for this division were set forth in the preamble to the second of the above mentioned acts, as follows: ■'Whereas, several things is to be done by the inhabitants of towns, hamlets, tribes, or divisions within each county, as chusing of deputies, constables &c., taxing and collecting of several rates for publick uses and the making orders amongst themselves respectively about swine, fences &c. " Whereas, a great many settlements are not reckoned within any such town or division, nor the bounds of the reputed towns ascer- tained, by means thereof the respective constables know not their districts, and many other inconveniences arising from them, and for- asmuch as the act made in Sept 1692, for dividing the several countiee 8 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES and townships, the time for the returns of the said divisions, being too short and the method of dividing by county meetings inconvenient. Therefore be it enacted," etc. Under the above acts Bergen County (then including the present Bergen and Hudson Counties) was divided into three townships : Hackensack, New Barbadoes, and Bergen. Of these, Haclfensack com- prised " all the land betwixt the Hackensack River and Hudson's BLOCK S " FIGURATIVE MAP," LAID BEFORE THE STATES-GENERAL IN 1614. River, that extends from the corporation town bounds of Bergen to the partition line of the Province.'' New Barbadoes comprised " all the land on Passaic River, above the third river, and from the mouth of the said third river northwest to the partition line of the Province, including also all the land in New Barbadoes neck, betwixt Hacken- sack and Passaic rivers, and thence to the partition line of the Prov- ince." Bergen comprised what is now that part of Hudson County east of the Hackensack River. (See Map 2.) THE FIRST SETTLERS 9 The following table shows the names of the several townships erected in Bergen County to date, the dates of their erection, and the names of the townships or municipalities from which they were erected : NAMES OF TOWNSHIPS FROM WHICH TAKEN. NO. NAME OF TOWNSHIP. DATE OF ERECTION. 1. Hackeusack. October, 1693. 2. New Barbadoes. October, 1693. 3. Saddle River. 1737. 4. Franklin. 1767. 5. Harrington. June 22, 1775. 6. Pompton. February 8, 1797. 7. Lodi. December 1, 1825. 8. Wasbington. January 30, 1840. 9. Hohokus. February 5, 1849. 10. Union. February 19, 1852. 11. Midland. March 7, 1871. 12. Palisades. March 22, 1871. 13. Englewood. March 22, 1871. 14. Ridgefield. March 22, 1871. 15. Ridgewood. March 30, 1876. 16. Boiling Springs. April 17, 1879. 17. Orvil. April 20, 1885. 18. Bergen. February 22, 1893. 19. Teaneck. February 19, 1895. 20. Overpeck. March 23, 1897. 21. Hillsdale. March 25, 1898. Original. Original. New Barbadoes. New Barbadoes. Hackensack and New Barbadoes. Saddle River and Franklin. New Barbadoes. Harrington. Franklin. Harrison in Hudson County. New Barbadoes. Hackensack. Hackensack. Hackensack. Franklin. Union. Hobokusjand Washington. Lodi. Englewood and Ridgefield. Ridgefield. Washington. There is no record of the erection of Saddle Kiver and Franklin. They are first mentioned as townships in deeds and other recorded instruments in 1737 and 17G7 respectively. Prior to that they are called " Precincts." Franklin is first mentioned in the county free- holders' book IMay 17, 1772. The following table shows the names of the several townships and municipalities erected in Hudson County to date, the dates of their erection, and the names of the townships and other municipalities from which they were erected : NAMES OF TOWNSHIPS FROM NO. NAME OF TOWNSHIP. DATE OF ERECTION. WHICH TAKEN. 1. Bergen (Tp.). October, 1693. Original. 9. Jersey (City). January 28, 1820. Bergen. 3. Harrison (Tp.). February 22, 1840. Lodi, Bergen County. 4, Van Vorst (Tp.). March 11, 1841. Bergen. 5 North Bergen (Tp.). February 10, 1843. Bergen. 6 Hoboken (Tp.). Hudson (Tp.). Hoboken (City). March 1, 1841. North Bergen. 7 March 4, 1852. Bergen. 8 March 28, 1855. North Bergen. 9 Weehawken (Tp.). March 15, 1859. Hoboken. 10. Bayonne (Tp.). February 16, 1861. Bergen, 11. Union (Tp.). February 28, 1861. Bergen. 12. West Hoboken (Town). February 28, 1861. Bergen. 13. Greenville (Tp.). March 18, 1863. Bergen. 10 I-IUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES NAME OF TOWNSHIPS FROM NO. NAME OF TOWNSHIP. DATE or EKECTION. WHICH TAKEN. 14. Town of Union. March 29, 1864. Union. 15. Kearney (Town). March 14, 1867. Harrison. 16. Bayonne (City). March 10, 1869. Bayonne. 17. Guttenberg (Tp.). April 1, 1878. Union. 18. West New York(Town). March 21, 1898. Union. 19. East Newark (Town). , 1898. Harrison. 20. Secaucus (Bor.). March 12, 1900. North Bergen. Of the above, all of Pompton and a large part of Franklin and Sad- dle Eiver in Bergen County became part of Passaic County by act of February 7, 1837. (See Map 4.) Union in Bergen County was taken from Harrison in Hudson County, February 19, 1852, and Harri- son in Hudson was taken from Lodi in Bergen County, February 22, 1840. Part of Lodi in Bergen was annexed to New Barbadoes in 1896. Van Vorst, Hoboken, Greenville, Hudson, and Bayonne Town- ships in Hudson County have been absorbed by the remaining munici- palities in the county. Kearney was made a " Town " March 23, 1898. West New York absorbed the whole of Union. BOROUGH GOVERNMENTS The borough system of government for small communities was first introduced into New Jersey March 28, 1789, by an act incorporating the ■' Borough of Elizabeth." During the next ninety years a num- ber of similar municipalities were erected in various parts of the State, each of which was the creation of a special act of the legisla- ture. No general law on the subject was enacted until April 5, 1878, when what has since been known as " The General Borough Act " became a law. It provided that the inhabitants of any town- ship, or part of a township, embracing an area not to exceed four square miles, and containing a population not exceeding five thou- sand, might become a body politic and corporate in fact and in law whenever, at a special election to be called for that purpose, it might be decided by a majority of votes of the electors of the proposed borough qualified to vote at elections for State and township officers. For a period of sixteen years following the passage of this act very few boroughs were organized in the State, only three of them being in Bergen County. In the spring of 1894 an act was passed establish- ing an entirely new system of public instruction. By this act the old school districts were blotted out and each toAvnship erected into a separate and distinct district. All the taxpayers of each township were thenceforth required to assume and pay, pro rata, the debts already incurred by the several old districts, as well as all future debts of the township for school purposes. The people complained against the injustice of such a law, and sought a way to escape its operation. By the terms of the law it was inoperative in all incor- THE FIRST SETTLERS 11 porated borouglis, towns, villages, and cities, and accordingly a rush was made to form boroughs, particularly in Bergen County, and had not the legislature hastened to check this rush by amending the school laAv the whole county would have been carved into boroughs in less than two years. As it was, twenty-six boroughs were created in the county from January 23, 1894, to December 18, of the same year. The amendment which the legislature made to the school act provided that no borough might maintain a school separate from the township unless there should be four hundred children within its limits. This so effectually checked the borough movement that only five have since been formed. The following table shows the names of the boroughs organized in Bergen County to date, the dates of their organization, and the town- ships from which they were respectively taken : DATE OF NO. NAME. ORGANIZATION. FROM WHICH TOWNSHIPS TAKEN. 1. Rutherford j September 21, 1881. Enlarged June 10, '90 I UuioD. 2. Ridgefield. May 25, 1892. Ridgefield. 3. Ridgefleld Park. May 25, 1892. Ridgefield. 4. Tenafly. June 23, 1894. Palisades. 5. East Rutherford. March 29, 1894. Boiling Springs. 6. Uelford. May 7, 1894. Midland. 7. CreskiU. May 8, 1894. Palisades. 8. Westwood. May 8, 1894. Washington. 9. Park Ridge. May 14, 1894. Washington. 10. Bergenfields. June 2, 1894. Palisades and Englewood. 11. Carlstadt. June 27, 1894. Bergen. 12. Maywood. June 29, 1894. Midland. 13. Riverside. June 29, 1894. Midland. 14. Sohraalenburgh. i July 19, 1894. Midland. 15. Hasbrouck Heights. July 21, 1894. Lodi. 16. Woodcliff. August 25, 1894. Washington and Orvil. 17. Montvale. August 30, 1894. Washington and Orvil. 18. Glenrock. September 12 , 1894. Saddle River and Ridgewood. 19. Little Ferry. September 18 1894. Lodi and New Barbadoes. 20. Old Tappan. October 16, 1894. Harrington. 21. Allendale. November 8, 1894. Orvil, Hohokus, and Franklin. 22. Bogota. November 14 1894. Ridgefleld. 23. Woodridge. November 15 1894. Bergen. 24. Saddle River. November 19, 1894. Orvil. 25. Upper Saddle River. November 20 1894. Orvil and Hohokus. 26. Leonia. December 5, 1894. Ridgefield. 27. UnderclifE. December 5, 1894. Ridgefield. 28. Fairview. December 18, 1894. Ridgefield. 29. Wallington. December 31, 1894. Saddle River. 30. Cliffside Park. January 15, 1895. Ridgefield. 31. Englewood ClifBs. May 19, 1895. Englewood and Palisades. 32. North Arlington. March 9, 1896. Union. 33. Eastwood. March 26, 1896. Washington. 34. Garfield. March 15, 1898. Wallington Borough. 35. Palisades Park. March 22, 1899. Ridgefield. 1 The name of Sohraalenburgh Borough was changed to Dumont in 1899. 12 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES EARLY SETTLERS OF HUDSON COUNTY A great majority of the pioneer settlers of Bergen and Hudson Counties were emigrants from Holland, or descendants of persons who had emigrated from that country and settled on Manhattan Island or Long Island. The rest were English, French, Germans, and Scandinavians. What brought these to the shores of America? What led them to settle in New Jersey? Who were they? The limits of this article will permit of only a brief reference to the two principal causes which impelled them to leave their native land, — overcrowding of population in Holland and the desire to better their condition. More than a century had elapsed since the Augustinian monk, AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND Luther, had nailed his ninety-five theses on the church door at Wit- tenberg. That act had, at last, wakened into activity all the dor- mant forces of Christendom. During the Middle Ages all learning and religion had been controlled by the Roman hierarchy. All that lime the papacy had been a confederacy for the conservation of learn- ing, against the barbarism and ignorance of the times; and so long as the pontiff retained the character of chief clerk of such a confederacy his power remained irresistible. But as soon as he abandoned the role of chief clerk in spiritual affairs, and assumed that of secular prince, the great revolution began. His former friends became his enemies. The British schoolmen led the way in the revolt, followed by Wickliff, Huss, Jerome, and others. The breach kept widening, until all the countries of Western Europe started like giants out of their sleep at the first blast of Lutlier's trumpet. In Northern ADRIAKN VAN DBR DONCK'S MAP, 1656. HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Europe the best half of the people embraced the Eeformation. The spark which the monk had kindled lighted the torch of civilization, which was to illuminate the forests of the Hudson in America. At no time since this terrible contest began had the Catholic mon- archs of Europe been more persistently active and relentlessly cruel toward the believers in the new religion than at the beginning of emi- gration to New Netherland. The bloody conflict known as "The Thirty Years' War " was then raging with all its attendant horrors. Nevertheless, Holland, of all the circle of nations, had guaranteed safety to people of every religious belief, and enforced, within her own borders at least, respect for civil liberty. As a result she ha,d become the harbor of ref- uge and the temporary home of thousands of the persecuted of almost every country; the Brownists from England, the Waldenses from Italy, the Labadists and Picards from France, the Walloons from Germany and Flanders, and many other Protestant sects, all flocked into Holland. Across her borders flowed a continu.al stream of refugees and oiitcasts. This influx of foreigners, augmented by the natural increase of her own people, caused Holland to suf- fer seriously from overcrowd- ing, particularly in her large cities. A learned Hollander, writing at that time, said of the situation : " Inasmuch as the multitude of people, not only natives but foreigners, who are seeking a livelihood here, is very great, so that, where one stiver is to be earned, there are ten hands ready to seize it. Many are obliged, on this account, to go in search of other lands and residences, where they can obtain a living." In the few years preceding 1621 several voyages of discovery and adventure had been made by the Dutch to New Netherland, but no colonies had been founded. Letters from these voyagers declared that New Netherland was a veritable paradise — a land " flowing with milk and honey," traversed by numerous great and beautiful rivers. THE " NEW NETHERLAND.' THE FIRST SETTLERS 15 plentifully stocked with fish; great valleys and plains, covered with luxuriant verdure; extensive forests, teeming with fruits, game, and wild animals; and an exceedingly fertile and prolific soil. These and many similar letters aroused and stimulated many of the discontented and unemployed of Holland to emigrate to New Xetherland with their families in the hope of being able to earn a handsome livelihood, strongly fancying that they could live in the New World in luxury and ease, while in the Old they would still have to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. In 1621 the " States-General " took steps looking toward relief from the situation, the gravity of which they now fully comprehended. On June 3 they granted a charter to " The Dutch West India Com- i' , Pi/rt nte-uw tAmller^am^ oj>~^M{'v^a^^. «:«g«iNa»g gg^aL ^ggj^ THE FIRST VIEW OF NEW AMSTERDAM, IN 1635. pany " to organize and govern a colony in New Netherland; and in June, 1623-1, an expedition under Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, of Amsterdam, carrying thirty families, most of whom were religious refugees, came over to New Amsterdam and began a settlement on the lower end of Manhattan Island. Mey, not liking the job of being director of the new colony, soon returned to Holland, leaving matters for a time in charge of William Verhulst, who was succeeded by Peter Minuit in 1626. This first colony was not a success. The colonists were "on the make." Aside from building a few rude bark huts and a fort, they busied themselves dickering with the savages for skins and furs. They tilled no ground, and for three years were non- supporting. On the 7th of June, 1629, the " States-General " granted a bill of " Freedoms and Exemptions " to all such private persons as 16 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES would plant any colonies in any part of New Netherland (except the Island of Manhattan), granting to them the fee simple in any land they might be able to successfully improve. Special privileges were also granted to members of the West India Company. Whoever of its members should plant a colony of fifty persons should be a feudal lord, or " Patroon," of a tract " sixteen miles in length, fronting on a navigable river and reaching eight miles back." As yet only exploring parties bent on trade with the savages had traversed Bergen and Hudson Counties. No one had ventured to " take up " any lands there. But now, under the stimulus of the bill of " Freedoms and Exemptions," one Michael Pauw, then burgomas- ter of Amsterdam, was impelled, for speculative purposes no doubt, to obtain from the Director General of New Netherland, in 1630, grants of two large tracts, one called " Hoboken Hacking " (land of the tobacco pipe) and the other " Ahasimus." Both of these tracts were parts of what is now Jersey City. These grants bore date, re- spectively, July 13 and November 22, 1630. The grantee gave one place the name of " Pavonia," Pauw failed V to comply with the conditions set forth in his ^- - "^ deeds and was obliged, after three years of controversy with the West India Company, to convey his " plantations " back to that company. Michael Paulesen, an official of the company, was placed in charge of them '^ , FLAG OF HOLLAND. ^^ Superintendent. It is said he built and oc- cupied a hut at Paulus Hook early in 1633. If so, it was the first building of any kind erected in either Bergen or Hudson County. Later in the same year the company built two more houses : one at Communipaw, afterward purchased by Jan Evertse Bout, the other at Ahasimus (now Jersey City, east of the Hill), afterward purchased by Cornelius Van Vorst. Jan Evertse Bout succeeded Michael Paulesen as superintendent of the Pauw plantation, June 17, 1634, with headquarters at Commu- nipaAv, then the capital of Pavonia Colony. He was succeeded in June, 1636, by Cornelius Van Vorst, with headquarters at Ahasimus, where he kept " open house " and entertained the New Amsterdam ofScials in great style. In 1641 one Myndert Myndertse, of Amsterdam, (bearing the pon- derous title of " Van der Heer Nedderhorst,") obtained a grant of all the country behind (west of) Achter Kull (Newark Bay), and from thence north to Tappan, including part of what is now Bergen and Hudson Counties. Accompanied by a number of soldiers, Myndertse occupied his purchase, established a camp, and proceeded to civilize the Indians by military methods. It is needless to say that he failed, THE FIRST SETTLERS 17 He soon abandoned the perilous undertaking' of foundinp; a rolony, returned to Holland, and the title to this grant was forfeited. Early in 1638 William Kieft became Director General of New Netherland, and on the first day of May following granted to Abraham Isaacsen Planck (Verplanck) a patent for Paulus Hook (now lower Jersey City). There Avere now two " plantations " at Bergen, those of Planck and Van Vorst. Parts of these, however, had been leased to, and Aver*' then occupied by, Claes Jansen Van Purmerend, Dirck Straatmaker, Barent Jansen, Jan Cornelissen Buys, Jan Evertseu Carsbon, ^Michael Jansen, Jacob Stoffelsen, Aert Teunisen Xan Putten, Egbert Wouter- sen. Garret Dirckse Blauw, and Cornelius Ariessen. Van Putten had also leased and located on a farm at Hoboken. All these, with their families and servants, constituted a thriving settlement. The existence of the settlement of Bergen was now imperiled by the acts of Governor Kieft, whose idea of government was based mainly upon the principle that the governor should get all he could out of the governed. His treatment of the Indians soon incited their distrust and hatred of the whites. The savages, for the first time, began to show symptoms of open hostility. Captain Jan Petersen 'ries, a distinguished navigator, who was then engaged in the difficult task of trying to found a colony at Tappan, sought every means in his power to conciliate the Indians, and to persuade Kieft that his treatment of them would result in bloodshed. The crafty and selfish governor turned a deaf ear to all warnings and advice and continued to goad the Indians by cruel treatment and harsh methods of taxation. In 1643 an Indian — no doubt under stress of great provocation — shot and killed a member of the ^"an ^'orst family. This first act of murder furnished a pretext for the whites and precipitated what is called " The Massacre of Pavonia," on the night of February 25, 1643, when Kieft, with a sergeant and eighty soldiers, armed and equipped for slaughter, crossed the Hud- son, landed at Communipaw, attacked the Indians while they were asleep in their camp, and, without regard to age or sex, deliberately, and in the most horrible manner, butchered nearly a lumdred of them. Stung by this outrage upon their neighbors and kinsmen, the northern tribes at once took the war path, attacked the settlement, burned the buildings, murdered the settlers, wiped the villages out of existence, and laid waste the country round about. Those of the settlers who were not killed outright fled across the river to Kew Amsterdam. Nor was peace restored between the savages and the whites until August, 1645, when the remaining owners and tenants of farms returned to the site of the old village, rebuilt their homes, and started anew. Kieft having been driven from office, Petrus Stuyvesant was made 18 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES Director Gt-nca-al, July 28, 1646. Under liis administration the settle- ment at P5eri;en was vevived, <^ew rapidly, and prospered. Between his arrival and the year 1669 the folloAA'ing named persons purchased or leased lands, though all of them did not become actual residents : fed TER'niA MBO' ■zm. ^~ ir~-'g^' Newark-'l POPPLE S PLAN OF NEW YORK AND ITS ENVIRONS, 1733. Michael Pauw, Michael Paulesen, Jan Evertse Bout, Cornelius Van Vorst, Myndert Myndertsen \-m\ der Heor Nedderhorst, Abraham Isaacson Planck (Verplanck), Claes Jansen Van Purmerend (Cooper) Dirk Straatmaker, Barent Jansen, Jan Cornelissen Buys, John Evert- THE FIRST SETTLERS 19 sen Carsbon, Michael Jansen ( Vreeland), Jacob Stoffelsen, Aert Teunisen Ya.n Putteu, Egbert A\'outersen, Garret Dircksen Blauw, Cornelius Ariesen, Jacob Jacobsen Roy, Francisco Van Angola (negro), Guilliaem Corneliesen, Dirk Sycan, Claes Carsten Norman, Jacob Wallengen (Van Winkel), James Luby, Lubbert Gerritsen, Gysbert Lubbertsen, John Garretsen Van Immen, Thomas Davison, Garret Tietersen, Jan Cornelisseu t^choenmaker, Jan Cornelissen Ci-ynnen, Casper vStimets, Peter Jansen, Hendrick Jans Van Schalck- wyck, Nicholas Bayard, Nicholas Varlet, Herman Smeeman, Tielman Van Vleeck, Douwe Harmansen (Tallman), Claes Jansen Backer, Egbert Steenhuysen, Harmen Edwards Paulus Pietersen, Allerd An- thony, John ^Igne, Paulus Leendertsen, John Verbruggen, Balthazar Bayard, Samuel Edsall, and Aerent Laurens. All these persons received their deeds, or such titles as they had, from the Dutch, through the different Director Generals. The English captured Nev,- Netherland from the Dutch in 1664, and, thereupon, Philip Carteret, by an appoint- ment of the "Lords-Proprietors" of the Province of East Ne^' Jersi-y, became its first governor. The titles of the settlers of Bergen T\-ere confirmed by Carteret and his council in 1668. In 1669, following his appointment as governor, Carteret also granted other por- tions of the binds in Hudson County to the following named persons: ■Maryn Adrianse, Peter Stuyvesant, Claes Petersen Cors, Severn Laurens, Hendrick Jansen Sjiier, Peter Jansen Slott, Barent Christians(^, ]Mark Noble, Samuel ^Moore, Adrian Post, (Uiert Coerten, Frederick Phil- lipse, Thomas Frederick de Kuyper, Guert (xerotsen (Van Wagenen), Peter Jacobsen, John Berry, Ide ( 'urnelius "\''an Vorst, Hans Diedrick, Hendrick Van Ostum, Cornelius Euyveu. " The town and corporation of Bergen," as appears by Carteret's charter, had an area of 11,500 acres. Up to the end of 1669 scarce one-third of this area had been patented to settlers. The balance, more than 8,000 acres, was used in common by the patentees, their heirs, devisees, and grantees, for nearly a century before it was finally divided and set off to those entitled to it. As is ever the case under similar circumstances, many of the patentees and their descendants and grantees encroached upon these common lands. " Tom, Dick, and Harry " pastured their cattle on them, made lavish use of the timber, and in various other ways committed waste with impunity. Many patentees caused surveys to be made, presumed to " take up," and used divers parts of the public domain " without any warrant, SEAL OF NEW NETHERLAND. r 20 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES power, or authority for so doing, without the consent of the majority of the other patent owners," so that in the course of time it could not be Imown how much of these common lands had been taken up and appropriated. This state of things caused great confusion and numerous violent disputes between the settlers, who, in January, 1714, petitioned Governor Hunter for a new charter empowering them, in their corporate capacity, to convey or lease their common lands, in fee, for one, two, or three lives or for years. Governor Hunter, in response to this petition, procured a new charter for the town and corporation, known as " The Queen Anne Charter." The power given by this charter had little or no effect in putting a stop to encroachments upon, and disputes between, the settlers about the common lands. Thus matters continued until 1643, when another effort was made by the settlers to protect their rights in the common lands. An agreement was made, dated June the 16th, of that year, providing for a sun^ey of the common lands and a determination of how much of the same had been lawfully taken up, used, or claimed, and by whom. For some reason this agreement was not carried out, and matters continued to grow worse until De- cember 7, 1763, when the settlers appealed to the legislature for re- lief. That body passed a bill, which was approved by Governor Franklin, appointing commissioners to survey, map, and divide the common lands of Bergen among the persons entitled thereto. These commissioners, seven in number, made the survey and division and filed their report and maps on the 2d day of ]March, 1765, In the secre- tary's office at Perth Amboy, copies of which report and maps are also filed in the offices of the clerks of both Hudson and Bergen Coun- ties. In the division made by the commissioners the common lands were apportioned among the patentees, hereinbefore named, and their de- scendants, as well as among the following named persons : Michael de Mott, George de Mott, Gerebrand Claesen, Joseph Waldron, Dirlc Van Vechten, James Collerd, Thomas Brown, Andries Seagaerd, Dirk Cadmus, Zackariah Sickels, Job Smith, Daniel Smith, Joseph Hawk- ins, John Halmeghs, Philip French, Ide Cornelius Sip, Herman Beeder, Nicholas Preyer, Sir Peter Warren, Anthony White, Michael Abraham Van Tuyl, Walter Clendenny, John Cummings, David Latourette, John Van Dolsen. Several other families, namely, those of Day, de Grauw, de Groot, Hessels, Hopper, Banta, Huysman, Van Giesen, Barle, Franzen, Mor- ris, and Swaen, had become residents of the county without having lands granted them. It may therefore be safely said that the fami- lies above named constituted nearly all of the original settlers of Hudson County east of the Hackensack River. The westerly portion THE FIRST SETTLERS 21 s. bellin's rake map, 1764. 22 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of the county was included in the purchase by Captain William Sand- ford from the Parisli of St. Mary's in the Island of Barbadoes. Gov- ernor Carteret and council granted this tract to Sandford, July 4, 1668. It contained within its boundaries an area of 15,308 acres, extending from the point of union of the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers about seven miles northward along said rivers, to a spring now known as the Boiling Springs, or Sandford Spring, near Rutherford. This pur- chase was made by Sandford for himself and Major Nathaniel Kings- land, also from the Island of Barbadoes, and the same was subse- quently divided between Sandford and Kingsland. Kingsland, who became the owner of the northern part (including part of the present Bergen County), resided at what is now known as " Kingsland Manor," south of Rutherford, in Bergen County, while Sandford, who became the owner of the southerly part, resided at what is now East Newark, in Hudson County. Much of this large section of territory remained vested in the respective descendants of Sandford and Kings- land for many years after their deaths. EARLY SETTLERS OP BERGEN COUNTY Some of the original settlers of what is now Bergen County were de- scendants of those Avho have been mentioned as having settled Hud- son County. Others came from Manhattan Island, Long Island, New Harlem, Yonkers, Albany, Esopus, Kingston, and other already estab- lished settlements, while still others came direct from Europe. The grant of section 1 to William Sandford, in 1668, as before stated, ex- tended north as far as Boiling Springs near Rutherford.^ The northern half of this was released to Kingsland. In 1702 Elias Boudinot, a French Huguenot, purchased a large tract from the Kingslands, described as butting on the Passaic River, in Bergen County. John and William Stagg, Bartholemew Feurst, Daniel Rutan, Jacob ^'an Ostrand, Cornelius Vanderhoff, Herpert Gerre- brants, John Varrick, David Provost, John Van Emburgh, Jacob Wallings (Van Winkle), and Henry Harding acquired title to por- tions of the tract in Bergen County, but the bulk of Kingsland's estate, at his death, passed by his will to his near relatives, who settled on it and retained it for many years. In 1668 Captain (afterward Major) John Berry received from Governor Carteret a patent for sec- tion 2, being all the lands between the Hackensack and Saddle Rivers for a distance of six miles north from Sandford's purchase, or nearly as far as Cherry Hill, on the New Jersey and New York Railroad. Berry settled and built his home mansion on the southerly part of this tract, and on his death, most of it passed to the ownership of his ' For sections, refer to Map No. 4. THE FUtS'i' SBTTLBUS 23 heirs. The northerly part he had conveyed in parcels at various times to his son, Eichard Berry, his daughter, Hannah Noel, and Garret Yan Dien, Laurence Laurensen Ackerman, Kev. Guilliaeni Bert- holf, David Thomas, Thomas Nicholson, Albert Albertsen (Terhune), Arie Albertsen (Terhune), Claes Jansen Eomeyn, Dr. John Van Em- burgh, Hendrick Hopper, Ryck Ly decker, Juriaen Lubbertsen (Wes- tervelt), Herman Brass, Abraham Huj^sman, Isaac Vreeland, Nicho- las Devoe, Walling Jaeobsen (Yan Winkle), Elinor Mellinot, Folkert Hansen (Yan Nostrand), Thomas Staag, Alexander AUiare, Peter France, Nicholas Kipp, Corneliese Christiansen, John Christiansen, Charles Maclean, and Anthony Anthonys (a negro), each of whom INDIAN TOTEMS AND TOTEMICjSIGNATURES. settled on the portions purchased by them. The " Moonachie '' sec- tion he sold to Butt Yan Horn, Nicasie Kipp, and Thomas France. The Zabriskies, Yoorheeses, Briukerhoffs, Demarests, Coopers, Yan Reipens, and Powlesses acquired interests in the tract at an early date. In 1668 Samuel Edsall and Nicholas Yarlet bought from the native Indians section 3, comprising 1,872 acres of " waste land and meadow," bounded east by the Hudson Biver, west by the Hacken- sack River and Overpeck Creek, and south by the " Town and Cor- poration of Bergen." The extent of this tract was two and a half miles from north to south, and the north boundary, beginning at Aquepuck Creek below Fort Lee, on the Hudson, ran northwest to the Overpeck Creek near Leonia. Subsequently Carteret gave Edsall and Yarlet a patent of this tract. Nicholas Yarlet soon after sold 24 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES his interest in it to Edsall, who, in 1671, conveyed the northerly part of it to Michael Smith (a son-in-law of Major John Berry). Smith, at his death, left it to his son and heir-at-law, Johannes Smith, who, in 1706, conveyed it to John Edsall, son and heir-at-law of Samuel Edsall, deceased, who settled on it and devised it to his children. In 1676 Samuel Edsall, by deed of gift, transferred the westerly part of the remainder of the original tract to his sons-in-law, Benja- min Blagge, of London, and William Laurence, of Newtown, L. I., who divided it between them, Blagge taking the northerly part and Lau- rence the southerly part. On Blagge's death his widow and devisee conveyed it to Wessel Peterson, who, in 1690, conveyed it to David Danielsen, who settled on it. Laurence's part of it passed to his son, Thomas Laurence. He sold half of it, said to contain 550 acres, in 1730, to Matthew Brown, who, in 1737, sold it to Cornelius Brinkerhoff. Joseph Morris and Adriaen Hoagland must have got the balance of Laurence's half, as they were living on it in 1730, and they and the Brinkerhoffs were the first actual settlers. Brinkerhoffs purchase in- cluded the present Borough of Eidgeiield. The easterly part of the remainder of the original tract, which fronted on the Hudson Kiver, was, on March 12, 1686, conveyed by Samuel Edsall to Jacob Milburn, who, with Jacob Leisler, then Governor of New York, was attainted of and ex- ecuted for high treason, in 1691. Milburn's estate (which by his will, executed just before his death, he devised to his wife Mary), was, by operation of the attainder, forfeited; but parliament, by special act, restored the estate to his widow and sole devisee. The widow ( who at the time of her death was the wife of Abraham Governeur) left a will empowering her daughter Jacoba as executrix, to sell her lands on the Hudson. The executrix conveyed the lands in separate parcels to Hendrick Banta, Arie de Groot Peter de Groot, Michael Vreeland, William Day, John Day, Mary Edsall (alias Mary Banks), John Edsall, and John Christiansen, who mu- tually released each other and settled on the same. The tract be- tween the high rocks and the Hudson Eiver was claimed bj John Christeen, of Newark, under a grant from Berkley and Carteret, prior to that of Edsall and Varlet. This land Christeen sold in 1760 to his daughter Naomi, wife of John Day, and it seems to have become BOWS AND ARROWS. THE FIRST SKTTLBKS 25 vested eventually in the same persons to whom Mrs. Governeur's executrix conveyed it. On June 10, 1669, Crovernor Carteret patented to Major John Berry section 4, comprising a tract of 1,500 acres, lying between the Hud- son Kiver and Overpeck Creeii, extending one and one-half miles north from the Edsall and N'arlet patent. Berry sold the north half of this tract to George Duncan, an English merchant in New York. James Duncan inherited it from his father. Kichard Backer, John, Samuel, and Matthew Benson, Jacob Day, Michael Vreeland, Hen- drick Banta, and Jacob Oowenhoven subsequently acquired and settled on portions of it. The south half of it Berry conveyed to his son-in- law, Thomas Noel, who, at his death, devised it to his son, Monteith Noel, and to his wife's son, Bichard Hall. Monteith Noel died in- testate and without issue. By the terms of his father's will the lands passed to Elizabeth Patterson and James Martin, the two in- fant children and only heirs of Kichard Hall, then deceased. By or- der of the court it was sold to Robert and Ann Drummond in trust for the two Hall children. On April 4, 1726, the trustees sold it to John Stevens and William Williamson, who soon after sold it to Samuel Moore, an Englishman from the Island of Barbadoes. Will- iam Laurence, Cornelius Brinkerhoff, Walter Briggs, Thomas de Kay, and others eventually bought parts of it. Sections 5, 6, and 8, containing 6,770 acres of wildland, were, in 1661, granted in one parcel, by Carteret and his council, to Philip Carteret. It was de- scribed as being seven miles in length, north and south, and three miles in width from the Hudson River to Overpeck Creek. It ad- joined Berry on the south and Bedlow on the north. Carteret failed to settle within the prescribed time and it was again granted, in 1669, to Robert Vanquillan, of Caen, France; James Boll en, >n Englishman (then a resident of Ridley, Pennsylvania); and Claude Vallot, of Champagne, France. Vanquillan sold his in- terest to Carteret in 1670. These gentlemen, failing to make any settlement within six years, lost their titles by forfeiture and the tract remained a wilderness without an owner until 1698, when it was FORT LEE, 1776. 26 HITDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES granted to Mary, widow of Jacob Mil burn, who also failed to settle it. On December 10, 1702, the southerly portion of section 5, forty chains wide and said to contain 500 acres, was granted by the pro- prietors to Michael Hawdon, a native of Ireland, but then a resident of Xew York and engaged in land speculation. On July 16, 1676, Haw- don conveyed to George Willocks, of Kenay, Scotland, and the heirs of Andrew Johnston, deceased, of Leith, Scotland. John Johnston, Andrew's heir-at-law, released to Willocks and Willocks sold to George Leslie, of Barbadoes, W. I., a strip on the south, next to the Berry tract, half a mile in width. Leslie, on No- vember 5, 1733, sold the southerly half, this being a quarter of a mile in width and containing 330 acres, to Mattias Demott, of Bergen, who, it is said, settled on it. Garret Lydecker, then a resident of New York, acquired the title to the remainder of the Willocks and John- ston purchase and to the remainder of section 5, one mile in width, and containing 1,000 acres. This made Lydecker's farm one and one-quarter miles in Avidth on the Hudson Eiver and the same width on Overpeck Creek. It extended northward as far as Englewood. On his death, in 1754, Lydecker's lands, comprising section 5, passed by his will to his four sons, Eyck, Abraham, Cornelius, and Garret Lydecker, whose descendants still occupy portions of it. John Lodts, or Loots, a native of Norwich, England, came to this country in 1694, and in the fall of 1695 married Hilletje Powless, widow of Lubbert Lubbertsen Westervelt, Jr., of Bergen (now Jersey City). He removed to Bergen County and purchased a large portion of section 6, adjoining Lydecker on the south, on which he settled. Upon his death his lands were inherited by his sons, John and Paulus Loots; his daughters, Tryntie, wife of Henry Wierts Banta, and Gessie, wife of Daniel Commegar. KoelofE Lubberts Westervelt, a brother of the first husband of Loots's wife, purchased a strip north of Loots in section 6, as did also Cornelius, Hendrick, Dirk, and Seba Banta, the sons of Bpke Jacobs. The purchases were all made in 1695. The combined purchases of Loots, Westervelt, and the Bantas, according to references in old deeds, must ha^e included all of section 6, which extended north nearly as far as Tenafly. Descendants of the de Motts, Demarests, and Eomaines subsequently acquired parts of sec- tion 6. The triangular lot, section 7, lying between the east and west branches of Overpeck Creek, was first patented by the East New Jer- sey proprietors, in 1688, to Samuel Emmett, of Boston. Without settling it, Emmett conveyed it, September 17, 1695, to Eoloff Lub- bertsen Westervelt. The Indians disputed Wpstervelt's title in 1705, and he was obliged to procure from them a release. This tract ex- tended from the junction of the two branches of the Overpeck, at THE FIRST SETTLERS 27 Englewood, northward to the head of the Tiena Kill Brook, a littl<' south of Tenafly. The acquisition of section 7 by Westervelt gave him one of the largest farms on the Hudson. He settled on it and his descendants still occupy parts of it. Section 8, containing 2,120 acres, extending from the Hudson Eiver to the Tiena Kill, and one mile in ^'idth, was granted, April 27, KiSS, to Colonel Jacobus \an Cortlandt, of New York, who, on April 10, 1738, conveyed it to Abram de Pej^ster, Margaret, his wife, John Chambers, Anna, his wife, and Peter Jay and Mary, his wife, all of Xew York City. The wives of these three men were the daughters of V^an Cortlandt. They divided the tract, Sirs. Chambers taking the northerly third, Mrs. Jay the next third south, and Mrs. de Peyster the most southerly third. Mrs. de Peyster's third included the present village of Tenafly. Mrs. Chambers devised her share to her nephew. Sir James Jay, avIio, by his father's will, also got the latter's third. Sir James devised the north third to his son, Peter Jay, and the other third to his daughter, .Mary O'Kill. The north or Chambers tliird was sold by the sheriff in 1820 to William Van Hook. Van Hook sold it in 1821 to IMoses Field, Avho sold it to David O. Bell, in lS2tl. The three farms were then divided into lots and mapped, being known respectively as the Bell, O'Kill, and de Peyster tracts. This section was settled by the Van Buskirks, Bantas, Baldwins, Powlesses, Demarests, AYester- velts, and other of the families already mentioned. Section 9, adjoining No. 8 on the south, was ])atented by Carteret and his council to Isaac Bedlow, a Swede, June 20, KiO'.t. It was also one mile in width, and extended Avesterly from the Hudson Biver to the Tiena Kill Brook. Its extcmt northward was to a point near Dem- arest, N. J., and it contained 2,120 acres. Bedlow had an Indian deed for this tract as early as KiOl. He held it until 1728, wlien he sold it to Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt, of New York, ('aptain John Huy- ler, Johannes Eolofse Westervelt, Samuel Peters iJemarest, Parent Jacobs Cole, and Peter MatheAvs Bogert became the owners and settlers on this section, and their descendants still fn'cupj^ it. Another section. No. 10, one mile Avide, adjoining and extending north from the Bedlow tract, was granted by Carteret, July 30, 1669, to Balthaz^er de Hart. De Hart's heirs sold it :March T), 1701, to Ber- nardus Vervalen, Gideon Vervalen, and Eynier Vervaltn. Under a grant from the Colony of New York it was claimed by Captain Lan- SEAL OF EAST JERSEY. 28 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES caster Symes, of London, who, prior to 1711, had sold parts of it to Casparus Mabie, Jacob Hertie, and others. Eventually, however, Rernardu^ Ver\'alen, by a grant from Queen Anne in 1709, and a re- lease from Symes and his grantees in 1717, acquired the title to the whole tract and conveyed portions of it to Matthew M. Bogert, Peter M. Bogert, Coi'nelius Harmensen Tallmau, Dowa Harmensen Tall- man, Isaac Johns .Meyer, iMartin Powless, and Walter Parsells, who settled it. The remainder of the tract descended or was conveyed to Bernardus Vervalen's heirs, who also became settlers. Vervalen's sons were Isaac, Daniel, John, Frederick, Abraham, Jacobus, Ber- nardus, Gideon, and Cornelius. His daughters Alida, Cornelia, and Hester married, respectively, Hubartus Ger- retsen Blawvelt, Peter Van Schuyven, and Jacob Cole. Until 1772 the Colony of New York claimed that this tract was within its bound- aries and so treated it. The " L " shaped section, No. 11, adjoining this last tract on the north, contained 1,300 acres, and was also claimed to be within Symes's patent from the New York Colony. It remained wild and unoccupied until April 28, 1710, when Symes and his wife conveyed it to two brothers, Barent and Kesolvert Naugle. It was an irregular shaped tract, extending, on the north side, from Hudson's River to the Tiena Kill. On the west it was narrow, but on the east end it extended from the de Hart tract northerly beyond the present south boundary of New York. The Naugle brothers divided it between them in June, 1748, Barent taking the north half and Eesolvert the south half. The sons of Barent and Eesolvert Naugle and their sons-in-law, Nicholas Demarest, Arie Auryansen, Tennis Van Houten, Eoloff Van Houten, John W. Ferdon, and Eoloff Stevens, together with William Ferdon, Daniel de Clark, John Parcells, and Peter Quidore, settled this tract. The section No. 12, the next tract north of the Naugle tract, contain- ing 3,410 acres, extended northerly into the Colony of New York' and was granted by Governor Dongan, of New York, in 1687, to Dr. George Lockhart, a London physician. The title passed from Dr. Lockhart to his half-brother. Colonel ^A'illiam Merritt, W'hose heirs sold it to John Corbett, an English sea captain, in 1703, who, at his death, devised it to his only child, Mary, wife of Henry Ludlow, of New York. The Ludlows sold it to the following persons, who settled it': Wilhel- aOVBRNOR THOMAS DONGAN. THE FIRST SETTLERS 29 iiius and John W. Ferdon, Hendriek Geisener (CJisner), his sous Jt)hii and Nicholas Gisner, jMatthias Concklin, Jacob Concklin, John Ivevken (Riker), Abram Abrams Haring, Tennis Van Houten, Johannes Hyberts Blawvelt, John J. Xangle, John Sneden, ('(nnielius Smith, Jonathan LaAvrence, Nicholas Ackerman, William Campbell, and Jacob Yan Weart, who settled that part lying within the present County of Bergen. The " Tappau patent," section 13, consisting of several thousand acres Ijmg Avest of the Lock- , hart patent, was purchased from the Indians in IGSl, and in 1»>S7 patented by (Jdvevnor Dongan, of New York, to Daniel dc Clark, Vvtcv Jansen Haring, Cosine Haring, fJarret Steinmets, John de Yries (Vnn Dolscn), Jr., Claes Man- uel, John Straatnii'.ker, Staats de Groot, Lambert Arianse (Smith), Arianse Lam- berts (Smith), Cornelius Lamberts (Smith), Hyberts Gerrits (BlawA-elt), Johannes Gerrits (BlawA'elt), and Ide Cornelius Yan Yorst, the Indian purchasers. In 1704 it was surveyed and mapped and a part of it partitioned between the last named persons and their heirs and assigns. A final division was made of the balance in 1720. The persons named in the tAvo divisions, in addition to the above sixteen original purchasers, Avere Manuel Claeseu, Lewis Claeson, Elizabeth Claeson (children of Claes ilanuel, deceased), Barbara de f^root (widoAv of Staats de Groot, deceased). Garret Hyberts BlaAvvelt, Maritie Hyberts BlaAAvelt, and Dirke Hyberts BlaAvvelt (children of 30 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Iluybci'ls Gerretse Rlawvclt, doceascd), Abraiii Jobnsi Karini;-, Jacob JIattyce Fleaj'booni, (Virnelius Janscn Hai-i7i,n, Antje 3Ieyer, John HaTmcnspn Tallman, Hpiny ^'aii Campeii, Isaac Gcn-c^s Blawvclt, Jacobus John de Vries [Van Dulseu), Abram Jansen Haring, Kyniere Ryserick, Laurence Eeecl, Daniel Blawvelt, Joseph Blawvelt, Jacob Bhawvelt, Tunis, Eoeloff, and Nicholas Van Houtcu, John Van Dol- sen, John and Cornelius Eckersou, Jurie (Aaron) Tomassen, Gysbert Bogert, AMlliam de GraAv, John ^^'ard, Jacob Cole, Jacobus de Clark, Jr., Jeremiah Borroughs, Abram and France Van Salee, Jacob King, Conrad Hertie, and Myndert Myndertsen Hogencam]). Of these, all except the Claesons, Eeed, Ward, Borroughs, and King became set- tlers on portions of it. Early in 1669 Oratani, the great chief of the Indian tribes of the Hackensack Valley, in consideration of her services as interpreter be- tween his people and the whites, presented to Mrs. Sarah Kierstead, of New York, a deed of the southerly part of section 14, containing 2,260 acres, described as '' .V neck of land between Hackensack River and Overpeck Creek, beginning at the north line thereof of Hacken- sack Ei\'er at a s\vale brook that runs about twenty rods into the woods, thence to cross over upon a direct east and west line to Over- peck Creels." The tract extended north as far as Xordhoff on the Overpeck, iiiv.} to a point above Bogota on the Hackensack. Mrs. Kierstead was the eldest daughter of the celebrated Anneke Jans and the wife of Dr. Hans Kierstead, at that time New York's leading phy- sician, with a residence on the corner of Pearl and Whitehall Streets. Dr. Kierstead died in 1660, leaving Sarah, his widow, and eight chil- dren. She afterward married Captain Elbert Elbertsun (Stoothoff), of Flatlands, L. I., one of the purchasers of section 29. Upon his death she married for her third husband Cornelius Van Borsum, whom she also survived. She died in 1693. On June 21, 1669, Gov- ernor Carteret issued a jDatent to Mrs. Kierstead containing a condi- tion that tht gvante(^ should settle it within three years. On January 6, 1676, Tantaqua, Carquetiem, Wechlampaepeau, Hamougham, Hauagious, Anesaschere, and Poughquickquaise, sachems representing the Hackensack tribes, with the consent of Gov- ernor Philip Carteret, deeded to Laurense Andriesen "S^an Buskii'k and company '' a parcel of land commonly called by the name of New Hackensack, bounded on Old Hacdiensack, and from thence to a small kill adjoining to the great Indian field, called ' the Indian Castle ' northward forward." Old Hackensack was the name given to the Demarest patents, which are mentioned later on, and the " In- dian castle " was a little south of Palisades Park, opposite the mouth of Overpeck Creek. The description given in the grant covers, or was intended to cover, sections 14, 15, and 16, and indicates that Mrs. THE FIRST SETTLERS 31 Kierstead either lost her title by failinj; to comply with the condition in her deed or conveyed her interest in section 14 to Laurence Andrie- sen and company. During the year 16G9 Governor Carteret ])ateiited sections 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19, each containing 2,000 acres, as follows: section 15, to Robert Van Quillian; section Ifi, to James Bollen; section 17, to Mat- thias Nichols; section 18, to William Pardon; and section 19, to JMajor John Berry. Each of these five patents contained a condition that the patentee should settle on his patent a certain number of families within six years. The grantees failed to comply with the conditions, and the patents were declared forfeited. Sections 14, 15, and l(i were afterward, in 1676, granted by the Indians to Laurence Andrie- sen (Van Buskirk) and company, the " company" consisting of John Gorneliesen (Bogert), Martin Powleseu (Bowles), Hendrick Joursen (Brinkerhoff), Eoloff Lubbertsen Westerfield (AA^estervelt), and John Loots, or Lodts. The patents (two or more) of Governor Carteret for the last mentioned sections designated them as " parts of New Hackensack." The lands described ex- tended south from the Demarest patents at a point between High- wood and Tenafly and were bounded west by Hackensack Eiver and east by Overpeck Creek. Lady Elizabeth Carteret confirmed the patents on April 10, 16S2. A large part of these patented lands was allotted to the patentees. Other por- tions of them were sold to Nicholas Lozier, Peter Vandelinda, and John, Peter, and Lawrence, the sons of Lawrence Andriesen (Van Buskirk), the latter of whom had the largest interest in them. The balance was sold or released by the patentees November 20, 1686, to Eolof Vandelinda, Albert Zabriskie, Dirk Epke (Banta), Lawrence Lawrencen (^"an Buskirk), Cornelius Christianse, and (ierrct Gellis Mandeville, who subsequently made a division between them. The subsequent owners and settlers in section 14 seem to have been John Zabriskie, Joost Zabriskie, Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerlioff, Jacob Van Wagoner, Samuel Demarest, Wiert Epke Banta, Hendrick Epke Banta, Garret Diedricks, Jacob Banta, Johannes Terhune, and Chris- tiaen Zabriskie, as appears by a release which they executed June FROM AN OLD PRINT. 32 HUDSON AND BERGJEN COUNTIES 39, 1763, of a tract which is declared to be a part of the Sarah Kier- stead patent. After the forfeiture of the titles to sections 17, 18, and 19, James Bollen claimed them under an alleged patent procured by him in 1672. Berry also claimed section 18, and the subsequent patentees of these three tracts were finally compelled to procure releases from both Bol- len and Berry. David Demarest, Sr., purchased from the Indians, June 8, 1677, (by estimation,) about 5,000 acres, including sections 17,18,19, and 20, and lands north of them, but received patents for only sections 18 and 19. Upon his death, in 1693, his lands were divided between his sons John, Samuel, and David, Jr., his nephew, John Durie, and his numer- ous grandchildren. His granddaughters married, respectively. Jacobus Slott (Slote), Peter Slott (Slote), Abram Canon, Thomas Heyer, John Stewart, Abram Brower, James Christie, Peter Lub- bertsen (Westervelt), Andries Jans Van Orden, Wiert Epke (Banta), Andries Lawrencen (Van Buskirk), Rynier Van Houten, Stephen Albertsen Terhune, Cornelius Epke Banta, Samuel Helms, Cornelius Van Horn, Jr., Peter Durie, Christian Debauu, Johannes Juriansen Westervelt, Jacobus Peack, and Benjamin Van Buskirk. All these, except Canon, Heyer, and Stewart, settled on portions of the original grant. Demarest's land was sometimes known as " Schraalenburgh " and sometimes as " Old Hackensack." Section No. 20 was settled by Samuel Demarest (son of David Demarest, Sr.), Jacobus Peack, Adolph Brower, Carel Debaun, John Van Schuyven, John Durie, Cor- nelius Jansen Haring, Cornelius Cornelissen Van Horn, John Hertie, and Abram Davids Demarest. Some of the grants were made by Governor Gawen Laurie and some by Peter Sonmans, representing the East New Jersey proprietors. The intermediate owners were Jurie Maris (Morris) and Kuloff and Hendrick Vandelinda, who, how- ever, did not locate on any of the section, which was known as the " North West Hook." The first attempt to settle lands west of the Saddle River was made in 1681, when a patent was issued by Governor Carteret and his coun- cil to Jacob Cortelyou, Hendrick Smock, Rutgert Joosten, and others, for 3,525 acres of section 29, adjoining the Saddle River on the east and south, partly on the Passaic River and partly on a brook, on the west. This patent was declared forfeited for non-settlement. The second attempt was made seven years later (iMarch 25, 1687), when section IS, containing 5,320 acres, described as lying between the Passaic and Saddle Rivers, — " beginning at the meeting of the said rivers and running northerly along the Passaic River, its several turns, reduced to a straight line, four miles and thirty-six chains to a white oak tree marked on four sides at the Bound Brook, thence from THE FIRST SETTLERS 33 the Bound Brook north east by a great Eock of Stone, eighty four chains, thence north east along the line of the Indian purchase, one hundred and eight chains, thence along Saddle Eiver southwesterly to the place where it began. Being in length, reduced to a straight line, six miles and a half,"— was patented by the proprietors to nine persons, to wit: Colonel Richard Townley, of Elizabethtown, N. J.; Captain Elbert Elbertsen (Stoothoff), of Flatlands, L. I.; Jaques (James) Cortelyou, of New Utrecht, L. I.; Richard Stillwell, of Staten Island, N. Y.; William NichoUs, of the City of New York; Catharine Hoagland, of Flatlands, L. L; Peter Jacobus ^Marius (Morris), of the City of New York; and Roloff Joosten (Van Brunt) and Hendrick Matthiesen, of New Utrecht, L. I. The survivors of these persons, and the heirs of those deceased, partitioned the tract. May 16, 1692, and thereafter sold it to settlers as follows: Joshua Bos (Bush), Thomas Jurianse (Van Reipen), John Van Horn, John Post, Halmagh Van Houten, Garret Jurianse (Van Reipen), Garret Garretson (Van Wagoner), Garret Garretson (Van Wagoner), Jr., John Garretson (Van Wagoner), Peter Garretson (Van Wagoner), Dirck Barentsen, Thomas Fredericksen, Warner Burger, Abram Van Varrick, Laurence Toers, Peter Jacobsen Morris, David Laurencen Ackerman, Dirk Van Zyle, Hendrick Vandelinda, Jacob Marinus, Thomas F. and Andries F. Cadmus, and John Billfield. This section is sometimes called in deeds " Acquackannock " and sometimes " Slotterdam," and com- prised the greater part of the present ToAvnship of Saddle River. The " Rock " referred to is supposed to have been what is now Glen Rock. A portion of section 22 (adjoining Major Berry) was patented by Lady Elizabeth Carteret, in 1682, to Jaques (James) Laroux and An- thony Hendricksen. The same year Lady Carteret patented to Cor- nelius Mattys 420 acres adjoining Laroux on the north and 424 acres to Albert Zabriskie, adjoining JMattvs on the north. Zabriskie seems to have acquired the title to the ^lattys and Laroux purchases, and all the land west of himself, Laroux, and ^fattys, as far as Sprout Brook. North of Zabriskie, in section 22, lav lands natented to Claes Jan- sen Romeyn, fronting east on the Hackensack and extending to- Sprout Brook. Romeyn conveyed parts of these to his sons, John. Albert, Daniel, and Claes Eomeyn, and to David Ackerman, John Zabriskie, Peter Laroe, and Henry Van Giesen, husbands of his daugh- ters Gerrebrecht, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Sarah, respectively. Jurian Westervelt, Isaac Van Giesen, Paulus Vanderbeck, and John Berdan each purchased farms from Romeyn, in this section, all boundinc; east on the Hackensack. Section 24 comprised the Kinderkamack patents, granted by Governor Gawen Laurie to David Demarest, Sr., his son John, his son-in-law John Durie, and Peter Franconier. The latter 34 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES sold his portion to John Demarest, who a few years later conveyed it to Cornelius Claes Cooper. The Demarests, Duries, Coopers, and Van Wagoners were the principal settlers in this section. The Indian sachems who signed the grants in this vicinity were Mamche, Sacka- maker, Coorang, Kawatones, and Towackhack. Section 21, known as the Paramus patent, containing 11,067 acres, was bought by Albert Zabriskie in 1662. Zabriskie's title to this tract was not confirmed by grants from the proprietors during his life- time, but his son Jacob procured a release from Peter Sonmans, agent of the proprietors, May 13, 1731. In 1675 the sachems of the tribes of Northern New Jersey became indebted to Albert Zabriskii- for a con- siderable sum, to secure the payment of ^^■hich they verbally promised to convey to Zabriskie a large tract in Kockland County known as " Narranshawe." The promise to convey was not, however, followed by the execution of a deed from the Indians, and in due course of time a new set of sachems sold and con- veyed tlie " Narran- sliawe " tract to other persons. These sa- chems were probably ignorant of the prom- ises which their pred- ece^surs had made to Zabriskie. The latter d e m a n (1 e d a fulfill- ment of the Indian promise and a deed from the sachems of lands in Bergen Coun- ty N. J., equal in area and value to the " Narranshawe " tract. On June 1, 1772, Orachanap, Metachenak, Coorang, and Memerisconqua then sachems of the tribes of Northern New Jersey, executed to Zabris- kie a deed for 2,100 acres of land in Bergen County, described as " bounded West by the Saddle Eiver, North and East by Claes Jansen Komeyn, and South by Albert Zabriskie." This large tract con- stituting parts of 21 and 23, was kno^^'n as the New Paramus patent, but is frequently referred to as •' Wieremus," and sometimes as " Paramus Highlands." Zabriskie procured grants from the proprie- tors of this last tract, which, added to his previous grant, made him one of the largest landholders among the original settlers. One-half of the tract last mentioned Zabriskie conveyed March 20 1708 to HAMILTON-BUKR DUELING GROUND, WEKHAWKEN. THE PIKST SETTLEJIS 35 Tlioinas Yan Buskirk, of New Hackensack, avJio settled on it, and ^\-bose descendants still occupy portions of it. John Geor,i;e Acht^n- bach, a German emigrant, together A\itli persons named Baldwin, A(dierman, and Conklin, settled on parts of it. Zabriekie's children and grandchildren settled in this section as well as in section 23. His sous were Jacob, John, Jot)st, Christian, and Henry. Section 23, besides Zabriskie's 2,100-acre grant, included several patents granted at various times to Claes Jansen IJomcyu and Jacob Zabriskie, son of Albert, A\ho cut it up into farms and parceled it out to their children. Bomeyn's children have already been named. Jacob Zabriskie's sons were Albert, Peter, Stephen, and Jacob, and his sons-in-laAV were Anthony Lozier, Peter Lozier, John Ackermau, and Sylvester Earle. These with families nansed Duersen, Stagg, Hopper, Bogert, Terhune, Meyer, Yan Gelder, Trapgagen, ^"erway, 'i'ibout, Conklin, A'olker, Banta, Yanderbeck, "S"an Blarcom, and Laroe settled in these several Paramus tracts. Section 25, known as the " Old Hook Tract," consisting of 1,300 acres, was purchased from the Indians, April 24, 1702, by Jaques (James) La Eoux and John Alyea. This tract was part of the share of Peter Sonmans, one of the proprietors of East New Jersey. On December 1, 1727, Nicholas Le Sieur (Lozier) purchased a one-third interest in it. The three owners then made a division of the tract between them, and on June 23, of the same year, Sonmans was in- duced to confirm the Indian grant by a deed in which the grantees named are Jaques (James) La Koux, Peter Alyea (son of John Alyea), Nicholas Lozier, Hendrick La Roux, and Samuel La Koux (sons of Jaques (James) Laroux). The tract Avas settled by the last named persons and their numerous sons and sons-in-law. Peter Yan Buskirk, Andrew Hopper, Peter Debaun, Jacob Debaun, Eichard Cooper, Daniel Duryea, and Jacob <'ough purchased parts of it. Families named Bogert, Bla\\'\'elt, ^'audelinda, Ackermau, Rutan, Demarest, Perry, and Quackenbush also became settlers on parts of the tract. The southwest part of section 28 was called " Wierimus " and fell within a patent granted to Samuel Bayard, in 1703. The title passed from Bayard's heirs, by purchase, to Roloff Yandelinda, who died in New York in 1708. By his will he devised these lands to his son, Hendrick Yandelinda. The area of land devised to Hendrick is not given, but it was large, and by several deeds from Peter Sonmans, as agent of the proprietors, he afterward acquired several other tracts in the vicinity. His lands were, as the deeds state, bounded on the south partly by Zabriskie and Romeyn and partly by the Musquamp- sont Brook, a branch of the Pascack River. He sold it in parcels to Rolof Yandelinda, Rev. Benjamin Yandelinda (pastor of Paramus 36 HUDSON AND BEUGEN COUNTIES Church), Frederick Wortendyke (the first settler at Pascack), Cor- nelius Haring, John and Albert Van Orden, Jacob Zabriskie, John Bogert, Eev. Bernard Van Duersen, Jacob Arents, John Durye, Daniel Haring, Carel Debaun, Abraham Post, David Hopper, Abram La Roux, Abraham Vau Home, and Rev. Samuel N'erbryck (pastor of Tappan Church). The two " dominies " conveyed parts of their purchases to Garret and David Eckerson, John Forshee (Fiseur), Gar- ret Haring, William Holdrum, P>ederick Van Eeiper, and Michael and John Ryer. West and north of the above Cornelius Mattys, William Saudford Van Emburgh, John Guest, Peter and Andrew Van Buskirk, Cornelius Epke Banta, James Johnston, and John Stagg secured pat- ents from the proprietors. The locality of Arent's, Mattys's, and Van Emburgh's purchases was called " Awashawauglis's '" plantation. Nearly all of the above purchases and settlements were made be- tween 1728 and 1732. The lands comprising section 26, between the Hackensack River and the Pascack River, were within that part of the Honan and Haw- don patent which was purchased by John McEvers and Lancaster Symes, and at the division between McEvers and Symes it fell to Mc- Evers. About 1,800 acres of this he sold to Dirk Cadmus, Garret Hybertsen BlaAvvelt, Jacob Flierboom, John Blawvelt, Abram Blaw- velt, John Berry, Carel Debaun, Thomas Clark, Jonathan Rose, and Colonel Cooper. Owing to the long dispute between the Colonies of New York and New Jersey over the location of the boundary line be- tween them but very few of the conveyances of lands in sections 2G, 27, and 28 were ever recorded, and it is therefore next to impossible to locate all of the original settlers of these sections. It is known, however, from old gravestones and other sources that, besides those above mentioned, families named DemarestJ!\)st^ Merseles, Meyers, Storms, Mabie, Haring, Bogert, Banta, Holdrum, Cooper, Eckerson, Van Houten, Peack, Van Reiper, Westervelt, Hopper, (Campbell, Zabriskie, Van Emburgh, and Peterson were among the earliest set- tlers of section 24. Section 30 appears to have first been settled by the Ackermans. Garret Ackerman bought of the proprietors 478 acres butting on the Saddle River as early as 1712. David Ackerman and Andries Hopper purchased large tracts adjoining Garret on the south, while on the north of them were the purchases of Peter Van Buskirk and John Verway, in 1724, and William Saudford Van Emburgh and John Guest, in 1729. On December 10, 1709, Peter Sonmans, styling himself "Sole Agent, Superintendent, General Attorney, and Recorder General " of the rest of the proprietors, conveyed to seven persons, to wit : John Auboineau (3-24), Elias Boudinot (3-24), Peter Franconie^" (7-24), Lu- 7A° S.'WXoti^^fh London MILITARY MAP, 1776. 38 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES oas Kiersteacl (2-24), John Barberie (3-24), Thomas Bayaux (2-24), An- drew Fresneau (2-24), and Beter Board (2-24), a tract between the Sad- ille and Bamapo Bi^'ers, afterward known as the Kamapo patent. Au- boineau, Boudinot. Barberie, Franconier, and Bayaux were French- men. Kierstead was a Dutchman and Board was an Englishman. This tract contained 42,500 acres and was eight and nine-tentlis miles in length from the head of Saddle Biver southerly to the junction of the Hohokus Ih'ook with the Saddle Biver, from which point its boundary ran N. G7° W. 150 chains to a great rock or stone called Bamackapuka (now (Hen Bock), thence N. 63° W. seven and twenty-niue-fortieths miles to the Bamapo Biver, thence N. 13° W. 77 chains to the top of the Bamapo mountains, thence along the top of the said mountains about nine and a half miles, and thence southeasterly to the beginning. This included all of the present Township of Bidgewood, nearly all of Franklin and Hohokus Townships, and part of Orvil. William Bond surveyed and mapped it in 1709. The map is filed in the clerk's office at Hackensack. On February 4, 1742, Franconier conveyed his interest to Theodore Valleau and David Stout, who, on August 10, 1752, conveyed to Mada- lene Valleau, daughter of William Franconier. In the same year the proprietors discovered, or affected to discover, that Sonmans's con- veyance of December 10, 1709, to Auboineau and company was in- valid, and forthwith took steps to regain the title. On March 29, 1753, John and William Burnett and Cortlandt Skinner, pursuant to a warrant of the proprietors, induced Madalene Valleau to execute a release to the proprietors of all her interest in the original 42,000 acres, upon receipt of a deed from the i)roprietors to her of 900 acres at Campgaw. This 900 acres, located in section 30, Mrs. Valleau afterward sold in parcels to Dirk and John Tiesbots (Tiebout), John Pullisfelt (Pullis), John Billfield, Isaac Bogert, William Winter, Barent Van Horn, and Harman Xax, who settled on it. Between 1699 and 1753 several grants had been made of portions of this 42,00,0 acres — some by the proprietors or their representatives, and some by the grantees of Sonmans, under the deed of December 10, 17<)9. Thomas Hart, of Enfield, Middlesex County, England, procured a pat- ent for several thousand acres in the locality called Preakness, then in Bergen County, but now in Passaic County. By his will in 1704 he devised an undivided part of this tract to his sister. Patience Ash- field, and the other part to one Mercy Benthall. Batience Ashfield's will, made in 1708, made Joseph Heale executor with power to sell. Thereupon Heale with Mercy Benti\,al'i ""and Eichard Ashfield, heir of Patience Ashfield, sold their pater ted lands in parcels, the earliest purchasers being Anthony Beem, C irad Lyn Abram Lyn, Derrick Day, Peter Post, Cornelius and John Blmkerhoff^ THE FIRST SETTLERS 39 Jacob Arents, Philip Schuyler, George Ejerson, Eip Van Dam, John de Eeimer, John Berdan, and Cornelius Jans Doremus, who, with the exception of Va.n Dam, were the principal settlers in that locality. The lands were in section 31. Andrew Johnston, Edward Vaughn, William Skinner, and George Leslie, all Scotchmen, received a patent for about 1,000 acres in the same locality, which was sokl, among others, to John Berdan, John Bogert, Gysbert Van Blarcom, and Abrani Garretsen (Van Wagoner). In 1699 George Willocks and Andrew Johnston procured a patent for several thousand acres, consisting of tracts in various localities, west of Saddle Eiver at Preakness, The Ponds, Paramus, etc. These lands were mostly in section 31, and were sold, among others, to John Laurence Ackerman, Jacobus Laurence Ackerman, Jacobus Kipp, John Eomaine, Jacob Kipp, Tennis Heunion, David Hennion, Edo Merseles, Martin Eyerson, John Bogert, Jacob Outwater, Nicholas Slingerland, John Le Toere, John Berdan, Samuel Van Saun, Euloff Eomaine, George Vreeland, Stephen Camp, and Zekiel Harris. What was, and is still, known as the Totowa section was purchased by Anthony Brockholst and company. On Brockholst's death it passed to his son Henry, who sold it, among others, to David Marinus, Gerrebrecht Van Houten, Halmagh Van Houten, Bastian Van Giesen, xlbram Godwin, and Martin Eyerson, in 1768. These lands were in section 31. George F. Eyerson procured a patent for a considerable tract in 174:8, adjoining north and east on the Preakness patent, which he sold to persons having similar names to Urie Westervelt, John Stagg, John Eomaine (Eomeyn), and others. These were in section 31. Peter Franconier and others had sold several parcels, in the mean- time, on the west side of Saddle Eiver, in section 30. Garret A^an Dien, Peter Johns Van Blarcom, and Dr. John Van Bmburgh had procured from them the land between the Saddle Eiver and Hohokus Brook, for some distance northward, and Major Isaac Kingsland, Peter Johns Van Blarcom, Hendrick Hopper, and Garret Van Dyke owned extensive tracts west of Hohokus Brook. John and William Van Voorhys, John Eutan, and John Berdan had procured grants and were located at what is now Wyckoff, where later families named Van Horn, Halstead, Ackerman, Winter, Van Blarcom, Stur, I'olly, and others located. By reuson of these many prior titles the proprietors, after they had acquirc'i the release from Magdalene Valleau, in 1753, found them- selves face to face with the exceedingly difficult task of dealing with numbers if settlers who had supposed their land titles were without flaw. " 3 proprietors undertook this task, getting some settlers to take leaseis, — thereby admitting the title of the proprietors, — purchas- 40 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ing from some, and compromising with others. Many of the settlers would make no settlement, the courts were appealed to, and a bitter controversy ensued, which was not entirely settled until 1790. In 17G7 the whole 42,000 acre tract was surveyed and mapped by George Ryerson, Jonathan Hampton, and Benjamin Morgan. The original map, a,pi(n-e of sheepskin four feet square, is in the surveyor general's office at Perth Amboy, N. J. It is badly worn, and much of the writ- ing is obliterated therefrom by time and use. After the map was filed the lots were, from time to time, leased or sold to actual settlers. In 1789 John Stevens, James Parker, and Walter Rutherford ob- tained a grant of 5,000 acres of the Ramapo patent, made up of many tracts located in different places. The following persons purchased from Stevens and company and from the proprietors and became set- tlers on the Ramapo patent or on lands south of it: Albert H. Za- briskie, John Fell, Albert A. Terhune, Baron Steuben, Cornelius Har- ing, Jacob de Baun, Abraham Van Voorhis, John D. Ackerman, John Doremus, Nicholas Hopper, David Bertholf, Henry Van Allen (the latter at The Ponds), Abraham Laroe, John Christie, Benjamin Wester- velt, James Traphagen, Andrew Hopper, John Stevens, Andrew Van Orden (the last two at New Foundland), Matthias Stuart, Garret Hopper, John Moore, James Crouter, John Ramsey, Jacobus Van Buskirk, John Zabriskie, Conrad Wannamaker, Derrick Wannamaker, Henry Smith (the last named at New Foundland), Peter Haring, Abram Stevens, Rolof Westervelt, Ryer Ryerson (The Ponds), Gerret Garretson, Tennis Van Zyle, Andrew Van Allen, Edward Jeffers, Cornelius de Graw, Richard de Graw, John Neafie, Derrick Tise, Isaac Conklin, David Simons, Daniel Rutan, Ohristiaen, Henry, and Peter Wannamaker, Douglas Caines, Adolph Sivert, Solomon Peterson, Conrad Massinger, William Jenkins, John Meyer, John Winter, John Straat, Joseph Wood, and Peter Sturr, and also families named Fitch, Chappel, Oldis, Courter, Camp, Fountain, Folly, Fox, Osborn, Parker, Bamper, Dater, Frederick, Youmans, Mowerson, Packer, Quacken- bush. Bush, Vanderhoff, Van Dine, Van Houten, Terhune, Bogert, John Arie Ackerman, and John Labagh. On November 11, 1695, the proprietors granted to Anthony Brock- hoist, Arent Schuyler, and Colonel Nicholas Bayard section 32, 4,000 acres of land, on the east side of Pequannock and Passaic Rivers, one and a half miles wide, and running northerly from near Little Falls, up the Passaic River, along the Pompton River four and a half miles. This was then in Bergen County, now in Passaic. Both Schuyler and Brockholst located on the tract on the east bank of the Pompton River a little south of Pompton Lake. The purchase was made for mining purposes, but the grantees conveyed the greatest oart of it December 17, 1701, to George Ryerson, John Meet, Samuel Berry, THE FIRST SETTLERS 41 David Mandeville, and Hendrick Mandeville. They settled on por- tions of it and sold other portions to Elias Smith, Michael Vander- beck, Thomas Juriansen (Van Reiper), Peter Van Zyle, (Jerebrecht Gerrebrants, John Westervelt, Michael Hearty (Flartie), Casparus Schuyler, Dirk Van Reiper, Steven Bogert, Cornelius Van Horn, (iar- ret Bertholf, [Michael Demott, and Rolof Jacobs. In 1764 Oliver Delancy, Henry Cuyper, Jr., and Walter Rutherford, representing the proprietors, sold to Peter Hasenclaver what arc known as the Ringwood and Long Pond tracts, in the northwest part of Bergen County, containing about 12,000 acres. This is now in Passaic County. The lands were first patented to and occupied by Cornelius Board, James Board, Joseph Board, John Ogden, David Ogden, Sr., David Ogden, Jr., Uzal Ogden, Samuel (Joverneur, Thomas Ward, John Morris, David Stevens, and Andrew Bell. It would require too much space to give the names of all those who purchased or settled on the Ramapo, Pequannock, Totowa, Preakness, and other patents of lands west of the Saddle River. The reader will note that nearly all the surnames given of settlers west of the Saddle River are the same as of those settling east of that river, thus indicat- ing that the Ramapo patent and the lands south of it were settled principally by the descendants of those who settled the older parts of Bergen and Hudson Counties. It would therefore be a repetition of names to describe in detail the numerous sub-divisions of the Ramapo and other tracts. LANDOWNERS AND SETTLERS For the information of the reader and those who may become inter- ested in genealogical research a list of the earliest and most promi- nent landowners and settlers of Bergen and Hudson Counties is hereto appended. SURNAME - - OF SETTLER. LINEAGE. NAME AND DESCENT OF EUROPEAN ANCESTOR. ACKEEMAN Dutch David Ackermau Berlikum 1 Holland ACKERSON Dutch Johannes Tomassen Oostenvelt Holland ADRIANSE Dutch Maryu Adriause Veere Holland AEEISON Dutch Cornelius Ariesen N. Brabant Holland ALLEN (1) Dutch Pieter Van Hallen Utrecht Holland ALLEN (2) Flemish Lorens Van Hallen Limbourg Flanders ALYEA French John Alyea Artois France ANDERSON Scotch John Anderson Inverness Scotland ANTHONY Dutch Allerd Anthony Amsterdam Holland ARENTS Dutch Johannes Arents Vanderbilt Holland AURYANSE (1) Dutch Jan Aui-yanse New York United States AURYANSF (2) Dutch Lambert Arianse Gelderland Holland ^^r.YFfiy * Dutch Claes Jansen Backer Hertogenbosh Holland , ^CKER (2) ■ BACKER (^{ English Richard Backer Barbadoes West Indies Dutch Jacobus Backer Amsterdam Holland .^^ 42 HUDSON AXD BEROIC.N COUXTIES SURNAME OF RKTTLEK. BANTA BARENTSEN BASTIENSEN BAYARD (1) BAYARD (2) BEDLOW BEEDER BEEM BELL (1) BELL (2) BENSON BERDAN BERRY BERTHOLF BILFIELD BLACKLEDGE BLAGGL BLANCH BLAWVELT BLAUW (1) BLAUW (2) BOARD BOGERT(l) BOGERT (2) BOGERT (3) BOUT BRAECKE BRIGGS BRINKERHOFF BROCKHOLST BBOSS BROWER (1) BROWER (2) BROWER (3) BROWN BURGER BUSH BUYS CADMUS CAMPBELL (1) CAMPBELL (2) CAMPBELL (3) CAMPBELL (4) CARSTENS CHAMBERS CARSBOON CHRISTIANSE (1) CHRISTIAN SE (2) CHRISTIE (1) CHRISTIE (2) CLAESEN CLARK CLENDENNY COLE COLLERD COMMEGAR COOPER (1) LINEAGE. Dutch Dutch Dutch French French Swedish Dutch German German English Swedish Dutch English Flemish English English English English Dutch Dutch Dutch English Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch English Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Danish English Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch English Scotch English Irish Norwegian Scotch Dutch Danish Danish Scotch Dutch Dutch Irish Scotch Dutch English Dutch Dutch NAME AND DESCENT OF EUROPEAN ANCESTOR. Epke Jacohsc Dirk Barents Johannes Bastianseu Balthazar Bayard Nicholas Bayard Isaac Bedlow Herman Beder Anthony Beem Hermann Bell William Bell Dirck Bensingh Jan Baerdan John Berry Guillian Bertholf John Bilfield Philip Blackleach Benjamin Blagge Richard Blanch Gerret Henderieksen Gerret Dircks Blauw Herman Jansen Blauw Cornelius Board Cornelius Jansen John Louwe Tunis Gysbertsen Jan Evertsen Bout Dirk Claesen Braecke Walter Briggs Joris Dirckseu Anthony Brockholst Hendrick Brass Peter Clementsen Adam Brower Jacob Eldertsan Brower Thomas Brown Burger Joris Hendrick Bosh Jan Cornelisen Buys Dirck Fredricksen Alexander Campbell James Campbell William Campbell William Campbell Claes Carstiaens John Chambers Jan Elbertsen Carsboon Christiaen Pieterseu Barent Christianse James Christyn John Christianse Gerbrand Claesen Robert Clark Walter Clendenny Barent Jacobsen Kool Jacobus CoUerd Hendrick Jans Cominegar Claes Jansen Harlengen Amsterdam Aernheim Daupheney Alphen Stockholm Amsterdam Flammersvelt Darmstadt New York Gronengen Amsterdam Barbadoes Sluys Enfield London London Bristol Deveutei- Drcuthi' Gronengeu London Scboendewoei-'i Schoendewoert Heykoop Barnevelt Amsterdam Providence Drenthc Amsterdam Albany Hoorn Cologne Holstein Loudon Hersburg Leyden Beest Friesland North Britain Aberdeen Isle of Man Sant New York Gelderland Holstein Holstein Edinburgh Amsterdam Hoorn Caven Co. Amsterdam London Amsterdam Purmerend Holland Holland Holland France France Sweden Holland Germany Germany United States Holland Holland West Indies Flanders England England England England Holland Holland Holland England Holland Holland Holland Holland Holland Rhode Island Holland Holland New York Holland France Denmark England Silesia Holland Holland Holland England Scotland England Ireland Norway United States Holland Denmark Denmark Scotland Holland Holland Ireland •'Scotland Holland England Holland Holland THE FIRST SETTLERS 43 SUKNAMK OF SETTLER. COOPEK (2) CONKLIN (1) CONKLIN (2) CONOVER CORBETT CORNELISEN CORNELL CORS CORTELYOU COX CUMMINGS DANIELSON DAVIDSON DAVISON DAVISON (-2) DAY (1) DAY (2) De BAUN DEBOW De CLARK De GRAW DeGROOT (1) De GROOT (2) De GROOT (3) De HART DeKAY De KLYN De KUYPER DELAMATER De La MONTAGNE DEMAREST DEMEYR De MONT De MOTT De REIMER De RONDE De VOE (1) De VOE (2) De VRIES (1) De VRIES (2) De VRIES (3) De WITT DIEDRICKS DOREMUS DOUGLAS DOW DOUW , DUNCAN ' DURIE EARLE ECKERSON EDSALL EDWARDS ELBERTSEN ELY EVERTSEN FELL LINEAGE. Danish English English Dutch English Swedish French Dutch French German English Dutch Dutch English Irish Dutch English Flemish Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Danish French French French German German Dutch French Dutch French French Dutch Dutch French Dutch Dutch Dutch Scotch Dutch Dutch English French English Dutch English Welsh Dutch English Dutch French NAME AND DESCENT OF EUROPEAN ANCKSTOR. Teunis Fredericks Oldenburg Denmark Mattys Conkeliu Philipsburg New York John Conklyne Not'ghamsliire England Jacob Wolfortsen Amsterdam Holland John Corbett London England Cornelius Mattys Stocldiolm Sweden William Coruelise Kalbrist France Claes Petersen Cors Amsterdam Holland Jacques Cortelyou Utrecht Holland Michael Cox Hanover Germany John C. Cummings Scotland James & Jacob Danielseu Amsterdam Holland John Davidsen Liveden Holland Thomas Davisou London England William Davison Dublin Ireland Tunis Dey Amsterdam Holland William Day New York United States Joost de Baen Amsterdam Holland Hendrick De Boog Amsterdam Holland Daniel de Clerq Amsterdam Holland Albert Leendertsen Amsterdam Holland Dirk Jansen de Groot Rylevelt Holland Staats Jansen de Groot Tricht Holland Wm. Petersen de Groot Haarlem Holland Balthazar de Haert Utrecht Holland Theunes de Kay Amsterdam Holland Hugh Barents de Klyu Buren Holland Thomas Fred, de Kuyper Oldenburg Denmark Claude de la Maister Riechburg France Jean de la Montagne Saintong France ^ David des Marets Beauchamp France ^ Nicholas de Meyr Hamburg Germany Frederick Temont Darmstadt Germany iVIattys de Mott Kingston ^iew York Petrus de Reimer Amsterdam Holland Jacob de Ronde Cortl'd Manor New York Frederick de Voe Rochelle France Nicholse de Voe Walslandt France Jan Jacobs de Vries Vries Holland Jan Garretsen de Vries Workum Holland Jau Petersen de Vries Amsterdam Holland Dirk Claesen de Witt Zunderland Holland Hans Diedricks Isleven Holland Johannes Doremns Middleburgh Holland William Douglas Leith Scotland Douwe Jans Harlengen Holland Volkert Jansen Lenwarden Holland George Duncan Bristol England Jan Durje Manheim Germany Edward Earle, Jr. Maryland United States Jan Tomassen Oostenvelt Holland Samuel Edsall Reading England Harman Edwards New York City New York Elbert Elbertsen Nieukerk Holland Nathaniel Ely Hartford Connecticut John Everts Bout Barnevelt Holland Symon Fell Dieppe France 44 HUDSON AND BERUExX COUNTIES SURNAMK OF SETTI.KR. FELTER FERDON FEURST FLIERBOOM FRANCE FREDERICKSEN FRENCH FOUNTAIN GARRAB RANTS GARRISON GARRETSON (1) GARRETSON (2) GILBERTS GISNER GROOME GUEST HALMAGHS HARDING HARING HARRIS HART HAWKINS HELMS HENNION HERTIE HESSELS HOLDRUM HOOGLAND (1) HOOGLAND (2) HOPPER HOUSMAN HUYLER JACOBS JACOBUS JANSEN (1) JANSEN (2) JANSEN (3) JAY JEROLEMON JOOSTEN JURIANCE KTERSTED KINGSLAND KIPP KUYPER LAMATER LARGE LAURENCE (1) LAURENCE (2) LAURENCE (3) LAURENCE (4) LEENDERTS LOCKHART LOOTS LOZIER LINEAGE. NAME AND DESCENT OF EUROPEAN ANCESTOR. German French Flemish Dutch Dutch Dutch Englisli French Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch German English Dutch Dutch Swiss Dutch English English English Dutch Dutch Swiss Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutch Dutcl) Dutch Dutch Norwegian French Swedish French Dutch Dutch Dutch German English Dutch Dutch French French English Dutch Danish Danish Dutch English English French William Velta Thomas Verdon Bartholmew Feurst Mattys Flierboom Frans Jacobsen Dirk Fredericksen Phillip French Charel Fonteyn Gerebrand Claesen Gerret Gerretseu Gerret Gerretseu Wouter Garretseu Gysbert Lubberts Hendrick Geisener Samuel Groome John Guest Peter Roloefseu Hans Jacobsen Harding- Jan Pietersen Ezekiel Harris Thomas Hart Richard Hawkins Hendrick Tenuis Hellinck Nath'l Pietersen Henyon Hans Jacob Hertie Peter Hessels William Holdrum Dirk Jansen Cornelius Adriance Andries Hoppe Guert Cornelius Huysman Capt. John Huyler Peter Jacobs RolofE Jacobus Peter and Roloff Jansen Mattice Jansen Barant Jansen Peter Jay John Hans Jerolemon Rutgert Joosten Andries Juriance Kier Wolters Nath'l & Isaac Kingsland Hendrick de Kype Claes Jansen Cla\i(le de Lamaister Jaques Laroe William Laurence Arent Laurens Serven Lorens Laurens Andriesen Pauhis Leenderts George Lookhart John Loots Franooix Luseur Hamburg Amsterdam Bruges Albany Beest Friesland London Brooklyn Hoorn Wageningen Wageningen Workuni Hilversam Westchester Stepney ) London j Pennsylvania Utrecht Berne Hoorn New England Enfleld London Leyden New York Beine New Utrecht Amsterdam Maarsendeen Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam New York Beest Amsterdam Sant Cologne Stockholm London Albany Amsterdam Bergen op Zoom Magdeburg Barbadoes Amsterdam Purmerend Riechbourg St. Albans Ysselstein Holstein Holsteiu Amsterdam London Norwich Colmenil Germany Holland Flanders New York Holland Holland England Long Island Holland Holland Holland Holland Holland New York England United States Holland Switzerland Holland United States England England Holland United States Switzerland Long Island Holland Holland Holland Holland Holland United States Holland Holland Norway France Sweden England New York Holland Holland Germany West Indies Holland Holland France France England Holland Denmark I)enmark Holland England England France •'"^ THE FIItST SETTLERS 45 SURNAME — - — OF SKTTLKR. LINEAGK, NAME AND DESCENT OF EUKOPEAN i i^NCESTOK. LUBY Dutch Jacob Luby Amsterdam Holland LUDLOAV English Gabriel Ludlow London England LYDECKER Dutch Ryck & Gerrit Lydecker Amsterdam Holland LYX Geruifiu Conrad and Abram Lyn Darmstadt G erniany MABIE Dutch Casparns Meebje Amsterdam Holland MACLEAX Scotch Charles Maclean Leith Scotland MAXDEVILLE Dutch Gillis Jansen de Mande- viUe Gurderen Holland MARIXUS Flemish Cornelius Jansen Mariuus Oostberg Flanders MARTI X English James ]\Iartin Xew York United States MERSELIS Dutch Peter Merselles Beest Holland ^fe- :\rATTYS Swedish Cornelius Mattice Stockholm Sweden MEET (1) English Adam Meet Essex England MEET (2) Dutch Pieter Jans Meet Aniersfort Holland MELLIXOT Italian Michael !MeUiuot Savoy Italy MERRITT English William Merritt London Englaud MEYER (1) German Adolpii Meyer Ulseu Germany MEYER (2 German X'^icholas ileyer Hamburg (Jerniany MEYER (3) German Harmanus Meyer Bremen Germany MILBURN English Jacob Jlilburn London England MOORE (1) English Francis Moore Boston Massacliusetts MOORE (2) English Samuel iloore Barbadoes West Indies MORGAX Welsh Carl ^Morgan Hamburg Germany MORRIS (1) English Robert Morris Liverpool Englaud MORRIS (2) English Richard j\I orris London F^ngland MORRIS (3) English Anthony Jlorris London England MORRIS (4) English Jury Claris XAUGLE Dutch Barut Xaunle (ironeugen Holland NEWKIRK Dutch Gerbrand Claesen Amsterdam Holland XOBLE English ilark Xoble Xcw England United States OXDERDOX^K Dutch Adrian Vanderdouk Bi'eda Holland OLTWATER Dutch Frans Jacobs Oiitwatcr Oudewater Holland PARCELLS French Thomas Parcells Huntington England PAUW Dutch Michael Pauw Aiusterdam Holland PEACK English Johannes Peack Amsterdam Holland PERRY French Jan Perie Pont-le-feekes France PETEKSEX (1) Dutch (ierret Petersen Frieslaud Holland PETERSEN (2) Dutch Peter Rolofsen L'trecht Holland PHILLIPS Dutch Frederick Phillipse Bolswaert Holland PIXHORXE English William Pinhorne London England PLAXGK Dutch Abram Isaacseu Planck Amsterdam Holland POST (1) Dutch Jan Jansen Postmail Harlingen Holland POST (2) Dutch Capt. Adrian Post Harlingen Holland POWLESS Dutch Powles Pietei'scn iMervcn Holland POWLESSEX Dutch Powles Pietersen M erven Holland POWLESSEX (2) Dutch Michael Powles Veendoren Holland PRIOR Dutch Casjiarus Cornelissen Amsterdam Holland PROVOST Dutch David Provost Connecticut United States PULIS German John Pulisfelt Darmstadt (ierraany QUACKEXBUSH Dutch Petriis Quackcnbos Oostergeest Holland QUIDORE French Petrus Quidore Havre France RAMSAY English Samuel Ramsay Scotland REYSERICK Dutch Ryniei- Keyserick Amsterdam Holland RIKER Dutch Abram Reyken Amsterdam Holland ROMAINE Dutch Claes Jausen Ronicyn Amsterdam Holland ROY Dutch Jacob Jacobsen Roy Amsterdam Holland RUTAN Dutch Daniel Rutan Esopus Xew York 46 HUDSON AXI> BEUCEN COUNTIES SURNAME OF SETTLER. LINEAGE. NAME AND DESCENT OP BUKOPEAN ANCESTOR. RYERSON Dutch Adrian & Martin Ryerson Amsterdam Holland RUYVEN Dutch Cornelius Ruyven Ruyven Holland SANDFORD English William Sandford St Marys 7 Barbadoes \ West Indies SAUNIER French Paul Saunier Normandy France SCHOONMAKER German Cornelius Jans Schoo- maker Hamburg Germany SCHUYLER Dutch David Pietersen and Philip Petersen Amsterdam Holland SEGER Swedish Andries Seagard New Albany New York SCHOENMAKER Dutch Jan Cornelius Crynnen Aernheim Holland SHU ART German James Shureg Darmstadt Germany SICKLES Austrian Zacharias Sickels Vienna Austria SIP Dutch Jan Adrianse Syp Amsterdam Holland SIMMONS English George Simmons Philadelphia Pennsylvania SIVERT German Adolph Sivert Pruynes Germany SLINGERLAND Dutch Albert Slingerland Albany New York SLOTE Danish Jan Pietersen Slott Holstein Denmark SMEEMAN Dutch Herman Smeeman The Marsh Holland SMITH (1) Irish Morgan Smith Co. Cavan Ireland SMITH (2) English Matthew Smith London England SMITH (3) English Michael and John Smith London England SMITH (4) Dutch Lambert Arianse Gelderland Holland SMOCK Dutch Hendrick Mattice Smock Friesland Holland SNEDEN Dutch Johannes Sneden Amsterdam Holland SNYUER German Abram Snyder Germany SOMERINDYKE Dutch Necaseus de Stille Aernheim Holland SONMANS Scotch Pieter Sonmans Walliugford Scotland SPIER German Dirck Jansen Spier Bremen Germany STAGG Dutch John and William Stagg Amsterdam Holland STEENHUYSEN Dutch Egbert Steenliusen Soest Holland STEVEN SEN Dutch OlofE Stevensen Holland STEWART Scotch John Stewart Stirling Scotland STILLWELL (1) Dutch Alex. Stillwell Dunkirk Holland STILLWELL (,2) English Nicholas Stilwell Staten Island New York STIMETS Dutch Caspar Stimets Zeeland Holland STOFFELSEN Dutch Jacob Stoffelsen Zirrickzee Holland STOOTHOFF Dutch Elbert Elbertsen Newkerk Holland STORMS Dutch Dirk Storms Utrecht Holland STRAATMAKER German Dirk Straatmaker Bremen Germany STRAUT German Dirk Straatmaker Bremen Germany STUYVESANT Dutch Petrus Stuyvesant Friesland Holland SUFFERN Irish John Suffern Antrim Co. Ireland SWAEN Swedish John Swaen Stockholm Sweden SYCAN Danish Dirk Sycan Holstein Denmark TALLMAN Dutch Douwe Harmensen Friesland Holland TER BOSH German John Terbosh Delmanhorst Westphalia TERHUNE French Albert Albertsen Terhune Hunen Holland TIBOUT French Michael Jan Tibout Bruges France TISE Dutch Dirk Tysen Gelderland Holland TITSORT Dutch John Titsort Amsterdam Holland VANDELINHA Flemish Joost Vanderlynden Belle Flanders VANUERBEEK German Paulus Vanderbeek Hamburgh Germany Holland VANDERHOFF Dutch Cornelius Vandehoff Gelderland VANDERPOOL Dutch Myudert Gerritsen Amsterdam Holland VARLET French Nicholas Varlet Amsterdam Holland VARRICK Dutch Rudolphus Van Varrick Gelderland Holland THE FIRST SETTLERS 47 SURNAME OF SETTLER. LINEAGE. NAME AND DESCENT OF EUROPEAN . iNCESTOU. VAN- ALLEN (1) Flemish Lorens Van Halen Limbourgh Flanders VAX ALLEN (2) Dutch Petrus ^'an Halen Utrecht Holland VAN BLARCOM Dutch Johannus Van Blarcom Blarcom Holland VAN BUSKIRK Danish Lourens Andriesen Holstein Denmark VAN BUSSUM Dutch Cornelius and Gerret Van Borsem Emden Holland VAN CAMPEN Dutch Garret Jausen Campen Holland VAN CORTLANDT Dutch OlofB Stevens Van Cort- W'yck te dun- landt nerstede Holland VAN DAM Dutch Rip A'an Dam Albany Xew York VAN DINE (1) Dutch Gerrret Cornelisse Van Dyne Niewkirk Holland VAN DINE (2) Dutch Dirk Garretsen Tricht Holland VAN DOLSEN (1) Dutch Jan Garretsen \'ries AVorkum Holland VAN DOLSEN (2) Dutch Dirk Jan Van Dolsen Haarlem Holland VAN DUSER Dutch Ahram Pietersen Dursen Holland VAN DYKE Dutch Jan Tomasse Van Dyke Amsterdam Holland VAN EMBURG Dutch Gysbert Gysberts \'an Imbrooch Amsterdam Holland VAN ETTEN Flemish Jacob Jansen Van Etten Brabant Flanders VAX GELDER Dutch Jacobus Evertse Van Gelder Gelderland Holland VAN GIESEX Dutch Rynier Bastianse (xiesen Holland VAN HORN Dutch Claes Jansen Hoorn Holland VAN HOUTEN Dutch Peter Roelfsen Utrecht Holland VAN I MM EX Dutch Dirk Garretsen \'an Immin Bextel Holland VAN NESS Dutch Hendrick Garretsen Xnn Xess Emberlaudt Holland VAN NOSTRAND Dutch Hans Hansen Zeeland Holland VAN ORDEN (1) Dutch Claes Jansen Naerden Holland VAN ORDEN {2) Outch Dirk Jansen Nacrden Holland VAX OSTUM Dutch Hendrick Van OnIuiu Amsterdam Holland VAN PUTTEN Dutch Aerent Teunesen Putten Holland VAX REIPEN Danish Juriaen Toniassen Reipen Denmark VAX SALLE Dutch Anthony Franzeu Saale Holland VAX SAUN Dutch Jacob ^^ul Saiin Zauweu Holland VAX SCHALCK- Henry Jans Van Schalck- WYCK Dutch wyck Schalckwyck Holland VAN SCIVER Dutch Petrus Van Schuyven Schuyven Holland VAX TUYL Dutch ^Michael Abrams Van Tuyl Tuyl Holland VAX VALEN Dutch Johannes \'erviclle Amsterdam Holland VAX VECHTEN Dutch Tunis Dircksen Van Vechten Xoeg Holland VAN VLECK German Tielman ^'an Vleck Bremen Germany VAN VOORHIS Dutch Coert Albertsen Voorhuysen Holland VAX VORST Dutch Cornelius ^'an Vorst Gelderland Holland VAX WAGENEX Dutch Guert Gerretsen Wageningen Holland VAN WART (1) Dutch Mattiee \'an W'acrt Utrecht Holland VAN WART (2) Dutch Tunis Jacobsen Van Woei-t Schoendewoert Holland VAN WINKLE Dutch Walling-, Jacob and Simon Jacobsen Middleburg Holland VEDDER Dutch Harman Albertsen Vedder Gronengeu Holland VERBRUGGEN Dutch John Verbrug-gen Amsterdam Holland 48 HUDSON AND BEKliKN COUNTIES SURNAME OF SETTLER. LINEAGE. NAME AND DESCENT OF EUROPEAN ANCESTOR. VERBRYCK Dutch Jansen Verbryck Isveren Holland VERWAY Dutch Cornelius Verway Amsterdam Holland VINGE Flemish John Vinge Bruges Flanders VREELAND Flemish Michael Jansen Brockhuysen Flanders WALDRON Dutch Resolved Waldron Amsterdam Holland WAKNAMAKER German Peter Wannamaker Darmstadt Germany WARREN English Peter Warren London England WESTER VELT Dutch Lubbert Lubbertsen Meppel Holland WHITE English Anthony White Boston Massachusetts WILSON Scotch Peter Wilsey Leith Scotland ^'^ WINANS Dutch Cornelius "Wynhard Gronengen Holland WINNE Flemish Peter Winne Ghent Flanders WORTENUYKE Dutch Nicaseus de Stille Aernheim Holland WOUTERSON Dutch Egbert Woutersou Ysselstine Holland YEREANSE Dutch Andries Jurianse Bergen op Zoom Holland ZABRISKIE Polish Albrecht Sobeiski Zolkieu Poland DUTCH WIND MILL. GENEALOGICAL ABRAHAM OOTHOUT ZABRISKIE belonged to one of the most nu- merous and eminently conspicuous families of Bergen County. In Poland the name was " Sobieska," and Albrecht Sobieska was the first of the family in America. It has been claimed by many of his descendants that royal blood coursed in Albrecht's reins, because he was a brother of John III., the last king of Poland. The facts do not sustain such a claim. Albrecht Sobieska was not a brother of the last king of Poland. James Sobieska (the king's father) and his wife, Theophila, had but three children: Mark, John (the king), and a daughter. Mark was killed in the battle of Batog, leaving behind no issue; John, the king, had two sons, James and Alexander, both of whom died childless, as did also the king's sister. Albrecht Sobieska (who in America was known as Albert Zabriskie) was a cousin of the king of Poland. That fact, however, did not make royal blood flow in his veins, for the crown of Poland when attained by King John was not inheritable. That quality had long since been forcibly taken from it. Xone of John's ancestors had ever worn it, and John was elected to wear it. Hence, there was no more inheritable quality in it than in the Presidency of the United States. There was, however, noUe blood in Albert's veins. His ancestors for two centuries had been Palatine nobles of Poland — famous generals who had fought long and bravely in The cause of their country, distinguished for their virtues in jicaie and for their courage in war. Albert's cousin John, upon his merits alone, not only became king by the voice of the people of his native country, but he iiad also become one of the greatest warriors of the sixteenth cen- tury. Albert's father was a soldier, but the son had no taste for the favor- ite calling of a long line of noble and warlike ancestors. Born at Zolkiew in Poland, in 1638, he grew up in the shadow of the church and school, receiving a fair education. His turn of mind was such that his father had earlv hopes of seeing his son in the pulpit preaching the Reformation. To that end he sent Albert to a Protestant school in Holland. The strict rules and Puritan tenets of the institution were not, however, relished by Albert, and he soon ran away. While roaming about from one city to another, without occupation or "funds, he was seized by the government authorities of Prussia and pressed into the army. Watching his oppor- tunity he escaped to Amsterdam, early in 1662, from which port he sailed to America in the ship " Fox," reaching New York in August of that year. For ten years he seems to have wandered among the settlements about New York without any settled purpose in life; but in 1676 we find him at Bergen (Jersev City), where he met, and on December 17 of that year married, Miss Machtelt (Matilda) Van der Linden, daughter of Yost Van der Linden, a young lady then twenty years of age and a native of the City 50 lilTDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of Brussels, P.cli;iiim. wliosp brotlier, Koloff Van der Linden, was destined later to l.eroiiic'like lier husband, one of the largest landowners in Bergen ('ounl.y. The niarria.uc ceremony was solemnized in the Dutch Reformed (Church at liei'gen, near what is now "the Five Corners." In the yi'ar of his marriage (1676) Albert made his first purchase from the Itackeusaclc and Tajipan Indians— a tract of 1,067 acies— abutting south on Captain John Berry's purchase, extending north one and five- eighth miles, and from the Saddle River east to what is known as Sprout P,rook. This Iract was known as " Paramus " or "The Point." On this he built his family mansion, and spent his life in agricultural i)ursuits. Much of it is still occupied by his descendants, who have become numerous in Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic Counties. It has been said that the Indians captured his eldest son, Jacob, and refused to give him up to his fathei- until he should be taught the Indian language; that the father ac- quiesced; that the boy mastered the language, and the chief of the tribe then gave the father title to his lands. This is probably only tradition. At any rate, tlae deed recites the consideration to have been wampum (white and black), peltries, clothing, rum, and implements uf husbandry. In l(iSi2 Albert obtained from Lady Carteret grants of several tracts of land adjoining his first purchase, principally one of 120 acres on the east and extending to the Hackensack River. In 1679 tlie Indians in some way (not stated) became indebted to Albert, and to liquidate such indebtedness the sachems verbally agreed to convey to hira 2,000 acies in Kockland County, N. Y. This agreement was not performed until 1702, when ^Mbert agreed to take lands in New Jersey instead of Rockland Coiinly lands. Accordingly, the sachems of the trilaes deeded him 2,100 acres in Bergen ('•ninty, north of liis first purchase, and fronting west on the Saddle River. -Vlbeit's patents are known as the " Paramus " and " Xew Paramus " pat- ents. Altogether Albert must have owned more than -1,000 acres in Bergen County. Mucli of this was afterward claimed by Peter Sonraans. whose claims to it wew not released until 1731-3;"), long after the death of .Vlbert. In his day he was considered a very wealthy man. He was highly re- s])ected, not only for his great liberality, but for his integrity, and above all for his fair dealings with the savages, v, ho esteemed him highly. lie understood their language and frequently acted as their interpreter. In 1686 he helped to organize the "Church on the (ireen" at Hackensack, of wliich he was one of the first members. He took an active part in civil affairs and was the first Justice of the Peace for Upper Bergen County, to which office he was commissioned by Governor Hamilton in 16S2. lie died September 11, 1711, having been one of the most active and enter- prising of the pioneer settlers of his county, and his descendants are noted for the same qualities. His wife surAived him, dying in 1725. His children (of the second generation) were (1) Jacob A., born aboul April 12, 1679 (married Ann Alberts Terhune), and had ten children; (2) John A.; (3) Joost A., born in 1087 (married November 12, 1712, Christina Casparus Mabie), and had eight children; (1) Christian A., born July 3, 1696 (married May 28, 1714, Lea Hendricks Hopper), and had five children; and (5) Henry, born in 1696 (married Gertrude Hendricks Hopper), and had four, children. John A. Zabriskie, of the second generation, was born at Hackensack about 1682. He married (1) September 20, 1706, Elizalieth Claes Romeyn, A\ho «as born in 1683 at Graves End, L. I., and died near Hackensack GENEALOGICAL 51 N. J., in 1712. He (2) married again December 6, 1712, Margaretta Jolms Dune. He succeeded to the ownership of part of his father's lands. In 1720 he bought of Samuel Des Marest (2) a large farm at what: is now Hawroth, N. J., some of which, until very recently, was owned bv the de- scendants of his eldest son Albert. It extended from the Schraalenburgh road west to the Hackensack River. Some of his lands were claimed by Peter Sonmans, but were released to Zabriskie about 1751, by Hans Spier, agent of Sonmans. John Zabriskie (2) was a farmer, but was a-tive in township and church ABRAHAM O. ZABRISKIE. matters. He died in 1766. His second wife survi\c(l him. His children of the third generation were four by his first wife and nine by his second wife, to wit: Albert, Matilda, Nicholas, Christina, Elizabeth, John, Jacob, Elizabeth, Peter, Joost, Rachel, Cornelius, and Christian. Of the above named thirteen children Jacob J. Zabriskie, of the third generation, born near Hackensack, July 27, 171S, jnarried, in 171:!, Sarah Varrick, a descendant of an old aristocratic family of New York. Their issue of the fourth generation was a son, John L. Zabriskie, baptized Feb- ruary 27, 1752. He died April 24, 1782. He married December 7, 1775, 52 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Lena Lansing, of Albany, N. Y., where she was born October 5, 1750. She died April 26, 1826. John L. Zabriskie's widow, after his death, married (2) November 14, 1786, General Abraham Oothout. John L. Zabrislde (4) had issue one son, John Lansing Zabrislde (5), who married Sarah Barrea. He was a prominent clergyman at Greenbush, N. Y., and had issue two children of the sixth generation: John Barrea Zabrislde (a prominent physician at Flatbush, L. I.) and Abraham Oothout Zabriskie (the subje.'t of this sketch). Abraham Oothout Zabriskie, LL.D., of Hackensack and Jersey City, was born in Greenbush, N. Y., June 10, 1807, and when four years old went with his parents to Millstone, N. J. He received an academic education and matriculated at Nassau Hall, Princeton, in 182.3, becoming a member of the junior class when only sixteen. He was graduated from that insti- tution in 1825, read law with James S. Green, of Princeton, and was ad- mitted as an attorney in November, 1828, and as a counselor in 1831. He practiced in Newark two years and in Hackensack nineteen years, and in 1838 was appointed Surrogate of Bergen County and was re-appointed in 1843, serving in all ten years. He not only learned how to frame state- ments of execution and administration, but acquired a full knowledge of ecclesiastical law as pertaining to estates of descendants, and also evinced a method and accuracy that distinguished his life. In 1842 he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas of Bergen County and became master of the principles of criminal law. Later he often acted as counsel in criminal and civil cases, and in cases involving land titles. He became familiar with the duties of a practical surveyor and also with the proprietary history of New Jersey, and understood ever.A patent in the old "Field Book of Bergen County," and the common lands assigned to each patent. He was regarded as a formidable adversary in all cases involving title to land, and was for several years Supreme Court Reporter to 1855. In 1844 he removed to Jersey City, and in 1850 he was elected State Senator and served three years. He was a member of the committee of citizens which framed the charter of Jersey City, passed March 18, 1851; was the author of the " Long Dock Charter " of 1856; and from 1856 to 1866 was a Director of the New Jersey Eailroad and Transportation Company. In 1859 he was appointed by Governor Newell Chancellor of New Jersey, but the Senate refused to confirm him, and the State, during that memorable struggle, was without a Chancellor for a year. In 1866 he was nominated by Governor Ward and confirmed by the Senate as Chancellor, and began his official duties May 1, 1866. He pei'formed the duties of that office with a promptness and ability that have never been surpassed by any of his successors. He took a prominent part in the great railroad war as opposed to the monopoly, and for an expression used in a public speech earned the sobriquet of " Captain of the Pick-axe Guard." He was an eminent jurist, an able and learned lawyer, a sagacious business man, and oflBiciaily connected with several corporate enterprises. He traveled extensively, and while on a trip to the Pacific slope died at Truckee, California, June 27, 1873. He married (1) April 7, 1836, Sarah Augusta Pell, born September 9, 1810, died April 3, 1845. He married (2) January 2, 1848. Julia M. Halsey. His children of the seventh generation were Abraham, Lansing, Sarah a\, and Augustus. Of these, Abraham (8) was commissioned Adjutant of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteers, October 18, 1861, promoted to Major Feb- ruary 10, 1862, to Lieutenant-Colonel December, 1862, and subsequently to GENEALOGICAL 53 Colonel. He died May 24, 1864, of wounds received in the battle of Drury's Bluff, Va. Sarah aT (S) is the wife of Franz Ernst de Bille, a native of Denmark, who is at present Danish Minister to England. Lansing Zabriskie (8), now deceased, was a prominent lawyer in Jersey City, as is also his brother Augustus, at the present time. Augustus and Sarah hare children of the ninth generation. JOHN N. ACKERMAX is a descendant in the direct line from David Ackerman, the first American ancestor of the family. Southeast of Rotterdam, in Dutch Brabant, twenty-four miles from Breda, is the City of Bois-Le-Duc, called by the natives Hertogenbosch. It is now the chief town of North Brabant, and was built and strongly fortified in the eleventh century, though it was a place of some note much earlier, being near the Maas Eiver and the great highway built by the Romans in their later conquests in Northern Europe. In the seventeenth century there was much heath land to the south and west of it which has since been reclaimed. Agriculture and manufacturing were then, as now, the main employments of the people, Tilbury, the nearest city, being noted for its extensive cloth manufactories. The city contains the chapel and church of St. John, built in 1260 and rebuilt in 1312, — one of the oldest and best preserved edifices in Northern Europe. From the city a road leads almost direct to the renowned battlefield of Waterloo. Near Bois-Le-Duc, in about 1620, was born David Ackerman, the son of a farmer and the pro- genitor of the .Vokerman family in Hudson and Bergen Counties. Growing to manhood, he married in 1644, and engaged in tilling the soil until the stampede to the New World, caused by religious persecution and the threat- ened war with Spain and England drew him into its vortex. Being an ardent Protestant, he could not brook the fanatical domination of Roman- ism, and when in August, 1662, the power of the state could no longer protect him in the exercise of his religious liberty, he, with many of his neighbors, including the Storms, Terbosches, and others, whose descendants have since become a numerous host in Bergen County, embarked with their families on board the Dutch West India ship ' Pox " (Captain Jacob Huys), and on September 2, following, landed at New .Vmsterdam. David had with him his wife and six children — the latter aged respectively twenty, eighteen, sixteen, twelve, eight, and six years. It has been said " it may be doubted whether he survived the voyage " ; but there is little reason for such doubt. It is true that the emigrant list published is a list of those who sailed fj-om Holland ports, not of those who actually arrived at New Amsterdam. It is likewise true that the records maJie no fur-ther men- tion of either David or his wife. But these facts furnish no ground to doubt their arrival on our shores. The first family abode was in the Markrelt Stegg. In 1668 the family nucleus was at New Harlem. Whether David or his wife were living at the time of the removal to Harlem, whether Elizabeth on her marriage and removal to Harlem took her brothers with her, are at best subjects of conjecture. David may have died at the Markvelt Stegg residence, or he may have removed to Harlem and died there. However this may be, as no public records of deaths were kept, the date of his death and that of his wife, as well as her name, are facts which are likely never to be ascertained, except by accident. Of the children, Ann was the first to break the family circle by her marriage in 1664, and subsequent removal up the Hudson. Elizabeth followed her example in 1668, uniting in marriage with the somewhat renowned Kier 54 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES AN'altcrs (ancestor of the Kiersens), who, however, died two years later. Lawrenci; was a youth of untiring energy and persevered in everything he undertook. In IGO!), being then only nineteen, he hired a portion of what was then tailed the Archer farm at Harlem. In 1679 he married Greetje Egberts and remained at Harlem until 1685, during which time two daugh- ters were born to him. David, the eldest son, went to New York, where, in 1680, he married Hellegorid Ver Planck, and remained there until 1686, duiing which time several children were born to him. Lodowyck, who seems, at first, to have been rather a wild boy, went to Kingston, N. Y., where, in l(.)( ilOAL 55 Mr. Ackerman was married. June 14, 1S37, in Hackensaclv, to Rachel Ryerson \'anderbeek, born Februaiv 7. ISOO, died eTune :2(i, 1891, a descend- ant, like himself, of one of the old Holland Dutch families of Bergen County. Their children are George J. Ackerman, born ^Nlareh 27, 18:'.!t, and Mary R. Ackerman, born September 27, 1815. (leorge J. Ackerman, oldest child of John X. and Rachel R. Ackerman, married Julia A. Groesbeck, December 24. ]8(i3. She was born November 27, 1S42, and died April 11, ]88ri. They had one child, George Groesbeck Ackerman, born Xovember 6, 18(17, who married, Si'])tember 27, 18!);;. j^iae- line Inglehart, of Watertown, X. Y., who was born December 3, 18'i9. They have one child, Alison Groesbeck Ackerman, born October 13. 1800. AAROX E. ACKERMAX. of Hackensack, is of the seventh generation from David Ackerman, the tirst of the famil_\ in America (see sketch on pa.L'e 'y.\). He was born at Saddle River, Bergen (Jounty. Scptemher (i, ls;',i), and is a son of I'eter Ackerman and Eliza Eckerson, and a grandson of Albert Ackerman and Eliza, his wife. This Albert served as a soldier in the A\'ar of 1812. Aaron Aekerman's maternal grandparents were Aaron Eckerson and Matilda ^A'estervelt. As will be seen, ^Ir. Ackerman is of Dutch extraction on both sides of the family tree. He was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, remaining on his father's farm until he reached the age of se\enteen. He then entered the employ of ("onklin & Post, of Schraalenburgh, as a rarpenter, and con- tinued with that Avell known firm for about tweniy-three years. On the death of Mr. Post he became a partner with Peter L. <'onklin, the senior member of the old fiim. The new firm of Conklin iV- ^Vckerman continued in business eight years, or until 1882, when ^Ir. Conklin retired after an active life of forty years. Mr. Ackerman surcecded lo the business, which he still conducts, and which is one of the oldest of the kind in East Jersey, having been in continuous existence for nearly sixty years. And under his able and energetic nmnagement it has not only retained but greatly increased its old-time prestige and usefulness. The buildings and other carpenter work which he has erected in Hackensack and vicinity would, if enumerated, make a list that would fill a good sized a olume. Mr. Ackerman is a man of acknowledged ability and integrity, and both in business and social relations has always enjoyed the icsiiect and con- tidence of his fellowmen. Enterprising, patriotic, and i)ul)lic spirited, he has taken from the first a deep interest in municipal affairs, and liberally encourages every worthy project. He served three years and one month in the War of the Rebellion, becoming a second sergeant, and is a promi- nent member of the Second Reformed Church of Hackimsack. He married Miss Abigail AVygant, and they have two daughters: X(-llie, born in 18(13, and Fannie, born in 1871. ALEXAXDER TAGGART MrGTLL, A.^M., LL.D., for thirteen years Chancellor of the State of Xew Jersey, was born October 20, ISl.j, in Alle- gheny City, Pa., where his father. Rev. Alexander T. IMcGill, D.D., LL.D., was a professor in the "SVestern Theological Seminary. His great-grand- father was an Indian fighter of note in Pennsylvania, and served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ccmtinental Army under AVashington at Trenton and Princeton. The Chancellor's father was for some years a lawyer in Georgia, but later studied theology and became professor in the Western Theological Seminary, ^^'hen tlie Chancellor was nine years old, 56 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES in 1854, his father accepted a professorship in Princeton Theological Semi- nary and the family moved to New Jersey. His father held that position until his death in 1889. Chancellor McGill thus spent his early life in the midst of the best educational and social advantages, which he imbibed with an eagerness characteristic of his race. While a youth he exhibited scholarly tastes, and rapidly acquired a high standing as a thorough and painstaking student. His chief aim was to master every problem, no matter how diffl- cult, that came to his attention. He was a keen observer, possessed of ALEXANDER T. McGILL. analytical powers of a high order, and won the praise and respect of both teachers and associates. Entering Princeton College, he pursued the reg ular course and received the degree of A.B. in 1864 and that of A.M. in 1867, and afterward his alma mater and Eutgers College of New Jersey each conferred upon him the honorary degre of LL.D. In June 1866 "he was graduated from the Columbia Law School, and thereafter continued' his legal studies with the late Hon. Edward W. Scudder, of Trenton. He came to the bar in New Jersey as an attorney at the November term 1867 and as a counselor in November, 1870. ' ' GENEALOGICAL 57 For a few months he remained in Trenton as an associate of his preceptor, Judge Scudder, and then, in 1868, moved to Jersey City, where he after- ward resided. Chancellor McGill soon achieved prominence as an able, industrious, and conscientious lawyer. From 1870 to 1876 he was the law partner of the late Attorney General Robert Gilchrist. In 1874 and 187f5 he was counsel for the Cily of Bayonne and also member of Assembly from the then First District of Hudson County. He was active and influential in the Legislature, and served on the leading committees. In April, 1878, Governor McClellan appointed him Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County of Hudson, and in April, 1883, he was appointed LaAv Judge of that county by Governor Ludlow. On March 29, 1887, he was appointed by Governor Green as Chancellor of the State of New Jersey, and the appointment was unanimously con- firmed by the Senate on the 31st of the same month. His first term ex- pired Maj^ 1, 1894, and he was re-appointed to the office by Governor Werts, and at once unanimously confirmed by the Senate without reference. It was during his term as Chancellor that the famous coal combine bill was passed by the Legislature. When Governor Abbett refused to sign the bill the railroad companies in the combination contended that they were protected by existing laws, and proceeded to act accordingly. The at- torney general brought suit against the Coal Trust in the Court of Chan- cery. The Chancellor rendered a decision which not only laid down the relations of corporations to the State with a clearness and fairness that placed his ruling beyond attack, but dealt a blow to all the monopoly com- binations of the Coal Trust class. In the fall of 189u the Democratic party nominated the Chancellor for Governor. In the campaign that followed he took no part, but continued to discharge the duties of the office of Chancellor. The election resulted in his defeat by John ^^'. Griggs, now United States Attorney General, bv a plurality of 26,900. Chancellor McGill died April 21, 1900, at his home in Jersey City. His friends declare that he died a martyr to duty. His office killed him. lie was a scrupulously conscientious man, and thought of duty above evei y- thing else. He would never shirk a responsibility, however much he might suffer in fulfilling it. His learning, dignity, good judgment, and ability long adorned the highest equity bench in the State. He was one of the most popular jurists that ever presided over the Courts of Errors and Ap- peals and Chancery. As a citizen, lawyer, and judge he Avas universally respected and esteemed. Chancellor McCJill married Miss Olmstead, a relative of the Stevens family, of Hoboken, who surA ives. He had no children. He is also sur- vived by a brother. Dr. John D. McGill, Surgeon-General of New Jersey. MATTHEW J. BOGEKT.— The Bougaerdts were a numerous and in- fluential family in Holland, where they filled many important military and civic positions, and attained lasting fame in the arts, sciences, and literature centuries before the advent of any of them in America. Guil- liaem Bougaert was Schout of the City of Dordrecht in 1423. His son Adam became first Professor of Music and Rector of the Academy at Leyden, where he died in 1482. He is buried in St. Peter's Church in Leyden, be- neath a stone surmounted with a copper plate on which is an inscription setting forth his fame. This church was built in 1315 as a monument to Boerhave, the great physician, and contains the remains of the most dis- 58 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES tinguished worthies of Holland. Adam's son Jacob became first physician to the City of Antwerp and afterward was Profesor of Medicine and Sur- ucrv at Levden for more than twenty years. Like his father he also at- tained the rectorship of the academy. He was a fluent writer on medical science, on which he published a treatise in Ave parts, the manuscript of which is now in the public library at Antwerp. Harman Myndertse Bou- gaert came to New Amsterdam in 1629, and was probably the first of the name to locate in America. He was a medical man of long experience and was appointed official physician to the infant metropolis. In 1634 Kev. Eyerard Bogardus, a son of William Bougaert, and who wrote his name in Latin Lyerardus Bongardns, came oyer to Xew Aiiisterdani in company with Goyernor-Generai Wouter A^on Twiller. Bogardus was the first regu- lar preacher on Manhattan Island, where he mairied, in 1G:5T, Ann, widow of Eoelof Jansen, of Maeslandt, Holland, the lady about whom, and whose estate and Trinity Church, so much has been written and said during the last thirty years.^ Dominie Bogardus rented a tobacco plantation on the island and spent much time and labor upon it, tobacco being at that time the principal currency of the country. In time he (luaireled with Governor Kieft because of the latter's cruelty to the New Jersey Indians. Kieft brought charges of immorality against him, the inyestigation of which was cut short by the superseding" of Kieft, who was drowned off the coast of AVales. Joost (Justus) Bougaert, in ]641, was appointed by Queen Christina, of Sweden, commander of a colony on the east side of the Delaware Riyer below Philadelphia. He held that position some time on an annual salary of 500 florins. In 1652 Teunis Gysbert Bougaert emigrated to New Amsterdam from Hey Koop, a little hamlet northeast of Leyden. Two years later he settled at Brooklyn, when he married Sarah Eapelje, a daughter of one of Brook- lyn's earliest settlers. He was Mayor of Brooklyn for three years. His farm fronted on the Walabocht (Wallabout). His descendants scattered oyer Long Island and along the Raritan Riyer in New Jersey. Matthew J. Bogert is descended from Jan Louwe Bougaerdt, a cousin of Gysbert, aboye named. Jan was cradled and grew to man's estate at Schoondewoerdt (a word meaning finer words), a small fortified village noted for its salmon fisheries, on a branch of the Maas Riyer twenty miles above Rotterdam and about two miles from Hey Koop, the former home of his uncle Gysbert. Jan was reared a farmer, but early in life struck out for himself. Reaching manhood, he married Cornelia Evertse, the daughter of a well-to-do neighbor, and settled down to farming in his native town. In common with thousands of Hollanders he seems to have caught the prevalent emigration fever, for, on April 16, 1663, we find him and his family with many of his neighbors embarking at Amsterdam on the Dutch ^Vest India ship " Spotted Cow,"' bound for the shores of America. A month later the stanch craft touched the wharf at New Amsterdam, where some of the cargo of emigrants remained and others went to Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Albany. Jan, no doubt, desiring to be near his uncle, repaired to the vicinity of Bedford, L. I., where he bought a farm, and remained there until 1672. He must have been possessed of some means, as in the spring of that year he had an opportunity, of which he availed himself, to take charge of the farm of Dr. John de la Montagne near Harlem. On the 1st of May, 1671, he removed thither from Bedford, and thence- forward for a period of twenty years was an active participant in the civil OENEALOGICAL 59 and religious affairs of Harlem. That he prosjiered is evidenced by the fact that in IfilO, 1691, and 1701 he bought lauds at IToorns Hook, t^puyten Duyvil, and on Hellegat Sound. He was cliosen magistrate of Harlem in IfiT.") and 1076, but failed afterward in the realization of his political aspirations, which seem to have been strong. In 1605 he sold his lands at Bedford and in 17(16 his farm lands at Harlem. The following spring, stricken in years, he and his wife removed to Xcw Amsterdam (joining the Dutch Ohurcli there ^lay 27, 1707), where they died soon alter at a ripe old age. Jan Louwe Bougaerdt was a man of firmness and decision of character; born to command, rather than to follow; hasty in his temper, but prone to justice when cool; a man of his word, who demanded of his neighbor the exercise of the same quality; shrewd in jaotecting his o\sn interests, but honest in his dealings with his neighbor; a man of sound judgment, keen intelligence, and possessing a large fund of general information; a stern but affectionate and dutiful husband and father, and a devoted ('hristian, — all qualities which, under the trying circumstances in which he was placed, fitted him for the trials of a frontier life. They had nine children of the second generation, to wit: Peter Jansen, Margaretta, (^xysbert, Nicholas, Elizabeth, ( 'atharine, Cornelia, Janneke, and John. Peter Jansen Bogert (2d gen.), Ixirn id Schoondewfx^idt. Holland, in 1656, married in Xew York, September 2'.t, lOSO. Sophia, a daughter of Judge Matthias Flierboom, of Albany. He, with his sister :\Iargaretta, and his brother Gysbert, removed to Tappan, then a pait of Orange County, X. Y. Gysbert and Margaretta"s husband purchased large tracts of land at Tappan, on which they settled. Peter Jansen died in Xew York, but his children remained at Tappan. These were of the third generation, to wit: (Jornelia, Maria, Elizabeth, Catalyntie, John P., Matthew P., Peter P., and TS'illemina. :Matthew P. Bogert (3d gen.i. baptized at Haikensack in 17(12, married, in 1735, Margaretta Tunisens Talman, and in January, 1710, bought of Bernardus Van Valen 250 acres of woodland south of ( 'loster and ex- tending from the Hudson Eiver to the Tiena Kill ]!r>afety. Accordingly, early in the spring of 1663 they journeyed down the Rhine to Amsterdam, where they embarked for New Amsterdam on the ship " Si^otted Cow," reaching the latter port on April 16, 1663. Des Marest first went ^ith his wife and three sons to Staten Island, where they joined the Huguenot settlement, recently started. The following year he was elected to represent the settlement in the provincial assembly. The savages proving troublesome, Demarest bought and located on lands at New Harlem, then a name appUed to the upper end of Manhattan Island. Here he prospered, acquired several town lots, and became prominent in town affairs. In 1677, a tax having been levied on him for the support of the Dutch Church at Harlem, he refused to pay it, claiming immunity therefrom because he was neither an attendant nor a communicant of the Dutch Church. The " powers that be " sued him for the tax, procui'ed judgment, and proceeded by ex- ecution and levy to collect it. This angered Demarest and he determined to leave Harlem. On the 8th of June, 1677, he purchased from the Hack- ELMER W. DEMAREST. GENEALO(;iCAL, 65 ensack and Tappan Indians a lart-e tract (estimated at about 6,000 at-ics) ot land on the east banlc of the Hackeiisack River, extending northward trom iSew Bridge, lij subsequent purchat^e he added an extensive tract west of the Hackensack, on which he built two mills. He built his family residence at what is now Old Bridge and erected a French Church on the east side of the river, a little west of the Schraalenburgh road. The lands he purchased were claimed by several white persons and by the savages. Some of these claims were not extinguished until after his death. He died in Xew York Oity in l(;o:i, leaving a will by which he devised all his lands to his two surviving sons. John and Samtiel, and to his verv nu- merous grandchildren. J)a v-id des Marest. J r. {?>), the second of the emigrant's sons, died in 1691, before the decease of his father. At the time of his death he was residintr east of the Hackensack on pait of his father's oi'iginal patent near Schraalenburgh. H(- was born at Manheim in the lower Palatinate in 16.j2, and married, April 4,' 1675. Rachel, daughter of Pierre Crasson, a French refugee. His occupation was that of a farmer. He had twelve children: David, Peter, Susanna, Rachel, Jacobus D., Samuel, Mary, Daniel, Benjamin, Jacomina, Lea, and Lydia. " J acobus David g des Marest (4), the fifth of these, baptized at Xew York jcu./--" OctoBer^, lUSlTTntnTied (1) Lea De Groot and (2) IMargaretta (Ur/Anc^ ^"'^^'^^ii Haring. Farming was his principal occupation and he held several town^'^*^-^*^'^ ship offices. He resided in the Schraalenburgh district and left at his death twelve children, of whom Gariet . T acnbRe^ npirm'T.st (oi, born at Schraalenburgh, June 30, 1725, died there December 17. 170S. married, in 1747, Jacomina (Tunis) Helms. They resided at Schraalenburgh, where Garret pursued the calling of a farmer. His issue were fifteen children, of whom Abraham (Jarrets Demarest ((i) was born at Schi'aalenbnrgh ilarch 15, 1767, and died there March IS, 18(iO. Pie mariied Margaret Demarest, a relative, born December ;>, 1761, died ^May Kl, ls;'>2. Abraham was a farmer and left three children: Garret A., J jihn A ., and James A. John A. Demarest (7). born .Vpril 11. 170S, died JMay 2:!, ]S(j4. married, in isiS. Jane, daughter of Peter ^Merseles, born ^larch ;!, lsi»?>, died Sep- tember 22, 1888. He purchased and resided, at the time of his death, on lands at what is now Eastwood, X. J., where, on his death, he left two children: Margaretta J., wife of Albert Z. Ackerman, and ATjraham J. Demarest. He was a cattle dealer, purchasing cattle in the west and sell- ing them in Xew York, under the firm name of Demarest & Grant. He alsn conducted an importing house of willowware, etc., in Xew Yorlc, and a country grocery store on the farm at Eastwood. Abraham J. Demarest (S), born at Eastwood, X. J., April ;;(l, 1S40, mar- ried, ^lay 18, 1859. Eliza W., daughter of Jacob G. H. Lozier, of Tea neck, now Englewood. She was a descendant of Peter Wilson, a Scotchman, who held the degree of Doctor of Laws, and was for some time a member of the faculty of Columbia College, Xew York. Abraham J. followed farm- ing until his father's death, when he removed to Closter, X. J., where he conducted a meat market until 1892, when he retired from business and is now residing at Bayonne, X. J. He has had three children: Xettie Marcelia, married Horace Roberson, a lawyer, at Bayonne; Edwin S., died; and Elmer AV^ilson, the subject of this sketch. Elmer Wilson Demarest (9) was born at Eastwood, X. J., May 15, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Closter, X. J., the Rutgers Pre- paratory School, Rutgers College, and Columbia Law College, graduating 66 HUDSON AND BEl^GEN COUNTIES from the last named institution as a Bachelor of Laws in 1892. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in February, 1892, and as a counselor in June, 1895, and to practice in the United States Courts in January, 1897. Since his admission he has practiced law in Bayonne and Jersey City, and has been successful in li titrations, having conducted a number of important cases. He is counsel for a number of corporations. He not only stands high in his profession, but is also prominent as a Republican leader, having always affiliated with the Republican party. He has shown great activity in this connection. In 1S92 he was a mem- ber of the Bergen County Republican Executive Committee. He has been a member and Vice-President of the Hudson County Rejiublican Com- mittee from 189.3 to the present time. He is also a Trustee and a member of the Executive Committee of that organiz.ation. In 1897 he was elected to the New Jersey House of Assembly, was prominently connected with the equal taxation measure of that year, and conductfd the fight in the House for the Voorhees Judiciary Constitutional amendments. He is a member of the New Jersey Athletic Club of Bayonne, of the Newark Bay Boat Club of Bayonne, and of the Palma Club of Jersey City. On September 9, 1896, Mr. Demarest married jMIss Blanche Adeline Bristow, of Bayonne, and they have one child, Kenneth E. Demarest (10), born August li, 1897.<5v>..^ <*86, shortly after his arrival. Xothing more is said of AMlliam (2j, and the in- ference is that he died soon after. Hendrick (2) and Matthew (2), soon after their arrival, each purchased from ( Japtain John Berry a farm of between two and three hundred acres at Hackensack (partly in the present village), and extending from the Hackensack River to the Saddle River. Each of them settled and built on his farm, where they remained until their deaths. Both were farmers, but took an active part in toAvn and church matters. Matthew was a deacon of the " Church on the Green " in 1705. Matthew's children (of the third generation) were Andrew, born in 1684, at Jersey City, married Elizabeth Bross; Christina, born in 16.S6 (married John Huysman); Lea, born in 1695 (married John ^'anderholf. of Albany); Rachel, born in 1703 (twice married); and John, born in 1705 (married 72 HUDSON AND BEROEX COUNTIES Elizabeth Kipp). All except Andrew were boi-n at Hackensack. Hendrick's cliildien of the third generation were Andrew, born in lOSl (married Abigail Ackernian); John, born in lfiS2 (mariied Rachel Terhune); William, born iu l(;s4; Catharine, born in 1685 (married Peter Garretse Van Allen, of Rotterdam, Holland); (iairet, born in 1G9G; Gertrude, born in 1(;99 (married Hendrick Alberts Zabriskie); and Lea (married Christian Alberts Zabriskie). Many of these, with their children, removed to Paramus and scattered rhi-ongh Saddle River, Ridgewood, and Midland Townships, where their descendants are to-day numerous. jNlembi^rs of the family have represciiled Bergen County in both houses of the Legislatui-e ; others have worn tiie judicial ermine with dignity and respectability; still others have held from time to time county and township offices, and have become famous as physicians, clergymen, lawj'ers, mayors of cities, publicists, mechanics, sailors, soldiers, and agriculturists. •Jacob H. Hopper, the subject of this sketch, is a lineal descendant of Andrew Hopper, the first emigrant of the name. He is a son of John Hopper and Elizabeth (Goetchius) Hopper, and was born at Saddle River, in Bergen County, .Vugust 6, 1823. Having received a fair common school education in the schools of his native county, he acquired while quite young the trade of harness-making, which he followed successfully at Hackensack until ISSd, when he was made superintendent of the cemetery in that vil- lage. He still holds this position, having filled it with great ability and fidelity during the last twenty years. Mr. Hopper has also been a promi- nent figure in public affairs. He was Town Collector of Hackensack for three years and a Justice of the Peace for ten years, and has served as a member of the Town Committee. For forty-nine years he has been a lead- ing member and one of the chief supporters of the Hackensack Christian Reformed Church. The ability, faithfulness, and integrity with which he has discharged every trust, and the active interest he has taken in the progress and welfare of his town and county, have won for him great re- sjiect and the confidence of all wlio enjoy his acquaintance. He is public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic, and a liberal, progressive citizen, whose energies have been directed toward useful and charitable ends. He married Lydia Bogert, a descendant of one of the old Bergen County families, and their children are Ann Elizabeth, John Henry, and Martha Amelia Hopper. JOHN H. POST. — Captain Adriaen Post first came to America from Harlengen, Holland, about 1G53, as agent or manager of Baron Van der Cappellan's colony on Staten Island. Upon the destruction of that colony by the savages early in 1655, Mr. Post fled to Bergen (Jersey City), whence, in September following, he, with his wife, five children, tvvo servants, and one girl, were taken prisoners by the savages at what is known as the second massacre at Pavonia. The famJly escaped by the payment of a heavy ransom, and Post was thei'eupon dispatched by the Bergen colonists to treat with the sachems of the Hackensack tribes for a release of other prisoners. After his return from a successful performance of this dut^■ he settled at Bergen and eventually became one of the most active and influential members of the struggling colony. Having had some militarv experience in Holland, the Bergen colonists appointed him Ensign of the militia September 6, 1665. On May 12, 1668, he bought from Governor Philip Carteret lots Nos. 35, 55, 117, 100, and 161, of the Bergen common ^^^^-^I5vv^« for the lawyeis in the case, and en- titled " The State of the Question of Jurisdiction and Iloundary between New Jersey and Delaware, A. D. 1873." To achieve accuracy in this, every conceivable source of information was drawn upon, including the State records at Trenton, the records of the early Proprietors at Perth .\mboy, those at .V.lbany. together with local records and original deeds, and what- ever of use could be found in the State libraries of New Jersey, Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. While eagaged in researches in this case Mr. Harvey began to take note.s with reference to the original land-grants of Bergen County, N. J. This labor of lo\e — for such it necessarily is — has been prosecuted to the present time. He has had the record oftices of New .Jers(^y and other States ransacked for every scrap of information ascertainable respecting the early land-grants and transfers in Bergen County, has unearthed numerous deeds that were never recorded, and has engaged in the arduous labor of identify- ing boundaries and preparing maps. The use, in the original surveys, of the old mariner's compass, which was not perfectly accurate, renders this work of identification one of the most delicate tasks imaginable. Mr. Harvev has also collected and arranged in alphabetical arraugcMuent all the mar- riage records for Bergen County known to be in record offices. In anotber series of manuscript volumes he has, in alphabetical order, the inscriittions from the tombstones in all the graveyards in Bergen County, N. J., and Rockland County, N. Y., with the single exception of that at Nyack. The labor and expense involved in acquiring these collections would be quite incredible to one unfamiliar with the requirements of such work. He also has a set of large manuscript volumes containing miscellaneous historical and genealogical collections, never before used in historical works, and which w()uld fill many printed volumes. I'rom these collections, together with all the more ordinary sources of historical information, he^is preparing a work upon the original families and land-grants in Bergcji County, which will be more exhaustive and accurate, probably, than am - thing of the kind ever attempted for a similar section of territory by his- torical workers in this country. He has also compiled, and in 1889 pub- lished, a genealogical volume on the Origin, Histori/. and Grncalof)// of thi Buclc Famih/. and has compiled the Orif/in tiiid <,'(iic(iloi;ded to America from Avon, Somer- setshire, England, in 1814, and became a farmer at " The Flatts " in Bergen County. On her maternal side she is descended from Albert Zabriskie, the I'olander, whose family has been traced in these pages. Mr. Harvey's children are Augustus Hardeuburgh Harvey, born in 1880, now an accountant with the Mutual Life Insurance Company in New York, and Arzilla B., born in 1886, now at school. Mr. Harvey is a member of the New Jeisey Historical Society, of the Englewood Council, Koyal Arcanum, of fluilliam ^'an Houten Post, No. 3, Grand Army of the Eepublic, of Jeisey City, and of several other organi- /.ations. X>le.iviiiity. Soon after graduation he received a call to the pastorate of the Harlem Eaiitist Oliurch of New York City, which he was obliged to refuse on ac- count of impaired health and a serious affliction of the eyes that had de- -seloped during his course in the seminary. A three weeks' sea voy- age brought him to New Orleans, where he began to jiveach, and while there he accepted the as- sistant pastorate of the Baptist Church at Clin- ton, La., which he filled most acceptably for two years, declining during that period three calls to become pastor of churches in the North. He developed a strong friend- shij) for the negro, frequently visited them in their cabins, took a fearless stand on the slavery question as an advocate of human rights, and after- ward sheltered many a fugitive slave. During his residence in the South he also acquired that habit of great hospitality which always characterized his home. The illness of his mother, however, compelled him to return at the end of two years to New "5'ork City, and on November 15, 1S47. he accepted a call to the Baptist (Jhnrch at Shelburne Falls, Mass., where he remained WHEELOCK H. PARMLY, D.D. GENEALOGICAL 81 two years, and resigned, the winter climate of the Berkshire hills being too hard for his constitution. Shortly after he accepted this pastorate he mar- ried Katharine Dunbar, daughter of Eev. Duncan Dunbar, of the Mac- dougal Street Baptist Church, ]S"ew York City, and a lady " lovely in character, strong in faith, wise in judgment, remarkable for patience, prayerful, and zealous in e^ery good work." Upon her death on July 10, 1877, he wrote in his diary. " The briglitcst light of ray home has gone out," while another expressed these words and sentiments : " She added to the sum of human joy, and were everyone to whom she performed some loving service to bring a blossom to her grave, she would sleej) to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers." Dr. Parmly assumed the duties of pastor of the I!a])tist Church at Bur- lington, N. J., in ISIay, 1S."J0, and remained there nearly five years, during which time the " church grew mightily." On the 1st of September, IS.'l:, at the age of thirty-eight, he entered upon his labors as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jersey City, and ably, honorably, and satisfactorily filled that pastorate until his death, August 1, 189J;, — a period of forty years, lacking one month. A\'lien he came to Jersey City there was but one church of the Baptist faith in the place, and that was made up of the scattered membership of cliunlies which had been formed and which had proved too weak to continue their organizations. The church was then known as the Union Baptist church and had 2(»G members. Three other vigorous Baptist churches now exist in the city, the beginnings of which came largely from the old church dui'iug Dr. Family's pastorate. The mother church changed its name on the establish- ment of the other churches to the First Baptist Church of Jersey City, and now has a membership of nearly four hundred. Dr. Parmly labored hard with great success, baptizing in the winter of 1S65 alone over one hundred converts. In that year he sjxmt four months in Europe, and, returning with new energy, entered into his work with re- doubled force, giving also a vast amount of his time to the general inter- ests of the city, the State, and the Nation. He was especially active in the establishment of the denominational school now known as Peddle Institute at Hightstown, N. J., contributing years of labor and large sums of money for that purpose. Asa pastor Dr. Parmly certainly excelled. His people were strongly at- tached to him, and under no circumstances would they allow him to go in response to the successive calls which he received from other societies. He was recognized as the man for the place. Once each year he endeavored to visit personally every family in his congregation, and his calls upon those who were sick were frequent. Belie\ing in this method as he did, it certainly added largely to his success in pastoral relations. He preached, while in Jersey City, five thousand sermons, made addresses on public oc- casions to an equal number, attended SU funerals, ])erformed 1,425 mar- riages, raised nearly .f300,000 for the church and .|.j(),000 for benevolent purposes, received into the church over 1,000 members, and baptized more than 1,300 others. He remained as the faithful servant of that church until September, 1887, when, at the age of seventy-one, he was unable to bear longer the burden of the pastorate alone, and at his recpiest the church called to his aid an assist- ant pastor. Two years later he again asked to bi' relieved, and by unani- mous vote of the church was made its Pastor Emeritus, a position he held until his death, which occurred August 1, 1894. He was survived by four 82 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES children: Duncan D. Parmly, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Thonmpson, Randolph Tarinly, and Christine D. Parmly. One son, Walter, died in his youth. His "only installation as pastor of the church in Jersey City was the singing by the congregation of Montgomery's beautiful hymn, of which the following is a part: " We bid thee welcome in the name Of Jesus, our Exalted Head; Come as a servant, so He came, And we receive thee in His stead. " Come as a messenger of peace, Filled with His spirit, fired with love! Live to behold our large increase. And die to meet us all above." Dr. Parmly was especially interested in the cause of Christian education, and gave himself unreservedly to the ujjbuilding of Peddle Institute and the "New Jersey Baptist Education Society, becoming a member of the latter in 1852, serving it for more than forty years as a member of its Board of Managers, for seven years as President, and then being elected its Honorary President, an office specially created for him. Prom almost the first he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Peddle Institute and for many years one of its Education Committee. In every capacity he was a good man, a true Christian, a benefactor, anchored in the Baptist faith by an intense study of the Scriptures, and loyal to all the trusts confided to his care. No man had a more honored leadership in his church in the State, and none was more beloved or more universally esteemed. DI'NCAN DUNBAR PARMLY, the oldest son of Rev. AYheelock H. Parmly, was born in Slielburne Falls, Mass., May U5, ]S49, and until re- cently resided in Jersey City. He was graduated from Mount Washing- ton Collegiate Institute of New York City and at an early age entered the office of Henry G. Mavquand, banker, of New York City. Later he was connected with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad — now a part of the Missouri Pacific System, — and was one of the founders and for many years the senior partner in the firm of Marquand & Parmly, bankers, of New York. Owing to ill health he was compelled to give up his active business and in 1893 became the President of the Phenix National Bank of New York City, and has since acted as the head of that financial institution. For the past eight years he has been a resident of the State of New Jersey with his home at Middletown in Monmouth County. RANDOLPH PARMLY, of New York and Jersey City, was born April 2, 1854, at Burlington, N. J., and is the son of Rev. Wheelock H. Parmly and Katharine (Dunbar) Parmly. He was educated at Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey Citv and at the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1875. Afterward he continued his course of study in the Columbia Law School. Mr. Parmly was admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey in June 1878, and has continuously practiced from that time to the present. He is also a member of the New York bar. Having made a specialty of cor- poration law, he has spent a good portion of his time with certain cor- porations for whom he is counsel in the City of New York. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of Jersey City and of New York and of the Lawyers' Club and the University Club of New York Citv. ' GENEALOGICAL 83 JOHN J. VOORHEES.— Steven Coerts (or Koerts, as he wrote it), the common anc-(>stor of the N'oorhees family in Bergen and Hudson Counties, emigrated to this country in April, 1660,' coming over on the ship " Spotted Cow,"' with his wife and seven children. They came from Ruinen, in the Province of Drenthe, Holland, and from in front of the little hamlet of Hees, near that locality. Hence the name was at first ^'an ^'oorhees, •• Van " meaning " from," " Voor," meaning " near," and " Hees " (the hamlet name) " from near " or, " over from Hees." Steven was not the first of the family to emigrate. In February. 1659, Harman Koerts had preceded him on the ship " Faith," with his wife and five children. Steven settled at Flatlands, L. I., where many other Dutch emigrants had already located. He must have been born about 1600. Who his first wife was does not appear, but she died in about 1675, and he married (2), in 1677, ^^'ell- empie Roeloflfse Leubering. He died about February, 1681. He bought, November 29, 1660, of (/ornelis Dircksen Hoogland, eighteen acres of corn land, fourteen acres of woodland, twenty aires of plainland, and ten acres of salt meadow — in all sixty-two acres — for |3,000; and also the house and lot lying in the village of Amersfoort, with the brewery and all the brewing apparatus, ketih^-house, and casks, with the appurtenances, which shows that he must have been a brewer as well as a farmer. He was assessed at Flatlands in l(i75. and was manager of taxes there in 1()S3. His name appears as one of the i)atentees there in lOlil and H)()7. He died about February 16, Kisl. His children were Hendricke. ^Mergen, Coert, Lucas, John, Albert, Aeltje, Jannetje, Hendricke (2), and Abraham. His son, Albert Stevens Yoorhees, and his wife, -Telletie Rynieres Wlsselpcn- nick, went to Hackensack in lfis(i, joined the Dutch church there, and bought an extensive tract of land from Jlajoi- John Berry between the Hackensack and Saddle Riveis. John J. ^'oorhees is a lineal d( scendant of the sixth generation of Steven Coerts Van A'oorhees. the emigrant. His father, I'eter \'oorhees, was born on the old farm at Flatlands, L. I., where Steven ^-I•«t settled in 1660. Jlr. "S'oorhees was educated in the public schools of New I'treclit, L. I., and in 1863 accepted a clerkship in a country store, where he remained five years. After filling similar positions he obtained a position as assist- ant Ibookkeeper for the New Jersey < "ar Spring and Rubber Company, and at the end of oneyear was promoted to head bookkeeper. Not long afterward he was made Secretary of the comjiany and held that position until iss."), when he was elected Treasurer of the corporation. In ISSS he was made General Manager, and at the present time is President of the Voorh-es Rubber Manufacturing Company, of Jersey ( Mty, which is one of the largest and most successful concerns of the kind in the country, having an exten- sive business and employing a large number of hands. In :iSS5 Mr. Yoorhees was appointed a member of the Board of Educa- tion of Jersey City and served for three terms, during five successive years of which he was President of the board, being annually re-elected without opposition. Asa member of the Condemnation Commission on the County Roads in 1892 he rendered most efficient services to the community at large, and displayed that eminent ability and superior judgment which have characterized his entire business career. He is a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Jersey City Board of Trade, of which he was President in 1892. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey, of the Board of Trustees 84 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of the Free Public Library of Jersey City, and of the Palma Club, the Carteret Club, and the Holland Society of New York City. Mr. Voorhees was married October 14, 1874, to Annie M. Collier, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have had three children, and reside at 57 Duncan Avenue, Jersey City." CHARLES E. VOORHIS is a descendant in the eighth generation from Steven Coerts Van Voorhees, the first American ancestor of the family in America, whose pedigree has been written in the sketch on page 83. One of Steven's children, Albert Stevens Voorhees (2), emigrated with his father to America in 1660, and located with the rest of his family at Flatlands, L. I., where he married (1) Barentie Williamse, (2) Tjelletje Wizzelpenning, and (3) Elina Vander Scheur. He was living at Flatlands as late as 1683, as the assessment roll then shows. He removed with his family, in 16f^6, to Haekensack, where he purchased from Captain John Berry a large farm extending from the Haekensack to the Saddle River. He joined the church in 16S6, and subsequently became an officer in it. His children of the third generation were Cornelia, Stephen, Stephen. Jannetje, Margrietie, Lucas, Rachel, Feumietje, Albert, William, Peter, Isaac, Willempie, John, and James. Of these Lucas Alberts Voorhis (3) married, September, 2, 1726, Ann Kipp. They resided at Haekensack. Their children of the fourth generation were Ann, Henry, Lena, Elizabeth, Margrietie, Nicholas, Catharine. Isaac, and Jacob. Of these, Nicholas (4) married Jannetje Ackerman and had issue Albert N.', Ann, Lucas, Henry, and Jannetje. Albert N. Voorhis (5) was born in 1767. He was a farmer and resided at Schraalenburgh. He married, December 10, 1791, Grietie Demarest, who died in 18.54, leaving several children of the sixth generation. Of these children of the sixth generation Henry A. L. Voorhis (6), who was born September 26, 1792, married Levina Blawvelt. born September 14, 1792, and died July 15, 1872. He was a farmer and resided near Demarest, N. J., on part of the farm formerly belonging to -John Peack. Among his children of the seventh generation were Elizabeth, Maria, ^Targaret, Henry D., David H., Nicholas H., and John. Nicholas H. Voorhis (7) married Caroline, daughter of Peter B. Wester- velt, of Cresskill, N. J. He resided at Cresskill until his death. Charles E. Voorhis (8), son of Nicholas H. and the subject of this sketch, was born at Cresskill, Bergen County, N. J., September 11, 1856, and was educated in the public schools of his native town. He left school when seventeen years of age and began his business career in the grocery trade, in which he remained for ten years. At the end of that time he engaged with the firm of Peter Henderson & Company, the famous New York City firm of seedsmen and florists. He has continued with this house to the present time. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. Voorhis married Ruth Richardson and has four children: Edward, aged thirteen; Henry, aged eleven; Raymond, aged nine; and Clarence, aged seven. JOHN ALBERT BLAIR, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, General Quarter Sessions, and Orphans' Court of the County of Hudson, was born near Blairstown, N. J., on the 8th of July, 1842, his parents being John GENEALOGICAL 85 H. Blair and Maiy (Angle) Blair. He is the grandson of William and Rachel (Brands) Blair, of Knowltou Townshiji, \^'arren County, N. J., and descends from one of the most distinguished families in the State. His ancestors si:)ruug from the noted Blair family of Blair-Athol, Perth- shire, Scotland, whence they came to this coun- tiy in 1720, settling in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. .Vmong them were two brothers, Sam- uel and John Blair, both of whom were edu- cated at the Log College on the Neshaminy un- der the celebrated Will- iam Tennant. They be- came distinguished min- isters of the Presby- terian Church. The Rev. Samuel Blair was called to Fagg's Manor in Chester County. Pa., in 1739, where, in con- junction with his pas- toral work, he con- ducted a school that was among the most note- worthy of the early Presbyterian academies. His son, also the Rev. Samuel Blair, ^vas pas- tor of the Old South Church in Boston before The Revolution. He be- came Chaplain of the 1 'ennsyl vania Battalion of Riflemen that partici- pated in the siege of Boston. The Rev. Samuel Blair, the second, was offered the presidency of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), but de- clined in favor of Dr. Witherspoon. The Rev. John Blair was ordained pastor of Big vSpring, Middle Spring, and Rocky Spring in the Cumberland A'alley in 1742, but resigned in consequence of the frequent Indian incur- sions on the frontier (175.5-57) and succeeded his brother at Fagg's Manor. In 1707 he became Professor of Divinity and Moral Philosophy at Prince- ton, and was acting President of the college until the accession of Dr. Witherspoon in 1760. He died at Wallkill, in the New York Highlands, in 1771. While one branch of the family was devoting its energies to the work of the ministry and the dissemination of knowledge, another was molding the commerce which has since become one of the mainstays of the State of New Jersey. In the latter part of the eighteenth century another Samuel JOHN .ALBERT BLAIR. 86 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES P>l;iir was sent by a Philadelphia firm to take oharge of the iron industry at Oxford Fui'nace, in Warren County, N. J. This Samuel Blair was the great-great-grandfather of Judge John A. Blair and the great-grandfather of the late John Insley Blair, who died December 2, 18!)9, at the age of ninety-seven, after one of the most eventful careers in the history of New Jersey. Judge John A. Blair's rudimentary education was obtained in the public schools of his native place, and later on he prepared for college at the Blairstown Presbyterian Academy. He entered the College of New Jersey at Princeton and was graduated from that institution in 1866. At the close of the college term he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. J. (1. vShipman, at Belvidere, N. J. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney at the June term, 1869, and as a counselor at the June term, 1872. In January, 1870, he came to Jersey City, where he has ever since resided and been engaged in his profession. On the passage of the law creating district courts in Jersey City Hon. Bennington F. Randolph and Mr. Blair were appointed the first .judges thereof by the Hon. Joseph D. Bedle, who was at that time Governor of the State. In May, 1885, Mr. Blair was appointed Corporation Counsel of Jersey City, which office he held until his resignation in 1889. He was re-appointed in 1894 and served in that capacity until April 1, 1898, when he resigned to accept the appointment of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, General Quarter Sessions, and Orphans' Court of the County of Hudson, to which he had been appointed by Governor Griggs just before the latter became Attorney-General in President McKinley's Cabinet. Judge Blair is a sound lawyer, an attractive and eloquent speaker, a man of fine classical acquirements, and the possessor of a large and choice library. He is a prominent and active Republican in politics. Although never seeking office, his name has been frequently mentioned in connection with some of the most prominent positions in the State. He is a regular attendant of the First Presbyterian Church of J ersey City. He is a member of the Palma Club, was one of the organizers of the Union League Club, and was President of the latter organization for several years. ALBERT V. HUYLER. — Johannes (John) Huyler came to America from Holland about 1741, and went to Bergen County, where he married, in 1742, Eva, daughter of Cornelius Banta. He purchased of the heirs of Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt a large tract of land (several hundred acres) between Cresskill and Tenafly, extending from the Hudson River to the Tiena Kill, where he resided until his death. His children were Cornelia, married John Banta; Joris (George), married Maria Symonson; John, married (1) Effie Westervalt and (2) Anntje Banta; Jannetje (dead); and Wilhelmus, married Christina Cole. John Huyler (2) known as " Captain John," born in 1748, resided on his father's farm above Tenafly and was in the Revolutionary War. By his wife he had children John, Peter, and George. Peter Huyler (3), born April 8, 1781, married Catharine Benson, and had children Barney, Garret, Henry, John, and George, the latter of whom obtained title to the old homestead. Henry Huyler (4) married Margaret Voorhis and by her had three chil- dren : Peter E., Harry, and Albert V., the latter of whom is tlie subject of this sketch. Albert V. Huyler (5) was born at Tenafly, N. J., and there received bis GENEALOGICAL 87 education in the public schools. At the age of nineteen he left school and engaged in the watch and diamond business at No. 21 Maiden Lane, New York City, in which he has continued for the past fifteen years, doing business under the style of N. H. White & Co. He is a public spirited and progressive citizen, and thoroughly identified with the affairs of the com- munity. Mr. Huyler married Miss Virginia Connor, and they have two children: Cleveland C. and Washington E. Huyler. ALBERT IRVING DRAYTON, President and General Manager of the New Jersey Title and Abstract Company and one of the leaders of the younger bar of Jersey City, is the son of Henry S. Drayton, M.D.. and Almira E. Guernsey, and a grandson of William R. and Mary M. (Shipman) Drayton and of Dr. Henry and Martha J. (Halsey) Guernsey. His paternal great-grandparents were Henry and jMary (Rood) Drayton and Jacob and jNEary (IMulford) Shipman, while those on his mother's side were William and Elizabeth Nancy (Scofleld) Guernsey and Rensselaer and Jane Halsey. These names represent some of the oldest families in New Jersey, many of whose members have been prominent in the history of the colony and State, and distinguished in both civil and military life. William Henry Drayton, one of Mr. Drayton's ancestors, was Chief Justice and Governor of South Carolina in 1776-77 and a member of the Continental Congress in 1778-79, and another member of the family was Captain Percival Drayton, an eminent naval commander. Albert I. Drayton was born in Jersey City on the l-tth of August, 1869. He received his preparatory education in the various public and private grammar schools of that city and at the Jersey City High School, and sub- sequently entered the New York University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1888. Determining upon the law as his profession, he was a law student from 1888 to 1891, and in the meantime took a course of lectures at the Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as attorney in November, 1891, and as a counselor February, 1895, and ever since his admission as an attorney has been actively and success- fully engaged in the practice of law in his native city. In the many cases in which he has been identified in all the courts of the State he has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and broad and accurate learn- ing, and, although a young man, he has gained a leading position at the Hudson County bar. His legal connections with important real estate matters led him finally into a close study of that subject, and as President and General Manager of the New Jersey Title and Abstract Company of Jersev City he is widely known and an acknowledged authority on land titles!" He is also an officer in various other corporations, being President of the Jersey City Golf Club, first Vice-President of the Alumni Association of Gamma Chapter of Delta Phi, a member of the Delta Phi fraternity, and a member of the Cosmos Club, of the Jersey City Chess Club, of the New Jersey State Bar Association, of the Hudson County Bar Association, of the Nyack Country Club, of the Deal Golf Club, of the New York University Alumni Association, and of St. John's Episcopal Church of Jersey City. Mr. Drayton was married on the 14th of October, 1896, to Sarah Con- selyea Traphagen, a descendant of one of the oldest families of New Jersey. Their children are William Rood and Grace Traphagen Drayton. HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ITKNKY ]>. T\'INTON, for tliiity ycais editor and proprietor of tlie lien/Ill Cniiiiti/ Dniiocnif, of Hacla-nsack, N. J., is tlie son of Eben Winton, and was born' on the 14tli of Pebrnai'v, ISfS. He received a common school odncation, and in 1S(;3, at tlie eai'ly ai^c of fifteen, entv-red tlie office of the Dciiiocrot, wlu'ie bv assidnous attention to his dnties he soon became a Ihoroiijih ])racticar printer. In ISTII, when bnt twenty-two years old, he became proprietor and assnnKHl the editorial control of the Bergen f'oiniti/ t)('iiiocr- and town. He was elected Senator from Bergen (bounty in 1SS!( and served two terms, and has the record of being the only Senator from I'ergen County who has served six years in the Senate of New Jersey. ABRAM QUICK GAERETSON, for nine years prosecuting attorney of the most populous county of the State, during five Y(\irs 'inei'e Law or President Judge of the Court of Common I'leas of Hudson County, and now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Coni-t of New Jersey, is de- scen; stofk for his fatiicr's stoic, as ^cll as allcndini;' to \\v.' wants of tlic tavern guests, tlu-ew liini in conlacl witli all kinds and conditions of people from wlimn ]\e obtained a large fund of information wiiicli, in later years, he turned to good account. Wlien the lievolutionary stiaiggle lu'oke out lie was a lad twelve years old, yet the father had difltciilty in restraining the patriotism of his son sufliciently to prevent liiiii from offering his services as a drum- nu'r hoy to the Continental forces. That sti-uiigle over, and having married and settled down to business, DAVID A. DEMAREST. he gave his attention not only to the store but to agricultural pursuits, which were then jirotitable. I'roducts of the farm were sent by sloop from Old Itridge, or Closter Dock, to New York. A considerable trade in pig iron was carried on with the iron works at IJamapo. Groceries were ex- changed for pig iron and the iron shipiied to New York and sold at a profit. In October, 1704, he was one of the militia force from New Jersey, 'S'irginia, and Tennsyhania sent by rresident 'Washington to I'ittsburg to suppress what in American history is known as the " Whisky Insurrection." In 1796 he began to mi!igle in and wield inthience in town affairs. Fi'om that time to 1843 he held numerous town offices, including that of Justice GENEALOGICAL 95 of the reuce. In 1809 he superintended the construction of his father's new stone dwelling (still standing). Tht> tavern business was abandoned with the dcnnolition of the old family mansion. His daughter Margaret married, in 1810, John Perry, a member of one of tlie oldest and most prominent families in Rockland County, >,'. Y., by whom she had issue two daughters, Catharine (1811) and Charity (1822). In 1812 the quota of Bergen County drafted troops for the war with Great Britain rendezvoused at Jersey City for three months. Captain Samuel G. Demarest (of what is now Westwood, N. J.), who raised a company of m'.-n for that war, recruited part of his force at the store of Abraham D. Demarest. It has been said that David A. Demarest served in the ^'\■ar of 1812, but if so his name does not appear upon the muster rolls of the companies that went from his vicinity, commanded by Major ^'an Saun. -Vt his death in 1821: Abraham D. Demarest gave all his lands to his son, David A. Demarest. The latter soon after purchased several adjoining tracts, until the whole area of his homestead farm was over 300 acres. He also owned a large farm west of the Hackensaclv Eiver and a tract at Ramapo. Henceforth and until his death he was considered a wealthy man. But he was one of those men whom wealth makes neither proud nor a\aricious — a most genial and hospitable man, noted for his liberality. Nearly all his life he had been a member and liberal supporter of the North Church at Schraalenburgh, which he helped to organize and to which he liberally gave. His commodious mansion was always open to the ministers of that and sister churches. They came and went at their pleasure, sometimes staying with their families for weeks at a time. Their host's hospitality was of the good old-fashioned variety, spontaneous and hearty. Everybody was welcome beneath his roof. He had great intluence over his neighbors and a happy way of settling disputes. As a Justice of the Peace for many years his practice was to avoid trials, if possible, and usually he would bring the parties to an agreement to settle before the trial day came on. He was a gentleman of '■ ye olden time " — a sort of " Cadi " in the community to whom the people went for advice in time of trouble and did not go in vain. He was a lover of music, and in 1801 organized a band in which he played second clarinet. The minutes of this band in his handwriting show that it prospered for some time. He was an entertaining conversationalist and story-teller who never lacked for lis- teners. Physically he was remarkably robust, and was never severely ill. He was found dead in bed one morning at the home of his daughter, at Nyack, N. Y., whom he was visiting. He lay as though he had ciuietly dropped into a peaceful sleep. He was of the type of man rarely to be met with in these days. He saw the Revolutionary War, the War of 1S12, and the Mexican War, and had he lived another year he would have seen the beginning of the Civil War. The year before his death the Northern Railroad was completed. The company gave him a pass, but he never used it, and died without having experienced the sensations of riding on a moving railroad train. Catharine and Charity Perry, has granddaughters, married, respectively, Isaac and Tunis Smith, of Nyack, N. Y., who, for many years, owned and operated a steamboat line between New York and Nyack. Isaac and Tunis Smith were descendants of Lambert Ariaense, a native of Gilderland, Hol- land, who came to America when a young man and settled at New Amster- dam, where, on April 9, 1682, he married Margaretta Garrets Blawvelt, a daughter of Garret Hendricksen Blawvelt, of Deventer, Holland. In 1686 96 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Lambert and his brothers-in-law, the Blawvelts, and others purchased the Tappan patent. Lambert settled on part of it at the "Green Bush," in Eockland County. His descendants soon became so numerous that it was necessary to distinguish one from the other, and as Lambert was a smith by profession it became convenient to designate him as Lambert Ariaense Smidt. Most of the family eventually dropped the Ariaense and called themselves Smith. Lambert Smith and Margaretta Garrets Blaw- velt had issue, among other children, a son, Garret Smith (2), who mar- ried Brechie (Bridget) Peters Haring, of Tappan, and had issue, among other children, a son, Peter G. Smith (3), who married Annetie (Hannah) Blawvelt, and had issue, besides other children, a son, Isaac (4), who mar- ried Rachel Smith, and had issue several children, among whom was Peter Smith (5), who married Christina Demarest (a sister of David A. Demarest, above mentioned). Old patrons of the steamer '' Chrystenah " will re- member her portrait at the head of the stairway to the upper deck. They had issue of the sixth generation : Isaac, Abraham, Tunis, and David. Isaac married Catharine Perry, and Tunis married Charity Perry, as above stated. The issue of Catharine Perry and Captain Isaac Smith were John, James, and Margaret Ann, all now deceased. The issue of Charity Perry and Tunis Smith were six children, all now deceased except David and Sidney. JAMES KIPP is of the tenth generation in lineal descent from Roeloff (Ealph) de Kype, who, as the prefix " de " unmistakably indicates, was of French origin, but who resided at Amsterdam, Holland, whither he had fled from France. His life-long calling was that of a soldier, wherein he exhibited bravery, energy, and capacity of the highest order. He at- tained prominence as a military leader in 1555, during the long and bloody struggle between the Catholics and Protestants, in which the latter finally triumphed. It has been said that in 1559 he returned to France and fought against the Protestants under the banner of the Duke of Anjou. Whether he did or not is at this late date a matter of little importance. It is known that his sons espoused the Protestant cause. One of them is said to have been a stockholder in the Dutch East India Company and an active pro- moter of the voyage of Hendrick Hudson to New York in 1(509. His son, Hendrick de Kype (3d gen.), born at Amsterdam in 1578, came to America accompanied by his son Hendrick (4th gen.). They were the first of the name in the New World. Hendrick (3d gen.), owing to ill-health, soon returned to Holland, but his son Hendrick (4th gen.), who seems to have been the first to drop the " de " from the name and who was usually known as " Hendrick Hendricksen Kype," married and became one of the first permanent settlers on Manhattan Island. Being a tailor by occupa- tion, he was sometimes dubbed " Schneider Kype." On April 28, 1 643, he purchased a lot 30 x 110 east of " The Fort " (now Bridge Street, near Whitehall), on which he built his family residence and shop. There, for years, he was the principal tailor of the town. He married Ann de Sille, a daughter of Nicholas de Sille, of Wyck, Holland. About this time Kieft was Governor of New Amsterdam. Kype despised the governor and pub- licly denounced him as " a butcher " for permitting the massacre of the Hackensack Indians at Pavonia. Kieft summoned him to appear and answer for his insolence, but Kype replied by messenger that he would not appear before " a man of blood." Mrs. Kype likewise denounced Kieft as a false judge. Upon the succession of Stuyvesant to the governorship GENEALOGICAL 97 Kype was made a Councilor. Latei- lie was chosen to be one of the nine Selectmen, because, as is said, he was one of " the most notable, reasonable, honest, and respectable citizens of the city." Two years later he was made a Burgher, but becoming dissatisfied with the management of town affairs he soon after sold out and removed to Amstel, in Delaware, where he embarked extensively in the brewing business on the west bank of the Delaware River. The governor of Delaware soon made him a member of the Council, and later, in 1660, appointed him Commissioner of Amstel. About 1694 he seems to have returned to New Amsterdam and about the same time purchased from Captain John Berry a tract of two hundred acres of land south of Hackensack, from the Hackensack River to the Saddle River, and including in it the present village of Lodi. He died in New Amsterdam about 1703. leaving children of the fifth generation Cor- nelia, Catharine, Peter, and Nicasie (Nicholas). Nicholas (.5th gen.), born at Amstel, Del., in 166S, went to Hackensack in 1691, and married Ann Breyant, of old Bergen. The same year the couple joined the Dutch Church at Hackensack. In 1698 Nicholas, with Thomas Fraunce and Rutgert Yan Horn, of Bergen, purchased from Cap- tain Berry a large tract at Jloonachie. Nicholas made other purchases in due time — one of two hundred acres from Garret Ly decker extending from the Hackensack to the Saddle River, and another large area of " meadow land " for which, as his deed recites, he gave a " fatted calf." Upon his death he inherited a large portion of his father's lands, and passed as one of the most extensive landholders in that s(x-tion. He resided on the I'olifly road, was active in town and church aft'aiis, and held several responsible official positions. His eleven children of the sixth generation were Henry, Peter, Isaac, Cornelius, Jacob, Ann, Catherine, Elizabeth, Garret, Nicholas, and John. Nicholas (6th gen.), born at Moonachie in 1720, married in 1710 Lea ^'ree- land, of Bergen. He was a farmer by occupation and resided for thirty- five years in Lodi Township. In 175;") he removed with his family to Schraalenburgh, where he bought a large farm lying on ))()th sides of the Schraalenburgh road near the jiresent North Church. The same year he and his wife joined the Schraalc.iburgh South Church, of which Nicholas was made a Deacon in 1760. He was a man of means and greatly re- spected by his neighbors. His children of the seventh generation wei'e Sophia, Isaac, Catharine, Petei-, John, :Maria, Ann, and Jemima. Isaac Ki]i]) (7th gen.) was born at Schraalenburgh, :May 14, 1756, and died there March 10, IS13. He joined the South Cliurch in 1785, and became one of the princi{)al and, in fact, the most influential man in Schraalenburgh. He owned and managed a large farui on both sides of the road near the North Chuich. Though wealthy, both he and his father Nicholas fervently espoused the cause of the colonists. For this the British and Tories raided the Kipp farms and buildings, drove off the live stock, and committed other acts of spoliation. Isaac joined the local militia, known as the " train bands." and served against the British during the last years of the Revolutionary struggle. At its close he became active in the organization and drilling of the State militia, in which he \\as at first a Major and later a Colonel. He was oneof the principals in the organi- zation of the North Church Congregation, and one of the se\en men chosen by resolution of the Consistory in ls\H) to build the present church edifice, receiving for that service six shillings per day. He died in March, 1813, and was buried near the church in which he was so long prominent. His 98 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES children of the eighth generation were Nicholas, David, Henry (who became a prominent physician), Ann, Leah, Maria, Christina, Isaac, and James. David Kipp (8th gen.) was born at Schraalenburgh, January 24, 1783, and died May 18, 1864. He was reared on his father's farm, and in 1806 married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Graw, of Old Tappan. David resided and for many years kept a general store at what is now Bergen- fleld, on the corner of the road leading from Schraalenburgh road to the South Church. His children of the ninth generation were Maria (married Matthew S. Bogert), William, and Fanny (married Cornelius L. Blawvelt). William Kipp (9th gen.) was born at Schraalenburgh, August 19, 1812, and died in 1871. He married, November 24, 1831, Elizabeth Banta, born in 1813. William i-esided for many years at Old Tappan, now Harrington Park. Although reared a farmer, he was a born politician, and for many years was the Democratic leader in Harrington Township. Late in life he removed to Closter. At his death he left living issue David, John B., Isaac, Levina, James, and ^Villiam de Graw, the last two named being the subjects of this and the following sketch. James Kipp (10th gen.) was born at Old Tappan, N. J., October 15, 1844, and received his schooling in the public schools at Tappan. At the age of fifteen he left home to become a clerk in the grocery store of his brother David, at Sparkill, N. Y. He was called home in the fall of 1 well known house of E. R. Durkee & Co., of Xew York, and still fills that posi- tion. Their factory and office are at b^A "V^'ashington Street. As a sales- man his knowledge of general merchandise and his long experience on the road and behind the counter ha^e made him one of the most expert and valuable men in his line of business. At home he is public spirited and enterprising, favoring public education, local improvements, and athletics, and opposing the liquor traffic and dishonesty in public office. He is an independent Democrat in politics, but has never held political office. He served a term in the Board of Trustees of the public school at Closter. He was a Trustee and Treasurer of the Congregational Church for a number of years, and was also the prime factor in placing the railroad station at Closter in its present location. He married in 1ST4 Sarah Elizabeth, a daughter of John J. and Hannah M. Xaugle. Sarah E. Xaugle was born at Closter, X. J., March 25, 1853. They have four daughters living: Edna, born October 31, 1S75 (married in 1899 William C. Bouton, an employee of the Union Trust Company, of New York); Lizzie, born in 1S78: Ethel, born in 18S2; and Grace, born in 1884. Three others — two daughters and a son — died in infancy. THE WESTERVELTS (or Von ^restcrvclls. as Ihcy once called them- selves) are another of the very prolific families of Bergen and Hudson Counties. Should the traveler happen to jonrney through the Province of Overyssel in Holland, about a mile east of the coast of the Zuyder Zee, on the highroad from Deventer to Grouingen, he will pass through a con- siderable town called :\reppel. In the middle of the sevente(>nth century this town was a mere hamlet. Three miles east was the town of Zwolle, where Thomas a Kempis for half a century resided, where he wrote his famous book. In Imifotiou of Chrifif, and where he died about 1471. East of :\repi)el the country foi- miles was then a desert waste of lowland. To-dav this has been bought up by humanitarian sorieties to secure from beggarv able bodied laborers and their families by locating them on these lands and emploving them in bringing the lands to productiveness. South and west of Meppel were rich, green pasture lands. Xear Meppel lived William and Lubbert Lubbertsen, two sturdy brother^. tillers of the soil, and raisers of cattle. In April, 1662, these two brothers joined the throng of emigrants which was then heading from Amsterdam to America to better their ccmdition in life. William, with a wife and four children, and Lubbert, -nith a wife and six chTl3ren, reached Xew Amsterdam about the first of Jlay, 1C,C,2. in the Dutch West India ship " Faith." William repaired to Xew Ltrecht, L. I., and Lubbert, with his wife. Gessie Roelofs Van Houten, and family, went to Flatbush, where a considerable Dutch settlement had been col- lected. At Flatbush, Lubbert bought a house and lot December l."5. fol- lowing his arrival, and went to farming, assisted by his boys. He soon became an extensive and prosperous farmer, bought much land, and owned a number of slaves. Upon his death, neai- the close of the century, his sons Lubbert, Jr., Roeloff, John, and Juriaen went to Bergen County, N. J., 100 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES and settled. Lubbert, Jr., who married Hilletje Pouwless, resided for a time in what is now Jersey City, and then removed to the vicinity of what is now Highwood, N. J., where he died and his wife remarried. Eoeloff and John (who married respectively Ursolena Stimets and Magdalena Van Blarcom) bought lands sontli of Highwood and in the vicinity of Oresslcill, N. J. The Indians disputed their titles, but subsequently the sachems signed releases. Juriaen, who married (1) Gessie Bogert, (2) Antjie Banta, and (3) Cornelia Van Voorhis, bought and settled on lands on the Hacken- sack and Saddle Rivers. Lubbert's two daughters, Margretie and Mary, married and settled at New Hackensack. The descendants of these four sons and two daughters of Lubbert Lubbertsen, intermarrying with the Demarests, Nangles, Harings, Blawvelts, and others, became a mighty host, and are scattered throughout Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Rockland County, N. Y. SAMUEL ^VESTERVELT is of the seventh generation from Lubbert Lubbertsen, the first emigrant, and was born at Tenafly, Bergen County, N. J., on the 16th of August, 185."!, being the son of David I. Westervelt and Sophia Parsels, and a grandson of John R. Westervelt and Samuel Parsels. He received his education in the Bergen County public schools, and at the age of seventeen associated himself with the well known firm of Lord & Taylor, of New York City, with which he has remained for twenty- eight years, and where he now holds a responsible position. This house is widely known as one of the leading dry goods establishments in the East, and has few equals in the quality or kind of its business. As an attache of this great establishment Mr. Westervelt has displayed the highest business abilities, great executive energy, and superior judgment. He is a jiublic spirited, patriotic, and progressive citizen, and as a resident of Tenafiy, Bergen County, has taken an active interest in local public affairs. He has served two years as President of the Board of Education and stiil holds that offlce, and is also Trustee and Treasurer, as well as a member, of the Presbyterian Church of Tenafly. Mr. "\A'estervelt married Miss Charlotte E. Bolden, and they have four children: Florence E., born in 1880; Ralph E., born in 1S84; James B., born in 1887; and Martha B., born in 1891. THE BERRY FAMILY.— One of the earliest emigrants at Bergen was John Berry, an Englishman who came from Christ Church Parish in the Island of Barbadoes. presumably with Kingsland, Sandford, Moore, and one or two others. He was, perhaps, one of the most active and energetic of all the emigrants, and certainly the most liberal. In 1668 he bought all the lands between the Hackensack and Saddle Rivers, extending from the Sandford patent as far north as Cherry Hill in Bergen County. The same year he bought three other tracts: one of 1,.500 acres on the Hudson River adjoining Edsall, another of 2,000 acres at Schraalenburgh, and another of nearly that number of acres on the upper Saddle River. He came to be one of the most wealthy of the Bergen settlers, and in a sense " ran the towne." He was a member of the Grovernor's Council several years, at one time acting Governor, member of the Colonial Assembly, a Justice for Bergen County, a Captain and Major in the militia, and Commander of the '* Bergen Rangers " or train bands. In 1670 he bought land at Bergen, where he made his home. He gave lands for various purposes, especially the land at Hackensack on which stands the " Church on the Green." He GENEALOGICAL 10] died in New York, leaA'iiij;- a lar<;e famil>- of children, among wliom wei'e Jolm, Mary, Sanniel. Kicliard, P^raneis, and Fraueina. Most of these re- mained in Hergeii (N)unt\', wliere their descendants are still numerous. HKXTJY H. RRINKERHOFF, Jr., M.1>., memlier of the T.oard of Health and one of the leading plivsieians of Jersey tiity, was born at Koeky Hill, Somerset ("onnty, N. J., on the 2.'!d of May, ISC.T. His ancestoi-s were among the earliest settlers of tlu' State, coming originally fi'om Holland. " Joris Dircksen ISrinckerhoef, the founder of the American branch of this family, came from the County of D r e n t, o r Drenthe, in the I'nited I'rovinces, and having lived some time at Flushing, a seaport in Zealand, arrived in this eonntry in IGo.S. He settled on Staten Island, and entered into a contract with Cornelius Melyn, the owner of the island, to re- ■^iih' there; but owing to tlie murder of some neighboring planters by the Indians, in 1041, he obtained a release Ci-om the contract, August 15, 1041. Then he went to Long Island and settled in Brooklyn. He married Su- sannnli Dnbbels, wlio died January 16, 1C61." The family settled in Bergen County at a very early day, and is one of the oldest and best known in tlie eastei-ri part of New Jersey. In Kill Hendrick Brinckerhoef, sou of Joris Dircksen Brincker- hoef. purchased land on Bergen Hill, Jersey City, and was tlie an(;estor of the family in Hudson and Ber- gen Counties, while anotlier son of the original emigrant, Abraham Brinck"rhoef, is the founder of the Long Island branch. Dr. Brinkerhoff's ])ai-ents were Henry H. Brinkerhotf and Elizabeth Vree- land, daughter of Michael Vreeland. granddaughter of Michael Vreeland, Sr., and a great-gianddaughter of Johannis \reeland, who was the son of Michael Vreeland, who was the son of Cornelius Vreeland, who was the son of Michael Jansen. The \'reeland family arrived in this country in 1630 from Holland. On his father's side Dr. Brinkerhotf is a grandson of John V. W. Brinkerhotf, a great-grandson of Hai'tman Brinkerhotf, a great- great-grandson of Hendri<-k Brinkerhoff, and a great-great-great-grandson of Hartraan Brinkerhotf, whose father, Cornelius Brinckerhoff, was the HENRV H. BRIKKERHOFF. 102 HUDSON AND BBR.'i) and a meiiiber of the New Jersey Assembly from 1790 to 17!»5. He also held many local offices, including that of Justice of the Peace. Of his two children I'etrus (7), born in New Brunswick, October 5, 1778, removed to Somerville, N. J., where he became one of the most prominent physicians of the State, and wlicre he died Septembei' 15, 1848. He married December 20, 1804, Maria, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Van- derbilt) Van Dorn, who was boiii April 7, 1783, and died April 2, 1855. Tetrus (7) left a large family of cliildren, one of whom, Peter A'redenburgh, Jr. (8), born at Somerville, N. J., October 31, 1805, entered Rutgers College and was graduated therefrom in 1821. He read law at Somerville and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1820. Soon afterward he removed to Freehold, N. J., where he commenced the practice of his profession. In due time he was appointed Prow(>cutor of the Pleas for Monmouth County, and soon after was elected to the State Legislature as a member of the Council. Subsequently he was made an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he held for fourteen years from 1854. Many of the opinions which he rendered were beautifully expressed and are continually quoted as precedents. He married April 10, 1836, Eleanor, daughter of Abraham and Catharine (Remsen) Brinckerhoff, born July 1, 1815, died March 20, 1884. Judge \'redenburgh died at Freehold, N. J.. March 24, 1873. His children were Peter, \\'illiam H., and James B. (0). Of these the eldest was Major of the Fourteenth Regiment of New Jersey ^'olunteers in the War of the Rebellion. He served as Inspector-General of the Third .Vrmy Corps, on the staff of (ieneral AVilliam H. French, and was present and took part in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged. At the battle of Oppequan Creek, near ATinchester, on September 19, 1864, while in command of his regiment, he was killed while bravely leading it in a charge. On his mother's side James B. Vredenburgh is descended from an old New Jersey family, the founder of whom was Joris Dircksen Brincker- hotf, who came to America from Drenthe in the United I'rovinces in 1638, settling on Staten Island and subsequently in what is now Brooklyn. His sons subsequently settled in Bergen and Hudson Counties. James B. Vredenburgh, the subject of this sketch, is of the seventh generation from William Isaacson Van \'redenburgh, and Avas born at Freehold, N. J., October 1, 1844. He received his early education in Free- liold, was graduated from Princeton University in 1863, read law with Aaron R. Throckmorton, of Freehold, and w as admitted to the bar of N(?w Jersey as an attorney in June, 1866, and as a counselor in June, 1860. Upon his admission he located in Jersey City and soon came into prominence as a lawyer of ability, industry, and perseverance. In 1872, when the late Isaac W. Scudder was elected to Congress, Mr. Vredenburgh formed a partnership with that eminent man and thus accpiired an equal share in an extensive and lucrative practice. This partnership continued until the death of Hon. Isaac W. Scudder in 1881. In 1883 Mr. Vredenburgh associated himself with Judge Abram Q. {J^arretson, and the two have ever since carried on a large and successful business, practicing in all the State and United States courts, the firm name being Vredenburgh & Garretson. Mr. Vredenburgh succeeded his former partner. Judge Scudder, as counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and still holds that position. He has appeared in all the important cases affecting the interests of that' com- pany and in many others of note. He served on the staff of Governor Joseph D. Bedle with the rank of Colonel, has always taken an active GENEALOGICAL 105 interest in public affairs, and is a member of the American Bar Association. He lias never sought political preferment, yet he has discharged the duties of the citizen with characteristic energy and is widely known as a man of commanding influence. He has maintained the high reputation, not only of his father, but of his ancestors, and has displayed those sterling attri- butes and high legal qualifications which have distinguished the family for generations. ^Jr. ^'redenburgh married ^Miss Emily H. Van Vorst, a descendant of the well known ^'an N'orst family, the founder of which «as Oornelis Van ^'oorst, who came to this country from Holland as early as 163G. Their children are Peter, James, John, William, Eugene, and Eleanor. CORXEHUS r.RIXKERHOFF, of Secaucus, is the son of James D. and Jane (Alcorn) Brinkerhoff and a grandson of John BrinkerhofE and Kate Bogert, and was born in ^A'est IJoboken, X. J., October 31, 1S59. He is descended in the ninth generation from Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoef, of the Province of Drenthe, in Holland, who left Holland and lived for a time in Flushing, a seaport in X'ew Zealand, whence he came to this couu try in IC.'tS. Settling on Staten Island, X. Y., he contracted with Cornelius Melyn, the owner, to reside there; but on account of the murder of some of the planters by the Indians, in Kill, he secured a release from the con- tract and moved to Brooklyn, Long Island. He married Susannah Dubliels, and died January IC, 1661. Of their four children the second, Hendrick Brinckerhoef, married Claesie, daughter of Cornelius Boomgaert, and settled near English Xeighborhood in Xew Jersey. In 1677 he purchased land on Bergen Hill, and became the founder of a numerous family in Hudson and Bergen Counties, his children being Geertje, ilargrietj(\ Cor- nelius, Joris, Derrick, and Jacobus. Most of these as well as their jjarents united with the Hackensack church. James D. Brinkerhoff still resides in West Hoboken, his wife having died in December, 189.3. ilr. Brinkerhoff was educated in the public schools of his native town and spent jnuch of his early life on the farm. Afterward he ^\ as employed by his uncle, C. H. Brinkerhoff, on a tugboat in Xew York harbor, and here developed that mechanical and professional genius which he has since displayed with so much credit and honor. Becoming an engineer by trade, he has filled various responsible positions, and at the present time is superintendent of the Xew Jersey Trap Rock Company at Snalce Hill, X. J. He is also Chief Engineei- of the Fire Department of Xorth Bergen Townshij). having been appointed to that office in August, IS'JS, and having been a leading member of the department for about eight years. He is also a member of the Roj'al Society of Good Fellows. Mr. Brinkerhoff inherits the sturdy mental and physical qualities of his race — a race famous for its attributes of thrift, industry, integrity, and upright- ness of character. He has always taken a deep interest in public affairs, has contributed materially to the growth and advancement of his county, where his ancestors have resided for more than two centuries, and is active in the support of all worthy projects. His attention, however, has been given chiefly to the duties of the different engineering positions which he has held, and in which he has achieved m.arked success. He resides in Secaucus. September 9, 1882, Mr. Brinkerhoff married Mary JIargaret Leahy. 106 HUDSON AND BEIMJEN COUNTIES diiii<;li(cr (if Tliomas aud Mary Lcaliy, of ( V)nnty Tiii|i('rai-y, Ireland. They have one daiijilifer, Lillian May, born Xovember i;""), IS.S.'t. in New York Citv. f'OKNELIUS CIIKISTIE belongs fo one of the most nnmerous and inllnential families in Jiei'^cn (.-onnty, meiiibers thereof having held unmerous and important iiosilinns of trust and resjionsibility, civil and religions, during the past two hundred years. Mis first American an- cestor was James Christie, who emigrated to this country from Aber- deen, Scotland, it is said about 1085, but the probability is that it was much later, un- '"■'" '-■•■■ '■'■'■■■■ '■■ less he v\'as a boy at Ihe time of his emi- giation. He went to Ifackensack in 170.3, and from thence, the same year, to S c h r a a 1 e nburgh, where, on the Sth of September, he mar- ried M a g d a 1 e n a, daugliter of John Demarest (2j, and be- came the owner, by purchase, or in right of his wife, from the Demarest s, of a large farm (about otto acres) just north of the North Church, and extending from the Tiena Kill Brook west w a r d to the S c h r a a 1 e n burgh road. His residence was on the site re- cently occupied by John H. Anderson. On this farm some of his descendants have ever since resided. He died in 1TGS, at the advanced age of ninety-six or ninety- eight years. His children were Jacob, Jacomina, Anetje, Lae, John, Mariti'e, Elizabeth, James, David, and A\'illiam. \\'illiani Christie (2), the last named, baptized at Schraalenburgh August 2S, 172(1, died September 2S, 1809, married September 20, 174^, Catharine Demarest. He was a farmer, resided at Schraalenbui-gh, and left ten children: James, Margrietie, Alagdalena, Maria, Peter, John, Cornelius, Jacomina, David, and Sophia. James Christie (?.), known as " Cai)tain James," was born at Schraalen- burgh, August 20, 1711, died July 8, 1817. He married IMaria Banta born CORNKLIUS CIIKISTIE. GENEALOGICAL 107 August 4, 1754, died September 13, 1815. " Captain James " was a farmer by occupation, but patriotic and public spirited. He volunteered his serv- ices to the Continental cause in 1777, was commissioned Captain, and raised a company of sixty-five men, with whom he served gallantly. His children were William, John, Magdalena, Maria, David, Peter, Henry, and Jacomina. David Christie (4), born December 1, 178!), died April 8, 1848, married March 12, 1814, Anna Brinkerhoft'. Cornelius Christie (5), one of their children and the subject of this sketch, was born in English Neighborhood (now Leonia), N. J., December 6, 1835. He was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1855. After read- ing law one year in the Harvard Law School he studied in the offices of Mercer Beasley, at Trenton, N. J., and of Abraham O. Zabriskie, at Jersey City. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in February, 1860, and his practice since has been largely an office practice and in con- sultation. For many years he has served as counsel for his own township and for the boards of adjoining municipalities. In 1867 he was elected to the House of Assembly in the New Jersey Legislature, from the County of Bergen, and was re-elected in 1m68. From 1870 to 1876 he was editor and proprietor of the Neir Jer-srij Citizen, a local weekly journal, independ- ently Democratic, published by him at Hackensack. He has been from time to time interested in various real estate enterprises and in develop- ing and carrying them forward to successful issues. Among others he has devoted himself to the development of Leonia, the place of his life- long residence, and was prominent in effecting its incorporation as a borough in December, 1894. He was elected the first Mayor of the borough, and has since held that office. By the insertion of explicit provisions in his own deeds and influencing others to follow his example he has been instrumental in keeping the borough exceptionally free from nuisances and vicious influences, and in bringing to it a peculiarly desirable popula- tion. THE ALLEN FAMILY of Bergen County is descended from Peter Gar- rets Van Halen. The name is probably derived from Haelen or Haalen, a town in Belgian Limbourg, from which place the family originally hailed. The name has gone through several forms: Haelen, Halen, Aelen, Alen, and Allen. Peter Van Halen was the son of Cerret Van Halen, of the City of Eotterdam, in Holland, where Peter was born about 1087. He came to America in 1706 and settled in the Paramus section of Bergen ('ounty, where, on the 11th of August of that year, he married, at Hackensack, Tryntie Hendricks Hopper. He purchased lands on the west side of the Saddle River, where he resided and reared a large family of children, whose names were Henrv, 1707; Garret, 1709; William, 1710; Andrew, 1712; Maritie, 1714; WiHempie, 1716; Lea, 1718; Rachel, 1723; Andrew, 1725; and John, 1727, all baptized at Hackensack. The descendants of these by the name of Allen and^Van Allen are very numerous in the western part of Bergen County. THE BERTHOLFS, who are very numerous in Bergen County, particu- larly in the western part, are descended from Guilliam Bertholf, who was born at Sluys in Flanders, and with his wife, Martina Hendricks Verwey, came to America in 1684 and first located at Bergen in New Jersey, where they joined the church, October 6, I6S4, and where their son Henry was baptized April 6, 1686. Guilliam had studied theology at Middleburgh, 108 HUDSON AND BEROEN COUNTIES Ilolland, and had come to America in the capacity of catechiser voorleser and schoolmaster. In these capacities he labored at Bergen until 1690, when lie removed to Hackensack, where the people so esteemed him that in 1693 they sent him to Holland to be licensed as a minister of the Dutch Church. The Classis of Middleburgh, Holland, ordained and licensed him, and on his return in 1694 he accepted the pastorate of the " Church on the • Ireen,'' at Hackensack, where he preached until his death. For the first fifteen years of his ministry he is said to have been the only Dutch preacher in New Jersey. During his pastorate he had the control of all the surrounding churches, preaching at Tappan, Tarrytown, Staten Island, Raritau, Pompton, Belleville, and The Ponds. He was a well-read and elo- quent man, indefatigable in his work, and organized many churches. His issue were Sarah, Maria, and Elizabeth (all born at Sluys in Flanders), and Henry, Corynus, Jacobus, Martha, and Anna, all of whom joined the Hackensack church. Sarah married David D. Demarest, Maria married John Bogert, Elizabeth married John Terhune and Rolof Bogert, Heury married Mary Terhune, Corynus married Anna Ryerson, Martha married Albert Bogert, Jacobus married Elizabeth Van Emburgh, Anna married Abraham Varrick. Rev. Guilliam Bertholf purchased from John Berry a farm at Hackensack, extending from the Hackensack to the Saddle River, on which the village of Hackensack is now partly located, and there he died, universally respected, in 1724. All his children remained in Bergen County, over which their descendants are thickly scattered. JAMES SHREWSBURY ERWIN, one of the leaders of the Hudson bar and Prosecutor of the Pleas for the County of Hudson, was born in Jersey City, September 5, 1857. He is the son of Matthew Erwin and Caroline A. (Gore) Erwin and a grandson of John Erwin, a native of Ireland, who came, at an early date, to New York City, where Matthew was born. On his mother's side Mr. Erwin is a grandson of William Gore, of Deal, Kent, Eng- land, the birthplace of both William Gore and his daughter, Caroline A. One of Mr. Erwin's maternal uncles, ^A'illiam Shrewsbury, was a missionary to Africa in 1835, while another, James Shrewsbury, for whom he was named, was a prominent English barrister in London. John Erwin, his paternal grandfather, was in the V^ar of 1812, being a member of a New York company called '' McQueen's Men." Judge Erwin received his preliminary education in Public Schools Nos. 1 and 3 in Jersey City. He also attended Cooper Institute, New York, and finished his studies under private tutors. Having received a thorough training, he took up the study of law in the office of AVashington B. Will- iams, and, in February, 1881, was admitted to practice as an attorney in his native State. In February, 1884, he became a counselor. Mr. Erwin has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in Jersey City since his admission in 1881, and in a large number of important cases with which he has been identified he has displayed high legal qualifications, a broad and accurate knowledge of the law, and great skill and ability. He has established a reputation as a lawyer and advocate. In 1890 Mr. Erwin represented his district in the General Assembly of New Jersey, and there magnified an already high reputation. He served as District Court Judge from January 26, 1897, to February 27, 1898, when he resigned on his acceptance of the office of Prosecutor of the Plea's of Hud- son County. His term expires in 1903. Judge Erwin is a prominent, progressive, and public spirited citizen, a man of broad attainments, and a GEXEALOKTCAL 109 ineiiibci- (»f the I'liidvi Lwij;iU' of Jci-scy (.'ity, of tlu' Miiikakwn (Miib, (if tiic Koyal Arcauuin, of the Loyal Additional Koyal Aicaimui, of Itayvicw Lodi^e, No. 140, Fivo and Accoptod ^[asoiis, of .loisoy City, and of Amity Chaiitoi-, No. :!1, Koyal Aicli ^Masons, of ISayonuo, X. J. Xovomlioi' '2-2. 1SS1>, Jiidgc Ei-\Yin inarricd ilai-tlia J. Robinson, and tlioir ('luldrt'u are iEai-iiaiet J., !Mavtha, James K., and llohait (i. Erwin. WAKNER ^Y. WESTERVELT, a prominent member of the New York bar and a leading eitizt'n of Woodelitf, IJergen Oonnty, N. d., is of the seventh generation from Lubbert Lnbbertsen, the emigrant (see sketch on jiage !l!M, and was born in Spring A'alley, Rockland Connty, X. Y., on the loth of July, 1847. He is descended from a long line of worthy and dis- tingnished Holland ancestors, his parents beirig Sylvester A\'es1ervelt and ^[argaret Blanvelt, his grand]iarents James and Hanna (Ten Eyck) ^^'estervelt and Joseph C. and Rebecca (Reni- sen) Blauwlt, and his great-grandjiarents Al- bert Westervelt and <'ornelins and Bridget (Talman) B 1 a n v e 1 t. James ^^'esterxelt, his grandfather, was a ]irivate in the War of ISli". These names rep- resi'nt sc.nie of the oldest and most jiromi- nent families in Roi-k- land C o n n t y. Xew York, those who lia\e b o r n e them having been conspicndus i;i military, profes- and bnsiiiess civil sional life. :\rr. Westervelt ac- iinired his educational training at the Xe\\' York State Xormal School in Albany, from whicli he was grad- uated in July. lS(i7. At the age of t^venty he began teaching, first in tile Union Academv at Belleville. X. Y., later at T'nion Hall .Vcademy in Jamaica, L. L. and then at the Bolvtechmc In- stitute in Brooklyn, X. Y. Snbseqnently he taught in the .Vsliland rnblic School at East Orange, X. J., and finally in the schools at I'lainfield, N. J. These varifins ]iositions gave him a broad and \aliiable ex]ierience as well as a high reputation for scholarship and ability as a teacher. WARNER W. WESTEKVELT. 110 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES But teaching was not to be his life work, though he had been eminently successful. His tastes, his ambition, and his efl'orts were for the law as a profession. Having pursued the regular course of legal study, he was admitted to the New York bar in May, 1880, and since then has practiced in New York City with marked success. He has built up a large and suc- cessful clientage, and as a lawyer and advocate has gained a wide reputa- tion. Mr. Westervelt is a prominent citizen and a member of the Reformed Church of Pascack at Park Ridge, Bergen County, near where he resides. He is thoroughly identified with the affairs of the community. His atten- tion, however, has been devoted to his professional labors to the exclusion of public trusts and responsibilities, which have often been urged upon him. He married Miss Mary A. Beach, of Orange, N. J., and they have six children: Jennie E., born in 1870; Burton B., born in 1872; Mary A., born in 1876; Margaret, born in 1878; Warner W., Jr., born in 1883; and Stuart C, born in 1891. ABRAHAM GARRISON DEMAREST is descended in the seventh gen- eration from David des Marest, the French emigrant and first American ancestor of the Demarests (see p. 64). Samuel Demarest was born in Ber- gen County in 1778 and removed to " The Ponds " ("in Franklin Township) while a young man, where he settled and married Miss Maria Garretson, a descendant of Gerret Gerrets, the Dutch emigrant and first American progenitor of the Garretson, Garrison, and Van Wagenen families. Sam- uel Demarest, who was a farmer, died in 1837, and his wife in 1850. They left several children, one of whom, Abraham Demarest. the father of Colonel Abraham G., married Margaret Garrison, and resided at Oakland, where their son. Colonel Abraham G., was born on the 16th of November, 1830. While the latter was still quite young he moved with his parents to New York City, where he early became imbued with the military spirit, and at the age of twenty -two recruited a company for the now celebrated Seventy-first Regiment, of the City of New York, then known as the American Rifles. Organized during the " Know Nothing " movement, this regiment was composed exclusively of American citizens. Colonel Demarest received his first commission from Governor Horatio Seymour in 1853. In 1855 he was aeain commissioned, by Governor Myron H. Clark, while in 1857 he was commissioned by Governor John A. King. In 1860 he removed to Cresskill, N. J. When the Civil War broke out he recruited a company at Closter, N. J., for the Independent Battalion of the Bergen County Brigade, and in 1862 was commissioned its Captain by Governor Charles S. Olden. One hundred and fifty men rendezvoused at Trenton under his command, becoming a part of the Twenty-second New Jersey "Volunteer Infantry. When field officers were appointed Captain Demarest became Major. He held this rank until January, 1863, when he was commissioned Colonel. The regiment left Trenton for Washington, September 22, 1862, joined the Army of the Potomac, and thereafter partici- pated in all the campaigns and hard-fought battles of that army. Colonel Demarest is a prominent member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Society of the Army of the Potomac. After his leturn to civil life he removed from Cress- kill to Tenafly, N. J., where he has since engaged successfully in mercan- tile pursuits. Colonel Demarest's first wife was Charity Ferdon, daughter of Henrv GENEALOGICAL ni Ferdon and Frances Talhuan. l^^lic di(-d in Octolxn-, 1S72. Ho uiarricd (2) Ellen Van Giesen, of I'aterson, X. .1. His issue hy the lirst wife were Jfar- garetta, Maria Louise, and Fdwin, and bv the second Avife Clifford, Amy E., Clarion L., and H. Le Kov. WALTER CHRISTIE is descended from the same American ancc^stor as Cornelius Christie (see sketch on ])ane 10(i), James Christie, of Abei-deen, Scotland, the emigrant, N\iio had ten children or more of the secorul gcuei-a- tion, one of whom, ^Villiam (2), married Catharine Demarest and by her had ten or twelve children. One of these was " Cajitain James," and an- other was refer W. Christie (:>), who married JJelitie A\'est<'rvelt, by whom lie had several children, one of whom was Ralph P. Christie (4), , born at Schraalenburgh, October 12, 17S3, died June Is"; 1S73, mar- ried Catharine Westervelt, born October 7, 17S7, died April 2(i, 1848. They resided at Schraalen- burgh and had three sons: (Cor- nelius R. and Doweh, who were apprenticed t(.i the harnessmak ing trade, and Peter, who was ajt prenticed to the trade of mason. Cornelius R. Christie (.")) mai'rii'd Annie C'liristie. One of their chil- dren was Walter Christie, the subject of this sketch. Walter ("hristie ((>) was born at Schraalenlnirgli. ra-ar the Soulh Church, Xo\eniber Ki, '[>(>:'>. and still resides on the old homestead of his jiaternal grandfathei-, Ralph Christie, purchased b\- the latter Man-h 31, ISOS, from \\"icrt P>anta. The locality is now known as the Rorough of Bergenfield, of which NA'alter Chi'istie is now the Mayor. For many years after his purchase from Ranta, Raljih Christie conducted a tannery on the farm, and ANlien his sons, Cornelius and Doweh, reached the age of sixteen he apjirenticed them to the harnessmak- ing trade, which the'\' successfully followed until the breakinu' out of the Civil War. A\'a]ter Christie attended the jiublic schools of his district, and succeeded his father as a farmer, liaA'ing inherited the homestead. He still conducts the farm, and has, in addition, built up a thrifty real estate and insur'auci^ business. He has also managed with great success a nund)er of large ami important estates, for several of A>liich he has acted as executoi-. In all these connections Mr. Christie has gained an honoralde standing as a man of ability, integrity, and enterprise. He has also been prominent and influential in pul)lic alfairs. having served for eight consecutive years as Collector of Taxes for the old Tftwn- ship of Palisade, which embraced the teri-itory lying between the Hudson WALTER CIlRISTrE. 112 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES River on the east and the Hackensack River on the west, in Bergen County. In March, 1S!»7, he was elected Mayor of the Borough of Bergenfleld, and served two years, declining a renoniination in 1899, and was succeeded by Mr. Van \'alkenburgh, the present Mayor. On the 15tli of March, 1900, he was elected a member of the Board of Ohosen Freeholders of Bergen Coun- ty by the largest majority ever given any candidate for any office in Pali- sade' Township. Mr. Christie has discharged every duty with satisfaction and credit, not only to himself, but to all his constituents, and is widely respected and esteemed for those qualities which mark the successful man, and for that public spirit, methodical devotion, and genial good nature which have characterized his life. He is a member of Lodge No. 3,6nS, Knights of Honor, of Tenafly, X. J., and a regular attendant at the Chris- tian Reformed Church. Mr. Christie married Maria Van Wagoner, daughter of John Van Wag- oner, Jr., of Kinderkamack, now Etna, N. J. JOHN W. HECK, who has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in Jersey City since 1876, was born in Trenton, N. ,1., July 27, 18.55, and when three years old (1859) came with his parents to Jersey City, where his father took charge of the oil works of I. & C. Moore, located at the foot of Morris Street. His father died in 1865. On the 1st of April, 1867, young Heck entered the office of the late Stephen Billings Ransom, with whom he later began the study of law. He became a clerk and student at law in the office of L. & A. Zabriskie on Sei^tember 28, 1874, and at the November term, of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1876 he was admitted to the bar. After the dissolution of this firm Mr. Heck remained with Lansing Zabriskie, the senior member, until 1884, when Mr. Zabriskie retired from practice. Mr. Heck then assumed charge of the business as ]Mr. Zabriskie's attorney, and upon the latter's death on Marcli 29, 1892. continued as the attorney for estates for which Mr. Zabriskie had been trustee. Mr. Heck's practice has been largely in that field of legal work. In 1884 Mr. Heck was elected a member of the New Jersey Assembly from the Sixth Hudson District, and during his term introduced the famous citizens' charter, which was defeated by liis Republican colleagues from Jersey City. He also introduced and secured the passage of the liremen's tenure of office act, removing the Jersey City Fire Department from politics, and re-introduced the bill providing for a bridge over the " Gap," on Washington Street, which, as in a former attempt to pass this bill, was defeated, owing to the powerful influence brought to bear against it. In 1885 Mr. Heck was renominated for member of Assembly, but was defeat(>d by Hon. R. S. Hudspeth. Two years later, in 1887, a committee of the Hudson County Bar Association, of which Mr. Heck was made a member, was appointed to prepare a bill to provide proper indices in the office of the register of deeds, and in connection with Spencer Weart, a fellow mem- ber of the committee, Mr. Heck secured the passage of the law providing for the well-known " block system." The work under this act was per- formed by the commission appointed by Judge Manning ^M. Knapp, of which Mr. Heck was clerk, and completed in fourteen months. Hudson Countv now has the best set of indices to its land records that exist in the State.' Mr. Heck was a charter member of the old Jersey City Athletic Club, and served in official capacities during the first six years of its existence. GENEALOGICAL 113 and in 1884 was its President. He is a member of Amity Lodge, F. and A. M., of Jersey City, and of several social and fraternal orders, and a Trustee, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Bay View Cemetery Association. He was married October, 1884, to Miss Lillian Benson, of Eaverstraw, N. Y. They have had two children. J. HULL BROWNING, prominent financier and railroad president, was born at Orange, N. J., December 2.5, 1841, and is the son of John Hazzard Browning and Elizabeth Smith (Hull) Browning, both natives of New London County, Conn. His paternal ancestor, Nathaniel Browning, came to this country from England in 1645 and settled at Warwick, R. L On the maternal side he descends from Rev. Joseph Hull, born in Somersetshire, England, in 1595, who settled in Weymouth, I'lymouth Colony, in 1635, and in 16.39 was one of the founders of Barnstable, Cape Cod, Mass. The descendants of Rev. Joseph Hull were conspicuous in the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812, both in the army and navy. (Jolonel John Hull, grandfather of J. Hull Browning, commanded a regiment at the battle of Stonington, Conn. ^Ir. Browning was brought to New York at the age of two years, was educated in the public schools, and was graduated from the New York Free .Vcademy (now the College of the City of New York). He engaged in the wholesale clothing business in New York City with two brothers until 1SS3. Upon the death of Charles C. Sisson, his wife's father, he was left as executor of his estate, and one year later (1S75) succeeded him as President of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, a position which he held till July, 1S!)7, when he sold out his interest in that corporation. He w-as left, also, as executor of his father's estate and succeeded him as Director and later became President of the Richmond <'ounty Cas Light Company. He has been prominently and successfully connected with numerous railroad and commercial enterprises. He improved the facilities of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, and built some of the finest railroad depots in the country to accommodate its business. Although a prominent and influential Republican, Mr. Browning has always refused ofl'ers of nominations for public office, but he has taken a leading part in every movement made to advance the interests of Bergen County and of the Town of Tenafly, where he resides. He was for some time President of the County Republican League and is Vice-President of Christ Hospital in Jersey City, a charity which has profited by his business ability and generous liberality. He was a Presidenlial Elector on the Republican ticket in 1892 and i896, but with the exception of these honors, and local responsibilities in the Borough of Tenafly he has held no offices. In 1871 he married Eva B. Sisson, daughter of Charles G. Sisson, of Jersey City, and they have one son, J. Hull Browning, Jr. HENRY SIMMONS WHITE was born at Red Bank, Monmouth County, N. J., July 13, 1844, and is of the fifth generation of his fanjily in this country, the founder, Thomas A\'hite, coming over from England about two hundred years ago. His father, Isaac Pennington White, a well known lumber merchant, who died January 28, 1876, was the son of Esek White and Ann Besonet, his wife, of French Huguenot extraction; a grandson of Thomas AA'hite, Jr.; and a great-grandson of Thomas White, Sr., the immigrant. On the maternal side Jfr. White is of English and Irish an- cestry, his mother, Adaline Simmons, being a descendant of the old Sim- 114 HUDSON AND BERGSN COUNTIES mons family of Maryland, from which State her parents, Abraham Sim- mons and Temperance Jones, removed to Ontario County, N. Y., where she was born. Mr. White was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York (Medical Department of Columbia University) in 1S64, but, being under age, did not receive the degree of M.D. until March, 1S(]6. He was Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting in 1864. From 1.S65 to 1868 he practiced medicine at Red Bank, N. J. He then read law with Hon. William A. Lewis, of Jersey City, was graduated from Columbia Law School, and in June, 1870, was admitted to the bar of New York. In October, 1872, he was admitted to practice as an attorney at the bar of New Jersey, and in November, 1875, as a counselor. Since 1872 he has successfully practiced his pro- fession in Jersey City. He was Assistant Collector of Customs, Port of New York, from 1878 to 1882, delegate from New Jersey to the Repub- lican National Convention at Chicago in 1888, United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1890 to 1894, and at present is Chairman of the Monmouth County Republican Committee. He is President of the Red Bank Board of Trade, Vice-President of the Navesink National Bank of Red Bank, a Director in the Hudson County National Bank of Jersey City, and was at one time President of the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Com- pany. He is a member of the Union League of Jersey City and the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was Department Commander in 1895 and 1896. Mr. White was married, November 19, 1878, at Freehold, N. J., to Annie H., daughter of Judge Amzi C. McLean and a granddaughter on her mother's side of John Hull, a Revolutionary soldier who was captured and held a prisoner by the British. They have one child, Margaretta P. CHARLES PITMAN BUCKLEY, Mayor of the Borough of Tenafly, Bergen County, and a prominent member of the bar of New York City, was born in West Bloomfield, Essex County, N. J., on the 22d of December, 1S;M. His father, John Buckley, who became a resident of Bergen County in 1845. was a native of Yorkshire, England, while his mother, Elizabeth Van Gieson, M'as descended from Rynier Bastienstianse, a native of Ciesen, a village in North Brabant, who came to this country in 1660 and taught the first school at Flatbush, L. I., also performing the duties of court master, rung the bell, kept the church in order, and performed the duties of precentor, attended to the burial of the dead, etc., for a salar-y of 200 florins, exclusive of perquisites. He removed to Bergen, N. J., where he and his sons Garret, Isaac, George, and Rynier bought land and later pur- chased and settled on lands north and northeast of Hackensack in Bergen County. Isaac died in 1703 and a son, Jacob, died in 1704. Mr. Buckley received his education in the public schools of New York City and Bergen County, N. J., and subsequently took up the study of law, being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court in New York City at the October term in 1858. Entering at once upon the active practice of his profession in New York, he was in partnership with William G. Wheelright until 1862, and afterward with Jesse C. Smith and John S. Woodward under the firm names of Smith & Woodward, Smith, Woodward & Buckley, and Woodward & Buckley. Since January 1, 1 891, he has been associated with William W. Buckley under the firm name of C. P. & w. W. Buckley. In 1873 he was appointed master in chancery by Chancellor Runyon. GENEALOGICAL 115 Mr. Buckley has resided in Tenaflv since 1S65. Upon the formation of Falisade lownship in ISTO, and tiiereafter for about ten veais, he took an active part m political matters, attending all the State' and count v con- ventions, at the same time declining all nominations for office. In March, 1899, however, he became flavor of the borough. He is a member of the Lawyers' Club and of the New York Athletic Club, of Xe^\' York Citv, and of the Long Beach Club, of Barnegat, and the Tenafly Club, of Tenafly, N. J. Mr. Buckley was married in New York City, in IS;")?, to Ella Augusta IMix, who died in 1SS4, leaving four children: William W. Bucklev, a graduate of Columbia College, Xew York City; Thomas J. Bucklev, a graduate of Stevens Institute, Hoboken, X. J. ; and two daughters. WILLIAM JA^NIES TILLEY, pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Harrison, Hudson County, was born in Bristol, R. I., on the 16th of Sep- tember, ISl.j. He is the son of Benjamin Tilley and Susan W. Easterbrooks, a gra^dson of Benjamin Tilley and Eachel Simmons, a great-grandson of AVilliam Tilley and Catherine Sabine, and a great-great-grandson of Will- iam Tilley, Jr.. and Dorcas, his wife. William Tilley, Jr., was born in Exeter, England, about 1685. He came to Boston, 5I:iss., where he mar- ried his wife, Dorcas, in 1736, and subsequently went tu Newport, R. I., and established himself in business. From that early colonial period until the present the family has been conspicuous in civil and public affairs, and respected in the communities in which they resided. The name Tilley is first found on the roll of the companions of William the Contjueror in England, in 1066, and since that date it is found in every county in Eng- land, France, and Holland, and in 1620 in America. The coat-of-arms of the Tilleys of France is the same as of the family of England to-day. The first of the name in America were Edward and John Tilley, who came over in the " Mayflower," and whose names are on the I'lyiiiouth monument. ^Ir. Tilley is a brother of Benjamin F. Tilley, Cimimander in the United States Xavy, who was in command of the United States gunboat, "New- port," of the blockading squadron during the late S]iaiiish- American T\'ar, and who in that capacity captured numerous ])iizes and distinguished him- self for bravery, patriotism, and loyalty to duty. Rev. William James Tilley was educated in the schools of his native town and at North Yarmouth .Vcademy, near Portland, ]\Ie. He also took a spe- cial course of classical study under the direction of Dr. Leonard Bacon, of Yale LTniversity. and under Dr. ;McClinttain Schenck's daughter Mary, was an officer in the War of 1812, and won honorable mention in several important engagements. On the maternal side Mr. Manners's great-great-grandfather, Stephen Johnes, married Grace Fitz Randolph, whose brother Nathaniel gave to Princeton the land upon which Nassau Hall is erected, and his great-grandfather, David Johnes, was a Major in the Revolution and rendered efficient service in establishing American independence. Edwin Manners early displayed unusual intellectual abilities, and in pre- paratory school and college won prizes for composition and select and original speaking which distinguished him as a scholar. From his earliest school days he exhibited a disposition for the world of letters. While a student at Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, he was connected with the Quill a school paper, and while pursuing his studies at Sing Sing-on-the- Hndson was the editor of the Mount Pleasant Reicine,i:\ie organ of the Mount Pleasant cadets. During his senior year at Princeton University, from which he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1877, he was one of the editors of the Nassau Literary Magasine, and on class day delivered to the dis- tinguished class of 1877 a characteristic presentation address. Princeton conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts in 1880. After leaving college Mr. Manners began the study of law with Collins & Corbin, of Jersey Citv, and at the same time took a course at the Co- 118 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES luinbia Law School in New York City, graduating from that institution with the degree of LL.B. in 1ST'.). In November, 1.S80, he was admitted to the bar, ;ind since then lie has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in his native city. Although interested in mu- nicipal matters and politics, he has declined offers of political preferment. A large portion of his time is taken up with the care and management of his own property and business affairs. Mr. Manners has ably assisted those who have procured for Jersey City an improved water supi)ly and other public improvements. Greater Jer- sey City has also claimed Mr. Manners's attention, and received his favor- able comment. Many advantages are to be gained in bringing the various municipalities of Hudson County under one name and government. This unity of development in particular is much to be desired. With the exten- sion of rapid transit facilities the last of apparent excuses for delaying consolidation has disappeared, and it would seem a needless expense to keep up separate charters in contiguous towns. Asa landlord Mr. Manners is liked by his tenants, and their praise is in evidence of his liberality and forbearance. He is a member of the Hudson County Bar Association, the University and Palma (I'lubs of Jersey City, the Princeton Club of New A^ork City, the Sons of the American Revolution, and other societies. Of literary aptitude, he writes occasionally for news- papers and magazines. He is unmarried. PETER E. MOORE, merchant. Borough Collector, and since 1877 Post- master of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, N. J., was born in New York City on the 18th of October, 1842. He is the son of Peter D. and Elizabeth (Voorhis) Moore, his mother being of Holland Dutch descent. Samuel Moore and his wife Naomi emigrated to America from the Island of Barba does, W. I., in 1671-72. Barbadoes was then under the control of England, and both Samuel and his wife were English people. They landed and located at Boston, where their son, Francis iloore, ^^ as born about 1674. Francis Moore came to New A'ork and from thence in 169C to Bergen County (English Neighborhood), where he married Jannetje Laurens, daughter of Thomas Laurens, of Newtown, L. I. They eventually settled at English Neighborhood (near Ridgefield), in Bergen County, where some of their descendants have ever since lived. He had sevrrai children, the youngest of whom was Samuel, who married Sara (Michaels) Smith, an- other of the original settlers in Ridgefield Township. From this couple have sprung most of the Moores in Bergen County. Peter E. Moore was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, whither his parents removed fr) was inaugurated the fanions ease in which Mr. Bentley maintained the right of Mrs. Bell to lands under water, on the western shore of the Hudson Kiver, which had descended to her by will and been re-al1irmed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature. This controversy was carried from court to court, and contested in all the higher courts in the State during the greater part of a (piarter of a century, when Mr. Bentley finally triumphed, to the great surprise of those who had prophesied failure. fye^i^:ZZ^''^^-2:^ This case well illustrates the persistence which was so characteristic a feature and such an important element of his success in all his cases throughout his life. Mr. Bentley also contributed largely toward the commercial upbuilding of -Jersey City. Finding the banking facilities wholly inadequate to the needs of the growing city, and having the full confidence of capitalists, in 1S53 he organized the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank and became its Presi- dent. In this position he manifested remarkable business abilities, and to his x>crsonal efforts the institution is principally indebted for its prosperity. GENEALOGICAL 123 He also became a prominent Trustee of the Provident Institution for Sayings in Jersey City, and continued as its legal adviser until his death. Similarly, he \vas Vice-President of the Savings Bank of Jersey City, a Director and at one time Treasurer of the Gas Company, and Treasurer of the Jersey City and Bergen Plank Koad Company. Beginning with an ex- tensive purchase of land in 1854, he was also a pioneer in the development of real estate interests on the western slope of Bergen Hill. Here he built the elegant mansion which still remains the home of his wife. The activity he manifested outside the strict lines of his profession, as shown in these various enterprises, gives us good evidence not only of his unusual business abilities, but of the great confidence which was reposed in him by shrewd business men on every hand. '■ Peter Bentley," says Jacob Weart, Esq., of Jersey City, " was one of the active men who laid the foundations and who helped to plan our municipal corporations, and draft our laws and charters, upon which the institutions of this great county have been reared." Mr. Bentley also interested himself in the cause of his fellow-citizens to prevent municipal extravagance and unjust and wasteful tax extortion. Finding that the accumulations of un- paid taxes of many years had imposed burdens upon millions of dollars worth of property which were absolutely unjust and unendurable to the property holders, he conceived the idea of a commission composed of leading citizens which should readjust these burdens upon an equitable basis, ad- vantageous to the sutfering citizens and the city treasury alike. Accord ingly, in 1873, he brought his plan before the consideration of the Legis- lature, and had the pleasure of seeing it enacted into law. Under its pro- visions a commission was appointed with Judge Haines, an ex-Covernor and ex-Justice of the Supreme Court, at its head. The work accomplished by this commission has been simply invaluable to Jersey City, and has satis- factorily solved the most formidable ijroblem which ever threatened the welfare of the municipality. The accomplishment of this plan of relief was the last great service which !Mr. Bentley rendered to his fellow-citizens ere he passed away, on the 20th of September, 1875. He was a rare gentleman, peculiarly attached to his wife and children, most gracious and hospitable in his home, sincere and earnest in his re- ligious faith, and so honest and honorable in all the affairs "f life that the faintest breath was never raised to question his perfect integrity. On the 13th of October, 1842, Mr. Bentley was married to Miss Margaret E. Holmes, of Jersey City, the descendant of an ancient English family. Highly cultivated, and of the most kindly disposition, she was the devoted companion of Mr. Bentley, and was a source of strength and inspiration to him until the day of his death. She still survives him, as she does also her son, Peter Bentley, Second, and holds their memory in reverent affection. In addition to this son, a sketch of whose life is also given here, they were blessed with but one other child, a daughter. PETER BENTLEY, Second, the only son of the subject of the previous sketch and the heir of all his hopes, succeeded his father in the respect and affection of the community, just as he succeeded him in his legal practice and other business affairs. Xever was a father more wrapped up in a son, and never did a son respond more perfectly to the high ideal of his father. He was born in Jersey City on the 5th of December, 1S45, and received his education entirely at home and in his father's law office. As a boy he 124 imDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES manifcstrd ;i most aiuiablc diwjjositioii, and was much , and there remained until his death in 1701. His will was proved and recorded at Trenton, N. J., July 11, 17G1. He was a man of some means and wrote the title " Gentleman " after his name. By his will he gave his children each five shillings and the balance of his estate, lands and money, to his wife absolutely. His issue were eight children, four baptized at New York and four at Elizabethtown, N. J.: Annatie, 171.3; Philip, 1716; Zacharias, 1718; Philip, 1720; Catharine, 1730; Jacob, 173.o; Sarah, 1740; and Benjamin. Benjamin Blackledge (2) was born at Elizabethtown, N. J., August 2.^, 1713. While still a young man he went on foot from Elizabethtown to Closter and taught school there, the first one in the northern part of Ber- gen County. Here he married, April 20, 1770, Cathelyntie Tallman. He became the most prominent man in the northern part of Bergen County, was the first Town Clerk of Harrington Townshij) in 177.3. a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of the County Count of Common Pleas, and filled other township and county offices. He was a splendid penman, of which fact hundreds of old deeds and other documents still extant bear witness. He died at Closter, November 27, 181.". and his wife died October .3, 1836. His issue were Benjamin, 1770; ^Maria, 1772; Cornelius. 1774; Sarah, 1776; Jacobus. 1779; Peter, 1782; Henry, 1784; Jacob, 1786; and Elizabeth, 1788. These married as follows: Benjamin, Deborah Westervelt and Lea Powless; Maria. Daniel Van Sciver; Cornelius, Rachel Powless; Sarah, Seba P. Bogert; Peter, Elizabeth D. Naugle; Henry, Catharine Manning; and Elizabeth, Cornelius Van Valen. Their descendants are still numerous throughout Bergen County. THE BLANCHES of Bergen County are descended from Richard Blanch, a native of Bristol, England, where he was born in 1704. He came to America prior to 17-32, and settled near Closter in Bergen County. In 1733 he married Classic Van Giesen, of New York. He owned lands in what was then called the "Closter ^Mountains," on the Palisades of the Hudson. He died September 6, 1767. His issue were Ann, 1734; Isaac, 1736; Thomas; and Cornelia. 174."). Of these Ann married John Blawvelt, of Tappan. Isaac married Geertje Johns Haring. Cornelia married David Smith. All of Richard Blanch's children settled at Tappan and in the upper part of Bergen County. The issue of Isaac Blanch were Isaac, Martina, Richard, Abram, Thomas. John Henry, and Classie. Thomas Blanch (2) was one of the most prominent men in Bergen County in his day. He was a magistrate and held other township and county offices. He raised and was Captain of a company of volunteers from Bergen County during the Revolutionary struggle. He was born near Closter in 1740 and died June 3, 1825. He married, in 1761, Effie Johns Mabie, of Tappan, who was born in 1741, and died August 28, 182.5. Their issue were thirteen children: Elizabeth, 1762; Classie, 1763; Ann, 1765; Rich- ard 1766; Susanna, 1769; John, 1770; Thomas, 1774; Isaac, 1776; Eliza- beth, 1779, and Cornelia, 1779 (twins); Effle, 1783; and Lea, 1786, and Rachel, 1786 (twins). The descendants of these are scattered over Bergen County, particularly the northern part. 128 HUDSON AND BKRGRN COUNTIES MARKHAM E. STAPLES, of Jersey Cify, President of the New Jersey State Board of Prison Inspectors, was born in New Yorlv City on the lOtli of J>eceinber, 1850. He is tlie son of Jolm Bnthune Staples and Elizabeth Douglass Young, daughter of William Yonng, his paternal grandfather being Setli P. Staplt-s. The family is an old and prominent one in Ameri- can history and for generations have been influential citizens. Mr. Staples was edu- cated at Dwight and Hol- brook's School in Clinton, N. Y., and at Pough- keepsie (New York) Mili- t a r y Institute. After- ward he sx)ent one year as draughtsman with J. A. Wood, a prominent architect in Poughkecp- sie, and three years as draughtsman and rod- man in the Croton Aque- dH(.'t I)e]:)artment, New York City. For fourteen months he was Ijrakeman and baggagemaster of the Iowa diA'ision of the Chicago, P)Urlington and Quincy Railroad, and for twenty-seven years he has been associated with the Erie Railroad as con- ductor, yardmaster, sta- tion master, superinten- dent of floating eipiip- ment and lighterage, and general agent of the New York terminal, which re- sjionsible position he now holds. In all these ca- pacities Mr. Staples has displayed untiring energy and devotion to duty, great executive ability, and all those (lualities which win both respect and approval. In public life he has also achieved distinction. He has been an In- s]iector of the New Jersey State Prison for eight years and I^resident of the Board of Inspectors for five years, and has four years more to serve. He was appointed to this office by Governor Abbett and was re-appointed by (rovernors Werts and Voorhees, and has discharged its duties with uni- versal satisfaction and approval. Mr. Staples is a prominent member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church of Jersey City, of the D. McLaughlin and Rober-t Davis Associations, and of the Carteret Club, all of Jersey City, and of the Commercial and Railroad Clubs of New York Citv. He is a, life MARKHAM E. STAPLES. GENEALOGICAL 129 member of Jersey City Lodge, 211, B. P. 0. E., and Vice-President of the National Board of Steam Navigators. Mr. Staples was married, in 1880, to Miss Mary Willis, of Jersey City. They have tvi'o children, Francis George and Mary W. EDWARD EVERSON, of West Hoboken, N. J., who has been associated with the Delaware Coal and Canal Company ever since 1863, was born at Homestead, North Bergen, Hudson County, 'January 14, 1840. His father, Benjamin Everson, was born at Pompton Plains, N. J. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Riker. Mr. Everson is of Holland lineage, being descended from the Evertsens who settled in New York two centuries ago. He received his education in the public schools of North Bergen, and at the tender age of eleven began working on a farm in Bergen County. Thrown upon his own resources at that age, he has ever since depended upon himself. He followed farming until he had reached the age of seventeen, when he entered upon the trade of gold beating, which he followed for a year and a half. He then entered the employ of Edward Ackerman as an apprentice at the blacksmith trade, continuing in that capacity until 1862. In that year he enlisted in Company E, Eighth New York Volunteer Militia, for three months, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment was honorably discharged. He then entered the service of the Federal Government at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he re- mained for a short time, and in 1863 he associated himself with the Dela- ware Coal and Canal Company, with which he has ever since remained. During his long and active service of over thirty-three years in the employ of this corporation Mr. Everson has discharged every duty with singular fidelity and great satisfaction, and from the first has enjoyed the respect and confidence of both employers and associates. He is in the fullest sense a self-made man, having depended entirely upon himself since the early age of eleven years. Mr. Everson is an ardent and consistent Republican, a member of the Reformed Church, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In July, 1863, he married Miss Ellen Gotchuns (deceased), by whom he had three children: Edward, Jr. (deceased), Eliza Ann (deceased), and Maud Alice, who resides with her father. EGBERT SEYMOUR, Mayor of the City of Bayonne and widely known as a merchant in that part ot Hudson County, was born in Ulster County, N. Y.. December 15. 1850, the son of James Seymour and Sarah Ann, daughter of David and Elenor Radiker, and grandson of Charles and Eliza Seymour. His boyhood was not unlike those of other country lads. He attended the district schools, spent six months at the academy in Mont- gomery, Orange County, and another six months at the academy in New- burgh,' in the same county, in New York State, and subsequently served as a clerk for twelve years. These advantages, however, afforded him an opportunity to lay the foundation upon which he has built a successful career. From a clerk he became a merchant, and for eighteen years has been actively and successfully engaged in the butter and cheese trade in New York Citv. Mr. Seymour is one of the foremost citizens of his adopted city, a man universaflv esteemed and respected, and prominent and influential in every movement and especially in political affairs. For two years he rendered 130 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES efficient service as a member of the Board of School Trustees. As Mayor of the City of Bayonne he lias served three terms. He has been instru- mental in advancing the best interests of the community, in building up the city, and in promoting many important public improvements. When liis present term expires on ]\Tay 1, 1901, he will have filled the office for six consecutive years, and it is safe to say that no man ever discharged its duties with more fidelity and honesty of purpose. Mr. Seymour is resyiected and esteemed for his ability and integrity of character, and in every ca- pacity has gained the confidence of all who know him. He is a prominent member of the Newark Bay Boat Club, of the Exempt Firemen of Bayonne, of Council No. 695, Royal Arcanum, and of Council No. 434, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Bayonne. He is also a leading member of the Bayonne City Demociatic Club and of the Robert Davis Association of Jersey City. Mr. Seymour mr.rried, October 22, 1873, Marietta H. Neafie, and their children are James H. and Everett E. Seymour. THE BROWER FAMILY is another very numerous family in Bergen County. They are descended from Adam Brouwer, who emigrated to New Amsterdam from Cologne, France, in 1642. Three years later he married Madalena Jacobs Ferdon, of Long Island. He was a miller, and lived in New Amsterdam until 1647, when he removed to Brooklyn, where he joined the Dutch Church in 1677 and paid taxes from 167.5 to l(;!tS. His issue were fifteen children; Peter, Jacobus, Aeltie, Matthew, \\'i]liam, Mary, Magdalena, Adam, Abraham, Sophia, Ann, Sarah, Nicholas, Daniel, and Rachel. Peter, baptized in 1646, married (1) Pieternella Lldricks, (2) Gertrude Jans, and (3) Anne Jansen. He first resided at Flatlands, L. I., and siib- seciuently removed to Brooklyn, where he died. His issue were Abram, John, Adolph, Magdalena, Ulrick, Adrientie, Vroutie, Cornelia, Jacob, Hanse, and Madeline. Abraham, John, and Adolph removed to Hackensack about 1700, where Abraham married (1) Lea Johns Demarest and (2) Elizabeth Ackerman. Ulrick married Hester de Vow, and John married Ann Hendricl^s ^lande- ville. The descendanis of Abraham, Ulrick, John, and Adolph are to-day very numerous and scattered over the Counties of Bergen and Hudson. THE De CLARKS are still numerous in Bergen County. Daniel de Clerque (de Clark) emigrated to America prior to 1676. The name of his first wife does not appear, but the couple brought two or three children with them and had two baptized in New York (Daniel and Abraham, twins), March 13, 1678. His Avife died soon after, and he married (2), March 4, 1685, Geertje Cozines, a widow, by whom he had no issue. Two of his sons, John and Henry, were evidently married when they left Holland, the family having sailed from Amsterdam. Both John and Henry sub- sequently had children in New York. Another son of Daniel, Jacobus de Clark, was born in Holland. Daniel, in 1686, became one of the Tappan patentees with the Harings, Blawvelts, Smiths, and others, and removed to Tappan, where, in 1702, he was made a Justice of Orange County, and he took the census of Orangetown the same year. He was probably the first Justice ever appointed in the county. At that time there were only a, few families huddled at Tappan, and Daniel seems to have been the biggest man of them all. The marriage of his son Jacobus to Antie Van GENEALOGICAL 131 Houten, September 14, 1706, is one of the e;iiliest iu the county. Jacobus had eight children, all of whom reared large families aud gravitated south- ward into Bergen County. JAMES S. NEWKIEK, Secretary and Treasurer of the Provident Insti- tution for Savings, of Jersey City, was lioi-n in liergen (now Jersey City) September 9, 18-52. His family at one time was one of the most numerous in Hudson County, and the name is still very common. More than a cen- tury ago some members of the family settled in Xew York State, in Ulster and Sullivan Counties, where their numerous descendants have spread rapidly and become prominent in the var- ious walks of life. !Mattheus Cornelissen, who is said to have been a native of Xieuwkerclie (Xew Chun-li) in Hoi land, e m i g r a t e d to America in about the year 1(160. and after landing and staying at Xew Amsterdam a short time went to Flatbush, T/. I., where he bought and lorated on a " P.n the counti'v was a forest, unl)roken and practically un- penetrated by man, and out of the wilderness carved for themselves and their families a home which still remains in the possession of their descend- ants, ('clone] Henrv Young, born in Jamaica, Long Island, in 1737, was EDWIN B. YOUNG. the second son of six children of an English gunsmith, who came there from Nottingham at an early age, and who founded a family which has spread over this country and Oanada. Some of his posterity still live on Long Island. Henry joined the British army when a young man, served with distinction for six years in the French and Indian wars under Generals Amherst and Abercrombie, and with the English participated in the battle of Bennington and in no less than seventeen other engagements against the continentals. For gallant S(n"vices at Bennington he received an en- signcy in the " King's Eoyal." His title of Colonel, by which he was popu- larly known, was conferred upon him by provincial appointment. At the GENEALOGICAL 135 close of the American Revolution he retired on half pay, and received a grant of 3,000 acres of land for himself and other tracts for various mem- bers of his family. His first residence in Canada was at Cataraqui. With a brother officer he set out in a canoe in 1783 and selected a site at East Lake in the Town of Athol. Thither he brought his family in the fall of 1784. He died there in his eighty-fourth year, leaving numerous descend- ants, many of whom became conspicuous in civil and official affairs. His four daughters. Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Sarah, married East Lake settlers and lived to be over eighty years of age. Of his two sons, Henry and Daniel, the former settled on the homestead, and as a soldier in the English army died at Kingston of cholera during the ^^'ar of 1812, Kichard Young, son of Henry, Sr., was a farmer in Athol, and married Xancy Van Vlackren, now spelled Van Vlack. Their son, William Henry Young, served in the Ontario militia during the Fenian raid, and is now a retired farmer living in Picton, Canada. He is a cousin of the Rev. George Young, D.D., President of the Methodist Episcopal Conference of Ontario. He married Sarah Jane Clark, daughter of Enoch Borland Clark and Xancy Smith, of Ontario, who, like the Van Vlackrens, were descended from Holland Dutch stock. The family have long taken a leading part in the agricultural and military affairs of Ontario, and have always borne high reputations for honor and integrity. Edwin B. Young, eldest son of William Henry Young and Sarah Jane Clark, was born in Athol Township, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1860. He attended the public schools and remained on the homestead "until he reached the age of twenty-one, when, having re- ceived a good education, he came to New York City. His capital consisted of three or four dollars in money, a robust constitution, and indomitable pluck and courage. For a few months he was employed in various ca- pacities. Becoming superintendent of the Grove Church < 'emetery at New Durham, Hudson County, N. J., he took up his residence in the Town of Union, and has ever since been identified with its best inteiests. During the past nine years he has also been extensively interested in real estate in the town, and^ in 1896 he opened a general real estate and insurance office at 4:'.3 Bergenline Avenue, which he still conducts, and to which he de- votes his entire attention, having resigned the superintendency of the Grove Church Cemetery in January, 1899. In addition to this he has lately established a mercantile collection agency, the first one of the kind on Union Hill. Mr. Young has achieved marked success in real estate ojierations, and by untiring devotion to business has won the confidence and respect of the entire community. He is a genial, companionable, public spirited man, deeply interested in the general welfare, and always ready to respond to the demands of good citizenship. Progressive in all that the word implies, he has been active and influential in the advancement of the town, a liberal contributor to its growth and moral improvements, and ever alert in increasing its useful institutions. He was Secretary of the old Literary Society of the Town of Union, and later became one of the prime movers in organizing the Free Reading Room and Library Association, of which he was for many vears Treasurer, and of which he was an original Director. It may be safely said that he was a founder and the chief organizer of this association, which succeeded the old Literary Society. Later a special act of the Legislature enabled the Town of Union, and other towns in the State to levy a tax for the support of such institutions, and this association 136 HUBSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES has since been maintained by the public as a free library. In all of these movements Mr. Young was active and influential, and to him is due in a large degree the establishment of this institution. He is an ardent Demo- crat, a Justice of the Peace, and a prominent member of various fraternal and social organizations, including Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of New Jersey, of which he was for four years the Worshipful Master. He is also a member of the Scottish Eite bodies, 32°, of New York City, of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Masonic fraternity, and of the Royal Arcanum. In September, 1899, he was elected Most Worthy Grand Patron of the Order of the Eastern Star of New Jersey, and in the spring of 1900 he was one of the organizers of the Past Masters' Association of Hudson County, of which he was elected the first President. Mr. Young's brother, George Alfred Young, was born May 14, 1869, came to New Jersey when seventeen, and is now head bookkeeper for the Hudson Trust and Savings Institution of West Hoboken. He is a member and Worshipful Master of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M. Mr. Young was married October 10, 1883, to Henrietta Bell, daughter of Henry and Ellen (Westerfield) Bell, of the Town of Union. Her father was born near Liverpool, England, while her mother was descended from an old Holland Dutch family. They have three sons: Edwin Henry, Ralph Percy, and Herbert Eldred. ROBERT CAMPBELL DIXON, Jr., one of the leading architects of Union Hill and Eastern New Jersey, is of English and Scotch parentage, being the son of Robert and Margaret (Campbell) Dixon and a grandson of Robert Dixon, Sr., and Hannah Lawson. His maternal grandparents were John and Isabel (Anderson) Campbell. His father was born in Nicholforest, Cumberland, England, and his mother in Perthshire, Scotland. Some of his ancestors were prominently engaged in the East India service, others filled important positions of trust, one branch had a representative in the English Parliament in the person of Sir Wilfred Lawson, and others occu- pied posts in the Church of England. The Dixon and Lawson families have been for generations conspicuous in civil, military, governmental, and pro- fessional aifairs, contributing to their respective communities a wholesome influence, and achieving for themselves distinction as men of learning and ability. Mr. Dixon was born in New York City on the 15th of May, 1857. He at- tended the public schools of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., until he reached the age of about fourteen, and afterward pursued his studies in private schools, de- veloping a naturally strong and brilliant intellect, and laying the founda- tion for an honorable career. He completed his literary education at Riverview Military Academy and finished with a business course, graduat- ing from Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie. A large part of his early education was intended to fit him for a military career, but he turned his attention to architecture, and in the early part of 1876 entered the office of D. & J. Jardine, architects, of New York City, as a student. He continued with them a little over four years, after which he was for a brief period in the office of J. C. Cady & Co. In 1883, having received important work in competition, Mr. Dixon engaged in business for himself as a practical archi- tect, and has ever since been devoted to his profession, achieving marked success and a notable reputation. He has had an office in New York Citv for about fourteen years, and many important public and private buildings have been erected from his designs. The town hall, the Palma and Columbia GENEALOGICAL 137 Club houses, public schools, many church edifices, and numerous other prin- cipal buildings in Union Hill, N. J., have been built by him. All of these show great artistic taste and practical skill, and represent some of the finest and choicest work in the countrj-. In political matters Mr. Dixon has been an active and infiuential leader since about 1884, serving frequently as delegate to local and State Demo- cratic conventions, and being at the present time a member of the Board of Education of Union Hill, of which he was formerly President. He is a mem- ber and at times has served on important committees of the Columbia Club of Hoboken, and has also been a member of the Palma Club of Jersey City for several years. He was one of the organizers of the New Jersey Society of Architects and has held some of its most important offices. He is also an associate member of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Central Democratic Organization, a warden of Grace Episcopal Church of Union Hill, where he resides, and a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 151, Knights of Pythias. He is a public spirited, enterprising citizen, a man of broad and liberal culture, and is and has been prominently identi- fied with many of the leading charitable organizations. Mr. Dixon was married September 22, 1886, to Sadie Gardner Morgan, only daughter of James G. Morgan, of Union Hill, N. J. DAVID DEMAREST ZABRISKIE, Law Judge of the County of Ber- gen, is a direct descendant in the eighth generation from the Polish emi- grant, Albert Zabriskie (see sketch on page 49). Jacob A. Zabriskie (2), eldest son of the Polish emigrant, born about April 22, 1677, at Pembrepoch, Bergen County, married (1), September 20, 1706, Ann (daughter of Albert Alberts Terhune and Hendricke Voorhis), born in 1678 on Long Island. He resided at Upper Paramus on part of his father's large estate, where he died in 1758, having had issue ten children of the third generation: Hendricke, Sophia, Maritie, Albert A., Peter, Jannetje, Rachel, Matilda, Stephen, and Jacob. Albert A. (third generation) was baptized February 1, 1708, and mar- ried. May 8, 1739, Maritie Hopper. He resided at Paramus, and had at least two children, Ann, born 1749, and Andrew. Andrew Zabriskie (4), born in 1746, died about 1805, also resided at Paramus, where he married Jannetje Lozier, and had issue of the fifth generation at least three children, John A., Christina, and Andrew. John A. Zabriskie (5) was born at Paramus, November 11, 1768, and died there. One of his children of the sixth generation was Casper J. Zabriskie (6), born at Paramus, April 27, 1799; died there June 4, 1849. He married Catharine Post, who died in February, 1872. They lived at Pain- mus and had issue of the seventh generation: Andrew C, Robert, Catharine J., :Marv M., Alletta L., Sophia, and John C. John C. Zabriskie (7), born September 20. 1822, married (1) Maria Hop- per, (2) Jane Demarest, and (3) Maria C. Bogert. He resided at Paramus, and was a farmer by occupation. His children of the eighth generation were Andrew J., Maria J., Catharine, Emma, David I)., Ida, Simon, John, and Alletta. David D. Zabriskie (8) was born at Paramus, N. J., November 27, 1856, and received his preparatory education at Erasmus Hall Academy in Flat- bush, Long Island. He was graduated with honor from Rutgers College in the class of 1879, and then entered Columbia College Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 18S1. He was admitted 138 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES to the New Jersey bar as an attorney at the November term of the Su- preme Court, 1882, and at once began active practice. In June, 1889, he was admitted as a counselor. Judge Zabriskie has for many years main- tained law offices in both Hackensack and Jersey City. Soon after enter- ing upon his professional career he came into prominence as a lawyer of unusual ability, and steadily won recognition for those eminent legal and judicial qualifications which he has since displayed both at the bar and on the bench. He was uniformly successful, and as an all-round advocate and counselor achieved a high reputation. His law practice, however, though constantly growing in volume and importance, did not prevent hiin from taking an active interest in public and political affairs. As a Republican from boyhood he has contributed much to tlic success of the part.^ as well as to the government of his town and coTinty. In ISOI and 1805 he represented his district in the State Legislature, serving on some of the most important committees, and taking a i>rominent part in shaping legislation. In 1896 and 1897 he was County ('ounsel for the County of Bergen, and from 1894 to 1898 he was Chair- man of the Republican County Committee of Bergen County. In January, 1S9S, Governor Griggs appointed him Law Judge of Bergen County for a term of five years, and since April 1 of that year he has served on the bench with conspicuous ability and universal satisfaction. Judge Zabriskie was married in October, 1883, to Lizzie S. Suydam, of New Brunswick, N. J. They have one daughter, Ethelind S., of the ninth generation, and reside in Ridgewood. ABRAM De BAUN. — The common ancestor of all the DeBauns in l!or- gen and Hudson Counties was Joost de Baen, a native of Brussels in Flanders (Belgium), who came over to New Amsterdam in 1688. The next year he married Elizabeth Drabb and located at Bushwick, L. I., where he was soon afterward made town clerk. In 1686 he removed to New Utrecht, where he was elected town clerk and taught the village school. This was during the controversy over the conduct of Governor Leisler. De Baen entered that contest and took an active part against the Governor, which caused him to lose his clerkship. He, however, continued to teach school and to reside at New Utrecht, where he took the oath of allegiance to the Englisli king in 1687. Early in 1704 he sold his lands, of which he ac(iuired a considerable area, and removed to Bergen County, N. J., where he joined the Kinderkamack settlement. He died in 1718^ or 1719. His children of the second generation were Matie (married, in 1705. David Samuels I»emaiest), Christian (married Judith Samuels Demarest), Mayke, Carrel, Christina, Jacobus, and Maria. Of these seven children Carrel (Charles) (2) married, in 1714, Jannetie Peters Harirg, of Tappan. He first bought a large farm, in 1719, on the north side of Hardenbergh Avenue (now in Harrington Township), ex- tending from the Schraalenburgh road to the Tiena Kill (including part of what is now Demarest), on which for a time he resided. Shortly after 1721 he sold this farm and bought several large tracts between the Hackensack and the Pascm'k Rivers, on one of which he settled and died. His issue of the third generation were Joost, Margaret, Elizabeth, John, Jacob, Carrel, and Christiaen. Carrel (3), born in 1728, married (1) Bridget Ackerman (born December 10, 1731, died January 27, 1793) and (2) Lea Van Orden. He was a farmer by occupation, and settled in the upper part of Bergen Countv. His issue GENEALOGICAL, 139 of the fourth generation were Carrel, Margaret, Abram, Jannetie, Andrew, Sarah, David, John, and Isaac. Isaac de Baun (4) was born December 9, 1779, and died June 18, 1870. He was a farmer and resided nearly all his life at Mousey, N. Y. He mar- ried June 13, 1807, Elizabeth Yeury, who died August 24, 1875. Their children of the fifth generation were Abram, Elizabeth, Jacob, Maria, Brid- get, Rachel, Jane, and John Y. John Y. de Baun (5) was born at Mousey, N. Y., August 22, 1827. He was a remarkably precocious child. Although he had but an ordinary com- mon school education he, by dint of an untiring perseverance and constant application to study, qualified himself for the ministry (which under the circumstances was a rare achievement), and on April 17, 1855, was licensed to preach by the Classis of Hackensack of the True Reformed Dutch Church. His first charge included the churches at Hempstead in Rockland (bounty, N. Y., and at Ramseys in Bergen County, N. -I., where he preached alter- nately until 1860, when he took charge of the two churches at Hackensack and English Neighborhood, X. J. Of these two churches he was the pastor for twenty-six years. During this time he resided at Hackensack, where he established and was the editor of the Banner of Trutli, a monthly magazine, which is still the organ of the True Reformed Dutcli Church. He died at Leonia, N. J., in February, 1895. He was twice married: (1) April 8, 1849, to Margaret Iserman, who died about 1893, and (2) to Jane Van Houton, who survives him. He was a thoroughly self-made man, an eloquent i^reacher, and in every way worthy of his high and noble calling. His issue of the sixth generation were Susan E., Martha A., James D., Abram, Edwin, Anna, John Z., James E., and Isaac C, of whom Abram ((>) is the subject of this sketch. Abram de Baun (6) was born April 2, 185(1, at Mousey, N. Y., where he spent his childhood days. ^Vhen old enough he <-iitered Hackensack Acad- emy, where he had the benefit of a full course of study, and then entered the law office of A. D. Campbell, at Hackensack, as a law student. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1877, and as a counselor in June, 18S0. Aftei- his call to the bar he became a business partner of his old tutor, with whom he remained until March, 1894, when he formed a law partnership with IMilton Dcniarest, with whom he is still associated in a lucratice practice. Mr. De Baun was clerk of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Free- holders from 1878 to 1895 and for thre(^ years a member of the Hackensack Improvement Commission, during two years of which he was tieasnrer. For twelve years he has been counsel for the Hackensack Mutual Building and Loan Association. He is a Director of the Hackensack Old I^adies' Home. He married (1) in 1878 Mary B. Christie, of Leonia. She died in Septem- ber, 1881, and he married (2), October 2, 1884, Lydia B. Christie. He has no children. JAMES A. ROMEYN. — The Romeyns, Romaines, and Remains, of Bergen County, claim to be of Italian lineage, which they trace to one Giacomo de Ferentino, an Italian gentleman who settled at Rongham Manor, Norfolk- shire, England, in the early part of the thirteenth century, and married an English lady, Isabella de Rucham, by whom he had issue two sons, one of whom was Peter. This Peter was sent to Rome to be educated, and on his return took the surname of Romaeyn (Peter the Roman). He married a 140 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES daiii;iit(>i' iif Thomas de Lcicestci-. Many of Peter's descendants became not(Hl men in Enj^land. One of tliem, Jan Romeyn, went from England to the \o\\' countries (Holland) and settled in Amsterdam. He had several chil- dren, anionj;' whom were Ohies Jansen, Simeon Jansen, and Ohristofer Jan- sen. Claes and Ohristofer sailed fromI\ottei-dam. H(dland,to Brazil, asmem- V . . . !■ ijj expedition to that connti'v commanded by Prince Maurice of Nas- I)ers oi ai JAMES VAN CAMPEN ROMEYN. sau. Soon after arriving in Brazil that country was ceded to Portugal, and thereupon the two Romeyns sailed for America. There is a disagreement as to the date when they arrived, but it Avas probably about 1G61. They settled first at New Amersfoort, L. I. Ohristofer married, in 167S, Grietie Pieters Wyckoif, and settled in Monmouth County, N. J. Claes married (it is said). May 2, IGSO, Styntie Alberts Terhune, ami in IGflO went to Hackensack, where he bought four Indian fields between the Saddle River GENBALO<_iICAL 141 and the Hackensack Kivei\ called in his deed Wierinuis, Paskack, Genia8ki(i, and Mari-oaBunek. Tiiese four tracts were Jiorlli of I'aramns. on the east side of the Saddle Pviver. He did not locate on th-se lands, but returned to Xew York and located in the Greenwich district of the city, where he died. His children, to whom he devised all his lands on his death, divided them into farms and mutually released or sold to actual settlers. Claes JAMES ROMEYN. Jansen's children of the serond generation were tlerrelirecht, Elizabeili, Lydia. Albert 0., John C, Rachel, Sarah, and Daniel. Jan Claas Romeyn (2) married, in il;\y, IfiOO, Jannetie I!of;crt. at Hack- ensack, and resided on part of his father's lands. He was a nionber and church master of the "Church on the <;r(H'n" in 1715. Ilis issue of the third generation were Nicholas, John, Christina, Koelof, Rachel, Isaac, Angenetie, Christina, and Ursula. Nicholas Rosneyn (3), baptized at Hackensack in Feliruary, 1G99, mar- 142 iniDSON AND BEKOEN COUNTIES ried, in 1726, ElizabcMh Ontwator, who died in 1732. He died in 1763. He married (2) TJaclu'l ^^reeland, who died in 1701. Tlie issne of Nicholas Ronicyn (3) and liis two wives of the fonrth generation were Rev. Thomas Romevn and -Tolm Romeyn. Rev. Tliomas Rcnneyn (4), born at Pompton, N. J., March 2, 1729, died October 22, 1701. He was giadnated from the College of New Jersey in 17.50, stndied theology, and after ])reacliing a few times on Long Island THEODORE B. ROMEYN. went to Holland, in 1752, fm- ordination, and was settled at Jamaica, L. I., nntil 17!)(i. He mariied (1) June 29. 17.56, Margaretta Frelinghnyseu, who died at Jamaica, December 13, 1757. He married (2) Snsanna Van Camp- pen. He died at Fonda, N. Y., October 22, 1791, and was bnried there under the pulpit of his church. His issue of the fifth generation were seven: Rev. Theodore F., Rev. Thomas, Nicholas, Abraham, Rev. Rroadhead, Benjamin, and Rev. James Van Campen. GENEALOGICAL 143 ^.^^'^'- 'J'^™^'^ ^ ''^» Campen Romeyn (5) was boni at Minsiiik, Sussex CoimtT A. J., Aovembci' 15, 17()5, aud died at Haekeiisack, June 27 1S4(I He ■it- tended Sehenectady Academy in 17S4, studied tlieoloj-v under Rev Tlieo- dore Romeyn, his uncle, was a Trustee of Ruti;ers Oolle'o-e, and i)reaclied at several places, the last in the Reformed Ohurcli of Ilackeusack and Schi'aal- enburgh from 1799 to 1833. He married (1) Susanna Maud Van Vranken JAMES A. ROMEYN. of Schenectady, and (2) Elizabetli Pell, who survived him. Ilis issue of the sixth generation were Susan, Harriet, Anna, Maria, liev. James, D.I)., Anna, Eliza, Caroline, Theodore, and Sarah. Rev. James Romeyn (C) was born at Rlooming drove, N. J., >September 30, 1797, and was graduated fi-om (7'olumbia College in ISKi and from tiie Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N". J., in 1819. He declined the Doctor of Divinity degree bestowed on him bv <'olumbia College. He 144 HUDSON AND BEBGBN COUNTIES preached at several places, was pastor of the old " Church on the Green " at Hackensack from 1833 to 1836, and was a Trustee of Eutgers College In 1842. He married Joanna Bayard Rodgers, daughter of John E. B. Eodgers, M.D., of Columbia College, New York. His children of the seventh gen- eration were James E. and Theodore B. Eev. Theodore Bayard Eomeyn (7) was born at Nassau, N. Y., October 22, 1827. He attended school at Hackensack and other places, was graduated from Rutgers College in 1846 and from the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick in 1849, and received the degree of D.D. from Eutgers College. He preached at Blawenburgh, N. J., and at Hackensack, and was the author of the History of the Reformed Church of the latter village. He married Amelia A. Letson, who died October 22, 1897. He died at Hackensack, August 29, 1885. His issue of the eighth generation were Mary L. (deceased) and James A., the latter being the subject of this sketch. James A. Eomeyn (8) was born in Blawenburgh, N. J., May 15, 1853, and received his education at Eutgers College. He studied law with Bedle, Muirhead & McGee, of Jersey City, and successfully practiced his pro- fession until 1890. Since then he has been the editor of the Evening Record of Hackensack, where he resides. Mr. Eomeyn is a man of acknowledged ability and untiring energy, and has always taken an active part in public affairs. He was for eight years a member of the Hackensack Board of Health, and for seven years (1888-95) served as Treasurer of the Hackensack Hospital. At the bar and in the editorial chair he has won distinction and honor, and as a citizen he is highly respected. In 1884 Mr. Eomeyn married Flora May Cochran, of Lancester, Pa., who died in 1891. By her there were two children: Theodore B. and Katharine. He was married, second, in 1894, to Susie Burgess Conover, of Newark, N. J. JOHN LANE has achieved distinction in the twofold capacity of marine surveyor and public officer. He is a native of Shrewsbury, N. J., where he obtained his early education in the public schools. Subsequently he pursued a course of study at Cooper Institute, New York. Beared on his father's farm in Shrewsbury, he developed a strong con- stitution, and at the same time acquired those habits of thrift and industry which mark the successful man. His studies were designed to enable him to enter professional life, for which he was mentally and physically quali- ffed, and in which he has won an honorable reputation. Entering, as a youith, the shipyard of McCarthy & Brother, of Hoboken, he filled success- ively the positions of clerk, timekeeper, bookkeeper, and general manager, and gained the respect and confidence of all with whom he came into contact, and especially of his employers. His experience was at once broad and practical, and included a thorough knowledge of every branch of ship building, even to designing, carpentering and joining, calking, and marine draughting. After a period of sixteen years in these different capacities he withdrew to engage in business for himself as a marine sur- veyor, a profession for which his duties had eminently fitted him, and one in whiich he has achieved remarkable success. In 1888 he removed from Jersey City to West Hoboken, N. J., where he has built, on Malone Street, a neat and attractive home after his own plans and designs. Mr. Lane has for many years been an active and influential leader of the Democratic party, especially in the town where he resides, and in various capacities has served both party and town with ability, honor, and satisfac- GENEALOGICAL 145 tion. In 18!)1 he was appointed a member of the West Iloboken Board of Health. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Board of School Trustees. Since 1S95 he has served as one of the Councilmen of West Hoboken, and in 189S and 1899 was chairman of the board. He discharged the duties con- nected with these positions with signal efficiency and fidelity. Public spirited, energetic, and progressive, he has always encouraged and sup- poT-ted every movement calculated to advance the general welfare of the community. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Foresters of America. CORNELIUS LYDECKER.— Ryck Lyde.lu^r, the common ancestor of the Lydecker family in Bergen County, was from Amsterdam, Holland, but that city was probably not his birthplace. At all events he was a Hollander. The time of his arrival in America does not definitely appear. He flirst settled permanently at Bushwick, L. I., on a grant of land ob- tained by him in 1660 or 1661. There he resided several years — perhaps until his death, which is said to have occurred prior to 1696. He was magistrate of Bushwick from 16S2 lo KiS."). On June 2-1, 1663, he was appointed captain of a company of militia and received orders from Govern- or Stuyvesant to fortify the town, which he did. The records show that his company contained forty men, including its officers, and that this com- pany was divided into four watches, of whom one-fourth, or ten men, were on duty evevy night to guard against an expected attack by the savages, who were at the time very troublesome to the settlers. His wife's name was Clara A^ooreniere, and his issue of the second generation were Garret, John, Ryck, Cornelius, and Abraham. Ryck (2) married Maritie Benson and settled at Hackensack, where he bought a large tract of land of Captain John Berry. Garret (2) married Neeltie Cornelis Vandehuyl, of Holland. He purchased a tract of land between Leonia and Englewood, in Bergen County, extending eastward from Overpeck Creek to the Hudson River. This he devised to his four sons after named, who partitioned it between them. It contained more than one thousand acres. His issue of the third generation were Ryck, Eliza- beth, Clara, Cornelius, Garret, and Abraham. Garret (3) married ^Vintie (Leviua) Terhune, and resided near Englewood on his father's homestead. His issue of the fourth generation were Neeltie, 1721; Garret, 172S; Geertie, IT'Jl; Cornelia, 17;>4 ; Ann, 17:!6; Elizabeth, 17.38; and Albert, 1740. Garret (4) married Lydia Demarest. He became a man of note, and commanded a company of ('ontinental troops during the War for Inde- pendence. Both he and his wife were prominent members of the Old South Church at Schraalenburgh. His issue of the fifth generation were Garret, 1753; James, 17.55; Levina, 1757; Margaret, 1759; Garret, 1761; James and Cornelius (twins), 1764 ; Lydia, 1766; -James, 1769; Elizabeth, 1771; and Maria, 1774. James (5), last above named, born in 1769, married, September 25, 1790, Maria l")ay, and had issue Lydia and ( iarret J. of the sixth generation. Garret J. (6) was born in 1797 and died in 1880. He occupied a prominent position in the locality then known as English Neighborhood, having large farming interests, and being one whose advice was sought in all leading questions of the day. He mariied Sarah Ryer and had issue of the seventh generation James, John R., and Cornelius, the last of whom is the subject of this sketch. 146 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES Cornelius Lydeckei- (7) was born at Englewood, N. J., on the place where he now lives, April ril 27, 1S9S, CH VRLES \ HAMILTON, of Closter, Bergen County, N. J., was born at Canaan Four (%)rners, Columbia C..unty, N. Y., March 24 1859 He is the son of Silas B. and Emily J. (Haight) Hamilton, a grandson of James Hamilton and William Haight, and a descendant of a long line of Scotch ""^Mr ^Hamilton received his education in his native State. He left school at the age of seventeen and entered a railroad office, where he remained Sree and a half years. He then accepted a posit on with the Mutual L, e Insurance Company, of New York City, and has smce continued with that wen known cor^poration. In this latter capacity he has developed ability Tn a line which requires accurate knowledge of mathematics and all business foTms, and he has discharged his duties with satisfaction and earied for himself the confidence of the officials of the company As a resident of Closter, Bergen County, Mr. Hamilton has taken part in the affairs of fte communit?, has served as^ a member of the School Board, and is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. 118 HUDSON AND P.KUOEN COTTNTIES Mr. Ilnniiltdii luari-icd Oarric L. I'ccstoii. Tlicy l:av( II., bcirn ill iss:!, and Kcniielii J*., Ihhii in ]SS!"i. i wo Hcms: (Jliarles WILLIAM OT'TIS ALLISON, of Englew(.o(l, N. J., is descended in the eighth oviKM-ation from Lawrence Ellison (or Allison), a Puritan, who moved from Watertown, Mass., to Wetlierwtield, Conn., fhence to Stam- ford, in the same State, and finally to Hempstead, Loiij,' Island, ^with other emigrants who accompanied Rev. Richard Denton in 1044. These emi- i;rants are supposed to have been a part of the colony which came over from England with Rob- ert ^Mnthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall in WM). John Ellison, son of Lawrence, became one of the founders of Hemp- stead in 1044. His son .John, a native of Hemp- stead, v\as the imme- diate f((under of the fam- ily of Allisons which, for several generations, have lived and slept within the limits of HaAcrstraw, Rockland County, New Yoi-k. He v^as one of the company that pm'chased the north pai't of the Kakiat pat- ent of land in Orange rount\', which is now Rockland County, in 1710, and founded the Town of New Hemp- stead, now Raniajio. He died in 1754, aftor a life of great usefulness and ai-ti-^ity. Of his nine childi-en, Jose])h, the third, vsas born in An- or 1722, re- Haverstraw, January 2, was called 1721 WILLIAM O. ALLISON. gust, sided in and died 179f). He Captain Joseph Allison, ;ind became one of the largest landowners and farmers in his section. ]\Iarch II), 174:!, he married Elizal)eth, daughter of Matthew ISenson, who died December 12, 1707, leaving ten children. His second wife, whom he married May 4, 170!), and who died April 10, ISIT), was Elsie Parsells, and she bm-e him eight children. i\Iatthew Allison, the eldest of all these eighteen children, was born in Ilaverstraw, and died before 1795, leaving several children, among them Ilendrick Allison, who married Sarah Marks, daughler of George Marks, of the same town. They moved to Manhattan Island, thence to New GENEALOGICAL 149 Dock, N. J., and finally to Hackensack Township, Bergen County, to a point beneatli tlie Palisades, near what is now Englewood Township. They were the grandparents of the subject of this article, ^^'illianl Henry Allison, son of Hendrick and father of William O., was born in Hackensack Township on the 10th of September, 1820. In 1840 he married Catherine, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Blauvelt) Jordan and granddaughter of Joseph Jor- dan, a French soldier, who came over with Lafayette and fought for Ameri- can independence, and who, after the Revolution, married Elsie Parsells, and settled at Closter, on the top of the Palisades, where he died. The maternal ancestors of William O. Allison were among the original Dutch settlers at Old Tappan, one of the earliest settlements in New Jersey, and have resided in Bergen County for more than two hundred years. William O. Allison was born in old Hackensack (now Palisade) Town- ship, Bergen Countj^, N. J., ihuch :W, 1S1!». From his early boyhood he lived much of the time in the fnmily of William B. Dana, a prominent resident of the Palisades, a man of forceful and exemplary character, and a journalist of culture. The accident of this environment had an im- I)ortant part in his career, and he has never failed to fully acknowledge, by word and deed, the benign influence which Mr. r>ana's wife, Mrs. Kath- arine Floyd Dana, exerted upon him. She took a deep interest in the boy, and his intellectual development was guided by her in a manner born of superior intelligence and refinement and by the great strength of character which she possessed. Finding in him the inherent traits for development, she saw them expand into manhood, and broaden and increase in power. Xever was a friendship more liberally rewarded. His gratitude was ex- pressed by the devotion which he accorded to her and by his adoption of the name " Outis " in compliment to a fancy of hers that his initials should correspond to those of her iioiii de phtinc, " Olive A. Wadsworth.'' In 1S(>8 Mr. Allison, having received an excellent training at the hands of this childless woman, entered the oflQce of the Fiiidiicidl OJiroiiiclc and the Dailij Bulletin, which were owned by Mr. Dana and John (J. Floyd, Mrs. Dana's brother. Here he acquired a thorough and general knowledge of the publishing business, and with this and keen business instincts he soon developed into the best commercial r<>porter ever connected with the New York press. He invented and instituted a system of thoroughness in reports which had previously been unknown, and which few reporters have been able to coi)y successfully, ^^'llen he entered Mr. Dana's employ he received |7 per week; inside of three years he had a weekly salary of -Ipll) as a reporter. But this rapid progress did not satisfy his ambi- tion. The confidence which he felt in his system of making a specialty of a few markets and doing them thoroughly led him, on October 21, 1871, to issue the first number of the Oil, Paint anil Druf/ Reporter, a small four- page paper of extremely modest appearance when compared with other publications already prominent in the industries to which it was de- voted. The Reporter, however, contained more of real value to the sub- scribers than any other sheet, and its growth in circulation was remarka- ble, while its advertising patronage, in connection with added departments of valuable reading matter, forced numerous successive enlargments. But it was not until after a hard struggle of several years that Mr. Allison saw the fulfillment of the hope which he had entertained at the beginning of his career. His perseverance, united with great business tact and skill, alone brought him into prominence in a field in which he now has no superiors and few if any equals. As a result of the policy of 150 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Obtaining and furnisliing accurate, comprehensive, and valuable infor- mation concerning all tlie markets which the paper covers and reports, the successful growth of the business is believed to have no parallel in commercial journalism. The Reporter soon became one of the most profit- able class publications in the country, and exerts an influence in the trades to which it is allied such as no other commercial publication has wielded. In 1874 he established The Painters Magazine, with which was subsequently consolidated the Wall Paper Trade Journal, and about the same time he purchased The Drugr/ists Gircuttir, which was started in 1857. These three publications — the Oii, Paint and Drug Reporter, The Druggists Circular, and The Painters iMagazinc — not only continue to hold their prestige and influence among the trades which they represent, but enjoy a constantly increasing measure of success and a world-wide popularity and reputation. These relations have brought Mr. Allison into close personal contact with a large clientage, have made his judgment and opinions much sought after, and have led him into enterprises outside of the publishing business. Inheriting a tendency to operate in real estate, he has acquired from time to time considerable tracts of land on or near the Palisades until he has become one of the largest landowners in that section. And the eminent success which he has achieved as publisher, financier, and real estate operator has won for him the respect, confidence, and admiration of all who know him. His industry and good judgment, his commercial and flnancial enterprises, and his many successful achievements, together with his unostentatious benefactions, mark him as a man of distinction and honor. He has gained by his own efforts an enviable place among the foremost publishers and financiers of the day, and may well regard with pride the career which he has carved out of surroundings shorn of none of the difficulties and temptations which every one encounters. Mr. Allison was married October 22, 1884, to Caroline Longstreet Hovey, daughter of Alfred Howard Hovey and Frances Noxon, of Syracuse, N. Y. Her parents dying when she was very young, she was adopted by the late Hon. George F. Comstock and his wife, and took the name of Oom- stock. Mrs. Comstock was a sister of Mrs. Allison's mother, and Mr. Comstock was at one time .Vttorney-General of the United States and Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals. Mrs. Allison was born in Syracuse on June 12, 1862, received her education at Keble School in that city and at a French school in Neuilly, neai- Paris, France, and resided in Syracuse until her marriage. She died at Paris on March 31, 1890. Their children were Katharine Floyd Allison, born July 13, 1885; Frances Cor- nelia Allison, born November 23, 1887; A His Allison, born September 30, 1SS8, died April 14, 1880; William Dana Allison, born September 8, 1890, died September S, 1894; John Blanvelt Allison, born January 13, 1893; and Van Kleeck Allison, born May 23, 1894. i\ll were born in Englewood, N. J. Mr. Allison married, second, Mrs. Caroline A. Comstock, daughter of David Shaw, of Detroit, Mich. JOHN ENGEL, formerly Postmaster of Hackensack, and one of the most popular hotel proprietors in Bergen County, was born in Prussia, Germany, on the ICth of April, 1845. His parents, Charles Engel and Agustia Kuehn, were both born and married in Prussia. Major Engel received his education at the military school at Schloss, Annaburg, Province of Saxony, and in 1800 came to this country, arriving in GENEALOGICAL 151 New York CitT on the IGth of October. His lirst business here was as a barber in ^ew York. In is(is he removed to Haekensack, X. J., where he has since resided, and where he ^xas for some time en-ao-ed in the barber business. He became Postmaster of Haekensack in ]sss, and served one term. Afterward he engaged in the hotel business in Haekensack, in which he has since continued, becoming one of the most popular and best known hotel keepers in Bergen Oountr. As a soldier in the Civil AA'ar Major Engel made an enviable record. He enlisted, in 18(12, in the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Xew York ^'olunteers and served until the close of the war in ISG.I," receiving an honorable dis- charge after a long and active service at the front. In 18tls he enlisted for active service in the \\iir with Spain, becoming Major of the Second Battalion, Second Eegiment, Xew Jersey ^"olunteers, and going into camp with his regiment at Jacksonville, Fla. He was mustered out in Xovember, IS'.ts. He is Fast Commander of James B. :Mcrherson Post, Xo. 52, G. A. E., and also Captain of Major John Engel Command, Xo. 3(3, Spanish War Veterans. He served twenty seven years (1872-1899) in the Xational Guard of Xew Jersey, rising from a private to the command of the same battalion in which he enlisted in 1872. ;Major Engel is a man of great energy, ability, and enterprise, and during his entire career has maintained the respect and confidence of all who know him. He is one of the most public spirited citizens, deeply in- terested in the affairs of the community, and thoroughly identified with every movement which has for its object the general welfare. He is a mem- ber of Lodge Xi). 177, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Haekensack, of the Improved Order of Red Men, of the Haekensack Wheelmen's Club, and of the Hasbrou 1 ( o O K < I O o I- u. o o z UJ Q CO UJ GENEALOGICAL 157 Trade Press Association, and in 1898 was elected President of the latter body. He is also a member of the Masonic order. In 1870 Mr. Richardson married Annie M. Rochford, by whom he had three daughters: Annie Louise Richardson, Mildred Richardson, and Mrs. H. Dunbar Johnston. He married, second, in 1896, Anna J. Porter, and they have one daughter: Irene Fletcher Richardson. THE COLE FAMILY.— One of the earliest families to arrive in America was Barent Jacobsen Kool (now written Cole), of Amsterdam, Holland, an ofBcer in the Dutch West India service, who came over to New Amster- dam during the administration of Director-General Peter Minuit, under whom he served for some time with credit to himself and to his country. His son, Jacob Barentsen Cole, married Maritie Simmons and. located at Kingston, N. Y., about 16.59. This Jacob had eight children, the youngest of whom was Jacob, baptized at Kingston, N. Y., January 1, 1673, married Barbara Hanse, and in 1G95 removed to and settled at Tappan, N. Y., where he died, leaving six children, all of whom married and settled either in Rockland County, N. Y., or in Bergen County, N. J. One of these, Abraham, born in 1707, married Ann Meyer. They were the great-grand- parents of Rev. Isaac Cole, who was for many yeais pastor of the Dutch Church at Tappan, and whose son. Rev. David Cole, of Yonkers, N. Y., has published a History of Rockland County, N. Y., and of the Tappan Church. Barent, said to be a brother of Abraham, above mentioned, bought a large farm of the Van Valens a little south of Closter, where his descend- ants are numerous. Other branches of the family started at Hackensark. It may be safely said that many hundreds of the family are scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties. THE COXKLIN FAMILY are scattered over Bergen and Hudson Coun- ties, most, if not all, of them being dt^scended from John Conklyne, of Xottinghamshire, England, and his wife, Elizabeth Allseabrook (married in 162.5), who came to America in K^'.S and settled at Salem, Mass., where lie and his brother, Ananias, established the first glass works in America. Thev moved to Southold, L. I., about I'i.'O. From thence John removed to Huntington, L. I., wliere he died in 168:',, aged about eighty-three years. His brother, Ananias, settled at Easthampton. L. I. His descendants spell the name Conkling, of whom the late Senator Roscoe Conkling was one. John's descendants spell the name Conklin. His grandson, Nicholas be- came one of the purchasers of the " Kakiate " patent of many thousand acres in Rockland County, N. Y., and settled at Haverstraw in 1711. He left several children, among whom were John, Edmund, Elias, William, and Joshua. Of these, John, born at Eastchester, N. Y., about 1700, married, January 1, 1720, Gertrude, daughter of John de Pew, and settled at Haverstraw. 'Edmund married Barbara, daughter of John Hogencamp. •Joseph Conklin, Rebecca Hyer, his wife, and Samuel Conklin and Jan- netie Hyer, his wife, settled at Haverstraw, N. Y., in 1709. Matthias Conklin,"^ probably a brother of Nicholas, above mentioned, left his home at Philips Manor'in Westchester County, N. Y., early in 1719, and went to Hackensack, where on the 27th of September of that year he married Sophia Mabie, daughter of Casparus Mabie, the first immigrant of that name. Matthias bought from Henry Ludlow and settled on a large farm on the west side of the Hudson River in Bergen County, N. J., a little 158 HUDSON AND BERGEN COtfNTIES south of the ])i-esent New York State line, bounded south by the Biker farm, nortli by the Gesucr faiaii, east by the Hudson River, and west by the "Ludlow Ditch.'' His sons were Jacob, Abraham, and Casparus, of whom Jacob inherited the bulk of his father's lands. He married Hester Lawrence and had issue Delifrens, liarent, Maria, John, Elizabeth, David, and Jacob. A))raham, his brother, married Margaretta, daughter of Will- iam Eell, and left a family of nine children, while Casparus, who married Mynote Martling, left six children. The descendants of the aliovt' spread rapidl\ over Rockland County, N. Y., and Bergen County, N. J. AVnjLL4.M (lALBRAITH, probably the earliest and most noted taxider- mist in Hudson County, was born in ('ounty Down, Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestors, the name being couspiciious in Scotland before the exodus caused by the wars and jjolitical disturbances. When a young man he emigrated to America and settled in New York City, but soon went to Long Island, and in April, 1838, removed to West Hoboken, \. J., where he died in October, 1872, in his sixty-seventh year. He was a distinguished taxider- mist, and in the constant practice of his profession achieved considerable fame and eminent success. Numerous examples of his work which are still in existence attest his remarkable skill and ability, and stamp him as one of the leading taxidermists of his time. Coming to West Hoboken when the country M'as new and practically an unbroken forest, lie found plenty of birds and animals, many of which exist now only in the specimens which he ] (reserved. Mr. Galbraith purchased a house and two lots on the corner of Spring and Cortlandt Streets, of C,yrus W. Browning, the founder of the Town of AVest Hoboken, and during his active life took a prominent part in local affairs, serving as Town Committeeman, etc. He was also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married, first, Jemima Payne, who bore him four children: Elizabeth Charity (Mrs. Whittemore), of Chicago, Charles S., of West Hoboken, and two who are deceased. His second wife, Eliza Billings, whom he married in New York, died in West Hoboken, leaving two children: AVilliain and John, both deceased. He married^ third, in New York City, Miss Dorothy Nixon, by wdiom he had seven children, of whom one is living, namely: Richard E., of ^Vest Hoboken. Charles Stewart Galbraith was born on Long Island, on the 21st of September, 18.31, and adopted his father's profession, which he has fol- lowed for many years. He has traveled extensively in the interest of his work, and resides in West Hoboken. RICHARD EDWIN GALBRAITH, eldest surviving son of William and Dorothy (Nixon) Galbraith, ^\as born in A\'est Hoboken. N. J., April 17, 1842. After completing his studies in the public schools of his native town he associated himself with his father, and learned, and for several years practiced, the art of a taxidermist. He was successfully identified in a professional capacity with P. T. Barnum, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and the Kentucky University at Lexington, and afterward was engaged for nineteen years in the ostrich feather business, in 'West Ho- boken and New York, with E. V. Welch & Co. and their successors, Bene Creighton & Co. These connections gave hira a broad experience' and a valuable training in both professional and commercial affairs, and brought GENEALOGICAL 159 liiiu into prominence as a man of iinusnal aliiliiy, (if oirat force of character, and of rare mental and executive attainmenlw. In 188J: Mr. CJalhraitli en^aiied in tlie real estate and insurance business in West lioboken, wliicli lie still follows with charaiteristic enerfiy and success. He has been an extensive operator in real [)ro]»eity in that section, and through his enterprise and foresight has been instrumenial in developing several important tracts. In politics he is a conservative Democrat. He was foui' years a member and one year Chairman of the Town Council of A\'est lioboken, three vears RICHARD E. GALBRAITH. Chief of Police, two years a member and one year ('liairman of the ^^'est Hoboken Board of Education, and one of the founders of the Hudson Trust and Savings Institution, of which he is a Director and a member of I he Executive (.'ommittee. He has been President of the Palisade P.uildiiig and Loan Association of ^Vest Hoboken since its organization in April, 181)1. He is a jironiineut member and for three yeais was blaster of Doric Lodge, No. 80, F. and A. M., of ^Vest Hoboken, and is a member of Cvrus Chapter, Xo. 32, K. A. M., of Pilgrim Commandery, No. IG, K. T., and of the Scottish Kite bodies in the Valley of Jersey City, of Mecca Temple, Nobles of the Mystii- Shrine, of New York, and of the 160 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Masonic A'eteians' Association, of Brooklyn, and is Past Junior Grand Steward of the Grand Lodi^c of Masons of New Jersey. He is also a mem- ber of Ellsworth Post, No. 14, G. A. R., of the Town of Union, hav- ing enlisted in August, 18(>2, in Company F, Twenty-first New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and serving in the Third Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Army Corps', of the Army of the Potomac, in the Civil War. This was the first nine-months' reciment from New Jei'sey in the War of the Rebellion. Mr. Galbraith i)articipated in both battles of Fredericksburg, and at the second battle was captured by the enemy and confined as a prisoner for about ten days. His high standing in the community, the esteem and confidence in which lie is held, and his great popularity and wide acquaintance are attested by the several important positions he has filled, the duties of which he has discharged with ability, integrity, sound judgment, and faithfulness. Almost every important movement in West Hoboken, during the last fifteen or twenty years, has felt the impetus of his wholesome and benevolent inlluence. Mr. Galbraith was married, June 1, lSf;5, to Sarah Jane, daughter of William Granger Quigley and Esther, his wife, of New York City and later of West Hoboken. THE Db BOW FAMILY. — Dirk do Bow, or de Boog, as it appears on the records at Amsterdam, Holland, emigrated from that city to America in 1649, with his four children, and settled at New Amsterdam, where he died. His children were Catharine (married, September 5, 1649, Wilhelmus Beekman), Susanna (married, in 1660, Arent Everson), Frederick (married Elizabeth Fredericks), and Garret (married, September 16, 1663, Hendricke Paden, of San Francisco). Garret had issue three children: Henry, John, and Isaac. This John was a baker in New York, and had a son. Garret de Bow, born in New York about 1703, died about 1768, at Pompton Plains, N. J., married, May 23, 1727, Maria, daughter of Paulus Vanderbeck and Catharine Ryerson. She was baptized February 21, 1706. Garret settled on the lands of Ms father-in-law (Vanderbeck) at Pompton, where he spent his days, and left six children: Catalyna, born in 1728 (married Simeon Van Ness); Eliza- beth, born in 1729 (married Abraham Gould); Paulus, born in 1731; John, born in 1735; Maria, born in 1737 (married Samuel Berry); and Sarah, born in 1740 (married Philip Schuyler). The descendants of these children of Garret de Bow have scattered over Passaic County and the west side of Bergen County, were they are quite numerous. THE COOPER FAMILY is still one of the more numerous families throughout Northern NeAv Jersey, and particularly in Bergen County. Claes Jansen Van Permerend emigrated to America in 1647, from Per- merend, a town near the Zuyder Zee, between Amsterdam and Hoorn, Holland. His first stopping place was Brooklyn, where he married Pie- tartie Brackhoengie, of (rowannus. She died soon after and he removed to Bergen, N. J., where he married (2), November 11, 1656, Ann, a sister of Ide Van Vorst. On January 1, 1602, he obtained a patent for a tract of land near Harsimus, on wliicli he located and remained until his death, which occurred November 20, 1688. His widow survived him until January 12, 1726. Two weather-beaten headstones mark their last resting places in the cemeterv of the old Bergen Dutch Church. Claes was an active, GENEALOGICAL 1(51 energetic man, and attained prominence in town affaii-s. He was some- times Icnown as " Jolin Pottagie," and in later davs as " Knvper," it is said, because he \Yas a cooper by trade. His descendants Lave ever since retained the name Kuyper, anglicized to Cooper. On April 10, 1G71, he bought from Governor Carteret 240 acres on the Hudson River, including in it the present Village of Nyack, N. Y. The same year he bought 400 acres adjoining his first purchase on the north, and in 1078 he bought several tracts of meadow adjoining him— in all about 4(18 acres of meadow. Some of these lands he owned in partnership with the Tallmans. All of them eventually passed to his sons. His issue were Cornelius, John, Claes, Dirk, Henry, Yroutie, Tryntie, Divertie, Pietartie. Janetie, (Irietie, Maiitie! Hellegond, Judith, and Cornelia— in all fifteen. One or two of these joined in the purchase of the Tappan patent. Cornelius went from Bergen to Tappan in 108!), but soon sold to Tall- man. He then removed to Schraalenburgh, where he bought of John Demarest 2.50 acres on the Hackensack River, near Old Hook, where he resided. He and his wife, Aeltie Bogert, of Tappan, reared a large family of children, from whom mainly are descended the Bergen County Coopers. RICHARD B. HARING is descended in the ninth generation from Jan Pietersen Haring, the emigrant from Hoorn. Holland, and the line of de- scent is the same as that of his father, John T. Haring (see page 154), ex- tending it one generation further, as follows: John T. Haring (8), born May 10. 1822, married. May 24, 184:?, Rachel, daughter of John R. Blawvelt, born August 24, 1822. He resides at Tappan, on part of the farm which his first American ancestor purchased from the Indians. The issue of John T. Haring (8) of the ninth generation are three: Tunis J.. Richard B., and Elizabeth P., of whom the second, Richard B. (9), is the subject of this sketch. Richard B. Haring (!)) was born in Harrington Township, Bergen County. January 24, IS.iO. He acquired his education in the Bergen County scliools, which he left at the age of eighteen to go to work on his father's farm. He still remains on the homestead. About 1880 he engaged in the business of general auctioneer. In 1807 he also established himself in the coal business at Tappan, X. Y., and still continues both enterprises. He was for four years a member of the Township Committee and for four years served as Township Treasurer, discharging the duties of each office with characteristic ability and devotion. For some time he has also served as a member of the Borough Council. He is a member of the Ameri- can Legion of Honor, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Reformed Church. In every capacity he has maintained a high standard for integrity, honor, and laudable ambition. Mr. Haring married Mary G. Banta. and has. six children of the tenth gen- eration: Lila Ray, Charles B., Abiam Demarest, J. Eugene, D. Leroy, and Gertrude. JOHN JOSEPH NE^'IX, Judge of the Criminal Courts of Jersey City, is the son of Patrick Xevin, and was born in Summit, N. J., on the 31st of August, 1870. After attending private schools he entered St. Peter's College of Jersey City and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1880, receiving in July of that year the degree of Bachelor of Arts; a year later he received the degree of INIaster of Arts. On leaving college lie was offered the position of clerk to Mayor Cleveland, which he accepted, 1G2 Iiri»S().\ AND HEltCEN COTINTIES ,111(1 when .Mayor NX'aiiscr succeeded ]Mr. Cleveland in oHice iMr. Ne\'hi was relained en account of liis elTiciency, industry, and su])eri()r i|iialitications. In lliese ca])acities Judi.',e Ne\in tiained a wide rejiutation and disjilayed those broad executi\'e abilities wiiicli have since distinfjuished him in both ))nblic and ]}i-ivate atfairs. He also enjiai^ed in joui-nalisni, beinji' the Jer- sey City correspondent ot the New York Monti iif/ Adniiiscr and also of the New ^'ork Siar and Daili/ (Umfittciit dui-inf^' the existence of those papers, lie is now .Indite of tlie Ci-iniinal Courts of -Jersey City, which office he is hllinn with marked ability and uni\-ei-sal satisfaction. In ]S!»!» he was a]> |)ointed a memb(^r for .lei-sey City of the Hudson County C(jnsolidation JOHN J. NEVIN. Commission, and he is no>\- Secretary of that body. -TudMc Xevin was mar- ried April :>0, IS!);"), to Katharine AX'alsh, of .Jersey City, and has two chil- dren, Joseph and Edwai-d. TIIK I)i: (lEOOT l^W.AIILY, still numerous in r.eru'en and Hudson Couu- lies, ai-e of Jlollaud descent. William Pietersen de (Iroot came to .Vmerica in KHil^, on board the ship " Ilo])e," with his wife and five children. They were from Amsterdam, Holland. Dirck Jansen de (xroot, a native of Eyle- velt, in Holland, came to New Amsterdam as a soldier in the Dutch ser\ice, on board the ship " S[)otted Co^^■," April 15, 1000, leaving behind s GENEALOGICAL 163 him his wife, Grietie Gerrets, and two children. In April, 1(;(;:!, Dirck's brother, Staats de Groot, who, the ship's registei- says, was a resident of Tricht, Holland, came to America on the same ship which had brought o\er his brother. Staats brought over with him his brother's wife and children. Staats married, in 1664, Barbara Springsteen. Dirck and his first wife. Wybrig Jans, resided in Xew Amsterdam until Kill), when thcv removed to Platbush, L. I., where they remained permanently. From Flatbush several of the children removed to Hackensack in ](;!>r)-!)(3. Staats first settled at Brooklyn, where the assessment roll of 1675 showed him to be a taxpayer. He was of a roving disiiosition. In KITS he was living in Westchester County, X. Y. He next turned up at Bergen, X. J., where, in June, 1678, his second daughter was baptized. While living at ISeigcn, where many of his relatives lived, he became in IfiSd one of the Tapi)an patentees. He was at Xew Amsterdam in KiSS, and probably never lo- cated on his Tappan lands. He died between KiSS and 1704, having deeded or willed his lands to his wife Barbara, who was a daughter of ("asparus Springsteen, of Groning(:'n, Holland. His children were Yoost, Neltje, Mary, and Geesie. Yoost settled at Tajipan and his descendants spread into Bergen County. The descendants of Dirck and William Pieterscn de Groot spread through Bergen County from Bergen and Hackensack, where they settled. THE EDSALL FA^MILY are still numerous in both Bergen and Hudson Counties. The founder of the family in America was Samuel Kdsall, a native of Beading in Berkshire, England, where he was born about KJ:'.!). lie was a hatter by trade, and came to America early in the spring of 1655 (as is said), settling first at Xew Amsterdam. There, on ilay '2'.). 1655, he married (1) Jannetie Wessels, then a belle of the city, whose mother kept a tavern in Pearl Street, celebrated for burgomasters' din- ners. In April, 1057, Edsall was made a small burgher. From New Am- sterdam he went to Xewtown, L. I. In 1(16:') he volunteci-ed his sei'xices in the Esopus Indian Wai", and was made a Sergeant. On October 6, 1664. he, with Richard Xichols, bought of Governor Philip <'arteret a tract called Xipnichsen on the Kill Yon Kull in Hudson <"ounty, containing about !()() acres. H( sent over four men t() Bergen that year to help lorrify the " towne." In 166S, with Xicholas Yarlet, he bought from the Indians 1,S72 aci-es of land fronting on the Hudson Ki\-er, bounded west by Overpei-k Creek, and extending northward from the town bounds of Bergen to what is now Leonia in Bergen County. After the surrender of the Dutch to the English he took the oath of allegiance to the liritish king and re- moved from Xewtown to Bergen. There he was a member of ('art'^et's Council from 1668 to 1672. In 166S he was appointed a commissioner to assess and collect a tax to resist invasion, and was made treasurer of the fund. He joined James Bollen and John Berry in petitioning the Dutch government that the books and papers of Xew Jersey be delivered to Sec- retary Bayard, September 12, 1673, and was one of the commissioners sent by Bergen to the same government. In KiS!) he remo\cd to New Amster- dam and became a partisan of Governor Leisler, a member of the Com- mittee of Safety, and of the Court of Exchequer. He was caught in the net with Leisler and put on trial for high treason, of which charge he was honorablv acquitted. In 1699 he removed to Queens County, L. I., where he was Justice of the Peace in 1690, and where he died. He mar- 164 Ill'DSON AM) liEUUEN COUNTIES ried (2) August 27, KiS!), at Flatbusb, L. I., Janneitc Stevens, widow of dointlius Jansen Beory, of Newtown. His issue were Ann, 165(>; Judith, 1058; John, 1(J60; Ann; Julia; and Ricliard. Of these Ann married William Laurence, of New York, and Julia married Eenjamin Blass'e, of I'lymouth, England. John settled north of his father's farm on the Hudson. Blagge and Laurence by the deed of Edsall became the owners of part of his Hudson River farm, and the remainder passed to the oM'nershijj of the De Groots, Days, Smiths, and other settlers of Bergen ( 'ounty. Some of Edsall's descendants are still living on portions of the farm boiight from the savages by their first common ancestor. THE FLIEEBOOM FAMILY.— The first American ancestor of the Plierboom and Vlierboom families was Mattys Flierboom, a Hollandci-, who emigrated to .Vmerica someAvhere about KHiO and settled at New Orange (Albany), where he bectame a man of note, rising to the dignities and honors of a judge of the courts at Albany. There he reared a family of five children: Caroline, ^^'ellempie, Maritie, Servaes, and Jacob, and perhaps others. About KiUii the family removed to New Amsterdam, where \\'ellempie married in 1693 Cornelius Eckerson. Caroline, in ltj!)3, married Cornelius Jans Haring. Maritie married in 1694 Rynier Reyserick. Servaes, in 1697, married Gertrude Lesting. Jacob married in 1699 Mari- tie Peters Haring. All these, except Servaes, became residents of Bergen County. Jacob, at the division of the Tappan patent, bought a large farm at what is now Rivervale, in Washington Township. He owned other lands there. His issue were Mary, Matthew, John, Abram, Rynier, Jan- netie, James, and Jannetie. All of these except Matthew were baptized at Tappan. Jacob's children (a large family) located west of the Hacken- sack on lands bought of John McEvers, and their descendants are scat- tered over Bergen County, some having taken the name of " Freeborn." THE GARRA BRANT FAMILY, the later members of which are nu- merous in the western part of Bergen and Hudson Counties, claim descent from Gerbrand Claesen, a Dutch emigrant, who, at one time, had much influence over the early affairs of Bergen. Claesen was from Amstei-dam, and was at Bergen probably two or three years before he married Maritie, only daughter of Claes Pietersen Cos, which was August 25, 1674. He became a large property owner and held many official i)Ositions. In 16S9 he obtained permission of Governor Leisler to purchase a tract of land now in Putnam County, N. Y., and, on December 6, 1699, he purchased of George Willocks an extensive tract of land on the Pequanonck River, then in Bergen County. His issue were nine children: Peter, Claes, Herpert, Cornelia, Metje, Cornelius. Maria, Gerrebrand, and Mindert. Some of these remained at Bergen, where their descendants still live, while others settled on their father's lands on the Pequanonck River, whence their issue spread over Bergen and Passaic Counties. MOSES E. SPRINGER, the leading undertaker of Englewood, N. J., was born August 5, 1827, in New York City, where he resided until 1857, when he went to AMsconsin, where he remained two years. His education was acquired partly in the public schools, but chiefly through his own exertions and by those means which an ambitious youth finds amid the active employ- GENEALOGICAL 165 ments of life. TliroAvn at an early a^e upon bis own resources, he manfully paved his way in the world, picked up here and there valuable bits of in- formation, and rapidly acquired a i)ractical experience which has served him well throughout his career. For about fifteen years, both before and after his residence in Wisconsin, Mr. Springer was successfully engaged in business as a builder and con- tractor. In 1S59 he returned East and settled in Englewood, X. J., where he still resides, and where he has successfully conducted an undertakinn- i-k K ■:^ MOSES E. SPRINGER. business since he retired from contracting. He is now the leading under- taker in that town, and has also been active in public affairs, having served for three years as Tax Assessor. He was one of the founders of Englewood Lodge of frood Templars and was a charter member of Tuscan Lodge, No. 11.0, F. and A. M., of Englewood, of which he is still a prominent member and Past Master. He is a member of the Methodist Episcojial Church, a public spirited and enterprising citizen, and in all the relations of life has displayed the attributes which mark' a successful man. During the past l(5(i HUDSON AND BF,UC4EN COUNTIES i'lcvc'ii years he liais been Secretary of the Englewood Mutual Loan and Buihlinji' Associatioii. a position ^^■hich he still holds. Mr. S]>rinjier was married, in 18.54, to Mary A. folding, of New York City. Their ihildren are Hester, Mary E., (leoige \V., Charles W.. and Josephine Burr Springer. THE GOETSCHRTS FAMILY is also a numerous family in the western part of Uergen County. They are all descended from John Henry Goetschy, wlio was born in the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, about 169.5, where he studied for the ministry in the University of Switzerland. He came to America about 172S, and first preached at Skippach and in the valleys of the Delaware and Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. His son, John Henry (roetschius, born at Liguria, Switzerland, in 1718, studied in the University of Zurich, and came to America with his father in 1728. He was licensed to preach in 17-38, and preached on Long Island until 1740, when he came to Hackensack, N. J. There he preached iintil 1748, when he took charge of tiie church at Schraalenburgh, which he kept until his death in 1774. He was an able, eloquent, and efl'ective pieacher. His son Stephen, also a minister, preached at Saddle River and Pascack from 1814 to 18:^7. His father, John H. <4oetschius, married, August 26, 1749, Rachel Zabriskie. P>oth John Henry and his son Stephen reared large families, who scattered rapidly over Bergen County. THE GAUTIER FAMILY, at one time numerous in Hudson County, was a French Huguenot family who came to America after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. By intermarriage a considerable landed estate in Bergen, N. J., came into possession of the family. This property, at what is now (ireenville, is known as the " Gautier farm," de- scended through one Captain Thomas Brown. Jasques Gautier. of Saint Blancard, in the Province of Languedoc, France, is said to have been the first American progenitor of the Gautiers. He settled in New Amsterdam, and left issue two sons, Daniel and Francois, besides daughters. Daniel (2) married, at New York, September 6, 1716, Maria Bogert, and had eleven children, one of whom was Andrew CA), who was born in 1720 and married (1) in 1744 an English lady named Elizabeth Crossfleld, and (2) in 1774 Elizabeth Hastier. Andrew (3) was a prominent man in New York, and left issue four children, one of whom. Andrew (4), born December 18, 1755, married (1) Mary Brown, of Bergen, and (2) Hannah Turner. Andrew (4) took up his residence at (^ireenville and left eight children, from whom are descended the Gautiers of Bergen and Hudson Counties. WILLIAM MTNDRED JOHNSON is one of the most prominent lawyers of Bergen County, N. J., and since 1895 has re[)resented that county in the State Senate. He comes from distinguished families, his father being Hon. Whitfield Schaeffer Johnson, Secretary of State of New Jersey from 1861 to 1866, and his mother Ellen, daughter of Enoch Green, granddaughter of John Green, and sister of Hon. Henry Green, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. His paternal grandparents were John Johnson and Maria C. Schaeffer. His paternal great-grandfather was Captain Henry Johnson, a Quartermastei' in the (Continental Army. Hon. Whitfield Schaeffer Johnson, father of the subje'-t of this article, was eminent in the State of New Jersey, alike as a leading lawyer, a leader of the Republican party, and as a public man. He was born in Newton, Sussex County, No- -*«%., ..-•■■-J:^^ 6uS->J- ryt^Z/'^rn.-; sS Br..' -VV '^*-w-^" ■■-.•. -^J H-,UA^ .114) ^■v ^ 7. Subse(iuently he also received the degree of ^Master of Arts from the same institution. ^Ir. Johnson read law in Ti-enton with the late Hon. Edward W. Scudder until the latter's a]i]iointment to the bench, and afterward in the same city with Garret 1). W. Vroom, now and for sevei-al RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM M. JOHNSON. years State Law Reporter, and -o-as admit te(l to the bar of New Jersey at Trenton in June, 1S70, as an attorney, and in June, 1S7I), as a counseloi'. As a member of the firm of Kingman ^: Johnson he successfully ]iracticed his profession in Trenton from 1870 to ]>(^cember, ls74, when he mo\-ed to Hackensack, Kergen Counf>', where he has since resided, becoming one of the i-ecognized leader's of tiie Bergen ("oiinty bar. In connection with an extensive legal business, and as a jirogressive, public s]iii-ited, and libei-al- niinded citizen, lie lias achie\ed a -wide reputation and an li(imiial)lc stand- ing througliout the State. He is fine of the most cojispicuoiis figures in the public and political life of his section. He has apiicared iu a large number of very important cases, and is universall\- regai-ded as one of llie ablest and most talented lawyers of the coTinty, eminent in the |irofession, and i-e- markably successful as an advocate and counselor. His sound judgment, his integrity, his broad legal attainments, and liis line sense of honor as a 168 HUDSOX AND BERG EX COUNTIES man have won for him the confidence of not only his clients, bnt of the entire community, in an nnnsual degree. He is also one of the influential leaders of the Republican party in the State, having served on the Republican State Committee in 1884, and being a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1888. In the autumn of 1895 he was nominated and elected State Senator from Bergen County for a term of three years, and so ably and satisfactorily did he discharge the duties of that office that in 1898 he was re-elected for a second term of three years. He has been active in proposing and shaping legislation in the interest of the taxpayers of both the State and his district, and has served as Chairman of the Committees on Appropriations, State Library, and the Judiciary and as a member of the Committees on Boroughs and Townships and State Hospitals. In 1898 and 1899 he was the leader of his party on the floor of the vSenate. He was the first Re publican senator ever elected in Bergen County, and received 0,287 votes in 1895 and 6,999 in 1898; these facts speak volumes for the popularity, the confidence, and the esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens, while his re-election by an increased vote attests the satisfaction he has rendered in this important trust. In 1900 he was elected President of the New Jersey Senate and became Acting Cxovernor during the absence of Governor Voor- hees in Europe in May, 1900, and in August of the same year he was ap- pointed by President McKinley First Assistant Postmaster-General of the United States, vice Perry S. Heath resigned. Senator Johnson has also been prominent in the local affairs and public interests of Hackensack, where he has so long resided. He has held various town offices, has served on the Hackensack Board of Education, and has taken for many years a deep interest in the development of the public school system. " The Johnson Public Library," costing nearly |50,000, was erected in 1900 by Mr. Johnson, at his own expense, and presented by him to the Town of Hackensack. Outside of the lines of his profession he has been eminently successful in the management of a number of business in- terests. He was one of the original organizers and founders of the Hack- ensack Bank, and has served upon its directorate continuously from its organization to the present time. He is also President of the Hackensack Trust Company. He is likewise a prominent member and one of the officers of the Second Reformed Church of Hackensack, while he is also a member of the Oritani Field Club, the Xorth Jersey Country Club, the Hamilton Club, the Lawyers" Club, and the Princeton Club of New York. In every capacity and relation in life Senator Johnson has exhibited consummate ability, a broad and liberal knowledge, and a commendable public spirit and enterprise. Privately he is possessed of scholarly attainments, and is universally respected for those virtues which make up the loyal friend and honest man. He was married October 22, 1872, to Maria E., daughter of William White, of Trenton, N. J. Their eldest son, Walter Whitfield Johnson, died March 16, 1891, aged sixteen. The other two, who are living, are George White Johnson and ^A'illiam Kempton Johnson. THE MEYER FAMIIiY.— The first American ancestor of the Meyer family in America was Adolph Meyer (or Mayer), a native of Ulsen a parish of Bertheim in the German Province of Westphalia, who emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1C61. His arrival was followed soon after bv the advent of his kinsmen, iVndrew and John Meyer, brothers. Thev must GENEALOGICAL 169 have been on friendly terms with the A'an Vorsts at Bergen, for, on Novem- ber 5, 1671, Andrew's marriage to Miss Vroutie, eldest daughter of Ide \'an Vorst, was duly solemnized in the old Dutch Church on the heights, and on June 13, 1677, Miss Ann Van Vorst, Vroutie's sister, was united to John Meyer in the same church. Andrew and John both took their wives to New Amsterdam, where they prospered and reared large families. In 1694 John removed to Tappan and located near the Sparkill Brook. John's Avife, then a widow, received her share of the Tappan patent at the division in 1704. Their children, whose descendants spread southward into Bergen County, were Catharirie, Ide, John, Judith, Iden, Cornelius, Ann. Elizabeth, and Andrew. Adolph Meyer removed to near Demarest in Bergen County, where he settled on a large farm purchased by him from the Demarests. His issue spread all over Bergen County and are numerous to-day. THE OT T^^'ATEll FAMILY.— Franz Jacobsen was a native of Oude- water, a small town on the Ri\er Yssel, between Leyden and I'trecht, Hol- land. This toA^n is also the birthplace of Arminius, after whom the " I^e- monstrants " were called Arminians. A picture in the Stadt-huys, by Dirk Stoop, commepjorates the brutal excesses coiuniitted there by the Spaniaids in 1575. Jacobsen came to America prior to 16r)7 and located at Albany. One of his sons, Thys Franz Outwater, went from Albany to Tappan, N. Y., in 16S(;. where he married Ceertie Lamberts Moll (widow of John tiacohs Harding). His descendants spread over Rockland County and into New Jersey. One of them. Dr. Thomas Outwater, was a noted surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. Thomas Franz Outwater, another son of Franz Jacobsen, the emigrant, removed to New York, where he married Neeiie Peterse. He subsequently removed to and settled in Bergen County, south of Hackensack, where he married (2) in 1730 .lannetie Durie, widow of Cornelius Epke Banta. His children were Jacob, Thomas, John, I'eter, Elizabeth, Janneke, and Annatie, all of whom married and settled around Hackensack, where their descendants still reside. THE LARGE (La ROUX) FAMILY, still numerous in Bergen County, are descended from Jaques la Roux, who was born in 1657. Mr. Riker in his " History of Harlem " says of him: " From his name and affiliation with the French refugees we conclude he was himself French, though Vander Vin usually carefully writes his suiiiame the first two or three times el Roey, and finally adopts the form of El R(>(. As he must have had warrant for this, probably Jaques was of mixed blood, Spanish and Walloon. He is always called by Vander \'m ' Ja<(i,' a juvenile form of his name used bv the V\'ulloons. He was at New Harlem as early as 1673, a young man and' unmarried. Probably he had then been here but a short time. In 1677 he joined the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam, but early the next year accompanied the Demarest family to their settlement on the upper Hackensack River. At Hackensack he married Hendricke Tennis Helling (Helms), and bv her had issue Peter, Henry, Samuel, Samuel, Abra- ham and John." On the decline of the French church at New Bridge, " which he must have helped to form," says Riker, he joined the church at Hackensack, April 5, 1696. The same year he, with the emigrant Lozier and others purchased of the Indians the " Old Hook " patent, containing 1,300 acres on the west side of the Hackensack in Washington Township. The title to this tract was defective and was not made good until April, 1704, 170 HUDSON AND BEKCKN COUNTIES after liis (Icalli. He was known as " Siiincs I.a lloux." Upon his death Ills cliildreii inherited liis |)i'o]ieity, nianied, and reared large faniilies, the descendants of wlioni spread lapidly over JJergen County. They are still nnnierons. IIENKY riTSTElJ is a line exani])le of the (ierman-Ameriean citizen, one of that large elass whose industry, economy, intelligence, and sturdy in- tegrity have done so much toward the development of our country, and whose solid (pialities and valuable services in all departments of private and ]ml)lic life have been recognized in every portion of the republic. He is a native of Jersey Cily, N. .1., where he was born ]\Iai'ch 10, IS.^S, and where he has always resided. His father, V:dentine Puster, a native of Bavaria, came to America about the year IS.'O, and located in Jersey City, where his son enjoyed the ad\antage« of the pub- lic as well as the v'lerman private schools. ^^'hile but a youth he made choice of the jewelry business as his life woi-k; but after a short appren- ticeship he became con- vinced that his tastes, abilities, and natural apti- tudes j)ointed to a very different sphere of acticn. Hence, with more matui'e judgment revising h i s former decision, he resolved to make the law his pro- fession. In the light of subse(iuent events no one can doubt that this was a most fortunate change. 5lr. Puster now entered the law office of Hon. William 1). Daly, since State Senator and Congressman. For four years following he recei\-ed kindly advice and instruction fi'om jMr. Daly, as well as from his partner (at that time), .Mr. Wyidvoop, who took a lively and wai-nr interest in him, seeing his aptitude and industrious cndeaA^u-s, and coached him through all the intricacies confronting the law student. .Mr. I'uster also found a warm fric^nd in the lale Hon. P>ennington F. Randolph, Judge of the Jersey <-ity I>ist]-ict Court, who did much for him while pursuing the iMigged course of the law student, and he afterward had the extreme pleas- ure of succeeding his benefactor and friend on the District T'ourt bench. At the close of this period ]Mr. Puster took his examination in company wilh a number of fellow-students from the same building (Flemming P.uild- ing), and to-day is the only living and successful lawyer of all those who took th.e journey to Ti'(»nton bent on attaining the satiu' goal. After be- coming regularlv admitted to the bar of New Jei'sey, he at once entered HENRY PUSTKR, GENEALOGICAL 171 upon the practice of his profession in his native city, where his courtesy, ability, and knowledge of the law, his tireless activity, with prompt and thorough attention to business, rapidly added to his circle of friends and steadily built up for him an extensive and valuable practice. He is a man of kind and generous impulses, as is evidenced by the fact that he is known as a friend of the poorer classes, who often receive the benefit of his legal services and advice with little remuneration or quite gratuitously. So bright and energetic a man could scarcely fail to become a leader in politics. He comes of Democratic stock and has always been true to the Democratic standard, and hence enjoys the fullest confidence of his party. As early as 1S81, when but twenty-three years of age, he was elected Alderman of his district, the Sixth, and received the cognomen of "the School-Boy Alderman," which position he held for two years, and labored assiduously for his district with good etlcct. In 1890 he was chosen As- semblyman for the same district by a large majority over his opponent, Hon. James S. Erwin. The duties of this office he discharged with ability till the Hon. Leon Abbett, having discovered his fitness for the honors and responsibilities of the bench, in April, 1891, appointed him to succeed William I*. Douglass as Judge of the First Disti-ict Court of Jersey City. As a jurist he fully met the high exi)ectati(ms of his friends, i>residiiig with marked dignity, ability, justice, and decision. Judge Puster is a member of fh-ant Lodge, Xo. 89, K. of P., of TTnique Council, E. A., and of the Ordei- of eceniber 25, 1873, Mr. AViley was married to Jo- sephine Gi'iffiths Polhemus, of New York, a lady well known in literary circles. They have six children, three sons and thi-ee daughters, the eldest, a son, being twentv-two vears of age. THE I'EACK FAMILY.— John I'eeck (as he spelled it), the common an- cestor of the I'ake and Peak families of Bergen Count}-, still (\mte num- erous, was of English parentage, but wh(>ther he came to New Amsterdam from Holland or England does not appear. He must have come over in GENEALOGICAL 175 ]()10 or !(;.")(), for his marriage to Maiia Vloclcers (widow) is it'coi-dod in the New Amsterdam church records as of February 20, 1650. This entry, unlilve most of the other entries, contains no reference to the phice of his nativity. As the name Peeck does not ap])ear in any of the Xew York or New Jersey records prior to this, he must have been the first of tlie name in New Netherlands at least. The couple lived in New York, where he died in If!;")!). His children were at least four: Ann, Ki.'il ; John. 1653; Jacobus, 1656; and Maria, 1658. John Peeck married in New York, July 18, 1683, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. (iysbert Van Emburgh, the American ancestor of all the Van Em- burghs of Bergen County. Dr. Van Emburgh was from Amsterdam, and began as a shopkeeper and book-vender in New Amsterdam, but went from there to Albany to reside. From there he removed to Kingston, where lie practiced medicine successfully, and was scheppen from 1663 to his death in 1665. His son, John, was a physician, and married a daughter of '\YU\- iam Sandford, of Bergen County. He bought considerable land in Bergen County, where he eventually settled. John Peeck had eight children by his wife, Elizabeth A^an Emburgh, all of whom settled in Bergen County, principally in the localities called Schraalenburgh and Kinderkamack, where his descendants still flourish. THE POWLESS FAMILY, still very numerous in Bersen County, trace their descent from Paulus Pietersen, who was born at ilerwen, Holland, in 16:'):2, and emigrated to this country in 1656. His wife, Tryntie INfartens, was among the emigrants who came over from Holland in the ship '• Gilded Beaver," in 16.")8. The marriage of Paulus Pietersen and Tryntie Martens is that announced on the records of the old Dutch church in New York: " Paulus Pietersen j.d. Van Jlerwin int Stiff Aken in lant van Gilbert Sept 1, 16S5.'" Merwin is a small town in Holland, and Aken a town in Prussian Saxony, on the left bank of the River Elbe. Paulus Pietersen located at Bergen, N. J., where he soon became a prominent nuui in all town affairs. In 1663 Governor Stuyvesant a])pointed him one of the commissioners to fortify the town (at what is now Bergen Siiuare, Jersey (/ity) against the depredations of the surrounding Indians. In the same year he obtained patents for several parcels of land in and about the Town of Bergen, containing in all thirty-seven acres. After the occupation In- the British (May 12. 1668), Governor Carteret confirmed Pietersen's title to his Bergen lands. In 1761 these lands passed to the ownership of Gar- ret Newkirk. Paulus Pietersen died December 18, 1702, and his wife's death preceded his on May 1!) of the same year. They had issue seven children, who took the surname of Powleson and Powless. Most of them remained at Bergen, but Martin Powless, the third in point of age, born in 1663, bought lands and settled near Hackensack. He married Margaretta Westervelt and reared a large family. They scat- tered throughout the county, and the descendants of Paulus Pietersen ai-e numerous to-day in both Hudson and Bergen Counties. DANIEL RUTAN was located at Esopus on the Hudson River prior to 1700. The place of his nativity does not appear, but he was no doubt a Hollander. His sons, Abraham," Daniel, Jr., and Peter, came to Xew Jersey and located at Aquackanonck (Passaic) as early as 1702. In 1703 Abraham married, at Hackensack, JIary Rutan, i)robab!y a near relative of his. In 1710 Daniel married Ann Hanse Spier, of Bergen, whose parents were then 17G HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES liviiij; at I'assaic. In Nov(Mnl)er. 17i;{, DauiePw brother Peter located at New Itai'liadoes (\\('st of Ilarkensack), where he married Oertrude Vander- hoff. The A'aiiderliolT.s and Kntans eanie to Berj;('n County from Albany about the same time. I'robably they were related. The Rutans settled west of the Saddle Kiver in the llohokus and Paramus sections of Bergen ( 'Ounty, where many of them still reside. THE SOIIUYLER FAMILY.— The New Jersey branch of the Schuyler family, now very numerous in the western and northern parts of Bergen County, are descended from Philip Pietersen Van Schuyler, born in 1628 at Amsterdam, Holland, who, with his brother David, emigrated to America in 1050 and settled first at Fort Orange (Albany), N. Y., on De- cember 12, Kif)!). Following his arrival at Albany he married Margaretta Van Schlectenhorst, of Nieuwkirk, Holland, her father being then manager of the Col- onic of Van Rensselaer. He was a magis- trate at Albany in 1C56, 1057, and 1661. In 1662 he received permission to jtlant a vil- lage (in the p]so]ius River. He died March 9, 1(>S4. His children were six, one of whom was A rent Schuyler, born June 2.5, 1682, who married and came to New York while yet a young man. In 179.'^ he went to Pe- qnannock (then in Bergen County), and with Anthony Brockliolst jjurchased 1,000 acres for mining jiurposes. He also bought large tracts of land in Orange Cotinty, N. Y., but in 1710 he purchased land of Edward Kings- land on New Barbadoes Neck, where he re- sided and where he opened a copper mine. He became a wealthy man. His issue were eight children, several of whom became fa- mous Jersey men, and their issue scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties. SCHtlYLKR ARMS. JOHN J. KENNEDY, glove manufacturer of West Hoboken, is an exam))le of what one man can accomplish by his own indomitable efforts united with untiring industry, constant ai)plication, and original methods. Born and reared in the town, and educated in the local schools, he has paved his way to success ami re])utation through those channels which would appal a less c(jurag(^ous man, but which, nevertheless, are the only true means of laudable endeavor. His j^resent position, as proprietor of the only glove manufactory of the kind in the country, is all the more noteworthy because it is the result of his personal labors, after years of difficulties and perseverance. He is the eldest son \-es in West llolioken, on Hill Hti'eet, near Falisade Avenue. He started on a very small scale, ui one or two rooms, and with only two or three assistants, whom he was obliged to teach the system, as he has, in fact, all those who have ever en tered his employ. Numerous difhculties, jirincipally the introduction of his };oods, were met, font;ht, and overcome, but not without indomitable ])er- severance and constant endeavor on his part. Competition being- keen and <;eneral, it was some time bef(U'e he j;ot his product into the chief centers of the iilove trade, but when once it was there no scheming nor maneuvering 178 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES by rival manufacturers could prevent its instant success. In 1883 he in- vented and patented a re-inforcement for the opening slit which proved at once valuable, practical, and economical, and in 1890 he obtained another patent which has become famous as the Kennedy patent cut glove. Mr. Kennedy steadily overcame all obstacles, numerous though they were, and successfullv introduced his gloves into every State and territory in the Union, where they now have a very high reputation, selling side by side with the most celebrated makes in the world. He employs about eighty people and manufactures about -160,000 worth of fine street and driving gloves annually. The product is all sold through Wilson Brothers, of New York, Chicago, and Paris, the largest dealers in men's furnishings in the world. Mr. Kennedy has revolutionized the glove business, both in manufacturing and in selling. His success is due entirely to the genuine merit of his goods, together with his personal effor-ts and tact in placing them before the public. One point of superiority which distinguishes his gloves is the fingers, which are straight and of equal length. In 1888 he originated a picture of two elephants pulling a glove, typifying strength, which has been widely copied by clothing manufacturers and others, though often in diflerent designs. The idea was his. One can regard Mr. Kennedy's success only with feelings of respect and wonder, for his is one of those very few instances where a man, imbued with a single idea, steadily and persistently hews to the line and eventually achieves the goal of his ambitions. His whole life has been spent in tlie town of his birth. His labors have been directed toward one object — the manufacture of the best gloves in the market. And the wonderful result of his efforts is seen in his present factory, a large and finely equipped brick building on or near the spot where he made his first start, nearly twenty years ago, and very near the home in which he was born and reared. No man is worthy of more respect than he who carves out his own fortune, un- aided save by his hands and brain, and this Mr. Kennedy has done. He stands among the leading glove manufacturers in this country. He has de- voted himself strictly to business, to the exclusion of all political or public preferment, and belongs only to St. Michael's (Catholic Church, the Holy Name Society, and Palisade Council, No. 387, Knights of Columbus. The object of the Holy Name Society is to suppress swearing. He takes a deep interest, however, in the affairs of his town and county, and never fails to bear the responsibilities of a progressive, patriotic citizen. Mr. Kennedy was married June 24, 1885, to Nellie, daughter of John and Julia Lucey, of Jersey City ?Ieights, N. J. Of their nine children two died in infancy; the others are John, Mary, Ellen, Julia, Alice, Andrew, and Salome. THE QUACKENBUSH FAMILY in Bergen and Hudson Counties are descended from Peter Quackenbush, of Oostgeest, Holland. His son, Kynier Pietersen Van Quackenbosch, came to America in 1073-74 and lo- cated at New Amsterdam, where he married, March 2, 1 674, Elizabeth Jans, of Flushing, L. I. He was a carpenter by trade, and pursued that calling in New Amsterdam. His wife having died in 1691, he married, the follow- ing year. Classic Jacobse. He had a large family of children, among whom were Abraham, Jacob, and John. Abraham settled at Schraalenburgh in Bergen County and married Susanna, a daughter of Samuel Hellin"-s (Helms), by whom he Sad issue ten children. His brother John married Lena Van Houten, and his brother Jacob married Ann Brower. John GENEALOGICAL 179 and Jacob both located in the northerly part of Bergen. Abraham, John, and Jacob each reared large families, from whom have sprung numerous descendants now scattered over Bergen County. THE RYERSONS are the most numerous to-day of any family in the western part of Bergen County. The original surname of the family was " Reyertzoon." The family were numerous in Amsterdam, Holland, as early as 1390, in which year one William Reyertzoon was Burgomaster of the city. Another member of the family filled the same office in liU and 1418. Members of this family held prominent positions in Amsterdam up to 1585. !Many of them took an active part in the expulsion of the Span- iards from Holland, for which two of them were banished by the S])anish king, and another, .Vlbert Reyertzoon, was beheaded April ll!, 15.'i7. The family coat-of-arms, as registered in Amsterdam, is described as follows: "Eradicated arz; 1 and 1 Sa, a tree withered and eradicated Arz; '2 and 3 Arz; three halberts bend ways and in bend sinister, the middle one longer than the others, sa, the blades vert; Surtout, az, a martlet, or. Crest, a swan roussant. Moito ^'oor (jod en Faderland." The fact that the family had a coat-of-arms, of couisc, indicates that some of them be longed to the nobility of Holland. Martin Reyerson, with his brother, Adriaeu Ryerson, emigrated from Amsterdam, Holland, in IGl*;, and settled at Brooklyn, where ^Martin married, Jlay 14, 16G3, Ann, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapeljea. He re- sided at Brooklyn until l(i85. He joined the Dutch ("luirch there in 1G77, was elected a magistrate in 1(!7!), and constable in 1682. In 1(!S5 he re- moved to Flatbush, L. I., where he was one of the patentees of that patent that year. His issue were Marritie, Joris ((leoige), Ryer, Catalyntie, Sanih, Cornelius, Jacobus, Geertie, Helena, and Franz. Joris (George), baptized September lit, l(l(>(i, uuirried, August 11, KJltl, Ann Schouten, widow of Theunis Dirckscn l)ey, of New York. In 10!)5 George, in company with Anthony Brockholst, Arent Schuyler, Colonel Xicholas Bayard, and John ileet, all of New York, and Samuel Berry, Henry McDonna, and David _Mandeville, of New Jersey, purchased from the Governor and Council of East New Jersey 4, ()()() acres of land in what was then Bergen ("ounty (now I'assaic), ext<'uding northward from the junction of the I'ompton River with the Passaic Ri\er. Of this large tract George Reyerson eventually became the owner of the greater part, on which he settled. His issue, baptized in New York, were Martin, 1(J08; Helena, 1701; George, 1703; Lucas, 1704; and Blandina, 1700. There were probably other children born in New Jersey. The descendants of these children are still numerous in Bergen and Hudson Counties. Many of them have held positions of trust and honor in the councils of the State. THE SICKI ES FAMILY had much to do with the early settlement of Hudson and Bergen Counties. Zacharias Sickles, the common American ancestor of the family, was a native of the City of Vienna, Austria, who soon after reaching manhood drifted to Amsterdam, Holland, where he entered the military service and was sent with a fleet on a ciiiise to Curaqoa, where he remained until 1655. In the service he attained the rank of Adelborst or Cadet. In 1(;55 (iovernor Stuyvesant paid a visit to the island where Sickles was on duty. The latter accompanied the Gov- ernor to New Amsterdam and soon after attached himself to the garrison at Fort Orange (Albany). In 1658 he became a tapster at New Amsterdam, 180 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES and upon the suncnder by the Dutch to the Biitish in IWii he married Anna, dauf^liter of Lambert \'an A'aellvenburgh, and went to worlc to gain a livelihood as a carpentei-. In 1070 he was elected " town herder," which office he held for thirteen years on a salary of 18 gelders a head for the season. He was appointed rattle-watch, so called from the rattle used to give warning in making his nightly rounds. He was also for some time crier to call the people together on needed occasions, and porter or keeper of the city gates, to close them at night and open them in the morning. In l(i()!) he purchased a lot of land in liergen, N. J., on which his eldest son, Robert, settled. The children of this son scattered through Bergen County, where many of Zacharias's descendants still reside. He had nine children, the eldest of whom was Robert, who married Gertrude Redden- hause and located at Bergen, where he was a jirominent resident, and left a large family. His son William, born in October, 1704, married Elizabeth Cooper, and removed to Rockland County, X. Y., from which locality his numerous descendants spread south into Bergen County, where their de- scendants are still found. JAN ADRAINSE SIP was at Bergen as early as KiS-l, where, on April 22 of that year, he married Johanna Van Voorst. He bought several lots at Bergen during the next fifteen years, and becanu' an important and influential person in the town. His issue were eleven children, among whom were Ide, J((lin, Cornelius, Abrahiim, Henry, and Helena. Most of them married and became lesidents of Bergen. Their descendants are still numerous in Hudson County. AARON STOCKHOLM BALI>^^'IN, of Hoboken, comes from one of the oldest families of N(nv England, his ancestors emigrating from the mother counti-,\' with the early colonists. From New England they moved into Eastern New York, and flu re raised the standard of their race, con- quered the primeval forests, and exemplified in their lives the sterling traits of industry, integrity, and progress. Like the subject of this sketch, many (li them achieved inominence in public and business atfairs, wielding a potent influence for good, and leading behind them the memories of an honorable name. Mr. Baldwin was born in East Fishkill, Dutchess County, N. Y., June S, 1839, being the son of Elisha S. Baldwin and Aletta C. Stockholm, a grand- son of Daniel Baldwin, of Lake Mahopac, Putnam County, N. Y., and of Aaron Stockholm, of Fishkill, from whom he was named, and a great-grand- son of Elisha Baldwin, a pioneer of the Hudson River Valley. His father was born at Lake Mahopac, and during his active life followed success- fully the dual occupation of farmer and live stock dealer. Mr. Baldwin attended the East Fishkill public schools until he was tM'elve years old, when he entered Pingree Academy at Fishkill, where he remained five years. Afterward he spent Ave years at what is now Drew Seminary in Carmel, Putnam County, graduating in ISCO. His studies in these institu- tions were in every way worthy of the broad and receptive intellectual qualities which he manifested as a boy, and which have served him well in business and public relations. Having received a thorough classical training, he returned home, and in September, ISd:?, went to Chicago to accept a position with the American Express Company, which he held until July, 1870. At that date he moved to AN'eehawken, N. J., and engaged in the live stock storage business as GENEALOGICAL 181 Scnoriil live stock ascnt for Uw Eric Kaili-oad, and continued in tliut ca- pacity until ISDS. when lie or^iiiized and incoi-iiorated the NVeehawken Stock Yard (Vmipanv, of ^Yllich he is rresideiit and Treasurer and a Direc- tor. :\[r. IJaldwin has been an active Ke]nil)lican ever since he cast his tirst vote and almost ever since the oi-nani/.ation of tin- party, and for about a (juarter of a century, with the e.\cei)tion of one or two years, has been a leadinji- member of the Hudson County l\ei)iiblican ('ominittee; and he is now Chairman of its Oroanization ('oinmittee, which has been asked to AARON S. BALDWIN. devise ways and means by which the ]iaity can be re-oi-^anized in llie county. He was a member of the Hudson County I'.oard of ('hosi'ii Free- holders in ISSl, l,S,s:2, and ISs;!, froni the Tenth .Vsscnibly District, and f(n' seven years sei'ved as a member and Chairman of the Itoard of Tax Com- missionei's of Ilobokeii, where he settled in April, ISSli, and where he still resides. He is now one of the commissioners ai)]iointcd by (lovernor Voor- liees to in(iuire into the exjiediency of consolidaf iiij; the several iiiunici]iali- ties of Hudson County into one f;reat city. This commission was formally organized June 14, 1S09. Mr. Baldwin is also one of the commissioners in Hoboken to adjust the taxes in arrears under the ^lartiii act. He has been 182 HUDSON AND BEUGEN COUNTIES a dclcniilc to almost every State, district, county, and local Republican con- vention for n])ward of ( \\cnty-iive years, was an alternate delef^ate to the Republican National Convention of ISSO, and in 18!)(i was his party's candi- date for Sherilf of Hudson County, and, thougli defeated by about 1,100 votes, carried Hoboken by over 50(1 and not only reduced the usual Demo- cratic majoritv to an insigniticant figure but changed entirely the com- plexion of the Democratic vote and laised the standard of the Republicans. His activity and prominence in the ranks of the Republican party and his long and honorable connection with the live stock markets of New Jersey and New York have Avon for Mr. Baldwin an extensive acquaintance, among whom he is universally respected and esteemed. He is one of the most Iio])nlar men of Hudson <'ounty. He is a member of the lienevolent and I'rotective Older of Elks of Hoboken, and has always supported with a liberal hand i'vi'vy movement designed to promote the general welfare. Mv. Daldwm was married, June .'50, 1860. to Elizabeth Janet Watson, daughter of George L. Watson, of .Vuburn, N. Y. THE SLOTE FAMILY.— The first American ancestor of the Slote family was John I'ieteiseJi Slot, a native of the Province of Holstein in Denmark, who came to America about 1C50 with his two sons, John and Pieter, and settled at Harlem, where he bought lands and became a prominent and useful citizen, filling the important office of magistrate from 1G60 to IGGo. In 1665 he bought of Governor Stuyvesant and located on lands on the Bowery in New .Vmsterdam, remaining there until 1686, when he bought and occupied a house in Wall Street. In 1703 he removed to the south ward of the city, where he died. His son John, married in 1672 Judith Elsworth, and made his residence in New Amsterdam. Some of his chil- dren removed to Hackensack. His brother, Peter Jansen Slot, bought. May 14, 1657, fifty acres at Communipaw, in Bergen County, N. J., on which he located in April, 1665, having first married (1663) Maritie Jacobs Van Winkle, of Bergen. He joined the Dutch church and remained there until 1671, when he sold his Bergen lands and removed to New Amsterdam, remaining theie until 1677, when he removed to Esopus. N. Y., and followed his trade as a builder. Returning in l(iS3, he again located at Bergen, but was soon back in New Amsterdam, living near the Stuyvesant Bowerv. He died there in KiSS, and his widow married John Demarest and removed to Hackensack, whither also all except one of Peter's children went and settled. Peter's issue were John, 1665; Jacobus, 1669; Tryntie, 1G71 (married Nicholas Lozier); Aeltie, 1678 (married Adam Van 'Orden and Cornelius Banta); and Jonas, 1681. The descendants of these are thickly scattered over Rockland County, N. Y., and Bergen County, N. J. THE SMITH FA3IILY.— A branch of the Smith family, which is still numerous in the northern and westei'n paits of Bergen Countv, is descended from Lambert Ariaense, who was a native of the Province of Gelder- land, in Holland. He emigrated to .America when young and settled at New Amsterdam, where, on the 9th of April, 1682, he married Margaretta Gar- rets Blawvelt, a daughter of (Jarret Hendricksen Blawvelt, of Deventer, Holland. In 1686 Lambert Ariaense became, with his brothers-in-law (he Blawvelts, and others, a purchaser of the Tappan patent, a large part of which was in Bergen County, N. J. Lambert rec<>ived a large portion of this patent at each of the divisions. Rev. David Cole in his " History of Rock- land County" says: GENEALOGICAL 183 "Lambert and his two sons located at the ' Green Bush.' where he built a stone house, near where the burying-ground now is. This house was torn down after the Eevolution and a new one erected on the same spot (lY (jerret isnuth. Lambert had three sons. The eldest, Garret, was set- tled, by his father, south of the swamp. Abraham, the second, stayed on the old place, and the third, Cornelius, built on what was then called the Eidge, just west of the present Erie Railroad. Garret, the eldest, was great-grandfather of Gerret Smith, the philanthropist and friend of the slave. Lambert's descendants soon grew so numerous that it was necessary to distinguish one from the other, and as he was a smith bv profession it became convenient to designate him as Lambert Ariaensen Smidt. This name continued for several years, most of the branches dropped the Ariaen- sen entirely, and the family was knoAvn by the name of ' Smith.' " The descendants of Lambert, the smith, spread south into New Jersey, some of them retaining the surname Ariaensen, hence the Auryaunsen family. THE SNEDENS of Bergen County are descendad from John Sneden, a native of Amsterdam, Holland, where his family had lived for many generations. On the 23d of December, 1657, John Sneden, his wife, Gretie Jans, his two children, Carsten and Grietie, and his brother, Claes Sneden, set sail from Amsterdam in the ship " St. John Baptist," bound for the Colony of New Amstel, on the Delaware River. Three years later Claes Sneden removed to New Amsterdam, and John to New Harlem, where the latter purchased two town lots on which he ]iermanently located, and where he died early in lfiC2. Beginning on the 2r)th of March, 1662, his estate was sold at public auction. The house, lands, and standing crops brought 135 gelders and the household effects 1S5 gelders. After the payment of debts 42 gelders remained for the widow and two orphaned childi-en, Carsten and Grietie, of whom, on April 2S. 1(;62, Philip Casier and Lubbert Gerritsen were appointed guardians. (Jrietie married, Au- gust 13, following, Jean Guenon (Genung), and went to reside at Flushing, L. I. Carsten entered the service of Daniel Tourneur, January 15, 1668, for a year, to have at its expiration 300 gelders and " a pair of shoes and stockings." His uncle, Claes Sneden, resided at New Amsterdam, where he had by his wife, Slaria , several children. John Sneden (supposed to have been a grandson of Carsten), about 1740, bought of Henry Ludlow and settled on a large farm at what is now Sneden's Landing, on the west side of the Hudson River. This farm was partly in Bergen County, N. J., and partly in Rockland County, N. Y. John's sons, Dennis (who died un- married) and John, became the owners of his lands at his death, and John's descendants are still numerous in the northerly part of Bergen County. FRANK H. MELVILLE, of Bayonne, Hudson County, was born in Eng- land on the 7th of July, 1840. He received his education in that country, and then came to the United States. For twenty years he was success- fully engaged in the paper and paj^er bag business. Later he engaged in manufacturing sample mailing boxes and rust preventive in New York City. Jn public as well as in business affairs Mr. Melville has long been a prominent figure. He has always been an active Republican, and has served as President of the Third \\'ard Republican Club, as President of the Republican City Committee of Bayonne, and as Secretary of the latter 184 HUDSON AND BER(!EN COUNTIES orj^iinization. He was twice elected Snj)er\isoi' of Taxes, and received tlie iinaiiiiiioiis iioinination of liis jiarty for Fi'eelioldei' and member of Assem- bly. Undei- I\icKiiil(-y's administration he became Postmaster of Bayonne, whei'e lie lias resided for a luimber of yeais. lie is a member, Trnstee, and Tr(\isnrer of tlie Foiii-ty-fonrtli Street Methodist Episcopal Chnrcli. a mem- ber of the Hudson ('oiinty Kejinblican (!ommittee, a member of the IJayonne i'eat ])atriotism, sound judj;nient, and unfailin<;- [tublic spirit, FRANK H. MELVILLE. He has dis- upon to till with and is liiohly respected and esteemed by all who know him charged the various jiublic duties he has been called notable zeal. In 1S(;!) :\Ir. Melville mariied riiilena A. Smith, and of their four children two survive, namely: Florence, born in 1S72, and Francis Lome born in t.SSO. JESSE W. FEEDON.— Thomas Ferdon (he s])elled it ^'erdon) emigrated to America as early as H\-ir,. It was probably a sister of his, Majichilena, who married, March 1!», 1045, Adam Brower, at Flatlands, L. I. The Perdons GENEALOGICAL 185 came of a French family which had for Kome tiiiu- resided in HoHand. Thomas settled in the (iowannus section of IJrooklvn, on a farm late of one Anthony Hulse. He married 3Iary Daduc, a dan^litcr of Aeltje Bi'edenbend (widow of William Bredenbend) by a former hnsband, bv whom he had one child. Thomas Ferdon (2) was born about KUli. The elder Thomas was a magistrate in Brooklyn in Ifidl, 16G2, l«(i:!, and l(i(i4. and is recorded there as having taken the oath of allegiance to King (Jharles in l(iS7. His son Thomas (2) was thrice married, his first wife being Yte (or Elsie) Jurianise (or Jeuriens), widow of Tunis Ten Eycke. Ity his second and third wives he had no issue. He is enumerated in the census of Brooklyn in KJST as having only Thi-ee persons in his family. He was an Ensign in the Kings County militia in 1715, and both he and his fii'st wife were membei's of the Dutch Church at Brooklyn. When he took the oath of allegiance, in 1687, he was described as a "native" and as residing at Go wannus. owning and occupying the homestead of his father. He was a constable in 1004. In 1718 he is set down as residing at New TTticcht, where he was a deacon in the Dutch Church and where he died. One child. Jacob Ferdon (:{), by his first wife, was his only issue, born at Brooklyn, March 10, 1C56. Jacob (;'.) Married, :\lay 17, 1()7S (at N,.„- York), Femmetve Williams, of Flatlands, L. I., a native of Mei)iiel, Holland. The couple lived at Flatbush, where they joined the Dutch ^'hurch in l(if)4. Jacob bought a farm at New I'trecht, to which he must have removed, as his name appeared on the as- sessment roll there for that year and in the census of 1G98. The census i-e- lites that he had then seven children. In 17(1!) his name appears on a peti- tion for an additional ferry to Brooklyn. His children were Barbarba, Wilhelnius, Thomas, Maria, Ja. On the 10th of Jlarch, 1740, he nuide his first i)urchase of a tract of 470 acres of laud at Closter from Henry Lu(lh)w. On this tract he settled and built his family mansion west of the present residence of Ben S. STnith, northeast of Closter. He bought other lands of Ludlow north and east of his home tract, until he owned over 1,000 acres. The sui'name of his wife and the date of his death aic unknown. His children were John, William, Elizabeth, Diike, Abram, John (2), and I'hebe. His farm after his death passed to the ownership of his three sous, John, AN'illiam. and Abiam, and his numerous descendants spread over Bergen and Rockland Counties. Of the above children, John Ferdon (.")), born at Chister, Augusr '>. 17G0, died there July 20, 1827, m.arried, December 20, 17S4, Marytie (or "]Marishy," as she was called) Sickles, born August 31, 17(54, died June 11, 1824. John was a farmer and always lived on part of his father's farm. His children were Braekie (married John A. Haring). Nicholas, and Abram (dead). Nicholas Ferdon (0), born October IS, 1787, died Decembei' 22. 1862, mar- ried, in 1800, Jemima Westervelt, born October 10, 1701, died February 19, 1S70. By the will of his father all the latter's lands, including the old home- stead of his father, went to Nicholas. Abraham N. Ferdon (7). son of Nicholas (6), was born at Closter, October ."), 1810, and died there in 188:!. He married (1) Maria Demarest and (2) Leah Ferdon. He was a farmer and resided on the old homestead at Closter, 186 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES His oliildreii wcir eight — six by his flist wife and two by his second wife: Caroline, John 1)., Maij;ait'l, Abraham, ^^'illianl, Martha, Jesse ^V., and Saninel. Jesse AV. Ferdon (S), tlie subject of tliis sketch, was born at Closter, N. J., October 14, 184S. He has been a life-long resident of Bergen County. He was educated in the public schools at Closter, leaving, however, at the age of fifteen, to earn his own livelihood. When eighteen years old he left farm work, at which he had been employed, to learn the carpenter's trade, and by steady application soon mastered every branch of carpentering, joining, and building. But ciicumstances and inclination finally led him, after some four years, to abandon the trade and return to farming, which he has since followed with success. As a resident of Bergenfield, Bergen County, Mr. Ferdon has been more or less active in public affairs, but has invariably declined to accept political oflflce, even when urged to do so by hosts of friends. He is deeply interested in every problem or movement affecting the welfare of the community, and in a quiet, unostentatious way contributes liberally for the support of all worthy objects. In I'eligion he is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and in all the relations of life has displayed great mental ability, unswerv- ing integrity, sound judgment, and a patriotic spirit. Mr. Ferdon married Miss Leah A\'estervelt, a member of one of the old Bergen Count\ families, and by her has had three sons. ED MUX! ) W. YS'AKELEE, a prominent lawyer of New A'ork City and Englewood, Bergen County, N. J., was born in Kingston, A". Y., on the 31st of November, 1S09. lie is the son of Nicholas and Eliza C. (Ingerso)l) Wakelee, a giandson of JosejA and Susan (Curtiss) Wakelee and of Justus and Esther (Stow) Ingersoll, and a great-grandson of David and Hannah Ingersoll and I>avid and Anna (Perkins) Stow. His father, Nicholas, was a prominent business man in Kingston. Mr. Walvelee received his education at Kingston Academy and at the University of the City of New York, and subsequently entered the law office of Bernard & Fiero, then of Kingston, but now of Albany. N. Y. He was admitted to the bar of both New York and New Jersey in 1S91, having graduated from the University of the City of New York in that year. Since then he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession both in Bergen County, N. J., where he resides, and in New Y'oi'k City. During the past seven years Mr. Wakelee has been active in politics in Bergen County as a Republican leader, and has been President of the Republican Club of Harrington Township. In November, 1898, he was elected a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, in which he gained distinction as an able debater. He was re-elected to the General As- sembly in 1899 and was selected as the leader on the floor of the Republican majority. He has always been a Republican. As a lawyer he has achieved eminent success, and in the many important cases with which he has been connected has displayed marked ability and high legal qualifications. He is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association, of the Englewood Club, of the Tenafly Club, of the Phi Delta Phi and the 1 )elta Upsilon fraternities, of Northern Valley Lodge, Knights of Honor, of Teuaily, and of Alpine Lodge, No. 77, Free and Accepted Masons, of Closter, N. J. He is also President of the Demarest Firemen's Association, and is a life member of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. He is unmarried. GENEALOGICAL 187 ^ EKNEST KOESTER, of Ilackrnsaclc, X. J., I'ldscciiloi' of the IMcas foi' licriivu Coiiuly, was Itoni at Norristown, I'a,, A]iril L'S, IS.IS, tlio son of (i. V. and J[arY P.. Kot'stov. lie attended tlie excidlent schools of tliat ]ilae(> and afterward the Ilij^h School in I'hilach'lpliia. He then went to (ierniany and studied three years in IIeidelh(M-j'; Tni^■ersi(y. and on reiurnin^- to his native State entered AUeiilieny ( 'olle^e at Mendvil'ie.froni wliicli lie was graduated A. P.. in lST(i. receivin;^' the AJI. deeri;('n County and soon secured a lucrative ]iractice. lie was admitted to the New Jersey liar at Trenton June (I, 1S!).-|. On comiui;' to P>er,i;en County ilr. Koester immediately took an active in MAIN STREET, NORTH OF PASSAIC STREET, HACKENSACK. terest in Republican jiolitics and soon becanu' one of the most jirominent leaders of his ]inrty. ^^lule his jiolitical <-onvictions and partisan action are consistent there is nothin<;' of what is called hitter partisanslii]i in his make-up. He is one of the ablest lawyers and most res|iected citizens of I lie foninumity. In Feluaiar}', PtItO, (ioveiaior ^'oorhees appointed him Prose- cutor of the Pleas for Iterneu ('ounty f(U- the usual term from Mai-cli follow- ing. !Mi-. Koester's liii;li standing in his jirofession and his (pialiticalions for the jiroseculorship are unquestioned. lie was not inexperienced, in the duties (d' that office, and his eftort to make the administral ion of justice by the courts in Pergen County impaitial, etlicient, and economical is note- worthv. He is married and has two children. ALE MAX PER CASS, Countv, N. Y., Noveudier if Englewood, was boiii at Carlisle, Schoharie .'(I, ISl'.j. His maternal ancestors were Germans 188 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES and Hollanders, while those on his father's side were English, the ancestral lines going back to l(iS(J. Hon. Lewis Cass, United States Senator from Michigan, was a member of this family. Mr. Cass's father died M'hen he was about eighteen months old, and some two years later his mother remarried and moved to Carthage, Jeiferson County, in that State, where she died in 1852. Alexander was left, after his mother's marriage, with his maternal grandparents at Carlisle, where he spent his early life on a farm, attending the district school. At the age of twelve he was sent to Albany as clerk in a grocery store, but a year later he returned to his grandparents, and for two years attended Schoharie Academy. ^Vf forward he attended the select school of I'rofessor A. Smith Knight, who was also a civil engineer and lawyer, and th(Me he studied surveying and acfed as amanuensis. On April 1, 1842, he became the teacher of the Carlisle school (District No. 4, or the Little Yoi'k district), wheie he continued for two and a half years, when he went to the adjoin- ing (Rockville) district, remaining there five and one-half years. In the meanwhile, from 1S48 to 1850, he spent a part of his time in the law office of John H. Salisbury, of Carlisle. In November, 1850, Mr. Cass entered the law office of T. & H. Smith, of (Jobleskill, N. y., and there pursued his legal studies until September, 1852. In April, 185)5, he was graduated from the Law Department of the University of Albany, and in the same month was admitted before the Supreme Court to the Xew York bar as attorney and counselor, being at that time associated with his old preceptor, Thomas Smith, who had moved to the capital city. ^Ir. Cass moved to Bergen County. N. J., May 22, 1853, and on August 6 assumed charge of the Upper Teaneck public school. He continued as teacher there and at Lower Teaneck in all thirteen years, and was instru- mejital in building up the schools to the standard of excellence which those districts have long maintained. In 1845 he was elected Town Super- intendent of Public Schools at Carlisle, N. Y., but on account of his youth could not qualify. In 1846, however, he was re-elected and served two terms. He moved from Teaneck to Englewood in 18C5, and in 1867 was appointed the first School Superintendent for Bergen (Jounty, serving two terms, or six years. Since retiring from that position he has acted as civil engineer and in public capacities. He was elected a Justice of the Peace in 1864 and is now serving his fifth term. From 1859 to 1865 he was Town Clerk of Englewood. Lie was Assessor for Englewood Township in 1876 and 1877, Coroner from 1878 to 1881 and from 18!)2 to 1895, Com- missioner of Appeals for several terms, and one of the two examiners and visitors of the public schools of Bergen County in 1858-60. In all of these positions he displayed sound judgment, marked ability, and great execu- tive energy. July 4, 1855, Mr. Cass married Maria Louisa Halleck (now deceased), a native of Delaware County, N. Y., and a lineal descendant of Fitz Greene Halleck, the noted author of "Marco Bozzaris." They had two children: AMUard Cass, the subject of the following article, and Hattie E., who died at the age of sixteen months. WILLARD CASS, the well known civil engineer of Englewood, N. J., has been a life-long resident of that town, where he was born January 5, 1861. He received an excellent public school education, and subsequently studied civil engineering, which profession he has followed successfully GEXEALOcnCAL 189 in Enylcwood. He has been coiuiectcd with many iniportaiit cuiiiiiccriii^^ eiiterprist's, and in every instance has disphiyed eminent qualifications and a tliorou^h mastery of the business. I'ublic s])ii-ited, lu-o^i-essi ve, and enlev- prisin. His wife died in ISOd. ^Ir. Newbery was born in New York City on the 27th of August, IS")-!, and there received an excellent p u b 1 i c school education, "grad- uating' in lS(i7 fi'om GrauHuar School No. ?,'2. In tile same year he engaged in the cus- tom house brokerage business, in ^^•hicll he has ever since contin- ued, acliieving marlced success and gaining a wi(h' re])utatiou. ib moved to Arlington. Hudson County, in ISSl, and in that at- tractive suburb has (M-ected a beautiful home which he now occupies. Although :Mr. Ni-w bery has devoted him- s], KiSiJ. He was a member of the Oovei-nor's Council for a nundier of yeai-s, appointed Hrst March IS, 1<>7l*, and held the Hrst commission to administer croA\ner's quest law in (he county in 1()7:-'. Oi> -January ti, 1(;7(!, jointly with the Ilogerls, fJantas, and others, he bought a large tract of land north and east of Hackejisack, known as New llacken- sack, ui)Oi) which he resided as early as l(;ss. His is-ue of the second generalion were four children: Andries A. (KidO), La wrens A., i'eter A., and TJionias. Of these I'eter and TlHuna.s remained at P>ergen, while Andries (2), who married in 1717 Jaccunina Davids Deniarest, and Laurens (2), who married in 1710 Heudricke Vandelinda, bought and settled ou extensive tracts of land on the east side of the Saddle Kiver. Andries's grandson John (4) was born at S;iddle River in 1741 and died in 1815. Lie was a farmer, and was known as " Decke Jan " (thick Johu), because he weighed some 401) jiounds. His gra\-e is in the old I'.lue i\nils graveyard at Saddle Kiver. His wife Sarah is buiied at the Lutheran 192 HUDSON AND BEU(iEN COUNTIES Chui'cli. Their issue of the fifth generation were John, 1777 (died), Andrew, 177!), ITannali, Jemima, and John. Jolin (5), last above named, was born at Saddle River in 178G and died in l.S7.'i. His wife, Elizabeth Ackernian, was born in 1790 and died in 1860. He and his wife are both buried in the Lutheran reiuetery at Saddle Eiver. This John was a farmer. His issue of th(> sixth generation were John, Adelaide, Sai'ali, David, Eliza, Jas])ei-, Charily, Andrew, and Jemima M. John (C) was born at Saddle River August 13, 1809, and died at Haclcen- saelc October IS. lS(;(i. His wife was Eliza Huyler, of Tenafly. Both are buried at Cherry Hill near Hackensaek. This John was a butcher by oc- cupation. His issue of the seventli generation were seven children: Sarah Ann, Euphemia, John H., David, \\illiam H., Alvin, and Jacob L., the last named being the subject of this sketch. Jacob L. Van Ikisl'drk (7) was born at Saddle River, N. J., July 29, 1851, and received his education in the district schools at New Bridge and Hack- ensack, after which he learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he fol- lowed successfully foi' nine years. He then took up the calling of a butcher in Hackensack, which lie still pursues. Some years ago he was elected Freeholder from his township, which oHice he faithfully filled for six years. For three years he was Dirt-ctor of the board. He was elected Sheriff of Bergen County in 1S98 by a majority of 709 votes over his Republican competitor. He married Miss Jlay E. Naugle, of Areola, who was born May 11, 185J. The couple have issue of the eighth generation three children: Margaret F., George, and Henry C, the first two of whom are married, and each have one daughter of the ninth generation. Mr. Van Buskirk is a member of Hope Plncampment, I. O. O. F., of the Order of American Foresters, of the Order nf Red Men, and of the Order of United Workmen; President of the Exempt Firemen's AsscK-iation; Treas- urer of the Firemen's Insurance Company; and a member of the Liberty Steam Fire Engine Company, the Democratic Club, the Wheelmen's Club, and other organizations. CHARLES A. SCHINDLER, Sit., son of Christian Henry Schindler and Catherine Iveller, was born July .1, 1S27, in Hesse-Darmstadt, (Jerinaiiy, where his father, who died in 1S:!9, was a prominent furniture manufac- turer and upholsterer. He was educated and learned the trade of upholster- ing and decorating in the Fatherland. In 1H18 he took part in the revolu- tion, and in consequence was obliged to flee to America, in company with many other fellow patriots, and here he was extensively engaged in manu- facturing furniture and upholstering in New York ('ity until 1870. In that year he moved his business to West Hoboken, N. J., where he has resided since 1860. Mr. Schindler is one of the oldest and most esteemed German citizens in North Hudson County, a man of the loftiest integrity, and in every relation of life has gained the confidence as well as the respect of the community. In politics he is a Republican from conviction, especially on National issues, but in local affairs he is independent, casting his influence in favor of matters promising the greatest good. He is a prominent mem- ber of the Patriots' Society of 1818 and '49 of New York. In IMay, 1852, he married Sophia Ziegeler, daughter of Daniel Ziegeler, of Hamburg, Germany. She died in October, 1898. Of their ten children six are living, viz.: Charles, Jr., Cora, Sophia, Otto, Thekla, and Rose. GENEALOGICAL VJS OITAULE.S A. S('I1INDLP]R, Ju. T ^, , ■ r,. , . ltli>-t woji of Ghai'lcs A. Schiiidlei-, Si-., ami Soplna /i("-..l,.r, \N-as boni January :!, lsr,7, in A\-,,sl Hobokon, N. J., wlR-i-e lie has alwaN-s resided, and where he ^e(■ei^•ed a public school educa- tion Alter leavm- sc]iy his first wife he had childr<'n Jane and Sally, and by his second wife, AbaJ,^^il Bean, he had seven children: John, James, Albert. Harriet. Ann, Kacliel, and Chris- tina, all of the sixth genei-ation. James IJerdau (0) was born at jMaywood, Afarch 10, 1S18, and died there Se|)tembei' G, ISdi!. He was a farmer, and married Mary ^A'ortendyke, by whom lie liad issue of the seventh jieueration Abagail L., Mary E., Corne- lius \y., and A\'alter, of whom f'ornelius W. is the subject of this sketch. (■ornelius AX'. Iterdan was boi-n in New Voi-k City, December 24, lS-50. AMiile yet a nu^-e lad his ))arents remo\'ed to Maywood in Itergen County, where Cornelius attended the district school. He suVise(|uently finished COURT HOUSE AND GREEN, HACKENSAGK. his education at Tiofes^sor ^A'illianls's j)ri\ate academy at ILickeusack. At seventeen years of af;e he became a clerk in a New York broker's office, and latei' entered the employ of the American News ("om])any, where he remained until 1874. when he entered, as a law student, the office of the la1e Judge Manning ]\!. Knapp, at Hackensack. A year later he entered the office of Garret Ackerscui, Jr., tlien tlu' nn)st prominent lawyer in the county, '^\v. T!erdan wa.s aduiitted to the bar in February, 187S, and has been successfully i)racticiug his {U-ofession ever since. He married. October 15, 1S7!), Mary Pond 0'<'onnor. daughter of John C. and Elizabeth O'Connor, of Milfoi'd, T'onn.. by whom he has issue a daughler. Elizabeth IT., born Mi\y 20, iss:',. He is a uu'mlxn- of Pioneer Lodge, No. 70, F. ami A. M., of New Yoi'k Council, No. 348, Royal Arcanum, of the Ifackensack «'lub, of the Hackensack Golf and Wheelman's Clubs.' and of Kelief Hook and Ladder Company, of Hackensack. He is also counsel for three townships and two boroughs. GBNEALOOICAL 197 EOr.ERT CnAr:MAN, of Arliiiotoii, X. J., wlu* lias been ass(.ci:ilr BER(!EN COUNTIES JOHN CLEMENT JUSTIN, M.T)., of Oiil Icnbois, N. J., son of Rev. John Justin and (Jatiiarine Wcslcrfi'Id, was born in llie Town of Union. Hudson County, S('ptcna)oi- -!G, ISCS. Pie bogan liis education in tlie publif seliools of liis native town, spent a year and a lialf in tlu' employ of the E(iuitable Life Assurance Society, and was <;Taduated from Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey (Jitv, in ISS."), and from New Yoi-k University in the arts and sciem-es with the degree of l'..A. in 18S0. In 1S!)1 he began the study of medicine at the Medical J »ei)ai-tnu'iit of the Univei'sity of the City of New York, fi-om which he was graduated with the degree of M.l). in IS!):]. He JOHN CLEMENT JUSTIN. immediately entered HeidelVierg IIos]iital in (ierniajiy, where he remained one year, and then took s])ccial courses in I lie ^^'iirzburg hosjiitals. After ward he traveled tlu'ough the ])rincipal cities of Germany, visiting hospitals, and thence went to Switzerland, Italy, France, and England. Returning to Anun-ica, Dr. -lustin sulistituted for Dr. P^xton, of .Vrlington, for a period of two months, and in the fall of ]S!)4 began the practice of his profession in (Juttenberg, and afterward built his present residence in \Vest New York, Hudson County, where he continues to reside. Dr. Justin has already achieved success as a physician and surgeon, and throughout the section in which he has ac(juired an extensive practice is ERRATA On page 201, in sketch of Garret T. Haring, change as follows : In 13th line from top, last word, read Rensie instead of " Reusie " as printed. The next paragraph shonld read as follows : Thomas E. Haring (8), born March 3, 1808, died Fehruary 16, 1870, married Rachel Taylor, and had issne two children ; Sarah E. and Garret T. Haring, the latter being the snbject of this sketch. In next to last line read Anne G. Hasbrook instead of " Anne A." as printed. GENEALOGICAL 201 highly esteemed and respected. His ability, integrity, and genial good nature have won for him the confidence of tlie community. He is a mem- ber of the Eo.Nul Arcanum, of the Knights of Honor, of the Order of American Mechanics, and of the Foiesters of America. November 20, lSi».j, Dr. Justin married Ottilie Katherine Kothe, daughter of William and Ottilie Katherine (Fnchs) Kothe, of the Town of Union, K. J. They have one son living, viz.: John Clement Justin, Jr., born October 10, is;»7. GARRET T. HARING is descended in the ninth generation from Jan rietersen Haring, the emigrant from Hooin, Holland. The line of descent is the same as that of (iarret A. Haring (see page 01) down to the fifth generation. Gai-ret Johns Haring (5). a son of John Oozine Haring (4) and Aeltie Van Dolsen, born April 28, 172"). married, in 17,51. Cornelia Lent, and had issue of the sixth generation eight children: iVeltie, I'cter, Frederick, James, Catharine, Elizabeth, John, and Abraham, John (iarrets Haring (ii), born at Ta])i)an in ]7r)2. married Rensie (dav- rets) Eckerson and had issue of the seventh generation four children; Aliie, ', where, on August 19 of the same year, he married Elizabeth Samuels Hemarest. She was born Ai)ril :^, 1710, and died July !l, 17!t7. The couple lived at Schraalen- burgh, and had issue of the second generation seven children, one of whom was John W. John W. Campbell (2) was born July :'.l, 174(;, and died at Pascack, N. J., March 15, 1820. He married Letitia ^'an Valen, of Closter, who was born May 14, 1751, and died June 25, 1811. John W. Campbell (2) early in life located at I'as- eaek, where he established a wampum factory, and for yeais conducted an exten- sive business, supplying the LTnited States government Indian agents and traders of the day with Indian money. His descend- ants, until (juite recently, continued the manufacture of wampum. John \Y. had issue eight children of the fourth gen- eration, of whom one was Abraham J. Abraham J. Campbell (4j was born at Pas cack, October 13, 1782, and died there March 0. 1847. His wife, Margaret Demarest, whom he married May !», 1807, was born October 10, 177'), and died October 15, 1834. He had issue of the fifth generation John A., Peter A., James A., David A., and Abram A. David A. Campbell (5), born January 10, 1812, died June 20, 1893, married Sally Haring, of Pascack (born March 0, 1814 died June 12, 1899), and had issue of the sixth gen- eration Ritie, Margaret, Elizabeth, Daniel H., John A., wami-um. James .V., and Abiam D. Abram D. Campbell (0) was born at Pascack, October 10, 184L. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and at Hackensack, and after teaching for a short period, during which time he was elected School Sui)erintendent of his township, he resigned and entered the State Normal School at Trenton, from which institution he was graduated in 1803. After leaving school he engaged in teaching until 1805, when he entered the office of Colonel Garret Ackerson, Jr., at Hackensack, as a law student. He was admitted as an attorney at the June term in 1^09 and as a connselor in 1875. A few months after his admission as an attornev he opened an office in Hackensack, and on August 7, 1870, was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas, to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- 204 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES nation of Colonel Ackcrson, and on September 1, of the same year, he was appointed by Governor Eandoljjh to All that office until the close of the next session of the Legislatui'e. On April 5, 1871, he was appointed for the full term, and by subse(iuert appointments held the office for twenty-five years. Having enlisted in Company C, Second Battalion, N. G. N. J., October 8, 187-!, he was commissioned Quartermaster of the battalion with the rank of First Lieutenant January 14, 1873, and on March 15, 1876, received the commission of ( 'aptuin. He served during the railroad strike of 1877, and retired with the rank of Brevet-Major December 16, 1890. Mr. Campbell was married, September 22, 1869, to Ann E. Plopper, daughter of Jacob Hopper and Lydia Bogert, of Hackensack, born August 5, 18-16. They had five children of the seventh generation: Luther A., Eva, David (deceased), Harry (deceased), and N. Demarest Campbell. Luther A. Campbell (7), the subject of this sketch, was born at Hack- ensaclc, November 28, 1872. He was educated in the public schools, and was graduated Avitli honors from the Union Street High School, of which Dr. Nelson Haas was Principal. Immediately after leaving school he began the study of law in his father's office, and in June, 1894, was admitted to the bar as an attorney; subsequently he became associated with his father under the firm name of A. D. & L. A. Campbell. In 1894, at the organiza- tion of the Improvement Commission, Mr. Campbell became counsel and clerk of that board, and was also for several terms clerk to the Grand Jury, by appointment of Judge Dixon, but was forced to give up his position because of growing business in general practice. He has also been chosen counsel in several townships and boroughs in Bergen County. He is a member of Hope Encampment, No. 33, I. O. O. P. He was married, April 22, 1895, to Mae E., daughter of Richard P. Pauli- son, of Hackensack. Their children of the eighth generation are Ruth De- baun, born March 5, 1897, and Clarendon, born March 7, 1899. DAVID AY. McCREA has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in Jersey City since 1882, and through his ability and integrity of character has achieved distinction and honor. He is the son of James W. T. Mc(Jrea and Harriet E. Schroeder, and was born in New Hampton, N. Y., on the 3d of February, 1861. There he spent his early life, laying the foundation of a sound physique, and gaining in the district schools a rudimentary English education. He also pursued his studies at Middletown (N. Y.) Academy, and later at the private school of Dr. Henry Warren. From his father's ancestors Mr. McCrea inherits those sturdy Scotch characteristics which distinguish the race, while from his mother, who was of German descent, he likewise inherits high intellectual attainments. Even before completing his studies he had decided upon the law as a pro- fession, and after leaving school began active preparation for admission to the bar. In due time he found himself prepared to enter upon the active practice of the profession, to which he has since devoted his energies with uninterrupted success. Mr. McCrea was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at the February term of the Supreme Court in 1882, and ever since then has been actively and successfully engaged in practice in Jersey City. He is a public spirited, enterprising, and progressive citizen, deeply interested in the affairs of his adopted city and State, and highly esteemed and re- spected by all who know him. GENEALOGICAL 205 He was manicd mi tlit- ll'tb of Jaiiuai-v. IS'M. to Emma Feiiiiei- Smitli, of Jersey City, X. J. DA^ ID W. LAWRENCE, of Jeisev Citv, X. J., was lioiu in (lie Citv of ^ew ^ork, Xorember 1(1, 1850. AVliile a child liis i.areiifs moved to i'ilu- Coimty, Pa., and eontinned to reside tliere and in tlie contimmns County of Monroe nntil 1803. Tliat region was tlien (and is stilli'a wilderness. Wliile the family lived at Shawnee, Moni-oe County, tln' Ci\il War luoko out. and Mr. Lawrence's two oldei- brothers enlisted. In isd.", the family returned to Xew York, and Mr. Lawrence's fath- er also enlisted. He was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, taken prisoner, and subs e- qnently died in Ander- sonA'ille military prison. This left Mr. Lawrence, tlu-n a boy of thirteen, as the main sujiport of his widowed mother a n d two brothers younger than himself. He ob- tained employment in a retail st(U-e. attending school at night. In 1S08 ilr. Lawicnce moved to Jersey City and engaged in a mer- i/antile business until 1872, when he accepted an apiiointment in the Xew York postoftlce, ^^■here he remained eight years, discharging h i s duties with ability and satisfaction, and being promoted to Assistant Chief Clerk of the Keg- istry Department, which position he resigned in LS80. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen in Jersey City over ex-Ma^or John 1!. Ibunai'. a jiopular Democial. lb' de- clined a renomination in the sjjring of 1S7!). I)ut arcejiled the nominalion for Assembly in the fall and was elected over David J. Tost. recei\ing more majority than his op]ionent had votes. lie was re-elected in isso and b^sl. At the session of 18S1 he was a])i)ointed ("hairman of the House Commiltee selected to represent the State of Xew Jersey at the centennial celeliratioii of the battle of Cowpens at Sjiartanburg. S. C. At Ihe se'^sion of 18Si! he was the Iiejinblican nominee^ for S]ie;d-;er of the House. I'lior to ihe close of the session he was elected in joint session of the Senate DAVID \V. LAWHKXCK. and House of 206 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Assembly a Police Justice for Jersey City for the term of three years. At the expiration of his term of Police Justice Mr. Lawrence decided to retire from political life. Two days later, however, he was appointed by the Board of Finance and Taxation, at the request of a Citizens' Committee, Assessor for the Fifth Aldermanic District. This position he filled for three consecutive years, each year being unanimously elected President of the Board of Assessors. In 1888 he was nominated as a Republican and citizens' candidate for Sheriff of Hudson County. Though not elected, he received a very gratifying indorsement. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Cleveland, under the new city charter, a member of the Board of Tax Commissioners for the long term of three years, and while he was the minority member his associates unanimously elected him President of the board. Before the expiration of his term he publicly announced that he would not accept any other political office. But on the request of Justice Lippincott he has served on several commissions appointed by the court. He was formerly a member of Monticello Lodge, No. 140, I. O. of O. F., of the Orion Rowing Association, and of the Palma, Berkeley, and Jersey City Clubs. He is also a member of Bergen Lodge, No. 47, F. and A. M., of Jersey City Consistory, No. 51, of the Hopatcong Club, of the Union League, and of the Lincoln Association, and a life member of the Carteret Club. He is also one of the managers of the Provident Institution for Sav- ings, a Trustee of the New Jersey State Home for Boys at Jamesburg, and is trustee and executor for a number of important estates. He has been faithful and popular in every position he has held, and few business men in Jersey City have been more successful, and none more highly trusted and respected. He is still engaged in the real estate and insurance business, which he established in 1885, and is a large real estate owner in Jersey City. ABEL I. SMITH, one of the leading lawyers of Hudson County and Dis- trict Court Judge of Hoboken, is descended from one of the oldest families of East Jersey. In 1732 Abel Smith, his ancestor, settled on a large tract of land in Secaucus, which was then included with Hoboken in old Bergen County. This land was conveyed by deed to Mr. Smith by Israel Hors- fleld on October 24, 1732, and has ever since been owned and occupied by a member of the Smith family. Daniel Smith, son of Abel, served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier in Colonel Oliver Spencer's cavalry regiment of the Continental Army — a regiment, by the way, noted for its efficiency and bravery. John Smith, son of this patriot Daniel, had a son, Abel I. Smith, Sr., who was the father of the subject of this article, and who served as a private in the War of 1812, afterward holding many positions of trust and honor in Hudson and Bergen Counties, and being one of the most prominent and best known men in that section until his death in 1865. He was one of the few ])ersons honored by Robert Stevens with a pass for life over the Hoboken ferries. The original pass, in the handwriting of Mr. Stevens, is still in the family, and reads : " Abel I. Smith and his wife, if he gets one." Judge Smith represents the fourth generation of his family after they settled in Hudson (then Bergen) County. He is the son of Abel I. Smith, Sr., and Prudence Cary, his wife, and was born in North Bergen, N. J., June 12, 1843, on the land conveyed to the original Abel Smith in 1732 by a deed de- scribing him as " a gentleman." There he received his preliminary educa- tion in the public schools. He was for eight years under the able tutorship of the Rev. William V. V. Mabon, D.D., later a professor in the New Bruns- GENEALOGICAL 207 wick Theological Seminary. In 1S62 he was graduated with honor from Kutgers College, and the same year bej-an his legal studies in the office of J. Dickerson Miller, of Jersey City, being admilted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1866, and as a counselor in June, 1873. He has practiced his profession in Hoboken since 1868, coming there from the Town of Union, Hudson County, and by the exercise of great natural ability has achieved eminent success and a high reputation. He has also filled several important positions. In 1869 he was elected as a Republican to the Legislature from the old Eighth Assembly District, comprising Bergen, West Hoboken, Weehawken, and the Township of Union, and served in the session of 1870. He was the first Republican elected from that district and the only Republican from Hudson County in the session of that year. He declined a renomination. In 1888 he was appointed Judge of the District Court of the City of Hoboken by Governor Green and served until April 1, 1891. and in 1898 he was again appointed to the same position by Governor Griggs. A fact of special interest in connection with his first term on the bench is that, of the many cases which he decided, few were taken to higher courts for review, and all but two so taken were affirmed. His present term expires in 1903. Judge Smith has been a life-long resident of Hudson County, and for more than thirty years has been actively identified with the growth of the City of Hoboken. He is an able and talented lawyer, one of the ac- knowledged leaders of the Hudson County bar, a learned, fair-minded, and conscientious jurist, and a public spirited, progressive citizen. His practice has been largely confined from the first to civil suits in the Court of Chancery, in the Circuit, Supreme, and Orphans' Courts, and in the Court of Errors and Appeals, and also in the United States Circuit and District Courts of New Jersey, to the bar of which he was admitted in 1894. He was counsel in the matter of the crossing of the new county road by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, and also for three of the most important and noteworthy improvements in Hudson County, namely: the " Bull's Ferry Road," the " Bergen Line Road," and the " Bergen Wood Road." For ten years he was counsel for the Township of North Bergen; for three years he was counsel for the Jersey City, Hoboken, and Ruther- ford Electric Railway Company; and in a legal capacity has also been connected with many large estates and interests in the County of Hudson. For four years he served as President of the Hudson County branch of the State Charities Aid Association of New Jersey, being also a member of the Committee on Laws of the State Association. Few men have achieved the distinction in both professional and public life which Judge Smith enjoys. He has long been an active and influential Republican and a recognized leader of the party, and in the various positions which he has filled he has displayed great executive ability, sound judgment, and commendable foresight. At the bar and on the bench he has gained a merited eminence. "\^'ell versed in the science of the law, and firmly grounded in the loftiest principles of practice, his untiring efforts and legal attainments have placed him among the foremost lawyers of East Jersey, and in the possession of an extensive and successful prac- tice. Since 1885 John S. Mabon, a son of his early tutor, has been his law partner, the firm name being Smith & Mabon. Judge Smith is also an antiquarian of no little reputation, and at his home has a large and valua- ble collection of continental money, rare old coins, etc., several of which have been in the family since their settlement in America. His collection 208 flUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES includes gold pieces of various countries from 1632 to 1800 aud a number of continental coins which were exhumed a few years ago at or near the site of the Smith homestead in Secaucus. He also has a large library, which includes the old family Bible containing the date of the birth of Mary Bailey, one of his ancestors, in St. Philip's Parish, Bristol, England, in 1053. He is a member of the Palma and Union League Clubs of Jersey City, and for years has been identified with many of the leading institutions of his county. Judge Smith was married December 7, 1870. to Laura Howell, daughter of Martin A. Howell, a prominent resident of New Brunswick and popu- larly known throughout New Jersey, being a Director of the New Jersey Eailroad and Transportation Company, the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, and other important corporations. They have three children: Abel I. Smith, Jr.; Eliza Howell, wife of James Brown Mabon, of the Arm of Kingsley, Mabon & Co., brokers, A\'all Street, New York; and Dorothy Gailbraith Smith. THE VAN BUSSUM FAIMILY.— Egbert Van Borsum was a native and resident of Emden, a little town between (ironingen and Delfsyle, Hol- land. There was born, about 1C05, his son, Egbert Van Borsum, Jr., who emigrated to America in 163!) and settled at New Amsterdam, where, on December 11 of the same year, iie married .Vnlie Hendricks, a native of Sweden. Van Borsum was a sailor and ca])tain, or skipper, of the ship "Prince William" in 1664. On July 15, l(i51, he obtained a patent for two lots at the ferry in Brooklyn, and on March 12, 1666, he bought an- other lot adjoining his first XJurchase. On tliese lots he resided. He leased and operated the ferry between New York and Brooklyn, June 1, 1651, and in 1657 was assessed ten gelders toward supporting the salary of Dominie Polhr-mus. Prior to 1660 he belonged to the New Amsterdam Dutch Church, and took the oath of allegiance to the English King. In 1670 he appears to have resided at Platbnsh. He is said to have died on Long Island. His issue were Plerman, 1640; Cornelius, l(i42; Henry, 1648: Ty- man, 1651; Janneken, 1053; and Ann, 1656. Cornelius married, Sei)tember 1, 1669, Sarali Roelofse, widow of Ha!is Kierstead. He was then residing at the ferry at Brooklyn, where he had previously married Grietie Gysberts. August 6, 106S, he was allotted lands at Canarsie, but he i)robably resided oh a farm at Platbnsh, which he and Paulus Richards had bought in 1654. On June 28, 167S, he was at Bergen, N. J., and purchased from Anthony A'erbruggen a lot of meadow land on the Hudson River at AA'eehawken, since known as Slaugh's meadow. He afterward became interested in the Saddle River patent in Bergen County. Herman Van Borsum, a descendant of Egbert, Jr., settled at Hack- ensack in 1748 with liis wife, Abagail Furbis. Others of Egbert's de- scendants settled at Aquackanonck and south of Hackensack, and their descendants have become widely scattered over Bergen County. GEORGE WAKEMAN A\^HEELER, of Hackensack, N. J., was born in Easton, Conn., on the 15th of October, 1831. He is the son of Hon. Charles AVheeler and Jerusha Bradley. His father was a Judge of Probate in Connecticut and a member of the Legislature in that State. Mr. Wheeler received his preparatory education at the old Eastoh (Conn.) Academy and at Dudley School at Northampton, Mass. Afterward he entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated in the class of GENEALOGICAT. 209 1850. He spent much of his early life teaching school, and in Mississipjii, where he resided for a time, filled the position of Snperintendent of Schools with acknowledged ability and satisfaction. Settling finally in Hackensack, X. J., Mr. Wheeler soon came into promi- nence as a man of energy and public spirit, and as (Ihairmau of the Hacken- sack Board of Education rendered impttrtant service to the community. He also served for some time as Judge of the (Jourt of Common Pleas. His business has been mainly that of an insurance broker, although he has been interested in various financial enterprises. He is Treasurer of the Hacken- sack Cemetery Comjjany and Yice-l'rcsident of the Itergeu Turnpike Com- pany. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Ejuscojial Church, a Royal Arch Mason, and a I'ast High I'liest iu Ihe Masonic order. He has traveled extensively in this country as well as abroad. In 1S5!) he was married to Ijucy Howie. They have two sons: Hon. George ^^'. "SMieeler. Jr., a Justice of the Su[)erior (/ourt of Connecticut, ANDERSON STREET, LOOKING EAST, HACKENSACK. and Henry 1>. 'SA'lieeler, a commission merchant of New York Ci1y. Mr. AVheeler is a member of the State (ieological fioard of New Jersey, of the (ieological Survey, and of the Forestry Committee, and a. life UKMubei' of the New Jersey State Foi-estiy Asso<-iation. He was Tresident of the Hackensack Hall and Armory Association for ten years, and has been actively associated with every movement and jiroject which had for its object the welfare and advancement of the community. THE SPEER EAiMILY. — Hendrick Jansen Spiers, the common ancestor of the Speers of Bergen and Hudson Counties, emigrated from Amsterdam to America with his wife, Madeline Hanse, and two children, on the Dutch West India ship "Faith," in December, 1(i."J9. It is not doubted that he was a native of Holland. He located at New Amstei'dam, where he was known as Hendrick Jansen Spiering, and where three of his chil- dren were baptized. In the spring of 1068 he removed to Bergen, N. J., 210 HUDSON ANB BERGEN COUNTIES where, on the 121h of May of that year, he obtained from Governor Philip Carteret a patent for about fifty acres of land (extending across the neck from Newark Bay to New York Bay), to which he added by subsequent purchases. He died prior to 1680, and his widow married, in 1681, Aertsen Van der Bilt. His issue were five children, only three of whom survived him. These were John (married Maritie Franse), Hans (married Tryntie Pieterse), and Barent (married Cathelyntie Jacobs). John Hendricks Spier became largely interested in the Aquackanonck (Passaic) patent, on which he located about 1692. His children were Henry, Franz, Gertrude, Maddeline, Jannetie, Rachel, and Maritie, of whom the following were married in the Hackensack Dutch Church: Henry to Rachael Tennis Pier, 1708; Franz to Dircke Cornelis, 1705; Gertrude to Arent Laurense Toers, 1704; Jannetie to Roelof Cornelis Van Houten, 1715; and Maritie to John Reyerson in 1716. The numerous descendants of these are now spread over Bergen and Passaic Counties, while the de- scendants of the family who remained at Bergen are numerous in Hudson Countv. THE TERHUNE FAMILY is another whose members are widely scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties. They are descended from Alberts Albertse, Sr., a ribbon weaver by trade, who is said to have been a native of Hunen or Huynen, in Holland. The date of his emigration does not appear, but he was residing at New Amsterdam for some time prior to 1657. In that year he re- moved to the Nyack patent in New Utrecht, L. I., where in January, 1602, he obtained a patent for a farm which he sold, April 3, 1664, to Nathaniel RrittoD, of Staten Island. In 1G60 and 1065 he bought lands at Flat- lands, L. I. Subsequently he, with Jaques Cortelyou and others, ob- tained the .Vquackanonck (Passaic) patent of about 5,000 acres on the Passaic River, in New Jersey, in which the Van Winldes, Gerretsons, Spiers, and many other families be- came interested. His children were John, Albert, Heyltie, Ann, Styntie, and Sarah. All of these settled near Hackensack in Bergen County. Al- bert, the second, born in 165i, mar- ried (1) Hendricke Stevens Voorhis, and (2) Levina Brickers. He resided at Platlands, L. I., until 1676, when he removed to Hackensack, where he was one of the leading spirits in the Dutch Church, and was sent to the Colonial Legislature in 1696. He bought a large farm of Captain John Berry, extending from the Hackensack to the Saddle River. His issue were Willempie, Albert, John, Antie, Gerrebrecht, Willempie, Stephen, Maritie, Gertrude, and Rachel. Except the Demnrests and Harings probably not one of the early emigrants has as many descendants in Bergen County as Albert Alberts Terhune. The name Terhune was adopted after the re- moval to Bergen County. In New Amsterdam and Long Island it was Albertsen. THE CHURCH AT FJLATLANDS. GENEALOGICAL 211 CtEORGE STEVENS, of Jersey City, was bom in Paterson, N. J., April lo, IS.i. He IS the son of George T. Stevens and Caroline, daughter of Abraiu and Cynthia Stager, and a grandson of Ephraim Stevens and Ruth il f - . ^, Ephraim Stevens and Ruth Doughty. His ancestors were early Massaclmsetts people. Mv. Stevens's entrance into Jersey City was mai-ked hv his entrance into Public School No. 2, under the celebrated Yerrington'. He was an apt scholar, his keen, quick perception proving his ability to comprehend any task set before him. Leaving school, he became a messenger boy for the Western Union Telegraph Company, under the su- pervision of Charles Gary, and afterward accepted a similar position for the Erie Railroad Company. After serving for thirteen years in the capacity of clerk and bookkeeper in Wall Street, New York, he cast about for some- thing else. His father having died wlien he was about eighteen, he was obliged to assist the rest of tiie family, and frou'i that time manifested a tendency for entrance in- to business for himself. Thi' opportunity came During his employment in Wall Street he often visit- er^ a friend in an under- taking establishment, and carefully noting all the preparations required in the work of trimming caskets and other details soon found that he possessed sullicient insiglH into the business to make it his life work. And for five years he devoted himself to studying the business in all its branches. On June 1, 1S80, Mr. Stevens engaged in the undertaking business for himself, at 017 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, and in tS'JO moved to No. 005 Jersey Avenue, where he still continues, having built what is without ex- ception one of the most complete and commodious establishments in the State of its kind. He owes his success to his own jiersonal characteristics, as he possesses all the qualifications that go to make up honesty and fixed pur[)0se. No detail in the requirements of his business are unknown to him. The ap- pointments of his establishment are modern in every respect, beautiful in appearance, and wholly devoid of that grewsome air which often character- GEOUGE STKVKNS. 212 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES izcs sncli pliucs. In brief, they are particularly arranged so as not to pre- sent any unpleasant feature to the most dclicate-niinded obseiver. His business is large and lucrative, and exclusively among the better class of people, as those with whom he is closely associated attest. His entire es- tablishment is the consummation of his own ideas and designs. As a citizen Mr. Stevens is known to foster a just pride in his surround- ings, and is an active participant in any movement that will advance local improvement. He is a member of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, of Jersey ( ity, of Rising Star Lodge, Xo. 107 F. and A. M., of Rising Star Lodge, No. 210, I. O. O. F. (which was named upon his suggestion), of Harmony Encampment, 47, L O. O. F., and of the Union League Club. Mr. Stevens married Melvina Wayne, daughter' of George Wayne, and a native of New York City. They have no children. THE TOERS FAMILY.— The first of this family in New Jersey were Laurence Arents Toers and Claes Arents Toers, and, no doubt, they were Hollanders. They were at Bergen as early as 1672, where, on August 15th of that year, Laurence married Francyntie Thomas. Claes married, July 8, 1684, Jacomina Van Neste. Both bought land at Bergen in 1677 on which they permanently located. Laurence's issue were twelve children, among whom were John, Thomas, ]Mary, and Aaron. Claes, who died in 1730, had eight children, among whom were Judith, Pietertie, A rent, Nicholas, and George. Of Claes's children only three survived, among them being Arent, who received his father's property. A rent married, in 1609, iVnn Spier, and reared a large family. The descendants of Laurence and Claes are still quite numerous in Hudson County. THE VANDERHOFP FAMHA'.— In 1711 Cornelius Vanderhoff, John Vanderhoff, and Gertrude ^^anderhoff came from Albany, N. Y,, to llacken- sack. They are said to have been the children of Cornelius ^'anderhoff (or Vander Horen, who came to America from Horen, a village in Gelderland, Holland, and first settled at Bedford, L. I., from whence he removed to Albany). Cornelius, John, and Gertrude Vanderhoff settled in the Saddle River district of Bergen County. Cornelius married (1712) Elizabeth Lau- rence Ackerman. John married (1714) Lea Mathews Hopper. Gertrude married, a little later, Peter Rutan, of Esopus, to which place she probably removed. Cornelius had issue (Teertie, Catharine, Jacob, Cornelius, Egbert, and Jannetie. John Vanderhoff had issue John, Geertie, and probably Catharine, Doro- thy, Jacob, and Jacobus, but this is uncertain. The descendants of Cor- nelius and John are still quite numerous in Bergen County. GEORGE ^\'ILKINSOX STORM was for many years, and until recently, one of the most prominent and public spirited citizens of Hackensack, Bergen County. His successful career is the product of energy, enterprise, and integrity in business and private life, on the part of one determined to make his own way in the world, with the capabilities resident in himself as the resources to be depended upon. His success is an encouragement to others, and a brief outline of the facts is here given with that end in view. Mr. Storm enjoyed the advantage of excellent ancestral antecedents — an advantage which no doubt it is often difficult exactly to estimate. Cer- tainly the inheritance of a disposition of mind and heart, which provide a solid foundation for the development of capacity and character, is beyond OENEALOGICATj 213 price: the richest legacy from parent to eliild. Tlie sou of Edward Storm aud Helen, daughter of (Teorfie and Sopliia Wilkinson, and the gi^andson of John A. and Catherine Storm, tlie subject of this sketch descended from strong American strains on both the paternal and maternal sides. His first American ancestoi- was Dirck Storm, a native of T'ti-echt, Holland, who emigrated iunn Holland to the Ne-u- Netherlands diii-ing the early Dntcli l)eriod. ilr. Storm's father was a member of the Holland Society of the <'ity of New York. On the maternal sitle his ancestors were long seated ill Xew England, and came originally from England. (ieorge ^Yilkinsoll Storm was horn in I'oiighkeepsie, Dutchess County, N. Y., in July, l^uG. He attended St. ^Mark's School at Southboro, Mass., and completed his education at Harvard College. Having determined upon a business career, he engaged in the manufacture of elevators and tlior- (Highly learned the business. Having original ideas of his own, and lia\'ing ac(|uired jtateiit rights, he engaged in manufacture on his own account in THE YAN DUSEN FA:\nLY. — The \'aii Husens ami X:ui Dusers are de- scended from Abraham Pietersen ^'an Heuseu. a miller by trade and a native of Densen in Holland, where he was born about \iW2. Tie came to Xew Amsterdam prior to l(i41 with his wife, Tryntie ilelchiors, and sev- eral children. In that y<'ar he was appointed one of the "twelve men" 214 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of the city, and in 1643 one of the " eight men." In 1657 he was admitted to the rights of a burgher. His children were Levina, Peter, Abraham, Isaac, Catharine, and Henry. Of these Isaac Abraham, Sr., was born in Holland in 1634. He came over with his father and settled in New Am- sterdam, where he married in 1659 Jannetie Jans, widow of Adam Van Sandt, from Arnheim in Gelderland. He eventually removed to Albany, N. Y., where his son, Abram Isaacsen Van Deusen, married, in 1682, Ann, daughter of Zacharias Sickels. His son, Isaac Abrahamsen Van Deusen, born at Albany in 1688, married, April 5, 1713, Ann Waldron, and had is- sue, among other children, Daniel, who married Lea Hertie and settled at Tappan in 1735. John Bernard Van Dusen, probably a brother of Isaac's, married a La Roe, and settled in Washington Township, Bergen County, N. J. From these two brothers are descended the Van Dusens of Bergen County. AT.'GUSTUS A. RICH, who has successfully practiced law in Hudson County since 1876, is the son of Samuel A. Rich, a native of Genoa, Italy, who followed the sea all his life, leaving home at the age of thirteen. His mother was Ellen E. Stephens. Mr. Rich was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.. De- cember 28, 1851, and in 1854 moved with his parents to Hoboken, N. J. In 1860 the family settled in West Hoboken, Hudson County, where the sub- ject of this article has since resided, and where he received a good public school education. Mr. Rich studied law in New York City with the well known firm of Van Schaick, Gillender & Thompson, and was admitted to practice in that State in 1873. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in November, 1874, and as a counselor in February, 1878. He began the active work of his profession in Hudson County in 1876, and for many years has been the leading lawyer in West Hoboken. Following without interrup- tion a general law practice, Mr. Rich has achieved eminent success as well as a high reputation, which is by no means confined to his immediate locality. He has also held several positions of trust and honor. In 1882 and again in 1883 he represented West Hoboken in the New Jersey Assembly, and served both years as Chairman of the Committee on Revision of Laws and as a member of the Judiciary Committee. During these two terms he intro- duced a number of bills of local importance and was active and influential in all legislative matters. Since then he has drafted several important measures, including the general act for the government of towns, under which Kearny, West Hoboken, West New York, and other boroughs were incorporated and organized, and which served as the model upon -which the general act for cities in New Jersey Avas drawn. In this respect Mr. Rich has gained wide distinction. Having made a special studv of town and municipal governments, and endowed with rare good judgment and great legal ability, he is regarded as an authority on these matters, and his prominence in connection with them attests his standing and usefulness. During the past eighteen years he has served as corporation attorney for West Hoboken, and at present he is also attorney for the Townships of West New York and Weehawken. Since 1895 he has been Chairman of the Hud- son County Board of Elections, and in May, 1899, he was appointed a mem- ber of the committee whose object is the promotion and ultimate incorpor- ation of Greater Jersey City, to include all or nearly all the cities, boroughs GENEALOGICAL 215 and townships in the County of Hndson. He is a Democrat in politics, and has distinguislied himself as a public spirited, progressive, and patriotic citizen. He is unmarried. ROBERT F. LORD, of Kearny, Hudson County, is the son of John and Jane Lord, and a grandsfui of Robert Lord and James and Sarah Lang. His ancestors on both sides came to this country from the North of Ire- land. Mr. Lord ^Yas born in Newark, N. J., on the 22d of January, 18.53, but was taken by his parents when young to Kearny, Hudson County, where he received his education. For twentv-flve years lie has been actively ROBERT F. LORD. associated with the Stewart Llartshorn Company, the well known manu- facturers of shade rollers, of Harrison. During that period he has tilled nearly every position in the establishment, being at the present time the eflUcient and successful manager of the company's New York office at 48(5 Broadway. Mr. Lord has displayed marked executive ability and business capacity, and during his long connection with the great Hartshorn Company he has discharged his duties with credit, honor, and satisfaction. In politics he is an ardent Republican. He has been for many years one of the most active men in the affairs of his municipality, which he served for a term 216 HUDSON ANT) BERGEN COUNTIES (if t\\() years as a nicnibor of tlic IJoaid of Aldermen, and upon the incor- ]iorali(in of Kearny as a town lie was elected a member of the fi)-st ('ommon Coiinia'l, a ]iosition lie now holds. He lias also been active in the Kearny N'olunteer Fire Dejiartnient and is a member of the Masons and the Jlejitasophs. Mr. Loi-d married Miss Martlia (Joulson, of Jersey City, N. J., by whom he has had four cliildi-en: I'.elia, .John, IJobert -1., and William J. THOMAS II. GUMMING, a prominent business man and Justice of the Peace, of Ilackensack, was born in New York Git_y on the 0th of November, 18;!!). He i-eccived his education in his native city, and aftc'r completinj; his sliidies ent-'i-ed a laruc di'v <.';oods store, whei'e he remained three years, layiiiL'' (he foundations of a successful career. On severing his connection with that house he formed a copartnership with his father, and actively engaged in tlie business of contracting, chieflj' in New York and New Jer- sey, the former being mainly in the line of building sewers. Among other important contracts which they secured and executed was that for the construction of the Lodi branch of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, and another for the line running from Essex Street to Woodbridge. In 1801 Mr. Gumming engaged in the oil trade in Greenwich Street, New York, and so continued for two years. Following this he was for six years engaged in the leather business. At the end of that i)eriod he removed to Hackensack, N. J., where, he still resides, and en- gaged in contracting. In each of these lines of in- dustry he has achieved marked success and a wide reputation for hon- esty and uprightness. . . ^ ^ Mr. Gumming is also a Gommissioner ot Deeds and a Notary rublie, and since 1885 has held the office of Justice of the Peace. He has always taken an active interest in tlie Haclcensack Fire Department, serving faithfully and efficiently as a member of Ilook and Ladder Company, No. 2, for twenty-six vears,'a part of the time as its Foreman. He is now an honorary member of that or- ganization. For a number of years he has been President of the Hacken- THOM.\S H. GUMMING. GENEALOGICAL 217 sack Relief Association, and during tlie last thirteen years has served as Collector of License for the Hackensack Commission. He is an active and influential Republican, being X'icc Chairman of the County Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Royal Arcanum and a charter mem- ber of the National Union. Hiw father, Thomas Cumming, Sr., was for many years a Lay Judge of Itergen County. Mr. Cumming married a daughter of the late John H. Banta, of Hacken- sack, and has three sons. FRANK B. POOR, President of the Hackensack Board of Trade and one of the most enterprising citizens of Bergen County, was born in Hack- ensack, X. J., about thirty years ago, and is the son of E. E. Poor, formerly President of the Park National Bank of New York (Jity. He has spent nearly .$250,000 in beautifying Hacicensack and advancing its interests. He erected the Hamilton Building in 1899-1900 at a cost of |50,000. He formed the Bergen County Ice Company, which recently erected a .f50,000 plant. He organized the Golf Club, which is erecting a |12,000 club-house, and he was instrumental in organizing the Hackensack Trust Company, which built in 1900 a .|T.5,000 structure. His aim is to see Hackensack advance. As was recently said of him: " Mi-. Poor has done more for our town in one year than has been done by many men during a generation. One evidence of his ability was the ((uisolidation of the gas and electric light companies in Bergen County, whicli corporation now supplies thirty-three towns. Their product will he cheapened, and not a single stockholder in the old companies has lost a cent by the change. Mr. Poor is spending money lavishly and intends to turn over to the town many miles of macada- mized streets, with sewers, etc., without a (cnt of expense to the town. Such enterprise is unprecedented, and it is done for the best interests of his birthplace." JAMES H. BLACK, who has been successfully engaged in business as a blacksmith and cai'riag(^-maker in Harrison, Hudson County, since ISSS. was born in Belleville, Es.-sex County, N. J., January IT), ]S();!. He is the son of James V. Black and Elizabeth ^'reeland, and a great-grandson of Benjamin "S'reeland, a member of one of the oldest families of this State. His first maternal ancestor in this country was Michiel Jensen, who left Holland, October 1, 1636, in the ship " Kensselaerwyck," with his wife and two children, and originally settled opposite Albany, N. Y., but a few years later removed to New Jersey. He was one of the first magistrates of the new court at Bergen, and, although he bore the surname of Jensen, was the founder of the ^'reeland family in Eastern New Jersey. Mr. Black's father, James X., was a native of Arlington, N. J., while his mother was born in Moonachie in this State. They were married in New l>urham, Hudson County, and in 1857 removed to Belleville, where the subject of this article was born and educated. James H. Black received the educational advantages which the excellent public schools of Belleville afforded, and after completing his studies be- came a bookkeeper in a large grocery house. Subsequently he interested himself in the manufacture of iron chains and later engaged in business for himself as a blacksmith and carriage-maker at ^^'oodside, N. J. In 1888 he removed to Harrison, Hudson County, and has since followed that business with constantly increasing success. He is widely known, not only for his 218 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES mechanical skill and ability, but also for his public spirit, enterprise, and great force of character. Mr. Black is an independent Eepublican in politics, and takes a deep in- terest in every movement that affects the welfare of the community. He is thoroughly identified with the best interests of Harrison, has contributed materially to the success of many worthy objects, and is highly esteemed and respected. He is a member of Harrison Camp, No. 66, Fraternal Le- gion, of Sylvania Council, No. 5, Golden Star Fraternity, of Newark, and of the Master Horseshoers' Association, No. 67. On Christmas Day, December 25, 1887, Mr. Black married Lillian Seaver daughter of Joseph B. and Annette (Sexton) Seaver, of Newark, N. J. Tbey hare two children: Euth Black and Annette Black. LOUIS FOEMON, manager of the People's Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany of the Town of Union and Treasurer of the Town of Union, is the eldest of five children of William and Louisa (Siedentopf) Formon, natives of Germany, who came to America about 1850 and first settled in New York. There William Formon engaged in ship blacksmithing until just be^fore the outbreak of the Eebellion, when he moved with his family to Secaucus, N. J., and devoted himself to farming. He soon returned to his trade, how- ever, in which he achieved marked success, and died in L^nion Hill in 1872, widely respected and esteemed. He was a man of great strength of char- acter, of unquestioned integrity and enterprise, and gave to his children the rich inheritance of a good name. His wife died January 7, 1898. Louis Formon was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 24, 1854, and received his education in the public and German schools of New York City. Being the eldest child, and at the time of his father's death the only one of the family old enough to work, the support of his widowed mother and her children devolved almost entirely upon his energies, and though but eight- een years of age he took up his new responsibilities with commendable courage and marked success. Leaving school, fairly well equipped with a literary training, he engaged in the trade of piano making, which he followed successfully for eighteen years, supporting his mother and educat- ing the younger children. He mastered every detail of piano construction ; his skill and mechanical ability won for him a high rank among his associates, while his untiring attention to duty, his constant application, and his great care and practical deAotion to the interests of his employers gained their appreciation and confidence. As a resident of the Town of Union, N. J., he early came into prominence, displaying a broad public spirit and winning a deserved popularity. He has taken from the first an active interest in the welfare of the community, and has filled several offices of trust and honor. In the spring of 1890 he was elected Town Clerk of the Town of Union, and served six years, being twice re-elected without opposition; and so faithfully and satisfactorily did he discharge the duties of that position that when he resigned in 1896, to accept the post of manager of the People's Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany of the Town of Union, he was given a handsomely engraved gold watch, bearing the following inscription : " Presented to Louis Formon by The Officials and ex-Oflflcials of the Town of Union, N. J., for efficiency and faithful service as Town Clerk from April, 1890, to May, 1896." This is a silent but potent evidence of the esteem in Avhich he is held by his fellow- citizens, and especially by those who represent the leading interests of the town. Mr. Formon is still manager of the People's Safe Deposit and Trust GENEALOGICAL 219 Company of the Town of Union, whose main office is in Jersey City, and which has a capital of $100,000. It is one of the leading fiduciary institu- tions in Eastern New Jersey, and under Mr. Formon's able and energetic management the branch in the Town of Union has developed to a point of wide usefulness and efficiency. He has distinguished himself as a sate financier of marked ability and sagacity. In 1897 he was nominated and elected Treasurer of the Town of Union for a period of three years. For fourteen years Mr. Form on has been actively identified with the Fire De- partment of the Town of Union, holding every office within the gift of his company, such as secretary, assistant foreman, and foreman. During the last eight years he has been a member of the department's Board of Repre- sentatives and a 'S'ice-President of the State Firemen's Association. He has rendered valuable and appreciative service in developing the Fire De- partment of the town, and has been instrumental in placing it upon its present efficient basis. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a public spirited, progressive, and highly respected citizen. Mr. Formon was married on the 25th of February, 1879, to Miss Elizabeth A. O'Brien, daughter of Michael and Mary (Foley) O'Brien, of the Town of Union, N. J. They have eight children: Louisa, Martha, Mary, Louis, Jr., Elizabeth, Henry, Frederick, and August. MAX HECHT, M.D., Ph.G., of ^^'est Hoboken, is the son of Ansel Hecht and Rachel Jacobs, both natives of Hanover, Germany. Ansel Hecht came to this country when a young man and first settled in Baltimore, Md., whence he soon removed to New York City, where he was for many years a large manufacturer and importer of lace goods, collars, and cuffs. He resided in the meantime in Hoboken, N. J. In 1866 he moved to West Hoboken, Hud- son County, and purchased the present family homestead on the corner of Palisade Avenue and Courtlandt Street, where he died in March, 1876. His wife still resides there. He was a member of Doric Lodge, F. and A. M., of West Hoboken. Dr. Max Hecht was born in Hoboken, N. J., January 4, 1865, but has spent practically his whole life in West Hoboken, moving there with his parents when he was one year old. After attending the West Hoboken public schools he entered Cooper Union Institute, New York, from which he was graduated in 1883. Subsequently he took a full course at the New York College of Pharmacy, graduating with the degree of Ph.G. March 13, 1886, and then matriculated at Bellevue Medical College, from which he received the degree of M.D. March 30, 1891. Thus equipped M'ith a thorough literary and professional training, he immediately began the active practice of medi- cine in West Hoboken, opening and ever since continuing an office in the old family homestead on Palisade Avenue, corner of Courtlandt Street. During the first year of his practice he was also actively connected with the Belle- vue Dispensary in New York. In the twofold relations of physician and citizen Dr. Hecht has already gained no little distinction, even outside of his town and county. He is widely known as a practitioner of recognized ability and skill and has a very extensive acquaintance. Steadily developing his talents in every branch of medicine, he has been successful from the start, and, although a young man, has gained a high reputation. For about one year he was health inspector of West Hoboken, resigning on account of the increasing duties of his prac- tice. He is a member and physician to the Independent Order of Foresters, the chief medical examiner in West Hoboken for the Prudential Life Insur- 220 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ance Company of Newark and the Eciuitable Life Assurance Society of New Yorlv, and a member of tlie Odd Fellows and of the Hudson County Medical Society. He has been quite extensively interested in real estate in the im- mediate vicinity of his home, wlicre he has recently completed a handsome residence. Dr. Hecht was married, March s, 1898, to Clara Elizabeth Heath, daughter of Joseph A. Heath, of Hoboken, N. J., and a descendant of an old English family. JOHN FRANCIS MARION, of Jersey City, is the son of John Marion, who came from Ireland to Jersey City, N. J., when thirteen years old, and soon removed to Key ^Vest, Va., where he was engajicd for a time in the cattle business; he returned to Jersey City, and for many years was in the employ of the reniisylvania Railroad Company, and died here in 1879, aged forty years. John Marion married Ellen Brady, whose father, James Brady, came to Jersey City from Ireland about 1830 and died here in 1879, having been long employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. John F. Marion was born in Jersey City, N. J., on the 7th of June, 18C7. He attended St. Peter's Parochial School and then entered St. Peter's College, Jersey City. Afterward he read law with Hon. J. Herbert Potts and Frederick Frarabach, Jr., in his native city, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1891. Since then he has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in Jersey City. He was a partner of Thomas H. Kelly, Collector of the Port of Jersey City under Cleveland's first administration, until Mr. Kelly's death in 1895, the firm name being Kelly «& Marion. He practiced one year alone, and then formed a partnership with Daniel P. Byi'nes, under the firm name of Marion & Byrnes, which continued until January 1, 1899. Since then Mr. Marion has practiced alone. He has built up a large and successful legal business and is regarded as one of the able members of the Hudson County bar. He probably has charge of more law work for Catholic institutions than any other lawyer in Eastern New Jersey. He is counsel for St. Peter's College and St. Peter's Church of Jersey City, for the Sisters of Peace of New Jersey, and for St. Joseph's Church of Guttenberg, and one of the counsel for St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City. Mr. Marion has not only achieved success at the bar, but has also gained distinction for those qualities of citizenship which characterize an ener- getic, patriotic, and progressive man. In 1895 he received in a post-gradu- ate course the degree of Ph.B. at St. Francis Xavier College, New York City, and for a time wrote many special articles for the New York Catholic News. He is a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus, and one of the charter members of the council in Jersey City, of which he was elected first financial secretary. He is also a member of the Catholic Club of Jersey City, of the Third Ward Democratic Club, and of the Catholic Be- nevolent Legion. In politics he is an active and ardent Democrat. Mr. Marion was married, October 27, 1897, in St. Peter's Church, Jersey City, by his former preceptor in chemistry, Francis de Fullerton, to Miss Belie Priest, daughter of George and Fannie R. Priest, natives of Boston, Mass. J. HERBERT POTTS, Justice of the Police Court of Jersey City, was born in Trenton, N. J., July 3, 1851. He was educated at Laurenceville High School, at which institution he graduated in 1868 and prepared for GBNEALOGTCAT. 221 college. For two .yeai's lie was a ineiiibei- of the Princeton elass of 1S72. Retiiniing to Trenton at the enfl of that period, lie entered the law oftice of Hon. Edward T. Green, subse(inently a .Justice of llie United Stat<'s (Jir- euit Court. Mr. Potts was admitted to the bar of Ts'ew Jersey as an at- torney February 5, 1S74, and in the same year began the active' [iraclice of his profession in Jersey (Mty, associating himself with a relati\e, Joseph 0. I'otts. He has continued in the active practice of law here, except when holding official positions. In ISTlj Judge I'otts was appointed Assistant Clerk of the House of the J. HERBERT POTTS. Assembly at Trenton, and in 18S0 and ISSI he was a member of that body, representing th(" Sixth Assend)ly District of Hudson County. In tiie sessielleyue Hospital Medi- cal College, New Yoi-k, graduating from the lat- ter institution with the degree of ^LD. in March, ISflfi. He then served in the Out Patient Depart- ment of St. \''incent"s Hospital, New York City, for t-no years, and nrban Parcel Delivery. His field of operation embraces abont twenty-five square miles radiating; from -\rlinj;ton, and affords em])lovment to some thirty horses and thirty men. In this bnsiness IMr. Silliman has been very successful. He is a Democrat in jxilitics, havint^ cast his first vote for Samuel J. Tilden. As a member of the Board of Education and Town Council of Arlington lie has rendered most efficic^nt service to that borough, and is noted for his public spirit, patriotism, and energy. He is a member of GENEALOGICAL 225 the Masonic order, a Presbyterian by birth, a.nd a liberal contributor to the churcli of that denomination. He married Lutie Lainhart, by whom he has two cliildren: I'lorence E. and Clunmcev H., Jr. SAMUEL AUt^TIN BESt^OX, nuauber of the well known law firm of Besson & Spohr, of Hoboken, and one of the foreniost attorneys and ad- vocates in Hudson County, was born in Everittstown, Hunterdon ('ounty, N. J., April 6, 1853. His oreat-great-grandfather, Francis Itesson, a French Huguenot, came to this country in the latter part of the se\'enteenth cen- tury and settled in the Townshiji of Amwell, in Hunterdon County, where he was an extensive landowner. In t h a t vicinity the fan\ily has been established for se\- eral jjenerations, always wielding a i)otent intli;- ence in public affairs ami taking' a ])roniinent part in all matters affecting the welfare of the com- munity. Mr. Bess( Ill's great-grandfather, J o h u Besson, Rr.. was an en- sign in the American Revolution and pi-fsciit at the siege and caiilnn' of Yorktown. and at tln' close of the war married Margaret, daughter of John Opdycke. T li e i r son, John Besson. Jr., had a son William, who, by his wife, Mai'garet A. Case, was the farher of Samuel Austin Besson, the subject of this articli'. Mrs. Margaret A. (Case) Besson was the daughler of Codfrev and Elizabi-th (Welch) Case and a de- scendant on h:'V father's side of one of I he oldest families in the southern nart of Hunterdon County. Mr. Besson attended the public schools of Everittstown, the State Normal School at Carversville, I'a., and Eafayette College at Easton, from which he was graduated in 187(1. During his college course he was Prin- cipal of the Franklin (Pa.) High School for one year, and immediately after his graduation became Princi]ial of the High School at Philliiislmrg, N. J. In 1877 he moved to Hoboken, and for three years read law in the office of his brother, Hon. John C. Itesson, one of the leaders of the Hudson Countv bar and one of the ablest lawyers in the State, It was Mr. Besson's SAMUEL A. HF.S80N. 226 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES intention to complete a course of study at the Columbia Law School in New York, but business matters compelled him to abandon this hope. Under his brother's instruction, however, he enjoyed, practically, the full benefits of such a course, and when he came to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1879, he was well flitted for the general practice of his profession. Entering at once upon his legal career in Hoboken, he soon displayed qualifications of the highest order, and in May, 1882, was ap- pointed Corporation Counsel. At this time he was a Republican. He served as Corporation Counsel one year, when there was a complete change in the political offices of the city. During his term, however, he rendered valuable and important services to the municipality in various cases, including those which raised the question of the waterfront rights. In 1886, finding the majority of the Republican party hopelessly under the influence of the liquor dealers and the Democratic politicians, Mr. Besson resigned his membership on the Hudson County Republican Committee, and in that year, and again in 1887, was the candidate for Mayor of Hoboken on the Prohibition ticket. In 1888 he was the candidate of the same party for member of Congress; and though defeated in each campaign, he demonstrated his popularity by polling a very flattering vote. Subsequently he returned to the Repub- lican party, and has ever since actively associated himself with its interests and exerted himself for its welfare, and until a year past has been an influential member of the Hudson County General Republican Committee. As a lawyer he enjoys an extensive general and corporation practice. He was counsel for the Hoboken Land Improvement Company, and the Hoboken Perry Company until March, 1898, the First National Bank of Ho- boken until 1894, and is yet counsel of the Hudson Trust and Savings Insti- tution and various other important corporations and financial enterprises. He was a member of the law firm of J. C. & S. A. Besson from the time of his admission to the bar until the death of his brother, John C. Besson. December 15, 1894, when the firm of Besson, Stevens & Lewis was or- ganized, which continued until April 1, 189S, when by request of Mr. Besson that firm was dissolved, and Mr. Besson took as a partner John R. Spohr, a young lawyer of good reputation, the present firm name being Besson & Spohr, with oifices in the Hoboken Savings Ban!? Building on the southwest corner of Washington and Newark Streets in the City of Ho- boken. Mr. Besson devotes considerable time to the study of political economy, history, English literature, etc. He is a close student, a man of broad culture and accurate learning, a sound and able lawyer, a public spirited, progressive citizen, and a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Hoboken. He was one of the two founders and one of the first Trustees of the Columbia Club of Hoboken, of which he is still a popular member; and is also a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 63, I. O. O. F.. of Euclid Lodge, F. and A. M., and of the Hudson County Bar Association, which he has served as President. Mr. Besson was married on the 10th of November, 1881, to Arabella, daughter of Joseph M. Roseberry, of Belvidere, N. J. Their children are Henrietta and Harlan. JOHN CASE BESSON, brother of Samuel Austin Besson, was born in Alexandria Township, Hunterdon County, N. J., April 30, 1838. He received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native village, completing his studies at the Pennington Seminary. After leav- GBNEAI;OGICAL 227 ing the latter institution he taught school for a short time. Afterward he studied law in the office of Edward E. Bullock, of Frenchtown, N. J., where he remained for one year. He then took a thorough course at the New York and National Law School at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he was graduated LL.B. in the class of 1860. After his graduation he entered the law office of Abraham Van Fleet, of Flemington, N. J., where he re- mained until Februarj', 1863, when he was admilted to the bar as an attorney. Mr. Besson then opened his own office, locating at Millville, Cumberland County, N. J. His first month's revenue amounted to fifty cents, and the succeeding nine months were but little better. He removed to Flemington, where he formed a copartnership with George A. Allen, which continued for one year. He then removed to Clinton, N. J., opening an office, where he remained for two years. In February, 1866, he was admitted as a counselor. On May 1, 1867, he located in Hoboken and opened an office on Washington Street, in the old Reed house, and began a practice which became one of the largest in Hudson County. In 1883 he formed a copartnership with his brother, Samuel A. Besson. Mr. Besson married Miss Hasseltine Judson Nice, daughter of Eev. George P. Nice, a prominent Baltimore clergyman. They had two sons. Mr. Besson died December 15, 1894. He was a Director of the First National Bank, the Hudson Trust and Savings Institution, the Hudson County Gas Light Company, the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company, and the North Hudson County Railroad Company. In 1875 he published Besson's Neiv Jersey Lav Prece- dents, which has been adopted as authority by the general legal profession. He was a member of the Quartette, Columbia, and Union Athletic Clubs, was for six years the Corporation Counsel, and served as Assemblyman in 1885-86. I JOSEPH JOHN HASEL, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in West Hoboken, was born in Newark, N. J., on the 4th of February, 1861. His parents, Joseph Hasel and Kunigunda Dettinger, were natives respectively of Westphalia and Wurtemberg, Germany. The former came to America in 1820, before his marriage, and had six children: Francis. John, Lena, Clement, Frances, and Joseph J., the subject of this article. Father Hasel was educated at St. Benedict's College, Newark, at St. Vincent's College in Pennsylvania, and at Seton Hall, Newark, and was ordained to the priesthood April 11, 1886. He was successively assistant pastor of St. Teresa Church, Summit, N. J., of St. Peter's, Newark, and of the Holy Family Church in the Town of Union, in the meantime attending St. Joseph's in West Hoboken, Hudson County. December 1, 1889, he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's Church, West Hoboken. where he is now doing a most commendable work in both church and school. Father Hasel's pastoral career is rich in good deeds, and one of which he may well feel proud. A worker as well as a student and scholar, he has labored with great zeal and energy for the best interests of his parish, and is be- loved and respected by all. His labors in St. Joseph's parish have resulted in the erection of a parsonage, sisters' house, and handsome church, which will cost .'i?75,000, and these improvements were instituted and carried to completion by him. The corner-stone of the new church was laid July 31, 1898, and solemnly dedicated July 2, 1899, by Et. Rev. W. M. Wigger, D.D. Father Hasel has also greatly increased the communicant membership of the parish and enlarged the parochial school connected therewith, 228 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES giving to both a new impetus, a very large measure of Ms own enthusiasm, and that hearty support which emanates from a pure heart and honest endeavor. He organized the Sacred Heart Society, the Young Ladies' So- ciety, and the Children of Mary, and also the Young Men's Katolischer Gesellen Yerein, which is incorporated, and of which he is President. These societies have wielded a powerful influence for good, and under his able and efficient direction are carrying on a work second only in impor- tance to that of the church. EDWAED C. STRIFFLEE, a prominent citizen of Harrington Park, Bergen County, N. J., was born in New York City on the 1st of November, 1868. He is the only son and child of Christian Striffler and Mary Herzog and a grandson of John Striffler, all natives of Wflrtemberg, Germany. John Striffler was a soldier in Napoleon's army, and a farmer. Christian Striffler came to New York City when a young man and was married here. He established himself in the hardware business on the Bowery about 1868 and in 1873 moved to Ninth Avenue, near Forty-seventh Street, where the firm of C. Striffler & Co., which was formed about 1889, still carries on a thriving business and is one of the important hardware stores of New York. Mr. Striffler was a member of the Knights of Honor, and at one time a Sergeant in the New York militia. In 1884 he moved his family from New York City to River Vale, N. J., where his wife died August 12, 1894, and where his death occurred May 2.5, 1899. Edward C. Striffler received his education in the public schools of New York City. He left school at the age of seventeen and entered his father's hardware store, with which he has ever since been identified, becoming a member of the present firm of C. Striffler & Co. upon the retirement of his father in 1893, the other partner being Emil Eudolph, his cousin. This is one of the oldest and most successful general hardware, iron, and steel houses in New York City, and has occupied its present location on Ninth Avenue, near Forty-seventh Street, since 1873. Mr. Striffler has been active and influential in the community where he resides, and as the successor of his father's business and affairs has de- veloped marked ability. He has served as a School Trustee of Harrington Township, Bergen County, since 1896, and in various .other important ca- pacities has displayed the highest attributes of the citizen. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Striffler was married on the 22d of June, 1892, to Elenore Banta, daughter of the late Garrett H. Banta. They have two children: Willard C. and Helen M. JOHN G. FISHEE, formerly County Clerk of Hudson County, was born in New Brunswick, N. J., January 22, 1843, and is the son of J. G. Fisher, of New Brunswick, and his wife, Julia, daughter of Captain William Henry, of the merchant marine. Mr. Fisher received his education in the public schools, and after leaving school became a clerk in a clothing store in his native town. In June, 1862, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Fourteenth New Jersey Volunteers, being mustered out in August, 1864, with the rank of First Lieutenant. He was severely wounded during the battle of Cold Harbor. In 1867 he entered the law office of Judge W. T. Hoffman, of Jersey City, with whom he remained for several years. In 1874 he accepted a position under County Clerk John Kennedy, and continued to serve through several succeeding administrations. When County Clerk ])en'nis GENEALOGICAL 22 9 ilcLaughlin entered the office Mr. Fisher resigned and entered a real estate office, but subsequently resumed his position at Mr. McLaughlin's request. He was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City in 1873. Later he was elected a Justice of the Peace. In 1895 he was elected County Clerk of Hudson County and served five years. He cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and from that time to the present has been an active and zealous Republican. He is a prominent member of Zabriskie Post, No. 38, Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Fisher married Jennie E. Baldwin, of Newark, N. J., and has two sons and two daughters. WILLLIM M. VAN SICKLE, Supervising Principal of Schools of the Town of ^^'est New York, Hudson County, was born on a farm near Peters Valley, Sussex County, N. J., March 15, 1854, and there spent his boyhood days. His father, Benjamin P. Van Sickle, was one of the best known farmers in that county and took special pride in his work. William M. "S'an Sickle received his early education in the country school near where he was born. When he was a mere lad he received a license to teach, and for a period of three months engaged in the profession. From this first school he entered the New Jersey State Normal School, and after finishing a course there he took a special course at Cooper Union, New York. He has taught school all along the line since he completed his studies at Cooper I^nion, teaching at the country cross-road, afterward at the rural village, then going to the town, and is now the Supervising Prin- cipal of Schools at West New York, where he has successfully filled the position the past eight years. These schools are now among the best in the country, and have a full complement of studies ranging from the kinder- garten to the high school. Aside from public school work Mr. Van Sickle has been more or less identified with the local interests of the several communities in which he has lived, holding at different times the offices of United States Census Enumerator, Town Clerk, County Committeeman, etc. He has also been connected with the press for a number of years, furnishing many special articles on the questions of the time. He is also co-editor with Superintendent A. J. Demarest, of Hoboken, in writing the famous system of reading known as " The Synthetic Phonic Word Method of Teaching Reading," which will in time be universally adopted throughout the country. Mr. Van Sickle is now President of the Hudson County Teachers" Association, and he is also one of the members of the Hudson County Teachers' Examining Board. He was married in March, 18S(i, to ^Miss Harriet Brown, of Stockholm, N. J., and has two children : Roscoe and Edith. ANDREW J. DAA'IS, formerly Treasurer of the Town of ^'^'eeha\^ ken and ex-Chairman of the Board of Council, was born in Albany County, N. Y., March 9, 1843, the son of Howland Davis and Lorinda, daughter of Thomas Craft. His ancestors came originally from Wales and Holland, settling in this country several generations ago. His maternal grand- father, Thomas Craft, of Albany County, N. Y., was a soldier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War. Mr. Davis acquired his education in the public schools of his native county. At the age of twenty he became a sailor on the Hudson River, ru miiig between Albany and New York. In 1863 he was engaged by the 230 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Camden and Amboy Railroad as a deckhand and subsequently, in 1869, he was raised to a pilot, running between New York and South Amboy. In 1873 he was engaged by the Erie Railroad as Master of the " General McCallum," where he has since remained. His career has been an eminently successful one. As a Republican, Mr. Davis has long taken an active part in political affairs and is recognized as one of the party's foremost leaders. He has served as Treasurer of the Town of Weehawken, has been a member of the Town Committee, and was Chairman of the Board of Council and Chief of Police. Mr. Davis has also held various other minor offices. He is a progressive, patriotic citizen, a man of the highest integrity, and has long wielded a commanding influence in the affairs of Weehawken, N. J., where he has resided since 1883, having resided for six years in Guttenberg prior to that year. His prominence and popularity have been attested by the several positions which he has been called upon to fill, and the duties of which he has always discharged with fidelity and satisfaction. Captain Davis married Amanda W., daughter of Samuel R. and Jane (Caruthers) Houston, of Englishtown, N. J. They have had three children : Lillian (deceased), Jesse A., and Lester L. Jesse A. was graduated from Stevens Institute and is now in the Navy Department as an inspector of steel. He was born in 1873 in South Amboy, N. J. WILLIAM CLAYBORN MARION, of Arlington, N. J., has achieved special distinction in the manufacture of gold pens, a business he has fol- lowed for fifty-two years. Born in Lexington, Ky., April 12, 1834, he is the eldest son of Captain William C. and Caroline (Elserth) Marion and a grandson of Alfred M. Marion and Mary, his wife, who settled in Kentucky in the eighteenth century, all being Americans of French extraction. As pioneers in the famous Blue Grass region the family wielded an important influence and distinguished themselves for their artistic taste and mechan- ical genius, and Mr. Marion seems to have both inherited and developed these traits with peculiar success. His father was a Captain in the Mexican War and was killed in the battle of Churubusco in 1846. His mother died the same year. Breathing in his father's house a wholesome mechanical atmosphere, and having received at the district schools a good rudimentary education, he left home at the age of fourteen and apprenticed himself to Andrew J. Berrian, a maker of gold pens at 75 Nassau Street, New York. Mr. Marion remanied there three years, and became so skillful in the art of pen making that he secured, at the early age of seventeen, a position as journeyman in the shop of Albert G. Bagley, on the corner of Duane and Centre Streets, New York. Mr. Bagley is credited with being the inventor of the gold pen. After his death the business changed hands, but Mr. Marion continued to act as foreman for thirty-three years, when the plant was purchased by Edward Todd. Mr. Bagley was long the leading gold pen maker of the world, and Mr. Marion not only became deeply interested in his work, but devoted much of his spare time after working hours to the study of difflcult mechanical problems connected with the trade, and as a result of this close application he achieved a national reputation as an expert gold pen maker, orders for difficult work being sent to him from all parts of the country. In 1884 Mr. Marion formed a partnership with G. Armeny and engaged in business on Nassau Street in New York City under the present firm name of Armeny & Marion. Mr. Marion is without doubt or question the GENEALOGICAL 231 oldest liTing working gold pen maker in the ^YOI■]d, Ids successful and active career extending over a period of more than fiftv-three years. He is still m active service, and enjoys a reputation unequaled by anyone in his line ot business. ]\rr. Marion has carved out his own fortune and paved his own way to success. Coming to Kew York a small boy, without money, he steadily'and courageously went to work, flrst in IJurton's old theater in Park Row and soon afterward in Bagley's pen factory, and when the War of the Kebellion broke out bade good-by to wife and children and enlisted in the TTnion WILLIAM C. MARION. cause. In the summer of 1861, with Jann's ^filler, he recruited a company which becanif? a part of the Fifty-sei'ond New York Volunteers, Shepard Ei/les. He enlisted, however, in Company I, Ninth New York \'olunteer Infantry, in the fall of 1801, as a private, and served nine months, partici- pating in the battles of Ball's Bluff and Edward's Ferry. At the latter place he ^^as wounded in the right hand. After this service in Maryland and \'irginia he was detailed on reci'uiting duty in New York Citj', as a Sergeant, and continued in that line for about one year and three months. In November, 18C.3, he was honorably discharged. On his return from the war Mr. Marion resumed the trade of gold pen 232 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES maker. In his business relations as well as in private life he is regarded with great affection and as a benefactor. Sincere and true in all he at- tempts, he is a thorough gentleman, universally esteemed and respected as a public spirited, enterprising citizen, and worthy of the confidence which is reposed in him. Mi. Marion lived in Brooklyn for many years. Fn August, 1889, he moved from that city to Arlington, N. J., where he now resides. He is a Democrat in politics and for several years was President of the Arlington Democratic Club, resigning with all the other officers when the tree silver question came to the front in 1896. He attends the Presbyterian Church, is a member of ( •bancellor Walworth Lodge, P. and A. M., and holds membership in the Scottish Kite bodies, 32°, of New York City. He was a member of Tribune Lodge, No. 159, F. and A. M., of Ar- lington. He is a member of Pilgrim Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Arlington, which he served as Noble Grand two terms, has been a delegate to the Masonic and Odd Fellows Grand Lodges of New Jersey, and as a member of the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club. January 29, 1855, Mr. Marion was married in New York City to Caroline Patten, daughter of Susterry and Sarah (Long) Patten, of Nantucket, Mass. They have had ten children: Frank W., an actor; Harry W., who is con- nected with the firm of A. G. Spalding & Co., of New York; Bertha (Mrs. Edwin Lewis), of Brooklyn; William C, Jr., the New York manager of the Morgan-Wright Company; Alfred P., foreman for Armeny & Marion; Daisy I. (Mrs. Harry Stover), of Brooklyn; Sidney T., who is employed by his father in the factory; Emma, unmarried; and Edwin and Winlield, deceased. WILLIAM H. VOORHIS has always resided in Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, N. J., where he was born on the 6th of November, 1870. He is a direct descendant of Steven Coerts Van Voorhees, the emigrant (see sketch on page 8.3), of the seventh generation. His father is John W. Yoorhis. The Voorhis family has given many eminent men to the State; its mem- bers have been conspicuous in the professions, in military and civil life, and in the quieter pursuits of business and the trades for many genera- tions. His mother was Sophia Vross, daughter of James Vross; her fam- ily also came originally from Holland. Mr. Voorhis acquired his early education in the public schools of Schraalenburgh. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he entered upon the active duties of life. He learned the carpenter's trade, which he fol- lowed as a journeyman for three years, when he engaged in the business for himself. Since that time he has steadily and successfully prosecuted his chosen trade, executing many important contracts, and adding ma- terially to the general advancement of his town. His services have also been called into requisition as a public official. For two years he was a valued member of the Town Council. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, an enterprising, public spirited citizen, and a man of acknowledged influence and standing. Mr. Voorhis married Minnie Yereance, and they have two children: Ethel, born in 1891, and Arthur, born in 1897. EDWARD EARTjE, known as Edward Earle, Jr.. came to Bergen (now Jersey City, N. J.) early in the spring of 1676, from Maryland. He was an Englishman, or of English descent. On the 24th of April, following his ERRATA On page 232, in sketch of William H. Voorhis, iirst paragraph, 8th line, read Sophia Bross, daughter of James Bross, instead of "Vross," as printed. GENEALOGICAL 233 arrival at Bergen, he purchased Secancas Island, takin- a deed therefor from Samuel Edsall and Peter Stoutenburgh, executors of the will of JNicholas ^ arlett, who first purchased it from the Indians. Earle's deed recites that the area of the island was about 2,000 acres. Three years later he sold one-half of the island to Judge William Pinhorne for £500, includmg one-half of all the stock, "Christian and negio servants." A schedule attached to this deed discloses what improvements and personal chattels were on the island at this time, and enumerates " one dandling house, containing two lower rooms and a lean-to-below-stairs and a loft above, five tobacco houses, one horse, one mare, two colts, eight oxen, ten cows, one bull, four yearlings, seven calves, thirty or forty hogs, four negro men, and five Christian servants." Edward Earle died December 15, 1711. He married, February 13, lfi8S, Elsie Vreeland. After his death his widow, Elsie Vreeland, went to Hackensack, where, on the 24th of June, 1716, she married Hendrick Meyer, by virtue of a license from the (iovernor of New Jersey, dated May 8, 1716. Edward, Jr.'s children bv Elsie Vree- land were seven in number: Edward, born in 1690; a son, born 1692; Hannah, born in 1685; Marmaduke, born in 1696; John, born in IGDS; a son born 1703; and a daughter born in 1704. All of these children eventually settled within the limits of Bergen County and mostly at English Neigh- borhood. SAMUEL E. EARLE, the subject of this article, is of the sixth genera- tion from Edward Earle, Jr., who came from Maryland, as stated in the foregoing sketch. His father, Samuel E. Earle, Sr., a life-long farmer, was born in old English Neighborhood, now Ridgefleld, filled the offices of school trustee, road master, etc., and died March 12, 1898, at the age of ninety-seven years and fourteen days; his father was Nathaniel Earle, also a farmer. The wife of Samuel E. Earle, Sr., was Eliza McDonald, who was born in North Bergen, and who died there March 28, 1898, aged eighty- seven. She was of Scotch descent. Her paternal grandmother lived to be over one hundred years old. Mr. and Mrs. Earle were both endowed with great force of character and with attainments of a high order, and during their lives were universally respected and esteemed for those sterling qualities which distinguish their race. Of their eight children three are living, namely: Matthias T. Earle, of Jersey City Heights, N. J.; Samuel E. Earle, of North Bergen; and Abraham McDonald Earle, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Samuel E. Earle was born December 15, 1848, in North Bergen, Hudson County, N. J., where he has always resided. After attending the public schools of his native town he took up his father's vocation, that of farmer, which he has since followed, engaging also from time to time in contract work on roads and streets. He has been Eoad Commissioner of North Bergen for nine j'ears and a member of the North Bergen Board of Educa- tion since 1892. In politics he is an independent Democrat. Mr. Earle has filled every position with ability and satisfaction, and during an active career has won and maintained the confidence of his fellow-citizens. His interest in township affairs, his faithful attention to the trusts committed to his care, and his unfailing public spirit and patriotism, together with his industry, enterprise, and activity, have gained for him universal esteem and respect. He is a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows. 234 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Novembei- 4, 1880, Mr. Earle married Miss Mary S. Rodgers, daughter of Abiatliii and Illioda liodgcrs, of New York City. Tliey Lave two chil- dren: Rlioda Ann and Fred Keed. JAMES SMITH, Treasurer of the City of Iloboken, N. J., since May, 1888, is the son of James Suiith, Sr., and Elizabeth Eaton, and was born in County Meath, Ireland, May 5, 1848. In 1850 he was brought by his parents to America. The fainily settled in Hoboken, Hudson County, and there Mr. Smith has ever since resided, identifying himself with the growth and advancement of the city and contril)uting materially to its general welfare. He attended Ho- boken Public School No. 1, being one of its fii-st scholars, and finished his studies at St. Francis Xavier College in New York City. Subse(iuently he engaged in the provision trade in Hoboken, and for thirty years has followed that busi- ness with constantly increas- ing success. In politics Mr. Smith has always been a Democrat. He was elected Treasurer of the City of Hoboken in May, 1888, and by successive re-elections has eA'er since held that office with great credit and honor to himself and entire satisfaction to the people. That he is po])ular, trustworthy, and uni- versally respected is attested by the fact that he has had no opposition at the polls since his first election, and even then his opponent for the office was nominated on an independent ticket and polled a very small vote. Mr. Smith has discharged his duties as Treasurer of the city with unceasing fidelity, and v;ith such marked ability and integrity that in ISIJO he was the Democratic nominee for the State Treasurership. He is public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic, prompt and exact in the dischai'ge of every obligation, genial and afl'able in manner, and popular among all who know him. He is a member and one of the founders of the Columbia Club of Hoboken. Mr. Smith married JMiss Minnie Judge, whose father was one of the original Police Commissioners of Hoboken. They have three sons and two daughters. .JAMES SMITH. EUGENE VAN ARTSDALEN MAGEE, of Hoboken, was born in James- burg, N. J., December 21, 1S."52. He is the son of Joseph C. and Elizabeth (Van Artsdalen) Magee and a grandson of Jonathan Magee and Daniel Van Artsdalen, and spi'ings from a family whose members have long been active aud prominent in the State. GENEALOGICAL 235 Mr. ]\[agee was educated at Fieeliold Institute iu Freehold, N. J., and for a time was in the First National Bank of Jamesburg. In 1871 he went to New York City, where he added to his practical knowledge of business aft'airs. He engaged in the business of clothiers" trimmings in 1880, and so continued with marked success until 1891, when the death of his brother- in-law {-aused a change in his commercial relations. He then associated himself with his father-in-law, ^Mlliam H. Harper, in the real estate and insurance business in Hoboken. of which he is the manager and proprietor. This agency dates back to 18()0, and conducts an extensive business through- EUGENE VAN ARTSDALEN MAGEE. out Hudson County. Mr. Magee is an expert in all matters connected with real property and", wheneyer diflerences of opinion in respect to yalues arise his iudgment is accepted as final. He is a resident of East Orange, a gentleman of excellent social and financial standing, and is held m mucli respect by all with whom he has business or personal relations. He is a member of the Munn Ayenue I'resbyterian Church of East Orange. He married Minnie Harper and has two children. WILLIAM WILLIAMS BANTA, of Hillsdale, N. J., numbers among his ancestors some of the most distinguished men of Bergen County, ihe 236 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES Eantas, the Demarests, the Duries, and other prominent families came over from Holland and were original settlers of the county, and to their energy, activity, and enterprise is due much of the county's prosperity, as well as the growth and development of the eastern part of the State. Mr. Banta is a lineal descendant of Epke Jacobse Banta, a well-to-do farmer who emigrated to Amezica from Harlengen in the Province of East Friesland, Holland, in 1659. The register of the ship " De Trouw " shows that Banta with his wife and children: Seba, aged six years, Cor- nelius, aged four years, Henry, aged two years, and Weart, aged nine months, left the port of Amsterdam, February 13, 1059, and in due time reached New Amsterdam, from whence Banta went to Bergen in New Jersey, where he took an active part in town affairs, and in 1679 was there appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The same year he bought a tract of land near Hackensack. His son Dirk bought lands adjoining his father in 1681, and in 1695 four of the sons, in com- pany with other persons, bought a large tract at English Neighborhood in Bergen County. The sons all married, reared large families, and became prominent and influential in county affairs, principally in Bergen. William W. Banta is of the eighth generation from Epke Jacobse Banta, the emigrant, and is the son of John J. Banta and Margeretta Demarest, and a grandson of Jacob J. and Maria (AVilliams) Banta, and on his mother's side of David and Margeretta Durie Demarest. He was born at Old Bridge, Bergen County, N. J., on the 20th of July, 1857, and received his education in the public schools of Eiver Edge in the same county. He subsequently spent ten years in teaching, first as Principal of the Hillsdale Public School and later as teacher of Public School No. 2, at Teaneck. From 1887 to 1896 he conducted a general store at Hillsdale, serving also as Postmaster during that period. In 1897 he again accepted the principalship of the Teaneck school, which he still holds. Mr. Banta is a teacher of acknowledged ability, and during many years' service in that occupation has been eminently successful. He has brought to his duties great intellectual capacity, liberal ideas, and a broad educa- tional training, and the schools under his management have experienced unusual prosperity. He was one of the Assessors of Washington Township in 1894 and Clerk of the new Township of Hillsdale in 1898, and is a Steward and Trustee of the Hillsdale Methodist Episcopal Church. In every capacity he has won the respect and confidence of all who know him. He married Emma Hopper, daughter of Abram A. and Margaret Hopper, of Hillsdale, N. J. THE VAN HORN FAMILY.— The first American progenitor of the Van Horn family in Hudson and Bergen Counties was Jan Cornelissen, who came to America from his birthplace, the City of Hoorn, Holland, pre- viously to the year 1645. Mr. Winfleld, in his " History of Hudson County," thinks this emigrant was under twenty-one years of age when he arrived at New Amsterdam, and cites as proof the fact that, on October 4, 1647, a power of attorney was executed by him for the purpose of collecting money due him from his guardian in Holland. He sided with the English in 1664, and took the oath of allegiance to the king the same year. One of his sons, named Joris. married, March 11, 1663, Maria Eut- gers, of Amersfoort, L. I., and had eight children, one of whom was Rutgert Jansen Van Horn, baptized at New York, January 5^ 1667. This Rutgert married, April 25, 1697, Neeltie Van Vechten. Another son was Cornelius GENEALOGICAL 237 Jansen Van Horn. In 1697 both Eutgert and Cornelius went to Schraalen- burgh, where Cornelius married Jacomina Demarest, widow of Samuel Helling, and settled east of Closter, where his descendants still reside. Rutgert returned to Bergen and purchased lands at Bayonne, where he resided until 1711, when he bought a farm at Communipaw, where he spent his days, and where he died May 15, 1741. Rutgcrt's descendants spread over Hudson County, and those of Cornelius over Bergen County. THE VAN HOUTEN FAMILY.— Boele Roelofsen Joncker, a native of the Province of Gelderland, Holland, and his wife and four children, be- sides his wife's sister and a boy, came to America, in February, 1659, and settled at Xew Amsterdam. His wife's surname was Tennis. The names of the children he brought with him were Halmagh, Cornells, Tennis, and Matilda, and after his arrival in New York he had two more children bap- tized there: Henry, February 6, 1661, and Catharine, October 8, 1662. Roelofsen's children after his death removed to and settled at Bergen, X. J. Halmagh married, September 3, 1676, Jannetje Peters, a daughter of Peter Merselis, of Beest, Holland. Cornells married, November 11, 1677, Mag- dalena Rynese Van (riesen. Teunis married, January S, 1678, Catharine Claes Kuyper (Cooper). Matilda married, July 2-, 1683, John Hendricks. No further mention is made of the other two children. Halmagh's children, baptized at Bergen, were ten: Roelof, Peter, Cornelius, Catelyntie, Jacob, Dirck, Geertie, Elizabeth, John, and Jannetie. These all remained at Ber- gen, where their descendants are very numerous. Cornelius went to Aquackanonck. where, on March 16, 1684, he and several others purchased and settled on a large tract known as the Aquackanonck (Passaic) i)atent. His children were Crietie, Roelof, Rynier, Driekie, John, and Cor- nelius. These remained at Passaic, and their descendants are numerous in Passaic County and in the western and northern parts of P>erj;en County. Teunis removed to Rockland County, N. Y. (then Orange County), where he purchased lands and located, and where he became somewhat noted. In 1689 he was a Justice for Orange County, and the same year he was a member of the Committee of Safety to deal with the treason of Governor Leisler at New York. He had thirteen children, some baptized at I'.crgeu. some at New York, and some at Tappan. Their names were Crietic. liolof, Ann, Claes, Jannetie, Vroutie, Cornelia, John, Vroutie, Elizabeth, Pietartie, Grietie, and Anetie. Many of these married and their descendants spread over Rockland County, N. Y., and southward into Bergen County, N.J. THE VAN GELDER FAMILY. — The numerous Van Gelders in Bergen County are descended from Johannes Van Gelder, who came from Gelder- land in Holland about 1661 and settled at New Amsterdam, where he had issue Hester, 1662; John, 1664; Hermanns, 1666; Elizabeth; Maria; Abra- ham, 1673; Cornelia; Emmerdus; and James. John married in lOSi; Effie Roos. Hermanns married in 1689 Catharine Teunis. Abraham mar- ried in 1695, Catalyntie Ellas. James settled at Hackensack, N. J., in 170."), and married Susanna Devoe, a widow. Abraham's son John, born about 1702, married Catalina Vanderbeck, and about 1730 settled at Pompton, then in Bergen County. From these two, John and James, there are nu- merous descendants living in the western part of Bergen (^^anty. ABRAM C. HOLDRUM.— The Holdrums of Bergen Countyare of Holland extraction. The first to come to America was John Holdrum (or, as he 238 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES spelled it, Holdron). The exact date of his arrival at New York is not known, bnt it must have been early in 1708. for in that year he married Miss Oornelia Van Tienhoven, a daughter of Director-General Cornelius Van Tienhoven, of New Amsterdam, where she was born in the fall of 1C78. John Holdrum and his wife resided in New Amsterdam for five years after their marriage, during which time three children were born to them. In 1713 John and his family removed to Tappan, N. Y., where they seem to have resided, neighbors to the Coopers, Eckersons, Harings, and Straatmakers, some of whom were living within the limits of Bergen County. Of what part of Holland John Holdrum was a native does not definitely appear. It is known that he styled himself " yeoman," which signified he was a man possessed of some propertj', and that he sailed from Amsterdam. He was an agriculturist, and must have been a man of respectability to obtain an introduction into such an aristo- cratic family as the Van Tienhovens. His chil- dren of the second gene- ration were William, Elizabeth, and Lucas, born in New York City, and Elsie, Sarah, John, and Cornelius, born at Tappan, N. Y., the last of whom married Antje Meyer, and had five children. William Holdrum, of the second generation, born in New' York about 1710, married, in 1734, INI a r g r i e t i e Peters, d a u g h t e r of Claes Peters, of Rockland County, N. Y. A^'illiam purchased lands in Har- rington Townshij), Ber- gen County, just south of the State line, about 1745, but what area does not appear, the deed never having been recorded. On December 18, 1760, he purchased from Dominie Benjamin Vandelinda a tract of 2.58 acres west of the Hack- ensack River, adjoining the State line. On this William resided all his life- time, following the occupation of a farmer. His children of the third gen- eration were: John, born in 1735, mai'ried Catharine Lepper (and had three children); Cathelyntie, born in 1737; Cornelia, born in 1739; Claes, born in 1740; William, born in 1742; Maria, born in 1745; Abraham, born in 1747; Cornelius, born in 1749; and Catharine, born in 1751. One of these last (Cornelius, third generation) married Elizabeth Haring. He died May ABRAM 0. HOLDRUM. GENEALOGICAL 239 31, 1831. They had a son, James 0. Holdruni (4), born December 21, 1785, who married Margaret Demarest. He died October 5, 1877, and she died March 30, 1870. One of their children was ( 'ornelius J. Holdrum (5), who married Elizabeth De Pew, and had children, one oi whom was Abram C. Holdrum (6), the subject of this sketch. Abram 0. Holdrum was born at Orangebnrgh, Rockland County, N. Y., September 23, 1837. He received his education in the local public schools of his town, and, after finishing the usual course, was duly appointed to a scholarship in the New York Normal School at Albany, where he com- pleted a thorough classical training. Subsequently he was engaged in business in New York City for nearly twenty years, retiring in 1872 and removing to Bergen County, where he has since resided. From that time to the present he has been honored by almost every local office of trust within the gift of the county and State. He is and has been for many years a commissioner of deeds and a notary public for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. He has served as a member of the Board of School Trustees of Washington Township for more than twenty years, being district clerk most of that period. In IST!) he was elected to the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and was the first Republican representative from the Township of AVashington. He was appointed to take the TJnited States census in 1880 and again in 18!)(l, and in the latter year was appointed by the tJovernor a member of the Bergen County Board of Elections, of which he served as Secretary until his election to' the New Jersey Legislature of 18!)7. In 18!t.") he was com- missioned Postmaster of Westwood, N. J., and held that office four years. Elected to the Assembly of 1897 by a plurality of :t,(;:!3 over Van Em- burg, the highest Democratic candidate, Mr. Holdrum served on the Com- mittees on Game and Fisheries and Revision of Laws, and was re-elected for the session of 1898. his majority over Mr. Fellows, the Democratic nom- inee, being 808. His entire legislative career was marked by a careful, com- prehensive, and intelligent attention to the business of the House, and especially to those measures which affected his town or county, and gained for him a high reputation as well as a wide and intimate acquaintance. Mr. Holdrum has been a leading member of the Republican (Vmnty Ex- ecutive Committee of Bergen County for many years, and in ISiiii be- came the committee's Vice-Chairman. He has been President of the Ber- gen County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company since 1891, lias been Vice-President of the Bergen County Board of Agriculture and a delcKiite to the State board for some time, and is also President of the Progi-ossive Building and Loan Association, of Hillsdale, N. J. In all these capacities he has displayed great business ability, sound judgment, and unerring foresio-ht united with manlv courage, indomitable industry, and honcH effort" He has faithfullv and honestly discharged the duties of every trust. He is a member and past officer of City Lodge, F. and A. il., of New York Citv and a member of Rockland Chapter, R. A. M., of Nyack, N. Y. He married, in January, 1872, Miss Mary Leah Hopper, and has two chil- dren living: Bessie C, born in 1876, and Carret S. il., born m 1881, and resides in Westwood, Bergen County. THE V '^N DIEN FAMILY has numerous members in the central parts of Bergen County. Their common ancestor was Gerret Cornelise Van Duyn (said to have been a native of Zwolle in the Province of Overyssel in Holland) In 1649 he emigrated from Niewkerk in Zealand to New Am- 240 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES stei'dam and married Jacomina Swarts. He settled at Brooklyn, where he plied his trade of a earj)enter and wheelwright. He was fined there in KifiS for refusing to pay toward supporting the minister. On August 10, 1670, he obtained permission to return to Holland, and, with his wife, kept house at Zwolle, but, not prospering, he returned in 1679 in Ihe ship "The Charles," on board of which were several leaders of the sect known as Labadists. He finally located on a farm on Long Island, between New Utrecht and Flatbush. He bought other lands at Flatbush. He was among the Flatbush patentees in 1686 and 1687, took the oath of alle- giance in 1687, and was a magistrate in 1687-88 and a justice in 1689-90. He died in 1705, leaving issue Cornelius, Garret, Denys, William, Dirck. Cornelia, Abraham, Aeltie, and Jacomina. Coinelius removed to Somerset CVtunty, N. Y. Abraham settled on the Raritan River in Xew Jersey, and later went to Cecil County, Md. All the others except Garret settled in Somerset and Middlesex Counties, N. J. Garret went to Bergen, where he settled, and died in 1686. He married Gertie Hopper, and bought lands in 1662 from Governor Stuyvesant, on the Saddle River. His children wrote their names Van Dien. Among his issue was Gerret Van Dien, who married Vroutie ^'erwey, and lived west of the Saddle River. His issue were Dirk, Cornelius, Hendricka, Albert, and William, and the descendants of these children are now numerous in Bergen County. THE A^-VNDERBECK PAMITA" is among the most numerous of any in Bergen and Hudson Counties. Paulus A^ander Beek, the common ancestor of the family in America, was a native of Bremen, in Germany, and came to America about 1043, stopping first at New Amsterdam, where, on October 9, 1644, he married Maria Thomas (or Baddie), a widow who had previously been the wife of Thomas Farden and William Arianse Bennett, of Gowan- nus. Paulus ^'ander Beek appeals to have been of a roving disposition. In 1655 he was living at Brooklyn. In 1660 he was following the calling of a butcher in New Amsterdam. In 1661 he was farming the excise of Long Island, and in 1662 he was ferry-master. On October 24. 1663, he bought plantation lot No. 17 at Graves End. He was enrolled as a tax- payer of Brooklyn in 1675, and was one of the patentees of the Brooklyn patent in 1677. In 1679 he sold half of a farm at (iowanus for 3,000 gelders. He resided on the farm at Gowannus, late of Garret Bergen. He died in 1680. His children were Conrad, 1647; Aeltie, 1649; and Paulus, Hester, Isaac, and Catharine. Paulus Vander Beek (2), bax)tiz;ed at New Asterdam, November 17, 1650, married, June 13, 1677, Sarah Schouten. He resided at Gowannus, where he died about 1690. His issue of the third generation were Sarah, Maria, Paulus, Sarah, Lucas, and Janneken. Paulus Vanderbeck (;>), baptized at Gowannus, November 6, 1C81, mar- ried Jannetie Springsteen, and settled at Hackensack, joining the church there September 30, 1710, which is about the time he went there. He bought land in what is now Midland Township and at Paramus, where he settled. His cousin, Paulus Vanderbeck, son of Conrade (2), married (1) Jannetie Johannes, widow of Jacob Culvei-, and (2) June, 1703, Catryn Martens, widow of Samuel Berry. He likewise settled near Hackensack. Paulus (3) had issue Abram, 1708, and Isaac, 1712, and Paulus (3), son of Conrad, had children Conrad, Jacob, Elsie, Paulus, and Catharine. Prom these residing .about Paramus and Hackensack have sprung a numerous host, scattered over Bergen and Hudson Counties. GENEALOGICAL 241 HENRY ISAAC DARLING, of .T(>i'sey City, was born in County Meatli, Ireland, on the Ttli of June, 1847. Ho is tiio son of Janios Darling and Susan Ffolliott and a grandson of Hiram Darling and Jolm Ffolliott. He received liis education at Santry College, in Diiiilin, and in 1865 came to New York City, where lie began his active carcn'r. In 1800 he went to California and spent four eventful years in San Fr-ancisco and Sacramento, gaining a wide experience and a full knowledge of business generally. Re- turning east in ISTO, he was in the great Chicago fire of 1871, and the next year (1872) returned to New York, where he was employed for several years in the wholesale dry goods business. Mr. Darling removed to Hobokeu, Hudson County. N. J., in 1875 and lived there nine years. In 1881 he moved to the Hudson City section of Jersey City and engaged in real estate business and building oji- erations. He was tlie first in his section of Jer- sey City to inaugurate the system of building a de- tached house on a lot and selling the whole jtroperty on easy terms, thus enab- ling working jieojde of moderate means to get possession of their homes and pay for them in the easiest possible manner. In this line of oper.ation Mr. Darling has been emi- nently successful, and a large number of families to-day are enjoying homes which he has provided for them on this basis. Among the buildings which he has erected uji to the present time are one hundred and thirty-five houses by actual count in Hudson County, nearly all of which he has sold to families now occupying them. Most of these homes have been built within the past six years, thus bringing into the county property to the value of over -IfSOO.OOO.OO, and improving lands which would still be unproductive and of small value as a taxable asset. Numerous builders and contractors have followed his exam]ile of building detached houses for homes for working people and have been very suc- cessful, yet the inception and inauguration of the plan is due wholly to him, and in this particular line he is the acknowledged leader. Blocks of houses all over the Hudson City and liergen sections of Jersey could thoroughly 258 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES rely upon every pie at all times, and that no effort to secure trade by a good ai'ticle and then afterward furnish an inferior grade would be made. The best testimonial to the ironclad rule, ' never to have one inferior pie leave our doors ' is contained in the fact that Dolan — you know him, of course — of P. Dolan & Nephew, and also Hitchcock, of Oliver Hitchcock & Son, have been my customers for forty years. Well, of course, if anybody in New York ought to be good judges of things to eat, then Dolan and Hitchcock are those men, as the public fully knows. " Another factor which has aided materially in our success is the fact that our large patrons, when visiting this establishment, are at perfect liberty at any and all times to go through the various departments — we have no special ' exhibit ' days, when extra clean utensils, floors, etc., are put forward for inspection ; every day is inspection day, for every employee knows full well that scrupulous cleanliness is a rule that can not be in- fringed upon more than once." In politics Mr. Thompson has always been a Republican. Deeply in- terested in the affairs of his country and prominent as a citizen and business man, he is especially well informed upon almost every current topic. He is a life member and was one of the founders of the Carteret Club of Jer- sey City, and is also a member of New York Lodge, No. 330, A. F. and A. M. In 1866 Mr. Thompson married Matilda Robinson, by whom he has had six children: James A., William, Lydia Ann, Matilda, Rachel (deceased), and Catherine. GEORGE W. BLAWVELT is descended in the seventh generation from Gerret Hendricksen (Blawvelt), the emigrant, and the progenitor of all the family in New Jersey. His parents were Isaac Blawvelt and Mary, daughter of John Hopper, and his grandparents were Cornelius Blawvelt and Mary Lydecker. He was born on Staten Island, N. Y., February 9, 1847, but removed to Bergen County when young, and there received his education. At an early age he entered the employ of the well known dry goods house of Lord & Taylor, of New York City. Subsequently he en- gaged in the general trucking business in New York for James Ackernian, in which he continued until 18T5, when he established himself in the sugar and molasses trade. In this line he remained until ' 1895, when he re- tired, and has since been engaged in the real estate business at Ridgewood, N. J., where he resides. Mr. Blawvelt has achieved success in every business relation, and during his entire career has enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who know him. He is a public spirited citizen, a Mason, a member of the Knights of Honor, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Annie E. Chisholm, and of their three children one, Annie, is living. PETER W. STAGG.— The earliest of this name to settle in Bergen Coun- ty was John Stagg, who is described as " a young man born at Bergen, East N. Jersey." The Bergen records, however, make no mention of him. His marriage to Mary (daughter of Cornells Jans Bogert) was registered in the Dutch church at Hackensack, March 14, 1697. The marriage of Will- iam Stegg, described as "a young man born at New Barbadoes Neck," was to Magdalena Peters Demarest, registered'ih the same church, October 23, 1697. John and William were T»robably brothers, but where they came from does not appear. The New York' church records throw'ilo lij;ht upon the question. John's wife muit have died soon after their marria'ge, as GENEALOGICAL 259 on No\'ember 2G, 1698, his marriage to Oornoliu Verwcy was registered. By liis tirst wife lie had iio issue, but bv Cornelia Verwev he had issue Thomas, 1703; Margaretta, 1710; Isaac, i712; .Jacob, 1715; George, 1717; and William, 1719. There were probably otlu^is whose lia]>tisms were not noted on any record. The record shows that William Stegg and Magdalena I'eters Deniarest had only one child, Magdalena, born in 1723, but he had a daughter, Eliza- beth, who married John Ackerman at Schraalenburgh in 1728. John and William Stegg (StaggI settled in the A'icinity (south) of Hackensack on parts of the IJei'ry tract. Abram Stagg. of Hackensack, settled at Schraal- enbnrgh when he married ^lai'itie liogei-t in June, 1732. It was his brother (probably), Cornelius Stagg, a widower, of Xew Barbadoes, who also set- tled at Sehraalenbni-gh and married Ann Christie in January, 1734. It is said that in the start three ))rothers came to America from Hol- ESSEX STREET, LOOKING EAST, HACKENSACK. land, one of whom settled in Xew York City, another at Hicamac in Ber- gen County, and a third " went west." However that may be, a John Stagg was known to have settled at Sicamac in r.ergen County much more than a century ago, where he mai-iied a IMiss Van Ilouten and prospered as a farmer. His son, James Stagg. was b(irn and resided for a time at Wyck- otf, Bergen County. He also followed agricultural pursuits. His wife, Sally Westervelt, was born at Tonally in 1800. The couple eventually moved to Teaneck, where they bought a ]>art of the old Brinckerhoff farm, on which they sjtent their days, Tiiey had issue John, Joseph, James H., Sarah E., and Letty. John was born in New Ycrk City, but was brought uji at Teaneck. He married (1) Sallv Westervelt and (2) Jane Vooi-his. By his tirst wife his issue w'fre Jan.es and Peter ^V.. a'ul by his second wife his issue were Edwaia, Henry. Jesse, and John, of whom Peter W. is the subject of this sketch. 260 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Peter W. Stao:s was born in New York City October 2i, 1850. His child- hood and early life, however, were spent in Cresskill, N. J., where he at- tended th(> public school. In 1S7.5 he went to Jersey City and became a student at law in th'- office of the late Charles Schoficld, and there he re- mained two years, after which he moved to Hackensack and entered the office of Ackerson & Van Valen, continuing with them until IS?.), when he was admitted to the bar at the June term. Immediately after being admitted he opened an office for the practice of his profession, in which he rapidly built up a good business. At the June term of 1883 he was made a counselor at law. He served as assistant clerk to the House of the Assembly at the sessions of 1S!)1-1»2, and in 1S!)5 was appointed by C.ovcrnor Werts as Prosecutor of Bergen County for a term of five years. Prior to the time at which Mr. Stagg became Prosecutor Bergen County had been infested with poolroom and green-goods gangs. These the new Prosecutor drove out, in addition ro conducting the ordinary criminal business. Mr. Stagg is a member of Bergcji County Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has been Grand Master of the State of New Jersey, having in ls!»7 the care and jurisdiction of two hundred and forty-nine lodges in different parts of the State, comprising a membership of 2.^,000 Odd Fellows. He is also a mem- ber of the Fire Patrol. His oldest son, Arthur, was a member of the Sec- ond Eegiment, New Jersey Volunteers, in the late Spanish War. Mr. Stagg was married January 14, 1875, to Jennie E. Westervelt, of Bergenfield. His issue are Arthur A. (a law student), Warren H. and Charles W. (both electricians), Elmer, and Harry G. GEORGE CADMUS. — The Cadmus family are numerous in Hudson and Passaic Counties, New Jersey. Cornelius Cadmus (Cadmuys) was living at Aquackanonck (Passaic) as early as 1718, for the records of the Hacken- sack Dutch Church register the fact th.at in April of that year Arientie Cadmus, of Aquackanonck, and Ide Sipp, of Bergen, were married at Hackensack. It is more than likely that Dirk (Richard) Cadmus (who Mr. Winfield thinks was the first of the name in Hudson County) was a son of Cornelius, of Passaic. This Dirk was at Itcrgen before 171 S, for on June 20th of that year he married Jannetje Van Horn. Early in the spring of 17.'!1 he bought of John McEvers and wife a tract of 380 acres of land at Tappan (now in Bergen County), extending from the Hackensack River to the Pascack River. The deed describes him as " Dirck Cadmus of the towne of Bergen." Some or all of it he soon after sold to the Blawvelts, of Tappan. He seems to have remained in Bergen, for in No- vember, 1740, he bought lands of his father-in-law, Yan Horn, at Con- stable's Hook. He died November S, 1745. He was beyond doubt a Hol- lander, but when he emigrated or what part of that country he hailed as his birthplace are questions which the early records do not answer. By Jannetje Van Horn he had issue of the second generation Rutgert, Catrina, Frederick, John, Cornelia, and Joris (George). He must have had other children. Joris Cadmus (2), born at Bergen, married (1) Jannetie Vreeland and (2) Jenneke Prior. She died January 20, 1705, and he died April 2, 1781. Their issue of the third generation were Jannettie, Jannettie, Jannettie, Joris, Metie, Dirck, Casparus, and Jenneke. ■' i Casiiarus (\idmus (^), born at Bergen, August 10, 1770, died September 23, 1845, married Cathlantie Johns Dodd, born January 27, 1768, and died (IBNBALOGIOAL 261 October 11, 1S22. Their issue of the fourth generation were thirteen: Sara, Joris, John, Casparus, Jannetie, Secltie, Martha, Martha, Michael, Richard, Cathrina, Andrew, and Eleanor. Richard Cadmus (1), born Xoveniber 22, 180:5, died October 16, 187:5, married Cathaline (daughter of Michael de Mott), died, and had issue of the fifth generation, one of whon) was (icorge Cadmus, the subject of this sketch. George Cadmus (5) was born Ajnil 12, ]S4fl, in Bayonne, N. J., where he still resides. He was educated in the schools of Bayonne and Bloom- field, in his native State, and has sjieut his active life as a farmer. He now lives on the old family homestead at Bayonne. In politics he is a Republican, and in every cai)acity he has displayed marked ability and \\on for himself the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens. He mar- ried, first, C(uii('lia B., daughter of 'William X. Smith, of Xew Brunswick, X. J., formerly of Xew York. She was born October 1"), 18:5!), and died in 18()7. They had one child, Henry S. Cadmus, born April :3(), 1805, died Feb- ruary 1, 18(;t. ;Mr. Cadmus married, second, June 11, 188!), Mrs. Lillie A. (Jones) -Vbbott, of Bayonne, and has two children of the sixth generation, namely: Clarence AV. and May. DAXIEL DRAKE BRYAX was born in Xew York City on the 2d of December, ISGt. He is the son of James H. and Xancy (Hall) Drake, his father being of English and his mother of Holland Dutch descent. Mr. Bryan was educated in the ])ublic schools of Xew York, and has spent the most of his active life in the custom house brokerage business in that city. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Royal iVrcanum, and a public spirited citizen. In Arlington, X. J., whei-e he resides, he has taken a deep interest in local affairs, and in both business and social relations is highly esteemed as a man of integrity and enterprise. He married Mary Hay Berry, of Xew York Cify, and has one child, Edna Drake Bryan. DARirS S. JOHXSOX" is of English descent. Forty years ago John P. Johnson went from Xew York (where he was boi-n October 8, 181!)) to I'ascack (now Park Ridge in Bergen County) and established a passenger stage line between Pascack and Closter. This he operated successfully until the const ruction of the Xew York and Xew Jersey and the W'vat Sliore Railway lines did away with all cross-country stage lines. Mr. John- son then '■•emoved to Closter and established a livery business, which he continued until his death, June 7, 1882. He married (1) Ellen de Baun, who was born May 13, 1822, and died August 18, 18u9. He then married (2) :Maria Christopher, born :\Iay 22, 1827, died April 4, 1882. i\Ir. Johnson's issue of the second generation were Eupliemia, Maria, Henry 1). B., Marga- ret (died), Delia, D;srius S., Carrie (dead), tieorge, and Maggie — five by his first wife and four by his second. Darius S. Johnson (2) Avas born May 4, 186:?, in Closter, Bergen Coun- ty, where he has always resided, and where he received his education. Leaving school at the age of thirteen, he clerked for two years in a grocery store and then entered his father's livcr,\ stable. When eighteen years old he engaged in business for himself, be(oming a member of the firm of Taveniere & Johnson, which still continues. Mr. Johnson has achieved success in both business and public affairs. He served one term as Township T'ollector for Harrington Township and 262 IITTDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES duriiii;' llic ]):isl (('ii yciirs liiis )i< rii Uom] ( "oimiiissioner. He is a member of tlic Diilcli Ivi'foniicd ('hiirrli and liii;lily res])('ct(Ml liy all who know him. He marri(Ml rsianch I'carsall and has two children: Hazel and Martha. JESHK KlMl'.Al.l. VUEP^IjANJ), for many years one of the leading contractors and bnilders of Hudson Consity and from ]S(;4 a resident of Ravonne, was horn .Jess( in lialiway, X. -J. Kimble ^'reeland. on Sr the 1.1th of October, ls:55, his and Lockey Brant. His family descending parents beiny .<>.-,-.,-.> iv,,,,.,n . .v,. ,.,...., ._,.., ..^.v^ ..v........ ^,.„„.. is one of the oldest in the State, the branch in Hndson County from Michael .lanscji. who came from Broeckhnvsen (Nortli Brabant). He left Holland. October 1, 1 (!;!(), in tlie ship " Rens- selaer wyek," with h i s wife and two children. He settled at what is now rrreenbusli. oy)posite Al- bany, as a hoeirkncHit, or farm sei-vant. It was not long before he grew weary of agricultural pui-snits and the narrow road thereby opened to \^•ealth. and engaged in tlie fur trade, in which " he made his fortune in two years." Such pi-ivate sjieculation being pro- hibited by law, he was soon brought into dilii- culty with the authoi-i- ties. He thereupon aban- doned his farm and came to :Manhattan. The date of this change is not known, but he was a resi- dent in Xew Amsterdam November 4, ]6-t4. on which date he emjiower- ed A rent Van Curler to settle with Batroon Van Ri-nsselaer all accounts and differences. In KiiC, he came over to Conmiu- nipaw and settled on the bouwerie, owned bv .Ian iM-ertsen Bout. For tins •■ Bouwerie " and jiart of tlie stock on it he paid Bout the good round sum of S,(HIO gelders. In the years 1047. 104!), and 10.50 lie re]»resented Bavonia in the Council of ■■ Xine," and joined his asso- ciates in their crusade against Governor Stuyvesant. In 104!) he was ap- pointed one of the delegates to Holland against the Colonial administra- tion, but owing to the unsettled state of liis business he dei-lined the ap- pointment. It was at his house in X^ew Amsterdam that the journal of Van der Donck entitled " Vertoogh " was written. It was seized, and it JKSSE K. VREELAND. GENEALOGICAL 263 was suspected upon inforuiation furnished by Michael Jansen. He was a signer of the application for the first municipal government in New Netherland, July 26, 10J:9. During the troubles of 1655 the Indians drove him from his home, when, on September 15, they made a raid on Pavonia and killed every man there, except the family of Jansen. From the dangers and uncertainties of border life at " Gemoeuepa " he took refuge on Manhattan. On January 22, 1658, he asked for permission to return to Pavonia and to be relieved from certain tithes. In September, 1661, he had become a man of " com- petence." living on his bonwerie at Gemoenepa. He was one of the first magistrates of the new court at Bergen. In December, 1662, he joined his neighbors in asking the governor for a minister of the gospel, and for whose support he subscribed twenty-five florins. He died in 1663. His wife was Pitje Hartmans, and they had eight children, from whom are descended various branches of the family now represented in Eastern New Jersey. Jesse Kimball Vreeland was of the seventh generation from Michael Jan- sen and his wife, Fitje Hartmans, the emigrants. His parents were both born and married in Eahway, where he received his education in the public schools. Afterward he spent several years in the South. He finally re- moved from Eahway to New York City and thence, in 1864, to Bayonne, N. J., where he was long prominent in both business and public affairs. After leaving school Mr. Vreeland identified himself with the building and contracting business, which he thoroughly learned and successfully fol- lowed. He built a large number of public and private buildings, which stand as monuments to his skill and industry, and stamp him as a man of originality as well as enterprise. Mr. Vreeland was also prominent in military and civil life. He served throughout the War of the Rebellion, being connected with the Quarter- master's Department at Port Eoyal. He also served as Chief of the Fire Department at Bayonne, as a member of the Bayonne Common Council, and as a Commissioner of Appeals, and discharged his duties in each position with acknowledged alDility and satisfaction. In politics he was a Democrat, and in religion a member of the congregation of th(^ Dutch Ee- formed Church. His life was one of constant activity and in every way suc- cessful, and during his entire career he won and maintained the confidence of all with whom he came in contact. He died July 23, 1900. Mr. Vreeland married Emma J. Meyer, of Charleston, S. C. They had nine children : Jennie, Enuna, Henrietta, Rachel, Jesse, Frederick, Chester. Clarence, and Edna. WILLIAM SCOTT FERDON is descended from Thomas Verdon, the emigrant, who came to America about 1645 (see sketcli on page lS4j. The line of descent is as follows: Jacob Ferdon, of the third generation, had issue seven children of the fourth generation, as has been stated. One of these, Jacob Ferdon (4), baptized in New York in 1687, was known as Jacob Ferdon, Jr. He married Maria Flierboom, April 8, 1720, and re- mained on Long Island until 1730, when he removed to Schraalenburgh, N. J., where he bought lands and died about 1752. He had issue of the fifth generation several children: Jacob, Jannetje, Servaes (died), Servaes (died), Maria, Servaes (died), and Catharine. Jacob Ferdon (5), born on Long Island about 1723, married at Schraalen- burgh, May 5, 1748, Helena Van Blarcom. They resided at Schraalenburgh 264 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES and had children of the sixth generation Jacob, Henry, Servaes, Jacobus, Jacob, Ann, Misria, and Teter. Henry Ferdon ((i) married Jannetje Archbold, lived at Schraalenburgh, and had children of the seventh gener.ition David, James, Lena, Henry, and Jannetie. Heiuv Ferdon (7), born at Schiaalenburgh, March 10, 1790, died Febru- ary 27. isns, married, August 2, 1814, Eflie Jianta. She was born March 22, 17'!)5, and died August 27, 1879. They left issue, among whom were Sam- uel P.. Ferdon (S), who married Sarah M., daughter of Daniel and Rachel Christie, and had issue, among other children, William Scott Ferdon of the ninth generation. AA'illiani Scott Ferdon, the subject of this sketch, was born in New York City on the 29th of July, 18.58, and there received a public school education. For several years he has been successfully engaged in the coal and lumber business at Dumont, N. J., succeeding in May, 1899. the firm of De Coster & Ferdon. He is a member of tlie Dutch Reformed (Jhurch, a public spirited citizen, and actively identified with the affairs of his section. On August 18, 188(1, Mr. Ferdon married Jemima Christie, and they have two children: Sadie M. and Myra C. JULIUS BERGER was born in Davenport, Iowa, March 20, 1860, his parents having emigrated to this country from (lermany in 1857. His mother's family was wealthy and influential in the Fatherland, but none of the wealth ever crossed the ocean. His father served for three years in the Civil War, receiving an honorable discharge. ilr. Berger ac(iuired a limited education in the public schools of Daven- port, but in the harder school of practical life he laid the foundation upon which he has built a successful career. The death of both of his parents in lS7:t threw him upon his own resources at the tender age of thirteen, and from that time to the present he has relied upon himself. Anxious and willing to work, endowed with plenty of pluck and energy, and de- termined to i^ave a way to success and reputation, he entered, in April, 1S7:>, a manufactory of hats and furs in his native citj', where he soon gained a valuable experience, which supplemented the earlier training he had obtained in the public schools. In June, 1880, he removed from Davenport, Iowa, to Jersey City, N. J., and entered the employ of the firm of Harris & Russack, of New York (Jity, manufacturers of fine furs, remaining with them until 1889. On June 22, of that year, he opened his own manufactory of hats and furs at 3G8 Central Avenue, Jersey City, where he has since continued. He started with a capital of |]50, but with pluck, perseverance, and practical business knowledge acquired from his long association with his former employers soon built up an extensive trade. Mr. Berger was the founder of the Hudson City Business Men's Associa- tion and was its President for two terms. He M'as also President of the Hudson City Turn Verein in 1888 and 1896, and was very active for the welfare and advancement of both organizations. He is also a member of the Jerse\' City Board of Trade. He was appointed a member of the Board of Education of Jersey City in May, 1899, by Mayor Hoos, and has continued to hold that position. He is a public spirited citizen, active in the affairs of the community, and respected by all who kn^ow him. Mr. Berger married Marie Bechtoldf, daughter of George Bechtoldt, a veteran of the Civil War. GENEALOl^.IOAL 265 ANTHONY JAOC)]! A'OLK has -aincd (lie i-cimtatioii of bciiii^' one of the best known and most entcrjirisiiio' nndei-takci-s in Ilubokcn, N. .1. where he was born November L'l, ISCi"). In a measure lie inherits tliis from his father, Jaeob Yolk, who, at tl\e time of liis (h^itli, on Anf^iist :>, 1S74, was the oldest and foremost undertaker in llmlson ('ounlv, and who, jirofos- sionally and privately, was universally rcspcrtod and I'stcemed. lint his reputation is not altoii'elher inheritecl from his honored father. It is vei-y lar<;ely the result of his own eltorts, and of a natura.l ability developed fi-om boyhood. He is the son of Jaeob ^'olk and Rosa Kaab, bolh natives of Ccrmanv, ANTHONY J. VOLK. who came to this I'ountry when yonni;- and were married in New \ ork f'itv. They settled in Hoboken. and were well known thronj;liont the ("oun- ty of Hudson. Mr. Yolk attended tin' public schools of Iloboken and also Hoboken Academv, where he received a IhorouKli classical traininj;. Leav- in"' school at the'earlv a^e of fourteen, he entered the ('m]>loy <>i thr Na- tional Express Companv, and in this and in the ofHcc of the American Express CompanY, both of New York, h- spent three yea.i-s. In 1S(4 his fqiher died leavin- a lar^o and siicccssfu! undci'takin- bu'^mess to the eare of his wife, the mother of Anthony J. N'olk, and the latter, wlu^n 266 HDDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES seventeen, assumed its immediate management. Tliough but a boy, lie displayed marlced business ability, excellent judgment, and great sagacity, and soon won the respect and confidence of the community. His success was practically instantaneous and uninterrupted. In addition to the un- dertaking cstal^lishment he conducted a large livery stable, and combining the two was necessarily a very busy man. In 1886 he purchased the entire business, which he still continues. Mr. Volk is independent in politics, firm in his convictions, trustworthy in all the relations of life, and influential and active in the best interests of the community. In the autumn of 1893 he was elected Coroner of Hudson County by the handsome plurality of over 4,400, the county usually giving a Democratic majority of about 6,000. This office he filled with great credit and satisfaction for three years. He is a member and past officer of Hudson Lodge, No. 71, F. and A. M., of Hoboken, and also a member of Protection Lodge, No. 634, Knights of Honor, of Lady Washington Lodge, No. 414. Kniglits and Ladies of Honor, of the American Legion of Honor, of Guiding Star Lodge, No. 189, I. O. O. F., of Hoboken Council, No. 99, Royal Arcanum, of the Germania Schuetzen Bund of New Jersey, of the Hoboken Schuetzen Corps, of the Hoboken Quartette Club, of the Hoboken Independent Schuetzen Corps, and of the Mannergesang Verein Lyra. For a time he was also financial secretary of the Undertakers' Association of Hudson County. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church, and active in various other organizations. Mr. Volk was married on the 12th of September, 1888, to Anna M. Kaiser, daughter of John Henry and Anna M. Kaiser, of Hoboken. They have two children: Florence M. and Anthony J., Jr. JAMES H. STEPHENS, of Closter, is descended from John Stephensen, an Englishman, who came to America about 1670 and located at Fort Or- ange (Albany), where he followed his profession, which was that of a school teacher. On October 4, 1873, he married Elizabeth Lucas, who, the record states, was from New Orange. The couple must have resided in New Am- sterdam for some time, as seven of their children are recorded as having been baptized there, in the Dutch church, up to 1693. His first wife died in New Amsterdam and he married (2) Maria . He had children of the second generation: Elizabeth, Lucas, Mary, Steven, Jenneke, Cornelius, Catalyna, John, Peter, Nicholas, Roeloff, Abraham, and Gertrude. Lucas Stephens (2) married and had issue, among other children, Abra- ham (3), born about 1730, who married, in 1757, Sarah Peters O'Blenis, of Clarkstown. They resided at Clarkstown, N. Y., and had seven children of the fourth generation: Elizabeth, 1759; Peter, 1760; Maria, 1763; Eliza- beth, 1765; Abram, 1767; Jannetie, 1769; and Hendrick, 1771. Hendrick (4), born at Clarkstown, June 11, 1771, married Ann de Clark, born at Clarkstown, December 11, 1771, died there December 25, 1843. Hendrick died there October 25, 1834. They had issue, among other chil- dren, James H. Stephens of the fifth generation. James H. Stephens (5), born at Clarkstown, N. Y., August 28, 1804, died at Closter, N. J., August 28, 1867, married (1) Catharine Pye in 1824 and (2) Ida E. Pye, widow of Edmund Irish. James H. Stephens was a carpenter, and for many years followed his occupation in the City of New York, where he acquired a competence in constructing frames for buildings which were at that time being shipped to California. Early in the fifties te purchased a large farm in Monmouth County oh which he devoted his time to the pro- GENEALOGICAL 267 duction of fruits, for which he found a ready market in New York. In 1867 he sold his Monmouth farm and removed to Oloster, N. J., on the farm for- merly owned by David A. Demarest. He died there five months after his arrival. His issue by Catharine Pye were two sons, Abraham and John H. Stephens, and by Ida E. I'ye two children, Edmund and Catharine. John H. Stephens (6) was born in Bank Street, New York, February 8, 1831, and died at Closter, N. J., September 8. 1887. He learned the car- penter's trade with liis father in New York and married Rachel D. Huyler, daughter of Barney and Maria (Demarest) Huyler. In 1858 he removed to Closter, N. J., bought lands, and followed carpentry until the opening of the railroad in the following year, when he built a store (the first one in the place) and began to speculate in real estate. He was station agent for twenty-five years. Postmaster for thirty years, held many town offices, and was the promoter and leading spirit of the village. In fact he may justly be called the father of Closter. His issue of the seventh generation are James H., Eugene, and Percy. James H. Stephens, the subject of this sketch, was born in Closter, N. J., September 19, 18G0, and received his education in the public schools of Bergen County. Leaving school at the age of eighteen, he first engaged in the sugar business in New Y'ork City, in which he continued four years. He was then engaged in the meat business in (ioster for seven years, and subsequently^, after a retirement of two years, associated himself with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Mr. Stephens has been successful in every connection, and as a public spirited citizen has taken a deep interest in local affairs. He is a member of the Reformed Church and identified with other organizations in his native county. He married Elizabeth M. Ferdon and has one child, a daughter, E. Marion Stephens. CALVIN DEMAREST, of Hackensack, is descended in the eighth gen- eration from David des Marest, the emigrant and first American ancestor of the family, for a sketch of whom see page 64. Calvin's grandfather, Thomas Demarest (of the sixtli generation from the first David), was born July 18, 1757, and died April ^27, 182!). He married, in 1782, Lena Naugle. Their issue of the seventh generation were Sarah, Cornelius T., William, Vroutie, and perhaps others. Cornelius T. (7), born January 23, 1786, died December 2(i, 1862, mar- ried Margaret Lydecker, born August 1, 17'.»1, died June 27, 1883. She was the daughter of Cornelius Lydecker. Cornelius T. was graduated from Columbia College in 1804, studied for the ministry with Rev. Dr. Froeleigh, was licensed to preach at Paramus in March, 1807, and preached at ^^'llite House, N. J., from 1808 to 1813, and at English Neighborhood, N. J., from 1813 to 1824. He organized the new church at English Neighborhood and preached in it from 1824 to 1839, and also preached at Hackensack and English Neighborhood from 1839 to 1851 and in King Street, New York, in the True Reformed Church, from 1851 until his death. His children of the eighth generation were fifteen : Helen, Cornelia, Leah, Thomas ^A^, Cor- nelius Lydecker, Christiana, Penelope, Maria. Calvin, 1st., Charles, Calvin, (rarret B., Peter, James H., and Margaret. Calvin Demarest (8), the subject of this sketch, was born in New York City on the 15th of July, 1825, and received his education in Bergen County. He left school at the age of four+eon and went to work on his grandfather's farm in Bergen County, where he remained fourteen years. 268 IIT'DSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES Since llu'ii — fm- a pci'idd (if f(ii'(y-six ycMi-s — lie lias been siicccsKfully en- gaged in I lie general I nicking bnsiness in New York City. He resides in llackeiisack. is a ineiidier of the llefcnaned (Jlmrcli, and for years Eas taken a dei'ji interesi in the affairs of Bergen County. Mr. Demarest mar- ried Mary Lozier and luis two children living: ^^'altel• and Mj'ra. WALTEK KISSAM I'.IUDSALL, a rising yonng lawyer and a member of the ]>oard of Edncation of Jersey City, is the son of David and Susannah A. (t'lyde) JJirdsall, and a d(^scendant of the Hirdsalls in the vicinity of Leeds, England. His jiariMits ^\•el■e lioi-n in New York State, but came to -Tersev City in ]S-I!), where his father, David Uirdsall, established the •Jersey <^' i t y Iron Works, in wliich he is still interested. Walter K. Birdsall was liorn in Jei-sev Pity, N. J., on the 2d of .[aniiary, 1869, and i-(^ceived liis education in that citv, attending Public School No. 1 and the J(M-sey City High Sclioid. He was gi-aduated from Yale University in the class of ISOl, and during his Senior year there took a year's course in elementary law in tlie Yale Law Scliool. Subsequently he spent four years in the office of ^^'illianl A. Lewis, as a student, and was admitted to the New •Jer'sey bar' at the Feb- ruary term of the Su- Tirenie Coni-f in 1805. Since then he has been actively and suc- cessfully engaged in the practice of his jirofession in Jersev City. In politics Mr. Bird „ 1 J. , . s^ill is a Republican. He has taken an active mtiMest in the affairs of his jiartv, has contributed largely 1o its success, and among its younger members is recognized as a leader. On May 1, 1S!>!), he was aii]iointed a member of the Board of Edu- cation (d' -lersey City for a term of two years, and is now serving in tliat capacity with the same mai-ked ability which he has displayed in profes- sional life. He is a member of Jersey Cit, Lodge, No. 71, Free and .Vccepted Masons, of William T. Sherman Council, Boyal Arcanum, of the Zeta Psi Greek WALTER K. BIRDSALL. GENEALOGICAL 269 Letter frateiuity, unci of t]ie Universily Club. He was formerly a member of the Palma Club of Jersey ( Mty. ^Ir. IJirdsall is a prominent, patriotic, and public spirited citizen. He has already achie\ed a high reputation, and through his liberal! ly, integrity of character, and activity is univeisally esteemed and respected. Mr. Birdsall was married on the 24tii of August, 18!)7, to Fannie E. Wat- son, of Perry, Wyoming ('ounty, X. Y. JOHN HILLRIC BONN, the founder of the present system of stre(-t railways in North Hudson County, and one of the most enterprising and successful men of his day, was born in the City of Xorden, East Friesland, in the extreme northwest of (iermany, September 14, ISi'!). There he received his early education under private tutors and at the national and classical high schools. He sprung from an honored and respected family, his parents being people of great eneig\ and force of character, and as a boy developed those strong intellectual and moral traits which charac- terized his entire life. His fathei' was for many years a successful master of vesiscls in the East India trade, and with him ]Mr. Bonn visited the East Indies as a youth. This enabled him to acquire, at an impressionable period, a liberal knowledge of the v/orld. Subsequently he attended a nautical school near .Amsterdam, Holland, passed the difficult and intricat<' examiriation before the Koyal Examining Committee in that city, and was awa.rded the first degree. But he was not destined for a life on the ocean. From the autumn of 1S1.5 to October, 1850, he was employed by a firm in Emden, Ea^t Friesland, which con- ducted an extensile commercial, shijjping, and banking business. In October, 1850, he left Oermany and came to New York City, where he act'ejited a position as bookkee]ier and English and French cori-espondent in a large Greek shipping-house. Two years later, having saved some money, he invested in real estate in North Hudson County, N. J., and als^o became a permanent icsident there, and as soon as he could legally do so he became a citizen of the Ignited States. These relations soon resulted in making him a man of commanding intluence. In lS")(i he spent considerable time in traveling in America and Europe, and in October of that year was married to Miss Angelina Bonjer, of Emden, East Friesland. In A[»ril, 1857, he brought his bride- to this country and took up his lesidence in Weehawken, Hudson County, whence he later removed to Hoboken. Thev returned to Weehawken in 18GT and made that city their pei-manent home, settling on the spot formerly owned by Daniel \\'ebstei-, the states- man. There Mr. Bonn died on the 15th of November, 18!)]. Mr. Bonn probably did more than any other one man to develop and improve Northern Hudson County, and to stimulate enterprise and the growth of population. Tie was untiring in his efforts to secure for that section those jjermanent improvemi-nts which to-day make it so easy of access and so attractive to both residents and visitors. He was a founder and a prominent member of the first Board of Regents of the Hudson County Hospital. In 18tiS he was appointed liy the late Hon. Joseph D. Bedle one of a commission of seven authorized by the New Jersey Legislature to lay out and improve the public streets on the heights of Hudson County, which include West Hoboken, Union Hill, ^Ve'st New York, and other territory. Upon the organization of this commission iir. Bonn was unanimously chosen chairnian by his col- leagues. For various reasons the plai which had been contemplat- 270 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ed by the commissioners was not carried out, although the incep- tion and construction of the magnificent Hudson Countj^ Boulevard issued from the movement. In 1872 Mr. Bonn also became chairman of the Board of Commissioners Avhich supervised the improvement of the Bull's Perry road from Nineteenth Street in Hoboken, northerly, and which also built the main sewer in Hoboken to the Hudson River, this public work being completed in 1875. But his most notable work, and one to which he devoted the best energies of his life, was in connection with the surface and elevated rail- ways of the northern half of Hudson County. He was the founder, origi- nator, and father of the present system of transit. He commenced the construction and operation of street railways in 1859, and soon had lines radiating in every direction from the Hoboken ferry. His investment in this enterprise proved wonderfully successful. He was the first, and indeed the only, President of the various original corporations; and when these were consolidated in 1S65, forming the North Hudson County Rail- w:iy rjompany, he became the first President of that corporation, and so continued until his death in 1S!)1, a period of twenty-six years. During that time the several lines were extended and improved, new roads were built, and the system placed upon its present efficient basis. In 1874 he built the lirst steam elevator in Hudson County, and with this the street- cars, with the horses attached, were lifted to the top of the bluff, the process requiring but one minute. In 1884 he erected the elevated railway from Hoboken to Jersey City Heights, an iron structure ranging from fifteen to nearly one hundred feet high. This road was originally operated by cable, and was the first elevated road so operated in the United States. All these roads have adopted electricity as the motive power. In 1890 the great Weehawken elevators, of which Mr. Bonn was the originator, were begun, and on their completion, on October 23, 1891. he made the first trip in them with several other gentlemen. The elevators were form- ally opened to the public April 26, 1892. These great railway and ele- vator enterprises may be regarded as the best work of his life, though they were by no means the sum total of his remarkable achievements. As important and necessary public works, however, they represent a man whose foresight and energy proved the wisdom of his judgment. Mr. Bonn had no inclination for and never held political office, except that of Superintendent of Public Schools in the old Township of North Bei'gen, to which he was elected in 1857, on both tickets. He held this position one year. He held the respect and confidence of the entire com- munity, and was noted for his benevolence, kindness, and generosity. Mr. and Mrs. Bonn were members of the German Lutheran Church of Weehawken, and were active in both religious and charitable work. Of their eleven children four died young, and two sons, John H., Jr.. and Hillric J., are mentioned in the following sketches. Mr. Bonn was chiefly influential in bringing out the German-American Encyclopedia, a work of eleven volumes, and the first of the kind in the United States. HILLRIC JOHN BONN, eldest son of the late John Hillric Bonn and An- gelina Bonjer,was born, October 10,1858, in Bonnsville, North Bergen Town- ship, Hudson County, a village named in honor of his father. He attended the public schools, and in 1878 was graduated with the degre'^ of Meciian- ical Engineer from Stevens Institute at Hoboken. Afterward, for several years, he followed his profession with success in Scranton, Pa., Hoboken, GENEALOGICAL 271 ^'. J,, New York City, Pittsburg, Pa., and Chicago, and was assistant engineer during the construction of the Kortli Hudson County B^levated Railway. On the death of his father in 1891 he was elected ^Mce-President of that corporation. JOHN HH^LRIC BONN, Jr., another son of John H. and Angelina (Bonjer) Bonn, was born in Weehawken, N. J., May 15, 1871. and received his education at Hoboken Academy and Stevens High School, from which he was graduated in 1889. In 1891 he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. from the I.aw Department of the University of the City of New York, and then took a post-graduate course at that institution^ graduat- ing as Master of Laws in 1892. He also read law one year in New York in the office of Brainerd, Davenport & Brainerd. and for a time in Hoboken with Hon. Abel I. Smith and John S. Mabon. and was admitted to the bar of New York in 189-3, and to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in Febru- ary, 1895. In the latter year he opened offices in both Hoboken and ^Vest Hoboken. He subsequently gave up his Hoboken office, but still continues the one in West Hoboken, where he has a large and successful general practice. In 189S he was attorney for the Township of Weehawken. He is a master in chancery, a membei- of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, and an ardent Republican. Mr. Bonn was married January 26, 1898, to Marguerite L., daughter of Thomas and Jane Fisher, of Jersey Cily. They reside in Weehawken. LH'INCSTON CONKIJNG, the founder and President of the Asso- ciated Justices of the Peace and Constables" Protective Association of Hud- son County, is a descendant of some of the oldest and most distinguished families in this country. His paternal ancestors came from England and Ireland in 1735, settling first in New York and removing thence in 1750 to Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J. He is the great-great-grandson of Al- fred and Hannah (Marshall) Conkling, a great-grandson of Nathaniel and Hortley (Schrone) Conkling, a grandson of Matthew and Frances (Brickel) Conkling, and a son of Matthew H. and Elvina (Van Ripen) Conkling, his mother being a daughter of Jacob Van Ripen and Katherine A'an Drouf, a granddaughter of Isaac and Martha (', but a nniubcr of the descendants added tlie y, tlins >;ivinf>- the name its present form. On the )iaternal side tlie lan}il\- is jnue. 280 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Surrogate Ijillis was inarriod June 3, 1877, to Alice Dooley, daughter of Felix Dooley, of I'ouglikeepsie, N. Y. They have four children: Martin J.^ James T., Jr., John, and Anna. WILLIAM SEBASTIAN STUHR, of Hoboken, one of the ablest and foremost lawyers of Hudson County, was born in Williamsburg, N. Y., October 1, 185!). At a very earlyage he moved with his parents to Hoboken, N. J., where his father exerted for many years a commanding influence in i)olitical and public affairs. Mr. Stuhr has, therefore, spent his active life in Hoboken, and to the growth and welfare of the city and also to many of its leading institu- tions he has contributed some of the best ele- ments of his life. There he acquired his elemen- taiy education. He also studied for three years at a prominent institu- tion of learning in Ger- many, and by the time he had reached early manhood had gained a good classical knowl- edge as well as a liberal knowledge of the world. Upon his return to the United States in 1874 he entered the Law Depart- ment of New York Uni- versity, from which he was graduated with honor in 1879, receiving the degree of LL.B. He subsecpiently continued his legal studies in the office of James W. Vroom, of Hoboken, and was admitted to the bar of New J(-rsey as an at- t o r n e y in November, 1880, and as a counselor in November, 1883. Since 1880 Mr. Stuhr has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his jirofession in Hoboken. He rose rapidly to a leading place at the bar, not by any sudden freak of circumstances, but by his own efforts, by the exen-ise of recognized legal ability, and by those honest, st]-aightfoi-ward paths which inevitably lead to an honorable end. Careful and painstaking in the preparation of each case which was intrusted to his charge, industrious and indefatigable in collecting both facts and evi- dence, and sincere in all his arguments before a court and jury, he soon gained an enviable reputation for skill and ability, and for several years WILLIAM H. STUHK. GENEALOGICAL 281 has been regarded by his associates as well as his fellow-citizens as a leader of the Hudson County bar. He is one of the ablest and strongest advocates in the trial of causes in the State. Few lawyers have in this respect a higher or wider reputation. His masterful presentation of cases before courts and juries has frequently been noted. He is especially strong in argument, keen and adroit in the examination of witnesses, and a public speaker of admitted prominence and eloquence. A man of unquestioned integrity, he possesses scholarly as well as legal attainments of a high order, and at the bar and in public and private life has been eminently successful. Mr. Stuhr was Corporation Counsel of the City of Hoboken from 188:5 to 1885 inclusive, and served as Assistant Counsel to the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County in 1888. In these capacities he materially magnified an already high reputation, and discharged his duties with char- acteristic ability. From boyhood he has been deeply and actively interested in the advancement of his adopted city. He has always been a prominent Democrat, and for several years was President of the Jeflfersonian Democ- racy of Hudson County. In 1889 he was nominated by that party as their candidate for State Senator, and also received the indorsement of the Eepublicans, and after one of the most exciting campaigns in the history of his county was declared defeated. But he was not one to abide by this decision, which appeared at once to have been brought about bj' unfair means. He therefore determined to make a contest, and did, with the result that he was seated in the Senate in May, 1890, just as the Legislature was about to adjourn. Probably the most significant and important result of the testimony taken at this time was the indictment by the grand jury of more than fifty election officers of Hudson County, forty of whom were tried and convicted. These were among the most flagrant and noted election frauds ever discovered and prosecuted in New Jersey. Senator Stuhr was not permitted, however, to actively fill the position which he had so honestly and dearly won. In January, 1891, the Democrats, gaining control of the Senate, unseated him, but not until he had made on the floor of the Senate one of the ablest and most brilliant defenses on record in New Jersey. For three hours on the 15th of that month, im- mediately after the election of officers, he defended his scat with a zeal and courage which challenged the admiration of his political adversaries and gained for him a host of friends from all parties. Packed galleries at first attempted to interrupt him, but after Ave minutes all were quiet, and he was given the closest attention to the end. His quiet dignity, his manly courage and commanding presence, his brilliant argument in defense of his rights, not only awed his hearers, but in numberless instances con vinced them of the justice of his cause. Even the adherents of McDonald, his opponent, who crowded the Senate and galleries, accorded him their highest respect as a result of his logical and eloquent speech. The vote was taken in silence, but no argument was or could be advanced to show the constitutionality of the action of the majority. The Trenton Times, characterizing it as " The First Eevoliitionary Act," says: " It was unconstitutional, revolutionary, and entirely without precedent, and can only serve to inflict injury upon the party which performed the act. Senator Stuhr, it will be remembered, was seated by the Senate after a long and tedious investigation. In that investigation it was shown that the frauds of Hudson County were so great that they must have tainted the result and affected the seat of Senator McDonald. Whether wise or 282 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES unwise, the Senate Election Committee decided then not to call a new election, but to declare that Mr. Stuhr had probably received a majority of the votes cast, and should be sworn into office, and the Senate solemnly, on its own responsibility as a judicial body, so adjudicated." Again the same paper, in speaking of Mr. Stuhr s brilliant effort, said: " Senator Stuhr's address in defense of his Beat, yesterday, was at times burning with an eloquence which is rarely heard in the New Jersey Legis- lature. ... He has shown qualities of courtesy and manliness which have made for him hosts of friends. He came to the legislative halls a stranger, but his modest demeanor and pleasant manner, proving him at once a gentleman and a fair minded, conservative man, won praise and friendship. He goes back to his home known and appreciated outside of Hudson County." Mr. Stuhr has continued in the practice of the law in Hoboken, where he is a large real estate owner, and where he is highly respected and esteemed. He is a prominent member of Euclid Lodge, No. 136, F. and A. M., of Hoboken; of the Quartette Club and of the Deutscher Pioneer Verein of Jersey City; and of the Jersey City Arion and the Alumni Asso- ciation of the Law Department of New York University. He was married in February, 1886, to Miss Marietta Lindsay Miller, daughter of Thomas Miller, a leading citizen of Flushing, L. L WILLIAM H. DANIELSON was born in New Durham, Hudson County, N. J., where he still resides, June 16, 1826, and is of Scotch descent on the paternal side and of Dutch ancestry on the maternal side. He is the son of Joseph Danielson and Rebecca Ackerman and a grandson of Will- iam Danielson and Mary Lee. Henry Ackerman, his maternal grand- father, was an old resident of New Durham, a soldier in the War of 1812, and a descendant of the old Dutch family of Ackerman of Bergen and Hudson Counties. Mr. Danielson received his education in the schools of New Durham, and has since followed the occupation of a farmer. He has been a success- ful agriculturist and an influential member of the Democratic party, and has served as Town Committeeman of New Durham. He has been a sup- porter of the Baptist Church and of various kindred interests, and is highly respected and esteemed. He married, lirst, Rachel Riker, by whom he has four children: William H. (born in 1850), Anna M., Joseph, and Ella. He married, second, for his present wife, Caroline Wilmington. AUGUST SEITZ was born in Kay, near Herrenberg, Wurtemberg, Ger- many, November 24, 1815. He studied for the ministry, but owing to the war of 1830 was obliged to give up his studies. In 1836 he went to Paris, engaging in business until 1848, when he came to the United States, locating at New Orleans, and one year later in New York. In 1852 he set- tled in Hoboken, N. J., and resided there until his death, May 13, 1899. He was a Mason for more than forty years, and for twenty-two years held a responsible position in the Astor House in New York. He married, April 22, 1843, at Paris, Prance, Miss Athenias J. A. Grivel, daughter of Joseph and Rose (Rottier) Grivel. She died in Hoboken, Febru- ary 23, 1899. Mr. Seitz was an Elder for many years in the German Luther- GENEALOGICAL 283 an Church of Hoboken, one of the organizers of the Hoboken Academy, and a member of the old Volunteer Fire Department. Of his seven chil- dren two are living. His brother Charles was kaighted for services to the king of Wurtemberg. Another brother, William, succeeded his father as keeper of the king's forests, was recently retired, and is still living. His nephew was one of the Government architects at Stuttgart, Germany. Israel Seitz, father of August, Charles, and William, was descended from an old and honored Lutheran family of Wurtemberg, Germany, who had held the oflflce of king's forester for several generations. Their in- tegrity of character and honesty of purpose made them conspicuous in the Fatherland. ARTHUE SEITZ, son of August and Athenias J. A. (Grivel) Seitz, was born in Hoboken, N. J., December 6, 1855, and received his education in the public schools and Hoboken Academy, and under a French tutor. At the age of sixteen he entered the silk house of Linneman, Wehry & Co., of New York City, and remained one year. He then entered the shipping house of Salter & Livermore, in New York, and later the employ of the Hamburg-American Packet Company, as collector. Soon afterward he as- sociated himself with the Domestic Sewing Machine Company as note clerk, and later in Hoboken with Charles S. Shultz, lumber dealer. In April, 1882, he engaged in business for himself as a dealer in coal and build- ing materials, under the firm name of Seitz & Campbell (Herbert P. Camp- bell). In 1883 they opened the Hoboken free stores, the first of the kind there, which are still in existence, under the name of the Campbell stores. Mr. Seitz was the first President of this corporation. Selling out his interest in these stores in 1886, he again engaged in the building material and coal business with Charles Fall, as Seitz & Fall, and soon afterward they began extensive building operations. Mr. Fall withdrew and Thomas H. Mickens became a partner as Seitz & Mickens. This firm continued about five years. Since then Mr. Seitz has been en- gaged in the contracting and building business alone, and for the last two years in appraising property almost exclusively. In February, 1899, he became one of the organizers of the North River Light, Heat, and Power Company, of Hoboken, of which he was Treasurer. Mr. Seitz has always been a strong Republican, as was his father before him. He has served two terms as a member of the Hoboken Board of Edu- cation, is Vice-President of the Hoboken Free Library Commission, is Pres- ident of the Hoboken Tax Commission, and is President of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Hoboken. He is also Past Master of Advance Lodge, No. 24, A. O. U. W., having served four terms, and is now Representative to the Grand Lodge of New Jersey. He is a member of Hoboken Council, No. 99, Royal Arcanum, was Vice-President and one of the organizers of the Hoboken Chess Club, and was the organizer and one of the first officers of the Philatelic Society of Hoboken, and is still a prominent collector of stamps. He was for several years a member of the Hudson County Republican Committee, has been a delegate to local and State Republican conventions, and has been Chairman of the Hoboken City and Ward Republican Conventions. In April, 1900, Mayor Fagan ap- pointed him a com.missioner for Hoboken to the State Exposition to be held in Newark in 1902. Mr. Seitz was married to Miss Helen Jamieson Borthwick, of Hoboken, 284 HUDSON AND BEUGEN COUNTIES N. J., April 14, 1887. lie is a public spirited citizen, active and influential in all the atfairs of the coiiiuiuuity, deejtly interested in American shipping, and highly i-es])ected by all who know him. JOHN ZELFjEK is one of the foremost men of Hudson County and an acknowledged leader of the Democratic jiarty. Having lived in the Town- ship of Nortli Bergen since he was one year old. he is actively identified with public and political affairs, and through his integrity, ability, and genial good nature has gained a ^^ide jiopularity. He was born in New York City on the Kith of Decembei-, li^'y^i, the son of Gottfried and Mar- garet Zeller, both na- tives of Germany. His jiarents came to this (■ o u n t r y from the Fatherland and first settled in New York. ^\'hen John was less than one 3'ear old they '■(nnoved to North I tergen, Hudson County, N. J., settling in the vicinity of Guttenberg. At the outbreak of the \\'ar of the Eebellion, in 186L Gottfried Zeller enlisted in the Fifty-sixth New York Infantry Volunteers, and served two years .Mud six months, when, having received an honorable discharge, he reenlisted in the 1' h i r d New Jersey * ' a V a 1 r y. He r e- mained with that regi- ment until the close of the war, gaining dis- tinction for bravery in action and honor and acknowledgment for high soldierly qualities which he displayed in action. John Zeller obtained a public school education in the Guttenberg section f North Bergen, and in eai-ly manhood leaiaied the trade of barber ind haivdi'esser, which he has followed more or less down to the present ime. In ]»olitics he has always affiliated with the Democratic party, and from his youthful days has taken an active and influential part 'in its For many years his prominence and popularity in party atfairs him a recognized leader, while his soi.nd judgment and great executive ability have won the confidence as well as the' respect and adinira- tion of the entire community, which has frequently honored him with elec- JOHN ZELLER. of councils, have made GENBAX,OGIOAL 285 tion to offices of responsibility and trust. He was Assessor for the Town of Giittenberg from 1883 to 1886, a member of the Guttenberg Town Council in 1890 and 1891, and a representative to the New Jersey Legisla- ture in 1892 and 1893 from the Eleventh District, comprising the Town- ships of Union and North Bergen, the Towns of Union, West Hoboken, and Guttenberg, and the north part of the Township of Weehawken. In each of these capacities Mr. Zeller displayed those broad and brilliant qualities which have made him so popular throughout Eastern New Jersey, and which have won for him an extensive acquaintance and hosts of friends. His legislative career was marked by close attention to duty, by valuable and efficient work both in committee and on the floor, and by con- stant usefulness in the interests of his constitpents. Socially, politically, and fraternally he is widely known and universally esteemed, and if the past is an indication of the future there are yet higher honors in store for him. DANIEL G. BOGERT, Jr., is of the ninth generation from Oornelis Jans Bougaert (see sketch on page 65), who was the first American ancestor of the several branches of the Bogert family in New Jersey. Among his children were two sons, John Cornelise and Guilliam of the second gen- eration. John Cornelise Bougaert (2) emigrated with his father about 1662 and first settled in the Wallabout section of what is now Brooklyn. He seems to have been a farmer and well-to-do, as he wrote " yeoman " after his name. As has been said in the sketch referred to, he married Angenetie Strycker, daughter of a wealthy Long Island fai'mer, and in 1686 removed to Hackensack, where he had previously (with the Bantas, Van Buskirks. and others) purchased a large tract called " New Hackensack." He and his wife joined the Dutch Church there in 1686. He was elected a Deacon of the church in 1696. He is presumed to have died about 1715, as his name does not appear on the records after that date. Guilliam Bougaert (2), the other son of the emigrant first named, came over with his father about 1662 and also settled in the Wallabout section. He married a widow, a Mrs. Bergen, who was the first white child born on Long Island. Their issue was seven sons and three daughters who settled in different localities. Guilliam (3), one of the sons, settled in Teaneck, Englewood Township, Bergen County, N. J., in 1697, where he built a log cabin, which he occu- pied for a number of years (on the site of the present Bogert homestead). He then built a stone house nearer the Teaneck road which stood until 1840. His issue was five sons: John, Jacob G., Cornelius, Henry, and Stephen. Jacob G. (4), the second of these children, married Sarah Van Voorhiss and settled on a farm one-half mile north from his father's farm. Their issue of the fifth generation were Maria and Albert J. Albert J. Bogert (5), born July 29, 1765, married Sophia Westervelt, and continued on his father's farm. His children were Sarah, Jacob, Albert, Jane, Gilliam, Henry, and Belinda. Gilliam Bogert (6), boi'n March 3, 1797, bought his great-grandfather s farm and married Maria Demarest, a direct descendant of north of France Huguenot stock. They had issue of the seventh generation Albert G., 286 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Sarah, Sophia, Daniel G., John G., Hannah D., Marie B., Andrew D., Be- linda, Jacob G., and Elsie. Daniel G. Bogert (7), son above named, was born October 13, 1825. He is a farmer in Teanecb, near the old Bogert homestead. He has served as Assessor for several years, as a Freeholder and Deputy Sheriff, and as Census Enumerator in 1864, 1865, 1866, 1870, 1880, and 1890. He married Sarah A. Bogert, of Paramus, and had nine children: Gilliam D. (born Au- gust 16, 1849), John A., Mary Emma, Cecelia, Daniel, Lillian, Estelle, Arthur, and Edith. John A. Bogert (8), born in Teaneck, October 12, 1850, married Emily, daughter of Stephen G. Hopper, of Hackensack, and has two children liv- ing: Charles A. and Stephen G. He is engaged in the lumber business in Englewood with Andrew D. Bogert. Gilliam D. Bogert (8) is a carpenter and builder of the firm of Gilliam D. Bogert & Brother, which operates in Englewood and Leonia. He mar- ried Mary E. Christie, daughter of Peter and a granddaughter of Dower Christie, of Schraalenburgh, and has two children: Daniel G., Jr., and Sarah A., of the ninth generation. This family of Bogerts have ever since their settlement in New Jersey lived at Teaneck, Englewood, and vicinity. The old Bogert homestead rft Teaneck is now owned by the William Walter Phelps estate. Daniel G. Bogert, Jr. (9th gen.), was born in Englewood, N. J., December 27, 1877. He was educated in the Englewood public schools, graduating therefrom June 27, 1894, and since then has been engaged in the publish- ing business in New York City. EDMUND E. JOHNSON has been a resident of Secaucus, Hudson Coun- ty, since 1854, and is one of the most prominent and highly respected citizens of that community. A Eepublican in politics, he has held such local of- fices of honor and trust as Town Committeeman and School Trustee. He was bom on Staten Island, N. Y.. December 9, 1824, and was educated in the public schools of New York City. He is the son of William Johnson and Catherine Martling, his father being a volunteer soldier in the United States Army during the War of 1812. Early in life Mr. Johnson engaged in the hotel and restaurant business in partnership with his brother. Later he organized the firm of Jaques & Johnson, of New York City, dealers in pianos, organs, and other musical instruments. Subsequently he resumed the hotel and restaurant business, was very successful, and in 1863 retired from active business. He has since successfully speculated in real estate in New York City, Westchester, Long Island, Jersey City, and Secaucus, where, as already stated, he has had his residence since 1854. He has always taken an active interest in public improvements, and is known as an enterprising and public spirited citizen. He is an Odd Fellow, and while a resident of New York City was identified with the South Baptist Church. He is now identified with the Eeformed Church. In 1847 he was a member of the Carbine Rangers (cav- alry) and participated in quelling the Astor Place riot. Mr. Johnson married Loretta B. Delavergne, of Dutchess County, N. Y., by whom he has four children: Eliza B. (wife of A. S. Engle), William E. Johnson, Alvah W. Johnson, and Marie Louise, wife of George H. Dentz. The eldest son, William Edgar Jo naon, who resides at Homestead, Hud- GENEALOGICAL 287 son County, is in tlie Registry Depai'tmpnt of the New Yorli PostoiHce, where he has been for the past eigliteen years. He was born in 1852, and married Mary Olson, by whom he has five ohihlren. Mrs. George H. Dentz resides at Jersey City Heiglits and lias five children. Mrs. A. S. Engle re- sides at Kearny and has three children. Mrs. Johnson died Februar,y 7, .1891). Florence Delavergne, danghter of ]\Ir. and Mrs. Dentz, died Septem- ber 26, 181)8. William Delavergne, sou of ^Villianl E. Johnson, died Febru- ary 12, 1899. IVINS D. APPLEGATE, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of Hoboken, Hudson County-, was boi'n in that citv on the 14th of Mav, 1853. IVINS D. APPLEGATE. He is the son of Ivins D. Applegate, Sr., and Susan Deas Whituey, and a grandson of John B. and Nancy (Anderson) Applegate and John and Mary (Ludlam) Whitney. Mr. Applegate was educated in Public School No. 1, in Hoboken. In 1870, at the age of seventeen, he went to sea with his father, who was master and part owner of a sailing vessel engaged in the coasting trade. In 1874 he was promoted to the position of first mate, and in 1876 he be- came master of the same vessel. . Afterward lie entered the employ of William N. Parslow, a prominent unde aker in Hoboken, with whom he 288 HTJBSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES remained until June 1, 1891, when the paid fire department was organized and he was made its Chief Engineer. Mr. Applegate became a member of the old Hoboken Volunteer Fire Department by joining Engine Company No. 1 in May, 1877, and continued in that company until the department was disbanded. During this time he represented his company two terms of one year each in the Board of Kepresentatives of the Widows' and Orphans' Relief Fund, and during five terms of one year each was the company's foreman. He served as Chief Engineer of the Volunteer Fire Department during the years 1889 and 1890, until the organization of the present paid department on June 1, 1891, when he was appointed Chief Engineer, which position he still holds, having been three times elected Chief to succeed himself. He was the last Chief of the old Volunteer Fire Department and the first Chief of the present paid department of the City of Hoboken. and has probably done more than any other one man toward placing the de- partment upon a substantial basis and affording the city that excellent pro- tection from fires which has long been its pride. He is one of the leading fire chiefs in the State, being well known not only in this section but throughout New Jersey for his efficient executive ability and courage. He was influential in bringing about the movement which resulted in the organization of the present paid fire department of Hoboken, and from the first has been indefatigable in making it one of the best protective bodies in the State. He is a member of Euclid Lodge, No. 136, F. and A. M., a public spirited and progressive citizen, and actively identified with the public and social life of his native city. During his entire career he has maintained the confidence, respect, and esteem of the community. Mr. Applegate was married on the 2d of September, 1884, to Evanglyn Parslow, sister of his old employer, William N. Parslow, of Hoboken. They have seven children: Ivins D., Whitney Parslow. William Nassau, Susan Elizabeth, Evanglyn Mary, Ruth Alga, and Arthur Knox Banta. JAMES W. PEARSALL, President of the New Idea Pattern Company of New York City, which he organized, and of which he is the owner, has long been a resident of Ridgewood, Bergen County, N. J., where he has been prominent in church and Sunday school work and in connection with various other interests. His business success has been entirely due to his own energy and talents. Mr. Pearsall was born in New York City, October 17, 1839, and is the son of Silas Pearsall and Ellen, daughter of Alonzo Parker. His father was also born in New York City, while the ancestral line on the paternal side was long established in America. Ellen Parker was born in Water- ford, Ireland. Having been educated in the New York public schools, about 1856 Mr. Pearsall entered the employ of James V. Freeman in the wholesale butter trade at 101 Front Street, New York City. Afterward he was with W. H. Phillips, his successor, with whom he remained for nearly eight years. He then removed to Hempstead, Long Island, where for some- thing more than two years he was engaged in the retail grocery business. Returning to New York City, the next ten years were also spent in the wholesale butter trade in the employ of S. W. & J. I. Hoyt. During the subsequent two years he engaged in the same line on his own account. Mr. Pearsall then' formed a connection which eventually led to his present business. He entered the employ of the Domestic Sewing Machine Com- GENEALOGICAL 289 pany in New York, and remained with them for eighteen years, until the company failed. During; the last seven years of the eighteen he had been manager of the pattern department of tliis concern, and he recognized the existence of needs in the pattern trade which no one had undertaken to meet. Thus having severed his connection with the Domestic Sewing Ma- chine Company, in April, ] 894, he organized and secured the incorporation of the New Idea Pattern Company, of which he is President and chief owner. This business has been recently described as follows: "When the New Idea Pattern Company was started, about six years ago, it had practically no cash capital, but what was even more valuable than a bank account was Mr. Pearsall's experience in the pattern business, his acquaintance and good standing among New York houses, and, most important of all, a plan for selling patterns that proved an instantaneous success. This plan or idea is threefold, or has three salient features, which are, briefly: (1) a uniform price, (2) the requirement of no contract, and (3) no minimum limit to the amount of goods to be purchased by a retailer. " Working on these principles and other innovations to the pattern trade, the upbuilding of the company's business has been of the record-breaking order. Five times in these years it has been necessary to move the head office in New York into larger quarters. Now it has fifty feet frontage on Broadway, with a depth of two hundred feet, and has over one hundred people on its pay roll. There are now over 3,000 agencies established among retail merchants, and distributing offices are located in Chicago, Toronto, and seven other large cities, Chicago being the principal distributing point in the West. The company is incorporated and the stockholders, besides Mr. Pearsall, are his three sons and a son-in-law." Mr. Pearsall married Hannah W. Myers, and has three sons and three daughters: Ella L., William F., Edgar L., Silas E., Lina C, and Laura C. Pearsall. During the past twenty-five years he has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for a number of years has been a Sunday school superintendent. He is Chairman of the Ridgewood Town- ship Sunday School Association, a member of the Board of Education of Ridgewood, and a Director of the First National Bank of Ridgewood. For fifteen years he has also been a member of the Knights of Honor, and in 1899 held the position in this order of Grand Dictator of New Jersey. MILTON DEMAREST, of Hackensack, N. J., is descended in the eighth generation from David des Marest, the French emigrant, concerning whom see p. 64. The line of descent is as follows: David des Marest and his wife, Maria Sohier, the emigrants, had issue of the second generation sev- eral children, of whom one was Samuel (2), who married Maria Dreuns, and had issue eleven children of the third generation: Magdalena, David, Sam- uel, Peter, Jacomina, Judith, Sarah, Simon, Rachel, Susanna, and Daniel. Samuel Demarest (3), of Schraalenburgh, married Annatie Van Horn and had issue of the fourth generation Samuel, Jannetie, Cornelius, Samuel, David, Elsie, Daniel, and Maria. David Demarest (4) removed to Rockland County, N. Y., where, in 1729, he married Catherine Van Houten. He resided near Tappan, N. Y., where they had issue of the fifth generation Annatie, David, Geertie, Peter, Will- iam, Elizabeth. Samuel, Geertie, Lydia, Jacobus, and GaTet. Jacobus Demarest (5), born at Tappan, August 20, 1748, married, in 17S4, Rachel, daughter of Cornelius C. Smith, who was born at Tappan, May 14, 290 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES 1.756. She died April 2S, 1825, and he died October 9, 1844. They had issue of the sixth generation Oorneliiis J.; Jacobus, 1789; Sarah, 1792; Eliza- beth, 1,795 ; and Joost, 1797. Cornelius J. (6) was born at Orangetown, N. Y., May 24, 1785, and died September 27, 186.3. His wife, Catherine Holdrum, was born June 30, 1787, and died August 31, 1852. Both are buried at the cemetery at Tappan. Among 1 he children of Cornelius J. (C) and Catherine (Holdrum) Demarest was John C. Demarest (7), who married Isabella, daughter of Daniel D. Tallman, and had issue, among others, of the eight generation, Milton Demarest, the subject of this sketch. Milton Demarest (8) was born in Eockland County, N. Y., June 8, 1855. Tie spent his boyhood days in attendance upon the public schools at Nyack, N. Y., and finished his education in the private school of Professor William Williams and at Hackensack Academy, his parents having removed to ORITANI FIELD CLUB, HACKENSACK. Hack-ensack when he was (juite young. After completing a thorough aca- demic course he entered as a student the law office of M. C. Gillham, at Hackensack, where he completed a full course of study. In June, 1877, he was adniilted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and three years later as a counselor. He pi-ac'ticed his profession until the summer of 1879, when he forined a law partnership with Walter Christie, of Hackensack, which lasted for one year. From that time until 1894 he practiced alone, and then associated himself with Abram de Baun, with whom he has since carried on an extensive and lucrative practice. From 1872 to 1877 Mr. Demarest served as a member of Company C, Second Battalion, N. G. N. J. He has served seven years as counseland clerk of the Hackensack Improvement Commission, and is a member of the New Barbadoes Board of Education, of which body he was elected President in March, 1900. He is a member of Pioneer Lodge, F. and A. M., of Bergen County Lodge, I. O. O. F., and of the Orltani "Field Club, and GENEALOGICAL 291 has served as a Deacon and Elder in the First Reformed Church at Hack- ensack. In politics he is a Republican. He ranks high in his profession, and is popular socially. He has been twice married, (1) to Carrie W. Christie and (2) to Adaline E. Christie. His issue of the ninth generation are Lottie, Carrie I., and Edith. SAMUEL BURRAGE REED, one of the oldest and most prominent architects in this country, was born in Meriden, Conn., on the 7th of January, 1834. lie is the son of Samuel Francis Reed and Sarah Tharp, and the grandson of Solomon and Bessie Reed and Joel and Sarah (Darling) Tharp. On his paternal side his ancestors came from Holland during the Revolutionary War, and his great-grandfather took an active and conspicuous part in that conflict. At the close of the war he settled in tlie fertile valley or pass which for upward of one hundred years has been known as " Reed's Gap," between the mountains that skirt the east- erly boundary of Wallingford, Conn. The Air Line railroad between New York and Boston runs through this '■ Reed's Gap," as will be noted on their published tables. On his maternal side, the Tharps (three broth- ers) came from Leeds, England, and were among the first settlers in New Hampshire. One of the brothers (William), about the year 1760, removed to Meriden, which at that time was a part of Wallingford, Conn. Here he established himself on a farm which still remains in the family, and here it was that Joel Tharp (an only child) was born December 10, 1778. The buildings have all twice gone to decay, and the third have since been erected within a few feet of the original site. The elder Tharp was re- spected and served as adviser and administrator of the laws under the " Charter of King Charles II.," of which he was the keeper. The copy of this " Charter with the Acts and Laws for the English Colony of Con- necticut, in New England in America," is now in possession of the subject of this sketch, and is prized by him as a family relic. Following an old custom, Joel Tharp deeded all his property to his only son, Gideon, lea\ing three daughters with nothing, or risking that in iife's lottery they would find companions that would care for them and bear their burdens. This worked all right for the majority, but badly for tlie minority. Sarah was the eldest, and from the time she was seven- teen, when her mother died from sunstroke, she took entire charge and care of the family. Her two sisters married first, and married well, while she remained single until she was thirty years of age, when she married Samuel F. Reed, a builder, aged thirty-two years, on March 2-1, 1833. Their married life was short, for he died on the 12th of the following October, so Mr. Reed, the subject of this sketch, entered this world as a posthumous child. His mother was able to care for her child until he was seven years of age, when she was advised to part with him, and send him " West " to those she trusted would care for him. She did not realize that she was virtually sending him out of the reach of civilization. At the age of seven he was sent to parties she had known years before, who had settled in the "Black River Country" (Leyden, Lewis County, N. Y.), which was then mostly a wilderness, with occasional settlements miles apart along what was known as the " State Road." There were no schools in that section, and consequently no means of enjoying those educational advantages which the youth of to-day have at their doors. In this frontier region Mr. Reed spent seven years of his boyhood with an aged couple who had nearly worn themselves out on a partly-cleared farm of two 292 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES hundred acres. Being large for his age, very much of the work fell to his lot. There were no idle hours to waste away, nor had he any companions to divert him from his tasks. He acquired a rugged physique, grew to be self-reliant, learned to think for himself, obtained valuable experiences, and developed an individuality which has remained with him and char- acterized his life. Seven years was a long time for him to have charge of all the matters on this farm, but at last relief came when his mother suddenly appeared in her anxiety to learn of his situation. At first he did not recognize her, S. BURRAGE REED. having forgotten her features. They very soon became acquainted again, He then showed her over the place, the hundred sheep and other animals, the amount of work he had to do and how he did it. It was easy for him to explain to her that this was no place for him; that while here he would always be a drudge and wear the tow-cloth frock and strap. She saw that his complaints were well founded and determined to find means to take him East with her. A few weeks after she took him to Meriden, and apprenticed him to learn the builder's trade. His first work here was done on the famous mansion of Moses Y. Beach (then proprietor GENEALOGICAL 293 of the New York Sun). This structure was erected from designs furnished by Architect Austin, of New Haven. Its cost was sixty thousand dollars, which was a great deal of money in those times when one dollar paid for one day (of twelve hours) of skilled labor. It was while learning his trade that he realized and felt the importance of an education. Just at this time a popular clergyman delivered a lecture on " The Powers of the Mind," in the school-house near by. The matter of this lecture made a deep impression on Mr. Eeed, then about fifteen years of age. The lec- turer had a trunk with him, containing various articles which he used in illustration during the lecture; along with these were books, some of which he discarded while closing his trunks. Among them were catalogues of publications, of which up to this time Mr. Eeed had no knowledge. These books he gradually obtained, read, and re-read, until he thoroughly knew what they contained. His habits of study had attracted the atten- tion of a physician (Dr. David Allen), who gave him access to his library and offered to guide him in his studies. At once his theme was medicine, and after two years' study he appeared before Dr. Sperry, of Hartford, for an examination and a certificate, which he obtained. He was still an apprentice and had some time yet to serve, which prevented the practice of his profession except during spare hours. Gradually the subject of medicine became a secondary matter. As his skill in his trade developed he became intensely interested in its problems, and finally at the age of twenty-one with his chest of tools he settled in Flushing, L. I. He took his books with him and continued his studies, determined that he would not allo^' himself to be in ignorance on any subject. He very soon made the acquaintance of Prof. Howard Osgood (now of Rochester University), who kindly offered to give him instruction in the Greek language. This offer was gladly accepted and Strong's Epit- ome, as his primer, and Antigone, as a classic, were soon mastered. At the age of twenty-four he possessed an extensive library, including the works of Comb, Spurzheim, Lavater, Gall, Comte, Wayland, Nott and Gliddon, Dick, Koch, Gill, Dowling, Cavallo, Mattison, Silliman, Hale, Home, Plu- tarch, Good, Dodd, Esdale, and many others of like character, which he had studied industriously and become thoroughly familiar with. A course of lectures by local talent having been proposed during the following winter, Mr. Eeed consented to deliver one entitled " Mental Science." The subject attracted the faculty of a nearby institution that attended the lecture. At its close an interview was requested and arranged for. The pui'pose of the interview was not stated, but turned out to be an examination, and unfolded the plan of establishing a class in mental philosophy with a request that he assume its leadership. Mr. Eeed, though flattered by this request, could not with his retiring dis- position enter a curriculum with which he was entirely unfamiliar, and believing that the walls and rules of such an institution would be too narrow and restraining for him declined the offer. He had discovered however, that with perseverance, industry, and indomitable energy he had acquired a broad and accurate knowledge of those studies and sciences which are usually taught only in colleges, and through his own efforts and personal exertions had secured a splendid education and laid the founda- tion of a most successful career. For several years he was engrossed in the building business, whicTi up to this time he regarded as his legitimate calling. Designing structures became an interesting part of his work, and to perfect himself in this 294 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES branch lie took a course of instruction under Prof. James McLean (brother of Judge Mcljean, of Ohio), who for twelve years was a designer on govern- ment worlc in Washington. Now being fully equipped by practice and experience in designing as well as construction, his plans were sought after until his entire time was devoted to their execution. It must be gratifying to him in his travels in any direction to point out the works of his hands that stand as monu- ments of his taste and skill. For thirty years he has been located at No. 245 Broadway, New York City, opposite the City Hall, where he has planned an aveiage of upward of one full stt of original designs per month during the whole time. Buildings in every style and for all purposes are included in the list. He was tlie first to develop what has so long been known as the " Queen Anne Style," or more properly " Cottage Style." The Pinard cottages in Newport, E. I., represent his first work in that style. Mr. Reed is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and is tlie author of five publications on architecture specially intended to assist in the erection of convenient and comfortable cottages. How well this laudable endeavor to aid the deserving classes has been appreciated is best told in the fact that the sales of his first book outnumbered any other architectural work ever published. For about twenty years his labors have been devoted to more elaborate structures. The residence of James A. Bailey (successor to P. T. Barnum) on St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City, is an interesting and distinct type. Bloomingdale Church, Sixty-eighth Street and Broadway, New York City, was where limestone was first used in that city. Collegiate Onurcn on BeconO Avenue is a beautiful decorated Gothic. Mention of many other buildings of similar character that are now standing in many parts of the country might be made, but it is needless to extend the list here. We should mention his latest work as the Passaic County court house, at Paterson, N. J., which Mr. Heed secured in a competition, in- cluding forty-eight architects from all the principal cities. This beautiful structure is in classic design, of white marble, fire-proof throughout, sur- mounted with a dome, and will require four years for its construction. We have entered at some length into the details of this story and life- work because of its lesson and tendency to inspire determination, hope, energy, and industry in the face of misfortune and disadvantages, and as an example it may be of infinite value to the younger readers. Mr. Keed started without the help of either father or mother, absolutely without means or friends to advise with, and could hope for nothing from his sur- roundings. In spite of all these adverse conditions he determined to work up and win at least the respect of intelligent men, and this he has done as all who know him will testify. His business has been his constant pleas- ure and to its development he has devoted his best energy. In early life he had no chance to join in sport with other boys, and to this day has never seen a ball game, shot a gun, worn a skate, or gone a fishing. He does, however, enjoy table games and is especially fond of chess. He lias decided convictions concerning any action, believing in any case that there is but one right way to act. Serving as the " balance wheel " between clients and contractors in more than four hundred cases, he has been able to fully cover each case both professionally and judicially. We are sure no other living architect has such a record. For several years Mr. Eeed has resided in "SA'oodcliff, N. J., where he has taken an active part in public affairs. He was twice elected Mayor of GENEALOGICAL 295 Woodcliflf, and afterward was elected Justice of the Peace. Subsequently he was appointed Commissioner of Deeds. The two latter positions he now holds. Mr. Reed is an interesting- talker on religious matters, and for seven years served as a Deacon in the Baptist Church in Flushing, L. I. For seven years he was an Elder in the Reformed Church in New York City, and for the same period a member of the Classis of New York. Mr. Reed has been twice married, his first wife being Eliza A. Wright, of Flushing, L. I., and his second Lizzie Lowerre, of Brooklyn, L. I. He has five children — four daughters and one son. CORNELIUS CHRISTIE, train master of the West Shore Railroad at Weehawken, N. J., is distinctively a railroad man, having spent his entire business life in that line. He is descended in the sixth generation from James Christie, the Scotch emigrant, concerning whom see sketch on page 106. The line of descent is James Christie (1), the emigrant, who married Magdalena Samuels Demarest, of Schraalen burgh, and had issue of the second generation thirteen children, one of whom was William Christie, who married Catelyntie Demarest and had issue of the third generation ten children, of whom Captain James Christie, of Revolutionary fame, mar- ried Maria Banta, and had issue of the fourth generation seven children, one of whom, David Christie, born December 1, 1789, married ,Vnna Brinkerholl, and removed to New York City, where he made a fortune as a stone cutter. In 1835. having bought the farm of Garret Mayer at Ridgefleld, N. J., he retired from business. He had issue of the fifth generation, one of whom was Albert B. Christie, who married Lydia A. Christie (a distant relative) and settled at Ridgefleld Park about 1830. He left issue of the sixth gen- eration, of whom one was Cornelius, the subject of this sketch. Cornelius Christie (6) was born at Ridgefleld Park, September 24, 1864, and was educated in the public schools, graduating from Washington pub- lic school, No. 32, Hackensack, in July, 1881. Beginning business as a telegraph operator in the office of the New York, Susquehanna and West- ern Railroad, in May, 1881, he continued in their employ until June, 1883, whf-n he entered the- oifice of the West Shore Railroad Company as tele- graph operator. He so continued until March, 1888, when he was promoted to the position of train despatcher, which he held until April 1, 1895, when by a second promotion he became train master. Mr. Christie has about five hundred men under his supervision, directly and indirectly, more than half of whom may trace their examination, discipline, and employment to his management. Mr. Christie was married, October 12, 1898, to Miss Selena Wells, of Goshen, N. Y., only daughter of James E. W>lls, for many years Supervisor of the Town of Goshen and General Superintendent of the Orange County Agricultural Society. Their bridal trip extended over nine thousand miles through the Western States. CORNELIUS DOREMUS, a prominent lawyer of Hackensack and New York City, was born at Areola, Bergen County, N. J., on the 22d of January, 1862, his parents being Jacob W. Doremus and Sophia E. Van Dien. He is descended in the flfth generation from Johannes (John) Doremus, who was born at Middleburg in the Island of Walcheron, in Zeeland, Holland, about 1698. He came to America in 1709, and located at Acquackanonck (Passaic). From there he went to Hackensack, where, in August, 1710, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Ackerraan. The date of the registry of 296 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES the marriage is August 19. He bought lands in the limits of the Ramapo patent at Treakness and on the Saddle River near Paramus. Joris (George) Doremus, probably his son, lived at Passaic. He married Mary, daughter of Jan Berdaeu (Berdan). John and George had each several children, whose descendants have become numerous throughout Bergen and Passaic Counties. On his mother's side Mr. Doremus is descended from Dirck Gai'retsen Van Dien, of Utrecht, Holland. His grandparents were John B. and Margaret (Westervelt) Doremus and Cornelius G. and Susan E. (Post) Van Dien. Mr. Doremus received his primary education iu the public schools of Bergen County, and after graduating therefrom, in 1878, entered Stevens Institute iu Hoboken, where he completed his academical studies. In 1880 he began the study of law as a student in the Law Department of the University of New York, from which he was graduated in 1883, being ad- HACKENSACK RIVER. mitted to the New York bar in the same year. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in 188i and as a counselor in 1889. and has successfully practiced his profession in Hackensack, Bergen Countv, and at 120 Broadway, New York City, for a number of years. He has been counsel to the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Bergen County, which position he held for tour years. He has been also counsel for Ridgewood village and the Township of Ridgewood and is now counsel for Saddle River, Maywood Borough, and other Juunicipalities. Coming to the bar well equipped for the duties of a professional career, Mr. Doremus has been eminently successful and in a number of important cases has displayed the highest legal abilities and qualifications. He has devoted himself unceasingly to the interests of his clients, and during the sixteen years of his practice has built up a large and lucrative business, both in New York City and in his native county. He has never aspired to public office, but in 1895 was induced by his friends to accept the nomination for GENEALOGICAL 297 State Senator. He is a member of the Reformed Church of Ridgewood, N. J., where he resides, and is a loyal and public spirited citizen, thoroughly interested and identified with the affairs of the community, active in pro- moting every Avorthy object, and highly esteemed and respected by all who know him. Mr. Doremus was married on the 6th of December, 1885, to Jennie M. Lake, of Monsey, N. Y., and their children are Florence L., born September 23, 1886, died July 25, 1887; Mabel, born June 14, 1888; and Nellie Budlong, born September 26, 1891. HAMILTON VICTOR MEEKS is one of the most successful business men of Hudson County, N. J. He is President of the Gardner & Meeks Company, which controls large lumber interests at Union Hill and Gutten- berg. He is a Director and Vice-President of the Hudson Trust Company of Hoboken and AA'^est Hoboken, of which he was one of the original in- corporators. In 1891 he organized the Woodcliff Land Improvement Com- pany, and has been its Secretary and Treasurer to the present time. To his business abilities and energy are chiefly due the remarkable success of this company in building up the beautiful village of Woodcliff-on-the-Hud- son. The Grand Boulevard, constructed by Hudson County at a cost of $3,000,000, runs through the edge of Woodcliff, on the crest of the Palisades, and from this elevated point a remarkable view of New York City is spread before the eye. Whether it be viewed by day, or whether it be identified by its myriad lights by night, — an impressive spectacle, — the great metropolis is unfolded to the eye like a huge panorama. The site of Woodcliff is historic ground, and for nearly half a century it has been in the possession of the Meeks family, — one of the interesting old families of New York City and New Jersey. Joseph Meeks was a prominent citizen of New York City prior to the American Revolution. He was one of the founders of " The Baptist So- ciety," as it was then called, and its first meetings were held at his home. His name appears in the poll list of the electors of the City of New York in 1761.1 jjg ^as a patriot, and his three sons, John, Joseph, and Edward, all fought in the patriot cause during the Revolution. Captain John Meeks, the eldest son, married, in New York City, Susanne Helene Marie de Molinars, of an old French Huguenot family. She was the daughter of Jean Joseph de Molinars, and a granddaughter of Jean Joseph Sieur Brumeau de Molinars, who was at one time assistant to the Rev. Louis Ron of L'Eglise de Saint D'Esprit of New York City. John Meeks held the commission as Captain during the Revolution in the fa- mous regiment known as " The Hearts of Oak." He owned a country place at Morristown, N. J., adjoining Washington's headquarters, and his wife acted as interpreter for Washington and Lafayette during the time of their stay there. As a reward for his services during the Revolution Captain John Meeks received a grant of land near Syracuse, N. Y., which his de- scendants have never claimed. He had several sons and a daughter. Joseph Meeks, the second son, was a prominent citizen of New York City. At the age of twelve he assisted in tearing down the British flag from the top of a greased pole erected in Battery Park. Subsequently he was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was one of the founders of the original Tammany Society, from which Tammany Hall has sprung. He married Sarah, daughter of Colonel John Van Dyke, an officer of the Revo- ^ See James Grant WilBon's Memorial History of the City of New York, vol. ii., p. 322, 298 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES lution and a descendant of one of the best known old Dutch families of New York. They had several sons and two daughters. John Meeks, father of the present Mr. Meeks, was the eldest son of the preceding. He married Elizabeth Bush, granddaughter of Richard Bragaw, of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Meelis became u resident of Hudson County, N. J., and in 1851 acquired about one hundred and fifty acres of land, — the present site of Woodcliff, — purchasing from nineteen difl'erent titles. It is upon this land that, through the enterprise of Hamilton V. Meeks, the present beautiful village of ^^'oodclifl■ has sprung up within less than a decade. As already stated this land has an interesting history. A portion of it was once the property of Commodore de Kay, one of the most remark- able characters in the history of Hudson County. Again, the point of land jutting into the Hudson from the Woodcliff property is no other than the identical Block-House Point, of Revolutionary fame, where "Mad An- thony ■' Wayne made his unsuccessful sortie against the British in the winter of 1779-80. Unfortunately the only fruits of General Wayne's prowess on this occasion consisted in the capture of a herd of cattle, and this performance became the inspiration of the satirical poem, " The Cow Chase," published in New York City by the ill-fated Major Andr6 just previous to his capture and execution for acting as a spy in connection with the treason of Benedict Arnold. In ^^'infield's History of Hudson County the reader will find a full and careful account of the attack upon the block-house, with Major Andre's poem in full. Hamilton V. Meeks was born in New York City, December 19, 1850. His father was a member of the New York firm of J. & J. W. Meeks, cabinet- makers, which had been established by their father, in turn, in the early part of the present century. This business ■was originally established on Broad Street, and barely missed destruction in the great tire in New York in 1835, being just on the edge of the burned district. Mr. Meeks received his education in the New York public schools and the College of the City of New York, being graduated from the latter in 1872. On November 4, 1874, he married Euretta Eleanor, daughter of Robert E. Gardner, of an old family of Hudson County, N. J., and the same fall engaged in business with his father-in-law under the style of Gardner & Meeks, lumber dealers, of Union Hill and Guttenberg. This business had been originally founded by the firm of J. & R. Gardner, which became, successively, Robert E. Gard- ner and Gardner & Meeks. Upon the death of Mr. Gardner in 1895 the Gardner & Meeks Company, of which Mr. Meeks has since been President, was incorporated. Mr. Meeks resides at New Durham, and is an Elder in the Grove (Dutch) Reformed Church of that place. He is also a member of the Columbia Club of Hoboken, and is on its entertainment and library and picture committees. His college fraternity is the Chi Psi, Kappa Chapter. He is an independent Republican, broad-minded and liberal in his views, and has never held any public oflice. He has been a generous promoter of every movement looking to the public interests, and is one of the gentlemen whose liberal donation of two-thirds of the right of way alone enabled the con- struction of the Grand Boulevard, on the crest of the west bank of the Hudson, o^-erlooking New York City, to be carried into execution. Mr and Mrs. Meeks have three children, two sons and a daughter: How- ard Victor Meeks, Clarence Gardner Meeks, and p]uretta Eleanor Meeks. ^■: ^OTA/iy) Aew GENEALOGICAL 299 FLAVEL McGEE was born April 6, 1844, in Frelinghuysen Townsliip, Warren County, N. J. He prepared for college at Newton Collegiate In- stitute, Newton, N. J., and Blair Presbyterial Academy, Blairstown, N. J., and was graduated from Princeton College in June,' 1865. Three years later he received the degree of A.M. He studied law in Belvidere, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in June, 1868. He began practice in Jersey City, forming a partnership"^ with ^^'illiam Muirheid, under the firm name of Muirheid & McGee. The degree of counselor-at-law was con- ferred upon him at the June term of the Supreme Court, 1871, the first term possible under the rules. At the same term that he was admitted he argued two cases in the Supreme Court and one in the Court of Errors and Appeals. Two of these afterward became leading cases. One was that of the International Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Haight, in which it was held for the first time in New Jersey that in estimating the assets of a corporation for taxation United States securities and mort- gages not liable to taxation must be deducted. The other was the case of Eansom ads. Euckman, wherein the Court of Errors settled the law on the doctrine of arbitration, ^^'ithin the first year after his license as a counselor he was employed in important railroad litigation, and since that time has at all times been extensively employed by corporations, notably railroad, banking, and insurance corporations. He was one of the earliest members of the New Jersey bar to engage in the practice of admiralty. In the year 1876 the late Governor Bedle was added to the firm, which was known as Bedle, Muirheid & McGee until 1888, when Mr. Joseph D. Bedle, Jr., was added to the firm under the style of Bedle, Muirheid, McGee, & Bedle, Jr. This continued until the death of Mr. Muirheid in 18!I2, when the firm became Bedle, McGee & Bedle. On the death of ex-Governor Bedle in October, 1894, the firm was changed to McGee, Bedle & Bedle, Mr. Thomas P. Bedle being added. The latter retired from the firm in 189!), when the firm name was changed to McGee & Bedle. Recently Robert L. Lawrence has been added, the firm name remaining unchanged. Upon the death of the late Mr. Justice Bradley, Mr. McGee was put forward by the bar of New Jersey for the position of Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States, and upon the death of the late Chief Justice Beasley his name was urged for the position of Chief Justice of the State. He holds commissions as Master in Chancery, Supreme Court Com- missioner, and Advisory Master of the Court of Chancery. He is also a counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States. He has always been a Republican, and in important elections has frequently taken the stump. In the contest for the United States Seuator- ship, in which the late Governor Abbett was defeated by Rufus Blodgett, Mr. McGee took an active part with his then partner, Governor Bedle, in opposition to Mr. Abbott's candidacy. In the canvass, which resulted in the nomination of the Hon. John ^\'. Griggs for Governor of New Jer- sey. Mr. McGee was in the beginning one of the few Griggs men in Hudson County, but he was able to go into the convention with forty-one votes from Hudson County unalterably pledged to Griggs, which resulted in the casting of the whole vote of Hudson County for Griggs, thus securing his nomination. On the death of the late Charles H. Winfleld, Governor Griggs offered to Mr. McGee the position of Prosequtor of the Pleas of the County of Hudson, and earnestly urged jts acgpptance. The latter declined, how- 300 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ever. He Jias been offered by his party the nomination for almost every important office vs^ithin the gift of the party in Hudson County, all of which he has declined. He is A'ice-President of the Kepiiblican County Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. He is a member oi the Union League Club of Hudson County, the Carteret and Palma Clubs of Jersey City, the Union League Club of 'New York, the Society of the Cin- cinnati, and the Sons of the American Revolution of New Jersey. He was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Jersey City up to the time of its consolidation with the First Presbyterian Church of Bergen, since which time he has been an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City. Mr. McGee married Julia F. Randolph, daughter of the late Judge Ben- nington F. Randolph and Eliza Forman, of Jersey City, and a grand- daughter of Francis C. F. and Phebe H. (Crane) Randolph, of Belvidere, and John B. and Hope Forman, of Freehold, N. J. CHARLES CLARKE BLACK, one of the leading members of the bar of Jersey City and a member of the State Board of Taxation of New Jersey since April 1, 1891, was born on Wigwam Farm near Mount Holly, Burling- ton County, N. J., July 29, 1858. He is the son of John and Mary Anna Black and grandson of John and Sarah Black, on his father's side, and of Charles and Rachael Clarke, on his mother's. They were all prominent citizens of this State. His ancestry is an old and honorable one. Mr. Black received his preparatory education at Mount Holly Academy. He was graduated from Princeton University in the class of 1878, after a regular four years' course, and then entered the law office of Colonel James N. Stratton, of Mount Holly. Afterward he studied for a time in the office of Coult & Howell, of Newark, N. J., and then entered the Law Depart- ment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was admitted to the Michigan bar by the Supreme Court of that State in 1880, and to the New Jersey bar before the Supreme Court as an attorney at the June term, 1881, and as a counselor at the June term, 1884. Since his admission to the bar of his native State Mr. Black has successfully followed his profession in Jersey City. For nearly twelve years he has been a member of the well known law firm of Randolph, Condict & Black. He is a man of broad and accurate learning, an attorney and counselor of acknowledged ability, and during his legal career has displayed those high qualifications which stamp him as a leader. Mr. Black served for five years as a member of the Hudson County Board of Registration under the ballot reform law, and on the 21st of March, 1891, was appointed a member of the New Jersey State Board of Taxation for a term of five years from the 1st of the following April. In 1896 he was re-appointed to that office for a second term of five years, and is discharging his duties with the same ability, integrity, and conscientious attention to duty which have made him so prominent at the bar. Outside of his law practice and official duties Mr. Black has found time to indulge in literary work, for which he has decided talents. In his Taxa- tion in New Jersey and Laic and Practice in Accident Cases he has made two valuable additions to legal literature, and won for himself a reputation as a writer which extends beyond his native State. He is a member of the Palma Club, of the Princeton Club of New York, of the University Club of Hudson County, of the Hudson County Bar Association, of the New Jersey State Bar Association, of the Knights of Pythias, of the Independent Order GENEALOGICAL 301 of Odd Fellows, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In religion he adheres to the faith of the Society of Friends. On the I2tli of February, 1890, Mr. Black was married to Alice G. Hazen, at Flushing, L. I. They have no children. FRANK P. McDERMOTT, one of the prominent members of the bar of Jersey City, was born on the historic battleground of Monmouth, N. J., October 23, 1854. For more than a century the family name has been promi- nently identified with that locality. His great grandfather, William Mc- Dermott, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and after the de- cisive battle of Monmouth settled in Motimouth County, where his de- scendants have ever since resided. Mr. McDermptt received an excellent preparatory education, attending first the common schools and subsequently Freehold Institute. He was obliged, however, to abandon the cherished hope of a college course, and, turning his attention to the law, entered the (rflSce of Acton C. Hartshorne and Chilion Robbins, both skillful, studious, and eminent advocates. Mr. McDermott pursued his legal studies.under their instruction, and in Novem- ber, 1875, shortly aft^r attaining his majority, was admitted to the bar. He began the active practice of his profession at Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J., and there his abilities as an advocate, his broad and accurate knowledge of the law, and his devotion to the interests of his clients soon won for him a leading place among the prominent lawyers of that section. The law and equity reports of the State contained many important cases argued by him, and not a few of them determined difficult legal principles. His practice at the Freehold bar soon outgrew the limits of his native county, and, desiring a more central point and a wider field for the exercise of his energies, he removed his office, in the fall of 1894, to Jersey City. There, as in his native county, he has built up a most excellent reputation. He is a member of the Lawyers' Club of New York, a public spirited and enterprising citizen, and a man of unswerving integrity and great strength of character. In March, 1880, Mr. McDermott married Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Dr. Joseph C. Thompson, of Monmouth County. They have three sons and one daughter. JOHN H. Dtj BOIS. — The Du Boises are of French origin, and are de- scended from Louis Du Bois, who was born at Wicres, near the City of Lisle, now in the Province of Artois, France, October 27, 1626, ^nd married October |10, 1655, Catharine Blancon. The couple fled from Lisle to Mann- heim in the Lower Palatinate to escape persecution shortly after their marriage. In 1660 they emigrated to America, and located, or attempted to locate, at Hurley, Ulster County, N. Y. In 1667 Louis Du Bois led a colony for the settlement of New Paltz, from which place he removed to Kingston in 1687. His wife, at one time, was captured by the Indians, but was afterward rescued by her husband. She died in 1706. Their chil- dren were Abram, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, David, Solomon, Louis, Matthew, Rebecca, and Rachel. John H. Du Bois is lineally descended from the emigrant, Louis Du Bois, in about the seventh generation. He was born in Kingston, N. Y., April 22, 1841. His father, John S. L. Du Bois, was a native of Hurley, N. Y., and his mother, Margaret "Van Gaasbeck, was born in Kingston, N. Y. These as well as their worthy ancestors exemplified the sterling characteristics 302 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES (if tlit'ii- I'acc. Jlr. Du l^><)is is now one of tlie foromost citizens of Wee- liawkcn. Jolm H. ]>u I!(»is obtained liis edneation in tlie Kingston public schools. After conipletinii- liis studies lie found employment as a bargeman for the Uelawaie and Hudson Canal Company, with whom he remained until he attained his majority. Snbse(|iiently lie was for four years the master of a coal barge, and at th.e end of that ]ieriod came to Weehawken as an overseer of men for the same corpoi-ation. At the present time he has JOHN H. Dubois. charge of all outside work, including all shipments of coal, tor the Dela- ware and Hudson Canal Company. Through his faithfulness, integrity, and untiring devotion to duty Mi". Du Bois has won the confidence of n(^t only liis associates, but of all the company's otticials and of the community in which he is an honored citizen. He is universally esteemed for those qualities of manhood which distin- guish his i-ace, and which deserve the trust and respect of every honest man. Being a Republican in politics, he has taken an active interest in local public affairs, and was elected by his townsmen a member of the Board of Town Council and subsequently Chairman of the board for a term of three years. He is also a prominent member of the Lincoln Club, a GENEALOGICAL 303 leading Republican organization of AVeeliawken, and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hobokeu. Progressive, patriotic, and enter- prising, and imbued with the highest principles of manly courage and de- votion, he has always supported every movement designed to advance tlie community and its people. Mr. Du Bois was married, on the 2Sth of December, 1864, to Miss Alice R. Howland. They have two song : George H. and Charles H., and reside in Weehawken, N. J. WILLIAM LEWIS STEWART, formerly Postmaster of Arlington, Hud- son County, and a veteran of the Civil War, is descended from a long line of Scotch-Irish ancestors. His father, Edward Stewart, son of John Stewart, died in Arlington. November 1.5, 189d, aged eighty-four years. His mother, Maria (Hoyt) Stewart, died May 1, 1895, at the age of eighty-three. Both were Presbyterians, the father being an Elder in that church and otherwise connected with the churches at Muscatine, la., Brooklyn, N. Y., and Ar- lington, N. J. They had two sons: William L., the subject of this article, and John E. Stewart, of Plainfleld, N. J., senior member of the firm of Stewart, Warren & Co., stationers, 29 Howard Street, Xew York City. Mr. Stewart comes from Revolutionary stock. He was born in Middle- town, N. Y., April 18, 1843. and received his education in the district schools of Iowa, whither the family removed v. hile he was young. After leaving school he engaged in farming in Iowa, and subsequently became a practical sugar planter in Louisiana, where he lemained seven years. He removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1875, and thence in 1870 to Arlington, X. J., where he has since resided. He was successfully engaged in the stationery business in Xew York City from 1877 to 1891. He served as I'ostmaster at Arling- ton from 1894 to December 31, 1899. Mr. Stewart served with distinction in the War of the Rebellion. He was mustered into Company E, Eighteenth Iowa Infantry, August 0, 18(;2, and served on the frontier division of the Southwest under Curtis, Schofleld, and Steele, his regiment being a part of the Seventh Army Corps. He par- ticipated in a number of important engagements, notably those at Spring- field, Mo., second Pea Ridge, Poison Springs, and Camden, Ark., and was honorably discharged from the service in August, 1865. Returning from the war, Mv. Stewart entered upon an active business life. He is a member of the Union Veteran Legion and of the Veteran Asso- ciation. He is a member of the Union Veteran Legion and of the A'eteran Association of Arlington, and respected as a man of ability, enterprise, and public spirit. Mr. Stewart married, in 1884, T^ydia B. Miller, daughter of James Burt, of Warwick, N. Y. They have no children. JOHN HENRY MACDONALD has been a life-long resident of Bayonne, N. J., where he was born on the 15th of February, 1844. He is the son of John INIacdonald and Hanna Everson, and a great-grandson on his mother's side of a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His parents were both born and married in Hudson County, N. J., where the Macdonalds and Eversons have resided for many years. Mr. Macdonald attended the Bayonne public schools, acquired an ex- cellent rudimentary education, and then engaged in the oyster business in his native town. Afterward he became lighthouse keeper at Bergen Point, N. J., under President Lincoln. He enlisted in 1861 and served nine months 304 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES in Company C, Twenty-flrs1 New Jersey Volunteers, participating in tlie battles of Chancellorsville, Frederieksburg, and other engagements, and being honorably discharged fr'om tlie service in 1862. Mr. Macdonald is now the proprietor of the Riverside House in Bayonne, and is one of the most popular citizens of Southern Hudson County. He is patriotic, public spirited, and progressive, active in the interests of the community, influential in promoting local prosperity, and respected and esteemed by all who know him. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Methodist. He is a member of Van Honten Post, Grand Army JOHN H. MACDONALD. of the Republic, of Jersey City, and prominently identified with other im- portant organizations and enterprises in his native county. He was married on the 24th of December, ] 865, to Ann L. Barnes, daugh- ter of Stephen D. and Judith Barnes, of Port Richmond, Staten' Island, N. Y. They have three children: John S., Emma J., and Charles W. JAMES PRENTICE NORTFIROP, a member of the well known law firm of Wallis, Edwards & Bumsted, of Jersey City, N. J., springs from some of the oldest families of New England, his paternal ancestors coming over in 1630 and his mother's in 1610. Both lines were among the earliest settlers GENEALOGICAL 305 of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and were represented in the Colonial and Eevolutionary wars, as well as in the professional and business affairs and in the civil life of the colonies and States. Mr. Northrop is the only child of Jataes R. Northrop and Catherine S. Prentice, daughter of Nathan and Alice (Spencer) Prentice. His father was the only son who attained maturity of Rev. Bennett F. Northrop, a graduate of Yale College and of the Albany Theological Seminary, and a well known Congregational clergy- man of Connecticut, and who was the only son of Joshua Northrop, of Litchfield, Conn. James P. Northrop was born in Springfield, Mass., on the 5th of August, 1856. and received his education in the common schools of Connecticut and New Jersey. He read law in Jersey City in the offices of Hon. William A. Lewis, Raymond P. Wortendyke, and Wallis & Edwards, successively, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney at the November term of the Supreme Court in 18S0 and as a counselor at the February term in 1892. Since 1880 Mr. Northrop has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession, and is now a member of the law firm of TV'allis, Edwards & Bumsted, of Jersey City. He resided for a time in Bayonne, Hudson County, where he served for two years as City Attorney. He is now a resident of North Plainfield, N. J. Mr. Northrop is an able law- yer, a man of broad attainments, and respected and esteemed by all who know him. He is a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 147, F. and A. M., of Jersey City, a member of the Hudson County Bar Association, and a mem- ber of the Park Club of North Plainfield. September 27, ISS.'?, Mr. Northrop married Harriet R. AYilson, daughter of Milton B. and Harriet (Metcalf) Wilson, of Danielson, Conn. Both the Metcalfs and ^Vilsons are among the oldest families of that State. Mr. and Mrs. Northrop ha^■e one daughter. Norma. FRANCIS DOUGLAS JACKSON, of Hoboken, one of the leading prod- uce commission merchants in Hudson County and a Major in the Spanish- American War, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 19th of August, 1841. He is the son of Charles Jackson and Eliza M. Castle and a grandson of Amasa and Mary (Phelps) Jackson and of William and Sarah (Marvin) Castle. His great-grandfather, Colonel Michael Jackson, was Colonel of the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry in the American Revolution and was brevetted Brigadier-General for meritorious service. His great-great-grand- father. Jonathan Jackson, was the first Collector of the Port of Boston, Mass., while his first ancestor, Edward Jackson, came to New England about 1630 and settled near Boston. The family has always been prominent and infiuential in all the affairs of life, active in promoting every worthy object, and distinguished in public and other capacities. The name has figured prominently in the history of New England for generations. Major Jackson was educated in the schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he resided until 1870, when he moved to Hoboken, Hudson County, N. J. During the past thirty years he has been actively and successfully engaged in the commission business, dealing extensively in farm and dairy products, with his offl(!e in Hoboken. He owns five creameries in different localities and is one of the largest shippers in Hudson County. In military affairs Major Jackson has achieved special distinction. He served in the Civil War in 1.' "..'(2 and 18G3, in Company H, Seventh New York Infantry. Afterward he was active in the New Jersey m.ilitia, becoming 306 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES First Lieutenant and Adjutant in the Ninth Regiment December 20, 1881, Captain of Company E, Second Regiment, April 6, 1886, Captain of Com- pany L, Fourth Regiment, May 31, 1892, and Major of the Second Regiment May 22, 1893. He was Major of the Second New Jersey Infantry in the Spanish-American War, being attached to General Fitzhugh Lee's corps, and was honorably mustered out of service November 17, 1898. Major Jackson is a member and Trustee of the Columbia Club of Hoboken, a mem- ber of the Seagirt (N. J.) Rifle Club, a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans' Association, and a member of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War. He is one of the best known men in Hud- son County, universally respected and esteemed, and active in promoting local objects. In business he has been eminently successful; in military affairs he has achieved special distinction, having risen from private to com- manding officer. He is and has been for several years a Vestryman in St. Paul's Church, Hoboken. Major Jackson married Lizzie H. Graunt, by whom he has had six chil- dren: Gertrude, F. Douglas, Charles Phelps, Edward, Nathalie, and Oliver. MARTIN LAWLESS, Police Justice of Harrison, Hudson County, since 1894, and for many years a leader of the Democratic party, was born in Newark, N. J., April 6, 1850, the son of James Lawless and Ellen Sims. His parents were both natives of Ireland, but were married in this coun- try, his father coming over about 1845. James Lawless was associated with Obert, Meeker & Co., of Newark, for about thirty years, and later was made attendant on the Harrison Avenue free bridge. He died in 1879. Judge Lawless attended the public schools of Newark, and then learned the trade of mason and bricklayer, which he followed for several years. About 1887 he engaged in business for himself, and as a contractor and builder erected a large number of important buildings, including the first carbonizing furnaces for Thomas A. Edison in Harrison, the Sacred Heart Convent, the Goodman building, the Hartshorn factory, and many others in Harrison and vicinity. His work stands as monuments to his industry and enterprise. His success was merited, because it was the result of his own efforts. He also found time for political activity, and as a Democrat served on the Board of Aldermen of Harrison for four years and in the New Jersey House of the Asse-mbly during the sessions of 1892 and 1893. In both of these capacities he exerted a potent influence and made honorable records. In 1894 he became Police Justice of Harrison, where he resides, and he has continued in that office, discharging its duties with ability, courage, and satisfaction. Judge Lawless is a man of sound judgment, of great force of character, and of fearless energy and directness. In the councils of the Democratic party he is a trusted and valued leader. He is a promi- nent member of the Robert Davis Association, of the Knig'hts of Colum- bus, and of the Master Masons' Association, and in religion is a Catholic. He has never married. JAMES SHU ART, of Ramseys, Bergen County, is the grandson of Adolphus Stuart, who fought in the War for Independence. His maternal grandfather, John Sutherland, was in the War of 1812, and received a pen- sion of $12 per month up to the time of his death. The Shuarts are of Ger- man ancestry, but have made their home in Bi rgen County since coming to America. GENEALOGICAL 307 Mv. Shuai't is the son of Henry A. Shuart and a ^i-andson of Adolpluis Slmart, and was born in Holiokus ToAvnslup, Bergen County, August 19, 1S44. After receiving a limited education in tlie common scliools lie began business in the dry goods and grocery trade in Orange County, N. Y. TJiis proved successful, and in 1870 he came to Itamseys, where he ojiened a meat market. This also became a profitable business, and in ISOfi he retired. Mv. Shuart is a Free Mason and a prominent Odd Fellow. He served three JAMES SHUART. years as a member and President of the Board of Education, and was re- cently elected to serve three more years in the same capacity. He has also served as Assessor and Road T'ommissioner of Holiokus Township for three years. In politics he is a Democrat. He and his family atlend the Lutheran Church. Mr. Shuart was married it the age of seventeen to Susan Jane Hunter, daughter of David Hunter, of Orange Countv. N. Y. They had one son, 308 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Franklin Shuart, of Ramseys. Mr. Shuart's first wife died in 1868, and he married, in 1872, Miss Eleanor N. Litcliult, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have had four children: Elizabeth, who married Albert G. May, of Ramseys; Eva R., who married S. G. Oonklin, of Newburgh, N. Y., and died at the age of twenty and one-half years; Harry, formerly a student at Peddie In- stitute and now a student at Yale College; and Edna, at home. HENRY HOPE VANDERPJLT, of Hoboken, descends from the noted Vanderbilt family of Staten Island, N. Y. The first ancestor of this family in America was Jan Aersten Van der Bildt, who came from Holland about 1650. He was married three times. His son, Jacob Janse Van der Bildt, was married, August 33, 1687, to Maritje (Mary) Van der Vliet ("of the stream "), and their son Jacob, born in 1692, married Neeltje (Cornelia) Denyse. In 1718 the last named Jacob purchased a farm on Staten Island and removed thither from Flatbush, Long Island. From him descended the famous " Commodore " Vanderbilt, the distinguished Vanderbilt family of New York, and numerous branches of the family in different sections of the country. Henry H. Vanderbilt was born in Williamsburg, N. Y., April 8, 1862, but has spent nearly all his life in Hoboken, N. J., whither he came with his parents when a small boy. His father, Jacob Vanderbilt, and his mother, Angelina C. Hope, inherited the sterling characteristics of their ancestors, and instilled these traits into the minds of their children. He attended the Hoboken public schools, improved every opportunity that came in his way, and early displayed high mental and physical qualifications. His training was practical as well as theoretical. Soon after completing his studies he established himself in business, dealing in coal, masons' mate- rials, and drain pipe, and has built up an extensive trade. His ofSce and yards are on Willow Avenue and Seventeenth Street, Hoboken. Having devoted his energies strictly to business, Mr. Vanderbilt has never sought nor held public ofifice, but as a public spirited citizen, deeply interested in the affairs of his town and county, he has contributed to the general welfare by casting his influence on the side of right and justice, and is respected for those virtues and attributes Avhich mark the successful man. He is a member of the Columbia Club of Hoboken. He married Miss Lavinia E. Taft, and resides on Garden Street, Hoboken. JOHN SIDNEY DARLING, one of the most prominent residents of West New York, formerly the Township of Union, Hudson County, was born in New York City, July 29, 1853, the son of James Darling and" Mary Adams. He is of Scotch descent, his father having been born in Glasgow, while his mother was born in Edinburgh. His parents were married in New York, having come to this country in 1850 and 1844, respectively. For eighteen years his father wns engaged in business in that city as a plumber and gas fitter. Subsequently he was a collector for the Man- hattan Gas Company of New York. He moved to West New York (Taurus postoifice), N. J., in 1860, and died there September 22, 1867, from the effects of a shot fired by burglars. His mother was born in the City of Edin- burgh, December 25, 1820, and died in West New York, N. J., July 8, 1900. John S. Darling was educated in the public schools of New York City and in New Jersey in what is now West New York. He served an ap- prenticeship as a bricklayer, and then engaged in the business of bleach- ing and reflnishing lace curtains in West Nevn York. Disposing of this GENEALOGICAL 309 business in 18S9, he became Secretary and Treasurer of a corporation which operated the so-called sanitary laundry trays, subsequently, also, becoming manager of the plant. Having disposed of his interest in this enterprise, he next engaged in manufacturing music-boxes, under the name of the American Music Box Company, of West New York and later of Ho- boken. Since 1893, however, his business has been that of a real estate and insurance operator, and in this line he has been remarkably successful, having offices on Bergenline Avenue in AVest New York, opposite the town hall. JOHN S. DARLING. Mr. Darling was a member of the Iloboken regiment of the National Guard, Ninth New Jersey Volunteers, and was honorably mustered out as Sergeant at the expiration of his tern} of enlistment of seven years. He is a charter member of the Empire Hook and Ladder Com])any and was its Foreman for two vears, and belongs to Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., to Cvrus Chapter, No. 23, E. A. M., to Pilgrim Commaudery, No. 16, K. T..' of Hoboken, to Mecca Temple, A. A. O. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of New York, to the Order of the Elks Lodge, No. 74, of Hoboken, to the Foresters of America, of A^^est New York, to Oak Cliff Council, No. 1,748, Royal Arcanum, and to Palisade Lodge, No. 128, Knights of Pythias. He 310 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES lias held vaiious oflicial positions in these orders. He is also a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. Darling has been conspicuous in various public capacities. He is a Democrat, and an active leader of the partj. He was Township Clerk of the Township of Union (now West New York), being in fact its first Clerk, and served three years. For four years he was Tax Collector and Treasurer of the same township, being successively elected without opposition. For two years he was Chief of Police of the Township of Union. He was also both Tax Collector and Disbursing Officer of the school funds of the Town- ship of Union, and is now the Tax Collector of West New York, being elected on the organization of the town in 1897 and re-elected in 1899 for a term of three years. He is also a Commissioner of Deeds and a Notary Public. He married, September 17, 1893, Abigail B., daughter of James and Sarah Crossley, of Fairview, N. J., by whom he has one child, Sidney Louis Darling, born August 9, 1894. STEWART LOWRY, a well known hotel proprietor of Secaucus, Hud- son County, has been a life-long resident of that place, having been born there on the 31st of March, 1851. He is the son of Robert Lowry and Mar- garet Foley, both natives of Ireland, who came to this country in early life and took up their home in Secaucus. Having received a good practical education in the Secaucus public schools, Mr. Lowry engaged in the business of a hotel keeper and farmer, which he has since followed ■^^■ith uninterrupted success. He has also served his fellow-townsmen in various important capacities, among them that of Con- stable. He is a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows and the For- esters of America, and as a citizen is highly respected for his integrity, enterprise, and sound common sense. Mr. Lowry married Miss Annie Price and has six children: Margaret, Nellie, Stewart, Jr., Humphrey, Isabella, and Mary. ISAAC D. BOGERT, Mayor of Westwood and a leading merchant of that borough, is descended in the eighth generation from Cornells Jansen Bo- gaerdl, the Dutch emigrant, concerning whom «ee the sketch of Daniel G. Bogcrt on page 132. The line of descent is as follows: Cornells Jansen Bougaert (1), the emigrant, and his wife, Geesie Williams, had issue of the second generation Wyntie, John C, Classic, Roelof, Maritie, and Peter. John C. Bogert (2) married Angenetie Strycker, of Long Island, and set- tled at Hackensack, N. J., where he had issue of the third generation Roelof, Lammetie, Claes, John, Cornelius, and Albert. Albert Bogert (3), of Hackensack, born about 1690. married, February 17, 1713, Martha Bertholf, and had issue of the fourth generation John, Guil- liaem, Isaac, Jacobus, Angenitie, Henry, Cornelius, Cornelius, and Angen- itie. Isaac Bogert (4), born in 1718, married, June 4, 1742, Lea, daughter of John Demarest, and settled near Westwood, N. J., on a farm purchased in 176S. His issue of the fifth generation were Albert, Jacobus (who died in the Revolutionary cause), John, and Martina. Albert Bogert (5) inherited his father's homestead, married, and had issue of the sixth generation, one of whom was Isaac A. Bogert, born about 1766 Who married. May 31, 1788, Margaret Durie. They resided on the old home- stead and had issue of the seventh generation two children: David and Lea. David Bogert (7), born July 2, 1800, married Hannah Ackerman, and re- GENEALOGICAL 311 sided at Westwood, where he had issue of the eighth generation, one of whom was Isaac D. Bogert, the subject of this sketch. Isaac D. Bogert (8) was born on the old Bogert homestead at Westwood in 1834. Hav i ng spent his early life in school, he continued on the farm until 1869, when he began a mercantile career, which he has since followed, hav- ing been the head of the firm of Bogert & Van Emburgh from the time the business started. Besides the grocery business he was Postmaster for twenty years. The firm also maintained a large trade in lumber and coal. Mr. Bogert has been selected by his fellow-townsmen at various times to represent their interests in oflflcial capacities. He was Freeholder for six years, during a part of which time he was Director of the county board. He also filled the office of Collector for Washington Township, and in 1899 was elected the first Mayor of Westwood. In conjunction with Richard Hopper, Abram B. Bogert, and others he organized the Reformed Church at Westwood in 1887, and has filled the office of Elder since that time. Mr. Bogert is a member of the Grand Army, but aside from this his relations in life are domestic. He is public spirited, and through his kindly aid the village has received great help. In 1894 he generously donated for public use two aires of valuable ground in the center of the borough for a park, in which are twenty-seven sugar trees of his own planting. In 1852 Mr. Bogert married Anna Van Wagoner, daughter of John Van Wagoner, of Oradell, N. J. They have no children. ADDISON D. WHITE, a veteran of the Civil War and now a Justice of the Peace in Harrison, Hudson County, was born on Staten Island, New York, April 9, 1846. He is the son of Richard White and Ann Simonson, and a descendant of ancestors who came to this country several generations ago, both his parents being natives of Staten Island. Mr. White acquired, as a boy, a good public school education, and had scarcely finished his studies when, impelled by the patriotism which dis- tinguishes his race, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-second New York Volunteer Infantry for service in the War for the Union. He served three years, participating in Sherman's historic march to the sea and in numerous battles and skirmishes, in all of which he bore a conspicuous part. Returning home at the close of his service, with an honorable discharge and a brilliant record for bravery in action, Mr. White devoted himself to active business pursuits. In 1870 he removed to Harrison, N. J., where he has since resided, and until 1875 was successfully engaged in real estate operations. He is noAV connected with the Domestic Sewing Machine AVorks. In politics Mr. White is an ardent and influential Democrat, and for several years has been active in the interests of his party. He is now (1900) serving his second term as Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics and of the Daughters of Liberty. He married Miss Margaret Martin and has three children. ORD DARLING, a prominent citizen of West New York (Taurus post- office), Hudson County, and a brother of John S. Darling, whose sketch appears on page 308, was born on Forty-second Street in New York City, on the 13th of April, 1857, and moved with his parents to West New York when about seven years old. He was educated in the public schools of the latter place, and when sixteen entered his father's bleachery, where he remained until he reached the age of twenty, learning and master- ing every branch of the business. 312 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES In 1873 Mr. Darling entered the employ of the National Wood Man- ufacturing Comj)any, of New York. He continued with that concern as outside man, laying parquet floors, until 1878, when he became super- intendent of lighters for the West Shore Raili-oad. About 1885 he re- signed that position, but after a year spent in a bleachery returned as ferry master at the old terry, where he continued from 188() to 1890. He was subsequently foreman of the Union (Jranite Company until 1893, and since that time has been State agent for New Jersey of the Climax Powder Company, of Emporium, Pa., having his office in West New York (Taurns postofSce). ^^Hi^^K^i aJfeSSMJ^y^ ,^^:U^»B| H •^S^^^^^BB^B ^ ^^^^fa hIB ^V*i ^'i^^9 ■^ MH^Hr^ ^' ^ ' ' ^^^^^^H^r ^ !• [^K^^te.^p A, ,^m & A' ''.^J^Hm I^H ^H ORD DARLING. In public life Mr. Darling lias been prominent for a number of years. He was a member of the Board of Council of the Township of Union for one year. Chairman of the board for two years. Police Sergeant of the Town of Union for two yeras, and Township Treasurer one year. At the present time he is serving his second term as a member of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders from West New York. In politics he is an active and influential Democrat. He has been a member of the Democratic County Committee from his district since about 1895. Mr. Darling was a charter member of Court West New York, No. 29, GENEALOGICAL 313 Foresters of America, has been Chief Ranger for three successive terms, and has served as District Deputy for Court Fort Lee and Court Palisade. He was one of the organizers and is still a prominent member of the Fire De- partment of West New York, and was most active and useful in the organization of that township. He is also a member of the Roval Arcanum and of the Elks. In these and various other capacities Mr. Darling has displayed great executive ability and native energy, and throughout his life he has re- tained the confidence and respect of all who know him. He has always been a progressive citizen, ready to promote every worthy enterprise, and active in the affairs of the community. It was while serving as Sergeant of Police, at the Guttenberg race track, that he saved the life of Michael Buckley, a constable, while the latter was attempting to arrest a noted desperado and criminal. Mr. Darling was married, in March, 1880, to Alice, daughter of John and Alice White, of West New York. They have nine children: Ord, Jr., Jennie, John, Harry, Alice, Gertrude, Erastus, Mary, and James. JOHN JAMES TOFFEY, of Jersey City, for two terms Sheriff of Hud- son County and State Treasurer of New Jersey from 1875 to 1891, was born in Pawling, Dutchess County, N. Y., on the 1st of June, 1811. He is the son of George A. Toffey and Mary D. Cooke and the grandson of Daniel and Betsey Toffey. In 18.54 he removed with his parents to Hudson County and since then he has been a resident of Jersey City. He received his education in the public schools and in the Uni^ ersity of the City of Now York. He took an active part in the War of the Eebellion, enlisting, August 21, 1862, at the age of eighteen, in the Twenty-first Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. After serving with that regiment for nine months, and taking part in all its engagements, he was mustered out of service, but immediately re-en- listed in the Thirty-third Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and was com- missioned First Lieutenant of Company G. On November 23, 1863, during an engagement at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Tenn., he was severely wounded, which disabled him from further service in the field. President Lincoln afterward commissioned him a Lieutenant of the Veteran Re- serve Corps, and he performed duty until June, 1866, when he was honor- ably discharged from service. He received from Congress a medal of honor for " gallantry at the battle of Missionary Ridge." Returning to civil life, Mr. Toffey engaged in active business as a live stock dealer, and so continued from 1866 to 1874, being connected with the well known firm of Daniel Toffey & Co., one of the first in this country to engage in shipping dressed beef to Europe. Mr. Toffey has always been an active Republican, prominent in public affairs, and one of the most distinguished men in his section. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen of Jersey City in 1874 and 1875, and in the fall of 1875 he accepted the nomination of his party for the Fifth Dis- trict for Member of Assembly and was elected by a large majority. He was again elected in 1876. He served as Sheriff one term, and in 1885 was elected State Treasurer of New Jersey by joint .session of the Legis- lature, and served in that capacity six years. In 1891, both Houses of the Legislature being Democratic, he was succeeded by Hon. George R. Gray, but his services were acknowledged and recognized by the following reso- 3] 4 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES lution, passed March 9, 1891, the Legislature being Democratic in both branches : "■ Whereas, The retiring State Treasurer, Hon. John J. Toffey, has dis- charged the duties of his office in a manner honorable to himself and greatly to the benefit and advantage of the State ; "Resolved (the House of Assembly concurring). That we hereby express our recognition and appreciation of tlie services of our retiring Treasurer, and congratulate him upon the excellent record he has made for himself and the State." In 1893 Mr. Toffey was again elected Sheriff of Hudson County by over 6,000 majority, and served another three years, in 1867 he organized Com- pany D, Fourth Regiment, New Jersey Rifle Corps, which became a pai-t of the National Guard, and of which he was Captain. He was elected Major of the new regiment, and later was elected Lieutenant-Colonel, which po- sition he held until 1876, when he resigned. Colonel Tofl;ey is one of the most popular men of Hudson County. He is a member of G. Van Houten Post, No. 3, G. A. R., and of Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He is Past Master of Bergen Lodge, No. 47, F. and A. M., and a member of Mount Vernon Chapter, R. A. M., of Hugh de Payen Commandery, K. T., and of New Jersey Consistory, Scottish Rite. He is a member of the Union League, Palma, Carteret, and Jersey City Clubs, and of the Medal of Honor Legion, and is also an Elder in the Bergen Reformed Church. Colonel Toffey was married. May 17, J 870, to Mary Elizabeth Sip, grand- daughter of Colonel Garret Sip and great-granddaughter of Peter Sip, one of Hudson County's first Judges. They have had four, sons, three of whom survive: George A. Toffey, John J. Toffey, Jr., and William V. Toffey. He resides at 155 Magnolia Avenue, Jersey City. His son, John J. Toffey, Jr. (1900), is First Lieutenant in the Fourth United States Infantry at Manila, Philippine Islands, having been in many of the engagements in that place. His brother, Daniel Toffey, was an officer on board the United States steamer " Monitor " during the historical engagement with the Con- federate steamer " Merrimac " in the Civil ^Var. JOHN E. OTIS, the first Chairman of the new Town of West New York and one of its leading business men, is the son of I'atrick Henry Otis and Margaret Gillorly, natives of Ireland, who came to this country in the spring of 1853 and settled in New York City. There Mr. Otis was born on the 20th of September, 1853, soon after their arrival. The family removed shortly afterward to Philadelphia, where Patrick H. Otis engaged in busi- ness as a distiller, rectifier, and wholesale dealer in liquors, which he con- ducted with success for several vears. He died in Jersev Citv Heights about 1875. Mr. Otis was reared in Philadelphia. He attended St. Michael's Paro- chial School until he was ten years old, when he entered St. Michael's Acad- emy, where he remained until he reached the age of twelve. Afterward he attended De la Salle College at Philadelphia until he was fifteen, when he moved to Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y., and continued his studies a short time. He was then employed by his father as bookkeeper and assisted in managing his business. Subsequently he was associated with his father in Jersey City Heights, N. J., until 1875, when his father died. In 1876 the family moved back to Philadelphia, when Mr. Otis was employed by Gould & Co., GENEALOGICAL 315 wholesale milk dealers, of Washington, to manage their dairy during the Centennial Exjiosition. In 1877 tlie family moved to Baltimore, Md., where Mr. Otis engaged in mining, which business he followed successfully in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and Georgia. For four years he was in the service of the West Shore Railroad. In 1888 he established himself in the hardware trade at West New York, where he has since resided. Few men have contributed more to the growth and welfare of a com- munity than jMr. Otis has to the section in which he lives. He has not only given it an important impetus in business affairs, but has also been JOHN E. OTIS. active and influential in its very foundation as a town as well as in its organization and advancement. As Clerk for one year, as a member of the Board of Council, and as Acting Chief of Police of the Township of Union he took a prominent part in all local affairs, and it was through him that the Town of West New York was set off and legally incorporated July 5, 1898. He was the principal founder and organizer of the new town, and in the spring of 1899 becam.e its first Chairman, which office he now fills. He is also Acting Chief of Police under the new charter. Treasurer of the Firemen's Relief Association, and Foreman of the Empire Hook and Ladder Company, having organized the first fire department in West New 316 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES York. In these various capacities he has displayed patriotism and enter- prise, and is universally respected and esteemed as a public spirited, en- ergetic, and progressive citizen. His popularity is attested by the con- fidence in which he is held and by the honorable standing which he has attained in the town and county. He was a Commissioner of Appeals in the Township of Union for about three years and Financial Secretary of the West New York Lodge of Foresters of America for about five years, and in various other connections has been a useful and valued citizen and a trusted business man. Mr. Otis was married in 1883 to Emma Hoppelsberg, daughter of Fred- erick August Hoppelsberg, of Guttenberg, N. J. They have five children living: Henry George, Charles Carhart, John Edward, Walter William, and Cecelia. CLEMENT Db K. LEONARD, of Hoboken, attorney and counselor at law, is the son of Francis De V. Leonard, a grandson of John Leonard, and a great-grandson of Joseph Leonard, who was High Sheriff of the Colony of New Jersey in 1771, and who died in 1779. His paternal ancestors were French Huguenots, and, coming to this country about the time of the Huguenot War, figured prominently in the civil and military affairs of New Jersey. Mr. Leonard's father is an old and well known citizen of Red Bank. His grandfather, John Leonard, was a warm personal friend of Thomas Jefferson, and was by him appointed United States Minister to the Court of Spain, a position he held for thirty years, achieving distinction as an able and talented diplomat and gaining the confidence and respect of his countrymen as well as the esteem and friendship of the Spaniards. His mother, the wife of Francis De P. Leonard, was a member of the distin- guished Lippincott family of Monmouth County, N. J., whither her ances- tors came from Holland in the early settlement of the territory. Like the Leonards, the Lippincotts have been conspicuous and prominent in nearly every capacity in the State, and have contributed much to its professional, civil, and military welfare. Mr. Leonard was born in Red Bank, Monmouth County, N. J., February 18, 1846, and inherited the sturdy Holland Dutch and Huguenot character- istics of his race. He received his early education at St. Charles College near Ellicott City, Md. Subsequently he took a full classical course at Seton Hall College in Orange, N. J., and was graduated therefrom with honor in the class of 1869. During the next three years he read law in the office of Charles H. Traftord, of Red Bank, and then became assistant to Hon. Robert Allen, Jr., Prosecutor of the Pleas for Monmouth County. In these offices he gained a wide and valuable experience. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1873, and as a counselor in June, 1876, and in 1877 removed from Red Bank to Hoboken, where he has ever since practiced his profession. He is one of the ablest lawyers in Hudson County, and the many important cases with which he has been connected as counsel attest his legal skill and attainments. He has built up a large general practice, and enjoys the confidence of the entire com- munity. A Republican in politics, Mr. Leonard has long been active in the welfare of his party. He was a delegate to the Republican State conventions of 1888, 1892, and 1896, a delegate to all the Republican congressional and county conventions in his district from 1888 to 1896 inclusive, and Chairman of the City Republican Executive Committee cf Hoboken in'' 1894, and did GENEALOGICAL 317 excellent work. In 1895 he was President of the Ninth Assembly District Committee, and at present (1900) he is Chairman of the First Ward Asso- ciation of Hoboken. In 1896 he was elected to the New Jersey Assembly by the handsome plurality of 2,429 over his Democratic opponent. He is also President of the Governor Griggs Battalion, an active and aggressive Republican organization. In 1898 he was the choice of his party for Dis- trict Judge, but declined the nomination. As citizen, lawyer, and party leader he is universally respected and esteemed, and in every capacity his ability and sound judgment have won for him an enviable record. EDWARD SMITH, of Bayonne, N. J., was born in Clarkstown, Rockland County, N. Y., on the 4th of September, 1847. His parents, Peter D. W. Smith and Sarah Pye, were both natives of Rockland County, where they were married. Mr. Smith received his educational training in the Clarkstown disti-ict schools and early displayed those business attainments which have since marked his life. He first engaged in the grocery trade at Closter, N. J., and subsequently in the livery business at Nyack, N. Y. On the 1st of April, 1875, he removed to Bayonne, Hudson County, and established himself in business as a butcher, in which he was very successful. For a number of years he has been engaged in the liquor business in Bayonne. In politics Mr. Smith is a consistent Democrat, active in public affairs, and prominent in campaign work. For three terms he was one of the School Trustees of Bayonne, and in that capacity rendered efficient service to the city and to the cause of local education. He is the founder and President of the Edward Smith Association, one of the leading political organizations in Hudson County. He is also Vice-President of the Liquor Dealers' Association, of Bayonne, a member of the Exempt Firemen's Asso- ciation, and a member of Bayonne Lodge, No. 99, F. and A. M., and of Bayonne Council, No. 695, Royal Arcanum. His religious aflaiiations are with the Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. Smith is a prominent and enterprising citizen, active in promoting every worthy object, prompt in the discharge of duty, and thoroughly iden- tified with the best interests of his section. He is an acknowledged leader of the Democratic party in Bayonne and for many years has wielded an important influence in shaping the political destinies of his party there. On June 23, 1876, Mr. Smith married Emily Gilhooley, daughter of R. G. and Eliza (Hoffman) Gilhooley, of Nyack, N. Y. They have four children: Frank, Ellen Tallman, John, and Mary. LOUIS ALBERT MENEGAUX, a leading plumber of Union Hill, N. J., and a member and formerly President of the West Hoboken Board of Education, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1868. His parents, Charles Frederick Menegaux and Louisa Petchin, were natives of France and descendants of old and respected families; his paternal grandfather, Frederick Menegaux, being Mayor of Dembenois, Canton of Audincourt, where Charles Frederick was born. The latter came to America in 1853 and settled in Philadelphia, where he was for many years engaged in furniture manufacturing, and where he died in August, 1868. His wife. Louisa Petchin, who still survives, came over in 1855, and they were mar- ried in Philadelphia. He was a man of great enterprise, and highly re- spected and esteemed. Louis A. Menegaux received a thorough education and a military train- 318 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ing in Girard College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated with honor in 1885. He also spent a few months in a public school in West Hoboken, N. J. His father having died when he was only six weeks old, he was reared by his mother, a woman of great force of character and of a peculiarly sweet disjjosition, and to her able guidance he owes much of his success in life. On leaving college he si)ent a year in his native city learning the trade of plumber and gas and steam fitter, which he finished in Union Hill, Hudson County, with Albert Thonrot. removing there in August, 1886. He remained with 5Ir. Thouiot for about five years, mas- LOUIS A. MtNEGAUX. teriug every detail of the business, and in 1891 he purchased the estab- lishment and still conducts it. Mr. Menegaux is a man of recognized ability, and as a plumber has achieved eminent success. He has one of the finest and most complete establishments in his section of the State, and the many important contracts which he has executed attest his skill and enterprise. Pew men of his age have gained the popularity and high reputation which he enjoys, and fewer still are better or more widely known. As a citizen he is public sj)irited, energetic, and progressive, encourag- ing all worthy movements, and liberally and cheerfully supporting every GENEALOGICAL 319 commeiidable enterprise. In politics he is an ardent Republican. He re- sides in West Hoboken, where he has been a member of the Board of Education since 1895, being the only Republican elected to that body in that year, and being re-elected in the spring of 1899 without opposition. He was President of the board in 1897 and 1898, and in that capacity and as a member has rendered most efflciont service to the cause of local edu- cation. Mr. Menegaux is a member of Hoboken Lodge, No. 74, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of Palisade Lodge, No. 128, Knights of Pythias, in the uniform rank of which he holds a captain's commission. He is also a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M., of Pilgrim Commandery, No. 16, K. T., and of Mecca Temple, A. A. O. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was appointed United States Grand Juror for the September term, 1900. JOSEPH ELLIOTT WRAGG, a prominent retired manufacturer and ice dealer of North Bergen, N. J., descends from a distinguished family of England, one of his ancestors, John Wragg, being buried in Westminster Abbey. He is the son of James Wragg and Hannah Hodkins, and was born in Chesterfield, England, on the ]8th of April, 1828. When a boy — not four years of age — he came with his parents to America, and in 18S9 settled in Bergen County, N. J. In 1859 he removed to English Neighbor- hood, Hudson County, where he still resides, and where he was engaged with his brother, John Wragg, under the firm name of James Wragg's Sons, in the manufacture of worsted, linen, and horse-hair oil press-cloths for linseed, cotton seed, rape seed, mustard seed, sperm, and stearine. He continued in this business with success until 1870, gaining a wide reputa- tion for ability, sound judgment, and executive skill. From 1869 to 1882 he was engaged in the ice business, building up a large and successful trade. He had received, as a boy, a good private school education in Williams- burg, N. Y. In public affairs, and especially in the development of the com- munity, he has always taken a deep interest, but never aspired to office or political preferment. He has exerted an important influence in various directions, and by courage and perseverance has achieved a high reputation in all the relations of life. Mr. Wragg was married, October 10, 1859, to Catharine Fisher Tracy, Ts^idow of William Henry Tracy, daughter of Michael Fisher and Martha Engle, and granddaughter of Lieutenant Andrew Engle, a distinguished Revolutionarv soldier, and Janette Strachan, his wife. Mrs. Wragg died May 15, 1898." She had two daughters by her first husband, viz.: Margaret M. Tracy and Ellie M. Tracy. The family reside at Fairview, N. J. MICHAEL FISHER was for many years one of the most prominent and best known men in Hudson County." His influence was felt in both public and private affairs, and in the various positions which he filled he rendered very efficient service. He was born on April 29, 1794, and died on the 15th of November, 1880. He received a common school education. On October 13, 1814, he married Martha Engle Banta, daughter of Andrew Engle and Janette Strachan, and settled in New Durham, Hudson County, where he resided until his death November 15, 1880. He held several offices of trust, including those of County Treasurer for many years and Freeholder from North Bergen in 1846 and 1847. -His ability and integrity, his broad execu- tive qualities, his strength of character and genial habits made him popular 320 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES and esteemed, while his long and intimate connection with public interests gained for him the confidence of the entire community. Mr. Fisher left three daTighters, the youngest of whom, Catharine, was married twice, and is survived by two daughters: Margaret M. and Ellie M. Tracy. The former was born in English IS'^eighborhood, N. J., March 4, 1844. Both are daughters of William Henry Tracy and granddaughters of Ephraim Tracy and Elis^abeth Youmans. Mrs. Martha Engle Banta Fisher's father, Andrew Engle, enlisted at Philadelphia, October 1, 1776, as Ensign in the Twelfth Pennsylvania Eegi- ment. Continental Army, and served in the American Revolution with dis- tinction, being promoted to a second lieutenancy in Brigadier-General Con- way's brigade. He saw considerable service, and at the battle of Monmouth his regiment was nearly destroyed. Being reduced to a mere skeleton by exposure and severe fighting, it was incorporated with the Third Pennsyl- vania under Colonel Thomas Craig, and on December 20, 1778, Andrew En- gle was made a captain's lieutenant. His original commission, signed by John Jay, is still preserved by his descendants. After the close of the war he purchased a farm in English Neighborhood, N. J., where he died June 2, 1810, from the effects of a wound received at the battle of Monmouth. He left three sons and four daughters. The youngest son, James Engle, was educated at West Point and served in the United States regular army. ELIJAH STRONG COWLES, one of the prominent members of the bar of Jersey City and New York, was born in Coventry, Vt., on the 30th of April, 1836. His ancestors came to New England at a very early day and for generations have been active and influential in all the affairs of life. Mr. Cowles received his educational training in the public schools and at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, where he fitted for Dartmouth College. Illness, however, prevented him from entering the latter institution and he therefore turned his attention to the study of law, entering the office of Hon. Ephraim Paddock, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Vermont. Mr. Cowles was admitted to the bar of his native State and for two years practiced in Coventry, where he was born. He came to New York City and practiced his profession for about two years, or until 1868, when he removed to Jersey City, N. J., and entered the law oflice of Wash- ington B. Williams. Here he formed the acquaintance of Edward B. Wake- man, then a prominent lawyer and resident of Jersey City, who soon retired from active practice. Mr. Cowles entered Mv. Wakeman's office and upon the latter's retire- ment succeeded to his business. In 1875 he associated himself again with Washington B. Williams under the firm name of Williams & Cowles, which continued for about twelve years, and was one of the best and foremost law firms of Eastern New Jersey. About 1895 Mr. Cowles formed a co- partnership with William H. Carey, formerly a professor in Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, and the law firm of Cowles & Carey is now actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in both Jersey City and New York. Mr. Cowles has achieved an eminent reputation at the bar, and during his entire career has maintained the respect and confidence of all who know him. He is a lawyer of ability, industry, and unimpeachable integrity. As a citizen he is thoroughly identified with the affairs of his city and county, and active and infiuential in every movement which affects the welfare of the community. He is interested in an important corpora- GENEALOGICAL 321 tion known as the Automatic File Alai-ni Company, of New A'ork City, of wliicli he has been for several years President. IMuch of his time has been devoted to the organization and devidopment of Clii'istian and chari- table work and especially in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association of Jersey City, of wliicli lie was one of the foundei-s and which he served for tive yeai-s as President. In jtolitics he is an ardent and con- sistent Republican, taking at all times an acti^'e jiart in jiolitical affairs. Mr. Cowles's first wife was Miss Sarah L. Persons, of ('oventry, V't., who died in 1.S71. Thev had two children, both deceased. In 1875 he married ELIJAH S. COWLES. Miss Sarah E. Woodward, of New York City, who died in ISfi:!. January 3, 1895, he married Miss Anna P>anta, of New York City, and they have one daughter, Sarah Banta Cowles. CHARLES KINSEY CANNON, for nearly thirty years one of Hoboken's leading lawyers and formerly Corjioration Attorney of the city, was boi-n in P.ordento'wn, N. J., Noveniber 12, ]84(;. He is the son of Carrit S. Can- non, a grandson of James Spencer Cannon, and a great grandson of Will- iam Cannon, all of whom were distinguished citizens of West Jersey. On his mother's side he is likewise descended from one of the old New Jersey 322 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES funilic'^ bcin- a or('at-STpa,t-grandson of John Kinsey, a £;reat-grandson of Jaiuos Kinsey, and a "randson of Charles Kinsey, whose daughter Hannah niaii-ied Gaiiil S. Cannon. James Kinsey was for some time Chief Justice of tlie Supreme C(mrt of New Jersey. Mr Cannon obtained his early education at Burlington, N. J. He was .graduated with honor from Yale College in the class of 1867, and then took up th(> study of law, graduating from Columbia College Law School in New York City with the degree of LL.P.., in June, 1870, and being admitted CHARLES K. CANNON. to the New York bai' at the same time. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in November, 1870, and since then has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in Ho- boken, Hudson County, where he also resides. In November, 1873, he was admitted before the Supreme Court as a counselor. Mr. Cannon has been in constant practice for thirty years, aTid during that period has tried a large number of im])ortant cases in the various courts of the State which have won for him a recognized leadership at the bai'. He is a lawyer and advocate of unusual ability, of marked judicial qualifications, and of keen GENEALOGICAL 323 discrimination and ready perception, and both in the office and before a jury displays those qualities which have long held him among the foremost legal practitioners in Hudson County. His energies have been devoted almost uninterruptedly to the duties of his profession, in which he has achieved eminence and success; yet he has been called upon to fill several important trusts and positions, among them that of Corporation Attorney, of Hoboken, from May, 1877, to May, 1878. He has been Vice-President of the Columbia Club of Hoboken since 1895, and is also a Director of the First National Bank and a Vestryman of Trinity Church, Hoboken. In every capacity Mr. Cannon has exhibited that public spirit and consummate ability which characterized his ances- tors, from whom he inherits peculiar legal qualifications and forensic skill. A man of the strictest integrity, he is universally respected and esteemed, and during a long and honorable career has maintained the entire con- fidence of the community. Mr. Cannon was married on the 22d of April, 1880, to Miss Agnes R. Her- bert, who died March 22, 1897. They had two children: Garrit S. and Agnes H., who are still living. CHARLES LUXTON, one of the earliest real estate operators in Hud- son County, was born in London, England, and came to America when five or six years of age, with his parents. The family settled in New York City, where he received his education, and where he learned and subsequently engaged in the business of ship carpenter and joiner. In 1850 he moved to Jersey City Heights, N. J., and at once became a large landowner and real estate operator, being one of the very first to make that business a distinc- tive feature in the industries of Hudson County. No man was more promi- nent or active in promoting the growth of that section, or in developing its resources and contributing to its prosperity. He secured the charter incorporating old Hudson City on the 11th of April, 1855, furnishing the money for the purpose out of his private means. He also organized the old Hudson City Fire Department and was its first Chief Engineer. He was a leading Democrat, for some time Tax Collector, and the principal mover in the inception and construction of the first walk across the mead- ows from the foot of Congress Street into Third Street, Hoboken. His liberality and enterprise were prime factors in building up the young and growing city. He developed the section formerly known as Luxtonville, from Bowers Street to the Patcrson Plank Road and from Palisade Avenue to Central Avenue, and opened large tracts of land in North Bergen, Clar- endon (Secaucus), and Greenville (South Bergen) as well as in old Hudson City. He was also heavily interested in lumbering and lumber mills in Pike County, Pa. Possessing great mechanirnl genius, he invented several important appliances, including a post socket, a machine for manufacturing peat into fuel, and others. He was a prominent, active, and influential citizen, a man of great foresight and sagacity, and a generous benefactor. As a charter member of Eagle. Lodge, F. and A. M., he took a deep interest in local Masonic matters, and out of his own funds built the lodge rooms. He also contributed liberally to church and school, and to all projects de- signed for the advancement of the community. He died in Jersey City Heights in March, 1889, at the age of sixty-five, and is survived by his widow, who was Susan Hopper, and who is now eighty-one years old, and by an only son, George J. Luxton, and three of his four daughters. 324 HUDSON AKD BERGEN COUNTIES GEORGE JOHN LUXTON, only son of Charles and Susan (Hopper) Lux- ton, was born in New York City on the 20th of February, 1844. In 1850 he moved with the family to New Jersey, and there, in the public schools of old Hudson City, received his education, which was practical and cal- culated to fit him for a business career. At the age of nineteen he associated himself with his father, and so continued until the latter's death in 1889, since which time he has engaged in real estate operations alone. Mr. "Lux- ton's experience of thirty-six years in the real estate and insurance business makes him the oldest operator in Northern Hudson County, and one of the oldest west of the Hudson River in Eastern New Jersey. Probably no other man in the State has been more heavily identified with real estate matters nor more prominent and active in developing suburban property, improving it for factory and residential purposes, and converting it into handsome homes, than has Mr. Luxton during the last ten or fifteen years. He opened and built up, in Jersey City Heights, the Leinau tract, a tract of 102 lots, between Nelson and Tonnelly Avenues, and two tracts of 82 and 95 lots each, representing a total valuation of about $150,000; the In- dian Spring property of about 90 lots, the Buse tract on Malone and Spring Streets, and the Van Amberg tract, 118 lots, on Central and Summit Ave- nues and Shippen Street, in West Hoboken ; Tyler Park, 145 lots, between Grand and Tonnelly Avenues north and south of Hamblet Place, in North Bergen, at a cost of .f 40,000; and Weehawken Heights in Weehawken. The last named tract represented property valued at about $400,000, and under the name of the Palisade Land Company Mr. Luxton converted it from a iield, overgrown with brush and trees, into one of the finest and most thiclriy settled sections of the county. The houses which adorn it cost from $4,000 to |18,000, and the whole was developed between 1894 and 1897. Mr. Luxton's extensive real estate operations are best illustrated by the fact that he has built up sections comprising about one-half of Jersey City Heights, one-third of West Hoboken, practically all of Weehaw- ken Heights, and a considerable part of North Bergen. His method has been to buy the land, lay it out into city lots, streets, and avenues, cause modern improvements to be carried out, and place the property in the market on terms which have enabled the workingman as well as the capi- talist to own and occupy his home. And in nearly every venture he has been successful. He is one of the prominent and enterprising, as well as one of the oldest, real estate operators in Hudson County, and is widely respected as authority in all matters pertaining to the business. His knowledge of land titles is broad and comprehensive, giving him the posi- tion of a recognized leader among his fellow-citizens. He settled in West Hoboken in 1893, and has offices at 470 Palisade Avenue, Weehawken, and 596 Palisade Avenue, Jersey City. Mr. Luxton has also been interested since 1898 in the North River Com- pany, in connection with real estate matters, and is a member of Doric Lodge, P. and A. M. In politics he is a Democrat. He has long been a prominent and useful citizen. His patriotism led him to enlist, January 30, 1865, in Company E, Fortieth New Jersey Volunteers, with which he served in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina, participating in numerous skirmishes in following up Lee's army, including Farmersville, New Store, Danville, and others, and being present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He was honorably discharged July 18, 1865, GENEALOGICAL 325 Mr. Luxton married Louisa C, daughter of Charles and Margaret Col- tier, natives of France, who moved to this country and settled in Jersev City. Of their four children two are living; George and Emily Marion. WILLIAM HENRY WILHELM has been a life long resident of Harri- son, Hudson County, N. J., where he was born on the 4th of November, 1853, his father being Peter Wilhelm, a native of Prance, while his mother, Mary Hasson, was born in Ireland. They came to the United States wlien young and first settled in Harrison, N. J., where they Mere mariicd. Dur- ing their long and eventful careers they enjoved the respect of all who knew them. They were industrious, progressive, and patriotic people, whose native character- istics impressed them- selves upon the commu- nity in a remarkable de- gree. Mr. ^"Mlhelm received his educational training in the public schools of Newark and Harrison, and after completing his studies engaged in the brewing business with his father, wlio then conduct- ed a large brewery in Newark. Leaving his fa- ther's employ, he ac- cepted a position with the Peter Hauck Brew- ing Company, of Harri- son, N. J., with which he has been actively asso- ciated during the last twenty years, and of which he is now Superin- tendent. The success and reputation of this well known corporation is due in no small measure to Mr. Wilhelm's eflBcient and energetic manage- ment. He has been iden- tified with the business from boyhood, possesses a practical knowledge of every department, and is thoroughly qualified for the duties which he has so admirably and suc- cessfully performed. He is one of the most popular citizens of Harrison, a man of broad and liberal attainments, thoroughly identified with the progress of the com- munity, and actively interested in those affairs which affect the municipal- ity and its people. He is a prominent and influential Republican, and for seven years served with marked ability as a member of the Harrison Board WILLIAM H. WILHELM. 326 HUDSON AND BBRGSN COUNTIES of Aldermen. His services in this and other capacities have won for him an excellent reputation and stamp him as a trustworthy leader. He is a prominent member of Copestone Lodge, No. 147, F. and A. M., of Kearny, of Harrison Lodge, No. 120, I. O. O. F., of Newark, of Lodge No. 21, B. P. O. E., and of the Arion and Aurora Singing Societies, of Newark, and as a citizen is public spirited, patriotic, and enterprising, and deeply interested in the welfare of his native town. Mr. Wilhelm was married on the 12th of May, 1889, to Tilley Haas, daughter of Frederick and Josephine (Bridgem) Haas, of Newark, N. J. They have one child, Hazel Wilhelm. ALONZO WORDEN LETTS, a well known lawyer of Hoboken, descends from some of the oldest families of New Jersey and New York. He is the son of William Henry Letts and Gettie Jane Clum, a grandson of William and Ann (Runyon) Letts and of Sylvester and Catherine (Hover) Clum, and a great-grandson of John Letts, whose wife, Mary Bennett, was the daughter of Uriah Bennett. The Letts and Bennett families were early settlers of Manahawkin, Ocean County, N. J., while his paternal grand- mother, Ann Runyon, was a native of Lakewood, in the same county, and the daughter of Richard and Deborah (Runyon) Runyon. His great-great- grandfather, Benjamin Letts, was the son of Nehemiah Letts, a soldier in the War of the Revolution and a nephew of John Letts, also a soldier in the Revolution. William Letts, the earliest known ancestor of the family in this country, was an original settler of Elizabethtown, N. J., and ever since his arrival the name has been conspicuous in the history of both the Colony and State. It is prominently mentioned in the Town Book of Middletown as early as December 30, 1667, as well as in the Congressional records now in the library of the New Jersey Historical Society. Their ancestry is Hol- land Dutch. The Bennetts came originally from England, and both fam- ilies were among the early settlers of Ocean County. The Clums and Hovers, who were also of Holland Dutch descent, have lived in Columbia County, N. Y., for many generations, and from the first have been promi- nent and influential in all local affairs. Sylvester Clum, the maternal grandfather of Alonzo W. Letts, was the son of Jonas and Gettie (Stahl) Clum, while his wife, Catherine (Hover) Clum, was the daughter of Jere- miah Hover and Amanda Waters. William Letts, the grandfather of Alonzo W., was born in Manahawkin, Ocean County, N. J., January 29, 1827. At the age of thirteen he left home and for many years followed the sea. In 1850 he settled in Hoboken, Hudson County, where he has since resided, being successfully engaged in the ice business. William Henry Letts, his son, and the father of Alonzo W., was born in Hoboken on the 13th of November, 1852, and has always lived in that city. He was educated in the Hoboken public schools, and for many years has been actively and successfully engaged in the ice business. He was a leading member of the Hoboken Volunteer Fire Department, serving for two years as A ssistant Foreman and for three years as Foreman of Excelsior Engine Company No. 2. In 1882 he was elected, on the Re- publican ticket. Freeholder from the Ninth District, a Democrat strong- hold, and for five years was annually re-elected to that office. This indi- cates at once his popularity and the confidence in which he is held by both Republicans and Democrats. In 1887 he was elected to the New Jersey House of Assembly, and being re-elected in 1888 served two terms in that body with great honor and ability. In 1892 he was anpointed Fire Com- GENEALOGICAL 327 missioner of Hoboken. In 1897 he received the appointment of Clerk of the Hoboken District Court, which position he still holds, having for three years discharged its duties with acknowledged ability and satisfaction. He is one of the best known citizens of Hoboken, where he has spent his life. Alonzo Worden Letts was born in Hoboken, N. J., May 28, 1870. As a student in Public School No. 2 and later in the Hoboken High School he developed a strong inclination for professional life as well as decided scholarly ambitions, and after leaving the latter institution entered the Law Department of New York University, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. On the 21st of February, 1898, Mr. Letts was admitted to the New Jersey bar, and at once began the practice of law in Hoboken. On the 22d of the following March he was appointed a Master in Chancery by the late Chan- cellor Alexander T. McGill. Mr. Letts came to the bar well equipped for the duties of a lawyer, and has already displayed those legal abilities and qualifications which win success. He is a member of Hoboken Council, No. 99, Royal Arcanum, and of the Columbia Club of Hoboken, and actively identified with the affairs of his native city. He was married July 21, 1898, to Marie C. Koch, of West Haven, Vt. THOMAS B. USHEE, of West Hoboken, Secretary of the New Jersey State Board of Taxation since its inception in 1891, is descended from sturdy Scotch ancestry, being connected with the family of which the Very Eight Eev. James Usher, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, was a dis- tinguished member. James Usher, his father, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, came to America about 1812, and first settled in Canada, whence he removed in 1860 to West Hoboken, N. J. He was a genealogist and writer of family history. His large and valuable library, comprising more than three thousand volumes, covered nearly every phase of the history of this country, and was I'egarded as one of the best and finest in its line in the United States. He died in West Hoboken. His wife, who also died there, was Harriet Birks, daughter of John Birks and a native of England, and their children were James Usher, of the Town of Union, a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1894 and 1895 and in the latter year the leader of the Democratic minority and the party nominee for Speaker of the House; Thomas B. Usher, the subject of this article; Walter Scott Usher, a Captain of the police force of West Hoboken; and Wallace Bruce Usher, of West Hoboken. Thomas B. Usher was born in Bonnsville, Hudson County, N. J., on the 30th of March, 1861. He received a common school education in West Ho- boken, supplemented his literary studies by a business course at Cooper Union, New York, from which he was graduated at the age of nineteen, and then became a clerk in the book store of Alexander Denham, of the latter city. Subsequently he entered the employ of Bradley & Smith, brush dealers, of New York, where he remained until 1890, when, having been elected a member of the New Jersey Legislature from \^'est Hoboken, he took his seat in the House of the A ssembly and served with honor as Chair- man of the Committee on Labor and Industries and as a member of the Eevision Committee and of the Committee on Towns and Townships. In 1891 he served a second term and held the same positions on those commit- tees. Mr. Usher had long made a serious study of those vital problems which affect the welfare and liberty of the people. His studies and observa- tions were along original lines, principally in the field of moral and muni- 328 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES cipal reforms, and on entering the Legislature he at once took a promi- nent part, not only in the measures coming before rhat body, but also in 1he introduction of various bills, which soon gained for him a recognized leadership, especially in reform legislation. Among these bills was one separating prisoners confined in the State prisons on a basis according to their moral standing, and, although it was defeated, the measure attracted wide attention and received the support of the better elements of society. He also introduced a bill allowing a will to be probated during the lifetime of the testator, thus eliminating the chances of a legal contest and permit- ting the testator to see that his or her intentions were carried out. He originated and secured the passage of a bill authorizing the floating of the American flag on public school houses, another providing for the establish- ment and maintenance of fi'(-e rending rooms in different cities, and many others of equal note and importance. On the organization of the New Jersey State Board of Taxation in March, 1891, Mr. Usher was appointed by Governor Leon Abbett the Secretary of that body, and has ever since discharged the duties of the office with credit and ability. To him is due in a large measure the board's constantly increasing usefulness. Mr. Usher is a Democrat in politics, has served as a member of the Hud- son County Democratic Committee, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the entire community. He was married in September, 1882, to Dora Beegen, daughter of William and Mary Beegen and a descendant of old Holland Dutch stock. They reside in ^\'est Hoboken, and have two sons: James and Edward, both students at Blair Bresbyterial Academy, Blairstown, N. J. JOHN SEELEY, of New Durham, Hudson County, is one of the best known citizens of that section. He was born in Oxford, England, April 4, 1819, the son of Job Baker Seeley and Elizabeth Willis, his ancestors having been long established in the City of Oxford. When the present Mr. Seeley was a boy his father came to America, settling in North Bergen, N. J.. where he engaged in the shoe business. He died in New Durham in 1855, when sixty-three years of age. His wife subsequently died in Ohio. John Seeley was educated in the public schools and then engaged in the manufacture of shoes, in which business he was successful. Ele subse- quently engaged in real estate speculation, chiefly at New Durham, Hud- son County. For a time he was also engaged in the grocery business in Hoboken. He is a Democrat, and held the office of Town Treasurer for a period of twenty-one years. For a great many years he has also been con- nected with the Fire Department. He is a member of various clubs and so- cieties. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and a liberal supporter of church and educational interests and of all worthy local enterprises. Mr. Seeley has been twice married. By his first wife, Sarah House, of Schenectady County, N. Y., he has five children : Mary, Kate, John, William, and James. He married, second, Augusta Blythe, by whom he has two children, Frederick and Howard. GEORGE M. SNYDER, one of the most prominent and public spirited citizens of West Hoboken, Hudson County, is a native of Germantown, Columbia County, N. Y., where he was born January 29, 1842. He is the son of George W. Snyder and Margaret Rouse, a grandson of Samuel and Lydia Snyder, and a descendant of German Palatinates who settled in New York near the beginning of the eighteenth century. GENEALOGICAL 329 ISIr. Snyder attended the district seliools of ( heene ( 'ounty, X. Y., and the Ohiveraek Institute, of ("oinmbia County. lie became a deck liand on a steamer plying on the Hudson Kiver, and a littk^ lalec was tiit'man on tlie same vessel. At the age of twenty he t'ame to Xew ^'ol■]c City and engag'.-d in the produce commission business in ^^'asllington Mai-ket. This business he followed for twenty-eight years, being very successful. Tlu-ough his early steamboat experience he also became interesti'd in the j)roj he came to this country, arriving in Jersey City on the 6th of Septem- ber. Immediately afterward he took up his trade as carpenter and con- tinned the same until Maich, .187.5- On the 1st of May of that year he es- tablished himself in the liquor business in Jersey City and so continued un- til issl. when he became proprietor of the Court House Hotel, formerly Allen's Hotel, which he continued until May 2!), 1899. Soon after coming to this country Mr. Ruempler identified himself with the political and public life of Hudson County. He declined political j)refcrment until 1S95, when he was elected to the New Jersey Assembly by a majority of 4,417. He served one term in that body and gained a high reputation. In No\-ember, 1S99, he was elected Slierifif of Hudson County for a term of three years, his majority being 9,951 — the greatest majority evei" leceived by any Sheriff of Hudson County. Mr. Ruem])ler is a public spirited and patriotic citizen, deeply interested in the affairs of his adopted city and State, and thoroughly identified with its business and political prosperity. He married, in 1884, Elizabeth Landwehr, and has two children: Elsie and Minnie. J. WILLIA^NI GRIPFIX, Superintendent of the New York and New Jer- sey ^^'ater Company and a respected citizen of Arlington, Hudson County, was born in Washington, D. C, on the 28d of September, 1860. His an- cestors were Virginians, and for many years were conspicuous in the his- tory of that Colony and State. His mother's maiden name was Ja7ie Ander- son. His father, Dennis Griffin, served with the celebrated Home Guards at AA'ashington during the War of the Rebellion. Mr. (rriffin acquired his educational training in the public schools of New York City. He became an expert in matliematics, and early displayed a strong desire for a profession. After leaving school he took up the study of civil engineering, and from books and active practice soon achieved the reputation of an expert. That lie has put his broad and accurate knowledge to practical use is evident fronx the responsible position he now holds, that of Superintendent of the New York and New Jersey Water Coinpany at Arlington. He has discharged the duties of this important office with abil- ity and satisfaction. Mr. Griffin is a public spirited citizen, and takes a deep interest in every movement affecting the welfare of the community. He resides at Arlington, Hudson County, where he is held in high esteem, not only for his professional achievements, but also for those eminent cpialiflcations and personal attributes which distinguish the successful man. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and prominent in other connections. Mr. Griffin married Miss Hanna Engelsheim, and has two children: Wel- don Dominick and Herbert Lauris. JAMES HENRY SYMES, a leading resident of West New York, Hudson County, and for many years a Captain in the National Guard of New Jersey, was b(un in Somersetshire, England, April 21, 1847, being the youngest but one in a family of ten children of James Symes and Jane Dally. His father was a carpenter. His mother was the daughter of John Dally and a sister of William Dally, the founder of what was called Dallytown on Union Hill, the place being named in honor of him. In 1849 the family started for America in a stanch sailing vessel. When HUDSON AND BBItcJEN COUNTIES 337 off the cove of Toi-k, Ireland, the shiji was wrecked, and Captain Svnies's father, his twin l.rotliei- Henry, another bi-dlhei- Albert, and a sister' J^^llen died dnring- tlie trip, v.hicli lasted fonr nionlhs. Undaunted, however, by this terrible disaster, which iiiclnded also the loss of nearly all their goods, the brave mother contlnned the \oyage, arri\ing in New York January 17, 1850, with her renuiining seven childreji: John Symes, now of Elniira, N. Y.; Louisa, wife of Jose[ih Stetfens, of Saciamento, Cal.; Ennua, wife of Will- iam W. AVhitman, of Oakland, t"al.; Cecelia Symes, also of Oakland; Aaron Symes, of ('alifomia ; and Sarah, who died in ISSS. ^Vrri\-ing in this country, with scarcely a friend or ac(piaintance, and bereft of her husband JAMES H. SYMES. and three children under circumstances at once sudden and sad, the mother lost no time in establishing a home for her family in what is now 1he Town of T'nion, then North Bergen, X. J. She died there in Se])tember, 1881, aged seventy-four. Hei- life w;is oJie of great self-saci'itice, of genuine hero- ism, and in e^cry respect exeni[)lary. The manner in which she reared her fatherless family attests the goodness and purity of her character. Captain Symes was edurated in the jiublic scho(ds of the Town of Union and at the Free Academy in New York City, and at the age of seventeen entered a New York l;'-oker"s offiee, remaining there from ISCL! to 1867. 338 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES He was then made teller of the New "^"ork Gold Exchange Bank, an insti- tution doiii^ a gold clearing honse and banking business, and continued in lliat cajtacity until after the memorable Black Friday of September, 1869. This experience has been of inestimable ralue to Captain Symes, and is one that he regards with peculiar satisfaction. It enabled him to acquire a broad and liberal knowledge of general business matters as well as of the intricacies of banking, and by strict industry and perseveiance he gained an honorable record. His fondness and skill in mathematics made him an expert, while his ability and sound judgment attracted no little attention. The panic of tS":',, however, turned the course of his life into channels outside of banking, and, becoming active in political affairs as a member of the Democratic party, he served as Town Clerk of the Town of Union for three terms between 1S71 and 1S76. He was also Town Recorder for two years and a .Justice of the Teace. About 1S78 he entered the office of Speelman & Bruch, map jiublishers of Hoboken, and assisted them on the surveys and in the jtublication of maps for New York City and Hudson County for tliree years. He not only did much of the selling, but also acted as financial man and confidential clerk. In 1881 he purchased property in West Xew York, Hudson County, and took up his permanent residence there, and there, in September, 1882, he established a lumber yard and at once entered upon an energetic business. He was successful from the flrst. Starting on a modest scale, he gradually and steadily built up an immense trade, aggregating over fl()0,0(l() a year — a sum not exceeded and i)robably unequaled by any similar business in North Hudson County. He conducted this business with uninterrupted success until the spring of 1S!)8, when, having accjuired other large and important interests, he sold it to the Dodge & Bliss Company, the present owners. During the decade between 1885 and 1895 he also purchased large tracts of land in the Towns of "\\'est New York, North Bergen, and "\\>ehawken, which he laid out into lots, streets, and avenues, with all the modern im- provements, and upon which he built manj' houses, factories, etc., thus con- tributing materially to the growth and development of those communities. He has developed properties amounting to over 1,000 city lots, and has built uji and sold over a quarter of a million dollars' worth of holdings. He still owns large properties, principally real estate, to the development of which he is devoting all his time and energies. With a number of other gentlemen he is activeh interested in a project having for its purpose the establishment of a gj-and railroad terminal, with coaling and other facili- ties, on the Hudson County Boulevard in North Bergen, at the head of Main Street. Captain Symes has always been actively interested in educational mat- ters, in politics, and in every movement affecting the futui-e of his town and county. He has always been one of the most generous and benevolent of men, giA'ing liberally of time and ineans to every worthy object. Though often urged to accept public office he has generally declined to do so. on account of engrossing business cares, yet he has never failed to dischai'ge with promptness and fidelity all the duties of a citizen. In ]SiHi-!t7 he was a prominent nvmber of the Board of Council of AYest New York, being the only Democrat in that body. He has also been a delegate to many town, county, disti-ict, and State Democratic conventions. He has been especially prominent in the National Guard of New Jersey and in rifle practice, bei/ng widely known as an expert marksman. In 1867 GENEALOGICAL 339 he joined Company B, First Battalion, N. G. N. J., as a private, and was successivelv promoted to be Corporal, Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, and, in 1872, Captain, and served until 1877, when he resigned, the battalion in the meantime becoming the Xinth Regiment. He declined a Major's com- mission in order to take care of his company, which he built up, and which gained the reputation of being one of the best disciplined companies in the State. In 1878 and 1879 Captain Symes acted as Quartermaster of the regiment, and at the end of that period he took command of Company E, a position he was urged to accept to save and re-organize the company, v.hich had scarcely enough members to give it a standing. About this time the Ninth became the Second Eegiment, N. (!. N. J. He was Captain of Company E for about three years, and recruited and re-organized it, put it in good shape, and then resigned. When James A. Garfield was inaugu- rated President he induced the regiment to go to Washington, where it received the honor of being the largest and best military organiza- tion in line. In 18SS Captain Symes was persuaded by Colonel Edwin A. Stevens and the other officers of the Second Regiment, and by the members of Company B, to accept the captaincy of that company, which he did, although he had retired from the other command with the intention of de- voting himself entirely to private affairs. The company had run down to a membership of about fifteen, but under his able guidance it was soon re- cruited to its full quota and became one of the " crack " companies of New Jersey. Enthusiastic, patriotic, and popular, he gained the love of his men and the respect and esteem of his superior officers, and was noted as a good disciplinarian. In rifle practice he was expert and proficient. He was a member of the State team of ISSO, which won Ihe Hilton trophy, a statue of the " Soldier of ilarathon." This match occurred at Creedmore, and was open to every State in the T'nion and to the Ignited States regular army. In ISSl Captain Symes won the first prize — a rifle — a prize olfered by the Governor in a match open to all line officers in New Jersey, five shots each, the distance being from I^IMI and 500 yards. He has also won many other honois as an expert marksman, both in military and in private contests. He is a close student of natural history and science, an expert mathema- tician, and deejdy interested in all questions of current import, and has a large and valuable collection of scientific works. His travels include two trijis to California, one to the Yellowstone Park, and another with team through the entire Adirondack region. He is a member and Past Master of Mvstic Tie Lodge, No. 12:!, F. and A. ^M., and a member of Cyrus Chapter, No. 84, R. A. M. Captain Symes was married, April 10, 1S7.S, in the Town of Union, N. J., to Matilda, daughter of Henry F. Maacla'us, a native of Holland, and Ma- tilda, his wife, who was born in Germany. Jlrs. Symes was born in the Town of Union in IS."):;!. Slie died ^Nfarcli 1, 1892, leaving three children: Jane Victoria, wife of Arnold H. Eippe, of the Town of Union; Henry Fred- erick Maackens Symes; and Matilda Symes. Two other children died young. LOUIS DIEHJI. Jr., the well known ice dealer of AYest Hoboken, N. J., was born in that town July Ki, 1865, and has always resided there. He is the son of Louis and Lizzie Diehm, both of whom came to this country from Germany. Mr. Diehm obtained his education in the public schools of his native town, and, like most young men, found various employments until he was twenty- 34:0 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES live. In ]S!»() lie engaged in the ivc business, which he has continued with marked success to the ))r('scnt time, having his headquarters in AVest Ho- boken. He is an active, enterprising citizen, deeply interested in public af- fairs, and thoroughly alive to the needs of his town and county. For some time'he served as a member of the AVest Hoboken Town Council. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of other organiza- tions. Mr. Die'hm married Miss Leonie T. Thourot and has four children: Emilie, Lucy, Edward, and Harry. DAVID DAVIS, of Kearny, overseer of the Marshall Thread Mills, is the son of William Davis and Mary Morrison, both natives of Wales and descendants of old and prominent A\'elsh stock. He was born in Shrews- bury, England, February 1, 1870, and thei*e received his education in public schools. After leaving school he turned his attention to the linen thread business, and by energy and perseverance has mastered every detail, be- coming a recognized expert. In 1887 Mr. Davis came to the United States and settled in Kearny, N. J., where lie at once associated himself with the well known Marshall Thread Mills, of which he is now overseer of one of the departments. This position he has filled with practical ability and satisfaction. He is thor- oughly conversant with every branch of thread manufacture, having grown up in the business. Mr. Davis is an ardent Republican, and for some time served as Town Clerk of the Town of Kearny, where he resides. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the Independent Order of Foresters, of the Benev- olent Order of Redmen, and of the First District Republican Club. He married Miss Helen Connett and has one son, William Gladstone Davis. THOMAS JEFFERSON DOBBS, a member of the old family which gave its name to Dobbs Ferry-on-the-Hudson. is the son of Frederick Fowler Dobbs, who was born at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., in 1800, was engaged in the business of shad-fishing, and died at North Bergen, Hudson Ciinnty, Febru- ary 14, 1854. Frederick F. Dobbs's wife, Leah Carling, whom he mar- ried in 1836, died March 10, 1888. His parents were Jerry Dobbs and Jane Fowler, daughter of Vincent Fowler, of Dobbs Ferry, with whom Aaron Burr stopped for a time after his celebrated duel with Alexander Hamilton in 1804. The site of this duel is near the present residence of Thomas J. Dobbs, in Weehawken. Thomas J. Dobbs's maternal grand- father, Michael Carling, lived at Kingston, N. Y., and married Margaret, a daughter of John Bartholf. Force of circumstances compelled John Bartholf to serve the British during the Revolution, and he was instru- mental, while carrying powder, in defeating General Wayne's attempt to capture the block-house, just north of Guttenberg, on the Hudson, opposite New York City. Mr. Dobbs's paternal great-grandfather was a pilot and ship's carpenter, who served the patriot cause during the Revolution, building batteaux for Washington across the Hudson. Dobbs Ferry was named after him and his family. Mr. Dobbs's grandfather, Jerry Dobbs, was also a carpenter, and was killed by accident at Tappan, Rockland County, N. Y. The present Mr. Dobbs is a worthy descendant of this interesting family, and enjoys the highest esteem of a wide range GENEALOGICAL 341 of fi'iends and ac(iuaiiitanccs liirout^hout Ihulson (Jonnty and l)ey(Hul ils boundaries. Thomas J. Dobbs was born in Norlii liorgen TowTislii]i, now West Xcw Yorlj;, Hudson County, Mavcii 7, 1S41, and received liis edui-ation in llie public schools at Bulls Fei-ry. He worked with his talher until the hitter's death, February 14, 18o4, following the calling- of a shad-tishcrnian. After working for a time with others in the same business he established himself in ISdO in the business of quarrying pavement stones, \vlii!j, from the village of Gross- Felda. in the Grand Duchv of Hesse-Darmstadt, where she was born May 1, 1822. After his marriage Andrew Leicht {-} embarked in the butcher business at Hudson, X. Y., continuing successful 1\' for sixteen years. In IS.'^fi he sold out ajid came to New York City, and the following yeai' removed to Hudson County, X. J., where he puicliased a valuable tract of land west of Hoboken on what was then known as " Van ~\'orst Heiglits." On this tract, in the following year (18.j7), he built and equipped a large brewery plant, and with John Roemmelt, his son-in-law, began the manufacture of lager beer under the flrmname of Roemmelt & Leicht. The business was continued with varying success until the death of the jiartners. During the first twenty yeai'S of its existence the lager beer industry of the country was in its infancy, and Roemmelt & Leicht's products were known far and 344 riT'DSON AND BEUCEN OOUNTIBS wide. Mr. R^ieiniiiolt, who \\iis n viatiNC of Seliwanfelt, in Bavaria, died in 1884, and Mv. I;oiclit's deadi occniTed in 188.T. In his lifetime Mr. Leiclit was one of flie best Icnown and most i)r(imini>at men in llndsoii County. He took an active i)art as a Democrat in I lie |iolilical atfaiis of old Hudson (Jity before it was swallowed up by Jei-sey City, being twice elected Alder- man and once Freeholder of the \sai'd in wliicli he resided. He was acti^■e, energetic, scrupulously liom'st, and possessed sterling integrity, blended with good business cajiacily, wliich (pialities made him popular with and WILLIAM K. LEICHT, resj.ected by a large circle of his fellow-citizens. His widow, a lady of cheei-ful disposition and kind and matronlv instincts, survives him, having passed the seventy-eiglith mile post of lift-. The issue of the tliird' genera- tion of Andrew Leicht and :\raria Sender (all born at Hudson, N. Y.) are five children: Andrew E., born in 1842; Amelia, born in 1843; Charles K., born in 1854; William K.; and John ^f., boi-n in 18ri(;. Of these Andrew E. mari-ied (18.")2) T.ouise Miller and is a retinal brewer with two children m Chicago, III. Amelia married John Iloemmelt (now deceased) and has had ten children (now in Jersey City). Cliarles P. married Kate Mahoney ERRATA In sketch of William Keudel Leicht, pages 343-345, read as follows : Charles K. Leicht was born in 1851 instead of "1854" as printed (first date in 4th line from hottom, page 344). William K. Leicht was born October 4, 1853, instead of "October 1, 1854," as printed (4th line from top of page 345). GENEALOGICAL 345 and with four childieu is in Xewburgh, X. Y. John U. married Eugenia Veyresset and with two children is at Cleveland, Ohio. William K. Leicht C!), the snbjeit of this sketch, was born at Hudson, Columbia County, X. Y., October 1, 1854, and came -with his parents to New Jersey in 1857. He obtained a thorough education in the German academy at Hoboken, at a high (grammar) school in Xew York City, and at Columbia College, from which institution he was graduated, lie read law in the office of the late Attorney-General Kobert Gilchrisl in Jersey City, and was admitted to the Xew Jersey bar as an attorney in Februaiy, 1875, and as a counselor in February, 1878. He then formed a law part- nership with ('. B. Harvey, of Jersey City. A few years later this partner- ship was dissolved, since which time iMr. Leicht has maintained an oftice and successfully practiced his profession at Xo. 328 Palisade Avenue, Jer- sey City, making real estate law and conveyancing specialties. .Vs one of the executors and trustees under the will of his wealthy uncle, Joseph Eub- sam, of Stapleton, Staten Island, Mr. Leicht has been kept busy since 1890 managing a large estate, and for the past hve years he has been Secretary of the Rubsam & Horrmaun Brewing Company, at Stapleton, a position which requires much of his attention and from which he receives a hand- some salary. He is a great lover of travel, and notwithstanding his many business responsibilities has found time to travel all over the United States, Mexico, South America, the TN'est Indies, the Bermuda Isles, and through every country in Europe as far north as '' the land of the midnight sun." In 1900 he made an extended trip through Scotland and Ireland. He is sociabh' inclined and genial in his disposition. Extensive travel and ob- servation have made him an agreeable convcisalionalist. He is a member of but one club — the Berkeley, of Jersey City. He has never married. JAMES G. \\'ALLACE, senior member of the well known real estate brokerage and insurance Arm of Wallace & Limonze, of Union Hill, is the son of Lawrence W. A\'allace and Jlaiy (jolden. He has always resided in the Town of Union, Hudson County, X. J., where he was born December 3, 1865. There he received a public school education, graduating at the age of twelve. He then accepted a position as clerk in the banking house of James G. King's Sons, the widely known Wall Street firm which has since retired from business after a continuous existence of over a century. Mr. Wallace rose from office boy to a position of trust and res}»onsibility, and during the fifteen years of his connection w ith the firm handled millions of dollars, became an expert accountant and penman, and had the advantages of a thorough business training in foreign and domestic banking. The broad and valuable experience which he o))tained in that institution has served him in various capacitii's and brought him into prominence as an able, conser\ ative business man. In 1893 Mr. Wallace formed a copartnei-sliip with George Limouze, under the Arm name of Wallace & Limouze, and since then he has been actively and successfully engaged in the general real estate brokerage and insur- ance business in the Town of Union, their office being at 165 Bergenline Avenue. He is an ardent Democrat, and was one of the founders and or- ganizers of the Democratic Central Organization, of which he is still a lead- ing member, and which he served for a time as Secretary. He is also a member of the old Third (now First) ^Vavd Democratic Club, formerly Vice- President and now President of Columbia Hose Company of Union Hill, and a member and the present Advocate of Palisade Council, No. :'>87, Knights 346 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of Columbus. He was one of the organizers in 1898 of the Hamilton Build- ing and Loan Association of Union Hill, and is its Secretary. He is also an enthusiastic member of the Foresters of America, a Commissioner of Deeds, a JSTotarv Public, and a Justice of the Peace, which office he has held since 1891, having been re-elected in 1W»6 for a second term of five years. He was married. May 16, 1888, to Miss Katherine H. Walker, daughter of the late -James Walker, of the Town of Union, N. J. They reside at 20G Palisade Avenue, Union Plill, and have three children living: Katherine \A'alker, Ethel May, and Marguerite Mary Wallace. THOMAS F. BULGER, iiiciulcr of the Board of Aldermen and one of the leading manufacturers of Harrison, Hudson County, was born in Newark, N. J., March 25, 1857. His parents, John and Mary (Eustis) Bulger, were natives of Ireland, but came to the United States when young, and in 1854 were married in Newark. In LS58 they moved across the river and took up their residence in Harrison, Hudson County. As a boy Mr. Bulger attended the parochial schools of Newark and Har- rison. He not only acquired a good practical education, but developed a rugged physique, and when he arrived at man's estate he entered upon the career which has won for him both honor and success. After leaving school he engaged in the business of manufacturing wire cloth, which he has ever since followed, building up a large and successful industry. He stands among the leading manufacturers of Hudson County, and through his own indomitable efforts, applied with intelligence, united with skill and ability, has achieved an honorable reputation. His public life has been ecjually conspicuous. An ardent and enthusias- tic Democrat, he was for seven years a member of the Harrison Board of Education and is now (1900) a member of the Board of Aldermen, repre- senting the First Ward. His services in these and other capacities have brought him into more than local prominence as a man of ability, integrity, public spirit, and enterprise. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the (Catholic Church. Mr. Bulger married Ellen McPhillips. Of their eleven children eight are living, namely: Henry J., Joseph, Kate E., John, William, Thomas P., Jr., George, and May. Three — Charles, James, Mary Lizzie — died young. DA\'ID ST. JOHN, M.D., of Hackensack, one of the leading physicians of Bergen County, was born in Berne, Albany County, N. Y., in March, 1850, his parents being David St. John and Mary Johnson. His mother was of Scotch descent. He is descended from Matthias St. John (Sention), who came from England in 1635 and settled in New England. His grand- father, Noah St. John, moved to New York State upon his marriage to Elizabeth Waterbury, of y^'aterbury, Conn. Dr. St. John pursued a pieparatory course of study in the Albany schools and then began to fit himself for the profession of medicine, entering the office of Dr. H. W. Bell, of Berne, N. Y., and afterward the office of Pro- fessor James H. Armsby, then the leading surgeon of Albany. He took a course of lectures at the Albany Medical College, the Buffalo Medical College, and the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, graduating from the latter institution with the degcee of M.D. in 1875. Upon graduation Dr. St. John settled in Hackensack, N. J., where he has since resided, and where he has acquired one of the largest and most successful practices in Eastern New Jersey. He is not only prominent in •^ "s- -V K 3Si>tes - ■"»'-V-x GENEALOGICAL 347 the profession of medicine and surgery, but has also been closely identified with all matters of local or public interest. He was the first to realize the need and advantages of a hospital for the better treatment of a class of medical and surgical cases, and in ISSS was instrumental in organizing the Hackensack Hospital, one of the most useful institutions in Beigen County. While his energetic and untiring efforts in its behalf have been ably sec- onded by all classes of citizens, his indefatigable labors have been the primary cause of its success, and under his able direction as President of the Medical Board and visiting physician and surgeon the hospital has outgrown its present quarters and is being replaced by a much larger structure, which will be one of the best equipped institutions of its class in the State. One wing of the new building, consisting of two wards, will be known as the St. John wards. Dr. St. John having assumed the cost of this part. Another wing will be the Prank B. Poor wards, that gentle- man having given the amount necessary for its construction. Dr. St. Jolm is a member and former President of the Bergen County ^Medical Society, and a member of the Xew Jersey State Medical Society, the New York State Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the American ^Medical Association. He was ai)pointed by (Governor Griggs one of the managers of the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Morris Plains, and is surgeon for the Erie Kailroad. He also does a great deal of surgical work in the western portion of Bergen County outside of his hospital practice. Associated with him is Dr. A. A. Swayze, a graduate of the College of Phj-sicians and Surgeons (if Baltimore, Md. Dr. St. John is First Vice-President of the Plackensack Trust Company, a Director of the Hackensack Bank and of the Cas and Electric Company of Bergen County, and President of the Hackensaclc Heights Association, owners of a large tract of valuable real estate on Hackensack Heights. Courteous, dignified, and sympathetic, Dr. St. John has a<•hie^'ed marked success in his profession and enjoys the confidence and respect of his numerous patients as well as of the eniire community. He was married in 1879 to Miss Jennie Angle, second daughter of John H. Angle, of Scran- ton, Pa. They have three children: Olive (iraham, Fordyce Barker, and Florence Angle. CHARLES W. WYCKOFF, carpenter and buildei-, of West Hoboken, is the son of George and ilargaret Ann (Snook) Wyckotf and a grandson of Jacob Wyckoff, a native of Holland and later a leading farmer of Werts- ville, Hunterdon County, N. J. (reorge W>ckoff was born in Wertsville and followed the trade of blacksmith until the War of the Rebellion, wlien he enlisted in the Thirty-fourth New Jersey Zouaves. He ^\■as wounded in a skirmish near .Vtlanta and died at Rome, Ca., while in the service. Mr. "SVyckoff was born in WertsAille, Hunterdon County, N. J., October 1!), lSt8, an(i received his education in the adjoining County of Mercer, attending the public schools. He learned the trade of carjieuter in Hope- well, N. J., which he followed as a journeyman for ten years, principally in Princeton and Asbury Park. During the last twenty years he has been actively and successfully engaged in business for himself as a carpenter, contractor, and builder, beginning in Asbury Park and continuing since August, 1887, in West Hoboken, N. J. More than one hundred dwellings in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove and an equal number in Hudson County are the result of Mr. Wyckofl's energy and enterprise, and all bear evidence of his skill, thorough workmanship, and executive ability. He has also 348 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES erected mai)y other buildings of note, including the old elevated structure of the AVest Sliore Eailroad in Weehawken. He is an ardent and consistent Democrat, and during the past six years has served as a member of the Board of Education of West Hoboken, where he resides, having his home at 7lJ2 Dubois Street. In May, 1865, he en- listed in the Tliirty-fourth Eegiment, United States regular army, and for eighteen months was connected with the Freedman's Eureau in Texas, thus gaining an active experience in the great reconstruction problem. He then became a civilian, and remained there in all four years, when he returned North and took up the trade of carpenter. Mr. W3 ekoff is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. ISL, of Union Hill, of Columbia Lodge, No. 151, K. of P., and of West Shore Council, No. 1097, E. A. He is widely respected, not alone because of his prominence in contracting and building circles, but also on account of the active interest he has taken in local af- fairs and especially in all matters affecting the public welfare. He was married June 29, 1870, to Abbie Britton, daughter of Stephen Britton, of Eocky Hill, N. J., the ceremony being performed by the late Eev. Alexander T. McGill, D.D., LL.D., professor in Princeton Theological Semi- nary. They have eight children: Sarah Elizabeth, Margaret Annie, Will- iam A., Charles W., Jr., Joseph H., Abbie, Louie, and May. HALLO WAY WHITFIELD CLOUSE, of Kearny, was born at Four Bridges, Morris County, N. J., February 21, 1839. His parents, Stephen Clouse and Susan Sliker, were both born and married in Morris County, and were descended from some of the oldest families of the State, his moth- er's ancestors having ser^^ed in the Eevolutionary War. Mr. Clouse received his education in the public schools at Four Bridges, and subsequently learned the carpenter's trade, which he still follows. He removed from Morris County to Kearny, N. J., when a young man, and for many years has been actively and prominently identified with the progress of that town. For thirty-three years he was associated with the Delaware, Lackawanna, and "Western Eailroad Company, holding a position in the carpentry and building department. He is one of the oldest and best known carpenters in Eastern New Jersey. Mr. Clouse has always been a Eepublican in politics, active and influ- ential in party councils, and foremost in promoting the welfare of his community. He was a member of the Board of Education of Kearny for nine years, and in that capacity rendered efficient service. He is now an election ofScer of that town. He is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. Ill, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Newark, and of the Knights and Ladies of Honor of the Golden Star, of East Newark, and in religion is a Presbyterian. Mr. Clouse married Martha Jane Bennett, daughter of Moses D. and Mary B. Bennett, of Mendham, N. J. They have three children: Warren C, Louis E., and Morris W. JACOB GUNSET, of North Bergen, is one of the substantial business men of Hudson County, where he has resided for more than forty-five years. He has had a successful career, is highly esteemed and respected in the com- munity, and is now engaged in farming and market-gardening. In politics he is independent, and has never cared to become a candidate for any polit- ical office. He is a member of the Evangelical Association. Mr. Gunset is the son of Philip and Elizabeth Gunset, and was born Feb- GENEAI.OOICAI. 349 niary 27, ISSH, in Alsace, now a ]iart of (ierniauy, bill at that time a part of Fvanee. Having been educated in the public Bcliools of his iiati\e jthice, he came to America in 1853, and originally settled in New York City, but shortly afterward removed to North I>ergen, wlun-e he has since resided. He married Mary (Jlock, and has nine children: Katie, (ieorge, jMaggie, Jacob. Elizabeth, Charles, Emma, Fred, and Mary. A substantial citizen in the community in which he lives, Mr. (Timset be- longs to the number of fiireign-born citizens who came to America out of love for its free institutifuis, and on account of their a])preciation of the JACOB GUNSET. great advantages which this country affords to the worthy and the enter- prising. Hi' was for nineteen years a School Trustee in N(irth Bergen Township. Hudson County, and"' was the prime mover in the establishment of I'ublic School No. 5. He has always been active in school work, was District Clerk of the School Board, and hired the first teacher in District No. 5. EDWARD WHJvIAM BEROER was born in Livri.ool, Onondaga Coun- tv, N. y., July 17, 1S71. His grandparents, Andrew and Elizabeth Berger, were substantial residents of Ettlingcr, Baden, Cermany, the former being 350 HUDSON AND BEliGEN COUNTIES a large and successful brewer. His father, Edward William Berger, Sr., a native of Ettlinger, came to Amei-ica at about the age of eighteen, and was married in New York City to Marj^aret Hensel. Afterward he moved to Liverpool, and with two brothers engaged in the salt business, then the leading and most promising industry in Central ^s'^cw York. He died at the early age of twenty-nine, in New York City. His wife survives him, and resides with the subject of this ai-ticle in Weehawken. Edward Vi'. Berger was educated in tlie public and high schools of New Yorlt City, graduating from the latter in 1883. He then entered Packard Institute in New York and took a full course in mechanical engineering, meanwhile holding a position with the Ingersoll Rock Drill Company, at that time tlie largest manufacturers of all kinds of mining machinery in the world. In the dual capacities of student and enii>loyee he obtained not only a theoretical but a practical knowledge of the profession in which he has achieved success. He was graduated from Packard Institute with the de- gree of M.E. in 1889, and remained with the Ingersoll Rock Drill Company from ISS:! to 1895, having for several years full charge of all inside detail work in connection with the machinery. Resigning this position in Febru- ary, 1895, he engaged in tlie machine, hardware, and plumbing supply busi- ness in the Town of Ujiion, N. J., where he soon made a record as an able, substantial, and enterprising business man. In April, 1896, he built his present store and home on the cornei' of Bull's Ferry road and Fulton Street in Weehawlien, and there he has continued his business operations on the same lines, building up an extensive trade. He conducts the largest business in the line of machine, hardware, and plumbing supplies in North Hudson County, and has supplied some of the heaviest contractors in con- nection with all the principal work in that section. Witli him are asso- ciated his half-brotlier, Frederick G. Baumann, and step-father, Frederick C. Baumann. He is possessed of excellent judgment, foresight, integrity, and energy. He is an ardent Demoi.'rat, a member and formerly (for one year) President of the Northern District Democratic Club of "^^'eehawken, a member of the North Hudson Business Men's Association, and assistant foreman of Clifton Hose Company of AA'eehawken. For three years he was a prominent mem- ber of the Board of Commissioners of Appeals of the Township of Wee- hawken, and during two years of that period served as its Chairman. He is also a member of the T'nion Hill Schuetzen (Jori)s, of the Zweivelberger Bowling Club, and of the Robert Davis Association of Jersey City. He is unmarried. FRANK H. DENNIS, of Arlington, Hudson County, N. J., was born in Pittston, Pa., July 129, 1850. His parents, John Dennis and Mary A. Ar- thur, were both born and married in England and came to the United States in 1819. His grandfather i\as James R, Dennis, a man of marked ability and enterprise. Mr. Dennis received his education at Wyoming College in Kingston, Pa. He associated himself at an early age with the Atlantic Cable Company and at the present time holds a lesponsible position with the Commercial Cable Company in New York City. He resides in Arlington, Kearny Town- ship, Hudson County, where he has for several years taken a leading part in jtolitical and public affairs. He has filled with acknowledged ability the office of Township Tax Commissioner, and in various other capacities has displayed sturdy qualifications and characteristics. Mr. Dennis was for GENEALOGICAL 351 several Tears ^eci-etavy of the Royal Areaiuuii and the Foresters of Ainer- iea. I'nblie sjjirited, patriolic, and enterprising, lie is prominently idenli- tied with the eojnninnity and enjoys the i-espert and esteem of all who know him. In 1S7:2 ilr. Dennis was married in Ni'W Yoric and has two children; Frank H.. Jr., of Denver, Col., and Mary Elizabeth. WildJAM rist(.i], England, to Janu'S Grecai. In ISGfi William Green left his nati\-e country and came to the United States, locating tii-st in (xreenville. N. J., and moving thence to Kearny, Hudson County, in 1X7:1. He had already recei\('d a good practical educa- tion in the pnl)]ic schools of England, and after completing his studies en- gaged in the bntchering business in ]!rist(d. This he followed for some tim(\ e\-en after coming to New Jersey, although his i)rincipal Imsiness was mai-ket gardening. ^A'hile iu Kearny he became one of the most successful marlcet gardeners of that .'■.ection. Later he gave up that business and cm- gaged in the business ot real estate and contract- ing, which he has since followed in Keainy with uninterru])ted success. Mr. Green is ono of the most enteri)rising, jiublic sjiiritcc;, and ]iatrio1ic citizens of Hudson County, and for a number of years has been prominently identified with its politic-il and business affairs. He is an ardent Kepub- lican, a man of great strength of character, and deeply interested in every worthy movement. For six years he served most efficiently as a member of the Town Committee of Kearny. He was Street and \Vater Commissioner WILLIAM GREEN 352 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of Keainy fnv two years, a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County for four years, a Director of the board for one year, and Assessor for ICeariiy for two terms. These positions he filled with marked ability and satisfaction, and gained the respect of all classes, irrespective of party affiliations. Mr. Green is a member of Copestone Lodge of Free and Accepted IMasoQS, of West Hudson, and of Fort Laurel Lodge of For- esters of America, of A rlington, and is also a communicant of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Green was mari'ied, September 20, 1S09, to Emily Sweet, daughter of Isaac and Susan (Lear) Swi'ct, of Bristol, England. They have one son, William Norvin Green. JOSEPH L. WILLIAiMS, one of the leading business men of Bayoniie, Hudson County, is the son of Jacob B. and Margaret E. (Morrison) Williams, and was born in Pittsburg, Pa., on the 20th of April, 1861. His parents were both born and married in that city, and through several generations inherit those sturdy characteristics which have marked their lives. The public schools of Pittsburg furnished the early educational advan- tages which Mr. W^illiams enjoyed and upon which he laid the foundations of his career. Subsequentl,^ he pursued a thorough preparatory course at the college in his native city, and then accepted a position as agent of the Allegheny Kailroad of Pennsylvania in Pittsburg. Afterward he became bookkeeper of the Ocean Oil Company in his native city. tii 1S81 he removed to Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J., where he engaged in the coal and contracting business with marked success. Four ,years later, however, he sold out this business and established himself as a truck- man and liveryman, in which business he is still acti\'el,y and successfully engaged. He is also Superintendent of ihe Kill von Kull Ice Company, of Bayonne. Mr. Williams has achieved success in every business enterprise. He is esteemed for those qualities which distinguish the successful man and en- joys the confidence of all who know him. In politics he is an ardent Republi- can, and in a quiet way has rendered efficient ser-\'ice to his ])arty and com- munity. For a number of years he was Secretary of the Board of Trade of Bayonne. He is a member of the Newark Bay Boat Club and of the First Methodist Church of Bayonne, and is actively identified with the best in- terests of the community. WILLIAM H. HTTBER, of Secaucus, Hudson County, is the youngest son of Frederick and Christina Hubcr, both natives of Bavaria, Germany, who came to this country in 1S45. They first settled in Jersey t^ity, but in 1853 removed to Secaucus, where they imparted to the community the sterling qualities of their race and to their children the substantial train- ing of thrift and industry. Their children were Cornelius and Frederick, Jr., both deceased, Elizabeth, Jacob F., Louisa (deceased), Cornelia (wife of Bev. Leopold Mohn, D.D.), Fredericia (wife of John H. Post), William H., W^ilhelmina, and John L. Mr. Huber was born in Jersey City, N. J., December 21, 1850. Two years later he removed with his parents to Secaucus, Hudson County, where he i-eceived his early education, attending the public schools, lie completed his studies, however, in Hoboken, and since then has been actively and successfully engaged in farming and market gardening in Secaucus. Through his perseverance, industry, and enterprise Mr. Huber GENEALOGICAL 353 has achieved a high reputation, is esteemed and respected as a man of un- questioned integrity, and is recognized as one of the best farmers and gardeners in East Jersey. He has also taken an active part in local affairs. In brief, he is one of the substantial citizens of Hudson County. He is a member of Excelsior Coun- cil, Eoyal Arcanum, of Jersey City. Mr. Huber married Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter of Abram and Lucre- tia Greenleaf. They have two children: Cornelius M., born August 11, 18S2, and Lucretia L., born June 17, 1886. Mrs. Huber, a woman of refine- ment and cultivation, descends from an old and well known American family, her ancestors being among the early colonists of New England. HEXRY F. COLLINS, of Granton, was born in Guttenberg, Hudson County, X. J., April 28, 1843, and is the son of John Collins and Ann Red- mond and a grandson of Henry (oard, and he reigned as a kin^' in the hearts of the children on ac- count of the many treats and jileasant snrprises wliich he contrived and carried through to enliven the drndgei'y of school-work, and make the thonght of schofil less ohno.xions to the little ones. In the councils of the Democratic party Mr. Kelly has been no less promi- nent and energetic. Continnonsly during the twenty-nine years since 1871 lie has been a member of the Hudson County Democratic Committee, and during the same tine has been an active member of the Executive Councils. GENEALOGICAL, 355 His influence as a political leader has been felt throughout New Jersey as well as in the City of Xew York. It must also be emphasized that :\rr. Kelly is distinctly the founder of St. Lawrence's Parish, Weehawken, which is now one of the most thriving parishes in the State. It was upon his suggestion that Colonel E. A. Stevens gave one-half of a block of land to this parish, while Jlr. Kelly's influence brought other gifts, in addition to his personal generosity. He was also largely instrumental in securing to Weehawken its handsome model school-building, a large and finely appointed brick structure. He is chari- table, and every Christmas during the last fifteen years he has seen that every poor family in Weehawken has had a good dinner. He married Annie Fouttrell, and has living four children of the seven that have been born to him. JOHN M. FITZPA TRICK, member of the Common Council of Hoboken and one of the prominent masons and builders of Hudson County, was born in Hoboken, N. J., on the lith of May, 1S70. He is the son of Michael and Ann (Bowden) Fitzpatrick, and a grandson of John and Margaret (Hines) Fitzpatrick and John and Ellen (Hamilton) Bowden, all natives of Ireland. His father came to America in 18;")8 and his mother in IS'if). They were married in New York City, and soon afterward settled in Hoboken, Hudson County, where they still reside. Mr. Fitzpatrick received his education in the parochial and public schools of his native city, and at an early age began life as a clerk with Toby & Kirk, stock brokers, of New York City, with whom he remained two years. Subsequently he learned the trade of mason and builder, which he had mas- tered at the age of nineteen. He then formed a partnership with his father, which continued until 1894, since which time he has been engaged in busi- ness as a mason and builder on his own account. Mr. Fitzpatrick has exe- cuted with ability and satisfaction a large number of important contracts, and has established for himself a reputation which stamps him as a man of energy and enterjjrise. He is a popular citizen of Hoboken, a prominent and active Democrat in politics, and respected in both social and business circles. He has served as a member of the Democratic City Committee of Hoboken and is now (1900) a member of Hoboken Common Council. His public spirit and pa- triotism have frequently been displayed on important occasions, and in every capacity he has faithfully and conscientiously discharged the duties committed to his care. He is a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, of the Knights of Columbus, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Hoboken Turn Verein. Mr. Fitzpatrick married Miss Ilonore Quinn, and they have five children : Mary, Ellen, John, Anne, and Cecelia. WILLIAM T. HOWE, a well known coal merchant of Kearny, N. J., is the son of John Howe and Esther Jane Somerville and a grandson of Will- iam and Margaret (Pollock) Howe. His ancestors on both sides came to this country from Ireland. He was born in Harrison, Hudson County, on the 19th of June, 1854, and there received his education. Afterward he was for twenty-three j aars a bookkeeper for different concerns and in that capacity gained a broad and practical knowledge of business affairs. In 356 HUDSON AND BBIUJEN COUNTIES 18t)-l lie cnniigcd iu tiu' coal, ice, and wood business in Kearny, and has since bnilt up a large and successful trade in that line. Sir. Howe was for some time a member of the First Infantry Regiment, New -lersey State Militia, receiving an honorable discharge. He is a Prohibi- tionist in jiolitics and is now serving as a Justice of the Peace. He is a mem- ber of the Knights of P\thias, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the Temj.le of Honor, of the United Order of the Golden Cross, of the New Jersey Coal Dealers' Association, and of the Presbyterian <'hurch, and was one ot the founders and for many years an enthusiastic member of the Kearny Fire DeTiartmeut. WILLIAM T. HOWE. Mr. Howe married Mattie D. Wilbur, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Doty) Wilbur, and has five children: Ida Somerville, Essie J., George T., Clarence D., and Charles AA'. JAMES J. BO^^'E, a successful and well known builder of Guttenberg, Hudson County, and one of the j^rominent and inllnential leaders of the Democratic party in Eastern New Jersey, was born in that town (Gutten- berg) on the 30th of December, ISfil. His parents. Thomas and Ellen (Car- loll) Powe, were natives of Kilkenny, Ireland, and shortly after their ar- GENEALOGICAL 357 rival in this country settled in Guttenberg. Both were respected for those sterling and sturdy virtues which characterize their race. Eeceiving a good practical education in the Guttenberg parochial schools, Mr. Bowe engaged in active business pursuits, becoming a contractor and builder. His success has been the result of his own etforts. Many im- portant buildings in Northern Hudson County attest his skill and ability, while the esteem and confidence in which he is held by his fellow-citizens represent in a measure his popularity throughout his section. In politics he has been an ardent and consistent Democrat since he cast his first vote. He has been Assessor of the Town of ^Vest New York since 1897, and clerk of the Board of Education of Guttenberg for three years, serving in each capacity with ability and satisfaction. He has also been Chairman of the Democratic Town Committee of AVest New York. Mr. Bowe is regarded as one of the ablest Democratic leaders in his locality, and has rendered efficient service in the interests of his party. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and other social, fraternal, and political organizations. Mr. Bowe married Miss Mary Knight, and they have had seven children, namely: Katharine, Nellie, James, Richard, May (who died young), Angus, and Florence. PIENRY ANDES, of North Bergen, N. J., has lived in North Hudson County since he was six months old, and in various positions has contribut- ed to its growth and prosperity. His pareuts, Henry Andes and Theresa Morton, were natives of Germany, and from them he inherited all the sturdy intellectual and physical characteristics of his race. He was born in Paterson, N. J., June :>(), 1867. When six months old the family moved to West New York, Hudson County, where he obtained a public school education. At the early age of ten he left school and began to earn his own living, finding employment as a " reeler " in the Givernaud silk-mill at Homestead. He was a foreman over twelve other young uieii when only fifteen, and at the age of sixteen became a freight checker on the West Shore Railroad. Six months later, however, he began to learn the trade of mason and plasterer, which he has followed ever since with the exception of two years, when he was a special policeman at the Gutten- berg race track. In 1891 he engaged in business for himself, and was the first builder to erect a three-story brick house in NA'est New York. This building stands on King Street, near Vv'vt^e Avenue. In 1897 he built no less than thirty-three houses, some of which are his own property, and eleven of them were cottages at Highwood Park. Mr. Andes is one of the most successful contractors and builders in the northern part of Hudson County. He is thorough in every detail, energetic and practical in carrying out his contracts, and prompt in all he under- takes. His foresight," integrity, and sound judgment, and his rapacity for business, have brought him into more than local prominence. In politics he is an ardent Republican. He was elected a member of the North Ber- gen Board of Education from District No. 5 in 1891, and was re-elected in 1893 and again in 1894, the last time for a term of three years, receiving :'.SS out of the 401 votes cast. He was one of the principal organizers and the first Foreman of the Am.erican Hose Company of North Bergen, which he has served as Treasurer, and is a member of the Germania Schuetzen- bund, Sergeant of the First Battalion of New Jersey, and a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and of the Merry Owls. 358 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES He W.1S mai-i-ied, Fel)]-iiai-y 21, 1S!»;5, to Miss Sojihia Meiikcl, of West New York. They have two cliildi-eii : Henry, Jr., and (JeHrnde, and reside on Robert Street, North ISer'gen. CHARLES SINOKR, Ju., Town Ok-rk of the Town of Union, is the son of Ohai-les Singer, Sr., and Caroline Kiefer, and a jjrandson of Oeorge and Catherine Kiefer, liotli natives of Cerniaiiy, wlio settled in Bnffalo, New York, nioi'e tlian sixty .\ears a.u'o. For tliree genei-ations the family has held high rank anioni;' oiii' most indiistrions, honoi'ed, and respected Ger- F " "" i ^1 J ) :'^^HH ^ M 1 W CHARLES SINGER, Jfl. man American citizens. His father. Charles, was for many years a noted chef, holding resiionsibh- p-isiliojis in some of the leading hotels in this conntry, including the famous Astor Honse of New York. He is now re- tired, living in Union Hill, (ieorge Kiefer was a non-commissioned officer in the Civil War, enlisting in a regiment raised in Jiuffalo, and died there in 1877. Mr. Singer was born on Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J., July !?< 1868. There his parents have resided for over thii-fy-two years', and the property owned by his father, at the corner of Palisade Avenue and Frank- GENEALOGICAL 359 lin Street, was the scene of the first mass meeting held for the purpose of hearing the town charter publicly read. When Charles was three years old the family moved to Utica, N. Y. Later they lived in Syracuse and in Buffalo in that State, and in San Francisco, Cal., but when he was eleven years of age they returned to Union Hill, N. J., where they have since re- mained. Mr. Singer was graduated with honor from the public schools of his native town in 1882, and also attended a private school, developing in these institutions a naturally bright and quick intellect, and, despite his fun-loving disposition, being always studious and observing. After leav- ing school he entered the employ of the great silk manufacturing firm of Givernaud Brothers, where he remained fourteen years. During the greater part of this period he held a most responsible position as one of the man- aging clerks of the concern. He has been a member of the Democratic Town General Committee since he attained his majority (1880), and for five years he has been Presi- dent of the First (old Third) ^^'ard Democratic Club of the Town of Union. He was also an organizer and the flist Secretary and is still a member of the Democratic Central Organization. In politics he has always been a leader of recognized ability, but never sought oiifice. He declined all politi- cal preferment until April, 1896, when he was urged to accept the nomina- tion for Town Clerk, which he did, though much against his wishes. He was elected by a large majority, and in April, 1899, was re-elected for a second term of three years without opposition. In accepting this oflEice he sacrificed, in a measure, the bright and promising prospects which ap- peared open for him in a business career, but the selection of him as a can- didate has more than justified the wisdom of the choice. He has con- ducted the town's affairs in a thorough, business-like manner, creditable to himself and his constituents, and most satisfactory to all classes of citi- zens irrespective of party. With characteristic energy and application he entered upon his duties as Town Clerk, which he has discharged for more than four years with great fidelity and honor. He has proven himself more than equal to his task, and is acknowledged to be one of the best clerks the Town of Union ever had. Though a young man, Mr. Singer has achieved a high reputation for ability and perseverance. He is a public sjiirited citizen, imbued with an exalted sense of patriotism and progressiveness, and by action and example has exerted a wholesome influence in the community, whose respect and confidence he enjoys to the utmost. He is one of the most popular and best known men, not onlj in his town, but in Hudson County. He was one of the principal organizers of Palisade Council, Knights of Columbus, of Union Hill, and was chosen its first Grand Knight, which office he still holds. He is also an honorary member of St. Paul's Lyceum of Jersey City Heights, and a leading member of the Emil Groth Association, of the John J. Eagan Association, of the Union Hill Turn Verein, of the All Bees Bowl- ing Club, and of the Hamilton Wheelmen. Being an expert accountant, he is or has been an officer in most of these bodies. He has proven his efficiency in every capacity, and is justly recognized as one of the ablest accountants as well as one of the most popular young men in Hudson County. He is unmarried. JOHN P. WILHELM, one of the leading market gardeners of Hudson County, residing in Kearny, was born in Harrison, N. J., May 16, 1857. His parents, Peter and Mary (Hasson) Wilhelm, were natives of Germany, and, 360 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES like many other enterprising, freedom-loving citizens of the Fatherland, left that country and came to America. Settling in Harrison, N. J., they became respected and honored citizens, and exerted in the community a wholesome and enterprising influence. Mr. Wilhelm acquired his education in the public schools of Harrison, and there laid the foundation upon which he has built a successful and honorable career. He has been engaged all his life in the healthful occupa- tion of market gardening, and to-day is widely known and respected as one of the leading agriculturists of Hudson County. Although never aspiring to political offlce, he has taken a deep interest in public affairs, and in the community in which he has so long resided is honored and esteemed for commendable traits of character and qualities of thrift. He liberally en- courages everj' worthy object and has often been called upon to exert his influence in matters of importance to the community, a fact which at once attests his popularity and the confidence in which he is held. Mr. Wilhelm married Miss Jessie Van Emberg, of Harrison, a descendant also of German ancestry, and a woman of great energy and force of char- acter. EZRA K. SEGUINE, a prominent lawyer and citizen of Jersey City, was born at Delaware Water Gap, Slateford, Pa., on the 18th of November, 1858. He descends from a Huguenot family who settled at Seguine's Point. Stat en Island, on their arrival from France, and who represented all that is good in French social life. He is the son of AVilliam P. and Sarah E. (Kennedy) Seguine, a grandson of Jacob and Martha (Ward) Seguine and of Charles and Martha (Twining) Kennedy, and a great-grand- son of Jacob Seguine, Sr. Mr. Seguine was educated in the local schools of his native town and at Mt. Dolia Academy in Glen Gardner, N. J., and at an early age entered mer- cantile life in New York City. Subsequently he read law in the office of Charles E. Scofleld, of Jersey City, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in November, 1879. After the death of Mr. Scofleld in 1878 Mr. Seguine closed out his extensive bankruptcy practice, and since his ad- mission to the bar in the following year has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in Jersey City. In addition to his extensive law business in all the courts of the State he is interested in iron and coal mining properties in Eastern Tennessee and is the head of the Seguine- Axford Veneer Company of Jersey City and Harri- man, Tenn. Both as a lawyer and business man he has gained a high repu- tation. Mr. Seguine was married, July 30, 1884, to Emma C. Small, daughter of John Small, of Jersey City, who was for many years prominently identified with the Morris Canal in New Jersey. They have two children: Charlotte and Maude. JOSEPH FRANKLIN CROWELL, for several years Corporation Coun- sel of the Town of Kearny, N. J., where he resides, was born in New York City on the 17th of October, 1855, his parents being Gilbert Lafayette Crowell and Matilda Du Rie Allaire, both natives of New York City. On his mother's side he is connected with the Du Ries and Christies, two old families of Bergen County. He is also, on the maternal side, a lineal de- scendant of Alexander Allaire, the Huguenot, of Rochelle, France, who came to New York in 1680 and founded the Town of New Rochelle in West- GENEALOGICAL 361 eiester Count.T. The Crowells were among tlie rerv earliest settlers of tins State. Ihey came orioinally from Euoland and settled in Cape Cod, Mass., wlienre they removed to Xew Jersey and settled in ^^'oodbridKe, Middle- sex County, about IGT.j. They have been prominentlv identified with the development of the State and its history ever shice. Mr. Crowell's paternal great-j;randfathers, Edward Cro'well and Asher Fitz Ran- dolph, were Revolutionary soldiers, both serving in the Xew .Jersey State troops throughout the A\'ar f(u- Independenee. He is the ])ossessor of an interesting Revolulionary relic — a gold ring, presented to his ancestoi-, <;apt;un Ash^r Fitz Randolph, for a special personal seryice, by JOSEPH F. CROWELL. General Lafayette, upon Avhose staff' Captain Fitz Raudoljih served dur- ing tlie Revolution. Mr. Crowell's grandfather, .Josei)h Crowidl, who removed from Xew Jersey to Xew York in 1808, was a veteran of the War of 1812, and for many years lived in old " Greenwich village " in the corporate limits of Xew Yorlv City. Here in the old ninth ward, as it was afterward known, Mr. Crowell, the sul)ject of this sketch, was born. His parents moved to Arlington, X. J., in 1878. Having received a thorough preparatory education at iMount AA'ashington Collegiate Institute in his native city, Jlr. Crowell entered Columbia College and was graduated with high honors in 1878, standing sixth in his class, and with membership in the Phi P>cta Kappa fraternity. He then entered 362 HUDSON AMD BERGEN COUNTIES the law office of John Clinton Gray, of New York City, now a Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and was graduated LL.B. from Columbia College Law vSchool in 1880, being admitted to the bar of New York as an attorney and counselor in May of the same year. In February, 1886, he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey, and since then he has successfully practiced his profession in Hudson County, residing in Arlington. Mr. Crowell has taken an active part in the affairs of his adopted town, and for a number of years has been one of its leading citizens. He was Town Clerk of Kearny in 1888 and 1889 and Corporation Counsel in 1890 and from 1896 to 1899 inclusive. In these and various other capacities he has distinguished himself as a man of ability, integrity, and great force of character. He has achieved marked success in his profession and stands high as a lawyer and advocate. He has been a member of the Democratic County Committee of Hudson County since 1889 and one of its Executive Committee since 1896, and is also a member of the Eobert Davis Associa- tion of Hudson County, of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York City, and of the Columbia College Alumni Association. February 7, 1882, Mr. Crowell was married in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Miss Ida MacArthur, daughter of Heman MacArthur, of Kipon, Wis. They have four children: Mima, Gilbert Lafayette. Joseph Franklin, and Matilda Du Rie. RICHARD VEALE, of Kearny, Hudson County, was born in Cornwall, England, on the 7th of July, 1864. He is the son of Nicholas Veale and Lucy Esterbrook and a grandson of Richard and Nancy Veale and Nicholas and Mary Jane Esterbrook. Mr. Veale came to America with his parents in 1871. The family first settled in Morris County, N. J., where he received a public school education at a place called Mine Hill. Subsequently they removed to Maine, thence to the State of New York, and in 1885 to Cali- fornia. In 1887 Mr. Veale located permanently in Kearny, Hudson County, N. J., where he has since become prominent as a business man and public spirited citizen. In early life he learned the carpenter's trade, and while in Cali- fornia was successfully engaged in mining. For thirteen years he was asso- ciated with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company in the capacity of carpenter. In 1898 he engaged in the grocery and provision business in Kearny and still continues in that line of trade. Politically, Mr. Veale is a strong Republican, active in politics, and deeply interested in all public affairs. He was for seven years a Director in the Harrison Building and Loan Association, has served as Chairman and Sec- retary of the Town Republican Committee, and is Secretary of the District Club. He has also been a member of the Kearny Town Council, in which he served on the Ordinance Committee. He was a delegate to the State Re- publican Convention that nominated Governor Griggs, and was for many years a member of the Mutual Benefit Association (a railroad organization). He is Past District Deputy of the Knights of Pythias and Junior Deacon of Copestone Lodge, F. and A. M. In every capacity he has displayed marked ability, integrity, and enterprise, and is highly respected by all who know him. Mr. Veale married Sarah Bone, daughter of John Bone, of Mine Hill, Mor- ris Counly, N. J. They have three children: Sadie, Richard Clifford, and John Wesley. GENEALOGICAL 363 URIAH ALLEN, one of the oldest and best known business men in Jersey City, was born in New York City on the 6th of July, 1825, his parents being James P. and Mary Allen. On his father's side he is of Scotch and on his mother's of Holland descent and springs from some of the oldest families in this part of the country. Mr. Allen received a good practical education in his native city and from boyhood has been a very active business man. For many years he \\as a successful raerchajit in New York, conducting a large commission busi- ness and making an independent fortune. Retiring from that, he estab- lished himself in the furnishing business in Jersey City, which he cim- tinued for a period of twenty-one years. At the present time he is ac- tively and successfully engaged in the art business in Jersey City, having al« ays been identified with that line as a side issue. Besides devoting his energies to an extensive business Mr. Allen also took an active and influential part in public affairs, and from early life has been an enterprising, public spirited, and progressive citizen. He was one of the original founders and chief supporters of the Republican party in .Jersey City in ISSCJ, and ever since then has been intimately identified with its affairs and prominent as one of its acknowledged leaders. He has not, however, sought or accepted public office, preferring to devote his time wholly to business. For eight years he served in the New York State Na- tional Guard as a member of the Seventh Regiment, one of the most noted military organizations in the country. ilr. Allen married Susanna Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, an old resident of the Seventh Ward. New York City. She died in 1894, leaving four children : Halsey \V., Morris S., Horace G., and Jessie E. JOHN JOSEPH FALLON, Assemblyman for Hudson County, residing in Hoboken, was born in New York City, December 19, 1870. Ills father, John James Fallon, born November 12, islO, in County Roscommon, Ire- laud, came to America when twelve years of age. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 he enlisted in the Thirty-seventh Regiment, Irish Rifles, for two years, at the end of which time he received an honorable dischai'ge. He was engaged in many battles and received a silver medal of honor from Major-General Phil. Ke.irny, under whom he served. His father, John Fal- lon, who resided in County Roscommon, Ireland, was a prosperous leather merchant. He had several brothers who were grain merchants, one of whoui. :\!ichael Fallon, had three sons, one of Whom, Rev. Martin Xavier Fallon, was pastor of St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church at Wilmington, Del., for more than twenty-five yeais. He died in 1900. Another brother, Richard Fallon, a resident of New Rochelle, N. Y., is a well known con- tractor and builder. John Fallon married Mary Tumulty, of County Ros- common, Ireland. They were the grandpai ents of John Joseph Fallon, the subject of this article. The latter's mother, Mary Ellen Fallon, is a descendant of the well known Fitzgerald family, among which was her uncle, John Fitzgerald, M.D., of London, for many years a member of Parliament, and Rev. John Fitzgerald, of County Roscommon, Ireland. Her parents were Colonel Patrick Fitz- gerald and Mary Fitzgerald, of County Roscommon. John Jeseph Fallon, when not quite one year old, removed with his parents to Hoboken, where he has since resided. His early education was received in St. Mary's Paroch':il School, Hoboken, from which he was graduated. 364 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Ho liipii a( tended tlie public schools of Hoboken, graduating in 1885. He oVitained eniploynu'nt in a broker's office in New York City, where he re- mained but a short time, and then woi'ked in a wholesale drug house for a year. He was afterwai-d emjiloyed by the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany as a messenger, and rapidly advanced to the ])osition of receiving and delivery clerk in the Maritime Exchange office, which position he held until 1890, when he resigned because of ill health and a desire for outdoor em- ployment. He then entered the employ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York as an agent in the Hoboken district, which position he occupied for one year, when he was promoted to the position of assistant GENEALOGICAL 365 superintendent, which he held for four years. In 1892 he enrolled as a stu- dent in the Metropolis Law School, which has since been merged with the University Law School of the City of New York, attending the evening sessions and graduating therefrom in 1895. He was admitted to the Kew Jersey bar as an attorney at law and solicitor in chancery at the June term, 18;i5, and as a counselor in November, 18119. Ht' is also a master in chancery by appointment of the late Chancellor Alexander T. McGill and a member of the bar of the United States District and Circuit Courts. Subsequent to his admission to the bar the officers of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company offered him the position of superintendent, which offer was declined by Mr. Fallon, he having determined to practice law, and in February, 1896, he severed his connection with the company and formed a copartnership with ex-Jndge William E. Slcinner and Assembly- man John J. JIarnell, under the firm name of Skinner, IMarnell & Fallon. This partnership continued for two years, when it was dissolved. Mr. Marnell and Mr. Fallon thereafter formed a copartnership under the firm name of Marnell & Fallon, and they have offices in the Second National Bank building, Hoboken. ISb . Fallon has been active in politics for a number of years. In every political campaign for the jiast seven years his voice has been heard in advocacy of the Democratic party, but he never sought nor accepted office until 18!t!l, when, at the earnest solicitation of his friends, he accejitetl the nomination for member of the (leneral Assem- bly of the State of New Jeisey, and on November 7 of that year was elected by a majority which attested at once his popularity and tlie confidence in which he is held. In that office as well as at the bar he has dis])layed marked ability aud energy. Mr. Fallon is affiliated with numerous societies, among which are Hobo- ken Lodge, No. 74, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Hoboken Council. No. lo9. Knights of Columbus, Court Castle Toint, No. 54, For- esters of America, the Kobert Davis Association, and the M. J. Coyle Asso- ciation. He was married December 20, 1M9:!. to :\rary L., daughter of Batrick Kelley. of Hoboken. They have two children: John J. Fallen, Jr., and Mar- guerite Fallon. ADDISON ELY, a leading lawyer of Rutherford, Bergen County, and Capvain of Companv L, Second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, is the "reat-grandson of Captain Levi Ely, a hero of the Revolutionary War, who was killed in the battle of Itlohawk, and who is buried in West Springfield, Mass under a monument erected to his memory by public spiiited citizens in recoo-nition of his patriotism and worth. The family has been prom- inent in the Connecticut Vallev, and particularly in Massachusetts, for many generations, while a number of its branches have wielded a potent influence for -n)od in other sections of the country. Captain Addison Ely's mother Emeline Harrison, was the daughter of Seth Harrison, who was a cousin of Bresident William Henry Harrison, the grandfather of Bresi- dent Beniamin Harrison. This family has also been a prominent one in Western Massachusetts. , ^ ,. ,xt • ^ t:m ^ Onrttain Elv is the son of William and Emeline (Harrison) Ely, and was born in Westfield, 3Iass., Mav 23. 1853. On the death of his mother, in 186''" he came with his father to Bloomfleld, N. J., an aristocratic suburb of Newark, and here and in the vicinity he has ever since resided. He fitted for college at the Brooklvn Polytechnic Institute and at Phillips 366 HUDSON ANB BEBGBN COUNTIES Andover Aciidemy. It was liis ambition and intention to enter Harvard University, but circumstances compelled him to abandon a collegiate course and begin life as a teacher, which he did at the age of eighteen. He taught a district school at Connecticut Farms, Union County, N. J., aud subsequently became Principal of the Caldwell High School in Essex County, and during this connection, and afterward, he also studied law with a view of being admitted to the bar. In 1879, however, he temporarily relinquished this intention and accepted the principalship of the public school at Rutherford, N. J., which he filled with marked ability and satisfaction for several years, gaining a high standing for thoroughness and excellent discipline. Many of his pupils are successfully settled in the arts and professions in or near JS^ewark, and owe their first inspiration and early training to his efi'orts, and he continues to hold their respect, love, and confidence. Having thoroughly prepared himself in legal study, Captain EI3' was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney at the February term of the Supreme Court in 1888 and as a counselor in February, 1891, and has continuously and successfully practiced his profession in Bergen County. He rapidly came into prominence as an able lawyer, and by his untiring energy, industry, and careful preparation has won many notable victories. His practice takes him into all the courts, and has constantly increased, giving him a high standing at the bar and, locally, the position of a leader. He is an ardent and active Democrat, but has never sought nor ac- cepted political office, preferring to devote his whole time to his profession. He is always ready, however, to bear a loyal citizen's part in public and party affairs, takes a deep interest in all worthy movements affecting the community, and does not hesitate to condemn selfish motives or unworthy schemes. He is especially prominent in military circles, having been Captain of Company L, Second Regiment, N. G. N. J., since 1893, when he was unanimously elected to that office. Under his management and discipline that company has gained a remarkable degree of efficiency. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and of almost all the leading socie- ties and organizations of Rutherford, including the Masonic order, the Royal Arcanum, the Legion of Honor, and the Union (Mub. In 1874, when he was twenty-one years of age. Captain Ely married Miss Emily J. Johnson, of Connecticut Farms, N. J., and they have had seven sons and three daughters, all of whom are living. Their eldest son, Addison Ely, Jr., born in 1876, is a graduate of Columbia College, New York. For two years he edited the Bergen County Herald. He was graduated from the Law Department of Michigan University in June, 1900, and now is engaged in active practice with his father. ALPHONSE THOUROT, a leading plumber and the Postmaster of Taurus in the Town of \Yest New York, Hudson County, was born in West Hoboken, N. J., Febru.ary 25, 1860. His parents, Louis Thourot and Catherine Perenot, were both natives of France, coming to this country when young. The former served for a time in the Wnv of the Rebellion. Mr. Thourot was educated in the public schools of West Hoboken. At the age of thirteen he began life as an apprentice to the plumbing and gasfitting trade, which he mastered in some of the best establishments in ^\'est Hoboken and New York. In 1881 he engaged in business for himself in West Hoboken, but the next year moved to the Town of Union, where GENEALOGICAL 367 he continued until 1891, when he sold out. During this period he not only achieved success, but also gained a high reputation as a first-class plumber and gas and steam fitter, and canje to be regarded as a man of ability and integrity. In 1891 he assisted in the organization of the Union Granite Company, located at the " Old Ferry " in A\'est New York, and for about four years was its President. Under his able management that company laid the foundation of its present prosperity and usefulness. In 1895 Mr. Thourot removed to West New York and opened his present plumbing establishment, and upon the creation of the postoflHce of Taurus, on July 1, 1896, was made the Postmaster, which office he still holds. He was also Recorder of the Township of Union for five years and a Justice of the Peace for a similar period. He is a prominent member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 12.S, P. and A. M., of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Sons of Veterans. In politics he is a Democrat, earnest in his convictions, and active in the councils of his party. Public spirited and patriotic, he is esteemed for those abilities and virtues which mark the successful man. 5Ir. Thourot was married on the 24th of August, 1880, to Eleanore, daugli- ter of Gustav and Louise Fermont, of the Town of Union. They have one child, Emily. JOHN B. WILLIAMS, one of the prominent and enterprising farmers of New Durham, Hudson County, is the eldest son of John Williams and Sarah A. Saunier and a grandson of John Williams, Sr.,and Rebecca Smith. Of his paternal grandfather, John \Mlliams, Sr., but little is definitely known. He was an honored resident of New Durham, and is supposed to have been lost on the Hudson River. By his wife, Rebecca Smith, he had children as follows: Leah, wife of Henry Post; I'hoebe, wife of Job Smith; Mai-garet, wife of William Berry; John, Jr., who succeeded to the New Durham homestead; Ann, wife of Garret Van Giesen; and Rebecca, wife of John (ireen. John Williams, Jr., the only son, was a life-long resident on the family homestead, being born there in 1S(U, and dying there in 18S1. He was always a farmer, an old-lime Whig, and a useful, enter- prising citizen, universally respected for those virtues which distinguish an honest man. His wife, ^ho died ^May 11, 1S8(;, was Sarah Ann Saunier, daughter of :Mit(hell and Eliza (Vreeland) Saunier, of New Durham, and a descendant of Pierre Paul Saunier, a celebrated botanist who was sent to America by the French government to gather natural products of this country for transplanting in Europe; he came over with Andrc^ Jlichaux, a French botanist and trader. Mr. and Mrs. AVilliams had seven children, as follows: Ann Eliza, who married Henry H. Van Glahn; John B., the subject of this sketch; Mitchell; Angeline; Margaret, who married Bryant Stephens; Mary Emma; and George E. Of these only John B., Mitchell, and Mary Emma are living. John B. Williams was born December 15, 1836, on the old family home- stead in New Durham, Hudson County, on which he has spent his entire life. His education was obtained in the common schools of the neighbor- hood. After completing his studies he learned the trade of bookbinder, which he followed as a business, in conjunction with farming, until 1864. Since then he has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, building, and real estate, achieving eminent success in every sense of the term. He is re- garded as one of the best farmers in his section of the State. Industrious, enterprising, and practical, he is universally respected for those broad and sterling qualities whicii mark the honest man. The esteem in which he is 368 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Iicld is jittcsli'd by liis pojmlarity, and by the confldcnce reposed in his sound jiidgnicnt and nnini]ieacJ)aI)h' chai'acter. He is a man of the highest int(>grity, faitliful to every trnst, just and conscientious in all the relations of life, and modest and nnassnming, though true to liis convictions and fear- less in discriminating between riglit and wrong. A keen sense of justice is one of his strongest characteristics. He is a Republican in politics, but has never songlit iKilitical ])referment or piiblicity of any kind. On the con- trary he lias declined official i)ositions, though often urged to accept them, acc("pting only th" ])osition of t^tatc Msitor to tlie ^Vgi-icnltural College at New llrnnsvvick, N. J. While he adheres to party lines on State and na- JOHN B. WILLIAMS. tional issues, h.e is strictly independent in all local maters, casting his vote and influence in favor of those candidates and movements which promise the greatest good, and wliicli have the jniblic welfare at heart. Born and reared on the farm, and educated in the practical school of experience, he developed a strong constitution, gr-eat mental energy, and high ])hysical and intel- lectual abilities, and during a long and successful career has maintained the confidence of the entire community. Mr. "Williams was married in IStiO to (~iertrude Edsall, daughter of Sam- uel and Isabella (C'liristie) Edsall and grand :lang^'+'^" of John Edsall and Gertrude Lydecker. They ha\'e had four chil ''en: u u Walter AVilliams, GENEALOGICAL 369 who is engaged in business in New York Citv; Annette; Samuel Edsall Will- iams, deceased; and Sarah Isabell Williams. Mrs. Williams is a member of the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution. Her brothers and sister are John S. Edsall, Sarah A. (Mrs. Cornelius J. Westervelt, of Bergen County), and Samuel S. Edsall. The children of her paternal grandparents, John and Gertrude (Lvdecker) Edsall, were Samuel S., Hannah (Mrs. Joel M. Johnson), Naomi "CNIrs. John H. Brinckerhoff), Mary Agnes (Mrs. Samuel de Groot), Garret L., and Gertrude (IMrs. Isaac R. A'reeland). Mr. and Jlrs. 'SMlliams represent two of the oldest and best known families in East Jersey, as well as several allied families of prom- inence and distinction. WALLACE WHITE, M.D., of West Hoboken, Hudson County, N. J., where he is in the enjoyment of a large professional practice, and holds the office, in the line of his profession, of Town Physician, is universally re- garded as one of the most enterprising and public spirited gentlemen in the community. Although he has been engaged in practice in West Hoboken but about five years, he has become one of the best known physicians and surgeons in Hudson County, and has among his patients members of many of the oldest and wealthiest families in the county. Dr. White has estab- lished a wide reputation for skill as a surgeon, having had remarkable suc- cess with this class of cases. His work in connection with diseases of children has also been especially notable. His office is completely equipped, moreover, with electrical appliances for every form of treatment of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He also conducts a general prac- tice. He is enthusiastic in original scientific investigation, and is progres- sive and enterprising. In illustration of this trait it may be noted that he is the only physician in Hudson County who has equipped himself with a complete electrical outfit for taking photographs by means of the Roentgen rays, or " X-ray." He has succeeded in a number of cases, by means of this device, in locating bullets or other foreign matter in the bodies of patients, in cases where no other expedient known to medical science would have been successful. He is a native of Paterson, N. J., where he was born during the progress of the Civil War. He attended the public schools of Paterson and Prince- ton Preparatory School, and in 1893 was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons — the Jfedical Department of Columbia University. After his graduation he took a special course in midwifery in the Sloane Maternity Hospital of New York. Later he was in charge of the Outdoor Patient Department of Roosevelt Hospital in the same city, while he was likewise in charge of the Outdoor Children's Department of Bellevue Hospital. In 1895 he was the successful competitor among twelve candidates who engaged in competitive examination for the posi- tion of House Physician in Christ Hospital, Jersey City Heights. In this position he established such a reputation for skill that wealthy patients who had been treated by him at the hospital prevailed upon him to engage in private practice in West Hoboken. GUSTAV W. SCHOLP, ex-Mayor of North Bergen, Hudson County, is one of the most progressive and popular citizens of that community, of which he has been a resident since 1881. He is a Democrat, and has been one of the active leaders of the naHy and fjrominent in local affairs. He was a candidate for To- i' \itteema:" in 1892, but was unsuccessful in the 370 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES convention. He was elected a member of the Board of Education of North Bergen in 1894, became clerk of the board, arid, having subsequently been re-elected for another term, was made President of the Board of Education by his colleagues. In 1896 he received the Democratic nomination as Town- ship Committeeman, defeating in the convention the gentleman by whom he had himself been defeated in 1892. His election to the committee followed. Mr. Scholp was elected to the office of Mayor at the end of a contest which demonstrated his popularity, defeating Charles Pinnell, who had held the office for more than twenty years. Mr. Scholp was born in the City of New York, March 31, 1861, and is the son of Charles Scholp and Mary, daughter of Henry Barringer. He is of German descent. Up to the age of fourteen he attended the public schools of New York City. During the next six years he mastered every branch of the art of glass engraving, being in the employ of William Van Hofe, of 33 Murray Street, New York. During the next iifteen years, however, he was engaged as a salesman with W. M. Schwenker, of New York, dealer in brew- ers' supplies. He is now successfully engaged in business for himself in the same line. Mr. Scholp married Sophie Lehnig, December 2, 1883, and owns the hand- some home in which he resides on Hudson Boulevard, North Bergen. He is President of the Merry Owl Association, Past Master of Mystic Tie Lodge, F. and A. M.. and a member of the Elks of Waterbury, Conn., and of Hoff- man Lodge of Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J. JOSEPH SAUNDERS PARRY, who has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law at Hoboken, N. J., since November, 1886, was born in Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pa., April 8, 1857. He is the son of Thomas and Lydia (Conard) Parry, a grandson of Isaac and Mary Pai'ry and Jonathan and Hannah Conard, and a descendant of the Parry family who came to America about 1681, and who, being followers of Will- iam Penn. settled near Philadelphia. Both the Parrys and Conards have been prominent in the history of Eastern Pennsylvania, being from the first siibstantial citizens, and exerting in their respective communities a wholesome influence. Being members of the Society of Friends, their standards of honesty, integrity, and industry, as well as their purity of character and love of liberty, were moving factors in the general growth and development of the region and are still firmly implanted in local asso- ciations. Mr. Parry was educated in the common schools, at the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia, and at the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Millersville. from which he was graduated in 1879. Between 1879 and 1882 he was engaged in teaching in Pennsylvania. He pursued his legal studies in the office of Judge Joseph H. Gaskill, of Mount Holly, N. J., and remained there until his admission to the bar as an attorney at the June term of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1886. In February, 1890, he was admitted as a counselor. Mr. Parry entered upon the active practice of his profession at Hoboken, Hudson County, in November, 1886, and by close attention to business has acquired an honorable standing at the bar. Mr. Parry takes a deep interest in public affairs, and liberally encourages every object which has the welfare and prosperity of the community at heart. He is a public spirited citizen, a man of acknowledged ability and enterprise, a Past Master of Euclid Lodge, No. 136, F. and: A. M., and a mem- GENEALOGICAL 371 ber of the Columbia Cbib of Hoboken, in wliich city he resides. He was married, on the 31st of March, 1897, to Miss Sarah P. Willets. JAMES ALLAN, raeniber of the Board of Aldermen of Kearny, Hudson County, N. J., and formerly a member and President of the Board of Edu- cation of that town, was born in Lochwinnoch, Scotland, January 17, 1X43. His parents, Janu^s and Mary (Harvey) Allan, were both uati\'es of that place and were married there. Mr. Allan received his education in Johnstone, Scotland, and then learned the patternmaker's trade, which he has ever since followed. In 187!) he came to the United States and settled in East New- ark, N. J., whence he sub- sequently removed to Kearny, where he now re- sides. He is, and has been since his arrival in this country, actively and successfully engaged in business as a pattern- maker and carpenter, and to his skill and enterprise are due many of the finer buildings of this section. His work gives evidence of great talent. He has supei'intended the erec- tion of many important buildings, including one of the linen thi'ead mills in Kearny. Mr. Allan has not only achieved success and prominence in businass affairs, but has also taken an active interest in ]tub- lic life, and has filled several positions ■with characteristic energy and satisfaction. Before com- ing to America he served eight years in the volunteer army at Johnstone, Scotland, receiving an honorable discharge. He is an ardent Republican, a public spirited, ener- getic, and patriotic citizen, and for four years was a mem.ber of the Board of Education of Kearny, being President of that board two years. At the present time he is a member of the Board of Aldermen of Kearny, and is also a member of the Masonic fi'aternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the North Reformed Church of Newark, and in all the relations of life has acliieved both success and honor. November 4, 187.3, he married Miss Mary Gillies, of Glasgow, Scotland. Thev have three children; James, Janet, and Bessie. .JAMES ALLAN. 372 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES JAMES O'BKINE, of West Hoboken, is a son of the late Felix and Mary O'Brine, and was born in "V\'est IFoboken, N. J., on the 22d of March, 1855. There lie received a public school education. Felix O'Brine was a well known mason and builder, and after leaving school James associated him- self with his father and mastered every detail of the trade. T'jiou the death of his father, in 1.8S0, he succeeded to the business, which he has successfully conducted to the jireseut time. Among the buildings which he has erected, or assisted to erect, and which stand as monuments to his skill and industry, may be mentioned Public School No. .1, Hoboken, and the Fritz Eeuter Home for Aged and Infirm People in Schuetzen Park, North Bergen. Many other prominent buildings in Hoboken and vicinity have also been erected by him. Mr. O'Brine is a public spirited and enterprising citizen, a prom- inen1 Democrat, and one of the leading citizens of West Hoboken. VALENTINE DENZER, of AVest Hoboken, was born in Manheim, Ba- varia, Germany. September 18, 1834, the son of Valentine Denzer, Sr., born September 29, 1799, and Elizabeth Becker, his wife, and a grandson of Al- binus Denzer. In Novf mber, 1834, he was brought by his parents to Amer- ica, and for nearly three years the family lived in New York T'ity. In Au gust, 1837. they moved to Washington County, Ohio, but in the fall of 1844 returned to New York, retaining, however, their property in the West. The father was a miller, and in New York was engaged for six yeais in the grocery business at 500 East Fourth Street. In IMay, 1850. they returned to the old home in Ohio, where Valentine Denzer, Sr., resided until May. 1876, when he once more came East, and died in West Hoboken, N. J., Au- gust 23, 1878. His Mife died in 1884, aged seventy-six. Valentine Denzer, the subject of this article, attended school in a log school house in Lowell, Ohio, until he was nine years old. Afterward he attended the public schools of New York City, and when sixteen took a private course of study for the purpose of entering Columbia College. This ambition, however, was not gratified. At the age of eighteen he became bookkeeper in a large establishment at 57 Elm Street, New York, which position he held until 1854. In 1855 he associated himself with Sands & Nathans in the athlete and circus business, and continued with them and their successors — including P. T. Barnum, Barnum & Bailey, and others — for seventeen years, travel- ing from St. John, New Brunswick, to Denver, Col., three times in a buggy, and also from St. Paul to the City of jSb-xico with a team. He visited every State and territory in the Union, and being a close observer gathered an immense amount of information. His work brought him into c'ontact with all classes of people and enabled him to gain a liberal knowledge of the country, which, with his remarkably retentive memory, makes him an in- teresting and instructive conversationalist. Mr. Denzer became one of the best known showmen in the United States. After leaving the business he formed a copartnership with his brother-in-law, Valentine Schneider, and Charles H. Medicus, and opened a furniture store in New York City. The financial panic of 1873, however, forced them to retire, and Mr. Denzer re- turned to his old profession of bookkeeper, which he still follows. He is an expert mathematician, methodical and accurate, and his books are models of neatness. In 1875 he took up his present home in West Hoboken. , He is a member, a I'rustee, and a Past Master of New York Lqdge. No. 330, F. and A. M., and a member of Manhattan Chapter, E. V. M., of New York' City, and of Com- GENEALOGICAL 373 mercial Lodge, Knights of Honor. He served two years as Master of New York Lodge of Masons, and wlien he retired December 2(i, 1S!I:}, was pre- sented with a set of elaborately engrossed resolutions and a handsome sterling silver dinner set, consisting of seventy-two pieces, as testimonials from the oHQcers and brethren in appreciation of his services in the chair, in building uj) the lodge, and inspiring it with his own enthusiasm. Mr. Deiizer was married in New York, April 21, 1855, to Barbara Schnei- der, a native of Germany and the daughter of Valentine Schneider, who died in New York of cholera, and Christina, his wife, who died in 1869. They have had nine children, six of whom survive and reside near or with their parents in West Hoboken. GEOEGE VALENTINE DENZER, eldest son of Valentine Denzer, Jr., and Barbara Schneider, was born in New York City, August 21, 1858. He received his education in the public schools of New York, and there, on completing his studies, engaged in the wholesale manufacture of furniture. This venture proved successful. In 1872 he took up his permanent residence in West Hoboken, where, in 1881, having closed up his business in New York, he engaged in the retail furniture trade, which he has since con- ducted. He has one of the largest, finest, and most complete furniture es- tablishments in Hudson County, and is regarded as an able, enterprising business man and a public spirited, patriotic, progressive citizen. He is prominent and popular, highly esteemed and respected, and maintains the confidence of his fellowmen. He is a prominent member of Palisade Lodge, No. 84, P. and A. M., of the Union Plill Schuetzens, of the Zwiebelberger Bowling Club, of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and of other organizations of a social, political, and benevolent nature. Mr. Denzer was married, March 20, 1881, to Miss Eugenia Leuly, daughter of Jacob and Barbara Leuly, of ^Vest Hoboken. They have two children: Francis and Florence E. WILLI.VM J. WHITESIDE, of East Newark, N. J., is the son of George W. AA'hiteside. a merchant, and Eliza Feely, and was born in Belfast, Fie- land. February 11, 1840. His mother was also a native of that city, while his father's birthplace was Surrey, England. Having received a good education in the public schools of Belfast, Mr. AMiiteside came to this country in 1867 and settled in New York City> where he found employ m.ent with Stewart Hartshorn, the well known in- ventor and manufacturer of the celebrated Hartshorn window-shade rollers and the founder of the present Stewart Hartshorn Company. Mr. AVliite- side has continued in the employ of that establishment, having held various responsible positions, and being now foienian of one of the departments. He removed to East Newark, Hudson County, with the concern in 1871, and still resides there. Mr. Whiteside is a Republiiaii in politics and a Protestant in religion, and esteemed as a man of integrity, ability, and enterprise. Though giving his attenlion strictly to business, he takes a deep interest in all public mat- ters and especially in (piestions of both local and national importance, and his views and oi)inions are received \\ith respect and confidence. February 5, J 860, ^Ir. 'S'Sliiteside married Sarah Starett, daughter of James and Hannah Starett, of Belfast, Ireland. She is of Scotch descent. Their children are Lillian, Florence, ^^'illiam J., Jr., and Hazel. 374 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES JAMES KITCHELL ALLEN, of Kearny, Hudson County, was born in \\']jili]Kiny, Morris County, N. J., on the 20tli of August, 1855. His parents, Albert Allen and Sai'ah E. Loper, were natives respectively of Massa- chusetts and Morris County, N. J., and were married in this State. Mr. Allen received his educational training in the public schools of Morris- town, and subse(iuent]y entered upfiii a business career which has been both honorable and successful. He first engaged in the grocery trade. After- ward he became a florist and horticuHurist in Garfield, N. J. During the last fourteen years, however, he has been actively and successfully engaged HHH^B ^^^H^^^^^Bk^^gflH H mk JAMES K. ALLEN. in business as a florist in New York City, where he has built up a large trade. While Mr. Allen has devoted himself mainly to his large and growing business, he has at the same time taken an active interest in public aifairs and has served as a School Trustee of Kearny, N. J., where he resides. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of Triune Lodge, No. 159, Free and Accepted Masons, of Arlington, of La Mancha Lodge, No. 24, Knights of Pythias, of Newark, and of the Royal Arcanum, and attends the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. For seven years he served as a member of the Fire Department of Kearny. He is a public spirited, enterprising, and GENEALOGICAL 375 patriotic citizen, highly esteemed by all who know him, and prominently identjfled with the growth and prosperity of his adopted town. His suc- cess jn business is due to his great energy and ability combined with fair dealing, honesty, and integrity; and besides holding membership in the Florists' Club in Xew York City he is a member of the Society of American Florists of the United States, and is widely known as an expert in horti- cultural matters. Sir. Allen married Miss Lucy Smith, daughter of Tibbs and Marv A. Smith, of England. They have three children: Albert \\'illiam, George James, and Lucy Mary Ellen. CHARLES C. HENDRICK, M.D., one of the rising young physicians of Jersey City and since 1895 Medical Health Inspector 'of Hudson County, was born in Phillipsburg, N. J., on the 5th of February, LS71. His father, Christopher Hendrick, was the first engineer to construct and run an en- gine in Mexico, and for some time was head engineer for the Emperor Maxi- milian. His paternal grandfather, Thomas A. Hendrick, came to this coun- try from Ireland in 1S45, and was a close friend of the late Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice-President of the United States. There are still in the fam- ily many interesting letters written by the latter to the former. Dr. Hen- drick's mother was Julia Murphy, a daughter of Michael and Bridget (Dun- lavey) Murphy, both natives of Ireland. His paternal grandfather's wife was ilary Dunlavey. Di'. Hendrick was educated at St. Bonaventure College in Allegany, X. Y., at St. Canisius College in Buffalo, X. Y., and at Seton Hall in Orange, X. J., where he was graduated A.B. in LS91. The same college conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1893. Subsequently he took up the study of medicine and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in Xew York City, receiving his degree of M.D. March 20, 1894. Afterward he also studied law and was admitted as an attorney in Xew Jersey in Xovem- ber, 1897. Entering upon the practice of medicine in Jersey City, Dr. Hendrick soon gained distinction and was called upon to fill various positions of trust and responsibility. Since July, 1895, he has served as Medical Health Inspector of Hudson County, a position for which he is well qualified and in which he has lendered most satisfactory service. In 1898 he went to Cuba as an Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and there broadened an al- ready wide and practical experience in both medicine and sanitation. He is one of the ablest sanitary experts in Eastern Xew Jersey, and though a comparatively young man has already achieved a high position among the leading physicians of Hudson County. In politics he is a Democrat, and a member of the Eobert Davis Association and the 51. J. Coyle Asso- ciation. Dr. Hendrick was married, in December, 1894, to Agnes Nallin, of Brook- lyn, X. Y. They ha\e two sons: Thomas and Joseph. GEORGE H. RTJTMAX, of Kearny, Hudson County, is the son of Jona- than Rutman and Ann E. de Mond, both natives of Xew Jersey and de- scendants of some of the oldest families in the State, being of Holland Dutch origin. Mr. Rutman was born in Raritan, X. J., on the 16th of Octo- ber, 1852, but received his education in the public schools of Elizabeth, whither his parents moved when he was young. Since leaving school he has been engaged in several lines of industry, the most impor|:ant of which 376 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES is tliat of ]iaiut('r and decorator, whifb he has followed successively for twent.v-S('\'eu years in Eli/^abetli, Newiu-k, and Keai-ny, N. J., having had his residence in Kearny since ai)out lS,s7. His long and active connection with this trade and the large number of important contracts which he has exe- (tnled have won for him an acknowledged leadership among his contempo- rai'ies. rossessiiig artistic (lualities of a high ordei-, he has achieved success and is known as one of the best iHiinters and decorators in Eastern New Jersey. In 3889 he erected his handsome residence on the corner of Bergen Avenue and Elm Street, Kearnv. GEORGE H. RUTMAN. In politics Mr. Rutman has always been a Keitublican. He served as Police Justice of Kearny during the years 1897 and 1898, but otherwise has declined political preferment, preferring to devote his whole time to busi- ness. _ Hr' is a menibei' of Ethic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the First Baptist (Jliurch, both of Harrison, Hudson County, and is an exempt fire- man of the Kearny Fire Department. He enjoys the confidence of the entire communitv. t. M; On the 24th of May, 1876, Mr. Rutman married Mary Ellen Lackey, daugh- r of James and Ellen Lackey, of Newark, N. J. They have six cliildren- abel, George, Herbert, Ella, Florence, and Garret Hobart. GENEALOGICAL 377 JOHN CONWAY, President of the Union Granite Company, located at the old ^^"eehawken ferry landing in Hudson County, is the son of Henry Conway and Annie ( )'Harrow and a grandson of James Conway and John O'Harrow. He was born February 2, 1858, in Renfrew, Scotland, and there obtained a public school education. Completing his studies at the age of fifteen, he entered upon the active duties of life as an apprentice at the tin- sjnith's trade, which he followed with marked success in Glasgow, where he had charge of a large tin shop. J3ut his ambitions led him to seek in America a broader and better field for the development of those talents which he has displayed in various busi- ness capacities, and which have marked him as a man of ability and enter- prise. Landing in New York City on the 29th of August, 1880, he entered the employ of the American Cias dieter Company, manufacturers of gas meters, where he remained twelve years. In 1892 he associated himself with the Union Granite Company as a salesman in the factory, and a year later was made Vice-President and in 1894 President, which office he still holds. This corporation has its office and factories at the old Weehawken ferry landing above Weehawken, in Hudson County, and is one of the largest and most successful of its kind in the United States. The company manufactures sanitary laundry trays, granite, slate, and porcelain wash trays and sinks, combination bath and wash trays, slate mantels and wainscoting, slate stairs, water closets and urinals, vestibules, wood mantels, soapstone wash- tubs, etc. jMr. Conway's genius is well illustrated in his slate tub and com- bination bath and washtubs, which he invented and patented, and which have gained a wide reputation. Under his able and energetic management the business of the company has steadily grown to extensive proportions and ranks among the leading industries of Hudson County. Its present standing and successful trade are largely due to his ability, sagacity, and unceasing devotion to the manufacturing and business ends. Mr. Conway was elected to the Board of Council of the Town of Union for the years 1891, 1892, 1898, and 1899, and during one term was its Chairman. As a Democrat he has been active and inliuential in party affairs, has fre- quently served as a delegate to local, county, and congressional conven- tions, and has been a member of the Hudson County Democi-atic Commit- tee. He is Chairman of the Third Ward Democratic Club of the Town of Union, where he resides, and was for three years Chairmah of the Board of Trustees of the Union Hill Fire Department. He is a meniber of the Knights of Columbus, of the Royal Arcanum, of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, and of the Columbia Hose Company of Union Hill, which he largely aided in organizing. In all these positions as well as in business affairs he has ex- hibited ability, sound judgment, and all the qualities which distinguish the successful man. March 26, 1882, Mr. T'onway married Mary E. Foley, daughter of John Foley, of New York City, and their children are Mary, John, Jr., James, Annie, and Joseph. ROBERT WATERS has achieved distinction in the twofold capacity of author and educator. Born in Thnrso, Scotland, May 9, 1835, he is the son of William and Alexandrina (Sutherland) Waters, and came to America with his parents in 1843, settling in Montreal, Canada. Though his father was a loyalist, and preferred Canada to the United States, the family of his mother, who was a daughter of Donald and Mary Sutherland [nee 378 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Innes), of Braalbin, Caithness-shire, Scotland, seem to haye been of a differ- ent mind; for two of his granduncles, John and William Sutherland, after sharino' the fortunes or misfortunes of the Pretender, Prince Charles, in the Rebellion of 1745, emigrated to the United States, and fought under Wash- ington to the end of the Revolutionary War, when they were mustered out with the rank and honors of commissioned officers. Mr. ^Vaters is not a little proud of these two noble kinsmen of his, one of whom, Jolm Suther- land, settling in Hamilton, Ohio, presented a tract of land to that thriving town for a park, which bears his name, Sutherland Park, to this day. ROBERT WATERS. William, writing from Philadelphia in 1797 to another brother in Scotland, speaks of the country as " becoming crowded," and of the best land as being "already taken up!" Many of the Sutherlands of Philadelphia and of parts of Ohio are direct descendants of these two Revolutionary soldiers. In his thirteenth year Mr. Waters was placed as an apprentice to the trade of printer in the office of the Montreal Gazette: and although he had previously attended three different schools, he owed, up to that time, his education almost entirely to his mother, who was a woman of superior character and fine intellectual attainments. At the age of fifteen youug Waters removed with the family to New York City, where he worked for GENEALOGICAL 379 several years as a printer in the offices of Harper & Brothers, Thomas B. Smith, and others. It was while working at his trade in these places that he imbibed a passion for study and literature, which he gratified during every leisure moment, devoting himself with assiduity to the study of languages and to the reading of good authors. He made, in this way, a considerable acquaintance with the best works of English writers, mastered the French and German languages, and attended night schools, lyceuiu lectures, debating societies, etc., of which he gives some account in his well known book. Intellectual Pursuits. All this he supplemented with a period of foreign travel, going to Europe in his twenty-sixth year, and spending eighteen months in England and another eighteen in France. The ex- perience he gained abroad, which marked an important epoch in his life, he will probably relate in a forthcoming work. While working as a printer m Paris Mr. Waters met a young American teacher of English who was instrumental in leading him into the profession which he has since honored by many years of useful service. Acting upon this gentleman's suggestion, that he apply for a post, through one of the Parisian Bureaux de Place- ment, as teacher of languages in a provincial school, he procured a position as -professeiir d'anglais at d' allemand at a large boarding and day school for boys in Saint Quentin, a manufacturing town in the north of France, where he soon found himself in a congenial sphere. His intimate knowledge of French, German, and English, and his natural ability and genial compan- ionship, won for him a warm place in the hearts of his pupils and assured his success from the first. He remained there one year, and then went to Germany, arriving at Munich in August, 1863. Five months later, with a mind filled with pleasant recollections of the art galleries, artists, and lovers of learning of that historic university town, he accepted a position as teacher of English branches in the Commercial School of Ofifenbach-on- the-Main, a manufacturing center of Hesse-Darmstadt, five miles from Prankfort-on-the-Main. Here, he declares, he first learned what teaching meant. The excellent methods, thoroughness, and broad knowledge of the German teachers contrasted strongly with the weaker and more superficial system of the French, and inspired Mr. Waters with profound respect for and admiration of German methods. Here he taught and studied for four years, learning a great deal of German methods of teaching, of German life and literature, and acquiring for himself considerable knowledge of various important branches of education. He looks upon this period as one of the happiest and most profitable in his career. Finding his duties, his oppor- tunities, and his surroundings so congenial, he relinquished the intention of going to Italy and Eussia, and remained much longer in Germany than he had anticipated. During the last year of his residence in Germany he passed an examina- tion in Darmstadt before the Grand Ducal Council of Higher Studies, which entitled him to teach in any public school in the Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt, of which Offenbach is the largest manufacturing town; but he never availed himself of this privilege. In 1867 he returned to New York City, where he taught one term in Dr. Gerke's German-American school, and, at the same time, gave lessons in a New York evening school. At the end of that period he accepted an advantageous position from the Board of Directors of the Hoboken German Academy, in Hoboken, N. J., as teacher of languages, history, and literature in that institution. Mr. Waters filled that position with eminent success for more than fifteen years, constantly enlarging his knowledge of the profession and aiding 380 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES materially in the prosperity of the school. Here, he says, he made the ac- quaintance of some of the best teachers he ever knew, chief among whom was the late Magnus Schoeder, who had studied in the University of Berlin until his twenty-eighth year, and who was deeply versed in Greek, Latin, metiiphysics, and mathematics, ^^"ith this eminent scholar and teacher Mr. Waters became closely associated, exchanging lessons with him for years, imbibing much of his enthusiasm for the profession, and finding in him the ablest teacher he had ever had. Mr. Schoeder subsequently became Director of the Hoboken Academy, and each year gave Mr. Waters a new branch to teach, which compelled him to enlarge and fortify his own knowledge in various branches. The two worked together in the greatest harmony, and in every difficulty Mr. Waters invariably stood by the side of his chief. Leaving French, finally, to other teachers, Mr. Waters devoted most of his time to English branches, chiefly in the higher classes, and to German by translation into English, with a view of making English clear by com- parative grammar. These years in the academy were attended with peace, friendship, and honor, and with a broadening acquaintance with learning and literature, which Mr. Waters now recalls with pleasure. His pupils, many of them, became prominent in professional and public life, and in- variably imbibed the enthusiasm, the laudable ambition, and the inspiring spirit of their able and esteemed teacher. Among these pupils may be mentioned Edward Russ, William C. Heppenheimer, and Joseph Wetzlar. In 1883 Mr. Waters was chosen Supervising Principal of the West Ho- boken public schools, which at that time consisted of one school with seven hundred scholars and seventeen teachers. Since then the local system has grown to four schools, 4,000 scholars, and 75 teachers, and under his able and energetic management ranks among the very best in the State or in the country. The seventeen years that he has devoted to these schools have been marked by the introduction of those excellent methods which he has mastered in a wide and varied experience, and by a growing efficiency in every department of education. That this is due to Mr. AVaters is a fact which he may regard with pride and satisfaction. He may, without ex- aggeration, be pronounced one of the ablest educators in New Jersey, and withal a scholar, an untiring student, and a progressive, patriotic man, in- spiring his pupils and his teachers with that lofty sense of honor which has characterized his whole career. His integrity, his public spirit and enterprise, and his eminent success as an educator have gained for him uni- versal confidence and esteem. Mr. Waters is also an author of some note, having written several books which have become widely known. Among these are: Intellectual Pursuits, Life of William Cobhett, Shakespeare as Portrayed by Himself, John Selden and his Table-Talk, Flashef< of Wit and Humor, and a capital edition of Cobbett's English Grammar, all of which have passed through several editions. He has made a number of translations from the French, one of which is entitled Magical Experiments, or Science in Play. Mr. Waters has also written for the Home Journal a series of chapters on " Culture by Conversation " ; for the Tiventieth Century a paper on the "Career and Con- versation of John Swinton " (one of his oldest friends, having worked with him as a printer in the fifties); and for Frank Leslie's Magazine an interest- ing paper entitled " How I Became My Own Landlord." He is a great be- liever in co-operative land and building societies, whose principles he has practically illustrated, and which he recommends especially to those work- ing for a fixed salary. Of late years, howevf"-, Mr, Waters has written GENEALOGICAL 381 comparatively little, his exhaustive duties as Supervising Principal of the West Hoboken public schools leaving him small leisure for this kind of work, for which he is so well fitted. In 1873 he married Helen, the eldest daughter of Edmund Perrett, Esq., of New York, by which marriage he has two daughters, Alice and Edith. JAMES CLARK, the well known contractor and builder of Union Hill, was born in Bathgate, near Edinburgh, Scotland, November 23, 1864, the son of James Clark, S)-., and Ann Swinton, and a grandson of John Clark. He comes from an old Scotch family, residents of the vicinity of Edinburgh for many generations. Obtaining a thorough public school education in his native Town of Bath- gate, he turned his attention to the carpenter's trade, which he mastered, and which he followed there with marked success until the spring of 1885. The field, however, was too limited for one of his energy and enterprise, and in that year he came to America. Settling first in Albany, N. Y., he sub- sequently followed his trade in and around New York City, and finally, in 1801, took up his residence in the Town of Union, N. J. Here he found an ex- cellent opportunity for the exercise of his talents, and at once took advan- tage of it. Identifying himself with the growing population, and displaying sound judgment and foresight, he soon came into prominence as a man of acknowledged ability. In August, 1802. he engaged in business for him- self, and since then he has become one of the leading contractors and build- ers in the town. A large number of private residences and other buildings in the northern section of Union Hill are due to his energy and enterprise. He has executed some of the largest contracts in Hudson County during the past few years, and has also had a large business in other cities. With a succissful period of eight years behind him, and with the confidence and respect of the entire conimunity, he stands among the leading local con- tractors and builders. He is a public spirited, patriotic, and progressive citizen. In politics he is an ardent Democrat. He is a member of Doric Lodge. No. 82, P. and A. M.. of West Hoboken, of TTnique Lodge, No. 34, A. O. V W., of Jersey City, and of Cosmopolitaa Lodge, I. O. O. F. Mr. Clark' was married, July 5, 1880, to Janet S. McMillan, daughter of Daniel McjNIillan, a well known citizen of Sydney, Australia. They reside on Fourth Avenue in Union Hill, and have three children: .\gnes Ann, Violet, and James Victor. ALLAN BENNY, of Baycmne, Hudson County, N. J., was born of Scotch parentage in Brooklyn, n! Y., on the 12th of July, 1807. He received a thorough education, took the usual law course, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in February, 1880, immediately after attaining his ma- jority. Since then he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practire of his profession in Jersey < Mry, residing in Bayonne. Mr. Bennv has for many years taken a prominent part in the politics of his adopted county and State, and is one of the acknowledged leaders of the Democratic party. He served as a member of the Board of Councilmen of r.ayonne from 1802 to 1804, representing the First Ward, and in that capac- ity' displayed abilities which have since brought him into prominence. At the expiration of his terra as Councilman in April, 1894, he became a candi- date on the Democratic ticket for re-election against the late William J. O'Brien, a former Preside ' of the Bayonne Common Council and Wilson 382 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES J. Haver, Eepublican. The election returns gave Mr. Haver 114 votes, Mr. O'Brien 260 votes, Allan Benny 259 votes, and " Benny " one vote. Mr. Benny claimed that the vote cast for " Benny " should be counted for him and contested the election before Judge Lippincott in the Hudson County Circuit Court. Judge Lippincott decided that he should have the " Benny " vote, but it appeared in the case that his father was a Scotchman and not naturalized here at the time of the birth of his son Allan, and the Judge decided therefore that Mr. Benny was not a citizen of the United States and declared Mr. O'Brien elected. Upon an appeal to the Supreme Court of the State Judge Lippincott's decision was reversed. Mr. Benny was not only declared to be a citizen of the United States by virtue of his birth in this country, but the election was declared a tie (29 Vroom, 36). Mr. O'Brien, who had taken the seat in the Board of Councilmen because of Judge Lippincott's decision, was forced to vacate, and it remained vacant during the remainder of the term. In November, 1897, Mr. Benny was elected to the General Assembly of New Jersey by a plurality of 8,62.3 votes over the highest candidate on the Republican ticket. He was re-elected in November, 1898, by a plurality of 8,34.5, and during the first two terms in the Legislature magnified an already high reputation and won the approval of both party friends and political opponents. Mr. Benny is an able lawyer, a public spirited and enterprising citizen, a man of integrity and force of character, and respected and esteemed. JOHN B. BRANAGAN, of New Durham, Hudson County, was born in the County of Bergen, N. J., September 25, 1856. He is the son of Michael Branagan and Ann Meehan, daughter of Charles Meehan and Amelia Stewant, who was a first cousin of the late A. T. Stewart, the noted mer- chant prince of New York City. He is also a grandson of Colonel William Branagan, a brave and distinguished soldier in the Revolutionary War, who won promotion for gallantry in the Continental service. Mr. Branagan was educated in the public schools. From the time he was eight years old he has earned his own living. At that age he began to spend his summers in boating, earning five dollars per month and his board. When he was sixteen he was mate of a sailing vessel, and a year later he had charge of a vessel with five men under him. At the age of twenty he began steamboating, a business he has since followed, being now classed as a pilot. He knows every part of the Hudson River and the waters around Greater New York, having spent his active life upon them, and is recognized as one of the ablest and most trustworthy pilots in the service. In 1885 Mr. Branagan settled permanently in New Durham, Hudson County, N. J., where he has been prominent as a public spirited, enterpris- ing, and patriotic citizen. He is a leading Democrat, has been an active and influential member of the Hudson County Democratic Committee, and in 1893 was elected a Justice of the Peace to fill an unexpired term. In 1895 he was re-elected for a full term of five years. At the beginning of both terms Mr. Branagan was appointed, by a resolution of the Township Committee, Police Justice and Recorder of the Township of North Bergen, which positions he still holds. He has also served as Chief of Police. He is a member and formerly an officer of the American Association of Master Pilots and of Sumner Lodge, No. 180, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Jersey City. He enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him. GENEALOGICAL 383 Mr. Piraiiagau was married, December 29, 1885, to Anna Caroline Teetsel, and they have two sons: ,lohn P>., Jr., and Edward Paul Clifford Branamm. CHARLES MeCEE, for four terms a member of the P.oard of Aldermen of Bayonne, K. J., and now a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County, was born in Ireland on the 12th of November, 1856. His parents, Daniel D. 3IcGee and Annie O'Donnell, were both born and married in that country. Mr. McGee received his early education in Ireland. In 1871 he came to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania, where he completed his studies, and where he was subsequently inter- ested in mining. The ex- ]ierience he uaincd in this connection ]) r o v e d of great value to liiiii in the active aflairs of !ife, and especially when he was subse(iuently connected with the oil business at Bayonne, X. J., where lie has resided for a number of years. He is now ac- tively and successfully engaged in the Imlel busi- ness in that city, ;ind in every capacity is liigiily respected and esteemed. Politically Mr. ilcCee has long been a promi- nent and intluential Dem- ocrat, an acknowledged leader in jiarty councils, and thoroughly identified with the Democracy of his section. He serv(Ml four terms on the Board of Aldernnm of Bayonne and is now a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County. In this capacity, as well as in all Ihe relations of life, he has dis- jtlayed ability, enei'gy, sagacity, and sound judgment. His jiatriotism, pub- lic spirit, and progressiveness hnxe brought him into prominence through- out the county and stamp him as a man of excellent character. He is a life member of the Bayonne Democratic Club and a member of the RoTiert Davis Association of Jersey City. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and of Bayonne Lodge, No. 434, Benevolent and Protecti\'e Order of Elks, and for fifteen years has been a member of ihe Bayonne Fire Association. Mr. McGee was married, in ^Sayonne, N. J., on the 24th of Ju le, 1886, to CUARLES M GEE. 384 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES (Catherine Kelly, daughter of James and Annie Kelly, of that city. They have six children: Annie, Charles, Mamie, James, Daniel, and Catherina. MARTIN W. BODE, the oldest groceryman in the Town of Union, is the son of John Henry Bode and Margaret Ahrnes, and was born in Hanover, Germany, August 15, 1SJ8. His parents were both natives of the same place. 'Mr. Bode ac(iuired a good practical education in the public schools of Ilano'\er, and as a youth developed those physical and intellectual char- acteristics which have contributed materially to his success in life. In 1866 he came to this country, landing in New York City, where he began his career as an errand boy in a grocei'y store. In 1869 he removed to Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J., and accepted a clerkship in a store, which he held until 1872. On June 2, 1872, he purchased his present store on the corner of New York Avenue and Columbia Street in the Town of Union, and there he has resided ever since, being the oldest and probably the best known groceryman in that section of the county, and especially on the hill. Dealing in groceries, flour, feed, etc., Mr. Bode has been very suc- cessful, and by constant attention to business has gained a high reputation. Honest and straight-forward in all his relations, and progressive and pa- triotic in both public and private affaiis, he enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. In ])olitics he is a stanch Republican and a prominent factor in the councils of his party. He was a member of the Board of Education of the Town of Union from 1886 to 1889 and from 1892 to 1895, and served one year as Chairman. He is a member of Palisade Lodge, No. 84, F. and A. M., of Jackson Lodge, I. O. O. P., of the Knights of Honor, of the Indepen- dent Schuetzen Cor-ps of Union Hill, of the Zwievelberger Bowling Club, and of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Bode was married in 1878 to Miss Emma Pausel, daughter of George and Christina Fausel, of the Town of Union, N. J. They have one daughter, Meta C. JOHN DWYRE, Principal of Public School No. 1, at Harrison, N. J., since 1873, is a native of Ireland, and when a young man came to America with his parents. Having received a thorough education in the public schools of his native country, lie began teaching soon after his arrival in this country, first in Elizabeth and subsequently in Newark, N. J. In 1873 he became Principal of Public School No. 1, of Harrison, Hudson County, which position he has since filled. Few educators have gained the distinction and reputation which Mr. Dwyre has long enjoyed. He is one of the ablest, as well as one of the most faithful, teachers in this section of the State, and during the twenty-seven years that he has been at the head of one of the most important public schools in Harrison he has displayed eminent abilities, great force of char- acter, and a broad and liberal learning. He is thoroughly identified with the public life of Harrison, has written a history of that town, and is a prominent member of the C. B. L. and A. O. H. Mr. Dwyre married Helena Shannon, and has had six children: John, Stephen, Edward, James (deceased), Mary, and Helena. i JAMES F. PRENDERGAST, for the past twent--f«ur years a lea:.. ;■ educator and for seven years Principal of Public Scho '.No. 2, of Harrison, N. J., was born in Limerick, Ireland, on the 1 " th of J y, 1848. There he GENEALOGICAL 385 received his education, passing through the Model School and graduating in 1866. Subsequently he served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, which he followed for six years. A trade, however, was not Mr. Prendergasfs ambition. He early de- veloped marked abilities as an educator and teacher, and, coming to this country, engaged in school teaching, which he has followed successfully. Since 1893 he has been the efiicient Principal of Public School No. 2, of Har- rison, N. J. Mr. Prendergast has always taken an active interest in the public affairs of the community, and is regarded as one of Harrison's most enterprising and patriotic citizens. He was Assessor of the Town of Harrison in 1875- 76, and is a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, of the Improved Or- der of Eedmen, of the Ancient Ordei' of Hibernians, and of the Holy Cross Literary Association. In 18S4 Mr. Prendergast married Miss Sarah L. Kearns. They have had six children. EDWARD SARGENT, general contractor, of Kearny, N. J., and for some time a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County, was born in Macclesfield, England, September 13, iS.Ki, the son of Robert Sar- gent and Helen Hall. His parents were both natives of the same place. He attended the public schools of Manchester. England, and then learned the machinist's trade, which he followed with success until 1879, when he came to .Vnierica and settled in Paterson, whence he subsequently removed to Kearny. Here he found employment in the machine depart- ment of the Clark Thread Mills. Latei' he became foreman of the spinning deiiartment of that corporation. He lesigned this position in 1888 and en- gaged in general contracting, in which business he has been very successful. Mr. Sargent is a Republican, and for several years has been active and in- (lueutial in the councils of his party, being recognized as one of its trusted leaders. As a member of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders from Kearny he has rendered efficient service in the interests of the public and gained for himself a high reputation. He is a public spirited, pro- gressive citizen, a member of the Presbyterian Church, President of the Re- publican Club of Kearny, and a member of the Hudson County Republican Committee, of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Sons of St. George. He married iMiss Priscilla Wright, and has three children: INLay, Adda, and Edwin, and resides in Kearny, X. J. CHARLES OTTO STFMPP, of AA'est Hoboken, is the son of Jacob and Barbara Stumfip, and was born in flermany in March, 1846. In ]Sfi(i he left the Fatherland and came to America, settling in New York ( lity. Six years later, in 1872, he removed to West Hoboken, Hudson County, N. J., where he has since resided. Mr. Stumpp was educated in Germany and France, and upon coming to America entered the employ of a seed house. In this and other employ- ments, by the practice of frugality and economy, he was enabled, in 1885, to engage in business for himself, and since that year has conducted at 88 Gansevoort Street, New York City, one of the most successful seed estab- lis'iments in the country. He has established a large trade and is widely " '^wn as a man of integrity, ability, and enterprise. Mr. Stumpp takes an ..,a,ve interest in th" affairs of West Hoboken, where he established him- self in the dr;' goo . business in 1875, opening a store at 401 Hack^ncack Plank Road. ■ He' as confi lued this business in connection .\ith his New 386 HTTDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES York house with marked success. He is a public spirited, patriotic, and jjrogressive citizen. Mr. Stumpp married Miss Rebecca Brett, of Fishkill, N. Y., by whom he has four children: Margaret, Otto, George, and Rebecca (Mrs. George I'hilan). Otto Stumpp is associated with his father, while the other son, George, is engaged in the same line of business in Barclay Street, New York City. JOHN OLENDORP, title officer of the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Jersey City, was born in Albany, N. Y., on the 14th of June, 1848. His paternal ancestors were Germans, while those on his moth- er's side came to this country from England. He is the son of John Olen- dorf and Anna N. Loomis, a grandson of Arnold and Dorcas (Low) Olendorf and William R. and Charlotte (Cary) Loomis, and a great-grandson of Daniel and Catharine (Hoover) Olendorf, who were the founders of the family in this country about 1776. His maternal great- grandparents were Solo- mon and Prudence (Rob- bins) Loomis. Ml'. Olendorf received a thorough education at Tublic School No. 1, Jer- sey City, at a private school in New York City, at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, and at Yale College, graduat- ing from the latter with honor in the class of 186!). Subsequently he studied for one year in Berlin, (Jermany, and thus completed a liberal educational t r a i n i n tj which has served him sn well in active life. Hav- ing studied law, he was admitted to the New Jer- sey bar in 1876, as an at- torney, and at once en- tered upon the active practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he has ever since enjoyed an extensive general clien- tage. Since 1888 he has also been title officer of the New Jersey Title Guar- antee and Trust Company of Jersey City, one of the most successful cor- porations of the kind in the country. Ml". Olendorf brought to the bar great force of character, broad intel- lectual qualities, and all the attributes which make a successful lawyer. .JOHN OLENDORF. OENEALOGIGAL 387 That he has used these gifts with honor to himself and credit to his profes- sion IS endent from the standing which he justly holds among his fellow lawyers. He is regarded as an able advocate and counselor, and in the held ot real estate law especially has no superiors and few equals. His long and active connection with real estate matters and titles has won for him a high reputation as an expert. He has also taken a prominent part in public life, and in Bound Brook, N. J., where he resides, is a valued mem- ber of the Board of Education. He is also a member of the University Club, and as a citizen is progressive, enterprising, and public spirited, deep- ly interested in the welfare of the community, and respected and esteemed by all who know him. On the 17th of October, 1878, Mr. Olendorf married Elizabeth Herbert, and they have one daughter, Helen Parker Herbert Olendorf. FRANK J. STUKE is well known in Hudson and Bergen Counties, espe- cially for his extensive knowledge of real estate. He is the son of John F. Stuke and Johannah Eodenbeck and a grandson of Franz Stuke, a soldier in the Prussian Army about the year 1812. His father settled in New York on coming to this country, and in 1860 was a cavalryman in Company A, First Regiment New York Cavalry. Mr. Stuke was born in New York City on the 23d of February, 1853, of German parentage. He acquired a good public school education. When he was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Guttenberg, N. J., and soon afterward he took up harnessmaking, which he mastered in every de- tail. In 1870 he went to Utah and thence to Helena, Mont., in the in- terest of the Union Brewing Company, and while in the West engaged in gulch mining. Subsequeiitly he resumed his trade of harnessmaker, and in 1872 went to Fort Benton, thence to Sioux City, and finally returned to Guttenberg by way of New York. For thiee years he had entire charge of the harness depai'tment of David Jones, the millionaire maltstei-, return- ing again to Guttenberg in 1875. In "!879 he .'settled in the Town of Union, Hudson County, where he has since resided, and where he was engaged in the harness business for many years, or until the spring of 1897. Prom 1880 to 1885 he held a position as custom house inspector. He is now, and has been for several years, actively engaged Jn the real estate and insur- ance business in Union Hill, where he has contributed materially to the ad- vancement of various interests and institutions. Mr. Stuke has achieved marked success. Social and popular, a lover of a good story, and a general favorite among his associates, his reputation and honorable standing are the iisulT of his own energetic efforts. He is always ready to encourage, with both time and means, every project which promises good to the com- munity. He takes an active interest in public improvements and in muni- cipal enterprises. In 1892 and again in 1897 he was elected a Justice of the Peace. He has been for many years an active member of the Foresters of Amer- ica, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Royal Society of Good Fellows. He is a free thinker, broad and liberal-minded, earnest in all the relations of life, and a man of strength of character and of unimpeachable integrity, and in the town and county in which he has taken such deep interest he is highly respected and esteemed. On real estate and insurance matters he is a recognized authority. Mr. Stuke married Miss Alice Weis, of New York, and they are the par- 388 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES cuts (if sscvcn rliildrcn- Frank <'., a bdokkccper, born in 1875; Lillian, born in INMI; Rdlicrl, biii-n in 1SS2; John, boi-n in ]S86; Alice, born in 1890; Lucy, liorn in 18!):^; and Walter, born in 1895. JOHN Diri'EL, Jn., is one of tlie ]troininent, influential, and highly re- s]K'crcd citizens of West New Voi-k, Hudson County, N. J. He held the of- fice of Tax ("ollectoi- for two terms, or a period of four years, and also s(a-vc(l one tcnn as a uienilier of the Board of Education of West New York, lie is an iiclive nieniber of the l?e]mblican pai-fy, a member of the Republi- can Association of West New York', a member of Pali.sade Lodge, No. 84, JOHN DIPPEL, Jr. Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of the Ancient Order of Free Smiths and of the Forestei's of America. He was born in New York City, October 7, 1855, and is the son of John Dippel and Wilhelmina Ilnkenholz. a grandson of John Dippel and Anna Bock, and a great-grandson of John Peter Dippel, who was a soldier during the Revolution and subsequently returned to Europe. Mr. Dippel's father was a soldier during the divil War, from 1861 to 1865, b'dng a member of Company G, Fourth Ne-ft' Jersey Volunteers. Mr. Dippel was educated in the public schools of New York City GENEALOGICAL 389 and North Bergen, Hudson County, N. J. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one he served a three years' apprenticeship in New York City as a mason and plasterer. During the next ten years he worked as a mechanic in New York City. In 1883 he embarked as a boss mason, and has con- tinued in business for himself to the present time. His work as a con- tractor has been quite extensive. At the present time he is building twenty-four houses at Highwood Park. Mr. Dippel enjoys the confidence of his fellow-citizens in a marked degree. He married Eva Amanda Weyer, who was born in New York City in 1855. HENEY J. STILSON, for many years a member of the Common Council and one of the Assessors of Bayonne, N. J., was born in Lansingburg, Rens- selaer County, N. Y., April 3, 1852. He is the son of Henry and Jane Stil- son and a grandson of Henry and Hannah Stilson and of William and Jane \'anderhofi:, his ancestors coming to this country at a very early day. Mr. Stilson was educated in the public schools and academy of Lansing- burg, and at the age of twenty began active life as a clerk in the mercan- tile business. He continued in this line for ten years, or until he had reached the age of thirty, when he engaged in the wall-paper business for himself. This was in 1882. In public and political life Mr. Stilson has also gained a high reputation. As a resilient of Bf.yoane, X. J., he lias long bi'cu pi-ominentiv identified with the best interests of the place and has taken an active part in promot- ing its welfare. For two years he was a member of the Bayonne Common Council and for nine years he rendered efficient service as Assessor of the city. He is a membei- of the Exempt Firemen, having been for many years connected with the old Volunteer Fire Department, and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss Lydia H. le Maire. JA^ilES S. HICKEY, Chief of the Fire Department of Bayonne, N. J., was born in New York City on the 12th of October, 18G9. He is the son of James Hickey and Elizabeth Walsh, who were born in Ireland, married in Eng- land, and came to the United States about 1802, settling in Brooklyn, N. Y.. M'hence they subsequently removed to Bayonne. Mr. Hickey finished his education in the Bayonne public schools, and soon after completing his studies entered the employ of the Standard Oil Com- panv, with whom he has since been associated. He has also taken an ac- tive'part in public affairs, and as a Democrat has been influential in party councils and in promoting the best interests of his adopted town. As Chief of the Fire Department he has rendered efficient service in organizing and improving various fire companies. He is a public spirited, patriotic, and enterprising citizen, a young man of deserved popularity, and respected and esteemed by his fellowmen. JOHN EEINHARDT was born in the Town of Union, Hudson County, N. J., August 18, 1874. His father, John Reinhardt, Sr., was for many years one of the most prominent and best known men in the county, serving as Sheriff from 1871 to 1874, and holding other positions of trust and responsi- bility. His mother was Anna Margaret Reisenweber, a native of Saxony, Germany, while his father, John Reinhardt, Sr., was born in Havre, France. ■fir. Reinhardt v,as educated in the public schools of Jersey City and We«t Hoboken, Hudson County, and since completing his studies has been largely 390 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES engaged in the real estate business. He lias taken an active part in political affairs, and is well known as one of the ablest of the local leaders of the Democratic party, lie is the founder and I'resident of the John Reirihardt Association of West Hobokeu, and is a Justice of the I'eace and a Notar}- Public. He is also Second Vice-President of the Associated Justices of the Peace and Constables' Protective Association of Hudson County (formed August 22, 1S09, in Hoboken) and Secretary of its Executive Committee, and Vice-President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Republic Savings and Loan Association of Hoboken. As a citizen he is public spirited, progressive, and xi<'itriotic, taking an active interest in the welfare of the JOHN REINHARDT. cf>nimunity and liberally supporting and encouraging every worthy project. Though a young man, he has already displayed those qualities and princi- l>les of integrity and sound judgment which mark a successful career, and is highly esteemed and respected for the commendable enterprise he has shown in both public and political as well as in business matters. WILLI A BI HAGAN, of Secaucus, was born in New York Citv on the 12th of September, 1841. He is the son of Edward and Arabella Hagan and a grandson of Edward Hagan, Sr., the family being of Scotch-Irish desct it. Mr. Hagan acquired his education in Quackenbush and Forrest College of GENEALOGICAL 391 New York. He learned the machinist's trade there, and for a few years followed that business as a manufacturer. In 1863 he came to Secaucus, N. J., with his father, and settled on the place he still occupies, where he has since followed successfully the voca- tion of a farmer. Enterprising, progressive, and energetic, he is regarded as one of the best farmers in Hudson County, and has always enjoyed the confidence and respect of the community. For many years he has been ac- tive and influential in the Democratic party. In 1877 he was elected a Justice of the Peace, and during a period of ten years he filled that oflSce with credit and satisfaction. He was Town Committeeman for three years, and has also served as Notary Public and Commissioner of Deeds. Mr. Hagan comes from a patriotic family, one of his nephews, Edward Field, being a soldier in the War of the Rebellion. He is a member of the Eoyal Arcanum and of the Eoyal Society of Good Fellows. He married Sarah Post, daughter of Cornelius and Eunice Post, of Hud- son County, and they have had six children, as follows: William F., Eugene P., Lester (deceased), Grace C John H. (deceased), and Cornelius E. Cor- nelius Post, father of .Mrs. William Hagan, served in the Civil War as a member of the Tenth New Jersey Infantry. His wife, to whom he was mar- ried December 31, 1853, was the daughter of Judge John Sturgis, who was for many ye;-irs a leading resident of New Durham, Hudson County, dying there at the age of sixty-five. Mr. Stnrgis was a Lay Judge for about fif- teen years, and was also a Justice of the Peace, a Town Committeeman, a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and a prominent man of affairs, being highly esteemed for his benevolence and actively identified with the community. Edward de Mott Pequignot is a naval officer on the '■ Raleigh," and, being in Dewey's fleet, served through the Spanish- Ameri- can War. He represents the third generation to serve his country, and is a grandson of Judge Sturgis and a nephew of Cornelius Post. THOMAS J. McMAHON, a member of the Board of Aldermen of Harri- son. Hudson County, was born in Newark, N. J., on the 7th of December, 1858. His parents, Patrick and Maria (Clements) McMahon, both natives of Ireland, cams to this country in 1848 and were married in Newark, whence they subsequently removed to Harrison. Mr. McMahon received his educational training in the Harrison public schools, and upon the completion of his studies engaged in the manufacture of trunks in Newai-k and New York City. He was successful in this busi- ness for a time, abandoning it, however, for the wider and more promising field of electrical industry, which he now carries on successfully in Harri- son. He is a man of marked business ability, sound judgment, and great enterprise. In public life Mr. McMahon has also achieved prominence. He is a lead- ing Democrat, has been for several years a power in the councils of his party, and in various oflicial capacities has rendered valuable service to the community. He was for two years a member of the Harrison School Com- mittee, and during the last four years has served as a member of the Board of Aldermen of Harrison. He was one of the founders and a charter mem- ber of the Harrison Fire Department and the first President of Neptune Hose Company, and from the first has, taken an active interest in the de- partment's prosperity. Public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic, he is '^steemed and respected, and has won and maintained the confidence of all /ho know hiiE. 392 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES I'ETElt J. (iOODMAN, a well kiKiwii jonrnalist of Harrison, Hudson County, was born in New York City on the Sdtli of January, 18C1, being the son ofFhilip Coodman and Ann McDonald and a t^randson of Peter Good- man. His ancestors came to lliis connlry from Jix-hmd, where some of Ihem still reside. Mi', (ioodman was educated in the parochial schools of Harri- son and at the Ohristian Jirothers Academy in Newark, N. J. After leav- ing school he engaged in the general stationei'y and newspaper business, hut during the ]iast twelve years has been actively connected with the staffs of the New York and Newark newspajiers. His career as a journalist PETER J. GOODMAN. has brought him into wide pojailarity tlironghout this section of the State. Energetic, i)rogressive, and possessed of a lai-ge fund of general information, he is an able writer', and to llie duties of his profession he has brought a thoiough pi-actical training as well as great efficiency. He is a Denmci'at in ]iolitics, a nn^mber of the liobeit Davis Association of Jersey City, and active in all local affairs. He has been prominently identified with the Fire Department of Harrison since its orgimization and has held ev(^r'y oflice in the gift of the de])artment, serving three terms, as Chief Engineer. He is a member of the Adjustment Commission of the GENEALOGICAL 393 town and a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion and the Knights of Columbus. Mr. Goodman married Mary T. Coburn, daughter of the late Thomas Co- burn, of Harrison, Hudson County. JOHN FEOST, retired, one of the oldest residents of Weehawken, N. J., is the son of Isaac Frost and Maria AVard, natives of Wian-Farthing and Yacksam, England, respectively, and descendants of distinguished families. His father dying, his mother married for her second husband Henry Brand, and came to the I'nited States in 1838. Mr. Frost was born in Yacksam, England, October 11, 1817, and there re- ceived his education. Having a desire to embark in u wider field of activity than his country seemed to offer, he left England when fifteen years of age and came to the United States, where he first obtained employment as a farm laborer. Afterward he engaged in the oyster business with consider- able success. Tn 1858, however, he settled in AVeehawken, N. J., where he still resides, and where he held for many years responsible positions with the New York, Lake Erie and Western Kailroad Company, now the Erie Raihoad Company. He discharged his duties with fidelity and ability, and won the confidence and respect of the officials as well as of his associates, among all of whom he was very popular. Jn the growth and prosperity of Weehawken Mr. Frost soon gained in- fluence, and through his energy and public spirit has been active in promot- ing the general welfare. He early took an active part in the councils of the Democratic party, becoming one of its trusted leaders. For ten years he served as a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders, and for fifteen yearsi he was a Town Committeeman. In these as well as in various other minor capacities he distinguished himself for ability, sound judgment, and patriotism, and contributed much to the advancement of the community. Honest and enterprising, he is a man of the highest integrity, and enjoys the confidence and respect of all who Ivuow him. He is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity and of the Protestant Episcopal ( 'hurch. Mr. Frost was married, December 25, 1S45. to Miss Catherine Norris, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, who came to the United States when young and settled with her parents in Jersey City, N. J. , They have six children: John H., Bryan, William, Isaac, Norris, and Joshua. The eldest, John H. Da\ is, enlisted in 18R1 in the regiment known as the Oregon Rifles, and wa** wounded at the battle of Winchester, serving until the close of the Rebel- lion in 1865. Isaac Frost, another son. served ten months in tlie Civil AN'ar as a member of the Thirty-ninth New Jersey Volunteers. JAMES BRIERLEY, the well known undertaker and funeral director of Kearny, Hudson County, was born in England on the 5th of November, 1862, being the son of Joshua Brierley, Sr., and Ellen Tunstall. Having re- ceived a thorough educational training in his native country, he came fo America at the age of twenty and at once took up his permanent residence in Kearny, N. J. He engaged in the undertaking business, first with his brother and subsequently alone, and now has one of the best appointed establishments in that place. Mr. Brierley has achieved marked success. He is quick to adopt and assimilate new ideas and methods. Since coming to Kearny in 1882 he has taken an active interest in the welfare and prosperity of the town, and is esteemed and respected as one of its most public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic citizens. His sup- 394 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES port and encouragement have been the means of promoting many im- portant movements. He is President of the Hudson County Cricket Club and a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Redmen the Sons of St. George, the Improved Order of Heptasophs, the Knights of the Golden Star, and the Presbyterian Church and leader of its choir. In politics he is an independent Republican, voting for and acting in the best interests of good government. Mr. Brierley has been twice married, first to Elizabeth Richards, who JAMES iBRIERLEY. bore him a son and a daughter: Josiah and Margaret. By his second wife, Sarah J. Catlow, he has two sons: William and George. PHILIP J. ULLMYER, of Secaucus, Hudson County, was born in Ba- varia, Germany, May 1, 1838, the son of Jacob Ullmyer and Catherine Kunc. He received his education in the public schools of the Fatherland, and re- mained there until 1854, when he came to America. He first settled on a farm in South Bergen, Hudson County, N. J., but in 1871 removed to Secau- cus, where he still resides, enjoying in quiet retirement the fruits of an active life spent in farming and gardening. For many years he was one of GENEALOGICAL 395 the largest and most successful farmers and gardeners in the County of Hudson, and through his ability, integrity, sound common sense, and enter- prise gained the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in con- tact. He has also taken an active part in town affairs and especially in local educational matters, and for more than eighteen years has been a valued member of the North Bergen Board of Education, serving most of the time as its Chairman. He is still a member of that body. No man in the town has rendered more efficient service in the cause of its schools. Eealizing the necessity of adequate school facilities and the advantages derived by the young from a thorough training in those branches which modern busi- ness methods demand, Mr. Ullmyer has thrown his influence into the work of improving and advancing the public schools, and has brought to his effoi'ls great nati^ e ability, sound judgment and foresight, and genuine en- thusiasm and patriotism. As a member of the Schuetzen Bund of New Jersey he has also been prominent and useful, serving for several years as Vice-I'resident and Trustee, and being for four years Captain of the Secau- cus Company. In politics he is a Democrat with independent proclivities. He is esteemed as a progressive citizen, and is one of the substantial men of the county. In 1866 Mr. Ullmyer married Miss Elizabeth Schott, a native of Ger- many, and their children are Philip Frederick, Catherine Elizabeth, and Elizabeth. GEORGE W. CRANWELL, a prominent builder and contractor of West Hoboken, was born in Ireland on Christmas Day, December 25, 1836, and is the son of Edward Cranwell and Elizabeth, his wife. Coming to this countiy with his parents when very young, he received his education at the Christian Brothers' school in Utica, N. Y., and in 1857 removed to West Hoboken, N. J. In 1866 he returned to Utica, where he resided until about 1S86, when he again came to West Hoboken, which has since been his home. Mr. Cranwell became identified with the building and contracting busi- ness while yet a mere youth, and during a period of nearly thirty-five years has followed that vocation with uninterrupted success, becoming one of the best known contractors and builders in the country. He learned the trade of mason and builder in Utica, N. Y., and there erected the most of the Ger- man Catholic Church, the Wheeler, Kiernan & Company's stove works, St. John's Protectory (then St. John's Orphan Asylum), and many other build- ings of importance. He also built the north wing of Hamilton College in Oneida County, N. Y., St. Mary's Catholic Church at Cooperstown in the same State, many well known structures in Little Falls, and a large part of the buildings erected by Alfred Dolge at Dolgeville, N. Y., during a period of twenty years, and the large public school edifice in that town. These are only a few of the contracts executed by him in a number of towns and cities, including the City of New York, in the Empire State. In New Jer- sey he has also been active in contracting and building. He erected the original part of the Hoboken Monastery in West Hoboken, the new town hall in the Town of Union, and numerous other private and public buildings in these towns, in Weehawken, and in the City of Hoboken. Mr. Cranwell's work shows great skill and ability, and stamps him as one of the ablest members of his vocation. Active and energetic, honest and upright in his dealings, thorough and exact in the work committed to his 396 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ran", and faillilnl in tlu' discliarf^c of every trust, he is highly respected and esttemed. In imlilics he is an ardent Uenioerat. He married Miss Margaret J'^nHerton, of Jersey City, N. J., and has five c'hildren living, namely: James W., Emma, P^llie, Elizabeth, and Cecelia, the former — the only son — being a jiartner in his father's business under the firm name of eal and enei-gy. Afterward he became actively inter- ested in the manufacture of articles fro;u celluloid, and, engaging in the business, he has ever since becMi. identified with it in one capacity or an- other. In IS'.U he was made (ieneral ilanager of the Arlington Manu- facturing Company, of Arlington, N. J., which position he still holds. GENEALOGICAL 397 This is one of the largest and most successful establishments of the kind in this country, and no small degree of its growth and prosperity is due to Mr. Pierce. He has displayed excellent business ability, sound judg- ment, and great sagacity and foresight, while his knowledge of commercial affairs as well as of the process of celluloid manufacture has gained for him a high reputation. He has also been prominent and influential in public matters, and es- pecially in politics, and is a leading member of the Hudson County Re- publican Committee. He is also President of the Arlington Club, a mem- ber and Past Master of Triune Lodge, No. 150, A. F. and A. M., and a mem- ber of Triune Chapter, Xo. S;")?, R. A. M., of Columbian Commandery, No. 1, K. T., and Mecca Temple, N. O. M. S., all of New York City. He is also Vice-Regent of the Royal Arcanum, and President of the District Associa- tion. In the councils of thf Republican party, with which he has always been actively identified, he has rendered most efficient service, and is re- garded as one of its able and trusted leaders. As a resident of Arlington his influence has been felt in every movement affecting the welfare of the community. He is progressive, public spirited, and active in the advance- ment of all worthy objects, and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him. October 26, 1886, IMr. Pierce was married at Princeton, N. J., to Miss Mattie Perrine, of Jeiseyville, 111., and their children are Arthur, born in 1890, and Gussie, born in 1887. CLEMENS A. KREBS, of Arlington, N. J., Recorder of the Town of Kearny, was born in New York City on the li^th of August, 1853. His par- ents, Hubert Krebs and ^largarct Schifthauer, were both natives of Ger- many — the father of Coblenz and the mother of Baden. Huber-t Krebs came to the United States in 1817 and was married the same year in New York City, where he spent the remaindei' of his life. He died April 8, 1883. Clemens A. Krebs received a good education in the public schools of his native city, and after completing his studies entered the famous dry goods store of A. T. Stewart, where he i-emainod three years. He then associated himself with his father in the business of stair building, whicli trade he followed for a number of years, part of the time in New Brunswick, N. J. In 1873 Mr. Krebs entered the postal service as a letter carrier attached to Stations E and K of the New York City postoffice, where he remained until March, 1881, when he entered the Ignited States customs service in the A]t- praiser's department, Port of New York, of which he became Foreman July 12, 1883, having successfully passed the civil service examination. He con- tinued in that capacity for' twelve yeni-s, or until November 7, 1895, when the office was abolished. On July ?.(), 1S80, he took up his residence in Ar- lington, Hudson County. Mr. Krebs has discharged his duties with fidelity, promptness, and ability. He is an enterprising, public spirited man, deeply interested in the welfare and prosperity of the communitv, and jjrominently identified with its best interests and' institutions. For several years he was a member of Com- panv H Seventv-first Regiment, N. G. N. Y., of New York City. In Arling- ton "he has served as Police Justiie, Justice of the Peace, Commissioner of Deeds Notary Public, and Recorder of the Town of Kearny, which office he now holds, having been appointed May 1, 1S99, for a term of two years. In October 1900 he was nominated bv the Hudson County Republican Con- vpnfion for member of Assembly from the West Hudson District. He is a 398 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES prominent member and Deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Arling- ton, a Republican in politics, and a member of Triune Lodge, F. and A. M., and of Americus Council, No. 1304, R. A., both of Arlington. May 30, 1876, Mr. Krebs married Miss Fannie Warnock, and their children are Clemens A., Jr., born in 1877; William Warnock, born in 1878; Fannie, born in 1880; and Belle Frances, born in 1887. GEORGE BERNHARDT BERGKAMP, Mayor of West Hoboken and one of the most popular and energetic citizens of North Hudson County, was born in New York City on the 1st of October, 1865. His father, Henry H. Bergkam.p, a native of Germany, came to New York when a young man and engaged in farming in what is now Harlem on Manhattan Island. There he married Sophia Schlernme, also a native of Germany. In 1868 they re- moved to Secaucus, Hudson County, N. J., where he died in 1874. His wife's death occurred in 1871. Mr. Bergkamp was educated in the public schools of Secaucus, where his parents settled when he was three years old. Reared on the farm, he de- veloped a robust constitution, and early ac(iuired those habits of thrift and industry which have characterized his life. For two years after leaving siihool he was a clerk in a grocery store in Brooklyn, and afterward he held clerkships in different grocery stores in Hudson County until 1885, when he accepted a position as salesman in a large commission house in New Yoi'k. There he remained four years. In 1889 and 1890 he was engaged in the hotel business, first in Secaucus and later in New York City. In 1890 he established his present real estate and insurance office in West Hoboken, where he resides. Few men have contributed m.ore to the growth and prosperity of the City of West Hoboken than Mr. Bergkamp. The development of the north part of Ihe city is largely the result of his untiring efforts. During three years he built no less than twenty-six dwelling houses there. In 1898-99 he erected on Ihe Hudson Boulevard, between Charles and High -"treets, an extensive auction mart for the sale of horses, etc, and for th( use of a livery and boarding stable business. He is also an auctioneer, a Notary Public, and a Commissioner of Deeds, arid in these various capacities has been successful. Mr. Bergkamp is an ardent Democrat, a recognized leader of his party and a man of unquestioned integrity and great force of character. In 1894 he was chosen by the Fleventh Assembly District Convention a member of a committee to re-organize the Democratic party in Hudson County, and by virtue of this position was a member of the Executive Committee of the Hudson County Deniocratic Committee. To this duty he brought great energy and ability, and the result attested his foresight and shrewd execu- tive management. In April, 1899, he was elected Mayor of West Hoboken for a term of two years, receiving a handsome majority in spite of strong political opposition. He has also been the President of the North Hudson Business Men's Association since its organization in January, 1897, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum. He was married, September 30, 1888, to Theresa Rosebrock, daughter of Henry Rosebrock, of New York City. They have five children: George, Henry, Herman, Edward, and Ida. DAVID NAUGLE. — The Naugles of Bergen and Hudson Counties are of Holland lineage. John Naugle (1), son of Barent Naugle. was born at Groningen, Holland, about 1645, of well-to-do and respectable parentage. Through the influence of his father, who had been in the marine serdoe, GENEALOGICAL 399 John, at an early age, entered as a cadet the Dutch naval service, and before reaching his minority made several cruises to America. While on one of these expeditions in 16C4 he participated in the conflict between the Dutch and English fleets, the result of which was the surrender of the Dutch. Be- ing patriotic and rather hot-headed, young Naugle was so disgusted with the cowardice of the Dutch that he loudly denounced them, left the service, and declared he would leave the country. Not long afterward, however, being in Harlem, he met Miss Rebecca Waldron, the daughter of an Eng- lish refugee. The smiles and winsome ways of the English maiden influ- DAVID NAUGLE. enced him to change his mind and remain at Harlem, where, in 1070, he married Miss Waldron, bought a lot, joined the Dutch Church, and settled down for life, soon becoming an active factor in the new settlement. Tak- ing an interest in politics, he sought office, but, as he still continued to de- nounce the English, it was not till l(i77 that he was elected Constable. Two years later he became a magistrate. It was while Constable that it became his duty to execute the writs in a law suit which drove old David des Marest over to the west side of the river into Bergen County. Later John Naugle was made a Dracon in the Dutch Church. He bought lands at Spuyten Duvvil and at other points on the Harlem River, and became wealthy. 400 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Although somewhat erratic and eccentric, he appears to have been a man of sterling principles and qualities of mind. He died in Harlem in 1G89. His widow married, in 1690, John Dykeman. The issue of John Naugle (1) of the second generation were Barent (died), Jannetje, John, Anna, Oatrina, Barent. Johanna, Jacobus, Debora, and Resolvent. Barent (2) and Resolvent (2) were destined to spread the name throughout Bergen County. In 1708 Barent (2) married Sarah Kiersted, and Resolvent (2), on IMay 0, 1712, married Clarissa Lydecker. Miss Kiersted, the wife of Barent (2), was a New York lady of education and refinement, and particu- larly versed in the Indian tongues. While in New York she had acted as interpreter for the colonial officials in their dealings with the savages. On April 10, 1710, Barent and Resolvent crossed the Hudson River into Bergen County, New Jersey, and bought of Captain Lancaster Syms a tract of 1,030 acres of land northeast of Closter, extending from the Hudson River west to the Tiena Kill. The price paid was £225 sterling. They had much trouble to perfect their title to these lands, as other persons attempted to establish an adverse claim to them. In the end, however, the adverse claimants were beaten. The two brothers cleared and tilled portions of their tract jointly and built each his family residence on what is now called the "Rockland road." Resolvent joined the Hackensack Dutch Church and Barent the church at Tappan. A few years before their deaths they divided their original purchase between them, Barent taking the north half and Resolvent the south half. Barent was a Justice of the Peace and held all other town offices. He was also in command of a train band. The issue of Barent Naugle (2) of the third generation were John, Rebecca, Will- iam, Henry, Sarah, and Johanna. John Naugle (3) married (1), in 1729, Elizabeth (Jacobus) Blawvelt and (2) Magdalena Naugle. His children of the fourth generation were Sarah, John, Barent, Catharine, Maria, Elizabeth, Henry, Rebecca, David (died), Elizabeth, and David. David Naugle (4), the youngest, born in 1750, married about 1775 Dirke Fredericks Haring and had issue of the fifth generation John D., Rachel, Frederick, and Elizabeth. John D. Naugle (5), born May 9, 1777, died October 22. 1841, married Sarah Mabie, born March 2, 1776, died January 2, 1876 (aged nearly one hundred years). They resided on the old Barent Naugle homestead and had issue of the sixth generation David (died), Sarah, Rachel, and John J. John J. Naugle (6), born in Closter, N. J., July 1, 1818. died January 27, 1882, married, August 8, 1839, Hannah Maria Eckerson, born May 20, 1821 (dead). Residing at the old homestead they had issue of the seventh genera- tion David, Elizabeth (died), Margaret, Rachel, Elizabeth, Frederick, James, and William H., of whom David Naugle (7) is the subject of this sketch. David Naugle (7) was born August 2, 1841, in Closter, N. J., where he still resides. He received his education in the Closter public schools and at Delaware Academy, and subsequently taught school for a time. He then studied civil engineering, and subsequently entered the customs serv- ice, in which he has continued for twenty-eight years. In this capacity he has established a high reputation. He has also been prominent in public affairs, having served as Super- intendent of Public Schools and Town Clerk of Closter. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Closter and Republican Clubs, and a member of the Zeta Phi fraternity. He was one of the founders of A' pine Lodge, No, 77, P. and A. M., and belongs to the Dutch Reformed, Church, GENEALOGICAL 401 In 1862 Mr. Naugle married Ella Woodworth, of Delhi, N. Y., daughter of William and Julia Ann (Chase) Woodworth, and their children are Margaret Marvine and Annie. JOBN J. BATE, of Westwood, N. J., was born in Brooklyn, N. T., on the 26th of November, 1856. He is the son of John J. and Hanna E. (Stratton) Bate, a grandson of William and Mary (Jones) Bate and of William P. and Eachel (Hoover) Stratton, and a great-grandson of William Bate and Will- iam Stratton. His maternal uncle, Hon. Nathaniel P. Stratton, was State Senator from Cumberland County, N. J., in 1860-62, and Lay Judge of that county for a time. His paternal ancestors — the Bates — settled in Camden County, N. J., in 1701, coming there from England. The schools of Brooklyn, N. Y., furnished John J. Bate with his early edu- cational training. He left school at the age of twenty and engaged in farm- ing in Bergen County, continuing for seven years. He then identified him- self with the newspaper business, and after five years in that line he be- came actively engaged in the real estate business, which he still follows. He resides in Westwood, Bergen County, N. J. Mr. Bate was not only a successful farmer, but has gained a reputa- tion in real estate affairs. He has also taken a prominent part in the pub- lic life of the community in which he has so long resided, having served as President of the Board of Education of Westwood for six years, as Assessor for three years, and as Secretary for the Bergen County Board of Assessors for three years. In 1895 he was Borough Clerk of Westwood, and the next year (1896) was the candidate for State Assemblyman on the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Reformed Church, a public spirited, pro- gressive, and enterprising citizen, and thoroughly identified with public af- fairs. Mr. Bate married Miss Annie Comey. They have four children: Alice L., born in 1882; Edith A., born in 1884; Daisy D., born in 188T; and Arthur C, born in 1888. EMIL JOSEPH FOERCH, Township Clerk of North Bergen, Hudson County, is the son of John Michael Foerch and Anna M. Schottmiller, both natives of Germany. He was born in New York City on the 1st of August, 1863, and is one of a family of five sons and one daughter, his broth- ers and sister being Gustavus, Eudolph, Julius, Otto, and Addie. Mr. Foerch acquired his education in the public schools of the Town of Union, N. J., whither his parents removed when he was a boy. For a time he was successfully engaged in the manufacture of cigars, but subsequently he devoted himself to music, becoming a teacher of the art and a member of the noted Damrosch Musical Union. His tastes, his environment, and his natural inclinations all fitted him for the musical profession, and in prose- cuting it as an instructor and student he has scored marked success and won a high reputation. As a Democrat he has been prominent and influential in public affairs and a recognized leader of the party in North Bergen, where he resides. He was a member of the Board of Education of that town from 1885 to 1888, and in 1894 was elected a Justice of the Peace, which oflflce he held four years. In 189'7 he was elected Township Clerk of North Bergen and in 1900 was re-elected' without opposition in the primary election and in the general election, and is still discharging the duties of that position with the same ability, fidelity,' and integrity which have characterized his life. In :• 898 he 402 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES was appointed Clerk of the local Board of Health and of the Commissioners of Adjustment of Unpaid Taxes. He is also Secretary of the First Ward Democratic Club of North Bergen and a member of the Gustav Scholp As- sociation, of the Merry Owl Benevolent Association, and of the Local Asso- ciation, No. 3,502, K. of L., and an honorably discharged member of the Second Regiment, N. G. N. J. Mr. Foerch married Miss Eva Michael. She had eight children, of whom four are living, namely: Emil, Christina, Cecelia, and Julius. His first wife died in 1897, and in 1899 he married Mrs. Emma Gertrude Gebhard, who has three children by her first husband, viz.: Katie, Augusta, and George, all of whom are living. JACOB RINGGER, senior member of the firm of Ringger & Freiberger, of West Hoboken, is the son of Rudolf and Barbara Ringger and was born in Zurich, Switzerland, February 7, 1847. He is of German descent and education, his studies being pursued in the public schools of Germany. There he also learned the trade of cabinetmaker, which he followed in that country until 1881, being engaged in business for himself during the last ten years. In 1881 he came to America to seek a broader field for the exer- cise of those talents which have since brought him into prominence. Settling first in Illinois, he followed his trade with marked success until 1885, when he m.oved to West Hoboken, N. J., which has since been his home. Besides cabin etmaking he also engaged in carpentering and build- ing, and at times this was his principal vocation. In 1891 he formed a co- partnership with Jacob Freiberger, under the firm name of Ringger & Freiberger, and established in West Hoboken a large and successful wood- working business. Five years later, in 1896, their mill was totally de- stroyed by fire, causing a heavy loss. The proprietors rebuilt on a larger and more modern scale, and now have one of the best equipped woodwork- ing establishments in East Jersey. They employ on an average thirty-five hands, and manufacture sash, doors, mouldings, etc. — in fact, every article used in finishing and ornamenting a house or other wood work. Both mem- bers of the firm being practical cabinetmakers and woodworkers and expe- rienced carpenters and builders, their efforts have been very successful. Mr. Ringger attends to the business end, Mr. Freiberger devoting himself to the mechanical or manufacturing operations. Mr. Ringger is a pronounced Democrat, a man of fine character and high qualifications, and a thrifty, progressive, public spirited citizen. He is a liberal contributor to all worthy local objects, and takes a deep interest in every movement affecting the welfare of the community. Public office and politics, however, he has always avoided. He was m.arripd. in 1868, to Miss Barbara Meile, a native, like himself, of Zurich, Switzerland. They have three children: Jacob, Jr., Minnie, and Emma. JACOB FREIBERGER, member of the general woodworking firm of Ringger & Freiberger, of West Hoboken, N. J., was born in Wurtem- berg, Germany, March 30, 1856, the son of George Freiberger and Catrina Barbara Nouffer. He was educated in the Fatherland, and there also learned the woodworking trade in all its branches, becoming an expert. In 1886 Mr. Freiberger came to America, and five vears later, or in 1891, formed a copartnership with Jacob Ringger, under the style of Ringger & Freiberger. The firm engaged in the general woodwork'ng business in West Hoboken, establishing a mill on the corner of Highfoint and Kerri- GENEALOGICAL 403 gan Avenues. The yenture proved successful from the start. In 1896 a disastrous flre burned their entire plant, but with commendable enterprise and courage they at once rebuilt, and now have one of the best equipped and most modern woodworking factories in their section. Mr. Freiberger attends to the inside or manufacturing work, while Mr. Ringger devotes himself to the business end. Mr. Freiberger married Miss Amalie Diener, and their children are Amelia, Jacob, Jr., Annie, Rosalia, William, and Emily. WILLIAM SMITH, of Harrison, Hudson County, N. J., was born of Scotch parentage and ancestry in Paisley, Scotland," October 10, 1858, and WILLIAM SMITH. there received a thorough public school education. His parents were also of Scotch birth, and endowed with sterling qualities and sturdy character- istics. His father, William Smith, Sr., died in that country, and in 1882 Mr. Smith came to America with his mother, Ellen (Robinson) Smith, settling in Harrison, N. J., where he has since resided. Afl^er completing his studies in the public schools of Paisley Mr. Smith learned the rooi ng business in all its branches, and on coming to Harrison engaged in it fot hii^iielf, <-nd during the past twenty years he has achieved 404 HUDSON AND BBKGEN COUNTIES marked success and a hiji;h reputation. He is one of the best known roof- ers in Hudson Connty. Thorough, prompt, and honest, uniting great energy to acknowledged ability, he has built up an extensive business and won the confidence of the entire community. Much of the important roof- ing work in Harrison and vicinity is the result of his efforts and skill. Mr. Smith is a Republican of the independent type, believing in honest government for the masses and in voting, especially in local elections, for the best candidates. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Presbyterian Church, and a public spirited, patriotic, and enterprising citi- zen. He married Miss Grace Green and has six children: William, Jr., Peter, David, James, John, and Maggie. JOHN JOSEPH MT^LVANEY, President of the Board of Education of Jersey City and one of the prominent lawyers and citizens of that place, is the son of John Mulvaney and Mary McGee, both of Irish descent. His an- cestors emigrated from Ireland to this country about 1848. Mr. Mulvanev was born in Jersey City, Hudson County, on the 23d of April, 1868, and received his education in the public schools of that place, graduating from School No. 1. In 1889 he began the study of law in the office of Collins & Corbin, of Jersey City, and was admitted to the New Jer- sey bar as an attorney before the Supreme Court in November, 1893, and as a counselor at the February term, 1899. Since his admission, in 1893, he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profes- sion in Jersey City, and in the many important cases with which he has been connected has displayed high legal qualities as well as broad and accurate knowledge of the law. Mr. Mnlvaney's well known interest in educational matters was aroused through his having taught in the Jersey City evening schools while studying law, and this interest was recognized and encouraged by his appointment in January, 1898, as a member of the Board of Education. He was re-ap- pointed to the same office in May, 1898, for a term of two years, and in May. 1899, was elected President of the Board. He has taken a special interest in the welfare and progress of the Training School and the establishment of kindergartens as a part of the public school system of Jersey City. As a member of construction committees of new schools he has devoted unceas- ing attention to the proper sanitation of schools and the adoption of modern methods in heating and ventilation. These efforts on his part have brought him into prominence and won for him a high reputation. In brief, he is an acknowledged authority on matters pertaining to schools and education in his native city. Mr. Mulvaney has been President of St. Bridget's Lyceum for several terms, and has served as an officer of Jersey City Council, K. of C, and of Father Corr Council, C. B. L., in all of which he is a prominent member. He is also a member of the Catholic Club and of the Palma Club, of Jersey City. He is public spirited, progressive, and enterprising, thoroughly iden- tified with the welfare of his native city, and esteemed and respected in every capacity. He married Esther T. A. Sherlock, and has three sons and one daughter living and one daughter deceased. HENRY KttHL, Sr., had the distinction of starting the first conservatory or florist's establishment in North Hudson County. He was born in Francie of German parents on the 22d of August, 1808, and there received his edu- GENEALOGICAL 405 cation. His inclinfitions and tastes were always for flowers, ornamental plants, and their culture. Coming to this country at an early age, he settled in the present Town of West Hoboken, N. J., where he engaged in business as a florist. He was recognized as the pioneer florist in this section of the State, and during a long and active career achieved eminent success. Through his industry, integrity, and sound judgment he gained a command- ing reputation as well as confidence and respect, and was regarded as one HENRY KUHL, SR. of the foremost men of the community. He died April 7, 1893. Just be- fore leaving France he married Annie Marie, who died April 2, 1893, aged seventy-nine. HENKY KUHL, Jr., only son and child of Henry Kuhl, Sr., and Annie Marie was born January 28, 1853. He was a life-long resident of Union Hill Hudson County, dying there July 31, 1885. He always followed his father's business, that of florist. Though but thirty-two years of age at the time of his death, he gained an honorable reputation for ability, integrity, and enterprise, and was respected and esteemed by all who knew him. His knowledge of floriculture was broad and practical. He not only achieved distinction in his calling, but also won honor and confidence as a public 406 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES spirited citizen. Like his father, he was an ardent Republican, and a useful, energetic man. He married Josephine Pierson, daughter of Joseph and Catherine Pierson, natives of France. She died September 15, 1896, aged fifty years. Their children are Catherine (Mrs. Francis Vivartta.s), Henry, Julius, and Daisy, all of West Hoboken, the last three occupying the Kuhl homestead on the Hudson Boulevard. This beautiful residence was built by Henry Ktihl, Sr., but the present improvements, including the greenhouses, etc., were added by Mrs. Josephine (Pierson) Ktihl, who was a woman of great busi- ness ability, force of character, and rare feminine accomplishments and culture. The business, which has been successful from the start, is now conducted by the four heirs — Mrs. Vivarttas and Henry, Julius, and Daisy Klihl — under the style of the estate of Henry Kiihl, and attests the thrift and sound judgment of its founder and his successors. THOMAS O'BEIEN, Tax Collector of the City of Englewood, N. J., was born in Wales on the l-ith of May, 1861, his parents being Charles O'Brien and Ellen Fitzgerald. The family came to the United States in 1873 and settled in Englewood, where they still reside. Thomas O'Brien received a public school education in England and Engle- wood, N. J., and subsequently learned the trade of tailor, which he has con- tinuously followed with marked success. He now has one of the leading merchant tailoring establishments in Englewood. In politics Mr. O'Brien is a Democrat. He was Town Clerk of the Town of Englewood for four years and during the past six years has been City Tax Collector. He has filled both of these offices with acknowledged ability and satisfaction. The esteem and confidence in which he is held by the community have been repeatedly shown in his election to offices. He is a prominent member of the Firemen's Association, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Catholic Benevolent Association, all of Englewood. His ac- tivity in the community, his efforts to promote its welfare, and his prom- inence among his fellow-citizens stamp him as a man of standing and repu- tation. Mr. O'Brien was married, September 7, 1892, to Alice Rath, daughter of Ferdinand and Mary E. Rath, of Englewood, N. J. They have two children: Dudley and Vernon O'Brien. MICHAEL J. CANNON has been a life-long resident of Hoboken, N. J., where he was born February 2(1, 1865, the son of John Cannon and Winifred Nolan, both of whom have lived in Hoboken for the past fifty years. He acquired a good education in the public schools of his native city, and after graduating from the high school learned the trade of printer in New York, which he followed successfully for several years. Deciding to adopt the legal profession, he entered a law office in New York City as a student, and subsequently served a clerkship in the law office of Hon. William S. Stuhr, of Hoboken. Mr. Cannon was admitted to the New Jersey bar at the February term of the Supreme Court in 1S9G, as an attorney, and at once commenced the prac- tice of law in Hoboken, opening an office at No. 40 Newark Street. Since then he has built up a large and successful business. As, a court and office lawyer ho hag, displayed marked ability, broad and comprehe asive learning, and sound legal qualifications, and the many, important casss which have been intrusted to his care-attestth*: confidence and respect in which he. is held by the community. He has also taken, an: active interest in public af- GENEALOGICAL 407 fairs. In April, 1892, he was elected a School Trustee from the Fourth Ward of Hobokeu, and served as such for three years. He was married on the 20th of June, 1895, to Mary A. V. Code. SEBASTIAN MAULBECK, the well known surveyor of Hudson County, was born in Schlicht, Bavaria, Germany, on the Ifith of March, 1861. He descends from an old and respected family, his parents being Andreas and Anna Maulbeck, his grandparents Franz and Theresa Maulbeck, and his l»aternal great-grandfather Friedrich Maulbeck. He inherited the sturdy physical and intellectual qualities for which the Germans are noted. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were men of great force of character, and contrib- uted to their community the wholesome influ- ences of honored and re- spected citizenship. Mr. Maulbeck re- ceived a thorough class- ical and technical edu- cation in the Father- land, attending first the industrial schools in Amberg and Nuemberg and later the Polytech-^ nic High School at Munich in Bavaria. In these institutions he de- veloped those traits of character which predes- tined him for a profes- sional career, and dis- played a special prefer- ence for mathematics, in which he became an ex- pert. An apprenticeship of four years at survey- ing in Bavaria not only determined his future course, but gained for him the technical train- ing which he coveted as a boy and youth. In 1882 he left Bavarian Germany and came to America, and for a time was employed by the Sanborn-Perris Map Company, of 115 Broadway, New York. Subsequently he was engaged on the surveys of the public parks of that city, especially of Central Park and Morningside Park, and in this capacity achieved a high reputation for ability and efficiency. In 1888 he engaged in general sur eying in Hudson County, N. J., where he has since practiced his'^profession with increasing success. He has been the official surveyor of the Towns of Union and West Hoboken, and has laid out many of the principal streets, so.uares, and public grounds in that section. An expert SEBASTIAN MAULBECK. 408 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES mathematician, he is also a man of marked artistic tastes, and in the dis- charge of his professional duties has displayed signal ability in the line of beautifying nature and laying out public walks and thoroughfares. In other words, he has shown a rare knowledge of landscape engineering as well as a ready and practical skill in the more prosaic affairs of surveying. Mr. Maulbeck is public spirited and progressive. He enlisted in the Ninth (afterward the Second) Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey, sta- tioned in Hoboken, in which he served under Colonels Hart and Stevens. He is a member of the Independent Schuetzen Corps of West Hoboken, where he resides. Mr. Maulbeck was married, in 1887, to Miss Theresia Sternbauer, daugh- ter of Wilhelm Sternbauer, of Passan, Bavaria, and they have seven chil- dren: Sebastian, Jr., Joseph, Theresia, Anna, Emma, Elsa, and Paula. JOHN M. MtiLLER, a well known merchant of West Hoboken, N. J., is a native of Hanover, Greimany, where he was born on the 9th of April, 1852. He is the son of Lutje Muller and Catherine Sterling. His education was obtained in the national schools of the Fatherland. In 1871 he came to America, and, taking up his residence in New York City, engaged as a clerk in the grocery business. There, in 1880, he established himself in trade, opening first a grocery in Elm Street and subsequently one on the corner of First Avenue and First Street. He was successful from the start. In 1890 he removed to West Hoboken, N. J., and purchased his present store on the corner of Clinton Avenue and Warren Street, where he has built up an extensive trade in groceries, tlour, coal, hay, and feed. In politics Mr. Miiller is an ardent Republican. He has never sought nor held public office, but Jias given his entire attention to a large and grow- ing business. He is a member of West Hoboken Council, Royal Arcanum, of Manhattan Lodge, No. 130, Knights of Pythias, of New York, and of the Court of Foresters of America located in West Hoboken, where he resides. Mr. Muller was married to Miss Emily Meyering, daughter of Albert and Christina Meyering, of New York City, and they have two children: John Albert and Emily Louise. MICHAEL FRANCIS MOYLAN, formerly Township Committeeman and now Mayor of New Durham, Hudson County, was born in old Hudson City, N. J., in 1858. His parents settled there in 1853. Mr. Moylan attended old No. 3 school in what is now Jersey City until he attained the age of seventeen, when he entered a large New York jewelry establishment for the purpose of learning the jeweler's trade. When twenty-one years old he became an assistant to his brother, James Moylan, the well known civil engineer, who at that time was engaged on the civil engineering work on the New York Ninth Avenue elevated railway line, and who served as a member of the New Jersey Legislature from Hudson County in 1891 and 1892, representing the Fourth Assembly District of Jersey City. Upon the completion of this road Mv. Moylan was appointed to a position as one of its locomotive engineers, which he held until 1883, when he en- tered the service of the West Shore Railroad Company. Since then he has been associated with that corporation as a locomotiVe engineer, running the Oatskill Mountain express, the New York and Montrea" express, and other important trains. He is one of the best and most trustworthy en- gineers connected with the road, and for years has enjoyed the confidence and respect of the officials as well as his associates. GENEALOGICAL 409 Mr. Moylan has been a life-long resident of Hudson Countv. He has lived in New Durham since 1883, and is one of the town's most' prominent and influential citizens. A Democrat in politics, he has long been a recognized leader of the party, and for some time served as a member of the North Berg-en Township Democratic Committee. His activity in political and public affairs dates from the time he was old enough to think and act for himself. In 1897 he held his first office, that of Township Committeeman, and rendered valuable service on the board, having the welfare and gen- eral interests of the Township of North Bergen at heart. The next year— MICHAEL F. MOYLAN. 1898 — he became the first Chairman or Mayor of the new Borough of New Durham, and in this capacity has magnified an already high reputation for ability, integrity, and faithfulness. He was one of the chief organizers of the town, and under his efficient guidance it has developed into one of the best local governments in the State. Mr. Moylan was one of the foun- ders and organizers, as he was also one of the first Directors, of the Town of Union Buil'ling and Loan Association, one of the strongest institutions of the kind in East Jersey. He is a charter member of West Shore Council, Royal Arcanui ., a member of Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company of New Durham, and a progressive, public spirited, and energetic citizen, whose 410 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES active interest in the community has gained for him universal respect and esteem. Mr. Moylan was married, in May, 1876, to Miss M. J. Walsh, daughter of Lawrence and Margaret 'Walsh. She died in 1879, leaving one daughter, Cora G., now a student at the Sacred Heart Academy in Albany, N. Y. GEORGE CAERAGAN has been a resident of Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J., since 1859. He was born in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., March 7, 1844, and is the son of James Carragan and Mary Vanderwerker and a grandson of Eleazer and Martha (Keech) Carragan and of Sovereign and Lucy (Boss) Vanderwerker. His maternal great-great-grandfather was Rip Van Dam, one of the early members of the New York Colonial Council and subse- quently Governor of New York. The name Carragan is of Welsh origin, the original spelling being Cadawgan. The children of James and Mary (Vanderwerker) Carragan were Ella, John, George, and Samuel, the sub- ject of this sketch being the third child and second son. George Carragan was educated in the common schools of Saratoga Springs and for twenty years was a commercial traveler for the Schieffelin Drug Company, of New York City, in which he is now interested. He is also the financial head of the business of August Kress & Co., importers of grocers' specialties, of 64 Dey Street, l^ew York; a leading manufacturer of badges, stencils, seals, rubber stamps, etc., of 35 and 37 Beekman Street, New York; the head of the wholesale commission house of R. B. Poucher & Co., West Washington Market, New York; and a Director in the Mechanics Trust Company of the City of Bayonne, N. J. These various business associations indicate in a small measure Mr. Carragan's ability and success as a financier. He has been eminently successful, and through his own efforts has built up a reputation for integrity and uprightness of character which is recognized by all who know him. Though an ardent and active Republican, and influential in the councils of his party, he has never sought nor held political office. His large busi- ness interests demand and receive his entire attention. He is a member and Elder of the Reformed Church of Bayonne, Hudson County, where he has resided continuously since 1859. He is also a prominent 32° Mason, holding membership in Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar, of New York City, and was a charter member of the Royal Arcanum of Bayonne, being the orator on the occasion of its organization. He is still active in that body. Mr. Carragan married Margaret Vreeland, a member of an old and well known New Jersey family, and they have one child, Ella, wife of Charles W. Thomas, of Bayonne. JAMES P. GA VEGAN, foreman of the shipping department of the Standard Oil Company at Bayonne, N. J., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 6, 1870. His parents, John Gavegan and Cecelia Rush, natives of Ireland, came to the United States when young. They were married in Brooklyn, and finally moved from there to Bayonne, N. J. Mr. Gavegan was educated in the public schools of both Brooklyn and Bayonne, and upon completing his studies associated himself with the Standard Oil Company, with which he has since remained. Te now holds the responsible position of foreman of their shipping department. He is an ardent and active- Democrat, a public spirited and patriotic citi- zen, and, for two terms has served Bayonne as a member ol the Board of GENEALOGICAL 411 School Trustees. He is a member of the Foresters of America, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Catholic Club. THOMAS CHARLES McNAMARA, physician and surgeon, of 715 Park Avenue, Hoboken, N. J., was born at Annagh in the suburbs of Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Ireland. His parents, John McNamara and Bridget Kilduff, were both born in Ireland and are still living. They were brought up in England, where they were married in 1856. Afterward they went to reside at the old family seat at Annagh, where a branch of the Clan Mc- Namara had settled im- mediately after the memorable convention of the Irish chieftains in 1541. At this conven- tion, when Donogh O'Brien, who was then tanist of Thomond, and to whom the Clan Mc- Namara then paid tribute as their chief, swore al- legiance to Henry II. of England, the McNa- mara clans refused to obey, and hence they were driven out, their castles and possessions being confiscated.^ Dr. McNamara's mother's ancestors were of Scotch origin, and were fosters of the O'Mal- leys, princes of Hy- mania, down to the sec- ond half of the last cen- tury. Caisin, a younger son of Cas (founder of the Dalcassian septs of Munster), was ancestor of the Clan Mac-con-Mara, which means the fam- ily or descendants of '' Son of the Sea- Warrior," anglicised McNamara. Caisin was seventh in descent from the renowned warrior Cormae Cas, who in the second century of the Christian era died from spear wounds re- ceived in battle from Eochy, King of Leinster. Prom Caisin the McNa- maras, with their correlative sejits of O'Crady, O'Hurley, O'Hickey, O'Hea, etc., were ca'led Clan Caisin, but from Callin, seventh in descent from Caisin, it wf most frequently called Clan Cullin. The McNaniaras were anciently " Princes " or " High Chiefs " of Tullugh, > For a more detailec deBoiption see Tlie History of a Clan, by Major McNamara. THOMAS C. M NAMARA. 412 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES County Clare, ranking also as " lords " of the now Barony of Bunrattj, County Clare, and were hereditary marshals of Thomond. Armorial Insignia. — The simplicity of the heraldic blazon besjpeaks its extreme antiquity, containing the single rampant lion of the original Mile- sian shield. It is tinctured " argent " on the field gules, expressing in her- aldic language " wisdom combined with power or majesty." The golden spear heads, placed in chief, commemorates the killing of their remote an- cestor, Cormac, by Eochaidh or Eochy, King of Leinster, in the battle of Samhna Hill, County Limerick. Dr. McNamara received his primary education at the Carrownedan and Ballyhaunis National Schools. From the former he was graduated as a teacher, after having served therein a monitorialship of six years, under the Commissioners of National Education, in 1878. From 1878 to 1880 he took a special course of training in mathematical and mechanical science at Ballyhaunis National School. During all those years of training he was under the direct supervision of Archdeacon Kavanagh, Rector of the famous " Shrine of Knock." In 1880 he entered as a student St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, which was then under the direction of John, Archbishop McHale, or, as Daniel O'Con- nell used to call him, " The Lion of the fold of Juda." The inveterate hatred of John of Tuam toward English oppression in Ireland was well grounded in the youthful minds of his students, as recent history has testified. Accord- ingly, having imbibed his teachings, it is no wonder that in a few months Dr. McNamara found himself allied with the physical force party of Ireland, a branch of which was then ripe within the college. This band of young students carried their principles through the turbulent West, especially among the small tenant farmers of Mayo, with the result of establishing the Land League under the guidance of the ablest tactician and leader of mod- ern times, Charles Stewart Parnell. The part they played in its establish- ment culminated at the first meeting at Irishtown, but others, such as Mi- chael Davitt, took the credit. During the three years Dr. McNamara spent in Tuam College he was regarded as a close student, and was amply re- warded by carrying off the highest honors in his class in Latin, Greek, Eng- lish, French, Irish, mathematics, history, and literature. The distinctions he acquired gained for him the approbation of the then Coadjutor, Arch- bishop McEvilly, who nominated him to study for the Catholic priesthood in 1883. On September 5, 1883, he presented himself for examination at Maynooth College. He took up for study an advanced course on arts, the next year passing into higher mathematics, natural philosophy, and mechanics, while the year after was taken up with moral philosophy (em- bracing logic, natural theology, and psychology), and in his last year he studied dogmatic and moral theology. The language spoken in Maynooth is more or less confined to the Latin tongue. About this time his health began to give way and he decided to take a rest from study. In October, 1886, he left Maynooth College, having ob- tained therein the Order of Tonsure. At his departure he received the fol- lowing letter from the President of the college : Maynooth College, October 8th, 1886. Dear Mr. McNamara: I have much pleasure in sending you the testi- monial letter you ask. Your conduct, during the four years you have spent in our college has been very good in every way, and gives the strongest reason to hope that, by your attention, application to your business or pro- GENEALOGICAL 413 fessiou. and yonr hijrh character for yirtue, you will succeed in the secular life on which you are now entering of your own free choice. I shall be glad to hear of your success, for your honorable career in our college has had the effect of giving your superiors here an interest in your future. I remain, dear Mr. McNamara, Yours faithfully, Mr. Thomas C. McNamara, Robert Brown, Diocese Tuam. President. About a week after leaving Maynooth Dr. McNamara went to study law under a master of Trinity College, Dublin, but finding the legal profession distasteful, he gave it up in six months, returned home, and acted as mana- ger for his father from 1887 to 1892. During those five years he came into closer relations with many of the Irish Parliamentary party, became a stern advocate of Parnellite principles, politically, and for their advocacy was satisfied to become a voluntary exile in 1892. It fell to his lot to be one of six who lowered into their graves the three greatest men whom the Irish nation produced in the second half of this century: John, Archbishop of Tuam, Celtic scholar, author, preacher, poet, and politician; Charles S. Parnell, the most astute parliamentary and political leader of Ireland; and P. W. Nally, athlete, and organizer and head center of Clan-na-Caels, who was done to death in a British dungeon a week before his intended release, because he refused lo turn informer upon that little band of students which he formed in Tuam College. Having formed many branches of the League in the West, Dr. McNa- mara determined no longer to live under the ban of coercion. The detec- tives of Scotland Yard were ever upon his track since the incarceration of his brother, John, under the Foster Act; but he always evaded arrest. In the spring of 1892 he sailed from Queenstown to make his home " Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil. And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil." He took cabin passage in the " City of New York " and in seven days ar- rived at New York. In the autumn of 1892 he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College. New York, and from there graduated M.D. on the 25th of March. 1895. On April 17, 1895. he was graduated from the University of the State of New York. He applied for a license to the State Board of Examin ers to practice medicine and surgery in the State of New Jersey, which was granted on the 31st of May, 1895. During his years of study in medicin*^, along with the ordinary college course, he took almost all the private courses of instruction, and did practical work for one year in the outdoor department of Bellevue, in the surgical as well as in the heart and lung wards. In the autumn of 1897, having applied for and receiving a law stu- dent's certificate, he entered the New York Law University, remaining one term. By this time his medical practice had grown so extensive that he could not devote much time to the law. For over five years he has practiced medicine and surgery with excellent results. He was emploved as expert witness in the case of the State v. Dr. Colletti, appearing for the plaintiff. In 1897 he received the unanimous vote of thanks from the assembled delegates to the county convention of the Foresters of America, New Jersey. In 1899 he was elected High Court Physician to the State of New Jersey by the Independent Order of Fores- ters. He was appointed Township Physician in Weehawken on March 29. 1900, and became visiting surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital in Hoboken. 414 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES He was the first President of the Shamrock Club, founded by him in 1897, and one of the prime movers in the establishment of the United Irish- men of Hoboken. He was President of the O'Brien Football Club and a delegate to the Gaelic Central Council in Ireland. He is a member of the Hudson County Medical Society, a member of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Deceased Medical Men, a charter member of the Knights of Columbus, and a member of the Irish National Club of New York, the Shamrock Club of Hoboken, the Coyles Democratic Club, the Anchor Club, the Hibernians, the Clan-na-Gaels, the Foresters of America, the Independent Order of Foresters, the Companions of the Forest, and the Wood-Choppers. He is examining physician to the U. S. A. Letter Carriers' Mutual Benefit Association, the Ladies' Branch of the Catholic Benevolent Association, the Independent Order of Foresters, the Com- panions of the Forest, and Courts America, Stevens, Minturn, Pride of Hoboken, and George Washington, of the Order of Forestry. Dr. McNamara is unmarried. He had three brothers and one sister: Pat- rick, John, James, and Mary. James died at the age of seventeen. Patrick and John, who are living, married sisters, nieces of Rev. M. Loftus, Rector of Our Lady of Angels' Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and nephew to Rt. Rev. Anthony O'Regan, third Bishop of Chicago, who was consecrated on the 2.5th of July, 1854. Mary married John Healy, of Chicago, who at the time of their marriage was an extensive merchant in the Town of Ballinasloe, County Galway. JAMES WALLWORK, a well known plumber and business man of Kearny and Harrison, Hudson County, was born in England on the 15th of January, 1874. He is the son of Edward and Rachel (Smith) Wallwork and a grandson of James Wallwork, and on both sides a descendant of old and respected English ancestry. In 1884 Mr. Wallwork, then a youth of ten years, came to America with his father. Edward, and settled in Kearny, N. J., where his parents still reside. There he received a good practical education in the public schools. He early displayed qualities which have won for him marked success. On leaving school he began learning the trade of a plumber, which he mas- tered in all its branches, and which he has followed in both Kearny and Harrison. He has been successful in this line of industry. In politics Mr. Wallwork is independent. He is public spirited, patriotic, and enterprising, and though a young man has already achieved distinc- tion in the community and a reputation for ability and integrity. He is prominent in fraternal and social circles, being a popular member of the Knights of Pythias, of Copestone Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Kearny, of Harmony Chapter, R. A. M., of Newark, and of thp Plumbers' Association. He married Miss Mary Boyce, of Harrison, N. J., where they reside. JUDSON CAMILLE FRANCOIS, the recognized leader of the Demo- cratic party in West Hoboken, N. J., was born in Brussels, Belgium, De- cojnber 5, 1850, being the seventh in a family of fourteen children of Joseph Francois and Pauline Marie, eleven of whom are actively engaged in busi- ness as ladies' hairdressers. Joseph Francois was also anoted ladies' hair- dresser until his death in 1890, in what is now Jersey City Heights, whither he came with his family from Belgium in 1856. Mr. Francois obtained his education in the public schools of Jersey City^ Heights, finishing in Grammar School No. 2, on the corner o^: Central Ave- •lu"^ and Congress Street. Fis studies were designed U meet only the GENEALOGICAL 415 practical requirements of a business life, yet the strength of character and a retentive memory which he possessed gave him, at a very early age, the prestige of a leader among his associates, and he left school fairly well equipped to enter his father's hairdressing establishment. Here his ability and industry soon won for him a complete mastery of the trade. His brothers and sisters have also achieved professional prominence in New York or New Jersey. In 1872 he opened his present hairdressing parlors at 419 Paterson Avenue, West Hoboken, and besides this he also conducted for several years a similar establishment on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, New York. Mr. Francois is widely known as a Democratic leader. He has been ac- tive and prominent in his party since 1876, when he was elected Constable, an office he held for sixteen consecutive years, serving as Court Officer dur- ing that entire period, gaining a wide acquaintance among the leading men of the county and laying the foundation of a future political career. From the time he assumed the duties of Constable and Court Officer to the present he has been an influential leader of the Democratic party, fearless in his convictions, zealous and active in his party's welfare, and true to the fundamental principles upon which it exists. On January 8, 1889, he was elected to the New Jersey Legislature, from the old Tenth (now the Eleventh) Assembly District of Hudson County, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Short, who had been elected in the preceding autumn. In the Assembly Mr. Francois at once took a leading position, and as a member of the Committees on Ways and Means, State Prisons, and Miscellaneous Business was instrumental in promoting much important legislation and in defeating measures of questionable value. Among the several bills which he introduced was one giving one policeman for every 800 population in West Hoboken, another providing that a defendant under arrest should have three days' notice before the date set for his trial, and a third authorizing the erection of the present Turn Verein hall in the Town of Union. He also introduced several local sewerage bills, and was the means of defeating the measure which had for its object the consolidation of Arlington, Kearny, and Harrison. Mr. Francois was elected a member of the West Hoboken Town Coun- cil in 1892 and served two years, and since April, 1897, he has held the of- fice of Justice of the Peace. From 188-3 to 1889 he was a member of the Hudson County Democratic Committee, and in 1898 was re-elected to that position, which he still holds. He was Treasurer of the West Hoboken Board of Fire Trustees for about four years, and is the founder and stand- ard bearer of the J. C. Francois Association, a non-partisan body in West Hoboken having about 100 members, Alfred S. Franklin being President. Mr. Francois served for ten years in Company B, Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J., becoming Second Sergeant. He is an exempt fireman, having been for twenty- two years a member of Neptune Engine Company of West Hobo- ken. He is "also a member of the Royal Arcanum. On State and national issues Mr. Francois is a consistent Democrat, voting and acting with his party, but in toM'n and county affairs he is fearlessly independent, work- ing first and last for the best interests of the people, and casting his in- fluenee in favor of those matters which promise the most good. He was married March 3, 1872, to Martha, daughter of Abraham Stilwell i.nd Elizabeth Van Voorst, his wife, whose father, Garret Van Voorst, was aeseended from one of the oldest families in East Jersey. The Stilwell family were earl/ settlers of Staten Island. , Mrs. Elizabeth fbtilwel' is 416 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES living with the '^iihject of this sketch. She was born in North Bergen, November 5. 1812, and is one of the oldest surviving residents of Hudson Ooniit.v. Mr. and Mrs. Francois have four children: Joseph Judson, Martha (Mrs. Charles Wase), Alexander, and Edward. THEODORE J. VOGT is a successful butcher and a recognized leader of the Democratic ])arty, with which he has been actively identified since boy- hood. His parents,' Theodore and Elizabeth (Nieland) Vogt, were natives of Germany and sturdy representatives of the Fatherland. Coming to this country about the middle of the present century, they were married soon after their arrival and settled in the Town of Union, N. J., where they lived ever afterward. Theo- dore Vogt was a master carpenter and contract- or, the first boss builder on Union Hill, and a man of great energy, ability, and force of character. He retired from business shortly before his death, which occurred in the Town of Union in July, 1886. His wife died there in 1899. Both were members of the Catholic Church, and are buried in the Weehawken cemetery. They had six children, namely: Eliza- beth and Annie, both de- ceased; Frank, a well known hotel proprietor of Kansas City, Mo.; Theodore J., the subject of this article; and Rosa and Lena. Theodore Vogt. the father of this family, achieved dis- tinction in public life as well as eminent success as a contractor and builder. He was a prominent Democrat, ac- tive and influential in the councils of his party, a valued member of the Board of Education of the Town of Union, a leading member of the Town Council, and a founder and life-long member of the Liedertafel Society of Union Hill. In brief, he was one of the foremost men of his time, taking an active part in all local affairs, and earnestly supporting every movement which promised benefit to the town and county. Though born and reared in Germany, he and his wife were both imbued with the American spirit of patriotism and thoroughly exemplied that spirit in their deeds and actions. THEODORK J. VOGT. GENEALOGICAL 417 Theodore J. Vogt was born in 1859, in the Town of Union, N. J., where he has always resided. There he received his educational train- ing. While a boy he learned the butcher's trade, which he has continuously and successfully followed, building up an extensive business and reputa- tion. His success and prominence in this line are noteworthy. Mr. Vogt has taken an active part in politics from the time he was a youth, and almost from the day he cast his first vote to the present he has been an acknowledged leader of the Democratic party. His influence in party councils steadily gained in force and extent until now it is felt, not only in his own town and vicinity, but throughout the county. He is a member of the Board of Education of the Town of Union and of the Fores- ters of America. Asa citizen he is esteemed and respected. He possesses great energy and force of character, and, like his father, is public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic, thoroughly alive to the needs of his native town, prompt to encourage those objects having its welfare at heart, and worthy of the confidence reposed in him by his fellowmen. In 1883 Mr. Vogt married Eosa Valerius, of Elmira, N. Y., by whom he has three children: Edward, Joseph, and Frank. JOHN CONLEY, to whose energies as a contractor much of the growth of Woodcliff, Hudson County, N. J., is due, was born in New York City in iSriS, the son of John Conley, Sr., and Rosanna Croodwin. His parents emigrated from County Monahan, Ireland, in 18.36, and settled in New York, where John Conley, Sr., successfully followed his trade as a tailor until his death in 1807. His wife died in 1898. Both were nearly eighty years of age. Mr. Conley attended the New York public schools, and then learned the hatter's trade, which he followed for a few years. Subsequently he was en- gaged in the grocery business in that city for about fifteen years, achieving success and gaining a high reputation. He moved to what is now Wood- cliff, in the Township of North Bergen, Hudson County, N. J., in 1894, and the next year engaged in contracting and building, a vocation he has since followed with great energy and profit. Many of the finest homes in that attractive village have been erected by him. Being a practical carpenter and mason, his work bears evidence of permanency and stamps him as a man of skill. The dwelling in which he resides is an excellent example of his efforts. He is independent in politics. Mr. Conley married Miss Anna McNamara and has had six children, three of whom are living, viz.: John, Jr., James, and Sarah. PETER H. SEERY, Vice-President and Superintendent of the New Jer- sey Tube Company, is the son of Thomas H. and Mary Seery, a grandson of John and Ellen (Seery) Seery, and a descendant of one of the old Norman- Celtic families of County West Meath. Ireland. Thomas H. Seery, his father, was for more than half a century connected with the Waterbury Brass Company, of Waterbury, Conn., being for thirty years its efficient Superintendent. This connection covered his entire business life. He was recognized as authority on brass manufacturing in every department of the trade, and gained a wide reputation as one of the ablest and most talented brass. workers of his time. He died October 18, 1896, at Waterbury, Conn., where h's widow still resides. Peter H. Seery was born in Waterbury, Conn., on the 27th of September, 1859, and received his education in the public schools of that city. He in- herited his fathe-'s mechanical talents, and early in life took up the work 418 HUDSON AND BEROEN COUNTIES ill which the elder Seerv achieved such eminent success. He has been ac- tively identifled with the brass working trade, and is now Vice-President and Superintendent of the New Jersey Tube Company, one of the largest and most successful corporations of the l^ind in the country. Mr. Seery has dis- played marked ability, not only as a brass worker, but also as executive manager in business affairs, and the success of the New Jersey Tube Com- pany is due in no small measure to his energy and constant application. He has always taken an active part in local affairs, and as an independent Kepublican and patriotic citizen has wielded an important influence in the PETER H. SEERY. community. Before coming to New Jersey Mr. Seery was for six years a member of Company G, Connecticut National Guard. He resides in New- ark and is a member of the North End Club and of the Eoval Arcanum. Public spirited, enterprising, thoroughly identified with the best interests of the city, and a liberal supporter of every worthy movement, he is universal- ly respected and esteemed. The business of the New Jersey Tube Companv being located in Harrison, he is closely identified with the affairs of Hud- son County and is justly esteemed as one of its progressive mtn. Mr. Seery was married in Waterbury, Conn., in 1886, to Miss Fran^^eF Ellen Fitzpatrick. They have one son, Irving. GTCNKALOGIOAL 419 HUGO FRANK WALDONS is one of the successful builders in North Hudson County, and in West Hoboken, where he resides, is respected as a public spirited, enterprising citizen. Born in Baden, Germany, August 24, 18G5, he is the son of Ferdinand Waldons, deceased, and Susanna, his wife, who survives and resides with the subject of this article. He came to the United States in 1883 and located in New York City, where he completed Ms education in the high school. He soon returned to the Fatherland. In 1886 he again came to this country and settled permanently in Hudson County, N. J., where he has achieved success as a contractor and builder, having built up an extensive business. He is a thoroughly practical oper- ator in every branch of the trade and proficient in architectural drawing, in which he has developed marked artistic skill. He makes his own blue- prints and attends personally to the minutest detail. A large number of the finer buildings in his section are the result of his energies and handi- work, and not a few of them bear evidences of his talents as a designer. Able and progressive, possessed of sound judgment and originality, and energetic in all he attempts, Mr. Waldons is one of the prominent builders of Hudson County. He takes a deep and often an active interest in the welfare of the com- munity, and in various capacities has contributed much to its growth and advancement. He is a Democrat in politics, a sagacious business man, and enjoys a wide popularity. At one time he served as a flre inspector. He has never sought office, however, preferring to devote his whole attention to his growing business. He holds membership in several social and other organizations, and has also an honorable military record, having served for three years as a soldier in the German Army. Mr. Waldons was married on the 21st of September, 1895, to Anna Schwiki, a native of Germany. They have two children : Elsie and Arthur. WILLIAM E. McCARTY, a Councilman of the Town of Union, Hudson County, was born February 5, 1866, in New York City, the son of William and Ellen (Toolin) McCarty, natives of Ireland. In 1868 he was brought by his parents to the Town of Union, N. J., where he has since resided, de- veloping and broadening those sturdy characteristics which have won for him a prominent place in the community. After leaving the public schools of Union Hill, where he acquired a good rudimentary education, Mr. Mc- Carty associated himself with the paper rolling business in New York City, and also learned the trade of blacksmithing and horseshoeing with his father, whose reputation in this line extended beyond the limits of his neighborhood. Subsequently he entered the employ of Gardner & Meeks and soon rose to the position of foreman. Mr. McCarty identified himself with the Democratic party on attaining his majority, and through his activity and enthusiasm rapidly gained dis- tinction as an able and trustworthy leader. He early won the respect and confidence of his fellow-townsmen, and has exerted from the first an im- portant influence upon local affairs and especially upon his party's welfare. In the spring of 1897 he was elected a member of the Town Council of the Town of Union on the Democratic ticket, and by re-election still holds that office. ' He is also Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Free Public Library of Union Hill. . He is Past Chancellor of Mount Alverno Council, No. 162, «J B. ,L.; Past Chief Ranger of Court Palisade, No. 24, F. O. A.; and one of the founders of the Central Democratic Organization, in which he has held important offices. He if also a member of the First Ward Democratic 420 HUDSON AND BEIKJEN OOT'NTIES Cliili and till' John J. Eagan Association. In every capacity liis sound com- nion sense, unswerving' integrity, and native ability and enterprise have won for liini a wide jiopularity. OSOAR VERILnAC, the Avell known florist of Arlington, N. J., is the son of Mattliew and Mury (Salee) Verilhac, and was l)orn in Leon, France, on the IDtli of ^Vpril, 1847. His ])arents were both natives of tliat country. Mr. ^'erilhac was educated in tlie pulilic scliools of Leon, and for a number of yeai-s was successfully engaged in business as a florist there. He served in the Frencli army during the war with Germany, and in several impor-tant battles displayed great courage and bravery. In 1876 Mr. Verilhac came to Xew York City, whei'e lie resumed his business as a florist. In 18SIJ he removed to Ar- lington, Hudson County, N. J., where he still re- sides, and where he has sinc(^ been engaged in the same business. He is one of the leading florists in this part of the State, and enjoys a reputation for ability, thoroughness, and fair dealing. JNIr. Verilhac has won success througii his own efforts, and since boy- hood has displayed those intellectual qualifications of integrity and honor ^^•hich distinguish the successful man. He has displayed in his adopted country the same degree of patriotism. public spirit, and energy which led him to volunteer as a soldier in the war be- -tween France and Ger- many, and which have always marked him as an exemplary citizen. He is thoroughly identified with the ])ublic alfairs of the Borough of Arlington, a Democrat in politics, a member of tin- I'resbyterian Church, and respected and esteemed. As a florist and horticulturist he is recognized as an au- thority. His knowledge of the science is broad and accurate, while the ability and fair dealing which he has displayed in business iratters stamp him as a man eminently wortliy of the success Avhieh he ha» attained. Hf was married, in 1884, to Selma Kothe, of Pearl Elver, Rockland Ccuulj, OSCAR VERILHAC. GENEALOGICAL 421 WILLIAM A. CASSIDY, now serving his third term as a member of the Board of Aldermen of Bayonne, Hudson County, was born in England on the 5th of July, 1866, his parents being James and Margret (Sommers) Cassidy. His ancestors on both sides are Irish. The family came to the United States in 1868 and settled in Bayonne, N. J., where young Cassidy received his education. A1 an early age he engaged in the meat and grocery business, which he followed successfully for several years. He is now an engineer at the Standard Oil Company's works at Bayonne. In politics Mr. Cassidy is a prominent and influential Democrat. He served one term as a member of the Board of School Trustees of Bayonne, and is now serving his third term as a member of the Board of Aldermen of that city. In these and other capacities he has displayed all the at- tributes which mark the successful man of affairs, and which stamp him as i! i)ublic spirited, patriotic, and progressive citizen. He is a member of the Bayonne Democratic Club, of the Bayonne Fire Department, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of the Catholic Church. Mr. Cassidy married Miss Catharine Dwyre, of Elizabeth, N. J., and they ha^e three sons: Francis, George, and William. JOHN M. G-ILLICtAN, a prominent manufacturer of corsets, was born in Kearny, Hudson County, N. J., where he still resides, on the 14th of April, 1872. He is a son of Isaac Cilligan and Ellen Nolan, natives of Ireland, who came to the United States in 1856, settling in Newark, N. J. Ml'. Gilligan received his educational training in the public schools of Newark and Kearny, and early developed business abilities of a high order. After obtaining experience in the various employments which a boy usually seeks he settled upon manufacturing, and, finding a suitable and congenial field for the exercise of his ambition, engaged in the manufacture of corsets in his native town. He soon established a large and successful trade. In politics Mr. (xilligan is an ardent and active Democrat. He has served as a member of the Board of School Trustees of Kearny for three terms and is prominently identified with the best interests of the town. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, of St. Patrick's Alliance, and of the Catholic Benevolent Legion. THOMAS A. DUFFY, the well known contractor and builder of East Newark, Hudson County, is the son of James Duffy and Mary Smith, na- tives I'espectivel}- of Ireland and England, who came to the United States in 1S6.J. He was born in Fall River, Mass., where his mother was visiting, on the 26th of February, 1872, and there received his education in the pub- lic schools. After leaving school Mr. Duffy engaged in business as a contractor and builder, which he has since followed with increasing success, his home and headquarters being in East Newark. Many of the finest and most imposing buildings in that section of Hudson County are the result of his industry and enterprise. His work shows artistic taste and skill as well as a thor- ough knowledge of structural problems, and stands as monuments to his integrity, ability, and faithfulness. Though a young man, he has achieved prominence in his line, and is esteemed and respected as a man of courage, honesty, an ^ energy. He has also taken an active interest in public affairs, serving as a mem- ber of the Board of Aldermen and of the Board of Chosen Freeholders and 422 HtTDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES as Assistant Chief of the Fire Department. He is an ardent Democrat in politics and a prominent member of various bowling clubs. The popularity and confidence in which he is held by the community are attested by the many important duties which he has so faithfully and satisfactorily dis- charged. ADOLPH SCHLEICHEE, one of the prominent citizens of West Hobo- ken, Hudson County, N. J., and since 1896 a member of the Board of Educa- tion, was born in the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., August 19, 1868. He is the son of Victor Schleicher and Jacobine Miesel, daughter of Martin and Wil- helmina Miesel, a grandson of Lawrence Schleicher and Carolina Schleicher, and a great-grandson of John and Emma Schleicher. His pa- ternal ancestors were mineowners in Germany during the eighteenth cen- tury. The first of the line in Germany bore the surname of De Trayer, and was one of a band of French Huguenots who were driven from France through the persecution of the Protestants in the reign of Henry IV., in the sixteenth century. This ancestor settled in Stollenbey, near Stollberg, Ger- many, and assumed the (Jerman name of Schleicher. The family of Mr. Schleicher's mother is also of French origin. Victor Schleicher, father of Adolph Schleicher, came to America in 185.5, enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and was taken prisoner by the Confederates at the battle of Williamsburg, Va. Adolph Schleicher, Sr., namesake and uncle of Mr. Schleicher, served with distinction in the German Army, as an offt- cer of the Eoyal Guards, and also came to America. For seventeen years he was connected with the police courts of New York City, and for eleven years held the office of Eecorder of Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J. Jacob Miesel and Louis Miesel, uncles of Mr. Schleicher, served with distinction in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Mr. Schleicher was educated in the public schools of Union Hill, N. J., at private schools, and at Cooper Union, New York City. At the age of seventeen he accepted a position with the Weber Piano Company in New York City, received rapid advancement, and remained with this house until it failed. Since that time he has been very successfully engaged in the real estate and insurance business in West Hoboken, N. J. ' Well known for his public spirit, the only office which he has ever accepted has been that of member of the Board of Education of West Hoboken, to which position he was elected in 1896 and re-elected in 1899. The military instinct, so characteristic of his family, was displayed in Mr. Schleicher's enlistment, in 1888, in Company B, Second Eegiment, Na- tional Guard of the State of New Jersey. He rose to the rank of senior Sergeant, and when the Second and Fourth Eegiments were consolidated he still continued as an officer. He was honorably discharged in 1894. He married Miss Lena Biedermann, of New York City, He is a prom- inent member of the West Hoboken Business Men's Association, of the Co- Ivtmbia Club, of the Palisade Democratic Club, of Cosmopolitan Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hoboken Lodge, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, of Capitol Lodge, K. of H., and of Garfield Council, No 36, J. O. U. A. M. SAMUEL AEMSTEONG, the popular and well known undertaker of Union Hill, is the son of James Armstrong, a native of Ireland, who came to America when very young, and who served four years in the War of the Eebellion as a soldier in a New Jersey regiment of volunteers. His mother GENEALOGICAL 423 was Mary Ann Carr, whose strength of character and intellectual attain- ments in every way equaled those of her husband. Mr. Armstrong was born in Edgewater, N. J., on the 5th of April, 18G1, and there received his early education in the public schools. Leaving Edge- water at the age of thirteen, he went to Ridgefleld, in the same State, where he remained for ten years, being for five years the sexton of the Protestant Episcopal Church of that town. During this period he also became a church or pipe organist of no mean ability. In 1884 he removed to Orange, N. J., and a little later to Jersey City Heights, where he was married, in 1885, to Miss Margaret Allgaier. of West New York, Hudson County. In the mean- SAMUEL ARMSTRONG. time he was learning the business of undertaker, embalmer, and funeral di- rector with Henry E. Taylor, one of the best known and most successful undertakers of New York City. Later, having mastered every detail of the profession, he became the manager of the undertaking establishment of Airs. Caroline Gschwind, of Union Hill, N. J., where he took up his resi- dence. In this position he developed those active energies and business at- tainments w^ich have marked his subsequent career, and which have won for him a wide popularity and an honorable reputation. In September, 18.13, he opened an undertaking establishment for himself at 213 Bergenline 424 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Avenue, Union Hill, which he still conducts. He also has an office at 317 Humboldt Avenue, in the same town, and resides at 510 Palisade Avenue. As an undertaker, embalmer, and funeral director, Mr. Armstrong has achieved success and popularity. By his own efforts and untiring industry he has built up an extensive business. He is a man of recognized ability, public spirited, enterprising, and progressive, and liberally encourages every M'orthy movement. Deeply interested in the welfare of the commu- nity, he has contributed to its institutions, and enjoys the respect and con- fidence of his fellowmen. His popularity is best illustrated by the fact that, at St. Augustine's fair in 1895, he won a gold medal and in 1894 a gold- headed cane offered by the Dispatch for the most popular man in Hudson County. In politics he is an ardent and influential Kepublican. In 1892 he was a candidate for County Coroner on the party ticket, and, though defeated, re- ceived a large and flattering vote. He is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of West Shore Council, R. A., of Palisade Lodge, K. of P., of Garfield Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Court Palisade, F. of A., of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, of the Uniformed Rank, K. of P., of Ger- mania Schuetzen Bund of West New York, of Ellsworth Post, Sons of Vet- erans, of the Independent Schuetzens of Union Hill, of Mohawk Tribe, I. 0. R. M., and of the Klondike Bowling Club. In all of these he is popular and prominent, and in every capacity he has achieved success and honor. JOHN O'DONNELL, a veteran of the Civil War and for eighteen years Township Assessor of Weehawken, N. J., was born in Liverpool, England, on the 4th of April, 1842. He is the son of Patrick O'Donnell and Ann Mc- Stay and a grandson of Hugh O'Donnell, and descends from a long line of Scotch and English ancestors. Mr. O'Donnell received his early education in the public schools of Liver- pool. In February, 1852, he came with his parents to this country, and, settling in New York, completed his studies in Grammar School No. 11, on Seventeenth Street, in that city. Afterward he was employed there in va- rious capacities. In 1860 he settled in Hudson City, now Jersey City Heights, N. J., and applied himself to learning the carpenter's trade with Charles J. Knighton; but the excitement incident to the War of the Re- bellion aroused his patriotism to the point of enlisting in the Union cause, in which he served with honor and distinction. Joining Company F, Twen- ty-first New Jersey Volunteers, in August, L862, he was soon transferred to Cempany I, of the same regiment, and for about ten months participated in the operations in Virginia, including Mary's Heights, Chancellorsville^ and other battles and skirmishes. In 1863 Mr. O'Donnell was honorably discharged from the service and resumed his associations with Mr. Knighton, applying himself to the trade of carpenter and stair builder. Later he entered the employ of David Stagg, of Hoboken, and in 1869 he engaged in. business for himself in partnership with Ambrose Gale. Their business was almost exclusively stair building. In 1870 Mr. O'Donnell succeeded this firm, and has since followed the stair building trade, though of late years his time and energies have been very largely devoted to important ofticial duties. As a stair builder, however, he achieved success as well as a high reputation for skill and ability, and is one of the oldest members of that trade in East Jersey. E.e has always been an active Democrat, prominent in the councils of his party, and recog^' nized as one of its influential local leaders. For abont five years he v,as GENEALOGICAL 425 Coramissioner of Appeals for the Township of Weehawken. In 1876 he was elected a member of the Township Committee, and in 1877 he was re- elected, but the new law reducing the board from five to three members threw him and another associate out. He was again re-elected in 1878, as one of the tliree members composing the board, but on account of political diiferences refused to sit, and resigned. In 1881 he was elected an Assessor of the Township of Weehawken. Owing to a tie vote, however, he did not qualifj'^, but in 1882 he was re-elected to that office, and by successive re- elections has continued to hold it to the present time. He is now serving hi& eighteenth consecutive year, a fact which attests at once his popularity, his faithfulness and fidelity, and the esteem and confidence in which he is held by the community. His long and uninterrupted connection with the assessorship has not only given him a wide experience in real estate values, but has enabled him to gain an extensive knowledge of municipal affairs. Mr. O'Donnell has been for many years a delegate to township, county, and district Democratic conventions, in which his influence has materially advanced the interests of the party. He has always been a fearless advo- cate of honest government and sound Democratic principles. As a citizen he is public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic. He was for fourteen years a member of Wadsworth (now AVoerner) Post, G. A. R., of Hoboken, and is now a member of Ellsworth Post, No. 14, of the Town of Union, of which he was for a time the Junior Vice-Commander. He is also a member of the Catholic Benevolent Legion. On June 25, 1868, Mr. O'Donnell married Mary Fottrell, daughter of Pat- rick and Elizabeth (Tiernan) Fottrell and a native of Dublin, Ireland, who came to America with her jjarents about 1855. They have seven children living, namely: Mary (Mrs. John Concannon, of Hoboken), William, Eliza- beth, Ann, James Patrick, Angelus, and John, Jr. The family reside in Weehawken. HEEMAN HUBERT WOUTERS, Treasurer of the Town of Weehawken and the well known druggist of Weehawken Heights, is the son of Peter and Mary Wouters, and was born in Germany on the 3d of November, 1867. He received a thorough classical education at the school of St. Thomas a Kempis in Kempen-on-the-Rhine, and, coming to America in 1881, finished his studies in New York City. At the age of nineteen he entered the drug store of A. Rogers & Co., on the corner of Bleecker and Jones Streets, New York, for the purpose of learning the business of pharmaceutical chem- ist, and subsequently served a clerkship in a similar establishment in Jer- sey City. These associations, together with his own native energy and nat- ural ability, enabled him to master every detail of the trade, and within a few years he had gained the distinction of an expert. In 1893 he moved to Weehawken, N. J., and purchased the drug business of N. H. Perrine, on the Boulevard, which proved a most fortunate venture. About two years later he opened anothcT drug .store on Spring Street in West Hoboken, but subsequently sold it, and in 1896 started still another apothecary establishment at the corner of Palisade Avenue and Dodd Street, Weehawken Heights, which he still continues. In 1897, with Will- iam Kyvitz as his partner, he opened yet another drug store and pharmacy on Bergenline Avenue in the Town of Union. Mr. Wouters is an able, enterprising, and successful business man, and through his own efforts and industry has achieved a high standing, being to }a.j one of the leading chemists and pharmacists in North Hudson 426 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES County. By fair dealing, honesty, and perseverance he has built up an ex- tensive trade. Since he became a resident of Weehawken he has been an active and influential factor in all matters connected with the town, and his fellow-citizens have attested their confidence in him by electing him to positions of trust and responsibility. In the spring of 1894 he was chosen a member of the Weehawken Board of Education and by the board was appointed District Clerk. Three years later, in the spring of 1897, he was elected Township Committeeman for the southern district of Wee- hawken, running on the citizens' and taxpayers' ticket, and when the HERMAN H. WOUTERS. board convened was appointed Town Treasurer, which office he still holds. He has also been Chairman of the Fire Committee, Clerk of the Board of Health, and Chairman of the Board of Council, a position corresponding to that of Mayor, and through his agitations and activity succeeded in get- ting a fire alarm system placed in operation in the borough. In every capacity he has displayed great ability, sound judgment, and untiring de- votion to the best interests of the community in which he is so highly esteemed and respected. He is a charter member of the Weehawken German Socieiy, of the Lin- ..oln Republican Club, and of the Pa"'sade Ho ,e Company, a member and GENEALOGICAL 427 Trustee of the North Hudson County Cyclers, and a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity. He married Miss Agnes Mordt, and has four children : Herbert, Adolph, Walter, and Consuelo. They reside at 500 Palisade Ave- nue, Weehawken Heights. JAMES A. KELLY, one of the leading real estate dealers of Bayonne, Hudson County, is the son of William Kelly, a native of Ireland, where the latter's wife, a Miss Quinn, was also born. His father served as a member of the Bayonne Common Council for seven terms, or fourteen years — longer than any other official. In the fall of 1899 he was elected a member of the Hudson County Board of Freeholders, in which he is now serving. Mr. Kelly was born in Bayonne, N. J., on the 4th of October, 1873, and re- ceived his education in Public School No. 1, in that place, at St. Francis Xavier College on Sixteenth Street, New York City, and at St. Peter's Col- lege and Drake's Business College in Jersey City. After graduating from the latter institution he went to work in the office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Elizabethport, N. J., and while there was appointed Assistant Collector of Eevenue for the City of Bayonne, which position he held three years. He then engaged in real estate operations on his own account and has since conducted a large and successful business in his native city. Mr. Kelly has gained an excellent reputation for business ability, in- tegritj', and enterprise. He is actively interested in the welfare of his na- tive city, has contributed materially to its prosperity in various real estate operations, and with Dr. Lucius F. Donohue was largely influential in lo- cating the Babcock and Wilcox Company there. He was one of the organ- izers of the Fourth Regiment, New Jersey Militia, joining Company I, the first company organized in Bayonne. He is also a prominent member of the Bayonne Democratic Club, of the Young Men's Association, of the Knights of Columbus, of the Jersey City Catholic Club, of Drake's Alumni, of the old New Jersey Athletic Club of Bayonne, and of the Greenville Mu- sical and Social Club. Mr. Kelly was married, April 19, 1899, to Mary H. Ryan, daughter of Robert H. Ryan, Warden of the Hudson County Almshouse. ROMEO THOMPSON CHURCHILL, D.V.S., is prominent alike in the practice of his profession as a veterirary surgeon and as a member of the Democratic party. Born in New York City on the 26th of May, 1853, he is the son of Joseph Churchill and Sarah Leviness. The family on his fath- er's side is of English descent. Joseph Churchill was born in Bristol, Eng- land, February 22, 1813, and died in Hudson County in 1891. His wife, Sarah, daughter of John and Hannah Leviness, was born in 1818 and died in Middlesex County. N. J., in 1871. They had six children: Joseph P., Sa- rah M., Samuel A., William L., Romeo T., and George W. Joseph Churchill first lived in Yonkers, N. Y., being engaged as a professional driver for the Livingston family. Removing to New York City, he located on Forty-first Street and subsequently on Forty-eighth Street, and built the first house on the latter thoroughfare. He was engaged in business as a butcher for about two years, and then returned to England, settled his father's estate, and when nearly twenty-one years of age again came to America, settling in New York, where he was married on his twenty-first birthday. In the meantime he had acquired an education which fitted him for the practical affairs of life. He, began th-^ practice of his profession as a veterinary sur- 428 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES geon soon after his mai'iiage, and about 1852 purchased the Bloomingdale stage line, which he extended, consolidating it with the Harlem line. He continued this business until 1866, when he sold the franchise to George Kibbiett and resumed his profession, which he followed until his death, and in which he gained distinction. He was a Democrat, firm in his convictions, poi)ular with his clientage, and well known throughout the State of New York. l»i-. Romeo T. Churchill received his education in New York City. After graduating from the public schools he entered the New York College of Veterinary Burgery, from which he was graduated in veterinary surgery, both medical and cam])arative, in 18SC, receiving the degree of D. V. S. Since then he has resided and followed his profession at Secaucus, North Bergen Township, Hudson County, N. J. His reputation as a skillful and successful veterinarian extends beyond the county, and in New York, where he has an office, he supervises the veterinary work of seveial of the largest stables in the city. In politics, as a leading Democrat, he is one of the best known men in Eastern New Jersey. He was foi- several years a member of the North Bergen Townshii) Committee, and it is said that the affairs of the township were never in better condition than when he held that office. \Yhen he re- signed the township treasury contained a surplus of over |30,000. For a number of years he served as Township Collector, discharging the duties of the position with faithfulness and satisfaction. He has also been a mem- ber of the Board of Education, a Justice of the Peace, a delegate to various political conventions, and a member of several social, political, and frater- nal bodies. Dr. Churchill is a public spirited and enterprising citizen, and widely esteemed and respected. In the active practice of his profession he has achieved eminent success. He married Miss Eliza J. Dunn. WILLIAM TOLEN, Chief of Police of Kearny, Hudson County, and one of the best known citizens of Eastern New Jersey, was born in Philadelphia. Pa., June 21, 1851. His parents, George E. and Kate (Smith) Tolen, were natives of Germantown, Pa., and soon after their marriage in that place re- moved to Philadelphia, whence they came to Newark, N. J., in 1856. They were people of industry and force of character, and transmitted to their children those sturdy qualities of head and heart which invariably pave the way to success. Coming to Newark when he was five years old, William Tolen spent his boyhood and youth in that city, attending the public schools. After leav- ing school he learned the trade of carpenter and builder, which he followed in Newark until 1881. He then removed to Kearny, Hudson County, where he has lived ever since, folhnving the same business and engaging quite ex- tensively in contracting. He built Public School No. 5, engine house No. 4, and many other large buildings in Kearny and vicinity, and by close ap- plication to business has achieved both success and honor. His work shows the thoroughness and excellence which characterize all of his under- takings, and stands as monuments to his skill, industry, integrity, and enterprise. Since taking up his residence in Kearny Mr. Tolen has be»n active and prominent in public life and an important factor in the prosperity of the town. In politics he is a Republican. He was a member of the Town Coun- cil one term, Assistant Chietof the Fire Department two years, Commis- GENEALOGICAL 429 sionei' of Ajipeals three rears, and Ooiiiinissioner of Assessments two years. At tlie present time (1!)()0) lie is Cliief of Police of Kearny. In each of th<'se positions be has exhiliited marked ability, jiatriotism, and sound common sense, and has ^^on the ajiproval and contidence of the entire community. His activity in political affairs has brons'ht him into more than local prom- inence and gained for him an acknowledged leadership in the councils of the Republican party. Mr. Tolen had some ex|)erience on a merchant ship un- der the British flag, on which he served one and one-half years, leaving when he was about fifteen. He r(miained abroad altogether three years. He is a member of the jMethodist E]iiscopal Church, a man of broad and liberal culture, and a iirogressive citizen. He is a life mendier of the New WILLIAM TOLEN. Jersey State Firemen's Relief Association and Avas President of the Kearny Firemen's ^\ssociation for five years. In L^HJ Mr. T(den married Elhi V. I'luni, by whom he has six children: Kate, S. Thornton, Plarry S., Robert P.. Ella G., and Sadie E. JAMES CLOSE, President of the New Jersey Tube Company, was born in Paterson, N. J., February 28, 1808. He is the son of Samuel Close and .Mai'garet J. Moore, a grandson of James Close and Rachel King Close, and a great-grandson of .lames Close. His ancestors came to this country from Ireland and have ahvays been prominent in public and business affairs. 430 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Mr, Close was reared in Belleville, Essex County, N. J., and received his principal education in the adjacent Town of Bloomfleld. His active busi- ness life began while he was yet a youth. He learned the metal-working business in Belleville Avith the firm of Hendricks Brothers, and has con- stantly followed it with marked success. He is now President of the New Jersey Tube Company, of Harrison, Hudson County, which was established in the spring of 1896 for the manufacture of steel and brass tubing, and which has developed into one of the largest and most successful manufac- turing concerns of the kind in the country. The employees in their factory at Harrison number about two hundred and thirty-five, and they turn out a superior quality of steel and brass tubing which finds a ready sale throughout the United States. Mr. Close is an independent Republican, but has never taken an active part in political affairs, his business demanding his entire attention. Though a young man he has achieved success and holds a high place among the leading manufacturers of Hudson County. He resides, however, in Newark, N. J., and is a member of the Masonic order, of the North End Club, and of the Park Side Angling Club, all of that city. He married Miss Mary Frank Hayward, of Waterbury, Conn., and has two children : Helen Hayward Close and Margaret Moore Close. OSCAE SANDFOED, father of Mrs. Peter Brandt (see page 431), was born in Kearny, N. J., January 19, 1820. His father, David, was born on the old Sandford homestead at Passaic, N. J., and in his earlier days was a car- man in New York City, where he had a large number of men in his employ. He married Calista Brown. Michael Sandford, father of David, was one of the largest landowners and wealthiest men in his section, and at one time owned a number of slaves. He married Jennie Sandford. Oscar Sandford was educated in Newark, N. J., and in New York City, and during his early life was engaged in the butchering business. Sub- sequently he followed the japanning trade in Newark, where he also had a livery stable. Later he was the proprietor of the old Halfway House in Kearny, Hudson County. He was a Democrat in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and widely esteemed as a man of integrity, honor, and enterprise. He was successful in all he attempted. As a marksman he was especially noted, being the champion shot of America at the time of his death. He was killed by a Pennsylvania Eailroad train in Jersev Citv, while returning from a business trip to New York, April 20, 1868.' He was married in Newark, N. J., to Catherine B. Easton, a native of Edinboro, Scotland, and had nine children: John, Mary Emma (Mrs. Peter Brandt), Henrietta, Delia, Oscar, Amanda, Oscar (2d), Fitz, and Allan. LORENZO WOOD, Jr., of Kearny, Hudson County, was born in Brook- lyn, N. Y., on the 17th of March, 1868. He is the'^son of Lorenzo D. C. Wood and Mary E. Mahar, natives of that city. There he received his edu- cation in the public schools. After leaving school, equipped with the knowledge which fitted him for the practical duties of life, Mr. Wood engaged in the sugar business,, and for several years has held a responsible position with the Ame..ican iSugar Eeflning Company of New York City. He resides in N,ewark, N. J., where he has wielded no small influence in promoting the general welfare and in shaping local affairs. Though nevt. aspiring to public office, he is deeply GENEALOGICAL 431 and actiTOlv interested in the prosperity of the town, and liberally encour- ages all worthy objects. He married Miss Bertha A. Horstmann. PETER BRANDT, who for many years has been successfnllT en2:aged in the ice business in Harrison, N. J., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 22d of November, 1848. His parents, George Brandt, a native of France, and Sarah Kountz. a native of Germany, came to this country when young and first settled in Philadelphia, where they were married. George Brandt was a cavalryman in the Mexican War, sustaining a broken leg and re- ceiving an honorable dis- charge. He also served in the War of the Rebel- lion with bravery and dis- tinction. For five years he was official court inter- preter in New York. He spoke seven languages — • French, German, English, Spanish. Italian, Danish, and Portuguese. TSTien Peter Brandt was an infant his parents removed to New York City, and there he re- ceived a thorough public school education. After completing his studies and gaining such practi- cal experience in life as a boy usually acquires he engaged in the horse bus- iness, which he success- fully conducted in New York City for several years. In 1860 he re- moved to Harrison, Hud- son County, and since then has been actively and successfully engaged in the ice trade, becom- ing one of the most promi- nent factors in that in- dustry in his section. Mr. Brandt is a public spirited, energetic, and patriotic citizen, a man of great enterprise and executive ability, and highly esteemed and respected by all who know him. His honesty of purpose and fair dealing have won for him the confidence of the entire community. In politics he is a Demo- crat and deeply interested in the affairs of his party and town. On the 10th of August, 186.5, Mr. Brandt married Mary Emma Sandford, a descendant of one of the oldest and most distinguished families in New Jersey, and a native of Harrison, Hudson County. Of their ten children four are living nameh': John Dunham, Jane Sanford, George Washington, and Peter Oscar. PETER BKANDT. 432 nt'DSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES CONRAD BTCKHARD, only son of Henry and Maria (Stermer) Bickhard, was born in Hesse, Germany, October 12, 1820. In his youth and early manhood he received a thorough industrial training, especially in the line of woodworking, and for several years he made spinning wheels and weav- ers' looms. He was a natural mechanic, endowed with great artistic skill, and became an expert in all branches of carpentering and cabinet work. His tastes inclined toward the finest workmanship, and even to fine carv- ing, many examples of which are still extant. His grandfather was on a visit to America at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed. In 1848 Mr. Bickhard left the Fatherland for America, and in New York City, where he liA'-ed for about six years, engaged in carpentering and cab- inetmaking. In 1853 he became one of the pioneers of what is now West New York, Hudson County, N. J. The story of his settlement there is in- teresting. He was obliged to cut his way through the woods almost from the ferry to a point about five miles northwest, and on the spot where his widow now resides erected a rude house, which his family occupied until he could build a more comfortable home. His nearest neighbor was more than two miles distant. All around him were forests, yet out of these he carved his home, and lived to see the timber cleared away, houses spring up, and a village grow into activity. Here he followed the trade of carpenter with success, and occasionally gratified his finer instincts by making pieces of household furniture, many of which are still prized for their elegance as well as for their associations. He received a premium for good scholar- ship in architecture. Mr. Bickhard served seven months as a member of a New Jersey regi- ment in the Civil War, being honorably discharged on account of illness. An ardent Eepublican, he was for many years a School Trustee and District Clerk, and was one of the first five members and founders of the German Eeformed Church of the Town of Union. He was also a member of the Ilarugari, of the old " Seven Wise Men," and of the original fire depart- ment in West New York. Mr. Bickhard always took an active interest in the growth and prosperity of his town, wa.s prominent in every movement designed to advance its welfare, and was highly respected by all who knew him. He died October 15, 1875. He was married in September, 1846, to Catherine, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Mabes) Arnold, of Hesse, Germany, where she was born April 30, 1825. She survives him and resides in the family homestead in West New York which he built. They had nine children, one of whom, Henry Bick- hard, enlisted in the United States regular army. Four are living, viz.: Amelia (Mrs. Scommodau), Matilda (Mrs. Lurcott), Charles, and Mary. HENRY W. SOLFLEISCH, of Homestead, North Bergen, Hudson Coun- ty, was born in New York City on the 10th of April, 1869, the son of Adam Solfleisch and Margaret Berner. His parents were born in Germany. His father served as a Captain in the German Army, and after coming to this country was a soldier in the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion. Mr. Solfleisch obtained his education in the New York public schools and then learned the trade of engraving and printing, mastering every branch and becoming an expert. At the age of twenty-one he started in business for himself, and now has, at No. 143 Fulton Street, New York, one of the largest steel and copper engraving and printing plants in the coun- try. His success is the result of his own efforts, proT,erly and judiciously ap plied, and from a modest beginning he has built up an extensive business. GENEAL0C4ICAL 433 He has taken an actiAe part in the affairs of North Bergen, and for three years served as a School Trustee of the township. He is a member of the Foresters of America, and as a citizen is public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic. In 1893 he married Miss Elise Kaestner. They have four chil- dren. LOUIS KIESEWETTEK, of Secaucus, X. J., is one of the active leaders of the Democratic party in Hudson County. His first vote was cast for General (leorge 1'. McClelland, the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1864, and he has been a consistent Democrat from that time to the present. He was a Freeholder of Hudson County in 1879 and iSSO. He has been a member of the Democratic County Committee of Hud- son County for many years, and is Chairman of the Democratic Exec- utive Committee of Se- caucus. Mr. Kiesewetter was born in Germany, Octo- ber 8, 1845, the son of August and Caroline Kiesewetter. In 1846 he was brought to Amer- ica by his parents. The family settled originally at Greenville, Jersey City, subsequently re- siding in Hoboken, where August Kiese- wetter died in 1883. Mr. Kiesewetter's mother still resides there. He was educated in the public schools of Ho- boken, subsequently learning the trade of a butcher, which he has followed since. In 1870 he engaged in business on his own account in Hoboken. Since 1880 he has been a resident of Secancns. In addition to his regular business he has also speculated largely and successfully in real estate. In the Civil War he served in the Union Army, enlisting in 1862 in Colonel Howard's Marine Artillery. He was subsequently trans- ferred to the Ninety-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, with which he served two years and two months. He then entered the Quartermaster's Department ;.nd was transferred to Folly Island. He participated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter and in various other engagements, and in 1864 was mustered out of the service. He is a member of the Knights of LOUIS KIESf;WETTER. 434 HUDSON AND BERGEN (BOUNTIES Honor, the Ancient Order of Redmen, and the O. D. H. F. Benevolent So- ciety. He married Francesca Bornawetz, of Hoboken, by whom he has five chil- dren, who are livinjj': Ernest, Fi'ank, Otto, Carrie, and Louis. JAMES EDWIN HULSHIZER, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer of the New Jersey Title (Inarantee and Trust Comjtany, of Jersey City, was born in I'.roadway, Wai'ren County, N. J., on the 7th of August, 18G9. His father, James Edwin Hiilshizer, Sr., one of the most prominent juembers of the New York Produce Exchange and a leading citizen of Jersey City, died May 15, 1900. in his sixtieth year. Mr. Hulshizer received his prepai'atory education at Hasbrouck Insti- tute in Jersey City, graduating from that institution in ISSG. He then entered Columbia College, New York City, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. While a student at college he gained during vacations con- siderable experience in business and financial affairs in the employ of the Provident Institu- tion for Savings in Jer- sey City and in the of- fice of Logan, Cowl & Co., grain brokers and uu-mbers of the New York Pi'oduce Ex- rhange. Aftei' leaving college Mr. Hulshizer entered tln^ emplov of the New Jersey Title Cuarantee and Trust Com]»any, of Jersey City, as a clerk, and steadily rose stej) by step to the position of Secretary and Treas- urer, which he is now filling with acknowl- edged ability. He is an able business man, a public spirited and enterpris- ing citizen, deeply intei'ested in the welfare of the community, and prom- inently identified with the attaiis of the city and county. His broad and accurate knowledge of real estate titles is well known. He is a member of the Palma and Carteret Clubs of Jersey City. Mr. Hulshizer married a daughter of William Martin, of J' rsey City, and resides there at 78 Madison Avenue. JAMKS B. HULSHIZER, .JR. GENEALOGICAL 435 WILLIAM H. SCHMIDT, one of the substantial citizens of Hudson County, N. J., has been a resident of West New York, in that county, since 19K). From 1S7?. to 1894 he was acti\elT engaged in the wholesale ice business. In 1894 his extensive plant was destroyed by a cyclone, but he rebuilt on a larger scale. In 1898 he built the well known Schmidt's hygiene ice factory on Harrison Street, near the Hudson Boulevard, in West New York, of which he and his j'oungest son are sole owners, the firm name being ^Valliam H. & E. H. Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt is one of the most extensiA^e property owners in Northern Hudson County. As a Democrat in politics he has been active in public life. For a period of twelve years he was Chairman of the Township Com- mittee, and in this capacity distinguished himself by the display of rare executive ability. For ten years he was also a Justice of the Peace. For six years he was a member of the School Board of West New Y'ork. He has also served as Treasurer of the township, having held this responsible position for more than four years. He enjoys the confidence of the com- numity and has established a reputation for integrity and soundness of judgment. Mr. Schmidt was born in Germany, May 5, 1831, the son of Bernard and IMargaret Schmidt, and received his education in that country. In 18.51 h( came to America, settling originally in New Y'ork City. There he re- sided during the next eighteen years. In 18.53 he engaged in the real estate business, and was also connected with a manufacturing enterprise. In 1857 he enlisted in the Fifty-fifth Regiment, National (iuard of the State of New York, and when the Civil AYar broke out, in 18G1, he volunteered with his regiment for service in the cause of the T'nion and went to the front. He saw active service throughout the Peninsular campaign, including par- ticipation in the tierce seven days' fight in the Wilderness. On account of disability received in service he was honorably mustered out in 1863. Since the ^\a.T he has taken an active interest in the ( irand Army of the Republic, and is a member of Ellsworth Post, No. 14, of New Jersey. Returning to New York at the close of his period of service in the Union Army. Jlr. Schmidt found that his businrss interests had practically slipped from his grasp during his absence. But he soon established another suc- cessful business, as the propric tor of a woodcarving establishment for the manufacture of piano frames, ileantime, he had acquired real estate hold- ings in West New Y'ork, Hudson County, and thither he removed in 1869. He has since taken great interest in everything affecting the public welfare of West New Y'ork and Hudson County. CHARLES A. HE INS, the well known wholesale dairy produce dealer of West Hoboken. N. J., is the son of Diederick and Johanna Heins and was born in Germany, June 20, 1S65. He obtained his education at Bremen, in the Fatherland, and early developed traits of industry, economy, and enterprise which have won for him success in business and private life. Leaving his nati\e country in 1883, he cajne to New York and engaged a^ clerk in a grocery store. Subsequently he associated himself with A. R. Reynolds & Co., one of New York's largest cheese firms, and the experience thus gained has served him vncII ever since. About 1890 Mr. Heins established his present business at 169 Spring Street, We^t Hoboken, and through his energy, integrity, and sound judg- ment, united v ith great tact, has built up an extensive trade as a wholesale dealer in cheese, buttor, and all kirds of dairy produce. Beginning on 436 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES small scale, he has enlarged his establishment and improved his facilities until now he has one of the largest and best appointed wholesale houses of the kind in East Jersey. In politics Mr. Heins is a stanch Republican, but his attention has been devoted to business, to the exclusion of public preferment or political honors. He is a prominent member of the West Hoboken Business Men's Association, of the Schuetzen Association of New Jersey, and of the Odd Fellows. He is a public spirited, patriotic citizen, and enjoys the confi- dence of all wlio know him. Mr. Heins married Miss Lotta Mohr, and has three children: Charles, Lotta, and Florence. THOMAS HENRY, contractor, truckman, and dealer in masons' supplies, of the Town of Union, N. J., is the son of Thomas Henry, Sr., and Mary Smith, both natives of Ireland. His father came to this country about 1850. settling first in New York City, and subsequently moving to the Town of Union, where he died in 1887. Mr. Henry was born in the Town of Union, Hudson County, November 28, 1861, and obtained his education there in the public schools. After completing his studies Mr. Henry identified himself with the trucking busi- ness, first as an employee and in 1887 as proprietor, and by enterprise, in- dustry, and practical application has gained an honorable standing. In 1887 he engaged in trade as a dealer in masons' building materials, fire clay, coal, drain pipe, etc.. on the corner of Palisade Avenue and Gardner Street, the firm name being William D. & T. Henry. They also did a gen- eral trucking business. William D. Henry, brother of Thomas and senior partner of the firm, died April 9, 1897, and since then Thomas Henry has conducted the business alone. Mr. Henry is one of the best known business men in North Hudson Coun- ty. Enterprising, energetic, and thorough, he has been successful, and through his integrity and force of character has achieved a high reputation. He has also been prominent in public capacities, having served as a Coun- cilman of the Town of Union for four years from May 1, 189.5, to May 1, 1899. During three years of that period he was the only Republican on the board and the only candidate elected on the local Republican ticket. This fact attests the esteem and confidence in which he is held by his fel- low-citizens. Mr. Henry is a member of the Business Men's Association of the Town of Union, of the Knights of Honor, and of Garfield Council Jr. O. U. A. M. He was married on the 27th of March, 1888, to Miss Mary Brems, daugh- ter of Michael Brems, of the Town of Union, N. J. They have one daugh- ter, Clara Henry, and reside in the Town of Union. ADOLPH WILLIAM WEISMANN, son of August Weismann, was born in Germany, and about 1840 came to this country with his parents, settling in New York City. His father was engaged in the cigar business in New York until 1874, when he retired and moved to what was then Lossburg, in West Hoboken, N. J., where he died in 1895. Mr. Weismann was for many years associated with his uncle, August W. Weismann, one of the earliest druggists and chemists in New York City, his store being on the corner of Broome and Orchard St^-ee+s. "n 1874 he en- gaged in the drug trade on his own account in West ± .ob'oken, where he di:^d in Ma'-ch, 1896. highly respe^teu and esteemed. He was a man of GENEALOGICAL 437 considerable proiaiuence in the community, of great force of character, and of unquestioned honesty and integrity, and always took a deep interest in public affairs. His attention, however, was given wholly to business, in which he was successful. He married Anna Meyers, daughter of A\'illiam Meyers, who died in 1888, leaving three sons and one daughter, viz.: Ferdinand, Adolph, David, and Louisa. FERDINAND WEISMANX, eldest son of Adolph William Weismann and Anna Meyers and a grandson of August Weismann and William Mev- FERDINAND WEISMANN. ers, was born in \A'est Hoboken, N. J., June 1, 1874. He was educated in the West Hoboken and Union Hill public and high schools, graduating from the latter in 18!)1. In the same year he jjassed the examination be- fore the New Jersey State Board of I'harmacy. Entering his father's drug sto' e at a very early age, he grew up in the business and acquired a prac- tical knowledge of every branch, and in 1894 succeeded his father under the firm na. le of F. Weismann & Brother, his partner being his oldest brother, Adoljth. This r^opartners)-'') still continues, with two stores: on at 166 Bergenline Avenue in the Iuaau of Union and another at 485 Pall- 438 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES sf(de Avenue in West Hoboken. They have been very successful and main- tain an extensive trade. Mr. Weismann is an ardent Democrat, and since 1896 has been Deputy Register of Deaths for Hudson County. He is also a Notary Public, a mem- ber and clerk of the Board of Education, and a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Hamilton Wheelmen. He was married, October 20, 1891, to Tillie Willis Larwill, daughters of John and Matilda Larwill, of Hoboken, N. J. They have two daughters: Ed- na and Viola Mae. ADOLPH WEISMANN, second son of Adolph William Weismann and Anna Meyers, was born in West Hoboken, N. J., October 14, 1877. He was graduated from the high school of his native town in 1894, and the same year formed a copartnership with his elder brother, Ferdinand, and en- gaged in the drug business in the Town of Union and later also in West Hoboken, the firm being F. Weismann & Brother. He passed his ex- amination before the New Jersey State Board of Pharmacy in 1898. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, of the Knights of the Maccabees, and of the Hamil- ton Wheelmen. November 26, 1898, he married Miss Clara Pritchard, of Utica, N. Y. JOHN OETJEN, one of the oldest German citizens of West New York, N. J., is the son of John and Anna Oetjen, and was born in Hanover, Ger- many, December 5, 1837. Educated in the public schools of the Fatherland, he learned the trade of carpenter, but later went to London, England, where he engaged in the manufacture of loaf-sugar. In 1861 he came to America and established himself in the same business on the corner of King and Greenwich Streets, New York, where he remained two years, building up a successful trade. In 1863 he removed to what is now West New York, Hudson County, which has ever since been his home. During the first two years of his residence in West New York he was en- gaged in distilling and rectifying liquors. Afterward he was long engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor business, retiring in 1894. Mr. Oetjen has always been noted as a man of integrity, industry, and enterprise. Taking from the first a deep interest in local affairs, he was for eighteen years a School Trustee, serving several terms as Chairman of the board, and during one-half of the time acting as District Clerk. He was also for three years a Township Committeeman. In politics he is a Democrat. He has built several houses in West New York, thus contributing to the ma- tei'ial growth of the town, and was a member of the old and unique order known as the " Seven Wise Men." He has also been active in other or- ganizations. Mr. Oetjen was married in New York City in May, 1870, to Miss Mary Ilulse, a native of Germany. They have one son, John P. Oetjen, a car- penter, of West New York. JOHN WHITE has been a life-long resident of North Hudson County, N. J., liaving been born in the Town of Union on the 22d of January, 1849. His parents, Michael White and Mary McGrane, natives of ':reland', were married in that country and came to the United States in 184S. They took up their rcLidence on Union Hill, where Mrs. Wnite still. lives. Michael GENEALOGICAL 439 White died there in 1863, respected and esteemed for those manly virtues wliich characterized all his relations. Mr. White obtained a good public school education in the Town of Union, and as a youth developed strong intellectual and physical qualities. Learn- ing the carpenter's trade, he engaiied in business for himself about 1878 as a contractor and builder, and since then has continued in that occupa- tion with signal success. On Union Hill and in West Hoboken, where he now resides, he has contributed to the general growth and prosperity, and many of the finest dwellings and other buildings are the result of his ener- gies. He has built up an extensive business. His ability and enterprise, his integrity and sound judgment, and his sagacity and foresight have won for him a wide popularity, and the respect and confidence of the entire community. He is one of the prominent citizens of North Hudson County, and from, boyhood has been active and influential in behalf of the best in- terests of the public. Tn politics Mr. AVhite is a Democrat, and at different times has served as Commissioner of Assessments. For three years he was a member of Com- pany B. Fourth Regiment, X. G. X. J. He is a leading member of the Holy Name Society of St. Michael's Monastery, of West Hoboken, and has been identified with other important social bodies. Mr. White was married in July, 18S1, to Miss Jane Hogan, daughter of John Hogan. of Jersey City Heights, N. J. They have six children: Mary, Jennie, Nellie, James, Joseph, and Addie. FREDERICK J. BERGMANN, Jii., of Weehawken, is the son of Fred- erick J. Bergmann, Sr., and Gertrude Zeigeler, and a grandson of John Bergmann, all natives of Germany, his father being born in Bavaria and his mother in Frankfort. The revolutionaiy events of 1848 drove his par- ents, with a large number of other German patriots, to America, to seek the home and freedom which the Fatherland denied them. Arriving in the United States in that year, they settled on Staten Island, N. Y., where the subject of this sketch was born May 5, 187(1. Soon afterward they re- moved to Weehawken, N. J. Here Mr. Bergmann has since resided. (3btaining his education in the \A'eehawken public schools, he learned the trade of painter and decorator, which he still follows in that town, having established himself in business in 181)1. He is one of the leading painters and decorators in North Hud- son County, and by industry, perseverance, and honest endeavor has achieved success. His work bears evidence of artistic ta^te and originality. While devoting himself assiduously to his profession Mr. Bergmann has not neglected the duties of a public spirited, patriotic citizen, but has served his town in various capacities. For three years he was a member of the Weehawken Board of Education and rendered efficient service. As a member of the Fire Department he has also contributed materially to the progress of the town. He is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, of the Foresters of America, and of the Weehawken Cyclers. In politics he is a Republican and in religion a Presbyterian, and throughout the com- munity is highly respected and esteemed. Mr. Bergmann married Miss Augusta Kleinker. They have one daugh- ter, and reside on the corner of Hudson Avenue and Angelique Street, Wee- hawken Heights. JOSEPH ALOYSIUS McCURNIN, now serving a second term as a member of the Board of Aldermen of Bayonne, Hudson County, A'as born in 440 HUDSON AND BERGBN COUNTIES Ireland on the lat of July. 185!). his parents being John McCurnin and Jane McDonald. The family came to the United vStates in 1866 and settled in Jersey City, where the subject of this sketch received his education in St. Mary's Catholic Institute. After leaving school Mi'. McCurnin entered the employ of the American Standard Paper Company, where he ac(iuii'ed tlie I'udiments of a business training. Afterward he became interested in a commission business in Washington Market, New York City. Leaving this, he associated himself with the Standard Oil Company, and is now foreman of their extensive re- finery at Eayonne. N. J. Mr. McCurnin is a nmn of great force of character, JOSEPH A. MoCURNlN. endowed with executive ability of a high order, and in every position has achieved honor and distinction. He has also been prominent in public affairs. As a Democrat he has taken an active interest in i)olitics, and for five years rendered efiflcent service as a member of the Board of School Trustees of Bayonne. He is now serving his second term as an Aldeinian of that city. H is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Foresters of America, of the FcJievolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Knights of Cokimbus. In 1881 Mr. McCurnin married Miss Mary Burns, of Bayonne, N. J. They have seven children: James, Annie, John, Joseph, Vera, William, and Jane. GENEALOGICAL 441 THOMAS A. OARBREY has always resided in Harrison, Hudson Coun- ty, N. J., where he was born April 25, 1869. He is the son of Michael and Ellen (Leonard) Carbrey, natives of Ireland, who came to America when young, were married here, and settled in Harrison. Mr. Carbrey received a good educational training in the public schools of Ma native town, and has spent his active life in the wire business, in which lit- has already achieved marked success. He has also taken an active and prominent part in politics, and as a member of the Harrison Board of Edu- cation has rendered efficient service to the town. He is an ardent and con- sistent Democrat and a public spirited, patriotic, and enterprising citizen. His popularity and reputation are indicated by the fact that he has served as President of the American Wire Weavers' Association. THOMAS CARROLL, Clerk of the Township of Weehawken since April, 1891, was born in Hoboken, N. J., May 1, 1867. His parents, Patrick Car- roll and Johanna Sullivan, and his grandparents, Philip and Mary Carroll, were natives of Ireland, his father being born in Tipperary and his mother in Cork. Philip Carroll came to America with his family soon after 1850 and settled in Princeton, N. J., where he operated a large stone quarry, and where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Patrick Carroll learned the carpenter's trade in New Brunswick, and about 1862 removed to Hoboken, where he had charge of the Hoboken Land Improvement Com- pany's saw-mill for about twenty-eight years. Afterward he moved to Weehawken and died there in April, 1890, being survived by his wife and several children, of whom Thomas is the eldest living son. He was a Com- missioner of Appeals for three terms, a member of the Hoboken Ferry- men's Association, and a prominent, active, and influential citizen. Thomas Carroll was educated at St. Mary's parochial school and the Christian Brothers' school in his native city, and at the age of fifteen entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company, with which he remained about three years. Subsequently he learned the plumbing trade with J. H. Kniffin, of Hoboken, and for more than six years he followed that busi- ness with marked success, having an establishment of hi" own during a part of that period. In the meantime Mr. Carroll became an acknowledged leader of the Re- publican forces in Weehawken, taking an active part in local politics and being honored by his party with several positions of trust. Under the old law he was Police Clerk of Weehawken for six years, and in April, 1891, he was elected Township Clerk. The duties of this position, which he has dis- charged with ability and satisfaction, led him to relinquish temporarily the business of plumber and gas fitter, in order to devote to it his attention and energies. Mr. Carroll was one of the organizers in 1890 of the old Weehawken Ath- letic Club, of which he was Secretary. He is an exempt member of Baldwin Hose Company No. 1, of Weehawken, which he served as Secretary for six years. He was a member and Secretary of the old West Side Social Club, and is a member of Glendlaugh Council, No. 214, C. B. L. He is a public spirited, progressive citizen and active in promoting the best interests of his town an( county. He is unmarried, and resides with his mother in the family hom. tead at 14 West Nineteenth Street, Weehawken. LOUIS C. NEUSCHELER, Collector of Taxes of the Town of Union, Hudson County, -N. J., has .been a liie-long resident of that place, having 442 iniDSON AND BKU.i! kT: ■bS*-J ?'^, ?% ¥■ ■■■■ ■ :'■:■ K^ L= LOUIS C. NEUSCHELER. of tlie neighborhood, and then became a bookkeeper, a profession he has since followed. His interest in politics and public affairs was manifest even during his youth, and has continued to be one of his chief character- istics. He became a Notary Public and subsequently Collector of Arrears, and is now (1900) the efficient Collector of Taxes of the Town of Union. In These capacities he has displayed marked ability, sound jadgment, and great sagacity — qualities which invariably lead to higher honors. Public spirited, p/ogressive, and thoroughly identified with the best interests of hi.^ native town, he enjoys the conflaeuce and •"steem of the entire commu- nity, and as a member of the John J. Egan .^Association he is prominent GENEALOGICAL 443 and active in politics. He is a member of the Republican Association of the Town of Union, of the Mutual Benefit Association, of the Hamilton Wheelmen, and of the New Jersey Building, Loan and Investment Com- pany. He is unmarried. EDAYARD A. O'CALLACrHAX is one of the rising young lawyers of Jer- sey City, N. J., where he was born on the 11th of November, 1874. His father, Thomas C. O'tJallaghan, A\as born in Ireland in 1845, and his mother, Ellen Carey, in Quebec, Canada. Mr, O'Callaghan received an excellent preparatory education and then entered Manhattan College, from which he was graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1S95. He r(-ceived the degree of LL.B. from the New York Law School in 1807 and was adndtted to the New Jersey bar in the same year at the February term of the Supreme Court. He is also a member of the bar of Xi w York State. Settling in Jersey City, Mr. O'Callaghan entered upon the active practice of his profession early in 1S!)7. He has steadily gained influence and standing at the bar and among his younger associates already holds a prominent place. He is a member of Jersey City Lodge, Xo. 211, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His wife, whose maiden name was Charlotte Aherne, is a native of Queenstowu, Ireland. GEORGE M'YRILL, of Harrison, N. J., one of the leading citizens of Hudson County, was born in York, England, on the 14th of December, 1865. He is the son of Robert Thomas Wyrill and Sarah Thomas, both of v/hom were born in England. Mr. AYyrill received his education in the public schools of his native town, and in 1882 came to the T'nited States. Locating in Newark, N. J., he soon afterward moved to Harrison, Hudson County, and engaged in the ice busi- ness, which he still follows with marked success. He is one of the repre- sentative business men of Hudson County. While Mr. "SA'yrill has devoted his energies and attention strictly to busi- ness affairs, he has at the same time taken a deep interest in the questions of the day, and esjiecially in matters affecting the progress and welfare of his adopted town. He is thoroughly identified with the public and political affairs of the Borough of Harrison, a prominent member of the I)emocratic party, and a liberal contributor to every movement which has for its object the advancement and betterment of his fellowmen. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic citizen. Mr. Wyrill was married on the 24th of November, 1898, to Miss Jennie Porter, of Harrison, N. J. JOHN NEVIN, A.M., M.D., is one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Jersey City, N. J., where he was born on the 21st of September, 1863. He is the son of Michael Nevin and Frances Carey, who were for many years honored and respected residents of that municipality. Dr. Nevin received his preliminary education in the Catholic Institute of Jersey City. Subsequently he entered ^Manhattan College in New York City and was graduated from there in the class of 1882, receiving the de- grees of A.B. and A.M. Deciding upon medicine as his life work, he became a student in 1883 in the Medical Department of the University of the Citv of New York and after the regular course was graduated from that institu- tion with the degree of M.D. in 1886. 444 HUDSON AND BEIi(!EN COUNTIES In March, 1886, Dr. Nevin began the practice of medicine in Jersey City, where he soon came into prominence as a physician and surgeon of un- usual ability, and where he has ever since conducted a large and successful business. Displaying broad and liberal qualifications, a thorough mastery of the science of medicine, and sound judgment united with a genial good nature, he has gained a wide circle of friends and an enviable standing in the community. Among the younger practitioners of the profession he is an acknowledged leader. As a citizen he is public spirited, progressive, patriotic, and universally esteemed and respected. Dr. Nevin has filled a number of important positions with ability and JOHN NEVIN. satisfaction. In 1892 he was appointed surgeon to the Jersey City Fire De- partment, which position he resigned. In November, 1896, he was ap- pointed surgeon of the Police Department of Jersey City and has ever since held that position. He is the Medical Director of the Colonial Life Insur- ance Company of America, a prominent member of the l.'udson County Medica Society, and a mem ,jer of the Medical Society of the State of New Jersey and of the University and ( ^ 'teret C bs of Jersey City. In October, 18^7, Dr. Nevin mar/ieO Nelli. oherty, and they have had two children: Grace Nevin (deceased) and Jonn Nevin, Jr. GENEALOGICAL 445 WALTER A. WALSH, formerly President of the School Board and Com- mon Council ol Kearny, Hudson County, was born in Newark, N. J., June 9, 1850. When live years old he went with his parents, Michael and Eachel (McCarell) Walsh, to Ohio, but returned at the age of fourteen and received a common school education in his native city. His parents were born in Ireland, and in 1848 came to Newark, where they were married in 1849. Mr. Walsh was successively engaged in the manufacture of buttons, in wood turning and manufacturing moldings, etc., in baking, and in the manufacture of buttons and jewelry, achieving in each business enterprise that degree of success which ability, sound judgment, and faithful atten- tion to detail invariably merit. He also obtained in these connections a valuable experience and a high reputation. In 1891 he engaged in the liquor and hotel business in Kearny, Hudson County, in which he still continues. In public and political life Mr. Walsh has filled several important trusts. He was a member one year and President two years of the Borough of East Newark Common Council, and has also served as President of the Borough of East Newark School Board. In every capacity he has discharged his duties with ability, fidelity, and satisfaction. He is a member of the Catho- lic Benevolent Legion, of the Exempt Firemen's Association, and of other social bodies. He married Miss Mary Kenney. HENRY STOCKFISH, Jr., Township Treasurer and an organizer and the first Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of North Bergen, Hud- json County, is the eldest son of Henry Stockfish, Sr., and Mary Danker, and was born in West Hoboken, N. J., June 24, 1857. Henry Stockfish, Sr., came from Germany to the United States in 1847, and in 1854 married Mary Danker, by whom he had seven children: Margaret, wife of C. H. Kopf ; Henry, Jr., the subject of this sketch; Louisa, wife of John Brady, of West Hoboken; Mary, wife of John HofCsetter, of North Bergen; Eleanor, widow of John Dahm; Emily, deceased, who married George Schell; and George F., of North Bergen. Mr. Stockfish moved to Secaucus in 1802 and remained there five years, when he settled with his family in the old home- stead on the Weavertown road, now the Hudson County Boulevard. He was one of the pioneer retail milk dealers in North Hudson County, a prom- inent man in the community, and a leading and consistent Democrat. He died in 1898, aged about seventy years. His wife's death occurred in 1890, at about the age of fifty-nine. Henry Stockfish, Jr., attended the public schools of North Bergen and Packard's Business College in New York, and after completing his studies in 1875 spent ten years assisting his father in business. Afterward he \\as engaged for about four years in the grocery trade. In 1891 he estab- lished himself in business as' a retail milk dealer, and by industry and ap- plication has built up one of the largest businesses of the kind in North Hudson County. In politics Mr. Stockfish has been for years a leading Democrat, and in the councils of his party has been very active and influential. He was eleickens Lodge, No. 45, Sons of St. George, of New York. WILLIAM O. ARMBRUSTEE, Postmaster of Weehawken, N. J., and one of the leaders of the Republican party, is a son of Joseph E. Armbruster and Amelia Hofer, both natives of Germany. His father came to America in lf^46 and engaged in the hotel business, first in New York, subsequently in Brooklyn, and finally in Jersey City, where he died in 1889. Mr. Armbruster was born in New York City on the 17th of October, 1856. At a very early age he removed with his parents to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he received a good education in Turner's school. When twenty years old the family moved to Jersey City, locating in the old Fourth Assembly Dis- trict, and there he secured employment as a shipping clerk for Lewis Patt- berg & Brothers, novelty manufacturers, with whom he remained eighteen years. In 1884 he removed to the Town of Union and in 1892 engaged in the mantel business, and so continued under the style of the Excelsior Mantel Company until 1898, when he sold out in order to devote his time wholly to official duties. He became one of the successful business men in North Hudson County, and through his industry, integrity, and enterprise built up a large trade. In politics Mr. Armbruster has always been a stanch Republican, fear- less in espousing the best principles of his party, and earnest in his con- victions as well as enthusiastic in his efPorts. During the past twenty years ho has served much of the time as a member of the Hudson County Repub- lican Committee. He was Overseer of the Poor of the Town of Union for two years fl885 and 1886), and a Councilman in 1894, 1895, and 1896, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Streets and Sewers during his full term. In 1896 he was elected to the New Jersey Legislature from the Town of Union by a handsome majority. During the session of 1897 he carefully watched over the interests of his section of Hudson County, in- troduced several important measures that promised to advance the general welfare, and strenuously opposed others that, in his opinion, would have a contrary effect if passed. In brief, he introduced and secured the enact- ment of no less than eleven bills affecting North Hudson County. One of these was the Martin Act. He also introduced a racetrack bill, which was defeated, although it contained much-needed reforms. Mr. Armbruster has always taken a prominent part in town and county affairs, has frequently been a delegate to local, district, and State Repub- lican conventions, and has for many years wielded a potent influence in all public matters. He is esteemed and respected, and has gained the confi- dence of all with whom he has come into contact. The various positions which he has filled wiih so much honor and credit attest his popularity. On July 7, 1898, he was commissioned Postmaster of Weehawken, and is now discharging, with ability and satisfaction, the duties of that office. He is an active member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 12.?, F. and A. M.; of Cyrus Chapter, No. 32, B A. M.;'of Sur-piit Lodgo, No. 182, L O. O. P., of Jersey Citv; of Palisade Lodge, No. 129, K. of P.; of West Shore Council, No. 1097, E. A.; of Garfield Council, No. 56, Jr. O. U. A. M.; of Wahwequa Tribe, No. 188, I. O. R. M.; of Hoboken Lodge, No. 74, B. P. O. E.; of Columbia Hose Company, No. 2, Town of Union; and of the Hamilton Wheelmen, the North Hudson WTieelmen, and the League of American Wheelmen. Mr. Armbruster was married, December 17, 1881, to Sophie H. Rott- mann, daughter of Henry J. and Sophie Rottmann, the former, Henry J., 466 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES being the first Mayor of the Town of Union, where he settled in 1852. They have one daughter. Sop]iie Armbruster. C11.VELES McQuillan, a prominent member of the Board of Alder- men of Bayonne, Hudson County, and Superintendent of the Standard Oil Comjiany at that city, is the son of James McQuillan and Elizabeth Eoss, and was born at Matteawan, N. Y., April 1, 1851. Plis parents were born and married in Ireland, and in 1844 came to the United States, settling first in Matteawan, N. Y., moving thence to New York City in 1857, and finally coming to Bayonne, N. J. Mr. McQuillan re- ceived his education in New York City, and sub- sequently learned the machinist's trade. He had hardly more than completed his appren- ticeship, however, and thoroughly mastered ev- ery detail of the busi- ness, M'hen he was asked to accept a position with the Standard Oil Com- pany, with which he has ever since been asso- ciated, having now the superintendency of their business in Bayonne. The fidelity and charac- teristic energy with which he has discharged every duty of this re- sponsible position have brought him into prom- inence as a man of in- tegrity and ability, and won for him a reputa- tion which extends be- yond the limits of his adopted city and county. He is known as a man of public spirit, enterprise, and progressiveness, and CHARLES m'quILLAN. has filled a number of positions with ability, honor, and satisfaction A Democrat in politics, Mr. McQuillan early identified himself with pub- lic aifairs and for some tii,.e served as Chief of the Fire Department of Bay- onn(>. He is now serving his sii th term as ■^ member of i'-.e Board of Alder- men of that city, and in this capacity has rendei'ed efficient service in ad- vancing the interests of the place and developing its resom'ces. He is Presi- dmt of the Bayonne Democratic Club, and a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Foresters of America, and of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. McQuillan was married in New York City to Miss Martha Driver, and their childien are Alay, Daisy, and James. GENEALOGICAL 467 WILLIAM MONTAGUE O'NEILL, who is engaged in the plumbing and house heating business under the firm name of W. M. & E. S. O'Neill, the latter being Edward Sylvester O'Neill, is a prominent citizen of Bavonne, Hudson County. He is the son of Francis and Catherine (Dunn) d'Neill. and was born in New Brunswick, N. J., on the 12th of December, 1859. His parents were both natives of Ireland, coming to this country when young, marrying in New Brunswick, and moving thence to Newark, N. J., and in 1871 to Bayonne. They were thrifty, industrious people and respected and esteemed by all who knew them. Mr. O'Neill acquired his education at the Christian Brothers' Academy in Newark, and afterward took up the study of law in the oflfice of William Lindsay, of New York City, with whom he remained about one year. Cir- cumstances and tastes combined at that time to divert his attention from a professional to a business life, and he entered the plumbing business estab- lished by his father in Bayonne. In 1880 he and his brother, Ed- ward Sylvester O'Neill, succeeded to their father's business and have since conducted it with marked success. They make a specialty of house- heating and plumbing and also carry on a hardware trade. As a citizen and business man Mr. O'Neill is highly respected and enjoys the confidence of the entire community. He is a Democrat in politics, an exempt fireman of the Fire Department of Bayonne, and a member and Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus. His activity in promoting the best interests of his section, his honesly and enterprise in all business mat- ters, his genial good nature and integrity of character, have made him one of the popular men of Hudson County. Mr. O'Neill was married on the 4th of November, 1896, to Mary McAvoy, daughter of Peter and Julia McAvoy, of Elizabeth, N. J. They have one child, Agnes C. WILLIAM D. DALY, member of Congress from the Seventh Congression- al District of New Jersey, was born in Jersey City in 1851, and always re- sided within the limJts of Hudson County. He rose to distinction in the political and legal life of the State. His early education was received in Public School No. 1, Jersey City, where he had as schoolmates several who later became prominent. At fourteen years of age he became an appren- tice in Corv's iron foundry in Jersey City, and subsequently was employed in. the foundry of the Erie Railroad and still later in Blackmore's foundry. But the young workman was ambitious. The legal profession had at- tracted him, and in May, 1870, he entered the office of Blair & Ransom in Jersey City. Four years later (June, 1874) he was admitted to the bar as an attorney, and later he was made counselor. Mr. Daly entered upon the practice of law with the tact and energy pe- culiar to self-made men. He practiced law in all the courts of New Jersey, represented the defense in more capital cases than any lawyer in the State, and stood in the front rank of criminal lawyer- In the great Erie Rail- road strike of 1878 he appeared as counsel for the arrested freight-handlers and secured their .'cquittal. In 1887 he coiducted the defense of the Cigar- makers' Union in Jersey City, ',\hose leaders were charged with conspiracy. In Ihis case also he succeeded in obtaining a verdict of acquittal. In appreciation of his legal ability President Cleveland, during his first term, appointed him Assistant United States Attorney, and this office he held for three vears, handing in his resignation to an incoming administra- tion. In 1888 he was made an alternate delegate to t^^e National Demo- 468 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES cratic Convention at St. Louis, and again in 1892 to the Chicago Convention. In 18!)1 he was urged to accept the nomination for member of the House of Assembly from the Eighth District of Hudson County. Elected by a rousing majority, he took his place on the floor of the House as the practi- cal leader of his party. The same courtesy which had characterized his work as a practitioner won for him hosts of friends as a legislator, even from the opposition, and at the close of the session the same Legislature ap- pointed him Judge of the Hoboken District Court. This office he resigned upon his election to the Senate in 1892. The election which resulted in the choice of Judge Daly to the Senate was won after a most exciting campaign. He was triumphantly elected by '1,045 plurality — the largest vote ever given a Senatorial candidate in Hud- son County. In 3895, after an exciting contest, Mr. Daly was re-elected Senator from Hudson County for a term of three years. In 1896 he was a district delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago. Dur- ing his six years' service in the State Senate he gained a high reputation as a legislator, and for more than half that period was the leader of his partj on the floor. He made a brilliant record in 1895, when the riparian rights question was before the Senate, during his opposition to the Cream- ery Trust, and while serving as a member of the Special Investigating Committee of the Senate. During the Presidential campaign of 1896 he rendered his party valuable service on the stump and also as Chairman of its State Committee. He was a prominent candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1898. Mr. Daly was elected to Congress in 1898 from the Seventh District of New Jersey, comprising all of Hudson County except the City of Bayonne. He received a plurality of 10,108, the largest ever given to a candidate for Congress in the district. He died, while holding that office, July 31, 1900. He was a member of various clubs and organizations, including the Bar Association of Jersej' City, the Medico-Lea:al Societv, and Rising Star Lodge, No. 109, F. and A. M. JOHN E. BOWE. contractor and builder of Weehawken, Hudson Coun- ty, is the son of Thomas Bowe and Ellen Carroll and a grandson of Thomas and Ellen Bowe. He was born at Pairview, Bergen County, N. J., January 2, 1858. His parents were natives of Kilkenny, Ireland, and soon after their arrival in America settled in this State. Mr. Bowe obtained his education in the public schools of Guttenberg, Hudson County whither the family removed when he was a boy. For a number of years he has been actively and successfully engaged in business as a builder, residing on the heights of the Town of Weehawken. He has also taken an active part in public aff'airs, and in the discharge of various official duties has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and unquestioned integrity. He was a member of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders one year, has served as Foreman of Clifton Hose Company of Weehawken, and is a member of the Roval Arcanum, of the Union Hill Schuetzen Corps, and of other social and political organiza- tions. In every capacity he has gained the confidence a ad respect of the entire community. He is progressive, public spirited, and thoroughly in- terested in the advancement of his town and county, and in many instances has exerted a wholesome influence in furthering the general welfare. Mr. Bowe married Miss Mary Keefe and has five children: John, Ella, Josephine, Thomas, and Charles Eyper. GENEALOGICAL 469 FREDERICK A. SCH\A'ARTZ is one of the pi'ominent, enterprising, pub- lic spirited, and respected citizens of West lioboken, Hudson County, and has been honored by his fellow-citizens bv election to many offices of local responsibility and trust. He has taken a lively interest in the subject of education and the public school system, and has held the office of School Trustee, faithfully discharging the duties connected with this position. He has also served as Assessment Commissioner, and won the public confidence by his integrity, fairness, and sound judgment. He has been elected to the Council of West Hoboken, and while a member of this body exhibited FREDERICK A. SCHWARTZ. concern and care for the welfare of the community. The confidence which his service in these various capacities inspired is evidenced by the fact of Ms election as Town Treasurer of West Hoboken. Mr. Schwartz it a native of West Hoboken, N. J., where he was burn in June. 1853. He is the son of P'rederick Schwartz, whose wife was a daugh- ter of Henry Courvoisier. His grandfather was Frederick Schwartz, Sr. His paternal grandparents were natives of Germany, his father being born in New York City. His ancestors on the maternal side were Swiss, and his mother was born in Switzerland. Mr. Schwartz attended the public schools and completed his education at 470 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Hoboken Academy. He then became errand boy for a business firm, and he has remained with this same firm during the thirty years since, and is now the manager, in charge of the office and the general business. Mr. Schwartz married, in 1876, Anita la Stayo. He has been a member of the Volunteer Fire Department of West Hoboken for more than twenty years, and is a member of Neptune Engine Company. He is also a mem- ber of the Roval Arcanum and has been First Eegent of the West Hoboken Council in that order. He has always taken an active interest in every- thing connected with the welfare or improvement of West Hoboken. GEORGE LIMOUZE, junior member of the real estate brokerage and in- surance firm of Wallace & Limouze, of the Town of Union, was born in West Hoboken, N. J., July 30, 1866, his father being French and Ms mother of German descent. He attended the public schools of his native town un- til the age of twelve, when he began active life as errand boy in a large manufacturing establishment in New York. Since then he has practically earned his own livelihood. Eemaining with that concern, and giving strict attention to business, he arose to tlie post of foreman, which he held for nine years, resigning in 1887 to assume charge of the large real estate in- terests of W. W. Hitchcock. In 1889 he associated himself with the Woodcliffe Land Improvement Company as managing agent of its vast property in North Hudson County. Five years later, in 1893, he formed a copartnership with James G. Wallace, and under the firm name of Wallace & Limouze has since carried on an extensive general real estate brokerage and insurance business, their office being at 165 Bergenline Avenue in the Town of Union. During the past three years Mr. Limouze has had entire charge, as resident agent, of the local interests of the Cossitt Land Improvement Company, which has done so much toward the development of the northern section of the Towns of Union and Weehawken. Mr. Limouze is an able and energetic business man, and in his knowledge of real estate and insurance matters has few equals. His perseverance, sound judgment, and unswerving integrity, together with his faitMulness to duty, have gained for him a high reputation. He resides in a handsome home on the corner of Hudson Avenue and Fourth Street in the Town of Union. In politics Mr. Limouze is a Democrat. In 1896 he was appointed a mem- ber of the Board of Education to fill the unexpired term of a member who had died, and rendered valuable service to both the board and the town. He has been President of the Hamilton Building and Loan Association af the Town of Union since its organization in 1898; is Past Chancellor Com- mander of Columbian Lodge, Knights of Pythias; a member of Garfield Council, No. 56, Jr. O. U. A. M.; a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M.; a Director of the North Hudson Hospital Association; and a member of the First Ward Democratic Club of Union Hill, a Commissioner of Deeds, and a Notary Public. He is also well known as an auctioneer, a business he has followed with marked success. He was married in 1886 to Miss Catherine Schaeffer, daughter of George ^y Schaeffer, assistant chief engineer of the Hackensack Water Company. TheA liave one son, Percy. PETER ANTHONY BROCK has always resided in Jersey City, N. J., M'here he was born on the 22d of August, 1870, his parents being George P. GENEALOGICAL 471 Brock and Margaret Ott. His ancestors were natives of Germany and came to thjs country in 1837. George P. Brock was for many years an active and influential factor in politics, and, though never holding an elective ofBce, was appointed to fill an unexpired term as County Clerk. He was one of the prominent men of Hudson County in his day, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. Peter Anthony Brock was educated at St. Peter's College, Jersey City at St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, Pa., and at Stevens Institute in Hoboken In ISSi he became bookkeeper for the Phillip Semiuer Glass Company PETER ANTHONY BROCK. Limited, of which he is now a stockholder. Director, and Treasurer. In June, 1.S94, he enlisted in the Second Signal Corps, New York Militia, was war- ranted Corporal, and on August 22, 1899, was commissioned First Lieuten- ant. In political and public matters Mr. Brock has long taken an active inter- est, and in various capacities has gained special distinction. On November 7, 1899, he was elected to the New Jersey Assembly from Jersey Cit He has been for several year.i especially active in matters of vital interest to wheelmen, and was one of the chief promoters and founders of the organi- zation known as the Associated Cycling Clubs of New York, of which Judge 472 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Sims is President. He was formerly President of the old Metropolitan As- sociation of Cycling Clubs of New York City and the Metropolitan District. The asphalt connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad ferries and the boulevard by the means of York and Mercer Streets are almost entirely due ' to his efforts and enterprise. Mr. Brock is thoroughly interested in the af- fairs of his native city, actively identifled with almost every public improve- ment, and a popular, progressive, and patriotic citizen. His experience in business affairs, in the militia, and in social and public life, as well as his prominence in promoting various important movements, have won for him the confidence of the entire community, and a reputation which extends be- yond the limits of Hudson County. He is a member of the Jersey City Club, of the Palma Club, and of the Catholic Club, all of Jersey City, and also of the Knights of Columbus and the Robert Davis Association. He is President of the Good Roads Association of Hudson County and Secretary of the National Cycling Association. These connections indicate in a small measure his prominence in the movement for good roads and cycling in- terests. On the 21st of September, 1897, Mr. Brock married Charlotte Emma Langler. They have two daughters, Margaret Anna Brock and Charlotte Grace Brock. JAMES W. MILLER, of Rutherford, was born in Caldwell, N. J., March 13, 1858. He is the son of J. M. Miller and Sarah A. Phillips, both natives of this State and representatives of old families. He received a public school education. He taught school for a number of years and afterward studied law. He was admitted to the bar and is now actively and successfully en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Rutherford, where he resides. Mr. Miller was married, in 1894, at Cranford, N. J., to Kate T., daughter of Charles N. and Hannah Drake, of that place. They have one son, Frank Miller. ROBERT H. WORTENDYKE is of the seventh generation from Corne- liese Jacobse (alias Stille), the common ancestor of all the Wortendykes in Bergen County (see sketch on page 91). Frederick J. Wortendyke (3) and Divertie A. Quackenbush had, among other children, Cornelius (4), born at Pascack, N. J., July 6, 1757, who died there March 31, 1S22. He married Anneatie (Hannah) Van Blarcom, born in 1759, died at Pascack, October 16, 1836. The will of Cornelius (4) was proved April 21, 1822. He was a farmer, and his children of the fifth gener- ation were Cornelius, Rynier, Abraham, Mary, Martha, Altie, Sally, Rachel, Sophia, and Jenny. Abraham Wortendyke (5) married Catharine Demarest. They had chil- dren of the sixth generation, among whom was Hon. Isaac Wortendyke, who married Louisa Hoffman, of Claverack, N. Y. Isaac Wortendyke (6) had children of the seventh generation one of whom was Robert H. Wortendyke, the subject of this sketch. Cornelius Wortendyke (4), great-grandfather of Robert H. moved to what is now Wortendyke, N. J., in 1796. Some of the land is still owned by the Wortendyke family, Wha"' is now Wort(ndyke and vicinity was called Newtown for fifty years, a name giveii to the place in ,1800 by Cor- nelius The fijst mill established, at Wortend. ke ^then Newtown) was built by Cornelius Wortendyke in 15il2 for a wool c rding mill. Abraham Wor- tendyke (5) succeeded Cornelius in the woolen business. In 1832 the fuc- GENEALOGICAL 473 tory was changed from a wool to a cotton mill. This business was con- ducted successfully by Abraham Wortendyke until his death in 1857. On September 1, 1811, Cornelius Wortendyke leased a lot of land twenty-three feet square, near the present Methodist Episcopal Church, for twenty-five years, for a school building, which was the first schoolhouse in that locality of which any information can be obtained. The late Isaac Wortendyke (6) was Principal of Claveraek Academy at Claverack, N. Y., from 1846 to 1849. From January, 1868, to January, 1878, he was Surrogate of Bergen County, and in 1880 he was elected to the Senate from that county. Eobert H. Wortendyke (7) was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 4, 1859. He was educated in the public schools and at Hackensack Academy, and in June, 1879, began his business life as agent for the Liverpool and London and Grlobe Insurance Company, with offices at Hackensack, N. J. In Au- gust, 1897, he moved his office to Ridgewood, Bergen County, where he is carrying on a large and successful real estate, insurance, and loan business, representing several large insurance companies. He has resided since childhood at Midland Park, Bergen County, and has always maintained the confidence and respect of all who know him. In public as well as in business life Mr. Wortendyke is well known. He was elected a member of the Board of Education at Midland Park (District 46) in March, 1891, and served three years. In March, 1892, he was elected District Clerk of the board. In 1895 he was appointed Postmaster at Mid- land Park. In March, 1895, he was elected Mayor of the Borough of Mid- land Park for a term of two years. In each of these capacities he dis- played marked ability, sound judgment, and great energy, and performed his duties with honor and satisfaction. He is a member of the Reformed Church of Paramus, N. J., and a public spirited, progressive, and patriotic citizen. Mr. Wortendyke was married, April 22, 1891, to Eva Glass, daughter of William Glass, of Cleveland, Ohio. They have two children. WARREN FEEDON is descended in the ninth generation from Thomas Verdon and Mary Badye, the first American ancestors of the family. The line of descent is the same through eight generations as that of Jesse N. Perdon (see sketch on page 184). John D. Ferdon (8), the brother of Jesse N. Ferdon, was born at Closter, N. J., and married Clarissa Gecox, daugh- ter of William Gecox, of Alpine, N. J. One of their children of the ninth generation is Warren Perdon, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Ferdon (9) was born in Alpine, N. J., on the 1st of October, 1868. He was educated in the schools of Bergen County, and at the age of seventeen began his active career in the dry goods business. Six months later, how- ever, he became a clerk in a grocery house, in which he remained five years, when he engaged in the grocery and grain business for himself in Closter, N. J., where he still resides. He has continued in this business until the present t-' ,ne (1900), having built up a large and successful trade. He is a member f the Dutch Reformed Church, a public spirited citizen, and highly esteemed b; all who know him. CHARLES PEEDERIC/K LONG is o .e of the prominent architects of Jersey City, where he was born on the 8th of April, IStl. His father, Charles K.Long, a leading br Ider and contractor, has resided in thi t city for forty years and is one of uie best known men in Hudson County. His mother," Mary Pickell, deceased, was descended from a line of Holland Dutch 474 HUDSON AND KElKiRN COL'NTIBS ancestors wlio came to tliis country many years before the Revolutionary War and settled in New York Oity.' On liis father's side he is of Canadian descent. ]\Tr. Loiif;' was educated in tlie Jersey (Jity Grammar and High Schools and at the New York Art Institute. He early displayed artistic talents and chose architecture foi' his life work, thoroughly fitting himself for that lu'ofession. His studies were broad and practical, and enabled him to gain a wide experience in all branches of the building trades. For four years he wasengaged in the practice of architectui-e in New York City. Since then he CHARLES F. LONG. has practiced his profession in Jersey City, where he has gained, by his skill, industiy, and acknowledged ability, an enviable reputation and a large ac- (]uaintance. He erected Public School No. 19, the Lembeck building, and Public School No. 20, the largest and most approved school of its kind in the State. His work bears the stamp of great artistic merit, and, though a young man, he has rchieved a recjgnized standing in the community. As the pr-ogenitor and organizer of the New Jersey Naval Reserve Mr. Long is known throughout the S+ate and was oi.e of the leading factors in State na\al affairs. On May 2'y, 1898, he was commissioned by President McKinley Ensign in the United States Navy and served on the United GENEALOGICAL 475 States cruiser " Badger " with the North Cuba blockade squadron during the war with Spain. He was honorably discharged October 8, 1898, at which time he was commanding officer of the Division of Acting Marines. He is a prominent member of the "New Jersey Society of Architects, of Am- ity Lodge, No. 103, F. and A. M., and of the Naval and Military Order of the Sx)anish-American War. WILLIAM SUMNER LAWRENCE, of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., was born in Boston, Mass., October 8, 1854, and was educated in the public schools of that State. In business he has always been connected with the wholesale shoe trade, being with one house in Boston for a period of eight- een years. He is now a stockholder and Director in the firm of Morse & Rogers, 134-140 Duane Street, New York, the largest jobbers in shoes, rubbers, and findings in New York City. He has been with this house about ten years. He was elected ilayor of Hasbrouck Heights in March, 1897, and was re-elected in 1899. He is a Director of the Hasbrouck Heights Build- ing and Loan Association and a Director of the Star Building and Loan Association of New York City, and has served two terms as President of the Hasbrouck Heights Field Club. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Seward League of Hasbrouck Heights, a Republican organization, and has been a member of the Hasbrouck Heights Board of Education two terms. Mr. Lawrence married Lydia A., daughter of Captain Myer Bradbury, of Machias, Me. EDWARD F. CAR BIN, of Bayoune, N. J., was born in New York City on the 31st of October, 1857, his parents being E. C. Carbin and Mary Brady. They came from Ireland to the United States when young and were married in New York, whence they removed to Bayonne in 1867. Mr. Carbin was educated in the public schools of the Third Ward of Bayonne and afterward engaged in lumbering operations on the Hudson River between New York and Albany. In 1880 he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with which he has ever since been associated. He is a member of the School Board of Bayonne, but aside from this has never accepted public office. He has always taken, however, a deep inter- est in local affairs, and as a citizen and business man is highly respected. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of Paurapaugh Lodge, No. 187, I. O. R. M., of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, and of the Exempt Fire- men's Association, all of Bayonne. He was married in Bayonne, Novem- ber 15, 1880, to Mary L. S. Smeaton. LAMBERTUS C. BOBBINK, of Rutherford, N. J., was born in Holland on the 11th of April, 1866, being the son of Jacob and Wilhelmina (Gem- menk) Bobbink. His parents were natives of Holland, where they were married. Mr. Bobbink received his education in the schools of his native country. He came to the United States in 1894 and settled in Rutherford, N. J., where he still resides. Before coming to America he was successfully en- gaged in the florist b-isinegs for three years in Holland an equal number of years in England, two years in France, three years in Germany, and one year in Belgium, thus gaLiin?- a large &,nd valuable experience. He now carries on the florist and nursery business on a large scale, under the firm name of Bobbink & Atkins, in Rutherford. 476 HUDSON AND BBIiOEN COUNTIES lie is a lueniber of tlie American Florists' Union and of the New York Florists' TTnion, and served for a year and a lialf in the army of Holland. In 1S!)7 Mr. Bobbink married Gertrnde Schmidt, of Hobokon, N. J. They have one child, Bertie. JAMES EDWARD BLACK, one of the jjopular citizens and largest meat dealers in Bayonne, N. J., was born in that place on the 2d of July, 18C8. His parents, John Blaclv and Margaret Gasque, removed to Bayonne from New York State, and for many years have been useful and respected citizens of that municipality. Mr. Black received his education in the Bayonne public schools, where he laid the foundation upon which he has al- ready built a successful career. After leaving school he associated him- self with the T. C. Brown Dry Goods Company, of Jersey City. In 1889 he engaged in the meat busi- ness for himself in Bay- onne, where he has since built up a large and suc- cessful trade in that line. He is one of the most popular citizens of the southern part of Hudson County, an able and sub- stantial business man, deeply interested in the prosperit}' of the commu- nity, and respected by all who know him. In poli- tics he is a Democrat and in religion a Methodist. He is a member of Bay- onne Lodge, No. 695, Royal Arcanum, of Bay- onne Lodge, No. 571, I. 6. H., and of the Improved Order of Redmen. December 21, 1890, Mr. Black was married, in Nyack, N. Y., to Mary Jane Armstrong, (daugh- ter of William PI. and Valley, N. Y. They have JAMES B. BLACK. Anna Bella (Henderson) Armstrong, of Spring one son, Edward Stewart. GEORGE W. COLLIGNON was bom March 14, 1864, in Westwood, N. J., where he slill resides. He is the son of Nicholf j Collignon and Catherine Deraarest and a grandson of Peier and Mary C. (Perrie) Collignon and James Demarest and Jane Wortendyke. His father was First Lieutenant GENEALOGICAL 477 in the Twenty-second New Jersey Volunteers during the Civil War. On the paternal side he is of French descent and on his mother's side of Hol- land Dutch ancestry, her family having come to this country at an early colonial period. The Demarests and Wortendykes are both noticed at length in preceding pages of this work. Mr. Collignon was educated in the schools of Bergen County, and at the age of fifteen began active life as foreman in a chair factory. He continued in that capacity for fifteen years and then established himself in the lum- ber business, starting a sawmill, which he still operates. He has achieved success in business and is also highly respected as a pub- lic spirited, progressive, and enterprising citizen. He has served as Trustee of School District No. 1, for two terms, was Borough Councilman one term, and is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He married Lillie Bogert and has two daughters : Mabel and Bertha. ARTHUR ANDERS, of East Rutherford, was born in Berlin, Germany, July 22, 1859. He is the son of Charles Anders and Wanda Schneider, who were born and married in the Fatherland. Mr. Anders was educated in his native country, first in the public schools and subsequently in the high school of Berlin. There he also entered a business college, and after completing the course began his career by spend- ing three years in commercial business in that city. He came to America in September, 1884, and occupied various positions in New York business houses, principally as bookkeeper and cashier. In 1890 he settled in East Rutherford, N. J., where he purchased property and still resides. In East Rutherford Mr. Anders established a general agency business which he continued successfully until 1897, when he turned his attention wholly to real estate and insurance, in which he has been successful. He organized a board for the Metropolitan Savings and Loan Association, a prosperous organization of Newark, N. J. Mr. Anders was married in New York City, in 1890, to Miss Margaret Mutter, of Berlin, Germany. They have two children: George and Elsie. CAMILLUS MONDORF, Rector of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church of East Rutherford, N. J., was born on the Rhine, near Cologne, Germany, October 21, 1844. While a student he entered the Prussian Army in 186G, and after serving the statutory term lesumed his studies, first in Belgium and afterward in Germany. He came to .Vmerica in 1876, and on January 1, 1877, was ordained a priest by Bishop Wadhams, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. The Rt. Rev. Bishop TS'igger selected him in August, 1885, as Rector of St. Joseph's Church in East Rutherford. This church was built in 1873. JOHN BANTZ. of the firm of Klahre & Bantz, of West Hoboken, was .lorn in Hoboken, N. J., on the 13th of June, 1868, the son of Frederick J. Bantz and Lena Schenck. His father, now a retired citizen of Hoboken, formerly lived in West Hoboken. having emigrated to this country from Germany in 1850; he took an active part in all that pertained to the best Interests of the town, and served with ability and satisfaction as Town Treasurer, Town Collector, and Chairman of the Board of Fire Trustees. John Bantz atu^ded fee Hoboken prblic schools j\ud Cooper Institute, New York, where he pursued his st-idies foe six years. His educational training, therefore, was on broad and 1ib?ral lines, and enabled.iira to ^ain a practical knowledge of those branches which proved the most applicable 478 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES to Ihe career lie was destined to follow. After leaving school he learned the trade of carpenter, and while yet a youth engaged in carpentering and building with marked success. In 1894 he became a member of the firm of Klahre & Bantz and engaged in the manufacture of window frames, mould- ings, mantels, balusters, brackets, etc., in \A'est Hobokeu, where they have established a large and successful business. Their trade has developed to extensive proportions. Mr. Bantz is not only a practical carpenter and builder, but also proficient in architectural drawing, original in his designs, and thorough and skillful in all that pjertains to artistic woodworking and decoration. JOHN BANTZ. He has achieved a high standing, and is respected as a public spirited, progressive, and patriotic citizen. His attention has been devoted strictly to increasing business interests. He is an ardent Republican, and Iips beeii active in local political affairs, but has never sought nor accepted public office. His fraternal aifiljations are with Euclid Lodge. P. and A. M., Pen- talpha Chapter. No. 17, R. A. M., Pilgrim Comniandery, "-^o. k;, k. t", and Fraternity Lodge, I. O. O. F., all of Hoboken. He is'al ,. an exempt flre- maTi, having served as a member of the T^eehawken ^'olunteer Fire De- ]iaitinent. Mr. Bantz has always cast his influenc a favor of every movement designed to i^romote f^e welfare aad advancement of the Town of V.'est Hoboken. W: GENEALOGICAI- 479 JOHN BOGERT ^ was born April 6, 1839, in Closter, Bergen County, N. J., where he still resides. He is the son of Matthew S. Bogert and Mar- garet Christie and a grandson of Seba Bogert and David and Maria (Wana- maker) Christie. His paternal grandmother was a Blackledge. His father served as a private in the War of 1812, and his grandfather, David Christie, was for a number of years Judge and Surrogate of Bergen County. All of these families are noticed at length on other pages of this work. Mr. Bogert received his education in Bergen County. He left school at the age of sixteen and began his career on his father's farm, where he re- mained two years. He then went to New York and engaged in the truck- ing business, continuing for six years. At the end of that period he re- turned to the homestead and followed agricultural pursuits for about four years, when his father sold the farm. He then engaged in business as a dealer in horses. During his entire life Mr. Bogert has taken an active interest in local affairs and in various capacities has rendered efficient service to the com- munity. He is a Commissioner of Appeals, and a public spirited and pro- gressive citizen. He married Jane Bogert and has four children: David C, Morton, Mabel, and Elmer. RALPH ^^VN ^^VLEN.— On the paternal side the Van Valens of Bergen County are of German extraction and on the maternal side French. In 1593 Hans I'John) Verveele (1), the son of a prominent German citizen residing in the City of Cologne, is known to have married Catharine Oliviers, daughter of John Oliviers, a prominent French merchant at Co- logne. There Hans resided with his wife until the fires of religious in- tolerance which culminated in the expulsion of all the Protestants drove the couple to Amsterdam, Holland, about 1610. In 1504 Hans and Catha- rine had a son, Daniel ^'erveele (2), born to them, who in 161.5, five years after their flight from Cologne, married Anna Elkhart and became, like his father, a shopkeeper in Amsterdam. By Anna Elkhart Daniel (2) had four children of the third generation from Hans, the eldest of whom was John Verveele (who wrote the name ^"ervelen), born at Amsterdam about 1017. John (3) was well raised and educated, as his subsequent career shows. In 1636 he married Anna Jaarsfelt, by whom he had three children of the fourth generation from Hans. Early in 1657 John Vervelen (3) and several others left Amsterdam for New York, with their wives and children, and arrived at the latter place early in April. The first thing John did was to enroll himself as a burgher of the city (April 24, 1657) and to unite with the Dutch church. By two purchases of land on June 4 and May 16, 1664, he became a large landowner. His social habits won him friends and popularity, and he soon found himself at home in the brewery business with Isaac de Forest, a prominent French refugee. In 1660 he was elected Schout, but was defeated the next year. This disgusted him, as we find liim joining the Harlem settlement in 1663, whence he was sent as a dele- gate to the Colonial General Assembly and where he became one of the original patentees of the Harlem patent in 1667. The several important public duties intr isted to him and his long retention therein, particularly as ferry-master, idence the favor in which he was held. When his second lease of the ferry expired his son, Daniel Vervelen, in his behalf petitioned Governor Dongar '■" 66S) for its'renewal. He was told to hold, the premises until further orders to the contrary. Four years later Frederick Phillipse 1 OMs sketch is of the same person mentioned on page 60, in which the middle initial " M " was erroneously used. 480 HUDSON AND BERGEN COTINTIES brought suit in the New York Colonial Court to eject him from the Island of Paparinima, which Phillipse claimed under a title derived from Van- derbeck. The Council defended Vervelen's title, but, the Governor having proposed to build a bridge across the Spuyten Duyvil, the Mayor and Alder- men ousted Vervelen by an order of the court dated July 19, 1693. Ver- velen was then employed to build a bridge connecting Harlem and Phillips- burgh Manor, called King's Bridge, and to collect tolls. He died between 1669 and 1702. His children of the fourth generation were Daniel, Anna, and Maria. In 1652 Daniel Vervelen (4), then a mere boy, came to America, seven years ahead of his father, John (3). On his way over he was in the care of the Eev. Gideon Schaats, a prominent Dutch divine then seeking an asylum in America. Dominie Schaats had a daughter Alida, to whom Daniel be- came very much attached, and whom he married three years later. He embarked in trade in 1655, but joined his father at New York soon after the latter's arrival. He joined the Dutch church in 1661. Both he and his father owned lots in Prince (now Beaver) Street. There also they ran an extensive brewery business. Daniel (4) sided with the ICnglish in 1667, and was assaulted and severely injured by the Dutch populace. Several years later he removed to New Utrecht, Long Island. Thence he went to Spuyten Duyvil. He died about 1715. His children of the fifth generation were Anna Maria, Johanna, Henry, Bernardus, Rynear, Gideon, Frederick, and John. On the 5th of March, 1701, four of the sons of Daniel (4) : John, Gideon, Rynear, and Bernardus, bought of the heirs of Balthazar de Hart 2,100 acres of land at Closter, in Bergen County, extending west from the Hudson River to the Tiena Kill Brook. Their title was for some years in dispute, and after much trouble Bernardus succeeded in obtaining title to the whole tract in 1708. He settled on it and his descendants have become numerous in the county. Bernardus (5), born aboat 1670, married (1) Sophia la Maiter and (2) Jan- netie Vanderbeck, and had a number of children of the sixth generation, among whom were Alida, Isaac, Cornelia, Daniel, John, Hester, Frederick, Abram, James, and Bernardus. Ralph Van Valen, the subject of this sketch, is of the tenth genera- tion from Hans Verveele, first mentioned, and of the fifth generation from Bernardus (5). He is a grandson of Isaac Van Valen and Elizabeth Hern and Abram and Margery (Wortendyke) Post and the son of John Van Valen and Maria Post. He was born at Pascack, N. J., March 27, 1858, and re- ceived his education in the schools of Bergen County. At the age of six- teen he began active life on his father's farm, but two years later entered the employ of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, remaining six years. He then learned the painting trade and has since followed that business with marked success. He has served as Constable of the Borough of Wood- cliff, where he resides. SANDFORD BOGERT starts his American ancestry with C .irnelis Jans Bougaert, the emigrant (see sketch on pag;e 132), from whom he is of the ninth generation. H' is the son of David A. Bogert and Phebe Ann Osborn and a grandson ol. Albert Bogert and Rachel Blawve He was born at Pearl River, Rockland County, ^'^ Y., Noirember 21, l^a. There he re- ceivf^d a public school education. ' ft soh lol at the age of thirteen and wen: to work in a tannery, and co_ nued in that business for thirteen GENEALOGICAL, 481 years, mastering the tanner's trade in every brancli. He then engaged in farming in Hillsdale, Bergen County, N. J., where he still resides. Mr. liogert is a public spirited citizen, and has served tv\'0 terms each on the School Committee and Township Committee of his town. He is a public spirited citizen and thoroughly identified with the best interests of the community. He married Catharine M. Van Riper, a member of one of the old families in New Jersey. WALTER W. WIEDERMANN has always resided in Hoboken, Hudson County, N. J., where he was born July 8, 1875. His parents, Louis and Rose WALTER W. WIEDERMANN. (Hess> Wiedermann, were both natives of Germany, and in 1852 left the Fathei .and and came to this country, settling in Hoboken. Louis Wieder- mann is uovi one of the oldest living residents of that city. He was actively and successfully engaged in the grocery business for thirty-seven years, his establishmer^ on the corner of Washington and Ni -th Streets, Hoboken. widely known Wiedermann's Mammoth Grocery House, being one of the largest and most conmlete in the anty. Later it was conducted by his son, Louis Wiedermann, Jr., w d in 1889, after which the 'ztbev sold out and retired from active buo.uess. 482 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Walter W. Wiedermann is the only surviving son of Louis Wiedermann, Sr., and Kose Hess, and although but twenty-flve years of age has attained an honorable position in business. He received an academic and public school education, and after a course at the Jersey City Business College entered the employ of Stein & Weidner, real estate and insurance agents at No. 504 Washington Street, Hoboken. This was in 1890. He remained with them four years, laying the foundation upon which he has built a suc- cessful career, and gaining a broad and accurate knowledge of business in general and of real estate and insurance affairs in particular. In 1894 Mr. Wiedermann formed a partnership with Charles von Broock under the style of the Metropolitan Dairy Company, a name which indicates the character of their business. Subsequently he started the Palace Hotel in Hoboken, but in 1898 returned to the real estate and insur- ance business, purchasing the establishment and interests formerly con- ducted by J. W. Bremerman, Allison Mather, and Frank Anderson, which he still conducts. Mr. Wiedermann has brought to his various business en- terprises ability, sound judgment, and native energy, and by integrity of character and faithful attention to duty has achieved success. He is Sec- retary of the Mutual Home and Savings Association of Hoboken, and prom- inently identified with the best interests of his city and county. He is also a mem.ber of the Masonic fraternity, the Improved and Benevolent Order of Elks, and the Foresters of America, and a public spirited, progressive citi- zen. PETER C. COLLIGNON, of Westwood, was born in RiAervale, Bergen County, N. J., October 19, 18.56. He is the son of Claudius O. Collignon and Sarah Cleveland and a grandson of Peter and Mary C. (Perrie) Collignon and Neil Cleveland and Sarah Cole. His ancestors came to this country from France. Mr. Collignon was educated in the Bergen County public schools, and at the age of eighteen became a bookkeeper in a chair factory. He continued in that capacity until 1890, when he purchased the business and success- fully conducted it until 1896. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Tappan, N. Y., a public spirited and progressive citizen, and honored and respected by all who know him. He married Isabella E. TS^ard, by whom he has three children: Raymond, Isabelle, and Viola. GEOROE DANIEL CANFIELD, of Kearny, Hudson County, was born in Barton, N. Y., on the .30th of September, 1840. He is the son "of George W. Canfleld and Julia A. Case, both of whom were of English descent. Mr. Canfleld was educated in the public schools of Orange County, in Barton, N. Y., and for over twenty years was successfully engaged in the rubber stamp business in New York City. In 1872 he settled permanently in Kearny, Hudson County, where he has since resided, and where he has been successfully engaged in the real estate business since 1888. He is a Republican in politics, has served with ability and sati faction as a mem- ber of the Kearny School Board, and is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Fraternal Legion. Asa citizen he is public spirited and enterpris- ing. He is actively interestel in the welfare of the ommunity and in various capacities has served his lellow-citi/.ens efficiently and honorably. H > inarried Harriet E. Hadley, by whom he has four children: Jennie M., Burton E., Julia, and Dorothy G., all of whom reside in Kearny. GENEALOGICAL 483 BURTON EDMUND CANFIELD, of Kearny, was born in Davenport, Iowa, April 24, ] 870, being the only son of George D. and Harriet E. (Had- ley) Canfield and a grandson of George W. Canfield and Julia A. Case. His maternal great-grandfather, a Hoyt, served in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Canfield was educated in the public schools of Kearny and at the New Jersey Business College. Subsequently he became a bookkeeper in New York. Resigning that position, he engaged in the real estate business in Kearny, in which he still continues under the firm name of George D, Canfield & Son. He is a stanch Republican, active and influential in party affairs, and served as Town Clerk of Kearny in 1896-97 and Town Treasurer in 1898-99. He is a member and President of the Board of Education, a member of the Davis Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church of Harrison, a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a public spirited, enterprising citizen. Mr. Canfield married Millie B. Remey, by whom he has one son, George R. JOHN CAL\'IN GARDENIER, of Hillsdale, was born in Woodcliff, Ber- gen County, N. J., December 30, 1868. He is the son of Garret H. and Al- vina (Post) (iardenier and a grandson of Henry Gardenier and Jane Post. He received his education in the public schools of Hillsdale, Bergen Coun- ty, whither his parents removed when he was young. At the age of eighteen he established himself in the livery business at Hillsdale, and has since con- tinued in that line, having now one of the best livery stables in the county. Mr. Gardenier is a public spirited citizen, active in the affairs of the com- munity, and respected by all who know him. He attends the Dutch Re- formed Church. He married Clara Ottignon and has one son, Harold Gar- denier. JOHN H. HOLDRUM is of the seventh generation in direct line from Johu Holdrum, the emigrant (see sketch on page 237). The line of descent is as follows: John Holdrum (1) married Cornelia Tienhoven. Their son, William Holdrum (2), married Margaret Peters. Their son, Cornelius Holdrum (3), married Elizabeth Haring. Their son, James C. Holdrum (4), married Margaret Demarest. Their son, Cornelius (5), married Elizabeth de Pew. Their son, Cornelius C. (6), married Adaline Hopper, and had a son, John H. Holdrum (7), the person named above. John H. Holdrum was born at Rivervale, N. J., January 16, 1862. He was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, and at the age of eighteen began active life on his father's farm. Five years later he went to New York City, where he was engaged in the ice business for four years with marked success. He then removed to Oradell, Bergen County, and engaged in general contracting, a business he has since followed. He has done about all the general contracting in his section since he established himself in business and is respected as a man of ability, integrity, and enterprise. He is f member of the Dutch Reformed Church, a public spirited citizen, and a worthy representative of one of the old Bergen County families. He married Matilda ^' 'estervelt and has one son. JOHN P. McMAHON, Town Clerk of West Hoboken, N. J., is the eldest son of Bernard ai d Catherine McMahon, n itives of Ireland, who came to America in 1860 and setth d in- West Hoboktin, where they still .reside, their other children being Edward and Catherine. He was born in that town on the 29th of November, 1868, and there ob- 484 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES tained his education in St. Mary's parochial school, graduating at the age of sevente(?n. He then engaged in the retail milk business in West Hobo- ken. Although a mere youth, he developed abilit,y and sound judgment, and for about ten years conducted a large and successful trade. His popu- larity is attested by the confidence and esteem in which he has long been held by th(» community, and especially by his wide circle of friends and ac- quaintances. As a Dejuocrat he took an active part in politics, and in the spring of 18fl6 was elected Town Clerk of the Town of West Hoboken, which offic(> he still holds, being re-elected in Apr'i), 1899, for a second terni of three JOHN P. M'MAHON. years. L!y virtue of this position he is and has been also clerk of the Board of Town Council. Mr. McMahon has discharged his official duties with singu a- fidelity, consistency, and suC'-ess, and has won the respect of all classes irrespective of party affiliatio' ,. He is a prominent member of the Robert Davis Asso- ciation, and takes a deep interest in the affaii's of his town and county. On April 27, 1899, he married Mrs. Elise Gnarnerio, of West Hoboken, an ac- comjiKshed and most estimable lady, and resides at No. 501 Spring Street in that town. GENEALOGICAL 485 PETER M. HOLDRUM, of Rivervale, is of the sixth generation from John Holdrum, the first American ancestor of the family (see sketch on page 237). The line of descent in his case is as follows: (1) John Holdrum married Cornelia Tienhoven; (2) William Holdrum married Margaret Peters; (3) Nicholas Holdrum married Maritie Janse; (4) Cornelius Holdrum married Margaret Sarvent; (5) William C. Holdrum married Letty Merseles; (6) Peter M. Holdrum married Elizabeth Wortendyke. Peter M. Holdrum, the subject of this sketch, was born at Rivervale, Bergen County, June 24, 1822. He was educated in the Bergen County schools, and at the age of seventeen went to work on his father's farm, where he has ever since continued. He served as Assessor for several years and has held various other local offices, discharging the duties of each with acknowledged ability and satisfaction. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He is one of the oldest farmers in his section, and during Ms long and active life has maintained the confidence of all who know him. He married Elizabeth Wortendyke and has one daughter. EDWARD M. ANSON, of Hasbrouck Heights, Bergen County, was born at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N. Y., June 4, 1856. His ancestors were English, and for several generations have been residents of this country. Mr. Anson was educated in the public schools of Lockport, Niagara Coun- ty, N. Y., and at the age of fourteen was employed as a telegraph operator in the oil regions of Butler County, Pa., later being employed by the West- ern Union Telegraph Company in Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and New York. When the St. Louis convention met to nominate Samuel J. Tilden for President he was one of the five operators of Chicago chosen to attend to the telegraphic business of the meeting, and again at the Cincin- nati convention, when Rutherford B. Hayes was nominated, he was chosen to act in the same capacity. In 1877 Mr. Anson moved to New York as chief operator in the main office, where he remained twelve years. In April, 1892, he left the service to engage in real estate business, in which he has ever since continued. He was one of the organizers of the Building, Loan and Savings Asso- ciation of Hasbrouck Heights, which he served six years as Secretary. He was the organizer and Secretary of the Hasbrouck Heights Land and Im- provement Company and the organizer and Secretary of the Lemmermann Site Company. Since beginning business Mr. Anson has built over one hundred houses and brought out from the city more than one thousand residents. While devoting his time and energy to the upbuilding of his borough, although not seeking office or self-interest, he was appointed Postmaster in November, 1893, holding the office for four years. In 1896 he was elected a Justi(;e of the Peace. He is a member of a number of organizations at Hasbrouck Heights, including the Pioneer Club, the Has- broucl Heights Field Club, and the Royal Arcanum. He is also a mem- ber of the Old Time Telegraphic Association, the Telegraphers' Mutual Benefit A elation, and the Telegraphers' Aid Society. Mr. An« n was married to Miss' Margaret E. Crawfoid, of New York City, April 16, 1879. He is a highly Esteemed citizen, both m his public life and in his private character. ■ WILLIAM JOHN DOCKEAY, the youngest man ever elected tf^ the Board of Education of Ke.m,y, N. J., where he resides, was born m Valatia, Columbia County, N. Y., on the 16th of January, 1875. He is the son of 486 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COT UNTIES James and Maigret (Harrison) Dockray, both of wliom were born and mar- ried in England, and wlio eanie to tlie United States in 1872 and settled first in Valatia, New York State, moA'ing thenee in 1884 to Kearny, N. J. Mr. Uoekray obtained a good practical education in the Kearny public schools, and u])on leaving them engaged in the grocery business in that town. This venture occuri'ed when he was but fifteen years of age. He still follows the same business in Kearny, and has gained for himself a wide rejnilation. He has also taken an active interest in public affairs, and as an ardent and consistent Republican has developed rare political ability and WILLIAM J. DOCKRAY. sagacity. He is now fl900) serving as a member of the Kearny Board of Education, being the youngest man ever elected to that important position. Few men at his age have attained the prominence and influence in the com- munity whicli he has achieved, tie has gained success in both business and public affairs md is regarded as one f the representa+'ve young men of Hudson fJf , -• y. Public spirite t, pi.tr otic, 'md enterprising, he t::kes a deei) ''itert . in every movemet which affeci the welfare of the cemmu- nit. Jid in various ways has exerted an important and wholesome in<'uence in advancing local projects. His services on the Board of Education have Mr GENEALOGICAL 487 been marked by strict adelity to the best interests of the schools of his town. Mr. Dockray is a member of the Knights of I'ythias and of the Knox Pres- byterian Church at Kearny. 0. G. CAMPBELL'S first American ancestor, William Campbell, was born on the Isle of Man in (Ireat Britain and baptised in Cork London Church, February 9, 1689, as appears by the inscription on his tombstone in the old cemetery at Tappan, N. Y. His parents were probably natives of Ireland. He emigrated to America in 1716 and went to Tappan, where the following year he married Acltie Minnelly. She was a granddaughter of Minne Johannes, of Friesland, Holland, who came to America in 1663 with his first wife, Rensie Feddens, and settled at Flatbush, Long Island, where he became a person of note. In 1684 he removed to Haverstraw, N. Y., where he purchased and located on 3,000 acres of land. He married a second wife, Magdalena Hendrix, in 1689, and became one of the leading men in what was then Orange County, N. Y. In 1685 he was commissioned High Sheriff of Orange County. He attained wealth and prominence, and died leaving a large and respectable family. His son, Albert Minnelly, married Mensie Jepes and setled near Tappan, where on the 17th of July, 1697, his daughter Aeltie, the wife of William Campbell, was baptised. William Campbell purchased and settled on a large tract of land near Tappan, where he became wealthy and influential. He died January 7, 1760, and his wife survived him until August 10, 1776. Their children of the second generation, all baptised at Tappan, were Albert, William, Men- sie, Ann, John, Abraham, Robert, Arie. Cornelius, Elizabeth, and probably one or two more. The descendants of these children of William Campbell spread north over Rockland County, N. Y., and south into Bergen County, N. J., where they are still numerous. O. G. Campbell, the subject of this sketch, is of the sixth generation in line of descent from William, the emigrant. He is the son of John E. Campbell, who was born at Nyack, N. Y., and Henrietta Van Valen (a descendant of John Verveele, the emigrant), who was born in Haverstraw. N. Y. He was born at Wallingford, (Jonn., January 10, 1870, and was edu- cated at Rockland College and at Columbia College, New York. He then engaged in the undertaking business. For a time he was also engaged in bridge contracting. He is a Republican in politics. THOMAS J. BYRAM. — The Byrams are said to be descended from Nicholas Byram, who with his wife, Susanna Shaw, emigrated from the County of Kent, England, and settled at Dedham, Mass., near the middle of the^ seventeenth century. It is also said that Nicholas was the son of a titled Englishman. His son Nicholas (2), born about 1650, married (1) Mary Edson and (2) a sister of James Keith, physician. Nicholas (2) had a son Ebenezer (8), born at Dedham, Mass., in 1692, who married, in 1714, Hannah Hayward. Ebenezer Byram (3) served in King Philip's War, and on the 18th of June, 1744, led a colony from Massachusetts to New Jersey. The colony settled at Morristown, N. J., where Ebenezer estbblished and was the leader of the first church. Fe was known as ' Captain Ebenezer." Tlo died August 9, 175"v!and his wixe January 11, 17 -1. Thei'' son, Ebenezer Byrai (4), torn i^ Massachusetts in ^ 6, di°d at Morrigiown in i;C2. He n^arried, in 1738, Abagail Alden, a grea;-g- , a- daugh.er of John Alden, of " M.ayflower " fame. The descL-idants of Captain 488 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Ebenezer (3) and his son FJbenezer (4) spread over Morris and Sussex Coun- ties. Two of them, John and Jeptha Byram, were among the first settlers of Sussex County. They organized the Township of Byram and gave it their family name, which it still retains. Jeptha was the first Collector of the township. Jeptha and John owned iron ore lands besides farm lands. Each had about 160 acres, which he tilled, making a specialty of melons. John's lands descended to his son Nicholas and Jeptha's to his son Jeptha. The latter had a daughter, Hannah, who married Asahel Lovell, whose family moved to and settled at Enfield, Tompkins County, N. Y., in 1806. Thomas J. Byram, the subject of this sketch, is descended from one of these early Byrams. He is the son of Job J. Byram and Mary F. Lyon, and was born at Sparta, Sussex County, October 5, 18G8. His parents were also natives of Sparta. He was educated in the Sparta public schools and subsequently learned the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed. He is now in business for himself, residing in Arlington. Mr. Byram is a Eepublican in politics, a Methodist in religion, and a mem- ber of the Royal Arcanum. He is a public spirited citizen and respected by all who know him. He married Louisa Eyder and has one son, Roy. ALBERT BORN, of Secaucus, Hudson County, was born in New York City on the 22d of November, 1849. He is the son of George Born, a native of Germany, and Maria Elizabeth Dreiher, who was born in France. He was educated in the schools of Hudson County and subsequently engaged in farming and gardening, a business which he has since followed with marked success. In politics Mr. Born is an active and useful Republican. He has served for ten years as a School Trustee, being District Clerk part of the time. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, a public spirited citizen, and re- spected by all who know him. Mr. Born married Katherine, daughter of John Kesler, of Homestead, Hudson County, N. J. They have seven children living, namely: Albert, Jr., Etta, Emma, William, Charles, Harry, and Mabel. WILLIAM NECKER is one of the best known undertakers in East New Jersey. As an embalmer and funeral director he has few superiors. He was born in West Hoboken, N. J., November 12, 1870, his parents, Christo- pher Necker and Louisa Kienle, being natives of Germany. He is their eld- est son. His father came to America about 1866 and settled in West Hobo- ken, where he followed the bakery business with success for many years. Mr. Necker obtained his education in the public schools of West Hoboken and Union Hill. Circumstances compelled him, however, to relinquish his studies when he was twelve years old and take up the trade of pianomaking in the establishment of the Braumiiller Piano Company, of New York, with whom he remained eleven years. This was a fortunate as well as a very pleasant connection. With energy and adaptability he mastered every de- tail of the business, learned, thoroughly the general construction of pianos, and gained a reputation as a skilled and talented workman. He was popu- lar among both his associates and the members of the flr'n, and during the last three yt;ars ht.d charge of the wood^orklig department. So well was he li'ed bv Mr. Braumiiller, the President of he company, that when the lattei's wife died in 1898, five years after he had resigned his position, Mr. Necker was sent for by him to take entire charge of the funeral. This was GENEALOGICAL 489 a compliment, ar.d spealcs volumes for Mr. Necker's popularity and integ- rity, and the esteem in which he is held. In December, .1892, Mr. Necker resigned his position in the J3raumiiller establishment and entered the United States School of Embalming in New York City, from which he was graduated in April, 1894. There he received a practical as well as a theoretical knowledge of every branch of embalm- ing and undertaking. Immediately after graduation he opened an office at 251 Bergenline Avenue in the Town of Union. Nearly every one prophesied a failure. But his courage and persevei'ance never flagged. In WILLIAM NECKER. the face of all obstacles, and even of adverse criticism, he struck boldly out upon original lines, and soon acquii'cd a prosperous business. Methodical, enterpi-ising, and energetic, full of sympathy, and appreciating the delicate and exacting duties which necessarily devolved u^jon him, he steadily won the confidence and respect of the entire <'ommunity. lie was faithful to every trust, diligen* in the performance of his work, and availed himself of all legitimate opportunities. lie makes it a maxim of treating the poor with the same dignity as the ich. Mr. Necker's success as ar undertaker and embalmer may be said to have been almost instantaneous. At 2.51 Bergenline Avenue in the Town of ■^ 490 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Uuion, where he resides, he fitted up his present light and attractive ofQce, equipping it with every modern convenience. His practical experience at piauomaldng enables him to exercise good judgment in selecting his out- fits. He has a taste for the eternal fitness of things, and every detail re- ceives his personal attention. Besides the main office already mentioned, Mr Necker has branches at 409 Charles Street, West Hoboken, and Sixth Street and Tower Avenue, (Juttenberg. He has had many of the larger funerals in Hudson County during the last five years, and has achieved marked success and a high reputation. Mr. Necker is a progressive, public spirited citizen. He joined the Fire l)e])artment of the Town of Union in 3893, and on February 13, 1899, was elected its Chief Engineer, which oilice he now holds. He is a member of seveial prominent social and fraternal bodies and a Democrat in politics. He was a candidate for County Coroner in 1896, and, though defeated, re- ceived a flattering vote. He is a believer in the power of the press, and in ^ arious capacities has exerted a wholesome influence in his town. Mr. Necker was married on the 4th of March, 1895, to Miss Lilian Gschwind, daughter of John and Eva Gschwind, of the Town of Union. They have two children: William, Jr., and Lilian. FRANCIS M. Mcdonough, of Hoboken, was born in New York City on the 9th of August, 1824. When he was one month old his parents re- moved to Hoboken, N. J., where he laid the foundations of a successful career. Tn his youth Mr. McDonough developed a strong inclination for the roving life of a sailor, and in 1837 he shipped as a cabin boy on a vessel bound for Spain. Upon his return he engaged in farming for one year, and then shipped as cook for two or three years. Afterward he was a deck hand on the Hoboken ferryboats until 1844, when he shipped for New Orleans. He worked along shore for a year, shipped on the revenue cutter " Woodbury " under " Bully " Foster, and then engaged in steamboating on the Missis- sippi for a season. When the Mexican War broke out he was driving a team in New Orleans. He at once enlisted in the Second Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers, and served with credit until he was mustered out at the close of the war. He then resumed his old position driving team. Returning to Hoboken, Mr. McDonough went to work as a deck hand on ferryboats and was soon promoted to a position as captain. In 1853 he began the business of carting lumber for Brush & Tompkins. He also identi- fied himself with public affairs, and in various important capacities has served the town and county with satisfaction. He was Constable for sev- eral years, and when the charter of Hoboken was adopted he was made Captain of Police. He was made Recorder of the city in 1877 and filled the offlce for twenty-one consecutive years, retiring in 1898. He is a pro- gressive, enterprising citizen, thoroughly identified in all local afl'airs. JOHN J. DUPUY, of Rutherford, was born August 6, 1855, in New York City, where he spent his early life. He attended school until he was thirteen years of afje, since which time he has been ac+ively and success- fully engaged in business affairs. M r. Dupuy came to Rutherford, N. J., in 1876, and for five years was em- ployed in .1 watch factory. During this time he began in a small way to manufacture baseballs and other sporting goods, eventually becoming very successful in this business. His factory was in Rutherford and his sales- GENEALOGICAL 491 room was in New York. At one time he had in all nearly one hundred hands employed and in one season manufactured 363,000 dozen balls. He conducted this business and at the same time a drv goods store in Ruther- ford until the panic of 1893 caused him to relinquish both enterprises. As an official Mr. Dupuy's career has also been successful. He served the Borough of Eutherford as Constable from ISSO to 1S,S5, and as Town Col- lector from 1886 to 1888, being the only Democrat elected on that ticket. He was Coroner from 1887 to 1889, running ahead of his ticket in that elec- tion. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1882, serving five years, and was again elected in 1893. In 1891 he was elected Assemblyman from the Second Assembly District and was re-elected the following year. He has served as Chief of the State Detective Bureau, and has been prominent in Are circles, having served in the department as Foreman, Chief, and Presi- dent of the organization. Mr. Dupuy is a member of Boiling Spring Lodge, No. 152, F. and A. M., of Rutherford Lodge, No. 240, 1. O. O. F., of Passaic Lodge, No. 387, B. P. O. Elks, of Rutherford Lodge, No. 42, Foresters of America, of Rutherford Council, Royal Arcanum, of United Friends Council, and of other social organizations. HENRY LEMMERMANN, President of the Mattson Rubber Company, of New York, and a well known resident of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., was born in Germany in 1848. He came to America in 1863 and for some years was employed in a grocery store in New York City. Subsequently he en- gaged in the hotel business, in which he continued until 1890, when he be- came actively engaged in the manufacture of rubber goods. Since then he has been President of the Mattson Rubber Companj'. Previous to this, in 1884, he bought a farm at Corona (now Hasbrouck Heights), N. J., and in 1891 built his present residence. He immediately began improving the land by opening streets, making sidewalks, planting shade trees, introduc- ing water (the Hackensack Water Company), and supplying electric lights. He then, through the Hasbrouck Heights Land and Improvement Com- pany, built about thirty cottages. In 1893 he organized the Lemmermann Villa Site Company, of which he has been President and Treasurer ever since. He has also been President of the Hasbrouck Heights Building, Loan, and Savings Association since its organization in June, 1890. Mr. Lemmermann is a Past Supreme Representative of the Knights of Pythias, was Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of New York in 1878, and is Treasurer of the Pythian Home of New York. He is also a member of the Masonic order and the Royal .Vrcanum, President of the Pioneer Club of Hasbrouck Heights, and a member of the Commercial Club of New York. He has been Township Committeeman of Lodi Township, a Councilman of the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights, and a member of the Board of Health. Mr. Lemmermann was married, in 1872, to Miss Wilhelmina Gross, daugh- ter of F. C. Gross, of Hackensack, N. J. CHARLES R. SOLEY, of Ruthei'ford, is a native of L.Andhurst, N. J. In 1878 he began his business career as a contractor and builder. ^ Subsequently he engaged in steam sawing, turning, etc., and in 1890 he built his factory in Eutherford, N. J., where he carries on a large and successful .jusiness. and where he resides. Mr. Soiev has served two terms as Freeholder, one term as a member of 492 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES the Borough Council, and for several years as Chief of the Fire Depart- ment of the Borough of Rutherford. He is a successful business man, a public spirited citizen, and respected by all who know him. JOHN STEVENS was born in New York City about 1749. He was the son of John Stevens, Sr., who was born there about 1708, and whose father, also named John, came from England in l')!)9, at about the age of seven- teen. The second John settled in New Jersey and was one of the joint commissioners for defining the boundary line between New Jersey and New York in November, 1774. He resigned as Royalist Councilor in 1776, and from August of that year until 1782 was \'ice-President of the Council of New Jersey. In November, 1783, he was elected to the Federal Congress, and on December 18, 1787, presided over the State convention that ratified the United States Constitution. He died in 1792. John Stevens, the subject of this sketch (son of John and a grandson of John Stevens, the immigrant), was graduated fi-om King's (now Columbia) College in 1768, was admitted to the bar, and during the Revolutionary War held several of- fices, being Treasurer of IsSew Jersey from 1770 to 1779. Afterward he married and resided in winter on Broadway, New York, and in summer on the island of Hoboken, which he then owned. His life was devoted to experiments at his own cost. In 1790 he petitioned Congress for protection to American iirventors, which resulted in a law, passed April 10, 1790, that foi-med the foundation of the American patent law. Having begun ex- periments in the application of steam in 1788, he now continued them, espe- cially with his associates, Nicholas I. Roosevelt and the elder Brunei, who subsequently built the Thames tunnel. Mr. Stevens, his brother-in-law, Robert R. Livingston, and Nicholas I. Roosevelt built a steamboat and navigated the Hudson River near the close of the eighteenth century, the Legislature of New York having offered a monopoly of exclusive privilege to the owners of a boat that should attain a speed of three miles an hour under given conditions. Their boat, however, failed to develop the required speed, and their joint proceedings were in- terrupted by the appointment, in 1801, of Livingston as Minister to France. In Paris Mr. Livingston met Robert Fulton and afterward was associated with him in establishing and developing steam navigation. In 1804 Mr. Stevens built a vessel propelled by twin screws that navi- gated the Hudson which was the first application of steam to the screw jjropeller. The engine and boiler of this steamboat \vere subsequently de- posited in the S+evens Institute at Hoboker In 1807 Mr. Stevens and his son Robert built the paddle wheel steamboat Phosnix," which was used on the Delaware River for six years. This boat, according to Professor James Renwick, " was the first to navigate the ocean by the power of steam." Among the patents taken out by Stevens was one in 1791 for generating •JOHN STEVENS. GENEALOGICAL 493 steam; two m the same year described as improvements in hellows and on Thomas Savarv's engine, both designed for pnmping; the mnlti-tubular boiler in 1803, ^Yhu■h was patented in England in ISon in the name of his eld- est son, John C; one in 1816 for nsing slides; an imin'ovement in rack rail- roads in 1824; and one in 1824 to render shallow rivers more navigable. In 1812 Mr. Stevens made the first experiments with artillery against iron armor. On October 11, 1811. he established the first steam ferry in the world with the " Jnliana," which was operated betM'een New York City and Hoboken. In 1813 he invented the ferryboat with the paddle-wheel in the middle, which was tnrned by six horses. This sample of horse-boat was long nsed on the East River and on the Hndson. In Pebrnarv, 1812, five years before the beginning of the Erie Canal, he addressed a memoir to the commission appointed to devisi- watm- commnnication between the seaboard and the lakes, ni'ging the constrnction of a railroad. This memoir, with the adverse report oi the commissioners, was published at the time, again in 1852. and again by the Kailroad Gazette in 1882. His plan was identical with that of tlie successful South Carolina railroad built in 1830-32, which was the first long railroad in the United States. In 1814 Mr. Stevens apjdied to the State of New Jersey for a railroad charter from New York to Philadelphia, which he received in February, 1815. He located the road, but pi-oceeded no furthei-. In 1823, \\-ith Hoi'ace Binney and Stephen Girard, of Philadelphia, he obtained from the Stat'' of Pennsylvania a charter for a railway from Philadelphia to Lancaster along the route of the present Pennsylvania Eailroad. These were tic first railroad charters granted in this country. On Octobei- 23, 1824, he obtained a patent for the construction of rail- roads. In 1826 he built in Hoboken a circular railway having a gauge of five fed and a diameter of 220 feet. and placed on it a locomoti\(' with a multi-tubular boiler which carried half a dozen people at the rate of over twelve miles an hour. This was the first locomotive that ever I'an on a steam railroad in America. Mr. Stevens's name will ever be linked with the origin and earl^- develop- ment of steam as a moti^'e power for water and land transportation, and to him belongs the honor of putting this great force into direct operation. He was also . i enthusiastic botanist and amateur gardener, importing and (tultivating many new plants. He built Castle Point at Hoboken, and in 1835 replaced it by tlie present mansion. He died thei ^ March 6, 1838. ENTRANCE TO CASTLE POINT. JOHN COX STEVENS, sc- of John Stevens, the engineer, was born September 24, 1785, and died ix. Hoboken, June 13, 1857. He was j^raduated from Columbia College in 1803. married Maria C. Livingston, December 27, 1809, and was the first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club and com- manded the yacht " America " in the memorable race in England in 1851. 494 HUDSON AND BERGKN COUNTIES KOBEET LIVINGSTON STEVENS, another son of John Stevens, was born October 18, 1787, and died in Hoboken, April 20, 1856. He began to assist his father when only seventeen years old. In June, 1808, he took the " Phoenix " to Philadelphia by sea and subsequently built a number of steamboats. From 1815 to 1840 he stood at the head of his profession in the United States as a constructor of steam vessels and their machinery. In 1821 he originated the present form of ferryboat and ferryslips. He invented the split water-wheel in 182G, the balance-valve in 1831, and the flrsl marine tubular boiler in the same year. He was among the first to use anthracite coal on vessels. He originated the well known T-rail and a l)orab that could be fired from a cannon instead of from a mortar. He also built the celebrated Stevens battery, which lay unlaunched in its basin at Hoboken for many years and was the first ironclad ever projected. JAMES ALEXANDER STEVENS, another son of John Stevens, the engineer, was born in New York City, January 29, 1790, and died in Hobo- ken, October 7, 1873. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1808 and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1811. With Thomas Gibbons he established the Union Steamboat Line between New York and Philadel- phia, which led to the suit of Ogden v. Gibbons — a suit memorable for the decision which placed all the navigable waters of the United States under Ihe jurisdiction of the Federal government. EDWIN AI^GUSTUS STEVENS, another son of John Stevens, the in- ventor, was born at Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J., July 28, 1795. He learned the profession of civil engineer with his father and his brother Robert L. The two brothers were very closely connected in business affairs. Both were men of great capacity, the elder taking the lead as engineer and the younger as a business man. Edwin A. Stevens was occupied largely in the management of his father's estate, on which the City of Hoboken now stands. He was also con- nected with the organization, construction, and operation of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the charter for which he and Robert L. Stevens ob- tained from the State of New Jersey in 1830. The road was opened for traffic in 1839-42, Robert L. being President and Edwin A. Treasurer and Manager. The germ of many improvements afterward perfected on other roads can be traced back to the Camden and Amboy line. The vestibule car is a modern instance. While engaged in railroad affairs the brothers still retained their great interests in navigation, made many improvements therein, and were especially prominent in the invention, introduction, and development ot api)liaiices for railroads, locomotives, and cars. In 1842 Edwin A. Stevens patented the air-tight fire-room for the xorced draught which had been applied by his elder brother in 1827 tr- the " North America," and which came into general use at once. This double inveiition of the brothers is row used in all the great navies of the world. They spent a great part of their lives in devising and effecting improvements in the means of attack and defense in naval warfare, especially for ironclads. Robert had beijueithed the '^ .evens battery to his brother, and the latter, at the be.cinning of he Civil War. present ^-^ the gcvsrnment a plan for CO ipletixig the vessel together with another small vessel called the " Nau- gh uck." This small vessel was accepted by the government, and was one of the fleet that attacked the " Merrimac." The government refused to ap- propriate the money on the plans proposed by Mr. Stevens, and upon his c GENEALOGICAT. 495 death he left the vessel to the State of New Jersey together with one million dollars for its completion. Edwin A. Stevens 'invented the steam plow, which was extensively used for years. He remained the business manager of the Camden and Araboy Railroad for npAvard of twenty-flve years. He founded the Stevens Institute in Hoboken, and beipieathed to it and to the high school a large plot of ground and .finO.OOO for the building and -If-^dO,- 000 for eiidownjents. His widow, whose maiden name was Martha IJayard. CASTLE POINT. aftei-ward devoted .'$i'00.000 1o rdigious and cliai-itable institutions, among which was the (jhurrh of the HoIa' Innocents at Hoboken. UANIKL I. DEMAREIST is descended in the ninth generation from David des ^larest, the French emigrant, concerning whom sei' sketcli on page 64. The line of descent is as follows: (I) David des Marest married Maria Sohier and had four children; (2) David Davids Demarest, Jr., mar- ried Maria Bertliolf and had eleven children; (3) L^aniel Davids D(Mnarest married Rebecca de CJroot and liad ten children; (4) Peter Daniels Demarest married Oesseltie Vandelinda and liad six children; (5) Peter Peters Dema- rest married Lydia Hopper and had ti\e children; (G) Peter Peters Demarest mai-ried Leah Demarest and had one child; (7) Daniel Peter Demarest marriec Leah Bogert and had live children; and (8) Isaac D. Demarest, born January 20, 1814, married, December 19, 1833, Margaret, daughter of John J. Van ^^'ago^er. He was a surveyor by occupation, and resided at Oradell, X. J., on part of the farm purcluised from the Indians by David des .Marest, the emigrant. His brothei'. Rev David D. Demarest, D.D., was for many years a professor in the Theological Seiainary at Rutgers College. Isaac D. Demarest was an active man in church and civil affa'rs, in both of which he was honi . ^d with jtositions of res])onsibility. His c U- dren of the ninth generation were Daniel I., the subject of this sketch, ,■ id Maria Ann. Daniel I. Demarest ('■)) was born at Oj'adell, N. J., March Ifi, 1836, and 496 HUDSON AND BEKGBN COUNTIES there received his education in the public schools. When eighteen years of age he went to work on the farm, and has ever since been actively and successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has also been prominent in public affairs. For a number of years he served as Postmaster of Ora- dell, where he resides, and for three years he was a member of the Town Council. For two years he has held the office of Mayor of the Borough of Oradell. In these as well as in other important capacities he has dis- played marked ability, sound judgment, and commendable enterprise. He is a member of the Dutch Eeformed Church, a public spirited citizen, and thoroughly identified with the progress of the community. He married Ellen Ann Demarest, by whom he had one son, Isaac. She died in 1871, and he married, second, Mattie Eobena Wilson, at Hackensack, April 20, 1899, daughter of John William and Robena P. (Ballantyne) Wilson, of New York City. JOHN H. Z. DEMAREST is descended in the eighth generation from David des Marest, the common ancestor of all the Demarests in New Jersey, of whom see sketch on page 64. David Demarest (1) and his wife, Maria Sohier, had four children of the second generation: John, David, Samuel, and Daniel. Samuel Davids Demarest (2), born at Mannheim in the lower Palatinate in 1653. married, August 11, 1678, Maria, daughter of Simon Dreuns. He died in 1728. He lived at Schraalenburgh and bought a large tract of land, from Governor Lowerie, called the " South West Hook," west of the Hacken- sack, near Old Hook. He was one of the wealthiest men in his neigh- borhood at the time of his death. His children were eleven of the third generation, one of whom was Peter Samuels Demarest. Peter Samuels Demarest (3) married, September 14, 1717, Margarietie, daughter of Cornelius Haring, of Tappan, and had issue of the fourth gene- ration Samuel P., Sophia, Lydia, Caroline, Jacob, Margaretta, Daniel P., John P., and Samuel. Samuel Peters Demarest (4), baptized June 2."), 1724, died March 14, 1808, married, November 19, 1747, Margaret Brinkerliofl, born October 4, 1729, died March 11, 1802. They lived at Schraalenburgh and had issue of the fifth generation nine children: Peter S., Henry S., Cornelius S., Jacob S., Ralph S., Jacob S., Margretie, Maria, and .Vnn. Ralph S. Demarest (.5), born August 23, 1756, died September 14, 1814, married Maria (daughter of Nicholas and Elsie Demarest), born August 8, 1756, died May 10, 1810. Ralph S. resided on a large farm at Demarest, N. J. His children of the sixth generation were four: Samuel E., John R., Margretta, and Margretta. Samuel R. Demarest (6), born February 5, 1783, died February 24, 1872, married December 22, 1808, Elizabeth Zabriskie, born February 13, 1789 died May 1, 1875. He resided at Demarest and was a farme, .;nd distiller! His issue of the seventh generation were ten: John Z., Ralph S., Cornelius, John S., Maria, Samuel S., Margaret, Catherine, Garr ,t Z., and Ann Eliza. Garret Z. Dem? ^st (7), boim at Demarest, N. J., January 21, 1829, mar- ried, October 18, l>j*9, Margaret Zabriskie, born October 14, 1830, daughter of John H. and Ann (Winner) )Zabriskie. T>"^y i-eside at Demarest, where Garret is . coal dealer and farmer. His children of the eighth generation are John H. Z. and William E. The latter was born June 8, 1861. John H. Z. Demarest (8), the subject of this sketch, was born at Hacken- sack, N. J., August 17, 1850, and was educated in the public schools. At GENEALOGICAL 497 the age of eighteen he entered the office of the New York and New Jersey Railroad, but three years later was transferred to the Erie Railroad, where he remained eleven years. He then engaged in business as a member of the stationery and printing firm of llnz & Co., No. 1 Bowling Green and 36 Pearl Street, New York, with which he has since continued. For upM'ard of sixteen years he has been actively and successfully engaged in this capacity. He attends the Dutch Reformed Church of Closter, N. J. In every connection he has achieved success and honor. He married Eliza- beth A'. Moore and has two children: J. Westerfleld and Gretta. They re- side in Demarest, N. J. MH/rOX G. DEMAREST is of the ninth generation from David des Marest, the French emigrant, concerning Avhom see sketch on page 64. His line is the same as that of his cousin, Daniel I. Demarest (see page 495) as far as the seventh generation. Daniel Peter Demarest (7) had five children of the eighth generation, all born at Oradell: Daniel P.. Lea, Isaac D., Peter D., David D., and Garret D. Garret D. Demarest (8) was born at Oradell, N. J., August '2?>, 1821, and died April 23, 1877. He married, May 19, 1S."')3, Maria, daughter of John D. Demarest, and had issue Lea, Daniel, Margaret (a, John, Katie, and Milton G., the last named being the subject of this sketch. Milton G. Demarest (9) was born at Oradell on the inth of July, 1871, and received his education in the public schools of Bergen County and at Rutgers College, New Brunswick. Owing to poor health he left school at the age of sixteen and went to California, where he remained two years. Upon his return he entered the employ of Cooper & Demarest, general contractors and dealers in builders' supplies, and has since continued there. As a resident of Oradell, Bergen County, Jlr. I>emarest has taken an active part in public affairs. He has served as Clerk of the Borough of Delford, as Seci'etary and Treasurer of the Delford Land Company and the Delford Sewerage Compauy, and as Suijerintendent of the Pc(;tzburg (Sun- day School. For a number of years he was Superintendent of the Union Sunday School. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed ('linrch, a public spirited citizen, and honored and respected by all who know him. He is unmarried. JACOB J. DEMAREST, of Closter, is descended in the seventh genera- tion from David des Marest, the first American emigrant and progenitor of the family (see sketch on page 04). The line of descent is as follows: David des Marest (1), of Beauchamp, in Picardy, Fran((\ and his wife, JIaria Sohier, of Nieppe, in Hainault, had four children of the second generation : David, Samuel, John, and Daniel. David Davids Demarest (2) married Sara Bertholf, daughter of Rev. Gill- iam Berthor ind had eleven children of the third generation. Jacobus Davids Demarest (3), baptized May 30, 170."), married (1) Lea de Gr-oot and (2) Marga. etta Cozine Haring. He lived at Schraalenburgh and had issue fifteen children of the fourth genera don. John Jacobus Demarest (4), born August 20, 1720, di. * February 1, 1783, married, March 7, 1744, Rachel Zabrislde, daughter of Joost Zabriskie, -who was born March 19, 1725, and died April 16, 1813. They jsided at ■ Schraalenburgh and had thirteen children of the fifth generation. Jacobus Johns Demarest (5), born August 20, 1748, died October 9, 1844, married (1) Rachel Smith, who died April 28, 1825. He married (2), in 4:98 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES 1825, Eachel Voorbis, who survived her husband. Jacobus J. Demarest was a surveyor by occupation and lived at Middletown in Bergen County. He had issue ten children of the sixth generation, one of whom was Joost. Joost Demarest (6), born December 4, 1797, died at Closter, N. J., Novem- ber 1, 1878. He married, in February, 1823, Margaret, daughter of Fred- erick Haring, born October 2, 1802. Joost was a cabinetmaker and lived at Piermont, N. Y., until 1825, when he removed to what is now Harrington Park, on the farm now occupied by ex-Sheriff William C. Herring. He served in the War of 1812. His children of the seventh generation were James, Frederick J., John B., Isaac H., Abraham, Vreeland B., Mary M., and Ann Eliza, of whom Jacob J. is the subject of this sketch. Jacob J. Demarest (7) was born at Piermont, N. Y., March 17, 1834, but has resided in Bergen County since he was one year old, his parents mov- ing to Harrington Park in 18.35. There he received his education. He left school at the age of sixteen and began active life on his father's farm. He also taught school about three and one-half years. Afterward he engaged in the hardware business in Closter with his brother Abraham under the firm name of A. Demarest & Brother, and has ever since continued in that- trade. He has also been somewhat active in public affairs, having served one year as Assessor and three years as Township Clerk. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church and a public spirited, enterprising citizen. Mr. Demarest married Margaret Durie and has two children : George and Maria. JOHN KEHOE, of Lyndhurst, N. J., was born in Newark, March 28, 1836. His father, Patrick Kehoe, a native of Wexford, Ireland, came to America when a youth and engaged in the clothing business, which he carried on successfully for forty years. His mother, Mary Anne Hopper, was a de- scendant of some of the first Dutch settlers of New Jersey. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers in the Kevolutionary A\'ar. Mr. Kehoe was educated in the Newark public schools, and previous to going in the army carried on a large meat business in Newark. In the Civil War he went to the front with Company B, Second Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, in May, 1861, served the full term, and re-enlisted in 1864 in Company H, Thirty-ninth Regiment. He lost his right leg in the battle of Petersburg. During the next few years he served successively as assistant superin- tendent of the Soldiers' Home and meat inspector of the City of Newark. Having always had a fancy for horses, he became a veterinarian, being ad- mitted to the New Jersev Veterinary Medical Association on August 12. 1886. Mr. Kehoe is a Democrat in politics, and has had much to do with the success which has marked the recent career of the Dem^-racy in Union Township. He has actively promoted the many public im •'iients which have taken place at Lyndhurst since he became a res' "^ • e. He is a member of the Union Town ■'hip DemocrAtic Club ant member of Gershom Mott Post, G. A. I., at Rutherford, N. J. „ served as a member of t) e Hemocratic C„un|^ Executive Commit :ee, as a member of ti i Bparr town, N. Y., and Paterson, N. J., and finally, in 1867, came to Engle-w In 1867 he en- gap-'_d in the bull ' g business in Englewood, "nd has col "n that line ever since, jiavin^ ouilt many ofthe finest residences in the city and being one of the .1 3ading builders there. Mr. Tallman has always taken an active interest in the welfare of Engle- wood, having seen it grow from a village of about 1,500, in 1867, when he first came there, to a city of about 6,000 inhabitants in 1900. He was GENEALOGICAL 507 a member of the Englewood Township Committee from 1889 to 181)3. He was also a member of the Citizens' Committee formed in 1895 to pro- mote the movement for the incorporation of Englewood as a city, and when the place was linally incorporated in 1896 he was elected a member of the first regular Citv Council and was Chairman of that body from 1896 to 1898. Mr. Tallman was married, in 1870, to Miss Maria Zabriskio. of what is now Oradell, Bergen County, N. J., whose ancestors were among the earli- est settlers of Bergen County. They have one daughter and three sons, of whom one, William Tallman, is a lawyer, practicing in New York City. WILLIAM TALLMAN was born March 3, 1875, in Englewood, N. J., where he still resides. He attended public school in Englewood from 1880 to 1891, graduating in the latter year, and then spent t-n o years at Drake's Business College, graduating in 1892. In 1894 he received a Regents' aca- demic diploma in New York and in 1897 was graduated LL.B. from the New York Law School. Since 1892 he has been associated with the well known law firm of Betts, Atterbury, Hyde & Betts, of New York, where he was admitted to the bar as an attorney and counselor in June, 1897. ABRAHAM WILSON DURYEE, A.M., of New Durham, was one of the eminent citizens of Hudson County. For a number of years he was Presi- dent of the Board of Freeholders of that county, and distinguished himself by the display of executive abilities of a high order. For two years he represented his Assembly district in the New Jersey House of Assembly. For twenty years he was a Township Committeeman. He was also Presi- dent of the Experimental Station of New Jersey in connection with Rutgers College and of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture and was an Elder in the Grove Reformed Church of New Durham. In view of these facts, it need hardly be said that Mr. Duryee enjoyed the esteem and con- fidence of the people of Hudson County to a degree realized by but very few citizens. He was born in Schuylei'ville, Saratoga County, N. Y., September 13, 1821, being the son of Rev. Philip Duryee, born in 1775, died in IS.IO, and Rachel Day, born July 8, 1794. His father. Philip, was Chaplain in the United States Army during the War of 1812. On the paternal side Mr. Duryee was a grandson of Abraham Duryee, who was born May 8, 1743, at Fort Hamilton, and died March 24, 1814, and of Eleanor Nagle, his wife; a great-grandson of Ceorge Duryee (born in 1715, died in 1795) and Catherine Schenck; a great-great-grandson of Abraham Duryee (born in 1685) and Elizabeth Polhemus; and a great-great-great-grandson of Joost Duryee (born in 1050. died in 1727) and Magdalene le F^bre, both of whom fled from Paris at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, coming in 1675 to this country from ? annheim, in the Palatinate of the Rhine. Abraham Durvee, grandfatl^ ' of Abraham W. Duryee, was born May 8, 1743. He was' a member - first Colonial Council, one of the Sons of Liberty, a member of .i' York Revolutionary Committee of fety, and on?.-of the famous uommittee of One Hundred in 1775. On the maternal side Mr. Duryee was a grandson of Edward j&y (born August 21, 1755, died December 10, 1797) and Leah Bourdett (born Septem- ber 8, 1765, died September 15. 1831); a great-grandson of Peter Bourdett (born May 11, 1735) and Rachel Bush (born in 1745); and a great-great-grand- 508 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES soil of Etienne Bourdett. Peter Bourdett (born May 11, 1735), in this line, gave the land for Fort Lee, while he and his slaves built the fort. Mr. Duryee was educated at a priyate school at English Neighborhood, N. J., and 'at Rutgers College, and from the last-mentioned institution re- ceived the degree of Master of Arts in 1893. He followed agricultural pur- suits on his large estate, and died June 8, 1898. His wife, Caroline, daugh- ter of Garrett Cowenhoven and Annetta Ditmars, lineally descends from Wolfert Garretse Van Cowenhoven, who came to New Amsterdam in 1630, from Amersfort, Province of Utrecht, Netherlands. Mrs. Duryee is still living, aged seventy-six, having been born October 4, 1824. They celebrated their golden wedding in 1894. DANIEL W. La PETRA, of Ridgewood, is of English, Dutch, and French descent. His father, William P. la Fetra, born in 1803, died in 1873, was the son of Samuel la Fetra, who was the son of James la Fetra, who was the son of James la Fetra, Sr., who was the son of Edmond la Fetra, who was the son of Edmond la Fetra, Sr., who died in 1687. The La Fetras were French Huguenots, whose blood mingled with that of the Hollanders through the line of Brewers to Bogardus, and that of Jansen to Tryn Jansen about 1565. Mr. La Fetra's maternal ancestry may be traced through his mother, Elizabeth T. Woolley, born in 1807, died in 1862, to Daniel Woolley, who married Elizabeth Wolcott, daughter of Benjamin Wolcott, son of Benjamin A^'olcott, son of Henry Wolcott, born in 1690, died in 1750, whose father was Peter Wolcott. These maternal ancestors were of English birth. Mr. La Fetra was born at Eatontown, Monmouth County, N. J., March 31, 1834. He was educated in the public schools of his native county, sup- plemented by private study at home. When nineteen years of age he engaged in teaching, and has always taken an active interest in public school work. As President of the Board of Education he has for many years been influential in educational matters in Ridgewood, and to his efforts the people are largely indebted for one of the best school buildings in the State. For some years Mr. La Fetra engaged in mercantile pursuits, but for a long time has filled a responsible position in R. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile agency. Although deeply patriotic and devoted to his country's interests, he has never sought honor or distinction in military circles. This may be at- tributed to the fact that he is of Quaker parentage, and that his earlier years were spent under the influence and teachings of that peace-loving sect. He is a member of the Ridgewood Club. Mr. La Fetra married Miss Emma Hendrickson, of an old Long Island family of Dutch descent. GEORGE A. BERGER was born March 20, 1875, in Hoboken, N. J., where he still resides. His father, Charles Berger, came to this country from Germany in 1862, settling first in New York City and in 1871 in Ho- boken, where he ^sided until his death March 6, 1899. He was for twenty- five years connected with the North Hudson County Railroad and for a number of years was with the Erie Railroad. He was a member of various societies, a popular and influential citizen, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was the son of Johannes Berger, also a native of Germany. His wife, Alvina M. Teubner, daughter of Christian C. and Johanna Teub- ner, still survives. GENEALOGICAL 509 George A. Berger was educated in the Hcboken public scliools and iu 1891 \Yas graduated from W. A. Seliell's Connnercial School ol Hoboken. For a time he followed the real estate and insurance business. Afterward he engaged in banking with the Hudson Trust and Savings Institution, of which he was Assistant Secretary for six and one-half years. At the end of that period he resigned and engaged in the real estate business for him- self, but afterward sold out and accepted a position as Cashier of the Trust Company of Xew Jersey at Hoboken, which he still holds. He is a Director of the Mutual Home and Savings Institution of Hoboken, and has gained a high standing for execnti\e ability, integrity of character, and enterprise. GEORGE A, BERGER. In politics Jlr. I'ei-gcr is inde])endeut. He is a member of tin; Castle I'oint Cyclers and of the l!i\erside Club, and actiA-ely identified with the affairs of his native city. GAKEET I). DUETE.— The Dnrie family, members of which have for two centuries held responsible jtositions in civil and religious affairs and wiekled a strong influence in shaping the destinies of Ucrgen County, are of French lineage. John Durie (or Durji, as he s]ielled it) was a French Huguenot, whose birthplace was Picardy, but wlio had fled with his parents to Mann- 510 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES heim in the Palatinate of the Rhine to escape persecution and death. It has been said that his family was closely related to that of David des Marest (see page 64), for which reason he came to America between 1680 and 1690 and joined the Demarests on the west bank of the Hackensack. He was a blacksmith by trade, and tradition says that, upon his arrival at New Amsterdam, he went directly to Bergen, N. J., whence he walked all the way to the Demarest settlement on the Upper Hackensack. He had with him his four children, but no wife is mentioned and it is presumed he was a widower. Old documents of that period seem to establish the fact that David des Marest, the emigrant, was his uncle. He was present when the will of Demarest was read in 1693, and was then called a cousin of the Demarests. In 1694 he bought from the Indians and from the New Jersey Proprietors 23.3 acres west of Closter, bounded east on the Tiena Kill and west on the Hackensack. On this he built his family residence and re- mained until his death. Until within a very few years his descendants owned the old homestead. The house site is now the residence of the late Dr. John L. Terhune. John Durie (1) was a man of intelligence, sterling integrity, and good business capacity. He had been fairly educated and possessed many ac- complishments particularly useful to a pioneer, one of which was that of wielding the pen skillfully, as his signature to official documents shows. He was fond of reading and owned a considerable library, which he disposed of by his will. He was active in all public affairs in the county. He served as arbitrator in many disputes between the settlers and the Indians. He held town and county offices, being Constable, Justice of the Peace, Free- holder, etc. In 1693 he was one of the three County Judges. This was the first county court established in the county. He helped organize the Dutch church at Hackensack and several times held the offices of Deacon and Elder. He also was a member of Captain John Berry's " Train Band." In 1696 he married his second wife, Rachel Cresson, widow of his cousin. David Davids Demarest, who survived him and married again. He died near the close of 1698. His children of the second generation were Jane, Peter, John, and Margaretta. John Johns Durie (2), born at Mannheim, married, August 20, 1715. Angenatie Johns Bogert. He kept and resided all his life on the old home- stead. His children of the third generation were eleven: Rachel, John, John, Mary, Peter, Sarah, Peter, Martina, David, Ann, 'a-nd James. David Johns Durie (3), born in 1739, died in 1809, married, in 1762, Mar- garetta Cornelises Van Horn, born in 1747, died in 1 S27. They had i^sue of the fourth generation twelve children: Angenitie, Maria, John D., Mar^ iret, Rachel, Sara, Martina, Sara, Martina, Cornelius D., Ann, and Alice. Cornelius D. Durie (4), born in 1784, died in 1849, married, in 1804, Mar- garet Brinkerhoff, born in 1782, died in 1856. They had issue of the fifth generation Chris +ina, David C, Elizabeth, Nicholas, C, Hannah, John, Cornelius, Richa i, and Henry. Nicholas C. L rie (5). born n 1 •ill, died in,1868, nij,rried, in 1830, Maria Demarest, born m 1813, died in 1852. He married, second, Elizabeth Van Houten. His children of the sixth generation were Cornelius N., David N., Margaret, John D., Christina, Hannah, and Ralph C. Cornelius N. Durie (6), born August 11, 1833, married, February 15, 1854, Rachel A., daughter of Garret I. Demarest. She was born June IF., 1832. He resided at Closter and had issue of the seventh generation Nicholas C, Garret D.. and Irving. ,, GENEALOGICAL 511 Garret D. Durie (7), the subject of this sketch, was born at Gloster, N. J., March 20, 1865, and received his education in the schools of Bergen County. At the age of fourteen he entered the employ of the West Shore Railroad. Subsequently he engaged in the shoe business in Gloster, continuing seven years. Since then he has been actively engaged in the ice business at that place, building up a large and successful trade. Mr. Durie has also been active and prominent in public affairs. He served as Postmaster of Gloster from 1892 to 181)1 and lor some time has been a member of the Township Gommittee of Harrington Township. He attends the Dutch Reformed Church. He married Henrietta Roth and has one son, Roth G. Durie. EDGAR K. CONRAD, M.D., of Hackensack, is the son of James H. Con- rad and Jennie M. Klopp. He was born in Berneville, Berks County, Pa., February 21, 1870, and in 1876 removed \\ith his parents to Chicago, 111., whence the family went to South Dakota in 1882. In 1890 Dr. Conrad returned East to take up the study of medicine. He had attended the public schools of Watertown, S. D., graduating from the Watertown High School in 1889. Upon returning East he entered Bellevue Medical College and was graduated from that institution with the degree of M.D. in 189.3. He then took up his residence in Hackensack, N. J., and spent one year in the Hackensack Hospital, of which he is now a visiting physician. Since 1894 he has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in that place. He is a Chaptei' Mason, belonging to Lodge No. 70 and Chapter No. 40, of Hackensack, and a mem- ber of Hackensack Lodge, No. 7'!, I. O. O. P., Hackensack Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., and the Bergen County and State Medical Societies. ABRAHAM DEMAREST, of Gloster, is descended in the seventh genera- tion from. David des Marest, the first American emigrant and progenitor of the family (see sketch on page 64). The line of descent is as follows- David des Marest (1), of Beauchamp, in Picardy, France, and his wife Marit. Sohier, of Nieppe, in Hainault, had four children of the second generation: David, Samuel, John, and Daniel. David Davids Demarest (2) married Sara Bertholf, daughter of Rev. Gilliam Bertholf, and had eleven children of the third generation, one of whom was Jacobus Davids Demarest. Jacobus Davids Demarest (3), baptized May 30, 170.-), married (1) Lea de Groo^ and (2) Margaretta Cozine Haring. He lived at Schraalenburgh and had issue fifteen children of the fourth generation. John Jacobus Demarest (4), born August 20, 1720, died February 1, 1783, married, March 7, 1744, Rachel Zabriskie, daughter of Joost Zabriskie, who was born March 19, 1725, and died April 16, 1813. They resided at Schraalenburgh and had thirteen children of the fifth ger oration. Jacobus Johns De larest (5), born /^lv -""ust 20, 1748, dii October 9, 1844, married (1) Rachel ^'^^ith, vho died A^ril 28, 182.5. K married (2), in 1825, Rachel Voorhis, who survived her husband and died in 1835. Jacobus was a surveyor by occupation and lived at Middletown in Bergc County. He haf" issue ten children of the sixth generation. Joost Demarest (6) was born December 4, 1797, and died at Gloster, N. J November 1 1878. He married, in Februar3-, 1823, Margaret, daughter of Frederick Haring, born October 2, 1802. Joost was a cabinetmaker and lived at Piermont, N. Y., until 1825, when he removed to what is now Har- a 512 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES rington Park, on the farm now occupied by ex-Sheriff William C. Herring. His children of the seventh generation were James, Frederick J., John B., Isaac H., Abraham, Vreeland B., Mary M., and Ann Eliza, of whom Abra- ham (7) is the subject of this sketch. Abraham Demarest (7) was born in Harrington Township, N. J., Decem- ber 14, 1839, and obtained his education in the schools of Bergen County. At the age of sixteen he engaged in the trade of tinsmith, and has ever since continued in that business. He is now at the head of the firm of A. Demarest & Brother, hardware dealers, of Oloster. He is a public spirited, progressive citizen, active in local affairs, and highly respected by all who know him. He served nine months in the Civil War as a private in the Twenty-second New Jersey Volunteers, and is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Closter. He married Cathe- rine D. Westervelt, a member of an old and respected New Jersey family. JOHN CARLSON, of Arlington, Hudson County, was born in Sweden on the 17th of April, 1842. He is the son of Charles and Catharina Carlson, members of old and respected families of that country. Having received a public school education in Sweden, Mr. Carlson came to the United States in 1870, and for a time was connected with the iron manufacturing business in New York City. Subsequently he removed to Arlington, N. J., where he has since been successfully engaged in the coal business. Mr. Carlson is a business man of acknowledged ability, and during his entire career has maintained a high reputation for probity, integrity, and enterprise. He is a Director of the Kearny Building and Loan .Association of Kearny, N. J., one of the oldest and strongest organizations of the kind in the State. In politics he is a Republican. He attends the Baptist Church and in every capacity has displayed great public spirit. He married Miss Clara Lilljren, of Arlington, Hudson County. They have five children: John, Jr., Minnie, Edith, David, and William. LOUIS HENRY BRADLEY, of Rutherford, N. J., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 28th of November, 1874. He is the son of Robert and Ida Frances (Backwood) Bradley, both natives of Brooklyn. He received his educational training in the public schools of that city and began his busi- ness career in the real estate business there. Subsequently he became a carpenter and worked at that trade in Rutherford, N. J. He finally en- gaged in the livery business in the same town, where he has built large and commodious stables for that purpose. He is much interested in the affairs of his adopted town, being a member of the Union Club of Rutherford, of Rutherford Lodge, No. 547, B. P. O. of Elks, of Rutherford Lodge, No. 150, Knights of Pythias, of Rutherford Lodge, No. 240, I. O. O. F., of Rutherford Council, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and of Fire Engine Company No. 2. Mr. Bradley married Isabell Hunt, daughter of Cl'arles R. and Martha Hunt, of Rutherford. She is deceased. WILLIAM HENRY BRADLEY, of Hoboken, N. J., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 10th of September, 1878, being the son of William Henry Bradley, Sr., and Anna Brock. He is of English descent on the paternal side. His maternal ancestors are Germans, The family has resided in Hoboken aboui si;steen years. GENEALOGICAL 513 JOHN SHAFER. Board of Trade, Past Master of Pioneer Lodge, F. and A. M., Past High Priest of Bergen Chapter, R. A. M., a Noble of the Slystic Shrine (Masons). and Past Grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. WILLIAM SICKLES BANTA was for many years one of the leading citizens of Hackensack. He was a lineal descendant of Epke Jacob Banta, who was born in Harlingen, West Friesland, Holland, and who sailed from Amsterdam in the ship " De Troiiw," for America, February 1.3, 10.^9. He settled in what is now j?erge"i County, N. J., and became one of the Judges of the Oyer and Terminer In 167!J. Ian (John) Banta, one of his direct descendants, located at Pascack, in Washington Township, about 17.^0, and died there, being succeeded by his eldest son, Hendrick Banta, who was born May 27, 1749. The latter died February 1.5, 1803, leaving about five hundred acres of land in Bergen County which was divid^^d among his five sons. He also had three daughters. His son, Henry H. Banta, born at Pascack, September 30, 1784, was a f'loemaker by trade, but spent his 514 HUDSON AJSTD BERGEN COUNTIES active life as a farmer and merchant. In 1832 hie removed to Hackensack. and with his brother Tennis carried on a general mercantile bnsiness until his death in Februarj', 1849. He was Tostmaster of Hackensack for sev- eral years, ranked as Adjutant in the State militia, was a Justice of the Peace, and by appointment serA^ed as a Lav Jndg;e of the Court of Common Pleas of Bergen County from 1829 to 1834 and 1838 to 1848. He married Jane, daughter of William Sickles, of Rockland County, N. Y., who died in 1870, aged seventy-six. She was descended from Zacharias Sickles, who came originally from Vienna, Austria, to Holland, and thence to Curacoa, one of the West India Islands, where he met Governor Peter Stuyvesant, witli whom he came to New York and thence in 1655 to Albany. Zacharias Sickles is regarded as the common ancestor of the Sickles family in Amer- ica. Judge Henry A. Banta had three children: Margaret (deceased), Will- iam S., and Jane (Mrs. John de Peyster Stagg). William S. Banta was born in Pascack, Bergen County, December 12, 1824. He was educated in the public schools and at the private classical school of Rev. John S. Mabon, in Hacltensack, and was graduated from Rutgers College in 1844. He read law with Hon. A. O. Zabriskie, of Hack- ensack, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in Octo- ber, 1847, and as a counselor in April, 1851. He subsequently became a Special Master in Chancery and a Supreme Court Commissioner. In the spring of 1848 he opened an offlce in Hackensack, where he continued in successful practice until his retirement from the more active duties of the profession in 1868. During this period of twenty years he established a wide reputation as an able and painstaking lawyer. He was Prosecutor of the Pleas of Bergen County from 1860 to 1868, when he resigned. In 1872 he was appointed Law Judge of the County of Bergen to fill the unexpired term of Judge Green, and on April 1, 1873, he was re-appointed for a full term of five years. In 1879 Governor McClellan appointed him Associate Judge of the same court, and he served in that capacity until the expiration of his term in 1884. Judge Banta, on leaving the bench, retired from the active duties of his profession and afterward devoted his time largely to the care of his private interests. He was widely recognized for his sound judgment, strict in- tegrity, and knowledge of the law. In educational matters he was espe- cially prominent. He was School Superintendent of New Barbadoes, Ber- gen County, under the old law, and afterward was appointed, with Rev. Alber Amerman, one of the Board of Examiners for teachers of public schools by the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, a position he held for several years. In 1862 Governor Olden appointed him commissioner of the draft of the County of Bergen, in accordance with orders of the gen- eral government, and in this capacity he carried out in a highly creditable manner the provisions of the order by making an enrollment of all persons in the county liable to military duty. Within a month nf the time ap- pointed for the draft several companies volunteered, thus filling the quota required for Befgen County This was a r)art of th ; machinery of the State inaugurated and set iu motion by Goverij; •" ^en, who was pre- eminen.ly the War Governor of New Jersey, and win dore than any other man established that system which it was impossible t."> reverse and which ranked the State among the first in the Union during tie entire Rebellion. Judge Banta was also Deputy Internal Revenue Collector for the County of Bergen during a part of the war period. He was a member of the Hack- ensack Improvement Commission, for several years President of the Hack- GENEALOGICAL 515 ensack Gas Light Compaay, and for a long time Secretary of the old Bergen County iSIutnal Insurance Company. He died May 7, 1900. May 30, 1850, Judge Banta married Sarah, daughter of John and Caty Ann (Hopper) Zabriskie, of Hohokus, X. J., who died in 18.")3, leading a son who died in infancy. In ]\Iay, 1861, he married her sister, Adelia, who died in 1869. March 16, 1876, he was juarried to Jane Anne, daughter of Abra- ham H. and Maria (Anderson) Berry, of Hackensack, and a lineal de- scendant of John Berry, one of the original patentees of Bergen County. She died February 6, 1900, in the seyenty-flrst year of her age. \Y1LLIAM MORTIMER CLARK, a prominent business man of Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J., and a yeteran of the Ci\ il War, was born in Middle- burgh, N. Y., on the 10th of Noyember, 184.5. His paternal ancestor, John Clark, came to this country from England, and is interred in Trinity church- yard, New York City, in a yault built in 1790. A number of those in the collateral line emigrated originally from Holland. His parents were Minard H. Clark and Euphrasia Ann Gilbert. The Gilberts were from the North of Ireland and emigrated early to this country, settling at Hudson. Columbia County, N. Y'. Their descendants afterward settled at Middleburgh, Scho- harie County, where Euphrasia Ann was born. His grandparents were Richard Clark and Christina Dutcher. His great-grandfather was Thomas Clark and his great-great-grandparents were John Clark and Tekie Wal- dron. The Butchers and YValdrons were both of Holland descent, and a number of them, like the Clarks, haye been residents of this country for many generations. Mr. Clark's ancestors served with honor and distinction in the Reyolutionary War, in the War of 1812, in the Mexican War, and in the Rebellion, and from the first haye been active and influential in the com- munities where they have resided. The Episcopal Chapel at Middleburgh, N. Y., furnished Mr. ( 'lark with the educational training with which he entered upon the artive duties of life. After leaving school he served an apprenticeship at the foundry trade, which he has continuously followed. He is the patentee of an acetyline gas generator which has been a marked success. In 1883 he settled in Bay- onne, Hudson County, and still carries on the foundry business, Mr. Clark enlisted in the War of the Rebellion, August 20, 1862, as a mem- ber of Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth New York Volunteers, and served until the close of that sanguinary conflict. He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Moun- tain, and other important engagements, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. He has always been a Republican, prominent in party and pub- lic affairs, deeply interested in the progress of the community, and highly respected for those sterling qualities which distinguish the representative citizen. He is Past Grand Commander of the Knights of Malta of New Jersey, and a member of Mansfield Post, No. 22, Grand Army of the Repub- lic, of Bayonne Lodg^e, No. 99, Free and Accepted Masons, of Veteran Legion, No. 81, of Jc ■'sey City, "f Bayonne Loc ^e, No. 37, Knights of Pyth- ias, of Eastern Sta- -' aptsr, No. 21, of Bayonne Lodge, No. 20S, Indepen- dent Order of Odd P lows, of Council No. 119, Junior Order of An;erican Mechanics, of Counc'l No. 2.5, Senior Order United American Mechanics, of Elizabeth, and of Council No. 109, Daughters of Liberty, which he organ- ized. He is also a member of Bayonne Court, Independent Order of For- esters. Mr. Clark is one of the most popular and influential men in the southern part of Hudson County, and in both business and public affairs 516 HUDSON AKD BEKGBN COUNTIES is widely known. He has achieved snccess in every capacity, and has dis- charged with fidelity and satisfaction all the duties which he has been called upon to perform. On November 9, 1867, Mr. Clark married Julia G. Canfield, daughter of Arza W. and Nancy Canfield, of Palatine Bridge, Montgomery County, N. Y. They have five children: Minard H., William M., Jr., Sylvanus W., Elizabeth A., and Nancy E. JAMES J. DONNELLY, of Arlington, is the son of John and Ellen (Chester) Donnelly and a grandson of James Chester. His parents came to this country from Ireland, where members of the family still reside. Mr. Donnelly was born June 10, 1866, in New York City, where he received a public school education. He is now engaged in the business of gold and silver plating at 73 Nassau Street, New York. In politics Mr. Donnelly has been for several years an active and in- fluential Eepublican. In 1899 he was the representative on the Board of Aldermen from the Fourth Ward of Kearny. He is a member of the Eoyal Arcanum, of the Independent Order of Foresters, and of the Knights of Columbus, and as a citizen is enterprising, public spirited, and highly re- spected. Mr. Donnelly married Margaret Collins, by whom he has four children: Chester, Marguerite, Helen, and Dorothy. WILLIAM ECKHARDT, a well known real estate and insurance man of Guttenberg, Hudson County, was born in New York City on the 14th of May, 1861. He is the son of Peter Charles and Louise Eckhardt, both na- tives of Germany. He received a public school education in New York City and afterward went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he spent five years with his brother, Peter Charles Eckhardt, Jr., in the stock business. Upon returning East Mr. Eckhardt engaged in the real estate business with his father, and so continued until July, 1890, when he removed to Guttenberg. He then engaged in the real estate and insurance business for himself. In politics he is a Democrat. He was Councilman of Gutten- berg one term and is a member of the Democratic Club, of the Royal Ar- canum, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In every capacity he has displayed sound judgment and gained an honorable reputation. Mr. Eckhardt was married, November 7, 1886, to Ellen, daughter of Mi- chael and Catherine McKenna, of New York. They have four children: Peter Charles, 3d, William, Ethel, and Ralph. PERCY ALMY GADDIS, one of the prominent and successful real estate and insurance brokers of Jersey City, was born in Jersey City, N. J., Janu- ary 18, 1872, and is unmarried. His great-grandfather, Andrew Gaddis, who was of English descent and a resident of North Branch, Middlesex County, N. J., married Margaret Bergen, a descendant of Hans Hansen Bergen, a native of Bergen, Norway, who came to America in 1633 and settled in the Wallabout section of Brooklyn, .dierf. he married Sarah, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapelje. Andrew Gaddis'^^ issue were Jacob B., David A., John Van Dyck, and Catharine Ann. Jacob B., born at North Branch, iharried Eliza Outcalt. daughter of Judge Outcalt, of New Bruns- wick. He came to Jersey City in the early fifties, embarked in the lighter- age business, and founded the New Jersey Lighterage Company, of which he was President. He died at Ogdensburg, N. Y., in 1886, having had issue GENEALOGICAL 517 Andrew A., Catharine L., John de F., Theodore F., Margaret, Julia, and Elizabeth. Theodore F. Gaddis, born at Spottswood, N. J., married Caroline Amelia Ryder, daughter of Brazilla W. Ryder, of Middleboro, Mass., and Hannah Elizabeth M arren, of Darieu, Conn. The latter was a lineal descendant of Richard ^^ arren, of the " Mayflower " party. Theodore F. Gaddis came to Jersey City about 18.14 and entered Columbia College, but left before graduating to connect himself with the Jersey City Locomotive Works, with which concern he remained until its failure, when he established the Hudson Iron Foundry, with which he was identified until shortly before his death. His issue were Theodore B., James \'an IJyck Percy A Bertha O., Malcolm L., and Jtlortimer C. " ' Percy A. Gaddis, the subject of this sketcli, attended the public schools of Jersey City until thirteen years of age, when he entered as a clerk the oflice of a Wall Street broker in New York. Three years later he became a clerk in the offices of the Erie Railroad Cojnpany. Two years later he was employed by C. C. Jewell & Co., real estate dealers. In the fall of 1890 Mr. Gaddis embarked in the real estate and insurance business for himself, near the Hudson County Court House, where he has since success- fully pursued it. In the fall of ISOO he erected 1he office building shown in illustration, which he now ocrupies. In addition to managing his large and im-reasing business Mr. Gaddis finds time to devote to religious and political work. As an active member and clerk of the Vestry of the Church of the Holy Cross (Episcopal) of Jersey City he has devoted inui-h time to a study of the history, canons, and traditions of the Church of England, and has had many discussions with eminent divines relative to church doctrines. He has served on the Republican County Committee, and is a member of the Republican Battery, a crai-k jiolitical organization. WILLIAM R. REER, of Jersey City, is the son of Rees Rees and Eleanor MacLaughlan, and was born in that city on the l;'.th of October, 1870. His fatlier is of Welsh extraction and his mother of Scotch-Irish parentage. Mr. Rees received his education in the public schools of Jersey City, and after leaving school took up the study of the law. He jjursued his legal studies in the office of Spencer and Jacob ^A^eart, in Jersey City, was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar in November, 1897, and is now in partner- ship with Howard MacSherry under the firm name of MacSherry & Rees. Since his admission to the bar he has had his oftices in Jersey City and has been very successful in practice. He was clerk in the Law Department of 518 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Jersey City for three years, and was later called on cases emanating from violations of the healt'li rules by tlie Jersey City Board of Plealth. He is a member of the Union League of Jersey City and a prominent citizen, re- spected by all who know him. Mr. llees was married on Easter Sunday, 1899, to Evelyn Eugenie Eobin- son, of Waretown, Ocean County, JST. J. FRED J. ENSOR, of Arlington, was born in Rugby, England, on the 6th of September, 1873. He is the son of John Flavcl Ensor and Esther King. Mr. Ensor obtained his education in the public schools of Sutton, Cold- FRED J. ENSOR. field, and in 1887 left England and came to the United Spates, settling first in Liverpool, Pa., afterward in Pittsburg in that S'ate, and finally in Wheeling, W. Vii. In 1891 he r-^moved to Arlington, Hudson County, N. J., where he has since reside J. For a tune Mr. Ensor was succesr-sfully engaged .a business as a con- tractor. He is now a dealer in paints, oils, etc., having one of the best kno\\'n establishments of the kind in his section. In this as well as in other enterprises he has achieved success. He is a public spirited, patriotic citizen, actively identified witli local affairs, and a member of the First Regiment, N. G. N. J. He is also a member of Pilgrim Lodge, No. 202 I. GENEALOGICAL 519 O. O. F., of Americus Council, No. 1,304, Royal Arcanum, and of the Re- bekah order of Odd Fellows, all of Arlington. In politics he is independent. JOHN De VOE. — The de Voes of New Jersey are of French lineage. Nicholas de Voe, of Rochelle, France, went to Mannheim in Germany in 1 645, with his parents and brother Frederick. From thence in 1075 Nicho- las emigrated to America and stopped for a while at New Harlem, where he married Mary See. In 1680 he removed to Bergen, N. J., and thence in 1687 to Hackensack, where he purchased lands from the Indians on the west side of the Hackensack and settled near David des Marest. Des Marest claimed title to de Voe's lands, and the latter bought elsewhere. About 1681, his first wife having died, he married (2), in 1682, Margaret Fonda, widow of Jaeck Batton. He died about 1715 and his widow married Henry Karnnega, of Long Island. His children of the second generation were Abraham, Jilester (married, in 1698, Henry Brower), Susanna (born at Jersey City, October 11, 1680, married (1), in 1696, Thomas Bricker and (2), in 1695, James Everse Van Gelder), and Mary (married, in 1710, Jacob Buys, of Jersey City). There must have been other sons. In 1676 Frederick, brother of Nicholas, came over from Mannheim and located at New Harlem, where he settled and resided until his death in 1743. The inventory of his property after his death indicates that he was a man of considerable wealth. His first marriage occurred in 1673, but his first wife died a year or two later, and he married (2), June 24, 1677, Hester Tourneur, daughter of Daniel Tourneur, of Harlem. John de Voe, the subject of this sketch, is descended in the seventh gene- ration from Frederick or Nicholas, the emigrants. He is the son of James de Voe and Alletta Van Bussum and was born in Saddle River Township, Bergen County, November 6, 1821. He received his education in the schools of his native county, and at the age of thirteen went to work on his father's farm, where he remained three years. He then learned the carriage-mak- ing trade, receiving twenty-five dollars a year and his board for five years. This apprenticeship was both practical and valuable. He followed the trade for forty years in New York City and Newark, N. J., and afterward settled in Rivervale, Bergen County, where he has since been engaged in farming. He is a member of the Baptist Church, but for some time has attended the Reformed Church, and in every capacity has gained the confi- dence and respect of his fellowmen. He married Susan A. Haring. HENRY KARL, son of John and Wilhelmina (Zeitner) Karl, was born in Germany on the 6th of July, 1869. There he received his education. He came to America with his parents in 1883 and afterward settled in West Foboken, where he still resides. His first business was that of a barber in New York City. Subsequently he was a weaver in a silk mill. He is a Democrat in politics, a Justice of the Peace, a Comniissioner of Deeds, and a Notary I'ublic. He is Presi- dent of the Young Democracy of the Tb^rd V^ard, Wesi. Hoboken. Mr. Karl married Wilhelm na Loehr, daughter of Philip and Catherine Loehr. They have t iree children: Frederick, Minnie, and Amanda. CHARLES HOFFMAN, of Carlstadt, N. J., was born in New York City on the 11th of May, 1863. He is the son of Francis and Pauline Hoffman, natives of Germany, who came to the United States in 1870, settling in Carlstadt. 520 HUDSON AJSTD BERGEN COUNTIES Mr. Hoffman was educated in the Carlstadt public schools and subse- quently engaged in the watch-case business. Afterward he became an undertaker, and has since followed that profession with success in Carl- stadt, where he resides. He was elected County Coroner of Bergen County in 1899 and still holds that office. He is a member of several German societies, including the Carlstadt Turners, the Concordia Society, the German Schuetzen, the Carlstadt Schuetzen Corps, the Independent Schuetzen, and the Powder Bowling Club. He is also a member of the Carlstadt Bergen Hose Com- pany, of Carlstadt Lodge, No. 113, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Rutherford Lodge, No. 547, B. P. O. Elks. Mr. Hoffman was married. May 11, 1893, to Louisa H. Otto, of Carlstadt, N. J. They have two children: Charles and Mary. BENJAMIN CUMBEELAND STUART, of Hillsdale, is a native of New York City, and the son of Benjamin C. Stuart and Susannah E. Davis, daughter of Thomas Davis, of England. He is a grandson of Thomas Stuart and a great-grandson of Thomas Stuart, Sr., of Scotland. Mr. Stuart was educated in the schools of Brooklyn, where he resided for several years. After leaving school he took up newspaper work and for a long time served on the staff of the leading New York daily newspapers. He is now and has been for several years President and General Manager of the Standard News Association, with offices in the Postal Telegraph Building, 253 Broadway, New York. While residing in Brooklyn he was actively identified with the musical affairs of the metropolis and is the author of several musical and literary compositions, including the " Black Diamond Rulers " and other works. He is the eldest brother of a family of newspaper men connected with the metropolitan press, and in both journalism and business has achieved suc- cess. He is a member of the New York Press Club, a public spirited citi- zen, and active and influential in the affairs of Hillsdale, N. J., where he resides. HORACE ROBERSON, a prominent lawyer of Bayonne, Hudson County, is the son of Samuel Roberson, and was born in Hunterdon County, N. J., May 5, 1858. Although the son of a farmer, Mr. Roberson's inclinations were to educational pursuits. After obtaining a good common school edu- cation in the public schools of his own county he entered the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, took a full course, and was graduated in 1881. Following this, for five years he successfully filled the position of Principal of the public school at Closter in Bergen County, where he made many friends and was highly esteemed. Having during thisi time given his spare time to the study of the law, he took a course in Columbia Col- lege Law School and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in June, 1887. He was then employed in the office of Counsellor De Witt Van Buskirk at Bayonne for two years. In 1889 he opened a law office in West Eighth Street, Bayonne, and has since successfully practiced his profession in the coanty and State courts. Having been admitted as a counsellor, he be- came and is still senior member of the law firm of Roberson & Demarest. In 1891 Mr. Roberson was elected School Trustee for the one-year term and made a good record on the board. In 1894 he was appointed City Treasurer and served with credit the full term of two years. In 1898 he was elected City Councilman and has served two years. He is solicitor GENEALOferOAL 521 for the Centerville Building and Loan Association. He lias always been prominent in the councils of the Republican party, having been a member of the County Committee and Vice-President of the Bayonne City Republi- can Association. He is devoted to his profession and a zealous worker in everything he undertakes. He is a member of the church and of social societies. In September, 1890, he married Nettie Marcelia, daughter of Abraham J. Demarest and Eliza W. Lozier, of Closter, N. J. Mrs. Roberson was born at Eastwood, N. J., December 2.5, 18(51. He has two daughters: Elinor W., born December 25, 1894, and Jessie K., born November 1, 1898. FREDERICK P. VAN RIPER.— Winfield in his "History of Hudson County" says; "This name with its present multitudinous orthography is derived from the Latin ripa, and was the name of a city on the north bank of the River Nibbs, sometimes called Nipsick, or Gram. North Jut- land (so called to distinguish it from South Jutland or Schleswig), in Den- mark, was divided into four dioceses, the most southwesterly of which, lying along the German Ocean, was called Ripen. This diocese was one hundred and forty-two miles in length and fifty-seven miles in width, and was part of Cimbrica Cheresonesus of the ancients, where dwelt the war- like Cimbri, who, at one time, invaded the Roman Empire. The City of Ripen, in the Diocese of Ripen, is situated in lat. 55° 36' north, and Ion. 9° 10' east. Next to Wibourg it is the most ancient town in North Jut- land. It once had a commodious harbor and profitable commerce; but the one long since filled up and the other sought different channels. Its cathe- dral was imposing, built of hewn stone, with a steeple of great height, which served as a landmark for mariners. In the Swedish war of 1645 the city was captured, but was recovered by the Danes soon after. From this port, in April, 1663, a vessel named " T'Bonte Koe " (The Spotted Cow) sailed for New Netherlands with eighty-nine passengers, consisting of men, women, and children. Among the number was Juriaen Tomassen, a young man of the City of Ripen. About four years after his arrival he married Pryntje Hermans, May 25, 1667; died September 12, 1695. Some of his descendants took the name of Jurianse — now Yereance and Auryansen, — while others, taking the name of the city from which their ancestors sailed, became Van Ripen." The children of Juriaen Tomassen were nine of the second generation: Thomas, Gerrit, Aeltje, Christina, Mary, Harman, John, Harman, and Margaret. Of these Harman (2), born December 6, 1686, married (1) Mary Fredericks and (2) Judith Steinmets. Thomas and Gerrit bought lands and settleci in Bergen County. The third son, Harman (2), removed to Aquack- anenck, where he settled and died in May, 1756. His children of the third generation were Juriaen, Frederick, Abram, Christopher, Mary, Jacob, John, Isaac, Sarah; Jane, Garret, and Thomas. Frederick (3), born February 22, 1715, married (1) Catharine Hopper and (2) Ann Van Vorst. Frederick resided at Aeuackanonck. Hi^ grandson, Frederick Jan Van Riper, of the fifth generation, was born August 4, 1782, and died June 7, 1864. He married Mary Van Buskirk, who died November 4, 1873, aged eighty-four years, one month, and seventeen days. Both are buried at the Reformed Dutch Church at Saddle River, N. J. Their issue, among others, was Peter Van Riper of the sixth generation, born December 5, 1808, died November 22, 1880, married Elizabeth Haring, daughter of Isaac and Annie (Post) Haring. She was born May 7, 1809, and died May 522 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES 26, 1884. They were buried at Pascack, N. J., where they resided. Among their issue of the seventh generation was Frederick P. Van Eiper (7). Frederick P. Van Riper (7) was born at Chestnut Eidge, N. J., July 7, 1832, and received his education in the schools of Bergen County. At the age of seventeen he went to work on his father's farm, teaching school in winter for three years. Afterward he was engaged in the grocery business in Paterson for two years, and since then he has conducted the homestead farm. For nine months he served on the regimental staff of the Twenty- second New Jersey Volunteers. Mr. Vim Riper is a public spirited citizen, a member of the Reformed Church, and honored and esteemed by all who know him. He married Charity Ann Demarest and has had five children, of whom four are living-. James D., Anna E., Annetta S., and Peter Elvin. GEORGE KINGSLAND CAMP, of Jersey City, was born on the manor homestead at Kingsland, Bergen County, N. J., July 15, 1848. He is a di- rect descendant of Nathaniel Kingsland, to whom the family homestead in Bergen County was originally granted by the Indians during the reign of Charles TI. This tract of land extended from the Passaic River to the Hackensack River. He is the son of James Ely Camp and Eliza T. Kings- land, a grandson of Brookfleld Camp and George Kingsland and a grand- son of Jeannette Ely and Prances L. Ten Eyck. Mr. Camp was educated in the local schools in what was then Union Township, Bergen County. He also attended Newark Academy and B. T. Harrington's Boarding School in New York. As a boy he began his active life with the Provident Institution for Savings of Jersey City, with which he remained from 1866 to 1872. He then engaged in the real estate busi- ness, and subsequently entered the employ of the Relief Fire Insurance Company of New York, with which he continued until 1882. He then re- turned to the Provident Institution for Savings to accept a clerkship, and is now the Assistant Secretary and Treasurer. He is a man of acknowl- edged ability, an excellent financier, a patriotic and progressive citizen, and highly esteemed by all who know him. Mr. Camp was married, February 25, 1892, to Emilie J. Wellner, of New- York. They have two children : Kingsland and C. Wellner Camp. HENRY Y. CONDICT was born at Littleton, Morris County, N. J., in 1853. His family was a prominent one in that part of the State, he being the son of Silas B. Oondict and a grandson of Hon. Silas Condict, Sr. Mr. Condict was graduated from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., and then began the study of law with Frederick G. Burnham, of Morris- town, N. J. After completing his course at the Columbia Law School, New York, he resumed his studies with Robert Gilchrist and the late Chancellor Alexander T. McGill, of Jersey City. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in November, 1877, and as a counselor in November, 1881. He is now a member of the law firj_T of Randolph, Condict & Black, of Jersey City. In iS79 Mr. Condict married a dau-^hter of E " "-^m Hudson, late of New i^ork City. Two children have been born to ._^. -Hudson and Edith. ^VALTER E. LAFFEY, member of the Board of Aldermen and First Assistant Engineer of the Fire Department of Kearny, Hudson County, and President of the Staniar & LafCcy Wire Company, of Harrison, was born in Belleville, Essex County, N. J., January 16, 1864, the son of John Laflfey GENEALOGICAL 52c and Hannah Staniar. He is of English descent. Receiving a good piacti- cal education in the schools of his native town, he enlered the establish- ment with which he is now connected and steadily advanced from em- ployee to proprietor and employer. For more than a quarter of a century his father, John Lafley. was associated with William Staniar, the founder of the wire industry in New Jersey. They erected a large and commodious plant in Harrison, Hudson County, for the manufacture of brass and copper wire and wire cloth, the latter an indispensable factor in the manufacture of paper. The founders and originators of this enterprise successfully WALTER E. LAFFEY. conducted the business for thirty }ears under the firm name of Staniar & Lafifey, and became widely known fo'^' the excellence of their product and their honorable methods. Finallv the senic, member, William Staniar, retired, after the d( ,jt" John 'La'^ey. In IWt.j their sons, AValter E, Lafl'ey, J. W. Latfey, , ^. Staniar, and G. W. Staniar, succeeded to the business, incorporating the Staniar & Laffey Wire Company, and are still conducting it with energy, ability, and success. This is not only one of the chief manufacturing industries in Harrison, but one of the best known and most successful of the kind in the country. Its product finds a ready market throughout the Union. 524: HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Mr. Laffey, while eminently successful and constantly engrossed in their extensive niannfacturing business, has from boyhood taken a deep and at times an active interest in pnblic affairs, and as a resident of Kearny, Hud- son County, is prominent and influential in the community. He is a mem- ber of the Kearny Board of Aldermen, representing the Second Ward, and was First Assistant Engineer of the Fire Department for two years. He ic a member of the Masonic order, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Royal Arcanum, and as a citizen is public spirited and progressive. He married Margaret McCloskey, and has three children, namely: Ed- ward, Anna, and Helen. MICHAEL NEY RITCHIE, of Kingsland and Harrison, was born in County Derry, Ireland, September 18, 1852. He is the son of John Ritchie and Sarah, daughter of John and Mary (Mackel) Ritchie, a grandson of Samuel Ritchie and Nancy McErlane, and a great-grandson of Michael and Catherine (Eccleson) Ritchie and of Peter Ritchie and Mary Diamond. His ancestors came to Ireland from Scotland after the defeat of the Pretender at Culloden in 1745, and settled on the banks of the River Bann, at a place called Creagh, County Derry. They were Scotch Roman Catholics, and since coming to Ireland have been mostly small farmers and fishermen. So far as known none of them became wealthy or distinguished. They were plain, honest people, highly respected, and endowed with sterling traits of character. They participated in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and one of them was executed for treason at Belfast in 1799. They strongly op- posed the British government both in Scotland and Ireland, believing in those principles of liberty which finally led them to America. Mr. Ritchie was educated partly at the Anahomish National School in Ireland and partly in the public and high schools of Paterson, N. J., having come to this country alone when twelve years old. After leaving the Paterson High School he learned the machinist's trade with Todd & Raf- ferty, of that city, and as a machinist and millwright traveled over nearly all of North and South America. In this capacity he gained a wide and valuable experience. In 1890 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He studied law under the direction of Edward J. Luce, of Rutherford, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar November 4, 1894. Since then he has been successfully engaged in the practice of his pro- fession in Newark, Jersey City, and Harrison, and also at his home in Kingsland, Bergen County, where he settled permanently in 1883. He makes real estate law a specialty. ■■ Mr. Ritchie has also been active in public affairs. He was a candidate for the oflfice of Assessor in 1892, but was defeated by a small majority. He has been counsel for Union Township in Bergen County. Though a firm believer in Christianity he is not a member of any sect or creed, nor of any society of secret organization. He was married. May 1, 1875, to Julia A. Stalter, and has three sons and two daughters. AUGUST A. COPIN, the well known florist of West Hoboken and New York City, was born in West Hoboken, N. J., October 4, 1863. He is the son of Francis Copin and Christina Arnould, daughter of Jacob Arnould, who came from Belgium about 1845 and settled in Canada. His paternal grandfather, Nicholas Copin, and his father, Francis, were born in Alsace, France. The family came to America about 1835 and settled in West GENEALOGICAL 525 Hoboken, N. J. Afterward Francis Copin engaged in bnsiness as a florist and gardener m North Bergen, where he died June 20, 1898. His wife died Aiignst 26, 1896, George Copin, their eldest son, was born Jnlv 12, 1861, in West Hobolcen, and received a public school education. He is asso- ciated with the well known house of Moiiquin, of Fulton and Ann Streets, New York. August A. Copin received his education in St. Marv's parochial school in West Hoboken. On March 13, 1880, he engaged in 'business as a florist in New York City, where he has since continued, having his establishment at 222 Sixth Avenue since December, 1888. He also has an establishment at 264 Clinton Avenue, West Hoboken, where he resides. He is an in- fluential Democrat, and has filled a number of positions with acknowledged ability and satisfaction. For three years he was Financial Secretary of the West Hoboken Fire Department, serving in that capacity until May 1, 1899. He is a member of Neptune Fire Company No. 1, of West Hobo- ken, of St. Michael's Lyceum, of Palisade Council, Legion of Honor, and of the Order of Foresters of West Hoboken. Mr. Copin was married, January 31, 1883, to Adeline Walsh, of West Ho- boken. They have two children: Veronica and Adeline. PETEE HA TICK, one of the foremost men of New Jersey, is known as a leading brewer, a public spirited, enterprising citizen, and a conspicuous member of the Democratic party. Born in Kling Munster, Bavaria, Ger- many, June 9, 183S, he came to this country with his parents when six years old and located in New York City, where his father engaged in the brewing industry. There he received a good public school education. After com- pleting his studies he entered his father's establishment and thoroughly mastered the profession of brewer, acquiring a practical as well as a theo- retical experience in every department of the business. The brewery established by his father, Adam Hauck. in 1844, on Wooster Street, New York, was a small affair, but the plant was enlarged until it be- came one of the largest of the kind in the city. In 1869 he removed the en- tire business to Harrison, Hudson County, N. J., where a substantial build- ing was erected, and where it was continued under the most favorable auspices. Peter Hauck subsequently succeeded his father as sole proprie- tor, and brought to his duties special qualifications, having been trained up to the bnsiness and thoroughly understanding it in every detail. After- ward the firm of Kaufmann & Hauck was formed, and upon its dissolution Mr. Hauck again became proprietor and steadily enlarged his trade. In 1879 the brewery was destroyed by fire, but he at once turned his attention tc rebuilding, and in 1880 erected and completed a new plant upon a more extended scale, making it a model establishment of its kind. Giving the new brewery the benefit of his wide experience, he perfected its plans and interior arrangen)ents, and gained for it the concession of being one of the finest-appointed and best-conducted plants in the country. It has a front- age on Harrison Avenue, between Fifth and Washington Streets, of 225 feet, with a depth on Cleveland Avenue of about 400 feet. The main build- ing is a substantial structure, and there is additional accommodation for the malt-house, cooperage, bottling-plont, etc., the whole being e'(uipped with modern improvements, including a 250-barrel brew kettle, ice ma- chines, cellerage, an artesian well, etc. In 1844 three hundred barrels of beer were brewed. When the brewery was moved from New York in 1869 the output had grown to 15,761 barrels. In 1881 the output had increased 526 HUDSON AND BERGSN COUNTIES to 24,012 barrels annually; in 1882 to 28,703 barrels; in 1884 to 35,997 bar- rels; in 1886 to 50,214 barrels; and in 1889 to 71,589 barrels. In 1889 the vast interests were re-organized and became a part of the United States Brewing Company, which has a paid-up capital of |5,500,000, and in 1890 the output was 76,309 barrels; in 1893, 86,246 barrels. At pres- ent the product exceeds 100,000 barrels per year. Mr. Hauck has continu- ously retained the management, in which he has displayed ability, execu- tive skill, and sound judgment. He is a Director of the United States Brewing Company as well as Manager of Peter Hauck & Co.'s Hudson Coun- ty Brewery, a name by which his establishment has long been known. Though founded by his father, it is to him that the growth and success of the concern is practically due. Mr. Hauck's splendid executive abilities have led him to the discharge of duties on behalf of the public, to which he brought the same skill which has won for him so much success in his profession. He was for a time a mem- ber of the Board of Freeholders of Hudson County, and in 1872 and 1873 served in the City Council of Harrison, where he resides. He is a public spirited, enterprising citizen. He has also been a member of the State Democratic Committee of New Jersey. His eldest son, Peter Hauck, Jr., was born in Harrison in 1872, received his education in Newark Academy, and since 1891 has been actively identi- fied with the business management of his father's brewery. In 1892 he took a full course in the chemistry of brewing at Schwartz College, New York. FEANK HENRY KTMMERLY, a popular citizen of Bayonne, N. J., and formerly Police Justice of Jersey City, is the son of Alexander H. Kimmer- ly and Mary Stocker, and was born in New York City on the 23d of March, 1856. His parents were both natives of Germany. They came to the United States when young, were married in New York City, removed to Jersey City, N. J., in 1858, and in 1897 settled in Bayonne. Mr. Kimmerly was two years old when the family removed to Hudson County, and since then he has lived and labored within the county's limits. Having received a good public school education in Jersey City, he learned the machinist's trade, but soon found that he had no distinct liking for it, and he therefore did not follow it as a business. He took up the hotel busi- ness in Jersey City and continued it for several years, after which he en- gaged in the wholesale liquor business in New York City. He is now pro- prietor of a hoi el in Bayonne and one of the popular and best known citi- zens of Hudson County. In politics and in business Mr. Kimmerly has achieved marked success and gained a high reputation. Identifying himself in early life with the Democratic party, he has long been one of its acknowledged leaders and able advisers, and in 1887 was elected a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County, serving two terms of five yea s each. From 1^00 fi-- ""^i?? he was also Police Justice of Jersey City. Ho is a prominent 1 . je Balvonne Ci+ ' Democratic Club, of the Robert Davis Asso- of Jersey City, of the L'reenviP.e Turners of New Jersey, of Bayonne I age; No. 434, "b. P- O. E., of Grant Lodge, No. 89, K. of P., of Jersey City, s .d of rteuben Lodge, Chosen FricL'-^.s, of New York City. His duties and obligatious, both public and private, have been discharged with ability and with that integrity of character which stamp the successful man. On the 28th of November, 1894, Mr. Kimmerly married Elizabeth Fick, daughter of George and Mary Fick, of Jersey City, N. J. They have one son, George. GENEALOGICAL 527 FRANK KOOH, of Arlington, was bora in Kingsland, N. J., June 7, 1873, his parents being Ijonis and Amelia Koch, both of German descent. He first attended school in his native town. At the age of ten he entered the Thirteenth Street school in New York City, but a few years later went to Scranton, Pa., and completed his edncation'in the Scranton High School. When he was t\YeutT years old ]\[r. Koch entered the office (tf iVddison Ely, of Rntherford, N. J., as a stndent at law, serving a fonr years' clerk- ship. He was admitted to the Xew Jersey bar in Febrnarv, 1898. He FRANK KOCH. immediately o^ ■jned an office in Arlington, N. J., where he has since been actively and sncc'^ssfnlly engaged in the general practice i ps under JIajor-Creneral Fi+zhugl Lee, stationed at Jacksonville, Fla. He was Acting Qnartermast, to Frances, daughter of W. Frank and Susan (McCollum) Trask, of Homestead, N. J. They have one child, a daughter, Viola. FRANK O. MITTAG, of Park Ridge, was born in Richmond County, N. Y., on the 1st of August, ISnr;. He is the son of John C. Louis Mittag and Caroline Herms and a grandson of Herman Herms and of Carston J. L. and Caroline (Laiumeryer) ;Mittag. The family came originally from Ger- many. ]Mr. Mittag was educated in the public- schools of his native State, and at the age of sixteen engaged in the stationery business in New York City, in which he continued with success for ten years. He then engaged in the manufacture of typewiiter su]iplies, and is now the head of the firm of Mittag & Volger, one of the largest concei-ns of the class in the country. In public as well as in business life Mr. ^litlag has become well known. He was a member and Corjioral of Company A, Thirteenth Regiment, Na- tional Guard of New York, and is also a Justice of the Peace at Park Ridge, where he resides. JJc attends the Protestant Episcopal Church and is actively identified with the affairs of his town. His uncle, Henry C. Wagner, was a near relative of Wagner, the famous composer and mu- sician. Mr. ilittag married Jennie L. White and has nine children: Florence, Frank, Jennie, Cairie, Ida, Elfreda, Elsie, Lester, and Carter Allen. JAMES S. MITTAG, brother of Frank O. :Mittag and a younger son of John C. Louis Mittag and Caroline Herms, was horn in Irvington, N. Y., on the ISth of December, 1860. He received his education in that place, and at the age of thirteen engaged in the human hair business, in which he continuecl for four years, gaining a large practical experience. For about twenty years he was connected with the slationery business in New York City. Hp then associated himself Mith the firm of Mittag & Volger, manu- facturers of ty])c\viiter supplies, in Park Ridge, N. J., with which he still continues. He is an active, enterprising, and progressive citizen, and an honorably discharged member of the National Guard of New York, in which he served for seven years. He was a member of the Town Council for six years of Park Ridge, Bergen County, where he resides. He attends the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in e\ ery capacity has gained the confidence and re- spect of all who know him. Mr. Mittag married Fredericka J. A^'oelmer and has seven children: Viola, Lottie, Wilfred, ?raritta, Zenobia, James S., Jr., and Irving W. ALBERT LEULY was born in West Hobokm, N. J., on March l.'j, 1872. He is the son of Jacques Leuly and Barbara Gasser and a graadsoi of Jacques Leuly, Sr., and Theressa Gasser. He was educated in the \Yesc Hoboken public schools, at the Stevens High School, and at the New York University Law School, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of LL.B. in 1894. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey on the 21st of February, 1895. Immediately afterward he opened offices in the Hudson Trust and Savings Institution in West Hoboken for the practice 532 HUDSON AND BEEGBN CO UNTIES of his profession, and has since devoted himself to a large and constantly increasing clientage. Mr. Leuly has already gained a high standing at the bar. He has been connected with several important cases and in every instance has displayed those sound legal qualifications which distinguish the successful lawyer and advocate. He is a member of Palisade Lodge, No. 84, P. and A. M., of the Town of Union, and as a citizen is public spirited, progressive, and highly respected. He was married on the 16th of June, 1897, to Christine Fisher, and has one son, Albert Melville Leuly. WILLIAM REED BAKRICKLO, a well known member of the New Jersey and New York bars, was born in Jersey City on the 27th of Septem- ber, 1857. He is the son of Andrew Barricklo and Julia R. Lalor, a grand- son of William Reed Barricklo and Jeremiah Lalor, a great-grandson of Farrington Barricklo and Jeremiah Lalor, Sr., a great-great-grandson of Daniel Barricklo and Anderson Lalor, a great-great-great-grandsoh of William Reed and John Lalor, and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Wetherell and Barndt de Klyn, who was a son of Leonard de Klyn. He is also a descendant of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, who in 1750 gave the ground to Princeton University on which Nassau Hall was built and now stands, and who was prominently identified with the movement which re- sulted in the location of the university at Princeton. Mr. Barricklo was educated at Princeton University and at the Columbia College Law School. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1880 and to the bar of New Jersey in 1S81, and for many years has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession. At the present time his offices are at 229 Broadway, New York City. Mr. Bar- ricklo was a member of the New Jersey State Board of Education from 1889 to 1896. He is a member of the Palma Club of Jersey City, of the Princeton Club, and of the New York Athletic Club. In 1897 he married Elizabeth S. Lalor. ROBERT ALLEN, of Arlington, was born in North Bergen, N. J., August 26, 1849. He is the son of William Allen and Sarah Ann Dorson and a grandson of Robert and Catherine Allen. His ancestors were among the pioneers of North Bergen Township, Hudson County, and for genera- tions have been prominent in both business and public affairs. Mr. Allen was educated in New Durham, Hudson County, and there be- gan active life on his father's farm. When very young he was thrown upon his own resources. He worked for Michael Fisher, of New Durham, for two years, and for a time was associated with the Old Dominion Steam- ship Company. In 1875 he settled in Arlington, N. J., and engaged in painting and decorating. Afterward he was engaged in the grocery busi- ness. About 1888 he established himself in the real estate business, which he still follows, and in which he has been eminently successful. In politics Mr. Allen is a Republican. He is active and influential in town afrairs, and in various capacities has rendered valuable service to the community. He was one of the organizers of the Arlington Hook and Ladder Company, which has grown to be one of the model organizations of the kind in the State. He was its first Foreman, and brought to his duties the same energy and ability which have characterized his business life. He is a liberal supporter and constant attendant of the Presbyterian GENEALOGICAL 533 Chui'cli, proiiunentlv ideutilied with educational intei'csts, and a public spirited, progressive, and enterprising man. As a (dtizen he is universally esteemed, ha\ing contributed much toward the building up and improve- ment of Arlington. In this respect he is still verj- active. lie was one of the organizers and tor years Avas otticially connected with the Arlington ROBERT ALLEN. Building and Loan Association, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. Mr. Allen has been twice married, first to Elizabeth McFarland, by whom he had five children, of whom foui' are living: Jessie May, Robert, Mary Helen and Ethel Elizabeth. He married for his second wife Kate L. Chasmer. JOHAT M KELLEY, a well known real estate and insurance agent, was horn Sei^tember 2, 1871, in Jersey City, N. J., wlier(^ he still resides. He is the son of James and Marv A. Kelley. He was educated at Public School No 8 and for one vear attended the Jersey City High School. At the a-^e of fourteen he entered the employ of Peter Semler, with whom he 534 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES gained a broad knowledge of the real estate and insurance business. In the same year (ISSf;) this business was purchased by Emile Steger, and Mr. Kelley remained with the latter until November 1, 1895, when he estab- lished himself in the same business. He now represents four large in- surance companies and several estates and controls over |2o0,000 worth of bonds and mortgages. He is also a Nofary I'ublic and a (Commissioner of Deeds. In politics Mr. Kdley is an ardent and consistent Democrat. He was President of the Ehjventh Ward Deniociatic Club of Jers<-y City, is Past Chief of Court Astley, F. O. A., is President of the Citizens' Building and Loan Association of Jersey City, and is a member of Jersey City Council, K. of C, of Arboret Council, R. A., of the (J. Y. M. L. A. of Jersey City, and of the Eleventh A\'ard Democratic Club. In every capacity he has dis- played great enterprise, public spirit, and energy. Mr. Kelley was married, November 27. 189C, to IMiss Nellie Connell, of Hoboken, N. J. They have tw-o daughters. MUNGO J. CTJRRIE was born January 24, 1857, in Greenville, now a part of Jersey City, where he still resides. He is the son of James Currie, born in 1800, dieci 1870, and Ellen Currie, daughter of Robert Currie and granddaughter of John Currie. On his fatlier's side he is a grandson of William Currie and a great-grandson of Mungo Currie. His grandparents were natives of Scotland. Mr. Currie attended Hamilton Academy at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scot- land, from 1869 to 1872, and continued his studies in Elizabeth, Union County, N. J., from 1873 to 1875. He was graduated from Princeton Col- liege in the class of 1879. and afterward began the study of law in the office of Hon. Henry S. White, formerly United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Currie was admitted to the New Jersey bar, and with the exception of about two years has since been actively engaged in the general practice of his profession. He has had considerable experience in representing landowners in railroad condemnation suits and litigation connected with street improvements in cities. At the bar he has displayed marked ability, a ready grasp of legal principles, and broad and accurate knowledge of law. He is a member of the Princeton Club of New York City, of the Jersey City Golf Club, and of the Jersey City Board of Trade. He is unmarried. JOSEPH ALEXANDER DUFFY, M.A.. of Jersey City, is the son of John J. Dufly, a native of New York, and ]\Iary E. Garvey, of Boston. On his mother's side he traces his ancestry back to Ireland "to the year 1792. His father's ancestors came over in 1830. Mr. Duffy was born December 23, 1874, in Jersey City, N. J., where he still resides. He was graduated from the College of St. Francis Xavier. of New York City, with the degree of A.B., in 1894, and in 1895 received the degr -^ of M.A. from that iustitvtion. In 1896 he was graduated from le ]'Tew A'ork Law School with th ■ degree of LL.B., and in November of ine sai-n3 year was admitted to the New Jersey bar. In 1897 he was ad- mitted to practice at the bar of New A'ork. He is actively and success- fully engaged in the practice of his profession in both States, and has al- ready gained dis'-inction for legal ability, sound judgment, and enterprise. He is a -merr, r of the Palma C'ub and the University Club of Jersey City, and of the .'alumni Association of St. '^rancis Xavier College of New GENEALOGICAL 535 York. As a citizen lie is public spirited and actively identified with the affairs of his native city. JACOB KUNZ, ot Secaucns, was born in South Bergen, Hudson County, June 26, 1857. He is the son of Prank Kunz and Augusta Ochs and a grandson of George Henry Kunz and Genevieve Wippher. Frank Kunz was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 18, 1817, and came to America in 1845, settling in Jersey City and later removing to South Bergen. After- ward he settled in Secaucus. He was always a farmer and gardener, and was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Hariguri. He died in May, 1887. He married Augusta Ochs, a native of Baden, Germany, and had eight children: Frank, Jr., Philip, Christina, Emma, Jacob, Anna, Henry, and Augusta. Jacob Kunz was educated in the public schools of South Bergen and Secaucus, and, like his father, has always been a farmer and gardener. In that vocation he has achieved success. He is a Democrat in politics and has served efticiently as a member of the Executive Committee of the Hud- son County Democratic Committee. He was one of the organizers and is still a member of Washington Hook and Ladder Company of Secaucus, which he has served as Foreman. He is unmarried. 'WILLIAM TELL KUDLICH, M.D., was born July 24, 185C, in Hoboken, N. J., where he still resides. Dr. Hans Kudlich, his father, was born in Lobenstein, Austria, in 1823, and was educated in the Gymnasium College of Troppan, Austria. Afterward he spent six years in mastering Latin and Greek, and then studied law in Vienna and medicine in Zurich Uni- versity. In 1853 he came to the United States and lived for a short time in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Afterward he located in Hoboken, N. J., ajid engaged in the practice of his profession, that of medicine, which he had studied in the University of Zurich. He had a large and lucrative practice and gained the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. For years he was a Trustee of the Bank of Savings of Hoboken. He was one of the founders of Hoboken Academy, and after his arrival in America be- came a strong anti-slavery agitator. He was for many years President of the German Club and a member of the Society of German Physicians. In 1853 he married Louise Vogt, daughter of William Vogt, a celebrated pro- fessor of the University of Berne in Switzerland. Dr. William T. Kudlich was educated at Hoboken Academy and in the Grammar Department of the University of the City of New York. He spent five years in the gymnasium of the college in Zurich, Switzerland, from which he was graduated in 1874. He then returned to Hoboken and during th' next three years studied medicine with his father and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, from which he was graduated with honors, receiving the degree of M.D. After one and a half years spent in the Chambers Street Hospital he again went abroad and for two years was engaged in hospital practice in Vienna. In 1881 Dr. Kudlich located permanently in I'oboken, N. J., and at onco enterc upon the active and successful practice of his profession. He bp.s buin up a large practice and is one of Hoboken's most esteemed citizens. He was Surgeon of the Second Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey, for five vears, and is a member of the German Club, of the i^ cademy of Medi- cine 'of New Jersey, of the Soc ety of '■ -rmt^n PhysicianF f New York, of the So-ietv for the Relief of P'e Widows and Orphans o. Medical Men of 536 HUDSON AND BEKGBN COUNTIES New Jersey, of the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor, and the Royal Arcanum. He is also one of the attending surgeons of St. Mary's Hospital and an alternate examiner of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. In 1884 Dr. Kudlich married Miss Mary Mohle, of Hoboken, daughter of Adolph Mohle, one of the founders of Hoboken Academy. They have two daughters. JOHN KUHN, of Closter, was born in Kuhrhessen, Germany, April 16, 1838. He is the son of Henry and Catharine (Block) Kuhn and a grand- son of Henry Kuhn, Sr., and John Block. His father served in the Franco- German War. Mr. Kuhn received his education in Germany. He left school at the age of fourteen and learned the wheelwright's trade, which he followed for two years in the Fatherland. He then came to America and engaged in the hotel business, continuing for some five years. Afterward he took up the carpenter's trade. He settled in Closter, Bergen County, in 1863, and since then has been one of the leading carpenters and builders of that section. He is a member of the Dutch Eeformed Church, a public spirited citizen, active and influential in local affairs, and respected by all who know him. Mr. Kuhn married Sarah Taylor and has had three children: Kate, Libbie (deceased), and Jennie. DAVID L. LOCKWOOD, of Hillsdale, was born at Park Ridge, N. J., February 2, 1828. He is the son of Lawrence Lockwood and Jane Worten- dyke, and on his father's side is of English descent. His mother is a mem- ber of the well known Wortendyke family who came to this country at an early colonial period. Mr. Lockwood was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, and at the age of sixteen began to learn the carpenter's trade in New York City, where lie remained six years. He then removed to Yonkers, N. Y., but about five years later returned to New York City, and a few years afterward came to Bergen County and engaged in farming, in which he has since continued. He enlisted as a private in the Twenty-second New York Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion and became a non-commissioned officer. For one term he w-as a member of the Township Committee of Hillsdale Township, where he resides. He is an active and influential citizen, and highly esteemed by all who know him. Mr. Lockwood married Elizabeth Holdrum, a member of an old and re- spected Bergen County family. They have had four children, of whom three are living, namely: Cornelius, William, and Margarette. WILLIAM C. ENDEES, of Closter, Bergen County, was born in Cassel. Germany, on the 14th of July, 1848. He is the son of Peter Endres and Augusta Heinemenn and a grandson of Nicholas Endres, who was at one time Mayor of Cassel. Mr, Endres was educated in Geriaany. He left school at the age of fourtem and learned the business of painting and decorating. In 1866 he came to the United States and the next year settled in Closter, N. J., where he has since resided, and where he has continuously been engaged in the painting find decorating business with marked success. He served as Township Clerk of Harrington Township for three years, and in both business and public capacities has gained the confidence of the community. GENEALOGICAL 537 He is a niembev of the German Lntheran Cliurch and a public spirited, progressive, and enterprising citizen. He married, first, Joliauna Holliaaun, by whom he liad five children: William C, Lillie, Mary, Edwin, and ^Vnnie. He married for his second wife Marv Eiehler, who has boi-ne him two children: Alberta and Johanna. JAIMES M. VAN VALEN, of Hackensack, traces his ancesti-,y to Daniel Van Valen, who came from Holland in H\~>'2 and settled in the present City of New York. In H>~)7 he was followed by his father, Johannes Van Valen, who settled in Harloii, \\lu're he was one of the five original patentees of the Harlem grants and the last sui-vivor of them. His de- scendants finally removed to Bergeu (^'onnty, N. J., and became extensive landowners. Deeds bear- ing date 1701 record the y -'"'"' " '~"~- — ^i purchase of 2.000 acres of |: i laud by Johannes, lier- nardus, Gideon, and llynier Van Valen, from Lancaster Synis, comi)ris- ing all the Palisade lands from the Jay line, extend- ing from the Hudson on the east to Overpeck on the west. Bernardus Van Valen was the great- grandfather of James 31. He was a member of the militiamen in th<^ Revolu- tionary War, and was taken prisoner and con- fined in the old Sugar House in New York City. A store house built by him is still standing near the railroad depot at Closter. He lived to the age of eighty years and died in 1820, leaving fi^e children: James. Andrew, Cornelius, Isaac, and Jane. James, the grand- father of James M., was for a tiriie a farmer at Closter, but removed to Clarkstown, Eockland County, N. Y'., where he died in August, 178G, at the age of twenty-six. He left three children: Barnej-; Sai-ah, v ho became the wife of Henry Wester- velt; and Cornelius. Cornelius was ',orn at Clarkstown, May 21, IT'jC. He in 1S67; James M.; and Sarah A., wife of Cornelius D. Schor, of Leonia. James M. Van A^aleu was born at Teaneck, Bergen ( 'ouuty, N. J., July 21, 1812. He spent his early life attending the public schools. In Sep- tember, 1861, he enlisted in Comiiany I, Twenty-second New Jersey Volun- teers, and served ten months in the War of the Rebellion, being attached JAMES M. VAN VALEM. 538 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES with his regiment to the Army of the Potomac. He then engaged in the book trade in New York and afterward taught school for several years in his native county. He read law with the late Garret Ackerson, of Hacken- sack, and was admitted as an attorney in November, 1875, and as a coun- sellor in November, 1878. In 1875 he formed a copartnership with his legal preceptor, Mr. Ackerson, which continued until the latter's death, December '2:i, 1880. Since then he has practiced alone. April 1, 1888, he was appointed by GoNernor Robert S. Green as President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bergen County, and on April 1, 1893, Governor Werts re-appointed him to the same office for a second term of five years. Judge \"an ^^alen has won eminent success and a high reputation as both lawyer and jurist. His opinions, except in two instances, have never been reversed. Beginning active life as a teacher, he has always taken a deep interest in educational affairs, and for eighteen years served as Chairman of the Hackensack Board of Education; he declined a re-election in 1895 on account of professional demands. He became a jtrivate in Company A, Second Battalion, N. G. N. J., November 1, 1870, and was transferred to Company C, of the same battalion, October 8, 1872. He was promoted First Lieutenant October 18, 1872, and First Lieutenant and Quarter- master of the Second Battalion April 18, 1876, and resigned June 15, of the same year. He became Captain and Inspector of Rifle Practice February 26, 1883, Colonel and Assistant Inspector-General of Rifle Practice June S, 1886, and was brevetted Brigadier-General and retired on his own re- quest July 5, 1893, In politics he has always been a Democrat, inde- pendent and fearless, never allowing politics even to be hinted at in con- nection with his duty as Judge. In religion he is a member and was for- merly a Deacon of the First Reformed Church of Hackensack. As sol- dier, teacher, lawyer, and jurist he has always been highly respected and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him. He is President of the Bergen County Bar Association, a Past Master of Pioneer Lodge, No. 70, F. and A. M., and Vice-President of the Holland Society of New York, of which he has been a member since its organization. He was married, June 24, 1874, to Anna Augusta, daughter of Theodore Smith, of Park Ridge, Bergen County, N. J. They have had nine children: James A., Garret A., Emma E., Frederick M., Raymond, George W., Arthur, Howard W., and Anna E. JOHN HECK, of Westwood, was born in Albany, N. Y., on the 3d of March, 1859. He is the son of Daniel Heck and Susan Christina Kuhn, a grandson of George Heck and Eliza Gobel and of Henry Kuhn and Anna Katherine Bock, and a great-grandson of Justis Heck and John Henry Kuhu. His great-great-grandfathers were Henry Peil and John Bock. His ancestors on both sides came to this country from Germany about the time of the Revolutionary War, in which some of them participated or figured. His parents came to this country about forty-six years ago. His father went direct to Albany, N. Y., where he engaged in the business of painting and decorating. Mr. Heck was educated in the public schools of A Ibany and New Jersey. He also 'attended a seminary. At the age of thirteen he went to work on his father's farm, where he remained until he was twenty-two, acquiring a strong constitution and laying the foundation of a successful career, fie then took charge of his father's painting and decorating business, which he has since continued with marked success. He served as Collector of GENEALOGICAL 639 Washington Township two tciius and was appointed agent of township properties and to look after township affairs. He is a member, Steward, and Trustee of the Hillsdale Methodist Episcopal Church and has served as Treasurer for the sti'wards and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of that denomination. He has also been actively identified with its Sunday School. He is a member of the Board of Education of Washington Township, a mem- ber of Hillsdale Lodge, No. 54, A. O. U. W., a charter member of the West- wood Fire Association, and a Director of the Bergen County Farmers' Asso- ciation. He is in every respect a self-made man, active and influential in the community, and thoroughly identified with those institutions and organiza- tions which contribute so much to the general welfare. Mr. Heck married Maggie Maurer and has four children: Lizzie M., Martha L., George D., and John Arthur. MAURICE jNLVRKS was born October 23, 1871, in Jersey City, where he still resides. He is the son of Charles Marks, a native of Germany, and Sarah Heyman, a native of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Marks was graduated from Public School JS'o. 1, Jersey City, in 18S4, from the Jersey City High School in 1888, and from the New York Uni- versity with the degree of LL.B. in 1892. He was admitted to the New York bar as an attorney and counselor in December, 1892, and to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1893, and since his admission has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession, having offices at 170 Broadway, New York, and 76 Montgomery Street, Jersey City. Mr. Marks is a prominent Democrat, and for several years has been one of the most earnest workers in his party. His sei'vices as a campaign orator have been much sought after. He was elected to the New Jersey State Assembly in 1898 and 1899 and was re-elected in 1900, receiving on all occa- sions large and flattering majorities. Mr. Marks enjoys the unique distinc- tion of having been the only Democratic Assemblyman who ever acted as Speaker while the House was Republican. He is a member of the Robert Davis Association of Jersey City, the representative Democratic organiza- tion of Hudson County, a member and Past Master of Columbian Lodge, No. 484, F. and A. M., of New York, and a member of other fraternal and benevolent organizations. Both at the bar and in politics he has gained a high reputation. GEORGE HOWARD M(FADDEN, il.D., of Hackensack, was born in Hollidaysburg, I'a., May 10, 180C. He is the son of Samuel Poole Mc- Fadden and Jane Balch, a grandson of Alexander and Leah (McAfee) Mc- Fadden and of John and Mary (Potts) Balch, a great-grandson of Jonathan Potcs and Deborah Wright, a great-great-grandson of David and Alice (Schnll) Potts, and a great-great-great-grandson of Ezekiel Potts and Magdalene Miller. His great-great-great-great-grandparents were David Potts, born in 1070, died in 1730, and Alice Croasdale, born in 1673. His paternal and maternal ancestors were all Scotch-Irish and came to this country from the Nortli of Scotland, Jonathan, David, and EzekieJ Potts coming from Dunblane and Perth, and David Potts, the elder, froi i Perth. Perthshire. Dr. McPadden inherited from these sturdy ancestors mental and physical qualities of a high order. He was educated at the high school in his native town, at the Hollidaysburg Academy, at Shortlidge's Academy in Media, 540 HUDSON AJSTD BERGEN COUNTIES Pa., and at Lafayette College at Easton, Pa. After leaving the last named institution he entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. David St. John, of HackeuKack, N. J., and subsequently became a student at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, from which he was graduated with the degree of M.D. in March, 1889. For four years thereafter he was associated with Dr. St. John in the practice of his profession. On May 1, 1893, he established himself in practice, locating at 281 Main Street, Hack- ensack, and has since devoted himself to professional work. He has served as County Physician for six years, as physician to the New Barbadoes Township and Riverside Borough Health Boards, as visit- ing physician and surgeon to the Hackensack Hospital, and as United States CiOvcT-nraent Examining Surgeon. He is a member of the Lafayette College Alumni Association, a member of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College Alumni Association, ex-President of the Bergen County Medical Society, and a member of the New Jersey State Medical Association, of the American Medical Association, of the North Jersey Country Club, of the Hackensack Golf Club, of the Oritani Club, of the Hackensack Dramatic Association, and of the Wheelmen's Club. He is the author of medical papers on " Electrolysis in the Treatment of Strictures," " Malarial Poison- ing as a Cause for Infantile Paralysis," " Cause and Treatment of Tlheuma- tism," and other important subjects. In his professional work he has achieved a high standing and is well known for his ability and skill. He is a public spirited citizen, actively interested in local affairs, and thor- oughly identified with Hackensack and Bergen County. Dr. McFadden was married, June 2, 1897, by Eev. David Magie, D.D., to Miss Martha Wilcox Stivers, of Paterson, N. J. They have one daughter, Fannie Hobart McFadden, born at Hackensack, June 14, 1898. GEORGE SWISS, of Kearny, is the son of John J. and Elizabeth R. (Rogers) Swiss, and was born at Passaic, N. J., on the 2d of July, 1852. His father came from France and his mother from Ireland, emigrating to this country when young. They were married in Passaic, and soon after the birth of the subject of this sketch removed to Newark, N. J., where George received his education. In 1862 the latter removed from Newark to Kearny, Hudson County, where he still resides. After leaving school Mr. Swiss engaged in the furniture business in Kearny, in which he con- tinued for several years. He then identified himself with the hardwood finishing business and subsequently engaged in contracting and building, in which he still continues. In this line he has achieved marked success. Mr. Swiss held a position in the United States Custom House at the Port of New York for some time. He is now Water Surveyor of Kearny. He is a charter and exempt member of Central Hose Company No. 1, of Kearny, and a member of Kearny Lodge, No. 95, I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Republican and in religion a Methodist. As a citizen he is public spirited, progressive, and enterprising, actively identified' with all local affairs, and highly respected throughout the community. July 2, 1872, Mr. Swiss married Sarah J. Corey, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Currier") Corey, of Newark, N. J. They have had ten children: Elizabeih R., John J., George H., Thomas J., Joseph A., William J., Henry E., Eliza W., Martin B., and David J. G. W. MULLANEY was born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J., where he still resides, on the 14th of October, 1861. He is the son of Owen Mul- GENEALOGICAL 541 laney and Ann Eliza Hopkins and a .grandson of Owen Mullauey, Si-., a native of Ireland, and Susan TlioriK\ who was born in Woodbridgc, N. J. His parents were born and married in New York, whence they removed to Eayonne. Mr. iNInllaney was edm-ated in the Itayonnc pnblic schools and aflerward entered the emjjloy of the J'ennsyh ania Railroad Ooni[»aiiy. Subse(|nently he was aii])ointed to a i)osition iii the Police Dejiarlnienl of Jtayonne, wilh which he is still identified. He is independent in politics, a Methodist in religion, a member of tlie Royal Arcanum, and President of the I'olice Benevolent Association of Bayonne. He is thoroughly identified with the affairs of his native city and one of its most ]»opular citizens. He married Cytheria ^Myers, daughter of G. F. and Mary Myers, of Brooklyn, N. Y. %i .:a % /' i > '^ ■'- V^ 'I ft r L 1 1 '^fijfifrri|;i!yS^J' HASBROUCK INSTITUTE, HERBERT CLARK GILSON was born Fel)ruary IS, ISTS, in .lei N. J., where lie still resides. He is the son of Tlionias (^ (ii Elizabeth Le Con Clark, and a descendant of sturdy Ei glish a His father was senior member of the firm of Gilson, Collins ,S: Co in lumber and timber on ('ommunipaw Avenue, Jei-sey C.ity, March 27, 1805. Mr. Gilson was educated ;it Hasbrouck Insiitute and at the K Law School. He was adnutted to the bar of New Jersey as an att the 27tli of February, 1809, and since then has practic(-d liis pi-of Jersev Cily with marked success. Lie is a member of Bergen L- ■sey City, Ison and ncestors. ., dealers nnd died ew York orney on ession in dge. No. 'Si 542 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES 47, r. and A. M., of Jersey City, and in every capacity has gained the con- fidence and respect of all who know him. WILLIAM B. SMITH, of Park Kidge, was born on Knott's Island, N. C, September 14, 1841. He is the son of Alexander Smith and Mary S. John- son. His family came originally from England and settled on Roanoke Island. Colonel Smith was educated at Wake Forest College in North Carolina, which at that time was an institution of considerable prominence. For twenty-five years thereafter, until 1SX7, he was engaged in the publishing business, and during twenty years of that time was a book publisher, being associated with A. S. Barnes & Company, book publishers, for five years, and with the Authors Publishing Company for another five years. He was the organizer of the latter company. He removed to Bergen County, N. J., in 1882, purchased large properties, and was influential in starting Ihe first building enterprises in that section. He is now engaged in the real estate and insurance business. Colonel Smith has been very successful, and during his long and active career has maintained the confidence of all who know him. He was Colonel in the Confederate Army, attached to the First Regiment of North Caro- lina, and serving throughout the war. For eight years he served as a Justice of the Peace. He is a 32° Mason, holding membership in Fidelity Lodge, No. 13, of Ridgewood, N. J. He is a member of the Epis- copal Church, a public spirited, patriotic, and enterprising citizen, and thoroughly identified with all local affairs. He married Louise Capsadell. JOHN F. KLASS, of Hillsdale, was born in Germany on the 9th of Octo- ber, 1850, his parents being Theodore Klass and Mary A. Kramer. He was educated in the Fatherland and also in this country. At the age of seven- teen he left school and began to learn the trade of painting, which he fol- lowed for a number of years. He then spent some time in travel and after- ward settled in Hoboken, where he entered the employ of the Old Dominion Steamship Company as receiving clerk. He has been associated with that corporation ever since, discharging his duties with marked ability and satis- faction. Mr. Klass has served in the National Guard of New Jersey and is a mem- ber of the Methodist Church. He married Minnie A. Gerke and has had ien children, of whom six are living: John, Esther, Benjamin T., Grace, Minnie A., and Mary A. WILLIAM HENRY SPEER, of Jersey City, was born February 27, 1838. in Bergen. N. J., his parents being Abraham Speer and Ellen Jane Sharp, both natives of that State. His father was born in Passaic and his mother in Jersey City. ' Mr. Speer was educated in the old Bergen school on Berge-i Square, now in Jersey City, and for five years was successfully engaged in the dry goods tradia in New York. For forty >ears he has been engaged in the undertaking business in Jersey City, where he resides. In this profession Mr. Speer has achieved marked succe.=i> . He is one of the oldest and best known u < rtakers in East Jersey, and during his entire career has en- joted the .aspect and confidence of all who know him. In public and social affairs Mr. Speer has also gained a high reputation. He was a private in Company A, Second Regiment, N. G. N. J., for seven GENEALOGICAL, 543 years, and for two years served as Adjutant of that regiment. He was an Alderman of the old City of Eergen for two years, and is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the Jersey City and Carteret Clubs, of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Eeformed Cimrch. In every capacity he has main- tained a high standing for ability, public spirit, and integrity of character. Mr. Speer was married, October 1, 1862, to Eleanor Clendenne Brinker hoff, a member of an old New Jersey family. They have had five children. WILLIAM WRIGHT, of Bayonne, was born in London, England, on the 15th of September, 1845. His parents, John Wright and Anna Williams, came to the Ignited States in 1870 and William followed them on June 8, 1874. He was educated in private schools in London and afterward en- gaged in the liquor business in that city. Subsequently he associated himself with the Great Eastern Railroad of England, with which he con- tinued until he came to America. Aftfr his arrival here he entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company, but subsequently engaged in the milk business for himself in Bayonne, in which he still continues. In public as well as in business life INIi'. Wright has become a prominent factor. He served for some time as Commissioner of Appeals and as Supervisor of Taxes in Bayonne. In politics he is Republican. He is an exempt member of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, of Bayonne, and a member of Bayonne Lodge, No. 00. F. and A. M., of Bayonne Lodge, No. 206, I. O. O. F., of Bayonne Lodge. No. 0, Ancient Order of United Work- men, and of the Royal Arcanum. In religion he is an Episcopalian. Mv. Wright married IMary Wigley, duaghter of Henry and Mary Wigley, of Norwich, Norfolk County, England. They have ten children: Lottie, William, Jr., Harry, Frank, John, James. Joseph, Mary, Mamie, and Lillie. MILLARD FILL^IORE PORTER, of North Bergen, was born in New York City on the 10th of January, 1874. He is the son of John Porter and Jeannett'e Dobbs and a grandson of F. F. and Leah Dobbs. He was edu- cated at the Academv of the S.icred Heart in Hoboken and has filled cler- ical positions with acknowlcdued abilitv and satisfaction. He has also taken an active part in local affairs and for a time has served as Recorder of the Township of North Bergen, where he resides. SEBASTIAN MEISCH. of Secaucns, wa?; born in Luxemburg, Germany, April 25, 1862. His parents, Sebastian :\reisch, Sr., and Margaret Betz, were both natives of Luxemburg. Mr. Meisch obtained his education in the public schools of his native town. In 1880 he came to America and settled at Greenville in South Bergen. In 1802 he removed to Secaucns, where he still resides. He has followed farming and gardening since his arrival in this conn- try and has been very successful. In politics he is a Democrat. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Hudson County Democratic Committee for one vear, and in other capacities has rendered valuable service to the community. He ma.-ried Elizabeth Bender and has three children: Lulu, John, and Adolph. JOHN H. LACHMUND, Jr., was born November 10, 1871, in i ervale, N. J., where he still resides. His parents, John H. Lachmund, ^r., and Barbara Beechler, were both natives of Germany. He was educated in the public schools of Bergen County, which he left at the age of fifteen 544 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES to engage in the grocery business ^\itli his father, with whom he continued until 1806. lie then established himself in the same business and has since continued in that line, building up a large and successful trade. Mr. Laehmund has also been prominent in local aifair^i. He served as Collector for the Borough of Eastwood for two years and for some time has been Clerk of the Borough of Old Tappen, N. J. At the present time he has charge of the postofflce at Rivervale. He is also a member of the Board of Education of the Borough of Old Tappan, having been elected by the people in the spring of 1900. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, the Odd Fellows, and the Encampment of Odd Fellows, and has passed through all the chairs in the Odd Fellows order. On different occasions he has served as a Representative to the Grand Lodge of New Jersey. He has also served as Treasurer of the local lodge of the Knights of Honor since its organization in 1892 and still holds the office, and has been created a Past Dictator for faithful services rendered. He has served on Grand Lodge committees and is now a member of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor of New Jersey. He attends the Lutheran Church, and is recog- nized as a public spirited, progressive, and entei'prising citizen. He mar- ried Elizabeth Ryer and has one child, Pearl Laehmund. PETER F. MAGUIRE, of Jersey City, was born in Ireland, September 20, 1858, his parents being William Maguire and Bridget McManus. He came to this country when j'oung and received his education in Jersey City. Afterward he took up the trade of horseshoeing and carriagemaking, which he has followed with marked success. Mr. Maguire has also been prominent in public life, having served as a member of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders. He is a mem- ber of the Eleventh Ward Democratic Club, of the Robert Davis Associa tion, of the Young Men's Independent Association, of the Jefferson Club, of the Joseph A. Kerwin Association, of St. Joseph's Lyceum, and of other organizations. He married Ellen Nolan, deceased. EUGENE WALTER LEAKE was born in Jersey City, N. J., July 13, 1877. He is the son of Thomas W. Leake and Caroline Veyrassat, a grand- son of Charles Leake and Eugene Veyrassat, a great-grandson of George Leake and Samuel Veyrassat, and a great-great-grandson of David Leake and Samuel Veyrassat, Sr. His paternal ancestors came from the Town of Leake in Wales, England, while his maternal ancestors, the Veyrassats, were residents of Paris since the French Revolution. Mr. Leake received his early education in Public Schools Nos. 3 and 12, of Jersey City. Afterward he attended Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, and in 1896 received the degree of LL.B. from the Regents of the University of the State of New York. In 1897 he received his di- ploma from the New York Law School, winning the first prize in the post- graduate class for excellence in examination and essay. After gradu- ating from the law school Mr. Leake continued his law studies with James B. Vredenburgh and with Blair & Cr)use, of Jersey City. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar in 189C, and since then has been actively and succes.'-sfully engaged in the general practice of his profession, this year (1900) b.;coming associated with Oharlfs H. Hartshorne and Earle Insley as the junior member of the law firm of Hartshorne, Insley & Leake with of- fices in the Provident Bank Building, Jersey City. Asa speaker for the principles of the Democratic party of New Jersey he has rendered valuable GENEALOGICAL 545 service to the cause. He is a member of the Players' Club, of the Jersey City Golf Club, of the New York Association of Alumni of Andover, of the New York Association of Alumni of the New York Law School, and of sev- eral religious and fraternal organizations. HENRY STORMS.— The Storms family are of Holland lineage, being descended from Dirck Storms (1), a native of " The Mayory of liosch " in the Province of Utrecht, Holland. He emigrated to America in 160."), with his wife, Maria Peters, and three children, and settled first in New Amster- dam, where he opened, and under a license, kept a taphouse. On December 25, 1669, he was appointed by the Court of Sessions to the offlc<' of Town Clerk or Secretary of Brooklyn, which he held for several years. He was living at Brooklyn in 1675 and 1676, as the assessment rolls for those years show. He joined the Dutch church at Platbush about this time. In 1677 he went to New Lots, where he taught school in 1680 and 1081. He kept moving about from place to place, was Town Clerk of Flatbush in 1681, and later became a resident of Bedford, Long Island. He went to Tappan, N. Y., in 1691, where he was made clerk of the Sessions of Orange County, which office he held for some time. He is said to have gone from there to Phillipse Manor in ^Yestchester County, N. Y., where he died, and where his descendants became numerous. His issue of the second generation were at least five: Gregoris, Joris (George), Jfaria, Peternella, and Aeltie, the first three being born in Holland and the last two at Brooklyn. There must have been other children. Staats Storms (4), a grandson of one of the children of Dirck Storms, married Susanna de Voe and settled at Tappan, N. Y., where he is said to have had son'; Jacob, Abraham, Hendrick, and Staats of the fifth genera- tion. Hendrick (5) married Cornelia Vanderbeck and settled at Paramus, N. J., wliere he died. Jacob (5), Abraham (5), and Staats (5) remained in Bock- land County, whence their descendants spread into Bergen County, N. J. Staats (.5) inarried Christina Ackerson and had a son, John Storms (6), born April 7, 1787, who married Ellen, daughter of John and Maria Blawvelt, and had issue of the seventh generation, among others, Henry Storms (7), the subject of this sketch. Henry Storms (7) was born at Park Ridge, N. J., where he still resides, on the 18th of Oc-tober, 181.3. He received his education in the schools of Bergen County, and at the age of fourteen entered a cotton mill at Park Ridge, -nhere he remained ten years. Subsequently he spent ten years at Hackensack engaged in the mason's trade. Returning to Park Ridge at the end of that period, he continued to follow the trade of mason for thirty- five vears, gaining a high reputation. Afterward he was associated with his son John in the sash and blind business for about fifteen years. He then retired, and is now enjoying the fruits of an active and honorable career. He is a member of the Congregational Church and a public spir- ited, enterprising *'itizen. He married Margarette vYortendyke and has one son, John Storms. i CORNELIUS A. ECKERSON. — (\ie of the most intensely interesting chapters of historical delineation extant is Schiller's narrative of what is known as -The Thirty Years' War," that sanguinary and relentless struggle maintained by the Protestant nations of Northern Europe, led by brave Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden, against the crafty Catholic princes of 546 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Southern Euiope, led by Ferdinand of Hapsbnrgh and dount ^A'allenstein. The armies of Gustavns passed several times across Holland in their ad- vances to and retreats from their adversaries. The lusty Svt'edish youth were sorely tempted by the fertility and pro- ductiveness of the soil, and by the prosperity of the people, to make Holland their future abiding place. It is a well known fact that thousands of them, upon the expiration of their terms of military service, yielded to this temp- tation. Among this number was a youth named Thomas Tomaszen, who had bravely fought under the Protestant banner of Gustavus on the bloody field of Leipsic in 1631. On his way home he chanced to stop at Zell in the Province of Munsterland, where he became so smitten with the country, and with a sprightly little Dutch maiden, that he was constrained to make the place his home. He married the little maiden, of course, and settled down to agricultural pursuits at Zell, where, somewhere about 1640, his son, John Tomaszen, first saw the light of day. It is said that during his youth John learned the trade of blacksmith. If so, he does not seem to have plied it for a livelihood. In the summer of 16C3 we find him emigrat- ing to America, landing at New York. The same fall we find him marry- ing a respectable Dutch lass named Appolonia Cornelisen Siotz and settling on a farm east of the Bowery, not far above where St. Mark's Church now stands. On this farm, which he successfully managed for thirty years, he died in 1692. He had eleven children, all but one of whom grew to maturity and reared large families. On the baptismal record all these children are entered as being the offspring of John and Appolonia Tomaszen, but it appears that two or three years before their father's death these children adopted the surname of Eckse. During the next twenty years this name, Eckse, passed through as many as a dozen different orthographical variations until at last it became Eckerson. Of late years one branch of the family has sup- planted the " E " by " A," making it Ackerson. Of these eleven Tomaszen children of the second generation Cornelius, the third, was born in New York in April, 1671, and was reared to agricul- tural pursuits on his father's farm near the Bowery. The woman who became his wife was Miss Wellempie Flierboom, a daughter of Matthew Plierboom, then Judge of the Court at Albany, N. Y. The marriage was solemnized in the Dutch church in New York in August, 1693. Cornelius resided on the old homestead until 1718, when with his wife and Ave chil- dren he removed to Old Tappan, in Bergen County, where he bought of the patentees of the Orangetown patent three hundred acres of heavily wooded land, which he cleared, tilled, and added to by purchase until his death. His descendants of the eighth generation still reside on portions of it. All the Eckersons and Ackersons of Bergen County are descended from him. The old farm originally comprised the Herrick farm, now occupied by A. U. Todd. It also included the farm now occupied by Ja,.ob B. Ecker- son, one of his descenoants. Cornelius Eckers.^n (3) and his wife, \Tprempie Plierboom, had issue of the fourth generation five childrer: Matthew, John, Cornelius, Jacob and Thomai!. Cornelii j (4), born in New York, Januai-y 12, 1701, married (1) in 17''3 Mr .'ia Haring, who died 1727. He married (2), in 1728, Rachel Blawvelt ( /ritten Blawfield). Cornelius resided on the old homestead and had issue of the fifth gereration twelve children: Garret C, Cornelius C, Wellempie .■ *a. 548 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Catharine, Maria, John, Abraham, Elizabeth, Rachel, Jacob, Dayid, and Matthew. Garret 0. Eckerson (5), the eldest of the above, was born March 7, 1724, and died May 2, 1798. He married, in 1744, Maria Haring, born January 7, 1724, died December 22, 1798. They resided at Old Tappan, in Bergen County, and had issue of the sixth generation nine children: John G., Maria, Cornelius, Eensye, Cornelius, Elizabeth, Margaret, Abram G., and Brechie. Abram G. Eckerson (6) was born September G, 1770, and died May 10, 1847. He married Catharine Smith, born May 24, 1774, died April 17, 1842. Their children of the seventh generation were James A., Garret A., and Cornelius A. Cornelius A. Eckerson (7) was born at Old Tappan, in Bergen County, July 21, 1801, and died July 28, 1839. He married,' February 15, 1823, Catharine Meyers, born in 1803, died in 1892. They had issue of the eighth generation Abram C, Rebecca, and Margaret. Abram C. Eckerson (8) was born at Old Tappan and married Matilda Demarest, daughter of Garret and Agnes (Westervelt) Demarest. Thev had children of the ninth generation Catharine, Garret D., Cornelius A., Rachel, Margaret, John A., Matilda, Abram C, and Frederick, of whom Cornelius A. Eckerson (9) is the subject of this sketch. Cornelius A. Eckerson (9) was born at Harrington Park, N. J., June 7, 1849, and acquired his education in Bergen County. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, he worked for three years on the farm, and then served a four years' apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, mastering every branch. At the end of that time he engaged in the blacksmithing and car- riage building business for himself and successfully continued in that line for twenty-three and one-half years. He built up a large and profitable trade and gained the confidence of all with whom he came in contact. On December 6, 1893, he was appointed to a position in the New York custom house. Mr. Eckerson has long been active in local affairs, having served for seven years as Town Clerk of Harrington and for some time as a membei' of the Board of Education. He is a member of Alpine Lodge, No. 77, F. and A. M., and of the Reformed Church. He married Lurana Wortend'yke and has one son, Harry Eckerson, of the tenth generation. SHELDON TILT, of Demarest, is of English descent. Thomas Tilt, a leather manufacturer from Birmingham, England, settled at West Point on the Hudson about 1750. He purchased property of Benjamin Allison, of Haverstraw, N. Y., August 22. 1777. He signed the Association Articles for Liberty in the Yoost Mabie House (now Andre's Prison), Tappan, N. Y., Jnly 11, 1775, and was Corporal under Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, his com mission being granted February 16, 1776. His children were Daniel, Thomas, Rebecca, ard r'olly. Thomas (2) married Ann M. Bell, October 15, 1795. He has i>«su?, baptl/.c-d at Tappan, Catharine, Au-q, Thomas, Will- ■-^m, Mary, Elizabeth, and Rachel. > William Tilt married Margaret Honert and had a sin, Jefferson Tilt, who married Maria J. Demarest, daugh >r of the- late Ralph S. Demarest and Jane Haring, a granddaughter of Samuel R. and Elizabeth (Zabriskie) Demarest, and a great-granddaughter of Ralph S. and Maria D. Demarest. He had four children, one of whom is Sheldon Tilt, the subject of this sketch. The latter's grandfather, Ralph S. Demarest, was prominent in political matters and represented his district in both houses of the New GENEALOGICAL 549 Jersey Legislature. His great-great-grandfather, Ralpli S. Demarest, served In the Revolutionary War in Captain Christie's company from Bergen Coun- ty, while his great-grandfather, Samuel Demarest, who was also a soldier in the Revolution, was captured by the English, and confined in the historic !ractice of his profession in his native city. JOHN J. CADMUS, of Arlington, is a descendant in the sixth generation from Dirck Cadmus, the emigrant and first American ancestor of the family. The line of descent is the same as that of George Cadmus (see page 260) down to the third generation. Casparus (Jasper) Cadmus (3) and his wife, Catlyntie Dodd, had issue of the fourth generation twelve children: Sarah, Joris, John, Casparus, Jannetie, Seeltie, Martha, Michael, Richard, Catharine, Andrew, and, Eleanor. ^ John Cadmus (4), bori;, February 21, 1793, died July 28, 1.832, married, December 3, ipii, and had i3sue of the, fifth generation seven children: Raciel, C itharine, Jasper, Elizabeth, William, Richai^d, and Martha. Jasper Cadmus (5), born October 20, 1821, ma-ried, March 12, 1846, Han- nah C. Via Buskirk, daughter of James Van Buskirk, and has issue, be- sides other children, John J. Cadmus, the subject of this sketch. John J. Cadmus (6) was born in Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J., May 29, 1862. On both sides he descends from old Bayonne families and' from a long line of Holland Dutch ancestors. He was educated in the public GENEALOGICAL 553 schools of his native town. Subsequently he removed to iVrlington, Hud- son County, where he still resides, and where he was engaged in the lum ber business from 1888 to 1894. In the latter year, having disposed of that business, he established himself in the insurance business, which he still follows with marked success. Jlr. Cadmus is one of the most enterprising and public spirited citizens of Arlington. He has achieved a high reputation, and enjoys the respect and confidence of the entire community. In politics he is independent. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Arlington and active and influential in local affairs. He married Cora A. Woodruff, daughter of Charles A. and Charlotte A. (Wambold) M'oodruff, both natives of Union County, N. J. Their chil- dren are Harold J., John A., Ruth A., and Bessie W. EDWAED HILER, of Eidgewood, is of Holland Dutch descent. He is the son of Lewis B. Hiler and a grandson of John and Ruth (Garrignes) Hiler, all of whom were born near Dover, Morris County, N. J. His mother, Mary It. (Ball) Hiler, was the daughter of Isaac Ball and a granddaughter of Jacob Ball, her mother being a Burnett. Her family were residents of Parsippany, Morris County, N. J. Edward Hiler was born in Danville, Pa., May 27, 1856, and received his education at Rockway, Morris County, N. J. He left school at the age of fifteen and became a clerk in a country store in Rockaway, Morris County. Afterward he was associated with his father in the iron mines near King- ston, Ontario, Canada, where he remained four years. He then came to New York City, and for t\Nenty years has been actively engaged in the whole- sale dry goods business, during eighteen years of which he has been asso- ciated with Bacon & Company, 92 and 94 Franklin Street, New York, the last five years as a member of the firm. Mr. Hiler was a private in the Twenty-third Regiment, N. G. N. Y., of Brooklyn, serving a term of enlistment and being honorably discharged. He is a member of the Reformed Church of Ridgewood, where he has re- sided for nine years. He married Stella T. Eckman and has five children: Mildred, Lewis, Eddy, Evelyn, and Leslie. CHARLES EYPPER was born in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, Feb- ruary 13, 18.34. He is the son of George and Marian (Beck) Eypper and a grandson of Charles Eypper and Jacques Beck, a soldier in Napoleon's army who perished in the retreat from Moscow. Mr. Eynper left Strasbourg in 1848 and came to this country. He went to Texas, 'and from 1856 to 1859 served with a surveying party under Cap tain Pope, U. S. A., in New Mexico, Texas, and other Western territories. In 1861 he volunteered with the First New Y'ork Regiment, Colonel Will- iam Allej, a:Kl served his full term of enlistment. He participated in the battle of Big Be+hel, in the Seven Days' Fight a^:d In other important en- gagements, and made an honorable record. He was wjun^.cd in the arm bv an arrow in an encounter with the Indians when with the surveying party, and during the battle between the " Monitor " and " Merrimac " in Hampton Roads was wiih a shore battery. Since 1876 he ha- been en- gaged in the brewing business. Mr. Eypper is a public spirited, patriotic citizen, and deeply interested in the affairs of his adopted town. He was Mayor of Guttenberg in 1891 and in every capacity has achieved a high reputation. He married Mar- 554 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES guerite Apffel, daughter of Jacques Apffel and Marguerite Bauer. Her fathers brother, Henri Apffel, was Director of the Military School at Fontainebleu until 1893, when he died. Prior to that he was a Major in the Engineer Corps. John Apffel, another brother, served in the Franco- Prussian War, was at Strasbourg as Commandant de Place, and was re- tired as a Colonel in the French Army. Amelie, sister of Mrs. Marguerite Eypper's mother, was Sister Superior of the House of Deaconnesses at Mul- house, Alsace. All of the family were residents of Weissenbourg, Alsace, France. WILLIAM J. EYPPEK, of Guttenberg, son of Charles Eypper and Mar- guerite Apffel and a grandson of G-eorge Eypper, was born in North Ber- gen, N. J., December 16, 1868. His eldest brother, George H. Eypper, was born January 26, 1867, in New York City, and is now a prominent resident of Hacliensack, Bergen County, being successfully engaged in the wholesale dry goods and commission business in New York. William J. Eypper was educated in the public schools of Guttenberg and New York City, graduating from Grammar School No. 20, New York, in 1883. He attended the College of the City of New York for one year and then engaged in the life insurance business in New York, continuing until 1892. He then went to Colorado and remained one year. In 1893 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Guttenberg with his brother, Charles A. Eypper, who was born in New York, November 11, 1870. Under the firm name of W. J. & C. A. Eypper they conduct a large and successful business and have achieved a high reputation. Mr. Eypper has served as a Justice of the Peace since 1897. He is a r>emocrat in politics and active in party affairs. In 1898 he was Eecorder of the Town of Guttenberg. He is now Collector of Taxes, having served in that capacity since 1896, and being re-elected in the spring of 1899 for a second term of three years. He is a member of the Franklin Club, of the Hackensack Golf Club, and of the Guttenberg Wheelmen. He is un- married. D. M. HENNESSY, of Bayonne, is the son of Michael Hennessy and Elizabeth Devlin, both natives of Ireland, but for a long time residents of Bayonne, where they were married. Mr. Hennessy was born in Bayonne, Hudson County, May 27, 1873, and there received a public school education. Afterward he entered the grocery business and still later identified himself with the hardware trade. He is now successfully engaged in the men's furnishing business and laundry business in Bayonne, where he resides. In politics Mr. Hennessy is an active Democrat. He has served as Clerk of the Board of Health of Bayonne, and is a member of the Young Men's Association, of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Catholic Benevolent Legion. He is popular and well known, and has displayed ability of a high order. EDMOND L. GEEENIN, of Hillsd.ale, wus born in New York City on the 27th of January, 1872. He is the son of Sampson and Cynthia (Web- ster) Greenin and a grandson of John S. Greenin and John Webster. His family came originally from England. Mr. Greenin was educated in the schools of Bergen County, which he left at the age of seventeen. Shortly afterward he came into possession of a valuable estate and for some time has devoted himself to lookin"- GENEALOGICAL 555 after his property. He has, however, been very active in the affairs of the Township of Hillsdale, and is a member of the Township Committee and Chairman of the Board of Health. He attends the Dutch Reformed Church, and is a member of the Knif^hts of Honor and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Jennie Cardenier. l.OUIS HAUSSER, of Harrison. Hudson County, is the son of Samuel Frederick Hausser and Caroline Becker, both natives of Germany. His parents were married in the Fatherland, and in 184.5 emigrated to the United States, landing in New Yoik City on the 9th of June. They imme- diately settled in Newark, N. J., which was ever afterward tlieir home, and where Louis was boi-n on the Kith of January, 184S. Louis Hausser ear'ly di^-veloped those atti-ibutes of thrift and frugality which have served him so well in business affairs. He was educated in the public and German jiri- vate schools of his native city (Newark), and after- ward engaged in the busi- ness of butcher, having an establishment in Cen- tral Market, Newark. For seventeen years he was actively and success- fully engaged in that line of industry. He displayed marked business ability, great patriotism and pub- lic spirit, and won the confidence and esteem of a large circle of acquaint- ances. At the end of seventeen years he aban- doned the butcher busi- ness and accepted a posi- tion of trust and responsi- bility with the Peter Hauck Brewing Com- pany, of Harrison, which he still holds. He is thoroughly identified with the interests of the community and active in promoting every worthy object. Mr. Hausser has dis- charged every duty which he has been called upon to assume with marked ability and satisfa'ction. He is a ]irorainent and influential Democrat, an acknowledged leader in the councils of Ins party, and one of Harrison s most active citizens. For seven years he was Captain of Steamer Company No. 2, of Newark. He is a leading member of various important fraternal and benevolent organizations, including Copestone Lodge, No. 147, F. and I.OUIS HAUSSER. 556 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES A. M., of KcariiY, Damasrus Commandery, No. 5, K. T., of Newark, Nf>w Jersey Consistoi'y, 32°, Scottish Rite, of Masons, and Mecca Temple, No. 1, Nobles of the' Mystic Shrine, of New York City. He is Past District l)('l)iity of the B. P. O. E., of New Jersey, and a member of Newark Lodge, No. 21, of Elks, of Neascoleida Lodge, No. 6, Improved Order of Eedmen, of Philadelphia, Pa., of the American Legion of Honor, and of the Hepta- soplis. As a member of the ("Jermania Singing Society he is prominent in musical circles, and through his membership in the Eobert Davis Associa- tjou of Hudson County and the Joel Parker Association of Newark he is active and influential in political affairs. He is also a member of the orig- inal Thirteen Club of New York City. On the 27th of August, 1871, Mr. Hausser was married to Wilhelmina Truitle, daughter of Jacob and Sophie Truitle, natives of Germany, who came to the United States about thirl y-f our years ago, settling in Newark. N. J. There Mrs. Hausser was reared, educated, and married. They have three children: Louis Hausser, Jr., Minide Hausser, and Gussie Hausser. LEWIS B. PARSELL, M.D.— The Parsell family in Bergen County are of French origin, as the name indicates, it being derived from the French expression of an oath '' Par cirl" " by the sun." John Parcil, then a resi- dent of Hemdingdon, England, emigrated to America with his wife (whose name does not appear). He first settled at Dutch Kills, Long Island, where he obtained the sobriquet of " John Butcher," for what reason it does not appear, nor do the records disclose the date of his arrival or the name of his wife. His children of the second generation, wlio must have emi- grated with him, were Thomas, William, Henry, John, and Catharine. There were, perhaps, others. Thomas Parcil (2), born in 1653, married, about 1673, Christina Van Houten. Thomas was a man of some note in his day. Although a black- smith by trade, he was likewise a practical and experienced farmer and business man. At Dutch Kills he bought and managed a large farm. In 1670 he was made appraiser of several estates at Flatbush. He was one of the original patentees of the Newtown patent in 1686. In 1690 he pur- chased Great Barents Island for |3,000. At about the same time he sold his Dutch Kills farm for |17,000. He built a house on his island purchase, erected a mill, and lived there until 1723. In the meantime he had bought Hart's Island (then called Spectacle Island), to which he soon removed, and there died about 1731. William Parcil (2), brother of Thomas, married, in 1694, and had issue of the third generation Nicholas, Thomas, John, and "SA'alter. Nicholas Parcil (3), baptized June 10, 1696, in New York, married Greetie Cole, of Tappan, and removed to and settled at Hackensack. Walter Parcil (3), baptized in New York, April 1, 1702, went to Schraalen- burgh in Bergen County, where, in August, 1728, he married Sophia Ridd- ner, of Bergen. Walter first purchased a tract of land b^t'f'" ^en the Tiena Kill Brook and the Schraalenburgh road, just south of tne old Christie farm. This he soon sold and bough a large farm northeast of Closter, fronting .i the Hudson River. Thei'e he finally settled down for life. oth Nicholas and Walter reared large families and their descendants are widely scattered. Isaac Parsell, probably a grandson of Nicholas or Walter, married Mary Smock and, dying, left two sons, John and Richard. This Richard married Margaretta Brinkerhoff and removed to Pennsylvania and from thence to GENEALOGICAL 557 Central New York, finally settling in Cayuga County. There he had at least two children, Isabella (who married kev. E. S. Hammond) and David (who married Catharine A., daughter of Louis I'.evier). The latter re- sided at Owasco, Cayuga County, N. Y., -nhere on the 16th of April, 1852, was born Lewis B. Parsell, the subject of this sketch. Dr. Parsell was educated in the high school of Auburn, N. Y. At the age of twenty-one he became an instructor in Fort Plain (N.Y.) Seminary, remaining three years. He then entered the Buffalo Medical College, but later became a student at the Long Island Hospital Medical College, where he completed his medical studies. In 1881 he began active practice in Har- lemville, X. Y., but a year later removed to Closter, Bergen County, N. J., where he has since resided. He has built up a successful practice in that section, and both as physician and citizen is highly respected. He has served as physician to the Board of Health of Harrington Township and as President of the District Medical Society of Bergen County. He mar- ried Julia M. Hammond. EOBEKT WALLACE ELLIOTT, of Jersey City, was born in Dover, N. J., on the 11th of July, 1S56. He is the son of Alexander and Louisa (Wallace) Elliott and a grandson of Alexander and Anna Elliott and William and Elizabeth Wallace. His ancestry is Irish and includes Sir William Elliott, of the English Navy. His father was born in Belfast, while his mother was a native of Mauch Chunk, Pa. Mr. Elliott was educated at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and after completing his studies, in 1872, became the manager of his father's iron mines in New Jersey. He continued in that capacity until 1878, when he was made manager of the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company. Prom 1880 to 1883 he was manager of the Delaware KoUing Mills at Phil- lipsburg, N. J. On the 1st of March, ISS.', he located in Jersey City, hav- ing associated himself with the Gas Improvement Company as Cashier of that corporation. August 1, 1886. when the gas interests of Jersey City were consolidated, he was made the manager and agent of the com- bined corporations, and on November 1, 1899, he was elected Vice-Presi- dent and General Manager of the Hudson County Gas Company, which embraces all the gas interests of Hudson County. These positions he still holds. In the discharge of his duties Mr. Elliott has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and great energy, and in every capacity has won the ap- proval and admiration of all who know him. He has achieved eminent success, and in public life has also become a prominent factor. He was ap- pointed a commissioner by Governor Green to report upon the advisabil- ity of erecting a State Reformatory. For a number of years he has been a prominent member of the Board of Trade of Jersey Tity and for three years was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of that organization. He is a member of t.. Ifianhattan and Twilight Cljbs of New York, a member and former Chairman of the Board of trustees of the Palnia Club of Jersey City, and a member of th? Cartere_ Club. In 1894 he married Mary K. Sto?kton, a member of an old ivew Jer-°y family. They have no children. PEANCIS W. FORD, of Demarest, was born in New York City on the ■14th of July, 1846. He is the son of Isaac Ford and Catharine West, and was educated in the schools of his native city. At the age of sixteen he 558 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES engaged in surveying in New York and has since continued in tliat pro- fession. Since 1871 he has served as City Surveyor. He has an office at 8 James Street, New York City, and succeeded a firm which was estab- lished in 1809. Mr. Ford has served as School Commissioner, Road Commissioner, and Police Commissioner, and is a member of the Reformed Church. In pub- lic aiJairs and in private matters he has established a high reputation and is respected and esteemed by all who know him. He married Anna M. Kitching and has six children: Francis K., born in 1877; Howard H., born in 1880; Walter H., born in 1881; Frederick C, born in 1884; Raymond W., born in 1886; and Harold S., born in 1889. JOSEPH HERRON, of Closter, was born in Ireland on the 17th of April, 1859. He is the son of David and Sarah (.Martin) Herron and a grandson of John Herron and William Martin. Coming to this country when young, Mr. Herron received his education in Troy, N. Y., and at the age of fifteen engaged in clerking. For ten years he followed that avocation in different places and then came to New York City, where he was successfully engaged in business as an exporting mer- chant for twenty years. At the end of that period he retired from active life and is now associated with his son in the grocery business in Closter, Bergen County, where he resides. Mr. Herron was especially prominent in the foreign fruit trade, in which he was so long and extensively engaged in New York City, and in that con- nection gained a high standing for business ability. He is a public spirited citizen, active and influential in local affairs, and a member of the Presby- terian Church. He married Hattie A. Burrows, and has one son, George D., who is associated with his father in the grocery business in Closter. SAMUEL P. FREIR, of Hasbrouck Heights, was born near Boston in Lincolnshire, England, and in 1882 came to this country. He received a good preparatory and technical education, and is now in the employ of Ihe Western Union Telegraph Company as automatic expert, having in- troduced the so-called Wheatstone automatic system of telegraphy from England. He has patented several very valuable instruments which his company have in daily use. He has achieved distinction in his profes- sion, is a man of eminent ability, and highly esteemed by all who knovv him. Mr. Freir came to Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., in 1892, just at the time that place took on a new lease of life, and has been actively interested in its growth and welfare. He served six years as a member of the Council and in other capacities has contributed to local improvements. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He is a prominent member of the Royal Arcanum and affiliated with a' " that tends to keep his town on the road to progress. DWIGHT' WHEELFR De MOTTF of Jersey City, is a descendant in the fifth "generation from Mattys (Matthew) de Motte, a native of " Kingston' jn the Esopus," as the records say, who came from Kingston, N. Y., to Bergen, N. J., in 1704, and on April 4, 1703, was united in mar- riage with Miss Margriettie Brinkerhoft' at Hackensack. On April 4, 1093, Mattys bought of Ellas Michaels Vreeland three lots of land at Ber- gen (Jersey City), the combined area of which was eighty-seven acres. Subsequently at different times he bought other tracts at Bergen and GENEALOGICAL 559 North Bergen until in a few years he had become a large landholder in Hudson Ooiintv He was an active man in the affairs of Bergen, taking a hand in almost everything that came up in tlie way of improvements. He and his wife belonged to the " Church on the Green " at Hackensack. where nearly all of their large family of children were baptized. Mattys died at Bergen in May, 1759. By his will, proved June IS, 17.jl), he de- vised all his Bergen lands to his sons, Jlichael and (ieor^e, as joint ten- ants. His issue of the second generation were John (died), ^iichael (mar- ried Clasie Winne), Henry (died), Ann, John (died December 8, 1744), Henry (married, in 1742, Jannetje ^'an "SA'agouer), George (died in ISOd, unmarried), Jacob (married, October 11, 1747, Sophia Van Houten), Mary, and Geshy (died in 1744). Michael (2) died Xovember K!, 17!)9. intestate and without issue, and George (2), by the terms of his father's will, suc- ceeded to the property at Bergen. Henry (2) located at Pompton. John (2) left no issue. Jacob (2) removed to Schraalenburgh, N. J. George (2) left no issue, but a will by which he left all his lands to Michael {?>), son of his brother, Henry, of Pompton. Michael (3) died May 27, 1S32, devising his property at Bergen to his children of the fourth generation: Garret, George, Jane (wife of Peter Merseles), Mai'garet (wife of Eichard Vreeland), Maria (wife of James Cadmus), Catharine (wife of Richard Cadmus), and Henry (who had died before his father). One of these children of the fourth generation had a son, Abraham Huyler de Motte, who married Fannie M. Browning and had, besides other children of the fifth generation, ]3wight Wheeler de Motte, the subject of this sketch. Dwight Wheeler de Motte was born July 14. 1870, in Jersey City, where he still resides. He was educated in Public ^Schools Xos. 11 and 12 and subsequently took a course at the Law School of the University of the City of New York. He also studied law in the office of Judge Frank A. Newell and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in 1S!»7 and to the bar of New York as an attorney and counselor in 1900. He is actively engaged in practice, having offices at l.aO Nassau Street, New York, and 250 A\'ashington Street, Jersey City. Though a young man, he has already gained an honorable standing at the bar and is highly esteemed by all who know him. He married Yiola Yermilye Mitchell and has one child, Jessie Mitchell de Motte, JAMES DE^MAREST HOLDRT'M is descended in the seventh genera- tion from John Holdrum, the first American ancestor from Holland, of whom see.skt-tch on page 2?>7. The line of descent is as follows: Jnhn Holdrum (1) and Cornelia Tienhoven had issue of the second generation, of whom one, William (2), born about 1710, married Jlargaret Peters and had nine children of the third generation, of whom Cornelius C. Holdrum (3), born Septemb^^r 21, 1749, died May 3, 1831, married Elizabeth Haring, who died August i, . "533. One of their children of the fouith generkHon was James C. Holdrum {4<, born December _1, 1785, died October 5, 1877, mar- ried Margaret Demarest, born January 20, 1783. She died March :;0, 1870. One of their children of the fifth generation Avas Cornelius J. Holdrum (5) born March 6, 1806, who married Elizabeth de Pew and had children of the sixth generation, of whom one was James C. Holdrum (6), who mar- ried Ellen Maria Holdrum and had issue, among others, James Demarest Holdrum (7), the subject of this sketch. 560 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES James D. Holdrum (7) was born at Eivervale, Bergen County, N. J., October 18, 1865, and received his education in the public schools of AA'ashington Township. He also took a commercial course at Packard's Business College in New York City. For a number of years he has been successfully engaged in the grocery business at River Edge, Bergen Conn ty, where he resides. He has also been active in public affairs, being one of the founders of the Borough of Riverside, which he served as Collector of Taxes from the ors-anization until July, 1899. In that year he was one of a committee to "further the plans of a church, which was organized September 14, 1899, and of which he is Clerk. He is a member and President of the Pastime Social Club and of the Victa Tennis Club. In every capacity he has dis- played great energy, ability, and public spirit, and is respected by all who know him. Mr. Holdrum was married, April 6, 1890, to Ida May Belle Long at the North Presbyterian Church in New York City. They have one daughter, Marie Rosalind, born January 8, 1899. WILLIAM TELL La ROCHE, D.D.S., of Harrington Park, was born in Frenchtown, N. J., July 30, 1822. He is the son of Louis F. la Roche and Permelia Hunt, a grandson of John and Anna (Bivens) la Roche and William and Rebecca (Beavers) Hunt, and a great-grandson of Philip Bivens and Joseph Beavers. His ancestors came from Switzerland and Fraace. His grandfather, William Hunt, came from Warren County, N. J., and was a Captain in the War of 1812. His great-grandfather, Joseph Beavers, was Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment of Hunterdon T'ounty Militia in 1776, and held that oflSce during the Revolutionary "SA'ar accord- ing to records in the Adjutant-General's office at Trenton. He was of Scotch descent, and settled in Hunterdon County, N. J., before the war. For some time he was a Justice of the Peace. He was remarkable foi- his love of right doing. His courts were more properly chancery courts than courts of law. His judgments were seldom appealed from and usually not with success. He was for some time a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Hunterdon County, carrying out his love of right in all his decisions. If they agreed with his conceptions of justice it was sood, law or not law. He was a man of stern integritj^ and favored no one in doing what he considered to be his duty. Anyone who deserved a reprimand from him and received it did not soon require another from the same source. He deprecated law suits generally, and settled manv in a friendly way without costs. He contributed largely to building the Presbyterian Church at Greenwich, N. J., in 3775, of which he was a mem- ber. One of the pews of the ancient and orthodox style was' built by Judge Beavers. He owned and managed a large farm equal to two at the present time. His family consisted of two sons and thuteen daugh- ters. Joseph tut bldest son, died young. George pnr-^aased an estate and became the proprietor of the JPattenb \vg Mills near Clinton, N. J. The remiins of the Christian patriot were interred- in the cemetery of Greenwich Church. Dr. La Roche received his education in Eastern Pennsylvania, in John Vanderveer's school, and at the New York College of Dentistry, from which he was graduated. For fifteen years he was a clinical professor and Trustee of the latter institution. He practiced dentistry in New York Ci+y for forty-five years with marked success, and since then has GENEALOGICAL 561 lived in T-t-tirement at his country home in Harrington Parlv, N. J., where he settled in 1S55. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and a public spirited citizen. In his profession lie established a high reputation, be- coming one of the best known and ablest practitioners in New York. Dr. La Eoche married Elizabeth Quack^nbush and has four children: William J. (Senator from the Sixth District of Brooklyn, N. Y.), Anna For- rester, Elizabeth ^Nfarie, and Louis F. His second daughter married Baron Howland Roberts, first in command of the Queen's Own Regiment, of Eng- land. WALTER J. (JREEX, of Kearny, is the son of -John Langram Green and Emily J. Pullin, and was born in Bristol, England, on the 16th of Sep- tember, 1864. His parents were both born and married in that country. Mr. (xreen came to this country in 18T;1 and received his education in the public schools of Kearny, N. J. After leaving school he engaged in contracting, painting, and decorating, and still follows that business, hav- ing achieved marked success. He is a Republican in politics and a communicant of the I'rotestant Episcopal Church. As a citizen he is public spirited, progressive, and highly esteemed. He was married, (October 2:', 1SS7, to Jeanne Morton, daughter of Adam and Mary (Jardine) Morton, and a descendant of an- cestors who came from Canada. They have three children: Mary Emily, Lilla Agnes, and Morton Albin. GEORGE BANCROFT (JALE, M.D., of Rutherford, was born in Whit- ing, Vt., his parents being Daniel A. (ialc and Rosetta Austin, both na- tives of that State. He was educated in the public schools of Whiting and Sudbury, Vt., and also in Springfield, Mass., and subsequently attended the Philadelphia School of Anato)u\ and the Medico ("hirurgical College of Philadelphia, class of 1896. Dr. Gale practiced medicine in Philadelphia, Pa., until 1W)S, when he removed to Rutherford, N. J., where he has since resided. He has built up a large and successful practice and is highly respected, both as a physician and citizen. He is a member of Boiling Si)ring Lodge, No. 1.j7, F. and A. M., of Rutherford, of Vigilant Lodge, No. 155, L O. O. F., of Philadelphia, of the Ancient Older of United Workmen, of Rutherford Lodge, No. i'liK Knights of Pythias, of the Bergen County .Medical Society, and of the Tithonian Senate, Order of Sparta, of Philadelphia. January 30, 1886, Dr. Gale married Sarah A. Trask, daughter of Benjamin B. and Laura (Hare) Trask, of Springfield, Mass. They have two chil- dren: Laura and Austin. GEORGE ■ FRANKENSTEIN, of Jersey City, is Ihe son of Julius Frankenstein anJl Hedwig Blumenthal, and was born h- "^.tHu, Germany, July 20, 1874. His father was a merchant in that city. He \\as educated in the Berlin Imperial Gymnasium and in the public and high schools of Jersey City, having come to this country when ygung. After leaving Ihe Jersev City High School at the age of sixteen he studied law and in November, 1895, at the age of twenty-one, was admitted to the New Jer- sey bar. Since then he has practiced his profession in Jersey ( -ity, mak- ing real estate and commercial law a specialty. He was married in June, 1899, to Jessie P. Drumm, of Camden, N. J. 562 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES CHARLES H. WESTERVELT, of Bergenfield, is descended in the ninth generation from Lubbert Liibbertsen (Von Wcstervelt), who with his wife and children left their home at Meppel in the Province of Drenthe, Holland, and came to America on board the ship "Hope" in April, 16C2 (see page 99). He is the son of Cornelius D. AA'estervelt and Margaret Demarest and a grandson of Cornelius Westervelt and Rev. Cornelius T. and Margarette (Lydecker) Demarest, and was born in New York City on the 15th of May, 1860. He was educated in Bergen County, and at the age of fifteen began to learn the printing trade in Englewood, N. J., where he remained three years. He then entered the employ of De Baun & Morgenthaler, one of the leading printing establishments of New York City. After con- tinuing with them for twelve years he engaged in the printing business for himself, establishing his present office and plant at 71 Maiden Lane, New York. In this line he has been very successful. Mr. Westervelt is a public spirited, enterprising citizen, and in Bergen- field, Bergen County, where he resides, has been active in promoting a number of worthy objects. He has served as a Trustee of the School Board of Bergenfield and is a member of the Reformed Church. He married Tenie Christie and has two children: Estelle C. and Florence A. WILLIAM C. HERRING, ex-Sheriff of the County of Bergen and one of the prominent citizens of Harrington Park, is descended in the seventh generation from Pieter Jansen Haring, the Holland emigrant, concerning whom and his son see sketch on page 61. The line of descent is as fol- lows: Pieter Jansen Haring (1), of Hoorn, Holland, had, among other issue of the second generation, a son, Jan Pietersen Haring (2), who mar- ried Margrietie Cozine and settled in the northern part of Bergen County, where he had issue of the third generation Pieter, Vroutie, Cozine, Cor- nelius, Brechie, Margrietie, and Abraham. Cornelius Haring (3) married Catelyntie Fleerboom and had issue of the fourth generation John, Grietie, Sophia, Vroutie, Daniel, Cornelius, Jacob, and Abraham. Daniel Haring (4) married, April 28, 1726, Margaretta Banta. He re- sided at Schraalenburgh and had issue of the fifth generation Cornelius, Jannetie, Catelyntie, Jacob, John, Henry, Maria, Cornelia, Daniel, and Maria. Jacob Haring (5) married Susanna Livingston and had issue of the sixth generation Henry J., AMllempie, Daniel J., and Cornelius J. Cornelius J. Herring (6), born April 5, 1797, married Ann D. Riker in New York City, where she was born. Both died several years ago. Their issue of the seventh generation were Henry C, Jacob C, Jphn R.. James, Dani i C, William C, Mary Jane, and Susan Ann. W 'iam C. lierring (7), the 1 subject of thii sketch, was born at Schraal- ^t' yh in Lergen County afcout hf+"-nine years ago. He obtained his ;duca:'e; in the schools of his natii j townshi;^ .and has always followed farming as an occupation. He has been active in politics as a leader in the Republican party. In 18f!.5 he was elected Sheriff of the county on the Republican ticket. In 1862 he enlisted as Orderly Sergeant of Com- pany I, Twent/-second "New Jersey Volunteers (commanded by Captain Thomas H. Swenarton), and served nine months, being honorably dis- GENEALOGICAL 563 charged with his reoimcnt. Since the ('X]iii-ali(iii of liis tcini as SlierilT Ml". Herring' lias led a iiuict life on his farm at llarrini^ion Park. He married Mary Bjli/^abetli Dcmaicst, daiii;litcr of ('ornclins K. Dema- rest, of Xorwood, X. J., and has issue of the ciiihlh Kenciatiim (wo daugh- ters: Sophanna, who married George ]1. Herron, of (.'loster, and Fhu-ence, Avho married ^^'illianl Itarker, Jr., of Tiny, X, Y., both of whnm lia\c issue of the ninth generation. Mi-. Herring is an active member of (iabriel I'aul Post, G. A. E., of Westwood. and of one or more political ei-ganizations. (iEORGE RIESEXBEEGKK, ]iroprietor of one of the besi known hotels on the Hudson County Boulevard, was born in RosendaU', I'lster County, X. Y., on Cliiistmas Day, ]')eceniber 2o, IS.jl. His parents, Xi<'holas Riesen- bergei' and Catherine Blatz, came from (iermany to this country about lS4:t, settling in Flsler County, ^A'iiere the former ^^■as employed as foreman of a large cement factory. About L'<."l) the family moved to the Town of Enion, X. J., and here, on what is now the Hudson Coun- ty Boulevard, Xicholas Riesenberger was lor thirty-five years a lead- ing florist. He was a prominent, public spir- ited citizen, an active member of the old '■ \A'ide Awakes," and a man universally re spected and esteenn-d. He died in 189.3. George Riesenberge; was educated in the pub- lic schools of the Town of Union, whither his parents removed when he was eight years old. Reared in the florist's St^ i business, it was only natural that lie should first adojit it as a voca tion, and for some time he was actively assu dated witli his father. Later he conducted v\illi his bi'othe'- William a floral establishment in Xew York City for about ten years. Then he en- gaged in cigar iranu- facturing in the Torv .1 of T'nion, and subsequently was cashier in the famous Eldorae about two years. For a time he also conducted a ]ioi)ular hotel and park re sort at the Forty-se-ond f^treet ferry in AVeehawken In August, ISO."), Mr. Rieseiiberger becann i J OKOKGE RIKSENBEKOER. do and at the Giitteiiberg j-acetrack for proprietor of his present hotel 564 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES on the Pludson (Jounty Boulevard, corner of Towerhill, West New York. Bv lias also been prominent in public affairs. In 1876 he became a Con- stable and Court Officer, and served in that capacity about five years. While i!i business in New York he was also, for about five years, Sergeant of Police in Ihe Town of Union, resigning on account of other pressing interests. He has frequently served on juries, including the Grand Jury, and organized in the Town of Union the first Court of Foresters in North Hudson. This was Court Talisade, No. 7,G46. He is a member of Court Stevens, Foresters of Ameiica, of Hoboken, and of the Einigkeit Singing Society, and for several j-ears was an active member of the Union Hill Fire Department. He is also a member of the Palisade Fishing Club of the Town of Union, of which he was President for ten years. Mr. Eiesenberger is a public spirited citizen and deeply interested in all movements affecting his town and county. He comes from a distinguished family, his father being noted as a man of un- usual mental attainments, and his youngest brother, Adam, having been a professor in Stevens Institute, Hoboken, for over seventeen years. Mr. Riesenberger married Emma Hoffman, daughter of Charles Frederick Hoffman, and of their seven children four are living, namely: Nicholas, Will- iam, Minnie, and Carrie. EDWIN A. WESTER VELT, D.D.S., is descended in the ninth gene- ration from Lubbert Lubbertsen (Von AA'estervelt), who emigrated to America from Meppel in the Province of Drenthe, Holland, with his wifej and children, on the ship '• Hope," in April, 1062. For a sketch of him see page 99. Edwin A. Westervelt, one of his descendants, is the son of James J. and Mary E. Westervelt, and was born in New York City on the 19th of June, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of New York and Jersey City, at the New York University, and at the New York College of Dentistry, graduating from the latter institution. He is actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Jersey City, hav- ing an office at 54 Brinkerhoff Street. He is a member of the University Club and holds a high place in the esteem of the community. DAVID PROVOOST VAN DE VENTER, Jr., is of Holland lineage, being descended in a direct line from Pieter I'eters (1), a prominent and well-to-do resident of the City of Deventer in Holland. His son, Jan Petersen (2), who was baptized at Deventer, Holland, January 7, 1628, married there (1) Maria and (2) Engletie Theunis. He emi- grated to America in 1662. The register of the Dutch West India ship " Hope," which landed him at New Amsterdam in April of that year, discloses the fact that he was a tailor by trade, and had with him a wife and three children. He first settled in Brooklyn, but soon removed to New Utrecht, where he located permanently and acquired wealth and social importance. He joined the Dutch church, in which he was an active menber, and was elected Scheppen of New Utrecht in 1673. He bought considerable land atterward, pajdng for one farm 6,000 gelders. His issue of the third generation were Pieter, James, Henry, Cornelius Richard, ai.d Femmetie. Pieter Jansen Van Deventer {?,) emigrated with his father and settled at New Utrecht, where he married, March 22, 1686, Maria Christina Van Doren, of New Utrecht. He joined the Dutch church in 1667, was a Deacon in 1697, and from 1698 to 1709 resided in New York City His GENEALOGICAL 565 issue of the fourth generation were Christiaen, Maria, and Abraham and Isaac (t\Yins). Isaac P. A'an Dev(-nter (4), baptized on Long Island, September 5, 1697, nmrried Anna Willett, and had issue of the fifth generation Christopher ^'an Deventer and others. Christopher Van Deventer (5) married Rachel Vreeland and had issue of the sixth generation, one of whom was Jacob Van Deventer (6), who married Louise Provoost and had issue of the seventh generation, one of wiiom was David P. Van Deventer (7)), who married Maria Louise Shea and had issue of the eighth generation David P. Van Deventer, Jr. (8), the subject of this sketch. David Provoost Van Deventer, Jr., was born at Matawan, Monmouth County, X. J., November 1, ISClj. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from the New Yorii Law School with the degree of LL.B. in 1897, being admitted to the New Jersey bar in June of That year. Since then he has been successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in Jersey City. He is a member of Lodge No. .52, I. O. O. F., of Matawan. PATRICK J. DOOLEY was born on the 14th of May, 1873, in Jersey City, where he still resides. He is of Irish descent. He received his education at St. Peter's College in Jersey City and St. Francis Xavier College in New- York, graduating in 1892 from the latter institution with the degree of A.B. Mr. Dooley took up the study of law and was admitted as an attorney at the November term of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 189C. He is activelv and successfullv engaged in the practice of his profession in Jersev City. HENRY" EMORY ROTHE, M.D., of Harrison, N. J., was born in the Tenth ^Val•d of New Yoi*k City, Christmas Day, December 25, 1840. His ancestors were of good German stock, and were largely identified with the law and estates. Dr. Rothe was educated in the Collegiate College in New York City and in the College of IMiysicians and Surgeons, also of New York, receiving therefrom the degree of M.D. Since graduation he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and for a time as a drug- gist and chemist. He is now the Pennsylvania Railroad surgeon for Harrison, where he resides. In the Civil AAar Dr. Rothe enlisted in Company B, First Regiment (^Yashington Greys), N. G. N. J., under Captain Cox. He was also for a time on the United States steamer " Mercedita," as Surgeon's Steward and Assistant, V. S. N. Afterward he enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, New Jersey \'olunteers, and had charge of the brigade medical supplies of the First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, gnd served until the end of the war in the field hospital. In political as well as in professional life Dr. Rothe has achieved prominence. He has served as Treasurer and Assessor of Harrison, was the first Postmaster o" the town, and was Deputv Countv Physician of Hudson County from 1879 to 1895. He is a Commissioner oif Deeds and a Notary Public, has served as Deputy Coroner of Hudson County, and has been a delegate to numerous town, county State and Congressional conventions. He is a member and ex- aminer' of Hon E. F. McDonald Council, Royal Arcanum, Surgeon of the 566 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Boggs Association of Naval Veterans, and a member of Lincoln Post, No. 11, G. A. R., and the Union Veteran Union. Dr. Kotlie stands high as a physician and surgeon and as a citizen is luiiversallv respected. He has been .'S])e(ially prominent in military and ]»o]itical afTairs, and in various important capacities has rendered valuable service to the community. He was married, October 2:5, iSCiT, to Sarah J. lio.^d, and has four children. WILLIAM WRAY is the son of Ezekiel B. Wray, who was born near the (Uant's Oauseway, in the North of Ireland, and who was of English descent. Ezekiel was the son of a Captain in the English Army. He came to America when eleven years of age and settled in Canada, whence he sub- sequently removed to Albany, N. Y. He was a baker, and upon coming to New York opened a grocery store. He married Mary Ann Forbes, also a native of Ireland. ^^alliam Wray was born in Albany, N. Y., July 12, 1829, and removed to New York City with his parents in 1831. He was educated in Public Schools Nos. 4 and 8, of New York City, and afterward, when but fifteen years of age, was apprenticed to the jewelry trade. On August 11, 1853, he entered the Nassau Bank of New York, with which he has ever since been associated, and where he has been the manager of the safe deposit vaults since August 5, 1882. He settled in T'loster, Bergen County, N. J., in 1872, and still resides there. While in New York City he was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department, joining Washington Hose Company November 12, 1850. He was married. May 12, 1857, to Amelia Norris, daughter of Daniel W. Norris, of New York City. They have had seven children: Amelia (deceased), Lot tie E., Katherine E., AMlliam N., Jane Amelia, Walter C, and Warren N. ^A'lLLIAM NORRIS WRAY, eldest son of William and Amelia (Norris) \A'ray, was born in New York City on the 11th of Nov('mber, 18(i3, and soon afterward removed with the family to Blauveltville, Rockland County, N. Y., and subsequently to Closter, N. J. He was educated in the Closter public schools, and at the age of fifteen entered the Metropolitan National Bank, Broadway and Pine Street, New York. That institution failed in 1SS4, and he has since been connected with the Chemical National Bank of New York. In November, 1893, jMr. Wray also engaged in the coal and lumber busi- ness in Closter with John R. Demarest, under the firm name of Demarest & Wray. He still carries on that business under the same firm name, his pres- ent partner being John J. Demarest, son of John R., who took his father's jilace in the firm in November, 1898. Mr. Wray was one of the oi :>anizers and for eighteen years has been a member of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of Closter, which \e ^'\.-yed for five years as Captair Be is also a chaiter member of the Knickerbocker Fook and 1 adoer Company of Cljster, and has been for several years a member of the governing board of the Cior,ter Fire Department. Since the organization of the Firemen's Relief Af ^ociation in 1896 he has served that body as Treasurer. He is also a charter member of the Closter Club, and in politics is a Democrat. Mr. Wvay was married, October 21, 1890, to Sophie ~\A'. Tanner, daughter of Cliarles and Leah Ann Tanner, of Clostei-, N. J. They have two chil- dren: Kenneth and Helen. GENEALOGICAL . 567 THEODORE G. VOLt^ER was born in Bremen, Germany, February l!6, 1807, his parents being Gustav G. Volger and Sopliie Huneken. His family is an old and honored one. The church in 'Wettbergen, Hanover, Germany, was built by ^lagnus A'olger in 158(» and is still in use and in charge of the Volger family. All of its pastors have borne the name of \''olger, and it is to-day probably the only church in the Fatherland which 1ms the distinc- tion of remaining continuously in one family. The N'olgers date back to 1310 (on record) and are one of the oldest families in Germany. Some of them are buried in the Market Church at Hanover, while their coat of arms and history are in the provincial museum there. Volger's ^^'eg, one of the most prominent thoroughfares in Hanover, was so named after the family. Dietrich Volger, who died in 1337, was Mayor of the City of Han- over; Goedeke Volger, who died in 1420, was Senator of Hanover; and Otto Johann Heinrich Volger, who died in 1725, was also Mayor of Han- over. The Adjutant-General of ex-Queen Marie of Hanover is a ^"olger of the same family. Since coming to America the family name has frequently appeared as Folger. They emigrated from Hanover to England and thence to this country, being among the first settlers in the colonies. Charles James Folger, born in Massachusetts in 1818, who became Secretary of the Treasury in 18S1, is a member of this family. Theodore G. Volger was educated in the high schools at Detmold and Lemgo, Germany. Coming to this country, he was a clerk in the cotton export house of Hubbard, Price & Co., of New York, in 188G and 1887, and in 1888 became a clerk for Ufferliardt & Co., of Charleston, S. C, with whom he remained until 1890. Since 18!tl he has been a member of the firm of iiittag & ^'olger, manufacturers of typewriter supplies at Park Ridge, X. J., where he resides. The firm has offices in New York, Chicago, and I'aris, and has built up an extensive and successful business. In 1889 this business was the smallest of its kind; to-day it is the largest in the world, and much of its growth is due to Mr. Volger's ability, enterprise, and untiring energy. He has also been prominent in public affairs, having served as a Council- man of Park Ridge Borough in 1894, 189.5, and 1S9(;, and us Mayor of the borough in 1897 and 1898. In 189.T and 1896 he was Postmaster of Park Ridge. He is Mce-President of the Eureka Building and Loan Association, and'^in every capacity has displayed sound judgment, great native ability, and commendable enterprise. He married, in 1894, May Marjorie Smith, and they have three children. WILLIAM ST^]\rNER HI"N WilMston Seminary in Easthampton, Mass., and at Yale College, graduat- ing from the latter institution in 1875. He also studied mining engineer- ing at the Royal Saxon School in Freiberg, Saxony. He began the active 568 HUDSON AND BBRGBN COUNTIES pi'iU'tict.' of liis jtrofession in the ^dld mines of Northern Georgia. Subse- ([uently lie was in tlic mines of tlie Lake Snj)erior region in Michigan and afterward in tliose of Colorado and New Mexico. Finally he became vSuper- infen(]ent of mines for the Lowmoor Iron Company in \^irginia. In 1889 .Ml-. Iliingcrford came to Jerse\' City, N. J., as manager of W. Ames & Co'iiiiany, maniifactnrers of bar iron, railroad spikes, bolts, nuts, etc., which jiositioii he still holds, being' also a jiartner in the firm. In all of these cajjarilies he has dis])layed great native ability- and enterprise. He business WILLIAM S. HUNGERFORD. is one of the ablest mining engiiu-c rs in East Jersey, and in both and ])rofessional matters has acliieved eminent success. In politics Mr. Hungerford is a stanch Re]iublicaii. He has been a mem- ber of the P.oard of Council of Arlington, where he resides, a-id is prominent and influential in the community. He is a member of the Pons of the Ameri- can Revolntion. the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Association^ for the Advancement of Science, the University Club and First tlongregational Church of Jersey City, and the Third Ward Republi- can arents were both natives of Scotland, where the subject of this sketch received his education. Mr. Thomson came to this country in 188S, lauding in New York City. He went thence to Passaic, N. J., and four months later removed to Newark, where he lived for several years. He then removed to Kearny, Hudson County, where he still resides, and where he is engaged in the machine business, manufacturing stonecutting and breadmaking machinery. In this line of industry he has developed great inventive genius and is the originator and patentee of a number of important machines and appli- ances. He learned his trade with his brother, who owns one of the largest machine shops in Edinboro, Scotland, and in following it as his life-work has achieved eminent success. He is very progressive, always trying to improve machinery, and gaining in this respect the reputation of making some of the greatest improvements in breadmaking machinery in existence. In politics Mr. Thomson is a Republican. He belongs to the Plymouth Brethren Church, and for a number of years has taken an active interest in local affairs. He was married, April 26, 1894, to Margaret C. Girgan, of Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of John and Margaret (Carson) Girgan. They have two children: Charles and Margaret. JOHN KELLER, M.A., Rector of Trinity Church, Arlington, is the sou of Peter Ruth Keller and Eleanor Steen and a grandson of John and Eliza- beth (Ruth) Keller and of Isaac and Eliza (Braddock) Steen. His paternal grandfather came from Munich, Bavaria, Germany, while his maternal grandparents were residents of Mt. Holly, N. J. The Braddock family emigrated to America with William Penn in 1682. Rev. John Keller was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 14th of May, 1861, and received his preliminary education in the public schools and in the Central High School of that city. He also studied under private tutors in Philadelphia, and at the General Theologic;il Seminary (Episcopal) at Chelsea Square, New York. He was graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1880, with the degree of M.A. m 1885, and in theology in 1886. in the lat- ter year he was made a Deteon. He was ordained t^ the priesthood in 1887, having been appointed in 1886 to the charge of Vripity Church, Ar- lington, .?>'. J. In the meantime, froni 1884 to 886, he had "charge of the ■ jusic and was organist at the Chapel of the General Theological Seminary m New York, and during the same period gave lectures and instruction in plain song. In 1888 he was appointed Bishop's Chaplain and Private Sec- retary. He was elected Secretary of the Convention of the Diocese of Newark in 1899 and Recording Secretary of the Associate Alumni of the General Theological Seminary of New York in 1896. He is still Rector GENEALOGICAL 571 of Trinity Church, Arlington, Bishop's Chaplain and Private Secretary, Secretary of the Convention of the Diocese of Newarli, and Recording Secretary of the Associate Alumni of the General Theological Seminary, licv. Mr. Keller was appointed Captain and Chaplain of the First Regi- iiumt. National Guard of New Jersey, July 2G, 1M!)5, being commissioned immediately afterward, and is still on the regimental staff. He has writ- ten and delivered a number of special original lectures on the History and the Construction of the Organ; on Ecclesiastical Music and Its Origin; on the Origin and Meaning of ('ertain Military Customs, Decorations, and Ceremonies, and on other important themes, including a Quarter of a Cen- tury History of the Diocese of Newark. His work in the ministry has been peculiarly successful and stamps him as a man of great ability and energy. He is possessed of literary talents of a high order, a fact which is abun- dantly demonstrated by his lectures and writings. As Rector of Trinity Church, Arlington, he is universally esteemed, and as a citizen he enjoys the confidence and respect of the entire community. He is a member of the Xewark Clericus, of the Catholic Club of Xew York, of the Associate Alumni of the (ieneral Theological Seminary of New York, of Triune Lodge, No. 159, F. and A. M.. and of America Council, No. 1304, Royal Arcanum. HENRY \\'ARD, Pastor of the Reformed Church of Closter, was born in Guilderland, N. Y., April 4, 1839. He is the son of Henry A. Ward and Eva Jaiobson and a grandson of Peter L. and Margarette (Ogsbury) ^Vard, and is of Holland descent on his mother's side and English on his father's. Mr. 'SVard was educated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., which he left at the age of twenty-three to enter the Theological Seminary at New Hrunswick. N. J., where he remained three years. Afterward he was settled over the Reformed Church at New Hackensack, Dutchess County, N. Y., for twenty years. He then removed to Closter and has since been the Pastor of the Reformed Church of that place. In the ministry Mr. ^Val■d has gained a high reputation. He is an able speaker, a sound theologian, and honored by all who know him. He married Caroline Davis and has four sons: William D., Henry P., Al- fred \S\, and Herbert E. JOHN I'OTTER STOCKTON was born in Philadelphia. Pa., February 2 1852^ John Potter Stockton, Sr., his father, was born in Princeton, N. J., August 2 1826, and died Januarv 22, 1900. He was graduated from Prince- ton Colle"" in 1843. He read law with Judge Richard S. Field, was ad- mitted totte bar as an attorney in April, 1847, and as a counselor in 1850, and practiced his profession in New Jersey with marked success until 18.. 7, being aproinled in the meantime commissioner to revise the laws of the State am making in this capacity a report -."hich was adopted by the Leg- islature In 1857 l.e was appointed by Presilent Buchanan United States Minister to Rome and served in that capacity until 1801, when le returned and resumed the practice of law in Trenton. He was eh-cted United States Senator for the term commencing March 4, 1865, but was unseated on a - count of the election by a plurality act wanting one of a majority. He was -e-elected T'nited States Senator for the six years beginning March 4. 1869, and served a full term, being one of the leaders on the Democratic side. He then resumed his practice in Trenton. He was appointed A ttorney-General of the State April 8, 1877, and filled that oflfice with eminent ability for four 572 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES terms of five years each, being reappointed in 1882, 1887, and 1893. At the close of his fourth tei'iii on April 5, 1897, he resumed the practice of law in Jersey City. In 184.5 he married 8arah Marks, of Philadelphia, Pa. His father was' Commodore Robert Field Stockton, of the United States Navy. Richard Stockton, " The Duke," father of Commodore Robert F. Stockton and Ki<^i1, 1857. He is the grandson of Ebenezer Rix, vho died iu 1870, and Rhoda Dewey, his wife He is descended from Revolutionarv stock, and on both sides inherits the sturdy characteristics of an honorable ancestry. His father was for many years connected with railroad transportation departments. Frank S Rix received a public school education in the high school of Warwick N Y., from which he was graduated in 1881. He then engaged in railroadino- and so continued for about seven years, becoming train dispatcher on the New York, Ontario, and Western Railroad. In 1896 he engaged in the coal, wood, hay, and grain business in New Durham, which 580 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES he still continues and where he resides. He is a member of the Hamilton AMieclnien, of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of Cyrus Chapter, R. A. M., of York Commandcry, K. T., and of the Mystic Shrine, and a gov- ernor of the Craftsman's Club of New York. He has been successful in business, and in every ca])acity has t;ained the respect and confidence of all who know him. AUGUST JOHN FREDERICK SUCCOW, of Jersey City, was born in Stargerd, Prussia, April 15, 1S47. His parents, John Frederick Samuel Succow and Caroline Lorenz, were natives and residents of that place and representatives of honored and respected families. Mr. Succow was educated in the public and high schools of Stargerd, Prussia, and in 1872 came to this country, settling in New York City. In 1880 he removed to Jersey City, where he still resides. While in New York he was a clerk for about thirteen years, and upon coming to Jersey City engaged in the bakery business, in which he has since continued, achieving marked success and a high reputation. He served for four years as a private soldier in the Prussian and French war. He is a mem- ber of the Jersey City Board of Education, a member of Teutonia Lodge, No. 72, F. and A. M., and a public spirited, progressive, and enterprising citizen. In every capacity he has won the confidence and respect of the entire community. He married Eliza Schirm and has four children : Caro- line, Frances, August, and Erna. JOHN SPINDLER, of West Hoboken, is the son of Anrtre\\' and Eliza- beth Spindler, and was born in Germany on the 13th of July, 1861. He received his education in the Fatherland and in 1880 came to America. Mr. Spindler is engaged in the meat and provision business on Clinton Avenue, West Hoboken, and has built up a large and successful trade. He is a member of the Municipal Club, of the Royal Arcanum, of the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, and of Americus Hook and Ladder Company. He married Rosa Victoria Wagner and has four children: John, Jr., Joseph, August, and Cora. GEORGE ALBERT 'S^'ILLIAMS, of Jersey City, was born in Everett, Pa., August 20, 1874, and is the son of Jacob B. and Martha (Johnson) Williams and a grandson of Samuel and Catharine (Barndollar) Williams and of Joseph Johnson, whose wife was a Miss Falk. His father's family is of Welsh extraction, while on his mother's side he is of English descent. Mr. Williams was educated at ^A'esleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and at the Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackensack, N. J. After leav- ing college he engaged in the electrical contracting business in Middle- town, Conn., where he remained from 1895 to 1897. He then removed to Jersey City, where he has since been successfully engaged in the business of engineering and contracting for electrical work of all kinds. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, a public spirited citizen, and re- spected by all who know him. JAMES ^^'ILHELM, of Harrison, belongs to the old Wilhelm family which settled in West Hudson County, N. J., at a comparatively early day. He resides on the old homestead at Harrison, where he was born April 26 GENEALOGICAL 581 1S59. He is the son of Peter Wilhelm and Mary Hasson, natives respect- ively of France and Ireland. They came to the United States when young and were married in Harrison. Mr. Wilhelm was educated in the public schools of Harrison and Newark, and afterward learned the trade of painting and decorating, which he has since followed with marked success. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of Etliic Lodge, No. 115, Knights of Pythias, of Harrison, and of liranch No. 45 of the ^\'orkingmen's Sick and Death Benefit Association, also of Harrison. In every capacity he has displayed sound judgment, marked ability, and great enterprise. He was married in Hoboken, June 27, 1888, to Minnie Gloor, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Gloor, of Elizabeth, N. J. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, of Oarlstadt, Bergen County, was born in New- York City on the 27th of January, 1857. He is the son of Peter Zimmer- man and Catlierine Gerlach, natives of Germany, who came to America when young, were married in New York, and removed in 1857 to Carlstadt, N. J. There the subject of tlris sketch received his ijreliminary education, which was supplemented by attending the high school of Brooklyn, N. Y In 1873 his father purchased of Adam liuttenger the property now known as Zimmerman's Hotel, then a farm house, and an old landmarl^ of the locality. Here Mr. Zimmerman has demonstrated his capacity as a busi- ness man, both in the real estate and insurance business. In politics he is a Democrat. AX'hen twenty-one years of age he was elected to his first office. In 1871) he was made Clerk of the Township of Lodi. Subsequently certain irregularities were discovered in the books of the Township Col- lector: a change in the office was demanded by a popular uprising of the people, and he -was elected Township Collector by an overwhelming ma- jority. He was appointed by President Cleveland Postmaster in 1885, without opposition, and the able manner in which he conducted this office gave great satisfaction. . He was nominated for the Assembly in 1881) and elected by a large ma- jority. He has twice filled the office of Assemblyman, holding that place when the noted Reform Ballot Act ^vas passed, and during the many heated contio^ersies he was always found true to the interests of his con- stituents. In 181)8 he was again nominated for the Assembly, but was defeated. In 181)7 he was elected Mayor of his borough. Mr. Zimmerman has successfully tilled the offices of Fire Commissioner, President of the Fire Department, and Chief of the department. He was the founder of the Carlstadt Mutual Loan and Building Association, a suc- cessful institution which largely owes its existence to his good judgment and persevering spirit. As a real estate man he has been very successful. He is a member of AVieland Lodge, No. 113, I. O. O. F., of the Concordia Dramatic and Singing Society, and of William Tell Council of Chosen Friends. . ^^ -it. Mr Zimmerman was married, October 12, 1880, to Louisa Egert, daugh- ter of Yndrew and Margaretta Egert, of New York City. They na,ve six children: Adolph Edward, Peter, George, Jr., Florence, John W., ana Curtis. D ^VID MATHER TALMAGE, of Westwood, was born in Amoy, China, February i i%52. He is the son of Rev. John Van Nest Talmagc and Abbie F Woodruff and a grandson of David T. Talmage, born at Piscataway, N. 582 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES J,, April 21, 1783, and Catharine Van Nest, born at Somerville, N. J., March 27, 1787. He is a lineal descendant of Enos Talmage, who landed at Oharlestown. Mass., in 1630, and finally settled at East Hampton, Long Island. His son, Enos Talmage, Jr., was born at Branford, Conn., and had a son, Daniel Talmage, whose son, Thomas Talmage, Sr., was born at Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1732, whose son, Thomas Talmage, Jr., the great- grandfather of David M. Talmage, was born at Basking Ridge, N. J., Octo- ber 24, 1755. Mr. Talmage's father. Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, was the fourth son in a family of seven brothers and five sisters. Four of the brothers devoted themselves to the gospel ministry. Of these Rev. Thomas De Witt Talmage is most widely known. The father of Rev. David M. Talmage was graduated from the college and seminary at New Brunswick and became a noted missionary in the far East, going to Amoy, China, in 1847. His life'has been written by Rev. John G. Fagg under the title of Fci-ty Years in South China. He died at Bound Brook, N. J., in 1892. Rev. David M. Talmage is the eldest of five children. His two sisters, Katharine Murray and Mary Elizabeth Talmage, have been missionaries of the Reformed Church at ^\.moy lor more than twenty-n^e years, un. brother, John S. Talmage, is a rice merchant in New Orleans. The other brother, George Edwin Talmage, is the pastor of the Second Reformed Church in iSchenectady, N. Y. Rev. David M. Talmage was graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, in 1874, and irom the TUeoJogical Weminai-y ot tne Reiormea Church at New Brunswick in 1877. In the tall of the latter year he went out as a missionary of the Reformed Church to Amoy, Cnina, ana arter three years' service there returned on account of ill neaitn, arriving in New lork in March, 1881. For two years he was settled over the Reformed Church at Bound. Brook, N. J., and tor three and a half years over the Re- formed Church of Clarkstown, Rockland County, N. Y. In April, 1888, he became the settled pastor of the Reformed Church at \^' est wood, N. J., where he still remains. During his ministry Mr. Talmage has gained a high reputation. He is strong and fearless in his utterances and in every sense of the word a devout Christian, beloved by all who know him. He was married, February 23, 1897, to Catharine Amanda, daughter of Gabriel Hill, and widow of the late John B. Kipp. ELOF SWENSON, of Arlington, is the son of Sven Nelson Hasel and Christeena Hasalquist, and was born in Sweden on the 29th of March, 1857. His parents were born and married in that country, and there the subject of this sketch received a public school education. After leaving school Mr. Swenson learned the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed. He came to the United States in 1879, landing in New York City. He then located in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1893 he moved to Arlington, N. J., where he still resides. There he has built up a large business as a carpenter and builder, and is well known for his public spirit, energy, and enterprise. He is a member of Royal Templars of Temperance, a member of the B.aptist Church, and a Republican in politics. Mr. Swenson was married at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1882, to Augusta Hult, daughter of Peter and Clara Hult, of Sweden. They have five children: Fannie, Harry, Alma, David, and Arthur. GENEALOGICAL 583 JAMES F. MULLIGAN is the son of Joliu J. ]\Lillij;;iu aud Mary A. Carr, aud was born March 2, 1871, in Harrison, N. J., where he still re- sides. His father came to the ITnited States from L'eland when two years old, while his mother was a native of Newark, N. J., where they were mar- ried. Mr. Mulligan received his edncation in the jiiiblic schools of Har- rison and in the Christian Brothers Academy at Newark. Afterward he learned the carpenter's trade, and still later engaged in the coal business in Hai-rison, in which he continues with marked success. Mr. Mulligan has served as Tax Assessor for Harrison, and is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Young Mcm's Association of Newark. In politics he is a Democrat. He is prominently identified with the affairs of his native town and countj^ and respected for those C]ualities which mark the successful man. JAMES R. BOWEN. JAMES R BOWEN, a prominent member of the New Jersey and New York bars was born in New York City on the .-)th of December, 1S6.3. He is the son' of John Bowen and Elizabeth Lewis, natives of Ireland, who came to this countrv in 1856 and 185.3, resj.ectively. In 1807 they re- niced with their familv to Jersej- City, where the subject of this sketch 584 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES received a public and high school education, graduating from the latter in- stitution in 1881. He read law with Edmund H. Brown, of New York, and was admitted to the bar of that State as an attorney and counselor in November, 1885. In June, 1886, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar. Mr. Bowen is actively and successfully engaged in the general practic e of his profession in both States, having offices in New York and Jersey City. He has established a high reputation for legal ability, and holds a prominent place at the bar. As a citizen he is public spirited, enterprising, and deeply interested in the affairs of the community. He was mari'ied on the 3d of October, 1891, to Miss Mary E. Keegan, of Jersey City, where they reside. GEORGE H. SEAMAN, of Rivervale, is the son of Moses Seaman and Hannah Sarles, and was born in Connecticut on the 14th of .\-pril, 1852. The family originally came from England. Mr. Seaman was educated in the schools of Westchester County, N. Y., whither his family removed when he was young. He left school at the age of fifteen and engaged in the dairy business, Scotvanah, N. Y., where he remained three years. He then removed to Bergen County and for three years \^as successfully en- gaged in farming. At the end of that period he learned the carpenter's trade with Peter L. Conklin, of Hackensack, with whom he was associated for three years. Subsequently he worked at railroading for a few years, and then engaged in farming at Rivervale, Bergen County, which he still follows. Mr. Seaman has served on the Board of Education and for some time has been Treasurer of the Township Committee. He attends the Reformed Churcl), and has always maintained an excellent reputation as a public spirited, progressive, and enterprising citizen. He married Margaret L. Demarest, a member of an old and respected Bergen County family, and has three children: Lilie M., Edward, and David. ADDISON L. DAY, of Arlington, was born in Springfield, Mass., and received a common school education. He studied civil engineering at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, graduating therefrom with high honors. He was connected with different railroads in Missouri, Kansas, and other States until about 187S,when he entered the Hoyt Metal Company at St. Louis as its private secretary. Subsequently he became manager of the eastern branch of their business. He established his residence at Arlington, N. J., where he has become thoroughly identified with the young city as a social leader. He is I'resident of the Beethoven Orchestra and of Council No. 86 of the National League of Musicians of the United States. He has been a dele- gate to National conventions, has served as Worshipful Master of Triune Lodge, No. 159, A. F. and A. M., and is connected with other organizations. ERNEST LIJHMANN, of Secaucus, is the son of Christian and Elizabeth Luhmann and a brother of r!onrad Luhmann, and was born in Germany on the 22d of October, 18(;4. He received his education in the Fatherland and finished his studies in New York City, whither he came in 1880, and where he remained about six years. In 1886 he settled in Secaucus, Hud- son County, N. J., and has since been actively and successfully engaged in GENEALOGICAL 585 farming and gardening. He is a member of the German Schuetzen social organization of New York City, and a progressive and enterprising citizen. Mr. Lulimann married Mary Peterson, who died leaving one son, Her- mann Luhmann, born October 2(i, 1897. CONRAD LITHilANN, of Secaucus, was born in Germany on the 16th of July, 18.")5. He is the son of Christian and Elizabeth Luhmann, both natives of that country. He received his education in the Fatherland and afterward came to America, settling first in New York City. Later he settled in Secaucus, Hudson County, and engaged in farming and garden- ing, a business he still follows. He markets his produce in New York City and has achieved success. He is a member of the Democratic Club of Secaucus. a public spirited and progressive citizen, and honored and re- sjiecled by all who know him. ilr. Luhmann married Annie Evermeyer, a native of Germany, and has five children: ^Yilliam, Lizzie, Annie, Conrad, Jr., and Fred. JOSEPH H. \YHELAN, son of ^Villiam and Catherine (Maher) Whelan, was born in Jersey City, N. J., October 28, 1864. There he received his education. He has been actiAe in politics for a number of years, and as a Democrat has become a trustworthy leader in party councils. He has served as Deputy Sheriff, as County Index Clerk, and in other important capacities. He is a member of the Robert Davis Association, and one of the best known men in Hudson County. Mr. Whelan married Mary ^Val- pole and has one daughter, Mary. CHARLES W. ^VETYEN, of Closter, is the son of John H. and Adeline (Brickwedel) Wetyen, and was born in New York <:ity on the 26th of July, 18.58. He is of German descent. He was educated in New York City and Bergen Countv. At the age of eighteen he left school and during the re- mainder of his residence in New York followed various occupations. Sub- seauentlv he located on his father's farm at Closter, Bergen County, N. J., wli'ei e he has since resided, engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ml-. 'Wetyen has served eflSciently as a member of the Board of Educa- tion of Harrington Township. He is a Director of the Harrington Build- ing and Loan Association and a member of the Reformed Church. In eveiy capacitv he has displaved great public spirit and enterprise. He mariied Annie L. Schenck and has eight children: Adeline, Charles W., Jr., Florence A., John H., Frank R., Carrie W., Hattie, and Mildred. WILLIAM ( : RYAN was born July U, 1874, in Bayonne, N. J., where he still resides, and where his parents, Matthew Ryan and Mary Myers, natives of Ireland, were married. They came to the United States when voung Mr Ryan was educated in the Bayonne public schools and after- ward en"-aoed in general contracting, a business he has followed wjth marked success. He has had several large contracts, each of which he has executed with energy, ability, and satisfaction. .... He is a Democrat in politics, a public spirited and progressive citizen, and a member of Bayonne Lodge, No. 187, Independent Order of Bedmen, of Protection Engine Company of Bayonne, and of the Edward Smith Asso- ciation He was married, February 16, 1807, to Alice L. Ford, daughter of George and Margaret Ford, of Bayonne. They have one son, Matthew. 586 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES JAMES F. McNALLY was born January 22, 1862, at Fort Lee, N. J., where lie still resides. He is the son of James McNally and Catharine Campbell, both of Irish descent. Mr. McNally was educated in Bergen County, and at the age of fourteen engaged in the express business, which he followed for a number of years. He then engaged in the livery business, in which he still continues. He is also an undertaker and funeral director, and is widely known for his energy, enterprise, and public spirit. He is one of the leading undertakers in the region of the Palisades. In public life Mr. McNally is also prominent and active. He was Judge of Elections for Eidgefleld Township for a number of terms and after- ward was a candidate for Coroner. He is a member of the Foresters, and one of the most popular men in his section. EDWARD GALLAGHER, of Guttenberg, was born in Jersey City on the 1st of February, 1861. He is the son of John Gallagher and Mar- garet Modigan, natives of Ireland. Mr. Gallagher was educated in the public schools of North Hudson County and then engaged in quarrying, a business he has ever since been identified with. For some time he has had charge of the county work. He has served as a member of the Council of Guttenberg and as a Jus- tice of the Peace. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, and of the Guttenberg Fire Department. Ho is a Democrat in politics. He married Jane Dol'an and has two children: Evelyn and Agnes. FRANKLIN D. HAASE was born July 8, 1869, in North Bergen, N. J., where he still resides. He is the son of Carsten Haase and Emily Hoyer, who came to this country from Hanover, Germany. He was educated in the public schools of North Bergen, and until twen- ty-one years old followed agricultural pursuits. He then engaged in the hotel business, in which he still continues. He is a member of the Bowl- ing Club of North Bergen and a well known citizen of that section. He married Miss Sophie Shortmeyer, and has one daughter, Florence. CLAUS BASSE, of Weehawken, was born in Hanover, Germany, Feb- ruary 4, 1856, the son of Barthold Basse and Mary Schield. There he re- ceived his education. In 1873 he came to this country, and since April 23 of that year has lived ia Weehawken, N. J., where he has become prominent as a hotel keeper and as a public spirited citizen. For more than a quarter of a century he has been actively identified with the town. His hotel on the corner of Willow .Vvenue and Nineteenth Street is one of the best known hostelries in North Hudson County. Establishing himself in business sho^'tly after his arri^ al in this country, he has, by perseverance arid energy, won the respect of his fellow-citizens and the cdnfideJice and esteem of numerous ac(iuaintances. He has been a prominent member of the Hudson County Republican Committee since 1888. In 1887 he was elected a Councilman of Weehawken and filled that position for four years, serving also during his term of ofQce as Town Treasurer. His faithful conduct of these duties was able and eflflcient. In 189S he was the Republican candidate in his district for member of Assem- bly, and, although defeated, received a handsome vote, running more than 4,000 ahead of the gubernatorial ticket, and reducing the usual Demo- cratic majority by several hundred. These facts not only attest his popu- GENEALOGICAI^ 587 larity, but; liave a special signiflcance when it is remembered that tlie nomi- nation was wholly unsought by him. He is a ]n(igressiv(\ patriotic citizen. and in social and fraternal atiairs has long been a prominent factor. He is a Past Master and an active member of Palisade Lodge, No. S4, F. and A. M., and a member of the Hoboken Independent Scliuetzen Corps and of the New York Schuetzen Corps. In 1890 Mr. Basse organized in Wee- hawken the Gerniania Verein No. 1, and under his presidency during the first two years that body prospered and grew rapidly, being uoaa- one of the strongest social organizations in Nortli Hudson County and including in its membership every prominent German-American in the town. He has shown rare tact in managing successfully several social functions in Wee- hawken. He married Hellene Kuneke, of Jersey City Heights, by whom he has six children: Charles, Lillie, Henry, Anna, Edward, and Bertha. JOHN MOYLAN, of North Bergen, is the son of John and Mary (Colhana) Moylan and a grandson of John JMo^lan, Sr., and Thomas Colhana. He was born in County Limerick, Ireland, November 18, 1841. After re ceiving a public school education he engaged in the grocery and liquor trade in Limerick, continuing two and one-half years. In 1862 he came to this country and settled in New York, where he suc- cessfully followed the liquor business until April, 1891, when he moved to North Bergen, Hudson Count}-, N. J. Here, on Bergenline Avenue, neai- the Guttenberg racetrack, Mr. Moylan purchased and still conducts one of the most popular hotels in his section. He is a consistent Democrat, but has never been active in political affairs, prefeiring to devote his time and energies wholly to business. In the growth and prosperity of the town, however, and especially in the development of his immediate neighborhood, he has been useful and influential. He was active in the organization of the North Bergen Fire Department, of which he has continually been a leading member, and which he served as Treasurer for three years, de- clining a fourth term in 1899. He is a public spirited citizen, and resjx'cted foi' those qualities ^^•hich mark the successful man. Mr. Moylan was married, August 15, 1871, to Mary Adams, daughter of Jlichael Adams, of County Limerick, Ireland. Their only child, Mary Moylan, died in 1 877. PATRICK M. COLLIGAN, of New Durham, was born March 17, 1854, ?.l Ni'w Bei-ne, N. C. He is the son of Michael Colligan and Mary .McJMahon, both natives of Ireland. Mr. Colligan received his education in the public schools of his native State and for a time was engaged in the hotel business in New Berne. Later he conducted a hotel in Jersey City for about four years. In 1881 he removed to New Durham, Hudson County, ^^here he is still tngaged in the hotel business, and where he has become the owner of considerable real estate. He is a School Trustee, and in both public and business affairs is well known and respected. On January 23, 1889, Mr. Colligan married Margaret Sheedy, daughter of Thomas Sheedy. They reside in New Durham. JOSEPH KATZENBERGER, of North Bergen, was born in Germany about fifty-five years ago. He came to America about 1874 and first settled in New York City, where he found employment as a brewer. In this ca- 588 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES pacity he was connected with several large breweries and gained much practical experience. About 1885 he removed to Weehawken, N. J., and engaged in the brew- ing business. Later he moved to the Town of Union and for a time was connected with the Union Brewing Company. In the fall of 1895 he settled in North Bergen and became a partner in the Eoland Brewing Company, with which he is still identified. He served for a time in the German Army before coming to America. In polities he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United \\'orkmen. He married Madeline Miiller, daughter of Frederick Muller, of Germany. They have one son, William, born in Germany, May 7, 1874. AUGUST BEWIG, of the City of Hoboken, was engaged in the grocery and provision business there for several years, and is now the agent for the Excelsior Brewery. He has long resided in Hoboken, Hudson County, N. J., where he is an active member of the Democratic party. He has been Presi- dent of the Board of Water Commissioners and more recently served as an Aldurman for a period of eight years. He also acted as Chairman of the Council for three years. He was Captain of the Independent Schuetzens for five years and President of the Plattdeutscher Volks Fest of New York, recently the largest of its kind in the United States. Mr. Bewig was born in Germaiiv, Jlarch 9, 1843, the son of Henry Bewig and Christina Klus- niann. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and came to the United States when a youth. THEODOKE F. WOLLENHAUPT, of Arlington, was born at Hicksville, Long Island, N. Y., January 7, 1863. His father, Henry WoUenhaupt, was born in Casel, Germany, while his mother, Nancy Van Houten, was a na- tive of Brooklyn. The former came to this country when a young man, and throughout his life displayed the sterling characteristics of the German race. Mr. WoUenhaupt was educated in the public schools of Hicksville, Long Island, and afterward became proprietor of the Forest Hotel at Arlington, N. J., which he has conducted with marked success for more than sixteen years. He is one of the popular men of Hudson County. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of Arlington Hose Company No. 3, of the Knights of Honor, and of the Order of Foresters, and during the past seven- teen years has served as a Deputy Sheriff. He is the owner of considerable real estate, and identifled with anything having for its factor the benefit- ing of Arlington. He married Magdalina Warth and has three children: Theodore, Nancy, and Tilley. JOSEPH KENNEL, of Homestead, Hudson County, was born in Alsace- Lorraine, Germany, on the 10th of May, 1872. He is the sou of John Ken- nel and Barbara Haas. His ancestors on both sides were Germans. Mr. Kennel received his education in Germany and afterward came to this country. He took up his residence in Homestead, Hudson County, N. J., where he is engaged in the hotel business. He was one of the organ- izers of the Jefferson Democratic Club of Homestead and is a member of the Bowling Club of that place. He married Mary W. Garlot and has two children; Joseph Ray and Jennie K. GENEALOGICAL 589 JOHX HEFLICH, of West Hoboken, Hudson County, was born in New York City on the nth of April, 1853, and there received his early education. In 1806 he removed to Jersey City and soon afterwai'd to Secaucus. Final- ly he became a permanent settler of West Hoboken, where he soon identi- fied himself with the growth and development of the town. En^agins in the hotel business on the corner of Summit and Paterson Avenues, he soon established a reputation and came into prominence as a man of enterprise and public spirit. He constantly made improvements until the property now owned and occupied by him is one of the finest in the place. Recently he has erected what is known as Heflich Hall, one of the best e(iui])ped balls in Hudson County. His whole property occupies four full lots. Mr. Heflich has always been an ardent and active Democrat and for many years an acknowledged leader of his party. He has been twice elected a member of the West Hoboken Council, has often been a delegate to pai'ty conventions, and is an important factor in the political affairs of both the ToM'n of West Hoboken and the County of Hudson. He was for twelve years Major of the Seventh Battalion of the Schuetzenbund of New Jersey, and is a member of the Foresters of America and of the Knights and Ladies of Honor. Mi-. Heflich married .Aliss Catherine Harms, of Secaucus, Hudson County, by whom he has four sons and four daughters: Henry, Annie (Mrs. ~\'alen- tine Woerner), George, Katie (Mrs. Henry Schoppman), John, Lena, Grover, and Lizzie. CHARLES LACHMAXX, of Wei'hawken, is the son of Jacob Lachmann and Louisa Fossert, both natives of Gilshausen, Germany. He was also born there. May 6. 1859, and there received a public school education. In 1S8(> Mr. Lachmann came to the United States, settling first in New York City, and removing thence to Xew Jersey in 1882. He worked in a brewery for six years, and then engaged in the grocery business for him- self in'^the Town of ITnion. Hudson County. He is now engaged in the hotel business in Weehawken. He has served as Commissioner of Appeals and as a member of the Board of Council of Weehawken, where he still resides. He is a member of the Schuetzens, of the Free Masons, of the Foresters, of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, of the Weehawken Fire Department, and other organizations. In these and other capacities he is prominent and active. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church. Mr. Lachmann married Barbara R. Schillinger and has six children: Charles, Jr., William, Louis, Fred, Barbara, and Louisa. GEORGE NIEN.ABER, proprietor of one of the best known hotels in Weehawken is a native of Hanover, Germany, as were also his parents, Louis Menaber and Charlotte Woermann. He was born on the 26th of Julv 1847 and ther- received a thorough public school education. In 1862 he came to the ITnited States and settled in New York City. About 1878 he came to Weehawken, N. J., where he has since resided. For manv years :Mr. Nienaber has conducted at 101 Bull's Ferry Road in Weehawken one of the most popular hotels in North Hudson Couiitv His popularitv is attested by the fact that he has a large and lucrative business. He is a Republican in politics and a veteran member of he Fifth Regiment, National fJuard of New York Cty, in which he served fourteen vears. Other prominent organisations have also claimed his companionship and attention. He is a member of the Hudson Maenner- 590 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES chor of New York and of the Eintracht Singing Society of Union Hill. His patriotism and public spirit, his unswerving integrity, his enterprise and sound judgment have made him highly respected and esteemed, while his activity and usefulness as a citizen have won for him the confidence of the community. His success is the result of his own eiforts. Beginning in a modest way, he has steadily increased his business to its present propor- tions. He married Miss Elizabeth Hinck. HENRY ENGELBRECHT, proprietor of the well known Sunnyside Hotel in Secaucus, Hudson County, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 24, 1866. His father, Henry Engelbrecht, Sr., son of Henry, was born in Ger- many, and when about six years old came with his parents to America. The family settled in Secaucus, where the elder Henry engaged in trucking, but later they moved to Brooklyn, where he died. Henry Engelbrecht, Sr., father of Henry, the subject of this sketch, married Ruth Ann Ludlow, a native of the Town of Union and daughter of Matthew Ludlow, a native of that town and a descendant of one of its earliest families. In 1872 Mr. Engelbrecht removed with his wife and children to Secaucus and pur- chased the present Sunnyside Hotel on the Paterson Plank Road, which he conducted until his death, June 18, 1886. The hotel then passed into the hands of his eldest son, William Henry Engelbrecht, who carried it on un- til 1890, when the present proprietor, Henry Engelbrecht, assumed charge. Henry Engelbrecht, last named, was educated in the Secaucus public schools, and since completing his studies has been engaged in the hotel busi- ness, and since 1890 has conducted the Sunnyside Hotel. This is the oldest hostelry on the island of Secaucus, and the only one that has remained in one family or under one name any great length of time. Mr. Engelbrecht has been active and influential in town affairs and espe- cially in the organization and development of the local fire department, be- ing one of the first to promote the movement which resulted in the forma- tion of an independent company, of which he was assistant foreman. When the Township of North Bei-gen officially recognized the company as a part of its fire department he continued in active service, and in 1892 was elected Chief and served two years. He is still one of the most prominent firemen in the town. He has also served as Constable two terms, and was a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Hudson County Democratic Com- mittee three years. He is a member of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, and of the Germania Schuetzen Bund. February 25, 1S92, he married Miss Theresa Rehm, of Secaucus, N. J., and they have two children: Henry, Jr., and Theresa. CORNELIUS MacCOLLUM, proprietor of the MacCollum House at Homestead N. J., since 18.'56, is known a * a progressive and public spirited citizen. He has long been a prominent and influential member of the Democratic party, and has held many minor positions of trust. In every office held by him his faithful discharge of its duties has added to his popu- larity and confirmed the public confidence reposed in his integrity. Mr. MacCollum was brought up on a farm, and passed through the usual experiences of a farmer's boy. He received his education in the public schools of New York City and Hudson County, N. J., having been born in West Hoboken, November 25, 1823. He is the son of Benjamin MacCol- lum and Hannah, daughter of Garret Van Vorst, and a grandson of Peter GENEALOGICAL 591 MacCollum. On the paternal s-ide lie descends from ancestors who were of Scotch-Irish antecedents, and who came to the United States from the North of Ireland. His father, Benjamin MacCollnm, was born in Belleville, N. J., in 1790, and died in 1S47. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving in the Dragoons. He was engaged in business as a tanner. His children were Mary, Susan. Sarah Ann, doi-nelius, Garret, and John. On his moth- er's side Mr. MacCollum descends from the old Dutch family of Van Vorst, the founder of which in America came from Holland to New York during the early colonial period. His grandfather. Garret Van Vorst, was a patriot soldier during the Revolution. He died near New Durham, N. J., in 1833. Mr. MacCollum. is a member of Hoboken Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons. By his wife, who was formerly Mrs. Everson, he has had eight chil- dren: Charles, George, William, Susan, Sarah, Emma, Louisa, and Ida. CHRISTIAN C. ROTTMAN, son of Cort and Elizabeth (^A'ichman) Rott- man, was born in Galena, 111., May 28, 1847, and has resided in Hudson Coun- ty since 187-1 and in West Hoboken since 1880. His parents came from Germany in 1841, finding their way up the Mississippi River when that sec- tion of the country was almost an unbroken wilderness or at the most but sparsely settled. Cort Rottman and his brother-in-law, Nicholas Wich- nian, both contractors and builders, erected the first church edifice in St. Paul, Minn, The former followed the vocation of builder in Illinois until his death, at Galena, on the 7th of July, I8.1-I, when the subject of this ar- ticle was only se'^'en years old. Mr. Rottman was reared chiefly under the direction of his mother, a wom- an of great strength of character and energy. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Galena and then learned the cooper's trade, which he followed successfully, alternating, however, with steamboating on the Mississipi)i. The expeiience he gained in these capacities developed n naturally strong and ready mind and has proved of value in both business and public affairs. In 1874 he moved to Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J., and six years later he removed to the adjoining Town of West Hoboken, where he built, in 1880, his present residence. He is Collector for the Rottman Brewing Company, composed of John F. Rottman and his sons, the former being his paternal uncle. In politics Mr. Rottman is a consistent Democrat. He has long been ac- tive and influential in the councils of his party and is a member of the Board of Council of West Hoboken. He is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, of the Knights of Honor, and of several minor organizations. Mr. Rottman was married, first, to Miss Caroline Kruhse, by whom he had one child, Anna, deceased. His present wife is Feronica Volkmann, and they have three children: J.)hn H., Anna, and Edward William, the former being in business for himself. HENRY HAGEMANN, the popular hotel proprietor and Deputy Sheriff of North Bergen, N. J., is the son of Richard Hagemann and Louis., Miland, and was born in Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, June 6, 1842. He received a good public school education in the Fatherland, and in 1866 came to thl , coimtrv and settled in New York City. During the next fourteen years he was enga"-ed in farming and gardening in Harlem, on Manhattan Island. He then removed to North Bergen, but soon returned to Harlem and again engaged in aTicultaral pursuits until June 1, 1886. Returning to North 592 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Bergen, Hudson County, he followed farming and gardening with marked success for several years. In 1S93 he built his present home on the Hudson County Boulevard, and two years later opened a hotel, which he has since enlarged and converted into one of the finest and most popular hostelries in his section. Mr. Hagemann has achieved marked success. He is a man of character, energy, and perseverance, and stands high in the esteem and confidence of his friends. He is a Democrat in politics, and was a member of the police force of North Bergen for about five rears. He has been Deputy vSheriff since the fall of 18S7 and is now serving his fourth term, and since the au- tumn of 1896 has been a member of the North Bergen Fire Department, of which he was Assistant Chief one year. Mr. Hagemann was married. May 11, 1873, to Miss Louisa Luhmann, daughter of Christian and Louisa Luhmann, of Westphalia, Prussia, who came to America in 1872. They have two children: John and Minnie, of whom the latter married Henry Watskie, of North Bergen. JOHN HAGEMANN was born in New York City, February 10, 1874. He has served on the North Bergen police force, was assistant foreman of Over- look Engine Company in 1898, is Township Recorder of North Bergen, and has served as Deputy Sheriff since 1S9G. He is also a Commissioner of Deeds and a Justice of the Peace. FREDERICK RIPPE is one of the best known citizens of the Town of Union, Hudson County, and enjoys the confidence of the community, as has been sho.wn by his election and service for three terms as a Freeholder of Hudson County, N. J. He is in every sense of the word a self-made man, and a typical example of the German-American of sterling character and enterprising spirit who comes to the United States, carves out his own for- tune, and becomes a substantial and public spirited citizen, in perfect ac- cord with the genius of our democratic institutions, and himself actively participating in their maintenance. Mr. Rippe was born in Germany, February 27, 1849, and is the son of Co- stan Rippe and Adelpeid Glade. His ancestors, on both sides, were estab- lished in Germany for centuries, and in the public schools of that country he received his education. In 1867 he came to America, obtaining employ- ment in New York City. In 1872 he successfully engaged in the grocery business there. He subsequently established a hotel in New York City, ot which he was the proprietor. He was successful in this venture, and, hav- ing acquired property in Union Hill, Hudson County, N. J., he established himself in the hotel business here. Since 1891 he has conducted the hotel near the Bermes Brewery. In politics Mr. Rippe is a Democrat and an influential leader in the coun- cils of his party. Besides holding membership in various political societies, he is Past Master of Hermann Lodge, No. 268, Free and Accepted Masons, of New. York City, and a member of Gramercy Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen. He -WttS married, in this country, to Adelpeid Wilkens, and has three chil- dren: Charles Rippe, Arnold H. Rippe, and Martha Rippe. LEONARD HEMBERGER, the well known hotel proprietor of North Bergen, Hudson County, is the son of Magnus and Madeline Hemberger. and was born in Germany on the 9th of August, 1858. He received a liberal; GENEALOGICAL 593 education in the Fatherland, graduating from the Institute of Bruchsal. In 1875 lie came to this country and settled in Hohoken, N. J., where he remained thirteen years. He then returned to Germany, and on coming to America again located on Union Hill, Hudson County, and engaged in busi- ness on the Guttenberg racetrack. He subse(]uently engaged in the hotel business in North Bergen, in which he has continued to the present time. Mr. Hemberger has made himself popular in tlie section in which he is so well known, and through his ability, integrity, and enterprise has achieved a reputation. Energetic, progressive, and alive to the best interests of his town and county, he has been a liberal supporter of eveiy worthy project, and in business has been very successful. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and as a citizen is respected and esteemed. He married Miss Amelia Frank, by whom he has had Ave children: Ferdi- nand, Leonard, Emily, Gussie, and Madeline (deceased). JOHN H. MEIEEDIERCK, proprietor of the well known Rock Cellar Fark and Brewery on the Hudson County Boulevard, opposite Guttenberg, is a native of Hanover, Germany, born October 27, 1849. His parents were John H. Meierdierck and Meta Wellpin, both of whom possessed those sterling traits of character which distinguish their race. Having received a thorough public school education in the Fatherland, Mr. Meierdierck came to America, and for many years was successfully en- gaged in the sodawater business in New York ( 'ity. Here he found the field which his talents and ambition were seeking — a field broad and open for the exercise of his abilities and well adapted for one of his energy and courage. He achieved success as a business man, gained a wide ac- quaintance and reputation, and through his industry, integrity, and enter- prise built up an extensive trade. In 188!) ]Mr. Meierdierck came to North Bergen, N. J., and established on the Hudson (^ountv Boulevard, opposite Guttenberg, his present Rock Cel- lar Brewery, to which he added, about 1894, the Rock Cellar Hotel and Park, which he has conducted with success, making the whole one of the popular establishments of the kind in North Hudson. The brewery has a capacJtv of about 25.000 barrels per year. He !s an ardent Democrat, a liberal supporter of all worthy movements, and actively interested in the welfare of his town and county. He is also a prominent member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows. Mr. Meierdierck married ^Miss Metta Fesbok, and has three children liv- ing, viz.: John H., Jr., Minnie, and Tillie. HENRY NTTNGESSER of Fairview in North Bergen, Hudson County, N. J is \he son of Henrv Nungesser, Sr., and Christina Fredericks and a grandson of George Nungesser and Margaret Matzer, all natives of Darm- stadt Germanv. Henrv Nungesser. Pr., was born in Germany on the 11th of \u-u*t l^h and came to America when a young man. He success- fiiliv conducted for a number of years a large butchering trade m New YcS C?t" and is now engaged in the same business in North Berg... N. J For a term he served as Road Commissioner of that town, causing several rubs?ant™rmprovements to be made. He is a member of the Odd Fel- lows and of other social and fraternal organizations. His wife. Christina, ''1i:S:'S^^i£'^^^S-^ ™^ ''^^^- T' ^J' ''''^ 'f^^ T moved with his parents to North Bergen, N. J., where he received his edu- 594 HUDSON AND I{KR(ffiN COUNTIES (■nUdii, and wlici-c lie lias since resided. He began at an early age to earn liis own living. His first bnsiness was as a wholesale and retail butcher. Kubse(|nenll.Y he succeeded his father as proprietor of the popular hostelry which the latter had established at Fairview in North Bergen in 1870, and M'hich he has since conducted with success. He has been active in the af- fairs of his town and county, wielding a wholesome influence in the coun- cils of the Democratic party, and aiding in various ways to promote the general welfare. For two vears he was Marshal of Fairview and for three UNION STREET, HACKENSACK. years he served as Foreman of the Fairview Fire Company. He is a mem- ber of the Indei)eudent Ordei' of Foi'csters, belonging to the lodge in West New York. In ISOI he enlisted in the Civil War as a member of the Fifth New York Heavj' Artillery. Ml-. Nungesser married Emma ])aer, daughter of William and Mariah Dacr, and lias had two children: Lora, who died in infancv, and I'auline, boin April 4, ISlKi. (JAKRET I). VAN KEIPEN was born in the old Bergen district of Jer- sey City, N. .]., Januai'y 2(i, 1826, and was descended from Garret Van Reipen, one of the early Dutch settlers of Communipaw, who came to this counti'v about l'i.j4. In IS.f^e Mr. \'an Reipen was elected Mayor of Hudson City, now a part of .)rrs(y City. At the outbreak of the Civil War he volunteered, was made a Lieutenant of Company A, Second Regiment, and was afterward promoted to a Captaincy for bravery in the field. When the Fourth Reoi- ment, N. C. N. J., was organized he was made its Paymaster. In 186.''> he was again made Mayor of Hudson City, and was re-elected biennially until 1871, when Beigen and Hudson City were consolidated with Jersey City. He was also one of the fonndei-s of the Hudson City Savings Bank, and GENEALOGICAL 595 was its Treasurer from 1866 until 1S70, when he became President and Treasurer, which positions he held up to his death. In ^1863-4 'Sir. Van Reipen was a member of the Legislature, and in 1874-5 he was a member of the Jersey City Board of Finance. He was President of the County Board for the Equalization of Taxes from its organization, in 1873, having been re-elected every year through all its other changes of membership. He was also a Director of the Hudson County National Bank for many years. He was a Democrat. He died August 1, 1899. and is survived by a widow and one daughter. EI'CENE HOLDER GOLDBERG, M.D., was born in Newark, N. J., October 4, 1868. He is the son of Eugene S. Goldberg and Sarah Caroline Ward, daughter of Stephen Nye "SA'ard, of :Morris County, N. J. The Doc- tor's mother, Sarah Caroline Goldberg, was born at jMadison, N. J., April 12, 1844. and died at Harrison. N. J., November 2'2, 1^!)6. She was a kind, true. Christian friend and a charitable and loving mother. Dr. Goldberg received his preliminary education at Afton, Morris Coun- ty, and in the schools of Harrison and Keai'ny, Hudson County, and after- ward pursued a college preparatory course at the Newark Military Acad- emy in Ne^^•ark, N. J. He was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in June. 1889. and subsequently served three months on the staff of Bellevue Hos- pital in that city. Later he was for one and one-half years resident phy- sician and surgeon respectively at the Citv Hospital, Newark, and at the end of that period (October, 1891) engaged in the active practice of his profession at his present location, IS Kearny Avenue, Kearny, Hudson County. He resides on the corner of Kearny and Bergen Avimuk-s. He has acquired a large and successful i)ractice and stands high in the esteem and confidence of the community. In both public and professional life Dr. Goldberg has achieved an emi- nent reputation. He was First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon of the Third Battalion, N. G. N. J., of Orange, in 1892 and 1893, and was ap- pointed Treasurer of the Town of Tvearny in 1896 and 1897. In 1898 he was elected a member of the Kearny Board of Aldermen by the largest majoritv in the town's history. Itr. Goldberg is a Methodist in religion, and a rnember of the iNCasonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Heptasophs, the Daughters of Liberty, the Royal Arcanum, the Junior Order United Ameri- can Mechanics, the Foresters of America, and the Widows' and Orphans' Society of Medical :\Ien of New Jersey. In every capacity he has dis- played marked ability, great public spirit, and sound judgment. On June 10, 1891, he was married to Jliss Bessie Burtis, daughter of Bar- net Burtis, of Kearnv, N. J., by 'whom he has three children: Eleanore Hughson. born May "^23, 1893; Burtis Eugene, born May 23, 1894; and Karolyn Christine, born May 13, 1898. PHILIP E \STMAN BROCKWAY, of Arlington, was horn in ?vew iork Citv on the 18th of March, 1866. He is the son of Daniel Phillips Brock- way and Elizabeth Eastman and a grandson of Nathaniel and Kaziah Brockway and Rilus Eastman. His maternal grandmother was a Gip- som He is of English descent on both sides. His grandfather was a carpenter and builder in Saratoga County, N. Y., and finally became a farmer Rilus Eastman was a civil engineer by profession and a prominent 596 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES man of affairs. His judgment was frequently sought and respected. He resided in Bleecker, Fulton County, N. Y., where he died. Philip E. Brockway was educated in the public schools of Saratoga, N. Y., whither he removed with his parents when he was nine years old, and where he remained until ISSD. He then came to Arlington, Hudson Coun- ty, N. J., where he has since resided. Here he has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business, achieving marked success and gaining a high reputation. He is also a Commissioner of Deeds and a Notary Public. He is the sole representative of several noted insurance companies in Ar- lington and has built up a large general oflice business. He is especially active in every movement pertaining to the affairs of Arlington, the Township of Kearny, and Hudson County. He is a Re- publican in politics, and has been influential in various important move- ments. He has served as Vice-President of the Kearny Building and Loan Association, of which Isaac L. Newbery is President. He is a mem- ber of and officially connected with the Royal Arcanum and is one of the charter members of the organization in Arlington. In exery capacity he has displayed ability, sound judgment, and enterprise, and is highly re- spected and esteemed by the entire community. He is a public spirited citizen, active in promoting the general welfare, and has always main- tained the confidence of all who know him. Mr. Brockway married Amelia C. Anderson, of New York City, by whom he has three children: Phyllis, Alexander, and Crosby. HENRY CRIPPEN NEER, M.D., of Park Ridge, was born at Summit, Schoharie County, N. Y., November 10, 1838. He is the son of Samuel Neer and Lucinda Morrison, a grandson of Charles and Catherine (Hydlie) Neer and of John and Sarah (Pindar) Morrison, and a great-grandson of Bernard and Hannah Neer and of George Morrison, whose wife was a Miss Coleman. The Neers, Hydlies, and Pindars were of German descent, while the Morrisons were of Scotch ancestry. George Morrison was the private secretary of Colonel Peter Livingston, of Li-^ingston Manor, New York. Charles Neer served through the whole of the Revolutionary War, most of the time as a scout and sharpshooter and a part of the time in the regu- lar Continental Army under Captains Davis, Husted, Jacot, and De Freest. He also served under Colonel H. K. Van Rensselaer. Samuel Neer was an Orderly Sergeant of a cavalry company in the War of 1812, peace being declared while his organization was on its way to the front. Dr. Neer was educated in the public schools and at the Now York Con- ference Seminary. He studied medicine in the office of Dr. David Neer, of Paterson, N. J., and while a young man taught public and singing schools to assist hjm in paying his expenses. In 1860 he was graduated from the Berkshire Medical .Institute with the degree of M.D. Since November of that year he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, residing at Park Ridge, N. J., since the spring of 1865. Dr. Neer is one of the oldest and best known physicians in Bergen County, and during his entire life has maintained a high reputation for ability, probity, and integrity of character. He has been a member of the Re- formed Protestant Church since 1870. He was a charter member of Friendship Lodge, No. 102, F. and A. M., and was its first Master, serving it in that capacity for about twelve years. As a citizen he is universallv respected. He was married, June 16, 1861, to Louisa A. Terpenning. GENEALOGICAL 597 DENNIS O'NEILL, of Hillsdale, is the son of Joseph O'Neill and Mary Byrnes, and was born in Ireland on the !)lh of June, 1839. He was edu- cated in his native country. He left school when he was eleven years old and for ten years worked for his father. At the end of that period, in 1S60, he came to America and entered the employ of John A. Hopper, a well known farmer of Bergen County, where he remained two years. After- ward he was employed for thirty-three years by Garret S. Demarest. He now owns a farm of his own in Hillsdale, and is honored and respected by all who know him. Mr. O'Neill has always taken a deep interest in local affairs, and as a citizen has been influential and serviceable in the community. He is public spirited, progressive, and enterprising, and one of the best known citizens in his section. He married Mary Ring and has eight children liv- ing — two sons and six daughters. JAMES H. O'NEIL, of Jersey City, is the son of James O'Neil, and was born in New A'ork City on the 18th of October, 1853. In 1855 he re- moved with his parents to Hoboken, Hudson County, where he attended public school. Later he attended public school in Jersey City and Hud- son City (now a part of Jersej' City), and was graduated from the schools in the latter place. After leaving school he became a clerk in a New York hardware store. He resigned that position JIarch 1, 1809, to accept a clerkship under his father, who was Surrogate of Hudson County. He was the only clerk em- ployed in the Surrogate's oflSce when his father died in 1870, and he was retained as clerk by Surrogate Robert McCague, Jr., until 1880, when he was appointed Chief Clerk by William McAvo^-, who was Surrogate from 1880 until his death in 1886. (aovernor Abbett appointed Mr. O'Neil Surrogate to fill the unexpired term and he was elected to the office by public election in the same year. He was reeled cd in 1891 and served until the expiration of his second term in 1896. Mr. O'Neil discharged the duties of his office with unfailing fidelity and acknowledged ability, and gained a high reputation. He is one of the best known men in Hudson County, and has always taken an active part in public and political affairs. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Ordei- of Elks, of the Royal Arcanum, of the New Jersey and Berkeley Clubs, and of other social and political bodies. He was married, in 1887, 'to Miss Agnes Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, N. Y. DANIEL J. MURRAY, of Bayonne, was born in Hoboken, N. J., Feb- ruary 27, 1867. His parents, Martin and Ann Murray, were natives of Ireland. They came to this country when young. Mr. Murray' was educated in the Bayonne public schools and at Columbia College Law School in New York, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1889, and being admitted to the New Jersey bar in the same year. Since then he has been actively engaged in the general practice of his profession in Bayonne. He has achieved success at the bar and enjoys a high reputation as an able lawyer and advocate. In public life he has also gained distinction. He was Tax Assessor of Bayonne in 1891 and Assistant Collector of Revenue from 1893 to 1895. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Hudson County Democratic Committee, one of the members of the Executive Committee 598 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of that committee, and a member of the Knights of Columbus, of the Catholic BeneYolent Legion, and of the Bayonne Democratic (Jlub. Mr. Murray was married, September 8, 1890, to Margaret Carberry, daughter of John and Mary Carberry, of South Amboy, N. J. They have three sons: John Martin, Daniel, and Edward. PETER STILLWELL, of Bayonne, was born at White House, Hunter- don County, N. J., August 22, 1863. He is the son of George Stillwell and Catharine Schomp, a grandson of John V. Stillwell and Peter Schomp, a great-grandson of Nicholas Stillwell and Peter Schomp, Sr., and a great- great-grandson of Richard Stillwell and John Schomp, who was a son of Peter Schomp. Richard Stillwell was the son of Nicholas Stillwell, who was the son of Jeremiali Stillwell, who was the son of Nicholas Stillwell, who was the first of the name in this country, emigrating from Holland in 1(538 and settling on Manhattan Island. In England Nicholas Stillwell's name was Nicholas Cooke. He was driven from the country by persecu- tions during the reign of Charles I. and went to Holland, whence he came to America. Richard Stillwell, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a Captain in the Fourth Regiment, Hunterdon County, New Jersey State troops, during the Revolutionary War. Peter Stillwell was graduated from Rutgers College with the degree of B. A. in 1886, and two years later \Aas admitted to the bar of Colorado. In 18S9he was admitted to the New Jersey bar, and since then has practiced in Bayonne. He was a member of the Bayonne Board of Education for four years, serving two terms as President of the board. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, a public spirited citizen, and honored and respected by all who know him. He was married. May 9, 1894, to Henrietta A. Helmke, and has three children: William Howard, Bernardine Rose, and Catharine Louise. GEORdE WARD, of Harrington Park, Avas born in New York City on the 15th of August, ISI'O. He was the son of Daniel ^^'ard and Eleanor Out- house and a grandson of William Ward and James Outhouse. His ances- tors came to this country from Holland. Mr. AVard was educated in Public School No. 11, in New York City, and at the age of fifteen he engaged in the trade of butcher, which he continued for several years. Afterward he entered a law office in New York, where he remained two and a half years. He then engaged in the grocery busi- ness, which he continued for some forty odd years. In 1866 he moved to his farm in the neighborhood of Closter, now known as Harrington Park, where he died October 28, 1900, in his eighty-first year. He was a member of the Methodist Church, an active and influential citizen, and respected by all who knew him. He married ilargaret ftraf and had six children, of whom four are living, namely: (Jeorge W., David A.. Frank P., and Isabella E. W.^T;TER STANTON, of Hillsdale, was born in Columbus, R. I., Novem- ber 14, 1858, his parents being Samuel B. Stanton and Lida Conrad and his grandparents William B. Stanton and Peter T. Conrad. His ancestors came to this country ^rom England. Both of his grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War, the one on his father's side being a Major and the one on the Conrad side a Captain. On his mother's side he is a direct de- scendant of General George Clinton, Governor of the State of New York. GENEALOGICAL 599 Mr. Stanton was educated at Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass. He left school at the age of eighteen and engaged in the brokerage business in Wall Street, New York, in which he has ever since continued. He is one of the best known brokers in the metropolis, and during his entire career has displayed great business ability, sound judgment, and a thorough grasp of financial affairs. He is a member of the Dutch Keformed Church at Park Ridge and a public spirited and enterprising citizen. He married Grra(!e Von Cott and has one child, Susa C. J. EMIL WALSCHEID was born in the Town of Union, at 309 Fulton Street, where he still resides. He was educated at Hoboken Academy, from which institution he was graduated. He passed the next two years learning the silk business, and afterward entered the academic depart- ment of the New Yorlv University, graduating from that institution in the class of 1894, with the degree of Ph.B. He entered the Law School of the same university and was graduated with honors, receiving the degree of LL.B. Mr. Walscheid was admitted to the New Jersey bar at the November term of the year of his graduation. He had pre\iously served his legal apprenticeship in the law offices of Page & Taft, counsel to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and also with the firm of Randolph, Condict & Black. After his admission to the New Jersey bar he opened an oifice in Union Hill, where he has enjoyed a lucrative and rapidly growing practice. He is an ardent Democrat, President of the Third Ward Democratic Club, a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Central Organization, and a member of the Democratic Town General Committee. He also belongs to the Iroquois Democratic Club, the John J. Eagan Association, the Emil < irotli Association, the Robert r>av)s Ast^o- ciation, and the Protective and Improvement Association. He is an enthusiastic member of the All Bees Bowling Club. ALOYSIUS McMAHON is the son of Thomas McMahon and Margaret Donovan, and was born July 24, 1877, in Jersey City, N. J., where he still resides. On both sides he is of Irish descent. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Jersey City and at the New York Law School, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of LL.B. in 189S. In October of the same year he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney at law, and since then he has practiced his profession in Jersey <'ity with marked success. He was admitted to the New York bar as an attorney and counselor and also practices in that State, being a member of the law firm of McCarthy & McMahon. Mr. McMahon is a Democrat in politics and an active and influential member of the Third Ward Democratic Club of Jersey City. In his pro- fession as well as in public affairs he has displayed ability and other quali- ties which mark the successful man. HUGH SHARKEY, of Bayonne, was born in Ireland on the 15th of \ugust 1854, his parents being James Sharkey and Mary Ward. He was educated in the public schools of his native country. In 1880 he came to this country and settled in Bayonre, Hudson Couuty, N. J. He has been associated with the Standard Oil Company since 1881 and now holds the position of foreman of their yardf, in Bayonne. 600 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES In politics Mr. Sharkey is an ardent and consistent Democrat, active in party affairs, and honored and respected by all who know him. For five years he served as a School Trustee. In 1899 he became a member of the Bayonne Common Council, and in that capacity has rendered efficient serv- ice to the community. He is a member of the Catholic Legion, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of St. Patrick's Alliance, and of the Democratic Club, all of Bayonne. He is married and has four children. RICHARD MORRISON, of Arlington, is the son of James Morrison and Jane Coulter, and was born in Belfast, Ireland, on the 22d of February, 1855. He was educated in his native city. In December, 1872, Mr. Morrison came to America alone and settled in Jersey City Heights, whence he removed to New York City in 1876. He remained there until 1885, when he removed to Arlington, Hudson County, where he still resides. For four years he was connected with the well known dry goods house of A. T. Stewart, of New York. Afterward he entered the employ of Silver & Son, shoe manufacturers, with whom he still remains, holding the position of bookkeeper and cashier. Mr. Morrison is a Republican in politics and a prohibitionist in principle. He was a member of the Republican County Committee of Hudson County and at one time was nominated for Assemblyman by the Prohibition party. He received a most complimentary vote. He was President of the Fourth District Republican Club for a time and is now a member and Treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Arlington, a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a Director of the Kearny Building and Loan Association. In every capacity Mr. Morrison has displayed that degree of ability and sound judgment which mark the successful man. He is thoroughly identified with the affairs of the town and county, active in promoting every worthy object, and honored and respected by all who know him. He has six chil- dren: (Jeorge A., James E., Robert C, William J. S., Edward G. M., and Margaret M. JOHN W. ZISGEN, of Hoboken, was born in Trenton, N. J., October 20, 1875. He is the son of John B. Zisgen, of German descent, and of Mary A. Zisgen, his wife, of Irish descent. He was educated at St. John's Paro- chial School in Trenton, which he attended until fourteen years of age. He then spent a year in the Trenton public schools and a year and a half in Stewart's Business College of Trenton. At the age of eighteen Mr. Zisgen entered upon the study of law with Hon. Garret D, W. Vroom, of Trenton Reporter of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, with whom he remained until he was admitted to the bar in February, 1897. He then opened an office in Trenton and began the active practice of his profession. In March, 1898, he removed to Jersey City. In Jtily, 1900,' Mr. Zisgen entered into partnership with Joseph M. Noonan and opened offices in Hoboken, where he has since practiced law with marked success. He was a member of the Fourth New Jersey Volun- teer Regiment in the Spanish-American \\':\v, and both at the bar and in public life has established an honorable reputation. WILLIAM VAN HORN, of Ramsey, was born in Mahwah, N. J., Septem- ber 27, 1865, his parents being William Van Horn and Anna Van Dien, both members of old and respected New Jersey families. He was edu- GENEALOGICAL 601 cated in llio Mahwali public schools and at Lattimer's Business (Jullege in Tatersou. Afterward he engaged in the importing business in Kew York C]tj and still later in the grocery trade. He is now engaged in the meat business at Ramsey, N. J., where he resides. Mr. A^an Horn is a Democrat in politics, a pudlic spirited and enterpris- ing citizen, and actively identitied with the atlairs of his town and county. He has served as Town Clerk of Hohokus Township, and is a member of Hohokus Lodge, No. 178, I. O. O. P., and of Ramsey Council, Xo. 2-1:5, Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is also a'member of the Reformed Church. GEORCE \A'ASHlNGTON SCHAEFER was born in New York (Jity, February 1), 1842, where his maternal grandfather, Conrad Warmkessel,';i truck gardener, died at the age of one hundred and eight, and where the CENTRAL AVENUE HACKENSACK. latter's wife, Elizabeth, died, aged one husidred and four, their residence being on the corner of Avenue A and First Street. His parents, Constan- tine and Elizabeth (Warmkessel) Schaefer, were natives of (iermany, where his paternal grai.imother died at the age of one himdi-ed and three. Con- stantine Schaefer, Sr., his grandfather, was a government Lnilding in- spector in Germany, and died suddenly, while on duty, aged seventy-nine. Constantine Schae'fer, Jr., came to New York City before 1835, and was first a hotel keeper on Cedar Street and later a tailor. On March 13, 1868, he mo\'ed to Union Hill, N. J., where he was one of the first lotowners, in 1853. His wife died in New York in March, 1850. Mr. Schaefer has in his possession the original coat of arms of the Schaefer family, which was presented to them by King Ludwig A. D. 1329, and which bears this inscription: Wuppc dcs (Jcfsehlcclitx f^cluufcr. Tiie crest still stands above the door of the old family seat in Hoeheime, 602 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES G.nniiiny. The Sehaefers were shepherds and later wine growers, and always bore a conspicuous part in public life. George \y. Schaefer was educated in New York City. He left school and on September 1, 1857, enlisted for five years as a drummer boy in the i-egular army on GoA-ernor's Island. In the fall of that year he was de- tailed with a company that was sent to New York to quell the bread riot. Later he joined Company D, First Regiment Heavy Artillery, at Fortress Monroe, and in 1859 was present at John Brown's raid and also at the hang- ing of the latter, serving under Colonel Eobert E. Lee, later of the Confed- erate Army. Mr. Schaefer served in Texas under General Twiggs, being there at the outbreak of the Katenas (Indian) war, and later went to Baton Rouge, where his regiment surrendered, January 12, 1861. to the govern- ment of Louisiana, after that State had seceded. Lieutenant Todd, a brother of President Lincoln's wife, was the ordnance officer. Returning North to Fort Hamilton about January 23, 1861, Mr. Schaefer arrived at Fort McHenry, in' Maryland, about February 10, and five days later was in Washington, D. C, where he was a member of Lincoln's body guard during the inaugural, camping in a house near Salmon P. Chase's residence on Capitol Hill. In April, 1861, he went to Fort Washington and drilled artillery volunteers. He was wounded in the head while there, and subsequently was sent to Fort Taylor, Key West, Fla., where he par- ticipated in the capture of the rebel steamer " Florida." Later he was at Hilton Head, Beaufort, S. C, and was in the battles of Secessionville on James's Island and Seabrook Landing on Lady's Island. He received two bullet wounds in the leg, and was honorably discharged on the battlefield September 1, 1862. Mr. Schaefer then served in the Ordnance Depart- ment at Washington until 1864 and afterward in the Quartermaster's and Transportation Departments, Army of the Potomac, under Captain J. G. C. Lee, Quartermaster-General, until the close of the war, resigning August 31, 1865. He returned home and followed his trade as a machinist and engineer in New York City, being for four years in the civil engineer's department at the Brooklyn Navy Yard under Chief Engineer Norman L. Stratton. For four years he had charge of the conversion of a building into a coffee and spice mill on the corner of Duane and Hudson Streets, New York, for Clark & Huntington. Later he had charge of what is now the Star build- ing on Broadway, corner of Park Place, for four years, and in 1881 he be- came Superintendent of the Hackensack (N. J.) Gas Company, which posi- tion he held two years. Since 1883 he has been the resident engineer of the re-organized Hackensack Water Company, being located at the water tower on the Bull's Ferry road in Weehawken. Mr. Schaefer is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the old U. A. M., and the Royal Society of Good Fellows, of hich he is Past Grand Ruler of New Jersey. For seven years he has been Treasurer of the oroer. He. was one of the organizers of the Grand Lodge of Good Fellows in S'ovember, 1804, and was elected its first Grand Ruler. He is also a member and Adjutant of Ellsworth Post, No. 14, G. A. R., Department of New Jersey, and has served it two terms as Commander. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married, July 20, 1867, to Susan Marie Louisa Ridgeway, daugh- ter of Charles E. and Catherine Ridgeway, of the Town of Union, N. J. They have had ten children: Katherine (Mrs. George Limouze) and Eliza- beth (Mrs. Alfred Stager), both of the Town of Union; George W., Jr. (de- GENEALOGICAL 603 ceased); Minnie Augusta (Mrs. Robert Shaw), of Jersey City; Julia (de- ceased); William Gibson (deceased); Alfred (deceased); Susan M L- George W., 2d (deceased); and Floyd Goff. AUGUSTUS A. HARDENBERGH, member of Congress from Jersey City for three terms, was born in New Brunswick, N. J., May 18, 1830. He was descended from one of the famous families of New Jersey. His great- grandfather, Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D.D., was the founder of Rutgers (Col- lege and its first President. His father, Cornelius L. Hardenbergh, LL.D., was a prominent lawyer of New Brunswick. Augustus Hardenbergh entered Rutgers College in 1844, but an inflic- tion of blindness upon his father compelled him to leave before his^ course was finished to assist in his father's law office. In 1851 the college con- ferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in recognition of the good work he had accomplished during his brief collegiate career. In 1846 he entered a mercantile house in New York, becoming a resident of Jersey City. In 38.52 he became connected with the Hudson County National Bank, was appointed its Cashier in 1858, and in 1878 was elected Presi- dent, a position he held until his death. Mr. Hardenbergh early became interested in politics. He was elected to the State Legislature as a Democrat when only twenty-three years of age (1853). During the session of 1854 he acquired a favorable State repu- tation by securing the passage of the general banking act and by opposing the Camden and Amboy Railroad monopoly. In 1857 he was elected a member of the Jersey City Common Council, as Alderman, and was re- elected thereafter until 1863, serving a part of the time as President of that body aud as Chairman of the \Var Committee. In 1868 he was appointed State Director of Railroads. Having removed to his Bergen County home, he was elected a delegate from the Fourth Congressional District to the Democratic National Con- vention at Baltimore, which nominated Horace Greeley for President, and in the same year was chosen President of the Northern Railroad Company of New Jersey. In the fall of 1872 he removed to Jersey City and in 1876 was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, to which he was re-elected in 1878. In 1880 he consented to accept a re-nomination to Congress to save his party from threatened defeat and was again elected by over 5,000 ma- jority. During this period he succeeded in making Jersey City a port of entry. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the Board of Finance and Taxation and his services were marked by saving the credit of the city during the financial depression of that year. In 1884 he was appointed by Governor Abbett as a Trustee of the State Reform School. He served as a member of the Joard of Finance until 1889, when the board went out of ofSce. The unique place which Mr. Hardenbergh held in the affections of the community is shown by the following newspaper charactorizatio a at the time of his death : " Mr. Hardenbergh was one of the most widely known men in this sec- tion of the country. He made a record in Congress that brought him into close and intimate relations with the chief men of New York and Penn- svlvania. Of course every man of any account in New Jersey was his per- sonal friend. He has been so active in Hudson County, in public and pri- vate ways, that his name was a household word from Bull's Ferry to Ber- 604 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES gen Point, and his death comes to almost every man, woman, and child here with the sting almost of a personal bereavement. Without a single ex- ception he was the most popular man in the county, and his individual strength has more than once helped to save his partj from disaster in times of threatened peril. " His chief characteristic was his sterling integrity. All of his life has been spent under the public eye. He has been commissioned by the peo- ple to the discharge of countless trusts. Never a man carried himself so straight as he. Suspicion did not dare to blow even a breath at him. And he had the personal confidence of every man as thoroughly as he had the confidence of the masses as an aggregate. " If a little estate was to be administered, Gus Hardenbergh — as every- body felt at liberty to call him, so close was he to men everywhere — was chosen to administer it. If a dispute was to be decided he was often made the final arbiter. " Add to the influence such a reputation gave him his other qualities of mind and disposition, and wonder ceases as to the reasons for his personal strength. An entertaining companion, a fluent and often eloquent talker, a thinker of great mental force, a friend whose purse and services were al- ways at the command of those who needed them, and a man of fearless honesty — that was Mr. Hardenbergh as this community knew him." Mr. Hardenbergh died October 5, 1889. He was an eloquent speaker, a man of the highest integrity, a public spirited and progressive citizen, and closely identified with every movement which had the advancement of the city at heart. LEIMUEL LOZIEE, a prominent civil engineer and surveyor residing at Hackensack, N. J., is of the seventh generation in line of descent from Frangois le Seuer, the French emigrant, concerning whom and his chil- dren and grandchildren see page 505. Frangois's great-grandson, John Lozier (4), was born near Hackensack, March 14, 1740, and died at Schraalenburgh, August 4, 1805. His wife, Mary Bourdette, a daughter of Stephen Bourdette, was born in 1744 and died June 7, 1828. Among their children of the fifth generation was Stephen Lozier, born in 1777, who settled at Old Bridge, now River Edge, just north of Hackensack. Afterward he removed to New York City. He married, in 1808, Sarah Van Buskirk, ^born November 29, 1779. He died about 1860 and his wife followed February 15, 1871. They had issue of the sixth generation John S., Jacob S., Catharine, Abraham, and others. John S. Lozier (6) was born October 4, 1809, and died February 19, 1871. He marriec, (1) Fanny Van Zaun (who ^as born February 18, 1812, and died December 14, 1852) and (2) Margaret Banta. His issue of the seventh generation were Stephen (died), Mary Sarah, Catharine, Henry, Pran- ces, Frances Ann, John, Robert G., and Lemuel, the latter being the subject of this sketch. Lemuel Lozier (7) was born at Cherry Hill, N. J., March 13, 1862, and after preparatory courses in the public school at New Bridge entered the Hackensack Academy, from which he was graduated. He then took up civil engineering and sur\'eying, which he has followed with success, rank- ing now as one of the leading and most reliable surveyors of the county. Page 605, sketch of Ruben M. Hart should read as follows: Ruben M. Hakt, of Hackensack, was born in Montreal, Canada, and was educated at Nicolet and Jesuit Colleges. He was gradu- ated from McGill University, and read law in Canada with Judge Cornwallis Monk and Sir James Rose. He was admitted to the Montreal bar, but devoted himself more to literature than to the practice of his profession, and finally, in 1882, settled in Hacken- sack, N. J. He was admitted as an attorney in this State in June, 1889, and as a counselor in June, 1892. GENEALOGICAL 605 In 1SS3 he married May D. Moses, daughter of John M. and Ellen (Brown) Moses, of Haokeusack. REUBEN M. HART, of Hackensack. was born in Montreal, Canada, and was educated at Nicolet and Jesuit Colleges. He graduated from McGill Unirersity, and read law in Canada with Judge Cornwallis Munn and Sir James Rose. He was admitted to the ^Montreal bar, and, finally, in 1SS2, settled in Hackensack, X. J. He was for seven years the official stenogra- pher of the Second Judicial District of New Jersey. He was admitted as an attorney in this State in June, 18S0, and as a counselor in June, 1892. PETER L. CONKLIN, of Hackensack, was born in Franklin Township, Bergen County, N. J., on the 2Sth of October, 182o. He was the son of Louis Conklin and Ellen Voorhis, members of old and respected New Jersey families. Mr. Conklin received his education in the public schools of Bergen Coun- ty. Subsequently he learned the trade of carpenter, which he followed with marked success until he reached the age of fifty-seven, when he re- tired from active business. During the Civil ^^'ar he \\as for nine months at the front as a member of and color-bearer in the Twenty-second Regi- ment, Xew Jersey ^'oh)nteers. He was a public spirited, progressive, and enterprising citizen, thoroughly identified with the affairs of his native county, and honored and respected by all who knew him. Mr. Conklin was a member of JlcPherson Post, G. A. R., of Hackensack. He married Eupliemia Frederick. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church of Hackensack. He died October 21, 1900, and is survived by two daugh- ters: Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie and Fannie De A\"olf Conklin. RALPH D. EARLE, Jr., is a descendant in the eighth generation from Edward Earle, an Englishman, who came from Maryland to ]!ergen, X. J., with his son, Edward Earle, Jr., in 1676, and purchased (April 24, of that yean of the executors of Xicholas A'arlet the Island of Scnaucus, now in Hudson C(mnty, comprising about 2,000 acres. The deed of the island was made out to Edward Earle, Jr., then a young man. They took possession of the island and settled on it. Edward Earle, Sr., died December ir., 1711, and was buried at Bergen. His son, Edward, Jr., of the second gener- ation, married, Februai'y 13, 1688, Elsie, daughter of Enoch Michaels Vreeland and a granddaughter of the first American ancestor of the Vree- land family. Edward, Jr., became a man of importance in the affairs of Bergen. He was appointed Tax Commissioner for Bergen in 1693, and the'following year was Commissioner of the Highways for the town. In 1695 he was elected to the House of Deputies of East Xew Jersey. His widow. Elsie, married, June 24. 1716, Hendrick ^Meyei-, of Hacl-ensack. Morris Earle (5), a grandson of the above named Edward Ea-'le, Jr., mar- ried in X"ew York fl), February 8, 17r)5. Johanna :Monutayne and (2), :May ''S 1761 Abagail Leach. :Morris had several children of the sixth gen- eration one of whom was Thomas Earle, born in Xew York in 1767, mar- ried Matilda Harrison. Thomas (6) lived and died in Xew York City, leav- ing among other children of the sixth generation, Thomas Earle (7) born in Xew York, February 10, 1809. He married Euphemia Dema- rest and had issue six children of the eighth generation, one of whom was Ralph Earle who married Marcraret Acken, and had, among other children of the ninth Wneration, Ralph D. Earle, Jr., the subject of this sketch. 606 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Ralph D. Earle, Jr., was born in Jersey City, March 21, 1865, and there obtained a thorough public and high school education. At an early age he exhibited unusual tastes for mathematics, which he developed with perse- verance and success. Leaving school, he entered the office of his uncle, Frank H. Earle, of Jersey City, with whom he remained several years, studying civil engineering and surveying and mastering every branch of the profession. He soon became an expert, so skillful and rapid was he in the manipulation of figures. In the autumn of 188.3 he accepted a position with Charles B. Brush, of Hoboken, one of the largest civil engineers in the country, and remained with him for about three years, gaining a valuable experience in general engineering and surveying. Resigning this, he asso- ciated himself with the different elevated railways in Brooklyn, where he made preliminary surveys for several lines. In 1887 he returned to his former position with Mr. Brush, with whom he continued until 1895, hav- ing charge of Mr. Brush's construction work in North Hudson County, which included the $250,000 contract for the outlet sewer to Union Hill, the construction of the North Hudson County Railway to the Cuttenberg racetrack, the improvement of the Meeks and Cossitt estates, the pre- liminary surveys for the Hudson River Bridge, and practically every large and important improvement in the northern part of the County of Hudson. In 1895 Mr. Earle engaged in business for himself as a general civil engi- neer and surveyor, opening an office at 154 Bergenline Avenue, corner of Lewis Street. Since then he has had charge of almost all of the important work executed or projected in North Hudson County, continuing on the same lines that he had previously followed. Among these enterprises may be mentioned the construction of the main latteral sewer on Union Hill, the lajing of the first brick pavement in Hudson County, and the con- struction of the Weehawken loop, a driveway five miles in length, on the edge of the Palisades, overlooking the Hudson River, and which has been extended into Hoboken. This loop involves the construction of a viaduct over the railroad tracks and a large amount of other work. In all of these capacities Mr. Earle has achieved success. Since 1895 he has also been county surveyor of Hudson County. In politics he is an ardent Demo- crat. He is a member of the Democratic Central Organization and of the Executive Committee of the Hudson County Democratic Committee. He was a member of the Board of Education of the Town of Union from 1895 to 1898, and in the latter year served as President of the board. He is a prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Earle was married, April 5, 1887, to Florence B. Hurley, daughter of Charles H. Hurley, of Philadelphia, Pa. They have three children-: Charles H., Ralph D., 3d., and Carroll. HENRY TRAPHAGEN was born June 1, 1842, in Jersey City, N. J., where he still resides. He is the son of Henry Mackaners Traphagen, a wealthy and prominent citizen of that place, and of Sarah Conselyea, his wife. Plis grandfather, Henry Traphagen, Jr., was graduated from Rut- gers College in 1791 and married a daughter of Cornelius Van Vorst. His great-grandfather, Henry Traphagen, Sr., was a Trustee of Queens (now Rutgers) College in f 782. The Traphagens are one of the oldest families in Jersey City, and for generations have been prominent in business and professional affairs. Mr. Traphagen was educ.ited at Rutgers College and Brown University GENEALOGICAL 607 Providence, R. I. He read law in the office of the late Hon. Isaac W. Sindder and was admitted to tlie New Jersey bar as an attorney in Novem- ber, 1804, and as a counselor in November, 1807. Since 1804 he has been successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in Jersey City. lie served as Mayor of Jersey City from May 1, 1874, to May 1, 1870, and as Corporation Attorney from November, 1870, to March, ISSl. Prior to the consolidation of the three cities— Jersey City, Hudson City, and Bev- g^n. — composing what is now Jersey City, he was counsel for the Board of ^^'ater Commissioners of Jersey City. He is a member of the Holland Society of New York and was for one year (1891-92) one of its Vice-Presi- dents. November 9, 1869, he m:irried Annie Matilda Campbell, daughter of David Campbell, of New York City. JOHN W. AWX BLARCOM.— Blarcom or Blerkum is the name of a com- munity near the City of Rotterdam in Holland, from whence one Johannes (John) Van Blarcom emigrated about the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury and settled ;it Hoboken in Hudson County, N. J. He is said to have brought with him a large family of children. He certainly had three sons of the second generation: Peter Jansen Van Blarcom, G-ysbert Jansen Van Blarcom, and John Jansen Van Blarcom. Peter (2) married (1) Jacomina Coinelis and (2), in 1719, Antie Meyer (widow). Gysbert (2) married (Ij Magdalena la Comba in 1706 and (2) Antie Christie. John (2) married, July 10, lG9:i, Meta Jans. These thie-^' all settled at Bergen, now Jersey City, (jysbert went to Hackensack in 171."), joined the rlimch there, and bought lands. His brothers Peter and John soon followed liim and bought lands west of the Saddle River as well as in the Aquackanonck (Passaic) patent. Peter bought ."iOO or 800 acres in the Pompton district of Bergen County. Among his children of the third generation were Sarah, Carret, Jacomina, and Willempie. Gysbert's children of the third generation were John, Mary, Anthony, William, Henry, Ellen, and Jacobus. John's children of the third generation were Neltie, Jane, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Isaac. This family, composed prin- cipally of descendants of Peter and (avsbert, are very numerous in Frank- lin, Saddle River, Ridgewood, and Hohokus Townships in Bergen County. John Van Blarcom (3), a grandson of John (1), married, in 1725, Jannetie Lent, of Rockland County, N. Y., and settled near Paramus in New Jersey. From there in 173.") he removed to near Nanuet in Rockland County, N. V.. where he bought a farm. His issue were Peter, 1727; Elizabeth, 17:!1 ; Peter, 1734; and David. 1736. His son, Garret Van Blarcom, born Octo- ber 10, 1780, married Maria Hopper, also born in 1780. He died in 1854 and she in 1846 Their children were Peter, born in 1805, died November 20, 1802, and John, *born in 1808, died in 1880. Peter \'an Blarcom had three sons and five daughters: Garret; Mary, of Addison, N. Y.; William, deceased; Daniel, of Suffern, N. Y.; Henrietta and Bridget (twins), de- ceased; Eliza, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and Jane, of Pearl River, N. Y. Garret Van Blarcom," son of Peter, was born in May, 1820, and became a blacksmith at Tappan, N. Y. He was twice married and has a son, the subject of this sketch. John W. Van Blarcom, son of Garret Van Blarcom and Elizabeth Post (died in 185.3), was horn at Tappan, N. Y., in July, 1852, and early learned the blacksmith's trade, which he has ever since followed. He married Maigaret Jane, daughter of Peter A. Demares+, by whom he has two sons : 608 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Frank and Demaiest Van Blarcom. He resides at Norwood, N. J., where lie is active in politics. He has been a member of the Harrington Town- ship Road Board and is now a member of the Town Committee of that township. HENRY A. GAEDE. of Hoboken, was born in Hudson City, now Jer- sey City Heights, N. J,, »September 1(1, 1857, and was graduated from old Public School No. 2, of that place, in 1872. On leaving school he took up the study of civil engineering with Otto F. Wegener, then city surveyor of Hoboken, and remained with him until October, 1874, when he entered the law office of the late John C. Besson, of the same city, as a student. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in November, 1878, and since then has successfully jiracticed his profession in Hoboken, becoming one of the prominent members of the Hudson County bar, and making a specialty of the examination of titles to real estate. He is counsel for a number of large corporations, including the Hoboken Bank for Savings and the Industrial Mutual Building and Loan Association of Jersey City. He was also attor- ney for Hudson County in the condemnation proceedings for land taken for the County Boulevard. Mr. Gaede has built up a large practice, and is heavily interested in real estate. wn^SON L. HEATH, of Arlington, was born in Wilsonville, Conn., Sep- tember 9, 1846. He is the son of George W. Heath, a native of Putnam, Conn., and of Frances Sessions, who was born in Tompson in that State. Mr. Heath received a public school education in Wilsonville, and at the age of seventeen went to New York City, where he entered the employ of H. B. Claflin & Company. He has been identified with this firm ever since, holding responsible positions and discharging his duties with acknowl- edged ability and satisfaction. Mr. Heath is also engaged in the dry goods business in Arlington, N. J., becoming a member of the firm of Allen & Roth in 1884. This firm was changed to Heath & Norris in 1888. Mr. Norris died in 1889 and his widow assumed his interest in the firm. Mr. Heath is a public spirited citizen and respected by all who know him. He married Miss Mary E. Welsch and has four children: Helen M., George W., Charlotte, and Carrie. ALFRED SMEDBERG, of Kearny, is the son of Sevin and Maria Smed- berg, and was born in Sweden on the 29th of April, 1860. His parents were both natives of that country, where he received his education. In 188.5 Mr. Smedberg came to the United :States, settling in Newark, N. J., whence he removed to Kearny, Hudson County, where he now re- sides. After leaving school he learned the trade of carpenter and builder, a business he has always followed, achieving marked success. He was for two years a soldier in the army of Sweden before coming to this country. He belongs to the Swedish Church of Kearny and is a Republican in poli- tics. As a carpenter and builder he has gained a high reputation, having erected a number of important buildings in his vicinity. Mr. Smedberg married Mary Carlson, of Sweden, and has five children: Hannah, Harry, Hilda, Arthur, and Ella. WILLIAM NOE, of Union Hill, is the son of John Noe and Barbara Schmidt and was born in Baden, Germany, on the 2d of March, 1846. H?> received a public school education and learned the blacksmith's trade in GENEALOGICAL 609 the Fatherland, and in 1866 came to America with his sister, settling in Union Hill, Hudson County, where he has since resided. In 1871 he en- gaged in the blacksmithing business for himself and so continued until 1875, when he was employed in New York City. In 1881 he established his present blacksmith shop on Bergenline Avenue in the Town of West New York. Mr. Noe is a Republican in politics, a member of the Republican Club of Union Hill, and a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. He has been a member of the Haraguri since 1868, and is the only charter member of the nine original founders of his lodge who is living. In this order he has filled all the chairs. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, and in e^ery capacity has won the confidence and respect of all who know him. He is a public spirited citizen, deeply interested in local affairs, and a man of acknowledged ability and enterprise. July 4, 1871, Mr. Noe married Mrs. Cedonia (Flutz) Flood. They have one daughter, Clara Viola. WILLIAM MARSHALL SEUFERT, of Englewood, was born in New York City on the 22d of May, 1873. His parents, George G. Setifert and Mar- garet G. Sienken, were both natives of that city, where they were married. Mr. Setifert received his education at New York University, taking a post- graduate course in law in the class of 1892. He was admitted to the bars of New York and New Jersey and is actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in both New York City and Englewood. Mr. Setifert is a member of the Englewood Club, of the Bogota Boat Club, and of the Episcopal Church. He is an able lawyer, a public spirited citizen, and respected by all who know him. He married Anna Evelyn Pope, daughter of John and Lauretta Pope, of Brooklyn, N. Y., the cere- mony being performed in Leonia. N. J., January 28, ISDS. ROBERT (iA'S\', of Union Hill, is the son of Charles Gaw and Margaret McKee and a grandson of Robert Gaw, all natives of the North of Ireland. The family came to America in the early fifties, settling in New York. Mr. Gaw was born at Union Hill, Hudson County, December 9, 1879. He attended the public schools, both in Union Hill and A\'est Hoboken, and later Cooper Institute, New York, where he studied engineering and higher mathematics. He was first employed by John W. Rutherford, contracting engineer, and by John G. Payne, engineer to the Riparian Commission. He was with James Moylan for a number of j-ears, and assisted J. J. Tallon on the main lateral sewer, and completed the Boulevard sewer, in ^Vest Hoboken, after Mr. Tallon died. He was also engineer on the Summit Avenue and other improvements, including the paving on Clinton Avenue, West Hoboken. He is a member of the Fire Department, the Royal Ar- canum and the Junior Order Ignited American Mechanics. In politics he is a Democrat. SAMUEL PHILLIPS RUSSELL, D.D.S., comes from an old New Eng- land family, and inherits through several generations of ancestors those principles of application which characterize the race, and which are still evident in their descendants in every section of the country. His family has been prominent in the professions, in military and official affairs, and in business life, many of them having held exalted stations of trust and re- sponsibility. ' He w.as born in Springfield, Mass., August 16, 1870, and (510 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES there received a thorough grammar and high school education. As a youth he displayed a strong inclination for a professional career. After leaving school he entered the laley and Catherine O'Brien, came to Guttenberg from Ireland. Mr. Daley attended the public schools of Guttenberg, and afterward en- gaged in the block-stoue busineKSs, which he followed for several years with marked success. After disposing of this business he established himself in the liquor trade, in Guttenberg, in which he still continues. As a Demo- crat Mr. Daley has long been prominent and influential in politics. lie was for several years a School Trustee, and has been especially active in the formation and development of the Guttenberg Fire Department, being aij organizer of Companies 1 and 4, and an exempt member of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. He is a member of the Foresters of America and of the Catholic Church. He married Miss Catherine Buckley and has a family of six children. GEORGE J. GOEHRIG, of North Bergen, was born in Ulster County, N. Y.. Cktober 21), 1805. He is the son of Charles Goehrig and Rosa Salzmann and a grandson of Leonard and Rose Salzmann, all natives of Germany. Mr. Goehrig received his education in the public schools of his native connly. and afterward learned the trade of butcher. Coming to North Ber- gen, N. J., he entered witli energy into the affairs of the township, and soon established a reputation for industry, thrift, and integrity. For some time he has been engaged in butchering and also in the hotel and liquor busi- ness on the Hudson County Boulevard. He has served as Chief of the North Bergen Fire l^epartment, as a member of the North Bergen Board of Education, and as President of the North Hudson Liciuor Dealers' Asso- ciation. He is a member of the Merry Owl Association and a public spir- ited, enterprising citizen. Mr. Goehrig was married March 20, 1887, to Bartona Wade. ERNST BEHR, a well known citizen of the Town of Union, Hudson County, was born in Northern Germany on the 29th of May, 1864. His p)arents, William and Hermina (Rehmer) Behr, were respected and esteemed for those sturdy qualities which distinguish the German race. Mr. Behr was educated in the public or national schools of the Father- land. He also served a short time in the Gei man Army. In 1882 he came t(^ the United States and settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was engaged 614 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES iii thf grocerv business for two years. In 1 884 he removed to New York City and established himself in the liquor business, which he successfully conducted until 1891, wlien he came to the Town of Union, Hudson County. N.J. Here he has since resided, beinj^ encased in the ]i(iuor trade on the corner of Bergenline Avenue and Lewis Street. jMr. Itelir is an active member of the ]>emocratic party, a ]iatriotic citi- 'M-n, and a liberal supporter of every worthy movement. He married Bar- bara Kobbeck. SAMUEL DECKER, of East Newark, was born in Passaic County, N. J., on Christmas I")ay, December 25, 1850. He is the son of William Decker and Julia Ann Rhinesmitli and a grandson of Gabriel Decker and Barney and Rebecca (Bugsby) Rhinesmith. His maternal grandfather was a mem- ber of one of the old families of Passaic County, where the Deckers also settU^d at an early date. Both were pi-ominent in the community. Mr. Decker was edu- cated in his native coun- ty, principally at Maco- pin, and for fifteen years lived in Newark, Essex County. In 1884 he moved to East Newark, Hudson County, where he still resides. Early in life he learned the ma- son's trade, which he fol- lowed with marked suc- cess for eight years. At the end of that period (1882) he engaged in the chemical charcoal busi- ness, and in 1897 formed a stock company, of which he is now (1900) I'resident. This company supplies charcoal for Newarlc and vicinity, and maintains the largest business in that line in Eastern New Jersey. An ardent and consist- ent Republican, Mr. Decker has earnestly ad- vocated Republican prin- ciples ever since he cast his first vote. He is a l»ublic spirited, progres- sive, and enterprising citizen, prominent in party and business affairs, ac- tive and influential in promoting every worthy object, and thoroughly iden- tified with the growth and prosperity of the community. His success in business has been the result of his own energy and ability. He is a mem- ber of the Knights and Ladies of the Golden Star, of the Order of Hepta- sophs, and of other organizations. SAMUEL DECKER. GENEALOGICAL 615 Mr. Decker married Amanda E. Meeker, of Hackettstown, N. J., and has one son, Herbert T. JOHN O'LEARY, of Guttenberg, is the son of Dennis O'Learv and Marj Hefferen, and was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on the 30th of October, 1866. He is of Irish descent. He was educated in the public schools of Philadel- phia, and for some time was extensively engaged in business there as a stevedore and truckman. Finally he removed to North Bergen, Hudson County, where he has since been engaged in the hotel business. He mar- ried Matilda Fay. MAEK LYDON, the well known Democratic leader and hotel proprietor of Shadyside in North Bergen, Hudson County, was born in Ireland on April 1, 1866, the son of Martin Lydon and Ann Bracken. Having re- ceived his education in the public schools of his native country, he came to America, and on the ISth of March, 1889, landed in New York, where he fol- lowed his trade of stonecutting for a short time. He soon removed to Shadyside in North Bergen, N. J., where he found employment at paper- making, and where he has since resided. May 1, 1S94, he engaged in the hotel and liquor business, which he still follows. Applying himself to business affairs and to the advancement of the Democratic party. Mr. Lydon soon came into prominence as a leader and for several years has been a power in his party in that locality. His in- fluence upon both local and county matters has given him a wide reputa- tion. He is a man of public spirit and enterxjrise, and has always taken a prominent part in local projects. He is a member of Eclipse Fire Com- pany No. 1, of North Bergen, of the Democratic Club, and of the Gustav Scholp and Eobert Davis Associations. ^Ir. Lydon was married, June 21, 1893, to Annie F., daughter of John P^'lannery, of Shadyside, North Bergen, and they have two children: John and Florence. JOHN J. REILLY, of Bayonne, was born at Ulster Heights, Ulster Coun- ty, N. Y., November 27, 1864. His parents, Michael Eeilly and Mary Dono- van, were natives of Ireland. They came to the United States when young and were married in Brooklyn, N. Y., whence they removed to Ulster Coun- ty. In 1872 they came to Bayonne, N. J., where the subject of this sketch received a public school education. After leaving school John J. Eeilly engaged in the liquor business in Bayonne, in which he has since continued. He is a prominent and influen- tial Democrat and for several years has been a leader in party affairs. He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, of Hook and Ladder Company No. 3, of Bayonne, and of St. Paul's Alliance Society. Mr. Eeilly was married, June 25, 1891, to Fannie Brothers, of Bayonne, Hudson County. They have four children: Mamie, Fannie, Agnes, and Michael Francis. EDWARD HOOS, of Jersey City, was born in Germany, at Neuwied on the Ehine, August 31, 18.50. He was educated at the public schools, and began his business career as a clerk in a general store. At the same time he acquired a thorough knowledge of upholstery. He came to America in 1870. and soon found employment with an upholstery firm in New York Citv. He started in business for himself in 1872, manufacturing parlor 616 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES suits and lounges at 133 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City. Subsequently he was associated with Mullins & Schulz, and afterward formed the firm of Lampe & Hoos, which was dissolved in a year. He then took the manage- ment of John Mullins's business, and was with him until 1877. He then once more launched out alone at 67 Newark Avenue, but shortly joined John kSheehan, and for nine months the firm was Hoos & Sheehan. Mr. Hoos bought out his partner and removed to the old Metropolitan Hall Building, at 71 and 73 Newark Avenue, where the firm of Hoos & Schulz was formed, and was continued successfully until July 1, 1897, when Mr. Hoos was elected Mayor, and retired from business. H(: entered politics in 1885. He was a member of the Board of Free- holders for two years. In 1889 he was elected an Alderman, and in 1891 was appointed by ]Mayor Cleveland a Commissioner of Appeals, resigning when Mayor ^^'anser was elected. Subsequently he was appointed to the Board of Education by Mayor Wanser, and re-appointed for two years. In 1895 he ^as nominated for President of the Board of Aldermen, but was defeated by Eeuben Simpson, and in the same year was elected to the Assembly and served creditably. In 1897 he was elected Mavor of Jersey City. Mr. Hoos is a Thirty-second degree Mason, a Past Deputy Grand Master, and Representative of the Grand Lodge of the State of Arkansas. He be- longs to the Knights of Honor, the Legion of Honor, the Knights of Pythias, and the Board of Trade. WILLLVM CRANSTOUN. of Hoboken and Summit, is the son of Will- iam and Marion (Paterson) Cranstoun, natives of Scotland, who settled in Canada in 1832, moved to New York City, and thence removed to Princeton, N. J., in 1837. They removed to Bordentown, N. J., in 1842, and in Feb- ruary, 1843, came to Hoboken, where the mother died April 28, 1882, and the father December 6, 1885. Mr. Cranstoun was born in Hoboken, September 1, 1843, and finished his education at the parochial school of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Fourteenth Street, New York. He read law with J. Harvey Lyons (his brother-in-law) and Hon. Abel I. Smith, both of Hoboken, and was ad- mitted to the bar of New Jersey in February, 1875. Since then he has re- sided in Summit, N. J., and has successfully practiced his profession in that place and in Hoboken. His business has been confined principally to oflice work and in chancery, and largely involves real estate. CHARLES PINNELL, one of the oldest residents of North Bergen, Hud- son County, has held the office of Chaii'man of the Township Committee longer than any other man in New Jersey, having served in that capacitv for twenty-three years, or almost continually from 1871 to the spring of i897, v.hen he resigned. Born in Wottennnderedge, Gloucestershire, England, on the 17th of February, 1823, he is the son of Robert Pinnell and Elizabeth Fowler and a descendant on both sides of honored English ancestors. As a boy he displayed sterling intellectual and physical qualities. He obtained his education in Minchinhampton, England. In 1848 he came to America and settled in New York City, but in the spring of 1849 re- moved to Jersey City, N. J., and thence in 1857 to Hudson City, now a part of Jersey City. There he resided eight years. In 1865 he nioved to New Durham in North Bergen, Hudson County, where he still lives. His busi- GENEALOGICAL 617 i^Q^^ ^'^^ ^^^* °^ ^ manufacturer of walking canes and crutches, and until 1867, when he retired, he had, in Cortlandt Street, New York, one of the Jarsfst and most successful establishments of the kind in the United states. Since 1867 he has devoted himself almost exclusively to private aftairs and to the official duties which have been pressed upon him by his toAvnsmen, his only other business of importance being a coal yard at Homestead in North Bergen, which he conducted about three years. He Avas a School Trustee of South New Durham for about fifteen years and served most of that period as District Clerk, and was instrumental in causing the erection of the first brick school house in the township. This was old No. 3 school, built in 1871, and since remodeled and enlarged. He was also Collector of Arrears for a time and Township Collector one year. Mr. Pinnell's ability, executive capacity, and active interest in local af- fairs caused him in the spring of 1871 to be elected Chairman of the Town- ship Committee oi North Bergen, and from that time until the spring of 1897, when he resigned, he was the acknowledged leader in all public mat- ters, being continuously a member and Chairman of that committee with the exception of the yeaVs 1872, 1873, 1882, and 1883. This service of twen- ty-three years as Chairman of the governing body of the township is the longest accredited to any one man in the State. It is noteworty for the great amount of clerical labor and unceasing attention to duty which Mr. Pinnell freely and elfectively rendered. He was indefatigable in the prep- aration of statistical tables, in efforts to reduce taxation and expenses, and in every reform calculated to benefit the township and its inhabitants, and his reports and public papers, many of which are still in existence and valuable, are models. Ore of these documents — the rarest and most im- portant from liis hands — is as applicable to-day as it was in 1879, when it was addressed to the property holders and taxpayers of Hudson County. It was adopted at a joint meeting of the Boards of Council of the Towns of Union and Guttenberg and the Township Committees of North Bergen, West Hoboken, W'eehawken, and Union, on March 25, 1879. This paper and others issued in 1889, 1891, and 1894 stamp Mr. Pinnell as one of the ablest local reformers of his time. He brought to the conduct of town- ship affairs a broad, progressive public spirit, an accurate knowledge of public business, great sagacity and foresight, and rare comprehension of economical problems. 'While he encouraged important public improve- ments and supported every project designed to advance the general wel- fare, he was unceasing in his efforts to keep taxes and public expenditures within the limits of practical economy, leaving the people unburdened by the extravagance which often marks township governments. Mr. Pinnell has also had charge of several important estates and business properties. He was the assignee in 1890 of John Gardner, a wealthy lum- ber dealer of Jersey City Heights and Hoboken, and in similar capacities has exhibited marked ability'and unquestioned integrity. He was espe- cially active and useful in the matter of the State of New Jersey v. The Weehawken Cemeterv, in 1885, carrying it through to success. September 14, 1847" Mr. Pinnell married Ann Parker, daughter of Will- iam and Ann Parke:', of Pontypool, Monmouthshire, England. They have threp children: Sarah Ann, Charles H., and Elizabeth Martha. Charles H. Pinnell is superintendent of the American Gold Watch Case Company, Astor Place, New York City. INDEX Bergen Covmty settlers 22^1 Bergen, Town of 19 Borough governments 10 Boroughs in Bergen County 11 Dutch West India Company 15 Early records 4 Early settlers in Hudson County 12 Erection of townships 9 First settlers 1, 16, 18, 19, 20, 41^8 Formation of Hudson and Bergen Counties 4 Hobokeu Hacking 16 Hudson Coimty settlers 12-22 Landowners and settlers Massacre of Pavonia Pauleson, Michael Pauw, Michael Pavonia 41 17 16 16 16 Township governments. Ackerman, Aaron E Ackerman, John N 53 Allan, James 371 Allen Family 107 Allen, James Kitchell 374 Allen, Uriah 363 Allen, Robert 532 AlUson, William Outis 148 Anders, Arthur 477 Anderson, John H 551 Andes, Henry 357 Anson, Edward M 485 Applegate, Ivins D 287 Armbruster, William 465 Armstrong, Samuel 422 Asmus, Ernst G 333 Anryansen, Abram 1 119 Babbitt, Robert Oscar 198 Baldwin, Aaron Stockholm 180 Banta, William Sickles 513 Banta, William Williams 235 Bardsley, William 453 Barkerding, Adolph H 459 Barrioklo, William Reed 532 Basse, Clans 586 Bate, John J 401 Behr, Ernst 613 Beimy, Allan 381 Bentley, Peter, Sr 121 Beutley, Peter, 2d 123 Bentley, Peter, 3d 126 Berdan, Cornelius W 195 Berger, Edward William 349 Berger, George A 508 Berger, Julius 264 Bergkamp, George Bernhardt 398 Bergmann, Frederick J., Jr 439 Berry Family 100 Bertholf Family 107 Besson, John Case 22C Besson, Samuel Austin 225 Best, John 463 INDEX PAGB, Bewig, August 588 Biokhard, Conrad 432 Birdsall, Walter Kissam 268 Black, Charles Clarke 300 Black, James Edward 476 Black, James H 217 Blackledge Family 126 Blair, John Albert 84 Blair, William 455 Blanch Family 127 Blawvelt, David D 68 Blawvelt, George W 258 Blawvelt, John D 458 Blohm, Charles H 501 Bobbink, Lambertus C 475 Bode, Martin W 384 Bogert, Albert Z 132 Bogert, Daniel G., Jr 285 Bogert, Isaac D 310 Bogert, John 60, 479 Bogert, John J 133 Bogert, Matthew J 57 Bogert, Sandford 480 Bogert, Seba M 502 Bonn, Hillrio John 270 Bonn, John Hillric 269 Bonn, John Hillric, Jr 271 Born, Albert 488 Bott, Charles J 611 Bouton, John C 500 Bowe, James J 356 Bowe, John E 468 Bowen, James R 583 Bradley, Louis Henry 512 Bradley, William Henry 512 Branagan, John B 382 Brandt, Peter 431 Brierley, James 393 BrinkerhofE, Andrew H 274 BrinkerhofE, Cornelius 105 BrinkerhofE, Henry H., Jr., M.D 101 Brock, Peter Anthony 470 Brockway, Philip Eastman 595 Brower Family 130 Brown, Joel W 454 Browning, J. Hull • • • ■ 113 Bruce, George 334 Bryan, Daniel Drake 261 PAGE. Buckley, Charles Pitman 114 Bulger, Thomas F 346 Burroughs, Charles W 452 Byram, Thomas J 487 Cadmus, George 260 Cadmus, John J 552 Callahan, John T 461 Camp, George Kingsland 522 Campbell, Luther A 203 Campbell, O. G 487 Canfield, Burton Edmund 483 Canfield, George Daniel 482 Cannon, Charles Kinsey 321 Cannon, Michael J 406 Carbin, Edward F 475 Carbrey, Thomas A 441 Carlson, John 512 Carragan, George 410 Carroll, Thomas 441 Case, Edwin Raynor 251 Case, Menzies R 251 Cass, Alexander 187 Cass, Willard 188 Cassidy, William A 421 Chapman, Robert 197 Chappell, George H 601 Child, Joseph 120 Christie, Cornelius 106 Christie, Cornelius 295 Christie, Walter Ill Churchill, Romeo Thompson, D.V.S. . . 427 Clark, James 381 Clark, William Mortimer 515 Close, James 429 Clouse, Halloway Whitfield 348 Cole Family 157 Colligan, Patrick M 587 Collignon, George W 476 Collignon, Peter C 482 Collins, Gilbert 70 Collins, Henry F 353 Condict, Henry V 522 Conklin Family 157 Conklin, Peter L 605 Conkling, Cook 163 Conkling, Livingston 271 Conley, John 417 Conover, Harry Martin 222 INDEX Conrad, Edgar K., M.D 511 Converse, Charles Crozat, LL.B., LL.D. 459 Couway, John ! 377 Cooper Family 160 Copin, August A 524 Copiu, George Felix 457 Courtman, Walter F 353 Cowles, Elijah Strong 320 Cranstoun, William 616 Cranwell, George W 395 Crear, Charles Lyman 501 Crowell, Joseph Franklin 360 Gumming, Thomas H 216 Cunlilfe, George 449 Currie, Mungo J 534 Daley, John J 613 Daly, William D 467 Danielson, William H 282 Darling, Henry Isaac 241 Darling, John Sidney 308 Darling, Ord 311 Davis, David 340 Davis, Andrew J 229 Day, Addison L 584 De Baun, Abram 138 De Bow Family J60 De Clark Family 130 De Clyne, Charles 254 De Clyne, Emil 254 De Clyne, Gustave 254 De Groot Family 162 De Motte, Dwight Wheeler 558 De Ronde, Frank S 551 De Voe, John 519 Decker, Samuel 614 Demarest, Abraham 511 Demarest, Abraham Garrison 110 Demarest, Calvin 267 Demarest, Daniel 1 495 Demarest, David 67 Demarest, David A 93 Demarest, Elmer Wilson 64 Demarest, Garret 1 66 Demarest, Jacob J 497 Demarest, John H. Z. 496 Demarest, Milton 289 Demarest, Milton G 497 Demarest, Samuel D 450 Dennis, Frank H 350 Denzer, George Valentine 373 Denzer, Valentine 372 Diehm, Louis, Jr 339 Dippel, John, Jr 388 Dixon, Robert Campbell, Jr 136 Dobbs, Thomas Jefferson 340 Dockray, William John 485 Donnelly, James J 516 Dooley, Patrick J 565 Doremus, Cornelius 295 Drayton, Albert Irving 87 Dressel, Frederick H 462 Du Bois, John H 301 DufBy, Joseph Alexander, M.A 534 Duffy, Thomas A 421 Dupuy, John J 490 Durie, Garret D 509 Duryee, Abraham Wilson, A.M 507 Dwyre, John 384 Earle, Edward 232 Earle, Frank Hasbrouck 549 Earle, Ralph D., Jr 605 Earle, Samuel E 233 Eckerson, Cornelius A 545 Eckerson, Jacob B 549 Eokert, George M 575 Eckhardt, William 516 Edge, Isaac, Jr 152 Edge, Nelson James Harrison 151 Edsall Family 163 Edwards, William D 194 Egbert, James Chidester, D.D 90 Elliott, Robert Wallace 557 Ely, Addison 365 Endres, William C 536 Engel, John 150 Engelbrecht, Henry 590 Ensor, Fred J 518 Enstice, John 277 Erwin, James Shrewsbury 108 Eversou, Edward 129 Eypper, Charles 553 Eypper, William J 554 Fallon, John Joseph 363 Farr, Frederick William 330 Farr, William Charles 676 INDEX PAGE . Ferdon, Jesse W 184 Ferdon, Warren 473 Ferdon, William Scott 263 Fink, James D 448 Fisher, Alexander 151 Fisher, John G 228 Fisher, Michael 319 Fitzgerald, Bartholomew 447 Fitzpatrick, John M 355 Flierhoom Family 164 Foereh, Emil Joseph 401 Ford, Francis W 557 Formon, Lonis 218 Francois, Judson Camille 414 Frank, August 333 Frankenstein, George 561 Freiberger, Jacob 402 Freir, Samuel P 558 Frost, John 393 Gaede, Henry A 608 Gaddis, Percy Almy 516 Galbraith, Richard Edwin 158 Galbraith, William 168 Gale, George Bancroft, M.D 561 Gallagher, Edward 586 Gardenier, John Calvin 483 Garrabrant Family 164 Garretsen Family 246 Garretson Abram Quick 88 Gautier Family 166 Gavegan, James F 410 Gaw, Robert 609 Gilligan, John M 421 Gilson, Herbert Clark 541 Girsham, Andrew 448 Goehrig, George J 613 Goetschius Family 166 Goldberg, Eugene Holden, M.D 595 Goodman, Peter J 392 (Green, Robert Stockton 569 Green, Walter J 561 Green, William 351 Greenin, Edmond L 554 Greenleaf, Abram D 451 Griffin, J. William 336 Gunset, Jacob 348 Haase, Franklin D 586 Hackett, William, Jr 552 PAGE Hagan, William 390 Hagemann, Henry 591 Hageman, John 592 Hamilton, Charles A 147 Hanlon, Joseph J 550 Hardenbergh, Augustus A 603 Haring, Albert Zabriskie , 63 Haring, Andrew H 202 Haring, Rev, Garret A 61 Haring, Garret T 201 Haring, Henry G 201 Haring, John T 154 Haring, Richard B 161 Hart, Ruben M 605 Harvey, Cornelius Burnham 73 Hasel, Rev. Joseph John 227 Hauck, Peter 525 Hauenstein, Louis C, Jr 530 Hausser, Louis 555 Heath, Wilson L 608 Hecht, Max, M.D., Ph.G 219 Heck, John 538 Heck, John W 112 Heflich, John 589 Heins, Charles A 435 Hemberger, Leonard 592 Hendriek, Charles C, M.D 375 Hennessy, D. M 554 Henry, Thomas 436 Herring, William C 562 Herron, Joseph 558 Hess, Samuel 330 Hickey, James S 389 Hiler, Edward 553 Hoffman, Charles 519 Holdrum, Abram C 237 Holdrum, James Demarest 559 Holdrum, John H 483 Holdrum, Peter M 485 Hoos, Edward 615 Hopper, Isaac A 275 Hopper, Jacob H 71 Horstman, Frederick W 243 Howe, William T 355 Huber, William H 352 Hulshizer, James Edwin, Jr 434 Hungerford, William Sumner. 667 Huyler, Albert V 86 INDEX PAOB. Jackson, Francis Douglas 305 Johnson, Darius S 261 Johnson, Edmund E 286 Johnson, William Mindred 166 Jones, J. Wyman 456 Justin, Rev. John 199 Justin, John Clement, M.D 200 Karl, Heniy 519 Katzenberger, Joseph 587 Kehoe, John 498 Keller, John, M.A 570 Kelley, John M 533 Kelly, James A 427 Kelly, Simon 353 Kennedy, John J 176 Kennel, Joseph 588 Kiesewetter, Louis 433 Kimmerly, Frank Henry 526 Kingsland, Edmund W 67 Kipp, James 96 Kipp, William De Graw 98 Klass, John F 542 Koch, Frank 527 Koester, Ernest 187 Knox, Eugene De Witt 449 Krehs, Clemens A 397 Kudlich, William Tell, M.D 535 Kiihl, Henry, Sr 404 Kiihl, Henry, Jr 405 Kuhn, John 536 Kunz, Jacob 635 La Fetra Daniel W 508 La Roche, William Tell, D.D.S 560 Lachmann, Charles 589 Lachmund, John H., Jr 543 Laffey, Walter E 522 Lane, John 144 Laroe Family 169 Lawless, Martin 306 Lawrence, David W 205 Lawrence, Robert Linn 119 Lawrence, William Sumner 475 Leake, Eugene Walter 644 Lee, John F 453 Leicht, William Keudel 343 Lemmermann, Henry 491 Leonard, Clement De R 316 PAOE. Letts, Alonzo Worden 326 Leuly, Albert 631 Lillis, James T 279 Limouze, George 470 Lindemann, John H 273 Lippineott, Job Hilliard 678 Lockwood, David L 536 Long, Charles Frederick 473 Lord, Robert F 215 Loveridge, Edgar H 503 Lowry, Stewart 310 Lozier, John B 605 Lozier, Lemuel 604 Luhmaim, Conrad 585 Luhmann, Ernest 584 Luxtou, Charles 323 Luxton, George John 324 Lydecker, Cornelius 145 Lydon, Mark 615 Mabie Family 171 MacCollum, Cornelius 690 Macdonald, John Henry 303 Magee, Eugene Van Artsdalen 234 Maguire, Peter F 544 Manners, Edwin, A.M 117 Marion, John Francis 220 Marion, William Clayborn 230 Marks, Maurice 539 Marshall, Robert J 576 Marshall, Samuel J., Jr 576 Marshall, William C 576 Matthews, John 528 Maulbeek, Sebastian 407 McAuley, John 446 McCarty, William E 419 McCroskery, Michael C 579 McCrea, David W 204 McCurniu, Joseph Aloysius 439 McDermott, Edward 245 McDermott, Frank P 301 McDonough, Francis M 490 McFadden, George Howard, M.D 539 McGee, Charles 383 McGee, Flavel 299 McGill, Alexander Taggart, A.M., LL. D. 55 McKenzie, William 529 McMahon, Aloysius 599 McMahon, John P 483 INDEX McMahon, Thomas J 391 MeNally, James F 686 McNamara, Thomas Charles, M.D 411 McQuillan, Charles 466 Masks, Hamilton Victor 297 Meierdierck, John H 593 Meisoh, Sebastian 543 Meister, Gustave D 610 Melville, Frank H 183 Menegaiix, Louis Albert 317 Meroer, James Wright 190 Merseles Family 172 Meyer Family 168 Michel, George 611 Michel, John Robert 612 Miller, James W 472 Mittag, Frank O 531 Mittag, James S 531 Mondorf, Camillus 477 Moore, John W 550 Moore, Peter E 118 Morrison, Richard 600 Moylan, John 587 Moylan, Michael Francis 408 Mullaney, G. W 540 MuUer, John M 408 Mulligan, James F 583 Mulvaney, John Joseph 404 Murray, Daniel J 597 Naugle, David 398 Necker, William 488 Neely, Samuel A. J 572 Neer, Henry Crippen, M.D 596 Neuscheler, Louis C 441 Nevin, John, M.D 443 Nevin, John Joseph 161 Newbery, Isaac L 189 Newkirk, James S 131 Nienaber, George 689 Noe, William 608 Northrop, James Prentice 304 Nungesser, Henry 693 O'Brien, Thomas 406 O'Brine, James 372 O'Callaghan, Edward A . . 443 O'Donnell, John 424 Oetjen, John 438 FAOE. O'Leary, John 615 Olendorf , John 386 O'Neil, James H 597 O'Neill, Dennis 697 O'Neill, William Montague 467 Otis, John E 314 Outwater Family 169 Parmly, Duncan Dunbar 82 Parmly, Randolph 82 Parmly, Wheeloek Hendee, D.D 79 Parry, Joseph Saunders 370 Parsell, Lewis B., M.D 556 Peack Family 174 Pearsall, James W 288 Pierce, Harvey C 396 Pilson, Joseph H 456 Pinnell, Charles 616 Poor, Frank B 217 Porter, Millard Fillmore 543 Post, John H 72 Post, Thomas J 276 Potts, J. Herbert 220 Powless Family 175 Prendergast, James F 384 Puster, Henry 170 Quackenbush Family 178 Ramsey, John Rathbone 146 Randall, Charles Wesley 146 Reed, Samuel Burrage 291 Rees, William R 517 Reid, Gabriel B 342 Reilly, John 613 Reilly, John J 615 Beinhardt, John 389 Rich, Augustus A 214 Richardson, Milton T 155 Riesenberger, George 563 Ringger, Jacob 402 Rippe, Frederick 592 Ritchie, Michael Ney 624 Rix, Frank Stewart 579 Roberson, Horace 620 Roche, John W 248 Roehr, Christopher D 610 Rogge, Bernhard 611 Romaine, Isaac / 78 INDEX FAOE, Romeyn, James A 139 Rothe, Henry Emory, M.D 565 Rottman, Christian C 591 Ruempler, Carl Henry 335 Russell, Samuel Pliillips, D.D.S 609 Rvitau, Daniel 175 Rutman, George H 375 Ryan, William C 585 Ryerson Family 179 Sahner, Emil 528 Salter, William D 503 Sandford, Oscar 430 Sargent, Edward 385 Schaefer, Oeorge Washington 601 Sehiudler, Charles A., Sr 192 Schindler, Charles A., Jr 193 Schleicher, Adolph 422 Schmidt, William H 435 Scholp, Gustav W 369 Schultze, Charles 447 Schuyler Family 176 Schwartz, Frederick A 469 Seaman, George H 584 Seeley, John 328 Seery, Peter H 417 Seguine, Ezra K 360 Seitz, Arthur 283 Seitz, August 282 Seiifert, William Marshall 609 Sejrmour, Egbert 129 Shafer, John 513 Sharkey, Hugh 599 Shuart, James 306 Sickles Family 179 Silliman, Chauneey H 223 Singer, Charles, Jr 358 Sip, Jan Adrainse 180 Slote Family 182 Smedberg, Alfred 608 Smith, Abell 206 Smith, Baker B 194 Smith, Charles 463 Smith, Edward 317 Smith Family 182 Smith, James 234 Smith, William 403 Smith, William B 542 Sneden Family 183 PAGE. Snow, William D 500 Snyder, George M 328 Soley, Charles R 491 Solfleisch, Henry W 432 Speer Family 209 Speer, William Henry 542 Spindler, John 580 Springer, Moses B 164 St. John, David, M.D 346 Stack, Joseph Francis Xavier, M.D . . . 223 Stack, Maurice J 250 Stagg, Peter W 258 Stanton, Walter 598 Staples, Markham E 128 Stephens, James H 266 Stevens, Edwin Augustus 494 Stevens, Frank 572 Stevens, George 211 Stevens, James Alexander 494 Stevens, John 492 Stevens, John Cox 493 Stevens, Robert Livingston 494 Stever, Arthur J 573 Stewart, William Lewis 303 Stillwell, Peter 598 Stilson, Henry J 389 Stockfish, Henry, Jr 445 Stockton, John Potter 571 Storm, George Wilkinson 212 Storms, Henry 545 Striffler, Edward C 228 Stuart, Benjamin Cumberland 520 Stuhr, William Sebastian 280 Stuke, Frank J 387 Stumpp, Charles Otto 385 Succow, August John Frederick 580 Sullivan, Patrick 499 Swenson, Elof 582 Swiss, George 540 Symes, James Henry 336 Syms, John George 331 Tallman, Abram 506 Tallman, William 507 Talmage, David Mather 581 Terhune Family 210 Thompson, Charles Dederer 577 Thompson, William 255 Thomson, Charles A 570 INDEX Thourot, Alphonse 366 Tilley, Rev. William James 115 Tilt, Sheldon 548 Timken, Herman L 674 Toers Family 212 Toffey, John James 313 Tolen, William 428 Tooker, George E 573 Traphagen, Henry 606 Ullmyer, Pliilip J 394 Usher, Thomas B 327 Van Blarcom, John H 607 Van Buskirk, Jacob L 190 Van Bussum Family 208 Vandelinda Family 172 Vanderbeok Family 240 Vanderbilt, Henry Hope 308 VanderhofB Family 212 Van Deventer, David Provoost 564 Van Dien Family 239 Van Dusen Family 213 Van Dyck, Vedder 198 Van Gelder Family 237 Van Giesen Family 242 Van Horn Family 236 Van Horn, William 600 Van Houten Family 237 Van Orden Family 244 Van Reipen, Garret D 594 Van Riper, Frederick P 521 Van Saun Family 242 Van Sickle, William M 229 Van Valen, James M 537 Van Valen, Ralph. . 479 Van Voorst Family 244 Van Wagenen Family 246 Van Winkle Family 246 Varian, Ward 574 Vestle, Richard 362 Verilhac, Oscar 420 Vogt, Theodore J 416 Volger, Theodore G 567 Volk, Anthony Jacob 265 Von Drehle, Garret 579 Voorhees, John J 83 Voorhis, Charles E 84 Voorhis, William H 232 PAGE. Voorhis, William WiUcox 276 Vredenburgh, James B 103 Vreeland, Jesse Kimball 262 Wakelee, Edmund W 186 Waldons, Hugo Frank 419 Walker, Herman 249 Wallace, James G 345 Wallis, Hamilton 253 Wallwork, James 414 Walscheid, J. Emil 599 Walsh, Walter A 445 Ward, George 598 Ward, Henry 571 Waters, Robert 377 Weismann, Adolph 438 Weismann, Adolph William 436 Weismann, Ferdinand 437 Westervelt, Charles H 562 Westervelt, Edwin A., D.D.S 564 Westervelt Family 99 Westervelt, John J 250 Westervelt, Samuel 100 Westervelt, Warner W 109 Wetyen, Charles W 585 Wheeler, George Wakemau 208 Whelan, Joseph H 585 White, Addison D 311 White Family 247 White, Henry Simmons 113 White, John 438 White, Wallace, M.D 369 Whiteside, William J 373 Whittles, Jeremiah Clare 342 Wiedermann, Walter W 481 Wiley, George Lourie 173 Wilhelm, James 580 Wilhelm, John P 359 Wilhelm, William Henry 325 Williams, George Albert 580 Williams, John B 367 Williams, Joseph L 352 Winton, Henry D 88 WoUenhaupt, Theodore F 588 Wood, Lorenzo, Jr 430 Wortendyke, Raymond P 91 Wortendyke, Robert H 472 Wortendyke, Rynier J 102 INDEX PAGE. Wouters, Herman Hubert 425 Wragg, Joseph Elliott 319 Wray, William 566 Wray, William Jforrls 566 Wriglit, William 543 Wyckoff, Charles W 347 Wyrill, George 443 PAGE. Young, Edwin Berkley 134 Zahriskie, Abraham Oothout 49 Zabriskie, David Demarest 137 Zeller, John 284 Zimmerman, George 581 Zisgen, John W 600