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GENEALOGICAL HISTORY

OF

Hudson and Bergen Counties

NEW JERSEY

CORNELIUS BURNHAM HARVEY

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Hail to posterity !

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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

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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.

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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

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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-

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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,

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HUDSON COUNTY
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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-

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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

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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.)

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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.

October,

1693.

3.

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.

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.

Hackensack and New Barbadoes.

Saddle River and Franklin.

Harrington.

Franklin.

Harrison in Hudson County.

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.

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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-

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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

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2.

Ridgefield.

May 25,

1892.

Ridgefield.

3.

Ridgefleld Park.

May 25,

1892.

Ridgefield.

4.

Tenafly.

June 23,

1894.

5.

East Rutherford.

March 29,

1894.

Boiling Springs.

6.

Uelford.

May 7,

1894.

Midland.

7.

CreskiU.

May 8,

1894.

8.

Westwood.

May 8,

1894.

Washington.

9.

Park Ridge.

May 14,

1894.

Washington.

10.

Bergenfields.

June 2,

1894.

11.

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.

November 19,

1894.

Orvil.

25.

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.

30.

Cliffside Park.

January 15,

1895.

Ridgefield.

31.

Englewood ClifBs.

May 19,

1895.

32.

North Arlington.

March 9,

1896.

Union.

33.

Eastwood.

March 26,

1896.

Washington.

34.

Garfield.

March 15,

1898.

Wallington Borough.

35.

March 22,

1899.

Ridgefield.

1 The name of Sohraalenburgh Borough was changed to Dumont in 1899.

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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.'

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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 <le >'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

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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-

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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

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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

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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-

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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.

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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

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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-

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

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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-
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

Dutch

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

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

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
Jacob Eldertsan Brower
Thomas Brown
Burger Joris
Hendrick Bosh
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

New York

Gronengen

Amsterdam

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

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

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
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
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

Germany

SICKLES

Austrian

Zacharias Sickels

Vienna

Austria

SIP

Dutch

Amsterdam

Holland

SIMMONS

English

George Simmons

Pennsylvania

SIVERT

German

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

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

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<i81, he wooed and wedded Miss Jenneke Blaeck, by whom he
had at least (wo children. After his removal to Bergen County his wife
died and he married Hillegorid Bosch, by whom he had two children.

A.braham, the youngest of the children, married, in 168.3, at New York,
Aeltje Van Lear, by whom he had six children before his removal to New
-Jersev, and four more in New Jersey. Lawrence and David were the first
of the familv to remove to Bergen County in 1686. Lodowyck and Abraham
followed in 1694. They all settled on large tracts of land between the
llackensack and Saddle Ei\'ers, and also west of the Saddle River. The
family became very numerous both in Bergen and in what is now called
Passaic Count.v. Numerous members of the family have been the most
active and inliuential in the county, and have been honored with town,
county, and State offices. Others have been important factors in religious
work, and have attained eminence in various branches of learning.

Lawrence Ackerman was buried at Wyckoff or Oakland. His children
were ,Iohn and James.

John Ackeriaan, son of Lawrence, married Catherine Rosnaine. Both
are buried at Wyckoff or Oakland. Their children were Lawrence, Nicholas,
and James.

Xirholas Ackerman, son of John, was born January 24, 1795, died June
1, ] SG9, married Polly or Maria Snyder, who was born in 1801, died March
24, 1877. Their children were John N., born January 28, 1818; Abraham,
born August 27, 18.30; and George.

John N. Ackerman, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Franklin
Township, Bergen County, N. J., January 28, 1818, and is now one of the
oldest residents of Hackensack. He is the eldest son of Nicholas Ackerman
and Polly or Maria Snyder, a grandson of John Ackerman and Catharine
Iiomeyn, and a great-grandson of Lawrence Ackerman. He was educated
in the public schools of Franklin Township. He left home at the age of
fifteen, and for two years worked at the trade of carriage making. Since
then he has earned his own livelihood. When seventeen he went to New
York City and learned the carpenter's trade, mastering every branch.
In 1837 he returned to Hackensack, N. J., married Rachel R. Vanderbeek,
and engaged in business as a manufacturer of sash, doors, and blinds,
which he followed with marked success until 1896, a period of fifty-nine
years. He then retired to enjoy in private life the fruits of a long and
honorable career. Mr. Ackerman has resided in Hackensack since he es-
tablished himself in business there in 1837, and from the first has taken
an active interest in the growth and development of the town, and all those
iMiblic matters which appeal to the progressive spirit of a patriotic, ener-
getic citizen. Though never aspiring to office, and as a rule avoiding
political life, he was for ten years a Justice of the Peace, and in this and
other minor capacities has displayed great ability, sound judgment, and
commendable enterprise.

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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,

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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. ' '

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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-

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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

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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<iok. The westerly
part of this was soon cleared and stocked and a family mansion erected
on the east side of the old road leading to Piermont. Matthew P. Bogert
followed agricultural pursuits until his death in 17si. His children of
the fourth generation were Peter M., Sophia, Cornelius, Maria, Matthew M.,
^laria, and Dowe.

ilatthew M. Bogert (4th gen.) by will obtained and resided on part of
the homestead of his father at Closter until his death. He married, in 1777,
Sarah Bogert, a relative of his. who survived him. He served as a private
in the X"ew Jersey militia in 1776. He was a farmer and left children of
the fifth generation, to wit: Margaretta, Sarah, ilaria, Matthew M., Albert
M., and Sophia.

Matthew M. Bogert (5th gen.), born Xovember 6, 1770, died March 30,
1S71, married May 9, 1801, ^Yillempie Haring, born March 28, 17S3, died
July 25, 1859. Matthew M. (5) was also a farmer and resided on the home-
stead occupied by his ancestors at Closter. His children of the sixth
generation were Sally, Jane, Margaret, Maria, and Jacob M.

Jacob M. Bogert (6th gen.), born at Closter, X. J., May 15, I8l0, died
March 18, 1871, married, Xovember 30, 1812, Maria Haring. born in 1823.
She survives him and resides in Hackensack. He was a farmer by oe-

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cupation. Their children of the seventh generation were Henry Ver Valen
(decoiiBed). Matthew J., Cornelia, Sarah Jane, Leah, and Huvler.

Matthew J. Bogert (7th gen.), the subject of this sketch, born at Closter,
N. J., May 1, 1846, was educated in the public schools at Closter and worked
on his father's farm until 1864, when he became a clerk in the wholesale
store of Piingborn & Bronner in New York City. Later he became a book-
keeper in the hardware house of H. Carter & Son. May 22, 1873, he married
Miss Mary A. Hopper, daughter of James Gr. Hopper, of Etna, N. J. In
1874 he embarked in the business of wood-turning in Pearl Street, New
York. This he made a success, and with his partner, Abraham J. Hopper,
now conducts an extensive business in William Street, New York, with
mills at Kingsfield, Me. Mr. Bogert is an active, energetic, and thoroughly
practical business man. Though an active Republican, with the exception
of being Postmaster at Demarest, N. J., since 1892, he has never held any
really political office. He has for several years been a member of the
School Board of Harrington Township, and for twelve years has been a
Director and Treasurer of the Harrington Building and Loan Association,
which he helped to organize. He is prominent and active in religious
work. He is now an Elder and has during several years held other offices
in the Reformed Church at Closter, and for thirteen years has been Super-
intendent of the Sunday School of that church. His living children of the
eighth generation are Jessie (married in 1900 Frederick W. Mattocks, a New
York lawyer), Virgil (now associated with his father in business), and
Clarence, who has just entered Princeton University.

JOHN M. BOGERT is descended from the same common ancestor as
Matthew J. Bogert, whose genealogy has been given. Peter M. Bogert,
of the fourth generation from Jan Louwe Bougaerdt and son of Matthew
P. Bogert (3d gen.), was born at Closter, April 12, 1736, died there 1809,
married November 22, 1759, Rachel Banta, born 1740. He was a plain
farmer and resided near Closter on part of the lands which his father had
bought. He also purchased other lands adjoining them. His children of
the fifth generation were Margaret, Mary Ann, Matthew P., Seba, Sophia,
Samuel, and Margaret. His uncle, Peter Bogert, resided and was one of
the earliest settlers west of the Hackensack in Washington Township. He
was born in 1705 and died in 1786. He was a man of wealth, a Judge of
the Bergen County Common Pleas, and held many other offices.

Seba Bogert (5th gen.), born at Closter, March 25, 1774, died April 27,
1846, married Sarah Blackledge, born May 20, 1776, died December 20,
1811. Seba was a farmer and resided all his days at Closter. His children
of the sixth generation were Peter S., Benjamin S., Matthew S., Samuel S.,
Henry S., Jacob S., Peter S., and Rachel.

Matthew S. Bogert (6th gen.), born at Closter, April 9, 1799, died October
23, 1S74, married January 31, 1824, Maria Kipp, who died March 2, 1833.
He married (2) November 13, 1833, Margaret Christie, widow, born October
27, 1794, died September 18, 1874. Matthew S. Bogert was a farmer, but
was active in township affairs. His children of the seventh generation
were Seba M. (now a Wall Street broker), Eliza, Sally, Catharine, David
(a soldier in the Union army who died in the service), John M., and Samuel
M., who served as a Union soldier and died April 5, 1871.

John M. Bogert (7), the subject of this sketch, was born at Closter, N. J.,
August 6, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm, where he imbibed a

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great liking for horses, which he still entertains. His business is farming
and training horses for speed. He married, June 5. 1858, Jane Bogert a
daughter of John J. Bogert, born August 26, 1889. Upon his father's death
he succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead at Closter, where he
now resides. They have had seven children of the eight generation to wit-
Margaret (died), David, Clark, Morton, Emma (died), Mabel (died), and
Elmer.

David Bogert (8th gen.) married in 1885 and has issue four children of
the ninth generation, and Morton has one child.

GAERET A. HARING.— The City of Hoorn is located on a small arm of
the Zuyder Zee in Holland. It is now a place of little importance, but from
the beginning of the fifteenth to the seventeenth centurv it was a city of
considerable magnitude and trade. During the Spanish wars it was suffi-
ciently so to be fortified and stubbornly defended bv the Sijanish under
Admiral De Bossu. It glories in being the birthplace of William t^chouten,
who in 1616 first doubled the southmost cape of South America, which he
named after his birthplace. Cape Horn. Abel Jansen Tasman, who dis-
covered Van Dieman's Land and New Zeeland, was also a native of Hoorn.
Back from the city the land is low but fertile, adapted to grazing and dairy
purposes. jManufacturing and shipbuilding were, two centuries ago. exten-
sively carried on there. It was at Hoorn that the great fleet of Admiral De
Ruyter was built. But the most extensive of its varied interests were its
herring fisheries, which weie numerous and of great value, employing large
numbers of men.

Among the families residing at Hoorn were the Harings. The name is
mentioned on the pages of history as far back as 157.!, and when the Dutch
were defeated at the battle of Diemark, in that year, it is related of one
John Haring, of Hoorn, tliat lie stood with sword and helmet, on a narrow
part of the dyke, and singly by miracles of valor kept back a thousand
Spaniards, until his ((imrades had made their retreat. Then plunging into
the sea, he escaped unhurt. Xot long afterward, in a sea fight, he climbed
on board the great Spanish ship " The Inquisitor " and hauled down her
flaunting colors and was fatally pierced by a bullet. Among his descend-
ants Pieter Jansen Haring (1) is said to have been a native of Neweu-
huysenin Holland, wliere he was born in 1610, and from whence he removed
to Hoorn. His third son, Jan Pietersen Haring (L'j, one of a large family,
was born at Hoorn, December 26, 1633. He emigrated to America in KKiO,
and on Whitsuntide in 1662 became the second husband of a young widow
named Margaretta Cozine, born in Haarlem, Holland, in 1634. This was
the first marriage in the Dutch Church, on the farm called the Bowery,
which church was situated where now stands St. Mark's Church, corner
of East Eleventh Street and Second Avenue, in New York.

John Pietersen Haring purchased and resided until his death (December
7, 1683) on a farm of 100 acres, which extended from the Bowery Lane
westward to and beyond Bedford Street, including both sides of Broadway,
from Waverly Place to Bleecker Street. His descendants continued for
more than a century to own portions of it. John Pietersen Haring (2) had
children of the third generation Peter, Cozine, Cornelius, .\braham, Brechie,
Vroutie, and Maretie. All of these with their mother. Margaretta Cozine,
removed to Tappan in 1686. The widow had previously (February 2, KiS-l)
taken a third husband in the person of Daniel de Clark, by whom she left

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no issue. John Pietersen Haring's children all married and settled at or
near Tappan on the Tappan patent, of which two of the sons were joint pur-
chasers with de Clark, the Blawvelts, Smiths, and others, in 1686. They
all reared large families. Peter, Cozine, Cornelius, and Abraham settled
within the limits of Harrington Township in Bergen T'ounty, N. J., where
their descendants are very numerous. The township received its name from
the family in 1775. Garret A. Haring, the subject of this sketch, is de-
scended in the seventh generation from John Pietersen Haring, the first
American ancestor. The line of descent is as follows: (1) John Pietersen
Haring and Margaretta Cozine, (2) Cozine Johns Haring and Margaretta
Garrets Blawvelt, (3) John Cosines Haring and Aeltje Van Dolsen, (4) Gar-
ret Johns Haring and Cornelia Lent, (.j) .\bram Garrets Haring and Eliza
beth Blawvelt, (6) Garret Abrams Haring and Maria Smith, (7j Abram
Garrets Haring and Charity Johnson, and (8) Garret Abrams Haring and
Lavina Van Houten.

Eev. Garret Abram Haring, for many years the beloved pastor of the
True Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, is one of the
oldest and best known clergymen in Eastern New Jersey. His great-grand-
father, Abram G. Haring, born May 18, 1755. settled in Tappan, N. J., and
followed agricultural pursuits. By his wife, Elizabeth Blawvelt, also of
Holland descent, he had a son. Garret A. Haring, who was born March 22,
1781, and who was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. This
Garret A. Haring settled in Ramapo, Rockland County, X. Y., and spent
his active life as a farmer and miller, dying December 12, 1861). He married
Maria Smith and had two children: Abram G. and Hetty (Mrs. Albert J.
Terhune). Abram G. Haring was born on the homestead in Rockland
County on the 16th of July, 1803, and was also a farmer, succeeding his
father in the management and ownership of the family estate. He married
Charity Johnson, of Ramapo. and had two sons: Rev. Garret A. and John
J. Mr. Haring died March 12, 18(U, after a career which equaled in use-
fulness and prominence that of his honored father, \\ho survived him nearly
six years.

Eev. Garret A. Haring, eldest son of Abiam G. and Charity (Johnson)
Haring, was born on the family homestead in Ramapo, Rockland County,
N. Y., on the ISth of November, 1829. There he also spent his early life,
acquiring in the district schools the rudiments of an education and follow
ing various business pursuits. But he ^\■as not destined for a mercantile
nor an agricultural life. His tastes were scholarly; his inclinations were
for a profession. And with this end in view he took up the study of theol
ogy. Having thoroughly fitted himself for the ministry, Air. Haring re-
ceived a call and was duly ordained pastor of the True Reformed Church
of Schraalenburgh, Bergen County, and in that capacity has labored ever
since. Under his pastorate, which covers a generation, the church has
grown and prospered until now it is one of the largest in that locality.

Mr. Haring is a man of broad scholarly attainments, of noble and gener-
ous impulses, and universally esteemed and respected, not only for his
learning and culture, but also for those affectionate and sympathetic quali-
ties which make him so jxjpular among all denominations. He has always
interested himself in the affairs of the community, and is an ardent advocate
of every movement and project wliich has the welfare of the people at heart.
He is a Democrat in politics, a friend of education, and a benevolent, patri-
otic, public spirited citizen.

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January 1, 1851, Mr. Haring married :\Iiss Lavina Van Houten. They
have three daughters: Melissa. Ellen H., and Anna Naomi.

ALBEET ZABEISKIE HARINO is a lineal descendant of Jan Pieterseii
Haring. the first emigrant of the name (see sketch on page 61). Cornelius
Jansen Haring (2) (the third of the rhildren of Jan Pietersen Haring (1) and
:N[argaretta Cozinei. born in Xew York in lOT-', married, in 1693, Catalyntie,
daughter of Judge :$atthew Elearboom, of Albany, X. Y. Cornelius re- moved to Tappan, X. Y., with other members of the'family, in 1686, and in ITiIl, when the Tappan patented lands were divided, he received as his portion a large tract in Harrington Township, on both sides of the Tappan road and extending east of that road as far as what is now North- vale. He subsequently bought of Samuel Des ilarest (2i a farm of several hundred acres near what is now Haworth, X. J., on which he erected his family mansion and resided until his death. Much of this farm remained in the ownership of his descendants up to twenty years ago. His seven chil- dren of the third geneiation were John C, Margaret, Sophia, Vroutie, Daniel <'., Cornelius C, and Jacob C. Of Ihese seven children, Cornelius C. Haring (3) married, in 1710, Rensie Blawvelt, and dying left eight children of the fourth generation: Caroline, Abraham J., Cornelius C, Margaret, Maria. Klizabeth, John C, and Sophia. Abraham Johns Haring (4j married Elizabeth Mabie. He bought and set- tled on a large farm just north of what is now called West Xorwood, in Bergen County. This farm had formerly belonged to his grandfather, Cornelius Haring (2). He left three children: John A., born in March, 17.11 (died); Peter X.] and John A. (2), born April 9, 17(12. Of these Peter A. resided on his father's farm until his death. Peter Abrams Haring (.")). horn at Xorwood, N'. J., April 16, 17."i4, married iEaiia Blawvelt, by whom he had two children of the sixth generation: Elizabeth, born Januarv 20, 177.") (married Abraham A. Blawvelt), and David P. "^ _ David Peters Haring lOi, born ilay 27, 17(.j, nmrried Lydia Zabriskie, and lived all his lifetime on a portion of his grandfather's farm near ^^'est Xorwood. His children of the seventh generation were Margaret (died I, Lavina (married John Tallman), and Peter D. Peter D. Haring (7) married Betsey Bogert, and had issue of the eighth generation David P. (married Catharine Bmss). Samuel B. (married Letly Blawvelt), Albert Z., X'ewton (diedl, Ann Maria (married Isaac Onderdonk), and James (married Jane A'an Houten). Albert Zabriskie Haring, the subject of this sketch, was born near Xor wood, X. J., December 21, 1S4(). He attended the common schools of Bergen County until fourteen years of age, and then became a clerk in the grocery business, which occupation he followed for a number of years. In 1871 he entered as a cleik the Hudson ( "ount^ Xational Bank of Jersey City, then under the management of John Armstrong, John ^'an Vorst, and Hon. A. A. Hardenburgh. He has been in the bank for twenty-nine years, has occupied various positions in it. and for the past twelve years has been its Paying Teller. He married in 1S66 Jemima, the daughter of the late Senator Ralph S. Demarest, and has two children of the ninth generation: ("hauncey and Minnie C. The latter is married and has issue of the tenth generation, Clarisse. born in 1900. He has a summer residence at Den)arest. X. J. 64 HUDSON AND BEEGEN COUNTIES ELMER WILSON DEMAREST is a direct descendant of Jean des Marest (1), a prominent citizen and resident of Beauchamp in the Province of Picardy, Prance. There, about 1620, was born his son, David des Marest (2), who, upon reaching manhood, espoused the Protestant faith and fled to Holland to escape persecution, locating at Middleburgh on the Island of Walcheron in Zealand. Here, on July 24, 1643, David married Maria, a daughter of Fran- gois Sohier, of Nieppe, a town in Hainault. The couple resided at Middle- burgh until 1651, when they removed to Manheim on the Rhine River, in the lower Palatinate, then under the pro- t( ction of the Elector Charles Lewis. At Manheim, the Protes- tants were already being threatened by the Catholic princes, and David des Marest, with others of a like religious faith, determined to go to America for >>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>..^ <*<m.«^C/^ ^/s^XiIh^ i'-r^-ryu i^^i-^L^l /r I if o / (rARRtlT I. DEMAREST is descended from the same common ancestor as is Elmer Wilson Demarest (see sketch on page 64). David des Marest, the first American em.igrant of the name, had a great-grandson. Garret Jacobus des Marest (5), who married Jacomyntie Tunis Helms, and had fifteen children. One of these, John G. Demarest (6), was born at Schraal- enburgh, January 23, 1771, and died there November 6, 18.34. He married Catharine Blawvelt, who died May 4, 1849, aged seventy-one years eleven months. John G. was a farmer and had issue ten children, of whom John J. Demarest (7), born at Schraalenburgh, N. J., November 1, 1824, married Elizabeth, a daughter of Weirt Banta and Margaret Demarest. John G. Demarest was a farmer and resided near the North Church at Schraalenburgh. He left two children. Garret I. and Margaret. Garret I. Demarest (8), the subject of this sketch, was born at Schraalen- burgh May 25, 1828. He is a prominent farmer and resides in the Borough of Dumont on part of the farm originally owned by his French ancestor. All of his long line of ancestors, both paternal and maternal, have been honored citizens of Bergen County, active and influential in local affairs of both church and State. Mr. Demarest was educated in the public schools of Schraalenburgh, which he attended until he reached the age of sixteen. Since that time he has devoted his energies to the conduct of the old family homestead. He succeeded his father on the farm, and through his integrity, industry, and sound judgment has achieved marked success. Having been born and reared on the place he has always occupied and now owns, he has imbibed the associations and traditions which have descended to him from an hon- orable ancestry, and from the first has improved and beautified the home so dear to him and his family by reason of these ancestral connections. His patriotism is attested by his service of nine months in the Civil War as a sergeant in the Twenty-second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. He was for one year a member of the Town Council, is a member of the North GENEALOGICAL 67 Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, and enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellowmen. Mr. Demarest married Miss Catherine Demarest, a member of another branch of the Bergen County Demarests. They have had three daughters of the ninth generation from their original French ancestor. DAVID DEMAREST is another of the lineal descendants of David des Marest and his wife, Maria Sohier, who came to America in 1CG2 (see sketch on page 64). The emigrant had a. great-grandson, David Demarest, who resided at Schraalenburgh more than a hundred years ago. This last named David had several children, one of whom was James D. Demarest Oi. born at Schraalenburgh March 2, 1763, died there April 2S, ]s;!0. tlis wife Rachel, born July 28, 176S, died April 26. 1828. James D. was a farmer residing at Schraalenburgh. One of liis several ( hildren was Abraham J. Demarest (7), who married Rachel Blawvelt, daughter of David Blaw- velt. They lived at Schraalenburgh. Both of them have been dead several years. Among their children was David Demarest. David Demarest (S), the subject of this sketch, was born at Schraal- enburgh (now Dumont) February 1, 18-32. He owns and resides on part of the farm which his French ancestor owned two hundred and twenty three years ago. This tract has passed from father to son in an unbroken line for more than two centuries. In a barn on the jirciniscs is a beam which was first used in a barn on the same farm in 1721. ;\[r. Demarest was educated in the public schools of the county. At the age of seventeen he ceased studying books and took charge of the old family homestead, which he has ever since conducted. During the War nf the Rebellion he served nine months as a private in the Twenty-second Regiment Xew Jersey Volunteers, being honorably discharged at the end (if his term of enlist- ment. Mr. Demarest is regarded as one of the liest and most substantial farmers in Bergen County, where he has s]ient his entire life. He is deeply interested in public affairs, active and prompt in the support of all worthy objects, prominently identified with the welfare of the community, and thoroughly alive to the needs of his fellow citizens. As a member of th( North Reformed Church of Schraalenlnirglr he has been influential in pro- moting various moral and intellectual movements which have contributed materially to the general welfare. In early life ^Ir. Demarest married Christina de T'.aun. who died May 11, 1895. They were the parents of five children — four daughters and a son— of the ninth generation. EDMUND W. KIXOSLAND, President of the Provident Institution for Savings of Jersey City and one of the ablest and best known financiers in Eastern New Jersey, was born in Jersey City on the 15th of Decemlier, 183!). his parents being Edmund W. and Sarah A. Kingsland. He is a direct descendant in the sixth generation from Isaac Kingsland, an Englishman from the Parish of Clirist Church, on the Island of Barbadoes, W. I., and a nephew of Major Xathaniel Kingsland, of the same place. On July 4, IGtis, one Captain William Sandford, also of Barbadoes, W. I., purchased of the Hackensack Indians a tract of land between the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, extending "northward about seven miles." This purchase was made in the interest of Major Kingsland. On June 1, 1671, the Major con- veved the south half of this to Sandford and kept the north half after ex- tinguishing the Indian title. By the :Major's will, dated ilarch 11, 1685, 68 HUDSON AND BEUCEN COUNTIES he gave one-thiid of his New Jersey lands— about 3,402 acres— to his nephew Isaac. Isaac's residence was at Kingsland Manor near Rutherford in Bergen County. His descendants arc still numerous in both Bergen and Hudson Counties. The name of his wife does not appear. p]dmund W. Kingsland received his early educational training under the tutorship of the late William Leverett Dickenson, and subsequently at- tended the New York I'olvtechnical School, from which he was graduated with honor in the class of 18.56. After completing his studies, which were designed to fit him for the practical affairs of life, he accejrted a clerkship in the wholesale notion house of Lyman Cook & Co., of New York City, and re- mained with them until 1863, gaining a broad and accurate knowledge of business matters as well as the entire confidence and respect of his em- ployers. [n 1863 Mr. Kingsland resigned his position as clerk for Lyman Cook & Co. and was made general clerk of the Provident Institiition for Savings in Jersey City. There he soon gained recognition for those abilities which have ever since characterized his business life and which have long made him a powerful factor in local financial circles. He gradually rose by pro- motion and in 188S was elected Secretary and Treasurer, which positions he filled with great energy and satisfaction until July 20, 1896, when he was elected President. In this capacity he has maintained and in a large meas- ure increased the prestige and substantial character of the Provident In- stitution for Savings, making it one of the soundest and best known fidu- ciary concerns in Eastern New Jersey. Mr. Kingsland is one of the leading citizens of Jersey City, where he has spent his entire life. He is public spirited, progressive, and enterprising, thoroughly identified with every project which promises advancement to the communit}', and generously encourages those movements that have the wel fare of the place at heart. He is a member of the I'nion League Club of Jersey City, a man of broad and accurate learning, and universally re- spected and esteemed. In 1877 he married Miss Justine Bayard Blackwell, of New York City, and of their five children two are living. DAVID D. BLAWVELT.— After the Demarests and Harings, the Blaw velts are the most numerous of the families that settled the northern part of Bergen (^'ounty. On the east bank of the River Yssel, in the Province of Overyssel, in Holland, nestles the by no means sleepy town of Deventer — the birthplace of the great Gronovios and the still greater (iroote, — a town of iron foundries and carpet manufactories, famous for its " honey- cakes," — a species of gingerbread, tons of which are annually shipped to different parts of the kingdom. The ^'alley of the Yssel, traversed as it is by numerous tributaries to the river, is exceedingly fertile, and the lands about Deventer are among the most productive of any in Holland. Near Deventer, in 1623, was born of well-to-do Dutch parents one Garret Hen- dricksen, who, as a youth, is said to have been possessed of a restless spirit. In 1644 he tired of agricultural pursuits, left the paternal fold, and found his way to Amei'ica, landing, as all emigrants in those days did, at New Amsterdam. Two years later he married Mary, the eldest dauohter of Ljimbert Moll, a native of Berne, who had emigrated to America a few years earlier and was then domiciled at Bushwick, L. I. Garret Hen- dricksen and his wife, Mary Moll, lived and died in New Amsterdam, having had thirteen children, most of whom adopted the surname of Blaw- fiENEALonrcAii 69 velt (Blue-Field), in memory, it is said, of the blue hills about Devonter. Of Garret Hendricksen's sons, Hybert, John, Abraham, and Isaac niawvelt were destined to transplant the name in Bergen County, principally in Harrington and Washington Townships. Hybert and John (2) joined in the purchase of the Tappan patent, in lG8(i,' and in lOSD, with others of the family, became members of the Tappan settlejnent. Hybert mar- ried, April 15, 1679, Wellempie Ariense, a sister of one of his co-patentees, and located in Harrington Township on the Tappan road, just north of what was once known as the " Old Jug " tavern. His brother Abraham (2) settled on the west side of the road leading along the run north of the mill, late of Peter A. Demarest. Isaac and another brother settled on a large tract on which are now the residences of John R. Herring and others. Like the Demarests and Harings, though not to such an extent, the Elawvelts had much to do with the administration of civil, military, and religious affairs of Bergen County. David D. Blawvelt is of the sixth generation in direct line from Garret Hendricksen, the emigrant. He was born at Tappan, Bergen County, November 17, 1819, and is a son of David C. Blawvelt (who was born February 10, 1773, died January :5(). 183.5, married Maria Demarest, born April 12, 1770, died May 13, 1843). a grandson of Cornelius Blawvelt (born January !l, 1711. died January 11, 1S32), who also married a Demarest. His father had six children — four sons and two daughters: one daughter died in 1821, aged nineteen; the other July 0, 1887, aged eighty-eight; James D. Blawvelt died in 1891, at the age of ninety; Cornelius D. died aged eighty-two; and John D. is still living at tlie age of eighty-four. Educated in the public schools of his native county and reared amid scenes of ances- tral associations and agricultural activity, ilr. Blawvelt started, at the early age of sixteen, to learn the trade of cabinet making, which he followed successfully for fourteen years, gaining in the business a wide and honor- able reputation. But this was not to be his life work. The influences and surroundings of his youth drew him back to rural pursuits, and since 18.j3 he has been actively engaged in farming in Wchraalenburgh. When the War of the Eebellion broke out Mr. Blawvelt enlisted in the Union cause, becoming first sergeant of Company C, I'wenty-second Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. He served nine months, returned with an honorable discharge, and resumed his labors on the farm. In public life Mr. Blawvelt has rendered valuable service to his town and fellow citizens. He was surveyor of township roads for a number of years, one of the Township Committee for three years, a member of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders for four years. Town Assessor for six years, and a member of the Town Council for three years. In each of these capacities he displayed eminent ability, sound judgment, and great sagacity. He has been a consistent member of the Dutch Re- formed Church since April, 1860. Mr. Blawvelt has been married fifty-eight years, his wife's maiden name being Elizabeth Quackenbush. They have had eight children, seven of whom — four sons and four daughteis — are living. They also have thirty- four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, ilr. Blawvelt inherited and early developed the sturdy characteristics of his race, and, emulating his ancestors' worthy lives, has instilled into the minds of his descendants those qualities of head and heart which have served him so well, and which have won for him the confidence and respect of the entire community. 70 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES GILBERT COLLINS, a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey was born in Stoningtoii, New London County, Conn., August 26, 184b, and is a descendant of an old English family which originally came from Kent, England. His great-great-grandparents were Daniel Collins and Alice Pell. His great-grandfather, Daniel Collins (17:32-181!)), of Stonington, served in the Revolutionaij War, and according to existing records was First Lieutenant in the First Regiment Connec- tiiut line, formation of 1777, and it is also known that he was iu service from 1775. He married Anne Potter. His son Gilbert (1789- 1865), grandfather of the present Gilbert Collins, served several terms in the Connecticut Legisla- ture. His wife was Prudence Frink. Judge Collins's father, Daniel Prentice Collins (born in 1813, died in 1862), was a manufacturer in Ston- ington throughout his life; he also had busi- ness relations in Jersey City, and on this ac- count his son eventually made choice of that city as his field of labor and his home. His mother, Sarah R., was a descend- ant of the Wells family, of Connecticut. Judge Collins was prepared for Yale Col- lege, but the death of his father and the in- volved state in which his financial affairs were left rendered the completion of his course there impracticable. The family, which consisted of his mother and one sister, removed to Jersey City, N. J., in 1863, and in 1865 he there entered the law office of Jonathan Dixon, now a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in February, 1869, and as a counselor in February, 1872. On January 1, 1870, he became a partner of Mr. Dixon and continued in that relationship until that gentleman was elevated to the bench in April, 1875. He afterward formed a partnership with Charles L. Corbin. In 1881 William H. Corbin was admitted as a member of the firm, which continued under the style of Collins & Corbin till March 8, 1897, when Mr. Collins was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, which position he still holds, having recently been assigned to the Hudson circuit. GILBERT COLLINS. GENEALOGICAL 71 His jury practice was the largest in his county, and probably was not exceeded by that of any one in the State. He was counsel for the Hudson County National Bank, of which he ^as a Director; counsel for the Xew Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Oompany, of which he was one of the founders and active promoters; and local counsel for the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. Judge Collins is, in politics, a Republican; he has been nominated by his party for State Senator (1880) once and for Congress U\ice (ISS:! anil 1888). For two years, from May, 1884, to May, 1886^ he served as Mayor of Jersey City, having been elected by a combination of an independent organization of citizens with the Republicans. For five yeais previous to 1893 he served as Chairman of the Republican County Committee, when he declined a re-election. June 2, 1870, he was married to Harriet Kingsbury Bush. Of their six children, a son and two daughters survive. Their son, Walter Collins, was graduated with honors from Williams ( 'ollege, and is now practicing law in Jersey City. Judge Collins is a member of the Union League and Palma Clubs of Jersey City, and one of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Revolution. JACOB H. HOPPER.— The Hopper family, it is said, started in France. They spelled the name Hoppe, and finally changed it to Hopper. Some of them went to Holland during times of religious persecution. It is known that Andries (Andrew) Hop^jer came to America from A msterdam, Holland, with a wife (and, perhaps, two or three children), as early as 1633, and lo- cated in the (,'ity of Xew ^Vmsterdam. The name of his wife does not appear in the Xew Jersey records. After their arrival the couple had three chil- dren born to them: AMlliam in 1051, Hendrick in KJ.jG, and Matthew in 1658. Of the three last named children William (2) married Jlynen Paulus and had issue three children: Christina, Gertrude, and Belitie (Bridget), all born in Xew Amsterdam, ^^'illiam's two brothers, Hendrick (2j and Matthew (2), went to Bergen (Jersey Cityj in KiSO. There, on March 14, of the same year, Hendrick (2) married ^fary Johns Van Blarkum, a daughter of the American emigrant of that name, and April 15, 1683, Matthew (2) married Ann Peterse. afterward called .Vntje Jorckse. It does not appear that Hendrick and Matthew purchased lands in Bergen. They probably lived on leased lands while there. ^Villiam (2) went to Hackensack in 168G, where he joined the Dutch Church in March of that year. His brothers Hendrick (2) and Matthew (2) went to Hackensack the following year. William (2) had a child, Andrew, baptized at Hackensack in Maicli, 1(>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^«<?^_^ GENEALOGICAL 73 lands, containing in all about 165 acres. He built and resided on lot 1(J4, containing fifty-five acres. On June 10, 1673, he was elected to represent the Town of Bergen in the provincial assembly, where he acquitted himself with distinction. On July 19, 1672, he was appointed Prison Keeper for East Jersey, and was the first person to hold that position. " Captain Post," by which official title he always went, died at Bergen in February, 1677. His wife's name is not mentioned. He left a large family. He was the ancestor of all the Posts in Bergen and Hudson Counties. He resided in the town on lot No. 164. His children were Adriaen, AVilliam, Elias, Margaretta, Francis, and Gertrude. Adriaen (2) became one of the paten- tees of the Aquackanonck patent. The latter's two sons, Adriaen and Abraham (3), came to Bergen County in 1785, and married respectively Hendricke Ackerman and Rachel Hertie. .\braham located on the upper Saddle River, purchasing lands of Hendrick Vandelinda. John H. Post, the subject of this sketch, is descended in the seventh generation from Captain Adriaen Post. His paternal grandfather, Henry Post, a farmer, was born in the western part of the county, but died in Se- caucus, where his son, Adriaen Post, the father of John H., was born in 1818. Adriaen Post was a farmer in New Durham and Secaucus, and died in the latter place March 15, 1896, in his seventy-eighth year. His wife, Mary Van Giesen, daughter of Garret Van Giesen, died December, 31, 1891, aged seventy-two. Her family was also a very early one in Hudson County, and like the Posts was of Holland Dutch descent. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Post had five children, namely: Henry, Leah Ann, John H., Adrian, Jr., and one who died in infancy. John H. Post was born in New Durham, Hudson County, October 7, 1S44, but has spent most of his life on a part of the old family homestead on the Paterson plank road in Secaucus. He received a thorough education, at- tending the public schools of Secaucus, Union Hill, and Bergen Point, and a boarding school at Decker-town, N. J., and since completing his studies has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Mr. Post is one of the best farmers in Hudson County, and has been eminently successful. He has al- ways taken a deep interest in public affairs, and. though never aspiring to office, has served three years as a school trustee and three years as district clerk. With these exceptions he has declined political or public prefer- ment. In politics he is a consistent Republican, and in a quiet way has rendered efficient service to his party. He is a progressive, patriotic citi- zen, honored and respected, and enjoys the confidence of the entire com- munity. Mr. Post was married April 6, 1868, to Fredericka Huber, daughter of Frederick Huber, of Secaucus. They have four children: Adrian, Christina, William H., and "\\'alter. CORNELIUS BURNHAM HARVEY.— The surname Haivey is cor- rupted from Hervey, and is from an ancient Norman name, Herve or Hervie. M. de Greville in his Mem^. Soc. Ant. Norm.. 1644, observes: " We sometimes call it Hervot le Hervurie. As a family designation it appears in the twelfth century." Didot, however, in his Nouvelle Bioq. Universale, shows the name to have been adopted mucli earlier, when he speaks of Hervie, Archbishop of Rheims, who, he says, died A.D. 922, and Polydore Virgil, in his Chronicle, says " Harvey and Hervey " was Hervicus. " One of the family," he adds, " came over to England from the Flemish coast in the time of King Hardicanute and participated in subduing the British."' 74 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES l.owei' [Eiiijlian Sur-names) maintains that in the time of the Conquest liarvcv was Hende, and that in Brittany and Fi-aucc Ilervieu retains its primitive termination Herve. The same writer in his Fatroniniica Bntannica remarlis : " Osbert de Hervey is styled in the Register of St. Edmundsbury tlie son of Hervey. From Her vie spring- the Herveys ennobled in England and Ireland and also (in all probability, from the resemblance of the arms) the Herves and Hervies of Aberdeenshire and other parts of Scotland." Both Stiibbs {Registrum Sacrum Anglicunuiii) and the author of Le Neucs^ Faste Ecclesia AiK/lkviin make mention of Herve le Breton, Bishop of Bangor, in 1092, and Ely in 1109, who died A. D. 1131. Didot, in his Biographie Universale, mentions a Hervie who was a noted monk in the eleventh century, and also of a Hervie who was abbot of St. (ihildas de Rhins in Brittany in 1125, and of Hervie, a monk famous as a religious teacher, who died A. D. 1145. This writer also praises the skill of a celebrated French writer named Hervie Freerabras, who flourished A. D. 1.550; of one Francois Cucq de Hervie, a poet and Knight of St. John of Jerusalem in the sixteenth century; of William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood; of Daniel Hervie, a great French Theologian, who died in 1694; and of Gideon Harvey, a great English physician, born A. D. 1625, and died A. D. 1700. Michaud in his Biographie rniverxole mentions a monk named Hervie as having acquired great oratorical fame, and he tells something of Noel Hervey, or Hervie, who was general of the Order of Preachers and Philosophers and died A. D. 1.323. The Rotitli Hinidredoruiii (of Edward I.) names Her^es as having become the holders of lands in England A. D. 1272, and by Domes Day Book Hervies are domi ciled in Helts, Suffolk, and Bucks. Oridge, in his Giti:::cns and Rulers of London, makes honorable mention of Sir ^Valte^ Harvey, High Sheriff of London A. D. 1268 and Lord Mayor of that city A. D. 1272; of Sir James Harvev, High Sheriff of London A. D. 1578 and Lord Mayor of the same city a". D. 1581; and of Sir Sebastian Harvey, Sheriff of London A. D. 1609 and Lord Mayor A. D. 1616. Cooper in his Atlienae Catitahrigiensis makes note of William Harvey, a famous divine in London in 1525, and of one Robert Harvey, another equally noted preacher there in 1570. (Jamden comments on several prominent Herveys and Hervies, to wit: " The great gate of the church-yard of St. Edmonds was constructed by Hervey the Socrist in the time of Anselm 7th, Abbott of St. Edmonds in the eleventh century." Again he says: " William de Hervie was king's attorney in June, 1179, and pleaded a celebrated land case in London in that year." He extols the bravery of Sir Nicholas Harvey and other nobles in the battle of Tewkesberry in 1471. He briefly alludes to John Harvey, the boatman at Calais, France, in 1347 ; and further says : " Some of the Harve} s were merchant adventurers at Lyme, England, in Queen Elizabeth's time. Richard Harvey gave the pulpit at Lyme Church in 1613 with an inscription on it 'Faith is by hearing.'" Rose in his Biographical Dictionary states that Richard Harvey was famous as a writer, astrologer, and antiquarian in the sixteenth century, and that another almost equally noted astrologer in London was John Llarvey in the seventeenth century. Watts in his Bibliofliea Britanniea mentions one Henry Harvey as an eminent preacher and master in chancery and John Har^'ey as a great writer, who died A. D. 1592. Chalmers in his General Biogra pli ical Dictionary notes Gabriel Harvey, a great English lawyer and poet, born A. D. 1516, died A. D. 1630, and Lord John Harvey, of Icksworth, a political writer and versifier A. D. 1696; while Foss in his Judges of England highly GENEALOGICAL 75 commends the wisdom and justice of Sir Francis Haivey. From Collection Top. OcH. it appears tliat a Her vie was abbot of Hingliam County, Salop, A. D. 1236-37; that one Thomas de Harvye was clerlv of St. Nicholas Priory at Exeter in the third year of Edward III.; that Goldstan Harvey was a truant at Beauchamps A. D. 1222; that ■SAalter Harvey and his son were tenants at Drayton in 1222; and there were one Godeman Her vie and one Ulrica Hervie at Thorp at the same time. At St. Leonard's Parish, Aston Clinton, Bucks (Jounty, England, is the will of one Sylvester Baldwin wherein the testator leaves all his property to Henry and Sylvester Harvye and to the six children of Freamor Harvye A. D. IMi. Freamor Har\yi' married Baldwin's daughter Avelyne. This marriage license was made at the registry of the Bishop of London. She died in 1.j85 and Harvey married (2) and died June 15, 1021. Walker in his Iinlcpemlmcy says Adam Harvey, a silk merchant, was made a Colonel by Cromwell, and got the Bishop of London's house and ilanor of " Fulham." Clarendon in his Rebellion says this man was " a decayed silk man," and Buckle in his History of denization refers to the same person. The Harveys, two centuries after the Xorman Conquest, had become numerous in Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Kent, Suffolk, Jliddlesex, Hei't- fordshire, and Xorfolkshire; at Beachamwell in Xorfolkshire were John Harvey, his son Robert, and his grandson Kcibert; at Xorthwald Thomas Harvi'v; and at Xorwich John Harvey, twice Lord Mayor of that city. Robert Harvey, a descendant of one of these Xorfolkshire Harveys, had a son Robert, who was a man of note, possessing a considerable fortune, which his eldest son, under the laws of primogeniture, inherited to the ex- clusion of his brothers and sisters. This eldest -^on had two brothers, Samuel and Robert Harney, who emigrated to America about 17.50, and located in Xew York City, whence, after a brief stay, they went to Shrews- bury, Monmouth County , X. J. In May, 1763, they purchased a tract of 170 acres in what was then Shrewsbury Township in Monmouth County. This tract lay south of what is now Ocean Gro-se. Robert's first wife, who came over from England with him, died in 1702 and in January, 1704, he married Hannah White, who survived him. He was a farmer and iron smelter. His children of the second generation were Jacob, Stephen, Thomas, Peter, and Samuel, besides daughters. Of these, Thomas Harvev (2), born in ^Monmouth Coimty, X. J., Xov( mber 17, 175.5, married there, January 10. 1775, Elizabeth Sutton, born tlu-ie December 10, 1758. Thomas was a farmer and resided there on a farm of 115 acres, near what is now Behnar. He died December 11, ISll, and his wife survived until April 6, 1830. Their children of the third generation were Lydia, Abigail. Xathan, Asher, Reuben. John, Elizabeth, Charity, Jesse, and Sarah. Of these eleven children Reuben Harvey (3) was born at Shrewsbury, X. J., May 12, 1782, died at Enfield, X. Y., June 23, 1800. married, in 1806, Lvdia Bennett, born in ilonmouth Coimtv, X. J., Januarv 0, 1781, died at Enfield, N. Y., May 23, 1802. In 1806 the " Genesee Country ' began to open up and emigrants, par- ticularly from Xew Jersey, began to pour into the " Empire State."' All of Thomas Harvey's sons caught the emigration fever, and loading their families and their household effects upon canvas-covered wagons or carts, drawn by ox teams, they made a journey of more than 300 miles, occupying several weeks. Their route lay much of the way through an unbroken wil- derness, through which roads had to be cut as they went. They subsisted 76 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES on wliat they could find en route, and slept in their wagons. In time they reached a point half way between the Cayuga and Seneca Lakes in Tomp- kins County, where they located on various tracts of wildland. These tracts, which they purchased from the original grantees of the State, were densely wooded, but exceedingly fertile. Reuben Harvey, with his wife Lydia,' was in this " caravan." He settled on a " half section " of rich and heavily timbered land near what is now Enfield Center, about eight miles west of Ithaca, and with the aid of his sons cleared and fenced a large farm. His nearest neighbor was then about five miles, and the surrounding forests rang with the howls of wild beasts. Bears and wolves played havoc with the pigs, poultry, and lambs. In the course of time his farm was cleared and became one of the finest in the county. After his boys grew up he, for several years, followed droving, buying up sheep and cattle, principally in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and driving them to New York City to a ready market. He accumulated wealth and was greatly respected by his neigh- bors, who always gave him the prefix of " Uncle." His children of the fourth generation were Seneca, Charlotte, Charles, Joel B., Eleazer B., Asher, Cornelia, Mary A., Elizabeth, and Reuben. Of these Joel B. (4) Avas born at Enfield Center, N. Y., November 21, 1813, died at Howell, N. J., August 11, lyso, married (1) Lydia A. Wood; (2) Susan Arzilla Buck; and (3) Elizabeth B. Hagerman. Joel B. engaged in farming at Enfield, N. Y., until the winter of 1850, when he removed to tlowell, Monmouth County, N. J., where he continued agricultural pursuits until his death. He was a respected citizen and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jerseyville, N. J., which he helped to organize. His children of the fifth generation were Cornelius Burnham, Lucretia M., Huldah B., Samuel H., Mary E., Charles W., AViufield S., Euphemia H., Joseph H. and Joel B. (twins), and Ida S. Cornelius Burnham Harvey (5), the subject of this sketch, is the eldest of these. He was born in Enfield Center, Tompkins (Vmnty, X. Y., October 20, 1839, and married, March 4, 1873, IMary P., daughter of Peter J. and Sarah (Zabriskie) White, of Closter, Bergen County. He received the char acteristic discipline of hard work on the farm throughout the summer, with attendance at the district schools in the winter. He was ambitious, and between 1855 and 1859 every moment of leisure was devoted to study and reading. Having passed the requisite examination, in 1859 he received a license to teach school from the School Board of Monmouth County. After teaching for two terms in that county he attended school for some time in New York City. Moved by a war sermon preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn, early in the summer of 1802 he enlisted as a private in Company D, Four- teenth New Jersey ^'olunteers, and was in camp on the Monmouth battle- ground at Freehold, N. J. Having been mustered into service in .Vugust, 1862, the regiment was sent to Monocacy, Md., and did its first campaign- ing in West Virginia and Maryland. After the battle of Gettysburg it was att.ached to the Third Corps of the Army of the Potomac, under the com- mand of General Sickles, and subsequently was attached to the Sixth Corps, under the command of General Sedgwick and later of General H. g'. Wright. Mr. Harvey served for three years, until the close of the war. He became one of the non-commissioned oflicers on the regimental staff, be- coming Chief Musician of the regiment. At the close of the war he resumed teaching, in Bergim Countv, following this profession for three years. In the fall of 1868 he began the study of GENEALOGICAL 77 law in the office in Jersey Citj' of the late Hon. Eobert fUIchrisT, then At- torney-General of Ne^Y Jersey, and was admitted to practice in 187.'^ and as counselor in 187G, and for a time was associated with Mr. Gilchrist in pro- fessional practice. He thns became employed in the arduous historico-legal work of preparing; the case for Xew Jersey in the famous jurisdiction and boundary suit be- tween the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey, begun in 1872, and not yet settled. It was essential in this case to locate and identify the original land-grants in certain sections of New Jersey, and in this work Mr. Harvey and others w'ere engaged. The results of this research can be seen by anyone fortunate enough to examine the large octaAO volume privately printed at Trenton in 1S7."> 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(ilo</i/ of the Hdrrri/ Fa in ill/, not vet published. On his mother's side Mr. Harvey is descended from Emanuel Buck, who came from England in 1634, and settled at Wetliersfield, (^um. His great- grandmother was Elizabeth Sherman, wife of James Buck, a Revolutionary soldier, and a sister of Roger Sherman, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of Wilhelmus Burnett, who emigrated to New York from Holland in 1660. Sirs. Harvey 78 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES was a student at Rwarthmoi^e ('olk-f^e, Pa. On the paternal side she is de- scended from Jonas White, who enii,t>i;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.<k Oci H'i /.Sov. ISAAC POIM VINE, of Jersey City, is a lineal descendant of (11 Klaas Jansen Romeyn, who came from Holland to America in ICiS and eventually settled in Hackensack, N. J., where his son (2) Albert was born in 1680, and M'liere the latter's son (3) Nicholaas was born in December, 1711. The next in descent, (1) Albert Eomein, son of Nicholaas, ^^■as born in Schraaleu- burgh, N. J., February 11, 1752, and had a son (5) Roelef A., whose birth oc- curred July 24, 1774. John R. Eomine (6), son of Roelef A. Romein, was born in Bergen County, N. J., May 18, 1806, and married Ann, daughter of John Zabriskie, of old Bergen (now Hudson) County. They were the parents of Isaac Romaine, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Bergen Township, Hudson County, N. J., on the 4th of May, 1840. These worthy ancestors not only took a lively interest in public and business affairs, but transmitted to their numerous descendants in general and Mr. Romaine in particular their sturdy Dutch characteristics and habits of thrift, and left behind them careers which illumine the pages of history and grace the annals of their respective communities. Mr. Romaine attended the Columbia District School until 1852, prepared for college at a private school in the Township of Bergen, Hudson County, and was graduated from Rutgers College in 1S59. Having studied law with Hon. A. O. Zabriskie, subsequently Chancellor of the State of New Jersey, he was admitted to the bar as an attorney in November, 1862, and as a counselor in November, 1865, and since the sprinc of 1863 has practiced in Jersey City. He was Corporation Counsel of the City of Bergen from 1865 to 1867, and, becoming an Alderman in May, 1869, was President of the Board of Alderman in 1869 and 1870, immediately preceding the consolida- tion of Bergen and Jersey City. From 1880 to 1885 he was a member of the Board of Education of Jersey City. In 1883 he was appointed a member of the Board of Finance and Taxation, but was not seated on account of legal complications until 1885. In 1884 he was elected to the New Jersey As- sembly, in which body he served on the Committees on Claims and Revo- lutionary Pensions and Stationery, as well as on the Joint Committee on Passed Bills. Throughout his career Mr. Romaine has been a stanch and active Re- publican. He is a master and examiner and a special master in chancery for New Jersey. Prior to the expiration of that office by legal limitation, July 1, 1897, he was a Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. At the present time he is a Commis- sioner of the Districf Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. He has been President of the Star Mutual Building and Loan As- GENEALOGICAL 79 sociation of Jersey City since 1886, having been one of its founders and its first Yii-e-President in 1S83. He is a member of the Holhmd Society of Xew Yorli City and was its Mce-President from Hudson C\uintv, X. J.', in 1S!)7 and 18!I8. He is also a member of the Jersey City, ( 'arteret, and Union Leajiue Clubs of Jersey City, and of other important organizations. December 29, 1863, he was married to Miss Annie A., daughter of John ^\'. Mortem, of Jersey City. She died February 1, 1895. WHFELOCK HENUEE PAE.MLY, D.D., for fortv years the beloved pastor of the Fii-st Baptist Churcli of Jersey City, X. J., was born in Brain- tref\ Vt., July 2<, 1816, his parents being Kandolph Parmlv and Elizabetli B. :\[nrray, the former of English and the latter of Scotch descent. He came of good Xew England stock. His father was the first male child born in the village of Randolph, "^'t., the date of his birth being January l.j, ITS.!, and at the request of the selectmen his parents, Jahial Family and Eunice Hendee, named him Randolph, after the town. His mother, a niece of Elea/.er Wheelocl;, the founder and first President of Dartmouth ( Villege, was born in Chester, X. H., May 19, 1782, and was the daughter of Robert ^Murray and Jane Ramsey. In 1795 her parents moved into the State of Vermont, and there both families became prominent in all public aud private affairs. When four years of age Wheelock H. Family removed with the family to Hancock and three years later to Middlebury. Yt., whence they came, seven years afterward, to Xew Jersey, locating at Shrewsbury, ^lonmouth County. In ls;]S, after a residence of eight years in that town, they moved to Xew York City. Dr. Parmly's jiarents did all in their power to give him a good early training, but their means v.ere limited and he was dependent in a great measure upon his own efforts for his education. While residing in Shrewsbury he prepared himself for college by teaching and performing various other kinds of work, and at a very early age became a great Bible reader, a trait which characterized his entire life. His parents, though not members of any church, attended with their children the Efiiscdpal seryices. but young Family, convinced of the truth of the Baptist prin- ciples, adopted the faith and practice of that denomination, and amid con- siderable opposition, from both his family and the Episcopalian clergy, was baptized August H, 1834, in the Shrewsbury River. And connecting himself with the Baptist Church at ^Middletewn, X. J. — the nearest society of that faith to his home, — he was faithful in his attendance on worshij), actixc in all departments of church work, and influential among both old and young. In 1838 Dr. Farmly entered Columbia College in X^ew York City and was graduated from that institution in 1842. standing high in his class and receiving many tokens of excellence in scholarship during his collegiale course. About the time he entered college he united with the old .Vmity Street Baptist Church in Xew York, of which Rev. Dr. William R. ^Yilliams was pastor. He also formed a close friendship with Rev. Dr. Spencer H. <;'one, of X'ew York City, which, with that of Dr. Williams, lasted until his death. It was undoubtedly from these eminent clergymen and great teachers that he learned many of the principles which made him so success- ful during his career of half a century in the ministry. On leaving college Dr. Farmly was confronted with the problem of de- termining his vocation in life — a problem which all young men must solve. He had been urged to enter the ministry bv many friends who 80 HUDSON AND BEUOEN COUNTHOS bv tlionjilit liim ]toculiar]v fitted for that profession; others assured him of sueeess in a mercantile career, while others still tempted him with flatter- ing offers iu varions branches of bnsiness; bnt the sniding voice of nature bade him preach the gospel, a labor to which liis " mind rather inclines." On Angiist 1(1, 1842, at the recpiest of Dr. -Williains, he preached to the iieo- pie of the Amitv Street ('hurch, and immediately afterward made tliis entry in his diary: " the subject of the ministry has occupied my mind for a long time. It is now settled, and I hope for good." Dr. rarmly was nnanimoiislv voted a " license to preach the gospel the Amitv Street Church on the Kith of July, 1844, and in tlie following month (August) was graduated fr(mi Madi- son Theological Semina- ry, where he had pur- sued a thorough course of study. On August 0, lS(i7, Madison T^niver- sity conferred upon him the honorary title of Doctor of T>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<it, which nnder his judicious man- a.t;:eraent has steadily j^rown in influence and ]io]iularity, and which now ranks among the leading newsjjapers of Xew Jei-sey. Mv. ^^'inton is an able editor and business man — a fact Avhich is abun- dantly shown by the suc- cess and deTeloi)ment of his paper. He is one of Ifackensack's most j)ub- lic spirited citizens, deeply interested in lo- cal affaii-s, and thor- oughly identified with everything affecting the community. In politics an active and influential Democrat, he re])resent- ed his Congressional dis- trict as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Cincin- nati in fSSO and at the convention in Chicago in 1S9(J, and in various other important capaci- ties has rendered ef- ficient service to his ])art>- 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<Jed fi'om the old Holland stock which contributed so largely in early colonial days to the stability and jirosperity of the States of NewYork and New Jersey. The names of his ancestors appear in the old Dutch records HENKY D. WINTON. GENEALOGICAL 89 of New Jersey, the first of them having come over from Holland soon after the first planting of New Amsterdam. The Garretsons were among the number who originally settled in the present territory of New Jersey, in the vicinity of New York City. Later branches of the family pushed'into the western counties with the first pioneers. Judge Garretson's direct ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Somerset County. He is the son of Martin Schenck Garretson and Ann Beekman Quick and a great- grandson of Abraham Quick, a colonel of New Jersey militia in the Revo- lutionary War. Judge Garretson was born in Franklin Township, Somerset County, on the 11th of March, 1842. He was sent to school in Trenton at the age of thirteen, and entered Rutgers College in the fall of 1859. His preparation had been such that he was enabled to enter the sophomore class in the classical course at the age of seventeen, graduating with honors three years later, in 18G2, and standing first in his class. In 1865 he received the degree of A.M. in course. He chose the legal profession as promising the best opportunities for a career. He also determined to select the largest city of his State as his field of operation. Accordingly, we find him, almost immediately after graduation, entering as a student the law office of the well known Chancellor A. O. Zabriskie, of Jersey City. Aftei' spending two years in the Chancellor's office, he rounded out his legal studies by a year at the Harvard Law School. In November, 1865, he was admitted to practice at the bar of New Jersey as an attorney, and at the end of three years, in 1868, and as soon as the law of the State permitted, he was admitted as a counselor, giving him the right to piactit(^ in the highest courts of the State. He was afterward admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court at Washington. The young lawj^er's success was not only immediate, but quite phe- nomenal, as was shown by his appointment in February, 1869, only one year after his admission as a counselor and only four after his first prac- tice, to the responsible position of Prosecutor of Pleas for Hudson County, an office identical in every respect except its name with that of the or- dinary district attorney of other States. He was appointed for a term of five years by Governor Randolph, and filled the position so ably and with such general satisfaction that at the end of the time he was re-appointed for a second term by Governor Parker. He served four years of this second term, making a continuous service of nine years, and then resigned to accept in 1878 the appointment by Governor McCIellan as Law or '■ President " Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hudson County. He served in this capacity for five years. The ability and integrity displayed by Judge Garretson upon the bench only served to greatly increase the esteem and respect of his fellow-citizens. But notwithstanding all this, he desired to return to private practice, and this he eventually did in 1883, when his term as judge expired, he having announced that he was not a candidate for re-appointment previous to the expiration of his term. In the same year he formed a legal partnership with James B. Vreden- burgh in Jersey City. In 1900 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. While Judge Garretson has always been a consistent Democrat in poli- tics, in local affairs his sympathies are fully enlisted in the welfare of the community. He has served as one of the Commissioners for the Ad- justment of Tax Arrearages for Jersey City since 1887, when that commis- 90 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES sion was organized. In Jersey City an immense amount of property has been snowed under a great burden of tax arrears which it was utterly impossible for its owners to meet, while if they abandoned their property the city treasury was unable to realize upon it, and it has been the delicate and difficult task of the commission to readjust such old claims of the city and fix a sum which the property owners could pay and thus put such property on a tax-paying basis, and at the same time lift a burden which could not fail to depress values and impede municipal growth and develop- ment. Claims aggregating millions of dollars have been thus readjusted, while the commission is now beginning to see the prospective end of its labors. Judge Garretson was a founder in 1888 and is President of the New Jersey Title and Guarantee Trust Company, the only one of its kind in Jersey City, and is a Director in the Third National Bank. He is also similarly interested in other directions. His name must ever be linked with the progressive development of his adopted city, where he has resided since 1865. November 12, 1879, he married Josephine, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Davis) Boker, of Philadelphia. Their children are Leland Beekman, Jose- phine Boker, and Eleanor Helen. JAMES CHIDESTER EGBERT, D.D., for forty-two years the be- loved pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of West Hoboken, N. J., and now pastor emeritus of that society, is a lineal descendant of James Egbert, who was born in 1695. His paternal ancestors were Germans, coming from Saxony or Hanover to this country several generations ago. Lewis Egbert, a member of his branch, served in the Revolutionary War. Dr. Egbert's father, James Egbert, was the son of Enos Egbert and Sarah Lyon, both natives of New Jersey, and was born at Elizabeth, in this State, in 1801. He learned the trade of printer in the office of the Palladium of Liberty at Morristown, N. J., and, moving to New York, became a partner of Mahlon Day, one of the earliest printers in that city and for many years the publisher of the weekly Bank Note List. Mr. Day, with his wife and daughter, was lost at sea on the ill-fated ship Arctic. James Egbert suc- ceeded to the firm's business, and for nearly fifty years conducted a large and successful printing establishment in New York on Pearl Street, oppo- site Frankfort. He finally retired, and died in West Hoboken, N. J., No- vember 17, 1881, having settled there about 1867. His father, Enos, was a blacksmith and iron founder, and also a native of Elizabeth. James Egbert married Joanna Jones Chidester, daughter of James and Peninah ((luerin) Chidester, all of whom were born in New Jersev. She died in 1866. Dr. Egbert was born in New York City on the 17th of October, 1826, and there received his education. He attended one of the public grammar schools and then taught for four years in the same institution. Afterward he continued his studies and also taught in the private school of Professor John Jason Owen, of New York, and in 1848, having received a thorough preparatory training there, entered New York University, then under the presidency of Theodore Prelinghuysen. He was graduated with honors in 1852, receiving the degree of B.A., and on March 4, 1889, the university conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in recogni- tion of his eminence as a minister and of his learning and standing as a scholar. In 1852 Dr. Egbert began the study of theology at the Union GENEALOGICAL 91 Theological Seminary in New York. He was graduated from that institu- tion in April, 1855, and licensed to preach by the Third Presbytery of New York on the 11th of the same month. On June 13, 1855, he was ordained pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of West Hoboken, X. J., and continued in that capacity for forty- two consecutive years, resigning June 13, 1897. Soon afterward he was made pastor emeritus of the congregation. This church was organized June 12. 1850, with eight members, and the church edifice was dedicated June 25, 1851. For four years Kev. Charles Parker supplied the pulpit, and through his efforts, and with the aid of Eev. William Bradford, then editor of the New York EvaiKjclist, the church building was erected. Dr. Egbert was their first settled pastor, and faithfully and diligently dis- charged the duties of the trust, gaining not only the love but the confidence and affection of the entire community as well as of his own parishioners. From a very small congregation he built it up to a membership of over 135 and the Sunday school to 500 scholars, with a chapel in Jersey City of about 250 members. The society made a strong effort to retain him as their active pastor, but advancing years and the evident need of rest impelled him to resign, and the pastorate has since been under Rev. Charles Alexander Evans, a graduate of Princeton, class of 1884. As pastor emeritus, however. Dr. Egbert continues to exercise a broad and wholesome influence in the church. He has twice been Moderator of the Presbytery of Jersey City, is a member of the Associate Alumni and of the Alumni Club of the Union Theological Seminaiy, and is known throughout the State and in other Presbyteries as a man of broad culture, of great learning, and of fine intellectual attainments. His sermons, many of which have been pub- lished, bear evidence of high literary skill as well as sound logic and doctrinal knowledge. Dr. Egbert was married, August 1, 1855. to Harriet Louise Drew, daugh ter of George and Philinda Drew, of New York City. Their children are Annie Lake Egbert, a teacher in the New York public schools; James C. Egbert, Jr., professor of Latin in Columbia College, New York; Rev. George Drew Egbert, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Cornwall, N. Y. ; and Marion Dupuy Egbert, also a teacher in the New York public schools. Two other children died in infancy. RAYMOND P. WORTENDYKE is descended from Cornelius Jacobse, alias Stille (or The Silent), a farmer, who, with his brother John, came to New Amsterdam from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1630. Shortly after their arrival they assumed the surname of Somerendyke. Cornelius, after re- maining a short time in New Amsterdam, bought and located on a planta- tion at Bushwick, L. I. From thence he removed to what is now the Williamsburgh district of Brooklyn. In KiCl he took the oath of allegiance to the British king, at which time he was residing on a farm of one hun- dred acres in what was formerly the Greenwich district of New York City. He married (1) August 24, 1692, Classie Tennis, and (2) July 2S, lOllS, Tryntie Wallings Van Winkle, of Amsterdam, Holland. He died in New York in 1679, having had nine children of the second generation, the eldest of whom was Jacob Corneliesen, born in 1044, who married, March 11, 1671, Aeltje Fredericks, an estimable Brazilian lady. Their children were four of the third generation, to wit: Jacob, Nicholas, Frederick J., and Cornelius. Frederick (3d gen.), known as Frederick Jacobsen Someren- 92 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES dyke, located on the upper west side of Mauhattan Island. He and his descendants adopted the surname of Wortendyke, while those of his broth- ers retained that of Somerendyke. The old Somerendyke mansion house, built of stone, stood, a few years ago, on the Bloomingdale road near West Seventy-fifth Street. Frederick (3d gen.) married, June 10, 1707, Divertie Kynearsen Quackenbush, a granddaughter of Peter Quackenbush, of Oostergeest, Holland. About 1722 Frederick removed to Bergen County, N. J., where he purchased several tracts of land, the principal one of which was nearly five hundred acres in area at what is now Park Ridge, formerly Pascack. On this tract, lying on both sides of Pascack Brook, he built his residence and two or more mills. He was the founder of Pascack settle- ment and left a large landed estate. After his death his will became the subject of a long litigation. His children of the fourth generation were Aeltie, Eynier, Elizabeth, Frederick F., and Classie. Frederick F. Wortendyke (4th gen.), born in New York City, April 10, 1720, married April 3, 1748, Sara Peters Durie, of Pascack. By the will of his father he obtained half of the homestead at Pascack on which he resided, besides lands at Tappan and on the Palisades. He died about 1770, leaving issue of the fifth generation Frederick, Jannetje, Jacobus, Marya, Elizabeth, Judith, Peter F., Sara, Susanna, Divertie, Mensie, and John. Of these, Frederick was taken by the British in 1776 and confined for some time a prisoner in the old Sugar House in New York. Peter P. Wortendyke (5th gen.), baptized August 29, 1754, married Martha Demarest. He resided at Pascack, where he was a farmer and miller. His children of the sixth generation were Frederick P., Augenitie, Peter P., and Jacobus. Peter P., of the sixth generation, born June 15, 1797, died at Pascack, January 31, 1885. He was a farmer and married, January 6, 1816, Maria Banta, by whom he left issue of the seventh generation Peter P., Maria, Frederick P., Cornelius P., Martha, Laney, and John. Peter P. ^\'ortendyke, of the seventh generation, born June 14, 1810, died April 12, 1900. He married Harriet Cummings, a native of Spring Valley, N. Y. He resided at Pascack and spent most of his life as a tanner. His children of the eighth generation were Maria, Raymond P., John H., and Charles P., the second of whom is the subject of this sketch. Raymond P. Wortendyke (8th gen.), one of the prominent members of the bar of Jersey City, was born at Pascack, Bergen County, N. J., De- cember 30, 1845. He is the youngest son of Peter P. and Harriet (Cummings) Wortendyke, and inherits from a long line of ancestors on both sides the sturdy characteristics of his race. He attended the public schools at Pascack and Hackensack, Bergen County, and was graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, June 15, 1802. Subsequently he taught school for upward of seven years, during the last three of which he was connected with Hasbrouck Institute in Jersey City. In the meantime he studied law in Jersey City three and one-half years in the office of Hon. Jacob E. Wortendyke, member of Congress, and for six months with Hon. William Brinckerhoff, State Senator. He was ad- mitted to the bar at Trenton as an attorney June 3, 1809, and as counselor June 6, 1872, and for over thirty years has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession, his present oflQce being in Jersey City. Mr. Wortendyke resides in Englewood, Bergen County, where he has served as a public school trustee for twenty years and as counselor of the GENEALOGICAL 93 old Public Road Board for ten years. He has been counsel for the Town- ship of Englewood for many years, and is now City Attorney for the City of Englewood. During his career at the bar he has been connected with a number of important cases in which he has displayed marked abilitj', sound judgment, untiring industry, and great force of character. He is public spirited, progressive, and patriotic, thoroughly identified with the best interests of the community, and holds a prominent place at the bar. Mr. Wortendyke has been twice married, first on December 30, 1869, to Caroline, daughter of Levi and Wilhelmina (Ackerman) Gurnee, of Pascack, N. J., who died February 11, 1895. On September 29, 1897, he married Mrs. Ann E. H. (Demarest) Gurnee, of Hackensack, daughter of David A. Demarest, of Tenafly, Bergen County. DAVID A. DEMAREST was without doubt in his day one of the most widely known and highly respected men in Bergen County. He was of the sixth generation from David des [NFarest, the French Huguenot emi- grant, concerning whom see page 64. The line of descent was as follows: David des Marest (1), the emigrant, and his wife, ilaria Sohier, had four children, one of whom was David Demarest, Jr. (2), who married Rachel Cresson and had twelve children, one of whom was Jacobus (3). who mar- ried Lea de Groot and Margrietie Cozines Haring, and had fifteen children, one of whom (by the second wife) was Abraham D. Demarest (4), born at Old Bridge, Bergen County, September 25, 173S, died near Closter, X. J., Julv 9, 1824, married, in 1763, ^Nrargaretta Garrets Demarest, born at Schraaienburgh, December 2, 1744, died June 13, 1834. Abraham 1). Dem- arest (4) resided at Old Bridge for many years, when he removed to Hack- ensack and kept the Mansio'n House. About 17S1 he purchased a large farm on the west side of the Schraaienburgh and Tappan road, lying on both sides of the road to Old Hook. There until his death he kept a general ' store of groceries, hardware, and such wares as farmers require. He also) kept (until 1809) a tavern where the elections were held and other public! business transacted. In April, 17S7, he added to his farm on the soutli by purchases from the Harings and Van Horns. Abraham was a man of some; note His store and tavern were known and patronized by the people for miles around. From 1781 until 1799 he held many town offices, including those of Commissioner of Appeals, Townsman, Road Master, and Justice of the Peace. He was one of the most active members and workers in the North Church at Schraaienburgh, in which he several times held the offices of Deacon and Elder. His issue were David A.; Rachel, 1768; Margaret, 1773- John, 1775 (died) ; and Christina, 17S3. Of' these David Abraham Demarest (5), the subject of tins sketch, was born at Old Bridge, August 28, 1764, and died at Nyack, X. Y., Februai.v 1 1860 aged ninety-five vears, five months, and three days. He married, in 1787 Charitv Haring, daughter of Cornelius Haring, of Pascack, where she was born July 24, 1769. She died at Schraaienburgh, January 29, 1849 a<red about eighty years. She was a lady of sound judgment, with a kind and cheerful disjosition, who was her husband's faithful helpmeet and companion for more than sixty years. The issue of this union was only one child, a daughter, Margaret Demarest, born at Schraaienburgh, N. J., ^X^AddA.^ Demarest (5) was an unusually bright and active b^. Re- alizing this, his father sent him to the best school in the village of Hacken- sack where he acquired a fair education, including a knowledge of pen- 94 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES inausliii) and composition. Clci-kint;- in and ]iurc]iasin<.>; 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<SG2 to take the place of his brothers John B. and Isaac, who had joined the Union Army in Virginia. Upon the return of his brothers James sought and obtained a clerkship in the grocery house of Elbert Bailey, then at 518 Sixth Avenue, New York. After four years' service with Mr. Bailey he entered the office of the Lorillard Insurance Company, but remained there only three months. A more lucrative position was offered him with the New York Rubber Clothing Company at 347 Broadway, which he accepted. In July, 1867, this company combined with the Goodyear Rubber Com- pany. Mr. Kipp acquired an interest in the business and was given the responsible position of manager, a position which he still holds at Nos. 787-789 Broadway, New York. To manage a concern doing the great vol- ume of business which the Goodyear Rubber Company is doing demands business tact and judgment of the highest order. These qualities Mr. Kipp possesses in a marked degree, and his untiring energy, activity, thorough knowledge of the business, and close attention to its details have marked him for the early future as one of the great army of successful mercantile men in the great city. He is thoroughly domestic in his habits and tastes, and spends his spare time with his family. He belongs to no city clubs, does not dabble in politics, has never held political office. He "leans toward " the Dutch Reformed Church and the Republican party. He married, February 21, 1872, Rachel, a daughter of John J. and Hannah M. Naugle. Mrs. Kipp was born at Closter, N. J., March 25, 1850. They have three daughters: Ada (married in 1895 to Edward Livingston Gilbert, a New York stock broker), Eva, and Florence, the last two both unmarried' Florence is a recent graduate of the Comstock School of New York City, and her sisters are graduates of the New York City public schools. Ada has a daughter, Margery (11th gen.), born in 1897. WILLIAM De GRAW KIPP (10th gen.), brother of the above, was born at Old Tappan, N. J., February 25, 1848, and like his brother obtained his education in the public schools of his native township. He left home in 1866 to take a position as clerk in the grocery store of Ward Carpenter GENEAI;OGICAL 99 No. 520 Sixth Avenne, Xe^Y York. Here he remained fer a year and then entered the employ of E. C. Hazard & Co., where he filled the position of salesman for nine years, after which he embarked in the grocery bnsiness on his own account at Oloster, N. J. This venture being unprofitable, he became a salesman in the house of Wright Gillies & Brother, Xew York. He left them in ISSO to take charge of the city sales department of th(> 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<iEN COUNTIES son of Hendrick, tlie founder of the New Jersey branch of the family. Dr. Brinkerhoff was educated in the public schools, graduating from the High School of Jersey (Uty in 1.SS3. Subsequently he spent half a dozen years in mercantile"^pursuits, and then, having decided upon medi- cine as his life work, entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and after graduating began a ])rivate practice which he has since continued, and in which he has achieved eminent success. He is one of the best known jihysicians in Jersey City. He is City Physician, member of the Jersey City Board of Health, Visiting Physician and Associate Surgeon of St. Francis Hospital, Treasurer of the Hudson County Medical Societj, and prominently identified with the Home for the Homeless and the flospital for Contagious Diseases in Jersey City. He enlisted as a private in ('omjiany A, Fourth Regiment, X. G. N. J., November 9, 18S6, was promoted Corporal December 13, 1887, became Sergeant of his comi»any April 3, 18SS, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company C January 15, 1894, Captain July 2, 1894. and Major of the Fourth Regiment in 1899, which latter position he still holds. He is a member of A\'oodland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of the Hol- land Society of New York, of the Hudson County Medical Society, of the New Jersey State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Asso- ciation, and is thoroughly identified with the afi'airs of the city and active and influential in promoting every worthj' object. He is especially gen- erous in the encouragement of those movements which have the welfare of the community at heart. Dr. Brinkerhoff was married on the 28th of April, 1897, to Ella Adelaide Hayes, of Newark, N. J. RYNIER J. WORTENDYKE is descended from the same ancestor as is Raymond P. Wortendyke (see sketch of latter on page 91). His great-great- grandfather, Rynier F. ^Vortendyke (son of Frederick Wortendyke and Divertie Quackenbush), baptized in New York ]\larch 14, 1714, married (1) December 10, 1746, Jannetye Peters Durie, and (2) March 2, 1752, Jannetje Smith. 'With his brother Frederick, the ancestor of Raymond P., he ob- tained part of the homestead farm at Pascack. Rjnier spent his days in farming and running a mill. His children of the fifth generation were Frederick, Peter, Jannetje, Cornelius (1), Divertie, Cornelius (2), Rynier, John, Jacob R., Mary, Albert, and Aeltje. Jacob R. Wortendyke, of the fifth generation, born May 5. 1764, died December 18, 1858, married December 7, 1792, Elizabeth Campbell, born October 26, 1773, died March 20, 1862. He was a farmer and resided at Pascack. Their children of the sixth generation were Lutische, Rynier J., and Elizabeth. Of these, Rynier J. (6th gen.), born August 16, 1793, died December 3, 1SS4, married, January 10, 1818, Cornelia Haring, who died August 12, 1891. They resided at Pascack. Their children of the seventh generation were Jacob R., Peter R., Garret, and Elizabeth. Jacob R. Wortendyke (7th gen.) was born at Pascack, N. J., November 27, 1818, and died at Jersey City, November 2, 1868. He married, June 2, 1853, Susan J. Doremus, born August 9, 1826, who now resides in Jersey City. Jacob R. Wortendyke was graduated from Rutgers College in 1839, after which he read law in the office and became a partner of Chancellor A. O. Zabriskie. After his admission to the bar he was successful in his prac- tice and held numerous official positions in Hudson County. He organized the Jersey City Water Board and served as a member of the Riparian GENEALOGICAL 103 Commission. In 1857 he was elected to Congress from the Hudson district and served two terms in that body. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. His children of the eighth genera- tion were Nicholas D., Cornelia E., Rynier J., Jacob (died), and Jacob R. Eynier J. Wortendyke (8th gen.), the subject of this sketch, was born in Jersey City, N. J., August 24, 1860, and has always resided there. Having received a thorough preparatory education, he entered Rutgers College and was graduated from that institution with honors in the class of 1882. He then took up the study of law with James B. Vredenburgh at Jersey City, and after the usual course was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1885, and as a counselor in June, 1888. He has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in his native city. He is a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, a public spirited and patriotic citizen, a man of broad and accurate learn- ing, and a leading factor in the affairs of the city in which he was born, and in which he has spent his life. Mr. Wortendyke married Miss Carolyn M. Oooley, October 11, 1893, and their children of the ninth generation are Rynier J. Wortendyke, Jr., and Howard B. Wortendyke. Mrs. Wortendyke died September 22, 1900. JAMES B. VREDENBURGH is of Holland descent, the respectability of which has been strengthened by intermarriage with the Coles, Schure- mans, Van Dorns, Brinckerhotfs, and other of the most prominent Holland families. Isaac Van Vredenburgh (1), a well-to-do citizen, resident, and burgher of the City of Hague, in Holland, had a son who bore the somewhat elongated name of William Isaacsen Van Vredenburgh (2), who, while yet a very young man, enlisted as a soldier in the service of the Dutch West India Company and came to America in May, 1058, on board the good shi]) '• (jilded Beaver." He seems to have done military duty in and about New Amsterdam for several years, during which time, on October 19, 1664, he married Apollonia Barents, a daughter of Barent Jacobsen Cole (Kool), a prominent officer of the West India Company, of Amsterdam, Holland. He continued in the military service after his marriage, being stationed and residing with his family, part of the time, at Fort William Hendrick, and part of the time in the new fortification at New Orange. In 1677 he must have left the military service, as he then, and as late as 1680, was living with his family at Esopus, N. Y. His children were eight in number, the eldest of whom was Isaac Van Vredenburgh (3), baptized in New York, October 4, 1665, and who married March 7, 1694, Janneken Joosten, a daughter of Joost Carelszen, by whom he had six children. William (4), the second of these six, baptized in New York, October 4, 1696, died Feb- ruary 4, 1773, married April 22, 1717, Catharina, daughter of Patrick Schott or Scott, of Kingston, N. Y. William's children were nine, the fourth of whom, Petrus Benedict Vredenburgh (5), born July 30, 1721, died July 26, 1810, married (1) Margarita, daughter of Jacobus Schureman, and (2 1 Elizabeth Fisher. His children by his two wives were eleven in number. He removed to New Brunswick, N. J., in 1742. One of his sons, Petrus (6), baptized in New Brunswick, N. J., August 4, 1745, died August 24, 1823, married December 17, 1772, Margarita, daughter of John Schure- man. This Peter was for many years a prominent merchant at New Bruns- wick, where he became one of the most influential men in Middlesex County. He was County Collector of that connty for forty-one years (from 104 HI IPSO \ AND BERGEN COUNTIES 17S2 to is:>.'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. ;McClint<ick. and was graduated from Drew Theological Seminary in 1871. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. In the meantime he had spent three ye;u s in the Treasury Department at Washington. After graduating from Drew Theological Seminary he Avas successively pastor of charges at Sand Lake, X. Y., Dalton. Mass.. Troy. N. Y., and Brandon, Vt., in which State he remained about ten years. In 188(1 he took a special course in divinity under the direction of Bishop Bissell, of '\'ermont, and entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, with which he has ever since been actively connected. Lie was called to Amherst, Mass., in 1888, and remained there about five years, being called from there January 1, 1893, to Newark (Harrison), N. J., where he still resides. He has built the Harrison church up to its present flourishing condition. Rev. Mr. Tilley has achieved notable distinction in the priesthood, and during his twenty years with the Protestant Episcopal Church has exerted 116 HUDSON ANT) BERGEN COUNTIES a wholesome influence in advaneintj its doctrines tlirongliont the cora- ninnities in wliicli he has lield rectoisliijis. Endowed witli intellectnal abil- ity of the highest order, lie is an elo(iuent s]ieaker, forcible and convincing in his aronments, simple and concise in diction, and beloved and esteemed by all who know him. He has also gained distinction in literature, having contribnted a mnnber of imiioi-tant articles to varions magazines and pei-iodit-als. His jioems iTi the Xew York fyidepniiloif and other journals ha\'e been favoi'ably received. He ^^as awai-ded the second prize out of foni' hundred comj)etitors by judges ap])ointed by Tlic Great Divide for a ])oem on Colorado, and is also the author of a volume entitled Masters of the Hitnation, which has been issued in both trade and subscription editions. Mr. Tilley married Katharine J. Travis, of Oohoes, Albany Countv. N. Y. GENEALOGICAL, 117 EDWIN MANNEES, A.M., LL.B., is the son of the late Hon. David Stout Manners and Deborah Philips Johnes, and was born in Jersey City, N. J., on the 6th of March, 1855. His father was for several terms Mayor of Jersey City and universally esteemed and respected as one of its best ex- ecutives and citizens. He is a grandson of David Manners, a great-grand- son of John Manners, and a great-great-grandson of John Manners, Sr., of Yorkshire, England, who was born in 1(178, emigrated to America about 1700, and married Rebecca Stout, of Middletown, X. J., a granddaughter of Richard a.nd Penelope Van Princess Stout, of interesting memory, and the first in America. Jolm Manners, Sr., settled at Upper Freehold, N. J., but afterward moved to Amwell, Hunterdon County, in this State, where he died in 1770. The American branch is connected with the noble family of Manners in England, which traces its distinguished lineage back to the time of William the Conqueror, and indeed is of Norman origin. On his mother's side Edwin Manners is a grandson of David Johnes, a great-grandson of Da\id Johnes, Sr., a great-great-grandson of Stephen Johnes, and a great-grcat-great-grandson of Samuel Johnes, Jr., who was the son of Samuel Johnes, Sr., whose father, Edward Johnes, of Somerset, England, came to Charlestown (Boston), Jtass., with Governor Winthrop in 1U30; he later was one of the founders of Southampton, Long Island, and died there in lO.jll. Edward married Anne, daughter of George and Alice Griggs, natives of Dinder. The Johnes family in the United States may be distantly related to that of Dolan Cothi, in Wales, which traces to Godebog, King of Britain, but is dire(^tly descended from the Johnes family of County Berks. County Salop, and London and Somerset, England, the branches living in those counties and also in Bristol all proceeding from the same original stock. Sir Francis Johnes was Lord Mayor of London in KWO. Edwin Manners's great-grandfathei', John Schenck, was a Captain in the Revolutionary ^\av, took an active part in the principal battles in the State, and by a well-planned ambuscade pre- vented the British troops from overrunning Hunterdon County. His grandfather, David Manners, who married Cai>tain 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<un New York City when he was a mere boy. He left school at about the age of seventeen and went to work on his father's farm, and in the active and healthful duties of an agriculturist continued until he was thirty. This period was one of constant usefulness. He laid the foundation of a sturdy physique, acquired habits which insured success, and gained a reputation for industry, enterprise, and integrity. But farming was not destined to be his life work. In 1873 be engaged in the grocery business in Schraalenburgh, which he has ever since followed, building up a large and successful trade. He has been for many years one of the principal merchants in that village. In 1877 he was appointed Postmaster of Schraalenburgh, and by successive re-appointments has cour tinned to hold that important position. Mr. Moore is also Collector of the borough, having held that office since 1895. He is a regular attendant at GENEALOGICAL 119 the Dutch Reformed Church of Schraalenburgh, and in every capacity has distinguished himself for ability, sound common sense, enterprise, and pub- lic spirit. Mr. Moore married Miss Charlotte Christie, and has had five children — three sons and two daughters. ABEAM I. AURYANSEN, of Hackensack, whose career as a locomotive engineer dates from 1852, is the son of John and Elizabeth (Auryansen) Auryansen, and was born in Closter, Bergen County, N. J., April 5, 1822. His first American ancestor was Lambert Arianse, who came from Holland to America in 1082, and became one of the original patentees of the Tappan patent. ISIost of his descendants adopted the name of Smith and are scat- tered principally throughout Rockland County, N. Y. Lambert Arianse (or Auryansen) married in New York, in April, 1682, Margaretta Gerrets Blaw- velt, a daughter of another of the Tappan patentees, and resided in Rock- land County. Two of his sons, John and Arie (Aaron), who married re- spectively Margaretta Meyers and Cornelia Xaugle, settled near Closter, Bergen County, X. J. The subject of this sketch is descended from Arie (Aaron) Auryansen and (jornelia Xaugle, who had children John, Resolvent, Vroutie. Garret, Ann, and Maria. ^Ir. Auryansen's paternal grandparents were Daniel and Tiny (Cole) Auryansen, Daniel being a son of John Auryan- sen. His maternal grandparents were Garrett and Elleanor (\'an Valen) Auryansen and his great-great-grandfather Aaron Auryansen, above men- tioned. Mr. Auryansen received his educational training in the public schools of Harrington Township in Bergen County, and in hard work and study de- veloped those traits which have marked his long and honorable career. As a boy he exhibited unusual mechanical genius and a strong inclination for that line of industry, and leaving school at the age of seventeen began to learn the trade of blacksmitli. In 1843 he engaged in this business for himself and followed it with great success for eight years, leaving it in 1851 to accept a position as fireman on the Erie Railroad. In 1852 he was pro- moted to locomotive engineer, and in this capacity has ever since been in active service. He is one of the oldest and best known engineers on the Erie system, his career on that road covering a period of forty-eight years. His profession has always been of a nature which precluded his entrance into public and political life, yet he has from the first taken a deep interest in local matters, and in Hackensack, where he has so long resided, he has exerted no small infiuence upon the general welfare. As a member of the Dutch Reformed Church he has been active in the support of those move- ments which benefit a town and its people. He is a loyal, public spirited citizen, a firm friend, and a man of unswerving integrity. Mr. Auryansen married Cornelia Haring, whose ancestors were also early residents of Bergen County. They have four children: John, Maria, Ellen, and Eliza. ROBERT LIXX LAWRENCE, one of the prominent members of the bar of Jersev City, was born in Sparta, Sussex County, N. J., October 4, 1851. He is'the son of Thomas and Margaret Rerabert (Taylor) Lawrence and a great-grandson of Thomas Lawrence, of "Morrisvale," Sussex County, who was appointed Judge of the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas in February, 1801. His great-great-grandfather, Lewis Morris, was one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Judge of the Court 120 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES of Admiralty from 1760 to 1876, und the son of Lewis Morris, Sr., who was Judge of the Court of Admiralty in 1738, having jurisdiction in the Prov- inces of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Lewis Morris, the father of Judge Lewis Morris, Si., last named, was Governor of New Jersey, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1692, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York from 1715 to 1733. Eobert L. Lawrence thus numbers among his ancestors some of the most distinguished men in the professional history of New Jersey and New York, and at an early age developed those sterling qualities which characterize his race. He was graduated from Princeton College in the class of 1873, with honors, and afterward read law with Thomas Anderson, of Newton, N. J., being admitted to the bar of the State as an attorney in November, 1876, and as a counselor in June, 1885. Since 1876 Mr. Lawrence has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he steadily rose to prominence among the members of the Hudson County bar. Endowed with broad intellectual qualifications, with superior judgment and great energy, he has through his own efforts achieved distinction as an able, industrious, and painstaking lawyer, and is highly esteemed and respected by all who know him. He was associated with Stewart Rapalje in conducting the Giiniuuil Law Mafjazinc from the commencement of the work until 1883 and in the preparation of that valua- ble and well known work entitled Rapalje und Lawrence's Law Dictionary. These enterprises as well as a number of other important achievements in the field of legal literature have gained for him a wide reputation in both legal and literary circles. Mr. Lawrence was married on the 18th of December, 1893, to Lillian M. Fisher, daughter of the late John H. Fisher and Jeannette P. (Walters) Fisher, of Jersey City, N. J., where they reside. JOSEPH CHILD, Street Commissioner of the Town of Kearny, N. J., is the son of Greorge and Bridget (Noon) Child, and was born in P.radford, Yorkshire, England, on the 26th of Septem-ber, 1849. The family is an old one in both England and America, and is descended from three brothers who figure conspicuously in the early shipbuilding interests of the English nation, and who received titles for their activity in both industrial and pub- lic affairs. Mr. Child's parents were both born and married in England, and spent their active lives in that country. There he received an excellent private school education, and after completing his studies he engaged in the business of brick contracting, which he followed successfully until 1873, when he came to America. Locating first in New York City, he soon m.astered and for some time followed the trade of iron moulder. In 1884 he removed to Kearny, Hudson County, N. J., where he still resides. Here he resumed his trade for a few years and then engaged in the meat business for himself. He followed that line with marked success until he was obliged to abandon it in order to devote all his energies to the public positions which his fellow-citizens conferred upon him. As a stanch and consistent Republican Mr. Child has taken an active interest in the affairs of his adopted town, and for several years has wielded an important influence in party councils and municipal matters. He has served as Water Purveyor and Street Commissioner of the Borough of Kearny with great satisfaction and still holds those positions. He is an active member of the Exempt Fire Department of Kearny and has held the positions of Foreman and Assistant Foreman. He is a member of the GENEALOGICAL 12] Methodist Episcopal Church, a prominent member of Victory Lodge, Kmghts and Ladies of the Golden Star, of Arlington, public spirited, patri- otic, and enterprising, thoroughly interested in the affairs of the com- munity, and highly respected as a liberal and energetic citizen. His integ- rity of character, his faithfulness in all business relations, and the close at- tention which he has given to public duties have brought him into more than local prominence, and stamp him as a man of the highest attributes. Though born and reared in England, he is descended from ancestors who came to America during the early history of the colonies and fought with distinction in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Child was married lirst to Martha Ann Berrv, daughter of William and Sarah (Greaves) Berry, of Oldham, England. ' She died leaving two children, William and Matthew. He married for his second wife, Eva Gilbert (nee Revere), daughter of Judge Rcveie, of Harrison, N. J. She died January 23, 1899. For his third wife he married Mrs. Annie Eastwood, of Kearny, N. J., where they reside. PETER BEXTLEY, Se., was one of the most illustrious members of the bar of the State of Xew Jersey, and was peculiarly identified with Jersey City as one of two or three lawyers who first practiced in that municipality. Mr. Bentley was the son of Christopher and Eleanor (Althouse) Bentley, of English descent upon his father's side. His mother's family was one of the ancient Holland stocks of New Amsterdam. Their son w'as born in 1S05 upon a farm in the village of Half Moon, Saratoga County, N. Y. Young Bentley's services were required upon the farm during the sum- mer season, and he enjoyed only such educational facilities as the crude district schools of that pioneer country afforded. The very excellent edu- cation, classical as well as English, which he enjoyed during life was wholly the result of his own application in reading and study. In 1825, after twenty years spent upon the farm, he came to Jersey City and entered the eniploj' of Yates & Mclntyre, who conducted a species of printing busi- ness. He remained with them for five years, and during this time de- termined to adopt the more ambitious profession of a lawyer, which had been his desire from early boyhood. Thus early in 1830 he entered the law ofQce of Samuel Cassedy, whose practice extended throughout the old County of Bergen, from Rockland County in New York to Kill von Kull. Mr. Bentley read law assiduously, and was soon practicing with unusual success in the justices' courts. He gained the confidence of the old Dutch farmers of Bergen County, and became in a special sense their lawyer. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at the May term of the Supreme Court in 1834, and in the September term of 1839 was admitted as a coun- selor, with the full privilege of practice in all the higher courts of the State. But in 1833, a year previous to his admission even to ordinary prac- tice, we find him holding the office of City Clerk, or " Clerk of the Board of Select Men of Jersey City," as the title reads, in the rising young munici- pality which he had chosen as the scene of his life's work. Nothing could bear more striking testimony than this fact to the universal confidence and esteem which he inspired. Later on, as a full-fledged lawyer, he became the attorney of the selectmen of Jersey City, and represented them in 1842 in the celebrated case of the selectmen against Dummer, in which he triumphantly established the doctrine of dedication by maps. In 1843 Mr. Bentley was elected to the office of Mayor of Jersey City, which, as has been well said, " was not so much a matter of party success 122 HUDSON AND ber(;bn counties as an expression of confldeiiee and good will amonj^- neighbors." Dnring this same year (184:^>) 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 <i;iven to serious rcadiiij; — the thor(iiig]i investigation of liistoi'ica] (|uestions, and peculiarly of everything conceraing his fathei-'s affairs and imjiortant law cases. The Ivev. Vnu (Jleck was the boy's tutor, and he grounded him in a niost Ihorough education. When a hoy, during his summer ^-acations and on Satui-days, he used to accomitany his father to his office, and there copy papers and entei'tain himself with various law authorities. His father en- couraged him to think that he was thus of great assistance, and presently, indeed, he was enabled to copy briefs and make citations, etc., with a skill which was of real service. As his general education was finished, and he began to study law in earnest, a room in h.is father's office was especially fitted up for his use, and here he mastered the intricacies of legal lore and prepared himself for GENEALOGICAL 125 the examination wliich must precede his admission to the bar. It has been said that the hopes of the father were completely wrapped up in the son. The desire of the former that the young man should do well in the examina- tions was so great that, as the ordeal approached, his anxiety quite un- nerved him, and he was obliged to absent himself during the examination. In this suspense his relief can be imagined when a neighbor brought him the news of the result, remarking w ith a laugh, " You need not have felt anxious, Bentley, for your son has carried off the honors, with the highest standing in the entire class of thirty candidates who took the examiuation." And such indeed was the fact. Immediately upon his son's admission to the bar, the elder Mr. Eentley formally turned over his office to him, placed all his affairs in his hands, and gave him the full revenues of theii' joint practice. Thus gradually the elder lawyer withdrew from active practice, devoting his energies in other directions, until the full burden of his extensive legal business was fully settled upon his son's shoulders. Xor was thc" latter in any way unworthy to take his father's place, lit; maintained the same relative' position in tlu' eommuuity as his fatJier, dis- played similar abilities and the same unimpeachable integrity, and inspired everywhere the same widespread confidence and respect. He frequently championed the cause of his fellow-citizens, as his father had done. For example, he was the successful counsel in proceedings whereby the unjust water rents on vacant property, and upon property where the water privi- leges W'Ore not used, were set aside and made inoperative, with thus a great saving effected to the taxpayers. Again, at the time of his death, he was the representative of the citizens in proceedings instituted to set aside the whole tax levy on the ground of gross ineijuality in its assessment. But his practice was' most remarkable tor his handling of commercial entangle- ments and the adjustment of the affairs of great corporate enterprises. He manifested great ability in settling dis])utes, and thus keeping them out of the courts. He was the counsel for the Standard Oil Company, one of the leading coun^^el of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, and counsel for the ISarber Asphalt ('omi)ai!y, of New 'York City, and the Provident Insti- tution for Savings and the Consumers (ias Company, of Jersey City. He also rendered important legal services to the Pennsylvania Railroad Companv. Mr. Bentley was a man of remarkable powers of memory. He kept the most minute details of all of his cases in his mind, and could lay his finger on any given fact at any time. After his father's death he, in lS7o, formed a legal partnership with Charles H. Hartshorne, under the firm name of Bentley & Hartshorne. This endured until January 1, 1886, when Mr. Hartshorne was obliged to withdraw on account of ill health. Prom this time until his own death Mr. Bentley practiced alone. This sad event oc- curred on the 30th of April, 18SS, wlien he was in the prime of life, and it was considered a public calamity by the whole community. He was never strong in constitution, yet did not himself realize this fact, and often worked beyond his strength. He was of a refined, sensitive, and sympathetic na- ture, benevolent and whole-hearted like his father, and as deeply attached to his own family. November 30, 1869, Mr. Bentley married Miss Emma Parker, of Jersey City, daughter of Captain Robert Parker, who was the owner of Watts Island, in Chesapeake Bav, where he died and was buried. This island has been the old family patrimony for many generations, since its first occupa- tion in early colonial davs. Their children were Eleanor, born July 13, 1 1 126 IITTDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ISTl, now the wife of Warren IT. Dixon, son of Judge Dixon, of Jersey City; Emily, born Deeembei' 5, 1872, now Mrs. Josei»li M. Rector; Peter Bentley, (liird, born February (I, 1S74; Kicliard I'aiker Hentley. born Sejjtember 25, 1875; Jolin, born June 10. 187!); Euoenie, born December 23, 1S81; and Parker, boi n June 10, 1S84. PETER rSENTLEY, Tlurd, eldest son of Peter P.entley, Second, and Emma (Parker) Bentley, was born in Jei-sey City on tlie Oth of February. 1874. He pursued his studies at Princeton Colleii-e for a time and subsequentlv read law with Warren Dixcui. Ib^ was admitted to the bar of New Jersey PETER BENTLEY, 3d. before the Supreme Court November 27, 1895, and since then has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in Jersey City. Mr. Bentley has displayed marked legal qualitications, and though a j'ouug man has already gained distinction as a lawver and advo- cate. He is prominently identilied with public affairs and respected and es- teemed by all who know him. THE BLACKLEDGES of Bergen County ai-e descended from John Blackleach, of Boston, and his second wife. Elizabeth (daughter of Ben- jamin Herbert). One of their three children, Philip Blackk^dge, came it GENEALOOTCAL 127 is said, from Wethersfleld, Conn., to IS'cw York, in 1709, and on November 2!), 1710, married Willempie Oonwll, born In England in 1680. Philip Blacliledge removed from New York to Elizabethtown, N. J., early in 172.''>, 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.<iu- werie " of about thirty- six acres of laud, butt- ing, as his deed de- clared, on ■' Corlcnrs Flats." This trad he sold March 10, ICAi',. to one Arent Ecertse. and he removed thcni'e to the ■• Townc of liergen," in Xew Jeisey. Here, on Decembei- 11, KiTO, he marii(^d on^" Anna Lnby, daughtei- of Jacob I^iby, who had sei'$$'(i as a non-commissioni'd officer tSergoant) in the Dutch AVest India serv- ice, but who had for james s. newkirk. some years been a resi- dent and landholder at Bergen. Matthens Cornelissen assumed the sur- name of Newkirk — iu honor of his birthplace, no doubt. He leased lands at Bergen which were afterward con\eyed to his children. His occupa- tion seems to have been that of a farmer. His wife, Anna, died December 20, 1085, and he married in 1()S6 Catharine I'ouwless, a daughter of Poulus Pieterse, of Bergen. She died in April, 17C(4. The children of Matthew Cornelissen Van Xew Kirk were tweh'e — live by tlie first wife and seven by the second wife: Gertrude, Ceiritie, Jacomina, Cornelius, Jacob, Jannetje, John, Jannetje, Peter, Gerrit, Poulus, and Cornelius. 132 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Those by the first wife scattered to different parts of the country, while those of the second wife remained in Bergen County, inheriting all their mother's property, which was considerable. The eleventh of these children, Gerrit Newkirk (2d gen.), born at Bergen November 18, 1696, married September 5, 1730, Catrina, daughter of Hendrick Kuyper (Cooper). She died September 12, 1751. He died April 23, 1785. Their children of the third generation were four: Catrina, Janneke, Matthew, and Henry. Matthew (3d gen.) married Caroline, daughter of Arent Toers. He died July 10, 1811, leaving three children: Garret M., Aaron, and Henry. Garret M. Newkirk (4th gen.), born at Bergen April 9, 1766, died August 28, 1832, married Polly Ackerman. They had six children: Catharine, Margaret, Sally, Sally, Henry, and Garret. Garret G. Newkirk (5th gen.), born at Bergen October 17, 1808, married (1) October 25, 1828, Eachel, daughter of Halmigh Van Houten. She died December 1, 1835. He married (2) Jane Fowler, widow of Abram Tice. She died October 6, 1849. He married (3) September 6, 1851, Eliza Ann Beatty, daughter of George E. Beatty, born in 1820. His children by three wives were: two by first wife, ten by second wife, and four by third wife. One of these r^hildren is the subject of this sketch. James S. Newkirk (6th gen.) inherited all the sturdy characteristics of his race and early displayed those intellectual qualities which have since won for him so much distinction in the affairs of life. He was educated in the common schools, at Columbian Academy, and at District School No. 1 in the Town of Bergen. He commenced his business career as clerk in the grocery store of Jacob Van Winkle, of Bergen Square, in 1865. Five years later, or in 1870, he entered the Provident Institution for Savings in Jersey City, with which he has ever since been actively identified, having filled important positions in all the departments up to and including the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, which he now holds. Mr. Newkirk has not, however, aspired to public or political office, hav- ing devoted himself almost exclusively to business affairs. For five years he was a member of the Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J. He is a member of the Jersey City and Union League Clubs, of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Mr. Newkirk's first M'ife, Mary Elizabeth Terhune, died in 1878. In 1881 he married Annabella Meeker Randall, and they have four childi-en of the seventh generation. ALBERT Z. BOGERT, of River Edge, Bergen County, is descended from one of the oldest families in New Jersey. His first American ancestor, Cornells Jansen Bogaerdt, came to America from Holland with his wife, Geesie Williams, a few years prior to 1661. He bought and settled on a village plot in Flatbush, L. I., which he subsequently sold to one Peter Jansen. In 1677 he was one of the patentees of the Flatbush patent. He resided at Flatbush until his death, about 1684. His children were Wyntie. John Cornelise, Classic, Roloff, Maritie, and Peter, all of whom, except Wyntie, eventually removed to Hackensack, N. J. His son Jan Cornelius (2) married Angenitie Strycker, and resided at New Lots, L. I., until 1694, when he sold his farm there and with several others purchased a large tract of land southeast of Hackensack. His numerous descendants have spread over the County of Bergen, and have exerted an important and GENEALOGICAL 133 wholesome influence in shaping the affairs of the county, having been prominent in business, in the professions, and in all the walks of life, honored and respected for those noble virtues which characterize the Dutch, and energetic and enterprising in promoting every worthy object. Albert Z. Bogert, the subject of this sketch, is of the eighth generation from Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt, the emigrant above named. His parents were Albert James Bogert and Catherine Aletta Zabriskie. His grand- parents were John and Catharine Zabriskie Bogert and Albert G. and Sally Annie (Winters) Zabriskie. Mr. Bogert was born in Spring Valley, Bergen County, N. J., on the 14th of November, 1864. He received his education in the Bergen County schools, which he left at the age of nine- teen to assist his father on the farm, where he remained five years. In 1888 he settled permanently in River Edge and bought a half interest with P. V. B. Demarest in a large coal, lumber, and grocery business. A year later Mr. Demarest sold his interest to John H. Banta and the busi- ness was continued by Messrs. Bogert and Banta until 1892, when Mr. Banta died. Since that time Mr. Bogert has successfully continued it alone. Mr. Bogert's activity, enterprise, and influence in the community stamp him as one of the leading citizens, while his success in business has won for him a high reputation. He is a member of the Borough Council of the Borough of Riveraide and of the Dutch Reformed Church of Schraalen- burgh, and active in various other capacities. In March, 1900, he was elected a member of the Beigen County Board of Chosen Freeholders from Midland Township. His wife, Anna Van Wagner, who was also descended from an old Holland Dutch family of New Jersey, died in 1892, leaving two children, James Gordon Bogert, born in 1888, and John W. Bogert, born in 1891. JOHN J. BOGERT, the miller of Harrington Park, is a descendant in the ninth generation from Cornelis Jans Bougaert, the emigrant (see sketch on page 132). Stephen Bogert, of the seventh generation, son of Guilliam Bogert and Maria Banta, was born in 1753, married Sophia Alyea, and left issue a son. Jacobus (James) Bogert, of the eighth generation. Jacobus Bogert (8) was born January 24, 1788, died March 6, 1871, mar- ried Jane Mevers, who was born February 13, 1794, and died May 7, 1873. They had several children of the ninth generation, among whom were John J., James, and Stephen. Of these John J. (9), the eldest, married Margaret, daughter of John R. Blawvelt and Leah Demarest. Their issue, of the tenth generation were four children: Jane, Leah Ann, Elma, and John J., the latter being the subject of this sketch. John J. Bogert once raised a horse which he sold to Robert Bonner, of New York City, for |10,000. John J. Bogert (10) was born December 6, 1846, at Harrington Park, N. J., where he still resides. He was educated in the Bergen County schools, which he left at the age of eighteen to engage in the milling business and in farming with his father. Upon his father's death in 18!)2 he took charge of the entire business and has since conducted it with marked success. During his active life he has wielded an important and wholesome influence in all local affairs. Mr. Bogert married Hester Jemima Ackerman, and has four children: Eugene, Walter, Clyde A., and Mary L. 134 HUDSON AND BEU(!EN COUNTIES EDWIN BERKLEY YOUNd, a leading and successful real estate and insurance num of Unien Hill, is descended from a distinguished family of United Empire I'oyalists. Tlie Youngs made tlie first settlement in Athol, Prin<'e Ed^vard ('ounty, Outai-io, (.'aiiada, at East Lake. Some liis- toriaus claim tliey were the lirst settlers in that county. Certain it is they went there wh(>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 <i, iSi'T. lie has been prominent in ]inblic and private aflairs. In 1S46 he entered as a elerk the dry ijoods store of his brother John R. in New York, where he remained two years. In 1849 he caught the gold fever and went to t'alifornia rid Cajte Horn. Two years in tlie gold " diggins " was enough for him. He returned home and soon after entei'ed the political field by being elected Surveyor of Highways in his native town. Following this venture up, he became Township Collector in 1862, and later County Collector, which office he held for five years. In 1872 he was elected to the State Senate on the Democratic ticket, and was from year to year returned until 1875, when he became a candidate for State Treasurer and Controller. For seven years thereafter he was a member of the " Third House " in the Legislature. With ^Yilliam B. Dana he built in 1871 the Palisade Mountain House, and then took a rest by traveling for a time, finally returning to embark in the real estate business. He married in 1852 Miss Catharine S. Van Blarcom, by whom he has had six children of the eighth generation: Mary (wife of Oliver Drake Smith), Sarah Ryer (wife of Stanley P. Parsons), Elizabeth, (iarret (now in a banking house at No. 18 Wall Street, New York), Kate, and Cornelius, now at Englewood. Mr. Lydecker is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 114. CHARLES A\^ESLEY RANDALIi, of Jersey City, has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of architecture in Hudson County since 18S0, or during a period of twenty years. He was born in the Hudson City section of Jersey City in 185G and is the son of George W. Randall and Sarah Hellier, both of whom are of English descent. His family originally settled in old Hudson City in 1837, and has ever since been active and in- fluential in important capacities. Mr. Randall was educated primarily in Public School No. 1, of Hudson City (now Jersey City), and subsequently took a course at Cooper Institute, New York, graduating therefrom as an architect. In ISSO he entered upon the active practice of his profession in Hudson (Jounty, and from that time to the present has built a large number of houses and other buildings, in all of which appear evidences of his genius. He is a man of decided artistic talent, energetic and influential in all the affairs of life, thoroughly identified with the best interests of the community, and one of the best architects and builders in the County of Hudson. In ISSO Mr. Randall married Eleda Erickson. They hav(^ three children: George E., Elizabeth G., and Josephine E. Randall. JOHN RATHBONE RAMSEY is one of the leading lawyers of Hack- ensack, Bergen County, N. J., and, in November, 1895, was elected to the office of County Clerk by a majority of 9f)l, being the first Republican ever elected to that position in tliat county. He is the son of John P. Ramsey, a farmer, and Martha Rathbone, his wife, and a descendant on his father's side of Samuel Ramsey, a native of Scotland, who with his son, John Ramsey, came to America in 1772, and settled at New Scotland, Albany County, N. Y. The son John, born in 1757, married Margaret Connollj', and settled at New Scotland, where he enlisted and served in the Conti- nental Army against the British in the war for independence. Peter Ramsey, said to have been another son of Samuel, and to have followed his father and brother to America, had two sons, Peter P. and William P. Ramsey, both of whom settled in the Ramapo district of Bergen GENEALOGICAL 14:7 County. Peter P. married Jane Reyerson, and William P. married Hannah . The inscriptions on their tombstones show the following facts: Peter P. Ramsey, born July 18, 1770, died March :W, ISni; Jane Reyerson, his wife, died January 2S, 1825. William P. Ramsev, born December 25, 1774, died July 19, 1863; Hannah, his wife, born January 2'J, 1775, died August 6, 1849. These were the first of the name in the county, and were undoubtedly the ancestors of all the Ramseys in Bergen County, including the subject of this sketch. On his mother's side John R. Ramsey's ancestors were of English descent. Mr. Ramsey was born in Wyckofl', Bergen County, N. J., on the 25th of April, 1862, and spent much of his early life — from 1 872 to 1879 — with his maternal grandfather, John V. Rathbone, in Parkersburg, ^^'. Va., where he received a private school education. In 1879 he returned to New Jersey and entered the law office of the late Oeorge II. CotTey, of Hackensack. He subsequently continued his law studies with tht' firm of Campbell & De Baun, also of Hackensack, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in November, 188:^,, and as a counselor in February, 1887. For nearly twelve years following his aduiission he was actively and success- fully engaged "in the practice of law in Iladcensack. displaying marked abiHty as a counselor and advocate, and gaining an extensive clientage. Mr.' Ramsey has always been an active, ardent, and consistent Republican, and for many years has been a power in the councils of his party. He was the Republican candidate for the office of (V)unty Clerk, of Bergen County, in 1890, but was defeated by a very small majority, although he ran ahead of the rest of the Republican ticket by se\'eral hundred votes. In November, 1895. he was again the Republican candidate for that office and was elected by a majority of 901, for a term of five years fi-om November 18, 1895, being the first Republican ever elected County ('lerk in the County of Ber- gen He has discharged the duties of this office with marked ability and satisfaction, and has ^displayed the same .-ueigy which characterized his career at the bar. He is a member of Fidelity Lodge No. 113, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ridgewood, N. J., of Wortcndyke Lodge. No. 175, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and ol yarious so.'ial organizations and '^ He' was married, January 20. 189S, to Mary Evelyn Thompson, of Clarks- burg, W. Va. i^he died very suddenly Ai>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<k Heights Field Club. On October ni, 18(i7, he married Miss M. H. Gehrels, of Charleston. S. C. Theii- children are (^'harles W., (Jeorge S.. John A., Augusta. Herbert B., Frank P., Emma T. B., and Daniel C. ALEXAX'^DER FISHER was born in BuEfalo, X. Y., on the 14th of May, 1819, his parents being John Fisher and Margaret (/ortelyou. His an- cestors came to this country from England. He was educated in the public Schools of Buffalo and spent his early life as a traveling salesman. In this capacity he gained a wide practical experience. He is now private secre- tary to Henry Dalley, of Xew York City. In 18!l2 Mr. Fisher became a resident of <"loster, Bergen County, X. J., where he has since remained. As a citizen he is thoroughly identified with public affairs, liberal in promoting every worthy object, and prominent in the community. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, public spirited and progressive, patriotic and enterprising, and highly esteemed and respected. He married ^Irs. H. R. Downs (nee Du Bois). XELSOX JAMES HARRISOX EDGE was born in Jersey City, X. J., and has long been one of the leading bankers and citizens of Hudson County. He is a member of one of the oldest families, not only of Jersey City, but of the country, his first American ancestor, Robert Edge, em- barking with twenty others with their families at London, September 15, 1635, in the ship " Hopewell," Thomas Babb, blaster, for Xew England, where they first settled. Mr. Edge's grandfather, Isaac Edge, left Brooklyn, where he had been residing from about 1797, and came to Jersey City — then Paulus Hook — in the year 1806, when there were but three houses in the 152 HUDSON AND RRROEN COUNTIES place: a I resided Ik (the mat( corner of lapped 1)Y promiueiil oldest inl and died who died George AV rial for which rireen and Jfoiil averii, the liai'racl^s, and a private residence. The famil_y has ■re ever since. In ISlij this Isaac Edge Iniilt a large windmill he inipoi'ted) near what is now the northeast oniery Streets, and which at that time was the waves of the river. The old mill \'\as for many years a landmark and still lives in the memories and traditions of the labitauts. He married Prances Ogden, of Dnffield, England, July 7, 1851, leaving surviving him four sons: Isaac Edge, Jr., March 10, 185!); Benjamin (). Edge, who died June 11, 1871; ■. Edge, who died January 1, 1S80; and Joseph G. Edge, who died ISAAC EDGE, JR. May 10, 188:^. He also had two daughters: Alice Edge, who died Decem- ber 11, 1870, and EJizabelli Edge, Avho died in 1887. (ieorge W. and Eliza- beth died unmarried; the others, Isaac, 15enjamin O., Joseph G., and Alice, married and left families surviving them. Isaac Edge, Jr., father of Nelson J. H. Edge, at a very early age enlisted in Captain Smith's comiiany. Third Reginn-nt, New Jersey Infantry, and served his country in the army dni'ing the War of 1812. He subsequently became one of the ])ionee)' ni;tnufactui'ers of Jersey City and achieved a national reputation as a jiyrotechnist. From his establishment for many GENEALOGICAL 153 years went forth all the displays of fireworks which were at one time annu- ally given on the Fourth of July by all the principal cities of the country. He was also the originator of movable pieces, the first being a representa- tion of the battle of Vera Cruz given on Boston Common. He died March 10, 1859, and left surviving him his wife Marj^aret. who died October 27, 1879; his son, Xelson J. H.; and his daughters, Mary Louisa and Frances Ogden. The latter died January 5, 1885. Nelson J. H. Edge has been a life-long resident of Jersey City. He first attended old Public School No. 1, afterward studied at Mr. Dickinson's school in the Lyceum, and from there entered St. Francis Xavier College in New York City, where he finished his education. His early training was designed to fit him for an active business life, which he soon entered, and in which he has achieved an honorable reputation. Upon leaving college he entered the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank of Jersey City, now the First National Bank, and from there went to the Merchants' Bank of New York City as cashier's assistant. In 18S7 he assisted in the organiza- tion of the Bank of New Amsterdam, of New York, and acted as its Cashier until 1896, when he retired from business. He was not long permitted to remain idle, however, for in 1899 he was called to the post of Cashier of the Hudson County National Bank of Jersey City, which he accepted, and which he is now filling with characteristic energy, ability, and satisfaction. Mr. Edge is one of the foremost bankers of Hudson County. He is a man prompt in the discharge of every obligation, imbued with the highest prin ciples of integrity, and active and influential in promoting business and public interests. Besides discharging his duties as a financier he has taken an active part in local public affairs. He was one of the organizers of the Jersey City Free Public Library, and was appointed one of the original Trustees by Mayor Cleveland in i889, being re-appointed by Mayor Wanser in 189.3 and again by Mayor Hoos in 1898, for terms of five years each. Since his first appointment he has filled the oflflce of Treasurer of the library. In 1896 Mr. Edge was the candidate of the " Gold " Democrats for Presidential Elector "on the Palmer and Buckner ticket. He served seven years in Company F, Seventh Regiment, National tiuard of the State of New York, enlisting in 1876 and acting as Paymaster the greater part of that period. JMr. Edge is a member and President of the Palma Club of Jersey City, a member of the r'arteret and Cosmos Clubs, and a member of the Lincoln Association, of the Jersey City Board of Trade, of the Seventh Regiment ^'eteran Club, of the Reform Club of New York, and of the Society of the A\'ar of 1812. He has never married, COOK CONKLINC of Rutherford, N. J., is the son of Calvin B. Conk- ling, a native of Sag Harbor, Long Island, and a descendant of one of two brothers who came from England in Cromwell's time and settled originally in Salem, IMass. This ancestor married Mary Cardiner, daughter of Lyon Grardiner', proprietor of Gardiner's Island, and moved from Salem to Long Island. Calvin B. Conkling's wife was Harriet A. W. King, who was also descended from an old New England family. Cook Conkling was born in Ledgewood, N. J., on the 4th of November, 1858. He received his preparatory education at Schooley's Mountain Semi- nary in Morris County, in his native State, and afterward entered Mount Union College in Ohio, where he took an elective course, but did not grad- uate. After leaving college he taught country school for a time, but soon abandoned that occupation to go " upon the road " as general traveling 154 HUDSON AJSTD BERGEN COUNTIES agent for a machinery house. He filled this position for seven years, in the course of which he visited forty-three States in the Union. In his younger days Mr. ( !onkling wrote for the newspapers, and during his travels in America and Canada he constantly wrote for the press. His letters descriptive of the people and their ways and the countries at large cnt'ountered in his tiavels have been reprinted and favorably commented upon. He has probably seen as much of the United States as almost any other citizen of the country, and is well known throughout Northern New Jersey, over Avhich his business connections extend. Mr. Conkling Anally studied law, was admitted to the bar of his native State, and in ISSS began the active practice of his profession with a part- ner in Rutherford, N. J., where he still resides. This association continued until February, 1893. Afterward he was engaged alone in a general bank- ing and law business in Rutherford until June 1, 1898, when he formed a copartnership with ex-Mayor Luther Shafer, of Rutherford. Mr. Conkling is a Democrat by inheritance, his ancestral lines on his mother's side — the Phoenixes and Kings of New Jersey — having been prominently identified with that party. He is a public spirited citizen and deeply interested in the affairs of his native State. For many years he has been influential in the growth of Rutherford, and in every capacity has displayed characteristic enterprise. JOHN T. HARING'S ancestors, for many generations, have resided at Old Tappan. He is descended in the eighth generation from Jan Pietersen Haring, the emigrant from Hoorn, Holland, for an account of whom, and of his children, see page (51. His line of descent as far as the fourth gen- eration is identical with those outlined on pages 61 and 63 of this work. John Cozine Haring, of the fourth generation, born November 24, 1693, and his wife, Aeltie Van Dolsen, born in April, 1696, had issue of the fifth generation eight children, of whom one was Frederick J. Haring (o). Frederick Johns Haring (5), born December 7, 1729, died March 6, 1807, married (1), April 30, 1752, Rachel Abrams Haring, born May 13, 1732, died August 27, 179.5. He married (2), November 14, 1796, Ann de Clark (widow of Peter Perry), born July 7, 1741, died September 18, 1816. Frederick's children (of the sixth generation) by Rachel Abrams Haring were ten: Aeltie, Abram F., Dirkie, John F., Garret F., Harman, Rachel, Margaretta, Maria, and Abram B. John Fredericks Haring (6), born June 15, 1760, died August 10, 1836, married, in November, 1781, Jemima, daughter of Tunis Blawvelt, born November 2.5, 1779, died .January 27, 1859. Their issue of the seventh gen- eration were two: Frederick J. and Tunis J. Tunis J. Haring (7) was born at Tappan, September 17, 1787, died there October 18, 1881, married (1), October 7, 1806, Elizabeth Perry (daughter of Peter Perry), born March 23, 1784, died November 13, 1858. He married (2), November 22, 1859, Lea Demarest (widow of John R. Blawvelt), born Febru- ary 3, 1785, died August 6, 1872. Tunis (7) by his first wife had issue of the eighth generation Abram B., Jane, Peter T., and John T., the last named of whom is the subject of this sketch. John T. Haring (8) was born in Harrington Township, Bergen County, May 16. 1S22, and received his education in the local schools. He leift school at the age of fifteen and went to work on his father's farm, where he has ever since remained, never having engaged in any other business. He is not only one of the leading farmers of Bergen County, but has GENEALOGICAL 155 also taken an active part in public affairs, and served three years as a Free- holder and three years as Township Collector, lie is a member of the Reformed Church, a public spirited citizen, and highly respected and esteemed. ISlr. Haring married liaehel Blawvelt and has three children: Tunis J., of Hackensaek; Richard B.; and Elizabeth 1'., of Sparkill, X. Y. They reside at Old Tappan, Bergen County. MLLTOX T. RICHARDSOX, a well knoMn publisher of Xew York City and for two terms President of the Milage of Ridgewood, Bergen County, X. J., Avas born in ^^'estford, ^Mass., on the 7th of February, 1S43. He is the son of Thomas Richardson and Mary Fletcher, a grandson of Abijah and Elizabeth (Livingston) Richardson and of I'eletiah and Sally (Woodward) Fletcher, and a great-grandson of Thomas and Hannah (Colburn) Richard- son. On his father's side he is descended from Ezekiel Richardson, one of three brothers who came to this country from England in ]63(). His mother's family — the Fletchers — are equally old residents of Xe-w England, her emigrant ancestor, Robert Fletcher, coming from England also in 1630. Both the Richardsons and the Fletchers as well as their collateral ancestors have long been prominent in the history of Xew England and other Eastern 8tates, and for generations have contributed materially to the growth and prosperity of the communities in which they resided. Milton T. Richardson received his education at Westford Academy in \Yestford, Mass., and at Eastman's Business College in Poughkeepsie, X". Y. In these two institutions he laid the foundation upon which he has built a successful career. Soon after completing his studies he engaged in journalism and in the publishing business, and for a number of years has been successfully connected as publisher of trade and class journals at 27 Park Place, X"^ew York City. At the present time he is the publisher of the Blaclsmith and Wlnchv light, the Ainatviir l^portsinuii, and Boots (iiul Shoes Weekly, being President and Tre;i surer of the corporation styled the M. T. Richardson (Jompany, which publishes these well known peri- odicals. He is also the publisher of a large number of mechanical and technical books. These publications are known throughout the country, and represent in their respective fields the best interests of the trade and the highest attainments of trade and class publications. Mr. Richardson has achieved marked success as a publisher, and through his own energy, ability, and superior judgment has brought his periodicals to a high standard of excellence. He has also taken an active part in pub- lic life. As a resident of Ridgewood, Bergen County, X. J., he has been called upon to fill important positions of trust and responsibility, being elected, in 1892, a member of the Township Committee and later, upon the incorporation of the village, a member of the Board of Village Trustees, to which he was afterward re-elected and was twice chosen President of the village. In these capacities he rendered most efficient service to the com- munfty, bringing to his duties the same energies, ability, and thoroughness which characterize his business affairs. For a time he was a private in Company 1, Sixteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. He is Vice- President of the Ridgewood Building and Loan Association and President of the Ridgewood Hall and I'ark Association, a member of the Ridge- wood Club,"and also a member of the Knights of Honor and of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the New York Press Club, of the American ■ > 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 ^ <!R\EALO(;i('AL 167 vembei- 14, ISdfi. read law in Xcwaik with f'liiof Justice Joseph 0. Hoi-n^ blower, and eaine to the New Jersey bar in 182S. For niaiiy years he was a successful lawyer in Newton, and for some time serAed as Prl)secutoi- of the Pleas of Sussex County. In ISCil lie was apjiointed Secretary of State bv GoTernor Olden and served until l.S(;(i, and in ISCiT he was made register iii bankruptcy. He died in Trenton on the L»4th of Decendii r, 1.S74; his wife's death occurred there Se])tember Ifl, 1S94. William M. Johnson was born in Newton, Sussex County, N. J., Decem- ber 2, 1S47, and received his jireparatory education at the Newton Colle- giate Institute and the State :Model School at Trenton. He was giaduated from Princeton College with honor, receiving the degree of P.achelor of Arts in lSr>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 <!ood Fellows; Past Grand of Lincoln Lodge, Xo. 13(i, I. O. O. F.; and repieseutative to the Home for Aged Indigent Odd Fellows of Xew Jersey, of which institution he is a Director and formerly President. He has also served several years as the repre- sentative to the Grand Lodge of Gdd Fellows of Xew Jersey. He is one of the managers of the Aged (ierman Home, known as the Rayiuond Rotli Altenheim, under the management of the (ierman Pioneer Verein, as well as counsel for the same institution. He is also counsel for five difl'erent building and loan associations. On the 24th of January, 1883, Judge Puster was married to Miss Julia A. Wenner, daughter of John C. W'enner, for many years past a leading business man and manufacturer of Jersey City. They arc blessed with four daughters, in whom Judge Puster has a great and fatherly pride. He became associated in partnership with Hon. Robert S. Hudspeth, ex-Presiding Judge of the Hudson County Court of Common Pleas, and has a suite of finely appointed offices in the Davidson Building, Jersey City. Judge Puster is still a young man, having only reached the prime of life, and has every prospect of a brilliant future before him. THE FIRST OF THE MABIES in America wrote the surname Jleebji. He was Casparus (Jasper) ]Mabie, and of French origin, though from what particular part of France he hailed does not appear. He was a Huguenot, and either he or his ancestor had fled from France to Amsterdam, in Hol- land, from which city he emigrated to America about 1()92 with his wife, Elizabeth Schuerman, and three children: Christina, Sophia, and Peter. The family went to X^ew Harlem, where Casper bought lands of Daniel Tournure, and where he became a considerable landholder. On September 29, 1696, he was elected Constable of Harlem, the duties of which office he discharged for one year. In 1700 he sold part of his farm and in 1709 the balance, and removed to Bergen County, X. J., where in 1710 he purchased of Captain Lancaster Symes a large tract on the west bank of the Hudson, 172 HUDSON AND BERG15N COUNTIES cxteiulinji westward to Closter. Here he settled, and here he died about 1720. His children were Christina (married Joost Albert Zabriskie), Sophia (married Matthew Conklin), and Peter, all born in Holland, and Jeremia, Abraham, Frederick, and John, baptized at Harlem. Of these Peter mar- ried Catelyntie Johns Bogert and had issue at least thirteen children, all baptized at Tappan. I'eter located at Old Tappan. The descendants of his cliildren spread over Bergen County, and many of them are still residents. THE MERSELES FAMILY is still numerous in Hudson and Bergen Counties. They trace their lineage to Pieter Marcelisen (Marcelis), a native of the little Town of Beest, near Leerdam, in the Province of Utrecht, Hol- land. He left Amsterdam in April, 1G61, with his wife, four children (aged, respectively, twelve, six, four, and two years), and two servants, on the Dutch West India ship " Beaver," and arrived at New Amsterdam on the !)th of May of the same year. The ship's register shows he paid 232 florins passage-money for the family of eight persons, all of which goes to show that even then he must have been a man of considerable means. He re- moved to Bergen, where he settled, and where his wife died in 1680, and he followed her in Ki.Sl. His issue were pJames, Jannekie, Pietgr, Merseles, Elizabeth, and Hillegond. These all mariied and remained at Bergen. Peter, the eldest son, died wealthy. Some of his descendants settled in Rockland County, N. Y., and in the north end of Bergen County. THE VANDELINDA FAMILY.— Pieter Linde was a native of Belle, a town on the road from Bruges to Ghent in Flanders. He was a physician, and came to America in 1639 with his wife, Elsie Barents. The shipping records show that, on April 18, 1639, he paid to David Pietersen de Vries and Frederick Pietersen de Vries 140 Carolus gelders (|56) for passage for himself and wife to New Amsterdam, where he settled and followed his profession until the death of his wife in 1643. On July 1, of the following year (1644), he entered into a marriage contract with Martha Chambers, or Ekomberts, of New Kerck, in Flanders. She was the widow of John Manje, or Monnye. The marriage knot was tied July 10, 1644, at New Amsterdam. Aftei* this marriage ^'andelinde removed to Brooklyn, where he became the owner of the patent of his wife's first husband. This he sold January li3, 1652. to Barent Joosten. He owned several other pieces of property, both at Brooklyn and New Amsterdam, and in 1655 was tobacco inspector of the lattei- city. After Linde's death his descendants assumed the name of Van der Linde. His son, Joost Van der Linde, removed to Bergen, N. J., in the fall of 1670, where, on January 30, 1671, he bought about 90 acres of land of Pieter Jansen Slote between Constable's Hook and Bergen Point. Here he resided until his death. His children of the third generation were John (died in 1696), Roelof, Jannetie (married Peter Jjaurens ^'an Buskii'k), Hendricke (married Laurens Laurens ^'an Buskirk), and Machtelt (mar- ried Albert Zabriskie). All of these except John removed to Bergen County. Roelof resided with his father at Bergen, where, on October 2, 1682, he married Susanna Hendricks Brinkerhoff. He removed to Hackensack in ](;s6, where he helped to organize and became a member of the Dutch church. He became joint owner with his brothers-in-law, Laurence and Peter Van Buskirk, in the New Hackensack patented lands, and also bought of the New Jersey proprietors large tracts of wild land west of the GENEALOGICAL 173 Pascack River in ^^'ashington and Midland Townships in Bergen County. His fli'st ^^•itV having died in 1700, he married (2) Rachel Cresson, widow of John Peters Durie, who survived him, but by whom he had no issue. He was a man of wealth, and died in New York City early in 1709, leaving a will dated September 6, 170S, proved February 13, 170!). His issue of the fourth generation were Peter, Henry, Classie, Maritie, Sophia, and Geesie. Peter, by the will of his father, received his father's plantation at Nt^w Hackensaek, and Henry all the lands on the Pascack and Saddle Rivers, in the northern part of the county. Ilendrick resided at PoliHy, below Hack- ensaek. The numerous desc-endants of Petei- and Henry (4j have become scattered over a large area of territory, including Bergen and Hudson Counties. GEORGE LOURIE ^MLEY, a well known electrical engineer and a prominent resident of Arlington, N. J., was born in St. Louis, Mo., on the 12th of May, 1810. He is the son of George W. \yiley and Elmira il. Gregg, a grandson of James Wiley, Jr., and Margaret Sutherland and of James Gregg and Abagail Wright, and a great-grandson of John Wiley and Matilda Lourie and of Joseph Wright and Mary Sinclair. The Sutherlands and Louries were of royal Scotch blood and the Greggs and Wrights on liis mother's side were members of the Society of Friends or Quakers. His father, George W. Wiley, was a stock broker and well known in ^^'all Street twenty-five years ago; he was an esteemed and prosperous citizen, and died in Chicago in 1899, having retired from business in 187S. Mr. Wiley was graduated from the St. Louis (Mo.) City University and afterward spent one year in a classical and technical course under a private tutor. In 1S()S he became a clerk in the New York Gold Exchange Bank, where he remained one year. He then associated himself with the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company of New York, and continued with that cor- poi-ation for eleven years (1869-1880), serving successively as clerk. As- sistant Superintendent, and Superintendent. In 1880 the (told and Stock Telegraph Company's telephone business, which was then under his charge, was consolidated with that of the Bell Telephone Company of New Yoik, form.ing what is now the New York Telephone and Telegraph Company. Mr. \Mley continued under the consolidation of the new company as Gen- eral Superintendent for two years, resigning in 1882 to become President and Creneral Manager of the Central Telephone Company in ^Mexico. He sailed for that country June 22, 1882, and continued with that company in M( xico for three years, until it was put on a paying basis. In iss.") he returned to New York and became manager of the Standard Underground Cable Comx)any, manufacturers of electrical wires and cables, with oiHces in New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, and factories in Oakland. Cal., Pittsburg, I'a.. and Perth Amboy. N. J. He is also President of the New York Electric Construction Company, a Di- rector in several important electrical enterprises, and a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and of the New York Electrical Soci€'ty. In these various positions Mr. '\\'iley developed great executive ability, and not only achie^•ed success, but gained a reputation in electrical circles which extends throughout the country. He also has a wide reputation as an inventor and electrical expert. Though an active, energetic, and pa- triotic citizen, he has always avoided public or political office, having de- voted his entire time to the important duties which have devolved upon 174 HUDSON AND BEU(!EN COUNTIES liiiu and wliicli lie has discbarKwl witli ability and satisfaction. He is a Mason, an Odd ]<\dlo\v, a I'ast Kej-'cnt of ilic Koyal Arcaniim, and a menaber of the Loyal Additional. He liokls meniborsliip in America Lodge. No. VMi, II. .v.. and in ^^rlington ( 'ouncil, L. A. He was raised in tlie Presby- terian Church and has affiliated with that faith. His career lias been an active and successful one, and in both business and social relations he is liighly esteemed and resjiected. As a resident of Arlington, K. J., he has contributed much to the growth and development of that attractive borough, and is prominently connected with many of its leading institu- tions. GEORGE L. WILEY. On Christmas Day, I>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 <if Andrew and Mary (Kelly) Kennedy, both natives of Ireland, and a grandson of James and Bridget Kennedy, who came from Ireland to this country when Andrew was about nine years old. They settled in A\'eehawken, N. J. Andrew Kennedy followed the trade of mason and bricklayer during his active life, and is now retired. His wife died May 6, 1S07. Their children are John J., Thomas A., and Mary (Mrs. John ('urran), all of ^^'est Hoboken, N. J. John J. Kennedv was born CENEALOGICAL 177 March 21, 1858, attended the public and parocliial schools of his native town, and at the a^e of tifteen entered the olHce of the old Hif/hhiiid i<cnt(iicl in ^Vest TJoboken, with a. view of learnintc the jjrinter's trade. After an experience of two years in this capacity and another year as a fisherman he turned his attention to line i;love (■llttinJ,^ associatini^ him- self with a Dane named (instav Elf;eti, wlKrclaimed to he the first man to learn the French jilove cnttini;' system in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Kennedy was the first native of this country to learn French _i;love cuttiu};, and, so far as can be ascertained, is the only man in the trade who has JOHN J. KENNEDY. mastered and follows that excellent but little known system in its entirety. In 18.S() he enj^ag'ed in the manufacture of fine <;l(>\-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 <Mty Kepnblican (Vimmittee, and a member of the T'nion Leafjne Chib, the Afasonic ordei', and the Jm]iroved Order of Ked ^fen. In evei'y cajtacity he has disjtlayed i>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<ob, Jannetje, Feninietje, Diike, and John. Of these nine Wilhelnius (4) transjjlanted the name in New Jersey. He was born at Flatbush in A])ril, 1(J8(), and married Elizabeth , of New T'trecht, L. I., where he resided until his removal to this State. On the ei-ertion of the new church at New 1 'trecht, in 1700. he was allotted three men's and three women's seats. In 172(i he was a deacon, and in 17."!S an elder, in the same church. He removed to Beii;en County, N. J., as early as 174.">. 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. de<iree in course in 1S7!). Tie studied law at :Meadville, was admitted to the hai- of Pennsylvania Aniinst IT, l^^Sl, and was elected District Attorney for McKean Coiinty, Pa., on the Ke])uhlican ticket in 1SS4. After the expiration of his official term i.Taniiary 1, ISSS) he jnacticed law in McKean and adjacent counties until 1S!)4, when lie came 1o llackensai-k, X. •!., whei-e he at once t'ntered upon the work of his pi-ofession throu.i^hout P>eri;('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<i', lie is one ot the most respected citizens of En^lew(Mid, and has always taken a deejt interest in tlie j^eneral walfare of his section. .Mr. Cass was married in 1S!.»5 to Isabella Tavlor, of New Voi-k ( 'itv. ISAAC L. XE'WIiEKY, of Arlington, is the son of .Jose]ih II. Ni'wbery and Emily Ann Kockefellow Sharp, dau.nhtei- of Matthias and Cathei-iiu' (^^'illet) Sliarji, and a j^randson of ^\'illianl Newbei'y, all natives of Eni;- laud. His fatlier, Joseph II. Newbery, came fr(nn Loudon in early life, settliuij, in New York City, and there suc-cessfullv carried on business as a hatter until his death in \S{]~>. 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<df assiduously to his business intei-ests he has been active in pub- lic affairs, and sim-e taking up his residence in Arlington has be- come iirominent in various important ca- pacities. A Republican in politics, lie was a member of the Township Commitlei' in ISS."), lSS(i, ISltd, and 1S!»7, serving in IS!)(i ,is Chairman of that Itody. lie is Presi- dent of the Kearny Ibiildiiig and Loan Association, having held that position during the last iiine years. This is one of the largest and strongest corjiorations of the kind in p]astern New .lersey, and under ilr. Newberv's able and energetic management S.\AC L. XEWBEKV. has made an excellent 190 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES record. Mr. Newlx^ry is aii lionorary mcinboi' of Company G, N. G. N. J., a member and I'ast Master of Triune Lodj^e, A. T. and A. M., and a member and Past Uej'cnt in tlie Royal Arcanum. In 1SS2 he organized the Society of Foresters in Arlington, of which he is Past Chief Ranger. He is also Past Grand of Pilgrim Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has long been a member of the A^ohinteer Fire Department of Kearny, which he first served as Foreman and Assistant Chief for two years each. In these various ca- ]3acities as well as in all business relations ]Mr. Newbery has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and grear enterprise. As a (;itizen he is highly esleemed and respected. He is thoroughly identified with the affairs of his adopted town and county, active and influential in promoting every worthy object, and thoroughly interested in all movements which promote the general welfare. Mr. Newbery married Jennie Sinclair, and their children are Agnes L. (wife of H. L. Frazee), \\'illiam A., Arthur N., Jennie S., Isaac L. (de- ceased), Joseph H. (deceased), and Emily S. JAaiES WRIGHT AMERCER, Freeholder of Bergen County and Post- master of Lodi, N. J., was born in Scotland on the 10th of May, 1S6G, his parents being James fiercer and Ann Coverun. James and Ann Mercer were born and married in Scotland and came to the T'nited States in 1882, locating in Lodi. Ml'. Mercer was educated in the public schools of his native country, and shortly after the arrival of the family in Lodi entered the employ of the Susquehanna Railroad as agent at that place. Afterward he engaged in the coal business, which lie still follows, having built up a large and suc- cessful trade. In public life Mr. fiercer has displaced the same ability, integrity of character, and enterprise which have marked his business life. He was for three years, or one term. Councilman of the Town of Lodi, and for five years was a member of the Republican County Committee. He is now ^1900) Freeholder of Bergen County and Postmaster of Lodi, and is dis- charging the duties of those offices with characteristic energy and satisfac- tion. Mr. Mercer is a member of Passaic Lodge, No. :!S7, Benevolent Order of Elks, and of the Crescent Social Club of Lodi. He was married, No- vember 8, 1893, to Jennie Langford, of Lodi, N. J. JACOB L. VAN BUSKIRK.— The founder of the Van Buskirk family in this country was Lourens Andriessen, who, after his emigration to America, took the surname of Van Buskirk, the Tan signifying " from," and Bos Kerch meaning " church in the woods." He was a native of the Province of Holstein, in Denmark, a tanner by trade, and came to America in 16.55. iVlthough a single man when he arrived, he set to work at his trade, which he soon abandoned for that of a draper. On June 20, 1656, he bought a lot on Broad Street. Soon afterward he went to Bergen and purchased about 170 acres of land in what is now the Greenville district of Jersey City, on which he settled, and there he took the oath of allegiance to King Charles in 1665. He soon became a man of prominence, and wielded great influence in the affairs of Bergen. On September 12, 1658, he married Jannetie Jans, widow of (Uiristiaen Barrentsen, who brought him, as is said, besides four sons by a former husband, about 1,400 florins, heavy money, and ten wampum beads for one stiver. Mr. Winfield adds : " When the country was recaptured by the Dutch and the people expected a for- GENEALOGICAL 191 feiture of the lands he and John Horry, Saninol Edsall, and William Sand- ford appoarod at Fort William llcnrv, Ani;:nst IS, l(i7:!, to rocpiost that their plantations be contirnu'd in the priviloucs which tlicy obtained from tiieir previous patroons," When a rontest arose between' the Town of Reryen and tlie inhabitants on the south of them, coucernini;- fences and the suji- port of a schoolmaster, he aj;ain apjieared before the council to plead the cause of his neighbors. Under the act of Xovember 7, l(i(iS, for the uuirkini; of horses and cattle, he was appointed recorder and nuirker for Minkakwa, .\jiril (i, l(i70, and marker-general for the Town of J '.ergen, October S, l(i7(). On that day he was also ajjpointed ranger for Itergen, with power to name deimties to range the woods and bring in all stray horses, mules, and callle. He was com- missioned a mend)er of the ISergen court Februai-y l(i, l(i77, and February IS, 1()80, and Tresident of the same August :!1, lOSl, and President of the ANDERSON PARK, HACKENSACK. County Coui't August :">], 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]i<k.1 he learned the cabinetmaker's trade in the establishment of llrunuer & Moore, of New York, where he remained five years, or until about 1S84. Since tluMi I,e has been em;a-ed in business for mniselt, makiiio; a specialty of tine .-abiiiet woi'k and of election apiiliauces such as booths, re-istry cases, ballot boxes, elc. He is located at 287 Pali' sade Avenue, 'West lioboken, where he resides with his father beino- un- married. '^ CHARLES A. SCHINDLER, JR. In tlie prosecution of his trade Mr. Schindler has achieved marked suc- cess and a ^^•ide rejmtation, and b\' industry, honesty, and enterprise has built np an extensi\e ])usiiiess. He is a i)ublic spirited, ])atriotic citizen, a Republican in jKtIitics, and a man universallyesteemed and resjiected. For two years — 1S1)4 and 1S!).1 — he served as Recorder of his town. He was one of the princij'al orj;anizers of the old Hillside Boat dut). of which he was for nine years the Cajitain, and was one of the founders and organizers of the Lincoln (Jliib of "West Hoboken, of which he is President, having held that office during the last ten years. These and other connections attest 194 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES his popularity as well as the deep interest he takes in the progress and welfare of the community. He has a fondness for horticulture, and all the fine shrubbery around the old homestead was propagated by him. WfLLIAM D. EDWARDS, a leading lawyer of Jersey City, was born in Greenpoint, Long Island, N. Y., December 17, 1855. In 1860 he removed with his parents to Jersey City, the family settling in that part known as Lafayette. Mr. Edwards'received his rudimentary education in the Jersey City' public schools and in 1867 entered Hasbrouck Institute, where he was prepared for college. In 1871 he entered the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated with honor in 1875. Immediately afterward he became a student at the Columbia College Law School, New York City, and was graduated from that institution with the degree of LL.B. in 1878. During the three years which he spent at the law school he was also a student in the office of William Brinkerhoff, of Jersey City. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney in June, 1878, and in 1879 formed a partnership with Hamilton Wallis, under the firm name of Wallis & Edwards. William G. Bumsted was admitted to the firm in 1888, and since then it has continued under the style of Wallis, Edwards & Bumsted. Mr. Edwards has been for twenty years one of the active and influential leaders of the Democratic party of Hudson County, and in various ofiicial capacities has displayed great executive ability and political sagacity. He was Secretary of the Hudson County Democratic Committee in 1879, Chairman of that organization in 1880 and 1881, and in the latter year was elected Corporation Attorney of Bayonne, which oflice he held for five years. In 1886 he was elected State Senator from Hudson County to succeed William Brinkerhoff, and during his senatorial term framed the bill which gave Jersey City its new charter. He was appointed Corporation Counsel of Jersey City in 1889, and filled that responsible position with marked energy and ability until the spring of 1894. In 1889 he was unanimously nominated by the Democratic party for a second term as State Senator, but declined the honor, preferring to devote his attention wholly to profes- sional work. Mr. Edwards is one of the ablest members of the Hudson County bar, and since his admission to practice has maintained a high standing among his associates. BAKER B. SMITH is a descendant of Michael Smith, an Englishman, who, while quite young, came to America with Captain John Berry, Major William Sandford, and the Kingslands from the Island of Barbadoes, W. I. Michael first settled at English Neighborhood in Bergen County, X. J., where he married Francina (Frances), a daughter of Major John Berry. Michael was a man of intelligence and business capacity. He was the first High Sheriff of Bergen County and also held a commission as Lieutenant in the colonial militia, of which his father-in-law was Major. Michael purchased from Samuel Edsall a large farm at English Neighborhood front- ing on the Hudson River. His children of the second generation, by •Frances Berry, were at least tAVo: Frances and John, the latter of whom married Debora, daughter of Thomas Laurens, of Newtown, L. I. Frances married Debora's brother, Thomas Laurens. The dates of birth of Frances and John Smith are unknown, but they were both baptized in the Hacken- sack Dutch Church in July, 1695. Michael Smith's land in Bergen County, at his death, and which he had bought in 1679, jointly with John Berry, GENEALOGICAL 195 passed to his son and heir, John Smith. John's children of the third genera- tion were Francis, born in 1712; Michael, born in 1714; and John, born in 1716. ' ' Michael Smith, third generation, married Maria Smith, but the date of the marriage does not appear. Their children, so far as known, were twins, John and Abel Smith, borii at English Neighborhood, N. J., July 19, 1750. Abel and John subsequently became largely interested in Secaucus lands. Baker B. Smith, the subject of this sketch, is descended from either Johji or Abel, above named. His father. Baker Smith (whose father's name was Enoch Smith), married Elizabeth Sickles, of Bergen, prior to 1803, and settled at New Durham, Hudson County, N. J., where Baker B. was born November 29, 1817. Baker Smith died in 1S57, at the age of sixty-eight, and his wife at the age of eighty-six. Their children were Marv. Eiaoch, Eliza, Phffibe, Abram, Baker B., Rebecca, and Philip. Baker' B. Smith has always lived at New Durham and is one of the most prominent citizens of that village. For many years he was successfully engaged in the business of shad-flshing, at the same time carrying on farming enterprises. He has been for some time retired from active business pursuits. While he has always been a stanch Republican since the organization of that party, he has neither sought nor accepted office of any kind. Mr. Smith was married to Sarah Ann Haslett, by whom he had three chil- dren: Clarinda H., who became Mrs. A. H. Rider, and is now deceased; Philip H. Smith, now deceased; and Anna M. Smith. Mrs. Smith died March 12, 1895, at the age of seventy-seven. She was an earnest Christian, and an active member of the Reformed Church of New Durham. CORNELIUS W. BERDAN. — During the religious persecution in France, Jan Baerdan (as he wrote his name), one of the ijersecuted Huguenots, fled to Amsterdam and from thence came to New Amsterdam sometime prior to 1682, with his wife and one son, Jan Baerdan, Jr. The elder Berdan (as his descendants now spell the name) bought land and settled at Flatlands, Brooklyn, L. I. His wife dying soon after, he married again and had issue by his second wife two daughters. Jan Berdan (2) and his stepmother could not agree, so John left home and went to Hackenf-ack sometime previous to the year 169:', for on May 20, 1693, under the name of Jan liordet or Boudet, he was married at Flat- lands, L. I., to Eva Van Sicklen, of that place. His place of residence at the time of his marriage is given as Hackensack, N. J. The person who wrote the record of his marriage very likely either mispelled' or misun- derstood the name. The baptism of his eldest child was recorded in the " Church on the Green " in 1695. He bought a large farm at what is now Maywood, extending from the Hackensack River to the Sprout Brook, on which he lived and spent his life in agricultural pursuits. He bought lands west of the Saddle River, and one or more tracts in the Wieremus section of Bergen Countv of the Romeyns. His issue of the third generation were ten children: John, 1695; Eva, 1697; Ferdinand, 1700; Albert, 1701; Will- imina, 1704; Rynier, 1706; Elena, 1708; Dirck, 1712; David, 1714; and Annatie, 1718. David Berdan (3), who married. May 12, 1738, Christyontjin Daniels Romeyn, resided on the homestead at Maywood, and had issue eleven chil- dren: Eva, Mary, Geesie, Annatie, Margaret, John, Daniel, Lena, Daniel, Mary, and Daniel. John Berdan (4) was born at Maywood, N, J., in 1749, and died there in VM) HUDSON AND BBRfiEN COUNTIES ISIS. His calling was tlia.t of a. faniici-. He mari-icd Ursula Van Voorhis, liy wlKim lie had clevt'ii cliildrcii <if the fiflli ncin-ration: Albert, Isaac, lianiel, John, I'eter, David, Teni^^v, Anna, (Miristian, Hannah, and Maria. David r.erdan (5), liorn Ajiril '■',, 17S(J, married twice. V>y 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<l wiMi the <^itizoiis' Insiirance (/(niij)auY (if New Yurk since 1871, is the eldest son of Captain AVilliani Osbovn ("liaimian and Harriet .1. Tel- fer, and a grandson of Darins (Miapman and ilillicent, liis wife. His grandfather, a native of New York City, was for many years a ])roniinent carpenter and builder. Cayitain ^^'illianl O. Chaimian was New York in 1820, and for abont twenty-four years was actividy as- s o c i a t e d with the Anchor Steamshiji Line. He enlisted in 1801 in the famous Seventh New Y'ork Regiment, and three montlis later re-enlist- ed in the Ninety-fifth New York \''olunteers and served until the close of the War of the Rebellion, being Cap- tain of his company. In 1800 he took np his residence in Jersey City Heights. N.J., and about 1800 removed from there to Arling- ton, Hudson County, where he still lives. He is jironiinent in Grand Arniv circles, beinjr a member and Past Commander of Zabriskie Post, of Jersey City. He has five children: Robert, Millicent, Fannie, Car- rie, and \yilliam Os- born, Jr. Robert Chapman was born in New Y'ork City November 4, 1852, and received his early education in the New Y'ork public schools. When thirteen years of age hi' entered the employ of the old Indemnity Insurance (.'onipany, of which (.'olonel Emmons Clark, now Sec- retary of the New York lioard of Health, was Secretary. Hi rem.-iined with that corporation until it failed, abont two years later, wlieii he as sociated himself with the Harmony Insurance Comjiany. which he left in 1871 to accept a position with the (.'itizeiis" Insurance Comiiany of New York. Since tlien he has been actively and prominently identihcd with that company, having charge at the present time of its loss depart ment. Mr. Chapman's career of nearly thirty-five years in the fire insurance busi- ness has given him an unusually broad experience in undeiwritiug. and Hie various positions which he has held have enabled him to gain a jnactical ROBERT CHAPMAN. 198 HUDSON AND BERGBN COUNTIES knowledge of every branch. An expert mathematician, he is recognized as authority, not only in the lines with which he has been most intimately connected, but in' the business generally, and in every capacity he has achieved eminent success. In politics he is an ardent Republican. He is a member of the Insurance Clerks' Association of New York, of Lafayette Camp, Sons of Veterans, of New York City, and of the Seventh Regiment Veterans, having been an active member of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., from 1873 to 1878. In 1890 he settled in Arlington, N. J., where he still resides, and where he has wielded no small influence in advancing the best interests of the town. September 10, 1874, Mr. Chapman married Josephine, daughter of Joseph and Mary Pollock, of Jersey City Heights, N. J., and their children are Walter Robert and Florence. VEDDER VAN DYCK, a well-known resident of Bayonne, N. J., and a lawyer in New York City, is descended from Hendrick Van Dyck, who came to this country from Holland with the first Dutch settlers before 1630. These Dutchmen first settled at Communipaw, N. J., but soon found their way over to Manhattan Island. Hendrick Van Dyck was an ensign in command of the Dutch forces in their early wars with the Indians. He was the first Schout Fiscal — a sort of judge and sheriff — in New Amsterdam, and held his oflflce until 1652. He was one of the original grantees, from the West India Company, of plots of land at New Amsterdam, his lot being on the west side of what is now Broadway, below Trinity Church, and running to the North River. His son Cornelius removed to Albany, N. Y., where he practiced his pro- fession as physician. This Cornelius had a son, Jacobus Van Dyck, also a physician, who settled at Schenectady, N. Y., and was the surgeon at the fort there at the time of the burning of the town, by the Indians, in 1690. Jacobus died at Schenectady in 1759. He left several children one of whom was Lieutenant-Colonel Cornelius Van Dyck, of the First New York Regi- ment, commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaeck, during the Revolutionary War. From one of the other sons Vedder Van Dyck is descended, his grandfather being Jacob and his father Peter Van Dyck. His mother, Eleanor Vedder, was also a descendant of the earliest Dutch settlers who came to New Amsterdam. Vedder Van Dyck was born at Schenectady, N. Y., on the 22d day of January, 1842, and there received his early education, first in the public schools and subsequently at Union College, being in the class of 1865, but leaving college in 1862 to join a New York regiment during the Civil War. He continued in the service until the war was over, and then entered Harvard Law School, leaving there in 1867 and being admitted to the bar of his native State. Since 1867 he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City, having an office at No. 15 Wall Street. Since 1885 he has resided in Bayonne, Hudson County, N. J., where he has served a term of three years as School Trustee, and since 1894 has been one of its Health Commissioners. He married Emily Adams in New York City in 1877. ROBERT OSCAR BABBITT was born in Mendham, Morris County, N. J., November 5, 1848, and is the son of Robert Millen Babbitt and Henrietta Jolley. On his father's side his first American ancestors were from Eng- land and on his mother's side from France. He received his early education GENEALOGICAL 199 in the district schools and in the academy of William Rankin, at Mendham, preparing for Princeton College, although he did not enter that university. He studied law for two years with Frederick G. Burnham, of Morristown, N. J., and removing to Jersey City, in 1871, entered the office of Potts & Linn. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in February, 1873, and as a counselor in November, 1878. After his admission to the bar Mr. Babbitt became a member of the firm of Potts & Linn, with whom he had pursued his studies, and continued his association, under the firm name of Potts, Linn & Babbitt, for one year, after which the firm was re-organized as Linn & Babbitt, and so continued for seven years. However, in 1882, he formed a partnership with Robert Linn Lawrence, which continues to the present time. Mr. Babbitt has devoted himself exclusively to his profession, applying his leisure to miscellaneous reading, and as a result of his application and legal abilities enjoys a high standing at the bar and commands a large and lucrative practice. He is independent in politics, and has never accepted public office. Soon after his admission to the bar Mr. Babbitt set himself to the task of mastering the Spanish language, to fit himself for the transaction of the business of certain corporations who had connections in Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries. His professional duties in this direction, therefore, have afforded him the opportunity for extensive travel in Mexico and other American countries. Mr. Babbitt is a member of the Lawyers' Club, of New York City, and of the Carteret and Union League Clubs, of Jersey City. He was married June 9, 1875, to Mary Elizabeth McCrea, of Middletown, Orange County, N. Y. REV. JOHN JUSTIN, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Town of I'nion, Hudson County, since 1865, was born in Germany in 1842, the son of Peter and Margaret Justin. He spent his early life in hard study. In 1858 he came to this country, crossing the ocean in forty days, and first settled in New Brunswick, N. J. There he entered Rutgers College and afterward the Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated with honors. In the meantime Mr. Justin spent much of his leisure with the renowned musicians Schneeweiss, Fischer, and Mohlenhauer, and later be- came organist of one of the New Brunswick churches. In 1864 Mr. Justin moved to Union Hill, and the next year was installed pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church on Columbia Street, which position he continues to hold. The church was then in a very poor condition, but he gave it a new impetus and in 1868 had the satisfaction of rebuilding it. In 1883 the edifice was thoroughly renovated and in 1890 it was enlarged, and at the present time it is one of the most prosperous churches in Hud- son County. This is almost entirely due to Mr. Justin's efforts. Bringing to his work great native energy, unusual ability, and unfailing enthusiasm, he has steadily advanced the church and congregation to a point of more than local importance, and has imbued them with his own spirit of courage and usefulness. He has had frequent calls to distant places, but has pre- ferred to give to this society the efforts of his life. He has traveled extensively, making several trips to the West and two abroad, including one to Asia and Africa, and is an earnest promoter of education. He married Catharine, daughter of Henry and Louise Wester- feld, and has graduated his children from some of the best institutions in the East. 200 HUDSON ANX> 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, <Tarret, Altie, and ]\Iarg;iret, Garret Johns Haring (7), born January 2-1, 1770, died May 25, lS4(t, mar- ried Elizabeth Eckerson, and had issue of the eighth genei-ation Reusie and Thomas E. Thomas E. Haring (S), born March 3, ISOS. died July 0, 1S70, married Rachel Taylor, and had issue se\cral children, one of whom is (lai'ret T. Haring, the subject of this sketch. Garret T. Haring (9) was born at River \'ale, Itergen ("ounty, February 22, IS.Tl, and received a good education in the local schools. I^eaving school at the age of ninelcen, he l)egan active life on his falhcr's farm, and siibsequcntly engaged in the business of breeding and dealing in horses, in which he has since continued with substantial success. Mr. Haring is one of the best known nu^n in Rergen County, and for a number of years has been prominent and inlhiential in public affairs. He has sei-ved most efficiently as a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders f(U- nine years, has also officiated as poormaster of the Borough of Old Tappan, and is a member of the Reformed Church. He is an active, pro- gressive, and public spirited citizen, and highly csteenud by all who know him. He married Anne A. Hasbrook and has two children; Karah ('. and Thomas <!. HENRY G. HARING is a descendant in the eighth generation from Pie- ter Haring, of Iloorn, Holland, foi' a sketch of whom and of his sons and grandsons see page 01. This branch of the family always resided around Tappan, Hillsdale, Westwood, and Pascack, in Bergen County. Henry G. Haring's line of descent from Pietei-, of Holland, is as follows; Pieter Har- ing (1), of Hoorn, Holland. Jan Petersen Haring (2), of Hoorn. Holland, the first emigrant to America, married Margaretta Cozines (widow), and had issue of the third generation six children, one of whom was Cozine Johns Haring {'■',). Cozine Jansen Haring (3), born in 1009, married Margar- etta Jans Bogert, and had issue of the fourth generation eight children, of whom one was John Cozine Haring (4). John Cozine Haring (4), born in 1090. married Altie Xan Dolsen, and had issue eight children of the fifth generation, one of whom was Garret Jansen Haring. Garret Jansen Har- 202 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ing (5), born in April, 1725, married Cornelia I;ent, and had issue of the sixth generation eight children, one of whom was Jacobus Garrets Har- ing ((3). Jacobus Garrets Haring (6), born in October, 1764, married, about 1789, Rachel Fredericks Haring, and had issue of the seventh generation John, Rachel, Garret (died), Cornelia, Altie, Ann, Garret J., Maria, Catrina, and Frederick. Garret Jacobus Haring (7), born near Tappan, November 30, 1801, died November 19, 1869, married Caroline, daughter of Henry P. and Adeline (Smith) Westervelt, and had issue of the eighth generation Adeline, Henry (died), Henry G., and others. Henry G. Haring (8), the subject of this sketch, was born in Hillsdale, N. J., December 5, 1837, and received his education in the public schools of liergen County. Leaving school at the age of eighteen, he engaged in teaching and so continued for five years. During that period he gained a broad practical experience and established an excellent reputa- tion. He then worked on his father's farm at Hillsdale for ten years, and since then has been actively and successfully engaged in business for himself as a civil engineer and surveyor. In this profession as in all other connections he has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and great enterprise, and is widely respected as a public spirited citizen and upright man. Mr. Haring has also been prominent in the affairs of his town and county. He served at various times as Town Superintendent, Town Clerk, and Assessor, was a member of Assembly in the sessions of 1868 and 1869, and from 1881 to 1886 held the office of Under Sheriff. At the present time he is Overseer of the Poor. He is a Mason, a member of the Improved Order of Foresters, and an attendant of the Reformed Church. His wife, Christina de Baun, is descended from the French Huguenot family of De Bauns who are noticed elsewhere in this work. They have had three children: Annie, Harry, and Garret (deceased). ANDREW H. HARING is descended in the ninth generation from Jan Petersen Haring, the emigrant from Hoorn, Holland. The line of his de- scent is the same as that of his uncle, John T. Haring (see page 154), down to the seventh generation. Tunis J. Haring (7) and his wife, Elizabeth Perry, had issue four children of the eighth generation, one of whom was Abram B. (8). Abram B. Haring (8) was born May 20, 1811, and married (1), April 18, 1835, Ann Eliza Haring, who died April 9, 1841. He married (2), in 1843, Mary, daughter of Peter Hopper, born September 16, 1819, died May 31, 1853. He married (3), May 3, 1857, Margaret Demarest. The issue of Abram B. Haring of the ninth generation are, by the first wife, Elizabeth, Ann, John A.. Tennis A., Martha, and Kate; and, by the second wife, Andrew H. and May. Andrew H. Haring (9), the subject of this sketch, was born at River Vale, Bergen County, N. J., October 10, 1852, and received his education in the local schools and at Fergusonville, N. Y. x\t the age of seventeen he started to learn the drug business, and after continuing in that line for two years entered the employ of A. T. Stewart, of New York, with whom he remained three years. He then returned to Bergen County and took charge of the homestead farm, whicrh he conducted for twenty years with marked success. A few years ago he accepted a position with the West GENEALOGICAL, 203 Shore Railroad and still contiimes in the employ of that line. He has also been engaged in the coal business at Havi'lngton Paik and Tappan. Mr. Ilaring early took an active interest in pnhlic affairs, and during his entire life has wielded a wliolesonie influence in the community. He served foi- ten years as Township Collector, and is now Marshal of the I'alisade Protective Association. He attends the Dutch Reformed (Jhurch at Tappan. He married Sarah W. Westervelt, also a member of an old New Jersey familv, and tliev have two sons and three daughters. LUTHER A. CAMPBELL.— William Kempbell (Campbell) was born in Ireland, July 20, ITIS, and came to America in the si)ring of ITI^f). He settled in the Schraalenburgh section of l?ergen Count>', 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 sessi<in of 1880 he was tTiairman of the Committee on the Revision of Laws, and in the session of the following vear was Chaii-man of Ihe .Judiciary ('ommittee. He was again elected to thcAssc^mbly in lSS!),l,S!H),an(l lSl»l,re]iresenting in the new re-a]iportionment the Second Assend)ly District of Hudson County, and being the only Kei)ublican Assend)lyman from the county in 18!)2. During that year he was the party (minority) leader on the floor of the House and served on many important committees, including the Judiciary, Revision of T^aws, and Treasurer's Accounts. In the autumn of 1892 he 222 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES was uominated by the Eepublicans for State Senator from Hudson County, and, althougli defeated, reduced the Democratic majority from 8,000 to 3,000. This fact illustrates the popularity which he has always enjoyed. In 1894 he was appointed Justice of the First District (Criminal) Court of Jersey City, which position he still holds, having been re-appointed in 1897. In the spring of the latter year he was a candidate for Mayor of Jersey City and was defeated by Mayor Hoos by the very small majority of about 3,000 votes. Judge Potts has achieved distinction at the bar as an able and talented lawyer, and on the bench has displayed great dignity, broad and accurate learning, and acknowledged judicial qualifications. He is especially pop- ular in social circles, prominent in the councils of the Republican party, a member of the Carteret Club, of which he was Vice-President two years, a member of the Union League, and a member of the Palma Club, having served the latter four years as a Trustee. For a number of years he has been a leading and influential member of the Republican County Committee of Hudson County. In 1876 Judge Potts married Miss Louise Bechtel, daughter of Charles Bechtel, who was for many years the publisher of the State Gazette at Trenton. They have three children. HARRY MARTIN CONOVER was born in Manalapau, Monmouth County, N. J., on the 18th of March, 1867, and descends from some of the oldest and most respected families in the State. He is the son of William Stephen Conover, the grandson of Stephen Conover, a great-grandson of John P. Cowenhoven, and a great-great-grandson of Peter Cowenhoven, who was the son of William Cowenhoven, who was the son of John William Cowenhoven, who was the son of William Gerrets Couwenhoven, who was the son of Gerret \^'oolferts Couwenhoven, who was the son of AA'oolferts Garretson Van Couwenhoven, who came to this country from Amersfoort, Province of Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1C30, who was superintendent of farms for the Patroon of Rensselaerswyck, now Albany, and who subsequently bought a farm at Amersfoort, L. I., and settled there. Mr. Conover's mother was Nancy P. Martin, and on her side he is the grandson of John S. Martin, a great-grandson of Ephraim. S. Martin, and a great-great-grandson of Ephraim Martin, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War. It will thus be seen that Harry Martin Conover descends from some of the oldest families in this country, each generation having distinguished itself in official or private capacities. From these lines of ancestors he inherits those sturdy characteristics which the Holland immigrants brought with them to their new homes, and which still characterize the race. Mr. Con- over received his education in Monmouth County, N. J., and in Brooklyn, N. Y. At the age of sixteen he entered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company in New York City and has been associated with that great corporation ever since, holding positions of trust and honor and gain- ing for himself the confidence of his associates and superiors. Mr. Conover served for five years as a member of the Twenty-third Regi- ment, National Guard of New York, receiving an honorable discharge. He was with the regiment in Buffalo during the well known strike riots of 1894. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. September 28, 1893, Mr. Conover married Louise Ferdon Kipp. They have two children : David Kipp Conover and Albert Stephen Conover. GENEAI.OGICAL 223 JOSEPH FRANCIS XAVTER STACK. M.D., was boin July 6, 1871, in IToboken, Hudson County, N. J., where he still resides. He is the son of Mauriee Stack and Mary Carniody. and a grandson of Martin Stack, wlio married Mary Kelly. His ancestors on both sides descended from Irish emigrants who, since their settlement in this country, have been prominent in both business and civil life. His father, who is' now retired, was for twenty-eight years a member of the police force of Hoboken, whei'e the family settled in July, 1S6;1* Dr. Stack was educat- ed at St. Peter's College in Jersey City and at P>elleyue 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 <in No^•ember 2, ISO", en- gaged in the active jn-ac- tice of his ])rofession in Hoboken, opening his yiresent office at 212 Gar- den Street. In May, ISnS, he was appointi'd City Physiriau, which office he still Inilds. He is physician to Court Castle Point and Christopher ( Nilumbus Lodge, Ancient Order of Foresters of Hoboken, a member of Council No. 99, Royal Arcanum, of Hoboken, and a member of Court Harmony, A. O. F., of the Riverside Athletic Club, and of the Knights of (.'elunibus. Dr. Stack', (hough a yeung man, has achieved an excellent practice and a recognized standing in the community, and enjoyed a \side accjuaintance and ])Opularity. He is deejHy interested in jtublic affairs, is a public siiii'ited, energetic, and jtrogrcssiNe citizen, and one of the leading young physicians of Hudson Counfy. r'HAUNCEY H. SILLIMAN was boin in New P,edf(U'd, :\rass., De- cember 24, 185."), and is the son of Josejib Sillinian and Fllecta J. Miller, a grandson of John Leeds Silliman and Catherine Lockwood, and a gi'eat- grandson of Joseph Silliman. Some of his an<-est()rs wei'c consjiicuous in the Re'S'olutionary Win-, among them being Arnold, A^V)oster, and Sillim:ui, who repulsed Tryon in the Tory raid at the baffle of Bennington. The .JOSEPH F. X. STACK, M.D. 224 Ill'DSON AND BEItiiBN COUNTIES family i^ ;ni old ouv in lliis rdinilry, and for ^vncrulions has been active and iiiUncnlial in local affairs and honored and respecfed for their sterling (inalities, patriotism, and ])rogressi ve sjiii-it. Mr. Silliman received a ])re]iarator,v edncalion in the Betts ^Military Academy on Strawberiy Hill, St:!mford, ("onii., and snbsefpicntly entered (V)lnmbia ($$lle^'e, from which lie was L'Ta(bia1ed in the class of 187«. He then entered upon a snccessfnl Inisiness cai-eer as assistant freisht a^ent of the Fall Kivei- line of steamers; was snbse(|uently associated with Lord & Tavlor, of New Y(n'h, for ten y.'ars; and in is'.}~, eniiaged in the express CHAUNCEY H. SILLIMAN. bnsiness, in wliich he still continnes, nnder the style of the Sul>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 <Jity, on HENKY I. D.^RI.ING. 242 HUDSON AJSTD BERGEN COUNTIES Weekawken Heights, and in West Hoboken attest his design of working people's homes. Mr. Darling makes a specialty of one and two family houses, and he justly claims that he never built a house but what he could sell easily. As a business man and citizen Mr. Darling has achieved an excellent reputation. He has been successful in all his efforts, for in their inception and execution he has displayed the highest abilities, untiring industry, and superior judgment. He was at one time a member of the Eepublican County Committee of Hudson County and also served a five years' term as Justice of the Peace, but with these exceptions has never held public office. Though a public spirited citizen, deeply interested in the welfare of the community, and thoroughly identified with its interests, he has never taken a very active part in politics, his extensive business interests demanding and receiving his entire attention. He is a member of Hoboken Lodge, F. and A. M., of Unique Lodge, A. O. U. W., and of the Berkley Club. Both he and his family were prominent in the Ascension Protestant Episcopal Church, New York Avenue and South Street, Jersey City, for manv years ; they now attend St. John's Church on Summit Avenue, Jersey City: Mr. Darling was married in Hoboken, N. J., in 1875, to Miss Martha J. Dowden. They have one son, Benjamin J. Darling, now a law student in the office of Henry A. Gaede, of Hoboken, and a member of the afternoon law class of New York University, 1901, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Isabel Letitia. THE VAN GIESEN FAMILY.— One Reynier Bastiaensen Van Giesen, from Giesen, a village in North Brabant, Holland, came to New Amster- dam with his wife, Dircke Cornells Van Groenland, prior to 1660, and settled at Flatbush, L. I. He was a schoolmaster, and the first one at Flat- bush, as appears from an agreement dated June 6, 1660, which he signed between himself and the consistory of the Dutch Church of Flatbush. He resided at Flatbush in a house which he sold in January, 1663, and was an officer in attendance upon the court. From Flatbush he went to Bergen, and from thence to Hackensack, where, in September, 1699, he married his second wife, Hendrickie Buys, of Bergen. At this time he had dropped the Bastians from his name. His issue were John; Jacob, 1670; Gysber- tie, 1673; Bastianse, Abraham, Henry, Isaac, Eynier, Isaac, and per- haps daughters. Of these Isaac married Hillegond Claesen Cooper and Anna Breyand. Henry married Sara Romeyn. Rynier married a Van Dien. All these settled at Hackensack, and later their descendants set- tled in the western part of Bergen County, where the name is now common. THE VAN SAUN FAMIIiY.— The Van Sauns are a numerous family to-day in Bergen County. Jacob Van Zauwen came to America in 1677 and settled at New Amsterdam. There, the following year, he married Jennetie Lucas. The entry of this marriage discloses the fact that the groom was a native of Ransdorp in Holland. One of his sons, Jacob Van Saen (as he wrote it), born in New Amster- dam about 1683, went to Hackensack in 1705, and married Rachel Bogert. He purchased lands in the Paramus district of Bergen County, where he finally settled. He and his wife joined the Hackensack Dutch Church in 1726.' His issue were Jacob, 1706; John, 1709; John, 1711; Jannetie, GENEALOGICAL 243 1714; Isaac, 1717; Angenitie, 1719; Lucas. 1722; and a daughter, 1725. These intermarried with the Bantas, Deniarests, Goetschius, and other families, and scattered over the Counties of Bergen and Passaic. FREDERICK W. HORSTMAN, of East Newarlv, Hudson County, was born in Newarlv, N. J., on tlie !)th of January, 184.3. He is the son of Henry Horstman (son of ^Yill^an^ and Margaret Horstman). a native of Hanover, Germany, wlio came to America in 1S.S7 and settled in Newark, where he was married in 1841 to Wilhelmina Luderson. daughter of Fredericlt Luder- son, and where he spent tl\o remainder of liis life as a manufacturer of steel springs. Mr. Horstman received a thorough public school edu- cation in his native city, and at an early age learned the machinist's trade. On Lincoln's first call for troops in 1861 he enlisted in Company E, First New Jer- sey Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three months, when he was hon- orably discharged. He sub- sequently associated him- self with the Arm of Hughes & Phillips, manufacturers of machinery, of Newark, N. J., with whom he re- mained thirty years, being foreman of their establish- ment during twenty years of that period. In fjolitics Mr. Horstman is an ardent and consistent Democrat. He has for many years taken an active part in the affairs of the community, having served as Town Committeeman and as a member of the School Board of the Town of Kearny — a part of which now comprises the Borough of East Newark, of which he is at the present time Borough Recorder. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Knights of Honor, an honorary member of the Aurora Singing So- ciety of Newark, and President of the Peo])le's Building and Loan Asso- ciation, with which he has been actively identified for more than twenty- seven years. Mr. Horstman is a public spirited, enterprising, and progress- ive citizen, has filled every position with acknowledged ability aud satis- faction, and is highly respected by all who know him. He has always enjoyed the entire coiafidence of the community, and in both business and public capacities has achieved an excellent reputation. Mr. Horstman's wife, Bertha Meis, whom he married in Newark, N. J., FREDERICK W. HORSTMAN. 244 HUDSON AND BEKGEN COUNTIES came from Germany in 1865. Their children are Henry J., Frederick W., Jr., Bertha, Ida, Julia, Minnie, Sophia, Grace, and Franklin G. The family reside in the Borough of East Newark. THE VAN VOORST FAMILY.— The first American of the Van Voorsts, of Bergen and Hudson Counties, was Cornelius Van Vorst, who came to America between 1634 and 1636, as is supposed, from the little town of Voorst, in the Province of Gelderland, Holland, near the Eiver Yssel; but as there was a town of the same name in the Province of Antwerp, in Belgium, there is some doubt about Van Voorst's birthplace. He arrived at Bergen (while the Lord of Achtienhoven was still the patron of Pavonia, and Wouter Van Twiller, Director -General of New Netherlands), and settled at Ahasimus. The eA'idence makes it likely that before his advent at Ahasi- mus he was engaged in commerce between Holland and the New Nether- lands. He appeared at Pavonia in 1636 as superintendent of Michael Pauw's plantation at Pavonia. The name of his first wife does not appear, but his second wife's name was Vroutie Ides. He died in the summer of 1638, and she died in the spring of 1641. His issue were Hendrick, John, and Ann, born in Holland, and Ide, born in New York. The latter is reported to have been the first white male child born and married in New Netherlands. Ide was captured by the Indians in 1643 and taken to Tap- pan, but was ransomed by Captain John de Vries and others. Ide married, October 18, 1652, Hilletie Jans, of Oldenburgh. He resided at Ahasimus, where, as a farmer, he accumulated wealth and eventually became the owner of nearly all of Michael Pauw's domains. He braved the dangers of border life, and exposed himself, his property, and family to attacks by the savages. In 1656 he took refuge in New Amsterdam, but returned to Bergen when peace was restored. Several times he was obliged to flee from the savages. His children of the third generation were Vroutie, Ann, Cornelius, Pietartie, Cornelius, and Joanna. From these are descended the Van Vorsts of Bergen and Hudson Counties. THE VAN ORDEN (VAN NAERDEN) FAMILY is said to have origi- nated at Naerden, a town in North Holland, from whence, as early as 1639, one Claes Jansen Ruyter emigrated to America. The surname Ruyter was bestowed on him because he was, as the name signifies, a good horse- man. His children dropped the " Ruyter " and went by the name of Jan- sen. He and his wife, Pietertie Jans, are said to have gone first to Esopus, but, not liking that locality, located at Brooklyn, where in 1645 Claes bought 42 acres of land adjoining the farm of Peter Van Delinde. Claes was an Indian interpreter in 1660. His son, Claes Jansen, married in New York in 1676 Cornelia Williams, of Esopus. He was then registered as being from Esopus. By his two wives he had a large family of children. Claes's son John married and reared a large family, among whom were Andries (Andrew), Albert, and Adam. These came to Hackensack about 1700, where, on August 31, of that year, Andries married Rachel, eldest daughter of David Demarest (2), by whom he had a son, John. Rachel Demarest died in 1708, and Andries married, August 12, 1710, Antie la Roux, a granddaughter of Jaques la Roux, the emigrant. Andries's chil- dren were Jacobus, Elizabeth, Jannetie, Peter, and Wybrig. Albert, brother of Andries, married in 1717 Margaret Mattys, of Hackensack, by GENEALOGICAL 245 whom he had issue. J[any of the childien of Andi-ies and Albert settled on lands now m AVashington, Midhind, and llohokns Townships, where the name is frequently met with to-day. EDWARD JIcDEEMOTT, for more than twelve years a leading architect and builder of ^"orth Hudson County, was born July :il, lS(i6, in West Ho- boken, X. J., where he has always resided. He is the son of John McDer- mott and Elizabeth Mc(Jlure. He receiyed his education in the West Hobokeu public schools, and after completing his studies turned his atten- tion to architecture, for which he had decided taste. HaNing gained a prac- ■'% EDWARD McDERMOTT. tical as well as a theoretical knowledge of the profession, he opened an office for the active practice of architecture in West Iloboken, in 1880, and through his ability and skill has gained an extensive business. He has de- signed and erected many of the finer structures, including numerous dwell- ings, in the northern part of Hudson County. His work shows great origi- nality, broad professional knowledge, and nuirked artistic taste, as well as a thorough comprehension of structural problems. His success is the result of his own efforts. Mr. McDermott has also been active and influential in public affairs, fill- 246 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES iug several positions with the same ability and satisfaction which have characterized his professional career. Elected a member in 1890 and Treas- urer in 1891 of the Board of Fire Trustees of West Hoboken, and Tax As- sessor of the town in 1892, he still holds the latter office, discharging his duties with ability, faithfulness, and honor. He is a member of Cosmopoli- tan Lodge, No. 351, I. O. O. F. THE VAN WAGENEN AND GAERETSEN FAMILIES.— Garret Gerretsen was a native of Wageningen, an ancient town near the Rhine River, and about ten miles west of Arnheim in Gelderland, Holland. This town stood on marshy ground, was walled, and was a place of considerable strength during the Thirty Years' War. Garret Gerretsen left his native town with his wife, Annetie Hermanse, and child, Gerret (then two years old), in November, 1 660, on the ship " Faith " (commanded by skipper Jan Bestevaer), and reached New Amsterdam on December 23, following. The fare for himself and family was ninety florins. Gerretsen brought with him a certificate of the mayor and scheppens of his native town that he and his wife " have always been considered and esteemed as pious and honest people, and that no complaint of any civil or disorderly conduct has ever reached their ears." Gerretsen went to Bergen, where, on May 12, 1668, he bought of Philip Carteret eight parcels of land in the Town of Bergen. He resided in what is now the Communipaw section of Jersey City, where he died, in October, 1696. His wife died September 7, 1696. His issue were seven children: Garret, Jannetie, Sophia, Herman, Aeltie, Henry, and John. Some of these took the name of Van Wagenen, while others retained that of Gerretsen, from the name of their father. Garret Gerretsen's de- scendants, going by the surname of Garretson, Garrison, Van Wagenen, and Van Wagner, are to-day numerous throughout Bergen and Hudson Counties. One of them is Hon. Abram Q. Garretson, just (1900) appointed Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. THE VAN WINKLE FAMILY.— Mr. Winfleld has written in reference to the origin of this family ; " This name is derived from ivinkel, a corner, square, shop. Winkelier was a shopkeeper. The ancestor was a shop or storekeeper. Its present orthography is comparatively modern. The family settled at Harsimus shortly after their arrival in this country. They came from Middleburgh, the capital of the Province of Zealand, in Holland. This city was on the Island of Walcheron, about forty miles southwest of Rotterdam, well built and populous, with a fine harbor and a prosperous trade. " I have not ascertained the names of the parents of the three boys and two girls who seem to have made up this family. Their names were Jacob, Waling, Symon, Annetie, and Grietie; their patronymic being Jacobse— children of Jacob. Jacob was the founder of the family in Hudson County. Waling and Sj^mon were of the company from Bergen who, in 1679, pur- chased and afterward settled ' Haquequenunck,' Aquackenonck, now Passaic." They were the founders of the family in New Jersey, and their descendants are very numerous in the western part of Bergen County as well as in Hudson County. Jacob's son Jacob married Egie Paulis in 1702, and Symon's son married Antie Saunders in 1703. Both of these settled at Haekensack, and so spread the family name through the central parts of Bergen County. (ifiNEALOGICAL 247 THE WHITE FAMILY in the northern part of Bergen County are de- scended from a family of shepherds, for many generations located near Avon, and not far from Bristol, in Somersetshire, England. Here William White was born in 1735 and his wife, Mary, in 1739. William was reared in the calling of his ancestors, and married in 1762. They were hard-work- ing, industrious people. William's wife died in 1792, and he survived her until 1802. Their issue of the second generation were eight children, all born near Bristol: Ann, October, 23, 1763; Isaac, November 17, 1769; George, March 24, 1771; James, September 17, 1774; Thomas, December 20, 1775; Benjamin, 1777; Jonas; and Solomon, December 23, 1781. Ann (2) married William Tucker and, emigrating to America, settled in Canada, where she died, leaving children: Solomon, Mary, Jacob, Ann Maria, George, Jonas, Joseph, Esau, Harriet, and Benjamin, whose num- erous descendants abound in Southern Canada. George (2) served twenty- one years in the British Army, and was severely wounded. Thomas (2) came to America and married. He died October 6, 1823, and his wife, Maria, followed him September 13, 1836. Solomon (2) died, aged twenty- three, unmarried. All the others except Jonas (2) remained in England. Jonas (2), born near Bristol, November 3, 1779, came to America in 1822, and located on " The Flatts," in what is now Palisade Township, Bergen County, N. J., where he married, December 24, 1808, Mary (daughter of Peter Lozier), who was born at Schraalenburgh, July 19, 1778. She dying a few years later, he married (2) Jane Westervelt (widow). He bought lands at " The Flatts," where he spent his time farming until late in life, when he removed to New York, where he died May 10, 1856. His issue of the third generation by his first wife were William, 1814 (died); Mary, 1818 (died); and Peter J.; and, by his second wife, William. Peter J. White (3) was born at "The Flatts," February 17, 1812. His occupation was always that of a farmer. Until his marriage he resided at " The Flatts." The rest of his days were spent at Closter, where he died, January 28, 1895. He married, March 10, 1841, Sarah (daughter of Abra- ham J. Zabriskie and Susanna Helms), born at Paramus, May 28, 1806, died at Closter, N. J., October 16, 1875. Their issue of the fourth genera- tion were David S., July 25, 1842; Charity, May 3, 1845; Mary Frances, October 29, 1848; and Lydia Zabriskie, January 24, 1852. These all have children of the fifth generation. Though a farmer by occupation, Mr. White was for many years foremost in the development of the religious, educational, and material interests of the community in which he lived. In 1862 he organized the first church at Closter (Reformed), in which he was for some time an officer and member, giving liberally to its maintenance and to the support of the minister, Rev. Eben S. Hammond. The latter was a sturdy and outspoken Unionist in a congregation in which anti-war sentiment predominated. Mr. Ham- mond's advocacy of the war made him enemies, and in the end he was compelled to retire. Mr. White and his wife, an active and energetic woman, supported the clergyman to the end, and, on the latter's retire- ment, transferred their membership to the North Church at Schraalen- burgh. Both strongly upheld the Union cause, and their only son served a term in the Union Army. Mr. White took a lively interest in public improvements, and, in 1865-66, was instrumental in having several new roads laid out and opened in Harrington Township. To the cause of public education he was a liberal patron. He gave his children the best educational advantages. His family were at all times the friends and 248 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES defenders of schools and school teachers. He was generous and hospit- able almost to a fault, for which I'eason he was often imposed upon by those whose motives were purely selfish. JOHN W. ROCHE, of Kearu.y, Hudson County, was born in Elizabeth, N. J., May 17, 180.3, and is the son of John and Ellen (Dorran) Roche, and a grandson of John and Martha (Crawford) Roche and of Simon and Mary (Forestel) Dorran, all natives of Ireland. His parents came to America in 1861 and settled in Elizabeth, where his father died in 1894. His mother still survives and resides in Kearnv. 'mrW*:^ JOHN W. ROCHE. Mr. Roche was educated in the schools of Elizabeth, where he resided until he was sixteen years old, when he renu)ved with his parents to Kearny. As a boy he served his time as a machine moulder, and con- tinued in that avocation until about the year 1887, when he engaged in the hotel business. In 1889 he built his present hotel, the Windsor House, at 34.5 Kearny Avenue, in Kearny, a commodious structure of three stories Under his management that well-known hotel has had a prosperous and successful career. Aside from his business connections Mr. Roche has for a number of GHNEALOGIOAL 249 years taken an active and leading part in public affairs, and from its organization until 1897 was a member of the New Jersey Naval Reserve. In politics he is a Democrat. He has served as a member of the Demo- cratic County Committee of Hudson County, and in 1898 was the regular party nominee for Freeholder, but being in a district where the Republicans have a nominal majority of over 700 he was defeated by about 50 votes. He is a member of the Red Men and Foresters, active and progressive in the affairs of the community, and prominently identified with many public movements. Mr. Roche married Delia C. Smith, daughter of Owen Smith, and by her has had eight children: John and James, both deceased, and Catherine, Helen, Thomas, Margaret, Mary, and John, who are living. HERMAN WALKER, Mayor of the Town of Guttenberg, is one of the most prominent citizens of Hudson County, N. J. This is true alike of his business career and influence, and of his activity in political and public life. Since 1878 he has been extensively engaged in the real estate busi- ness, acquiring property throughout Northern Hudson and Southern Ber- gen Counties. He became chief owner of such well known tracts of land as Highwood Park, Eldorado, Grand View, Hudson Heights, Bergenwood Park, Cliffside Park, and others, having just taken title to the Van Vorst tract in West New York, containing 345 lots. He was chiefly active in the creation of what now constitutes the choicest section of Union Town- ship. He was President of Eldorado, the famous amusement resort, and was one of its originators and second largest stockholder. He is Presi- dent of the North Hudson Land Company, of the New York and Rochestei- Steel Mat Company, and of the Hudson View Land Company. He is an officer and stockholder in many more corporations. In 1890-91 he was Vice- President of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. He is a member of the Union League Club and other organizations. Mr. Walker is one of the most influential leaders of the Republican party in Hudson County. He has been a delegate to nearly every New Jersey Republican State Convention since 1871, and for twenty years he has been a member of the Hudson County Republican General Committee. As the candidate of the Republican party and Jeffersonian Democrats for County Clerk of Hudson County in 1889 he was rightfully elected, but was one of those who were defrauded by the notable election frauds of that year. In Democratic Guttenberg, however, his popularity is such that he has never failed of election to any of the many offices for which he has been a candidate. In 1878 he was Assessor and Clerk of the Joint Committee to set off the Town of Guttenberg from the Township of Union. From 1878 to April, 1886, he was Town Clerk of Guttenberg. From 1881 to 1886 he was Town Recorder, and again, from 1888 to 1895, held the same office. He was a member of the Board of Councilmen in 1886, 1887, 1897, and 1898, and held the position of Chairman of the board in 1886 and again in 1897 and 1898. He was Justice of the Peace from 1879 to 1899, and as Chairman of the Board of Councilmen is by courtesy called Mayor. The son of Frederick and Barbara Walker, natives of Germany, Mr. Walker was himself born in New York City, April 21, 1850. He attended the schools of New York City and Guttenberg — his parents having removed to the latter place in 1860 — until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered the office of his father, who conducted in New York a successful business as a manufacturer. At seventeen years of age Mr. Walker 250 HUDSON AND BHEGEN COUNTIES iissiiiued tlic manajicment of this business, in whicli lie showed marked ability, lie began investing in real estate in Hudson and Bergen Counties, however, and since 1878 has devoted himself exclusively to this business. On August 2(i, 1875, he married, at Guttenberg, Diana H., daughter of John and Diana Behrens, and has four sons and two daughters. Throughout his business career Mr. Walker has exhibited a remarkably progressive and enterprising spirit, and has been active in securing and sug- gesting the execution of projects of great public interest. He conceived the plan of preserving the Palisades by the construction of a grand boulevard along the entire edge of the bluff, making the most magnificent driveway in the world. He also conceived the plan of the consolidation into one large municipality of the various towns and villages in Northern Hudson and Southern Bergen Counties. He was one of the large donators of land for the building of the present loop of the County Road, under the act re- quiring a donation of two-thirds of the right of way before the work could be undertaken. At his suggestion the route was changed so as to pass through Highwood Park, instead of through West Hoboken, as originally contemplated. Some time ago he acquired a brewery in Gut- tenberg, with thirteen lots and buildings, which had been inactive for several years, but through his efforts a New York syndicate was formed and the plant sold to a stock company and is now successfully operated. JOHN J. WESTEEVELT is descended in the seventh generation from Lubbert Lubbertsen (Von Westervelt), who with his wife and children left their home at Mepple, in the Province of Drenthe, Holland, and emigrated to America on board the ship " Hope " in April, 1662 (see page 99). John J. W^estervelt is the grandson of Peter and Matilda Westervelt, and a son of James P. Westervelt and Margaret Demarest, daughter of John Demarest. He was born at West WoodclifL', N. J., October 14, 1829, and obtained his education in the schools of Bergen County. He left school at the age of thirteen and went to work on his father's farm, where he remained until he attained his majority. He then engaged in the trucking business in New York and so continued until he reached the age of forty-six, when he returned to Bergen County and has since devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He is one of the best farmers in his section, a member of the Dutch Eeformed Church, and honored and re- spected by the entire community. He has been twice married, first to Helen Ely, who died in 1878, leaving two children: Margaret and John. In 1884 he married, for his second wife, Margaret Brinkerhoff, a member of an old New Jersey family. MAURICE J. STviCK, County Clerk of Hudson Countv, was born in Hoboken, N. J., May 20, 1865, and has lived there all his life. He attended the public schools in that city and sold neAvspapers during much of his boy- hood. Mr. Stack was appointed a patrolman in the Hoboken Police Department July 1, 1886, when only twenty-one years old. In 1890 he was promoted to be a roundsman. Two years later he was made a sergeant. In December, 1892, at the request of the late Prosecutor Charles H. Wlnfield, the Ho- boken Board of Police Commissioners detailed Mr. Stack as a detective in the Prosecutor's offlce to take the place of Mayor E. R. Stanton, of Hoboken, who gave up the position as Prosecutor's detective when appointed Sheriff GENEALOGICAL 251 of Hudson County to All the yacancy caused by the death of Sheriff John McPhillips. Mr. Stack continued as Prosecutor's detective until tlie deadi of Mr. Winlield. In 1S99 he was elected County Clerk of Hudson County and has tilled that ottice with characteristic ability and satisfaction. He has three children — two sons and a daughter. EDWIX RAYNOR CASE has been a life-long resident of Jersey City, Hudson County, where he was born on the 7th of April, 1855. He is the son of Meuzies Raynor Case and Amanda Malvina Coon, a grandson of MENZIES R. CASE. Moses and Charlotte (Miller) Case and of Samuel and Hannah (Negus) Coon, a great-grandson of Josiah Case and Robert Negus, and a lineal descendant of John Case, who came from England and settled in Sinisbury, Conn., in 1650. He is also a direct descendant on the maternal side of Anne Hatha- way and of Commodore Terry, his great-grandmother, the wife of Robert Negus, being a Perry. Mr. Case's father was director of the Jersey City Board of Education for five terms, his associates in the board, during that time, being Joseph McCoy, James L. Davenport, and A. S. Jewell. He was also, for sixteen years, superintendent of Old Trinity M. E. Sunday School in York Street. 252 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Edwin R. <.':ise was cducalcd at riildic Sr-liools Nos. 1 and 13, in Jersey <'ily, and at Ilasbroiick Classical and Oomniercial Institute, wliieh lie left in January, 1872, to engage in the tea brokerage business with liis father. He continued in that employment until September 10, 1873, and from that time until November 1. 1899, was associated with the People's (Jas Liglit Conii)any of Jersey City, first as a clei-k and frf)m October 12, 1S80, to October 31, 1S99, as Seci-etary and Treasurer of the company. From the leasing of the gas company to the United Gas Improvement Company, EDWIN R. CASE. in Sejitember, 188C, to the ^jresent time, he has been engaged in the stock and bond brokerage business. Mr. Case has been a member of the Jersey City Club since 1884, and is also a member of Unique Council, No. 434. Royal Arcanum, and of Vigilant Council, No. 43, Loyal Additional Benefit Association. He is public spirit- ed, active and influential in the community, a man of superior business ability and sound judgment, and highly respected by all who know him. September 25, 1876, Mr. Case married Emily Fay Hoyt, and they have had three children: Caroline Hoyt Case, Edwin Eaynor Case, deceased, and Herbert Hoyt Case. Add to sketch of Edwin Raynor Case, pages 251-252, the following : Mr. Case is President and Director of the Fidelity Gas Light Company of Hoosic Falls, N. Y., of the Monroe County Gas Company of Stroudsburg, Pa., and of the New Paltz and Pough- keepsie Traction Company of New Paltz, N. Y. He is also Trustee of the Lakewood (N. J.) Gas Company. GENEALOGICAL 253 HAMILTON WALLIS, one of the leading members of the New York and Hudson County bars, was born in New York TMlv on the 25th of No- vember, 1842. He is the son of Alexander Hamilton AVallis and Elizabeth Geib, a grandson of John and Mary Ann (Geib) Wallis and of John and Margaret (Lawrence) Geib, and a great-grandson of Joseph and Sarah (Tatterson) Wallis, of John and Rebecca (Shrimpton) Geib, and of Thomas Lawrence, whose wife was a Bogardus, a descendant of " Dominie " Bogar- dus, the first Dutch minister in New Amsterdam. Joseph Wallis, John Geib, Jr., and Mary Ann Geib were natives of England, the first reaching this country about 1775 and the latter two in 1707. John Geib, Sr., was a native of Staudernheim, Germany. Alexander Hamilton Wallis was Presi- dent of the First National Bank of Jersey City and was a well known New York lawyer before his removal to Jersey City more than half a century ago. He served as a member of the Jersey City Board of Aldermen and was twice United States Collector of Internal Eevenue for the Fifth Dis- trict of New Jersey. Hamilton Wallis received his preliminary and preparatory education under the tutorship of W. L. Dickinson, at public school No. 1, and in Hasbrouck Institute, all in Jersey City. He subseciuentlr studied under Charles M. Davis, of Bloomfleld, N. J., and under Rev. Samuel Jones, of Bridgeport, Conn., and entering Yale College was graduated from that institution in 1863. He took a course at the Columbia College Law School, graduating with the degree of LL.B., and was admitted to the bar of New York in May, 1865. He was admitted to practice as an attorney in Now Jersey in February, 1875, and as a counselor in November, 187S, and is also a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Wallis has practiced his profession in New York City ever since his admission to the bar there in ISO."), and has also had an office in Jersey City since 1875. His rise in the profession was steady and rapid. He early displayed legal abilities of the highest order, and before a court and jury as well as in office work exhibited those striking characteristics which mark the successful lawyer. Possessed of sound judgment, great force of character, and wonderful intellectual capacity, he has been connected with some of the most important litigations in the courts of New York and New Jersey, and the many victories he has won stamp him as an attorney and counselor of unusual ability. In New York he is a member of the well known firm of Wilson & Wallis. and in Jersey City is senior member of the firm of Wallis, Edvi'ards & Bnmsted. ■While Mr. Wallis has always taken a deep interest in public and political affairs and in all questions which affect the welfare of his city. State, and Nation, he has never sought nor accepted political office, preferring to devote his entire time and energy to the practice of his profession. As a citizen, however, he has long wielded an important influence upon all public matters, and is universally esteemed and respected. He has achieved a wide reputation as an able, conscientious, and reliable lawyer, and through his many excellent qualities has always had the confidence and respect of all who know him. He is a member of the Down Town Associa- tion of New York City, of the Carteret Club of Jersey City, and of the Lake Hopatcong Club of New Jersev. He is also a distinguished member of the Lodge of the Temple, No. 110. F. and A. M., of Jersey City, of which he was Worshipful Master in 1873. He was Grand Master of Masons in New Jersey in the vears 1879 and 1880, and in these important official capac- ities has rendered' valuable service to the fraternity in the State. He is 254 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES President of iiie Board of Trustees of the Brick Presbyterian Church of East Orange, N. J., and to the duties of all these positions he has brought the same ability and integrity which have contributed so largely to his success and eminence at the bar. Mr. Wallis was married on the 13th of October, 1868, to Alice Waldron, and their children are Emeline Waldron (Wallis) Dunn, Alexander Ham- ilton Wallis, Nathaniel Waldron Wallis, and Clinton Geib Wallis. CHARLES De CLYNE, until his death a leading citizen of Hudson County, and the father of Gustavo and Emil de Clyne, prominent business men of New Durham in the same county, was born in Schwarzburg, Sonder- schausen, Saxony, June 2A, 1821, and died at his residence in New Durham, N. J., November 5, 1886. He was the eldest of five brothers, — Charles, Theodore, William, Frederick, and John, — who were the sons of George de Clyne and Dorothea Teschner, both natives of Schwarzburg, Saxony. George de Clyne followed the business of an agriculturist and was in- spector of a large estate. He was, in turn, the son of Albert de Clyne, a farmer, who was at one time Burgomaster of Schwarzburg, and who was the descendant of a H^iguenot family which fled from France on the revoca- tion of the Edict of Nantes, one branch of it settling at Schwarzburg, Saxony. Charles de Clyne received his education in a school of forestry, becom- ing proficient as a civil engineer, mineralogist, and botanist. Following his course at this school, he also continued his studies under private tutelage. Like Carl Schurz, Oswald Ottendorfer, and other liberty-loving Germans, he became involved in the revolutionary movement of 1848 and was com- pelled to flee. He came to America, but soon after re-crossed the ocean for a sojourn in France. During this visit he was impressed by the superiority of the Belgian pavement, and securing a contract for its introduction in New York City, returned to America. He failed to realize from this proj- ect through complications with a partner, although the pavement was sub- sequently introduced in New York. He then entered upon the study of chemistry with the celebrated Dr. Liebig, and was so engaged when the Civil War began. He at once enlisted in the New York State volunteers as a member of the Third Battalion (artillery), which was subsequently re-organized as the Fifteenth Regiment Heavy Artillery. He remained in the service until the close of the war, taking part in many actions. He was commissioned Lieutenant and assigned to the staff of General Thomas D. Doubleday; subsequently he was commissioned Captain, and by General Halleck was appointed Inspector-General of defenses south of the Potomac. Upon the termination of the Rebellion he established a large manufactory of glue in Hudson County, N. J., which is still owned and conducted by his family. While an active member of the Republican party, he refused to be- come a candidate for public office, holding only some such unremunerative trusts of honor as school trustee, etc. He established his residence at New Durham. December 13, 1855, he married Helen, daughter of Christian Klien, of North Bergen, Hudson County. Their children were Caroline (who became Mrs. Abram Kittel), born October 25, 1856; Theodore, born November 26, 1857; Gustavus, born December 29, 1858; Emma, born March 31, 1861, who married Thomas Alcorn, of New Durham; Helen, born August 20, 1866, who married John Henry Cutwater, of Washington Grove, Bergen County; and Emil and Clara (twins), born May 15, 1869. Clara, the last named, married GENEALOGICAL 255 Francis A. Kilgour, of Passaic, N. J. Of the three sons, Theodore, a grad- uate of Columbia College, is a veterinary surgeon, while Gustavus and Emil conduct the large business established by their father. Upon the death of their father in November, 1886, the brothers Gustavus and Emil de Clyne assumed the active management of the manufactory, and under their supervision it has grown to be one of the largest and most successful concerns manufacturing sizing and gold gum in the country. They have two plants, one being located in New Durham and the other in Homestead. The former is a familiar landmark of North Bergen and comprises several large buildings, covering a floor area of over 50,000 square feet. That at Homestead was established by them in 1897 for the purpose of grinding mica and has been a great success. WILLIAM THOMPSON, a prominent resident of Marion, Hudson County, and President of the New York Pie Baking Company, of New York City, was born in Goshen, Orange County, N. Y., February 19, 1826, his parents being James A. Thompson and Catherine Kay. The Thomp- sons were originally from Ireland, emigrating to America at the time of the religious rebellion, settling first in Orange County, N. Y., subse- quently removing to Long Island, and finally locating in Bedford, West- chester County, N. Y. They have been engaged in farming and dairying for several generations. The Kay family, his mother's ancestors, came to this country from Scotland. Mr. Thompson was educated in the old Brick Church which stood on the site of the present Trihnne building in New York City, and well remembers that locality as it is now portrayed in history. He also at- tended Horace Greeley's free lectures. At the age of thirteen he left home under very adverse circumstances, with nothing but a will and determination to succeed, finding himself in New York City without a cent. He obtained employment in a bakery, where he worked for five years and thoroughly mastered the business. When eighteen years old he started on his own account in the baking business, with which he has ever since been identi- fied. His career in this line of industry has been an eminently successful one and stamps him as a man of unusual ability, of great force of char- acter, and possessed of that self-reliance and perseverance which charac- terize the man of affairs. In 1872 lie organized the business now con- ducted at 82 Sullivan Street, New York City, by the widely known New York Pie Baking Company, of which he is President. This extensive cs tablishment employs one hundred and fifty people and sixty horses, has a capacity of producing from eighteen to twenty thousand pies daily, and is a model in its workings in every respect. It is the largest pie baking establishment in the United States, and under Mr. Thompson's able and energetic management has achieved a phenomenal success as well as a prominent place among the leading manufacturing institutions of New York City. In this connection James M. Gray, M.D., writing in the Amerierin Jour- nal of Health, published in New York, says: " The average home-made pie, owing to improper equipment and lack- ing facilities, is almost invariably a disease breeder instead of a health help. The pies offered by some of the smaller bakers as evidence of their constructive ability are even worse as a rule. In every large city, fortunate- ly, there are large 'concerns which have reduced pie-making to an exact sci- ence and whose product is not only appetizing, but is deserving of all praise 256 HUDSON AND BEIIGBN COUNTIES from ii bealtb standi)oint. The New York Pie Baking Company of this city is a fltting example to illustrate the point in question. This house possesses every faeility, every convenience, and every advantage necessary to the i)roductiou of au article for household consumption which is above criticism. Their establishment is a model of cleanliness, and as they use only the finest grades of high-priced flour and richest and purest milk, cream, and lard obtainable, and combining these with fruits and berries of most superior (juality, it uatui-ally follows that the product is all that could be desired by either the epicure or the hj'gienist. " There may be, and probably are, in other cities throughout the coun- WILLIAM THOMPSON. try, manufacturers whose goods are as wholesome as the New York Pie Baking Company's ])ies, but a most searching investigation of this spe- cial product enables us to write advisedlv concerning its merits as a health food." A. N. Talley, Jr., M.D., in an article in the I'nitcd f^tates Health Reports for August 1, 1899, says: " The evolution and development of the American pie, like all great industries, has created a positive demand for a standard of excellence, both intrinsically and co'nmercially, Americans being satisfied only with GEXEA LOGICAL 257 the best of everything. This denuind has been ablv filled by the New Yoik Pie Baking Companv, of No. 82 Sullivan Street, Xew Yoik'Citv. who have established the reputation, justly deseiMMl. of producing the best and greatest number of pies of any firm in the United St:ites. •' In the rigid inspection and examination made by our experts great care was taken to thoroughly note the physical environments and hygienic conditions of the entire plant and establishment of the company,' all of which were found to be in the highest possible state of cleanliness, with the added fact of complete compliance with all sanitary reiinircments. " The final reports of our experts have been c()mi)iled and unanimously ajyproved by our medical statf, showinii so high a ^radi of merit that we are pleased to extend to the product of the New York Pie B.ikiug Com- pany, for the protection of i)atrons, the ollicial recognition of the t'nitcd States Health Reports." Mr. Thompson's vast fund of reminiscence is well known. A most interesting article in a recent number of the Hotel and Restaurant Ifaj/a- zine, entitled "Reminiscences of Xew York in the Forties; Gleaned from an Interview with One of the !Most I'roniinent Hnsiuess Men iu the Metrop- olis," contains this allusion to his ability to recall past eveiits: •' He who wishes to spend a profitable and interesting hour knows full well that the reminiscent conversation of the old resident has a special zest in which the present is linked with the past, and the institutions of the day contrasted with those of former times. In a recent conversation with Mr. William Thompson, well known to tbe Xew York business public as the President of the X"ew York Pie Baking Company, the writer was entertained for several hours with a graphic portrayal of incidents iu Mr. Thompson's experience back in the forties. Unhappily, written lan- guage fails to give the inflections of verbal narration; it fails also io portray the expression of the features when the mind of the narrator is ijecalling the events of half a century past. The reader can assi.st in ob taining a clearer comprehension of these reminiscences if he will give free vent to his imagination and draw a mental picture of ilr. Thomps(ui, a hale and hearty gentleman, although seventy years of age. sittini; iu his cozy office with a far-away look in his eyes, living over again, as it were, the days that are gone. As re<olJeciions crowded each other for utter- ance his countenance would glow with enthusiasm in the one moment and be saddened in the next as he referred to companions who have passed away. Being requested to give some of the factors wliich entered into his notable business success, he said; Perhaps the most valuable factor in my success was the experience hack in the forties. At that time there was a great rivalry among pie-baking establishments — every one was try- ing to obtain the reputation of making the l)est old-fashioned i)ie. Tlie public was a critical one, and a good pie was in great demand. I entered into the business contest with vim and started an estal)lislinient, on a much smaller scale, of course, upon the site we now occupy. There was one bridge which carried me to success, and I have never foriiolten that it is essential to keep in mind that fact in order to continually maintain our supremacy in the pie business. That bridge was first-class material. I personally purchased and inspected inery ingredient which entered into a pie. and under no consideration would I permit any adulterated products or second grade goods to enter my doors. I gave close attention to the minutest details. Those who bought our pies knew the> 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 (<loets(hins) Van Ripen, and a great- great-granddaughter of Jacob and Maiy (Vreland) Van Ripen. Her ances- tors came from Holland in 1C49 and were among the earliest settlers in Eastern New Jersey. Through his grandmother Mr. Conkling is a great- grandson of Sir Alfred Brickel, of Manchester, England, and though his father he is closely related to the late Hon. Roscoe Conkling, whose ances- tors came from Kent County, England. His grandfather, ^Matthew ('(ink- ling, was one of the famous drummers of his day. In ISol he was presented with the first silver drum ever made. He was the first Poormaster in Ho- boken and active during the Civil War. Matthew H. Conkling, the son of Matthew and father of Livingston, was the organizer and leader of Conkling's famous New Jersey Brass Band in 1870, and ably lepresented the family, which has been prominently identified in the politics of Hudson County for upward of sixty years. ^Ir. Conkling's mother's cousin, Hon. Garret D. Van Ripen, was Mayor of Jersey City, while another relative and namesake, Jacob Livingston, i-eprcsented his district in the State Senate. Livingston Conkling's full name is Matthew Livingston Conkling. He was named after his father, but because of the similarity of the names of his father and grandfather, both of whom bore the name Matthew, he 272 IITTDSON AND KBRCJEN COUNTIES (li-(i|i]K'(l llic Maltlicw ;iii(l li:is (•oiitiimcd to use only liic iiiiddl(' name, Liv- iii^stou. The fiiiiiily iiaiiic was. (ii'ij^iiiall.w ('(tnklin, and not (.'onkl)nf>', but a nniubcr of the descendants added tlie y, tlins >;ivinf>- the name its present form. On the )iaternal side tlie lan}il\- is <if Irisli and Enfilisli descent. Livingston Conlclin^' was born in llobol^en, N. J., on tlie 10th of May, ISIU, and iidierit(Ml all the stni-d\- cliai-actei-istics which m;ide liis ancestors so famons in the early and siibse(|\ient liistoiy of this section of the State. Ueceivint;' an excellent ]inldic school education in his native city, he learned the trade of decoiatinj;- and jiaintinu', and at the ]iresent time is senior mem- LIVINGSTON CONKLING. ber of the well l-;nown tijni of L. (\(iddinj;- ^: Co., painters and decorators, 115 Clinton Street, Hoboken, and ll'5 Eij;hth Avenne, New Yonc City. Mr. Con.klinj;- lias ;iclii('\'ed marktHl success in business and is popularly known as a man of ability, int(^<;rity, and i^reat force of charact(-r. He has also achieved in-oniineii<-e and distinction in public life, and in fliis connection bears with credit and honor the eminence which the family has maintained for so many generations. Me entered tlie National Guard of New Jersey as a ])rivate in the old Ninth Ke<iiment, and from 1880 to 1889 served as vSerseant in the Second Keaiimait, N^^C. N. J., and from 1889 to 1892 he was Captain of the old C'olumbia Guards in New jersey. In polit- GENEALOGICAL 273 ical affairs he has been for several years one of the ablest leaders of the Kepublican forces in the county. He has served efficiently as a member of the Hudson County Republican General Committee for six years, was a member of the Kepublican Executive Committee of Hoboken for a time, and Vice-President of the Ninth Assembly District Republican Committee for one year. He has been a delegate to numerous city, county, and congres- sional conventions and always wields a potent influence in party councils and in campaign affairs. He was Secretary of the Garfield Club in 1893, President of the McKinley Club of Hoboken four years, orator of Achaean League, No. 2, of Hoboken, Commander of Christian Woerner Post, No. 1, Sons of Veterans, in 1888, and Judge Advocate-General of the National Department, Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., in 1889. In 1899 he organized the Associated Justices of the Peace and Constables' Protective Association, of which he is President. Judge Conkling is serving his second terra as Justice of the Peace, having been first elected in 1894 and re-elected in 1899, and represents the third generation of his family who has held that office in the City of Hoboken, his predecessors being his father and grandfather. He is also a Commissioner of Deeds and a member of the Knights of Honor, and in every capacity has gained the confidence and esteem of the entire com- munity. He is an energetic, progressive, and public spirited citizen, and a man of broad intellectual attainments. June 30, 1889, Judge Conkling married Miss Julia Hetzel. They have six children: Irving, Raymond, Gertrude, Roscoe, Isabel, and Matthew Liv- ingston, Jr. JOHN H. LINDEMANN. — The Lindemann family is among the most numerous and important in Germany. Many of them have, within the last century, attained wealth and distinction in the United States. Henry Lin- demann was born in 1799, near Bremen, in the Kingdom of Hanover, Ger- many, where he married Anna C. Butts and established himself in the dual business of baker and grocer. His only son and child, William L. Linde- mann, was born at Bremen and adopted the business of his father. In 1S40 William L., the son, came to America and married Johanna Waetge in 1846. His father, Henry, followed him to America in 1845, and the two, having bought a part of the old Naugle farm at Closter, in Bergen County, X. J., adopted farming for a livelihood. Henry, the father, died in 1867, intes- tate, and his lands descended to his son William L., who in time became one of the largest landholders at Closter. He built and owned the first hotel in the village and was instrumental in organizing the Lutheran Church, the fire company, the Building and Loan Association, and other enterprises for the improvement of the town. He died October 8, 1899, respected by all who knew him. He married Johanna, daughter of Diedrich Waetge. His children of the third generation were William L., Ernest, and John H. John H. Lindemann (3), the subject of this sketch, was born at Closter, N. J., August 29, 1859, and received a public school education. Leaving school at the age of fifteen, he has since remained on his father's farm, which he has conducted with marked success. He has served on the Town Committee, has been Collector of Harrington Township, and is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. In every capacity he has displayed ability and integritv of character, and is highly respected by the entire community. Mr. Lindemann married Amelia "^Vaetge and has three children: Her- miena, Dorothea, and Alien. 274 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES ANDREW H. BRINKERHOFF is a descendant in the eighth generation from Joris Dircksen (Brinkerhoff), the first American progenitor of the New Jersey branches of the family. Joris (George) Dircksen (1) was a native of the grazing and stock raising Province of Drenthe, Holland (from whence came so many of the pioneer families of the New Netherlands), where he was born about 1590. Early in life his family removed to Vlis- singen (Flushing), a seaport on the Island of Walcheron in Zeeland, at which city many persons were fleeing from religious persecution. Here Joris married Susanna Dubbelo. In 1638 Joris, with his wife, emigrated to America. He fl.rst settled on Staten Island and is said to have entered into a contract with one Cornelius Melyn, the owner of the island, to re- side there, but on August 16, 1641, owing to the numerous murders com- mitted in the neighborhood by the Indians, he obtained a release from his contract. The same year he settled at Brooklyn, where, on March 23, 1646, he obtained a grant of thirty-six acres of land. On this he seems to have built his home and resided until his death, January 16, 1661. He must have been a man of ability and respected by his neighbors, otherwise he would not have been elected a magistrate in 1654 and re-elected annually thereafter until 1660. He helped to organize the Dutch Church at Brook- lyn and was an Elder in it at the time of his death. His issue of the second generation were Derrick (killed by the Indians), Hendrick, Abra- ham, and Aeltie. Hendrick (2), born in Holland about 1630, married Claesie (a daughter of Cornelius Jans) Bogert (see sketch on page 105), then of Flatbush, L. I. He lived at Flatbush until 1685, was a magistrate of Brooklyn in 1662-63, and became a member of the Colonial Assembly in 1665. On June 17, 1685, with Jan Cornelise Bogert, the Bantas, and others, he removed to Bergen County and purchased a large tract of land between the Hacken- sack River and the Overpeck Creek, on which Hendrick settled, and where he died in 1610 or 1611. A stone marks the spot where his remains are buried in the cemetery of the '■' Church on the Green," at Hackensack. Of this church he was one of the founders, and for many years a leader and officer in it. He held other responsible positions, and was one of the most active and useful members of the new colony. His issue of the third gen- eration were Greetie, Margrietie, Cornelius, Joris, Derrick, and Jacobus. Cornelius Hendricksen Brinckerhoff (3), born on Long Island, married Aegie Vreeland, of Bergen, May 28, 1708. He was a member of the Hack- ensack church, and died September 1, 1770, aged ninety-seven. Derrick Brinkerhoff (3) married (1) Margaret Sibse Banta and (2) Abagail Acker- man, and Jacobus (3) married Angenitie Hendricks Banta. The descend- ants of the last three named have spread over Hudson and Bergen Coun- ties and are still numerous. Andrew H. Brinkerhoff (8), the subject of this sketch, is a descendant of one of these, and was born at Boiling Springs, Bergen Coun- ty, October 13, 1847. He is the son of George C. Brinkerhoff (7) and Kezia H. Hopper, daughter of Andrew P. and Anna Hopper, and a grand- son of Cornelius G. (6) and Hannah Brinkerhoff. He was educated in the district schools and at Packard's Institute, New York, and with the ex- ception of a few years spent in farming has followed the banking business since leaving the latter institution, being at the present time the Cashier of the Rutherford National Bank. Rising step by step to this, responsible position, he has displayed from the first great ,. executive ability, sound business judgment, and a thorough knowledge of financial affairs. GENEALOGICAL 275 In public life he has also been active and prominent. He has served efficiently as Collector of Taxes, and in 1890 was elected a member of the Boroup:h Conncil, serving t^Y0 years, and in 1899 was again elected to that office for a term of three years. He is a member of the Knights of Tythias and of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Rutherford, of which he is a regular attendant and liberal supjiorter. Mv. Brinkerhoff was married on July 12, 1S68, to Jennie ^l. Brinkerhoff and has five children: George C, Henry A., James H., Kezia 11., and May. ISAAC A. HOPPEB.— The Hoppers in Bergen and Hudson Counties are descended from Andries Hopper, who, with his wife, Grietie Hen- dricks, emigrated to America in 1052 and settled at New Amsterdam, where he was enrolled and granted the ])rivileges of a small burgher in 16'57. He acquired considerable property, but did not live to long enjoy it, as he died within a year. He had entered into an agreement with .Jacob Stol to purchase the Bronx lands, but death cut off both him and Stol be- fore a deed could be signed. His widow married (2) a man named Van Tricht in May, 1660, thereby securing to each of her three children two hundred gelders. These three chil- dren were William, born 16.54 (nmr- ried ^Minnie .Jurcks Paulus); Hen- drick, born 16.56 (married Maria Van Blarcom); ^Matthew Adolphus, boiu 16.58 (married Anna Jurcks Paulus). Matthew and Hendrick settled in New Jersey. Isaac A. Hopper is descended in the eighth generation from Andries Hopper and Grietie Hendricks, the emigrants. ^Nfatthew IIo))]ier married Aedtje Peters (see sketch on page 71). This Jlatthew Hopper (3) had a son, Andries (4), who married Elizabeth Bros and had a son, I'eter (5). AVho this Peter married the Paramus church records may show, l)ut Peter ('.',), it is said, had three sons: Garret P. (6), Andrew P. (6), and Henry P. (6). Andrew P. was l.Kirn aliout 1772, married, July 23, 1797, Anne Voorhis, and had issue, among other children, Henry A. Hopper (7), who niari-ied Helen, daughter of Isaac Ackerman, and had issue, besides other children, Isaac A. Plopper (8), who is the subject of this sketch. His father was Sheriff of Bergen County and a member of the New Jersey Legislature. Isaac Ackerman Hopper (8) was born at Boiling Springs, now Rutherford, N. J., April 24, 1843. He received a district school education at " Small Lots" (now Fair Lawn), and, compleling his studies at the age of fifteen, has followed farming when not serving the community in official capacities. During the Civil War he enlisted as a volunteer soldier in Company E, Twenty-second New Jersey Regiment, and participated in the battles of ISAAC A. HOPPEK. 276 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES Ghancellorsville, Frederickbnrp;, the Wilderness, and Gettysbnrg, where his regiment formed a part of General Meade's reserves. After the war Mr. Hopper ag'ain engaged in agricultural pursuits on his father's farm, and soon became active and prominent in local public affairs. He served for six years as Assessor, and in 1 881 was elected Sheriff of Ber- gen County, which office he filled with ability and satisfaction for three years. He was again chosen Assessor for the Township of Saddle River and served ten years, and in 1892 was elected County Collector, serving for four years. " Afterward he was for four years Treasurer of Bergen County. Mr. Hopper is a stanch friend of public improvements, has been especially persistent and successful in his efforts to secure improvement of public roads, and is highly respected by all who know him. He is a member of Gabriel Paul Post, G. A. R., a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Reformed Church of Ridgewood. November 25, 1868, he married Maria, daughter of Garret A. Hopper, a prominent citizen of Bergen County. They have had one child, deceased. THOMAS J. POST is descended in the eighth generation from Captain Adriaen Post, the emigrant and common ancestor of all the Post family in Bergen and Hudson Counties (see sketch on page 72). He is the son of Thomas Post and Lucretia Merseles, and was born at Westwood, N. J., April 29, 1862. In the schools of Bergen County he acquired a fair educa- tion, and by industry and perseverance has achieved success. Leaving school at the age of sixteen, he engaged as an employee in manufacturing chairs, which he followed for fifteen years, when he established himself in that business. He has built up a large and successful business in this line, and is widely known as a man of integrity, enterprise, and energy. Mr. Post is a member of the Board of Education of the Borough of West- wood, a member of the Westwood Union Church, and Superintendent of the Westwood Union Sunday School. In every capacity he has discharged his duties with honor, fidelity, and satisfaction. He married Catharine A. Conklin and has one son, Percy A. WILLIAM WILLCOX VOORHIS is descended in the eighth generation from Steven Coerts Van Yoorhis, the first American ancestor of the family. Tha line of descent is the same as in the sketch on page 83. As will be seen, Lucas Alberts Voorhis (3) had issue several children of the fourth gen- eration, among whom was Hendrick Lucas Van Voorhis (4), born February 11, 1731, died March 6, 1803. He married Wybsie Laroe, who was bom November 28, 1736, and died June 8, 1813. They lived northwest of Hacken- sack, and had issue ten children of the fifth generation : Abram H., Lucas H., Albert H., John H., Annatie, Nicholas H., Jacobus H., Catharine, Mag- dalena, and Henry H. Jacobus H. (5), born November 2, 1769, died April 13, 1833, married Mary Demarest, who was born July 14, 3783, and died August 14, 1849. Three generations of the above are buried in the old Voorhis graveyard on the west bank of the Hackensack below New Milford. Jacobus H. Voorhis (5) and Mary Demarest had issue, besides other children, Albert J. Voorhis (6), who married Rachel Hopper. She was born October 5, 1809, and died April 19, 1877. They had issue, among other children, Peter A. H. Voorhis (7), who married Cecelia C. Smith, and who wijis the father of William Willcox Voorhis (8), the subject of this jketch. GENEALOGICAL 277 William Willcox Voorhis (8) was born November 27, 1865, In Hacken- sack, N. J., where he received his education. He left school at the age of sixteen and engaged in business with his father, continuing in that relation until the latter's death. He then retired and has since devoted his en- ergies to the management of the estate. In public as well as in business affairs Mr. Voorhis has achieved distinc- tion. He served for a time as President of the Board of Council of the Borough of Westwood, is a life member of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and is a member of the Reformed Church. He is public spirited, enterprising, and active in promoting every worthy movement, and thoroughly identified with the affairs of his native county. Mr. Voorhis married Leanora Westervelt, a member of an old Bergen County family, and they have two children: Cecelia Marguerite and Marie Louise. JOHN ENSTICE has achieved as a contractor a measure of success which stamps him as one of the most prominent men in his line of business in Eastern New Jersey. His reputation and high standing are doubly merited, because it is through his own efforts, his indomitable perseverance, and his unquestioned integrity and ability that he has paved the way to a place among the leading contractors of the State. He comes from the sturdy old Enstice and Giles families of Cornwall, England, where he was born March 20, 1867, his parents being James Enstice and Annie Giles and his grandparents John Enstice and Maria Norway. His mother, who still survives, is the daughter of James and Amelia Giles, of Cornwall. On both sides he inherits the admirable characteristics of people whose broad and liberal attainments had a most important influence upon the com- munity in which they lived, and who raised by deed and word the high standard of industry, honesty, and fearless fidelity that marks their de- scendants in both the Old and the New World. Mr. Enstice has been a resident of New Jersey since he was four years old. In May, 1871, the family bade adieu to the CornM'all home of their ancestors and emigrated to America, to seek, in broader fields, a fortune for themselves and their children. They first located in Dover, N. J., where the father, James Enstice, successfully prosecuted his business as a con- tractor until shortly before his death, which occurred on the 9th of March, 1883. He had five sons and two daughters, John, the subject of this article, being the third son. John Enstice attended Public School No. 2, at Mine Hill, near Dover, Morris County, X. J., until he wns sixteen, and as a boy manifested and developed those energetic mental qualities which have since won for him so much honor and distinction. Having laid the basis of an active career in studies best fitted for a business life, he became an apprentice to the carpenter's trade in Dover, and there and in Morristown, N. J., followed bis vocation with constantJy increasing success, winning the respect and con- fidence of all with whom he came in contact. In the spring of 1886 he moved to Kearny, Hudson County, where he prosecuted his trade for two years, being in charge of important work most of the time. In 1888 he engaged in the business of contracting and building on his own account. His first attempts were modest and unassuming, but the high reputation which he h.-^d made soon followed him to his new field of operation, and within a veiv short time lie occupied a foremost place among the promi- nent contractorK in that section. He associated himself with his brothers. 278 HUDSON A]SfD BERGEN COUNTIES William and Edward J., under the present firm name of Enstice Brothers, and many of the liaest and most imposing buildings in Kearny, Harrison, Newark, 'the Oranges, and other towns are the result of their efforts. Dwellings, public edifices, and a variety of work have been erected by them and bear the distinctive stamp of their skill and energy and thorough workmanship. In 181)9 they completed extensive government contracts at Sandy Hook, which they had commenced in February, 18!t7, and their work" there is among the' largest and most important military posts along the Atlantic coast. JOHN ENSTICE. In the business and financial as well as in the constructive department of the firm's business Mr. Enstice has been the leading figure, bringing to the management and detail work great executive ability, untiring en- ergy, sound judgment, and unusual foresiglit. His success in handling the largest contracts, in securing and carrying them to completion, is tangible evidence of his courage and enterprise. His achievements are the result ot his own efforts, of constant application, and of the broad and progressive ideas of an able man. As a citizen as well as a contractor he is prominent. In May, 1900, he formed a pai-fnership with John Bohenna, anu under the firm name of John Boheuna & Co. engaged in the real estate and insurance GENEALOGICAL 279 business. Mr. Enstice is public spirited and universally esteemed, and in the growth and prosperity of the Township of Kearny he has taken an im- portant part, having been a liberal supporter of its chief institutions and lending his influence in favor of every commendable object. For two years he was a member of the Kearny Board of Education. He is a member of Kane Lodge, Iv"o. 5o,F.and A.M., and of Union Chapter, No. 7, E. A. M., both of Newark. He is a charter member of Ethic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Harrison, and was for three years an Elder and for two years Treasurer of Knox Presbyterian Church of Kearny. He is a Director of the Harrison and Kearny Building and Loan Association, a Eepublican in politics, and in all the relations of life has displayed the highest attributes of a loyal, energetic, and useful citizen. Mr. Enstice was married, June 8, 1899, to Nellie May Decker, daughter of Thomas W. and Martha (Van Duyne) Decker, of Kearny, formerly of Pine Brook, Morris County. Soon after his marriage he removed to South Orange, N. J., where he now resides. JAMES T. LILLIS, Surrogate of Hudson County, is the eldest son of Martin and Catherine (McCarthy) Lillis, both natives of Ireland, who came to this country about 1849 and settled in the north part of the County of Hudson. His father, one of the prominent and extensive truckmen of his time, died in Jersey City on the 1st of January, 1879. His mother's death occurred there August 21, 1887. Surrogate Lillis was born in West New York, Hudson County, March 6, 1853, and when about four years old his parents moved to Jersey City. He there acquired his early education in public and parochial schools. Entering^ Eutgers College at New Brunswick in 1870, on a scholarship granted him by the freeholders after he had passed the required examination, he was graduated with the degree of B.S. in 1873, and the same year entered the Hudson County surrogate's ofQce in Jersey City, with which he has ever since been connected. The probate history of Hudson County daring the past twenty-seven years is practically a history of Surrogate Lillis's life, and vice versa. From a clerkship he rose steadily to the post of Assistant Surrogate, and in November, 1896, was elected Surrogate on the Democratic ticket over his Eepublican op- ponent, Hon. P. F. Wanser, then Mayor of Jersey City, receiving a flatter- ing majority. Surrogate Lillis still holds that office, and has discharged its duties with ability and satisfaction. Having had more than a quarter of a century's uninterrupted experience in general probate matters, it is not strange that he should be everywhere regarded as the man best quali- fied to perform the work coming before a surrogate, and during a life-long devotion to his labors he has achieved an enviable reputation as well as signal success. Genial, sympathetic, and able, thoroughly versed in every department of probate law, and methodical in all his efforts, he is one of the most popular of Hudson County's citizens, and prominent in both political circles and private capacities. For many years he has been a leading member of the Hudson County Democratic Committee, and for some time he served as its Secretary. He is also a member of the Eobert Davis Association of Jersey City, of the Berkeley and University Clubs of the same place, of the Knights of Co- lumbus,' of the Benevolent Order of Elks, and of other bodies. He has resided in Jersey City for more than forty years, his present residence being at 208 Palisade A> 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<Tt (if the Cats- kill line of boats on the Hudson Biver. He was at first a Dim-tdr in I lie corporation owning this line, but jiresently became its Pi-esident and (icu- GEORGE M. SNYDER. eral Manager, and has continued in this jiosition for twenty-two years, to the present time. Under his management the business of (his line has grown, and five boats are now kept in commission, instead of two boats, as formerly. Among the well known boats of this line arf the " Escort," now the " City of Hudson"; the "Walter Brett,"' now out of comniission ; the " Citv ofCatskill," which was destroyed by fire in the winter of 18S4; and the '' Kaaterskill," one of the finest steamboats on the Hudson, now in ac- tive service. The "Escort" was rebuilt and lengtiiened and rechrislem^d the " City of Hudson." The steanu-rs " W. C. Rcdticld " and " Thomas Mc- Manus "were purchased under the present nutnagement. In 1S98 the " On- 330 HUDSON AND BERGEN COUNTIES teora " was built by W. & A. Fletcher, of Hoboken, is entirely new, with steel hull, and has proved to be one of the fastest and ablest boats on the river. Mr. Snyder has long resided in one of the most elegant mansions on Pali- sade Avenue, West Hoboken. He built this edilice, and has also erected twenty-four other residences in West Hoboken. He is also well known for his public spirit in other directions, has taken great interest in the public school system, has contributed to its development, and is likewise conspicu- ous in connection with other public institutions and public movements. He is a leading member of the First Presbj'terian Church of West Hoboken, with which he has been officially connected for about thirty years. He has been a stanch supporter of the Republican party since it was organized, and has been one of its liberal financial assistants and influential in its councils. Mr. Snyder married, in 1864, Anna E., daughter of Captain John Gould, who commanded some of the vessels since owned by his son-in-law. Of the four sons of Mr. Snyder the eldest, Rev. Joseph G., is a Presbyterian minister in Brooklyn. Another, Edwin H., is his father's successor in business, and is President of the Board of Education of West Hoboken. The third son, George W., is cashier of the firm of A. F. Young «& Company, a produce commission house of New York City. The youngest son, John H., is now attending the Law School of Columbia University, New York City. FREDERICK WILLIAM FARR, one of the rising young lawyers of Bay- onne, Hudson County, N. J.^ was born there on the 16tli of April, 1874, and is the son of William C. Farr and Dora Schmidt. His parents were both natives of Germany, but came to the United States when young and were married in Bayonne, where they have spent their active lives. Mr. Farr received an excellent private school education in his native city and at St. Matthew's Academy, New York City, and as a youth displayed those intellectual qualifications which early led him into the law as a pro- fession. He pursued his legal studies under the tutelage of Horace Rober- son, counselor at law, one of the leading lawyers of Bayonne, and at the New York Law School, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1895. Since then he has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of his profession in Bayonne. May 3, 1897, he formed a copartnership with William W. Anderson, under the style of Anderson & Farr, which still continues. In politics he is a Re- publican, and in religion a member of the Lutheran Church. He is public spirited, progressive, and enterprising, and actively identified with the best interests of his native place. Mr. Farr was married on the 7th of November, 1895, to Louisa Burkhardt, daughter of Ludwig and Augusta Burkhardt, of Newark, N. J. They have one son, William C. Farr. SAMUEL HESS, of New Durham, Hudson County, was descended from one of the oldest and most respected families in Pennsylvania. His ma- ternal grandfather, Adam Hart, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and was wounded and lost a finger in action. He was a radical Democrat, a promi- nent farmer in Lycoming County, Pa., and lived to the great age of one hundred and three. The Hart and Hess families were all substantial resi- dents of Lycoming County. W. W. Hart, uncle of the subject of this article, is a practicing lawyer in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., having a large and lucrative clientage. Two other uncles, Davis Hart and John Hart, en- listed as members of a Pennsylvania cavalry regiment in the Union Army GENEALOGICAL 331 at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion and served three years, being honorably discharged. Davis became a Captain in the service. He was in Andersonville prison for a time and made a most honorable record. J. T. Hess, a brother of Samuel Hess, enlisted in the War for the Union at the first call for troops and after six months' service was discharged on account of sickness. Samuel Hess, son of Reuben and Jane (Hart) Hess, was born at Mont- gomery Station, Lycoming County, Pa., January 10, 1850, and received his education in his native State. His early life was that of the average farmer's boy. At the age of eighteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he ^served a two years' apprenticeship. In 1870 he engaged in rail- roading, becoming a fireman on an engine. After three and a half years of this service, running on the Eastern Division of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, a branch of the Pennsyhania line running to Sunbury, Renova, and Harrisburg, he was made a locomotive engineer and continued in that capacity until 1883, when he resigned. He then entered the service of the West Shore Railroad as a locomotive engineer and remained with that com- pany until 1S9C, when failing health compelled him again to resign and give up railroading. He then engaged in the hotel business at New Dur- ham, in the Town of North Bergen, Hudson County. During his long and active service on the railroad Mr. Hess made a first-class record, never be- ing suspended, and always discharging his duties with the utmost fidelity, energy, and satisfaction. He was respected by both employers and em- ployees, and gained a high reputation. Mr. Hess was a prominent Democrat and for several years took an active part in politics. In 1878, while a resident of Sunbury, Pa., he served as a member of the Common Council. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Board of Education of North Bergen Township, Hudson County, N. J. His brother, J. T. Hess, was Clerk and Recorder of Lycoming County, Pa., while his uncle, Frederick Hess, also held important oflBces there. Samuel Hess was a member of the Sunbury (Pa.) lodges of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, of the Masonic fraternity, of AVest Shore Council, Royal Arcanum, of Cyprus Chapter, No. 32, Royal Arch Masons, of Union Hill, and of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of Sunbury, Pa., until 1896. Mr. Hess married Miss Gertrude Hasbrouck, of Ravena, Albany County, N. Y., by whom he had one daughter, Mary, who died in infancy. JOHN GEORGE SYMS, who with his father, the late John Syms, has done so much for West Hoboken and Hudson County, was himself long established in business in New York City. His grandfather, John Syms, was born and lived in the Town of Torquay, Devonshire, England, where his ancestors were long seated. About 1814 John Syms, the father of John George Syms, came to New York City, established himself in the shoe busi- ness, in Chatham Street, and acquired a comfortable fortune. He bought a large tract of land on the present site of West Hoboken, then known as the Indian Spring woods and subsequently as the Syms woods, and another trad from Palisade Avenue to Central Avenue. In 1843 he removed to "West Hoboken, which remained his residence from that time until his death in 1868. John Syms was very active in connection with public improve- ments. He was one of the builders and owners of the Jersey City Plank Road, joining with Mr. Armstrong and others in the execution of this project. He was also very prominent in establishing the public school sys- tem of West Hoboken, and always iook a lively interest in educational mat- 332 HUDSON ANB BERGEN COUNTIES itf-^TW. T(')-s. lie v,;is llic foinnlcr of wliat was known as the Syms Librarj-. He buill tlic on'i;iiial chiin-li (Mliticc of |]i(» First lja])tist (.'liurcli, of West Hobo- ken, of wliicli lie was lonj;' tlie leadin};- member, and by his will left a large sum of money to be devoted to the erection of the present church structure. He was acti\c and successful in elforts to secuic the observance of the Sah- balh-day. and to prevent its desecration. He was a stanch and leading meni- Ix'i' (if the \N'hin jiarty, and one of the most eminent and jiublic spirited men in the history of Hud- son County. He died in lS(i8, at the age of seventy-eight. H i s wife, Grace Lakeman, also a prominent member of the First Baptist Church, of West Hoboken, and active in church and benevolent work, died in 18.59, at the age of sixty-seven. John Ceorge Synis was born in New York City, ISTovember 2.5, 1820, and received his education there and in institutions in Con- necticut. He was long engaged in business on (.'hatham Street, Xew York (Jity, as a dealer in guns and firearms, but retired in 1870 from active business in this line. Since that time he has been engaged in attending to his large real estate interests in Hudson County. He has resided in West Hoboken since 1843, with the excep- tion of the years from 181:8 to 1856, and, like his father, has been prominent in con- nection with matters affecting the general welfare of tlie community. He was conspicuous among the original number \$](t secui-ed fi'om the New Jersey Legislature the act authorizing the im-
]ii()vemeut of the streets of West Hoboken, to run parallel and at right an-
gles, widening thi^m, and making a tax map which is still in use. He has
held for many years such positions of local trust and responsibility as Treas-

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urer of M'est Hoboken and member of the Township Committee. Trior to
the beginning of the Ciril ^^'ar he was a member of the Whig partv. and
since that time has been a Eepnblican and a leader in party councils. ' He is
a member, an officer, and one of the most liberal supporters of the First Uap-
tist Church of West Hoboken. He donated |15,000 to this church to enable
it to carry out certain improvements.

Mr. Syms married Louisa Gordon Brown, and has six children living:
John B. Syms. (irace Lakeman (wife of James R. \Vhaples, a nalive of Con-
necticut). ]Mary Louisa (wife of Thomas Reynolds, of Rhode Island), ^^'infleld
H. Syms, George N. Syms, and Louisa G. (wife of William E. ^^'arner, of
New York City). All of his children are members of the First Baptist
Church, of West Hoboken, with which Mr. Syms and his father have been
so prominently identified, while some of them hold official positions in con-
nection with it.

ERNST G. ASMITS has spent his active life as a florist and horticulturist,
and from a small beginning has built up one of the largest and most suc-
cessful establishments in the Fnited States. Born in Hamburg, Germany,
on the 27th of November, 1844, he is the son of Christian A. and Elizabeth
(Bade) Asmus, both natives of that city. There he obtained his preliminary
education. In lSr,2 he came with his parents to this country and first
settled on Staten Island, New York, but soon moved to the present Town
of Union, N. J., where he completed his studies.

After leaving school Mr. Asmus engaged in business as a florist. He
started in a very small way and with comparatively little capital, but by in-
dustry, perseverance, and economy, soon gained a foothold and a ready
market for his products. He made a close study of plants and flowers, not-
ing especially the conditions under which they attained the highest degree
of perfection, and observing from a scientific standpoint the rules which
produced the best results. Tn brief, he thoroughly mastered every detail of
horticulture and floriculture and soon became a recognized expert. He
also studied the market, the tastes of the people, and the best interests of
his patrons, and steadily acquired an extensive trade, which has grown to
be one of the largest in the TTnited States. His grounds, located on the
Hudson Boulevard in the Town of North Bergen, cover an area of twenty
acres, five of which are under glass, and his output includes every variety of
ornamental plants indigenous to the climate or in demand for home decora-
lion.

Mr. Asmus is a public spirited, patriotic citizen, and thoroughly alive to
the interests and welfare of the community. He is a Democrat in
politics, a prominent member of the Association of American Florists, and
a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

He married Miss Josephine Lung and has three sons: Adolph E., born in
1875: Edward E., born in 1878; and Grover E., born in 18S."i.

AUGUST FRANK, a leading druggist of the Town of Union, is the son of
Gottfried Frank and Maria Odenwiilder and a grandson of John Frank, all
members of prominent families of Germany. His ])arents came to America
in 1881. They were thrifty, respected people, and gave to their children
the rich inheritance of a good name.

Mr. Frank was born in Stuttgart, Germany, August liS, 18(;!), and there
received his preliminary education. Coming to this country with his
father and mother in 1881, he turned his attention to the drug trade, and in

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ISSS was graduated from the New York College of rharmacy with the de-
gree of (Iradiiate of Pharmacy. Afterward he held a clerkship in and sub-
sequently became the Manager of the large drug store of F. W. Hille, re-
maining until 1804, when he purchased the business for himself, adding to
this pharmacy the one located at 146 Bergen] ine xVvenue in the Town of
Union, which he still continues. With a large and practical expe-
rience in the trade he has achieved a high reputation. He has devoted his
undivided attention to a constantly increasing business, and by studying
the demands of the time has kept abreast of every condition. As a busi-
ness man he has displayed marked ability. His excellent judgment, his un-
questioned integrity, his genial nature have won for him a deserved popu-
larity as well as the confidence of the entire community. In the growth and
welfare of the town he has exercised much influence. Public spirited, pa-
triotic, and progressive, he has taken an active interest in various move-
ments of local importance, and has contributed much to the general ad-
vancement of the place.

In politics Mr. Frank is a stanch Democrat, and in religion a Protestant.
He is a member of AX'est Shore Council, Royal Arcanum, of Jefferson Lodge,
I O. 0. F.. and of the Independent Order of Foresters. In all of these he is
prominent and influential. He is also a member and Secretary of the
Schuetzen Corps of Union Hill, and a member of the Turn Verein, of the
Uncle Sam Bowling Club, and of other social and political organizations.

Mr. Frank was married, April 8, 1896, to Miss Tillie Beier, daughter of
Plorian and Carolina Fransisca Beier, of Germany. They have one son:
Richard August Frank, born January 29, 1897.

GEORGE BRUCE has been a resident of Hudson County, N. J., since
1857, and throughout this period has had his home at North Bergen, with
the exception of the j'ears from 1861 to 1864, when he resided at Jersey
City Heights (then Hudson City). He is of Scotch descent and the son of
a shipbuilder.

^Ir. Bruce enjoys the unique distinction of being the leading restorer of
oil paintings in the United States. He has restored many valuable public
and private collections, including the Trumbull and Jarvis collections for
Yale College. In 1888 he restored the collection of historic portraits in
the Governor's room of the City Hall, New York City. His success in
this delicate work is of course only possible because he is a talented artist,
and has executed many original studies in oil of high merit. In 18-57 he
met the late Alexander H. Taylor, the celebrated restorer of oil paintings,
and started with him to learn the art. His business relations with Mr.
Tayloi' remained very close, and upon the latter's death in 1878 Mr. Bruce
became his successor.

Mr. Bruce has been honored with many local trusts. He was elected a
Town Committeeman of North Bergen in 1867, when the board consisted
of three members. For twelve consecutive years, beginning with 1873,
he was a member of the Board of Education and Disti"ict Clerk of School
District No. 3. North Bergen. He served as township Assessor contin-
uously from 1878 to 1900, when he declined further service. He is a
Democrat and has been prominent in the councils of the party for many
years. For twelve years he was a member of the Democratic County
Committee of Hudson County. He took a prominent part in perfecting the
new method of voting at the primaries. Ha was the first Treasurer of North
Bergen Township, and has ser^'ed eflQciently as commissioner on many im-

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poi-laut iinproveiuents iu the northern part of Hudson County, including the
Paterson Avenue and Secancus road, the Hudson County Boulevard, tlie
joint outlet sewer from the Town of Union, and a number of others. He
has also been useful iu various other capacities^, being an active member
of the Fire Department in Hudson County from 1803 to April, 1900, when
he resigned. He is prominent socially, and at his home in New Durham
has a rare art collection, including valuable oil paintings, prints, engrav-
ings, and curios. He is a member of Hoboken Lodge, No. 3."), F. and A. M.,
of Pentalpha Chapter, No. 11, R. A. JL, of Pilgrim Commanderv, No. 16,
K. T., and of Mecca Temple, A. A. N. O. M. S., of New York City.'

GEORGE BRUCE.

Mr Bruce married Catherine, daughter of Major John S. Sexton, of
Bull's Ferrv, a veteran of the War of 1812. Of their five children two are
living, namely: John S., of the Town of Union, and George, Jr., of Wee-
hawken.

C\RL HENUY RUEMPT-ER, ShcrilT of Hudson County, was born in
Cermany on the 12th of March, 1848, his parents being Ceorge Martin
Kucmpler and Dorothy Egoets, both natives and descendants of ancestors
of the Fatherland.

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Mr. Ruein])lei' was educated in the public schools of Germany and then
learned the carpenter'ss trade, which he followed for several years. In
IS7;> 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.

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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

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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,
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-

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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

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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<h he conducted
for manv vears. On July 26, 18G4, he enlisted in the United States Navy,

THOMAS J. DOBBS.

and was honorably disch.arged July (i, ISO.l. He was on blockade duty at
Wilmington, X. c'., and on the James Kivcr, and was in a(.-tion at Huwlclt
House and other engagements. His two brothers, Henry and Kichard,
also served in the Union Army during the Rebellion, the former in the
Twenty-second New Jersey Volunteers and the latter in the Sixth Cali-
fornia Infantrv.

At the close of the t.'ivil War Mr. Dobbs resumed the (piarrymg business
which he had estal'lished, and successfully carried it on for some tinie.
Afterward he was engaged in tlie ice business, about seven years, in
which he was no less successful. He sometimes jiut up as much as

342 HUDSON AND BEEGBN COUNTIES

3,300 tons of ice in a winter. Still later he followed successfully the
business of piledriving, while he sieved as inspector and timekeeper for
John H. r.onn, in connection with the piledriving for the old iron bridge
or viaduct at the ^Vest Shore ferry in Weehawken. Mr. Dobbs has also
established a considerable reputation as an inventor. His important in-
ventions include an apparatus for clearing spiked cannon, an unconnect-
able harness, and other devices. He is a member of Ellsworth Post, No.
3-t, G. A. R., of Union Hill. He has long been one of the prominent leaders
of the Republican party in Hudson County, and has held a number of
local offices. In the Town of ^^'est New York, where he resides, he has
served with credit in the positions of Collector of Taxes, Town Treasurer
(two terms— 1867 and 1878), School Trustee (several years), and Town
Committeeman (three years). For several years he was a court officer in
Hudson County.

On July 29, 1880, he married Elisoa '\\iley, daughter of John M. Wiley
and Matilda Young, of West New York. They have four children: Leah,
Thomas Jefferson, Jr., Aaron B., and Matilda Dobbs.

GABRIEL B. REID, Treasurer of the Town of Kearny, N. J., and one of
the leading real estate men of that section of Hudson County, was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, on the 15th of May, 1851. In 1853 his parents, James
Reid and Elizabeth Menzies, came to this country and settled in Newark.
N. J., whence they removed, in 1873, to Kearny, where both died — the
mother in 1884 and the father in 1897. James Reid, a compositor by trade,
held positions on different newspapers. He and his wife brought from
their native land all the sterling attributes of their race and transmitted the
same to their children, together with an honorable name.

<Tabriel B. Reid received his early education in the public schools of
Newark, and for a time, while the family were on a visit to Scotland, at-
tended the schools in Glasgow. There he also began active life as a mer-
chant. Upon his return to America in 1872 he was for twenty-five years
connected with the Clark Thread Company in Newark, N. J., and during the
last two years has been successfully engaged in the real estate business.
He is a typical Scotchman — a man of excellent character and sound judg-
ment, and a public spirited, enterprising, and patriotic citizen, being one
of a family of ten children brought to this country by his parents. He has
relied from a very early age upon his own resources, and enjoys the dis-
tinction of being a fearless and conscientious exponent of the higlier char-
acteristics of the Scotch race.

Mr. Reid is a prominent and active Republican, and has filled several
positions with ability and satisfaction. He was Town Committeeman of
Kearny for three terms. Town Clerk two years, and Treasurer of the town in
1897 and in 1899 was again appointed to that position, which he still holds.
He is Past Master of Copestone Lodge, No. 147, A. F. and A. M., and was
one of its charter members. He is also a member of the Knox Presbyterian
Church of Kearny, where he resides. Mr. Reid married Miss Jennie Tanne-
hill, also a native of Scotland, and they have five children: James M.,
Gabriel B., Elsie J., John W., and Annabel G.

JEREMIAH CLARE WHITTLES, one of the Sinking Fund Commis-
sioners of Kearny, Hudson County, N. J., is the son of Abram Whittles and
Mary (Jones) Whittles and a grandson of Abram Whittles, Sr., and was
born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, April 25, 1859. There his ancestors

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had liyed for many generations, his father being superintendent of woolen
mills. Mr. Whittles was educated in his native town, and from early in life
has been artively identified with cotton and woolen manufacturing. Learn-
ing the trade as a boy, he devoted himself to it with energy and mastered
every detail. Coming to America, he interested himself in the manufac-
ture of machinery for cotton and woolen industries, and in IS!):! invented
and patented an automatic cloth-feed appliani e which has met with great
success. This appliance is entii-ely dilferent from anything heretofore
made. It does not tear the most delicate cloth, and yet it works with won-
derful rapidity and in some respects revolutionizes the work for which it
is intended and which was formerly done by hand.

Mr. Whittles has not only achieved prominence as an inxcntor and manu-
facturer, but has also taken an active interest in public affairs, and as a
Republican has filled several positions with credit and satisfaction. He
served for two years as a member of the Kearny Board of Education, and
is now a member of the Sinking Fund ('onunission of that city. His a(ti\-
ity in i^olitics covers a period of five years, during which time he has ren-
dered efficient service to his party and town. He is a prominent member
of the ilasonic fraternity, of the Independent Oi'der of Odd Fellows, of the
Knights of Pythias, of tlie Improved Order of Redmcn, and of the Episcopal
Church. Having spent five years in a technical school in England, and be-
ing of an inventive turn of mind. ^Ir. Whittles has gained a wide reputation
in the industry to which he has devoted his active life. He is a public
spirited, patriotic, and progressive citizen, a man of unswerving integrity,
and highly esteemed in the community.

Ml-. Whittles married Miss Elizabetli Emily Dixon, of Carlisle, England,
and they have five children: Mary Ellen, Fiank, Camilla, Ethel, and Ceorge.

ATILLIAM KEUDEL LEK 'HT.— At Schottenstein, a town in the King-
dom of Bavaria, early in the nineteenth century, resided Andrew Leicht,
the earlier home of whose ancestors ^\as in the Tyrol, an Austrian province
on the southwestern frontier of (4eruuiny, from whence some of their de-
scendants found their way into Bavaria and settled at Schottenstein many
generations back of the nineteenth century. Andrew Leicht and his wife,
Eva Barbarie, had issue, among whom was ^Vndrew Leicht (12), born at
Schottenstein, June 5, 1817. At twenty years of age the latter came to
America and located at Hudson, Columbia County, Is. Y., where in 1S40
he met, wooed, and married Miss Maria Seniler (daughter of John and
Anna Semler), who had come to America in lsi>!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

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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,

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